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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY. MEDFORDvSSiTRlBUNK "Everyone in Southern Orecon Rcada TheMail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MKUFOHD PHINTING CO 33 North Fir St.. Ph.772-S141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HFHB GREY Advertising Manaeer GERALD T LATHAM. Bu Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR . Wim Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRV CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Spurts Editor OLIVE STARCIIER Wonu-n Editor DALEERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as hecond class matter at Mcdford. Oregon, under Act ot March 3. 1W17 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mali In Advance. Daily and Sunday 1 year SIB 00 Daily and Sunday 8 moi 10 00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moi. oOO Sundav Only One year 5 00 Single Copy IMailrdl 10c By Carnei And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year Sl- Daily and Sunday 1 mo. LJ5 Sunday Only 1 mo. aOc Carrier andendors Copy 10c Official" Paper of City of Mrdford Official Paper of Jackson Cuunty United Press International Full Leased Wire U. P. I Telephoto Nowsplclure "MEMBER-OF "AUDIT HUREAU' Oh CIRCULATIONS Xdvprtl"itnE "Rpprp.Tntallve: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOC -ATES OKicef in Now York, Chi caso Detroit, Sun Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland Denver. N ATI 0 N A I EDITORIAL NEWSPAPER ISHERS CIATION Flight o' Time Mcdford and Jackson County History from the files of Th Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 9, 1952 (Sunday) A general storm over much of the Pacific northwest brought only .03 of an inch of rain to Mcdford lasl night. Bui it brought snow to the mountains. Five juvenile boys were ap prehended by sheritt s depu ties after they removed and sold more than one ton of heavy metal from the Sterling mine. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 9, 1912 (Monday) Arrangements have been made to have the 91st Division soldiers march in the Mcdford Armistice Day parade. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The next legislature will have few new laws to enact, it is hoped and predicted. However, the soluns can earn their new pay of $8 a day, knocking some of the old ones in the head." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 9, 1932 (Wednesday) A lengthy Armistice day parade is planned, including marching units of Civil war, Spanish. American and World War I veterans; granges, na tional guard. Humane society and civic groups will aim participate. Welfare Exchange in old city hall building reports "des perate" need for donations of warm clothing before winter. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 9. 1922 (Thursday) Armistic day program will include parade, prize fights and annual Ashland-Mcdtord High school football game. Canvassing board starts to taling up vote in general elec tion; job, being conducted in courthouse in Jacksonville, expected to take about a week. 50 YEARS AGO Nov. 9. 1912 (Saturday) Six yc;ir-nld Mcdford boy loses hunt, when ho touches match to h black powder e;ui and it exploded in his hand. Local post of lire officials report Hint no mail tor Med ford was bulieved to be aboard Shasta Limited train which was held up south of Califor nia line. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is tuperior; even or eight it excellent; five ot ii it good, , 1. Ily what other name dolphin known'.' Is a 2. What is tin- third largest city In Hie United States'.' 3. Vox Pop means what'.' 4. Who was Friar Tuck'.' 5. In what Seminole Indi stall d the live 6. The l)i me (.'inn, ri v written by w hom'.' 7. When a cow- yels which end rises first'.' 8. By what purchase did the United Slates gam most territory 9. How many stnnc does a Violin have'' 10. Who wrote the Child's Garden of Verses'.' Aniweri: I. Porpoise. 2. Lot Angeles. 3. Voice of the peo ple. 4. Priest in Robin Hood'i band. 5. Florida. 6. Dante. 7. Rear end. 8. Louisiana Pur chase. 9. Four. 10. Robert Louis Slevonson. mm.- VASSO NOVEMBER 8, 1962 Election There are several perhaps, re-learned by inspection of the out come of Tuesday's election races. One of the most important is this: Don't count on registered voter margins to forecast an election race. Oregon's voters have dependent. This was proven again, Dotn state wide, where Gov. Mark Hatfield, a Republican, ran un a bigger margin Wayne L. Morse, despite a substantial majority of Democratic registration, and in Jackson coun ty, where voters blithely voted for more Repub licans than they did Democrats, despite a Demo cratic registered majority. ANOTHER lesson is that the editorial recom mendations of the state's newspapers have little effect on the outcome of major races. We should emphasize the phrase, "editorial recommendations." The press, as such, has un doubted influence on the outcome of election races, but it is our belief that the news columns, which report what the candidates say and do, have far more influence than the prejudices or conclusions of any editorial writer. For instance, Senator Morse won despite the fact that only three of Oregon's 21 daily news papers supported him. Governor Hatfield won also, and was opposed by only two daily newspapers. A S for our own recommendations, we didn't " do so badly, as they coincided with the choice !of local voters in 25 cases, disagreed in 4 cases. We are, as a result, more pleased than dis pleased with the outcome of the election as a whole, while confessing one or two minor dis appointments. We can, of course, make no claim that the editorial recommendations affected, or even largely influenced, the outcome of any race. We suspect that letters to the editor had more such influence than the editorials. But the largest impact, we believe, was the news coverage and the space given to the state ments of the candidates themselves. (On measures, however, we believe that edi torial comments were definitely helpful, particu larly in the case of the attempt to repeal the Oregon School Reorganization Law. Editorials throughout the state warned of the dangers of this, and said why. The people voted it down by better than three to two.) X7E took special pleasure in the victory of I " Duncan in his race for Congress, and e? cially because it was a clean, honest, friendly con test. Duncan and his opponent, Carl Fisher, re main friends, in the best traditions of democratic life. We believe that Duncan will be an outstand ing Congressman, the more so because of the nature of his and his opponent's campaigns. He can go to Congress with no strings, no bitterness, no commitments except to serve the district as best he can. v This is indeed a refreshing contrast to recent Congressional elections in the district. E. A. California Comments Despite our long-standing antipathy for Rich ard M. Nixon, we can pity him a bit. Mis rise from obscurity almost to the pinnacle of American political life was swift, from Con gressman to Senator to Presidential candidate, liut his descent was swifter just two years and one day. lie lost the Presidency by a hair-thin margin. And he lost the governorship of California by a considerably larger margin than that. He is now Private Citizen Nixon. One can forgive his bitterness, while at the same time heaving a profound sigh of relief that this man did not become the chief executive of cither the nation, or of the nation's soon-to-be largest state. A NOT HER defeat of f the notorious Proposition 21 in I California a measure which would have per mitted some citizens clothed with questionable authority to label others as subversive, without i due process, defense or recoiii'se. j Pre-election polls indicated it would win, but a massive late-campaign drive to inform the vot- ! ers of California as to its injustices and dangers ! apparently was successful. i It would have been a grisly tragedy if the I voters had reelected relatively 'liberal Oov. Pat Brown, and at the same time enacted a measure which would have taken California backward ' :!0D veai s in the field of civil rights. njl'- were a bit puzzled at the defeat of the ' ' California reapportionment proposal. It I mid have Riven additional Senators to populous ; ; Los Anueles and San Francisco, whicl ' desperately under-represented in the ate, but which, with their millions of voters, could have obtained somewhat more senate rep resentation. This they refused to do, however. In Oregon, the decision went the other way. with the voters deciding to retain their present method of apportionment, based on population with no regard to area or economic factors, and rejecting a moderate compromise between the two philosophies. It is fun to speculate on why certain elections came out the way they did. Hut it remains noth ing but speculation. L. A. Lessons lessons to be learned or, always been notably in than Democratic ben Bob espe- sigh of relief is called for by the i now are i tale sen MEDFORD "1 Say We've Been Following A No-Win, Appeasement Policy, Comrades, And I Ask, Who Lost China?" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the rume 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 Daper; in fact the contrary is ofton ha case. Prose 'Pottery' To the Editor: I was going to say "I've been thinking," but another beat me to it. I didn't write one word about the election, for I knew that afterwards I might rue it. I just read Communications and grinned, but I didn't jot down any notes. Misters and Mrs. 'ers look up all spaces telling all the rest of us how to cast our votes. "Vote 'No' for so and so," they told us or "If you don't vote 'Yes' you'll feel the squeeze. I hey told us why their choice was the better man, but I always vote for whom I please. One doesn't learn to know.k his other half for years: How then, can he judge just who is who? One can't judge a good egg by its color, or a would be top man by a shoe. Mis friends may help him loot his horn, but if he wins he can't change a single thing. You may wonder why both of you were born, and why the U. S, doesn't rate a king. Ruled by the people? Some sort o' joke? Even indivi duals don't like to be in debt. A nation in the red for many millions . . . Aiming at the moon: Is that good etiquette; If we can't marry the man in the moon why shoot the poor fellow through? We'd just have to stay in debt forever. Our children's children's chil dren will have the same to do. Shepherds of olden times led their flocks. The meander ing calf imprinted trails quite steep. The living of today will follow leaders very like the lesser ones called "sheep." Who ever 'tis gets into of fice, or what party gets for him the chair; I'll back him and he loyal to the end. for always 1 believes in being fair. No one can ever please everybody, for some will al ways have to gripe. The Red man knew that peace came only when all men smoked the same ol' pipe. No chain is stronger than the weakest link. No office holder can this countries' bur dens tote: no no matter from whom comes a big promise, please don't tell this ol' gal iiow she must vote! Pearl Sparkninn P. O. ;t;t Jacksonville, Ore. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF VNEWLYWKD Dayton reporter proudly remembered his mother-in-law's birthday and wired her, "Congratula tions, mother mine. And may you have 100 more birthdays." IW fii,.iH ri,.m...-.nm- i.:.. ...... i .11111 HIS VIIU.", urn 111 11 he gol home baffled him until he got a look at the telegram. Western Union had left the two zeros off the 100. A prosperous Iowa farm rr pointed out. that. Ins m S ZZZ'n paten than li em-omitereil In a farm fifty timea 1iiri;v 'AVhom ilo thoy ronm from?'' he. pomimi. A bit nrttUM, the Mamo man rx- plainotl, 'Thoy say the fcivat luiau'r brought Vm." "And vhcte," ncMriVi! the Iowan, "is that Kl.u'irr now." The Maine man snapped, "It's gone back lot inori rocks." t,H'inl!I.H QUOTKS: l.KssiNil: "A in. m who docs nnt ,vc his rrjMn over corUuri tilings l-. is nunc to lose." santaYAN'A: "There is no cure for birth and death save to tniny tl,i interval." i LAVKKNOK STI'RNK'S IMMORTAL, SQUKXCH Oe' A riiHONie! PKST: "I regard you with an indifference closely borilor.ni; on aversion." O ly lituuett Cti(. L'limtiuuJ by Ku 'Mluu 8iuJl.il MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON You Have Been Warned To the Editor: There is no use to worry about these startling facts about the sun: Life on earth would not be possible without the sun, but it could possibly destroy us. The sun has been described as a hydrogen bomb of cosmic proportions. Like a hydrogen bomb, it produces energy by changing its hydrogen into helium. Every second, the sun fuses 600 million tons of hy drogen into 596 million tons of helium. The four million tons that are lost are convert ed into light and heat. This has been going on for six billion years. The sun is middle-aged; in another six billion years - Bang! The sun is expected then to expand to 30 times its present size. Our earch will be scorched, our oceans will boil away into clouds. The oceans will rain down and the earth will be come freezing cold. Possibly man will move to other plan els in time, or even evolve inlo a new form of life that will survive. Nonetheless, carthling, you have been warned. You have only six billion years to live. So enjoy it while you can. (From the October, 1062, Modern Woodmen.) Bert Kissinger 322 S. Riverside ave. Medford A Thank You Note To the Editor: It would be impossible for us to thank each one individually, so we would like to use your column to express our deep apprecia tion to all our friends, and everyone else, for their kind ness and the many ways they have helped us during my husband's long illness. A very special thanks to the people who donated blood in his name while he was in the Portland hospital. Again we say thank you. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd (Dick) Wallace P.O. Box 12 Eagle Point, Ore. Chester, 111. lUPIt Kaskas kia. the first capital of Illinois, is now an island in the Mis sissippi river. It is generally still considered part of Illi nois, though the site actually i- closer to Missouri and its only connection to the main land is the latter state. The island was formed when the river changed course. . W.?7 New Problems Keep Arising as Europe Discusses Britain and Common Market By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyit As each new problem arises In the incredibly complex ne gotiations for British entry in to the Europe an Common Market, so al so do tempers rise. So it has been in the last few days that even those most ar dently hopeful for eventual II Kewiom success of the negotiations have been warn ing that Britian can be pushed loo far and that the negotia tions can fail, much to the future misfortune of Europe. "It would," said a Conserv ative member of Parliament, "be a tragedy if over-clever European negotiators be trayed the true interests of Europe and handed the Krcm lin a gigantic consolation prize for Cuba." At the moment, difficulties center upon British efforts to protect Commonwealth ex ports from the temperate zones, and in the differences between British ' and Euro pean systems of protection for agriculture. Still to be negotiated is the status of Common Market im ports of tropical goods be Matter of Fact (c) New York Herald STORM SIGNAL IN VERSE Washington - The Cuba born tensions in the Kremlin were quite probably first re vealed in the oddest pos sible manner- by the publi- cation of a long, very bad poem in the sacred col umns of Prav- da. Pravda's publication of Aisnp Stalin s In heritance" by Yevgeni Yevtu shenko has already received some notice, as was only pro per. It was a most meaningful event, even without its hither to unsuspected Cuban back ground. The poem's clcphantincly clumsy central image depicts Stalin in his grave, "just tak ing a nap, to rest a little," with a telephone convenient ly placed by his side, to "im part his instructions" to his "many inheritors." In the So viet Union, official publica tion of this sort of thing has profound political implication; and Yevtushenko's limping but virtuously anti-Stalinist verse must be read with this in mind. UT there is more in this poem than the public warning to the Kremlin's neo Stalinists. which has already been so widely commented on. To begin with, the leader of the neo-Stalinist faction in the Soviet Presidium appears to be pinpointed, for the first time on record, in the follow ing lines: Some of (Stalin's) inheritors, in retirement, are prun ing roses. But secretly they consider this retirement only tem porary. Others are even cursing Stalin from the rostrum. But when they are alone, at night, they yearn for the old times. Obviously, nowadays, it is for good reason that Sta lin's inheritors have heart failure. On reading this passage in the Yevtnshcnko poem, every Soviet Communist must in- stantly have recalled that So-1 viet Deputy Premier Krol Ros tov suffered a severe heart at tack some months ago. This burly Leningrad leader and Presidium member, who has duly "cursed Stalin from the rostrum," was once indicated by Khrushchev as his intend-! ed successor, in a conversation j with Gov. Averell llarriman. I Koslov is generally regarded as a conservative hard-liner among the American experts on Kremlin dcmonology. IF the Yo was indeed vtushenko poem d intended to pin point Koslov, as seems pretty certain, there has been noth ing quite like this in the So viet Union for many years. The search for precedence would have to go back to the remote days of almost open Aion Retires After 56 Years With Firm St. Louis - UPI - Theophil Klemme has retired after 56 , years with the same publish ing firm. KIcnime started as an as sistant bookkeeper in lflOB when he was l! year? old and advanced to head bookkeeper and cashier of Eden Publish ing house, now owned and operated hy the Evangelical and Reformed Church, part of the United Church ol Christ. cause Commonwealth inter ests extend around the globe and into every climate. And this is of special inter est to the United States, the pledged protector of Latin American economies depend ent upon sales of coffee or sugar or meat. But even these hurdles still represent only the beginning. There remain such ques tions as the use of metric or decimal systems, the problem of taxes and wages, rights of investment, the free flow of labor and transport, and con vertibility of currencies. Beyond all this is the head long rush of the present Com mon Market membership France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxmbourg to complete their economic integration ahead of the 1970 deadline and to open the way even more quickly to political in tegration as well. Each year chopped off the original schedule increases Britain's problems. However, these all are problems that were foreseen in some degree. The pace of world events brings others. One such event was the de velopment of the Cuban crisis. It brought new realization By Joseph A I sop Tribune Syndicate party controversy, before Sta lin eliminated his rivals. What makes the development even more striking is the pe culiarity of its timing, which has also been missed thus far. In brief, the Yevtushenko poem appeared in Pravda on Oct. 21, just one day before what may be called the public beginning of the Cuban crisis with President Kennedy's Monday speech to the nation. Within the Kremlin, how ever, the Cuban crisis must actually have begun several days before the President's public speech. As already revealed in this space, there was only one crucial, missing part in the Kremlin's ingenious and ruth less scheme to use Cuba for a political - strategic Pearl Harbor. The command and control system of the already emplaced SA-II anti-aircraft missiles had not been complet ed on schedule, before con struction began on the Soviet ballistic missile sites. Thus the SA-lIs were not ready to shoot down our intruding U-2s, and the Soviet scheme therefore failed. BUT although the SA-II command and control sys tem was not operational un til Saturday, Oct. 27, their ra dars were in good order long before Oct. 14, when a new ballistic base was first sighted by an American U-2. Follow ing the Oct. 14 U-2 flight, moreover, the SA-II's radars had plenty to look at: for the schedule of U-2 flights over Cuba was at once increased to six missions per day, in order to cover the whole is land with utmost speed. Although the SA-Ils were not ready to track or shoot down the U-2s, their radars could see the U. S. planes if they happened to pass through the radar beams. It is known that this happened more than once. Thus the Kremlin must have had word that the U.S. government had probably penetrated the great Cuban secret, at least four or five days before the President spoke to the nation. During the same breathless days, the fleeting radar evi dence was confirmed for tile Kremlin, beyond much doubt. by the special emphasis the President placed on Cuba in his mid-week conversation with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, And these storm signals must have been fur ther underlined for the Sovi- ets by the same internal indicators which caused the Washington Post to warn of a coming crisis two days be fore the President spoke. IT IS reasonable to presume, therefore, that the masters of the Kremlin began arguing about what to do if the U.S. got tough at least two or three days before the Yevtushenko poem was published. If this is correct, the poem's publica tion must then be interpreted as a by-product of the Krem lin debate - a bludgeon blow in Soviet political terms, and a bludgeon blow, too, that re corded the debate's tentative outcome. The debate's outcome must still be considered a tenta- tivc. because of the ti,.. u. mu.-i; vi nit" lllttll, 1 symptoms that Cuba-born ten sions are continuing and per haps even mounting in the Kremlin. Furthermore, if n man of Koslov s stature is leading the opposition, very probably with support from many of the Soviet military chiefs, it is clear that Nikita S. Khrush chev now faces a political challenge of the gravest sort. to the nations of Western Europe and to Britain for the need of the strongest possible Europe with a voice of its own, independent of the two great nuclear powers, the United States and the U.S.S.R. It also brought a new de mand that Europe no longer Inihe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS An earthquake measuring six on the modified ftlercan scale of 12 rocked Northwest Oregon and Southwest Wash ington the other night, it was felt as far north as Longview and as far south as Eugene. Furniture jumped around, dishes rattled and homes and buildings swayed. A pint-size twister skipped through Newport, over on the Oregon coast. It lifted the roof from a shed, picked up a pan el truck and spun it around and whirled a dog high up in to the air, dropping it in a patch of rose bushes. From here and there, 65 mile winds were reported. In the Taft-Ocean Lake area of the Oregon coast, a water spout was reported a mile off shore. EVEN the weather seems to have gone off its rocker over the election this year. FROM Oslo comes word that the Nobel committee of the Norwegian parliament (which is called the Storting) has decided not to award the Nobel Peace Prize for this year. The announcement adds that the prize money will be held over for next year. Why the postponement? Informed sources say the committee regarded the world situation as too LABILE to make any award this year. LABILE? Yes, there is such a word. Webster discloses that it means "apt to slip; character ized by adaptability to change or modification; plastic, un stable." I reckon we'll have to admit that when the Nobel commit tee decided not to make an award this year it chose the right word to describe the world condition that makes the award of the prize inad visable in 1962. MORE time-killing news: Family physicians, gath ered at Fort Worth, Texas, for their annual convention the other day, heard a report from a member that "for reasons unknown some warts can be charmed out of existence.'1 One of the best charms, he added, is swinging a dead cat three times around the head at the stroke of midnight in a cemetery." That, he added, is supposed to be infallible. HOW about the dry bone You find a dry bone. You pick it up, being careful not to disturb the dirt beneath it. You then rub it on the wart. After that, you replace it in the exact manner in which you found it, being careful not to disturb even a grain of dust. If you have followed di rections precisely, the wart will disappear at midnight. STILL killing time: One of the famous elec tion stories concerns Aristiries, of Athens known as "The Just" because he was so hon est. He was strolling down the street on election day when a voter stopped him and asked him to write the name Aristiries on his ostrakon the little shell the Athenians used as a ballot, writing on it the name of the candidate they wished to vote against. Aristiries asked the man why he wished to vote that way. The voter replied: "Oh, I have nothing against him: I'm just dead weary of hearing him called 'The Just'." Aristiries wrote his name on the shell and let it go at that. How about negotiating the weapon' aimed at the should be dependent upon the United States for its nuclear defenses. It strengthened the hand of President Charles De Gaulla who has insisted upon de veloping France's nuclear capabilities over United States objections. Britain already is a recog nized nuclear power but so far has adhered to her agree ment with the United States not to exchange nuclear know-how with have-not na tions, including France. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c- Field Enterprises Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES W h e never we cannot make a person "good" in the way in which we think ha or she should be good we proceed to make him or her miserable; for no matter what our political and economic views, no one really practices laissez-faire in his personal relations. It is only a generation af ter a war that the ordinary people begin to admit that it was a futile, foolish and unnecessary war which is something the prophets poets and philosophers were nearly stoned for saying just before it began. Precise and punctilious peo ple never learn the truth ot Melville's shrewd observation that "There are some enter prises in which a careful dis orderliness is the true meth od." Space is more important for the welfare of a family than money; a rural region has less delinquency than an urban one because chil dren have space for growth and seclusion; in a crowded slum, the very density of housing creates frictions that soon explode into de linquency. The nagging wife deludes herself with the thought that with a different kind of hus band she would not be a nag; but she ignores the fact that she chose the sort of man she could nag, and that her nag ging gratifies even while it upsets her. If everyone were given, tomorrow morning, his or her prime desire in com plete fulfillment the morning after that, the germ of another prime de sire would begin to form it self and would come to full growth before a year was out. The range of human de sires is infinite and insat iable and thus happiness can come only by rigorously limiting our wishes, not by relentlessly pursuing them. Speaking of happiness, that most fragile, elusive and equi vocal of words, perhaps the best and most succinct com ment on the subject was made by Erasmus, when he said: "It is the chiefest point of happi ness that a man is willing to be what he is." A woman who is proud of her chastity is like a man who is proud of his honesty in both cases, the sin of pride can be more damag ing to the character than the vices they reject. With the temperatures al ways hovering around 12 the year around, how do the peo ple in Hawaii open a casual conversation? If you can't teach an old dog new tricks, he was probably never much good at tricks when he was a young dog; age does not change us, it merely makes more rigid our innate ten dencies. "Unreciprocated love" is a meaningless phrase; it is as impossible as clapping with one hand. removal ot this 'offensive people the world?