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WEDNESDAY, """Ivory one to Southern Oregoet Beads The MU TrlbUJit" Published Dally except" Saturday by MEDFOHD PRINTING CO. 3 North i!rSt- Pha-tl ROBERT W RUHL. editor HERB GREY Advertianl aUnaiat GERALD T LATHAiaTBua Mir Ric W ALLEN JR.. Mna. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teles Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Ed tor OLIVE STARCH ER Women's Editor DALEERICKSON.CircuIauon MgJ An Independent Newspaper Entered aa fcecond claw matter at Medford. Oregon under Act of March 3. IBS7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES f In Arivance 'Dally and Sunday I year I 00 - Daily and Sunday t moa 10 00 Dallv and Sunday S moa. 5.00 Sunday Only One year SS-O0 Simla Copy (Mailed! 0 bu Antt Motor HOUM. Dally and Sunday 1 year U)O0 Dally and Sunday 1 ma ixt Sunday Only 1 mo. soc Carrlei and Vendor! Copy 100 Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jachimn County United Preia International Pull Leased Wire U. P I Telephoto Newipleturei MEMBER or auuii nunmu OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Bepre"entative: uri sriNT ROftF.RTS & ASSOCI ATES Ol'lces In New York. Chi-- easo. Detroit, an rrenciM--u. lu Angelrs. Seattle. For liana Denver. NATIONAL EDITORIAL l'.f.c6'.'l- NEWSPAPER f UILISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO . Ftb. 8, 1953 (Wednesday) ' The outlook for southern Oregon's 1953 water supply is generally "good" to "ex cellent," according to Joint statements by the U. S. weath er bureau and the U. S. Soil Conservation service. ; A Republican congressman from New Hampshire, Ches ter Marrow, will be the prin cipal speaker at the annual Lincoln day dinner here Feb. 12. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 6 .1943 (Monday) Snow survey shows south ern Oregon water prospects are "spotty but good." : From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot column: "Rome reports 11 Duce Mussolini Is nervous and repentant.' If there was a rcdhot revival meeting in Italy he would be the first sinner at the mourn er's bench, willing to sing bass In the choir." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 6, 1933 (Wednesday) ' County council of Wonder land association formed in Medford. A. H. Banwell named sec retary of Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 6. 1923 (Thursday) Oregon Gov. Walter Pierce calls upon state legislature "to do something;" urges pas sage of school consolidation and state income tax bills. Survey of Pacific coast shows employment increasing and breadlines almost disap peared. SO YEARS AGO Feb. 6, 1913 (Saturday) Capt. Robert F. Scott, Brit ish south polar explorer, and party of five frozen to death after making successful dash to south pole. Road work in Crater lake area to be rushed in effort to make accessible the principal points of interest by summer of 1915, when Panama expo sition slated to start in San Francisco. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct if superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six it good. 1. Iii which country are the Hulls of Montezuma? 2. How old was Methuselah whnn he died? is ii necessary for a Presidential candidate to win a majority of t!ie States of the union in order to be elected? 4. Name the famous pass from Afghanistan into India. 5. Is the capital of Chile Conception, Valparaiso o r Santiago? 6. Was Walter Camp an authority on golf, hockey, football, or tennis? 7. Em! Wnrrnn was the governor of which state be fore becoming what? 8 Is the airline distance from Honolulu t o Tokyo greater or less than that from New York to Paris? u. is a oat a bird or a mammal? . 10. Pizzarro was the Span isli conqueror of which South American country? Answers: 1. Mexico. 3. 969 years. 3. No. 4. Khyber Piss S. Santiago. 6. Football. 7. California, and Chief Justice of U. S. S. Greater. I. Mam mal, 10. Peru. 4 A FEBRUARY , IMS Strikes, Courts and Automation Most thinking people with an acquaintance with the history of the past century or so would agree that the labor movement, as such, has done far more good than it has harm. But, most thinking people aware of conditions of today would agree that something has gone wrong, when huge unions can, at a whim, disrupt entire segments of the economy, placing the na tional security in jeopardy, and acting in direct conflict with the public interest, convenience and necessity. Collective bargaining, as developed over the years, and backed by the right to strike if nec essary, has done much to raise living standards, working conditions, and the level of the nation's economy and welfare. e e e DUT the time has long since passed when unions were battling against odds to obtain humane working conditions, a living wage, and a chance for a worker to have some say in his own destiny. More often than not, unions today are giants, in many cases far stronger in resources than the industries they work with. On the heels of the crippling dock strike, in solved newspaper strikes land, and in the shadow of a looming strike against the Southern Pacific railroad, the feeling is growing that a new approach, a new guarantee, must be evolved to avoid Secretary of Labor stated: "The decision has been made that if collective bar gaining can't produce peaceable settlements of these controversies, the public will." BY "THE PUBLIC" is obviously meant the only tirair ?r tirVi inVi Yn niihlirt ion ti7i"iilr ifa nran- tive will the government. Both labor and management view with dis- taste the idea of federal compulsory arbitration or forced settlement. Political scientists, too, of government adding powers by assuming the gaining table. But nature abhors a er vacuum which so closely affects the public interests, if government else can or will at least so far as can be foreseen. TWO things are involved here, one of immedi if rt ni'flccin rr imnnvtoTirtfl f a rf h oc 1-irrr Clt J- I'OOillg lyO.il Vlss Hit UtUVl Ui ilU range pressing importance. lhe first is the need major strikes to a minumum, and to settle them as rapidly as possible, start. The second is the question of automation, un employment, job security, uneasy spectres over the If the first could be could get on with the important business of work ing out accommodations TTHIS newspaper has long contended that one approach to achieving labor peace would be through a system of labor courts, such as have been long and successfully employed in Scanda-navia. There are many questions which would have to be answered first guards, jurisdiction, and others. Still, the ju dicial atmosphere of a courtroom, the deliberate and impartial inquiry into all the facts, and a final binding judgment, store public confidence m problems peaceably and with order and dignity, and still ensure a maximum of fairness and jus tice to both sides. This, surely, offers a more promising route than having harried government negotiators, mediators and arbitrators sitting in on long, ex hausting and often acrimonious sessions. TTOO, this would offer one means of approach to the potentially even larger problem which the technological revolution is bringing about, and which is, in most cases, at the very heart of the new rash of strikes which is sweeping the nation. ..t Some day, and soon, this nation is going to have to revise drastically its traditional attitudes toward work, and leisure, and employment, and unemployment. Many worried, high-level studies on these growing problems have been held, and are con tinuing. But nowhere could a body of knowledge of the very real problems of a burgeoning tech nological society be amassed and analyzed as rapidly as in labor courts set up specifically to deal with the practical consequences. "THE genius of western lllm- I'Oiiins nf Ampvii to change and adapt to changing situations. It has not always been done without dislocations and suffering, but it has always been done in suf ficient measure to survive and then prosper again. We must, if we are to meet the dislocations arising from automatic machinery and computers where one man can do the work formerly done by thousands find new approaches. We cannot be so afraid of change that the change will do us all in. It is our firm conviction that a carefully drawn system of labor courts would, first, provide the setting of economic order we must have if we are to remain a viable economy, and second, go a long way toward analyzing the problems, thus going far toward solving them. With the size of the stakes, it's certainly worth a try. E. A. the midst ot the unre in New York and Cleve- such disasters. . Willard Wirtz recently intervention, particularly similar systems of en view askance the ideas to its already massive third seat at the bar vacuum, and in this pow does not step in, no one for a mechanism to hold preferably before they all of which hang like future of the economy. solved eouitablv. we for the second. about procedures, safe would do much to re our ability to solve our civilization, the partic- - n haa lioon un nViititv MIDfORD "I Christen Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances 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 letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact lhe contrary is often the case. Isn't It? To the Editor: In the paper, for some time now, we have been hearing talk pro and con on killing doe deer and cow elk. I am no expert on game management, but Mr. Kupillas in his communication says the game commission bases its management of the deer herd on scientific principles and surveys. If I believed this true, I would not be writing this letter. I think the lobbying powers of the timber Interests and large farm corporations have a lot to do with our game management. Mr. Kupillas says when the day comes that we present some scientifically valid facts, then reasonable people will listen. I ask him to talk to the logger, small rancher, the cougar and bear hunters, and the people who have cabins in the woods, where there used to be plen ty of deer. You hear some people say that hunters don't get out in the woods and hunt. There is a considerable group that do road hunt, and the police de partment should see that this is discontinued. The majority of people hunt hard and go farther back in the wilds than they did a few years back. I don't believe there are 10,000 sq. ft. in Oregon that hunters don't hunt. In the big canyons where none used to go, you will see many hunters now. You can stand still at almost any spot and spit on cow manure, where five years ago there were no cows within five miles. I am now talking about federal lands. As long as there is plenty of feed for doe deer and cow oik, this is fine with me. If I understand correctly, there are five men who make the laws for the game com mission, and they are appoint ed by the Governor. These six men are responsible tor our game laws and management. If you don't believe the lob bies have anything to do with game management, go to Port land and attend a game com mission meeting. There are plenty of lobbists who lobby cd for the buck, and not for the four legged kind. For the man who talked at the Cham ber of Commerce meeting from Prinevlllc, Ore., who has it all figured out, all we have to do is give him $i!5 for our own deer, which he doesn't pay for. He Is lobbying for the buck too. The five men appointed to the game commission should be working for the interests of the hunter and tile hunter alone. After all this is what thev were appointed to do, isn't it? Mark Norton Box 85 Phoenix, Ore. Divided We Fall To the Editor: Your article. "Stupid and Discriminatory," Wednesday, Jan. 30; We approve your stand and niiui;is wf the State of Wash ington's contemplated law; let us hope that wisdom directs their vote. We, as Americans, have no right, constitutionally, to in fringe the rights of our citi zens respecting a day in which to conduct business or not to conduct such practice. We must guard, zealously, our basic rights or we shall become as enemies, one to another; liberty, departed, may never be regained, wit non the spoliation of the Com munist satellites. Such a law would be an en trance, whether we acknowl edge It as such or not - one down - one to go - and the persecution begins. Twelve hundred and sixty years ot history witness to such arro gance, and the blood of SO to 100 million martyrs testify to the end of such a beginning. Let us stand together to MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDfORD. OREGON Thee preserve all rights and full justice for all as a Christian nation should. Divided we fall. James Williams P.O. Box 441 Jacksonville, Ore. "Only" a Cat To the Editor: This is an open letter to a miserable wretch and a cold-blooded murderer. Sometime last week you shot and killed My ron, who was a good friend and member of my family. A serious accusation? Yesl And just who was this Myron? , "Only a cat," you say. True enough, he was only a cat, but he was, as I have already pointed out, a mem ber of my family. "What are you, some kind of nut?" you ask, "And any way, what kind of name is that for a worthless cat?" Well, let me tell you, I am some kind of nut when it comes to disgusting creatures like you, who heartlessly de stroy something that was do ing you no harm and was a source of pleasure to me. As for his name, Myron derived it from the fact that I found him, a homeless little waif, near the Myron Root & Com pany packing house. I trust that Mr. Root does not take unkindly this having a lost little kitten named for his firm. I raised this little waif of a kitten to the fully grown, graceful animal he was during the last 14 months. During this brief time, which you made all too brief by the vicious thing you did, Myron was a charming, debonair and, occasionally, hilarious companion, but you had to end all this and shoot him down. You must really be proud of yourself. Mighty Hunter, Oh Great and Glor ious Sportsman. Well, damn your black soul, I miss him. It certainly is a revelation to discover just how "neigh borly" some of your neigh bors can be. (Name on file) Central Point, Ore. Heav'n To the Editor: I've pennies in my pockets, And heav'n is here to stay, Cause the income tax col lectors, Gave me some take-home pay! George Distell, 33 North Fir St., Medford. New Age To the Editor: The recent attacks, in the communica tions column, or. Dr. Daniel W. Fry regarding space craft and space people are a literal proof of the great need for the very objectives he is striving so diligently to promote, namely understanding among the peoples of Earth. It would be interesting to know just how many of those who "threw the "tones" marie any effort to investigate or to do any research regarding Dan Frys efforts or intentions Some religious fanatics and bigoii. always have a conven ient devil they can trot out as a scapegoat In lieu of a logical or reasonable argument against any subject with which they cannot agree. Why tke refuge in a theory that is more difficult to explain than use one you seek to disprove? Herbert Spencer, a well known English philosopher, once said: "There is a prin ciple which is a bar to all in formation, which is proof against all arguments and which will never fail to keep a man in everlasting ignor ance. That principle Is con demnation prior to investiga tion." We are living in the Aquar ian Age which is an age of knowledge and enlighten ment. Innumerable books and much literature have been written by truly Inspired writ ers, relative to knowledge of Problems Also Pose Br PHIL NEWSON UPI Foreign Newt Analyst The American-trained and equipped 650,000-man army of the Republic of Korea is the strongest anti Commu nist military force remain ing on the continent of Asia. It fur ther is stated U. S. policy that "the in dependence of Xewsoss of the Repub- lie of Korea is vital to the peace of the world and it re mains the unshakable policy of the U. S. government to help maintain that independ ence." Strategically, ' Korea is an important stepping stone be tween Red China and Japan. what is transpiring in this New Age. So there is no need for people to remain ignorant or uninformed regarding it unless they choose to do so. Here are some quotes from prominent persons regarding the truth of the existence of space ships and space beings. Senator Barry Goldwater, a Jet-flying Air Force Reserve Brigadier General said, "Fly ing Saucers-unidentified fly ing objects or whatever you call them-are REAL. The Air Force is clamming up." Wil liam Lear, winner of Collier Aviation Trophy, president of Lear Inc. Aircraft and Elec tronics said, "I believe the 'saucers' come from outer space, piloted by beings of supe r i o r intelligence." Her mann Oberth, rocket pioneer and space travel authority said, "I believe the 'flying saucers' come from worlds outside our Solar System." The Air Force censors barred these statements from a Na tionwide CBS telecast. The terrific speeds and ma neuverability of the Ventlas, which is the correct name of the space craft, enables them to elude the Air Force's fast est jets, the pilots of which have been ordered to "shoot to kill." Nice neighbors the Earthians!! Aleta O. Johnston, 2314 Allen Creek rd., ; Grants Pass, Ore. Automation To the Editor: While auto mation spreads, the jobless problem remains unsolved. For the past 18 years wo have witnessed a record-breaking production of wealth which created an illusion of general security. But the fact is that those boom years have brought no real security to the workers who produced this wealth. And it takes only a few weeks or months to wipe out any gains from years of employment. We have heard the claim that "automation makes jobs." In boom limes the illusion prevails that it does. But when the cutbacks come and pro duction is concentrated in highly automated plants, the cruel and devastating effects of automation on workers' jobs becomes apparent. When machinery that re places men is used to raise profits, regardless of tK con sequences to the workers, au tomation becomes a curse in stead of a blessing. The dan ger of automation to society is not inherent in the ma chine. It is the impropiruse of a tool potentially beneficial to man. Lydia Burnham, 8i4 Warne St., Prescott, Ariz. Appling Replies Editor's note: A recent Mall Tribune communication was critical of Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr.'s action in turning ever to the Uistrici at torney the matter of campaign expenses of the "Freedom Center" in Portland. Mr. Appling replied as follows: Mrs. Ella Powell Box 621 Central Point. Ore. Dear Mrs. Powell: A recent letter appearing over your name in the Medford Mail Tribune contains statements concerning me which arc no; based on fact. I am enclosing for your in formation a photostatic copy of the Court Order signed by Circuit Judge George Duncan in the case. I call yoUr atten tion to the fact that the suit was dismissed only after the defendant had filed the cam paign report which Oregon law required him to file, since the purpose of the suit was to obtvin compliance with this provision of Oregon law, and compliance was obtained, there was then no purpose in further suit. I would suggest to you that you will find the official court Faced by Government of Korea Problems For these reasons the paini being suffered by the Repub lic of Korea as it attempts to return from military to civilian government are wor thy of attention and also some consternation. At the moment, the Repub lic of Korea, more popularly known at South Korea, it ruled by"a military regime which seized power in a pre dawn coup on May 16, 1961. it is headed by Gen. Park Chung Hee who has prom ised presidential elections and a return to civilian rule by Aug. 15 of this year. A dangerous rift among Ko rean military men with op School Board Criticizes M-T Editorial; Writer Defends It To the Editor: It was amaz ing to read in the Mail Trib une of Feb. 3 an editorial deeply critical of the Board of Education of School Dis trict No. 4, kndwn as the Phoenix Talent District, re lating to their handling of a survey made by the Bureau of Educational Research of the University of Oregon at the request of the Phoenix School Board. The editorial states in one part that, "We do not in any way question the motives of the school officials who have kept the report from general knowledge." However, the editorial is headlined "The Public Should Know," and the general theme is to the effect that the School Board has been secretly deceiving the people of Phoenix-Talent by not having the report pub lished in its entirety and dis tributed to all the residents of District No. 4. The editorial also suggests, "But we do question the propriety of such action and believe that an official body which keeps information from the knowledge of its constitu ents is sowing the seeds of suspicion and distrust." It would appear that this, if not actually doing so, comes very close of accusing Phoenix Talent School Board of mis feasance of office. It also strongly suggests that the school board did have a mo tive of some dark design, not withstanding that the edi torial in a previous paragraph stated that their motives were not subject to question. The survey in question was budgeted for and was ob tained solely as a tool to as sist the School Board in long term planning. The large sum of money necessary to reprint sufficient copies for general distribution of the 62 page re port was not budgeted for, any more than in the past record in such matters some what more dependable than the source of information on which you have apparently been relying. Howell Appling Jr., Secretary of State, Salem, Ore. Fiance To the Editor: I don't know why they write about people from Mars being so weird. Really, they are the hand somest men I have ever seen, and so nice and tall, muscular, masculine and six feet tall and over. So what if their eating habits are different from yours? So arc mine from the next fellow's, but that doesn't make me like them any less. Now take Lars, my fiance. He is a second cousin to A-lan on his mother's side. Lars stands about eight feet tall and handsome. Oh My! His love-making just sweeps me off my feet and is simply out of this world. They don't have telephones up there on Mars. They are far more advanced than we are. They all wear a small antenna on their head. It fits inside their ear like the hear ing aids do down here. They are called inta-skyla bars. When you want to contact someone you send it on your inta-skyla bar thought wave. Now their homes are almost practically alike, bu' so dif ferent from ours. Lars, that is m fiance, showed me our home to be. It looks just like clear plastic glass with mir rors, that act to insulate your house. To keep it at the right temperature always, no mat ter, what room you are in. day or night. They arc also used to fix your meals on, as they don't use wood, oil or electricity. It all comes from the sun rays. I am sure happy about my in-laws to be, especially my mother-in-law to be. She is so wonderful and nice. In fact she is just a dream. So if you see a tall handsome rugged built fellow walking down the streets of Medford, wearing what you believe to be a hearing aid. don't be alarmed. It might be my fi ance or some one else from my new home Mars. (Name on file) Medford for United posing ideas about Korea's po litical future came into the open in late January and was patched over only by the per sonal intervention of General Park. Center of the most recent controversy was a retired brigadier general named Kim Chong Pil, who left the army early . in January, to become chairman of the organizing committee of the new Demo cratic Republican party. This is the party by which General Park and other mem bers of the military govern ment hope to replace their military uniforms with civil ian attire and enter the new other reports, investigations, and data which the School Board uses in planning the operation of the district have been. Is it not surprising that the Phoenix-Talent School Board is accused of suppression of information when the Board, after inviting the editorial writer to a board meeting some ten days ago to discuss a news release which contain ed much of the material in question, was told that it was too long and would have to be cut? Every effort was made to give the editorial writer courteous attention; and it was suggested to him that the board would answer any questions he wished. He made no request for the re port in question, nor was it discussed. In the paper on Feb. 3, however, is a some what garbled condensation of the report, so it would be in teresting to know where he got the report from, if it were being so carefully suppressed, as he implies. It would also be interesting to know why a news reporter who was given a courteous reception by the Phoenix-Talent School Board apparently was so uninterest ed in factual reporting as to fail to ask the Board for a copy when he was in the board room. ' The complaint was also made in the editorial that at the last hearing relative to the current consolidation, the objection of the attorney for the Phoenix-Talent school dis trict to discussing the report at the hearing was sustained by the Rural School Board. Can it be that the Rural School Board also is guilty of spreading "suspicion and dis trust"? Or can it be the only one guilty of spreading sus picion and distrust is the edi torial writer? PHOENIX-TALENT SCHOOL BOARD J. Allen Harris, Chairman Bruce Cyphers Joyce Goodrich Melvin Lattie Dr. M. D. McGeary John Spangler T. Chris Barker -O- Editor's note: The writer of the editorials in question was Earl H. Adams, the Mail Trib une's city editor. He replies: The editorial to which the Phoenix-Talent school board refers criticized the lack of publicity given the report of the survey, and the dissemina tion of information concern ing the district's plant facility needs. I agree that such lengthy reports are not usually pub lished in their entiretv and distributed to all the residents of a school district; this would be financially impracticable. But there usu.-.Hy are enough copies available for board members individually, with enough others to distribute to the press and to have avail able for district patrons to see. I asked for a copy of the report in a telephone con versation with the superinten dent prior to the board meet "Don't be so gentle with the new ones. If they last longer, fewer are sold. You're lousing up the lew of supply and demand and upsetting lhe economy!" i States government as civilians. Opposition came from two powerful voices. One was re tired Lt. Gen. Kim Dong-ha. Another was the regime's for mer prime minister, retired Lt. Gen. Song Yo-chang. Both denounced Kim Chong Pil as having a personal lust for power, and Song also de manded that Park give up his ovn plans to seek the presi dency. The military regime's plans to restore civilian government may spring from motives pure as the driven snow. But right now not many would bet on the success of their political opposition. ing to which he refers. I was told the board members would be notified of the request, and that it would be the board's decision. He returned the call later, saying the board would like to meet with me to discuss a statement which would contain information from the survey report. I did not ask specifically for a copy of the report at the meeting, since I understood the statement was designed to cover material in the report. The original statement, which the board was asked to edit if possible because of length, contained some information about a building program. which has been conducted on a pay-as-you-go basis. In the part edited from the original statement, the board said it "could spend $500,000 for plant improvement if necessary, with no Increase in present millage. This is be cause present bond retire ment payments of $33,000 yearly will be released in 1964, and on present assessed valuations this amount would retire $500,000 in 20 years." There was not visible in the room a copy of the report, and since I took the state ment to be an accurate one containing information from the survey, I did not press tha issue. The board knew of my request and had decided that a statement would suffice. The statement was accurate as far as it went. But when, more than a week later, a copy of the report was re ceived and reviewed, tha statement, even the original version, did not contain all the information I believed the people of the district are en titled to know. That still is my belief. The statement con tained selected information rather than general informa tion. I know of at least two dis trict patrons who approached the school office recently and were told the report was not available. Others have re portedly had the same ex perience. Clarence Hines, one of tha co-authors of the report, ex pressed surprise that it had not been publicized, and in dicated there was no reason why it should not have been publicized soon after it was completed last summer. I asked that the board's statement be edited because it was quite long, and con tained some material which I thought was irrelevant. The Phoenix board edited the statement for publication, and it was then published in full. The rural school board is not a court of law, nor is a public hearing a court pro cedure. A public hearing is one in which all facts relevant to an issue are expected to be discussed and reviewed so the people will be better inform ed. When an objection at a public hearing is sustained, and even when an objection is made, there is the infer ence that perhaps there is a point of interest and rele vancy the objecting party does not want reviewed or dis-cussed.-E.H.A.
