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NEWSMMft PUIUSHEKS ASSOCIATION NATION A I EDITORIAL. 1 I i -" Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 26, 1853 (Tutiday) One person died and sevcrnl were injured in a series of JO week end accidents in Jackson county. Gov. Paul Patterson an nounced in Salem today that William Walsh, Coos Bay, has been appointed to succeed Frank J. Van Dyke, Medford, on the Oregon slate board of higher education. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 26, 1943 (Sunday) Medford shoe repair shops swamped as shoe rationing gets under way. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "New grass is coming up, In the usual phone book green, an over the valley." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 26, 1933 (Tuesday) Medford banks to reopen Monday following "bank holi day." Joe F. Fllcgel elected exalt ed ruler of Medford Elks lodge. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 26, 1923 (Wednesday) John Hampshire, Grants Pass, receives contract for completion of Crater Lake highway. Cloudy weather expected to keep eclipse of moon from being seen In Rogue valley. SO YEARS AGO Feb. 26, 1913 (Thursday) Valuable vein of gold ore discovered near old Pierce mine west of Medford. Jean St. Lac de Roboam, 84, dies; was veteran of Crim ean war and operated United States hotel in Jacksonville from 1884 until his retirement in 1900. What's Your I.Q.? Nine oi ten correct Is superior even or eight Is eacellcnt; five or It is good. 1. Charlotte Amalie is the capitol of what American pos cession? 2. U.S. Secretary of State John Hay was largely respon sible for the Open Door policy toward what country? 3. What famous scientist was noted for research in milk, wine and beer? 4. What English author's name rhymes with Rhode Island Reds? 5. What date is represented by MCMLIX? 6. If "The Little Flower went to "Little Sauk" who would go where? 7. In what cily would you find Fleet, Thrcadnccdlc and Bond Streets? 8. Miller, Stuhldrehcr. LJowicy and Laydon were better known as what? 9. If Jack Benny, Larry Ad lcr and Pablo Casals had a Jain session, what would their Instruments be? 10. What docs one call the wife of an Earl? Answers! 1. Virgin Islands. 3. China. 3. Louis Pasteur. 4. Dickens (chickens). S. 1959. 6. Fiorelle LaGuardia to Min nesota. 7. London. 8. Four Horsemen of Notre Dame. 9. Violin, harmonica and cello. 10. Counlns. 4 A- FEBRUARY 21. 193 He Will Be Here ends a way of education, a way of thinking and a type of sportsmanship, character istic of a passing generation. This will undoubt edly be said by many today, those who mourn the passing of E. H. Hednck, retired superin tendent of the Medford schools. But it will not all be true. For in this case, to contradict Shakespeare, it is the good that a man does which lives after him. Now, more than in the prime of his education al career, the influence was equally at home with cow hand and Latin scholar, is being recognized. His philosophy, founded upon the stern belief that society has no right to educate a child to a way of life it can not gurantee, is accepted as new thinking. His methods have been vindicated as children from coast to coast are required to study more, not less. His standards, which some would have watered down to make things easier for Johnny, are being upgraded as educators take a realistic look at the challenges which await Johnny's gen eration. s IT. H. HEDRICK was " man. He wanted for curity that is born of self fulness. He wanted every child, regardless of posi tion, to develop to the maximum of his potential, and he worked constantly to give children that opportunity. He believed that the is experienced by persons who are too long pro tected from the realities of life. He had faith in school children. He expected great things of them. And they didn't disappoint him on foot ball field or in classroom. In a period so infiltrated by status seekers that authors labeled them as the typical Amer icans, he refused to compromise for any rewards. He stood for, and tought he believed in spite of sures. His sincere interest in education continued until the close of his life. " LJE WORKED, always, without consideration of self and asked for no special privilege. He called a spade a spade in the old terminology, and when strong words were needed to achieve an end he drew upon his army background for the proper phrase without flinching. At the same time he had a gentleness which commanded the respect of his strongest adversaries, and a sense of humor which transcended the solving of prac tically every problem. Busy as he was from early morning until late at night, as administrator of a rapidly grow ing school system, he found time to become, him self, an educated person. He spoke a common language but he was a very uncommon man. He will be missed. But best of all, he will be remembered. E.H. Those Guard Scandals The scandals involving some members of the Oregon National Guard are chilling, particularly in a state which has been as historically free of corruption in official places as has Oregon. the Oregon Journal comments: "The record on the scandal in the Oregon National Guard Is still disturbingly incomplete." That is true. It also calls to mind that there have been unverified rumors of irregularities in the Guard for several years. Some, indeed, were motivated when the Medford Armory was com pleted, only to be found lacking in chairs and other facilities to make it the multi-use building that Medford and Jackson county people had been led to believe it would be. A LMOST three years ago in March, I960, to "be precise we raised some questions con cerning certain aspects of the renovating the home of the adjutant general at Camp Clacka mas, and were assured it " . . '. was done at the personal expense of the adjutant general with the exception of the painting, wall papering, and minor carpenter work which is normal mainte nance for this type of building." Also: "... No monies were taken from (state-owned armories) in remodeling the division headquarters . . . Building remodeling was done for the purpose of hous ing the division headquarters for the entire state. Formerly, the headquarters had been in an old two story barracks that was entirely inadequate." To this we added our own comment: "We accept this explanation at its face value, recognizing that in making executive decisions, a certain leeway is necessary. "The need for the work, and the style in which It was done, and the Justifiability of the use of funds for these purposes, is something we cannot judge. "We arc glad to place the answers 'on the record,' and leave to other appropriate authority the decisions as to whether wise use was made of tax money avail able to the military department." IN LIGHT of the revelations of recent weeks and months, there remains a substantial doubt that this earlier explanation of seeming irregularities would hold water. The questions were brought to the attention of state authorities at the time, but nothing re sulted except assurances that all was well. In any continuing investigation of the scan dals, perhaps the matters touched on three yeai-s ago would bear further scrutiny. One hates to drag dirty linen into the open, particularly if the individual chiefly invovlcd is no longer living, but it is necessary if we are to assure ourselves that nothing similar can happen in the future. The current suggestion that an inspector gen eral be named for the Guard, a man independent of the regular chain of command who could in vestigate all reports of irregularities, sounds like a good one. E.A. Remembered of this Oregon man, who . essentially a very kind children the type of se reliance and resource most tragic insecurity tor, the things in which social or financial pres MbDFOMD "What Doe. He Think This I A Legislative Body?" ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the nam and address oi the writer, although under certain circumstances the us of a pen nam 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. Little Pittsburgh To The Editor: Thank you for your recent article on air-pollution, What a power ful source for good an editor can be! Yesterday part of the fam ily played tennis on the courts near the high school. The while balls soon became black with soot, as did hands, clothes, and some faces. Showers removed the extern al dirt, but what about dirty lungs? If you lived above the val ley, as we do on a ridge of hills to the south, you would be even more convinced of our Little Pittsburgh prob lem. A startling contrast is often apparent on week ends. Almost all of the 20-25 belch ing burners (visible to us) are then quiet. And if a clearing wind is present a most beauti ful sight unfolds itself. The valley really sparkles! Are the people asking too much - the right to breathe wholesome air? I heartily agree with you. We should not merely request action, we should demand it, and do whatever is necessary to achieve results. We are urg ing our legislators, as a first step, to pass Senate Bill 25!), Washington Report By William (c) United Feature Syndicate TEST BAN TROUBLES Washington - Deep trouble is building up in the Senate for any nuclear test bun ar rangement which may be PWh reached with XV tl,e Russians at the cost of further sub stunlial con cessions by the United States. And it is the Senate which must in the end say yea white or nay t0 Hnv nuclear treaty. One third of its membership plus one can refuse ratification. The latest staled American "minimum demand" in the zigging and zagging disarm ament conference at Geneva has been for a rock-bottom eight to ten on-site inspections a year to police Soviet per formance of any pledge to halt nuclear testing. The So viet Union has made a take-it-or-leavc-it offer of two to three a year and periodically threatens to withdraw even this absurdly Inadequate form of inspection guarantee. riMlERE signs, 1 however, that in our eagerness to achieve some progress our negotiators are not unprepared to go down !o seven inspections, and per haps even below that. This has been privately conceded even while somewhat ambig uous public denials have been floated about So obvious has it become that we ate considering a fur ther softening of our position, indeed, that so ardent a test ban advocate as Senator Hu bert 11. Humphrey of Minne sota has felt compelled tu warn that while it Is the Pres ident who proposes in treaty matters, it is the Senate which disposes Senator Humphrey has said, from his post as an observer at Geneva, that any scheme for fewer than right I inspecltlons would be "diffi i cult" to get through the Scn- I ate. I "Impossible'' would in tact i be the accurate term. I 'rilE LONG, long story of American rffnrts to come to some agreement with the MAIL t mount, MLUtOMD, OMtGON , serjATE and hope many others will take the time to do the same. Irving S. Thomas Route 4, Box 4276 Medford o Editor's note: As an ironic note, it could be pointed out that Pittsburgh, Pa., once one of the worst offenders as far as air pollution is concerned, finally licked it. Which proves that it CAN be done. Filthy Air To the Editor: May God's blessing rest upon the head of E. A. for his forthright and honest appraisal of the val ley's filthy, stinking air pol lution problems. I am glad there is someone with enough foresight to see the absolute necessity of ridding the area of this problem. (Name on File) Medford Schools Criticised To the Editor: An article in the Mail Tribune last fall stated that t h e Medford School District was having difficulty because of the lack of classrooms in many of the elementary schools. Yet, now with a budget of $4,683,457 they are only planning addi tional classrooms for two of these schools. S. Whit Russians to end nuclear test ing, with its consequent nu clear fall-out, has been a long, long story of repeated fall back by us in the face of So viet pressure for more and more yielding on our side. Senator Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut has just told the Senate, in a major speech il lustrating with rare complete ness the agony and anguish of this issue to mankind, of 12 such major American conces sions since 1958 alone. All this is apart from the greatest and most generous concession of sharing the atom ever of fered - that long ago by the commission headed by Ber nard Baruch at a lime when the United States had a total monoply on the atomic wea pon. Tne agony and the anguish is this: All men of good will, and Dodd among them, hon estly wish to sec an end to the nuclear arms race. They arc. moreover, not less human than other men In wishing desperaiely for an end to nu clear tall-out. They arc not able, however, and a majority of the Senate will never in foreseeable time be able, to follow that articulate minor ity in current American life which is so fatally bent upon some accomodation with the Russians that it would put this country's very life In pawn to what would amount to a nuclear moratorium rest ing on Soviet promises alone. rMUS is not to say that this government's negotiators themselves arc so fatally bent. It is to say however, that in their understandable drive to bring off a nuclear treaty they lean more toward trust ing than to the skeptical side in this immense and fateful question. It is not easy to cling to the skeptical side - as Dodd above nearly all others has surely had reason to learn. For it is easy to present the skeptics as hard of heart as well as hard of nose; as in favor of fall-out and against "peace." But somebody has got to mind the store of national security - and this the Senate .,1 it.. rTi,j l: ..... . ...iii i.i n'.c vimi-ii oiMiia win auiraj y ao. ii it must. Lack of Land Reform Is Danger Spot in Mexico s By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst More than SO years after the overthrow of dictator Por firio Diaz, Mexico still con siders i t s e If a revolution ary state. The steep upward climb of Mex ican industry, the towering office bu 1 1 d ings and the new hotels in Mexico City LaJ iswsom provide con vincing evidence of the revo lution's success. The story of Mexico's revo lution actually may be divid ed into two parts, one that is succeeding and another that, li it cannot be called a fail ure certainly has not been keeping pace. Mexico's 1917 Constitution provided specifically for land reform, but as President Ad olpho Lopez Mateos enters his last two years in office. We hear plenty about the expensive courses they ar range for the top few, but what about the hundreds of "average children" who are being crowded together be cause of lack of classrooms? Shouldn't the majority be as important as the minority? If the School District would come down off of cloud 9 in their efforts to show how su perior Medford is to other School Districts and concen trate on basic needs, I think the voters would view their budget with more understand ing. (Name on File) Medford , Speeder Danger To the Editor: To begin with, I am a property owner on Faith ave. at Ashland, Ore. Or rather, I am trying to be a property owner as I am making payments on it. Faith ave. is a through street between Highway 99 and Highway 66, and quite a few people use this street as it has been paved and is a wonderful speedway between the highways. Now, on this street, which is approximately five blocks long, live abbut 30 children ranging in age from 1 year to 15 years with the majority running from 1 to 8. I have tried to get license numbers as speeders go by but can't always do it. Approximately two years ago I got the majority of the property owners on Faith ave. to sign a petition which I pre sented to the city council thinking they would place a restricted speed sign on this street, but I was told the city didn't have the money to place signs on all .the streets in this fair city. Now I noticed a 20 mile speed sign on Terra ave., which is practically a dead end street, and I have been wondering who lives on Terra ave. that has enough pull or authority within our fair cily to get this sign set up. I forgot to mention that at the time I had this petition signed there was also a pri vate school on Faith ave. with quite a few children attend ing. The city police have been quite cooperative whenever I call and complain about a hot rodder, but they have quite a lot of city to patrol with what equipment they have. I'll not ask you to keep my name on file as I am not ashamed of having written this letter. So. Mr. Editor, place it rig.it at the bottom. J F. Perry 733 Faith ave. Ashland, Ore. "Il s not fair. We inlegrate without incident and gel very little publicity. Pernios we should put up token tests Revolutionary Success Story Mexico's farm front still a picture of unrest. In the states of Oaxaca, Chiapas and Morelos in the south, peasants have fought pitched battles with Mexican soldiers. In Chihuahua, just below Texas, squatters have attempted to move against large cattle ranches. Putting pressure on the government is a new organi zation called Independent Peasant Central. It is Com munist - supported and claims one million members. Matter of Fact (cl New York Herald THE YEMAN CRISIS Washington - The Presi dent is currently considering whether to move additional units of the Sixth Fleet in to the Red sea. The move ment has been proposed b y the U.S. Fleet commander in the Mediter ranean, in ful f i 1 1 m e nt of Aimp U. b. pledges to Saudi Arabia. These pledges are in ques tion, in turn, because of the signs that an attack on Saudi Arabia is at least being con sidered, if not actively pre pared, by Egypt's Gamal Ab del Nasser. Some months ago, Nasser established a bridgehead on the oil-rich Arabian Penin sula, by promoting a Nasser ite coup d'etat in the imamate of Yemen, and then rushing to the aid of the new republican government. The Yemenis, disliking the prospect of sub jugation by Egypt, rallied to their royal family and organ ized a determined guerrilla resistance. The popular resistance was Way to Power To the Editor: After 60 years of eagerly reading and listening to our Presidents, I cannot remember one Com mander in Chief of this great est of Christian nations ever writing or uttering the Sacred Name of Jesus. As a cub reporter on The New Orleans States I once spent a full Sunday afternoon in a most unauthorized inter view with William Howard Taft In the St. Charles hotel. Kindly amused by my re portorial awkwardness and by my unwarranted intrusion on his privacy, the then Chief Justice answered all my clum sy queries on what he thought of faith healing. I had just discovered "Brother Isaiah" in the greatest stroke of luck ever granted a young reporter in the South and so, felt my self an authority on a subject of which I knew absolutely nothing. My stories on "Isaiah," the faith healer, made that simple Colorado sheep herder so popular the city of New Orleans had to build a tent city to care for the crowds. He cured many to my suspicious amazement. Mr. Taft stated he knew of the greatest of faith healers who came from Bethlehem and he had his doubts about all others. But he never men tioned Jesus or the Christ. This, to me, very peculiar hesitancy or indifference on the part of our Presidents causes me to believe that the Medford branch of the Na tional Council of Churches and the Holy Name Society of Sacred Heart might ro mantically unify and found a Mission to the Presidency for the sole purpose of having our Chief Executive reverently write and proclaim the Sacred Name every time he officially calls upon the name of God. This simple act could advance the power of our Nation in thus having our greatest voice join in "All Hail the Power of Jesus Name." William Thomas Cuddy V.A. Domiciliary White City, Ore. W:icer JJ fir ' 4 It demands immediate ex propriation of large farms and ranches. Prominent among its sup porters is former President Lazaro Cardenas, the man who expropriated U. S. and British oil interests in Mexico in 1938 and who in more re cent times has been an out spoken friend of the Castro regime in Cuba and the Red Chinese. He attacks U. S. "oppres sion" and demands the end of By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate so effective that Nasser was forced to pour no less than 20,000 troops into this tiny country, and these Egyptian forces are now the sole sup port of the puppet Yemeni regime. Nonetheless, the res istance has continued, leaving Nasser in a position identical with that of the French in Al geria before the fighting end ed. AS THE Algerian resistance fighters had bases across the Moroccan and Tunisian borders, so the Yemeni guer rillas have been allowed to use bases in Saudi Arabia. In sum, Nasser has the same mo tives for wishing to attack the Saudis that the French had for wishing to invade Tunisia and Morocco. The signs that Nasser may yield to this temptation are rather impressive. To begin with, he has frankly told at least two recent American visitors that he intended to wind up the Yemen affair by "going to the root of the mat ter" in Saudi Arabia; and he has added that his troops "could be in 'Jidda," the sec ond Saudi capital near the sea coast, "in no more than two or three days." In the last fortnight, Nas ser has also quite dispropor tionately increased his ship ments of his Soviet - provided arms into the Yemen. This suggests preparations to move on the ground against the Saudi Arabian border oasis of Najran, which Egyptian planes have already bombed. TMNALLY, 20 tons of air- dropped Egyptian military equipment have been discov ered in the empty desert near the Saudi port of Yenbo which would be a logical tar get for an Egyptian landing preparatory to a move on Jid da. This air drop of arms in the Arabian Desert is still in adequately explained, but it has the look, at least, of being intended to prepare for a landing. Nasser's threat to invade Saudi Arabia puts a term of sorts, or at least ought to put a term, to what can only be called a Chester Bowles chap ter of American diplomacy. The chapter began with Bowles's selection of an em inent Middle Eastern do-gooder, John Badeau, as Ambassa dor to Cairo. Badeau at once set about making warm friends with the Egyptian dic tator, who has never failed to bite a hand that fed him. Badeau's be nice - to Nas ser policy was also adopted by the Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle East, Philip Talbot, who is another of Bowles's appointees. One result was the American dec ision to recognize the Egypt ian's puppet regime in the Ye men, on the basis of a cynical ly false promise by Nasser to withdraw his troops if rec ognition were extended. Among the Middle Eastern policy-makers, the blame for Nasser's broken promise is given to the British rather than to the promise-breaker, on the ground that Nasser really would have called home his troops if the British had followed the Americans in recognizing the Yemeni puppets. "If you can believe that, you can believe any thing." is the only possible comment. TY THE same token, the " head of the Saudi govern ment. Prince Faisal, has been strongly pressed to cease lending aid and comfort to the Yemeni popular resist ance. Prince Faisal's conten tion, that a Nasscritc Yemen will be a daggar at Saudi Arabia's heart, has been air ily dismissed. It has even been contended that Nasser's Yemeni puppets will help to show Prince Faisal the road to progress and reform. It can be seen, then, why it is fortunate that the Pri si- dent has taken the matter personally in hand. It is high time for a hard-headed judge ment such as the President can be expected to make. The stakes in this game, after all. arc the important American interest in Saudi .rdo!a. tne equally important --..wo.. .mi ii-ai ,ii III' 11- boring Kuwait, and the Brit ish interest in Kuwait, which is. literally, a matter of eco nomic life-or-death for Brit ain. Hard headedncss it cer tainly In order. foreign investments and of "foreign monopolies." Thus he places the Lopez Mateos regime on the defen sive on two fronts. On the farm front, Lopez Mateos has announced he will break up every large privately owned farm and ranch within the next two years, but he denies it is because of leftest or Car denas pressure. Cardenas' talk is the kind to strike fear into the hearts of American investors who have around a billion dollars invested there. Internally, the country is anti-Communist and the gov ernment has not hesitated to jail local Communists or to expel Communist diplomats interfering with Mexican in ternal affairs. Lopez Mateos has described his government as "far left" but he himself has been mov ing toward center. His pro gram fits in well with the Al liance for Progress program. He has spent increasingly huge proportions of the na tional budget for education. As for Cardenas, he prob ably would describe himself as less pro Communist than pro - Mexican. But he and his kind deal with fire if, for pol itics alone, they seek to divide the country between left and right and undermine confi dence in the country's future. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c. Field Enterprises, Inc. WHY THEY WIN I happen to know a bridge player in Florida who wins consistently, year in and year out, against some of t h e finest players in the coun- i-! try. Tcchnic ki n.. , any, inusi ui his opponents are better than he is. J and they can nnt i, n H n r. Harri" stand the rea son for his success. In bridge, as in most competitions of skill, the technical ability is not the determining factor. Above a certain plateau of prowees, it is the psycho logical elements that swing the balance one way or the other. A couple of years ago, I picked up a master work on bridge, written by the two French champions, Albarran and Jais, called "Comment Gagner au Bridge (la parlie libre)." The authors insisted that there are three factors that make the difference be tween a winning and losing player. In the order of impor tance, they are (1) Strength or weakness of personality; this is, of temperament and psychological qualities; (2) The methods employed; and (3) Technical ability. And it is true that some of the finest technicians are the biggest losers across the table. Then the authors listed the five commonest faults among bridge players, which cost the greatest number of points. It will surprise the laymen to learn that none of these has to do with ability per so: These five crucial fail ings are (1) Carelessness and lack of concentration; (2) Selfishness and obstin acy; (3) The art of making simple situations difficult; (4) Arrogance and conceit; (5) Obvious contempt for partner and opponents. All these failings, be it noted, are psychological and temperamental; not one is connected with the actual play of the cards, with coups and eliminations and throw-ins and end-plays. Indeed, as the authors' take pains to point out with plentiful illustra tions, the good players suffer more from these above faults than the mediocre players do. This is not a column on bridge, but on competition generally, and on the over estimation we commonly make on technical skill in any endeavor. It is true that we need to master the rudiments of any given game, but tech nical mastery is often a boom erang if it is not accompanied by the proper attitudes and reactions. In bridge, as in most nur- suits, fine technical ability is called for on perhaps only one hand out of ten. and here tne expert shines. But it is on the ordinary hand that temp erament and character pre vail: and this is where stub borness. con ceit. contempt. carelessness and the tempta- i uri io n cuie wrecks so many otherwise good players. The winner, in more serious games than bridge, is the on who understands himself. M rartner and hi nnnu rluV - n era .-Ml WUltl " j Tnore than th crd.
