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Newspaper Page TextFRIDAY. MDFOHD&&TUBUKI """Everyone In SouthenTbrtf on" Rama Tna Mail Tribune" ubUsh!d Daily xcpt Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North tr St.. Ph 7Ti-6Ul ROBERT W" RUH1,. Editor HERB GREY Advertl.tna Manailt GERALD T LATHAM. But Mgr ERIC ALLEN JR. Mne Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIHMAN. Telet Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women! Editor DALE ERiCKSON. Circulation Mm An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second claw matter at Medlord Oregon under Act of Mnrch 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES B Mall In Advance Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Sunday moa 10 00 Dalit and Sunday 3 mot 5.00 Sunday Only Ont year $3.00 Simla Copy iMalledi 30 By Cainei And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year 12lj00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo 1.7a Sunday Only 1 mo. We Carrie! and Vendora Copy 10c Official Paper of'Clty of Madfor Official Paper of Jacktoa County United Preea International full Leased Wire DLP 1 Telephoto Newsplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" Of JJTRCULATIONS Artvertliiha "Rcnreientatlve: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOC1. ATES OfMcea In New York. Chi cio Detroit. San Franclaco. Loa Anielra Seattle. Portland Denver. NIWSPApIR PUIllSHEIS 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL AS HlHIirilaTJ Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 22. 1953 (Friday) Three juvenile boys from the slale of Washington were in custody at Medford today after admitting stealing two cars and burglarizing Faber's market in Central Point. The retail price of cigar ettes will go up three cents a pack next week in this area. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 22. 1943 (Wednesday) Dr. Howell Williams, of University of California, com pletes studies on origin of Crater Lake. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Shoe rationing has caused people to quit wishing they were 'in Henry Ford's shoes,' due to concentrating on staying their own." in SO YEARS AGO Feb. 22, 1933 (Friday) Grand Jury Foreman Wil liam T. Grieve, Prospect, Is- sued report recommending that position of probation offi cer and deputy Jailer "be dis pensed with Immediately." Air line inaugurates direct air service between Medford and Sacramento. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 22, 1923 (Saturday) Complaint charges federal Investigator in Jackson coun ty "night riding" cases with violation of prohibitions laws. Medford mill operator In dicted in Portland for "using the mails to defraud;" case Involves effort to open up oil development In Antelope val ley basin east of Medford. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 22. 1913 (Monday) Bill submitted to Oregon stale legislature would In increase salary of Jackson county district attorney to S2.100 a year. Dispute over proposed $10,- 0U0 bond issue to improve Eagle Point streets results in list fight between Eagle Point mayor and spectator at coun cil meeting. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct ll superior; seven or eight li excellent; five or six Is good. 1. Where is the dial that marks Zero degrees longi tude? 2. i: the image a person fees focuses in front of the retina of his eye is he near sighted or farsightcd? A. who were Known as "The Great Commoner" in American History? 4. Jesus was a carpenter, but what was Mohammed's profession? 5. The brown tail, codling and gypsy arc all varieties of what Insect? 6. In 1017 the U.S. pur chased what Islands (or 525.000.000? 7. If an object goes 300 yards In 10 seconds, how many feet does it go in 15th tecond? 8. Name two European capitals thai start with P. 9. One of the Greek Alpha be I letters is a triangle; which? 10. In what city did the 3888 Haymarket rinli occur? A n I w r li 1. Greenwich, England. 2. Nearsighted. 3. Henry Clay and William Jen nings Bryan. 4. Camel driver. S. Moth. 6. Virgin Island. 7. 18 (eel. 8. Paris and Prague. 8. Delta. 10. Chicago. 4 FEBRUARY 22, 1883 Let's End In his inaugural message, Gov. Mark Hatfield said : "To augment local efforts to eliminate air and water pollution, the State Sanitary Authority should be given summary abatement power , . . "County government should be given authority to establish community air pollution control programs in unincorporated areas and to contract with cities andor other counties. This recommendation came because the Sani tary Authority now lacks sufficient power to com- pel the abatement of pollution without long and complex procedures, and Impatience among the mounting nuisance and water. THE Medford area is ortA iirntfli r-a11iif iriri ailU TV 11,1,1 JUiJUlilUlls i.b 1IOO Aly ilJ " e (Our contemporary to the south delights in calling Medford "Smoggy Bottom," and the sad fact is that he's about right a good part of the time.) Driving south earlier this week, we came down from the fresh, clean air of Mt. Sexton onto the Freeway, whisked by the smoky valley of Grants Pass, emerged again into clean air all the way to the top of Blackwell hill, and there saw the dirty pall of smoke lying over the valley, obscuring the view of Mt. McLoughlin and Roxy Ann, and, between Central Point and Medford, cutting visibility to less The following day, parking in the downtown area during the morning, we got in our car at noon, only to find it covered with a layer of soot and fly-ash. And remember the dirty log of earlier this winter? When the dirt-laden moisture would blacken a car in a few minutes' time? WE HAVE been told, time and time again, that wo t'Pullu shntiifin'r. wnrw. "Vnlnntarv - "w . . . . . . . j . , j cooperation" would eliminate most of the mill smoke nuisance, we have been told. (It is true that some mills have put consider able funds into smoke abatement equipment. It is equally true that others haven't done any thing.) ' We have been told tion" of what is now wood waste would auto matically solve the problem. Yeah? When? In 19847 Or 19947 We have been told situation would improve. gotten worse. lyiUCH, too, has been said about water pollu tion and in particular the sorry mess which is Bear Creek. Yes, indeed. Much has been said, but darned little has been clone. Isn't it about the time you and me, friends got a little mad about it, and demanded that all these promises and predic tions begin to come true? Isn't it about time that we stopped trusting to "voluntary cooperation," and believing vague promises of better conditions, and see to it that this nuisance, this health menace, this danger to eyes and lungs to say nothing of one's esthetic sensibilities be ended? Now? THE other clay State Sen. Ted Hallock (D-Port- land) introduced Senate Bill 259, at the re quest of the State Sanitary Authority. According to the mil would: "Permit Sanitary Authority to institute suit at law or in equity to abate or restrain threatened or existing pollution o( air or water, without necessity of prior administrative procedures or hearing; permit cities and counties to enter into cooperative contracts relating to air pollution program, and to provide for proper body to manage such a program." The bill should pass. Those who agree should write to their senator and ator Hallock, and to Governor Hatheld. Only such supporting opinion will give the measure a chance for passage. COR a long time now we have put our faith in the good will and good intentions of the lum ber interest in the area, in the persuasive powers of the county government, and in the enforcement power which the city council could if it would exorcise. No more. The mills (most of them, anyway) continue to spout out their sickening pall of smoke and soot and cinders. The county calls meetings and calls for a "voluntary" program. The city stalls, month after month after month, in enacting an air pollution control ordinance. Bear Creek gets filthier with its load of chemicals. TMIEUE is always a great hue and cry about state and federal government "usurping" the powers of local government. Well, this is a perfect example of why the state and federal government step in. When local government can't or won't act in an area of urgent need, the state or federal government often will. This is a case where local government has fail edutterly, completely and shamefully. So now we must call upon the resources of the state and, if need be, the federal govern ment to do the job. If you, too, are tired, tired, tired of filth in the air and filth in the water, you can do so vc thing about it. You can demand DEMAND, mind you, not ask humbly effective state action, and the first step is passage of Senate Bill 259.-E.A. This Filth because of a growing state s residents over tne menace of dirty air and not "threatened by" air Tf Uqcj if -. than a mile. that "increased utiliza that, year by year, the Year by year it has that the public that's Digest, the measure representatives, to Sen sewage and agricultural MEDFOHD Birchhead ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address oi the writer, ' although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views -of the paper; in fact the contrary Is eiten the case. Language in Schools To the Editor: The other day in class at Medford Senior High school, we discussed the rules and regulations by which the school is to abide. These rules are made by the state for each school in the state. One of these laws, that agree with and abide by. states: "Obscene or vulgar lan guage used in or out of class will not be tolerated; each of fense of this rule will be pun ished by temporary suspen sion." But, one student asked, What about the teacher?" Are the teachers permitted to break the rules? 1 can name several teachers at the school that use obscene language in the classroom. Many students use their teach ers as educated examples. They get the Idea that if the teacher can use it, why can t the student? Is this reasoning so wrong? Just exactly what Is the difference between teachers using it and students using It? It is a school rule, so why can't all the school abide by it? Maybe the state education system needs a set of rules and regulations for teachers also. The teacher that uses this language loses the respect of his students. This loss of re spect make it very hard to learn the subject this teacher is teaching. My hope is that in the future this can be prevent ed andor cured. David Gaines, 2191 Kings Hwy., Medford. Bill Opposed To the Editor: Please print the following letter: John Dellcnback State Representative Capitol Building, Salem, Ore. Dear Sir: In regard to Bill 103: I wish to state that I am very much against the passage of this bill. 1 have a small pasture and keep one or more cattle for my own beef. Until we were given the privilege of having a truck come to my place to butcher my animals, it was necessary tor me to take them to a slaughter house where they stood for some time in the open, bothered by ani mals with horns and worried until butchered. Then 1 had to have the meat cut up long before it was properly aged as they did not have sufficient space for the aging of beef. Now the butcher comes and my animals arc killed before they are frightened and I con tend that this is one reason my beef is very tender. Then after killing, the carcass is taken to clean lockers where it is properly aged. This bill will benefit only large companies who want to freeze out the small operating butcher. As long as my butch er is state inspected and han dles my beef in a clean man ner, I much prefer him to handle my butchering and meat cutting. The large com panies cannot do it any better and it would be very incon venient for me to haul my beef to them to have It butch ered, cut and wrapped. My local butcher has about $10,000 invested in a refriger ated, butchering truck. Surely you wouldn't want him to lose one of his sources of making his living. I label this Bill 103 as bi ased In favor cf the big meat packing companies and a com plete freeic out of the little operator. Mrs Mildred Duntord. V. O. Box 2!H. Eagle Point, Ore. PS. - Anyone who feels strongly about this issue piea.se write lo the lullnwing Slate Representatives: Delicti back, Uranchfu-UI. Redden, and State Sen. Lyn Ncwbry. This must be done Immediate- MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON ly as the final vote will be in a few days. Scenic Row To the Editor: "Travel our new modern freeway through Medford and see our beautiful scenic row of billboards!" Jerry R. Troxel 633 Cherry st. Medford. Indeed! To the Editor: At one time the names of Lincoln, Wash ington, Ben Franklin were revered and honored in Amer ica. At one time patriotism was respected, the flag was honored. But now, these are made light of and dishonored. Today these names are used as advertising. , I, for one, am hereby tell ing all of Medford that I will not trade with anyone who puts their store under this banner this year and the year to come. Washington's Birth day Sale Indeed! Ella Powell Box 621 Central Point, Ore. Stray Cats To the Editor: I've read sev eral articles in Communica tions on cats and of some los ing their loved pets. I like cats too and have three (all altered). This only costs $3 and is so well worth it, as it makes such excellent pets that don't have a tendency to go wandering and yowling under someone's bedroom window all night, irritating them to the point of hitting them with something besides the broom. I have counted eight cats in my yard in the past three weeks and they are without a doubt the most bedraggled, torn up, beat up messes I have ever seen. There has been one in particular that I noticed. He's real cute, is white with a grayish tail and face, looks almost as if someone dipped the front and back in ashes. He's been around for about two weeks and I assumed he lived somewhere in this neighborhood, but this morn ing I saw him out here drool ing considerably from tne mouth and I got as close to him as he would allow and he evidently has something lodged in his mouth, so that he can neither open nor close it. He doesn't look very good at all. If his owner should read this maybe they could see that he does get care. And please remember, you people, that do you lose your pets, it could be that you arc at fault inasmuch that you did not keep them home. B. J. Wyatt 1122 West Eighth st. Medford. Flag Respect 'lo the Editor: Patriotism in action was exhibited at a spe cial flag raising ceremony at McLoughlin Junior High school this week. A 50 star flag, one of the first to fly over the White House, and then sent to Mc Loughlin P.T.A., was used for the cerrinony. it was a 'thrill to watch the student body officers and cab inet of McLoughlin Junior High stand quietly at atten tion as the Boy Scouts of Troop 103 respectfully and carefully unfolded and raised the flag as the bugle sounded. There before us stood the loaders of tomorrow showing utmost respect for their flag and country. Thanks! Principal Berl Cox. parents, teachers and Scout leaders who have had a part in the training of our young people in llicir patriotism. Mrs. Don Mincar. 1996 Griffin Creek rd., Medford. Japan Hoping for New Economic Boom, Based on Added China, Russia Trade By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Japan, whose economy has enjoyed sensational growth since the end of World War II, is hoping for another boom. Some of it, Japanese bus inessmen hope, will come from in creased trade with the So viet Union and Red Chi ft LfeaJ na. There are bugs in both cases. A new treaty with the So viet Union provides for two. way trade totalling about $670 million and means an increase in Japanese-Soviet trade of almost 50 per cent. For trade with Red China the prospects are for about $100 million in 1063 as com pared with $75 million in 1962 and $55 million in 1961. Obstacles are anxieties over Not a Yard To the Editor: In January. 1961, the President said: "The New Frontiah is going fahwad with great vigah." Wot hap pened? They ran out of vine gah on the 50 yard line. They have spent 225 billion dollars and haven't gained a yard. Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. Sinking The Hook , To the Editor: A bill now before the Legislature would extend the "blessings" of "d.s.t." through the month of September. This writer is heartily in favor and urges its passage. It will open a lot of eyes to what they really voted in last November, thanks to $38, 000 worth of billboard propa ganda and the services of ef ficient public relations brains. Could be that there was a fear that parents of school chil dren, who will have to use electricity to conserve a con tinually lessening amount of evening daylight, would have voted the other way. A lot of voters were hooked, but including September is really sinking the hook. Next time around there will be a different outcome. . John Q. Stewart, 933 NE 12th st., Grants Pass, Ore. Birth Pangs To the Editor: How infinite ly much the average devotee of the Holy Bible misses by accepting only the literal. exoteric meanings and com pletely ignoring the deeper, esoteric message! Jesus taught in two ways. To the masses he taught the lesser, or outer mysteries; to his disciples and the more highly evolved among his followers he revealed the greater, inner mysteries. As a result of my last letter it seems I have inadvertantly arrived on certain prayer lists. While these good people undoubtedly have only the best intentions. 1 must hasten to assure them that my soul is not lost. Therefore, they will realize that their time and efforts could be used to better advantage on those who are convinced that their souls are lost-perhaps their own. For some, 1 understand, this could be a full time job. In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus said "Thine is the power"; some among us have taken him at his word. To accept the belief in a devil, one would of necessity have to be lieve in a power apart from God's. This I will never do, for I believe with all my heart that Jesus was correct. God's is the only power but it is often misused and abused. Our planet is presently in the process of leaving the darkness of the Pisccan Age and entering into the light of the Aquarian Age. As yet, we arc on the cusp although we are in Aquarius, the stigma of Pisces is with us for yet a little while. Earth is experi encing the death-groans of an old age, and the birth-pangs of a new one: hence, the tur moil. As Earth moves further into Aquarius, it and all upon and within it will receive a new vibration-a higher and steadily increasing frequcn v Those who are attuned to the greater acceleration and truly yearn for and seek God's truth and light will surely find it. Those who are not attuned will not be able to withstand the new frequency. The Aquarian Age will be one of illumination. Those lost in the wilderness of lit eral interpretations and false concepts shall find themselves in darkness still but not here. This is In accord with Biblical prophesy, astrology and cosmic law. These are, iri- reaction of the United States and a desire on the part of both Red China and the So viet Union to do business on credit. Since Japan recognizes the Nationalist Chinese regime on Formosa and not the Peking regime, trade with the Red Chinese is conducted on a "friendly" basis with firms who do not trade with those on Formosa. Among other things, the Chinese want special steels and agricultural tools. The Japanese steel industry is especially eager for such a market because it faces a glutted market at home, Japanese steel, shipbuilding and machine tool industries also are eager to expand trade with the Soviet union. Japanese exports to the So viet Union in 1960 were val ued at $59 million. Last year they surged to $118 million. A Russian lure to increased Soviet trade is possible Jap anese participation in vast Si berian development plans. Japanese economic growth In 1962 amounted to around 5 per cent, about double the Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises. Inc. RELATIVE TIME It is a truism by now that what we call "time" is rel ative to the position and speed of the observ er. In handl ing children, we have to recognize also that "time" is relative to the age and ex perience o f the observer. Barrt- There is an important psychological di mension to time. .When a child promises to come in the house at the end of ten minutes, and is still out after an hour, this is usually not willful disobedience. Children cannot be judged on the same time-scale as adults, for their reveries and dawdl ing are geared to a different clock than ours. Twenty min utes spent in tying a shoelace may pass like a second when the fantasy of the spaceship is more compelling than the reality of the school bus. At the age of five, my boy wanted to know if I had lived in the era of the cavemen, and seemed disappointed that I had never met any person ally. At the age of six, he knew a great time gulf existed between the cavemen and me, but he still wanted to know if I had ever met Abraham Lincoln. To a child, a father in his 40s might as well be ISO years old. The difference between a father and a grandfather, which seems so pronounced to us, is nothing at all to a child. Years, decades and cen turies are all blurred in the short focus of the child's mind. What happened two years ago might have been yesterday, and next Friday is a million years away. Understanding the rela tivity of time, in this psy chological dimension, is absolutely essential if we are to cope with the world of children. It is a long and laborout process for them lo acquire the time-sense of adulthood and some peo ple, it is true, never seem to acquire it. The habitually unprompl, the inept planners, and last minuters, are really cling ing to emotional vestiges of their childhood, and are un consciously reliving i h e past, reluctant to break with their fantasies. On the other hand, t'.iosc persons with an over aculc sense of time (and I happen to be one of them) have perhaps relinquished too much of their childhood capacity for taking the present as it comes and enjoying it. They are forever planning ahead, living in the next hour, the next day. the next month, and the present is swallowed up by the future. If the habitually unprompt are self-indulgent, the com pulsively prompt arc self punishing; and it certainly seems to be true that the per son who is late for an engage ment is generally more charm ing than the one who gets there early. This is what makes the punctual person so angry: he feels that people who are la;c have no right to be so pleas ant. Maybe this is what we resent in our dawdling chil dren. deed, the latter days; not heralding the end of the world, as some believe, but of n age. The Golden Dawn of Aquarius draws near! Louise Wopschall Route 1. Box 408 Eagle Point, Ore. U.S. growth but below what the Japanese have been led to expect in the years since World War II. Since 1950, the Japanese growth rate has av eraged better than 8 per cent. Now, however, the steels, textile oil refining and coal mining industries drastically Washington Report By William (cl United Featura Syndicate RELUCTANT TAX CUT Washington - Never has the prospect of voting for a tax cut been so unwelcome to so many politi cians. Never has the chance of "g e 1 1 i n g from the gov e r n m e n t" been appeal ing to so few among the public. These are the extra ordinary real- i t i e s confronting President Kennedy's tax reduction - tax reform bill. They run straight against the oldest cliches in public life - that congressmen always are thirsting to give the people "a tax break" and that the people are forever demanding just that. Nevertheless, and in spite of the fact that the tax bill is now being hit at for one rea son or another alike by labor and business, and seemingly by almost everybody else, the best guess now is that con gress will pass something. IT PROBABLY will vote some across-the-board but not large tax reduction. It probably will stay well away from tax reform - from clos ing those "loopholes" which in one point of view are un fair boons to favored groups but in another point of view are fair recognition of the special problem of some in dustries and interests. And almost certainly it will rewrite the President's bill to give more generous treatment to the one class which would be the least rewarded by the measure, the middle income people. In a word, congress ap proaches this whole problem with a rare hesitancy. A pow erful senator says wryly: "The way we are going at this supposedly jolly thing of tax reduction reminds me of the story of the traveling sales man in Maine who met a farmer angrily whipping his horse from his seat in the buggy. 'Where you going, friend?' asked the salesman. 'Goin' up to Bangor to go on a spree - and, gosh, how I dread it.' " IF CONGRESS acts at all to cut taxes, it will do so not because it wants to but simply because it dare not do other wise. The President has hard ly left congress with any al ternative. The administration's insis tent claim that tax reduction is essential to ginger up the national economy - coupled with its invocation of the threat of a recession other wise - is very hard to stand against within the controlling center of congress. The classical and crusty old conservatives have no prob lem with which to wrestle in the nighttime. Their philoso phy is simple and untroubled. They just don't believe in tax cuts in a time of heavy fed eral deficits, and they will not budge. Certainly they will not budge at this odd moment in history in which congressional mail - and apparently the ad ministration's mail, too, to judge from White House re luctance to disclose its tone -is on balance more skeptical of tax cuts than pfeading tor tnem. TUT the congressional cen-- tcr will not in the end be willing to pit its economic judgment against the Presi raaa "Get oif the roadyou eraty Bemocrattf are reducing output. The Japanese also are press ing hard in other parts of Asia. They hope for expanded trade soon with Korea, and are using war reparations and grant and loan agreements to push Japanese products elsewhere. S. White dent's. It will tend to go along with tax reduction because it fears that otherwise that feared recession might in fact develop. Still, it will be the most reluctant tax cut of our time; for there is another con gressional fear, too. This is that tax reduction may not after all bring off the contemplated spur to busi ness and that this, plus a fed eral deficit rising in those cir cumstances far above present estimates, would put every body concerned in political peril in 1964. In the meantime, the Ameri can public deserves a special salute for its obvious willing ness to forgo tax relief in order to reduce, or at any rate to hold in check, the fed eral debt. If this is not a strik ing evidence of national ma turity, it is surely something very close to that. In .he Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: Russia has informed the United States that "severel thousand" Soviet troops will be withdrawn from Cuba in the next three weeks, diplo matic informants reported. T'HAT prompts two ques tions: 1. How many thousands are "several" thousands? 2. How many Russians are in Cuba now? ' AS TO Question No. 1, the dispatches from Washing ton say: The number of troops which would be withdrawn under the new Kremlin assurance was not precisely known, but speculation turned on the point that SEVERAL thou sand would mean at least 3,000. As to question No. 2, the Washington dispatch says; "Official administration esti mates are that there are about 17,000 Russians in Cuba now." WHICH is to say: " There are 17,000 Rus sians in Cuba now. It is "speculated" that sev eral thousand would mean at least 3,000. In other words: It is presumed, or at least hoped, that the number of Russian troops in Cuba will soon be reduced from 17,000 to 14,000. ET'S put it this way: " From the standpoint of the safety of the Western Hemisphere, which includes the U.S.A., that is 14,000 TOO MANY. NE more question: . Why are these Russian troops in Cuba? There is, of course, no guaranteed answer to that question. Only the Soviet Union KNOWS why they are there and why they were sent there in the first place. But it is assumed that the purpose is to make of Cuba a training ground where com munists from all over Latin America may be sent to re ceive instruction in the latest methods of infiltration and sabotage. The purpose of such a pro gram would be the eventual winning of ALL OF LATIN AMERICA for communism. That appears to be about the long and the short of it.