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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.
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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-
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' lessly reasonable of all, once
i you accept his first premise),
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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-
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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.
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