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MemDer California Newipaper PubUihera AwoclaUon Flight o' Time Medfo'd and JKkson County History from the (Ilea of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 vaari aflo. 10 YEARS AGO April 23. 1S8S (Thunder) riuorldatlon of drinking water received wholehearted backing here lait night from Dr. David N. Witter, Portland, director of the dental health of the State Board of Health. Closing sessions of the 19SJ Oregon Congress of Pa"'8 and Teachers were held in Msdford today, and many of the more than 900 delegates and visitors who attended were to leave this afternoon. 20 YEARS AGO April 23, 1143 (rrlday) sim Vailev man fined $2S and costs and forfeits gasoline ration book lor irainc v.u c'rm Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Now is the time to piani roaauna while the Chinese pneasonw and crows are no. iswuua,. 30 YEARS AGO April 23. 1333 (Saturday) Four hundred Jackson county men expected to ob tain relief Jobs In Crater Lake National park during sum mer. State police report many southern Oregon motorists still are using 1932 license plates. 40 YEARS AGO April 23. 1123 (Sunday) Klamath Indians warned they must give up liquor or forfeit payments from gov ernment. Thieves ransack Medford High school building; reward offered. 50 YEARS AGO April 23, 1113 (Tuesday) Jackson County Sheriff August D. Slnglcr dies in gun fight with Lester Jones, 19-year-old desperado; Jones also killed; William Slnglcr ap pointed to succeed his broth er. Martin L. Eriekson, super visor of Crater Lake National forest, kills large bear with .38 caliber revolver. What's Your I.Q.7 Ni. at tea cartett It ueaitw; earn at eifM la eacallmt; Hve ftls l feed. 1. John Wesley was the founder of what religious de nomination? 2. A name assumed by an author aa pen name is known as what? 3. In British legend, what King was the son of Uthcr? 4. In the nursery rhyme who would a-wooing-go? 5. In what war did John Paul Jonea gain fame? t. Are live lobsters red or greenish-brown in color? 7. An aigrette is a plume of feathera from what bird? t. "The People versus Fred eric Manlon" is the central theme of what popular mod ern novel? t. la the Republic of Chile on the weat or the east coast of South America? 10. How msny red stripes has the American Flag? Answers: 1. Methodist! 2. Mem 4 plumei 3. Arthuri 4. A froft 8. Ravelutienary Win 8. Qreish-erewn: T. Egret: 8. Robert Tre-era' "Anatomy of a Murder", t. Weatt 10. Seven. IikS PUSUIHIM I?-AIoeiTIOH NATIONAL I0ITOIIAI 3Ellayc6Ty TUESDAY. APRIL 23. 1M3 Highway Hornets' Nest Over on the Oregon coast, a lot of people are mad at the Oregon State Highway Commis sion for not devoting a larger share of highway construction funds to the coastal area. (They're trying to force a bond issue through the legisla ture to provide additional highway funds for them.) The people along Highway 42, which runs between Roseburg and the coast, and particularly those along the western end, are mad at the com mission for lack of funds for that route. Up in Lake Oswego, a lot of people are mad at the commission for planning a freeway through the community. The city council recently passed a unanimous remonstrance. IN PORTLAND, a lot of people are mad at the commission because of its decision to run a freeway along the foothills route. Their peeve is that the commission should have chosen a route that they favored. In Medford, some people are still rankled by the fact that the freeway runs smack through town, instead of by-passing it, as it does all other communities. These are samples sures and tensions with must deal. Spending, as they do, millions of dol lars of tax money, and making decisions, as they must, which affect the lives and property of thou sands of citizens, the commission is "fair game" to anyone with a gripe. A SOMEWHAT similar hornets' nest is now buzzing in Jacksonville. This is a case where the commission is going to be soundly damned no matter what it decides to do. This is the situation: Highway 238 runs right through Jacksonville up f ifth street to California, and west on Can fornia to the canyon which takes it on up the hill toward the Applegate area. A large timber sale in the Applegate poses the probability that log irucKS in large numoeis win ue using me highway this summer. The thought of dozens of big, loaded trucks roaring through the middle of town at the height of the tourist season caused considerable alarm among a number of residents. THEY appealed to the highway commission, which was responsive to the problem. A rush job of surveying was done, and the engineers picked a route along the south side of Jackson creek as the most feasible. At a public hearing route, considerable opposition was made known. 1 his came from people threatened the integrity ana municipally ot the lhe town is sadly divided, and tempera and emotions are at a peak. Even the city council is not all of one mind. And outstanding figures throughout the United in historic and architectural preservation and restoration became concerned. THUS the commission is, once again, on a spot. If it responds with immediate construction along the proposed route to avoid the log track problem, it will upset those who have a genuine and deep concern about the future of the city. If it says, in effect, "a pox on both your houses," it will succeed in alienating both sec tors of opinion. If it delays, and attempts to find a way ac ceptable to both sides in the controversy, includ ing perhaps an alternate route perhaps on the north bank of Jackson creek, (still inside the city limits) or, even better, through a gap in the hills north of the cemetery it is laying itself open to criticism, and perhaps additional costs. "THIS, then, is the three fnmmiseinn T anas A nri it chooses, it will be criticized. But of the three choices, the first, in the stu died opinion of many people who should know, could do irreparable harm to the city. The second is no solution at all. The third, while it may involve more prob lems and more talk, more delay and more bicker ing, is the only one which will take into consider ation all the factors In this situation. 117H AT, after all, is the tearing hurry? Surely, no one wants logging trucks rumb ling through Jacksonville's main street. But there are other possible solutions to this including . . . . . . . . the construction of a temporary log-truck-only bv-pass road, of inexpensive desimi. which later could either be eliminated, or, if the decision is made, become the right of way for the future highway. And, as has been pointed out by many far wiser in the ways of history, historic preserva tion, and community well-being than either the highway commission or, local people, once a town A tlllll- :llli 111' 1UMV l ... . a vjv., Oncir-rnvtlc u' i . i . ii KLOON b highway commission might Well learn a lesson from California, where the commission and its engineers have come into rJ. most universal contempt, for their utter disregard of SCeniC, historical and COnWlUnity factors in ramming freeways through where the engineers say they should go without the advice and guid ance of architects, historians or city planners. The Oregon commission, God wot, has prob - lems enough at the present. 1 II ,j i . .. If it gains an added reputation as a city spoil - er, and a rammer-through of plans which have not received the fullest Bttldy, it will be laving up a king-sized supply of future hornets nests. 8W. of the passions and pres which the commission called to discuss the who felt that this route historically, scenically, little community. States who are interested - pronged problem the nn mattoi wViipVi pnlll'SA for that matter most is chopped in two by u i nut in mm nn "Oh, Boy We're In The Cler!" ... Communications ... Letters to lhe Editor must bear the nam and address of lhe writer, although under certain circumstances the uia of a pan name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to adit 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 the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Economic Forces To the Editor: My response to the front page story of the speech by Dr. Richard H Byrnes of Southern Oregon college, delivered at the Med ford Public Library recently. in which the "more learned" protagonist than I, stated, 'The struggle today is not really centered on missiles, space flights, and Polaris sub marines ... the struggle to day is a struggle of ideas, a struggle of books, if you will, a grim, determined, ideologi cal war to gain possession of men's minds." This we were told before; this I used to believe, but this assertion now I dispute. It Is at this time, not a mili tary struggle of military forces and powers, though these have influence as threat and creation of fear; but it is an economic struggle because who, pray tell, determines who shall read what books, stories, poems, articles, listens to what radio announcers, and watches what television shows, and hear even what speeches, all by what master minds (those of higher than average ability and under standing)? Please make no mistake, it is owners and con trollers of those mass media of communication (and offi cials who permit public gath erings as in the above report ed instance) who are indeed those same capitalists under ttack by the communists and socialists, or in sympathy with them. Thank you for this oppor tunity of contributing to your column again, and for the privilege of meeting you as I sit in your office at this moment and write this. Ralph D. McKinnis P. O. Box 321 Ashland, Ore. Annual Meeting To the Editor: The Jackson County TB and Health asso ciation will hold Its annual meeting and no-host dinner in the Pioneer Room of the Jack son House on Friday, April 28, at 7 p.m. The program for the evening will be a panel discussion of the TB victim and his problems. Mrs. A. J. Kanclicr. super visor of Jackson county pub lic health nurses, will discuss case finding; Mrs. Elizabeth Wilder, social service worker at the State TB hospital, will discuss the hospitalization and social problems of the TB pa tient; Miss Beverly A r m- !fron: uJ!TnS0f co!lct': lions for the State Board of control, will discuss the ti- nancial responsibility of the patient and his family for his care; David Kuhns, adminis trator of Jackson County Pub lic Welfare commission, will discuss assistance given the family of a TB patient, if need be; and Donald Hansen, re habilitation counselor. State Division of Vocational Rehii filiation, win discuss retrain- ' '" !""."- I Robert Dames. Medford altor- ney. will moderate the panel. j A question and answer period i wU1 follow, jtmSSSjf'A Lay have dinner wit?! us. a cup of coffee or simply come 10 hcr interesting and SXoTrM Z : its problems for the patient f"nd hi family, Reeervatioiu tor the dinner may be made by calling Hen- ! rv Bver, chef at the Jackson House, at T734JU. Chester Irish. President Sffi "nd Medford MLDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE. Why? To the Editor: In your paper of Thursday, April 18 1063, I found the following small article at the bottom of the second column on page 6A: "Before discarding men's or children's socks, cut off and save a top of each color." Why? Dan Hays, Southern Oregon College, Ashland, Ore. Editor's note: The story would have made consider ably more sense if all of it had been used, instead of just the first paragraph, which was dropped in by mistake to fill a "hole" at the bottom of the column. The rest of it went on to explain that moth ers who buy socks for their children in quantity can ob tain a supply of the right color darning yarn by saving the tops of worn out socks. Propaganda To the Editor: Re "U.N. Re port" - or Dr. Ross's Dog Food: Shrieks fly when someone challenges the press! A press purported honest, fair, and free (At least that's what most papers claim to be.') But let me tell you, 'ere I more digress, About this claim of "freedom of the press": "U.N. Reports Kalanga"- that, I'd see! "Tshombe Attacks U. N. "- turned out to be! 'Twas naught but dog food handing out a mess! Who sponsored it? You guessed it! Someone crude, Who hands out propaganda in a tube." My dog's uncanny! -smells things with his nose And shuns decay-ev'n that buried 'neath some rose! The old, stale cry of "Red" should not distress The world's United Nations OR our press! The last Friday and Sun day editions of the Medford Mail Tribune listed in its "Sunday Television Pro grams" column for 7 p.m.: "UN's Katanga Report." It turned out to be an anti-U.N. pro-Tshombe propaganda film, one-sidedly lopsided, sponsor ed by a dog food company Dr. Rosss Dog Food was announced as the sponsor of this propaganda film, which was anything but "news re porting" of a faintly "objec tive" character. K. Osthimer 3761 South Pacific Highway. Medford Ferocious Battle To the Editor: No battle is br ferocious as the social one waged eternally to ward off the encroachment of a "new comer's" ideas. To Name on file, "Rx for a Chronic Condi tion." M.T. April 18, this sit uation appears much like a local static state engendering "impoverishment of spirit." This state is the effect of a misunderstood and misdirect- cd law of survival - it is a complex operation, and it is universal. Not only does the instinct for self-preservation operate III the objective world but it also extends itself into man's mental concepts and ideals. Since the structure of a cul ture or group rests on the foundation of its particular ideas and ideals, these must be relentlessly and unending ly wooed, nourished, and sus taincd by any measure what-! town, ficase aon t give us the , n cmjnent college de ever. additional problems of ddea it it waaUnf Ha time in The fact that in order to noisy, dangerous speedway lrainmg nurs wno will dis. . keep what is ours " we must j dividing our town. penal paper clips, it is time be prepared to accept change ; Warren D and Joyce for hospitals to take a hard aa inevitable and unavoidable, h smith. ,,) cndid look at the arayl is a painful paradox we rigid- 981 Hunter Lane. they handle patients, or mis- ly refuse to recogniie or con- Jacksonville, Ore handle them. MEDFORD. OREGON NATO Force Future Will Retain Aircraft By K. C. THALER United Press IntsrnaUonal London - 0OT - Britain will remain an aircraft carrier is land for many more years to come, with an imminent new American air strike buildup this side of the Atlantic. New and more up-to-date U.S. planes equipped with nu clear weapons are to be flown to bases in the British Isles over the next few months. The developments belie earlier suggestions that the United States was planning to pull down its bases in this country. This impression of a fade out has been strengthened lately by U.S. plans to with draw Thor long - range mis siles from Europe, including Britain, as Polaris - carrying nuclear submarines come into operation on a growing scale. American atomic strike fighters will play an impor tant part in this new U.S. sider. We feel (often errone ously so) that any alteration of the established structure must constitute vanquishment to the culture, and therefore, to the self. And so - we fear, resist, reject. If she is socially inclined. Name on file should enter so cial circles and gently but firmly express her ideas. Also she should be open to weight and consideration of customs and ideas which may be new and different to her - ever mindful, however, that no bat tle is as ferocious as the so cial one waged eternally to ward off the encroachment of a "newcomer's" ideas. Thelma Carson Star Route Box 60 Prospect, Ore. Rout Proteiied To the Editor: The follow ing letter has been sent to the State Highway Commission: Gentlemen: As resident property owners in Jackson ville, we wish to protest your plans to relocate Highway 238 through our city. We feel the route you have chosen is the very worst pos sible. The only advantage we can see is that you are run ning the highway in a direct line from one side of the city through to the other. This is an advantage only to you in making it easy to straighten the road. For the people of Jackson ville you arc accomplishing several disadvantages: 1. You are removing at least 13 tax and sewer levy paying properties. (One of your mem bers stated in today's Medford Mail Tribune it would cause the removal of two small res idences. How strange that a 00-fool right of way can go several blocks through a densely populated residential area and remove "only two small houses"). 2. You are creating a straightaway through town which will be impossible to patrol adequately. Drivers will be tempted to speed, cre ating a much more dangerous situation than we presently have. At least all vehicles are now forced to go very slowly as they negotiate the sharp turn in the center of town. 3. You are putting a mod ern, divided highway directly through a historic community, one of the oldest settlements on the west coast, with an ex cellent potential for restora tion. You wish to saddle us with heavy, high-speed traf fic, with the noises and dan ger that go with it. Is this the proper atmosphere for a pioneer town? We join those who have asked you to route the high way around Jacksonville. This is in line with your usual pol icy of skirting populated areas whenever possible. Such a route has already been sug gested to you, to leave the present highway at the north east corner of the city across open fields north of the ceme tery to rejoin the highway west of Jacksonville. Your member also stated in the Tribune that the people of Jacksonville asked you to re route the highway through j their city. It would be inter- eating indeed to discover Who these people arc. and their motives in Ojantlng their city divided and despoiled. Nevertheless, we ask you to reconsider your decision in this case, and leave us only the normally difficult prob lems 01 restoring a historical move. Current assessments in London are that by Oct. 1 de pleted American bases will be back to their former strength, probably even with their striking power increas ed. The fighters will, at least partly, take over from the long range B-47 strategic bombers which are to be gradually withdrawn. Supersonic fighter bomoers with operational ranges of more than 1,000 miles are held less vulnerable than the B-47 s apart from serving additional purposes. The program for the build up in Britain includes a new operational control and com mand center and other long term arrangements which are seen as an indication of plan ning for a long stay in Britain. Whether some of this new air strength will eventually be added to the projected in ter - allied nuclear force now in the state of preparation re mains to be seen. The United States and Britain are speeding arrange ments for the inter - allied force which, as a start, will include the British V-bomber nuclear force, three Ameri can Polaris submarines, and tactical air forces of NATO Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris 'c- Field Enterprises, Inc. NURSES' JOBS As expected, and predicted, the loud cries of protest are rolling in from lhe nursing p r o f e ssion about my re cent piece on the changing (and diminish ing) role of nurses in mod flj e r n hospital i n .H,,r.. JMany of these rritnete- hmir. Hrn ever, are from "official" nurses - that is, of ficers and administrators in nursing associations who have a vested interest in defending such practices. More typical of the working nurse's reac tion is an interesting letter I received today: "I am a registered nurse in on of Chicago's largest leaching and research hos pitals and I spend my day making assignments for personnel, answering the telephone, checking doc tors' orders, filling out requisitions, pushing pills, checking diet cards, making out reports, and lake care of financial affairs and re pairs. "If most of these func tions are nursing, then nursing certainly has chang ed. A great length of time has not elapsed since my student days and I assure you I did my share of com plaining about the work ex pected of me, but at least I was doing nursing. Why do I continue with my Job? Believe me. the question pragues ma more every day." In the same mail there arrived a letter from the president of one of the most respected colleges In the middle-west, who said in part: "I fully concur in your observation that hospitals are organised and operated on schedules established to suit the convenience of the nurses and lhe doctors, rather than to serve the needs of patients. It re quires great effort on my part to resist quoting chap tar and vers by way of sub stantiation." Then he goes on to say: "As for the matter of nurses" training. I can report that our college no longer partici pates in a program of train ing nurses. One of the major factors in our decision to abandon this program is to be found in the fact that in actual practice, nurses do not have an opportunity to uti lize the demanding education which is forced upon them by nursing association, physici ans, etc." What he is saying, in his tactful academic prose, is that I the college would provide the nurses with, a comprehensive training, and then find that they were doing mostly detail and administrative work that has little, if any, connection with the patients' medical welfare - which is left mostly to the over-worked and under- nairl nurtac' liHna K.-v -A mm arc in Doubt; Britain Carrier Role i allies. There is still doubt whether the two French air squadrons, recently equipped with American nuclear weap ons, will be allowed by Gen eral de Gaulle to join the inter-allied force. But there is speculation in European diplomatic quarters that some of the American strike forces may sooner or later also be linked within the inter-allied force. European interest has been turning lately to the inter-allied nuclear force concept, as expectations of an early emer gence of the American-proposed multila'.eral force of Po laris - arrned, mixed manned surface vessels fade. The NATO allies who show Matter of Fact (O Nw York Herald CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSEH Vienna - The noises creep ing out of the Communist bloc are getting curiouser and curi- ouser, as it was so well put in "Alice." The lou d e 9 1 and most per sistent of these noises sug gests that the years of Ni kita S. Khru s h c h ev's su p r e m acy in AJinp the Soviet Union are drawing to a close. The French press has just published a rather confident prediction that Khrushchev will yield his place as head of the Soviet government to Frol Kozlov, when the Central Committee meets in Moscow in a few weeks' time. These stories by able French reporters reflect a near-spate of hints, insiders' tips, and direct warnings that Western European intelligence services have lately been getting, from European satellite sources, from talkative members of the Italian and other Western Communist partie?, and even from sources in Moscow itself. The hints and tips take many forms, as is natural. But the majority suggest that Khrushchev will retain the more important of his two offices, his place as First Sec retary of the Communist Party, while handing over control of the administrative apparatus to Kozlev. JN PARALLEL, so to say, is another near-spate of more firmly based reports from the Far East. The Chinese Com munists first denounced Khru shchev by name at party meet ings, including meetings at very low levels, a good many months ago. Another round of comparable denunciations has now started significantly AFTER the Soviet invitation to Sino-Soviet negotiations and the conditional Chinese acceptance. The theme of the new meet ings is. quite simply, that Khrushchev must go. Some weeks ago, the Communist theoretical journal, the World Marxist Review, published in Prague, charged the Chinese with attempting to promote changes in "leadership" of the Communist party. But it is a considerable step from the kind of underground intrigues the Marxist Review seems to be talking aboit to party pep rallies with "Khrushchev must go" as their theme. How to interpret these strik ingly peculiar noises from the Communist bloc remains a question much debated among the European experts on So viet affairs. What happens to Khrushchev peisonally.is less important, of course, than what happens to the Soviet Union over which he has pre sided for so long. ... VET the two questions are interlinked. Khruyh c h e v on the whole has stood for letting more air into the air- less Soviet society, for decen- "Coma. coma, your faari are imagined. You don't know lor rata that TV will be inundated with snow like The Beverly Hillbillies' next leasenl" ed interest in the American project in varying degree when canvassed earlier this year by presidential envoy Livingston Merchant, have be gun of late to shy off be cause of its cost. A new round of talks now in progress in Europe may generate fresh interest, and the European view may emerge more definitely at the forthcoming NATO Council meeting in Ottawa next month. But, in the interim, t h e United States is going ahead with its plans in Britain, ir respective of what may or may not emerge ultimately in terms of an integrated NATO nuclear force. By Joseph Altop Tribune Syndicate tralization of power, for light ening the dead hand of au thoritarianism, for consider ing the people's welfare as well as the slate'? strength. If this direction in the So viet development is now be new trend towards airlessness, ing reversed - if there is a authoritarianism, and general harshness and toughness, as seems to be the case - the change of national direction may well have involved a change in Khrushchev's per sonal position. The seeming change of di rection in fact lends some ad ditional credence to the ru mors that Khrushchev's posi tion is about to change. The reports from the Far East are also semi-confirmatory. Concerning these last, it ia hard to see why the Chinese Communist leaders are going out on the limb denouncing to the ordinary cadres of the party that "Khrushchev must go," unless the men at the top in Peking have considerable hope that Khrushchev really is about to go. In short, all the elements in the pattern are mutually consistent, ex cept for the fact that Khru shchev seems to be tranquilly vacationing in the Crimea, a a . a C1VEN if Khrushchev retains ihe party Secretaryship and merely yields the Pre miership to Kozlev, Khru shchev's setback will be se vere. Kozlov was designated by Khrushchev as his most probable heir to Gov. Averell Harriman, rather more than two yearg ago; but it seems fairly clear that Kozlev has been the real leader of the opposition to Khrushchev. Kozlov was indicated in this role at the very height of the Cuban crisis, when Prav da prominently and mysteri ously published a poem by Yevtushenko on "S t a 1 i n's Heirs." The poem contained a pointed mention that some of Stalin's heirs had had heart attacks - as Kozlov notorious ly has had. According to re ports, he is a narrow, sly, stodgy, intensively conserva tive "apparatchik" - a "Com munist Karenin who has got fat," as a Polish Communist once told this reporter. Such a man might well rally the elements in the par ty and the armed services that have been shocked by Khrushchev's goings-on and angered, especially since Cuba, by his failures. But this having been said, there must also be added that Khru shchev has shown an unsur passed knack of survival in the most murderous political contest on earth. Maybe we should be les impressed by the rumors about Khrushchev's difficul ties than by his Crimean vaca tioning. Maybe the symptoms of the change in direction in the Soviet Union are merely indications that Khrushchev has been paying a rather heavy price to the opposition, in order to keep his power and his place. No one will really know what the situa tion is until the Central Com- mittee meeting in mid-May. i i
