Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 06, 1953, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUR -MEDFORD (OREOON) MAIL TRIBTJITE "Everyone in Southern Oregon Beads The Mall Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday W MEDFORD PRINTING CO tT-at North Fir St Phon X141 ROBlR'jl Wrttnil, Mitor EKN1ST R, OILntA. MlMW 5SRR y' CHIP MAN, fal RICHARD jrWITT. pOTtlMitor OUVS STARCHZR. hditj Rtfitot yERALP LATHJUli fcirniMW a. An Independent Newipapw Entered u sacond ela matter at afadiord. Oreton. under Aet of Marchl 1S9T iUUScRlrfioN lARI Br Mail In Advance: Daily and Sunday n 7 SUM Daily and Sunday i mnotta M Drily and lunday three maa. 140 Dally and Sunday one month IM By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point, al Point Jackaonvllle. Gold BUI. Phoonix. Shady C.ova. ftogu) River. Talanl nH mm mnntnm tMltMl Daily and Sunday on year tll-M Daily and Sunday On month US All Terms cats) in Aovancw BHictal Paaer e the'Clty of Mediate Official Paper of Jaeas Ceanty United Prssa Tull Leased Wire 1 ""member Of AUfilt BOllAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: wkst.hollTdav compaitv. OfC Offices in New York. ChloafO. De troit San Praneiseo. Lea AnMlao, Seattle. Portland, a. Louia, uub Vancouver. B. C. aaBaa9BaSBBBBBBBBBtttBBBBBBBBBl NATIONAL IDITOIIAl ca& MIWSPAMt ruiiiSHiit "ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from tho files it The Mail Trirune 10, 20. 10 and 40 yar. ago. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 6. 1943 (It was Friday) Kiwanis club collecting funds to send cigarettes to American servicemen overseas. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Your corr. has received a box of matches wrapped In a newspaper from H. Flewer, the late demon baker. It is from a faraway and cen sored land. We can't read the newspaper and the matches won't light SO YEARS AGO Aug. 6. 1933 (It was Sunday) Cnuntv iurlee found Builtv of ballot theft by Klamath county Jury given four years in state prison. Opp mine near Jacksonville to re-open. SO YEARS AGO Aug. 6, 1924 (It was Monday) Many horses entered for coun ty fair races. Memorial services for Presi dent Harding to be held at Page theater Friday. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 6, 1913 (It was Wednesday) Central Point telephone com pany and Sams Valley telephone company pass test of blue sky law and given permit to sell securities by corporation com missioner. City council votes to issue $26,250 street and sewer im provement bonds. Thieves Steal Entire Crop of Blueberries Salem Cd.R) The busiest thieves in Oregon stole an en tire crop of blueberries off the 150 bushes of Mr. and Mrs. Les ter Munts of Clark Mill road. : They said the thieves took, the green berries as weU as the ripe Court Records POLICE COURT Virginia Clay. Welch, failure) to prop i a "of "" M ,. . Alvin Julius Siemsen. failure to yield right of way. S5. Edwin Andrew Olsen. failure to stop at a stop sign. S5. Gerold Lee Wier. violation of the Basic ruie. iu. DISTRICT COURT Marjorie L. Ltndley, no operator'! license. $7.50. , Allen D. Adams, no operator's li cense, court costs only. ' James W. Gibbs. 27. of 1375 Colum bus ave.. drunk in public place. S30. Lee Roy McGee. spotlighting deer. ll.iO. William G. Cummings. spotlighting deer. SI 50. Earl M. Cordell. no declaration of Weight report. $6. Aca E. McKenzie. 45. Phoenix, (trunk on public highway, S30. CIRCUIT COURT t Helen Louise Lamp vs. Lloyd Bord tnan Lamp, divorce complaint. Clara Tilley vs. Herbert Tilley. di vorce decree. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Donald Eugene Swanson. 33, Trail, and Edna Arlene Brennen. 34, Shady Cove. Bernard Frederick Engel. 21, Ash land, and Patricia Nell Lewis. 22. Ashland. . Raymond Huddleston. 40. Ashland, and Florence Geneva Baldeman, 3d, Ashland. 1 Ernest Ray Kennedy Jr.. 22. Med ford. and Carol Ann Lausmann. 21, Hertford. ; Gentle E. Albertaon, 34. Medford, and Patricia Louise Powell, 24. Ash land. ' Robert Dale Wendt 22, Manteca. Calif., and SybU Mechele Older, 21, Medford. - Jack Winters. 31. Cave Junction, and Betty Leah Miller, 27. Spokane, Wash. r Gerald Leo Wier, IS. Phoenix, and Mary Louise Emery. 17. Medford. Orville Dale Nichols. 21. Ashland, and Rena, Evelyn Kordstrom. 18, Medford. "What a The onlv Quotation that ting caption to the appointment of Senator Know land to take the late Senator Robert Taft's place is from Julius Caesar, quote "O! what fall was there my countrymen!" The only excuse we can see is that Senator Taft chose Knowland to be his successor TEMPORARILY, and we grant that has considerable validity. But except in their 100 Republican partisan ship the two men are as unlike as the poles. e a e e e JAFT was "a gentleman and a scholar." Knowland,in a different way is a gentleman, but no scholar and proud of it Except in his brief campaign before the Chicago convention Taft always shunned demagoguery as he ' olague. , A more extreme exhibition of cheap demagoguery than the one put on by the California senator in 1946 could hardly be imagined. a a a e e TAFT -was liked even enemies. Knowland trusted by his political enemies, and is far from uni versally popular among the party. Taft had not only a fine legal mind but was a man of exceptional intellectual capacity. Knowland knows nothing about the law which is nothing to his discredit but according to reliable reports, would be both bored, and mentally fatigued by any intellectual exercises, greater than those de manded by dictating to his ... . . . . r - r-m A M t X- .11.. M -J suiiiiuaues ux cue uixis aim Record, and glancmg over lines. DUT it is in the direction stature that the dissimilarity of the two men is most striking. Taft was far above the he was a person of strong great integrity. Knowland of course is ities which have not as record up to the present time indicates nothing that would place him above the average in this or any other direction. CENATOR KNOWLAND, vAnnnr ha noa rna pAriftHoTinA vvr onH a nrnrrocci vo, ness of robust and virile youth, what his enemies term his "arrogant vanity" may prove less a liability in the position of party leader than it would in the field of diplomacy or statesmanship. But even so the "fall" been tremendous, and there is little doubt that even many of the seasoned veterans of his own party so devoted to Bob Taft, view the future under Know land's guidance with doubt "Horse Feathers When Senator Morse escorted an Associated Press representative from his office a few days ago, there was a great howl set up by veteran and reputable tion. The idea that the "always reliable and always im partial "press association but accurate and fair in junior Senator's activities, alistic Diasphemy. AS for the charge made by Morse that the AP "representative in the press gallery slanted his re ports where Morse was concerned the junior Senator citing chapter and verse that was equivalent to challenging the sanctity of the "Great Jehovah," and was no less than decsending to the low level of the impious and profane. The "A.P." service is a good service, but there is nothing divine and nothing sacroscant, nothing flaw less about it It is like other press services, VERY human. And it is not only "human to err," it is human to yield, at times, to personal prejudices. And the Mail Tribune has not only one, but many evidences of prejudice as far as AP reports on the activities of Senator Morse are concerned. e e e a QNLY yesterday morning the AP account of the w Senator's address at the closing of the present session was inexcuseably "slanted." The Senator wasn't giving a speech full of facts concerning Hells Canyon dam, he was filibustering, or to quote the headline he was "delaying" adjourn ment. There were quote: "only 6 senators on the floor and only a few were listening" to Morse. (How did the reporter know who was listening!) As in "all his recent speeches" again quote the Senator was "bitter," he didn't factually criticize the Eisenhower administration, he "assailed it," and so on and so forth, ad infinitum. To deny Morse is on the A.P. black list is silly. Any Senator -daring to publicly attack AP reliability would be. R.W.R. MITES AND TICKS Durham, N. C U.R) A full course of study in mites and ticks is being offered at Duke University this summer. Dr. George W. Wharton, who will teach the course in acarology, points out that "it is difficult to find a single plant free from t least ona destructive mite." Thursday, August . 1US Fdlll 99 comes to mind as a fit by his strongest political is heartily hated and dis rank and file of his own secretaries, studying their ..AnMirln.T'fl ftm jLAaiwAwnl jrcotcxuajr o vAsugi cooiuuai the morning paper head of character of spiritual average in this direction personal faith and a very young, he may have capac yet been revealed, but his as remarked, is strong, suffered in his selection has and misgiving. R.W.R. 99 the representatives of that news-gathering organiza could have been anything its reporting of Oregon s was nothing short of journ TALLY AUT-HO- Lansing. Mich (U.R) A mo torist who runs over a dog may be liable for damages, but in Michigan, a motorist who runs over a fox can coUect tho $5 state bounty. The law does not require that the fox be shot or trapped only that it be dead. Crosstovn n eiss "Here X am mister. Tho top Matter of Fact THE REIGN OF STUPIDITY Bonn This city Is a peculiar ly depressing : place, and for a peculiarly American reason. It is odd that this should be so. There is an almost un believable con- trast between the bustling prosperity o f Western Ger many, and the weary, angry stagnation o f t h a G n ir i o t Stewart Also? I0ne which ig so visible from Berlin. Logically, this contrast should fill Americans with renewed confidence in the future. Yet one very soon realizes that Americans here are, instead, rap idly losing their confidence in themselves and their country, This in turn has led to a sort of paralysis where the great is sues of policy are concerned, for people who have lost their confidence naturally tend to sub stitute dogma for policy and the official line for serious, original thought. The chief policy advisers here were until recently three very able professional foreign service officers John Davies, Charles Thayer, and Samuel Reber. As one official here remarked, "They held the whole thing to gether." Now all three are gone at least two" of them victims of McLeodism, the State Depart ments dutiful imitiation of Me Carthylsm. There have been, of course, plenty of other victims- designate, some well known. others purged under cover of the reduction-In-force program, others still waiting for the axe to fall. e e e TT IS hardly surprising that - the survivors have adopted "Don't stick your neck out" as their guiding rule. The Germans, ol course, derive a special pleas ure from talking about the "American Gestapo," and from comparing America today with Germany twenty years ago. This is nonsense. There is no Buchen- wald for American officials who have incurred official disfavor. Instead, there is a steady pres sure for dull conformity, in an oddly ridiculous atmosphere of cloak-and dagger. The flavor of this atmosphere is best convey ed by the sort of minor Incident which has become the small change of private conversation among Americans here. This was, for example, the official who happened to step out on his balcony, and saw a shadowy figure clambering over the railing. He called in the German couple who serve him, and asked who this mysterious intruder might be. They replied calmlv that it was doubUess the American secret service fellow who had several times interro gated them about the official's dinner table conversation ana other asnects of his private life, Or theVe was the series of secret Interrogations to discover the identity of those who attend ed the farewell party for Theo dore Kaghan, the able public affairs official who was one of the State Department's recent blood sacrifices to Senator me rartviv. What made this invest! gation silly was the fact that th nartv was attended by High Commissioner James B. Conant riimslf. What made it even su iter was the further fact that the busy gumshoes needed only to telephone the public affairs division, which had arranged the party, to obtain a complete list of those present. e e e WHAT is going on here, in VI short,, is less a reign of terror than a reign of stupidity. One official recently received a "suitability report" on an able subordinate. The "derogatory in formation" is this report con sisted entirely of the charge that the subordinate was supct democratic" and "intellectually curious." Stupid and silly as this sort of thing seems, it has its ! deadly serious side. i "Take this matter of food PI I shipments to East Germany," re- Cy Jtofartcf Co part of our door is stuck." Stewart AIsop marked one responsible official. if I'd been all for it I could have been roasted alive for wanting to send food to a lot of Communists. If I'd been all against it, I could have been roasted alive for opposing a great psychological stroke against the Communists. So in the end I said nothing." When a past error of political judg ment can be interpreted as dis loyalty (as in the case of John Davies) saying nothing becomes, obviously,- the better part of wisdom. And when stupidity reigns, bold, imaginative policy making is hardly to be expected. A serious effort is now being made, it should be said, to end the reign of stupidity. Stringent orders have been issued limit ing such practices as wire-tapping, and the use of German nationals as informers against American officials. More impor tant, High Commissioner Co nant after a natural initial pe riod of uncertainty, has let it be known that he is prepared to back loyal subordinates to the hilt. Yet an almost incalcuable amount of damage has already been done. The United States has been made to look ridicu lous by such incidents as the book-burning mess and the Cohn Schine spy-hunt. Many of the abler officials have been elim inated or disgraced, and others are thinking seriously of leav ing before they meet the same fate. In a reign of stupidity, the safety stupid flourish, and the key positions here are beginning to fill up with amiable nonen ities. e e a IVHAT is almost worst of all, the old, easy, free-spoken, free-wheeling confidence in themselves and their country, which used to mark Americans off from all others, and which always impressed and encour aged the American traveling in Europe, is almost gone now. One sometimes wonders what a Hiss, or a Fuchs, or a Rosenberg could have done to harm Amer ica more. (Copyright, 19S3. New York Herald Tribune. Ine) Foots Creek Foots Creek Mrs. Ada Row ell of Bakersfield, Calif., has re turned to her home on the right fork of the creek. She will be employed at a hospital in Grants Pass. Henry MiUer of Grants Pass spent Friday and Saturday with his sdn and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Miller. Mr. and Mrs. J. Sugden, son Jimmie, and daughter Sandra, of Boise, Idaho, spent several days here last week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sugden, and his brother Dale. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Garrett, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Garrett, Mr. and Mrs. Roland Bartlett and daughter Avis have returned to Salem. They have been employed the past two months on the new highway. Mrs. Henry Heller and Mrs. Flora Etheredge returned Aug ust 1 from San Francisco. Mrs. Etheredge wil go to Washington, D. C. and then visit her late hus band's relatives in Virginia. Mrs. HeUer will remain here until Oc tober. Tom White of San Jose, Calif., came July 29 to look after his property here. CHINOOK SALMON MISSING . Astoria (U.R) The main August run of Chinook salmon still has failed to materialize, giUnet fishermen reported today. Only 4 More Days Funds invested hero by August 10 will earn dividends from August 1 Jackson County Federal SAVINGS and LOAN ASSOCIATION 126 EAST MAIN MEDFORD, ORE. "Where You Are Paid To Save" In the Day's Hews . By FRANK JENKINS Here Is a fact that is histori cally interesting: If you live south of Roseburg in Oregon, you live on soli that once was Spanish. It was Spanish for more than two centuries. It was Spanish, as a matter of fact, un til October 241820. TilE final settlement of the Spanish border on the Pacific Coast came in President Mon roe's administration and was embodied in the Treaty of Flori da, signed in Washington on February 22 (Washington's birth day) 1819 and ratified in Madrid on the 24th of October of the next year. Spain's claim to California and Southern Oregon was based on the voyages of early Spani ards, notably Juan Rodriguez CabrlUo and his successor in command, Bartolome Ferrelo (Cabrillo died at sea and the voy age was continued by Ferrelo) in 1542 and 1343. The land they sighted was claimed by them for Spain and tho validity of the elaim was recognized by our government when it came to settling the Spanish - American boundary on the Pacific. JIHI E settlement came about in curiously interesting man ner. When the negotiations be gan in 1818, our government was utterly uninterested in the pac ific Coast But it was keenly in terested in Florida and what came later to be known as the Louisiana Purchase, which in cluded most of the area from the Mississippi river to the Rocky Mountains (then known both as the Stony mountains and the Shining mountains.) But John Quincy Adams, sec retary of state in Monroe's cabi net, had a vision. His vision was the extension of the American republic to the shores of the Pacific. So, in the negotiations leading up to the Treaty of Flori da, he proposed to the Spanish minister, Louis De Onls, that the U S. Spanish boundary WEST OF THE ROCKIES be estab lished on the line of 41 degrees north latitude, about what is now the northern end of Shasta lake. De Onls came back with an offer of 43 degrees north latitude (Just south of Roseburg.) President Monroe and aU the ether members of his adminis tration were strongly in favor of accepting the offer of the 43rd paralled, but Adams, a Massachu setts Yankee, was a more per sistent horse trader. He told his coUeagues: "I think more can be obtained by adhering steadi ly to our demands." It turned out that he was right and even tually he and De Onls compro mised on the 42nd parallel the present boundary between California and Oregon. 1 suppose it will occur to you, if you have read thus far into this dissertation, that the area lying between the 41st and the 43rd parallels of north latitude, over which the American sec retary of state and the Spanish minister to Washington dickered back in 1818 and 1819, is practi cally identical with the Never Never Land that down this way we often refer to fancifully as the State of Jefferson a poli tical state that never was and never will be but that has lived in men's minds for more than a century. IN the clear light of history, it could be argued that we should call this dream state of ours the State of Adams for it was John Quincy Adams who by a stroke of genius and a Yankee penchant for shrewd horse trading cleared the way diplomatically for the extension of the United States of America from the Atlantic to the Pacific. But Thomas Jefferson has ma ny admirers down in this land that always has been a sort of No-Man's Land lying halfway between the rich and populous north and the rich and populous south. Among other things we agree heartily with his political philosophy that "that govern ment is best wich governs least." We're getting fed up with gov ernment that practically seeks to comb our hair and knot our ties and even brush our teeth with Washington bureaucrats doing the combing and the knotting and the brushing. So I reckon we'd better stick with the State of Jefferson. EDUCATED FAMILY Oxford. Miss. (U.R) Mrs. Lucy Lott Hathorn, 76, saw her dream come tire recently the last of her 11 children graduated from the University of Missis sippi. Her 11 children hold a total of 18 academic degrees from the institution. Britain and Egypt , Resume Negotiations On Suez Canal Future By PHIL NEWIOM United Press Foreign Analyst Since 1948, often accompanied by bloodshed, the British and Egyptians have been haggling over tho fu turc of tho Suez CiniL They resume negotiations to day under con ditions which all parties seem to agree offer the best aVt sav Aa nait l Pail Newaa- " The remaining issues are com paratively simple but settlement has been made difficult by emo tions, particularly on the side of the Egyptians. For years under the now-depdsed King Farouk and the Wafdist Party British occupation of Suez was used as a political football to cover up Egypt's own internal shortcom ings. Overfilled Bucket Emotions aroused under Fa rouk and the Wafdists carried over into the regime of Gen. Mohammed Nagulb who has proved himself a reasonable ne gotiator but who cannot afford to overlook Egyptian national ism. Nor are Britain's skirts en tirely clean. The Suez Canal is now near ly 100 years old and has been under British control since they moved into Egypt in 1884. Egypt was recognized as an independent state in 1922 but Britain continued to handle her defenses, including defense of the strategic canal. In 1936, the two nations ne gotiated a treaty of alliance which gave Britain the right to maintain 10,000 men and 400 airplanes in the zone for defense of the canal, but which also provided that the British troops would get out when "the Egyp- U.S. Not Intending To Resume Korea War Washington (U.R) The United States has no - tention of resuming the war in Korea just because things don't go right during the forthcoming post truce political conference. That is the word of Robert D. Murphy, assistant secretary of state for United Nations affairs and one of the men chiefly re sponsible for developing U.S. Policy for the Meeting. Murphy reiterated this coun try's intention to walk out of the conference after 90 days u the Communists fail to bargain in good faith. "But this does not mean we will resume the war in Korea," he said last night Eisenhower To Start Vacation Saturday Washington (U.R) Presi dent and Mrs. Eisenhower will fly to Denver Saturday for an extended vacation, the White House announced today. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the Eisen hower's will stay at the Denver home of Mrs. Eisenhower's moth er, Mrs. John S. Doud. Hagerty said the length of time that the President and first lidy will remain in Colorado has not been decided. But he said he would assume it would be at least three weeks unless some national or international devel opment required the President to return here earlier. Farmers' Share ot Food Dollar Drops Washington (U.R) The farmers' share of the consumer's food dollar has dropped to the lowest level since World War II. An Agriculture Department report said yesterday the farmer on June 30 was getting only 44 cents of every consumer food dollar, three cents less than a year earlier. The most farmers have gotten since World War II was 52 cents in 1946. The rest goes to middlemen. Frank Morgan - 40) m tian army is in position to ensure by its own resources tho liberty and entire security of navigation of the canal." An increasingly sore point with the Egyptians is the fact that Instead of the 10,000 men allowed under the treaty, tho British garrison actually is eight times that size. Too Short Sighted On their side, the British, in effect accuse the Egyptian na tionalists of cutting off their noses to spite their face. They say that the Egyptians, in their anxiety to get rid of tho British troops, overlook' com. pletely Suez's value to the whole world and particularly to a po tential enemy. In the words of a British War Office spokes man: "The Middle East offers a glittering prize. The oil resources of the area are almost unlimited. An advance here would put Rus sian forces on the Mediterran ean and the Persian Gulf, and would sever at once Britain's communications with the Far East" There in a nutsheU is Britain's problem. Big Money In their years of occupation the British have built up a vast complex of installations, camps. supply depots and air bases. Al together, they have invested nearly $1,500,000,000. The British now are willing to turn this Investment over to the Egyptians, providing they re ceive assurances that it will bo adequately maintained and that provision can be made for Brit ish troops to return in case of war. CHAPMAN JEWELERS Hem of Prism-Lit Dlsmaads 109 E. MAIN Ph. 2-5623 Harold Snodgrass CHFOR6E mm? FUNERAL DIRECTORS The Chapel of Cherished Memories CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse)