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Newspaper Page Texti A - KUNDAY. JUNE 2, 183 friLDFGHD MAIL Ihkbuht, KibOFChD, OhLCON Httyo In Soutwrn Oregon tZdl The Mall Tribune" "uIUTOKD PRINTING CO M North Fit St, Pr. TBI-aui gOBEST-W RUHL. Editor nU GR JtV AdvarUklru Manaiat RERALO T LATHAM. Bui Mir SuCW ALLEN JB. alne Editor EuU. H ADAMS. City EJItor HAKRY CHIPMAN, T.leg Editor SlCHARD JEWITT. SporU Ed tot SLrvE STAKCHER fomiri'l Ed I tot BALE EBJCKSON. CirculanpnMr An Independent Newipapei tatara a Mcond clua mailer at Mdlor4 Oraion under Ao ol March 3, 1897 ' OB8CBIPTION RATES ' Br Mail In Advance Daily and Sunday 1 yaarlliOO . Daily and unday- moa 10 OO i DaUy and unday moa. JM By Ca.ii-And Motor Route Dally and Sunday 1 yaar Ml .00 Dally and Sunday I mo 1.7S Sunday Only I mo. Carrier andWindori CoVJ 10c STfUlarpTpar of City of M.d'orJ Official PPt2L J-5i!-V"Co!!i!lZ United Preu International full Laaied Wire Tj P L Talephoto Newiplclures 5SM5ES6rATJDrf bureau" q" CTRCTLATlONa jtilvprtlilnf Repreaentatlve : KELSO" ROBERTS J ASSOCI ' ATM Ofl"a In New York. Ch. ' caio. Detroit, San rrnnclKO. Lot Anceln. 8aIU. Portland i Dearer. HIWIrAMt rUHISHKf ASSOCIATION lATIOHAt I0ITORIAI lASBDCMTiaN J U J 'J Member California Newipaper Publishers Aaaoeiatlon 'MX -i Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Hlitory from the fllei of The M.II Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years eflo. ' 10 YEARS AGO ' June 2. 1153 (Tuesday) A total of 230 seniors will graduate Thursday night in commencement exercises at Medford High school. Gov. and Mrs. Psul Patter son will be In Medford Satur day to attend coffee hour iponiored by the Jackson County Republican Women, U YEARS AGO . June 2. 1143 (Wednesday) Officers of Army units ita tioned at Camp White receive : training in fighting forest lires. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "There li considerable summer com plaintchiefly that there Isn't going to be any." - 30 YEARS AGO June 2, 1133 (Friday) Upstate organization! move to retain scenic beauty of Crater Lake highway. Medford to play Roseburg tomorrow In first game of Southern Oregon baseball league season. 40 YEARS AGO . June 2, IMS (Saturday) Stolen u t o owned by Ralnh Woodford located in Tulsa. Okla. Road to Crater Lake to be open to travel in park by June 10. 50 YEARS AGO June 2, 1013 (Monday) Three Lodes Mining com pany, owner of 18 claims on Oriole and Big Yank veins In Gallce creek district, elects C. W. Wlckstrum president Willie Ritchie, world's lightweight champion boxer, passes through Medford states Medford fighter Bud Anderson must "meet some good boys" before he will get championship bout. What's Yoar I.Q.? Nk-e ot leu eemrd It superior; seven w (f.M t eiteltent) five ee til h food. Just Hang Up As with many other of man's modern inven tions, the telephone is paradoxically both a curse arid a blessing. : When it is used well, it can be an instrument of incalculable convenience and benefit, and one wonders how man ever got along or accomplished anything without it. But when it is used badly, by people of dis eased minds and characters for unhealthy or selfish purposes, one is tempted, at least momen tarily, to rip the blasted thing out of the wall and hurl it through the nearest window. "THERE is of course the petty nuisance of the person who calls in the middle of the night, only to discover after you have dragged yourself out of a sound sleep that his finger has slipped and he has dialed the wrong number. His mum bled apology won't serve to lull you back to sleep. One puts up with that sort of thing, though, as an inevitable consequence of human frailty and mischance. ' The most vicious of all, perhaps, is the obscene phone call, where some sexually maladjusted person, secure in his anonymity, can whisper indecent proposals to any woman unfortunate enough to have been dialed. The police blotter every week contains several instances of such disturbing occurrences here in Medford. COMEWHERE between these two examples, in terms of seriousness, is the matter of tele phone solicitations by fly-by-night businesses. The established firms have no need for that sort of gimmick to gain customers; standard pro motions and reputations for long service stimu late their allotted share of the consumer's dollar. But the sharpies, the outfits who move into a community for "a blitz campaign of fleecing the gullible, are the ones who employ the telephone technique we hope the only ones. We got two such calls last week, one at 10 o'clock Sunday morning. A barely articulate fe male voice invited us to sign up for a family in surance program, and we wish devoutly we could remember the name of the outfit so we could advise, and implore you to blacklist it. The other call came from some hired hack representative of a magazine agency who offered us Argosy, Mechanics Illustrated and some other periodical we couldn't care less about, all for the incredible bargain price of 69 cents a week or some such figure. IT'S nearly unimaginable that any sales are actually made with such irritating telephone pitches, but apparently there are just enough naive people in the country that such an approach is profitable. At'least they seem to continue and even, un fortunately, increase. And every time such a sale is made, a Medford businessman, who has made an investment in the community and paid local taxes, is undercut by unfair competition. Since at present there are no legal means to control this blatant invasion of privacy, we would urge you to take the most effective action we can think of to squelch the telephone solicitor. Just hang up hard. G. II. B. - Searching for News Driving northward through the Willamette valley the other day, we underwent an exercise in frustration. Attuned, professionally, to the news, we kept attempting, via the car radio, to find out what was going on. We wanted to know the condition of the Pope, the status of the racial disturbances in the South all the things that are of immediate im portance to everyone, Americans and others. There were plenty of stations on the air. There were radio broadcasts from Cottage Grove, Eugene, Albany, Corvallis. Salem and Portland. XfE KEPT tuned to one station be nameless) for a time. At thi 1. What abbreviation for Oregon is approved by the U.S. Post Office Department? 2. There are 63,360 indies In quarter mile, haif mile, or mileT . S. What vegetable is used to make sauerkraut? 4. Ladybugs are, or arc not beneficial in gardens? 8. Opiates are prescribed to Induce sleep, or sleeplottiitja? 6. Who claimed California for Queen Elizabeth and led metal plate to aignify 4he claim? 7. Who led the Roundhead of England? 8. He searched tor Blmlni. died In Cuba, ond nuned Florida; who was he . 0. Olympla Is the capital of which ittte? ' . 10. A Whodunit refers to What In present day slang? Anew art i 1. Ores. 2. Mile. S. Cabbaee. 4. Are beneficial S. Induct ale. C. Sir Francli Drake. 7. Oliver Cromwell . Ponce de Leon. t. Washing ton. 10. Mystery booh show. . - ' ' (which shall the hour break. news was announced. It turned out to be a local news broadcast, concerned with local city council doings, local minor accidents and so on. We switched quickly to another station (after passing, on the dial, a half dozen which had noth ing but rather raucous music) and got in on the tail end of a national news broadcast. We had missed the first part, and thus the "top of the news." FINALLY we concluded that the best svstem is to find a station that has music a bit loss offensive than the others, and stick with it. After an hour or so. one gets the pattern of the news broadcast either on the hour or half-hour, and either emphasizing local or national and inter national news. At least one knows what to expect. uui, jusi aooui me ume mat the pattern is evident, the darn station goes out of range, and the search for an intelligible pattern of news broadcasting begins all over again. Then is the time to gripe when a newscaster comes on. gives a one sentence (or, in some cases, even a TWO sentence) description of a news happening, and then triumphantly proclaim? "That is ALL the news." Oh mv. It was a real relief to stop alomr the wav and buy a newspaper again. It may be a few hours behind the radio. But it tells you what's happen ing (unlike the newscaster who gives you a one minute broadcast of quick headlines, and claims That's the news IN DEPTH.") Once again Oh my.A. "Faster! . . . Here It Take All The Running You Can Do, To Keep In The Same Place" Today & Tomorrow By Waller lippmann (c) 19SI. The Waihlnirton Poit musk . XaJ Lippmann NO LUNCH IN PARIS Now that It is virtually cer tain that President Kennedy will not be able to see Prosi- dent d e Gaulle in Eur ope, his trip presents prob lems which did not exist when it w a s first planned. Originally, it was to have been a good will visit to Italy. This led to the feeling that the President could not go to Rome unless he went also to Bonn. He had been In Paris year before last. He had been in London. He had never been in Germany. But except for a sentimen tal visit to Ireland, he was to confine himself to Italy and Germany. The President was to by-pass London in order not to offend General de Gaulle. Then, unless President de Gaulle chose to be gracious about Inviting the President to lunch in Paris, that was to be all. When instead Presi dent do Gaulle chose to feel that there was no point in making Franco-American re lations look better than they are, the prospect began to brighten that the President might after all see Mr. Mac miilan. Without Its having been planned that way, the trip, which was to show good will to the Fanfani government in Italy, has transformed itself Into a big affair in polities. For nobody of any sophistica tion will believe that the President's rather elaborate tour in German cities is no more than what it professes to be - a gesture of solidarity within the Atlantic Commun ity. IT MAY well be accidental and unplanned, but the visit to West Germany turned into a hig affair shortly after General cle Gaulle's January press conference. Unless the President does something to prevent it, lie will find him self in the position of trying to woo the Germany away from the French and of trying to demonstrate that he can draw larger crowds of Germans than did General de Gaulle. Such a contest for German favor, or the appearance of such a contest, would be not only unseemly but most un wise. For It will be taken in Europe to mean that the Unit ed States regards West Ger many as Its principal ally and as the leader of Europe. This interpretation, which Is in fact already widely held, has been much confirmed in European eyes by our misguided prcs- Matter of Fact y jph aioP (ci Nw frorfc Hfnm Triburv Syndicate sure on the Germans to take a leading part in nuclear af fairs. THOUGH it has only minor influence on the admin istration, there is a school of opinion in this country which does in fact believe exactly what the Europeans think we believe. This school is hope less about France, it distrusts Great Britain, it puts no high value on Italy and it is impa tient with the smaller coun tries. It insists that the core of a sound American policy is a special German-American re lationship. That is very heady wine to offer the Germans. Fortun ately, so I believe, the pre ponderant mass of German opinion has learned enough from the experience of this century to know that the wine is poisoned. It would alienate Germany from its European neighbors. It would make Germany and Eastern Europe irreconcilable. And it would revive that very na tionalism, jingoism and mili tarism which caused the two dreadful wars. The Americans who want to make West Germany our principal ally in Europe arc not inspired by friendship for the German nation. They are tough guys looking for tough auxiliaries. THERE is then a dangerous pitfall on the road that the President intends to travel next month. There is no need to fall into it if well before hand we know where the pit fall Is. I assume that the President himself is well aware of it and that he will find ways to deflate the ap pearance of playing high politics with our European allies. The more serious risk lies In the way we, ns newspaper men, report the trip, whether we are able to resist the tci.ip tation to treat it as a shouting match and a beauty contest between the French president and the American. Public Defender BUI Sent To Gov. Hatfield Salem -IUPD- Oregon took the first step today toward a public defender system. A bill creating a statc-ievel public defender cleared the legislature and went to Uic governor. Since he requested it, he was sure to sign it. The defender's main Job would be to assist prisoners in post-eonvtcSlon and appeals cases. He also would study the need for a broader public defender system in Oregon. THE HALF-HEARTED INITIATIVE j Washington - In the back rooms of the White House, preparations are already be ing made for the Presi dent's Euro pan tour. In the usual Kennedy way every sort of person imag inable is be ing a iked what the aiup President should say and how he ought to say it, in order to achieve the best results in Italy and Germany. The central problem is what to do about the scheme for the multi-lateral nuclear deterrent. By proposing this mixed sea-borne force armed with American nuclear mis-, sites, the President sought to recapture the European initia tive after the jarring setback of Gen. de Gaulle's veto on British entry into the Euro pean Common Market. The subject is so thorny that it is not much discussed Yet it is so important that it has got to be discussed. The question is whether the Amer ican initiative will or will not fail from half-hearted-ness. To recapitulate briefly: aft er making his public proposal, the President sent Special Ambassador Livingston Mer chant to explain the multi lateral deterrent to the Euro peans. In Germany, which has become the key country in Europe and in NATO because of Gen. de Gaulle's intran sigence, Merchant was given a warm, yet critical welcome. GERMAN Defease Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel asked particularly insistent ques tions about the control ar rangements for the new co operative, mixed-manned nu clear force. The American scheme called for a control committee, in which each con tributing nation would have a veto on the use of the new nuclear force. Von Hassel pointed out first of all that if the American veto were re tained, the creation of the new force would in no way dilute the effective American monopoly on nuclear power. But he gave vastly more im portance to another point. He drummed home the probability that with a one-nation-one-veto system. Labor leader Harold Wilson would quite soon nave a veto as British Prime Minister. In that case, von Hassel remark ed, heavy investment in the new force would hardly be justifiable. Von H a s s e l's arguments were not - and still are not -easy to answer. With sensible moderation, however, he did not ask for any immediate change in the control arrange ments, which would have re quired immediate, dra stic amendment of the McMahon Act. INSTEAD, he asked for a per " sonal commitment by the President to recommend con trol by majority vote of the control committee, after the new force had been built, or ganized, manned, and opera tionally tested at sea. Hiis re quest is the problem the U.S. policy-makers have since been wrestling with. The wrestling has been complicated by three highly curious factors. Even at the outset, the President made his proposal with qualified en thusiasm. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who had little share in the original initia tive, has also placed the main emphasis on avoiding Con gressional trouble arising from excessive tampering with the McMahon Act. Finally, Secretary of De fense Robert McNamara is a high and dry non-prolifera-tionist (the new word of art for those who wish to retain the U.S. nuclear monopoly at all costs). He therefore wants the U.S. veto kept in the scheme. The wrestling has therefore produced a compro mise. Somewhere along the line in Europe, and almost certain ly in Germany, the President will do a re-take of his re markable Philadelphia speech, on the theme that the U.S. wants Europe as a fully equal partner. He will point to the multi-lateral deterrent as the germ of a European deterrent, as it would be if majority con trol were adopted. But he will only commit himself to altera tions of the control arrange ments when Europe is "truly united," rather than when the force is operational. GIVEN the hard fact of Gen. de Gaulle, Europe U not likely to be truly united while President Kennedy is in of fice. The question therefore is whether this high-sounding compromise will satisfy the Europeans, and especially the Germans. Will the Germans really want to spend some thing like $200 million a year on a force over which Harold Wilson will probably have a veto? For fear of seeming to de mand nuclear weapons for themselves, the Germans have not again posed the question von Hassel asked Merchant in Bonn. The German Defense Minister was silent on the sub ject in his talks with Ameri cans in Ottawa, and so was Minister Heinrich Krone on his exploration trip to Wash ington. Rather complacently, there fore, the Kennedy policy makers are saying the Ger mans have changed their minds. Yet they have done nothing of the sort, as was indicated in an interview giv en to a German journalist in MyyoJKjj -J wnny aeaaaaaaaaai j . . . j.w-s. I THINGS YOU WOULDN'T KNOW IF YOU HADN'T "AD THEM HERE HOW TO T.ARN A MILLION DOLLARS 4 YEAR We uil ir.to the middle Most bullfighters can't stand j of a prog-am on a local radio the sight of blood, especially their own. . . . Pancho Villa choked to death on a tamale husk. . . . Shirley Temple was a very successful midget. . . . Roy Rogers is scared to death of horses. ... A local funeral director has two cars, one marked "His" and the other "Hearse." . . . BEWARE OF THE KANINCH-NTECHEL We don't know when you were last bitten by a Kanin chentechel in Portland but it happened to us last Monday. We got into a friend's car nd his Kaninchentechel made a savage lunge for our wrist. We don't mind someone train ing their dog to steal wrist watches but we do object to being told that our particular blood type upsets their dog's stomach. Beware of Gene Rossman's miniature dachs hund the next time you're in Portland, please. V5s a man was telling how to earn a million dollars a year. You probably listen regulary to this man, whom we'll call Earl Hummingbird. (That really isn't his name at all because we just made up the name Earl). Anyway, we got pretty excited about earning a mil lion dollars a year and rushed out to the station to talk to old Earl Hummingbird about it. He was there, sure enough, but we sort of lost faith in him when he nervously dropped his broom as he told us that he'd see us after ha swept out one more studio. Darn you. Earl! 5s WORDS TO FIGHT BY This dialogue happens in almost every western and you just know that some real gun slinging is sure to follow. "Them your calves?" "Yeah, who wants to know?" Double bang! Ottawa by Minister von Has sel. Hence the question posed above is still pretty worrying. And if the scheme goes sour because the answer to the question turns out to be nega tive, the Kennedy policy-mak. ers would hardly give a more glittering present to Gen. de Gaulle. THIS IS WEEK WEEK We have long felt that there should be some sort of guide for people who don't quite know what to do when the mayor proclaims some kind of a week. You certainly just don't want to stand around with your hands in your pockets while everyone else is observing the week being observed. Just as a suggestion, you could try having a ketsup sundae during "National To mato Week." What to do dur ing "National Radish Week?" Take a bunch to lunch, of course. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF THE TOWN TIGHTWAD amazed his neighbors by sud denly taking unto himself a wife. When the minister wncluded the ceremony, the groom said, "I suppose there's x charge for this. What 11 ;t be?" "Let your con icience be your guide," laid the minister gallant ly. "I'm usually paid in accordance with the beauty of the bride." The tightwad handed the min ister a dollar. The minis ter gave him seventy five cents change. Fletcher Knebel Is the latest of Innumerable writ ers to assail the "alien ac cent" of native New York ers. Their language, he lays "tree" the number between two and four; "Jeintz" the name 5f the local football team; a "fit" a bottle measuring seven unces less than a quart "is only slintly less difficult to master than Urdu." The original titles of four of the big-Rest musical hits in Broad vay history, recall Dick Lewine and Alfred Simon in their defini te "Encyclopedia of Theater Music," were: 1. Lady Fair; 2. Jmarty; 3. All's Fair; and 4. Away We Go! Do you know what Jiey wero called when they opened In New York? (Answers: 1. The Desert Song; 2. Funny Face; 3. By Jupiter; L Oklahoma.) C 1963, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kim Futures Syndicate THE REAL SHADEY WAKE FIELD We don't know why people like to assume the names of characters who were famous in history but it happens all the time. We've done some research on the original Shadey Wakefield and have discovered that he was mighty big in the making of the west. Back in 1860, he lived in Jack sonville and was one of the few men brave enough to walk the wrong way on a one way street. He carried a 7 gun (he just had to have more of everything" than anyone else) and rode a horse that had never been broken. We wero curious as to how a rough, tough pioneer got a nickname like this and we found out. He sold patented window shades to the Indians for their teepees. DIG THOSE CRAZY SEWERS Perhaps you've noticed that all the downtown streets have been torn up and you've prob ably wondered why. It's nice to be able to report to you that when all the old sewer lines are dug up and placed on tne elevated standards, Medford will have the most modern overhead sewer system in thtf country. 5& HORSEY SET We saw a real estate sign the other day advertising the fact that a place was ideal for the "horsey set." We jumped to the easy conclusion that this must mean regularly em ployed people with stable in- I comes. III Ik! 1 "fUCM IN TttM" u aU in m i i iai i ! v -- NAILED TO MANKIND'S DOORI Silly Seasons Not Confined to America By ERIC SEVAREID Political silly seasons are not confined to North Amer ica and the way of the ag rZrn g r a ndizer is 1 ca. like Dc C-r-r? - Gaulle of Eu ' ', SiCii. I rope, is dis- '5-Wj The rT'iTrt'l com" is4 mon sense is VWMal ri not promiscu- stv.rna mL;v distrib uted in the new African states because of sheer lack of experience, but the ma jority of their prime and for eign ministers can tell a can of fish-hooks from a pot of gold, as they have Jus dem onstrated at the Addis Ababa gathering of 31 independent African nations. a They have politely told Nkrumah to save his oratori cal pleas for "union now'" for his own political clam-bakes back home in Ghana and have departed Addis Ababa show ing no signs of whatever of a stricken conscience over Nkrumah's threat that Afri ca's 250 million people would .lever forgive them if they did not unify Africa under "a strong central govern ment." It may be argued whether two. three or five per cent of that quarter billion popula-i tion is even aware that the meeting and argument took place, but it is an unarguable proposition that a politically unified African continent is an impossibility, as unargua ble as the proposition that Nkrumah himself dwells in a never-never land of para noid fantasies more complete ly than his Western detractors supposed. A love of steaming hot ora tory has been a common char acteristic of African politici ans; with them, the word spoken was the deed done. How much of this came from a background of belief in magic and how much from the simple fact that they had never held practical political power would be hard to say: in any case, this psychic con dition is altering as more of them struggle with the stub born facts of governance. It s not surprising that the chiel exponent of realism at Addis Ababa was the Prime Minister of Nigeria. Sir Abu bakar Tafawa Balewa. He is a Moslem from the Northern Region of Nigeria where, un der the "indirect rule" sys tem to which the British con signed that area some 80 years ago, strong and able men like Sir Abuakar con tinued unbroken the art and tradition of governing their own people. They did not come fresh and starry-eyed to I self-rule, like the Nkrumahs; in a real degree they had had it all the time. a The threads of unity that cross African national fron tiers are emotional in nature, the remnants of the common desire to see the end of Euro pean rule. This is unity against something and there is still something to be against since areas of Euro-1 pean rule remain. But it is ' not unity for something, as is i the feeling and the effort in Europe, for example. ! The new African states are j a long, long way from the coalescing stage of their his- j tory. Indeed, it is probably true that they are approach ing the fragmenting stage. The potential tribal and territorial disputes within national boun daries are many, and at the best there is bound to be a period of pure nationalism with its concomitant interna tional disputes and wars. Some will have to learn they can't lick each other if there is ever to be realistic thought of joining each other. The psychology of political power is the same in Africa a.- anywhere else. It is hard enough to diminish the scope and authority of any govern ment bureau, let alone a sov ereign government. In the name of a larger whole. No African prime minister could tolerate diminution ot his I own power; if Nkrumah is the exception it can only be because he sees himself, in his dreams, as leader of the "union." as prime among all prime ministers. But there is much that can be done to arrest the Balkan ization of Africa, which has gone far enough. Regional groupings for specified, lim ited purposes ought to be and perhaps can be brought about. There ought to be customs, unions, common curren c i e s, common visa procedures, com mon rules, and standards of education, ground rules for private investments, mutuality in the promotion of airlines, highways, river traffic and electric power: intellect u a 1 and cultural exchanges of all kinds can be encouraged. Sooner or later, most em battled Africans will have to settle down to the prosaic and onerous business cf daily liv ing under self-rule, and the rest of the world will regard Africa through clearer lenses. It will see that this is not going to be the "Century of Africa." in spite of the late Dag Hammarskjold's prophe cy, because Africa contains no real power centers. Africa is simply producing more his tory than it is yet able to consume locaily. (Distributed 19S3. by The Hail Syndicate. Inc.) (AU Rights Reterved) .