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Newspaper Page TextFRIDAY, JANUARY It. 1983 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON . )(EDF0IUJ2i&TRlBUNS "Everyone In Southern Oregon toojriMiMUTribune'; Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S3NoruX'r J1"- PhJ'a-81! ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager . GERALD T LATHAM, Bus. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mna. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Spuria Ed or OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE EH1CKSON, Circulation JMgr An Independent Newspaper - Entered aa second class matter at Medloid. Oregon, under Act ol Mnrch 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES - By Mall In Advance .,,. , Dally and Sunday 1 year 118.00 Daily and Sunday 8 moa 10.00 - Dailv and Sunday 3 moa. 5.00 Sunday Only One year 83 00 Single Copy (Mailed! JOo .By Cainei And Motor Route Dally and Sunday 1 year Ml -J Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1.75 - Sunday Only 1 mo. 50c Carries and Vendor! Copy 10c OTdclal Paper ol City of Medford OfflclalPaperolJackion County United Presa International Full Leased Wire U. P 1 Telephoio Newplcturea "MEMBER OK AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES Ol'lcea In New York, Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. Dem'er. NATION At EDITORIAL n-: i i ,C .iSu ijiiinia'ij'.MJH NEWSPAPIK PUILISHEKS 'ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. A Self-Renewing Society From Babylon to Egypt to Rome; from the Aztecs to the Great Khans; from Napoleon to Hitler all great societies of the past have, sooner, or later, disintegrated, and been succeed ed by something else. Will that be the fate of our industrialized, electrified, science-oriented, and "open" society of mid-20th Century America? Will it, too, fall apart and be succeeded by something else? History would tend to indicate the answer is yes. But history also teaches that, while many things have happened before, there is always time and space for something new. Ihere LAN be something new under the sun. IOHN W. GARDNER, president of the Car negie Corp. of New York, speculates along ii i; ; j - l : .... o..t inese lines in an article in a icceiib jbouc uj. oai- urday Review. What, he asks, is needed for a society to be self-renewing, to be able to survive the flux and pull of radical change, to reshape itself to new needs and cnanenges witnoui losing lis essential form and continuity? He concludes thus: "The ever-renewing society will be a free society. It will understand that the only stability possible today is stability in motion. It will foster a climate in which the seedlings of new Ideas can survive and the dead wood of obsolete Ideas be hacked out. Above all, it will recognize that its capacity for renewal depends on the Individuals who make it up. It will foster innovative., versatile and self-renewing men and women, and give them room to breathe." "That's Going A Little Too Far" 10 YEARS AGO Jin. 18, 1953 (Friday) District Attorney Waller Nunlcy's recent statement of policy with regard to gamb ling enforcement in Jackson county has been challenged as "untenable" by Medford Law yer Edward C. Kelly. - Medford's City Superintend ent Robert A. Duff has been authorized by the city council to complete an engineering study of needed storm sewer Improvements and give each project a priority rating. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 18. 1943 (Wednesday) F. Wilson Waid dies; was Medford High school band in structor for 17 years and a former leader in local Elks imino nnrf American Legion. From Arthur Ferry s ue Smudge Pot" column: ."Signs are now mounting that the insisiuinrc now in august as- . .... i .. ik. aemblv, will do over smim u .i 1 1. n ..,- it same lime aa 30 YEARS AGO Jin. 18, 1933 (Friday) Medford grocery stores ad vertise three one-pound loaves of bread for 13 cents, coffee for 17 cents a pound, prime beef pot roasts at 8 cents a pound, and flour at $3.49 a barrel. Grand jury reports liquor, confiscated by police, is miss ing from vault in city hall. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 18, 1923 (Saturday) Slate fire marshal recom mends construction of rail road underpass Ht Sixth st. crossing in Medford. E. W. Barnaul. Medford trapper, found, suiting from frost bite, after being lost for eight days in Klamaln mountains. the on SO YEARS AGO Jan. la. 1913 (Monday) Medford's Muyor-clcct Elf' ert receives series ol anony mous threatening letters; mat tcrs Investigated by poslul au thorities. Hot contest develops for presidency of Medford city council; Jack Summerville and J. W. Mitchell said to be leading contenders. A ND WHAT, Mr. Gardner continues, are " characteristics of the self-renewing man, whom a self-renewing, dynamic society must de pend? As he sees it, there are three chief char acteristics : 1. The self-renewing man is versatile and adaptive ; 2. The self-renewing man is highly motivated and respects the sources of his own energy and motivation ; 3. For the self-renewing man the, develop ment of his own potentialities and the process of self-discovery never end. Given men of this type, and by giving them "room to breathe," Mr. Gardner believes that we can shape our future and control our destiny as a society, to the end that we can meet all chal lenges and serve our own needs. DUT IF this is to be achieved, it must be in an atmosphere of freedom, where argument, dis sent, criticism are not only permitted, but en couraged, so that the fullest and widest public dialogue on the problems lacing us can be heard. Name-calling, intimidation and suppression of opposing views cannot be permitted if we are to retain our open, pluralistic society. And no society today which is not open and pluralistic can have the pre-requisites for self-renewal. Our society today is challenged, not only by an opposing ideology, but also by technological and social change change which is increasing in speed and tempo; change which has been more radical in the last century than in all the preceding millennia of human history. OUR POLITICAL society, which is among the i-Jrlicf oni'mnrrr renvrn'tiiYionta in ia ttnvA has lasted as long as it has only because it has been flexible enough to change with the times, while still retaining the basic principles of free dom and justice. We must retain and expand that flexibility, and retain and strengthen the freedoms which permit us to remain open and pluralistic. It is for these reasons that we must oppose, with all our strength, the forces of repression, of constriction, or conformity and mediocrity, which constantly are at work. It is, and will re main, an eternal struggle, and it is one that we cannot afford to lose. E.A. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct U superior; seven or eight is eacollenti tive or St K aoe-d. 1. On what day in February, 1732, was George Washington born? 2. Which book of the Bible concerns the "beginnings"? 3. Who called Alfred E. Smith "The Happy Warrior"? 4. Statuary Hall is In which government building In Wash ington, D.C.I 8. Who was Henry Irving? 6. The Greek Goddess Athe na corresponds to which Ro man Goddess? 7. Cotton is grown commer cially in California; true or false? 8. What was the nickname of Ivan, Czar of Russia? 9. Ranks in the Marine Corps bear the same designa tions as those in the Navy; true or false? 10. Which lnxl is the par ticular enemy of cotton? Answers: 1. February 11. (Old calendar.) 2. Genesis. 3. Franklin D. Roosevelt. 4. The Capiiol. S. English writer. 6. Minerva. 7. True. 8. Ivan the Terrible, weevil. Flying Start 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. W.T.C.U. Horn To the Editor: In a recent issue of the Roscburg News- Review, dated Dec. 28, 1962, was a very interesting article which I'm sure many of your readers will be glad to read. It tells about a gift of an 800-acre ranch nea- Myrtle Creek, Ore., which has re cently been given to the Ore gon Woman's Christian Tem perance Union, to be used for developing a home for de pendent boys from 5 to 18 years, inclusive. The donors are a brother and sister, Mr. Mac Arnhur Wixson and Miss Frances Wixson of Myrtle Creek. These two are the onV sur viving members of a family of five children of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wixson, and all the children and their father have done many years of teaching schools and main tained a keen interest in children. The deed to this transac tion has been signed and it la hoped that work on this development can be started in the near future. The Chil dren's Farm Home Board of Trustees plan to create a "workshop" where boys with the inclination will have an opportunity for training in reforestation and an oppor tunity to take part in devel opment in a stock ranch. The children's home pro gram is one aspect of W.C.T.U. activities. Nationally, W.C.T.U. is organized in a fight against the use of alco holic beverages. Operating un der the slogan "organized mother love," W.C.T.U. en deavors to help children, the home and destitute, officers point out. Mrs. G. O. Sanden, Route 2, Box 443-A, Medford or 3, of course disclaiming any responsibility. Since I had no idea to whom I should address my plaint at the network I let the matter drop. But we surely feel bad ly that such a really fine show is being dropped. Mrs. Gene Tceling, 666 Pittview, Central Point, Ore. Do Deer Mealing To the Editor: Important to the sportsmen of this county: Since I put our petitions in the hands of you sportsmen here, concerning the killing of doe deer in this state, we have been gaining ground in all parts of the state. We are at the point now where we can do something for you, the deer hunter. We have a state president, we have state sen ators working at this time for you and me to see if we can get some of our game laws changed. Come Saturday, Jan. 26, we are going to have an open meeting for anyone that would like to come. The meet ing will take place at the Upper Applegate Grange hall. Dinner will be served at 6, the meeting will lake up at 8. Our state president, Mr. C. E. Milhorn, and the chairman fronv Klamath county, Mr. Robert Pyle, -will be here. Come one, come all, I feel you will have an interesting evening and I feel you will better understand why we have to do something about the killing of the does in this state. If any of you haven't signed a petition as yet, contact me, I'll see that you get one. Please remember the date, Jan. 26, and come to this meeting. We will be glad to see all of you. Walter Craig, 1523 Bryant, Medford. For a freshman congressman, Bob Duncan is oil to a Hying start. There are 36 new Democratic conirressmen in the House of Representatives. Only seven of them were assigned to more than one committee. Duncan was one of them. Not only that, but both assignments are to major committees, ones that have a tremendous impact on the Fourth District the committees on Agriculture (which includes the Forest Serv ice) and Interior (which includes the Bureau of Land Management and the Park Service, among other things). IT IS THE nature of the Washington political 1 jungle that these committee assignments did not come automatically, or without any effort. A major factor is the fact that Al Ullnian, rep resentative from Oregon's Second District across the mountains, is on the House committee on committees. Duncan, an independent and aggressive think er, will be a major factor in legislation affecting the Fourth District, Oregon, and the entire west ern part of the nation. Too, he well may be a unifying factor in the sometimes-squabbling Oregon delegation. It is to the interests of the entire state that the dele gation work in harmony, and as Duncan arrives with no prior commitments nor animosities, he may be of considerable assistance in smoothing 9. False." io. Boil i the relationships of the two senators and the yer Agreement To the Editor: I am in com plete agreement with your recent editorial on prayer in the classrooms. Although my husband and I are proud to be members of a Medford church, we have, nevertheless in our life time attended serv- cics of many denominations in various cities fn this country and abroad, where we found slight variations in the pray ers, and in one instance a fundamental difference. Recognizing the deep re ligious basis on which this country was founded, it seems a great pity that no prayers can be used in the class rooms. However, a far worse alterna tive would be "an insipid, of ficial state - written prayer which was recited by rote in school classrooms, whether or not the student wanted it." Why not set aside a brief moment of silence to be used by each boy and girl accord ing to the dictates of their conscience? Rence B. Houston 215 Eric st. Medford other two Democratic congressmen. E.A. Man's World To the Editor: I felt com pelled to write since I found myself in such complete agree ment with the views ex pressed by "G.H.B." in the ed itorial re: "Man's World." As a common garden vari ety hnmcmaker, it is not often I aspire to power. However when NBC announced the can cellation of Man's World, I felt akin to a small child whose favorite toy had been snatched by the neighborhood bully. A feeling shared, 1 might add, by my entire family. 1 surely wished then for the power to reverse that decision by NBC. I did write to the program expressing my appreciation and regrets. I received a hand written reply from the lady who plays the part of Nora. She included a list of sponsors to whom I might write. I did so, receiving a reply from 2 AWOL in Eden To the Editor: The merri ment over Fry's flying phe nomena having subsided, readers may enjoy a little adventure of true mystic val ue. (Flying saucers are mere ly very minor miracles of the devil.) The prelude, action of and immediate aftermath of World War Two were times of awe some and wondrous spiritual import particularly in a section of Oregon. One Spring evening I escaped the vigilant attendants at the V.A. Hospi tal, Roscburg, and started for my home town In Nevada. I walked for hours until I came to a deep valley where. In the full moon, I witnessed a great chain of maidens strolling gracefully north wards through the verdant vale. I courteously queried the nearest vestal. She graciously told me they were the hand maids of Spring, "guardian angels" of our wild flowers and that their presence car peted our meadows and moun tains in natural beauty. She revealed they were girls gift ed with special grace for these vernal ventures and with their passing the earth burst into bloom. I forgot my rc portorial know-how in the pleasure of this simple vision and never inquired from whence they came. I wandered on down the road wondering whether the spirit which moved over the deep when Life was born continued to touch the earth with sororities like this or whether I had witnessed a little moment In the Eternal Victory we had won in World War Two. It may be some neighborly mystic in our own Oregon Garden Clubs has the answer. It began to rain. Hours later bespattered by the traffic 1 sought refuge In a Grants pass hotel and then, Frances Near-Rejection of Britain in Common Market Stirring Other Nations By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst President Charles De Gaulle's virtual rejection of Britain as a member of the European siewsoaa Common Mar. ket hit Britain like a dash of cold wa ter and arous ed resent- I tV I ment among I !af) I France's part- i All i J ncrs in the European c o m m unity. The result might easily be a crisis not only for Britain but for the European com munity as well. Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, Britain's chief repre sentative in the market nego tiations at Brussels, responded with what has come to be re garded as typical British bull dog tenacity. His actions clearly Indicated that, far from accepting defeat, Brit ain now will redouble its ef forts. In Rome, Budget Minister Ugo La Malfa responded acid ly that De Gaulle "cannot treat Italy and other common market countries like a col ony." Netherlands officials at The Hague attacked De Gaulle's view as outmoded national ism. Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy all have suggested that if French stubbornness bars Britain from the Euro pean community, then they al so might be forced to reassess their position. In Britain and among France's aroused partners was a feeling that De Gaulle, by his unyielding stand on terms of British entry, deliberately was setting a trap, that he hoped thereby to goad Brit ain into breaking off negotia tions. There were bitter refer ences to 1958, the year the common market came into be ing, when Britain did slam the door on free trade talks be cause of terms largely dicta ted by France. The question now is how far the European partners can push De Gaulle who never has changed his mind easily away from his concept of a tightly knit Europe, and to ward the idea of a commun ity open to compromise, large enough to admit Britain and with ever closer ties to the Atlantic community, includ ing the United States. At least partly responsible for De Gaulle's opposition to Britain and his rejection of a nuclear force for NATO is his abiding suspicion of the Unit ed States. High up in his thinking is a conviction that the Euro pean economic community never must lose its identity in a "colossal Atlantic com munity" controlled by the United States. No one. he contends, can know "if. how, or where," the United States might elect to use its nuclear might in de fense of Its own interests which some day might con flict with those in Europe. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises, Inc. snem sPs-m At! CHILDREN Ihappenedto overhear three women at a luncheon table next to mine discuss ing a childless couple they knew. One of the women wondered why the cou ple hadn't had children, and the second wo- Harris man suggest ed that perhaps they couldn't. "And maybe they don't want to," chimed in the third. "Don't assume that every cou ple wants children-some cou ples shouldn't have them, and are smart enough to know it." Her comment (with which I fully agreed) reminded me of a passage in a Robert Louis Stevenson story, in which a doctor is congratulating him self and his wife that their marital state has not been "marred" by the presence of children. Looking up the passage later, I found that this was what the husband said lo his wife: "I think of it more and more at the years go on, and with more and mora gratitude toward the Pow ers that dispense such af flictions. Your health, my darling, my studious quiet, our little kitchen delicacies, how they would all have been tacrificedl And for what? "Children," he went on, "are the last word of human imperfection; health flees before their face. They cry, my dear; they put vexatious questions: they demand to be fed. to be washed, to be educated; and then, when the time comes, the break our hearts, at I break thit piece of sugar. A pair of profetted egoist! like you and me should avoid off spring like an infidelity." How many other "professed ogosists" are so candid and self-discerning? How many others of this type delude themselves that they want a child, when all they really want is the abstract idea of a child? How many have chil dren because it seems the thing to do, but would be far happier without such encumbrances? Many childless couples gen uinely yearn for offspring and would be excellent parents; but just as many prefer their childless stale, knowing eithcr consciously or uncon sciously - that they lack the patience or the interest requir ed for rearing a child properly. The world is full of couples who should not have had chil dren, who resent the obliga tions it imposes upon them, and who turn the resentment upon the children in obvious or subtle forms. How much more clean and honest to ad mit that two professed egoists have no room in their lives for another personality, and thus to spare themselves, the child and society from the damaging consequences of this twisted relationship. noticing I was an object of peculiar interest in a tavern where I was Immediately ar rested as a suspicious charac tcr. I was the only prisoner In the Josephine county jail for a full week. The Judge re manded me back into V.A custody at Roscburg to my great sorrow, for 1 took great pleasure in my meditations and prayers in the quiet peace of my cell after the terribly disturbed and wicked wards of what was then the most evil place in our military his tory. Generals Eisenhower and Omar Bradley changed all that, humanizing these psychiatric prisons, one as president, the other as head of the Veterans Administra lion. I had a stub of pencil and remember the few notes I made in my cell and thus I here herald the Sorority of Spring from God's own College and may they all become Saints on graduation. And remember this is a true story and not a fairy talc. Williams Thomas Cuddy V.A. Domiciliary, White City, Ore. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: Although the House of Rep resentatives has' been in ses sion only about six hours, some TWO THOUSAND bills have been introduced. They deal with almost every sub- J e c t imaginable including using Social Security records to locate runaway parents. That one was dropped in the hopper by Representa tive Abraham J. Multner, (Demo.), of New York. He had already introduced 172 bills, and that one was his 173rd. He obviously believes in earn ing his $22,500 salary. Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- TfTHEN IT COMES to state pride, not even the Texans can W top Colorado's Oren Arnold. "Colorado," insists Arnold, "causes more dissatisfied Americans than any other state., Nearly six million out- t ' ' "- i - siders visit Colorado each season, thereby becoming miserable over conditions back home." "For scenic advantages," he adds, "a lot of beautiful Colorado runs up and down. If you roll off the road into one of our canyons, it. won't hurt you a bit: you'll starve to death be fore you hit bottom." One of La Rochefou cauld's most famous max ims contends, "As it is the mark of great minds to Bay many things in a few words, so it la that of little minds to use many words to say nothing." This Is a maxim. Incidentally, that few TV announcers and MC's seem to have heard. Shortly before his lonely death In Italy, Sinclair Lewis was asked why, In his various novels, he never had pictured a happy husband. "For the same reason," replied Lewis, "that I never have portrayed a five-footed elephant who could fly." Steve Allen, who has learned by experience, contends that the. best way to make your children heed your advice is to find out exactly what they want and then tell them to do it O 1983. by Bennett Cert. DUtrlbuted by Kins; Features Syndicate t Washington Report By William S. White (c) United Feature Syndicate THEN T h p r p ic RpnrpupnlaHvp Samuel S. Stratton, also of New York and, incidentally. also a Democrat. He wants more holidays to fall on Mon day. So he drops into the hop per a bill requiring Wash ington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day and Veterans Day holiday to fall on the nearest Monday. This morning's dispatches report that bills are in the making to add to the holidays we already have others call ing for tiic observance of Grandmothers Day. Shut-Ins Day, Purple Heart Day, Chil dren's Day and Senior Citi zens Day. NO "HATE - KENNEDY" Washington - Wherever it may ultimately lead, Presi dent Kennedy's relationship w; llgaa. ", to the new congress has begun with moderate sat i s faction among the c o nt rolling centrist Dem ocrats and a certain wary amiability to- Hhite ward h I m even among the Republicans. Nobody is really angry at him - as yet - except the doctrinaire ulti-liberal Demo crats. These excitable fellows -who actually gave him more trouble, in the old congress on the truly important things than did any other faction -are fretfully unhappy. They are petulant that he has not demanded violently extreme reforms in civil rights which would tie this congress up for many weeks in angry and futile knots, so that in not accomplishing these unattainable reforms it would not be able to accom plish much of anything else, either. rTHEY are pettish with him for not throwing himself headlong into their fore doomed effort, already open ing in the senate, to alter the rules of the game so that all debate could be shut off whenever they could rally some bare majority to put on the gag. And many of them are irri tated with him for asking a big tax cut, accompanied by some cutback in domestic ypending. This rejects a cen tral article of their true faith, which is that prosperity is really reached only by government spending of the most vast and energetic kind. One Presidential message docs not make a session of Congress: and it may well be that other? to come will sig nificantly alter Mr. Kennedy's apparent purposes for this Congress. At the present, however, and on the showing of his state of the union ad dress, he has entered the second half of his first term conciliatory and not a divisive national leader. His program is, on the whole, moderate. Though certainly not wholly accept- 4ND- Besides all that Representative L 1 n d I c y Beckworth, of Texas (A Dem ocrat, incidentally) is afraid the new and higher postal rates will prevent elderly pensioners from communicat ing with their families. So He proposes a special col ored penny postcard for strictly personal messages from these and similarly un fortunate persons who cannot afford the higher price. UESTION: Isn't democracy wonder- Q ful? Especially, in these days, the kind of democracy that is spelled with capital D. able to traditional conserva tive thinking, it is also cer tainly nowhere an abomina tion to the conservative view. fFHE sum of it, on all pres- ent indications, is that very probably this will be a mod erate session of Congress, striking out here and there beyond where the conserva tive would really like to go, but also keeping well short of those wild blue yonder stretches of innovation which the Democratic left would like to enter. The Republicans will fight the President when they think they should: but there is no G.O.P. disposition to run an opposition srmply for oppo sition's sake. The truth is that the Republicans arc mora relieved than otherwise by the state of the union mes sage. It is not, of course, that they expect to go along with all he has asked. Rather, it is that since the next election year - 1964 - is a Presiden tial election year, they had been sorely afraid he would go so much further with his legislative demands than ha has in fact gone. SO, putting aside the unim portant left-wing Demo cratic extremists, the collec tive attitude of the new Con gress toward the President is one of general liking and respect for him and fairly general approval of his hand ling of most - though not all - of the harsh problems of the cold war. He is infinitely stronger than he would have been had he not stood up in Cuba; his foreign policy leadership is thus not likely to be seriously challenged, as otherwise it would surely have been. The controlling center - in both parties - has no wish to humble him; there is no hate-Kennedy bloc at the capiiol any more than thcra was a hate-Eisenhower bloc. The Presiaent will have his troubles, of course, with the single exception of foreign aid. Much difficulty is arising for that program, and only a thorough-going administra tion determination to make it a more rational instrumcntal- ity can save it from very deep I and damaging cuts. 1 IfiOoWE. iienCmTUI ftir.KM'li'll I 4?E 'iev iFdr.si- Lr I I ft v "Sura I know what Pyrrhic victory meant ... it meant 'A tuccttt gained at too great a con.' Why?"