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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
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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
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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