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Newspaper Page Text4 A Eviryona in Southern Oregon i- Th. Mail Trihun" Published Dally xcejpt8aturdyy by 33 NorthTtPhnaCMl n T- I.T- ttt D I Till EHltftP HERB GREY Advertising Minjlil EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN TJiei axmur RICHARD JEWtri. P"" "'"I OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE EH.n;iiau. ycuMM"jg An Independent Newspaper Entered econd daw metier Medford Oreion under Act 01 March 3, 1897 SUBSCHlrTION RATES By Mall In Advance Dally and Sunday 1 year SIS Dally and Sunday moa 10 , Dallv and Sunday S moa t ' Sunday Only One year S3 Slnile Copy (Mailed) ! By Carrier And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year Ml - Daily and Sunday 1 mo. . r Sunday Only 1 mo. r- . .. . mnA VnHnr CODV Official Paper of City of Medfcrd OfflclalPeroackioi County United Prew international Full Leaied Wire U. P 1 Telephoto Nemplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Ai ts ui'iccv in i - T Angelw. 8ttl, Portia n Denver. NIWJFAMI rUILIIHItf ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOKIAl lASftpCMTIOiN J U U Member California Newspaper PubUi hen Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. Km 10 YEARS AGO March 29, 1953 (Sunday) Residents observe Palm Sunday. i Oliver McNeel, Eagle Point, named building Inspector In that community. 20 YEARS AGO ' March 29, 1943 (Monday) Meat purchases in the city are average, dealers report, as rationing starts; attributed to fact that customers stocked up over week end. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Praise the Lord! Poultry Is not ra tioned. It will enable the na tion to proceed with the cook ing of A. Hitler's goose, with out using up all Its red stamps In one fell swoop." 30 YEARS AGO March 29. 1933 (Wednesday) Evidence uncovered by state police, city police and district attorney's office shows that ballot robbery was plot ted seriously at meetings in the courthouse a few days . and hours before its commis sion. Five men Indicted for ballot-stealing plead guilty in circuit court. 40 YEARS AGO March 29. 1923 (Thursday) With Copco begging for workers and orchardisls busy, there is no excuse for begging on the streets, the chief of police says; citizens warned not to help professional in digents. Chamber of commerce votes to make Medford a con vention city. 50 YEARS AGO March 29. 1913 (Saturday) New Bybce bridge construc tion over Rogue river starts. Councilman's attorney says charges against client are "greatest outrage since the assassination of Lincoln;" the councilman Is accused of tak ing a drink in a rooming house. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or fen correct is silverier; seven or eight Is excellent! five or six is good. 1. What two countries arc concctcd by the Khybcr Pass? 2. Which Is higher in rank; an embassy, or a legation? 3. Has any President of the United Slates been married while In office, since 1900? 4. A figure of speech Is called a m ? 5. In what stale was the Battle of Gettysburg fought during the War Between the States? 6. What alcoholic mixed beverage has a name identical with that for a motorcycle al tachment? 7. Who wrote the poem be ginning "When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces . . . ' 1 8. During World War II there were news stories about Big Inch and Little Inch; what were they? 9. Which of these famous men was born first: Thomas A. Edison or Robert Fulton? 10. What currently-made American automobile is named for an Indian chief? Answers: 1. Afghanistan and Pakistan. 2. Embassy. 3. Yts (Woodrow Wilson's sec ond marriage). 4. Metaphor. 5. Pennsylvania. 9. Sidt car. 7. Swinburnt. 9. Pipe lints. 9. Fulton. 10. Pontile, FRIDAY, MARCH 29. 1963 Communications Problems The day hes arrived ing to postpone as long longer. It is the day when, nounce a new and slightly more restricted policy on "Communications." or letters to the editor. Ever since we have been in charge of this department, was have endeavored to print ALL letters to the editor, save only tor tnose wnicn were longer than our limitation of 400 words, and those which were in what we considered bad taste, or were libelous, or anonymous. DUT, within the past several months, the num- ber of Communciations has increased so markedly that we no longer have space for all the letters that arrive, plus the regular editorial page features. As this is written on the editorial desk is a fnlrW pnntainino- dfi I vpr fnrt.v-sivi communica tions submitted for publication. A number of them are Dy the same writers, wno nave sud mitted as many as four or five within the space of a week or two. Af tvmot vua non niihliali nnlv four nr fiv nr six on weekdays, and about a dozen on Sundays, Thus, the need for a new Communications policy. IT IS this: 1. We shall continue to print as many letters to the editor as space will allow. 2. Preference will short, legible, fresh, interesting and timely. 3, We shall endeavor to it that no one individual will be accorded more than a fair and proportionate amount of space in the Communications column, although this will in no way prevent "regular" letter-writ ers appearing, but no more than at intervals of about once a week at most. 4. We retain the right to shorten and con dense letters, both for clarity and for space rea sons. In some instances the writers for the same 5. We retain the right to reject letters lor the. reasons mentioned above, or for other rea sons we deem good and sufficient, without acknowledgment. THESE, then, are the new "ground rules" for lofrni'c olnnn- unfVi fViQ VDirnlatlnnc ;l"UfV. huva I lwlylili kJ) HlUllg TTlivll Vlls been in effect all along. Addtionally, we shall tei-s from our own readers to those from else where. We shall continue to permit letters to be signed with initials, pen-names or Name on X?r. " ki,f ,;il nnf n.iKlioV. lH-n.. ,mlora lira I iiC) uui wc win nut jjuuudu a ii;ttci uiiiv.00 vvt know the name AND address of its writer. All this, boiled down, cause of the volume of letters being received, we are being forced to exercise a tighter editorial control, and exercise a firmer editorial judgment, over the ones which are IT IS our firm conviction that the Communica . tions column is one of the best-read parts of the paper. It is our desire that it remain so. We hope to continue receiving a goodly sampling of public opinion of a wide variety of matters of interest. We hope that these few rules will not discourage Keep them short and But keep them coming! Can Johnny Use Logic? Why can't Johnny read? Why can't Johnny write? Why can't Johnny Have you heard of these complaints recently I Of course. But it might not be as bad as reported. The Seattle Annas recently ran a brain-twister which, it said, is a "sample logic problem not at all atypical one high school teacher recently handed her algebra class. IT GOES like this (and of the Mail Tribune are invited to try their hands at it as we sob ! did) : Five men, each of a different nationality, lives In a different colored house, drinks something different, smokes a different brand of cigarettes, owns a different animal. Here arc the clues: There are five houses In a row. The Englishman lives In the red house. The Spaniard has a dog. The person who lives In the green house drinks coffee, The Ukranian drinks tea. The green house is Just lo the right of the ivory house. The man who smokes Old Golds owns snails. Kools arc smoked in the yellow house. The man in the middle house drinks milk. The Norwegian live? in the first house. The Chesterfield smoker lives next lo the man with a fox. The man who smokes Kools lives next to the man who owns a horse. The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange Juice. The Japanese smokes Parliaments. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. The questions: Which man drinks water? Which man owns a zebra? "HE clues offered are sufficient for the solution ' of the problem. No tricks are involved. Wp SWPMlcrl nvnr it fur lnnirni' than wo oavt to confess, and also most solved it, but dinner intervened. After dinner wi slunvpd it tn a 17- year-old of our acquaintance. bhe solved it, correctly. Games, anyone? (The answer will be printed lere in a few days.) E.A. which we have been try as possible, out can no reluctantly, we must an fro to those which are (as in the past) to see they may be returned to purpose. 1 VUIUllUlii; It Mivtl nut v give preference to let- simply means that be printed. changes in the ground letter-writters. keep them interesting. E.A. think? readers, young and old, MLDFORD "It Does Take Away A Little From The Grandeur" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a Den name or initial for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of fr paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Rights of the People To the Editor: An editorial in the Grants Pass Courier of March 25 relative to the transfer of certain functions of the sheriff's office to the state police should be read and reread by all interested in personal rights and liber ties. If your voting rights are not taken from you directly, you are subtly deprived of the same indirectly. The sher iffs are elected by the people while the state police arc ap pointed. The same tendency is noted in the federal as well as the city, county and state governments. The U.S. Constitutional pro visions of powers not delegat ed to the federal government nor denied to it are reserved to the states respectively, also the provisions that no money should be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law, and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time, are both disregarded by Congress. They are both supposed to protect the rights of the tax payers from wasteful spend ing, also from a centralized dictatorial government. The utter disregard for the right of the people to economy in government is shown by the many brain storms in Wash ington as Alliance for Pro gress, Peace Corps, New Fron tier, foreign and farm aid, etc. Also the junkets of Con gressmen and their families and friends, also the acting as nursemaids to 95 countries of the world. Also interna tionalism in place of Amer icanism. All contribute to depriving the people of the right to a sound dollar by aiding in re ducing the purchasing power of thai dollar to 30 cents. What has happened to the assets accumulated 30 years or more ago? The rights of t tltc people to a stable dollar have been abrogated and the assets accumulated several years back have depreciated in accord with the deprecia tion of the dollar. One cure for the discrepan cies and failures of our Gov ernments to protect tile rights ot the people is for (lie peo ple to awaken to what is hap pening lo their rights and lib erties and pursuit of happi ness, and do something about the situation with a drastic remedy. They have the power to apply a suitable remedy and can apply the same if 1 do not think you want it, use they have the Intestine! forti-jthc freedoms you still cn ludc. I joy. Accept Jesus Christ and Ed Black 2573 Camp Joy rd Grants Pass, Ore. Auction T, Ihp ITHitnr success of the Crater Lions I God. redeemed souls who arc Club's vcrv successful Tele- Precious. Let us live that way vision Auction, recently pro-'and give thanks and glory to duced by the facilities of I that one who had redeemed Channel 5. approximately i us. Then also the other free $2.00(1 was raised for the doms which we enjoy in this club's Jackson Park Diving great country of ours will be Pool project. . more precious to us. We wish to take tins 00-j Albert I. Nickodomus portunity to thank oil who t70 Siskiyou Blvd. made purchases during this j Ashland. Ore. auction and the business firms which contributed lo this Ugly Knees project. Especially do we wish To the Editor: I am so tired to thank the Medford M:'il of looking at women's knees. Tribune for their cooperation in tile publication nf a full page listing the auction items. The success of this sale could not have been possible had it not been for the splen did cooperation of all con cerned. Wayne H. Safley. President Crater Lions Club Medford MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, On Using Freedoms To the Editor: Today I fin ished an article in "Look" magazine written by an Amer ican reporter who was per mitted to look around Cuba and ask frank questions of the people. To me this article carries a lot of thought for serious reflection. The author apparently is showing us the thoughts of the people who are staying , and living in Cuba. Previously I had read mostly from those who left Cuba because conditions were so intolerable. To me it was interesting to note that many of the peo ple are quite well satisfied with their present system of government. Really they don't care much about it, as long as they are being fed and taken care of; and many of the, people have as much to day as under the previous regime. Many of those who remain do not seem to mind too much that they are losing some of their freedom. Many of the children live away from home. Religious freedom is not dis cussed. Perhaps that made no difference to most Cubans, for Cuba had but few practicing Christians before the Revolu tion. Now what concerns me is, how many Americans would not be just as satisfied under a Communist system of gov ernment as they are in a dem ocratic form of government if their standard of living would remain the same? How many of our people appreciate and make use of the freedoms which we enjoy in our coun try? We have the privilege to vote for our own government officials, but if half the peo ple who arc eligible vote in an election that is regarded as very good. We have the freedom to attend the church of our choice and to worship according to the dictates of our own heart, but on an average Sunday only about 1 out of every 8 or 10 persons will attend a church service. And in Oregon the percent age is even worse. Many of our freedoms we arc ready to trade in for a subsidy or a handout from Washington, D C. What is hap pening here is not too much different from what is taking place in Cuba, except their handouts come from Moscow instead of Washington. Maybe we arc more ripe for Communism than we would like to admit. If you His teachings, which show us that material things arc not the most important part of life. Notice that He shows us I that we are not glorified ani riwf to the mills, but we are children of and would like to know when the people who started this , fashion are going to come to j their senses and put those hem- lines below the knees? 1 No. I'm not a religious fa natic or a little ole lady. It makes no difference how attractive the dress, with tho.-e ugly knees snowing it spoils the whole effect. Some women may have at- OREGON New 'Algerian-Type' War Threatened in Rhodesia; U.N. Committee Hears Leader BY BRUCE W. MUNN United Press International United Nations, N. Y.-OiPD-The Africans are talking of a new "A 1 g e r i a-type" war against British control of Southern Rhodesia. The 150,000 square-mile gold rich and fertile territory is part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland established by a 1953 act of the British Parliament. ' Britain contends that it is self-governing: London has authority solely for the terri tory's foreign policy. Rhodcsian nationalists ob ject to a Constitution promul gated in 1961 on grounds that it is a "white supremacy" document. Their supporters fn-r-pH throuirh last year's Washington Report By William (c) United Feature Syndicate END OF SERVILITY Washington - The moment of truth in which the United States must decide once and "! for all wheth- ' ; " 1 4 er cling f ri & 3 to the absurd - . .-.V.5 linn that thoro should be "no strings!' any where on American for eign aid has been long de 1 a y e d. But whiu though common-sense in this field com monly runs a Perils-of-Pauline race with arrant nonsense, two current developments give some hope that the show down cannot much longer be put aside. One of these Is a calm, clear-minded and adult series of recommendations to the president for putting complete rationality into the aid pro gram. These have just been issued by a distinguished and nonpolitical commission of re view headed by Gen. Lucius Clay. Among the great con tributions of this hero of the Berlin Blockade is a firm warning that we must not con tinue to extend aid "which is inconsistent with our beliefs, democratic tradition and knowledge of economic organ ization and consequences." WHILE this document was still being digested, the United States government agreed to give some $400 mil lion in asistance, in the form of 40-year loans paying 3A of one per cent interest, to Bra zil. This is the country which persistently refused to join the United States in any real effort to isolate Castro Cuba. This is a country which in the very process of the loan negotiations was denounced by the state department itself as having been Infiltrated by communists in official posi- tractive legs but they all have ugly knees. I believe if more women could see what a person no tices, sitting in a parked car (all women like to see what other women are wearing) they would rush home and lower those hemlines. Mrs. Delbert Casey Route 1, Box 358 Central Point, Ore. Loyalty To the Editor: There is quite a hassle over the milk situa tion, in the local stores. It's a sad day for our valley that this should happen, but I firm ly believe that all this pro testing is in vain. There is very little loyalty left in this area. I am a partner in a local distributing company that has felt the squeeze of the co-ops. We have been in business since 1949 and were the first and only local company to bring our type of service to this area. We enjoyed a good business at a fair profit until United Grocers came to the area. They recruited their stores, then told them: "You are now members of United Grocers and your competition is chain stores, non-member stores, and other distributors." Yesterday we were our cus- ! turners' friend, today we are : their competitors. Does that j make sense? The same can be j said about our local dairies, ! about good solid citizens that j have been the back-bone of i the community before tax . free co-ops were ever thought jof. I Has United Grocers helped their members in the fight I against chain stores? A local i chain store is doing one of the i largest volumes in the state of i Oregon and is building anoth i er store in Medford and one j in Ashland. They have a new ' store in Grants Pass. Some people make their living working for local mer j chants, but do all their trad i ing at chain stores. Farmers i will sell their' milk to local dairies, yet trade at the chain ( food stores. Loyalty is almost a thing of the past. ! Wi s Driskcil, i 1H9 Clover Lane, Medford. eaiia U. N. assembly a resolution calling for a new document guaranteeing the "one man, one vote" principle. Only Portugal and South Africa voted no in the 81-2 ballot. Britain refused to participate. Current lion of the Afro Asian group, which includes an even half of the 110 U. N. members, Is a stocky Rhodes ian named Joshua Nkomo, who wears a tribal headdress of leopard skin and feathers as he talks with diplomats in the delegates' lounge. Nkomo is head of the out lawed Zimbabwe African Peo ple's Union (ZAPU), Southern Rhodesia's chief nationalist party. He came here to testify be fore the assemby's 24-nation committee on colonialism, a S. White tion. This is' a country which on the very day the aid was extended refused to put a fed eral ban on a communist, pro Castro "conference" to open in Rio de Janeiro for a week long contrived spasm of "hate America" demonstrations. Here was the Clay commis sion earnestly admonishing against allowing American generosity to repeal Ameri can self-interest. And here was Brazil coolly insulting its American benefactor at the hour of its benefaction. No two episodes in all the history of foreign aid have more clearly illustrated the long di lemma for the United States. ONLY those who have not thought it all through really believe we should de mand total submission, every day and on everything, from the recipients of our assist ance. For foreign aid, to the degree that it stabilizes con ditions and avoids chaos which sometimes is followed by com munist take-over, is, indeed, in American interests. But if it is not necessary for us to be liked, it is absolutely necessary for us to be respect ed. And only the incurably naive believe we should con sistently subsidize govern ments which consistently take up positions contrary to those American interests. Such people, however, do exist in the United States-as General Clay learned in the shrill winds of criticism now blowing from the American left because he dared to raise the slightest question of those one-way aid policies in which we are graciously permitted to pay for the privilege of being abused and obstructed. CJTILL, the fact is that the Brazilian loan and this predictable tumult against Clay from the old ladies of the left are more likely to be con structive than otherwise in the end. For reasonable people -and this definitely includes a great majority of both par ties in congress - are simply not going to stand much long er for this sort of thing. This sort of thing will has ten the day when public opin ion will force one of two great decisions: either a cleansing of foreign aid of servile un willingness to make any de mand whatever upon its re cipients: or the destruction of foreign aid Itself. If the Clay commission recommendations are ulti mately ignored, it will be for eign aid itself which will fall. But because foreign aid - ra tional foreign aid, that is- simply must not fall, the ad ministration at last must rid itself of this servility. And the hero of Berlin will once again have served all the West even though the old ladies of the left-whose vehemently un. critical "support" of even the most indefensible forms of foreign aid is the program's worst enemy - will shriek against him to the end. "We've seen the regular what they couldn't show group that looked like a ple-in-the-aky creation when the world parliament created it, with a strong push by Russia, two yean ago. The committee welcomed Nkomo with open arms, rhetorically speaking - as one often does here. I Nkomo denounced British policy, called for reforms and from a distance of 3,000 miles Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris le Field Entcrpritcs, Inc. WHY SAMMY RUNS "Why does he want more money?" said my friend at lunch, about a third man we both know. "He's got far more than he n e e d f , and he'll just kill himself try ing to double his fortune." This is f com monplace en ough s 1 1 u av ium' tion. And, of course, it is obvious to any one that money itself is not what the man wants: it is the "game," the "thrill," the grat ification of "winning" that makes Sammy keep running long after he has any need to. What I think Is less under stood, however, Is that a chase of this sort is essentially a substitute experience. And a substitute is always some thing that we can never have enough of. The man it really looking for self-esteem, and he seeks to find it by winning the esteem oi ethers. In other society, the fattest and surest way to do this is by amassing a great deal ef money. So the money be comes a substitute, a sym bol, for iht esteem. But in the deep chem istry of the psyche, things do not work out this way. Getting the esteem of others does not give us self-esteem! worthiness comet from the inside, never from the out side. This it why a substi tute experience always leaves us hungry for more. Money It only one ox ample. Sex, of courte. it another. The man who chases women (like the one who chasei money) can never have enough, can never be satisfied, can never teitle down to one possession. The compulsive Lothario it perpetually at unsellable as the compul sive driver in the market place. For the same motives oper ate in this area. When sex be comes a substitute for love, it can never be gratified, but must go on from dizzying tri umph to dizzying triumph (and each triumph ends in a kind of' internal exhaustion and defeat, convalescence and continuation). The libertine can never find what he thinks he is looking for, any more than the acquisitive man can ever have "enough" money. Our genuine needs are self confidence, self-esteem, self- sacrifice. These can be achieved only by giving, not by getting. When something in the psyche blocks us from expressing and gratifying these genuine needs, we turn to substitute ones. But no liquid can quench our thirst except water Itself. Not only can the substitute not satisfy us; it also con tains its own law of diminish. Ing returns like the dope ad dict who needs more and more of a "shot" in order to maintain the same level of euphoria. Finally, he needs massive doses simply to keep alive, to keep reality at arm's length. Sammy runs because if he ever stopped, he would drop dead at the mere con frontation of his real needs. Whit House tour. Left tea us on TV1" issued a 48-hour ultimatum to imperturbable R. A. Butler,' Britain's deputy cabinet chief who It seeking in London a way out of the Rhodesian puzzle. Southern Rhodesia, he said at the height of his peroration, is "moving fast toward an Algeria-type situation." The reference to the eight- year war that drained France and cost thousand ot African and French lives in the strug gle for Algeria's independence was intended as the ultimate horrific inducement for anti colonialist support. The committee members, unreluctant to take a crack at Britain, stood with Nkomo, Even the United states joined in. with Ambassador Sidney R. Yates observing that "the turn of the political wheel has given the reins of government to a party which seemingly favors maintaining the great est extent possible existing social and political relation ships." Yates warned Britain against granting Independence to Southern Rhodesia until there is a more satisfactory situation. In the Day's News y FRANK JINKINS From Washington: Secretary of Defense Rob ert S. McNamara has told senators he believes ONLY HARM can come from their stormy investigation of the TFX warplane contract award. He added: "There is a lot of harm that will accrue from this investi gation. I can not see ANY good that will accrue from it.' IF YOU are an average, every-day citizen, not too familiar with the technical ities of politics and legisla tion, you may wonder what this TFX business is all about. Let's see if we can offer a little clarification. TFX is one of these fancy alphabet terms that Washing ton is so fond of. It means TACTICAL FIGHTER, EX PERIMENTAL. This TFX is a fighter plane so designed as to be usable by both Air force and Navy. , The idea back of it is that such a plane would have an immense amount of money and if properly designed and built would be just as effect ive as SPECIAL planes built for each service. It's obviously a good idea if such a . plane can be pro duced. J Proposals to design and build such a plane were in vited. Two proposals were re ceived. One was from the General Dynamics Corp., of Fort Worthi Texas. The other was from the Boeing Co., ot Seattle. After exhaustive investiga tion, the job was awarded to the General Dynamics Corp. THAT'S where the ruckus started. It is a $6.5 BILLION job. That's a lot of mony. It rep resents an IMMENSE indust rial development. THE General Dynamics plant at which the planes will be built is located at Fort Worth, Texas. The Boeing Co. has plants at Seattle and at Wichita, Kansas. Boeing had announced that if it won the contract it would build the planes at its Wichita plant. Presumably, Its Seattle plant would have benefited mater ially by the making of parts, and otherwise. Naturally, Texas was acute ly interested in getting an in dustrial development of such magnitude. So ... in the ac cepted American manner , . it called on Its delegations in Washington to give their ut most to get the $6.5 billion Job for their state. Both Washington and Kan sas were equally interested in getting the job for their states. So the Washington and Kansas delegations in congress came into the battle in a big way. rWAS an epochal fight. Defense Secretary Mc Namara was the umpire. He ruled for Texas and the General Dynamics Corp. AS EVERY base b a 1 1 tan knows, the umpire has a tough job. Secretary McNamara has a tough job. He is quoted as having said to the chairman of the senate sub-committee that held the final hearing and made the final decision: "Last night when I got home at midnight, after pre paring for today's hearing, my wife told me that my own 12-year-old son had asked her how long It would take for his father to prove his hon esty." SO THERE'S the story of this TFX ruckus that has been filling the nanir And clogging the air waves tor all these weeks. It's quite a story, isn't it?