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WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 7, 1913 4 A """tveryone SooUiarn Oral ea Beada Tlx Mill Trtbuno" Published DUy except Stourday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 83 North Wit 8U fh.mM. ' ROBERT W RU HU Editor HERB GREV Advertlslnl Manaaet GERALD t LATHAM, Tlus Mir ERIC ALLEN JR, Mnl, Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN,Tli Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Ed tor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editoj DALE ER1CKSON. Circulation M' An Independent Newspapei Entered second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 187 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance .,.. Dally and Sunday 1 yaar IS.OO Daily and Sunday moa 10 00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moa 5.00 Sunday Only One year 5-00 Single Copy (Malledl 0o By Carnei And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year S21.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo L7J Sunday Only I mo. WW Carrier ana vcnaor yvyr Official Paper of City of Mffori OfflclalPaperofaaonCounty United Press International nil Leased Wire O. P 1 Telepholo Nswiplcturee MEMBER OF AUDIT BUMAU Advertising "'""uJlvl:.r, NELSON ROBERTS ft ASSOCI. a roc nMM. In Nm York. Chi- eago. Detroit, San Francisco Los Anielea. Seattle. Portland Denver. NEWSPAMI PUlllSHIII ASSOCIATION M ATI Oil At fDITOIIAl A5B0CMTWM J J Memner California Newipaper Publiihera Auociatlon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the flits of Tht Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO August 7, 1953 (Friday) During a summer thunder storm, cloud seeding pilots for the Rogue River Valley Traf fic association flew for four and one-half hours and be lieve they prevented damag ing hail from falling gener ally over the valley's peach and pear orchards, Fencing materials for the city of Rogue River's reser voir have arrived and installa tion will begin sometime this week. 20 YEARS AGO Auauit 7. 1943 (Saturday)! Kiwanis club collecting funds to send cigarettes to American servicemen over teas. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Your corr. has received a box of matches wrapped In a news paper from H. Fluhrer, the late demon baker. It Is from a faraway and censored land. We can't read the newspaper and the matches won't light." 30 YEARS AGO August 7, 1933 (Monday) County judge found guilty of ballot theft by Klamath county jury given four years In state prison. Opp mine near Jacksonville to re-open. 40 YEARS AGO August 7, 1923 (Tuesday) Many horses entered for county fair races. Memorial services for Pres ident Harding to be held at Page theater Friday. SO YEARS AGO -August 7. 1913 (Thursday) Central Point telephone company and Sams Valley telephone company pass test of blue sky law and given per mit to sell securities by cor poration commissioner. City council votes to Issue $26,250 street and sewer im provement bonds. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five er III is Ht, 1. The green coloring mat ter in plant cells is known as Ch-o-1? 2. If an actor's perform- ance Is mephitic, would it be outstanding, nauseous, or mediocre? 3. In what popular card game is there melding? 4. Name the merciless Jew- Ish money lender in Shake speare's "Merchant of Ven ice" who attempts to exact a pound of flesh. 5. Is Hansons disease an other name for tuberculosis, leprosy, or scurvy? 6. Hartford is capital of which state? 7. Bogota Is the capital of which South American coun try? 8. Name the author of the poem, "Hiawatha." .. 9. In bowling, how many strikes are necessary to roll a perfect score of 300? 10. Including four wisdom teeth, how many teeth com prise a full set in the adult? Answersi 1. Chlorophyll. 2, Nauseous. 3, Pinochle. 4. Shylock. 8. Leprosy. I. Con necticut. 7. Colombia. I. Henry Wadsworth Longfel low. A, 12 strikes. 10. 32. A Year Later Last summer about this time, one of the fa vorite topics of conversation along Medford's main street was the urgent necessity of doing something soon to revitalize the core area. Complaints were loud that the city adminis tration wasn't fulfilling what some businessmen felt was its obligation to start things moving. There was ominous talk that blight was gradu ally decaying the central business district and that unless drastic action was taken pretty quick ly, Medford might fall apart before our very eyes. Accusations of inefficiency and lethargy fill ed the air, and petty bickering was the order of the day. IN THE early fall, one of the first positive steps in some time was taken when a delegation, composed of downtown businessmen and city officials, took a trip to Pomona, Calif., to attend the U.S. Mayors' Workshop there and study that city s recently completed central business district. Those who made the ford full of enthusiasm which even at that early ing wonders, and for a while it seemed that a mall might be installed in Medford next Monday morning at 8 o clock. On their return, members of the delegation spoke before a number of service clubs and other organizations to explain what the Pomona lead ers, with a remarkable show of cooperation, had accomplished. Mayor James Dunlevy appointed a commit tee, chairmaned by Bob the Pomona delegation, general improvement of DUT then time passed as it has a way of doing in such matters and for a while nothing was heard about downtown Medford. And, for that matter, downtown Medford. Despite the dire predictions, however, it didn't disintegrate. The merchants didn't go out of business or file bankruptcy. Medford did not turn into a ghost town. Then, bit by bit. things began to happen. They went almost unnoticed at first because what happened was the result of individual action and not part of a concerted overall plan. -THE old church at the A Central ave. was torn parking lot. Mann's Department for an extensive remodeling project which in eluded an alley through and expanding across it now occupied by Western Thrift. The architectural firm remodeled a building at attractive Arcade design, which features a walk way running through to a Park and Shoo lot at the rear, is now nearing Plans were announced the remodeling of the Snider's Dairy building, 28 North Bartlett st. Tentative designs call for conversion of the structure into an office and small shop building, perhaps built around a walk way of some kind through the center of the property. DUT one of the brightest, most hopeful develop- ments of all was the creation of a downtown off-street parking assessment district to finance construction of parking lots on the sites of the old Federal building at Sixth st. and Central ave., and the Hanson and Field's buildings on North Bartlett st. Some of the most vocal critics of the down town situation a year ago had argued that the principal reason for the decline of activity in the core area was the shortage of off-street parking. Those same spokesmen had also been sharply critical on numerous occasions of the city admin istration for its failure to alleviate the situation Interestingly, however, it was the city admin istration particularly City Manager Robert Duff ana uty Attorney William Mansfield which was the prime mover in formation of the off street parking district and in negotiations which led to acquisition of the new parking lot sites. CNCOURAGING, too, is the optimistic discus- " sion one hears these a civic center, including needed new city hall, in the area adjacent to the Jackson county courthouse. A group from' this area traveled to Eugene about two weeks ago to tour the civic center there and hold discussions with Eugene and Lane coun ty officials on how the development was brought about. Any such grand scale project here would depend in large measure on close cooperation be tween citv and eountv officials, huh sn far mpm- bers of the county court off the record on whether opment. We can't imagine that they Id be snort-sighted enough to oppose it, how r. fctill Jacking, and still ter plan for a coordinated redevelopment of the entire core area of the city. Pleased as we are with all that has happened, we would urce that steps be taken as soon as a redesign scheme for the downtown area shoppers mall in the trip returned to Med for the mall concept, time seemed to be work Taylor, a member of to develop a plan for the downtown area. nothing was done about corner of Fifth si. and down and turned into a Store announced plans the middle of the block to take over the space of Edson and Pappas 128 East Main st. The completion. about a month ago f or days about creation of construction of a badly have managed to stay they favor such a devel badly needed, is a mas possible to commission -G.H.B. "Want To Transfer pmrr? Am Mii ITT tt n r i i mi rnk. 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 tha right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter, submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Tha letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent tho views of tr paper. In fact the contrary la often Smoking To the Editor: A hospital is a place where the sick are to be treated and brought back to health. It is surprising that the ones in this valley not only permit smoking in a sick room, but have cigarette vending machines in their halls. It is not only against the law for anyone under 18 years of age to buy or smoke, but children have access to these machines. Now I hear some smokers crying, "You want to take away our rights." Not at all. If the smokers insist on dam aging their bodies, taking a chance of ulcers, lung cancer or emphysema (which is in curable) they have that right, if they smoke in their own homes or a group of smokers wish to gather and blow the smoke into each other's eyes and faces, that's their privi lege. But they do not have the right to infringe on the rights of the non-smokers by filling the buses and other public places by robbing them of the pure air. Recently coming from Port land on a Greyhound bus we were pleased lo hear the driver Inform the passengers of (he Oregon law of no smoking in the bus. Not only was it the law but they were making it unpleasant for the non-smokers. The sad thing was he had to remind them frequently. Hats off to driver E. A. Barnes. "You smoke?" O, yes, of course I do; The man who doesn't, wom en, too. Can scarcely live where smokers be, And still not smoke to some degree; If not a willing smoker, Still he smokes their smoke Against his will. Air he must breathe, and she must too, E'en though that air be Thick and blue The fumes may sicken Him or her; No hint they lake, no cause infer: But should he disapprove the plan. Would he then be a gentle man? And so I smoke-you under- stand 'Tis not from choice, But second hand. Mrs. Ernest Santo 204 Lozier lane Medford. General Welfare To the Editor: Where oh where is the general welfare? Let us review the evidence lo strive to determine the an swer. Are votes and selfish in terest the motivating incent ive of politicians and con gressmen? Does anyone think that the general welfare was considered when the Civil Rights mess was caused by a faulty decision of the Su preme Court in 1954 and by support oi several congress men and Ihe President? That unfavorable situation has f.ir nishrd Ihe thousands of Com munists in this country an op portunily to apply their usual tactics to stir up and further the trouble to show the U.S. up in a bad light to the rest of the world. That is going on while the politicians are play ing for votes. Washington one - worlders arc having an international Roman holiday with foreign aid, United Nations, Alliance For Progress, New Frontier. Peace Corps and olhcrs. All of those Congessional fantas tic brain storms are not only shrinking t h e purchasing power of the dollar hut the value of all other assets in buying power. The taxpayers' money in stead of being wasted abroad could well be applleij to rem-1 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON To My School, Kid?" the caso. cdy some of the afflictions that exist here at home. Num ber One, raise the national average of 40 per cent recov ery in mental hospitals to the 80 per cent record attained by the Kansas State Hospital by providing an adequate staff to care for the patients. Number Two, provide an adequate staff to give treat ment to emergency cases in the emergency rooms of reg ular hospitals where thou sands die from lack of immed iate treatment and proper care. Number Three, provide re form schools or farms to re habilitate juvenile law break ers instead of remanding them to delinquent parents, which encourages criminal acts as the culprit knows that he can get away without punishment. Under our present system ju venile crime hag increased more than 50 per cent in ten years. Suggested remedies: No money shall be drawn from me treasury nut in conse quence of appropriations made by law and a regular statement and account of re ceipts and expenditures shall be published from time to lime. Another remedy, give the people more control of the purse strings. Another, more interest of the people in the affairs of government from top to bottom. Another, more Americansm and less in ternationalism. If Congress can reduce taxes without reducing spend ing, applying suggested rem edies should be a simple mat ter. Ed Black, 2573 Camp Joy rd., Grants Pass, Ore. Strictly Personal By Sydney (ci Field Enterprises ln. HAND TALKING I remember a little street cafe in the Piazza dclla Re publica in Florence, where I was sipping a vermouth lale one after noon, and lis tening to an argument a t the table next to mine. A small bird like man with an intense i,,r,,. face was try ing to convince his compan ion that the coalition govern- t meni in naiy was iuu un-viiip- ctenl to last - diu wnai ias cinated me was not so much the logic of his argument (which 1 could barely follow) as the eloquence of his hands. Never before or since have I seen such artistry. His hands were as magnificently attun ed to his speech as a conduc tor's to a symphony. He had a vast repertoire of gestures, an almost endless variation of waves, points, tremors, laps and clenches. Many times since, I have thought of this verbal vir tuoso, and have contrasted him with conversationalists in the colder Anglo Saxon countries. It seems to me that we loose a lot. in charm and gusto, by being ashamed to use our hands as an accompaniment to speech. The body, after all, is a unit: the mind and tongue cannot work independently of the whole organism. In tellectual passion increases the heartbeat; arguments raise the blood pressure: deep convictions brighten the eye and harden the jaw. Our restraint is not na tural to the human aaimali 23? J Fear of 'Isolation7 Beginning To Mount Among French; De Gaulle Remains Aloof By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press International Paris-fUPD-The fear of "iso lation" is beginning to haunt many Frenchmen. They are asking whether President Charles de Gaulle s go-it-alone policies are nut leaving France far out on a limb. De Gaulle has turned down the partial nuclear test ban agreement which was signed by the United States, Great Britain and Russia in Moscow on Monday. He has rejected bluntly So viet Premier Nikita Khrush chev's proposal for an East West non-aggression pact. There will be an empty chair again-France's chair-in Moscow this week when U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, British Foreign Secretary Lord Home and Soviet For eign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko get together to dis cuss a lot of cold war issues some of them issues in which France is vitally inter ested. The word "isolation" for De Gaulle's present "include-me-out" foreign policies was used by one of the Fourth Republic's most respected politicians last week former Premier Rene Pleven. Pleven did not take De Gaulle too sharply to task for it. In fact, he suggested that "isolation" might be good tac tics if you know just when to come in off your limb. But his use of the word betrayed anxiety. The right wing newspaper L'Aurore voiced considerably more concern. It pointed out that, in addition to boycotting To Be First Lady, Get Forgotten 6 Arthur Heppe By ARTHUR HOPPE Good morning, friends in lelevisionland. It's time once again for another romantic episode of "The Rocky Road to Happiness," the heart-tugging story of Rocky Nelson and his search for the answer to that burning question which concdrns us all: Can a young-man of 54 find, love? And still be President? As we join Rocky today he is all alone in his romantic New York penthouse with his romantic new bride, Hysteri cal O'Brien. Plus 17 rides, assorted wall charts, a slide projector, several IBM com puters and the Nation's pre cinct lists. Aide: It's no good, chief. It just isn't blowing over the way we figured. We keep feeding the data into kahal, UNIVAC and Dr. Joyce Broth ers, but it always comes out the same: Every lady in the land still wants you. Drawn and quartered. J. Harm it is conventionally impos ed. But beneath ihe soft tone and the motionless arms there often churn much heat and scorn and indignation, which smolder sullenly until bursting into hate. It it no accident that the quiet and seemingly controlled person is often, ultimately, tha most vio lent. It is common to see Italians, or other Latins, argue so in tensely that you are sure they are going to exchange blows in a minute. They rarely do: the tension is broken by a laugh, and they walk off arm in arm. It is a kind of psycho logical game, played within strict rules, and the players almost never violate the un spoken code, which is: hit with your words, not with your fists. Where this kind of conver sational release is not ob tained, and where the culture frowns on great emotional ex pressiveness, people are more sensitive in argument. When you attack an American's ideas, he feels you are at tacking him personally, and is filled with resentment. He cannot stand, or understand, a heated controversy that may be personal inexprcssion but is quite abstract and ob jective in nature. This may explain why, un- fortunately, so much of our social conversation is polite and vapid; we are afraid of starting a verbal fight, for we don t have the kind of ! formalized and built - in con trols to prevent it from de generating into a physical fight. A man who is busy talking with his hands has neither the energy nor Ihe incentive for hitting with Ihem. d. the Moscow nuclear pact and the talks that follow it this week, De Gaulle still is in difficulties with his European Common Market partners by continuing to veto Britain's admission. Now Aurore said, De Gaulle also faces the prospect that his great and good friend West German Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer and, even more likely, Adenauer's successor, Ludwig Erhard, may side with the United States and Britain rather than with France on such issues as nu clear testing and integrated defense forces in the North Atlantic Alliance. De Gaulle himself has held his peace in the face of these expressions of concern He has withdrawn behind the tall brick walls of his country home at Colombey- les-deux-Eglises for the month of August, leaving the world -and his fellow Frenchmen to speculate where he i headed. One thing he did make clear, however, in his news conference last week that he would not sit by and let the United States and Britain make a deal with the Soviets involving the future of Eu rope, and particularly of Ger many, without his consent. He did not specify what he might do in the event they attempted such a deal. He merely warned bluntly that he would not accept any deals made over his head. In fact, it might be just the threat of such a deal without him that would bring De Gaulle out of his diplomatic isolation. Rocky (gloomily): Thanks a thou, fella. If only we could repeal Ihe 19th Amendment. Hysterical (pirouetting across the room and plopping into Rocky's lap): Oh,, Darling, tell me our undying love has not ruined your career. Rockyi Fella, you're unfor gettable. Hysterical: Oh, what a beau tiful .thing to say. ' Rocky: But we're working on it. Hysterical: Oh, what can I do to help salvage your shat tered life as your new soul mate? Rocky: Well, first of all, you could put on your shoes. And roll down the cuffs of your jeans. And . . . Aide: The hairdresser's here, Chief. Hysterical: (excitedly): Oh, a new coiffure! Shall I be an exotic brunette? Or a sensual platinum blonde? Or . . . Rocky: No, actually we've worked up a brand new shade for you. It's called "Mousey". Hysterical: Mousey? Rocky: Don't worry, fella. Only our hairdresser will know. And here's the new wardrobe we've designed for you. How do you like this stunning mouse-grey bomba zine? Aide (critically): The neck line's a bit low. Chief. I'm afraid her Adam's apple may show. Rocky: We'll add a lace ruffle. (To Hysterical) Now run off, fella, and come back a all-new woman. Oh, and here's a keepsake we bought you at Tjiffany's: gold-rimmed spectacles. Hysterical: Oh, Dearest, I only hope the all-new me will make you happy. For all I wish to do in life is stand for ever by your side. Rocky: Thanks a thou, fel la. And speaking of standing by my side, hcnccfcr'.i, when you see the photographers coming, would you kind of edge back in the crowd? And maybe duck down as though you'd dropped something? (Hysterical vanishes with the hairdresser and mo diste while Rocky packs for his 50-State non-p o I i t i c a 1 speaking and bumper strip distribution tour. Al last Hysterical returns, a drasti cally changed woman ) Rock (absently): Can we help you there, fella? Hysterical: Rocky, il is I! Hysterical. Rocky: Hysterical w h o? Now look, fella, let go of my coattails and stop sobbing. (To his aides) Toss her out gently, fellas. She may be somebody's grandmother. Will the Public Forget Rocky's New Bride in Time? In Time for the New Hamp- slure Primaries? Tune in to or very next episode, folks. Meantime, as you go down the byways of life, friends, remember. In back of every great man in public life stands a woman who lnvri him. And usually the farther backt'ghgg. Qjf Today & Tomorrow By Walter c 1963. The A TROUBLED SENATOR Between the first step, the partial test ban, and any significant second step, there is a great dif ference. The nuclear agree ment could be made and in deed had to be m a d e be tween Moscow and Washing ton, the only two full fledged nu in the world. LlppmanB clear powers But any significant second step is bound to deal with some concrete issues which affect immediately and direct ly other countries, none of them as yet at least genuine nuclear powers, but most of them, particularly France and West Germany, having great political power. Mr. Harriman and Mr. Khrushchev could negotiate a nuclear test ban, and neith er China nor France could interpose a veto. But when Mr. Rusk and Lord Home deal with second steps-be it a non aggression pact, Berlin, se curity arrangements in Cen tral Europe-they can go no further than the French and West Germans will allow them to go. By the same token, Mr. Khrushchev can do little about Laos, Viet Nam, Korea or India, because in Eastern Asia it is Red China and not the Soviet Union which is the dominant power. IT MAY BE, therefore, that the most useful thing that could be done in this Moscow conference of foreign minis ters would be to seek a thorough mutual understand ing of the problem of agree ments which include the two coalitions. The fact of the matter is that the United States and Great Britain -that is to say "the Anglo-Saxons"-can make no deci sions for the European conti nent and that the Soviet Union can make none for Eastern Asia. In regard to the treaty which was signed Monday, there are clearly visible op ponents, Ihi Red Chines e; there are visible the abstain ers, n o t a b ly General De Gaulle; and there is an Amer ican group, its size as yet un defined, which hates to vote for the treaty and would much rather, if it could, vote against it. - The Chinese are fiercely op posed to any Soviet agreement with the United States. They hate especially the test ban which goes a long way toward eliminating nuclear weapons in the cold war. The Gaullist line, on the other hand, is very different from that of the Chinese. The general does not object to an agreement with the Soviet Union. On the contrary, he looks forward to one. His point is that the agreement should not be negotiated by the Anglo-Saxons with Mos cow, but, when France is suf ficiently armed, by France plus West Germany. rpHE FEELINGS of the American dissenters are more akin to Ihe Chinese op position than lo the French position. At bottom, the American dissenters do not like, they instinctively distrust, they very much fear anything that can be agreed to between the Communist empire and the Western alliance. To ask them to forget the atrocities and the deceptions of the cold war seems to them unrealistic, soft and dangerous. For them, even the faintest glimmer of peace is to talk of peace much too soon. It is like asking the French in 1945 to embrace the "Fallout from testing doesn't against the test ban treaty, year c$i!ll usl" m fs lis llppminn Washington Post Germans, or the German refugees from East Prussia to forgive the invading Russians, or the Russians to trust Hit ler's generals in the West German army, or the Arabs and the Israelis to sign a peace treaty. In this connection, there i Sen. Henry M. Jackson's arti cle in the New York Times on Sunday. The senator :s one who expects, so he seefns to say, to vote for the treajy. But he hates to do it and' is waiting for something to turn up in the hearings and tha debate which will enattla him to vote against the treaty. In the meantime, he is trou bled by "seven assumptions" which he thinks are false and may be misleading us. . AN IMPORTANT fact about the seven misleading -as-sumptions is that none -c! them was made by the admin istration in negotiating tha test ban treaty on which tha senator will now have to vota for or against. The senator's seven assumptions are drawn not from the deliberations 'of the administration, but aro out of the more naive letters which come to him in his mail and by the popular talk which he hears around him. Thus, (1) the United Slafes did not agree lo a partial test ban because it is assuming; "that the Chinese-Soviet quar rel reduces the Communist threat to the West." Although it is quite true that the quarrel does reduce the power of inter national Communism, that is not the reason we agreed t6 a treaty which is based on So viet acceptance of a proposal first made by President Eisen hower and then repeated by President Kennedy. It is not true that the Ken nedy administration negotiat ed the treaty because (2) it assumed that "we can win our way with Russians with a policy of inoffensivencss." While our policy should cer tainly not be "offensive," tftat has nothing lo do with the test ban treaty. ' As for the third misleading" assumption (3) "that the arfns race is leading s I r a i g h 'lo catastrophe," the test ben treaty does not pretend to eiid the arms race. r. ' x rpHEN, (4), "a test ban will halt the spread of nuclear weapons." This is not an s- sumption of the treaty. lr-is a hope which it is perniis- sible to have and lo work fpr. next, to; "a test ban agree ment will necessarily (empha sis mine) lead to growing El Wcst confidence and redurjbd tensions." I have heard of no body from the President down who has used the word "necps- saruy or wno dares to tnuiK that anything good will hap pen necessarily. j The next one (6) has to io with the use of conventional weapons in the Cuban shojiv down last year. II has nothftif; whatever to do with the test ban treaty. 'J Finally, Senator JacksorF is deeply troubled because 4ia has heard people say (7) lljat our national policies shouldjie more "flexible." The senator is, however, willing to be "5e silienl." But he docs not y whether in the test ban treaty we have been flexible or Je silicnt. I would have supposed we had been resilient in that we are not banning nuclelar tests which cannot be af fectively inspected. That is what we have been talking about from the beginning, i OINCE ANYONE who knqy s Senator Jackson w o uy d like to respect him, he should try again to make up his mind. He now owes us another arti cle addressed not to a colRc lion of naive assumptions, out to the particular treaty which is now going to the' Uniffed States Senate. v bather me. but if via vote-' the political fallout next J S
