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4 A UH0BDtf&3iTUBUHB "Everyone in southern Oregon Publuhoo bally except SaturdayDy MEDFORD PIUNjUiC CO 13 North rirSl,Ph77a.lil SSntoT ur jttlHL Editor HERB GREY AdverUHM NUnaier GERALD T LATHAM, Bui Mir ERIC W ALLEN JR, Una Mttor RICHARD JEWETt Spoil. Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women t Edlloi DALE ERICKSON, CirculaUonMJ Entered ee mcond claee rd eecond claee matter at subscripti6n ratxs "Mly and Sund.y-1 '" Dally end Sunday,- moe 10.00 Daily and Sunday 3 moa 8.00 By Cimei-And Motor Route. 'Dally and Sunday-I year S3100 Dally and Sunday I mo Sunday Only 1 mo. w Carrier and Vendort Copjf " 6rtlcUlPaper ol City of Medford laiPjper Jackaoii County United rreai in"i yull Leaied Wire n , -i bnn Mwinleturei mber"of audit bureau" "t:5"S..!r."M virk Chi. ttgo Delrolt. Sen Franclaco. Loi AnniH. Seattle. Portland NIWa'Arll RATION At lOITOIIAl MemDer Calllornla Newepaper PubUehera AaaociaUon Flight o' Time Mall Trlbona 10, 20, 30, and 50 yaart ago. fr Mir m. 10 YEARS AGO ' May 12, 18S3 (Tuesday) Hearings on the first 17 protested mineral patent ap plications on Rogue River Na- i tlonal forest lanas lasreu ,; hnnt 15 minutes this morning when the claimant fBlled to appear. At least three more Med- ; ford establishments have re celved licenses to sell liquor by-the-glast. . 20 YEARS AGO May 12, 1 (Wednesday) Arts Throckmorton, 00, dlej; ...j ntaina twice in cover- ed wagon and resided t Ruch aince 1883. rrom Arthur Perry's "Ye Pot" column: "To- to Dlants and ice-cream .i.i. nut nut and on. prema- turely, have been nipped by the frost." 30 YEARS AGO May 12, 1133 (Friday) ' Rogue valley National Guard companies to hold an nual review In Medford Ar mory. Former President Herbert Hoover headed for fishing trip on Rogue river. 40 YEARS AGO May 12, 1S23 (Saturday) First tourists of season reach Crater lake. Poor fishing on Rogue riv f humeri on snow water and fish ladder at Savage Rapids dam. (0 YEARS AGO May 12, 1813 (Monday) Additional eaulpment ar- rives In Medford Installation at local weather station. Arches of welcome being rnnatructcd on M e d f o r d's Main St. In preparation for arrival of 1,500 delegates to grand lodge of IOOF. What's Your I.Q.? Nina at tan cotiat h lueeilen even er elM li ascallsaii five ar lii ii good. 1. What Is the birth stone for the month of June? 2. The Isle of Capri (s un der the sovereignty of which country? 3. What date Is fixed by the Constiutlonal amendment as the date for the beginning of regular sessions of Con gress? 4. Monrovia is the capital of what African republic? 5. The Aswan Dam It lo cated In which country? 6. Did Hitler become dic tator of Germany In 1031 1032, or 1933? 7. In which war did the U.S. obtain the Philippines' 8. Of which Latin Amur- lean republic It Quito the cap- ital? 9. Name the capital of Maryland. 10. What sra bounds the Philippine Islands on the west? Answersi 1. Paarl. 2. Italy. 3. January 3. 4. Liberia, t. Egpyi. t. 1131. 7. Spanith Amarlcan. I. Ecuador. 9. An napolis. 10. South China Baa. SUNDAY, MAY 12. 1983 Seashore Opponents It is now apparent that the proposed Oregon Dunes National Seashore has almost overwhelm ing approval from the people of Oregon. . Trie opponents are a relative few, mostly in the immediate area involved. Some of them object to the proposal on principle; some of them because of fear of how it will affect them personally fears, incidentally, which are mostly without any foundation. But the opponents are vocal and determined. And, in the view of at least one observer, they themselves are going to help cause the creation of the seashore. e e e e THIS apparent paradox is explained by Charles V. Stanton, editor of the Roseburg News Review, who himself first opposed the Seashore, then became a reluctant supporter of it. He said: "In my opinion, the very attitude of the residents of the area is assuring a transfer to the National Park Service. , "It is evident . . . that they insist upon the status quo. They want no cnange. incy want no rauum, They want no regulation. They want no interference. "But the area proposed to be Included in a National Seashore has one very outstanding attribute. The whole coastal strip Is most definitely recreational In character. The recreational asset should and must be preserved for future generations ... "Residents of western Lane county have vigorously fought off all suggestions for zoning, land use or any other regulations which might preserve the recrea tional resource . . . Coos county residents have been dragging their feet ... "So long as the residents of the area are unwilling to cooperate and to Join in preservation of the recre ational resource, a resource to which all people claim ownership, while insisting upon maintaining the status quo, coupled with complete rejection of all land use regulation, there is no alternative, as I see It, to the national park program, expensive though It may be." Thus Mr, Stanton. It would be poetic justice if the most ardent opponents of the Seashore become a principal reason for its creation. E. A. Is Gambling Is gambling a sin? Is ful? The Questions are aee cerning them has been . 1 T 1 . tne iMew nampsnire legislature wnicn ei up the first state-ran lottery in the nation in nearly 70 years. ' ' Few would areue seriously cnat a Dingo game onerated to raise money sinful, for immoral, or very many people ge.t too upset1 when tney near ahntit. a neighborhood nennv-ante noker came. These, of course, are the crap tables and slot machines ol Las vegas, But wherein are they different in principle? - tv . , e'- '- WHY is tossing a coin to see who's going to nnw fnv the rfiffpe fnnnpent and harmless. i m i-i d4i,-i j i. wniie swKintr aiuu on me ful? Do thev differ in anv These are problems fully resolved in tne mincis 01 most or us. Ana thus most of us are, to a degree, hypocritical. The snvereip-n state of Orecon is a hvnocrite. too. For, though the Constitution forbids lotter ies, the state allows, and benefits financially from, nari-mutuel betting which are out-and-out definition. T , .... , ,ii. l airy, nomuer generals to De- HERE is something in human nature thatueve in bombers, carrier likes to "take a chance," whether it be a "dmirais t0 believe in car- business venture or a $2 Business gambles such as insurance com panies playing the odds on life expectancy are eminently respectable. But organized gambling as m Las vegas oiten is regaraea as shamelui, in large pan, pernaps, Decause 01 thp t.vnfi nf riBonle it attracts. . , It may even be that ambivalent attitude toward gambling. When it . . I l-l l 1L i ll ..lUL. is aone Dy respeciaoie when done by "shady ana immoral. IT IS true that some people can become addicted A in irarnhliniT iiiat na to drugs and alcohol. ilies have gone hungry has cambled his money It is also true that, where organized gamoung is allowed, the door is open to other sins and vices corruption, bribery of police and other officials, and often rackets and prostitution. But we question whether these adverse effects of gambling make gambling, as such, wicked. Certainly it is not so regarded in some parts of the world where state-operated lotteries have been conducted without scandal ana witn evi dent majority approval. THE moralistic attitude toward gambling was recently stated well in his column in the uregon statesman, we saia "This (New Hampshire's action) la bound to excite the moral forces across the nation who will denounce this means of raising revenue. It's a gamble, with all the vice of gambling which preys on the greed of human beings. For many it becomes compulsive and the trail from the betting camps and slot machines is Uttered with suicides, bankruptcies, embezzlements." We are not about adopt New Hampshire s plan for a state lottery, We have long deplored the hypocrisy of Ore irnn's lottery can nlus horse and dotr bcttinc. We acknowledge the often ensue from gambling, legal or oincnvi.se, But can someone tell us just why gambling purely as chance-taking, Immoral? it immoral? Is it harm - old. Discussion con revived by the action of 1 1 ! 1 L ... for a church is really harmful. Likewise, not different in. intent fi'bm I, a i i ,i .' : ; run ox uie uice io sin way except in degree? that have never been on horse and dog races lotteries by any honest bet on the ponies, last is tne Key to our pcopie, 11 is an tigm; characters," it is sinful thou pun Vippnrnfi nrlrlietfirl It is true that some fam because tne wage-earner away. by Charles A. Sprague to propose that Oregon deplorable effects which is immoral fc. A. MEDFORD "You Know What? A Lot Of People Down Here Are Jutt Plain Prejudiced Against Us" Matter of Fact y jo..Ph ai.p (c) New York Herald McNAMARA AND THE CHIEFS Washington-T h e replace ment of Adm. Anderson as Chief of Naval Operations has at least tempo rarily intens ified the at tack on Secre tary of D e fense Robert M c N a mara, M c N a mara, it 1 a being said, must stop "interfer Ing" with the Altop the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is high time, therefore, to examine the basic question that has divided Secretary McNamara from certain mem bers of the Joint Chiefs. The question Is whether the great decisions about the character and scope of our defense program should be made by the Joint Chiefs-by the pro fessionals, as they like to put It-or by the Secretary of De fense and the President. Anyone seeking the right answer to this question must always keep in the very fore front of his mind the central fact of modern national de fense. , e e' THIS central fact, which makes our national de fense problem different from any in the past, is simply the'' relentless and terrifying pro gress of the countless sclentl. fic specialties with military applications. Military technol ogy, which might change once a century before the industrial era, and once very 20 years before the Second World War, is now in a condi tion of continuous, rapid revo lution. Because of this continuous technological revolution, a senior commander who Is not obsolete before he puts up his fourth star is a very rare bird Indeed. It is in the nature of cavalrymen to believe in cav alry, homber generals to be- 1ICIO, ITIICII MIC WCMfUIIO 11ICJT believe In become obsolete, generals and admirals usually become obsolete at the same moment, because they will not change their beliefs. The record of the U. S, Army and Navy between the two wars affords countle l melancholy proofs of this rule, like the fate of Gen. Billy Mitchell, who fell victim to the Army's ruling cavalry men and also to the Navy's ruling battleship admirals. 1WE primitive ship-bombing tests of the '20s ouaht to have been quite sufficient to show the battleship admirals how wrong they were. At vast expense, the battleship admir als refused to be convinced until 1041, when the Prince of Wales and the Repulse went down under rather weak Japa nese air attacks. In this re spect, moreover, our own ex ( J1 "Hay. Mie, whara s lha action?" MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. Tribune Syndicate perience exactly parallels foreign experience. The tank doctrine so bril liantly proclaimed by Col. Charles de Gaulle ought to have formed the basis of French and British military planning before the last war. But no one then was strong enough to force modernization upon the French and British General Staffs. So the de Gaulle doctrine was heeded only by the German General Staff, which had benefited from that great reformer and modernizer of all military services, and resulted in total defeat. In that era technological change was like a glacier, whereas now it is like a rush ing torrent. The most con spicuous and horrifying post war object lesson is the story of the Air Staff's manage ment of our early missile de velopment. WHEN the war ended, it must be remembered, the Air Staff was wholly controll ed by senior officers who were even more deeply con vinced that "nothing would replace the bomber" than Gen. Curtis LeMay is con vinced today. Missile develop ment was so weakly pushed that it took the U. S. several years to build a single work able Chinese copy of a Ger man V-2 missile taken as war booty. In addition, the bomber men on the Air Staff laid down specifications for the first American long-range missile which would have required a weapon of the approximate size and configu ration of the Empire State Building. The specifications themselves effectively for- bade a serious ICBM program In 1953, however, we were saved the word is by no means too strong by two civilians, former Secretary of the Air Force Harold Talbott and his Assistant Secretary Trevor Gardner, both of whom were subsequently fired for their pains. They first secured the appointment of the committee headed by the late Dr. John Von Neu mann, to study our missile program. rTHE Von Neumann Commit- A tee report proposed radi cal changes tn tne Air ataii specifications, to permit the ned ICBM design which has now resulted In our existing Atlases and Titans. The Air Staff response was bitterly all but unanimously negative Acceptance of the Von Neu mann report was in fact im posed on the Air Force by Talbott and Gardner, and they alone persuaded the then-Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, to put the Von Neumann program Into effect, despite the Air Staff opposition. There are, in truth, only two ways to have a modern defense when technology is WELCOME TO NEW HAMPSHIRE OREGON Today Cr Tomorrow By Walter c I9S3. The ON VACCINATING THE GERMANS On the face of it, there is something strange about the urgency with which the ad- ministrati o n has been push ing the Brit ish, the Ital ians and the Germans-par ticularly the Germans-toac- v. ccpt a scheme for a Europe an nuclear Lippmaoa force. Al though the administration in sists that the United States has a nuclear power which is quite adequate for the defense of the West, It continues to press the Europeans to inter est themselves in nuclear mat ters. Why? The administration does not like General De Gaulle's nuclear enterprise. It thinks poorly of the British nuclear effort. -Yet it keeps slogging along toward a "multi-lateral" scheme which would bring the Germans into the nuclear business and, inci dentally, induce them to pay a large share of the cost. THE underlying motive of this strange behavior is a fear that the Germans insist on Imitating the British and the French, that they will be gin to cry out that they, too, must have nuclear power be cause, if they are not a nucle ar power, they will be a second-class country. It is as sumed by the medicine men of the administration that if Germany were then refused nuclear weapons, the country could, and probably would, revert to the militarism of the first world war if not the Nazism of the second. There is the shadow of Franz -Josef Strauss and his Bavarian fol lowers. Therefore, it is ur gently necesary to do some thing to prevent the Germans from reverting to type. The something that has to be done, it is then argued, is to make the Germans feel that they are a first-class European nation with nuclear power while at the same time not giving them any genuine nu clear power. There is to be a multi-later al nuclear force in European waters, manned by crews in which there will be some Ger mans and paid for in part by the West German government. Germans are to participate in the targeting and planning of this force. The purpose of these clumsy and complicated devices is, to put it bluntly, to vaccinate the Germans against wanting a nuclear force of their own. It is, I believe, an amateur ish, naive and deeply unwise project. The supposedly killed virus in the vaccine is just as likely to be a live virus. Moreover, far from this being a way to treat the Germans with dignity and self-respect and as equal partners, it treats them as an incurably danger ous people. They are to be in oculated against a congenital propensity to become rabid. But the supposed vaccination is to consist of their being al- progressing with great speed. One is to trust to civilian control. The other is to per mit the cavalrymen, or who ever their successors may be, to spend all they choose on their pet weapons, and then to provide enough additional funds to buy the newer wea pons as well. That, it must be added, is why the Joint Chiefs of Staff this year submitted a budget $13 million higher than the final McNamara budget. This Is the By ERIC SEVAREID By its dominant voices, its most unforgettable faces and its chief acts of bravery docs generation recognize It- BVll UIIU IMS ( lory mark it. For America, this post-war period Is sure ly the era of the Negro pas sion. The most moving voices aavareia are now those of Negroes; the most searing, lasting words are put on pa per by Negro writers; their music is the American music most penetrating and persuas ive to other parts of the world: no cause is now to fundamental to the health and integrity of this society as the Negro cause: of no other lead ers are to much stamina and courage demanded as are now required of Negro leaders. They are bound to win, somehow, not only because their present alms are so lim ited and unarguable, but be cause they have succeeded In involving us all, whoever we are, wherever we live within the nation frontiers. They have caught the attention of th whole American peopl lippmann Weihtniton Pa lowed to look at, to put their hands on and to smell nuclear weapons. e e e IF WE mean to treat the Ger mans as equals, we should begin with the reason why, even If Britain and France have nuclear weapons of their own, the West Germans must not and should not have them today. This is not because the West Germans must be made to suffer more for the crimes of Hitler. It is because, as a consequence of Hitler's crimes, Germany was defeat ed, occupied and divided. It remains divided because the four occupying powers and the two German states have not been able to agree on a plan for the reunification of Germany. As long as Ger many is divided, it is a sick nation with a grievance. As such, it must not have the power to redress its grievance by going to war. The truth of the matter is, and all sensible Germans know it, that Ger many is not a normal Euro pean state as long as it is di vided and occupied. Because Germany is abnormal, she must not have the means and she must not live under the temptation to make war. Germany, therefore, ca n have full equality only when reunification has been achieved and her grievance removed. THE right approach to the German question, the right way to vaccinate the Germans, is by taking ser iously the problem of German reunification. This has been In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Many of our nation's news papers (this one not included) printed a picture the other day of the Simon Bolivar status in Washington that was decidedly unusual. The status, located across the street, from the Interior Department building, ' depicts the great Latin American lib erator mounted on a spirited horse and waving his sword above his head. The picture was unusual be cause it showed an AMERI CAN FLAG flying from the tip of Bolivar's sword. 1IHAT happened? " A Irlrk nholnpranhpr man. euvered his camera around until he got the flag flying from its staff above the In terior Department building exactly in line with the tip ot the Bolivar sword and pushed the button. The result was the startling picture. ITNUSUAL? Not at all. m Washington they are, and long have been, expert at making things look like they ain't. MORE from Washington: " Latin America is in dangerous period because of conflicting social and eco nomic pressures, according to Phlllippe de Seynes, United Nations undersecretary for Economic and Social Affairs. Undesecretary de Seynes add ed: "It is true that Latin Am erica is going through a par ticularly dangerous period in which the social aspirations- having grown more rapidly man economic capacity, ex press themselves in impati ence and sometimes in an ger." Era of the and, more than that, thev caught up the conscience of tin. whole people, however many of us may try to deny this to ourselves. A news paper or television picture of a snarling police dog set upon a human being is recorded in the permanent photo-electric file of every human brain. This generation is not like ly to find surcease from the Negro Passion; its source springs and the resistance to it are too deeply grounded for easy resolution, and its present outburst too long de layed. Its more violent mani festations are not going to be confined to the deep South. The head of black steam build ing up in places like New York, Washington and Chica go arc finding outlets too-few and too small, at the present rate, for the permanent avoid a nee of combustion. Because t h I r unfolding drama Involves the automatic reflexes of the Instinctive sense of justice, because it In volves namable, hearable. countable individual persons of flesh and blood, It la going to dwarf the general and so cial pageants of this domestic era, whether they be th struggles to ra!loi-.!,ie the In choat megalapolit, to pre THINGS YOU WOULDNT KNOW IF YOU HADN T READ THEM HERE Artichokes are much bet ter If swallowed whole . . . Excessive TV viewing can re sult In a condition known in the trade as fried eye balls . . . Robin Hood got his start steal ing bicycles from rich mes senger boys and giving them to poor messenger boys ... A western martini with an on ion in it instead of an olive is called a Hoot Gibson . . . The Jayne Mansfield Fan Club has more men than women . . . If you're a flea, happi ness is a warm puppy . . Prince Rainier is our idea of a poor but honest million aire . , . imnoBsible under Dr. Aden auer. When he leaves office, it should begin to be possible to interest the West German gov ernment in the prospects of a gradual and controlled draw ing together of the two Ger manys. If the two Germanys begin to draw together, it will not be possible for Mr. Khru shchev and his successors to keep the two Germanys apart. It is a poor business, our seeking to beguile the Ger mans with phony nuclear tri fling. The central principle and purpose of our German policy should be the reunifi cation of Germany and with it the end of the inequalities and the servitudes which are the consequences of Hitler's war. He concluded: "This is a period in Latin America In which certain ar chaic structures resist essen tial reforms." 1IELL, HE WAS talking in official Washington gob- bledy-gook, and as a result no body outside Washington has even the foggiest idea of what he was talking about. Thats one of the things that are wrong with our fed eral government ' In these days. ", OTILL more from Washing- ion: - ' - ' - The U. ' S. Foreign Aid Agency has dropped a pro ject to bring EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION to underdevel oped countries. The project, part of an aban doned $1.6 million program would have put more than 1, 000 large transistorized tele- vision sets out in remote areas of Africa and elsewhere. The idea came under fire in congress last year, and was postponed. AS NEARLY AS CAN be determined, the idea was to park big TV sets out in the African jungle - so that in intervals between their tribal wars the natives might be enabled to come and see MODERN CULTURE, and thus be diverted from their evil ways. Question: Do you reckon their trib al ways are any worse than the W8ys of life they might have picked up from watch ing modern TV? tviaemiy someoody in au thority had his doubts, and so the idea was abandoned Personally, I think it was just as wen. Negro Passion serve the open space, to erad icate a disease, to "conquer" space, or whatever. The time Is coming, soon, when the Negro Passion will truly dominate American pol itics. It is going to change the prism through which we con sider the problems of far-off nations; romanticism will have to give way to realism. Liberalism of the academic or cafe society brand - the moti vations of those who rhapso dize over the Peace Corpsmen in Ethiopia or journey 6.000 miles to sit at the feet of Dr. Schweitzer, but who would never dream of visiting the night police court In their own city and observing the tragedy ot the American Negro - such Impulses arc going to lose their present staus in the hier archy of the virtues. There will be a noticeable dearth of hiding placet for those pro fessing belief either In their religion or the American Constitution. a An education In the facts f life and history is in store for those pained by the messy contradictions built In to the Negro Passion. Those bewild ered at the Negro uprising ("alter all, they had made a lot of progress') may learn that thit it one of the eternal ..wo. TELEVISION IN TOKYO According to th Nailian ratings, wrestling account! for three of tha fop rated twenty shows in Tokyo. Th Jetsons, Popeya and Our Gang Comedies are th only thre American shows Jo find favor in th top twenty. Thar Isn't a single weitern, not yn an east-rn-weiern. "Zubari Ate masho", on of th mot popular shows, is a Japanese rersion of "Th Plic Is Light.' S5o HOW IT BEGAN It's the deep South in 1851 and a plantation owner tells his overseer that he wants all the slaves out in the field) hour earlier every day. The overseer drawls some thing like, "Great, chief, what are you all going to call it?" Having been fed his straight line, the plantation owner re plies, "Daylight Slaving Time, what else?" TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRIC GARBAGE CAN Maybe you haven't heard about th man out Phoenix way who decided to do something about neighbor hood dogs knocking over hit garbage can at night Having torn knowledge of electricity, h wired th garbage can so that ii would give th dogs a terrifying, but non-fatal, jolt if they at much at dared touch their wt noses against it. (Pleas understand that w don't approve of this tort of thing). At a safety precau tion, he added a twitch at hit back door to that hit lectronie dog tcarer could b turned off aach morning. Anyway, he forgot to throw the twitch on morning and a contcientiout and hard working garbage man reach ed for th can and . . . powl Th ending it quit simple, really, Th dogs' ar back -happily pushing over th garbage can and our elec trical friend tpendt hit Sat urdays hauling hit own gat bag to lha dump. , . . . 5z WE KEEP OUR PULSE ON THE FINGER OF THE PEOPLE We stopped a typical man-on-the-street the other day to ask how he felt about Rocke feller's recent marriage. Hii reply, interesting to say the least, was, "How's the old coot going to support a wife If he keeps on giving all them dimes away?" MIDGET MOSIALS LEARN SPORTSMENSHIP FROM MAD MOTHERS II really happened ever at Nyssa in eastern Oregon but w tuppot it could hap pen any place. A crucial pea wee league baseball gam was In progress whan two mothers of opposing players started to have heat ad words over an umpire's decision. Th gam was call ed a few minutes later after the two mothers ttaried beating aach other over th head with their puries. lessons from past ' rebellions against oppression. It is not when the oppression is most complete that these revolu tions begin to revolve, but when concessions are given, hopes are born, light is glimpsed at the end of tha dark tunnel. It is when an oppressed people feels close to its goal, not far from it, that their action becomes frenetic. tea Those who are cynical or upset by the moral quality in the Negro phenomenon, by the spectacle of lofty courage and self-sacrifice among the Negro leaders, side by side with the spectacle of spread ing crime and moral squalor in the slum-bound masses of the Negro poor, may learn that the first is a direct re flection of the second, in natural, not ita unnatural partner. Desperation, like, wir, ennobles some among Its victims and debases others. No true people's revolution was ever neat, clean or de void of tad anomalies. If the Negro Passion of to day is not a true people's rev olution, it Is as close to on as we have ever known in our land. (Distributed 1963, by Th Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Reserved) A
