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Newspaper Page Text4 -Everyone In Southern Oltam Published Dally except Saturday MEOFOHD PRINTING CO 33 North fir St., Ph SPJeUJ Sober! w ruhi. Editor RKRB GREY Advertising Manaaej nvun.n T LATHAM Bui Mar. ERIC W AIXEN JR. Mn Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAjl Telea Editor RICHAHD IEWETT SportJ Ed'.tol OLIVE STARCHER. Women'! Edltoi DALE ERICKSON ClrcuiaUon Mat An tniirnendent Newsoaner Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1887 HI 1 RSCnrPTION RATES n. M1 In Advance. Cooy .Or Dally and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Dally and Sunday 6 moa 1 0u Dallv and Sunday moi 43 KnViriftv flnlv One year 94.20 By Carrier In Advar-ce Medlord .Ashland. Central Point Eagle . Point Jacksonville Gold Hill . 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Circulation of petitions call ing for a vote of Jackson county residents on outlawing of private "rainmaking" was under way here today. 20 YEARS AGO April 20, 12 (Monday) Jackson county sheriff's of fice finds stolen car minus tires as rubber shortage starts tn hrenme accute. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudae Pot" column: "April weather continues to do con siderable fooling and is not making any May flowers. 30 YEARS AGO Audi 20. 1932 (Wadnaaday) State, county and city po lice open investigation of pos sible arson in quarter-minion dollar fire which swept through Medford packing house district. City building department figures show 75 buildings val ued about $150,000 construct ed in Medford during March and first two weeks o( April. 40 YEARS AGO April 20, 1922 (Thursday) . Two Grants Pass men kill ed when passenger train hits their car in downtown Med ford accident. Ashland officials state that tourists paying 50 cents for use of the city-owned camp will receive free fuel and shower baths. 50 YEARS AGO April 20, 1912 (Friday) .. Work starts on construction of hydraulic brick plant at coiner of luth and Kir sis.; plant expected to employ 10 to 15 men. United flairs refugees re port wholesale massacre of American citizens In Mexican revolution; agitation for Unit ed Stales entry in quelling re volt increases. VMiat's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is superior; sevon or eight is excellent; five at tit is good. 1. Who was the last Altec emperor ot Mexico? 2. Is Iran the same place (S Iraq? :t. Was the Gorditm knot cut by Hercules, Alexander, or Atlas? 4. Did Rip VanWinkle sleep 10 years, 15 years, or 20 years? 5. Is the obverse the front or Ihe back of a coin? 6. Who was nicknamed "The Great Profile "? 7. Is bourbon whisky dis tilled form potaloes. rye. corn or wheal? ft. Does Ihe human heart weigh about one ounce, ten ounces or two pounds? !). How many legs has a ipider? 10. What method is provid ed in the Constitution for re moving from office federal Judges guilty of misconduct? Answorsi 1, Montosume, 2. No. 3. Alexander the Great. 4. Twenty years, t. Frent. I. John Barrymere. 7. Corn. I. Ten ounces, I, Eight, 10, Impeachment, r W5 PUILISHIIS I k'SMal J FRIDAY. APRIL 30. 1962 Benton and Jackson: Home Rule Benton county, in common with Jackson coun ty and a few others, will vote on a Home Rule charter next month. The Benton county charter proposal is in some ways similar to the charter to be voted on here, but in several significant ways it differs. Its legislative and policy-setting body would be. a County Council of seven members, three from rural zones, two from the Corvallis area, and two from the county-at-large. They would serve without salary and elect their own chair man for a one-year term. TTHE county's administrative functions would be vested in a Board of Commissioners of three men. The present three-man county court will become the board of commissioners if the charter is approved. They would, at least for the time being, continue to be elected. The chairman of the board would be the county's chief administrative officer. He and the other commissioners would supervise the law enforcement, finance, works, assessment and taxation, and public healtn departments. All presently elected tinued in office for two years, and tnen an positions, except those of commissioners, would become appointive. IN THE 1964 election, L" the charter is approved, another question vould be presented to the voters: Should the board missioners be continued, placed by a single administrator to be appointed by the County Council? Thus it can be seen that the proposed changes in Benton county are in some ways more far reaching than those proposed here, and in some ways less so. Likewise, to observers of differing views, some of the Benton county charter provisions are superior to those proposed here, and some are inferior. Which is which depends on viewpoint. In many other respects, including a grant of all governmental power", consistent with Oregon law and the federal and state constitutions, the two charters are similar. f)NE of the things which the two charter pro posals have in common is the fact that they would bring government closer to the voters. They would give the voters and their elected representatives the powers now exercised by the state legislature. Thev would make government officials sub servient to the wishes of ing them to establish little which are in many ways unresponsive to the wishes of the voters. And each of the charters here discussed would, if adopted, be a step forward in demo cratic procedures, and cumbersome, outmoded governments with which Oregon s counties are now saddled. E.A. The McKenzie Crest If any lover of scenic across the McKenzie Pass, the most gorgeous and Oregon. The alpine and sub-alpine vegetation, the lit tle lakes and meadows, the magnificent towers nearby lesser peaks, with their glaciers and snow fields and rocky outcroppings these make it outstanding and unique. As a matter of fact, we've long felt that it should become a National Park, where it could be displayed and explained in a manner the Forest bervice is not equipped to do. We have seen Crater Lake, Rainier, Yellowstone, Lassen, Yosemite, Sequoia, Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion and other National Parks. The McKenzie Crest area is different from each, but the equal of any, in its own way. "TTIESE thoughts came to mind when we read an editorial in the Bend Bulletin, mourning that a new and faster cross-mountain route will carry most of the traffic which now traverses the McKenzie Pass. The nearly completed, all-season highway is routed across the Santiani Pass, then southwest past Clear Lake and Belknap Springs, joining the McKenzie route well below the point of its greatest beauty. The Bulletin says: "Virtually by passed and lost to Oregon will be a spectacularly scenic region, the McKenzie lava fields with Its backdrop of the Three Sisters. It is a region with history, as well as unique geology and grand scenery " We cannot join with the Bulletin in this regret. FIRST crossed the McKenzie in the days ""of the old wagon road, which was hacked out of the living lava, and in those days only thinly covered with a layer of gravel. Ever since we have w atched, on occasional visits, as increas ing visitor use has left its scars on the landscape. The new route will, true enough, carrv many folk around this heavenly spot. Rut it will leave it less crowded, less congested, less littered and defaced for those who will visit it because they want to, not because it happens to be the shortest highway route. Let those in a hurrv use the better highway. But also let those who love the high country con tinue to cherish it and savor its beauties. Too, we would like to see it cared for bv the National Park Service. public records, public officials would be con of three elected com or should they be re the people; not allow empires of their own, a step away from the and unresponsive county beauty has never driven he has missed one of spectacular parts of the sprawling lava beds, of the Three Sisters and E.A. Dennis the ' I Tm teacm him not to be SEtFisH.AUftiARET Go AHAO Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial 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 the contrary is often the case. . The Librarian To the Editor: She smiles at me, though she is very bus. ; To assure me that the tum bling world will soon wait a minute; And she will attend to the question thai I have: Then her helpfulness proves that her smile has no guile in it. Tom Graff, 108 East Main St., Medford. U.S. Corporation To the Editor: Nlw that Mr. Kennedy has had his say about the steel companies, let's take a good look at Mr. Kennedy's corporation. Mr. Kennedy is the president of the world's largest corpora tion, the United States gov ernment. His corporation it, without a doubt, the most debt ridden and lismanaged corporation in the whole wide world. Mr. Kennedy's corpo ration has better than 160 million stockholders which have been bled to death with higher and higher taxes for 30 . ears. His corporation owes more than 300 billion dollars, an increase of 281 billion since 1932. His corporation is going into red ink at the rate of 9 to 10 billions more every year. How long can American business stand up under these conditions? If I were Mr. Ken nedy and had my vorporation in such a mess, I would spend less time trying to run the steel corporation and more time trying to get my own corporation in better shape. If Mr. Kennedy likes de funct corporations, he should move to Oregon. We got 'em. He could live in the midst of flock of busted sawmills. He could move to Colorado and live in a ghost mining town. If he doesn't like the west, he can move into Ft. Knox. It's being emptied by foreign governments. They are now scraping the bottom of the barrel for any loose gold. We are going to use paper dollars worth 46c. The unions heard it was go ing to cost 25c more for an ice box, so what do they want? They are striking for a wage increase of $300. T'..ey ain't going to be left out in the cold. Now Mr. President, if 25c is inflationary, then why isn't a $300 wage increase infla tionary? Let's be fair. Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. Socialistic Measures To Ihe Kditor: In a Idler (o Ihe MMT 4-15-62, Mrs. A. H. Schmechel slates, and I quote. "Any one who knows the meaning of Ihe word So cialism knows that the Coun ty Charter could not possihlv bring about that type of gov ernment." It is hard lo determine just what type of government that she refers to. Anyway, one old enough to have "Mrs." on Ihe front of her name, should know that the county govern ment is and always has been run on a socialistic basis. The cities, slates and federal gov ernment are also socialistic. Our school systems. Army and Navy, all police forces and postal system are socialistic. Grand Coulee, Bonneville, and Homer Dams, TVA and many more power and recla mation projecls are also so cialistic. Southern Idaho would still be desert covered with sagebrush if it wasn't for government ownership We would be paying twice as much for power. Our Social Securlly is also socialistic sikI we can't get along without it Repeal Ihe SS law and we will MEDFORD MAIL. Menace be in the middle of a revolu tion in less than 60 days. Mrs. Schmechel, I suggest that you study the socialistic measures that I have mention ed here and ask yourself if you would want to give up or change any of them. You are also going to either study political issues or you will not be able to cast an intelligent ballot the next time you go to the polls. John R. Schumpf, Route 1, Box 312, Central Point, Ore. Always Had Horn Rule To the Editor: "Home Rule'' is a nice sounding title for the County Charter, but I be- lieve that such makes a false impression, in that it implies that we do not now have the same but must accept the pro posed charter to secure it. We have had "home rule" from the very Inception. Thus a question is raised as to what is the purpose of the proposed County Charter. At present the commission, ers have powers to make rules and regulations, make policy and administer the county business. It is without legis strative authority except as Is allowed by state statutes. The charter would grant to the commissioners "legisla tive authority in matters of county concern," but would in fact remove from them the administrative functions and place that in the hands of ap pointed persons. The charter would reorganize the govern ment and place responsibility in one office, but fails to pro vide any method of enforcing that responsibility beyond what we now have which is recall petition. The proposed charter pro vides that for the county to secure legislative authority, the people must also give up partisan form of elections, give up their right to elect all heads of offices and de partments except that of county commissioners, which also is reduced in voting pow er in that six commissioners will be but token officers sup porting but one full time com missioner who will be the of ficial head of government and chairman of the board of com missioners; and also, the peo ple will lose the right of re call to all other offices which they now control due to the fact that they wiet be appoint ed and responsible only to the board of commissioners; not to the people. For this the people are asked to approve the charter next May 18. We have every confidence in the ability of the people to think for them selves. Our only concern is that will the averase voter study the proposed charter to reach a decision, or will Ihey accept at face value the pre sentation of those wanting the charter; or, will those who are uninformed fail to vote, leaving the issue up to those that are promoting the char ter? If this happens the people may find themselves with an instrument not wanted - but alter having - hard to ,et rid Ray O. DeMarri. 708 Wet Second st , Medford. The Dilferenca To the Editor: Congressman Durno is trying to deliberate- 1.. I....J u ki:. ...u-. i iiusn fiu me i,uuiu w nun ne said, in his recent newsletter, that the real reason the Na. tional Dunes Seashore Park is not being considered in i'ongress is that it was deleted at the While House level. The Inference that the President of the United Stales, acting on his own initiative and by his own decision, knocked out the TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Nuclear Weaponry Makes Disarmament Imperative, But Agreement Far Away Br PHIL NCWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst In world armament such i balance exists that it is un likely that any nation delib erately would touch off a war. Yet that very balance Is a negative force, the na ture of which was described by United Na tion S e c r e tary G e neral X Newsom I n a n t. The United States and Russia, he said, "may not be able to make the world behave as they wish, but they have the power to destroy it. And with the prospect that this destructive power may be doubled by 1S66, there has come the mounting fear of a war by accident and the pressing realization that a halt to the arms race no longer is a goal for the future but a necessity for the present. At the 17-nation disarma ment conference in Geneva, the United States and the So viet Union have presented their rival plans for world disarmament. On the surface they bear many similarities Both call for arms and troop cuts under supervision Both call for a halt to pro duction of fissionable materi' als for nuclear weapons. Washington Report By William (c) United Feature Syndicate DOLLARS AND CENTS Washington-The chief in terest in national politics has suddenly and dramatically J, turned from tT3 umrlH rrisea tn me n o m e 1 y cents is- At least the beginnings of a r e a 1 argu ment between President White ivenneay ana his hopeful GOP presidential rivals for 1964 are now de veloping. Yesterday, when foreign policy dominated the nation's concerns, there was in fact no genuine interparty dispute at all. The top Republican possibilities for 1964, Richard Nixon and Gov. Nelson Rocke feller of New York, were of fering no partisan challenge here to Mr. Kennedy. This was for the sound reason that es sentially they were In agree ment with him on such world matters as the maintenance of Western rights in Berlin and the resumption of nuclear testing. NOW, however, and altogeth er locirallv nr not. the at. chance for Oregon to have a valuable dunes seashore park, is not being fair or honestly portraying the facts of politi cal life in Washington. It is well known that any federal proposal of this char acter, which is opposed by the Congressman from that dis trict, does not have any chance of being included in a recommendation of the Presi dent. It is a well known fact that Dr. Durno has used his influence as a member of the House Interior Committee to devote untiring opposition to creation of the seashore dunes park area near Florence. Although not much is known of the accomplish ments of Dr. Durno, during his two years representing the Fourth District in Washing ton, it is a well known fact that he has succeeding in kill ing. at least while he serves in Congress, any chance of seashore dunes park. In another part of his let ter, Congressman Durno bases his main objection to the Na tional Seashore Dunes Park on the basis of confiscation of 400 private homes. He wrote, "The basic difference between the Neuberger proposal and my own lies in the federal agency involved, the cost and the elimination or confisca tion of 400 private homes in the area." May I say that, in my judg ment, tnc basic difference be tween the Neiihr.ro,- nl and the Durno proposal lies I in havinc a ithn park of national status and national significance, or hav ing a forest servire recreation area with some picnic tables alongside the highway. I would like to a.k Dr. Durno if he would support the Neuberger proposal with the Morse Amendment which would be to permit creation of a national dunes park but not permit the national park service to have the power of condemnation Robert W. Slraub, Stale Senator, l.ane Coiiniy, Eugene, Ore. if. Both would discard the means of delivery of such weapons. And both call for an inter national peace-keeping force. But there the similarity ends abruptly. The Soviet Union refused to permit verification of arms retained. It also refused to permit International inspec tion of suspected nuclear test sites and calls for an uncon trolled moratorium on under ground nuclear tests. U.S. Ambassador Arthur H. Dean curtly told the Russians that the United States, having been deceived once, does "not have any confidence in So viet pledge." At Geneva, the eight so called uncommitted nations generally have shown them selves more sympatheUc to the Russian proposals than to those advanced by the United States and Britain. With less to lose, they aee less reason to insist upon an iron-clad inspection system and positive proof that nu clear test and disarmament pledges are being carried out. Soviet insistence on veto rights over inspection of sus pected test sites and arms re duction has led to two lines of speculation. One is that the Russians genuinely fear espionage. The other is that Russia ac tually is not interested in call ing off the arms race, and S. Whitt mosphere of world crisis is lightening. Though there still is no realistic prospect for any early settlement on Ber lin, there is the strong possi bility of a relatively quiet standoff there for the fore seeable future. This, an old-fashioned party discussion is opening, in the area of governmental budgets, taxes and business incentives. This is the central meaning of Governor Rockefeller's new effort to proclaim a funda mental economic division with President Kennedy. It was particularly illustrated in a recent speech in Detroit in which Mr. Rockefeller agreed that Mr. Kennedy has "arti culated the proper (tax) ob jectives," but suggested that the president just didn't know how to reach those objectives. This, before an audience of industrialists, was meant to divide Republican sheep from Democratic goats. Mr. Rockefeller was saying that the Republicans, and notably himself, really understood bus iness problems, whereas the Democrats, and notably Mr Kennedy, did not. TTOW effective the approach " may be is yet to be seen Beyond all doubt, it could have been highly effective had the president listened to the excited recommendations of the left wing of his parly to "get tough" with business, through punitive legislation in the wake of the episode with steel. Franklin Roosevelt or Har ry Truman might well have responded happily to such pro posals. But Mr. Kennedy will not. He intends to try to let by-gones be by-gones - and also to expand his attempts to convince business that he himself is far fram "anti-business." The country therefore may see an arresting duel between two young men, each of great inherited wealth and each the personification of the boons of the free enterprise system, for the favor of the national business community. (The point that many Republi cans would surely rather have Mr. Nixon as their champion in this debate is entirely valid. The simple fact is, however, that Governor Rockefeller has far the bigger megaphone from the mansion at Albany than Mr. Nixon can have in trying to reach the California mansion it Sacramento.) TJND V Ro ockefeller starts ahead, For business generally is farltion, but the tyranny of a fonder of Republicans - for , Castro is hardly an improve good reasons, in some ways - ment on the tyranny of a Ba- than of Democrats. Still, Mr. Kennedy is usually a strong fijiieher. Nor should it be fortotten that he is. after all, still the son of his father. Ihe profoundly pro-business Joseph F. Kennedy. Business itself can take con-1 force" to the underprivileged i " -"" siderable comfort from the ! nations, it cannot come from ashington-lTF-The Coast whole affair. When both sides pacts, alliances and military i nl Geodetic Survey has is are trying to appeal to it. I aid; it can come only from i u'd 27 charts on the changes nolhing too terrible can !iao-ou. deepest understanding of. caused in the East Coast pen to business. And however the way in which "freedom" shoreline by the storm that business may fear "Ihe profes- and "social justice'' m u a t hit the area in March, sors" and the reform-ha;ipy work together. The world can-1 The agency said Thursday liberals in Congress, neither not be free until the man - that the charts represented set is running this particular starting with us - is put to- only the first stage of its re railroad, in any way. settler properly. charting program. merely seeks propaganda ad vantage from renewed U.S. nuclear testing. If the Russians were sin cere, it seems probable that a first step could be taken in troop reductions without great risk to either side. Without inspection no nu In the Day's News ly FRANK JENKINS After two months of what happening in Asia, it's about time to get back to what is happening in the U.S.A. Sum. interesting things have been going on. The steel industry's wage- price battle with Pre' 'dent Kennedy, for instance. WHAT of the steel ruckus? What are its lessons? One of its lessons is that U.S. Steel's Mr. Blough is per haps the world's worst public relations practitioner. ITE HAD an excellent case. -'For four years, his com pany had been absorbing in creased labor costs without an increase in steel prices. In the last wage settlement-this year's settlement, which was engineered by President Ken nedy - his company's labor costs were upped ten cents an hour in fringe benefits, al though there was no direct increase in hourly wages. U.S. Steel had shrugged its shoul ders and accepted the increase Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris e General Features Corp. HEALTHY SOCIETY MEANS HEALTHY MEN Some years ago, I heard touching true story about father who tore a map of the world out of a magazine, cut it into jig saw pieces and asked his lit tle boy how fast he could r e a s s e mble the map. Within a s t a r 1 1 ingly Harris few minutes, the boy had put the map to gether correctly. "How did you do it so quickly?" asked his father. "Oh, it was easy," replied the boy. "On the other side of the page there was a pic ture of a man - and when I put the man together right, then the world was put to gether right." The deep wisdom that the little boy spoke, in all inno cence, is a lesson that still es capes most of us. We imagine that we can put the world right by techniques and poli cies, plans and projects, par ties and procedures. But if the "map" of the man is out of kilter, then the map of the world will remain out of kilter. If his heart is in the wrong place, or if his head is buried in his arms, or if his feet are turned backwards, then the other side of the page cannot be fitted together properly. Humanity has always been reluctant to admit this fact, although every great teacher has made it the absolute basis of his social commentary -Isaiah, Jesus, Confucius and Socrates. None of them be lieved that society could be rectified until the person was what a person ought to be. and not just a walking col lection of appetites. Indeed, the Communist her esy is precisely this - the false dogma that reversing the so cial order will create a hap pier human race, that subordi nating the person to the collec tivity will somehow transform and ennoble human beings. But it does not, and cannot, work that way. Unless the character of man undergoes a profound moral and spirit ual revolution, a social revo lution merely substitutes one evil for another - and often a greater one. We have just seen it vividly happen in Cuba: the country i desperately needed a revolu- tista. And most of the un derprivileged nations in the world today face this same un appetizing choice between cor rupt reaction and Communist despotism If we are to offer a "third clear agreement seems pos sible. For, as the United States already has told U Thant, "nu clear weapons are a necessary deterrent to a potential ag gressor who Is armed with such weapons and openly threatens the free world." in order to get a settlement that would avoid th damag ing effects of a strike. Mr. Blough was in a splen did position to negotiate with the President for a moderate price increase with govern ment backing. His case for such a settlement was almost fl-wless. He threw it away by his hasty announcement of a price increase ly U.S. Steel. That made his case so bad that his comrade in the steel dilemma deserted him and an nounced that they would make NO price increases. CO MUCH for Mr. Blough. There was a strange quirk in President Kennedy's think ing. At his news conference on the day following the an nouncement of the price in crease, the President, obvious ly angry, said: "These price boosts consti tute a wholly unjustifiable defiance of the public inter est. The American people will find it hard, as I do, to ac- i.tF m ouuHuuii m wnich a TINY HANDFUL of steel ex ecutives whose pursuit r,l PRIVATE power and profit exceeds their sense of public responsibility can show such utter contempt for the inter, ests of 185 million Ameri. cans." READING that, one fears " that our President's think ing hasn't caught up with what is happening in the U.S.A. There was a time when Big Industry in Amer ica was in the hands of a few Big Shots. That was in an old er day. There e now MORE OWNERS of U.S. Steel than employees of U.S. Steel. What is true of U.S. Steel is coming to be true of Big In dustry in general. An indus trial revolution is under way in our country. As a result of mis revolution, owners of American industry are becom ing more numerous than em ployees of American industry. QF THIS industrial revolu v tion that is taking place, Sylvia Porter, one of our bet ter known writers on econom ic subjects said in a recent ar tide: "The number of Americans owning stock shares of U.S. public corporations has sky rocketed mor than 2Vj times over the total of only ten years ago. When in the spring of 1962 (meaning any day now) the New York Stock Exchange releases the results of its fourth nationwide cen sus of shareholders, an in formed forecast is that it will show the stock-owning popu lation of our land at 16 MIL LION PERSONS, or even more. That compares with only 6V? million when the first stockholder census was reported in 1952." 'THE 1962 World Almanac reports that as of June 30, 1961 labor union membership in the United States - includ ing AFL-CIO unions and inde. pendent unions - numbered 14.461,541. Which is to say: As of now, shareholders of U.S. corporations OUTNUM BER the members of labor unions in the U.S. by more than 1,500,000. 'THAT is an interesting state ment. It has a 1 ighly inter esting bearing on the problem of wages and prices in U.S. industry. It raise, this ques tion: If prices and wages are to be established by LAW, who is to be favored bv the lawmakers' The OWNERS of industry who may be more numerous? Or the WORKRt in indus-try-who may be less numer ous? TT SUGGESTS something 1 else: Already, in our economy, the owners of industry and the workers in industry are coming to be one and the same. It Isn't socialism. It is PEOPLE'S CAPITALISM It is something new in the world. Geodefe Survey ..,,-j T r i.