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4 A - MEOFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON "Everyone Id soutnern Oregon D I. Th. Mail Trlhiinjt" Published Daily except Saturday by " 33 Horlh fir St. Ph. T7a-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY AdverUsInf Manager GERALD T LATHAM, Bui Mgr ERIC tV ALLEN JR. Mm Editor EARL n AUAM3, Vliy bailor nnnna v. u . .'"'! . . RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHES Women's Editoi PALE ER1CKS0N. Circulation Mgr An IndeDendent Newipapel r entered aa eecond class matter at . Aiedford. Oregon unaer Act oi : March 3, 18ST ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES !. R Mill In Advance. ' Daily and Sunday I yeartlS.OO Daily and Sunday mos. 10 00 ' Daily and Sunday 3 mos. i 0U ; Sunday Only One year 5 oo Slnele Codv (Mailed I 200 !. sw rnt-riAr And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year 2 J , l-uiy ana ouna t Sunday Only 1 mo. Wo 5 Carrier and Vendors Copy 10c i Official Paper of City of Medford J Official Paper ot Jackson County United press iniernauonai ; Sull Leased Wire - tj. P. I. Telephoto New.pU.ures ! TSSMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU ; OF CIRCULATIONS NELSON ROBERTS 4 ASSOC. ats-q nt'irM in New York. Chi cago. Detroit. San Francisco, Los Angelas, aeaiuc, - v .,..,. Denver. NtWlPAPH UIMIHEtS association NATIONAL EDITORIAL Playland of the West In prior discussions of the Rogue Basin project, which will involve the construction of three dams, most of the emphasis has been placed on two factors additional irrigation water and on improvement of the quality of the wa ter in the lower Rogue. These factors are, of course, immensely im portant, and will benefit the entire area. Some discussion has been noted of the rec reational benefits, too. But not, in our view, as much as the potential justifies. Anyone who has watched Howard Prairie lake become one of the area s major recreationa sites can understand this. CO CAN those who have seen Detroit dam and reservoir on the Santiam river. It furnishes a play area for thousands upon thousands of people on summer week ends and week days. Howard rraine covers some 2,000 acres at maximum height. Detroit reservoir, when full, covers 3,580 acres. The Lost Creek reservoir of the Rogue project will cover some 3,100 acres half again larger than Howard frame, and nearly as large as Detroit. None of these are as large as the bhasta Lake impoundment, but they are large enough to ac commodate boating, water skiing, swimming all the water sports which have become so pop ular in recent years, and which provide the basis tor any good recreational site. Member California Newspaper Publishers Association U-Boat Flight o' Time Medford ind Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 year ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 27, 1953 (Thurtday) The State Traffic Safety division office in Salem re ported it has received word from Ashland that the south ern Oregon city has complet ed its third consecutive year without a traffic fatality. General rain with amounts ranging from light to moder ate fell over southern Oregon last night and this morning. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 27, 1943 (Friday) Russian, German tank bat ties rage in Ukraine. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A con gressman fooling around Wisconsin dairy farm was chased by a bull and pursued -just did make it over the fence in time. The bull was trying to get revenge for be ing thrown so much by the statesman. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 27, 1933 (Friday) City and county to be check ed for blue eagles. Annual Southern Oregon golf tourney opens. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 27. 1923 (Monday) Reginald H. Parsons to ex hibit fancy stock at state fair. Business on Pacific coast shows steady increase. -.' v 50 YEARS AGO . Aug. 27, 1913 (Wednetday) Rich strike reported at Kane creek mine. Prosperous year predicted for fruit growers. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct it superior; even or tight is aicellent; five or sit ft good. 1. Which State of the Un ion leads In the production of Irish potatotes? 2. Is a road runner a bird, squirrel, hobo, or painted strip? 3. The land borders of Korea touch China and what other country? 4. During the War Between the States, what group was. Known as Copperheads? 5. In which state is Rocky Mountain National Park? 6. In which state was Will Rogers born? 7. Hair, does, or does not grown on a body after death? 8. In what year did the Bos ton Tea Party occur? 9. Are the Philippines near er to Australia, Borneo or Ha waii? 10. Name Dewey's flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay. Answers! 1. Maina. 2. Bird. 3.. Soviet Ruttia. 4. Northerners sympathetic to Confederacy, S. Colorado. . 6. Oklahoma.. 7. Does not. t. 1773. .9. Boraeo. 10. Olyrtv P -i " , INDUSTRIALIST DIESif t Indianapolis, ' Ind. ' - (TO Harper Ransburg. 77, Irtdjan apolis industrialist who mtv ed as-director of the CeArul Indiana Council of Boy, $Qtn.Vs for more than. 50 eam.' (fled S u n A ay. FuaegftV. tJ'frW were penaing. a 1 1XTTH THE completion of the Rogue Basin project, Jackson county will have the poten tial for one of the finest recreation and vaca tion areas in the west. In summer, it will have three maj'or lakes, each with unsurpassed recreational opportuni ties Howard Prairie, Lost Creek and Apple gate to say nothing of the mountain lakes al ready here. It will have -the Shakespearean Fes tival, hopefully the Britt Music Festival, an im proved Rogue river and again hopefully Bear creek, as well as the scenic and natural beauties already enjoyed. In the wintertime, it will have the Mt. Ash land ski area, now abuilding, which promises to be one of the best in the entire west. Given time, recreation could be our. major industry.'" What's even better, we can enjoy it too. E.A. Burning the Stubble We have our smudge smoke for a few mornings in the spring, the mill smoke the rest of the year, and slash smoke in the fall. But we don't have the summertime pall caused by the burning of grass stubblcfields. This is a relatively new phenomenon in the Willamette valley, but for the past ten or a doz en years it has become a familiar thing. Driving down the valley last week, we saw pillar alter pillar ot dense smoke rising irom burning fields. On windless days, particularly when there is a cold-air inversion, the resulting pall is a nuisance at best, and an eye-smarting, cough provoking threat, and air and auto traf fic hazard, at worst. T'HE GRASS 'crop is valued at some $15 million per year. It was almost wiped out about 15 years ago by a fungus disease. It is to destroy this fungus, plus insects and rodents, that the 3,000 Willamette valley grass farmers burn the fields some 100,000 acres in all. ' Air pollution control men deplore the smoke, but there is little they can do. Agricul tural ;.burning is exempt from Oregon's air pol- ution .control law. And, according to the Lugene Register Guard, little if any research is being done to develop means other than burning to sterilize the fields. It's something else to live with in the name of "economic necessity." E.A. Freeways and Scenery An editorial writer on The Daily Astorian bemoans the loss of the pleasure of driving through towns, now that the freeway by-passes virtually every town along its length. He has a point, of course. But then, no one forces anyone to remain on the freeway. A friend remarked the. other day that vou "just have to get off the freeway if you're go ing to really see Oregon." And that is true. In some ways the ireeway has improved the scenery, opening up new (and mostly billboard- ess) vistas. But it also skims around and past some beautiful and interesting spots. AS A CONVENIENCE and as a time saver, a. ,V. fc J V J, lie X-J 14 la Ji, lll'ly 111 Cl hurry, one ought to get off it once in a while. Ihe highway down the Umpqua river, par ticularly between Scottsburg and Reedsport; is one of the loveliest drives in the west. The.Mc Kenzie pass, now by-passed by most drivers in favor of the Clear Lake cut-off to the Santiam, is another magnificent drive. So is the length of the Oregon coast (ex cepting, of course, the "20 Miracle Miles"). So is the old Columbia Gorge highway. Route 97, north of Madras, has a charm and fascination of its own as it winds through sage and wheat, the ghost town of Shaniko, and down to the Colum bia. There are hundreds of parts of Oregon worth seeing, but you have to get off the free ly to see them. But, of course, often times the fleeway speeds you to them. E.A. i PW. VtAmeTVl fJT ' 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 rloht 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 reoresenr the views of irm paper. In fact the contrary is often the cue. Responsibility To the Editor: Perhaps be- cause of its simplicity and ob vious nature, you have ignor- ed the responsible "Tax Alter, natives (MT 8-23)." During the last 140 day leg islative assembly, some $26 million was cut from the over all budget. Was the inclusion of this vast amount responsi ble? If not, there may be a reasonable possibility of fur ther cuts being justified. Action on the part of the state legislators concerning the state budget was second hand. The Ways and Means committee made recommen dations, they had to be taken as being sound, and after the legislators approved certain expenditures it was only rea sonable they vote for some tax program to provide for the expenditures. But the is sue of the voters (those who support the referendum), is to take another, deeper, longer look at the justification of the expenditures, especially in ed ucation. Jane Gallcspie said it quite succinctly on "Public Opinion" last week. As I re member her thoughts - in the past we've all voted to sup port education, as parents we are concerned about the edu cation of our children. We have voted yes and then taken it for granted everything was all right. But now it is time to do a little more than take things for granted. It's our money and we should be sure of the need when we vote to have someone spend it. I hope I have not committed an in justice against Jane's posi tion. I hope I have made the same point as she did. Along this same line - is it sound fiscal andor educa tional policy to argue such things as bowling, or roller skating, etc., are essential to education? Can school build ings be used for split-curriculum? This way faculties have to be duplicated but not fa cilities. Wouldn't this reduce costs? So much of what the edu cators and their spokesmen (often arrogantly), plan, takes on the semblance of frightful urgency! After all, when a baby is first conceived and makes his presence known there is cause for great joy and anticipation; but the sit uation is not urgent until the water breaks and the mother is still 25 miles from the doctor! Be a little more sympathet ic and a little less extreme toward the level of intelli gence of your readers, Mr. Al len. This tax referendum re flects the electorate practicing the highest dedication to re sponsibility, not as you say, the opposite. Robert J. Howard 702 Beekman st. Medford. Alarm System To the Editor: An item In your paper August 20 stated that the Capital Improvement committee had recommended the installation of a fire alarm system to replace the present "obsolete syssem." " This system was installed after we had voted $40,000 in a bond issue for a fire alarm system. It was obsolete when it was installed and was made from discarded guard call boxes at Camp White. Now the $40,000 is Sone. and we must install a lire alarm sys tem. . . The following Is from a communication that I mailed you about 10 years ago, and you printed: "So, we have an alarm sys tem at a savings of $30,000. Do we have thfc $30,000 that was saved? If not, we have saved nothing. Merely spent the money w.thout getting the system recommended by the Portland consultant. "The guard call boxes they installed do not even bear the stamp of approval of the Un derwriters Laboratory. In case of storm they can be rendered useless. "Our local fire department was without outside commu nication one time, due to a storm, until an emergency line could be installed. "The recommended Game well system would have auto matically switched to an auxiliary generator in case of power failure. "Any school, hospital or in dustrial building having an automatic sprinkling system could have been connected with the system, which would have flashed the alarm the in stant the sprinkling system went on, even though no per son had seen the fire, to turn in an alarm. "If the Council feels they have invested our fire funds wisely, why have they failed to ask for a rerating of our city? The consultants' plans had a rerating in mind." (This would have meant a savings in fire insurance). Such stupidity is the reason for your high property tax to day. In January, February and March we were notified that the assessed value of our properties had been increased. Our home was increased 25 per cent. We were told in your paper that the city and county budgets were figured on the old assessed value, but we will have to pay according to the new assessment. It seems to me that they will have this extra 25 per cent to spend, though it is not in the bud' get. If the taxpayers do not voice their objections to the high tax, they surely cannot complain. Mrs. Cleo Canoose 55 Ross Court Medford. Mid-East Border Clashes Could Result In Major Conflict; Nasser's Role Eyed By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst In the trigger-quick emo tional state which is habitual in the Middle East, any long drawn awsoas out series of border i n c i dents between Arabs and Is raelis could be the begin ning of a ma jor conflict. And t h a t ex plains why both the Unit ed Nations forces in the Mid dle East and the UN Security Council in New York are mov ing as quickly as possible to halt the latest series of inci' dents along the Israeli border with Syria and Jordan. The Israelis have accused Syria of climaxing a series of aggressive acts with t h ambush slaying of the two 19-year-old Israeli farmers re turning from work near the Sea of Galilee. The Syrians have denied that such an incident even took place and have accused Israel of sending armored cars into the demilitarized zone north of the Sea of Galilee to shell Syrian defensive posi tions. Thus both are attempting Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsep (cl New York Herald Tribune Syndicate (Joseph Alsop is on vaca tion this month - and gath ering material both in this country and abroad for fu ture columns. During his absence, top members of the staff of the New York Herald Tribune will sub stitute for him.) By ROBERT J. DONOVAN Unconquerable Force To the Editor: The follow ing is a "Statement of Faith," its author anonymous, but not unworthy. I have faith to believe that, despite the failure of ad ministrators of our depart ments of government, our country will stand forth un scathed if only her people re main true to their colors. "I have faith to believe that, neither depression at home, nor peril abroad shall be able to reduce our country in honor or strength, if only her people remain independ ent in spirit, and strong at heart to battle for the victory whatever the terror. "I have faith to believe in the final triumph of Liberty in all places if but the peoples of the world shall take Lib erty itself to their hearts, and cleave to Justice with all their minds. For these are the im perishable, the unconquerable forces among men every where, always and forever." "Contributor" (Name on file) Medford. Writers' Club Sets , Meeting Wednesday Persons engaged in the writing profession are invited to attend a writers' club meet ing at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the home of Helen Bartley. 3478 New Ray rd.. Central Point. Plans for fall activities of the club will be made. Those wishing additional informa tion about the group may eali Mrs. Bartley at 664-18:4 or Mary Lou Skinner at 482-3993. IMPRESSIONS OF THE FAR EAST Washington - All of the surprising number of Ameri cans who are wandering about the Far East this summer will bring back their reflections on the teeming civilization be yond the Pacific. My own, having just returned from random vacation travels from Indonesia to Japan, are a med ley of impressions which, an noyingly, refuse to fall into a convenient pattern. Certainly, a prodi g I o u s amount of human energy is being expended on the mo dernization and, in many out ward aspects1 at least, the Westernization of Asia. The air in Bangkok is gray with ' the dust of new roads arising out of canals that from ancient times carried the commerce of Thailand. Women are doing heavy work along with men for $1 a day. In Indonesia, troubled though its economy may be, the busy highway from Dja karta to Bandung is a reveal in gscent of mile after mile of pleasant houses being built with red brick walls and thatched roofs. In Djakarta it self a vast new ultra-modern hotel looks out upon- an em bankment where cattle graze in the sunset. WITH deep introspection, the Japanese, led by their Emperor, have just, for the first time, memorialized their war dead on the 18th anni versary of V-J Day. According to the Tokyo press, however, half the people paid no heed at all to the national moment of prayer. Instead they went about their daily work in a country that is miraculously clear of all -vestiges of the devastation of 1945. ' The highways leading to Mt. Fuji are jammed with tourist buses and motorcycles, and on every one of the piti fully few vacant lots around the cities an eternal sandlot baseball game is in progress. The clatter of heavy con struction in Tokyo with the Olympic Games only a year off is distracting. This is par ticularly true of the new sub way construction. The plank ing on the streets enables the Tokyo taxi drivers to keep their customers not just on the edge of their seats but in mid-air as well. Many Ameri can chiropractors should reap the benefits this fall from their patients' ride from the Hotel Okura to the Ginza. The Japanese are Inveterate television watchers. Even in remote "areas one walks down a village lane at night and sees the glare of television screens on the walls of the dingiest shack. These remote areas are reached, incidental ly, on trains whose comfort, service, speed, and punctual ity convinces one that Ameri can railroads should go back to the days of the Golden Spike and start over. IT WAS surprising to see the boys and girls of Bangkok by the thousands carrying home much larger brief cases than American school chil dren are burdened with. Un fortunately, I am unable to offer evidence as to the mean ing of this phenomenon terms of the comparative merits of the school systems here and in Thailand. Without intending any comparison, however, I must confess to having been struck through out by the gleam, the fresh ness, good nature, and good manners of the youth of the Far East. Another thing that was striking was the personal cleanliness which per sists amid the squalor still abound ing in many parts of Asia Words cannot describe, for example, the squalor of the floating markets in the jungle like canals in Bangkok. How clothes can be washed white along the slimy banlfg of those muddy streams defied under standing, yet the white shirts the men and boys were wear ing looked as if they had just come from the laundry. American music of all kinds simply permeates the Far East night and day. Those of us who grew up in the '20s and '30s could scarcely step into a hotel, bar, or restaurant without hearing over and over dance tunes we had long for gotten. Old Black Joe" was being piped to the passengers in one train I boarded, and sightseeing boat on Lake Ashinoko in Hakone National Park set off on its journey to the strains of "America the Beautiful." ABOARD a small vessel in Hong Kong harbor one evening a young member of the . crew politely asked Tne why Americans were treating Negroes so badly. Throughout the Far East the racial dis turbances in the United States are daily given conspicuous display in the newspapers. Not through malice, I believe. but because of the skimpy amount of news space, the Negro problem in America is receiving one-sided treatment, Asians are getting the story of the Negroes complaints but little of the story of the Negroes' gains. It was doubt ful to me whether the toler ance and sympathy that is manifest among such a large number of whites in the United States today are wide ly understood in the Far East It is astonishing the num ber of Americans, mostly Call fornians, who are prowling remote places of the western Pacific and Asia. Standing outside a temple in the Japa nese city of Nara I overheard an American college girl com paring the relic with some thing she has recently seen in Tasmania. If you have not been to Tahiti, you are a stay- at-home. The inter mingling will grow with the years, and one fine day, I suspect, we shall all be surprised to discover how widely the cultures of East and West are influencing one another. WM "Come on in, gang but remember, the hrsi one whe tells one of those baa1 integration joke, out ha goeal'' to establish positions from which to win a favorable deci sion from the United Nations. Although the Israelis have fought the Arabs twice and came out on top both times, they have had to face contin ued Arab hostility. On the other side, among the suspicions and intrigue which tear at Arab nations, a single unifying factor has been a common hatred for Is rael. And this makes interesting a somewhat cynical view held by French sources with long experience in the Middle East and close ties to Israel. This view places the re sponsibility on Syria but holds it is more from a desire to put Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser on an uncom fortable spot rather than any desire to stir up a major fight with Israel. Therefore the French dis count the possibility of a ma jor conflict. The reasoning goes back to the now defunct plan to join Syria, Iraq and Egypt in an expanded United Arab Re public. The plan fell through be cause the Baathist party which - is in control in both Syria and Iraq refused to ac cept the supreme leadership of Nasser, insisting instead upon democratic procedure and full equality of member nations. Both side presumably stand for Arab unity and socialism. But in the three months since the grandiose plan was announced in Cairo, relations Egypt and Syria have worsen ed steadily. Nasser not only has re nounced the merger but has called the Syrian Baathists "fascist murderers" and Mich el Aflak, a founder and secre tary general ot the Baathist party, a "coffee house theore tician." The Syrians have accused Nasser of enslaving his peo ple and squandering their money on conspiracies against other Arab states. In this atmosphere of sweet harmony, the current Arab Israeli dispute broke out and, according to the French theory, the Syrians put Nas ser in the middle. He could oppose the Syrians or he could support them. Either way he lost some of his claim to leadership. Strictly Personal By Sydney i. Ha.ris (el Field Enterprises. Inc. Harris EQUALITY AND LOVE The frightful and ignorant arrogance of modern man i! nowhere more clearly re vealed than in his contemp tuous attitude towards the words of his progenitors He accepts what he finds comfort- able, and re jects what he does not un derstand. To take two of the most simple and obvious examples our forefathers reminded us that "all men are created equal." Now, evidently, all men are NOT created equal they are different in height, weight, background, mental capacity, moral character, and dozens of different ways. No two men anywhere on earth are exactly equal in such ways. When modern man points this out, does he imagine that Jefferson and Franklin and the American Revolutionists were such idiots as to believe that men were created equal tn such ways? Nobody above the mental level of eight would think that. So, obvi ously, the Founding Fathers meant something quite differ ent, and much deeper, than these "equalities." But we do not bother to discover what they meant. The second example comes from the Bible, where we are commanded to love our neighbors and love our enemies appar ently, as Chesterton said, because they are to often the tame pertont. Along comet modern man and attertt that nobody can be "commanded" to love anybody. Love to ut it an emotion, a feeling, and it cannot be turned off and on, it cannot be directed and channeled. Love, like the wind, bloweth where it litteth, and nobody can be told whom he should love. How can anyone in hit right mind imagine that this it what the wise men who wrote the Bible meant when they informed ut that Cod commandt ut to love our neighbors? Didn't they know at well at we that people are bundles of likes and dislikes, attraction and repultiont, affectiont and aversions? Doet anyone think that the priests and the prophets were to stupid thai they thought this kind of love could be ordered, even by God? misguided. All we have to do is to ignore the significance of what is said. Modern man has no trouble whatsoever in doing this. in the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This space today will be de voted to the story of Vern Owens, Don Kirkpatrick and the Little Old Lady. I think maybe you'll like it. rpHE Little Old Lady lives in New Zealand and, like many of us, she has an itching foot. And she wanted to see the U.S.A. So A little while back, she took off. CHE came by ship to San Francisco. From San Fran cisco, she came by stage to Klamath Falls. The stage paused here for a brief rest period, so she took off for a walk on Main Street. And In the window of Vern's store she saw an electric ap pliance that was just what she wanted. It was a fry pan with a coil in the bottom and an other coil in the lid. She went in and Vern demonstrated it. It was just the ticket. The minute she saw it, she knew she wanted it. 1UT She was starting on a long trip. And the fry pan would be bunglesome to carry. So, reluctantly, she passed it up. S o, obviously, something else is meant. The kind of love" we are commanded to have in the Bible is not (at least, at first) a "feeling" or an "emotion." It is an act of will, it is a turning toward the object in a way quite different from the way in which we turn to our beloved sweet hearts or sons or daughters. Notice that we are not com manded to "like" people: we are requested to "love'' them which is both easier and harder. We cannot decide horn we will like: but in some peculiar way we can learn to "love" even those we may not like. Unless we un- derstand this, the whole Bib lical mesage eludes us as. in different way, the whole Declaration of Independence ludes us, if we fail to ErasD its meaning of "equality.'" It is easy to prove that the past was wrong, stupid and UROM here she went by 1 stage clear around the perimeter of the U.S. tut D She still wanted that fry pan. She simply HONED for it. And it couldn't be had in S.F. So she TOOK OFF AGAIN FOR KLAMATH FALLS. And, as soon as she arrived. she headed for Vern's store. Meanwhile, however. Vern had sold out of the fry pan gadgets. But Don Kirknatrick had one in stock, and Vern knew it. So, as a good merchant should, he sent the Little Old Lady down to his competitor and Don closed the sale. THE Little Old Lady then hastened back to Vern's store to thank him for his courtesy and to tell him how proud she was going to be when she got back to New Zealand and showed her friends and neighbors what she had found in her travels. At this point, it occurred to Vern that in New Zealand their electric current is differ ent from ours as many an American has discovered to his sorrow when he first tried to shave with the foreicr.or's electricity. So he explained the situation to her. It didn't feaze the Little Old Lady. "Oh,'' she said, "my electrician can fix that in a jiffy. But it's nice of you to tell me about it. You Ameri cans are wonderful." She then hastened back to the depot, caught a stage back to San Francisco and from there she caught a ship for New Zealand. 11,'fcLL. if EVERY tourist ' wh if ho pauses in Southern Oregon were treated as cour teously as Vern and Don treat ed this Little Old Ltdy from New Zealand, it wouldn't be long until we were stoppinej MILLIONS of tourists here in our amazingly beautiful area. o o o O
