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P 1 Telephoto Newpleturei "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OCCIRCULATIONS Advertiilng ""PrrsentaUve: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOC). ATES OIlcea In New York. Chi. cao Detroit. San rranclsco. Lot Angelra. Sealtle. Portland Denver. SOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAl t5lAc8TI3N miuim'ij'iuai Memner California Newspaper Publishers Aiaoctatlon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the tllet or The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 29, 1953 (Friday) Dr. Elliot S, Degman, su perintendent of the Southern Oregon Branch Experimental station who has been here since 1937, has' been trans ferred to a position in We natchee, Wash. State forest patrol employ ees will "take to the woods" in the next few days to guard southern Oregon's forests iigainst fires. 20 YEARS AGO May 29, 1943 (Saturday) U. Col. H. D. Necly, for mer resident, reaches Seattle after taking part In bombing raid on Japanese installations at Attu. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pol" column: "The president of Liberia, Negro republic, visited the senate, and swept that august body off Its feet by the shortest speech of its kind ever made. No time should be lost In breaking this notable record by one and all statesmen." 30 YEARS AGO May 29, 1933 (Monday) Capacity crowds attend program at the Mail Tribune rooking school at local theater. Oregon hopyard workers strike for wages of 20 cents an hour and get it. 40 YEARS AGO May 29, 1923 (Tuesday) . Medford Chamber of Com merce plans to put up "booster" signs on Crater Lake highway. Memorial day services will be held at Page theater If threatening weather con tinues. SO YEARS AGO May 29, 1913 (Thursday) Medford Police Chief Hltt son blames scries of local bur glaries on "floating dope fiend." Rudy Sholtz, second base man for Medford baseball team, receives offer to play for Portland Colts of North west Professional league. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is superior; seven or eieht is ticsllent; five or sis Is flood. 1. Where did Solomon build his Temple? 2. In addition to mileage allowance, U. S. Congressmen also receive extra pay when they attend special sessions; true or false? 3. It Is, or Is not, correct to cat artichokes with the fin gers? 4. How Is the humming sound produced by a bee? 5. According to Paul, what ' arc the abiding virtues? . The so-called Century Plant blooms only once in every century; true or false? 7. Do stalactites or stalaR mitej form on the roof of aniestone caves? 8. Whnt Is the number of the prohibition amendment to the U. S. Constitution? 9. What is the salary of the President of the United Slates? 10. With what Is concrete usually reinforced? Answers! 1. Ml. Moriah in Jerusalem. 2. Falsa. 3. It is. 4. Vibration of wings. S. Faith, hop and charity. . Falsa. 7. Stalactllos. S. Eight onth. S. $100,000 par roar. 10. Sloej rodi or wira. tK(y5X imi!HEs WEDNESDAY. MAY 29, 1963 Senators Distrust People The Oregon State Senate distrusts the people of Oregon. It has refused by a margin of three votes to allow the people to vote on a new Constitution, to replace the 106-year-old document which has, in considerable measure, outlived its usefulness. It has repudiated the hard work of a top-flight revision commission, of two House and Senate committees, of the House itself, and of the Gov ernor, who said : "This legislature's greatest legacy can be the referral of a realistic, modern Constitution." THREE VOTES one of them by Sen. L. W. Newbry of Jackson county defeated the Constitution yesterday. As this is written there is little if any prospect that it can be revived in this session. But the new Constitution is not dead. There is a large body of opinion in Oregon and if the signs are right, that body of opinion is growing that we MUST have a new Constitu tion, and that one very much like the proposed one is the answer. The document could the people by initiative happen. Otherwise, it could sions. There is also the tutional Convention. IT IS OUR belief that the 13 Senators who de nied the people a right to vote have done a serious disservice to the state, one which will take much time and effort to rectify. They apparently believe that the voters of Oretron are not sufficiently wise to determine what their own basic charter shall be. We are not arguing Constitution, although we are on record as sup porting it. But it is infuriating men can thus prevent the cise in self-government. SENATOR NEWBRY was quoted as saying it ia "lnnr-inn-nuiiis1' fn nslr iho npnnlp tn vntf to deny themselves the elected officials. We say it is incongruous for him to make that statement in justification of denying the people the right to vote The Legislature as a to be a somewhat vacillating, nit-picking, back biting, partisan session. And when the Senate kills outright a docu ment which was prepared with care, diligence, non-partisanship and statesmanship, it is a slap at the people of Oregon. E. A. ( ' - rf.-r-'"'''"' Civil Defense Rebellion Oregon has gained for itself a distinction, of sorts, by being the first state to rebel, in ef fect, against Civil Defense. Portland has thrown out its entire CD pro gram. And the Legislature, by almost eliminat ing any funds for CD, has virtually killed any statewide program. It is likely that other cities and counties will follow suit. The nation has taken notice. Federal CD of ficials have remonstrated. But the Portland city council and the Legislature went ahead anyway. THE SAN FRANCISCO Chronicle finds this both intriguing and satisfying. It said : "Portland has always seemed one of the Nation's more conservative and sensi ble cities, and we see no reason to change that opinion upon learning that its city council has voted to abolish the municipal program for civil defense, a $109,000 item in the budget. "While the cult of the fallout shelter is a large one in this country it once em braced President Kennedy among its more zealous members there are substantial numbers of people who don't believe in the cult's preachments. Portland has the distinction of being the first city in the United States to say so. "Even though Portland had built a $(550,000 underground civil defense oper ations center and had a million dollars' worth of CD equipment on hand, the pub lic declined to become shelter-minded. Last fall it voted clown a tax levy to keep the program going. Last week's CD aboli tion vote by the City Council simply rati fied the public's decision." WE HAVE VERY mixed feelings about this turndown of civil defense. For one thing, we strongly believe it has had an important role to play in natural disasters. A good example of this was the way everyone pitched in, with CD coordination, during the floods of Dec. 2 in the Rogue valley. Some sort of coordinating agency, where a skeleton organ ization can be quickly fleshed out to meet emer gencies, is needed. But we have also felt that the "defense," as opposed to "disaster," functions of the agency were ridiculous, when what we are talking about is nuclear warfare. It is our conviction that there is no "civil de fense" against a multi-megaton hydrogen bomb, and to waste money p r e t e n d i n g there is is asinine. E. A. M , be brouimt to a vote of petition, and this may come up m Juture ses possibility of a Consti here the merits of the to think that 13 willlul voters from' this exer right to vote for five on a Constitution. whole has shown itself. "Imagine, $40 billion to put man on the moon. That comes to about 1220 for avery singla Amarican . , what a wastel Think of tho fun you could have in Las Yogas on 220 bucks!" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear 'the name and address of tho writer.' although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. Tho 'Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter submitted for publication must nor exceed 400 words. Tho letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent tho views of tho paper, in fact tho contrary is often tho case. t Desira for Understanding To the Editor: Many thanks for your good article, "T h e Image of God" (May 1). S It stirs within our hearts a desire for clearer, cleaner, un derstanding of the way ..of life and knowledge of our Creator, so that the purpose of our being may be fulfilled and not wasted. . We stand now at the point of decision, the crossroads of destiny; on to oblivion or on to peace, joy, and life for ever more in an atmosphere with that Great One who holds the entire universe of unend ing space within the dynamic grasp of His intellect. "In Him we live and move and have our being" Acts 17:28. Oh, that men would accept what the Christ of the Bible leaches when He saicf, ."He that hath seen me hath seen the Father" Jn,14:9. All that He gave off with, was a dec laration of the personality of God. , The Father, by voice of person, declared Christ to be His "Beloved Son," Matt. 17:5 3:17, Had .these, declarations been made in a corner with out wltnessess, We would per haps, be Justified In disbelief, but now we have been se cured from error by witness es of authenticity, those close ly associated with Him be fore and after His death and resurrection, more than five hundred men and women. It docs little good to chal lenge pet theories of Agnos tics, or so called scientists, but it is easily noticeable that no two of them agree as to any one thing In particular when attempting to set the time of earth's beginning; and place that event at anywhere from 1 million to 100 thousand years, thus proving their de ductions as mere guesses and poor ones at that. They attempt to establish periods of time by rock for mations and strata of erup tions in the mountains and classify their findings as facts, not considering the turn overs of earthquakes and floods as mentioned in scripture. ' Our own nenr-by mountains declare that the flood waters covered this section, and ex posed sea shells In the sand stone formation In many places. The surest tost of Bible or igin is the prophecies that it reveals. Their fulfillment, hcrct fore, and now coming to pass before our eyes, are the sure test of a God that knows the end from the beginning, James Williams P.O. Box 441 Jacksonville, Ore. Appreciation To the Editor: The Rogue Valley Council on Aging staff sincerely appreciates your helpful co-operation in pub licity of the work schedules at the Senior Activity Cen ter , till 1 East Jackson st. And hs chairman of the senior citizens' week program. May 20 to 28, Mr. L. C. D.ivis, president of the Medford Fif ty Plus club. Joins in express ing full appreciation of your help at informing the public of senior citizens' week pro gram. Rogue Valley Council on Aging John E. Gnbble, secretary Senior Activity Ccnior Medford Buddy Poppy Sale To the Editor: The annual Veterans' Buddy Poppy sale for the Veteran's of Foreign Wars was held May 24 and 2S in Medford. These thoughts, small deeds and small contri buttons are important, come to our mind as we take this opportunity to say thanks to the public for their part In helping make it a huge suc cess. As In previous yearsthese MhDFORD MAIL TH1BUNE. MEDFORD, OHEGON Fit IM VZJ 1 1 III - J M I1 it n minim symbolic flowers of Flanders Field were sold on the streets by a group of volunteer mem. bers of the VFW Post 1833 and members of its Ladies auxiliary. They were assisted by volunteer workers from youth groups in the commun ity. The Post and auxiliary maintains a relief fund, into which is placed all net profits received from the sale. Most of the money collected in this sale will remain right here in our own communily, to help finance relief and welfare for veterans and their dependents in need. The balance of the proceeds of the annual Buddy Poppy sale is used to help maintain the nation-wide re habilitation service of our or ganization. For example, we contribute to the operation of tho VFW National Home for orphans at Eaton Rapids, Mich. This is the only home of its kind in the world, found ed in 1925. Many long hours of work go into this project, from the time the material is placed in the hands of the disabled vet eran who makes the popples until it is pinned on the pub lic lapel, and we say thank you to the men, women and children who so graciously do nated to this worthy cause. Mrs. R. D, Johnson President VFW auxiliary 1833 Medford In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington comes the news that President Ken nedy will visit Ireland next month but won't visit the village of Blarney, or Blar ney Castle - and so it fol lows that he won't kiss the famous Blarney Stone. WHY not? Two reasons are offered: 1. Kissing the Blarney Stone involves contortions that would be bad business for the President's back, which he strained in 1961 while planting a ceremonial tree in the course of a state visit to Ottowa, Canada's capital. 2. He doesn't need to kiss the Blarney Stone, because he is adequately gifted with blarney, anyway. WHAT is the Blarney Stone? It is a triangular stone located in the wall of Blar ney castle, about 20 feet from the top. It contains this in scription: "Cormac McCarthy forlis me fieri fecit," a rough translation of which would be "strength makes Cormac McCarthy proud." HOW did it get its name and fame? The legend goes like this: Back in 1602. one Cormac McCarthy, prcumably a de scendant of the McCarthy who carved the inscription on the stone some 2'j cen turies earlier, concluded an armistice with Lord C.new, the British Lord Mayor of the town of Blarney. D'iy after day, Lord Carcw looked for the surrender of the castle I according to the terms agreed upon, but received nothing but soft speeches each day. In time, he became the laughing stock of Queen Eliz abeth's ministers and the dupe of the blarneying Lord of Blarney. ONE more question: Why it the kissing of the Stone of Blarney such a dif ficult feat as to make it in advisable for those with wean backs? ELL. the Stone Is Imbed ded In the outer wall of Haile Selassie Is Catalyst for New Organization of Nations in Africa By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Naws Analyst Twenty eight years ago when Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia nleadcd in vain for League of " . . 1 Nations action to regain his throne from the Italian in- tprvpH i n a H. I VXJli I ver,em'y as I M f I the catalyst aaaaVllLaaaJ which end e d any hope for the League as Newson a world force. Last week in Addis Ababa the 71-year-old emperor served as a catalyst Strictly Personal By Sydney fcl Field Enterprises. Inc. FEARS AND HOPES In his recent book, "On Knowing," which I unreserv e d 1 y recommend, Jerome Bruner, pro fessor of psy- c h o 1 o g y at Harvard, o b serves that. "In time, and as one comes to benefit from experi- e n c e,. one learns that B.rn, things will turn out neither as well as one hoped for nor as badly as one feared." ' We can learn fairly early in life that our fears are gen erally exaggcrated-the "bad" things that happen to us are not nearly so bad after they happen as they seemed in anxious expectation of them. There is some compensation in almost every loss; the mind takes care of that. What is much harder to learn, however, and what is usually not learned until quite late in life (unless we are pos sessed of exceptional matur ity) is that the 'good" things that happen to us are not quite as fuliy satisfying, do not solve our problems, as we had hoped. t Every gain seems larger before wa have it than aft er we hava achieved it: the raisa that looked so con siderable a year ago has added to our expenses with out substantially increasing our savings; the woman who lilted our needs so exquis itly during the engagement is a moon whose "dark side" wa began to glimpse only after the marriage. Unless we are able to hold our fears and our hopes in a more or less sophisticated equilibrium, wo are continually in dan- the castle, some three or four feet down from the floor, whose edge is perhaps a cou ple of feet from the castle wall. There is only one possible way to reach it with your mouth, if you are bent on kissing it. You lie down on your back on the floor, with your head toward the wall. You grasp a couple of iron bars attached rigidly to the outer wall, and pull yourself backward until your head touches the wall. At this point, an attendant grasps your feet. You bend your head back sharply, in order to bring you upside down and face to face with the wall that contains the sione. With the aid of the attendant who is gripping your ankles, you let your self down until your lips come opposite the stone, which you KISS. You are then dragged back up by the heels. Considering the state of our President's back, we must agree that he is wise In refraining from kissing the Blarney Stone. AND- i Let us add- He displays the wisdom of the r.rpent in staying away from the village of Blarney and its world famous castle. Someone in the party, you know, might DARE him to kiss the stone - and. being a member of the physically ori ented Kennedy clan, he Just might not find it within the realm of possibility to back away from the dare. Man Arrested on Petty Larceny Charge Here Dennis Michael Brad I e y, 20. of 718 Gilman rd . Mod- j ford, was arrested Monday i night by Jackson county sher iff's deputies and lodged in I the county jail on charges of j mall theft, later reduced to petty larceny. Bradley is charged with taking two envelopes contain ing checks from mall boxes jn'lif" v BO Deputies said no checks had j ly on the marble floor been cashed, and all but one The voluptuous reception had been burned by Bradlf y. I ist relieved him of his fyand- of another sort. For it was at his invitation that heads of state or their representatives from 30 inde pendent African nations met in Addis Ababa's new Africa Hall to draft a charter of Afri can unity. Speeches of the various leaders themselves made it obvious that any real African unity is years away by the most optimistic estimate. Yet that agreement was reached on any charter at all represented a signal triumph. For meeting in Africa Hall were such personally ambi tious leaders as President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the J. Harris: ger of losing our emotional balance, of pinning too much on tho Big Break or shrinking away too fear fully from tho speciro of iailure and disaster. If wo look back upon our childhood, wa can plainly sea how obvious this is: neither tho catastrophes nor tho triumphs wore as mean ingful or decisive as wo had imagined.. Yat tho time ahead of us is not much dif ferent from tho time past - it is tho same psychological S"'", piayvu wii a laiyci .. scale, for larger stakes, but still not as consequential to our souls as we still, half childishly, imagine. The public is baffled, and a little contemptuous, toward those celebrities (usually in the entertainment world) who despite fame, fortune, extra ordinary good looks and all the other desiderata we so ardently yearn for, neverthe less are disgruntled, unhappy, confused, and sometimes em bittered to the point of sui cide. Such personalities cannot be understood unless we rec ognize that they have been betrayed by their hopes com ing true. They delusively be lieved that things would be well once fame and fortune were theirs; and all their fan atical striving for success was directed toward this end. When their infantile wishes were gratified, however, they quickly found that some basic satisfaction had eluded them. They had climbed to the peak - but the top of the mountain is cold, windy, and lonesome. Hope, of course, is a better comrade - in arms than fear, if we must make a choice. But both attitudes must be tempered by the calm recogni tion that neither leads us to heaven or to hell. Sex and Sadism, J cj Keys To Peace By Arthur Hoppe ffVa. J In Britain, you may have noted, the non-violent paci fists are happily sneaking around spying on defense in stallations, outwitting Scot land Yard and generally rais ing hob. But very non-vio-lcntly. And thus we have a new cultural phenomenon: The Cloak and Rubber Dag ger Set. I'm glad. I happen to think non-violence is a great idea. But it's awfully hard to sell in a society raised on West erns and Mickey Spillane. Indeed, our Leader himself, Mr. Kennedy, is a fan of the newest fictional hero, Brit ish Secret Agent James Bond. And you can see why. Mr. Bond is the ultimate in sophisticated political real ism. He's got a license to shoot people. But; now that the non-violent pacifists have taken up spying, it gives the whole movement a grand air of in trigue and romance. At last I think we can sell it. In fact, I'm working on a spy thriller with a new non-violent hero: Post Bond, SANE Secret Agent 0006. Post Bond paused imper ceptibly on the steps of the Aldermason Ballpoint Pen, Souvenir Ashtray & Nuclear Bomb Factory, Ltd., and un obtrusively shifted his finely tooled Peace button to the underside of the lapel of his hand-tailored sackcloth robe. Again he checked the setting on the finely ground lense of the Special Minox camera hid den in his flowing beard. One couldn't be too careful in this business. What if." the thought crossed his finely sensitive mind, "they penetrate my cover-that of a visiting U. S. Con gressman?" He dismissed the thought coldlv and coolly en- tercd the lobby, his finely i stitched sandals clacking firm United Arab Republic, Pre mier Ahmed Ben Bella of Algeria and President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. And brought together were such militantly neutral Afri can states as the Casablanca group and the more moderate and more pro-Western Mon rovia group. ' Deeply involved with his efforts to bring Syria and Iraq into the U.A.R. and with success still in doubt, Nasser contented himself mainly with the role of observer.. Ben Bella brought the con ference to its feet on the one subject upon which they could be said to be united -anti-Colonialism. He said he had 10,000 volunteers who would fight colonialism, nota bly in Portuguese Mozam bique, Angola and Guinea. He told the delegates, that if they wanted freedom in Afri ca, they would have to "die a little or, if necessarily, en tirely." But he also advocated the go-slow policy espoused by Haile Selassie. Today & Tomorrow By Walter ri 1963. The THE NEGROES AND THE NATION Suddenly, as it were, the struggle of the Negroes toward equality of status in American so ciety has taken a sharp turn. The demon st rations in B i r mingham have proved to be some thing more than the work o f outsiders Lippmann playing upon the imaginary . grievances of otherwise docile and content ed masses. Nobody can now doubt that the grievances are genuine and deep under the rule of such men as Bull Conner and Governor Wallace. FOR a hundred years since Lincoln freed the slaves, this country has relied upon the education of the Negroes and the persuasion of the whites to bring about that equality of status to which it is committed. We are now realizing that the present rate of change will not be fast enough. The redress of the grievances of the Negroes is for the new generation too slow in coming. History teaches us that when this point is reached in the struggle for what men regard as their just rights, a revolu tionary condition exists. Then the supreme questions painted "Ban the Bomb!" pla card on its finely wrought Malacca pole and directed him to the thermonuclear weapon making room. "First door on your loft, Honey," she told him. "And how's about a weekend with me in Brighton after?" Had she hinted at more than her words implied? He coldly dismissed the thought. Business first. His mind clicking like a finely tuned computer. Bond pushed open the door - and stood face to face with Dr. Yes, secret head of SMISH, the nefarious So ciety for Making Instruments to Shush-up Humanity! "We knew you were no Congressman, Bond," whis pered Dr. Yes sibilantly, his cold eyes glittering coldly. "You never smiled once." Bond's hands flicked to his slim, finely sewn chamois shoulder holster. But before he could draw his End-Nu-clcar-Tcsls brochure, he was staring down the muzzle of Dr. Yes's curare-tipped cross bow. "Farewell, Bond," cried Dr. Yes, coldly laughing coldly. And with that he released a starving alligator from one wall, a starving sabcr-toolhed tiger from the other. 16 starv ing, fer-de-lances from the floor and a bucket of finely mixed acid from the ceiling. In a split second. Bond as sessed the dangers. To one less finely trained there would seem no solution. But virtually automatically he drew forth from some inner core of being that ultimate defense of the non - violent secret agent. He went limp. I'm sure a thriller like this will go like hotcakes. As soon as I work out how to get Mr. Bond to Brighton. For let's not be naive. In times like these we can't sell the Christian doctrines of peace and non-violence on sadism alone. It's also going to take a lot of sex. The conference also brought together two antagonists of long standing. They were Nkrumah, long an advocate of a strong central African union who told the delegates they "must unite now or per ish," and Sir Abubakar Taf awa Balewa, Prime Minister of Nigeria. Nkrumah is an am' itious man whose ambitions extend considerably beyond tiny Ghana. Suspicions of his mo tives held by other African leaders reflected themselves in the conference. ' But Nkrumah did not quit the conference. And in the end, the African leaders adopted a charter much like that of the Organization of American States. It has a sec retariat, a budget committee and the mechanics to develop unified activity in the fields of politics, education, r'efense and communication. The results were a personal victory for Haile Selassie. They also left up to him tha hard job of making the charr ter work. Lippmann Washington Post are posed. Will the ruling and privileged classes take com mand of the coming changes? Or will they cling to theif privileges and become tha immovable object in collision with an irresistible force? - 11HE white people of this country, not only the white people of Alabama and Mis sissippi, are now at that cru cial point where they must answer those questions. T .y must choose, on tha one hand, between leading the movement toward equality of status and, on the other hand, standing aside and letting mat ters be decided by collisions between the Negro agitators and the Bull Connors. The Negro rebellion is now led by men like Martin Luther King who preach and practice the Gandhian doctrine of non violence. It is a difficult doc trine in any country, and this is a rather violent country. The doctrine worked effect ively in British Irlia. But there, the ruling power was under the restraint of the long British habit of constitution alism. w E CANNOT count upon non violence persisting in the face of brutal and illi terate resistance. The out standing danger is not that there may be rioting and brawling, for these can be sup pressed. The outstanding dan ger is a loss of confidence by the Negro people in the good faith of the white people. This is where the turning point lies at the present time. If confidence is lost that there is a legitimate remedy for genuine grievances, there will be lost at the same time confidence in the doctrine of non - violence. What will come after that is unpleasant to contemplate. But those among us who are capable of learning from history will do well to re member what happened in Ireland and what happened to Palestine before the grievan ces of the Irish and f the Jews were redressed, and also to reflect on what is boiling under the surface in those parts of Africa where black inferiority is imposed. fTHE time has come when there must be a change in the American policy as it was laid down under Eisenhower and continued under Ken nedy. This is the policy of leaving desegregation, which is a national commitment, to the conflict between private lawsuits and local authori ties. The cause of desegrega tion must cease to be a Negro movement, blessed by white politicians from the northern states. It must become a na tional movement to enforce national laws, led and direct ed by the national govern ment. I think this is the direction in which the President and his brother, the attorney gen eral, are now moving. They should move directly and boldly and take command of a cause which cannot now be left to irresponsible people. If it is still possible, and I think it is, to hold and even to recover the confidence of the Negroes in the good faith of the whites, then this is the basic principle by which to do it It is to make plain by word and deed that the Negroes are no longer a weak and isolated minority trying to push the nation into doing what the national law and American principles require it to do. Then, because the national power is behind the move ment toward equality of sta tus, that national power, which will be more than suf ficient, can be exercised with out violence, with wisdom and with restraint. For it is the very weak rebels who feel that they must resort to tha extreme measures. 4
