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Portland Denver NATIONAL EDITOHIAl e-V NIWSPAPIt VO'-ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History Irom the flies ol Th Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 29. 1952 (Friday) Oregon's Republican club, at lis annual meeting in Port land, has elected Fred Robin son president. Due to wintry road condi tions, chains have been ad vised for motorists traveling the several routes out ol Med lord. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 29. 1942 (Saturday) John A. Dickinson appoint ed constable for Medlord jus tice of peace district. From Arthur Perry's "Yc Smudge Pot" column: "This neck of the woods sure needs nn ark. Due to the rubber shortage there is no use asking for deep sea diving suits." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 29. 1932 (Monday) New cheese factory sched uled to open at Central Point; plant expected to provide new outlet for milk produced in Rogue valley. About BOO men receive food at Mcdford Lions club soup kitchen during November. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 29. 1922 (Tuisday) Opening of Women's Civic Improvement club In Ashland broadcast by Medlord radio station KFAY. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot'' column: "Now that the football season is over, peace and calm will settle down upon us, unless immediate steps are taken to recall somebody." 50 YEARS AGO Nov. 29. 1912 (Thursday) Man riding on train between Medlord and Phoenix "startles the other passengers" by at tempting to kill himself: at tempt fails because of dull ness of knife. Rogue River voles "wet" by margin of 65 to 33; 47 women, the first in southern Oregon cast ballots. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina or ten cert act It tuptrior; ttven r iiflhf U xcelltnt; fiv lit It food. 1. Can grasshoppers hear 2. What is the namr of the song whose chorus begun, "Just a song at twilight'.'" 3. In baseball what is tho keystone sack? 4. From whom did Ihe United Slates purchase Alaska? 5. How many dozen in a gross? 6. Name the author of "Crusade in Europe." 7. Who was the last Czar of Russia. 8. What is the "spice of life"? 0. For how man y days were the banks closed during Roosevelt's bank holiday in 1933? 10. What measurement of lime is reckoned by the length of time it lakes the earth to circle the sun? .Answers: 1. Yas. 2. "Love's Old Sweet Song." 3. Second bait. 4. Russia), i. Twelve doten. . Can. Dwighf D. El senhower. 7. Nicholas II. S. Variely. 9, Three days. 10. The year. VISITS SOUTHEAST ASIA Washinglon -Wl- U. Alexis Johnson, deputy undersecre tary of state for political af fairs, leaves today on a 10-day tour of Thailand and Smith Viet Nam. Slale Department spokesman Joseph Reap said Johnson would confer with officials in Bangkok and later In Saigon. NOVEMBER 29. 1962 Space and Men One of the things which never ceases to amaze us is the apfplpratintr nnpfi nf scientific anrl tech- nological discoveries. L, : ! l.,i J." Ul HI."HiUlle, ill lute o Ulie Ul uui, ices uiau four months before Russia's Sputnik I became the . ... . , (h Ra-ptt;t.f . we had this tn sav - - . in this Column '. would not surprise us loo much if a rocket landed on moon within our lifetime. At the rate things have gone since, it wouldn't be surprising to see this happen within the next decade." rr n.,nnnlnl ..l-.l,f t.rf.h-M ieil jcclio ctgu we Sicv.uiabcu ouuui a luinc landing on the moon within our lifetime. Five veai, a,ro we wouldn't be suoi'ised if it hannened by 1967. Today it's old stuff; it's already hap pened. WITHIN the last five years there have been ivwlnrlino- snwn enntaininrr human hpinrrs four Russians and three Americans. S.n srahinlae Viqvo rmno al-nlinrl tho mnnn and one has landed on it. Others have been sent on trips to Mars and Venus. Even now Mariner II is on a course that will bring it within 20,000 or so miles of Venus. Manned trips to the moon are now technically feasible, and are scheduled soon. IT WOULD be nice to think that all this would have happened simply because man is a curi ous creature. It might have, eventually. But the sad fact is that the push into space is a definite by-product of the Cold War, stimu lated by U.S. and Russian rivalry in weaponeer ing and space superiority. Only such a stimulus could have caused the expenditure of billions of dollars and rubles to thrust rockets out of the atmosphere and out of the earth's gravitational pull. Sad, too, is the fact that much of our other material progress has been generated by warlike pressures. The airplane came of age during World War I; the jet plane was developed during World War II ; so was the atomic bomb, the fore runner of all the progress in nuclear physics. IT IS interesting to speculate what man might be capable of achieving if his motivations were as strong in the human and behavioral sciences as they have been in the physical sciences. Man has, in effect, conquered his physical en vironment, or at least has it within his power fully to do so. But he has yet to conquer, to any significant degree, his own behavior, and to achieve the ideals of peace and brotherhood to which he still gives lip service. The Register-Guard in Eugene, musing simi larly, comments: "And we wonder, of course, what motivation he must have to seek mastery of himself with speed and skill even fractionally equivalent to that he is demon strating in the conquest of his surroundings." HTHE WHOLE matter of the assault on space, and man's present inability to live with his brothers, was put into context recently by Roger Revelle, science advisor to the Secretary of the Interior. He was discussing the possibility of self- contained space ships to galactic void a voyage ations even at speeds approaching that ot light. The social problems arising would be tremen dous, in such an enclosed environment. Then he twisted the story backward by stating: "What is our earth, then, but a two-billioii-man spaceship hurtling through the void.' We face exactly the problems that our hypothetical travelers would ace. "This round ball, the earth on which mankind dwells, is a sphere unsupported in space, isolated and complete In Itself. We who are condemned to live on it must be self-supporting and self-contained. We must not, and Indeed we cannot, waste anything. We must somehow learn to live together, to tolerate one an other, or else we cannot survive." When all is said, man must learn more about himself, whether he voyages to the stars, or stays at home on planet earth. There is no other choice. E. A. Answer One of the oldest objections to new laws in many fields, including civil rights anil equality of opportunity, is the saying that "You can't legislate morality." The best answer to this we've seen was given recently by Martin Luther King, the Negro inte gration leader. In a speech at Cornell college in Iowa, he said: "It may he (rue that morality cannot lie lcglatcd, hut behavior can be regulated. It may he true that Ihe law cannot make a man love nu n. but it can keep him from lynching me, and 1 think that's prclly important." It is, too. K. A. Churchill Turns 88 The birthdays f great men are usually ob served in any significant public way only after they have passed from the scene. But every year that rolls around for Sir Winston Churchill, who will be iS,S years old tomorrow, becomes more and more an occasion for public congratulation. This year's anniversary is especially felici tious because Churchill demonstrated that even a man of his age can make a successful recovery from a broken thigh bone. If Nov. ,50 is one of Churchill's better days, he may motor to the House of Commons (which he first entered (ill years ditional birthday cheers. T,, ,.C 1(l!;7 1 -- " take families across the which take many gener aim. to receive the tra E.R.K. "Well, To Start With, He'. A In the Day's News By FRANK From Geneva: President Kennedy, in a statement to be read to the reopening of the 17-nation disarmament conference, says: "A moment may be at hand to initiate the beginning of the end of the upward spiral of weapons competition. The U. S. has completed a recent series of nuclear tests. There is hope that Russia will com plete its test terics soon. This suggests that the time may be ripe for a real start toward halting the arms spiral." LET'S all join in this pious hope. But let's not lorget that we are dealing with COMMUNISTS. In Lenin's Ten Commandments of Revo lution, this is No. .3: "There arc no morals in politics. There is only EXPEDIENCY." In his ninth Commandment, Lenin said: "Promises are like piecrusts; made to be broken." It's quite proper to deal witli comnuinists-but in our dealings we must keep our fingers crossed. We must hope for the best and prepare for the worst. rjHlAT'S enough preaching. Let's turn now to the grand old Clatsop Fir-which is be lieved to have been growing for a thousand years. It stood firm through Ihe Columbus Day typhoon, but went down in last Sunday's big storm along the northwest Oregon coast. What a laic that old fir could have told if it could talk! About the time it was a sprout, Canute had become king of England, ' Denmark and Norway. He was the chesty character who walked down to the beach one day and COMMANDED THE WAVES TO STAND STILL, and the tide to turn back. Unfortunately, he had boasted in advance of what he was going to do, and quile a crowd was on hand. The waves refused to stand still, and the tide kept right on coming in. Canute had to run for II to keep his feet from getting wcl. SOME lime back, at a mo ment when lie was feeling his oats, Old Kioosh beat him self resoundingly on the chest and boasted lo us: WE WILL UURY YOU!" The old Clatsop fir could have reminded him Ihen, if it could talk, of Canute's un fortunate bragging, and the Try and By BENNETT CERF- LEE FA1HCHILD recalls the story of the village m-f or priest who told his congregation. "Next Sunday I pro pose to give a sermon about liars. 1 suggest that before then you all re.id Chapter 1' of St. Mark's. Came the following Sunday, and the priest began. "Will all those who obliged me by read ing Chapter 17 of St. Mark's please raise their hands." Every right hand in the congregation shot HP Observed the priest, "Thcic happens to be only 16 chapters in St. Mark's. I will now de liver my sermon on liars." Vl'OTAHI.K CJVOTrlS: .nboly v.ho to not believe in miracles in times like these la simply not a realist" Ben tiunon. "Mow sail that ai'tuevement so oft,n marks the death of en uVavor anil the birth of disgust !" Ambrose Hiclve. "I hae never known a person to live to 100 or nioie. and then die. to be reniaik.ible for anything else 'Josh Billinss. "Tlu't e is notHHty so irritating aa somebody w ith li's intelli gence but a lot nioie plain common sense than ve have." IAmi HoroM. "A good listener la not only popular everywhere, but after ft while he knows something." Wilson Mimer. In Long Island they are now teaching subdivision in the third term. C tr fccnnm Cfit. LisUitutft by Kib features Syndicate Of Coure You Know Nut" JENKINS humiliation that followed it. WHEN the old Clatsop Fir was a sapling, Duke Wil liam of Normandy was land ing on the shores of southern England and starting the battle of Hastings. He was a cagey character, and smart to boot. Observing that the shields of the saxons were turning back his arrows, he ordered his bowmen to SHOOT HIGH, so that the arrows would COME DOWN on the Saxons. One of them caught King Harold In the throat-and that was that. The old Clatsop fir would have been approaching mid dle age when the English bowmen, at the Battle of Crccy, got even with the Normans. AND" When the old Clatsop fir was a good-sized sawlog, it saw Glienghis Khan sweep out of what is now Communist China to lag Europe in ashes and blood. It saw Attila's horsemen sweep over Europe -leaving behind them the grim tradition that the grass never grew again where the feet of Attila's horses trod. It's too bad the old fir tree couldn't have talked. It could have told us so many, MANY things about what has gone on in this world of ours. Mikoyan Enjoys Russian Ballet New York-WPIl- Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mik oyan enjoyed some made-in-Moscow entertainment Wed nesday night after a round of talks on the Cuban situation. Mikoyan, U. S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson and other U. S. and Russian negotiators attended a performance of the Bolshoi Ballet at Madison Square Garden. It was the first of a special scries by the Russian ballet corps. Mikoyan and Stevenson stood for the playing of the United States and Russian Na tional anthems, then sat to gether to walch the Bolshoi progra m. Others in the special box included Soviet UN Ambassa dor Valerian A. Zorin and John J. McCloy, chairman of President Kennedy's Co-ordinating Committee on Cuban Policy. Stop Me ...AND TH EN lS SERMON i:Erli. i AMAZINa '"J:"" 1 VI MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Cuban Affair Eased Berlin Crisis, But It Still Is One of Toughest Problems By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Ntwt Analyst Berlin - HOT - The Cuban crisis may have eased tempor arily Communist pressures on Berlin, but the divided city remains one of the world's most acute p r oblems. West Berlin, 9 ine no. 1 in- I I dustrial city lllJ in Germany, nas recovered from the first N'cwsob effects of the wall which the Communists flung across the Communications Letters to the. Editor must certain circumstances the us of a pan na.u or initial for publication is permissible Th Mail Tribune reserves th right to adit all letters with a view to clarification and condansalion. LatUrs submitted for publication must not xced 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent th views of th paper; in tact th contrary is often th case. Deserve Attention To the Editor: I hope the new members of the county commission don't forget the people of this out of the way place. We have been promised a paved road from Prospect to Butte Falls. About eight years ago they paved about 3 miles of it, but that is as far as it went. We were lo get two miles a year but have not yet got any of it. About all we get is a little maintenance off and on. They put a new bridge in across South Fork and haven't yet fixed the approaches and it is real rough. In the winter time the road gets so rough you can hardly drive over it. I think that they could spend some of the money up here instead of so much that is being spent at Howard Prairie and Hyatt lakes. I think we the taxpayers de serve a little attention instead of so much down in the lower end of the county. Ralph Young, P.O. Box 22, Prospect, Oregon. Difficult To Comprehend To the Editor: Well, E. A. has done it again! He has fur ther demonstrated his unique ability at extreme editorial prejudice, as in the MMT 112362 "What Now for Cuba?" In this literary masterpiece, Senator Goldwater is once more condemned for his "mil itant attitude," which appar ently perturbs E. A. consid erably. It seems to me that all patriotic, conservative, a n t i Communist Americans trouble the good editor no end. On the other hand, a paci fist, advocating what amounts to absolute U.S. encourage ment - indeed assistance - of Castro's fanatic effort to com munize the Americas, is up held by the managing editor of the MMT. We are told that these steps of appeasement, as outlined in the above men tioned editorial, are a legiti mate viewpoint, and, as such, should be thought about and discussed, the better to enable Americans lo "arrive at sound, valid and thoughtful conclusions." Do not Mr. Goldwatcr's ideas on this subject likewise constitute a legitimate view point? The way E. A. tossed them aside, it would appear that he docs not consider them so. Why the press continues to heap abuses on anti-communists while rolling out the wel come mat for those who would sell us out completely is diffi cult for this writer to com prehend. 1 suggest the editor study " Ihe Night the Reds Clinched Cuba'' and "The Great De bate: How lo Eight the Cold War" in the November 1962 issue of Reader's Digest. Glenn A. Archibald, 534 Dc Barr, Mcdford. Try Again To the Editor: Ester Robin son in a recent letter in Com munications told us there were some who refused to contribute to the UNICEF pro gram and that there was "some curt, though vague comment about 'not being in terested in helping commu nists'." Josephine Abercrom bie iMT 1 1-25-621. lolls us "alarmed narents" broucht a certain pamphlet to public (?) ! attention, and therefore "no sleuthing'' was required Jo-' sephine Abercrombie told us further, that Freedom Center Identified itself on the pam phlet and did not have to be "tracked ". Well and good: 11 Why the fuss then ' Either the refusals to contribute were too few to be of any real con cern lo anyone, or 21 a rela tively large number of people refused to contribute and peo ple, or someone within the local UN Group "tracked" a significant number of these refusals to Freedom Center. Will Ester Robinson or Jo- sephine Abercrombie please tell us which situation ap- are they not campaigning al plies If No. 1. why the fuss? ! ready to get the laws of the Couldn't the L'N Group Icive I clear states Incorporated in city on Aug. 13, 1961. Orders are being filled and goods are moving steadily on the railroads, highways and canals. About 15,000 new workers have come into the city to make up partially for the 60, 000 lost when the wall went up. The wall itself is a symbol of a fear which West Berliners will have to live with until some solution is reached to the entire problem of Berlin. For Berlin, to live and pros per, must have guaranteed ac cess to the outside world. bear tht nam and address the situation to the good judg ment of most people to ignore any unreasonable or mislead ing publication? If number 2 applies, I again ask - Is the "investigation" and "track ing" down of such a group as Freedom Center within the scope of UNICEF? After all, UNICEF is part of an inter national organization. Our local UNICEF people, it would seem, are not quali fied to "i n v e s t i g a t e," or "track" or "label" any other group. It is not my intention to attempt to minimize the charitable work and interests of Ester Robinson, Josephine Abercrombie or UNICEF, es pecially when their efforts can do so much to augment the many other organizations and individuals already doing the same kind of good work. I would like to try again to get an answer to my ques tion. Robert J. Howard, 702 Beekman St., Medford VFW for Hospital To the Editor: The follow ing letter from the office of the Adjutant General, Veter ans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Kansas City, Mo., should prove of interest to every veteran on the West Coast. "Dear Sir: This will ac knowledge and thank you for your letter of November 13, 1962 addressed to Commander-in-Chief Gentry. "As you perhaps know, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States has gone on record a number of times in favor of the increase of hos pital facilities at White City, Ore. "You may be sure our V.F.W. Legislative Service will work as diligently as pos sible to bring about such an establishment. "With kind regards, 1 am sincerely yours, "E. L. Jenkins, "Assistant Adjutant General Admin." Submitted by David Frisch, White City, Ore. Appreciation To the Editor: Just a brief note to express our sincere ap preciation for the excellent support the Medford Mail Tribune and Rogue Valley sports fans gave our Thanks giving Day "Battle of Cham pions" football game between Whitworth College and South ern Oregon College. The Mcdford Kiwanis club was delighted lo have had a part in bringing this action to Southern Oregon. We also would like to express our thanks for the vital part thai SOC played in presenting this game-without their effort the game simply would not have been possible. Thanks again lo your fine newspaper and all those who had a part in making this game a success. In looking for ward lo more of this type of entertainment, we remain. Billy D. Blackstone, DMD, club president Herb Partridge. Game Chairman. Kiwanis Club, Medford Copy Cats To the Editor: Can you or anyone give us the reason I why the "copy cats" of Cali fornia and Washington who worked so assiduously before our election recently, have retired from copying from the above named states? I saw one of their programs on television, a picture por traying California and Wash inglon to be such beautiful clear slates, and our stale. Oregon, was dark and streaks across it. I never thought I'd see the day when an Ore gonlan would display his or her stale in such bad repute. I'm not an Orrgonian -by birth, but 42 years ago I adopted Oregon, or rather Oregon adopted mc Now, if these people are so happy with the laws of Cali- j fornia and Washington, why Walter Ulbricht, the East Communist boss who has been loudest in his attacks on West Germany and in his demand for a separate peace treaty which would cut off West Ber lin's life stream, at the mo ment is soft-pedaling those de mands and talking instead in vague terms of a German con federation. Presumably, this talk is on orders from Moscow in anoth er of the twists and turns of Communist policy. On the West German side there also may have been a slight softening or switch in policy. of th writtr. although under their cloudy states? If they were sincere about Oregon having same laws as California and Washington, why are they not now trying to move our people to have a state tax, with the Washing ton and California sales tax law copied into our legisla tion by the coming session of our legal body? Under what cover are they hiding? I go to Los Angeles two or three times a year and some times I wander into Washing ton as far as Seattle and I pay the sales tax gladly for the two states take better care of their, old people, much bet ter than we do, so I'm told. Also they have money for more road building, I'm told. I've not heard of any plan to tunnel under the Siskiyou mountain as California is do ing under Oregon mountain. Sales tax seems reasonable for wc brag about so many mil lions of dollars spent in Ore gon by tourists. They tax us north and south and why can't these people start a movement lo put Oregon in a clear pic ture? This is not intended as a personal affront to anyone. Jouetl P. Bray 317 Lozier Lane Medford. What More Do You Want? To the Editor: No, chlorine is not fluoride. It is a neces sary evil. But if we were without it, something real ser ious might strike the commu nity. The water as it comes down from the hills runs through spots of filth and among other things, is known to pick up malaria germs. Chlorine kills such germs and makes the water safe to drink. Human beings all have a tiny amount of chlorine in their body, so if you happen to be short of your quota of chlor ine, here it is in your city water, in addition to protec tion against malaria. What more do you want? John E. Ring 1049 West 11th st. Medford. SOS To the Editor: To what lengths or measures does one have to go to in order to get decent AM-FM radio broad casting in the Medford area? The only choice you have, if you can call it choice, is west ern music, news every three minutes, rock and roll (which shouldn't really be considered music), or constant repetition of the same taped music. FM radio used to be a haven where a listener could find tranquil and dulcet music. I However, now you hear the I same programming on FM I that you find on AM, that is ! from sign on to 7:45 p.m. ! when regular FM broadcast-! ing resumes. If this program- immk nas niL-i uie sausiacuon oi ine majority men 1 am wasting time and space. I therefore will revert to re cordings. R T. Panuccio 1755 South Peach st. Mcdford SANTAS NEEDED1. I APPLY HERE , . I Mtll.v.M r j illt.lt,U HWIUM- l all "It starts out. 'Yes. Virginia, there it a Senle Cltut . . Mult be son tort of t loyalty e.lh they want us 0 ,ign ...... West German Foreign Min ister Gerhard Schroeder hint, ed as much in Washington re cently. Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer, who adamantly has op posed any sor' of recognition for East Germany, has indica ted he might agree to soma sort of international guarantee of Berlin access such as al ready is in effect on some of Europe's great rivers, such as the Danube and the Rhine. On such a commission East Germany would have a voice, at least as agent acting for tha Soviet Union. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris tc- Field Cnterprlsea Ine. PERSONAL PREJUDICES Equally obnoxious is tha man who is assertively proud of his healthiness, and tha woman who is (with a fina air of martyrdom and self sacrifice) proud of her sickli ness. A new anthropological theory, just advanced, is that mankind evolved not once but five different times from the primates which makes much more sense in accounting for the existence of an Einstein and an Eich mann within the same spe cies. The only effective lime to keep a boy from getting into serious trouble is about 10 years before it happens; but such "preventive delinquen cy" is still a scaled book lo most parents, both at the low er and at the upper ends of the economic spectrum. A paradox of flattery was neatly exposed by Washing ton Irving, when he ob served that "Whenever a man's friends begin to com-' pliment him aboi . looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old." Some men apparently feel that the great commandment, "Love they neighbor." is too perfectionist for them lo meet; therefore, they havo modified it and scaled it down to the modern level - "Lova thy neighbor's wife." Whenever I hear one per son say of another, "Well, he grows on you." I always envision a personality some what like a fungus. Dogs are servile creatures, and not at all the discerning judges of character they are popularly supposed to be; my attitude toward them is ona of huge indifference, if not ac tive antipathy, and yet they invariably muzzle me as ar dently as if I were Albert Pay son Terhune. Suicides are usually com mitted not by those who are disappointed with life, but by those who are disappoint ed with themselves; not by those who feel that life has failed them, but by those who feel that they have fail ed life; and thus their act is not a rejection of the world but a repudiation of self, not so much a sin against God (which always involves pride) but a sickness of the soul (which involves a pa thetic loss of self-respect). Some unhappy wives taka their revenge on a husband by being promiscuous, but tha more subtle ones takes their revenge by remaining ten- i acumsiy laithful. What the ardent alumnus apparently wants most of all is lo get his ion admitted to the same college he went to, where he will presumably learn as little as his father did.