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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
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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.
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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.
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