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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY. UEDrOROvJTlUBUNI 'Everyone In Southern Oregon Read! The Ml! Tribune" lubltihed Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD FrUNTlNU tu. 33 North JTUJl.. Ph.772-61U ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertlalnf Manaeer GERALD T LATHAM. Bub Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor vi.nnu UIDUAM T.laa ItriltftF ntrMARD JEWETT. Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'a Editor DALE ERICKSON. Uircuiauqn Mgr An Independent Newapaper entered as aecond eiaaa matter at Medlora, urcgon. unuw iwi ui March 3. 1B07 SUBSCRIPTION RATES o Mail In Advance. Dally and Sunday) year 1S 00 Daily and Sunday 8 moa. 10.00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa. 5.00 Sunday Only One year $3.00 Slnlle Copy (Mailed! S00 By Carrie! And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year S21.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1.75 e..n nnlv 1 ma. 50c Carrier and Vendora Copy 10c Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper ot Jackaon County ' United'Preaa International Full Leaied Wire TJ. P 1 Telephofo Newsplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OfCIRCULATIONS Idveftlilng Repreieritative: NELSON ROBERTS 4 ASSOCI ATES Of'lcea In New York, Chi cago Detroit. San Franciaco, Loa Angelra. Seattle. Portland Denver. Nf WSPAPIR PUIIUHEM ASSOCIATION NATIONAL fOITOHIAl ASISpCrVATIQN Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from tha files of The Mall Trlbun. 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dae. 20, 1952 (Friday) Lake Creek woodcutter fa- tally stabbed here; Medford man held by police on murder charge. Continental Trailwaya bus service halted by strike; dis pute is over working rules. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 20, 1942 (Tuesday) Jackson county residents urged to save -tin cans for the war effort. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Na tives of New Guinea were alarmed by the sight of a horse, flown to their Jungles In an airplane. They had nev er seen one before. What use a lone horse would be on the New Guinea front is a mili tary secret, but sounds inter esting." 1 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 20, 1932 (Thursday) Jackson county grand Jury recommends abolishing all Justice of peace officers, ex cept those In Medford and Ashland. Jackson County Taxpayers league formed in meeting at county courthouse. 40 YEARS AGO Dac. 20, 1922 (Friday) State fire marshal recom mends purchase of more fire equipment by city of Medford and construction of Sixth street underpass under rail road tracks. First car theft in Medford In several months reported when coupe belonging to lo cal doctor is stolen. SO YEARS AGO Dae. 22, 1912 (Sunday) State of Oregon allocates $1,000 for construction of a wagon road which will con nect Medford with top of di vide in Klamath watershed; road expected to bring much trade to Medford. Crowd "good-naturedly" peppers actors with egg shells filled with flour during "pro- Ditltlous moments" of local minstrel show. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or Ian correct Is superior; oovon or eight Is excellent; five oi oil Is food. 1. What King built the Hanging Gardens of Baby Ion? 2. What Biblical character was fed by the ravens? 3. How does the squid de fend Itself when attacked or frightened? 4. Who used the Jawbone of an ass In battle and slew a large number of the enemy? S. What is a young pigeon of the winged variety called? 6. Did Esperanto, the pro posed universal language originate In Germany, Hol land, or Poland? 7. Without looking -would you expect to find the odd numbered pages on the right or left hand pages of a book? 8. Do more state nanvs have an Indian or an English origin? 9. Which is larger In area: Newfoundland or Labrador? 10. Whose portrait appears on the ten dollar bill? Answers; 1, Nebuchadnei lar. 2. Elijah, 3. It sends out a eloud of "ink." 4. Samien. S. Squab. (. Poland. 7. Right hand pages. I. Indian. 9. Lab rador. 10. Hamilton. DECEMBER 20. 1S62 What the We have been looking over the Governor's budget for the btate of Oregon for the 1963-65 biennium. In many ways, it is an impressive doc ument. It is a paper-bound (An entirely separate length, deals with the capital construction in The budget report ideas as to how much the state should spend, and for what, and from whence the money should come, between July 1, 1963, and June 30, 1965. A SIDE from the sums involved listing ex penditures in excess of a billion dollars for all protrrams the budcret is a fairly complete and concise thumbnail that state government Did you know, for operates 19 different professional and occupa tional licensing boards? They range from the Board of Accountancy and Board of Auctioneers to the Board of Pilot commissioners, the Podia trists' Examining Board and the Board of Exam iners in Watchmaking Or did you know that the Tax Commission is spendinjr $7,563,084 poses spending nearly a million dollars more next biennium, just to collect taxes? rID you know that Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. was given an appropriation of $12,500 for this biennium to study voting ma chines; that he has spent only $877 of it, and proposes to spend no more? Did you know that the State Government is a participant in the Mid-Willamette Valley Coun cil of Governments, appropriated $3,000 for this purpose for the current biennium, and expects to nave $68 left over at the end of the fiscal period? Did you know that the Attorney General's office has an appropriation of $266,864 for mak ing recoveries on welfare payments, and expects to make recoveries of $1,004,408 for the biennium? rID you know that the Columbus Day vvind storm did damage of more than $1,000,000 to state properties, thus reducing the state restora tion fund to less than $2,000,000, which will result in assessments on the various state depart ments totalling $400,000 for each of the next two years ; Did you know that the Employe Suggestion Awards Board had an appropriation of $29,405 for the current biennium? Or that the Capitol Planning Commission ex pects to spend $3,122 this biennium, out of an appropriation of $4,600? Or that the Board of Census, with an appro priation of $40,320 this biennium, received most of it from the liquor control commission which Governor Hatfield wants to change next bien nium? 'THESE tid-bits of information, gleaned at ran- dom from the budget, give some samplings of how big and complex state government has become, how many its functions, and how costly its overall operations. None of the selected stitutes any significant portion of the total. The largest items are 610 from the general fund, $88,295,799 from other sources); transportation, including the highway commission ($97,000 from the general fund, $251,901,554 from other funds) ; and com merce and labor ($1,968,433 from the general fund, $229,316,764 from General government, tive, judicial and executive and administrative branches are well down the list in the new bud get. The total is $29,564,042 from the general fund and $6,552,536 from other funds. THE grand totals proposed are $398,269,737 1 from the general fund, and $S29,762,078 from other funds, for a grand And where is the Governor Hatfield s suggestions are followed ! The largest single chunk would come from personal income taxes, a total of $239,700,000. Second largest chunk would be from the federal government, a total of $210,435,292, and :.nciud mg $124,751,000 to the highway department as matching funds for highway construction. The total from all other governments, incidentally, is $231,219,852. THE second and third largest sources of general fund income under the proposed budget would be, respectively, corporation excise and income taxes ($48,028,932) and liquor sales ($34,001, 002 out of a total liquor revenue of $110,802,717). A proposed cigarette tax would bring in an estimated $18,000,000. Insurance and inheritance and gift taxes would bring in about $14,000,000 each. No article with the space limitations of this one can begin to give an idea of the complexity of the budget, mixing, as it does, tax anil non tax funds, estimates, guesses and projections. But, if one is interested in government, we can recommend the budget as fascinating and thought-provoking reading. E. A. Final Indignity Florida is just emerging from a disastrous cold snap. The other day the Miami Herald, over its extensive weather summary, had this seven-column headline : "The .Final Indignity: Medford. Orcuon. n .1. r . . . i- IDasKs in a i leasaiu i- Degrees. t. a. State Does volume, of 264 pages. volume, 145 pages in Governor's proposals for the 1963-1969 biennia.) includes the Governor's sketch of just what it i3 does. example, that the state and Clockmaking. this biennium, and pro items listed above con education ($240,890,- other funds). including the legisla total of $1,228,031,815. money coming from, if i a "Come In We Put Out The Welcome Moat For You" Today & Tomorrow By Walter lippmann (ci New York Herald Trlbun Syndicate THE BRITISH APPLICATION During the past month I have been to London, Paris, Bonn, Brussels, and Home seeking to un derstand what is going on within the Western Alli ance. It was soon evident that the poli tical climate Is rather like that of the United States Llppmana in the year before a Presiden. tial election. The big interna tional issues are British en try into the Common Market, American relations wth NA TO, and Western relations with the Soviet Union. These issues cannot at present be disentangled clearly from do mestic politics. This is certainly true in Great Britain, where the Macmlllan government is fac ing elections In which foreign policy, and particularly the question of joining with the Common Market, are hot is sues. U is true no less of West Germany where there is no clear successor to the Ade nauer rcglrr- It is true of Italy where the elections next spring will have great signifi cance for the question, which Is a European question, of whether Christian Democrats and Democratic Socialists can together form a stable gov ernment. As for France, the elections have already taken place, and there is no dispute about the position of Gen. de Gaulle for the next few years. Neverthe less, the French future is not at all clearly defined. For Gen. de Gaulle is leading a constitutional revolution which has no clear program and his government depends on him personally, not on a popular mandate. The Gaul list movement is one of the great facts of life all over Western Europe. But because It is essentially a revolution against the conception of rep resentative democracy, it is as yet an Incalculable force. a WITH the exception of Gaul list France, the principal European governments are negotiating from weakness. In all of them the situation is fluid. Nobody can now fore see who will be in office two years hence, and what will be the form of the parties and factions which compose his government. This is. I think, the key fact in the momen tous negotiations the word is not too strong which are turning around the British application to join the Euro pean Economic Community. The essence of the matter be comes clearer If we are care ful to think of the European Community rather than of Its popular but misleading name, the Common Market. The cru cial question Is whether Brit ain is to join a European po litical community and not whether it is to buy and sell in a bigger market. The European Economic Community has its capital in Brussels, and it is above ev erything else a political in stitution. It is the rudimen tary living embryo of a new political entity. It was pro moted by men and it is now run by men from the nations of Western continental Eu rope which were first or last all defeated and occupied In the second World War. The purpose of these men of the European Community is not mererly to promote mass pro duction in a big market but to establish a new Europe which will carry on and pro mote the old European civil ization. The European Com munity is moved by high as pirations, and the decisive question about the British en MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON try Is whether Britain does and can share these aspira tions. THE Common Market Is to the new European Com munity what Alexander Ham ilton's fiscal measures were to the new American republic. It provides the material bonds on which the political struc ture Is being built. In fact, the Common Market was brought about by the careful ly arranged marriage of French agriculture and Ger man industry This embryonic nucleus has been enlarged by a series of difficult compro mises among the six member governments. One of the controlling ele ments of the situation just now is that In this limited "Europe" which the six are making, the bones are not yet hardened, as President Hallstein has said. That is why the British application, which would have been wel comed in 1958, is now felt to have been made some four or five years too early. The application is looked upon privately not as an accession of strength to the Community but as a disturbance to its de velopment. The continental Europeans think of themselves as the real Europeans, and they are beset by the belief that the British purpose is not to be come part of their new Eu rope but to share a rich mar ket and also to gain a politi cal foothold in order to take a leading part in the interna tional policies of the contin ent. This is, I think, a cor rect description of the feeling inside the European Commun ity of men who are much at odds with Gen. de Gaulle about the future of the Com munity. They are aligned with him in wishing that they did not have at this moment to take on the British govern ment as a member. BUT however inconvenient the timing of the British application, the continent must deal with it now. For if the British are to play a part in Europe, they must be pres ent during the crucial period when Gen. de Gaulle works out his relations with post Adenauer Germany. This is not only a British reason for persisting. For while no one can at the mo ment say whether or not the British application will fail, while the opposing reasons and influences are strong, there are also strong reasons, though not widely advertised ones, why continental Euro peans may prove to be right who say rather mournfully that "we are doomed to suc ceed." rpHE outward and visible " sign of these less obvious forces is that even those who would like to stop Britain's entry never say so. Tbe pol icy of the continentals who are opposed is to Insist on the unconditional acceptance of the Treaty of Rome (the legal charier of the Common Mar ket) and of the agreements al ready made under it by the six continental members. They reject the Idea that someone wishing to join a no r They ISHRDLVs "club" (!) should negotiate the terms and conditions of his membership. The strict constructionists count on one of two results. The first is that the British electorate will rebel at the humiliations imposed upon them and reject the idea of membership. In this case, it will not be France which re fused the British application. It will be Britain which with drew it. The other result would be that if Britain a g r e ( I ts unconditional en try, she will enter Europe South Korea's Park Dedicated By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Mows Analyst When grim, chain-smoking Gen. Park Chung Hee moved up to take over control of South Korea's military dic tatorship, some Americans in Seoul promptly tagged him "smiley." It was appropriate only for Its irony. For Park is an austere man dedicated to a new Korea which for the last year and a half he has been attempting to mold in the image of his own dedication and austerity. By virtue of a vote which approved a new Korean con In the Day's News By FRANK At a radio-TV news con ference in Washington, Presi dent Kennedy remarked to the reporters that there is no real reason why two rich countries-such as the U.S. and the Soviet Union-should not be able to live in peace. They have energetic people, he add ed, and they are separated by thousands of miles. But, he went on to say, the big stumbling block to peace is the Soviet desire to expand its power and influence. He then told his hearers: "me Communist Chinese are be ginning to show this itch for POWER in a most militant form." HMMMMMMMM. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could let the Commun ist Russians and the Commun ist Chinese fight it out with each other while we go on building a better world FOR OURSELVES? SHUCKS! Let's get back to the weather - which has been quite unusual this year, so far anyway. That leads us to wonder what it will be like in the months to come. In the past, wondering what the weather will be like for more than a day or so in advance has been a waste of time. But that is changing, along with so many other things. The weather bureau has just gone out on a long limb and has issued an ex perimental "outlook" predic tion for the next 90 days. THE burden of it is that up here in the Pacific North west, we are due for WARM ER THAN NORMAL weather for the next three months, with less rain and snow than normal. In the rest of what we call the West, tempera tures and precipitation will without what Gen. de Gaulle calls her "caravan" the Commonwealth, remnants of the old empire, the European neutrals, and most particular ly that special relationship which exists between Britain and the United States. WHY, we may ask, do those " who for perfectly respec table and rational reasons op pose British entry adopt so in direct a line of policy? The reason, I believe, is that the failure of Britain to enter the European Community would cause a deep and incalculable shock within the Community. It is a mistake to think of the Community as stable and strong in dealing with a weak opponent. For one thing, the Community is. as I have al ready suggested, fragile. For another thing there are pow erful Interests in Europe which give Britain much im portant influence. The fragility of the Com munity is most evident in the fact that West Germany and the Netherlands and Belgium have strong economic trading interests which reach beyond the existing Common Market into the British overseas world. The next Chancellor of Germany, for example, may be Dr. Erhard, and he is an opponent of a closed, restric tive, protectionist, anti-British "Europe." Indeed, from what I learned in Bonn, all the leading men who will gov cm Germany after Adenauer are warm partisans of British membership. They will not be docile members of the European Community without Great Britain. MOREOVER, beyond the ill , European economic inter ests which favor British entry, there are important currents of political thought and feel ing which are pro-British. The more authoritarian Gaullist France becomes, the more at traction there will be between the European center parties and the British example of parliamentary government. I found this to be very strong In Italy and in West Germany. Consequently, I would ven ture to think that if Britain stays outside and Gaullism predominates on the conti nent, there will be reaction and high tension coming from all the Europeans on the con tinent who do not wish to sub mit again to authoritarian rule. to Moulding a New stitution by nearly four-to- one. Park now plans to trans fer the government back to civilian rule around August of next year, The government framework thus may be altered but there seems little doubt that in it Park sees himself as the new civilian president, possibly a civilian president who still wears his army uniform. Out of Nowhere Park was almost a mystery man in May, 1961, when he master-m 1 n d e d the coup which overthrew the regime of Syngman Rhee which had grown corrupt with power. it JENKINS be about normal. WHY will the weather for the next three months be likely to be somewhere near what the Weather Bureau says it will be? Here's the story: "A prime factor in the com ing pattern is the indicated position of the jet streams, which are fast-moving, high altitude currents of air that effect the movement of air masses. One major jet stream is expected to be farther south than normal in the December to February period, thus al lowing more cold air from the north to spread over Southern and Eastern U.S. than normal." QUESTION: How did these jet streams come to get out of whack, thus changing the weather all around over a considerable part of our country - and pos sibly all over the world? Maybe it's "them bombs." Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (e Field Enterprises Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES Most people confess their faults only to be able to com mit them again; by relieving the burden of their guilt, they feel free to repeat their mis deeds in different form - and it is self-understanding, rather than self accusation, that alone can break this cycle. Whonever a toastmasler informs mo that so-and-so really neods no Introduc tion, I loltlo back in my seat and prepare myself for a long one. A slight imperfection in a pretty woman often adds to her charms; a mild case of bowlegs (if the limbs are well shaped) can be immensely at tractive, to men if not to other women. The physical boauty of noon signs across the sky at night, contrasted with ihoir blatant messages, al ways reminds me of Ches terton's remark when ho observed Times Square for Iho first time: "What a beautiful sight this would bo for someone who could not read!" Are there many other neu rotic motorists like me, who are forever imagining that they smell something burning in the car? Tho saddest sight in lho world is a coquette grown too old to attract, and too vain to admit it to herself. Originality is the one thing a mediocre mind cannot stand; and the surest sign of mediocrity is that it feels comfortable only with the familiar. Tho reason some mon re main bachelors was suc cinctly and ruefully sum med up some years ago by a French diplomat who explained'. "I was always looking for tho perfect woman-but when I finally met her, I found thai sho was looking for lho perfect man." If one acquires the habit of observation, one soon learns that the way a person walks, stands and sits is a better indication of his char acter than the way he talks, our bodily movements are in voluntary more honest than our words. Does anyone botidos mo find parados generally more depressing than stim ulating? Music and the dance have only a superficial and acci-1 dental connection, which can ' be seen from the fact that almost all ballet music has been written by second-rate composers, and that the best music cannot be danced to. No man thinks ho is bad; tho bad man considers him self misunderstood by so ciety: this is why prisons create roiontmont rather than reform. Is Austere Although he once had been under death sentence as a Communist collaborator -which he described as a "mistake"-no such tendencies have appeared in the Park who now rules South Korea. Even his critics agree that he is a man of unquestioned integrity and high moral prin ciples. An American describ ed him as "so dedicated, he scares me." As Park and his fellow of ficers in the military junta have had difficulties, so the new regime will have diffi culties although strengthened by the nearly unanimous de cision of Korean voters. Austerity measures an nounced in a bewildering series of decrees have not been notably successes. The latest drive has been to dis courage drinking-to cut down on public misbehavior and save money. The bailyhooed program Matter of Fact j...Ph A,.., (el New York Herald Trlbuna Syndicate SKYBOLT AND ALL THAT Paris The success in Cuba, the bitter dissensions in the Communist camp, and other- hope f u 1 develop ments are making too many people forget the debit side of the ledger. In brief, the Western AI 1 i a n c s is in B eUnnUIn-, mess. The Skybolt affair provides a useful measuring stick for the deterioriation which has occurred. Here is a vastly ex pensive, probably unreliable weapon, concerning which the American government made commitment to the British government when the wea pon was still expected to be reliable and inexpensive. In the old days, when un successful tests began to raise doubts about Skybolt, there would have been no question about what to do. High Amer ican officials would have passed the news to their Brit ish opposite numbers, saying in effect: "The damn thing looks like a lemon. We know this puts you in a hole. How can we help?" rpHE BRITISH, by the same - token, would have faced the facts, however unpalat able. And they would have uncomplainingly joined the Americans in a search for a practical alternative. But contrast this way of handling such problems ten years ago, with the way the problem has actually been handled. To begin with, the problem was even more political than technical because of its easily foreseeable repercussions in British domestic politics. The responsibility, therefore, be longed just as much to the State Department as to the Defense Department. But if the State Department was brought into the picture, the results were nil; for the American government's man agement of the Skybolt affair actually maximized the polit ical ill effects in Britain. It is not possible to be much more complimentary about the British response to the bad news about Skybolt. While insisting on their right to an "independent'' deter rent, the British for a while also insisted that the Amer ican taxpayer had a duty to pay for essential parts of this suposedly "independent" de terrent. We were disloyal, they said, because we object ed to throwing good money after bad. TlHE CURRENT outcry in London about American beastliness is not just a proof of the grave deterioration of the old easiness and truth be tween allies. It is also, unhap hit t v&z "Homo for Chriitmai vocation - goedl New wo eta find out how all Iho lorority girls tosctod ta the Cuban crisis!" Man Korea for officials to wear sackcloth uniforms and to carry lunch boxes to their offices flopped almost at the start. Few of the uniforms can be seen nowadays and most official! take their lunch at cheap res taurants which mix barley with their rice. A hold-over austerity meas ure is against Western cig arettes. Citizens caught smok ing them may be arrested and their names published in the newspapers. The switch to civilian rula is expected to bring no changt in United States policy to ward Korea. Korea got about $200 mil lion in economic grants and loans in the last fiscal year and is expected to get about the same In the next. Similar ly, no change is expected in the U.S. policy which pays almost the entire cost of South Korea's 600,000-man army. pily, a symptom of the neur oses that have been temporar ily generated by the changes in Britain's situation so point edly, perhaps unkindly, but not untruthfully, summarized by Dean G. Acheson. There is no neurosis in France, how ever, and here the symptoms of deterioration are almost more striking. The plan of the French nuc lear deterrent depends ex clusively on the effectiveness of the late-model Mlraga bomber. In order to reach to their targets, the Mirage bombers will rely entirely on their power to make hedge hopping attacks at supersonic speeds. Informed Frenchmen still apparently believe that the Soviets have no anti-air defense capable of stopping this type of attack. In reality, the American government has had unde niable proof for over a year that the Soviets possess an anti-aircraft missile, the Sam III, specifically designed to in tercept low flying bombers like the French Mirages. These missiles are being in stalled in enormous numbers in the Soviet Union. Thus the new French bomber Is already obsolete, even before It has come into service. WHAT must this mean? One cannot suppose that Gen. de Gaulle and his government mean to spend billions of francs on a weapon known to be ineffectual. Hence one is driven to conclude either that the American government has failed to pass on the needed warning to the French govern ment, or that the French gov ernment has treated the warn ing as coming from a suspect and hostile source. Either way, the proof of breakdown of inter-Allied confidence is only too clear. The recent NATO meeting, despite its surface cordiality born of the Cuban success, showed the same unhealthy symptoms. What Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara said to the NATO allies about the need for more convention al forces in Western Europ was only too lamentably, dem onstrably true. Yet McNamara's presenta tion was coldly received as an unwelcome lecture. And sev eral of those at the council table all but cheered when British Defense Minister Peter Thorneycroft replied with the dubious doctrine that a nation's duty to defend it self must be subordinated to its fiscal problems. The symptoms of ill-health are unmistakable, in short. The disease will not be cured until the Kennedy administra tion sorts out the existing mis cellany of prejudices and pos tures, and thus arrives at a unitary Eurpean policy with clear priorities and clear re lations between the whole and all its parts.