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Carrier and Dealera copy toe All Terim Caih in Advanea SfnUH paper of City of Medford Official Paper of iacatoa Coanty United Preia International run Leaeeo wire P PX Telephoto Newiptcturee "MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Adverrliins Represent aUve: WOT HOLIDAY CO., INC. Of i Ut In New York, Chicago. De f trolt. San Francitco. Lot Anselei, ' Seattle, Portland, St Louie, At- lanta. Vancouver, B.C. NIWIPAri PUSllSHiK 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL fOITOIIAl r Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha filet of Tht Mali Tribune JO, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Gov, Douglas McKay will dedicate a atatue of liberty, one-nineteenth the lize of the original, In Hawthorne park Monday; the statue was pre sented by a Medford man to the Boy Scoutf of the Crater Lake area council. Weather Control, Inc., an nounced the completion of two cloud seeding flights Fri day afternoon, In attempts to prevent, hail damage to pear crop in the Rogue valley. 30 YEARS AGO Medco's worker at Butte Fall have voted for the In dustrial Employee union as their bargaining agent. From Arthur Perry' "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The nM nirla rural dlvlaion) are busy these day with spring chicks. Their city lis ter are debating tie aavua bility of washing the lac cur tain and bringing on another imudge." 10 YEARS AGO Art Starbuck, Pacific Air transport pilot who was wide ly known in Medford, died yesterday in a California plan crash. Cnrjco haa ltarted work on a flume and canal Which 1 the last phase of their Pros pect hydroelectric project. . 40 YEARS AGO The city council has been asked to put a stop to the practice by soma west Med ford resident who are cutting down trees on their own lots and usulng them for firewood. The 44th anniversary of the Rogue River Baptist associa tion will be observed this . week end. - 10 YEARS AGO " Dr. J. F. Reddy has re ported from New York that he was able to purchase Rogue valley fruit in all the coun tries he visited on a recent trip to Europe. - The largest graduating class In the history of Medford High school, 27 students, will receive diploma this sprln g. Efcft Yc:r I.Q.? Mb t tea terraes Is an eerier; savea a e4f a Is excellent! five er li la )). 1. I the Alaskan Brown bear or Gristly the larger? 2. According to astrologers, persons born between Oct. 23 and Nov. 11 are governed by what sodiacal sign? ' 1. According to the New Testament (Matt xtl, 40), how many day did Jonah spend in the belly of a great fish, called whale? 4. Madagascar formerly was a colony of which European nation , 5. In reference to the quo tation "Sugar and spice and everything nice," what are little boy made of? . Row long Is a fortnight? 7. Are spider Insects? " (. Was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation estab lished under the administra tion of Hoover, Roosevelt, or Truman? 0. Lightning never strikes twice In the cam place; true or falsa? . " 10. Do the piston In an automobile angina come to a standstill before reversing their thrust? AsMwersi 1, Brews, g. Seer pie, I, Tare, days. 4. France. I. afatU and snails and puppy t tails. I. U days. 7. He ters. 1. Heaver. 1. ftl. j. Yea. FRIDAY. MAY . 1H1 Gagarin and Is it possible that the piled on top of the lesson of Sputnik, is begin ning to be learned in Oregon? Over the past several days we have been watching the exchange papers coming m with reports of school budget elections which were held up and down the state. Now school budgets in recent years have been voted down in depressing numbers. In many cases, of course, there were special situations in volved about which distant observers knew notlv ing. But it was also evident that much of' the "taxpayers revolt ' was just simply that a re volt against high school taxes and not neces' sarily a revolt against education as such. 'HIS year, however, have fared remarkably well. In Jackson countv. not onlv did the rura! school levy pass, so did district budgets which Monday s elections. ' In Douerlas countv. where the Rosebur? school budget was defeated twice in one year two years ago, the budget passed handily. And in all the rest of Douglas county, failed of approval Gardiner. (The Gardiner e e e UP' IN Benton county, the rural levy and the budgets of the Corvallis school district, and all other districts but three, were ok d. In Osweiro. ola?ued bv hisrh costs and a rapid lv increasing student population, the buderet lost. But it appears that all other school budgets in Clackamas county, including Oregon City, West Linn and North Clackamas, the largest ones, were passed. Lane county voters passed all school budgets presented to them, including the rural levy and those in the three largest districts bugene, Bethel and Sprinrfield. . O In Marion county, budgets pass, but so (by a close margin) did the rural school levy for the first time in about 10 years. '.; . ALL the districts reported as voting on budgets in Klamath, Linn, Coos, Clatsop and Jose phine counties, as a sampling, passed them with out much difficulty. (In. Astoria, the district budget passed Monday In addition, the Sweet Home district voters approved a $475,000 bond issue for a new junior high school reinforcing have noticed in the past school bond issues passing, rather, than being ueictueu. . , And down alone the the creation of a new Community College District, which will make possible the kind of innovation Bend voters have approved, and supported with their tax dollars a local a e e ALL in all, it looks ' educational support in Oregon are better. ' In addition to the community college bill, the legislature seems ready . to increase basic school support (thus reducing local school prop erty taxes), and to grant a major portion of the requested budget for higher education. All this may not add up to the massive sort of support for education wnich some of us feel is the hope of America. But it may be a sign that the neglect, the apathy, the lack of support evidenced at many times and in many places over the last half dec ade or so, may be coming to an end. One prays this is so. Only an educated, liter ate, thinking America will have any chance for survival in the long, difficult years ahead. E.A. The Teachers the Thing As to the quality of education, contrasted with" quantity, much has been said, and more should and will be said. The more we think about it, the more we are utterly convinced that the key to GOOD educa tion is GOOD teachers. Not buildings, not administrators, not school buses, not even academic "ratings" or grades or personal evaluations or successful athletic teams or debate teams , or dramatic presentations or choirs or anything else teachers. 1X7ITHOUT good teachers, none 6f these things, " no matter how necessary or desirable in themselves, have any educational meaning. There is a big field to be explored in "auto mated" teaching devices such things as pro gramed teaching machines, television, and other audio-visual aids; But without oualified teachers teachers who know WHAT they're teaching as wen as tiuw to teacn they don't mean any thing either. We believe that there decades, been far, far too much emphasis on HOW to teach, and far, far too little on the subject matter to be taught GOOD teacher a really good one is a rare asset to the community and the nation whose value cannot be properly assessed. . A good teacher a really good one offers enthusiasm, an instinctive rapport with his stu dents, a sense of discipline extending both out ward and inward, a love for the subject matter at hand, and a love for the process of extending knowledge and meaning and understandin? ;.o eager, receptive minds, i '" if we can encourage more people with these qualities to enter teaching; and stop Discourag ing them by "method" courses and dull pedago gical theory, then lj-e'll be on our way to an .ed ucational system second to none. E.A. l' School Budgets lesson of Yuri Gagarin school budgets seem to six of the seven schoo! were presented at last only three district budgets in sutnenin, &iKton and vote was a tie.) e e not only did all district on its second try). a trend we think we six or eight months, of coast, voters approved college. e e ' as though prospects for has. in the past two Dennis tht Menace 'SCWETHIN' ELSE I'VE NOTICED: tJIRTY PEOPLE fefcfcrt HAPPPK than ctew vwvuir lommunicat Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under c.xiain circumstances the us of a pen nam or initial for nuhlirtlo i. n.rmU.ihi. The Mail Tribune reserve the right to edit all letter with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper in fact the contrary Is often the case. Semantics and Liberty ; To the Editor: In his letter in the MT, May 2, Robert Howard again Indulges in one of hie favorite sports, playing fast and looje with the Eng. llsh language (a la H.U.A.C.) in an effort to make things appear what, in truth, they are not; and thus, by - innu endo, to smear people or causes with whom or which he does not agree. Bob talks flippantly '' and Inaccurately of "the Liberal clique." Obviously, the word "liberal" to him somehow is tainted If not downright evil. I do wish he'd-take my advice previously offered, to go back to school (Adult Education Di vision) to improve his knowl edge and use of our language -'twad from mony a blunder free him, to quote Bobby Burns. Meantime, I offer an other free lesson to. Bob, and others In similar need (among other things, I used to be a teacher of English): My Funk St Wagnalls de fines "liberal" as follows: "Ap propriate or fitting for a broad and enlightened mind. Free from narrowness, bigotry, or bondage to authority or creed, as in religion; inclined to democratic or republican ideas, as opposed to monarchi cal or aristocratic, as in poli tics"; and a liberal, as "a member of a party which ad vocates liberty of thought, speech, or action." The dictionary might well have added: one who believes in and supports the American concept of political freedom as defined in the First Amend ment to the Constitution: Congress shall make no laws , . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." This latter, incidentally, was the real purpose of the student s' demonstrations against the H.U.A.C.'s smears of patriotic citizens critical of its extensively doctored film, Operation Abolition", and the Committee's undemocratic and highly. Improper "pack ing" of its San Francisco "hearings" with Its friends and supporters who were giv en tickets of admission, to the exclusion and dismay of the general public. Surely, Bob Howard wouldn't want his careless use of words to put him in the same category with the Rus sian Communists who take equal liberties with accepted definitions when- they call their satellites "people's re public" or, In the case of East Germany, the "German Demo cratic Republic." All rather redundant, anyhow: both "de mocracy" and "republic" be ing essentially government 'of the people, for the people. and by the people" as Abra ham Lincoln so well defined It. Arnold Eugene Jenny, Rogue Valley Manor Medford Show Plana To the Editor: We wish to thank you and your staff for the excellent coverage you extended to the Crater Lion 1961 Sportsfair Home it Gar den how. This is our fourth year In producing this show and you have helped each year to see It grow in size and scope. It Is our sincere intention eventually to produce a Sport and Homcshow of which all southern ' Oregon can be proud. It is conceiv able that through the future Sports and Homeshows, southern Oregon can be bet ter promoted to the stale and west coast, and be recognized i for its excellent recreation business and livini wealth. Thank you again for your cooperation. . Frank Wilson , . Ronald Rlcketts Publicity Chairman Crater Lions Club . Medford. Mud in Reservoir To the Editor: Our mayor of Gold Hill has discovered mud in the bottom of one of our city water reservoirs, and has challenged "us writers" to come and see It when he has thu tank drained and cleaned on May 3. So what? It is not surprising that mud settles out of water. Maybe we don't even need a settling basin. Maybe all we need is to have the reservoirs cleaned once in a while. If there is that much mud in the resorvoir. we couldn't hm had very much in our pipes. wny has this reservoir cleaning work been postponed until just before the filtration bond election next Tuesday? Vera Stewart 619 Fifth ave.. Gold Hill, Ore. Love and Hate To the Editor: You have a very interesting group of peo ple who read your paper. I nave found some of your con tributors to the communica tions page very nice and some, saa 10 say, not so nice. Recently one lady whose name has appeared at various times in the communications became quite perturbed at yours truly. As I understand It, she was visiting in the home of one of my acquaint ances nearby. My name was mentioned and she exploded with, "I hate that man." Well, when this came to my attention I sat down and wrote her what I thought to be a friendly Christian letter asking her forgiveness for any wrong I had done. I have never met this lady person ally. The letter I received in return was a woeful recital of bad things that had been conducted by members of the church I represent In the Med ford area. Everything from knifing neighbors tires to mis using public funds in a fluor idation promoting program, I'll state right here that. If all of the unchristian acts committed by those who claim to be members of my church, are to be put on my shoulders, well I'm really doomed. On the other hand if all of the unchristian things I know of that have been committed by members of this lady's partic ular church were to be blamed to her, well, she's doomed too. However, I have never felt It best to reason just that way. It is sad indeed when those who profess Christ's name deny that name by their ac tions. Even so I shall never hate my Methodist, Baptist, or Catholic friends just because some of their members do un christian acts. To any who might harbor feelings of hate, might I sug gest you take the concordance in your Bible and look up the word hate. Then read some of the references given. One in Luke 6:22 says: "Blessed are ye when men shall hate you." Well, that' comforting to me. I John 4:20 states that if one say he loves God, and hates, he Is a liar. And finally In Luke 6:27 we are told to love our enemies and do good to them who hate us. So if I follow this out I'll (how true Christian love to all Including the lady In Med ford. Henry Johnson Jr., 2315 Highway 66, 1 Ashland, Ore. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Friendly Japan Keystone of U.S. Policy In Asia; Premier's Visit Is Important By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst A friendly Japan is a key stone of United States foreign policy in Asia. And as the Com munlsts press to ex pand their in fluence among Asia's mil lions, the for thcoming visit of Jap anese Pre mier Hayato i L. . .. Newssai Ikeda tance. assumes more impor- Ikeda and his advisers al ready are at work on the half dozen or more topics he hopes to take up with President Kennedy in Washington when he arrives in mid-June. Topping the list is Red China. Other Important sub jects will include economic assistance to the under-developed Southeast Asian coun tires, relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea, ions In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Coming Into London at night, you gauge your prox imity to the city by the lights below you. Crossing over by the Great Circle route, you see lights first as you cross the south of Ireland.' Then everything below goes black as you cross the Irish Sea. As you approach the English coast, lights begin to twinkle again through the blackness beneath. At first, the lights appear in little clumps, each clump representing a village. When you first begin to see them, they are far apart. Then they begin' to draw nearer togeth er. At the same time, they grow larger, indicating that the villages are increasing in size, as well as in number. This process is continued un til the villages that are rep resented by the clusters of lights come so . close together that you know you are near ing a great city. Almost before you know It, they merge into a vast sea -of twinkling pin points of light, and at the same time the plane begins to lose altitude. In a few moments you feel a gentle bump as the wheels touch ground, and you are in London. Your watch tells you that you are about six hours, give or take a little, from New York. rpHE process of disembarka- Hon is simple and orderly. A few hours earlier, your stewardesses have distributed printed instructions telling you uactly what to do. With this printed slip in your hand, you don't waste a minute. When you are through immi gration and customs you call a taxi. two . minutes after your taxi takes off, you get your first shock. It's a rude one. You glance over the driver's shoulder and there, dead ahead of you, is an approach ing line of traffic-and heavens to Betsyl The crazy idiots are all over the WRONG LANE and bearing down on you at what seems to be the speed of light. YOU brace yourself for the shock. B u t NOTHING HAPPENS. Then, slowly, it dawns on you that over here they drive on the left hand side of the road. You calm down. But it will be several days, before your heart quits skipping a beat every time you look out front. This seeming imminence of unavoidable collision is heightened by the narrow ness of London's streets, which weren't designed some dozen or fifteen centuries ago for automobile traffic. ANYWAY, you reach your hotel eventually, all safe, and sound in wind and limb. Your luggage is all present and accounted for. You sign in. (In London they call it the reception desk, not the registration desk.) A courteous porter takes your luggage on a cart and disappears in the distance, and you head for the passen ger lift (they're "lifts" here, not elevators.) There you get another look at English ways of doing things. The lifts are all fully automatic, but an lmpre ssively uniformed at tendant goes along to push tha buttons for you. Ah, well. Thi i London. WHEN you arrive at your door, the porter is already there with your luggage. He unlocks the door, using a IrVy that must have been modeled Japanese defense, U.S.-Japan trade and continued United States occupation of Okinawa. Look at Mainland Many Japanese business men look longingly at the Chinese mainland as a vast outlet for expanding Japanese industry, and therefore would like closer relations with Red China. , Working against them, how ever, is Red China's lack of foreign exchange. On the question of Japanese aid to under-developed South east Asian countries, Ikeda will promise to step up that aid and probably will propose Government Living Within Its Income Not Mastered in U.S. By LYLE C. WILSON . United Press International Washington -flJPD- Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon was telling an audience the other day that the United States had not mas tered the art of keeping the U. S. economy operating a t its highest sustain a b l.e levels. Another art the U n i t e d States has not mastered is a lot closer than that to the wel- Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harris c General Features Corp. DOUBLE EMPLOYMENT , STANDARD Many, if not most, institu tions that deal directly with the public seem to have a double stand ard in hiring e m p 1 o yees. Those whose work brings them directly in contact with c u s- tnmiare nr CSV. clients are Barria suominea I o a much more rigorous test of character and temperament. In restaurants,. for instance, cashiers are often given the SAM Aptitude Test. SAM stands for "Scowl and Mut ter." If the applicant does not wear a chronic scowl, aid does not reply to all with a surly matter, he or she is summarily removed from consideration. Building guards, elevator starters, people who take your money at parking-lots - any one at all, indeed, who repre sents the company to the con sumer - are put through a severe examination to see if they can successfully avoid the three terrible P's - Pleas antness, Promptness, and Po liteness. A company doesn't care how cheerful or civil an em ployee may be if he works in back where the public cannot get wind of this; but it is a rank violation of the best business procedures to let such a person come into con tact with the customers. An elite corps must be specially trained for such sensitive po sitions. I have managed to obtain an undercover peek at one of these highly secret tests, and I assure you that only the most qualified candidates can pass muster. Most of us would flunk out Ignominiously. For example, one question goes: "If a patron makes a mistake and hands you a one dollar bill for a $1.25 check, what do you say?" Three al ternative answers are given: (1) "Sorry, sir, that's not enough." (2) "May I please have an additional quarter?" and (3) "Whachu trine do, huh?" a e a Obviously, (3) is the only correct answer. Answers (1) and (2) immediately mark the candidate for a back-room job where he will not be able to contaminate the customers with courtesy. Another real stumper goes as follows. If you complain about a scratch on your car in a parking-lot, the alterna tive replies are (1) "I'll be after the keys to the Tower of London. You enter what Is known in London hotel parlance as tne outer lobby. Ahead of you is the bath room. To your left is your bedroom. Speak ing in military terms, it isn't quite large enough to quarter a platoon, but it would pro vide plenty of elbow room for a squad. . Down one side of it is a row of closets. Above the closet doors Is a row of stor age spaces, reachable by the process of standing on a chair. So you settle yourself down to what you are sure is going to be an intending and rove! experience. that it be financed through use of Japan's occupation debts to the United States. For security reasons, Korea is especially important - to Japan, and the removal of former Korean President Syngmsn Rhee should, make it easier for the two nations to reach agreement. Continue Iti Effort Against United States dis satisfaction with the slow tempo defense build-up, Ikeda will plead Japan's unique do mestic situation. He will tell Kennedy that Japan will con tinue its effort to strengthen its 250,000-man defense force fare of the common man. This other art is the art of govern ment living within its income. Treasury Secretary Dillon is the money man of the Ken nedy administration. You might assume that a banker would bi? mightly hard nosed on the subject of living within income, whether by a govern ment or a working staff or a business corporation. Banker Dillon, on the contrary, is a spend-it-up man, a believer in treasury deficits as a means to improve the citizen's lot. No Cause For Alarm He estimated that a $2 bil lion deficit was coming up in glad to call the manager, sir," (2) "If you'll come in to the office, we'll make out a re port," and (3) "I just work here, bud." Again, obviously, (3) is the only correct answer. In fact, "I just work here, bud" turns out to be the correct answer to almost a dozen of the test questions, rivaling in popular ity such gambits as "How should I know?", "The man ager's out and nobody knows when he'll be back," and "That ain't my department, Jack." Winners, of course, are given a lovely framed Certifi cate of Sullenness to hang proudly in their kennels. Washington Report By William S. White - tci United Feature Syndicate Washington - The Republi cans have come through mag nificently in the first grace ca.pjjcltytoM1t 1 with responsi- bility as a mi- Every lead er of every wing of t h e GOP has seen his duty and i Jf V la&rj aone it-irom white nelson KocKe feller on the left wing through Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon at the par ty center and on to Senators Styles Bridges and Barry Goldwater on the right wing. Every one of them has re fused the cheap temptation to leap upon President Kennedy and his luckless staff -which is to say upon the United States itself - for the failure of the anti-Castro invasion of Cuba. Every one of them has recognized that it is not sim ply Mr. Kennedy who has suf fered a setback; that it is really the United States. Every one of them - Mr. Eisenhower most poignantly from his own still-Cresh mem ories of the burden of the White Koufc - has recognized tbpt " -'.ever party's presi de t is in power in a time of r :.s.s should be free from sterile second - guessing, not merely in ordinary fairness but also under the highest demands of national interest. For no president can do his best work if, as the already sufficiently harried represen tative of all of us, he must be continually protecting himself against those of us who bear none of his responsibilities but are ready at the instant of any failure to bite at him. e e e pVERY one of these Repub lican leaders, to go on, has recognized that to spend na tional energy now on a shrill search for devils about Cuba would be worse than simply schoolgirlish. It would be a lament for the past, produc ing nothing for future beyond back-biting and rational di visions which might serve the Russians but hardly us. Mr, Eisenhower has put the thing In perspective. He has contemptuously rejected this sort of thing as the mere witch-hunt it would be. Wher ever we have been, we have been there already. What counts is where we go niv. An inquiry to find facts might a-TO, but also will ask continued U.S. military aid. Japan's gross national prod uct, increased by 16 per cent last year and its industrial production jumped 29 per cent. But despite its booming economy, Japan still spends only 1.4 per cent of the na tional income for defense, one of the lowest rates in tha world. Ikeda will renew Japan's bid for an early return of Okinawa to Japan, but Is not expected to press this demand against this key U.S. de fensive base in the Pacific. this fiscal year but assured his audience this was no causa for alarm. "On the contrary," Dillon said, "it is a stimulus to re covery that can, and should, be readily offset by surpluses as prosperity returns." ' To anyone who has been around Washington for 30 years or so, Dillon's discus sion of spending, deficits and prosperity is a familiar tale. That is just about the way Franklin D. Roosevelt dealt with spending, deficits and prosperity. FDR was sold on the idea that the U.S. govern ment could spend the U. S. economy out of depression, end unemployment and create a bright, new world for tha common man. It didn't work. Enjoys Prosperity The United States has en joyed great prosperity since the end of World War II, spot ty, but great. There has not been, however, any appreci able offset during the pros perous years of past deficits. Instead, they have accumu lated into an astronomical public debt on which the bill for interest now runs around $9 bnlion annually. Since 1939, government de ficits have contributed to tha dirtying dollar until its pur chasing power now is less than 47 cents compared to 100 cents just more than 20 years ago. The next generation will jingle in its pants a two-bit dollar. - . be one thing; a scapegoat hunt would be quite another thing. . ' . -: So, if it is not easy to find large ground for much satis faction, it is possible to find solid ground for some satis faction in the behavior of tha principal Republicans. For, after all, their right restraint is, happily, infinite ly more important than tha unrestrained righteous n e s s, after the event, of the hand ful of Democratic second guessers and their friends now so busily proving how right they were and how wrong the president. ; And, parenthetically, they were "right" anyhow only in the sense that they nearly al ways prefer to settle for no action at all .rather than faca the hard dangers of any kind of action. rjIVEN a hotly partisan Re publican reaction to Cuba, on top of this earnest self vindication by such Demo crats as Senators William Ful bright and Wayne Morse, the president - and the country -might well have been para lyzed on policy for months to come. Ail this is not said to "de fend" a man named Kennedy. Nor was much the same said by this same columnist to "defend" a man named Eisen hower when much the same clack was raised from much the same sources over hi ef frontery in sending "spy planes" over the Soviet Union. It is said in behalf of an institution called the presidency of the United States. It is the president who is elected by the people to run their foreign affairs. If he does not "listen" to certain Senators and others-so what? Their opinions often are easier to come by than his. And their strategic plans can be comfortably forgotten if they don't happen to work, and none the worse for it. And (horror of all horrors) If the present president went so far as not to "listen" even to Adlai Stevenson and Ches ter Bowles - again, so what? These two disappointed aspir ants for secretary of state are admirable men. But neither is president. And neither bears an ounce of responsibility or power that is not assigned jo him by the president.
