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Newspaper Page Text4 A MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON "Slvarone Id BouUwniOram Beads TIM Mall Tribune" Publlilxd Dally kmw taUirdur n risui i utnrnRD PKLNTLNG CO S3 North rir SUPh. 17-11 " ROBERT W RI'HC"fclltor HIRfl GREY Adverti-lnt Uiunt CERAUJ T LATHAM. u Mir MIC ALLEN JR. Bine tdlUH EARL H ADAMS. City Ml tor HARRY CHIPMAN. Tele. Mttor RICHARD JEWrrt. SporU Ed lot OUVE STARCHEB Woinen-a MUM DALEJWCJlarculUonljl " An Independent Nwippl Entered u second d matter at llediord. Oregon under Act el u.,Ti i ias7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sunday I year (II JO Daily and Sunday moa WOO , Dally and Sunday a mo ! Sunday Only One year 5 00 " Simla Copy (Mailed) we . a. ..... amjI Mnfnr amita. Dally and Sunday I year W1-J0 Dally ana nunoay i row. " rnl 1 m& aOv Camel and Vendora j-Copr 100 Official Paper ef City el Med ford , Official Peperel Jacasoa) County United Preaa International full Leased Wire , 0;Pl JTelephoto Newepleturaa C MEMBER or AUUIT nuiuau SLS1 HCHLAT10NB Advertising Repreeentitlve: KELSON ROBERTS a. ASSOC! iTre nrrlre In New York. Chi- - cego Detroit, Baa franoiaco Loa Anielea. loattle. Portland- ; Denrer. NIWSMMI ruitiiHin 1 VjAttOCIAtlOW NATION At IDITOIUl Memrjer California Hawipapcr Publishers AaaoelaUon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Thj Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Juno 24, 1953 (Wednesday) Confirmation that Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry will be a candidate (or the Repub lican nomination (or governor in IVOt luuuncu un esrciuia- tion today as to who will be his opponent!.. Mann'i Department store of ficials announced today that 1.. 1. !.,,. ,IIU Ik ,4n nnl. icy of furnlihing latest and up-to-date merchandise they have added a television de partment, to bo located on the lower floor, . , 20 YEARB AGO June 24, 1943 (Wednesday) ; Riverside USO to open Sun day, From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pol" column: "There are onlv 120.000 cases of lla- uor left In the Oregon supply. Old Paw Hubbard reached for his hip pocket and found noth ing there." 30 YEARS AGO June 24, 1933 (Friday) ' Nearly 1,000 CCC enrollees arrive for assignments in this area. County taxes show decrease past year. . , , , t 40 YEARS AGO June 24, 1923 (Saturday) Contract let for building of ' bridge across Applegate river at Applegate. Kitten ball league may be formed In city. : SO YEARS AGO ' Juno 24, 1913 (Monday) ' European scientists to visit .Crater lake and inspect for- ' csts. Postal Telegraph enlarges office in Nash hotel building. What's Your I.Q.? . Nina or fee correct It euparleri .seven or elaftt la eiceltentl live il ll food. 1. Docs the U.S. produce . 25, SO, or 73 per cent of the world s sulpherT 2. Four states border on Lake Erie: name them. a. (.avboliydratcs are found in what food sub stances? , 4. Did President Truman ever have a face to face con ference with Stalin? 5. What part of speech must always agree in number and person with its subject? 6. Of these three Islands In the Mediterranean, which is the largest: Sicily, Sardin ia. Crete? : 7. Is the recognized name ; for Persia now Iraq cr Iran? 8. Obcrammergau is most famous for what? 0. Name the famous Kan sas newspaper editor who was known as "The Sage of Em .porla. 10. Correct the following "Each of us have our own problems." V Antwtrsi I. ?S per cent. I, Ohio, Pennsvvenla, Michigan, Naw York. 3. Sugar and starch. 4. Yes (Potsdam), ft, Verb. (. Sicily. T. Iran I. The Passion Play. 9. William Al Ion Whits. 10. " . . . has his problems. - 3 Strengthening the Churches There is considerable evidence at least some churchmen believe the ruling of the U. S. Su preme Court last week regarding religious obser vances in pulic schools will be a longe-range boon to the nation's churches. The ruling should strengthen, not weaken, American religion. The court's ruling was not unexpected. The eight justices who signed the majority opinion were true to the American constitution and to the court's previous decisions on related matters. e e o o o THIS NATION HAD, at last count, 258 differ ent religious sects, and even then nearly 70 million American people have no formal affilia tion with any religious group. In view of these facts no other court ruling was possible. 1 here was no other manner of preserving the freedom of conscience of our people, and preserving the constitutional separation of church and state. There are some things the court's decisions does, and some things it does not do. Among the latter: 1. The court does not prohibit the reading of the Bible in the study of literature or history in public schools. 2. The court does not impair the right of any American in or out of school to pray and read the Bible. Message To Congress W HAT THE court decision does do is to : 1. Curb the authority of public officials in the area of religion, just as they are curbed in many other areas by the constitution. 2. Prohibit authorities from selecting a prayer and requiring it to be &aid in schools. Nor can they require regular ceremonial reading of the Bible. There has been, in recent years, a tendency for some churchmen to use schools as a crutch. The court's decision will once again bring the proper relationship between church and state into clear focus. IN THIS CONNECTION a recent policy position - of the Presbyterian church is w o r t h y of some note. Adopted prior to the court's ruling, the Presbyterian statement puts that church firmly into the position of advocating further separation between church and state. The Presbyterians expressed their belief that Bible reading and organized prayer in school is wrong. Even if it is not wrong, they say, it's not a worthwhile religious exercise. Ihe church expressed concern over tax exemption for church properties, and said churches should seek some method of making i..:u..a.I i i i . it i cunuiuuiiuim to guvernmeni in neu 01 laxcs. THE REMOVAL OF religious observances such s prayers oeiore luncn and onenirur prayers, irom the public schools should serve to strengthen religion in this country, rather than weaken it. The court's decision should help spur a stronrr eiiurty uy me entireties 10 give religion a cieeper J ,1 B M 11 ,1 ,. , . meaning in me iamny ana nome man it nas had in many families and many homes in recent years. And it this can be done our churches will all be better off than they are at present. The Bul letin, Bend. ' Man the Predator Looking cautiously into the future the late Carl Jung once said that we had nothing to fear except man. Man is the giant predator. In a brief historical period of rapicity. he can d e s t r o v the natural riches that millions of years have created. It would be foolish to dismiss this destruction as only carelessness or ignorance. For we face a fact of awesome size. The natural growth of human popuation makes natural demands on natural resources. Three billion people in the world will be six billion in 2,000 and their needs will be incalculable. Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times. Commercials To the Editor: Radio an nouncers are very gracious. They warn listeners of com mercials to come, so that they may use that precious minute to do some little chore. Many minutes a day are saved in this way. A few examples: One moment, please. I'll be back in a moment. More news after this mes sage. Now listen to this. Just one moment. Hint to housewives and oth ers: Learn to time yourselves. Question: What in your opinion would be the ideal number of commercials per hour? David Frisch P.O. Box 292 White City, Ore. Big Project Most of the attention paid to the United Na tions is paid to the news of conflict, what "they" say about "us and what we say about "them. However, much of the real worth of the oriran ization lies in its daily, uiulramatic programs for a better world. A case m point is the UN s pro posed campaign to reduce illiteracy. In the United States few realize the true magnitude of the illiteracy problem. More than 700 million people, probably half of all the adults in the world, are illiterate. In Haiti and Sudan, 0 per cent of the people are illiterate. Other countries w here more than two-thirds of the adults are illiterate include Afghanistan, Paki stan, Iran, India, Turkey and the United Arab Kepublic. I TNESCO, WHICH IS promoting the attack on w illiteracy, thinks that within 10 years two thirds of the world's illiterates can be taught to read and write. The program would cosi just snoiT. oi oiiuon. It has Hlways been essential to decrease illiter acy if the 8 1 a n d a r d of living is to be raised. Illiteracy and poverty always go hand in hand. So do poverty and unrest But the urgency of the problem is greater now. So many of these illiterates vote, helping guide thea programs of new and potentially powerful nations, Eugene Register-Guard. f iiisji 1 1 -tsj L-g-st Foreign News: Kennedy-Adenauer Talks; Tory Outlook Dim; Japanese Politics Br PHIL NEWSOM UP1 Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, althouoh 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 the paper. In fact the contrary Is often the case. citizens is treated as if he were almost human. You can have $1,000 in the bank, own your own home, automobile, cows, chickens, hogs and what have you, and you can make up to $1,200 above your pension and you are not penalized, and what you own does not go to the stale when you die. And there is no snooping to see if you had a few bucks left out of your last check. I go along with the educa tional program in Oregon 100 per cent, but don't forget the Senior Citizens are here too, and like segregation will have to be reckoned with sooner or later. Ray Prichard, 414 South First st., Central Point, Ore. Kennedy Trip France's President Charles de Gaulle wiU seek to pull some of the sting out of Presi- ident- Kenne- dy's trip to Europe when the gen eral visits Bonn July 4 and 3 - after Kenne- ix." I y leaves, ue I VsJi I Gaulle will I 57 1 I try to con vince me uer H" mans that their real interests lie with Europe rather than with the United States. However, French officials concede that Oe Gaulle will be talking somewhat in a vacuum since there is no guarantee that Chancellor Konrad Adenau er's successors will follow the line laid down by the old man before he Is forced into retirement in the fall, British Outlook The poor Tory electoral outlook has caused dissident Conservatives to rally around embattled Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. But look for Macmillan to step down, probably just before next Oc tober's annual Conservative party conference, in order to make way for a new leader to take the party into the general election which must be held before October, 1964. Young, 48-year-old Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling is now the front runner in this contest. But this edge could turn quickly in favor of Deputy Prime Min ister R. A. Rab) Butler or, more remotely, Lord Hail- sham, lord president of the council and minister of sci ence. Look for Macmillan to Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris fo Field Enterprises, inc. Prayers and Smoking To the Editor: We hear so much of Evangelist Billy Gra ham s criticism of the Su preme Courts decision on prayers in public schools, lie must have read Dr. Norman Vincent Pealc's book "The Power of Positive Thinking." How else could he get that way? He says, "I am shocked at the supreme court's decision. Prayers and Bible reading have been a part of American public school life since the Pilgrim's landed at Plymouth Rock. Now a Supreme court in 1063 says our fathers were all wrong all these years." If that proves anything, accord ing to his line of reasoning, then the fact that white men had made slaves of the black people and have mistreated them so badly all these years must make that right, too. It is tills form of immatu rity which our courts contin uously have to remedy to pre serve the freedoms that our fore-fathers fought to gain in the first place. In my opinion the insisting on prayers in public schools can be com on smoking in someone's home when he knows these people don't care to smoke themselves, nor to inhale the smoke from those who do. He is free to smoke somewhere else, but he is so selfish, he reasons that anyone who doesn't like his smoking can leave the room. John P. Glascom. Route 1. Box 310-B, Central Point, Ore. Youth Incorporated To the Editor: The office for Youth Incorporated is now open at 7 South Bartletl street, and the phone is 773- 6154. As you know, youths, this is your organization and you arc supposed to run it and make it a success. The adults are there to help you get started, and then you will do the job yourself with adults ready to help you when needed, We had a boy do some work for us and will say he was a real gentleman and so good a worker we paid him a bonus. All efforts of youth that have been sent out by Youth Inc. have brought back good reports. So, men and women, we ask you to give Youth Inc. a try So fur we had good re sponse from boys but not so good from girls, so ladies, do try to give the girls a boost. P. G. Pederscn 701 North Modoc ave. Medford. Colorado Senior Citistns To the Editor: Enjoyed your editorial on Colorado, 621, very much. I spent 30 years of my 67 in and around Den ver, Golden and Greeley. I agree with you wholeheart edly on the newspapers in Colorado. There Is not a news paper in the state that ran compare with the Medford Mail Tribune. SOLEMNITY One of the Interesting psy chological sidelights on Gor don Cooper's space flight is that he nearly didn't get to make it. After his flight was s u c c e ssfully completed, a u, I r p sprvice t story from Cape Canaver al reported: "His kidding Harna on the ground since the program started is such that some of the humor less members of the National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration were against his selection for such a serious assignment. It was only the "strong intercession of oln crs, the story went on, that eventualy won him the assign ment. 1 It is a common mistake of ponderous and humorless men to equate mere soimenuy with "seriouncss." The Rev. Sydney Smith, one of the wit tiest and most erudide clergy men of his time, once explain. ed why he never attained a bishopric while inferior men did: " I sink by my levity," he marked, "while others rise by their gravity." In our lime, Bernard Shaw was pot haps the most deadly serious of writ ers yet in many quarters he was considered flippant and frivolous because he wrote in sardonic and hu morous manner. At the oth er end of the philosophic spectrum, G. K. Chesterton was long suspect tor his mirth, while being a pas sionate and profound religi ous commentator. "A solemnity of behav ior." wrote La Rochefou cauld, "is often a trick to diguise the deficiencies of the mind." Most of the serious-sounding men I have lis- Tax Relerendum To the Editor: I wonder how many voters, especially those on very limited Incomes, are familiar with the provi sions of the asinine tax bill passed by those bright shining lights in Salem. It this bill is the best they could come up with after 141 days of nuidslinging, the good Lord only knows what they will hatch up if allowed to return. Frankly, if I had a two-year-old with such tend encies I'd be tempted to stake him out with the pigs till he gut over it. This bill is designed to catch everyone, regardless of how small their income, as it applies to all income which will be taxed from the first dollar, and added to that is a $S filing fee. The $500 per sonal, the credit for Federal tuxes, in fact all exemptions went down the drain so a tumi'.y of five will be taxed Mcrifnrd l a small c.tv comparatively speaking, with ; the same as a single person a newspaper mat any c 1 1 y should be proud of. I am not saying that I always agree with you for I don't. I have been unhappy with you sev eral times. But good news papermen like good poli ticians don't "always" say what they think. Yes, water Is what keep Mr. Howard, publisher of the Albany Greater Oregon weekly, has filed a referen dum petition in Salem so if Mark-O doesn't act on the bill by June 26 he plans on get ting enough signatures to place il on a relerendum to be voted on O- t. 15. I hope ihosc who read this Colorado green and most otj '" Interested enough to the time there U plenty of " " "m ou,,,k- w.r"B '"r; water. They always start cry log before they are hurt. You Howard for a petition, and have all the friends and neigh y perhaps we don't know ! rs "gn il. As Sept. 2 is the how lucky we are in Oregon that a majority of news papers, despite disagreements on other matters, support education and educational ex cellence at all levels. That is fine, but I will tell you what deadline, quick action is es sential. Claude M. Hall 2860 Placer rd. Sunny Valley. Ore. Consistency! , To the t'ditor: Consistency Colorado has that Oregon has been called a great virtue, does not haw. and I doubt This section of the paper re very much it It ever has any , veals the opposite condition thing to compare with Colo-quite consistently, rado's senior cltuens pro- In the Thursday. June 20. gram. In Colorado senior I issue, an Editor's note states British Demand Recall of Czech London -HOT- The British Foreicn Office announced to day it is demanding the re call of a Czech diplomat for attcmDtcd csDionaee. A Foreign Office spokesman said Parliamentary Undersec retary for Foreign Affairs Pe ter Thomas summoned Czech Ambassador Zdcnek Trhlik to the Foreign Office and de manded the recall from Lon don of Third Secretary Pre- mysl Holan. The spokesman said the re call was demanded on the grounds "Mr. Holan had been detected in trying to persuade a member of the public to ob tain secret Information. toned to, in various fields, have used solemnity to con ceal their po v e r t y of thought; they apparently feel that a heaviness of man ner masks an emptiness of substance. There is no more serious, educator in the United States than Robert M. Hutchins nor one who has given deeper thought to the basic problems of education in a democratic society. But because he has been a wise cracker, an irreverent step, per on academic toes, he has sometimes been dismissed as the mere Peck's Bad Boy of education. "A monkey looks terribly serious and thoughtful," he once said. "But the monkey is just thinking where to scratch himself next. Mark Twain suffered much the same fate for many years, and was regarded as little more than a high-grade parlor entertainer, because of his irony and jokes; while some of the dullest and stuffiest writers of his period were re garded with hushed venera tion for their pompous platt tudes. At his life's end, he felt quite bitter about this evalua tion. Many men who seem to be taking their subjects seriously are simply taking themselves seriously; they cannot afford the luxury of laughter, which would threaten to shatter fa cade of their false dignity, Solemnity is not an intellect tual weapon, but a psychologi cal armor. work especially hard on get ting a United States Soviet -British nuclear pact which would do two things: one, cap his long drive for peace-througb-summitry and shine up his tarnished political name, and, two, aid Tory po litical fortunes. Japanese Politics Eisaku Sato, brother of for mer Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, has been mentioned for the past year and longer as Japan's next prime minister. Sato's drive for power, which is expected to culminate in the campaign for the Conservative party presidency a year from now. was accelerated with his re cent statement demanding a party conference before next months annual cabinet re shuffle. He also has demand ed clarification of the party's alleged election law violations in the recent Tokyo mayoral ty campaign and has criticized Prime Minister Hayato Ike- the one hand, the statement alienated Ikeda and a lot of party regulars. On the other, it kept Sato in the public eye and helped him with some of the younger party men. Buddhist Riots No final settlement has been reached between South Viet Nam's Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem and the Buddhist majority of his countrymen, who object to what they consider restrictive measures against their reli gious freedom. Observers in Saigon put the chances of an other outbreak of ritual sui cides or rioting, or both, at better than even. Hassan Visit This week's state visit to Paris by King Hassan II of Morocco will mark a further strengthening of French influ ence in North Africa. Hassan, who is due in the French cap ital Wednesday, is likely to leave with promises of addi tional French economic and da's low interest policy. On I technical aid. A Soviet Challenge j j We Must Meet, Baby By Arthur Hoppe fil-n Somewhere o-er Utah Greetings, Comrade President, from inner space. I look for ward to embracing you, John Fitzgerald, when I descend to stand once more on the soil of our great Washington, D.C. Please shave. As I sit here strapped to the seat of my Boeing jet air liner (tourist class), I am filled with pride at the goal I have set for me: to meet the new Soviet challenge and rendez vous high above the earth with a true American woman. Already, Comrade Presi dent, I have made my first historic attempt as she passed close to my position. And while it is still too early to announce success, I have high hopes. For she has opened communications with me in these epic words which will be remembered by posterity: "Coffee, tea or milk?" Somewhere over Nebraska- I am proud to report, Com rade John Fitzgerald, that our mission is proceeding accord ing to plans. I, a true Ameri can man, have her under con stant observation. And I say with patriotic pride that she is a typical American woman. About 36-24-36, I would esti mate. And her trim tan uni form is not alien to her beauty. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS news as this is writ- The ten? There's nothing very excit ing. So let's talk about tourists. It's really quite an important topic. If we could induce all the tourists who will visit us this summer to stay just ONE DAY longer in Oregon, we could add somewhere In the neighborhood of SIXTY MIL LION dollars to our state's economy. We could use the money. that a certain letter submit ted by a man in the Butte Falls area cannot be printed in this column because it would use the Main Tribune to express "vicious and pos sibly libelous sentiments about members of his commu nity. Yet a few weeks ago the editor of this paper defended in the name of freedom of the press a controversial novel which places Jesus Christ on the level of a sex pervert. If Jesus Christ were one of the residents of the Butte Falls community would thi-. paper defend the circulation of a book which contains, and 1 quote, "vicious and possibly libelous sentiments" about Him? Would we have an equal right under our free dom of the press to circulate novels that impugn and slan der the characters of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln because they are not here in person to take us to court on the grounds of libel? O consistency-how rare, and how precious! Duane M. Corwin, 30 Portland ave. Medford. THIS year's slogan is WEL COME TO OREGON. The major gateways to Oregon-meaning the 18 highway entrances by which tourists will enter our state-have been painted with the green Wel come mat, which you must have noticed if you have driv en across Oregon's borders within recent days. In addi tion, Welcome to Oregon signs and displays are going up at air, bus and train ter minals. All of our major news and advertising media have enter ed whole-heartedly into the project with donated time and space. Eight outdoor adver tising firms have DONATED 64 billboard spaces for the summer. Daily and weekly newspapers are telling of Ore gon's attractions. Ninety ra dio stations arc using daily in their programs the attract ive little jingle WELCOME to OREGON that tinkles so pleasingly in the ear. Oregon's ten TV stations will soon be in the act. 'What can I YOU may ask do?" II You can do a lot. 4 ow? Well, just keep alive to every possible opportunity to step up to a tourist who looks like he may not know just what to do and where to go to do it. and in your friend liest and most hospitable man ner WELCOME HIM TO OREGON. Just be courteous and friendly. Make the visitor to our state feel that you are genuinely delighted because i to he has come to Oregon spend his vacation. Just treat our tourist vis itors as you would like to be treated when you are touring elsewhere. That will help-immensely. Tourists are people, and people like to fcer that they are, welcome. A NOIHER way to help: " Write to your friends. Tell them about Oregon - especially about lovely South ern Oregon. nuT- " You may say Why should I go out of my way to help bring tourists to Oregon? I'm not in any busi ness that caters to tourists? How will bringing more tour ists to Oregon help ME? TRY this little experiment: Unscrew your fountain pen. Squeeze a drop of ink from it into a glass of water. Then watch how rapidly the ink SPREADS through the water in the glass. Tourist dollars spread in the same way. Somewhere over Dubuque We are in sporadic communi cation, Comrade President, on technical matters. "Please fas ten your seat belt, sir," she has advised me. And: "Lower your tray, please, sir." I can only say at this point that I will do my humble best for the great er glory of the Republic of the United States. Somewhere over Kalama soo - I have asked her, Com rade President, if I may call her "Valya." She replied that this would be unwise, primarily because her name is "Miss Heggens worth, sir." I wish to report that, undaunted, I made four more tentative passes at Miss Heggensworth. Unfortunately, I have now exceeded my ca pacity for coffee, tea or milk. Somewhere over Toledo My blood pressure, pulse and respiration have risen alarm ingly. It was on the 24th pass. Miss Heggensworth advised me to "stop blocking the aisle.". I was not, Comrade President, blocking the aisle. I was leaving sufficient room for her to squeeze by. Barely. You will notice, too, that sha has stopped calling me "sir." Somewhere over Wheeling I regret to report, Comrade John Fitzgerald, that despite my heroic efforts we are still miles apart. There is a grave error in her attitude which is creating havoc with my calculations. I feel I must im press on her the crucial im portance of meeting this new Soviet challenge. The outcome of the entire cold war, I will warn her, rests solely on her. And me. Together. ' Descending into Washing ton - I must advise you. Com rade President, not to meet me on my landing as planned. For we have failed in our mission. Allow me to repeat her last message before she broke off communications: "What are you, some kind of Nut?" But I feel that from my failure. Comrade President, we have learned much of val ue. For Miss Heggensworth also advised me that true American men have been at tempting to rendezvous high above the earth with true American women in uniforms for years and years. Or, as she put it in her own words: "There's always one of you on every flight, Mac." So have confidence, Com rade President: This is one field where we've got the Rus sians beat all hollow. "As one young American to another, I'd like Is apologise for some ef the members of my race!"