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Newspaper Page TextinunWAii ""''liveryone in Southern Oregon BeadiThcMaUTriIune' published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO S3 North FirSl, Ph77;i-614l " ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bui Mir ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mm Editor EARL U ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporla Editor OLIVE SI ARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON. ClrculaUon Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter It Medlord. Oregon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Daily ind Sunday I yeirtlB OO Daily and Sundiy 8 moi 10.00 n-ilu anH Knnriav -3 mol. 5.00 Sunday Only One year 15.00 Single Copy (Mailed! aoe bu rnrriM And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year MJ-00 Dally ana aunaay i niw ' CunHuv Dnlv I mo. DOC Carrier ind Vendor! -j:opy loo Official Piper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jacasun County United Prese International Full Leased Wire I). P 1 Telephoto Newsplcturei MEMBER or AUUli Duntnu OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES Of'icel In New York. Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco, Lol Angeln Seattle. Portland Denver. NEWSPAPER PUILISHEKS ASSOCIATION EDITORIAL SbcrATlSiN Z) KJ U f.'.U.'.lUI Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file! of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 21. 1953 (Thunday) Frank J. Van Dyke, Med -I BtiA,n.u hnn heen elect ed president of the Medford Hotary clue. Prospect and St. Marys will open the Jackson county rj hluh erhnnl basketball league tournament here next week. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 21. 1943 (Tuegday D. O. Graham, James Hoey and William F. Scheuman, all o! Medford, leave for San Francisco and Tacoma to take examinations for entrance in to U.S. Military academy. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Thirty risiva huth Sentcmbcr. April, June and November; all the rest huve thirty-one, until w hear from Washington." 30 YEARS AGO Fab. 21. 1933 (Thunday) Jackson County Sheriff Gordon L. Schermerhorn, Chief Jailer John Glenn, Ash land, and others jailed as bal lot theft suspects. Medford Hifle club starts purchasing ammunition at its own expense after federal government drops aid to all such organizations. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 21. 1923 (Friday) First "nightriding" case ex pected to get under way soon on circuit court in Jackson ville. Mayor Earl Gaddis, with bucking of city council, fires entire Medford fire depart ment and names Roy Elliott as chief. SO YEARS AGO Feb. 21. 1913 (Sunday) Medford Street Commit- sioner Owney Patton rcporls approaches have been filled for new bridge over Bear creek on East Main st. O. G. Vroman, Medlord outfits motorcycle to carry 100 pounds of mail for "rapid fire rural deliveries. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct ii superior; seven or eight il excellent; five or six il good. 1. Identify these Toms; the skeptical Tom of the Bible the larcenous Mother Goose Tom. 2. A fish cannot live in wa ter that has been boiled; true or false? 3. Do the tradewinds blow from southeast, southwest northeast or northwest (two)? 4. What presently impris oncci labor leaders name rhymes with the term for eight quarts dry measure? 8. What famous Revolution ary War lady bore the maid en name of Elizabeth Gris- com? 6. In the nursery talc, who went to London to sec the Queen ? 7 What stale is directly south of South Dakota' o. is bpringneirl. Ill, or Memphis , Tenn., further west? 9. According to legend what infants were suckled by a wolf and fed by i wood pecker? 10. What historic and po etic event started on April 18? Answarsi 1. Doubting Thomas, Tom, lorn the Pi per's son, 2, True. 3. S.E. and N.E, 4. Dava Back. (Pack) S. Beliy Ross. 6. Pussy eat, pus sy cat. 7. Nabraika. 8, Mem phis. 9. Romulus and Ramus. 10. Paul Rivera's rid. NATIONAL tLsnUAni tl, molt Let It A legislative committee has tabled the so called "Liberty Amendment." It is to be com mended. This bit of know-nothingism is the tired old "23rd Amendment" dressed up in new clothes, and, despite the fact that it has been approved by legislatures in a few less enlightened states, deserves short shrift from anyone who knows, or cares, about the realities In brief, it would repeal the 16th Amendment to the U.b. Constitution, and take the federal government out of all enter prises not specifically mentioned in the Constitu tion. v It would, in short, tion, turn the nation's and disrupt everything ice and Bureau of Land Management, to the space program. X7HAT is it doing in TT Well, knowing full well that no Congress would ever pass such a suicidal and asinine pro posal, the proponents, stemming from the ultra- conservative end of the political spectrum, are usincr the device of getting state legislatures to petition ior tne enactment 01 the proposed amendment to the Constitution. If two thirds of all the states make such ap plication Congress must convene a constitutional convention. Should this convention then adopt such an amendment, it would be returned to the states for ratification. If ratified by three fourths of them, it would be adopted as part of the Con stitution, ONLY a few more things need to be said: This proposal is ludicrous; it would make a shambles of orderly government at a time when we need every bit of intelligence and balanced authority we can muster It doesn't stand a prayer of being adopted oy two iniras 01 tne states, let alone Deintr rati fied by three fourths of .Because 01 these facts, would do well to save its thing die swiftly. E.A. Tax Filing Fee We received a friendly other day, which read, in "... I wonder if you will do a favor for a lot of us common folks; use your pen to blast the contemp lated $5 tax filing fee. Tell them to get on the tails ot those chaps in Salem and kill the bill. Not too many of us have an extra five floating around, and when the Mrs. and I do, we'd a damn sight rather spend it on a needy neighbor kid then send It to Salem for , so-called expenses." Well, offhand, we find it impossible to fulfill tnis request, and lor several different but related reasons. . One is that we know, for a fact, that the state's need for additional tax funds for the com ing biennium is real, not phoney. N LAYING out a tax program, it is easy to say soak tne rich, and "tax according to ability pay." But this doesn't always make for a crood to and fair tax program, nor, equally important, does it always raise the amount of money needed to operate tne state and the services it performs, the most important of which is in education. A Yo tax tiling fee may or may not be a fair ay to "spread the burden" and "broaden the w ase," or even to obtain tax income from those ,'ho otherwise would nay nothinc as their sharp of the state's expenses. Ut ana. by itself we see but little merit in the proposal. But, in combination with other tax pro gram features, it might very well be desirable. Ar'n t . i . .. vv e ii nave 10 examine tne recommendations of the house taxation committee before we are in a position to judge. This much we do know, however, and it is that all Oregonians had best be prepared to pay somewhat more in taxes, unless they are also int- i ....... ; i ii i ' ciicu iu m:u state services notaoiy education damaged. E.A. Deer Guard Who among those who have driven western highways at night has not rience of seeing bright ii om me nignway or roadside ahead; Deer, when blinded bv headliirhts. usually "freeze." And if they do so in front of a speeding car, the result can be disastrous, not only for the deer but for the motorist, too. Quite a number of nignt-diiving motorists their car struck a deer. No one seems to have thought of a way of countering this danger, except to put up warning signs in areas where deer Ireqiiently cross the road. IN THE Netherlands, however, it seems they have the same problem, and have come up with an idea which reportedly helps. The National Wildlife Federation reports thai the wily Dutch are mounting small mirrors on lender posts placed in from each other in places frequented by deer. The mirrors are angled so that they reflect head light beams into the woods. As a car approaches, these reflected beams sweep through the trees. At a distance of about SO feet, the beams are greatly enlarged, and, "when the deer get such eyes they freeze, and the wonder if it would t Die of the world of today. abolish the income tax, effectively disarm the na- economy into a'tailspin, from the U.S. forest Serv , the Oregon legislature? in a dangerous world, them. the Oregon legislature breath and let the silly note from a reader the part, as follows: had the startlintr expe and shining eyes staring have been killed when twos across the hiehwav the report continues, a flash of light in their accident is prevented." work in Oregon? E.A. ( MLUtOflO High-Price Spread ... Communications ... Letters lo lht Editor must 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 the contrary is often the case. Differing View To the Editor: I notice a great many letters reach the editorial desk which place great emphasis upon religion as a restorative for man's many ills. Usually, the Bible is quoted stressing this bit of literature as "the Word of God." I, too, find a great deal of Interest in religion, and in the book that largely upholds the Christian religion, along with that of Israel. Very good, I am surel However, I am one who does not regard religion as it reaches man as being im posed upon man by God Him self. I verily believe that all religions, past and present, have served and do serve a very good purpose for man's uplift, easement of care, and useful as well, in many cases. as a guide book for living life to the best advantage. But 1 consider the "salva tion offering" they carry as largely temporal. Pardon me for differing with so many of you. F. C. Esteb, P.O. Box 342, Medford. Fatal Blow To the Editor: The noblest prize for urest asininity surely prize for purest asininity sure ly goes to John E. Ring for his as a righteous placation for future population explosion. Our great grandchildren would be emasculated and de feminized on receipt of their eighth grade diplomas so that tomorrow's petting would never lead to malinir. The uni versal law of the attraction of the sexes, prelude to procre ation, would be fully voided. Our God of all nature would be so offended, the very 'es prit des corps' of Man would be ended. Procreation may not be re moved from sex without end ing the pursuit of happiness. All music would be stilled as would all poets and all choirs. Life would be a scientific satiety. And legal sterilization would be a fatal blow to all natural security. And - were we living - we could no longer paen our Valley with our Matin: Oh God! Each wondrous morn I thank Thee 1 was born! William Thomas Cuddy, V.A. Domiciliary, White City, Ore. Dilferant Approach To the Editor: Yours was a article on Automation he. cause it dealt with an immerli. ate. pressing problem of flesh and blood people. It actually tackled the need Instead of dealing with theories, pre- cepts. the distant future. morals, and tradition. In short, people have to eat whether it is moral or not. I If an epidemic is raging now- adays. tile medical profession doesn't consider whether the course is traditional and con- forms with past-conceived principles; they tackle it I with scientific techniques 't is USA's only member whether the disease is moral, of the native Order Stercu- right, or whatever its course, liaciae. Paleobotanist T. A. D. they try to stamp 1' out. Cockerel!, discoverer of 2 It wasn't always that way. Dawn Roses found, however. The University of Paris in the fossil stericulias in the Colo nth Century, composed of ; rado Miocene of 30.000.on0 rareiuny cnoscn scnolars, spent their lives studying fun-1 damental principles to make i a unified whole out i learning of the tune. f the They I had a distrust of Immediate practical advantage and a fear of the mysterious and impending moral disaster ly ing in wait to destroy the na tional character of a people who deserted fundamental principles to gain present ends. The approved remedy for fever was bleeding to re lieve the obnoxious vapors I MAIL JHlBUnt, Mt-UtOHU, OKfcGON bear the name and address of and poisons in the body. Peo ple died from the treatment, but they died for a medical principle, so it was thorough ly worthwhile. In 1638 the Jesuits in Peru discovered quinine and had remarkably good results with it, but the U. of Paris de clared its use unconstitution al and banned the drug. For tunately, unlearned people kept forgetting the great moral principles involved and used it when concealed in other substances and admin istered by quacks. Nowadays physicians are more concerned with scienti fic techniques, but the old way controls most of our thinking about the body poli tic today. Techniques are overlooked in a search universal, eternal truths. for dif- Your approach was fcrent. Frank Crum White City, Ore. Science Is for the Girls To the Editor: Things have been added, as years go by, To keep us together and please the eye: There's a glow to our powder- and tint on our hair, And bumps for the bumps that just are not there. There's pills for the liquid that used to be blood. And pep pills to take to "cut up that rug." With all that to help and more on the way, Why worry for tomorrow let's live today. P.S. This is what happens when the fog rolls in and the office isn't busy-and the boss is out of town. Florence Deemer, 242 Vashti Way, Medford. Slop Worrying To the Editor: So many peo ple are worried about the possibility of over-population in the near future that I offer this comforting thought to allay their fears. Automation will take care of that problem. With auto matic gadgets doing most of the work in homes as well as in offices and factories, chil dren will become more and more a nuisance. There won't be anything for them to do. They will be in the way. Of necessity, families will be smaller. Stop your worry ing. David Frisch P.O. Box 292 White City, Ore. Cllm' I Changing To the Editor: Fremont fol ,owei Jcdcdiah Smith across 'Great American Desert." The Blble Ttcr camped where now ls Sacramento State col- lrsc- "s Arboretum grows rremonua raiiiornica, also F mexicana. Thereby a tale rremont crossed the Sier- ras' r reached a mountain la,pr named for him, ' Mt Fremont." In 1880s. writer ootanuing, lounn growing there this plant botanists had christened "Kremontia ?ri hko. tins wun Dawn Elephants. Dawn Camels. I Dawn Morses. His predictions about a Miocene tsetse tlv ending their existence alone would make him famous. This botanical family Lou is practically tropical. Repub lic of Panama s national tree is a Slericula. The order in cludes the cacao which yields our chocolate. Old Timer complains. "Cli mate is changing " Perhaps not in his generation. A paleo botanist, however, wonders Touchy Problems Remain, But Japan-Korea Relations Remain By PHIL NEWSOM UP1 Foreign News Analyst Former President Syngman Rhee of the Republic of Korea used to blow on his finger nails In sub- conscious memory of Japanese tor ture during his days as a Korean revo L5Ll lutionary u n d e r Japanese o c c u pation. Hatred of Ja- "arson p a n has, in fact, been a constant in the Korean emotional structure ever since the end of World War II which took Korea from the Japanese and made it an independent republic. It was Rhee who set the line on Korean fishing waters 60 miles off the Korean coast and regularly seized the crews and vessels of Japanese fisher men who violated it. After Rhee fell, both the civilian the writer, although under about stericulas in Colorado. Perhaps the climate has changed in 30,000,000 years. C. M. Goethe 3731 Tea st. Sacramento, Calif. Pollution To the Editor: Years ago, in 1913 to be exact, my family forded Bear creek at Main Street. We watered our team there. We had camped on the gravel bar near the ford just below the bridge. It seemed to be a beautiful stream. But look at it now. In the summer it is a slowly crawling sewer, full of scum and moss. We are spending money and la bor trying to clean up the mess. But lo and behold, we are getting ready to make a mess out of Ashland creek by pro moting a skiing area on Mt. Ashland. It has been suggest ed to spend county funds on building a two lane highway from the top of the Siskiyous to Mt. Ashland. Also to keep it open through the winter months. What will this do? The most of the soil is of a fine granite formation, through which water seeps very readily. So nere is the story. Open the road - let the litter bugs in (as we know they are the dirtiest and trash scatteringest people on earth). They will clean all the gar bage out of their cars and dump it on the snow, to decay and seep into Ashland creek. Il won't be long until Ashland creek will be full of slime and moss as it flows through Lilhia Park. This will be the swill that the people in Ashland will have to drink. Then fluori date. It seems to be spend money to clean up a mess and spend money to make a bigger one. E. E. Collom 629 Lozier Lane Medford Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c. Field Enterprises. Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES To ask the right question, it is necessary that we already know much of the answer; and those who do not know are perpetually condemned to be asking the wrong questions and getting no satisfactory re plies. One can always tell whin a criticism strikes home, for tha person criticised promptly gels angry and counterattacks; when it mines its mark, tha penon merely shrugi or smiles or calmly ignores it. Some people are incapab'.e of assuaging their own se cret doubts until they have persuaded others; in the very act of zealous conversion, they are stifling their own un certainties while kindling the beliefs of others When the Corporation speaks to tha Employe!, it customarily nyi thl things that it would like to hiar, and not what tha Employee would naceiiarily like to hear; thui tha failure of so much official communica tion designed to improre morale, increaie loyalty, and promote batter under standing. "In the final analysis" is a phrase only young men should use: men of middle age and over should know that there is no final analy sis. There is a saturnine truth. howeer we may deny it, in the observation and military regimes which followed continued the policy. A resurgent Japan, on the other hand, with the vigorous support of the United States, was setting about to patch up war wounds, following a pol icy of conciliation and friend ship with the Nationalist Chi nese on Formosa, the Philip pines, India and former vic tims in between. Chief holdout was Korea. Yet establishment of at least a sort of normalcy be tween the two was important. Korea represented the last important free world foothold in that portion of Asia and was a natural strategic step ping stone to Japan. Japan was a northern an chor of an anti Communist line extending around the Asian perimeter to Pakistan. In late 1962 it appeared Matter of Fact (c) New York Herald KENNEDY AND THE AMBASSADORS Washington C u r i o u s 1 y little attention has been giv en, as yet, to the grand review of American policy in Eu rope which the President has been la boriously con ducting. ' To begin with, this long sc ries of unpu'j licized White House meet Alsnp ings has high interest, in and of itself, as an indication of the way the President's busi ness habits have changed in these last twe years. In the dawn of the New Frontier, after all, even the gravest problems were briskly tackled, without weeks of de lay for all-embracing consul tation arid minute study. In the present instance, however, the President or dered the convocation of what can only be called a study group shortly after Gen. de Gaulle's brutal veto on Bri tain's entry into the European Common Market. Where to go next, and how to get there, were the questions to be answered. H E composition of the study group offered anoth er contrast with the past. Until rather recently, the Kennedy administration en joyed the peculiar distinction of having ambassadors of bet ter quality and paying less attention to their opinions than any American Adminis tration in recent history. Now, however, the opinions of the ambassadors were in immediate demand. David K. E. Bruce was called from London, Foy Kohler from Moscow, Walter Dowling from Bonn, and Frederick Reinhardt from Rome. An illness excused Charles E. Bohlen in Paris; but no other excuses were ac ceptedto the point that poor Rheinhardt left Rome the night before he and Mrs. Reinhardt were giving their one and only dance. Another innovation was tin request of the ambassadors to read themselves inte the mind of Washington, in the most literal sense of the phrase. All the relevant policy papers of the National Security Coun cil, the State Department, and the White House staff were offered for their perusal and comment. 11ESIDES the ambassadors. the principal members of made by N. F. Simpion: "Each of us ai ha receives his private trouncing! at the hands of fate is kept in good heart by the moth in his brother's parachute, and the scorpion in his neighbor's underwear," It seems to be the essential irony of the human condition that we have been given just enough intelligence to man ufacture the tools for our dominance of the earth, but not quite enough intelligence to prevent us using these tools to oppress, exploit and exterminate one another. Con man and cynics, who are fond of quoting Bar num'i famous phrase, "A lucker is born every min ute," to justify their be havior, pay no attention to Barnum's other remark (much mora true and pro found) that, "More persons, on the whole, are hum bugged by believing noth ing, than be believing too much. Failure breeds bitterness, and success breeds disen chantment; this Is the best argument for setting goals that are unattainable, so that the striving becomes an end in itself Tha God I worship can accept sinners and rogues, tha debouched and even the daganerata; what He finds most offemive above all is tha virtuous parson with a mean mind. H that progress was being made. Then in early '63 came the internal political ruckus in Korea which nearly toppled retired Brig. Gen. Kim Chong Pil from his assigned job of establishing the political par ty by which Korea's military regime hopes to transfer it self from military to civilian rule. When he survived there was a long, if silent, sigh of relief in Japan. For Kim had been Korea's chief negotiator with Japan and the Japanese source of hope that reconciliation at last could be achieved. Key to the settlement was conditional approval of a $500 million settlement reportedly worked out by Kim and Japa nese Foreign Minister Masa yoshi Chira. According to the terms, in Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate the White House study group have been the Secretaries of State and Defense, McGeorge Bundy, Theodore Sorensen, and, on occasion, the Attorney-General and Assistant Secretary of State Averell Harriman. One outsider, for mer Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson, has also been consulted, in the manner of "the ancestral voice prophesy ing w a r" in Coleridge's "Kublai Khan." Simply in terms of work hours, the study group's per formance has been impres sive. Since shortly after the beginning of the month, when the convocation opened, there have been White House meet ings every day or so; and these have been interspersed with special meetings of smaller sub-groups. The President himself has directed the whole operation, presiding in person at the nu merous White House meet ings, and supervising every phase of the long re-examination of the state of the West ern Alliance and this coun try's relations with Europe. In sum, whatever the next steps the President may take, it is clear that they will not be hasty, or ill-considered, or based on a snap judgment. The study group has now dissolved, and all ambassa dors have returned to their posts except for David Bruce, who is being kept here for further consultations. Some further time must pass before the new directions adopted by the President and his study group begin to be revealed in action. a YTET one point of consider able interest has already emerged from these meetings. It is possible to say how the President views the abrupt upheaval in the Western Al liance that Gen. de Gaulle has caused. On the one hand so Ken nedy had told his advisors he sees what has happened as a natural sequel of the Cuban crisis. After the grim Cuban confrontation, and as a quite direct result of it, the Soviets finally shoved the Berlin crisis onto the back burner. The withdrawal of the mili tary threat that had hung over Europe for four years in turn removed the strongest inducement to Western Unity. On the other hand so the President had also said the very fact of open Western dis unity, such as exists at pres ent, automatically impairs, if it does not absolutely destroy, the opportunity that existed after Cnha to make progress in the East-West relationship. Because the Western allies are quarreling among them selves, in short, dealing with Nikita S. Khrushchev is con sidered to be vastly more difficult. The assessment is cool headed and judicious, as far as it goes. The resulting next steps must be awaited with vivid interest. "Wall, Kannedy'i got thl country on the move agtin with vigahl" Improved Possible return lor the 35 vears nl harsh Japanese rule, Japan would extend to Korea S300 million in grants and $200 million in long-term loans. It was feared that if Kim were to fall, the agreement he had negotiated would fall with him. Final terms still will lead to many a heated wrangle both in Japan and Korea, but as of today there is hope that another of the problems left over from World War II may be settled in the near future. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From London: British Foreign Secretary Lord Home says the United States carries TOO MUCH of the load for European defense and urged a reappraisal of the burdens. He went on to say "In 1962, the total defense expenditure of the NATO al. liance was about $73 billion, of which the U.S. contrib. uted a litle over $54 billion. These figures show very clear ly the immense size of the American effort, which makes the contributions of the rest of us seem puny by compar ison." T ET'S put it this way: u Total cost $73 billion. America's share $54 billion. What that means is that of every dollar spent last year by NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), whose basic purpose is the defense of Western Europe, the Unit ed States contributed 74 cents. If that isn't generous, there is no such thing in the world as generosity. T ET'S pat ourselves on the back a little more. After the end of World War II, Western Europe was a shambles. Us great cities were masses of rubble. The soil of the U.S.A. was practically un touched. Recognizing this fact, the United States made the most generous offer ever made in the history of the world. It said to its comrades in arms in Western Europe: "You have borne the bulk of the physical damage result ing from the war. Recognizing this fact, we will supply the bulk of the funds necessary for your physical rebuilding." That, in substance, was the Marshall Plan. T ORD HOME added: u "I would feel that the United States has a grievance at the relatively heavy pay ments she is making to Europe and that this is a subject that needs re-examination. The re construction of European prosperity in the past 10 years has created a quite new eco nomic situation within the al liance." "WORDS pay no debts," as " Will Shakespeare re marked in his Troilus and Cressida-but when they are kind words, true words, gen erous words, they create a lot of good will. Thank you, Lord Home. pULLED from the news: A hike-happy nation set another blistering pace over the week end. And blistering it was for the feet of all who tried. The blistered feet in cluded those of Nevada's Gov ernor Sawyer, who trekked from Carson City to Gardner ville, a distance of 25 miles, and at the end of the jaunt re marked: "The last thing I would do in the world is to challenge another governor to go through this thing." VrHEN a fad gets started in " the United States of America, it has to run its course, but personally I hope this marathon business doesn't reach the point where in order to be able to hold up our heads in the community we'll all have to lay up our cars and WALK TO WORK.