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MONDAY. ""'"Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads TheMsllTrlbune" fjbllslwcl Dally except Saturday by MKDFORD PR1NTLNG CO 33 North Fir Jt, PhJ7a-6ll " ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GRKY AdvertinnS Manaeer GERALD T LATHAM. Bus MT ERIC ALLEN JR.. Mni Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRV CHIFMAN. Telea Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporu Editor OLIVE SI ARCHEH Women's Edltoi DALEERICJlNClrculaUori Mgr An Independent Newspapel Entered as second data matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance ... Dally and Sunday 1 year 1H.00 Daily and Sunday 6 moi 10.00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moa. 8.00 Sunday Only One year $5.00 Sinclt Copy (Mailed! J0 By Carrier And Motor Route. Jaily and Sunday 1 year 2l Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1 Sundy Only 1 mo. 1 rarrli-r and Vendors Copy mririar Paper of City of Medford Offlrlal Paper of Jacksun County United Press International IT. .11 I UUIi- Un 1 Telcphoto Newspleturea Member ok audit buhuau Of CI RCULATIONS XrtverllTnB Representative: AT-l-'c ntHr.m In HUI Vrl Chi ceo. Detroit. 3.n Francisco, Los Angelas Seattle, roruin Denver. ASSOCIATION NATION At EDITORIAL ASfebcftTiaM 3 U J Memner California Newspaper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tna tiles of Tht Mail Trlbuna 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. in YEARS AGO Dec. IB, 1953 (Wednesday) The insurance firm of Faber and Stnilton opened for business in Central Point yesterday. Glen L. Fabrick, Standard In surance Company's representa tive in Medford, was Standard's "Man of the Month" for Novem ber. 211 YEARS AGO Ore. in, 191 (Thursday) Medford Postmaster Frank DeSouza reports Christmas mail volume is heaviest in history of local post office. From Arthur Perry's "Ye SniudRe Pot" column: "Sports men have adopted a resolution favoring 'scientific management' of wild life the kind that roams the forests instead of the streets and taverns." ,1(1 YEARS A(iO Dec. Hi. l!i:i;i (Saturday) Larue crowd sees ex-heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey referee wrestling match in Med ford. Members of Roxy Ann Orange voice disapproval of stale sales lax proposal. Ill YEARS AGO lire. IB. m I Sunday) C M Kirirt eloi'lerl nrovirlenl of War Eagle Mining Company ai annual election in nicaiora. Grace Teich, county home demonstration agent, spent two days in Lake Creek area show ing women how to make Christ mas presents. SO YEARS A(iO Her. IB. inn (Tuesday) Ashland residents vote "dry" uy margin ol itr.l to 144. J. It. Tyrrell files petition for Medford city recorder; Martin McDoiuiugh, Carl Y. Tengwald and incumbent Elmer Foss also pni.rlofi In hi rumllHiilAC What's Your I.Q.7 Nina or ten correct tl superior; soven or eight is ticallant; five at sii is good. 1. What is Europe's highest active volcano? 2. Wellington is the capital of which South Pacific country? 3. At what battle in World W ar I did the phrase "they shall not pass" originate? 4. (live a term common to aviation, bridge and tennis. 5. Who was the Roman God of War? 6. Do you associate litmus paper with a chemist, printer, diplomacy or alligatoic? 7. Quote Ihe last six words from President Lincoln's Get tysburg address. 8 Which is lighter in weight, a fresh egg, or a spoiled egg? 9. If an army column ten miles long marched 20 miles in a day, how long would it take a messenger walking 40 miles a day to carry a message from the rear to the head? 10. Little bats come from eggs: true or false? Answrrs: I. Ml. Etna. 2. New Zealand. 3. Verdun. 4. Ace, 1. Man, 6. ( hernial. 7. .". , , shall not perish 9,om the earth." . Spoiled, t. One day. 10. False.- 4 A- DECEMBER ID, 1963 Clean as a Whistle Editor's note: The following editorial, written by George H Bell, is his final piece of writing for the Mail Tribune. He has accepted a position with the Portland Oregonian. While in Medford, he has covered the city hall beat primarily, but has also doi.. movie and drama reviewing, covered cham ber of commerce activities, and occasionally written edito rials. His work has been appreciated, not only by his news room colleagues, but by those whose activities he has reported. E.A. There probably isn't a newsman alive who doesn't dream about winning a Pulitzer prize someday. It is one of journalism's top awards, and quite apart from the prestige money in the bank in terms of one s career. As often as not, the prize is awarded to a re porter or newspaper which has managed to dig up and expose some sort of vice or corruption, frequently in government. But any reporter who is assigned to cover Medford city hall might just as well resign him self to dreaming other dreams. There simply isn't any graft to expose. Medford city hall is clean as a whistle. : 1MAKE no mistake, the hall and those who work in it have their critics, but then, who or what in this imperfect world doesn't? There are those in Medford who will tell you they have first-hand knowledge that this or that is wrong with city hall, or that so and so is inefficient, a scoundrel or worse. Perhaps, in some few cases, there may be a speck of truth in what even a small city administration like Medford s, is a complicated, highly technical business, and mistakes and a certain are as inevitable as taxes. But only those among us with negatively con structed minds, or those while remaining blind to going to jump to extremes and issue blanket con demnations. DEORE you light into - stand silent while someone else does, pause to consider what it is and what it does for you Think, for example, as those fiendish men in uniform who show up to write a ticket every time you violate a traffic law, but instead try looking at them as your neighbors who stand prepared sometimes at risk of their very lives to protect your person and property against harm. Think of your firemen, not as men who sit idly around the fire hall most of the time, but rather as highly trained specialists whom you can summon (at any time and in any weather) dur ing a moment when only dialing your phone. In addition, about !)00 chil dren in Medford will have a happier Christmas this year because the firemen chose not to waste their "spare time." DEGARD, if you can, the planning department and commission, not as agents who gleefully toll you that you can't build what you want to build where you want to build it, but rather sec them for what they are conscientious men who are dedicated toward aiding Medford de velop in an orderly, attractive manner. View the park and recreation staff and com mission, not as empire builders, but instead try to think of them as citizens of Medford who are working as hard for the community's future as for the present, w ho want to insure that this city will novel' be an asphalt jungle. Contemplate that much maligned public works department, not as a malevolent group which delights in impoverishing little old ladies with sudden, exhorbitant street assessments, but rather as skilled people with the awesome re sponsibility of maintaining and overseeing all of the city's streets, sewers, traffic signals and major physical improvements. ''PRY TO SEE your mayor and councilmcn, not J. as power-vested men something over on the electorate, but instead re gard them as unpaid servants of the public in terests, who give untold every month in doing pressures from every imaginable source for: the betterment of their community. Look at your city manager, not as the admin-' istrator of waste and inefficiency, but rather as a singularly dedicated man of unusual ability and integrity who has given the bulk of his years of life to this city and its welfare. Strive lo adopt this point of view, not be cause there is power in thinking positively, but because this is the most accurate, fruitful way to think. Believe conditions arc this way, because they are this way. 17H1LE every day's newspaper reveals a new Billy Sol Estcs or a Bobby Baker, somewhere in these United States, ponder 'vc" that you live where you do and that your ek.uu and appoint ed officials are who they arc. Consider carefully how within recent mem ory there has never been a breath of scandal about a building contract, not a whisper about an instance of police brutality, nor any valid ru mor about dissension among staff in our city hall. Other communities in Oregon fire their po lice chief, indict their city treasurer, recall their j mayoi-s and councils. ' J But in Medford, decency, respect and integ rity are the rule, not the exception. Old differ ences are dying away. The prospect of a singular-; ly bright present ,and future shines in: our eyes. G.H.B. " factor, it is practically they say. Government, amount of inefficiency who love to nit-pick the larger issues, are your city government, or of our city police, not they can help, just by who are trying to put hours of their own time what they can with MEDFORB "Next Year You Might Be Ready To Pack EVERYTHING You Have" Strictly Personal ly Sidney J. Harris 4c) Field Interprises. Inc. GASTRONOMIC 1Q Looking through the new catalog of publishing firm, I was tempted to paraphrase the famous words in Ecclesiastes to "of making many cookbooks there is no end." This was a catalog of books to be published In the coming four months only. The new titles included "The Art of Spa ghetti Cookery," "The Art of Danish Cooking," "The Best of Near Eastern Cookery," "The Art of Indian's Cookery," "Bride in the Kitchen," "The Art of Fruit Cookery," "Never in the Kitchen When Company Arrives," and you won't believe it "The Secret of Cooking for Dogs." There is a saying among book publishers that it is im possible to make money on a book of poetry and impossible to lose money on a cookbook. Each year, hundreds of new ones are spewed forth by the presses, to fit all conceivable (and a few inconceivable) needs and tastes. No other nation, at least lo my knowledge, has so volu minous a literature on cooking and no other nation has so many bad cooks, eicept perhaps Ihe English, of whom Voltaire justly exclaimed: "What sort of country Is It that has 72 religions and only one sauce?" The poorest peasant In France eats better fond, more tastefully prepared, than the average middle-class American. It is absolutely unbelievable that a nation so rich, so In genious, and so demanding of high standards in other areas n( living would permit Itself to suffer Ihe Indignities of less-than-medlocre cooking in nearly all public places. Millions of cookbooks are merrily sold, but the level of American ruisine remains deplorably low. Our children grow up munching hamburgers, French fries drenched In catsup, and washing down this dull mass with slckeningly sweet beverages. To offer the ordinary American child a meal composed with imagination, flavor and flair Is to nnderstand the full Import of the Biblical allusion to casting pearls before swine. Oi - passion for cookbooks must be some elaborate and ritualistic form of expiating our culinary sins; and has about as much impact on our national cuisine as placing a Bible in every room of a brothel would have upon the morals of the inmates and the habits of the patrons. Brillat-Savarin. in his immortal collection of aphorisms on the pleasures o' the table, said, "Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je to dirai ce que tu es." (Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.") It may be unfair to judge an individ ual this way. who, after all, is a victim of circumstance and upbringing. But is it so unfair to judge an entire nation by its gastronomic I.Q.? Sail (Click) On! Sail (Click) On! By Arthur Hoppe Excuse my preoccupied look. But I went to hear a speech in defense of robots. It was by Mr. (ierard Piel, the publisher of Scientific American and one of the most brilliant, articulate, en lightened spokesmen our Scien tists have got. And our robots, too. Mr. Piel said we laymen shouldn't get mad at all robots just because some robots are taking nur jobs away from us through automation. Which is certainly true. Because, he said with a Scientist's pride, robots are at last relieving us from the kind of mindlness drudgery' "not fit lor men lo perform." Which is certainly turc. And, he said, we should send robots to the moon. Which is certainly in teresting. Mr. rid. like many Scientists these days, said we should send robots to the moon instead of human beings, because robots can perform this historic (eat of exploration more economically, more quickly, more accurately and, above all, more efficiently. And I'm sure he's right. But, as 1 say, the while thing's given me a preoccupied look. What preoccupies me is what's going to happen when our first IBM Machine on Ihe moon gets back to earth" (Scene The White House lawn. Millions cheer at a space capsule parachutes to earth, a door opens and our new national hero, RAMAf-Mla. rolls for ward once again on American soil. The President rushes for ward lo welcome him. Or. rath er, it.) resiie: l.n me be the first, after year eincli nuking voyage it Jnrt.iA ( all man kind, to AsAjj your -er- claw. MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, I RAM AC-MI a: Click. Response ! Affirmative. Click. ' President : In view of your ex ploits 1 have been authorized by a grateful nation to pin on your dashboard the highest medal I can bestow. Which I now will do. If I can just get this pin in there somewh , . . Never mind, we'll weld it on later. Do you perhaps have something you'd like to say to all these millions of people? I RAMAC-Wla: Click, t am ! proud to have been of service ; to my country. This was a re corded announcement. Click. President: Thank you. I am sure your words will go down in history. So please preserve the tape. And now, Iwt me ask the question on the lips of all mankind: a question men have : asked (or eons: What is it like , up there on the moon? Is there a I deathlv stillness" Are the sun rises fiery and clean? How high the heavenly vault? How deep the void? How dry the dust? Oh, please, tell us in your own words, what is it like up there? RAMAC-WU: Click. Silicon, M.2 per cent: cobalt, 14 7; reo tengen nagative in stasis: .0038 psi factor at 69.7 multidecibels: C02. trace: multigravitational coreopsis 7.00,12 . . . No. it just won't do 1 know our Scientists are right about their machines being better than us. And they ought to send as many machines lo the moon as they wish. But they ought lo let us human beings go. too. Oh. I know we're inefficient and fallible. We have to breathe and eat and sleep and love. And machines don't But I think maybe that's why we make ftf ' better heroes. OREGON Foreign News: Frenc PHIL NIWSOM un roreisn News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: France in Asia: The French, anxious to reas sert their presence in Asia, can be expected to offer military and other aid to Cambodia which has renounced U.S. aid after the end of this year. De fense Minister Pierre Messmer will visit there shortly for this purpose. The French fear Cam bodia may be dragged into the Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the nama and address of tha writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen nama or initial for publication is permissible. Tha Mail Tribune reserves tha right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Tha letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent tha views of paper. In fact tha contrary ia oftet) tht caw. UNICEF Thanks To the Editor: Allow us to express our heartfelt thanks for the publicity afforded our Trick or Treat for UNICEF program this past fall. Through their generosity, stimulated by your support, the children and adults in your community have strengthened UNICEF's assist ance to over 500 long-range pro grams for needy children and mothers in 116 countries. It will no doubt gratify them to know that, in terms of such aid, their Halloween contribu tion can mean any of the fol lowing: The antibiotics to protect 2.424 children from the blind ness of trachoma; The BCG vaccine to protect .10.300 children against tubercu losis; The penicillin to cure 12.120 children of yaws, a crippling tropical disease; A daily cup of milk for 5,151 hungry children for a whole month. It is a privilege to thank you. your readers and their children on behalf of the United Nations Children's Fund. Victor de Keyserling Director of Information Services United States Committee for UNICEF United Nations, N.Y. Remembers Winter To the Editor: Yes, we do remember 44 years ago Dec. 13, it was Saturday, 1919. At that time we lived on a homestead two miles due south of Rogue River. The thermometer at the log cabin registered 10 degrees below zero on two mornings. We also had a fireplace and kept tolerable comfortable, as there was plenty of wood lo burn at that time. At night we could hear the tall and stately fir trees everywhere pop and snap all during the cold spell that lasted a week. It turned out to be one of the driest win ters in half a century. It was rather a dry winter for gold prospecting as all available wa ter on the mountain slopes froze up for panning traces. Bert Kissinger 322 S. Riverside Ave. Medford In the Day's News By FRANK From Washington: srriarv of Defense Robert McNamara announces plans to close 2R domestic military bases in an economy move. He added that President Johnson had stressed to him that it is abso lutely necessary to reduce costs in part because of the need to pass the tax bill. rpHE Washington dispatches A add that all heads of depart ments and agencies have before them a Presidential directive to RE-EXAMINE personally their budgets (or the next fiscal year, which begins Julv 1. 1964, to determine what FURTHER sav ings can be made. The Presi dent's memorandum directed the department and agency heads to: 1. Undertake a personal re examination of the appropria tions, expenditures and employ ment figures contained in the most recent tentative allowances for the next fiscal year. 2. Identify these further re ductions in appropriations, ex penditures and personnel which can be achieved through tighter management and better utiliza tion of personnel. 3. Determine what program expansions can be postponed or curtailed along Willi other ap propriate steps to hold down spending at a time of "severe budgetary stringency." Hmmmmmmmmm. Maybe President Johnson MEANT IT when he said in his message lo the Congress that l ECONOMY in government will be one of his prime objectives. Q UESTION: C Was President Johnson's or- Communist bloc unless some' thing is done to prevent this and they believe France is in the best position to do so. Marking Time: A lot of words can be ex pected at the NATO Council of Ministers' meeting starting to day, but little action. No major policy decisions are likely while President Johnson still is in the "settling in" stage. Talks will range over the whole spectrum of East-West relations, Berlin, the multilateral nuclear force project and East-West trade. But, commented one official, "the communique could have been written in advance." U.S.-U.S.S.R. Agreement: Pan American jets should be winging into Moscow by early summer if all goes well on the technical end of establishing reciprocal landing rights, for So- Asks Questions To the Editor: President Ken nedy's election has proven that regardless of religion, one can be the greatest of presidents of all times. As much wishful thinking as we would like to do, can we point to one good result of his assassination? Did the murder of an uncon victed assassin prove any less hate? Was any less hate evident by the fact that the owner of the cemetery did not want him bur ied in his ground because of a threat that some relatives who had their deceased buried there would have them removed? In our efforts to make the widow of the slain policeman a rich woman, why did we forget the widow of the assassin? This is a widow whose children will bear the stigma all of their lives, a widow who left her homeland to come to a society filled with hate. Did the Reverend who left his home because he made a state ment on television that students cheered on hearing of the assas sination think there is any less hate? Would the editor of the Dallas newspaper print this or would he too have to go into hiding? Did the senator from the South that, a few days after the assas sination spoke in favor of seg regation, ever ask himself if he thinks he has brought as much happiness into the world as our top Negro entertainers, and who could be replaced more easily? Let those with racial hatred quit preaching it to children of common school age and young er, and it would do no good to preach it in college as they do not brainwash so easily. Finally there is little wonder that a police force that cannot protect a handcuffed unconvict ed prisoner would be expected to man a few roof tops or watch a tew windows in a presidential parade. Ravmond Bvrd 2265 Siskiyou Blvd. Medford JENKINS der to all government agencies I to take a last look at their spending plans and CUT BACK EVERY POSSIBLE PROGRAM received with enthusiasm? LX)R an answer, let's turn to 1 THIS dispatch from Wash ington: The President's order brought a BARRAGE (IF prdtfsts from Congress, including charg es oi taise economy. Reaction among manv memrwrc nt re gress from the 14 states hit by we cuioacK order was irate. Little more than an hour after Secretary McNamara said the 2! U. S. bases and seven others overseas will be closed or re duced. Senator Keating of New York introduced a bill to SLOW UP defense efforts to curtail activities. Obviously angry, Senator Keat ing, whose state would be hit hard by the closing or curtail ment orders announced by Sec retary McNamara, said: "It is incredihle that an v-nna could analyze this as an econ omy move. Rep. Samuel Stratton. of New York, arose from his seat in the House of Representatives and promised to TURN THE PEN TAGON UPSIDE DOWN hefnr. accepting the proposed cutbacks. QUESTION: Do the members of t h Congress really want the econ omy In government that so many of them have been talking about? The answer, of course, is YES. But there's a catch to it. Thev want It In SOMEBODY ELSE'S district. ' h Aid To viet and American planes in Moscow and New York. U.S. Federal Aviation Agency Ad ministrator Najeeb E. Halaby laid the groundwork for the ma jor technical discussions during his Moscow visit last week. There will be further Soviet American meetings in the Unit ed States. Despite the apparent imminence of the air agree ment, the first accord to be signed with the Soviets under the Johnson administration may come in another area now un der discussion. That is the new cultural accord for 1964 cover ing exchanges of teacher and students and artistic personnel between the two countries. Ear lier talks were called off by the late President Kennedy to pro test the Soviet arrest on spy charges of Yale Professor Fred erick C. Barghnnrn. With Barg hoorn's release, the talks got under way. Spanish Monarchy: Spanish monarchists may be expected to exert new pressure on Generalissimo Francisco Try and -By BENNETT CERF- LOU CULP recalls the college professor who took his young son on a transcontinental motor trip. When they returned home the son produced a collection of coins that totaled over urteen aoi- h lars. "Where did you get all this money?" asked his mother. "Pop was mighty careless every place we ate," explained the boy. "He always left his change on the table. I just stayed behind when he left and scooped it all up." An elephant from the cir eua lumbered into a restau rant opposite Madison Square Garden &nd asked the headwaiter for a glass of water. The headwaiter brought a double martini instead. "Ne more of that stuff for me," trumpeted the elephant '"Thia season they've got me doing a high w ire act." . m m W Tony Randall tells of the post-debutante who called up her boy friend to advise him, "We'll have to postpone our marriiga lor a, litUe while. I've just eloped with another man." C 1961. by Benmit Cert. Distributed by Klnf Features Syndicate Letter From Japan Expresses An expression of sympathy over the death of President John F. Kennedy has been re ceived by Mrs. Lois Martin, li brarian of McLoughlin Junior High School, from a teacher in Japan. The letter came from Kouki Fukuda, a teacher in a school at Arao City in Japan whom Mrs. Martin met while traveling In Japan a few years ago. Since that time teachers and pupils of the two schools have ex changed letters, books, pictures and other material in order that each might become informed about another country. Fukuda also sent clippings from a Japanese newspaper with pictures of the assassinated President and his successor. President Lyndon Johnson. The letter also tells of the mine dis aster which occurred in that area and which took a heavy toll of lives, and several pic tures at the scene were en closed. Fukuda wrote: Two Events "I am very sorrowful to write you about two events that hap pened recently. One of them happened in Japan our country and the other in America, your country. We will never forget both Nov. 9 and 22. "At 3:15 on Nov. 9, Saturday, we were surprised at the noise of the explosion which shook the windows of our school. We did not know what the noise was. At supper we knew at the tele vision news that it was the noise of explosion of mine gas in Miike Coal Mine near our school. Just then in the shaft there were working about 1200 pit workers. And alas! 457 "I ia got a feeling sales la be too good this year!" s Cambodia; Franco to reinstilute the Span ish monarchy with the birth of a child expected soon by Prin cess Sophie and her husband, Prince Juan Carlos. Spanish newspapers have been giving little or much space to the com ing event, depending upon polit ical alignments. Some sectors of Spanish opinion oppose res toration of the monarchy, pre ferring instead a presidential republic. So far Franco is fol lowing his usual line saying nothing. Johnson to Tokyo? Look for Japan to step up ef forts for a U.S. presidential vis it to Japan before President Johnson's term expires in 1965. The Japanese had hoped the late President Kennedy would visit them, and such a visit was thought possible sometime late next year. The Japanese gov ernment is anxious to prove that the threats of violence which forced President Eisen hower to cancel his visit to Japan do not represent the feel ings of the great majority of the Japanese people. Stop Me - h Sympathy workers died and about 509 workers got hurt. "There died 50 guardians be longing to our school P. T. A. and got hurt about 60. Shingo Yasuda's father, Toshiko Shiho do's father and Tikako Inu mar's father, whom belong to English Club, also died. We have been in mourning (or the death of the men in the explo sion. "The twenty - second of No vember also surprised us. Early morning on the twenty-third we heard of the death of Mr. Ken nedy, President of the U. S. A How terrible! We all had loved his witiness, gentility, tender ness and peaceful mind. We heartily express our condol ence to our friends, the Ameri can people, Mrs. Kennedy and her children. "We held a 'Festival of Cul ture' on the twentv-first of No vember. The English Club in our school showed the play, 'Merchant of Venice.' I will tell' you the look of it by another mail. "May these sorrows of two events firmly tie together your friendliness and ours! Let's pray for the dead, our Mr. Ken nedy and mine workers." NEW MAGNET NEW YORK (UPI) - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a new magnet for sightseers in New York, and 45-minute tours of the 14-acre Droieet ar i now available at 75 cents for 1 adults and 60 cents for children and students. Next April, the ! tour will be increased to an hour and the prices raised by 50 and 15 cents respectively. .this department aren't going l ' V
