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10 YEARS AGO
Jun 19, 1942
(It was Friday)
Eagle Point post office robbed
for third time In two years; theft
includes $75 in cash, $75 In
stamps and $50 In federal auto
tax stamps.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The song
of the mowing machine and the
cussing of its operator are again
heard in these parts.
20 YEARS AGO
Jun 19. 1932
' '. (It was Sunday)
' Bar with a brass rail discov-
nered in private residence as
state, county and federal officers
make series of prohibition en
forcement raids.
Medford city officials consider
plan to make "labor agreements"
legal tender in effort to aid in
relief of unemployed persons
here.
30 YEARS AGO
Jun 19. 1922
(It was Monday)
Dr. Ira D. Phlpps elected to
Medford school board by margin
of 45 votes over Dr. Robert W.
Steams; 766 persons cast ballots.
From the Local and Personal
column: Edward Kelly Jr., a law
student at the University of Ore
gon, returned SundBy for the
summer vacation.
40 YEARS AGO
Jun 19. 1912
(It was Wednesday)
Prohibition party holds county
convention In Ashland; slate of
delegates for county offices
chosen,
Medford city council asks
Southern Pacific railroad to in
stall warning bolls at all rail
road crossings; council fails to
pass ordinance forbidding free
lunches at saloons.
Suggestion Made
To Put State in
Housing Business
Portland U.R) The State
Board of H I g h e r Education
has under consideration a pro
posal that the state go into the
fraternity housing business.
The proposal was made by Dr.
Harry K. Newburn, president of
the University of Oregon, who
declared the university believed
the plan a good one.
Flnancet Difficult
Newburn snid the request was
made because many fraternities
and sororities are finding it im
possible to finance new build
ings. The university president
said that it the board approved
such a plan. It eventually would
have to take in all the fraterni
ties and sororities and that it
would mean a long-range capital
Investment.
Edgar Smith, president of the
board, asked that the plan be
put in writing for more careful
study.
Washington (U.R) The Sen
ate Wednesday sent the St. Law
rence Seaway project back to
committee, killing it for this ses
sion of congress.
Eisenhower
THE Washington Daily
pendent Scripps-Howard newspapers, by vote of
their editors, today endorse the presidential candid
acy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and urge the Republi
can farty to nominate rum.
You, our readers, are entitled to know why we
prefer him for the Republican nomination rather than
the other high-type candidate, Sen. Robert A. Taft,
We admire Bob laft, personally and as a statesman
We respect his honesty and intelligence. We acknowl
edge his fine record of
have no bricks to toss his way.
DUT Ike seems to meet the need of the hour best.
We like him for the same reason you do. He is a
warm, friendly, modest man, who may not know too
much about politics but knows a loi about what is
good for the country.
, He can be elected.
We like Ike because
tional leader. He is a great
but throughout the world.
perience in dealing with the problems of peace and
war. He has demonstrated rare administrative capac
ity-
LIE RADIATES hope and contagious confidence in
America. He believes we can build a better and
more fruitful America if
our affairs the way they should be managed.
since he came home
uniform, he has waded head-on into the big issues of
the campaign. He hasn t ducked the tricky questions;
He hasn't been rattled by them. When he doesn't
know the answers, he says so. What he did in Detroit
was characteristic he threw away the machine-tooled
address and spoke directly to the people in his hu
man, sincere way.
TKE believes in government of law, with power lim
ited and decentralized, resting close with the
people. He believes that laws on the books, such as
Taft-Hartley, should be enforced. But he knows that
laws alone are not enough. They must reflect the com
mon purpose and united will of citizens so labor
and capital, agriculture and management, can work
together and prosper together. .
Ike has the dynamic leadership which can bring
us together again and inspire new faith.
On the basis of his fortright commitment to
the highest American principles, he is a man for
whom all Republicans can vote with good conscience.
And not only Republicans. Millions of political inde
pendents, and more millions of Southern and North
ern Democrats betrayed by the Tinman Administra
tion, will help to elect him President. For this reason,
and for many others
We like Ike.
Washington News (June 16)
That Self-incrimination Plea
. Left-wing and right-wing witnesses alike have
been and are being upheld by the courts in refusing
to answer questions on the ground that their answers
might tend to incriminate them. To satisfy the courts
it isn't necessary to show that criminal action against
the witnesses is actually under consideration. It suf
fices to show that answers might induce the legal
authorities to begin to consider criminal action.
Under the Fifth Amendment, no person may be
compelled to be a witness against himself in a crim
inal case. So a person under criminal indictment may
decide not to take the witness stand in his trial, and
the judge will usually instmct the jury , not to hold
this decision against the defendant in reaching its ver
dict. The self-incrimination
eral apply m civil cases.
TN THE 16th and 17th centuries, English judges in
star-chamber and ecclesiastic courts often took it
upon themselves to grill a defendant, also witnesses
in his behalf. In the popular English revolt against
royal tyranny, the English courts began to rule around
1640 that an accused person need not answer ques
tions about himself.
It seemed grossly unfair to compel a man to con
vict himself out of his own mouth, and the privilege
of refusing to answer on grounds of self-incrimination
became part of the English common law. It was em
bodied in the Virginia, North Carolina and Pennsyl
vania declarations of rights in 1776, then in the Bill
of Rights in the federal Constitution. But the danger
of self incrimination must be real, not imaginary.
E. R. R.
Red Officials Face
Charge of Sabotage
Berlin (U.R) The Commu
nist East German state has ac
cused more than 100 local Red
officials of sabotaging the pro
gram to forcibly evacuate the
East-West border residents, in
formed sources said Wednesday.
West Berlin socialists said the
charges were made as the regime
ordered Communist office hold
ers investigated in 15 border
sectors where farmers and vil
lagers battled police with axes
and scythes to resist eviction.
It was believed the officials
faced certain ousters from their
Jobs and perhaps arrest.
ENVOY, PHINCE TALK
Tokyo iUR Crown prince
Akihoto Invited U.S. Ambassa
dor Robert Murphy to his palace
In Tokyo Wednesday. A palace
official said Akihlto talked with
Murphy for nearly an hour.
Thursday, June IS. 1952
for President
News and the other 18 inde
service to the country. We
he is a natural and inspira
man not only in America
He has wide and unique ex
we take hold and manage
from Europe and shed his
guaranty doesn't in gen
BIO smile ts missing as Oen
Dwight D. Elsenhower nas last
minute chat with Arthur J. Sum.
merfleld, OOP national commit
teeman at Detroit before flying
tc Denver. (International
Oearl tlno .Sunday Classifieds U at
noon Saturday.
Crosstown
HUBBUB
"I don't it thai ihii book it 10 hot. I make iharper
eracki than this Yery day."
Matter of Fact
TWO-MEGATON ERA
Washington The nightmare
of our times was unconsciously
pointed out, the other day, by
Sen. Brien McMahon, of Con
necticut. When he announced his
Presidential candidacy, the Sen
ator offered the construction "of
a thousand hydrogen bombs as
the chief point in his political
program. Mass production of
weapons of total destruction is
certainly an odd bait to dangle
before the electorate; yet Sen.
McMahon was not exactly talk
ing through his hat.
The truth is that mass output
of super-bombs is probably not
very far off. An Austrian phys
icist published the basic theory
more than a decade ago. The
theory had been much elaborated
and refined, and was being ac
tively argued in the scientific
inner circle, when Klaus Fuchs
was still working at Los Ala
mos. And today the prac
tical pr o b 1 e m s have been
largely solved, and the testing
stage is at hand.
It is important to realize that
the successful construction of a
true super-bomb will be a devel
opment surpassing the construc
tion of the atomic bomb, in the
same way that the atomic bomb
surpassed the World War II
blockbuster. The two weapons
are different in principle. The
atomic bomb depends upon nu
clear fission of the huge atoms
of uranium or plutonium. The
super-bomb depends upon the
nuclear fusion of the small at
oms of hydrogen.
Above all, the two weapons
are different in potential. The
large Eniwetok bomb had a
power of over 100 kilo tons,
which is scientists' language for
the explosive force of 100,000
tons of high explosive. This is
somewhere near the limit of an
atomic bomb.
IN CONTRAST, the first true
super-bomb to be detonated
is expected to have a power of
two megatons, which is the
equivalent of the explosive force
of 2,000,000 tons of high explos
ive. Moreover, this is not the
end. There are complex limi
tations of mechanism, and lim
its also on the size of the super
bomb that can be delivered to a
distant target. None the less,
me iwo-megaion bomb can
incorciicaiiy become the pre
cursor of even greater and more
terrible weapons.
The confident anticipation
that a two-megaton bomb can
now be constructed represents
a change in scientific opinion
As first disclosed in this space
the first hydrogen bomb will be
detonated at Eniwetok at the
end of the summer. This experi
mental model will not be the
true super-bomb, however. Un
til very recently, there was the
most widespread doubt among
me nest qualified scientists that
the true super-bomb could and
would ever be built. The vital
recent development is that this
doubt has been resolved, and
that the super-bomb, is defin
itely in prospect.
The character of this weapon
which is in prospect goes be
yond what the normal human
imagination can comprehend.
The two-megaton bomb will ach
ieve total destruction in an area
of Just under 100 square miles.
It will devastate bv blast an
area Just under 180 square miles.
in us single explosion, a whole
vast megaloplis, a great modern
capital, can be wiped from the
face of the earth with almost the
finality of the end of the cities
of the plRln.
lyiTHIN t h e American gov
'ernment. even the anticipa
tion of this weapon is already
causing controversy and heart
searching. Improvements in de
sign have made It possible for
speedy light bombers and even
long-range fighters to carry at
omic bombs. These means nf
delivery are both vastly more
economical and vastly better
calculated to penetrate enemy
air defenses than the huge and
costly aircraft now composing
our Strategic Air Force. Hence
a growing school in the Air
Staff lias been advocating a
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change-over.
But the super-bomb depends
for its power on the quantity
of the heavy isotopes of hydro
gen that is exploded in it. It is
necessarily large, and the more
powerful it is, the. larger it is.
It cannot be carried by light
planes. Hence Gen. Curtis Le-
May is not merely opposing any
change in the composition of
the Strategic Air Force. He is
even demanding authorization
for eleven additional wings of
the largest jet bombers. These
wings would cost somewhere
between $10,000,000,000 and
$15,000,000,000, and on the bas
is of the present budget, they
would knock the rest of the Air
Force program into a cocked
hat.
Meanwhile, the State Depart
ment's Advisory Committee on
Disarmament, including such
eminent scientists as Dr. Van
nevar Bush and Dr. J. Robert
Oppenheimer, has also raised its
voice. Because of the super
bomb, the committee is insist
ing that a bold new effort must
be made to explore the possibil
ity of a disarmament agreement
with the Soviet Union.
One reason for this, in turn,
is the extreme probability that
the Soviets will have a super
bomb of their own almost as
soon as we shall. Thev started
with the same knowledge. While
our Hydrogen bomb develoD-
ment was kept in low gear for
several post-war years, theirs
was almost surely going in high
gear. So, the fact that this wea
pon is now in prospect cuts two
ways, and cuts very deep. Alto
gether, the development herein
reported promises to change the
shape of our world, and it is
time that someone said so.
(Copyright, 1952, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
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Says Strikes Not Voted
To the Editor: One of these
days, a factual minded news
gatherer is going to dig up some
eye-opener stuff on these strikes
that are gnawing at our nation's
vitals. Recently, two members of
a distant CIO local told how up
set they were when the strike
vote was ordered this spring.
They had had a tough winter
and in the first five or six weeks
of late starting logging, had
been making good money. So
they and others hustled out the
voters as they told me that
there was not one in a hundred
for it.
As usual, the votes were not
counted at the local but were
sealed and shipped to Portland,
they said. They were floored
when the returns came back,
saying the vote had been 85 per
cent for a strike.
A recheck, and obvious indig
nation of local members, showed
plainly they said, that the local
had voted near 100 per cent
against a strike.
So what and where is the an
swer? The men told me that
there are three answers: that the
strike was communist triggered,
or an attempt for the highly paid
union officials to justify their
jobs or a conniving between
union and lumbering heads to
cut production in order to hold
up prices. Take your choice.
F. J. Clifford,
1211 W. Main,
Medford, Ore.
Would Cooperate
To the Editor: Your editorial
column has commented upon an
apparent costly duplication of
governmental services to water
users In the highly technical
field of water supply forecast
ing. It was suggested that the
two Federal agencies named
(Weather Bureau of Commerce
Department and Soil Conserva
tion Service of Agriculture De-
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Today's word from Stockholm:
"Infuriated Sweden kept up
her search over the Baltic for
a missing transport plane and
sent along jet fighter escorts
with ORDERS TO SHOOT if
the Russians attacked
"Some 5,000 furious Swedes,
jeering and shouting 'we will
see Stalin hanged' and 'down
with the communist warmong
ers,' demonstrated in front of
the Russian embassy."
THAT happens in neutrality
loving Sweden, which has
stayed out of two wars and would
like to stay out of all the rest
of them.
DUT
- "Beware the fury of a pa
tient man."
Anyway, the Incident illus
trates for us the hair-trigger tem
per of the present-day world.
UROM Washington:
" "The army disclosed today
it has sent anti-aircraft batteries
to defensive positions about some
strategic industrial plants, big
cities and air force centers.
ltfORE from Washington:
111 "Starting July 14, thousands
of civilian defense workers will
help the air force scan the skies
over America s borders in a
round-the-clock watch for POS
SIBLE ENEMY PLANES."
Why'
General Frederic H. Smith,
deputy director of the air defense
command, explains: "The Soviets
have had the capability for some
time to attack us."
General Nathan F. Twining,
acting chief of staff for the air
force, adds:
"We can have no assurance
of long-range forewarning of a
decision by the Kremlin to at
tempt an assault on us. The lack
of a thorough, 24-hour watch is
a weakness we can no longer
afford."
IS WAR just around the corner?
I doubt it.
But Cromwell's advice, given
to his men some three centuries
ago, is still good:
"Put your trust in God, my
boys, and KEEP YOUR POW
DER DRY."
MEANWHILE, we hear from
1Y1
Pittsburgh:
"The two-weeks-old steel strike
slashed deeper than ever today
into the nation's economy, as
some plants making war muni
tions reported curtailments near
because of a shortage of steel."
AD?
Sure it's bad. Steel is the
basic raw material of weapons.
If we should run short of weap
ons and the Russians should at
tack us at that critical moment,
it could be the end of us.
TIOW did we get that way?
" Well, it seems to me that
the basic trouble is too much
power in too few hands on both
sides of the steel controversy.
When too few men hold too
much power in their hands too
long, trouble nearly always fol
lows. CJPEAKING of power, a Yakima
kJ (Washington) dispatch this
morning says:
"Jack Hubbard, of Olympia
a meteorologist engaged in the
bitter Yakima valley RAIN WAR
between cherry and wheat grow
ers, claimed yesterday he was
using chemicals POTENT
ENOUGH TO DRY UP A CON
TINENT."
He adds:
"We believe that by enlarged
and intensive operations it would
be possible to dry up a nation
for a considerable period of
time."
? ? ? ? ?
I dunno.
But it kind of looks to me like
that's too much power for any
set of men to hold in their hands.
partmcnt) pool their resources to
produce a service of maximum
value to water users at the least
total cost to tax payers.
I am sure that no one in our
Department would consider this
other than excellent counsel.
The success of snow surveys has
always rested with such coopera
tion. The forecasting service de
veloped by Agricultu' e, respon
sive to instructions received 17
years ago from the Federal Con
gress, is based upon harmonious
cooperation between more than
100 agencies Federal, State
and private. Each dollar of Fed
eral tax funds allotted to snow
surveys by Agriculture is over
matched by approximately two
dollars from sources outside the
Department. The expenditure of
the total snow survey dollar, !
therefore, ts understandably j
guided largely by the water us
ers themselves. This, we believe,
has resulted in a solid, practical ;
and low-cost program. j
Soil Conservation Service al
ways has sought, without am
exception, the cooperation of all
interested agencies concerned
with efforts to improve this ser
vice to water users.
R. A. Work
Supervisor of Snow
Surveys.
Soil Conservation
Service
Medford. Ore
TVsd line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturdays.
RETURNING DAY EARLY from Korean war, Col. Francis S. Gab
reski, Oil City, Pa. "ace of aces'l who downed 40 enemy planes in
World War II and Korea surprises pretty wife and daughter by
meeting them at San Francisco Airport, (international Soundphotol
Future Asian Course
Lies in Silent Tiff
Between China, India A
By PHIL NEWSOM
United Press Foreign Analyst
Aggressive Red China and de
terminedly neutral India are
traveling their separate paths.
But between
the two there
is a silent
struggle in
volving the
1 i v e s of near
ly h a 1 f the
world's popula
tion and the fu
ture course of
Asia.
So far as Asia
is concerned
1'hil bewsont
the two are laboratories which
could prove or disprove the ad
vantages of living in a free
world or in a totalitarian world.
It is a struggle to win men's
minds and it is centered, not
in the great cities, but in the
villages where politics is of less
importance than the next meal.
Having already lost China,
the West is forced "to pin its
hopes on India.
U. S. Giving Money
Into the effort the United
States is pouring $50,000,000 as
part of a five-year plan to de
velop Ii'.dia's economic resources,
and $190,000,000 as a stopgap
measure to feed India's starving
millions.
Despile Communist gains in
the recent Indian elections, the
balance sheet so far seems to
favor the West.
India was unhappy about the
Chinese invasion of Tibet. It was
difficult for the Indians to un
derstand just who and what the
Reds were "liberating" and f
put them uncomfortably close to
India's border.
Indian cultural missions to
China have been impressed by
the way the Reds get things done,
but they have not liked the slave
labor and the way ancient Chi
nese culture is disappearing un
der tha heel of totalitarianism.
Conscripted Without Pay
One visitor was Prime Minis
ter Jawaharlal Nehru's sister,
former amabassador to Washing
ton. Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pan
IP
"What's to wonderful about THAT? He's obviously a Joroenlen't
nomogeniaea Multi-vitamm,
Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass
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dit decried the fact that 2,000,
000 peasants had been conscript
ed without pay to build a huge
dam.
Nehru himself has said that
the results of Communism in
many satellite nations are dis
pleasing to the Indians,
He also has warned that India
will use force if necessary to
prevent an outside force (Com
munist) from taking over neigh
boring Nepal.
Yet Nehru himself is one of
the the great problem children
for the West.
Inherited Gandhi Mantle
He inherited the political man
tle of Mohandas K. Gandhi, and
with it a passionate mistrust of
the West.
Particularly he fears the so
called colonial policies of the
West.
He believes that politicians
who know nothing about the
Orient have made most of the
decisions regarding the Orient.
He opposes the Atlantic Pact
as an instrument of colonialism.
He believes the United Nations
invited Chinese Intervention in
Korea by crossing the 38th. par
allel and he strongly favors in
cluding Red China in the UN.
Seldom Criticises Russia
He seldom criticizes Russia by
name, but is not so cautious with
his criticism of the West. Yet
upon him much depends.
For in New Delhi there Is gen
eral agreement that should our
hydro-electric and agricultural
projects in India fail; should the
next few years see China making
the greatest gains economically,
and should we fail to relieve the
plfght of India's millions, then
another nation will have gone
down the drain of Communism.
ONLY PARTLY PRESENT
West Memphis, Ark. (U.R)
Charles King swears he could
hear the caps explode and see
puffs of smoke come out of his
pet biliygoat's mouth as the ani
mal munched on a roll of cap
pistol caps. King said the goat
reached out for the caps when
they fell at his feet and seemed
to enjoy the meal despite the
noise and smoke.
Multi-Mineral Milk Drinker"
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