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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) Cveryont in Southern Oregon Reads Tne Mall Tribune Published Dailj Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTINO CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-ll ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILSTRAP. Manafer HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON, Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City .Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD J EWETT, Spuria d tor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation MgT An Independent Newapaper Entered ai second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: ' Daily and Sunday one year $12 00 Dally and Sunday six months 6.50 Dally and Sunday three mm. S 30 Dally and Sunday one month 1.23 By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routea: ,. Dally and Sunday one year US 00 Dally and Sunday-one month 1J9 AU Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of' Medford official Paper of Jackson County United Preaa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLlDAY COMPANY. INC Offices In New York. Chicago. De. trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis, Atlanta Vancouver. NATION At fOITORIAl lYSOttATrpN ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackie Ceimry His tory from the tiles at the Mail Tribune 10. 20. JO and 40 run ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 1942 (It was Friday) Approximately 19,378 applica tions for sugar ration books filed here; teacher, and volunteer workers lauded for work during registration. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Today, a week before the primary elec tion, major virtues have started to stick out like a sort thumb on all candidates. 10 YEARS AGO May 8, 1932 lit wm Kundav) Jackson county political ex perts state "at present the vot ers are looking for a place to light and have not made up ineir minds." Total of 37,000 pounds of air mall carried between Medford and other Pacific coast cities during April by trl-motored transport planes . and single englncd mail-passenger planes. 80 YEARS AGO May 8, 1922 (It was Monday) Medford Mayor C. E. Gates agrees to attend Ku Klux Klan meeting if Klan will conduct full initintlon ceremony. If all persons are not masked, If he is given a list of members and copy of the Klan bylaws and con stitution and with the reserved Tight to comment publicly on anything contrary to good cltl renshlp. Rogue valley fruit crops es cape damage "hy a miracle" in widespread killing frost. 40 YEARS AGO May 8, 1912 (It was Wednesday) Medford city council calls for $20,000 bond Issue to pay city's portion of costs of new Main street bridge over Boar creek. Local residents warned by Medford doctors against eating fish caught in Bear creek. Confino Starts Hitch in Army Hollywood Calif. U.R) Ac cordionist Dick Conlino. who served a federal prison sentence for draft evasion, began his sec ond Army career Thursday and said this time. "I simply want to be a good soldier." The curly-hnired 22-year-old musician was inducted into the Army as a yrtvnte Wednesday for a 24-month hitch and was sent to Fort Ord, Calif., to begin his basic training. Contino was dratted the first time more than a year ago, but he fled from the Fort Ord Induc tion center because he "couldn't stand being fenced In." He later surrendered to federal authori ties and served a four and one hnlf month sentence at McNeil Island Penitentiary, A total of 1.393,000 motorists ran out of gasoline on the road last year and 733,000 lost their keys or locked themselves out of their cars, reports the Auto mobile Club of New York. Tiny smocks, tailored to take plenty of laundering, have been designed to protect the finger paint set from permanent discoloration. n5K ii i i i MAIL TRIBUNE While Congress Fiddles! Thomas K. Finletter, Secretary of the Airforce is a very able, and a very He is author of a new resentative Government do The author is definitely read his book without sharing his worry. e e e FOR at this moment the government of the United States, particularly the congress, has reached a new low in blind vindictive partisanship and reckless futility. . And the worst offenders in this direction are those who only a few months ago a few weeks in some cases were the most the very course they are now And the one outstanding cause of this switch is the quadrennial presidential DECAUSE of this campaign the motto on all sides is not (with perhaps half a dozen exceptions) what is best for the country, but what is best for "me and my party" what will bring in the most votes. for example: Because of the perfectly natural feeling against high taxes and because of penses due to war there is an extremely strong popu lar demand for economy. So representatives of themselves to lop off a billion here, and lop off a bil lion there, so they can please their constituents, re gardless of whether such reductions are justified from the standpoint of the national safety and security, or not. ACCORDING to Mr. Finletter many of them. are MOT t And unless this wild gardless of what such action may mean to the coun try s defense effort, is soon may be the victim of one of history. And the congressmen tragedy if it comes will be practically the same group, that less than a year ago were branding as "criminal negligence," the failure of the Truman administration to keep a large army and a fit and fighting airforce in Europe when War II ended, regardless of the then overwhelming demand by the people to "bring- the boys home." CMALL wonder that one of the men responsible for the critical task of remedying this tragic error, as he pleads for appropriations needed to do the job right before it is too late, should give way at times to discouragement and despair, as he sees these demon strations of irresponsibility, and frivolous political self -interest, when the very survival of the nation, may in another 90 days, be at stake. It IS a most alarming and depressing spectacle to any thinking person. And it is fairly safe wager that no one in the world is enjoying it more than dear old Uncle Joe Stalin himself I And with good reason. For no nation that in time of crisis, CAN'T, su bordinate political self-interest to a spirit of unselfish and self-sacrificing patriotism can long endure. For it is following the "road-to-ruin" the road that Nero followed when he played the fiddle while Rome burned and everyone knows what happened subse quently to Rome ! R.W.R. 0 Can Democracy Survive? Supplementing the above, the present situation demonstrates another serious defect in our representa tive system of government. The Mail Tribune has probably defended Presi dent Truman against the "slings and arrows of out rageous fortune" as consistently and vigorously as any daily on the coast. One of the main reasons has been an instinctive distaste for the mob spirit of kicking a man in the face when he i9 down. DRESIDENT Truman has quit. He is not a candidate for reelection and probably never will be a candi date again. He has made mistakes serious ones but con sidering his limitations, and the multitude of extreme ly difficult decisions he has had to make; the Mail Tribune believes, he deserves far more praise than blame, and is confident history will sustain this judg ment. But that is not the popular verdict todav. It is "open season" on HST and even many prominent members of his own party are now joining the pack to do "the old chief" in. pjOWEVER that is not The point is that had of government like Canadas or Englands, this "open season" would never have been possible. Just or unjust, the plain fact is that the Truman administration has not enjoyed the confidence of the people for a year a majority of themor more. Under a parlimentary system a test vote would have been ordered long ago and instead of the coun try staggering along month after month without co hesion and without real leadership, there would have been another party in control and a new leader at the helm, perhaps since early in 1951. And even more important there would have been an Immediate and a short campaign a prompt change in answer to popular demand instead of this unending and dem-essintr thing confused, adrift and at sixes and sevens, with Uncle Sam lucky if he escapes a major catastrophe. Thursday. Mar 19!J wise man. book entitled : "Can Rep the job?" worried. And no one can scathing, pitiless critics of pursuing. campaign. our increasing federal ex both parties are falling over stampede for economy, re checked, the United states supreme tragedies in all chiefly responsible for that the point we wish to make. we a narliamentarv form "battle roval." with everv K.W.K. Crosstown j "Haven't you something Matter of Fact AIR DEFENSE) MURDEROUS BIRDS Washington Historians are quite likely to hold that this year's most significant military advance, surpassing even the scheduled explosion of the first hydrogen bomb, was the obscure testing of an obscurely named guided missile. The missile, called "Nike" for the Greek Goddess of Victory, is a fully guided, supersonic rocket developed by the Army. In an impressive number of tests, it had achieved 100 per cent de struction of drone-o p e r a t e d B-17s flying at maximum speed at 35,000 feet. Because of this triumphant showing, "Nike" has already been ordered into quan tity production. When available in quantity, "Nike" will give our great cities and critical industrial installa tions their first effective "point defense," which is technician's language for close-in air defense. But even this long forward step is only a fragment, so to speak, of the truly revolutionary mean ing of the "Nike" tests. In brief, the guided missile art consists in solving an inter related group of hideously diffi cult problems, involved in build ing, propelling, stabilizing and guiding any missile in flight. Each "family of birds," as the initiates call the types of guided missiles, of course presents its own family problems. In missiles of great range, for instance, it is necessary to overcome gyro scopic precession the tendency of gyroscopes to get out of whack because of prolonged fric tion between their parts. "If the gyros precess, the birds lose sta bility and can't fly," is the way the practitioners of the art put it. ... f?OR all the families of birds, A however, the really basic problems are similar or closely comparable. The "Nike" success therefore suggests that birds of other families either have flown or will shortly fly. It can in fact be stated, on highest authority, that this is the case. And from the standpoint of America's air defense, this general progress of our guided missile development is inexpressibly more important than the single success of "Nike. This is true, in turn, because a fully effective air defense now requires an elaborate weapons- system, including at least two guided missiles besides Nike. as well as many other essential parts. Early warning radar must in stantly revefl the enemy s first approach. Radar-directed fight ers must intercept the enemy while he is still in the outer ap proaches. For accuracy of de struction, the fighter intercep tors must fire air-to-air guided missiles able to seek the enemy flight. An inescapable conti nent-wide warning net must await the enemy who evades the fighters onslaught. Missiles of considerable size and range must be guided by the warning net, to strike down the enemy flying towards his target. And finally, the point defenses, which "Nike" will afford, must destroy any en emy plane that succeeds in run ning the formidable outer gaunt lets. Such are the fantastic require ments of a true air defense now adays. Nothing less will give reasonable security against air attack with atomic weapons, when all may be lost if half the enemy planes get through. And no such defense was even re motely practical, until the doors of a new era began to open this year. e e e 11HE alr-to-alr guided missile, - needed to assure maximum kills by fighter-interceptor air craft, is not quite so well for ward as "Nike." Neither is the larger, longer range missile need ed to transform the continental area into one huge hornet's nest. Yet. Air Force and Navy efforts to build these missiles give the greatest promise. According to responsible informants, proto types of all the different birds needed for air defense should be satisfactorily tested before the yean end. By Roland Cot with a larger feather?" ly Joseph and Stewart Altop Furthermore, the other miss ing parts of a modern air defense system have been, are being, or can be provided. The all-weather fighter-interceptor now in use the F-96, is unsatisfoctory, but there are great hopes for the newer F-89. The continental ra dar warning net is on its way to completion. And for the really early warning which the conti nental net cannot give, there is the combination of radar picket ships and, still more important, air-borne early warning. Con- vair aircraft, equipped with warning devices, designed to fly continuous patrols at the extreme limit of the outer approaches, are included in the Air Force bud get which Congress is currently hacking to death. In theory, then, the Job of air defense against atomic attack can now be done, although it will take a long time to do it. To this, however, three stern warn ings must be added. e e CMRST, no single wonder-weap-A 'on will do the air defense Job. "Nike, ' for instance, with its short range, cannot knock down bombers firing ground-to-air guided missiles against their targets, which is the offensive technique of the future. And it is also questionable whether Nike" can hit these much small er, far speedier ground-to-air missiles as well as it has hit the lumbering B-17s. Everything de pends, therefore, on having the whole weapons-system. Second, there is the widest eaD between probable performance in a combat emergency and per formance in carefully prepared test flights like those which Nike has shown up so well in. Even with the complete weapons- system,, tnere will be no comDlete security hardly enough' securi ty, in fact, to let us sleep at night, and certainly not enough to Justify abandoning the bal anced defense effort because of our new air defenses. Third and finally, creating tnese new air defenses will im pose very great additional bur dens. (Copyright. 1952. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) In the Day's Br FRANK JENKINS Just to keep the record straight, it still seems to me that the clocks should be- ruled by the federal government. In a great and advanced country such as ours, with fast trains and fast planes and in stantaneous radio and Instan taneous television operating from coast to coast and from border to border, our general economy will function more satisfactorily If we operate on the same time. ALL this confusion could be avoided if we kept all our clocks on the same time. There's nothing sinful about "daylight" time. If people generally prefer to go to work an hour earlier and quit an hour earlier, chang ing the clocks is an easier way to bring It about than trying to change the hours of work, which have grown up through long years of negotiation and adapta tion to changing conditions. But I do think we should keep all the clocks on the same time, and that can be accomplished only by regulation on a national scale which is specifically per mitted by the power granted by the constitution to congress to regulate interstate commerce. pROM Korea: "General James Van Fleet said today there are indications the Communists never have wanted to make peace In Kotea. If the Communists had wanted an arm istice, he told correspondents, some agreement could have been reached In the almost 10 months of truce negotiations. "But.' he added, "the United Nations can either outfight the Reds on the battlefields or OUT SIT them at the conference tables." Arkansas Town Hit by Twister West Memphis, Ark. (U.B Four persons were injured, four homes In ruins and the new high school was roofless Thursday after a tomadic wind twisted through a five-block area of West Memphis, at the eastern edge of tornado-queasy Ar kansas. A 24-year-old mother, Luclnda Lewis, who had herded her four small children under a bed when the storm approached, suffered leg and shoulder injuries when her flimsy four-room home col lapsed and the chimney blew over. Three of the children also were hurt. The wind matched the roof from the new high school build ing, completed only last year, and knocked out toll lines to nearby Osceola, Ark. Authori ties estimated total damage at S3U.000. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circumstances the use of pen name or initial for publication Is permissible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. not exceed 400 words. Why Make a Change To the editor: "Why Make ' Change." A great number of peo ple in this valley like myself know that Carlos Morris is fitted for the job he now holds as county coroner. As we know he is gifted with a wonderful personality, very considerate, and is all around fitted for the job as coroner of this county. Those of us who have had the misfortune of losing someone very close to us know the won derful way Mr. Morris has of go ing about his task at a time like this. Since we have three funeral homes In Medford there is com petition, and competition is something we need in every day life, by that I mean competition in almost every thing. We have our freedom of speech and of the press and we may use it as we see fit, but I don't believe his competitors should use him in a round about way In their advertising. There must be a reason why he gets the majority of the busi ness In the valley. So I ask you Mr. and Mrs, Jackson County, "why make a change," when we ha' t good man on the job?. Joe McCallister Rt. 1, Box 29114 Medford, Oregon Who Favors Fait Time? To the Editor: ' Again the tail wags the dog. Gov. McKay said after a lot of thinking that Oregon would stay on Standard time. Immediately a hullabaloo came In from Portland. We are going on Daylight, Mr. Gover nor; what are you going to do about it? Medfords big shots, we are too. And did, and will, until the STATE will again have the SUN (STOP) AT ELEVEN A.M. they can get home an hour earlier, to get to hell and gone from there until the old place gets opened an hour earlier the next morning. How many ??? are there any way? I would wager a carton of cigarettes that there are not three thousand persons In Jack son county who favor daylight time. Edgar Rose, Rt. 3, Box 148 News TIE SPEAKS confidently and "so he inspires confidence in the rest of us. That is good. If we are to be the world police men (as Rome and Britain were before us) we must have confi dence in ourselves. Otherwise, we will fall in our Job. If we fail in our present job of policing the world, goodness only knows what the result will be. Van Fleet sounds like a good leader In the right place. WHEr. ly I HEN those of us who sit safe- here at home, with other people's sons doing the fighting in Korea, talk about battling to the bitter end we expose our selves to the charge that such talk is cheap. Gen. Van Fleet is in nrf such situation. His pilot son Is missing In action and may be one of the prisoners of war that U.N. and Red truce negotiators are hag gling over. TWERE ii lot of talk about the cushy Jobs held by the : upper echelons of the military . brass. Most of it is loose talk, ' based upon complete lack of un derstanding of the crushing bur den of responsibility that rest? upon the shoulders of officers commanding men in battle. j No decision can be more soul rending than an order that sends men to their death. Yet military officers have to do it, over and over. That is war. TN FACT, one of the most la- ' mentable of human shortcom ings is our general lack of under standing of the burdens and the responsibilities of others. That makes for intolerance, and there is far too much intol erance in this world. 1 Envoy to Russia Will Be Closely Watched Because ot By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst It isn't likely that our new ambassador to Moscow, George Frost Kennan, ever will be in- vited to the Kremlin for a friendly glass of vodka. In fact, in a city notorious 1 y suspicious o f foreigners, Kennan prob ably wili be the m o' s t watched and the most sus pected. ; I'hil Ncwsom Newsom ii that he is The reason 'Mr. X." It-was Kennan, who as charge Letters submitted for publication must j Takes Issue With Mrs. Benson To the Editor: In reference to the letter by Mrs. L. Benson in your May 6 edition. I read it with much indignation, not be cause I am a personal friend of District Attorney Haviland, or even an acquaintance, but be cause I consider the letter de faming and unnecessarily criti cal. ' When I began the letter I thought it concerned the gam bling issue raised by the newly arrived attorney in his bid for the republican nomination for district attorney. After some consideration I decided that my action, as a righteous and out raged citizen who had regarded the presence of some unneces sary evil, would be to take said complaint to the local law en forcement officers. It undoubt edly would be a highly publi cized fact if such action had been taken and no satisfaction gained. If we would all be a bit more ready to lend assistance to our public officials and not quite so quick to criticize them their achievements would be more satisfactory to all. Perhaps It would make the positions more desirable to our more capable men and effect a higher stand ard in our public officials. I do take issue with the state ments criticizing Mr. Haviland for "few" convictions, for the alleged "protection" of crimi nals, for the proportional in crease in divorces, and the de rogatory remarks in regard to the Juvenile situation.' It is not the duty of the dis trict attorney to prosecute he innocent, as well as the guilty, but only to seek conviction of guilty individuals. No reference is made to any particular action made to free a criminal, and yet she deplores the fact that there have not been more convictions. It is not the duty of the D.A. to mend broken marriages and I don t see how he can be held responsible for the morals of the individuali concerned In di vorces. Does Mrs. Benson recommend a larger number of juvenile sen tences? Does she find fault with the whole juvenile program here? If so, let's come out and say so, not make guarded defa mation of an individual and im ply he is leading our children along wrong roads. Let Mrs. Benson face facts. She is campaigning for Walter Nunley for district attorney. Such being the case, if she can give no more valid criticism of Mr. Haviland than she did, then I compliment Paul Havi land for a job well done and will be early at the polls to mark my "X" before his name. William Donahoe, 38 No. Oakdale Ave. Medford, Ore. Timber Cruiser Kills Rattlesnakes in Den John B. Cox, 515- West Jack son Boulevard, a timber crusier for Timber Products Company, states that it is not too early for rattlesnakes. He and his son-in-law, Dean Pruett, recently, were in the iMianrYifcA las Vote for a DOCTOR for CORONER Chapel Mortuary Across from the C Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Phone Writings d'affaires in Moscow In 1948, iir.i huan writing the brilliant reports which outlined Russia'! aggressive Intent. It was iiennan who advised the "policy of firm nnntalnment" aeainst the Com munists which is the keystone of our foreign policy, ne cre ated an international sensation urhon h wrote about it In the magazine "Foreign Affairs" un der the pseudonym, "Mr. a. Kennan arrived in Moscow to tnWo nver this new Dost Tues day. The Russians approved hia appointment but they weren't entirely happy about it. Kennan has made it clear that as an ambassador he does tiot expect to make U. S. policy. He has been accused by the Russians of believing that war between Russia and the United States is inevitable. His writ ings do not bear out the charge. He says that the Russians are tough and do not scare easily. Moreover, he adds that the Rus sians believe that capitalism must fall of its own weight and that they have plenty of time to wait without going to war. They also can retreat, if neces sary. Specific Dangers However, he believes there are two specific dangers: 1. The Russians might mis calculate U.S. reaction to a piece of local aggression as they did in Korea. 2. They might become con vinced that the U.S. was prepar ing to attack Russia. Milwaukee-born Kennan be lieves that an Important part of his Job Is to prevent the Rus sians from making either mis take. A comment by Radio Moscow last December was typical. "It is not by chance, said Radio Moscow, "that the State Department appoints as diplo mats in Moscow and In the people's democracies shady per sons who are usually spies of long standing." Branded 'Shady' Character Thus in Radio Moscow's eyei, even before Kennan arrived, he already was a "shady" charac ter and a spy. Kennan's appointment Is espe cially interesting in that It marks the return of the career diplomat to the Moscow listen ing post. Kennan has been with the State Department since his graduation from Princeton in 1925, in contrast to our last two ambassadors there who were re spectively Gen. Walter Bedell Smith and Adm. Alan G. Kirk. Now 47, Kennan began to make his acquaintance first with the Russians as a bright young man attached to the legation at Riga, Latvia. Later he helped U.S. Ambassaddr William Bul litt open the first U.S. embassy in Moscow since the Russian revolution. vicinity of Rail gulch touth of Talent when they came upon den of rattlesnakes, and killed 12 with rocks. Last Sunday Cox and R. Q. Skeeter, Jacksonville- Phoenix road, visited the same den and with a .22 caliber automatic rifle killed 20 more,-making a total of 32 rattlers from the one den. MMMK ON IPage 3 SECTION TWO TODAY FOR GROCETERIA SAVINGS! 2-8030
