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Newspaper Page TextFRIDAY. llEDFORD; JRIBUNE "Everyone in Southern Oregon ReadajrheMal Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFOHD PRINTING CO 33 North Kir Jit.. Ph.772-6M1 ROBERT" W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising MaiWRet GERALD T LATHAM. But Mr ERIC W ALLEN JR. Mnfi. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Tclcg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALEERICKSON. Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper Entered a second das matter at Med ford, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 18!7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday inoa 10.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moi. 3 Of) Sunday Only One year $5.00 Single Copy (Mailed) 20c Bv Carriei And Motor Route. 'Daily and Sunday 1 year $21.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1.75 Sunday Only 1 mo. 50c Carriei and yendom Copy 10c Official Paper of City of Mcdford Official Paterof Jackkun Cminty United "presH International Full Leaned Wire U. P.' I Telephoto Newsplcturca "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OIRCULATIONS Advertising Rrprescntativc: NELSON ROBERTS &c ASSOCI ATES Officea in New York. Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco, Los Angelea. Seattle. Portland Denver. NATIONAL EDITORIAL S "" " AxSpCftATIQ'N NEWSPAPER .ISHERS iSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the tiles ot Thri Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 9, 1952 (Saiurday) Mooning operations were continuing today on what na tional forest officials called "the biggest fire in Rogue River National forest in sev eral years." Mcdford's Greater Com munity Chest drive reached 44.4 per cent of its $5U,916 total this morning. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 9, 1942 (Sunday) Official election returns show Frank Perl elected con stable of the Medford justice of the peace district by 2a ' write-in voles; Perl announces he will be unable to accept the postiion. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "This is National Education week. Considerable education on a scale was distributed Just a week ago in the form of an election." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 9. 1932 (Tuesday) Seventy per cent of Jack son county voters went to polls in general election, county clerk says; prediction of total vote by County As sessor J. B. Coleman proves to be off by only 84 votes. Gov. James Rolph of Cali fornia arrives in Medford en route to Prospect where he and official party plan to look over game farm. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 9, 1922 (Wednesday) Mayor C. E. Gales of Med ford expected to be named to state highway commission by newly elected Oregon Gov. Walter M. Pierce. Gold Hill city elections not held after candidates fail to qualify and city recorder fails to publish election no tices. SO YEARS AGO Nov. 9, 1912 (Friday) Surveying party arrives m Medford to locale line to; pro posed Medford to Crescent City, Calif., railroad Six persons, including Mrs. J. V. Poddy, mentioned as possible candidate for mayor of Medford What's Yoar I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct la superior; seven or eight ii excellent; five or ix it good. , , . , , . ,. . i 1. A diamond shaped high- way sign aiwaxs m.-ans what" 2. With what dues a caring- rapiier deal" 3. in skimg. is downhill rac Ing or jumping more danger- ous? j 4. in what sport is the Davis : Cup awarded ' ! 5. Australia is a member of (he British CoimnnnwcaHh of Nations; true or false'.' 6. The disputed border be tween India and Red China is known as whaP 7. What is the capital of In diana'' 8. Who is President of Un united Arab Republic? 8 How far apart arc the op posite goal posts of a college football field'' 10. In which hous'e of Con Kress do revenue bills origi nate? Answers: 1. Slow-danger to yourself. 2. Maps. 3. Jumping. 4. Tennis. S. True. 6. McMa hon Line. 7, Indianapolis. 8. Carnal Abdel Nasser. 9. 120 yards, 10, House of Roprcsen tatives. 4 A NOVEMBER 9. 1962 Eleanor Eleanor Roosevelt many snide remarks, derogatory jokes, evil iu- more and bitter descriptions as any woman in history. Her serene spirit soared above such pettiness, and her meat heart and determined will have carved for her a place, people everywhere, but One could not meet feeling the presence of bv anv standard, lit up she talked of the things world peace, social justice, the right ot all peo ple to dignity and decency. CHE was a woman of great courage, great stam- ina, Great determination. Though born into a wealthy family, and married to one of the world's most famous men, life was not all tinsel and gold for her. She had many handicaps and trials to over come. Overcome them she did, and thereby set a standard and provided an inspiration to mil lions the world over. Above all she was an individual in her own right, and though she never detracted from the eminence of her husband, she was indomitable in her own fields of interest. Despite her inner steel, she was gentle and courteous and charitable. America the entire world can feel for tunate that Anna Eleanor Roosevelt lived among us. E. A. Home Rule in Lane County County home rule charters were approved in two Oregon counties Tuesday Lane and Wash ington and were defeated in two others Tilla mook and Hood River. The Lane county charter was essentially more conservative than the one voted down in Jackson county, in that it did not abolish all elective of fices other than the county board of commission ers. It would overhaul some administrative func tions and, most important, give the county new lawmaking powers. It will become effective Jan. 3, although most of the changes will not have to be made for a year. It was not overwhelmingly approved, al though the margin was large enough to assure its acceptance by the public. """OUNTY Commissioner Kenneth Nielsen, com- menting about the new charter, remarked : "At the present time, my best general com ment will be that we should go slow in making changes. His advice is probably rule charter committee in ably on safe ground in writing an essentially con servative charter. Voters changes, and we would five of seven charters so defeated. DASSAGE of home rule charters in Lane and Washington counties may stimulate other counties to make the attempt. But the lessons learned so far presumably will be observed namely that changes in county government should be on slow bell. Once home rule is approved, of course, the loor is open to additional gradual changes, as they become necessary, by way of a vote of the people. This is not possible without home rule. While there is, of course, no rush, it might e appropriate to consider reactivation of the Jackson county home or the appointment of a new one, if for no other purpose than to study the success or failure of the charters in Lane and Washington counties. We have always believed that the logic be hind being able to control our own governmental destinies, at the local level, sooner or later will become evident, and that the asinine scare stories of "Communist plot" about homo rule will even tually be made to look as silly as they are by home rule's success elsewhere. E. A. Earthquake Medford's experience oeen minimal tortunately. Upstate Oregon has had more of them, and sharper ones. We recall one in lortlaiul during ., 1 , ... . , college days which came in the evening study hours, and created a marvelous excuse to order hamburgers and start a bull session. Another quake struck the Toi'thind area early ... . 1 . i r i. . this week, and among those who felt it was a college Freshman from .Medford, who had seldom fou .', ...nililnr li.fnr.v H ER letter says: ' Did vou feel the earthquake . . We had a beaut. I was silling at my desk and Kay (her roommate) was standing by the bureau. We began to hear this rumble and soon all the books on my desk started rocking, windows were creaking, blinds were crackling My! it was fun. "The first thing I thought of was 'an earthquake. then discarded that and figured the boiler blew up downstairs. But when Kay's chair started sliding across the room and everything on my desk began slinking. I decided it definitely was an earthquake . . . It only lasted about lit seconds and someone said it registered a 6 on some scale that earthquakes aie measured by . . " An earthquake, a cyclone, an election, a near miss on getting into a nuclear war it's been quite an eventful fall. We could use some peace and quiet for a ch;i'ige. E.A. Roosevelt has been the object of as not onlyin the hearts of a place in nistory. and talk to her without grace. Her face, homely with an inner beauty when that were dear to her sound, just as the home Lane county was prob are resistant to radical guess that this is why tar proposed have been rule charter committee, with earthquakes has MEDFOHD "Now?" ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen na.ue 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 printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper: in fact the contrary is often the case. Who Will Take Grandma? To the Editor: Who will take grandma, who will it be? All of us want her - I'm sure you'll agree. Let's call a meeting - let's gather the clan. Let's get it settled as soon as we can. In such a big family there's certainly one Willing to give her a place in the sun. Strange how we thought that she'd never wear out, But see how she walks, it's arthritis no doubt. Her eyesight is faded - her memory's dim. She's apt to insist on the silliest whim. When people get older they become such a care. She must have a home - but the question is where? Remember the days when she used to be spry, Baked her own cookies and made her own pie, Helped us with lessons, and tended our seams, Kissed away troubles and mended our dreams? Wonderful grandma - we all loved her so Isn't it dreadful - she's no place to go? One little corner is all she would need, A shoulder to cry on Bible to read, A chair by the window her with sun coming through. Some pretty spring flowers still covered with dew. Who'll warm her with love so she won't mind the cold. Oh, who will take grandma, now that she's old? What? Nobody wants her, oh, yes, there is one Willing to give her a place in the sun. Where she won't have to worry or wonder or doubt, And she won't be our problem to bother about. Pretty soon now, God will give her a bed. But who'll dry our tears when when dear grandma is dead? Gladys Governor, 4111 West Second St., Medford Pride and Prejudice To tile Editor; Letters writ ten in apology of racial seg regation, such as the one printed in Wednesday's pa per, are host ignored. Indi viduals Willi such a vast ac cumulation of prejudice and mis information seldom change their views. Hut a few of them are able to infect the young with their disease, and would be a pity if even one young person had read the letter written by L. C. Powell and believed, substan tially, its content. Lest we forget; A very few years ago. we engaged in a devastating war against man ifestations of similar racial myths. Surviving persons re sponsible for perpetuating these myths were brought to trial at Niiien-berg. convict ed, and duly punished. Kqual rights for white and colored citizens has been "the law of the land" since 1870, although this law has been Implemented only to certain degrees in all parts of the l ulled States. The fact that j President Kennedy, pressur- rd beyond the point of no re , turn,' enforced this law, will I w in him considerable cmi ; nonce m history, w hether or not the south turns against him m the nct election I ! Hunk the v alor of his stand will traiwcnd party lines and : may well win him the next election, anv w ay Reader Powell is somewhat correct in stating that not all Negroes want integration. It ' ir incomprehensible liT me MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON that James Meredith would care to share any proximity with the substandard human beings and conditions that pre vail in such ludicrous institu tions as Ol' Miss. This is the point: Meredith is performing a highly dis tasteful but heroic act. He is attempting to make the world a better place for his chil dren and grandchildren, prob ably without much hope that it will ever improve in his time. He is helping to estab lish, finally, whether a 90-year-old law has any teeth in it. He and people like him, are establishing for all of us whether democratic institu tions are a myth or something real and worth fighting for. While we whites have dal lied at destroying our prej udices, the American Negro has been creating a few of his own. He is simply tired of waiting DO years for some thing we whites wouldn t wait 90 minutes for; we'd start shooting. As far as any responsible geneticists or physiologists can dctermin, there's no such thing as a pure race; there probably never was. All hu man beings carry genetically, at least, a modicum of every racial strain in the world. Therefore, the racists are wag ing a battle gainst "mongrel ization" that was lost, as it were, cons ago. E.T.L. (Name on File) Medford Who Cares? To the Editor: Someone left this sample ballot in the door of my cabin. This is the only use i have for it. 1 see by your communciations that you are supposed to give your cor rect address, but that is some thing 1 don't own. I came here to pick pears and now I am leaving. So there won't be any use for preachers or WCTU to answer me for I won't be around to answer them. But please print what 1 have to say. The other day I saw a man buy a bottle of wine at a gro cery. The next day I saw the same man buy the same thing. No need to say I was there for the same thing. This man was a working man. He cashed his pay check, but if he don't watch out he won't have his job very long, because the woman behind me asked the clerk the man's name. He did not tell her, but things can happen, ns they did to inc. I am not a man anymore, just a vvino, the loncsomest man in the world. I don't know why a man will put the bottle ahead of his family and home. Somewhere along tiie way someone cared for him and wanted him to stop his drinking. But they finally have to give up, and then it's too late. Now all he has left is his big gut to satisfy. Some say it's sickness, but wait till he is real sick and not a soul in the world to give a damn. Let him look back and see how he gradually made his own bed, street is i and weep. Every J lonely street, lie , w ishes for the hands that once reached out to him. Every day j to rebel ag of the week is the same. Hciation. hates Thanksgiving and Christmas. The sight of fam ilies together makes him weep. Wine makes plenty of tears You look in people's faces for some kind com-ern, but who cares about an old man crying. To this man I would say, look in the mirror, mister Take a look at vour b:g nose. The skin on vour face is flab by and puffy You smell hkc a swill keg. Maybe you won der if other people notice You don't nerd a sign around You are at the bottom of the your neck. You arc a ,mo Adenauer, Surviving By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst A crisis of leadership in volved two world figures this week. Both seemed to be surviving. In Bonn, West German Chancellor Konrad Aden auer held to gether his co llition govern ment against a sudden storm Newsom which blew up over govern ment arrest of a news maga zine publisher accused of trea sonous action in publication of defense secrets. Settlement of the Bonn dis pute cleared the way for Ad enauer's scheduled visit to Washington next week and a new canvass of the Allied po sition in Berlin. In Moscow, Premier Nikita Khrushchev had all the ap pearances of a man with his mind at ease and to be over coming whatever criticism list. Wine hits fast and it's cheap. You think all day about how you are going to get that bottle just as soon as you can. Maybe you have to sneak about it now, but the time will come when you won't. You won't have to an swer to nobody but yourself, and yourself has quit caring a long time ago. Leo G. West No address listed fe: In the Day's News By FRANK As this is written, the votes are still being counted - by mental arithmetic, on fing ers, with adding machines, and with ultra-modern robots that not only add up the fig ures but draw the conclusions as to what happened. Intriguing thought after watching the thinking ma chines in action: Maybe the time will come when we won't have to hold elections at all just ask tne robots what would happen if an election WERE held and call it a day. That would save a fabulous amount of time and energy and money. (Maybe we could use the money thus saved to pay off the national debt.) QUESTION: How did President JFK come out? Well, he has the comfort ing assurance that if Massa chusetts is in any way repre sentative of the nation as a whole, the country LOVES Kennedys and can't get too many of them. WHAT of the trends - as measured by Tuesday's election? Here is an interesting one -as reported by the robots: Hitherto the Democrats have been strong in the big cities and weaker out in the country districts. The profes sional analists tell us this may be changing. The Republi cans, they say, seem to have made their big gains in the cities, and the Democrats did better than usual out in the rural districts. 'FAKE it or leave it. If true, it would provide encour agement for the GOP. The rural vote is a declining in fluence in American politics. In 10;i2, one American in every four lived on a farm. TODAY, only one American in every 12 is a member of a farm family. AT of the new congress? looks like it may be more of the same-with the Democrats holding a heavy technical majority, but unable to cash in on it in the pinches. 'INHERE was an interesting and possibly significant incident in Idaho-where an advocate of LEGAL GAMBL ING ran ahead for governor all through the early count, but finally lost. Why is that possibly signi ficant'' Down through history LOTTERIES have been used as a way K0; nioney to run tlc state when normal taxes get so heavy the people begin ainst normal tax- IN OREGON, virtue tri - umphs in the gubernatorial inphs in the gubernatorial j race. Governor Hatfield wins ' reelection by a decisive vote, j But- i You sav- HOW ABOUT SENATOR MORSE? ' ll'ELL, that is a case of what ' so often happens in these ; days when a glamorous denia-1 goguc meets an unglamorous, able, solid opponent. : : 4 ND 'VVh,u of California l.iMn lost' Khrushchev Apparently Are Their Governmental there may have been over his decision to withdraw Soviet "offensive" weapons I r o m Cuba. in tne communist camp there were indications that Khrushchev, far from being a man in retreat, still was press ing his anti-Stalinist campaign to remove from power men who opposed his policy of co existence The purge among the top- ranking leadership of Commu nist Bulgaria hit those who had been dragging their feet on instituting the Khrushchev policy and had indicated sym pathy for Red China. So far Ignored were Chi nese charges that his Cuban action constituted appease- ment of the United States and an encouragement to U. S. im perialism. There also were indications that Khrushchev would con- tinue for the time being the "reasonable" policy proclaim cd in his answer to President Kennedy's announcement of the Cuban quarantine. As Moscow prepared to cele brate the 45th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, First Deputy Premier Alexei Kosygin declared that in the Cuban dispute both sides had made a "concession to reason and peace." Fruitful negotiations over Laos and Dutch New Guinea, he said, "show the intention of all sides to find practical so lutions to problems." Be that as it may, the com ing days could be important ones. There is a general Allied belief that Khrushchev even- JENKINS WHY did he lose? " Let's put it like this: Nixon wasn't really run ning for governor of Cali fornia. HE WAS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. in 1968. Californians recognized that fact-and resented it. Cali fornia is now the No. 1 state of the Union. Californians want their governor TO BE GOVERNOR OF CALI FORNIA. Land Retirement Increase Needed To Balance Crops Washington - IUPII - An Eco nomic Research Service study shows that if land retirement programs are to continue to be a principal means of bring ing crop production into bal ance with demand, large acre ages will need to be retired. ERS, a branch of the Ag riculture department, gave this look into the future in a study of the economic effects of acreage control programs in the 1950s. ERS estimates that if farm ers harvest about 291 million acres of crops in 1D65, their production will be in close balance with demand at rea sonable prices. If production is kept down to 291 million acres in 1965, the government will need a substantial land retirement program, amounting probably to 45 to 50 million acres. This is equal to the combined 19110 harvested acreage of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Colorado. It is about equal to land held out of production this year. Available in 1965 Crop land now out of pro duction includes about 30 mil lion acres of feed grains and 11.5 million acres of wheat. Much of this land, along with some 11.5 million acres to be released from the conserva tion reserve in less than three years, will he available for crop production in 1965. Land retirement problems will increase after 1965. Be tween 1965 and 1971. another 16 million acres will be com ing out of the conservation reserve. Much of this land will ' stay in conserving uses, but some undoubtedly will USP(i (or crops. ERS recognized that despite acreage control programs in j l95- cri,P production ! w,'nl P chiefly under the im- peuis oi nigner yieins. Mad there been no acreage con. trols. ERS said, production would have been much higher than it was and surpluses would have been much larger than they are. OCEAN VOYAGE JUMPS New York IPI -Things will be jumping today aboard the UiMiry liner Sylvania. The Civiard Line said 12.000 frogs fioni Oshkosh. Wis., would sail for Cogii. liTland to be j used for medical rcscarc' . tually will sign his separate peace with Communist East Germany. Adenauer will seek to ensure that the Allies not Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF ADAM GIMBEL tells about a man who went to a clothing store to buy a suit, and was immediately asked his name, address, family history, favorite pastimes, political affiliation, and his wife s maiden name. "Why all these ques tions?" he demanded. "I only want to buy a suit." "Ah, rny friend," said the salesman silkily. "Before we sell you a suit here, we make sure that it fits your personality and po sition in life. We send to Australia for the proper blend of wool for you. From France we import just the right lining, from Scotland the buttons you should have. Then five tailors in our shop make it fit you to perfection, regardless of the fittings that may prove necessary." "Shucks," said the customer. "I need this suit to be mar ried in tomorrow morning." "Stop worrying," said the salesman. "You'll have it." Thrown over by the damsel he had wooed and showered with gifts for six months, a young jeweler got rid of just a bit of his frustration by sneering, "The only thing a bikini does for that girl is show her appendicitis scar!" "TV cameras," frets Kitty Carlisle, "seem to add i pounds to: me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras." C 19SJ, by Buuiett Cert. Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate Strictly Personal By Sydney (O Field Enterprises. Inc. What a Price! When the last dozen inhabi tants of the earth crawl out of the rubble and find themselv es miraculous ly still alive, they will start the tedious and heart breaking task of rebuilding a civilization - that is, if the world is still h a bitable, Harris which is un likely. They will then, and on ly then, begin to educate them selves and their children mutations permitting in the lessons nobody paid attention to before the Big Bang. They will point out that n a t ionalism is impossible, that the remnant of mankind must forever unite or perish. They will see clearly (and how painfully!) that war against out own kind is the supreme act of treason toward God and man. They will comprehend the piercing truth as an cient and ignored as Isaiah and Jesus and Buddha that our species is indissol ubly one; that not color, nor national origin, nor reli gious belief, nor political conviction, can divide man from man in any essential way. These distinctions will, af ter the Big Bang, seem as trivial and irrelevant as the differences in height or weight or color of eye or pattern of fingerprint. And they will teach their children if there are still children who are teachable that it was not the com munists who "started" the last war. nor the fascists who "started" the one be fore that, nor the Kaiser, nor Napoleon, nor Caesar, nor Hannibal. It was. rather, the absence of law for all men, the wild anarchy of nations, e a c h pursuing its own selfish ends, each blaming the oth ers for greedy motives and evil ways. There will be no "good awns art. , i n "Leri face it. this was p.nic-buying' . , could you forget to buy. n opener . Crises only stand firm in Berlin but also that they in no way give even limited recognition to a separate East Germany. address? T ? ETc ? J. Harris guys" and "bad guys" in the history books of the future if there is a book, if there is a future. For "bad guys" ara created by the "good guys" who are to self-concerned with their own prosperity, their own success, their own domin ance, to recognize that pros perity, like peace, is indivis ible on this shrunken globe. The last dozen inhabitants will not preach a new philoso phy, but a very old one. And they will, finally, be forced to practice what they preach for the words of Isaiah and Jesus and Buddha will be justified in every demolished city, every stricken land, ev ery polluted sea, every cubia inch of poisoned air. After the Big Bang it will happen, as was promised to us, that the meek shall inherit the earth. But what an earth, what an earth, what a price to pay for learning the first les son handed down to us! Fighting Renewed On Indian Border New Delhi - fl'Mi - Heavy fighting has broken out be tween Indian troops and the invading Communist Chines on two sectors of the north eastern front, it was announc ed officially Thursday. A Defense Ministry spokes man said that in one engage ment in the western area of the North East Frontier Agen cy near the town of Jang "some Chinese were killed." In the eastern portion of tho NEFA near the Burma border continuous fighting was re ported, with at least 15 Chi nese killed or wounded in ona clash. The report of the new fight ing came shortly after Prima Minister Jawaharl.nl Nehru told a cheering Parliament that India has accepted lha challenge of the Red invasion "with all its consequences" and would not negotiate with Pciping until its forces wera driven or pulled out of tha high mountain border regions. - I mean, how . ?"