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Newspaper Page Text4 'Everyon' In Southern OresorT n-ri. The Mill Trlhtiiien Publlihed Dally except Saturday by 83 North Fir St, Ph. 77H-C141 " ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY AdverUsillsManaiet GERALD T LATHAM, Biu. Mar ERIC W ALLEN JR, Mna. Edit EARL H ADAMS, City Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHES Women'e Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mi An Independent Nawipapar Entered aa aecond data matter it Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES s. Mail In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 yeariis.00 Daily and Sunday S moa. 10.00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moa. 9.00 Sunday Only One year 95.00 Single Copy (Mailed uo B r?,, r,T-' A nH Mntnr Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year M1.00 Dally end Sunday 1 mo. 1.73 Sunday Only 1 mo. 90o Carrier and Vendora Copy IQe Official Paper of Clfy of Mesrord Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International yull Leaaaa wire tj. P. 1. Telephoto Newsplcturea "MEMBER d'r AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising NELSON Representative: nfieRTR A, ABSOCl, atvg nfflcaa In New York. Chl cago, Detroit, San Francisco, Loe Angelea, Seattle, Portland. Denver, NATIONAL CDITOIIAl Member California Newipaper PubUihera Aieooiatlon !2ic Flight 6' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the filet; of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago, 10 YEARS AGO March 21, 1953 (Friday) Richard (Dick) Applegate, 1 whose yacht wai reported captured by Hed Chinese Sat urday, is. widely known in Medford. Ashland voters in an un official poll last week over whelmingly voiced their op position to the fluoridation of city water. 20 YEARS AGO March 21. 1943 (Sunday) Al Weir and Don Fawcett, both of Medford High school, named to Southern Oregon conference all-star basketball team. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The oncoming new rationing rules hit the lawyers. They won't be able to put any meat in their arguments in the court." 30 YEARS AGO March 21, 1933 (Tuesday) State supreme court rules city of Medford must pay lor damages when city sewer overflowed Into stream run ning through property owned by Axel and Adina Benson. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "March is endeavoring to go out like a lion, if it can recuperate from all it has been through locally." 40 YEARSAGO March 21, 1923 (Wednesday) Elmer Briggs reports first Chinook salmon catch of year form Rogue river. "Local frost warning ser vice" warns all orchardists to bring in thermometers for testing. 50 YEARS AGO March 21. 1913 (Friday) "Medium vote" reported in bond issue election on $20,000 for construction of new Med. ford armory. Grand jury expected to Indict 10 Medford saloon keepers for selling liquor to minors. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten cetreel It superior even or eight Is eicellent; live ot six is good. 1. What song heroine "wait ed underneath the lantern by the barracks gate ? 2. In wht country is Tegu cigalpa? 3. What was the .classical name for the Dardanelles? 4. A romantically minded eccentric, named for Cervan tes' hero is called a Don ? 8. Is the Pentagon, which houses much of the Defense Department, situated In Mary land, the District of Colunv bia, or Virginia? 8. Was Calvin Coolldge . Republican, or Democrat. 7. What was the language of Homer, Plato and Soph ocles? 8. W, S, Porter developed his ability as a writer while serving a term In prison; what was his pen name? 8. Is Acidophilus the name of a Greek philosopher, an In tedious disease, a kind of but termllk or a new drug. 10. Which country Is the world's most populous mon archy? Answers: I, LIU Marlene. 2. Honduras. 3. Tha Helles pont. 4. Don Quixote. S. Vir ginia. 8. Republican, 7. Greek. 8. O'Htnry. 9. Buttermilk. 10. Japan. grff&Z NIWIMMI yi5jrUlllHltJ vjAIOCIATION THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1963 Whipping "You can't touch me. you'll lose your job." "This is the kind in the District or Columbia school system seeK relief from. The proposal to end a long-standing ban on corporal punishment in Washington's public schools is one of a series made by District School Superintendent Carl F. result of a not after a high school football game last Thanksgiving Day. Dr. Hansen has tried to make it quite clear what he is advocating. He does not expect wide use or whipping, but luted "this sword of '""THE D.C. Education association, representing nearly 3,800 of 4,500 teachers, on March 7 endorsed the superintendent s recommendation and stated: "Teachers are not desirous of em ploying corporal punishment but they do desire to be relieved of the effect of the rule against it." The present ban dates back to March 20, 1918, when the board of education wrote a flat rule prohibiting corporal punishment and rescinded a rule which "enjoined" on teachers and avoid ance of corporal punishment "as far as may be with a due regard to obedience on the part of the pupils." ORPORAL punishment is currently an issue in Maryland. Two teachers at a church school in Hagerstown on March 6 were convicted and fined $200 each and ordered to pay medical ex penses for an assault on a student. (This resulted in 20 days in a hospital. ) In another Haererstown case a dav earlier a magistrate had acquitted of assault charges arising from punishment. "The right of the teacher to maintain discin line in the classroom is a parent to maintain discipline in the home," the magistrate ruled. But he then asked the State Attorney General to determine whether the courts should enforce a board of education regulation. "Under no circumstances shall a . . . teacher inflict corporal punishment on a pupil," the rule reads. "Cases which seem to require corporal punishment shall be referred to the principal who may administer (it) as a last resort." ONLY one state, New Jersey, flatly forbids cor nnral miritalimnnf in nll? anhnnla Four states Virginia, Vermont. Florida. and Montana specifically allow it. In Florida the teacher or principal in charge must be con sulted first. Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, and West Virginia reaffirm the common low principle of placing the teacher in loco parentis in the position of parents in respect to school discipline . without mentioning corporal punishment. a A STUDY made for the National Education as sociation in 1959 showed that only 60 cases of assault and battery had been brought against American teachers in the preceding 25 years. Many teachers, of course, spare the rod to avoid court action, administrative discipline, or just plain unpleasantness. The problem of discipline in Washington schools is partly the result of racial tensions - oS per cent of the school population is Negro. These tensions are inevitably going to make discipline trouble in many other cities in the East and Middle West where population migrations are upsetting long accepted school population balances. k.K.K. Sociologists and Suburbs Suburbia holds a special fascination for so ciologists. A few years ago the prevailing verdict was that suburbanites were "imprisoned in broth- ernooa by a "uniformity of age, income and class outlook" that bred "swarms of neuter drones" To borrow a few of the less favorable phrases. Now comes Robert H. Bohlke, associate pro fessor of sociology at American International college, Springfield, Mass., with the statement that when the 1960 census data are fully analyzed "the myth of suburban sameness will have been replaced by a more sophisticated view which will have found some to be quite homogeneous but many to be the opposite." His views are put forth in the January "New Society," a British social science publication, un der the title "Middle Class Delinquency in the united states. 40ST sociologists pale T ban standardization. that residents of the land of the kaffeeklatsch may not be enough alike. His thesis is that many blue-collar families, which are now middle class in income, are "not so in terms of values, beliefs, patterns. These are the elle bourgeosie," or the This "marginal group" neither working class nor middle class is subject to snubs from "old middle class ' peer a a e '"THERE then arises the possibility that delin 1 quency among their youth is a reaction to the stress generated by 'old middle class' families whose 'middle class ness' predates the recent income revolution," Bohlke writes. A correspondent for the London Economist once commented that most of the alarm about America's suburbs seems to be felt "bv people who live somewhere else." E.R.R. In School Lay a hand on me and of pupil attitude teachers Hansen as the indirect he wants the prohibition Damocles. a hich school teacher the same as the right of at the thought of subur Bohlke seems to fear attitudes and behavior groups he calls the "nov "new middle class." cliques. the denial of status from InriUtion To A Top-Level Conference sin Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circumstances the use of 4 pen name or initial for publicetion is permissible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed In this column do not necessarily represent the views of tSe paper, in tact tne contrary is otten People Could Profit To the Editor: In reading the different Editorials and comments on the dangers to our economy that may be brought about by automation replacing workers, this thought has occurred to us, We have the first machine to see suffering from a hang over. And from the experience we have been having recent ly, and in talking to others that have to hire help, there are a great many people that might profit by the example of the machines. Machines have been replac ing men for years. Our old binder and station ary, thresher, and our hay baler that required the work of from 10 tp 15 men, have been replaced by the one man combine and field baler. And we don't know of a single person that had estab lished a reputation of depend ability, and willingness to work that was hurt by the transition. Necessity is the mother of invention, and when working people keep demanding more pay for less work, and at the same time demanding cheaper products, the machine is the only way out, for the pro ducer, be he farmer or mill operator. John Nealon, Route 2, Box 278 Central Point, Ore. Letter to Legislators To the Editor: The follow ing is a copy of a letter, one copy each of which I sent to one Senator and three Repre sentatives of the Oregon state legislature. No Sunday clusing law please. Any law forbidding any one his constitutional and God given right to open and oper ate his business on any given day of the week is un constitutional and though it may be claimed not to be a religious law, religious fan atics would be first to apply it and honest Innocent people would be persecuted, fined and imprisoned unjustly. Blue laws are not new in this dear land of ours and they have proven to be unfair. unjust, vicious, and trouble making. Please lest us not tolerate any law that seeks to make legal criminals of honest, free people. Elict Hltt 34S8 Bursell rd. Medford. Closes Doors To the Editor: The Park View Nursing home discon tinued operations and closed its doors as of March 15. After 20 years of continuous ODcra tlon in Jackson county, this was a rather difficult decis ion to make, except for the loiiowlng reasons. (a) We did not feel that we could any longer compete with the county Itself through the county farm home. The competition is too onesided. We are required to pay taxes, license fees, etc., while the farm home pays none ot these costs and at the same time operates under a budget pro vided by the taxpayers, (b) The financial require ments by the state In order to operate a nursing home, in cluding sprinkler systems, etc., Is so far out of line with what the state and county is willing to pay for the care of patients, the acceptance of such patients is practically impossible. (c) The standards of nursing care prescribed by the Oregon state board of health, includ ing professional supervision, can not be met at the rates allowed by the state or coun ty. The only alternative is to lower the standards. This we MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON the case. were unable to accept, hence our closing. I trust you can see your way clear to publish this let ter in order that the public may be advised of our reasons for leaving the nursing field. A. J. Curry Rowena D. Curry, R.N Park View Nursing Home 908 West Main st. 1 Medford Through the Window: To the Editor: They say a little knowledge is danger ous. Who has enough to be out of danger? What makes the difference between great and disaster? The gates of freedom rests and gathers rust, as free people hustle about crying what must we do. Nobody can deny that babies are not blossoms of love sent or lent from heaven, Here at a glance looking through the picture window at youth lies the answer, par ents. Our children must re move the obstacles we placed before them, if they are to en joy freedom. Whereas we were blind, our children must see. You cannot always be with your child, but at that age he or she will only ex pose those things they were taught. In the heart of the family lies the answer. The branding iron lies in your home. Most children are conscious of their own limitations because they are constantly compar ing their efforts to those of their parents. We, as parents should do all we can to free them from this sense of limi tation and help them to de velop an awareness of the limitless possibilities within themselves. The answer to children's desires may come through their own efforts. It need not come through us as parents. The more a youngster be lieves that he can experience limitless good, the more limit less his demonstration of good will be. The stirrings of am bition in the young children must be directed with wisdom and balance. Children need the prodding of parents and teachers to bring out their best. In our boys and girls lie hidden tal ents and ambitions. If only we, as parents, excell in what ever skills we so urgently need these days to fire the in stinct that exists in most young children to do well. The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother. Does a piano make one a musician? Children be gin by laving their parents. As they grow older, they Judge them, sometimes they even forgive them. Good parents are dreamers, they see heaven in the soft haze of their baby's eyes, or a spring day, or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. They nurse their children through bad days until they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to parents who sincerely hope that their' children's dreams will come true. Grady Conner 723 West Jackson st. Medford Hatfield in New York for Speeches Salem - HOT - Gov. Mark Hatfield Hew to New York Wednesday to make a series of speeches. He was expected to return Saturday. The governor will address a group of leading manufac turers Thursday noon, make a "Religion in American Life" address at the Waldorf-Astoria Thursday night, and talk to a meeting ot leading bankers Friday. De Gaulle's Ambitions to Go It Alone In Nuclear Race Land Him in Trouble Br JOSEPH W. ORIGO United Press International ParU-JOTD-Preildent Charles de Gaulle's go-it-alone ambi tions to make France a nu clear power have landed him once again in deep trouble. They are the main causa of the long-standing coldness in relations between France and the United States. Now the resumption of French nuclear testing in the Sahara threatens a major cri sis between France and newly-independent Algeria. It also la likely to damage rela tions between France and oth er African nations bordering on the Sahara, including Mo rocco, Tunisia. Senegal and Mali. Presumably de Gaulle must have taken these risks into consideration. What is at stake is a short cut to the first all-French H-bomb device which the de Gaulle govern ment hopes to explode in the Pacific in 1884. Trigger fer Bemb The atomic devices being tested in granite caves in the Sahara are said to constitute tha trigger for the planned French H-bomb. Washington Report y William (c) United Feature Syndicate ADORING 'JUMPERS' Washington -- When John F, Kennedy was campaigning for president in I960, two sets of adoring "jumpers" were no ticed by all but the dimmest of observers, One set were physical jump ers. These were the people, most of them young and " "1 some of thera I jcs' VSi J m e r e adoles- vvJTJ lc.e"Avwh0 Itt.:.. sf went, una f VvTE quivering rVf I public dance I v- ' I at sight of the V'5l uu" presi liil fr dent's face, at White every whisUe stop ' and airstrip landing. They were wild about Ken nedy -r or wildly excited by his youth and good looks. The other set of jumpers did not leap up and down: they only vibrated emotion ally, like piano wires in a high wind. These were the Democratic ultraliberals, the knee-jerk liberals as termed by this columnist many years ago. Though most of these had been cultlst followers of Ad- lai Stevenson, they plunged madly Into the Kennedy camp after the Democratic conven tion. And instantly they be came the most loudly pro-Ken nedy of all. e e T DO not khow what has hap- pened now to the physical jumpers, those who did the singular snake dances of yes teryear. But what is happen ing to the other jumpers - the ultraliberals who not merely climbed aboard the Kennedy bandwagon but swarmed it in eager assurance that they would be running the show -Is clear. They are jumping in happiness no more. One by one they are turn ing upon the President. Those who so lately would tolerate no criticism of John F. Ken nedy are now so critical ot John F. Kennedy as hardly to tolerate a word in defense of him. They fill Washington draw ing rooms - and to some ex tent this is slipping into the press and television - with solemn accusations that John F. Kennedy is not "leading," is not "educating the people." e e HE IS not "leading'1 because he refuses' to press ob viously unattainable reformist demands upon a congress and country which are manifestly more conservative than he himself Is, and incomparably more conservative than the knee-jerks who seek so absurd and juvenile a stance of "leadership" from him. He is not "educating" be cause he refuses to undertake theatrical lectures to the pub lic based on the nonsensical notion that he could thus force it to accept New Dealish programs which are great stuff to the knee-jerks but toward which the great mass of the people are either active ly hostile or totally uncon cerned. What is happening was en tircly predictable. The kne- jerks went over to Kennedy for characteristically emotion al rather than rational rea sons - their curiously exces sive hatred of Richard Nixon and their equally curious sup position that because they themselves were still en- changed with the Roosevelt New Deal, Kennedy himself must be. The French feel they art on strong legal ground. The Evian peace settlement with Algeria a year ago grant ed France the use of three Sa hara base for the next five years. True, the agreement con tained no specific mention of nuclear testing. But the French say the Algerian must have been fully aware of the purpose of the bases when they signed the pact, The Algerians retort that it is incompatible with their na tional sovereignty for France to use bases on Algerian ter ritory for exploding nuclear devices. Pact la Danger The chief risk appears to be the Algerian Premier Ah med Ben Bella may be forced by his own extremists as well as by pressure from other African nations and the "neu tralist" bloc in general to de nounce the Evian agreements as a whole. France gives Algeria near ly $300 million in financial id this year. It has promised a minimum of (200 million a year for tha two following years. t. White rTHEY neglected to read his open record in congress, the record of an only moder ately liberal man. They ig nored his own clear indica tions that he was not seeking the Presidency to become some junior-grade FDR for the '60s, Though they never under stood him, he understood them to a point but for cer tain signal errors in hi esti mate of them. He believed he could moderate and make use of them, He thought that by bending a bit here and there toward one or two of their extremist demands, he could bring them to accept the gen eral body of hi more moder ate ideas. He has failed. For the plain, inside truth is that John F. Kennedy's truly bitter opposition today is rising neither from Repub licans nor conservatives in general. It is coming instead from the knee-jerk Democrat ic liberals whose total inabili ty to understand political realities has led them to be lieve that Kennedy is "betray ing" purposes he never had in the first place. Strictly Personal By Sydney (c) Field Enterprises, Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES Getting fitted for a suit, and being forced to gaze into a three-way mirror, is always a shock for those of us whose beauty is less than absolute perfection and should give us the sobering realization that the self-image we carry around in our minds corres ponds only to a vague degree with the reality other people see in us. It is impossible to per suade a bigot that he is wrong for the admirably terse reason given by Wil liam Butler Yeats, when he saldi "When a belief rests on nothing, you cannot knock away its founda tions." Telephoning someone at home and leaving no name or message is as rude as ringing someone's doorbell and run ning away before it is an swered. e e e Phychologicel myths die hard) it la still believed by most people that a man who looks you straight in ih eye is candid and hon est! whereas the first irait that the confidence man de Telopes and masters is the frank look, the firm hand clasp, and the utterly guile less manner. Whenever I see a neon sign winking "Continuous Enter tainment," it reminds me of Alexander Pope's remark that "Amusement is the hap piness of those who cannot think." Fer shear vulgarity in the original sense of the world nothing beats those tour spielers who points out the "fabulous homes" of the rich, how much they cost, hew many bathrooms they contain, and how these financial deities en tered tha golden circle by providing civilisation with beer, bratwurst or plumb ing fixtures. e e e Nothing that "subversive agents could do to undermine the American system could possibly be half as effective as the bulk ot television com mercials, whose excesses and ridiculous claims make cynics and unbelievers out of chil dren as young as five or six which is fully as influential Without that aid Algeria the-hole whan ha ordered re can hardly hope to survive. sumption of Sahara; nuclear That was da Gaulle's ace-ltv tests. Matter of Focf a.., (e) Me VorJeraJJjnKrnSjlTljHejjte mmm EUROPE'S NEXT HUGE HURDLE Bonn - To date, at least, the fruits born of tha new Franco - German treaty can hardly be to the taste of Its grand initia tor, Gen. de Gaulle. Tha treaty was supposed to Inaugurate a new, more in timate Franco G e r man co- aJsaa operation. But as yet the German have not begun to cooperate. In the very transaction in which the treaty had it origin, the seeds of frustration were already visible. De Gaulle's first memorandum proposed closer Franco-Ger man links was sent to Bonn very shortly after his intoxi catingly successful German tour. Yet the Germans waited many weeks, until after de Gaulle's triumph with the French voters in fact, to re turn any answer at all. When the answer was sent to Paris, it was favorable but infuriating; for the Germans said that they would be de lighted to link themselves more closely to France - but only within the framework of their other alliances and especially of NATO, which de Gaulle detests above all things. e TTENCE de Gaulle in his "-turn waited many weeks before making any reply. These delays explain the very long interval between de Gaulle's first suggestion of a new relationship and Chancel lor Adenauer's famous voyage to Paris. Since the de Gaulle -Ade nauer meeting, moreover, the pattern has been even less satisfactory from de Gaulle's viewpoint. The French have continuously pressed for all Kinds 01 actions, in tne mili tary, cultural, and other spheres, which would give substance to the new partner ship. Almost without excep tion, the Germans have re fused to take these actions. Yet the worst hurdle for the Franco-German partner ship, and one must add for the Europe of the Common Market, still lies in the fu ture, albeit In the fairly near J. Harris a part of their "education" as their formal schooling. People will admit almost every other defect under the sun, but no one thinks that he is a poor judge of character yet, as the di vorces In our private life and the disappointment! in our public life indicate, this is the deepest, most preva lent, and most nearly in eradicable defect in the human animal. Unless a raise is given promptly, it does nothing for morale like the rancher who had a Chinese cook for some years, and after an un usually good dinner decided to raise his pay. The cook noted the extra money in his envelope and asked, "Why you pay me more?" "Because you've been such a good cook all these years," replied the boss. The cook thought it over, and then said, "You've been cheating me long time, huh?" Every time I hear tha phrase, "states' rights," I recall the men I have met in state legislatures, and shudder quietly. ii,Hi usjej We protested when they banned a Commie. It's only fair w protest when they ban a Birch Society member. That's Americanism, ladyl" future. Last year, with lnfl nite difficulty and only at tho last moment, the six Euro pean nations of the Common Market managed to agree on the broad outlines of their common agricultural policy. But they have still to agree on tha policy itself. , e e e rTHE common agricultural policy, at this time, may be compared to the founda tions and part of the walls of a house. The house has to be completed, by agreements about beef, dairy, and other major products, and above all about the European wheat price. The way the policy is com pleted is of vital interest to the United States. The policy being pushed by Gen. do Gaulle will block a. larger percentage of U.S. exports ot farm products to Europe. And. it can also place an eventual additional burden ot around $600 million on the persistent ly unsatisfactory U.S. balance of paymenta. If the Europeans follow tho de Gaulle line, half tho U.S. Senate will be on its large, angry feet the next morning, bellowing for trade reprisals. A third of the Senate will bo intoning, "Bring our boyo back home to punish these un grateful Europeans!" By these self-righteous out bursts, it must be added, tho Senators will be playing straight into the hands ot Gen. de Gaulle. He will in stantly tell the Europeans, "I always said the Americana were selfish and unreliable ' allies." e e e fTHE Germans have not in fact been thinking very much about the poisonous po litical consequences of tho de Gaulle line. Although un able to silence Secretary ot Agriculture Orville Freeman, the Kennedy administration's doctrinaire Common Market eers averted any really clear political explanation with tho Germans. On the other hand, the Ger mans have been thinking a lot about their own Interests, which by no means conincide with those of France, either in the matter of excluding . agricultural imports or in the matter of the common wheat price. Hence it can now be authoritatively stated that tha Foreign, Agricuture, and Eco nomics Ministries in Bonn are now united on the desirability of leaving Europe's common agricultural policy just about where it is, without further additions or improvements. The Italian government plans the name blocking tac tics. Despite the contrary prodding of the Common Mar ket Economic Commission, therefore, one could confident ly predict a long European pause in this vital field if it -were not for , two doubtful : factors in the squation. a e THE FIRST factor is the aid A that Gen. de Gaulle may get from Chancellor Adenau er. It is clear that other mem bers of the Adenauer cabinet hope to get around this prob lem by delaying the issue un til the Chancellor has been re-' placed. The second factor is far more mysterious. Gen. da Gaulle is highly likely to threaten to break up the Com mon Market if he does not get his way in this matter. But how will the Europeans, and especially the Germans, re spond to such a threat? No one can say at this time, any mora than anyone can say whether Gen. de Gaulle will make good his threat if still resisted. It can be seen that the hurdle just ahead may be very high indeed.