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Newspaper Page TextFH1DAY. "'EveFyone In Southern Oregon ReadsTheMallTrlbune JPublUhHcTbally except "Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North FtSt., Ph.772-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB CREV Advertising Manager GKRALD T LATHAM. Bui Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mng Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Ed or OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An inoepcnucii i Entered f .cond class matter It Medford. Jregon. ura . . March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance .,. Ijanv ana aumipj " i nn Dally and Sunday 3 moi. 5.00 s.mHuv Only One year S3.00 Single Copy (Mailed, 20c Dally and Sunday 1 year 2 .00 Dally ino Bunuay i Carrier andVendori Jopy 10c IirtlCIII I'aper ' 1 j r Official Paper ejJackiun County United Press International Full Leased Wire U. P I Telephoto Newsplctures "MEMBF.R"OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Aiiveriiilnf Representative: NFLSOtf ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES Of'lcei In New York, Chi cago Detroit, San Francisco, Loi Angelei Seattle. Portland Den'-er. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION N ATI 0 N A I EDITORIAL ASlS&CftATIQ'N jiiii'nim Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Th Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yeara ago. 10 YEARS AGO Doc. 21, 1852 (Saturday) Radio station KW1N, Ash land, sold to M. S. Hamaker, Ashland, at public auction; price was $20,000. Heavy fog layer over Med ford municipal airport breaks up when seeded with dry ice and chemicals. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 21, 1942 (Wednesday) Public opening of new United Service Organizations unit at West Main t. sched uled In Medford. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The new governor may not be Inaugurated Bt Salem In time because the legislature may not be organized on Monday, January 11. The slate can get along without a legislature better than it can a govern or." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 21, 1932 (Friday) Petition circulated in Rogue valley favoring abolishment of Oregon state game com mission. Search started for airplane believed to have crashed Into mountain side In Dead Indian area after residents report seeing it flying at "extremely low level." 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 21, 1922 (Saturday) Christmas rush heaviest in history of Medford post of fice; total volume expected to be about 20 per cent above any previous year. Tho isands of Rogue valley residents attend party at com m u n 1 1 y Christmas tree on front lawn of city library. 50 YEARS AGO Dec. 21. 1912 (Monday) Two men sentenced to hang for Medford murder allowed to receive Christmas gifts and visitors In county jail at Jacksonville. Local businessmen suggest that four candidates for mayor of Medford roll dice 1o determine which two of the four shall remain In the race. Whal's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. Does a knot in pine logs decay more or less quickly than the rest of the lug? 2. How many years was Cas ey Stcnglc the manager of the Yankees? 3. Ill which city is the Uni versity of Southern California (USC) located? 4. The professional football teiiin, the Forty-niners, head quarters in which city? 5. What is the greatest source of Internal Revenue collections in the U.S.? H. What is meant by the "distaff" and tile "spear" sides of a family? 7. What whs tlie name of the Indian Chief who led the lndinn forces that wiped out Custer's loiniuand? H. Was MKK the goddess of flight or victory? 0. Where Is the largest for mnlion of coral? 10. What is the substance In blood which stops bleeding.' Answers: 1. Less, 2. 12 years. 3. Los Angeles, Calif. 4. San Francisco, Calif. 5. In come fax. 6. Female and male respectively. 7. Sitting Bull. 6. Victory. 9. Great Barrier reef N.E. Australia. 10. Ft-brinogin. DtOhMutH ill, labi Recreational Assault A massive assault is being mounted on the needs present and future of outdoor recre ation in Oregon. The state already has much in the way of such development; much more will be forthcom ing over the next few years. This was plainly evident at the first meeting this week of the new Oregon Outdoor Recreation Council, appointed recently by Gov. Mark Hat field to keep an eye on the needs of recreation, and to serve as a coordinating body for all the various agencies involved ment and administration. "THE LIST of organizations engaged in the recreation field, to a greater or lesser extent, is an impressive one. In the federal government alone, there are the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Sports Fisher ies and Wildlife, Corps of Army Engineers, Na tional Park Service, Bureau of Outdoor Recre ation, Federal Power Guard. Within state government there are the parks division of the Highway department, the Fish and Game commissions, the Marine Board, Fores try department, Department of Planning and De velopment, and the Committee on Natural Re sources, the parent body to the new council. P'lTIES and counties throughout the state are also in the field of recreation in a big way. In the "private sector," there are many firms and individuals involved, including utilities and lumber firms, resort operators, concessioners, and others, including guides and packers. -. Many associations, clubs and other types of organization have a stake in recreational oppor tunities from the Izaak Walton League to the Oregon Coast Association, and trade associations in a number of industries and occupations. A pattern of cooperative endeavor and the exchange of information among these differing groups and agencies is gradually developing, but it has not been fast enough to keep up with the need. The new council is, among other things, designed to assist in this trend. A NUMBER of important gains have been iiiruc in it,v,t,im wioi The counties, which to the recreational wants now in the parks and recreation business. Many of them budget substantial amounts for the purpose. City park and recreation programs have grown rapidly. Federal agencies have begun to receive con siderably larger appropriations for recreational purposes. The Forest Service in Oregon has had its recreational funds more than doubled in the past few years, and if proposals already approved by the bureau of the budget are adopted, the cur rent amount will nearly Ihe Bureau ot Land ation with the O&C counties, is putting increas ing emphasis on recreation, and spending far more money doing it. 1MANY federal agencies, which never before have been authorized to pay any attention to recreational needs, now are being instructed to do so. At the state level, the centrating on acquisition of new sites, and on developing those already owned. It has made great strides, both in its philosophy of park ad ministration, and in physical accomplishment. The division is recognized as one of the really great ones in the nation, and the state park sys tem is classed as one ot the best, it not among the largest, anywhere. Forward looking and progressive companies, such as Portland General Klectric, Pacific Power and Light, Weyerhaeuser, and others, have done much to provide additional facilities, usually at little or no cost to the user. A LL THESE things are good. But they are not enough. Demand for outdoor recreation has overwhelmed all efforts to keep up with it. And every projection indicates that this rising tide of outdoor recreation seekers is going to go higher, with no tapering off in sight. What is needed is a state recreational policy, and a plan designed to tie all these things to gether, to relate them into a meaningful pattern, and to point out the areas where more work is needed. Representatives of most of the interested groups and agencies serve on the new Outdoor Recreation Council, and it will be their job to come up with such a plan. IN SPEAKING to the first meeting of the coun ' cil. Governor Hatfield put it this way: "The economic value of outdoor recreation is surely of sufficient Importance that enunciation of such a policy Is in the public interest. With the addition of less tangible values which are of tremendous social and moral significance, outdoor recreation is indeed vital to the well-being of all our citizens." That sums it up well. New efforts arc needed, not only because of the intrinsic benefits and enjoyment to be do rived from wholesome outdoor recreation, but also because of the very substantial dollars-and-cents return to the state ami its people which tourism much of it based on o'i- outdoor recre ational attractions bring here. It makes plain good sense both ways. E.A. in recreation develop Commission, and Coast ' once paid no attention of their citizens, are triple by next year. Management, m cooper parks division is con MEDFORD The Age Of Pyramid Building ; -r&- -Tr-rr - .-IrfArHtrc I T - : AffijJ- . ""V-YSrOCA'PUff r- 7-t ... Communications ... Letters to ihe Editor must bear the nama and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen na.ue or initial for 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 often the case. Meanest Thief To the Editor: Seems hard to realize there are people who would steal Christmas presents from beside a mail box, but that is just what hap pened. I hope the person who took it will have a conscience and return it. It was presents to our sons from their cousins in Montana. Maybe this will alert some others to be on guard for such things. Three neighbors saw the package before it was stolen. Mrs. W. B. Nylander 1817 Minear rd. Medford. Socialistic Drivel To the Editor: Who said there isn't a Santa Claus? Three thousand miles away in New York City a newspaper strike has given us a much needed respite from the re prints of the socialistic drivel spewed forth by the New York Times. It should happen to the St. Louis Post Dispatch also. M. J. Olson Route 4, Box 325 Medford. O Editor's note: The western edition of the New York Times, printed in Los Angeles, still arrives regularly. Fine Punning To the Editor. Though the pun is considered to be the iowest form of humor, I would appreciate it if you would let Bennett Cerf know how much we enjoyed his "play" on the Pythagorean theorem printed last week. I think he should change his nomination from worst to best of the year. Marriettc E. Muller P. O. Box 755 Ashland, Ore. -O- Editor's note: We agree. It's even worth reprinting for those who may have missed it: Nominated for the worst of the year: the story of three Indian squaws who were ad mitted to the maternity ward at the same time. Chief Wam pum, head obstetrician, as signed one to a btiaffalo hide, the second to an elk hide, nod the third to a hippopol onus hide mow where did he got hold of THAT one?). At any rate, the squaws on the elk and buffalo hides caoh nro- duced a B pound son. But the! squaw on the hippotamus hide mothered healthy, 6-pound twins. All of which proves, of course, that the sons of the suiuiw of the hinnonotatmis equal the sons of Ihe squaws I 'ngness to help people with of the other two hides. ! pot problems is most sincere, j as I know from a recent ex- periencc. Good Music During Saturday's dense To the Editor: Whv not have j cv,ninS f"S my dog became more musical programs dur-1 "nd was r"c pV " -c-inir those winter months, orl11"' conscientious driver even through the year, there is nothing so uplifting as music, good music of course jas our schools, all or most of ! them, have their orchestras or bands, and those students study hard to get the most out of it. And let's have these groups make plans for a place where they can play, put on a real show, where everyone can walk, or easy to get to, and enjoy this grand music. Our city park by the library is a good place for a permanent stand Make it a real music ! center. So let s hope for such i an undertaking in the future ' , as these patents spend a lot itif tunc and money on these children hoping it w ill pay ; off. Even in parades thoy do ; , not play enough to suit mc jas I love that band music. j I So it s my great hope that ' MAIL TH1BUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON our city people will take time out to see to it that these young players can have a per manent place, and each school can come out and show what can be done, as most every one loves music, good music. So let's hear how others think on this subject. Nevah Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point, Ore. Stop Killing Does To the Editor: To the true sportsman of Jackson and Josephine counties. Are you one who is dissatisfied with the way the Oregon State Game Commission is handling our game herds? I feel as many true sportsman feel, that we can't keep on killing off our docs each year and have a herd left for you and me to enjoy the sport of hunt ing. The Game Commission would have us to believe that there is a big herd in Oregon. Every hunter knows this is not the case. We all know what they are doing this for. They are doing away with the big game herds in Oregon. All you have to do is enter the woods to see that they are getting the job done. If we as sportsmen want to enjoy the sport of hunting for years to come, then we better do something about the laws that the State Game Commission hand each year. We here in Jackson and Josephine counties can help the rest of the counties in the state put an end to the killing of our does. Let's stop killing off the does in Oregon. The commit tees of eastern Oregon have placed In my hands petitions to be signed by the hunters that would like this killing of the does stopped. Sportsmen in other parts of the slate have been signing these pe titions since last October. Let the sportsman of Jackson and Josephine counties have a hand in seeing that the irre sponsible Oregon State Game Commission is stopped in re gards to killing off our big game herds. Let's get these signed petitions to our Rep resentatives and to the State Senators. You sign them, I'll see that they get there. You can contact me, I'll give you the petitions. Walter Craig 1523 Bryant Medford Phone 772-8334 Humane Society Help To the Editor: The letter written by the Humane Offi cer and printed in Tuesday's communications column was most informative. Their will- ! notified the "Humane Soci j ety", who immediately pickc.-i up the injured dog. traced his ownership and within 45 j minutes was at our door in 1 quiring as to the veterinary : hospital we patronize, i Dukie is home now and rc ! covering from his injuries. Thank you. to a fine organiza tion the "Humane Society". Mrs. George Kaiser 32 South Holly st. Medford Hospital Comments To the Editor: I have Just read an article in the "Pa rade" magazine, from the Sun day "Oresonian", dated Dec, 9. 1BH2. and entitled "What's Wrong W'th Our Hospitals"" by Or Martin Ohoricashry. director of Montcfiore hos pital in Now York. I feel that both of our hos- Radio Free Europe Will Carry Christmas Storv to People of Iron Curtain Lands By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst This is the wek end of Christmas parties, of a long holiday and finally an ob servance of a holy day in which man has hb oppor tunity for self lessness and a moment to re gret his inhu m a n i t y to man. There is much of the latter in this 4 i ml Mewium world, as the daily news col umns will attest. Christmas is a joyous day into which Christians are born by virtue of their relig ion. But it also represents a philosophy which may be shared by others. For too many in this world it will be a day with little reason for joy. Not much for those living pitals are represented by this article. As a mother, I have had need to make use of the chil dren's ward in the Rogue Valley hospital, and found it to be exceptionally good. The warmth and consideration shown was very reassuring, and the policy of allowing the mother to stay with the child, I feel, is a very good one. However, in making use of the hospital as an individual, needing care myself, 1 found it to be cold, impersonal, and almost to the point of ignoring a patient. Also, common-sense consideration of other people in the hospital was not shown. As an example, I was left sitting in the waiting room, following an injury, bleeding all over myself and the floor, not having even been offered a band-aid. Surely, if I were to be left sitting, the emergen cy ward was a more appropri ate place. ' At least the personnel isn't cold enough to allow children to be left unattended or un reassured, but I wonder if that isn't because their crying would upset the personnel themselves. As the article stales, and I quote, "Nursing, for instance, must be radically reoriented. Understanding care of the pa tient at the bedside, once the hallmark of good nursing, has atrophied in the past 15 years. Today goals in nursing are distorted." At least this isn't just a local problem, but here, in our own community, is a good place to begin solving this problem. Mrs. Carole Johnson 2024 Kings Highway Medford. Legislative Pay To the Editor: I will be among the first to admit that times change and that individ uals and stales and nations must progress, for if you stand still or even hesitate you are left behind. We could see that our state legislators were very much underpaid at the S600 per year level, and that if the wages were to remain at that low level, we would suffer because only the rich, retired or payola types could afford to be in the state legislature. During the primary cam paign I heard some of the rep resentative and senate candi dates s-ay, not once, but sev eral times, "This raise in pay is a necessary and good thing, not for us. because we are willing and know that the scale is low. The raise means nothing to us because we arc prepared and able to serve as it now stands." Now here we are, the legis lature hasn't as yet begun its session. What, I ask you, makes the first headline? What is the first considera tion? Schools? Taxes? Consti tutional Revision? State insti tutions? No sir! StiOO a month expense money (tax free) and based on a six month session). I S3H) a month salary - that comes to $1,100 per month. I'm sure glad we elected follows who weren't interest ed in the money. Our public spirited servants left the sub ject of a raise wait till first on the list. Now here is something else to ponder. What State has al ready ordered 200 machines ! to affix and meter cigarette i tax stamps when no such taxi has as yet been passed by the ' legislature or approved by the people? Could it be a choice like : daylight time? i Vote for ONE j Tax stamp on end of package Tax stamp on back of package . Tim J. Horn, i F.ox 14. White City, Ore. 1 on the east side of the wall in Berlin. And not much for th, Hun garians who revolted against their atheistic Communist overlords only to fail when victory seemed within their grasp. These particular thoughts were evoked by a session this week with some of the men who are responsible for Ra dio Free Europe, a publicly supported institution, whose 28 transmitters in West Ger many and Portugal are broad casting up to 18 hours a day events of the free world to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hun gary, Romania and Bulgaria. That these broadcasts break through the Iron Curtain was attested to recently with the return to Warsaw of Cardinal Wyszynskl from the Ecumen ical Council in Rome. While the official Polish press and radio remained si lent, RFE broadcast th car dinal's arrival time in War saw, and as result an enthusi astic throng was there to greet him at the railway sta tion. Despite the Kremlin's anti church campaign, Communist failure is evidenced this year by open observance of Christ mag throughout East Europe. RFE will help it along. Pope John XXIIIY Christ mas mass and message will be broadcast. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c- Field Enterprises Inc. The two things that no man will believe of himself are that he is not desirable to women and that he doesn't, in some deep and mystic way, really have a 1 quite nice singing voice. He may pre- 5. f S tend to depre- A'! rate his voice in public, but the sancti ty of the bath- 4,s j room, with s , ... the shower Harris running full, when he opens up those vocal cords, he is privately con vinced that, given the proper training, he would have made Caruso sound like a sick canary. This is why I returned so chagrined from New York. Strolling through Central Park with a lovely lyric so prano from the Met, I had the audacity to burst out with the "O Quel Amore" aria from "La Traviata." She listened patiently for a few moments, and then during a pause while I was gasping for breath, she said, "You have absolutely ihe most horrible vibrato I have ever heard emanate from a human throat." Just like that, cold, bitter, and final. I laughed shakily and pretended to agree with her, but secretly I was wounded to Ihe quick-and I have a pretty slow quick. Although I abstractly know what my voice sounds like to other people, to me it sounds wonderfully mov ing. There are days in ihe shower when I dazzle my self with my vocal bril liance and bravura. Now, this profound and perpetual inability to hear oneself is, I am convinced, the reason so many would be artists in all fields per sist in their futile endeav ors. There are ooets, alas, who have no ear for their poetry, and painters who have no eye for their can vases. Mv voice sounds beautiful inside mc, but I am forced to recognize that it comes out somewhat mangled. The beau ty is felt, but not expressed. With defective artists, their grave sin is lack of insight more than lack of talent. They think that because they "feel" a poem or a painting that they have therefore expressed their feelings adequately. Ihe worst artists are al ways the most passionately sincere. As John Ciardi wrote in a recent issue of the "Sat urday Review", most of the bad poems he receives come with appended letters saying, "This is really true: this is what happened; this is what I experienced." But translat ing the truth of feeling into the truth of art is quite an other matter - and sincerity plays only a minor part in it. Art is the most treacherous of mistresses, the most con stantly self-deceiving. Luck ily. I do not have to depend upon my singing for a liveli hood, but if I had I could never allow myself to believe that my vibrato is "horrible." In fact, I don't even believe it now. After all. what does lyric soprano from the Met really know about singing? There will be carols, and a new play by children of Hungarian refugees in Ger many will let Hungerians know that their language is not lost to new generations now living outside the country. Washington Report By William United Feature Syndicate THE STRUELENS CASE Washington - There is an unpleasant pettiness in the moves of the unitea siaies government to kick Michel J Struelens, a j frank propa- ganaisi ior SV'va s e c e s sionisi ince in the Congo, out oi this country. But something far uglier is involved here. In this epi sode there are inescapable im plications that the United Nations is beginning 'to dom inate the domestic policies of the United States, specifically our immigration policies, In such a way as Jo make a kind of high crime of any active disagreement with the U. N. attitudes in Africa. If Struelens - who is, after all, an alien - were being deported simply because his activities displeased the Uni ted States, this would be tol erable - if hardly a wise or big - action. But the evidence is strong that this nation is moving against him not so much on its own decision but rather at the demand of the In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS What about Cuba? And . . . especially . . . what about the Cuban people? ARE THEY happy with com munism? Do they regard it as the answer to their pray ers during the nearly 400 years when they have yearned for liberty but haven't had much of it? And what of Castro? 1?OR A possible answer to these questions, let's turn today to a neutral reporter a Turk, Goskin Sipahioglu, a free lance writer from Istan bul, who was in Havana throughout the whole Soviet American missile crisis. Interviewed in New York yesterday, he said the whole island is "seething with sullen anger against Fidel Castro and the Communist party." He added: "I am sure that at least 90 per cent of the Cuban people are AGAINST the communists, and against Castro, too. Even the lowly campesinos (peasants), who have been an important source of support for the revo lution, are angrily, although passively, resisting the com munists." HE SAYS he was told by Cubans that probably 9.000 Cuban peasants have been sent to prisons for re fusing to work in the fields. Their anger is all the great er, he says, "because they feel Castro broke his promises to give them THEIR OWN lands but instead nationalized the land after the Soviet pattern." WHAT WILL WE DO if and when the Cubans rise in rebellion? We ought to be doing some thinking about that. We need to know our own minds and our own purposes so that we will be ready to act decisively if tile Cuban people, sick and weary of communists and communism, should RISE AGAINST CASTRO again laying their lives on the line in a desperate move to get rid of him. ,0-:.Atii.l:sii. "Can't you quick wash I green 81 I A Romanian jazz band that escaped through East Berlin in September also will be on the air. On Jan. 1, the RFE will start its annual drive in which it seeks to raise $11 million to continue its operation. S. White United Nations that we si lence this inconveniently hos tile voice against U. N. efforts to force Katanga to submit to the Central Congo govern ment's authority. fTiHIS Pressure upon Ka. tanEra whirh u.o m im porting, is undoubtedly back- ed by us in good faith. Our government fears that unless mineral-rich Katanga can be incorporated into the Central Congo government, that gov. ernment will fall and be suc ceeded by a pro-Communist regime. Such a regime, it is argued, might "invite" So viet military assistance, rath er as Fidel Castro did in Cuba. The objective of strength ening the Central Congo gov ernment is undoubtedly wise. The means - including vari ous U. N. ultimatums and threats of renewed U. N. mili tary force - are at least de batable. In any event, how ever, all this is beside tha present point. For the moment, this col umn raises only two ques tions: Has the vilification and pur suit of Struelens by the Slate Department been worthy o a great government? A bi partisan, nine-man Senate in vestigating committee has just said it has not. AN WE properly allow the United Nations to cause us to reverse our historic na tional tolerance to all points of view, so long as they are not seditious or subversive? Struelens, a citizen of a western ally, Belgium, has been subjected to a campaign of smear and innuendos - of "Katanga slush funds" and so on - by State Department and United Nations officials that has had no parallel. But the Senate committee has now found that the authors of these excited charges have been unable to furnish any evidence whatever of the im proper use of money. Indeed they have admitted - in pri vate testimony - that they "had not meant to imply" that sort of thing. Nevertheless, the same Uni ted States government which now prepares to throw out pro -western Struelens has given shelter to other foreign propagandists - including spokesmen for the left-wing terrorist movement which seeks to wrest Angola from another American western ally, Portugal. The suspicion will not down that these lat ter were not bothered here because the United Nations liked their views, and that Struelens is being ousted be cause the U. N. does not like his views. A KIND of striped - pants McCarthyism within the U. N. has for some time been observable. True friends of the U. N. must hope that this perversion of its functions will not continue. If it does, the American Congress will check it in the end, if the ad ministration does not, by the simple process of withholding the funds upon which the U.N. lives. One of the Senate investi gators who have just de nounced the action against Struelens is the very man who most of all brought about Congressional approval of tho last U. N. loan. Senator Ever ett Dirksen of Illinois, the Re publican leader of the Senate. it off? The guy wants treel"