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Newspaper Page TextTUESDAY. "Everyone in Southern Ores on r.. Th Mail Tribune f ublishid Daily eMjpt Saturday by S3WthJJrSU PhyiL " ROBERT W ROHL. Editor -HERB ORE AdvUllM ManjMt GERALD T LATHAM. BueMjr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mn Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIFMAITelei Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sport! Ed tor OUVE STARCHER Women! Edltoi DALE ERICKSON. ClrcullUon Mr An Independent Newipapel Entered as econd claw matter at Medford Oregon under Act ol March 3, 18T 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance .,. uauj ,,u u..w- . n nil DallV ana Bunaiy-j "- Dally and minaey . . j-y Sunday Only Ona year $3.00 Single Copy (Mailed) 0e y Lamm nnu Dally and Sunday I year MJ-gg , Bally and aunaaj i raw. vi" , Sunday Only I mo. wo fwflclil Paper ol City ol Hedlord pmciai raper vr United Preai International lull Leaaed Wire B. P 1 TeleplutoNewirtcturee MEMBER-b AUDIT BUREAU ur t;iw.uy"w"a Advertising; preientatlve: NELSON ROBERTS ! ASSOCI ATES Ol'lcea In New York, Chi cago. Detroit. San Francisco. Lot ' Angeica, Seattle. Portland. . Denver. . . . NIWSMMt PUIUtHllt AISOCIA1ION RATION At I DITORIAl ' Member California Newipaper . Publlahcra AiaecUUon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files or The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO veer ego. 10 YEARS AGO Auautt 13. 1953 (Thursday) Medford -A ihland4iour lane highway Mid "stopgap ; by-pass planned lor future.-, Foul-smelling smoke and dust from a portable asphalt plant at Gold Hill today caused the State Air Pollu tion authority to issue the first abatement order against air pollution in the state's history. 20 YEARS AGO August 13, 143 (Friday) - :: The Rev. Ward A, Rice be comes pastof of First Chris tlnn church. From Arthur Perry's 'Ye Smudge Pot column: "On a Beall lane farm, in the back yard, a sunflower is still val iantly campaigning for Alf Landon of Kansas, the world's worst stump speaker and GOP entry for president in 1936. Thes unflower acre age in Jackson county was good, but not enough that year." ' 30 YEARS AGO August 13, 1933 (Sunday) Gov. Meier pays hurried visit to city on way to Gold Beach. " Temperature scoots to 101 degrees for second day in a row. 40 YEARS AGO August 13, 1923 (Monday) Bride and groom to spend honeymoon walking from Medford to top of Mt. Hood. Price war cuts gasoline to 11 cents a gallon In Portland. SO YEARS AGO - August 13. 1913 (Wednesday) Medford apples sold to New Zealand firm, first fruit from this section ever to go to the antipodes. Railroad grant swindlers to be prosecuted; suit involves U.S. against Oregon and Cali fornia Railroad company. What's Ycxr I.Q.? Nine or ten eerreci h tu eerier; seven er eiaM b) eKellent five at an re f ve. -1. Is batik a rare mineral wood carving, or method of executing colored designs on fabric? 2. Which tropical fruit Is n 1 c knamed "Midshipman's Butter"? 3. What are the national flowers oi Scotland and Ire land? 4. Is Marco Polo the name of an old city in India, an active volcano in Italy or an early traveler in the Orient? S. Was Eamon de Valera. President of Eire, born in Dublin, Ireland, London, Eng land, or Brooklyn, New York? 8. What by-product result ing from soap manufacture is of great importance In making explosives? 7. Does the male mosquito bite? 8. Did Charles A. Lind bergh serve as an officer in the Air Corps during W.W.1I? 9. Of what island is Taipeh the capital? 10. Do stones grow? Answarsi I. Designs. 2. Avocado. 3. Vhisils-eham-roek. 4. Early traveler. S, Brooklyn. I. Glycerins. 1. No. I. No. 9. Formosa. 10. 4 A AUGUST 13. 1983 What One Novel? Don Sterling, an editorial writer for the Ore gon Journal, recently wrote an article in which he asked what would be the one example of American literature which one would choose to represent this country abroad. It is an interesting question. Sterling's own two favorite American novels are "Moby Dick" and "The Adventures of Huckle berry Finn." But he rejects these for the purpose at hand, saying that the writing in Moby Dick is difficult, a bit old-fashioned, has involved sym bolism that might be beyond a young foreigner's command of English, and, in addition, that it is hardly representative of American life today; and in Huckleberry Finn, the dialect is difficult and subject to misinterpretation. WHAT then? he asks. Faulkner? Steinbeck? Sinclair Lewis? Again, Sterling believes that a young foreign er might not realize that most of their writing was either attacks on social injustice which have been largely corrected, or satires on very small segments of American life. Sterling finally settled surprisingly, to us on Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea." He admits it is not about the United States at all, but about a Cuban fisherman, But, he said, it represents the work of one of America's best novelists. It is short, and written in beautiful, clear prose. Its story of the old man's battle with the big fish should be understand able in any country, Sterling writes, and, above all, its message of individual courage and self reliance is one which he thinks deserves export ing anywhere. 1IEWED in that light, Sterling's selection T makes sense. But he is still troubled, and asks of the world at large : "What one American novel would you choose" for this purpose? . . For us, the answer might lie in "The Tree of Libertv." bv Elizabeth Pace. It is a little-known and the states, before, after the American Revolution. It probably does Xiot deserve to be ranked, with the major novels of majdr writers. But to jus it captured and reiiectea, better than anything else we have read, the com Dlex forces at work in this exciting period, the motivations of the patriots who founded this country; in race, tne wnoie nisioric inneniance to which each of us owes so much. ...... . e . e . e . .- IT SHOWS why "our" revolution was different from any other in history; how it was the prod uct of both nassion and intellect; how carefully and painstakingly the tnrougn weir acuons ana tne tneviutuie icsuuo, how the devastating effects of overzealous radi calism were avoided, and how the nation's foun dations were laid, not only with blood, but with brains, self-restraint and self-discipline. An understanding of the American Revolu tion seems, to us. to be a prerequisite of under standing America today, for we are still striving to achieve the ideals which were given voice dur ing those exciting times, and are till living, by the guidelines wruch grew out or tnem. . I " , e e e e e OTHERS will have other answers to the same nnpstintv.' hnrt we'--would be dad to receive additional nominations. . So manv of the widely the contemporary ones marked by a special point of view, strive to achieve a-limited objective, or bring a message the scope of which is special or perhaps outdated. So we repeat Don Sterlings question: "What one American novel would you choose to represent your country abroad?" E. A. Tapes for Television ..- . What would happen if you could put a tape into your own TV set at home and see and hear a program, the way in which you can put a record on the phonograph and hear any music you desire? ' ' ,, It might have a considerable impact on the TV networks and stations, just as the revival of phonographs and good and inexpensive records hurt the radio industry some years ago. . . The speculation is not idle, for a British com pany has developed just such a tape mechanism which it says can be retailed for about $160. It still has some technical flaws, and is limited to 30-minute shows. But improvements will be made. THE Oregon Statesman sees great "social and A commercial ramifications." It lists some pos sibilities: The death, aborning, of pay-as-you-see TV, Development of a offering use of tapes for cost. Decline of commercial television, as view ere pick their own programs. A new wrinkle in as I v tape recorders supply films which can be shown on your own set. e T'HE Statesman also believes that theater own- A era, play producers, equipment makers, and generally must be wondering how they may lose, or stand to gain, by such a development. Who's going to sit through a dreary show, bespeckled with blatant commercials, when the best of drama, entertainment, or even the kids splashing in the swimming pool, can be readily shown? E.A. A novel, set in the colonies dunnc and immediately founding fathers thought - known novels, not only but also older ones, are TV-tape rental system a day or week at low the home-movie hobby, record companies, hi fi the television industry MEDFORD 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 '.? paper. In fact the contrary is often the case. It's A Plot To the Editor: "Good words are a mask for the conceal ment of bad deeds. Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or iron wood." -Stalin, 1913. "It is ridiculous not to know that a treaty, is the means of gaining strength." Lenin, 1918. "The disarmament policy of the Soviet government must be utilized for purposes of agi tation ... for recruiting sym pathizers for the Soviet Union -the champion of peace' and soclalism."-Slxth World Con gress of the Communist Inter national, 1928. , The Russians have broken over 90 per cent of the trea ties and covenants they have made with nations of the world and 50 out of S3 agree ments negotiated with the United States since our recog nition of their government. The staff of the Internal Se curity subcommittee, after making a study of the Soviet treaty record concluded that treaty-making Is, probably, an Instrument of Soviet national policy -Senate Document No. 125. To communists, world wide disarmament does not mean elimination from the world of all weapons of war. It means taking all weapons away from non-communists so that they can offer no resistance to conv munism and this is the pat tern Russia has followed in the countries they have taken over. In 1961 the State Depart ment issued their "Publica tion 7277," in which they out lined plans for the complete disarmament of the United States'- the transfer of all of our A r m e a r orces to ine our armed forced to the United Nations." Shortly after that publication was is sued Congress was seduced Into transforming it into "Public Law 87-297," which gives the President (Ken nedy) complete authority, "at his discretion," to Issue the "go" order for the entire dis armament plot. If the test ban treaty is ratified it will be a long step toward accomplish ing that end. Write or wire your Senators today and de mand that they reject the test ban treaty. The "One World" blue print is completed and accord ing to plan there will be a world director (dictator) and zone directors and 51 regional directors. None of the zone or regional' directors will serve in their own countries. An alien would command the foreign troops stationed in the U.S. For the rest of the story, with map, write to Cinema Educational Guild, Inc., P.O. Box 46205. Cole Branch, Hol lywood 46. Calif. Ask for Special July, 1963 Bulletin (two sections). Price 15 cents. Alice I. Black R12 Newtown Medford. Astronomy To the Editor: Astrology has no scientific basis what soever. It is based on blind belief, on a theory, that the stars have an influence on hu man affairs. In the middle ages it was classed with alchemy, witch craft and occult sciences. Its basis is just pure superstition. And despite all of our institu tions of tearing there is a little of superstition in most of us. So this letter is not one of condemnation. Astronomy, however, is based on mathematics and is a pure science. It describes Ihe stars in their courses. It gives a minute, accurate ac count of the planetary orbits in our solar system. It can foretell to the minute the time an eclipse begins or ends. This the astrologist can not do. Even if his bc-f was MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON true he could not produce proof that It was a true fact that the constellations do in fluence the course of human lives. Any belief which can not be proved by fact can not be called a science. "Christian Science," for ex ample, is a pure misnomer. There can be no science ap plied to furnish proof of its claims. Astrology is said to have originated in Arabia some 2000 years B.C. The ancient Greeks picked it up from the Arabs but they, at the same time, in the course of time, made a study of the move ments of - stars and planets and one, Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus), 127-151 B.C., wrote a paper "The Alma gest," which claimed that the earth was the center of the universe and that the sun and stars revolved around it. An other Greek, Hipparchus, a contemporary astronomer with Ptolemy, agreed to the same theory. But the old Greek theory could not be proved with in struments and after the first Bible was written around 400 A.D., Ihe Church forbade any claims of astronomers be cause their claims did not agree with the Bible story. So the voice of science was stilled until Galileo (1564 1642) declared that the Earth moves. Soon a number of English, Polish, German, and other na tionals, astronomers, support ed Galileo's claim. The Eng lish government allowed free expression to its scientists. There was Edmund Halley (1656-1742) who discovered and timed Halley's Comet, There was Sir William Hers- chel,- an English astronomer who, with his sister Caro line, studied the heavens and in 1781 d i s covered that our sun and the plan ets were moving in space. The Herschels invented the first telescope. Brother and sister spent a lifetime to gether in astronomical work. bringing more knowledge to the world. Since then, and particularly in the last 35 years, astronom ical science has advanced to a stage of knowledge un dreamed of even 50 years ago. John E. Ring 1049 West 11th st. Medford Deeply Disturbed To the Editor: I am deeply disturbed by the state of our nation today. Increased racial tension, fiscal irresponsibili ty, a Communist Cuba, loss of states' rights these are the accomplishments of the liberal New Frontier. I am sick of this kind of "prog ress." but we will get more of the same by continuing to vote for liberal candidates forced on us by our Demo cratic party and the liberal minority of the Republican party. We must have a con servative in the White House in 1964, or face national cha os and confusion. The Democratic party is so throuoghly indoctrinated in liberalism that we must de pend on the conservative ma jority of the Republican par ty to provide us with an HON EST choice of candidates not a liberal versus a liberal, but a conservative versus a liberal. I see Barry Goldwa- ter as the ONE man who can fight the New Frontier and win! Apparently I am not alone in that belief. I under stand that over 60.000 peti tions are being circulated by "Citizens for Goldwater," Valley Forge, Pa., urging the Republican convention to nominate the Senator for President. This group also provides all kinds of material and help for organizing local Goldwater groups. I ha e al- Transatlantic Chicken Battle May Be Only Opening Skirmish in Trade War By WERNER ZWICK United Press International Frankfurt, Germany -UPD- The transatlantic chicken war may be just the opening skir mish in a trade battle between the free world's economic giants. The issue in the current struggle is whose chickens West Germany will fry in fu ture. Not an earth - shattering problem? Perhaps, but feath ers started flying when the European Common Market Commission in Brussels virtu ally banned the cheaper American frozen chickens by clamping a prohibitive tariff on them. Last year, West Germans ready sent in my own request, and it occurred to me that many of your readers might wish to do so, too. My conscience simply will not let me sit by and watch my beloved country being torn to shreds by men who have tried to make a dirty word of patriotism and at tempted to reduce the mean ing of our Constitution to ab solute nothing. I declare myself here and now as a Southern Democrat for Senator Barry Goldwa ter, and I intend to see him through to victory. Mrs. M. G. Price Route 6 Winston-Salem, N.C. Sharing Enjoyment To the Editor: "Going My Way" has long been a favor ite piece of writing with me and I would appreciate its publication in order that oth ers might also enjoy these thoughts. Mrs. Emma Perkins 120 Laurel st. Medford. goincTmy-WAY I am a traveler on a one way journey through life and never expect to retrace my steps or come this way again. My yesterdays are poignant recollections of tasks neglect ed or undone, mixed with pleasant memories of the few things done well. My tomor rows hold promise of oppor tunity to do bigger and bet ter things. My present is be ing lived in the valley of struggle and pain, and shar ing the load of others. Since I pass this way but once, my hope is that men, women and children may be glad that I came and regret that I am leaving. As I jour ney with my fellow man, may I be privileged to bring joy where sorrow once ruled; smiles to replace the tears; to plant a flower of kindness in those hearts where once the weeds of despair grew. As I follow the noble pattern of the Apostle Paul, may I nev er falter as I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling; but should I stumble and fall, may the grace of God lift me up and start me forward, going my way. Anonymous. Ha Saved Lives To the Editor: The story of Claude Eatherly's suffering after he participated in t h e Hiroshima bombing, sent in by Name on File from Jack sonville, is extremely pathet ic, but if he would only re alize that his action that day saved the live of thousands of our young men - the cream of our manhood - he would be better able to sleep nights. One wonders if the Japs had had the bomb would they have used it on our mainland? Vou know the answer. Ray Lovett. Rogue Valley Manor, Medford. Untolvabla To the Editor: Replying to Henry Johnson Jr.'s letter of Sunday (Aug. 11), will state my view, to wit: that the Old Testament Writ is not accept able to all Christians as a "verbatim" or believable ac count of truth. That is, it is a Book, attributable to Jewish (or Judistic) influence and could easily be a corruption of divine thought and truth in and through all periods of human history. Even the New Testament is our inheritance from a Mcdi eval period and could also be at great variance from eternal truth. In any event, there are many so-called "God's" works and words in and among hu man believers. Some are call ed "pagan" by most Chris tians. Most of them are reject ed by Christians as being a clear elucidation of truth for human belief. I am inclined to think that in any argument for the Old Testament Scrip ture as "the Word of God, the negatives really have the better of the debate. For it is not certain that its entire con tent is truthful or believable to reasonable men, and men of goodwill, as well. I would prefer to call the subject mat ter wholly a moot, unsettled and, indeed, unsolvable prob lem for everybody in the same identical terms. Fee Clifford lsteb 17 South Bartlett st. Medford bought $51.3 million worth of poultry from the United States. Since the tariff boost, American chicken imports have fallen to a trickle. "Fifty million dollars is just a drop in the bucket com pared to 1.2 billion dollars worth of agricultural prod ucts West Germany buys from the United States." Edmund H. Driggs, European director of the Institute of American Poultry Industries, said. "But what happened to the chick ens could happen to other commodities." , The chickens have become a test case in what seems to shape up as a trade war be tween the economic giants of the Western world, the Unit ed States and the Common market. The French, eager to dump their chicken surplus on the West German market at. the expense of the Americans, ap parently thought they already had won the war. But then the United States threatened to strike back at the spot where it hurts most the pocketbook. By pitting the Volkswagen and other vulnerable Common Market exports against the chickens, it hoped to reach a compro mise. If the American threats are implemented, West Germany will be hit worse than other In the Day's News ly 'RANK JENKINS A bit of history? Well, a few hours more than 89 years ago last Satur day morning (on Aug. ' 10, 1874) Herbert Hoover 'was born in the village of West Branch, Iowa. He was the second of three children. His people were Quakers. When he was only 6 years old, his father was killed by a falling tree. He left his family a small farm and an honor able name. His wife sold the farm and put the money In trust for the children and be came a traveling preacher. Four years later she died and the children were left or phans. UNCLES and aunts looked after them. Herbert made his home first with an uncle who was an Iowa farmer. When another uncle became superintendent of the Quaker college at Newberg, in the lower Willamette valley, Her bert came to Oregon and at tended the college. This uncle later moved to Salem and opened a real estate office. Herbert acted as his office boy, and it was dur ing this period that he became interested in mining engi neering as a career. While working as an office boy in Salem, he heard that a new university was to open soon in Palo Alto. He pre pared himself for his entrance examinations by going to night school, and in 1891 he was enrolled as a member of the first class to enter Leland Stanford university. CO- We are safe in saying It was OREGON that gave Herbert Hoover to the nation and to the world, for it was in Oregon that he developed the qualities1 that made him one of the world's greats. IfROM Washington as this is written comes this word: Tax writers expect to com plete next week their version of a proposed $10 BILLION overall tax CUT. A rough estimate by spokesman for the house ways and means committee indi cates that revisions so far agreed on would increase revenues by about $1 BIL LION. 1IHICH is to say: " Assuming that taxing and spending proposals go through about as outlined- We'll put NINE BILLION DOLLARS MORE on the cuff next year, to be added to the 300-odd billions that are al ready on the cuff. TO th a generation schooled in the theory that if one goes on indefinitely spending more than one takes in one will GO tiKUKK, mat s an odd pro posal, isn t it? One can't help wondering what Herbert Hoover, who has a vivid vocabulary when he chooses to use it, would say about such a proposal if he really took his hair down and let himself go. ONE word more about Hoover. Mr He has always worked hard. He still does. His doctors say his health has improved steadily since his illness in June. They add that there has been no recurrence of the gastro-intestinal bleeding from which he suffered at that time, and that his heart has remained normal in its rhy thm. Hard work appears to have agreed with him. He has al ready lived to a riper age than any other President except John Adams, who passed go. Common Market countries, the Federal Economics Minis try complained. And a spokesman for the country's export-aimed elec trical industry lamented bit terly: "Those stupid birds did all the damage." The West German consum ers seem to like the "stupid birds" from America. American poultry first hit West German frying pans four years ago and aroused a ravenous appetite for more. Per capita consumption jumped from 7 to 14 pounds. West Germans once regard ed fried chicken as upper crust fare ranked not far be low caviar. Then they discov ered they could afford to buy American broilers. Corner grocers installed electric fryers for the take home trade, and chicken res Strictly Personal By Sydney Tel Field Enterprisea. Ine. SUMMER READING When summer houses were built, 75 or 50 years ago, or whenever, I feel sure that the builders furnished them with complete sets of books. Ev ery s u mme r house I have every visited has had al most the iden tical library uarri as though the books were chosen by some central agency. These books are roughly divided into two categories: the unread and the unread able. The unread are the grim sets in stiff gray bindings: complete works of Whittier, Masterpieces of Living Liter ature, and 20 volumes of Nel son's Encyclopedia, edition of 1907, in print size that cries out for a large magnifying glass. The unreadable category is even larger. This includes, in variably, "Girl of the Limber lost," "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come," "Sorrel and Son" by Warwick Deep ing, "Scaramouche" by Rap hael Sabatini, "Beau Geste," "Ben Hur," "Polly and Her Friends," "The Green Hat," "Leatherstocking Tales," and "An Antarctic Mystery" by Jules Verne, easily his worst book. . Some diabolic anti-literary mind was carefully at work making this matter selection. Not only are all the third-rate authors fully represented, but it it their loweit efforts that decorate the bookcases. And if a tu perior writer like Dickent is there, it is Dickent at hit most maudlin; if Mark Twain is on the thelf, it it alwayt the foolish "Tom Sawyer" or the provincial ja&5?' lid HO Editorial Comment Stanford and the Bard Stanford University's announcement that it will sponsor a Shakespeare festival next summer, the 400th anniversary of the Bard's birth, is an important calendar entry for visiting scholars and tourists, as well as for resident Shake spearean aficionados. Bringing the Ashland Festival players down from Oregon and the Globe Theater company up from San Diego to pro duce seven or eight Shakespeare plays in the lovely Frost Amphitheater is a happy-inspiration. The Ashland and San Diego companies are first Tate and, when played off against each other, should yield to Bay Area audiences a richer understanding than comes through on TV or from road! companies of what Shakespeare in Sixteenth Century Lon don was like. Professo Virgil K. Whitaker, the Stanford Shakespear ean scholar who is organizing the festival, has also drawn the Actors' Workshop of San Francisco into his a fresco series to offer three works by Shakespeare's contempo raries. The combination of all these public performances with an academie program weighted with visiting Eliza bethan scholars should easily make good Professor Whita-' ker's hopes for creating a major intellectual attraction in! the Bay Area. San Francisco Chronicle . .ftfcjjWS -pits "What do you mean, you Integrated? That was an the entrance!" taurants shot up throughout the country. German cook books came out with "south ern fried" recipes. Even the entertainment in dustry got on the bandwagon with the hit tune "Brathendl Polka" (Fried Chicken Polka), a ditty popularized by a Ba varian hillbilly. But the boom ended abrupt ly when the Common Market commission raised the tariff on American broilers. Chick en consumption in West Ger many declined 20 per cent. Consumers switched to other meat rather than pay a pre mium for European poultry. And with the Common Mar ket heading for a common ag ricultural market, consumers are afraid they will be de prived one day of other at tractively - priced American foodstuffs. J. Harris "Innoeenlt Abroad," never ona of hit mordant and bril liant workt. It It at though tomaona who hatad writing in all its mora creative imaginative aspects ware put in charge of summer house libraries throughout the country a generation or two ago. . I bought a little place on the lake lati year, complete ly furnished and when they taid "completely fur nished," they meant it: in cluding 300 books that look me two days to haul to the local dump in a station wa gon, at my getture toward Better Literature. Somehow, people won't throw away no-good books the way they will throw away, after a fev years, non-literary junk that accumulates. Some of the books in my place were published in 1870; they were no good to begin with, and they became worse with age. Yet each successive tenant evinced a paralyzing reluctance to brush them off the shelves. Perhaps they re mained there as a yellowing symbol of Summer Culture. Whatever the reason, it has always fascinated me to visit a summer house for a week end and browse on the shelvoj for a good book to take up to bed. With my eyes closed, I could recite the selection from "Ten to Seventeen: A Boarding School Diary" by Josephine Baskam Bacon, to "Heart's Delight" by Louis Tracy, also the proud author of "Rainbow Island," "Pillar of Light," and "The Albert Gate Affair." They used to call these dreadful things "hammock reading." The pity of it is that hammocks have nearly disappeared, but the reading; hasn't. didn't know that camp was American flag you patted al i