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4 A Hidford4Tbibuni "Everyone in Southern Oregon Read! The Mall Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 NorthrtrSt, Ph7:i-6141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY AdvertUIng Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bui Mgr ERIC IV ALLEN JR.. Mnt Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIFMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STAHCHER Women"! Edltoi DALE ER1CKSON, ClrculallonMgr An Independent Newspapel Entered ai accond data matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 year f 18.00 Daily and Sunday fl moa. 10.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moa. SOU Sunday Only One year S 00 Single Copy (Mailed) 30c By Carrier And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year 121 00 Tally and Sunday 1 mo. l3 Sunday Only 1 mo. 50c Carrier and Vendor! Copy 10c Official Paper of "City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Presa International Sull Leased Wire U. P. 1. Telephoto Newsplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT RIJREAU" OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS It ASSOCI ATES Of'lcea In New York. Chi cago. Detroit. San Francisco. Los AnKiie.. Seattle, Portland. Denver. NATION Al EDITORIAL ggg AcgT,gN Sr LmiMim.n. i i. al Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tne files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 18, 1953 (Sunday) The second complaint seeking a decree "perpetually restrain ing" the city of Medford from erecting an east side fire station at the corner of Valley View dr. and Ruhl Way has been filed in circuit court. The state board of health has reported that all 183 samples of Medford's water were free from bacteria. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 18, 1913 (Monday) Jackson county births report ed at 114 for September, all time record. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudee Pot" column: "The last half of the Pearl Harbor song title. 'Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition', is now war bled by hunters, both deer and bird, with much gusto ana great depth of feeling. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 18, 1933 (Wednesday) Early action on valley's pica for irrigation district loans promised. Public speaking class organ ized in city. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 18, 1923 (Thursday) Siskiyou train robbers got no loot, postal inspectors say; sus pects held in all sections of the land. Harry Duhuque of Nebraska purchases R. W. Elden place near Central Point. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 18, 1913 (Saturday) No chance for new post office here seen until next vear. Fourteen inches of snow at Crater lake halts work on roads and trails. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is eicellent; live or six is good. 1. If described as a monodent, how many teeth would a crea ture have? 2. The U. S. Constitution for bids the election of a woman as president; true or false? 3. A dermatologist specializes in the treatment of diseases of feet, skin, or heart? 4. In direct sunlight, black and white clothing is equally cool; true or false? 5. What is the plural of the word fungus? R. Asuncion is the capital of which South American country? 7. A warrant for arrest of an unknown person is called a ... warrant? 8. Did the late Babe Ruth throw baseballs with his right or left hand? 9. Arc the earth's parallels measuring distance from the equator called longitude or lati tude? 10. Half hitch, clove hitch and square all refer to what? Answers: 1. One toolh. 2. False. 3. Diseases of the skin. 4. False. S. Fungi or funguses. 6. Paraguay. 7. John or Jane Doe. 8. Left. S. Latitude. 10. Knots. FAVORS TAX CUT WASHINGTON UPI) -Commerce Secretary Luther H. Hodges said Thursday that an across-the-board tax cut now would stimulate a lackluster economy and "strengthen our defenses against recession." JkSjjAMOCIATION FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1963 Errors and If you have gathered the impression that there have been rather more typographical er rors and boo-boos than usual in the Mail Tribune in recent days, you are We deplore it, and to have things straightened out soon. Actually, they result from changes in print ing procedures and equipment which are de signed to put out the paper more rapidly, more efficiently, and, eventually (soon, we hope) with fewer errors. Meanwhile, "bugs" unfamiliarity with new in a higher-than-average (NE of the new pieces forator. It is part of system. Our United Press International copy comes from the UPI offices in Portland and San Fran cisco. The electrical impulses which cause a machine in the news room to tap out the stories as they are sent over the leased telephone lines, also activate a machine in our printing shop. This punches holes in a strip These combinations of senting letters and numbers. When this tape is sent through another ma chine, a sensing device converts the hole-code back into electrical impulses which in turn acti vate linecasting machines. These then automati cally turn out the lines of in the page forms for printing. IN ADDITION to the imperforated UPI tape, much of our locally-produced news copy also is punched into tape by is run through the teletypesetting equipment. Learning how to handle the tapes, how to make sure that corrections are made and editing changes included in the fairly complex. Combined with the fact that the reperforator used the first two days was faulty in operation, this resulted in many more errors than usual, more than our proofreaders could cope with. "ERTAIN other changes have been made. In the past the half-column "thumbnail" pic tures used with columns by many of our regular writers have been "buried" in the copy. Now, in the interests of efficiency, many of them have been incorporated into the permanent heads which go over the columns, (Harris, Hoppe, Al sop) or have been combined with by-lines at the head of the column (Newsom, bevareid, bmith). When we all get used to the new procedures and machines, we hope to be producing a better paper, and faster. Other recent changes have been the adoption of a new body type (used and a speed-up in the receipt of UPI copy from about 50 words per minute to about 70. This brings us more news each day, and brings it faster. "YTHER changes over the past several months and years have been the purchase of a new high-speed press (and a new building to house it), addition of the UPI newspicture service, the addition of printing equipment of various kinds, the addition of a number of new features, the employment of more people on the news staff, and an increase in the number of correspondents writing for the regional page. These are all part of our continuing program of improvement and expansion to brine our readers an ever-better have a few more errors, temporarily, in the process, we'll just have to grin and bear it. And perhaps it is these things now, inasmuch as this is National Newspaper Week. E.A. Watchdog for the CIA Suspicions about the Intelligence Agency have cent months, and despite an authority than the States, the uneasy feeling about our cloak and dagger operatives remains. Are the suspicions justified? No one outside the CIA and the National Security Council really knows. And thats the trouble. The CIA is so hush-hush that even Congress men don't know what goes on or, except for a very few, how much money it takes to run the CIA. Its appropriations are disguised in the budgets of other departments of government. 'TMIESE circumstances have combined to bring about suggestions that a joint Congressional committee be created to keep an eye on the CIA and other such operations. The New York Times recently pointed out that the CIA has both intelligence-gathering and covert operation functions. And it added: "Communist Imperialism and the exigencies of the nuclear age have brought us eons away whether we like it or not from the era of 1929, when Secretary of State Stimson closed the nation's only code-breaking organization with the remark that 'gentlemen do not read each other's mail.' Today we must read the other fellow's mail if we want to survive. "But the C.I. A., like (he F.B.I., has gone too long without adequate Congressional accountability. A Joint Congressional Committee on Intelligence, so long urged but so often frus trated by Congressional pride of place and petty Jealousies, should be established to monitor our intelligence services, to safeguard their security and to reduce the dangers secret espionage and covert operations present to I free society." We concur. E.A. Progress correct. fight against it, and hope in the equipment, and procedures, have resulted number of errors. of equipment is a reper- our new Teletypesetter of heavy paper tape holes form a code repre type which are placed our own people, then finished product, is for most news stories), newspaper. If we must appropriate to mention activities of the Central been increasing in re assurances from no less President of the United jWf (. tfH, c foST- Can Greed Save The World! 8 Arthur Hoppe WASHINGTON In our con stant search for world peace, as you know, we've kind of given up relying on the old standbys of love and brother hood. While in theory, they did not pan out too well. So now all we do-gooders are pinning our hopes on a far more basic, universal human emotion. Greed. And I'm delighted to report the Peace through Greed Pro gram is going great guns al ready. But let us add a note of cau tion: there are dark clouds on the horizon. The program was officially launched by Mr. Kennedy's an nouncement that we would swap the Russians four million tons of wheat, which they are greedy for, in return for $250 million in gold, which we are greedy for. And it seemed like the rosy dawn of a new era of peace through mutual greed, in which all men would lay down their swords at last. In order to pick each other's pockets. True, there were some com plaints from midwestern con gressmen with militantly anti communist constituents. "How come," demanded these con gressmen whose militantly anti communist constituents also grow wheat, "we are only sell ing the Russians four million tons?" When our allies are sell ing them 15 million? What's happened to American sales manship?" But generally the reaction here to the Peace through Greed Program has been favor able. After all, it's an approach our congressmen can under stand. And the only real oppo sition has come from our staunch friend. West Germany. You know how virulently anti- communist the West Germans are. And you can't blame them, living as they do in the In the Day's News By FRANK As was rather generally ex pected, the Oregon legislature's $60 million tax increase measure went down to defeat in Tues day's referendum election. Its worst drubbing was in Jo sephine county, where 68.4 per cent of the registered voters went to the polls and voted 8,063 to 708 against it a negative ma jority of 11 to 1. At McDcrmitt precinct over in Malheur county, 18 of the 37 registered electors turned out to vote. They ALL voted NO. In Benton county, home of Oregon State Univer ril POT AN END TO NUCLEAR TESTINfj i fallwt , yvJns I "Sure, you helped, hut you can't rxpert Vm to give a Nnhel Peace Prlir to everybody that marched with a placard:" MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. shadow of the Berlin Wall. Who knows better the horrors of com unism? Who better understands the need to put the economic screws to the Soviet bloc? In hopes their evil regime will fall? And, oh, what an impassioned warning sage old Mr. Adenauer of West Germany delivered to us before Mr. Kennedy approv ed the wheat deal. How, Mr. Adenauer asked with tears in his eyes, could we even think of such a thing? Would we, he demanded, all choked up, reai ly sell wheat to the commu nists? And thereby betray our loyal West German allies, "sell the communists the noose with which to hang ourselves?" Would we, he summed up, ris ing to oratorical heights, "fat ten up our own butcher?" Oh, how moving it was to hear this old statesman put principles ahead of profit. Of course, it might have been more moving if Mr. Adenauer hadn't approved the sale of 35,000 tons of West German wheat flour to the communists the day before. Which was part of 350,000 tons the West Germans are selling the Soviet bloc. Which is part of the $1.4 billion in annual trade between West Germany and the Iron Curtain countries. But, as I say, it was good to hear him put principles above profit. His principles above our profit. But a speech like that kind of builds your faith in the Peace through Greed Program. It makes you realize how over whelming this stimulus to peace and understanding is. But I'm a little worried about the West ern Alliance. Can it survive this new program? Look at me. Al ready I'm sore at '.he West Germans. lguess it's that I can't stand their greedier - than - thou at titude. JtNKINS sity, 65 per cent of the registered voters went to the polls and turned it down by a vole of 4,255 YES to 5.781 NO a negative majority of nearly 1'; to 1. Over the state as a whole, the voting was about .1 to 1 against. ACCORDING to the official State of Oregon Bi-ennial Budget Report, the recommend ed appropriations for the 1983-65 bi-ennium for all funds came to a total of $1,2115.7 million. That figure is too big to be grasped by most of us. So let's spell it out. Spelled out, it comes ,-S OVUilM' Go u I art Is Right and By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Back in April, 1962, when Brazilian President Joao Gou lart paid a state visit to the United States, a Brazilian news man pleaded: Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harris (c) Field Xnterpriwi. Inc. GOODNESS CLOSE Watching the play, "A Man For All Seasons," not long ago, I was sadly reminded of that baffling mechanism in the hu man mind that makes it easy to approve and admire goodness in the past, while refusing to exercise it in the present. As you may know, "A Man For All Seasons" deals with the life and death of Sir Thomas More, the English lawyer, states man, author and scholar in the reign of King Henry VIII. A devout churchman, More was beheaded by his monarch by refusing to give assent to Hen ry's break with the Roman church. Nearly everyone else around him bishops and lords as well as intellectual leaders capitulated to Henry's decree, whether or not they agreed with it. More, who deeply knew that a man is nothing but what he believes and acts upon, wanted to be neither a hero nor a mar tyr and became both. Hardly anyone today would disagree that More did the right and noble thing. He is an admirable figure, to Prot estants as well as to Cath olics, to those who deny God as well as to those who af firm Him. The high estimate of his person cuts across all lines of faith and unfaith. Yet the tribute we pay to such a man is largely histori cal; it bears little relevance to the modern condition. For if a man like More were to rise today, and to take the same position against the current of the state and soci ety, those same persons who admire More would condemn his latter-day emulator. Not only that. Nearly all of us would behave ill such a situation like the friends and associates of More, not like the man himself. We would rationalize, we would be "practical" and "realistic," we would trim our sails and perjure our convictions. And, in order to make our selves feel better about our wholesale abdication of con science, we would be forced to call the modern More a "crank," or a "nut," or a "visionary." We would not apotheosize him as martyr; rather, in the de nigrating jargon of modern psy chology, we would accuse him of having a "martyr complex." Goodness cannot be lived with t too close range; it makes us el uncomfortable; it shows us .he moral yardstick by which we should measure ourselves, and, as Alcibiadcs said in listen ing to Socrates, it makes us want to run away and hide from to one billion, 285 million, 700 thousand dollars. I rjREGON'S present population I " is assumed to be about 1.- 800.000. the proposed state budget, the per capita tax (meaning the tax for each per son) would have been about $357.00. Which means For the average family of four, the annual state tax would be $1,428.00. OUT that isn't all. According to Tax Founda tion Inc.. Orecon's share of the $98.8 BILLION federal budget for the 1964 fiscal year will be $899 million or a per capita av erage of about $490. Adding the two, we get a com bined (federal and state) per capita tax of about $847. Or- For the average Oregon fam ily of four An annual tax of about S3,- 388.00. IH'T. you will say: J "I haven't got that much. ! So how could I pay that much in taxrsn" DON'T kid yourself. The cost of taxes is add; to the COST OF PRODUCTION, and therefore has to be adi.ed to prices. Otherwise, all producers would go broke. In one way or another, we all pay our full share of taxes all taxes. J, Walking Tightrope Between Left in Brazilian Politics "Give him a chance. He is try ing to be a friend." During the two years of his presidency, Goulart's chief dif ficulty has been that in the ex tremes of Brazilian politics he has been forced to walk a tight rope between right and left. And in the last two weeks there have been definite signs that the rope is becoming frayed. On both the oxtrema right and extreme left, Goulart was ourselves, else strike down the man who utters these prickly truths. It is easy to admire More from a distance of 400 years. Admiration is the counterfeit coin we pay to be relieved of the obligation of imitating him ... 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 lo clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Not For Sale To the Editor We are but a few of the property owners and residents of Tiller, who take exception to the repeated advertisements and notoriety in your and other leading news papers both in and out of the state that our Town of Tiller is for sale. The townsite was named for Aaron J. Tiller, who was granted a claim by the United States of America in a pat ent dated Dec. 17, 1890, and was recorded May 21, 1898. Today, though unincorporat ed, our town is comprised of the following businesses: A U. S. Post Office, nursery and gardens, tavern, a leading gas station and auto repair, a prosperous cafe, a nationally known oil company bulk plant, a large truck and auto service station and a supermarket. To our knowledge, none of these businesses that comprise the active community of Tiller is for sale as a town. We have a public school consisting of eight grades, a community church, an active PTA, and a local trap club that has existed for many years. Also, interested persons will find located at Tiller two For est Service Districts. The South Umpqua and Cow Creek districts employ 120 people in their peak seasons and trans act approximately $2,000,000 in timber sales. More than 125 patrons are served through the Tiller Post Office, excluding those on a rural route to Drew. There are perhaps 20 pri vate homes and rentals in the immediate area. We feel we are the center of our surround ing logging operations, forestry, agriculture, cattle raising and ranching. We welcome new in dustry and the public to enjoy the many benefits our area tan offer including six modern Forest Service maintained campgrounds, and excellent hunting and fishing on the scenic South Umpqua River. The 155 acres and houses be ing advertised for sale are lo cated in part of this commun ity. Some of the other homes and businesses could possibly be individually purchased, but the TOWN OF TILLER is not for sale. Bud and Jane Porter And Nearly 50 Others, Tiller. Ore. Jacksonville To the Editor: A visit rocenth from a member of the Jackson ville Boosters club: in our con versation on general topics of the day he confided that he al ways read the writers' letters to the Editor in the Medford Tribune. That quite assured us that the daily communications columns are read bv the general public, and to also notice the ab- sence of one. after a prolonged time of omission. The gentleman also "spoke our languace when he uttered those words, or is the dailv : newspaper's cosmopolitan and . ""vu.nc rather a r.i.m Up -f i v, i ..." i All we can hope for is. when - :ever we have interesting sub-!obviate (ur hor incidents I ,. clL' whal-vah know- Hce ects to write on. and providing ' nh " " ! , I ve been writing sheer non ! the Editor sees fit to publish our f'f n " ? ,e, f f" ;e"g ' sense for a coon's age and he humble articles, we w,!l contin-i ""iv' ! shed "V ue to be a booster o preserve .h. hilnrir. er-.n-.rv ,nrl KIM. ings in the oldest town in Jack 'on county. Jacksonville, Ore. Bert Kissinger 322 South Riverside ave. Medford The Right To Know To the Editor: There have been reports that certain de partments of the federal govern ment have systematically cen- a man without a friend. Coni licating the already chaotic state of affairs in South Amer ica's largest nation was the fact that maneuvering already has started for the presidenti-ii elec tions scheduled for October, 1965. This week Goulart's minister of education, Paulo de Tarso, quit in what was interpreted as a left-wing protest against Gou lart's "opening toward the center." Charges Death Plot In Rio de Janeiro, capital of Guanabara State, Gov. Carlos Lacerda, militantly anti-Com munist and an avowed presiden tial candidate, accused uniden tified authorities "directly linked" with Goulart of plotting to assassinate him. Lacerda freely has predicted total collapse of the Goulart regime. Whether or not another man might have done better, it must be admitted that Goulart s iosi tion has been an almost impos sible one. When the United States bailed him out early this year with a pledge of more than $400 mil lion in aid, it was on the prom ise that an austerity campaign would at least slow down Bra zil's galloping inflation and that sored news from unfriendly countries, but I believe the accusation reparding news from South Vietnam and eminating from a Congressional Commit tee headed by Rep. John E. Moss (D-Calif.), is the first I have noted coming from such an authoritative source. Such a censorship would be in harmony with the State Department muz zle, first applied by John Foster Dulles and perpetuated by Dean Rusk, by refusing passports to American citizens wishing to visit unfriendly countries. One of the most flagrant abuses of this gag rule is in progress now in the prosecution and persecution of some of the 59 young Americans who defied the State Department ban by going to Cuba. One of their number has boasted that he went as a "stool pigeon" ap parently for the specific purpose of discrediting and vilifying the other 58 on their return home. It seems clear that his story was planned and largely written before the expedition left the United States, yet his story seems to have been accepted at face value by both the grand jury that has indicted some of the students and by the despic able HUAC whose reputation is one of intimidation and harrass ment. What those young people learned, good or bad, about the present regime in Cuba is of small moment compared to the damage done to the American citizen's "right to know" inher ent in the State Department ban on travel in countries about which the administration seems afraid to have the people know the truth. It seems expecially ironic at this time when the great major ity of Americans are giving complete approval to the Ne gro's fight for civil rights, that the civil rights of every Ameri can can be abrogated by a sum mary order from the Secretary of State. If the courts uphold the power of the State Department to en force such a ban on foreign travel, the next logical step would be a ban on the press, radio and TV, as regards any news unfriendly to the adminis tration in power at any given time. Perhaps the most valuable civil right of the American citi zen is that of free speech and press: THE RIGHT TO KNOW! D. Ivan Fritts 974 Fortune Lane Ontario. Ore. Highway Advisory Plan To the Editor: We wish to compliment you on your excel lent editorial, "Highways and Esthetics," which was reprinted in the Portland Reporter on Sept. 23. Your appraisal, and the con structive suggestion for an ad visorv commission, is the most sensible idea voiced to date, j The Highway Commission has ! done such an excellent job in ; creating the highway and park i (,,, ,. ,u- incidents involving theMarquam Bndee and Jacksonvi e must i " 1 a. V..;.'" ' "T! .L' . ! ,;,. ...vV-..; j VL' ! hlS,0r - CSthetlCS, and the Com- miinitv uolfara luuvtma faMn-c : """" -".a jum as inipunani as me geogra- pny and tne cost of its acquisi - tion and development. Thus con sultants in these areas become a requisite. . Since our prufession is vitally concerned with the logical and beautiful development of our city and state community, we would welcome the opportunity tax and land reform programs would follow. Instead, inflation jumped nearly 50 ner cent in the fiist eight months of the year. Labor unions attacked iiouiart tor ins resistance to wage demands, nnrl r-nncArvntivp And ripht-U'hf elements in congress jffectively DiocKea lana reiorm. Loudest Critic Among his critics, Lacerda has been the loudest. As governor of Guanabara State, Lacerda has established a good record of building schools, clearing slums and pressing public works. Manda tory wage increases and a "13th month" of extra pay has in general kept workers quiet. Lacerda expects a swing to the political right and will use his record as governor to help his presidential ambitions. As for Goulart, there are signs that he is working toward cooperation with the middle-road Social Democrats of former President Juscelino Kubitschck. Kubitschek is an amiable medic who has no personal enemies. It was he who led Brazil into the forced-draft industrialization which plunged it so deeply into debt. Kubitschek also is a presiden tial candidate for 1965. to serve with others on an ad visory commission. We feel that the Highway Commission and the community would both ben efit from the association. Very truly yours, Architects Northwest Members of the American Institute of Architects 219 Southwest Stark st. Portland 4, Ore. No Bus To the Editor: Mr. Khrush chev sent word that he wasn't going to come over here for a trip to the moon. He just ain't going to get in the bus and leave the driving to us. Everett Acklin Ashland, Ore. Forest Dialectics To the Editor: A digger squirrel and a chip munk Were exchanging views one day Said the digger squirrel: "Old buddy, We are lucky, come what may. Though we're 'lower order' animals, Without reason, not much rhyme; Without cosmonauts or rockets, Fearing no consequence of time; Have no colleges or Wall Streets Mona Lisa or slot machines, Dog races, nor Valachis, And never utilize Marines Just browse, while there is food for all, And when tired, we hit the hay . . .," "Yippee!" the chipmunk shouted: "And no income tax to pay!" George Distell 33 North Fir st. Medford War To the Editor: There is noth ing good about wars. That is why they should be abolished. I am sure that this is the main reason why the United Nations was established. We blame and deride tha Japanese for attacking Pearl Harbor without warning. Did anyone expect them to give us advance notice of their inten tions? Military men are agreed that if the Japanese had fol lowed up their initial advan tage, they would have disabled this country to such an extent that a declaration of war by us would have been foolish, even dangerous. To repeat, there is nothing good about wars. Nations will have to settle their differences without resorting to the mad ness of armed conflict. No country can hope to win tha next major war and no for mal declarations should be ex pected. David Frisch P. O. Box 292 White City, Ore. Whatyah Know? To the Editor: In Sept. 27 Tribune under the heading of "Tablet." a letter read "E. A. : bas the making of a fine writer i and. cu,! accomPlish much I j"i au-ni- Irn away from brain washing tac- tics. , mouln 'n soap. I C0UM ,... I could never quite trust a r., . . leuer wnat scz "He s a fine 0uer 'BUT' or 'IF' 1 i couldn't trust him if I be- came acquainted with 'im, but when I hear from him and haven't even set my eyes on 'im I get doubly suspishus. You all leave E.A. outa it, R.E. Pearl Spackman, General Delivery Rogue River, Ore. (SI i&i t 9J 6 (7) o
