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4 A "Everyone tt Southern Oregon Reads TAe Mall Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 83 Worth fir St., Ph. 77-ai4l ROBERT W BUHL. Editor HERB GEEV Advcrtlllnf Mannael GERAltD I LATHAM Bui Mir ERIC W ALLEN JR Mn Editor EARL U ADAMS, City Editor RICHARD JIWETf. Sports Editor OUVE STARCHES Women's Edltoi DALE ttUCKlON. Circulation Mgr An Indeoendent NawioDe Entered aa second class matter a Madford. Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Hv Mail In Advance Dally and Sunday 1 year (11.00 Daily and Sunday 6 moa 10.00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa. a.ou Sunday Only One year $5 00 Simla Copy (Mailed) aoe Fw Carrier And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year $21.00 Pally and Sunday 1 mo. 1.73 Sunday Only 1 mo. SOo Carrier and Vendors Copy 10c Official Paper of City of Medford omciej raper or jacasun wi uintj United Press international lull Leased Wire U. P 1 Telephoto Newsplcturae MEMBER OF AUDIT BOREAU" or UBliULAlluna Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS It ASSOCI ATES Ollcea In New Vork. Chi cago. Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angelaa, Seattle. Portland. Denrar. NIWSrAPlt PUtlltHIIS V-'AMOCIATION UTIONAl EOITOIIAI Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 26, 1953 (Wednesday) Water fluoridation will be debated at public forum. Pear crop harvest nearing full swing. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 26, 1943 (Thursday) Andrew Hearn, Phoenix postmaster for 33 years, re tires. . From Arthur Perry's "Ye ' Smudge Pot" column: "Wash ington, D.C., reports pending war fraud trials will exceed the 1017-1918 variety. They will have to go some to beat buying 13,000,000 bridles for 248 army mules. No 'ar frauds' other than those In. volving money will be pros, ecuted." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 26, 1933 (Saturday) Many in county to seek loans on homes, filings show. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 26, 1123 (Sunday) Air mail assured as result of recent tests. Large crowd In city to at tend Ringling Brothers circus. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 26, 1913 (Tuesday) State aid promised for pav ed highway in Jackson coun ty. Erection of cement plant at Gold Hill hinges on bond elec tion. What's Your I.Q.? Nine r tan correct h superior; seven or aifht it excellent; five ar sil b toed. 1. From what town in Eng land did the Pilgrims come to Plymouth, Mass.? 2. What war was won by using a wooden horse? 3. Correct the following: "The recipe calls for three spoons full of flour." 4. Does the earth's surface obtain most of its heat from the sun, or from internal heat? B. Whom did Napoleon div orce to marry Marie Louise? 6. Which of these fruits has the most calories per pound apples, bananas, peaches, or avocados? 7. A device on which an amount of electric current is controlled by moving a slide along a resistance coil is call ed a what? 6. A fifty megaton atom bomb is equivalent to how much T.N.T.? B. What was the popular slo gan of Americans during the Spanish-American War' 10. Is strontium 90 a clean ing agent, atomic fallou, or motor fuel? Antwarat 1. Plymouth, Eng. Z. Trojan War. 3. "spoonfuls." 4. Bun. S. Joiaphine. 6. Avo cados. 7. Rheostat. 9. Fifty million ions. 9. "Remember the Maine." 10. Atomic fall out. INCORPORATE Salem - (WD - Articles of incorporation were on file to day for Rocking "SE" Brand Land and Cattle company, Ashland, signed by Earl K. Edsall, Jimmle D. English and Kenneth D. Snyder. MONDAY. AUGUST 26. 1963 A Program The 1963 Legislature, which was far more money conscious than backers ot tne referral would have us believe, knew where the money goes. It goes for education. Many of them reasoned that if the state offered less education, it could save money. One way to get away with offering less education is to make it more expensive. Thus the Legislature pressured the State Board of Higher Education into increasing tuition. Of course, that tuition was already the high est in the West. But it wasn't quite high enough to keep sufficient students from going to col lege. It had to be raised again. It was a great plan. And it's worked fine. PRELIMINARY figures suggest that enroll- ments on some of the state's campuses will not exceed last year's. Some may be smaller. This is so despite the fact that 1963 high school grad uating classes were larger than any previous classes, and despite the fact that high school stu dents are becoming ever more aware of their own need for more education. At the University of Oregon admissions thus far are 4.1 per cent un der last year's At Oregon btate the figure is J.b, at Oregon College of Education 11.4. As the Legislature understood, many stu dents can afford the higher tuition. Every legis lator knows, or knows of, some rich kid who drives to the campus in his Jag and who has an unlimited allowance. And that kid ought to pay more. Well, he will pay more. He can afford it, so the tuition increase won't hurt him a bit. The ones who will be the ones from families so solicitously during campaigns. It is the poor, not the rich, who are being priced right off the campus. JUITION, $330 a year for resident students next OUIUU1 JCCVl, HtXO UUUUICU OiillwC VVU, Wtlalsi costs have gone up too, although not so sharply, Eossibly because other costs are not controlled y people with such sharp heads for business. True, much of the decrease, but not all of it, is accounted for by the strange reluctance of out-of-state students to come here. They seem to be balking at the $900 tuition, which is up from the $525 they paid last year and the $345 they paid in 1955. The $900, by the way, is the actual cost of education. So no longer does Oregon subsidize out-of-staters, 'although many other states remain will ing to encourage Oregon's brightest boys and girls to sample living and studying in their states. THIS plan for cutting state expenses is work ing so well that maybe the next Legislature (and governor, who's in this thing to his hips) can so arrange it that even fewer students can afford to go to college. The rich ones, again, can survive. But eventually the people of Oregon must make some policy decisions. Are Oregon boys and girls, even the poor ones, to get a crack at college, or are they not? Are Oregon boys and girls to pay more for that experience than the boys and girls of other western states? Can we really afford to neglect wise man agement of the state's most important resource, the brains of our own young people? Eugene Register-Guard. Our Washington There are a good many "special correspond ents" in Washington men and women who serve the particular needs of specific newspa pers, as differed from the reporters for the great newswire services who of necessity must center their major attention on state, national and world issues of vital interest to everyone. Of these "special correspondents," increas ing recognition has come to a young man who walked into The Statesman oil ice nearly 12 years ago and "sold" him self as the special Washing ton representative of this newspaper. He is A. Robert Smith, now crowding 40, who was then building a clientele of select newspapers in the Far Northwest. (Editor's note: These now include the States man, The Bulletin of Bend, the Eugene Register Guard, The Oregonian, the Pendleton East Ore- gonian, and the Medford Mail Tribune.) A LLEN DRURY, famed author of "Advise and Consent," calls him "a top reporter." For his book "Tiger in the Senate," Oregon's Wayne Morse called him a lot worse, but that only boom ed the book's sales and it still ranks as a fair ap praisal of an intelligent and complex man. And now we find this comment in a sum mary of Washington correspondent in Columbia University's "Review:" "There are some who specialize in analytical or Interpretive pieces, deliberately staying away from wire coverage or releases, and provide a useful view of Washington to papers which might otherwise be unable to afford regional-oriented analysis. Among the best of these is A. Robert Smith who covers (or a number of papers in the Northwest. Smith and his wile wi'ik sepa rate beats, he on politics and economics, she on health, education, and weliure. They operate on Smith's Law: "The handout is a clue, not news." Nov, before we close this opus we must ex pand on the "his wife" part of that tribute. "His wife" is Yvonne Franklin., who in recent years also has become a familiar by-line. We hadn't bargained to get Yvonne, too, when we took on A. Robert. But we're glad we have her and she has added vitally to the service provided by our Washington news headquarters.. They make a great team. Oregon StatemiinT sMri. That 'Works" hurt are the poor ones, that politicians speak of Team MUlCai'lnP. 11 ' fc ! New Boy Ansa Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer. althouqh under certain circumstances 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 tr4 paper. In fact the contrary is often Ethics Coda To the Editor: It is with de light that I notice the Med ford High students have a "code of ethics" to follow. however, it is with disgust that I am advised the Junior High students have no such codes to follow..- The very tilings "outlawed" for the Senior High students are al lowed in the 7th, 8th and 8th grades. Is it any wonder the Senior High students re bel? After all, they've been practicing these "outlawed" styles, etc., for years. It would seem an oppor tune time for the school board to enforce rules for the lower grades re (1) dying hair, (2) culottes, (3) nylons, and (4) heavy make-up. Weren't public schools set up as a place of learning? It's evident the Medford Jun ior High students are learn ing more about college dress than how to prepare for a col lege education and or work ing for his or her own living. What's wrong with the school board? They take ac tion re Senior students now where do said students hail from? Yes! They come from Junior High schools where almost anything is allowed. Is it any wonder students drop out disgusted because the school administration is in fringing on their personal life and habits? Mrs. William Nelson 428 Fairmount Medford. Street Numbers To the Editor: Our good city has passed the 25,000 pop ulation mark. Business people complain about shopping cen ter activity drawing from the downtown area. Walk up the street and look around you. How many bus inesses have the street num ber over their doorways? 1 doubt if you will find 30 per cent of the business institu tions with the street number showing on the front of their locations. It's easy for those of us who "know" where llicse shopkeepers are, but this is a city of 25,000 persons and w attract many out of town shoppers. If our street num bers are not shown on the fronts of our buildings, doors or windows, it is natural that people will end up out of the downtown area. Let's do something about it! There is a city ordinance which requires numbering of all buildings with outside en Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF "TT'HY DON'T you play golf with Lester any more?" ' ' akcd a wife one evening. "Hmph," snorted her hus band. "Would you pluy with a sneak who puts down the wrong score and moves his ball when you aren't looking?'' "I certainly would not," asserted the wife. "Well," said the u u 1 . : t t. "uauani.1. turning udcti u his paper, "neither will Lester." A Harvard graduate, serving his stretch as a G I , sneaked off the drill field for a rest in the shade of a, tree. There he w as discov ered by a tough old ser geajit who balked, "What the bUnk bUnk are vou do ing under this tree?'' The Harvard giad'.u'.e stammered. "I'm procrastinating, sir" "Hmph." muted the old syrgsant. "Well, okay then, but see that you keep bu.-y." o Joey Bishop knows a Tesan who lo t Thaakaf.vir Day so much ho Just bought the whole month of November. OVERHEARD: From a lady in a branch r"t office: "This rscka.se contains very fragile vase so please throw it undeilund." On a beach in Long Island: "It can t be much of a racht: he says he keeps it in a basin." 6 1963. by Bannett Ccrf. retributed br Kint 1'naiures Syndicate BEDFORD MAIL TRIBdNE. MEDFORD, OREGON In School the use of a pen name or initial the case. trances by building owner or tenant, and the numbers are assigned by the director of building safety. Let's have this ordinance enforced and lot's voluntarily make the change for the bet terment of all of our areas. Even at the shopping center, it would help for the firms to be numbered. It's time we are waking up. We have a great showroom with the Freeway going thru our town. We attract tourists with recreation, Festivals, Shakespeare, etc. Let's make it easy for them to locate a business when they check the yellow pages. Fred R. Brennan 1933 Westerlund dr. Medford. Who's To Judge? To the Editor: I have been reading communications for some time now, but have nev er in my life read anything on it like I did Aug. 23. I'm re ferring to Thomas N. Bost wick's letter, or I should say trash! Who in the world are you to judge who is a heathen and who isn't? "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Matt. 7 ver. 1. There are thousands and more people who worship on Sunday that are fine Christian people, who love and respect God our Savior with all our hearts. Before you start to talk about us so called heath ens, you better search your own souls. Please if this is what you believe, please keep it to your selves. And may the Good Lord have pity on your souls. Mrs. Barbara Corwin . 511 Alice Medford New Elevator Rules Scheduled for Study Salem - lUPH - Rules on new elevator safety standards will be considered Sept. 4 at a public hearing in Portland, Labor Commissioner Norman O. Nilson announced today. The hearing will be held in room 36 of the state office building, starting at 9:30 a.m. New rules are necessary to conform with changes in the elevator safety law enacted by the 1963 legislature. The amendments will become ef fective Sept. 2. Foreign News: France, W. Germany Cool Toward Inspections; Mideast Nasser Push By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: No Deal The French, who have re fused to sign the partial nu clear test ban treaty, now also are con fid en t that n o thing will come of U.S. and Soviet talks aim e d at setting up observer posts on both sides of the Iron S3 LaSU Curtain frontier in Germany Editorial JACKSON COUNTY'S FINE NEW PARK The other day, a new rec reational area on Howard Prairie lake in Jackson coun ty was dedicated. The story behind it is significant. This is a man-made reser voir which is a part of the Talent irrigation project. The primary purpose is the rec lamation of land for agricul tural purposes. But the recreational poten tial was seen as early as five years ago. The problem then was to find the way to de velop the potential. How this was done provides a heartening example of inter-agency cooperation. How ard Prairie is a U. S. Bureau of Reclamation project on Bu reau of Land Management land. Recreational facilities were built by the reclamation bureau in accordance with plans prepared by the Nation al Park Service. They have been turned over to Jackson county, which is operating the area through a concession aire. in the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS South Viet Nam gets back into the news. There appears to have been a palace revolu tion in Saigon, the capital, and Henry Cabot Lodge, our new ambassador, has been hustled down there to find out what is going on and what we can do about it. Dispatches indicate that President Diem's brother has taken over in the palace and appears to be running the shebang. WHAT kind of person is this brother who has taken over? It's hard to say, but recent news reports seem to indicate that it is his wife who wears the pants in his family. There are religious aspects to the trouble. Buddhist monks have been protesting against the attitude of the ruling family. Their protests have taken the form of burning themselves to death in flaming pyres. Of these protests, the lady said the other day: "I would clap hands at seeing another monk-barbecue, for one can not be responsible for the madness of others." A pleasant sort of character, isn't she? QUESTION: Where do we come into the picture? Well, on the theory that communist control of South Viet Nam would greatly fa cilitate communist PENETRA TION of other parts of South east Asia, we have had 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in the country to help fight the Viet Cong, who are the commu nists. In addition we have been pungling up about a million dollars a day. to the ruling Diem government. QUESTION No. 2: How did we ever get mixed up in that awful mess, anyway? Question No. 3: Isn't it getting to be about time for us to GET OUT? SHUCKS! Let's get closer home. There are strange goings-on in the U.S.A. IN MADISON, N.Y.. the rath-1 numan beings non i nave cr tidv sum of S351.875 I tlle r'Sht " Poif0n m,man be" ; has been' found in a wealthy '"Bs. who does- That disposes widow's safe, from which an ' of that . estimated S250.000 was stolen ! Now then, about those other earlier in the week. j living things which crawl. , Police say they had broken swim, fly and grow. The issue j open an inner compartment gets a little touchy here, but ' in the five-foot-high safe and , I feel we can resolve it. After discovered the new sum. The all, who is the most superior : widow, a Mrs. Grove Hinman. life form on our planet? We ' says she didn't know the human beings Who is enriow money was there. ed with the wisest wisdom of Her husband, who died in aip ve human beings Who. 1961. is described by the;,lprl ls ,hp dav-to-dnv eusto- iipi Elinors m an RrrpniriL- automobile dealer and farmer who was in the habit of car- rvini? InrttA in nf niti v ....... .... around with him because he uni,. j QUESTION: With outdated i d e a s I about money like that, how j So all we need do is ask I did the old boy ever accumu- 'ourselves whether it is not our late the S601.875 he had. solemn duty to save all the I parked away in the old safe? 'caribou, the turtle doves, the to guard against surprise at tacks. A first round of dis cussion in the NATO council last week showed West Ger many and France cool to the idea. Several smaller NATO members are against any kind of direct Washington-Moscow deal. The Mideast The French also see little serious danger that the latest outbreak between Israel and Syria will grow into a major conflict. They believe the Syrians and the Iraquis are interested mainly in pressur ing U.A.R. President Gamal Comment It's worth noting that the recreational and Natural Re sources committee of the Port land Chamber of Commerce in 1958 took a hand in getting the various agencies together. What has been done is a source of pride for the Bureau of Reclamation and Jackson county. At the dedication, H. T. Nelson, the bureau's re gional director, called it "the cleanest, best managed facili ty in the Northwest." He call ed attention to the fact that the pre - construction recrea tional estimates were for 20,. 000 usage days per year and that last year the actual usage days had exceecled213,000. The facilities, which include a boat-launching ramp, camp grounds and picnic areas, are already overcrowded. Not many years ago, the Bureau of Reclamation didn't regard recreation as impor tant. Experience has proved that recreation follows wher ever the reservoirs are built. And in some parts of Oregon the economic value of recre ational use outweighs the val ue oi -f e watering of the land. Howa. 'I Prairie lake helps fill a reui recreational need in southern Oregon. We are glad the agencies involved found a way to get the job done. -Oregon Journal. Human Beings Are Very Superior By Arthur Hoppe Washington - Mr. Kennedy has asked the Senate for an "historic debate" on the nu clear test ban treaty. But like most of his proposals to Con gress it just isn't panning out. True, there is a division of opinion among our Senators. One faction is firmly for the treaty, but has reservations. The other just has reserva tions. But, if you ask me, this doesn't make for much of a debate. Now there's no question a lot of our Senators would like to be against the treaty. In fact, they'd love to be against the treaty. But the trouble, I think, is that they just haven't come up with any good rea sons for everybody to keep on blowing up thermonuclear bombs. It's lucky they've got me. For in order to please Mrj Kennedy, help our trust, ated , Senators and promote a de- j cent historic debate, I ve been working up arguments in fa vor of bomb testing. And, when you put your mind to it, there are surprisingly many. First of all, what do those who favor the ban say? They it n..nt...Unv L-mnt tnstinn bombs that air is coins to get very radioactive, wnic i "ui ' " , ' ,,:.. not to mention caribou, turhe doves, halibut and daffodils. And who is man, they say. to louse up this planet Well, I feel a little sober reflection will dispose of these specious arguments in short order. Take the fact that ra dioactivity poisons human be ings. Do we have the right to j poison human beings? But' j we're human beings too. And I dian of these lower lorms which crawl, swim, fly and grow? We superior human be- i I jn- I .. ., . ,., ,, ! And, being superior, isn t it , up to us to decide whether I to poison them or not? Of j ! course it is . I Abdel Nasser into showing his solidarity with the Baath controlled government in Da mascus and Baghdad with which he has little real sympathy. Spanish Bases Madrid expects dev e 1 o p- ments shortly in U.S. and,,. . .. . . Spanish negotiations over U.S. military bases in Spain. The present 10-year pact ends Sept. 23. Spain is believed pressing for U.S. political support in a bid to enter the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization. But Madrid ob servers are speculating that U.S. missile strength has re duced the importance of Spanish air bases to the stra tegic air command and that the United States will not be willing to bid too high for them. Involved besides the air bases are the Polaris sub marine base at Rota on the southwestern coast and nu merous smaller installations including posts for aircraft control and warning systems spotted throughout the nation. Strictly Personal By Sydney (cl Field Enterprises- Inc. TRUE REASON The man on the beach was talking to his teen-age son about "reason." and the need to follow the rule of reason in one's life.. I could not help overhear- il ing wnai ne C!)H ll Uf3C 1 clear, simple, ... ...... I logical and j true-as far as s U ,nr,l T3..1 i , it went. But it iiarri" did not go far enough. As he spoke, I recol lected a lovely line from one of Santayana's books, in which the philosopher said: "Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational im pulses." . halibut and the daffodils of the free world from the piti less yoke of communism. And the Russians can similarly go on saving the communist cari bou, turtle doves, halibut and daffodils from the menace of capitalism. Thus, you see, we superior human beings can wisely de cide that when it comes to the lower life forms in our care, poison is good for them. Po litically speaking. This leaves us with the fi nal question: Who is man lo louse up this planet? Non sense. Whose planet, I ask, is it? It's ours by right of our superior wisdom. And if we, in our superior wisdom, want to louse it up, that's our busi ness. T rile nrpreHpnt- va humor. beinos in our stioerior wi5ri..m have areadv eroded this nian deMrSyt? i, o? gnd ..,.,., i i,n i, I " .... , i air, who's to stop us? Who? So there you have the argu ment in favor of our right to go on blowing up bombs. And I trust we'll now have a more spirited historic debate, with oeuaio.s .eap.ng lo uicir leci rh"SPose ine treaty tortn- v , ,u i For if there s one concept ' lhat , P"1, nsl t0 ,?ur .a"s s ine laea mat tney . are endowed with Superior iJ.f ' K -V 4 "A domestic Peace Corps is a good idej. Il U jive young Feople a chance to see how the other half lives!" Red China Shakeup Diplomatic reports out of Red China suggest that a ma jor shakeup is in the making for the Peking government. Most likely to be affected, it is said, are those who map and guide Red China's for eign policy - not because of what they did but how they rri u w,..nn be maintained but without some of the diplomatic crudi ties that have become a trade mark of many Chinese Com munist diplomats. Japan-Korea Relations Tokyo expects the South Korean military government to step up efforts for the re sumption of normal diplo matic relations with Japan before the promised presi dential and national assembly elections in Korea this fall. Successful conclusion of the protracted normalization talks between the two countries would be a feather in the cap of the military government and an accomplishment well worth exploiting in its elec tion campaign. i. Ha.ris This is precisely what the father left out: "harmony among irrational impuluses." The man was trying to be more reasonable than a hu man being can he and that road leads lo tyranny (witness the French Revolution) or in- dividual breakdown (an in- I omn nn...-nn ; . L . 4 1 1 ..one Miiairi is iiic nujM re en ' lessly reasonable of all, once i you accept his first premise), I . . what is most valuable among Freud's discoveries -and ultimately much more so than the current over, emphasis on sexuality is his exposure lo the light of our irrational impulses, of the blind and sometimes demonic forces lhat compel us to repeal our childhood palierns of 'relating to oth ers and to ourselves. Reason is not, as the an cients thought, the power to think logically, while rigor ously expelling all irration al feelings from one's mind. Rather, it is the rare ability to accept and understand such irrational feelings, and to make them work in har mony with one another, in stead of in conflict. I This is the task of the ma ture human ego to deal out even - handed justice bclh to the dictates of real ity and to the infantile needs thai persist within us. And the dangerous para dox of "reasonableness" is that, inevitably, it leads to severe repression of our in stinctual needs and makes us wildly irrational in our defense of "reason." Parents of this type most often fail to understand their children, because the parents have "grown up" in only one direction. They are respon sible, prudent, rational, in lerms of the social roles they play but they have, at the same time, not grown up ' onoush ,0 reach a harmony : amonS their irrational impuls- "' h ? impulses .except when they drink), and therefore resent them in their children. To know that one is incom- plelc. imperfect, irrational, at times dominated by childishly wicked wishes, is to be truly rational. To pretend otherwise is the height of folly. It is no accident that the greatest tragedies of history have been commuted by men who followed an utterly "rea sonablc" goal, which led them to the bloodiest depths of fan j at.c.sm. Denying the child within us is the surest path to monster. sm. 4 i
