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SUNDAY. MARCH 3. 1963 MtDrOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDr'OhO, OREGON 4 "Everyone Id Southern Oregon Keadi The MaU Tribunej Kblished Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTIMO to 33 North Fir St, PhJTM-jUl niHFPT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manaier GERALD T LATHAM, "Bui. Mir Kmc w ALLEN JR., Mne. Editor EARL B ADAMS, City Editor - ittinil A X T FH I tOf RICHARD JEWETT, Sport Ed tor OLIVE STARCHER Women! Editor DALE ER1CKSON. CtrcuUUon Mgr An THnnrint NtWIDIDCr Entered at iccond cU" matter ml Medford, oreion. unaei March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES n aa.ii In irluanp. Dally and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Dally and Sunday moi. 10.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moa. 5.00 Sunday Only One year 5.oo Klnil. Coov (Mailed! 300 b.. r.,-.i A-A Motnr Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year 2100 Dally and Sunday 1 mo, 1.73 Sunday Only 1 mo. 500 Carrier and .Vendor', Cop joo . Official Paper of City of Medford Official paperofJackaon Jaunty ITnited Presi International rn leased Wire P. P. 1 Tclephoto Newsplcturea MEMBER OF AUDIT buniau Or tlKLULaiiuwa NELSON ROBERTS Aj: ASSOCI ATES Of'lcea In New York, cm cago. Detroit, San rranclsco Loa Aneeles. Seattle, Portland. Denver, NEWSrAMK PUIIIIHIIS ASSOCIATION NATION A I EDITOkMAl AStSbCUTIGiN ?-V- Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha files of The Mail Tribuna 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 3, 1953 (Sunday) A defense department order halting land acquisition and actual or proposed construc tion on seven western and southern Army camps has ap parently ended two years of speculation on the future of Camp White, northeast of Medford. Tom MacLeod, sportscaster for the Mall Tribune's radio station, KYJC, has been se lected as one ol four sports announcers throughout the state to originate broadcasts of the Class A basketball tournament In Eugene, 20 YEARS AGO March 3, 1943 (Friday) Llnuor rationing scheduled to go Into effect in Medford nn Monday. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The legislature is getting ready to acquit itself, adjourn and come home, many hope." 30 YEARS AGO March 3, 1933 (Sunday) Medford merchants ap prove plan for local us of script currency. Prospect school board bars Llewellyn Banks from mak ing "Good Government Con gress" speech in school build ing. 40 YEARS AGO March 3, 1923 (Monday) Medford city council voles again to provide more water for persons living outside city limits. Now fire whistle signal adapted for use in Medford. 50 YEARS AGO March 3. 1913 (Tutiday) City policeman, In plain clothes, stationed on Jackson street bridge to arrest drivers of automobiles crossing span at a speed faster than a walk. County Judge Frank Tou Vclle plans new system to cut county fees paid to justices of peace. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or sn is good. 1. Where are the Seas of Tranquility, Serenity and Va pours? 2. The 9th. 23th and 27th Presidents all had what same first name? 3. An udometer is used to measure what? 4. Who, in the aong, "wheeled her wheelbarrow through streets wide and narrow?" 5. In what year did Con gress first exercise lis power to declare war? fi. A marsupial mammal and an extra-legal court share what common name? 7. With what social activity do you associate Messrs. Blackwood, G e r b e r and Gorcn? 8. In what mountain range K the Abnomlnable Snow man said to live? 9. Name a bird whose name also means to complain. 10. What Is the distinction between libel and slander? Answers: 1, On Hi Moon. 2. William Harrison. McKin ley and Taft. 3. Rain. 4. Molly Melons. 5. 1312. 6. Kangaroo. 7. Contract. Bridge. 1. Hima layas. 9. Grouse. 10. Slander spoken) libel wrliien. The Day The day is coming, God willing, when no American will be a second class citizen because of his color. The day is not here has been made during seeing to it that Negroes will receive equal op portunities in voting, in employment, and in personal services. President Kennedy's Congress last week will other step forward, if effect. IN THE same issue of reported the President's civil rights proposals was an exceedingly interesting story about our new ambassador to Finland, Carl Rowan, and his struggle upward from a depressed and de pressing Negro neighborhood in Tennessee. Rowan "had the breaks" in that struggle. But no one could have done what he has done with out intelligence, determination and cold, raw courage in facing odds and insults. His success should be an inspiration to Negroes everywhere to pereevere in their long and frustrating climb up from slavery and second class citizenship. It is in contrast to the story of the Black Mus lims, who have riven up that struggle in favor of militant action and militant hate. Rowan's story is one of his attempts to find an equal opportun ity; the Muslims' story is one of succumbing to the temptation to hate ""THE future, it is to be direction the Black lies, it men ot good will prevail in the search lor justice and equal treatment under the law, in the direction which Rowan indicates, and which Pres ident Kennedy advocates. One cannot, we have often been told, "leg islate morality." Yet we havior. We have always legislated away men's "rights" to commit crimes upon others. And in a nation which was founded on the basis of equality of opportunity, justice for all, and freedom of choice, civil rights iaws are mere ly an extension of those MO, THE day is not yet here when the sight of '"a black face will cause no more thought than the sight of a head of red hair. But with ever-broadening opportunities for education, for jobs, for decent homes, for po litical rights, the clay is coming when the Amer ican Negro can and will take his place as a full partner in the nation s The day is not here than anyone could have or even nine years ago declared it unconstitutional to deny equal oppor tunity in education because a child's face was black. E.A. Sunday Closing Bill Considerable support among some retail mer chants is being demonstrated for the proposed Sunday closing bill in the Oregon legislature. So, if this discriminatory and illogical measure is to be defeated, those opposing it had best let them selves be heard in the legislative halls. It is a bad bill on several counts. It would take away from all of us our freedom of choice in making or on Sunday. It would discriminate lets in favor of others. It would work a real such as drugstores Sunday, and which would be permitted to Fell some items, but have to block off or cover up others. THE worst discrimination would be against 4 ha-tun cm mil nts Inict niii- nt l li -A i if Afltrnn. tists and Baptists, who observe Saturday as their Sabbath, and who thus would be forced to forego two business days each week. Thus, in discriminating against their religious freedom, the measure is of doubtful constitution ality. Intended or not, it thus becomes a bona fide "blue law." The list of items which could not be sold on a Sunday is wholly arbitrary and capricious, fol lowing no line of logic or sense or order. AS FOR "saving a day for the family," which is the guise under which this measure is mas querading, this is a complete phoney. Many people have no objection to working on Sunday, and those that do object are seldom forced to do so. Too, existing legislation at both state and federal levels protects workers from too long and arduous a work week. A "family day" is a matter of personal preference, and no amount of legislation is go ing to force a family into togetherness unless and until it decides for itself. And what kind of a "family day" is it when nop can buy a fishing rod or a set of golf clubs, but is forbidden from buying screw driver or monkey wrench to fix that' leaky faucet? This bill should be laughed to death, but ap parently it isn t going to had better be told that type of legislation. E.A. is Coming yet. But great progress the last two decades in education, in housing, in proposals given to the carry that progress an enacted and placed in the Mail Tribune which the persecutors. hoped, does not lie in the Muslims are pointing. It can and do legislate be ideals. me and work yet. But it is far closer hoped twenty years ago, when the Supreme Court not making purchases against some retail out hardship on some stores which remain open on be, so our legislators we want none of this "We Need The Extra Money To Fight More And More Americans Who Are Getting Fed Up With U" Matter of Fact ny Joseph aiS8P (c) New York Herald THE TASK AHEAD Rome-After the final, con temptuous French dismissal of the British from the negotiat- Brussels, the other Europe ans held a se cret meeting with the Brit ish negotiator, the able Ed ward Heath. What to do now, was the topic. The Almp German, Italian, and other European leaders were all there. Yet despite the exas peration felt by all, amount- ng in some cases to all but incoherent rage, no one had any very good ideas to offer. The best anyone could sug gest was to refuse the French dpmand for discussion of the proposal now being I'nergeti- cally pushed by the French Finance Minister, Valerie Guiscard-Dcstaing, for strict limitations on U.S. invest ment in Europe. The gesture was duly made; yet there are good reasons to believe that Guiscard-Dcstaing has only to wait before his scheme is se riously studied. tY THE same token, dc " Gaulle's brutal, unilateral rejection of the British appli cation to enter the Common Market so infuriated Italian Prime Minister Amintore Fan- fanl, that the courageous Fan fani swore he would flatly turn down the next French proposal to come before the x European powers. This was the proposal to give a special associated status to a whole slew of African states, most of which are former French colonies. Fanfnr.i made good his threat. Yet before the meeting in Brussels on Monday, the French had succeeded in con veying the idea that the Itali an stand was "anti-African." The Italians had thus been driven to hasty explanations that they could not act upon the French proposal until aft er their own forthcoming elec tions. And French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murvillc could take the in tended rebuff with glacial po liteness, in full confidence that his proposal would again be considered In another at mosphere later on. These episodes, not signifi cant in themselves, also have an even larger symbolic sig nificance. They symbolize, in fact, the total transformation of the European scene by Ihe ruthless act of one man, Gen. de Gaulle. rIMIE essence of this trams- formation Is de Gaulle's power to impose his own will. INTERNAL ttiiUE REVENUE SHlWtlfeff flit "And then tha Spirit of '76 marches out and wa say, 'How can you complain about taxes? At least now you're not without representation'!" ' Was en w mr Tribune Syndicate which he has demonstrated so dramatically since his famous January 14th press confer ence. It Is worth pausing, at least briefly, to see how he has achived this power. The feat has its deeply ironic aspects. Gen. de Gaulle himself has never been a Eu ropean, and in no possible sense could he be called the architect of the New Europe. The architect of the New Eu rope is the man who stands at the opposite pole of French life, Jean Monnet. In the first phase at any rate, the grand motivation of this New Europe was to achieve economic progress. Without the hope of such progress, the New Europe probably would not have come into being. De Gaulle did not believe in this moti vation, and he does not now believe that Europe's great re cent economic progress is due to the Common Market. He said as much, in one of the less noticed asides in the Jan uary press conference. rpHE other Europeans be lieve, however, that their remarkable surge forward, to a quite new level of prosper ity and productivity, is whol ly owing to the Common Mar ket. This belief, which he does not share, in turn gave de Gaulle the leverage he needed. With Macchiavcllian sly ness and with the grand bold ness that belongs to him alone, de Gaulle seized this European economic machine. not invented by him, not originally approved by him, not believed by him to be eco nomically useful. He grasped the Common Market in a ruthless grip, and transform ed it into something quite dif ferent. He made it. in fact. into his personal political in strument. No wonder, then, that the other Europeans are unhappy, exasperated, and In some cases Infuriated. But. this is not the point that wants at tention. The point to consider is de Gaulle's enduring lever age, derived from the other Europeans' conviction that Europe is immensely valuable to them, and their fear that dc Gaulle will break up their turope if he does not get his way. Tc GAULLE'S leverage is " the obvious explanation of both of the two incidents re counted above. This Gaullist leverage will not be reduced by Special Ambassador Liv ingston Merchant's efforts to peddle the multilateral de terrent. If anything, the ef fect will he the opposite. The U.S. also has leverage. because the other Europeans - but again not de Gaulle - In the Day's News By FRANK U. S. Secretary of State Rusk at Houston, Tex., U.S.A.: "Any effort by Cuba to use its arms outside the island would be met by the armed forces of the Western Hemi sphere. Cuba must not become a source of communist infec tion for the Hemisphere. So viet military presence on that island can not be tolerated." SOVIET Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, U.S.S.R.: "If Cuba, or Red China, or ANY OTHER communist na tion is attacked, the Soviet Union will come to the assist ance of its friends and strike a devastating blow at the ag gressors." QUESTION: Is the irresistible force about to meet the immovable body? Or is It just another case of "MY POP CAN LICK YOUR POP, and you better leave me alone?" HMMMMMMMMM. Let's cherish the fervent hope that it's the latter. if another World War ever gets started, nobody knows where it would stop. piROM Washington: " Senator George McGov ern (Democrat, from South Dakota) has come up with his own version of the hiking fad. For the past week, he has been handling his 10-year-old son's paper route-on foot. It started when young Mc Govern was stricken with the flu and was unable to keep up his route in nearby Chevy Chase for the Washington Post. The senator tells a re porter: "It's a little difficult to get replacements, so I took it over for him. It's about a two mile hike, and you have to get up at 5:15 a.m. It takes me 30 minutes to make the rounds." COMMENT? Let's put it this way: If all the members of the congress would approach the solution of the NATION'S problems in the sensible, logi cal way in which Senator Mc Govcrn has approached the solution of the problem cre ated by his son's illness, our country would have relative ly few worries. MORE from Washington: The Atomic Energy Committee (AEC in alphabet language) thinks it may be 20 years or more before the cost of desalinization can be brought down to the point where desalinized sea water can be used profitably for ir rigation. This brings from Chet Hol lifield, of .California's 19th are convinced that their de fense depends on the Ameri can military presence in Eu rope. Yet using this American leverage wisely and effective. Iy against the strong leverage of de Gaulle will be a task of infinite diplomatic complexity and delicacy. This task now ahead will in fact call for the first true American exercise of diplo macy in modern history. Hith erto, we have always been too isolated or too overwhelming ly rich and powerful to need to be diplomatic. It must be added that we shall remain sadly ill-prepared for this tax ing task as long as the State Department continues in its present disarray. Thoughts By ERIC SEVAREID A few years ago a slory went the rounds concerning the American news magazine publisher who hired an edi- j. LUI 1UI IMC If 1 lieinus o a e e with firm in structions that he was to treat religion, not only as part of the passing parade, but as "a damn good thing." It is apparent that in the United States, Art has be come a damn good thing. In Ihe last 15 years or so the number of symphony orches tras has grown to 1,100, operatic groups to 500, the atrical groups to 100.000: the cash value of good paintings has increased by more than 1.000 per cent, and approxi malcly every fifth person dabbles, at least, in music. dance, acting, painting or sculpture. A cult of Culture has ricn from the general in crease in wealth, leisure and education. Only Ihe hopeless misan thrope could be joyless about j this phenomenon, althntich i some question the relation ship between numbers and genius whether even surh a tidal wave aj this can be counted on to cast up a single Michelangelo or Shakespeare but what is Interesting for present purposes is the in stinctive American move to l2?a& svare id JENKINS Congressional District, down in the water-short Los An geles area, a demand for more work (and more appropria Hons for the AEC, if neces sary) on the desalinization project. He says he thinks de salinization of sea water is a heck of a lot more important than putting a man on the moon. A MEN, Chet. A lot of us out here in the West agree with you all the way. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a Sen name or Initial for publica on is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica Uon must not exceed 400 words. Views of an Old Timer To the Editor: I'm still alive and kicking. Watch me or I might "kick over my traces" as I'm only a colt 86 years old, and you know I'm kind o' balky. I'd like to talk to my old friends awhile, but don't get too close, I might "kick," you know. I'm like the breechy cow, I'd like to get over that fence where the pasture is better, but I'm fenced in, like many of the rest of you. I remember when I was just a young "sprout." I some times went to Dallas City with my old crippled "Dad" to get some lumber at Mr. Black's lumber yard, and Mr. Black called my Father "Worthless" and Fatl-.er called him the "blackest man in town, or an old black Repub lican." Well, I also inherited that nickname until later years, when I rathered some times, and voted the Demo cratic ticket. And then soon after the Populists came along and the Socialist Party emerg ed, which I at first ridiculed, but upon investigation I learned that their principles were sound and reasonable, and I became a Socialist and have been ever since. I also am a free Thinker, and, I hope, a Humanist, and an agnostic and an atheist, and I suppose that I'm called crazy and many other things, but one thing, they can't take away my character, and I'm not ignorant of many things of which many people are not wise to. Take Socialism, for In stance. It is condemned by some people that sit on the fence with a patch on the seat of their pants. Take De mocracy, which is taken for granted as a good and desira ble thing; but the Commu nists ridicule our system of Democracy, not alto g e t h e r without good reason, and while Democracy is a good thing as far as we are politi cally concerned, Democracy as a whole must be supple mented by industrial Democ racy to be of the most benefit to all the people, and of course, that implies public ownership of the means of production in the means of life. For after all, you can't control what you don't own, and which socialism proposes to do, and which could be attained by the peaceful means which we have got yet, with some exceptions. John P. Wirth, 3022 Butte St., Klamath Falls, Ore., (Formerly Colusa, 111.) on America's Cultural Revival organize even the spirit of the muses, to make the phenome non a Problem to be institu. tionalized, nationalized and "solved." Officialdom, which avant garde artists In all fields gen erally regard as the natural enemy of art in spite of the example of the Mcdicis, has moved in. and while there is no certainty that it will or can corrupt art as politicians and the military have corrupted the exalted reaches of science, still the argument foams more furiously in artists' circles, if not among artistic squares, thnn is realized by those who read as they run. Some American artists of repute loathe the very con cept ot New York's massive Lincoln Center for Ihe per forming arts and the National Cultural Center envisaged as covering, if not adorning. 13 acres of the Foggy Bottom region in Washington, D C. In the first instance, the case for the negative ranges from those who regard Lin coln Center as a coldly im personal real estate develop ment where art under glass may be decorously enjoyed by those possessed cf car with chauffeur for a sure getaway from the stranded crowd, to those fearful of a national pyramidal structure with Lin coln Center as the Yankee Stadium of the arts, to be fed with selected talent from the 73 smaller city cultural cen ters now rising or risen which would function as farm clubs. I ....wj. Things you wouldn't know if you hadn't raad them hart) . . . Mt. Pittt used to be spelled with only two t'l . . . Fidel Castro Boulevard is used less for subdivision street names than any other . . . Ten seconds after you buy a new car, you automatically become the owner of a used one . . . All trombone players have three lungs because they need them . . . Jacksonville is an old Indian name mean "Jack's son, Phil" ... If there are five members in your family, you have a total of 100 fingers and toes, at least . . . You can fly to Portland cheaper than you can drive, unless you take a plane . . . Steam irons can sea where they're going better if they are filled with carrot juice instead of tap water . , . Sons named after their fathers are usually called Junior, unless their father's nama is Junior, in which case they are called Junior, Junior. BEAVER BULLETIN . . . Tha beaver Is iha official state animal of Oregon. Although this giva beavers soma standing in tha animal world, wa think of ihem mostly as sitting down. Most beavers wear braces en their teeth to correct malocclusion. One a beaver has built a dam he will never pari with it, proving that beavers just don't giva a darn. Our slate animal was supposed to ba tha rhinocerus but wasn't because someone discovered (just in lima, too) that we had more beavers. KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR . . . Ashland Is 9,477 feet above sea level and has a population of 1,895. No, that's not exactly right. Ashland has 18,954 feet divided fairly equally between half that many people. It has the loveliest park in all of Oregon and the whole town digs Shakespeare. Next to Medford, Ashland is. "IF" DEPARTMENT IF the railroad had gone through Jacksonville instead of through Medford, Jacksonville would have a popula tion of 26,000 and Middleford would have a museum. IF there had been television a hundred years ago, people hare would have been sitting around watching "Easterns" (By candle light?) If it weren't for tha magnetic pull of ihe moon, iha oceans wouldn't be fit lo ba iidt. IF Noah hadn't taken two dogs on iha ark wiih him, business would be pretty lousy at most dog racing tracks. ABOUT BOOKS Some great books have been written for those who wish to lose weight. We recommend the following to you as being light reading for heavy people: "Lose it or get lost," "Keep your fat under your hat," "Lard, you made the fat too long," and an exciting jungle diet book called "Me Jane, you fat." We found that you get the best results by simply eating the books, most of which are fairly low in calories. MEDICAL MIRACLES Every once in a awhile wa hear about a young medical student who has taken out his own appendix. Show us a medical student who can put his own appendix BACK IN as well as taking them out and we'll show you a young man with a brilliant future ... on TV. SOMETHING BORROWED From a movie review . . . "If you liked World War II, you'll LOVE 'The Longest Day'." Oscar Levant . . . "Insanity is hereditary we catch it from our children." Classified ad . . . "Wanted: Man to work on nuclear fissionable isotope molecular reactive counters and three phase cyclotronic uranium photo synthesizers. No experience necessary." Sign on the rear of a Volkswagen: "This is a transistorized Rolls Royce." V9s MEN WHO MADE MEDFORD GREAT . . . Let's talk about a man with infinite kindness, understanding and dedication. For sixteen years (longer than any other) this man served Medford as a City Councilman. We'll call him "Mr. City Parks" for his tireless effort io improve our recreational areas. We'll call him "Mr. Airport" for his part in making Medford an important link in the western skyways. We'll call him simply great for being Harold Frye, ever a gentlemen, always a friend of tha city ha loves. In the arts as in business, government or labor, Bigness must certify considerable rigor mortis in the form of parasitical bureaucracy, con trols, pork-barreling politics and an official corps of judges or academicians who will tend to entrench their own cult or school of thought, as the Museum of Modern Art became the Establishment for abstract expressionist paint ing. Art cannot be central ized, the argument runs, and in any case America is a de centralized community with more good art coming out of the Midwest than out of the East, and any further en thronement of New York is against the trend as well as the grain. The concern about the Na tional Center is that while funds will come from private sources, not from the govern ment as in Britain. France. Italy or Austria, still its of ferings must of necessity be come officially-approved art, safe, sure art. which in the minds of the young and rebellious where indigenous American art must be born is art already dead. Those so concerned may be counting their vipers before the egg is hatched Establish, m e n t s and "Power Elites" have a healthy impermanence in this country but a more pertinent concern may be that the example of the state theaters and operas of Europe constitutes a false analogy. The truth is that while Lon- 5D 5& aon and Paris are political capitals within a natural city, Washington is an unnatural city within a political capital. Its art will always have to cross the Potomac or the Ana costia, since Washington it self is almost barren of first, line artists in any field, as it is almost barren of first-lina critics. e e It required the Kennedy ad. ministration to set the thing in motion. (Truman regarded abstract painting as "ham and egg" art, and Eisenhower's musical ideal seemed to ba Fred Waring's band.) So art, i-ven some advanced art, is now constitutional and non. subversive, although there are still a few unregencrate critics who raise the question of which side is honored when great artists are invited to the White House. The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about any. thing whatsoever on this earth, but I confess I don't know whether this is a view-with-alarm or a point-with-pride column. I'm unsure about the whole business, cer tain only that "art as dinner party.'' to quote the Washing ton Star's critic, is lomewhat remote from art as the trans action that reveals man's in ner hearts to themselves, to quote someone now long for gotten. (Distributed 1963, by the Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Reserved) t
