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Newspaper Page Text"Eviryone la Southernreibn- Reads Tne Mall Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fit St. Ph. ITa-aMl ROBERT W BUHL. Idttor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bua Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR. Mne Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT, sporia to lor OLIVE STARCHES Women's Editor PALK E It 1 1 H a n iii 1 1. u ! uui An Independent Newspaper Entered at second elan matter Medford. Oregon .under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall in nniw. Dally and Sunday I year lis Dally and Sunday a moa to n.nu I Bunrinv 3 mOS. fi .00 00 nn Sunday Only One year 13. no Single Copy (Mailed) 200 uany ana ounajr Dally and Sunday 1 mo. t-73 Sunday Only I mo. s Carrier and Vendors Copy too . . i , fit.. Maafnrrf .00 OfIiclalPapero JartoBCounty United Prew International 5U1I bHKU U. P 1 Telephoto Newsplcturee - . J i.it"' onn ATI ME" "o" ciRcSajioNsZ--ASlW "eJ.eoKu!vi:om ATES Ot'lcee In New York. Chi cago. DeiTOll. Ban o " 1 i rTi4 Angeiea. sca.Mc. - - - - -Denver. - NIWIMM PUILISHItt ASSOCIATION NATION At EOITOIIAI Memner California" Newspaper Publishers Anoclatlon 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 26, 1953 (Thundiy) "Congress and Interior Sec retary Douglas McKay have received proposals from the bureau of land management for a stepped up resource de velopment program which would result In increased rev enue for Jackson county and the state; county received $1, 119,284.46 from, program last year. : .. ... Commanding general ol 41st National Guard division ays funds for new Medford armory building to be avail able after July 1- 20 YEARS AGO March 26, 1943.tF.ldaY, Oregon to' 'receive 45 mil- ltn 1am nnal r.UIB tOads: if approved b-. Congress part will be usea to con.ipn.-io m construction . of , the' Pacific highway between Medford and Eugene. ''; ,' ' " ' From Arthur ' Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Italy now wants to "case out of the war.' She stabbed a back to get in and wants to pat a back to get out." y v. 30 YEARS AGO March 26, 1933 (Sunday) Classes in placer mining for small operation to open on Southern Pacific lot. Hog calling contest attend ed by 1,500; Lem Black of Forest Creek Is winner. 40 YEARS AGO March 26. 1923 (Monday) Fiends steal the ice cream for a C. E. supper. Record brenklng warm spcel for Medford continues and dust is flying on country roads. . 50 YEARS AGO March 26. 1913 (Wednesday) City agitated by report that saloons of city are visited by minors. Trial of councilman charg ed with unbecoming conduct continues before Mayor, who Is charged with "being un fair." What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct li superior; even or eight it excellent! five or lla is good. 1, Name the seaway from the Great Lakes which allows access to the ocean. 2. Do sponges belong to the animal, vegetable, or mineral kingdom? 3. In which Shakespearean play is the line "all the world's a stage"? 4. In what modern country it the legendary city of Troy? 5. What is the chemical symbol for the metallic ele ment gold? 6. Malta, Sicily. Sardinia, Cyprus are islands In what sea? 7. Is oligarchy character ized by government by the masses, or government by a few? B. Ammonia is a chemical clement; true or false? 9. What is another name for the Northern Lights? 10. Who wrote the drama, "A Doll's House"? Answers! 1, SI. Lawrence Seaway. 2. Animal. 3. "As You Like II." 4. Turkey. 9. Au. 6. Mediterranean. 7. Gov ernmtnl by a ftw. 8. Fals (compound of nitrogen and hydrogen), 9. Aurora Bortalis. 10. Henrlk Ibsen. TUESDAY. MARCH i. 1983 What's Going On? The Coos Bay World, in a testy editorial, de clares: , "The time has come when we believe it is the In terest of every citizen of the State of Oregon that he or she seriously consider just what in the blazes Ii going on in our state Legislature." We have had much the same feeling one which was not entirely dispelled by a two-day visit to Salem last week. Now no one is going to become a legislative expert in two days. But by talking to various members and observers plus diligent reading of legislature s activities, of what s going on. e e a a THIS is not a peaceable and cooperative leg- islature. There is jealousy and bickering be tween House and Senate, and the Governor, and themselves, sometimes times merely along personality or philosophical lines. Clarence Barton, the is Speaker of the House, view of the Legislature's the taxation package should be ready any day now, that it will be accepted by both House and Senate. He also believes functioning smoothly, and in response to a ques tion, said that education, cation, "is not going to be hurt by this legisla ture." ' Others differ. One high government official, speaking not for attribution, strongly fears that higher education IS going legislature, and that it will be fortunate if even the governor's bone-bare budget for the colleges and universities is passed significant cuts. THE Coos Bay World's "At no other time in the history of this state has there been a greater need for sound, calm, de cisive law making. At no time In our history have we been faced with a greater budgetary problem. And at no time In our history has the matter of tax ation been of such vital Importance to the state as a whole and to each individual. "Add to this the fact that we need sound and careful consideration of the proposal to revise our state's outdated constitution and you can see that this year, indeed, is a critical one for the men and women who represent us in the statehouse." In large part, we agree, As to the new con stitution, we have been Uellenback, chairman 01 the house committee on constitutional revision, that the chances are good that a document will be this year, and referred But there is no certainty of this as yet. THERE is one other aspect meriting considera 1 ation. What a legislature does not do is often times equally important to what it does do. In other words, killing bad legislation is as important as passing good legislation. There have been reports of substance indicat ing that House and Senate committees have been inclined to let poorly drawn, inconsequential, or bad legislation die in committee. But there is some legislation which must pass, if the state is to stay in business. The fiscal needs of the state must be realistically appraised, and the tax cloth cut to fit the fiscal need pattern. And if that pattern does not meet certain mini mums, the state as a whole will suffer. I ONG ago, we predicted that this would be " one of the most difficult sessions in a long time, and we still think that prediction was valid. Legislators, after voting themselves a hefty raise in pay, are now caught between the desire not to raise taxes or to raise them as little and painlessly as possible and the desire to see that state services are not starved or damaged. Ad ditionally, they are inhibited by the strong pos sibility or even probability that any signifi cant tax increase measure which they pass will be referred to a vote of tor months any chance revenue. Where, then, if cuts be made? A NUMBER of minor uvi v nun vrnv-tu viuuitiiuiiv biiv uuvivt nuit some of them are being made. But only m two places can really important sums of money in the tens of millions of dollars be "saved. One is in education, If welfare is cut materially, the legislature will be guilty of starving the old, and of callousness less. If education is cut materially, the legislature will be guilty of short-changing our youngsters and damaging the future potential of the state. QOVERNOR Hatfield's budget of some $405 "million is a tight one. Manv think it is too tight in some areas, particularly higher education. If the legislature cuts away some $20 million or so from this budget, as is now being discussed, it will be doing irretrievable harm to the state's ability to serve its citizens as they deserve to be served. Granted that being a legislator is no bed of roses. But in seeking the job, and in accepting it, each member also accepted a solemn responsi bility to see that the state continues as an effec tive servant to the people and the taxpayers. And irresponsibility, or non-feasance, is not a pretty charge. E. A. 1 and other state omcials, press reports about the one can get some sense between both of these within the two houses aloncr Dartv lines, some' Coquille Democrat who has the most soothing progress. He says that that the committees are specifically higher edu to be damaged by this without damaging and complaint continued: assured by Rep. John passed by the legislature to a vote of the people. the people, thus stalling ol needed additional are to be made, will they budget cuts can be made the other is in welfare the needy, of cruelty to to the young and help h MLDrOHD tion U, Mu. To Pep Up 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. Letter submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed In this column do not necessarily represent the vlewi of tSa paper. In fact the contrary is often A REMINDER Editor's notei We have re ceived gevaral communica tions which do not bear BOTH nam and address oi the writer. Letters for pub lication must have nam AND address to be consid ered for publication. Names and addresses will be with held or kept on file under certain circumstances. Veteran's Plight To the Editor: According to Floyd County Sheriff Joe Ad ams of Rome, Ga., Wilmer A. Summerville, Who was honor ably discharged as an Army quartermaster sergeant in June, 1919, was denied hos pital care by the Veterans Ad ministration. Then, on Dec. 20 he was released from a private nursing home in Rome because, it was stated, "He was almost blind and helpless and had to be cared for day and night." As he was unable to be placed in a VA domiciliary, Sheriff Adams took care of Summerville in the county jail because there was no oth er place to go. Then the VA stopped his pension of $78.75 because he was in jail. He had not committed any crime. This shows how unfair and dumb the VA can be. Less than two months later this poor veteran died in jail. II mat Isn t some treatment to give a veteran who offered his life to save his country. Our Congressmen and Sen ators should feel very proud of themselves after giving bil lions of dollars to foreign aid and giving millions of dollars to farmers to let their land be grown over to weeds, giv ing pensions to foreigners. and letting this poor veteran die in jail because they would not build a rest home where he could have spent his last few days in peace and rest. We have a Domiciliary home near here that could be ar ranged for Just such cases as this one. C. A. Krctschmer 734 S.W. Burgess st. Grants Pass, Ore. Letter to Durno To the Editor and Dr. Dur no: Will you run again for Congress? There Is consider able enthusiasm for you to re gain your old scat In Oregon's Fourth District. Since last November, I have made many speeches, as a can didate from the Third Con gressional District, before Re publican clubs, business men's groups, and other organiza tions and have constantly heard comments expressing hope that you will run again for your old Fourth District seat in 1064. It is my personal feeling that it will be a great loss to Oregon if you decide to retire permanently from the politi cal scene. Jim Bnralotf, Republican Candidate 3rd Congressional Dist. Portland 18, Ore. Next Step To the Editor:. A good start for my little talc of woe should be, "What are little Ole Ladles past 45 made of? Prunes and rice and every thing not so nice." Now, I haven t seen or know of any rich "little ole" ladles from Pasadena running around in a Cadillac working for pleasure. The Old Gal; of my acquaintance are Just trying to keep the wolf from their door, or sending a child or grandchild to college, and are doing it the only honest way they know how. by work out out. Say - you young whipper snappers, have you ever tried MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. We Have An Idea Our Act" the case. getting a job from the bottom and working up? Well, these "ole gals," when young, did, and now at 45, you're trying to put them out to pasture, or on the welfare. See, they can't even collect Social Security. You think you have it rough, being turned down be cause of lack of experience. Well, try this one on for size. Older women past 45 looking for employment have this cross to bear, experience plus age. As for "Gold Bricking," which was brought to light in the Communications, you can find In any age if they're in clined to be lazy. Now, I'm not trying to be mean to you young job seek ers, because if you have it, you'll make it. These old gals did but please don't put us out to pasture, for I'm afraid the next step would be to shoot us. Mrs. Irma Henderson 729 Dakota ave. Medford. Too Much To the Editor: You give too much space to Arnold Eugene Jenny. Evelyn W. Reith 828 East Main, apt. 3 Medford No Wonder To the Editor: What underlies the skin of man That joys to see two boys Destroy each other with a lethal punch 'Til blows resound with flesh they crunch They pound and hound 'Til one goes down To slay Has pagan Rome come back today? No wonder Earth shall be torn asun der And counts the hours To when roll of thunder Decadent, filthy, powers Are buried 'neath the showers Of hail Their pay James Williams P.O. Box 441 Jacksonville, Ore. Strictly Personal By Sydney fcl Field Enterprises. Inc. WORK AND LEISURE Because I wanted a car, and it came already equipped that way, I am now driving my first automo bile with pow er steering. After a few weeks of it, I drove another car, with man u a 1 steering, and was an oyed at its balkincsj. The turn same was true with the automatic shift a few years ago: after driving it, the manual shift seemed labori ous. And I must confess that I wear a self-winding watch on my wrist, and would not buy one that needs to be wound each morning. Now a good case could be made out and has been made out, by sports car buffs that an automobile is much more under control of the driver with a manual shift and manual steering. The big power-operated car? tend to drive the driver, often into catastrophe. - But the point is that mora and mora of us have relin quished our control over our machanisms. W do nothing by hand or foot that can b don by le- t OREGON Precarious Balance At Berlin Remains; Two K's Have Other Problems at Stake By STEWART HENSLEY United Press International ' Washington - (UPD - Berlin continues to be the most criti cal issue dividing Russia and the West, despite its' absence from the headlines in recent months. . Soviet and American offi cials acknowledge that there can be no permanent peace in Europe until there is a settle ment of the problem. Moscow and Washington live with the constant fear that some spark in the area may trigger World War III. This tacit agreement on the potential explosiveness of the issue, rather than any real hope of making progress, is what led to the resumption this week of Soviet-American talks on Berlin. Neither side wants to be Washington Report By William (c) United Feature Syndicate FALLACY Washington - The harsh truth about Castro is that the more inter-American con- ferences . are held on the subject the more ambigu o u s appears the policy- of the United States against this chronic C a r I b b e an danger. Is it really a hard policy? Is it a soft policy? Is it something in between? It is more difficult to know in the afterlight of President Ken nedy's mission to the six-nation Central American meet ing in Costa Rica than it was before. . The journey was an un doubted diplomatic success for the President, as the lead er of the United States. There is a greater, if somewhat vague and generalized, friend ship between those nations and ours. ' TUT IT seems fair lo say -- after careful examination of what happened and did not happen, and why - that inso far as this conference con tributed toward reducing the capacity for evil of Sovietized Cuba it was a small mountain that produced only a fair sized mouse. We have all come out of it pledging various steps against the export of Castro Commu nism into Latin America. But most of all we have come out chanting the same tired old slogans about meeting the military menace of interna tional communism by social reforms and economic im provements. The six Central American nations-Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Gua temala, Nicaragua and Pana ma - are represented as pleased at the results. Still, the fact remains that at least two of these - Guate mala and Nicaragua - had hoped for strong affirmative actions against Cuba going far beyond any amount of eco nomic aid and social reform. The fact also remains that the United States went to Costa Rica determined to play down Cuba, leaving all that to La tin America as a whole, and to talk instead of these very points of economics and re form. J. Harris trrcity whether In t h kitchen, mowing the lawn, shoveling the snow, driving Ihe car, and even tootling around the golf course on a mechanised cart. I am not concerned her with th "physical fitness" aspect of this trend. What interests and perplexes me is th growing contradiction between our principles and our practices in modern American socieiy. Traditionally, we greatly admire th sweat of i h brow; but soon w may have nothing to sweat over. Our Puritan background makes us feel that w should suffer, at least lit tle, for th goods we re ceive but our whole tech nology is designed to de crees such suffering to th minimal point, "Leisure" is not yet a re spectable word here; it is just something that fills Ihe inter stices between work. Yet ev erything today is planned to give us as much leisure as pos sible, as little sweat as neces sary. On the one hand, we are urccd to work harder; on the other, we keep changing our technics and our economy in inc direction of less effort. Perhaps a large part of our Whit confusion, and our immobili-1 I out pf touch too long, lest mis calculation spark a conflict erupting into nuclear holo caust. ' Russia had another reason for suggesting resumption of the discussions, which were broken off at the time of the Cuban missile crisis last Oc tober. The Kremlin needs to make a show of doing some thing to appease the Commu nist East Germans, who have been promised that someday all Berlin will be theirs. President Kennedy and So viet Premier Nikita Khrush chev both have been treading water on this and other East West conflicts since the Cuban missile crisis. Each has troubles within his own camp. Neither seems anxious to undertake diplomatic cold war initiatives which might upset the precarious balance. S. Whit. AND A third fact also re mains: All the planning undertaken in Costa Rica to ward the isolation of Cuba will not accomplish much so long as Mexico remains an open gateway to the south for Castro agents - as it does. Having said all this, how ever, it is necessary to say also that there never was any hope that the Costa Rican con ference could do a n y thing substantial toward that total isolation of the left-wing dic tatorship in Cuba that was achieved by total inter-American action against the right wing Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. The reasons are not far to see. The big leftest powers in Latin America - Mexico and Brazil in particular - are not with Central America, or us, in this affair. This being the bedrock reality, the United States could not sensibly have offered any hard and effect ive anti-Castro plan in Costa Rica, even if it had one -which it does not. For the real powers of Latin America were not in attendance. NO TRUE Pan American front truly to cut off Cuba will ever be formed until the Mexicos and Brazils can be brought into it.' There is no sign that they are going to come in any time soon. In the meantime, to at tempt to make a grand strat egy against Castro resting solely upon the weakest coun tries in Latin America would be as pointless as preparing such a design against the So viet Union within the West ern Alliance based, say, upon Portugal and Holland but not Britain, France and West Germany. So what docs it all come to? All solutions for Cuba remain unsatisfactory - but some are more unsatisfactory than others. And the United States seems committed all over again to the appealing, but up to now wholly fallacious, no tion that armed and militant communism can be stopped by "improving the living stan dards of the people." Sylvia Porter Receives Award Sylvia Porter, whose col umn distributed by the Hall Syndicate appears daily in the Mail Tribune, has frequently earned awards for the colum nist, has two new honors. She was to receive the Ap plause Award, the most im portant award of the Sales Executive Club of New York, today. This honor will be giv en as "applause to Sylvia Porter for giving the public a better understanding of our free enterprise system and especially of the vital role played by marketing and salesmanship." Her other current award was presented March 19 by the Central Business District Association of Detroit - their National Award for Outstand ing Performance in Commu nications. TIME'S A'WASTING Chicago - lOT - The Lief Erickson society said today it is planning a "tremendous party" for the 2003 in "over due recognition'' of the 1000th anniversary of the founding of America. ' "Final arrangements have not been completed," Prcsi dent W. R. Anderson said. ly, is due to the fact that, like Buridan's ass, we cannot de cide between the two piles of hay equally close to us: the tridition of personal effort beckons us one way, and the new devices for making life easier invite us the other way. Our central problem in the years ahead may very well turn out to be the difficult task of reconciling our beliefs with our procedures, and learning that it is impossible to keep both intact. i Khrushchev is beset by the split with Communist China, which is having its reprecus sions among Communist par ties all over the world. He is grappling with economic dif ficulties at home stemming from the necessity to divert more resources from agricul ture and housing to military preparations. Kennedy is plagued by un certainty over the fate of NATO in the wake of French President Charles de Gaulle's refusal to cooperate in plans for nuclear defense, as well as the economic reprecussions of the French veto of Britain's bid for European Common Market membership. Matter of Fact (c) New York Herald ELYSEE-OLOGY Paris - Talk to four dozen Frenchmen, all of them in high responsible positions in w n a i mignv be called the French politi cal commun ity. You will then get '47 different opin ions about the current plans and parties, although not about the ulti Alsnp mate aim of Gen. Charles Hp Gaulle. Such has been this report er's experience, at any rate. The two among the 48 who agreed with one another were both anti-Gaullist. They offer ed the diagnosis that de Gaul le's judgments of Europe, and of the United States and of the Soviet Union, have been abnormally warned bv oride suspicion, and success. When each of these two lonely persons speaking with a Common VOicp WHS infnpmoH that his diagnosis had support irom me otner man, both of them were downright furious. But Gen. de Gaulle con fides his plans and purposes to no one at all, conspicuously including the chief member of his own cabinet. IT CAN then be seen that 1 "Elysee-ology," as an at tempt to read the mind of th chief tenant of t h e Elysee faiace is beginning to be call ed, is even less exact science than Kremlinology. Nonethe less, this reporter is now con vinced that he has earlier committed a grave efror. wnicn nad better be corrected now. From the ancle nf vici of Washington, it appeared that Gen. de Gaulle's quasi coup d'etat in Europe really must have behind It a nlan nf rabid, further action. What de Gaulle did was clearly direct ed to establishing a kind of Gaulist hegemony of the na tions of the European Com mon Market. Yet it was eauallv rlearlv impossible for Gen. de Gaulle to be first in Europe, so long as, under NATO, the U. S. was still first in the defense of Europe. Hence it seemed necessary to assume that Gen. de Gaulle had a nlan fnr linnl. dating the American military person in turooe at a fairlv early date. TTERE was the error. De-f-spite the marked differ ences in diagnosis offered by leading Frenchmen, there is one central fact that can be synthesized, so to say, from the mass of conflicting testi mony. The fact seems to be that Gen. de Gaulle has an aim, but he does not have a plan. ,. In the case of the Algerian war, for example, de Gaulle's aim from the start was cer tainly to heal this cancer on the French body politic. At first he tried prosecuting the war vastly more efficiently, while offering the rebels a "peace of the brave" on con d i 1 1 o ns attaching Algeria closely to France. M 1LKW 2 "Cub. Cuba. Cubal I'm sick of questions on Cuba! Sick, do you hr me, tick, sick, sick, tick, tick ... I" Kennedy's handling of th Berlin crisis since his Vienna confrontation with Khrush chev in June 1961, has brought the issue to a point where U. S. officials believe danger of war by miscalcula tion has been reduced as much as possible. Khrushchev's brutal verbal assaO.lt on Kennedy at Vienna indicated his belief he could terrorize the new President into concessions on Berlin, Kennedy responded by in creasing U. S. forces In Eur ope, launching a new U. S. military buildup at home and hammering away at his firm resolve to fight if need be to stay in Berlin. By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate When this did not work, he evidently concluded it was necessary to do what ha had said many scores of times that he would never do. Ha concluded it was necessary to hand Algeria over to tha F. L. N. rebels. And that was the final outcome. In the present instance, Gen. de Gaulle's aim is once again quite clear. It is a "European Europe," standing on its own feet, in no way de pending on the United States but linked on terms of com plete equality with the United States in a transformed West ern alliance. AS IN the former case, the aim is not unintelligible. It is both sensible and fully in accord with the long swing of history. And at this point, one recalled the remark of one of de Gaulle's former closest collaborators that the General is "with regard to the past infallible; in the fu ture prophetic; but in tha present often detestable." De Gaulle is "detestable" in the present precisely be cause he does not pursue his long-term aims by any coher ent scheme of action which can be argued about or even successfully opposed. He will certainly stop anything hap pening which he thinks may block the subsequent attain ment of an aim, just as he stopped the British from en tering Europe "as an Ameri can Trojan horse," as he put it. Yet in circumstances like the present circumstances in Europe, saying "no" when he js able to do so is de Gaul le's major form of action. Be yond this he maintaips a pos ture - in the present instance the posture of the leading ad vocate and potential leader of a European uncontaminated by American influence. IIE ALSO indulges in the ll- strange pin-pricks of prec edents and table placements, which seem so widely odd to Englishmen and Americans, but help him, in his opinion, to maintain his chosen pos ture. And in addition, while waiting for history to justi fy him, he merely takes ad vantage of tactical opportu nities which may come his way by accident or by the fall of his adversaries. Hence what we have to worry about is not what seems So worrisome in Wash ington. There is no immedi ate prospect of a Gaullist at tempt to destrop NATO, or to force American withdrawel from Europe. What we have to worry about, rather, is how to avoid faults of our own which will play too far into Gen. de Gaulle's hands. For although de Gaulle's aim of an equal Europe is en tirely sound, the trouble is that he wishes to achieve this aim against the extra-European members of the Western alliance, and quite largely at their expense. Hence the method can prove to be pro foundly dangerous, even though the aim deserves our sympathy.