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I i 1 1 I 4 """Everyone in southern Oregon ' Bedi The Mall Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEiwoHri T PRINTING CO. s:t North Fir St. Ph. 77:1-6141 -TSSi II I Till VAitnr HERB GREY Advertlin Manager GERALD T LATHAM, Bu. Mix ERIC W ALLEN JR. Mn. Editor EARL U ADAMS, City Editor HARRr CHIPM AN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Ed tor OUVE STARCHEB Women'a Editoi DALE ERICKSON, CirculeUon KUr ' An Independent Newipapel Entered aecond elaa matter Medford. Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mail In Advene Dally end Sunday 1 yew lia.OO i Dally end Sunday moa. 10.00 ", Dally end Sunday 3 moa. J O0 Sund.y Only-One yew 5.00 : Single Copy (Mailed! 0o By Carrier And Motor ou"-, 7 Dally and Sunday 1 year 31.00 t Daily end Sunday 1 mo. L7 t Sunday Only 1 mo.. w" 1 Carrier and Vendor! Copy jOc OINelil Paper of City of Medford olllclal Paper of Jackaon County 1 United Preaa International ! full Leared Wire DPI. Telepholo Newiplcturea MEMBER OFJIUDIT BUREAU ATES Ot'icee In New York, CM- f cago. Detroit. San Francisco, hot i Aniielrt. Seattle. PortUnd ' Denver, PUIUIHIRS ASSOCIATION NATION Al EDITORIAL ASfebctATltfN ZJ KJ J Member Calif ornla Newapaper Publiiheri Aaaocletlon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Th Mali Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 nd SO years ago- i I 10 YEARS AGO July 30, 1953 (Thursday) " Jackson county medical and dental societies are discussing plans ' to submit resolutions endorsing fluoridation of the city's water supply to the Medford city council. The rim road In Crater Lake National park will be open lor travel late today or Friday morning, due to an unusually heavy snowfall last season. 20 YEARS AGO July 30, 1943 (Friday) s Pierce Auto Freight Lines ...i,. narmit for helicopter passenger and freight service between Oregon and Call nrniii nnlntu after war. ; isvnm Aiihur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Coy otes are now plntiful In rur 1 areas and make more noise at night than a male quartet." SO YEARS AGO July 30, 1933 (Sunday) Local firms adopt NRA plan and agree on wage Increase; stores to close at 5:30 p.m. hereafter. i Preacher testifies that county Judge gave him hint of ballot theft two weeks be fore It happened. 40 YEARS AGO July 30. 1923 (Monday) i Cloudy with thunderstorms; high 101.8, low 86 degrees. ; A. S. Roscnbaum promoted to district traffic manager by Southern Pacific; to make home In city. 50 YEARS AGO July 30, 1913 (Wednesday) First order for Barllett pears brings $1.85, l-80 box. ' Homesteaders In Dead In dian area win court testa. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct h superior! seven or eight It .cedent) fix or Ii It food. ' 1. With the manufacture of what commodity do you con nect "peeler logs 7 I 2. The dale of the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan was Dec. 7 of what year? 3. Which of these are not mammals - eel, whale, arma dillo, antcatcr, pigeon, stur goon, penguin? 4. Atlantic City. N.J., Is a summer resort only, and Is closed during the winter months; true or false? 5. If a cubic foot of water Is frozen, will Its volume as ice be greater or lets than a cubic foot? 8. With which major league baseball team did Lou Gehrig play? ; 7. Is a PT boat larger In tonnage than a destroyer? ' 8. Manell Antonio d e V a' rona was Interested In over throwing the government of what country? 1 9. In which large Eastern City is Grant s tomb? ' 10. What does the nam "Stalin" mean? ' Antwerst 1. Plywood. 2. 1941. 3. Eel. pigeon, sturgeon. penguin. 4. False. S. Greater. B. New York Yankees. 7. No. . Cuba. 9. New York City 10. Steel. Km TUE8DAY. JULY 30. 1963 "Watch Roscoe Fleming, poet, of those geniuses who have gone too long unhon ored. He is a frail man but he sings a big song, He sings the song of man. He finds man a most curious creature. And a most wonderful creature. And a most utterly self assured creature. He writes of man and the atom as one work and prays that man, the chemist, will not in the end blow himself through the roof of his own laboratory. H E WRITES, in What Mindful Of Him: I only hope the Lord will not find It necessary to post a (laming sign on the planet Visible from a parsec out: 'Closed temporarily for repairs, Will be open, completely refinished and under entirely new management In a comparatively short time, around 1,000,000,000 AD. The owner regrets any Inconvenience To which you, the public, may have been subjected.' Of man and his universe he says: He lives, and can live, only in a tenuous film of vapor, relatively thinner than the skin of a soap bubble, on the surface of his planet. He can exist elsewhere only by enclosing himself in an air bubble like a water insect. Take him two miles up, he begins to pant. Fasten him a foot under water, he drowns. The night has a thousand eyes with which to stare him down But he stands here and stares right back, and tells the stars: 'Watch for me; I'm coming!' HE TELLS of man looking out his window into trta nirrrir anrl inlinfinrr nino nlanota anrl ao.1f ing: "Only Nine?" And like the disappointed heir after the will is read, man says there must be some mistake that any Creation which could make so marvelous a product as man surely must have given more than a miserly nine planets; is not man the only son and heir of the Universe? Here Fleming has touched upon the three characteristics of man which set him apart and most seriously endanger him : His frailty, his self assurance, his magnificent, but misplaced, confi dence that he can go on forever, assured king of creation. He does look at the "Watch out for me ; I'm LflS limitations do not dull his curiosity and he fashions equipment which takes him outside that tenuous film of vapor and permits life, and the same goes for the depths of the oceans. He knows he has fashioned could destroy him but in says this will not happen and so he goes on cre ating even more deadly potions. Of man it once was said: "You can always tell a human being but you can t tell him much. Looking upon it all we have to ask : Was it a bil lionth of a second ago by the universe's clock or unimaginable eons when came into being? Will it ond or unimaginable eons before what is to be comes to pass? And will that ' what ing himself through the an interstellar creature who has staked the entire Universe as his privte domain? bacramento Bee. The Big News Many newspapers cross this desk. One that doesn't often show up appeared in the stack the other day. It was the Worker, ragged descendant of the old Daily Worker of New York. Its a frankly Communist sheet, and by no means a husky one these appeal, the Worker asks things in the capitalistic can't meet its capitalistic kick in. More impressive, however, was the "news." On Page 1 there is, besides the appeal for money, a nice story about the Russians lady astronaut, and, the big story, about guns and police dogs in Mississippi. Inside the 12-page paper, in column after column, appear articles about the American racial crisis. IT IS played up in an attempt to show what life is like in capitalistic America. As a propaganda job, it's not very good because it's too obvious. But it a a valiant try. This racial strife plays directly into Commu nist hand9. The way to lick the problem, how ever, is not to stop the eliminate the shameful tent. The Communists will poverty, and injustice. Zipped The ZIP program may work into something worthwhile. But a happening of the other day makes us wonder if it's working out iust the way Postmaster General Eddie Day envisioned it. The editor of the Corvallis newspaper sent a letter to the editor of the Bend paper. He in cluded the ZIP number. (Where ne got it we don't know.) It was postmarked in Corvallis. A second postmark was in Coos Bay. Obviously someone in the Corvallis Post Office got Bend and North Bend mixed up. Which is just the sort of thing the ZIP codes were supposed to make impossible. The Bulletin, Bend. for Me" author, teacher, is one Is Man That Thou Art stars and he does say: coming." the chemicals which his self assurance he this peanut of a planet be a billionth of a sec is to be be man blow roof of his laboratory, or days. In a large Page 1 for handouts. Such are system that the Worker bills unless its friends demonstrations, but to causes of Negro discon always exploit strife, Lugene Kegister-Cuard Again "Courage, Men, Till 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 views of tr-4 paper. In fact the contrary it often the case. 'Transportation Policy' To the Editor: The Kennedy Administration is accused of more than its share of tax stuffed "pork barrel" legisla tion. It also deserves credit for an outstanding piece of proposed legislation an nounced in the President s re peated transportation m e s- sages. The proposal is unique be cause it involves no billion dollar appropriation from earnings of future generations. It requires only the introduc tion of justice and fair play Into the unholy mixture of haywire economics and rotten politics known as "transpor tation policy." The over-regu lated railroads as well as shipping and traveling tax payers would benefit. Well oiled pressure groups of subsidy-pampered non-rail transport by airway, water way and highway are raising noisy objections. They refuse to give up their pound of tax payers' flesh! Are our Con gressmen's souls so dead that the voice of justice and fair play Is drowned out by the political clamor to spend John Doe's taxes to buy Richard Roe's vote? K. Fritz Schumacher, Former Stant Fe "Rail" 81 West Grand View Ave., Sierra Madre, Calif, Ptiliiom, Donations To the Editor: and all cit izens in the low income brac kets, our Oregon Legislature has voted that a $60 million tax grab is to come right out of your pockets. And even if your income is so low that you owe no tax at all, you 11 still have to pay a $5 filing fee just to file your return. Can you do anything about this tyrannical levy on your meager supply of dollars which you so desperately need for food and other neces sities of life? You bet you can. At this moment an Ore gon newspaper editor is mak ing the fight of his life for you against the "big spend ers" and selfish interests who are cramming this law down our throats. And you can help him. Write Immediately to Francyl Howard, Editor of "Greater Oregon", the Greater Oregon building, Albany, Ore., for a blank petition. Work fast ana quickly; get this petition fill ed. Be sure each person who signs Is a registered voter. when your petition Is filled, follow instructions which I'm sure will tell you to take It to the county clerk j office to have the names checked (I haven't received my petitions, yet). Just as soon as you can get the petition back from the county clerk mall It back to Editor Francyl Howard, or such other person as your In structions may designate. Each petition must contain 18 pages of the tax law plus cover and signature pages. Expensive? Yes. And our Edi tor Is a poor man, even as you and I. Send him a small donation, if you can spare It, to help with printing costs. The Enemy has delayed us In every possible way, hoping that there will not be cnouKh time left to get the 23.186 sood signatures required to put this tax law on the ballot Everything that can be none to cheat the voters out of their right to vote on this SrtO million tax grab will be done by Ihe "big spenders." Let s show them that they can't keep the people of Ort'Ron from exercising their Constt- tutional Rights. Now Is the time to act.. Send for your petition now. We must win, or our freedom along wilh our dollars will go down the drain. Tony Galll 1720 SW Bridge st. Grants Pass, Ore. MEDFORt) MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON the Cloud Come Back' i-terties.i-cpeK, Un-Americanitm To the Editor: What is "un- Americanlsm"? Is it deeply un-A merican" to advo- cate the abolition of the right of private property pluto cracy a government or state in which the wealthy class rules? If so, the American people made a mistake when they took the 13 colonies away from King George III. They erred a second time when they abolished chattel slavery in the South, thereby, in effect, destroying about two billion dollars' worth of slave property. If the American people have twice overthrown spe cies of property, they estab lished a precedent for the socialist demand that private ownership of the socially op erated means of production be abolished. American tradi tion rejects the theory that property, especially plutocra tic property, is sacred. There appear to be two kinds of "Americanism." One is spurious, being a reflection of property Interests. The other has Its roots deeply im bedded in American tradition and is in harmony with tne loftiest aspirations of the founders of our republic. The immortal document the Dec laration of Independence-spe-cifically declares that when ever any form of government becomes destructive to the ends of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, It is the right of the people to altur or abolish it, and to institute new government, providing new guards for their future security. Lydia Burnham 814 Warne st. Prescott, Ariz. Partake Discussed At Roundtable Event Of Medford C of C The operation of a firm dedicated to seeing small busi nesses succeed was discussed at the Monday noon luncheon of the Medford Chamber of Commerce roundtable. The national organization Is called Partake, and Its area director, Hal Hardin, has re cently opened a branch office in Medford at 1 King st. For the present, however, he will work mainly out of his Eu gene office. Hardin told the group that "3 out of 5 men who go into business for themselves fail within Just a few years." There are many excuses and reasons to explain the failures, Hardin said. "But the main question we should ask is, was the man suited in the first place for the business he entered?" Concern of Company The concern of Partake, he said, is that a man take In ventory of his aptitudes and abilities before he takes the initial step to open his own business. Typically, Hardin said, a man will come to Partake who is "not moving ahead or ful filling himself" In his present Job. If the man decides to en gage the services of the firm, the speaker said, Partake will compile a "profile" in note book form on him. The binder will Include all vital statistics on the man, In cluding such information as his educational background, his business experience, his extra professional activities, and other personal data. Given Series ol Toils Then Partake gives the ap plicant a series of test de signed to ascertain his skills nd preferences. He Is also asked to complete a question naire to reveal his potentials, i Britain's Conservative Government Changing By K. C. THALER United Press International London-flJPB-Britain's Con servative government is quiet ly switching around to Presi- dent Kennedy s plan for a mixed-manned, Polaris-equip ped nuclear surface force The shift is prompted by a revised appraisal of the in ternational situation and Ger many's future role in the al liance. British leaders who have beer, critical of Kennedy's multi-national force project now feel the Idea may prove the best way of securing West Jackson To Get $147 ,496 From Highway Revenue Salem (LTD Oregon's coun ties will get $3,122,409 as their share of state highway revenues for the quarter which ended June 30, Secre tary of State Howell Appling Jr. said Monday. Under state law the coun ties get 19 per cent of the col lections from motor vehicle registrations, gasoline taxes, motor carrier fees and fines for traffic violations. Distribution is made on the basis of the number of ve hicles registered in each coun ty. The shares include: Baker $30,861; Benton $60,- 319; Clackamas $193,823; Clat sop $42,433; Columbia $38,- 935; Coos $93,083; Crook $17, 922; Curry $26,763; Deschutes $47,407; Douglas $116,413; Gilliam $7,038; Grant $15, 054; Harney $13,782; Hood River $25,716; Jackson $147,- 496; Jefferson $18,223; Jo sephine $6,0,885; Klamath $92,- 221; Lake $15,085; Lane $307, 271; Lincoln $41,833; Linn $107,836; Malheur $43,243; Marion $204,610; Morrow $11,641: Multnomah $857,811; Polk $45,392; Sherman $6,636; Tillamook $31,442; Umatilla $87,731; Union $33,570; Wal lowa $13,937; Wasco $37,711; Washington $161,272; wneei er $4,088; Yamhill $60,906. Fred Meyer Chain Target of Order Washington - (UPD - The Fed eral Trade commission has tentatively ordered Fred Meyer, Inc., Portland, Ore., to cease what the agency charged was the Inducing of discriminatory price conces sions and production allow ances from suppliers. The FTC charged In Its or der that the 13-store super market chain received money or special services from cer tain suppliers to promote their products rather than those of competitors. Fred Meyer has 20 days in which to answer the charge. which can be developed, and his shortcomings, which can be improved. Three refer ences, who have known the applicant for some time, are also asked to complete the same questionnaire on the man. After these, and other data about the applicant, are com piled and analyzed, the pro file is "matched" with certain favorable job categories for which the applicant might be suited. He is asked to review the employment alternatives in light of his personal pref erences. Franchises Art Offered "We then offer him three business franchises," Hardin said, "but the applicant must be completely convinced about his choice before Par take will sell him a particular franchise." The speaker said his firm had a wide variety of business franchises available for the applicant to choose from, ranging from full-time opera tions to side-line selling of small items. After the choice of a fran chise is made, Hardin said his firm conducts an "in depth" industrial survey In the area in which the man will be op erating. Among other factors checked are the amount and nature of competing busi nesses. If the applicant Is short of capital. Partake can often make arrangements for assistance from certain in vestors. Even after Ihe man Is es tablished in his business, the area director maintains a "continuing relat I o n s h 1 p" with him, serving as a kind of liaison agent between the businessman and the manu facturer of the product he sells, Hardin said. Views on Germany's adherence to the Western Alliance. They are also coming around hesitantly to Ken nedy's view that the project of a mixed-manned nuclear NATO force may be the best way of stopping the spread of nuclear weapons. Maintains Cool Attitude The government intends for the time being to maintain publicly its cool attitude to the project, largely for inner political reasons and to silence the Laborite opposition before an election. But the Conservative gov ernment, if re-elected, will be inclined to take another look at the mixed-manned force project with a view to adopt ing it. British reaction so far has been negative to the plan for both political and technical reasons. Some of Britain's top ex perts have said the idea is not practical and that running a nuclear force with mixed crews would lead to friction and trouble. Matter of Fact (e) New York Herald THE NEW NEGRO LEADER Philadelphia - At the tu multuous recent convention of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored Peo ple, the able, veteran NAA CP leader, Roy Wilkins, confided to a friend, per haps a little wearily: "This J,nD is the vear of the revolution. The Young Turks are taking over." The most conspicuous of the Young Turks is almost certainly the new NAACP leader here in Philadelphia, Cecil Moore. Spend a few days here talking to people who know, the civil rights story in this city, with its typical Northern Negro ghet to. Then spend a few hours talking to Cecil Moore. You will learn that a profound change has come over the greatest single problem facing the U. S. at home. To begin with, the quite sudden emergence of Cecil Moore marks a sudden shift in style that speaks volumes in itself. The old style is typi fied by Roy Wilkins, whose quiet dignity, reasonableness in discussion, and personal trustworthiness could not be disputed by the most rabid Southern segregationist - if any such allowed himself to be exposed to Wilkins. T)UT whereas Wilkins is so ber, undramatic, and the very opposite of flashy, Cecil Moore is vivid, violent, in tensely dramatic, almost too highly-colored in everything he wears and says and does. His aim, plainly, is not to inspire confidence in his white interlocutors. His aim, rather, is to excite and stir his own people. To an extraordinary degree, he has done just that since he took over the NAACP leadership in Philadelphia just about a year ago. This vigorous ex-Marine was then a rather obscure figure - a defeated congressional candi date, a busy but not enor mously successful lawyer, a junior personage in the civil rights movement. When he assumed the lead ership here, the older estab lished NAACP was on the verge of losing its popular support in Philadelphia to the more militant Congress of Ra cial Equality. And a contest in militancy was the essence of the decisive episode in Moore's rise to power. ORE had picketed a city building project employ ing the rigidly segregated craft unions of the construc tion industry. The city had backed down. Whereupon Moore and the NAACP picket ed a comparable project of the Philadelphia school board. The school board did not back down. And days of violence and actual bloodshed ensued before the school board was forced to accept most of Moore's terms. Since that time, Moore has been waging an uninterrupted war on two fronts - against anti-Negro discrimination in all forms, but also against all older Negro leaders of Phila delphia who have not accept ed him as the unchallenged and unique spokesman and strategist of the Negro people here. Some of the aspects of this second war have been pretty bizarre. "You know how I deal with them," he said to me. with an enormous grin, when I asked him what he did about Communists trying to Infil trate his picket lines. "I just set the Amazons on them. If I used men, they'd yowl about Nuclear Force They also have argued that surface ships would be too exposed to enemy attacks and that at any rate the financing of the force would be too costly. Labor Party Opposed The Laborite opposition, which is divided on the ad visability of an independent British nuclear deterrent alto gether, Is strongly opposed to a mixed manned force which would give Germany a fin ger on the nuclear trigger. It rules out British participation in it. When Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan met here earlier this month they agreed that "various pos sible ways" should be discuss ed with the allies on closer as sociation of NATO members with the nuclear deterrent. The official communique spe cifically stated that discus sions in the mixed manned force would be "without pre judice to the question of Brit ish participation." Macmillan at the time in- By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate a 'goon squad. But some wom en are just as strong as men, so we've got us some Ama zons. By common consent, far from universally given with joy, Cecil Moore has attained his object. Among Philadel phia's Negro masses, at least, he is now accepted as a unique spokesman and strategist. His secret is to give the poorer Negroes, crowded in their hid eous slums, a sense of doors being battered open and ways of escape from their predica ment being provided by mam force. "TK WE weren't militant, the people wouldn't follow," he told me. "You've got to be militant, or you aren't a lead er nowadays." Moores militancy, which has so endeared him to the Negro masses, has also shock ed many people in the white community of Philadelphia, including a good many liberal white civil-righters for'whom Moore shows open contempt. Yet it is very clear indeed that other white communities besides Philadelphia are go ing to have to learn to live with Negro militancy. The shift in leadership-style which has appeared here in fact re flects a deep shift in the American Negro community's mood. Furthermore, the new lead er that the Philadelphia Ne gro communinty has now thrown up is a personality worthy . of his role. Cecil Moore's energy Is astonishing. His Courage is impressive. His wiliness is great, as those Amazons testify. He is not merely wily, either; he is ex ceptionally intelligent, and he passionately believes in his cause. i TN TRUTH, once Cecil Moore's militancy has been accepted as an inescapable fact, there are only two main questions about this interest ing man. He will certainly be sorely tempted to become a self-serving exploiter of his hold on his own people, in the manner of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell. Only time can tell whether Moore has the needed qualities to resist this temptation. Being the kind of man he is, Cecil Moore will also be greatly tempted to cross the fine line dividing militancy from excess, thereby damag ing his people and his cause by consolidating a hostile white majority. But once again, time alone can give the answer to this second ques tion, which Is so supremely important to the whole Negro movement. r1 1 NEIGHBORHOOD YfatJ k -UOUOR. "That's right, our group it threatening you with a boycoii. Take the girlie magasinas off ih rack, or we'll buy our boost tlstwhtrtl" sisted on the insertion of this clause, presumably to guard against Laborite insinuation that he had made any secret commitment to Kennedy. The official British line will to all appearances continue to remain reserved or even critical of the project, but the present government's thinking is cnanging. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises. Inc. SUMMER READING Autobiography is the easiest literary form in which to write, and the hardest in which to write well. Some of the most skill ed and pro found authors have writt e n the worst auto biogra phies. It in ter ested me, t h erefore, to turn. ' receive a nolo this week announcing the pub lication next winter of Lorcn Eiseley's autobiograph, "Ac quainted With the Night." I have long been an admirer of his writing, his thinking, and his special blend of science of humanities. If you are looking for sum mer reading that is both sub stantial and charming (in the deeper sense of the word), let me recommend any of Dr. Eiseley's books, and especial ly "The Immense Journey," and "The Firmament of Time." We live in a literary age of specialists on the one hand, and popularizers on the other. The specialists write in a de humanized jargon, and, tend to think in rigid categories. The popular izers, on the other hand, tend to be too vivid in their writing and too sloppy in their thinking. Few men in our time are able to bridge the gap between pre cise knowledge and graceful expression. C. P. Snow has made us aware of ihe chasm be tween what he calls the "two cultures" - the world of science and the world of the humanities. Whether his ultimate analysis is right or wrong, the fact remains that there is little communica tion between these two worlds: the scientist too oft en knows little about his tory and philisophy, and the humanist is either igno rant of, or actively hostile toward, scientific truths. As an anthropologist and a professor of ihe history of science. Dr. Eiseley is ad mirably equipped to span this chasm. He offers us a world-view (what the Ger mans so untranslaiably call a Welianeschauung) that is humane and flexible, neith er blindly committed to tra dition nor wildly infatuated with present and future achievements. This double strain of "the visible and the invisible" parts of man runs through all his books; not only the two I have mentioned, but also "Darwin's Century," "Francis Bacon and the Modern Dilem ma," and "The Mind of Na ture." There are passages or beliefs we might quarrel with; but there are none that do not stimulate us to further thought, that do not open doors and windows we have too long locked. Whether or not his autobi ography fulfills the promise of his earlier work - and I strongly suspect that 11 will -contemporary America is heavily in his debt already; and the best way we can re pay it is by preferring him over the specialists and the popularizers alike. l
