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4 A ' "Everyone In Southern Oregon Rta.i The Mall Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by 33 North Fir St.. PhJ772-6141 ROBERT W HUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager GERALD 1 LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN. JR.. Mna. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporti Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent NewiDBDer Entered second clau matter at Aiedtnrd. Oregon, unaer am oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai) In Advance, Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 uany ana sunnay o moi., ouu Dailv and Sunday 3 mot. 4.25 Sunday Only One year 20 By Carrier In Advance Modford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year (18.00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrie' and Dealers Copy 10c All Termacasn in Aavance Offlrtnl Paper or City of Medford OlflcUl Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire U P1 Telephoto Newspicturei "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI atf.s Offices in New York. CM- cbro Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles Seattle, f oruana, uenver NIWIPAMR rUSUSHIRS ASSOCIATION NATIONAl EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribuna 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 4. 1952 (Wednesday) Opening day for the sum mer season at Hawthorne swimming pool had 429 swim mers use the pool, according to Park Director Darell Hu son. Petitions for C. W. (Bill) A n h o r n as candidate for school board director in dis trict 6C have been filed with the school office in Central Point. 20 YEARS AGO June 4, 1942 (Thursday) Jackson county residents start campaign to purchase $250,000 in war bonds to be used for purchase of lour motored bomber. From Arthur Perry's "Yo Smudge Pot" column: "It now appears the Honorable Japa nese fleet prowling around Midway island had the Hon. Hell shot out of it." 30 YEARS AGO June 4, 1932 (Saturday) Marble and Terrazza floor ing being installed in new Jackson county courthouse at Main st. and Oakdale ave. Crowd of more than 1,000 people watches at Medford airport as flight of 33 Army airplanes arrives here. 40 YEARS AGO June 4, 1922 (Sunday) Commencement exercises for Medford High school sen ior class of 51 students held at Page theater. Mcdtord building records disclose building worth more than $250,000 started here during first six months of year for biggest building boom In city's history. 50 YEARS AGO June 4, 1912 (Monday) From Kane Creek Items: Whillie Foley Is taking eighth grade examinations this week at the Dardanclls school house. We wish him success. Medford city council asks for bids for moving old East Main street bridge across Bear creek to new location on Jackson st. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nin or ten correct U superior; seven or eight Is excellent) live or six ii good. 1. What heavyweight boxer won the world's title in Sid ney, Australia and lost It luk-r In Havana, Cuba? 2. Is a condiment a kind of wagon, seasoning, or a, kind of paint coloring? 3. "Constitution State" Is the nickname of which New Knnlnnd state? 4. What strait, named for a famous navigator, is at the southern tip of South Amcri- 5. Name the vessel which hit an Iceberg In 1912 and sank with a loss of 1503 liver. 8. Is the Isle of Wight oft the north or south coast of Englnnd? 7. Who Is called "The Liber .tor" In South America? 8. In what part of the world Is the Yangtze River? 9. Do men and women have the same number of ribs? 10. What group of islands has been called "the cross roads of the Pacific?" Answersi 1, Jack Johnson. 2. Seasoning. 3. Connecticut. 4. Blralt of Magellan. 5. Ti tanic, t. South. 7, Bimon Bo livar. 8. China. 9. Yet. 10 Hawaiian Islands. MONDAY. JUNE 4. 1962 A Narrow Image Isn't it funny how life will hand you a bonus or dividend in the most unexpected places, when you are least prepared for it? We hope we don't sound too priggish in say ing this but we seldom watch television with the expectation that something intellectually or emo tionally rewarding will result. It's actually quite a good attitude to have: we're never disappointed that way, and occasion allyas was the case last Tuesday night we get a really pleasant surprise. WE HAPPENED to catch a program called "Naked City," an hour length cops-and-robbers production with an unusually realistic style that often permits it to show more violence and sordidness than is customary on other shows of its type. But Tuesday night it was different. The plot concerned a man who felt that his life as an accounts executive in a big New York city firm was too narrow and confining. So, without bring ing harm to anyone, and managing at the same time to help a variety of other people, he adopted several new identities. He became a sort of beatnik poet, an Episco palian minister who cared for a rescue mission for down-and-outers, a truck farm owner, and a neighborhood ping pong champion who took on all comers. Understandably, the police eventually be came interested in his activities, but after a thorough investigation, while the whole matter maybe the man had a point. At the end of the story, one of the detectives who had been working partner and confessed, expression on his face, that he had always want ed to teach English literature at Harvard. IT WAS a good script, and it neatly underscored one of the most frustrating aspects of contem porary living the virtual necessity of develop ing a single special skill and then practicing it the rest of one's life. This is an age of specializiation, and it is not likely ever again to be any different. Living is too complex, our technology has become too i; .i l I l complicated, ana most, proiessions require nam ing that is too rigorous and intensive, for one man to hope to master more than one vocation in his span on earth. As with all generalizations, there are many prominent exceptions, but we think the truth of the matter is obvious. The Renaissance Man, with all his amazing versatility and accomplishments, is dead, and we will see his like no more. Trained to be equally at ease on the battlefield as proficient with the sword as with the sonnet, as skilled in gentle soft-spoken courtesy as he was efficient in bloody an historical reminder of and still potentially is. MODERN man's makeup has not changed ; he still has it within him to be many more things than the single functionary the times now permit him to be. And there's the rub. For how many of us which most of us as youngsters took for granted, seem to have evaporated and disappeared? For how many of us the morning an increasingly irritating sound, calling us to a job that ot relict-giving variety, become less and less re warding and satisfying as the days go by? For how many of us existence simply getting we, in 1. S. Lhot s words, in cotice spoons. For how many of us is a diversion almost any diversion rapidly becoming our raison d'etre, the lure and promise of a change from the drudgery of our daily routine that keeps us going? A! ND perhaps isn't that tent, or at least a minor factor in it? The cliche has it that "Variety is the spice of life," but perhaps it is the substance of life too. We are not all the things we should be, we allow our potential for diversification to wither in neglect, and, as a consequence, we suffer from it. The late James Thuiber put his finger on it in I he becret Life ot Walter Mitty. All of-us in our daydreams have yearned not to be some thing other than what we are. but more and big- gel- than what We are. j Hobbies and recreational mirsuits for which Americans spend billions of dollars each year, give us some outlet, but they aren't enough. They usually lack the vital factor of productiveness. GET all this down as immaturity or lack of a sense of responsibility if you like, but we think it is a dilemma which is apt to pinch harder as time goes on. The irony of the whole matter is, of course, that though we now have more and more free time, we are using it less and less in a way which is calculated to ease the bind. The potential for varied accomplishments, for development of latent and innate skills, continues to be stifled, and the image of modern man con tinues to be a narrow one. G.H.B. I. K they had to admit that was pretty unorthodox, the case turned to his with a wistful, sheepish as in milady's boudoir, brutality, he stands as what man once was does the zest of life, is the alarm clock in has, bit by bit, for lack is the narrow rut of our deeper and deeper, as measure out our lives the root of our discon "What Do You Think Of Der Junge?" V: II COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the wrltor, 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 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 What Happened? To the Editor: "What hap pened?" is the question that the economic experts ask as they rub their eyes and scratch their heads. All of which demonstrates how ig norant our economists are of the nature of our economy. Our economy is tied up in our social system. Wall Street is but one segment of our social system. Our social system ex tends throughout the entire "free world." And strange as it may seem, our social and economic system, also our fi nancial structure, has a sex angle. As a rule the female spouse outlives her mate, she often buys security with her life insurance check as well as becoming owner of what prop erty is inherited in the form of stocks and bonds. Thus we see the vital Influence wield ed by women on the stock market. There is another factor of influence on Wall Street and that is the question of Time. People grow old and eventu ally die. Doctor bills, hospi tals, nursing homes and fu nerals often demand that property of all kinds, Includ ing stocks, to be sold to de fray expenses. Senility and death has a bearish effect on Wall Street, enough to cause the gradual sag since the first of the year. People have been -selling stocks for the purpose of living and dying. Then there are other fac tors not of a "bullish" nature such as the White House, the Congress, growth of Social ism, the Communist threat, the Berlin crisis and the gen eral instability of the econom ic and social condition of the "free world." Then when spring came with a desire for new clothes and garden seed-well that did It. Stockholders went to cash ing in. Both men and women went to selling stocks, spend ing money and enjoying life. A biological pattern followed by the ancient Sunworshlp- ers. Life is for the living. Walter Reece 77 Manzanita st. Ashland, Ore. Lemurians? To the Editor: One of the mysteries connected with sup posed phenomena of the Sar ln the Day's News By FRANK From New York: Reacting front the gains made In Its big iccovery, the stock market swung iowor early Friday af'.jrnoon (East ern Daylight Time) In heavy trading. Key stocks fell from frac tions to one or two points. The volatile "growth" stocks and other high priced Issues show ed losses ranging to about a half dozen points. That was about the situa tion at mid-morning Friday (Pacific Standard Time.) TTERE is a quickie break 'down on the situation up to Thursday night as summar ized by Jesse Boguc. UPI's financial editor. It is based on Standard and Poor's indexes: Monday's loss was about $208 billion. Tuesday's and Thursday's gains (Wednesday was a holiday, with the ex change closed) amounted to about $21 8 billion. So far, it has been a big bust followed by a big re covery. ll'HAT Is happening? " Well, people are Jittery. Why arc they Jittery? THIS iriMitj to be the an- swer: A decade and half ago, the case. dine creek House of Mystery commonly known to most of the earlier citizens still sur viving in and around Gold Hill, was the fact that the old building was used for a lab oratory and assay office for the famous Corporal "G" mine nearby, operated in the 1890s. There was formerly a trap door in the assay office floor where the metalurgist dumped the concentrates which were principally mag netite. The story as was told to this writer by the old gold miners who worked at the mine ex plained that all operations ceased because all instru ments used v.'lthin a certain radius of the mine and assay office would not function in a normal manner any longer. On the opposite side of Sardine creek is Drummond gulch where the bed-rock is exposed on the surface that clearly shows deep lines or tracks made in some pre historic age. When we view those pecu liar indelible markings it seems to fill our imaginations with the thought: Did the former Lemurians once leave any evidence that they may perhaps have occupied this port of scenic wonderland of which is now part of south west Oregon? Bert Kissinger 320 Boardman st. Medford Cold Storage To the Editor: The Eskimos are "Jolly Joes," They live where lots of nothing grows, Adhere to ancient tribal laws, Love dogs, papooses and their squaws. When dotage comes, they have a way To help their tribes, sans A.M.A. When Paw and Maw can't grub aroun' They haul them off and Ice 'cm down. No fuss, no muss as you can see: It's "Eskimo Social Security." George Distell 158 Vashti Way Medford. JENKINS stocks (meaning shares in American corporate business) were selling on the average at about seven times their aver age earnings per share. When the big bust came on Monday, they were selling at nearly TWENTY TIMES their average earnings per share. ITOW did all this come "r about? Inflation appears to have been the principal cause of it. As costs of production rose, PRICES rose in response. We called it the wage-price spiral. It looked to a lot of people like the way to heat the spiral ing inflation was to buy shares in American industry. As inflation Increased, share prices rose. The rise In share prices tended to offset the erosion in the purchasing power of the dollar. The rise in stock prices offered at the same time the Intriguing pos sibility of paper profits. OO- Share prices kept on rising IN SPITE OF THE FACT that the profits of American cor porate business were not rising rapidly enough to jus tify the increase In the price of shares. .That appears to be about what has happened. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Foreign News: Docile Refugees; Cool East German-Yugoslav Relationships By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign cables: Refugee Docility The recent influx of refu gees into Hong Kong from the Communist controlled China mainland pro vlded the most visible evide nee to date of the numbing ef fect of more than a dozen years of Red rule. Observ ers in Hong LmJ Newiom is. o n g notea that most of the 62,000 who EH Washington Report By William ;cl United Feature Syndicate THE VETERANS Washington- Speaking of Wall Street and all that, the most sensitive economic fac tor of all is never men tloned in writ ing by the fl n a n c 1 a 1 experts or measured on the brokers' charts. This factor X is middle - aged American male. Old Wblt enough to recall in the most personal way the great de pression of the 'thirties, he is forever marked by his mem ories and forever scarred by his nightmare. He is like an ex soldier (which is often exactly what he is, too) who nearly 17 years after the war's end still wakes sometimes at night to hear the howl of a dive bomb er that is not there and the flat, burring whistle af a sniper's rifle long since lost and rusted in the silent dust of peace. . ' ALL THE large it same, by and is middle-aged American male who largely controls investment in this country. He represents that class which has the most mon ey and the most of manage ment. His state of morale is thus at the vital center of our business affairs. The point of special delicacy, to put it as gently as possible, is that his responses to any break in stock prices, large or small, are likely to be ridden by an anxiety that is irrationally keen. Let him hear that the tick er tape is running 15 minutes behind and his mind, in spite of himself, begins to cry hav oc, even if his voice does not. For, you, see, he is suffering from economic combat fa tigue, and will until he dies. Bluntly, it is a pity, for all these reasons, that he does so largely control our eco nomic affairs. For his counsel is usually the counsel of ex treme timidity. And his view, in spite of himself, is the view of a man who knows too well what it is to be hit by shrap nel. IT IS NOT that his fears are always unworthily and selfishly personal. It is sim ply that some button In his head presses itself and there unrolls before his conscious ness a panorama of 30 years ago. Even If he had and kept a good job or income then, ne, too, was one of the vic tims. Granted any decent hu man compassion and this he usually had he remem bers his sense of guilt toward the older and quite often bet ter men who would drop by in gallant hopelessness to (ook for a job that was not there. Or if he himself was one of the jobless, he remembers the flat, gray dreariness of it all, when every day of the year was November and ev ery day of the year, however blazing the sky, was filled with falling rain. Indeed, and come to th'nk of it. this fellow, this mirirllp. aged American male, de-Keal th theological ignorance serves not merely this small at the core of their belief, understanding biit also some j They really think that God small salute. If ever there I should be a kind of divine was truly a "lost generation" j thermostat to automatically it was. and is, his. A long regulate the moral tempera time ago he came, thin of bcl-' ture of the universe, ly and high of hope, from j St. Thomas tells us that all college into a world which . wc can TeMy "know" about thereupon broke around his God are negative things, not eager nead. positive things. We can know S,,r,,,,. . .... . . . what He is NOT, rather than OMEHOW. by 1941. he had j what ,. and'tnis is what w"rd h!f passage,,,,, science 0( tncoiogv can through the endless years and ' hclp us find out, s0 that our uc wm .ning cailea success nd a "little wife and per- haps a child or two. But then Hitlerism struck and off he went to some Camp Cornponc and then upward from some ! oftcn closer to the truth than foreign foxhole and forward i so-called believers, as many into the blasts of many fires ' theologians will sadly admit. and having to command j The man who denies the exist men who were really boys'ence of this magical god is to go with him. I nearer reality than the man At last he came home to a ' who affirms it. Where the country which was no long-' atheists and agnostics go er quite his and to a society wrong Is In assuming that the which was rather uglier than god of superstitution is also he had remembered and the god of theology. In reli sometimes, too, to learn that gion, we cannot even agree the "little wife'' was his no j,nnevhat we are disagreeing longer, either. I about. crossed the border were so docile that when they were being returned to the main land they made no organized effort to remain in free soil. This, observers pointed out, is one reason why the "spon taneous uprising" long pre dicted by the Chinese Nation alists is not considered very likely. East Germany-Yugoslavia Look for a further cooling off of East German-Yugoslavia relations. These have been far from cordial in recent months, and they are slated to get worse. Yugoslavia's leaders obviously have come to the conclusion that their move in extending diplomatic S. White So, don't blame him too much that he is more gunshy now than he really ought to be. His generation has had a good deal, one way or an other, in its time. And so the smallest, vaguest thread of a threat of yet another war, a war of privation at home, puts him into a private panic which it is not good to know or show. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c- Field Enterprises Inc. GOD'S LIMITATIONS "I wish I were God," said Michael the other day. I asked him why. "Because God can do anything, he said. "And I'd like to be a b 1 e. to do anything I wanted to. Of course every child wishes to be omnipo tent, Harris us never get over the desire. But what in terested me in my son's re mark was not the common place desire but the utter mis understanding we have about God not only among child' ren, but among most adults as well, It would shock the great majority of Christians (and other believers as well) to be told that God has no free will, while people have. But this is absolutely the case. God cannot do evil and free will is the power to do good OR evil. He cannot be involved in a contradiction. He cannot be less than perfect. He cannot change the past. He cannot relinquish His power. He cannot change His mind. There are a thou sand things a child can do that God cannot do. He is permanently and irrevoc able bound by His nature. There is no point, of course, in telling any of this to a child. But most adults are not aware of it. They look upon God as a super-magician, performing feats with the utmost free dom. This is a superstitious view of deity, not a rellg gious one. Michael's God for all young people are pagans at first is an old man with a long white beard who lives in Heaven and has un limited power. He can create and destroy. He can change whatever He likes in the universe. This re mains, at bottom, the God of most people, no matter what they call themselves. And when such people, in moments of grief, exclaim, "How could God allow such a thing to happen?" they re. i be,ipf5 will nol be mer. .. .,i,i.nl j ,,ii !,., Hons. Atheists and agnostics are relations to include the East German Communists has not paid off - particularly in the economic field. Relations between the two Communist lands took a sharp drop downward shortly after the anti-refugee wall was built in Berlin last Aug. 13. Belgrade authorities recently have granted political asylum to discontented East Germans vacationing in Yugoslavia. Tough De Gaulle Officials in Paris predict some tough talking from Pres ident Charles de Gaulle when he addresses the French na tion June 8. He is likely to stress again his determination to carry through his Algerian policies regardless of criticism and to take near-dictatorial powers if necessary to do so. Try and -By BENNETT CERF- "WHEN THE LATE Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, W Angel" became a big best seller, his publisher, Scrib ners, received a request from a VIP for an autographed copy. Wolfe paced up and down the Seribner office for a full half hour pondering what to say. Finally his face bright ened, he seized a pen, and wrote in the book, "Sincerely yours., Thomas Wolfe." An ambitious book sales man was endeavoring to sell a Los Angeles retailer a hundred copies of a hand some new gift edition of Elizabeth Browning's "Son nets from the Portuguese." The retailer snorted, "What do I want an item Ilka that fort There aren't a hundred Portuguese in this whole neighborhood! Two venerable gentlemen met on the verandah of a New England inn one summer's day in the 1880s. One of them spiced his conversation with to many elaborate quotations that th other grew curious and Interrupted with, "What did you say your name was, my good sir?" "BarUett," was the answer. "John Bartletf O 1963. by Bennett Cert. Distributed bi- Else Features STBSleat Heavy Construction industry Accuses Building Trades Washington-ll'PD-The heavy construction industry has ac cused building trades unions of making exorbitant wage de mands and has appealed to the Kennedy administration to fight them. William E. Dunn, executive director of the Associated General Contractors of Amer ica Inc., said Sunday the gov ernment should tell the unions that "the guidelines develop ed by the President's Coun cil of Economic Advisers were Slock Price Skid PossibleWarning, Graham Declares Chicago (LTD Evangelist Billy Graham Sunday said he saw warnings of doomsday in last week's stock market skid and crisis In Southeast Asia. Graham was to speak to night on "Problems of the American Home" when he be gins the sixth night of his Chicago Crusade, which he called one of the most success ful ever. The revival meetings are being held at the giant McCormick Place Convention Hall. An afternoon session Sun day drew an overflow crowd of 44,000, of which 913 step ped forward to make "de cisions for Christ." The first five days of the crusade have drawn a total of 166.000 persons and result ed in 4,650 decisions. Warning Seen Graham said Sunday that God may be warning men that "the end of our age is near." Graham pointed to last week's sharp drop in the stock market, the crisis in Southeast Asia and Russia's possession of the hydrogen bomb as possible warnings from God. "As God destroyed the an cient city of Sodom because of Its sins," He may be warn ing us we could suffer the same fate, Graham said. "God could be saying Re- pent before it is too late'.' Resorf Hotel at Seaside Planned Portland - C?ti - Plans for a 200-unit resort hotel at Sea side have been announced heie b a rui iland group, the Promenade Corp. The corporation said it has purchased all the Louis Albert property at the Turnaround. Pakistan Policies President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan and his top foreign policy advisers nre taking a long, hard look at their country's foreign policy. They are considering the nec essity of adjusting relations with Communist and neutral ist countries, which would mean less devotion to the SEATO and CENTO alliances. Many newspapers have been criticizing Pakistan's membership in these military alliances and urging stronger ties with Red China and Rus sia. Sources in Karachi say that Red Chinese Premier Chou en-Iai - or some other high Peiping official - may be expected to go to the Pak istan capital to settle out standing problems on the Kashmir border question. Stop Me meant to apply to them the same as to anybody else." Dunn told a news confer ence that higher prices in evitably would result if pend ing negotiations ended in set tlements calling for wage and tringe benefit increases of more than 4 per cent a year. ne said the unions were engaging in a tactic of "di vide and conquer" by signing with one or two construction firms at a time. "We can see that happening all across the country," he said. "If this goes on another month they (con tractors) will fold or go broke." Asks for Statement Dunn said that Labor Sec retary Arthur J. Goldberg or waiter W. Heller, cha rman of the Council of Economic -v Advisers, should reiterate the administration's wage - price guidelines to the unions. A spokesman for Goldberg said the secretary had deliver ed such a message to the building trades in statements applicable to all unions and industries. The Labor Department spokesman declined to say if Goldberg , would issue a new statement aimed specifically at the building trades. Heller could not be reached for com ment. Dunn's request could be a source of discomfort to the administration. Since the in tensive federal 'ntervention In steel contract talks and the President's assault on the the short-lived steel price in crease, the administration has been trying to avoid overt in volvement in specific labor management situations. The guidelines referred to . by Dunn declare that contract settlements should be limited by increases in productivity, so that increased output per man-hour is sufficient to pay for higher wages without rais ing prices. West Coast Strikes Dunn estimated that about 250,000 construction workers are now on strike or out of work because of strikes. Most of these stoppages are on the West Coast, he said, especial ly in Northern California, Arizona, Tocoma-Seattle, Spo kane, and Portland. Of 62 contracts being nego tiated in mid-May, Dunn said, 20 per cent involved union demands which would cost more than 50 cents an hour each year. In another 45 per cent, he said, unions sought from 20 to 50 cents an hour in the balance less than 20 20 cents. "Anything over 20 cents could be considered unreason able," he said. The Associated General Contractors is composed of 7.500 builders of highways, big buildings snd other heavy engineering work. r
