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Newspaper Page Text4 A ' MEDTORDi&&TMBUNI "rEverybnei5"Soulhern" Oregon ReadsjriM MliTrlbune; Kbllhed Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 NorthrirSt.. Ph. 77:1-8141 "" ROBERT W RtlHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bus Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mna Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP.MAN. Tcleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr ' An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon under Act of March 3. 1097 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Dally and Sunday 1 year 118 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos 10 00 Dallv and Sunday 3 mos 5.00 Sunday Only One year $5 00 Single Copy (Mailed) 30o By CaiTtei And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year Ml 0(1 Dallv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.73 Sunday Only 1 mo. 50c Carrlcl and Vendors Copy loo Official Paperot Jackson County United press inicrnauunm Full Leased Wire U. P. 1 Tclepho:o Newsptcturcs 'MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU SUNDAY. JANUARY 6. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON NKLSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES OfMcei In New York, Chi caso Detroit. San Francisco. Loa Angetcr Seattle. Portland Denver. NATION A L ' EDITORIAL TTp"bl,shers VjASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Mcdlord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 6, 1953 (Sunday) District attorney explains gambling control policies to county law enforcement offi cers. ; Local Shrincrs arc named lo high offices of Temple at annual meeting in Ashland. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 6. 1943 (Friday) Republicans in United Stales senate reelect Oregon Sen. Charles McNary as sen ate floor leader. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "There Is a shortage of Young Demo crats in these parts. Many of the old arc no longer young, or Democrats." 90 YEARS AGO Jan. 6, 1933 (Sunday) Former county Judge and former counly commissioner each fined $1 by county judge for "mutilation of county rec ords" involving signatures placed on court journal; the two former officials state that they will appeal case. State fire marshal's office Starts Investigation of fire which destroyed bain on for mer Dai (our, Guthrie ranch near Ashland. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 6. 1923 (Monday) Annual report shows that nearly 5,000 automobiles vis ited Lithia park in Ashland during 11)22. New officers installed by Hillah temple of the shrine Include Emil Brill, Jackson ville, and Jerry Jerome, Med ford. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 6, 1913 (Wednesday) County Judge Frank Ton Vcllc performs his first wed ding ceremony since taking office; oilier members of court attend wedding. Ex-llghlwclght boxing champion Ad Wolgust leaves San Francisco for Medford, where he says he will pur chase a $50,000 ranch. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; even or eight is ticellent; five or sis Is good. 1. What is Ihc largest coun try, according to area? 2. What type of joint is the knee Joint'.' 3. How many degree's is the equator from each of the poles? 4. Name three of the four prominent European moun tain chains. 5. Rome is credited willi (teveral contributions to mod ern limes; name Hie three great est. 8. Stars seem lo give off three colors; yellow, red and blue-while; list these in order of heal. 7. Was Paris, or was It not, declared an open city during the Allied advance in WW'l? 8. Name the capital of Mis souri. 9. Who was the first Post master General under Frank lin D. Roosevelt. 10. Is the spoils system com monly connected with gov ernment, mold druiis, or pro cessing of mash fur alcoholic beverages? Answers: 1. Canada. 2. Hinge Joint. 3. Ninety. 4. Alps, Apennines. Pyrenees. Urals. 5. Law, roads and governmenl. S. Blue-while, yellow, red. 7. Was. 8. Jefferson City. 9. James A. Parity. 10. Government. Lane County Home Rule i Lane county last week became the first Ore gon "home rule" county. Washington county to morrow will become the second. In Lane county, the changes will, in essentials, boil down to two major ones: 1. The board of county commissioners (three members) will be given considerable legislative power within the county; 2. The administrative functions of the county will be reorganized into seven departments: Fi nance and Auditing; Assessment and Taxation; Records and Elections; Health and Sanitation; Public Works; Public Safety, and General Administration. I ANE county retained an elected sheriff and assessor, as well as the commissioners, but it eliminated the elective positions of surveyor, treasurer, clerk and constable. The commissioners are going slowly in put ting the changes in to effect, and have given themselves a July 1 deadline to complete the shift. Meanwhile, existing county organization will continue to operate. One of the first changes will be the setting up of the Departments of Public Works and Public Safety. THE commissioners held their first meeting un der the new system, Thursday, and will meet again next Wednesday. The charter requires reg ular public meetings one of the features which should be most beneficial, so that the public will know when the county governing body meets. These changes will and should be watch ed closely in other Oregon counties. It is our belief that the several defeats inflict ed on home rule charters so far proposed have been the result of two things, first, objection to specific proposals, in the charters, and second, fear of the unknown and untried. The second we believe the more important. It home rule in Lane and Washington coun ties is a success, there should be less resistance to its adoption elsewhere. THE Lane county charter contained fewer un- familiar changes than did the one proposed for Jackson county last spring. It retains a three- man board of commissioners, and retains two of- the more important elective officials. The administrative changes should make for greater efficiency, but in essence, they are simply organizational changes, not changes of real sub stance. The most significant the only REALLY im portant change is, in our opinion, the fact that Lane county is, for the first time, enabled to enact its own legislation without either taking minor matters to a vote of the people, or taking them to the legislature. Cities have had this power for decades. Why not counties? E.A. Glenn Jackson s Role "Come On, Come On Don't Be A Coward" Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann ) 1063. The Washington Post 51 Upptiiann Glenn Jackson is the sort of man who hates in son liio riumn in fJm minni' Tlmrn wiw n thnn when he'd go to great lengths to keep it out of a news siory, even to me extent oi giving someone else the credit for something he himself had done. T-Jnf in i-nnnnt vnnea il line Imnn hurrlor itnrl harder for him to hide his light under a bushel, oecau.se oi the lact tnat his many activities nave brought him more and more into the public eye in particular his chairmanship of the Oregon State Highway Commission. To Medford people, of course, his accomplish ments are most familiar his many-term presi dency of the Chamber of Commerce, his active interest in almost every civic-betterment program that has come along in the past 20 years, too numerous to mention. DUT, more recently, Jackson has become an in- fluence in many statewide matters, not only in highways and in Pacific Power & Light, of which he is vice chairman of the board. This widening role recently was recognized bv the Oregon Journal, in an editorial entitled "Medford Man's Wide Influence." It read as follows: Medford and Portland are separated almost by the width of the stale, but two things have been happening recently to bring them closed together. One Is the completion of new segments of the free way, U.S. Interstale No. 5, which .substantially reduces the driving time between the two cities. The oilier is the interest in Portland of one of Med ford's most distinguished citizens, Glenn L. Jackson, an officer of the organization, Portland Metropolitan Future Unlimited, which is working for a recreational development at Delta Park and aiming (or the Olympic Games here in 1972. Jackson's business interests keep him here part of the lime. Mis responsibility as chairman of the State Highway Commission takes him In all pails of the state, including Portland. lie is keenly aware of the interrelationship of Portland and the rest of the stale. Last week he lolil a Portland audience that those who live upstate look on Ihc progress of the city of Portland as an indicator of I he progress of the stale of Oregon, lie said that Portland's lack of major athletic facilities was robbing the slate of dollars and that it is the responsibility of Portland to provide these facilities. So big is the Delta Park program that Portland may need some help. It is likely that the plan soon lo be unveiled by PMFU will call for a cooperative approach beyond the boundaries of Portland. The Oregon Legislature may be asked to take specific action to help expedite the project. Jackson, who is reallv a eitien of Oregon, not of Medtord alone, should be a key man in the rallying of such support. Jackson probably will be after us with a buggy whip for printing the above, but it is an acknowl edgement of the role he plays in the development of the sUite, anil his Medford neighbors are en titled to know about it. E.A. THE CONGO We know from experience that in the Congo a settlement, which looks as if it were just around the corner, usual ly turns out to be a long way off. So it is with the Unit ed Nations po- 1 i c e action which Tshom be or perhaps his subbordi nates pro voked before the United Na tions had completed the mili tary buildup planned for Jan uary. Though the immediate result was an easy success in the capital of Katanga at Elisabethville and at the big base at Kamina, the most mod cm mining properties at Jadotville and Kolwczc along the rail line to Portuguese Angola arc still in the hands of European mercenary troops. The secession, therefore, Is not yet defeated, and if Tshombe enters into new negotiations with the Cpntral Govermcnl at Lcopoldvillc, he may still be able to do what he has always done in the past, to evade and procrasti nate. For Tshombc's objective is to avoid a settlement in the hope that the United Nations will go bankrupt, abandon the operation and resign it self to the secession of Katanga. riMIE MINERAL wealth of the province of Katanga is very great. Mr. Colin Legum says that Katanga pro duces some 8 per cent of the world's copper, 60 per cent of the uranium of the West ern World, 7;i per cent of the world's cobalt, 80 per cent of its industrial diamonds, as well as important quantities of gold, zinc, manganese and many other rare metals. Al though Katanga has only 12 per cent of the population of tile Congo, il produces B0 per cent of the revenues. The min ing wealth of Katanga is con trolled in the main by Belgian and British interests, though there are some American shareholders. The central fact In the prob lem of Ihc Congo is that, without the revenues from Katanga, the rest of the Congo is doomed to misery and back wardness and lo the savagery thai they will produce. The international signifi cance of Katanga can best be appreciated by looking at the map which shows that the richest part of Katanga borders on Northern Rhodesia and Portuguese Angola. If Katanga is able lo secede, il will become a theater of si niggle between that region of Africa which is still under the control of white men and Black Africa which is now composed of independent states. ' rjMIESE ARE facts which have to be kept ill mind when we think about the United Nations operation and the backing of that operation by the United Slates. In I960, with the blessing of President Eisenhower, the United Na tions under the leadership of Dag llanimarskjold made the hard and dangerous decision lo intervene with United Na lions troops drawn from countries which were not aligned with NATO, the War saw Pact or Red China. The Congo had been "lib erated." In fact cast off. before any serious effort had been made to prepare the Congo lose for self-government. The immediate result of this pre mature independence was chaos and massacre. Who should restore order? Bel gium, Britain, France and the United States'.' There is no doubt that the Soviet Union would base insisted on inter vening also. So. although Lumumba's go eminent appealed lo Presi dent Eisenhower for military aid. we turned to the United Nations as Ihc lest hope ol restoring order and of keep ing the Congo from becoming a cockpit of the cold war. This initial task was caricd out successfully. But it was at once plain that the Congo would fall into chais unless a reasonably strong govern ment, using European techni cians, was established. It was evident, however, that such a strong government was impossible if Katanga, with its riches, seceded from the Congo and in effect joined the White Rhodesians, the Portuguese and the South Africans. For this would make the rest of the Congo ungovern able. It would provoke a race war in Africa. It would invite Soviet or Chinese interven tion. It would bring the Unit ed States to the brink of a nasty tropical war. Both Eisenhower and Kennedy have taken the position that, in the circumstances, the best hope and the best bet lay in the United Nations. IT IS TRUE that, in taking this position, we find our selves somewhat at odds with certain of our European allies. There is total disagreement with General De Gaulle, Who has no use for the United Na tions and would gladly see it dissolved. There is partial disagreement with Great Britain, more specifically willi a wing of the Conserva tive - Party which has great influence in the Macmillan government and is responsive to British financial interests in Katanga and elsewhere in Africa. But we are not at odds with the Belgium of Mr. Spaak; indeed, we are in substantial agreement with it, and we know with what selfless courage Mr. Spaak is acting. It is painful lo differ with allies. But, in my view, there is no tolerable alternative to what Eisenhower and Ken nedy have done, which is to support the United Nations. We cannot afford to see the Congo in chaos. We do not want a Communist logement In the heart of Africa. We do not want to become engaged ourselves with American troops. No doubt Ihere have been mistakes in the administra tion of the United Nations operation. But what else could we have done but wish it lo succeed? In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Catching up on the news legislation to take care of the as this is written, one's eye situation. falls on this headline sen tence: RED GUNNERS DOWN FLEET OF U. S. HELICOPTERS ?OR the moment, your hair 4 stands on end. Is this IT? Then . . . you note that it happened in SAIGON where our military lorccs have rel atively little business to be. So You relax. rpHAT brings up the Congo. How much Business do we have there? WELL " United Nations forces, supported by U. S. dollars and U. S. men and materials, are said to be racing to protect three huge and critical hydro electric power dams upon which the economy of n o t only the single province of Katanga but the whole Congo as well more or less depends. If they are destroyed BLOWN UP by whatever fac tion might take a notion to blow them up the big min ing operations upon which the economy of the entire Congo rests would have to shut down for lack of power. That would push the Congo still farther over toward utter anarchy. That encourages us to hope that we may be doing some good in this mixed-up Congo lese situation in Central Africa. ODDITY in the news: In Salem, the Oregon Leg islative Interim committee says there is apparently no specific law against DRIVING THE WRONG WAY on a di vided highway. The committee recommends UMMMMMMMM. 11 There may be no STAT UTE law forbidding the wrong way on a divided highway, but it is forbidden by the law of common sense and the penalty for violation of it is very likely to be death. That is a capital penalty no governor can commute. INCIDENTALLY The commiltce says that police have faced the question of what offense to charge a person with who has been found driving along a freeway IN OPPOSITION TO THE TRAFFIC. It's a problem, sure enough. How are you going to go about arresting somebody for violating a law that doesn't exist? But. isn't there some kind of law on the books against insane persons run ning loose? Only an insane person or a person pie-eyed drunk would deliberately drive the wrong way on a crowded modern freeway. 4 A A T o 1 h Hi 1 iw3rtuie5 "Okay, '62 was the turning point in East West relations, but the official policy in Washington it not cocky optimism!" UROM Los Gatos: Ed Braschini, 57, of Salinas, survived two days in the San ta Cruz mountains because of his knowledge of woodlore. He was hunting with an aunt and uncle, but became sep arated from them. Two days later, he found his way to a small country store by follow ing a stream. He explained: "Once you find running wa ter, never leave it. I found this stream and knew enough to stay with it." WELL It's a good rule. But If it's the only rule you know, you'd better stay out of the woods - especially at this sea son of the year. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF TYWIGHT TAYLOR, son of Laurette and Charles A. Tay L' lor, tells ot the days when his father traveled with a carnival and sponsored a trained rat show. For the climax, uue rat snot, on a cannon, and another, labeled "President Garfield" raised his tail with the American flag tied there to. The' catch was that carnival crowds didn't seem to appreciate trained rats. The concession next door was faring even worse. It was a replica of Lincoln's birthplace. One day Mr. Taylor sug gested that the historical appeal of the Lincoln ex hibit be enhanced by doing the rat circus insidi cabin. The rats had never before performed indoors, so when the cannon shot went off, "President Garfield" hoisted his flag all right, but, terrified by the noise, leaped into the audience and disappeared into a rat hole. Mr. Taylor never ceased wondering about the fate of a poor rat with an American flag attached to his tail. Dumkopfs friends convinced him that his wife was spending too much money. "I'll read her the riot act tonight," swore Dumkopf. "For the rest of this fiscal year at least she's going to do a little cutting down." The next morning- they asked him how he had made out. "Great," he said. "I'm giving up poker, liquor, and tobacco." Herb Stein knows a susceptible film lovely who solved her closet-space problem by throwing out all her old bridal gowns. C 1961. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate de the log Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop (c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate BEHIND THE RULES FIGHT Washington Speaker of the House John W. McCor mack has returned to his office and picked up the reins of power. His Demo cratic Whip Hale Boggs, has just be gun the head count for the Aimp critical fight over the House rules. On the other side, the pow erful, arch-conservative chau man of the House Rules Com mittee, Rep. Howard W. Smith, began an all-out ef fort to muster maximum sup port some time ago. The word has gone out, perhaps pre maturely, that House Repub lican Leader Charles Hallcck is with Smith "all the way.'' In short, the battle is engagcJ even before the formal open ing of the Congressional session. The issue is, quite simply, whether the members of the Republican - Southern Demo cratic coalition on the House Rules Committee will have a total veto, or only a partial veto, on legislation proposed to the House. As in 1960, the outcome hangs upon Republi can votes. For there are not enough Democrats who favor Rules-liberalization to carry the day, without the support of about a score of Republi can members. fFHUS a major, though un seen, influence on the Rules fight will be the in creasing Republican inclina tion towards the "Southern strategy" of Sen. Barry Gold water. This is the strategy of saying farewell forever to the Negro and other minority group voters in the North, and gambling for decisive Re publican gains in the South by taking a strong conserva tive and "state's rights" position. Support for "state's rights." in this case, of course implies support for the Southern op position to extended civil rights. Hence the way the The Special Strength of the Shameless By ERIC SEVAREID New York - Anger is a couiit"i part of joy, and, since this is supposedly the "cool" and "beat age of joyless ncss, it is logical to as sume that the last a n g r v the school doors after a three day blizzard, it was only be cause they couldn't find them. The other night 'i landed at Idlewild airport in a gentle snowfall. The passenger's bags were dumped just anywhere; there was no order; there were no directions. Five hundred people milled about in ex ilian expired hausted confusion, eventually with the wan- recovered their belongings. ing notes of the last hur rah. Around Srvarrlil M a nha ttan, one encounter's his ghost oc casionally, in the form of a brief I'lw pitchcd whine, but that is the closest approxima tion of what used lo be known as indignation, not to mention the "richteous wrath of the citicns." These lerms now scent so archaic and arcane that one puis them down, even though fenced in by quo tation marks, with some em barrassment. We are by no means a na tion of sheep in relation to oilier people, however big and formidable, as Khrush c h e v discovered in the case of his Cuban missiles; but we are truly sheeplike in our encoun ters with bigness within our own society. We sputter and that is all. It is my fortune or mistor tune to have been conditioned in the cohc-uvc. unitary cell of the small town. An emer gency meant that everybody tinned out with extra efforts lo make filings work. If the men of the town did nol open only lo discover that most taxi-drivers, those paragons of fictional ruggedness and bon homie, had quit for the night. "Takes too long to make a buck." as one of them ex plained. We are now in the third week of the typographers' strike which has. directly and indirectly, closed down every major newspaper in the coun try's biggesl city. It is a strike which comes as close lo tiller senselessness as any that I can recall offhand From the evi dence available it is mostly a bid for greater power and prestige within the labor movement on the part of one local and its leaders - very little more. Literally hundreds of thousands of people have been hurt by this strike: many hundreds will lose their jobs for good if one or more papers fail to survive this blow; the country's createt community is without information save what it can gel from the heroic extra cflorts of radio and tcle ision; but there is no evidence that Ihc strike lead ers give a solitary damn. Nor is any bubbling of wrath among the citizenry even faintly discernible. The stale of communal masochism is astounding. Either nobody dares say anything for fear of that dread label, "anti-labor," or everybody feels that no effort of his can possibly affect the situation. And from the political lead ership, municipal, state or fed- 1 oral - silence. No one, abso i lulcly no one, is saying to the strike leaders what President Kennedy said to the leaders of Big Steel last spring: that they were showing contempt for the American people. Big Labor has come full circle from the terrible days of the thirties when it won in sorrow and blood labor's over due charter of liberties. Then, wealth did approximately equate with power, but now the managerial revolution and the diffusion of ownership have left wealth with responsi bility half-shorn of power. It is an intellectual and emo tional exertion, but one is obliged lo revise Roosevelt's phrase, "malefactors of great wealth": one is obliged to think about malefactors of great power and to apply it to Big Labor. The laws are bound to fol low suit, one day. and check this turning of the screw. Ir responsible power in a democ racy is as dangerous when used by workers as by man agement. In any case, the day of the owner-manager, the "entre preneur" of the economics House Republicans vote 'will have all sorts of secondary effects, for instance, on the Presidential candidacy of Gov Nelson Rockefeller of New York, who can hardly seek the White House as a neo-segregationist. Yet the crucial character of the Republican choice in the Rules fight is not the only hidden factor that gives spe cial interest to this contest. Consider, for example, the long term implications of the Republican gains in the House in the November elec tion, which are the main rea son for the stronger tempta tion now being exerted by the "Southern strategy." OESIDES making an impres " sively good showing in several contests like the Ala bama Senate race, Republi. cans won four additional Southern House seats. Of the 106 House scats allotted to the 11 Southern States, no less than 11 are now held by Republicans; and this is the highwatcr-mark since the Reconstruction era. These Republican successes in the South caused the White House political strate gists to make a careful study of all the Southern contesls in which Republicans did well, with special emphasis on the House races in which incumbent Democrats were beaten. What Ihc study revealed was simple and somewhat un expected. In brief, the defeat- . ed Democratic incumbents were all members, of the Howard W. Smith school of Southern conservatism. But although they were professed enemies of the Democratic administration in Washington they were lost when Republi cans took the field against them. Their conservatism was their assets, and they could not out-conservative their Re publican opponents. The conclusion of the While House study was that the vie-' torious Republicans would have had far harder going against Democrats of a more moderate stripe, who would not have been driven to dis avow their own party at every turn. fPHIS may sound self-scrv- - in conclusion is not very far from the conclusion independ ' ently reached by the most as tute political leader among Ihc Democratic Southerners, Sen. Herman Talmade of Georgia. Senator Talmadge is. a Southern bellwether, and. his independence of the Whit House hardly needs underlin ing. Talmadge is known to think that Republican gains in the South will continue in subsequent elections, until perhaps as many as 30 Hous seats are i n Republican hands. But he has also point ed out that increasingly ef fective Republican opposition will tend to promote greater party loyalty among South ern Democrats. In sum, it was easy for a Southerner to be an ultra conservative, yet retain his Democratic label, when his fate was decided by the Dcm-1 ocratic primary. It will not be so easy when the actual election has ceased to be a mere formality in wider and. w ider regions of the Soc'.ii. ; Survival will require more and more Democrats to take a position like that of Sen., Russell Long of Louisiana.' who Is first of all a Southern er on any question involving civil rights, but a moderate Democrat on most other questions. In the long run. therefore. the famous coalition of Re- . publicans and Southern Dcm ' ocrats may well be threatened i by the same Republican gains textbook, is vanishing. Man agers are increasingly "wage slaves" like the other ranks of employes within a big com pany. The labor movement, or what Jimmy Hoffa frankly calls the "labor business," was based on a class concept that steadily loses its validity. The division is increasingly a false one. The ultimate result surely ought to be a common ality of interest among all ranks within a firm or an in dustry, with stock ownership widely distributed among all ranks. No doubt many union lead ers would lose power, and many union bureaucracies would be checked in their own kind of empire building. No doubt, also, this would be a happy improvement over con ditions of the kind that now prevail in New York's publish ing industry where the great est and best newspapers, which both mold and express the fire of the community and provide its spirit and mean ing, arc now obliged to face the question of whether, after generations, they can carry on at all in the biggest and wealthiest city of the land. This strike is a scandal to nearly everyone, apparcntlv. save the men who called it. j They possess what is known I as the special strength of the ! shameless. i iDistrihui.d 1963 h. Th. H.ii ; ln south which arc now Svndical Inc 1 1 affecting the Republican po. Syndicate. Inc.) u,r. ,n lhj ba(cr Hou (AH Rights Restrvid) Rules fight.