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4 S rSKlitAirf MOW. u. IX WAaSOCIATION ciuornU Mwihmi Publishers Asteetatlee Flight o' Time WW.imlJ County HIM ory from the files of The Mali Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 veers o. U YIAM AOO April M, IMS (Tluireday) Work on Jackson county and city of Medford f lacal pro f rimi U Miring cornflinon. liciaia worsting on i v daets reported todiy. The Oregon Shakes peerean ui v.i win t a full hour on KitC't coast-to-coast network Ma Mar. Instead of the half hour alio tad in llil and M. M YEARS AGO p April SO. 1S4S raMar' Jackson county reeidtats go "over the top'' by . W aecond war loan Bva; ir chaw toui of 140,000 in War boitda. " From Arthur htw'i ' Ya Smudge Pot" column: 'A scientist proclaims a horn really laufha- TMt " P anothar question - How dees ha keeps away from It?" 0 YIAM AOO April S, ISSS (u4r) Tax collections In Jackaon county reported to ha about half ot thoat for 1832. New aftow halts travel in Crater Lake National park leas than two weeks after roads were reopened. 40 YEARS AOO April SO. IStS (Monday) i Jackson county "moon shiners" sentenced to terms on the Multnomah county rock pile. Chamber of Commerce plans to issue new booklet on Medford. - 8 YEARS AOO prll SO. ISIS (Wednesday) Pariv of ahnut 18 Ionian scientists scheduled to visit crater lane aurini summer oi 1(13. Boxer Johnny K 1 1 b a n e. featherweight chair, ion of the worm, siaieo to mm in ford. What's Ymt I.Q.T SaWB t Ffjhf tc mHsji aia la seed. 1. What did the islands in the Pacific inhabited by the Indonesians used to be celled? s 2. In nautical measure a cable Is how many feet? 3. Correct the following: "The aim of his efforts were to gain peace." 4. In what country Is Nor mandy? 5. Where is the Champs 6. Which city in the world has the largest population? 7. Which Is the largest In area: Continental U.S., Braiil. Europe or Australia? 8. Who held office In Presi dent Truman's cabinet for lesa than three days? t. Which sport Is played before mora spectators each year than any other In the United States' 10. Would say that 00. 800. 8,000 or 60,000 blood celts could be placed on the head Of a pin? Asiwero I. Nelberiands East ladtee. I. 800, J. "... was la pain peeee." 4. Fiance. S. Parte, Fiance. 6. Tokyo, Sepaav T. BeesjU. 8. Kenneth C Retell. Secretary of War. TUESDAY, AMUL M. INS Mile-High City Ttanvar (a knnism an thai mile-hitrh CltV. and somewhere on the state plaque noting this. Rut tho "votoran" taxi driver, selected be- ho RPPmpd tn know more about Denver than the other drivers, who were university stu- Iamik rnfti2iav riOPr H'ttlO sftniltsffn'f tl(P US tfi t. UClllfO TTUinill V8SW vassal, ,wvesues ay ewv - - He took us to the capitol building with no twiishlo from anv Hnwntnwn hotel. VOU can Walk to it but he didn't know building the plaque was. In fact, before our uttie taxi tour of Denver was over, the four touring Oregonians began to wonder why we retained him. BUT actually, the little tour was worth it. We VV V sPBw aywaa) wa vssetv - af have th ITnivernitv of Denver cam pus, an exclusive mansion-type residential area. the cnlianood home oi Mamie bisenaower, anu other average-income homes. Denver seems to be halt thai mninr nw huilrlinn. with the excention of May-D&F department situnons or hotels, inner targe new ouiioingB are coiner un, but they probably won't be as large as the First National Bank or Western Federal Sav ings buildings. Thai fisrar huilHinca atari rl hlffh above the old er structures, glistening and ugnt-coiorea exteriors. ENVER is a city which atlon of somewhat neonle. but it doesn't have atmosphere that other large cities have. It has a distinct atmosphere which borders between a large small town and small nig city. We trot the feelincr Denver is trying hard to be a metropolitan city, but is lacking an import ant ingredient metropolitan people, people who know no other life than city life with its crowded streets, undesirable tenement districts, its con stant flow of people in a hurry to somewhere to wait, and the constant roar of a rapid transit system. One misconception rected, in a sense. We considered Denver at the base of the Rockies. Actually, it's 15 or so miles east of the Rockies, serving as a populated buffer between the snow-capped mountains and the great plain which extends eastward to the Mississippi. GOLDEN, Colo., northwest of Denver in Jeffer son County, is really at the foot of the Rockies. Golden is nestled between two large formations similar to the Rogue valley's Table Rocks. From one of the main streets of Golden, you can drive up almost 2,000 feet to Lookout Mountain. On Lookout Mountain, which is maintained by the City and County of Denver, are the graves of Buffalo Bill Cody and Pahaska Tepee, and a museum of Cody's trophies. It is 7,500 feet high, looking out over Denver, ana tne vast prairie eastward into Nebraska and Kansas. Coins- ud we used a winding, hard-surfaced highway, which we found not used Dy area residents it too dangerous. We round it no worse tnan a i n a-V r a . YT 1 Hignway iy over uregon mountain, or mgn- way 66 to the top of the Greensprings. UIGHWAY 40 out of Denver goes within three miles of Lookout Mountain from its initial climb into the Rockies. driving highway than the road from Golden, but the curvy highway gives one a better perspective of the countrv. and a much more interesting ride. On the eastern edge 30-minute drive of downtown Denver and at an elevation of 7,000 to more than 9,000 feet, large subdivisions are being carved out of the moun tain slopes. Some of the homes are for the execu tive and successful businessman; others are for the white-collar worker, who make up most of the Denver area population. As in any other populated area, people are moving out into the open spaces, in this case, into the mountains, to clear, cool air. ON ANOTHER mountain trip, in the country of Mt. Evans, we saw mansions along the canyon walls of Bear Creek, a stream no wider than Rogue valley's Bear Creek, but a stream crystal clear and bubbling with mountain trout, for which there is a 12-month season in Colorado. The mansions along Colorado's Bear Creek range in size from the summer cottage type with perhaps 12 to 15 rooms to the large all-year type with double that number of rooms. Many of them are owned by Hollywood per sonalities, who, when time and initiative permit, take refuge in them to escape the rapid pace of life. Others are owned by executives of the coun try's leading businesses. QN THE side of the Rockies, three miles off Vf Highway 40, is Red Rock open-air amphithe ater. Tne theater is carved out of rock in a geolog ic fault which can be traced from the Colorado Springs area to Boulder. The theater seats 10,000 people, and is so acoustically perfect that no public address sys tem is needed by performers, among whom have been some of the nation's top singers. The theater has on each side two large rocks extending upward to 100 feet or more above the top row of theater scats. The rocks are various shades of red, and each year each takes its toll of careless youngsters attempting to climb them. -E.H.A. capitol building is a on which side of the Droaressine in building, store, are financial in- the skyline with glass has a consumer popu- more tnan one minion the same metropolitan about Denver was cor out later was usually since mey considered This is a much easier of the Rockies, within a "Ah. Yea The Murder Of That Hiker Was A Dastardly Act" ' JSH"K. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear Use name and address of the wrUer. although under certain circumstances the use ef a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to adit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must net exceed 400 words. The letters printed In this column do net necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary la often the case. Fewer To the Editor: The passen gers who rodo with me in my 1827 taxicab had 79 per cent fewer cavities than those who rode with me over the cordu roy roads in my 1912 REO taxicab with the solid rubber tires. Everett Acklln Ashland, Ore. Change the Cigarettea To the Editor: A news Hem a few days ago said, in speak ing of the cigarette habit, that if people would not change then we had better make a change in the ciga rettes. How true that is change the cigarettes. I gat a weekly health bul letin, and it tells something about haw the tobacco is treated in the manufacture of them. The tobacco la mixed in wooden troughs with salt peter edded any six new troughs a year are needed. Growing tobacco is sprayed with arsenic, and does not wash off. The tobacco sometimes gets a black mold, which requires anothar treatment. The ciga rette papers are also treated with something to make them burn slower. Tobacco In Its natural pure form cannot be too bad prob ably, as old timers and In diana used it nearly a life tune and didn't aeem to be much harmed by it. in the first place I doubt if there is SO per cent of to bacco in a cigarette. I have noticed several different scents even In Just one of the packs. And to think ot little babies being victims of these evil smells. Sure burns me also to have aomeone sitting beside me, take a puff o( these filthy things and then hold them away from their own snoot and hold them under yours. Once I was at a lunch coun ter and a girl sat down next to me and right away lighted up and taking one puff laid the cigarette In a tray which was nearer my plate than hers. 1 said "please put that over on the other side" which she did. with no apology, ot course. Or did I owe her one? Mary E. Atkins 1834 Orchard Home dr. Medford. Oregon Dunes Seashore To the Editor: If the Oregon seashore can be maintained aa a public recveation and sightseeing place ot natural resources - NATURE - for us and future generations it should be one of America's very great attractions. Of the Atlantic, the Gulf, and Cali fornia's seasides that I have seen, none excel this of Ore gon's. While doing land classifica tion work In 1912-14 and again when doing forest re sources survey work In 1930 32 on the Sluslaw National forest, I walked over much of the proposed seashore area, so believe I have a fair idea of the lay of the land. The U. a. National roreai and a National Park seashore area may well Join and co operatively develop a most wonderful natural scenic area from below Waldport. cape Perpetua or the Yachats river to below the dunes. It really should Include all the shore line and the lakes along High way 101. If commercialism's greed for dollar profits, unsightly buildings and signboards can be largely eliminated, camp - ing places provided, and parts of the landscape left as nature mold; it, that area will be something to behold. Shifting and patterns, waving kelp and seaweeds or plants at low tides, submerged at high tide. MEDFORD MAIL TtUaMIHt. MXDfOIID. OMOON waves pounding rock-bound and sandy shores, changing cobblestone and agate beaches to deep sandy ones, patterned by storms and tides; star-fish, sea urchins, etc., seals, por poises, sealions, riding the swells or basking on the rock ledges, massive spruce, hem lock, cedar and fir trees, silky mosadraped vine maples, and other wonders in profusion that thousanda of inlanders have never seen. All these, and more, would bring count less tourists, happy, satisfied visitors to Oregon's wonder land. John E. Gribble 139 Kenwood ave. Medford. Success To uie Editor: Oh! What do you call success my friend, As you mention it now to me? Is It Climbing the mountain, flying the air Or yet sailing the deep, blue sea? Is It Playing golf, or the top in some sport, Or tame in the writing ot verse? Is It Painting pictures of some famous thing, Maybe winning a riding purse? Is It Success attaining to wealth, may hap? Or ruling a nation or state? Is It The tops in some new science, so called? Or winning a trying debate? Perhaps your success means happiness I would like to believe it so. Jesus, our Savior, your real success The only success I do know. Serving Him, I have found my reward. And now you have found your success, Let's pass it on to the wide, wide world Whilst we praise Him for happiness. James Williams, P.O. Box 441, Jacksonville, Ore. Free Plug tor "The Politician" To the Editor: The conserv atives are walking on air, while consternation and dis may is running through the ranks of the leftists, liberals, pinks, and fellow travelers across America. The liberal publications which have been taunting Robert Welch, found er of the John Birch Society, darina him to publish "The Politician," are now eating crow. For they are learning the hard way that any man who is hounded long enough and mercilessly enough tor merely saying what he be lieves and doing what he thinks is right, is entitled at long last to defend himself. Under strong compulsion from a constant stream of re quests by mail, resolutions by patriotic organizations, and pleas from personal friends, Mr. Welch has finally publish ed "The Politician." This book, never published for the general public till now, was the weapon picked by the "left" In I960 and 1981 with which to destroy Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. The first barrage of hysterical smears burst forth In the Communist papers. "The People's World" and "The Dailv Worker" and spread like a prairie fire aeroaa the nation in the leftist 1 papers and periodicals and finally into the entire Amcri- can press in the most savage attack ever made on a man or an organization in all news - paper history. Long before the newspaper stories broke, this book was Meeting of 'Bear1 and 'Beard' Recalls Inconsistencies of Recent World History Br PHIL NCWSOM UP1 reteign News Analyst Nikila Khrushchev la a man who tiWea to demonstrate his arfevtion with a great bear hug. It was In this spirit that K h r ushchev, t h e Russian bear, and Fi del Castro, the Cuban beard, had their first well publlcli- ed meeting st United Na tions in 1960. Later, Khru shchev was to distinguish himself by a shoe-banging epi sode in a session of the U.N. General Assembly which it self was distinguished by the greatest collection of rogues and rebels, patriots and pi rates, al'gned and unaligned ever to be assembled under one roof. Last December occurred an- loaned by Mr. Welch to a limited number of trusted conservatives. It was sent to me by registered mail and "re turn receipt," and I kept it under lock and key while it was in my possession. This has been called "the most con troversial book ot the 20th Century." And well it might be. For whether you be con servative or liberal it will thoroughly enrage you. In it Mr. Welch makes some devastating charges against some people in very high places in our government. Can he prove them? - 106 pages of documentary bibliography is your answer. Are there forces in our government de liberately collaborating with our external enemy? Are these powerful forces driving the United States down the road to disarmament and sur render? Is your country-your native land - your beloved America, and your freedom, fast slipping away from you: Read the book and see. Don't let anyone or anything stop you. If your book store can not supply you - or It for any reason you are frustrated in your attempt to get a copy -contact a member of the John Birch Society. L. C. Powell, 316 SE Eighth St., ' Grants Pass, Ore. In the Day's News y FRANK JENKINS Oregon, after long years of battling, finally gave up the struggle and went along with its neighbors on Daylight Saving Time. To those of us who know (and ADORE) this slightly screwball but utterly lovc able State of Oregon, that is SOMETHING. Who knows what will hap pen next? QL UESTION: What IS Daylight Saving Time? Well, it's a plan by which all clocks are set ahead by an hour. But no change is made in the usual clock time of peo ple's activities. The result is that the day's work begins an hour earlier for everybody, it was first designed aa a means of saving fuel. It was used in Europe during World War 1 and in the United States tor one year - 1918. The plan was revived dur ing World War II, and most large cities have continued it ever since. QUESTION: Who first thought of Day light Saving Time? You'll be surprised. It was BENJAMIN FRANK LIN. IJOW COME? Ill The story goes that when he was ambassador to France he awoke unusually early one morning and found daylight streaming through his win dows, while most of the citi zens of Paris siill slept. It started him thinking. As everyone knows, Ben was a frugal person. Waste appalled him. And here was sunlight GOING TO WASTE, while the people of Paris snoozed. Come that night, they would be BURNING CANDLES -whereas if they had the good. thrifty common sense to GET UP EARLY IN THE MORN ING, when the sun was shin ing, and to go to bed earlier at night, before the sun sank in the west and darkness came ilon ncain thev could have SAVED all these candles. I j (VJT of his thinking came ! " the idea of advancing the clocks an hour, thus enabling the people to use the sunlight in the morning, when there was plenty of it. and to SAVE 1 their candles at night by going to bed an hour earlier. j He even went so far as to calculate how many candles other bear hug of note. This was the meeting in Moscow ot Khrushchev and President Tito ot Yugoslavia who for various reasons then was be ing taken back into the Mos cow fold. Now for the next month or so there will be repeated tor the cameras another great Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris fc- nld Enterprlm. toe. THE PRICE OF EASE "I was in Florida last month," said the woman next to me at the dinner ta ble, "and we a 1 1 e n ded a benefit p r e view of a new film. Just as it started, the air condition ing system broke down -and more than half the audi- mm. ence walked out and went home." "That's to be expected," I murmured. "I suppose it is," she said, "but, you know, all the peo ple there were my age or older - which means that they grew up without any air con ditioning at all. We went to movies on the hottest nights and simply sweltered - there was no alternative if we want ed to see the film. And no body walked out because it was too hot." This Is another aspect ef a problem I touched upon in a recent column en the ball-point pen and the pro liferation of products in our society. Never before in hu nn history have ao many "luxuries" been trans formed into "necessities" in such a short time and ever such a broad percentage ef the population. There Is a real cleavage, a profound paradox, be tween our Puritan heritage ef hard work, of sweat and suffering for the goods ef the earth, and our modern economy, which is devoted to the effortless, the pleas ant, the gratifying, the au tomatic. When the conservative complains - and accurately - that the eld fashioned no tions ef hard work have gone by the boards, he ne glects to add that the most prevalent product of capi talism has been "making life easier" in a technical sense for the greatest num ber of people. Nobody today will put up with lack of air conditioning even though a mere genera tion ago it was almost un heard of. We live in an era when comfort, ease and au tomatic manipulation are tak en for granted, and sweat is an ugly word. Our social and economic system has made this possible, as nowhere else in the world - and therefore is it to be wholly unexpected that the tradition of sweat and toil is losing all its force in our national ethos? There are internal contra dictions in every system that weaken it and threaten its very survival; indeed, the in ternal contradictions in any system are usually more re sponsible for its downfall than any outside threat. Ro man civilization decayed at the core long before the bar barians were able to invade and conquer it. We face the task of recon ciling our contradictions, of solving our own paradoxes: for in the end these may prove more disastrous to our wel fare than the external men ace of communism. The bene fits we have achieved are enormous; but we have scarce ly begun to examine the price we are paying for them. this would save the people of Paris - and it was a rather startling number. He had no luck, however, in selling the idea to the Parisicns - who. then as now, were fond of staying up late at night and sleeping late the next morning to make up for it. They could see no merit in getting up at the crack ot dawn and going to bed with the chickens - just to save a few measly candles CO- J His thrifty scheme to save candles by getting up early in the morning and going to bed early at night died a-borning. It was nearly two centuries before it was finally revived to save fuel during a great war. And After the war was over To provide more time for LIVING IT UP AT NIGHT by the simple process of getting up earlier in the morning -which is the chief value of Daylight Saving in these modern day. show of affection as Khru shchev and his guest, Castro, tour the Russian boondocks proving to one and all that they are as thick as two thieves, and who is this Chi nese, Mao Tse-tung, anyway? All this is a lead-up to not ing that one of the great con sistencies of world politics is its inconsistency. There are inconsistencies in the Tito and Castro visits to Moscow. There is an incon sistency in the visit that Sec retary ot State Dean Rusk nism, Including Yugoslavia's. Since Josef Stalin first threw Tito out of the Kremlin family, Tito has been in again, out again and in again. The last switch came after the full bloom of Khru shchev's quarrel' with Red China over his policy of co Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop (cl New York Herald Tribune Syndicate A SOVIET HISS CASE , Serov as intelligence chief ot Washington - An espionage case, which can easily have more explosive effects than our case of Alger Hiss, is another major element of un certainty i n the Soviet po litical picture. Very little at tention has been paid to date to this re markable case AJsnp which was remanded for trial a few days ago to a special military collegium. It remains to be seen whether the trial will be public or semi-public or private. As of now, the best guess appears to be that the prosecutor's opening and clos ing speeches and the sentence will be public, with the rest of the proceedings in camera. In any case, the affair reaches into the very guts ot the Soviet military and polit ical hierarchy. On the Russian side, the chief person accused is Gen. Oleg Penkovsky, a mil itary scientist who long held the position of Secretary of the Scientific Advisory Com mittee of the Council of Min isters. In American terms, the arrest of Penovsky on charges of espionage is closely com parable to the arrest on sim ilar charges of the principal administrative asistant to the President's chief scientific ad visor. The effect of such an affair in this country may too easily be Imagined. TN 1 tl THE Soviet Union, the the repercussions of the Penovsky case must be vastly more far-reaching, not only because of the closed charac ter of the Soviet society, but also because Penkovsky. as an individual, had very high con nections. To be charged along with Penkovsky is a British busi nessman, Greville Wynne, who was in effect kidnapped in Hungary by the Soviet po lice some time ago. Wynne is expected to be accused of working for the Central In telligence Agency as well as the British Secret Service. One of Penkovsky's high connections was apparently the famous former head of the whole Soviet secret police ap paratus. Gen. Ivan Serov. Gen. Serov has reportedly been arrested and sent to prison, which suggests that charges may also be brought against him. When dismissed as chair man of the MKGB some years ago, Serov moved over to the Soviet Defense Ministry, to become Its intelligence boss. Hence, the arrest of Serov is the precise equivalent of the arrest of the director of tne Pentagon's Defense intelli gence agency, the highest per sonage in the American Intel ligence community except CIA Director John A.McCone FURTHERMORE, the man who apparently sponsored A0sJMaM "Ordinary people, just sitting around discussing the product that's the new trend in commercials, and It makes them mere . . . uh . . . believablet" existence and his support for various systems oi commu nism, including Yugolavia's. As for Castro, Khrushchev humiliated him last fall when, without consulting the Cuban leader, he ordered removal of Russian missiles from Cuba. An interview in the Paria newspaper Le Monde quoted Castro as saying that if ha had had Khrushchev in Cuba, "I would have boxed hia ears." But time heals and an esti mated 81 million a day in supplies and weapons from the Soviet Union has enabled Castro to swallow his anger. Of such inconsistencies world politics are made. Khru shchev and Mao Tse-tung might even adjust their dif ferences in one of the great est inconsistencies of all. the Defense Ministry is none otner tnan tne powerful So viet Minister of Defense, Mar shal Rodion Malinovsky. Even if not Serov's personal spon sor, moreover, Malinovsky is highly likely to be held re sponsible for any indiscretion committed by one of the key figures on his staff. This may explain the symptoms of acute disquiet about his own future which Marshal Malinovsky is known to have displayed while visiting Indonesia. In addition, there are lesa well - confirmed reports that the Penkovsky case involves, by our familiar process of guilt-by-association, other So viet personalities even mora eminent than Malinovsky. For example, there are fairly per vasive rumors that one ot the daughters of Frol Kozlov ac cepted presents from Penkov sky when he returned from trips into Eastern Europe with luxuries hard to obtain in Moscow. Kozlov, it will be re membered, is currently being tipped as Nikita S. Khru shchev's successor in the So viet Premiership. As can be seen, therefore, the Penkovsky case can well be used as a powerful engine of political destruction. Whether it is used in this man ner, which Soviet leaders, if any. will be destroyed or dis graced, and how far the affair will go, will depend almost entirely on the management of the prosecution. WHO controls the prosecu tion? What orders will the prosecutors have? These are the key questions. The an swers to these questions just may be that this case is Khru shchev's reserve we a p o n against his political adver saries. It can hardly be a coin cidence that the two most im portant persons mentioned as being touched by the case, Kozlov and Malinovsky, are also the most probable leaders of the recent opposition to Khrushchev and his policies. Kozlov has been conspicu ous by his absence from all of ficial occasions for a matter of a fortnight-long enough to cause vivid speculation, since his non-appearance is wholly unexplained. Malinovsky, too, can hardly enjoy the tentative but intensely curious re-emergence of the disgraced Mar shal Gcorgi Zhukov, for the Defense Minister and Marshal Konev were Zhukov's bitter est denouncers when he fell. All this, it must be added, may mean everything or noth ing at all. Even the Penkovsky case may be quietly disposed of. without having secondary political effects. A strange churning is clearly going on in Moscow. Very strange things are happening, or may be about to happen. But only time can tell who will be on top and who will have gone down-if anyone goes down when the churning ceases and the situation settles down again. I
