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""'Everyone I J Southern Oregon IUTuJdJUljmbuiw' ubilihed Daily except Saturday bjr MEDFORD PRWTWG CO. 83 Worth Tit SU Ph.77a-141 """ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY AdverUalni Manner GERALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR, Mn. Editor EARL U ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telef Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ER1CKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newapaper Entered aa aecond data matter at Medlord, Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 year 1 CO Daily and SundtT 6 moa 10 00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moa. 3.00 Sunday Only One year MOO Single Copy (Mailed) SOo By Carrier And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year S21.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 179 Sunday Only 1 mo. ooo Carrlel and Vendora opy 100 Olflclai Paper of City of Medlord Olllclal Paper ol Jackson County United Presa International Full Leased Wire U. P L Telepholo Newbplcturee "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS Ic ASSOCI ATES Of'lcea In New York. Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco, Loi Angelva. Seattle, Portland Denver. NATIONAL EDITORIAL Lhc8T NEWSPAPER PUIIISHEIS J 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 Feb. 3, 19S3 (Sunday) Construction of a multiple purpose Field House by the Medford school district has been proposed by a group of . citizens headed by Dr. Edwin R. Durno. Bagley Canning company, Ashland, this week announced plans to lengthen its packing ' season by processing specialty items such as jams, jellies, preserves and pickles. 20 YEARS AGO Fab. 3, 1943 (Friday) State Representative Frank Van Dyke, Ashland, takes seat in legislature following hon- ; orable discharge from Army officers training school in Cal ifornia.. From Arthur Perry's "Ye ; Smudge Pot" column: "Old Sol beamed today. It is badly needed to make things grow ; and sive all a chance to have spring lever." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 3, 1933 (Sunday) Famed Aviatrix Amelia Earhart stops briefly at Med ford municipal airport on flight down coast. Ted Baker resigns as secre tary of Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 3. 1923 (Monday) F. P. Farrell, president of Jackson County Lincoln club. announces that the Rev. Wil liam Gilbert, Astoria, will be featured speaker at Lincoln day dinner here. W. L. Lewis, manager of Inlcrurban Autocar company, announces plan to run dally singe route between Medford and Portland. SO YEARS AGO Feb. 3. 1913 (Wednesday) Mcdford's Mayor Eifcrt chamed with "sidestepping election promises" after lie asks time to investigate GO foot long petition requesting retention of E. J. Runyard as muster of Medford public market. Ross Kline and Harry H Kicks assume management of Vsr. thpater. "nionccr nhoto play house of Medford." iMtcnt'a. Vam I ft 1 iiyi i Nine tn er-! Is superler; seven ar eight Is excellent; five er sii is good. 1. Is Alaska about two, thrcr, nr four times the size of Texas? 2. NHine the author of the book "Grapes of Wrath." 3. Which cities In Minneso ta are nicknamed the "Twin Cities"? 4. Was Japan atom-bombed , once, twice, or thrice? 5. What does the German word "verboten'1 mean? 6. Who was the composer of llie opera Carmen? 1. Do automobile tires lose sir faster in winter or sum mer? 8. Is the Tropic of Capri. corn norin or south of the Equator? 9. What is ethnology? 10. The capital of Maine is Lewiston, Augusta, Portland or Bangor7 ' Answers: 1. Twice. 2. John Steinbeck. 3. St. Paul end Minneapolis. 4. Twice. 5. For bidden, t. Biiel. 7. Summer. 8. South. 9. Science of recce of man. 10. Augusta. The Public Elsewhere in this issue is a report on a survey of the Phoenix-Talent school district by the Bu reau of Educational Research at the University of Oregon. There also is a statement from the Phoenix- Talent school board, expressing its opposition, and its reasons therefore, to the proposed con solidation of that district The board's statement uses some of the ma terial from the report of the Bureau's survey of the district, material which points out the excel lence of the program offered in the Phoenix-Tal ent district. THE statement outlines iha Vinui-rl nnnnwc tho This it should do. But the report by the Research contains material which has not been brought to the attention although the report has fice since summer. At the recent public tion proposal, a question the report and whether it Phoenix district officials district's office. But the attorney for dation objected to the that there was no reason for the school board to make the report public." The objection was sustained by the rural school board, a procedure which usually is limited to a court of law, and rather uncommon, to say the least, at a public hearing. DERHAPS there is no reason why the board should make the report public. But we be lieve there is. The board, elected by district patrons, is ob ligated to keep its patrons informed of district affairs. The board authorized the survey by the Bureau of Educational Research, and since it did, the board should let its of the survey. We do not in anv wav auestion the motives of the school officials who have kept the report from general knowledge. But we do question, seriously, the propriety of such action, and be lieve that an official body which keeps informa tion from the knowledge of its constituents is sow ing the seeds ol suspicion THE REPORT is based on fact, with reasonable conclusions and recommendations by the Bureau. It contains some material which is not at this time favorable. But it also contains much material that is favorable. Many of the recommendations for improving panc iacuiues, we are iously considered by the Phoenix board on a "pay-as-you-go" basis. Part of the improvements probably will be in the next fiscal year's budget. which is now in the preparation stages. Information in the Bureau's report should be made public, and made public prior to the forth coming election on the consolidation proposal. ine people who support the schools through property taxes should know all of the aspects which have to be considered in such a proposal. umy it all ol the lacts are made readily avail able and considered by the voter will the voter be able to make an intelligent decision. E.H.A. Points To Previously in these columns we reviewed two points which voters of Phoenix-Talent and Med ford districts should consider in deciding the con solidation proposal. They are: 1. Welfare of the students involved, and whether the educational opportunities for them will be. improved. 2. The economic value of such a consolidation, and whether it will be more economical for the taxpayers of the districts involved. Information on both points is available. Much ui u, uie must important has been published at various tunes: other infoi mation is available from county and district levels mation is available from T'HE PRESENT consolidation issue started some years ago in the Barnelt i d. area of the Phoenix district, an area within the Medford city limits. The Bureau of Educational Research, in its conclusions, has this to offer: "The election of an elementary school In the Ar gonnc Avenue site would do much to dispel any dis salisfaclion which patrons of that area feel and which may cause tlicin to want to become a part of the Medford district. "In conclusion, it is our opinion thin no further cession of territory to the Medford district should be made unless the Phoenix disl-iet as whole wants to consolidate witii Medford. This may, in the future, prove to be a desirable arrangement. Some who look at the development of the Medford area would say thai it is inevitable that eventually Phoi-nlx a:?d Medford will be pari of the same municipality. In litis event, it would be highly desirable for the two systems to be merged. Until that time, however. Phoenix should hold to its present boundaries while providing all of its people, wherever they live, with the best facilities possible, considering the financial ability of the district." These, then, are some of the noints which should be considered before votinrr on the con solidation proposal. They are points which could have a bearing on the future of the community, both educationally and financially. E.H.A. Should Know with Medford. the major reasons why rrmttnlirlatinn nrnnnsal Bureau of Educational of patrons of the district, been in the district s or hearing on the consolida. was asked concerning had been made public. noted that it was in the the opponents of consoli question on the grounds patrons know the results and distrust. sure, are now oeing ser Consider as-.pecis 01 11, we nope, school officials on ihc'cna "ww.8 T HtUtUHU "We Can't Burden Deficit Today & Tomorrow By Walter (c) V.W.I. The THE GENERAL AS PROPHET General De Gaulle has made it quite plain that, in excluding Britain from the Common Mar ket, he means to cut way down the po litical i n flu- ence of the United States in Europe. We shall delude our selves if we think his action i s a Lippmann mere episode which will be washed away by the stream of history. We shall delude ourselves also if we regard the general as a relic of the past, say as an imitation Napoleon. For however irritation he my be, General Dc Gaulle is not and NEVER has been a fool, and though his roots are deep in the past, again and again it has been shown that he is en dowed with second-sight about the future. HE IS confronting this rnuntrv with need to make a difficult and momentous re appraisal of our post-war foreign policy as it has been developed by Roosevelt, Tru man, Eisenhower and Ken nedy. The policy has grown out of the demonstrated fact that in the first World War, again in the second World War and again in the cold war, the European members of the Atlantic Community have not been able to defend themselves without the inter vention of the United Slates. This is what brought the American people out of their historic isolation and took them into Europe, from which the general would now wish to expel them. Why does he wish to expel them? No doubt, in part, because we have tiresome habits, and it would be more agreeable if we were not there. But the substantial reason for expel ling us is Unit, in the judg ment of the general, we are at the end of that post-war situa tion in which the United States has been the defender and the banker of Western Europe. For one thing, the Russian menace is no longer, he assumes, a military matter, and even if it is, the United States connot be relied upon to risk thermonuclear v;ir fur the sake ot a European inter est. Moreover, not only has Western Europe recovered, but the United States, with its heavily-mortgaged and vulner ablo gold is. relatively speak ing, no longer the paramount ")UR PROBLEM, therefore, ' is, ! submit, to rcsppi dic 1 r?..rfr i. Li . C,, M.i a A njs r,iS, "It's the way all nations do It, Chico. First you have the arms build up, then you turn them into plow, shares and pruning hooks, 1 Iheenkl" I I MAIL. 'inlBUnc. MtUtOHU, UHLUUM Our Children With Spending' 0tW KigBBlaff LC T 4W aVJr lippmann Washington Post our ideas and our policies and to readjust them to the passing of the post-war era. We are not dealing with a wicked man who can be or should bo slapped down. We are dealing, I believe, with a prophetic man who is acting as if the future, which is prob ably coming, has already arrived. Just as he would not give Britain a few years to read just its agriculture to the Common Market, so now he is not giving us the time to reappraise and revise our policies. What makes him so difficut is that he presents us not with a diplomatic argu ment, but with an accomplish ed fact. It is only fair to add that this has often been the one euective way lo mane people change their minds. Thus, while it is true mat the post-war role of the Unit ed States in the defense ot Europe is bound to come to an end, there are great risks in bringing this about so abruptly. Americans in their heart of hearts do not like be ing involved in Europe. There is a serious risk, which should not lo be overlooked, that they will discount too quickly the future which the general foresees. The Mansfield Com mittee report is a signpost pointing toward withdrawal and isolation. WHERE IS a serious risk al so that such an abrupt turn in Europe will provoke a protectionist reaction in this country. With Europeans holding a mortgage on such a very large portion of our dwindling gold reserves, a reaction would be only too easy to start, and it may be very difficult to prevent many u n d e s i r able protectionist measures. France and the rest of the Common Market countries are mistaken if they think that the United States can be excluded from Euro pean affairs and at the same time will continue to provide the non - Communist world with its reserve currency. That will seem to a host of Americans a lot more trouble than it is worth. There is also the question of ho wMoscow will react to the violent shaking up of the Western Alliance. I hope Mr. Khrushchev will react to it as we arc reacting to the vio lent shaking up of his alliance with Red China-that is to say, by doing nothing about it ex cept perhaps lo sit back and enjoy it. It will be tempting to him, of course, to do some fishing in the troubled waters of the Atlantic Community. But it would not be profitable to do so. For nothing thai is now i happening In Europe changes the fact that the peace of the world will be made or lost bv the U. S. S. P.. and the U. S. A. 1 Vi l n mm Matter of Fact y jo..Ph aiW( (c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate (Edilor'a nolet The fellow, ing column was written prior to Friday's unexpect ed break-oifof test ban ne gotiations by the Russians.) THE TWO Kj AND DE GAULLE Washington-Outimism i s rising about the negotiations for a nuclear test ban, which were given a new start by the post-Cuba c o r r e spond ence between P r e s i d e nt Kennedy and N i kita S. K h r ushchev. The source of the optimism is largely at i Alsnp mospheric. There has been no give in the Foviet position since the first Khrushchev letter suggesting that the Soviets might agree to two or three on-site inspections, in order to give some insurance against cheating by under ground tests. Yet a compromise is clear ly possible, the gap is so small between this minimal offer by Khruschev and the stated American requirement for eight to ten on-site inspec tions. As the numbers cited indicate, agreeing to a com promise ought to be easy for Khrushchev, assuming that his move to get the negotia tions going again really means that he sincerely desires a ban. AS FOR THE American government, P r e s i d e nt Kennedy's freedom of action is rather strictly limited, both by national security considerations and by the feel ings of the U. S. Senate. But it is quite clear that the President is willing and even eager to reach a compromise, providing the Soviets will approve a serious and work able inspection system and accept an intermediate num ber of on-site checks. Such a compromise is thought to be consistent with national security, in turn, for several different reasons. First of all, the Defense Depart ment's Project Vela has made considerable advances in the art of detecting hidden nu clear events. The position has changed materially since the period when the U. S. govern ment felt it necessary to de mand really large numbers of on-site checks. Then, loo, the President has gone through a somewhat disillusioning e x p e r i e n ce. When we resumed testing, he heard the same scientists who used to warn most loudly against cheating, just as loud ly swearing that underground tests were no real substitute for atmospheric tests. For these and other reasons, gov ernment opinion is all but unanimous that the risks of a reasonably policed test ban will be far less than the po tential gains. THE QUESTION is, there fore, whether Khrushchev will also compromise. Accord ing to report, a prediction that he will do so has been made by the President's offic ial Kremlinologist, former Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn Thompson. Thomp son is said to consider that the test ban negotiations to date exactly resemble the tedious haggling which finally produced the Austrian peace treaty. In these circumstances, it is Where There Is No BY ERIC SEVAREID Key West-This is where freedom comes to a point. The southeastern lip of this soul hermosl frag mcnt of iMf!.-! Stales is a low J?) stone seawall as? , I curving f rrtl-M the Na'vv . v-ssrn ,nst llaiion- fclf-aBSk JgSlGeorgc Smath- 31 Sr, g na V " V I I c Sfvareid beach, past the Howard Johnson empor ium, the long row of stabled fishing boats and the food fair until RoosevcU Boulevard be comes Truman Avenue. At the corner of Truman Avenue Margaret Street stands the Margaret Truman Launder ette. t Key Wp;:t. pari Spanish, part Angle-American, is an architectural miah-mash o f lovely, baiconied New Orleans style frime houses lost in a neon-lighii'd nightmare of gas stations, shops and Joints. The tourists are few, middle-aged and middle-western Youth consists of pair and trios of bored U. S. sailors drifting along Duval Street under the eye of the shore patrol. The cars move al sedate speeds. the pelicans glide very slow ly and even the gulls seem rarely to scram. It is the fre quent jet fighter planes on not too early to look ahead a little, and to ask what will happen if a test ban is agreed upon. One thing that will certainly happen is a Soviet move to open talks on other subjects. CorrlmunUt leaders have quite frankly said that Khrushchev needs a test ban, both to prove that fruitful agreements with the U. S. are really possible, and as a pre lude to other negotiations, about Berlin for example. Then the question of China's nuclear effort will quite unavoidably arise after Soviet-American agreement on a test ban. The long await ed Chinese test of an atomic device can in theory occur, according to the U. S. an alysts, at any time this year or thereafter. In reality, a later date seems to be more likely. It is known, for instance, that even the relatively small experi mental reactor given to the Chinese by the Soviets is not now being operated at max imum capacity, for want of adequate supplies of heavy water. But soon or late, it is plainly necessary to anticipate a Chinese test in defiance of the Soviet-American test ban if such a ban exists. DERHAPS o p t i mistically, many of the American policy-makers hope that the existence of the ban will give Moscow and Washington the needed leverage to cope with the Chinese. A cynical minor ity suspects that this is rather like planning to fumigate the largest imaginable elephant with the smallest possible per fume atomizer, unless, to be sure, Moscow is willing to use military sanctions against Peking. Some leverage will clearly be gained, however, and the dangerous proliferation of nu clear powers will also be hald ed by a test ban, providing that one other problem can also be solved. The final prob lem is summed up as so often nowadays, in the alarming person of Gen. de Gaulle. It will not be at all easy to put pressure on Peking, even of the mild sort that is un likely to bear fruit, if France is still conducting nuclear tests without let or hindrance. There is talk, therefore, of buying off the General, by giving the French the thermo nuclear warheads they so conspicuously lack at present. In view of the impotence of the French delivery system, Khrushchev should not be ex cessively upset by an improve ment in French warhead type. But buying off de Gaulle is easier said than done. Editorial BRAVO, CLEMSON1 They did not want him. They were, in fact, petitioning the Supreme Court for author ity to reject him at the very moment when he reached the campus. In what was happen ing here there was no aban donment of adherence to the old idea of the "all while" school, no conversion to the new idea of segregation, and this must be clearly under stood. Nevertheless Once the issue was drawn, once all present legal means of delay had been exhausted, Clemson and its sponsors and the authorities of South Car olina faced up to the issue honorably. For weeks in ad vance of this ultimate denoue ment Governor Russell had conducted an effective cam patrol that supply the vigor and the sound. The tip of freedom points toward Cuba which is closer than Miami, and easily pene- I sea and sky. One has only to switch the television knob to! channel five anJ Castro, Com unism and the new songs of old Cuba, lyrics by ideologues, suddenly fill one's motel bed doom wil'n clamor and tense reality. Nothing but the sea and sky separates this place from the tragedy, ever present in the faces and the conversa tions of Cuban waiters, Cham bermaids, drivers and fisher men all ovor this riddled spit of land. From here the refugees arc scattered, all the way up the keys, through and to the north of Miami, their Mecca of desperation, their gathering and their festering place. There the complete agony is assembcld out of its tens of thousands of human parls-the pride, tnc soui-iickncss, t!ie blind but urgent hopes, the shapeless plans to somehow plan. The joy over the re turned heroes of the Bay of Pigs was short-lived: the firry, promising words ef President Kennedy in the Miami Stad ium fade from the conversa tion or arc repealed In Ironic echoes. The demurrer of the Attorney General on the question of the air support Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A PROMINENT literary critic came back- frorrj a ladies' club meeting in New Jersey last week in a rather chastened mood. He had lectured on the influence- ex erted on current litera ture by Faulkner, Hem ingway, and O'Hara, and done rather well, too, he thought that is until the president of the club con fided to him, "You were wonderful today, Mr. P., wonderful! Your literary criticisms were as wel come as water to a drowning man!" Tongue - In - cheek news Item in the Dublin, Ireland, Free Post: "A man arrested on O'Connell Street yester day was found to possess a loaded revolver, three sticks of dyna. mite, a fuse, and a number of detonators. He Is suspected of be ing a politician." . "Little Willie" poems the "sick Jokes" of forty years age are making the rounds again. Three examples: 1. Little Willie, oh so bright, Bought a stick of dynamite. Curiosity seldom pays: It rained Willie for seven days. 2. Into the oven Little Willie Pushed his baby sister Lillle. Mother took one sniff and said "Really, Willie, that's not well bred." 3. Willie, bored with pinching cars. Stole a rocket and flew to Mars. He there pursued his normal pattern So all the Martians moved to Saturn. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Question: What's this THIRD FORCE President De Gaulle keeps talking about as his objective for the France of today? The usual term for it is BALANCE OF POWER. AS De Gaulle sees it, there are TWO FORCES in the world of today: 1. The Western Alliance. 2. The Soviet Union. It might be more accurate to say that the TWO FORCES of today's world are commu nism and the free way of life, but De Gaulle, who is a real istic thinker, probably dis cards Red China as too weak to count for much, at this crit ical moment, and sees only the Soviet Union and the Western Alliance. WHAT, he is playing for, one must, presume, is to pull Franco out of the West ern Alliance, then to stand in the MIDDLE, and by threat ening to go over to ONE SIDE if the other side doesn't toe his mark, to make himself, as Comment paign for obedience to nation al law. On the decisive day the stu dent body itself behaved ad mirably. Resentment and re luctance there may have been; but there was none of the vi olence and threats of violence, none of the open flaunting of racial hatred, none of the row dyism wearing the mask of white supremacy that have characterized events of this kind elsewhere. Instead, there was an encouraging display of order and self restraint. What a contrast to Missis-sippi!-New York Times. Back east they get 70 inches of snow and we can't get more than five per cent of that. That's discrimination and a committee should be appoint-cd.-Sherman County Journal. Vision, People Perish came like a whiplash in their faces. The fact thai they may be truly lost is beginning lo pene trate. They are a passionate j terness as readily as their eratitudc. they The spoke b,5ie ol i lOriua &im Ine iea eral government have a n enormous and growing pro blem on their hands. Every living Cuban here asks him self and his friends the daily question, spoken or unspoken: Are we going back? There is no answer. If an official answer does come and it is affirmative, with evi dence to support it, they will remain together nnd live only for the day of their return. If the answer is negative, they would explode, but sooner or later they would becin to dull the pain and to think in terms of assimiliation to North American life. One way or another, their life would go on with some meaning and pur pose. But today they exist in a state of suspension, their feet not on the ground nor their heads in the clouds. Pro longed, this will prove unen durable The other side of this coin is the dilemma of the U. S. Gov ernment. It can issue general assurances, as the President did in Miami, but it cannot support the assurance wilh public proof of specific plans. Stop Mo the leader o France, ALL POWERFUL. Thus he would become a second Napoleon. DE GAULLE has much in common with Napoleon. Napoleon had a brilliant mind. So has De Gaulle. Napoleon had delusions o( grandeur. So, apparently, has De Gaulle. These delusions outweigh their good points. Napoleon, after saving France from the consequences of the Revolution, RUINED FRANCE by his ambition to run Europe. SUMMING up: Napoleon wound up in exile on the island of Elba. Where will De Gaulle wind up? One can't help wondering. "IIIORE about this third ill force. It isn't original with De Gaulle. It is an ancient device. For centuries, it was the founda tion of Britain's foreign policy. rTHE essence of this third -- force idea, as Britain saw it, was never to let ANY BODY get too strong in Europe. Whenever, over the centuries, Britain saw any body getting too strong, she lined up with the OPPOSI TION. By means of that device, the little island of Britain not a great deal bigger in area than the not-too-big state of Oregon was able to make herself top dog in Europe and stay that way for hundreds of years. WILL De Gaulle be able io copy Britain's formula for POWER and get away with it? One wonders. Also one has doubls. This is a " quite different world from the world that Britain was able to rule so long by means of the third force device. There is a difference between an official attitude and an official policy. For this slowly festering pool nf displaced humanity there in Florida an attitude very coon will not be enough. A positive policy, even if short of armed inva sion, but promising a specific schedule of pressures severe enough to realistically fore shadow Castro's downfall, would seem to justify the idea of a Cuban government in exile, for a host of useful purposes, including Cuban co hesion in Florida now and limiting the anarchy and fraternal violence in Cuba later. It would also permit and inspire serious advance think ing here' about the nature nf the post-Castro Cuban polit ical and social order. It is a new vision of Cuban life in liberty and social Justice, Ihuueiil out in some detail, that ought to be crackling through the air waves now, to the ears of all within that island fortress. Tiiey uugiil lo hear it night after night, as they now hear the mechanical drumbeat o f Communism's slogans, insults and alibis. Whpre the vision is unstated, as where there is no vision, people perish, whether in their homes or abroad and seeking to find their homes. (Distributed 1963. by The Hall Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights Reserred)
