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Newspaper Page Text"Everyone lb Southern Oregon Publish'sd Daily except'Satiirday by 3d North Fir St.. Ptr77:-6.41 ""ROBERT W RUHL. Editor"" HERB GREY Advertising Mannjter r.KRALD T LATHAM. Bui Mar ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mna Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor iiaodu I'UIUMIM Tolos fi"Hitnf RICHARD JEWETT, Sporti Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women't Editoi DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mr An Inrfntlrint NewtDBDCI Entered at second clan matisr at Med ford Oregon under Act of Mrch 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Rv Mali In Advance Dally and Sunday 1 year I8 00 UailV anu aunnay a TlniU inri KunduV 3 11)01 3.00 Sun.iav Omy One year $5.00 StnBle Copy (Mulled. m n,u rnr,.i Anri Motor Ruiite, Dally and Sunday 1 year Daily and Sunday 1 mo. SunriHV Onlv mo. 500 Carrie, and Vendor Copy 10c Official "Viper "of City of Medford Official I'aner ol Jackson County United Prec International 9 ull Leaied Wire U. P I Tclephoto Newsplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" cJCmCULATIONS Arivcrtimna Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOC1 Afire nnir-Pi in New York. Chi cago Detroit, San FrancfBCO. Loi Angeif a ocaiiic. r u - , Denver. Member California Newnpaper Publisher! Association Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from tho tile of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, AO and 50 year ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 31, 1953 (Sunday) A totul of 28,540 Jackson county residents voted in the last general election and still maintain their legal right to vote, according to tabulations in the county clerks office. Purchase of Silver Crest dairy, Ashland, from Joe Sinko, has been announced by Jorgen E. Jorgensen, owner of Jorgensen's dairy. 20 YEARS AGO May 31, 1943 (Mondayl First Lt. Martin Luther, Talent, receives air medal for "exceptional aerial perform ance" In the Tunisian cam paign. From Arthur Perry's "Yc Smudge Pot" ffat0"' gress will soon lfittlTs first vacation In three yWrs. IThey have earned rest - and some of their more critical constitu ents think that is all." 30 YEARS AGO May 31. 1933 (Wednesday) Total of 146 Medford High school senior receive diplomas at 40th annual commencement exercises. Mrs. R. E. Green named chairman for Medford area Girl Scouts. 40 YEARS AGO May 31, 1923 (Thunday) Prince G. Calllson, former University of Oregon star, named Medford athletic couch. Campaign opens hero to get enough enlistments to bring National Guard up to full strength for annual encamp ment. 50 YEARS AGO May 31, 1913 (Saturday) Jackson County Clerk Gard ner appoints registrars for each precinct In county. Glenn Conwell, Medford, elected first vice president of Southern Oregon Epworth league at convention at Ash land. What's Your I.Q.? Nina e ton correct ll luporler; even sr eight ll excellent; live or eix ll good. 1. Did Casey hit a home run, or did he strike out? 2. If you travel on tiic earth until your walch reg isters two hours fast, Inve you been going eastward or westward? 3. Did St. Paul visit Bithyn la and Egypt" 4. In which chain of Islands are Klska and Ami? 3. What milinnul bushuss organization did Eric Johns ton serve as President'.' 0. Name the character In Greek mythology who fell in love with his own rcflccucn In a pool. 7. Quctzalcnall was a god nf what poople? 8. There are no mosquitoes In Alaska; true or false? B. What did Little Jack Horner cat? 10. By whnt nickname is Portland, Oregon known? Answersil. He ilruck out. 2. Weitw.rd. 3. No. 4. The Aleutians. S. U. S. Chamber of Commerce. 8. Narcissus. 7. The Atlect. 8. False. 9. Christmas pit. 10. Rot City. PILOT INJURED The Dalles - flJPli - Cliff Spencer, The Dalles, was serf ously injured Thunday when hie light, single-engine plane crashed on takeoff here. VjjjASSOCIATION NATION At EDITORIAL FRIDAY. MAY 31, 1963 Keynes Today One does not have to be a disciple of the late John Maynard Keynes to know that his thinking created a revolution in the "dismal science" of economics, or to recognize that his influence on subsequent economic thought has been tremen dous. In fact, Keynsian economics is neo-orthodoxy now, and the thinking of the older economists is on the wane. Despite this, one can still get into heated debate about whether his all-pervading influence is good or bad. But the fact is that many actions of govern ment today are a direct outgrowth of Lord Keynes's works. THE deliberate budgeting of deficits stems di rectly from Keynes. So do many of the other fiscal practices which make more conservative thinkers tear their hair. Keynes taught, for one thing, that national government fiscal procedures cannot be com pared with smaller units, such as cities, states, corporations, small businesses or families. And "management" of the economy through a var iety of devices also is a direct outgrowth of his theories. Because they have become so universally adopted and adapted by theoretical economists, as well as by practicing politicians, it can be said that not a man alive today is unaffected by the theories of this English baron. A LUCID examination of the application of Keynsian economic theories to the current situation in the United an article written by trends editor of Newsweek magazine, wnich appeared in the May 25 New Republic. It is en titled "Let's Spend More," and explores the pro posals to cut taxes and increase federal spend ing in order to shore up the economy, get it growing at a faster pace, and decrease unem ployment. His thesis, Rowan says, is a simple one: "President Kennedy's tax late the kind of economic growth that is needed by the United States." First of all he calls for more realistic budget intr procedures (which also have been an objec tive of Oregon's Senator Morse), by dividing capital expenditures from operating expendi tures. Only then, he says, will we be able to plan intelligently for properly financed and heavier federal spending. CECONDLY, he points out that the federal tax cut proposals run about a billion dollars less than the increases in taxes being imposed by state and local government, and by increased So cial Security taxes, and effect is largely, if not wholly, lost. Finally, he points out that unemployment is not diminishing, and that we need some 60,000 new jobs EACH WEEK simply to stay even. About 25,000 new workers are entering the! la bor force each week, and about 35,000 jobs are being eliminated by automation each week. And he then shows of some $10,725 was needed to create one new job in 1954-56, the needed investment for a new job today is nearly $40,000. Kowan quotes James Reston of the New York Times as saying: "President Kennedy Is deeply worried about the economy, and feels that radical measures are neces sary to meet what he regards as a radical problem. But the Congress and apparently the country are not in a radical, but moderate mood." The "radical measures" include a very sub stantial increase in public spending, combined with a very substantial course, would be an increase in the national debt. But it would also result, the theory goes, in a massive shot in the arm CAN we afford more debt? Rnumn iminta nnf that rlni'inir Wm'lrl War TT the debt went up to $260 of a $214 billion economy, and as recently as 1950 was 90 per cent of the Gross National Product. Today, to the contrary, the debt, though big ger in dollars, is only about 53 per cent of a $570 billion economy, while the federal budget is only about 16 per cent of the GNP. Too, there is a tremendous need for public investment hospitals, schools and slum clear ance are mentioned by the list could go on and on and we are spend ing a far smaller percentage of, our wealth on such things than in the past. DUT, as Rowan points out with a quotation L from the noted Swedish economist, Gunnar Myrdal: "It Is fairly generally recognized . . . that there Is a serious and Irrational bias against public con sumption and public Investment In America, lt is a result of high-pressure salesmanship for private con sumption, and traditional suspicion against increasing public budgets." All these add up, in Rowan's mind, to an overwhelming argument for a major tax cut and major federal spending. He concludes: ". . . What we lack In our current economic crisis is Imagination and a sense of boldness. To stimulate ecnomlc growth, we need to substitute some challeng ing thought for the old bromides about budget balance and expenditure control. We need to apply, instead, something like the standards of urgency and Ihe spark of creativity to which we arc driven-desperately-in wartime. Why wait for wartime to use our combined brains? Let's declare war on unemployment!" This makes very little sense to fiscal con servatives, but makes considerable sense to those who accept the economic theories of Lord John Maynard Keynes. -E. A. btates is contained in Hobart Rowen, business program will not stimu thus their stimulative that while an investment tax cut. The result, of for the U.S. economy. billion, or 121 per cent Rowan specifically, but "How About ,1 ftJe.W'e , sipr i 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 t!" paper, in fact Ihe contrary is often the case. Gelling Acquainted To the Editor: And the the group who asked when they could have a party here to get acquainted. It is sweet of you girls, but that Is too many for this house to hold at one time. My rooms aren't large. I'll be glad to see you at the Security Benefit club, KP hall lust north of the Groceteria on Grape St., Med ford, any Wednesday from 11 until 4. There's a fine lunch for 50 cents at noon, good music and dancing after the business meeting. By the way, you two ladies who found it so hard to get acquainted in Oregon, would find a fine chance for making real friends at the club. There's over 230 merry-makers who have joined and visi tors from many neighboring towns. Be game! Smile and and try again. Perhaps the reason people are good to me is because I like everybody. The good I see in others keeps me happy and being able to bear pain and grin. Pearl Spackman P. O. Box 33 Jacksonville Another Account To the Editor: In reply to "Purely Mythical" of Thurs day May 23, that acrording to Pierre van Paasson, Unitarian writer, an account of what actually happened was given. This van Paassen writer must be very convincing to give credence to the news column of Lydia Burnham, 814 Warne st., Prescott, Ariz., that the body of Jesus Christ was dumped and then buried. The Bible account has it that the Chief Priests paid large sums of money to the guards of the tomb to report the saying as in Matthew 28: 13-15. "His disciples came by night, and stole him away while wc slept." Could van Paassen have read In some books of another account, and then written of It for Unitarians to believe, while the Jews believe their account to this day? Jesus had His disciples to witness to His prediction of His resur rection to follow, and to have believers of this true account in contrast to van Paassen and his account. It is no comfort to Unitar ians that many other religions don't agree with them and that Christians base their faith entirely on t he resurrected Christ, to bring them to God forevcrmore. Oscar Jaeobson 33!)5 New Ray rd. Central Point, Ore. Receive Calling To Ihe Editor: Who then shall receive this calling, and adoption, "to be sons of God?" Every one who confes ses with his mouth, that Jesus is the son of God, and be lieves with his heart, that Jesus was crucified and raised from the dead, for our justi fication. If so be, that you do, as H pleases the Father he will send forth the spirit of hij son into your heart, where by you cry in the "spirit" Father Father, there by you have received the promise. As the Apostle Paul said, tribulation maketh patience, and patience experience, ex perience bringeth hope. For you shall be tested, tempted, and endure much tribulation, but you shall be comforted. For many shall be called, and now that you see, what mat ter of railing it Is. why the Lord said. "Matthew, ch. 24 and 25," take heed that no man deceive you. For many I shall come in my name, say-i MEDFORD MAIL TIUBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON One More Try?" ing, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. But you who have the Love of God in you know. As David said, I was conceived in sin, as all are, but our Lord was conceived of the "Holy Ghost" there by was manifested the Son of God in the flesh. For It is written, the Father would not suffer his Holy one to see sin. Who so ever sayeth he is Christ, or a son of God is a liar, "while in the flesh." As Apos tle Paul said to those who were called, "even we our selves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption," to wit, the redemption of our body. For they that sleep, that have the promise, shall be raised up, and they that remain shall be caught up, in the air, with the Lord. Then indeed shall you be the sons' of God. Where so ever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered. If a man fears anything, he ought to fear God above all, for the hour of his judgments are at hand. Ted M. Sletten . Route 1, Box 224 Rogue River, Ore. Not Gonoral Manager To the Editor: We certainly wish to thank the Mail Trib une for a recent story on the Peter Britt Gardens Music and Arts Festival to be held this summer in the gardens of Jacksonville's old Britt Estate. May I point out just one correction to your excellent coverage of the Festival in corporation? Mr. McKinney of Portland has been extreme ly interested in seeing the in troduction of a concert series of this magnitude in the state, and enthusiastically feels that historic Jacksonville is the ideal location for this North west "first." He is on the board of directors, but is not the general manager for the Festival. While the Britt Music Festival will be nation al in scope, all Festival work Is being undertaken by a ded icated group of vountccr val ley people. Just think, from Aug. 11 24, 19S3, the hills of southern Oregon will resound to fine music as performed by the highest calibre professional musicians from over the coun try, in the glorious natural setting of the historic Britt Gardens in pioneer Jackson ville. The Rogue valley is in deed a far cry from a "cul tural desert!" Mrs. Bert Pree President, Music and Arts Festival Association Body of Avalanche Victim Discovered Ouray, Colo. JOT- The fro zen body of 11-year-old Paul ine Hudson, buried under tons of snow March 3 in an ava lanche that also killed her father and sister, was dis covered at the foot of Red Mountain Pass Thursday. Pauline's uncle, Vernon Hudson, and her grandfather, Floyd Hudson, both of Ouray, discovered the body. Search ers had found the other vic tims, the Rev. Marvtn Hud son, 30, and Amelia Hudson, 17, In March, but organized searching for Pauline was postponed about April 1. The two relatives kept up a daily vigil, anticipating that Pauline's body would be washed down a stream when the snow melted. She was lo cated about 20 feet from where her father's car was found. Her sister's body had been found next to the' car. President Congress, By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst In Jakarta, Indonesian Pres ident Sukarno accepted an offer from his hand-picked congress that he keep his job for life, and then, 1 e a v i ng his country in typical chaos, took off for a month-long vacation Lmj among the brighter lights Rome, Vienna and of Tokyo Pans. If this would seem to be fiddling while Rome burned, In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, it ap pears probable that a new constitution will not be sub mitted to the people of Ore gon by the present legisla ture. Submission of the new con stitution to popular vote re quires a two-thirds vote in both houses of the legislature. The house has given it the required majority, but the vote for submission in the senate was only 17 to 13, three votes short of the 20 required for a two-thirds ma jority in the 30-member sen ate. The present session of the legislature is already the long est In history, and it seems unlikely that it will be fur ther prolonged in an effort to get the necessary two thirds vote in both houses. WHY the opposition to the " proposed new constitu tion? Dispatches from Salem re port that disputes, cutting across Dartv lines, on tho question of apportionment of legislative representation and a strong" governor system that the new constitution would have set up accounted for most of the opposition. VOU may ask: 1 What is a STRONG gov ernor system? Well, under Oreeon's nrps. ent system the governor shares executive authority with the secretary of state and the slate treasurer. Under the proposed new constitution, the governor would be the sole executive officer. Those who oppose the "strong" governor system think that would be putting too much authority into too few hands. WHAT of the system of ap " portionmem of legislative representation proposed by the new constitution? It would be based upon population - "one man, one vote," to use the phrase origi nated by Justice Douglas of the U.S. SuDreme Cmirr it.,. der this "one man, one vote" system, the Oregon legisla ture would he rln a relatively small number of neavuy populated counties located chiefly in the Willam ette valley. VOU may say: 1 Isn't it RIGHT thai gov ernment should be dominated by PEOPLE rather than by area? TT SOUNDS logical. iniiiuie. Under our FEDERAL sys tem, the House of Represen tatives of the U.S. engross is dominated by pop-nation. The U.S. Senate is dominated by AREA. Under our federal system, EACH STATE, re gardless of its population, has two U.S. senators. Historically, it has been the SENATE that has been heav ily responsible for the growth and development of the West. Without the aid of the Senate, in which each state has two members, the West might never have achieved Its pres ent development. Reclamation of arid land might never have been possible without heavy AREA representation in the Senate. JN EASTERN Oregon and far Southern Oregon, we can't help wondering what will happen to us if wc lose our AREA representation in the Oregon legislature. We have to remember, of course, that unde its decision lt fall the U.S. Supreme Court claims the power to deter mine "fair" apportionment in the state legislature. But. at any rate, it seems unwise for us of the more thinly populated areas of our state lo deliberately give away the protection afforded by AREA representation in our state's legislative body. So - We arcr't too greatly wor ried by the prospect that a new constitution for Oregon may be delayed. Sukarno Accepts Offer From Then Takes Off on Vacation it was nothing new for Su karno whom crisis never has been known to keep at home and who as a ruler has dem onstrated both durability and agility. Five assassination attempts have been made against him but as he himself remarked in accepting his life-long post, "Sukarno cannot be toppled." Behind him he left a month of anti-Chinese riots and anti government posters proclaim ing "We do not want speeches. We want food and clothing." Brushes Aside Protests "Do not expect the govern ment and me to become Santa Claus," he told his people. "You must work hard." As a revolutionary, Sukar no has found the going com paratively easy since the end of World War II. The United States helped him achieve independence from The Netherlands. At home, the emotional ap peal has taken the place of a sound economic policy, and so far as Sukarno is concern ed, has been successful. Successful also has been his policy of balancing the United States against the appeal of communism originating in Moscow and Peking. From Both Sides From the United States he has received more than $700 million in economic aid. Military aid from the So Strictly Persona! By Sydney J. Harris fc Field Enterprises. Inc. If you have noticed an ap preciable decline in the qual ity of the column during the last week or so, the explan ation is really quite simple. I have been writing it while visiting New York. There is a popular the ory that a Hm writer needs stimulation, which is true; but he also needs detachment. And New York Is probably the least detachable, most in volved, city in the world. This is a community of pulsating personalities rub bing up against each other every minute of the day. It is an enormous village, full of gossip, in-jokes, jockeying for power and prestige and status, profound insecurity, and shifting relationships. And, although New York is the literary capital of America, since almost all the important publishing houses are centered here, it is sur prising how many writers who came here for the stimu lation have left to secure some detachment. They have bought homes in Connecticut or Vermont or New Hampshire, They have moved west to Penn sylvania or further. As soon as recognition became theirs, they found the at mosphere of Manhattan in hospitable toward their cre ative energies. A writer, or artist of any kind, needs to set his own tempo, which must corres pond to the rhythm of his particular talent. And New York has such a powerful tempo of its own that they toon find themselves marching to the step of the city, part of a vast army moving in lockstep and carrying the paradoxical banner, "I Above All." This is not to denigrate the city, which fascinates me, and which (contrary lo lo the accepted yokel be lief) is warm, friendly and infinitely more tolerant to ward the strange and ec centric than any other place in America. But as a place for working in any creating endeavor, its pitfalls are greater than its advantages. I speak not as an occasional visitor, but as one who knows the city well, and has lived here in the past. I know a dozen serious nov elists who have moved away in the last few years simply because it became impossible to set one's own terms of working and living in this beehive of throbbing egos. The best argument for de centralizing the arts in Amer ica is that concentrations of power - whether political, economic or artistic - are in the end self-defeating. New York drains the talent away from all other American com munities, which makes them culturally barren, and ulti mately makes New York too fiercely competitive, too self conscious of its superiority. Chekhov, who was also a doctor, said that medicine was his wife and writing was his mistress. New York is the artist's mistress, but unless he is wedding to the rest of America, he loses the sta bility and the continuity so essential for his best work viet Union is estimated at around $1 billion, and his MIG jets, frigates and well equipped - army of around 300,000 enabled him to take West New Guinea from the Dutch almost without firing a shot. U.S. envoys would like to talk to Sukarno about U.S. and British oil interests In Try and By BENNETT CERF- JOHN STRALEY tells of a young Irishman who began making good money, and was persuaded to open a check ing account in the local bank. At the end of the month he received his first state ment and batch of can celled checks. " 'Tis a fine bank we've got here," he nodded approv ingly. "I thought I'd spent a big wad of money, but I see the bank got every one of my checks back for me!" Along about the year 1500 or so, an irreverent Italian legend has it, a young girl in Milan be seeched a famous artist she knew to paint her portrait. "I'm far too busy," he is purported to have told her. "Why not ask that fellow Da Vinci across the courtyard, Mona? He needti the business!" -1 DEFINITIONS: OPTIMIST: A man who looks forward to marriage. PESSIMIST: A married optimist. TERMITE'S NIGHTMARE: "I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls." COLLEGE REUNION: A place where people get together to see who's falling apart. GUEST TOWEL: A small square of absorbent linen com pletely surrounded by useless embroidery. SNEEZING: Much achoo about nothing. C 1963, by Brnnett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate Way Down Under f J The Land of Cotton M By Arthur Hoppe v J I think I just lost us Dixie. My only excuse is my ace newsman's curiosity got the better of me. For weeks I've been nagged by the gnawing question: "Docs the South have segregated fallout shel ters?" It's a pretty momentous question. So at last, hang the expense, I picked up the phone and called Colonel Ul rich N. ,'smes, civil defense director of Birmingham, Ala. "No," said Colonel James, "our shelters, they're on a first-come, first served basis. In wartime, we're going to have to forget a lot of things.'' Moreover, said the Colonel, it being a Federal program, all shelters In the South were racially integrated. Had this caused a stir? "Well," said the Colonel hesitantly, "to tell the truth, we haven't been men tioning that fact, either way." But, oh, if that fact should ever gel out! Already 1 can see that distinguished orator, Senator R. Barnett Stonewall, chairman of the "Southerners United (Whites Only) for the Constitution," rising on the floor of the Mississippi State Senate. "Gentlemen," says the Sen ator, "it has been brought to my attention that our damyan kee friends in Washington are secretly attempting to foist their peculiar racial theories on the lily-white breast of our fair Southland. Through un derground integration! "Now, you all know me. Some of my best Nigras are friends. But do you realize these integrated shelters are equipped with only a single drinking fountain? Did you know not a solitary shelter has two lunch counters for serving survival wafers? Would you, I ask you in all fairness, want your sister to share a Gcigcr counter with a Nigra? "Why picket the While cn he do? Ht'i only Art kill i i r-K 1 - h ffXLl Indonesia, now under threat of virtual confiscation. Such an action would sig nal a major victory for Com munist efforts to eliminate Western interests in, Indo nesia. But it also would cut off a major source of foreign income and it almost certain ly would mean the end of U.S. economic aid. Stop Me 5-31 "And, gentlemen, I will not sully the floor of this distin guished body by describing in what proximity the occupants1 of these shelters are supposed to sleep. For two weeks. In the dark! "Tiie South stands at tho breach! Again. Will we yield to this Communist-inspired plot by these damyankce ra cial agitators? Or will we re ject, now and forever, the in sidious concept of under ground integration? "I say if the time should come, we must preserve our sacred Southern way of life at all costs. We must stand ready to die happily together with our beloved Nigras just as we have lived happily to gether with our beloved Nigras. Together in separata but equal fallout shelters. "So let us gird our loins and sally fourth to battle, bearing aloft those immortal words: 'Butler Dead Than Sepia'!" So you can see what will happen if a single word of this leaks out. As usual, the South will unite as one against the common enemy. Us. Every Southern Senator will join in filibustering tho whole Federal civil defense program to death. Every Southern State will start building separate but equal shelters. Labeled "While." "Colored," and (for those on rooftops) "Visiting Damyan kecs." Tempers will rise. The South will secede. So not only will we lose our Federal fall out shelter program, but wo stand in grave danger of los ing Dixie forever. I suppose 1 should've kept my mouth shut. But t couldn't. It's not that I'm an ace newsman, really. I gu.vi it's just that I'm a born Do Goodcr. House? I mean, what Ihe President."