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ATES Offlcea In New York. Chi cago, Detroit. San Francisco. Loa Angeles. Seattle. Portland. Denver. NATIONAL ipiTOHIAl ASCSPCiATIO NIWSrAPII PUIIISHIRS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford end Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ego. 10 YEARS AGO ww m. 19S2 (Saturday) Ernest P. Leavitt, former superintendent of crater bane National park, has been awarded two citations by the Department of Interior for his long, meritorious service. A total of $440.45 was ex pended by all candidates who ran for city offices in the Nov. 4 general election. 20 YEARS AGO Not. 23, 1942 (Sunday) Medford man predicts Blue Ledge copper mine at head of Applcgate river will be reopened because of wartime shortage of strategic metal. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The meat rationing situation is one of high befuddlcment, from II r.nflr t One view holds the farmer can't butcher for his own needs. There Is noth ing to prevent him from get ting mad at a cat ana snoot ing I calf by mistake." 30 YEARS AGO Not. 23. 1932 (Tuesday) Two Medford teenage boys given week in jail for cutting hole In top of car parked on city street. Alfred S. V. Carpenter has low gross score in Red Cross benefit golf tournament at Rogue Valley Golf course. 40 YEARS AGO Not. 23. 1922 (Wednesday) Medford High school of ficials attempting to arrange post season football game with Oregon City, Redmond, Cor vallis or Lebanon High schools. Medford American Legion post leases Natatorlum build ing; starts extensive rcnova tlon of ballroom. SO YEARS AGO Not. 23. 1912 (Friday) Arrangements practically completed for construction of $60,000 gold dredge to be used on bar at Gold Hill; plan called "new and bigger de parture" in mining business. Louis Sivers. "the onion wizard of Evans Valley," re ports total onion crop of about 90.000 pounds from one acre. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten cenect It superler; seven er eieht Is eicalltnr; five at sit is aoad. 1. Is Sholem Asch, author of "Our Destiny," a Jewish or White Russian writer? 2. Was Boris II king of Ru mania or Bulgaria at the out break of WW II? 3. What is the naval rank of students at the Annalopis Naval Academy? 4. How many shillings in an English pound? J. Should a U. S. flag be flown night and day over a slat capltol? 0. Do rose growers ever plant rose bushes In the fall? 7. Which U. S. President killed a man in a duel? 8. Who was the detective character in the novel "Study in Scarlet"? 9. Why were the old coun try school houses painted red? 10. "Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in . . ." whom? Answersi 1. Jewish, 2, Bul garia. 3. Midshipman, 4. Twen ty. S. Na, day only. I. Yes. 7. Andrew Jackson. I. Sher lock Holmes. I. Had was cheapest. 10. " . them-elves." NOVEMBER 23. 19S2 What Now It would be safe to ioritv of Americans approved the action of Presi dent Kennedy in quarantining uma when Kus- sian missiles were found There are some, however, who disapprove, and for diametrically opposing reasons. The Goldwater type objections are that ac tion was not taken soon action did not go far enough. The opposite reaction voiced in Medford earlier this week by David and officer of the War that America is itself to ation, and that its actions were reckless and brought us to the brink AS for what to do now, " would have us press on every front, and to auences. McReynolds, on the other hand, would adopt a course of action designed to ease tensions, woo Cuba awav from the Soviet bloc, emphasize so cial and economic reforms, and give the Cubans an alternative to Communism. Many would view McReynolds' suggestions as aDDeasement. but he declares they are not: that appeasement is giving an enemy something that mii.n vlirn ltrVliln Ula ClisTfTQCT IfltlO OVU CltYt- ply to return to the Cubans what is rightfully theirs. HIS four suggested steps are these: 1 Tn urif hrlrotar fVnm Oiiantaiiamn Hft views the 99-year lease on the Naval base as illegal, inasmuch as it was executed when the U.S. had occupying troops in Cuba. 2. Renew diplomatic relations with Cuba, on the theory that no problems can be solved unless they can be discussed. 3. Resume trade with Cuba, buy her sugar, and lower trade barriers. 4- Withdraw our own "iron curtain" from around Cuba, permitting Americans to travel there, and obtain first-hand information on the situation. LIE believes that these four steps would open and entirely new era in diplomacy, not only in Cuba but also in such Communist areas as Yugoslavia, Poland and Albania, where Soviet influence is often resisted or rejected. It would, he indicated, increase the United States' area of diplomatic maneuverability. In addition, it would encourage the Cubans who were for the Castro revolution, but who have be come sick of Castro's dictatorial tactics. He also believes that our current policy of economic reprisals and the threat of military force unify the Cubans if these were relaxed, other Cuban voices could be heard. WE do not believe that McReynolds sugges tions could or should be adopted, even though he makes a persuasive case for them. But we do believe that they should be heard and thought about and discussed, for, right or wrong, they constitute a legitimate viewpoint, and only by the consideration of all alternatives can Americans arrive at sound, valid and thought ful conclusions. We believe that the course Kennedy is follow ing neither blustery missile-rattling nor back ing down in the face ot threats; taking a turn but moderate coui-se is the right one for the present. E. A. The Big Game Tomorrow, the University of Oregon and Ore gon state University (nee college) will renew their gridiron rivalry. With Bowl hopes blighted for both teams, this contest becomes one of prin cipally local interest. Still, to alums of both schools, it is the Big Game. The San Francisco Chronicle reminds us that another Big Game will be played Saturday, this one featuring Stanford and the University of California. Neither school has had a good record, ami the Berkeley campus paper has billed the contest as "The Game of the Weak." 'THE Chronicle itself takes a rather jaundiced view of the contest. It declares: "Some 80.000 normal persons will work their way into the Memorial Stadium ... on Saturday to see -at $5.30 a look - two of the Nation's less successful teams try to win a football game. Why the event is called the Big Game, or why anybody would go to the least trouble and expense lo watch it, needs ex planation." The newspaper fails to provide the explana tion, except by concluding: "Cold logic says Saturday's game has nothing But 80,000 will be here-- 80.001, counting us." rV more immediate interest hereabouts will be tonight's game between Medford and Oregon City. The winner of this semi-final game will play for the state championship the following week, against the winner of tonight's game be tween North Salem and Jefferson of Portland. Perhaps it would not be inappropriate to suggest that the state champions be given an opportunity to play the winner of the UO-OSU game, perhaps on New Year's day, possibly in Multnomah Stadium. That would really merit the title of the Big Game E A. If the first of the (which it did last week), can 19(5.1 be far be hind? E. A. for Cuba? assume that the vast ma- there. enough, and because the McReynolds, a Pacifist Resisters League is blame for the Cuban situ of nuclear war. the Goldwater militants forward against Russia heck with the conse- behind Castro, and that 19(53 calendars arrives MEDFORD -And Besides, It's All Cheap Russian Merchandise" In the Day's News By FRANK There's big news as this is written. In Cuba, Mr. Kroosh crawls out from under Senor Castro, leaving him stranded. In Asia, Red China an nounces that it has ordered its troops to cease fire in the northwest India shooting war and PULL BACK along the Himalayan frontier. WHAT does it all mean? As to that, we can only guess. So here goes. INTERESTING question: Why did Mr. Khrushchev get into the Cuban business in the first place? Well, he probably knew he was in for trouble sooner or later with Red China. So - naturally enough-it may have occurred to him that it would be a good idea to find out just what President Kennedy would do in such an event. Then- The thought may have crossed his mind that start ing a ruckus in the Western Hemisphere would be a good way to find out. If he could get the United States in volved in bad trouble in the Western Hemisphere, he would have a freer hand in the Far East. And also in Berlin. SO he gave it a try. He found out that Presi dent Kennedy was tougher than he had though!. So he ditched Wild Man Castro. Or, at least, that is what appears to have hap pened. Castro is now in a rough spot. Not only has the U. S. been provoked to the point where it will stand for no more nonsense from Cuba. At the same time, the other nations of the Western Hemis phere have concluded that they want no truck with Castro. WHAT of Red China and its war with India? For a possible answer, let's turn to President Mohammed Ayub Khan, of Pakistan, who is no lover of Nehru, or of India. President Ayub says Peking's cease-fire announce ment confirms his belief that China has only LIMITED aims in its border conflict with In dia. One of these aims, he sus pects, is lo find out how far it will be safe to go with war against India without getting Russia, and perhaps the West ern nations, into the fight. He doesn't think China is in anv position to carry on a pro tracted war-cspccially a war involving crossing the Him Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF ONE OF THOSE Mars spacemen we've been telling you about found himself in a Las Vegas gambling casino. Hatching a patron furiously playing a slot machine. Sud denly a miracle occurred. The patron hit the jack pot. Lights flashed on the machine, and a show er of silver dollars pour ed out. The spaceman laid a friendly hand on the slot machine and murmured, "Buddy, if I was you, I'd do something for that cold." Tha shortest run In the atrical history was in Lon don soma fifty years ago when the audience at an opening night was dis missed, with Its money returned, sfter a single act. Critical Judg ment played no part in the decision. The fact la that the entile cast hart gotten hopelessly drunk on champagne provided by an indulgent producer for a pk-nlc svene in the play. Another theatrical anecdote: inmates of a New Kngland peni. tentiary rented a set of prisoners' uniforms for a production within prison walls of "My Three Angels." "The uniforms we wear hare." explained tha prisoner who sent in the order, "are not authentic enough." t Insurance men will tell you that the most unpopular Insurance mlearoan who aver lived waa tha killjoy agent who tned to sell a full coverage policy to Lady Godiva. O 1K3, by Beaaett Cart Distributed bjr Suit features ayadicaia MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, JENKINS alayas, with resulting long lines of communication and frightfully difficult supply problems. DAKISTAN'S president, in-- cldentally, in a speech to his National Assembly, offers the cynical opinion that India has been "inflating the grav ity of the present situation out of all proportion to its real danger in an effort to get the rest of the world to come to India's aid with arms and perhaps troops." lEANWHILE- In New York, stocks opened higher in heavy trad ing. The upsurge, the dis patches say, "was triggered by the cease-fire in India and was further underscored by Premiere Castro's agreement to give up Soviet bombers and by President Kennedy's lifting of the Cuba blockade." Strictly Personal By Sydney (c) Field Enterprises, Inc. ADVERTISING I was having lunch with a chap I used to go to school with, who is now a successful advertising executive in New York. "I suppose you consider your job a tough one," he said, "but it has one tremendous ad vantage over advertising." "Lighten my day," I said, "and tell me what it is." Well," he continued, "you know how people are always criticizing advertising on one score or another - it's too blatant, or too repetitious, or too trite, or too unbelievable. Some of these charges, I'm sorry to say, are well founded but people don't understand the chief reason for these flaws." "What do you think is the reason?" I prompted. "Do you know how many persons may pass on a single piece of advertising copy?" he asked. "Maybe as many as 15 and each person has his own pets and prejudices, his own fears and foolishness, his own prestige at stake in the de cision. "Whan you writt a col umn." ha continued, "it's a one-man Job. If it's good, you gat tha credit; if it isn't, you taka tha blame. But you're free-outside tha laws of obsctnity or libel - to writ as you please." "That's trua enough," I OREGON Chile, Land of Paradoxes, Gradually Making Progress in By PHIL NUWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Chile, extending northward from the Straits of Magellan 2,700 miles long and about 100 miles wide, poten tially is one of South Ameri ca's wealthy nations. Yet, like many an other Latin American na tion, Chile has been one of political and Newiom economic paradoxes. The rich became richer and the poor became poorer. While racing to achieve so cial evolution before being overtaken by violent revolu tion, she also found it possible to regard Moscow with toler ance and Fidel Castro's Com munist Cuba with consider able sympathy. At the Punta del Esta meet ing in Uruguay last January she was one of a handful to oppose expulsion of Cuba from the Organization of American States. And, while desperately in need of the assistance avail able under the U.S.-sponsored Alliance for Progress pro gram, she also has found it difficult to institute the re forms necessary to receive such aid. But, under an accumulation of pressures, changes are tak ing place. Disclosure of hidden Soviet missiles in Cuba came as a shock and led Chile to sup port wholeheartedly the U.S. quarantine action. In the coalition the reform minded radicals and the right wing liberals and conserva tives have united to battle the rising strength of Communists and Castroites on the left. And in Congress, after the longest debate in its history, a much needed land reform bill has been passed in a long-step J. Harris purred, my day already brightening at tha edges. "But not in advertising," ha shook his head dolefully. "After the initial copy is written it goes lo three or four executives, maybe lo tha plans board. Then it's submitted to tha advertising manager of the client. His wife takes a look at it - and maybe a couple of neigh bors. It sometimes goes to the president of the com pany - who would like a larger picture of the prod uct, and tha company's name in bigger type. "Not only that - every body feels ha should make some contribution to it. A change here, a deletion there, a different emphasis. Nobody wants to say the ad is fine as it stands, because, everybody likes to think he's an advertising expert and can make soma real im provement." "I don't envy your job," I commiserated with him. "It's not an enviable one," he shrugged, "especially when we have so many bright and creative people who are cap able of turning out imagina tive and tasteful ads. How would you like it if your col umns were revised and padded or eviscerated bv a committee of 15 or 20?" I shuddered. "It's ironic, isn'l it," I said, "that 'indi vidualism' is the rallying-call of business, and yet it's Ihe collective nature of advertis ing that docs Ihe damage?" "Don't blame the ad man," he pleaded, "we're victims of socialism at the top." Record Volume Of Mail Expected Washington ilTC- The Post Office will handle a record volume of Christmas mail this year with 70.000 fewer holi day helpers than it did last year. Postmaster General J. Ed ward Day said Thursday the expected 10 billion pieces of mail - tip a half billion from 1961 - will be processed and distributed by 150.000 extra workers. The total laM year was 220.000. Day said the saving in man power was made possible by several factors, among them the use of regular employees on an overtime basis and pub lic cooperation in the depart ment's "mail early" cam paign. In addition, he said, the department will be mak ing once-a-day large deliveries rather than several deliveries of a few pieces of mail. toward eligibility for aid under the alliance for prog ress. In the works is an impor tant tax reform law. A 10-year development pro gram looks toward invest ments totalling $10 billion and important growth both in in dustry and agriculture. Cop per production, of which Chile is one of the world's major sources, is expected to reach 700,000 tons a year by 1970. But, facing these rosy dreams of the future, are the hard realities of the present. ... Communications ... Leltrs lo ih Editor must bear tha nam and address of tha writar, although undet certain circumstances tha use of a pen na.ua or initial for publication is permissible Tha Mail Tribune reserves tha right lo edit all letters with a view to clarification and candansation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Tha letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent tha views of tha paper; in fact tha contrary is often lha case. Cigarettes To the Editor: Speaking of olives, they do justice if they're left on the tree. If one would do justice to themselves as well as find delight in doing so they would all smoke cigarettes. Smoking ends the temptation to smoke faster and quicker then the wink of an eye. Obstacles and tempta tions should never Induce man to lay away his cigarettes. They are much better then green olives, the cigarette docs not cause one's mouth to pucker and become disfigured with taste. The Lord speaks of disfiguring ones face in Matt. 6:16. I hope before I die to out live all argument, wrath, and contrariness to cigarettes. If on my hands and knees I should have to crawl, or should perish for my ciga rettes if needful I would do so. But no fear of that. The Lord told us we cannot live by bread alone. All who fear cig arettes or hate them are faint hearted. They are those who love some thing some of the time and other things all the time. To enter God's Kingdom one must love all things all of the time for everything God made is good and perfect and he made all things. The proof that I'm right may not be known before judgment day but I'm a faithful fighter of this hour. Man is in deepest communi cation with mother nature while smoking cigarettes. The cigarette and I are both strong and both chosen to model our principles to the world. Though it is light as air a cigarette is strong willed as iron in the principle of highest value. Cigarettes have the value of truth, yet for all the value that truth holds in this world wouldn't buy an honest starving man a loaf of bread. Tobacco was put on earth for a special purpose. It is not the tobacco that has failed its duty but rather those who re fuse to partake of it that have failed. This could damage the spirit which is by far the foundation of human life. Any one who thinks he will die from smoking, take a walk through the cemetery and look at all the graves of people buried there who didn't smoke. They have weeds growing all over them. No society can maintain itself the fullness life offers by trying to find some reason a cigarette might cause man to die. No scientist as far as I know has tried to find a richer more re warding contribution to man kind as cigarettes. E. Dykes Box 58 Eagle Point. Ore. Salesman's Tactics To The Editor: I would like lo offer my sincerest apology lo the many people in and around Eagle Point who were "took in" by the false mis representation that my hus band and myself were endors ing a recent influx of maga zine salesmen so they could receive a scholarship for col lege. I doubt if anyone is more aware of the solicitation law passed by the Eagle Point City Council for our protec tion than I am. When one of the salesmen called he used the familiar approaches: a new neighbor who wanted to talk to me. he was seeking my votes to help him get a college schol arship of which he just need cd a very few more, no he wasn t selling anything, my neighbor had just lost her lunch betting him she had to subscribe to a magazine, and even trying to edge his way into the house. I finally spoke in what I considered a rude manner and told him I had had previous experience with his approaches from other salesmen. I told him exactly what he was trying to put over on me and asked him lor his city license. Upon being informed that he lived in Med ford and didn't need one, I told him Eagle Point had an ordinance requiring all sales men and solicitors to obtain one from the city hall and he told me he was through with Eagle Point and would there fore leave. After being absent from my home all day Tuesday, I was Land, Social Reform More than half of the coun try's arable lands is in the hands of fewer than 1,000 owners. Farm workers and city slum dwellers are ill-housed, ill-fed and disease stricken. A rising cost of living con stitutes another major prob lem. Against this background, political ferment and labor un rest are not surprising. Communist influence is strong among the miners and the intellectuals and students. On the credit side, the gov deluged with telephone calls from people in Eagle Point telling us salesmen (including the same one who called on me) had told them that we were both endorsing him and helping him win his scholar ship for college. He told them that he was an Eagle Point boy and that he was even washing dishes for me so he could get my votes. An elder ly couple, both with failing eyesight, were talked into subscribing to over $6 worth of magazines they will never read just to help the boy my husband was trying to help through college. My husband has neither seen nor talked to the boy. Where he procured our name is a mystery unless he got it from some of the neighbors along with the fact that he taught school. I cannot do anything about the damage that has already been done from the use of our name falsely, but I do appeal to all of the people in the valley to please watch out for these salesmen in the fu ture and make that telephone call to the local police, better business bureau or whichever agency In your locality has the authority to verify their legal status in your area. This is the only way we can en force our laws and the only way the city officials will know of their presence. Mrs. David L. Harbison, Eagle Point, Ore. Domiciliary Defended To the Editor: That letter - "White City Comment" -should never have been writ ten. The statement that "at least 75 per cent are alco holics" is utterly ridiculous. Even 5 per cent would be high. Imagine having to live with 750 alcoholics? The offi cials at this domiciliary have an effective way of dealing with those members who im bibe too freely when in town. Why not leave things to them? The large majority of the men here suffer physical dis- bilitics. A man may look fairly good' outwardly yet have a bad heart, or only part of a stomach; or with some in ternal organ permanently damaged. Many arrested TB cases are among us. With all their ailments the men as a whole cause very little trou ble. Payment of $60 a month to member employees is not as small as it seems. It costs the government $5 a day, maybe more, lo maintain a man here. These paid members are happy to be on the payroll, as it gives them the chance they prayed for to save some money, so they could leave to face the world again. The various Veterans or ganizations and their auxil iaries do a splendid job of pro viding entertainment and rec reation. In addition, such wonderful organizations as the Red Cross. Elks, and others, do much to make life more bearable. By the way - this writer is a total abstainer. David Frisch P.O. Box 292 White City. Ore. Nothing wrong with world li ernment has made a start on solving a serious housing prob lem aggravated by the disas trous earthquakes of 1960. Unemployment is down. Serious difficulties remain. Landowning and wealthy groups are not eager for dras tic reforms and hold a power ful voice in the government. Yet the long delay in passaga of the land reform bill largely was the result of obstructionist tactics of left-wingers who ac cused the government of hav ing no real interest either in tax or land reform. Injustice Protested To the Editor: Many of those protesting the death sen tence meted to Jeannace Free man for the murder of her friend's child seem primarily concerned with the fact that she would be the first woman so punished in Oregon. With that point of view I cannot agree. American women have been striving for 75 years for equal rights with men, and I have approved their battle, but having achieved that equality of right they must also accept an equality of du ties and equal punishment for equal crime. I have always contended that the death pen alty is justified in clearly proven cases of first degre murder, but numerous sen tences by juries in Oregon in recent months have led me reluctantly to wonder if any jury is every really qualified lo order the termination of a human life. There is also the difficult question of what criterion the courts can use to determine what is a "clearly proven" case of premeditated murder. There is a story out of Port land of the young man who was sentenced to death for murder even though it was never clearly proven that a murder had in fact been com mitted. It was reported in the news accounts that the Dis trict Attorney told the jury, "Now here is what I think happened," and proceeded to outline for them a hypotheti cal case largely unrelated to the meager circumstantial evi dence available to the prose cution. To all appearances the jury accepted the attorney's story in lieu of evidence. Now we have the case ot the two young women who are said to have stood on the brink of Crooked River gorge and each threw a helpless child to its death. There seems to be no question that it was first degree murder. If the crimes were not equal that of tha mother was the more repre hensible because she was the mother. Yet a jury has given the mother a life sentence from which she can probably be paroled in a few years, and another jury has ordered the single woman to death in the gas chamber like a stray dog. There is an old adage that it is better than many guilty go free than that one innocent be punished unjustly. Evident ly both these women are guilty of the supreme crime, but they are equally guilty and the crass injustice of snuffing out the life of the one while the other continues to live by virtue of her craven confession has shocked people all over the state and, I be lieve, will give new Impetus to the effort to do away with the death penalty in Oregon In order to prevent such mis carriages of justice in the fu ture. D. Ivan Fritts 794 Fortner lane Ontario, Ore. this cartoon lha whale upside - down! I
