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4 MONDAY. JANUARY 28. 19C3 MLDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON HEDFORDwJtTBIBUNt 'E vary one in SouthenTbreYoiT- ReadsTheMallTribune lubllhef billy except Saturday b)f MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Kir Sl Ph. 77H-6U1 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor I1KIIU GREY Advertnins Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bus Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mne Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHII'MAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Spurta Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women a Editor DALE JERICKSON. Clrculauon Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second clah matter at Medloid. Oregon under Act of MnrcTi 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mall In Advance Dally and Sunday 1 year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday 6 moa 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moa 3.00 Sunday Only One year $5.00 Single Copy IMalledl 200 hi Camel And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year $21.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.73 Sunday Only I mo. 50c Carrlci and endor Copy 10c blllclat Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackaon County United Pres8International full Leased Wire U. P I Telepholo Ncvysplcturea "MEMBER OFAUDIT BUREAU" Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES OlMcea In New York, Clll caso Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland Dciver. Our Archaic Congress The 88th Congress is entering this year of struggle against odds ot its own choosing. It will attempt to legislate wisely for the needs of the space age with a legislative mechanism geared to the age of the horseless carriage. This is not only absurd, it is dangerous. It is all but impossible for Congress to move swiftly to meet a developing emergency. It is all but impossible for Congress efficiently to analyze and oversee the expenditure of the bil lions it appropriates each year. It is all but im possible to inject new blood and fresh minds into the hierarchical leadership structure. It is all but impossible to assert the will of a majority of Congress if a minority chooses to oppose it. THE executive branch of our Government, cum- bersome as it still is, has been extensively overhauled on at least four occasions in the last 25 years. Moreover, its administrative machinery is constantly updated by the management en gineers of the Bureau of the Budget, among MATIOUAI IIMTA1I1I V I T.wK! o lot hers. Automation, tor example, is no novelty gn5t3 I cUT'3NMn some branches of the Federal bureaucracy. In contrast, the only two substantial revisions em NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 28, 1953 (Monday) Medford women lust even jug collected $2,129.36 for the March of Dimes drive during thpir "Mothers March. Justice department officials in Portland declined to com ment on the rumor that How ard Gault, Jackson county sheriff, has applied for I he post of U.S. marshal for Ore gon. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 28. 1943 (Saturday) Medford police Judge fines speeder $25 and revokes his gasoline ration book "for Hie duration." From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Feb ruary is due soon and the first leaf will be ripped off the new calendars. 11 is the shortest month of Ihc year, and can be the best in these parts if it ever quits precipitation with out provocation." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 28. 1933 (Monday) Extremely high wind flat tens barn on ranch in Butte Falls area. Lone bandit robs Medford Southern Pacific railroad de pot; escapes without getting any money. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 28, 1923 (Tuetday) Plans announced for con struction of $75,000 cold stor age plant on Suuth Front st. State highway commission says highway from Medford to Crater Lake will be com pleted this year. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 28, 1913 (Thursday) Petitions circulated re questing Medford Mayor Kifert to retain E. J. Hnnyard ns master of city's public market. Medford cat owners report their animals have taken first prizes in Portland. San Fran cisco, Los Angeles and New York City within past month. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct ii superior; even or eiqht ii excellent; five or fix it good. 1. In which country is the city of Basal" 2. Who was Abraham's wife? 3. Does the Paul's Scarlet climbing ro.se bloom in the spring, fail, or all summer'.' 4. Give the name of tlte new nuclear powered merchant ship. 5. Was Alexander Campbell a statesman, actor, theologian, or general? ft. Who was Ihe reigning King of Yugoslavia when the Nazis overran that country? 7. By what common name Is Ihe Society of Friends known.' R. What Is Ihe tallest build. Ing in the world'.' !) Will Rogers D.iy is an optional legal holiday in which Slate? 10. One President of the United Stab's served for two terms that were not consecu tive; w ho was he? Answers: 1. Swilierland. 2. Sara. 3. The spring. 4, N.S. Savannah. 5. Theologian. 6. Z:.,? only when 9. Oklahoma, 10, G rover ClaveUnd. in Congressional organization in this century were made in 1910 and 1946. Both were limited in scope. The fundamental weaknesses of inertia, senescence and crippling traditionalism remain, and are even magnified in the context of the times. A HALF-DOZEN bills looking to the reorgan- iznMnn nf CnnnrpKR ab-parlv Vinvp p-nne infn the hopper in this session. Two that command particular respect are those introduced by Rep resentative Henry S. Reuss, Democrat of Wis consin, and Senator Clifford P. Case, Republican of New Jersey. Each, with minor differences, seeks the estab lishment of a high-level board on the order of the Hoover Commissions ot the past to study and recommend means for improving the way Con gress works. Congress has an enormous built-in resistance to such innovations. The public's interest is deep ly involved, however, and public pressure will have to be focused relentlessly upon Congress if it is to be made to sweep up its own stable. New York Times. Walker Charge Dismissed When the federal grand jury at Oxford, Miss., failed to return any indictments against rioters in the Meredith entry into the University of Mississippi the Department of Justice dismissed charges against a number who had been arrested. One was Maj. ucn. La win A. Walker. The general, it will be recalled, resigned from the Army in a huff after he had been removed from his Berlin command and reprimanded for two much political activity. He became a violent crusader in anti-Communism, ran for governor of Texas and was defeated, then showed up at Ox ford to encourage the white resistance to Negro Meredith s admission to "Ole Miss. DUT under arrest at the time, the general was hauled to another jurisdiction and was going to be committed for psychiatric examination when he was permitted to return to his home in Texas. We are inclined to agree with the Eugene Register-Guard which thinks the government was pretty high-handed in shipping Walker around for mental violations. He was far out of line as a gooil citizen and retired officer in encouraging resistance to the court orders; but the remedy was restraint rather than building his case into some cause eelebre. Oregon Statesman, Salem. Science in Backward Areas "Britain la Not Yet Re.dy To Join Europe" Foreign News: Gaits kelTs Successor; Trouble for Fanfani; Indonesia Mapping n.. nun trrMiffstw . ..n i ..t pi ...... i . . By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: Caitskell Successor Leftist leaning Harold Wil son, foreign secretary in the British Labor Party's "shad ow cabinet, is being given the front-runner role to succeed t h e late Hugh Gaitskcll as the party's leader. But this is predi- c a t e d on M.wsom a (iri.t ballot victory. If Wilson fails on the first secret ballot, results of which should be known on Feb. 7, the next choice is George Brown, a popular right-of-center, diamond - in-the-rough union leader. poll has shown that Premier i well-informed sources say the Trouble for Fanfani An Italian public opinion ... Communications ... Letters lo iht Editor must bear the nam and address of tha writer, although under certain circumstances the us of a pan nam or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribun reserves Ihe right lo edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must no exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent th views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. sippi university by NAACP I cause I was lucky enough to Judge Not To the Editor: And it came to pass! Is Sampson losing some of his hair? "Let me say this about that." Every man, if he grows up, sets his own valuss by which he judges and by which he is judged. If any man decides that all business men are SOBs, isn't it natural that he in turn is judged by the same values by which he lives and judges? Our Bible says: "Judge not that ye be not judged." Bruce Y. KleinSmid 1719 S.E. Portola dr. Grants Pass, Ore. Cheers To Ihe Editor: Two items in a December paper intrigued me. One item from the Liars Club gave the tallest story to this story "When my canary wanted a drink I had to pull up the well and run it through the wringer ". If I had been on Ihc judging learn I would have given the prize to J.F.K. hands down. The other item was JF.K.'s speech to the Cuban invaders, freed, prom ising that "the U. S. would stand behind efforts to free Cuba." That was the tallest story of the year. He had al ready promised our "peace loving" Dictator K that Ihc U.S. or nobody else would in vade Cuba. Also it looks as if that private line between J.F.K. and Dictator K con veyed the promise that we dismantle our bases in Tur key and Italy. Funny deal, wherever the peaceful U.N. goes, when the blood settles we find Com munists in control of free peo ple. Then blood really flows as the Commies make a peace ful country by plowing under all those who don't want lo live as slaves. Another strange thing is our civil rights friends, they put up an awful holler over the Christinas Carols, the Bible, prayer, and patrio tism ill school and public meetings, but not a word for Gen. Walker or a Governor's rights. We hear "Obey the Law" but what law? Cong ress has passed no law. The Communists have had a ten year spree on a Congress passed law that they register. The court haled Gus Hall and Benjamin Davis, both avowed Communists, before them but released them before nighl on S.".00ll bond, but Walker I even if ho had been while. j was forced into the Missis- So much of America's scientific prowess is devoted to the twin objectives ot space and mill- was charged with a menial tarv superiority that 'we may forget the more l-lV,,''' ",,d 8 ss.oo bond, a elemental uses'of science and' technology sought J,;!jPVTVh"r5'p"itnOW by the world's less affluent peoples, that is, the a Negro whose grades ami ic:i inn n Si'ien i l.' :n vanees In he iiiii!" "'" noi nave lei nun in build up their backward economies. An international conference on this subject, sponsored by the United Nations, opens in (Jo-j neva, Monday, Feb. 1, with ll.OOO delegates from more than SO nations in attendance. Ihe United States is sending 1(H) delegates. The conference is being described as the first major international effort to mobilize the world's scientific and technical knowledge to stimulate the economic and social progress of developing areas. and Civil Rights officials aid' ed by the U. S. Army. J.F.K. painted such a rosy picture of a tax cut that I could only wonder why the tax is not repealed. People who know have said for years that its only need is for our socialistic giveaway program and as a club. Howell Appling was loud to accuse the Freedom Center of Portland of unlawful polit ical campaigning but refused to announce that the center was cleared. After talking to Walter Huss, the director, the Marion County District Attor ney said the case would be dismissed. Cheers for L. C. Powell. Ella Powell Box 621 Central Point, Ore Too Many Quotes To the Editor: It both grieves and mystifies me that writers in Communications pen such lengthy quotations from the Bible. The majority of the M-T's 20,000 and more subscribers have Bibles of their own. They enjoy read ing the thought and interest ing experiences of their neigh bora. They most assuredly do not enjoy having some well meaning but burdensome brother continually quoting the Good Book which most have right alongside them. We all know these "scriptural scribes" love God but we humbly wish they would spare us this portion of their literary testimony. William Thomas Cuddy V.A. Domiciliary White City, Ore. Doe Killing To the Editor: How many of these no-doe ealcrs have ap plied for a doe lag or, at the end of the searon, wished they had? How many arc just plain poachers? How many are land owners, with no-hunting signs plaster ed all over, who apply lo the game commission for a per mit to kill deer of either sex which they claim damage and cat their crops? How many of these advo calcs to save the deer popula tion arc brush sprayers, that kill a doe or a small buck, then sneak off hoping no one has seen them, because ii wasn't a trophy head? I for one say the game com mission is doing a great job. I've applied for and re ceived a doe tag every year since they have been issued, some years I've used them some I haven't. This year I sent hack my S3 permit be get a buck early in the season. But when the end of the season is near a doe tastes just as good a a buck, late in the season better. A sportsman's club is a wonderful thing to get peo ple interested in hunting to gether, to learn from others, safety, the right gun to use, to obey game laws, not to in fringe on others property and rights, etc. But if a sportsman's club is going to make the hunting laws, let's be sure they can police them. If they feel they can do this let's do away with the game commission. Look at the money we would save. Or would we? Earl L. Groves 1103 West Fourth st. Medford Cuban Underground To the Editor: The Cuban underground reporU that Rus sia now has on the island 'f Cuba 26 missile bases, a num ber of submarine bases, 500 tanks and an army of occu pation of 30,000 men. More bases are under construction. They claim that 100 ship loads of missiles were brought into Cuba and 27 ships, sup posedly loaded with missiles, were returned to Russia. They claim that the 27 ship?, sup posedly loaded with missiles were covered with tarpaulin and that underneath the tar paulin were crates and stage props, not missiles. They claim that the missiles were stored in eaves, subterranean passages and tunnels, many which were built in "flush colonial times and some new ones which have been recent ly built. The rest of the story, with maps showing the location of the bases can be obtained by writing to Capsule News Com pany, 1835 K St., N.W.. Wash ington 6, D C. Ask for the two issues of Capsule News, No.'s 357 and 358. Price 20 cents per copy. Mrs. Alice I. Black 812 Newtown st. Medford Amintore Fanfani's center-left alliance with the left-wing So cialists will be costly to his Christian Democratic party in the next general election. This poll, accurate in the past, in dicates a loss of 4.8 per cent for the Christian Democrats. Such a loss still would leave them the biggest single par ty in Italy but more depend ent than ever on some sort of coalition to run the gov ernment. The poll showed the Communists likely to lose 0.9 per cent of their previous poll ing strength. The left-wing Socialists of Pietro Nenni would be the biggest gainers, picking up 4 2 per cent on their previous record. Nen ni's agreement that his por ty would not vote against the Fanfani government has been the biggest factor keeping it in office. Southeast Asia Indonesia has been com plaining that foreign recon naissance planes have been violating the air space over Indonesian Borneo. The Brit ish, the most likely suspects, have been denying knowledge of any such overflights. But British are woefully short of good aerial maps of the In donesian areas bordering British controlled North Borneo and Sarawak And there is undeniable British interest in whether Indonesi. an volunteers might be mass ing in the border areas. Washington Report By William S. Whit (cl United Feature Syndicate STRATEGIC SHIFT Washington - A revolution in Western cold war military policy is unfolding along the Mediterranean, where Ameri- can ground based Jupiter rockets are to be withdrawn from both It aly and Tur key in favor of sea - borne Polaris m i s- siles. The old "Western en- whit circlcment" of the Soviet Union by way of land bases, of which the Com munists have made such tire less propaganda, is giving way to a nuclear defensive ar rangement at once highly mo- duaenjalj Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF CAMPUS CAPERS: 1. Professor: I will use my hat 15 represent the planet Mars. Any questions? Student: Yes. Is Mars inhabited? 2. Groom: Nothing but toast for dinner this pvening? Bride: Yes, Michael. The bread toasted when the steak caught fire and fell into the chocolate pud ding and I had to use the iimato soup to put out the blaze. 3. St. Peter: How did you get here? New Arrival: Flu. 4. Sophomore Co-ed: Are you wearing that skirt to make you look shorter? Junior Co-ed: No: to make the boys look longer. An alert observer boarded a transcontinental plane the other day and noted an empty seat next to an Army private that bore a placard reading- "Reserved for Proper Load Distribution. Thank you." Several passengers read it and headed for other scats farther front, while the Army private ostensibly had his head buried in a paperback. Suddenly, however, a lovely young girl, constructed along the proper lines, headed for the empty seaL Like greased lightning the sign was snatched up by the Army private and slipped into the pocket on the back of the seat in front of him. The lovely girl made herself comfortable in the seat next to him, and some hours later they left the plane arm in arm. 1363, b; EcuncU Cerf. Siatributed by Kins Features Syndicate Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (ci Field Enterprises, inc. CONCENTRATION No one has tasted the dregs of humiliation to their bitter fullness as much as the father of a five-year-old girl who rapidly, con sistently and con tinually beals him at "C o n centra lion." "Con c e n tration," in case y o u have forgot- iiarns ton, is a game of cards in which the whole deck is scattered on the floor, face down. The object is to pick up two matching cards at a time; to do this, one must In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The big news is obviously , cral, chairman ot the Senate the President's proposal to re duce taxes without reducing expenses. We all pay taxes, in one form or another, so we're all concerned. A SMALl.KK hut related conference was held under U.X. auspices in Home in August of l!Hil to study new methods of developing energy from little-used sources: the sun, the winds, and the earth's internal heat. The results of such conferences arc hard to measure. There is some dancer that the t'oith coining conference will lie suffocated by an ava-, lanche of 1.S00 learned papers, l:s'of thenr American. Many of the ideas submitted in the 12 subject areas of the agenda may prove im practical or be beyond the financial and technical means of most of the interested nations. Modern technoloev can work its wonders m adequate base has been laid for' I it. as Red China's abortive "(.reat Leap Koru ; i (l" 1 I testifies. li.IJ.K. teip M7 r ' 5 Finance committee and a long time opponent of deficit fi nancing, which means per-' sislently spending more than is taken in and adding the difference to the national debt. Senator Byrd didn't com- QUESTION: How will it work mil If you can answer that one. mcul directly on details of Ihc right off the bat, after read- President's tax proposals. In ins the story, you're a belter j a written comment, given lo man than I am. Gunga Din. j newsmen, he repeated his earlier statements that fed rial taxes arc excessive, but that major t a x reduction should be preceded by major t.i't. ui i l lit reductions, j fcenator tyrd also repeated I NOTIIEH question: ; il What will happen? i As to that. Rep. Hale Boggs. ' of Louisiana. House Demo cratic whip and a dose friend -un supponer 01 I'lesineni thai he intends to introduce I isenncriy. puis n more succinl-! a rpsntniimi .-jillino WH5'' : Iv than most He said: j "In my opinion, the lax re ! duclion lull will PASS in this 1 M-ssinn of Congress, but, a- i I have s.iid in Ihe past. I doubt seriously if ANY of the o called TAX REFORMS will be adopted at this lime ' s : Ii Congressman Bo.-s is n::ht. this will happen: 1 We will tax LESS 2 We will spend more than w c tali,- ,n . r will (Mi pultiiK the difference on l!ir cuff on con gress to put annual expendi ture LIMITATIONS on every spending account in the fed eral budget. s. That's the shape of the pew.- so far as Ihc President's proposal to reduce taxes with out reducing spending is concerned. remember the exact location of those cards that have al ready been faced and then turned down again. I just happen to know the father of a five-year-old girl who can barely read, write and count. Most evenings, aft er dinner, the two of them sit cross-legged on the floor, pull out a ragged deck of Old Maid cards and spread them out for "Concentration." Invariably, the little girl wins. Her father, as I have heard from many unpreju diced people, is a brilliant man, a man of erudition and lowering intellect, of vast memory and incredible powers of deduction. Yet he always loses. Night after night he sils there and loses, biting his lips and desper ately holding back the tears: while she grins and mocks, laughs and scorns, and even dares to pal him on the back condescendingly at the end of the game. After she hat happily lod dled off to bed. her father pours out the bitterness in his heart to his wife. "Of course, what has a kid got Jo think about?" he says. "There's nothing on her mind no problem, no worries, no bills to pey. Why shouldn't she remem ber where the cards are?" Sometimes, after a partic ularly humiliating evening, he will ponder along other lines. "Do you suppose she cheats?" he asks his wife, with a gleam of hope In his eye. "Could she have mark ed the cards during the day while I'm slaving to buy her iceskales and china dolls? Do you suppose she wrote away to a gambling house for a cold deck? The game can't be on the level!" bile, less vulnerable and less likely in event of war to draw down Soviet nuclear fire upon allied lands and cities. This is roughly the justifi cation of the enormous stra tegic shift now taking place which comes in 'i.ivate from American officials of high re. sponsibility. TT SHOULD provide a far greater real security for the West in general. For nu clear submarines running loose in a great sea can form a fluid nuclear firing base incomparably more difficult to knock out than the old fix ed Jupiter sites, whose pre cise locations are by now well known to the Russians as is, say, Times Square. Unquestionably, a Polaris missile has a range and strik ing capacity infinitely super ior to that of the old Jupiler. Unquestionably, too, any sane Russian enemy would have less reason to attack the mainlands of Italy and Tur key if he knew that the seat of allied nuclear power was no longer there but was in stead an ever-moving base be neath the waters of the Medi terranean. All the same, the new poli cy involves considerable gam bles, though these may be more political than military and more psychological than mortal. Italy and Turkey have had, theoretically, an equal voice with the United States in any decision to set off Ju piter, though this was mora apparent than real. TT HAS always been per- fectly obvious, if never mentioned aloud, that in the terrible event of major war the United States would nec essarily dominate any and all military decisions within the Western Alliance. The climac tic nuclear power has always been here and whatever was needed in crisis would in any case be done on the ultimate decision of the United Slates. No prior arrangement made in all good faith could be al lowed to stand in the way of such command actions, un predictable in advance, as might become necessary sim ply to save the life of the whole Western community. Notwithstanding all this, however, the withdrawal of Jupitar undeniably lessens the smaller allies' feeling of par ticipation in the right to make the great trigger decision. For neither Italy nor Turkey has the nuclear warheads that go with Polaris: these are in monopoly conlrol of the Unit ed States and must be sup plied and triggered only by THUS, the United Stales gov--- eminent cannot pretend to offer lo these allies any abso lute parity in the new ar rangement, though we are go ing as far as we can go by encouraging the use of mixed nation Polaris crews in this new sea-line of nuclear de fense. Again, there is the possi bility of political trouble for the administration at home. During the Cuban crisis last October Nikita Khrushchev demanded that we remove our missiles from Turkey as the price of his evacuation of his missiles from Cuba. This shab by deal President Kennedy instantly rejected. Now, however, he is in fact removing those missiles though he is doing it only to replace them with some thing more powerful and less subject to enemy retaliation. He gambles here that the American public will not think he is doing in January what he refused to do last fall. He really isn't; but on first examination he might seem to be. And. on still olhe r evening? KEEPS PLANS SECRET Jackson. Miss. -IPh- Negro James Meredith attended a meeting of the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Colored People here Sun day night but refused to dis close whether he planned In return lo the University nf Missisippi. Meredith, who fin- fvrV " ' . . . and part of the domestic Peace Corpi will be uid on reservation!.' Ii it possible they've linally for given us lor Cutter's Last Sund?" ( INSISTS TOO STRONGLY Los Angeles - TV- Frank Lcroy McWethy insisted his own doctor give him a sobri ety tcsl He wound up charg ed with drunk driving and it just as t have been doing l',,l "im an extra $10. The for so many, many Cirs doctor administered the lesls. I- signed affidavits ccrtifving El s near now from Son " McWethy was drunk and H.irr F F.vrd. of Vir- charged him $10. Police-ad-iginia. a consr: ativ P Demo-j nunistrred tests are free. he dismisses the whole matter 1 "hed his first Irrm al the pre- with a snort of derision. "It's 1 viously all-white school last just cards." he says. "Let her wk. is here visiting his wife try matching me on dates in I a,1d child. English history. Or algebra. I-" How about the Shakespearean rid smell of defeat, the same sonnets" I'll give her a head- sense of his inferiority, the start of 3Q sonnets and beat same immutable knowledge , her. Why doesn't she play '. that her brain is more agile, chess w ith me:' I'll wreck her ( her reflexes more accurate, : in four moves with the Nim-! her memory more sharp, than zio-Indian Defense." 1 his. But no rationalisation helps ', No father who has expen Evening after evening, he 15 j enced so deep a trauma .-an i confronted w ith the same ac-1 ever be the same man again. I O o
