Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 12, 1963, Image 4

Historic Oregon Newspapers

Medford mail tribune., August 12, 1963, Image 4

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1963)

Prev Page of 20 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (2.9 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Prev Page of 20 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page TextMONDAY. """ivaryone In soutnem 6res oa lU.dl The Mall Tribune" ISibltihed Dally ncMtSaturdty by MEUTORD PBiNTWO CO. ; 83 North m 8t, Ph. TO-SU1 . ROBERT" W R0HL. Editor HERB GREY Advertllln MlWIU GERALD T LATHAM. ERIC W ALLEN JR Mnr EoltW EARL H ADAMS. City Editor MARRY CHIPMAN. T.1.I Editor' RICHARD JEWETt. Sportt Ed tor DALE ERICKSON. ClrculmUoB MoT An maapenaeni nwp.j. Entered u second clan matter el Medford. Oregon undtr Act of ' March 3, li7 SUBSCRIPTION RATEI . Dally and Sunday 1 '"'MX Ti.ilw mnA Sunday 3 moe. SAO Sunday Only pna year 85.00 ' Slnil. Copy (Maiiedl 300 By Carrier And Motor Route ' rv.ii. .no Sunday 1 tno 1.7s Sunday Only 1 mo. sea I Carriol a ad Vendor! jCopr IOC Of tidal Paper of Jatmoiy County United preaa inwrnewwiw lull Leaied Wire O P ITelephotoNewplcturea Anvertinni nr"2."v""T eafo. Detroit. San rraricteco, Lot Angeiea. " - . . . - - - Denver. , jr MiwirAni . PUdltHIII J VAIJOCIATIOM itajnner CallfornU Newi paper Publlahere Anociation Flight o' Time Medford and Jackion County Hirtory from the filet of The Mail Tribune 10,. 20. 30, 40 and SO yn ago. t. i 10 YEARS AGO Aug. U. IMS (Wednesday) . Medford Architect Ben H. Todd has been retained by the Jackson county court to draw plant lor an annex to the county courthouse, t ws announced today. ' ' David Don, public utllltlea - ,..i.,'. rhlcf end- TOIIIIlltSDiv. - - . - ...in rmiM. at m near ing In Medford Aug. U Into application or mibw" KU11 unv. , i. ra an average oi about 20 per cent In Oregon to bring in an enunawo '459,000 a year. 20 YEARS AGO J Aug. 12, 1M3 (Thursday) Supplementary fire light ing equipment received here from federal government. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Re ports from the rural regions say some newlyweds were caught unawares recently and ruthlessly thlvaretd by friends," 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 12, 1M (Sarurdsr) ) L. A. Banks local agitator convicted ol murder, to be sentenced Monday, Motion lor new trial denied. Price for early tomatoes fixed at tlx cenU per pound here. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 12 1923 (Sunday) Ice cream wagon horse stages runaway on Riverside ave. ' Fair and warmer, high 05, low 54 degrees. 50 YEARS AGO Aug. 12, 1913 (Tuesday) . Assistant state highway en glneer here to head survey work for new road over sis kiyou mountains. Chris Hanson appointed county sealer ol weights and measures. Whal's Yoar I.Q.? Nine or ten cornet It wearier; seven or eie It aeajlent; tre or til it food. ' 1. With which President do you asociate the slogan, "Back to normalcy ; 2. The U.S. was the first country to grant nation-wide Suffrage to women, true or lalse? f 3. Asuncion Is the capital of which Latin American coun try? 4. A million is how many thousand? 5. Are sheep born with long or short tails? 6. With what activities do you associate a peavy; a taw? i 7. The movement Uial led to the organization of the Confederate States of Amer ica was begun in which south' tin state? 8. The epithet, "the nine old men," was once applied to Which body of officials? i 9. What is the capital of South Dakota? j 10. What is a corsair? Answersi 1. Warren G. Harding. 2. False. 3. Paraguay. 4. 1,000. 5. Lena Tails. 9. Log. ging and marbles. 7. South Carolina. 9. VS. Suaroma 4 A Court. I. Plena. 10. Ptrale, ?. ..,. f .... ,.. AUGUST 12, 19S3 Bad Medicine A weekly newspaper publisher at Albany, J. Francyl Howard, has . . signatures on pennons wnicn can iuv special election on the tax program enacted by the 1963 Legislature. The petitions are in circulation. He and his assistants will nave to get in excess oi i, 000 valid signatures daily. The odds are in favor of Howard getting enough signatures. Many people will sign a peti tion without being sure what it says. Others will sign any petition because they think an election is a desirable procedure. Others will sign any pe tition that refers a tax measure because they op pose all taxes. It is important in this case, we think, that Oregonians understand all the possible conse quences of signing a petition. IN THE first place, a special election would be vow onstlv. Rnr. that is the least imnortant of j . several considerations. Much more important is the result of an elec tion that rejected the Legislature's tax program. If that occurred the governor could reduce budg ets the necessaiy amount to bring expenditures into balance with income, or he could call the Legislature into special session to wrestle with the problem.. It is a virtual certainty he would call the Leeislature back. He would not want to take a responsibility he could i SPECIAL session of the Legislature would be verv costly. The results of a special session could be very painful. The same people who pre pared the tax program would be faced with going over all of the same ground again. ; What would they come up with It isn t like ly they would develop a program that would be in the nature of tax reform. They had ample op portunity to do that through some 150 days this year and muffed it. It follows, then, that either enact a' handful substantially reduce appropriations for education. A QUICK way out for tn vorliipo tho atatp'a w -... w tribution. Speaker of the has suggested that that would be the easiest way. What would be the school districts would either have to increase their revenues through special duce their expenditures. If revenue at the local level were increased it would have to come from higher property taxes. The tax program enacted by the 1963 Legis lature leaves much to be desired. But the conse quences of living with it more pleasant, we think, legislation at a special session would be. We urge you to keen your pen in your pock et when the petitioners vinced that a special election would be bad medi cine. East Oregonian, Pendleton. Vignette It was one of those Oregonians. The dignified, i well - middle-50s stood quietly near the cash register in the Oakridge restaurant. After quite a while, the waitress stopped her booth-hopping to ask if she could do something for him. "Do you serve colored e THE waitress! either wasn't prepared for the nilfOstinn m didn't Viaqi an ha oal-nrl - "Will you serve me and my family here, please," came the low voice. "Oh, sure," came the surprised answer. Out to the car with the Texas plates went the man, to return with two Negro women and a youngster. They sat in a booth and ordered and then ate quietly. rID the waitress know discrimination Maybe so, maybe no. We'd rather think an people get hungry on the road and its her job to serve them. D.H.S. in the Eugene Register-Guard. Anniversary of the Wall A look at the Berlin Wall, stalled hv the Communists two years ago tomorrow, shocks even the most sophisticated observer. Travelers to West Berlin say nothing really prepares one for this sight. Minutes after mounting a stand near the Brandenburg Gate on June 26 to gaze across the hideous barrier, a shaken President Kennedy declared: "There are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can nists.' Let them come to This was only 16 days after the President's speech on world peace at American university. He had told the American people "not to fall lLA A.. MH , 1 O . 1 . . , f.. mtu uic ounie iiaij us me a distorted and desperate not to see conflict as inevitable, accommodation as impossible," and advised : "Let us re-examine our attitude toward the Soviet Union." The views from the rolling campus of American University a.ivi owiuoo UOOb JJCI 1111 O WL'llirilfUlUVA II1UI1SI I US' ity are of different orlds, E.R.R. i until Sept. 1 to get 23,185 ...L.'.L 11 t place upon them. the Legislature would of special taxes andor the Legislature would be haair aphnnl snnnni'f rnn. rr-" House Clarence. Barton result of that Local elections or sharply re through a biennium are than another round of call on you. We. are con. scenes so unfamiliar to dressed gentleman of people here?" the Oregon law prevents that she just believes that work with the Commu Berlin." ouvieis, nui iu see uiiiy view of the other side. MEDFORD "Who Needs It? We're StUI Moving, Aren't We?" Strictly Personal y Sydney fev Held EnUrprlMi. lne. INTANGIBLES Among the tens of thou sands of business failures in the U.S. each year, the great majority are small retail They fail, in my opinion, large ly because the owners are more concern ed with com modities than Barrl- with C U s t O- mers. It is In making face-to-face contact with the custo mer that the averase mer chant is short-sighted to the point of near bllndedness. While he is involved in prob lems of inventory and quality and pricing, he pays little at tention (il any) to the mood and atmosphere of his shop. . Yet it is these intangible psychological factors that, more than any other, deter mine whether a customer will return or not. If a restaurant hostess is obtuse and surly, if a cashier Is unpleasant or un responsive, the quality of the food or the price will not en courage a customer to come back. e e e . '-Today's consumer it a goed deal mere . sophisti cated than in the past. Ha knows that stores charging about the same price offer about the same grade of merchandise. And his de cision to patronise one rather than another rests mostly upon his feelings as a human being, not upon his calculations as an eco nomic unit. ' A good hotteti In a res taurant, for 1 nit a nee, is worth two or three timet what the cuttomarily makas - and if she isn't good, even the smallest salary is too large. Likewise, a sloppy waitrett, a sullen salosclerk. can In a few minutes, ne gate whatever glowing "pol icy" the proprietor has evolved over the years. Actually, a retail estab-' lishment Itself is, in psy chological terms, the basic "commodity" the merchant is selling. II is the total at mosphere of a shop that the customer "buys," more than the Items in the inventory. There is a shop in my neigh borhood that a number of housewives, quite indepen dently of each, decided not to patronize some time ago. Each woman gave much the same reason: the "attitude" of the owner was displeasing to COMMUNICATIONS Cold Notes, Warm Haartt To the Editor: The Sanctu ary, a refuge for homeless dogs on an old hill-farm, comes again with asking hand. I, who am the staff, take new courage as Summer comes over the land. First, I would like you to know how responsible I feel in the use of the things you have sent and how much comfort they have given. We need food (of any sort), old blankets (or pieces), old sheets and towels. Just about anything can find a place here and will be used with care and appreciation. Cold noses and warm hearts remember! Louise Wood The Sanctuary, Route 2. Wilbur rd., Martinsville, Ind. You Were Saying? To the Editor: I was highly amused at your editorial con cerning the National parks. You do not like the idea of the parks being support by MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON imp vuitjar3B, rW J. Harris them. It had nothing to do with his prices or the quality of his merchandise; yet to his dying day, he will never un derstand what in his "policy" prompted them to go else where. It is hard for a per sonality to detect his own bad breath. The greed, the inflexibility, the total lack ol imaginative ness among the small shop keepers, make it something of a minor miracle that so many of them do manage to survive. The public is slow to anger and slow to change - but once its loyalty is alienated, it can never be won back by any means. A friend ol mine who heads a large industrial concern has estimated to me that as high as 70 per cent of the retailers who sell his merchandise have no business being In business. They may know a lot about products," he said, "but most of them know absolutely nothing about people - and don't care to learn." It Is probably some kind of cockeyed tribute to the essen tial viability of the capitalis tic system that it continues to do so well even with the in eptness of so many of its entrepreneurs. In the Day's News Ey FRANK As this is written, there is ONE big story. It is as old as mankind. It is the great leveler. It reminds us that we are all human beings, living TO GETHER on this ball, spin ning through space, that we call The Earth. WITH that, let s leave it. It is a story that mere words can't tell. tIROM Cheddington, Eng 1 la land: A gang of masked bandits ambushed a mail train near here and escaped with at least $2.8 MILLION in cash and gems. Working with clocklike precision, they pulled off the world's greatest train robbery in just IS minutes. There were reports that the haul may be as much as $8 million, but the official esti mate stands as $2.8 million. SHADES of Robin Hood! And Dick Turpin. And Jesse James. That is more money than the three of them-rated as perhaps the greatest robbers of all time-hi-jacked in all of their lives-one reason being that back in their days there all the taxpayers when only a few take advantage of them. May I remind you that we all pay taxes for the fire de- oartment, but only a few ben eflt. We all pay the same for a driver's license, whether we drive 1,000 miles a year or S.0000. All hunters pay the same for a license. One man gets a deer, another docs not. We all pay taxes to sup port city, county, and state offices under the same terms. Finally, every single tax payer In the United States is financing a rocket to the moon. Tell me, Mr. E. A., how many of us are going to take the trip? How many of us are going to take the trpl? You were saying, Mr. E.A.? R. A. Tilley 707 West 11th st. Medford. Editor s note: E.A. was say ing 'that those who use our parks should be willing to pay a larger share of the cost than those who don't. 4 Foreign News: Quiet Optimism For Ecumenicism; Outlook for By WILLIAM J. FOX United Press International Notes from the foreign news cables: Quiet Optimism There is quiet optimism in Matter of Fact ty JM..h am. (e) New York Herald (Joseph Alsop will be on vacation this month - and gathering malarial both in this country and abroad for future columns. During his absence, top members of the staff of the New York Her ald Tribune will substitute for him.) By TOM LAMBERT THE LONG BORDER London - The shrill and astonishing spectacle of the Russians calling the Chinese Communists warmongers, and the Chinese howling cowards at the Russians still causes some bewilderment here. But even as they rip into each other in print and by microphone, using words, charges, and terms which even Stalin and Tito did not .em ploy and which seemingly should call for a complete break In relations, the Rus sian and Chinese Communists still have at least five , links in common. Moscow and Peking still maintain tenuous but traying Communist party relations. It is difficult to see how these can be continued when the two parties diverge so widely on some ideological funda mentals - but not the basic one. The two countries still maintain diplomatic relations. But if their dispute deepens as expected, some observers here would not be surprised if the Chinese and Russian embassies in Moscow and Pe king were reduced in proto col stature to missions. R' U S S I A and Communist China still have some eco nomic ties and trade relations, but the Chinese, enraged by reduced Soviet aid, technical help, and commerce, seem to be trying to shrink them as quickly as possible. But two of the Moscow- Peking links are not expected to shrivel like the other three. Despite Russia's seeming show ol amiability in signing a partial nuclear test ban as advantageous to Moscow as to the West and obtained at JENKINS wasn't that much money to be taken. The world gets bigger and bigger. Whether it gets better and better is open to discussion. U.S., Secretary of State Rusk is much in the news these days. His pictures are in the papers and on the TV screens all over the world. Reading the recent news, one comes to the conclusion that maybe the pictures don't do him justice. They give an impression of solemnity and a touch of stuffiness. WHY this judgment? " Well, day before yester day, the news columns tell us. Secretary Rusk found himself free for the moment of the heavy burdens of statecraft. So he left Moscow and went up to Leningrad, formerly St. Petersburg, to do little sightseeing. In Peterhof Palace, the for mer home of the czars, he be came intrigued with the fairy tale fountains of the ancient palace. He says he has a personal use for one of them-an Inno cent pile of rocks from which a spray spurts when a but ton is pressed, some distance away. "I could use one of those jn my office," he said after his visit to Peterhof, "to get rid of visitors 1 haven't time to see." HE WANDERED on through the fabulous old palace (apparently just strolling around all by his lonesome). and came to another fountain mat snoots a spray onto a bench at irregular intervals, He found there a group of Russian children playing a game. The object of the game was to sit down on the bench and guess the time of the next burst of spray accurately enough to get out of its way without getting wet. HE JOINED in the game. His timing was bad. He GOT DOUSED. T'HE Russian children adored it. They howled with glee. They took to the American sec- retary of state in a big way, laughing and applauding. The Secretary of State of the U.S.A. apparently enjoyed it just as much as the Russian children. J liberal circles in Rome that there will be a continuation of the "dialogue" between the Roman Catholic and non-Catholic churches., Pope Paul VI has not spoken out directly about the subject since his Tribune yndlcalo no price - the Russians and Chinese, as Communists, are united in a common hostility for capitalism and the West. They do not disagree on this basic issue. They disagree on the means of "burying" the West, as Ni kita S. Khrushchev so trench antly put it, but not on the end. e e e SIR William Hayter, former British amhaaaarinr tn ho Soviet Union, pointed out re cently in a London newspaper that neither Moscow nor Pe king has disavowed - or re pudiated the Moscow declara tion ol December, 1960, which proclaimed: "Peaceful coexistence ol countries with different so cial systems does not mean conciliation of the socialist (communist) and bourgeois ideologies. "On the contrary, it imnlies intensification of the struggle ol the working class, ol all the communist parties, lor the triumph ol socialist (commu nist) ideas." The other Moscow - Peking link, which cannot shrivel but may indeed lester into an even greater cause ol tension between the two countries, is their common border. For several yeari now there have been shadowy and in conclusive rumors, hints, and suggestions ol trouble along that frontier - even in Mos cow. e e e A FEW years ago the Soviet government showed in a public theater not lar from Pushkin's statue on Gorky street a briel documentary film on Russia'f border guards. The film was remarkable for its portrayal of the near severity with which the bor der guards checked a train entering the Soviet Union from Communist China. A commentator explained the guards were checking carefully to make sure no imperialist agents sneaked into Russia. But some cyni cal Muscovites turned that explanation into this ques tion: "Imperialist agents - from Socialist China?" In the past year, before the Sino-Soviet dispute flared so fiercely, there were other ru mors of trouble along the Russian-Chinese border. One rumor had It there was a minor uprising in 1962 in China's Sinkiang province, wnicn borders Soviet Kazakh stan. According to the rumor, a Soviet consul befriended some of the Chinese malcon tents and the Soviet Union, in effect, encouraged others to skip over the border into Kazakhstan. e e e A S THE Sino-Soviet dispute a- w!dmri the- nar fui months, there have been oth er hints of border trouble. Like an iron curtain diplo mat's remark here the other day that Russia is consider ing moving some ol its garri son Irom Hungary "to the Soviet Far East." And the rumors Irom such admitted rumor and trial-balloon mills as Taipei and West Berlin that both the Russians and Chinese have reinforced their border guards and tight ened their "vigilance" along the Sino-Soviet frontiers. No responsible official here thinks there will be clashes along those frontiers, but some half expect "incidents," not necessarily involv i n g shooting. Historically and racially, both Central Asia and the Far East have been actual or potential trouble areas lor Russia and China. e e T1HE xenophobic Chinese did -1 not welcome Imperial Rus sia's thrust to the Pacitic; nor do they delight in the Im perial Soviet Union's contin ued stay there. China never has applauded Russia's domi nation of Outer Mongolia. The Chinese regard Central Asia's tribesmen as more akin to themselves than to Russia. And in modern times the Chinese, even the C h i n e s e Communists, bitterly resented Russia's entry Into and loot ing of Manchuria at the end of World War II. As Russian and Chinese na tionalisms mount with the ex pansion of the dispute be tween the two Communist countries, as the dispute takes on an increasingly racial fla vor, the borders certainly will become more sensitive. If any of the Soviet East European satellites ever de cide to thin out the m i n e- fields and watchtowers on their western frontiers, they mMy find buyers for them in Moscow or Peking. - election, but he has indicated that he will carry forward the late Pope John XXIII's dou ble goals of bringing the Ro man church into line with the times and working lor Christian unity through the Ecumenical Council the second session ol which he has set lor Sept. 29. The approach to Christian unity under Pope Paul may be more an intellectual one, through the head, than through the heart as it was under Pope John. But though Pope Paul's approach may seem more cautious in its ap proach to unity, its aim will be no less committed. This position is expected to receive new impetus at the reopening ol the council at the Vatican next month. Berlin Outlook West Berliner leel the Moscow talks and their aft ermath of a partial nuclear test ban treaty and explora tory discussions on lessening East West tensions will once again locus world attention on their city and its problems. However, there is little ex pectation in authoritative quarter that there will be any spectacular moves forward to ward a solution of the Berlin situation. A long standing Western proposal lor a mixed international commission to supervise the West's access right to Berlin is expected to be relieved, but little else. Red China The word from Hong Kong is that there are definite in dications that Communist Chi na s parry leadership is ex By Arthur Hopp K jl All Bad Reds fclf) Are Yellow pfl Woe, woe, woe. One ol our nation's key multi-million-dollar growth industries is skirting the financial rocks. I'm speaking, of course, of the once-flourishing anti-Communism industry. Already, the Christian Cru sade has had to lay off half Its BO-man staff. Already, the Christian Anti . Communism Crusade (no relation) is find ing it tough to make investi gations meet. The Birch So ciety is reportedly losing its sap. And il this keeps up, Project Awake won't be able to afford an alarm clock. What, let us soberly ask ourselves, ails this traditional American home industry? Is it the product? The market? Is The merchandising? No. It is, let us soberly answer our selves, changing world condi tions. ' For Mr. Khrushchev is now being very friendly. The ex perts are even talking hope fully of an end to the old cold war and of how Russia and America may one day stand united. For a new cold war against Red China. So who wants to hunt down agents of the Kremlin con spiracy any more? The threat lacks immediacy. There is, then, only one way to save this major Amer ican industrial complex: re vamp the product to meet the changing times. Personally, I would suggest all Right Wing entrepreneurs merge in this hour ol economic peril to form a giant new cartel: "The Christian Anti-Chinese Communism Crusade." e e e Oh, I know the title's trifle unwieldy. But think ol the merchandising p o s s ibilities. How many Chinese Commu nists have infiltrated the White House? How often is chow mein served in the State Department cafeteria? Who knows? Shockingly enough, no surveys have ever been made. It's a virgin field. mi, tn us tk. 4p fS "I dea't know - it mutt bo 'reduced tension' tver tinea the aucloer tesan agroomtral" Noted Berlin tremely sensitive about the possibility of subversive pro Russian elements within its own ranks. The first sign ol this came in a communique issued by the Peking central committee after a meeting last fall. It referred to "subver sive activities within our state) and our party" which were attributed to "modern revi sionists" the current jar gon lor followers of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and his policy ol peaceful coexistence with the West. Another indication turned up last July 14 when the Soviet party newspaper Pravda printed an open letter saying that "the Chinese leaders say that Soviet society is becom ing bourgeois." The Peking People's Daily reprinted tha letter six days later, but omit ted a key line saying: "These people are not very sure of their political power." Stikkor Plan The so-called "Stikker Plan," which would have giv en responsibility lor Western Allied strategy in Europe to a group ol international civil servants under NATO Secre tary General Dirk U. Stik ker, has been quietly pigeon holed. Diplomats say it will stay that way, at least until the NATO Ministerial Coun cil's spring meeting next May by which time Stikker will have retired. The French, who . dislike Stikker personaUy, hotly opposed the plan on tha ground that it would giva the United States broader con trol over NATO planning. Some smaller NATO mem bers also were lukewarm. So the plan is dead. And we can start with all new cliches: "Puppets of Pe king" has a great ring to it. "The wily masterminds in the Jade Palace" recalls the best of Mr. Sax Rohmer. "Do you want your grandchildren to grow up to be Chinese Com munists?" we will ask omin ously. And if revenues ever fall off, we can hit the apath etic public with a socko slo gan: "Better Red Than Yel low!" e e e This hint of racism will dou ble the product appeal, as any Impartial analysis of the cur rent Crusade market will show. Sales will soar and new lifeblood will be pumped into this vital segment of our na tional economy. Moreover, this Crusade will unite, rather than divide, our country. For what Commu nists are left around here are mostly pro-Russian and there's no question these days that they will Join an Anti-Communism Crusade with gusto. In deed, I wouldn't be surprised il Mr. Khrushchev agreed to serve as honorary co-chairman with Mr. Robert Welch. Best ol all, we'll have no more debatable cases where the evidence is still in dis pute years later, cases lika those ol Mr. Alger Hiss or Mr. Morton Sobel. For there can be no denying that what ever they were, they weren't Chinese Communists. And thus, in one fell swoop, every American will be safe from being ratted on by his neigh bor. Every American, that is, but Americans of Chinese des cent. ' But what the heck. They've never had an even break anyway. And now my only worry is that some day we may learn to live in peace with even Red China. What group of Americans will we find to hunt down then? Well, I'm confident our Crusaders will think of someone. They al ways do.