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4 A MONDAY, JUNE 17, till MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORECON "Ivryon In Southern Otfm Reads TbjaiLIrt?J!l fubinh(T6iIy except Saturday by MfcWoHO PRiNTlNQ CO. 33 North nrjt. PtLVI-n ' ROBERT W RlfHL. Ml tor HERB GREY Advertising : Manatee CERAU T LATHAM. Bui Mir ERIC ALLEN 4R. Mn. editor EARL H ADAMS City Miter HARRY CH1PMAN. Teleg Miter RICHARD JEWETT, Sport. Ed tor OLIVE STARCHER Women e Edlto DALE CRICKSON. Circulation Mjr An Independent Newtpapel Entered aa second class inattor tl Medford Oregon under Aet of March S. I87 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance .,. Daily and Sunday 1 yoar.UOO Daily and Sunday moa 10 00 . Dallv and Sunday moa. XH Sunday Only On year IJO0 Single Copy (Mailedi too m. lid Motor Route. , Delly end Sunday 1 year MI. 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.75 Sunday Only 1 mo. c ' r-.rri.i .nrt Vandora Copy lOo fJfflcUl Paper of City of Med tor 4 omclil riper 01 icwn United Press International rull Leaeed Wire O. P I Teiepnoto Newsplrturee 'MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising RepresenttUve: NELSON ROBERTS AMOCt ins rm-m in N, York. Cnl cao Detroit. San frenclsco. Lof Anfelra Beame. roriianw Den-er. NIWIrAMl ruiuiHits ASSOCIATION NATION A I IDITOIIAl Memner Celllornla Newipaper Publlahera Aeeoclatlon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha tilea of Tht Mall Tribune 10. 20. 30. 40 and SO vein ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 17, 1953 (Wednesday) Articles of Incorporation for the "United Medford Cru sade" are on file with the Or egon corporation commission er. Or. Harold White has been named director of experiment station work In southern Or egon, ,: 20 YEARS AGO June 17, 1943 (Thursday) , Dr. F. E. Townscnd, founder nil InnHnr r-,1 nntlnnnl Tauiii. send Plan movement, sched uled to speak tn Medford. From Arthur Perry'a "Ye Smudge Pot" column; "The great local secret Is still un revealed but generally known. ' f 30 YEARS AGO June 17, 1933 (Saturday) Eugene Thorndike and N, H. Branklin reelected to Med ford city school board. Local gasoline prices ad vance one-hull cent per gal lon for third time within a month. 40 YEARS AOO June 17. 1123 (Sunday) Medford citizens appear be fore city council with poti tlon asking for Sixth st. cross ing across railroad tracks. Jackson county to have spe cial prosecutor lor bootlegging cases. 50 YEARS AGO Juno 17, 1913 (Tuesday) Mrs. E. E. Gore elected to serve as first woman on Mod ford school board. "Fats" vs. "Leans" baseball game scheduled to raise funds lor Medford Fourth of July celebration. What's Your I.Q.? Nina mt ten mpm U ...u.i. save or eitht is eicellent) live at II II td- 1. How do you express the figure SO In Roman numerals? 2. The Coast Guard is now under the Jurisdiction of the Department of Navy, Com merce, or Treasury? 3. Exclusive of allowances, does the Speaker of the U. S House of Representatives re ceive more, less, or tha same salary as the Vice President of the U. S.? 4. What is the m ajor type of contagious disease In the U. S? S. Was the U. S. farm nopu lation greater, or less, In 1960 than It was in 1910? - 0. Would you guest that more unmarried women have children between the nges of IS and 19, 20 and 24. or 33 nd 39? ; 7. In what novel was Long John Silver a character? 8. Name the states of the union whose names begin with the letter P. 8. Was Jefferson Davis graduate of West Point? 10. Do the Kurile Islands extend north cr south from Japan? Aniwtrsi 1. L. 3. Treasury. a. Bams. 4. Vanerasl disaasa. 6. Lass. I. IS and II. 7. "Treas ure Island." I, Pennsylvania. I. Yes. 10. North. Waiting No Longer Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from a letter written to a jnoun of clergymen by the Rev.' Martin Luther King, in response to their criticisms of his role in the Birmingham disturb ances. It was written from the Birmingham jail, where the Rev. Mr. King had been confined temporarily. It is the most impassioned statement of the Negroes' impatience we have seen. We have waited for more than 340 years for our Constitutional and God-given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with iet-like sneed toward earning political ino pendence, but we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say "Wait." But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sistei-s and brothers at whim ; when you have seen hatefilled policemen cui-se, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity; when you see the vast majority of your 20 million Negro brothers smothering in an air-tight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park ,i.1 i i .i i: i ii :: J mat nas jusi oeen auvei ueu un icieviaiun, miu see tears welling up when she is told that Fun- town s closed to colored children, and see omi nous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see beginning to dis tort her personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people: when you nave to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son ask intr. "Daddv. why do white people treat colored people so mean? ; when you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your auto mobile because no motel will accpt you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading "white'rand "colored"; when your first name becomes "nigger," your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are) and your last name becomes "John," and your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs."; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating Bense of "nobodiness" then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup 'of endur ance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice when they experience the bleakness of corroding despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience. And After Khrushchev? "1 cannot hold for all time the position I now have in the party and the state." Thus the self-styled "engine of history," Nikita Sergeivich Khrushchev, in a speech last April which cast a shadow ahead to the meeting of the Russian Communist Party Central Com mittee. What this means may be disclosed at the plenum of the Central Committee June 18. A clue to Khrushchev's successor may be given, e '"THERE ARE no experts on the Soviet Union," George Kennan, a former ambassador to Russia, once remarked, "only varying degrees of ignorance." With that caveat firmly in mind, it might be useful to speculate on the possible succession to Nikita Khrushchev this with fre quent reference to a recent article in the well in formed Frankfurter "Allgemeine." The delay in the convocation of the Central Committee from the original Mav 28 seems to have been to give the p r e s i d i u m a chance to screen names of possible successors to 1 rol Koz- lov, believed to be partially paralyzed by a coron ary thrombosis. Kozlov, second secretary of the Central Committee anil member of the presidium, had informally hoen culled "Crown TMnr-n " Anastas I. Mikoyun, one of the co-first deputy chairmen of the Party secretariat and a member of the presidium, is ruled out of the succession by the West German journal as "an Armenian and . . . a member of the older generation," but he is given full marks on having "an important say in all personal decisions of this kind." The two other members of both presidium and secretariat, M. A. Suslov and O. V. Kuusinen, are eliminated as being respectively, nondescript oi personality ami mucn too oiu toj). too I OOKED UPON as contenders are Leonid - Brcshniev, who as chairman of the pre sidium is the titular head of state, and Alexei Kosygin, a specialist on economic affairs and a high member of the presidium. Alexander Shel- epin, head of the state control organizations and former chief of the secret police, is relatively voung (born in 191S). A hitherto almost u n k n o w n functionary, Vitali Titov, head of the Central Committee com mission for questions of party organization, was given the job of delivering on behalf of the Com mittee the message of greeting on the jubilee day of the Becret police last November and the same role on Army Day in January. The Premier, now 69, seems to have been only half joking when he told Avei ell Harriman, four years ago : "We will prepare a s m o o t h transi tion." - E. R. R. '.-TgsWWI- -wmr '"naatJaaVarbst'Vaiaa-" Communications Leitare to the Editor mult bear tha name and address of tha writer. although under certain circumstances tha use of a pen nam or Initial for publication Is permissible. Tha Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Utter, submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Tha letters printed In this column do not necessarily represent tha views of t. paper, in fact tha contrary is often the case. Tha Spirit of Lessons To the Editor: Many are wondering what Is meant by the term "Golden Age," and its significance in relation to Earth and Its inhabitants. The subject Is so vast in scope that a composite word-picture couldn't be given in one let ter; hence, it shall be pursued further In future letters. Let us first consider the Golden Age from a cosmic or astronomical viewpoint. There is definite law, order, rhythm nd harmony operating throughout the Universe. Planets, suns, solar systems and galaxies move with math ematical precision through space during the course of their cosmic progress. Astronomers say that our sun and Its planets revolve around a Great Central Sun, sometimes called the Hub of the Universe, which is mil lions of miles distant. To make one revolution around It requires approximately 26,- 000 years. This is known as a major cycle. Our Solar System has, for thousands of years, been hurtling through space at a speed in excess of 166,000 miles per hour, spiraling up ward through the "arcs of heave n." or signs of the zodiac which are the 12 con stcllntions. The time spent in traveling through each arc is a little more than 2,100 years, and is called an Age, or Dispensation. This is known as a minor cycle. We have now emerged from the Plscean Age Into the Aquarian. Pisces is a wa ter sign, and during our sojourn there, water and its many uses were stressed. Wa ter navigation has been brought to a high degree of efficiency. Its native, the fish, was the early symbol for Christianity. Tortullian wrote: "We are little fishes In Christ, our great fish." Aquarius is an air sign, symbolized by the water- brarer. It Is a higher mental and pre-eminently spiritual Arc. Air will be emphasized. Remarkable Inventions for (he use of air, electricity and magnetism have already come forth. Radio sends thoughts spinning around the globe, and TV is fast becoming as efficient. As we enler more deeply into the Aquarian Age, our entire Solar System will re ceive a higher vibrational frequency, for it is moving nearer to the Great Central Sun, receiving ever-increasing amounts of its higher radia tion. Because of this closer proximity to that enormous Sun, this Age is called "Gold en." Many are now coming into an advanced stage of spiritual consciousness - an awareness of quickened intuition, inspir ation and spontaneous knowl edge.' Now the spirit of the lessons Jesus gave will be comprehended the spirit be hind the literal word! Louise Wopschall Rte. 1, Box 408 Eagle Point, Ore. Comments on Signs To the Editor: What docs Jackson county have to offer as tourist attractions? Your editorial Sunday pointed out many of the fine areas they would appreciate seeing. How should they be directed to these sights? The tourist com mittee of the Medford Cham- oer of Commerce proposes six-gun signs to catch the eye These signs appear to be more on the order of tourist dis tractions than attractions. Visual dignity Is important in introducing something as fine to see as the sights of Jackson county. The proposed signs can leave the impression of a cheap carnival side-show. It would be bad enough for tourists to have to look at the signs during one trip through the area but those of us who see them every day would tire of living with thein. Attractive signs have been designed, such as the Oregon centennial points of interest and the PP&L signs which have recently been installed In many places. It would not be difficult to design a tour ist sign that would have more eye appeal than a large wood en gun. How many tourists would be entertained with the mes sage hanging from the gun, "Walch Out for Indian Upris ings Crossing the Road"? Is that more important than the trees and the mountains that it distracts the eye from? Would It leave a favorable Impression? Does it do justice to what Jackson county has to offer visitors? I hope the signs are not considered successful. Jack Teeters 211)8 Crcstbrook rd. Medford. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF rpHE WIFE of a diplomat who had gone to Cairo for a con 1 ference with Nasser took a look at the Pyramids and actually climbed to the top of one of them. When she re turned to her hotel, she . . told her husband, "What i6Z W do you think I found at fR" B.JV-' X the very top? A live mouse! What do you sup pose It was doing way up there?" "Looking." suggested her husband, "for his mummy, of course:" e a Abe Burrows, bouUng of his proweaa a an lea skat er, told how ht had master ed tht art of cutting figure ighla, "It's the simplest thing on Ice." deprecated the pro at Qroaainrer's. "Not tht wav I do It "I max fie with one foot and thret with tht other.- Bob Utton tells about a mountaineer who entered a modem hospital for the flrtt Umt when hit ton needed aa emergency operaUon. "We'll givt your boy an aneathetic," a doctor told the mountaineer, "to don't worry about him. Once it Ukta effect ht won't know a thing." "You can save your time. Doc, tht mountaineer aaaured him, "Ha don't know a, thing now!" O IMS. Bauett Cert. Distributee; r Kiag return t)lcatt Foreign News: Sukarno May Have New Roadblock in Easing His Opposition Br PHIL MEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: Sukarno Salt Conditions Just as Indonesia's Presi dent Sukarno seemed to be easing his opposition to the new East As- i a n Malavsla I ffripratinn. his I foreign minis- . I I ter may have t .i .. . new roid- block. Manila reports say In donesian For- Wewaeaa cign Minis,er Subandrio has indicated that the people of British North Borneo must be given the opportunity of self- determination- before the scheduled Aug. 31 formation of the newi federation. It is doubtful that a plebiscite could be held on such short notice without postponing Ma laysia - which the Malayans say is out of the question Moreover, they say the people of North Borneo already have expressed themselves in hun dreds of local elections, speeches and opinion polls and that they are overwhelmingly in favor of Malaysia. Suban- drio's sudden mention of pleb iscite thus raises the possibil ity of renewed conflict be tween Indonesia and Malaya. French Guesting Game President Charles de Gaulle has set Frenchmen guessing furiously about his likely suc cessor. He touched off a new Strictly Personal By Sydney ). Harris (ci Field EnterprlMS. Inc. it , v : of Kis: -i n MATURITY What impressed me most about the Edward Albee play, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"-apart from the stun- performance s the brilliant e w York company- was the play wright's Choice of c h a r a c ters and setting. Harria H is a devas tating and shattering play, and it can be effectively crlticlzea on a quite high level (as, for instance, in a recent review of "Commentary" maga z I n e); but, apart from its inborn de fects, I thought that Albee showed courage and Imagin ation In making his characters intelligent and educated, and placing them In the groves of academe. It is simply too easy for a playwright to attack and lam poon all the familiar stereo types of bourgeois life in America today - to mock the advertising man or the busi ness man or the world oi clubs, of fashion, of small town insularity, of big-city op portunism. ' Intttad, Albtt aimed hit thaftt at thott who profess higher thingst tht faculty people, articulata, orltnttd, and presumably civiliitd. Hit play it not "anti-intellectual"! he does not deride these ptoplt's intellectual superiority. Ha m t r 1 1 y demonstrates thai they are, at much as anybody else, tha victims of thair own unconiciout conflicts. These people have mora sensitivity, mora knowl edgt, mora fretdom from the presturtt of compttitivt life, at least in tha grosser ways. Yet none of this helps: faced with a bad mar riage, with professional frustrations, . they turn on ach other ferocioutly and behave (btcaute of their ariiculatenets) worse than the Philistines they look down upon. - What Albee forces us to rtcognist is that psychic disturbance and emotional malaise art not a malttr of class, of culture, even of mental stature. Immaturity cuts across all lints; it it as prevaltnt In tha seminar as in the saloon, as self-defeating in tht faculty lounge at in tha factory lunchroom or the hunting lodge. ' Some ways of life, some oc cupations, it is true, may tend to bring on these disturbances more quickly or more dra matically; while others may mask them for a longer time. But, 'inevitably, the price of not growing up is the same everywhere - bitterness, blind rage and suffocation by the illusions that do not comfort. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" may be marred by some serious flaws in the playwright's own view of life yet, for denying himself the luxury of aiming at easy; tar gets, and for probing beneath the flesh of the very people who most admire him, Albee makes a point that is missed by most of the satirists and anatomists of the social scene. round of speculation during his meet-the-people tour of southwestern France, remind ing his audiences that he would not be around forever. Since De Gaulle never drops remarks casually, the guess ing is that he is launching a long-term campaign to con vince the nation's voters that his successor should be a man pledged to carry on the work of his "strong man" Fifth Re public rather than a holdover from the old Fourth Republic. It is generally assumed, al though De Gaulle never has said anything in public to con firm it, that his current choice as successor is Premier Geor ges Pompidou, the 51-year-old House of Rothschild banker who has headed the govern ment since April last year. The name of Henri Count of Paris, 54-year-old pretender to the French throne, also has been mentioned recently. But there is nothing to indicate he is a serious candidate. Bedfellows Unofficially, India now re gards Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Chi nese government on Formosa in a much more kindly light. now that they have a common enemy on the Chinese main land. The Indian government finally has accepted the the ory long held by top Indian generals that Formosa helps defend India by pinning down scores of Red divisions along -the south China coast. Gov. ernment leaders believe they must keep diplomatic chan nels open to the mainland, if only to keep alive the possi bility of eventually settling their disputed border claims. But they now would prefer to see "two Chinas," one on ' Formosa and the other on tha mainland. They no longer ap prove of Red hopes to swaU iow Formosa. Yemen Comeback Representatives of the de posed Imam of Yemen claim that royalist forces now con trol more than half the coun try and say they welcome United Nations suggestions that foreign military forces pull out of Yemen. They say the royalists quickly would sweep Republican President Abdulla El Sallal from power once the aid he is receiving from Russia and Egypt is cut off. Be Conservative About Sex 6 Arthur Hoppe In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Jackson, Mississippi, the other day, Mcdgar Evers, NA ACP field secretary for the state of Mississippi, was shot from ambush by an unknown sniper. He was SHOT IN THE BACK, in the driveway of his modest home in the colored district of Mississippi's capital city, as he was returning from a civil rights rally. The slug from the assasin's rifle passed through his body, crashed through a picture win dow in the front of his house, where his wife and three chil dren were waiting for him to get home from bis work, and (ell on a table in the living room - too badly defaced, probably, to be useful as evidence. fpHlS awful deed prompts an - adaptation of an ancient question: Can any good EVER come out of Jackson - where such a foul thing could be planned and executed? I1EFORE answering, read this dispatch from Jack- Mt. Hebo Worker Dies of Injuries son, Miss., which appeared in Friday's newspapers: "The apparently successful transplanting of a healthy lung to a 58-year-old man has been disclosed by surgeons of the University Medical Center here. "The hospital team that per formed the operation said the transplant, believed to be the first ever performed, was made Tuesday and the patient was reported doing well after the three-hour operation. "The surgeons said they re placed a cancerous lung witli a. healthy lung FROM AN UNRELATED DONOR." Let us Americans not snipe at our staunch British allies in this, their darkest hour. Let us remember that they are, at heart, a good, decent, hard working people. Even though frightfully oversexed. And if British Cabinet Min isters wish to chase scantily clad girls around swimming pools (on their own time), let us strive to be broad-minded. Let us not make the mistake of judging these hot-blooded Englishmen by our own more highly developed moral stand ards. Let us try to make al lowances for their culture. Loose - laced though it may be. For only from this detached viewpoint, I feelj can we properly seek balanced an swers to the grave internation al questions now being raised in the responsible American press. Such as: "What Did the Russian Naval Officer Really Want from Christine Keelor?" (Food for thought, here.) "Can We Share Atom Secrets with Miss Keeler?" (You know how flighty young girls are.) Or, most crucial of all: "Will Prime Minister MacMillan Now Tumble?" (And, I'm sure newspaper readers want to know, for whom?) ' Let us, along with the ex perts, address ourselves to this last crucial question. There can be no denying the Con servative party is in acute trouble, as we experts say. at home. Indeed, let us visualize Mr. IVHICH is to say: ' Someone in Jackson, Mis sissippi, not even a relative, was willing to GIVE ONE OF HIS LUNGS to a fellow hu man being in the hope that the gift would SAVE THE LIFE of the recipient of the gift. ' retorted Burrows. 11 f HAT shall we say of that? Let's go back to the Scrip ture - John II: "The day following. Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findcth Philip, and saith unto him. Follow me. "Now Philip was of Bcthes da, the city of Andrew and Peter. "Philip findth Nathaniel, and saith unto him: We have found him of whom Moses U the law and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, in whom there is no guile. i "And Nathaniel said unto hinvCan there be any good thing come out of Nazareth? Portland-ilW-Jamcs Gibson of El Paso, Tex., a construc tion worker, died at a hos pital here Saturday from in juries suffered in an explo sion at Mt. Hebo Air Force Station Thursday. Gibson. 46. was wnrkinc on the dome of a radar tower i Philip said unto him: Come when a compressed air tank exploded. He was employed by Southwest Construction Co. RANGERS NAB TWO Gatlmburg. Tenn. - ilT -John Cathey. 21. and, James Gibbt. J2. University of Ten nessee engineering student, were rescued Sunday after spending 24 hours on a ledge in cave In the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Park rangers charged them with exploring in the park without a permit and see.'" - LETS put it this way: In the wicked city of Jack son, where a crime as awful as the shooting from ambush of Mcdgar Evers could be committed, there was a man willing to give one of his lungs to another man in the hope that he might be saved from death due to cancer. 1MUS It HIS is a strange world. contains much that uj evil. ' It also contains much that il good. Macmillan at home right now. Hes just finished a couple) of practice laps around tha pool in a sweatsuit, I'd as sume, and is packing the old gladstone while humming "La Vie en Rose." And then Mrs. Macmillan, a primrose in her teeth, pops in. Mrs. M: Carramba, moa amour, whither away? Mr. M: Cor blimey, caris sima mia, while my heart stops at the thought of leav ing you for even a night, duty calls. I must hie away to tha Sussex - Wessex Conservativa club to deliver a major ad dress entitled: "Let Us Rally to the Party No Matter How Late the Hour." Mrs. M: The Conservative club! Madre de Dois! But I thought you had promised you would always be faithful to me. Mr. M: And t will be,. my turtle dove. Forever. Don't believe what you read in tha papers. It will be naught but dreary old speeches and f will do naught but think of you. And now, do I have ev erything? Toothbrush, shav ing mug, bathing suit, Amer ican defense secrets . . . Mrs. M: Bathing suit! Aha, just as 1 thought! Mr, M: Now, now, my dear est one. You don't under stand. In this desperate hour I hoped only to save my par ty's image, at great personal sacrifice, by wearing a bath ing suit. The idea may catch on and . . . Coo, my lovely one, put down. that umbrella stand! 'v " Well, I know we proper Americans may not be visu alizing British home life quila accurately. (And thank good ness for that, I say.) But the problem remains that the Con servative party may topple at any moment. Simply because its leader won't be able to get out of the house at night. And I say we must rally to Mr. Macmillan's side in this critical hour of British historv. The fate of the NATO alli ance, the Common Market, the whole Free World hangs in the balance. We cannot, of course, con done Mr. Macmillan's min isters, even though they were driven to these orgies by their Fire at Seattle Claims Eighth Life Seattle - d'PIi - Mrs. Elinor Landers, 36, died Sunday of burns suffered when a fire leveled her two-story Vashon Island home last Wednesday morning. Her husband, Cecil. 40, and their six children, ranging in age from 3 to 12, perished in the fire. Mrs. Landers managed to Crawl out of the burning ; hot British blood. But we must house to the family car. She I be tolerant. These men are, honked the horn to attract after all, the Conservatives, neighbors, who turned in the And just ask yourself: Yoil alarm. I want the Liberals to get inf GRADUATION . EXERCISES lispfl "Bui you ctn't do this to me. The way everybody's criticising eur educationtl system, I don't fttl I'm prtptrtd to fact tht world!" t
