Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 04, 1963, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text4 A HfBHlRlJti.TRlBUNS Everyone Id-SouthrnOreon ReadaTho Mail Tribune" iPubliihVd Daily except Saturday by MEDKORD PRINTING CO 33 North rirt., Ph;J7il-I41 ROBERT W HUHL. Editor HERB CREV Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM, Bus, Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mna. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPM AN, Teleg Editor , RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Ed tor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALERICJN.IrcuJadojMr An Independent Newspaper Entered ai second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act o! March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Dally and Sunday 1 year I1B.00 Dally and Sunday moa 10.00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa. 5.00 Sunday Only One year 5.00 Single Copy (Mailed) 30c By Camel And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year 121 .00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1.73 Sunday Only 1 mo. c Carriui and Vcndura j Copy 10c Official Paper of city of Medforij Official rpprM ..-..- , United Press International ' Full Leased Wire 0. P I Telephoto Newsplcturea lMEMBFRbF AUDIT BUREAU" pa CIRCULATIONS NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOC. ATKa Ul'icea in new ,ym, easo. Detroit, San Francisco, Loa Angeiea. neaiua, rur Den'-er. FRIDAY. JANUARY 4. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL THIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Vote Counting Research Km NEWSPAPER PUBUSHEKS ASSOCIATION NATION A t EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 4, 1953 (Friday) Ashland prepares for ad vent of television. Southern Pacific railroad fined for dispatching Insuffi ciently loaded freight cars to out-of-state points. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 4. 1943 (Thursday) Medford Mayor C. A. Meek er leaves for Seattle to attend regional meeting of federal housing authorities. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "In California, the people have started to sing 'Yes, We Have No Bananas, Beefsteak or Butter Today'." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 4, 1933 (Saturday) Snow reported to be eight or nine feet deep at govern ment camp In Crater Lake National park. New 1033 cars on display In Medford at prices from $130 to $145 below prices of 1032. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 4, 1923 (Sunday) Stale Sen. George Dunn of Jackson county named chair man of legislature committee on elections and privileges. Medford High school bas ketball team to play opening game against alumni; high school team Includes Bceney, Dick and Rudy Slngler, J. V. Watson, Jim Allen and Ray mond Knips. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 4, 1913 Page from a fashion maga zine dated 18(13 found imbed ded in center of oak tree cut down by Harold Corliss near Phoenix; page said In good condition. Medford Mayor W. II. Can non and Clarence L. Rcamcs leave for Portland to attend annual Jackson day banquet at which Rcamcs will speak. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or tan correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; rive or sit It good. 1. What Is the United States highest military award? 2. Who baptized Saul? 3. Most roses now have grafted roots; true or false? 4. In the snle of timber, which of the following com mands the highest price: Pon dcrosa Pine, Douglas Fir, Larch, White Fir or Englcmnn Spruce? 5. On how many islands Is New York principally built ? 8. Which of the following is most closely connected with control of electrical volume: Thermostat, rcostat, photostat, rcconostal? 7. Has (he noun burglar an accepted verb form? B. Frankfort is the capital of which stale? 9. There are no fish in the Dead Sea; true or false? 10. Name the world's larg est active volcano. Answers: 1. Congressional Medal of Honor. 2. Ananias. 3. True. 4. Ponderosa pine. 5. Three. 6. Reoilat. 7. No. 8. Kentucky. 9. True. 10. Mauni Lui en Hawaii, CALLS FOR TAX CUT Washington - Wli - Ameri cans for Democratic Action (ADA) Thursday called for a $10 billion-plus federal tnx cut and Increased spending for education and urban problems. Recently, in commenting about the complex ity of state government as revealed in the Gov ernor's proposed budget for the coming bien nium, we mentioned, in passing, that the secre tary of state had received an appropriation of $12,500 for the current biennium for research on vote counting procedures, and that he had spent $800 of that amount. Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. hap pened to see the editorial, and wrote to give more details about the item. LIIS letter is so interesting that we print most of it below: "Since a research project is, in a very real sense, the search for an unknown, it was impossible when we embarked on this program to predict exactly where it might lead. One of our fields of investigation was that of the design of some sort of a device for use . at the polling place to enable the voter to register his voting choice mechanically. After study we concluded that a better solution was to be found along the lines of electronic detection and tabulating of a mark made manually by the voter, Just as he now does, with either and indelible pen or a special marking device. . . . We also found that a great deal of research was being done in the general area of electronic sensing and tabulating of marks by the established electronic equipment manufacturers, such as IBM, Remington Rand, National Cash Register, and others. "Therefore, since the time our research reached that stage, we have devoted our efforts to working ' in cooperation with such firms mentioned in the fore going in an effort to persuade them to adapt their own research developments to the task to vote tabulation, rather than attempting to do original research and de velopment ourselves. "I am' sure you will recognize that any research and development we might do within the limits of $12,900 would be but a drop in the bucket compared to that which can be accomplished by such interna tionally recognized firms as IBM and National Cash Register with their tremendous research and develop ment staffs and facilities. "Therefore, It is for that reason that we have neither expended the $12,300 appropriated to us nor intend requesting additional funds. Such funds as will be expended will be in the nature of travel to confer with the research directors and staffs of these firms, as I did some three weeks ago on trips to Dayton, Ohio, and Yorktown,, N.Y. "We are quite encouraged that in time a modern ized system will be developed through this effort , . ." WE SINCERELY appreciate Mr. Applings's infpvpsf in rrivino- this additional informa tion and clarification. Moreover, we wish him every success in his quest for speedier vote counting equipment. It is an anachronism that, in a day when automation and computers are more and more taken for granted, we still vote in the same horse and bug gy fashion that our grandfathers did, and that it is long hours, and in some cases days and weeks, before the outcome of an election is known. ', The approach being used is logical and eco nomical, too. E.A. Radio Logs Popular The other clay we inquired editorially wheth er the radio logs printed in the Mail Tribune serve 'a useful function. We asked readers to drop a note or a card to let us know how they feel. The result was truly heart-wanning. , Letters and cards started pouring in, and they're still coming. They are running more than 10 to 1 in favor of keeping the radio logs. Here are a few random quotations: "When the Tribune arrives I look first at the headlines, then for the scissors to cut out the pro grams for TV and radio, which I keep on the table beside me." "Thank you for the radio log. I use It every day and would be lost without it." "My wife, a nurse, lells me that many patients in the hospital clip (the logs) out and keep them on their bedside tables." "When we had a (Mail Tribune) motor route, we had customers stop the paper, then after a short time would start it again, saying they missed the radio and TV logs." "If 1 had to make a choice of cither one or the other, I would pick my radio rather titan my TV." "Consider the many people who are your sub scribers too far away to receive the TV programs, and the many who prefer radio to TV." "We do not listen to the radio continuously as some do, and depend on the radio log for special news, etc. We do not have a TV, so our radio is our main source of latest news." "1, for one, am getting to the age where I have a better forgettery than memory. I simply wouldn't know which, why, when or where without your radio log. It's a must (or us oldsters." "If the radio sections isn't always quile the way it should be, I know It isn't your fault. So we hope you'll continue to print it." "Possibly the broadcasting stations .should be re quired to pay for this service." "What'. It To U What They Do Down There?" HTHE few dissenting cards and letters either in- dicated that radio logs serve no useful func tion, or that it is a matter of indifference. One of the more interesting of the dissents said : "We appreciate your position regarding unpaid space for radio and TV logs. "Due to adverse Influences upon both children and adults, we have laid away our sets until such a time when the broadcasters may decide to jwtticn our atmosphere with worth-while, educational seeing and hearing. We love good music, too." Hut sue!) views constituted a small minority of the returns. Thus, at least for the time being, we shall continue to publish the radio logs. It should be noted that the Mail Tribune cannot accept re snonsibility for their accuracy, only making those changes supplied by the radio stations. We wish to thank the many readers who took the time and trouble to respond to our request and who, in many instances, also were good enough to express their thanks and good wish es. E.A. Columbo Plan's Success Only 'Moderate' In Increasing Asian Economic Activity Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c) Field Enterprises, Inc. 4pfj1 SOMEBODY ELSE The proper way to compli ment a woman Is not on what she has or is, but on what she has not or wants to be. The beautiful woman wants to be assured that she is bright, and the bright wo man that she is a 1 1 ractive. For everyone Harris has a desire to be, in a certain way, some body else. This, of course, is as true of men as of women-although men pretend not to be so susceptible to flattery. There is no point In telling a man that he is good in something about which he knows he is good; he will simply regard you as a fool. But tell the minister that his sermon was logical and well-reasoned as a legal brief, and he will puff up and res pond, "You know, I did think of taking up the law once." When General Wolfe con quered Quebec, he sighed that the would gladly have given up all his military victories If only he could have written Gray's "Ele gy." Likewise, Frederick the Great scorned those who praised his martial feais; he wanted to be a French literary man rather than a Prussian general - or, at any rate, a pari of him wanted to be, and deeply desired assurance that he could have been. Goethe took his literary genius for granted, on the other hand, and yearned for immortality as a scien tific innovator - ho foolish, ly thought that his "theory of light and colors" would outlast hit poetry, and watted a great deal of time in defending his trivial dis coveries. Itaac Newton, on the other hand, thought that hit profound tcientific work wat less important than hit research into Biblical hit tory, which any schoolboy could have emulated. The latter hat been totally for gotten by now, while Newton's tcientific explora tions remain a landmark of Wettern civilisation. Sir Arthur Sullivan dis missed his music for the Sa voy operettas as airy nothings, and hoped that his fame would rest un his more am bitious works; but he has reached immortality only as the latter half of Gilbert Sc. In our time, Artur Schna bel, the eminent pianist, de sired praise not for his in comparable renditions of Mo zart and Beethoven, but for the atonal modern music he composed, which is not worth one cadenza of a Mozart con certo. The man who makes vast sums of money wants to be regarded as a discriminating art collector; the Shakespeare an actor wanls to be thought of as an astute financial manipulator. And who knows what dreams Einstein had when he picked up his fiddle and scratched out a tune? By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Newt Analytt Back in 19S0, Britain and members of the common wealth set up a program known as the Colombo plan. Its aim was to aid the eco nomic devel opment of the c o u ntries of C n ii I k a n ,4 I S o u I h e a st 4QI I Asia, most of eseaeam..,aB akaaeBJ ,,f . m Co nn nil. . J " - - - . Kawiom lations were desperately poor but which embraced a total of rrore than be close to a billion. The United States joined the plan in 1051, and with the addition of others, the total finally stood at 21 na tions. It did not Include Na tionalist China in Formosa or South Korea, which were geographically outside the area and already were receiv ing substantial help from the United States. Recently, a Japanese ipokes Recently, a Japanese spokes man took a look at the area to see how it was doing. He found the results only "moderately encouraging." The spokesman was Ambas- 600 million people, toon to I sador Katsuo Okazaki, Ja- 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 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. Trees To the Editor: Re Communi cations, Mr. Clifford's "To Kusty - When the forest's last monarch has fallen When the last log is hauled to the mill When the last board is drawn at the dry kiln When the rip-saws all stand mute and still When the last board is cut into boxes When the last labeled box end is made When the last whistle blows at the factory When your debt to the juggernaut's paid What then? ' Are you making provision for rest You will need when the day is o'er? Have you thought of the cost if you fail To find the right way and the door? , 1 A tree bore the burden for man-kind A tree in the shape of a cross Thus provision was made for you, son ' Take heed! and you'll suffer no loss. James Williams P.O. Box 441 Jacksonville, Ore. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS San Francisco nursed a mu nicipal hangover Tuesday fol lowing one of ihe rowdiest New Year's Eve celebrations in years. "The trend of the limes is outright defiance of authority," said Police Chief Thomas Cahill, "and that's what we ha Monday night." Is a symbolic way of throw ing out the old year. The crockery shower is against the law, but that didn't stop the celebrating. By two minutes after midnight, nearly every street in Rome was a sham bles. CHIEF CAHILL said it was the roughest New Year's Eve in five years, and offered this as a sample of what went on; Police Officer frank Wil son came across a bunch of young thugs beii'.lng an elder ly man In front of the Em bassy theatre. When he went to the aid of the victim, the gang scattered but he man aged to catch one of the young toughs in a nearby alley. Suddenly, Officer Wilson was surrounded by a mob of defiant youths and young men shouting "Let's get the cop." It was estimated that there were about 250 people in the mob when five ot fl eers with police dogs moved Into the fray, split the mob Into two groups and rescued Officer Wilson. IjiROM Reno: Revelers in a downtown casino area welcomed the New Year with a s1 wcr of beer bottles and cocktail glasses here early Tuesday, doing about $10,000 damage to huge neon signs. Police moved into the mob of some 3,000 persons and scattered it. When the crowd was subdued. Assistant Police Chief Hill Hroadhrad com mented angrily: "The disturb ing thing was that men and women on the sidewalk were APPLAUDING THE MESS." AND so on - from all over A the nation. And, likewise, from all over the world. This, for example, from Rome: Exactly at midnight, people began hurling old pots, pans, dishes and oilier rubbish from their windows, which in Italy QUITE a mess? Well, lest totally wrong impressions of this modern world be gained, let's end this symposium of sin and silliness on a more hopeful note. At Stratford, Conn., Tues day Dr. Burton H. Fern died at the age of 37. He served in the Air Force medical corps in Korea from 1951 to 1053. Returning home after his Air Force duty, he open ed a pediatric practice at Missed Contest To the Editor: We are family who was missed dur ing the lighting contest in Medford. If we were missed in the Judging, there must have been others who. were also. I wouldn't feel badly about it except for the fact that I phoned the Robert Bur ton home as the paper said to do. Even though I did so, the judges did not judge our home, and we are inside the city of Medford. If anyone came down Table Rock rd., our home couldn't be missed. It was the one with the illuminated Santa on top of the chimney, and was visi ble for almost two miles away. Next year I hope that regis- Stratford. Two years later, spinal polio left him para lyzed from the neck down. His body and chest muscles were rendered useler. by the disease, but he retained his hearing, speech, vision and a SPIRIT THAT ONLY DEATH COULD CONQUER. ITSING a wheel chair, he went back Into practice. He traveled to give lectures He served as a consultant on pediatrics. He engaged ,in re search projects. And - He began lo wrile a health column, which was widely syndicated. He produced it by pecking it out on an electric type writer WITH A STICK HELD IN HIS TEETH. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- C HERMAN DUFFY, recalls John McPhoul in his book, J "Deadlines and Monkeyshines," was a Greek and Latin scholar with a Phi Beta Kappa key who turned sportswriter because he believed it ft" , was the easiest way in the world to make a liv ing without working. Duffy once lambasted the owners of the De troit Baseball Club so hard that they sued him for libel. Duffy promptly received this wire from Hugh Fullcrton, dean of all sportswriters: "Con gratulations! I've been trying for a decade to li bel a baseball magnate," Leopold Godoxvskt. the famous composer and pianist, was sub. Jecl to insomnia. His eon, living with him at the time, was, on the contrary, a sound alecper. It w as Godowskl's amiable habit, when he waa having a particularly bad night, to stamp into his son a room, shake him vigorously until he opened his eves and Uitn demand, "What's Uie matter, eon? Can't you tlcep either?" "My sponsor tnrew me a big dinner on the fifth anniversary of my television debut," reminlaces Milton Btrle, "but it didn't hit -no." e IK by B.nnstt Cert. Distributed by King features Syndicate trations will be required as they have been in past years. Then perhaps, homes will not be missed. This was our first effort to enter the home lighting con test, and was a great disap pointment to all of us. Next year I shall call more than just the chairman of the event to get results. Mrs. Herb Gifford 2336 Table Rock rd. Medford. pans permanent representa tive to the United Nations. His own country had shown the most spectacular growth In national output - a whop ping 9 per cent. Formosa came next with 8 per cent, and other good ones with growth rates a 5 to 6 per cent were the Philippines, Thailand and South Korea. Unfortunately, the lowest growth rates were recorded by nations with populations exploding at a rate nearly nul lifying the gains they made. This Is an area of glamor ous names - Nepal, Ceylon, Malaya - but known to the great majority of Westerners only from the geography books. Okazaki was saying that the anti - Communist world must indeed be one -world. If Asia is not included ha saw this grim alternative: "A stagnant Asia is already a dangerous breeding ground for chaos and Communist im perialism, which will cost us far more in blood and treas ure than economic development." Washington Report By William S. White (c) United Feature Syndicate Possum. Pie To the Editor, and Mr. Snl den I do so appreciate the ex-mayor's proclamation. have always felt it was wrong to tax the Poles and let the Russians go free. And I es pecially appreciate the open season on possums. It has been a long time since I en joyed a possum pie. I recall the little stuttering Negro who used to sing Possum Pie: Pee-ppppo, deedddd double- s, U-uuuum, Of all de eatin dat am de bes; Um pppossum pie, I could eat yu tttill I die, Podouble s-um spells possum ana pie spells pie. Now, thanks to the procla mation, I can, as we say, kill two birds with one stone can have my possum pie and stop their scampering around on my roof at night and also their meow meow-meowing under the floor. . L. G. Weaver, 301 Have,n st., Medford. Invisible Government To the Editor: The Congo battle is again at white heat. And the UN policy is to force Katanga back into the Communist controlled Congo Republic, no matter what the cost. To break down Katan ga's resistance hospitals, homes, schools and industrial plants have been bombed. And UN troops, including un civilized India Ghurkas and Ethiopian tribesmen, have committed unbelievably hor rible atrocities against doc tors, missionares, women, and children. While lawless, drunken bands of Congolese troops; paid in American tax dollars nearly three times as much as American soldiers get, are still terrorizing the country pillaging, raping, and killing. Why is the United States financing and supporting this incredible policy in the Con go, so wrong, so shameful, and so helpful to Commu nism? The 9-24-61 Star Ledger of Newark, N.J., gives it to us straight: "Last June, group of private Swedish and American financiers deposit ed about 100 million dollars in Swiss banks in preparation for a Katangan take-over. As the combine was formed three months ago, it seems likely that the UN war was being planned in secret at that time. or even earlier. If the Tshom- be government falls, the new (Swedish-American) combine plans to move in" to take over the fabulously rich Katanga mines. After much thorough In vestigation Congressman Don ald Bruce of Indiana came up with the fact that two Americans of the American Swedish corporation are very highly placed In the foreign policy making agency of our Government, Fowler Hamil ton, Director of Foreign Aid. and George Ball, Under-Secretary of State, who directly helped establish our policy toward Katanga. Now the U S. sponsored UN in Ka tanga begins to make sense. Both of these men, Smoot Re port 380 states, "are members of the Council On Foreign Re lations whose key members have become the INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT of the United States. Their purpose, which can be proven by their own words and deeds, as shown in my iSmooft) book. The In visible Government, is to make America a Socialist unit in a one world Socialist sys tem. Why should they want o do this?" They "are build ing wealth and power for themselves." Arc these international fi nanciers tthe CFR) using American tax dollars the UN army, and Communism to IRRESPONSIBLE LABOR Washington - However un pleasant the subject may be in uus gray morning of the new year, the harsh and un deniable fact is that this g o v e rnment must face up now to the ne c e s s i t y of curbing the white power of irre sponsible labor. Few politicians, even among the conservatives, really rel ish the notion of reopening the sweaty, immensely diffi cult and ill-rewarding field of labor legislation. There are many reasons not to do so -the main one perhaps being the violent and unreasoning response which will inevita bly come from the great vot ing blocs within organized labor. But there is a single, com pelling reason to do so. This is, simply, nothing less than the preservation of basic na tional interest. It is the great est domestic issue before this country. THOUGH it made some im provements in 1960, Con gress has not enacted any gen eral labor legislation since the Taft-Hartley act of 1948. This act went far toward restoring a fair balance between man agement and labor. Labor for a decade under the Wagner act has passed from its old position of undue lack of pow er relative to management to a position of undue power not only over management but crush the anti-Communist Ka tanga people and take their wealth anct property away from them? Is rapacious greed and avarice behind our sub human hrnlnl treatment of Katanga? Every red blooded American who thinks so should protest in no uncertain terms to his Congressman. Frank Koch, 412 South First st., Central Point, Ore. Fire Thankt To the Editor: Because of the recent fire in the Big Y Shopping Center, and particu larly because my beauty shop was involved, may I extend my heartfelt thanks and ap preciation to the following: My first thanks must go to Gordon Barker, and the win derful men of the Medford fire department, who helped long and hard to salvage the contents of my shop. The operators whom I em ploy, and I want to further thank all the people at City Hall, my banker, the State Board of Cosmetology, the owners of other beauty shops who offered their services, and the host of friends who are making it possible for me to open temporary quarters at my home on 2049 Gary st., until my shop Is rebuilt in the Big Y Shopping Center. Their cooperation and help will be forever appreciated. Elva Penwell, Owner Big Y Beauty Salon Operators: Aletha Hall L' nda Sechler Bonnie McKecn also over the interests of the general public. Taft-Hartley was a reason able response to years of la bor union excesses, as the) Wagner act earlier had be come an extreme response to generations of management excesses. But Taft-Hartley is, demonstrably, no longer ade quate. There must be a new and fully effective weapon against which might be called the intolerable, the public-be-damned, strike. The intolerable strike is de fined here as one in which the fundamental rights and necessities of the people them selves are denied by labor stoppages which menace not merely some corporation or other but the general welfare) itself. i.. SUCH an intolerable strike by the longshoremen -is now going to paralyze, first, the east and gulf coasts, and, second, the whole national economic interest. Such -a strike is now going on in New York City. It has closed nine newspapers covering a metro politan area where 13,000,000 Americans are being shut off from the world by a printers' union whose demands upon the publishers are demonstra bly unreasonable by any standard acceptable to reason able men. And such a strike for weeks has also closed the only two newspapers in Cleveland. This one involves the odorous team sters union and the American Newspaper guild which surely can hardly take prido in the nature of its ally in this enterprise. This columnist all his adult life has been a member of what is called "the working press," meaning the non-owning, non-management part of the press. He owns no news paper stock. He claims no de tailed knowledge of the issues in Cleveland, as distinguished from those in New York. TIE KNOWS for a fact, as a working newspaperman, however, that to black oufa whole vast community is to go far beyond a legitimate economic struggle into somE thing which Is destructive of more than the press itself. It is to hit also at the very life spirit of the people. There js a darkness here -that is mora than economic; there is a pa ralysis here that is more than a paralysis of t h e market place; a paralysis of the mind, of the common culture. i As to the dock strike, the d e e p est economic interests and the highest foreign policy designs of a whole nation are put to peril After months ot anxious debate this country has at last been prepared leg islatively to enter upon the brave new world of expanded trade which is being opened by the European Common Market. Unless the maritime unions are brought under some rational form of check, they can smash this brava new world so far as we are concerned. And with this they can all but destroy the very under pinnings of the foreign policy of the United States of Amer ica. , "lnlQ "You're right the eonlinenltl eul It not for youl"