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Hlitory from the iMei of The
M.M Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 vea't ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 25. 1953 (Thuriday)
Weatern clothes are the or
der of the day this week end
In keeping with Mayor D. L.
Flynn'i proclamation that the
week of. June 21 to 2B Is
Posse Week.
A new log binder, known
as the Humboldt Cinch Bind
er, used to secure logs on log
ging trucks, is being manufac
tured In Medford by H. V.
Martin, 1321 North Riverside
ave.
10 YEARS AGO
June. 23. 1943 (Thursday)
Teen-age recreation rooms
tn citv discussed.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudtte Pot" column: "So far
this June, rare June days
have been as rare as hen's
teeth, priceless germs or a
thick piece cf ham."
30 YEARS AGO
June 23, 1933 (Saturday)
Frank DeSouza slated as lo
cal postmaster over big slate
of Democrats.
H. W." Conger named presi
dent of Lions club.
40 YEARS AGO
June 23, 1923 (Sunday)
Bankers of Juckson and Jo
sephine counties to aid farm
ers. Gus Schneidau defeats Ted
Thye when he is Injured in
wrestling match at Cold Hill.
30 YEARS AGO
June 23, 1913 (Tutsday)
June rainfall abnormal, 1.94
Inches, to date.
Glendale bank robber
caught at Gold Beach. ,
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina ran correct h superior:
seven at eight Is icellent; tl ol
til IS fOM.
1. Name the capital of
Pennsylvania.
2. Jose Iturbi, Ray Lev,
and Rudolph Serwln are all
well known for their talent
on what musical instrument!
3. Of the 32 permanent
teeth, how many are molars -4,
8, or 12?
4. In the Old Roman calcn
dar, was December, March,
or April the first month of
the year?
8. Is linseed oil derived
from the seed of olives, flax,
cotton or squash?
6. The snorkel breathing
device is used in high alti-
tude planes, submarines, or
coal mines.
7. Which one of these would
be moat likely to use a snw
horse: Jockey, baker, or car
penter?
8. Identity the scientist
who advanced the theory of
relativity. '
9. Flora is a term applicable
to plants: what doeg (he term
fauna express?
10. If you plant an acorn
would you expect a pine, but'
ternut or oak tree to grow?
Answers! 1, Herriiburg. 2,
Piano. 3. 12. 4. March. 6. Hex.
t. Submarine. 7. Carpenter.
I. Albert Einstein. 9. Animal
Ufa. 10. Oak.
Miss Claire Hanky
The untimely death of Miss Claire Hanley
deprives this community, indeed, the state of
Oregon, of one of its best known, best loved, and
most respected citizens.
Were it not for her warm human qualities,
her gentle strength and her kindly heart, Miss
Hanlev would have qualified as an institution,
She and her sisters were "The Misses History"
in Jackson county. Whenever anyone wanted to
know something about the early days of the area,
"Ask Miss Hanley," was the best advice one could
eive.
One of her strengths was in her leadership,
over the years, of the Southern Oregon Histor
cal Society, which in turn was and is the cus
todian and reference point for knowledge of our
origins in southern Oregon.
a a
rEATH, which often can be cruelly dilatory,
was mercifully quick when it claimed Miss
Claire Hanley in the vigor of her mature woman
hood.
Yet the rapidity and unexpectedness of the
blow left those who knew and loved and looked
up to her with a loss which only healing time
can soothe. ,
This daughter of indomitable pioneers was,
herself, an indomitable pioneer, whose very life
was a tribute to the men and women who have
gone before, and to the generations still to come,
who will benefit by the dedicated work this
gentle but determined woman performed.
Southern Oregon will never be quite the same.
E.A.
Tax Referral Petitions
Petitions are now being circulated in an at
tempt to obtain enough signatures to place the
ate, unlamented Legislature s tax bill on a refer
endum ballot this October.
At first because of our disenchantment with
the tax measure we were of a mind to sign such
a petition.
On second thought, however, we're not so sure.
For if the tax bill is referred, a whole Pandora's
box of unpleasant possibilities will be opened up.
e a , a
FILING of petitions with enough signatures
would hold up the effective date of the tax
law, with its resultant loss in badly needed state
revenue.
And, should the tax bill be defeated by a vote
of the people, it is a virtual certainty that the
Governor would have to call a special session of
the legislature, simply to keep the state and its
services going.
The regular session of the Legislature, in a
few minutes more than 141 days, was unable to
come up with a balanced, sound and progressive
tax program. One wonders if a special session,
which cannot be limited to a single topic, could
do any better.
pLARENCE BARTON, speaker of the House
of Representatives, has hinted that, rather
than rewrite the tax bill, or adopt a new one. the
Legislature might simply hack some $60 million
off the budget. And $60 million taken away from
a budget which is already skimpy enough for vital
services, particularly education, could be disastrous.
If we were convinced that the Legislature
could do a better job than it did in the Spring
and Winter, we would be Inclined to sign a refer
endum petition. But since we have little confi
dence in the Legislature particularly the Senate
we doubt that we shall do so.
There's too much of a chance that the same
bitterness and feuding and backbiting would re
sume, and that a special session would wind ud
with state finances in a shambles. The present
tax program, unpopuar as it is, is one we can live
with for two years. And one hopes that the 1965
Legislature will be a more responsible group than
WIC lUVO Ol-ODIUII vUlllCll UUt UJ UC. Ci. t.
"Look, Everybody, I'm not Paying
Any Attention"
;s5tta" J-JN,r-
Negotiations for Spanish, Portuguese
Bases by U.S. Complex and Difficult
... . 1 1 t 1 e.1 e.1 a. L. TB.
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
When the United States and
Spain negotiated their 1933
agreement on U.S. naval and
air bases in
Spain, both
LOST OR DISCARDED
Southend, England-JUTO-Of-flcialg
of the local lost and
found office are wondering
what to do with the item
found on a street Monday. It
was white-iced, one-tier
wedding cake.
Post-Session?
Ever since the Legislature adjourned, news
papers and political observers about the state
have been holding "post mortem" discussions as
to what can be done, organizationally or other
wise, to improve future sessions.
Many of them deplore the record length of
the liibd session, but we are inclined to agree
with the Eugene Register-Guard that mere length
is less important than the lack of constructive
accomplishment, and that the worst thing of all
is the last minute confusion when the end is near
and everyone is pressing for adjournment. It is
then that bad bills have their best chance of being
passed, and good bills the best chance of dvinir.
Is there anything which could be done to
eliminate this dangerous last-nunute pell-mell
rush?
DERHArS THERE IS. Annual sessions, one de-
voted to taxes and finances, the next to
general legislation on the model of California
has been one suggestion.
Another we would like to see considered is the
proposal that after the regular session has ended.
a post-session, automatically called two weeks
after adjournment and limited to one week, be
convened.
. Such a post-session, held after a couple of
weeks of reassessment and calm, and after the
last-minute actions have been sorted out, would
have a chance of correcting mistakes and errors
in judgment.
It certainly would be no panacea, but it might
be of significant help. E. A.
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Golden Age
To the Editor: As we enter
the Aquarian Magnetic Field
of expression, many subtle but
significant changes are taking
place throughout our entire
Solar System. For the present,
however, let us consider the
effect of the higher vibration
al rate of Cosmic energies and
essences in respect to Earth
and its inhabitants.
Man will be quickened In
every area of his life-spiritu-ally,
mentally and physically.
Me will experience a greater
degree of intuitive perception
as his body, mind and soul are
brought into closer alignment
with each other. He will be
come more keenly attuned to
the higher mental and spir
itual planes, and certain bod
ily changes are required for
such attunement. Some are at-
ready occurring; others will
come about more gradually
over an extended period of
time.
There will be a change In
the mineral content of the
body. For instance, there is an
Infinitesimal amount of alum
inum in the brain which in
the past has served as insul
ation from psychic, electronic
energies in the Cosmic atmo
sphere. Now, however, the
aluminum content will de
crease while the magnesium
and iron content will Increase,
rendering the brain an effi
cient receptive focal point for
all manner of psychic com
munications, both from within
and without the Individual.
The entire head area will un
dergo similar changes; of par
ticular importance will be the
Increased concentrations o f
these minerals In tha pituitary
and pineal gland centers.
The blood stream will con
tain a greater quantity of iron
This la a magnetic substance
and essential in making possi
ble a harmonious Interplay In
man i Inter communication
system as he becomes a more
integrated unit.
There will be an Increased
amount of copper and cal
clum In tha nervous system.
Copper is a conductor of elec
tronic Impulses, and messages
and Impulses of the body will
be mure easily carried through
the nervous syslema to the
various cognition centers. Cal
clum is a relaxant, compen-
sating for the tensions and
stresses of modrrn living
Every cell of man's body
will receive more phosphor
ous, riioaphorous radiates
light and Is, In a sense, radio
active. An increase of this ele
ment will allow man to cotv
Unite to set loose hii own ra
dio-active rays in vibratory
harmony with the radioactive
Cosmic Rays of the Aquarian
Magnetic Field.
The hyper-tension and nerv
ous disorders apparent today
are due to the fact that at
present man's nervous systems
are advanced over the rest of
his body In adapting to the
new vibrational influences.
Louise Wopschall
Route 1, Uox 408
Eagle Point, Ore.
r- y.
LIS
-Jewsosi
sides won Im
portant bene
fits. The Unit
ed States won
a v a 1 u able
forward base
against Com-
n i s t aggres
s i o n and
Spain a much-
needed economic shot in the
arm plus a start toward re
entry into the family oi na
tions. Now, amid considerable
secrecy but with some of the
facts known, they are ap
proaching a renegotiation of
the agreement which expires
in September.
Both sides seek certain
gains.
A somewhat similar agree
ment with Portugal on the
strategic U.S. base in the
Azores already has expired,
with negotiations at present
reported deadlocked but by
no means abandoned.
Both the Spanish and the
Portuguese agreements bear
heavily on U.S. strategic plan
ning, especially since Presi
dent Charles de Gaulle's snub
of the Atlantic Alliance, the
gain in Communist voting
strength in Italy and U. S
hop-s for a mixed-nation na
val force based on the nuclear-tipped
Polaris mutisle.
All of these conditions
would seem to be cards in
Generalissimo Francisco Fran
co's hands.
There are Indications the
Spanish asking price - la not
cheap.
The 1953 agreement gave
the United States the use of
three air bases by the Strate
gic Air Command, the big
naval base at Rota and of er
installations including naval
depots, radar sites and a
pipeline system.
There is evidence now that
the United States would like
to make the Rota base avail
able to NATO submarines
carrying nuclear ballistic
missiles.
In return, Franco wants
either Spanish membership
in NATO or, at the least,
closer political ties with the
Ui d States.
Spanish membership in
NATO has in the past been
adamanUy opposed by the
low cou-tries, Denmark and
Norway and, to a lesser de
gree, by Britain.
Spain also wants an in
crease in economic aid which
since 1953 has totaled more
than a billion dollars, plus
modern military equipment
including rockets and mis
siles. On its part, the United
States would prefer that the
agreement continue much as
it is and to wait as long as
possible to determine how
Europe's strategic and politi-J Boiled down to simplicities,
cal alignments finally are to
work out.
It further has warned
Spain that, because of the
unfavorable outflow of U.S.
gold, free military aid to
Spain will have to stop; that
instead, she will expect Spain
to spend some $250 million
of her own money on new
equipment.
The deadlock is the nego-
tiotions with Portugal is oil
an issue less complex but
equally difficult.
The 20-year-old agreement
with Portugal expired last
Dec. 31 but use of the base
which is an strategic link
with Europe and Africa, has
continued.
the Portuguese are insisting
that the United States aban
don its support in the United
Nations of the Afro-Asian na
t i o n s demanding indepen
dence for Angola and Mo
zambique, Portugal's two big
territories in Africa.
Both the Portuguese and
the Spanish negotiations go
far beyond the mere questions
of bases.
Matter of Fact
Where Are Wt Headed?
To the Editor: A few years
ago Russia kicked God out
and adopted Communism.
Today the United Stales is
doing the same thing.
Why? Is it constitutional
to teach' and discuss Commu
nism In schools and colleges.
under freedom of gpeech, and
not constitutional to mention
God?
Where are we headed?
Burrell Wyant,
Lake Creek, Ore.
I
Only One Defense -
10 tne Editor: What are
the facts about the safety of
bomb shelters in the event of
nuclear war? Propagandists
for fallout shelters have gone
so far as to picture nuclear
war for most Americans as
two cozy though somewhat
tedious weeks in the confine
ment of a family bomb shel
ter, after which they would
emerge to carry on in rela
tive security, apparently the
war s victors.
But anyone with a real
knowledge of the unimagina
ble destructive power of
megaton nuclear weapons
knows that, in cities at least,
shelters or no shelters, there
wouldn't be anyone around
to emerge. "If there were a
100 megaton attack on New
York City," said New Jer
sey'a Gov. Robert Meyner
some time ago, "you wouldn't
have any .'.people around to
go to a shelter. You wouldn't
have a shelter left."
Rural populations, if they
were lar enough away from
the target areas to escape
the firestorms that would
spread with jet-flame speed
over hundreds of square
miles, might survive, for a
time. They might come out
of their shelters, but Into
what kind of a world? What
would they use for food? What
would they use for water?
There Is no plan to put the
livestock In shelters, and no
one has yet designed shelters
for reservoirs.
Those who have fallen for
the cruel nonsense of under
ground shelters probably pic
ture the post-attack period as
though nuclear war were
Inside Story of
The Inside Story
By Arthur Hoppe
Washington - It is the duty
of us Ace Newsmen, as you
know, to create a better-in
formed public by ferreting
out the Inside Story of the
news behind the news. So that
something like a flood, hurri
cane, or earthquake, alter
which everyone pitches in to
clean up the debris, assist the
injured, and rebuild the
stricken areas. But nuclear
war would be worse than all
the floods, hurricanes and
earthquakes that ever happen
ed, all put together. No gov
ernment or public power
could maintain authority un
der these conditions. Fear of
a kind never experienced by
man would lurk everyhere
No one would know if the
food he ate or the liquids he
drank were poisoned with ra
diation. Yet no one could long
reject the food and drink
available, even if he did
know.
Governor Meyner has right
ly said: "There is only one
defense, and only one, against
a nuclear war, and that is
peace." But like everyone
else, he hasn't learned the
basic cause of war, he does
not know how peace can be
attained. The people must be
educated on the subject of
how to bring about a peace
ful world.
Lydia Burnham,
814 Warne St.,
Prescott, Ariz.
Strictly Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c field Enterprises, ine.
wast r 4
IMMORTALITY
The teen-age boy was asked
what his ambition was, and he
replied, only half-facetlously,
"I want to live
forever." One
of the first
things we can
notice in a
child Is his
Inability to
to compre
hend death,
except on a
purely verbal
nam level. The
child may accept the fact that
other people die, but he can
not believe that he will ever
rile. This "tense of immortal
ity" often persists Into and
beyond adolrscence; some, in
deed, never lose it.
It may be said to be the
emotional acceptance of one's
certain mortality that marks
off the adult from the child.
It also happens to be the prin
cipal psychological feature of
human beings, as distinct from
all other animals. Only man
knows he will die, and this
fact shapes much of his life,
or mis-shapes it.
Immortality, on this plana
of existence, would really
be a horrible fata lor any
Individual, no matter how
appealing tha idea teems to
the young, who have not
lived long enough to appre
ciate tha necessary cycle of
birth, growth, decay, and
death. To think about living
her fortver. to think about
it seriously, reveals how
appalling it would bet its
attraction it wholly super
ficial, a vestig of Infantile
desire.
Tha finite human mind
cannot grasp what "forev
er" Is, to let us imagine
living avtn only loo or 300
years, at tha only ageless
person en aarth. No one wa
knew would ba alive; wa
would ba a parson out of
lima, and out of communi
ty, a true stranger en tha
aarth. Our predominant
feeling would ba one of ex
haustion, spiritually and
emotionally, Wa would cry
for death at a most welcome
relief from this Intolerable
burdtn,
a
Or. to carry the philosophic
isniasy in another direction:
suppose that everyone alive
were conferred Immortality.
Could anything more ghastly
oe imagined? With no deaths,
there could be no births, for
there would be no room. We
would drive one another crazy
by the second century of life-
tne search for change, for nov
elty, would become maniacal:
and a profound depression and
inertia, akin to suicide, would
settle. on us.
Aoam ana tve were pre
sumably created for immortal
ity, but this was before they
had any knowledge of good or
evil. Their just punishment
was exile from Eden, not death
-death was a gracious gift to
prevent them from going mad;
for to live forever with the
knowledge of our infirmities
and mistakes would be a
worse hell than Dante con
jured up. ,
Young people want to live
forever because "time" as a
concept has no meaning when
we are young-to them, people
of 40 are Just as old, as "half
dead," as people of 80. It is
only as we ripen into adult
hood (if we do) that time be
comes a friend, not an enemy.
you, a better-informed public,
will know what's really going
on:
And Washington, nerve cen
ter of the free world, is, of
course, the place to ferret
them out, as anybody in Wash
ington will tell you.
But, if I may reveal a trade
secret, we ace newsmen don't
really have to ferret them out.
They're kind of lying around
everywhere. In fact, every
body whoSs anybody knows
hundreds of Inside Stories
which they are dying to press
on tis ace newsmen. So we
will realize they are some
body. In fact, I've been here 12
hours and already my note
book is chockfilled witn In
side Stories. Allow me to
quote a few pages so you will
be a better-informed public,
Mr. Kennedy has high hopes
of pushing a vigorous civil
rights bill through Congress.
Mr. Kennedy has some hope
of pushing a compromise civil
rights bill through Congress.
If he doesn't get some kind
of civil rights bill through
Congress, Mr. Kennedy will
kill himself.
Mr. Johnson has suddenly
become a Northern Liberal.
Not because he wishes to run
for President in 1968. But be
cause that is what he has al
ways been in his heart. (His
what?)
But Mr. Kennedy 'remains
confident as he knows that
Mr. Johnson will continue to
carry the South for the Demo-crats.
Like a cross.
Miss Christine Keeler is
really a CIA agent.
She is not. That's a rumor
planted by the CIA to improve
the image of its agents.
Mr. Kennedy has confided
to close associates that he is
now gravely concerned about
either the Nassau Pact, the
NASA Pact or the Passer Pact.
They asked him to write down
which.
That's a joke.
It Is not.
Mr. Shriver, Mr. Rusk, Mr.
McNamara and Mr. Billmark
are threatening to quit their
Jobs in protest over lack of
firm Government support. Mr.
Billmark, however, is the only
one to confirm this. "If they
don't make 18th street all one
way," said Mr. Billmark in
an angry statement issued
from the driver's seat of his
traffic-stalled taxicab, "I'm
going to quit."
While Mr. Billmark doesn't
trust the Government, it Is
also true that the Northern
Liberals don't trust Mr. John
son, who doesn't trust Mr.
Bobbie Kennedy, who doesn't
trust Mr. Adlai Stevenson,
who doesn't trust the Irish
Mafia, who don't trust any
body. And in Washington, that's
a good idea.
And that's just the begin
ning. My notebook is chock
filled with a whole lot of oth
er Inside Stories that would
interest you. And, now that
you are feeling, I'm sure, like
a better-informed public, let
me caution you that this is
only the beginning. My note
book is chockfilled with scores
of other Inside Stories that
you wouldn t believe.
So if you will excuse me.
I will now go lock myself in
my hotel room. I figure if I
hear one more Inside Story.
I will begin to understand
what's going on around here.
f
By Joseph Alsop
(c New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
AJsnp
THE IMPOSSIBLE
DIALOGUE
Washington-As such things
go, the President's White
House meeting with the lead
ers of the prin
cipal Negro
o r ganizations
seems to have
been highly
sue c essful.
But imbedded
in the meet
ing, so to say,
there was also
a fragment of
impossible di
alogue.
This dialogue, impossible
in the sense that the partici
pants were quite largely
speaking at cross purposes,
was deeply revealing for this
very reason. It began even
before the main meeting,
when the President and the
Rev. Martin Luther King talk
ed briefly alone.
The President was fearful
that King would actually hurt
tne chances of the new Civil
Rights Bill, by the huge dem
onstration that is being plan
ned for Washington in August,
in the expectation of a need
to protest a filibuster of the
Civil Rights Bill.
OUT Martin Luther King
- was mainly fearful that
if the Negro people did not
"keep the pressure up," the
deep - rooted problems that
have caused the current crisis
would soon be forgotten again,
as they have been in the past.
ne could only promise the
President to do everything in
his power to insure a peace
ful, law-abiding march on
Washington.
At the main meeting, the
question of demonstrations
and their political effects was
again raised, this time by one
of the Negro leaders, Whitney
M. Young Jr., the able direc
tor of the Urban League.
Once again, there were warn
ings, amply justified by much
evidence from all over t h e
country, of the political dan
gers of going too far.
"The President didn't seem
to realize at first that not a
person in that room could
stop the demonstrations, even
if he wanted to," one of those
present said later. "The issue,
which I think he realized
pretty quickly, is not whether
we can stop the demonstra
tions. We can't. The issue is.
rather, whether the responsi
ble Negro leaders can go on
channeling the pent-up emo
tions and frustrations of our
people into peaceful, non-violent
expressions."
AFTER the meeting was
over, Martin Luther King
had his own comments to
make on the same point, in
his characteristic, oddly Bib
lical style: "We stand today
on the threshold of a new
age," he said, "or at any rate,
I hope so. But we would not
be standing where we are
now if we had heeded the ad
vice of our more cautious
friends.
"They were worried by tha
Freedom Riders. They thought
we ought to wait, in Binning
ham, until the new city ad
ministration took over. But if
we'd waited in Birmingham,
I kind of think there might
not be a Civil Rights Bill now.
And If our people do not now
have peaceful, non - violent
outlets for their feelings, there
will be more danger of a dark
night of terror."
If you think about the ex
changes at the White House
meeting and Martin Luther
King's subsequent comment,
they will be seen to sum up
all the main political aspects
of one of the most painful
and urgent problems the Unit
ed States has ever faced,
a
IiHE President is of course
rinhr in i . .
--a--- nvuj auuui xne
proposed Washington demon
stration's being counter-productive.
Anything that sug
gests a Negro attemDt to In.
timidate or bully the Congress
will have the opposite of tha
desired effect.
By the same token. th
President and Attorney Gen
eral Robert Kennedy are of
course right to be haunted by
the nightmare already de
scribed in a previous report
in this space. If the Negro
drive for equal rights sDilla
over into excess, whether by
intent or By accident, the
moderate white opinion that
nas thus far supported the
Negro drive will quite sud
denly turn sour, with the
gravest Imaginable conse
quences.
Yet the Negro leaders are
also quite obviously right, in
their insistence that they
could not stop now. even if
they wished to do so. And
they are also right when they
point out that they have only
got as far as they have got
by going out of the courts of
justice and taking their causa
into the streets. .
'THE simple fact that both
the President and the Ne
gro leaders were entirely
right, even though their dia
logue about this matter verges
on the impossible, in turn
proves how delicate, danger
ous, and urgent this matter
now is. Right there is the
central point.
The Civil Rights Bill the
President has now sent to
Congress is quite unlike any
of the similar measures of the
past. It cannot safely be pal
tered with, or filibustered out
of existence, or compromised
to the semi-vanishing point.
as has happened to most ot
its predecessors.
By dealing with the new
bill in this manner, in t h e
existing climate of the Negro
community, will invite some
thing like a nationwide explo
sion. If we are not "standing
on the threshold of a new
age," in fact, we are probably
standing -on the brink of the
worst domestic trouble this
country has seen for many
years.
at
The Ntgrat tho' "nut! ar cr.tting a bad image ef
America with those li'l ela demonstrations Ain't
join to be nobody res peel this here flagl"