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WEDNESDAY, luoroRDJuBun "Everyone Id Southern OreiorT" Reads The Mill Tribune Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North l"lr St.. Ph.m-6H1 nnn.nn lit btlllf V4Im HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bu Mf ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mn Editor EAKL n AUAIU3, V-ltjr bunui HAKH1 U n I r .. RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Ed tor DALE ERlCKSONCIrcuHUon Mgr Entered as second class matter at aledford wregon unoer i March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 7 IV1B1I III nuvaiiv. Daily and Sunday 1 ' uauv ana dupuj ' Dallv and Sunday 3 moa 5.00 Kmol. I'nrv (Milled! 10c By Camel And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year Ml UAliy anu ouuua; . Sunday Only 1 mo. 3 CarrlelndVendors Copy 10c Official Paper of City of MedforiJ Official Paperot Jaeksun County United Press International Jul) Leased Wire U. P 1 Telephoto Newsplcturea "SSmBF.H OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS ArivertisVne Rpresentatlve: NELSON ROBERTS i ASSOC1. caso Detxoft. San Francisco, Los An (! aeauie. r i Denver. 'a" NIWSPAMt UllllHUJ ASSOCIATION NATION At EDITOIIAl N Uemner California Newspaper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tne files of Tha Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 25. 1953 (Friday) Mrs. George Helms, Ashland, was elected president of the Southern Oregon Pioneer society at the 78th annual meeting of the group. The 1,200-foot dike in the Ramsey canyon soil conserva tion dam will be completed to morrow. 20 YEARS AGO Sent. 25, 1913 (Saturday Medford defeats Yrcka 33 to 14 in football season opener. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Cm,,, ion Pnf" rnltimn: "The charming, gracious and much- traveled r irst Larry nas return ed from a month's tour of the Pacific war fronts, via army bomber and gasoline. In the meantime, citizens are urged not to stray on to iooiuau games outside of their back yards." .in YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1933 (Monday) Air transport loses landing gear at airport; seven passen gers unhurt. Increased cloudiness followed by rain; high 53, low 42 de grees. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1923 (Thursday) Del Rio Sickel pears sell for Sio a box on New York mar ket. Federal court to convene here Oct. 2. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1913 (Thursday) California capital sought for Grants Pass-Crescent City rail line. Adult women clerks to get a minimum $9.25 per week. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ttn correct It suptrltr; stven or eight Is ictllenr; five. r tii ti good. 1. American architecture is most noteworthy for Us public buildings, churches, skyscrap ers, or homes? 2. In parliamentary law, to whom does the term "The Chair" refer? 3. What agency in the U S Government is charged with re sponsibility for coordinating in telligence activities? 4. Name the author of "Cab bages and Kings." 5. Neither the Senate nor House may adjourn for more than how many days, without consent of the other body? f. During w.w.ii a notable conference, attended by Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt, was held at a place in the Crimea; name the place. 7. "When in the course of hu man events" Is the opening clause of what famous docu ment? 8. Who disputed with the devil about the body of Moses? 9 If you put one marble in a box. double it in one minute and double the successive number every minute for thirty minutes. when will one-half the final number be in the box? 10. Frankie and Johnny were lovers; he was her man, but what did she do? Answers: I. Skyscrapers. 1, Presiding officer. 3. Central In telligence Agency. 4. 0. Henry. . Three days. . Yalta. T. Dec laration of Independence. S. Archangel Michael, t. min utes. 10. fjlje shot him dowa. hhHlrviMBbK 25, JUtvl They're Not Crooks Are state officials legislators, executives administrators and educators crooks, or fools or both? The Albany Democrat-Herald, in an editoria entitled "State Officials to say : "Judging from accusations, written and vocal, against state officials, educators and labor union leaders for telling the people the facts of life regarding the 1963 income tax law, we may all be forced to learn the hard way. "In substance, spokesmen pleading for approval of the law, which will face the voters at a special state election Oct. 15, are trying to point out that if the law is rejected the state will be required either to cut $60 million from its 1963-65 biennial budget and thus forego or diminish many state services, or find other sources of revenue. . . . "The governor, state legislators and others who are trying to point out the consequences of a majority "No" vote on the new income (ax law are all familiar with the slate's budgetary needs. They have studied the budget and the beleaguered law thoroughly, which it is apparent many, if not most, of their critics have not. None have come up with any constructive or practical proposals tor lopping off $60 million from the $404,256,292 biennial budget, which the legislature itself had severely pruned before adopting it " 1XITH almost all predictions indicating the " defeat of the tax measure, it takes a consid erable amount of political courage for an office holder to come out in favor of it particularly in the case of Gov. Mark Hatfield, who didn't like the bill the legislature passed, and let it be come law without his signature. But he. more than most, knows the dire con sequences to the state should the bill be defeated, and he's laying his political future on the line in defending it. The same applies to ture, who voted for the new law as the best possible compromise available under the circum stances. And we agree with the says, "Meanwhile let's not brand all supporters of the new law as crooks." E.A. Tax Facts There are some facts of life that voters would be well advised to keep in mind when deciding how to vote Oct. 15. Item : Oregon taxpayers pay LESS in total per capita taxes than taxpayers of either Washington or California. Item: It is a relatively high-service state, but not as much so as either neighboring state. Both Washington and California have higher old age assistance and aid to dependent children pay ments (although Oregon pays more than the national average) ; both pay their school teachers and public officials more. Item : The tax increase is not $60 million, but $48 million, although if the tax law is defeated $60 million will have to be cut from the budget or other sources of revenue found. This apparent discrepancy is explained by the fact that $12 million of the $60 million budget increase was to have been paid for by stepped up withholding of taxes for this biennium only or, in effect, bor rowing from the ensuing biennium. ITEM: One of the state's biggest money spend ova iY a t-I Jn'K.if n t Onio pf man i ia nri n f fantaA -l bill, illll CIJ J- , in any tax cut, for it gasoline taxes and federal matching funds, which can be spent only for highway purposes. The Fish and Game commissions also operate from dedi cated funds, raised outside the general tax struc ture. The same is true of the Unemployment and Industrial Accident trust Item: A glance at the pearing on this page reveals that more than half of the general fund budget goes for education in colleges and universities, at the blind and deaf schools, the medical and through the basic school school districts, for elementary, junior high and high schools, and for community colleges. Any substantial budget cut will hurt education, simply because it is so large a part of the budget. Item: The 1963 income tax increase was the first such increase in eight years years when the population was growing, schools were overflow ing with additional youngsters, and the demands upon the state for new or additional services were rising. ITEM : In every postwar biennium until this year there has been a healthy surplus of money. This year it was all gone. Item : This biennium's budget is not a fat or extravagant one. It was ment of finance and administration before it went to the legislature. It suffered additional paring there before approval a paring which in some eyes did violence to Hem: While the new whole-hearted approval of almost no one, it is not really as bad as has been depicted, and has many features which are improvements. Item: Defeat of the tax law will inevitably bring higher local property taxes. The only alter native would be other state revenues such as a sales tax (mighty unlikely), or drastic cuts in school programs, such as double shifting, over crowded buildings, elimination of bus transpor tation, the use of warrants to pay teachers, or whatever other cuts would have to be made. HM1E items listed above are facts' not hearsay, not gossip, not idle chatter or wishful thinking but facts, readily ascertainable by anyone. These are the facts which must be kept in mind by voters on Oct. 15. They all point in one direction only, namely, that Oregon voters are going to have to live lip to their responsibilities, or condemn the state to fiscal uncertainties ,?nd probable chaos. E.A. Aren't Crooks," had this members of the legisla Albany paper when it tl 1 bit II, 111,.. IO lHJly ntv-ivu obtains its money from funds. expenditures chart ap dental schools, and, support fund, in local cut down by the depart important state services. tax law meets with the MEDFORD GENERAL MICMCR EDUCATION tt.t tl, too, 000 OTMCfl EDUCATION 4. IMOO.000 ASK SCHOOL 9S.4 I 139, 1 00,000 r CHAPTER 627 14.4 $ 58.400.000 STATE BUDGET Oregon voters general fund budget as depicted the polls on Oct. 15. If it is turned down, the unshaded portion Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the 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 tetters 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 tn paper. In fact the contrary it often the case. Hop Pickers To the Editor: I read the article on the hop yards at Grants Pass in the Sunday M.T. and enjoyed it very much. The article stated that me chanical hop picking started af ter World War II. I worked on a hop picking machine before World War I at the Hoi st Bros, yard at Independence, Ore., around 1916-17. The hop industry has almost vanished in that area. Erma Bewley 1059 Morrow rd. Medford. Titles To the Editor: Re M r s. George Guthrie's letter Sept. 19: The Bible is very explicit con cerning titles; especially so in the title mentioned in her let ter, she assuming that Mr. Al len was in error in his form of address to a Catholic teacher. "Call no man father upon the earth; for one is your father, which is in heaven." Matt. 23.9. The Protestant church is equally guilty for the infringe ment of God's prerogative con cerning title, and permit their ministry to be addressed as "Reverend." This title is used but once in the entire Bible, and has reference to our Creator, God. Let us remember that the church never has pre-eminence over the dictates of the Word, and that sanctification comes by the Word. "Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth." Jn. 17:17. James Williams P. 0. Box 441 Jacksonville, Ore. No Apologies ! To the Editor: I have several i objections to your recent edi torial, "Ladder of Racism." First, the implication that any-; one who objects to living beside or sending their children to school with Negro children is a potential murderer is obviously ridiculous. Second, you are pre judging the horrible crime com mitted in Birmingham. If you have proof that it was commit ted by a segregationist, you i must have information riot! available to the F.B.I. After all, I the Buddhists in Vietnam have . been burning their own priests ! to death to dramatize their grievances. Isn't it at least pos sible the Negroes are using similar Inches . Consider the recent acts of the N.A.AC. P. in Portland. They have blocked the construc tion of a low rent public housing project tor their own people They have attempted to dictate 10 the City councils Of rGalltS Pass, Mrdfnrd. and Ashland. They have intimidated the Pres ident of the United States, forc ing the hero of PT lost to cancel a scheduled visit to the cilv. What next? Third, while you asked your , Knt . ,nder ptv surpassing a readers where they stood on , mother's yearning svmpathv for your ladder, you did not indicate 1 her wavw'ard child, your own position. Unless you i or do we have to go Ihrouch could sincerely welcome a Ne-' any priest or "father" to con gro into your family as a son-. tps our sins to one who is like-in-law, you have a foot on the wise a sinner. Who does he con ladder, too. Even the noted lib-, (ess his sins to-1 The Bible eral ex-presidcnt. Harry Tru- leaches to go to Jesus alone who man, drew the line there. W hen : is our onlv Mediator. In Acts he was asked in a recent Inter-j 4: 12 we read. ' Neither is there view whether he thought inte-1 salvation in any other for there gralion would cause inter-mar- j is none other name under heav riage to become common prac-1 en given among men whereby tice, he answered. "1 hope not. j we must be saved." See also I don't believe in it. Would you Hebrews 7 25. want your daughter to marry a i (Name on file), Mcgro?" What feeble .basis ' Medford. . MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, FUND 1963 A L fa SMAOC 0 ARf A INIilCAl t S CXH NDI1UKIS Ntil SUBJtCI 10 AUOtMl NT C 0N1 KOI will accept or reject the state on this chart when they go to name and address of the writer there is for his hope was recent ly demonstrated when the first Negro co-ed to enter the Uni versity of Georgia announced her marriage to a white class mate. What will happen after a generation has spent their en tire school years in integrated schools? I'll take my place on your ladder with no apologies to any one. Opportunity for Negroes, yes! Integration, No! Howard Wilson Route 1, Box 280 Central Point, Ore. Eliminate Frills To the Editor: If the edu cators of Oregon, who loudly proclaim the necessity of addi tional taxes were as dedicated to the education of our children as they profess they would make an effort to provide a cur riculum commensurate with the local economy. The following suggestions could be guide lines for them to follow. Voluntarily cut back the sal aries of those educators receiv ing over $10,000 yearly. Eliminate the variety of class es not essential to basic educa tion (and there are many). Cut back on the transporta tion, lodging, etc., of groups, such as basketball, choral, band, football, traveling around and out of the state. Eliminate the many activities sponsored by the schools to "fill in the students spare time." Reduce pUysical education classes to its original intent of physical fitness and eliminate the entertaining frills that are sponsored under the guise of "P.E." If the educators would step down from Cloud 9 and make use of taxpayers' money in a sensible manner the people will b more willing to listen when they cry "wolf." Mrs. Thclma Ritler, Route 4. Box 323, Medford. Without Parallel To the Editor: In reply to a letter written by Mr. Perry, per mit me to say that Matthew 23:9 reads thus, "And call no man father upon the earth: (or one is your Father in heaven." In the Tribune it read. "For no one is your Father in heaven." This was no doubt a mistake. I might add what a blessed privilege it is that we do have a heavenly Father who numbers the very hairs of our heads and loves us with an everlasting love. Such love is without par allel. It is a theme for the most profound meditation! The matchless love of God for a world that did not love Him! The thought has a subduing power upon the soul and brines the mind into rantiviiv fn ihp wil lof God. The more we study Ihp Hmni rhararlm- in I ho light of the cross, the more we see mercy, tenderness, and for giveness blended with equity and justice, and more clearly we discern innumerable evi dences of a love that is infinite OREGON EXPENDITURES 1965 TOTAL $ 404,500.000 WELFARE 10.4 TAX AIL OTHER 5 $ 18.100,000 COURTS, LIGISIATURC. ELECTIVE OFFICES. DEBT SERVICE 5 9 $ 23,700,000 of the chart could be reduced by 14 per cent of the whole budget by action of the Governor, but only the Legislature could make cuts in the shaded portion. (UPI). Today & Tomorrow By Walter ftl 1963. The PURIFYING THE 1 MOON PROJECT The President has made his suggestion of collaboration in going to the moon at a time when there is some improve m e n t in the USSR-USA rela tions. It hap pens also to be T7 I a time when V sSI there is a grow ing doubt among American sci- Lippntann enlists ana among the people generally about the commitment to put an American man on the moon by the year 1970. The President's proposal at the United Nations is excellent, it seems to me, even if the joint effort proves to be technically and politically impracticable. It is excellent because it may of fer an honorable way to correct the mistakes of our original commitments about going to the moon. There were two big mistakes. One was the commitment to put a man, a living person rather than instruments, on the moon. The other mistake was to set a deadline 1970 when the man was to land on the moon. rpHESE two mistakes have - transiormea wnai is an im mensely fascinating scientific experiment into a morbid and vulgar stunt. The use of living men rather than instruments has given a gruesome color to the whole enterprise which is akin to that of the circus performer who shoots a flower out of his daughter's mouth. For this is showmanship and not science and it contaminates the whole affair. We shall be back in the realm of honest science when we proclaim as our objective the landing and orbiting of in strumcnts which can send back exact data. The setting of 1970 as a target date turned the enterprise into a race in which the objective is not to explore the heavens, but to be one up on the Russians. By fixing a date, by making it a race, we are not only prostitu ting the nature of the scientific effort, but arc distorting it. We have multiplied the cost many times, and, what is even more damaging to our society we are straining beyond the proper limits our relatively small supply of scientists and technicians. Not since the pha- raohs built the pyramids has a societv devoted such gigantic sums to a purpose which has almost nothing to do with its securitv or its welfare. AND YET, the exploration of space will bring a new un derstanding of the universe and of life, and this is a noble end for which to work. But all this will be done best all this, it may be, can be done only if the impulses of the project are purified, if they are cleansed of showmanship, chauvinism and morbid commercialism. Opening up the heavens is too big an en terprise to be mixed with con cern about which nation gets the first headlines and the biggest ones. As I see it, the best way to purify the moon project is to do what the President has sug gested, to work out with the So- j Met Union at least a common program with growing exchange ' of scientific data and increasing i consultation. ! It does not matter much ! w hether the (irst trip to the moon is made by an American i astronaut and a Soviet astro jnette. What does matter is that we should agree to treat cjir V f 4L,O0,000 COMMISSION 2.0 S 8,200,000 NATURAL RESOURCES 2.3 $ 9,300.000 STATE POLICE Z.bX $ 10.200.000 MENTAL S PENAL 11.6 X S 46,600,000 lippmann Washington Post separate efforts as a scientific and not a cold-war operation. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (o Field Enterprises, Inc. TASTE AND JUDGMENT A friend of mine who happens to be a trustee of his college in vited me to attend the "home comine" f o o t- ball game with hp. t.: t i:j fl mm. i leuueu s I n a r nnn r understand p ,v toot nan ana A tnat a n i g n Jl school game - looks as good (or bad) to me as a Rose Bowl Harris c h ampionship. He snorted derisively. "That's a silly statement," he said. "A little experience and close ob servation would give you the fine points of the game. Let me tell you, football is quite an art and nobody who really knows the game could mistake a great team for a poor one." He is right, of course. But what surprises me about men like him is their unwillingness to apply the same objective standards to other fields, in which they have little or no knowledge. He would defend his liking for bad music instead of good as 'merely a matter of taste." He would defend his attend ance at ill-matte plays as "One man's opinion," and call me a cultural dictator for In sisting that only knowledge gives us a right to hold an opinion. When the situation is re versed, however, he has no doubt that his evaluation of football teams Is better than mine as, indeed, it Is. He has studied the game, knows its fine points, and appreciates things I do not even see on the lield. Then w hy do so many people have a terrible defensiveness about the arts? Painting, mu sic, drama, literature these are all crafts, like football and baseball and sailing. They have their rules, their stand ards, their form. If it is a matter or fact that Notre Dame's football is bet ter than that of Siwash Gulch High school, It Is equally a fact that Beethoven's music Is belter than Grieg's and Picas so's paintings better than Grandma Moses'. To become an expert in music or painting Is merely to learn the reason why. In some things, of course, there is no disputing taste. If I like chocolate ice cream and red-headed women, and you like vanilla ice cream and dark haired women, there is no "bet ter" or "worse." But all the arcs and crafts, from football to music, have their own levels of value. We can make objective judgments, in a broad sense. We cannot say Beethoven is "better" than Mo zart, but we can say that either of them is better than Humpcr dinck just as Notre Dame and Northwestern may be roughly equal, but either is better than Siwash. Most people, of course, defend "personal taste" in the arts be cause it permits them to be lazy and ignorant without losing face. But they are the same peo ple w ho look upon me w ith great contempt because 1 can't see the plain fact that one team is infinitely superior to anothe. Border Dispute New Factor in Russia's Clash With China By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst One hundred years and more ago when European powers bus ily were carving up Imperial China, Czarist Russia was taking its share. Maps p u b 1 ished by the Red Chin ese since they took over the main land in 1949 show that i r 0 ,. they do not rec ognize these conquests and intend to get them back. And so to India has been add ed the Soviet Union as a na tion having a border dispute with Communist China, and to the ideological quarrel between the two Communist giants has been added a new and, poten tially, even more explosive issue. For outsiders attempting to assess the depth, probable dur ation and cause of the quarrel, the latest turn taking up space in Moscow and Peking news papers and in the propaganda airwaves has given new food for thought. Last week end the Soviet gov ernment charged the Chinese with 5.000 border violations in 1962. The Soviets said the Chin ese had attempted to reclaim is olated parts of Soviet territory "without preliminary permis sion." Specifically, it cited the case of a fisherman on the Amur Ri ver which separates Siberia from Manchuria. It said docu ments taken from the fisherman demanded that fishermen tell Soviet border guards that river islands belong to China. It said that Russian attempts to negotiate border disputes had been ignored by Red China, and American Principals Need Sprucing Up By Arthur Hoppe Somebody hold my natural shoulder coat. Stand back while I loosen my button-down collar. I'm fighting mad. Why, I de mand to know, can't our school principals dress like me? It's the gravest question our educational system faces. Hard ly a day goes by that some prin cipal somewhere doesn't send a child home for wearing his hair too long or her hair too high. In addition to being anti hair, our principals refuse to educate young ladies who are too long on the lipstick or too short in the skirts. And the other day the presi dent of San Francisco City Col lege, acting in the name of decency, ordered a female stu dent to remove her trousers. Subsequent to going home, I should add, and prior to putting on a dress. So everywhere school princi pals have become the arbiters of juvenile fashion. And stu dents have to dress the way principals like. If they want a free, public education, they do. Great. But I say if we're goinig to raise our children to look like school principals, we should first examine our principals. Look at their padded should ers! Look at their droopy dress es! Is this, I ask you, the Amer ican dream? The fault obviously lies in the hiring policies of our school boards. And the traditional in terview must be drastically al tered before it's too late. Like: Q: Now as to your credentials, Dr. Critchendon. A: Yes. here is mv Ph. D., my LI. D.. my Ed. D.,' my . . . Q : No. w hat we wished to see. Doctor, were your labels. A: Oh. of course. My tweed jacket, you will note, is from Savile Row. My hat is by Bor salino. And my pipe can you "Thanks, but vou don t have to Interview. Besides. I hive ne. fmm from this India's Jawaharlat Nehru could draw a wry smile. Two weeks earlier, the Red Chinese has accused Russia of luring tens of thousands of Mon gol nomads across the border of Sinkiang Province into the Sov iet Union and of trying to en gineer an anti-Chinese coup in the region. Both areas, Sinkiang and the Amur and Ussuri Rivers bor ers with Siberia, are historic scenes of conflict between ths Russians and the Chinese. Sinkiang, China's largest pro vince, far back beyond the days of Marco Polo, has been a high way of civilization. An ancient silk route linked it with India. It is marked by extremes of hot and cold, ferocious winds, moun tains, green forests and pastur es and rivers that end in salt marshes and arid deserts. And while it belongs to China, it bor ders on the Soviet Union and its communications and trade traditionally look toward tha U. S. S. R. In recent years, the Chinesa have poured hundreds of thou sands of soldier-farmers into tha area, in a counter move to Khrushchev's haste to open up the Soviet Union's western vir gin lands. As for the Amur and Ussuri River areas, Sino-Russian con flict there goes back 300 years when the Chinese first tried to hold back Russian explorers and settlers. The Soviets have warned tha Chinese against trying to bring up old quarrels in a new era. But as Chinese confidenca grows so apparently do Chinesa ambitions. The root of the Soviet-Chinese quarrel may be a challenge for leadership in tha Communist world. But the re sults of the quarrel could go far beyond either Khrushchev or Mao Tse-tung. make out the engraving? is im ported meerschaum. Q: Excellent, Doctor. Now just a few questions concerning your educational theories. What do you think of argyle scoks? A: I believe in argyle socks, gentlemen, but only at football rallies. And perhaps at class picnics. Q: Good. And striped shirts' A: Frankly, I would favor subdued stripes for the more mature student, but only for daytime wear. White, of course, would be de rigour for night school. Q: And double-breasted suits? A: I would suggest remedial classes rather than outright ex pulsion for students who cling to such garments. For I feel that many of these handicapped children can be saved for so ciety. . Q: Grand, Doctor. You're just the man we're looking for to mold the wardrobes of our littla children and . . . Hold it! I see your jacket is double-vented in the back! I'm afraid, Doc tor, that we want no radical progressivists like you at P.S. 81. Next! Of course, under this system, our children would still be forc ed to conform to the principal's taste in dress. And they'd still grow up all looking alike. But at least their taste would be impeccable. Because it would , be mine, mine. j The only alternative is tft : agree that what I wear is my business, what you wear is your l business, what our principals wear is their business, and what our children wear is their parents' business. I'm sure we'd all shine in our own eyes. Because I've discovered the oddest thing: each of us has impeccable taste. It's the other fellow who hasn't got any. give me a gift for doing lh and they're not very good "