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Newspaper Page Text4 buNuAV, jAnUAht ill). lao.i MEDFORO MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, OREGON Iveryone Id Southern Oregon Beads The MiUTrlbiiiw; EibiTshed Dally except Saturday by MEDKORD PRINTING CO. SSNortfc ifitSUPtiriV-ti ROBERT W. RUKL. Editor uDn r.nrv Arivartistna Manaaer GERALD T LATHAM, "But Mar ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mn. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRV CHlPMANTel Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women'a Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mil An Independent Newspaper Entered ai second class matter at Medford, Oregon, unaer aci oi Mnrch 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES nu Mali In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 yearlll.OO n.ilu mr,A RunriflV 8 fnOS 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos S.00 Sunday Omy One year 5 O0 Single Copy (Mailed) ioe r-.,.-..., Anrf Mnlnf Ruute. Dally and Sunday I year S2100 Dallv and Sunday 1 mo. L75 Sunday Only 1 mo. wc Carrier and Vendora Copy 10c Official Paper ot City of Medford Official iHper oi Jwswnrl'2 United Press International Villi Umed Wire O. P. I Telephoto Neyjsplcturei MEMBER or auum mmciu Of CI RCULATIONS Advertising RcpreienUtlve: urr anif nnAERTS A ASSOCI. ATES Of'lcea In New York. Chi cago. Detroit. San Francisco, Los Angejea. Beanie. - u n . Denver. NATIONAL EDITORIAL 27X -S-W2a. NEWSPAMR PUILISHIKS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago.. The Costs of Government "The burden of the governor' message (to the leg islature) is that we must cope with not unmixed bless ings of civilization. The Oregon of this year and next is not the same Oregon for which many of our present laws were passed. We have more people, and more of them clustered together in cities and, just as important, in unincorporated commuities on the fringes of cities. The automobile continues to work its wondrous revolu tion in our way of life." 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 20, 1953 Ashland's Elks lodgo mem bers have voted to purchase the adjoining Lithia theater property. Last weekend's stortn, and the flood and high winds which accompanied it, have caused extensive-damage to roads and lookout post oper ated by the Oregon state for est patrol. 20 YEARS AGO " Jan. 22, 1843 (Friday) . - Cottage st. bridge ' over Bear Creek said near col lapse as flood waters under mine supports. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Walla Walla, Wash., had a dust storm the other day. A lot of water has Rone under the bridge since the oldest Inhab itant of these parls saw dust." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 20, 1933 (Sunday) Medford resident! urged to contribute old furniture, es pecially chairs and stoves, to , be donated to. Jackson county's unemployed. Crater Lake National park officials report total of 119 inches of snow at government camp. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 22, 1923 (Monday) Restaurant In Medford has two fires in one day; police start investigation. Medford city council con sidering new traffic ordin ances designed to alleviate crowded conditions on Muin St. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 22. 1913 (Wednesday) Jackson si. residents pro test practice of milking cows In street and ask police to stop it. Medford Commercial club opposes increases in cost of Oregon motor vehicle licenses. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct li superior; seven or eight Is excellent! five oi six li good. 1. Which planet Is nearest the sun? 2. Which of the Central American republics is the smallest? J. Name inrec oi the six provinces of the Republic of Congo. 4. Is the nickname of Mary innci -uia Line state or "Free State"? 8. Name the capital and provisional capital of the Re public of China. 6. Eduur Tike Burroughs is most renowned for his erca tion of what fictional charac tcr? 7. In poker the chances of getting three nf a kind (noth. ing wild) are 12 to 1, 16 to 1, or 48 to 1? 8. All tissues of the body are completely renewed every seven years; true or false? S. How much does a cubic fool of water weigh? 10. Which country In the world is the largest producer of coffee? 1. Mercury, 2. El Salvador. 3. Katanga. Leopoldrllle. Klvu, Kaial, Oriental, Equa tor. 4. Both. S. Nanking and Taipei. I. Tartan. 7. 46 to 1. I. False. (. 62.4 pounds. 10. Brill). This comment, from the Eugene Register Guard, is a good assessment of what Gov. Mark Hatfield told the legislature the day it opened. Time after time, he came back to recommend ations resulting from population increases and population shift. , POR instance : r He recommended new buildings to house the ever-growing state government, growing to fulfill the very real needs ot the people it serves, He recommended that an increased portion of forest fire prevention costs be borne by the public, due to increased recreational use. He recommended that the beaches become "recreational areas"; that violation of federal regulations on federal lands be subject to pros ecution in state courts; that improved water con servancy districts be made possible; that small watershed planning be stepped up ; that unclaim ed taxes on marine fuels be made available for recreational improvements. LIE RECOMMENDED state subdivision regula tion; revision in public welfare, workmen's compensation and unemployment compensation legislation; legislation to enhance traitic satety; stronger liquor control enforcement power; a re view of the juvenile code. . He suggested revisions in the local budget law; legislation to permit counties to license bus inesses, and to create local service districts not limited just to sewage, water or fire protection. He called for stronger controls over air and water 'pollution, including summary abatement power for the State Sanitary Authority. All these, it will be noted, have come to the fore because of changes in the state's population; changes in numbers, in location, in habits, needs and desires. THE massive growth of the federal government, deplored so widely and so loudly, has come about, m no small measure, because ot the tailure of local governments to act in areas where actiqn is needed. Power has gone from state capitals to Washington, almost by default. ' The Governor recognizes this. He said : "... While It has become commonplace to turn our backs on the problems and our palms to the federal government, we can do much in our day to swing the pendulum back to recognize not so much states' rights as states' obligations. We can make Oregon a proving ground for a new spirit of self-sufficiency if we but have the will." That is one side of the coin. The other is the fact that counties have also been failing in their responsibilities. Parts of the Governor's message were designed to make county government more etfective; parts ot it were designed to have the state step in where the counties have failed as in pollution control and subdivision regulation. IN ESSENCE, then, the governor is calling for mnvn nnwpr for lnonl iTnvfrnirirnt VinlVt stats ...u.w 1 - and county, to assume responsibilites heretofore unmet, or at best neglected, locally, and thus to diminish the flow of power and responsibility to Washington. There are two other means by which this ob jective can be sought. One is by the adoption of the proposed new Constitution, which would strengthen consider ablv the state's power to act in its own behalf. The other is by the adoption of home rule charters by more counties, thus enabling them to deal more efficiently with their own problems. IN REGARD to the latter, we again quote the Register-Guard : "Now that it is actually in force. Lane country's new home rule charter will permit the board of coun ty commissioners to solve a lot of local problems of immediate and long-range importance. Some of these will be problems Hint have been long-standing but un solved because, heretofore, their solutions had to be worked out by the state legislature ... "Thus, Ihc end result will be that important local problems will be dealt with in a way most acceptable to the people nf this country and most logical in the Judgment of the county commissioners.. ". . . Home rule will permit Lnnc county to pro gress more rapidly, to correct nunc situations made intolerable because of Inattention to them, and, to tailor its own solutions to local problems, existing and yet to come. Legislative oversights will no lunger need be tolerated interminably if they involve mat ters of direct local concern." 'My Voice Tell Me To Drive Out The British If It Take. All Of The 15th Century" THIS trend for local government to assume more power and more responsiblity is one that should be welcomed. It gives us greater con trol over our own destinies, and Rt a level which, because it is closest to the people, is most respon sive to their needs and desires. But it must also be realized that greater re sponsibility entails greater burdens, both in cit- uzen naruci nation in me processes oi govern ment, and in raising the tax monies necessary to do the jobs that need to be done. From government, as from so many other areas, we get just about what we pay for, in terms of money and personal effort.' E.A. t i t,,Aleatato: Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippminn Id 1963. The Washington Post ssslfceLsSjs DE GAULLE SPEAKS OUT General De Gaulle has now said publicly what he has been saying privately since Britain decid ed to apply for member ship In the Common Mar ket. He is not too much con cerned about the economic matters which Llppmann Mr. Heath has been negotiating at Brussels. These issues are not far from settlement by compromise, and, in any case, the general has been willing to make ar rangements with Britain about commercial matters. What he is resolutely opposed to is that Britain should pro fess and pretend to be a Eu ropean power, that she should have full membership and therefore an equal voice with General De Gaulle in the for mation of the political unity of Western Europe. We must remember that while the Common Market is a successful, going concern. the community as a political entity exists only in a quite rudimentary form. To devel op the political community will take, it is usually sup posed In Brussels and Paris, another three or four years, and it is for this formative period that General De Gaulle wants to exclude Great Britain. After that, perhaps, when a political union has been es tablished, Britain would make an acceptable member if she subscribed unconditional ly to the political arrange ments arrived at before her admission. General De Gaulle wants to present Britain with an accomplished fact. He docs not intend to let Britain play her part in accomplishing the fact. e e fAULLIST Europe, which Is " to be organized while Brit ain is not present, is to have as its core a close partnership and alliance between France and West Germany. Around this Paris-Bonn nucleus will gravitate Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, pulled to Paris and Bonn by preeminent economic advant ages of the Common Market. In this system, Paris will be the dominant political part ner. It will represent "Eu rope" in the international world. Now that General De Gaulle has spoken so much of his mind, the calculations on which he is acting will be put to the test. Can the small continental Europe of the six be organized as he wishes it to be? Will Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands accept Ihc hegemony of Paris plus Bonn? And, even more critic ally, will West Germany, alter Adenauer departs, look pri marily to Paris for its foreign policy? GENERAL De Gaulle has so " often been right about what he could do that one hesitates to say that he is not right now. But he has certainly taken on a formid able task. He is proposing to isolate the six continental countries from the rest of Western Europe, which in cludes Great Britain and many other countries, and to Isolate this small Europe from the Atlantic Community which includes the United Stales. Maybe the Germans who come after Adenauer will support him In this. But he cannot count on that with certainly. Maybe Italy and the Low Countries will reluctant ly acquiesce in a Gaullist Eu rope. But we do not know what would happen in such a small, Isolated, restrictive, Gaullist Europe. There is a good reason, it seems to me, to believe that the little Gaullist Europe will be restless and perhaps tur bulent. Recently, when I was in Europe, I realized how deep and wide is the fear of a German and an Italian Gen eral De Gaulle that is to say the Gaullist authoritarian ism without General De Gaulle himself. For the gen eral is an exquisitely civilized Frenchman, and in his hands, the liberties and humanities of western civilization are quite safe. But who would be the Ger man General De Gaulle, who the Italian? In Germany and Italy, men ask that question. They have not forgotten the Prussians and the Nazis and the Fascists, and the prospect of being locked up inside a Gaullist Europe is frightening to them. The great majority of people in the center," the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats, look with dismay and foreboding on this prospect. That is why, out side of France, there is so strong a demand for the presence o f parliamentary Britain and for a continuing association with the United States. e e e A GAINST this background, I find myself wondering about the timing of General De Gaulle's press conference. On the one hand, Dr. Adenauer has only a few more months In office. Unless all the evidence now available is false, his successor will be wholly against the exclusion of Britain. On the other hand, the Brit ish government is having all the troubles which accumulate at the end of a long term of office, and unless its nerves remain very steady, it could be provoked and goaded into breaking off the Brussels negotiations. Yet if Britain were to withdraw its applica tion before Dr. Adenauer quits office, General De Gaulle's chances of having his way in Europe would be greatly enhanced. This Is a strong reason for refusing to break off the negotiations while the true constellation of forces within Europe is still masked by Dr. Adenauer's personal relation ship with General De Gaulle. S COMPARED with what the general said about Britain and Europe, the pas sages about Polaris and the Nassau agreement are of minor importance. It has nev er been conceivable that Gen eral De Gaulle would not re ject the Nassau proposal. But this is not so exciting or so Important as it sounds. For the day Is a long way off when France will have nuclear forces that she could or would use independently. The real situation Is not I that France does not trust the United States to deter Soviet acgression. It is that General De Gaulle has long been en tirely sure that the Soviet Union cannot and will not engage In military aggression in Europe. What Mr. Krushchev has Just been saying In East Ber lin has been the major premise of General De Gaulle's European policy. In 1 the maintenance of peace, he takes the United States for granted. He knows that we arc so Irrevocably com nu led that he can safely pursue an inde pendent. Indeed an isolation ist, French policy regardless of what we think ot it. boyd on 8 Matter of Fact By Joseph Aliop lc) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate THE DE GAULLE MISTERY Washington A major mystery emerges from Gen. de Gaulle's haughty, superbly lucid and dis c o n c e r ting press confer ence. The mystery is what d e Gaulle really hopes to ac complish with the French nuclear dctcr- Aisop rent. The first part of the problem is tech nical. At least for many years to come, the French nuclear deterrent as now planned will not be worth a dollar of the untold millions de Gaulle is" grimly pouring into it. To put it bluntly, it is a military lemon of the first order. The reasons for this are quite simple. During most of the rest of the '60s, the de Gaulle nuclear force will be composed of late model Mi rage bombers, carrying A bombs rather' than H-bombs. This design for a small scale national deterrent looked like a reasonable bet when it was adopted by the French De fense Ministry. But advances in Soviet air defense technol ogy have rendered the French design totally obsolete before the first Mirage has become operational. npHE heart of the French - design is the capacity of the Mirage to attack at low altitudes and at supersonic speeds. This looked quite good enough when the Soviet air defenses included no real pro tection against supersonic at tack on the deck, as was the case until only a little more than a year ago. But in the past year, the Soviets have added to their air defense-net many hundreds of their SAM III anti - aircraft ' missiles, which are specifically design ed to knock down low-flying aircraft. - ' The efficiency of the SAM III is not open to serious ques tion. Judging by the Ameri can experience over Cuba with the Soviet high altitude SAM lis, on the one day of the Cuban crisis when these were operational, the SAM Ill's effectiveness has been underestimated rather than overestimated. The American B-52s (which are not as modern aircraft as the Mirages) are nonetheless counted upon to reach a fair proportion of their destined targets because of "penetra tion aids." These range from immensely complex and cost ly fooling devices all the way to the massive use of ballis tic missiles in the first volley to blast pathways through the air defense net for the more vulnerable bombers. rpHE French deterrent de sign does not include pen etration aids on anything like the scale of the problem. Hence the appearance of the SAM Ills has automatically rendered obsolete the Mirage based French deterrent de sign. One hesitates to accuse Gen. de Gaulle of talking nonsense. Yet unless he is thinking of dropping his atom bombs in Africa, in Western Europe, or on some other non-nuclear power, he was clearly talking nonsense when he told his press conference: "The French atomic force, from the moment it becomes operational, will have the somber and terrible capabil ity of destroying in a few in stants millions upon millions. of men. This cannot fail to in fluence the intentions of a fu ture aggressor, at least in some measure." The only future agressor France needs to worry about, the Soviet Union, is plainly not going to be influenced at all, as long as the masters of the Kremlin are solidly con fident that the Mirages can be knocked out of the air long before they destroy "mil lions upon millions of men." The unchallengeable Amer ican evidence concerning the Soviet Union's SAM IU de fenses has been fully and re peatedly communicated to the French Defense Ministry at several levels. Maybe the French govern ment is more Impressed by the kind of American big bomber generals, who helped to cause the Skybolt mess -the kind who ignore the tech nical facts and swear "the bomber will always get through." Otherwise the very men who are pouring money into the Mirage-based French deterrent must know that the weapons they are buying are already ineffectual. IN AN earlier period, it was possible to resolve the mys tery in another way - by assuming that de Gaulle was looking forward to the even tual creation of a European nuclear deterrent. If this were what he had in mind, he would surely think it useful to start along the road in France. But this is not what de Gaulle has in mind, according to those closest to him. In the earlier period, when Ger man Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer seemed likely to last forever, the General may in deed have played with the idea of a European deterrent. But Adenauer has now put a term to his chancellorship. Gen de Gaulle therefore con siders Germany, as he told Prime Minister Macmillan at Rambouillet, as being ."wiped off the map." Thus de Gaulle can no longer desire to cre ate a European deterrent con trolled by the Franco-German partnership. If the General is not look ing forward to a European deterrent, and if the French deterrent is obsolete before it becomes operational, what then has the General got in mind? Try and Stop Mo By BENNETT CERF- 'T l-t-l-t I fc AND THEN THERE'S the story of the man who became a millionaire overnight and promptly had three pools installed on his new estate. One was filled with cold water tor his hardier friends, one with warm water for those who preferred it that way. "But the third pool?" inquired an old friend. "What do you need that for?" "That one has no water in it at all," explained the host. "It's tor friends who don't know how to swim." e e e "I'm afraid this must be our last date together," a college miss told her cur rent beau. "Papa says I shouldn't be-going out with you." "On what grounds," demanded the beau angrily, "does your father disapprove of me?" "Frankly," she replied demurs ly, "on any grounds within a mile of our house." ; ' "I'll tell you how rich those folks are down in Texas these, days," a Little Rock resident told me enviously. "I know one oil man in Houston who doesn't even know he's got six kids going through college'." And let us not overlook the story of the women who told her husband, "Be an angel and let me drive." He did and he is. O 1963, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate SX1A In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Mr. Kroosh has been mak ing news in East Berlin, where the Sixth Communist Party Congress of East Ger many has been in session. STANDING on a COMMU NIST platform and TALK ING TO COMMUNISTS, Pre mier Khrushchev poured scorn bn Red China's war and peace theories which are based on WAR, war to the knife, for Communist control of the world. Talking straight to Red China, he warned that neither communism nor anyone else can win in a nuclear war be cause such a war would bring UNIMAGINABLE destruc tion. Talking over the heads of the East German 'Hippets to the Chinese cor.imunist leaders in Peking, he said, in effect: 1. The U.S. has 40,000 atomic or nuclear warheads, and if all of them were drop ped 700 million to 800 million people would be killed and whole nations would be wiped out. 2. Russia, of course, has an THE JS SUPPOSED TO KEEP , THE PEACE SHAME,. SHAME'' SHAME ON THEUdl- 'MH'SOHVf PEACE". icongo!;! i f icr r u "A few months ago. they wanted to destroy the UN by having us get out of it now they're acting like disappointed loversl" EVEN MORE POWERFUL atomic arsenal than the U.S., but there's a catch to it. 3. The catch is this: Russia's 100-megaton bomb (the equiv alent of 100 million tons ot TNT) is so fantastically pow erful that Russia DARES NOT drop it on West Ger many or France BECAUSE ITS EFFECTS WOULD HIT YOU TOO. (By "you too" he . means the communists of East Germany, Poland, Czechoslo vakia, etc.) TIE ADDED: 11 ' "The Americans would be under no such inhibition be cause they would be half around the world from where their bombs WOULD DROP ON US." Thus he implied: We would be in an impos sible position in the event of a nuclear war, because the Americans could drop their immense quantities of bombs on us without getting any kick-back, whereas our im-' mensely more powerful bombs can't be used (on the -European allies of the U.S.) because if we dropped them on Western Europe they are so powerful that they would blow us off the earth too. QUESTION: Did Kroosh go too far? Did he admit that the U.S. rules the world because of the superiority of its nuclear ' armament? The answer seems to be NO because he left open the -iriplication that Russia can r"rop her 100-megatonners ON MERICA without getting : the kick-back that would fol-; low if Russia's huge bombs -were dropped on America's -European allies. He tossed that in to keep from admitting that the Unit ed States has the upper hand in nuclear warfare because ; of the greater abundance of -her armament. SUMMING it up: It looks like Mr. Khru- : shchev realizes that because : of the stubborn insistence of Ihc Red Chinese that WAR is the way to win the world for communism, he is in a tight spot. If that is true, it is an in teresting development. Leisurely Britain Facing Challenges MM By ERIC SEVAREID The last time Prime Minis ter Macmillan visited Wash ington he said to an Ameri can dinner partner, "Every country has Us 4 umuiuioi 4 nightmare. O u r s is un- employ ment. What's yours?" The answer was. "Another Pearl Harbor." sevarrio Anyone keeping this exchange in mind will better understand the csencc of British foreign and defense policy and the real nature nf the present squabbling about nuclear in dependence and American leadership of the Atlantic Al liance. He will understand why the United States willingly faces a federal budget of a hundred billion dollars; and why Britain dropped her Bluestrcak missile tor the vir tually free Skybolt. went into an uproar when Skybolt was canceled, will not undertake a truly independent modern ized nuclear arsenal, and fails to bring her Rhine army up to strength; and why part of the British press openly ac cuses the United States of using the U N. Katanga op eration as a cover under cessions away from Euro peans. The maintenance of her present prosperity is an ob session in Britain and the ful crum on which her govern ments rise or fall. Whatever regime occupies Whitehall finds itself caught in the Procrustean! bed of the im placable interaction of rising domestic consumption and falling experts. Britain must still "export or die," her room for maneuver Is slight, and she must live by her eco nomic wits. What will determine whe ther Britain "falls to the sta tus of a third class power," to use Ihc phrase Tory back benchers now cry aloud, is not the question of her nu clear independence from us or from NATO, but the ques tions of her joining the Com mon Market and what hap pens after that. Inside the market, she has still got to compete in pr duction and sales with the other members, and lim means a profound renovation of British industrial equip ment and methods. In a cer tain, ironic sense British in dustry was not destroyed enough in the war; the new plants in France. Germany and Italy are far more effi cient than much of Britain's. The great port of London is sluggish and archaic; labor which to grab economic con-j union feather - bedding and wildcat strikes make matters worse; even in shipbuilding, the Germans, Dutch, Ewcdes, to say nothing of the Japan ese, equal her in quality and beat her in construction and delivery times and in prices. Only a fool would under rate the British people in any crisis, but when they say, as so many do, "Ah, well, we have a way of winning the last battle, you know." one is obliged to wonder if they are not fooling themselves. This kind of slow war of eco nomic attrition has no dra matic last battle. Salvation depends on what was done yesterday, is being done to o'ay and will be done tomor row. The problem goes deep and involved. I'm afraid, the mores, vahies and habits of a whole society. We, the Ger mans and the Japanese seem to live in order to work; and it makes life tense and ex hausting. The English seem to work in order to live: this makes their life infinitely more pleasant and leaves room for the human graces. But history will not stop, only the fittest will survive, and the business life of the British remains essentially Victorian. The truth is that they arc not a hard working people in this era of "I'm all right. Jack." and the tax rates scarcely encourage the shedding of sweat, to say nothing of blood and tears. The trouble is pandemie and includes management. A London public relations ex pert said to me, "In America, public relations firms essen tially handle publicity for an industry. In Britain we are also consultants on manage ment, because British busi ness, like her sports and her politics, is largely run by amateurs - by sons, grand sons, nephews who have had a literary education and for whom precision, punctuality and detailed expertise are re garded as bad form." (My first friendly admoni tion upon joining a London club was that to be overhead discussing business St lunch might well bring a polite note from the club secretary.) Anyone who loves London as it is, who loves the long week-ends, the country visits, the tea breaks, the fusty of fices and the handwritten notes, contemplates their con quest by the frenetic spirit of Madison Avenue with sick ness in his stomach. But to contemplate the withering of Britain as a political and hu man force in this harsh world is lo feel a lot sicker. They have a choice, but they all have to sec and accept it, down to the last stenogra pher, though this may require a peace time Churchill, if there be such a thing. Distributed 1963. by The Hall Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights Reserved)