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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY, """veryone in Southern oregoa SSSTThi Mall Tribune 13 North fir SU Ph. 77il-6Ul ROBERT RUHL. Editor HERB GREY AdvrUtlni Minjija GERALD T LATHAM, Bui. Mkr ERIC ALLEN JB, Mnj Edifcr EARL U ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telef Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHEHWomen'tEditol An Independent Newspapei Entered as tccond elm matter at Med ford. Oreioa under Act of March 3, mi SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily ana duho.j j--- " Dally and Sunday moa. 10.00 Sunday Only One year 15.00 ioe Daily and Sunday 1 year 21.oo Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.7a Sunday Only 1 mo. sro cTrfieial Paper ot City of Mediord official Paper 01 jacaeun .wum United Press International full Leaaed Wire tj p lTelephotoNewploturea WmbetTok audw bureau ur w m.uiw csko. Detroit, Btn FMnciMp, Lot Dcnrr. NIWaPAMt PUIUSHIIS ASSOCIATION RATION A I EDITOIIAl hc6T,3M Member California Newipapar Publiihera Auoclatlon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. ' 10 YEARS AGO Auguil IS, 1953 (Saturday) Ashland family hit by fire, theft and wreck, hope trou ble has ended. Eleven fires In Union Creek district and three In Butte Falls district set by lightning last night reported by the forest service. 20 YEARS AGO Autmit IS, 1943 (Sunday) l ib. rVrpk resident killed when bicycle struck by bus. ' From Arthur Perry's "Ye cm, Pni" pnlumn: "Sev eral days the past week were an hot their chairs got up when the sitters did." - SO YEARS AGO August 13. 1933 (Tuesday) Local orator sentenced to life imprisonment; all defen dants in ballot theft behind prison bars, except one. Temperature of 108 highest here In seven years. 40 YEARS AGO August IS, 1923 (Wednesday) School opening delayed un til Sept. 24 to allow students to assist in harvest. Carload of Chevrolet autos overturns In local freight yards. SO YEARS AGO August IS, 1913 (Friday) Local couples return from 10-day, 1,000-mile auto trip, without even a puncture. Rogue Bartlett pears bring $2 a box In New York, highest ot season. What'i Your I.Q.? Nine ot ten correct It wneHetJ even er eiiht Is excellent; fret ii is e.od. 1. The square of the radius of the base times the heigm times 3.1414 divided by 3 Is the formula for the volume of What? 2. Does coral belong to the animal or vegetable kingdom? 3. Four of the states of the . Union have names which end with "e"; name them. 4. In going around a left hand curve docs an auto tend to lean to the left or right? 5. In which western state is the Sequoia National Park? 8. Name, the composer of our national anthem, 7. Is a young hare known as a cub, kit, leveret, or chick? 8. If afflicted with ergopho bia, would you dread work, self-praise or poison Ivy? 0. There are four standard time zones in the continental U.S. of which two are Eastern and Pacific; name the other two. 10. A part ot Pennsylvania Is bounded by Lake Erie; true or false? Answers! 1. Cone. 2. Ani mal. 3. Maine, Delaware, Naw Hampshire, Tannest. 4. Right. S. California. I. Fran, els Scott Kay. 7. Leveret. 8, Work. 8. Central and Moun tain. 10. Tnsa. , 4 A- AUGUST IS. IMS .Is the PTA The Parent-Teacher heon a fiYhire in most, tion. Has it helped the educators in doing a good jod: was tne ri a out lived any usefulness it once had? Or is it still a beneficial influence in education? TVieao nnpsfinns are a lively discussion these tend to know tne answers to mem, dui mey are a legitimate subject for debate. A recent issue of the Seattle Argus carried an article by Philip Bailey in which he calls for the abolishment of the PTAs. Give both the teach ers and the kids a break, he asks. e e BAILEY does not see the PTA as a threat to the renublic. but savs "The main objections to its continued existence of time of both parents further muddles an already coniused eaucauonai effort." He adds: "The teachers, of course, are forced to attend the gatherings, and In most instances must spend consider able time and effort in getting their rooms ready for periodic inspections.' I have talked to many teachers about the PTA, and have yet to find one who thinks the schools would not be better off without it. in fact, the main objection to the PTA is the strong and not so subtle pressure exerted on the teaching staff. Woe to the teacher who does not cooperate, and no unortho doxy or hanky-panky will be tolerated. . . . "We wonder if the cause of education would not be better served if it were left In the hands of pro fessional educators, and let parents confine their activi ties to the necessary training in behavior, religion and ' morals . , ." . IN DISCUSSING this our acquaintance, we agreement not with the were not. ren v nspTiii. experience that they tended to be used as "rub ber stamps" for decisions ot tne administration. Our own experience with the PTA consisted of taking out a 50 cent membership for each of several years, under pressure from youngsters, who in turn were under pressure to make the room "100 per cent," thus entitling it to a prize nr rppncrniMnn of some sort: and service on a PTA safety committee for succeed in having a traltic signal installed at a school crossing.) Wo reaenterl the nrpssuiPS involved, and usu ally found the tea-and-cooky committee sessions just as fruitless as the full IT IS our conviction that parents sincerely inter ested in the education of their children as opposed to such things as room prizes, tea parties and social chit-chat would do better by visiting the classes their children attend, discussing prob lems Dersonallv with teachers and administrators involved, and in working attetrmt to be helpful. We do not deny we l the PTAs have some their credit. But are the accomplishments worth the wheel- spinning, the pressures on children and teachers alike, the half-baked explanations of the "educa tional programs," the endless committee meet ings, which are involved; We are inclined to doubt it. e . TEACHERS are gradually gaining status as a profession. More and more they are well-edu cated, intelligent, dedicated people, who are trained to do a job, and in most cases do it well. Would it. in Mr. Bailey's words, be better to leave education "in the educators, and to concentrate on other parental duties and obligations? Let each parent answer for himself and her self. Let the teachers answer, too. For, ultimately, we must decide if teachers are to teach, or if they are to be subjected to pressures, subtle and not so subtle, to conform and to present a bland and pleasant "image" to parents in general. E.A. On De-Twitching Vacations "The dilemma of the American vacation . . . is that what is good for the vacation business is bad for the vacationer." Resting in the quiet, ancient elegance of Dark Harbor, Maine, Russell Baker of the New York Times delivered himself of this thought recently. What he means is that a man seeking the sur cease of a vacation should from twitching America who could find a place to "stand under the stars and hear his nerves sigh." But, increasingly, vacation sites are paved with asphalt, decorated with neon signs, and catered to by a variety of hot dog stands, bars, souvenir-gimrack shops, and motels with swim ming pool and television. O F COURSE, there is things. Baker observes: "Today's tourist dollar comes from the man with an outboard motor. He wants a motel with a healed swimming pool and an air-conditioned saloon and some place where he can walk around wearing diaphanous shorts and sunglasses without feeling that somebody's servants are smirking at him." Still and all, one questions the real objectives of such a vacation. Baker adds : "Somewhere, this country should be able to pre serve a few (places) where the Jangling American can ponder the mysterious quiet that was part of his herit age before twitching became the universal civic obliga tion. "Bad for the vacation business? To be sure. But the (proprietors) will always manage enough to retire to Florida where they can learn to twitch in harmony with the rest of th country." As for us. give us tall timber, a lake, a stream, or the unsullied oceaiL E.A. Outmoded? Association has lone of the. schools of the na schools? Has it hindered almost alwavs good for days. We do not pie- are that it wastes a lot and teachers, and only article with a parent of lound ner in partial dis thesis that the PTAs nur, necause it was ner a short time. (We DID chapter sessions. with the children in an cheerfully acknowledge real accomplishments to hands of professional be able to be "a refugee a 'demand1' for such MEDFORD "It Helps Pass the Time" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of t.K-e paper, In fact the contrary is often the case. Teen-agers To the Editor: I fully ex pected some response to my letter of Aug. 5, but was real ly surprised to hear from someone such as Glyndon O. Loomer, claiming indignation and an upset stomach all in one letter. 1 admit that I erred in leaving the implication that all city police are incompe tent. There are a few that are not, but very few, especially in this area There are also some very decent, well behaved teen agers, but they are becoming scarcer all the time. Loomer's statistics giving the amount of officers as op posed to the population and area, are as ridiculous as his desire to be sick. There could be 500 city po lice officers, and if the major ity showed lack of responsi bility and disinterest, then that amount would still be in adequate. Loomer offers to wager that I've never taken any steps toward correcting any adverse situations. There again he is shooting in the dark. I did take such steps once, but never again. I pursued and stopped a 17-year-old boy . and signed a complaint against him, and had him brought before a judge. The charge was one of speeding on a residential street (55 m.p.h). I was ac companied by a neighbor lady who served as a witness. The boy brought his father with him. The Judge stated in fact, that this boy had been the cause ol many complaints over a period of time and af ter a very light tongue lash ing, he was released. His father then jumped to his feet, and threatened to swear out a complaint against me for speeding also. The Judge Informed him that this could not be done, (why? 1 don't know.) For some time after this Incident, this little smart Block would drive by the house where I and my family lived, and make obscene ges tures at me and the children. Should I have yelled for the police again? Not on your life! And you, Loonier, accuse me of having an over-abundance of gall. Get in your car some night, drive around, pick out a vio lator of curfew. They are thick as flics on honey. Swear out a complaint, then listen while Mama or Daddy tell you lo mind your own busi ness. Watch, while this same Mama or Daddy whip out a five or a ten-spot to pay jun ior's fine, (if there is one) then watch junior climb into his $1,500 automobile and go rac ing on his merry way, calling you a square as he drives away. Then you can go home and really be sick. G. L. Murray P.O. Box 904 Central Point, Ore. Picking Problems To the Editor: Mrs. Hum phrey wrote of the pear pick ing situation in Sunday's pa per. It seems (here are several people in our valley who do not know the labor problem very well. We do have a camp for mi gratory workers with farm paid transportation. It is not completely free since they must pay board and room the same as the Mexicans. Pear picking (as has been said before) Is not a woman's job. I've picked for years and been told It was too heavy. The ladders are no heavier than the buckets of pears. There is only about 1 in 30 women that have the stamina to do this type of work. And as to children in the orchards, MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON the day is too long to sit under a tree, lo say nothing of the danger of trucks, tractors, trailers and ladders of the other pickers. It's a tempation to pick up cull pears and put them in mama's box. The wa ter can make a delightful di version too. The number of Mexicans picking fruit has nothing to do with the number doing stoop labor. They are all re cruited by the government ac cording to the need. As to discrimination, we hire the white pickers when we use Mexicans. In the first place it's the law, and any way most of them only pick long enough to get money to go on to other places. With six children, some of whom must be school age, the thing for Mrs. Humphrey to do is when school is out in the spring, head for the Wil lamette valley with her brood. They can all work all sum mer, through strawberries, cane berries and into beans, which lasts till school starts in the fall. Many places up there furnish cabins for workers, and that is definitely family work. They don't use Mexi cans there either. Hope this sheds a little light on the situation. By the way, I've been crew boss eight years now. That's what a picker gets if he works too long. Velda Wilson Route 4, Box 457-E Medford Club Thanks To The Editor: The Crater Cub Baseball Team, repre senting Central Point and Dis trict 6 wishes to take this op portunity to thank all the good people who were so generous in helping our team to go to the stale tournament at Blue River; to all who bought from us at our bever age sale and to the following for their donations: Gray's Furniture, Tongan and Roger, Victor Noel, Grange Co-Op, Petrehn and Purdy, S&M Auto Parts, Glenn Young, George Tilley Masonry, Cra ter Finance, Van Wey's Mar ket, Paulson and Gates, Cen tral Point Cleaners and M. C. Linninger & Sons. We also wish to thank the following for their help in getting our trophies: Anhorn Faber Ins., The Center, Sax bury's Clothing, Alexander Hardware, Southern Oregon Trophy Co.. Croskell's Hard ware, Chets Flying A, and Central Point Variety Store. As you all know by now, we did not let you down. We won the Oregon State Cham pionship. We hope you are proud of us. A. D. Van Horn, Coach, Marvin Hayes, Director, and Team Members, , Central Point, Ore. River Pilot To the Editor: We attended a recent meeting of the R o x y Ann Gem and Mineral club of Medford, held at the Community club on North Bartlett St., as a visiting guest. An enthusias tic group of rock collectors and guests attended the busi ness session and showing of the Rogue river film, a "true life adventure sound film" of Glenn Woolridge, the Rogue river pilot of a power-boat riding the rapids of Hellsgate goorge above Galice, Ore. This writer knew Glenn as a young adventurer, living in the town of Rogue River, 40 years ago. We have met him only once since, at Grants Pass about 10 years ago. If all goes well, we hope to interview him again to get material for a short story. It was around the 1940 s when Glenn was really "going places and doing things" on the treacherous Rogue river, West Germany Influences All of Western Europe; Is Key to Many Future Decisions Br PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst In a park - like setting in Bonn stands a three-story resi dence of clean, white lines and quiet ele g a n c e. It is called the Pal a is Schaum b u r g. In its with drawn setting only i-v I tne soiaiers oi YJr I the West Ger J man Republic stanoing ai m stand ing at the gates give it the appear ance of more than passing im portance. But it is, in fact, the offi cial residence of the West German chancellor and from it to a degree which would have been deemed impossible 25 years ago radiates an in fluence over the decisions of every major western power. It may be the force which determines whether President Charles De Gaulle of France decides to seek a second term. It, more than France, will determine the future course of the European Common Market. And in these days of cau tious hope for a world more at ease with itself, the United Strictly Personal By Sydney (c) Field Enterprises. Ine. PERSONAL PREJUDICES One sure way to detect the true expert in any pusuit is by his unfailing courtesy and consideration toward those less skilled than he; it is only the second-rater who is brusque and contemptuous toward the duffer, it is only the person who is not sure enough of his prowess to be charitable and forbearing. Children who are not trained to do what is right for its own sake (rather than out of fear or promise of reward or because "it's the best policy"), will sooner or later escape by doing what is wrong for its own sake and this is Ihe meaning of so much "sense less" delinquency by ado lescents. Habitual critics of an estab lished order are generally the worst people to reform that order, for, as Burke pointed out long ago, "those who are chronically em ployed in finding and dis playing faults are unquali fied for the work of reforma tion; because their minds are not only unfurnished with patterns of the fair and good, but by habit they come to take no delight in the con templation of these things." It is foolish lo say that men and women should marry for love; everyone marries for love and if what he loves most is money or position or se curity, then this is the love thai the marriage is based on. The fastest way to break up a "disarmament confer ence" would be for one side to accept the proposals of the other this would create such consternation that negotia tions would have to be bro ken off, for all such propos als are based on the tacit understanding that they will not be acceptable. A small town or a vil lage is a unit, a city is not: a city is really composed of many smaller cities within it, and ihe inhabitant can freely choose which of these smaller cities he will move In; and it is this free dom of choice thai, despite its manifest disadvantages, makes a big city so appeal ing to so many people. The best way to estimate the nature of any group's miseries is to study carefully the nature of their pleasures: what they are running to ward tells us what they are running from. To communicate to oth ers ihe knowledge that he possesses is only part of the task of a writer; Ihe more important part is to com municate to himself what he does and does not know, and in the very act of ex pressing himself he works t o w a rd clarity and co hesiveness in his own thoughts; writers who seek only to persuade rarely de velop their own minds, "Women have two weapons cosmetics and tears." Na poleon once remarked; but this formidable armory was placed in a proper perspec tive by Philip Preston, when he added. "Lucky for men that the two are scarcely to be used with advantage at the same time." When a man tells me he walked seven miles to school as a boy. I can understand why he learned boat trips all the way from I Grants Pass to Agness. Bert Kissinger 322 South Riverside Medford. States will take careful sound' ings of opinion-at the Palais Schaumburg before proceed ing further in any effort to reach agreement with the So viet Union beyond the present partial nuclear test ban treaty, For Germany is the prize of Europe, and remains as it has been through modern his tory the key to European stability. For De Gaulle, who sealed his Franco - German accord with a kiss for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, the course of events since last January has been a disappointment In the preamble to the ac cord approved by the West German Bundestag the Ger mans made clear their con tinued devotion to De Gaulle's own grand designs for Eu rope. The German decision to be come a signatory to the par tial test ban agreement was over De Gaulle's opposition and led to laments in French newspapers that France now stands isolated. In its agricultural policies for the Common Market and in its desire that Britain also be brought into the European community, West Germany also stands in stubborn oppo sition to De Gaulle. And these are the condi- i. Hairis so little he was too fa tigued upon reaching the school house. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Defense Secretary McNam ara, wno seems to have a pretty good head on his shoul ders, told the U.S. Senate that the United States, with TENS OF THOUSANDS of atomic warheads, is MANIFESTLY SUPERIOR to Russia in nu clear power and would run little risk in ratifying the test ban treaty. He added: "The limited test ban would SLOW Soviet nuclear prog ress and PROLONG U. S. nu clear superiority." WHY? It's a bit technical. Bul here is the gist of his argument: PUSSIA'S lead in the MON- S T E R S resulted from America's CONSIDERED DE CISION against concentrating on such bombs. He said "hor ror weapons" of the 100 meg aton (100 million tons of TNT) type, which Russia can devel op, have doubtful military utility compared to the small er megaton weapons which the U.S. can launch now with precision and in vast numbers. IIE PUT it this way: We just don't think the monsters are THE THING They are too unwieldy, for one thing. (If your enemy had nothing but a cannon and you had plenty of men with rifles, his armament would be so un wieldy that you could pick him off and get rid of him before he could get his huge cannon into action.) It was for that reason, he said, that we turned down the idea of monster bombs. We think our immensely greater number of smaller bombs are more efficient. The members of the Senate are reported to have listened with close attention to Sec retary McNamara's testimony. FROM armament, let's turn to inflation. Brazil has been having plenty of inflation trouble. Why? Well, the Brazilian govern ment spent TOO MUCH and taxed TOO LITTLE. When a government spends too much and taxes too little, inflation follows in the course of time. IT GOT pretty bad in Brazil It got so bad, in fact, that the Brazilians had trou ble finding places to carry their paper money. At first, the dispatches tell us, they solved the problem by using brief cases instead of wallets That took care of the situation for a while. Bin, as more and more money was printed by the Brazilian government (in or der to have something to pay its bills with) even the brief cases got too small. So the people took to carrying their money around in bundles wrapped in newspapers. THEN 1 Somebody up at the top had a briliant idea. Just print bills In BIGGER DENOMINATIONS. That doesn't take any more paper. It doesn t take any more ink. Just make the figures bigger. Thus, instead of havine to carry around sacks of little bills the people will have only one BIG bill to bother with. Isn't government Juiance J wonderful? w tions which may convince De Gaulle that he and he alone can guide France through the immediate years ahead. In the years since the West German Federal Republic came into being in 1949, the Matter oi Fact (C New York Herald (Joseph Alsop will be on vacation this month and gathering material 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 MARGUERITE HIGGINS MADAME. WOULD YOU LIKE SOME POSTCARDS? . Saigon The Xa Loi pagoda rises sharply from the other wise drab streets, its peaks and inverted arches seeming as exotic and mysterious as the sound of gongs and chant ing from the darkened inte rior. The large front gate was opened by brown-robed monks looking gaunt, stooped, and authentically ascetic. But once inside, the exotic mood was somewhat disrupted by the qustion (in French): "Madame, would you like some post cards?" The questioner was a Bud dhist layman running the pa goda souvenir shop. He had a special bargain that day which was a series of seven postcards showing the most important steps of the self immolation (the word "sui cide" is taboo around pagodas) by fire of the late Reverend Thich Quang Due, all for 70 piastres (about a dollar). There were more surprises in store at the Xa Loi pagoda. This now world-famous pa goda is the command post from which the Buddhist As sociation, one of a number of rival Buddhist groups, con ducts its anti-government agi tation. TN THE courtyard of the pagoda nearly every monk seemed deeply asborbed in a mimeographed sheet that was being handed out by an ap prentice monk, a boy in his early teens. A Vietnamese in terpreter was instructed to make polite inquiry of the monk about what he was read ing. It turned out that the monks were reading their press notices! The mimeograph ed sheets contained summar ies of stories appearing in New York and Washington concerning the anti - govern ment demonstrations by these Buddhists. The mimeograph machines at the pagoda are also busy preparing communi ques for the foreign press. The almost immediate appear ance that first day inside the pagoda of an English-speaking press spokesman helped complete the public relations picture. And finally the im pression that Madison Avenue had crossed the Pacific to the Xa Loi was reinforced by the sight of a saffron-clad monk clambering to the pagoda's outer wall to harangue the crowds through a loudspeak er. THE well-advertised quarrel between the Buddhist As sociation (other groups have kept aloof or disassociated themselves) and the govern ment began over the right to fly Buddhist flags on holy days and demands for great er opportunity to acquire property. Violence erupted be fore President Diem officially ceded on these and nearly all other points raised. He did so in a joint Diem-Buddhist agreement signed June 16. Then why the continuing demonstrations in Saigon and threats from the pagodas of more suicides? "We do n o t trust Diem's sincerity," said Thich Huyen Quang, a Bud dhist leader from the religious center of Hue. But he was "Throw-eway bottles . . . toft-top cans . . . 'pop-top' cans ... no wunntr wt're all outta condition. You make Hie too tasyl" United States carefully has nurtured West German public opinion. A neutralist, or pro - Com munist Germany could de termine the fate of the whole of Europe. By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate unable to furnish concrete examples of a governmental breach of faith in its agree ment. Only a few days ago, the Buddhists again refused Diem's offer to let them join with the government in tha presence of foreign corre spondents and international observers to investigate and remedy any claimed griev ances. This refusal, the re gime claims, shows that the Buddhists themselves feel that their grievances are too in substantial to stand the light of inquiry. In two days of talking with monks at the Xa Loi and Giac Minh pagodas, this cor respondent was repeatedly asked one question: "Will not world opinion force Ambassa dor Lodge to change his pol icy toward Diem?" AT THE same time tha monks insisted that tha "real place to see persecu tion was in the countryside. The senior monk at the Giaa Minh pagoda said that tha Catholics not only held all the best jobs in the provinces, but that in one particularly bad area (Quang Ngai) Bud dhists had been taken to jail and burned alive because they refused to let themselves be converted to Catholicism. Quang Ngai province is far north of Saigon and distant therefore from the . frenetiu rumors which not infrequent ly have taken in honorable diplomats as well as honor able Buddhists. In any case, inquiries in Quang Ngai about the "burn ing of Buddhists" or arrests of any kinds for religious reasons brought astoni shed denials. The queries were put to the American sector ad visor, the Buddhist sector commander, Buddhist leaders at the Quang Ngai pagoda, the Catholic province chief, and peasants in a half-dozen villages. The Buddhist sector commander - Col. Le Lan -was of the view that Bud dhists probably held a majori ty of the posts in the province, including those at the village level. A LL of which goes to show that you cannot judge Viet Nam by what "they say" in Saigon. For nowhere in the countryside, which is con stantly being circled by Stale Department reporters assign ed to do only that, is there religious persecution. As 10 Saigon, there is bitterness left over from police brutality in putting an end to recent street demonstrations. But if the Catholics were to lake to the streets in illegal demon strations defiant of the gov ernment, they would risk the same fate. In Quang Ngai it was left lo a Buddhist layman who followed the Americans to a hotel to come out with the most candid version of what the Buddhists are after in this campaign of refusing to let old grievances die. "I un derstand from Saigon," said the Buddhist conspiratorially, "that Mr. Lodge is going to get rid of Diem as soon as he arrives. That is why they are keeping trouble alive - so that American opinion will stay aroused. But in Quang Ngai there is no religious problem. Saigon wants us to make a fuss. But what would be the use? There are no re porters here to tell the world about it." The Buddhist looked in credulous when the Ameri cans expressed doubt that Mr. Lodge's mission would includa the hiring and firing of Viet namese government personnel.