Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 02, 1963, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text4 A "EvryoBriH-SouUriroiriiMi Beads Tha Miil Tribune; KbTi.llyMpt .SMivday by MEDFORD PRINTING up JS3 North rirSt. PhJ7K-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. M'0' HERB GRJSY Adverlls nl Mi;l GERALD T LATH AM, Bui Mr RIC W ALLEN JR.. Mna. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN.Tell Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Ed tor OLIVE STARCHER Womene Editor DALE ERICJtSONCIrculauon Mir An Independent Newspaper Entered ai second data matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3. H97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Dally and Sunday 1 year 1 00 Daily and Sunday 0 moa 10.00 Daily and Sunday 3 moa .vpo Sunday Only-One year 5.00 Stasia Copy (Malledl ao By Cirnel-And Motor Route H"X S S"."'J".: Sir "tn WEDNESDAY. JAttOAhl a. loo Dally and Sunday 1 mo. bunnay uniy i m". 1.75 SOc r-.-.tJ. ami Vendor! Copy 100 Official Paper of Clly ofleeirojd omciai raerfj;";" " """"United Press International Full Leased Wire U. P I Telepholo Newsplcturea BERjrUmToBUREAU RRoelEWVA:ssor... ATES Ol'lces In New York, Chi. rano Detroit. San Francisco. Lew AngeU-s Seattle. Portland. Den-'er. Km NEWSPAPiR PUIllSHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITOMAI Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 2, 1953 (Wednesday) Rogue Bisin project listed by bureau of reclamation as one it would "investigate" for consideration. Local dairymen, Lester Ad ams and John Snider, named directors of state-wide dairy industry organization. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 2, 1943 (Tuesday) Medford Lt. Martin Luther lakes part in "Flying Fort ress" bombing raid on Tunisia. Frnm Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A ru mor says there is so much wa ter at Camp White that port holes will be cut in the bar racks so the troops can see the world." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 2. 1933 (Thursday-) Warrants charging former county Judge and ex-county commissioner with mutilation of county records and con tempt of court said not valid. Former President Calvin Coolidge dies at Northampton, Mass., home. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 2, 1921 (Friday) Raid led by Sheriff Terrill on abandoned house on Roxy Ann butte uncovers one of the largest hauls of moonshine ev er found in Jackson county. County clerk's records show that Ihere were 241 mar riages in Jackson county dur ing 1922. SO YEARS AGO .T.n i. 1913 (Sunday) August Singler officially be comes Jackson county sheriff by posting required $15,000 bond. William M. Colvlg an nounces retirement as manag er and secretary of Medford Commercial club. What's Your I.Q.? Nine ei ten cerreel It superior; oven or eight is eicellent; five ot 1. In liquid measure two pints equal one quart; what do they equal in dry measure? 2. In avoirdupois weight IB ounces equal one pound; how many ounces in a pound of troy weight? 3. How many feel in one furlong? 4. A slack of wood eight feet long, two feet wide and four feet high is called what? 5. The abbreviation for a liquid equivalent of two bar rels is 'hhd'; what is the full name? 6. What Is the standard weight of a bushel ot pota toes? 7. A pint's a the world around; supply the missing word. 8. What Is the term applied to designate twelve gross? 9. Quire, ream and bale arc terms applied to the measure ment of what? 10. How many pecks arc there in one bushel? Answern 1. One quarl, 2. 12 ounces. 3. 8(0. 4, One-half cord. 5. Hogihoad. 6. 60 ppunds. 7. Pound. I. Great gross. I. Paper. 10. Four pecks. The Inter-Faith Dialogue ". . . Though occasional skirmishes still occur, the four-hundred year cold war which has ravaged Chris tendom since the Reformation is rapidly coming to an end. Though reunion is hardly yet in the offing, genuine understanding and respect are. That is a tremendous gain." The quotation is from The Commonweal, the weekly magazine 01 opinion edited Dy i-atnonc laymen, which is generally understood to be the voice of liberal American Catholic thought. It is from an editorial in which it is an nounced that a Protestant minister would hence forth be a regular columnist in the magazine, an event which, the editors said, not many years ago would have been "unthinkable." That it is now not only thinkable, but an accomplished fact, sneaks well for moderate and rational souls. This new era was a factor in Time magazine's naming Pope John XXIII its "Man of the Year." THE dialogue between Catholics and non Catholics, which The Commonweal is so use fully assisting, is an important one. We are not here concerned with the theological aspect as much as the human and organizational aspects. Theology, it would be safe to assume, will long prevent any substantial degree of inter-faith unity. And for our part, we believe theological diversity is a healthy thing in a tree, diverse, and pluralistic society such as ours. Yet pluralism has not prevented mutual re spect and understanding between Protestant de nominations, we are happy to note the signs that this is becoming increasingly true as between Protestants and Roman Catholics, as well as be tween the branches of Catholicism. Who knows, the day may come when con vinced and honest agnostics and atheists will be accorded the same respect and understanding. E. A. Court Study Needed The Oregon Council on Crime and Delin quency this week issued a report entitled "Court Services to Children and Families in Oregon." It concluded that a sweeping study of Oregon's court system, with special reference to family cases, is needed. In this recommendation it joins the legisla tive interim committee studying divorce laws and adjudication, and the 1960 Oregon State Bar family law committee. The Council's report is interesting reading, and it makes a good case for the statement that some review of the situation, leading to corrective legislation, is badly needed. IT CALLS Oregon's court system, particularly as it is involved in children and family cases, a "hodgepodge" of five kinds of courts, with overlapninjr .jurisdictions, little if any collabor ation or even communication, many with made quate staffs, all of this preventing a unified a p. proach to solving family and delinquency prol lems, and protecting society. It says that answers are needed to the lollow. ing questions: 1. What feasible court structure and organization can be developed which will make possible a unified approach to the problems of families and children coming before them? 2. What diagnostic and treatment tools should such courts have to insure that appropriate and effective action is taken in each case? THE fact that we are used to our present court organization docs not mean that it is sacred and should not be tampered with. It is a human contrivance, not immune to improvement. At present, at one time and place or another, a child may come before a municipal court, a justice court, a district court, a county court, or a circuit court. Whether Oregon should follow the Rhode Island system of family relations courts, or use some other system which has yet to be devised, remains to be seen. But it is evident from the Council's recommendations that a long, hard look at the courts of today is long overdue. E. A. On Missing The Times James (Scotty) Reston is chief of the New York Times' Washington bureau, and writes a column for that respected newspaper. Since the newspaper strike in New York has closed all the city's dailies, Ihe only place Reston is printed now is in the Times' western edition, published in Los Angeles. Just before Christmas, Reston wrote "An ur gent letter to Santa Clans," which appeared in the western edition, it was sort of a minor clas sic, in its way. One plaintive paragraph said: "Somebody struck tile Times in the belief that it's a newspaper, but that is obviously ridiculous. The Times is a public institution, like the Yankees and Harney Baruch. When everything else is changing, The Times remains Ihe same- typographical errors and all." "That' The Wy It Goes. Along Come Some Dame With A Smile" ( jll Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name 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 nol 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. Fire Walking Beetles . To the Editor: Do any of the Tribune readers ever re call seeing a hard shell back beetle that actually managed to survive hot ashes? Going out on a small brush fire one time on the Rogue River National forest in the Union Creek area somewhere around 1937, a small crew of men were detailed to patrol the burned over area all night. The foreman on duly asked me if 1 wanted to see some strange creatures around the burned out tree stumps. Of course I was naturally curious to get first hand in formation. The foreman, used a long handled shovel to turn over a shovelful of ashes around a tree stump in the hot pumice ashes. There were literally scads of dark colored beetles pouring out of the formerly red hot ashes surrounding the charred tree stumps. No one at that time seem ed able to explain the un usual phenomenon, and I have never had the mystery ex plained. Perhaps there is someone who docs know. This is one for Lynn M. Watkins to solve. , Bcrl Kisalnger 322 South Riverside ave. Medford Boxing To the Editor: Is boxing a sport? For the boxers or fight ers or for the paying public? The Romans had arenas where slaves fought for Iheir masters. In the boxing ring, which is not round, the par ticipants fight for more mon ey lhan they could earn oth erwise and most of them either get punch drunk or suf fer some disability, often for life. In the audience are some of the best educated nd most successful men of the com munity. Just what do we mean by civilization? David Frisch, P.O. Box 292. White City, Ore. H E ALSO comments on the differences in life that the lack of newspapers creates: "Without newspapers the procedures of life change. Tired, men. su k of the human race after a long gabby day at the office, cannot escape on the train into the life story of Y A. Tittle or the political peril? of Harold Macmillan, but must go on talking to strangers all the way to Westport. Once home, they are bereft of excuses lo avoid fixing that dripping tap or shovel ing the walk." In his final plea to Santa to bring back The Times, Reston wrote a line which may well be come imperishable in the newspaper profession: "Besides, how do 1 know what to think if 1 can't lead what I write'.'" E. A. I recited to her the following lines: "It's better lo buy a small bouquet "To give to your friend this very day, "Than a bushel of roses white and red; "To lay on his casket when he's dead." "And," said I, "I want to hand you a bouquet. Some station agents and some post mistresses seem to think it a more or less condescention lo act courteous and nice lo the general public, but you are different. You are graci ously nice and obligingly courteous to all and sundry, and I for one want you to know that I sincerely appreci ate it." I shall never forget her spontaneous, unpremedi tated, and quick reply, "Why not be that way?" Which, Mr. Editor, reminds me of the sage words of the early Roman emperor and philosopher, Marcus Auerlius, "Men are born to be service able to one another; therefore either reform the World, or bear with it." The Apostle Peter wrote at an earlier date words that have their place in our Bible, "Be courteous." 1 Peter 3.8. H. R. Bulman. Route 4, Box 316A Medford Be Courteous To the Editor: A Happy New Year in the deepest and truest sense to you and all of your renders, and may we again express our thanks lo you, and lo the Mail Tribune, or the Communications col umns in which readers may express themselves about mat ters of public interest and moment. Al this time I take pleasure in writing some facts concern ing two people who came across my path about 30 years ago. We lived near a town In Saskatchewan where a fine gracious woman was assistant to the postmaster, her broth er. In the same town there lived a man who was a chur lish high-hat Englishman in charge of the Canadian Pa cific Railway station. The town wasn't big. but il had two big people in it, the big high-hat Englishman with whom it was a condescension to be civil and gracious: and the big. big-hearted gracious Canadian postmistress who was sunshiny even on a cloudy day, and who, if you happened to be in a hurry, could and would even lick a stamp lo put on your letter or parcel for you! I said there were two bis people in that town. Ihe sel fish Englishman, and the un selfish Canadian woman. One day when Miss McE. --a fine looking woman, with her fine gracious countenance and courleous manners; 1 never learned why al around 40 she was still Miss had licked a stamp and put it on a par cel for me, 1 said. "Miss McE., may I quote lo ou a little verse I learned once?" and. as she looked I genial assent. Treasures To the Editor: As I w-s list ing the things in our home the olhcr day fnr the inrur ance man. this thought came lo me: A wedding dress and suit put away with loving care. Your babies' first foot prints and lock of hair. In a box are babies' first clothes and baby shoes, Also their first cowboy hat and cowboy boots. A gun in its holster, and an old bat and baseball. A kite no longer needed hang ing on the wall. First color books with finger marks put away to keep, With first bedtime books you read before their sleep. Also doll blankets made by a great grandmother, A child's embroidered apron passed from one to another. Old dishes that crossed the plains in years past. Also quilted quills of beauty that will forever last. A grandfather's clock to strike out the passing of lime. An old butler churn and pad dle, an old crock are mine. Pictures of good times, of days gone, of friends we know. Christmas and birthday pres ents tucked away just so. Flowers we've started from ones our friends had. Recipes we collected in part years, some good anr' bad. Crocheted doilies, pretty cush ions made for looks. Also a box of old cards, let ters and precious books. These articles arc what make a house a loving hoi There is no price you can put on the treasures you own Clara Faye Pursel, 1394 Brckman, Medford Inflation, Instability Mark Brazil; President's Role Remains a Question Br PHIL NEWSOM UP! Foreign News Analyst When, nearly two years ago, the United Slates announced its Alliance for Progress pro gram for Lat in America, it committed i t- self to more than just money. By plcdg ing an all-out effort to help Latin Amer i c a n s achieve a bet- Mewsem ter way of life through democratic processes, it also placed its own prestige on the line. And any Latin American nation henceforth which might fall either to violent revolution on the left or to military dictatorship on the right delivered a blow against the United States. It is with this in mind that the United States of lale has been paying more than the usual attention to Brazil. As of this minute, Brazil owes more than $2.7 billion, about half of it to the United States, and has no money to pay it. A Christmas bonus of one month's extra pay, which ail Brazilian employers must pay their employes, was just about wiped out by vicious inflation which in the last year alone amounted to 50 per cent. Black beans and meat had just about disappeared and Brazilians were standing in queues to receive small bags of rice at government con trolled prices. Related to the sorry state of Brazilian finances were two other causes for concern. One was a fear that the government might feel it had to resort to totalitarian means to solve its? problems. Another was Brazil's in creasing flirtation with the Communist bloc. At the center of this is Brazilian President Joao Gou lart who on this coming Sun day hopes for a belated Christ mas present in a frayed stock ing. On Jan. 6, Coularl hopes Brazilian voters will restore to his office the powers strip ped away 16 months ago when he succeeded the resigned Janio Quadros. Under mili tary pressure and in a move of questionable constitution ality, parliament then set up a government of a strong prime minister and a weak pres ident. It is Goulart's claim that without restoration of his powers, he can do nothing to deliver Brazil from its present state. In this there are two im porlant question marks. The first is Gouia.-i. In a visit to the United Slates last April he apparent ly succeeded in persuading the U.S. government and many businessmen that he was moving away from the political left to the center and was sincere in his announced intention to set up tax, educa tional and farm reforms to meet requirements of Alliance for Progress aid. Instead, Brazilian inflation accelerated and little progress was made on other problems. In addition, Goulart was packing his cabinet with left ists and assigned leftist-leaning officers of his own choos ing in the armed forced. And herewith the second question mark. Even should Brazilian voters give him the power he seeks, will Brazil's armed forces let him keep them? In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Salem: Increases in the per capita income level in Oregon may cost the state up to $850,000 in federal welfare funds over the next two years. Public W e 1 fare Administrator An drew Juras said. Juras made the announcement al a meet ing of the State Public Wel fare commission. The announcement was not welcome news to the Hatfield administration. The proposed public welfare budget will have lo be recomputed to make up for the loss in fed eral funds, Juras explained. PERSOINALLY, I think that is slated wrongly. What is happening is that incomes in Oregon are rising. That is GOOD news, not BAD news. What we should say is that INCREASES in the in come level in Oregon may ake it unnecessary for our state to HAVE TO ACCEPT $850,000 in federal welfare funds over the next two years. Let's look at the doughnut - not at the hole. CONSIDER this ilem from the Oregon Blue Book: Oregon s (present) motto is "The Union." "Alis Volat Propriis" (She Flics with Her Own Wings) was ihn Orecon territorial motto and was generally ac cepted as the state motto lor many years, but was NEVER adopted by the state government. Gas Tax To the Editor: I take pen in j hand to write lo the citizens i of our valley in regards to ! Hie proposed gasoline lax in i crease. j I have recently been in- formed of a proposal that w ill allegedly be presented lo Ihe Slate Legislature in the j forthcoming term. This bill in , essence requests a one cent : per gallon tax increase in the j already overburdened State I gas tax (when 1 say overbur dened I mean the public!) I wonder of the State High way commission could say that every penny of the pres ent gas tax goes strictly into roads and highways alone? The federal government, not the state paid for over 90 per cent of our new Freeway which we are so proud to have. Our neighbor California pro poses an increase also, but not as much as Oregon's and even if they do get it, it will be :i cents less than ours after it's added to their present lax. I believe thai the American public is being forced to have loo many increases in taxes rammed down their throats, for instance, the 1 cent postal increase, stricter income tax enforcement, the evcr-increas-infl real rslnlc taxes. n!i ! Rnrlr tn thf Pit. tv th in. crease would cost the average salesman, or anyone whose business involves traveling an average of 65 cents per 1. 000 miles or $32.50 per 50.000 miles, and any firm with a fleet of cars will really feel it 1 guess most people have heard the old saying. "Give them an Inch and thev will ! take a mile." I wonder if this ! couldn't be applied lo taxes ! today. I believe that if 'he j heads of government really I w anted to cut dow n on ,m ! necessary spending it could be done. Of course a lol of i bureaucrats would be looking j for a real job. Yours truly for saner gov ; crnmcnl spending Noel Leon i 06! South Pacilir ll'Chw ay Medford " 'The Union' appears on the state seal and is accepted by most authorities as the state motto, although the law has never designated it as such." A SUGGESTION: Why not put on the ballot at the next general election a measure proposing that Ore gon formally adopt SHE FLIES WITH HER OWN WINGS as the state motto? This writer has confidence enough in the sturdy inde pendence of the REAL peo ple of Oregon to believe that such a measure would be ap proved by an overwhelming majority. MORE Oregon census news: The Oregon Health Board said that Oregon had fewer births and more deaths this year than last year. In a preliminary year-end report, the board said births, marriages and divorces have all dropped, but deaths have increased about 2.6 per cent. There were an estimated 10, 872 marriage and 5.800 di vorces in 1962 - a two to one ratio consistent with the past five years. B UT- Prcliminarv figures put births at 37.406 and deaths at 17.273. - a favorable ratio of a little belter than TWO to ONE in the way of births over deaths. That ought to provide us with about as much popula tion increase as we can take care of adequately in the years immediately ahead. 1 WORD of advice: Oregon is ALL RIGHT. Don't sell her short. Thornton Rules On Loan Directors Salem -il'PH- Directors of an industrial loan corporation must comply with the resi dence requirements specified for directors of banks. Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton said today. Thornton noted that the in corporation of industrial loan corporations was governed by Ihe requirements for incor poration relating to banks and that the naming of properly qualified directors "is an in tegral pari of the incorpora tion procedure of a bank ." The opinion was in response to a question by J. F. M Slade, superintendent of banks. Try and Stop Mo By BENNETT CERF- TJURDICK AND WHEELER'S un-put-downable new best--- seller, "Fail-Safe," suggests that electronic gear and fantastic new weapons are becoming so complex that they nrA rttirctrinnintf ik. .ViL ity of man to control 2 them, and that the world may one day be destroyed by a nuclear war no body wanted that was begun by accident. Implying that many secret documents are not properly digested by qualified recipients, Bur dick and Wheeler tell of one official who stuffed a sixty-page essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson into a rnnfirfontial w,aA addressed to his entire staff. The memo came back, duly initialed, but not one man made a single comment or raised one question about the contents! "Sunday was always the noisiest day of the week In my family," recalled Buddy Haekett. "Everybody sang at the top of hia lungs in the bathtub." "You all must have been full of animal spirits," commented a friend. "What do you mean, anima spirits ?" countered Hackett. "Our bathroom door had no lock.' m They have some odd weather out Oklahoma way. A news dis patch from one town in the Western end of that state, for in stance, tells how half of Farmer Burt Quigley's barn was sheared off by a twister. While he was discussing with a builder plans for replacing it, another atorm came along and blew down the half that remained! C 1963, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (ci Field Enterprises, Inc. CHANGE As we enter the tremulous year of 1963, I can think of no better contemporary text for our read ing and re flection than a few para graphs proph etically writ ten a . half dozen years ago by the the physicist J. Robert Op- Harris penhcimer. In his book, "The Open Mind," Dr. Oppenheimcr sets the task before us more clearly and concisely than any I have heard. This task is our prers ing universal need to recog nize change, and to cope with it: . . "In an Important sense," Dr. Oppenheimer reminds us, "this world of ours is a new world, in which the unity of knowledge, the nature of human Communi ties, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and cul ture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. "What is new is new not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality. One thing that is new is the prevelence of newness, ihe changing scale and scope of change itself, so that the world alters as we walk in it, so that the year's of man's life measure not some small growth or re arrangement or moderation of what he learned in child hood, but a great upheaval. "What is new is that in one generation our knowl edge of the natural world engulfs, upsets, and comple ments all knowledge of the natural world before. The techniques among which and by which we live, mul tiply and ramify, so that Ihe whole world it bound together by communication, blocked here and there by the immense synapses of political tyranny. "The global quality of the world is new: our knowledge of and sympathy with remote and diverse peoples, our in volvement with them in prac tical terms, and our commit ment to them in terms of brotherhood. "What is new in the world is the massive character of the dissolution and corruption of authority, in belief, in ritual, and in temporal order. Yet this is the world that we have come to live in. The very dif ficulties which il presents de rive from growth in under standing, in skill, in power. "To assail the changes that have unmoored us from the past is futile, and in a deep sense, I think it is wicked. We need to recognize the change and learn what resources we have," I quote from Dr. Oppen hcimer's book at such length because I believe tl at what he has said needs to be deeply imprinted on every mind in the year ahead. Our grasp of what he calls "the changing scale of change itself" may determine whether we leave this year any wiser and better lhan we entered it, or whe ther, indeed, we leave 11 at all. JFK CONSIDERS MEETING London 'I PI The Daily Herald said today President Kennedy is considering "an early meeting'' with French President Charles de Gaulle over the U S offer to provide Polaris missiles to France and Britain In a dispatch from New York, the newspaper .s.ud US Ambassador to France Charles Bohlen is ex pected to suggest the meeting to De Gaullt toon. House Members To Organize Jan. 13 Salem -Wli- An organiza. tional caucus of the 1063 House of Representatives has been called for 8 p.m. Jan. 13 in room 6 of the Slate Capitol building here. Rep. Clarence Barton (D Coquille), speaker - designate of the House, and F. F. Mont gomery (R-Eugcnc), minority leader of the 1961 session, called the meeting. "The purpose is lo organize the House of Representatives, to elect the officers, and to adopt the rules for the 1963 legislative session," the joint announcement said. The 1963 session begins Jan. 14. Democrats have a 31-29 edge In the House, and Bar ton was elected speaker-designate at a Democratic caucus held last November. TRUTHFUL -fydSSXi CONFESSION iQ. I TwiiWpKH r -magazine- M-iv- lr:i7JOsS;i m "How s this on the cover? 'What did Jackie tell Caroline about Mont Lisa and di Vinci?' ... I"