Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 06, 1963, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text4 A "Htverrone la gouftern Oraioa n..HB Ttu Uall Tribune" fubTiSeaTSilly eMepTSeturdey by uvntflnn PRINTING CO. S3 Nortn rit t-Ph. 17-S11 ROBERfW HIIhCTilltor HERB GREY Adveru.ini ManeMf CRALO T LATHAM. ua. MIT IR1C W ALLEN .'R. MM, P4" EARL H ADAMS, City flllor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Edltet OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Kdltoi DALE ERICKHON, CjrcuUUonJjg An"Tndependent Newipepei Entered u Mcond ilm nutter a Medford. oreeon unacr aui oi March J, 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES . l - I In IriulHM Oelly end Sundey 1 yearlia.00 Duly end Sundey S moe. 10.00 Daily end Sundey moe. 5 .00 Sundey Oruy One year ts.00 Single Copy (Mailed! SOe By Cerner And Motor Route. Delly end sundey 1 yee eai.00 Deny ana ouoaey i w " ftuniliiv Onlv1 mo. SOC Carrier and Vendors Copy 10c official Peper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press InUrnatlonel full Leeied Wire O. P. 1 Toiaphoto Newepleturee TaSmtiTbrjiVtn bureau" uv binuuuwiype Advertising NELSON Representative: nflRRTft It ASSOCI ATES Of'icee In New York, Chi eago. Detroit. Sen rreneteco. Loi Angeles. Seattle, Portland. Denver, T1 NiWSPAPi ruiiiiHits 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITOIIA1 Memwr California Nrwipeper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Hlilory from the filei ef The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yeara ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 6, 1M (Wednesday) The long-awaited report of the bureau of reclamation on the proposed Talent Irrigation district project in the south em part ol the Rogue River valley hai been completed. Medford'i city council hai authorized the purchaie of an east tide (He for a new fire atation on the aouth comer of the intersection of Valley View dr. and Ruhl Way. 20 YEARS AGO May (, 1143 (Thursday) ' Robert Elder, Jackson county Juvenile officer, elect ed delegate to International Footprinlers convention in San Jose, Calif, From, Arthur Perry'a "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Every morn it looks like spring, but ere the day is done, it turns into a mild and open winter." 30 YEARS AGO May 6. 1933 (Saturday) Medford Chamber of Com merce starts campaign to curb autoa speeding In residential districts. H. W. Fluhrer announces plans to construct new bakery at Holly and Main sts. 40 YEARS AGO May (, 1933 (Sunday) Medford fire ' chief aayi practice of tending in false alarma "will have to stop. Seven motorists arrested for racing with police officer on Pacific highway.. 30 YEARS AGO May 6. 1913 (Tuesday) Bud Anderson, "next light weight champion of the world and our buddy," receives royal welcome on return to Medford from California. City charter and city ordin ances to be codified and pub lished in pamphlet. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er tan correct fa suae'lett even ar eight la eicellenti five at la la food. 1. It you unscramble An relnt Ncpaullne you will rec ognize it to be what European geographical feature. 2. Members of Congress pay Income taxes; true or false? 3. Pieplant, a vegetable, Is more commonly known as what? 4. Is the Polar Bear a warm' blooded animal? 9. Which breed ot cat Is noted for being almoal tail' less? 6. Who is credited with first saying, "There never waa a good war or a bad peace."? 7. William Stark Rosecrana waa a Major General In the War Between the States; was he on the Union or Confeder ate side? 8. Name the author of the novel "Cannery Row." 0. Farouk was king of what country? 10. To what country would you go to spend a bag of rupees? Anawarai 1, Iberian Penln aula. 2. True. 3. Rhubarb. 4. Yea. 3. Manx. (. Benjamin Franklin. 7. Union. 9. John Steinbeck. 9. Egypt-10. India, L MONDAY. MAY I. 5 Colorado School District The Jefferson County rado has one of the most systems visited recently resentatives in a series trius under the Oreeon The size of the district can be visualized in figures: It has a student population of more than 42.000 this year, about over last year. It anticipates an enrollment of some 46,000 next school year, about a 10 per cent increase. There are eight high schools, 15 junior highs, and more than 70 elementary schools. A new high school is under construction to be ready next fall. e a e e AS OF Jan. 1 this year, the district had 113 " school buses assigned to regular routes or for special trips and reserve; this year it plans to add 15 new buses, making a total of 128. The general fund operating budget this year is a little more than $22 million, an increase of $3.1 million over 1962. Two full-time people partment are on the road all year recruiting many of the 500 additional teachers it will require to handle the 4,000 to 5,000 or so additional stu dents expected next year. An engineering department has six luu-ume employees, including registered engineers and a licensed architect. More than $6 million worth of work in new buildings will be done this year; the department spends about $500,000 per month on new buildings. SINCE the district was inrlenenripnt riiKfriVr.oi there have been five bond struction of new buildings. The latest one was a $19V4 million issue a year ago this month to fi nance construction for a six-year period. The assessed valuation than $282.5 million; it is expected to increase about $20 million next year. The levy is about 43 mills, not including an 8-mill levy for bond repayment. State aid is only about 26 per cent, federal aid about 3 per cent, with the remainder raised through local property taxes. The cost per pupil somewhat below average in Colorado. For com parison, the coEt per pupil per year in th? Med ford district it about $420, slightly below average for districts of comparable size in Oregon. tor further comparison, jeflerson County, Colorado, is about 785 square miles; Jackson County is about 2,816 square miles. The popula tion of Jefferson County in 1960 was 127,520; Jackson. County's population in 1960 was 73,962. WHY not visit a school district nearer the size of the Medford district? Size or wealth of a district was really not a consideration in scheduling the in-service obser vations. The prime consideration was the pro gram offered, how it was and the end result of a program varying irom the conventional. From this information, local district repre sentatives can evaluate the worthiness of new teaching methods, plant facilities adopted to the program, and whether changes made locally, based on some of these observations, will help provide the improvements in instruction sought ! - it. - s n in me uregon rrogiam. The Jefferson County District contained all tvDes of teaching methods, all tvnes of buildings. all types of scheduling, team teaching programs. IT HAS a special outdoor education program in which all sixth graders attend a laboratory school in the mountains for one week; it has another special program ped children to work those who are capable into regular classes and to educate them to be depend able members of the society in which they live. There is no question that local educators ob tained a wealth of material on teaching tech niques, course scheduling, building designs, not only from Jefferson Coun ty, but irom other visitations as well. Some of this material will be incorporated into the Medford system in conjunction with the Oregon Program, and some of it probably will be incorporated in the of school administrators ally feasible and because program now. ottered. Findings from the Jefferson County trip will be included in the Medford district's report to iL. J t i J . il .Ml ine state ciepHiinieiu oi euucHuun; iney win sup plement a report on previous in-service observa' tion trips. 1MANY of the changes iT they may not even be noticed by the stu dents, much less the parents. Some changes are planned for next school year, changes which are considered desirable and within financial means. But over the next few years, there probably will be many changes to improve education of area children, not only in the Medford district, but also in surrounding districts through sharing material obtained on the Not everything obsen'ed on the trips will be incorporated m the system ; this is virtually nn possible until demand, through increased student population, makes it economically feasible. Some of the programs observed in Jefferson County are adoptable only in an area with such a large population; but variations of them can be, and probably will be, adopted in this area. a.n.A. School District in Colo impressive educational by Medford school rep' of in-service observation Program. a z per cent increase from the personnel de i formed in 1950 from 39 thrniitrh VAnrrranization. issues to finance con of the district is more per year is aoout 54UU, organized, presented, and different types of for physically handicap special programs, and system on the initiative because it is economic it will help improve the locally will be slow; m-service trips. "Ugh It Sound Like That Damn Cavalry Again Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a Den name or initial for publication Is permissible. The edit ill lettera with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter 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 It often the case. Suggests Cottsges To the Editor: I lust set so disgusted driving around Medford seeing all these swell motels going up. Why don't some of these people who have so much money build a bunch of cottages for us pen sioners who can't afford to live in motels. They could build a lot right here where the Armory used to be that would be a nice place and close in for the ones who don't have cars. They could build three or four room and bath cottages and rent them. I, for one, would be happy to live in a place like that. I m aure a lot would be also. Not rent like a place over on the other side of town. We who are on pensions have the money coming in each month regardless of weath er. I just wonder how many would like to see something tike that, Medford would be an ideal place, the climate and all. E. M. C, (Name on file), Medford, Ore. Nugget Jerry To the Editor: Ever hear of 'Gold Nugget" Jerry? Well, he was once a periodic travel er and mystical character that rode the friendly Southern Pacific passenger trains from Los Angeles, Calif., north to Portland, Ore., in search of gold nuggets from the early day miners along the way at all the gold producing areas. une or nis noDDies waa to pack around several hundred gold nuggets in his pockets and a small handbag to sur prise the tourists and public, aa that was his custom, to sort of advertise his trade, and It helped as an advance agent while he stopped over in towns to dicker for all the nuggets for sale. u. N. Jerry plied his Iucra tive trade through most of the late 90s, and the early 1900's. If anyone ever knew who his sponsor or motive was in all those years, no one ever solved the secret of the unique avocation. As the gold supply gradually died out, so did Nugget Jerry a trips ft nally vanish and ebbed at last. Bert Kissinger 322 S, Riverside avt, Medford Historic Setting To the Editor: Please may I, a citizen of Jacksonville, ex press how I feel about a nigh' way coming through our love ly town? First, may I say that I have not lived here as long as most of the people have lived in Jacksonville. I've been here six years, but it seems to me that those of us who have not been here most of our lives are more fortunate than those who have, because we can see the real beauty of the town. Those who have never lived elsewhere do not realize what they have. We who have lived elsewhere have been drawn to Jacksonville because of Its quiet peaceful atmosphere, The charm of the historical buildings still In their natural setting allows one to have the feeling of Joining into the life of long ago while participat' Ing In the present day period There are very few places left in our country where this can be found anymore and in many states there are towns set up to represent exactly the same thing that we have here which is the original and authentic. Most of these ar tlfcially set up towns give the tourist who visit them a feel ing ot a carnival atmosphere, which so far we don't have here, and can keep from hav ing it we are careful ot what we bring into our town. A highway through any part ot our city limits de stroys one most important MECrOltD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDfORD. OREGON A, Mail Tribune reserves the rioht to thing that we now have, and that is the original natural setting ot the whole town, with its historic buildings in their original state and on their original site. A highway certainly will not look aa though it were a part of the original setting. The plans now in the mak ing (that is if this highway de cision does not destroy them) are to keep and restore the historic value in a dignified manner, plus bring to our community culture In its many forms. The music fes tival is one of the many arts and crafts which have started coming into our area, and which we certainly want to keep and expand. There are great plana being formed to restore our town with help .Tim many qualified sources, of which many of our Jack sonville citizens are unaware. and if they were, would know the harm a highway through the town could do. Anything that would make these sources give up their plans would be very harmful lor Jacksonville. Adele Purgason S06 Oregon St. Jacksonville, Ore. In the Day's News By FRANK The news today? A surprising lot of it has to do with schemes to raise money enough to pay the bill for rising cost of government. THE little state of New Hampshire started some thing the other day when it legalized a lottery in the form of a horse race sweepstakes from which it hopes to collect some tour million dollars which will be allocated to communities throughout the state for support of schools. The New Hampshire gov ernor called it a "legitimate fiscal experiment" that has the backing of a majority of the state's citizens. That brought from the governor of nearby Massachusetts a state ment to the effect that his state would have a lottery also if voter sentiment was followed. In Sacramento, Assembly man Allan Pattee, of Salinas, said he is going to try to get California to adopt a New Hampshire-type lottery plan, IN Washington, Representa tive Paul A. Fino, of New York, was encouraged by New Hampshire's action to call in the reporters and tell them that in his opinion there is only one way to cut taxes, reduce the national debt and still have money enough for achools, housing, disabled vet erans and health care adopt a NATIONAL lottery. He added: "There's no question that the New Hamwhire action will have a tremendous im pact on members of congress. It will provide impetus for the congress to take a second look at the national lottery bill." MAYBE. But The Congress of the United States of America has another way out equally simple and Just as effective. The Ways and Means committee of the U. S. House of Representa tives has voted to RAISE THE NATIONAL DEBT ceiling to a new high of $309 billion dollars. This latest hike in the debt ceiling would become ef fective on July 1. During the Intertm the debt ceiling, now $305 billion, would be set at $307 billion, and tome time before August 31 Congress would be asked to set enew. Foreign News: Kennedy May Cancel His 'Working Br PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news desk: Kennedy Vlsilt In Rome there is specula tion that President Kennedy may cancel his scheduled June "work ing visit" to Italy as a re sult of last week's gener al elect ions which gave . xuiuan torn. ' I munists a rec el I ord vote. The speculation is based on the Jewsoai belief that the opening of the new parliament on May 16 will be marked by the tall of Premier Amintore Fan- fani's center-left government ' r". L West Yhfnnng -Bastion of Neutrality By Arthur Hopp The crisis in Laos looks grim. Again. And I'd bring you a penetrating analysis. But I've forgotten how to spell the names of those three Princes. You remember them. There's the dyed-in-the-wool Red Communist Prince. Who insists on being addressed as Your Royal Highness." And there's the Neutralist Prince, who heads what is called The Shaky Coalition Gov ernment." (Which is odd, be cause I'm sure his name isn't Shaky.) And lastly there's the Right-Wing Prince who used to be "A Bastion of Democ racy in Southeast Asia." Until.' we stopped propping him up. Anyway, the Commie Prince has been clobbering the bejeepers out of the Neu tralist Prince lately. And no body can understand why. I can. We once faced very much the same situation in West Vhtnnng, the only Asian country in which I can spell the names of all three Princes. e History tells us that for its first 2132 years West Vhtnnng was, generally speaking, Neu tralist. Mainly because aggres sors could never pronounce It. Which put a crimp in fighting speeches. So love and neutral ism ruled in Vhtnnng. Then the Cold War started. 'Brother Princes," said the then Neutralist Prince, H. R. JENKINS and presumably higher, ceil ing for the coming year. SIMPLE, isn't it? You spend and spend and spend putting it on the cuff until the time comes when there is no longer any room left and then you put through a bill to BUY A NEW CUFF. It's a wonderful system. It beats the national lottery scheme all hollow. Culbertson En Rout To Active Duty Wesfc Col. Thomas A. Culbertson, Jr., of Medford, is en route to New York for a week's active duty with the United States Air Force. He will report to the Pentagon in Washington D.C., en route to New York and will visit the First Cen sorship squadron. Colonel Culbertson Is com' mander of the Censorship team of 40 officers and men at the Sixth Air Force Re serve Region, Hamilton Air Force Base, Calif. He has been assigned to this base for the past five years. "Quit moaning. So the Gallup Poll has never anted you maybe you're In the wrong socle-eeenemi group!" Visit' to Italy Due to and that six to eight weeks might be needed to form a new government. In aueh an event, a Kennedy visit to Italy at that time would be wasted-effort. In any case, Kennedy is scheduled to pay an official visit to Italy early in 1064 which should sooth any ruffled feelings caused by a cancellation now. Churchill Successor Sir Winston Churchill's an nounced retirement as a member of parliament from Woodford, which he won by a 10-1 margin in 1930, leaves one of Britain's safest seats open for some Conservative candidate. There has been talk in the party that Church ill's outspoken journalist son, Randolph, will be asked to run at Woodford. But a better H. Phtoom, in a nationwide address to all 182 Vhtnnn gians, "let our ringing motto be: 'The Cold War So Who Needs It?'" And everybody cheered. Only this made the East and West mad. "Anybody who isn't for us is against us!" warned Washington warning- ly. "Anybody is against us who isn't for us!" growled Moscow growllngly. Sr Prince Phtoom sighed and scratched his head and, with many misgivings, or dered his brothe.-. Prince Sis boombah to overthrow him and become a Bastion of De mocracy. Which Sisboombah did. And Washington sent him billions of dollars. In fact, this worked so well that a third brother. Prince Suwanee Rivah, went into business for himself as a Communist rebel. And Moscow sent him bil lions of rubles. Vhtnnng grew rich. But after several years of bloody, hand-to-hand com bat," (according to the Princes' press releases) a Vhtnnngian corporal was ac cidentally burned by a fire cracker. Old Prince Phtoom was shocked. "The money isn't worth it," he said. "Somebody might get seriously injured. Let us put away our fire crackers and go home." And they did. East and West were furious. No bloody combat? It was a waste of money. Something had to be done. So they nego tiated and negotiated and fi nally reached a Great Com promise; they overthrew Prince Sisboombah and re-installed good old Prince Phtoom. Who by now was a Passionate Neutralist. But Prince Suwanee-Rivah had acquired three French starlets on the Riviera to sup port. And in a year he was on the shorts for rubles. So he re volted again. "That's revolting!" cried Prince Phtoom angrily. "I don't care if somebody does get hurt." And he ordered his Loyal Royal Army to load its guns. Which was unheard of. And it was then he made the stirring speech so fraught with significance for us stu dents of Laos today: "Men," he shouted to his massed troops, "let's all get out there and die for Neu tralism!" e e As you might guess, the soldiers mulled that over, lnnlrfw ot arh nthnr laiH down their guns and went off 10 compose love poems, wmcn Is In tan that uhilp mon will die for many things. Neutral ism simpiy nn i one ot mem. And, in a way, that's a very sad thing to say. bet is Hrs. Doris Moss, the constituency's con servative chairman and a good friend of Churchill's. Popularity Centesli Soviet diplomats are confi dent Cuba's Fidel Castro will drop his reported plan to vis it Peking, boviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has been Try and -By BENNETT CERF- BOB HOPE, entertaining a nabobs, told then?, "You progress. I can remember when the commercials were no louder than the rest of ihe showl" Referring to lis friend and arch-rival lack Benny, Hope con- leased, "I don t know ex ictly how old Jack really a, but after visiting the Colosseum in Rome, Jack old me, 'It's nice enough -if you like modern.' " Two high-salaried adver- Jslng executives discovered it a dinner party that they ere being treated by the tame, psychiatrist, and de dded to play a fiendish trick on him. One hit the couch at eleven in the morning and gave lurid details of a long and involved dream he had had the sight before. The other arrived at three p.m. and reported that lie had had precisely the same dream. Then he looked up to note the psychiatrist's reaction. All that the psychiatrist did, book, and remark calmly, "Here's the THIRD patient today who dream!" O 186J. tr Bennett Cert Distributed by lCiof Features Syndicate Strictly Personal By Sydney (c) Field Enterprlsea. ine. LIBERATION The best things work for their own reduction and elim ination. It we understand this curious pro cess, we can then judge the value and the direction of our ef forts. "M e d icine," said Lord Bryce, "is the only p r o f e s sion narru ' that labors in cessantly to destroy the rea son for its own exis ence." The aim of the art of med icine when it is not pervert ed by greed is to put itself out of business. The aim of parenthood, likewise, ought to be to set the child on its own feet and make parents more and more superfluous. The aim of true education is to make the stu dent less and less dependent upon the teacher ancMhe text book. Nixon To Fade, GoldwaterSays Beverly Hills, Calif. -IUFD-Sen. Barry Goldwater(R-Ariz.) predicts former Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon will fade into political obscurity by moving to New York. "He will speak as a Repub lican and we will welcome him," Goldwater said. "But political precedent shows that he will not be able to be a strong force in our party." Nixon, defeated last fall in his bid for governor of Cali fornia, announced Thursday he was joining a Manhattan law firm. "If he went for his own personal good," Goldwater said, "I can t blame him. I can't imagine a better place than New York for a lawyer with his background. "But as far as speaking on a policy-making level, I be lieve precedent shows he will not be a leader." Goldwater was here as fea tured speaker at the ISth an nual Forest Lawn Founda tion writing awards banquet. As far as his future is con cerned, Goldwater told a news conference it would not be posible for him to run on the same ticket with New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, no matter who the presidential nominee is. "This is not possible," he said. "For example, I might be speaking in Chicago against medicare and he would be speaking in California: at the same time in favor of the is sue." RALLY SQUAD NAMED Ashland - Four girls have been named to the Southern Oregon college rally squad for next year. Named were Julie Bratton. a freshman from Klamath Falls: Mavis Loisella, freshman from Tulelake, Calif.; Karen Moe. freshman from F.ugene; and Pam Gilkt ion, a sophomore from Med' ford. Vote going out of his way to win back Castro's friendship dur ing the letter's Moscow visit. and apparently wants to take no chances on Peking'! un doing his efforts to align Cas tro with Kremlin policies. Things seem to be going well for Khrushchev, and the signs are that he is prepared to pay a high price for Castro'a smiles. Stop Me huge audience of television fellows have made amazing however, was to shut his note a strange coincidence. You're has told me of exactly the same J. Harris In these three essential realms the physical the intellectual and the emo tional the proper end of medicine, education and parenthood is the freedom of the object. Whatever binds the object more tight ly violates this end and damages the object. This Is ihe only test we can apply to discover whether eur dedication and love are real or counterfeit for the counterfeit always discloses Itself by trying to possess the object rather than liberate it. Parental love, for in stance, should be a ladder, leading ihe child upward and outward; too often, however, it is a cage or a chain or a corset of unyield ing suffocation. Its aim it not the child's liberation, but the parent's gratifica tion. We can see how this ner. verted process works most clearly in education. The most oaaiy miseaucated person la the one Who must cnntinnallv use references, appeal to authorities, and substitute what has already been said py omers lor nis own think ing. His education has crip pled him for creative thought ana maae mm totally de pendent on "the books." The readiness ninurnM painful in part) to" give up their children la tha mrot found characteristic of gen uine parental love. Just as tha doctor aims at liberating tha patient from his nhvsiral ills and the teacher aims at liber ating the pupil from his intel lectual confinements, so the parent must aim at freeing the child from its emotional dependencies. And the end of thia nararlnv is that only when the child Is tnus tree can he have tha proner attachment tn hie na. ents; only when we allow his inaepenaence can he then freely offer us love and re spect. Without Conflict onrt without resentment. It is tha hardest lesson to learn that the goal of parenthood is not to reian forever hut tn ahrfi. cate gracefully at the right lime. College Classes Name New Officers Ashland - Elections of next year's class officers were con ducted at Southern Oregon college May 1, according to student body president Bill Bebber, Ashland. Terry Cas ten, Medford, was elected senior class president. Other newly-elected senior class officers are Charlene Highland, Medford, vice-president; and Barbara Tyler, Medford, secretary. New Junior class officers are Linda Smith. Klamath Falls, president; Chuck Holt, Medford, vice-president; and Robbie Durham, Cottage Grove, secretary. Sophomore class officers are Walt Clevenger, Grants Pass, president: Lynn Merri man, Ashland, vice-president; Edna Williams. Sutherlin. sec retary; and Dave Redfeldt, I Grants Pass, treasurer.