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4 A """EverVono lri8outhent Oregon RwU TheJKalJjrrtbunT PuSnarnd Daily except Saturday by aUSDKORD PRINTING CO , n North rir St. pn.j7ii-aii .' ROBERf VifRUHL. Editor HERB GREY AdverUln Manjter P.ESli n T I ATHAM Bus Ma ERIC W ALLEN JR. Mn Editor EARL H ADAMS," City Editor RICHARD JEWKTT. Sportt Editor OLIVE SI ARCHER Women Edlloi DALE ERICKSONIrcjjUUojMr An lnd.per.dent Newspapei Entered a second class matter St Medforo. ureaon unuw March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES t m-ii tn Advance Dally and 8unday 1 year 118 00 Daily and Sunday 6 moa 10 00 Daily and Sunday 3 moa 500 ' Sunday Only One year 13.00 Simla Copy (Mailed! IBo fty CaiTiel And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year S2 00 Dally and Sunday J tno Sunday Only I mo. wo arrlndVndorCopy 100 Official Paper ol City of Medford Olllclal Paper ol Jaclcum County United Prew International rult Leaaed Wire U. P. t Telephoto Newplcturea 'HCMBEB or AUDIT BUREAU 'JRLATIONS ATES Or'icea In New York. Chi r caio Detroit, San rrsnclsco. Los Annies SeatUe. Portland . Den"er. r" NEWiPAPH UliHEtS ASSOCIATION NATION Al EDITORIAL Memoer Calllornla Newapaper Publlahera Aaaociatton Flight o' 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 16. 1953 (Saturday) Medford, host city for the 21st annual Pacific Northwest Shrine association during the past three days, started re turning to normal today as the last of the visiting Shriners started for home, A survey for a proposed emergency landing strip be tween Medford and Klamath Falls has been authorized by the state board of aeronautics. 20 YEARS AGO May 16, 1943 (Sunday) -,- Newsrecl cameramen pho tnaraoh simulated attack on "German village" conducted by trooos at Camp White. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A number of new autos" are showing up. Either that or they have been washed as never before. 30 YEARS AGO May 18, 1833 (Tuesday) Local ranchers receive fed eral aid for financing fruit crops. Danger of frost damage to valley fruit crops ends; pear crop expected to be heavy. 40 YEARS AGO May 18, 1823 (Wednesday) Graduates of Oregon State collego reported seeking work In Rogue valley orchards. . Bulk coffee sells in Medford grocery stores for 40 cents a pound, SO YEARS AGO May 18. 1913 (Friday) Survey works started for Medlord trolley line; construc tion to start by June 1. U.S. district court denies city of Medford right to adjust rate schedule of Home Tele phone company of Southern Oregon. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina ei ran correct Is superior; even or tight ll aicallent; live or sis h good. 1. The twenty second amendment to the Constitu tion provides for what? . 2. Under which President's administration was the Re construction Finance Corpora tlon established? 3. Where did Christ pray In the evenings proceeding his crucifixion? . 4. Name the mythological messenger of the gods. 8. What Is the principal celebration of the Jewish Pass. over in the family home? 6. Which federal agency controls radio and television broadcasting? ' 7. Name the U. S. President who was bachelor. : 8. For which state Is "Con- ititution" the nickname? . B. What strait is at the southern tip of South Amerl- ca? 10. Is a condiment a kind of vehicle, pungent seasoning or paint coloring? Answers! 1, Limits tha Pres ident to two terms, 2. Herbert Hoover. 3. Cardan of Gelh soman. 4. Mercury. 5. Tha Bedar (Passover Supper), t. Federal Communications Com mission. T. Jamas Buchanan. I. Connecticut, t. Strait ot Magellan. 10. Pungent seasoning. I'm 02; THURSDAY. MAY 16. 1963 A Reply We received the following letter the other day: To the Editor: A correspondent of ours in Oregon tell us that you have shown an interest in the South's racial problems on your editorial page. We Southerners are delighted to see that other parts of the Nation arc becoming interested in the race problem and welcome the sincere desire to help. Would you on behalf of your subscribers welcome into your community several hundred Negro families from the South? If you will write such a welcome in the form of an editorial we will give it wide publicity throughout the South and will help raise the neces .' sary transportation cost for these Negro migrants. Perhaps you would print this letter in your letters to the editor column. We believe that the most nearly Christian solution to the race problem is migration and dispersion throughout our Nation. I am mailing you under sepa rate cover statistics on this subject which may interest you. Sincerely, III Robert B. Patterson Secretary Citizens' Council Greenwood, Miss, a MO, Mr. Patterson. We would NOT welcome ' "several hundred Negro families from the South" here not so long as they are shipped off like a bunch of diseased cattle just to get them out of your way. You. Mr. Patterson, your and their forebears, until 100 years ago. since tnen you nave ex Dloited them, refused them adequate education, refused them even a chance to improve them selves. You have prevented them from learning skills which would have made it possible for them to rise on the economic ladder. You. Mr. Patterson, generations have treated beings like sub-humans, subject to iyncnings, beatings, intimidation, night-riding. VOU and your ilk, Mr. Pattei'son, under the cruise of "states' rights," have made and kept an entire group of people second class citizens when, indeed, you permitted them any of the dignities and privileges You and your UK, by and even more overt methods including, most recently,' dogs, hoses and bombs have pre vented them from voting, from serving on juries, from attending your schools, even from using common lunch counters or restrooms. You say they are ignorant, irresponsible, lazy, unclean, diseased. In many cases this is true. And you are to blame; you and your determination to maintain your privileged status by holding others down, by depriving them or. the dignity and opportunity to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to which each American regard less ot color is entitled. - e , e a MO, Mr. Patterson, we offer, because it is a critical otfer; nearly as hypocritical as the slave trade itself. We do know that, inevitably in times to come, Americans whose skins are black will come here to live and seek a livelihood. And we know that it will bring problems difficult and serious problems, just as it has in Detroit and Chicago and Los Angeles and San Francisco, and Port land, and in other smaller communities. We will not welcome we have so far been without them, and no one likes to borrow trouble. Still, when the time that men of good will and they are legion will do their utmost to see that the problems are settled with fairness, justice and honor. QNE-SIXTH of the nation's population has dark skin. And these people, as never before in history, are demanding the right to be treated simply as Americans, and not as inferiors, as people set aside from the 1 hey are demanding own choices, and not to be shoved around, or to be shipped off like a group of slaves just to satis fy the malevolence of racist Citizens' Councils. We must, if we are which made America great, learn to live side- by-side with each other, and to deny equal oppor tunities to none. This will not be easy Negro. There are agonizing times ahead. But the challenge is one of the ever taced. They can meet it if bring themselves to do as they would have others do unto them. E.A Pollution A friend of ours in the us yesterday to say that we had been unfair when, in an editorial Tuesday, we gave no credit to local mills for trying to abate air pollution. Our friend has a point, and we hereby take pleasure in pointing out that some local mills nave, indeed, spent considerable sums in attempts some more successful than others to mini mize smoke and flyash The point of the editorial remains, however, uiui- an ordinance without any realistic enforce mcnt procedures is about as worthless as an ordi nance outlawing sin. There is the added, point, that much remains to be learned about now io aoate air poiiuium, and that an effective ordinance, with teeth, would be the best possible framework for such studies to be made with the urgency needed if the problem is to be solved in me ioreseeaoie future. to a Letter and your colleagues ana held Negroes as slaves and your fellows, for these fellow human of citizenship at all. collusion, subterruge, would, not accept your brutalizing, evil, hypo evil and brutalizing and these problems, because comes, we are convinced stream of life. the right to make their to live up to the ideals for anyone white or greatest Americans have and only if they can unto others, ALL others, Postscript lumber business called from their burners. and eouallv imnnvtant. E.A. " . . . Out, Out, Brief Candle! Life's But A Walking Shadow . . . ia"nm.Wayatywfg' m SV IH.,. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. Tha Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters 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 reoresent the views of r!" paper. In fact the contrary is often the case. An Old Story To the Editor: Sylvia Por ter, in "Your Money's Worth," takes the total personal in come in U.S., divides by the number of families and single individuals, and comes up op timistically with an average income of $7,140. Like the man wrote the other day about the fellow drowning in a river that was only an average of two feet deep, such deductions can be dangerous. Let's look al some other fig ures. According to the Fed eral Reserve Bulletin: "Twenty-five per cent of all American families have no liquid assets and 66 per cent of all families have less than $900 in liquid assets. "Fifty per cent of all fami lies have no saving account. Thirteen per cent have saving account balances of less than $200." Anybody over 50 can re member what was said be fore the depression of the thirties, that wo were on the threshold of the greatest era of prosperity in history, Just have faith, confidence and op timism. It's an old story, Frank Crum ' White City, Ore. Bird Calls To the Editor: A School for the Blind letter today comes from almost half-way round the world. It testifies they continue using recorded bird calls when snowbound, out-of-door bird music hikes in summer for their sightless. The year 1864 will mark the semicentennial of the dis covery, by us-?, of this nature study work. We were in Cop enhagen investigating Den mark's Nature Study Field Excursions, (later basis of U.S.A.'s National Park's Rang er Naturalist Movement). We were told applicants for teachers positions were grad ed on, not what they wrote, but on their pupils composi tions. The Danes invited us-2 to join a nature walk for blind kiddies, to Royal Deer Park at Klampenbourg. Prizes were for 3 grades: la) bullfinch, chaffinch, greenfinch songs, (b) the more musical black bird. (Theirs, a thrush, hence a songster. Ours an oriole with only a squeak.) (c) Top prize: the nightingale, none too com mon that far north. We-2 look notes, photo graphs, circulated a pamph let worldwide to Schools for the Blind. On a 10 -year check, one finds continued use after a half century. Some of your readers may even today spread the talc. C. M. Goethe 3731 Tea St. Sacramento 16, Calif. Horrible Example To the Editor: The Medford High School had a wonderful concert Tuesday night. It con sisted of the various fine sing ing grotips. competently train ed by Mr. Frame and Mr. Sjo hind. It was Indeed gratifying to see them and listen to the excellent work they had learned. My only complaint was, be lieve it or not, the audience! The attendance was woefully small and at least one third of them came late - straggling and clattering in during the singing. They were not con tent to quietly take a seat near the rear until the end of a selection, but they clomped down the aisles, some talking quite loudly, disturbing not only those who had the cour tesy to arrive before 8 when the performance began, hut creating so much disturbance to almost drown out the solo ists. I would estimate the ages of these "Johnny-comc-latcly" clods to be anywhere from 35 to SO - in any case mature enough to know better. What a horrible example of MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON rudeness to set before these young people who were try ing to give the parents and friends an example of their best abilities. (Name on file) ' Medford A Thank You To the Editor: A thank you is not adequate to express my appreciation for the wonder ful care I received from Dr. Buonocore and the entire staff while at the Sacred Heart Hospital, and to my many friends for the cheerful cards and letters and beautiful plants. I am convalescing al my daughter's home, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Elrod, 618 Cherry st.,and will be happy to have friends stop in there for a visit any afternoon or evening. Mrs. Ethel Guches 618 Cherry St. Medford Fair Trial and Hang 'Em To the Editor: So now I hear that the highwaymen are trying to take over historic Jacksonville, with a fast-draw action In the street - but not a fair fight. Armed with bulldozers and blasting powder, the engi neers intend to destroy what is unquestionably one of the West's finest mining camps witn a mocleVn highway. They seem to take great delight in such destruction, like small boys attacking their sister's sand castles. Apparently these engineers have no feel or respect for important places of our Amer ican heritage, which should be preserved for future gen erations. While we worry about destruction from the skies, mass destruction of cherished things is taking place right before our eyes. The ruination of historic places is a national scandal. What these highwaymen need is to take a course in "Ameri can appreciation." This sort of thing wrecked parts of California's Mother Lode. Now it threatens won derful old Jacksonville. But whenever landmarks have been saved, it's taken a lot of tough doing on the part of many people and a regular vigilance committee to ride herd on these renegades. So let's head -em off ai the pass. Tell 'em to pick up their gear and take their high way yonder, that-away. And if they don't, well pardncr, the Old West had a most ef fective way of dealing with highwaymen who became a nuisance and tried taking over a town. Give 'em a fair trial and hang 'cm. Ellis Lucia, 1835 North Highlaud, Portland 17, Ore. A Riddle To the Editor: Take a walk in the damp, May woods, and answer me a riddle: Has Nature, weary Willi the old things, taken a pattern and lashioncd a new Crea tion, alter endless ages of knowing countless cones that have fallen to the forest floor? ... Or have the disin tegrating atoms of innumera ble cones, decaying In the duff, conjured up a latent reincarnation - a dear re-use for their select numbers? For there, in the damp May woods, you will find cones unricscribed in botanical texts and historic nature-records (I cannot find ihcm). They stand erect upon the stem, but you cannot casually take them up to sack for starting early fires: they arc grown to the ground! The slender specimens, of light- brownish color, seem io be last year's white-pine cones faded by twelve month's rain, wind, and sun. Larger ones remain dark brown as freih ly fallen, but closer inspection Michel Debre, Once Back in French Asse By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Newt Analyst Michel Debre had the dis tinction of serving France as premier longer than any oth er man in the history of the five republics which follow ed the French Revolut t o n. He also had the dubious distinction of being the most - prominent a m o n g D e Gaulle followers to lose out in his bid for election to the French Assembly in the De Gaulle landslide of last No vember. But now Debre is . back again. Debre served as French premier from the beginning of De Gaulle's Fifth Republic on Jan. 8, 1859, to April 14, 1962. For 13 years, Debre had worked for De Gaulle's return to power and as premier no man could have served De Gaulle with greater loyalty. But a year ago, Debre re signed his office. Some said De Gaulle had eased him out. Debre himself said that with the settlement of the Algeria revolt, France was entering upon a new era which re quired new faces and that he himself was tired. When he lost out in the No vember elections, many said In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Question: What about the word SCRUBBED, used in the dis patches to indicate postpone ment, or cancellation? It's a part of the new world in which we're living - new manners, new mores,' new WORDS.! N THE world that is pass ing, this word SCRUB had two meanings, according to Webster: 1. To rub hard, to clean a thing by scrubbing, to cleanse of impurities. 2. To be diligent, or PENU RIOUS, as: "to scrub hard for a living." PENURIOUS! Scrubbing hard for a liv ing!!! Obviously, that meaning had to be got rid of. In this older world that we are leav ing b e h 1 n d, "penurious" meant EXCESSIVELY SPAR ING IN THE USE OF MON EY. In the newer world that we are entering, being sparing in the use of money is the last thing that must be thought of. It just mustn't be done any more. It must be SCRUBBED. NEW DAYS. NEW WAYS. There was a time when just making a living was the chief concern of Americans. Now we are spending twice as much to get to the moon as it cost to run our whole fed eral government as recently as 1940. In 1940, the total cost of the federal government was $9,062,032,304. Now the in terest on our national debt is about ten billion dollars -and we're spending 20 bil lion dollars to put a man on the moon. WHAT would our great grandfathers have thought of it all? One hates to say. It would sound profane. BUT -Let's not be cynical. Let's look at the doughnut and not at the hole. IX TAKES MEN to make worlds. It took MEN to strike out across the mysterious and ter rifying Western Sea to find this world of ours. After it was found, it look MEN to settle it and to make of it the best world ever yet known by man. It takes MEN to strike off into outer space. We still have that kind of men. Not only are they WILLING. They are eager for the chance and hold it to be a HIGH HONOR to be chosen. As long as we have that kind of men, we'll be all right. reveals a deep purple under tone, and tiny, orchid stars peep timidly out upon the world, from between the cone scales. As you stroll in the damp, living world of the May for est, stooping to touch - to feel and to commune with the life mere, take care: that pine- cone you are about to take up for gracing the manUc, may not come easily away with your hand. And If it does not, perhaps you, too, will have found one of these mysterious darlings of Nature. If you find them, and if you can - please tell us what they arc! V. Card. Route 2, Box 14. Jacksonville, Ore. he was the victim of his own loyalty to De Gaulle-that he was paying the penalty for serving as De Gaulle's hatchet man in the assembly. In any event, he seemed rel egated to obscurity. But Debre refused to admit defeat. A by-election on the French-owned island of Re union, 6,000 miles away, gave him another opportunity. He flew to Reunion, campaigned furiously and won. Now it is. anticipated that De Gaulle has another job for him as president of the Gaul list U.N.R. faction of the as sembly, where strong leader ship notably has been lacking at another difficult testing time for De Gaulle's leader ship. France, the former sick man of Europe, has become the strongest, but is thcatened by disastrous inflation. The government has de nonced "unreasonable" price and wage increases which it says threaten national expan sion. French coal miners broke Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris fc- Kleld Enterprises. Ine. PERSONAL PREJUDICES Apart from all other consid erations, the deep psychologi cal reason that we need some one to love us is that we can freely confess our faults and our .defects only to someone who acknowledges our love ability. When people flee tyranny and persecution, and set up a community of their own, they do not permit any more freedom to their own dissidents than they them selves had been permitted in tha past; with one excep tion, tha religious settlers in the New World ware just as harsh and tyrannical toward their heretics as the despots they fled from. What most people want is not freedom, but orthodoxy of their own sort. The layman's idea of rig orous proof is to say, "For example , . ." and then pro ceed to cite some case so ex ceptional and dramatic that it proves nothing of a general nature. - A woman who does not know how to keep quiet when she is in the. right quickly forfeits her moral advantage; as her lightness degenerates into self-righteousness, she loses her su periority and permits the man to counter-attack; for silence on the part of the woman is a much more ef fective weapon of domestic combat than haranguing. Speaking of the' sexes, secret lovers give themselves away more by avoidance than by engagement; as Bruyere ob served a long time ago: "A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression." It is relatively easy for us to delect when others are bad from good motives, and to be tolerant of them; what is much harder is to detect when we ourselves are good from bad motives, and to be intolerant of ourselves for presenting this plausible counterfeit of virtue. V The youth's quest for self knowledge is so tormenting and fruitless because self knowledge cannot be obtained alone, but only with another; we cannot know ourselves un til we have disclosed ourself to another and see our reflec tion in eyes that understand . . . and forgive. The moraliter who is so scandalised by "obscenity" everywhere would do well to ponder the remark by a true moralist, Thoreau, who said: "You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you." The world of politics today is a full generation behind the world of physics; the signifi cant "race" of our time is not the arms-race between na tions but the "thought - race" between our political practices and our potentialities for des truction, on both sides of the curtain. Walsh Reported in Fair Condition Today Former Jackson County Sheriff Joseph D. Walsh was reported In fair condition to day at Providen:c hospital in Portland following a five hour brain operation Wednes day afternoon. The Information was re ceived this morning from Portland by the Jackson coun ty sheriff's office. The In formation said that Walsh was recovering from the brain hemorrhage suffered last week. He was admitted to the hospital May 10. Walsh and his family now live in Portland where he is a salesman. - Out of Power, Now mbly: Tasks Seen through De Gautile's wage ceiling early in April with in creases of more than 6 per cent. Similar increases are being demanded in other na tionalized industries such as gas, electricity and transport. Wages in private industry have jumped 10 per cent or more. From the left the govern ment was being attacked as anti-labor. Matter of Fact tc) New York Herald LATER THAN WE THINK Washington - According to Attorney General Robert Ken nedy and his Justice Depart ment staff, who know more about the matter than any one else, the trag ic and horri fying events i n Birming ham have a lesson every Aisnp one needs to understand quite clearly. The lesson is that in this ag onizing area of race relations in the United States it is later than most of us think. It is later than we think be cause the extremists on both sides of the question are near er to taking over than most people supposewThat is what happened in Birmingham on Saturday night and Sunday morning. WHITE extremists, enraged by a moderate and civil ized settlement of Birming ham's segregation crisis, took to bomb-throwing. Negro ex tremists, incensed by this criminal outrage aimed at the Negro desegregation leaders. responded by rioting. The moderate settlement is now in danger-which is just what was wanted by the white exterm- ists, and maybe by some of the Negro extermists as well. This outcome was all the more saddening because the settlement in Birmingham rep resented such a success for foresight and common sense. The extreme explosiveness of the Birmingham race problem had been pin-pointed more than 18 months ago, in a Jus tice Department survey of po tential trouble spots in the South which was ordered by Attorney General Kennedy when he first took office. Leaders of - Birmingham's business community were al ready thinking that something had better be done about the problem. Their impulse seems to have been strengthened by the warning from the Justice Department to key persons in the Birmingham white com munity and to other persons with leverage in the city like the national executives of chain department stores doing business there, and of ' the Scripps Howard and New- house organizations which own the city's papers. 'THE result was a citizens' ! movement to oust the ul tra-segregationist city govern ment controlled by Police Commissioner Gene "Bull" Connor. With the help of some Negro votcs-for local leaders of the Negro community had already staged a registration drive -the moderate, Albert Boutwell, was elected to the mayoralty. Even during the mayoralty campaign, the Rev. Martin Luther King wished to inter vene. He was only dissuaded from doing so by Attorney General Kennedy on the ground that untimely inter vention would adversely af fect the election result. Short ly after the voting, however, he began to organize his first demonstrations; and these reached a crescendo ten days ago. In the resulting crisis, the key episode was the quiet meeting of more than two score Birmingham business leaders. By then, the chain de partment stores were already few. Many of the factors contin- ued favorable. France had more than $4 billion in re serves and production was continuing to expand. But tha steeply rising prices were tha danger sign. In the French assembly tha government needs a strong man to undertake what ara certain to be unpleasant tasks. Debre has filled the bill be fore. By Joseph Aliop Tribune Syndicate prepared to concede to Negro demonstartors' demands for desegregation at lunch coun ters and other facilities; but the department stores did not wish to act alone. a TTENCE the meeting was 11 called. At the meeting, more than forty key person ages front the Birmingham white community voted, with only. one dissent, in favor ot the settlement the Negroes asked for. Thus everyone who ordin arily matters in white Bir mingham had Concluded by the middle of last week, no doubt with regret in soma cases, but with conviction too, that Birmingham must aban don its old, iron-fisted segre gationist habits. "Bull" Con nor and the others of his kid ney were left in isolation, with the ignorant and Uie em bittered as their remaining supporters. ' By the same token, every one who ordinarily matters in Negro Birmingham was overjoyed by the settlement that led the Rev. Martin Luth er King to announce the end of his demonstrations. It is not generally understood, but Bir mingham's local Negro leaders at the outset had even opposed Martin Luther King's inter vention. They had been satis fied by Mayor Boutwell's suc cess at the polls; and they would have preferred to wait quietly for the reforms that Mayor Boutwell promised. HPHE King intervention was clearly, in some degree, the result of extremist pres sure. The non-violent movement against segregation, which Martin Luther King leads, is feeling increasing competition from Negro groups more or less openly favoring violence, like the so-called Black Mus lims. When the settlement was announced, those who at tacked it most promptly were Police Commissioner "Bull" Connor and the Washington Black Muslim leader, Mal colm X. Martin Luther King was wholly satisfied, however, with the settlement that was agreed upon in Birmingham. Once again, he spoke out as a moderate voice. The leaders of the white community and the Negro community were also firmly agreed on 'the settle ment. Whereupon the extremists on the two sides took over in Birmingham, as they may da later in other places if tha warning is not heeded. Log Export Bill Signed by Hatfield Salcm-fllPD-Pcrmits will be available for shipping surplus logs abroad for sale under a bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Mark Hatfield. It amends a 1961 law that prohibited the sale abroad of raw logs cut from state or county lands. The intent was to have Oregon mills do the primary processing. Since the law was passed, however, some logs in soma areas have been in over supply. The bill grants an outright exemption for Port Orford white cedar, which is in de mand abroad but not in Oregon. 4
