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ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES Of'lcea In New York. Chi caso Detroit. San Francisco, Loa Angelra Seattle. Portland . Denver. NEWSPAM rUILISHEtS ASSOCIATION NATION A! EDITORIAL ASftCAATIN 3 U J Memner California Newipaper PubUahera Aisoclatlon Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ego. 10 YEARS AGO July 29, 1953 (Wednesday) : Plans for a pictorial his tory of the railroads of the Rogue valley were announc ed here today by M. Dale Newton, 807 Grant St., author of "Steel Along the Rogue." An artesian well of warm sulphur water was the result last week of drilling opera tions south of Helman baths at Ashland. 20 YEARS AGO July 29, 1943 (Thursday) : County crews spray road aide weeds, insects with oil. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "While fooling around, one of the Older GlrJs got the thumb she cut last winter while pa triotically slicing bread, bit by a careless electric fan. 30 YEARS AGO July 29, 1933 (Saturday) : Army recruiting reports dif ficulty in getting enlistments here. : Siskiyou highway improve ment money approved by PWA. 40 YEARS AGO July 29, 1923 (Sunday) Salem Cherrluns parade streets and thrill citizens. Hot weather hurts fishing throughout county. SO YEARS AGO July 29, 1913 (Tuesday) ; Josephus Daniels, secretary of Navy, Impressed by valley visit. - Game reserve planned in Sisklyous. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or tea correct It superior; seven or eight Is excellent five or tlx ii good. 1. The well-known stadium in Pasadena, California is known as what? 2. A slalom Is performed in what outdoor sport? 3. Name the mountain range extending from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea that separates Europe from Asia. 4. In the Biblical story what woman accompanied Ba rak? 5. Is an atom made up of molecules? 6. In the Revolutionary War, Ethan Alien's soldiers were nicknamed what? 7. A scalpel is the covering Of the skull; true or false? . 8. How many lines are in a limerick? I 8. Which former U.S. Presi dent owned "The Hermitage," In Tennessee? 10. "Snow" Is the under world name for which nar cotic? Answers! 1. The Rota Bowl, 2. Skiing. 3, The Caucatut. 4. Deborah, J. No, (Molecules made up of alomtl. 6, The Green Mountain Boyt. 7. Falsa. 8. Fir lines. 9. An drew Jackton. 10. Cocain. BRAVE DAYS OVER Oneida, Wis. -0IM'- A squaw ruled the 3,300 member Oneida Indian tribe today for the first time in history. Mrs. Irene Moore, Seymour, Wla., defeated Norbert Hill of Oneida during the week end for chairman of the tribe's executive committee, a post which is equivalent to chief. MONDAY, JULY 29. 1963 Fertility Control Editor's note: The Oregon Health Officers associa tion met at Diamond Lake recently, and among other matters, "fertility control" was under discussion. Fol lowing the meeting. Dr. Harold M. Haugen, medical director of the Planned Parenthood Clinic, Denver, Colo., gave the following summarizing statement. It is reprinted from the Oregon Health Bulletin. Until ten years ago family planning was of concern to very few people. Family planning is today a matter of world-wide importance to every- one regardless of race, population, local and abroad, is the world's num ber one problem when considered from the stand' point of poverty, disease, and hunger. From the dawn of time until 1960, we have arrived at three billion people in the world. If our present birthrate is projected into the future, the second three billion people will be here by the year 2,000. Family planning becomes a problem when one considers that the around the world do not is only those people who derline incomes who cannot afford the necessary family planning devices unplanned children then government, federal, state and local. A FURTHER problem money is ignorance patient who doesn't know that help is available, on the part of physicians who don't know the types of help that are i 1 1 governmental omciais financial savings that ment from family planning, and on the part of local religious minority groups who do not real ize that all churches, including the Roman Catho lie, are concerned about responsible family plan mng. It is the -feeling groups that within the near future, planning must become an integral part local level. It is known from indigent patients in high only short distances tor tion. This would lend credence to the belief that contraceptive information must come to the pa tient rather than the patient to the information. THE public health departments have the organ izational structure to cope with this problem, public health knows where the problem patients are, and public health is painfully aware of the cost of these patients to the people in their area. New contraceptive devices are available which are non-prescription items and which can be disseminated to welfare patients without an increase in medical personnel. In a study of 235 welfare families in Meck lenburg county, North Carolina, over a three-year period, there were no unplanned pregnancies and the cost of the contraceptive information to the public health department was l25th that which would have been expected had the information and devices not been made available. ROMAN Catholic patients should not be denied farrnlu nlannintr infnrmnrinn htir sVinillrl l'n all kindness, be given that which is morally ac ceptable to them. since unemployment children doubled in the it would seem imperative that a forward look ing state, such as Oregon, should proceed along the lines of family planning to provide the maxi mum advantages for all Face the We recently discussed the problems touched upon in the article printed above with a woman who has been active in both welfare and public health activities. She said there is a crying need for family planning information for families re ceiving welfare and public health assistance. She cited several instances of women with more children than the family wanted or could afford, who were still having them, and who did not know what to do to prevent it. Assisting these people (only, of course, when such assistance is requested) would, she insisted, be of immeasurable benefit, both in humanitarian terms, and in terms of tax dollars. A CHILD born into a family on welfare 1 " has two strikes against it to begin with, ticularly if it is an unwanted child. Each such child costs the taxpayers far, far more over a period of years than would family planning or devices or advice. But, because it is a touchy and controversial subject, such a step has, until now, hardly been discussed in public health or welfare circles. The time has come to face the facts, and advance such a program, both at the state level through the state board of health and the state welfare commission and at the county level, through their local counterparts. fPHE only ones who could object are those who believe that birth control, under any circum stances and using any methods, is wrong. This, we believe, would be a minority in today's society. Such beliefs, of course, merit respectful atten tion. But they should not be allowed to prevail over the desires, needs and opinions of others. Availability of information and advice on fer tility control, family planning, birth control whatever you want to call it is desirable both from a cold dollars-and-cents angle, and because of simple human needs. E.A. creed or color. World upper income families have large families. It have no income or bor to help themselves. I hese become the burden of in addition to lack of first on the part of the available, on the part of . B 1 ... 1 . It. . wno ian 10 realize uie would accrue to govern of planned parenthood of public health on the studies in Chicago that density areas will travel contraceptive lnforma- and aid to dependent very prosperous 1950s, the people of this state. Facts relief par A Place J Ijf ' !-. I . jr,rr?:',-n,s w-. Tirc.Wij.lljirM psm Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although 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 viewn nf peper. In fact the contrary It often the case. Summary All Wrong 10 the Editor: Your sum mary of the Constitution was 11 wrong. The first three words tell us of whom our Government consists. It is not the Supreme Court, nor Con gress, nor the President. The government consists of, "We the people." All others are Just representatives. Equality is pretty hard to come by knowing that the authors of our Constitution were slave holders. The only equality and welfare is spell ed out in the Bill of Rights. No other was promised. Wel fare, subsidies, jobs, security, handouts, health, foreign aid, social security, etc., are not mentioned. These are rights that a man must gel for him self. If a government is big enough to give us these, it will also take them away. Khrushchev says "We can not expect America to jump from Capitalism to Commu nism, but we can assist her elected leaders to give the Americans small doses of so cialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Com munism." The voice from Arizona is on thin ice. She calls our government a secular govern ment. Scripture is written in marble and stone all over Washington, D. C. In the Sen ate, the House, the Supreme Court, the monuments, Con gress and the Supreme Court are both opened with prayer at all sessions. Faith in God is on our money, acknowl edged in the Constitution, in all the speeches through the next 100 years or more, our patriotic songs are all Chris tian songs. A sticker on the envelope she used says, "Civilization will thrive when the last stone of the last church, falls on the last priest." Emile Zola. Gus Hall said the same thing using more picturesque speech. Another sticker says, "keep prayer out of public schools." The first public school in America was opened by the American Sunday School Un ion. Its only text book - the Bible. The Supreme Court made a law. The Constitution says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an estab lishment of a religion." That can only mean to ad vocate or support a given church or belief. J.F.K. vio Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF AT A RECENT convention in the midwest, a very serious businessman arose to deliver a very serious speech that had been prepared for him that very morning and that ha had not bothered to read over before he entered the convention hnll. In cluded in the speech was a ream of statistics. Af ter quoting them, he read these lines from his type script. "These arc not my own figures I am quot ing, gentlemen. They are the figures of someone who knows what he is talking about." The re sultant roar of laughter from the audience stun ned the speaker so that he shut up abruptly and staggered to his seat on the dais. What happened to his ghost writer that very afternoon we leave to your imagination. Bob Sylvester's tailor had an order (or a $300 tuit recently with a special entail pocket on the inside of the jacket Just under the outside handkerchief pocket. The customer gave the exact ilimen slons for the extra pocket he wanted then disclosed the purpose thereof: that's where he proposed to carry his gold toothpick. Sick cannibal Joke: exploi-er In pot. about to be cooked. Chief sake victim if he hat any last words to say. Explorer ga "Yea. I'm smoking more and enjoying it less." C IMS, by Bennett Cart. Distributed by Kins features Bjndicate MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON In The Sun lated that by his telegram to the Pope on "behalf of the American people." As a citi zen he had the right but not to speak for America. Naturally Senator Neuberg er has more "right wing" pamphlets cross her desk. The "lefts" don't have to work that way. She can't turn on radio-television or pick up book, paper or magazine with out reading left wing mate, rial. Ella Powell Box 621 Central Point, Ore. Good News To the Editor: The Presi dent s message on the test ban treaty was good news for all the world to hear. It means that, barring acci dents, we will have peace on earth for quite a while yet. Even have peaceful co-existence with Cuba, for sure, as only an insane man could commit himself and his peo ple to suicide. It took Uncle Sam about five years to build the urani um bomb and light the fuse in order to save what was left of our Navy. Then the real atomic race started and kept on until as of last year we reached a real stalemate with Russia. So now the action request ed by the President for Con gress to approve of the sig natures in the test ban treaty will soon be given the O.K. as the subject transcends par ty lines. And the great ma jority of the men In Congress don't want to see the world go up in smoke. Aside from that we have still Mao Tse Tung and his clan to reckon with, but it is likely to take ten more years before China can send up a space ship. So the Yel low Peril is not an immedi ate threat. John E. Ring 1049 West 11th st. Medford, Ore. Motion To Dismiss Portland - 0IPII - State La bor Commissioner Norman Nilsen has denied a motion by the city of Portland to dis miss a complaint charging the city's park bureau with racial discrimination in failing to hire Negroes Sam Macon and Nathan Jones. New Threats to Berlin's Access May Crop ..." By William j. fox United Press International Notes from the foreign news cables: Berlin Threats Despite Nikita Khrush chev's warming-up tactics to ward the West, there is spec ulation that new threats to Berlin's access routes may crop up at a meeting of the puppet East German Parlia m e n t this Wednesday at which Communist leader Walter Ulbricht will speak. The speculation ranges from imposition of transit vi sas on West Germans when they travel to West Berlin or enter East Germany, up to new air traffic regulations Resignation of Day Offers Kennedy Another Opportunity By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International The .resignation of Post master General J. Edward Day offers President Kennedy another opportunity to in dulge his anxiety for a Negro in the cabinet. Kennedy's first choice for that cabinet post may have been a Negro. During the 1960 presiden tial campaign, the Repub licans played politics in stum- blebum fashion with the idea of a Negro cabinet member There was no need for candi date Kennedy to match that maneuver precisely during his presidential campaign. The Democratic platform and his own shrewd plays for Negro votes were ample to offset Republican maneuvers. Once elected, however, President Kennedy had Negro problems. He and his platform had promised - guaranteed -some instant civil rights. It immediately became obvious that the entire Kennedy legis lative p ro g r a m probably would be scuttled if the new President proposed broad gauge civil rights legislation to the newly elected Congress. The decision was to put off the issue. Negroes Were Pleated Negroes were pleased by Kennedy's selection of Negroes for well-paid federal jobs. They were equally pleased by constant evidence of the President's concern for Negro problems. Thus it was that the President-elect ap peared on the porch of his Georgetown home in Decem ber, 1960, with Rep. William Dawson, a Chicago Democrat and a Negro. The President elect told assembled news men - and Dawson agreed -that the congressman had been offered and had refused the postmaster general's post. Here was another evidence of Kennedy's interest and confidence in Negroes - but was it? The question arose; Was the offer to Dawson for real? The Chicago Daily News printed an editorial under the caption: "We Can't Believe It. Dawson's record should keep him out of the cabinet." The News pictured Dawson as the absolute political boss in Chicago of an empire of corruption, fraud and crime. If so, the nomination of Daw son would have invited severe scrutiny and, probably, re jection by the U.S. Senate. Kennedy scarcely could have Race Hearing Loses The announcement was made by Thomas N. Trotta, legal officer for the commis sioner. The city had claimed Nil sen did nut have jurisdiction to rule on the alleged dis crimination. Hearings are scheduled Tuesday on two other motions by the city. Macon, 25, was offered a Job after the complaint was filed but refused it. His at torney said Macon felt the conditions attached to his hir ing would "perpetuate his sec ond class status." Jones. 24, has not been offered a job. Ex-Westinghouse Official Succumbs Pittsburgh - HIPP - Mark W. Cresap Jr., 53, former president and chief executive officer of the Westinghouse Electric Corp.. died Sunday in Presbyterian University hospital. Cresap, who resigned from the firm only last July 15. was credited with streamlin ing the company's products divisions to give each more autonomy and closer to markets. access; Cresap underwent surgery July 17 for gastric hem - orrhage. and hospital officials last week said he was recov- ering well and appeared ,0 rr be out of danger. However, his condition worsened .sat- urday. and he died the fol - lowing day it 3:1 J a.m. Up at Meeting in East Germany V i ---.ii ,h agreement is pop-1 that Red China hopes to hav which could pose a tm-eat to the i three air corridors into the city. Also rumored is the possible incorporation of East Berlin formally into East Germany, ending the four power status of the city and cutting off the right of West ern garrison members to en ter East Berlin. Any of these steps would be taken as signifying that the Russians do not plan to extend the new thaw in in ternational relation to Ber lin. Japanese Communists Japan's Communists are embarrassed by Red China's denunciation of the Moscow nuclear test - ban agreement. been ignorant of Dawson s background nor insensible to the attitude the Senate might take. There was suspicion, therefore, that the announce ment that Dawson had been tendered and had repected the job was a poltical device and that no reai proposal had been made to Dawson. Proposed New Department Thereafter Kennedy pro posed that Congress establish a new cabinet department of urban affairs. He said he In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Question: What of this test ban agree ment that has been initialed by our Averell Harriman, Britain's Lord Hailsham and Russia's Andrei Gromyko -and presumably will be sign ed next week by our Secre tary of State Rusk, Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Home and Russia's Foreign Minister Gromyko? WHAT does it do? '"It agrees to test nuclear bombs only UNDERGROUND -not in the air, in the water or out in space. How good is it? It's as good as the word of the men who have signed it and the nations they repre sent - AND NO BETTER. WHAT about this "non-ag-eression Dact" hetween the Atlantic Alliance (our side) and its communist equi. valent, the Warsaw Pact pow er, that Old Kroosh wants? How good is it? It, too, is as good as the word of the nations involved and no better. IIHAT should we do about " it? How about this: S'gn it. Keep our fingers crossed. Keep our powder dry. It might work. It will de pend on the GOOD FAITH of the nations represented. TJANKY-panky in the news: There's that suite at Otis Air Force base in Massachu setts. Somehow the reporters got the idea that it was pre pared for Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy when he has a baby next month. They were as sured, however, by Pierre Sal inger, of the White House staff, that such was not the case. He described it as a residence for visiting Air Force officers - what in the parlance of the armed serv ices is known as "transient officers' quarters." These quarters for officers on transient duty are normal ly a bit on the austere side. Their furnishings are design ed normally for exclusively MASCULINE use. Their nor mal occupancy is purely tem porary. 'PHIS suite at Otis base is QUITE different, depart ing sharply from the accept ed norms. It contains: Two elaborately furnished sitting rooms; a reception-sitting room; six bedrooms; a nursery: a recently modern ized kitchen; two workrooms for NURSES: two areas for stationing secret service agents. And- A simple room with a hos pital bed. a color television set, oxygen outlets, glucose containers, an infant incuba tor, a bassinet and a baby scale. Every possible emer gency that could be faced by an officer on transient duty, you see, has been provided for. AH ME! Hnw the military has changed . In the older, mggeder world an officer on transient tuny was iuckv u ne louna in the temporary quarters signed to him a folding cot, a lpie of cn4irs lusuaily 0f ! the folding variety), a wash basin and a water pitcher, a ' cake of soap, a couple of tow- let nnH a htion f u.-ith hin. dle on tne ,jdc) desigIWc ,' be pushed under the bed. I l This is indeed posh world I we are living In. Overall, the agreement is pop ular in Japan, the only na tion ever to experience the effects of a nuclear bomb ing The Japanese Commu nists, who lean toward the Peking line, went along with Red China's position on the test ban. This stand was stated first last Friday by Kuo Mo-Jo, vice chairman of Red China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. He told a Peking rally then that the attempt by "a small number of countries" to con trol the worlds destiny by monopolizing nuclear weap ons would be smashed in the near future a reference would name a Negro to head the department. The Repub licans almost unanimously cried "foul." They were joined by Democrats from the South. This was a political ploy, these dissenters maintained, to make it impossible for a non-Southern member of Congress to vote against set ting up the new department lest he be accused of anti Negro bias; of voting against a Negro in the cabinet. How ever that may have been, Congress did not authorize the new department. But Presi dent Kennedy undoubtedly took a substantial political profit among Negro voters. Now comes a vacancy in the Kennedy cabinet, a cabinet job said to have once been of fered to and rejected by a Negro. If the President's anxiety for a Negro in the cabinet has been for real all along, here is a can't miss opportunity. Or, maybe, the President will decide to give another refusal to Chicago's Rep. Dawson. Strictly Personal By Sydney fct Field Enterpriies. Inc. THE WHITE CONVERTIBLE Driving up to the country, I stopped in a little town for lunch, and took a table near the restaurant window. A white convert ible drove by, with the top down; the oc cupants were two boys and a girl, a 1 1 about 20. Dur ing the h a 1 f hour I sat there, they Harn- cruised by four or five times. They ap parently had nothing to do and nowhere to go; what struck me most forcibly about them was their heightened awareness of themselves. Youth, of course, is the time for showing off - but this was something else. This was a kind of public imita tion of joy and happiness, as though it were more impor tant to convince the specta tors than to convince them selves. "Look at us," they seemed to be saying, "young and gay and attractive in our new con vertible. Envy us, applaud us, make us bask in the radiance of your approval. We are hav ing such a good time." . It all teemed to wistful and hollow to me. They were like marionette!, with no inner life of their own, who became animated only when public eyet were upon them. For their kind of intent self-consciousness is the deadly enemy of all tpontaneity and genu, in pleasure. But these have become among the paramount val- SO in inri. ... I or under water, but tha .7m. best of the deal!" -- .,V1 ivi 111 WW ri. V -t v . h . sr 1 Routes an A-bomb weapon of its own regaruieoo ui me test ban agreement. Nevertheless, the Japanese Communist party does not like being faced with a choir-- between Moscow and Peking. They get financial suppc-.-t from both sources, and if they line up solidly with either side in the bitter ideological struggle iney win suner. De Gaulle Visit It is still far from official, but French President Charles de Gaulle's aides privately are pinpointing next Janu ary as a likely target data for him to make a trip to Washington. He has said it is his turn to go there, but has set no date for the trip. However, the aides expect a round of lower level talks to pave the way first. Then, by January, 1964, they hint, things should be ripe for Da Gaulle to call on President Kennedy. Malaysian Formation Despite the blusterings of Indonesian President Sukar no, insiders look for the British - backed Federation of Malaysia to be formed on schedule Aug. 31. The big. gest hurdle to the new na tion was cleared in London earlier in July with the set tling of financial problems among Malaya, big brother of the federation, and its new partners Singapore, Sara wak and North Borneo. Informed observers do not believe Sukarno would risk the displeasure of the United States by using force to stop the birth of the federation. Vatican Shakeup Several insiders are begin ning to expect a reshuffle in the Vatican's administration before the end of the year. There is nothing definite yet, but an air of nervousness imperceptible to the inexper ienced eye indicates many share the belief. J. Harris uet of our society: the suo ttilulion of the "image" for the reality, the taking of the thadow for the sub stance, the need to impress rather than the urge to ex press. The white converti ble gave them a synthetic tense of identity that, by a cruel and familiar para dox, only served to blot out their individuality. If you watch youngsters playing and enjoying them selves, you will sea that they attain their individual ity only by forgetting it -by throwing themselves into the activity, by giving themselves to it, by loting themselves. For the scrip tural truth is a deep psy chological truth as welli that only by losing our selves can wa find our selves. As we grow older, if our personalities are not allowed and encouraged to develop in creative channels, we give up our center of gravity in ourselves and transfer it to other people. Then, what they think, how they respond, be comes the tremulous measure; of our content. There can be no permanent satisfaction in that, however; for after a while even tha white convertible begins to pall, and the image needs to be enhanced by new supports from the outside. It is bad enough to witness the rat-race in the so-called adult world; it is dismaying to see the lit tle mouse - race of the young people, who may never learn that you can't trade yourself in on a new model every year, no matter how much you ar willing to spend. in fhB llmninhara 1M .nar "'mospnere, in tp. 9e on' F,,h 901 ,h
