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4 A TUESDAY, APRIL t. 1113 MLDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON rriHiBrrTWHL. gdllor HEM lai mc bS ims JR.. 751 a iruiin rat CC . . .-...'Ml . u Tl rXIIM Echad S riV gr.. Id..., OLIVE ST At'.-HEB Women's Cdilo. Sue lJUC&SON, ciTcutotton Mir .- up.ml dm matter at Medrord. Oregon under Act of Marcn o. imj Entered Medio SUBSCRIPTION HATES By Hall In Advene. Dells end Sunday 1 rear 111 00 Daily and Sunday moa ltj.00 Dally and Sunday J moa. 5.00 Sunday Only On. year 13 JO Slnele Copy (Milled) SOe , Srhei And Motor stoule. Dally and Sunday 1 yaar HIM Dally and Sunday 1 mo. Sunday Only 1 mo. Carrier and VandoraCopy lo ffilcial Fapar ofctty 'el QHlelal Papa, at JaaHtan Cangg ' baited Press International Tull Uaaad Wire O. P 1 Telepbolo Neweplcturee VZMBER Of AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS ATM OMeaa In New York, CW caio. Detroit. San FranS. Loa AncalM. Seattle. Portland 3t 81 NIWirAMI rimiiHiii ASSOCIATION NATION At lOITORIAt AtttbCMTI I Memnar California Newipeper Publishers AaaocUUon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Cwjnty Hllfory from tha fllJ of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yaan ago. the one 10 YEAR AOO April . HIS (ThursaUy, "Fair to good" Irrigation water supplies were forecapt lor the state today. Most of the search effort for a Piper plane which has been mining since last Satur day was suspended today. 20 YEARS AGO April I. 14 (Friday) Jackson and Josephine county Irrigation prospects for coming year reported as excellent. From Arthur Perry's "Ye SmuriBP Pot" column: "Enthu siasm for Victory gardens is hiah. but there has been no pounding of fishing poles Into hoes in these parts." SO YEARS AGO Aorll I. 1133 (Saturday! Return of legal sale of beer to Increase sales of centra. Point cheese, Medford Kiwa- nlana told. "Parliamentarian" of Good Government Congress enters plea of guilty to ballot men charge. 40 YEARS AGO April 9, 1(23 (Sunday) City planning commission discusses architecture of fu ture city buildings. City commission to take over management of Medford water system May 1. SO YEARS AGO April 1. 1113 (Thursday) W. H. Mann, Medford, ap pointed to newly created state board of accountancy. Local woman applies for li cense to marry man who has been dead and burled lor three days; sanity hearing expected. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina ten cerraet li auparlai even ar eiaht it eicellcat; Has at III II food. 1. Police patrol wagons and prison vans are called Black ? 2. In the year 1066, the Nor man Conquest of what coun try occurred? 3. A printer's wastcbin. used for damaged type and metal scrap. Is called what'' 4. Born In Pennsylvania, painted in U.S. and England. built a submarine in Paris and built a steam warship for the U.S. government; name him. 5. What position did Her bert Hoover hold In President Harding's cabinet? 6. What profession would be dishonored by a petlfog. gcrv 7. In what country are play ing cards believed to have originated? 8. Do you connect the name Walter P. Rcuther with thr auto Industry, labor organira tion, or political action? 0. Was Sir Joshua Reynolds a famous writer, painter, or musician? The Woes of Budgeters These at e the times that try the souls of those who have the difficult responsibility of allocating public monies for public purposes. Congress is faced with a budget of some $100 billions, and it is engaged in a great debate, not only about the size of the budget, but also on pro posals to cut taxes at the same time. The state legislature, too, is in the middle of its struggle to provide enough money to keep services operating at a satisfactory level, bal ancing outgo with prospective income. It labors under an inhibitition not faced by Congress, in that the federal government may operate in the red, while the state Constitution requires the state to operate on a balanced budget. e e 'THE county, at this writing, is attempting to cut its. snenrlinf nattern to the cloth of pxnect- j 0 j . - j - ed income a task which is not made easier by the blackjack tactics of the library board, which threatened to cut seriously its services unless it gets the big increase it is asking for. And, within the next few weeks, the city coun cil and budget committee will start work on a similar task, endeavoring to keep taxes from go ing up too much, while at the same time coping with higher prices and demands for more services and functions. About the only taxing group which can now sigh a bit and look back on the completed strug gle is the Medford school district, which con vinced a majority of the voters that its budget was a sound one. IT IS, of course, time, as some members of legislature are crone to noint out. that no is lobbying very hard for increased taxes. This isn't the way it is done. What is done is that people lobby for and support increases in specific programs, and then leave to the budget-makers the task of deciding how much should go to which program, and where the money is coming from. This process works at all levels from con gress to city budget committee and is a con tinuing one. There are dozens of organizations, most of them of unexceptionable virtue and high motives, which seek increased appropriations for this or that purpose, without either the responsi bility or the authority to say how they are going to be paid for. IT IS perhaps the most difficult at the local In vol f.Hr -,, intir on A enYtrf rl i' c r or iv,t vi vivji vwuiivji nuu cjviivui utovi ivt where budgeters are, in effect, face to face both with those seeking new or expanded services, and also with voters and taxpayers who couldn't care less about such services, but who are mighty m- t.prpstprl in lcAervintr tavns rinum as far as nnssihlp I Most, hnrirrptmakpvs. thniio-h raiirrhr. in this HffimtH rlllemnto r. m.lrinr, maA I I sincerely hope mat we can uiisivvtiv vnivMinut va iiinniiiif. .i j witv uiau iiv ;,,, AA 1- A A 1 J 1 II. t' -AI 1 WW m un or w it l t nnv nr n mi out r ann fiiinoniannniia ni i ItAVVV, l T S 1 14 V lySIV, J U IIUULi'llJ VUHOVilVIIVlUUOIJ attempt to do a fair and equitable job. But the cards are stacked against them. About all they can do is forge ahead, doing the lob the wav thev think best tor thp aroeat number of their constituents, and let the chips fall where they may. In such a case, a threat from a beneficiary agency to cut EXISTING services unless an IN CREASED appropriation is forthcoming can well be ignored for what it is, namely, either a none-too-subtle attempt at political blackmail, or an unwitting confession of administrative mis calculations during the current fiscal year. E.A. For a Meeting of Minds MEMORANDUM: To: Senator Maurine Neuberger and Congress man Robert Duncan. Subject: Oregon Dunes National Seashore. Dear Maurine and Bob: Thank you each for the conies of vour bills. both of which call for the creation of an Oregon Dunes National Seashore. While similar, they call for somewhat different boundaries. We rejoice with you that you are so close to gether, with only minor differences separating the two measures. As you know, the Mail Tribune has been a staunch advocate of the Dunes pro osal, from the time it was first suggested, be cause it offers a fine opportunity for both rec reational development, and an economic boost to the state. MOW we are finally at a point where there is 4 legitimate reason to hope that a Dunes bill can be passed. Governor Hatfield is on record as favoring such a measure. So is the Kennedy ad ministration. Opposition from people in the area has dwindled to that of a small, dissident min ority. Rights of individuals are protected. We see only one danger to the approval of a Dunes Seashore. And that danger is that you two fine people may find it impossible to get together on a com promise which both of you can support wholeheartedly. "I Thought You Were Bringing The Matches" JaaaP ' 'J - -ea Foreign Aid Program in Deep Trouble Question of Cut Remains 'How Much?' Br STEWART HENSLEY United Press International Washington -HOT- President Kennedy's foreign sid pro gram hss barely begun Its per ilous course through Congress and already there are signs it is in deep trouble. Administration officials ac knowledge that Kennedy's $4. 5 billion request for the fis cal year beginning July 1 is going to be cut-the only ques tion is "how much? Ambassadors of countries receiving large amounts of aid are among those most anxious to get reliable assess ments. Neither State Depart ment officials nor friendly congressmen can give valid es timates at this time. Predictions of the probable cuts to be made by congres sional surgeons range from $500 million to $1 billion. The administration is un- ... Communications ... Letten to ills Editor must bear the nam and address of tha writer, although under certain circumstances iha us of a pan name or initial for publication is permissible, Tha Msll Tribune reserves iha right io adii all laiiers with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The leiiara printed in this column do not necessarily represent tits views of the paper; in fact tha contrary is often tha case. derstood to feel that snything below $4 billion will force elimination of vital programs and may imperil U. S. secur ity. The fact that Kennedy ap pears to many to be heading for a record peacetime deficit, coupled with his demand for income tax reductions, was bound to intensify the legis lative hunt for places to cut appropriations. As has often been said, the State Department's "constitu ents" can't vote in American elections. The foreign aid bill offers a more tempting target than U. S. rivers and harbors appropriations, for example. However, it would be un fair to attribute the major part of the problem to domes tic politics. Even some of the staunchest supporters of for eign aid in both parties be lieve there is waste and inef ficiency which should be eliminated. The President cut the $4.9 billion request in his original budget to $4.5 billion before sending the program to the hill. This apparently was in response to recommendations made by the Clay committee appointed by Kennedy. Some of the President's own aides question the wisdom of lower ing the request. They felt it was a mistake to reduce the base from which Congress would begin its surgery. Others felt the Clay report should have been confidential to avoid giving more ammu nition to aid opponents. The administration decided agains this on the valid grounds that speculation and "leaks" undoubtedly would give the impression the com mittee had taken a more crit ical stand than it actually did in its relatively mud report. The next error, in the view' of some observers, was in the' stand taken by Secretary of State Dean Rusk. He told the House Foreign Affairs Com mittee anyone advoca ting sharp cuts in the program was actually cooperating with "global Communist strategy." This spared understandable, resentment and Rusk's subse quent apology for his choice of words did little to pacify congressmen who felt they had been accused of aiding the enemy. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF Letter Appreciated To the Editor: Many friends and neighbors have expressed agreement with me on my re cent letter to Colonel Witzcn burger. I wondered if you would like to print his reply? Colleen Tokar 235 South Oakdale ave. Medford. The letter follows: Your most welcome letter was brought to my attention this morning and I am eager to inform you that your good wishes and kind thoughts are extremely gratifying to all of us here at Kingsley. It is rare indeed when some one takes the time to let us know that our work is being appreciated. Too few Ameri cans todsy are willing to con cede the necessity of sonic aircraft such as we have bused here, and it is difficult to con vince them that the noise and damage are inconveniences we must live with for the sake of protection. our flights over areas uch as Medford to an abso lute minimum in the future, but for the present time, it is a problem presenting no an swer. Our mission depends upon reaching our targets in the shortest possible amount of time, and often times pre sents us with no alternative but to fly directly over resi dential areas. I can assure you and all of the fine people of Medford that this increasing problem is under investiga tion and that all possible solu tions are being considered. Thank you again for your letter as it has come at a time when complaints seem to be the only thing worth writing. Tills is a proud command with an enviable record of excel lence, and it is most reassur ing to know that you are aware of our efforts and thankful for our protection. Edwin J. Witzenburger Colonel, USAF Commander Kingsley Air Force Base Klamath Falls, Ore. Big Club To the Editor: Read your editorials most every day, and agree in most of your can did comments. Recent editorials have had a vast subject, and a deep concern not only for the peo ple of Jackson county, but the entire state of Oregon. The subject that I refer to is, of course, pollution of our streams and atmosphere (smog, fog, smoke, haze, etc., etc.). Mr. E A., your pen repre sents a big club. Please use It fast, hard and more often. Earl Cox ROUta II. Box 358 Gold Hill. Ore. 117E DO not believe that the danger is great. " knowing both of you to be reasonable and intelligent people. Yet, when one is the author of a piece ofj'rom legislation, one takes a certain justifiable pride in it, and tends to look upon suggestions for 10 Taualoi is a Malayo-Pul- I'hailiri' with disfavor. I ease i n nut. pithpr nt will ynesian language spoken by j )ct your prjre f iiuthrshin stand ill the WUV numerous persons In what ,.i.;' .., ... , 1 J v nweeteeisj vm a Ji.l ill... iri.pui.iiui. llll'itMlll' which can receive the support of all concerned, and which can be passed soon. If you can and will do this, you will have the gratitude of those who have sought for such leg islation for so long. Sincerely. E.A. Please) To the Editor: Easter is here again and with it the annual "slaughter of the innocents" baby chicks, ducklings and bunnies. This is an earnest appeal against the giving of live baby animals to children. Statistics on this are pretty grim. Most Of these small creatures die Something To Think About To the Editor: Is the United States drifting toward a mili tary dictatorship? It is appar ent that the war economy and preparations for war are in creasing the power of the mili tary machine over tne eco nomic and political life of the country. In "The Community of Fear" Harrison Brown warned: "There is little doubt that the armed services exert more control over the Con gress than that body exerts over the Defense Department, Indeed, the military elite is clearly in a position to assume control over the political com mand of the U.S. striking forces if there are signs of weakness in U.S. foreign rela tions." Even ex - President Eisen hower, whp is in a position to know, is alarmed. In his fare well speech he said: "We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments indus try of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half mil lion men and women arc di rectly engaged in the detense establishments. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net in come of all United States corporations." Eisenhower warned that the power of the "Immense mili tary establishment and large arms industry" permeates all social life and involves the very structure of our society. He said we must guard against the unwarranted acquisition of power by the military-In dustrial complex; that the po tential for "the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." This is something for our "super - patriots" to think about. Lydia Burnham 814 Warne st. Prescott, Ariz. Minority Rule. Finithad To the Editor: I am a pre cinct committeewoman who attended Tuesday's Democrat ic Central committee meeting and voted with the group' and "protesting element'' com prising two-thirds of the mem bers in attendance. Cunning editing of the news story in Wednesday's Mail Tribune sought to give the impression that the "group" and "protesting element" con sisted of a few irresponsible dissenters. The fact remains, however, that a two-thirds ma jority of the members express ed their dissatisfaction with Duncan's and Mills' refusal to abide by majority rule. To me, the words "group" or "element" would apply more aptly to the one-third of the Democratic Central committee who have labored so hard to control Democratic party activities in Jackson county. Tuesday night's vote should convince them, and Mr. Dun can that minority rule is fin ished - at least in Jackson county. Mrs. Louise Norton, Phoenix, Ore. A Proven System tk Of Birth Control Hj By Arthur Hoppe mrm En Route to South America -The reason I am en route to South America is because I saw where Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy have separate bed rooms in their new Virginia weekend retreat. I think this will solve the population ex plosion. I'm not, heaven forbid, pry ing into our President's per sonal affairs. I only wish to salute him for helping popu larize the only proven-safe, easily understood, guaran-teed-effective method of Planned Parenthood. It's what we experts in the field refer to as Geographical Birth Con trol. Actually, up to now, it's been a matter of economics. The richer you get, the farther away from your wife you get. The poor, as you know, sleep in double beds. The middle class In twins. While the rich enjoy separate bedrooms, separate cabanas and separate vacations. This explains why we have so many poor people in the world. And so few rich. So hats off to Mr. and Mrs Kennedy. I say. For pointing the way through Geographical Birth Control For the population explo- children per household. More quoit players, you say? Per haps. But the prime factor is that opportunity has been withdrawn a good yard. Or, as Itourian speakers invari ably put it, "seizing oppor tunity requires get - up - and go" But to date the problem has been solved satisfactorily only by the rich. I doubt any more effective method will ever be devised than having to get up on a cold night, fum ble in the closet for one's bathrobe and slippers, stum ble down a drafty hall and knock three times on a closed door. Only to find she's off someplace on a separate va cation. The very thought quells the spirit of romance. And thus it is no surprise. The Idle Rich, as we call them, average a distinguished 1.2 children. (Excluding the Kennedys who are devoted to SO-mlle hike? ) A goal for its all to shoot at. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises, Inc. sion. let's face facts, boils , perhaps a few quoits thrown TYRANNY OF THE COMMONPLACE The other evening I heard a man arguing that a certain book should be suppressed be cause it con tained mate rial that could be "d a n g e r o u s" and "harmful" if it fell into the wrong hands. His attitude -so common and so wrong- Harrit headed - re minded me of what Jacques Maritain, the great Catholic scholar, had to say on the same subject: "If books wore judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?" In the 1,500 years since it was codified and made canon ical, the Bible has been used by innumerable sects and rul ers to justify (and indeed to exalt) the burning of witches, the torture of heretics, the practice of slavery, the ex termination of peoples, t h e subordination of women, the custom of polygamy, and scores of cruelties, barbarities and bigotries of the most odi ous nature. a. . . a Almost anybody can use almost any book for almost any purpoie. I hare been recenily going through a collection of Nieissche'i works. All moat p o p 1 know about him was that ha apostrophised tha "su perman" and that the Nasi movement seemed to lake much of iia philosophical impulses from Neitische's writings. But a careful reading of his work shows quite the contrary. Ha was violently anil-Gorman, and consider ed himself "good Euro pean." Some of his finest passages indici nationalism and war! he opposed anii Semiies as vulgar and brut ish. His "superman" was the diametrical opposite of Hit ler's "Blond Beast." And he aniicipated many of Freud's deepest insights into the ir rational character of preju dice and hate. Our own Founding Fathers provide a similar example. We can find in the speeches of Washington and Jefferson and Madison and Franklin enough to provide us with ammunition for nearly any cause. I could easily comDile selection of Jefferson that would make him sound like revolutionary Marxist: and selection of Franklin that would make him sound like I pacifist and a toadv to Kinc 1 So if the Government George, wishes to enter the field of To repress a book because! Birth Control, logic dictates it contains "dangerous" or it promote the only perfect "harmful" material would be! method. And let our battle cry then be. "Separate Bed rooms for the Poor!'' With REMINDER TO PEOPLE who always want to preserve the status quo (it comes from Bertrand Russell): "You never can keep things the way they are unless vou chanoo them!" Incidentally, a distinguished London Tory once had the tem erity to challenge a few of Lord Russell's pro nunciamentos. His lord ship, displeased, remark ed in a stage whisper, "There's a lot less to that fellow than meets the eye!" a a Into a restaurant walked imtrtnd husband had left her mil lions, and a handsome young man. The gifts the widow was showering on him proved more than the young man's longtime sweetheart could counter balance. Said sweetheart saw him enter the restaurant this particular evening. So did her companion who said, "What on earth can those two find to talk about?" The sweetheart bared her fangs and explained, "It's very simple. She's giving him a complete course in nouvean riche!" e "Bugs" Bier's most quoted line, I believe, is his one-sentence description of the continent of Europe: "the place where they name a street after you one day, and chase you down it the next O 1563. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kins Featurea Syndicate In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS News item: Our big neighbor California has 7.5 million automobiles. It is calculated that if they were all lined up bumper-to-bumper the line would reach around the world. As to that, we'll have to take the word of the statistici ans. There's a lot of water around the world, especially at the equatorial belt line, and one doubts if there is anyone willing to tackle the job of counting the cars that would be under water. But this no one who has driven in California will doubt: Lined up bumpcr-to-bump-er, the cars reach FROM ONE END OF THE FREEWAY TO THE OTHER. 10RE statistics: " California has 7,500.000 automobiles. California's population is roughly 17,500,000. That means that in Cali fornia there are 2.3 persons for each car. OREGON has about 1.000,000 automobiles. O r e g o n's population is roughly 1,800,000. That means that in Oregon there are slightly fewer than TWO persons per car. On a person-pcr-car basis, you see, we're about even Steven. MORE FIGURES: In 1961, the latest year for which the figures are available (in my files, at least) Oregon had just under a mil lion motor vehicles, divided as follows: Automobiles 868.617 Buses 1.486 Trucks and Trailers . 118,302 Motorcycles 8.097 IN 1961, he REGISTRA TION rvnn rama In total of $13,541,640. With; chauffeurs and drivers li'" censes added, the total corneal to S16.264.475 or about enough at modern construe' tion com to build 15 or 20 miles of modern highways pce year. But - ! The 1961 gasoline tax cams', to a total of $38,445,218. It'j easy to sec where the money to build our highways comes from, (Oregon, by the way, has a good claim to the glory of having invented the gaso line tax, thus making modern highways possible.) THAT'S enough figures for - one day. So let's turn to the news about people. UROM Naples, in Italy, comes this little tale: Ex-King Farouk of Egypt, in one of his rare public ap pearance these days, showed up at the singing debut of his girl friend, blonde Irma Capece Minutolo. The music was all classical. Farouk sat. in the front row, beaming and leading the applause. MfHO'S this Farouk? " Well, he came to the throne of Egypt at the age of 16. He was in England at the time, being educated. His father died, and he returned to his native country to be come king. His father came to the throne poor, but when: he died he left his son a for tune of $50 million. When Farouk abdicated, under pressure, a few year? later, he succeeded in taking the bulk of his inherited for tune with him and has lived the life of Riley ever since. This king business is a pretty good racket - if you can abdicate and take the bankroll with you. eezing or starvation j down a .fgaS of oppor- in. islands'' Answortt 1. Slick Marias. 1. Britain. 3. Hall box. 4. Rob art Fulion. I. Secretary of Commerce. I. Law (tricky or Sharp practicar). 7. China. I. All thraa. t. Painter. 10. Phil ippine Islands. squ due to neglect Please do not use them as gifts! If those receiving them will, at once, pass them on tunity. Statistics bear this out irrefutably. Tile poor, who sleep in dou ble beds, average a shocking 7.2 children per household. Now a few socioloc.sis hold to a farmer or to some place this due to the lack of out where they can be properly doorsv leisure-time activities. cared for. the sad result!, of I such as water polo and quoits this cruelty will be substan- lially reduced PLEASE! Ethel L. Marley Rogue Valley Manor Mediord. But the double bed's essential I for responsibility cannot be ig nored Take the middle class in its twin beds A far more admirable average of only 2 4 to extirpate 90 per cent of the world's great literature (or the greater a work of art is. the more universal, the more embracing, the more it Meanwhile, it is up to us i can be misused for every per- individuals. Join the Geo-1 verted cause graphical Birth Control The only book that cannot League today. Do your part ( be dangerous or harmful is to save the world by stamping ' the bland book, the mcaning out Togetherness. j less book, the insipid and So you can see why I'm off I characterless book that dis alone to South America. It courages thought, feeling and jut shows how far I'll go reaction. And it L such books great idea. And '.hvs is ! that proliferate when contro- unarguably a great idea At ! versial works are suppressed: last we have a method any- censorship, whether in Russia body can understand. Any body. I might caution, but your wife. i M li ACADEMY H AWARDS ' M or America, always leads to ; the tyranny of the common- j place. "I accept this award with reluctance for I sincerely believe the other nominees deserved il more. And if that's false modesty, may I be struck by lightning! 5
