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TUESDAY. sBva7yoiie Ui Southern Oregon" ReadlTtlcMllTribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDrORD PRINTING CO 33 North FirSt.. Ph;J7-14I ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB CREV Advcrtl.ini Manaiet r.vRAl.n T LATHAM. Bui Mir fcRIC ALLEN JR.. Mn. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor . . . ...... ..limn 1U Tmlmm KAilnr RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women ! Editor DALEJSRIClOCIrculaUon Mir An Inrtftnftnitent NeWHDIDCT Entered ai kecond date matter at Medford. Oregon unaer March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES i ., u.ii In Advance. Daily and Sunday 1 year I 00 Daily and Sunday moi 10 00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa 5.00 Sunday Only One year 5 00 Single Copy (Malledl 6y Camel And Motor Route- Dally and Sunday 1 year $i 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo 1-7S c..u nnlu I wnn 90C Carriel and Vendor. jCopy 10c Official Paper of City of Medford Official Papero Jtckiun ounty United Prew International Pull Leaned Wire U. P 1 JTelepholo Newplcturei MEMBER OF AUDIT ouomu Of CIRCULATIONS Artvertiilng Repre'jntatlve: NELSON ROBERTS ASSOCI ATES Ol'lcea In New York. Chi. raso Detroit. San franciico. Lot Angeii-a Seattle. Portland Den-'er NATIONAL tDITOKIAl c6T,3N NEVYSPAPf R PUILISHMS 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. 5, 1953 (Tuoday) The number of Jackson county men without jobs In creased during January, the local State Employment Serv ice office has reported. Twelve Jackson county men enlisted in the Army or Air Force during January, the local recruiting office has re ported. 20 YEARS AGO Fb. 5, 1943 (Sunday) Sen. Earl Newbry a n d TU'Ds. Frank Van Dyke and William McAllister, Jackson county's representat Ives in state legislature, introduce bill raising salaries of Jackson county officials by 15 per cent. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The acoustics in the courthouse re terrible. A whisper on the third floor sounds like hired man calling hogs on the Ap- plegate." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 5. 1933 (Tuesday) Some 106 local business men and Grange members take part in "good will" meet ing at Eagle Point Grange hall. State Highway Commis sioners Leslie M. Scott and R. C. Washburn and Highway Engineer R, H. Baldock visit Medford to conduct hearings on highway construction plans. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 5, 1923 (Wednesday) Ashland school euthorlties issue orders that school girls may wear only one ring and no car rings Large audience of women and girls attend stage play starring May Robson at Page theater. SO YEARS AGO Feb. 5. 1913 (Friday) Single tux advocated here as solution to Jackson coun ty's monetary problems. Dr J. M Keene purchases 200 acres of land southwest of Medford; stales that all land needs is irrigation and good rnnris. What's Your i.Q.7 Nina or fan cerract It luatrior; taven or eight it excellent; five or iti ii good. 1. Amiit moths do not eat clothes; true or false? 2. What was Abraham's only son s name? 3. A drum major's head dress is called a beaver, shako or for? 4. Is the Tropic of Cancer north, or south, of the Equa tor? 5. In which country is the famous Blarney Stone? 6. Carrots arc yellow due to the presence of chlorophyll or carotene? 7. Which U. S. President is reputed to have said, "All I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother"? 8. Vhi.t were Caesar's dying words, referring to the part played by Brutus in a plot to betray him? 9. Sponges are classified as minerals, plants or animals? 10. Define claustrophobia. Answers: 1. True, 2. Isaac, 3. Shako. 4. North, J. Ireland. 6. Carotene. 7. Abraham Lin coln. 8. El tu Brule You too Brutus. 9. Animals. 10. Fear of. enclosed places, enclose? places. 4 A- mi FEBHUARY 5. 11(3 A Policeman Retires It is a t are breed of man who can take on a job that is underpaid, often dangerous, more often boring, sometimes rewarding but often thankless and then stick with it for 32 years. Such a man is Paul Morgan, known to his friends as "Skinny," who retired last week as captain of Oregon State Police. He was one of those who joined the force when it was first organized back in 1931, trans ferring from the old highway traffic patrol. Only four are still with the state police, including H. G. "Fod" Maison, the superintendent, now that Cap tain Morgan has retired. WE HAVE long had nothing but the highest regard for the state police. It has had only two superintendents, the late Charles Pray anp Maison. But in these two men, both austere, both insisting on the highest degree of performance and discipline, yet at the same time vitally con cerned with the welfare of their men, the state has had public service of superior stature. The same is true with the career men, like Paul Morgan and his immediate predecessor, Paul Parsons. There have been mighty few sour apples in the state police barrel over the years. Either a rookie shaped up, or he didn't stay on the force. The result has brouirht only respect to the men in blue who have assumed the awesome responsibil ity for protecting the lives and property of their employers, the people ot WE DON'T know what a career police officer thinks when he retires. Perhaps he looks forward to more leisure to do the things he's never had time to do before. Perhaps he is content to sit and take it easy, or to pursue his hobbies. But we suspect that there will be times when he wishes he were back in long and underpaid hours courage and brains and , t , ,, . it is true mat, in many ways, a policeman s lot is not a happy one." But of all satisfactions, the greatest to a man with hind him must be the inner knowledge of a job well and faithfully done Never on No sooner had we written an editorial describ ing proposed changes laws, or Sunday closing that the Urecron legislature would be more sens ible, than a "Save a Day tee announces a plan to day closing laws. Dr. G. Herbert Smith, univereity, says the aim "simply an effort to maintain what has tradition ally been a family day in If tradition has to be power of the state, it's pretty poor tradition. Tra dition comes voluntarily, and if the American people want Sunday as a clay of rest and relaxa tion, not shopping, it's up to them to come to their own consensus, not have it forced on them by a policeman. HILE we assume that the highest, it appears to us the clue to the real source of this movement is contained in his statement that the state's retailers have been polud and that he has overwhelming majority." This is not., we suspect, a tradition-preserving" proposal nearly as much as it is an anti-competition proposal. But if stores want to eliminate competition, the way to do is cooperatively, the way banks and financial institutions did when they agreed to close on Saturdays, after a Satur day-closing law was defeated a few years ago. If this measure were to become law, the leg islature would be guilty of the rankest form of discrimination and idiocy the line between what goods and services can be onered on Sunday and IT WOULD result, for instance, in a person be ing able to buy film for his camera, but not a new camera, even though me same counter. One could buy sun glasses, but not binoculars. You couldn't by hardware unless there was an "emergency and you had to repair your plumb mg, heating, cooling (Would you have to get you nave an emergency take your word for it $5007) The state would graciously permit you to buy novelties or souvenirs You could buy a house but not a car. You could go to drug stoi c and buy drugs but don't you dare buy a tube of lipstick or a bottle of cologne. VOU COULD buy a set of golf clubs, complete with leather bag. Lint the majesty of the state would forbid you to buy a suitcase. You would be permitted to buy a ease of beer. But if you were out of stationery to write a letter to Aunt Minnie (or a letter of protest to your legislator), you'd be out of luck. Such proposals as this illogical, discrimina tory, freedom-smothering are bad legislation, and lead to contempt of the laws as a means of preserving order and the general welfare. If a free American wants to buy or to sell something on Sunday, or any other day of the week, that should be his right," and the legislature should give short sLrift to this silly bill. E. A. uregon. harness again, working and giving his best in skill. it.. t; t a splendid career be E. A. Sunday in Washington's "blue regulations, and hoping for the Family Commit broaden Uregon s bun' president of Willamette ox trie measure would oe America . . . protected by the police Dr. Smith's motives are "the full support of an in attempting to draw which could not oe. both were available at or electrical systems, a police certificate that ! Ur would a salesman risking a fine of $100 to but not toys. MEDfORD "You SHU Using That ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor mil bear the name and addrejs of the writer, although under certain eireumslances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The le"" printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Editor's Note: As of this morning, more than two dosen "Communi cations" are on the editor's desk. We hope to print all. or almost all, of them as space permits. Some are from people who write reg ularly, and several persons have two or more of these on hand. So if your offering doesn't appear for a few days, please be patient. Doe Eaters To the Editor: A few years ago we had a doe on me Huckleberry Gap road tnai raised three beautiful fawns each year, for two years that I know of. If you killed this doe, I m sure it must have tasted real good. Bud Struck, Box 32, Prospect, Ore. Dinner Licenses To the Editor: Attention churches, social clubs and fra ternal organizations. Accord ing to an Oct. 2, 1962 memop andum received from the Ore son State Board of Health, a license is reauired for organi zations putting on virtually any kind of a dinner to which the public is invited. The memorandum reads in part, "In dinners or events spon sored at a school, no license is required if the preparation and service Is under the direc tion of the school lunch super visor. However, if the public was Invited 'and the school lunch supervisor did not di rect the affair, then the event would have to be licensed . . . Neither are we to license an establishment that serves only to Its members or invited guests. But if the public is invited, even though the or ganization may be fraternal, social or religious, a ficense will be required . . . Tins is an example of un realistic thinking plus the loss of another freedom in our much touted land of liber ty. As for basic skills in home preparation of food, the aver age housewife today knows more than some of our much quoted health authorities. Most American homes have the highest standards of sani tation. Where do the health author ities think the children of American are reared - in test tubes perhaps? Any woman who has raised a child in iier home knows the basic sanita tion ruics. rrom looking over the greasy spoons which call themselves and cafes and res taurants, one begins to won der where the so-called sani tary inspectors keep them selves. This little memorandum will coiit many churche.' and clubs the only means cf raid ing money that they have. Are the health authorities inter ested in your health, or in raising more money through licenses? The latter, I would gather. Mrs. Harold T. Briggs Whitewater Ranch Wildervllle, Ore. Watted Resources To the Editor: India, a na tion about one third the size of the I'p'ted States, has a population of around 430 mil lion people, most of them hun gry, and 223 million cattle, ell of them holy. The pious Hindus do not slaughter or sell these animals for food. They wander around eating the vegetation and messing the streets. India gels about a billion a year in foreign aid from various sources. That is a lot of aid to give a nation that wastes its own resources. O. L. Rrannaman, 3970 Sierra Vuy avc., Sacramento 20, calif. MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDfORD. OREGON Greasy Kid Stuff?" To The South Seas To the Editor: In your edi torial of Jan. 31. you say: "Talk Sense About Taxes." That's a good idea. The sense of the matter is, the federal government does not need personal income taxes. Firstly, personal income taxes are illegal as any aver age student of American his tory knows. Secondly, this tax has been increased over the last 20 years without being presented to the people for a vote. Why? Because if it was, It would have been defeated as you state in your editorial. Why do you Infer that it is wrong for the people to op pose increased taxation? Why should a person work for two months a year just to have "Uncle" take it and throw it in the wastebasket? You know as I do, that far more money is wasted every year than is derived from in come taxes. I don't believe that anyone would complain about taxes If they were get ting dollar for dollar use out of their money. Like the man said, "There is no more per manent tax than a temporary tax." The legislation on wild cats Washington Report By William (c) United feature Syndicate CUBA INVESTIGATION Washington - An inquiry of enormous implications into the exact present military po- r sition in Cas- iro u u a is about to be opened by the Senate through one of its elite bodies. This is the prepared ness subcom mittee headed Whlla aena l o r John C. Stennis of Mississippi. There are Senate investiga tions and there are Senate in vestigations. Some are dis ruptive headline safaris, in flaming public feeling and smearing honest people on the basis of "verdict first - evi dence later." Some are of the finest quality - careful, fair, searching, pitiless but not petty, vigorous but nor viru- lent. Also certainly, on its rcc- ord. the inquest into Cuba to be made shortly by Stennis preparedness subcommit tee will be one of these latter, a service to the highest inter ests of the United States and of this hemisphere. ... ITH.T Senator Stennis Is interested in is to deter mine in behalf of the Senate from our own military and intelligence sources and from responsible Cubans, precisely what Soviet armament re mains in Cuba and precisely what capacity it may have to endanger this country or any other in the hemisphere. There is no purpose cither to haze President Kennedy or to protect President Kennedy. There la also no purpose to second-guess either the Presi dent's lack of support for the doomed patriots' invasion of Castro Cuba in the spring of 1961 or the President's strong action against the Soviet mis sile lodgment in Cuba in the fall of 1962. What Stennis and his col leagues - one of the best sets of men in the Senate and the most unpartisan when it comes to national security -most want to know Is where we go from here. They are not too inlerested in wh! did Historic Events Follow Each Other in Rapid Sequence; Outcome Still Unclear ' . . . ii.. j a it., .rtrinani imatf hiva mrrmii nn trie n Br PHIL NEWSOM UPl Foreign News Analyst Twice within a span of only about three months the world has reached historic turning points whose final results still can only be guessed. In the third week of Oc tober, the Red Chinese launched their massive attack nffainat India's USL1 border, and In the following week President Kennedy forced a showdown with the Soviet Union over Soviet missies in Cuba. On Jan. 22, President Charles de Gaulle and Went German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer signed a treaty of friendship and cooperation which Adenauer declared would end "400 years of quar rels, dispute and warfare" be tween their two countries. On Jan. 29, De Gaulle tor- is a perfect example. Mr. Del lenback is worried about old alley cats, while thousands of men are unemployed, while retarded, average and gifted children are not getting a decent education, while the big men in Salem are mis managing state government so bad they put us way into the red last year and have the gall to ask us for more money so they can do it again next year. Personally, I think a lot of the men we are send ing to Salem are sent to the wrong part of town. As for the legislation on cats, if some counties have control without legislation, why can't the other counties obtain it also? If no state agency is involved, who does Mr. Dellenback work for, Montana? We need a control on "wild cats," like we need a measure to keep elephants from stam nedine downtown Medford. The Pilgrims left England because they had lost their God given freedom and over taxation. This writer and ap proximately 20 other people are leaving the U.S. for the South Pacific islands for the same reasons. Anyone Inter ested, please contact me. Raymond D. Roberts, 1127 Saling, Medford. S. Whit what to whom in the lost yesterdays. If they can sustain this Spartan course of sheer fact finding they will have given the whole nation - not exclud ing President Kennedy him self - fresh reason to be glad that a Senate preparedness subcommittee exists. ... IfiOR the problem as to Cuba is two-sided. It is vital to have a public audit indepen dent of that of the adminis tration as to Castro's present offensive capabilities. But it is no less vital not to let some partisan-motivated and incom petent Senate group rush into this sensitive area and tram pie all over the constitutional right of any president to run the foreign policy of the United States, right or wrong though his decisions may be thought to be. Given inaction by Stennis, just such a result probably would have followed. Given the readiness ot the Stennis group to act, however, the strong probability is that be cause of its demonstrated competence and responsibility snd restraint all hands will be satisfied !o leave the mat ter in its hands. And, at the end, the country will have reason to rely on the findings of these good ai d able men - plus one woman. Senators Stennis, Stuart Sy mington of Missouri, Henry Jackson of Washington, and E. L. Bartlett of Alaska, all Democrats, and Leverett Sal tonstall of Massachu setts. Margaret Smith of Maine and Barry Coldwatcr of Arizona, all Republicans. IF THEY find that Cuba In I fact still poses offensive menace to this country or hemisphere, they will simply say so. If they find that Cuba in (act poses no such offensive menace they will simply say so. Thur, the verdict may be nothing less than fateful. If the verdict Is that Cuba is still a scat of mortal peril to this hemisphere it will surely follow that Cuba in due time will be invaded and sanitised - not necessarily by (fi e pedoed British hopes for en. tering the European Common Market. The events are not Isolated, are in fact interlocked. The Chinese attack on In dia served to emphasize the growing rift between Red China and the Soviet Union, adding weight to De Gaulle's theory that the Soviet Union must eventually turn away from the Chinese and back to the European family of na tions. Out of the U. S. Soviet showdown came Nikita Khrushchev's new "reason able" attitude and a lessening in cold war tensions. These developments in turn made it possible for De Gaulle, per haps sooner than he expected to move now to implement his own grand design for Eu rope. This Europe would exclude both Britain and the United States and lead ultimately to the junking of NATO, upon which Europe's defenses have depended. De Gaulle move against Britain clearly was political, and in that stroke he put off for years, if he did not Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (ci Field Enterprises. Inc. LOLITA. AND OTHERS While looking through a clinical paper called, "The Effects of Fatherlessness on the Preadolescent Female," I ran across the the unexpect- e d sentence "It is not pos sible to say that the five Lolitas' is this study would have developed i n this manner .,. but . . ." The startling appearance of the word "Lolita" in this serious paper confirmed my earlier feeling that author Vladimir Nabokov has indeed joined the small band of literary im mortals who have provided the language with a new word taken from a character in a book. The list is not a large one. Shakespeare has given us "Romeo." Byron provided us with "Don Juan." Sinclair Lewis added "Babbitt" to the language. Conan Doyle gave us "Sherlock Holmes" as a synonym for the shrewd pri vate investigator. "Lolita" evidently fills a real need in the language to describe a certain type of adolescent girl; "nymphet" is the generic term, but a proper name seems more vivid and fitting. Not many fictional char acters become fixed this way in the speech and cul ture of a people. Dickens, most prolific of all with pungent names for his char acters, has made it only with "Fagin." Dean Swift provided us with "Yahoo" in "Gulliver's Travels," but the word is used mostly by intellectu als, and has never made its way Into the mainstream of speech. Likewise, Gil bert's "Pooh-Bah" from "The Mikado" had a great vogue SO years ago, but has not maintained its popu larity. ... Karl Capek did much bet ter in his play, "R. U. R." when his name, "Robot," for a mechanical man, soon gain ed international usage. And, of course, Mrs. Shelley's "Frankenstein" is securely lodged in the English tongue but in a curiously inverted fashion. "Frankenstein" has come tu mean me monster it self, when it was really the name of its student creator. Mrs. Shelley gave the mon ster no name at all. Stevenson rang the bell twice with one stroke in his "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde." which we still use to describe a wildly split personality; and even so minor an author as P. G. Wodehouse filled a real verbal need with "Jeeves,"1 whose name embodies f.he quintessence of the upper British servant, a species fast vanishing from the contem porary scene. Sheridan's "Mrs. Malaprop" still lives, and so does Defue's "Robinson Crusoe." for any man stranded alone. Rabe lais' giant. "Gargantua" has become a standard adjective, and "Lothario" Is all we re member of that author's medi ocre output. "Lolita." if she lasts, will be joining a small and select company of fiction al characters. United States itself, but in vaded and sanitized all the same. If the verdict is that Cuba is only a defensive lodgment of Communism, the present slow course of trying to iso late and cut down Cuba by measures short of war will only continue. actually destroy, the concept of a politically united Europe which had been a foundation stone 'Of Western policy since the end of World War II. He estimated correctly, it seems, that economic reasons would force his European Common Market partners to remain Inside the bloc as a trading area. Politically, he coldly reasoned that agree ment between France and Germany would force the les ser powers to cooperate whether they liked it or not. So far, events have given De Gaulle no reason to ques tion his own judgment. It re mains to be seen whether he Matter of Fact (el New York Herald WHAT HAS GONE WRONG Washington - According to authorltive report, few bloop ers nave angerea resident Kennedy quite so much as the State De partment's im pulsive inter vention in the Canadian Par liament's de bate on na tional defense. It is not clear who was re Aitop sponsible for yielding to the human, all-too-human tempta tion to show up Prime Minis ter Diefenbaker, who clearly deserved it. What it clear what should have been clear from the first is that yield ing to this temptation only made a bad business worse. As the President is angry, it is to be presumed that someone will pay for the blooper. But if the President is wise, he will ask himself whether the fault does not lie deeper than the individual bad judgement of this or that official or policy-maker. The Canadian affair, after all, comes hard on the heels of the Skybold affair, which was very much more damag ing. And the Skybolt affair could have been as easily avoided by a little foresight as the Canadian affair could have been avoided by staying silent. T-O SUPERNAL powers of prophecy were needed to foresee that the U.S. govern ment would eventually have to make the offer to share re maining Skybolt development costs with Britain the offer with which the President in fact opened his Nassau meet ing with Prime Minister Mac millan. If that offer had been made at the end of October, there would have been no Skybolt row, for the British would then have had no pos sible grounds for complaint against the U.S. Instead the Skybolt row raged through November and December, doing this country untold damage with all its allies. And when the cost sharing offer was at last made at Nassau, it was refused by Prime Minister Macmillan; for the British had decided in the interval that they too did not want Skybolt. The result, in itself some what questionable, was the substitute offer of Polaris missiles for the British Navy. This was wrapped up in the scheme for a multilateral de terrent, which Gen. de Gaulle was blandly invite-1, to join. rNCE again, it was predict " ed that de Gaulle would feel he was being treated lightly. He was duly enraged. And it is at least an even bet that this Nassau-born fury was what drove de Gaulle to cross the important line be tween obstructing the British entry into the Common Mar ket, which he was already doing, and positively vetoing the British entry, which he thereupon did. Other cases might be cited. But it is not needful to go further, in order to prove that down deep in the system USA-USSR TEST BAM NESQTIaTIONS LJTM ml 1 "We can control that nut, Mae. Cau you control ttt nut, DeGaulle?" may have erred on the ques tion of timing. Most West Germans would agree with Adenauer that the French-German accord if the "crowning point of my ca reer." But among influential Ger man newspapers, De Gaulle's clear anti-U. S. bias has aroused deep reservations. Within Adenauer's own cab inet there is a deep split. The Germans do not want to lose contact, either eco nomically o r defensively, with Washington. Final re sults will depend upon which has the stronger pull - Paria or Washington. By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate something is very wrong somewhere. What is wrong is not difficult to spot, either. President Kennedy has not got a State Department. In Secretary of State Dean Rusk the President has a wise policy-maker, but a man with no knack and no taste for executive leadership. Yet ex ecutive leadership was des perately heeded; for the orga nization Rusk inherited, which had been the most powerful and creative agency of government under Harry S. Truman, was already in sorry condition when Rusk took office. IN THE era of John Foster Dulles, the effective State) Department was contained by the four walls of Dulles's pri vate office; and in this period, for various reasons, the rest of the Department was simul taneously debased and inflat ed to the point of dropsy; In his short, widely underesti mated term in office, Chris tian A. Herter fought a suc cessful holding action, but that was the best he could manage. Thus Rusk's task would never have been easy, even for a man with the executive talents of a Dean G. Acheson, a Robert A. Lovett, or a Rob ert McNamara. Before choos ing Rusk, the President made the task harder still, in ways that are too obvious to need naming. A Secretary unable or unwilling to assert execu tive leadership was then in stalled in a Department de. based, dropsical, and divided. This combination has pro duced what we now see a non-Department of State. There are good bits, like Gov. Averell Harriman's Far Eastern sector, and there are very bad bits. But the point is that it is all in bits. It is not a unified department, guided by a common viewpoint im posed by its leader, and work ing toward a common aim, clearly defined from above. It is a congeries of competing viewpoints, contrasting per. sonalities, and conflicting am bitions. AMONG the New Frontiers men, there are two popu lar excuses for this irrational gap in the middle of an Ad ministration otherwise not able for its competence and coherence. It is said that noth ing can be done because "the President is his own Secre tary of State." Or it is said that "the real Secretary ot State" is the President's bril liant and knowledgeable per sonal chief of staff for for eign affairs, McGeorge Bundy. But that is nonsense. As the foreign policy record shows, the President, and Bundy too, for that matter, need a de partment to work with. As the case of the Defense De partment shows, that relation ship is far from impossible. And as long as the State Department J really a non- department, other damaging affairs will follow the Cana dian affair, the Skybold af fair, and all the earlier ones, quite possibly with end-results calamitous to the Presi dent himself. )