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I SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2. 196 J MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON MEDFORCvWTBIBUNI "Everyone in Southern Oregon ReadsTlie MatlTrlbune'; f ubllKhed Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S3 North Flrt- Ph.77ll-61Vt ROBERT W RUHU Editor HIRB OREV Advertising Manajet GERALD T LATHAM. Bui Mgr KR1C W ALLEN J.?.. Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHEH Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON.ClrculatlonMgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act o! March 3. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 yearilB OO Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moi. 5.00 Sunday Only One year $3.00 Single Copy (Mailed) 20c By Carnei And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year 121.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1.75 Sunday Only I mo. 50c Carrlcl andVendors Copy 10c Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire t). P. I Telephoto Newsplcturei "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" Of CIRCULATIONS Advertisln NKT.KfiN ins RpnrMnntntlve: IN ROBERTS & ASSOCI. ATKS Offices tn New York. Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland Denver. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ggjQ lAigKgT.gN IHIUnlaHIIMU NEWSPAPER UBLISHERS SOCIATION Flight o' Time Medfofd and Jackson County History from tht files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dsc. 2, 1952 ( Monday) A definile increase in the number of gift fruit packages leaving tlie Hogue valley by parcel post this year was re ported by O. W. DeJarnett, su perintendent of mails at the Medford post office. The best yearly financial showing so far for Hawthorne swimming pool has been re ported to the city council by Councilman Harold Fryc. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 2, 1942 (Tuesday) Southern Oregon college to offer short evening courses in business and occupational sub jects as war service. From Arthur Perry's "Yc Smudge Pot" column: "The pioneers were a clever lot. In discussing cot fee rationing with them, it is discovered that they made coffee out ot everything but coffee." 00 YEARS AGO Dec. 2, 1932 (Thursday) Medford City Recorder M. L. Alford reports city will start IBM with a financial def icit of $155,000 because of de linquent taxes. Price of milk delivered to Medford customers goes down to nine cents a quart; grocers charging eight cents a quart for cash payments. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 2. 1922 (Friday) Medford Attorney Glenn O. Taylor appointed deputy clerk of United States district court here. David Belasco's production of "The Gold Diggers" sched uled at Vining theater in Ash land. SO YEARS AGO Dec. 2, 1912 (Sunday) Jackson county grand jury Indicts four boxers and "local boxing Imprcssario" for "ar ranging a prize fight." Ashland slates city election on a $25,000 bund issue for an electric lighting system. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine at ten cornet Is superior; seven or eight Is eicsllenti rive ei lit ts good. 1. In what language was Hie New Testament written originally? 2. The Falcon in the mas cot of which service academy footbull team? 3. What living creatures arc used to detect gas in coal mines? 4. Whose portrait appears on the one dollar bill? 5. Are gorillas herbivo rous, carnivorous, or omni vorus? 6. What stale touches both Nebraska and Idaho? 7. If a crab loses a claw, can it grow another one? 8. Which Is more brittle, cast Iron or wrought Iron? 9. Name five fruits begin ning with the letter "p". 10. What substance is rubbed on violin strings and a boxer's shoes? Answers. 1. Greek. 2. Air Force. 3. Canaries. 4, Wash ington. & Herbivorous. 6. Wyoming. 7. Yei. . Cesl Iron. 9. Peach, prune, pear, plum, pineapple. 10. Rosin. I -ZZ-T Forest Range Problems One can understand, and sympathize with, the concern of livestock men when faced with reduction in the number of cattle they are per mitted to graze on the public lands. To some of them, any major reduction would be the difference between a profitable opera tion and one which could not make its own way. Others would be faced with costly alternatives. There is the additional fact that many of them have been using the public ranges, man aged by the U.S. Forest Service for their owners, the people of the United States, for many years, and have a proprietary feeling about them. IT MAY seem, on the face of it, that the Forest Service's action in moving to reduce grazing is arbitrary, capricious and without justification the old "bureaucracy in action" business again. "Why," one may ask, "can some chair-borne for ester tell us how many cattle we can run on ue ranges we've used for years?" The answer to all these is the fact that this is no hasty nor unconsidered action. It is being proposed because years of over-grazing, and lack or enective range management, have caused a severe deterioration of the range, which has re duced forage, caused erosion, and is threatening further damage which might be irreparable. The Forest Service maintains that, under its legal responsibilities, "it cannot permit the. con tinued destruction of a resource belonging to all of the people." IN A recent summary, the Forest Service set forth its position. The following brief excerpts are the core of it: "Over a period of years Forest personnel have be come concerned about erosion, particularly in the Sis kiyou portion of the Forest. The quartz-diorite and mica schist types of soils are very susceptible to ero sion and are very thin soils. Irreparable damage can easily be done . . . "The permittees are mostly small operators, run ning from 50 up to 150 head of cattle. Many run less than 100. The cattle are turned loose in the spring and gathered in the fall. Very little riding or salting are done. In fact, there is not a hired rider operating on the entire Forest. Consequently, permittee manage ment is poor. "This coupled with desultory management activity by the Forest Service for many years presents a prob lem. The Forest Service is faced with the tradition of stockmen running cattle as they pleased and the fact that erosion of soil and range deterioration has become serious. In order to protect the soil resource it is nec essary to adjust the numbers of permitted cattle to the carrying capacity of the range . . . "The management plans call for a reduction In ani mal use months over a period of time up to six years. This gradual method of Retting the land under manage ment is being used to cause as little as possible dis ruption to the permittees. "The aims are to follow through on the plans and have the range under complete management by lt)b'8. In all cases the preliminary plans will first be dis cussed with the permittees, suggestions invited, these suggestions incorporiiled where possible, the plans studied, and the range put under management. "Summing up, the following must be considered: "-After many years use (he range now suffers from erosion and deterioration. "-The Forest Service must manage the range to prevent the above. "-The range analysis whs made by a qualified range technician following the standards set up by the divi sion of research . , . "-The fact that cattle come off the range f:it is no criterion of range condition nor does it tuke into ac count damage to the resource. "-The Forest Service realizes that this has a severe impact on the permittees but it cannot permit the con tinued destruction of a resource belonging to all the people." "THE Forest Service is required by law to man age National Forest lands for multiple use, and for sustained yield of all the varied resources. In this instance one range forage on which stockmen depend is be ing threatened, not necessarily with immediate destruction, but with long-range damage which eventually would be irreparable, in the course of which other values such as watershed and rec reation would also suffer. The Forest Service is neither omnipotent nor immune to errors, but in this case, it appears to us, it is following the only course it can and still uphold its responsibilities to "the greatest good for the greatest number in the long run." E A. Don't Hold There arc some situations which arc, to a cool and detached eye, so ridiculous that they border on insanity. And to add to the ridiculousness, any sane proposal to correct the matter would be, in prac tical terms, impossible. Abe Mcllinkoff of the San Francisco Chron icle points ui t,lp such ludicrous example, as follows: "In the same week, Senator Harry Clolilwater says It's un-American tn .spend $3 billion a year to cut down our farm production and Premier Nikila Khrush chev says he's spending almost the same amount to boost his. "Maybe Goldwater and Khrushchev ought to get to gether and make a deal to rescue both Americanism and Communism. "We stop our payments to farmers, Russia takes our farm surpluses and Washington and Moscow both save five billion bucks. Even if it doesn't solve the peace problem, it solves the farm problem which is even tougher." Would such a solution be possible in today's international political climate'.' Of course not. Is it an eminently sound, sensible and sane sugges tion? Of course it is. But don't hold your breath until it's put into effect. E.A. of the resources the Your Breath Roof Of hi'- -ft iShii.iw fJSr Drummond Reports (Walter Lippmann Is In Europe. Roicoc Drummond reports from Washington in his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. WILL BRITAIN GET IN? London Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is increas ingly confident that he will not have to take no for an answer to Britain's bid to join the European Common Mar ket. Mr. Macmillan has never been more intent, more earnest, more determined to cast aside Britain's historic aloofness from the continent and become a full-fledged partner in both a politically and economically united Western Europe Uian today. To speed the decision and to facilitate it, Mr. Macmillan is taking personal charge of the negotiations and is acting to create the climate at the highest level so that the tech nicians can more easily reach their agreements. This is one of the major purposes of his trip to Paris nd Washington next month to confer with President de Gaulle and President Ken nedy. His objective is to reach a political decision at the top so that the uncertain divisive haggling over conditons can be resolved by mutual con cessions. He knows that Gen. de Gaulle's attitude is crucial. He believes Mr. Kennedy can - and will - help. He is pre pared to make reasonable con cessions himself. All of this means that the big push to bring Britain into the European Economic Com munity is in the making. w WILL IT succeed? The premise of the most objective observer s the European and American jour nalists who have been cover ing the Brussels negotiations is that in the end the tran sitional economic disagree ments will be settled and Britain will be In. But their estimate is not as optimistic as Mr. Macmillan's. They see Britain's entry as probable, but not certain and certainly not automatic. Some sec is as little more than 50-50. The resistance among the continental Six to the transi tional concessions which Brit ain feels It needs to adapt its sheltered agriculture to Euro pean competition and to case the effects on Commonwealth trade Is not without some rea son. The Europeans invited Britain at the outset to join In founding the Common Market and the British refused. Now that the Six have done all the hard preliminary work and have lived through its Try and -By BENNETT CERF- AVONIJKRFUL arc the ways of Washington bureaucracy! " Here's a story about a California!! who applied through regular channels for a job in Washington he knew he was qualified to fill. While cooling his heels await ing a reply, lie happened to meet in person, in San Francisco, the head of the very agency to which he had applied, and was given the position on the spot. The scene now shifts to Washington. Our Cah fornian had been doing a fine job there for three months when a letter was forwarded to hint from his old address telling him that, unfortunately. his application for the job he was now holding down had been denied because he lacked the necessary qualifications. And here's the kicker: The letter had been signed by himself. Jav Ward, producer of one of TV's most successful show, "liiillw inkle," told Columnist Herb Stem about a letter he re ceived from a youthful fan that trail: "My father 1ms been diffi rult Willi me. Kvery time he drutka a certain cocktail lie throws nic aroiinit the room. hut can I do?" Waiit answered, "Send us your dud's recipe. Several fellows w ho wotk on our show ara having tixmble Willi their kius, too"' Two excerpts fumt schoohvom oomixis:lion rvvitel by Art I.lnkletter: 1. "Kobinsnn C iru.NO w as a great smm-r, ur.foi Innate ly shipwrecked." 2. "blush is anow wttli all the fun melted out.' e 194. bjr BenBStt Csrf. Distributed by Ktnf features Syodicste The World uncertainties to make the Common Market a burgeoning success, they hardly feel called upon to make excessive concessions to include the once recalcitrant British. Furthermore, at one time the Italians, the Belgians, and particularly the Germans felt that Britain, while eager to get the economic advantages of the Common Market, was intent upon retarding the political integration of Europe which the others feel must and should accompany its eco nomic integration. There is now little, or no, basis for this kind of resist ance to British entry. Mr. Macmillan has shown every evidence of wishing to be an active ally of European polit ical unity and the economic concessions he is seeking, pri marily for Commonwealth food products, would be tem porary to ease the transition. it is President de uauue who appears to be the prin cipal resister. Having made the great rapprochement with Germany, he hesitates to share his leadership in Europe with Britain as well. And while France wants access to the British market on low tariff terms, it doesn't relish competing with the Common wealth countries. Also, de Gaulle is against any political federation. This is why Prime Minister Macmillan's meeting with Gen. de Gaulle in Paris next month is crucial. Out of it will come the Common Mar ket breakthrough or another long period of painful and, perhaps, stalemated negotia tions. r MIE survival of the Mac millan government is deeply involved. But it is in accurate to suggest that the Prime Minister is playing pol itics witli a matter as grave as his country's entry into the Common Market. He courag eously initiated this step when British public opinion was either indillcrent or hostile to joining and he is pushing it now that British opinion is showing itself anti-Conserva tive party and pro-Common Market. But there is little chance that Britain's Conservative government can survive a general election if Britain's entry into the European Eco nomic Community remains in serious doubt. This, in part, is why Mr. Macmillan is acting to resolve that doubt as soon as possible. Stop Matter of Fact ey New York Herald Tribune Syndicate TOTAL NEWS-CONTROL Washington Political sys tems evolve quite unavoid ably, like most other organ isms. But for healthy evolu tion, three rules must al ways be ob served when any political system is to J be profoundly cnangea. Such chang- aisiid es should never be made arbitrarily and hugger-mugger, without pru dent recognition oi their real importance. Such changes should never be made without due regard to past experience. Such changes should never be made without the most careful consideration of the dangers they may later give rise to. In the matter of the news control directives issued by the Pentagon and State De partment in the Cuban crises, President Kennedy has now violated all three of the fore going rules. While withdraw ing the State Department di rective, the President has kept the far more vicious and rad ical Pentagon directive in force. THIS decision to continue the Pentagon news-control di rective is much less tentative and temporary, moreover than the President has some what over-cleverly sought to make it seem. The matter was in fact weighed with some care by the President himself and Secretary of Defense Rob ert McNamara. They conclud ed, according to report, that they would like to wait and see "how it works out." What might have been ex cused as an expedient in the white-hot days of the Cuban crisis thus acquires semi permanence in fact, full permanence, unless public protest is too strong. No pro test can be too vehement, for this is not just a profound political change; it is also a change in a viciously danger ous direction. The mechanics of the change are simple to the point of being deceptive. The Penta gon directly forbids any of ficial of the Defense Depart ment to meet with a "repre sentative of the news media" (meaning any person having the task of maintaining the flow of public information, which makes the wheels of democracy go round) unless one of three conditions is ful filled. TUIE conditions are that the - official talking to a re porter must either be accom panied by one of the bun- faced minions of the Pentagon public relations branch; or he must be accompanied by an other official of some rank; or, if he goes it alone, he must send a memorandum in writ ing to the bun-faced minions, noting that he has just seen Mister X to discuss Topic Y. To persons with reportorial experience, including Secre tary McNamara, this directive may seem innocent enough. In fact, however, it is an instru ment of total news-control. - The control is potentially total because no officer or of ficial in his senses will dare to see any reporter who has got into serious hot water with the Secretary of Defense, by reporting what the Secre tary wishes to conceal. The price of reportorial independ ence, in lact, will be a news blackout. emoirs By ERIC SEVAREID This is an intramural exer cise. I hoist the warning flag at once because I have quarrels among p u n -d i t s of (lie press and the air waves. Put it d o w n to what psychia trists on the witness stand call the "irresistible impulse." Perhaps my resistance was lowered in London, where there is no such thing as "cold print." In London every morning's newsprint steams, smokes and sometimes bclche flame. Their worst papers are worse than our worst; their best are better than our best in style and intellectuality, if not in news content; but near ly all meet on one level in the art and practice of slamming f I iMFv'T J clcar ldca of : himself, and if he can't do it 3tho P,ll,ic in-:by verbal skill he can try it I t tercst '" " r .by verbal violence. The Lon- H d-Zf'fi "'e '",n" !'C d"n P;'l'crs arc nearly all na Uf 1 importance of, Honal paprrs, intensely com- : 4 H Mevarrid each other's columnists and j American journalism, possess editorialists. To the outsider ! es a duality of toughness it may seem an endless tem pest in the breakfast teapot, bill it stimulates the gastric juices no end. If Fleet Street resembles a cockpit full of flashing spurs and flying feathers - and occasional tumoles of high hilarity - there are reasons for it besides the English tra ditiju that no gentleman in- Joseph Altop NOT ALL reporters value their independence, to be sure. Only a small number challenged the flagrant un truths of former Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson, or the fatuous cover-ups of Charles E. Wilson, or the in adequacies of Neil McElroy. For those who tried, for in stance, to explain the reai nature of the Louis Johnson disarmament program, which produced the Korean War, nine out of ten formerly open doors in the Pentagon slam med shut with a loud bang. If the McNamara order had then been in force, every single door all the thousands of them would hava slammed shut; and any exposure of Louis Johnson would have been utterly impossible. The McNamara order in fact leaves this country naked as a jaybird, without the smallest protection, against the other Wilsons, Louis John sons, and McElroys who inev itably lurk in the American future. That it isinherent, ir remediable, practical vice, which is just as bad as the vice in principle of its clearly anti-democratic tendency. TT IS perfectly silly, more--l ever, to talk about seclra how an order of this character will "work out," while Sec retary McNamara Is in charge of the Defense Department. He promises to be a remark able Secretary of Defense, in the grand tradition of Robert A. Lovett and the late James V. Forrestal. Being the kind of man he is, although McNamara is the creator of this instrument of total news-control, he will not use his instrument for that purpose, any more than Lovett or Forrestal would have done. But that is small comfort, compared to the sim ple fact that an instrument of total news-control has now been brought into being. As long as such an instru ment exists, it will be used to the full, sooner or later, if not by McNamara, then by the next man, or the next-man-but-one who inherits Mc Namara's responsibilities. One of the essential safeguards of this republic the safeguard provided by free ventilation and debate of facts of vital public interest has thus been struck down. "I don't agree with that sponsor's product. If this the most of it . . . 1" fffll$$ & Nip UwJL i Mm Can Be Too Soon, Too Much suits another, save on pur pose. In Britain the life of a journalist is a grubby life un less he can draw attention to petitive, with no safe circula tion districts in which to re lax. And British writers, I suspect, take one another as their targets partly because what they write about the world no longer matters so much to the world. American pundits did not behave so very differently when America was a small and isolated power. But today we are a sober-sided lot, in stincticely respectful of one another's tors and thin-skinned to the point of hurt feel ings when a confrere takes us on, in our very cold print. Fortunately, the young Mr. Emmet Hughes, clearly des tined for' a major role in matching the quality of his talrnts. He w ill .not feel that I am doing a terrible thing to him when I say that he has done a terrible thing to for mer President Elsenhower and several others with his revelations in a magazine and a forthcoming book of Eisen hower's impulsive comments about other American leader, made in his unguarded mo- In the Day's News By FRANK As this is written Fiiday morning. I've just finished skimming the news sections of two of the West s best newspapers the San Fran cisco Chronicle and the Port land Oregonian. The Chronicle, on its front page, has not a single item re ferring to the cold war that so long has dominated the news. The Oregonian has on its Page One only one such story a squib from Moscow about three inches long relat ing that the communist party and the Soviet government have ordered into effect an inspection system making every Russian workman a watchman against cheating and poor workmanship and designed to speed up produc tion by getting the most out of every worker and to TRAP embezzlers. WHAT does it mean? Is the cold war fizzling out? Or is It just a calm before the storm? WHAT'S all this news about? Well, from Los Angeles comes a tale to the effect that here we are, barely into the jet age, and the aircraft com panies are already planning planes to fly us three times faster than sound. They have instructed their researchers to find out how to make a five hour flight to Europe (from L. , A.) comfortable and heathy. The problems, the story says, are immense. "Mach 3" flights (meaning three times the speed of sound) will have to be made at altitudes of 75,000 feet or more. Tempera ture controls must cope with 500-degree heat on the outside surface of the plane. Violent displacement can upset body functions and give a man a fever, disturb his glands, alter his blood and in terfere with his sleep for a week. Cabin pressures will have to be fool-proof, for a moment's exposure to the near-vacuum of high altitudes would cause a passenger's blood to boil and his heart to develop a vapor lock. SOUNDS pleasant, doesn't it? Relaxing-if one has nerves of steel. commentator boycott the be censorship, then make ments with his intimates, of I thought, "Ah, God, my closest whom Hughes was one. i colleague may write a boost It is not news to many of - tomorrow"? us who worked in Washing-1 No private journalist is en ton during the Eisenhower j tirely a private citizen. To years that the President was I some degree he carries a pub often bored by John Foster lie responsibility and there Dulles, regarded Adlai Ste venson as a self-conscious "faker." and distrusted Rich ard Nixon's essential capacity for the presidency. Indeed, some of these altitudes and outbursts found their way intfr print, in one informal manner or another. But to print them now in the form of semi-official biographical material, privileged material of the most intimate kind, carrying the cachet of one who accepted the President's (trust and not as a future biographer but as a present confident - to print them now (with Mr. Eisenhower so re cently out of office, still alive and active and in public con tact with men he co r I a t e d - surely wrong. then ex-ia this is Presidents are human be ings, harried human beings, and they cannot possibly maintain their public face with their private friends and assistants. If they cannot let down in private, whether to curse, denounce or even to weep, they would soon crack up. How are they to work, to endure, if they are daily haunted by the thought, not. "Ali. that mine adversary had written it book,'' but the JENKINS But Speed is the god of tha modern world. We MUST go fast, or we'll fall behind. If one isn't up-to-date, one isn't living. SO MUCH for Los Angeles. From Portland conies another tale of the modern world. It starts out like this: Oregon college students, particularly those in the Port land area, are ' swallowing PEYOTE these days - and are thereby getting multi-colored visions never dreamed of by campus goldfish swallowers. One experimenter has writ ten: "I saw what Adam saw on the morning of the cre ation." Another reports: "Pey ote buttons make me so sick that I think I must hava imagined the hallucinations. It tastes awful." VTHY chew the stuff? " Well, one has to do what is being done. Otherwise, ona won't be up-to-date. There's this to be said for peyote: It isn't habit-forming. There has never been a reported peyote: addiction case. , k NYVVAY This modern world Is quit a world. Editorial Comment DECENT AND WISE The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools hae permitted the University of Mississippi to keep its ac creditation. Loss of the valua ble accreditation was threat ent because of the Barnett Meredith business early in the fall. The association's de cision was both decent and wise. The Mississippi problem will be solved when, and only when, Mississippi people ac commodate themselves to tha ways of a modern world. And they will so accommodate themselves when their own leadership leads them in that direction. A strong university is essential. If the University of Mississippi is not all it should be today, then tha answer is to strengthen it, not to weaken it. Trie villians in the Missis sippi morality play were not the boys and girls who, now or in the future, depend up on the state university. It would have been manifestly unfair to punish them for tha ways of their ciders. However, as the association made clear, this sort of thing must not go on. If political interference into academic af fairs continues, it warned, tha accreditation will be with drawn. The effect of this, aside from the harm it would do the students, would be to arouse important elements in the state. Mississippi is proud of the university. The peopla might punish those responsi ble for the loss of accredita tion. In this manner, tempor ary loss of accreditation might end some political careers. But its strong medicine. If Ihe threat is sufficient, then Mississippi's leaders might come to their senses. It is far better to try the threat first, hoping thus to protect the interests of lho.se who should not be hurt. Eugene Register-Guard. fore adjures some materials. His own sense of history and his own taste delermincs that degree; no hard rule of limi tation is ever possible. But when a certain, however in definable, line is overstepped, it becomes apparent; it is glaringly apparent in the casa of Mr. Hughes, however bril liant and fascinating his reve lations are. Of course, truth will out; It must, even the little, personal truths about such a one as a President of the United States. But life is long. Tha country will endure. Journal ism may be "the first draft of history," but there is such thing as a draft that is too soon, with too much. We need not be in such a fever to up root, masticate, devour and relish every intimate morsel concerning the private thoughts and impulses of our public men, as if there wera no tomorrow. We seem, in this country, to be losing the healthy clement of space in cur hie together. Let us not destroy time, which heals many thing,, and along with space Is a precious protector. (Distributed 1962. by The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Reserved)
