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History from tna tiles of Th
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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
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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?