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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 ...
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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!
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