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THURSDAY, "Everyone In Southern Oregon Be"dJL!Lh-Ii!L3rf ?u.""" Published Duly except Saturday DT MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St., PhU-SU ROBERT W. P.UHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bu Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR, Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telej Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'a Editor DALE ERICKSON. ClrculaUon Mir An Independent Newapaper Intered as second class matter l Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Daily and Sunday 1 yearl00 Daily and Sunday moa 10 00 Daiiv and Sunday 3 moa. 5 00 Sunday Only One year 5 00 Single Copy (Malledl S0e By Carnei And Motor R6ute. Dally and Sunday 1 year 121.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1.73 Sunday Only 1 mo. 50c Carrier jindVendora -opy 10c Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County UnTted Preaa International Full Leaied Wire tJ. P. I Telephoto Newptcturee "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES Offlcea In New York, Chi cago Detroit, San Francisco, Lot A ngelra. Seattle, Portland. Denver, NATION A L t 0 1 T 0 ft I A L ASC(rATION IJJLUJ -35r Righto' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the flies of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 nd 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1952 (Saturday) The weather bureau report ed the first freezing tempera ture of the fall at its station at the Medford municipal air port this morning. Gerald T. Macomber appar ently will survive his bullet wounds to be returned to the Oregon State prison, it ap peared this morning. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1942 (Sunday) Bids for remodeling of old Gates Aulo company building at Sixth St. and Riverside ave.; structure to be used for new USO headquarters. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A re port from Rome via Berne says II Duce Mussolini is 'mentally dazed.' This is what ailed him all the time." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1932 (Tuesday) "Committee of 7,000" starts campaign for write-in votes to reelect Rnlph Jennings as county sheriff. Eugene Thorndyke elected to fill vacancy on Medford school board. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1922 (Wednesday) Earl C. Gaddis, Business Men's Party candidate for mayor of Medford, announces platform based on keeping taxes down and city credit up. Medford High school foot ball team defeated 20 to 14 by Oregon Slate College Rooks in game at Corvallis for first loss of season. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 25. 1912 (Friday) Jackson county registered voters total B.477; Medford's nine precincts have 2,403 reg lslcrcd. S. A. Paltisiin, founder of Central .Point Herald and for mer president of Jackson County Press association, leaves Rogue valley to pur chase farm in Washington. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nina ot tan cornet Is superior; saen er tight Is eicellenti tlx at sis Is toed. 1, Dors arid refer to dry ness, acidity, or bitterness? i. Helsinki is the captlal of which country? 3. Lard is a product of what animal? 4. What la the singular of axes? 5. Names the smallest planet, 6. At which "Mount" were the Ten Commandments In troduced? 7. Does New York, Texas, Illinois or California have the most miles of Improved roads? 8. Only three states In the Union have four letters in ' their names; can you name them? 9. The Congress recently passed a law requiring that women be paid the same as men for equal work; true or false? 10. Does moss thrive In well drained, or In damp soil? Answerst I, Dryness. 2. Fin land. 3. The hog. 4. Axe or axis. 5. Marcury. 6. Mount Sinai, 7. Texas S. Iowa, Ohio, Utah. 9. Falsa. 10. In damp sell. 4 A - -jj NIW$PAPI jjSjj- ASSOCIATION NICE GRANDMOTHER Barrow, England (UFD -Mrs. Olive Woodburn was charged Wednesday with training Linda Fry to be a shoplifter. Mrs. Woodburn, 84, Is the grandmother of Linda, 12. 1 OCTOBER 25. 1962 For County Offices There are five county offices at stake at the Nov. 6 general election assessor, clerk, com missioner, county judge, and sheriff. Assessor is a largely technical position, and logically would be an appointive, rather than an elective, office. However, since it remains elec tive under our system, we should elect a man principally on the basis of his qualifications. The assessor and his staff are charged with the valuation of property for tax purposes, and preparing the levies for collection by the sheriff. The incumbent by appointment, Thad Hatten, is both competent and experienced. We see no need for a change, and recommend his election. e THE county clerk is the county's record-keeper and chief election officer. This too is largely a technical and administrative operation, not a policy-setting one. Most of the actual work in the office is done by experienced deputies, and in lai'fze measure, therefore, the county clerk is chiefly engaged in personnel administration and supervision. Efficiency and courtesy to the public are the principal qualifications for office. The candidates are Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, who previously has served in the office, the Republi can, and E. M. Madden, the incumbent, a Demo crat. "THE office was operated smoothly during the incumbency of each. Mrs. Hopkins claims she can operate the .office more economically than Madden has done, and her contention. Madden has stated his principal aim is to attract and retain erood staff people, and to operate a courteous office which is a subtle iab at Mrs. Honkins who has in the past irritated some constituents by her forthright manner of speaking. Both candidates have, in the past, been active in partisan politics, each in his or her own party, and while this is, of course, their right, it does little to recommend them to serve in what is, in fact if not in practice, a non-partisan public ser vice office. This race, to us, is almost a toss-up. We be lieve the people will be which one wins. Uur job, however, is Mrs. Hopkins. THE county commissioner's post, being vacated Vtir P.rtootoi- "Wonrlt ia rtnrttootorl hptwppn Don Faber, Republican, former mayor of Central Point, and Larry Sheehan, Democrat, mayor of Rogue River. The office is an important one, and, if per formed conscientiously consumintr one. Sheehan has a more winning personality than does Fabef, who can be somewhat overbearing at times. But on the basis of a broader experience in county and citv trovernment. as well as in busi ness and teaching, we plan to cast our vote for Don Faber. pOUNTY JUDGE EARL MILLER, Republican seeking reelection, was a good mayor of Med ford. We have been considerably less impressed with the job he has done as county judge. He is an honest man, we are convinced, and a sincere man. But he seems to have the dog gonedest time making up his mind. As a result he gives the impression of vacillating, of post poning decisions, of passing the buck for decision-making to committees or public hearings. Despite these tendencies we plan to cast our vote for him, instead of for Ralph James, former Democratic county commissioner running for county judge. Both men are thoroughly decent individuals, and our preference for Miller is based on our belief that he can do a better job than James in a job that is part executive, part legislative, part administrative and part public relations. We would be more enthusiastic in our endorse ment if we knew that reelection would give Miller the confidence he needs to make decisions and stick with them, and to exert the qualities of pro gressive leadership now so sadly lacking in the county court. "THE final county office is sheriff. This is not a policy-making post, but it is an important one, including not only law enforcement, but also jail administration, tax collection and civil process administration. The office employs some 30 persons. The two candidates are "Do" A. Leigh, Re publican, and Birle E. Stephens, Democrat. Stephens is a private investigator, formerly a city police officer. Leigh has served as deputy sheriff, and also has had considerable business experience. In our view, Leigh has far superior qualifica tions, in experience and in personality, and in his attitude toward the job. we strongly suggest a vote for "De" Leigh for sheriff. 4'',. A. Judges Unopposed Supreme Court Chief Justice William M. Mc Allister, Supreme Court candidate Arno H. Den ecke, Oregon Tax Court Judge Peter Gunnar, and District Judge L. L. Sawyer all appear on the Nov. (5 ballot unopposed in the non-partisan judgeship election, each having won undisputed nomination in the primary election. Their elec tion is a foregone conclusion, but a complimen tary vote of confidence in each is indicated. McAllister, Gunnar and Sawyer have served well in their present positions, and Denecke es tablished a fine reputation as a circuit court judge. E. A. cites figures to support well served no matter personal choice ior tne and effectively, a time- on next month's ballot MEDFORD Vote For One COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot tha wrltor, although under certain circumstances the usa of a pen name or Initial for publication is permissible. Tha Mail Tribune reserves tha right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Tha letters p Inted In this column do not necessarily represent the views of tha paper; In fact tha contrary Is often tha case. For Repeal To the Editor, and the tax payers of Southern Oregon: If some one asked you to trade your right to vote for the right to petition to vote, what would your answer be? This is exactly what those who are opposing repeal of the School District Reorganization Law are asking Oregon voters to do. Turn to page 50 In your Voter's Pamphlet y and you will quickly grasp why this law must be repealed. Please note that the people voted it down once, but that a few years later our legislature over-ruled our vote and forced this law upon us. Also notice that the basic school fund has already been raided to the tune of nearly half a million dollars by the state to finance its program of enforcement of this very unpopular law. Please study the facts about the repeal law - that It will stop forced reorganization, but will not repeal voluntary con solidation laws - that it will return control of school dis tricts to the local people - that it will return your right to vote on any consolidation In volving your district - that repeal will give you, the local people, the right to decide just how big your district will be, and just where your chil dren shall go to school - and that it will get the State's hands out of your pocket-book by stopping the yearly appro priation of $70,000 from our tax money to enforce the law we want repealed. Then please study the facts about the present reorganiza tion law until you clearly un derstand that It Is compulsory, and takes local control of the schools away from the people, with an un-Americin central ization of power In the hands of the State Board of Educa tion which is not elected, but appointed. Fellow taxpayers, if we don't want complete slate con trol of our children, our schools, and our school lax dollars, we'd belter get on the ball and get everyhody we know out to the polls this elec tion to vole YF.S for repeal of our present School District Reorganization law. Hope Getchell 778 N. W. Third st. Grants Pass, Ore. Outstanding Legislator To the Editor: In regard to your recommendations for state representatives in Tues day night's paper, I think that It should be pointed out that John Dellenback was se lected as the outstanding freshman legislator by a se cret poll of the press who at tendrd Ihe legislative sessions in Salem. This nrctirred In a predominantly Democratic legislature. In view of his rerord and ability, I don't see how the people of Jackson county can overtook the qualifications of John Dellenback when they cast Iheir vote. Mrs John Collins Dellwood ave. Medford Support No. 9 To the Kdttor: At our hoard meeting of Oct. IB. 1R2, the Portland Junior Chamber of Commerce unanimously de cided to favor Ballot Measure (Legislative Reapportion ment). Our position is hased main ly on the following four points- 1) There is no major dis parity between the existing plan and Ballot Measure 9 regarding the equality of rep resentation. Knur per rent is the maximum percentage dif ference involved. 21 The existing plan has hren Interpreled by the court in such a manner that major fractions are ignored. Our or ganization believes that the MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. concept of major fractions Is essential to fair representa tion, and Ballot Measure 9 re stores this concept. 3) The existing plan allows for any combination of coun ties to form legislative dis tricts. We feel that this can be grossly unfair due to the fact that an extremely large county can be combined with an extremely small county, thereby creating a situation where the numerical repre sentation seems fair but in reality is not, due to the fact that the smaller of the coun ties loses its right to elect legislaio-s. 4) What we consider to be the overwhelming factor in our decision is the fact that the existing plan allows any type of gerrymandering. Our principles force us to oppose the existing plan for this rea son if no other. Ballot Meas ure 9 remedies the situation through its system of perma nent Legislative districts in the House and equality of counties in the Senate. We know that neither plan is perfect, but for these four reasons the Portland Junior Chamber of Commerce sin cerely hopes that you will join with us in striving to wards a fairer system of rep resentation by using the at tached report as well as oth ers as a basis for your sup port of Ballot Measure 9 on Reapportionment. Portland Junior Chamber of Commerce, Charles R. McClellan II, President, Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (o- field Enterprises Ine. PERSONAL PREJUDICES Most people use charity not as an enhancement of justice, but as a substitute for it; they are willing to help the afflicted and Ihe un fortunate after the event, but remain supremely indifferent to the causes of suffering and the prompt taking of preven tive measures. Pious people Invariably assume that God hat no lanse of humor whan all one has to do is to regard the panda, the lobster, the kangaroo and the opeatic tenor to see the sense of comedy Involved in His creation. The men who crack most easily are those who are atraid to expose what they ronslder n "wenknes-s" - who feel they must always seem strong and decisive and self assured, even when the oc casion calls for doubt and de liberation. To be really strong means having the surplus strength to admit a weakness - just as the truly brave men frankly confronts bis fear. A person who insists that ha listens "to both aides of tha question" fails to add that he listens to each side In a quite different man ner: with his ears critically cocked to tha side ha lands against, and with hit ears flopping plaasurably to tha aide he land to favor. Everybody is against sel fishness - usually for the most selfish reasons. Returning each fall from vacation in a tiny village. I am each year more in clined to agree with Kin Hubbard a sly remark that "There Isn't much to ba seen In a little town, but what you hear makes up for it." One of the1 most curious and unexplained phenomena is the fact that If you hear OREGON Cuban Living Standard, Once High for Latin America, Now at Subsistence Level By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst President Kennedy has made a point of the fact that the U.S. "quarantine" of Cuba will not cut off the necessities of life, as the Soviets at tempted to do In their 1948 Berlin block ade. In actual fact, inept C o m m u nist lea d e r sh Ip and resistance of the workers already have placed the Cu ban people at close to the subsistance level. All staple goods and most household commodities are ra tioned. A government decree In March permitted each person three-quarters oi a pound of meat and one and a half pounds of beans per week, and six pounds of rice and one cake of soap per month. The government has been forced to parade tanks, troops and artillery to counter dem onstrations against food scarc ities In a country which once had one of the highest living Today & Tomorrow By Walter lippmann (o) New York Herald Tribuna Syndicate CRISIS AND THIS ELECTION This article Is written be fore any official statement about the latest developments In Cuba. But it is written in the know ledge that the situation has very suddenly become acute and critical. Whatever the President de cides to do, it Is unfortunate Lippmann that it has to be done at the height of an election cam paign, and particularly of this one. For this campaign has been singularly sterile as a preparation of the American electorate to understand the grave problems in which they are profoundly involved. That ought not to be the case. We ought to be an educated and informed democracy. The voters are being talked to by the President and the ex-President, by the two lead ers who for the ten years since the Korean war have had the highest responsibility and who have had access to the most intitmate knowledge of the facts. Yet neither of them, I submit, has ever tried to explain to the people the dimensions of the Cuban problem and of the Berlin problem. The education of the peo ple, which must be the foun dation of policy, has been left to politicians outside the Ad ministration and to editors, re porters, and commentators, all of us unauthorized and only partially and intermittently informed. The two national leaders have refrained from candid and free exposition of the issues and they have, in fact, talked down to the vot ers as if truth were too strong a meat for Americans to di gest. jUEITHER General El sen- ' hower nor President "Cen nedy has come near to deal ing with the central reality which has dominated their two Administrations. This reality is the decisive change In the military and financial position of the United States a new word for the first time, you are bound to hear it again in a day or two; like wise, if the name of a person, or rare disease, comes up in conversation or in print, you will run across the name again soon. The man who mutters that "90 per cant of mod ern art it trash" forgets that 90 par cant of old art was trash, too. but time has winnowed out tha bulk of It Indeed. It might justly he said that 90 per cent of all art whether painting, writing, or mu sic) is trash and eventually forqottan. Worries cannot be willed away by consciously refusing to acknowledge them - they must be pulled up by the roots and examined In the light, not pushed down deeper into the unconscious, where they only do darker mischief by disguising them selves in some bizarre man ner. As the striking power of both sides Increases In this cold war, II becomes more likely that the war will turn hoti for. as tha British physicist and Nobel Prise winner. P. M. S. Blackatt, has observed.' "Once a na tion pledges lit safety to an absolute weapon, it be comes emotionally essential to believe In an absolute enemy." Ml mm aasiausn standards in Latin America. As shortages have mounted so has absenteeism. Earnings mean little if there was noth ing to buy. The Soviet Union has prom ised $457 million in credits to Cuba, of which about $45 million has been disbursed. The money spent thus far had no visible effect. One of the top Communists, Bias Roca, wrote in the party newspaper Hoy: "If we do not Increase our production, there ia no possi ble defense . . . because peo ple who are dead of hunger cannot carry out the defense." Noted the Swiss Review of World Affairs: "Because of Cuba's utter dependence on the East bloc today, it now faces the ques tion whether and to what ex tent its Communist trade part ners will be willing and able to supply it with the raw ma terials, consumer goods and, above all, the food it cannot produce itself but must have to escape economic chaos. . . "Havana's stores are now stocked with the cheapest and most useless products of East em origin; poorly printed Communist pamphlets from since the middle of the 1950's. It was under President Eis enhower through no fault of his own that the United States' nuclear monopoly came to an end. This develop ment is reshaping the whole complex of power politics throughout the world. It was under President Eisenhower again through no fault of his own that the United States ceased to be an inex haustible creditor country and became increasingly un able, therefore, to call the tune and pay the piper. Moreover, It was under General Eisenhower in the main because of his personal convictions about economic theory that the American economy was throttled down to a rate of expansion which is just about the lowest hi the capitalistic world. These three developments are having enormous conse quences. But General Eisen hower does not mention them in his speeches, and he talks as if nothing that we need be concerned about had happen ed while he was in the White House. a EXCEPT FOR veiled phras " es to informed insiders, President Kennedy presum ably in order to avoid a de bate with General Eisenhow er barely mentions, and nev er dwells upon, the realities of the changed world which he came upon in 1961. Mr. Kennedy has talked a little about economic growth. He has been much preoccupied with the position of the dol lar. He has rightly and effec tively built up our military power. But he has never fully ex plained to the people how the joss of nuclear monopoly, even though we are still much the stronger military power, is affecting the whole world wide commitments which were proclaimed by President Truman and formalized by Secretary Dulles. For example: When we still possessed a nuclea.' mo nopoly, we were an irresisti ble power in the sense that we could destroy without be ing hurt. Then it was possible to encircle the Soviet Union with military bases usable for offensive action. But when the nuclear monopoly came to an end, then the encircling nations like Turkey, and then Paris and London and Ronn, and finally the United Stales itself, became vulnerable. Then the advance bases be gan to become liabilities. rrHUS Turkey is a great lis bility in our relations with Cuba. For if we use force to Invade or blockade Cuba, we must be prepared for some thing similar around or In Turkey or some such place on the frontiers of the Soviet Union. These advance bas-s of ours, which are nearly ob solescent with the big bomb ers and the missiles, are more hostage than ally. If Mr. Khrushchev wants to defend Castro, he does not have to do it in Cuba where the So viet Union is a negligible mili tary power. He can do it in Turkey or Iran or elsewhere on the perimeter. These things need to be un derstood by our people as we find ourselves in a military crisis over Cuba. Until our people do understand them, they will he thinking and feeling and voting in a world that no longer exists. In the world that now exists the United States is not omnipo tent. It cannot, therefore, en force the Monroe Doctrine in the Western hemisphere and the Truman Doctrine in the Eastern hemisphere. Moscow, ceramics and arti ficial flowers from China, low quality household goods made in East Germany and Czech oslovakia. . . "Despite the great scarcity of meat the people refused to buy the East European canned meat offered for sale; a ship load of Chinese geese and tur Matter of Fact sy jo.ePh ai.op (e Naw York Herald Tribune Syndicate THE STRONGEST ARGUMENT Washington The strong est argument for the grim de cision the President announc ed on Monday was not any of those which are now being most widely repeated. The problem of Castro was pressing, o f course. It was utterly unac ceptable, of Alsnp course, for Soviet offensive missiles to be emplaced in Cuba. But this kind of Soviet use of Fidel Castro, and the re sulting gain in Soviet nuclear striking power, were not the true essence of the problem. As the President more than hinted in his remarkable speech to the nation, the true essence of the problem was the American posture vis-a-vis the Soviet Union. The President long argued, as reported in this space, that the painful irritant in Cuba has to be subordinated to the grave and present danger at Berlin. But this argument lost its validity on Tuesday morn ing a week ago when the President, while still in bed, received the news thab Soviet medium and intermediate range ballistic missiles were being hastily emplaced on Cuban soil. AT THAT moment, the Cu ban problem and the Berlin problem merged together, into a single problem. The reason for this sudden merger, as you think about the circum stances, was very simple, In deed. In his Cuban press confer ence in September, the Presi dent said that the Soviet mili tary effort in Cuba required no American action, so long as the purpose was plainly de fensive. But almost in the same breath, he added that American action would have to be considered if the Cuban build-up assumed an offensive character. The significance of this slatement was well under stood by the Kremlin, as in- Candidates Night Slated in Ashland Ashland - Gerald J. Scan nell, Ashland attorney, has announced that a group of Ashland Democrats will spon sor a candidates night at the Mark Antony hotel in Ash land, Saturday, Oct. 27, be tween 8 and 10 p m. Scannell said Ashland city candidates also are invited. Bob Duncan, Democratic candidate for Congress from the fourth district, will be featured, Scannell said, and will be given the opportunity to make remarks before the group. Coffee and refreshments will be served, and the public will be given the opportunity of meeting all state, county and local candidates. Scannell commented lhat almost all local, slate, district and county candidates had ac cepted Ihe invitation. He urg ed Ashland residents to at tend and meet the candidates pointing nut that election day is leso than two weeks away. "Is he a Democrat, i Republican, in ultra-Liberal er in ultra-Conservative . , .?'' keys last fall finally had to be used to feed the men taken prisoner in the invasion of April 1981, because this kind of poultry Is an unfamiliajr food to most Cubans. . . "Moscow clearly considered the Castro regime's consolida tion of military power mora important than Cuba's eco nomic reconstruction." dicated by the facts summar ized by the President on Mon day. The official Soviet press hastened to answer the Pres ident with reassuring state ments that the aim of So viet "aid" to Cuba was pure ly to increase Cuba's defen sive strength. -Thereafter, the Soviet Am bassador in Washington, Anar toly Dobrynin, repeatedly swore to leading personages in the U.S. government that ballistic missiles would nev er be emplaced in Cuba. With smooth perfidy, Soviet For eign Minister Andrei Gromy- ko gave the President the same assurance when the com trary evidence was already in the President's hand. ALL the while, quite nat urally, the Kremlin was well aware that American, U-2s and other Instruments of surveillance would inevitably reveal the true state of affairs to the U.S. government, as soon as the ballistic missiles began to be emplaced on their Cuban sites. Hence passive ac ceptance of the accomplished, fact that the Kremlin was seeking to create in Cuba would have transformed the President's September warn ing into the weakest and emp tiest sort of bluff. Precisely because of tha grave danger at Berlin, and for many other reasons as well, the United States and its President cannot afford to be regarded by the Krem lin as braggarts and bluffers. President Kennedy has pur sued a policy of careful mod eration so careful, indeed, that it was provoking parti san attack before his speech to the nation on Monday. But he has not bluffed. There were half a score of other reasons why the new development in Cuba could not be tolerated. But it could not be tolerated, above all, because flabby toleration of this arrogant defiance of the President's September warn ing would have automatically devalued to zero-minus all his past warnings tn the Soviets about Berlin and every other world problem. A PASSIVE response to this new challenge would in fact have invited an immedi ate Soviet attack on Berlin's freedom, and the kind ef naked, carelessly defiant So viet attack, moreover, that would leave no alternative except retaliation with H bombs on the Soviet Union. . The English New States man and Nation one argued that Ihe Korean war was all our fault, because our prior disarmament had in effect as sured the Soviets that they could launch an aggression in Korea with impunity. In a twisted sort of way there) was more validity in this ar gument than in most New Statesman arguments. The argument's application in the present case, to Berlin as well as to all Ihe other places the Soviets would liku to have a crack at, is only too clear and apparent. Henca the stand has been taken. Tha brave and necessary thing has been done. ' What riposte may follow, none can say at this writing. But all must give thanks that the challenge was not shirked, and all' must pray, too, thai the Kremlin at last clearly un derstands the American deter mination not to falter or sub mit, which the acceptance of the challenge so plainly implies.
