SUNDAY. MARCH 3. 1963
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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)
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