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4 A SUNDAY. JUNE 8. 18S3 MEOFORD MAIL. TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON ""eeryone la 4ouine;n Ch-egoa Reai -rt MaU Tribune" '. uEfiihed Dalijr except &turd:J bj MEDFORD PMNTING CO SJ North nrSt Ph-jri-Sltt , "-"ROBERT W RUHL. Mjr HIRB GREY AdveMijInl MinlW rrD 1 1 n T LATHAM. BUS Mff rmc W ALLEN JR.. etna. eVUUW Earl h adams, city Editor uiddv rHIPMA N Tele I Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Ed tor OLIVE STARCHER Wumtn'ttdltM DALE ERICKSOjUCIrcujlUonJJjtr A5iiidpendent Newipapei Entered aecond elan m , Medlora. union u..u.. March J, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dally and Sunaay-1 Dilv and Sunday moe 10 00 . i . A S..nriv!l moL 5-00 Sunday Only On year 15.00 Simla Copy (Mailed! "tally end Bunday-1 year all 00 Dally and Sunday 1 ma l-JJ Sunday Only 1 mo. Carrier andVendora -Copy 100 oTfirtil Taper ol City of Nadferi Olllclal Paper ol Jackton County United Preet International full Leated Wire 'DPI Telephoto NewplMirrei TSMBEROr AUDIT BUREAU Q? CIRCULATipNS Advertiilnl "rore-entetive: NELSON ROBERTS ASSOC. ATES Ol'lcee In New York. Chi caio, Detroit, San lYencleco. Lot Anlae. Seattle. Fortleod Denver. -gS VllWlFAMt VjA.OCIATIOH NATION A I lOITOIIAl MasiDer California Newapapar Publishers AiaoeiatioB Flight o' Time Medford and Jackion County Hlitory from thi files of Tha Mall Trlbun. 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO yaers ago. School Advisors "Picketing! Demonstrations! Government Meddling! I Don't Know What Thi. Country Ii Coming To" 10 YEARS AGO June 8. 1953 (Tuesday) The Horace Heidt show will be preesnted st the high school stadium as scheduled at 8 o'clock this evening. Lelghton Tuttle, Eugene, today won the Junior cham pionship in the Southern Ore gon Junior Golf tournament at Rogue Valley Country club. 20 YEARS AGO June 9, 1943 (Wednesday) New Community Chest di rectors tor Medford Include Mrs. C. Rease Braley, A. M. Cannon, Frank Farrell, Henry Herman. Dwlght Houghton, Larry Schade, E. E. Kotoed, A. S. Cummlngi, Herb Grey Elwood Hedberg, Karl Jan- ouch, John Moffat, Leonard Mayfleld and B. L. Nutting. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Kmnriea Pot" column: "Boys will be boys ai.d the girls don't mind dressing like one, 30 YEARS AGO June 9. 1933 (Friday) Pear crop loans In Rogue valley reach total of 9399,000. Dr. Phlpps announces hli candidacy lor Medford school board. 40 YEARS AGO June 9. 1923 (Saturday) Forest service announces plans to construct garage at .Union Creek. Gua Schneidau and Ted Thye scheduled to wrestle at Gold Hill. 80 YEARS AGO June 9, 1913 (MsnrU) Lou Shaw, Chicago, defeats Chris Gottlieb, Medford, in championship balk -line Mi llard game. Large crowd attends gradu ation ceremonies at St. Mary's academy; Miss Maude New bury only graduate. What's Your I.Q.? Nina r tea correct It tuea'lac; oven or elaht It eieallenti five or lia ii fe4. 1. Who was the first Vice Preident to succeed to the Presidency became of the death of a President? 2. What fictional seafarer landed on a fish by mistake and escaped in a woodrn tub? 3. Where Is the Ivory Coast located? 4. In music, how many clefts are there? 5. In dry measure, how many quarts are there in one bushel? 6. Name the capital of Ore gon. 7. What la the chemical symbol for Sodium? 8. Identify the scientist who advanced the theory of rela tivity. ., 9. In this sequence, what number should logically fol low the last one: 90, 47, 53, 46. 43. 51, 42. 10. Warren C. Magnuson is the senior Senator from which State? Answers: 1. Tyler io Harri son. 2. Sinbad tha sailor (In Arabian Nights). 3. French West Africa. 4. Three. S. Thirty-two. 8. Salem. 7. Na. 8. Albert Einstein. 9. Thirty nine. 10. Washington. Formation of a citizens' advisory committee to study and submit recommendations on the secondary school needs of the Medford district is one of the more noticeable actions stemming from ideas discussed on trips to other school districts in the country in recent months. Use of such a committee had been considered prior to the Oregon Program trips. But the visita tions gave the board and administrators a chance to see how the groups were organized, what type of organization was best, and just what the re sponsibility of a citizens' advisory committee was. These observations have given the Medford board a unique opportunity to organize a cit izen's advisory committee from the more desir able points of organization discussed on the trips. And the board has taken advantage of the op portunity. , . . TTHE board has, from the start, selected district taxpayers who in the past have indicated an interest, pro or con, in school affairs, or who the board believes will be interested enough to do nate the time necessary for a detailed study. It took care that all geographical areas of the district were represented; it took care also that committee members represented a good cross section of business, industry, agriculture, and professional fields. The board also made every effort to avoid accusations of "stacking" the committee. Board members named both supporters and critics to the committee. How well the board achieved its coal may be attested through a comment over Heard after the organizational meeting when one committee member said jestingly: "This commit tee's stacked, but I haven't determined yet just which way." The board considered and discussed at length the qualifications of a general chairman and vice chairman. It selected unanimously Harlan P. Bosworth Jr. as general chairman in the belief that he met the qualifications, including the time to devote to the job. , If the enthusiasm he showed at a recent or ganizational meeting is an indication, he will serve the district well in heading the advisory committee. "VJE of the duties of the general chairman will be to see that the committee continues its study and that it prepares reports on its findings. His responsibility cannot be minimized. Neither can the responsibility of each mem ber of the committee be minimized, for they will study the needs and program of the system under which their junior ana senior high school age i M i l j . l mi. i . i cniiaren are Demc eaucaieu. i neir recommend ations will have a beanne on what tvne of an j-' ... i educational system may be available for those children on a secondary level in the future. The study conducted by the committee, and bv subcommittees, of which there nrobablv will be at least five, should be rewarding in more ways than one. THE citizens' advisory committee will serve a a Tum.-f r1rr ninnnco First, it will study and make recommenda tions to the board as to what course of action might be desirable concerning the secondary school needs; and secondly, it will serve as a liaison between the school board and administra tors and the general public so the latter may more fully understand some of the complex problems iacing ine aisinci. The board has been careful not to reveal its opinions to members of the committee; on at least one occasion it declined to answer a ques tion at a recent school board meetinir because it was then considering formation of the commit tee. The question was asked by a person who is now on the committee. DOARD members and the administrative staff have stressed that they will serve only as consultants and as "leg men" for the committee, to obtain and provide information sought by the group. It will be up to the citizens to come to their own decisions so that reports, both majority and minority, may be made on the basis of what the committee learns. The citizen's advisory committee is a new ex perience for the district, although in the past un official citizens' groups have informally organ ized to direct criticism at certain aspects of the program, or of financing it. The time now seems to be right to seek the thinking of an official citizens' committee. Today & Tomorrow By Walter lippmann (e 19SS. The Waihinfton Poet Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop (e) Ntw York Herald Tribune Syndicate THANK THE DOGSI Washington-It Just may be that Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi and the police dogs of Commis sioner Bull Connor of Birmingh a m Ala., have co oper a t e d to cause a hope f u I turning point in the cruel civil rights crisis. Alanp l n Aiaoama, to begin with, there is a glim mer of hope that Gov. George C. Wallace will not "do a Ross Barnett" on Monday, when Miss Vivian Malone will pre sent herself for admission to the University of Alabama. No doubt the governor will stand in the door, as he has promised to do, but he may not use violence to prevent Miss Malone from entering the door. If this long-feared moment on Monday does not erupt Into violence, it will be large ly owing to the desire of Influ ential and sensible people in Alabama to have no more scenes In their state like those enacted in Birmingham and at the University of Mississippi. THE trustees of Alabama university have been the leaders, but all sorts of other Alabamans in key places have joined to beg the governor not to "do a Ross Barnett. As these words are written, the latest reports from the scene of action are downright optimistic. And without the dogs and Ross Barnett, such a mobilization against violence and lawlessness would hardly have been possible. For pre cisely the same reason (illogi cal as this may seem) there has been an important shift in Congressional opinion. Quite suddenly, the passBge or a civil rights bill this year has become a quite imaginable event. "It won't be easy, but It can happen," is the verdict of one of the most knowledge able members of the Senate club. The key to the problem is the dominant group of Repub licans In the Semite, with Sen, Burke Hlckenlooper of Iowa coming next In Importance after the Senate minority leader, Everett Dirkscn of It linols. Playing with the South em conservatives has always been these Republicans' game. If the Republican-Southern conservative coalition is main taincd, there is not even s ghostly chance of civil rights action by Congress, either now or In the next session. It may not be necessary to in voke cloture in order to pass a civil rights bill, but there will have to he enough votes behind the bill to pass a clo- ture motion if need be-which means two-thirds of the Sen ate. And such a bill cannot get the needed two-thirds vote without Republicans of the Dlrksen-Hickenlooper stripe. m e e HPHE dramatization of the " civil rights crisis, particu larly by the horrifying photo graphs from Birmingham of Bull Connors police meas ures, has brought much mail from the midwestern Republi can states. The clergy, partic ularly, are up in arms. Sen. Hickenlooper, shocked him self like his fellow Iowans, has told some of his Southern friends that he may no longer be able to stand by them. This is the background, in turn, of the sudden delay of the President's civil rights message and the accompany ing administration bUl, which were expected to go to Con gress last week. With his cus tomary legislative flair, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson scented the change of atmos phere, and advised the Presi dent to wait. The delay is in fact design ed to give the President time to touch all the legislative bases, and to do everything he can, first of all to mobilize advance national support, but above all to rally Republican support in Congress. The key event will come this week, when the President will meet quieUy with the Republican as well as the Democratic Congressional leaders - both parties being included on the sound ground that this is national emergency. sl x -jm THE MIRACLE OF POPE JOHN lhe reign of Pope John has been a wonder which grows more astounding the more we think how, amidst the angry en- mities of our time, he be came so greav loved. It is modern miracle that anyone could reach across all the barri ers of class. uppauia - caste, color and creed to touch the hearts of all kinds of people. There has been nothing like it, cer tainly not in the modern age. The miracle is a proof which we sorely needed that all the varieties of men do actually belong to one human family. Otherwise, so many could not have heard and understood and responded to Pope John. That they have responded is proof that the enmities and divisions of mankind are not the whole reality of the hu man condition. There is in men a capacity, unplumbed and perhaps unmeasurable, to be reached by loving kind ness. The miracle of Pope John is that he knew this and believed it and had faith to act upon it, and that he was proved to have been right. So, as he lies dead, he is revered and blessed by all sorts and conditions of men all around the globe. E KNOW that the miracle JORE than a year and a half ago, the school board decided to build a new high school. But action on the decision was delayed, and per haps the delay has been fortunate, for two rea sons. Since reaching its earlier decision, the board has had an opportunity to visit other school dis tricts under the Oregon Program. It has toured buildings adapted to educational programs, vari ations of which may be desirable here. If some of these programs are adopted locally, certain types of building may be desirable. Secondly, the board has, since its decision, received information which indicates the present site on Crater Lake ave. may be undesirable for a school because of its promixity to the airport and the possibility of future jet traffic. These two points will be among those consid ered by the citizens' advisory committee. They are among the problems of the district's secondary school needs for which a solution is not easy, and the task facing the citizens' ad visory committee is not an easy one. E.H.A. THE kind of legislation being discussed is also encourag ing. The administration al ready has a bill on the Hill to increase the safeguards lor Negro voting rights. To this would be added another bill outlawing segregation in all public accommodations com ing under the commerce clause of the Constitution, and allowing the Justice Depart ment to Intervene more effec Uvely In school desegregation cases. It this kind of legislative package really can be passed and one must keen all fingers crossed -the advance will be greater than anyone could possibly have dared to hope for, even a few weeks ago. Yet there Is a bitter flavor in tills cup of hope. In a recent nationwide civil service examination of a rou tine sort, 1,800 Negroes were candidates, and only about 80 passed the test. The explana tion of this ugly statistic, of course, lies In the educational and economic handicaps so long imposed on the Amcrl can Negro community. Equal rights are only a first step on the long, hard, but necessary road towards removing these handicaps. transform the world. The con dition of man is a hard one, and his struggle to survive and prevail will not disappear with the appearance of a saint and the proclamation of a saving truth. We shall not suddenly become new men. But the universal response which Pope John evoked is witness to the truth that there is in the human person, how ever prone to evil, an apti tude for goodness. That is why we must never despair that the world can be better than the world we live in. It is evident to anyone who reads the two great encycli cal letters, "Mater et Magis tra" ("Mother and Teacher") and "P a c e m in Terris" ("Peace on Earth"), that Pope John, far from being naive and unworldly, had an ency clopaedic and acute knowl edge of the complex and stub born problems of the daylight world. The encyclical letters do not suppose that the world can be ctsrvd before the prob lems that harass it are brought to solution. The en cyclical letters are, therefore, directed to the solution of hu man problems by ordinary men. They are cornerstones of an Imposing eon struction which, as it la carried for ward, will become acceptable and increasingly self evident to men who deal toward each other with respect for the human person and for his reason. The belief that there are such self - evident concepts and propositions has been de nied by many in the modern age. Yet our own American institutions were founded by men who had been taught to think it self-evident that men are capable of reason and that this is a universe which can be lived in rationally. The Founding Fathers inherited this belief. For modern secu lar men, who have been taught to reject it, an Act of Faith is needed. When the belief exists, as it did so pro foundly in Pope John, it can become the intellectual core of what can be a human doctrine which transcends conflicting diversity. e e THE movement to bring the teaching of the church to bear upon "the process of radical change" In the mod ern "economic and political situation" begins, says Pope John, with Pope Leo XIII. The first of the great mod ernizing social messages is the encyclical "Rerum Nova rum" of May 15, 1891, on "the condition of the work ing classes." Pope John car ried forward this movement not only in his two great en cyclical letters, but by call ing together the Ecumenical Council. What will now -come of all this will be of critical impor tance not only to the Catho lic church, but to all churches and to all governments. In any event, the modernizing movement can perhaps be ar rested, but it cannot for long be turned back. For what Pope John began will have very big conse quences, and the history of our world will be different because he lived. .-V. Km ;'5inrD DREAMS I'VE HAD Some lucky people dream about falling endlessly into an unfathomable abyss or running about barefooted in a pitfall type of a pit full of snapping snakes. I dream scenarios. Just the other night, (fol lowing tamale a la mode for dinner) I found myself drift ing down the river Nile on a flower-covered barge. Slave girls were peeling grapes and kicking at the crocodiles for my comfort. A 20 piece lute band was playing "Alexan der's Rag-time Band" and all in all, it was a very satisfac tory dream except that I had the vague feeling that some thing was missing. Between grapes, I said to a slave girl (played by Sophia Loren): "Where's Liz ... I mean Where's Cleopatra?" Sophia peeled another grape and said in sultry Egyptian (I dream in foreign languages, too): "Oh, she missed the boat." In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS What's In the news? HOLD YOUR HAT! TN A fel WASHINGTON, the De fense Department wants to drill a MILE-DEEP hole in the ground and bury at its base a "post-attack" command control head quarters for emergency use in any nuclear holocaust. Presumably, after a nuclear attack with 100 - megaton bombs, everything would be destroyed. From the bottom of the mile-deep hole, experts would then emerge to direct the job of reconstruction. rpHE cost of the hole and the headquarters at the bottom bf it is estimated at more than $100 million. Opinion as to the project is divided. The chairman of the House Armed Services committee is against it. So is - General Thomas Power, commander in chief of the Pacific Air Command. Defense Secretary McNa- mara Is presumed tq be for it. T SOUNDS weird. ' But at that it makes more sense than some of the other Washington proposals to spend a hundred million dol lars. F)R example: The United States is plan ning a double-header space shot to the neighborhood of the planet Mars in the autumn of 1964. It would be the pio neer effort for a MANNED shot about a decade later. Details of the planned dou ble-header came on the eve of a two-day symposium on the exploration of Mars, for which many of the nation's top space scientists are gather ing at Denver. MARS is supposed to have an atmosphere-much less dense than that of the earth, but still an atmosphere. Many straight, dark lines can be seen on it through the tele scopes. Decades ago, Percival Lo well Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, believed these lines were strips of vegetation along the banks bf canals, and that they proved the existence of a very developed form of life. He believed that the regularity of the lines showed they were planned by intelli gent beings. The purpose of this pro posed space flight to Mars would be to FIND OUT. PROBING question: Yn vnn rplrnn mruloi-n man just might be getting too big for his britches? Ttf ORE about Mars: The planet was named for the god of war in Roman mythology. Soldiers of the Roman legions, going to war, carried chickens that were sacred to Mars. They fed corn to these birds just before an impending battle. If the chickens ate hungrily. It was a sign that the God of Battles was on their side and they would be sure to win. If the chickens refused to eat, the Roman soldiers believed they would CERTAINLY LOSE. Fortunately for the military campaigns of early Rome, chickens seldom fail to eat when feed Is spread before them. Editorial Comment HAPPY DAZE In case you didn't know, June is Fight the Filthy Fly month. It is also National Re creation month, Mute Your Muffler month, Dairy month, National Barbecue month, Na tional Ragweed Control month, Portable Radio month and National Home Perma nent month. July also prom ises excitement. Then we will have National Hot Dog month, National Iced Tea Time, Rye , . . .WJ. j 3s The very next night, I was cast as a revolutionary soldier, I was one of the oarsmen in a boat pulling into a raw, biting blizzard as we crossed the Potomac. Having arrived in the middle of a dream, I didn't know why we were there so I first looked over the stern to see if we were maybe pulling a water skier, which we weren't. When I looked at the bowv I suddenly realized that Central Casting had goofed. Turning to my fel low oarsman, I said, "It's really none of my busi ness, but where is George?" "Oh," he replied, "He miss ed the boat and he's back at the dock with Cleopatra." When I awakened from this dream, I swore that I would never again eat Pappardelle Coll' Anitra on an empty stomach. (Gourmet note: that's wide flat macaroni with a long skinny duck.) I dream pretty good West erns, too. I've never hari a starring role but I've hart some pretty good supporting parts, i'or instance, the other night I found myself standing in the middle of a Dodge City street facing Marshal Matt Dillon. I really felt that he was over-acting it a bit as his hands twisted nervously on his holstered suns. I eave him my best inscrutable smile as I rolled a cigarette with one. hand. Perhaps it was nervous ness, but after I lit it, I dis covered that I had forgotten the tobacco, even though I had remembered the filter. With the confidence that comes from years of dream shooting, I went for my guns - witn the stealth of a panther, knowing that old Chester would be lookine for a new boss as the Marshal departed . for the big court house in the sky. When the smoke cleared, ther T stnnrl . xrarel deaU VS3 Another night (I believe this followed a dandy dinner consisting of pickled pig's feet, butterscotch cream pie and cold mashed potatoes) I was standing at a roulette table in Monte Carlo with, stacks of chips four feet high in front of me. The croupier fthflf'fi D nrnfaecinnnl ffarrtHlf. with a bad cough) paled as I put an tne chips on number one. (This was a sentimental' selection because it happened to be my own age a year after I was born.) The wheel s nun and tha silver ball danced in a merry - circle and then slowly settled into number one. I awoke just as Grace Kelly . shot me neatly between tha eyes and Alfred Hitchcock yelled "cut!" Bread Sales month and Pick les for Picnic Time. Happy daze. - Corvallis G a t 1 1 Times. The Proliferation of Phoney Awards This foreign philosophy ef non-violence It beginning to bug me. It's un-Amrlcaa not to light back!'' By ERIC SEVAREID There are rumors around that the President contem plates an annual "honors list," in the British style, for citl- 0i iciia wuu nave . done, said or made some thing out of the ordinary. It is conceiv able that the plan has been held up for Sevareld want of a nickname for the award. "Tony," "Emmy" and "Oscar" are already spoken for; and while the Attorney General would doubtless choose the winners, design the medal and fasten It upon the lucky lapels, "a Bobby" would probably come to be known in the Vul gate as "Bobby Pin" and this would scarcely do. c e e Theories differ as to the presidential motivation. Theory A holds that he thinks the government now lacks suf ficient means of recognizing those citizens who have not asked what their country could do for them but vice versa, and have found an an swer. My own inclination is to wards Theory B that In erecting a superstructure over the present infrastructure of awards in this country he seeks to repeal Gresham's law, an action that would go some considerable distance towards repealing Parkinson's Law in this field. For soma time now, Gresh- am's Law has been operating with wild abandon bad hon orary degrees, scrolls, plaques, medals and gilt painted zinc trophies have been driving out the good ones, exactly as "celebrity" has been driving out the precious word "fame," and as the serried rows of Publicity Saints have been taking over the field from Great Men. e a e To change the metaphor, the President must be hanker ing for a set of retrorockets that can slow down the free floating process, which moves on in what is now a condition of total weightlessness; but they will have to provide a most powerful counterthrust, because the booster that put Gresham's Law into social or bit is Parkinson's Law as ap plied to the Awards and Emoluments sector of Uie so ciety. Parkinson's Law in its original and simpler meaning established that in any given office or agency work will in crease in direct ratio to the in crease in the number of work ers and the amount of time on their hands. As applied to the social sec tor under scrutiny here, P's Law establishes that awards will Increase in direct ratio, not to the number of works of excellence created, but to the number of people engaged in the field of work, whether it be I i t e r a t u r e, journalism, films, TV, drum majoretting, baby sitting or eel-pirkling. In the fields f journalism and TV, where I lay claim to spec ial knowledge. It has been ap parent for some that that a special sub-law is operating. By this sub-law, the number of awards and, in fact, award dinners also Increase in rela tion to the number of people in the field who are not very good at their work and who have time, therefore, for or ganizing awards and award dinners. e e e (Another variation of this sub-law proves that the num ber of unions in these fields and related fields, such as the film industry, will also in crease in direct relation to the number of unemployables in each field that is, those with both time and personal motivation for nurturing said unions. But I am over-egging the pudding, as the British say, and see no gain in fur ther distraction of the reader.) The true origin of the American mania for scrolls, plaques and medals remains as mysterious as the true source of the Nile. Psycholo gists and anthropologists may argue that the phenomenon is a direct expression of the an cient, ineradicable hun.in in stinct to be different and superior. But this instinct has always been at war with the contrary instinct to be Just like everybody else, and I sus pect that ravaging awardism reflects this second instinct. The only way to be differ ent and distinct in America today is to possess no formal awards or distinction of any kind, whatsoever. Such a con dition, of course, would btv laughably impermanent. At any moment, any American on an innocent stroll is liable to seizure by the police, forced transportation to City Hall and the award of a scroll by the Mayor as the 100,000th resident to have deposited a gum wrapper in Official Trash Can Number One, at Fourth and Main sis. e It is possible that the Presi dent can halt the inflation by issuing a new award cur rency; possible, but not prob able. My own belief is that tha the inflation will furiously go on, until the manufacture of photo-engraving plates and die casting replace construc tion and auto making aa America's leading industries. At some point general rebel lion will set in. Attics will ba cleaned out, library walls will be stripped. Community bon fires In public parks will cele brate the end of the scrolls. But if Yankee prudence sets in all medals and plaques will be shipped to a central place and melted down. Then, by popular subscrip tion, one monument, half a mile high, will be erected, probably on the Great Plains. It will be called the Award to All Americans for Existing. Conceivably it will be in tha form of a dinner chairman, cummerbund unhooked and askew, falling on his own steak knife. (Distributed 1963. by The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Fights Reserved) r
