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4 A - "Everyone in Southern Oregon RedLTn MaU Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by UEUKORO PRINTING CO. 33 North llSt.. Ph;77a-14l ROUERT W RUKU Editor HERB GREY Advertlni Manaeel GERALD T LATHAM. Bui Mir ERIC ALLEN JR.. Mna Editor KARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPM AN, Teieg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE SXARCHER Women'e Killtoi DALERICJtSONlrcuUUon Msj An Independent Newspapel Inlered a second class matter at Medfoid Oregon under Act ot Morcn S, 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES n UH In Advance Dally and Sunday 1 year IU.00 Daily and Sunday moa 10.00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa 3.00 ' Sunda; Only One year 1.1 00 Sinale Copy (Mailed! Jue Tku rnrriAI And Motor KOUte. Daily and Sunday t year 121 .00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. J.?o Knnrinv Onlv 1 mO. 0OC Carrier and Vendura ..Copy 10c Official Paper oTclty of Med("T Official Paper ot JackMin County United Preci Internationa Full Leased wire U. P I Telephoto Newiplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT" BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: u.i cntf anuv.RTa At ASSOC1- ATES Ot'icea In New York, Chi. caco. Detroit, San Francisco. Loa Angelea. bcbiwc. rut . . a u ... Denrer. NEWSPAPER PUtLUHIIS ASSOCIATION NATION Ai f 0ITORIA1 Member California Newapaper Publiahen Association Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 3, 1833 (Sunday) Parking meters will be In tailed tomorrow on West Main t. between Holly and Ivy sts. Medford was one of t h e warmest places In Oregon to day with an official temper ature reading of 80. 20 YEARS AGO May 3. 1943 (Monday) George Jantzer top winner at Medford Gun club's bi monthly iihoot. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Ow ing to improvements, one of the residential streets Is In deplorable condition." 30 YEARS AGO .. May 3, 1933 (Wednesday) Thief steals petunias from Frank DeSouza's yard. Patricia Hayes named May queen at St. Mary's academy. 40 YEARS AGO May 3, 1923 (Thursday) Ruch horseshoe pitchers is sue challenge to Medford pitching experts. Gala dedication ceremonies held for new Jacksonville city auto camp. SO YEARS AGO May 3. 1913 (Saturday) Lime deposit found in Ap plcgate valley said to be big gest in state. Unknown persons sprinkle tacks across section ot Ross lane to catching passing autos; district attorney investigating. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or fen correct ft superior seven or eleht Is oxcollentr five or sia fs good. 1. The highest mountain peak in North America la ML Whitney; true or false? 2. What U. S. Constitution al amendment replaced the 18th Amendment? 3. Is the proverb "To fish In troubled waters" of Bibli cal or ShakesDearian nrlaln? 4. Is Anzac an Indian tri bal name? 5. Purity or majesty are the symbolic qualities attributed to which flower? 6 If, In England, you' are paid a quid, would you re ceive a pound sterling or a shilling? 7. A snake will not crawl over a hair rope; true or false? 8. What Is an amendatory addition to a Inst will and test ament called? 9. Which year of life Is con sidered to be the most critical lor children? 10. Was Augustus St. Gu dens a priest, composer or sculptor? Answers! 1. False (McKln loy), 2. None - iho 21st re peals it. 3. Biblical, 4. No. S. Lily. 6. Pound. 7. False. I. Codicil. 9. First yaar. 10. Sculpiw?. NEW QUEEN PORTRAIT London - UTD - A new por trait of Queen Elizabeth II will go on exhibition at the Jloyal Academy's summer ahow which opens on Satur day. It was announced. The painting showed the Queen mounted on the police horse Imperial rehearsing In the grounds of Buckingham Pal ace for the trooping of the colors. It was done by Terence uueno and Is the first the Vueen has personally commit- aionea. Km FRIDAY. MAY 3. 1SS3 High and Dry The near desert conditions brought about by lacK oi moisture during Denver area makns us creen of the Kogue Valley this time of the year. The Denver area is on a high plateau near the edge of the Rockies where moisture should be common, and we always for water, at least this But this year, mile - taking another look at the snow-barren moun tains to the west, a look at the rainless, high clouds drifting overhead, and shaking their heads. They forecast a real 1 1 iuiure spring snowers Di'ing some renei 10 me ex tremely dry conditions. The spring showers had not started yet when a tors were in ine area FIELDS on the upper and lawns in the watered, are brown. The The wind blows dust isn t ground cover, and sometimes where there is. Even the mountains are dry. Snow covers the ground up about 10,000 feet or more; little if anv is below that level. Observing the dry with people who live there, we had the uncom fortable feeling that perhaps we were witness- . i i ' . p i f . . . t l -rt i tir ing me Detrinninizs oi anouier uusi duwi. vve certainly hope not, but it appears that the only thine: to nrevent another Dust Bowl is a consid- erable amount of ram. A N INDICATION of that area the eastern edr?e of the Rockies was a small forest fire m Clear Creek County west of Evergreen. The fire burned over only a few acres about a week And that was at an elevation of about 8,000 feet. There were, in the area we visited, few cat tle where once thousands grazed. The ranches are now inactive as cattle They are inactive principally because they can no longer support came, in me aays wnen the Great Plain was cattle country, along with 1 1 much of the Rocky Mountain area, the land was overgrazed to a point that even now ground cover is rather thin in some places. Perhaps this has made its contribution to the problem facing people of that areanear desert conditions. E. H. A. Varieties of Just what is "news"? papers cover it f These are questions are forever asking themselves. The answers are not always readily apparent. If news is to be considered the stories or cur rent happenings in politics, the economy, in ternational or military so on the papers do a But if the "news" less tangible things, then ing so well. TMAX LERNER touched on this subject in a " column in the New York Post the other day. What, he was asked, are the stories that the press is not covering well? He said : "... The great uncovered story Is that of the news paper reader himself. The newspaper doesn't dare deal with his (and her) sexual drives and behavior, which are taboo; nor with his emotional life, his anxieties, his fear j and rages and neuroses; nor with his horror of death and his hope of heaven; nor with any of the thousand things that make up his underground Interior life. "Partly this Is because of taboos, partly because we still don't know enough, partly also because the i way we define 'news' excludes most of these concerns. So they get left to the magazines, which reach millions exactly because - well or badly - they move Into the area which the daily newspaper has abdlcted." 1MAYBE Lerner has a point. But there is a " real question in at least one newspaper man's mind whether the people who put out the newspapers are equipped to delve into such mat ters with clarity or constructiveness. Doctors, lawyers, judges, professors, research ers, scientists these with such matters on a year out. And when great human mysteries, such length, and in such esoteric terms, that their articles are hardly suited for daily newspapers. Thus the magazines, which have the space and the format to handle articles, become the obvious media. e e COME newspapers, a few of the big ones, have '"' the rescources to employ specialists in various fields. But most papers employ men and women who are "geneinlists," about a lot ot things, without necessarily Hav ing a background any specific area. Such people are equipped to write and inter pret the daily grist of "news" in an understand able, even expert, fashion. But it occurs to us that the more profound aspects of human existence can best oe dealt with, in depth, by men and women who have devoted their lives to studying them. Such things may be "news" in the broad sense, but they are not "news" which can be or should be reported in the same manner which works well with the events of the day. E. A. The Oregon House of Representatives will consider the proposed new Constitution as a spe cial order of business Monday morning. There is still time, if you wish a chance to vote on the proposal, to let your legislators know. E.A. tne past year or so in the appreciate more the lush believed to be well off time of the year. high area residents are problem of water, unless ! - I-,.- il group of Medtora eauca- viBiung scnuuis. a edge of the Great Plains residential areas, unless ground is hard and dry, up from wherever there conditions, and talking what may be in store for before we were there. ranches. 111. T il. 1 "News And how well do news which newspapermen affairs, accidents, and pretty good job. really involves a lot of the papers aren't do are the people that deal daily basis, year in and they do write about the they are apt to do so at thoughtful and lengthy who know something "Do You Think Of fentive aaaBeB- .mrSP'JSCJt- i"i?'-t . I ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must certain circumstances the us Th Mail Tribune reserves Ih right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Loiters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The loiiors printed in this column do contrary is often th case, Now Version To the Editor: This writer wishes to submit for publica tion the following, a parody on the old song, "I love that bearded lady, because her whiskers tickle so." Mr. Krushie's new song: "I love that bearded Castro be cause his whiskers tickle so." (Name on file) Ashland, Ore. Don't To the Editor: Young worn 1: DON'T: Marry a man who does not read the sport section of the newspapers. Young fellows who profess no interest in' sports are not apt to be Inter ested in anything but them selves. Marry a man who plays cards for money. Love for games of chance usually sup plants all other loves. Marry a man who says he has no bad habits. He is pretty sure to ' have a vice much worse than smoking or even drinking. If ne'e of the "holier than thou" variety he soon will become a pest. Marry a man your parents object to, unless your parents are most unreasonable. It la court history that 65 per cent of all elopements end in the divorce courts. Marry a man who says he In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In New Hampshire, the gov ernor signs a sweepstakes bill that has kept the state in tur moil for months and calls on the legislature to help him make it work "efficiently and In compliance with the laws of the Unitev! States govern ment." He says tickets for the sweepstakes, first to be legal lied In any state In nearly 70 years, can be sold to persons whether or not the,- live in New Hampshire. He adds: "It Is perfectly lawful for our neighbors to come here on va cations, buy sweepstakes tickets and collect their prizes if they win." He says federal law Is con cerned only with Interstate traffic and not with sweep stakes conducted within a single state. WHAT'S a sweepstakes? Webster defines it as "the whole stake on an event, a given amount being put up by each contestant, and the stake awarded either ALL to the winner or In shares to sev eral. A LOTTERY offering to distribute sweepstakes as prizes." What's a lottery? According to Webster, it's a "scheme tor the distribution ot prizes by lot; especially, a scheme in which lots or chances are sold." HISTORICALLY, over the world, state lotteries have been the last resort of a bank rupt state that has taxed and taxed until there isn't much left to be taxed. So, the state falls back on the lottery, realizing that peo ple will GAMBLE regardless, If permitted to. GOVERNOR King concludes: "As for those who raise the fear of undesirable ele ments Invading our state, I firmly believe the fear Is without foundation. I am con vinced that we can conduct an honest and respectable op eration that will have the ten dency to discourage those who seek gain in this field." LETS cite a little history: In 180ft. the bankrupt state of Louisiana established MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON You Really Need Weapons?" -rue uvww-j rir boar the nam and address of ef a pen nan or Initial not necessarily represent th does not care for children. Marry a man because he Is a good dancer. Perhaps that is the only thing he can do well. Men who have intelli gent feet seldom have any thing in their heads. Marry a man who detests dogs. Something is wrong with that sort of man. Marry a man who drinks on the sly. If he isn't fair and square on that subject he'll deceive you on other accounts. Marry a man who speaks slightingly of your parents or of old people. He'll neglect you when you begin to get wrinkled and gray. Marry until you are old enough to know what you are doing. Mary K. Jones 428 North Holly st. Medford Prolost To the Editor: Let it be said openly that everything estab lished does not please me. i do not like the way the coun try is being run. I don't like the way big business rides herd on all that stands in front of it. I take exceptions to the hundred and one abuses that stare me in the face no matter where 1 go or turn. I have been referred to as a disturber, but must 1 accept a lottery. By 1890, the lot tery's power had become so great that it was able to con trol to a large extent the poli tics of the state In its own In terest. Its revenues were enor mous. One-third of ALL the mail matter received at New Orleans was addressed to the lottery, while the money ord ers which it cashed exceeded $30,000 a day. In these inflat ed days, of course, $30,000 a day is mere pocket change. but in the Louisiana of 1890 it was an IMMENSE sum. The lottery dominated the whole state of Louisiana. TUT the MORAL sentiment - of the state revolted against the continuance of such a gigantic gambling con cern. When the company pre pared to ask for a renewal ot its charter, a determined cam paign against renewal was launched. The lottery com pany offered to pay a million dollars a year for 23 years as a renewal fee. By a liberal use of money, a proposal to amend the con stltution in order to allow the company a new charter was pushed through the legis lature by a two-thirds major ity, but was vetoed by the governor. An amendment to the constitution of the state was submitted to popular vote. The people of the state di vided into two parties one pro-lottery and one anti-lottery. The anti-lottery candi date SWEPT THE STATE. that cooked the famous Louis iana lottery's goose, and at the expiration of its charter the lottery outfit abandoned Louisiana and moved to Hon duras which by then had spent itself Into bankruptcy and nerded the lottery racket to pull Itself out of the hole. NEW Hampshire's governor is confident that he can make a great success out of a state lottery, raking In enough money out of it to put his state back on its financial feet. Maybe he can. But the experience of Louis iana some seven decades ago is rather interesting. ST' s t war - . M J Ben Bella Being Reformed Along Castro's Model By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst As a Socialist revolutionary, Premier Mohammed Ben Bel la of Algeria frequently has expressed his admlmiion ior Fidel Castro, But as the head of a new nation almost totally depen dent upon Western help, he hu had to temper h i i v4 Newaoas public utter ances with assurances that Al geria has no intention of stif ling private 'enterprise or abandoning the agreements which led to its Independence. Next to Castro,' the man most admired by Ben Bella Drobably is President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic. This month, on separate occasions, he will play host to both. Despite the difficulties, he can point out to both that he has been an apt pupil. After a relatively slow start, he can say that he has ih writer, although under for publication is permissible. views of th papon In fact th everything that is handed down to me? I don't like being maneu vered into doing things I don't like. I don't like being jock eyed into something to which I'm not aware of or that dis interests me. There is much about this country and this wonderful world I do approve. But I be lieve as others do, that no one nation is capable of running the affairs of another nation. especially so when they can't seem to keep things running smoothly in the home front. I'll even go a step farther and say there are too many people in our home nation running affairs of other people. The things I do I am re quired to do to comply with the demand of the township, county, municipal, and feder al agencies. We Americans are most dedicated to government and are the most overgov erned people on God's earth. Nowhere on the earth's sur face can you find more laws, more rules, more regulations, more dictatorship than in our beloved America. Before the 21st Century we'll need a permit to grunt after 10 p.m. or between the hours of 4:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Law says you can't park the car here, you can't walk there, no noise around the next corner, then the law says no driving in that lane, you can't stop In this lane. No driving under 50 MPH on this road but you can't go more than 60. You must turn left in this lane, turn right over there In that lane. These are laws and many more we live by. Other orders like these: Be here before 10 a.m. or b here after 10 p.m., no one on the streets after 2 a.m., barking -dogs will be shot at sunrise but you can't shoot my mad dog for biting you. We must indeed be a bad lot when we must have so much law enforcement and such strict, authorities with so much domination. I don't think people were meant to live this way or be treated in such a manner, especially forced to do things against one's will and better Judg ment, or even forced to take Imprisonment if a person tries to protect himself from mean ness. E. Dykes Central Point, Ore. Seeks Enlightenment To the Editor: In regard to the proposed Oregon Dunes National Seashore I wish you or someone would inform me and others just what the Na tional Park Service proposes to do to make the area more attractive or accessible as a tourist or recreational area. It is now readily accessible from Highway 101 which runs the full length of the pro posed park, and any part of it is within easy walking dis tance from the highway. There are now motels and other tourist accommodations at frequent intervals along the highway, and more would be provided as the need arose. The Forest Service and the state have provided numerous camp grounds and picnic spots for those who with to use them. The Park Service would no doubt grant some conces sionaire exclusive right to put up a big hotel to cater to the high toned tourist who would not stay in a motel, and a restaurant or cafeteria and a souvenir shop, etc., but In a 60 mile strip It couldn't be located where It would be convenient to but a small por tion ot the park. One object stated for the park is to preserve as a more or less wilderness area for all time from the possible exploi-4 Consolidates Power; eliminated from public life most of his political opposi tion and made himself the controlling figure in the gov ernment and in Algeria's sin gle political party. Eyeball To Eyeball With Birth Control By Arthur Hoppe I'm sorry. I mentioned the other day that Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy had separate bed rooms merely to point out that the richer you get, the farther away from your wife you get. And the fewer chil dren you have. I noted that this was Geographical Birth Control - "the only system," I said flatly, "that really worked." So Mr. Kennedy promptly announced he was going to Europe in June. Greatl And then Mrs. Kennedy announced she was ... Oregon Counties Seek More Money Salem - IDPD - Oregon coun ties asked the legislature Thursday for more money to help pay county costs of new programs pending before the legislature. Judge John W. Whipple of Columbia county, president of the Association ot Oregon Counties, made the request for an addiUonal $600,000 in letter. He said the counties could be given an increased share of liquor revenues, or could get part of a proposed cig arette tax. He said more money would be needed to pay the coun ties' share of costs of uro grams ranging from sex of fense reports to additional election clerks and new judgeships. tatlon by industry or other private enterprise. The state and the Forest Service can take care of that as well as the Interior Department, and would provide more local con trol. I hope someone will ' en lighten me on this matter. Ernest W. Smith ' P.O. Box 163 Butte Falls, Ore. Mother Lot To the Editor: The follow ing song poem was sung by Mrs. D. G. MacDougall at First Methodist church on Mother's Day 1961. I have been requested to submit it to Communications. Lead, Mother Love Lead, Mother Love all thru my chlldlhood years; Shine In my heart and calm my childish fears; Teach me the way that I should ever know. Lest error and temptation lead my leet astray From you apart. I did not always follow where you led in paths so true. Nor choose to be a child of truth and grace to honor you. I loved to while away the thoughtless years. While life moved on to bring repentant tears. Still true, your love hath led me At last to God and you. I yield my lite and all I am His will to do; And all the days He gives me now to live, I'll fill with happiness, my mother dear, And love, and love for you. L. G. Weaver 301 Haven St., Medford. am guLUTiN KHRUSHCHEV MAY RETIRE! "We're become decadent our leaders oilher die while In power, are executed or are sent to Siberia. Who eror hoard ef a Communist retiring?" His peasant management committees have taken over more than 2.5 million acres of Aleeria's richest farmland, and the government has seized scores of enterprises, t, Well, it's all my fault. I suppose I should've given more detailed instructions. But that's the whole trouble with all our present complex methods. They require pre cise directions which you ve got to follow to the letter. And in the proper sequence. Or else. Which is why love often conquers all. But our scientists, thank goodness, are working on it. And I'm deliriously happy to learn that Dr. Carl G. Heller, who's what is called " a repro ductive physiologist" at the Pacific Northwest Research Foundation, has made a smashing technological break through. He's come up with a pill for gentlemen that's cheap, safe, harmless to your maleness and guaranteed ab solutely luu per cent effec tive, it even tastes good. In .fact, says Dr. Heller, tests show it's got only one teensy little drawback: If you take a single drink while on the pills, your eye balls turn bright red. Thus his new pills, the good doctor told the American Chemical Society sadly, "pro bably would not be acceptable to men in the Western World.' And back he went to the old drawing board. Nonsense! Here we are. faced with a population ex plosion and our faint-hearted scientists are willing to scrap our salvation. All because of one tiny little flaw, Shades of Thomas Alva Edisonl Is this what made America great? No! I say we ve got to get out there and sell. For example. we could sell men on the idea of giving up drinking because . Well, we could at least sell them on wearing dark glasses to cocktail parties. But, better yet, let's Think Positively. We will simply sell them on red eyeballs. " Actually, when you stop to think about It, there's noth ing inherently wrong with red eyeballs. Not that a little good promotion work wouldn't cure. Ads: "Are Your Eye balls Pale, Tired, Colorless?" Drinks: "The New Red Eye Highball." Contests: "Mr. Red Blooded American Eyeball." Of course, the ladies would take a bit of convincing. You know how they are. We might start by planting a few point ed articles in the ladies' mag azines. Such as True Confes sions: "There We Were, Eye ball to Eyeball - And His Were Whltel" Eventually, I'm sure, we'd convince them of the undeni able advantages of such a method. I mean there you are, an attractive young lady. You walk into a cocktail party crowded with handsome young bachelors. Half have red eyeballs, half don't. Which . . . Well, I don't want to go Into details. But we'd soon separate the ladies from the girls. And most bachelors will, I know, agree that's an undeniable advantage right there. Oh, I can hear you saying you don't cate. You still don't like red eyeballs. Well let me tell you this is no time for petty aesthetic prejudices. All present methods require dili gence or sacrifice. Join your local Red Eyeball League to day. And remember our slo gan: "Better Red Than Bred!" Algeria including movie houses and hotels. i Eventually, It is planned that more than six million acres of land will be collect ivized, with the profits divid ed between the state and the peasants. The heavy hand, of govern ment has fallen on both Mos lem and French owners, de spite French protests that such action violated the ac cords by which France agreed to Algerian independence. Ben Bella also has declared that he does not intend to let matters rest there. He has said that just as Cuba solved its problems, "so will we solve them." To demonstrators chanting "profiteers into the sea" in downtown Algiers this week he pledged Algeria will have "socialism a la Castro." It seems fair at this point to recall that Castro also promised land to the peasants, that he declared "we are not Communists" and that he pledged not to confiscate pri vate industry. It is also fair to point out that Ben Bella operates under enormous pressures, from the landless peasants, from the two million unemployed and from the state of his treasury which could not operate with out more than $1 million per flay trom the French. In a land where almost every man owns a gun and Is willing to use it, he must show some progress: Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris fe- field Enterprfaea. Inc. SHORTENED WORDS - A reader in West Vircinia writes in to ask me whether I find the words "Gents" offen sive as an ab breviation for " Gentlemen " on doors to certain public rooms. I must confess that I do, but I must in all honesty add. that my reaction is ir- Harria rational and snobbish. "Gent," as an ab breviation, has been in the English language since the 16th century, and has better credentials than many words we abbreviate without realiz ing It. When we call a certain kind of doctor a "quack," tor instance, how many of us real ize that this is an abbrevia tion of "quacksalver"? Today there are many such words in the standard language that are accepted in the shortened forms of the words they have displaced. e e e Prof. J. A. Shead. th philogisi at London Univer sity, has pointed out that nobody calls piano a "pianoforte" any more; that a "eurio" was one a "cur iosity"! and what everyone " calls a "bus" today was only a half-century ago called an "omnibus." Evan in th rigorous aca demic field, wo speak of 'oxm," "lab," "math." "metric," and so on. rather than examination, labora tory, mathematics and ma triculation. No on considers it infra . dig to speak of a "bike," a "photo," or a "pram." in stead of bicycla. photograph and perambulator. Young people invariably, go to "proms," rather than to promenades, and attend "prop" rather than prepara tory schools. e e e More than two centuries ago, Jonathan Swift was com plaining about the habit of shortening English words. His particular aminosities were "mob" and "banter," which are now thoroughly accepted standard English. Indeed, not one person in a thousand re calls that "mob" is the pop ular form of the Latin term "mobile vulgus." And who thinks ot a "fan" as coming from "fanatic"? Or "taxlcab" as being an abbre viation of the cumbersome "taximeter-cabriolet"? A wig was once a "periwig," a drawing-room was a "withdrawing room," and even a "chap" is an abbreviation , of "chap man," which was a Middle English term for a wheeler and dealer of that day. Only a pedant or a prig would speak of taking his children to the "zoological gardens," rather than to the "zoo." In our own time, a mic rophone hai become a "mike," a racetrack totalizer is a 'tote," and the cinema tograph became "cinema" in England while motion pic tures became "movies" in the united States. "Gent" remains a lower-class stump-word in England, but t Infinitely pre fer it to the ghastly American euphemism of "John," or, even worse, "llttl boys room." , tlV
