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History from the fllei of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 30 yean ego. -: v
10 YEARS AGO '
April 2, 1951 (Monday)
The Rogue Valley chapter
of the Society for the Preser
vation and Encouragement of
: Barber Shop Quartet singing
' will present its first: annual
1 show here April 28.
More than 120 delegates
from the Sliklyou County
Hlarnrtpal eocietv met at the
Jacksonville museum, yester
day. ; ' ;tX;'.';'Si-iV
30 YEARS AGO
AprU a. 1841 (Wedneiday)
' The Medford s.city council
last night authorized the pur
chase of slightly m'ore than
half of the 90 acres neces-
on. n rtiniuav flivtAnalnn and
enlargement lit the municipal
fmm A4Viiiv Perrv'a "Ye
Smudge Pot" column-. "This
(yesterday) is All fooled (but
nomore tnan usuay aay.
SO YEARS AOO .
April 2. 1131 (Thursday)
: County road work is in full
'wing with projects .under
way on Dead Indian, Lake
Creek, Sams Valley and Ap
plegate rds.
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Frank
lin of Medford yesterday were
the? first .. motorists to reach
the Crater Lake rim this year;
they followed the snowplows
up. ' '
40 YEARS AOO
Sprll 2, 1921 (Saturday)
A five-mile strip of high
way la currently being paved
between brants Pass and
Medford, which will complete
this section of the Pacific
highway.
SO YEARS AOO
April 2. 1811 (Sunday)
Several lawyers in town
are reported to be seeking
ways of circumventing a new
state law that prohibits com
mercial fishing in the Rogue
River. ,
Business at the' county
clerk's office during March
set a new record with more
than $100,000 in taxes being
collected during the month.
Willi's Yoir I.Q.?
Nine f fen correct li superior;
' seven er elihr Is excellent; five or
lie la good.
1, If someone threatened to
"pin back your auricular ap
pendages," what would he be
referring . to?
2, The opening words of
which American classic are:
"Four score and seven years
ago"?
3, The s , , . h is an animal
that sleeps upside down,
4. All states have the same
Voting requirements; true or
false?
6, During which season do
We experience "Squaw win
ter"? ; 6. The U.S. Post Office Do
partment does, or does not
employ women mail carriers?
. 7, Formerly "plus fours,"
were widely worn by players
engaged In which sport? .
8. Kaiser Wilhelm II fled
to which country, where he
was interned for the remaind
er of his life?
' 9. Name the manager who
piloted the New York
Yankees to the 1947 world
championship.
10. Who was U.S. President
when the W. W, I armistice
was signed?
' 1. Ears. 1. Lincoln's Gettys
burg Add raw. J. Sloth. 4.
False. S. Atttama, 9. Does. 7.
Oolf. 8. The Nethtrlbnds. 9.
Bucky Harris. 10. Woodrow
Witaue. v. .
SUNDAY. APRIL 2, 1981
ylj iWer Pause
We'll have to confess that, we were getting
all set to write a heated editorial for this column
for today, laying about in fine style at what we
consider to be some of the uglier aspects of life
in America today.
Then, the letter from Mary Williams; which
is printed at the top of the Communications col
umn today, arrived on the desk.
It gave us pause. Easter Sunday, in which
is implicit the promise cherished in the hearts
of millions of p e o p 1 e, isn't the time to slay
dragons. " -
So we'll save the acrimony for another time,
and content ourself today with thanking Mary
Williams for her gracefully-voiced sentiments,
and Arnold Eugene Jenny and his poets for their
lovely Easter thoughts, and a warm sense of
appreciation that Easter, and Spring, really are
here. E.A. . , -
Civic
One of these days, the city of Medford is
going to have to build itself a new city hall.
And, as Medford keeps growing, the state
of Oregon is going to need a new office building
in Medford. It's building one in Eugene now.
When the time comes for these, we hope the
powers that be will go along with Medford city
officials, and the planning commission, in ful
filling plans for an attractive, centralized civic
center around the west side park.
THE PLAN, first dreamed up many years ago,
began' with the courthouse. (It's too bad the
library was built IN the park, rather than adja
cent to it, but that's water over the dam.)
, Anyway, we regret
ment didn't eo alone witn tne proposal, ana lo
cate its new office building facing the park.
If anyone wants to
plished, by combining attractive public buildings
with attractive, green and open, park, let him
look to Eugene. Medford, too, has all the ingrer
dients. We hope the long-range plan doesn't die
from just being ignored. E.A.
Unified Approach Benefits
. ;.j ,, n .i i neat- s ';.;j,,t ' , t-- '
Not lone aeo the 18 O & C counties of west
ern Oregon organized to coordinate planning for
roads and recreation purposes.
Thev operated on the
has a vital stake in roads
ties : that tha counties and various state aerencies.
and several of the federal agencies are all. work
ing in this field, and that, rather than have each
one go off on its own, there should be a coordi
nated, sensible program for orderly development.
They succeeded in getting the cooperation of
everyone involved, and as a result there are high
hopes that such a development will proceed.
lORE RECENTLY, the e i g h t counties of
r" southern Oregon and northern- California
have been discussing a somewhat similar project.
These counties ( Douglas, J osepmne, d ackson,
Klamath and Lake in Oregon, Siskiyou, Modoc
and Del Norte in California) are all inland, and,
as far as tourist and recreational income are con
cerned', are in "competition" with the coast. ,
There is much to be offered in this region.
And there is every reason to believe that it
could easily become one of the major "play
grounds" for the ever-growing populations of
central and southern California with a result
ing substantial economic boost for this area.
Seven of the eight counties have agreed to
budget small amounts this year, to be added to
contributions from private and business sources,
to underwrite a modest start on a coordinated
program somewhat similar to the O & C project.
TTHIS IS not envisioned as a tub-thumping pub-
licity project, nor even as a chamber of com
merce type of operation.
Rather, the thought is that an office could
be set up on a modest scale, a good man hired,
and then assigned to do three main .thirl gs: .
1. To keep in close touch with each of the
eight counties, to know their resources and their
needs, and to compile a coordinated program of
development which would be of benefit to each.
- 2. To work closely with the state and federal
agencies involved. After all, more than half of
the land, and most of the major recreational re
sources, in this area are owned by the federal
government, and no program which overlooks
this, and the federal participation in such proj
ects to which the area is entitled, is realistic.
3. To work with private industry in encour
aging development and improvement of private-lv-owned
ana operated facilities (resorts, lodges,
ski-tows, and so on)xin the area.
IP THESE counties could, through such coordi-
nation, speak with one voice to the state and
federal agencies, that voice would have far more
authority than the counties scrambling, , alone,
for what they want.
The benefits of a unified approach have been
proven time and time again. -
. In this matter it offers a sound way of ob
taining a program of recreational development
which is the single most promising avenue for
economic growth in this area. '
It should also be noted that in addition, it
would also provide far greater recreational op
portunities for the people of the area, too. And
anyone with half an eye these days knows that
(v.;- '" - arnli loottfli' E-A,
Center
that the federal govern
see what can be accom
theory that each county
and recreational facili
Dennis the Menace
. "i - .in Ltsr jr i
J i m -
msMWra ;
"NO. I HAVEN1!
SEEM
Matter of Fact
LEADERSHIP REGAINED
Bangkok - What did .not
happen is one of the best
tests to use in judging the
just - finished
SBATO meet
ing here in
Bangkok.
Spec Ifically,
the whole
complex of
forces resist
ing -the Com-
munist ad
vance in Asia
Aiiop : did not come
apart like a rotten melon
dropped from a third story
window. s- ,
Precisely that result was
quite inevitable before Presi
dent Kennedy gave the meet
ing here a wholly new basis.
with his advance announce
ment that he would fight for
Laos if need be. 1 The anguish
ed pleas for hard action, from
Thailand, the Philippines,
Pakistan, and South Vietnam,
clearly indicated what might
have happened if . Kennedy
had not responded. . . ,'
In the United States, there
is a general tendency to take
countries like Thailand and
the Philippines complacently
for granted as "stoutly anti-
Communist." So they are,- be
cause they long ago pinned
their faith on American lead-
- But if their faith had been
proven groundless in the pres
ent crunch, they would have
changed their national poli
cies the -next morning. In fact
it can be authoritatively stat
ed that they were despairing
ly getting ready to do so be
fore President Kennody spoke
out. : '
THE fact that Kennedy had
spoken, the fact that the
troop transports were steam
ing towards the Gulf of Siam
just in case they might be
needed - these were the two
keys. Given these key facts,
the policies of the SEATO al
lies in Asia were courageous
and uncomplicated.
The same formula cannot
be truthfully applied to the
policies of the SEATO allies
in Europe, although they too
were sharply affected by the
same facts. The price of Brit
ish support, to begin with,
, had been Kennedy's agree
ment to take his stand on the
British proposal to Moscow
for a ceasefire and negotia
tions. He agreed to this before
he took his stand.
For many complicated rea
sons deserving analysis in a
separate report, this was per
ilously weak ground to stand
on. The Thais, the Filipinos
had good reasons for being
unhappy about it. -But the
real moment of unhapplness
between the British and
Americans occurred for differ
ent reasons. Just before this
conference began, Prime Min
ister Macmillan sent the Presi
dent . a message, which was
perhaps too high flown and
loosely worded, but which at
least seemed to indicate that
he wanted the U.S. to go it
alone In the Laos crisis.
This message was the real
cause of the Kennedy-Macmll-Inn
meeting at Key West last
Sunday. The misunderstand
ing - if It was a misunder
standing - was soon cleared
up at Key West. Prime Minis
ter Macmillan then promised
that if the Cabinet approved,
he would ask the Common
wealth Brigade stationed In
Malaya to join in any action
in Laos if action proved neces
sary. Word of the Cabinet's
approval was received here
while the SEATO meeting
was going on.
e
THE Anglo-American part
nership was thus restored
before the SEATO conferees
got down to business. But
that still left the French to be
considered. ' - ,
The Judgments, of the
French on the scene in Laos
have been gravely influenced
by the emotions- of the dog -in
the manger, who cannot bear
for others to wield the influ
ence he no longer possesses
himself. The judgments of the
French government in Paris
have baa aauofe tnflnanrad
MEDFORD
' -
710XP U&a white my
By Joseph Altop -
by : these ' local judgments
But French "policy has also
been influenced by the hank
ering to use Laos as a lever
to promote Gen, de Gaulle's
favorite idea of a 1 "director
ate.", The French president has
never 'abandoned the notjon
that the Western policy ought
to be almost!? exclusively
formed by a Franco-Anglo
American "directorate," "He
expressed' this notion when be
took office, in a famous secret
memoranda to his allies. He
still holds the same notion.
Therefore 'the F r e n c h ap
proach to the SEATO meeting
was decidedly negative. With
elegant -disenchantment,
French. Foreign Minister
Couve ' de ; Murville argued
through all the first part of
the meeting for a meaningless
result. In particular, he want
ed 'no .suggestion that any
action might be taken' with
out further "consultations."
As this, would have been tan
tamount to a promise that
action would be taken much
too late or not at all, the rest
of the conferees united
against Couve de Murville.
e 'e e "
IN the end, somewhat to the
surprise of many here, the
French setUed for a resolution
permitting 'rapid action if
the need should arise, but ex
pressing this permission in
cool words. The Americans
did not object to the toned
down language, as more dra
matic words had already been
spoken, much more usefully
and in private, by President
Kennedy to -Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei- Gromyko.
The results, then, was the
unanimous resolution which
has been published, which ef
fectively favors military in
tervention in L a o s if the
terms of President Kennedy's
press conference declaration
are not met by the Soviets
within a reasonable time.
It is not a lurid resolution.
It contains . none of- the old
familiar language about the
"world Communist conspira
cy." But 'it is a workable reso
lution which is also a living
proof that American leader
ship of the West, only a fort
night ago in direct, immediate
danger of final "bankruptcy,
has begun to be regained by
show of ' moral firmness
which most of our allies had
really ceased to expend.
(Copyright 1961 New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Sevareid Muses on Variations of Color
By ERIC SEVAREID
Trinidad, W.I.- - What is
happening with the "under
privileged" peoples on this
0f ii a earth, vlrtual-
1 ly of of whom
1 are, by giant
Am. colncl d e n ce.
"78 , ...
aarK oi SKin,
a is something
happening in
J side individ
'l ual breasts. It
is for poets,
eel nnvelfaht. art
aavaratl
ists - those
who observe persons - to un
derstand it; it Is not for econ
omists or ideologists - those
who observe people-however
much they dominate the West
ern approach to the phenom
enon with their funds and mis
sions and committees and
propaganda.
This much penetrated my
own skin, calloused by years
of exposure to the dry winds
of sociology, after some trav
els through Africa. Now, mov
ing through the supposedly
tranquil islands of the West
Indies en route to see the new
Brazil and Its tnasslve crisis,
I can feel again the prickings
ot this uneasy, ill defined
awareness.:' v
.... .-. . e .i,, ' .
An American woman artist
was talking on the verandah
of her lovely villa on one of
these jeweled "holiday"
islands. She1 could see the
Ngr fishermen itrotched in
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD.
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
ON THE FIRST PHASE
; As I am writing a final
article before leaving for
few weeks in Europe, It is
tempting . to
look back and
do a bit of
general 1 z in g
about the first
two months of
the Kennedy
adinloit-
tion.
The general
character of
- Uppmana -tills first
phase nas been, I would say,
preliminary and preparatory.
Unlike. 1933, there was no
emergency when Mr. Ken
nedy took , office, and the
grave problems which he is
committed to deal with do not
call for crash , solutions but
for careful planning and per
severance over the years
Thi is true' of the problem
which is,- central , of almost
all the others: the problem of
overcoming the sluggishness
which has characterized the
American economy since the
end of the Korean War. '
' . . '
AS YET the Administration
-r has made no frontal at
tack on this problem, It has
not done so because of a de
liberate' decision that the
country is not yet ready for
it. Despite the unemployment
and the. unused capacity,' the
feeling that we are in bad
times is spotty and local, not
general and national, j
Because of the likelihood
that a kind of recovery, prob
acy a shallow recovery, is
just around the corner, the
President has felt that for
the present he must follow
the Eisenhower economic
Ideology which was the fiscal
orthodoxy of the age before
the Great Depression. Yet his
principal advisers are,' so far
as I know, unanimous in the
belief -that a very consider
able departure from' the Ei
senhower ideology is neces
sary if the American economy
is to meet the needs of the
Sixties: international, nation
al, and local.
But despite these opinions
the Administration is operat
ing within the Eisenhower
slogans and sterotypes about
the budget. This is not be
cause the Kennedy men be
lieve in them but . because
there are a large majority in
both parties who do believe
in them.
As between the Kennedy
doctrine, which is being held
back, and the Elsenhower doc
trine, which holds It back, the
crucial and central issue is
not whether the Federal
budget should be balanced.
The Kennedy doctrine, which
is stated but not heavily em
phasized in last week's
budget message, is that Fed
eral revenues and expendi
tures should be in balance
' over the years of the busi
ness cycle"-about four or five
years. The Eisenhower doc
trine Is that, regarless of the
business cycle, the budget
should be in balance every
year. If the budget is not in
balance annually, even as now
in a year of recession,- the
Eisenhower ideology demands
that politicians and editors
should regard this as deplor
able, and that the President
should apologize for it.
' The true and emerging
Kennedy doctrine is that in
a year of recession there
ought to be a deficit and that
in years of boom there ought
to be a surplus. When, as
has been the case since the
early 1950's, there is a
chronic sluggishness In the
economy, it Is an unsound
fiscal policy to try to achieve
a budget surplus.
the strip of shadow beside
their boats on the curving
beach, the local taxi-man
sound asleep in the front seat
of his Chevrolet. Her domes
tic servant, dressed in flow
ing, antebellum garb, includ
ing bandana, padded among
us with the ice-cold daiquiris
and slipped away with the
silent submissiveness . of the
British-trained black.
When she was sure the serv
ant, was out of hearing, the
artist said, "They are all so
quiet and pleasant. . They
seem so contented, even grate
ful. But I can feel it in them,
the way you sense that another
person is In ' a room even
when you don't see him. I
guess we'd never get anything
like the Congo in these
islands, but I KNOW it's
there, this hatred. Last month,
on the dock, a white officer of
a sloop thought one black
loafer had insulted his wife.
He slammed the man up
against a shed and - My God!
every loafer on the dock had
a shovel or a stick in his
hand in a flash. The quick
ness of itl Pure reflex action.
The facts, the moral pros and
cons didn't matter. The officer
was white, they were black.
That's all."
I don't know, either, whe
ther Congos, in miniature,
will ever happen in the West
Indies, many of them now fed
erated on paper and moving
ORE.
Uppmaiin
TO' MANY this sounds like
. the grossest heresy. It
shocks them to hear it said
that when there is so much
unemployment and when the
economy is running 10 per
cent below its normal capac
ity, there ought to be a de
ficit. But that is exactly what
the great majority of modern
economists are saying, partic
ularly those con whom the
Kennedy administration de
pends, -
But the President has not
yet braced himself to' the ef
fort of explaining to the pub
lic the difference between
balancing the budget annual
ly and balancing it over the
business cycle. Yet most of
what he has promised to do,
most of what for the long
pull urgently needs . to j be
done, depends on explaining
tliis theoretical issue to the
people.- v .-. -. - '
To explain it seems at times
like trying to .explain : to a
man that the earth is hot
flat, as it seems to him but
that it is in fact round. "It is
flat," he can be heard to say,
"wherever I have been." So
with budget balancing, Say
to a man that the Federal
budget should be out of bal
ance when the economy is in
recession, he is likely to re
ply that he and all Other de
cent and honorable men live
In the Day's News
By FRANK
! Down In Yreka, the Junior
Chamber of Commerce is
sponsoring a worthy project
Discovery. Street Park, de
signed to mark the site of the
first discovery of gold in the
area. The actual soot where
the discovery was made is al
ready marked by the Thomp
son Dry Diggin's monument.
-: The story is an: interesting
one. Back in 1851, a packer
by the name of Abe Thompson
was heading from uregon
City to Scott Bar, and
camped for the night at a
spot not far from the present
center of Yreka. When he
started to bridle one of the
animals the next morning it
wks chewing a tuft of grass.
Pulling the grass from the
mule's mouth, he happened to
glance at the roots. Clinging
to them were fair-sized
GRAINS OF GOLD. Thomp
son lost interest in Scott Bar
right there, and started min
ing operations. - .. . v
It ; was known ' as Thomp
son's "dry diggin's" because
the nearest water was a back-
breaking distance away.
' -'.'.
did Yreka get its
HOW
11
rather unusual name?
There is an interesting,
but apparently apocryphal,
legend to the effect that it
arose out of a bakery sign.
The sign is said to have con
sisted of a board carrying
the word BAKERY, which
had been cut in outline with
a 'crude jigsaw. The story
goes that a somewhat illu
minated miner, leaving one of
the saloons one evening, was
struck by the odd notion that
the B of the word bakery
would make a fine pistol tar
get. ; - '-'-' ; :' .' r
So, it is alleged, he hauled
his trusty six-shooter out of
its holster and cut -loose. By
the time his gun was emptied,
the B had been shot away,
leaving v o n 1 y the letters
AKERY. AKERY, read back
wards from the other side of
the sign, spells YREKA.
BECAUSE it sounds so plau
sible, the bakerx sign
story has' had wide currency.
The historic truth of the mat
toward Independence, but I
have learned a few apparent
principles of behavior among
the "emercent" peoples. One
is that the closer, not the
farther away, the stand in
relation to realization of the
inchoate desires in their
breasts, to release from their
ancient frustrations, the more
angry and violent they be
come.'.'. ','
"Pure reflex action." We
are seeing it now on a world
scale. Centuries of white ra
cism have produced the inevitable-
black racism. It is
racism, not Communism, that
is likely to become the dom
inant characteristic of this
generation, and Russian Com
munists will be no more able
to escape its ravages, in the
long haul, than Western dem
ocrats. We have treated black men
as a race apart so long that
they are bound to act like a
race apart, in spite of the ap
peasements of citizenship and
"civil rights." .
...
It is too lake - many gen
erations too late - to expect
general integration save in
terms of public institutions. It
is so no longer because of the
white man's racism only, but
now because of the black
man's racism as well.
It is one of American his
tory's bitter ironies that while
the Supreme Court has thrown
out the old southern "equal
(By M-T Staff
: We are inordinately proud
of the news staff of the Mail
Tribune, and now Is as good
a time as any to say so.
This thought occurred to us
last week when we got to
thinking about the work our
reporters and ; desKmen ao,
day in and day out, and often
under terrific pressure, to
bring our readers the news of
within their income and why
should the government be dis
reputable? -
; It is a complicated thing
to explain why the earth is
round. It is a complicated
thing to explain that the Fed
eral budget is not only an
accounting of revenues and
expenditures. It is a 1 s o a
great fiscal engine which as
a matter of national policy
has to be managed In such
a way as to promote a stabil
ized growth of the economy.
It Is a makeweight which has
to be swung from deficit to
surplus and from surplus -to
deficit to compensate for the
ups and downE of the business
is nothing sinister or
mysterious in this Idea. But It
Is a new idea, new at least to
a great many people.
(c) 1961 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
JENKINS
ter, however, appears to be
that the name Yreka arose
out. of the Indian word for
Mount Shasta, which .-was
IEKA. By more or less na
tural process of corruption,
this came in time to- be pro
nounced Y-REKA. -
IN Klamath, where this is
written, we're inclined to
be at least pale green with
envy of the progress Yreka is
making with its Discovery
Street Parkr We too have a
historic spot, - '-
: It is the little flat up on
the Williamson 'river where
Highway 97 c r o s s e s the
stream, just south of Chilo
quin. This little flat is steeped
in history. It was there that
Captain 'Fremont fought his
toughest battle with the In
dians. It was there that he
saved the life of Kit Carson
by riding down with his horse
Sacramento a brave who was
drawing a bead with ihis bow
and arrow , on the Intrepid
fCOl't. U- - " ' s
The real story, however,
lies in what ' happened the
night before the battle. That
night Lieutenant Gillespie,
the Marine, arrived with a
message that he had carried
to Fremont by a fabulous
route. Leaving Washington,
he traveled to Vera Cruz by
a Navy warship. He crossed
Mexico, on foot, .to Mazatlan.
From Mazalatan, he went by
sailing vessel to Hawaii.
From Hawaii, he returned by
sailing vessel to San Fran
cisco.From San Francisco, he
made it to Upper Klamath
Lake by saddle horse. : ;
THE secret message he car
ried (it was so secret that
on his way across Mexico on
foot he committed it to mem
ory and ATE the paper on
which it was written) led Cap
tain Fremont and Kit Carson
and their party to make aU
haste back to Sonoma, where
they joined the rest of their
party and in' company with
American settlers in the Sac
ramento valley raised the
Bear Flag and proclaimed
the Bear Republic.
but separate'1 principle in re
spect to public institutions, it
is this very principle in all
other respects that millions
of Negroes now seek, in their
hearts.
It is not to be wondered at,
I suppose, that, in the foreign
policy gyrations over the Con
go and Lumumba, "great num
bers of American Negroes re
acted as Americans second
and as Negroes first. ' .
I do not understand all the
psychological mysteries in
volved in man's reactions to
pigmentation of the skin. But
I am awa?e that even in coun
tries like Brazil, officially un
segregated in all realms of
life, the blackest men gener
ally do the roughest and dirt
iest work; that the same is
true in the all-Negro Repub
lic of Haiti; and that in the
rising rebellion against econ
omic exploitation aU over
Latin America the ideology of
skin shading is a very real, If
unacknowledged, force for
hostility. -
e
But the age of the conquis
tadores is long past. This is
the twentieth century. One
can hope, at least, that dark
men in power in this age will
prove more enlightened than
did white men in power In
their dark ages.
(Distributed 1961, by The
Hall Syndicate, Inc.) I
(AH Rights Reserved)
and Contributors).
the vaUey and the world. Oh,
sure, they make mistakes -but
that's because they're hu
man, and if they weren't hu
man, we wouldn't love 'em so
much,.:,"."". U-..." .' -
The same goes for a good
many ot the folks who, at one
time or another, have worked
here, and then moved on to
other occupations. The Mail
Tribune has never begrudged
anyone leaving to take anoth
er job if he, or she, felt it ac
corded better with their taste,
or with their ambitions. Some
find greater reward in other
fields in other areas; some find
it right here.
Two of our more recent
"graduates," for Instance, we
couldn't be prouder of. One ot
them Is Bob Walters, until re
cently our regional editor and
writer of a sprightly column
entitled "Out on a Limb," and
the other is Eric Wentworth,
Who covered city hall for us.
Both are how on the Port
land Oregonian, and doing
bang-up jobs, as we knew they
would. .
Bob started ' out there as
night police reporter, but
more recently has been pro
moted to drama editor (for
heaven's sake, Bob!), and now
writes a dally column entitled
Night Beat (maybe that's a
hangover from his work in
the police department; maybe'
not).
i It's a pretty gay , affair,
which will be no particular
surprise to anyone who reads
his W-T column. For instance,
the other day he was cover
ing the Portland appearance
of Tempest Storm, the nation's
premier striptuese, or ecdysi
ast, noted most particularly
for her spectacular dimen
sions. This is his lead;. .
; .
"Tempeit Storm has blue
yes.
-"How's that for objective
reporting?"
'.. .; '', '-Si ,'' if
Erie Wentworth is a differ
ent kind of reporter, but in
his own way as talented as
Bob (and, no, we're not going
to get into any invidious com
parisons of talent and ability,
either).
Eric, too, started out on the
Oregonian's police beat, but
soon his talent was also recog
nized, and he was named edu
cation editor of the Oregonian.
. In sober, detached and thor
ough : fashion, : lie has ' gone
about the business of learning;
the ins and outs ot education
al problems in Portland and
the state and the nation, and
has turned in some excellent
copy, amply justifying the
trust the Oregonian's editors
had in him when they named
him to fill the very large (hy
pothetical) shoes of Wilma
Morrison, who was one of the
outstanding education editors
in the nation.
' Last week, Eric departed a
bit from the strictly educa
tional' front, and did an im
partial, objective job of tell
ing a bit about the origins of
the John Birch Society in
Portland, as seen through the
eyes of one of its founders.
We don't see her anyone
violent antl-Bircher or dedicat
ed member - could find any
thing about his series to criti
cize. And that's a real test ot
reportorial ability, particular
ly when it is a job which goes
into a subject in some depth
and detail,
. -
In short, we predict these
young men will hare dis
tinguished careen in the
newspaper field, and are
glad they were Mall Trib
une staffers for a while.
Meanwhile, we are equally
proud of those who have
chosen to stay with the Med
'ford paper, devoting their
considerable talents to do-
ing a job for the Mall Trlb- '
une's readers. , r - : .
.-. -.'
Speaking of the John Birch
Society, which has been the
subject of a lot of nationwide
publicity the last few weeks,
we can't help but feel that a
rough sort of poetic justice is
being wrought.
Some members of the soci
ety have been mighty quick to
throw the words "communist"
and "pinko" and "left-wing":
around at people who disagree
with their own political views.
Now that questions of their
own methods and American
ism have been raised, it is in
teresting to hear their screams
of indignation.
"Why, we're patriotic, loyal
Americans!" they cry in out
rage. : ...
Well, maybe they're finding
out how other patriotic, loyal
Americans have felt when
they've been called "pinko"
and "red," simply because
they believe in a future for"
America based solidly on an
open society and on the Bill
of Rights of the U. S. Constitu
tion. .... -a
e
But. this U Easter, and
that fellow E.A. across the '
page, and Mary Williams in '
the Communications col- -umn,
lay we should be toler- '
ant and forgiving and thank-
ful al this season of the;
year. So we should.- I ; .
Happy Easter, everyone.
And you too, John Blrchers.