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Paper of City of Medford Official Paper ol Jncksun County United" Prraa" International Sull Leasei Wire U P 1 Telcphoto Newttplcturea "MMBER0P AUDIT fJUllEAU OFCIRCULATIONS AlWeYtlsIng iNtjentotlve: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI. ATES Ol'lcef In New York. Chi cago Detroit. San rranciaco, Los Ance!". Seattle. Portland Den'-er. NATION Al EDITORIAL Mcmuer Calllornio Newspaper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackion County History from ino files nt The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO , Dec. 23, 1953 (Wednesday) Mcdford's chnnccs of having a white Christmas "are just about nil," the local weather bureau station reports. Eagle Point Fire Depart ment's new pumper due to ar rive in Medford Thursday, the day before Christmas. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 23, Will (Thursday) diet llulc and Miss lluth Edge scheduled to take part in cn,.inl nsn skalinn nartv and floor program at Medford ice arena. From Arthur Perry's "e Rmurlno Put" column: "Oregon imbibers, a report says, have learned to like the unrnlioned rum, and to mix it into pnlala hlo rnnrnclinns. Thev also learn ed why Ihc temperance work ers called It Demon mini ami admire their descriptive accu racy. 3(1 YEAHS A(iO Dec. 23, 11133 (Saturday) Wayne Harris, Medford cen ter, gels first basket, hut Weed High School basketball team de feats Medford 111 to 1". Department of Commerce ap proves $17,000 appropriation for improvement of Mcdford's air port. II) YEAItS AC.O Dec. 23, 1923 (Sunday) Anna Pavlova and her ballet troupe scheduled In appear in person nt Medford Armory. Otto Klum, former Medford High School coach, In send his ITnii.nruitV flf HllWah tcail! against Oregon Agricultural Col lege in Honolulu. 50 YEAHS A(iO Dec. 23, 1913 (Tuesday) Elmer T. Foss. Medford city recorder, announces he is candi date for reelection. Mrs. Martha llrown. 74, a pit) ncer since II1M in Uogue Val ley, dies al Rrownsboro. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct it luperior; even or eight li excellent; live or tlx ii good. 1. What ocean stream is named by a Canadian region'.' 2. Of what nationality was Franz Liszt? 3. The number nf members specified as necessary to con duct business in a parliament ary body is known as a q ? 4. Is the unit of electric puwer the volt, watt, nr ampere'.' 5. In which state of the U.S. Is Mammoth Cave'.' 6. Is Itoky Graziano well known as a football player, boxer, or jockey? 7. Boiled food is cooked ill water; when lood is broiled, how Is it cooked? 8. Is il legal to conduct lot teries in the United States? 9. The department of medical science that deals with child ren is called p ? 10. If an Englishwomen relets to a pram, what does she mean'.' Answers: I. Labrador Cur rent. 2. Hungarian. 3. (jiiorinn. 4. Wall. 5. Kentucky. 6. Iloxrr 7. By direct heal. 8. No. 9. Pediatrics. 10 rerainlwlator 4 A- m PUILISHUS m J,A-J50CAIION DECEMBER 23. 1963 Six Lessons, "Good people proceed while considering that what is best for others is best for themselves." Hitopadesa (Hindu). "Hurt not others with self.' "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." Confucius. "No one of you is a believer until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself." Mohammed. ''And thou shalt love "Therefore all things that men should do to you, Out - of - A cnvnnfl-i m-urlnv efnrlvinrr what, is now pallprl seventh grade mathematics, comes home talking about ideas her parents had never heard about. They'd never even heard the words before. Writing in the baturday Review about the ranid accumulation of knowledge, John L. Good- lad says: "If this accumulation is plotted on a time line, beginning with the birth of Christ, it is estimated rhur (lio first rlniihlinir nf lnnwlnfhro ncf'tirrprl in 1750, the second in 1900, the fourth in 1900." IN HIS NEW book about his first term in the White House, President Eisenhower says that the technology of war changed more in his first three years as president than it did in his entire military career. A seventh grader, a problem to his father. The father says, "Buster, some of these days you'll to be out-of-date." "But, Dad," the kid This year's sixth graders are doing things he doesn t understand. Progressive Pope Not many actions that could be taken by Pope Faul VI will have a greater impact on the move ment to unite Christian denominations than the Pope's scheduled trip to the Holy Land. He ex pects in January to make the longest trip under taken by a Pontiff in some 19 centuries, since St. Peter left the Holy Land for Rome after the death of Christ. If he goes by air he will sot another prece dent; no Pope in office has traveled in an air plane. No Pope has left Italy voluntarily in 159 years. His predecessor, John XXIII, broke a tradition of nearly a century in 1902 when he traveled 350 miles across Italy by train. There is no doubt that Paul VI wishes to call further attention to the that has animated the second session ol which lias just ended, u can oe considered another sign of how he wants the third session to proceed Post-Dispatch. Legacy In his three years in office, the late President Kennedy created for millions of Americans a shining legacy of progress illuminated by his deep concern for the welfare and security of his fellow citizens and the people of the world. These are some of the ory : A nuclear test ban, a of war and toward the power retraining program lo neip me joniess learn new skills; aid to depressed areas to attack chronic unemployment; achievement ol canal rights for all Americans; increased compensation creased Social Security increased minimum wage; new programs m men tal health; aid to medical scholarship help for doctors-to-be; the Peace Corps; the Alliance for Progress; housing; equal pay for women. Oregon Labor Press. Thoughts on Beards One of the possible things that has not been suggested as an occupation for a male in the throes of retirement is the growing of a beard. We thought of it ourselves. So far il is in the category of "enterprises of great pith and move ment" that may be turned awry. We do noi care to emulate Commander Whitehead who advertises quinine water, which we do not consider a sufficiently masculine drink for a man with a beard. If we could become as smart and talented as Peter Ustinov by growing a beard, however scraggly, we would accept the challenge. We have no attachment to a razor, consider ing them a masculine concession to the feminine sex to whom concessions should only be made on ;i temporary basis. We think we would look distinguished in a beard (who doesn't?) and we suspect we would look dirty. Perhaps that is the question: distinguished or dirty. Giles L. French, in the Sherman County Journal. that which pains your- Udanavarga (Buddhist). thy neighbor as thyself." Leviticus. whatsoever you would do ye even so to them." Sermon on the Mount. Date the third in 1950, and boy, tries to explain a find out what it means says, "1 already know." Eugene Register-Guard. spirit of progressivism Ecumenical Council, the next year. St' Louis monuments to his mem step back from the abyss goal of peace; a man giant steps toward the for the unemployed; in benefits for the elderly school construction and MEDFORD "Careful, Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, althounh 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 to 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 tr paper. In fact the contrary is often ths case. My Christmas Kevcrie To the Editor: Who will wander through the wood To select the Christmas tree, I wish that it were me. One that's full and round and straight? Who will go up to the loft To get the trimmin' box. Filled with balls and lights and stars And each one's Christmas socks? Who will place a star atop A tree that is so tall? It must be done with utmost care So it can not fall. Who will drape the garlands Made by our own hands And handle gently the china birds Sent from far off lands? Who will place upon the tree The treasures held so dear, The gold and silver ornaments Saved from year to year.' Who will gather evergreen For Yuletide Wreaths this year To grace the door of "Home Sweet Home Which we all hold so dear? I'll be far away on Christmas Day Abiding by another sea, Another Year, another dream I pray it will be me. Marjorie Armitage 2505 Gary St. Medford. Loss of Freedoms To the Editor: How many more ol our Irecdoms will De lost if we continue to allow a small minority to so greatly influence our hard fought lor freedoms? The Bill introduced by Hop. Tongue to restrict firearms pur chased by mail is rather ridicu lous. There is no way (without giving more unneoded power to government officials) to han dle this task, that would not be overly burdensome, expen sive and involved. The small amount of good il would ac complish would come nowhere near lo solving Ihc problem. If a maniac, assassin or com mon killer wants to obtain a weapon of death, he will do so easily. No bill or law is going to deter them. Again. 1 say, such a bill would only accomplish placing more power into the hands of the government. If we continue, liltle by little, to give up these inalienable rights, it won't he long until we truly will have the "Brave New World" of Alclous Huxley. Incidcnily. there are existing laws against known criminals possessing arms. I,. E. Lamoreau, Route 1, Box '?, Talent. Ore. Kttucatimi To the Editor: Here is a mes sage from the Alexander Ham- j ilton Institute. I thought il may l be interesting to those striving i to obtain an education. j Nos so very many years ago ' the common notion was thai the j aim of education was Ihe ad-1 vnucement of learning, but il is ! now beginning to be seen that mere learning cannot justify the i social and financial cost of our schools and colleges. Many a learned man has not been of the slightest use in this world. Some educators hold that the highest (unction of the college ; is lo train character and so make its students real men. ' Now character is the finest ' thing on earth It is far more, beautiful thing than culture. By character we mean the will to endure, the will to do that which lis disagreeable if we ought to ul. " ner, -nai thrill to meet vou IN do it. and Ihe will not to do that 1 ''KRSON. Miss McOinlev: 1 keep your books n6ht on niv bed which is agreeable if we ought; su1 ublc- Aml 'mp day 1 mean lo read one of them"' not to do it. This great thing,, C lvl. ) Benntll Cert. lmribulKi t Kmc relluiea Syndicate I character, can be earned only MAIL TRIBUNE, MEUFOKHJ. Now" by hard work, by endurance, by self - denial, it is not a product of lectures or of sermons. But the primary and impor tant aim of education is not character building, not learning, nor culture, but the develop ment of the power to under stand and of the knowledge that understanding must precede wise action. Speaking of the fallacious idea that there is not enough work to go around and that la boring men should therefore re strict production, Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip said recently before the American Bankers' Associ ation: However natural it may be to feel impatient with the man who honestly holds such views, impatience is useless. As long as he holds these views, he will act upon them as you or I act upon our views. His opinion is a fact to be dealt with. It is as real as a mountain where you want lo build a roadway. In the case of the mountain, we do not get impatient, but we en deavor to survey it and find a way over or through it. Fortu nately, erroneous oninions, how ever stubbornly held, are more like an ice-bank than a moun tain. Thev will eventually melt away and disappear before the truth if not in one generation, in another. Understanding of economic laws seems to me al most the greatest need of our day. No body of men will act contrary to their own interests when they know what their in terests are. The spread of a sound comprehension of eco nomic laws seems to me. there fore, one nf the greatest duties that go with the responsibilities of bankers." If this attitude existed in the nresent dav educators there wouldn't he but two classes of students brains, retarded. There would be many of in- betweens. There also must be the feel each of us need the help of others. However, if Gov ernment is not to be adhered to of which was first originated bv the Constitution there will be either a flexible or absolute form of Government. The oeo pic must participate in the Gov ernment by partition or means otherwise necessary. G. D. Oppie P. O. Box 100.1 Central Point, Ore. l-'INNS SIGN BAN HELSINKI (UPI) Finland has formally pledged its adher ence to the Moscow nuclear test ban agreement. President Urho Kekkonen Friday night signed a bill approving adherence and making it illegal for any nu clear test to be held in Finland. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A N EAGER-BEAVER agent once introduced a gawky girl - - to Film Producer Sam Goldwyn. "Five years from now," predicted the agent, "this girl will be one of Ihc most im portant stars in Holly wood." "Thai's fine." nodded Mr. Goldwyn. "Five years front now you bring her to me!" A statistician. utuler stanilably brcathloss, re ported recently tlmt only one woman in l.UiO now wears blaik lace panties. To which Olm Miller artilnl this footnote. "What tnlei estins: jobs some people can latch on to these clays"' Top-drawer Poetess Plivl In McOihoy hits the lee lure circuit every once in a aoui.illy looks forward to is the lu-r for autoijinplis ami bits of '-"'h ti,lk- ller favorite fnn of OREGON Foreign News: De Gaulle In Earnest- Concern Over Berlin; Reds Expected PHIL NEWSOM Foreign ewa Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harrii (c) Field Enterprises. Inc. WE CANNOT BUY OUR WAY OUT Now that the initial shock has passed away, and Ihe emo tional numbness has worn off, perhaps we can begin to see a little more clearly the deeper feelings that were so stirred up by the murder of John Kennedy. Beyond the sense of horror and outrage and pity, beyond the political and social and historical insult to our system, his as sassination cut into the depth of our being also for another reason that may possibly tell us a good deal about ourselves and our unconscious view of human life in America in the 20th century. For here was the man who had everything brains, ability. charm, youth, looks, money, family, power, fame, international respect even trom nis enemies. He seemed, in a way, immortal, the living embodiment of the American Dream. And then, quite literally In the twinkling of an eye, he was no more. Gone, utterly gone, this bold and vital young man who only a moment before had been smiling and waving at the crowd. Done lo death by an insignificant madman, in a tragedy that a dozen different "lfs" might have prevented. Somehow, we had seemed to believe that we might be able to cheat Death. If we were rich enough and strong enough and smart enough and, most of all, young enough death might not dare to touch us, at least so frivolously, so wanton ly, so insanely. We may have grown up, a little, as a people in that mo ment: we may have begun to acquire what Europe and the rest of the world have long accepted as "the human condition" a sense of (he (ragic (hat is not morbid or fatalistic, but mature and more accepting of man's limitations and Ihe dark contingencies of nature. If this could happen to President Kennedy, it could happen lo each and any of us, tomorrow, tonight, the next minute. Of course, everyone has known this, in an abstract way; but not in an existantial way. This is why we refused to believe it at first could it happen here, now, to us, to such a man? All these attributes brains, ability, charm, youth, looks, money, family, power, fame cannot avert one bullet, one blow-out, one step in the dark. We cannot buy our way out. No matter how strong, how young, how rich, we are subject to the same caprices of fate as the Hindu beggar and the Zula tribes man. We mourned his death as a tragedy to him and lo the nation; but were we also mourning the death of an illusion long and secretly held by us? Sales Tax Estimate PORTLAND (UPI) - The manager of Oregon Tax Re search said Saturday that the Slate Tax Commission's esti mate of the return from a pro posed sales tax in Oregon was "conservative." "There is no intention lo dis credit the commission in its projected yield from a sales tax in Oregon," George Annala, a former state representative from Hood River, said. "But it is my considered opin ion that the commission's esti- Slide Blocking Railroad Cleared SEATTLE (UPI) Crewmen early today cleared a small rockslide from the Great North ern Railway's main track about six miles west of Scenic at the west portal of the Cascade tun nel under Stevens Pass. The slide had delayed traffic for as much as nine hours. A 20-foot section of the track was covered by as much as 15 feet of rock and debris, the spokesman said. The eastbound Empire Build er, the eastbound Western Star and the westbound Western Star all were delayed by Ihe slide. Some freight traffic also was delayed. Buses were used to transport passengers lo inter mediate points such as Wenatchee. Quin cy and Ephrata. part of the ritual she citish of fans th.tt messes shorn conversation 1 the conclusion of the year is ihe f.u u,n- who gave -nsEE ME FIVE N (jARSMNOWj) ule. sn,1 a Not Kidding: French officials say Presi dent Charles de Gaulle is in deadly earnest about his Dec. 31 deadline for a Common mar ket farm policy agreement. If none is reached by Christmas he will call a cabinet meeting Dec. 27 to get the green light for his next move. This is like ly to be a freeze on any fur ther progress toward complet ing The Common Market. French ministers also may boy- Said Conservative mates are. conservative, he said. The commission estimated that a three per cent sales tax in the state would bring in $79 million annually if food were in cluded or $66 million a year if food purchased for home con sumption were exempt. In the Day's News By FRANK A while back an assistant pro fessor of forest products at Ore gon State University who was making a talk to the Corvallis Chamber of Commerce remark ed that Oregon's trees may some day become so valuable CHEMICALLY that it may be uneconomical to use them for anything so ordinary as lumber. He added that a breakthrough in any one of the fields now be ing explored could mean a ma jor industrial development. npOO optimistic? The answer is NO! There's paper. Paper is made out of trees. There was a long time when we thought that pa per was useful only to write on or print on or to wrap things up with. Now we're learning that almost anything can be made out of paper. Clothes, for example. They're now making disposable shirts for men and disposable house dress es for women out of paper wear 'em until they are rum pled and soiled and then crum ple 'em up and use 'em for kindling to start a fire in the fireplace. They're not on the market yet, but the experimental sam ples look surprisingly practical. T)UT even more amazing by- products are looming on the horizon. Some stuff, for exam ple, with a long scientific name that is called DMSO for short. It showed up first in the experi- mental laboratories of the Crown Zellerbach Corporation. I Among otner things, it is an excellent antifreeze. In this ca pacity, it came to the attention of Dr. Stanley W. Jacob, an as sistant professor of surgerv at the University of Oregon Medi cal School. He was looking for a way to supercool human or gans such as kidneys and hearts i -without freezing them. What he wanted was an efficient wav j of STORING them, so that they could be used as REPLACE MENTS like spare parts of an 1 automobile. j He and his assistant research I ers have been experimenting with animal organs, which they cott Common Market meetings. It is just conceivable De Gaulle might decide on a complete walkout. Concern Over Berlin: Western officials are con cerned that the Christmas pass es for hundreds of thousands of West Berliners to enter Com munist East Berlin may touch off serious incidents in which the Western powers inevitably would be involved. They dis cussed this danger during last week's NATO ministerial coun cil meeting in Paris. The three Western commandants in Berlin are being instructed to keep a close eye on the situation. Red Eye on Latin America: A stream of Red Chinese trade and cultural missions to trade ana cultural Latin America may be expec ed , soon, as well as a state visit . . , n , r;:l i or two by atop Peking official I So far. not one top Chinese Red has visited Latin America while several high Soviet officials, in cluding Premier Khrushchev, have. Mao Tse-tung and Lieu Shao Shi have standing invita tions to visit Cuba, and Latin American diplomatic sources in Tokyo say such a visit in 1964 is a distinct possibility. Manila vs. Tokyo: There are signs the Philip pines at long last is going to swing the door open to Japa nese business. Ihe Japanese ai ready have one foot in the ; leauy nave uuc iuu, door. They have so-called "liai-1 Enlist Today! (Just for Fun) By Arffiur Hoppe "Where," writes a lady, "do you get all those down-to-earth, common-sense solutions to the world's problems?" Well, frank world's problems? "Well, frank ly, I get them from my friend, Mr. Edgar Guess, The Kindly Old Philosopher Take the other day when he off-handedly solved a dilemma baffling our most brilliant econ omists: how to convert from a wartime to peacetime economy. As you know, our congress men have been demanding a cut in Government spending, so okay," says President Johnson, "I will close 33 military bases we no longer need." Our Con- grcssmen greeted this news as you might expect: "Rat fink "Treason!" And so forth. And you can't blame them. Of course, none argued we need ed these military bases militari ly. But their constituents sure needed the money the soldiers and sailors spend in town. So you see the problem with de fense spending: how do we get rid of the defense and keep the spending? It seemed insoluble. So I call ed on The Kindly Old Philoso- JENKINS have been able to supercool for long periods of time and then put them back into the animals so that they work and function well. One female dog had a kid- was later replaced with a kidney mat naa Been under storage The experiment worked so well that the dog later gave birth to a neaitny litter ol puppies. rN THE less fabulous side, DMSO appears lo have high ly interesting possibilities as a pain reliever, a tranquilizer, an anti-inflammatory treatment for burns, and a wide range of other medical uses. All this, remember. comes from a TREE and an Oregon tree at mat. it all goes to con nrm mat me possibilities of pa-1 osopher. "Then I'll be a-running per plant wastewhich in the down to the Five & Dime to con past has been a frightful nui-1 yjnee Miss Flossie. We all got sance, contaminating our m be willing to do our part to streams, killing the fish and save the country and she's a generally raising uia icd with our water supply are practical ly limitless. "Let Is son offices" in Manila which do everything normal businesses based there do. It's strictly against the law but Philippine officials tend to look the other way. Officially, Japanese can't do business in the Philippines under a law promulgated years ago when feeling against Japan was still strong in the Philip pines. Now, according to Japa nese diplomatic sources, it's only a question of time before the anti-Japanese business re strictions are lifted. Cambodia: The French are ready to take over United States and British responsibilities in Cambodia. French Defense Minister Pierre Mcssmer flies there Jan. 3 to arrange a military aid pact fol- . - h ouster of tne Unitcd and economjc States military and economic a u 111 ssiuna. uv uauuc ue- lieves France can preven( ,he aid missions. De Gaulle be- Southeast Asian kingdom from slipping under Communist dom ination. The United States and Britain are happy to let him try. PRIVATE PLANE CRASHES MIDLAND, Tex. (UPI) - A private oil company twin-engine DC3 plane with four persona aboard crashed and burst into flames Saturday on an instru ment approach to an airport runway. The three crew mem- bers were rushed to Midland - . , ,, ., , Memorial Hospital. pher to inquire if he had the answer. "Well, yep, son, mebbe I do," he said, a-leaning back in his rocker and a-snapping his galluses. "What this here country needs is a Fun Corps." A fun corps? "That's right, ' son. If the only reason we keen tnese oases is to make the local townfolk rich, I reckon we ought to do it up right." Couldn't we close ihe bases and spend Ihe money on things . like schools and highways? ; "Well now. son, schools and i highways are mighty nice. But ! they don't appeal to folks tho j way fighting or funning does. ; 0 sjr jf we Aon nee(j om. ngniing ooys in unitorm no more, then we got lo discharge them and recruit us a Fun Corns to take their place." What would be the duties of a Fun Corpsman? "Just what's necessary, son. Getting drunk, shooting pool, chasing girls and the like. But we'll pick a better class of young ones. We'll weed , us out tne misfits wno send a. lotments back home to the old folks or who tuck away their paychecks for a rainy day. Which sure don't do the local townspeople no good. Yep, we'll have the greatest spending force this old world's ever seen. Nothing but goodtime Charles." I said this did seem a down-to-earth, common sense solution as far as our military bases went. But what about our de fense economy? Like shipyards and . . . "Oh," said The kindly Old Philosopher, "we'll have a Sea-qoing Fun Corps too. We'll . !,d "s a fll?e.t f. Super Fun Ships (or cruising just outside the three-mile limit. I reckon them boys will spend their mon ey like drunken sailors." Ture. I said. But what about missile building and. . .? "Son." interrupted The Kindly Old Phil osopher. "You got to have faith. It takes a heap of faith to make this old world go 'round. And I got faith in folks. Especially when it comes to them figuring out ways to blow their money on a good time." I said he'd convinced me. "I did'.'" said The Kinkly Old Phil- j mighty willine eili. I hone." And with a kinkly old chuckle. he was on his way. Continue! i . ( I i ' ( 9 o
