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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
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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.
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