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ASSOC1 ATES Of'lcea In New York. Chi cago Detroit, San rranclsco, Loi A ngelea Seattle. Portland. Denrer. NEWSPAPER PUILISHEKS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Fob. 24. 1953 (Sunday) A post office department official has said It probably will be 30 days before the successful bidder on construc tion of a new post office building or rental of new quarters in Ashland can be announced. A. E. Brockway, Medford, has been elected chairman of the Jackson county agricul tural council. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 24. 1943 (Friday) Number of ration books Is sued shows Medford popula tion as 16,281. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Cmnaa Pnl' mllllTin! "The law warned speed idiots last week if and when cauRht, they would be unhooked from their A cards." 30 YEARS AGO Fob. 24, 1933 (Sunday) Warrants signed by city po llrp officer Tom Robinson dcr arrest of president of "Good Government con gress." Promoter Mack Llllard schedules first wrestling matches to be held- in Med ford for several months. 40 YEARS AGO Fob. 24, 1923 (Monday) vuiinr from Portland rec ommends construction of golf course in Mediord; slates "you could play golf 265 days of the year." Albert Allen, substitute center, stars as Medford High school basketball team de feats Rogue River, 35 to 11. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 24, 1913 (Tuesday) I. oral tranoers report un usually good success because of heavy snowlall in nigucr elevations which has forced animals down Into the valley. Citizens of Medford clrcu late Detitions asking Cover nnr Oswald West to veto Rogue river fish bill. What's Your I.Q.? Nina tan correct Is superior seven oi eioM Is eicellent: five or sis is good. 1. In the Book of Daniel, wliHt fate befell Shiirirach, Meshach and Abeducgo? 2. Like magnetic poles each other and unlike poles each other. 3. Is the Yser river in France, England or Italy? 4. Complete the following with cede or cecd: pro , pre , re , sue. 5. Where did Whitakcr Chambers hide his microfilm? 8. The science that treats with population, studies, birth, health and mortality is called what? 7. Which is the harder sub sance of these two pairs: cal cite or gypsum, corundum or orthoclase? 8. What two countries gov ern the Islands of New Guinea? 9. What showman Is gen erally credited with glorify ing the American girl? 10. Who sailed on the Argo to find the Golden Fleece? Answorsi 1. Cast Into fiery furnace. 2. Repeli attract. 3. Franc. 4. Coed, code, cede, ceod. S. Pumpkin. 6. Demog raphy. 7. Calelta, corundum. 8. Indonesia and Australia. 9. Florens Zoigfield. 10. Jason. March of the Billboards May we hasten to commend the Medford city council for its action in stopping belatedly the march of the billboards down the freeway viaduct I We are not, critics economic activity and business. Nor, God wot, are we against advertising as such. But we ARE against the kind of garish, tasteless, intrusive, blatant and offensive type of advertising repre sented by these multiple-story billboards. The city council did duty to uphold the rights citizens of the city in calling a halt. XE CAN understand though we disagree " the council's reluctance to make the ordin ance retroactive, even to only received building In our view, no billboards at all should be allowed to poke their huge and demanding faces into the sub-stratosphere of passers by. Their attention would it is a large question them to turn off the freeway and wend their way back into town to deposit dollar bills so devoutly wished. A S FOR US and for acquaintances a billboard repells; it does not attract. now mucn Deuer to concentrate on civic beauty and tine attractiveness, rather than a garish display of wares and services which are available in virtually any town. Billboards, indeed, have their place. But for our money, that place is not in a long, cluttered row, 50 feet in the air, right through the middle of town. Shall we become the town noted for its ele vated billboard alley? Or shall we become the town known for its inherent attractiveness and tastefulness? There hardly seems to be any choice at all. PERHAPS this is a good time, once again, to quote Ogden Nash : I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all. E. A. The Legs of America Somewhere, from the vague recollections of childhood, we dredge up criticism or a child not using fork, knife and spoon. It was, "Fingers were made before forks." The reply never seemed to get anywhere. Nor, we suppose, will the admonition that legs were made before automobiles. Nonetheless, the waking craze instituted by the Kennedys may, if it doesn't die overnight (as it well could), bring walking back to the re spectable status it once held. Perhaps, 50-mile-hikes aside, America might once again discover that it has legs, and that legs, properly employed, are a means of transportation, either for utility or pleasure. IF THIS HAPPENS, it will be a real reversal of a trend now well established. Sidewalks are disappearing, and new residential streets usually don't have them at all any more. Freeways were designed for motor vehicles alone, and a pedes trian or cyclist who ventures on to one takes his life into his hands to say nothing of a possible policeman who, quite naturally, is suspect of any one not comfortably scaled in a mechanical con veyance. All this was forcibly rcimpresscd on us the other day by a press release from the state depart ment of motor vehicles, traffic safety division, which warned hikers of the dangers of using main traveled portions of highways and said, if they must, walk facing oncoming traffic. One hiker was killed last week end, it pointed out ominously. And it added: "Special danger for walkers exists along freeways, such as interstate 5. Some states prohibit pedestrians and slow-moving vehicles from freeway access." IT WILL take something more than a fad to re verse this discrimination. Still, if hiking (or even cycling, so popular in Europe) ever becomes truly popular, changes could take place. We can even envision (in our dreams, of course) pedestrian and bicycle paths paralleling the highways, and put to good use by a generation of sturdy, healthy youths. This could, in turn, lead to a popularization of the Youth Hostel movement, which has many adherents in the eastern United States and in Europe. Maybe it's too late. Maybe American legs eventually will simply atrophy away. But, may be .. . ' E.A. Obit For more than decade, the upper right-hand corner of the Sunday Mail Tribune editorial page, with a few exceptions, contained a column en titled Potluck. Some weeks ago we received a note which said : "Too bad about Potluck, which died during 1962 without even a death notice, let alone an obituary." Well, it could be said: "Potluck, a column, aged about 10. died a linger ing death early in 1!)63. the victim of malnutrition; fatigue and lack of inspiration " As Potluck editor, resigned and emeritus, we are delighted to introduce its successor, at right above. E.A. to the contrary, against no more than its sworn and interests of ALL the those boards which have permits. to attract the attention be diverted, surely. But whether this would lead the gentle fall of green a lot of our friends and the reply to an adult "Oh, Matter of Fact (C) New York Herald KHRUSHCHEV, CASTRO, AND MAO Washington -Besides Presi dent Kennedy's pen-pal rela tionship with Nikita S. Khru- s h c h e v, the Soviet de cision t o re duce the Rus sian troop s t r e ngth in Cuba has another kind of political b a ckground. It is too early to calcu late AUnp just how the Kremlin's Cuba policy is being affected bv the increasingly visible triangu lar tensions between Khru shchev, Fidel Castro, and Mao Tse-tung. But it is time to search for effects, since the Khrushchev attitude to Castro must certainly be influenced rather sharply by Castro's at titude to the Chinese. The point Is that a struggle is now in progress, between the Chinese and the Soviets, for control of the Communist movement in Central and South America. And in this crucial struggle for a really great prize, Castro is now aid ing the Chinese rather than the Soviets. TOCUMENTS captured '-'from the Communist guer rillas now operating in north cast Brazil place the pattern of the struggle, as well as Castro's role in it, beyond much doubt. The rather inef ficient Brazilian guerrillas are, first of all, activists with Chinese sympathies who have split with the main Brazilian Communist party, whose lead ers are at least formally loyal to Moscow. Furthermore, these Chi nese-sympathizing guerrillas who are defying the Musco vite-leaning Brazilian Dartv leadership, also claim to be following the brave example of Cuba's maximal leader. And they have received both encouragement and covert aid from the Castro government. In Venezuela the pattern is equally clear, but in the Vene zuelan Communist party, the pro-Chinese activists now ap pear to enjoy a majority. This majority faction, which has launched the terrorist campaign against President Bctancourt's government, are bitterly at odds with the pro Moscow minority. i S in Brazil, moreover, the Chinese leaning Venezue lan activists boast of Imitat ing Castro, and thev arc re ceiving money and other sup port, by secret channels, from the Castro government. Large transfers of funds from Ha vana to Ecuador have also been made rather recently. And this money, intended to start another campaign of Communist terrorism, is be lieved to have been supplied to Castro by his Chinese friends. If the Brazilian documents were not quite enough to re veal the peculiarity of the Khrushchev -Castro-Mao tri angle, it could well he de duced by what happened at the Afro-Asian Conference at Moshi, in Tanganyika llrro an ably-led Chinese Commu nist delegation scored two major successes. The Chinese first of all humiliated the Indians, caus ing the Indian resolution cen suring Chinese aggression 'o be rejected out of -hand, in such a manner that the Indian delegation briefly left the con ference. Most Important still, the Chinese secured the ap pointment of a planning com mittee, to prepare an Asian-African-Latin American con ference, on the Bandung model, to be held In Havana at a rather early date. SOMETHING of the danger of such a conlerence to the Soviets may be Judged from Anti-Negro, Eh?" By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate the events at the Bast German Communist party congress in Berlin in December. Here the Chilean and Cuban delegates were the only Latin Ameri cans permitted to take the floor. All the others were asked, like the overtly pro-Chinese delegates from Asian coun tries, simply to hand in their observations in writing. The suggestion is clear that the Latin American party leaders are not trusted, even though pro-Soviets are still thought to command majorities in all the Latin American parties except in Venezuela. Mean while the Cubans made the only pro-Chinese address de livered at Berlin without storms of booing. At the projected Asian-Af-rican-Lalin American confer ence in Havana, the Soviets, as Russians, would be exclud ed by the terms of the pro gram. As at Moshi, Khru shchev would have to get into the act by the backdoor, by sending one of the Soviet Central Asian party function aries. AS at Moshi, once again "Khrushchev's pseudo Asian would surely be run rings around by the Chinese delegation. At Havana, more over, the Chinese delegation would most probably be ex tremely high-powered. To this high-powered and persuasive Chinese group, all representa tives of the Latin American Communist parties attending the meeting would be in sidiously and continuously ex posed. In sum, if the Chinese suc cess at Moshi really produces the planned result at Havana, this Asian African Latin American rally could be a major turning point, very damaging for Moscow, in the tense struggle for leadership of the Latin American Com munist movement. And once again, Fidel Castro, as proud host and partial inspirer of the rally, would be playing Peking's game. Altogether, it can be seen from these facts that the Cu ban problem is a bit more complicated than some of the Cuba - obsessed members of Congress seem to think. Bobby, 50 By ERIC SEVAREID The public has been, alas, misled. All is not what it seems, even on these clear and frosty days. But we contemplative observers of the body poli tic and the body proto- Via?" j.i plasmic, we soothsayers of things seen and things un- srvarria seen, now per ceive the truth nnd must say our sooth: The schism inside the pal ace has occurred, although its occupants do not even dimly perceive it themselves, be cause to date it is psychology al in nature, not yet political. But implicit and ordained are two symbols, two images, two ways of life for the American people to follow, and the choice cannot be long post ponedcertainly not beyond 1968. We are offered Bobby, the track shoe and the uncle coach figure of Theodore Roosevelt with his "strenuous life": or Jack, the rocking chair and the father figure of Winston Churchill with his "tolerance, variety and calm." The common source of this dividing stream remains un charted, but there is much new scientific evidence as to why, with the approach of the vernal equinox, certain crea tures experience spasm in the muscles covering tibia and I T fJB Today & Tomorrow By Walter (cl 1963. The ON NOT FIDGETING Washington, which is stun ned and dazed by General de Gaulle's actions, is still re acting instinc tively rather than deliber ately. In ex cluding Brit tain and in CAolInd in ev. TsJ p e 1 America fS ' jl from Europe, the general has struck a blow at the Lippmann foundations of American post war policy. The first reaction to this radical strike against ideas and policies which had come to be regarded as part of the nature of things was to deny that General de Gaulle had changed anything or to avow that he could change any thing because history and des tiny were working for our ideas and our policies - or to try to improvise in a hurry some project which would tempt and seduce the way ward general or, failing that, would circumvent him. Nothing much is likely, it seems to be, to come of these instinctive reactions. There is to be sure some truth in each of them. Thus in the long run the Atlantic Community, which has been a -controlling fact for three centuries, will reassert its in fluence on national purposes The geography and the his tory which unites the peoples on the two sides of the At lantic will prevail over all other considerations in the long run. There is also truth in the feeling that,-since Eur ope and America cannot go their separate ways, they will eventually devise, because they have to, some kind of working partnership. NONE of this should close our eyes to the momentous fact that the partnership which we have assumed to be existing has in fact been struck a shattering blow. For us in these historic cir cumstances, the great rule of conduct is Talleyrand's fam ous injunction, "Not too much zeal," or as H. G. Wells once said, not to be "gawdsakers" who beat their breasts and cry, "For Rawdsake, let's do something." There is no posi tive action, I venture to think, that our government can take just now which goes any where near the heart of the situation. The heart of the situation is that Western Europe has outgrown the dependence up on America which began with the first world war. Western Europe will not, therefor, ac cept any longer American leadership and dominance in European affairs. This is the new reality upon which Gen eral dc Gaulle is acting, and it is to this new reality that we must perforce adjust our foreign policy. THE new reality has been in the making for about 10 years. Into it have gone the great changes in the mili tary balance of power be tween the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. . . . the brilliant re covery of Western Europe . . . the depletion of the United States' gold reserves and the decline of the United States 6 1 - Mile Hikes, and the thibia while other creatures of the identified mammalian family instinctively treat the brain as if it were a muscle (unproved) requiring rhyth mical repose. The general theme was admirably and delightfully pulled together by Dr. Ed ward S. Deevey in the "Yale Review" of three years ago, just before the Species Ken nedy became commonly ac cepted for laboratory exami nation, and who therefore concentrated on the evidence obtained from the behavior of Minnesota snowshoe hares, Philadelphia house mice and the lemmings of Scandinavia. No one is surprised any more at the consistency with which modern science proves out ancient folklore and sayings, and there is no longer any doubt that hares do go mad in March or thereabouts The seasonal phenomenon of the Minnesota hare, as observed in a 1939 study, was described in part like this: "convulsive seizures with sud den onset, running move ments, hind-leg extension, re traction of the head and neck, and sudden lraps with clonic seizures upon alighting Oth er animals were typically lethargic or comatose." iN'ow vulgarly known as the Salin ger syndrome) As the child is father of the man in both the psychological and philosophical sense, so is the younger brother or the elder, or, to familiarize the lippmann Wathinirton Post from it financial pre-eminence . . . the failure of the United States under two Pres- dents to cope successfuly with a chronic sluggishness which contrasts so vividly with the exuberant expansion of Western Europe . . . the recognition in Moscow that the balance of military power is so favorable to the West that th,e cold war cannot be wager aggressively in Europe. The net sum of these con tributing factors is that in relation not only to the pro tecting power of the United States, but also to the un friendly power of the Soviet Union, Western Europe is in the ascendant. Its economic and political power is increasing; the mili tary threat to its security is declining. And so, except in the event of an improbable military explosion, Western Europe is much less depend ent on the United States than it has been for nearly 50 years. IF WHAT has changed is the relation of the world pow ers, then the question is how to draw the right practical conclusions from the changed situation. Our discussions with General de Gaulle will have to turn upon whether he or we can draw the right conclusions from the new reality. The best way, indeed the only way, for us to test the question is to relax and to let it become the problem of our European friends to decide the basic question. The basic question is where, in the descent from American paramountcy into American isolation from Europe, they wish to stabilize our relations. This is the question posed in many forms and most spe cifically by the French de cision for an "independent" nuclear force. Our best line is to say that if France means literally to have an independent right to start a nuclear war, she will have to leave us with the independent right not to par ticipate in it. If, however, France in fact does not want that kind of independence. then in fact she wants some kind of partnership. If so, we shall have to face the issue of whose finger is to be on the trigger of the nu clear forces of the partner ship. 1M1ESE are difficult ques tions. It may be that they are theoretically insoluble questions. But there is no pressing need to solve them, because, for quite other rea sons, there is for the time being no serious danger of thermonuclear war. It is not tidy to do nothing to settle the questions. But it is, I think, wiser to do nothing than to spend a lot of energy on gimmicks such as a NATO nuclear force which seek to bypass and dis guise the insoluble issue of how to combine the exhilara tion of national independence with the security of a great alliance. This is, I realize, an un congenial attitude for most of our people. We believe that for every problem there must be a solution, and it irks us badly when we find as all powers in history have had at one time another to find that there are problems which cannot be solved and have to be lived with. axiom, the Eagle Scout of the Scoutmaster. Prologue be comes Time-Present, the bi zarre the conventional. And it is this inexorable law in the chemistry of history that leads this soothsayer to say, with all the gravity I can communicate, that Bobby, spasm, and mass, convulsive momements afoot, up Poto mac, down Housatonic and across the wide Missouri, con stitute the almost certain fate of the American people. There will be no reasoned 50-mile limitations, as there are no limits to the mass mi grations of the lemmings who are not trying to get TO any place, but merely to get AWAY, chiefly from them selves and one another. The new theory of lem ming behavior as expounded by Dr. Deevey seems as irre futable as it is pregnant with potential application to the human species inhabiting any land where numbers grow at an explosive rate and where space per individual conse quently diminishes. It is only a quirk of the national pub licity formula that has called attention to Bobby as the harbinger of the behavioristic pattern to come and the quiet reaches of the upper Potomac as the locale of the phenome non. Dwellers in Manhattan who witness the spring rush toward the bridges and tun nels connecting with Long Island and New Jersey will have a sense of confirmatory ( From a birthplace on the present site of the Central Point City Hall to a senior vice-presidency of one of the world's great airlines . . . That's Seely Hall. From a literary -struck kid on Park street to the very top of tha best-seller list ... That's Edison Mar shall. a From tha Medford High graduating class of 1931 to the pages of Reader's Digest and on to authoring Jack Paar's two books. "I Kid You Not." and "My Sabre Is Bent." ... That's John Reddy. While driving early day 90 mile per hour plane flying with envy for the occasional stages to Crater Lake, Seely above. A stint in the Signal Hall used to look skyward put him in the sky that was Corps during World War I to become his life. Returning after the war, Seely established the Medford Aircraft Company. Flying a "Jenny," he barn stormed through Oregon and Eastern Washington and had the dis tinction of being the first non military aviator to fly over the Siskiyous. Helping to organize the Pa cific Coast Air Mail Line in 1925, Seely Hall was manager of the Medford Station for four years. He next became a division superintendent for Pacific Air Transport, which was later to become United Air Lines. Elected to a vice-presidency of United in 1940, he was to become responsible for the full management of United's vast military operations for the Air Transport Command across the Pacific and to Alas ka. During this assignment, he touched down on practically every island in the Pacific big enough to support a landing strip. In 1947, Seely Hall was named general manager of all ground services for United Air Lines. On retirement, he and Mrs. Hall returned to Medford to build a new home. Where is Seely Hall right this minute? He's far, far away in the area of Tahiti and it's our guess that he's looking for an island that he possibly overlooked during World War II. Edison Marshall came to the Rogue Valley with his parents when he was 13. This was 1907 and it ap peared as though just about everybody in the world was headed for Medford and the growing pears. Commenting on his fath er's brief experience as a fruit grower, Edison Mar shall says, "Frost, hail, wind, blight, moth (all terms of horror io me to this day) and the tantrums of the market brought the sheriff on to our front porch. He did not actually get inside, but tha cold wind of poverty rat tled the windows and gave us the scare of our lives. I resolved that whatever I did in life, first and fore most it must make us a bountiful living." At 17, he was convinced that he could write and in his first year at college sold a story to "Argosy." With only a slight delay for mili tary service (serving as a Lemmings revelation if they will read Dr. Deevey's explanation in full. The periodic population ex plosion among the lemmings, with the consequent crowd ing, ever more frantic scramble for comfort and food, amounts to the "age of anxiety," lemming . wise; stress begins in their bodies with all manner of abnormal functionings of liver, adrenals and nerve ends. The sugar content of their blood alters, brain cells are starved they even break out with neuro dermatitis. Since Scandina vian biologists have not yet devised a practical method of spraying the tundra with Miltown in powdered form, hypertensions take full hold. They are simply sick, sick, sick. The younger ones begin running Much the ame hap pens with the Minnesota hares, born as they are with track shoes already on. We are now in a position to understand the true impli cations of Bobby, and the 50 mile hike. It has nothing to do with muscle building or with building popular pres sures on Congress in favor of the Wilderness Bill. It is simply that a Kennedy lem ming is always a step ahead of the ordinaiy or nonparti san lemming, and Bobby is marking out his own route for the day when he all take to the hills. (Distributed 1963. by The Hall Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights Reserved) A lieuiananl) Edison Marshall continued to sell his stories to the batter magasines. In 1921, he won the O. Henry Memorial Prise for a lory call "The Heart of Little Shikara." Ha became obsessed by tha outdoors and began to write short stories, novelettes and nov els with wilderness settings. Big game hunting held a great attraction for him and he followed it to Africa. French Indo-China, Alaska. Burma and India. Augusta. Georgia became his home to return to from his quest for excitement. Hollywood discovered his greatness in 1941 and his novel "Benjamin Blake" be came the dashing movie, ' "Son of Fury." "Caravan to Xanadu," and Tiger," "Yankee Pasha," ' many, many other books ' have given reading enjoy ment io millions. You'll find many Edison Marshall books in the library and you'll find them an excit ing but safe way to have endless adventures. When John F. Reddy gradu ated from Medford High in 1931, he stepped out into a de-pression-wideworld just wait ing to knock the friendly and ever -ready grin from his school boy face. Son of a formed mayor, brilliant high school journal ist, better-than-average tennis player, John Reddy swung first and the world let hint keep his grin and welcomed him as one of the brighter of the new crop of bright young men. John Reddy found success in writing and producing ma jor radio and TV shows and has been a frequent contribu tor to Esquire, Reader's Di gest and other major publi cations. A friendship with Jack Paar grew from the fact that the Paars lived next door to John's mother in Southern California. This relationship, starting before either of them had achieved very great suc cess, has continued for many years. His books for Jack Paaf are extremely well written, reflecting the Reddy kid whom anyone from the class of '31 will remember well. Your favorite TV show lister here? Rifleman, Stoney Burke, Going My Way, Our Man Higgins, Naked City, Ozzie and Harriet, Leave It To Beaver, My 3 Sons, Fred Astaire Presents, Valiant Years, Father Knows Best, I'm Dickens-He's Fenster, 77 Sunset Strip, Gallant Men, Jelsons, Lloyd Bridg es, Have Gun-Will Travel, Dennis The Menace, True, Dick Powell Show, Wide Country. Sam Benedict, An dy Williams, Empire, Car 54. According to "Variety, you can forget them all be cause their way out has been greased with unsatis factory Neilson ratings and none of them will be back next year. Sorry. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS . In Washington, the super intendent of schools has asked the District of Colum bia Board of Education for permission to PADDLE young trouble makers in the public schools of the nation's capi tal if they refuse to behave themselves. THIS paddling business? x It's VERY old. For example: "He that spareth the rod hatcth his child." That is from Proverbs, XIII, 24. And this one: "They spare the rod and spoil the child." That was written back in the 1600 s by Ralph Venning in his Mvstc nes and Revelations. Along about the same time. Samuel Butler, early English poet, put the same thought in the same words, merely changing them from indicative to the imperative: "SPARE the rod and SPOIL the child." Ij.-UJULING is a very an- S. rinl in-, ;(..: 1,. man luuuii. It has never, so far as one can determine by reading and by conversation, been very popular among the PAD DLEES especially al the time when paddled. But some mighty good men. who were paddled at the right time and in the proper spirit of "this hurts me worse than it hurts you." have emerged from the panelling ordeal. The verdict of history stems to be that there is a time to paddle and a time not to P a d d I c and almost super human wisdom is required to make the right decisions as to the timing of it.
