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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,
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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.