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History from the files of The
iMall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 12, 1953 (Thursday)
A total of 35,000 pondorosa
pine seedlings are planted un
der a bureau of land manage
ment contract In the Butte
Falls area.
Split In Medford city coun
cil over presidency seen near
solution; seeking post are
Paul Selby and Frank Runtz.
20 YEARS AGO
March 12, 1943 (Friday)
Meat, butler, cheese, fats
and oils ordered on rationed
list.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
legislature completed a 40
flny job In 59 and has adjourn
ed sine quit."
30 YEARS AGO
March 12, 1933 (Sunday)
Pear and apple growers to
get harvesting loan.
Twelfth arrest made by
Oregon state police In connec
tion with theft of ballots from
the courthouse.
40 YEARS AGO
March 12, 1923 (Monday)
Police warn housewives to
take in their washings before
dark, as a number of clothes
lines have been stripped.
Bullis Lumber mill sold
and will resume operations
soon; William H. Fluhrcr pur
chases Rex cafe.
50 YEARS AGO
March 12. 1913 (Tuesday)
Two sacks of seeds present
ed to Roosevelt school by
Congress.
Eggs selling at 1 2 1 -a cents
per dozen, as valley hens get
busy.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina ot ten correct It superior;
seven or eiqht is excellent rive or
sin ii good.
1. Which stale of the U.S.
Is known as the Blue Grass
State?
2. In the Bible, what was
Paul's trade?
3. Is Iran in the Near East
or Ihe Far East?
4. Which breed of cl Is
famous for his lack of a tail'.'
5. Dy what name Is Oct.
24, 11)29 popularly known?
8. How old would an octo
genarian be?
7. Which of these are mam
mals - bats, fish, whales, bees,
pigeons, horses, bears?
8. A King of Persia, an
American financier and the
Inventor of a harvesting ma
chine has a common first
name; what is It?
9. Name the fifth book of
the New Testament.
10. The human body has
how many pairs of ribs?
Answers: 1. Ktnlucky. 2.
Tonlmakcr. 3. Near. 4. Manx.
&. Black Thursday (first day
of stock market panic), 6.
Eighty or mora years, but loss
than ninety. 7, Bats, whales,
horses, bears. 8. Cyrus - The
Great, Fields, McCormlck. 9.
Acts (of lhe Apostles). 10.
Twalvo.
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MARCH 12. IMS
Civil Defense" Misnamed
An editorial-writine
with a low boiling point
at Uivil Defense as it is practiced in uregon, ana
supported some members of the legislature who
have attacked Gov. Mark Hatfield's Civil Defense
budget.
. Among other things, he said :
"To me the whole idea of civil defense is revolting
and downright un-American. I cannot conceive of hid
ing in a hole in the ground while atomic bombs are
raining down and then crawling out to face a devastat
ed, poisonous landscape."
Up to this point, we
said so on numerous occasions.
THE fact is, however, that "Civil Defense" in
Oregon is about a 75 per cent misnomer.
The program should
title, something like Emergency Coordination
Agency, with the "defense" aspects of it relegat
ed to a minor and subordinate role.
Civil Defense in Oregon, as presently const!
tuted, is largely misunderstood. It has four prin
cipal functions:
1. Disaster relief.
2. Emergency communciations.
3. Fallout shelter location and stockpiling.
4. Information, education and coordination.
fF THESE FOUR, only the shelter function is
directly and solely related to the possibility
of nuclear warfare. We happen to think it is a
largely futile endeavor. But it does not constitute
an attempt to put the nation underground in H
bomb proof caves; only to ameliorate the results
of radioactive fallout. In addition, it is mostly
a federal function, and is the result of federal
Civil Defense policy.
While the information, education and coord
ination functions of the state and local civil de
fense agencies are basically designed to function
in wartime, they also have important peacetime
functions, such as the ability to cope with peace
time disasters, and the training of individuals
and families in survival techniques surely a
worthy objective.
Communications are directly related to coord
ination, and the dedicated work, including reg
ular drills, of the local radio amateurs in the CD
radio network, has paid off time and time again.
FINALLY, it is our view that the disaster relief
functions of the agency are of the most im
mediate importance.
Anyone who saw them in action during the
Dec. 2 flood in this area
value. Whether or not any actual lives were saved
is a moot question, but the way in which the com
mand post was set up, motor vehicles, including
moving vans, were assembled, and assistance dis
patched where, when and as it was needed, was
a matter of inspiration. '
It is true that the Jackson county Civil Defense
agency has been singled out as one of the best in
the state, and that CD signally failed to make
much of an impression upstate during the Colum
bus Day storm.
DUT there are reasons for the latter one of
u the most overlooked being the fact that much
of CD work is that of providing equipment and
supplies in advance, of training, of working out
chains of command, skelton organization, and
of improving coordination and cooperation
among existing agencies all for any type of
emergency, whether flood, windstorm, fire, ex
plosion or war.
1 he Ivoseburg News-Review reminds us that
Civil Defense functioned admirably on that ter
rible night in August, 1959, when much of down
town Roscburg was shattered by a tremendous
explosion.
The paper says:
"Unquestionably the advance planning by Douglas
County Civil Defense leaders had much to do with
the prompt response to Roseburg's dire emergency."
THIS, then, is the principal real "excuse" for
1 the continuation of the agency not because
ot the possibility of nuclear war.
War, of course, was
organization of Civil Defense, and still is its main
"excuse." But changintr circumstances have civen
CD other roles, as mentioned, until its war prepar
ations actually are a relatively minor part of the
LL mission.
We wish this fact
nizetl.
And it is our firm
in name of the agency
fining its true nature,
ceptance tor it.
I IKE our editorial-writing friend, we
" adverse reaction to the phase "Civil D
So do a lot of other people, including many mem
bers of tne legislature.
Governor Hatfield
agency, as now constituted, is widely misunder
stood. And we suspect
part to tne name.
It is true, as Shakespeare said, that a rose by
any other name will smell as sweet. But a public
atrencv. suimorted hv nubile funds, should have
a name which describes
can be immediately understood.
We suggest that an agency named, and func
tioning as, the Emergency Coordintion Agency,
would nave a tar better cnance for public under
standing and support than one which brings with
it connotations of bomb-shelters, block wardens,
and air raid sirens, rather than of assistance to
human beings in need of aid under emergency
conditions. E.A.
collearrue of ours one
the other day teed off
agree with him, and have
have a new and different
cannot question their
the reason for the intial
were more widely recog'
conviction that a change
would go far toward de
and in gaining public ac
have an
phase "Civil Defense.'
himself declares that the
that this is due in large
its functions so that they
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12 Greatest
To the Editor: I greatly en
joy reading your editorials
and was interested in your
choice of "World's Greatest
Men" Wednesday, March 6.
I would like to submit my
list of the 12 greatest fL'ircs
of the human race, Jesus
Christ that was born In Beth
lehem of Judea, and 11 of his
12 disciples - Simon Peter,
Andrew, James, John, Philip,
Bartholomew, Thcmas, Mat
thew, James, Thadacus and
Simon.
Pauline B. Knapp,
923 Harmony lane,
Ashland, Ore.
Discrimination
To the Editor: There are
young men in Medford who
can't find jobs. Some of them
have dependents. How come
nobody suggests working
grandpas get lost to make
room for these lads? Not all
working grandpas have de
pendents. A lot of them just
want a new Lincoln, good
Scotch and fancy fishing gear.
What's more, they get dou
ble the money working grand
mas do, dependents or not,
and In many cases for the
same type of work - and they
DON T get charged double
prices.
Furthermore, many work
ing grandpas have another
source of income. hey re
given 10 to 20 more wo-king
years after the kids leave
home in which to get set.
Still furthermore, some work
ing grandmas have even foot
ed all the bills for these cod
dled codgers!
This is rank discrimination,
Bobby, discrimination with
vigah!!
Mrs. Margarete
Roscborough,
RIO Oakdale dr.,
Medford
Great Names
To the Editor: Without res
ervations, the 12 or 13 world's
greatest men from medieval
history may be a conjecture
for ali time, although modern
history concedes many names
of men as of world renown.
Probably looming as number
one is the Master Jesus. Next
in line would be Aristotle and
Plato: J. Hcrschel, Isaac New
ton, Thomas Jefferson, Thom
as Paine, Benjamin Franklin,
James Watts, Abraham Lin
coln, Eugene Debbs, Dr. Alex,
is Carroll, J. Krishnamurti,
Hindu metaphysician; William
J. Bryan, orator; William
Shakespeare, also Francis Ba
con and on through history,
Great thinkers, all of them
In their allotted time and age
of an evolving creation. The
above list of names docs not
follow a direct line of nota
bles, but Is chosen at random
as memorized from the writ
er's reading.
Bert Kissinger.
322 So. Riverside ave.,
Medford.
No Mind Chang
To the Editor: I am sorry
to bother you with this letter,
but I just have to answer the
two people who feel like try
ing to reform me or change
my mind about those two var
mints who killed those chil
dren in the most cruel way
I've ever heard of.
Yes, people the world over,
I have hate, boiling hate in
my heart for wrongdoers.
What-Just what- would hap
pen to defenseless babies of
rich and poor without the
Lindbergh kidnaping lawT If
people know that they will
get fed, pampered and so
called attempts at rehabilita
tion, they will give all kinds
of promises with no intention
of keeping them.
We have no child law, just
laws to let females do any
thing with children. I wonder
if maybe the children's father
or grandparents tried desper
ately to get the children and
MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
Thanks
To the Editor: On behalf of
the Jackson County Heart As
sociation, I wish to express
our deepest thanks to you and
the fine members of the Mail
Tribune staff for the generous
cooperation which our Heart
Fund received during the
month of February.
We consider your support
to be a heartening expression
of faith in the work of our
county heart program.
The financial reports to
date would indicate we are
enjoying some considerable
degree of success, and this is
due, we feel, in a large part
to the fine assistance and
recognition we received
through the Medford Mail
Tribune in our efforts.
Many thanks again to you
and each of your staff for
their help.
J. W. Warinner
Jackson County
Heart Fund
Medford
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(c) Field Enterprises. Inc.
CONTRARY RESULTS
That simple and platitudi
nous phrase, "learning from
life, " is so dil
ficult in prac
tice because
the conse
quences of our
acts are often
so contrary to
our intentions.
.1 F o r even
lent inns are
Harr good, and our
techniques are adequate, there
is a spirit of whimscy (if noth
ing worse) in the universe
that brings unforeseen conse
quences. We learn so slowly
because there is no obvious
raise them decently with love
and care? As it stands a fath
er may come home and find
his door locked, be told by
authorities that he can no
longer sleep in his own bed or
see his children. But he must
support this female monster
for life's duration. What kind
of law is that?
Let's all watch over all the
children, not just our own.
We can make them better cit
izens by making them safe
and secure, mainly in their
own homes, with both parents
accepting their responsibili
ties. In closing I will say, I will
never change my mind and I
hope those who have the pow
er to wipe those varmims
from the face of the earth will
not change theirs.
Harriettc Gibbs,
1375 So. Columbus ave.
Medford.
Precedent
To the Editor: Concerning
aid to released offenders, may
1 point out that although the
original John Howard Society
may be indigenous to Canada
land I believe also to Lng
land), a closely affiliated
group, now several years old
known as the John Howard
Association, thrives in our
50th state, where it performs
a useful role. During a recent
period of residence in Hono
lulu, 1 was privileged to serve
as a member ot its executive
committee.
It would seem that Mr
Holdt's task might be simpli
fied were he to follow Ha
waii's example by seeking to
form a John Howard Associa
tion for Oregon, since its pro
gram already is well defined
and can be judged in places
where it now exists, by meas
urable results.
Grace N. Pearson
Route 2. Box 50
Jacksonville, Ore.
h
Cuban Unrest Rises;
As Advantages to Russians Leaving
By STEWART HENSLEY
United Press International
Washington - (UPD - Admin
istration officials have begun
to talk with cautious opti
mism about the possible over
throw from within of. Fidel
Castro's Communist regime.
Secretary of State Dean
Rusk has mentioned "evi
dence of great and growing
discontent" in Cuba and in
telligence reports disclose in
creasingly severe shortages of
the necessities of life.
This comes at a time when
Soviet Premier Nikita Khru
shchev is pulling some of his
military personnel out of the
island, lessening the Krem
lin's ability to keep Castro in
power against whatever oppo
sition may be developing.
There is divided opinion
here as to whether the Ken
nedy administration actually
sees more hope for home
grown trouble or seeks sim
ply to justify the effectiveness
of its policy of slow strangula
tion as opposed to more dan
Washington Report
By William
(c United Feature Syndicate
HAIL NIXONI
Washington - To the sur
prise of nobody save those
mostly emotional Nixon-
H haters who
buried h i m
deep last fall
with absurdly
solemn incan
tations, Rich
ard Nixon has
reentered na
tional politics.
More impor
tantly, he has
whit reentered in
circumstances raising the pos
sibility that he might become
the Thomas E. Dewey of the
mid-1960's.
Dewey, like Nixon, evoked
a strange, glandular animos
ity from some going far be
yond what his undoubted
shortcomings could in any
way warrent. But Dewey ral
lied from two presidential de
feats in the '40s to become the
backroom master of the Re
publican party at one of its
most critical points in modern
history - 1952.
J. Harris
cause-and-effect in human
events, much as the historians
and ideologues would like to
think there is.
Karl Popper, in his inaugu
ral speech at Oxford some
years ago, made the interest
1 T TWaw.
ing point that in some cases
what we do has precisely the
opposite effect of what we in
tend to do - indeed, the very
act engenders its contrary.
For instance, ha ax
plained, a man who puis his
house on sal intends io get
the highest possible market
price for it. Yet the vary act
of putting it on sale tends
to lower th market price
for every additional house
that goes on lh market de
presses the price in that
area.
Contrariwise, i man who
wants to buy a house (at th
lowest possible market
price) is raising th price of
houses simply by becoming
a potential buyer -for th
more buyers, th higher the
pric
A wryly amusing exam
pi of this odd phenomenon
has been seen in th na
tion's courts over th last
fifty years. Firms devis a
new nam for a product
like sipper or nylon or eel-lophana-and
spend millions
not only to publicising th
names but in defending
them from infringements.
Yet the irony in this situ
ation i that the more effec
tive the company is in promot
ing the name, the more quick
ly it becomes an accepted part
of the language. In many such
cases, the courts have unani
mously ruled that what was
once a brand-name has passed
into the public domain be
cause of usage.
So here, too, we see that
the very act ot picking a high
ly saleable and descriptive
name for a product tends to
defeat itself in the end, and
the consequences of such skill
and imagination are quite
the contrary ot what was in
tended. And much the same contra
dictions can be observed in
marriage, in education, in pol
itics, in diplomacy, In all the
areas of personal and social
endeavor. Today's greatest
problem, indeed, is the "esca
lation'' of armaments, in
which spending more for de
fense as a deterrent only
spurs the enemy to do like
wise, and creates the very
conditions it seeks to elimi
nate. How much have wc
really "learned from life"?
i
gerous direct action such as
an oil blockade.
The administration rejects
the argument by some Repub
lican leaders that a selective
blockade aimed only at stop
ping Soviet oil deliveries to
the island would not run the
risk of war in the Caribbean.
Most officials believe now
that Khrushchev will fullfill
his pledge to pull "several
thousand" of his estimated
17,000 military technicians
and troops in Cuba out of the
island by Friday. This is the
promise he made President
Kennedy several weeks ago.
Only the Russians know what
they mean by "several thous
and." American officials are
watching closely to see
whether the Russians evacu
ated include the approximate
ly 5,000 regular soldiers or
ganized in four combat bat
talions. These units, equip
ped with the latest bat
tlefield weapons, have been
regarded as capable of help-
S. Whit
More than any other one
man, he controlled the G O. P.
convention of that year and
led it to its decision to break
with the orthodox Republi
canism of the late Senator
Robert A. Taft and so to nom
inate Dwight Eisenhower for
President. The party he could
not lead from the vantage
point of candidacy for office
Dewey led from the vantage
point of kingmaker.
'M'lXON, too, has known two
t' defeats - first his loss of
the Presidency in 1960 to
John F. Kennedy and second,
his loss to Pat Brown in Cali
fornia's gubernatorial race of
1962. As was the case with
Dewey after the roof fell in
upon him in President Harry
Truman's unexpected victory
in 1948, Nixon may well be
through, so far as any person
al Presidential ambition is
concerned.
But, like Dewey in New
York, he has in vast Californ
ia a home-state base of great
power. And California is a
state in which the G.O.P. or
ganization is at all events not
already in the monolithic grip
of any other politician. There
is some room for maneuver
here.
And, as was true when
Dewey prepared to go to the
1952 Republican national con
vention, the party for 1964
suffers an awkward surfeit
of Presidential possibilities -the
ideal set of conditions into
which an old pro can move
as a consolidating, a mediat
ing and possibly a decisive
force in candidate-choosing.
TN SHORT, it is becoming
very clear that whoever
wins the Republican nomina
tion next year may need
Nixon quite as much as Eisen
hower needed Dewey more
than a decade ago. The pres
ent front - runner, Gov. Nel
son Rockefeller of New York,
is suffering nationally from
local tax and budget troubles.
It is now highly unlikely that
he can got home to the nomin
ation strictly on his own pow
er; he will be looking for
powerful allies.
Senator Barry Goldwatcr of
Arizona is a less remote possi
bility than he used to be; he
will undoubtedly be a strong
force at the convention. Gov.
George Romney of Michigan
has got to be considered, for
there are persistent rumors
among national Republicans
that former President Eisen
hower has a friendly eye upon
him.
Gov. William Scranton of
Pennsylvania Is for the mom
ent the most reserved of the
1964 possibilities; but in the
Important factor of instinc
tive political savvy he is near
the top among the four.
JNTO all this mixed scene
Nixon is moving with great
care and forethought. In the
understatement of recent
months he has said he hopes
to have "a voice" in the 1964
G.O.P. convention.
In this coming fall, long be
fore the convention of next
summer, he will "make some
appearances around the na
tion." His role he describes
as "to help to get the party
united."
This was exactly Dewey's
role in 1951; to get the party
"united" - but united behind
the man Dewey would ulti
mately support."
How much Nixon may be
able to control the way the
big California delegation Itself
votes at the Republican
national convention is surely
not yet predictable. The big
point, however, is that re
gardless of his position there
he retains an immense influ
ence among many - and in
some states, most - of the
prospective delegates from all
the other 49 states.
So. for the G O P. now the
proper salutation Is "fare
well Nixon - and hail:'1
t
Dangers as Well
ing Castro's government beat
down any really serious
threat of rebellion. If all of
them have left or leave,
Khrushchev gives up his most
effective immediate means of
controlling the situation in
Cuba.
U. S. officials, while pres
sing for evacuation of every
Russian, recognize that com
plete withdrawel might well
increase the danger of an
armed clash involving the
United States and Cuba.
This stems from the fact
that the Russians up to now
have retained the control of
the anti aircraft missiles
capable of knocking down the
high level U2 planes which
Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop
(c) New YoHcrajddhunenlcate
THE TABLES GENTLY
TURNED
Bonn-The outcome of Spe
cial Ambassador Livingston
Merchant's long visit to Bonn
would be
downright hi
larious if it
were not so
inter esting
and potential
ly significant.
In brief, Ger
man Defense
Minister Kai
Uwe von Has-
Alsop scl g e n 1 1 y
turned the tables on the State
Department theorizers and
other t h i n k e rs of large
thoughts who first floated the
multilateral deterrent scheme
which Merchant came here to
expound.
This scheme for a multina
tional nuclear force, con
trolled by a multinational
committee, was originally pro
moted - one may as well be
blunt about it - not as a nu
clear deterrent in the -usual
sense, but simply as a deter
rent of additional national
deterrents.
UACH member of the con
Li trolling board or commit
tee was to have a v.to on the
use of the multinational force.
That meant an American veto,
as well as a lot of o'.her ve
toes. Militarily, therefore, it
was not at all clear why the
multilateral deterrent would
add much to the U.S. Stra
tegic Air Command.
Politically and psychologi
cally, to be sure, the scheme
offered undoubted advantages
to the Europeans. It would
admit them to partnership in
a strategic nuclear strike
force - the sign of be.ig a
top power nowadays. Further
more, the American nuclear
warheads were to be handed
over ouingnt, without any
two - key - carrying American
sergeants eternally attached
to them.
Above all, . it was hoped
that the multilateral deter
rent scheme would keep the
Germans happy in the face
of the potential temptations
or oen. de Gaulle s force de
frappc." The scheme was in
fact warmly welcomed in
Bonn when first presented
here some weeks ago.
T'HE German Defense Minis-
try even contributed an
amendment, by suggesting the
possible use of surface ships
to carry the new deterrent's
missiles, instead of the much
more costly Polaris subma
rines. mis amendment was
tentatively accepted by the
Pentagon before the Merchant
mission.
Nonetheless, the question of
cost remained dominant when
Merchant reached Bonn. The
estimated price tag was no
less man souu minion a year
lor 10 years. And this huge
sum was to be laid out for
a force whose value was Pri
marily psychological and po
litical - a costly adman's ges
ture, indeed.
Stripped of technicalities.
THI5 1$ THE
SHOVEL THAT
CAN BURY
CAPITALISM
THIS 15 THE
(jay THAT
WANT TO WIT
Ik
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"Works like a charm haven't had en parses
plain about high taxes!"
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continue surveillance of the
island to make certain no of
fensive weapons remain.
The Russians have held
their fire, tacitly acknowledg
ing the U. S. right to continue
reconnaissanoe flights after
Khrushchev - because of Cas
tro's attitude -.was unable
to make good on his promise
to permit on-site inspections
to verify removal of offensive
weapons.
It is acknowledged If Cas
tro's trigger - happy forces
get complete control of the
weapons, there is increased
likelihood of an "incident."
Kennedy has warned there
will be swift retaliation if
any American plane is attacked.
what happened while Mer
chant was in Bonn was fairly
simple. The German negotia
tors headed by Defense Min
ister von Hassel and technici
ans from the Foreign Minis
try were as warmiy welcom
ing as ever. They cheerfully
agreed to the American for
mula for splitting the bill.
one-third to the U.S., one
third to West Germany, and
one-third to other contribut
ing powers like Iialv if Italv
joins.
at
BUT they insisted on the un-
contributing power a veto.
They objected to what the
American negotiators describ
ed, in super-State Depart
memesc, as "the rule of sov
ereign equality." What if the
Laborite Harold Wilson be
came British Prime Minister,
the Germans asked, or what
if the Italian "openin to the
left" went too far to the
left? "
On these grounds, von Has
sel and his team proposed
eventual abandonment of the
veto in favor of majority rule
in the multi-lateral deter
rent's controlling committee.
They did not ask for ma
jority rule right away. But
they did ask for it after some
years, when most of the force
would be operational and
tested at sea.
As anyone can see. this
quiet German proposal revolu
tionizes the theorizers' neat
scheme. If the proposal Is
adopted, what was to have
been a mere deterrent of ad
ditional national deterrents,
governed by a U.S. veto, will
first of all escape from U.S.
control though not from U.S.
influence.
SECONDLY, the costly psy
" chological-political gesture
will be abruptly transformed
into the germ, of first essay,
of a European deterrent - for
Europeans will be in over
whelming majority on the
control committee. If these
transformations are not
agreed to, it is doubtful
whether the Germans will go
forward with the scheme.
Hence the ball is now back
in the U.S. government's
court.
Despite the Congressional
and other resistance that may
be expected. President Ken
nedy will be wise to give
prayerful consideration to the
German proposal. To be blunt
about it. the Western Alli
ance is ultimately doomed un
less the American policymak
ers break their own lonj
ingrained habit of playi.-g
governess to Europe.
That is where Gen. de
Gaulle is dead right. For Eu
rope, conspicuously including
Germany, will in the end
break out of the Western Alli
ance as now constituted, un
less Washington concedes to
Europe the fullest equality
with the United States. To do
this, the terrible nucl ar hur
dle must somehow be jumped,
and this is what the Germans
have now asked.
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