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Newspaper Page Text4 A MONDAY. Ivryon la Southern OregoB lUads The Mail Tribune" fuoliihed Dally except Saturday 07 MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S3 North XU-.pliJ'!'-1ti " ROBERT W. RUHU Editor HERB GREY AdverUslns Manatee GERALD T ITHAMTBua ,W ERIC W ALLEN JRTMnj. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Miter HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women"! Miter PALE CR1CK3QN, ClrculaUon Mr An Independent Newspaper Cntcrcd aa second data matter i Mediord. Oregon, under Act 01 March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. .,.. Daily end Sunday 1 yeirllj.00 Daily and Sunday mo. 10 00 Daily end Sunday S mo. .00 Sunday OnlyOne er W-00 Sine le Copy (Malledl 0e By Carrier And Motor "oute. Dally nd Sunday 1 year 111 .00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. IM Sunday Only 1 mo. soo Carrier and Vendor Covr L00 ffrrtclal Papar of City of Medford Official Paper of, jacjwnotinty United Prea Interntlonl rull Leaed Wire V. P. I. Telephoto Newsplcturee "MEMBER 6r AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS aidvertiaina RepreaentaUve: NELSON ROBERTS It : ASSOCI ATES Of'lce In New York. Chi cago. Detroit, San rrandaco, Lo Ancele. Seattle. Portland. Denver. NATIONAL EDITORIAL NEWSPAMR tPUtllSHIRS ''ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribuna 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Fob. 11, 19S3 (Mondiy) A tall Canadian rancher from Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, was the 100,000th Jacksonville Museum visitor at about noon on Thursday. Fire early Saturday destroy ed the Red Barn restaurant on Highway 09 south of Medford. Z0 YEARS AGO Fb. 11, 1943 (Saturday) Glenn L. Jackson, Medford, advanced to rank of major In Army Air force. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: !'tn rootins the foe off of Guaral- canal the Navy reports 6,066 Japs kicked the Hon. Bucket." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 11, 1933 (Monday) Judge Skipworth of Eugene to arrive In Medford to hear ballot recount case in race for sheriff. Rep. Edward C. Kelly, Med ford, offers chain store tax measure In state legislature. 40 YEARS AGO Fob. 11, 1923 (Tuesday) Ku Klux Klan disorders trial to start in county court house in Jacksonville next Monday. City starts crackdown on automobile speeding; many speeders in city justice court. SO YEARS AGO Fab. 11, 1913 (Thursday) W. H. Gore, just returned from Salem, reports there Is little chance of construction of stale highway in this area during coming year. Madame Lillian Nordica, "Metropolitan opera star," warmly received in concert at Natatorlum. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct h superler; seven or eifht It oacellent) (Ira at is too. I. Name the three cities that have served as capitals of the United States. 2. Who is majority leader of the United States Senate? 3. What famous painter is credited with inventing the wheelbarrow? 4. What movie won the Academy Award for 1960? S. Where are genuine Pane rna hats made? 6. la General Charles de Gaulle the Premier, Prime Minister or President of France? 7. What famous character did not want to grow up ac cording lo the story? 8. How many sides docs a snow flake have? 0. What is the shortest Psalm in the Bible? 10. When was the Anicri- can Clipper Ship Era? Answers: 1. Washington, D. C, New York City and Phila dephia. 2. Mika Mansfield Montana. 3. Leonardo da Vin ci. 4. Ban Hur. S. Equador President. 7. Pater Pan, Six. 9. 117th. 10. 18S0 1860. ONE MORE TO GO Camden, Maine- fllrii -Osca Grinncll, SS, went water ski 1ng Sunday in Camden liar bor wearing thermal res- cult suit and a life preserver even though the temperature was 32 degrees. Grinnell needs only next month's trip to complete his goal of skiing in each of 12 consecutive months in Maine waters. FEBRUARY II, IMS A Celebration The Rogue river valley was covered with glory the other day with the news that a hardy group of Southern Oregon college students had broken the national kite flying record. We confess with a certain embarrassment that we were ignorant a kite flying record even existed. It's so difficult to keep up with things these day?. . xiictbB wuy we wcie an wic utuic iiiiiucu tu learn that not only did our own SOC students know of the record ; they were sufficiently chal lenged by it to go right out and smash it to smithereens. 1XE DID just a bit of checking and we're proud ' to pass on to you the information that this was definitely an extra-curricular undertaking. There is absolutely no truth to those stories being spread about that: 1. The kite was flown periment for a class in meteorology. 2. The students were history majors attempt ing to verify the story of how Ben Franklin flew a kite and discovered electricity. No sir. This was just American fun, and had no nection whatsoever. 1E SAW a story the other day by one of the wire service correspondents in Russia, who said that hordes of young Muscovites, eager to break the newly established record, may be seen daily now on the hills around the Soviet capital, determinedly practicing their kite flying. There is a rumor too, international Olympic committee is giving seri ous thought to including kite flying among its approved list of competitive sports and games. We would like to suggest to the college ad ministration that a two or three day moratorium from tests and studies on the campus be pro claimed so that proper celebration can be made of the record-breaking kite-flying achievement. (i.n.o. Kiddies Special Georgia is upset about the state's homicide law, which makes it possible to execute a fellow now in death row. He was 15 when he committed his crime. That is five years older than he would have had to be under the Georgia law, which permits execution of criminals as young as 10. Sixteen states set 7 as the minimum age at which a criminal may be executed. Three others put the age at 8. In the last half century at least 70 teenagers have been executed in tne United States. The vountrest was a 14 - vear death in South Carolina executed a 17-year-old "OREGON is more enlightened. The present juvenile code makes it virtually impossible that a child of under 16 t is unlikely that this fate of 18, although it might. Many young boys in convicted of homicide,, serves, only one has been was a 17-year-old Hood Paul Fatterson commuted the sentence to lite im prisonment because of the boy's age. Currently, however, send to the gas chamber she committed her crime. advanced than West Virginia was in 1912. Eu gene Register-Guard "Psychologists Have you ever thought you would like to be a psychologist? It's easy in Oregon these days. Just list yourself in the telephone book as a psychologist and start in, even if you don't know the difference between a psyche and a spittoon. Or in cities which require a business license get one and call yourself a "licensed psychologist." 1 hat has been done in the state but efforts are now being made to assure that those who call themselves psychologists A BILL in the legislature by Sen. Alfred Cor bett, (D-Portland), and others seeks to control unqualified and improper practice of the profes sion. It calls for the certification of psychologists similar to that required in 22 other states includ ing Washington and California. Under the bill a person who calls himself a psychologist or describes himself with phrases involving the words "psychological," "psycho logist" or "psychology" would need certification. The measure asked by the Oregon Psycho logical Association is described as a certification bill, not a licensing one. yo BE considered for certification a person must hold a doctoral degree with primary emphasis in psychology and have two years of post-doctoral experience in psychology. The practice of psychology is described as the "application of established principles of learn ing, motivation, perception, thinking and cmo tional relationships to problems of personal eval uation, group relations by persons trained m psychology. A special provision is written into the bill which would require that when a certified psy chologist engages in psychotherapy he is to "col laborate with a physician" in order to make pro vision for diagnosis and treatment of medical problems. Capital Journal, Salem. as part of a field ex good, clean, youthful serious academic con we understand, that the - old Netrro bov nut to in 1944. West Virginia Negro girl in lSJlz. would be executed here. would come to a youth their teens have been although, if memory sentenced to death. He River youth. Governor Oregon is preparing to a girl who was 19 when We re two years more to go into the profession have adequate training. and behavior adjustments "The Delinquency Problem Must Be Feced- We've Cot To Build More Jii" 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 l!- paper. In fact the contrary is oflen the case. Good Record To the Editor: I am pleased and happy to report that the Southern Pacific Railroad. placed "first" in the Class "A" American Railroads dur ing 1061 for setting out hot boxes, thus saving the rail roads and shippers millions of dollars in damages plus many lives. Supt. Kirk of the Tucson division says: "If the South ern Pacific's record of h o t box setouts was 66 per cent better than the average of all American railroads up to June 23, 1061, it must be assumed that this carrier is still a lead er in this category." The Southern Pacific Co. can attribute this honor and high score against burned off journals and terrible wrecks to two things: (1) alert and fine train and engine crews (2) Oregon and many other states where SP lines have the bulk of their roads have the famous Full Crew Law of six men (1 fireman, 1 engineer. 1 conductor, 2 brakemen and 1 flagman) ever watching their train for hot boxes, while many eastern stales only have 1 brakeman and 1 flagman on their crew, thus the heavy losses and terrible wrecks caused by burned off Journals. People of Oregon should be proud of our full crew law known as Oregon Public Law No. ORS 764.120. The Oregon railroads seek to abolish this law this legislature 1963. "Don't let this happen." Al Fisher Legislative Representative, Oregon Legislative Board Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen 1310 West 18th ave. Eugene, Ore. Clean Air To the Editor: Also the sign en on the mill situation (MT Feb. 1): My heart is with you as we were also plagued with the same thing (minus the pond) but with plenty of smoke. We also tried to obtain help from our township, county and state officials, with each passing the buck to the other, Finally as a last resort we petitioned the Industrial Com. mission, and thank God, we again breathe the fresh clean air. Good luck and may you also win In your battle. Mrs. Keith Hammond DeSoto, Wise. All Out Atomic War To Uie Editor: There will be no grass growing and no birds singing in the trees. No farmers tilling the soil No sleek fat cattle grazing in the pastures. Shepherds never more to lead their flocks. Only rubble where church' es, homes and schools once stood. The stench of the rotting thousands of dead assail the nostrils of those who were able to reach shelters. Then finally come out to a destroy cd world. No animals, birds, bees flowers, plants or trees The culture of all nation blasted away. Only the rubble strew skeletons of all countries left as an eternal monument attest to the brilliant minds of men. What an ignoble end' Pauline Baker Kirk 123 Chestnut st. Mcdtord. Hacking at Freedom To the Editor: Your edl torial, "Never on Sunday'' I S-63) should remove the cob webs from the minds of the legislators and Dr. G. Herbert Smith. If they keep hackin away at our freedoms, will soon have to move to some other planet and start all over again, it appears now that before we elect or ap- point anyone as law-makers we ought to first make them take a psychiatric examina tion and a lie-detector test. Soon we will have a law to protect us from elephants trampling on our lawns, all cars will not only have to have seat belts but also escape hatches Just in case we plunge into a lake. No one will be 1 lowed to work in his garden without a hat on his head to protect him from sun-stroke. We will also have to rest on Sundays whether we are tired or not. Each unnecessary new law that we can do without takes away a little bit more of our freedom and then makes it so much easier to force the next one on us. I don't honestly believe a letter of protest would really do as much good as most of us think, unless it was from president of some university or the like. But just in case it would help, it might be worth a try before they strangle us with a law to pre vent us irom protesting to the law-makers or anyone else. John P. Gascon Route 1, Box 310-B Central Point, Ore. Closa Out" Sal To the Editor: On Feb. 7 this year, I noticed a large trailer load of new furniture being delivered to a Medford furniture store. This store has been closed for several weeks. Signs on the doors have stated that closure was forced by cedi- tors. It has been brought to my attention that a sales promo tion Is soon going to "close out" this store. I think it is highly unethi cal to advertise, or "close out," a business and at the same time, bring in large amounts of ' merchandise to sell to people, on the pretext mat mis is part of "fore closure stock." The type of merchandise brought in is purchased es pecially for this type of sale, and can be sold at a handsome profit at so-called "going out of business" prices. The buyers of such prod ucts are also left without serv ice, warranty or recourse. I contend that local people should be protected from being hoodwinked by this type of selling. Herb Ellis 128 Ashland st. Medford CrfVC.eVfi V.!i.MeiTS. mmm .1 W "Left tea . . . if we hid another big world crisii. that would reunite the Atlantic Alliance and help tht Com mon Market 'count, lt'd scar tht htll out of tht common man!" MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Foreign News: Watch Against De Gaulle's Veto of Britain By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst British Counterattack Watch for a possible sudden counterattack against French President Charles de Gaulle's veto of Brit- ain'a entry in to the Com mon Market. M e m b era of Parli a m e n t from all three of Bri t a i n's major parties are convinced that cancella tion of Prin xewsoaa cess Margaret's scheduled visit to Paris next month shows Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's deep anger at Washington Report By William (c) United Feature Syndicate LYING DOGGO Washington The United States government is lying strictly doggo in the Canad- 1 a n political crisis which has driven Prime Minis ter John Dief enbaker from office, accus ing us of hav ing butted in t o Canada's internal af fairs. Our of ficial fingers have been pain fully singed by Canadian in dignation; and as to Mr. John Diefenbaker's forthcoming campaign to win back power we wish only to be included out. Nevertheless, the hard real ity which produced all the trouble the persistent re fusal of the Diefenbaker gov ernment to carry through with us on vital arrangements for the Joint nuclear defense of North America will not go away. OUR people are sorry they had to call attention to this matter and call at tention to they did only after Mr. Diefenbaker had com pounded years of foot-dragging by grave misrepresenta tions of the whole case. But our people cannot and must not apologize for the facts of life in North America. If anybody is threatening inlru tion into the affairs of Can ada, it is not the United Slates of America but rather the Union of Soviet Socialist Re publics. Nor will the real and essen tial question be altered one whit by Canadian resentment or by American efforts to salve that resentment. The great question remains, tow ering high: will Canada now Join effectively with us in the joint defense of this continent, or will she not? This is an issue as far above ordinary politics and hurt feelings as survival is above pride and protocol. TO SEEK to extract the ker nel of absolute justice from all this is academic. There is, for example, no doubt that generally speaking the United States has long taken Canada far too much for granted. But there is also no doubt, in the mind of one American columnist who re members with a certain grate ful intimacy the valor and comradeship of the Canadian troops in the last war, that Secretary of State Dean Rusk had not only a right but a compelling duty to call Mr. Difenbaker at last to account. Rusk is, after all. President Kennedy's principal deputy in the cold war. And upon him lies a cruel burden of respon sibility not only for the Unit ed States but also for this good neighboring country, Canada, so Inextricably bound de Gaulle. "Charley boy's got Mac's Scottish temper up," one Conservative party mem ber of Parliament said. Some Conservative members are predicting that Macmillan quietly will seek the advice of Sir Winston Churchill for pointers on how to "put de Gaulle in his place." Since Churchill, along with the late President Franklin D. Roose velt, was no wartime admirer of de Gaulle, Macmillan should get some enthusiastic suggestions as to where to place the needle. In taking any steps against de Gaulle, Macmillan is expected to work in close cooperation with the United States, Can ada, other members of the commonwealth, and de S. Whit with us in a problem of de fense which is indivisible. Secretary Rusk's qualified apology that he is sorry for the tone of his statement but cannot go back on its truth was a manful exercise. Speak ing bluntly, it was more than generous. A ND IT is profoundly to be hoped that the resulting outcry will not scare him off in future from the high duty of pointing out any persistent and avoidable weakness in the western shield, wherever it may arise and whoever may feel hurt thereby. Somebody has got to stand sentinel, and he is elected to the post of guard. It is exceedingly important. therefore, that no one should reach the simple conclusion that Dean Rusk was simply a bad boy in this episode. For Mr. Diefenbaker is trying lo set here a perilous and an in tolerable precedent. If one partner in a joint enterprise cannot complain of the ob vious failure of another part ner to deliver on his promises without being accused of 'meddling," we shall wind up in a Dad tlx, indeed. Mr. Diefenbaker's crv of American "intrusion" into Canadian affairs is totally wrong. For these are not "Canadian affairs" any more than they are "American af fairs." They are the joint af fairs of both countries. A small, parenthetical irony In it all is that the same man Rusk who is often mut tered at here for being too gentlemanly and unaggressive is denounced in this case for being too aggressive. Some days you can't win. Strictly Personal By Sydney (c) Field Enterprises, inc. THE SICK COMIC "I can't understand the rise of those 'sick' comics," said a man the other day. "They at tack every thing, and they're against ever ything. They seem to take a per verse pleasure in turning all our tradition al values up side down." As a matter of fact, 1 happened to be reading the comment of a famous 'sick comic" not long ago. His bitterness, his cynicism, his rancor, his iconoc'asm, were evident in everything he said. He was irreligious: "All re ligions issue Bibles against Satan, and say the most in jurious things against him, but we never hear his side." He was misanthropic: "All that I care to know is that a man is a human being that is enough for me; he can't be any worse. He was contemptuous of the American success story: "All you need in this life is ignor ance, and confidence, and then success is sure." Ht mocked our social con ventions: "Good breeding coniistt in concealing how much wt think oi ourselves, and how little wt think ot others." Ht dtspistd our political system: "Ain't wt got all tht fools in town on our idt, ain't that a big tnough majority in any town?" He deprtcattd our Amer ican institutions: "In our country wt havt those thret unsptakably precious thingi: freedom oi speech, freedom oi conscience, and the prudence never lo prac tice either." Ht attacktd our civic lift: "In tht first pltet God made idiots; thia was for p r a c I i c t; then ht made school boards." He maligned the U. S. Con gress: "It could probably be shown by (acts and figures for Counterattack Gaulle's own Common Mar ket partners, all of whom would like to see Britain in the European economic group ing. Atomic Subs The United States will find it neither quick nor easy to get permission for its Nautilus-type atomic-powered sub marines to call at Japanese ports, despite official Japa nese government friendliness to the idea. Formal permis sion right now is being de layed, ostensibly pending a study into precautions and compensation for accidents. But the Japanese people, meaning the voters, have a deep-seated revulsion against atomic weaponry of any sort that stems back to their ex periences at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Some people are arguing that the Nautilus, being a warship, and being atom-powered, is an atomic weapon, even though it does not carry nuclear warheads. The argument may sound In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, there is BIG news for which let us give humble but heart-Ielt thanks. The BIG news gives us all the shivers as well it may. NEVER BEFORE did man hold in his hands the power to destroy the world. SPEAKING of power, British Historian Dr. Arnold J. Toynbee, visiting in this coun try, is interviewed by a re ported who asks him what he thinks of de Gaulle. He re plies: "French President Charles de Gaulle's attitude is in keep ing with a general dislike of AMERICA'S FINGER ON THE ATOMIC TRIGGER." He adds: "De Gaulle's feeling and that of the rest of the Western world is NO ANNIHILA TION WITHOUT REPRE SENTATION. And this is the crux of America's somewhat strained relations with de Gaulle, with Canada, and sometimes with my own coun try (Britain.)" HE'S probably right. Nobody likes to see su preme power in SOMEBODY ELSE'S hands. BUT It was that way when Toynbee's country ruled the waves when all that was necessary to squash impend ing trouble anywhere in the J. Harris that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress." He derided eccelesiastical authority: "A man is accepted into church for what he be lieves, and he is turned out for what he knows." He perverted our moral ax ioms: The moral sense en ables one to perceive morality and avoid it; the immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it." He expressed contempt for old age: "Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow." He scorned the pretensions of friendship: "It takes your enemy and your friend, work ing together to hurt you to Try and By BENNETT CERF- SEVERAL YEARS after she had married Charles Mac Arthur, stage star Helen Hayes announced to him and ' their young son James that cooking lessons, and pro posed to cook dinner for them that very evening. "If I spoil it," she order ed, "I don't want to hear a word from either of you. We'll just get up from the table, without comment, and go to a restaurant for dinner." A short time later, she entered the dining room, bearing aloft the first steak she ever had cook ed. Mr. MacArthur and son Jamie were sitting in silence at the table with their hats and coats on. From the limerick collection of Fnuuc arid Eliot Sharp: When the Lord made the fierce pterodactyl Ht was not satisfied, for a fact, till On sunshiny day Ht made man out of day To improve the arts plastic and tactile. An enchanting but temperamental little girl of t received t phone call from a schoolmate the other evening. "Please call ma back In ten mtnut-" ihe requested. "I'm In the middl of $ tantrum," C USX. by Beaastt Cert. Distributed by Klaf Tetturo (bnlleaM silly, but the feeling is serious and the politicians know it. No Agreement There is little hope for an early nuclear test ban agree ment at the East-West talks which resume in Geneva Tues day, Feb. 12. The recent test ban probe in Washington which was terminated by the Soviets, after talks with the United States and Britain, gave no indication that the Russians are prepared to meet the West's insistence on effec tive arrangements against cheating. Furthermore, it looks as though the Russians now may want to mark time to see what happens in the problem-beset Western camp. French President Charles de Gaulle has spotlighted those difficulties with his go-it-alone policy for Europe. And Moscow may want to conduct a probing operation in Geneva to see just how deep this Western rift runs before mak ing any commitment on tests, disarmament or other cold war issues. world was for the British fleet to arrive and square away for action. That period in history was known as the Pax Brittanica (the peace of Britain). It was preceded historically by the Pax Romana (the peace of Rome). Both Britain and Rome have gone over the hill. What we have now is pre sumably the Pax Americana. QUESTION: How long will it last? Both the Pax Romana and the Pax Brittanica lasted for generations. Let's hope the Pax Americana lasts at least as long. QUESTIONS: What of this modern world which may come to be known to future historians as the Pax Americana? What will it be like? l?OR a possible answer, let's turn to Cottoge Grove, where last week a union of ficial told an audience of plan ners for the future that auto mation is advancing so fast that soon there will be com puters that will PUT OTHER COMPUTERS OUT OF WORK. He went on to say: 'DECISION MAKING ma chines may in a few years take over the jobs of thou sands of engineers, scientists and technologists-not to men tion MANAGERS. Our tech nology is moving faster than our social conscience to take care of the people. In the next 10 years, some 41Vi million people will be out of work unless that many NEW jobs are created." IIHO is he? He is Irving Bluestone, ad ministrative assistant to Walt er Reuther, chief of the Unit ed Automobile Workers Un ion. He spoke at the first day meeting of the Pacific North west Assembly, sponsored by the University of Oregon in cooperation with the Ameri can Assembly at Columbia university. The Assembly is consider ing the impact of automation and technological change on the economy. the heart, the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you." The name of this sick com ic? America's favorite for a century. The fun-loving, irre pressible, national figure, Mark Twain. Stop Me she had secretly been taking