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MONDAY. llEDrORDvWTUBUMK """Vrvnna tnSouthern Oregon Readi TIM Mall Tribune" Publirw(i Dally except Saturday by MBUJ-ORD PRINTING CO 33 Nurth lr St. PliTH-ei" onnpBT VJ ' RllHL. Editor HEHB GHEV Advertlsine Managet IRIC AI.I.EN JR . Mna Editor EARL H AUAM3. uil HARRY CHIP.MAN. Telej. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport. Ed W OLIVE SI ARCHER Women'l Edltoi DALE ERICKSON Circulation Ufi ArtnHnnrlnt NeWIDBDel Entered ai tecond elaat matter at Mediora urcKun ui. March 3. 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES a- x.ii In Arivanre Dally and Sunday 1 year 1S 00 Dallv and ounoay .. Dallv and Sunday 3 mo J pu Sunday Only One year 5 U0 Single Copy (Mailed) JOo By c5:nei-And Motor Route Daily and Sunday-1 year 2 00 Pally and Sunday 1 mo r.3 Sunday Only 1 mo 9JJ Carrlei andjendon j.CoP? I Otflrtal Paper of City of Medfnrd Official J'iP" "' Jackaon County United PresaTnterriational Sull Leaied wire U P 1 Telephoto Newnplcturea "MEMBER-or AUDIT BUREAU OfJ'RCULATIONS ArivertiiinK H-prei.entative: neI'scmJ1 ROBERTS 4, ASSOC ATES Ot'lce In New York. Chi cago Detroit. San TrancUco. Lot Arise!" Seattle. Portland Denver. NATION At EDITOIIAl Memner California Newipaper Publlshera AaiociaUon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files ot The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30, 0 and SO yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 2, 1953 (Wednesday) A recommendation for an east side (ire station site will prob ably be made by the Medford city council's fire committee at its regular meeting. Water fluoridation for city de bated at forum meeting. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 2, 11M3 (Thursday) George A. Hunt, local theater numpiv killed in auto crash. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smiidcc Pot" column: "Quite a few have saved up enough gas tickets to got to New Zealand over the double Labor Day holi day and confidently expect to get as far as ine water s cage of the mignty racinc. 30 YEARS AGO Sept, 2. 1033 (Saturday) Cotintv court plans to put curb on free wood at city yard, as many abused privilege last year. Political pots of Europe boil over as old hates revived. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 2. 11123 (Sunday) Fire in boiler room puts Brownlee mill out of commis sion for month. Class in aesthetic dancing to be opened over Medford Na tional bank. 50 YEARS AGO Sept, ?, 1013 (Tuesday) Fruit box factory to be con structed at Rogue River. Members of llillah Temple ot Shrine trek to Klamath Falls. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct la superior, seven or eight is ticellent; five or sii Is good. 1. Egypt is about the site of Texas and Arizona combined; Is it 35, 85, or 95 per cent desert? 2. What unit of measure de notes 12 dozen? 3. In which state is the fa mous "Painled Desert" of the Southwest? 4. Is the Amazon River in Burma, Korea, or South Ameri ca? 5. A farthingale Is a species of bird; true or false? 6. Are the so - called Fair Trade Laws federal or stale laws? 7. In what country were the Hukbalahap guerrillas active? R The Initial theory of evolu tion is altributed to whom? 9. Identify "Mr. Democrat" who vs recently dcevrriinet! be suffering from caecer isd thereafter died. 10. Birds do not perspire as do mnnv animals; true or false? Answers: I. 115 per cent. 2. Gross. 3. Arizona. 4. South America. 5. False (hoop skirt). 9. Stale 7. The Philippines. H. Charles Darwin. 9. Sam Rny burn, 10. True. IMPORTANCE UNCERTAIN Washington-(UPl) - Rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun says it is "a little premature" to attach special military impor tance to landing a man on the moon. "It would be something like saying the South Pole or Antarc tica has great military impor tance," Von Braun said Sunday. "It undoubtedly has. but we don't feel it very strongly yet." FORMER ACTRESS DIES Jacksonville, Fla. - (UPD Sllenl screen actress Dixie Hark Ins. 57, whose lending men In eluded Rudolph Valentino and E c. do Cortex, died Sunday. 4 OnpuiuiHis SEPTEMBER 2. 13 Trouble in Not since fireworks were banned in Oregon a decade or so ago has anything so captured the fancy of the young the more sedate as the lightweight Japanese motorcycle. The several brands pieces of machinery, fine transportation and in triguing toys. Males under SO can't help admiring their sprightly utility. Unhappily, however, too many of their riders use poor judgment in how, where and when to ride them. THE litterbug has been 1 with the wilderness turn savage on meeting a Honda or other light weight on the trail. City types used to grumble about the souped up Ford of the teen-ager down the block. They now focus all their wrath on the younger brother who dashes down the sidewalk and into traffic, sometimes late at night, A bill to put teeth was defeated at the last legislature, but pro ponents intend to try again. THERE is grumbling at police agencies because officers can't keep an eye on all squirreling power bike ridel's at once. The rising accident ginning to cause concern, inese cute little mounts can be deadly when mishandled. With more grumbling there's certain to be some kind of restrictive legislation and tougher enforcement. Riders themselves can head this off. Parents of the younger members of the tribe also can help the situation by insisting on the same care and consideration they require with the family car. Salem Capitol Journal. Wasteful Appropriation We see where the staggering sum of $190 million dollars has been okayed for a "limited" shelter program designed to provide 11 million Americans with shelter during a nuclear attack. This gross waste of our hard-earned tax dol lars will provide a considerable number of need less jobs in the ranks of our equally unnecessary Civil Defense Agency. It will also provide millions of tins of water and crackers and such stuff to enable these theo retical 11 million people to refrain from starva tion for a period of two weeks. . i WHAT happens after that when they have to come forth from their concrete burrows into the red .light of a radioactive morn when thev find nothing edible and even the very air poisonous, the Agency doesn t tell us. How much better it would be if this vast sum of money could be channeled into something more constructive: education, for example, which would teach mankind the folly of eradicat ing himself to the point of extinction. In this age. of overkill and mass slaughter the only path to survival lies aboveground, not in the basements of both mind and dwelling. Coos Bay World. Fluoridation Succeeds Fluoridation of water came to San Francisco 13 years ago, and Dr. Ellis D. Sox, city health di rector, has now reported that "no other public health measure has been so rewarding in terms of disease prevention at so low a cost." There is no point in arguing with well mean ing but ignorant antifluoridation fanatics who insist that this practical protection for their children's dental health is some sort of dire Com munist nlot. But for those who can remain rational while discussing the topic, Dr. Sox's report that "there have been no adverse effects on the health of the people consuming our fluoridated water should prove convincing. rpHE cost of fluoridation, he said, averages A only -I cents per person per year, and already there has been "a noticeable 'improvement" in the incidence of tooth decay among youthful pa- lients oi our local tienusts. While some fluoridation proposals have bven defeated by ill-informed, irrational opixinents in neighboring cities nd counties, San Francisco can In thankful it is giving our futui genera tions I remarkably improved de;re) of (Until health. Sin 1'rancisco Chronicle. Hark! The Geese HePaldFall It wasn't tlic luijje banks of smoke reaching the sky or the aorid smell of burning stubble fields warning us of the waning summer. Nor was it the brisk mornings and hot afternoons. Neither was it the purchase of a bright, red winter dress and fur collar nor the shiny new school shoes Mike, the It was the trcese. 1 heir warning came sudden ly the other night ; the cacophony of a southward migration off course. The still night was torn by the harsh, confused honkers seeking warmer suns in mid-August. Not until their calling died in the distance announcing they wer again on their way did we realize summer down here in the Willamette Valley, too, had been a bit con fusing. For this summer instead of tomatoes we have vines, Albany Democrat-Herald. the Street or aroused the anger of available are beautiful replaced as Enemy b crowd. Outdoor purii No. purists Honda motor screaming. in forest use regulations and death toll also is be on the face of the earth they breathe extremely neighbor J?oy, showed us. MEDFORD Those Crazy Buddhists Setting Fire To Themselves Communications Letters to the Editor must bear th rarn and address ef the writer, although under certain circumstincea the us of i pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tt edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter submitted for publication must not exceed 400 ord5. The letters printed .in this column do not necessarily represent the views of tre paper. In fact the contrary ts often the case. Tell Them ! To the Editor: Even though we have sufficient referral sig- . ,u. f tIL Bill up to the voters on Oct. : " f ",come. ' P3 15. I think we should go all the i thf. deficiency, as well as the way to arouse the public so ' climated expense of the ensu that all of them will go to the I m8 t,scai vear polls on that date. Those who ! Now despite any misinforma are not registered now, do so I tion that has appeared in edi at once. I suceest that all sien- torials and elsewhere, the leg- ers use my "Tell them and sell : them" plan. That is. tell ten or more, have them tell ten and those do the same, and in a very short time all the voters in the state will know what the score is. Those who have friends in other parts of the state write them to do the same. I carry extra copies of the Greater Ore gon and hand one to those who may be lukewarm or undecid ed and, so far, this method has proved 100 per cent effective. We should concentrate on the stamping grounds of the legisla tors who supported the bill and this information can be obtained from your Senator or Represen tative. It is high time that those Hawaiian picnickers learn that the common folks aren't as dumb as they think we are. Claude M. Hall 28l0 Placer rd. Sunny Valley, Ore. Last Resort To the Editor: Article IV of the Oregon Constitution pro vides in part . . . "the people reserve to themselves power to propose laws and amendments to the constitution and to en act or reject the same at the polls, independent of the legis lative assembly, and also re serve power at their own op tion to approve or reject at the polls any act of the legislative assembly." These rights arc known as the rights of the initiative and of the referendum. It now appears that these rights can become doubtful when the time element can be so compressed that their exer cise requires overwhelming pop ular support. Some people ap pear to feel that taxpayers at large have no business excrcis. ine a choice as to how much I they wish to pay. or the amount ! or duplication of services to be paid for. Article IX of the Oregon Con stitution provides'. Section 4 "No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in pursuance of appropriations made by law." Section 6 "Whenever the ex penses of any fiscal year shall "Honif from thf Washington Riarrh incidents (".St blrss America.!" MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDKOHD, OREGON exceed the income, the Iegisla "J? Snffm '"6 . , JVh fiscal vear. sufficient with otn islature approriates our entire tax revenue, not just a proposed increase thereof. Under our con stitution, quoted above, said leg islature determines its overall spending program then pro ceeds to levy sufficient tax to finance the total budget plus any deficit or minus any cash carryover. The real issue is one of over all stewardship not unlike the example contained in the Bib lical parable of the talents. It is only after they have proven that they have been faithful with what we have given them that they can expect to be trusted with more. The best possible source of extra funds needed at any point in the budget is from those in any department where they are being misused or wasted. More taxes should be considered the last resort. Earl Glidewell, Hermiston, Ore. Color of the Heart To the Editor: After hearing the Negro speakers on the T.V. coverage of the civil rights march on Washington, it's hard to understand why some white folks have the fool notion that all Negroes are a low-brow race of people. For 100 years we have made a mockery of our Constitution, which was meant to give us equal rights and full justice for all, regardless ot race, creed or color. So this means Negroes too, and also the many fair minded white people of the south who are in sympathy with the Negro's cause but are afraid to let the white Negro haters know about it for fear that they would even shoot them in the back or burn down their homes, etc. So like the Negroes, these white American citizens are waiting to be set free too. The color of one's skin means exactly nothing. The red man called the white man "pale face," but the black man could call the red man "pale-face." It's the color of the heart that counts. John P. Gascon Route 1, Box 310-B Central Point. Ore. - safe and sonnd no 4 Foreign News: Spain Viet Nam By PHIL NEWSOM I'PI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: Spain and Russia Spain has considered me so viet Union the bete noire of international politics since the end of trie span' ish Civil war 26 years ago. But "the Franco gov ern m e n t has now begun put ting out feelers towards M u s cow. A Spanish sports delega tion visited the j saaoaa svjet capital in i Julv. and a group of Soviet lead j ers now has been invited to Madrid. Spanish newspapers u ;.....!.; lhat ih liar m-rn o.uiat6 m.- Soviets may even agree to sup plv oil in exchange for the $500 million in Spanish gold reserves taken to Russia during the Span ish Civil War. A question being asked in Madrid these days is whether these surprising straws in the wind eventually may lead to the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between the two countries. It is too soon to say, although most informed observers look for an expansion of sports and trade contracts. Viet Nam Isolation The diplomatic break between In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, the begin ning of the long Labor Day week end is only a few hours off, and the National Safety Council has just estimated that before it ends somewhere between 430 and 520 "citizens of the world's most motorized civilization" (meaning the United States of America) will have died in traf fic accidents. SOUNDS grim, doesn't it? But wait a minute. Using the larger figure (520), what it means is that over the long holiday there will be ONE traffic death out of each 360,000 of our population. Put that way, it sounds some what less terrifying. LOOKING at it from another angle, the National Safety Council says that between six o'clock Friday night and mid night Monday, American motor ists will drive 8.7 BILLION MILES. That would be one death for each 17,000,000 miles driven. jllORE statistics: Pennsylvania's Bureau of Traffic draws from its accident records a profile of the typical traffic victim over the Labor Day holiday. He will be, the Pennsylvania bureau says, between 17 and 27 years old, with no previous traf fic record. He will be killed between 6 p.m. and 5 a.m. WHILE TRY ING TO ROUND A CURVE AT EXCESSIVE SPEED. lMjlCHIGAN state police say that those who will die in Michigan are most likely to be killed during the first six hours of the holiday period WHILE DRIVING TOO FAST FOR ROAD CONDITIONS in rural areas within 10 miles of the victim's home. WHICH is to say: Michiean "profiles" indicate that the bulk of the death toll over the lon holidav that is coming up will result from reck less drivine taking curves at EXCESSIVE speed, driving too fast for road conditions, etc. If you drive with reasonable care, these studies indicate, you will be reasonably certain to come out of it unscathed. QUESTION: What can we do to make driving in heavy traffic safer? (Meaning by that, what can the PUBLIC do? Individuals can Improve the situation immense ly by driving more safely.) More cops seems to be the answer. Nearly everybody drives more carefully if he' thinks a cop may be watching him. Portlanders Drown As Boat Capsizes Astoria (L'PD Two Port land men drowned when their small pleasure boat capsized near Cape Disappointment Sun day, but a third man was res cued from the churning surf by a Coast Guard helicopter. The Coast Guard identified the victims as Maynard Cash and Harrv Robinson. Rescued was Daniel Stohl, a Portland policeman. The Coast Guard said t h e craft capsized in rough surf about a mile out from Peacock spit about 1:15 p.m. Lt. Cmdr. H. D. McDuffy, pilot of a heli copter based at Cape Disap pointment, lowered John Rose warren into the suniift aiasket. RoseWSrren tied a line to Stohl, but was unable to reach the other two men. Their bodies later washed asho, Isolation; Cambodia and neighboring South Viet Nam may have bad repercussions for the United States. Neutralist Cambodia said the break could be repaired any time a "democratic government enjoying popular support" takes over. If Cambodia's fervently Buddhist chief of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk decides that this type of government exists in the North Vietnamese capital Strictly Personal By Sydnay rci Field Cnterprfsea Ine. HOW TO "WRITE" Every so often, I am greeted by a young, tremulous voice on the telephone, asking me if I will grant an interview. The voice usually wants to be a Writer, and is earnestly desi rous of advice on Writing. These re quests remind me of a tren- Harri" chant and musing article by Wendell Johnson which appeared in "Language, Meaning and Ma turity," a book of essays on se mantics. Using the provocative title, "You Can't Write Writing," Prof. Johnson made the obvious but often neglected point that it is as impossible to write "writing" as it is to read "read ing," or speak "speaking." One has to write, read and speak something. A poet, for instance, does not write writing; he does not even write "poetry." He writes poems or, more accurately, a poem at a time. a What is wrong with young people who want to be Writers is that they think of writing as an abstract form that can be learned separately from con tent. You learn to be a Writer, and then you can Write but what? They think that writing makes it easy to find a "what," when actually it Is the "whatness" that deter mines how one writes. Shelley and Byron, for ex ample, were superb poets. Were they "writers"? Ob viously not, for when they tried to write dramas, they failed miserably. In our time, Bernard Shaw is considered perhaps the greatest "writer." Yet his first five novels were failures, and deserved to be. He was a fine playwright and social critic; he was not a "writer." If Writing has to be about something, these young people would be better off learning something that is, getting a liberal education than learn ing "how to write." A man Most of Nation Has Fair Weather By United Press International Most of the nation enjoyed fine holiday weather today but scattered thunderstorms dump ed heavy rain from the Dakotas to Kansas. Two tornadoes touched down in open country near Russell, Kan., during the night and thunder-showers produced local flooding of roads in the south western section of the state. Fair skies over much of the east sent the temperature tumb ling to near 40 at Philipsburg, Pa. Blythe, Calif., reported a 91 degree reading during the night. The highest temperature in j the nation Sunday was at Yuma ; Ariz., where the mercury hit 104 degrees. Tampa, Fla., equalled a record for the date with a top reading of de grees. The Weather Bureau said fair weather would continue over most of the nation except for the region from the Mississippi Valley eastward up the Ohio Valley. Hope Grows Dim For Missing Pilot McChord AFB, Wash. -(UPI) The Air Force today main tained a dim hope that one of its F-106 pilots whose plane weit down after colliding witk a bomber was still alive. The U. S. Coast Guard Satur day gave up the search for 1st Ll. Roger Axlund of Sioux Falls, S. D.. but the Air Force was continuing the search of inland areas along the Washington coast. The fighter brushed the bot tom of the medium range jet bomber over the Pacific ocean ' off the Washington coast early last Wcdnesdav and Axlund was I soon to eject from his plane The bomber was able to land at McChord. Not a sign of the missing pilot was found during the extensive sea and land search conducted last week. LOTS OF LETTUCE London (I'PI) The Daily Skeieh sd today a farmer at Totland Bay, Isle of Wight, has frown a lettuce seven feet in circumfereft-e. and Russ East-West of Hanoi, the next move might be the establishment of a North Vietnamese diplomatic mission in Cambodia. It this nappenea, South Viet Nam then would be surrounded diplomatically speaking. South Viet Nam had pulled out its ambassador to neutralist Laos as long ago as 1962, a step which the United Stairs tried in vain to advise against. i. Harris cannot be relatively ignorant of history, politics, psychol ogy, religion and other areas of human Inquiry, and still be a "writer" In any meaningful sense of the word. a Indeed, the most serious flaw in many men who call them selves "writers" is that they really have nothing much to write about. They either possess too little knowledge, or have not suffi ciently organized the knowledge they do have, or else their pre occupation with style blinds them to the fact that even the most stylish hat looks empty on a blockhead. When the content is rich and disciplined, all one can do is hope that the style will write itself. If it doesn't, one has simply chosen the wrong occu pation. As final proof, let it be not?d that while there may be rules for writing, those who write the rules are generally in capable of writing anything else! A Salute To Labor pji And Other Evils fejjl By Arthur Hoppe fwmJM Today, as you know, is La bor Day. And I feel we should pause in our pleasures to salute the men and women of the American labor movement and their dedicated stand on the principle of labor. They are, of course, against it. Indeed, since its inception, the American labor movement has done little else but fight against labor. It's fought against labor for children, labor for ladies and labor for the elderly. And when it comes to labor for us healthy adult males, the historic stand of our trade unions is unequivo cal: the less of it the better. Look at the record. We used to average 60 hours of labor a week. But thanks to the unbend ing efforts of our anti labor labor leaders over the years, we now get less than 40. And if this trend continues, if our militant union negotiators continue to win reductions in the work week at the present rate, I figure that by 1992, with luck, we'll all be unemployed. Huzzah! you say. tight for unemployment!" you cry. May be so. But at the risk of being thought anti-union, I'd like lo speak up m defense of labor. For one thing, it saves work. Take the way it is now. You've put in your 7 hours and 42 minutes at the office, chat ting with the fellows, drinking lunch and maybe getting out a letter or two. So you're about to enter the door of your home. You loosen your tie, rumple your hair and affix a finely dramatic haggard look. Oh, what a sympathetic wel come you receive. "H u s h, dears, Daddy looks as though Try and Stop Mc By BENNETT CERF A ND HOW," ex-pedagogue Sam Levenson asked Mrs, fiMargolies, "is your son. Sam enjoying his first summer at camp?" Without a word, Mrs. Margolies took a letter from her pocketbook and hand. The letter read, "Dear Mom: There are 190 boys in this camp. I wish there was 189. Your lataag , Saw." ' M a meetti? of the Sttttew Historical Asso ciation In Miami Beach, I heard a Lincoln anecdote that was new to me. It aeenui that Just before Lin coln's second inauguatlon, a young- man tried to force his way through the police linee. He wa hustled off, but for aomt reason, no effort was made either to detain or queatlon him. A few weeks later, there was a nationwide search for this Terr man. He waa Identified from hi picture aa John Wilkes Booth, the aetor who had assiaauuited the President la a box at Ford'a Theatre. Had Booth been taken Into custody after Ms strange behavler on InaujrureUon Day, Abraham Lincoln mlfht well have lived out hi second term. A Wt of veree framed above the deak of a bigwtf at AJBC Television: "Fame la a fleetinj. fitful flame Which ahlnea a while on John Jones' name. And then puts Jones right on the tpot: Th flame ahinea on but John doee not: C IMS, Sanaett Cart Distributee: by Kuuj reaturea eradicate Contracts; Talks Easing Tension Any moves to further ease tension between East and West definitely have been put off at least until Soviet Foreign Min ister Andrei Gromyko goes to New York for the United Na tions General Assembly late this month. That occasion will pro vide the opportunity for fresh direct contacts among U. S., British and Soviet diplomats. Gromyko is to meet with Presi dent Kennedy in one step of that East-West dialogue. The Western Allies who have been consulting intensively at the NATO headquarters in Paris have failed so far to come to any concrete agreement on just what sort of East-West accords are feasible and how they are to be initiated. France blocks any moves, and West Germany is trying to make sure that noth ing is done that could lead to some sort of "upgrading" of the Communist East German re gime. Pessimists in London, for instance, believe that there is little prospect in effect for any new developments towards East West negotiations in the near future. De Gaulle Election Officials in Paris are drop ping hints again that President Charles de Gaulle may quit a year ahead of time in 1964, and then may run Immediately for a second term. As a popularity test, he plans another of h i s grass roots speaking tours in the second half of September this time in southern France. Reports say he also may deliv er another television and rad broadcast to the nation at the end of this month. he's had a hard day." And: "I knew you were tired, darling, so I mixed the concrete and poured the new patio myself." And there you are, the hard - work ing provider, the male domi nant, relaxing in the warm bos om of your grateful family. But what, I ask you, lies in store for man when his work day is reduced, say, to a mere 2 hours and 37 minutes? Oh, rumple your hair all you want. Loosen your tie to the bitter end. Just try to look haggard as you enter the door. There's no question the welcome you'll receive will be: "What've you been in, a fight?" Then there'll be dishes to do and diapers to change and toys to mend and . . . frankly. I'm physically exhausted just think ing about it. So I say our great American anti - labor movement has gone just about far enough. And it's time we men took a vigorous stand against the vicious trend toward shorter hours. Before we all wind up working ourselves to death. Therefore, let us hasten to agree wi!h the moralists that labor is enobling. That growing things, building things or fixing t h in g s is essential to man's sense of purpose. That it brings him peace. At home, if nowhere else. And in this spirit, let us all pause on this Labor Day, 1963, to salute the dedicated men and women of the American labor movement in our traditio n a 1 American way by taking the day off. Not only is this the most fit ting of our national observances, but it's got full popular support. (6) m
