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TUESDAY. lUDFORDTRIBUNl Everyone In SoutherrTbreson Reads The Hll Tribune" P0bllVhd DaiVy except Saturday by nnnrRT w RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bun. Mir. ff?r w ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor iiinnv ruiDMIN lle Editor f.iiiin ivuFTT Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Ed',or DALE EHIUItaim, i.iifcuuwMj: An Independent Newspaper Entered 11 second class matter it Mediord, uresun. unuL-i v. March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sundayl year I 00 Dally ind Sunday 8 moa 10.00 Dillv ind Sunday 3 moi. 500 s.miiav Onlv One year 13 00 Sinlle Copy (Mailed l S0c By Cirnel-And Motor Route Dally and Sunday 1 year (21 .00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. L73 Sunday Only 1 mo. auc Carrier andVendorl- Copy 10c Otflclal Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire U P I Telephoto Newsplcturea "MEMBER-OF AUDIT BUREAU M" "f CIRCULATIONS ATKS Ofricci In Nrw York, Chi rato Detroit. San Fruncisco. Loi Sim SMttle. Portland. Denver. NATION Al EDITORIAL ASlSpC&ATia'N J L. snmsijocnxi NE WSPAPI PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford ind Jackson County History Iron) th files of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30. 40 ind 50 yen go. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1962 (Thursday) The county measure to pro hibit weather control was de feated by 34 votes, an oiucioi canvass of Tuesday's election returns revealed today. A 160-acre fire in virgin timber in the Applegate area is being fought by a crew of 30 to 35 men today. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 6, 1942 (Friday) Medford Attorney William M. McAllister assured of elec tion as speaker of the 1943 Oregon house of rcprescnta toves. , From Arthur Perry s Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The election is over, and politics is adjourned. The voters ad journed a number of politici ans, some of long standings, who can now sit down." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 6, 1932 (Sunday) Grain soaked in itrychnlne and arsenic solutions said re sponsible for death of several hundred birds in Medford. Nineteen-year-old Medford youth arrested by state police on charge of turkey stealing; police promise campaign to make rural areas "safe for turkeys." 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1922 (Monday) Election day foggy and cloudy in Medford; numbers of early voters said "not above average.'1 "Peon pants," national high school fad, make appearance as "white corduroy trousers slit up the sides and gaudily trimmed with red velvet, black lacings, black tassels and black buttons with a black sash as an important item." 50 YEARS AGO Nov. 6. 1912 (Wednesday! State women's suffrage amendment carries in Jack son county by margin of 400 votes; city gives presidential plurality to Wcodrow Wilson; Frank TouVelle elected coun ty judge by margin of 31 J votes over George W. Dunn. George McGowan, PortlHiiri, said to be (he founder of the central Oregon city of Burns, arrives in Medford seeking a place to live here. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine er nil correct It superiei; even er tight It aictlltnti flu tit il l eoe 1. Who was Van Gogh 2. Which of these numbers Is the largest - .092, .0083, .014. .12? 3. By what other name do we know the first ten amend ments to the Constitution? 4. What la the principal riv principal nv- John Drown"! cr of Alaska? 5. Where did raid occur? 6. What Is a Missiur) meer schaum? 7. Do native burn and nat uralized citizens have com pletely equal rights? 8. What planet Is nearest the inn? 9. Which stale flag has a replica of the Union Jack in It? 10. Which two countries arc connected by the Brenner Pass? Answtm 1. Dutch punier. 2. .12. 3. Bill of Rights. 4. Yu kon. 5. Harpers Ferry. 6. Corn cob pip. ? On txctption -only a natlv born person may b president. 8. Mercury. 9. Hawaiian. 10. Italy and Austria. NOVtMbtM b, Ibbi Moment of Truth The campaign is over. The moment of truth for all the candidates has arrived, as each voter enters the polling place, and is alone with his ballot, his pencil and his conscience. On another occasion, when Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee came to an end, Rudyard Kip ling put into words the feelings that usually assail us when comes the quietude after a campaign. He said : "The tumult and the shouting dies, "The Captains and the Kings depart, "Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, "An humble and a contrite heart." What Causes "Accidents" We have always felt that the word "accident" is a misnomer when applied to a traffic wreck in which people die or are injured, or in which property is demolished or damaged. An "accident" is defined as "an event that takes place without one's foresight or expecta tion, especially of an afflictive or unfortunate character," or a "chance, contingency." No one, of course, expects to have an automo bile "accident," but inasmuch as most or tnem are preventable, they do not meet the "chance" nr "nnnrinrrpnfv" rlpfinitinn. definition. WE HAVE discovered some authoritative sup port for this point of view, in the person of Alfred L. Mosely, a researcher at Harvard medi cal school, who believes that each accident can be put in one of seven classifications. I nese are : 1. Environmental failure (weather, rocks on the road, etc.) 2. Vehicle failure. 3. Human failure 4. Human failure 5. Suicide. 6. Tampering. 7. Hypothesis, or unknown. With the sole exceptions of 1 and 7, all auto accidents could be prevented or avoided, and many of those under No. 1 could also be. e 1VIR. MOSELY thinks that auto crashes are not adequately investigated. He calls for an examination of the site of each by a qualified traffic engineer; mechanical and engineering inspection of every vehicle ; com plete autopsy of the dead ; physical and psychia tric examination of each surviving driver, and a personal and social history of each driver and pedestrian involved. He said that such investigations carried out in 124 traffic death cases, conducted during his research project done for the U.S. public health service, turned up some surprising results, inciuu ing attempted or suspected murders. The suicide and tampering classifications cer tainly could not be classified as "accidents" un der any definition. WHATEVER the final results of his researches mnu I'pvnnl thpv shniilrl bp. interesting With Americans killing each other off at a tremendous rate on the highways, knowledge of the underlying causes could and should go far toward an intelligent attack on the problem, which up to now has been largely confined to better engineering in the form of freeways, and cautionary admonitions to "drive safely" with unknown results. The privilege of driving a potentially lethal weapon on our hiirhways carries with it the re sponsibility to do so with others. The clay may come stringent in our drivers Who knows, the day may come when we 11 nave to have personality stability certificates before we can drive. E.A. Poor General Walkerski John Fischer, the editor of Harper's maga zine, is a literate, brilliant and sometimes contro versial man. In the current issue, he brings off a tour de force of writing under the title, "The No-Win Policy in the Kremlin." Me takes a hypothetical Russian general named Walkerski, ana has him testify before the Committee on Un-Russian Ac tivities of the Supreme Soviet. General Walkerski is appalled at the inroads that the capitalist conspiracy has made in Com-nuinist-iaiul. He acknowledges the threat from abroad, but is convinced that the greatest danger is from within, with innocent dupes and Can symps undermining the moral fiber of the people and betraying the sacred doctrine of Marxism-Leninism. y ms testimony proceeds, he recounts the the list of losses the Comrades have suffered over the years the Longo, where a perfect opportunity was frustrated bv what could only have been treachery in high nlaces; Cuba, where Castro's incptness leads to the suspicion he is a tool of the Capitalists: the expulsion from Iran; the defeat in Greece; the end of the Red guerillas in Malaya: the loss of the government in Guata mala; the defection of Yugoslavia ami Albania; the disloyalty of the Chinese allies; the cosily rebellions in Hungary and East Germany; the steady shrinkage in the size of the Communist parties in France and Italy; the treachery of Nas ser, Kassim, Sekou Toure, Nehru, U Nu, Nkru mah, who accept Communist money but won't stay bought. One weeps for the Ivan Birchski apparatchik. E.A. -E.A. personality. illness. regard to the rights of when we are far more license examinations. MhUrOHD "Uh Huh Li.ten Yeah, Too Bad Listen Let Me Tell You What Happened To Me, Krishna " Communications Letters to tht Editor must bear the name 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 paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Coach Praised Editor's note: Recently St. Mary's High school of Med ford forfeited four of its foot ball games played so far, be cause of the ineligibility of one of the players, a fact dis covered by Coach Bill Mc Kibbin and honestly investi gated. Some reaction from colleagues to his decision is contained in the following four letters: 0- Could we all have done what St. Mary's coach, Bill McKibbin, has done? One has to be loyal and truthful in many ways: to his team, to his opponents, and, certainly, to himself. McKib bin's action only proves that winning isn't the only thing that is important in athletics. Helping to develop young men Washington Report By William (ei United Featura Syndicate ON KEEPING INFORMED Washington The greatest problem before the United States, excepting only the im- y'lJjJl mense and sin- isicr uux in world affairs themselves, is how to keep a balanced and informed concern in the public mind. The pro found anxiety white of that recent crisis week in wnicn it ap peared nuclear war might be hours away seems to have been succeeded by complacen cy. It is based upon a popular assumption that the limited backdown of international communism in Cuba is the end of our most pressing dan gers. The first of these public attitudes was in fact more soundly eased lhan the succes sor attitude that everything is more or less bound to come out right. Mere gloom and doom stuff is no good, for fear alone is a poor basis fur any sort of enterprise, including national survival. But a calm and stout awareness of the unexampled dangers and possible opportunities fac ing this country is an absolute requisite to adult participa tion in public affairs. 'PlIE actual position is now - about as follows: As to Cuba The United Stales won a genuine but qual ified victory in President Ken nedy's confrontation with the Soviet Union over the Soviet missile bases there. That Ni kita Khrushchev agreed to dismantle them is a great and hopeful circumstance, not withstanding all the obstruc tions that have been and may be offered by Fidel Castro. Nevertheless, the fart remains that even assuming a total stripping of Cuba of every of fensive missile, it will at mini mum he necessary for t h e United States to maintain al ways a massive alert against the introduction there of new weapons. Moreover, whatever form of United Nations supervision may be arranged in tins mat ter, it must and will remain essentially an American re sponsibility We cannot and will nut entrust our national m security solely to any inter- j by keeping so informed can national agency, no matter all the gravity and delicacy how many fair words may he , of the present position be ap aid -- and even meant predated. MAIL 'IHiBUnt. MtWOnU, into fine citizens, to develop good morals, and to show true signs of good sportsmanship when the test is put before us are other important consider ations. Certainly McKibbin's stand, difficult as it was, will be remembered by each mem ber of the team. St. Mary's coach and team are champions off the field as well as on the field. Congratulations on a job well done. Every citizen of Medford should be on the band-wagon, cheering them on-this year, and those to fol low. One can't always agree with the rulings of the O.S.A.A. regarding an incident such as this; but if an exception to the rule were made here, much hard-feeling could be S. Whit about It. IN SHORT, our highest im mediate hope is to cause the removal of weapons that never should have been put there in the first place. Thus, it could well be said that we have only broken even but for the cardinal point that in the process we have at last convinced the Soviet Union that we will fight if we must. In the long slope of time, this single factor may emerge as a far greater gain than any and ali others. As to the cold war generally though it is usually self deluding to speculate upon weaknesses and divisions within the world Communistic bloc the evidence is strong that this time there really is something to such specula tions. The Soviet Union has been caught off balance alike by our unexpectedly tough re sponse in Cuba and by Com munist China's unwanted in vasion of India. It is possible, however, that it Khrushchev is in deep trou ble at home, those who might succeed him might be even more reckless lhan he has been. American policy there fore must walk a thin line, never to surrender our vital interests but also never to take up foolishly "hard" posi tions which might drive him into the ultimate madness of nuclear war simply to save his own position from his mil itarists. '1M1E more the thing is coolly examined the more obvi ous it is that, if we can be biought through this perilous maze at all, the only man w-ho can possibly do it is the only man in possession all the time of all the facts the Presi dent. Everybody is entitled to his own ideas and to offer all the criticisms he wants to up to whatever point the President may finally commit this coun try to this course or that, At that point, however, one thing alone is left to rational j men: to hope and pray that the I President ha, chosen the right j course If he has we sha 1 come through. If he has not. I nine is mHiiiiiK uptiiii v,c could do about it anvhow. Thus the only possible adult stance is to keep as well in- formed as possible. For only OMtUON Istanbul-Izmir-Athens Triangle Forms Basis of Mid-East Free World Defenses By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Nwt Analyst In Izmir, some 300 miles down the Turkish coast from Istanbul, it still Is summer- time, the grapes are ripe and palm trees rustle in the off-shore breeze from the Aegean Sea. Across the Aegean, some 200 miles away. Newsom lies Athens. In the triangle formed by the result. The best way is to follow the straight and nar row line with no exceptions Bill Essclstyn, 315 Perrydale, Medford. -O- We are sorry that this came up. As far as we are con cerned, St. Mary's won the League and we are in second place. However, due to an un fortunate situation we are called upon to represent our League in the playoffs instead of St. Mary's. We are most reluctant to enter the playoffs as a second place team. This incident has placed us in a most unfavor able role as we are in the play offs where St. Mary's should be. We didn't have anything to do with this case. We've never felt this season that we had the team to go far in the play offs. Now that this is dumped in our laps, we are probably just in for a lot of trouble. When teams start playing Dis trict champions they are in for some rough football. Our players are aware of how we feel on this matter. They know that we will have to improve tremendously if we are going to do anything in these playoffs. Jack Woodward, Phoenix Schools, Phoenix, Ore. -O- Dcar Coach McKibbin: Con gratulations to you and your team for your moral victory in your athletic league The lead ership qualities you have shown will long be an inspir ation to the team members. Best wishes for a successful future. Robert L. Baccus, Principal, Wilson School, Medford. This is to express, on behalf of the coaching staff and the administration of this school, our sincere compliments to Mr. Bill McKibbin for his sportsmanship and fair play toward a recent OSAA ruling in regards to eligibility of one of his football players. Bill's straightforwardness and leadership in this matter exemplify the honor and sportsmanship desirable in the coaching and teaching of the citizens of tomorrow. We deem it a pleasure hav ing the association with him in the Rogue League. Administration and Coaching Staff of Eagle Point High School, Eagle Point, Ore. What Halloween Means To Me To the Editor: Halloween is a night of nights, There's witches and goblins to give you frights, They run through the streets Orange, black and red, and even some grey. They knock on the doors with their cartons in nana For the UNICEF child can you help them mam? Halloween to me. is nice as can be For I think of children smil ing far across t lie sea. For a penny or a nickel or even one thin dime Will bring the smiles of many a child And make their voices chime. Don't just wait for Halloween, It comes just once a year. And we'd like tosend some pay To each child that sheds a tear. But 1 am just one person And we need so many more. To bring those little orphans Some joy instead of woe. Well Halloween is over and I've done the best 1 can T6 make you sec the sorrow in some distant for off land. So please don't think me for ward, And please don't think me bold. And always keep in mind This story 1 have told Rotanne Davis, (ate 16) 827 Cherry St., Central Point, Ore. r , A...:l.UIa l "Hn, vu..ww.. for federal Posts examinations announced by the , ., .:, ,.... , Positions to be filled in : chide management agrono i mist, supervisory operations assistant, quality control rep resentative, and deckhand. For further information contact L. B. Nelson, exam iner. U S. civil service in the Medford post office. 1 Istanbul, Izmir and Athens are the Turkish Straits and the gateway to the eastern Mediterranean traditionally sought by Russia. To the east, Turkey's moun tainous border blocks Soviet expansionist aims toward the Middle East oil fields. Nerve center of this defense complex is Izmir where U.S. Lt. Gen. Frederic J. Brown commands Allied Forces Southeast Europe and where the 6th Allied Tactical Air Force also has its h e a d quarters. Izmir and Incirlik, in the south, are the two most im portant NATO bases in Tur key, whose defense is based at least in part on the instant retaliatory abilities of mis siles equipped with U.S. nu clear warheads. These are the bases which Nikita Khrushchev had in mind when he offered to trade removal of his rockets from Cuba in exchange for similar U.S. action in Turkey. President Kennedy's prompt reply that the Turkish bases were not negotiable squelched any hope the Soviet leader might have had on that score and heartened the Turkish people who have been among the United States' staunchest Allies. Gone is the one-time rag tag Turkish army of ill trained men and antiquated weapons. Its new U.S. equipped army of approxi mately half a million men is Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprise! Inc. SERIOUS VS. FRIVOLOUS One of the chief reasons that people don't get the right answers is that they don't ask the right ques' tions. They think they are & "J being serious wni-ii iney dre merely being solemn. The other evening, at a little g a thering, a mrri! man turned to me and asked what I. thought about the Congres sional election trends. I mur mured some polite evasion. He then asked me about the Cu ban situation. I shrugged non- committally. He became exasperated and charged me with a refusal to be "serious." I said I would rather play bridge than en gage in the kind of futile dis cussion he was proposing. And I told him why. Like most people, he thinks lh Big Questions of the day are the important ones. But h never stops to ask the Little Questions that are forever at the bottom of all fruitful discussions. How can we have an ef fective dialog about lh election or the Cuban situ ation, or any other large subject, until we agree on some common aim? Unless we both understand what is meant by "lh good life," we will bi arguing at cross purposes all night - which is why most political de bales end ixactly where lhey begin. The serious man is the one who keeps trying to interpret news tvents, or analyz trends, or influence voting patterns. The ser ious man is the one who examines 1 h underlying foundations of his beliefs and convictions. And, in this respect, not one person out of a thousand it truly serious. What is the nature of the human animal, his limita tions and his potentialities? Is it possible to have peace without justice, or justic without virtue? And what do these words actually mean, if anything? Until we can besin to an swer some of these fundamen tal questions, we can't decide what the purpose of society ought to be. And until we can decide what the purpose of society ought to be, we can't know what we are voting for, or fighting for, or arguing about. The man who thought I was frivolous because 1 preferred bridge to an election analysis couldn't realize that I pre ferred bridge because I was serious and he was frivolous, and I refused to pretend that he was asking important ques tions w hen he was only mas sacing his cto. It is better to play a game and know you are playing than to play and think you are in earnest - because in the latter case you are never really earnest, but only using phrases in their pompous and shallow news commentator sense. When I double two spades, everyonr at the lable knows exactly what I mean. among the largest and best trained and equipped in Europe. Its air force flies modern U.S. planes and has been promised others even more modern. Together with a Greek army of around 200,000 men, these are the forces upon which the United Stales and its allies depend to maintain communications lines to the Matter of Fact (cl New York Herald THE SOVIET DECEPTION PLAN Washington - In one of the most revealing episodes of the Cuban crisis, the hero (or vie- t i m? or vil lain? who can say?) was a junior of ficial of the Soviet Embas sy in Wash ington. This man, who had better be nameless, is very much natural, and Alsnp more genial, forthcoming than the dot'-, lumpish average run of So viet diplomat. Largely by ac cident, he came to know two or three New Frontiersmen without foreign policy respon sibilities in the early days of the Kennedy administration. He had even been taken up, in a limited way, but Attorney-General Robert Kennedy. Behind their informal con tacts, there was a practical motive. II was hoped to con vey to the Kremlin an espe cially accurate and convincing picture of the President's viewpoint and purposes, as de scribed by the President's own brother. Last summer, this man went home to Russia for a vaca tion. When he returned to Washington in early October, he at once sought out Attorney-General Kennedy, with the urgency befitting the bear er of a private message from one chief of state to another. 0Nb Oct. 1, he said, he had been summoned for a long private talk with Nikita S. Khrushchev and Anastas Mik-oyan-an extraordinary honor for an official in his fairly humble position. Khrushchev and Mikoyan had asked him many quesions about the Pres ident; and they had also dis cussed Cuba. Khrushchev had gone out of his way to declare thai President Kennedy might rest assured that the Soviet Union would never send to Cuba any weapon "capable of reaching American targets." Whereup on Mikoyan had intervened, saying pointedly, "Be sure that this message reaches the President himself." Such, then, was the message that the Russian brought to Wash ington. On Oct. 1, of course, medi um and intermediate range ballistic missiles had already been clandestinely landed in Cuba; and construction had just begun at the missile launching sites. But what makes the episode so signifi cant is not the revelation of Soviet duplicity. That was proven long since by the false protestations of Soviet Am bassador Anatoly Dobrynin and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. 'piiE episode of the message - is so significant only be cause of the direct participa tion of Khrustichev himself and his Armenian deputy. For a chief of state to take such great pains to cause a grossly and demonstrably false per sonal message to be transmit ted to another chief of state is something altogether novel in post-war political history. Khrushchev's role in this amazing episode in turn makes it quite clear that an elaborate deception-and-cover ,epaMM--ulk sum 4 it I AM ELECTION RETURNS 1 J, i -ZTTw-. ULp7; Sir "I know they're disappointed bul that's no way to concede an election to your opponent ... I" Middle East and North Africa. In the Black Sea the So viets are known to maintain a sizeable fleet, including modern missile-firing vessels which could support amphib ious operations against the Turkish coast. To the north, substantial Soviet land forces face the Turkish border. Back of them is the Soviet nuclear capability.. Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate plan, of strictly military char acter, was an integral part of the larger scheme to upset the nuclear balance with Soviet missiles In Cuba. Nor was the main part of the scheme by any means as hare-brained as many people now seem to suppose. The dangers of air recon naissance were perhaps under rated by the Soviet planners. The Soviet Defense Ministry, after all, is completely con trolled by a collegium of ag ing marshals and colonel-generals, none of whom have real experience of the capabilities of air reconnaissance. And generals always underrate techniques they have not used themselves, even if they ought to know better. TN REALITY, however, tho risk of air reconnaissance boiled down to the sole risk of observation by American U-2s. Contrary to what many believe, the Cuban missile sites were hidden, by conven tions of terrain, from the side viewing cameras of the other American aircraft regularly patrolling the Cuban coasts. And the missile sites were also placed in areas heavily de fended by anti-aircraft mis siles of the SA-II type, which are useless against low-altitude attack but can kill U-2s, as was first discovered by Francis Gary Powers. The original plan, one may be pretty sure, called for us ing the SA-II anti-aircraft mis siles to shoot down any U-2s which might intrude after in stallation of the offensive mis siles began. It is interesting, not to say chilling, to specu late on what would have hap pened if the crucial, eye-opening U-2 flight on Oct. 14 had merely resulted in a "Cuban U-2 incident," with attendant world tumult. In fact, however, the anti aircraft missiles were not ready. Some merciful techni cal mistake or logistical fail ure had left the SA-lIs with out a workable command and control system until the final, climactic Saturday of the Cu ban crisis, when an American U-2 was indeed shot down. QNE must conclude that the " Soviet commander in Cuba dared not confess this grave failure to his superiors, or that the pre-set timetable was too tight and compelling, or that the danger of a breach of security resulting from delay was considered to be greater lhan the danger of U-2 obser vation. In any case, the timetable was so swift, clandestine in stallation of the offensive missiles was adhered to, evert thought the anti-aircraft mis siles were not ready to keep' off the U-2s. Add these facts to the stark fact of Khrushchev's role in the first incident recounted. The sum is a grave and ter rible warning that Soviet methods of waging the cold war are coming very close to hot-war methods. Newest Hospital in Portland Opens Today Portland - lUPfi - Portland's newest hospital is scheduled to receive its first patients today. The $750,000 Wood and Park hospital, which has 48 beds, was open to the public for inspection Sunday.
