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FRIDAY. KSDFORDi'WrBIBUNI " "Everyone in Southern Oregon I)...-.. is Thn Mail Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by 33 Noith Mr Jit.. Phi772-61 ' w nRF.KT "W RUHL. Editor IIKHB GJIEY Advcrtisinu Manager -:( At II 1 LATHAM. I3US. Mar. EHIC W AL1.KN. JR.. Mna. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Kditor ii . ,.is, fiiriiMiM TD.. Prill nr RICHARD JEWKIT. Sports Editor OLIVE SfARCHER. Women' Editor DALEEHlCKaUlM, uircuiaiion jM. ArT'luHenondent Newspaper Enteri'd a second class matter at Medinra, urcRun, umier mi u March 3. 18ft7 ciiMfHIPTIflN HATES By Mail In Advance, Copy 10c D;dlv and Sunday 1 year 113 00 Daily and Sunday 6 nios 8.00 D;iilv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Siindnv Only One year $4 20 n s-:..-r.-r In Advance Mcdfnrd. A'hW nd. Central Point. E a g I a Point Jacksonville. (oii inn, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Hiv i:i.cnt HtiH nn motor routes Diiilv and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Dail'v and Sunday 1 mo. 1..10 rarnw and Dealers Copy 10c All Terms Cash lnAdvance Official Paper of City of Medfnrd Ol final Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire U PI relephoto Newsplcturea MEMBER OF AUDIT RtlRKAU Or JT1RCULATIONS NH.SON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES. Offices in New York. Chi enro Detroit. San Francisco, Los Angeles Seattle. Portland, Denver S' NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION N ATIONA L EDITORIAL hrmnriiM'.H.'.IHS Flight o' Time Mcdford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 24, 1952 (Sunday) a 1CUR armed robbery fin nilv cleared tin in circuit rnurt: Louisianna man sen tenced to lour years in state penitentiary; two otners sen tenced earlier. Silver iodide cloud-seeding over southern Oregon's Cos cade watershed last winter "apparently had on important positive cited" on precipita tion. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 24, 1942 (Monday) Mcdford ministers meet to discuss value to be gained from curfew ordinance in Mcdford. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A dim out was staged by the moon last night at the appointed time, 8:01 p.m., os advertised ond without waiting for a crowd to assemble. It was a successful and well - staged eclipse." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 24, 1932 (Wednesday) Channel is dug in Canfield riffle, near mouth of the Rogue river, to allow salmon to swim into the river. John C. Mann is elected president of the Allied Wel fare association; other officers are M. H. Jarmin, Mrs. Carol J. porker and Mrs. Alice Cop pin. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 24. 1922 (Thursday) Jesse Winburn buys Gran ite City hospital, presents it to City of Ashland with "few strings attached." K. O. Trowbridge Is cited In the national press for bis Invention of a small quartz mill for use by small miners at a nominal cost. 50 YEARS AGO Aug. 24. 1912 (Saturday) Rogue River Commission company announces it will erect two-story brick ware house at 1 1 til and Front sts. Henry O'Malley, superin tendent of government batch erics, visits Mcdford and pre dicts the eastern brook trout planted recently in the Rogue river and its tributaries win exceed steelhead trout in size. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct it superior; even or right it excellent; live or ix ta good. 1. What are the two outlets to the Mediterranean sea? 2. What is a natatorium? 3 1! mv many quarts there in a common Unit n1 Stoics lnrlu-1? 4 What is another (and populiii ) name for the star Polaris? S. What is the capital of Itcrnnida'.' I) It a hen and a half lay an rt: i mill a half In a day and a half, how many eggs will three hens lay In eight days? 7. Who wrote the novel "The Kanr's Edge"? 8. In what group of Pacific islands is Guam? 0. Who invented the light nin:T nid" 111. What do the letters ff indieaie in a musical compo sition'.' Answers: 1. Suet Cannl and j 4 A cirirZ,. 3. 'Th.,:imist ' 1" frustrating. ly-two. 4. North Star. 5. Ham ilton. 6. Sixteen. 7. Somerset Mauqh'im. 8. Marianas. 9. Benjamin Franklin. 10. For tissimo (very loud). AUGUST 24. 1962 Ranger District On Wednesday of this week, the first fresh huckleberry pie of the iieckies cate at union king. There is a good huckleberry crop in the forest this year, and we were advised that most of it would be ripe within the next tew clays, ihe an nual influx of pickers is expected at Huckleberry City and elsewhere in the higher elevations. Throughout the Rogue River National For est, the recreation season in tents and trailers are camps, and tourists' cars (most of them with the yellow and black California license plates) swarm along the main-travelled highways. ' A "SHOW ME TRIP" est's advisory council this week revealed these and many other things. The job of managing the forest, the property of the people of the United States, is a complex and never-ending job. The Union Creek district, comprising 131,025 acres lying west and northwest of Crater Lake National Park, contains not only choice and beau tiful recreational sites, but also vast stands of merchantable timber, grazing land, watersheds (the upper Rogue River is a principal feature of the district), and wildlife (we spotted several deer during the day, as well as a variety of other small animals and birds). How to protect, manage, administer all these sometimes-conflicting resource uses, for the great est good for the greatest number in the long run this is not a simple thing to do. rISTRICT Ranger Asa (Bud) Twombly is the young man responsible for this job. He is responsible to his superiors in forest headquar ters, and ultimately to the people of the nation as a whole. It is a job requiring many things a love of the forests; scientific knowledge about them and the dangers, human and otherwise, that threaten them ; a working knowledge of logging and road building and camping and hunting and berry picking and the habits of wild things; enthusi asm ; an ability to get along with a wide variety of people; skill in administration all these and many more are required of a successful forest manager. Questions from members of the group put Bud Twombly through his paces on all these matters, and he had the answers. CONSIDER, for instance, the superlatively beautiful views from the highway between the Crater Lake Junction and Diamond lake: the twin crags of Rabbit Ears, the winding, rushing Rogue River, the sweeping stands of timber, green at close up but fading into blue in the distance. These beauties, together with the fishing, camping, swimming, picknicking, berry picking and so on that are associated with them, con stitute not only a great tourist alike, but as a result are of considerable economic importance to the area. On the other hand, they also contain millions of board feet of merchantable timber another mainstay of the economy. How are the two to be IN THIS particular case, the area has been des ignated as a "landscape management area," where the "key value is recreation. But this does not, of itself, preclude the harvesting of timber. The logging, however, is done with the key value in mind. Individual trees can be cut wlien they are overmature, or provide a hazard, or are diseased. And, so long as they are not visibly ugly from the roadside, areas can even by clear-cut, if the best forest management practices indicate this should be done. Other areas, where timber production is the key value, are managed primarily for that pur pose while, at the same time, the forest ecology, water production, and other values are kept in mind and protected. IY THE same token, methods of cutting depend on a large variety of factors typography, soil type, tree species, whether a stand of trees is all of much the same age or not, condition of the .Hand, access roads, other.-. For instance, it is now a policy in the Rogue River National Forest, leave a strip of trees along both sides of all stream banks. This avoids damaging blockage of stream flow, and in addition tends to keep water temperature down a vital factor for fish life in the lower Rogue. This factor alone can affect the method and location of many logging operations. ' JVOST of these same problems, in varying de t give, plus certain others not found in the Union Creek district, exist in the other ranger districts of the forest Prospect, Butte Falls, Ashland and Applegate. It is a matter of intense gratification that the job of managing the forest so important to us all and the rest of the nation in so many differ ent ways - has attracted as many men of the type it has, men of intelligence and dedication like Bud Twombly and his colleagues here and elsewhere. It is far from an easy But it must also 'kivc modest civil service salaries the government pays' inner as well as outer rewards. We'd all bo i the poorer if it didn't. E.A. ' season was served at u - eeK. it was lit ior a is in full swing, hampers visible in all the forest for members of the for- pleasure to native and reconciled : economic factors, and when cutting timber, to job. It is demanding and rewards far bevond the ' The Other Wall i)f:".r: ' ""'f:''- Washington Report By William (c United Feature Syndicate NOT SO BAD Washington In spite of so much that so many have done to talk U".? country into a reces s i o n, the enormous basic strength i the Ameri can economy is being prov- r ed all over again. The best single proof is that President Kennedy's de cision not to seek a tax cut, this year at least, has been followed by a general im provement, rather than the reverse, in the business out look. Even the stock market has perked up a bit. True enough, the Presi dent's disinclination to ask Congress for such a reduction was perhaps based as much on political as on economic factors. Specifically, he was aware that the most powerful men on Capitol Hill were not at any rate prepared to go along with any general reduc tion. STILL, whatever the reasons, the essential fact remains that he refused, as President Eisenhower refused in 1958- '59, to push any panic button. There is every reason to be lieve that this self-restraint will turn out to have been as wise as it was in Eisen hower's time. Indeed, this columnist risks a prediction that It is 50-50 whether there will be any general tax cut next year. either, ond doubts, moreover, that one will be needed any how. For it now develops that at the very height of this year's gloom-ond-doom talk which was last month the American economy was stout ly unaware of how bad off, according to the doomsters, it was. Retail sales were up and so was personal income. Unemployment was down, if only slightly so. The auto in dustry hit another peak in sales. Corporation dividends were up by $59 million from July of a year ago. More recently, the latest survey of the Morgan Guar anty Trust company, which this correspondent assumes will not be challenged as some madly optimistic outfit, is characteristically cautious but also far from unhappy in tone. nUARANTY TRUST finds " ' improvement ranging from "modest to good" in retail Try and frfi By BENNETT CERF- VN ENTERPRISING young columnist down South has been profiting by a neat labor-saving device until last month, that is. When he was too lajy to turn out copy on his own, he simply would cut out Bob Considine's New York column of the day previous and reprint it word for word, adding at the end some penetrat ing comment like, "I heartily agree with Mr. Considine," or "Does the reader go along with this interesting theory?" The young columnist got away with this magnifi cently until the rival newspaper in town thoughtlessly began syn dicating the Considine column on its editorial page every morning. Two Amherst students dearly prize a sign they purloined one dnrk night from an out-of-the-way hotel in Detroit. It proclaims, "Ouesta are positively forbuMen to take laity ftien,t. up the back way. The stairs have just been painted." Nick Mmg.in tells of bather en a chilly, overcast morning who ordered hot coffe fiom a beaehsnle snack bar. "Cream or sugar?" asked the waitress. "It doesn't matter," shuddered the bather. "I'm going to pour it on my feet." C IK, by Bcnntt Crf. Distributed by Kmc Features Syndicate MEDFORD MAIL S. White trade, and is at least not whol ly displeased with stock prices. It warns that these de velopments do not "constitute conclusive evidence that the economy is emerging from its pause." It olso observes that it is "still impossible to judge the extent to which businessmen's Invest ment plans have been affected by the deterioration of confi dence which occurred in the spring." This is a nice way of recoiling President Ken nedy's big - stick operation against big steel's attempt to raise prices. Still and all, Guoranty Trust sums up: "Business ap parently is still expanding, even though slowly. Does not this, along with a good many other things of recent months, suggest that we have been engaged for a long time in a curious enter prise of excessive self-criti-cism? We have been measur ing our situation not for where we actually stand but for where in the best of all possi ble worlds we ought ideally to stand. WE HAVE been grudgingly admitting in low mutters that on their own real merits things aren't so bad but then we have hurried on to shout: "But just look how much better they could be!" Fully admitting the desira bility of setting our sights ever higher, have we not adopted a certain perfection ist Attitude? Hove not the eco nomic sophisticates rather oversold a vision of grand pie in the sky which makes our really fairly decent bread-and-butter diet more tasteless than it need be, or is? Maybe not, but a good many practical businessmen surely think we have. A country banker friend in a typical Virginia community puts it this way: "They tell me things are pretty bad and that our 'rate of growth' and all that is highly unsatisfactory. Per haps they are right. All I know is what is happening around here. And what is hap pening around here is that our little business is up $200,000 from last year and $400, 000 from two years ago. I don't know what the rate of growth ought to have been; but I am sure not crying about what it has been." LARGE COUNTY Tucson - This Arizona city is located in Pima county which is lamer in area than R h o d e Island, Connecticut and Delaware in their com bined domains. Stop Me TMANk, MC CCNSIDINC TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Coming Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference Could Be Crossroads Affair By PETER KNOX United Press International London While shooting grouse on the Yorkshire moors these past few days, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c- Field Enterprises Inc. EMPTY ROTE Every morning in school, for many years, I stood up with all my clossmates ond dutifully recited the Pledge of Allegionce. After a few weeks of this, I might have been reciting a grocery list a batting order, for all the meaning it had. I don't care to get in to the judicial aspects of the Supreme aris Court decision on school pray-ers-about which too much has been said already, and most of it nonsense-but I think it's reasonable to point out that anything recited by rote, as a daily task, becomes empty and meoningless. None of us children really grasped what a "republic" was. We didn't understand "one nation indivisible" (in fact, many of us said "invis ible"), and such abstractions as "liberty", and "justice" were meaningless to us. . Just as genuine patiotism is not inculcated in children by flag-saluting and pledges of allegiance, so genuine piety is not instilled in chil dren (or in adults, for that matter) by a prescribed pub lic prayer which is almost totally devoid of content and any real existential sig nificance for ihe persons praying. The best comment I have read on the matter was in a letter lo the "New York Times", written by the di rector of the New York Mission Society, who said with great sense and clar ity: "What man of faith real ly wants the expression of his faith reduced to as in offensive a pattern as can be dreamed up by pressure conscious school adminis trators and imposed on teachers and pupils of all faiths and all degrees of faith, fervent and flaccid?" The director, Rev. David Barry, went on: "The Regents' prayer has precisely the kind of innocuous sterility that seems designed to prevent a child from asking the ques tions we of the church hope he will ask . . . Consciously or unconsciously, it seems de signed to promote that empty and conformist 'religion-in-general' that requires us to be religious', but makes re ligion devoid of any content beyond the polite acknowl edgement that we hove a Cre ator." And, in a brief and pungent editorial, the "Christian Ad vocate," an official magazine of the Methodist Church, ob served that "far from being tragic, the Supreme Court de cision may well be a step for ward wherein God can finally climb off the coins and into the hearts of the American people." The only losers in the case, the magazine said, "are those persons who pre fer their religion on a bland diet, deceiving themselves into thinking that 'In God We Trust' will somehow make us a Christian nation." The furor aroused by the decision is a pathetic sign of our theological ignorance and our infantile belief in the magic of words. God was not "taken out" of the schools be cause He was never there; He can be only in our hearts and mir.ds. In the Day's News By FRANK Speaking at a press confer ence held at Moscow Univer sity for the Russian cosmo nauts, the president of the U S S R. Academy of Sciences says the space twins "were able to leave their seats at will and float freely around the cabins of their space ships." ll'EI.L! Well! ' When comes the time for interplanetary space travel, the tourist will have much to look forward to. For ex ample: When he begins to get a bit stiff from sitting too long in one position, he can un buckle his seat belt, let go all holds and just FLOAT AROUND. UT How about mealtimes? must have been thinking hard about the opproaching gath ering of Commonwealth prime ministers. There is little doubt the meeting in London on Sept. 10 of the 15 leaders will be a crossroads affair. Unless the conference is carefully handled, the whole concept of the Common wealth as a loose-knit body with a common heritage and the same broad aim in world affairs could be threatened. The lost Commonwealth meeting in March 1961 was a hectic affair, and ended with South Africa quitting. The September parley promises to be equally con Communications Letters lo ihe Editor must bear the name anc) address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen na.ue or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right lo 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 Ihe paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. H He To the Editor: E.A.'s edit orial, "Eliminate August," appears to be a wonderful solution to the problem for us bothered with the H. H. H. H., or "horrible head," as Elsie, a friend of mine, calls it, belongs to us with spring to winter allergies. The pharmacists get rich and we get poor buying the pills and capsules to keep our horrible heads from feeling so horrible. When August arrives we count the days until the first frost. The pill bottles put away and our H.H.s feeling wonderful again, we are like dead bones come to life. A young lady (she had no H.H.) working in a drug store where I had a prescription filled, was laughing because so many people come in, dump out a purse full of empty bottles and was amazed they could take so many pills. May she never get the H.H. Mrs. Delbert T. Casey Route 1, Box 358 Central Point, Ore. Taxes Refunded To the Editor: I wish to ex press the appreciation of the Commission for the excellent cooperation extended by your newspaper in our cam paign this year to deliver previously undeliverable in come tax refund checks to taxpayers in your area. Your publishing of the list of these taxpayers, along with their last known addresses, has resulted in many of the checks going to their rightful owners, who otherwise would probably not have received them. The cooperation of your newspaper and 26 others throughout the state has made it possible for us to deliver approximately 950 checks rep resenting some $13,000. Our information director, Larry Warren, joins the Com mission in thanking you for your help. C. H. Mack Chairman Oregon State Tax Commission Salem, Ore. Meter Nuisance To the Editor: If there have been ony lingering doubts In onyone's mind about the folly of retaining parking meters on Medford's downtown streets, Mrs. W. C. Malone's letter in the 821 MT should have dispelled them. She cer tainly made clear their in convenience to shoppers and others having business in the area, and to visitors who olso may be prospective shoppers or would like to be, if they could find a place to park without being taxed for it. Even more importantly, in the long range view of Med ford's economic future, Mrs. Malone gave pointed illustra tions of how merchants in other cities even in Med- ford have been forced to move to outlying sections where they could assure their patrons adequate and free parking facilities; and how JENKINS When your tray is deposited on the little table that drops conveniently down in front of you, will it STAY PUT? Or will it go FLOATING ! OFF? And, if it goes floating ' J away, how will one retrieve j ! it? Will one just go floating off after it, hoping for the j I best? vr-, -.T .. i 1 Nil THF. unprntifs Willi . , ... ., i "they stay right side up? j Of will they tip over? And, if, they tip over, will they SPILL? Or. with no gravity out there In sDace. will thev remain filled either upside ! witn radio ond Kram for Hq0(, R)ver coum down or right side up' ! TV. They ore legitimate new, g And. with no eravitv to I media. i . " cause they to pour, how will I Rut jsaid todav they be consumed? There ore too many prima ! Such approval is essential 1 donnas in the Senate already, before aid for any specific pro- ND THE pretty steward-1 Bringing in the cameras and ject in the county can b esses. the mikes would make ham j granted under the area rede- Will they go floating around ' actors out of ALL of them. ivelopment program. 1 troversial. The 15 nations coming are Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Ghana, Malaya, Nigeria, Cyprus, Sierra Leone, Tan ganyika, and newly inde pendent Jamaica and Trini dad a United Nations in miniature covering people of many races and widely dif fering political beliefs. The pop-popping of Mac millan's holiday shooting is nothing compared to the heavyweight sniping that has been going on-between var ious members of the Com monwealth. Traditionally when the prime ministers gather in this slow but steady outwara movement in time may make a veritable ghost town of our present downtown shopping district. As long ago as 22862 I discussed this problem in these columns, in part, as fol lows: "In my opinion, more extensive and free parking areas are an urgent need; they should be provided by the city and supported by tax levy . . . Park 'n' Shop is not very satisfactory, and metered parking is a nuisance, espec ially when attending lunch eon or other meetings or to other business of more than an hour's duration; and it does not harmonize with the generally prevailing hospital ity accorded visitors, whether tourits or others." Completion of the Freeway will do its part to deter out-of-town motorists from enter ing our downtown shopping area, thus further agravating its merchants' problem and growing loss of trade, even by local residents who in creasingly, are attracted to other shopping areas with their spacious and free park ing facilities. As Mrs. Malone rightly pointed out, this is a problem not only confronting our downtown merchants and all citizens concerned for our city's future, but it is pri marily a problem for our City Fathers to face, and solve before it is too late. Arnold Eugene Jenny Rogue Valley Manor Medford. When. Oh When? To the Editor: An advertise ment of the Licensed Bever age Industries, Inc., in the July issue of "The California Publisher ' carries this state ment: "We're proud that the $71 billion that have been collected in direct taxes on our products since Prohibition have contributed so much to the welfare of our fellow citizens." Since when has the liquor industry become interested in the welfare of their fellow cit izens? One cannot help but wonder whether they are also proud of the thousands of lives that have been snuffed out on our highways because of drinking drivers. One wonders whether they take pride in the ruin of millions of homes torn apart because of drink. Do they point with pride to the millions of days of work lost because of drinking and the widespread ineffi ciency, accidents and waste in industry? Do they swell out their chests when they realize, as stated by Alcoholics Anonv mous, that 1 out of every 40 adults in the U. S. A. are olcoholics, and that 1 out of every 8 Americans who start drinking will become alco holic? This advertisement also stated that there is "a gigantic moonshine racket that cheats federal oncl state govern ments of millions in revenue among the passengers, some where between the floor and the ceiling, saying a cheering word here and there, and asking if you'll have another helping? TfROM Washington: Senator Javits of New York is planning to introduce a resolution that would open Senate debates to coveraee by radio ond television. He thinks camera coverage should bring Congress closer to the people, thus resulting in a better informed citizenry. At the very least, he savs, ranio-teicvvsion coverage should be tried on an exper. imental basis. TAY HEAVEN forbid it! i It's not s not that there is any- London for their meetings, there have been 10 since the) war they hold their discus sions in an informal atmos phere behind closed doors. In fhis way behind-the-scene rows are covered up, ond the delegates are free) to talk. This time, however, there) has been such odvonce pub licity given to Commonweolth differences it is going to be difficult to keep ony major clashes quiet. The moin theme Is going to be Britain's bid to join the European Common Market, about which the old whita dominions have deep suspicions. every year." As I recall it, the elimination of bootlegging was one of the chief argu ments in favor of repeal o the Prohibition amendment, yet, according to Lewis S. Rosensteil, board chairman o Schenley Industries, Inc., ona of the world's largest liquor manufacturers, "an average o 20,000 illicit stills are being siezed every year by Federal, state and local enforcement agencies, about the same aver age as during Prohibition." And no doubt the liquor in terests are also proud of a national situation so pointedly stated by Paul Harvey, well- known ABC news commen tator, "The threat of alco holism to our nation is greater than the threat of Commu nism. History records that 19 out of 20 civilizations fell be cause of moral decay from within and alcohol was a con tributing factor." When, oh, when will wa who claim to be patriotic cit izens awake to the fact that we must do something to halt this national menace, instead of nWekly joining the cock tail porade and considering it "a mark of distinction" to do so? How many of us will hava the patriotic courage to say, "I will not partake of alco holic beverages, and I will do all I can to discourage their use." A. Ray Neptune Rogue Valley Manor Medford. Apologies To Kipling To the Editor: The follow, ing poem was received through the mail recently. I thought some who may not have read it before would en joy it, so am taking this chance that you will print it. IF If you can keep your head when all about you UNESCO seeks to muddle and deceive: If you can trust yourself when "pinkies" doubt you Because you love your Country and believe Its Constitution is the best that ever Was drawn to guard tha liberties of man, And that Americans must oil endeavor To keep it safe and solid if they can , , . If you won't let the UN ba your master, If you won't make world government your aim; If you can fight the sinister disaster Of letting spies and traitors win the game If you are loyal to the land that gave you Your freedom and the chance to fight and win, And count upon its Bill oJ Rights to save you From tyranny and slavery and sin . . . If you respect your Flag and love your Maker And pray that He will guida you to do right, And do not let the first high sounding faker Convince you white is black ond black is white If you stand up and say you love Old Glory And show that you're an American with guts . . . Baby, you'd better get your self a lawyer, For "Mental Health" is out to prove you're nuts!! Author unknown with apologies to Rudyard Kipling, Mrs. Ernest Santo 204 Lozler Lane Medford. Hood River County .Program Approved Washington -1TP -The Area 'Redevelopment Administra tion has approved an overall economic develonment nro.