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Newspaper Page Text4 A THURSDAY. APRIL It. 1M2 Everyone In .f?!00 WMI II North m St., rn Bra;oii ROBERT W RUHU Eaiwr HERB GREY, Advertisini Menagei GERALD T LATHAM But Mar. IR1CW AiXEN JR.. Mn tdttor EARL H ADAMS, City iXum HARRY CHIPMAfi Telel EdlWt RICHARD JEWETt. Sport. Editoi OUVE STARCKER. Woman'! Edllw PAL ERICK8QN, Circulation MSI An independent Newspaper . saitared u second clam matter Medford. Oregon, under Act of Hart J. 1M7 niBVIPTTflN RATES By MU In Advance. Copy 10; DaUy and Sunday 1 yaar I1J 00 Dally and Sunday moe S-Oo Dally and Sunday I moe. 3 a . . a m i nniuAM year 14.20 y Carrier In Advance Medlora Ashland, rantral Point Bail Point, JackaonvUla oold niu vhAm Shad Cova. Aofue Ria r. Talant and on motor routes. Dally and Sunday 1 vaar Slo 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo '80 Carrloi and Daalara copy 10c All Term Caih in Aavanca "official Paper of City Of MedforJ Official Papir of Jackaon County United Frees InternaUenai rull Uaiad Wire TJJM. Talaphoto Nawipleturaa or unuumiiw : ATES. Offlcaa In New York. ChU caio, Datrolt San Pranciico Lo, Angelas. aie, ruiumi .MATIONAl I0ITORIA1 Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha file of The Mall Trlbuna 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AOO Afirll 12. 19J2 (Saturday) A total of about $400 has been stolen rrom oi. school. 321 -'eat 11th at., It 1 WASIOCIATIOM wai reported today by Med ford city police. Jackaon county's blood pro gram la artill lacking 100 don ora to reach the goal of 500 pints. 20 YEARS AOO April 12. 1942 (Sunday) Enough Medford horsemen to form a platoon ilgn inten tion! of enllBtlng in Oregon State Guard. From Arthur Perry's 'Ye Rmudae Pot" column: "Now comet that argument 'every v,vw la to blame' tor the han the nation found itself in as of, and before Pearl Harbor. Everybody, however is not rushing to court mar tial himself." . 30 YEARS AOO April 12, UM (Tuesday) Medford pleaa for opening western entrance to Crster lake denied by atate highway commission. Water officials report heavy mows around Four Mile snd Fish lakes srd on Hiatt prai rie have guaranteed adequate summer Irrigation water. 40 YEARS AOO April 12, 1922 (Wednesday) Benjamin J. Trowbridge Sr., prominent Medford civic and fraternal leader, dies un vnpptedlv in Portland. Medford men purchase 12 passenger "auto-itage," inau gurate daily bus service be tween here and Klamath Falls. SO YEARS AGO Aoril . 1913 (Thursday) Reports received in New York Indicate 1,482 peraons nilad when liner Tltantlc rams Iceberg In North Atlan tie ocean. Workmen discover "rich bodv" of gold ore at Braden mine after sinking shaft to 110-foot depth. Whal's Your I.Q.7 Nina er tan cerraat la superier: six it (see'. 1. What is the most shun dant metal found in the ground? 2. In what sort of establish ment does a croupier work? 3. What book Is said to be the best seller of all times? 4. When the explorer John Cabot sailed westward In 1497 what was he seeking? 5. Of which country is the drachma the monetary unit? 6. Which weighs more a cubic foot of aluminum or brass? 7. Do you associate Waikiki beach with the Fiji Islands. Indonesia, or the Hawaiian Islands? 8. Are there one or two en trances to San Francisco Bay from the ocean? 9. Correct the following "The United States were rep resented In the conference." 10. Does the answer to ques tion 9 depend more heavily on grammatical or constitu tional Interpretalion? Antwersi 1. Aluminum. 2. Gambling house. 3. Bible. 4. Asia. S. Greece. 6. Brass. 7. Hawaiian Islands. I. One. 9. "The U. 8. wes represent ed . . ." 10. Constitutional. Reeds 50th Year Reed College, in Portland, is in the rather paradoxical situation of oi ine Mississippi mver In the east, the college is known for exceed ingly high academic standards, for one of the hiehest proportionate number of Fh. D.s pro- duced, and the same with Rhodes Scholars. In anv listinp- of the too of the United states, Keed invariably ranks near the top. In Oregon, however, ticular, the record of academic excellence is less well known, and some of the other unusual char acteristics of the school IT IS, once again, a case of a prophet being not without honor save in his own country. Reed College this year is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and a real effort is being made to tell its story the whole story throughout the state and nation. It is natural that in Portland the informal, not to say bizarre, habits of dress of a small minority of students should attract more (un favorable) attention than academic excellence attracts (favorable) attention. DEED students are accorded a considerable de- 1 gree of freedom. They are treated, in the main, like adults. As a result, some of them use this freedom in unorthodox ways, and beards, sandals, unkempt pony-tails and leotards are not unknown on the campus But the unorthodoxv ed in other wavs. too. Thev haDDen to take the tradition of academic freedom, and of freedom of speech, very seriously indeed. They believe that an open, lnauirine mind is better than one closed to ideas, from whatever source. And in the main they play of study, discussion, research, debate and thought is more apt to lead toward the truth than is an attitude of unquestioning acceptance of what is laid down as DECAUSE the students and faculty are ready and willing to listen to. and discuss, unortho dox and even "dangerous ideas on their merits, to listen to Walter Huss on one hand and Gus Hall on the other, they be dangerous radicals. Some of the ideas they discuss freely are, indeed, radical. But in the half century of Reed's existence, few if any (none, to our knowledge) ol its graduates have been of ideas into anything or subversion. To the contrary, its professional men, scholars, lawyers, teachers, doctors, businessmen, to name only a few of the fields in which many have gained eminence. JHE college's first catalog stated : . "Intercollegiate athletics, fraternities, sororities, and most of the diversions that men are pleased to call 'college life' as distinguished from college work, have no place at Reed College . . . Only those who want ts work, and to work hard, and to gain the greatest pos sible benefits from their studies are welcomed." Work and study still remain of first impor tance at Reed. This is work and no play. But play falls into its proper perspective with most students. Oregon can well be proud of this distin guished institution. E.A. Mr. Nixon's We have watched amazement the performance of Richard M. Nixon in recent months. Defeated by a hairline margin from victory in his lone lone race for the Presidency of the United States, he is now to win the Kepublican of California. It is becoming less and less certain that he's going to make it. Mr. Nixon has generated reams and reams of comment, editorials and news stories in recent months, much of it less than favorable. But it remained for a far-distant observer to provide the briefest and most cogent comment on recent Nixoniana. It came in the form of a short editorial in The Commonweal. I TNDER the title, "The Style Is the Man," it said: "The shrewdest politician of them all, as Richard Nixon is commonly thought of. is Just not a very shrewd politician, we have decided. And for a man who has specialized In the projection of an image, he has an uncanny knack for projecting the image of a man below the dignity of the White House. "In the past few weeks he has: published a book not about international or national affairs but strictly sbout his own personal political fortunes, with nation al and International affairs as the backdrop; in that book paid off a number of political scores, one of which involved accusing President Kennedy of en dangering the security of the nation for campaign advantage; in a revised edition of the book added a footnote strengthening his charge against Mr. Kennedy by means of a strategically edited quotation from a newspaper story but omitting to mention that the charge has been denied by his own prime witness; called the President and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy 'these carpetbaggers'; not least, made his umpteenth appearance on the Jack Paar show, mourn ing Jack's farewell." Sic transit the "New Nixon." Tricky Dick has returned. E.A. being better known east man 11 is in lis own state colleges and universities and in Portland in par are better known. t and environs. of students is manifest believe that the free truth by Authority. often are considered to corrupted by the flow approaching radicalism graduates have become not to say that it is all Tribulations with interest and some engaged in attempting nomination for Governor Dennis the R I HI II H I f INI J II III II III T I t oof believe it, put Wilson ws the Himavs vorro fewiS THE KID 'AOST LIKELY V V Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the although under certain circumstances for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view ts 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 tha contrary is often Deserving Guy m. & to if ttim b V To the Editor: This photograph of Medford's Mayor. John Snider, was recently sent to me. I can only presume It cap tures the spirit of the Mayor's consternation at the avalanche of keys reportedly descending on him. I sympathize with your Mayor in his dilemma have happened to a more deserving guy. Us's Worms To the Editor: Us under stand and appreciate an edi torial w r i t e r' frustrations over We snd I. Successful newspaper people are extro verts, as are successful actors, successful Teddy Roosevelts, and us believe, since it is the prime mover of all worth while achievement, it needs no apology. The editorial writer with in hibitions employs "we" be cause, as Mark Twain said, he means himself and his worms. Ethan Grant, 125 Cottage st Medford. Retrocession To the Editor: Senator Wayne Morse recently spon sored a home rule bill for Washington, D. C. Washington residents have no home rule, but because of the 23rd amendment they can now vote for President and Vice- President. This bill also contains the Morse formula for giving more Federal money to the District. Senator Morse reasons that since about half of the 45,000 acres of land which make up the District are tax-exempt, the Federal Government should finance about half of the city's budget. Over half of the land In the state of Oregon la owned by the Federal Government. Over 75,000 acres are under exclu slve Jurisdiction of Congress. Persons living on these Or egon enclaves have no voting rights of any sort, not even the 23rd Amendement. Nor does the state of Oregon get any special Morse formula funds. In 1956, 1957, 19SS and 1959. President Eisenhower backed retrocession leglsla tion that would have returned Jurisdiction over much of this land to the states. Senator Morse makes no mention of Oregon Federal en claves when he sponsors D C home rule bills, yet the pres ent home rule bill could easily be changed to a general retro cession statute. If you think retrocession should be applied to all Fed eral enclaves why not let Con gress know now? Congress men sometimes listen during an election year. Barry Bisson, Citizens for Retrocession, 1921 Kalorama rd N.W Washington 9, D. C. Bonneville Worries To the Editor: All of us. In terettrd In the need for con tinued economic growth In Oregon and concerned about the Importance of broader Job MEDFORD MAIL Menace name and address of the writer, the use of a pen name or Initial the case. and can only say it couldn't Gene W. Rossman 2336 SW Osaga Portland, Ore. opportunities for peoplt liv ing in this state, must be gen uinely concerned about the recent announcement from Bonneville Power Adminis trator Charles F. Luce of an other sizable deficit during the past fiscal year of Bonne ville operations. unless mis trend is re versed, in a very few years the surplus built up in Bonne ville's account will be elimi nated, and it then will be nec essary for Bonneville to con sider rate increases which will seriously impair the fu ture economic growth of Or egon. This should be avoided at all costs. Active, strong, vig orous support for construction of the Hanford Reactor Proj ect is one measure that will help improve Bonneville's op erations. The addition of 900, 000 kilowatts of firm power, which would result from the Hanford Reactor, supplying power at a rate cheaper than our low cost hydro-electric power, would be of tremen dous benefit. Another need ed development is a federally constructed and operated in- tertie with California, opening up new markets, but, in this regard, we must insure feder al legislation to protect, for Oregon, priority power so that firm power will not be siphoned off to California. As w recognize the contin uing problems which harass and plague the lumber Indus try, we should recognize more clearly the vital Importance to the industrial growth of this region of low cost public power. This has been the backbone of our economic vi tality in the past in those areas not connected with the forest products industry. Robert W. Straub, State Senator, Lane Co., Route 4, Box 111, Eugene, Ore. Funny Page To the Editor: Tuesday's Letters to the Editor page was funnier than the funnies. If this sort of thing keeps up. I'll start reading "Peanuts second, and I'm afraid it will be strictly anti-climax In one letter I read that the Home Rule movement was a Socialist plot and in the next that it was a South ern Pacific conspiracy, and the picture of the Friendly SP conspiring to socialize Jackson county was almost more than I could stand. How about getting a little sense into this discussion? The Home Rule question is a decidedly serious one for the peoplt of this county and TRIBUNE, MEDPORD, OREGON U.S, Reaction to Berlin Problem Changing By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst An Important change has taken place in United States policy toward West Berlin. Until very re cently, u. s reaction to So- v i e t threats against the city primarily was military. The military phase receiv ed stepped-up emphasis aft- Newseaa e r President Kennedy'a 1061 Vienna meet ing with Nikita Khrushchev in which the Soviet leader placed a year-end deadline on Matter of Fact y (el Naw Vork Herald AND STILL THEY COME Macao A fine harbor, a lively waterfront, a cluster of little hills charmingly covered with pink and green and yel low and white n e o - baroque architecture that is the out w a r d Macao. Beneath this pretty surface, this little Por tuguese col ony on t h Alsnp China coast has always hsd Its darker depths. Gambling and gold-smuggling are the prin cipal local Industries. But nowadays you find here such a confrontation of good and evil as is difficult to imagine, because of Chinese commu nism's unending, cruel pres sure on the humble Chines masses. Macao, you see, offers im mediate harbor to any refugee who can manage to cross its borders. So any day here, you may see the spectacle I saw two rickety, overladen little Junks wildly beating before the wind, desperately trying to reach the protection of the Macao water police before the pursuing Communist patrol boats could come within range. One junk made it, one cap sized; so 13 refugees were added to Macao's total for the day; and another 20 or so were added to the thousands who have already found their last resting place in Macao s neighboring waters. IN two short, recent days, there were three such inci dents. Of five small Junks carrying over 30 people, only one got through with seven refugees, and two persons on the second were rescued. Of two frail sampans carrying a large peasant family, one got through and one went down, taking the father and mother to the bottom before the eyes of the adolescent boys and girls. Not all the stories are so tragic. A couple of months ago, a fairly large Communist river steamer was successfully stolen by a wonderfully in genious plot. Twelve truck drivers stole gasoline, drop by drop, for over a year to pro vide the fuel. Eight mecha nics in a Canton dockyard found the right vessel and painted it the same gray as the Communist patrol boats. Three cooks in a naval mess stole half-a-dozen uniforms of the river patrol force. So 70 people sailed down the Pearl River in perfect safety, seem ingly on river patrol. But there are few such stories to provide grace notes in the dark tale of fear and flight. You see the new-come refugees everywhere here, in huge huddles at the big police station, where the Portuguese police are surprisingly gentle with them; in still bigger crowds at the Casa Riccl, where the fathers give them food and aid; even lying on the waterfront like beached fish, unable to move for a while after reaching the longed-for shore. As S conditions have grown doubled and tripled. At the Casa Riccl, 248 refugees were received In March, 1959; 330 In March of 1960; no less than It might be a good idea for some of those objecting loud est to read it before condemn ing it. The big objection - after one wades through all the nonsense - seems to be that under Home Rule, we would lose our right to vote. This is absurd. True, we would elect only seven county officials rather than eight, but at the same time, we would free ourselves from the abso lute domination of the State of Oregon so far as county affairs are concerned. I can count, and I'd prefer seven home-elected officials making decisions which affect m rather than 90 representa tives to the Oregon legisla ture - only three of whom ar from Jackson county. William Dawklns 208 West Main st. Medfosd From Military to Economic a peace treaty with East Ger many and abolition of Allied rights in West Berlin. Tense moments followed as Gen. Lucius Clay arrived in Berlin to be the President's personal representative and the U. S, began re-establishing its rights on the German autobahns, in the air corri dors, and on its side of the wsll dividing the city. Now a second phase equal to the military is being em phasized. Secretary of State Dean Rusk left Geneva with the be lief that so long as the Soviet challenge remains, there also remained a serious threat to West'Berlin morale and a sub- Joseph Alsep Trlbuna Syndicate 841 in March of 1961; and to day the flood Is greater still. Prolonged semi-starvation; increasing desperation; much greater risks taken and many more lost along the road; in creasing wretchedness among the quiet, fatalistic, rag-ciad people who get through that is the refugee story. But there is another story here, too. Fsther Ruiz, dash ing about town on his beloved Vespa, now bringing sudden hope to an exhausted group on the beach, now carrying huge sacks of bread to feed the hungry line at the police station, now making his jokes to cheer the crowds at Casa Riccl, is very much part of that story. So are the other Casa Ricei fathers. Still another part of the story are those, like the Rev erend Mother Maria Tolmira and her Franciscan sisters of th School of the Morning Star, who try to help ' the refugees in their second stage, after they have settled in Macao. a rpHIS reporter one wrote a -s- piece suggesting that the best bargain in this bargain- famous part of the world was an investment in Mother Tol- mira's work for the poor chil dren here. This helped to start a chain of events in which a retired New York Jeweller, Nathan Newman, and Mary Lasker, and President Ken nedy all played their generous parts. But the chain was still $15,000 short of producing a solid result when Mrs. Eliza beth Godfrey Bird walked in out of the blue, so to say. "What are you going to do for the rest that you need? Mrs. Bird asked the Reverend Mother, after subjecting the School of the Morning Star to a severely practical inspec tion. "The Lord will provide," re plied Mother Tolmira, quite sincerely one may be sure, since the Lord has helped the Reverend Mother as ofter as a bull market helps a wise investor. "Well I'll give the other fifteen thousand," said Mrs. Bird. QO that was that; and an " orphanage for 145 won derfully clean, gay, bright lit tle girls has now been added to the school for 750 day pupils. Besides frail-seeming, beau tiful, iron-strong Mother Tol mira, eleven other nuns, a few lay teachers, and three cooks do all the work the children cannot do, including provid ing a dally total of 2400 meals filling breakfasts, lunches, and suppers. As all this is done on a cash income of $1200 a month, plus flour and the like from the Catholic Welfare, the Morning Star is still the best bargain in the Far East. But in Macao, bargain-hunting is less important than goodness-hunting. Among so many reminders of man's in humanity to man, one needs people like the slender Polish Reverend Mother and her bustling Spanish friend, Fa ther Ruiz, to restore one's faith in the human race. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF DAMON RUNYON landed his first newspaper job In Den ver, Col. He waited in the anteroom of the city editor while an office boy announced hii presence. The office boy reappeared and said, "Th boss wants you to send in a card." Runyon had no card nor did he ever have one after he became famous but he did have a pack of playing cards in his back pocket He care fully extracted the ace of spades and told the office boy, "Give him this." The city editor not only hired him, but treated him to lunch. Martin Podoll avers that he heard two sharks talking off Sandy Hook recently. 'Take my Up and stay clear of Coney Island." one shark was advising the other. "Irving was swim ming down there last weekend and he got mugged." O IMS, tT BaaiaU Cart Distributed by Kins rsatiiraa Syndicate sequent threat to Investment and production. On this basis then, Soviet harassing tactics in the air corridors represented less a challenge to Allied rights of free access than to the spirit and economic health of West Berlin an attempt to discour age establishment of new busi ness and to encourage West Berllners to leave. In answer, the United States is trying to encourage U. S. firms with operations In Ger many to open branches in West Berlin. Student exchang es are being considered, as are suggestions to make West Berlin universities centers for international education pro grams. A glance at statistics illus trates the cause of concern. West Berlin gained steadily in population from 1953 to In the Day's News By FRANK Japanese vignettes: At the Higashi Hongangi temple in Kyoto, there is an interesting historical exhibit. When they were building the temple several centuries ago. they couldn't find ropes strong enough to lift the im mense pillars designed to sup port the temple roof. The pillars were cut from the trunks of huge pine trees. When they tried to lift them Into place with hempen ropes, the ropes broke. They then had special cotton ropes made. The ropes also broke under the strain. So . They called upon the wom en of the area for a sacrifice. The women cut their long hair. The hair was spun into ropes. These hair ropes held and the pillars of the temple were lifted into place. The ropes are still shown as a part of the temple shrine. They are nearly three inches in diameter, and still look strong and trustworthy., THE pine, the plum and the bamboo are the HAPPY trees of Japan. You see them all over the country. The bam boo grows everywhere, and is used for an unbelievable num ber of purposes. In, Japan, the pine tree is the symbol of 'longevity. 'TRAVELING by rail from Kyoto to Tokyo, one pass es through Japan's largest agricultural area. Mulberry trees are to be seen frequent ly along the way. Th leaves of the mulberry are the fa vorite food of the silk worms. They are less numerous now than formerly, as syn thetic fibers are cutting heav ily into Japan s silk markets. Silk, however, la still spun and woven into beautiful fab rics. The silk industry reach Strictly Personal By Sydney lei General PERSONAL PREJUDICES Everything in the world can be understood except the very simplest and most ele mental things; complexity can always be broken down and analyzed into Its components, but simplicity seems to con tain within itself an inviola ble secret. All the jokes and cartoons about husbands and wives squabbling over the bridge table ignore the fact that this outlet often keeps them from bickering about other matters which might threat en the marriage more griev ously than the correct play of the trump suit. No hostelry which provides only wire hangers for its guests deserves to be patron ized a second time; who needs the TV set In the room if the shades are torn, the face cloth is missing and the hang- Now 1958 when Khrushchev issued his first ultimatum against the city. Since then, there has been a slow but steady de cline. The population, which reached a peak of 2.2 million in 1960, has been projected to 1964 at an even two million. German government offi cials explain it partially by the fact that Berlin is a city of the old, with a death rats far exceeding the birth rate. But it also is true that West Berlin's work force has dimin ished at a rate of between 15.000 and 20,000 a year since) 1958. Formerly, the city replen ished its work force with refu gees from the East. The Soviet-erected wall cut off that flow to scarcely more in a year than used to arrive in a week. JENKINS ed Us peak when Kyoto was the ancient capital of Japan. The luxury loving nobility of that period loved these rich silks. The elaborate pat terns dyed upon them in volved an ingenious method that is still used. THE dyed fabrics are washed in Kyoto's rivers, whosa waters are believed to be especially effective in fixing colors. The excess dye, run ning off into the water, turns the rivers into vivid shades of orange, purple and green. The washed fabrics are then dried on the river banks, in high racks so the air can get at them. They make a gor geous sight. ONE of Kyoto's famous shrines is the Kinkakuji the Gold Pavilion. The orig inal structure was built in 1397. It was desroyed by fire several years ago. The pres ent building is a reproduction of the original structure. It is covered almost entirely by gold foil. The Gold Pavilion is visited annually by tens of thousands of Japanese school children, who come in school buses. They park their buses and march in orderly formation to view the Pavilion. On the dH.v when our pilgrims from the cruise ship arrived, they were marching to the Pavilion as we were leaving il and they halted to let us pass. We seemed to interest them even more, if possible, than they interested us. They greet ed us with loud and friendly "hallo's," and broke their lines to shake our hands jnd try out their English on us. (English is taught in the Jap anese schools.) They were a charming lot. One can't help liking thesa Japanese youngsters. J. Harris Features Corp ers don't hold up the clothes? New Yorkers who a r -snobbish about their city should recall Don Herold's deflating remark some years ago: "There is nothing dis- . tinciive about living in New ' York over eight million other people are doing it." . Brevity may be the soul of wit, but a great many speak-: ers manage to be brief and; tedious at the same time. Speaking of brevity, few ; statements can equal th . ironic compression of Rabe- lais' will: "I owe much; I ' have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor." Having a cold is not nearl so exasperating and unconv fortable as dragging around with the feeling of being about to get one; the anticipation and uncertainty (in this as in so many other things) arflL worse than the affliction it self. a a a It Is not for honesty's sake -that most men ar honest, but for fear; just contem- . plate what you might do if . guaranteed that no on would ever know it and that . you would not be punished. : When we are on the inside, we complacently refer to if as "our set"; but when we are on the outside, we scorn fully refer to it as "their clique." Shakespeare tells us that ' men ar April when they : woo and December when : they wed but it might be . said with equal justice that . women are kittens during ; courtship and tigresses aft-. erwards. It is fruitless to "blame" parents for the delinquencies' of their children, unless you: carry it a step backward and blame their parents for not rearing children who made better parents, and their par ents and so on toward an in finite regress of recrimination.