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Detroit. San franclsco, Lot Angelea. Seattle. Portland Denver. Member California Newapaper Publishers Aaaociatlon Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Trlbun 10. 20, 30, 40 and SO yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 20, 1953 (Wednesday) Approval of a $1,065,871.44 budget for Jackson county rural schools was assured to day with an unofficial vote of 252 yes to 68 no in 21 of 23 second and third class dis tricts. A change qf air mass brougnt gusty wmuo uiu area last night, and Medford residents awoke to see snow on hills west and south of town. 20 YEARS AGO May 20, 1943 (Thursday) Grand Jury finds friction ' between county and city of Mnrifnrr! In handling- Juvenile rlnllnnimnnv nrnhlpma. From Arthur Perry'l "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Epl curians of the valley are now eating turnip top greens, and bragging about it. 30 YEARS AGO May 20. 1933 (Saturday) Local men given first chance for Jobs in Crater Lake National park. Jacksonville names com mittee and makes plans for Gold Rush Days celebration. 40 YEARS AGO May 20. 1923 (Sunday) Medford gasoline prices go up one cent a gallon in ac cordance with law passed by late legislature. Water turned Into new 2,000-gallon Medford city res ervoir; to be used only in case of fire. BO YEARS AGO May 20. 1913 (Tuesday) Bud Anderson, fistic pride or Medium, defeats Joe Mall' dot. New Orleans, on TKO in 12th round at Vernon, Calif. Medford delegation, !nclud Ing Dr. and Mrs. George Rebec, Mrs. Edna Davidson, Mrs. E. E. Gore and Mr. and Mrs. Porter Neff, returns from fifth annual Common wealth conference at Unl versily of Oregon. What's Your I.Q.? Nina an .-. ! ,.u.,., seven or eight Is eictlknti live et sta is gooa. 1. In Greek mythology who was the husband of Pc nelope? 2. What two gases combine to form a very common liquid? 3. The Star Spangled Ban ner legally became our Na tional Anthem under an act by the Continental Congress; true or false? 4. Which boxer held the first heavyweight champion ship under the Marquis of Queensberry rules? 8. In what U.S. war did the Battle of Lundy's Lane occur? 6. Hiroshima was one of the Japanese cities that was atom bombed; name the other. 7. Name the three primary pigment colors. 8. "Sam Weller" is a char acter In one of Charles Dick ens' novels: what is the name ol the novel? 9. - Are American Indians, born In the U.S., citizens of the United Slates? 10. What cabinet position dari JVsso Jones once hold? Antwnrst 1. Ulysses. 2, Hy drogen and oxygen form wa ter. 3. Falsa. 4. James J. Cor. belt. J. Warol 1812. (.Naga saki. 7. Red. blue and yellow. I. Pickwick Papers. (. Yes. 10. Secretary el Commerce. NATIONAL EDITORIAL 4 MONDAY. MAY 20. 1963 Five Years of De Gaulle Five vears aero on Charles de Gaulle, a news in his austere way, held a press conierence. He repeated a willingness to help France toward "the beginning of a sort of resurrection." De Gaulle's offer was rightists and French military leaders In Algeria, May 13, which threatened civil war. There were some 400,000 French Army troops in Algeria plus Air Force, Navy, police, and security forces. Of 950,000 men in France's armed services, only about 250,000 were in metropolitan France. The Algerian rightist rebels were committed to in suring the "everlastingness" of French Algeria, traditional home of the French Army. De Gaulle said he understood "very well the attitude and action of the military command in Algeria." One of the rebel leaders, Lt. Gen. Raoul Salan, on the following day responded with the declaration that the Army's role in Algeria and De Gaulle's comments on it gave rise to "an immense hope of greatness and national unity." TODAY, five years later, De Gaulle is President of France, the nation has had a very real "resur rection, Algeria is an Salan languishes in prison, saved from a firing squad only by the mercy of a special tribunal. De Gaulle today must be considered the strongest man in Western Europe. After the spec tacular victory in last November s elections, when Gaullist candidates won itv of 299 seats in the 636-member National As sembly, The Christian Science Monitor observed that De Gaulle was now "at an absolute pinnacle of power and influence in France and in the world, cut De Uaulle s has not been easy. On May 27, 1958, eight days after the historic ress conference, De Gaulle announced that he ad "started yesterday essary for the establishment of a republican gov ernment capable of assuring the unity of the inde- pendence of the country. invested him as premier on June 1 and two days later gave him full powers of decree for six months. The draft constitution was made public July overwhelming approval 86 per cent of ballots cast in the September 1958 referendum. Elec tion of De Gaulle as President on Dec. 21 for a seven-year term consolidated his control over the Fifth Republic, which he had brought into being virtually unaided. THE army leaders in iin-lrti'cf an. if haf Ta began treating with the before the year was out. Referenda m ranee and Algeria in January 1961 backed self-determination for Algeria. Then came the abortive four-day generals' putsch in April, with Salan as one of the leaders. The regular Army and the Air Force refused to go along with the parachutists and Foreign Le gion, and the threat to invade mainland France was lifted. The revolt was crushed, but the rightist net work was not. Today France is prosperous and stands tall as De Gaulle in the power politics of Europe. But Secret Army Organization fanatics still threaten the life of the man and thus possibly the life of the Fifth Republic E.R.R. The SS ' How to overcome the impersonality and low visibility of many U.S. foreign aid projects has been demonstrated most dramactially by a privately-financed medical mission known as Project HOPE. The hospital ship SS Hope has been sent on year-long missions to Southeast Asia and, more recently, Peru. This autumn a third voyage, pos sibly to Ecuador, is planned provided i?5 mil lion can be raised. A fund-raising HOPE Ball is scheduled in Washington next Monday, and other events will be coming up throughout the nation. When the reconverted Navy hospital ship clocked off Trujillo, Peru, in May 19G2, Commu nists had plastered the city with "Cuba Si! Yankee No!" signs. THE signs came down in the next 10 months as the ship's medical staff performed 2,000 major operations, treated 4t,000 disease suffer ers, inoculated 80,000 persons against polio, 5(, 000 against other infectious diseases, and distrib uted milk, medicine, and supplies reaching 500, 000 Peruvians in 10 cities and towns. Some 20,000 grateful Peruvians crowded into a stadium in Trujillo for farewell ceremonies last March, and about the same number threw flowers from shore when the SS Hope lifted anchor. I he permanent medical staff of the SS Hone includes five physicians, 3li nurses, and 2(5 aux iliary personnel. Volunteer teams of physicians working without pay are flown to the shin on a rotating basis for tours of from two to four months. With the completion of her latest voyage, more than 300 American medical experts had served aboard the ship. Applications for the Teru tour came from 3,000 doctors. So the only ob stacle to expansion of the HOPE project is lack of funds to outfit and maintain more ships. E.R.R. - May 19, 1958 Gen. statesman who manages a response to a coup of independent state, and a clear working major passage to the pinnacle the regular process nec The National Assembly of the Fifth Republic 29. 'As expected, it won Algeria did not really fig. ilia ura a a Km if Wo National Liberation Front Hope "Ask The Un-American Investigate What This Strange Flag It Doing Down Here" - 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. The 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 represent the views of th" paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Riddle Answered To the Editor: This is to answer the riddle published ,by V. Card under "Communi cations" in the May 16 Trib une, The very interesting descrip tion of an unknown cone is that of the flower stalk of a plant known as the ground cone. This plant has no green leaves in which it can manu facture its own food but it lives as a parasite on the roots of manzanita and madronc. If one were to follow the stem down into the ground one would come to a large swell ing around the root of the host plant from which the ground-cone plant obtains its nourishment. It is indeed an interesting sight to come upon a group of these impressive cone-like flowering stalks. The botani cal name of this plant is Boschniakia strobilacea Gray. Dr. Louis G. Centner, 22 South Grovcland ave., Medford Slogans To the Editor: Occasionally the Womans Christian Tem perance Union (WCTU) holds contests for he Sunday School Students of the different churches, such as speech con tests, posters or slogans. In looking through some of the old records recently I found some very good slo gans that had been copied from one of the contests, but they don't give the date (no doubt several years ago). 1 thought it would be interest ing to quote a few of the slo gans, and see if some of the valley residents might recog nize one as their own contri bution. 'Too much drink," the doc tor said, "he tried to drive but now he's dead." It's a short road to the hos pital by way of liquor, but a long way back by way of recovery. If you drink and get in a wreck, Alka-Seltzcr won't help you a speck. Alcohol is a drink of fate. you better stop now before it s too late. If you have been drinking at the bar, it's safer to walk, don't drive a car. The breath of drivers who drive like the wind usually smells of liquor and gin. Here's to the loony who drinks to excess, we fellows all know him as the roadhog pest. A drinking driver can t keep his head, that's why a lot of people are dead. When driving drunkcnly over the hill, if the cops don't get you the morticians will. Just because you like the bar, it's no reason to drive a car. Stay at home and have your fun. don't keep the innocent on the run. If anyone does find one of these slogans to be yours, we would appreciate your letting yourself be known and what year it was written. Mrs. Ernest Santo 204 Lozicr lane, Medford A Worthy Cause To the Editor: Enclosed is a letter from one of our tour members which I hope you will see fit to publish in the "Letters to the Editor" col umn. Thank you for your interest and support. Lawtrnce S. Horton, President, The United Crusade Medford Dear Mr. Horton: I was pleased that I had the privi lege of going on the tour of the different agencies that Jackson county have been helping to support through MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Activities Committee To At. AM UBEH. AUtS the United Crusade. I think they are doing an excellent job. I was especially impressed with the work that is being done at the Providence Nur sery and the Oregon Medical School. The children at the Providence Nursery were so well fed and clean. Two young men took us through the Oregon Medical School and we saw the new heart machine, also how they are going to plant eyes and kidneys. It was fascinating. I hope the people of Jack son give generously to the United Crusade as it Is sure ly a worthy cause. Cordially Yours, Bill Pestka Eagle Point, Ore. Economic Royalists To the Editor: Mr. John D. Lee of 1929 Locust ave., Long Beach, Calif., is a man with a cause. Although the cause will be as popular in some circles as the Russian revolution, Mr. Lee is fully determined to fight it out to the bitter end. His cause is to end forever economic royalism in Amer ica. In essence, Mr. Lee pro poses that the wealthiest 1 per cent of the nation be strip ped of that wealth and be left with a measly $1,000,000 apiece. Then he wants a law that limits personal income to $100,000 a year after taxes. Silly? Absurd? Well, con trary to what many people think, the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer in this country. Despite the sur face glitter and the sophistry passed off in the classrooms in this fair land, the facts point out that the distribution of wealth is essentially the same now as it was in 1910! Few people realize it but the richest 1 per cent hods 76 per cent of the total corpora tion stock. Two books pub lished last year tell a barrage of facts about our socio-economic oligarchy. Koto's "Wealth and Power in Amer ica," and Lampman's "T h e Share of Top-Wealth Holders in National Wealth" push away the myth that has been confusing the economic pic ture in the U.S.A. The secret of the economic royalists' success is their adroit maneuvering of the income tax. Those who are supposed to pay 91 per cent In reality pay only about 10 per cent, some even not a penny if Uiey hold tax-exempt securities and bonds. They eat their cake and have It too. But some sweet day an awakened and angry Ameri can people will ask for justice from their tax legislators. They will demand laws that will put a ceiling on personal income and a limitation on in dividual wealth-holding. The Lee plan for progress through tax reform will then be en acted, and the economic roy alists of 1963 will follow the political royalists of 1776 into oblivion. John D. Cupping S02 Orange ave. Apt. 19 Long Beach 12, Calif. Contrast To the Editor: I spent a lifetime driving 3 million miles in a taxicab and along comes a riahned Astronaut and makes foah million miles befoh breakfast. Everett Acklin Ashland, Ore. Why Do It? To the Editor: Why ob literate the century old scenery of the quaint and pic turesque setting of Jackson ville, the earliest mining town in southern Oregon, with i highway proposcdthat Foreign News: Castro-Khrushchev Talks- Waiting Time in Italy; Macapagal Image By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foregin News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: Window Dressing When Fidel Castro winds ups his month-lung visit to the Soviet Union, the final com munique may be ex pected to con tain the usual outpouring of mutual friend ship and praise. But behind the fa cade of rous ing receptions, serious talks are believed to have taken place, with Castro demanding increased economic and mili tary aid as his price for sup port in Khrushchev's quarrel Matter of Fact (c) New York Herald Heavy, Heavy Washington - There Is an old children's game called Heavy, Heavy, What Hangs O v e r?" i b which the winner must guess what does hang over. Guess ing the cause of the fer ment in the Kremlin is con siderably Aimp harder, but it seems a good bet that the heavy cost of modern defense is what hangs over in this in stance. In 1961-62, the Soviet mar shals and their sympathizers on the Presidium not only re versed the shrink-the-army policy which Nikiia S. Khru shchev had attempted to car ry out. They also secured an increase in the Soviet de fense budget in the stagger ing amount of 40 per cent, ac cording to the Kremlin's own announcement. It is not easy in truth, it is close to impossible - to be lieve this Kremlin claim. For a very long time, open and hidden outlays on national de fense have absorbed around a quarter, of Soviet national income. This huge annual in vestment can hardly have been increased bv close to half without producing the kind of economic disruption tnat would have been im possible to hide. ON THE other band, there v is no doubt at all that the ooviei oeiense oudget was steeply increased in 1961-62 Even a rise of 10 or 15 or 20 per cent would have been burdensome enough, in all conscience, especially when one considers that the Soviet economic growth-rate has dropped rather sharply. The biggest factor in the 1961-62 defense increase, quite clearly, was the curious ly belated Soviet decision to deploy their second gener ation ICBMs in larae num bers. When this decision about the big rockets began to be implemented, it must be re membered, the Soviets were already deploying quite lit erally thousands of their high altitude, anti-aircraft SAM-2 rockets. Hence their rocket program was already massive - and proportionately costly - when they also began to deploy the newer AA rocket, the SAM-3 This rocket is designed to fill the low altitude gap in the Soviet air defense system. some hundreds of SA.M-3s are in place by now. VET another considerable in A crease In the defense budg et will almost certainly be needed, to finance a really lav ish SAM-13 deployment on the SAM-2 pattern. The onlv al ternative to spending more, overall, is to spend less on some other branch of the So viet armed services; and Khrushchevs attempt to do preciscsly that, by reducing the swollen Soviet ground forces, met defeat by the De fense Ministry's massed pha- would diagonally cross-section the residental area. When one stops to visualize the once lively gold rush pan orama, just to think the en vironment of over a hundred years still persists instead of a fabled "ghost-town" that only memory or legend recall. Already, plans of rehabili tation and repair have been made on old land mark build ings that are planned to last another 100 years. Jackson ville is not only the oldest town, but the first county seat town of Jackson county. One of the many historical attractions of present day in terest Is the Jacksonville Mu seum located in the old court house, one of the outstanding of the west. Bert Kissinger 322 South Riverside ave. Medford f with the Red Chinese. In an interview before leaving Cu ba, Castro sounded very neu tral. For the moment, Khru shchev is expected to mark time on such cold war issues as disarmament, Berlin and Laos although perhaps keep ing the pipelines open with new exchanges. Waiting Tim For five months Italy had a government which was wait ing for the outcome of gen eral elections. Now a new pe riod of waiting is setting in. The Socialist Party Congress opening on July 18 will de termine whether the Social ists are ready to break their municipal and labor links with the Communists. If they are, they then will qualify for a full share in another Ital ian Center-left government. By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate lanx of marshals and colonel generals In 1961. The SAM-3s are by no means the end of the story, however. Just as the U. S. Army is pushing for immedi ate deployment of its primi tive but workable anti-missile- missle, the Nike-Zeus, so the Soviet Defense Ministry quite certainly also pushing for immediate deployment of the reportedly comparable So viet anti-misslie-missile. Even scaled down to compromise-size, the American Nike-Zeus program was esti mated to cost around $10 bil lion In a few short years. Rather than go ahead with Nike-Zeus output in quantity, Secretary McNamara has tak en the calculated risk of try ing for a quantum jump, by going all out to develop the far better next-generation anti-missile-missile which is now within reach. IN THE Soviet Defense Min- istry, force-in-being has always been preferred to quantum jumps. Hence it is entirely possible that large scale deployment of the So viet version of the Nike-Zeus is now envisioned. The cost will be close to astronomical if the Soviets are in truth planning to decorate the Rus sian landscape with thousands of SAM-3S, which seems all but certain, plus thousands of anti-missile missiles, which seems likely. Meanwhile, Soviet agricul ture, the Soviet industries producing consumer goods, and even certain Soviet heavy industries like chemicals and plastics, are all calling out in sistently for massive in creases of Investment. With these other calls so insistent, with the growth rate declining towards 4 per cent per annum, with military spending up by 15 per cent or more since the begnining of 1961. and with further calls for large current increases in military spending, it can be seen that the Kremlin has been wrestling with a night marish problem of investment priorities. ALMOST every really ma jor Soviet inner-political crisis since the revolution has been linked, in one way or another, to an argument about investment priorities. In the present instance, one must add to the investment prob lem the equally nightmarish problem of Sino-Soviet rela tions. It can be seen, then, why symptoms of a sharp debate in progress have been noted in Moscow. The causes are clear. It only remains to discover the names and numbers of the debaters: but this will come with time. Hath W M Mriaets Wk If not, the Christian Demo crats may try for a moderate rightwing government in coal ition with the liberals. A like ly candidate to succeed re signed Premier Amlnvore Fanfanl now seems to be the Christian Democrats' soft spoken party secretary Aldo Moro. Losing th Image Philippines President Dios dado Macapagal's image as the common man's president has been blurred a bit by the White Moderates Are a Bit Limited By Arthur Hoppe Down in Alabama the Ku Klux Klan, which is fighting for all-out racial segregation, says "the most deadly and dangerous organization in the country today" is the Black Muslim Society. Which is fighting for all-out racial seg regation. In hopes of clarifying the split between these extrem ists, here is an exclusive in terview with a middle-of-the-roader. Colonel Jefferson Da vis Stonewall, president of The Southern Forces of Mod eration. A group often quoted in the press these days. Q - Colonel, what exactly is the stand of the Southern Moderate on the question of integration? A - Well, son, we're for it and always have been. Within limits. Q-Within limits? A - That's right, boy. We favor taking colored folks into our homes, our theaters, our buses and our hearts. Within limits. Q - Like? A - Like the kitchens of our homes, the balconies of our theaters and the last three rows of our buses. But In our hearts, son, we go all the way, Q - But the fight today, Colonel, seems more over in tegrating schools and lunch counters. A - A lot of poppycock We always allowed our dark ies in our schools. Why, some of my fondest memories are of the colored folk. I met in my schooling days at Ole Miss. There was Sam, who used to shine our shoes. And Old Ho mer, a-scrubbing the halls and . . . I don't know what we all would've done without them. I Q - I assume the same ap plies to luncn counters? A - They been integrated down here for years. I ask you, a man's sitting on a stool on one side and a man's a-stacking dirty dishes on the other - they're both at the same lunch counter, aren't they? Q - I think I see, Colonel. You're for integration within limits. But you're also for seg regation. A - That's why they call us Moderates, boy. You might say we stand for segregated integration. And gradualism. Q - Gradualism? A - Yep. We see things has got to change. But with effort and sacrifice on both sides it s our real hope that over the years things will gradually stay the way they are. Q - Now about the Klan, Colonel . . . A - Well, don't quote me, but we don't allow none of them in our Southern Forces Hath not a Negro eyes? not a Negro hands, organs, senses, dimensions, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same disease, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer as a white man is? If you cut us, do we nor. bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you deny us our rights, shall we not protest? three-month, first-class tour his three children are taking around the world. The opposi tion says this does not jiba with the ideal of "simple liv ing" that Macapagal has preached. Macapagal usually has no trouble shedding oppo sition charges but this one may stick because it comes at a time when the average cit izen's cost of living is go ing up faster than income and the nation is facing a threat of inflation. of Moderation. Some of my Black Muslims? They're . , , A - Radical, Red, rabble rousing, racial agitatorsl Horsewhipping's too good for the likes of them! , Q - But, Colonel, they're for segregation, too. I mean they want all Negroes every where to pack up and mova out to an all-Negro State. A - That's going too far!' Q - But that would be real segregation, Colonel. A-Son, when I look around at all our happy colored folk a-shining our shoes and a-mop-ping our floors and a-cleaning our lunch counters. I tell you from the bottom of my heart that us Southern Moderates are for segregation just like we're for integration. Q - You mean? , A - Within limits. . ' " Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris tc- Field Enterprises. Ine. best friends are Klansmen, mind you. But I say you let 'em in and they're going to give the place a bad name. Q - But what about t h 9 ANTICS WITH SEMANTICS I believe in maintaining my dignity; you are a trifle pom pous; he is a stuffed shjrt. My vice is a "human weakness," but yours it "bestial habit." The extroverted man I hap pen to like is "jolly and open;" the extroverted man I hap pen to dislike is "loud and pushy." My witticism was "a well turned phrase;" his was "a smart-aleck remark." . I was promoted to an "ad visory capacity;" you wer "kicked upstairs." . When my opinion coin cides with the many, I speak of the "inherent com mon wisdom of lha people"! when it disagrees with lha many, I refer io the histori cal fact that "lha majority is always wrong." You don't appreciate my irreverent jest because you are "super-sensitive;" but I don't appreciate yours be cause "the -subject isn't a proper one for joking about." When you propose an al ternative policy, I call it an "untried innovation;" when I propose an alterna tive policy. I call it "soma fresh thinking on the sub ject." When a woman calls a man she has just met "awful," she is beginning to be interested in him; when a woman calls a man she has known for some time "sweet," she is no longer interested in him. The academic paper that meets with rr.y assent it "scholarly;" th one that affronts my convictions ii "pedantic." a Readers complain about "sensationalism" in the press, but if an edition comes out without some disaster, they say, "Nothing in the paper today." "Th trouble with this country is too many laws," said th mant than he was fleeced in an unsavory busi ness deal, and wrote bitter letters to all officialdom -asking that a newer, tough er law be enacted to pre vent a repetition of such catastrophes. My boy flunked out of col lege because he has "poof working habits" and "doesn't live up to his potential;" your boy flunked out of collcgs because he "didn't belonif there in the first place." wnen a public figure I disapprove of refuses to take a lie-detector teal, I assurr that "he must hava something to hid:" when on I approv ol rfuss to do th same. I point out that "h has a right not lo tak a chance en a machine that Isn't perfect and can mak mistakes."