MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
SUNDAY. AUGUST It, IMS
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ington which was captioned:
Proposed Domestic
Peace Corps Seen
As Help to Needy
Although I have carefully
perused the article I am still
sorely puzzled by its meaning.
. Would you please tell me,
Just who are the 'needy' peo
ple referred to in this matter.
Is it the personnel who will
serve as members, or is it
the Democratic party as
whole?
Both probably would qual
ify among those needing as
sistance. W. A. Allen
White City, Ore.
Parks and Food
To the Editor: Oregon
Dunes' map, also photo-
graphs, make one wonder.
' Have we not en obligation
to our sister state to add our
voice asking Congress to has
ten enactment of Oregon
Dunes National Seashore bill?
Webfoot State folk helped
California gain Point Reyes
National Seashore. This, under
ranger naturalists, will pro
vide for future generations
insight into God-in-Nature
miracles. Oregon thus help
ed California to victory just
as we helped Texas on Padre
Island National Seashore
campaign. This so vigorously,
Lone Star State Christmas
greeting cards wished "To
Bear Flag folk a Texas-sized
Christmas."
As to above "future gen
erations", many were startled
by a recent analysis of the
population explosion. It as
serts birthrate mathematics
work as ceaselessly as ocean's
tides. Final result, unless
problem is solved, disaster.
Meantime, must we not
plan to lessen overseas tra
gedy of starvation deaths? Is
not final solution stern con
trol, as Japan gained it? Un
til then, constant reminders
of starvation deaths. Today
an item "10,000 die of hun
ger."
As a pallative, until com
plete control is gained, re
searchists labor to locate new
food. Acres are limited. Ocean
still hold bounty. Thus, new
studies of how giant whales
persist.
As to said whales, we learn
the touch system at museums
accelerates education. Hence
undersigned contributes
"touch material" to a nation
wide string of children's ma
seums. For astronomy, fing
ering a small meteorite deep
ens impressions. As for ocean
ography, handliing a set of
whaleteeth contrasted with
the baleen of toothless whales
that can survive on microsco
pic plankton.
C. M. Goethe
3731 Tea st.
Sacramento 16, Calif.
Who Are "Needy"
To the Editor: Tuesday's
M-T carried a very interesting
article originating in Wash-
Buying Votes
To the Editor: One of the
Negro leaders appeared on TV
the other noon and said that
if the Republicans wanted the
Negro vote they should out
bid the Kennedys in campaign
promises. As he put it we
should "out-Kennedy the Ken
nedys." Such a silly remark shows
the caliber of the Negro lead
ership. As a minority group they
no longer want equal rights,
they want to be the privileged
class, not because they are
capable of being so but simply
because of their color.
The Kennedy dynasty has
just about sunk the "Old Ship
of State" in trying to keep
their campaign promises. Do
they think the Republicans
are foolish enough to com
pound this by making more?
The Negroes are evidently
trying to play both ends
against the middle and they
should have sense enough to
know that system always
back-fires.
The Republican party
should tell the Negroes and
the rest of the people that
it cannot be bought. The un
ions tried it and failed that
is why they are now backing
the Democrats.
Why should the Negro get
the idea we will sell our party
for a few thousand of their
votes. They over estimate
their importance.
Leila A. Morrow
531 N. Bartlett st.
Medford.
Poets' Corner
CeneWed ay
Arnold Eugeno Jenny
in
tetSSeJ net, uv hma Ii'mss
"I knew my folks didn't care if I dropped out of
school. I didn't know President Kennedy did. It's
kinda nice knowing somebody cares!"
spoke in the Senate on the
problem of automation, and I
am enclosing the tear sheet
from the Congressional Rec
ord which contains my re
marks at that time.
On July 25, Senator Javits
introduced a resolution, which
I was glad to co-sponsor,
which would set up a Presi
dential Commission on Auto
mation, and I am enclosing
copy of S.J. Res. 10S for your
information.
You may be sure that I
shall keep pressing for action
on this matter, and I know
that many of my colleagues
will join me.
I appreciate hearing
you.
Wayne Morse,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C
from
A poem is speech made musical. Rolfe Humphries,
"Author & Journalist," March, 1983.
O
Summer's Meier
How do you measure a summer day?
By wind ripples spreading on ripening hay?
By the turning of leaves in an ageless book,
Or the drift of fly along a brook?
How to measure a warm day but how?
Is it reddening plumpness in shadowed bough,
Or timing the flight of humming bird,
Honey-laden, green wings blurred,
From scarlet rose to lily, then
Back to the scarlet rose again?
How do you measure summer's time?
By the opening cadence of bluebells's chime?
How to measure spendthrift hours?
Only in memories that arc ours.
Emmabell Woodworth Davis
Grants Pass, Ore.
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Cremation
There's blood in the sky tonight
Where the thin waning wafer
Knifes its gory way
Through the languid layer
Of jaundice-yellow smoke,
The reluctant spirit of the forest
Which,
Just beyond that apathetic mountain,
Writhe
In flaming agony.
All day have I stood,
Bound to my prominence
By the adamant chains of Duty;
Stood and watched helplessly
While you,
Once verdant forest,
Died
Beyond the hills that shroud you
From my pained sight.
Unable am I to fight
The savage, sanguinary lips
That smack greedily
Over your raw, ragged wounds
And suck
From your naked, black, broken bones
The marrow of Life.
Blasted heavenward,
Your Soul,
The sultry, sulfurous pallor of Death
Hovers close,
As if unwilling to depart
From the charred carnage
From whence it flew.
Now the sun sets,
Staring wide-eyed in staTk horror
At the needless massacre below,
Illuminating as it dies
The forest's life-blood
Oozing over the shroud-hills
And spreading like a crimson pool
Across the pure, innocent sky.
Rodney A. Badger
Gold Hill, Ore.
Composed two years ago, at age 18, while in the U.S
r..t spir a. lnnkout on Huckleberry Mountain in east
ern Oregon; inspired by the dreadful sight of eight separate
....... fn,.t f ir in the Wallowa-Whitman and Uma-
tiii. N.Hnnal Forest. The author Is a student at Oregon
Progress
To the Editor: Several peo
ple have asked me recently
why I have not had a letter
in the Communications col
umn lately. I am told they
look forward to my contribu
tions and discuss them. To
these people I say thank you.
I am not a pillar of wisdom
nor a highly educated man. I
began my letter writing simp
ly to contribute to the ex
change of ideas you, Mr. Edi
tor, afford us.
Since politics and labor dis
cussions are of most interest
to me, the letter (M.T. 8-13-63)
by Mrs. M. G. Price of
Winston - Salem, N.C., seems
good material for discussion.
Headed as it is, "Deeply Dis
turbed," I can readily agree
its author certainly is.
Of all the things she men
tioned that disturbed her she
offered nothing to remove or
replace them. For as long as
we have the political set up
we have now, we can expect
the same thing over and over,
pious promises and pleasing
platitudes, and they are either
soon forgotten or rendered
impossible by close contact
with the problems at hand.
It has been my personal ob
servation over a period of
60 years that they, the Amer
ican people, become highly
enthused about a candidate
until he is elected, then after
a cooling-off period of only
a few months proceed to unite
in a campaign of fault-finding
instead of continuing to sup
port him by cooperation. It
always reminds me of some
thing read of a certain state's
governor: "When they elected
him they said he was a peach
and now they are trying to
impeach him.
We have often chosen a
President for our great land
and hailed him as the answer
to all problems, only to find
later that we did not under
stand the problems or the an
swers were all wrong.
No, Mrs. Price, to elect a
conservative President to our
progressive country would be
about as helpful as to revert
to horse drawn transportation
We can no more run our
Government by the standards
of yester-year than we can
oDerate a business by the
standards and values which
grandfather used, so let's not
say "git up" and at the same
time hold back on the reins,
I believe that the American
people must bring our think-
ine. wants and desires to an
equation with the times and
ways of obtaining them, our
desires, then we will be more
helpful to ourselves and our
public servants.
C. H. Burriu
834 'i Cherry st.
Central Point, Ore.
Gaulle's Paris Declaration an
nouncing the independence of
Algeria occurred on Feb. 9.
There was also law-break
ing among powerful people.
The Billie Sol Estes case
broke into the open, the great
est scandal of national scope
that has occurred in decades,
and several other crimes in
high places.
I could go on and on ex
plaining examples. Most any
school child knows that the
moon and sun in opposition
cause the tides in the oceans
That we can see. With a little
study with an open mind of
the other planets, astrology
becomes adaptable. Back to
the dark ages is hardly the
place to seek enlightenment.
Mary E. Atkins
1634 Orchard Home dr.
Medford.
Astrology
To the Editor: Astrology is
just as deep a science as as
tronomy, and has a connec
tion to it, as astrologers get
the positions every day of the
stars and planets by phoning
the astronomers before they
can go to work on their pre
dictions. It also requires
great deal of mathematics.
Superstition or witchcralt
has no connection with it
whatsoever. There always will
be people that believe in su
perstition, as on Feb. 4, 1962
when all the planets less one
were all piled up In one house
(a house is 30 degrees of
circle). The superstitious
thought the end of the world
was at hand.
Being in an adverse posi
tion, it meant unusual and
extraordinary things would
take place; not necessarily all
on that exact day, but soon
after.
Some of these happenings
you saw in the news, as fol
lows:
Revolt and rebellion occur
red in France, Algeria, Syria,
Burma, Ankara, Mauritania,
Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela
Ecuador, Peru, British Gui
ana, and Guatemala.
Another revolt was that of
the Organization of American
States against Cuba, when it
expelled that nation. Fidel
Castro's Second Havana Dec
laration came on the day of
the Feb. 4 eclipse, while De
Danceable Music
To the Editor: A few weeks
ago a letter appeared in the
Medford Mail Tribune in re
gard to the dance music that
is being played in this valley,
I must agree that the kind
of music played nowdays at
most of the dance halls has
caused me and many of my
friends to quit dancing or try
ing to dance any more except
to the music played by the
orchestra that is playing for
the benefit dances at Central
Point and the K. P. hall in
Medford.
Another reason dancers are
not satisfied with most dance
halls is the idea of trying to
mix Old Timers with the
youngsters. There is an old
saying: "Try to please every
body and you please nobody."
Some of the younger people
go to the Central Point dances
and at K. P. hall, and are
learning the good old dances
that they can enjoy anywhere
they may go in the future,
because waltz and twostep
and other good dances are
danced all over the United
States and will continue to be
danced as long as a fiddle
and a piano and an accordion
player can be found.
Allard Shipman
152 Orange st.
Ashland, Ore.
Ai Home
To the Editor:
Where is the girl and boy
today
Who said, "I do," now each
gone their way.
Where Is their peace, happi
ness and joy,
Who tossed it away, the girl
or the boy?
They made vows that they
promised to keep,
Will regret at last, cause
them to weep?
We hope they will stop and
think
And from a broken marriage
shrink.
False excuses they give to you
and me
But truth we don't know you
see.
And seeds of deceit, when
they grow
Will be pricks In their hearts.
O! Oh!
A home and rich furnishings
to prize
Wont be a joy, if memories
bring sighs;
Spurred by ambition to get
ahead
Won't bring happiness when
love is dead.
Peace and happiness they'll
never find
Until together their old love
binds,
Love cannot be bought with
gold,
They'll understand, when they
get old.
The world is filled with
ambition and pride.
So few are willing their joys
to divide;
They hustle and bustle with
selfish greed.
Dreaming and planning,
another deed. .
Dreaming of fortune to come
their way,
While waiting they lose the
joy of today,
They may seek joy as far as
they can roam
When they find it, they'll find
it at home.
Mabel Harmon,
1035 Cherry St.,
Medford
! ,, -Si , j us
RECEIVE CHECK Already in the banks
drawing interest Is the majority of the
$2,356,903.21 check the Jackson county
court and treasurer received Friday as the
county's share of the O and C timber re
ceipts. Presenting the check was Don Sco
field (left), district manager of the bureau
of land management here. It is being ac
cepted by County Judge Earl Miller and
Commissioner Don Faber. Waiting with a
bag (In reality a typewriter cover) is County
Treasurer Karl Janouch (right) who ex
plained that "he wanted something big
enough to carry it." Of the check, $1,900,
000 has been deposited for the county and
nearly $197,000 for the schools. From now
until Jan. 1 it will earn $249.47 in interest
each day. During the year this money plus
that already on hand will earn the county
about $65,753.09 in interest.
A 5
Dhrvpt$ Ceremony
Athena, Ore. - HOT - A new
section of Highway 11 near
here was dedicated Wednes
day despite the fact that some
one forgot to bring along the
ribbon for the ceremony. .
Etght-year-old Joan Marie
Healy of Heppner finally did
the honors after someone
made a hurried trip to Athena
to buy some yellow ribbon.
4
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eWeglveiWf
Green Stem
T&COLUMIIAN
XSOPTICAICO.
MIDfORD SHOPPING CINTM
Ors. Omar J. Notes
and William Hodson
Christmas in August
To the Editor: I cut the en
closed article out of August,
63 issue of Sunset magazine.
I thought it would be of inter
est to people of the valley if
printed in the Tribune. We
have lived here a good many
years and have never heard
of this custom before.
I'm sure there are lots of peo
ple who do not know of this.
We plan to go up sometime
during the "Christmas Week. '
Mrs. Helen Roberts
P. O. Box 736
Central Point, Ore.
O
Christmas at Crater Lake
Because it's normally closed
during December, Crater Lake
Lodge celebrates its Christ
mas this year on August 25.
Often, snowfall during the
last week in August lends an
authentic air to this celebration.
During "Christmas Week"
there's a large decorated
Christmas tree in the main
lobby. On Christmas Eve
(August 24) employees in cos
tume parade through the
campgrounds singing carols.
Automation
To the Editor: One of the
great factors in the economic
world, and one that profound
ly affects our lives, is auto
mation. The more informa
tion we get about this highly
important process, the easier
will be the period of transi
tion. We must be prepared
for profound changes in man
ufacturing, retailing, and
transportation.
As usual, Oregon's Senator
Morse is awake and alert.
David Frisch,
P.O. Box 292,
White City, Ore.
O
Dear Mr. Frisch: I was very
much interested In reading
your letter on the subject of
automation and your com
ments about It. As you know
from reading my July 19th
newsletter, I have been con
cerned about this matter tor
some time. On April 30 I
Exams Announced for
Civil Service Jobs
Examinations for core drill
operator, marine oiler (diesel)
and marine oiler (steam) have
been announced by the board
of U.S. civil service exami
ners, U.S. Army Engineer dis
trict, Portland.
Applications for core drill
operator will be accepted un
til Sept. 3, and applications
for oilers until further notice.
The blanks are available at
628 Pittock Block, Portland 5,
Ore., and at any first and sec
ond class post office.
Dr. Bornet Lists
Addition of Course
Ashland - Dr. Vaughn D.
Bornet, chairman of the social
science division at Southern
Oregon college, has announc
ed an addition to the division
this fall entitled History of
American Thought and Cul
ture, to be instructed by Dr.
Frederick Rosentreter, asso
ciate professor of social science.
"All history," according to
Dr. Rosentreter, "is a study of
various aspects of change;
this course emphasizes the In
teractivities between the
worlds of thought and action.
To better appreciate the story
of this nation, it Is important
that we be acquainted with
the origins of definitions of
right and wrong."
The course is divided into
three terms: The colonial and
federalist period; nineteenth
century democracy and na
tionalism; and thought and
culture in the twentieth cen
tury. The textbook includes
readings from the original
works of the nation's men of
ideas.
Music Device on
Vehicle Permitted
There was music Thursday
night at the Medford city
council meeting.
Herb Herzog, operator of
a mobile ice cream business,
asked the council for permis
sion to operate a musical de
vice on his ice cream truck.
To help the council reach
a decision, Herzog offered to
give the group a sample of
the music he would use.
Councilman William Singler
grinned and said, "It might
set a precedent, but I'd like
to hear a little music In here."
Herzog turned on a phono
graph and the strains of "Mis
ter Softee" wafted through
the council chamber.
Tamed by the soothing, mu
sic box-like sound, the council
voted 7 to 1 to grant the re
quest.
Try and Stop Mo
-ly 1ENNETT CIRF-
OLONEL J. H. WILLIAMS recalls reasonably improb--
able story about a football match, between team of
elephant and a team of ants. Seems that when one of the
antt broke loose into the
open with the ball, the
last pachyderm who had
chance to atop him
planked down one foot
and crushed him to death.
Censured by the crowd
and even his own team
mates' for stooping to such
drastic measures, the for
lorn offender apologized,
"Honest, fellers, I only
meant to trip him up."
A cynical professor at
Yale always reminded bud
dine; authors', "A beat-seller
has to capture the reader' Interest Immediately. Your very flrat
paragraph should contain (1) sex, (2) high life' and big money,
and (3) an unconventional situation." On that basis, he nomin
ated a the unbeatable beginning; "Dammit, King," grumbled
the Duchess, "leggo my leg."
e
Els. Maxwell credit three words for making guests at her
parties feel welcome and at home. "When they arrive," explains
Mis Maxwell, X murmur, 'At last' end when they arise to depart,
I protest, 'Already?'"
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