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Dally and Sunday 1 year J1.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo L7S c..nuu nnlv I mo. 90C CarrlelndVendors j:opy 100 Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper ol Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire U P 1 Telephofo Newsplctures "MEMBER OF A tlDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS ASSOC -ATES Of'lces In New York, Cm cso Detroit, San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland Denver. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASpCMTICXN Memher California Newspaper Publishers Association nsg?$ 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 March IS, 1953 (Sunday) Contracts to be awarded in fall lor new Blackwell Hill Central Point section of High way 99; project to coal $750, 000. Water content in snow at Lake of the Woods is well above 16-year average. 20 YEARS AGO March 15. 1943 (Monday) Ration books issued in coun ty gives Jackson an unoffi cial population of 47,249. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot column: "Among the items due for the next rationing is urn burner cheese. There ' no tearing out of grocery store door sills in the rush to lay in a supply of same." 30 YEARS AGO March 15, 1933 (Wednesday) The Daily News, sold at sheriff's sale, brings $6,500. Three Medford banks re open after bank holiday. 40 YEARS AGO March 15. 1923 (Thursday) Many local residents able to get Denver radio station. Visiting Portlunder fined $'200 for possession of pint of moonshine. 50 YEARS AGO March IS, 1913 (Saturday) Crater Luke appropriation in Congress now thought as' surcd. Council refuses request of transient that city purchase liiin a horse to take the rilacc of the one that was killed by train near Gold Hill; city officials suggest that new comer "go to work and sup port his family and not ask charity." What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent! five or sis it good. 1. The extinct dodo bird could or could not fly? 2. Which is longer, the coastline of Florida or of Cal ifornia? 3. Of what metal did Sol onion build his Altar? 4. Tomatoes contain which vitamin that is needed In the daily diet? 5. which Is lamer, un adult male or female black widow spider' 6. In what year did Christo pher Columbus disco vc America? 7. Is Washington, D. C north or south of the Mason Dixon line 8. For what lyrics is Sam uel Francis Smith most re membered'.' 9. From what chronic afflic tion did Julius Caesar suffer? 10. A nut cracker, scissors and crow-bar arc examples of what type of simple machine? Answers: 1. Could not. 2. Florida. 3. Brass. 4. Vitamin C. 5. Famalo. 6. 1492. 7. South. g.My country Tis of Thte.. 9. Epilepsy. 10. Lever. I JkSjJJ'AKOCIATION MARCH 15. 1963 Youth Conservation The proposed Youth an organization designed to give healtny outdoor emolovment and training to young men of the nation, modeled roughly servation Corps of the 1930s was character ized in this space recently as a "stog-gap" measure. So it is, if judged in the context of total un employment, total educational accomplishment, and total improvement of opportunity for a whole generation and those yet to come. Yet. despite the erudering and negative con notations of the phrase positive and significant benefits would De achieved by such an organization. e FIRST, and most important, it would provide a nViunnol fnr vi-inno- mpn whn cannot find work to find, in effect, themselves. The school drop-outs, who because of lack of motivation or academic.achievement, are an ever increasing problem. Many of them would, if given a chance to reassess themselves, and a renewed motivation, reenter school. Others would find the training and work, most of it in the out-of-doors, a gateway to whole some and productive lives, which otherwise they never could aspire tor. Many 01 tnese, unless riven such a chance, would inevitably drift into the ways of delinquency happening every day. e SECONDLY, it would provide a means of get ting done a great many things that are now goinir undone. We all know the marvelous work accomplish ed by the CCCs in park and campsite develop ment, in trail and road building, in the improve ment of timber stands, and all the other chores which did so much for our forests and recreation areas. Much of this work remains. But much, too, has deteriorated. And much, much more remains to be done for the first time, in response to rising demand for more and better recreational areas and for better forest management. THIRDLY, the YCC would serve as a pilot pro- gram for the retraining and, where necessary, the rehabilitation of a significant segment ot tne nation's future working force. This type of thing is going to become increas ingly necessary as increased mechanization and automation make vast changes and dislocations in our economy. Experience gained with a broad scale yet not overly ambitious Organization, as is proposed for the YCC to begin with, would be of immense benefit in designing effective means of providing the necessary social services and readjustments aids which the changing economy will require. The potential Deneiits so iar outweign me elativelv modest costs involved that the Congress should adopt the program without further delay. "Conservation," in this case, means conservation of both human resources and natural resources. How could it go wrong? E.A. Weird and The English language, these pages before, is a instrument or communication. The late George Bernard Shaw was fond 01 pointing out that the word "fish" could be spelled ''ghoti" gh as in rough, o as in woman, ti as in notion. But it was also nointed not be pronounced at silent word gn as in tnougn, o as in journey t as in castle, i as in receive. The list of similar examples ot inconsistencies and vagaries in hnglish OF THE 2G letters in the English alphabet, onlv four i. a, v, and y are never silent. There is one word, "queue," in which there is one sounded letter and four silent ones. Anoth er one is knick-knack which would be pro nounced the same if all four Ks were knocked (or noced) out. Is it any wonder that accurate spelling is one of the arts that almost no one fully masters? We have our doubts, ever will be revised and sensible and logical system. E.A. Stumpage The price of timber stumpage in Oregon is relatively high these days. And not too long ago we heard complaints from many lumber pro ducers that the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management had set the appraised prices too high. At that time we remarked that it wasn't the amnaisals that sent the prices so high ; it was the bids submitted by the lumbermen themselves. Now, the BLM reports, bids on BLM stump age in western Oregon averaged just 50 per cent higher than appraised prices during February, compared to 42 per cent higher the month before. They ranged from a low of 13 per cent over in the Salem office to 71 per cent over in the Coos Bay and Eugene offices. The prospect of additional blowdown tim- ucl" becoming available as a result of the Oct. 12 storm didn't slow down the bidding any. E.A,. Conservation Corps on the Civilian Con "stop-gap," some very and crime. One sees it Wonderful as has been noted in weird and wonderful out that "ghoti could all, that is a completely is almost endless. however, that English reformed into a more Bids High MEDFORD One-Man Show es m ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name 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. Why Read To the Editor: We have pub liclschools so children, who are later to vote and earn livings, can best develop their abili ties and broaden their inter ests. Through reading, people can continue to learn and find new ideas. Teresa Hogan, 6th grade, West Side School, 1852 Niedermeycr Dr., Medford Cold War Policy To the Editor: First, I wish to commend you for your ex cellent editorials, especially those about automation and Sunday's "Joblessness - and Dignity." The latter was tru ly outstanding both for its presentation of present day problems and its philosophy. - With regard to Tuesday s editorial, "Civil Defense" Mis named, I disagree that it is misnamed. Agencies for nat ural disasters should be com pletely separated in name, leadership, and budget, from those dealing with fallout shelters that are supposed to save us in a nuclear war. If civil defense is permitted to permeate our protective agen cies, I fear it will use these as aids to carry out bigger and deeper bomb shelters. A civil defense bulletin entitled, Nuclear Attack - Emergen cy Procedures and Prepara tions," was distributed last year to all Medford school children. As its title infers It is devoted wholly to what to do in case of nuclear attack. In Monday's M.T., March 11, p. 6, Dr. Harold Taylor, former president of , Sarah Lawrence College and now vice president and counsel on education for the Peace Research institute, Washing ton, said in a speech before the Child Study Association of America, "The nation'? families have permitted our educational system to become an instrument of Cold War policy. . . . The modern citi zen is faced with the dilemma of having seen the possibili ties for disaster or survival in this nue'ear age, but sees no way in which his own acts can change the flow of history. In consequence the citizen inclines to accept the situation in vhlch he finds himself . . . accepts the pal liatives by which he may conceal from himself the reality of what comes next . . . "For example the fallout shelters of New York where each can find his alloted space to die, the shots to the moon by which one may distract oneself from the situation of the earth. . . . How docs this affect the family'.'" His answer: "The effect has been for the families to allow the educational system to be come an instrument of O ld War policy, and to sanct'on programs In which teachers arc asked to teach their chil dren how to cower In base ments, their hands covering their eyes, in one of the most extraordinary displays of or ganized irrationality and in dignity which American ptli tica has ever spawned." Renaming CD is not Ruins to change Its inhuman and narrow, nationalistic tenden cies. It is an invention of military extremists who along whh certain scientists would "replace democracy with a system of regimentation cen tered upon the bomb shelter." Let us put our money and efforts- into more construe - live plans, such as readjust - ment to an economy which win require more caucauon and more job training. Esther Robinson, 29 Ross Court, Medford MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Necessary Evil To the Editor: In answer to poem in the March 1 1 Com munications, "Our Valley." If it were not for burners Belching forth their filthy smoke; If it were not for the smudge pots. That make you gag and choke; There would be no grimy pay check For you to carry home; So from this lovely valley, I think you'd have to roam. We cannot live on beauty, Nor can we live on love; Then for the furnaces and smudge pots We should thank the Father above. We do not like these things, Of course; that is for sure, But better accept them thank-fully- Unless we can find a cure. (Name on file) Medford. Comparisons To the Editor: The lead ed itorial in MT's March 5 is sue surely makes for com ment, as it tends to raise criti cism of Vice Admiral Rick over, grading our secondary school system below that of Europe in ,a study he made there. The Rickover report was a disturbing surprise to me, considering the vast amount of money invested in our schools of learning and best of personnel tax-dollars can hire. To the question of school scholastic standings, educa tional heads advise Inquiry to our State Board of Educa tion. They warned that docu mented scholastic standings were hard to come by, the best they could offer would be the NEA Ranking of the States Research Report 1962 Rl, Washington, D.C. This was finally obtained. The best and about only part with school scholastic stand ings, is on page 38, col. 48. At the top of that column we find nine NW states, includ ing Utah, having an average 5.5 per cent of their Selec tive Service registrants fail ing tile mental test. In the SE states, we find the nine stales there with an aver age 48.1 per cent of their registrants failing the mental test. This is utterly confusing, remembering how splendid ly college men and women of the South stood up to the best other slates could offer in TV's Channel 10 all-white question and answer College Hour. But when the "Rosetta Stone" of Negro population is applied, it at once becomes understandably clear. For, al though the black population is not given in the NEA Re port, it is approximated in the percentage column. Like 4.7 per cent of both white and black school graduates of NW school graduates failing the mental test, this percent age pattern increases to 54.6 per cent of white and black school graduates of the SE who fail t lie registration men tal test which is also the black population in some sections of the South. II mailers little what man ner of yard stick was used in the Rickover report, mathe matical or median, in its eval uation of the NEA findings. Rut one Ihing sure, had Ihc t Vice Admiral used the NW ! stales percentage, even Willi Ilio 5 Iter ,','nt htui-lf nnnla. turn handicap, he would have 1 (ovlMd ,,e st.hoo scu,iasiic 1 st,,ding there, well up, or, who knows i,nw Hie F. rope's virtually all : sciK,ls K. J. Clifford Rt. 2. Box 200F white Central Point. Ore. i U.N. Troop Withdrawal From Congo Is End of the Beginning' of Rebuilding By BRUCE W. MUNN United Press International United Nations, N. Y. -IUPD - The military phase-out has begun in the Congo. The 117 men from tiny Si erra Leone led the official exodus from the 20,000-man U.N. force whose necessity was reduced when Moise Tshombe finally agreed to end his Katanga secession. A thou sand effectives have gone home to Tunisia. The 5,600 man Indian fighting contin gent is in the process of re turning for possible service on the Chinese frontier. It will be followed by most of the 780-member unit from Ma laya. By April, the U.N. force is scheduled to be down to about 13,000 troops. The phase-out will bring a corresponding reduction in the $10 million a month cost of the Congo operation, which almost bankrupted the United Nations. But it was never more tru Seeks Exchange To the Editor: I am a Japa nese high school girl in Tokyo, hoping to spend my last year in some good high school in the U.S. As I would also like to live with American people, I am looking for a family or couple to live with. In exchange my parents will invite any mem ber of my American "foster family" to Japan at any time. My parents will pay for my expenses as well as transpor tation. Needless to say I'm quite able to help with the housework. I play volleyball, ping pong, basketball and I skate, ski and bowl a little. As my father owns that kind of business, I'm looking forward to studying commer cial art after high school. Please forgive me for tak ing the liberty of enclosing my picture and personal his tory because I'm hoping so much that you'll show It to any of your readers Interested in this kind of exchange. Toshiko Funabashj, 6 Komagome-horai-cho Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan O Editor's note: Miss Funa- bashi's picture is shown above. Her personal history is avail able at the Mail Tribune of fice for any interested. Capitalism Obsolete To the Editor: So-called "extreme right" movements are not, as they claim defend ing this nation against Com munists. The real target of these reactionary groups, the Socialist Labor Party holds, is the rights and civil liber ties of all American people, The unprincipled Communists are merely a convenient and vulnerable target The SLP Weekly People, now available at the Medford Public Library, recently list ed some of the backers of these reactionary groups. Most of them are quite weal thy and influential. It is no coincidence that the nature and the sources of the support received by the "rightists" is similar to that given Adolf Hitler. Wholesale murder by Hit ler s methods is avowed by at least one of these groups the American Nazi Parly. Ac cording to Herman Hornsby, a private detective who at tended meetings in Chicago, members of that party arc taught "that Jews should be gassed and Negroes sent to Africa. If the Negroes won go back to Africa, the Nazi believe they should be gassed too. Althoughl it is true tha many Americans, incltidin: the President of the United Slates, have raised their voices against the preach ments of the "extreme right," these same Americans have failed to point to the under lying cause of these move- menls. It Is the Socialist Labor Party alone that has brought out that these movements would not have been to sue- I cessful if the social climasr Hp 1121! ly said that it marks only the end of the beginning. Now, under U.N. guidance, the work of building b sta ble nation in the country that has Africa's richest potential can get under way as it should have three years ago when Belgium gave it inde pendence, perhaps premature ly. The Congo will require a major outlay of aid for the foreseeable future. Secretary General Thant is following a cautious policy in pulling the U.N. military strength out of the country. It may be reasonably con cluded that the attempted se cession of Katanga is at an was not favorable for reaction. This climate is one of fear and insecurity. Workers are afraid of losing their jobs. Capitalists are afraid of los ing their property and special privileges. Everyone is afraid of thermonuclear war. This whole unhealthy climate is an inevitable product of capital ism and other, similar, exploi tative economic systems. Capitalism is obsolete. It is like the horse - and - buggy. Years ago the conservatives might have argued that the horse-and-buggy was the best of all possible transportation systems. Some of -them might have even conceded that pneu matics tires and ball bearings would be an improvement but they did not want any real change. Regardless, it still would have been horse-and- buggy transportation. Today, the capitalists and their supporters argue that capitalism is the best of all possible systems. Some of them will argue that trivial changes will have tremendous effects. Such as claiming that altering the tax structure will change our social system for the better. Tax change or no tax change, we'd still have the horse - and - buggy system known as capitalism. The Socialist Labor Party says its time to make a real change abolish capitalism and establish Socialism. This can be done in a peaceful way as provided for by Ar ticle V of the U.S. Constitu tion, v Henry R. Korman i . 2640 Garfield st: Longview, Wash. Yingles To the Editor: For two years, I ve been listenin to television from Washington, and all I learn vas a bunch uf singin' yingles. Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. Mirabile Dictul To the Editor: Professional right-wingers have been hav ing a field day of vituperation over the recent visit to this country of a delegation of Russian churchmen as guests of our National Council of Churches. As was to have been expected, many of these hatemongers' duped disciples lost no time joining the chorus of vicious, but base less, denunciation. As Anna M. Streed point ed out in her letter of 3-10, there has been considerable confusion in the minds of many as to the real nature and purpose of this visit be cause of "allegations made by some that these men are actu ally spies sent here to propa gate Khrushchev's tranquil izer of 'peaceful co-existence' through American pulpits." So, ostensibly to dispel the confusion, Miss Streed wrote "to present the actual status of the church in Russia." And whom does she cite as authority for the "enlighten ment" she offered? Mirabile dictu! - a "former major in the Russian security police (NKVD), Petr S. Deriabian," allegedly a defector to the West and witness before Sen ator Dodd's investigation of "the status of the Orthodox Church in Russia." Utterly fantastic! Almost like calling on the devil to certify a man's sainthood or the faithfulness of any body of Christians. I should like to point out, in the first place, that the 16 Russian churchmen included Baptist and Lutheran as well as Orthodox clergymen. As to their faithfulness as Christ ians and the position of their churches vis-a-vis the com munist state, I quote eminent American churchmen of wide and intimate firsthand knowl edge: Charles C. Parlin. distin guished New York lawyer and Methodist layman: "Whether Russia is to be an atheist or a Christian nation, there is a head-on collision between church and state. On this is sue no Russian churchman has given any indication that he was prepared to give or to compromise" (written of the Russian delegates to the World Council of Churches Assembly in India at which their church was admitted to membership). Frank C. Laubach, out standing missionary and lead er of the world literacy move ment, on right-wing funda mentalist attacks upon our Russian visitors: "If we re end," he said recently. "Giv en an absence of alertness or a too-rapid withdrawal of the U.N. troop, it is conceivable that it could be revived. There are interests and ele ments in the Katanga scene which would always favor and flirt with it." Tshombe, who went, to Eu rope after capitulating to the United Nations and the Leo poldville government, return ed to his provincial Elisa bethville capital this week amid scenes of wild adula tion. But there is no indica tion that his secessionist movement may be in the proc ess of resurrection. Thant has started a multi- million dollar program of I to reject the hand of friend ship from those in Russia who arc disposed to be our friends, what is the alterna tive? . . . With hearts filled with the love of Christ (these men) are seeking to turn Russia and America toward friendship. There is no other possible direction if we are to avert the ultimate disaster." Arnold Eugene Jenny, Rogue Valley Manor, Irrationality To the Editor: In J.W.S.'s Sunday column he ended with, "If people are always so upset about air-pollution why do they blow cigarette smoke in your face while they're telling you about it?" This reminded me of an air pollution meeting in Med ford about a year ago when the air was especially foul with cigarette smoke. Anoth er incident with similar ele ments was observed at the Medford hotel recently when Dr. Stressinger, a U of O bi ologist, spoke to a group of persons interested in the threat of nuclear war. He said the radiation remaining after the initial effects of the bombing were over, would shorten the lives of the 60 per cent (who escaped death) by about 18V4 years. Upon conclusion of his interesting talk he nervously smoked sev eral cigarettes in rapid suc cession. This set me to thinking here was an erudite man, a molecular biologist, cautious ly proceeding, it seemed to me, to reasonable conclusions regarding the nuclear prob lem. Yet, I thought, why can he not follow the implica tions of the American Cancel Society studies and the like, which compare longevily, among other tilings, in smok ers and non-smokers? The sta tistics imply that the typi cal John Doe, pack-a-day smoker, cuts off about nine years of his life by smoking. (And not to be overlooked is the finding that he lives those fewer years on a health level below that which would have otherwise prevailed.) Our five minute discussion yielded one more sorry par ticular to add to the count less other particulars which permit the generalization, ar rived at inductively, that "people," not only those re ferred to by J.W.S., but al most all people are quite ob viously irrational-in certain areas of their thinking. It is a sad thing to see a man of high quality junk his most precious gift, his pow er of reason. By extension, it is just as sad to see an educator, editor, doctor, leg islator, parent, or other per son influential in the lives of children, give lip service to reason, then set sucii a mis erable example. All ranting and exhorta tion of parents to deter their children from smoking are mere vapor, compared to the power of example. Now, :f 30 parents in Medford would quit smoking each day they would end their personal air pollution problems and free their children, and . . . But 1 guess I was just dreaming. Irving S. Thomas Route 4, Box 427 G Medford. LAS VEGAS CASyrii $5 SI TrtiiLS I I X. y Wi-. H-iii fT TOsr;T-? I i,jf I " : J pouitrieTr iclsiTi ii i : J tale. jhl "Coma on, Lady Luck, taxes are due and Unclt Sam needs soma new missiles. Seven-elcvan for Iraedom and stcurity." 4 Congo civilian reconstruction. It is a voluntary fund and . pay-on-the-line Finland was the first country to contrib ute. ' There are roads and schools . to be built, educators recruit ed to staff them; hospitals constructed, professional per sonnel educated to run them; communications to be re- stored, expensive equipment imported to operate them. Above all, there is a need for the training of admin istrators to operate the gov ernment and a parliamentary' system lubricated into smooth,, functioning, starting with ap proval of the country s new constitution. Overripe Fruit? To the Editor: Lenin said that after communism has taken over our neighbors, tha United States will fall "liko an overripe fruit." Their utterances show that many federal officials and advisers seek for the United Mates a small nicne in a so cialist world government, tha mythical refuge of men un willing to accept their moral responsibility to defeat com munism. One California Con gressman has now accused tha administration of abandoning; its "no win" policy for a "surer lose" policy. If our leaders were just making mistakes in dealing with communism,; wouldn't they occasionally make one in our favor? Tha past few weeks furnish these examples: Weakening our deterrent military force and ability to keep trade lanes open by: withdrawal of Jupiter mis siles from 15 bases in Turkey, and 20 bases in Italy and oth er missiles and B-47 planes from Europe and Africa; quashing RS-70 and Skybolt, cancelling further use of peace-keeping B-52 bombers. Begging Soviets for nuclear test ban, knowing their word is worthless and inspections agreed to would be grossly inadequate. Supporting every anti-Western force in Africa. Interfering deliberately in France, Britain and Canada to help neutralists come to power in those countries. Promoting defense of Eu rope by Polaris missiles oiv allies' surface vessels under NATO though overwhelm ingly opposed by Joint Congressional Committee on. Atomic Energy. Bargaining away our coun try's future in disarmament talks with a foe who respects only power military and economic. Losing respect here and abroad by stated policy of "managed" news. Tolerating a communist base in Cuba. Allowed Khru shchev to build a bargaining tool so he could blackmail us to remove our missiles from Turkey; we did not even make sure those were mis siles on the ships leaving Cuba. With us worried about Cuba, communists have hop ped into the driver's seat in much greater prize Bra zil. Next? Trade Berlin for communist personnel in Cuba.' Still bargaining away some one else's freedom, Eventual ly the appeasers will run out. In 1959 a keen student of Iho times predicted the "overripo fruit" could lall in 1963 tins year: What will it be like to live under commuism? First off, they plan to slaughter (10 million Americans: so some of us needn't ponder living under communism. Those left will have homes and posses sions taken from them even their children; churches will be destroyed. Can you bear the thought of slavery for your dear ones your children, your grandchildren? Mrs. William Fellersen Route 1, Box 217, Orlanri, Calif. 4, I , , ' PHY
