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Newspaper Page Text4 A Reads TraJleUjrTrtune". KSfished DiUy except Saturday by 33 North ritSUPlii-77a.8Ul BOBERTW BUHL. Editor HERB GREY Adverti.iM MlMI Pfpai n T LATHAM. Bui Msr IMC ALLEN JR. iineMltor VARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN.Telel Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Ed tor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Editor PALEjRlCKSON, Clrcu aJjonMg An Independent P-P"r Intered tecond dm m"" Medford. Oreeon under Act ot March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br MU In Advance Dally end Sunday-1 y"arl 00 Daily and Sunday- moa 10 00 Daily and Sunday-3 moa. M Sunday Only One year 13.00 Slnile Copy (Malledl By C.iriei-And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday-1 year Ml-00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. l lunday Only 1 mo. "arrlei and Vendor. - Copy I0o Official Paper of City of Medford ninHjgaper ol Jackson County TUnlted Presa International Full Leased Wire DPI Telephoto Newiplcturea TiEMBEiCbK AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising- Repentatlve: NELSON ROBERTS At ASSOCI ATES Of'icee In New York. Chi caso Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angelra Seattle. Portland Denver. NIWSMM UlLlfHIII ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EOITOIIAI IC6T,3N Member California Newapaper Publishers Aiioclatlon 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 28. 1953 (Saturday) Red Cross fund drive reaches $14,500. Dog control law set to start April 1 in Medford, residents are reminded by chief of po lice. 20 YEARS AGO March 28, 1943 (Sunday! Office of Price Administra tion revises Its point values on canned and processed fruits and vegetables. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Chick ens are playing hob with some victory gardens, which made the oft accused dogs bark and leap." 30 YEARS AGO March 28. 1933 (Tuesday) Greatest snow depth In five years reporiea ai v-rsrer taice; depth reported at 171 Inches. Local pear growers receive first official report from Regional Agricultural Credit corporation of efforts to se cure proper financing for 1933 crop. 40 YEARS AGO March 28, 1923 (Wednesday) Copco still short of labor for two projects; transporta tion to and from Jobs offered. Three rural districts plan to build new schools. SO YEARS AGO March 28, 1913 (Friday) Star theater bills "Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet" with slides. Slate grand lodge of Odd Fellows to be held here next June; expected to attract 1, SOO visitors. JUDGE DOUBTS LOSS London - iuri) - A Judge Wed ncsday granted Albert Simpson a divorce because of his wife s adultery with a 60 year-old chemist, but denied his request for $2,800 dam ages. "I am far from satisfied that he has lost anything," the Judge said. What's Your I.Q.7 Win or Hn corrtel It tutarlir; vtn or iht it xctlltrtt) five ill il 9000. 1. Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain on which continent? 2. What is a prle-dlcu? 3. In the Battle of Chancel lorsville what Confederate Stales General was wounded by his own men? , 4. "Pie Plant" is another name for what garden vege table? 9. Fagln is a character in which novel by Charles Dick ens? 6. John J. Sparkman repre sents which state in the U S Senate? 7. What la the largest island of the West Indies? 8. Which emperor was prob' ably pictured on the 30 pieces of silver Judas got: Caligula, Nero or Tiberius? S. Does Cheyenne, Wyo., or Santa Fe, N.M., lie farther West? 10. Were any persons burn ed to death at Salem, Mass., for witchcraft? Answers: 1. Africa. 2. A kneeling desk for praytr. 3. Stonewall Jackson. 4. Rhu barb. S. "OiWer Twist." 8. Alabama. 7. Cuba. 6. Tiberius (others cam later). 9. Santa Fe. 10. No (t number war hanged). THURSDAY. MARCH 2. 1963 What Medford Needs What, we should ask ourselves occasionally, does Medford need? Progress and growth in any city comes rela 'Mvalv slnwlv whpn mpasiirerl acainst the fleet ing experiences of the appntnn ntpr rhanirp in it almost unrecognizable 9 fpw vears. Rnm nf th fhant?es not all of them. And a periodic self-inventory is a healthy thing for any city, and for its citizens. What then does Medford, at its present stage, need for improvement? e T7 VF.R Yf)NR pan make his own list. Here is ours. " Medford needs an air nance with enough teeth in it to give us some linnp that, the rlenrpssinir smorr and dirtv air with which we must put up so often will eventually be gone. Medford needs an effective billboard con trol ordinance, to prevent the elevated freeway 1 ; j! l: u:nu.,j il.. IlOm Decerning a UlHgUSUUg uuiuuaiu aucjr. MpHtWri npprls a new eitv hall, one which would reflect the essential beauty and integrity of this little city, preferably located in the civic center-park area, where the new federal build ing will soon go. (Medford could also use a county court more attuned to the- needs of the pitv anrl nnp less hpnt. on decentralizing all its functions to the fairgrounds, at great cost and inconvenience.; llfEDFORD needs more 1T arterial streets program, to keep the ever increasing traffic flowing. Medford needs a more attractive, spacious downtown area, with more ample parking, more elbow-room for customers, and with more new, bright attractive store-fronts. Medford needs a civic auditorium, to oetter accommodate the wide which now must make do facilities. (How about buying the Holly Theater building, using it as an interim auditorium, and the offices to house the many varied functions of community endeavor associated with it?) MEDFORD needs a stadium of some sort, more extensive in nature than the limited-purpose baseball diamond now proposed by a short sighted county court. Medford needs rapid development ot tne parK area along Bear Creek, both to make the south approach along the Freeway one of the most attractive city entrances offset in part the detraction trom liawtnorne park caused by the erection ot tne r reeway viaduct. It also needs the development, as rapidly as is feasible, of the projected scnooi-parK plan, to create parks in a variety THIS is our list, at the moment. It could be added to. But given these things, Medford would be a far more attractive place in which to live and work and raise children than it is now. It is. of course, at least in part a matter of money, and how much we, collectively, are will ing to spend to improve our services and our surroundings. But even more it is a matter of attitude. It we, as residents of Medford, really want these things, a way will be found, provided we signify our willingness to support them, and, ultimately, to pay for them. E. A. Daffy -Down-Freeways The unpoetic types who write editorials for the Salem Capital Journal were moved to quote Wordsworth the other day, as follows: I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils. The editorial was motivated by the fact that some unsung genius in the State Highway De partment has come up daffodil bulbs along the stretches of Interstate 5 Freeway so far completed, that the flowers are now in bloom, and that "crowds and hosts of IT IS amazing what these little patches of cheer- ful yellow do to perk up the borders of the freeway. It is a masterful touch, and adds much to the generally excellent scaping which the department is doing along the freeway. We understand that the department initially purchased 20,000 daffodil bulbs. As the Capital Journal points out, the blooms are somewhat spotty this year, their first, "But they'll be truly spectacular next spring." It added : "Must shrub and tree plantings are maturing ennui to enhance the scenery. It strikes us that In a frw years this likely will be one of the finest ex amples of rural highway landscaping In the West." IF THOSE there be who might crab at the rela tively minor expense connected with this, faugh iipon them. What house is complete without drapes, or pictures on the wall? What city is complete with out a park? What building is so intrinsically beautiful that it cannot be improved by decor ation? And, over the rolling beauty of western Orc- 011, how fine are the crowds, tlie hosts, of golden affodils in comparison, say, with billboards? E. A. t s: day and month. But the a eitv mav SimDlV matte over a period 01 just are for the eood. But pollution control ordi rapid completion of the variety of attractions with inadequate school which logically could be in tne nation, ana to ot the city s areas. with the idea of planting they do indeed provide golden daffodils. and well-planned land MLDFOHD Audience Reaction Report 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 views of th paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. What's Happening? To the Editor: What has happened to our local prod ucts on our grocerymen's shelves? Has the groceryman forgotten who has helped him since the beginning? The farmer, who has long been the friend of local dairy men, is now suffering great loss, because of this out-of-town movement. Dairy prod ucts coming from distances cannot possibly be as fresh as from our local area. These are not even purchased from our local farmers. Are we going to be rocked to sleep and see our local dairy men, farmers, drivers and plant workers suffer be cause of out-of-town shipping? The local dairies do not mind the competition, as long as it's fair. Local dairymen have done all within their power to give quality prod ucts to stores and consumers at fair prices. Out-of-town shipping tends to lower our economy and employment situation. We need more, not less. Are we so gullible that we are going to sit idly by and be "swal lowed up" by out-of-town firms? Think, Mrs. Consumer, are you willing to forfeit quality for price? D.S. (Name on file) Medford Mak Sense? To the Editor: Can we look forward to a promising future under the present economic and social order? The answer Is obvious. There can be no future with capitalism in view of the fact that it is now suf fering from many incurable maladies, because, like pre vious social systems that have come and gone, it has now outlived its usefulness. For one thing, capitalism has been a predisposing cause of war, even though those who profit by it have desired peace. Today the danger 01 war is all the greater be cause arms spending on a mas sive scale is now a vital prop to the economy. There is no doubt whatever that without the huge and wasteful arms program capitalism would collapse like a house of cards. Not so long ago an American diplomat stated that if there wcro disarmament and the United States stopped its mili tary expenditures abroad, and if our trade with other coun tries could not be increased to take up the slack of these military dollars, there would be the biggest bust in the world. There Is also the following to consider: Under the present system things are not produced to satisfy human needs, they arc produced lo be sold at a profit. When the capitalists : cannot sell what the workers have produced, surpluses pile up, production is curtailed, factories close, and unemploy ment spreads. Does this make sense to any thinking person? Lydla Burnham RH Warne st. Prescott, Aril. Regulars To the Editor: Evelyn W. Relth's letter. "You give too much space lo Arnold Eugene Jenny." is to be commended for lis brevity, but why single out Mr. Jenny? Since she gives no reasons for her statement, one can only as sume that her contention is based on the frequency with which Mr. Jenny s letters ap pear in Communications. Using that criterion, one could fairly say that you also give loo much space to Ella Powell, Everett Acklin, Helen Prcvo, Henry Johnson Jr., James K. Shafer, Floyd R. McCabe, Pearl Spackman and many other "regulars" who MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, rm ijarVrtMiTvt Pi appear to enjoy seeing their literary efforts in print. The names of these manv others escape me for the moment, dui me usi includes, Yours truly. W. L. Stevenes, Jr. S2 West Vilas rd. Central Point, Ore. Editor's note: Not in mpn. tlon Mrs. Ernest Santo, F. J. Clifford, L. C. Powell, John R. Ring, David Frisch, E. Dvkes. William ftirlriv vr R Bulman, D. Ivan Fritts, Frank Crum, Earl Clidewell, L. G. Weaver, Bert Kissinger, C. R. Burrill, Anna Streed, and the most regular of all the "regu lars," Name on File. To the Editor: Re, Commu nications, month of March: Youth Vs. Age Youth versus Age Has always been The controversial rage, How now, how then Whence experience came? To learn, to live, to play the game Is youth's inherent right To continue and uphold This country's freedom might, How now, how then Whence experience came? To do, to see, to serve That is their rightful aim. (Name on file) Phoenix, Ore. Wathrwis To the Editor- Tlipo rfavs of variable weather remind me of davs on the farm a num. ber of years ago, and experi ences we had due to sudden changes in the weather. It was during an occasion of this kind that I was prompted to scriDDie the following poem, while in due sympathy with my neighbor farmer, whn awoke to find his garden of Blossoming peas blanketed in snow. A FARMER'S PHILOSOPHY Yesterday the sun was shinin' And it felt so warm and nice, Hard to make a fellow believe There could still be snow and ice. The hens were all a cacklin', Then again they'd sing, Anything to fool a feller, To make him think it sure is Spring. Saw old Tige out there a lyin' Where the shop leans to the South. . Just a pantin' like a lizard With his tongue way out his mouth. When I split the wood for Emmy, My old duckin' coat I shed And the sweat Just kept a pourin In big drops off my forehead. Last night when I was comin' From the pasture with the cows, I saw some silver pussies shinin' On the weeping willow boughs. Then I caught myself a lookln' Just perchance there might be up A little meadow crocus or A golden buttercup. But today an East wind's blowin1 With frozen rain drops in the air. Makin' me so mighty thankful I ve kept on wool underwear So if tomorrow's nice and hal,,,,. With atmosphere Spring-like ana warm. I'm gonna know it's not Spring yet. But another breeder for a storm. Mrs. O. T. Wilson Central Point, Ure. OREGON De Gaulle Talks; He By JOSEPH W. CRIGG United Press International Paris -UPD- Resumption of United States-Soviet talks on Berlin in Washington finds French President Charles de Gaulle once again in his now familiar odd-man-out role. France Is taking no part in Matter of Fcrcf By Joseph Alsep (c) New York Herald THE FRENCH QUESTION MARK Paris - During Gen. de Gaulle's triumphant visit to Germany last summer, there was a solitary moment of plain talk. All the other Ger mans were un derstands bly too pleased with the Fran co - Germ a n reconciliation to get down to hard cases. Alaop But this was not true ot Pres ident Luebke. The small, genial President of West Germany thought it his duty to warn the towering, glacial President of France against being misled by the warmth of his German wel come. Germany, said Luebke, was first of all loyal to its alliance with the U. S. And in addition, he continued, Ger man policy was squarely based on NATO and was aimed towards an outward- looking Europe including Great Britain. The German official named to act as Gen. de Gaulle's es cort on his tour received the full impact of Luebke's w;rn- ing to de Gaulle. In the motor leaving the German ' Presi dent's house, de Gaulle did not trouble to mince his words. ... WHAT he had heard from President Luebke was very "shocking," de Gaulle said. If this should prove to be true, he went on, he would be forced to re-examine the whole basis of his policy." Everything, in fact, would be called into question. But a little later, de Gaulle recalled the comforting fact that the German constitution gives the President almost no power. And a little later still, he was receiving the plaudits of a gigantic crowd; and Lueb ke s warning was an put tor gotten. This episode from the past is relevant at present, because the time when Gen. de Gaulle may be "forced to re-examine the whole basis of his policy" is coming nearer and nearer. The odds are very heavy in deed, in fact, that the Gen eral's European policy is based on a misconception about Germany. . FRENCHMEN who ought to know are quite forthright about this. Gen. de Gaulle ap parently believes that in the final crunch he can always persuade the Germans to fol low him-or at least prevent the Germans from opposing him too forcefully, as was the case when he vetoed British entry into the European Com mon Market. This belief is based on his special relation ship to Chancellor Adenauer, plus the warmth of the wel come he received in Germany. But although contrary hopes are still cherished in Paris, Chancellor Adenauer is all but certain to be replaced by the end of the summer. Fur thermore, those loud German cheers for de Gaulle were not cheers for Gaullism. They were cheers for Franco-Ger man reconciliation, which is quite a different thing. The great mass of Germans, of all three leading parties, want precisely the kind of German policy that President Luebke outlined, with such sharp though temporary ef fects on de Gaulle. In fact, both of Chancellor Adenauer's most likely successors, For eign Minister Schroedcr and Economics Minister Erhardt, have let it be known that al most immediately on taking office, they will say to de Gaulle all the same things that President Luebke said last summer. ... THESE facts arc crucially significant in turn, for two obvious reasons. As Gen. de Gaulle himself admitted, he will then have to take another look at the bases of his policy. This will be unavoidable in turn, because Gen. de Gaulle's power to bend the Europe of the Common Market to his will entirely depends on his power to bend the Germans to his will. Without them, he will be too isolated. Even now, with Chancellor Adenauer still in office, the French are experiencing rather sharp disappointments in Bonn. They have an over riding Interest in the comple tion of the Common Market's common agricultural policy, which will favor French ag riculture at the expense of non-European agricultural ex porters to the Common Mar ket, such as the United States. Still 'Odd - Still Simply Ignores the talks. De Gaulle Is not even an interested spectator. He simply is ignoring them. That has been de Gaulle's posture for at least 18 months where East-West talks with the Soviets are concerned There is no sign of his chang ing in the near future. Tribune Syndicate YET the Germans have al ready balked at the pro posed arrangements which are intended to lead, by slow steps, to an eventual common cereal price for Europe. The question of the common agri cultural policy has already been put off, in consequence, for at least two months. The German delaying tactics, which this reporter forecast from Bonn, have in fact begun already. Thus the question already has to be asked: what will de Gaulle do when his miscon ception of the position in Europe becomes inescapably clear, and he is forced to make the reexamination he talked about after seeing President Luebke? The chances are that he will do nothing much beyond "re tiring into his chagrin, as one French official put it. In other words, having failed to trans form the Europe of the Six into a personal instrument, he will downgrade the Common Market once more to a "petty commercial treaty" - which was how he once described it to the French representative at Brussels, Robert de Mar- jolin. N THIS case, there may be a period of deadlock. The French will hardly consent to go forward with preparations for the "Kennedy round ot external trade negotiations, while the completion of the common agricultural policy is blocked. The way out of the dead lock mav then be a package deal, already being discussed at Brussels, combining prog ress on the agricultural front with arrangements for freer external' trade. All this can happen within the "petty com mercial treaty" framework. It has to be admitted, how ever, that this is the forecast of an optimist. A much more pessimistic analysis nas 100 much chance of being right to be ignored, and it will be of fered in a further report. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris c Field Enterprises. Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES It is always easy to tell when a man is too small for his job - he gives his sub ordinates a great deal of re sponsibility, but no authority, so that he can take credit for the right decisions, and blame them for the wrong ones. The money on gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening the con science, so that the net gain at the end of a lifetime Is no greater than if the dia bolic bargain had not been mad. Most of what we call "hist ory" is gossip in top-hat and tails. ... America, more than any other country today, is a land where boys refuse to grow up. and where girls grow up too soon; whatever the stated cause, I am con vinced that the majority of divorces occur because the woman has attained a level of emotional maturity that , the man does not even as pire to. And should anyone ask what this vague and tantaliz ing phrase "emotional matur ity" means precisely, I refer him to an analcct of Con fucius: "What the superior person seeks is in himself; what the inferior person seeks is in another. , Most parent of any af fluence give their children too many lessons too early skating lessons, swim ming lessons, dancing les sons, riding lessons, piano lessons which merely rob the children of Initiativ and turn out "well-rounded" mediocrities who can do many things fairly well but lack the passion and drive to do any en thing supremely well. A puritan is too often a person who thinks he has to make a hell out of this world in order to enjoy heaven in the next. ... Those many among us who overestimate the good effects of education would do well to ponder the obser vation mad by Addison more than two centuries ago: "Learning, like travel ing and all ether methods of improvement, as it aug ments good inst, so it makes a silly man ten thou . Man - Out' Since the end of 1981 de Gaulle has refused any part in negotiations with the Rus sians. His hostility even to diplo matic "probing" on Berlin blew up into a crisis in the North Atlantic Council in December, 1961. It was settled only by a compromise arrangement that the United States and Great Britain would go on talking with the Russians and that France, though disapproving, would not veto the talks, but simply would take no part. De Gaulle has taken the same stand on disarmament and nuclear test ban negotia tions. He has boycotted, even ignored them. But he has not sought actively to block them. The stubborn old French leader never has gone for the "talk rather than war" argu ment. To begin with, he is firmly In the Day's News By FRANK In Washington the other day, a government press of ficial was being fried out in the pan by a congressional in vestigating committee be cause of a statement he is al leged to have made recently to the effect that the govern ment HAS A RIGHT TO LIE in order to defend itself. The incident had lo do with the situation that arose back in the grim days when we were telling the Russians to get their missiles out of Cuba OR ELSE. The "or else" is be lieved to have been an ultima tum to get the missiles out or face nuclear war. The press officer (his name is Sylvester) is supposed to have been asked by the re porters if the nuclear threat had been made. He is sup posed to have denied it. Ac cused later of having LIED, he is supposed to have stated that the government has an inherent right to save itself "when It is going into a nu clear war." HE told the investigating committee yesterday that the remark (to the effect that the government has a right to lie under certain grave circumstances) was taken out of context and was a "kind of shorthand." He said that on the one hand there is no right of the gov ernment or any of its mem bers to lie." But, on the other hand, he said, "I believe in times of extreme peril it is incumbent on the United States govern ment to save itself through the means necessary." S he right? t Or is he wrong? LET'S put it this way: Suppose our government, for reasons that it considers good and sufficient, Is plan ning an assault (of whatever kind) on an enemy. Suppose it is asked by the reporters what it has in mind to do. If it tells the truth, the whole truth, it will tip off the enemy. sand times more insuffer able, by supplying variety of matter to his impertin ence, and giving him an op portunity of abounding in absurdities." It takes a husband a long time to learn that it is use less to argue with a woman for if she is right, she will overwhelm you with facts, and if she is wrong, she will undermine you with feelings. For every evil that is perpetrated out of vice, a hundred ar committed out of boredom; most vicious ness is not so much an act of the will, as a lack of will, a restless uncreativ ity, a negative rather than a positive gesture toward the world. "As long as the American want to test thtir cars and thought we'd mak it look in Berlin Them convinced the Russians will not attack the West in Europe and thus provoke a nuclear showdown with the United States. He believes the periodie Berlin crises touched off by Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev are largely bluff. Hs believes Khrushchev is seek ing to threaten and scare the West out of Berlin but would not risk use of force. De Gaulle does not rule out East-West talks for good. He believes a time will come when the Russians will be ready for genuine negotia tions - without threats, bluff or duress - about their rela tions on a world-wide basis with the West. But that time may be a decade or more away, de Gaulle thinks. Meantime, he is unlikely is) put in an appearance at the East-West conference table. JENKINS Deception is a vital element in war. If the enemy can be deceived, he can often be de stroyed. The Battle of Hast ings is an outstanding ex ample of that fundamental fact of war. ALL through the long and historic day back in 1068, Duke William of Normandy had hammered at King Har old's line. The wall of Saxon shields was impenetrable. A Norman knight, Ivo Taillefer, made one of the spectaculaf passes of history. He rode up and down the Saxon line, tossing his sword and his lance into the air and catch ing them as they came down. Then he smashed into the lines of shields. He penetrat ed several ranks deep, but the Saxons closed around him and killed him. They closed the line before the Normans could breach it in force. rTHEN Duke William tried t stratagem. He called for the ancient trick of a feigned re treat. His men turned and rode down the hill in seem ing disorder. That did it. Harold's Saxons, believing the enemy beaten, BROKE RANKS and followed in wild pursuit. The disciplined Normans then turned around and DESTROYED THEM. That was the end of Saxon England. SUPPOSE King Harold had been tipped off that the retreat would be a feint. His ranks would then have been PREPARED. They would have stood fast. In that event, Duke Wil liam's attack would have been a failure, and England would have remained Saxon. Great events can hang on STRA TAGEMS. This is the point: If a lie is necessary to CONFUSE AN ENEMY, and thus save a nation from pos sible defeat, a government il justified even in lying to the reporters. Plane Passengers Stranded by Wind Portland - OJPD - Passengers aboard a Hawaii-bound Pan American jetliner were stranded for a couple of hours during Wednesday evening's windstorm here but they didn't seem to mind. Airline officials said the plane was unable to take off from the end of the runway because of gusty winds that also were too strong for the motorized unloading ramp. The passengers dined in lux ury aboard the plane. automobile manufacturers trucks on our roads, w like on ol their roadsl"