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MONDAY. .MEDFORD Ji&TRIBIJNE 1 'T'-Everyonen-SoutheSTOresoo Reads ThMUTribune" fiibliihed Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. i ii North Ph:J72-141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Mananer GERALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mn. Editor CAM. H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPM AN, Teles Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALEER1CKSON. ClrculaUon Mgr " An Independent Newspaper Entered aa aecond claaa matter at . Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1B97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES y Mail In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 year lis 00 . Daily and Sunday 6 moa. 10 00 . Dally and Sunday 3 moa. 5.00 Sunday Only One year IS.po . Single Copy (Malledl 200 By earner And Motor Route Dally and Sunday 1 year 121 .00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. I.T Siunnay unu i inw. I Carrier and Vendori Copy 10c Blflclil Paper of City of Medford pfilelal Paper oX Jackaun County United "Preia International Full Leaaed Wire -TJ. P. I Telephoto Newplcturea TmEMBF.M OF AUDIT BUREAU" OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising ReprMentatlve: 7NELSOIT ROBERTS & ASSOCI- caio. Detroit. San Francleco. Los Angeiea, oeaiwc r -! Denver. NATIONAL EDITORIAL' ASSOC. UWIOTi C J L- NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Th Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 22, 19S2 (Wednesday) . . nniimiiarlv flood sea ion for pheasant hunters is forecast this year by Dave tuman, state game commis sion agent. Freedom of the press as s basic point in nistuiy w Viewed for Medford Kiwan lans at their luncheon meet i tnAvv hv Herb Gray, ad vertising manager of the Mail Tribune. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 22, 1942 (Thursday) Two Medford men receive long Jail sentences for taxi holdup which netted $30 in cash and two tires. From Arthur Perry s Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Tax and fish bills headline mea sures before the Oregon voters. Death, taxes, and fish bills always we have with us." . JO YEARS AGO Oct. 22. 1932 (Sslurdsy) . VI.Hfni-H Hirh school fool- in loom defeats Grants a... i in a Knios. Schcel Galinskl and Fichtncr star for local squad. I Portland medical authori ties express belief that lcr uko Maru, 15-year-old Med ford girl, will be able to walk again after being disabled two years ago by accidental gun shot. 40 YEARS AGO Oci, 22, 1922 (Sunday) : E. M. Hussong, Medford High school biology teacher, starts study of while pine Ulster discos in conjunction with national bureau of plant pathology. Ashland school authorities announce It will cost about $9,000 a month to run city Schools there. $0 YEARS AGO Oct. 22. 1912 (Tuesday) "People from miles sround" hear speeches by Bull Moose party "(lying mitirlrnn'' nl Talent. cir destroys Medford hoilrlinir constructed In 18112 which houses Noyes and Black paint shop. Whal's Your I.Q.7 Nina ten tenett h luaerier; even or eiahl is eicellenti llva w lis is $ui. 1. Does the Coaat Guard operate airplanes as part of its standard equipment? 2. The fall of Constantin ople occurred In 1453, 1493, 1516. or 1020? 3. Name the twin brother of Easau. 4. Ibn Siiud is king of which country? 5. The New York Stock Exchange was founded under a tree; was it a beech, oak, ash, or butlonwood tree? 8. How many children did George Washington have? 7. With what sport do you associate Hayes Allan Jenk ins? 8. Are chemicals, textiles or dairy products the leading product of Delaware? 0. Was Mary Plckford, Helen Hayes, or Shirley Tem ple known as "America's Sweetheart?'' 10. What Is the site of a 'hand' as used in mrasuring the height of horses' Answers: 1. Yea. 2. 1453. 3. Jacob. 4. Saudi Arabia. S. Butlonwood lrt. t. Nona. 7. let figure skating. I. Chem icals. 9. Mary Picklord. 10. Four Inches. OCTOBLH 22. lst2 Mr. Sprague on No. 10 In these columns previously have appeared brief discussions and editorial recommendations concerning eight of the nine measures to be voted on at the Nov. 6 general election. The final one is No. 10, an initiative measure designed to repeal the school reorganization law. (No. 8, another initiative to make steelhead a game fish, was dropped off the ballot at the last moment by order of the State Supreme Court, because of faulty wording in some of the peti tions. It still appears on most sample ballots and a few absentee ballots, but will not be on ballots distributed at the polls on voting day.) In some ways No. 10 is the most significant and important of the nine measures. The clearest and most lucid explanation of it we have seen, and the most soundly-based recommendation, ap peared under the by-line of Charles A. Sprague, editor of the Oregon Statesman. jyIR. SPRAGUE is particularly well-qualified to comment on this measure, for he is a former school superintendent, a former Governor of Oregon, and a life-long observer and supporter ofjrood education. His opinion, incidentally, coincides with all educators with whom we have discussed No. 10, with most editorial writers of the state, and with those good citizens who have labored long and hard to put the school reorganization law into effect, with considerable success. Mr. Sprague's editorial follows. E.A. "No!" on No. 10 Initiative No. 10 on. the November ballot would, if adopted, turn back the clock on public education in Oregon. It would repeal the 1957 Act for school dis trict reorganization. And it would set up me chanics for dissolving the administrative districts created under that act. This would be something like unscrambling an omelet. A reorganized dis trict may have built new school buildings and provided new facilities and you can't very well slice up schoolhouses, gymnasiums, playing fields and parcel them out among revived small dis tricts. Actually the 1957 Act expired on June 30th last, though the law does lay out procedures for future reorganization if the residents desire it. WHAT did the 1957 Act do? It called for or ganization of the school districts of the state into administrative districts each of which would provide education through grades one to 12. Orig inally school districts undertook to provide schooling only through grades. 1 he compulsory school law and public demand now extend education into and through the high school (or to age 18). Because of this change in the spread of education, consolidations of districts have been going on for years. The purpose of the 1957 Act was to speed up the consolidations in the interest both of econ omy and educational improvement. The results have been highly satisfactory, though there were pockets of resistance due to attachment to the nearby school. The application of the 1957 Act was most carefully performed. County committees were set uj). Innumberable hearings were held. Local opin ion was freely expressed. A division of the State Department of Education reviewed all plans, held additional hearings. Then votes were taken and the final decisions were made by the people af fected. To move toward reversing these decisions would, in my view, be a great mistake. Also it would be futile, for it is doubtful if a single ad ministrative district would vote to unscramble itself. XTHAT have been the results of the 1957 Act? Under it through elections 82 administrative districts were formed in 26 counties. A survey conducted by the State Department of Education showed that 25 of 27 districts reported increased effectiveness in the educational program as a result of the unification. It provides a single administration through both elementary and high schools. It makes pos sible specialized instruction in all schools in coin-ses such as music and art. It makes students in all the schools of the district part of a single system. The Salem district 24CJ is a good example of consolidation. All of its growth came through voluntary action of local districts. This has spread the burden of cost which was becoming almost unbearable in some districts like Keizer and Salem Heights, and has furnished the outlying schools with the same type of supervision and instruction as the city schools. SINCE a high school education is now regarded ila unntinl few oil vrntli with tinrmnl mnntol equipment, the district organization should con form to that pattern and put elementary schools and related high schools under a single adminis trative organization. The writer is somewhat of a pioneer in pro moting district reorganization, having recom mened it to the Legislature in 19"9. While retain ing local district option slowed down the process, over the years districts have been consolidated in great numbers. The proof of the pudding is in the eating; and I know of no consolidated or administrative district which has "unmerged." I urge the voters not to turn the clock back as would be done by voting in favor of Measure No. 10. Instead, vote against it, and encourage continuance through the democratic process of consolidation into administrative units. C.A.S., Oregon Statesman. the eight elementary MLUi'OHD hi Pair Feeh Pretty Good" COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear tht mm. and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication is permissible, The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters p. inted in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the oaper; In fact the contrary Is often the case. Morse Thanked To the Editor: The follow ing letter has been sent to Senator Morse: Dear Senator Morse: On be half of the Medford Pear In dustry, we wish to express our appreciation for your most effective and generous help in solving our many problems, arising from work with Federal Agencies, in cluding the Department of La bor and the Department of Agriculture; as well as your continuing interest in our for eign trade problems. Your detailed grasp and un derstanding of the questions at issue, your realistic ap proach to their solution and your insistence on prompt ac tion by those in authority, has made the difference be tween the success, or failure, of our effortr. We are particularly pleased with the attention, and prompt action we have re ceived from the Department of Labor, at both the Federal and Regional levels, on secur ing the services of Mexican National Labor during an es pecially difficult, and some what disasterous, harvest sea son. Again, Senator, please ac cept a hearty thank-you for a Job well done. Medford Pear Shippers As sociation. By Walter B. Hinkle, Pres ident. Rogue Valley Marketing Association. By J. Nauiries, President. Fruit Growers League of Jackson County. By Edwin W. Gebhard, President. Submitted by Mrs. Louise Norton, Box 85, Phoenix, Ore. GOP Commandment To the Editor: Did Presi dent Eisenhower try to work out a deal whereby American Interests would have been paid in full for all propertv confiscated by Castro? If not why not? Castro's Cuba should have been shown the same consideration that Mex ico was shown when Mexico nationalized almost all Amer ican holdings. A deal was made and without war. With Senators Capehart and Goldwater crying for war if necessary to put the sugar and oil barons back in busi ness at the same old stand and under the same old conditions, are the voters going to be naive enough to send Carl Fisher and Slg Unander to Washington where they will be in position to help the big GOP brass put the pressure on President- Kennedy to chance a war with Russia? The first commandment In the GOP Bible is go ye forth and bring back huge profits, even if it be In the sweat and blood of the blind, the sick and the halt. Your god, the party, commands this. Show no compassion for the people ! who toil for you as they wor ship a god who is invisible. Give them naught when they cry (or bread as they will cry for butter and meat later on. Fear you not to put the screws on hard as your gov ernment is behind thee and anything you do. This your party commands you. John R. Schumpf Route 1, Box 312 Central Point. Ore. Ponder That To the Kdltor: Your East Oregonlan editorial reprint of 10 2 62 states that, "the basic idea behind school district re organization is to gain effi ciency, improve the educa tional program, and reduce costs of education." I challenge .this pleasant sounding "bait" with which we art being lured unsuspect ingly Ui to voting against re- MAIL THlBUMfc. MtDr'ORD. peal of the school district re- organization law. Morrow county was the first and only county to be completely under this law. The holocaust resulting from reorganizing this county certainly didn't bring efficiency and better education, and the cost of the school budget was not re duced but sky-rocketed. In an effort to escape the unholy mess of high priced confusion their schools were in under reorganization the people of Morrow county went to court, then appealed to the state supreme court, then carried the fight into the state legislature, then, thor oughly aroused over the pres sures bucking them, spear headed the drive of alarmed Oregon citizens to repeal the reorganization law by peti tion and ballot. If this law Is retained by the voters and goes into full effect, we, the tax payers, who built the schools and who pay the teachers, lose local control of our schools. We trade the right to vote on school Issues for the right to petition to vote, which vir tually means there will be no more voting. A whole county can be made an administrative dis trict and Joined to another whole county without giving us a chance to vote on it, un less we petition - and petition - and petition. This can be repeated until the whole state has been combined into one district under one central of fice with the old familiar, so cialistic centralization of pow er, which is the primary ob ject of this law. Raymond Moley, national ly known columnist, states that there "is a complete blue print for federal control of all education." He should have added that, as the next step, there is also a blue-print for International control of all education in America, under the pending UNESCO treaty. First step state con trol, second step federal con trol, and third step, interna tional control with foreigners dictating what shall be taught to our children. And the iden tity of these foreigners would chill your spine. Of 16 top jobs In UNESCO 14 are held by foreign communists 11 of whom are ruthless Russian reds under direction of the Kremlin. Ponder that. The first step toward fed eral and international control of our schools is to take con trol awav from the local peo ple. This tragedy must not happen. Folks, for the love of your country and your children alert everyone you know to vote "yes" for the repeal of the school district reorganization law. L. C. Powell 316 S E. Eighth St. Grants Pass, Ore. Think To the Editor: Do you really know each man you are plan ning to vote for this Novem ber? If he is an incumbent. do you know his voting rec ord? Do you know the things he stands for? For example, let's take two extremely Important lss.es and use them as a yardstick with which to measure the two Oregon men now running for the U.S. Senate. 1. Nearly all the experts on world affairs SRrce that to recognize the criminal mur derers In control of Red China and seat them in the United Nations would be a smashing victory for world communism and a national rataitro the for the United States. Yet. loyal to the United States though Senator Morse undoubtedly is. he has used the extremely bad Judgment of coming out in favor of seating Red China in the UN (documented in OREGON Foreign News: Algerian Danger De Gaulle's Majority; By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: Danger Signals Algerian Premier Ahmed Ben Bella's pronouncements against nuclear tests and the American Na- val base at G u antanamo have set ff speculation in V I Paris that he soon will start tfc I campaign! n g I for evacuation bXleJ of French mil itary bases in N.wiom Algeria, in cluding the Sahara and the French air and naval base at Mers-el-Kebir. Such a cam paign would be to reopen the Evian agreements which led to Algerian peace and would endanger the whole program of French economic assistance to independent Algeria. De Gaulle The French government be lieves President Charles de Gaulle will win about 67 per cent of the votes cast in the Oct. 28 constitutional referen Washington Report By William (ci United Feature Syndicate CHILL OVER BERLIN Washington - The annual autumnal chill over Berlin is drawing in again over Wash ington amid indications that rvs?Ki Nikita Khru- shchev of the !. '- '"ill Soviet Union .? ma be com" ing to inn country for another con sultation with President Kennedy. Again, the air is troubled by opinion. The people who ought to know and who bear the responsibili ty, for this country and all the Western world, believe the situation is grave. They think a long-postponed crisis may now be at hand. Another set, made up pri marily of American and Brit ish amateur experts, is hap pily pooh-poohing this deep concern. The fact that Khru shchev is "willing to talk" has caught their glad attention, as though this in and of Itself of fered a guarantee that Khru shchev will in no circum stances be willing also to act. "The Record of Wayne Morse" by Spangler). 2. The repeal of the Con- nally Amendment would mean the end of our Constitu tion, of our Bill of Rights, of our Declaration of Indepen dence - the end of a free United States and a free American people. Yet, Sena tor Morse vigorously opposed the Connally Amendment and voted against it in 1946. And, as late as 1960, he was still showing his inexcusable bad judgment, in a Sept. 2 press release, by urging both presi dential candidates to press for the repeal of this precious Amendment which guards our freedom. Sig Unander is against seat ing Red China in the UN. And against repealing the Connal ly Ammendment. Compared to Senator Morse's "liberal" vot ing record, in which he voted against our Constitution ap proximately 90 per cent of the time, Sig Unander's press releases show him to be a con servative right across the board. Whether or not we put con servative men in Congress this election will decide the destiny of America. Will we return to fiscal responsibility and Constitutional sanity? Will we retain our freedom, our Constitutional rights, and our sovereignty as a nation? That is up to you voters. Please, please, think before you vote. Brrnlce R. Pruitt 2013 Cloverlawn dr. Grants Pass, Ore. Gold-Water To the Editor, and the Pro- Status- Quo: We re-carpeted wet-behind-the - ears Premier Ben Bella of Algiers. Same for Cuba's parlor chicken- peeler, our editors' garlanded Dr. Castro, for a little while Now together, the two bloody handed dictators give us an all-round denunciation, usual reward for our foreign policy and confiscating tax dollar aid. to which our editors seem discreetly silent. So, be informed that an In creasing number of us who pay the eventual bill are tak ing a long hard look at old time right-wing conservatism that seems to include a bit of gold-water. Hi gold - miners, mleht be relief could be com mencing. F. J. Clifford FN Route 2. Box 200F Central Point, Ore. K J. H W1lt two sets of dum which is to determine whether future French presi dents will be elected by direct popular vote. Such a figure would not represent the mas sive vote De Gaulle asked for but probably would be enough to keep him from quitting. Summit? Speculation that Premier Nikita Khrushchev might vis it the United States already is leading to talk of summit sessions. British Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan is thinking of a possible Wash ington trip if Khrushchev makes it. There also is talk of summit-level talks among Washington, London and Par is. De Gaulle is unlikely to attend but would be consult ed either directly or through embassy channels. West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer is to visit Kennedy on Nov. 7 and his opinion also would be asked. Motivating against a four-power summit session: No results. Sino-Indian Border Dispute Winter arrives shortly along the Sino-Indian frontier. In the past, the snow has choked off the fighting. But Red China's announcement S. White PRESIDENT Charles de Gaulle of France stands haughtily aloof from it all. The theory of the American and British amateur experts and also apparently of some official British experts is that the West has only to exercise its cerebral mus cles and endlessly negotiate with the Soviet Union over an area in which very little re mains negotiable unless the West intends to give in by In stallments. These experts want to talk, and only to talk, and to talk too much. The De Gaulle theory is that we ought just grandly to ignore the whole business, neither negotiating nor pre paring to fight, in the notion that there should be no talk ing at all. The West Germans, like the United States, are quite willing to talk to a point. But both governments are quite unwilling to see any talking take the form of piece meal concession to what the Russians are really after in Berlin. This is the gradual re moval of allied power from Berlin and West Germany by way of some allied recogni tion of the Soviet puppet re gime in East Germany. 11HE plain fact is that the Western Alliance, bedev iled alike by the excessively "tough" De Gaulle view and the excessively untough view of the American and British amateur statesmen, is in poor shape to confront any real challenge from Khrushchev. And it is strongly probable that this has not been lost upon hiin. Somehow in the last tew vears the Western Alliance has lost its way and also. to a dangerous degree, its common sense. The same al lies who refuse a hard-pressed American President even a small moral cooperation on Cuba are leaving that Ameri can President substantially alone to meet the new trouble over Berlin. Western Europe and Britain are engrossed by trade by business as usual, except that this time it is In the hope of even more business than usual. rVHE self-nominated intellec - tuals of the West are pre occupied with empty dreams that a world can be saved ex clutively by diplomatic mi nuets, dreams which recoil from the very word "power" as a horrid and impermissible thing. It is they ho helped cre ate a shivering dogma that "world opinion'1 must in each and every circumstance be the final arbiter of mankind's destiny. It is they, tor all their posturings as great in ternational thinkers, who are unconsciously promoting the new isolationism of our time, Just as men in terror of any risk whatever promoted the isolationism that helped Hit ler's rise. Through such a fog Presi dent Kennedy must now find his way. Unexampled bur dens have fallen upon htm. For he is the head of an al liance which Is content to let him take the responsibility alone but, having put him in the seat of responsibility, is not content to taKe his direc tion as to how the job should be done. In this matter, and whatev er his mistakes may have been elsewhere, he needs and de serves the support of all Americans, Republicans no less than Democrats. He 's. in all conscience, getting lit tle enough support from elsewhere. Summit Speculation that it will shoot down Indian aircraft "intruding into Chi nese territory" may lead to aerial entanglements over the snow-bound mountain passes. The Communists claim the Strictly Personal By Sydney (c) Field Enterprises, Inc. 100 KINDS OF SNOW Certain Eskimo tribes, we are told by ethnologists, have nearly a hundred different words for "snow." We have only one in English; to us all snow is simply snow, because it plays a rela tively small part in our lives. But to Hama the people who live in snow conditions most of the year, there are tremendous differences in the kinds of snows that fall; ex perience and necessity have taught them to discriminate keenly among them. I recalled this bit of Eski mo lore during my vacation this summer in northern Wis consin. The trees around our house there are called "ever greens" by week-end visitors; they cannot see the difference between a spruce and a bal sam. All evergreens look alike to them. If on lives there for tome time, however, not only ara spruces and bal sams sharply differentiated but one can also disting uish among four different kinds of spruce alone. What seem, to the untrained eye, to be similar or identical trees are seen by the edu cated eye as quite distinct. A perceptive Frenchman said many years ago that "Intelligence consists in lhe ability to tell the dif ference between things that seem similar, and the simi larity between things that seem different." This is not a good definition of intelli gence - but it is a good def inition of what true educa tion ought to be. We commonly think of education as the amassing of facts, lhe charting of trends, the memorization of formulae, the sequence of epochs and battles and regimes. But that is all gross information; the true educative process begins when the student learns how to see the real differ ences between s im 1 1 a r and the basic similarities between different things. One reason that specialists In any field find it so hard to communicate to the layman is that the layman wants a simple, clear, unqualified, black-and-white answer to his question. But the more truly educated we ar , the more we are forced to quali fy and discriminate - and this makes the layman impa tient and contemptuous to ward the "double-talk" of the specialist. No lawyer can give an easy yes-or no answer to a legal case; no doctor can give an easy yes-or-no answer to medical case; no economist can give an easy yes-or-no answer to problems of unem ployment and production and taxes. Indeed, when they at tempt to do so, they are more often frauds than honest fol lowers of their diffi-ult dis ciplines. Whenever a layman, for in stance, confronts such a com plex problem as, say, juven ile delinquency, and offers some simple solution such as a trip to the woodshed or jail sentences tor parents, he is just revealing his abysmal lack of education on the sub ject. He sees only one k,nd oi "I've never seen him campaign ss hard for GOP candidates he must have given up golf when he retired ... I" Signals; whole Himalayan range down to the plain of the Brahma putra river. And with winter coming on, Indian supply planes likely will step up air drops to frontier posts. J. Harris snow, when there are nearly a hundred kinds; and what he thinks is the clarity of his vision is only a kind of snow blindness. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Our moon shot slips a cog. Its solar batteries go wrong, and it won't be able to send back close-ups. We'll have to wait a while. Maybe it's just as well. The news is moving pretty fast these days. We need time to digest it. 1EANWHILE, if you ara ' fond of the kind of news that gives you the shivers, there is plenty of it to be had. Representative Walter Nor- blad, back in Oregon after the long-winded 87th Con gress, tells the reporters the U. S. has on the drawing board a space ship designed to carry 22 men in orbit around the earth. He gave no details. He just mentioned it as one of a number of s P e c t a c ular developments now in the planning stage. He added: "The biggest threa'. to the U. S. at the present moment is the possibility of Russia sending into orbit a huge nu clear weapon - one that could be dropped at any time. Such a weapon, spinning through space at 18,000 miles per hour, could be triggered by radio, striking a target a minute later. The U. S. gov ernment is working on a death ray to destroy missiles but it isn't perfected yet." Congressman Norblad is the third-ranking Republican on the House military affairs committee, which lends a cer tain authenticity to what he has to say. TN SALEM, Dr. D. A. Chis A holm of the Bell Tele; hone laboratories at Murray Hill, New Jersey, admits to news men that in effect the Tel star satellite that makes it possible to see live TV pro grams from all around the world is already OBSOLETE. The subject came up when he was being interviewed by the reporters at a luncheon. The question concerned claims by Oregon's Senator Morse that prefent communi cations systems are either already outmoded or are close to being obsolete because of new developments expected in the near future. Dr. Chisholm added: "In these days, ANYTHING THAT WORKS IS OBSO LETE." CHUCKS: Let's quit soaring around. The news today includes a Florida congressman who has just been arrested, charged with accepting money to per suade the Justice Depratment to drop a pending mail fraud case against a Florida man. This congressman's slogan through many years of run ning for office has been: "Everything is made for love.'' Including, one presumes, love of money in large bills. TTOPEFUL THOUGHT: Maybe the time will coma when science will have pro gressed so far that we will no longer have to contend with shady characters like this Florida congressman. Let's hope so. - y
