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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
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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.