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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY, ""Everyone in southern Oregon Readi The Mall tlibunt" Jubllihed Daily except Sauirday by MCDFORD PRINTING CO. as Northr!rSt.P17a-14l ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB CREK AdvertilnlManaiet GERALD T LATHAM, Hue Mgr ERIC w ALLEN JR.. Mnr. Editor EARL H ADAMS City Mltar HARRY CHIPMAN.Tel Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STAROHERWomen'eEdiloi DALE ERICKSON, Circulation MaT An Independent Newipapei Entered eecond ciasa matter al Medford. Oreg-on. under Aet of Merch 3, U7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MaU In Advance Dally and Sunday 1 fearll.W Dally and Sunday tnoa 10 00 Dail and Sunday 3 moa. sou Sunday Only One year 5 00 Simla Copy (Mailed) 10a By Carrier And Motor oute. Hally and Sunday 1 year 21 .00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo L78 Sunday Only 1 mo. M Carrier jndVendora C opy loo fifflclal Paper of City of Medford 9'''ipi'leJL??s!?-I, counts United Preit International lull Leaied Wire TJ. P I. Telephoto Newaplcturea SSMBER-0 AUDIT BUREAU AdHIilnTTl'preaentatlve: NELSON ROBERTS St ASSOCI. ATES Of'leea In New York. Chi cago. Detroit. Sin rrencleco, Lol Angelea. Seattle, Portland Denver. - Mamoer California Newipapar PubUihara AiaoclaUon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tna tiles of Th Mall Trlbunt 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO yaan ago. 19 YEARS AGO Dec. It. 1053 (Saturday) An increase of 16.21 per cent In rates and charges for electric service has been authorized for the California Oregon Power Company by the Public Utilities Commissioner of Oregon and the Public Utilities commission of California. ... Richard Carter, Medford, sen ior in journalism at the Univer sity of Oregon, named business manager of the student news peper, the Oregon Daily Emerald. 29 YEARS AGO tw i? imj (Sunday) t yw.ni annKn receiving Gray T.triv r-ertlfieates from Red Cross Include Mrs. R. C. Faber n n p rarlev. Mrs. Leo nerd Carpenter, Mrs. Margaret Biddle, Mrs. O. A. taen, n .1 B. Cribble. Mrs. Rawles Moore, Mrs. J. P. Naumes, Mrs. H F. Nordwlck, Mrs. Margue rite Mills, Mrs. Edith Thomp son, Miss Annette Gray, snd Mrs. Mark Wright. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A num ber of Democrats have an nounced their disgust with the New Deal and the Fourth term notion. They are willing to vote for most any Republican but the one nominated for the presi dency." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 12, 1933 (Tuesday) Cast of Medford High School play. "The Weasle," includes Patricia Young, Alene Ray, Bob Gail, Bob Murphy, Ted Llndley, and Lucicn Smith. Victor Tengwald named field representative for Civil Works Administration and Jackson County Relief Committee. 40 YEARS AGO TW. II. 102.1 Wednesday Serllda Turpin, BO, a resident of the Rogue valley lor M years dies at home alter brief illness County Clerk Chauneey Flor rnu mnnrtft rntintv la still nav ing bounties on coyotes, bob cats, wolves and cougais. 50 YEARS AGO nor. 1?. mil IPrirlav) Los Angeles sports writers lay Medford fighter Bud Ander ann lnnlcnd lik a "riumn rart colliding with a dump cart" In his victory in Facinc coast championship bout. What's Your I.Q.? Nino t ten cerrett If suaerier; aaven ar elf ht li aicellent; five ar lie It gee. 1. Would you guess that Salmon can swim against a cur rent of IS, 20, or 30 miles per hour? 2. Which of these planets is considered to be the largest: Saturn, Jupiter or Neptune? 3. A weapon known as a clay more was used where? 4. Name the capital of Min nesota. 5. The city of Galveston, Texas, is built on an island; true or false? 6. What substance, found in fruits, is important in jelly making? 7. On what Island was Napol eon Bonaparte first sent into exile? I. How many dozens are in a treat gross? 9. Arc the Egyptians or the Greeks credited with making the first world maps? 10. Who was the first Vice President of the United States? Answers: I. 30 m.p.h 2. Jup iter. 3. Scotland. 4. St. Paul. S. True. . Pectin. T. Elba. 1. 144. 4. Greeks, is. John Adams. 4 A jjj'HIWIMPlt VJaIiOCIATION DECEMBER 12, 1963 On Honoring JFK In the aftermath of the widespread shock and grief of President Kennedy's assassination, it is only natural that well-intentioned people should wish to honor him by naming things after him. There is such a thing as too much and too soon, however, and good intentions can lead to unforeseen results. President Johnson's action in renaming Cape Canveral for the late President was resented to some extent by residents of the Cape, who point ed out it had been named some 400 years earlier by Spanish explorers, and that the name was hallowed by long usage. A MORE appropriate renaming was the action of the West Berlin government, which chose a downtown square to honor President Kennedy who, only a few months before, had proclaimed "Ich bin ein Berliner" ("I am a Berliner"), and who had pledged U.S. support to West Germany and West Berlin. The renaming of Idlewild airport for the late President is not inappropriate. But the rash of proposals to rename streets or other geograph ical features, particularly those which have long been known by their present names, surely can only lead to confusion. In Salem, it has been proposed that Liberty Street be named for President Kennedy. A nice gesture. But think of the changes in stationery, telephone books, maps, records, city directories be involved. HPHE desire to honor x is a fine and decent But let it be done, and grief, but in calmness and deliberation and reverence. Too, let the priate one, one of significance, which will do real honor to his memory. : John F. Kennedy's place in history is as sured, although it is still to soon to say just what it will be. No man-made markers or memo rials no matter how appropriate are needed to enhance his memory. j And perhaps it would be well to let a few healing years pass by before determining what it is that should bear his come. E.A. Silvichemical Break-Through Several months ago in this space it was re ported that a chemist had predicted that the time might come when valuable for its content of chemicals than for its wood. This prediction moved a step closer to real ity this week when Crown Zellerbach Paper Co. and the University of revealed they had signed a contract for research into the medical properties of a chemical known as DMSO, which is a by facture. Wood basically has cellulose fibers that form work of wood, and the together. In paper making, during the pulp stage, the cellulose is retained while the lignin has thus far been waste. IT HAS long been an ambition of silvichemists to find useful ways of using lignin: It has several potentialities, but none have as yet been proven. DMbO, extracted from lignin, may change this. It has some fascinating properties, which must be carefully researched. Looking like water, and with only a slightly higher specific gravity, it serves as an anti freeze. This is how its medical possibilites were discovered. It also has the ability to pass rapidly through living tissues, both animal and vegetable. It has possibilities as a pain-killer, and in a dozen or more other medical and commercial applications. It is an exceedingly effective solvent. IT IS too soon to say whether it will turn out to have the wide range of usefulness that pre liminary research and tentative conclusions would indicate. Rut the fact that a siiniificnnt liir:ik-llii-niinr, in wooil chemistry has, in fact, occurred, is good reason for optimism that it is only a first step and that other discoveries will follow, as they nave m tne petrochemical industry. The more USPS thai arp fminrl fur wmul IVip less waste there will be. use every on oi the nog but the squeal, The time is coming when chemistry will use every bit of the tree but its beauty as a growing thing. New License Plates Next month, the first of the new Oregon automobile licenses will start showing up. The eoloi's orange on dark blue will be the saillC. But thp ttnnl "("irnimn" it-ill K somewhat larger letters. And the licenses will have a combination of three letters and three numbers, as do both California's and Washington's. The most significant, be the fact that the silly raciuc ivoncieriann, will be dropped from the elates. For such small favors 1m no m.a ti,,i-o b.A. , , legal descriptions, tax and so on whicli would the martyred President one. not in haste and shock memorial be an appro name tor all time to a tree would be more Oregon Medical School - product of pulp manu two components the the structural frame lignin which holds them Meat packers say they ch U1UVIV llll-n-rtl -tll and meaningless slogan, 1964 CrytUl Ball Strictly Personal ly Sidney J. Harris (c) field Enterprise. Ine. PURELY PERSONAL PREJUDICES It can be seen that a woman is a more complex creature than a man, for it is much easier to define manliness than womanliness if a man lacks but one quslity, courage, he . is less than a man; but no single quality, or its absence, can so delineate woman. You have not found your vocation If the drudgery it involves is not also somehow a kind of pleasure. Parents often accuse their children of being "selfish" for wanting to live in their own way; but Oscar Wilde stated the matter accurately when he said, one wishes to live it Is asking others to live as one wishes to live." To be "original" does not consist In saying' what has not been said before; any madman can do this; it consists, rather, In the ability to combine and rearrange old thoughts In such a manner that they can never again be separated and viewed in the old dimensions; and this Is precisely the greatness of such "original" thinkers as Freud. The last lesson that despotisms ever learn is that a govern ment without an opposition is, eventually, th easiest to topple; for an opposition keeps a government sharp, muscular and flexible. People who look down upon games as a "form of escapism" rarely stop to consider that, for them, work may be a form of escapism; indeed, for many, a kind of alco holism which permits them, In socially approved fashion, to elude their deeper responsibilities as human beings, and sometimes as parents. Watching the convolutions of Congress when some of its own activities are being examined reminds me of Nietzsche's observation: "In all institutions open criticism is excluded, an grow like a mushroom for example, in senates and learned societies." Why do we wonder that people are unable to commun icate ideas and feelings to one another, when nine persons out of ten are incapable of communicating the simplest directions for getting across town? Memory is mainly a matter of interest, more than of mnemonic power: a man who is amazed that a bridge expert can recall his exact hands in 38 boards of a tournament played last year might himself rattle off the batting averages of the baseball players he was interested in 20 years ago, and think nothing of the feat. Those who persist in making what they call "bad choices" In love are really not exercising choice at all, but are driven by forces they are scarcely aware of; where then Is no freedom, there is no choice. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Mishmash in the news: In Washington the other day, President Johnson look over a custom made familiar by for mer President Harry Truman the morning walk. He took off bright and early. The sun was shining, but the morning air was nippy as it can be in Washington at this season of the year. He was hat less, and wore no gloves. He wore only a cotton raincoat over his suit. HE THOUGHT he had handled the situation pretty well and was going to have a nice litle stroll all by himself. But some thing slipped. Three secret serv ice agents spotted him and formed an escort as he strode down the quiet street. Then His personal limousine, whose driv er had got the word that the President was on the loose, came roaring out and fell into line close behind him. It was followed by two secret service cars, which were promptly joined bv a police motorcycle escort. Within the first block it became quite a motorcade. 4 ND- " Presumably Rv that time the radio sta tions and the TV stations had got the word and were blaring out the news that the President was out for a w alk and could be seen if people gut there in time. That's what Alfred Lord Ten nyson was talking about when he wrote his famous lines about "Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, before a thou sand peering littlenesses, in that fierce light which beats upon throne." The President of the. United MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, "Selfishness is not living as from which the cold wind of innocent corruption begins to States has no throne to sit on, but he has all the rest of the drawbacks. TN THE rush of other news, an anniversay slipped by us last week without being noticed. Fri day, Dec. 6. was the 30th anni versary of the end of prohibition which President Hoover de scribed as "a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in pur pose." Only the Licensed Beverage Industries Inc., took notice of it issuing a reiwrt, which has just got into the papers, to the effect the "drinking of liquor is less per capita now than it was in the free-swinging era of Al Capone and the speakeasies, and also less than it was BEFORE prohibition." Over the past 15 years, the report says, per capita con sumption of liquor has averaged 1.25 gallons. This compares, it adds, with 1.95 gallons in the prohibition years. Consumption is now rising a little, amounting to 1.37 gallons last year. fOMMENT? Well, one can't help won dering how the Beverage In dustries' statisticians managed to get out in the hills and count up the output of the stills that were hidden there. It must have been quite a job. Many years ago a writer named Havelock Ellis said: "The methods of statistics are so variable and uncertain, so apt to be influenced by circum stances, that it is never possible to be sure that one is operating with figures of equal weight." Maybe that's the way it is with tht statistics dealing with consuming of alcohol during the prohibition years. OREGON Split Between Leaders, Economic Unrest Threaten PHIL NIWSOM DPI Fereirn Newa Analyit When Victor Paz Estenssoro returned from Argentine exile to become president of Bolivia after a successful revolt in April, 1952, a prime mover in his return was a labor leader named Juan Lechin Oquendo. Since the 1940's the two had worked together in leadership of National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) and when Paz became president Lechin assumed the post of minister of muling and petroleum. Lechln's power rested upon his control of the Communist dominated tin miners' union. He himself has been described as a Trotskyite. The MNR was leftist. But up on the question just how far to the left the two men separated. For his part, Paz declared: Communications Letters to the Editor must bear tht name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the us of a pen nam er initial for publication Is permissible. Th Mail Tribune reserves th right to edit all letters with view to clarification and condensation. Letter submitted for publicetlon must not exceed 400 words. Th letters printed In this column do net necessarily represent th views of t!- paper. In fact th contrary la often Time To Go To the Editor: In response to Lydla Burnham's letter of Dec. 9, I would like to say that I agree with Mrs. Robert E. Ellis that it was President Ken nedy's, "time to go" and I am NOT a fatalist. I am firmly convinced that the soul determines in each his own destiny that the force of destiny is not outside of us; but within us. I believe that Mr. Kennedy could have averted his own des truction by adhering to the pre cautions set up by those pro fessional authorities who were paid to guarantee his safety. I believe that he had, in this life, accomplished spiritually that for which he was born. Death is not a disaster. It is i gradua tion. Accidents don't "just happen" either. They are created by man's own carelessness or perhaps his subconscious will for self-destruction or some times as a release from tension or problems too great to bear. Sometimes persons are drawn to a fatal condition for other reasons. Perhaps they are here for a particular purpose which has been satisfied or are here to teach others i lesson. Even in the airlines accidents you will find many who, at the last moment, found themselves unable to make that particular flight due to some supposed freak happenstance. Others were drawn to the same man made tragedy, sometimes, in spite of themselves. Also, I cannot go along with the idea that man is merely a biological incident. Each and every human being is a part of God, and the purpose of life is to discover its purpose. Through our trials and tribu lations we are being led to wisdom. Mrs. Frank M. Duncan 114 Summit Medford School Prayers To the Editor: Be not de ceived or disturbed, dear friends, about a decision of the Supreme Court concerning a law that does not exist, Congress has not made any law concerning religion nor in any way a law forbidding the free exercise thereof, therefore, any school's management has a perfect right to exercise its full privilege concerning either the reading of the Bible or the offering of prayer. The Supreme Court is not functioning as a law maker but as an interpreter of existing law. in regard to an atheist, or an unbeliever. It should be his pri vilege to leave the class during the reading or prayer: if the Word of God is offensive to him he should not be compelled to listen. God has much to sav about them that accept and those that refuse His Word. If we all were listening to His voice today, there would be no murder, hate, malice, strife. wars, avarice, greed or thiev ery. We would love one another as His wisdom instructs and no violence would exist. We would not need an ap pointed Supreme Court at all. Would we? James Williams P. O. Box 441 Jacksonville, Ore. Guns and Threats To the Editor: This time I am writing in agreement with your editorial of 12 ' 4 63 as regards firearms, and also wish to call attention to Sydney J. Harris's column. The proposal that firearms be registered tn no way violate the Constitutional guarantee of a "right to bear arms." nor does it bear any more relation to con fiscates than does tha registra tion of automobiles. Stability of "In an economically depend ent country like eurs an ex tremist revolution cannot be accomplished. Guarantees will be given to foreign capital on the condition that it brings real benefits to the country." Th Paz government has had two main supports. One came from th peasants who received land under government agran an reform. The other source was the United States which has supported the government with $250 million. This year's aid program is budgeted at $65 million. U.S. aid to Bolivia is the largest per capita - in Latin America. . The elections of 1960 named Paz president of the country for a second consecutive term and Lechin vice president. But. although operating tut' der the same party banner, the two men had reached the end of the political ways. Lechin went into virtual exile as Bolivian ambassador to the Vatican. He quit that post two months ago to take up active opposition to Paz, depending for his support upon tne rest less tin miners who still re- th eat. The proposal to ban the pur chase of firearms by mail order, I feel, should be a Federal law; under the present regulations any one of any age can obtain weapons, no matter how irres ponsible they may be. If one had to apply in person it would give the merchant an opportun ity to appraise the qualifications of the customer. Neither of these proposals will put an end to illegal or indis creet use of guns, but it will es tablish rightful ownership and often clear the innocent of sus picion. Sydney J. Harris points out a long needed warning that more people should listen and study before taking sides. One must read his column, upper right corner Page 4, M.T. 12-4-63, to get full import of what he tries to tell us. In brief, he points out how the extreme "Right" can jeop ardize the safety of the nation while knowingly or unknowingly he contributes to the sabotage of the U.S.A. by crying "Com munist and diverting the at tention to the wrong danger. Too many people label any thing that displeases them Communist, confusing true "Communism" with the Rus- sian-Chinese version, which is more properly "Gangsterism" on a national scale. Mr. Harris compares the Bus- sian-Chinese Communism with Fascism. My space forbids a comprehensive comparison, how- ever let me say I (ear one as much as the other for they are equally unAmerican. Make sure neither lulls you into compla cency while the other obtains its ends. C. R. Burrill 83414 Cherfy St. Central Point, Ore. Doctors To the Editor: Referring to the damage suit reported in last week's paper, against two of our local doctors, I should say great doctors because they are, and I am speaking for a number of others who thinks the same way. I know two direct cases, an elderly person and a young per son, who are alive and well to day due to those two doctors, and that s not speaking of prob able cases I know nothing about. Let s ask ourselves this ques tion: "How come we never see an item on the front page or any place in the papers where it says, A me just saved by local doctor . No, we never see it. I can't understand people who are al ways wanting to cut somebody down who is at the same time helping people to live. If it's because of an ostepoathic doc tor, there is something there they should know but undoubt edly don't and that is an osteo pathic doctor has just as much training and schooling as a medical doctor and I understand a little more, and I for one would risk my life in their hands any time. It would make me sick to be called for jury on a case against a doctor I wouldn't have the knowledge to even help pass a true verdict and there are others who feel the same way. Seems some of our greatest men get the biggest stones thrown at them. Ask yourself this question. "Why is a doctor a doctor in the first place?" and be honest with the answer. After all, a doctor is human and he can only do so much. The patient has to help and even a little higher power goes with it, and when I see something like that in the paper it looks like lack of intelligence or something. Maybe want for money, er even jeaJousv. Mrs. M. Glass 5974 Harris Rd. . Central Point, Ore. ( Bolivian Government tained their weapons from the revolt oi 1952. His campaign, both anti-Paz and anti-United States, is based upon opposition to government efforts to clean up the mess in the nationalized tin industry. The mines, nationalized as one of the first acts of the 1952 rev olution, are shot through with featherbedding and fraud. Ex haustion of once rich veins, worn-out machinery and failing prices have added to the chaos in an industry accountable for 60 per cent of Bolivian exports. Government efforts to intro duce economic reforms, includ ing reduction in the work force, have met violent resistance. The resistance, stirred up by Lechin, reached a climax in It) New THE BRIDES IN THE BATH WASHINGTON President Eisenhower's mildly astonish ing intervention in Republican pre-convention politics may not bring Ambassador Henry Cabit Lodge back from Saigon. But it certainly underlines, with ironic emphasis, the difficulty of the Republican problem. The facts concerning the Eis enhower interevention are in dispute, so they had better be got out of the way to begin with. In brief, the former President either saw or talked by telephone with Ambassador Lodge while the latter was in this country; and Eisenhower then urged Lodge to come home and re-enter Republican poli tics.' Not content with this, the former President also encour aged the publication of a report of what he had done, based on his own account of his exchange with Lodge. When this report stirred up considerable excite ment, the usual crawfishing en sued; and the most remarkable crawfishing of all was done by the former President himself. EISENHOWER in fact sought the publication of another report, explaining that he was still as impartial as ever, that he was by no means backing Ambassador Lodge, and that his sole desire was to see as many good horses in the race as could be induced to enter. The episode quite wonderflly reveals the strange Eisenhower blend of political naivete with great instinctive shrewdness. For what could have been more naive than to suppose he would not be regarded as backing Am bassador Lodge, after he had asked him to enter the race, and had also caused this fact to be published? Yet the shrewdness out weighs the naivete; for it is quite obvious that Eisenhower's motive was simply eagerness to take better advantage of the opportunity offered the Repub licans by the radical change in the national situation. How he went about it was a bit odd, but what he was trying to do was highly sensible. IT WAS sensible, to begin with, because all the Repub licans' reasons for being tempt ed by Sen. Barry Goldwater ceased to operate when Presi dent Kennedy was assassinated. The Republicans of the North em industrial states saw no point in fighting the well-financed Goldwater drive as long as they were certain that President Kennedy would win their states anyway. But now they have a real chance of win ning those states with the right kind of Republican candidate, though not with Goldwater. By the same taken, Sen. GOldwater's chief asset is now a busted flush. The best tore caster of Southern trends, Sen. QqestJo for Americans: Wn the kidnaping of four Ameri cans and six other foreign ers as hostages for the release of three Communist leaders held by the government, two for murder and a third for fraud. Inherent in the act were two threats: The use of the 16,000-man miners' militia in civil war against the government, with the end result in case of government defeat a Marxist government. The establishment of a pal tern of kidnaping first employed by Fidel Castro and later by Venezuelan rebels to dramatize any grievance against the home government or the United States. Matter of Fact Rv Jatenh Altan ' r r York Hereld Tribune Syndicate Herman Talmadge of Georgia, was glumly convinced that Pres ident Kennedy would lose every Southern state to Goldwater. But he is now quite as firmly convinced that President John son will carry the whole South, even against Goldwater, and even if the new President presses on with the Kennedy civil rights bill as of course he will. For this very reason, it is even possible that Sen. Gold water will decide in the end that this is not his year. e MEANWHILE, the political obstacle of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's remarriage is still as great as ever. And no poli tician who saw Richard M. Nixon's macabre farewell tele vision interview after his last dire failure in California has a really compulsive hankering lo leap aboard a Nixon band wagon. In short, with President Johnson strong in the South but in some trouble in the industrial states which generally choose the President, Republicans just might win the race. Yet the Republicans find themselves confronted with one front-runner carrying a heavy handicap, another front-runner who is suddenly broken winded, and a third front-runner with the po litical equivalent of glanders. In these circumstances, in view of Ambassador Lodge's proven ability. President Eisen hower's impulse to get Lodge into the race was quite under standable. But despite the re cent increase of talk about Gov. William W. Scranton of Penn sylvania, too little attention is still being paid to his dark horse potential. And this is true, although Scranton will probably remain a dark horse for soma time to come. ONE of the more remarkable English murderers was George Joseph Smith, who had a sad habit of marrying rich spinsters and then drowning them in their baths. The first drowned bride was dismissed as a natural accident, and so was the second. But the third bride dead in her bath stirred investi gation and brought George Jo seph Smith to the gallows. George Joseph Smith is in point here, because Gov. Scran ton has already twice accom plished the rarest feat in poli tics. He has twice held sweetly yet ostentatiously aloof from a bitter fight for a nomination, only to be nominated by acclaim in the end first for a seat in the House of Representatives, and then for the Pennsylvania Governorship. Like murderers, politicians tend to be repetitive. Hence a third performance of this rare feat can hardly be ruled out especially as Scranton can be counted on to do very well in the crucial industrial states. this the fourth victim in Dallas?