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FOUR MEDFbHD (ORE GO X) MAIL THIBOTfT "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" 'Published Daily except Saturday hy MEDFORD PRUmNQ CO tT-SS North fir St Phooa MM1 ROBERi W RlTrtL. Editor ERNEST R. GILSTRAP. Manager EXRB GRsTY. Advertising Manager K. C. rSRGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR, OO Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD J E WITT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHXR. Society Editor CERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Tn,Wrn4nt NtWIMPtf ' Xntrrd as second clan matter "af Medford. Otwkxv ond March A. 1M7 "" stBSCRtPTIOJi fcA' Wy In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year SI; DaiW and Sunday i montha 0 Dril and Sunday three moa. 10 DaiW and Sunday one month IM By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold HiU. Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routaai Daily and Sunday one yea IISM Daily and Sunday One month Ml All terms tan in iwtiwj Official Paoer ef the City ef Meeleri Official Paper el Jachr Ce ty United Press Full Leased Wire "siEMBER OF AUDIT BUMAtf OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANT. OtC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Loa Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louia. Atlanta. Vancouver. B. C. iNATION Al EDITORIAL NA I IUWAI IassocUti3n gNiwsrAriK PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford ana Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tritune 10. 20. SO and 40 year ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 13, 1943 (It Was Friday) City tax levy of 40.4 mills to be slightly under last year. From Arthur Perry's 'Ye Smudge Pot column: Barbers of the Pacific coast want to be call ed "chirotonsors," on the grounds it will uplift the chin whacking profession. In these piping times of 75c shaves and $1 haircuts a $7 word is out of place. ' 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 13. 1933 (It Was Sunday) Pair confesses setting fire to Applegate store. Minimum price of $20 per ton set for cling peaches. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 13. 1923 (It Was Monday) More than 10,000 tourists reg istered in city last month. - Pear shipments to date total 256 cars. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 13. 1913 (It Was Wednesday) . Trout fry for distribution in local streams arrive. Don Rader. Medford baseball played, making good with Chi cago White Sox. Ordinance Recognize Trend for Hospitals Chicaeo (U.PJ Zonins? ordi nances in the nation's largest cities recognize the trend toward letting general hospitals provide for patients with communicable and mental diseases. The American Society of Plan ning Officials reports that New York, Boston, Detroit, Philadel phia, Washington and Baltimore permit hospitals to care for sucn patients in any zone where gen eral hospitals may be located. Most up-to-date zoning ordi nances govern hospital location on the basis of size and function, rather than The type of patient, the society said. It said the exclusion of spec ialized hospitals for many partic ular location in an urban area solely on the basis of danger to public health cannot be justified in the light of medical findings. Army Called To Quell Red Riols in Ceylon Colombo, Ceylon (U.R) The Army was called out today by Premier Dudley Senanayake and volunteers were mobilized to quell Communist inspired riots in which five persons have been killed and 69 injured in the past two days. The premier said military units have been ordered to pa trol all main roads and that ma chine guns have been installed at key points. Several fires have been start ed by the rioting demonstrators. Police fired on one mob in downtown Colombo early today as Communists swarmed through the streets in the second day of violent disorders. Charles Town, W. Va. (U.R) Forty-nine votes were cast in a recent municipal election in this town of 2,500. But one vote would have been sufficient Only one candidate filed for each of four council posts. What a Picnic! Political picnics should not be taken too seriously. Thev are of course strongly partisan and usually somewhat convivial gatherings where tha "circus lemonade" may even have a stick in it. Sn the manv claims Republican picnic in Portland Sunday last, should be taken with a grain of salt Hnwevpr w were trenuinelv surmised bv the statement credited to our went somewhat as follows: "Democratic leaders who yearn for a return to the two- . party system, should first offer principles that the people be lieve in, and the leadership that Oregonians can follow, then it might be time for the people to consider a change." e e e e BUT how about Republican leaders offenng pnn .;niAa pv.PTTRT.TPAMS ran "helieve in and VllVO U1C UUi WV"V"W follow?" The record of the recent congressional session will show that time after time, the "principles" of fered by President Eisenhower would-have been defeated overwhelmingly, if only Republicans had voted. They were saved solely by Democratic support. Would that indicate the Democrats believe in NO principles that the people of Oregon can believe in? -. It would seem to be, to a man up a tree, that Governor Patterson was as Mr. Shakespeare once remarked "raised by his own petard." e e e OOW can any rational human being agree with the governor's implication that Oregon has aband oned the two-party system. Or that such a condition will remain, until the Democrats can offer SOMETHING Oregonians CAN follow. Does our new Governor REALLY believe no Oregonians CAN follow the State Grange for ex ample, in its opposition to the Republican stand re garding "Hells Canyon?;' How about conservation including oil? Then there is the recent demand of the Old Guard" in congress that the country return to isola tionism, while ' the Republican delegation from Nevada urged a return to Hawley tariff abomination. Can Mr. Patterson, .even with the use of the ex ecutive chamber's G.O.P. ians not even ONE who ship of a party that would renounce and denounce the ultra-conservative Republican stand? AS above stated, the table aim viewing Willi aiami, willUl ilatUlall characterizes political picnics Republican or Demo cratic should not be taken too seriously. But after all there should be a limit And it seems tt this department, in the "exuber ance of his verbosity" our new and very amiable Governor passed it R.W.R. How About Ikes Cabinet? In reviewing recently the accomplishments of his administration President Eisenhower had surprising ly little to say about his department of defense and Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson. Probably there is a reason. Perhaps very little of a complimentary nature to date could be said. Secretary Wilson, since his statement that the Korean truce would result in a sharp reduction in the draft, has been significantly and benevolently silent He was as wrong in that, as he was when he claimed that for half as great an outlay, our air force could be made doubly effective or words to that effect- TN further explanation he said he was for economy A first, last and all the time. So are we all, THEORETICALLY. The best answer to this, however, was made by Senator Symington of Missouri, former head of US air force, quote: "I want economy too. But I want a record of national security first. There is no economy in too UtUe security. We have no right to gamble with our security. The best economy imaginable would be to be so strong no possible foe would think of attacking us." e e e e e PENALLY there was that unfortunate, but most revealing statement, that whatever "might be best for General Motors would be best for the United States." When Mr. Wilson realized he had nulled n nrettv terrible boner, politically, wnac ne reany meant; but no one or practically no one swallowed that belated "alibi," with or with out salt CO it goes! It would be unjust to make any final judgment as to the real caDabilities of anv memher of President. Eisenhower's cabinet so early in the game. TJ..4- -t. -i 1 nir l i .. u, wnen me writer was last m wasnmgion uie wagering in length of tenure, placed Secretary of Labor Durkin as nrobablv the first tn trn Secret rv of Defense Wilson, second, uur guess is Durkin strong hunch the former gaining on him fast as they WITHDRAWAL East Hartford, Conn. (U.FD Crime stories are not mnfliwri in books in the Hockanum Library. m a . - wo Doys, agea n ana 13, Mtere seized for taking $11 from the librarian's desk. Thursday, Angus! IS. 1SS3 made bv SDeakers at the present Governor, which of our natural resurces, ' the principles of the Smoot- binoculars see NO Oregon could follow the leader - thumping - pointing - with - he claimed he had not said Dulles, third. still leads, but we have a head of General f ntnra ir approach the finish. K.W.K. NO ONE'S SAFE New Haven, Conn U.R) A fire caused several thousand dol lars worth of damage at the roof ing company of Frank Dahill Mew Haven fire commission president. ., . Crosstovn 6-I3-S9 It's not every course you play All Editors Urged To Read McCarthy-Wechsler Case To Decide if Freedom Menaced Washington U.R) An 11 man special committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors has urged that all edi tors read the transcript of the McCarthy-Wechsler hearings last spring and make up their own minds whether press freedom was menaced. The committee, as such, reach ed no conclusions. It said in a report published last night that it was "not our function" to, do so. But a four member minority said congressional investigations like the McCarthy-Wechsler hearings, "if frequently repeat ed, would extinguish, without passage of a single law," free dom of the press. Editor Made Request The special committee was named by Basil L. Walters, exe cutive editor of the Knight news papers and president of the ASNE, at the request of James A. Wechsler, editor of the New York Post. Wechsler made the request in connection with' his appearance last April 24 and May 5 before the Senate Per manent Investigating subcom mittee headed by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, (R-Wis.). The group at the time was in vestigating State Dpartment li braries overseas. In New York, Wechsler said he hoped the ASNE study "will deter Sen. McCarthy from con ducting any similar expeditions against other independent news papers and editors." McCarthy Comments McCarthy, asked for comment in New York on the committee report, said editors should read Congressional Quiz Quettions and Answers en What Gees On at the Capital Furnished by Congressional Quarterly News Features Q Sometimes the Senate meets when the House is not in session. Which chamber has been meeting more often this year? A From Jan. 3, ' when Con gress convened, through July 31, this year, the upper chamber was a little ahead of the lower cham ber in the number of meetings. The Senate was in session 123 days; the House, 115 days. The Senate held much longer sessions too. It devoted 743 hours and three minutes to floor wojk, the House 492 hours and 41 minutes. Q How many times did Sen. Taf t try for the office hit father, the late President Howard Taft, held? A The late Sen. Robert A. Taft, (R O.), unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomina tion for the nation's highest of fice three times in 1040, 1048 and 1952. Q What's happened to the Administration's proposed postal rate raise? Will I have to pay more for stamps this year? A Probably not this year. Tlje House Post Office and Civil Service Committee July 28 post poned until 1954 consideration of the Administration's requested legislation to hike postal rates. But the issue is expected to come up again next year, since the Administration put it on the "must" list for enactment Q What wUl be done with the revenues from mineral leases on submerged lands of the outer continental shelf which Congress placed under Jurisdiction of the U.S.? A As specified in the so called Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act passed by Congress July 30, "all rentals, royalties and other sums paid to the (U.S.) under any lease in the Outer Continental Shelf for the period from June 5, 1950, to date and thereafter shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States and credited to miscell aneous receipts." A provision to devote the revenues to, first, na tional defense for three years, then grants in aid to education, was dropped from the biU. Q -I hear we need more Judge all ever the country. Has Con ,0y Roland Cos r -aa- m that adjoins a watermelon patch! not only the McCarthy-Wechsler hearing transcript but also the transcripts of all congressional hearings "in connection with the digging' out of crooks and Communists." The 11 -man ASNE committee was headed by J. R. Wiggins, managing editor of the Wash ington Post. The committee's re port said most editors disagree on whether the hearings "consti tuted a threat to freedom of the press; and members of this com mittee disagree also as to the extent to which this threat ex isted." ' The four man minority com prised Wiggins, Herbert Bruck er, editor of the Hartford, Conn., Courant: William M. Tugman, editor of the Eugene, Ore., Reg ister Guard, and Eugene S. Pul liam Jr., managing editor of the Indianapolis News. Their supplemental report said "a press put to the frequent necessity of explaining its news and editorial policies to a United States senator, armed with the full power of the United States, is not a free press whether the senator be a good or bad senator." They said Wechsler was pres ent "by compulsion and under the necessity to -answer what ever inquiries were propounded to him or face prosecution for refusal to do so. "Action under these laws, or under any other laws that have been made or could be made by Congress, in abridgement of freedom of speech or of the press was barred by, the inexorable command of. the first amend ment." gress created any more Judge ships this year? A Both Houses this year passed bills for additional Judge ships but they did not become law because members said, the House refused to make any con cessions to the Senate. The Sen ate passed a bill providing for 33 new Federal District judgeships and four Circuit judgeships. The House bill called for 23 more District and three more Circuit judges. But conferees failed to work out an agreement. ' (Copyright 1953. Congressional Quarterly) Reds Hot Surgeons, Released POW Feels Inchon, Korea (U.R) An American released from a Com munist prison camp told today how he nearly died from a badly performed appendix operation and careless treatment. Cpl. Robert Hammelsmith, 26, Lynwood, Calif., said Chinese medics removed his appendix in a 20-minute operation on Dec. 1, 1951. "The spinal anesthetic didn't take too well, and it hurt," Ham melsmith said. "The stupid Chinks took only three stitches after the operation. The stitches didn't hold." He said the 'incision broke open nine days after, and the Chinese did not bother to sew it closed. "They put a bandage on it snd taped it up that's all," Hammelsmith said. Dr. Andrew G. Webster , Announces the opening of an office for the practice of general surgery in PASCO, WASHINGTON In the Day's l!evs By FRANK JENKINS President Eisenhower calls for VIGOROUS REDUCTION OF SPENDING by the federal gov ernment. He asks all govern ment leaders to attack waste and inefficiency with renewed vigor and to make substantial cuts in EVEY new appropriation. I WAS SURE you'd do it sir. When you asked congress last week to go to the bank and arrange a longer line of credit, you were impressed by two im portant facets of our national fiscal situation: 1. Knowing your history (a General of the Army must be one of the most SOUNDLY edu cated men in the world) you were aware that under the sys tem set up for us by the Found ing Fathers congress is the keep er of the purse. Since congress had appropriated more money than our existing tax- system will produce, you felt, quite pro perly, that it is the responsibil ity of congress to arrange for whatever loans at the bank may be necessary, to cover the defi cit that must ensue. 2. Being an able diplomat (a General of the Army must be a diplomat as well as a soldier) you knew that when the Presi dent of the United States and the congress of the United States indulge consantly in disgusting little quarrels and tiffs and spats our country is WEAKENED in the eyes of the world. Were had ample evidence of that fact in the past dozen years or so. Being one, of the world's greatest leaders You DEFERRED to congress as the keeper of our national purse and courteously requested congress (as the keeper of the purse) to arrange for the bor rowing of enough money to meet the commitments that had been made by congress. I think you were quite right in doing so. BUT The congress, although it had overspent our anticipated na tional income, chose to disre gard your request and refused to go to the bank and arrange for a loan to cover its overdraft. That left you no choice. As the administrative head of our government, you had to order DRASTIC reduction in spending. I think your order, is fully justified, and I think the people will understand that under the circumstances there was noth ing else for you to do. WOULD YOU mind, sir, a little well-meant advice and backgrounding (briefing is what you would call it in the Army) on the fundamentals of political life in America? You have led a soldier's life. A soldier's life is a clean life and a rather simple one. A sol dier sizes up the situation and makes the necessary decisions. If the decisions are wrong, the soldier takes the consequences. If he is of the higher echelons, he takes the TERRIBLE conse quences of sending men to death needlessly. If he is of the lower echelons, he dies in the perfor mance of his duty. In any event, there is no buck passing. F POLITICAL life, it is dif ferent. There one of the first and most generally accepted principles is to claim the credit for everything that is good and to PASS THE BUCK for every thing that is bad. That, sir, is what the congress was doing when (after having overspent anticipated income) it refused to make the necessary arrangements for a loan to meet the deficit that had been creat ed by its overpsending. It was passing the buck to you. Hidden TV Cameras Aid Thieves' Capture Hollywood (U.R) Police used hidden television cameras to capture four men suspected of taking some $40,000 worth of electronics parts from a ware house. Detectives said the company had been missing radio tubes and electronics parts for several weeks. ' They said they hid two televi sion cameras in the warehouse stockroom, installed a receiver upstairs and screened loading dock activities. ' What they saw and heard re sulted in the arrest Tuesday of stock clerks Alamo Mason, 45. and Fred Porter, 23. The two implicated Kirk Hockner, 49, and Milton Syde, 42, officers said. Traditional Month of France Labor Truce Falls by WAYSIDE By PHIL NEWSOM United Pros Foreign Analyst August is a traditional month of "labor truce" in France: It is a time when Frenchmen suspend their differences and go on vacation. This August, however, more than 1,000,000 French work ers are out in the worst strike since 1947. Thousands of Amprtnnn anri Phil Newtoa. other tourists are stranded, trains are halted, hospitals are short staffed, gas and electricity cut off and gar bage rots in the, streets. And the situation inreatens to get worse before it gets better. Now, as in the 1947 strikes, the walkout Is the result of France's stumbling efforts to cure her never ending financial ills. Nok, as then, the Commu nists are doing their best to profit through a national catas trophe. In Protest of Plan The strike - began last week with a walkout by 220,000 gov ernment postal and communica tions workers in protest against Premier Joseph Laniel's plan to bolster the national economy by slashing government spending 15 per cent. The strike was called by the Socialist-dominated Workers Force (TO), and supported by the Catholic OFTC and an inde pendent Postal Workers Union. The Communists, caught by COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 word. What do You Think? To the Editor: The District Attorney's office, the County Court, the Mail Tribune, and the Medford City Administration should unite behind a most worthy and badly needed cause. This area desperately needs a receiving station to take care of all people who are injured or found ill on all -public roads or public places. It is almost im possible to get a doctor in an emergency and a sick or injured person can very easily be sent to jail by persons who are unable to properly diagnose a physical condition. The station could be staffed to a great extent by trained people who would take turns. By so doing each doctor would have less emergency calls and I am sure the Medical Profession would co-operate. The work could be under the guidance of the Public Health and Red Cross. Expenses could be handled by a small city and county tax levy. I believe some real good can be accomplished by the earnest cooperation of the organizations above named. What do your think? JAMES C. COLLINS. 104 West Main, Medford, Ore. Camp White Man Protects To the Editor: They're at it again. One of your readers lumps all the veterans at this station in one category drunks. In any community having eight hundred or more males, there is bound to be a certain per centage of a so-called undesir able element. We at Camp White don't like them either. The attitude of some citizens of Medford, just like that of cer tain employees at this station, is dead wrong and must be changed. Not all of us, nor even a majority by any stretch of the imagination, can be classified as drunks, or fools, or as being be low the average in intelligence. This smug pose of superiority betokens a lack of understand ing as well as false rating of one's own ability and character. David Frisch, Company One, Camp White, Ore. Frank Morgan - m I -AN surprise, gave it onlv tartt . proval. Laniel's plan was to increase the retirement ano fmm itn 62 years, to fire some of the esti mated 4,000,000 government em ployees and to hold the line oa pay increases. Cold Price Jumps The immediate effect of the strike was a boomerang. The price of gold shot skyward and the value of the French franc fell. Meanwhile, the nnmm..nirf. seeing an opportunity, joined the strike in full force. Their objective is to topple the government and brirnr ahnut "popular front" such as existed in the 1930's. As yet. the Laniel eovernmont has refrained from any sweeping oacK to work decrees such as were used by Premier Robert Schuman to break the 1947 strike. But. allowed to rontinm in. definitely, the strike could fin- lsn ine wreciting oi uie r rencn economy, wiping out not only the franc but savings and insur ance policies as well. Disabled Veleran Saves Life of Boy Portland (U.R) A disabled war veteran was credited today with saving the life of a six- year-old hoy who suffered se vere shock when he plugged in a floor lamp. The boy's mother, Mrs. Wal ter H. Hunter, said her neighbor, Frank Leary, rushed to her aid when she called for help. Leary applied artificial respiration un til the lad could be given medi cal attention. Six-year-old Eugene had plug ged in a loose cord of a floor lamp at his home Tuesday night and suffered an electric shock that left him unconscious. Yoncalla Lumber Mill Destroyed by Flames Yoncalla (U.R) Fire yester day destroyed most of the Yon calla Lumber company mill here, largest of several in and around this northern Douglas county town. There was no immediate estl mate of damage. lumber, and the resaw and planer units were saved. The mill was closed last week for 10 days to allow installation of an electric motor. i O'Dwyer Marriage Fale Up To Church Mexico City (U.R) Sloan Simpson and former U. S. Am bassador William O'Dwyer both fnrnpH Ihpir backs today On the civil divorce which ended their four year marriage. They said the fate of the mar riaff rpsts with the Catholic church, despite a decree issued at Cuernavaca, Mexico, oivorc inc the former fashion model from her 63 -year-old husband. Tele-fun by Warren Goodrich "Hello-Sorry I answering, but I'm sttO fust little horse!"... You won't risk missing important calk if you always answer your tele phone promptly ... Pacific Telephone. Harold Snodgrass was to totra FUNERAL DIRECTORS . The Chapel of Cherished Memories CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse
