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FRIDAY. MEDF0RIJ$2WrRlBUNI ""'Everyone liTSouthern Oregon ReadaJTheMail Tribune" Published Dily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. J3 North Fir Jit.. PhJ72-li ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertiainl ManaM rroil n T I ATHAM. BUS. MRf ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mne. Editor EARL H ADAMS, i-iiy a"YA iiAnnv rmpMAN Te ti Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ERlCK:UIUl-irt;u!uim i.ui. inirriTunnt Newinaoer Entered aa aecond ciaaa matter at Mcdford, oreRon. unuci ni.. w. March 3. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES o .. mitl In AHvanci. Daily and Sunday 1 yeri;.no Daily and Sunday 6 mne 10 00 Daily and Sunday 3 moa. 5 00 Sunday Only One year 5 00 Sinsle Copy (Mailed! b.. f-........ Anri Mntnr Route. 'Dally and Sunday 1 year M-"0 Dailv and bunoay i mo. i... c.nuu Hniv I mo. OOC Carrie! andendor. Copy 10c Official Paper of City" of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Preia International Full Leased Wire U. P I Tclephoto Newipleturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OFC!RCULATIONS XdvcrfMii Representative: NELSON ROBEBTS & ASSOCI ATES OfUces In New York. Chi rac Detroit. San Francisco. Loa Ansel's. Seattle. Portland Dcn'-er. NATIONAL EDITORIAL sjcQtin 'Hint: l.'.I.U I PUBLISHEHl ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Mcdford and Jackson County History from the flies ot Th Mall Trlbun. 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ao. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 7, 19S2 (Saturday) Wayne Morse, Oregon's junior senator, will be the guest speaker at an assembly Wednesday at Southern Ore gon college. Plans for construction of a 400-car driven-in theater at Crater Lake highway and Biddle rd. were announced to day by R. P. Corbin, southern Oregon manager for Lipperl theaters. 20 YEARS AGO Doe. 7, 1942 (Sunday) Jackson rounly residents purchase $29,367 in war bonds on first anniversary of attack on Pearl Harbor. From Arthur Perry's 'Ye Smudge Pol" column: "Gas rationing has abolished H5 mph business in Jackson coun ty without revealing what business in Jackson county neccssilatcd going 85 mph.' 30 YEARS AGO Doc. 7, 1932 (Tuesday) Temperature In Medford drops to 10 degrees above zero, coldest in almost three years. Medford firms and private citizens donate food, clothing and material for Lion's relief kilchen and shelter here. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 7, 1922 (Wednesday) Medford High school of ficials attempting to schedule football gnme with Scott High school of Toledo, O.. for mythical national champion- snin- j Road work between Mcd ford and Prospect suspended for winter as first snow falls In Prospect area. 50 YEARS AGO Dec. 7, 1912 (Friday) Medford fight fans raise $1,000 to be sent to San Fran cisco and wagered on Boxer Dud Anderson, local favorite. Omnha railroad conductor received $2,000 reward for rapturing Medford man ac cused of robbing train in Kansas. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten con.ct ll superior; seven er eight Is eicellent; five el ail is good. 1. Who won the world's heavyweight boxing cham pionship from Boh Fitzsim ninns? 2. What is the lowest rank ing chessman? ;t. In Contract Bridge, what bid, successfully made, would give the highest score? 4. Is the Yukon territory principally In Canada or Alas ka" 5. What rank dors a new West Point graduate hold in the Army? 6. What type ot rlnlh and a log road share the same name? 7. In which religion is Ra madan a holy month? 8. What part did Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders play In WWI? fl. Give tlc next three num bers in tliis logical sequence 5 7 10 6 8 11 7 9 12. 10. Correct the following sentence: "lie lay Hie book nn the Inble." Answers: 1. James J. J-; Ties. 4. rawn. j. seven no trump... vulnerable, doubled and re-doubled, 4. Canada. J. Second lieulenant. 6. Cordu roy. 7. Islam. 8. None: Spanish-American. 9. I 10 13. 10. "He laid . . ." DECEMBER 7. 1S6J Five Slaps in the Face When the Medford postmastei'ship became vacant before the November general election, Sen. Wayne Morse asked for a recommendation from the Democratic Central Committee here for a man to fill the job. The chairman of the central committee de cided to appoint a screening committee composed of six men, most of whom had in the past served as county chairman; one a former state chair man. This was approved by the senator and by the central committee, over the protests of some members. The screening committee asked for, and re ceived, a number of applications. After consid erable time and study, it narrowed its list of candidates down to five, all persons who were fully qualified for the post. 1VIEANWHILE, it became known that Marvin Madden, the county clerk seeking reelection, was "available" for the job, though not, in his own words, an "active candidate." Nor had he submitted an application. There was an element in the party wnicn urged Madden to continue with his election cam paign, so that the Democrats could "hold on to the county clerkship. Then, if Madden were to be named postmaster, the county court would have to. appoint his successor as clerk, and by law would have to name a Democrat. Subsequent to the election, at a central com mittee meeting, Madden was prominently boosted for the postmastership, and said later that he would accept, if named. But he still made no formal application for the office. I AST Tuesday night the central committee met M-4 again. It heard trie committee, and the names of the five persons who, having applied, committee. But the party's small and political opportunists decided that the cau tion and good sense of the committee chairman, and the hard work of the screening committee, amounted to nothing. So they placed in nomination Marvin Mad den's name, and in a session that was marked by impassioned speeches and emotional appeals, finally managed to convince a bare majority of the 65 committee members attending (of a potential membership of 246) that they were light. "THUS they effectively slapped the faces of: 1. Senator Morse, who had approved the or derly procedure originally outlined ; 2. The central committee chairman; 3. The screening committee of long-time, dedicated and loyal party servants; 4. All those, Democrats and Republicans alike, who had voted in eoocl faith for Marvin Madden for county clerk, and had every right to expect him to serve if 5. The 14 Democrats applied for the job thinking they had some leg itimate hope ot the appointment, ana, more specifically, the five who finally were selected for recommendation. In doing these things, they have set party organization and harmony back by ten years. Senator Morse and Congressman-elect Bob Duncan should take a long hard look at the re sults of these political shenanigans before mak ing a decision on whom they will recommend to the postal authorities. K. A. Copy Deadlines Kvcry once in a while we receive from some public relations outfit or another a request to tell them when our "copy deadline" is. Whenever this happens, we immediately suspect that whoever sent out the query knows mighty little about newspaper operations. We don't have one copy deadline we have a whole raft of them. Publishing a newspaper is, in one sense, a manufacturing process, one which is started from scratch each day, and it has schedules and dead lines which must be observed if the production process is to be orderly and efficient. "Tile; copy deadline, for instance, for church page news is noon Thursday. This enables the church editor to process the copy and get it to the printing department in enough time for it be set in type and placed in the church page Friday. Other departments have other deadlines. The women's page closes at 9 a.m., the regional page at 9:M a.m., and the sports page at 10 a.m. The editorial page usually closes at 8 a.m., and those who bring in letters for Communica tions at 11 o'clock in the morning are going to be disappointed. Most editorial page copy is processed the previous afternoon. T11KRK are other deadlines for other types of copy. A completed page is closed every few minute's during the morning. The last to close are the page for locals and personals, obituaries and markets. Page 2, and Page 1, in that order. Last minute changes for bulletins or other late-break-inir news can be made on Pa ire 1 up to a few minutes before closing time. j In some instances, Page 1 can even be held; for an expected news break, or even be called biu k and l'l'-lliadc if the sufficiently important. So, when a bright young PR man asks know ingly when our "copy deadline" is, we assume that he doesn't know much about newspapers and, in his business, he'd better find out. K. A. report or me screening were approved by the group of string-pullers elected; who, in good faith, new development is &WiiTytit of i H I u u m. ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen na.ue or initial tor publication is permissible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper) in fact the contrary is olten the case. Charity Begins at Home To the Editor: On Tuesday, Dec. 4, the Medford Mail Trib une published a letter from an, apparently, very religious and God-fearing man plead ing for support of the mis sionaries around the world who are trying to convert "heathens" into Christians. This man begs for response so here is mine. This man has a beautil thought but not very practi cal, I'm afraid. I am a strong believer in the old saying, "charity begins at home." In my estimation, missionaries should be supported in the south of our own United Slates to strive for the rights of the American Negro. To me, the whites in the South who burn churches, schools and homes of the Ne gro, the "adult" people who throw stones at Negro chil dren and prevent their attend ing school, white parents who teach their children to hate, even though these people be lieve in The Almighty, they are the true heathens of the world. In my verbal war against segregation, people always say, "You don't know what it's like to live around the Negroes." This statement is absolutely ridiculous. I don't care what they are like to live next door to; they are Americans, they are taxpayers, they are God's children. My sympathy lies with the black American and not the black foreigner. May God have mercy on the "Christians" of these Unit ed States. Mrs. R. J. Gilinsky Route 2, Box 267A Central Point, Ore. Persecution by Government To the Editor: In discussing the new expense account regu lations with numerous busi ness men, I have come to feel Strictly Personal By Sydney Field Enterprises. Inc. WHAT CHRISTMAS COULD BECOME Christmas could become the kind of holiday it should be:- If the loudspeakers blasting out "Silent Night" paid Harm ocity of the Green Bav Packers' backfield in motion; If climbing families did not vie against each other in the elaborateness of their Christmas cards, and In stead contributed some of the surplus expenditure to worthy charity; If the liquor industry refrained from displaying pic tures of Jolly old Santa Claus dispensing booze to the populace; If the Christinas-through-New-Year period were de voted to amending the thoughtlessness and rudeness of Ihe rest of the year, rather than resembling an inebrt aled lunatic asylum run by the inmates; If less hysteria and more titste, care and conservatism were exercised in the purchase of gifts, so that the week after Christmas would not find the "return'' rounters of shops In a state of utter chaos and collapse; If children were taught that Christmas i a season for giving, not just for grabbing, so that the self-centercd-ness that is encouraged for the holidays does not hRve to be curbed In January for children are incapable of understanding why an attitude that is fostered In one week is frowned upon in the next; If the hearty friendliness could be laid on a little less heavily, so that there would be mote left to spretd over Ihe rest of the year, when It Is so badly needed: If more people would ponder upon the real reason why He Whose birthday we are celebrating was called the "Prtnce of Peace. " and what this should mean in terms of our own conduct; And, most of all, if we forgot all Ihe world perver sions encrusting Jesus' birthday and celebrated by remembering: "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so lo them; (or thij Is Ihe law and the prophets " MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON T w--H"-t-a. PeMT- that a breakdown In our form of government is not too far away. Their attitude has been: "Why should I protest, I have enough trouble with the In ternal Revenue Department already. If I would write a letter of protest they would be right out here going over my books for weeks. 1 would just be out of business while working with them. "I know I will have to hire more help, and my salesmen will have much less time to work, but you just can't win with the Internal Revenue Service." Frankly, they are afraid of persecution by their govern ment, and I think have reason to be. Fayetle I. Bristol P.O. Box 427 Rogue River, Ore. Cattlemen and Deer To the Editor: We resent very much the accusation of one of your communication writers of a few days ago, who stated the doe slaughter was due to the cattlemen wanting the feed for their cattle. He could not be more wrong. J am safe in saying 99 per cent of the farmers and cattlemen are not in fa vor of the doe season. If he would read his paper and travel around a little he will notice that most of the cattle men have their places posted against doe season. We feed hundreds of deer in our alfalfa fields and the does use them for a materni ty ward. Many young are born in the fields to protect them from predatory animals, which of course does more harm to the tall hay than what they eat. But we do not mind as this is one of the many joys of country living. We have watched a doe raise her young right before our eyes, and she hasn't any fear as we are with her often. Then a hunter right from Ihe . Harris a little more respect to silence; If television and radio commercials didn't try to link up the purchase o( their products with the "spirit of Christmas" in a brazenly hypocritical fashion; If the exchange of gifts were limited to expressions of genuine friendship rather than exhibitions of competitive generosity; If shopping expeditions were conduct ed with some grace and courtesy, rather than displaying Ihe single-minded fer Entitle Tito, Khrushchev, to Sly Wink .. but urtiicAti i ti L . By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst As Nikita Khrushchev and Josef Broz Tito embraced at Moscow's Kievsky Railway station, it scarcely would have been surpris ing if the eye of one or the other had closed in a sly, secret wink. Each would be en- Mewiom titled to his moment of private amuse ment by going back no further in history than 1955. The twists and turns of Soviet-Yugoslav relations ac tually go back to 1948 when Josef Stalin expelled Yugo slavia from the Cominform and Tito cried out that there had been a "terrible mistake." But it was not until 1955 that Khrushchev began to take a personal hand in deal ing with Tito, whose sin had been that he was the first Communist satellite openly to road shoots her. Then we watch the young mourn for her and they often go hungry as they are loo young to feed on hay alone. Often the doe is left lying because she isn't fit for food while nursing her young. No, we are not greedy, nor do we accuse people ot acts of which we know nothing about. Mrs. Leon Offcnbacher Route 1, Box 7 Jacksonville, Ore. Story Distorted To the Editor: Your news story about the Democratic Central Committee's decision to recommend Marvin Madden as temporary postmaster of Medford was somewhat dis torted. Either your reporting or editing is at fault. The fact is that in nominat ing Mr. Madden, ! stressed his high qualifications for the po sition. The other gentlemen who sought the recommenda tion are able and qualified. However, the point i wished to emphasize was that by any valid criteria Mr. Madden had the outstanding qualifications for the appointment. In word I thought it our duty and responsibility to select the best qualified man for this im portant position. My criticism of Eric Allen's editorial about Marvin Mad den was only Incidental to my support of Madden. We were not thece to denounce an ed itor, as your front page story would suggest, but to select a postmaster! Thomas J. Reeder, 41 Eastwood dr., Mcdforc. . In Other Days To the Editor: Reading the Medford Mail Tribune ac count of the Applegate stock men's grazing problems brings to mind some earlier-day in cidents. The Crater National Forest (now the Rogue River National Forest) was formed from parts of the Ashland Forest Reserve, created in 1893 to protect the Ashland watershed, the Cascade and Siskiyou Forest Reserves. The Mcdford office was opened in March, 1908. Record pa pers came Irom HoseDurg, Grants Pass, and some from Yreka. Calif. As clerk and bookkeeper I segregated and refiled the papers. Then, as now, there was a limited amount of grazing. Practically all stockmen were cooperative about r o r e s t Service regulations. A tew said "my lather and grand father used this or that range, il was theirs and now its mine. A very few persisted to the point of being fined, a few times, ll happened to be in Long Creek, Ore., as claims inspector when t h e last sheep and cattlemen's battle over the range was fought on nearbv range, about 1911. The USFS stop- j ped these.) j The granite-mica formation ; of Ml. Ashland. Wagner peak j and some other parts of the i Rogue River National Forest make it very susceptible to erosion. With too few- bunch grass and other vegetation roots, gullies form rapidly and j grazing is depleted. The For I est Service has been studying land of various natural j ground cover on different soil ; compositions for more than 50 years: erosion by wind j water, of results of 100 or 1,000 cattle and sheep hoofs ! cutting the soil and disturb I ing root systems. The service is trying to bring Ihe range to maintain the maximum grazing with minimum dam- age. Eastern Oregon has mil i lions of acres ot ruined range ! dust bowls. j Neither local nor any oliicr i j I'SFS men want to iniure any u.irr of Ihe National For-j I est just the contrary. Thr I Communist Policies challenge the learship of Mos cow. Arriving in Belgrade with former Soviet Premier Niko 1 a i Bulganin, Khrushchev blandly explained that the fault had been that of Lav renti Beria, disgraced and executed former head of So viet secret police, that Soviet leaders fully understood Tito's visit to the Soviet Union and Tito's assertion: "In peace as in war, Yugo slavia must march shoulder to Washington Report By William (ei United Feature Syndicate FRONT RUNNER Washington The Pains and perils of being the front runner for the 1964 Republi can presidential nomination are closing In upon Gov. Nelson Rocke feller of New York, with the eager as sistance of both Demo crats and right -wing Republicans wiuta These two groups, who differ on nearly everything else, are united in one single-minded enterprise: to "cut Rockefeller down to size' before the new year, 1963, has become at all old. The Democrats have sig naled their decision that he is the man to beat by the do have a deep interest in preserving the natural re sources for your grandchil dren, and their grandchildren, with the least possible incon venience to any individual. Like America's forests, mil lions of acres of grazing have been ruined. A re-reading of the Medford Mail Tribune ed itorials of July 29 and Dec. 2; of Dr. Walter Lowdcrmilk's "11th Commandment"; or "Where Are We," a treatise on what happens to any civi lization by the way it uses its natural resources, might help us all to look beyond tomorrow. John E. Cribble 139 Kenwood ave. Medford. A View of Cuba To the Editor: Some of our most dependable newscasters almost gag when they reel off what our central news agencies insist must be said, as "news", about the Cuban crisis. Newsmen are no fools. They know that the visible Soviet missile bases, which we photographed in Cuba, are undoubtedly hoax missile bases. Proof? If Khrushchev had been serious about a showdown with the United States, he would have quietly evacuated all major Russian cities. And. the tell-tale deploy ment of some 200 Soviet and Satellite armed forces divi sions would also have been noted by our "Intelligence." Furthermore, stop and think for a moment. Are real mis sile bases in Russia, or in the U.S.. visible from the air? You bet they're not. They are underground and c a m o u flagcd. And if there ever were any real missiles in Cuba, that's where they are, too well stored underground near the sites where the real underground missile bases are being built. Such under ground bases will never be detected by the U.S. Air Force. What did the Kremlin stra tegists gain from this hoax? For one think they wanted to. and did. test the reaction of the American people. But the priceless objective gained was the pledge from Ken nedy that Cuba would never be invaded by us or anybody else. The Cuban exiles have "had it". They will never be allowed to molest Castro again. And by protecting Cas tro, President Kennedy has not only revoked the Monroe Doctrine, he has put the Unit ed States in the unbelievable position of aiding and abet ting, in (act guaranteeing, the Communizing of the Carib bean and all Latin America; a suicidal policy which in the long run can only result in Communist slavery for the American people of these United States. It was Lenin, himself, who said, "First we will take cen tral Europe, then the masses of Asia we will surround the United Slates, which will be the last bastian of Capi talism. We will not have to attack It will fall like an i ox er-ripe fruit into our t hands " i It is incredible. But our na tion is now assisting the Red? to surround us. These are 1 points very carefully avoided by "America's most distin guished and respected colum nist", Walter l.lppmann. in his speech, editorialized in i Dec. 3 Mail Tribune. In whlrh he tried lo sell us Kennedy's Cuban crisis as a bargain I. C. Powell 316 S E. Eighth jl. Grants Pass. Ort shoulder with the Soviet Union toward . . . the victory of socialism." Out of this also came a Soviet loan of $175 million, plus a Soviet promise to sup ply Yugoslavia with 300,000 tons of wheat. In October the Hungarians revolted against Kremlin rule and Tito denounced Soviet in tervention as a "fatal error." He also prematurely dis closed the developing rift be tween the Stalinists and anti- S. Whitt very fact that for the first time they have opened a run ning assault upon him. Here tofore they had left him large ly alone, outside New York state. CONSERVATIVE and Ultra- conservative Republicans, too, have already picked him as the man to beat. In vari ous meetings - not all of them yet publicized - they are talk ing mainly now of doing this through Sen. Barry Goldwa ter of Arizona. And Goldwater is the nominee most of them probably would really prefer to the end. It docs not follow, however, that their strategy is limited to Goldwater's ca pacity to obtain the nomina tion for himself. They will go elsewhere if necessary, even though just where it is impossible as yet to predict. Their interest in either Gov. - elect William Scranton of Pennsylvania or Gov.-elect George Romney of Michigan, or both, will be con siderable, assuming that in the next year the policies of ei ther or both can be made to fit reasonably well within the principles of orthodox Repub licanism. The essential point, in short, is that the old Taft wing of the GOP is stirring in determination that Rocke feller it must not be - who ever else it may be, rPHE 1964 convention thus is likely to produce a con frontation similar to that of 1952 in which Dwight Eisen hower defeated the late Sen. Robert A. Taft for the nomi nation by power plays in which the "modern" Republi canism of the Eastern Sea board overcame the tradition al and Midwest-based Repub licanism of which Taft was both leader and philosopher. There are, however, signifi cant differences. The Eisen hower of 1952 was politically an unknown factor; the ortho dox Republicans were not so much deeply against him as deeply in favor of Taft. But in 1964 Rockefeller will have had six years of a public rec ord dotted already with im permissible deviations from what the conservatives regard as the true Republicanism. There will be, lo them, even more reason to resist him than there was to resist Eisenhow er. Moreover, though the GOP is a disciplined party and thus ran an outwardly tidy party shop through the Eisenhower years, the general brought a traumatic shock to the regu lars which they will not soon forget. Rockefeller for this reason, too, may be pushing at a door harder to open than was at last opened to Eisen hower in 1952. If there is one thing the regulars don't want, it is any more untypical Re publicanism. ALL this means that Gov ernor Rockefeller's for ward march has reached its first real point of crisis. Here tofore, he has had only to beat the Democrats of New York state, whose shrill and sullen backbiting among themselves has eased his way all along. 'l-'f.-My&Hl.ii:! iet "Heavens, no I don'1 IT - f if 111 WAST INN gf ft ill m - T ' -i want "anted year . .. to tee . I" ho had Could Stalinists, the rift which today divides Moscow and Peking and which has made Yugo slavia a permanent whipping boy for the Red Chinese. In reply, the Moscow news paper Pravda growled that Tito showed a tendency to "interfere in the affairs of other Communist parties." Through the remainder of 1956 and on into 1960, with only occasional breaks, Yugo slavia and Moscow continued their verbal warfare. The So viets reneged on their prom ise of credits. But the tide was turning. The Moscow-Chinese rift was coming into the open, and Khrushchev was seeing cer tain things he could admire in Tito. Thus Tito's current "vaca tion" in the Soviet Union and the private amusement that both men could well have felt. Neither they nor com munism have changed, but communism long ago proved it could adapt to conditions. In the Day's News y FRANK JENKINS Another day with no BIG news at least as written. are minor ances here and there. Fog, for example. Ihis annoy- TN the New York metropoll 1 area, the fog was so dense for the past two days that all three of the city's major air ports were closed down. And In San Franeiscp yesterday the fog was so heavy that a veteran municipal bus driver, starting for a destination on the San Francisco side, got lost and didn't find himself until he was approaching Goat Island, halfway across the Bay bridge. lljORE little news: IU The residents of Tristan de Acuna. who were evacuat ed from their tiny, volcano- ravaged island m the South Atlantic some months ago settled in London, don't like it . They want to so back: They took a vote on it the other day, and the outcome of it was that 148 of them said they wanted to go 'lome, vol canoes or no volcanoes, and only five voted lo remain. Why? A spokesman says: "In England, television sends us mad. Cars, buses and trains thunder through our brains. There is no time to THINK. Back in Tristan, where we don't have even a jailhou.se and very rarely have an argument, a man can come to grips with his soul." CJO- Since they feel that uv about it, the British Colonial Office, which strives to please, will send them all back lo Tristan da Acuna next year. The heck of it is that when they get back to their barren little island they'll probaolv wish they had stayed In Britain. People are like that. But from now on he will meet incomparably heavier fire power, from the national Dem ocratic party on his left flank and from the orthodox Republicans on his right flank. He is for Ihe first time about to be blooded in big time combat. All that has gone before has been mere preliminary skirmishing; the battle of the payoff now ap proaches. And if he comes through it all he will have proved himself a tough and able political general, indeed. te buy one t u! this the prettiest decantsr - - , , .-
