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San rranciico Lo Angelfi Seattle, Deiver. Portland NATIONAL EDITOIIAL AST$bC4ATIGN Z7 KJ J NEWSPAMR PUILISHEKS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County ii. i or 1 na History rrom i - Mail Tribunt 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb 7, 19S3 (Thursday) The Ashland city council will consider the possibility of adding fluoride to the city 8 water supply at Us February 17 meeting. The Jackson County Me morial Auditorium associa tion, formed some months ago to work for construction of a county owned auditorium, will take no further action until the proposal by another group, headed by Dr. Edwin Durno, can be studied more thoroughly. 20 YEARS AGO Fab. 7, 1943 ITuetday) Fire believed started by imri In electrical wiring re sults In $15,000 damage to local teed and seed company warehouse. From Arthur perry b ie s.mud8.?,.rot c'unl.. " i Si X nSd. "I" dto poeei. The wy things re o.ng ror '"" " some excuse or it. I 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 7, 1933 (Thursday) A. W. Walker named Jack son county probation officer. Members of Crater club schedule farewell party tor C. T. Baker, who is leaving to become secretary of Boise, Ida., Chamber of Commerce. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 7, 1923 (Friday) F. Roy Davis, Medford, elected president of Crater Lake Rod and Gun club. Two local women fined and given jail sentences for viola tion of nuisance clause of pro hibition act. 50. YEARS AGO Fob. 7, 1913 (Sunday) John H. Thompson, resident of Jacksonville area since 1879 and a veteran of the Confederate army, dies at home. Jackson county delegation In Oregon house of represen tatives introduces bill provid ing for support of old Ash land normal. What's Your I.Q.? Nina ot fen cetreel ll lueeiior; ieen ot eiqhl ii encellant; tie et six it gooj. 1. The Presidential Inaug ural pHiati i tiu for by Congressional appropriation; true or false? 2. "Treasure Island," ' Dr. Jfkyll and Mr. Hyde," and "Kidnapped" were written by whom? 3. Who are the three living former Presidents of the U.S.? 4. Who originated the com ic strip, "Mull and Jeff?" 5. Alligators arc hatched from eggs; true or false? 6. A line has how many dimensions? 7. Who were the first two children of Adam and Eve? 8. How many stars did the first American Flag have? 9. Is the state of Kansas the greatest producer of rye, wheat, oats, or corn? 10. Where is Corregidor Is land? Answerii I. Tali, (by elect ad party). 2. Robtrl Louit Slevanion. 3. Herbert Hoorer, Harry Truman and Dwighl Eittnhowtr. 4. Bud Fiiher. 5. True. 6. On (length). 7. Cain nd Abel. 8. Thirteen. 9. Wheat. 10. Manila Bay, P. I. 4 A FEBRUARY 7, 1963 Sense and We have, we must about the proposed consolidation of the Medford and Phoenix-Talent school districts. Patrons of the two districts will vote next Monday. There are some dangers in consolidation. The idea of a big school district being a good one simply because it is big is not valid, any more than the reverse is true. Too, the larger the district, the more diluted is the control over it by each board member represents a far larger nunv ber of people. DUT each consolidation proposal has to be judg ed on its own merits, as well as on philosophi cal considerations. Here two pertinent present proposal: , 1. Both districts have trood educational pro grams and good administration. But the Medford district (which would be the survivor if consolida tion is effected) has a far broader educational program, offering 91 courses, compared to 52 in Phoenix-Talent. 2. The Medford district has always gone out oi its way to see tnai an its patrons nave iuu in formation about the problems the district is fac ing, about future plans, about facts which have a bearinir on the future. Conversely, we have been critical in recent days board ror Keeping exceedingly quiet aooui a jju' reau of Educational Research report on the dis' trict, even to the extent patrons see it. THE report in question new school be built district in southwest Medford. on Arjronne ave., to serve the large and growing number of chil dren in that area. The nroDosed site for the school is within eye- shot-half a mile or less of the Medford district. This costly duplication of facilities so close to each other trives the The total building program recommended for the Phoenix-Talent district is in the neighborhood of $900,000 another fact the school board has been rather close-mouthed about. IF CONSOLIDATION is rAftaivl rf fVio Morlfnivl control of the enlarged district. (At subsequent board elections, residents of the Phoenix-Talent area would be eligible for election; prior to that it is customary to ask some such to serve on an I advisory board.) . T i.U TVff-J Liasi inonin uie meiuuru uuaru tssueu a suae- ment concerning tne consolidation, and it said, in event of the merger being approved, it would be "reasonable to assume" j. The elementary sentially as they are cutrently enrolled. (Except, . , , , . ' ., . J"! preaumaviy, uie eiuiiniw would go to Hoover school, rather than by bus to Phoenix.) 2. The junior hidi students would continue as presently enrolled, unless able to convert the Phoenix high school into a junior high school. 3. In the event of consolidation there would probably be two senior high schools established. Phoenix senior high school students would then enter the nearest of the QONCERNING Point 3 above, the board added: "It is the plan . . to bring shortly to the voters a bond issue for the construction of a new high school. In keeping with the large high school concept, It Is in tended that the new school be built for 2,000 pupils. If there is no chunge In the size of (the Mediord, dis trict, the new high school will serve the entire district. Should consolidation with occur, the pupil load will be such as to make the op eration of two high schools necessary. Senior high school students in the Phoenix-Talent area would be transported only as far as the nearest senior high school." As for financial considerations, the bonding and taxation levels of the two districts are so nearly similar that little change for individual patrons would be expected in event of consolida tion. The Medford board has taken no position. iro or con, on the consolidation proposal. But it las, after due study, termed it a "timely, sound and feasible" nlan. IXfU CAN understand the reluctance of Phoc ' nix-Talent patron!' to merger with the larger Medford system, thus losing part of their "ident ity" as a separate district, and, to some measure, control of their own schools. We would not be at all surprised if many of them vote against consolidation. However, it is our contention that the decision should not be based on sentiment, or even on the degree of the somewhat nebulous "control" that patrons have over the operation of any school district. The decision should be based on more important and fundamental things. HTHE most important of these are: The educational opportunities and well being for the largest number of children, no mat ter where located. Long-range economy of operation. Efficiency and responsiveness of adminis tration, and this includes keeping patrons and taxpayers informed. In each of these three, it seems to us that the weight lie's on the side of consolidation. While the issues are not all black and white, the merger simply makes sense. E.A. Sentiment confess, mixed feelings on the merger proposal the patron and taxpayer; factors concerning the of the Phoenix-Talent of refusing to let district recommended that a in the Phoenix-Talent of the Hoover school cautious taxpayer pause. effected, the present lief innf umiili"1 aociimo 1 t 1 I ..1 that: pupils would remain es- in suuwieasi meaiora it was thought advis two high schools. the Phoenix-Talent district MEDFORD "How Long Do You Crack Matter oi Fact (c) New York Herald TAX POLITICS Washington Not long ago ReD. Martha Griffiths sent out several thousand ques- tionnaires to her prosper ous D e m o- cratic district in Detroit "What would you buy," she asked her polices, "with a cut of $100 in your Fed e r a 1 income tax?"i Aline Maybe the sum was disap pointing, although this is about the kind of tax relief President Kennedy's tax re duction and reform program will give to lower middle in come families. At any rate, among the thousand or so people who answered Rep. Griffiths, over 600 said they did not want a tax cut, Some persons in this large anti-tax cut majority said they desired no relief themselves, but suggested tax cuts for members of more hard- pressed groups, such as the very old and young people just starting in life. A very large number went even fur ther, saying they were against any tax-cut at all at this lime, when Federal spending is so high and the national defense Is so burdensome. THE Griffiths poll, though a - mere atraw in the wind, like all polls, has considerable significance for two special reasons. First, It has been cir culated in the crucial Ways and Means committee of the House of Representatives, of which Rep. Griffiths is the only woman member. And it is likely to influence the com mittee quite as much as Sec retary of the Treasury Doug- Dillon s carefully pro- pared opening statement at the tax hearings. Secondly, the Griffiths poll is another rather character istic item in a considerable body of evidence that the old American political rules about the vote catching powers of tax cuts are no longer reliable guides. The powerful chairman of the Ways ind Means commit tee, Kcp. Wilbur Mills, is known to have commented on the Griffiths poll that in his Arkansas district the answers would have been at least R0 per cent anti-tax cut. After the Eisenhower-George Hum phrey tax cut of more than $7 billion In 1954, the Repub licans lost 19 seats in the House and one in the Senate. rFHESE are only g few bits and pieces in a mass nf data, all pointing in the same direction. For this very rea son, the President's tax reduc tion and reform plan would not now command a majority in the relatively sympathetic House Ways and Means Com mittee, despite the immense supposed bait of a net tax cut of clone to $10 billion. To get what the President wants through both Hone and Senate, in fact, the Ad ministration's supporters are going to have to work des perately hard. It is all but certain that they will tail to secure some items in the pro posed list of tax reforms. And it Is not even really certain that they will get the kind of large, incentive-restoring net tax cut the President wants. The causes of their diffi culty arc complex. First and foremost is the absence of any strong grass roois surge in favor of tax cutting, denoted by the Griffiths poll. Next comes the surge of opposition to the Kennedy tax reforms. 4 MONG the 40 million plus 4 tax pavers, there is a tiny minority of about 500,000 who will lose more by the re forms than they gain by the reductions. Most of these will lose very little, yet these are generally Individuals with much leverage. And the MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Think Before They'll Up?" By Joseph Alsep Tribune Syndicate groups they belong to the oil investors, for instance have even more leverage than the individuals. The basic obstacle to the Kennedy program ia Ideolog ical, however. Among the wiser business leadersamong conservative as well as left wing economists, among labor leaders and Treasury experts and all ether serious students of the problem, there is an ideological consensus. These people believe tax cuts are needed, even at the expense of an unbalancd budget, in order to stimulate stronger economic growth. Most ex perts believe lower tax rates will pay for themselves rather soon, by larger tax return! from a larger national in come. But there is little accept ance of these ideas In Con gress. The old balanced budget orthodoxy has a strong hold, and this is the ideological ob stacle. Hence the real motive of the tax reduction, which is to stimulate the economy, is not regarded as justifiable. Honest avowals of the real motive, by Presidential econ omic advisor Walter Heller, for instance, actually lose votes. TIENCE Rep. Mills advised Secretary Dillon to give special emphasis to the gov ernment's desire to cut spend ing, and to justify tax cuts on toe ground tnat uie American tax system had passed the point of diminishing returns. Hence tne mgmy practical members of the White House Congressional liaison group are pushing the tax program, not on the ground that it will stimulate economic growth, but on the cruder, simpler ground that the program is needed to avoid a severe de pression. It will be Ironical if this great new departure is made on the basis of arguments having little to do with its real motive. But that is now the outlook. In the Day's News ly FRANK JENKINS Governor Edmund G. Brown's $3.2 BILLION spend ing proposal for fiscal 1963-64 was greeted with mixed reac tions by Republicans and Democrats in the legislature. The budget - largest FOR ANY STATE IN HISTORY was introduced in both houses. IT'S A huge budget. But- California is a huge state lis population is the largest ot any elate in our history 17,000,000 in round figures. So let s put It this way. California Budget S3. 200.000.000 California Pooulatinn l 7 mm onn Per rBpita tax SISS. LX)R purposes of compari- son, let's now take a look at Oregon - where the com parative figures look like this: Oregon Budget $403,000,000 Oregon Population 1.800.000 Per Capita Tax S223.0O rpiAT is to say: " While California's budget for the current biennium is roughly eight times Oregon's bud eel for the sHrne period. California's POPULATION is roughly TEN TIMES Oregon's population INTERESTING The answer is YES. But you haven't heard it all. Let's take a look now at the figures for the U S A. as a whole the FEDERAL PIC TURE. It looks like this: Federal Budget $100,000,000,000 U.S. France Co Nations; I By PHIL NEWSOM UP! Foreign News Analyst Back in 1961, in Algeria, it struck this reporter as an incongruity that even in the midst of bloody rebellion French . built schools con tinued to rise in the back country and new industri al (tructures to go up along the Algiers w a t e rfront. Some months later, in the NeWMB new black African republic of Mali, it also seemed note worthy that the only real link between scattered tribesmen was a common knowledge of the French language. In the Quai d'Orsay in Par is, officials of the French Foreign Ministry are fond of remarking that France de votes more than twice as much of its gross national product to the aid of under developed countries as does the United States. These are factors upon which President Charles de Gaulle leans heavily as he moves to tighten French ties with Africa even as he moves to implement his grant! de sign for Europe. Paris dispatches say that De Strictly Personal - By Sydney J. HrrU (et Fitld Enttrprtsei. Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES The way a man traditional ly maintains his self-respect is by doing a difficult job and doing it well; and the wide spread loss of self-respect in the modern world is largely owing to the increasing num ber of jobs that can be done simply, perfunctorily, me chanically, uselessly, and under no compulsion to be done well. Giren power, an intoler ant ideaiist can become more oppressive than any tyrant; it was the introler ant idealists of the French Resolution who created the Reign of Terror, which an avowed tyrant like Napo leon, with less exalted view of mankind, would have had too much sense lo inflict. Those who are fond of ask ing themselves the jejune question, "Is life worth liv ing?" rarely pause to ask themselves the corollary question, "Is death worth dy ing?" , Marriage hai been call ed "tie," but it it more like a belt, which cannot be too tight (or it binds) and cannot be too loose (or it falls); and marriages that fail are those which have only one notch in the belt, o that ii cannot be loosened or tightened to adjust to the changing weights and pressures of the relation ship. Among the hardest advice lo follow is that given by George Macdonald when he said, "If you have a disagree able duty to do at 12 o'clock, do not blacken 9 and 10 and 11 and all between with the colour of 12." Before wt are proud of controlling our passions, it might do well to atk our selves whether our control is to strong or our pastiont to weak. Even genius has its limita tions: Einstein could not find the unified field theory he was looking for all his life; but stupidity is infinite: there is no fancy or belief that marks the boundary of hu man credulity, and some man can always be found who will carry the banner of stupidity across a new frontier. The difference between the cynic and the skeptic it this when confronted with something that stems too good to be true, the cynic ays that it isn't good, while the skeptic ttyi that it isn't true. Experience is not the best, but the worst, teacher for those with closed minds; as someone has observed, a cat who has sat on a hot stove will never sit on a hot stove again - but it won't sit on a cold stove, either. True foregiveness does net consist merely in bury ing the hatchet; it mutt in clude forgetting the burial place. Population rer capita tax 188.000.000 $531.00 'pilE California and Oregon budgets are for the next BIENNIUM. and a biennium is a period of TWO years. The federal budget we are looking at is for the next FISCAL YEAR. To be properly com parable, the federal per capita budget should be doubled, bringing it to $1062. ie SSL ntinues Aid to Many s Tightening Ties With Them Gaulle's visions for Africa could bring him into new con flict with the United States and Britain. Nucleus of De Gaulle's Afri ca would be the French-speaking community of new Afri can nations into which France has poured both money and lives and with which she has maintained remarkably stable and friendly relations. Even Guinea, the lone dis senter who rejected member ship in the French commu nity, shows signs of returning at least partially to the fold. President Sekou Toure, who once said Guinea would Communications Letter! to the Editor must bear the nam 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 mutt not exceed 400 wordt. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Protect Shrines To the Editor: Do you know what foreign organization has arranged a $44 million loan to erect an apartment build ing in Washington, D. C? Do you know that they plan a building which will rise to a height in excess of the 155 foot Washington Memorial, and higher than the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials? Do you know there is a zoning ordinance which pre vents the constructions of buildings which will over shadow our national shrines? Do you know that a so called nonprofit organization is planning an ayempt to amend the zoning ordinance to allow the erection of this apartment building? If you feel that our nation al shrines should be protect ed, write now to: The Board of Zoning Adjustment Samuel Scrivener Jr., Chairman District Building Washington, D. C. V. L. Armstrong 714 Park Medford Similar Bills Defeated To the Editor: Would like lo commend E.A. for his forth right and timely editorial (2-5) in which he shows up the in consistency of a new bill now before our State legislature ostensibly proclaiming Sun day as a day for family rest and play, and forbidding the sale of certain articles on that day. In the last few weeks similar bills have been de feated in Montana, Idaho and Utah, and it is hoped that our own state will do so promptly and overwhelmingly. While the proponents of the bill may stoutly deny it, call ing it a health measure, it can be readily seen that should this become law, it could open the way for defi nite steps toward the union of church and state, which our constitution and the Word of God plainly forbids. Notwithstanding Mr. Cud dy's recent counsel to refrain from quoting Scripture in these columns 1 would like to include Christ's words regard ing this matter here: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesars, and unto God the things which are God's." Luke 20:25. Let's not only keep Oregon green, but free, and clean from anything which suggests coercion in matters regarding our relationship to our Mak er. Harold J. Reith 113 Briggs Building . . Shady Cove, Ore. On Consolidation To the Editor: I attended the public meeting last month at the courthouse, which was to air the proposed consolida tion ot the Talent Phoenix .... 1 .if.;, "What da you ctre? Let tou ee I Y HI 5 ' ' -Si; Twill wWm prefer poverty in freedom to riches in slavery," is ex pected to visit France this year. The French record of aid to its past and present over seas territories is impressive.J Nearly 40,000 French teachers work in countries scattered throughout t he world. She built three uni versities in Algeria and con tributed to higher education in Morocco and Tunisia. More than 20,000 students from developing countries at tend universities in France. In 1961, more than 10,000 African students were enroll school District with Medford 549C. The last two or three years we had petitions and meetings to try and change the boundary of the districts, and failing in objective, these same area residents have come up with the consolida tion idea. I feel that when people buy or build a home, it is their obligation to find out if they are in the area or school district where they want to educate their chil dren, rather than build then start to rebuild the lines of school districts which have been established for many years. I am a resident of Medford and own a home which we bought four years ago, ex pecting to retire and live here the rest of our time. Since we bought this home, which is an older home, not a new one, five outlaying dis tricts have been consolidated with 549C and we have had two raises in taxes, of $40 and $30 since we bought and the assessor says it is due to school taxes. Now this new area is being proposed for consolidation. I wonder what the outcome would be with more added. I feel that a school is no different than any business, it can get too big and spread out. I wonder how many voters stop to real ize what it costs to operate those large busses at such long distances. I know that the Talent and Phoenix schools are excellent schools and should not be having to keep their guard up to pre vent being encroached upon bv the larger schools. This election to be held Feb. 11 should have a good number of voters turn out, whether you vote for or against it. When the five schools were taken in the number of votes cast in the City of Medford were so few that it was a disgrace to see the lack of interest taken in school problems. E. S. Robbins 44 North Peach St. Medford Intelligence To the Editor: Do radio ad vertisers ever wonder what type of listener turns to news casts? People that want news do not wish to be entertained at the same time. They want to be informed. Surely they have some intelligence. When one hears "One mo ment please," there is no doubt about what is coming. It is a sheer waste of time and money. The interruption is annoying. The inevitable repetition is wearying. The only intelligent per sons in any community ask them yourselves are the members of the advertising fraternity. David Frisch P.O. Box 292 White City, Ore. Spacemen and Violets To the Editor: In reading the various letters to the ed itor, concerning this charac ter, ornehnH.r nampj Al L3r i id rn n. -. r-iT-i Dt Gaulle be Napoleon. caesar!" African ed in French universities, en. gineering schools and bust ness schools. Since the beginning of the century, France has built more than 190,000 miles of roads in Africa south of the Sahara, and on both sides of the Sahara nearly 10,000 miles of railroads. There hava been, in addition, bridges, tunnels, dams and around 30 modern ports such as at Al giers, Casablanca and Cona kry. D Gaulle's allies may have reason for annoyance with him. But De Gaulle also has his arguments. I have reached the conclusion the reason the rest of us hava not had the misfortune is be cause we fail to hold our faces right, or our bifocals need ad justment. Would you like to meet some down to earth people, who look and act as though they are from another planet? Some day have the fortune of meeting one of us earthlings interested in African violets. That little plant, discovered 60 years ago, hyberdized and plant bred, brought from Af rica to America, has changed some of our lives completely. Some of us are like an alco holic. Those plants with their various intriguing leaves and flowers so impress us, we us ually have to have one more, People who live such dull lives and have to create ex citement by creating soma character from their imagina tion should find themselves an interesting hobby. Many people tend to forget, even a scientist can become bored with his way of life and desire excitement, even if its short lived. Mrs. Delbert Casey Route 1, Box 358 Central Point, Ore. Hating and Hens To the Editor: The uproar over hazing at U. of O. fra ternity houses brought such a rash of hilarious incidents lo print I must join the mirth ful melee. In 1919 at the University of Nevada, Reno, 20 of us re turned World War I veterans opened the little school's first frat house. The school year under way, our Chapter de termined to entertain the male faculty at a chicken din ner. Our moral (?) mentors decided It would be a waste of money to buy chickens when we frosh could steal them. We eight freshmen won dered how, when and where. Two recent aviators, tiring of our talk, equipped us with gunny sacks and demanded action. They got it. We crept into our prosperous neigh bors' hen houses at dusk. I grabbed a tomcat roosting peacefully with the hens in one spot. His terrific yowl alerted the neighborhood and I ran wildly into a clothes line, was knocked flat and narrowly escaped. When the returns were in we had 71 chickens cackling in our basement. We needed only 20. Sunday it was my courteous duty to serve the visiting professors. Pari way round on the meat course I heard three of our honored guests excitedly relating how hoodlums had stolen some of their pedigreed layers. I rushed from the room strangling with suppressed laughter. We were feeding our savants their own chickens! That ended fraternal foraging in that house and all hazing of that type. William Thomas Cuddy V.A. Domiciliary While City, Ore. Never Go Back helpful to many voters who are finding it difficult to de cide whether or not to vote for tile consolidation of Phoenix and Medford school districts for me to tell of my experience. When 1 lived in the Griffin Creek district and the consol idation of our school was to be decided, many of us at first were against it. However after the consolidation was made we found the benefits were many so we would never want to go back to the pre vious status. (Name on file) Rogue Valley Manor Medford Study Bill To the Editor: House Bill 1263 presented in the House of Representatives should be iiidicd carefully by those people who are interested in naving a voice in what is done in their communities. Annexation by cilics without a vote of the people is wrong and not according to our dem ocratic way ct governing. Mrs. Wllma Cummingj, Route 3, Box 452. Medford
