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4 k FRIDAY. AUGUST 31. 1 Niinlt mil Tuisuirt. totbrotD. okegon lTryons la Boutnern Oregon J. Tk. Mall Trihtlfl." Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 13 North Fir 8t, Ph.77a-1X ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERAU) T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr ERIC w A1XZN JR, Mm. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sport! Editor OUVE STARCHER Women's Edltoi DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Indeoendent Newspapei Entered second class matter at Medford. Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MU In Advene Daily end Sunday 1 year tM.M Daily end Sunday e mo 10.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mo. 5.00 Sunday Only On year $5.00 Single Copy (Mailed! 10 By carrier And Motor Bout. Daily and Sunday 1 year 121.00 Dally and Sunday J mo. L7S Sunday Only 1 mo. SO Carrier and Vendor! r-opy jg Official Paper of City of Magford Offltlal Paper of Jackson County United Press International run Leased Wire V. PJJlepJvotoNewspteturea MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSOrf ROBERTS ASSOC iTfc rtMirmm in New York. CM- ego. Detroit, San Francisco. Los Anielee Seattle. Portland. Denver. NIWSAMI rumiHiiti ASSOCIATION tt ATI ON At fOITOIIAl Member Cellfornla Newspaper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from th files of Th Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 year go. 10 YEARS AGO August 30, 1S4.3 (Thursday) A group of Jackson county small businesses, headed by Frank Koch, Central Point, have joined the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce In op posing a 20 per cent rate in crease by the California Ore gon Power company. A motion to dissolve a tem porary order in the case of the State Air Pollution authority vs. F. L. Somers, Medford, and the Central Heating company, Eugene, was filed in Jackson county circuit court. tO YEARS AGO August 30, 1143 (Monday) Mexican brothers fined $10 each for knife brawl in local beer parlor. From Arthur Pcrry'g "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A Gal lup poll of local juveniles shows them about as enthus iastic over the opening of school as Italy favors peace, except on her own terms and when ready." 10 YEARS AGO August 30, 1933 (Wadnttday) John Cupp purchases MF&H furniture stock. County to restrict relief to those unable to perform labor. 40 YEARS AGO August 30, 1943 (Thursday) Check shows daily average of 7.611 autos use Main st. crossing. Lightning starts fires in Sis kiyou range. SO YEARS AGO August 30, 1913 (Saturday) L. G. Bishop forced to walk from Crater Lake to Fort Klamath when horse dies. Don (Pinkey) Rader, Med ford boy, farmed to Lincoln of Western baseball league by Chicago White Sox. What's Your I.Q.? NiM r ten cerrect Is tuirt r sight It escellsnt; fir r art it geed. 1. Was Leif Ericson inven tor of the first submarine, a Norse explorer or a Swedish prize winner? 2. Is Rugby a French, Eng lish, or Norwegian football game? 3. What Is the Roman num eral for zero? 4. What proverb expresses the directly contrary thought to: "You can t teach an old dog new tricks"? 5. Was Nathaniel Greene a military leader in the Revolu tionary War, War of 1812, or Civil War? 6. What river marks the greater part of the southern boundary of the U.S.? 7. Did the U.S. flag ever have more than 13 stripes? 8. Who has been the young est man to become President f the U.S.? 9. Name ths Indian Chief tfhv tet the Eieux Indians in fcatt-I asataot Cuatef et iho ItHle Bg Iter rtwr. Mk Win sMm fa twusste o the iwrtft by it OJtoaa river? AngnMew-4. ft taujiteaasm, 1. English. 3. Tim rwa . nartr too old to learn. I. Revolution. 6. Rio Gran) 7. Yes. t. Theodora Rootevell, 42. V Sitting Bull. 10. Kn-ruck. New Constitution Still Alive Mrs. Bonnie Phillips, in a talk the other day, declared that the proposed new Oregon Consti tution "is not dead. She is right. It isn't. It suffered a severe set back when the senate failed to permit the people to vote on it, but the set-back was not fatal. An unofficial, non-partisan group entitled the "Citizens (Jommittee tor Constitutional Kevi sion," which is co-chairmaned by former Gover nors Charles A. Sprague (Republican) and Rob' ert Holmes (Democrat) is determined that the voters ultimately will have a chance to approve or reject a revised Constitution. THE REASONS for this are well-known, and stem from the fact that the state's present Constitution is bulky, unwieldy, in many ways outmoded or obsolete, and in need of revision. At a recent meeting of the executive commit tee of this group, it was decided to attempt to initiate a vote on a revised document. ihe ver sion to be presented will be determined by mem bers of the original Constitutional Revision Com mission, plus the co-chairmen of the Legislature's joint committee on constitutional revision Pep. John Dellenback and Sen. Walter Pearson. It was also decided to raise funds for legal expenses if it is challenged in the courts. NE QUESTION had to be resolved before the decision to attempt the initiative method was made. This was the legal question of whether an entire new document could be placed on the ballot via initiative petitions. The question is not all black-or-white, and legal authorities disagree. One school of thought holds that Constitutional amendments can be initiated, but that a whole new Constitution does not constitute "an amendment," and therefore cannot be initiated. The other school of thought is that the people are the final and supreme authority in govern ment, and that if they choose to adopt a new Con stitution, no one is going to say them nay. The committee relied on the second theory. fpHERE are still formidable barriers to over A come. First is obtaining agreement on which version of the proposed Constitution is to be used the one drawn up by the Revision Commission, the one which emerged from the House commit tee, or the one adopted by the Senate committee. It will take some pulling and hauling, and some compromising, to achieve this agreement. Secondly there is the task of obtaining enough signatures to have the document put on the ballot. Third is defending it in court, if it is challenged. And finally is the task of convincing the vol ers that (a) the old Constitution is outmoded and (b) the proposed version is a better one. rpHE COMMITTEE will work closely with the 1 the League of Women Voters on all of these chores. The League has long had Constitutional revision as one of its aims, and these women are a tower of strength in educating and informing the public on issues of the day. There is, then, a long road ahead. But the cause of Constitutional revision has already come a long way in the past 10 or 15 years, and, as there is no tearing hurry, tho.se who believe the job must be done can take all the time necessary. One of these years, we believe, the people will vote on a new Constitution, and cither then, or subsequently, will adopt it as the basic, charter of state government. L.A. Fast, Cool Summer Along about this time of the year it is our usual custom to write a little piece hailing the advent of fall. We arc usually inspired to do so when, early some morning, tnc smell in the air has a tang and zip to it which is more autumnal than summerish. We have been frustrated in this, so far this year. For how can one celebrate the impending arrival of autumn if one isn't even sure that sum mer has arrived? Oh, we're not complaining, mind you. The weather for the past three months has been ut terly delightful. But it hardly qualifies for the title of summer, except by those who believe that the seasons are governed by the calendar instead of the six senses. DERHAPS that's one reason it has gone so fast. No sooner were the kids out of school, or so it seems, than it is lime to start preparing for school again. And what happened to all those lazy (or pro ductive) week ends that we were anticipating hours of loafing, or fishing, or snoozing in the sun, or redding up the yard, or painting the side of the house where it is peeling? Whatever happened to them, they're gone, and here it is almost Labor Day again already. And Christmas is only days away. E.A. Jacksonville Featured It was a pleasure to see the full-page spread which King Features Syndicate published and distributed to 90 newspaiers in all parts of the nation last week. A smaller version of it was printed in the Mail Tribune Tuesday. This is the kind of recognition which cannot b prvhd. And it may be helpful in the lone priX wmeumes discouraging task of convincing PMiw including' scmie Jacksonvuhans that thv town is worthy showcase of our western heritage, (jTigritin preservation and, in some cases, restoration: E.A. 1 You Mrh?' Do Pressures Building Up for Increased Trade Between West and Iron Curtain By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Nw Analyst Partly as result of the new partial nuclear test ban treaty, partly as result of long-standing pressures, there is today in- creasing talk of a vast new buildup in East -West trade. The United States I t I has admitted I Jji I it is review I 'f I ing its poli- N..,m lowara C o m m unist- bloc nations. For years under Nikita Khrushchev the Soviet Union has pressed for in creased trade with Western nations and has protested es pecially the Western ban on strategic materials which cov ers far more than the question of guns or rockets. For the West, the more cautious advise that the nuc lear test ban treaty by itself constitutes no real break through in East-West relations and that in Germany, for ex ample. Soviet demands have not been reduced in the slightest. There also is the question of doing business with and help- Strictly Personal By Sydnoy i. Ka.ris (ct Field Enterprlsoi. inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer. althouah under certain circumstances the us of a ocn name or initial for publication It permissible. The Mall Tribune reserves the rlaht to dlt 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 tr paper. In fact the contrary it often th case. Lav Colds Alon To the Editor: The Food and Drug Administration an nounced recently that they proposed banning more than 50 "cold cure" prescription drugs after a team of leading medical scientists found that the antibiotics have no effect whatsoever on the common cold. It is fortunate that the anti biotics did prove ineffective, and here is why: In the first place, there a c t u a 1 1 y is no "cure" for the common cold for the very good reason that the cold itself is the cure for what Is wrong in the system. It is a cleansing process which should never be interfered with. This common "afflic tion" is nature's method of lowering an existing toxic level in the first stages, allow ing the individual to "clean house" before some really serious disorder develops. Drug treatment causes colds to become chronic because it stops nature's eliminating ef forts, jeopardizing health and life itself. Dr. W. H. Craves warns that the drug is far more dangerous than the cold. Properly managed, a cold is never dangerous. A cold is not a disease, but an intelli gent bodily reaction. It is one of the finest examples of Ihe way in which naure works lo keep the body in health. When waste accumulates in the body, the natural reaction is to try to dispose of it by de vices such as the creation of a fever or skin eruption or resorting to germ activity lo bring about vicarious elimina tion through the mucous mem branes. The Nth degree of lunacy is readied in the ordinary treatment of colds. Millions of dollars are spent annually on salves, pills, drops to be squirted into the nose, and dozens of other equally sense less "remedies." They might just as well be rubbed on the doorknob because they bear no relation whatever lo colds. When a cold develops there is only one sensible thing lo do. Stop a'l solid food to help along the cleans ing process until all symptoms have disappeared. Lydia Burnham R14 Warne St., Prescotl, Ariz. Picnic Goert To the Editor: We are won dering what happened to the news in the Tribune about the family picnic. At least 1500 people showed up. After a very liberal repast and all Ihe cold drinks anyone wanted the fun started. It was like a three ring circus, gold pan ning, bicycle racing and con tests all going on. Later horse shoe racing started. Our club is all set to lake first place again next year for having the most people out to represent their club. We had 90 this year. Let's see a write up about this picnic, that the Democratic Commit tee put on. We look some Re publicans with us and all had a merry lime. Rulh Bishop Security Benefit Club Medford Huemuls it Skunks To the Editor: I never knew wot a huemul wuz until I read about one In the Tribune. I thought a huemul wuz a camel, but It wuz a South American deer wot won't run from hunters, and that's wot I wuz looking for. An Amer ican deer starts runnin' two days before the season opens and I can't hit a deer with that much head start. I couldn't hit one if we got an even start. I could hit any thing wot wuz standing still, like a barn door, a garage door, plate glass window, horse troughs and rocks. Ev erything wot could run would run under the old Brush car, skunks, porcupines, jackrab bits, dogs, black cats and squirrels. It ain't much fun to run over a porcupine with thin tires, but it's a lot better than having a skunk run un der your car and you ain't got no windows. OH YEAH! Everett Acklin Ashland, Ore. DESCRIPTIONS Have you ever thought of the utlcr impossibility of de scribing someone you are par ticularly close to, or espec ially fond of? It simply can not be done without sounding vague, stupid, insipid and quite super ficial. When Barn an out-of-town friend the other day asked me what my middle daughter is like, I suddenly became banal and tongue-tied, mum bling something like, "Good sport . . . tall for her age . . . Cod Approved To the Editor: The enclosed is a copy of a letter sent to the Board of Education of Medford School District 54!)- C. I think it concerns a ma jor problem in our schools and would appreciate your printing it in your paper. Please do nol print my name, I do not wish to embarrass my daughter. Thank you. (Name on Filr Medford. O Board of Education School District 549-C Medford. Gentlemen: Congratulations, and many thanks for your good judgment in supplying Ihe Medford Senior High with a good code of ethics this year. But let's nt.i slop there, or should I say let's not start there. The Junior High is in dire need of the same thing. I have a daughter just entering (he Senior High this year and she feels it is quite a blow to get toned down, after having so much freedom, so lev sy-eak. in the Junior High. Do you realize how hard it is for parents who do not approve of t h e short, short skirts, outlandish hair styles, and enough make-up for the stage, to keep their teenagers in tow when "Everyone else does it." They leave the house in the mornings looking de cent and within reason, only to reach school and head straight for the girls room, to hike up the skirts, re-do the hair, and add the final touch of make-up, so they do not look like the same "squares that left home a few minutes earlier. I hope the teachers and the principal "stick to their Kuns" and enforce these simple and long needed rules of dress. Please, please make tnem keep their faces clean, comb their hair and definitely keep those skirts down. I'm sure that the majority of the par ents are behind you 100 per cent. School has not yet begun and there is still time to mim eograph these few wearing ap parel rules for the Junior High, loo. It's easier not to begin a bad habit, than it is to break one already started. Sincerely, IL JL m i Pipe Dream To the Editor: When Khru chshev says the workers will "bury" capitalism, he shows himself to be, like all Social ists, a wishful thinker, a false prophet. Slalin may have started out as an idealist, but as soon as he arrived at the point where he look the helm of the Rus sian slate affairs, he recog nized thai there was no ideal ism in international politics. Al the meeting in Yalta, someone spoke of the power of the Pope. Stalin quipped "How many divisions has the Pope got?" As of now. with an atomic stalemate between the two hostile camps, diplomacy and the spoken word can, in the course of time, effect great changes in international rela tions. But as to a takeover by the workers as managers of our economy, that is just a pipe dream. Could il be that comrade Khrush and comrade Tito smoked a pipe together and had that kind of a dream? John E. Ring 1049 West 11th st. Medford. swims like a fish . . . nice kid." But if we are asked about someone we dislike or resent, the words come tumbling out of our mouths almost faster than the brain can form them. We know (or think we know) exactly why certain personalities offend us; we are mostly in the dark about the magic chemistry that pro duces not only love but also a sense of closeness and companionship. This ttrang disparity it not limited to our feelings about people: it includes things as well. Although I have little interest in it my self, I know that ihe aver age fisherman, for instance, achieves a deep spiritual satisfaction from hit sport, which has Utile to do with th number or til of fish he has caught. Yet no fisherman can put into adequate words his sense of "wholeness" or serenity while fithing, and the reasons usually given are obvious, trivial and lame. This stammering man, however, can explain with voluble accuracy why he despises golf, or bridge, or driving a car in traffic. Deep positive emotions cannot be verbalized which is why to many mil lions of bad love-poems and love-songs are perpe trated year after year. With the utmost of sincerity (and even with contiderable tal ent), we become mawkish babblers when trying to convey tuch feelings. II is no accident that al most every young writer be gins his career with comedy and satire and scorn and malicious wit directed against society. Even Shakespeare began this way; the plays in which profound love dom inates came much later in his career, and it took the sum mil of his genius to carry them off successfully, as. in the incomparable "King Lear." Music is a greater art than literature to me, precisely be cause it embraces a wider range of human feelings than the spoken word. I cannot help agreeing with Pater that "music is the art to which all the other arts aspire," for in it the form and the content are utterly the same. The right movement of a Mozart concerto might make you feel what my daughter is like, but I can only tell you that she is tall for her age and swims like a fish. ine to build a system frank ly dedicated to destruction of the Western democracies and their economies. Within both blocs there are important pressures beyond the political. In the Soviet Union and its satellites there is an in creasing demand for an in crease in the standard of liv ing and the supply of con sumer goods after years of hardship. And as the Soviet bloc has increased its own output of both manufactured and raw materials there is an increasing need for outlets. Among the satellites, en joying a period of respite from hard Moscow control, there also is a spirit of inde pendence demanding free dom to develop their own economies, including in creased Western contact. Among the latter, Romania offers an excellent example. The Romanians not only have increased their trade faster with the West than with their Communist-bloc partners but also have shown marked re luctance to join the integrat ed economic program advo cated by Moscow. Among the Western na tions, with production capac ity in some cases outdistanc ing markets, there is a grow ing temptation to dip into th "oceans" of trade promised by Khrushchev. German and British mer chants have been particularly restive under U.S. demands for strict enforcement of tha ban on shipment of strategic materials. Under pressure of the West German government, German merchants finally cancelled a deal to supply pipelines lo the Russians. The British government showed no such inclination. The British also are interest ed in exchange of ships for oil. The West Germans do some S600 million a year in trade with the Soviets, the British more than $300 million. U.S. trade with Russia is only about $35 million. While admitting the risks, advocates of a revision of Al lied trade policies argue that increased contacts with Com munist regimes mean greater opportunities lo wield influ ence. Increased trade with thn satellites, they say, nol only should weaken the bloc as a whole but also decrease de pendence of the satellites on the whims of the Kremlin. Hope Is Such t "3l A Fragile Thing By Arthur Hoppe tSmJ'A In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Washington - They are holding the historic hearings on the test ban treaty in the caucus room of the old Sen ate office building. It is a big room with maroon car pets, Corinthian columns and crystal chandeliers. Each day, as you enter, its cool dignity impresses you anew after the soupy summer heal outside. Across one end of the room is a huge mahogany table, perhaps 40 feet long and six feet wide. Behind this are 27 high-backed leather chairs for the Senators. Facing them is the witness's chair and to each side of that the long press tables. In the rear are 100 or so folding chairs for the public. Nol a sound from the hot, noisy world outside penetrates the dimness. In front of each Senator's place sits a microphone, a glass of iced water and a copy of the treaty itself. II is 1500 words long, its lan guage simple, its meaning clear. But, to me al least, it is the mosl precious thing in that elegant room. It is hope. It is nol the miracle solution lo the world's problems, but merely hope hope that may be, somehow, after all, we will yet manage to squeak through without incinerating ourselves and our children. There is, to me, nothing more precious than that hope these days. And as I sat there, the room, as rooms do, grew more familiar, less imposing. Usual ly, more than half the 27 high-backed chairs are empty. And those Senators present sprawl in their seats, whisper ing to each other or reading idly through papers. The seats for the public are seldom filled. The audience is mostly tourists, who silent ly enter in groups to sit and watch for a few minutes and silently leave. The press tables are virtually vacant. Ana at i .-iu. ty conirasi, il seems so one a woman sits all alone, sweaty and blaring. And so day after day, working cross- very, very real, word puzzles. And each day, you hope After all, everybody knows ' again. what each witness is going lr say. And each witness reads hi lines faithfully. The General.i - oh, so militant in their stars and ribbons - most of them cautiously favor the treaty. (But we must maintain our military might through morn defense spending.) And tho scientists. - mosl of them grey, soft-spoken men - most of them cautiously favor tho treaty. (But we must conlinuo exploding bombs under ground in order, as one of them says, "to keep our peo ple thinking about bomb prob lems.") And each of the pro-Administration Senators, so careful in his questioning of the wit nesses to make sure Ihe record shows he is "unalterably op posed lo communism'' and doesn't "trust the enemy." And those anti-Administration Senators who will vole in the end for the treaty, bul who must do all in their power to belittle it and riddle it with suspicions and doubts. So that the Administration will not receive too much credit. And through it all, thn stenotypist who records each word, lounges in his chair, one leg extended to rest on a low red leather bench, pecking, pecking, pecking, al his ma chine. So each day. as I sit there-, hope dies a little. The treaty remains, but the hope dies. In the cool dignity of that, room it dies in a langlc of words and ambition and cau tion and politics and boredom. And each day in thai room you feel nobody cares. Not really. But then each day you leave the cool, ra'rpetcri. marbled, cryslaled room and step out into the world out side, the world of honkinf taxis and shouling children and green grass and hot pave- This tragic story comes over the wires from Independence, up in the Willamette valley: Three boys were found suffocated Monday night in an ABANDONED FREEZER CHEST. They had gone out to play-about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, telling their par ents that they were going to the school grounds. Three hours later, they hadn't re turned. So a search was started. They were found DEAD in an old freezer box which had been discarded without re- code i moving Ihe lock. Presumably, they had climbed into it to play, and when they closed the lid of their playhouse it SNAPPED SHUT and locked. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF rpwo FRACTICAL jokers shared a hotel rm a', a b:s A convention in Chicago. One sneaked :n early ihe ,-ercr.d night of the doings, filled the bathtub and deposited trincin two live ducks he had aft er long j U'HAT TO DO aboul such " thincs-' J Code Criticized To the Editor: Regarding Mrs. William Nelson's view points on the ethics being dropped to the lower grades. They should have nev er been started. The schools, however, should take over when their own parents don't care if they wear too much makeup or too short skirts, but when it comes to telling a student what to w ear and how to - A m u c h better way wear it. this has gone loo far would be to SEE TO IT that and should be stopped no old refrigerator box-or Most people can't afford to j any other box with a snap buy clothes for their child ! lock on the outside-is EVER and then find out they can't thrown away without seeing wear them. to it that the lock is first If the people who wroleiTORN OUT. these rules thought back on j Passing a law is the EASY how thev tried to rebel on the way. B Well. UT procured search. His companion was properly flabbergasted when he saw the ducks paddling about in the tub. "They must have flown in through the win dow while we were out," surmised the jokester. "Sure, sure." agreed his friend, "but what bugs me is how the dickens we could pas a law. , did thev turn on the water?" ff3, lirii "Wander If my life fvoulda been dliferrnl if I da gote back ('school 'that on fali tsigjyyeari ago?" rules of their day. these rules would have never been start ed After all. t school is made for learning, not for criticiz ing what a student wears 1 iN'ame on file) I Medford F CONCLUSION; merely PASSING A LAW will solve such massive problems as civil rights and nationwide strikes'" J v . I One wonders. Don Freeman encountered on laiv m Las gi. vho jackpot at 3.00 a m and wasn t hap'pv about ,. a. '.. .'.t to be up another hour at least new." h (rtctr.b'iM h.-'?.. or alt thee silver TelUr '- FAMOUS QUOTES "If Its true that the t..r pltnets : mhabjiM t earth must be their lunatic gaylum." Berp.er4 a;-.s "Fnentship irtlie fet:h:ng fg, ,'n -,.,'! , Oliver Wendell Hnlm. 'The only to outwit a wnman s h , , and run:" John lUrrymnrf, 'The best way to matte a fir' -,h h gtv.fc, j, .. one of them is a mavh." Will Reief. 'The cat is a Mm'. wn there are no is-.. , proverb. v. ' O b- Bennt't Ctrf Clitnbu!4 by King rt- &
