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Portland, oenver NIWSPAM pubiishirs association NATIONAl EDITORIAL ' I 1 " I I S S" -N Las)ctio;n i.iHm:,:.iuJi Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 vearl ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 17, 1952 (Saturday) Medford residents will have fire protection matching any city on the Pacilic coast dur ing the first three days of next week when some 400 firemen, firo chiefs and fire equipment dealers gather here for the annual conven tion of the Oregon Fire Chiefs association. A total of 34 books have been added to the Library Friends rental book section of the Medford public library. 20 YEARS AGO May 17. 1942 (Sunday) First forest fire of season, in Trail Creek area, extin guished by guard station workers. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A census of the fish in Rogue river was taken recently and showed almost as many fish as fishermen." 30 YEARS AGO May 17. 1932 (Tuesday) Amelia Earhart lands plane in Irish farm field after flight from Newfoundland: first woman to fly Atlantic ocean alone. Medford's clothing stores advertise "name-brand" fude proof shirts with prc-shunk collars, $1.15: tailor-made suits, $25. 40 YEARS AGO May 17. 1922 (Wedneiday) Complete schedule of Chau tauqua events here Includes Jugo-Slav Tamburions, Dr. Lydia Allen DeVilbiss, Har old (Private) Peat, "Turn to the Right" - Great Sermon Play, Battling Muhler Duo New York City Concert Quar tet and Junior Pageant. Local grand jury closes briefest sessions in years with recominendution that new cushions be provided for the chairs in the grand Jury room 50 YEARS AGO May 17. 1912 (Thursday) City announces plan to ex tend sidewalks to curbs at intersections to remove "large puddles of water which make it inconvenient for' passers by." Yhat's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct i superior; seven or eight is excellent; five ot sii it good. 1. How many days did it rain during the Biblical flood? 2. Do tracer bullets leave a trail of smoke or light? 3. Name the oldest city in 0i Western Hemisphere. 4. Are there two, three, or six ways In which a pair of dice may fall to make a seven? 5. Was the first cheese made in Egypt, Switzerland or Eng land? 6. How many lines are there in a sonnet? 7. Is the temperature of the Mirth's upper atmosphere al ways below freezing? 8. Complete the proverb, "You have made your bed. , ." 9. Name the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. 10. Are the "Flanders Fields" of John McCrae's poem located in France, Bel gium or The Netherlands? Aniwersi 1. Forty. 2. Light. 3. Mexico City. 4. Six. 5. Egypl. 6. Fourteen. 7. Yes. 8. ". . . you muil lie In It." 9. John Wilkes Booth. 10. Belgium. TCCRSDAY. MAY 17, 1962 Reconmendstion o e Judicial For jfldge of the Oregon supreme court, position No. 6 Arno H. Denecke For Oregon Tax Judge Peter Gunnar. State Measures Six per ceniamendmtnt vote yes. Salaries of state legislators vote yes. County Measure Home Rule Charter vote yes. Annexation Measure For S. W. Medford no recommendation. E.A. The Maker (Editor's note: The following is a column written by Art Hoppe of the San Francisco Chronicle which appeared on election day in California last year. The only changes which have been made were to adapt it to local situations.-E. A.) I will get up early tomorrow morning, for it is election day. I like to move more leisurely on these mornings. I like to linger over my paper. I like to shave more deliberately. For I have som ber decisions to make. Will I allow members of the legislature to set their own salaries, as state officials? Should retain a tax base Or should new taxing units be allowed to set a tax base without an election? I will decide, perhaps, as I eat my toast. As l snave, stannir I make, I will think about county government. Would a larger board of commissioners be more efficient? Would a Home Rule Charter actually Dnng government closer to me I It would be nice. But I must decide wisely and well. WILL put on my coat and walk slowly down 1 the block to the polling place. . I like to walk slowly on these mornings. For I must decide who shall be my county judge and who my supreme court judge and who my state senator. I must decide who shall rule me, who shall iudee me and who shall defend my interests. These are decisions of grave import. It will be quiet on the streets that early. It always is. The only splash of color will be the large American Flag hanging over the polling place, gay and brave in the gentle morning light. in tne bare garage, ting at a card table in always is. He will say, "Nice day" or "Kind of Then he will ask my name and I will tell it to him. And the elderly lady sitting next to him with the white, tightly-curled hair, will look my name up in her huge, doomsday ledger. When she Iinds it, she will nod does. I WILL step into the booth, then, and draw the 1 curtains to close out the world. The dullness of the printed ballots carry on their face only the names and titles of the candidates and offices, and the dead lan guage of the questions I must decide. Where are the brass bands and pretty girls? The citizens' committees and speeches? The fuzzy television images and the banners? Where are they now? The scratch of the old pencil making my deci sions carries loudly in the silence. The old man will say good-by and the lady will nod in friendly fashion. There is a rapport between us makers of decisions. Some of my decisions will prove unaccept able, some unworkable, some unwise, ror I am far from infallible. It matters little. For I have done my best to rule myself, to judge myself, to detend myself. It will In the evening I will set aside a few minutes to think of those who have never shared this experience, those at home who won't and those abroad who can t. And I I always do. SOMEbody DOES Something "Every one KNOWS auditorium in Medford, to DO anything about it! Ihis complaint was pointing out the defects torium. And, praise be, somone DID something, asked advice what to do. Our suggestion was that a committee of peo ple interested in such an auditorium be formed, first, and then, after appropriate discussion, plans be formulated, cost estimates and drawings ob tained, and public sentiment determined. A FTER that first step is taken, it can then be decided how best it should be financed. Should it be by public subscription? By bond issue? By regular city or county revenues? Where should it be located? Who should operate it? What revenues could sustain it? These are important questions, but they will not become live issues unless and until the first and basic step is taken that of enough people who want such an auditorium getting together. THERE are plenty of people groups as well as individuals who should be interested. So, on behalf of the simile lone individual who finally decided that SOMEone should DO something, we make this offer: All those who would like to see such a step taken, and who would be willing to devote some time to it, are invited to write to the Auditorium Editor, Mail Tribune, Medford, and their names and expressions of interest will be conveyed to theobrave volunteer. E. A. of Decisions well as those of other I permit taxing units to unseeingly at the faces the old man will be sit his black overcoat. He "Good morning," and cold." He always does. and smile. She always will surprise me. They be a priceless day. will feel sorry for them that we need a decent but no one seems willing in response to a review of the Hedrick audi the caller said it was time and she volunteered. She De nnis the I yn j"M JUST S0NUA 00 IT TIL HER Matter of Fact (ci New York Herald THE TWO CRISES London In the Far East, two crises are now going on at once. The one in Laos is getting all the attention, but the one on the Hong Kong border is ev ery bit as in teresting Al most everyone has been miss ing the d a rk drama, the re- Aisop any stagger ing implications of the new development on the Hong Kong border. This is because so few people realize that, on the Communist side, this nar row Chinese gateway to the outer world used to be as closely guarded as the grim border of East Germany. During these last years, a tiny trickle of persons have been allowed to leave Com munist China with official exit permits. Many thousands more have fled every montn at dire risk of their lives. But almost none of these who fled came across the land border, which was far too heavily policed by the Communists. The perilous sea route was all but invariably used. IN THE last few days, how ever, all this has changed. Thousands of refugees are now pouring across the land border every day. The close guard is not on the Commu nist side of the border any longer. It is on the Hong Kong side. The Hong Kong govern ment fears that half the pop ulation of southeast China may pour across the suddenly opened border, into the al ready overcrow ded city. Hence Hong Kong police and troops have been rounding up the pitiful refugees and push ing them back into Commu nist territory. Why, then, has this border been so strangely opened, with such painful results? There are only two possible answers to the question. The threat of famine in southeast China may be so severe and immediate that the Chinese Communist govern ment has voluntarily flung wide the iron gate. If this is the explanation, the aim is to pass on to the Hong Kong government the task of feed ing the maximum number of hungry people. But if this is the explanation, it must be added, this is the first time since the October revolution of 1917 that any Communist government anywhere on the face of the earth has ever taken such a step. THE other possible explana tion is even more lurid. If the border has not been opened by order, it must then have been opened as a result of a collapse of the morale Try and By BENNETT CERF- fPHE MEANEST man in New York acknowledged an in-J- traduction to an eager' young lady, appraised her shrewdly, and told her, "You look like a million dollars." Before she could express her pleasure, however. he added, "After taxes." A missionaiy and a very un-Elsio-llke lion met head on in an impenetrable jungle. Flight was out of the question; the mission ary sank to his knees and prayed. To his astonish ment, the lion did likewise. "How miraculous." bab bled the missionary, "to join you In prayer when just a moment ago I gave myself tip for lost!" "Quiet," ordered the lion severely. "I'm saying grace." a Patrolman Tom ivffee declares that he was within earshot when a tough vnK hood he whs shadowing save his girl friend a mink coat. "Ooh, Spikf, It's bee-you-tee-ful." she simpered. "II must be worth at least five years." C 1963. by Brnnett Cfrf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Menace DOLL SETS BUTW.' By Joseph A I sop Tribune Syndicate and discipline of the soldiers and police who form the Com munist border guard. There are reports, buttressing this second explanation, of the ap pearance of at least one or ganized military unit amid the flood of desperate border crossers. The official analyses received in London from Hong Kong rate the second, more lurid explanation as be ing just about as probable as the first. Whichever explanation is correct, there can be no doubt at all about the basic meaning of this astonishing develop ment on the Hong Kong bor der. Whether the Iron gate has been opened intentionally, or whether the gate has fallen of itself, the new development means that the internal situa tion in Communist China is even more desperate than any one supposed. The evidence that this reporter turned up in Hong Kong some weeks ago was quite sufficiently flesh-crawling; but even on the basis of this evidence, the early opening or collapse of the iron gate could never have been forecast. The crisis on the border of course calls for no action by the U. S. government, where as the crisis in Laos has al ready forced the U. S. govern ment to take a rather drastic preliminary action. Nonethe less, the Laos crisis should clearly be judged, at least in large part, in the light of the border crisis and its inescapa ble meaning. A YEAR ago, the strongest argument against a strong policy in Laos was the calcu lation by the American Joint Chiefs of Staff that American intervention there would bring Chinese Communist in tervention on a massive scale. The lesson of the Hong Kong border is that the Chinese Communists dare not inter vene in Laos if they are still rational. Or if they are irra tional and do intervene, the kind of strain revealed by the Hong Kong border crisis, in creased by the heavy strain of intervention, must lead to far worse trouble for the Chi nese Communists than for anyone else. Thus the risk of being bold in Laos has been vastly re duced by the downward curve in China. Judging by the complacency displayed by the British government, which has always favored abandon ing the Laos position, the U.S. government is not inclined to be bold iri Laos. Much em phasis is also being placed in Washington on the weak nesses and errors of the anti Communist Laotians. These weaknesses are un doubted, as is the weakness of the American government, under both President Eisen hower and President Kenne- Stop Me Frequent States by By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst As a young nation sensi tive of its independence anj national pride, the Republic of the Pijil- v. . J ippmes i r e . I quently has snown Dursts of temper a g a i n st the United States. But never I i nave tne8e fflJ outbursts been awuwcu lu Newsom damage per manently the peculiar affec tion existing between the Philippines and the United States which gave the Fili pinos their independence in 1946 and established them as a showcase of democracy in Asia. This is another period of temper. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris c Field Enterprises Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES Those who mistakenly com pare the breeding of people with the breeding of dogs or horses should be informed that the only "pure-bred" people known to the modern world, the Tasmanians, are the only ones who became wholly extinct. What a young person thinks of as "pain" is often merely the absence of pleas ure; while what an old per son thinks of as "pleasure" is often the absence of pain. Misfortune, at first, makes our friends sorry for us - but if it continues, it makes them impatient with us, and finally fearful lest the "disease" be catching. To the portentous ques tion. "How will the next war end?" the words of Corneille, written 300 years ago in "Le Cid," might prove prophetic: "Et le combat cessa, faule de com battanis" - And the battle ended through lack of com batants. The liberal accuses the con servative of "wanting to turn the clock back," but maybe the clock should be turned back in some respects; the conservative accuses the lib eral of "wanting to go too far loo fast," but maybe we should go faster and farther in some things; when will both camps tire of repeating such meaningless slogans and start thinking? Speaking of politics, while our slogans are as silly as ever, our attacks on political personalities have lost all their spice and sting; as witness Dis raeli's comment a century ago: "If a traveler were informed that such a man (Lord John Russell) was ieader of the House of Commons, he may well be gin to comprehend how the Egyptians worshipped an insect." Why is it that the person who insists on telling us something for our own good usually tells it with an ill concealed air of jubliation and self-satisfaction? A bad doctor treats dis eases, and a good doctor treats patients. To have "no opinion" on an important subject is a form of slavery-for then we are easily moved by those whose opinions are motivated by their passionate self-interest. The hardest lesson in human relations (and in marital relations) for a young person to learn was expressed by William James, when he advised, "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." A poet who is entirely clear in his verse might as well write prose; unless poetry conveys a profound ambig uity, on several levels at once, it is a mere exercise in jingling rhymes. The paradox of science is that while it trains a man lo think carefully and pre cisely about his subject, it also prevents him from giving much connected thought to subjects outside his immediate province. dy, in tolerating the large scale invasion of Laos by reg ular troops of the North Viet namese Communist army. But the question in Laos is not whether Gen. Phoumi Nosa van is a less amiable fellow i than Prince Souvanna Phou ' ma, who is so much liked in j the Foreign Office and in some quarters in the State Department. The question in Laos is whether it'n wise to hand the back dr of South Viet Nam over to the Communists, while pouring men and munitions into South Viet Nam through the front door. One or the other Ifc'licy makes sense, but (kit both. LA Bursts of Temper at United Philippines As result, President Dios- dado Macapagal canceled a schedulef visit to the United States next month and ac cused the American people of a lSck of interest in the "problems of a steadfast ally in the struggle against inter national communism." The source of Filipino in dignation was congressional failure a week ago to ap prove a 73 million appro priation which was to pay off the last of the Philippines damage claims from World War II. Especially ranking to Maca pagal was the congressional charge that payment of the damage claims would consti tute a handout and a "wind ... 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 perrmssiBle. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. LcUeri submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Leigh Supported To the Editor: Among the list of candidates for the of fice of county sheriff on the Republican ticket is a man who has lived in Jackson county for many years. He re ceived his education in the schools of the county contin uing on at the University of Oregon. For more than seven years he served as chief dep uty in the sheriff's office and served capably. His young family is being educated in our schools. "De" A. Leigh deserves the support of the voters in recog nition of his loyal and excep tional service as a law en forcement officer and civic minded citizen. Mrs. Una B. Inch, 602 Catherine St., Medford. Regrets To the Editor: At no time have I called any member of the Charter Committee or any of its local supporters Com munist. I regret that my Communi cation was construed by some as implying that the members of the Charter Committee are communists. No member of the Charter Committee, or any of its sup porters, to my knowledge, are Communists. H. R. Bulman, Route 4, Box 316A, Medford. A Clarification To the Editor: This letter is not for the purpose of adver tising, but for clarification. It has come to our attention that there has been some con cern about a new business just opened called the "Cel lar." There are no intoxicat ing beverages or cigarettes sold. Supervision is main tained. As to our background, I have lived in Medford seven years and belong to the Ma sonic Lodge and Medford Elks Lodge. My partner, Jesse Tor res, also lives in Medford and owns a similar coffee house with a sterling reputa tion, in Roseburg. We feel we have an atmos phere that all ages can enjoy, and that we are an asset to our community. We invite anyone with any questions to visit us or call us. Neil Rayburn, 814 Sherman St., Medford. In the Day's News By FRANK As this is written, ' Presi dent Kennedy has just or dered 1800 U.S. Marines into Thailand, where they will join an Army battle group of about 1,000 men who are already there. The Defense Department says U.S. military forces will be raised to about 5.000 men. The landing is being made from a U.S. car rier task force in the Gulf of Siam, just off the Thailand coast. The dispatches say the President's order makes it plain that U.S. forces will FIGHT if the communists in LAOS cross the Mekong riv er, which is the border be tween Laos and Thailand. VHY the show of force in ' Thailand now? The President's order this morning explains that action is being taken in order to enable us to fulfil our obliga tions under the Manila Pact of 1954. In addition, it is understood that at a meeting of SEATO ( Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) about a year ago in Bangkok, capital of Thailand, the military leaders of SEATO agreed that the final last-stand defense of Southeast Asia must be made at the Mekong. President Kennedy directed this morning that United Na tions be notified of the ac tions this country is taking. Usually Settled fall to thousands of individ uals and corporations." In the years since independ ence, U.S. aid to the Philip pines has been as considerable as the quarrels have been numerous. In 1950, President Truman dispatched Daniel W. Bell to Manila to check charges that $2 billion provided by this country had not been used wisely. The Bell report criticizing corruption in the Philippine government raised a storm of indignation. But it also resulted in Phil ippine tax and land reforms, establishment of minimum wages and continued U.S. aid. The United States also Up For Grabs To the Editor: In county government we have a four million dollar-a-year business, the offices of which come up for grabs periodically to any one who has enough friends to sign a petition, or enough money to plaster the fence posts and car bumpers with campaign stickers. Nor need he know too much about the office for which he is run ning. . From observing county candidates on television I note that some of them list as their main qualifications the facts that they take up space in Jackson county, are mar ried and have children. Now and then a candidate men tions business or professional experience that has any con nection with the office he is seeking. This, to me, is a big argu- ment in favor of selecting men and women with the best training and credentials for the important: jobs of sheriff, assessor, etc., as the county charter would permit us to do. Under the charter we would vote for the commis sioners who would be direct ly responsible to the voters for selecting well qualified personnel. It doesn't make sense to sad dle the sheriff with the re sponsibility of collecting tax. es. The sheriff should be con cerned principally with law enforcement. Taxes should be administered by a finance of fice as provided by the char ter under a man whose field is finance. ' Home rule is the next log ical step in county govern ment. State government has become so big and complex that the legislature cannav. get all its own business through the hopper, let alone act on all the requests from all the counties. Back when the country was young, people were widely scattered and not too many demands were made on local government. It was all right then to have the state run our county business. However times have changed. Our bur geoning population with its demands for zoning, sewage, multiple water districts, etc., needs home rule so that all our problems do not have to JENKINS flUESTION: Are we writing off Laos as a bad debt? A lot of people who are familiar with the situation in Southeast Asia think that is the sensible thing to do. Laos, they say, is torn by power struggles among competing leaders. The PEOPLE of Laos, they add, have little interest in the struggle and are not particularly concerned as to whether they shall live under communist rule or otherwise. All they want is to be left alone. On the other hand, these people say, the Thais are a competent people who know what they want. They want FREEDOM. They interpret freedom primarily as free dom from communist domina tion. They want no part of communism. iTHAT seems to be about the A size of what is happening this morning. If the picture we get from the news today is an accurate picture, our action appears to make sense. We are drawing a, line in the dust and daring our communist opponents to cross it. We are interposing forces between a country that appears to want no part of communism and the commu nists who are seeking to con trol all of Southeast Asia. If we have to fight in South east Asia, we can at least feel that we are fighting in a good cause. aroused FiliDino anger on the question of U.S. bases in te Philippines and jurisdiction over crimes committed by U. S. servicemen. These differences simmered for years until the Philippines a finally won a greafcr voice in the use of the bases and agreed that jurisdiction over criminal cases should be split -U.S. jurisdiction if commit ted on-base, Philippine juris diction off-base. In the end, it seems that the present case will be set tled as peacefully as the others. President Eisenhower favored payment and so does President Kennedy, who al ready has taken steps to start the bill through Congress again. wait their turn in the legis lature. We are now in the space age and we need something more than a horse and buggy government. I respectfully suggest that we unload our buggy whip stock and vote for the county Home Rule Charter. Virginia Westerfield, 1090 South Mountain ave. Ashland, Ore. Do Your Own Thinking To the Editor: The existing laws for solving the problem of sewage at the county level are adequate. It is up to the people and the county offi cials to use the helps pro vided. Those people who worked so hard to have petitions to go in to the city could have done a major public service if the petitions had been pre sented to the county court in stead. I knew nothing of my rights by law, until recently. No excuse, I know. I felt the people I had entrusted my vote to, would do their best. This annexation will not solve, but only lead to fur ther annexation for sewage facilities. We are going to have to pay no matter what. With the other services we do not need, think what can be provided to solve this on the county level' to benefit more people. The Medford sewage sys tem is operating to near ca pacity. By the city's own re port a need e.Jsts for a com plete study of present sewage needs. How have they plan ned to solve the problem? Th same can be done by the county. The existing laws are in operation in other parts of the state. It's up to the peo ple to see that it works here. It's up to the county officials to work for solving this prob lem. This also means that cit izens do not need to be wor ried about sanitation pres sures. Refer to the county court. Be certain to vote, no mat ter which way you have formed your opinions. Don't allow your neighbor to do your thinking. See you at the polls! Olive Fountain, 614 Cherry st. Medford. Last Minute Question To the Editor: It strikes me as strange that the people who are opposed to Home Rule have mentioned in various pieces of literature several counties in other states who have adopted or voted in a Home Rule type of govern ment and in these said coun ties the same people are very disappointed in their modern type of government. My question, Mister Editor, is: Why can't the people who are for Home Rule come up with just one county in the U.S. where it has proven ef fective and the majority of the voters now pleased??? Please submit into the Com munications column of your newspaper as soon as possible. John Koelmcl, 1856 Ross Lane, Medford Two Things Certain To the Editor: Two things now appear certain concern ing Home Rule for Jackson county: 1. There is hardly a person in this area who does not be lieve changes are needed in our county government. 2. The only way we can achieve improvement is by voting for the Home Rule charter, and then each of us working f.or those changes which would then be possible. Those who express opposi tion to the charter appear to forget that only under Home Rule can county government truly represent the desires of Jackson county voters. Mrs. N. R. Etzel, Route 1, Box 140, Eagle Point, Ore. O
