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P I Telephoto Neweplcturei "MEMBER "Of AUDIT BUREAU Q CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative : NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCT ATES Of'icel In New York, Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco. Lol Angelei. SeatUe. Portland Denver. 0 NEWSPAPIt PUtLISHEIS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Member California Newipaper Publlshera AsioclaUon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha files of Tha Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 9. 1953 (Wednesday) .Tnhn Emerson Cooper, 54, Medford, a life-termer from Jackson county, walked away from the Oregon state prison annex in Salem early today. Three men ran to safety this morning, seconds before their stalled car was demolished by a Southern Pacific passenger train at the Sardine creek crossing west of Gold Hill. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 9, 1913 (Thursday) Reconsideration asked on act to draft lathers. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The In come taxpayer, both great and small, is now suffering from failure of Congress to pass the Ruml plan. All comment now indicates they have the Buml plan, or tax forgiveness, without the forgiveness." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 9. 1933 (Saturday) High school football tram is strengthened by return of Tom my White. ' Home of James W. Bales rob bed of $100 in broad daylight. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 9. 1923 (Sunday) Eclipse of sun viewed here through colored glasses. Police enforce ordinance on parking in front of fire plugs. SO YEARS AGO Sept. 9, 1913 (Tuesday) Isis theater presents "The Fight at Grizzly Gulrh." Forest service Issues new edi tion of Crater National forest map. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct li tuperier; even or eight li atcellent; five or lii ii good. 1. A sign displaying three golden balls from the ancient crest of the Medici family rep resents what business? 2. Penelope was the wife of what Greek mythological char acter? 3. In the nursery rhyme, how many hags of wool did baa-baa black sheep have? 4. Where is Uie Carlsbad Cav ern? 5. Is Korea a flat or moun tainous country? li. In Colonial days, what was a corriwainer? 7. The first meeting place of the Conlinental Congress was Hall in Philadelphia? 8. Are the Commissioners (ad ministrative heads) of the Dis trict of Columbia appointed by Congress or the President.' 9. What is the latitude of the North Pole? 10. Who said, "I believe this government cannot endure per manently, half slave and half lice?" Answers: 1. Pawnbroker. 2. t'lysses. 3. Three bags lull. 4. New Mexico. 5. Mountainous. . Shoe maker. 7. Carpentrr'a Hall. 8. President. 9. !M degrees North. 10. Abraham Lincoln. SIGN SaTfSB()Y WELLING. England (UPI) Two-year old Dominic Gilmore was saved Irom fleam Minnay night when he fell from a third- floor window and his clothing caught on a neon sign halfway to the pavement. SEPTEMBER 9. I9II3 Bracero Program Both Sen. Wayne Morse and Sen. Maurine Neuberger had points when they voted oppositely in the li. S. Senate on the question of extending the Mexican Farm Labor Act. He voted for it and she voted against it. The measure, which is pending in the House, allows Mexican farm laborers to work in the United States. For Oregon, the program is desirable. We happened to be with Senator Morse at one informal hearing with Medford pear grow ers in 1962, and know that testimony presented then and in subsequent ence showed conclusively that the so-called brae ero system was vital to that area. MEXICANS are available when needed, and ATA they're fast and efficient. That is vital to a pear grower who must have his crop picked when it s exactly ready, and who must have pears witn out bruises or stem punctures to survive' ship voyages to Eastern specialty markets. The Medford area growers have no luck at all with domestic pickers. They get inadequate response to calls for pickers locally. Migrant workers who are mostly stoop pickers cannot al ways handle the tougher pear picking. And the winos from Portland, whom the Medford grow res have to resort to upon occasion, are often worse than no pickers at all unable to stay on the long, swaying ladders with heavy sacksful of pears on their backs (they seem to fall and get hurt the day nicking ends, then go on state In dustrial Accident insurance), or disappearing before even a half day s picking, and the bruises and stem punctures on the pears they do manage to pick can spoil whole boxesful in the hot hold of a ship. Furthermore, the Medford people proved that Mexicans aren't by any means exploited; they make better money than domestic workers be cause they're more industrious and more skilled, and at piece rates their only limit is human en durance of which they have much. fN the national scene, the picture is less clear- cut. There are probably more situations such as the one in Medford than are generally pub licized. But it is also certain that braceros are ex ploited throughout the South at the expense of Americans who could do the work as well or better, as reports indicate. Still, rather than to do away with a system which has real advantages, the welfare of all would be served best by improving it. The bracero program has two virtues: Not only does it make good workers available to American agriculture, but also it provides needed jobs for our much poorer neighbors to the south. The fact that we allow nere is noted with considerable gratitude by the Mexican govenment American governments. the United btates beneht f"NE addition we think v program, however, is way Mexican workers are a national scale similar laws which Oregon has recently passed. The other addition is a program of re-training for American field workers to move any sur plus into more profitable enterprise, and to lay the groundwork for the day when very little, if any, hand work will be needed in the fields. At the rate we are mechanizing, field work is a dying occupation and those who are in it will have to turn elsewhere for sustenance. Again, Oregon has shown the way in local communities by offering educational programs to migrant children to help them escape the tread mill they'd otherwise be trapped on. The U. S. could do something like this. On balance, then, we hope to see the bracero program continued by House approval of the Senate bill, along with guarantees of better treat ment of braceros where needed and help for American workers to find gainful employment. Capital Press, Salem. Four-Year Recess NpPTn children in sniitlinni Virrnnii'c Pi,nnn Edward County start their first formal education in four years when a private nonprofit corpora tion opens suiLjon-frce classes for them on Men-1 day, Sept. 1(. The county deliberately closed all; puouc scnoois in iuj'.i rattier than comply with court-ordered desegregation. A "private" school system financed through state tuition grants has given the l.SOO white children a semblance of education since then. But 1,700 Negro youngsters were left to shift for themselves. rpilE plight of the Negro childic the conscience of the nation state officials and leaders cooperated with the .lusticc Department this year in forming the Prince Edward Free School Association, as the new privately financed group is called. Contribu tions of at least $1 million will be needed to operate classes held in three leased public school buildings in two communities. Teacher recruitment has proved no problem, with returning members of the Peace Corps proving one fruitful source. Their devotion and ability will be tested to the full. Children up to age 11 will be getting their first taste of school ing, and psychologists studying the situation found that some of them don't even know how to hold a pencil. E.R.K. meetings and correspond Mexicans to earn money one ot the key Latin Hemispheric relations of from this. should be made to this better policing of the treated something on to the migrant worker en so shocked that Virginia "And Remember, Nothing Can Be Accomplished! By Taking To 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 right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letter! printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of tr-j paper. In fact the contrary if often the case. The Law To the Editor: "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." (Matthew 7:12). All practicing or professed Christians should memorize this verse and remember it when they talk about the Negro prob lem. The letter written by Mar garet Abbott of Vancouver, Wash., sent in by Leila Mor row, is a very fine letter but it ignores the law given by Christ. Can you put yourself in the place of a Negro and under stand exactly how he feels? Would we white people want any other race to treat us the way some of us treat the Negro? 1 have been on the other side of the fence and know how it feels to be the underdog race. 1 went to school in Albuquerque, N. M., where there were seven white pupils and all the rest were Mexicans. We played right by the back door of the school. We were afraid to go out on the play ground. Margaret Abbott places the burden on the shoulders of the Negro. That is the easy way out for all of us. but it is not the right way. If things were reversed and you couldn't send your children to school, couldn't find a place to sleep, or eat when on a trip, couldn't move into a home you bought, just what would be your attitude? Maybe you would want to be the color or race of the people that oppressed you. The Negro is not blameless and neither is the white man. but I think the black person is less responsible than the white. What we must do is try to put ourselves in their place and un derstand exactly how they feel. Can you do that? That is the law that Christ gave us. Creston MeNecl 21)87 Delta Waters id. Medford. Wants To Know To the Editor: The news of today is filled with reports on the progress of school integra tion and we hear that numerous scnoois are making the change over peaceably. In fact nearly all except where Gov. Wallace is personally ob structing integration. This an swers one question "Why all the furor"? Where the older The Picture folks have stayed out of the pic-: To the Editor: Allen t i o n ! lure the students integrate Calling all unregistered voters peaceably. j who are burned up over the out- It also brings up other ques- rageous, unfair, $60 million in tions which 1 will try to ration- come tax law now being cram alize. If the whites are superior, ! med down our throats. Time is what are t hoy afraid of Their i growing short. We will be going actions give the lie to their lo the polls on this next October contention and smacks of an 15. Be sure you can cast your inferiority complex. i vote. Get registered NOW, be llow will silting in a school fore you forge'., or other public place with No-! Remember, this is a law al- groes contaminate the whites? In the south and various olher i places it has long hpen the cus- j torn, very fashionable, to cm- ploy Negroes as servants in everv capacity, especially in Ihe household. i Now 1 will a.sk Ihe pi Ur nues- i tions and sincerely desire a sound answer. How. posiblv, can 1 attending an integrated school ; i or other public place contami-; frighten us hy threatening to j swear, or at least use violent is true in the world. Knowledge, nnte these whiles, whose stem- take this $60 million out of our j expressions. Not so. It is pos-,of a personal sort, is Ihe only ' at'hs are filled with food cooked j state school budget. In fact the j sible lo get one's mes s a g e : effective barrier to war. It is , and served by Negro hands? very club they are expected to ; across by using the nicest lan- i the man who has seen no coun W hen they have been nursed ' use to bludgeon us into paying ; guage. Anybody remember this try but his own who is nust ! and fondled since infancy by , the $6il million is to threaten to old-timer? ; willing to lake up arms against : Negroes'' When the clothes they stop running the school buses. "Go to father," she said, when an impersonal enemy. , wear have often boon cleaned, This is the same old gag used ', I asked her to wed. j The real tragedy of the Iron pressed and sometimes been so often in some school districts ; Though she knew that her Curtain is not that it keeps us made hy Negro hands'' lo get unnecessary, big, fat bud- father was dead out, but that it keeps the Rus- I If handling their food, niirs-1 gets passed. ' And she knew that I knew sians in. ing and bathing their bodies, i Wh.it ts this $6(1 million really thai her father was dead: Soviet leaders, since Ihe be- ' handling and caring (or their for, anyway? J FrancyT And she knew that I knew ginning, have fought relentless I clothes and other close personal Howard, the hrioic Albany edi- . what a life he had lead. My against "cosmopolitanism " contact will nut corrupt them. ! lor who headed our recent re- i And she knew that I knew because they are aware that I prav tell me how can co-min- 1 ..i I ,l . - u c mc n si niHi . i lcairr or Mini itact is rate be so damaging, downgrading and dangerous.' ' No, lo me it all points to an MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON The Street TKt-vwrwtTeai tits over inflated ego, which, when taken individual by individual, is no guarantee of basis in fact. I write this without animosity and ask these questions to clear up certain lines of thought. I want to know. C. R. Burrill 834 '4 Cherry St. Central Point, Ore. Will It Help? To the Editor: By his com munication in the 95 Medford Mail Tribune our Secretary of State, Howell Appling, Jr., places before us wisdom of the sages, truths of and for all ages, in quotes from Judge Phil Gil liam of Denver. Will those who need them read these truths, parent and child, yes, both? Will the read ing help them, cause them to think, and do, the few little things suggested? They're all to benefit one s home and the doer. Is a generation, or more, growing as a sort of wart, or worse, to torment society; may be civilization? Is it a growth all the way from the too indulg ent parent through community, city, county, state; a sort of na tional parasitic growth to en courage and support through all these agencies the providing of playthings for all ages of peo ple even to going way beyond income to do it? Wiil Howell Appling's letter cause them to think, if read, of a possible time and condition when present lav ish spending must stop? Live within means, or see more chil dren resort to dishonest, maybe criminal practices to satisfy an abnormal craving for unneeded things; a time when they may have to do upkeep of home, as suggested by Judge Gilliam if one still has a home not hire it done. One might think of a time when one could wish they had learned in advance how to do all these things strongly rec ommended by Judge Gilliam. How pleasant and helpful if learned in advance of necessity. And if these playthings amusement, pleasure, entertin- ment are not available or pro vided by one or more of these several agencies, is petty iuve- nilc thievery, damage to proper ly, outoroaks oi riotous prac- tices. as at Seaside and else where, to be the answer? John E. Cribble, 1,19 Kenwood ave., Medford. ready. If we fail to vole it down you will pay a healthy increase on your 1963 income tax next April. And even those who owe no tax at all will still have to pav a $5 filing fee. The big spenders in our state government are expected to put on an all out propaganda drive' in favor of Keeping this abomi- nnlile tax law. They may try to fertal petition drive to get this . Ik. kill,., u rilnc in (h. i i u n uu- mhi,., " i.- August 9. I'.KI issue of his pa per, "Greater Oregon, "ine people, who have been voting new. big budgets which have Foreian News: Seen Unlikely; European Auto . . . nni,i,.ion lad u'oolr In Bv PHIL NEVYSOM L'PI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: No Deal Diplomats in Paris see no real likelihood of the West taking up Soviet Premier Nikita Khru, . sncnev serious. ly on his plan tor a non - ag gression treaty between NATO and the W a r saw Pact coun tries. Although the NATO coun cil is spending long hours dts- cussing the project, the French are adam antly opposed and West Ger- many is extremely cool. Diplo mats expect the whole project ultimately to be talked to death. Auto War Listen for the opening salvos of an indirect price war among European auto firms at the Frank furt automobile show opening this Thursday, Sept. 12. Ford will offer a 50-horsepower version of its 40-hp Taunus M-12 for little more than $25 extra. It also will dangle at no extra price, disc brakes and plush up- Dog Control Patrols To Be Tightened In Ordinance Areas There will be a tightening of patrols by the dog control of ficer in Jackson county, Chris Hagler announced today in re sponse to complaints received from some Medford areas, which are in the county dog control officer's jurisdiction. Opening of school, Hagler stated, alwavs constitutes a problem for the officers enforc ing the dog control ordinance. but restrictions will be enforced as much as possible with a staff of three men, including himself. School grounds will be patrol led, as usual, the officer said. Increased emphasis in this field was also promised by the Jackson county court Monday. The dog control officer has orders to pick up any stary dogs he sees without waiting for com plaints, members of the court stated. Areas under the county dog control ordinance are Medford, Ashland, Precincts 57, 58B, 68A and 66, which surrounds the city of Jacksonville; Central Point, Rogue River, Eagle Point and Butte Falls. The dog control office is open seven days a week and the of fice has alphabetical and num erical files on all licensed dogs in the county, Hagler said. He asked that persons finding dogs with licenses call the office im mediately and the name of the owner with the address will be supplied. Econ-O-Wosfi Vending Machine Broken Into Medford city police investiga ted two cases of breakage in automatic vending machines in the city over the week end. Three machines at Econ-o-Wash, 918 King St., were bro ken into sometime Saturday. Of ficers reported about $14 in change was missing. A soft dnng machine at a service station at 1068 South Riverside ave. was broken into sometime Saturday night. No es timate of the loss was available, officers said. caused your property taxes to be more than doubled, now wan you to pay out another $60 mil lion so that the governor and the 'Big Spenders' can buy more private land in Salem on which to erect more state buildings, costing more millions of dollars. "The $60 million which you are told to be happy to pay will let the govenor hire 1800 more state employees, including 256 new state welfare case work ers." Do you get the pictured There will be no end to this expanding welfare state bureaucracy and ruinous dpending unless we stop it by our vote on next October 15. Jerry Somtncr 677 Town st. Grants Pass, Ore. : She Knew To the Editor: There are a j lot of people who think that in 'order to he emphatic they must what she meant. Utldll tho calH Go lo falh- -... on.... David Frisch T (V Bex S2 White City, Ore. holstery formerly expensive extras before car-happy show visitors. Volkswagen is cutting the price of its 1,500 model, which is being threatened in the marketplace by Ford's 1,500-cc, 50-hp machine. Auto industry experts say olher major Euro pean car builders may have to match these leaders in cutting prices and making concessions. Inflation Fight President Charles de Gaulle's government will announce plans next Thursday to fight the infla tion which is threatening to un dermine the whole image of the prosperous new Gaullist France. The plans probably will include a modest credit squeeze, a crimp in installment buying particularly of automobiles attempts to control speculation in real estate, and ceiling prices on key foodstuffs. Presidential Ambitions Vice President Amanuel Pe laez has his eye set on being the next president of the Philip pines and, according to Filipino political sources, his chances are good. The sources say Phil ippine President Diosadado Ma capagal gave Pelaez his big chance though not intention ally when he linked Pelaez with American businessman Harry S. Stonehill who was de ported from the Philippines last year. The sources say that Pe laez, once a loyal supporter of Macapagal, now feels he is his own man and is free to pursue his own political ambitions. Diplomatic Kecognition Look for East Germany to try to cash in on the continuing bad feelings Pakistan feels towards the United States. U. S. Under Secretary of State George Ball Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris fc Field Enterprises. Inc. FEAR OF THE STRANGER I witnessed a minor automo bile accident yesterday morn ing. Two cars brushed fenders slightly, a n d each ol the drivers ( as usu al) seemed to be partly at fault. The two men got out of their cars and j a p p r oacneo. J each other w i i. u tiAjjiua- mrn sions of anger and resentment. Then, about three paces apart, they sudden ly recognized each other as slight acquaitances and the tension was immediately bro ken. Each became sheepish and apologetic; the hot tempers dis appeared and were replaced by philosophic shrugs. The matter was settled amicably within a few minutes, they waved good bye to each other, and drove off. There is a deep lesson here, it only we would begin learn ing it. An:;er and aggressive ness come from fear: and fear comes from strangeness. The only clement that had chang ed in (his whole accident pat tern was the mutual recogni tion thai the olher was no stranger. Hiding within our elaborate mechanization of civilization is the primitive fear of the alien, the outsider, the bar barian from the olher end of the forest. When an emotional crisis strips off our mask of civili ty, we snarl and bare our fangs at the savage who has shocked, alarmed or anger ed us. Kxcrpl in rare rases, it is difficult In dislike someone you know, and it is almost impossible to treat htm uith the hostility you might exhib it Inward a stranger. For, knowing someone, how ever slightly, means making some kind of identification with him. and thus recogniz ing that he Is not a danger ous foreigner but a man pret ty much like yourself. w a Motorists drive more prudent ly and politely in a small town, for instance, not because they are better people or better driv ers, but simply because thev know almost ail Ihe other mo torists, and would he ashamed lo display the ruthless bad man ners of motorists in the anonv- ; mous traffic of a big citv. ) What is true on the highway the Kuss an who gets lo know the world, and feels at home in other countries, can never again regard us as Ihe barbari- an from Ihe other end of the forest. Non-Aggression went to Pakistan last week to try to keep Pakistan from drut ing closer to Red China a move generated largely by Pak istan's anger over continued U. S. arming of India, which it considers a greater threat than the Communist Chinese. Ball failed to win any asurances. Working on President Moham mad Ahub Khan's general dis pleasure with the West the Reds have been working to solidify Strange Religion rj Of the Solons mm By Arthur Hoppe jfTV.' A WASHINGTON - I have com piled another chapter in my work, "Strange Native Customs in Washington and Other Sav- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Corning. Iowa: The militant National Farm ers Organization (NFO if you prefer initials) which last sum mer staged a five-week market rebellion on livestock, has launched a holding action de signed to keep feed grains off the market. The plan calls for merrtbers of the in-state farm organization lo withhold soybeans, corn and grain sorghum from market un til the NFO signs contracts for higher prices with processors. ALONG with the withholding action, members are being asked to sign grain sales agree ments which would give NFO leaders virtual control of the marketing of soybeans. Soy beans are chosen for the first withholding because the soy bean harvest begins next week in some parts of the NFO area. The plan wil be extended to oth er feed grains as this year's crops begin to come into the market. Along with the withholding ac tion, members are being asked to sign sales agreements which would give NFO leaders virtual control of the marketing of soy beans. QUESTION: Will it work? SEARCHING for an intelligent answer, it will work if enough growers sign up in the first place, and then STICK WITH IT until demand exceeds supply. If and when that time comes, the price will go up in response to the workings of the basic law of supply and demand. That's about the long and the short of it. TlfODERN progress note: The Canadian Forestry Department has invented a gun that plants Ponderosa pine trees by the simple device of firing plastic bullets into the ground with a spring-operated gun. Each bullet contains a seed ling, as young as eight weeks from the seed. As the seedling grows, the plastic case breaks and allows the roots to expand. Survival and growth of the seed lings is now being watched care fully. TWE main advantage of it, the foresters report, is that the root system is not disturbed. In Ihe ordinary plantings, the for esters must begin with nursery grown stock that is transplanted first in the nursery and again when it is moved to the refor estation areas. There is no dis turbance of the roots in the case of the bullets. The technique was developed hv a research forester at tho j University of British Columbia. If it is successful, it is believed that it will greatly reduce the cost of replanting denuded areas Research is one of the amaz ing tools of the modern world. Where it will lead us, nobody knows. "Hate In ee Ihe political season start wild speeches In udiioriiims. hitler criticism in newspapers ind those stupid bumper (tickers on cars!" Treaty Price War fheir ties with his counti-v,,j their ties with his country and can be expected to work harder now. According to reports from tasi Benin some lime ago, the East German Communists are trying to expand trade relations with Pakistan, particularly by working for an exchange of trade missions. The Communists hope that such trade missions could pave the way for tha establishment of diplomatic re lations. age Lands." But I hesitate to publish it for fear my fellow an. thropologists will hoot me down as a charlatan. Nor cnnlri r blame them. The conclusion is unbelievable. For I had the extreme good fortune to observe with my own civilized eyes the Weird Annual Foreign Aid Sacrifice of tha Solons, one of the many indi genous native tribes of Wash ington and one of the most prim itive. This strange sacrifice is held each summer, concurrent with the hop harvest, in the Solons' well - guarded compound atop the strategic heights of Capitol Hill. The rites last many days. They begin when the Kennedys, a numerous tribe dwelling in the flatlands, offer the Solons the victim, which is always call ed "Foreign Aid." What happens next is perhaps most reminiscent of "the death by a thousand cuts" as prac ticed by the Blackfoot, the Sioux and the Hottentots of West Madagascar. But more blood curdling. "Foreign Aid" is first sent to one end of the compound where the Representatives or lower class natives dance furiously around it for days, waving mys tic papers and shouting unin telligible imprecations. Then at last, when Ihe tribe has worked itself into a savage rage, comes the bloody climax. Each native makes a cut in the victim, tha size of the cut depending upon the native's stature among his fellows. While this occurs, the Ken nedys and their allies in Stale, AID and other minor tribes, dance around the base of tha hill. And as each cut is made, they moan or scream aloud in simulaled agony. This continues until all the natives are exhaust ed and the victim near expira tion. But, unlike among the Hotten tots, the victim is never killed. Instead, its limp form is carried to the other end of the com pound where the Senators, who are apparently chosen for their advanced age, quietly restore it until it is almost as good as new. They then give it back in solemn ceremonies to the Kennedys, who invariably express their gratitude to all Solons in gen eral. The compound then re mains quiet for another year. Now, any anthropolgist fa miliar with Stone Age cultures will agree there are few sur prises in the rites themselves. What staggers the imagination is the reason for the rites. For the liturgy is invariably Ihe same. The cuts are made to appease the native diety, who is called "The Voter," and who dwells in a nirvana called "Tha Grass Roots" and whom tha Solons believe to be unalterably opposed to "Foreign Aid." But, the anthropologist will ask, if the voter in the Grass Roots does oppose Foreign Aid, would He be appeased by the same meaningless riles year after year? If He had a grain of sense? Which means the en tire rile is merely a demonstra tion of the Solons' faith in tho stupidity of The Voter. And whoever heard of a tribe that worshipped stupidity? Oh. I ll be laughed out of th Explorer's Club.
