Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1963)
- . ..-.7. 4 A- SUNDAY. JANUARY 27. 1963 MEDFOrlD MAIL THlfiUhi:, MfcDr'Ght, GfctttiGN "Kwryona In Boutbvrn Oraion Publlihed Daily excapt Saturday by M North rir 8t, Ph. 77a-14I " ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY AdverUilnfManagar GERALD T LATHAMTBua Mir ERIC W ALLEN JR . tint Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor iinnii bmfwnn, ------- RICHARD JEWETT. BporU Ed tor OLIVE STARCHER Women1! Editor PALE ERICK80N. Circulation Mfr An tndemndent NewaDapcr Entered ai aeeond claaa nutter at Medlora. ureion. unaw Mnrch 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES a. Mall In Advance Dally and Sunday I year 118.00 Dally and Sunday mot 10.00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moi 8 00 Sunday Only One year 85 00 Slnale Copy (Mailed) sue thv rat-n. And Motor RuUte. Dally and Sunday 1 year 831.00 Dally and Sunday t ma L7S fiiinriiv flntv 1 mn. 90c Carrier and Vendora Copy 10c Official Paper of City of Medford oirtclal raper or jacaup nuay United Preti International Full Leaied Wire D. P. I Telephoto Newplcturea MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU UI UHCULAUuna Advertllinl Representative: , NELSON ROBERTS 4t ASSOCI itvi ntttrM In New Vork. Cnl- cajo. Detroit. San Franclaco, Loi . Angeiea. ocawv. r v . t m u u ' Dener. NATIONAL I0ITORIAI IWtPArlK PUtlliHERS association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. , 10 YEARS AGO Jin. 27. 1933 (Sunday) There are no immedtale plans for fluoridation of Med ford s water system Because there has been no public de mand for such a move, City Superintendent Robert Duff said today. The 1993 Oregon state AAU basketball tournament will be held in the spacious gymnas ium at Crater High school at Central Point; Crater Lions will sponsor the event. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 27. 1943 (Friday) Local war price and ration ing board members report re newal of "B" and "C" gasoline rationing books will become increasingly difficult. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Sev eral outdoor lovers journeyed to steep places to ski and slide on the week-end." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 27. 1933 (Sunday) Medford man sentenced to study Bible each Sunday "for a long, long time" after being arrested for habitual drunken ness. Jackson county delegation to Oregon state legislature in vites Gov. Julius Meier to at tend Oregon Diamond Jubilee celebration to be held in Medford. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 27. 1923 (Monday) Jackson county fair asso ciation directors announce plans for motorcycle and auto mobile races with prizes to talling $5,000. Medford fire department starts new investigation of series of fires in local restau rant after third blaze in two weeks is put out. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 27. 1913 (Wednesday) Officers elected by Rogue River Cooperative Fruit asso ciation include J. A. Perry, president; D. W. Stone, vice president; S. A. Nye, secretary and W. B. jacKson, treasurer Medford nurseryman, miss- lna for more than four years, found near death in Santa Rosa, Calif., hospital. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct ii superior; lavan or eight it excellent: tire Of six it good. 1. In what country do King Paul and Queen Frcdrika reign? 2. Who was chosen an Apos tie in place of Judas the trail or? 3. What are young tigers called? 4. Was Thomas Jefferson the second, third, or fifth President of the United States? 5. Name the composer of the popular song "Over There." 6. Is the female or male black widow spider poison ous? 7. Correct the following punctuation: Jane said: "John go jump in the lake". 8. Which of our standard foods is the fattiest? 0. How many inches are there In one mile? 10. Of which state Is Salem the capital? Answern 1. Greece. 2. SI. Matthias. 3. Cuba. 4. Third. 5. George M. Cohan. 6. re male. 7. Jane said, "John, go jump in the like." 8. Butter and margarine. 9. 83.360. 10. Oregon. Ten Points Against HUAC Last Monday in this space we reprinted an editorial from the Coos Bay World which argued in a reasoned and dispassionate manner that the Committee on Un-American Activities of the United States House of Representatives (or House Un - American Activities Committee HUAC for short) should be abolished, and that its functions should be turned over to the Com mittee on Judiciary. This brought the expected response of letters which in violent terms accused everyone oppos ing the HUAC's virtually unlimited grant of power of being a Communist, Communist dupe. fool or knave which simply is untrue. lhis Kind of hysterical thrashing around and name caiiinir is, unfortunately, in direct alien- ment with the way in which the HUAC has op erated, and is one of the reasons we hope the House sees lit to restrain it and its irresponsible, unproductive, and costly investigations. ARE hardly alone in this belief, and the growing number of people who agree is not confined to pinkos or their dupes. It includes some eminently respectable people. Among this number is the editor of The Chris tian Century, the highly regarded Protestant magazine, the editor, Harold & Fey, writes: "In practice, although not by specific mandate from the House, the principal activity of the Commit tee . . . is to oppose communism and in particular communist subversion. This purpose is a useful one and deserves to be carried out effectively. The House committee, however, is performing this function so ineptly that it weakens and confuses the forces in our government and our society which strengthen de mocracy. It should therefore be retired and its object pursued by more appropriate means." VJIR- FEY indicts the Committee on ten counts. The first is, since a loyal citizenry is our greatest strength and security against subversion, and since loyalty can only be earned and won, not coerced, a committee which engages in public harassment of citizens, "exposure," and public shame, "is subject to serious question on grounds of morality as well as intelligence." the second involves the powers of the com mittee. The House "has never been able to de fine what it wants the committee to do. Its terms of reference are so ambiguously stated that it is impossible to define the requirement that testi mony be pertinent. The committee now has vir tually unlimited authority." A THIRD reason is that the committee's meth "ods are not productive of sound information in the areas needed, and development of better means will be prevented as long' as the committee is allowed to follow its present course. f ourth, abolition of the committee would lessen the atmosphere of fear and suspicion too prevalent throughout the nation, . where many individuals have been led to believe that com munism is winning the cold war, that Americans are easy dupes, that whole professional groups are "infiltrated" with subversives all of it patent nonsense, but encouraged by the committee. Fifth, the type of loyalty probe conducted by the committee no longer serves the public in terest. All sorts or loyalty tests and oaths are re quired of government workers; to extend these to the population at large would be silly. "The presumption 01 loyauy is a vanci ana precious element in our free society. Loyalty probes by government agencies bring this presumption into question and introduce elements 01 clouut, sus picion, fear and coercion. 1 hey also give rise to resentment over injustice when such probes are conducted without adequate safeguards for in dividual rights. SIXTH, Mr. Fey makes an excellent case for tlin iivnnnctrimi th'it tlio rnmniilloo Vina llA- come a source of divisiveness and dissension in a nation which, above all, needs to remain united at this perilous point in history. seventh, he says abolition of the committee would be a step toward strengthening freedom of speech and association (both guaranteed in the Constitution). He adds, "There is no doubt that communists would deny freedom of speech, assembly and the press in this country if they had a chance . . . But they do not nave that power in this country, and please God will never have it. On the other hand, we their opponents have the power, and if we are not careful we do harm to freedom bv the means we use to protect it. Eighth, "the mandate of the HUAC . . . should be withdrawn because the impression is wide spread, whether iustif ied or not, that the commit tee manifests a dangerous tendency to use state power for the purpose of silencing its critics. MINT1I, the committee has served to miseducate ' the public about the norms of dignity, self- limitation and restraint which it has a right to expect an airencv of government to follow. And tenth, the committee "operates at the fringes of constitutional power. In his summary, Mr. Fey says: "HUAC practices personalizing its attacks; con sidering persons who .ire 'identified' lis communists, no mutter by whom, to be guilty until proved inno cent; referring to such persons thereafter as 'identified communists'; prejudicing t lie standing of people so that a fair trial is difficult or impossible; usurping grand Jury functions by 'Indicting' people publicly all such practices should be abandoned. "In government the committee has helped down grade federal service by encouraging the normal bu reaucratic tendency to mediocrity, by discouraging initiative, courage and imagination. It has hindered recruitment of scientists and capable leaders, has dis couraged persons interested in the teaching profession and government service by making these fields objects of suspicion." For all those abuses, and for its denigration of American Uinstilutumal treedoms, the com .. 1 Ilia . 1 lft nuttee snouiu ue lerminaieu. r.A. Second Wave At The Bay Of Pigt Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop (cl New York Herald Tribune Syndicate ON THE BRINK OK WAR Washinglon-N o one has quite admitted it as yet; but the fact remains that the European pol icy of the Kennedy ad- m i n istration has been brought to a jarring, shud dering halt b y Gen. de Gaulle. The aim was to "wait to do Europe." For f7S Alanp business with two years, this has been the strongest of several rea sons cited by the Kennedy policy-makers for not doing business with the intransigent de Gaulle. And for two years, the hope has been that this larger, more amiable Europe, with which business could be done, would come into being with Britain's admission to the European Common Mar ket. The aim has been blocked, the hope has been frustrated, by de Gaulle's brutal veto on Britain's admission. Further more, the protests of the other five members of the Common Market have been pallidly in effectual; and the Germans, long our warmest European friends, have now interrupted their protests to sign the new Franco-German accord. IN THESE circumstances, - at least for the time being, doing business with the Euro pean Common Market means doing business with de Gaulle. Yet de Gaulle's actions can only be interpreted as sharply hostile to the U. S. His almost openly announced eventual objective is to eliminate Amer lean influence from Europe's sacred soil. The first impulse of the Kennedy administration has been to retaliate in kind. Eyes roll piously heaven wards. Strong denials are instantly and probably, sin cerely entered, when the question is asked: "Are we now going to war against de Gaulle?" Our policy, it is stated, Is always to leave an open chair at the conference table, which the General will be welcome to occupy when ever he wishes to talk with the President. Yet consider the actions which arc being taken, or are now being contemplated. First of all, despite the tot 1 disar ray produced by de Gaulle's veto against Britain, our able Trade Act negotiator, former Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, has already left for Europe to get tl.e European-American trade and tariff talks going. TT IS ACCEPTED as almost certain that when and if serious talks begin, the French negotiators will do everything in their power to make life hard for Herter. But the intention is to try to surround and checkmate the French, by seeking to orga nize a pro-American united front of the Italians, Germans, Belgian, Dutch, and Luxem- bourgers. Secondly, the multi-lateral deterrent, which the British approved at Nassau, is a fine bright red rag to the Gaullist bull. Knowing thi.. we have already sought and won the approval of the Germans and the Italians. And we are going to go on pressing forward with the multi lateral deterrent scheme in talks with other NATO nations, come hell or high water. Finally, if the going gets too rough, there is talk about asking the Germans, point blank, to choose once and for all between France and the United States. For the Ger mans, there could be no more agonizing choice. For Gen. de Gaulle, there could be no more infuriating act. WIGHT there is the central " point that must be faced. The American actions now under way or under contem plation in Europe really add up to going to war against de Gaulle, whatever one may say about open choirs. Ai any rate, de Gaulle will thin' that the' U. S. has declared war upon him, and that is what mainly matters. There are two reasons why this is a profoundly serious and dangerous prospect. In the first place, if we seem to be going to war on de Gaulle, he will move on to the next stage. From seeking to limit our influence in Europe, he will proceed to active retalia tion. And he can do very serious damage in this way, by ordering the Bank of France to use its power against the dollar on the world markets, for instance. There are things of the same sort we can do against de Gaulle-temporarily crip pling his nuclear deterrent scheme, for Instance, by re fusing to supply France with the American tanker aircraft needed to give the French Mirage IV bombers the range they will otherwise lack. AS THESE examples may suggest, the scconu reason for worrying about an open political war between de Gaulle and the Kennedy ad ministration is, quite simply, that it will be very difficult to keep within bounds. Such a contest, if permitted to develop, will be a fight with no holr: barred Hence the only sensible American objective, in case of war, will be nothing less than breaking up the Euro pean Common Market. That is the only truly effective. truly decisive way of isolating de Gaulle, the only sure way of doing business with the rest iiifiii Today & Tomorrow By Waller lippmann (cl 1063, The Waihlnaton Post tlppmanai ADENAUER IN PARIS The Franco-German treaty of cooperation which was signed In Paris on Tuesday must no doubt be read in the light of Gen e r a 1 D e Gaulle's press con ference, on the ' Mon day of the p r e c e d ing week. In the press confer ence, the Gen eral excluded Britain from Europe and rejected the idea of an Atlantic partnership with the United States. In the new treaty, he has formed a close and special f ranco German relationship within the Little Europe of the con tinental six. This is to be the inner al liance which leads "Europe." How? Paris and Bonn are to consult before any decision on all important questions of foreign policy," - except, it would seem, on the enormous ly - important decisions to ex clude Great Britain and push off the United States. The General made these decisions the week before Dr. Aden auer arrived to sign up the alliance. Thus, by the timing of his press conference, it was possible to present Dr. Adenauer with an accomplish ed fact: he has been commit ted to the kind of Europe which all the German parties do not want. TN view of the fact that General De Gaulle asserted his primacy in the act of signing the Franco-German treaty, the paragraphs about defense must be read with much attention. They appear to mean that Germany is to contribute her resources to creating a military force under French control and leadership. The military sec tion of the treaty is not ex plicit and clear. It sounds as if Chancellor Adenauer had agreed that German money, technology, productive ca pacity and manpower are to be drawn upon in creating a military force which is inde pendent of NATO, independ ent of the English-speaking peoples and indeed independ ent of the other countries in the European community. The timing of the press con ference and of the new treaty were almost certainly de termined by two other consid erations. One is that the nego tiations with Britain at Brus sels were on the verge of suc ceeding. The other is that Dr. Adenauer no longer has the confidence of the German parliament, not even the con fidence of his own party, and has only a few months at best before he must leave his of fice. He would have had to leave it last autumn except for the personal respect which he enjoys with all the parties. Last autumn, they wanted him to go at the time of the Spiegel affair. But they did not want him to go under circumstances which ob scured his great services to his country. All the party leaders. Including the Social Democrats, felt that his great career should not end with a nasty scandal. So it became necessary to exclude Britain abruptly be fore she justified her applica tion for membership and to sign up West Germany be fore Dr. Adenauer leaves office. ONE wonders how far Dr. Adenauer's signature on the treaty will control his successors in Germany. There is much reason for scepticism. For we have to remember that, while the accomplished facts the break with the Anglo-Saxons and the Franco German alliance are open and spectacular, the effects of these shocks are delayed and not yet in view. But there will be effects. There could be no greater illusion than for Bonn and Paris to assume that they can act while the other Western nations will not react. If they now disrupt the alliance, they may well find that they have started a reaction toward iso lationism which they will not like at all. of Europe without worrying about de Gaulle's strange quirks and grandiose views. It can be seen, then why careful stock-taking and hon est fact-facing are now urgent. Above all, if we mean to take the actions that de Gaulle will interpret meaning war to the knife, it is vital not to cherish any illusions about where those actions must lead. A wholly new situation confronts the U. S. and some months given to studying it will not be time wasted. Editorial Comment A QUESTIONABLE IDEA Governor Hatfield in his re cent inaugural address sug gested that the State Board of Higher Education and the Board of Education be com bined. Not presuming to be experts in the field, we would like to quote a few other opinions. The Eugene Register-Guard: "Both boards . . . have all they can do to keep up with tht problems they now hava. To double those prob lems, no mailer how large the board were made, would be to add to the work . loads of the members. Too few citizens now can afford the time it takes for this sort of servica." The Oregonian: ". . . we art not con vinced that . . . prospective benefits outweigh the pros pective disadvantages . . . ". . . study should not necessarily be directed to ward a merger. Current ef forts toward improved co ordination between the two appear to be working very well indeod." Chancellor Roy Licuallen of the State Board of Higher Education: "There are practical rea sons for not making the move. The disadvantages of the plan outweigh any ad vantages that might accrue. "It might very well de prive us of the services of some outstanding lay people." President William Walsh of the State Board of Higher Education: "I don't see how it could be possible to appoint board members and expect them to do a responsible job. Combining the boards would make the job even more complex and demand ing. A member would need to neglect either the work of tht Board or that of hit Try and Stop Mo -By BENNETT CERF- THE STAFF at an upper Park Avenue hospital recall with relish the day one of the biggest doctors on the staff shook a pampered patient by the arm, looked about at the lavish baskets of fruit and flowers in the room, and announced, "You have now occupied this room for four weeks, though you know there is a long waiting list. So I have just had a definitive consultation about your case with Doctor Rodgers, Doctor Lippman, Doctor Shannon, and Doctor Hayes and we all will give you exactly twenty minutes to get the heck out of that bed!" David Green, In a Cosmopolitan article on "news slanting, cites the famous series of headlines In a Paris Journal reporting the day-to-day progress of Napoleon's escape from his first exile in Elba: First Day: "The Corslcan Monster Has Landed in The Gulf of Juan." Second Day: 'The Cannibal Approaches Graase." Third Day: "The Usurper Has Entered Grenoble." Fourth Day: "Bonaparte Cheered by Lyons Populace." Fifth Day: "Napoleon Awaited Eagerly in Fontaine- bleau." Sixth Day: "His Imperial Majesty Returns in Triumph to Paris." In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: The Cuban issue erupted with renewed force in the Senate last week over reports of a new around-the-clock Soviet military build-up on Fidel Castro's island. Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon called for an immed iate investigation. He asked the State Department for a quick briefing for his Senate Latin-American affairs sub committee. Senator Keating of New York, who was one of the first to sound the alarm last year over reports of of fensive Soviet missiles in Cu ba, told a reporter this morn ing that he has confirmed by official government sources that a new INTENSIVE build up is under way there. SENATOR Keating said that Cuba is now TEN TIMES stronger than it was last July 1 just before the Soviet mis siles and bombers-later with drawn under pressure from President Kennedy - were landed there. He said the weapons being newly added include MIG fighter planes capable of carrying nuclear weapons with a range that would cover many areas in the United States and Cuba. He added: "I don't know whether they have nuclear weapons. I don't know that they don't, cither. I do say they are capable of carrying nuclear weapons. I have made no statement which is not confirmed by official government sources." Slate and Defense depart ment officials, however, say that Soviet arms simnlieri to Cuba are about what thev were at the beginning of the year. full-lime outside activities or occupation." Statements such as these make one wonder exactly what was behind the Gover nor's suggestion to coniouie the two boards. Was it an honest attempt to provide tor a great deal of overlap? Or was it, as one promi nent Lane County Senator suggests, an attempt to take some of the punch out of the requests of the State Board of Higher Education's budget re quests by putting the Board on the defensive? University of Oregon Daily Emerald. WHAT'S really happening tn Cuba? And WHY is it happening? IT'S HARD to say. So MUCH big-time riolltip. is wrapped up in the Cuban situation. When President Kennedy told Premier Khrushchev to GET HIS OF FENSIVE MISSILES OUT OF CUBA, OR ELSE, and Kroosh GOT THEM OUT, and was quick about it, with no back talk, it was a tremendous vic tory for President Kennedy. Almost in a matter of hours it changed his public image from that of a somewhat hesi tant young man who didn't quite know what to do next to that of a confident and fearless Chief Executive, cap able of meeting any crisis that might arise. : At the same time, it chang ed the image of Premier. Khrushchev - and the change, didn't add anything to his stature. All of which nutures the suspicion tiiat Old Kroosh has some cards up his sleeve which he hasn't played yet. ' WHAT'S in the wind in Cuba? ; We can only guess - but this seems to be a REASON ABLE guess: If crafty Old Kroosh had it in mind in the first place' to build Cuba into a nuclear" base from which he could launch a nuclear attack on! the United States that would so cripple us that we would be unable to retaliate DECIS IVELY, he was forced to pull in his horn. He found Presi dent Kennedy tougher than he had expected. But he can't afford to be too humble. So, what he may have in mind is to make of Cuba a base of operations from which he can effective ly EXPORT COMMUNISM to all of Latin America. In order to get away with that project, he may be un dertaking to make Cuba too strong DEFENSIVELY for us to tackle safely. Unions Facing Uncertain Future in U.S. MM Mb Sevareld Class Phots i BY ERIC SEVAREID Labor unions were once described as Institution: that combine the characteristics of 1 ' l an army, a 3Rk a business and a town meet ing. Most of them, most of i .' j the time, are simpiy a ousi- ness, and few are town meetings, any more, since they arc in herently undemocratic, almost as much so as a corporation. It is their performance as "armies" that has currently frayed public nerves, severely damaged the national econ omy, raised Congressional tempers rnd produced the prospect uf a drive for re strictive legislation, which the Kennedy administration can hardly wish to sec happen, for two reasons: It would divert the Congress from other vital tasks and. if 1963 is a bad year for labor peace, it could produce new laws mor re strictive of union actions than a Democratic administration could easily live with. Amending Taft-Hartley so that Presidential fact-finding boards may make specific though not binding recom mendations is likely to be a weak weapon, as labor and management forces arc now shaping up for battle, and about the only defense line to fall back upon after that would be compulsory arbitra tion in strikes of national con cern, an idea that enjoys no vast popularity with either side. It is n little hard to see how anti-trust laws applied to unions could be much more effective than the same laws as now applied to companies, however jocular the notion may be that today's unions arc "private, voluntary assoc iations." But the chief of the federal mediation service is surely correct In his forcast of an unpeaceful year ahead. Pro longed spasms of strikes and shutdowns will do severe injury to the President's whole scheme for "getting the country moving again." The prospect, indceed, is for many years of dislocation in many industries, because the issue is becoming less and less one of wages and work ing conditions, and more and more one of fundamental job security as the implacable move ment of technology changes the whole nature of man's work In this country. No longer is the real cry, "more, more, more and now." The real ghost hovering over the shipping and newspaper strikes is automation. The printers' walkout is the spasm of a dying craft in a sick industry. Whole trades, an cient skills arc at stake, not just jobs, and in the long run little can be done abit it save to ease the pain of the transitions. A social revolution is well under way and none of the three major power centers concerned-government, labor and management-feels certain as to how it should be con tained and directed. Perhaps it is not too much to say that in the most fundamental sense of the dialectic of economics, the "labor ingredient" in the value of goods and services is rapidly declining in relation to the "capital ingredient" in the form of research and machinery. (One reason some economists argue that all workers must be part capital ists through share ownership.) In any case, the American labor movement, which has already lost much of its once inspiring "image-' as a leader toward social ideals, is now, taken as a whole, losing its force. At its peak, it has organ ized one-third of the Amer ican work force but this pro portion is now failing and its enlightened leaders now frankly speak in terms of a "crisis" for the movement. Some of them reason that any institution that does not grow bigger is bound to grow small er (the operating principle in business today) and they are issuing rallying cries for new recruitment campaigns. It is possible to be skeptical about this, possible to believe that automation cannot in the end be resisted and that, short of a serious depression and mass unemployment, the high point of union organization is already behind us. Surely the fundamental requirement is for new training and re-train- ' ing in the skills increasingly in demand, an area in which some labor leaders have do-, monstrated more imaginative awareness than most of man agement. Already,- the majority of the American work force are white collar people; steadily, we become a semi - standard ized, middle class society. The old attraction of labor leadership with its idealistic ethos no longer attracts. In my college generation, gener ous minded, socially conscious graduates wanted "to be in the labor movement." Today their counterparts head for the Peace Corps. The unions themselves, from simple suc cessful existence, exert their energies In centripetal, not centrifugal directions like alt bureaucracies. As J. A. Berime of the Communica tions Workers has put it-with the world in ferment, Amer ican trade unions are quies cent. . Labor as a power center loses force, but mar.-gemcnt is not likely to absorb this force. It will surely go to the third element in this troika, government. (Distributed 19E3. by Tht Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Rtstrvtd) t
