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TUESDAY. MEDFORDTRIBUNB Everyone In Southern Oregon ReadiTheMailTrlbune" Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North rirSt.. Ph772-141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR . Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Ed tor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE EKICKSON.jCirculallon Mgr An-Independent Newspaper Entered ai second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mall In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 year18 00 Daily and Sunday moa. 10 00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa. 5.00 Sunday Only One year $3 00 Single Copy (Mailed) 20c Bv Carriet And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year 2 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1.73 Sunday Only 1 mo. 50c Carrier andVendors Copy 10c Official-Paper of City of Medfnrd Official Japerol Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire U. P. I. Tclephoto Newspiclure "MEMBER-OK AUDIT BUREAU" Advertising Representative: NELSOr? ROBERTS & ASSOCI. ATES Offlcea in New York, Chi cago Detxolt, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. Denver. EDITORIAL ' n NEWSPAPER OlBV PUBLISHERS Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oei. 16. 19S2 (Thursday) The 100th anniversary ol the first post office in south ern Oregon third in the en tire state will be observed Sunday at the old Dardanellc restaurant on the Old Stage rd. The traditional rivalry be tween the football teams of Medford and Klamath Falls will be renewed here Friday night; the Pelicans are favor ed to win and are ranked third in the state. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 16. 1942 (Friday) "Hundreds of civilians" Jam Medfords Main street during "Main Street Stamp" war bond sale. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The morns have been quite chilly of late, causing the shlnhoncs of the fair sex still allergic to stockings to show a faint trace of delicate blue." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 16. 1932 (Sunday) "Straw vole" conducted by the Mall Tribune shows Her bert Hoover leading Franklin Roosevelt In presidential bal loting by 440 to 172 margin. State police roundup "gang" of Jackson county grocery and vegetable thieves. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 16, 1922 (Monday) Local auto dealers announce $30 decrease In price of new 1932 cars; vehicles to be "more attractive, comfortable and convenient thnn ever, with a slanting windshield, one man tup, gypsy curtains and improvements wiring in sulation." Jackson county receives $8,404 from secretary of state's office for 1022 forest rentals. SO YEARS AGO Oct. 16. 1912 (Wednesday) Madame Dagski. "magnif icent dramatic soprano," will sing at Medford Natatorium building Oct. 28. Group of Sun Francisco fi nanciers reported seeking 50 yeor street cur franchise in Medford. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five el si, is good. 1. In which European city Is Picadilly Circus? 2. "This at last is the hone of my bones and the flesh of my flesh; she shall be called , (What?) 3. Under which cabinet post Is the U. S. Forest Service? 4. Does the United States or Australia produce the most sheep? 5. What sort of device has been named a Mae West? 6. The World War II Nor mandy invasion was the great est military invasion in world history; true or false? 7. What Is another name for mercury? 8. In what country Is Mara thon? fi. Do horses sleep while standing'' 10. Who was nicknamed "The Little Flower - Answersi 1, London, Eng land. 2. "Woman." 3, Depart ment of Agriculture, 4. Aus tralia. S. Life-saving vest. 6. True. 7. Quicksilver. 8. Greece. 9. Yes. 10. Horelle LaGuardia. former Mayor of NYC. OCTOBER 16. 1962 Lessons of The great Columbus day storm of 1962 is over, but the memory will remain a vivid one for thousands of people. For some it will recall tragedy friends and neighbors killed or injured, many homeless, build ings destroyed or damaged, livestock killed. For some it will recall excitement the ex citement of danger and drama and, in many in stances, heroism. For some it will recall adventure learning, on a moment's notice, how to do without electric power, on which so many of our 20th century creature comforts are based. TTHE Rogue valley was exceedingly lucky. There was some damage, of course, and considerable excitement, and quite a number of people with out electricity for hours chards suffered the most heavily. But these events pale to insignifigance in comparison to what happened in the Willamette valley, the Portland area, and along the coast. Aside from the loss of life and human in juries, the thing that hurts most is the loss of the huge old trees which graced the campuses at Eugene and Corvallis, the Capitol park in Salem, and the park blocks in Portland. Build ings can be repaired, but the loss of century-old trees is virtually irreparable. HTHE upstate papers over the week end were filled with pictures and details of the havoc wrought by the storm. But the editorials dealt more with the human factor neighbor opening nn hnmp tn npio-hhnr volunteer crews eauinnintr themselves with chainsaws and roaming the city streets to keep tnem open to tramc, counuess acts of kindness and generosity and helpfulness, acts of courace in rescuing tranned people, acts of mercy to those injured. When the chips are clown, people snow up to pretty good advantage, most of the time. There were also the minor incidents, such as at a motel north of stranded travelers pooled their tooci ana canaies, and spent the night in the coffee shop, drinking nnffpe marp nvnr a Cnleman stove one tourist had in his car, and using water obtained from melting ice chipped from inside an inoperative food freezer. PJNE editorial commented that one forgets how good a steak tastes when cooked over an open fire. Another noted that those who got by the best were those who were equipped for camping, with stoves, lights and other gear independent of power sources. Others noted how the news media pooled their resources to bring the news and emergency instructions as rapidly as possible to as many people as possible. And at least four upstate newspapers men tioned that the civil defense organizations, os tensibly designed to function at just such a time, were of little or no help at all, and that the reg ular agencies city police, sheriff, state police, firemen were the ones to depend upon. E. A. Ballot Measures There will be nine, instead of ten, state meas ures on the election ballot this fall. The state supreme court has ruled the initiative steelhead measure was faulty, and it will not be voted upon as a result. Four of the measures can be classed as "house keeping" items, to tidy up the Constitution. They involve the organization of the "state militia ' (National Guard), and the rewriting of the form ula for limitations on bonded indebtedness. Another one would permit taxing units to retain their tax bases, even if no taxes tire levied over a period of years, and it appears to be non-controversial. THE other three, however, are both controver U ! 1 ! 111 Y ii 1 U (lilt (ut i. 1 The one which may well generate the most heat (although in our view it is the least signifi cant of the three) is the Daylight Saving time measure. A reapportionment proposal and an initiative to repeal the school reorganization law are the other two. Moth of these have strong and vocal support and opposition. Neither of them are too clear to the average layman, but both are of considerable importance. In our view the school measure is the most important. CONSCIENTIOUS voters will have some home- work to do between now and Nov. (5, if they are to cast intelligent ballots. The Oregon Voters' Pamphlet, which will be arriving soon, will be of considerable help. So are the voters information sheets prepared and distributed by the League of Women Voters. In addition, the Mail Tribune will endeavor to give brief explanations of each of the meas ures within the next few weeks, as well as editor ial opinions concerning the merits of each. The election is onlv three weeks from todav. E.A. Correction In this space yesterday it was stated that $100,000 in planning and pre-construction funds had been appropriated for the Rogue Basin pro ject. This is not the case. The information was based on reports coming minute adjournment flurry, ami is now believed to be erroneous. E.A. the Storm on end. The fruit or Eugene where all the in the midst of the last- MEDFOHD "I Said, You Do Have Turned On, Sir, Matter of Fact (e New York Herald WARMTH BUT NO FLAME Pittsburgh - The effective ness of the President's dogged effort to help his party in the Datinn l ae diffi cult to judge as any political phenomenon tnis reporter can recall in wie last 25 years. When Ken nedy came through here this week end, for in stance, his visit had all the outward signs and symbols of airnort rrnivii Alsop success. The was not enormous- but after that the crowds were very impressive indeed. At Aliquippa, a grim, shab by little town of less than 30,000 people, at least 15, 000 came out to hear the President speak for five min utes. There was an almost continuous hedge of people along the roadside through all the miles of his motor cade. The Pittsburgh streets overflowed for his grand en trance; and the night rally had an excited overflow au dience, too. Furthermore, these people were enthusiastic and affec tionate. Fathers struggled to hold up improbable numbers of children, so that "you can see the President." Old ladies dabbed their eyes at the mere sight of the President's car passing by. At the University of Pittsburgh field house in the evening, he got a stormy ovation at the end of a short speech which must have been wholly incomprehensible to almost everyone present be cause of the bizarre acous tics. rNE could not doubt, in " short, that all there hun dreds of people liked and ad mired and trusted the man they had turned out to see. As has often been reported, the President, for his part, was visibly cheered and re freshed by this show of popu lar affection and trust, but that does not answer the question, whether this Presi c'ontinl stumping is produc ing the result the President hopes for. Eliciting a show of affec tion is one thing, injecting fervor, excitement, and ener gy into the Democratic elec toral campaign is quite an other thing. And it seems more than doubtful whether this much-needed injection is being accomplished by the President. One reason for this doubt, quite certainly, is the stand arc' speech the President has evolved for this autumn's stumping. It can be tele scoped or extended, as oc casion requires. But it always contains the same elements. SPHERE is an it s-nice - to-- be-here" opening. There are the necessary references to all the local Democratic candidates, every one of whom is always a wonderful fellow, whose "help" the President badly needs. Ana there are the proofs the Pres ident offers that his need for "help" is urgent, because of the Mind obstructionism of the Republicans who have voted 81 per cent against this progressive and constructive measure. 70 per cent against that, and so on. Whether it lasts for five minutes or Is a full-length ef fort, the ingredients of the speech are always the same The President always deliv ers it with heat and apparent conviction, seeming to con demn the purblind Republi cans to political perdition with his familiar, oft-repeated jabbing gestures. Yet some thing seems to be lacking. MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. Your Hearing Aid Don't You?" By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate both in the speaker and in the audience. At a guess, what is lacking the conviction that the purely domestic, social wel fare issues which the Presi dent has chosen to discuss ex clusively are no longer quite so overwhelmingly predomin ant as they were in the days of Franklin Delano Roose velt, whom the President oft en calls to witness. AMONG those who turn out tn spp the PrpsiHpnt thprp are many really poor people, for whom these issues ought to be predominant. The Presi dent himself, by the same token, is certainly convinced that his welfare measures are useful and important; and he most certainly has a fervid conviction that an increase of Republican strength in Con gress, where the balance is already narrow, will Just about cripple the U. S. gov ernment during the next two dangerous years. Yet the fact remains that if the President wished to rivet his audience and have them hanging on his every word, he would instead dis cuss the Cuban situation and the Berlin crisis and the other great problems of the increas ingly risky cold war. From the way the President himself treats the domestic issues, it is hard to avoid the conclus ion that he too would be more interested by his own speeches if they concerned this other range of topics. There is something 1 arti ficial, in fact, in the Presi dential strategy this autumn. Kennedy is talking about sub jects which he thinks possess voter-appeal, but not about the matters which preoccupy him from day to day. Perhaps this is why the Presidential intervention, although ll may warm up the campaigning, seems unlikely to cause the 1062 election to burst into flames of excitement. Strictly ersonal By Sydney J. Harris ic- Field Enterprises Inc. ALAS THE CANE Watching ah old Sascha Guitry film the other night, I felt a twitch of envy t h e debonair French actor strolled along the Seine ele- te t gantly swing- that last re maining em blem of dash and gallantry in a mundane world. llirrli In the United States, almost nobody except old people and comedians carry canes these days. Until his death two years ago, Bobby Clark was still twirling his customary stick with maniacal glee, and the late W. C. Fields did some extremely funny bus iness with cane. Canes achieved their pop ularity with stage people for protective as well as for decorative reasons. In the early road shows, actors used canes to ward off en raged audiences, sheriffs with summonses, cuckolded husbands and vicious dogs. For these eminently prac tical reasons, around the turn of the century, the (word cane was in great favor, and some of tha black sticks with crook handles concealed airguns, shot guns, revolvers or daggers in their shafts. When I was a little boy, living in England, my father used to carry a cane to business every day a Prince Albert model with VS. - v OREGON Rules of Spying, an Being Changed; Machines Enter Picture By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Since the beginnings, na tions have spied upon one another so that now as a busi ness the spy's profess ion must be at least second ll 4 i I") I among the IV i CIV I world's oldest. It operates I'Jfcw I wttnin certain I rules. The j'LJ first is not to (iti v a u ll i. Nawsom The second is that the nation employing him must never admit his exist ence, and if faced with the evidence, immediately must disavow him. But either the rules are changing or the business is becoming cluttered with ama teurs. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although undet rer tain circumstances the use ol a pen name ui Initial for publica tion Is oet-mlssible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Christmas Too Soon To the Editor: For many years Advent (which begins this year on Dec. 2) was the beginning of the preparations for Christmas. Now it seems that it takes months to select, and even more months to pay for, very extreme gift giving. For the last two weeks there have been ads on the radio and now on television suggesting gifts for Christmas. We haven't even celebrated Halloween yet, or Thanksgiv ing! Each year I'm becoming increasingly irritated with the early advertising by the time Christmas comes, we're all sick of the whole idea. It seems absolutely ridiculous to walk into a store in early October and see the wreaths and Santa Claus decorating the scene. Why can't we celebrate Christ's birthday with gift giving to our children, rela tives and friends without feel ing the 'force1 behind the gift giving? I know that the com petition among the merchants requires a certain amount of advertising, but is it really necessary to spoil the mean ing of Christmas by pushing the idea for so many, many weeks ahead of the event? (Name on File) Medford. Power of the Name To the-Editor: The Yanks the pennant once again have won; The credit goes to Richard son and Ford. Too bad my favorite team is Washington, And by another Series I'll be bored. Statistics show the Yanks a barren team . , . "The rookies brought the Yankees through," Houk said; But names like Mantle, Maris, Berra seem To make a better team roll over dead. Cepeda, Mays and Sanford pose no threat; Take pity on poor Candle stick's sad fans . . . The Yanks will quickly win without a sweat, 'Cause fielders can't catch homers in the stands. Without "ole Case" the out come's still the same: The power of the Yanks is in the name. Peter W. Sage, Hedrick Junior High School, 8th Grade, Medford. Thanks To the Editor: Thank you for your interest and coopera tion in presenting the adult education courses this fall term. Response for the classes has been very good and we were certainly pleased with the publicity. Our eye-catch ing ad was very well arranged and attractively placed in your Sunday edition. The frequent articles re garding adult classes have been very helpful, too! W e sincerely appreciate your friendly assistance and this expression of interest in the adult education program. Lindsay M. Vinsel, Director Adult and Vocational Education, Medford Public Schools a curved handle. For more formal occasions, ha used a straight ebony with a silver knob, or a coca-bola. which is not a toft drink but a handsome heavy red wood. In summer, he brandished a wanghee, which is similar to a bamboo stick and is devastatingly eflectiva for flicking the bottoms of fractious children. I know. The modern Englishman still uses a tightly rolled um brella as a kind of ersatz cine, and. in France the walking stick is almost as popular as it ever was; but elsewhere it has come to he looked upon as a sign of decadence or af fectation. A great many men, I sus- A couple of weeks ago, V. S. federal agents converg ed on a suburban New York diner and picked up two Rus sian diplomats attached to the Soviet mission to the United Nations. The Russians, who obviously had violated the first rule of succesful spying, were found with the goods and promptly ejected from the United States. Russia retaliated with the ejection of two members of the U. S. Embassy in Moscow on similar charges. Last week In a court in Karlsruhe, Germany, a con fessed Soviet agent recounted his exploits as proudly as a movie actress dictating her her biography. He described a "poison gun" with which he first kill ed a friendly puppy and then In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Meeting at Oceanside the other day, the California State Board of Education pro posed a SIX-DAY WEEK for California's elementary and high schools. It instructed education department admin istrators to look into the proposal and report back at a future meeting. The matter was brought up in connection with a legis lative recommendatior. by Roy E. Simpson, California State Superintendent of Pub lie Instruction, that would permit special Saturday classes for GIFTED children. This recommendation was put over until the report is received on the feasibility of Saturday classes for ALL children. A SIX-DAY week schools? It would upset a habits and traditions. in the lot of UT- The lime is near-if in deed it is not already here- when in this country we are going to have to consider fi nances. Throughout most of the years of this century, the big questions in regard to edu cation have been what do we want and what should we have. The time is nearing when another ' question will be WHAT CAN WE AF FORD? The action initiated by the California State Board of Education at its Oceanside meeting is an indication that the time is coming when we can no longer afford to use our school plant only a PART of the available time. w HY? Well, this nation is heav ily in debt. I think it isn't generally realized how heavily in debt we are. A WHILE back, a new sen- ator from South Dakota -Sen. Joe Bottum, filling out the term of the late Sen. Francis Case-did something that nobody in Washington seems to have thought of be fore. He added up the total national debt obligations of the federal government. Not just the S300-odd billions in direct obligations covered by the debt "limit" that from time to time the congress has to LIFT in order to make room for more spending. He included contingent ob ligations, such as federal in surance now in force and loans already guaranteed. He included also the Social Se curity trust fund and Civil Service retirement obliga tions. All of these, he pointed out. must eventually be paid The payments for all of them must come out of the pockets of U. S. taxpayers because there is nowhere else for them to come from. HE CONCLUDED: Total national debt obli gat ions of the federal govern ment In Fiscal Year 1963 (the current fiscal year) will ap proximate SI. 242. 000,000.000! That is a big figure. It in eludes a confusing number of ciphers. So let's spell it out. Spelled out, it reads: One TRILLON. two hundred forty-two billion dollars. HAT'S a lot of money to owe. It will take a lot of taxes to pay off an obMcation of that size -while at the same time paying current costs of government. Perhaps that though was back of the proposal by the California State Foard of Fducation the other day to use the school plant a larger part of the available time. l-fct, secretly yearn to saunter down the boulevard with a cane jauntily dan?ing on their arms, but Fred Astaire is the only American I have ever seen do it with complete aplomb. We forget that a cane is a vestigial sword. So swiftly do customs change that what was once a symbol of manhood i now a sign of effeminacy. Ancient Profession, two Ukranian exile leaders by firing cyanide pellets into their faces. This was cloak-and-dagger stuff with a vengeance but its very telling scarcely seemed in keeping with the tradition al picture of the spy who would take his own poison pellet rather than risk cap ture. A man who played the role to the end was Dr. Robert Soblen. Soblen, sentenced to life imprisonment for wartime espionage against the United States, proclaimed his inno cence throughout and at last foiled his captors by swallow ing a poison obtained by methods still not known. In 1960, in a speech before the United Nations, Henry Cabot Lodge disclosed a bit of Soviet espionage display ing both boldness and imagin ation. It was a carved wooden replica of the great United States seal given as a gift to the U. S. Embassy in Mos cow. A hidden microphone in its back went undetected for seven years. Former president Eisenhow er not only broke a rule of international espionage at the abortive summit session in Paris in 1960 but also disclos ed one of the great forward Washington Report By William (ci t; ni ted Feature Syndicate DAYS OF CRISIS Washington - The October days of crisis for the Repub- , lican party are now at hand but far less for the con gressional e 1 e c tions of next month than for the p r e s i dential election two years hence. Not in mem political year ory brought such a confrontation of shadow with substance. The shadow is the struggle for con trol of the new congress. But the gut contest lies in the ef forts of G.O.P. candidates for governor to capture the state houses, and thus the giant po litical mechanisms, of four of our biggest states. These - New York, Califor nia, Pennsylvania and Michi gan - are the real payoff. For what happens in these guber natorial tests will determine, far more than any possible outcome of the congressional races, the strength or weak ness of the Republican chal lenge to President Kennedy's bid for re-election in 1964. INDEED, on the assumption that a serious presidential candidacy by Sen. Barry Gold water is highly unlikely, the whole effective field of G.O.P. challengers to Kennedy is in volved in these four states: New York, where Nelson Rockefeller is seeking a re election so decisive as to make him automatically a top con tender for the Republican presidential ' nomination in 1964. California, where Richard Nixon engages the incumbent Democratic governor, Ed mund (Pat) Brown. Pennsylvania, where Wil liam Scranton opposes the Democrat, Richardson Dil worth. Michigan, where George Romney, the former auto maker, seeks to oust the in cumbent Democratic gover nor, John Swainson. A Republican grand slam would run up disaster signals for Kennedy in 1964. He would not necessarily be beat en thereby; but he would be put on notice of the gravest coming trouble. A Democratic grand slam would be a warn ing to the Republicans that 1964 was simply not going to il ""ft vroll has a "Don't let it get you down. When people are ill. they don't give a damn about Berlin. Cuba. Russia or whether you'ra running for Congress from tha 4th district . . .'" steps in espionage methods. Man is being replaced by the machine. When the President admit ted that a U2 reconnaissance) plane shot down over Russia was on a spying mission and also defended it as a "dis tasteful but vital necessity" to protect the Free World against another Pearl Harbor, he shook international practices with results which still ara being debated. But the U2, which for four years had been photographing Soviet military installations, marked a turning in espio nage. A short time ago, the So viet Union and Cuba disclosed that the Russians would build a "fishing village" for Castro. Both blandly denied that the thought of employing radar and other electronic equip ment aboard trawlers to spy on the U.S. ever hnd occurred to them. For months the U. S. Navy has been firing secret satel lites into orbit. Noting speculation that these are spy satellites, tha New York Daily News edi toralized: "We hope so." S. White be their year, barring soma almost incredible ill-fortune in the meantime to the Ken nedy administration. tMTHER kind of grand slam -"' is, of course, highly im probable - and for the Demo crats, substantially impossi ble. For no politician really believes Rockefeller will not handily take his Democratic opponent, Robert Morganthau. The only question is by how much. On the prudent assumption that the outcome will be in between the extremes of a Republican o r Democratic sweep, what are the present prospects? In New York, it is Rocke feller, going away. In California, present odds favor Brown slightly, but Nix on's people seem genuinely convinced he is coming up fast. Brown has the advantage of being already in office, Nixon, however, will benefit from the fact that he is an im measurably larger political figure, the man barely beaten for the presidency itself only two years ago. Many, includ ing conservative Democrats, may be impelled to vote foe him simply because they do not like to see such a figure destroyed. Much the same sit uation benefited the late Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio in 1950, against a relative non entity, Joseph Ferguson. TN MICHIGAN, Romney seems ahead now, as does Scranton I n Pennsylvania, though nobody can know what these last few campaign days may bring. Returning to California, Nixon is bracketed with the 1964 G.O.P. presidential field because if he wins the gover norship, he will become the candidate-maker, if not him self a candidate. Though he has read himself out of the race, he has also said that if he is then governor of Cali fornia, he will "invite" all aspirants into a sudden-death 1964 presidential primary there. This means Nixon would surely be king-maker, if not king. It also means, parenthetical ly, that his old antagonist, Rockefeller, is being warned early that if he wants the big prize in 1964, he will have to earn it by that primary route which he so shunned in 1960. r
