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rotra medford (oregon) "Ireryona in Southern Onn BMrfa Th Mail TritaM "Published Daily iLreept Betiirday by MEDFORD PKIMtTNO CO 17-39 North fir St. FtOMMW ROBER7 W IUHL Miter ERNEST R. GIUTKAP, Man EXRB GREY. AdTWtlslnc Manage B. C. FERGUSON. Manartn IdtU XXIC AL1XN JR, aty KJitor BARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Bdrta RICHARD JEWETT. 8 porta Editor i nr GTiRmm Rawtolg Kitiane OERALD LATHAM. Circulation T. An Independent Nenspeper Entered as second claae natter at Mediord. Orecoo. under Ad af March 1S97 SUBSCRIPTION ate Mail In Advance: B1 Daily and SundayT-ee year DM Daily and Sunday ais montha SO Drily and Sunday three mo. 10 Daily and Sunday em aaanth US ato Carrier In Advance) Ashland. Central Point Eagle Petot Jacksonville. Gold HUL Phnanlw. Shady Cove, Rogue River. Talent and cn motor route: Daily and Sunday -one) year SISSS Daily and Sunday One month US All Terms cam m Aavanee Official Paper the tHsy et MesWeeS otiiciai paper er aeaen oaaany -United Preaa full Lee d WanT "member of 'AudiT bUKIaU' OF CIRCULATION Advertising Represent tiTeT WEST-HOLLIDAT COMP. COMPANY. IRC Office in New tot. Chicaeo. De Lee Angelea. bom Atlanta troit. San Seattle Portland. . Loam. NATIONAL E0ITOIIAI O" tdWSFAMt PUBIISHERS 'ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the ileal of The Mail Tritune 10. M, SO tad 40 year- ago. 10 TEARS AGO Sep. 1. 1943 (It was Wednesday) George A. Hunt, local theater owner, killed in auto crash. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Quite a few have saved up enough gas tickets to get to New Zealand over the double Labor Day holiday and confidently expect to get as far as the water's edge of the mighty Pacific. SO YEARS AGO Sept. 1. 1933 (It was Friday) County court plans to put curb n free wood at city yard, as many abused privilege last year. Political pots of Europe boil ever as old hates revived. SO YEARS AGO Sept. 1. 1923 (It was Saturday) Fire in boiler room puts Brownlee mill out of commis sion for month. Class in aesthetic dancing to be opened over Medford Na tional bank. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 1. 1913 (It was Monday) Fruit box factory to be con structed at Rogue River. Members of Hillah Temple of Shrine trek to Klamath Falls. Pot luck y M-T Staff and Canlrienraci Now thai the war is over for a time at least time is hanging heavy 'for 21-year-old Pfc, Charles O. Zimmer over in Korea and he craves mail from the states, preferably from young ladies Medford young ladies. The Marine writes The Mail Tribune that he passed through here en route to Camp Pendleton from his home in Tacoma just before leaving for Korea. He took a liking to our town and made up his mind to attempt to arart correspondence with some one here. His address: Pfc. Charles O. Zimmer 1343226 USMC H&S Co 7th Marine Regt 1st Marine Division FMF Co FPO San Francisco, Calif. a e PeUuck Sir: b It true the paving Job en Highway St between Medford and Phoenix 1 betatg held ay until aext Summer? If net, why In the double distilled heck dent they go ahead and finish the JobT Phoenix Pete. e e e - Passengers making the mail boat trip from Gold Beach up Rogue River to Agness have their choice of two eating places at the latter point Singing Springs Ranch, where they serve delicious fried chicken, or Lucas Lodge, where the menu is usual ly built around roast beef. Over fifty Medfordites have regist ered at Singing Springs since May 1. In the past ten days three of the Medford visitors have mailed the Springs proprie tor copies of the August 12 M-T editorial which told about the Rogue ride. SHIP DUE FROM KOREA ; Washington (U.B The Navy said today the transport Marine Phoenix carrying released pris oners of war from Inchon, Ko rea, will arrive in San Fancisco about 5:30 pjn. (PST) Friday, Sept- 12. mail tribune Editorial Correspondence - En route to New York aboard "Overland Limited," August 30 Tried a new stunt this time. from Dunsmuir took the Cascade (loud yells from CaL Inc. in protest) at 8:30 a. m. instead of around midnight. The motor trip was in the rain, ditto the train trip, but we were- able to catch the Overland without leaving the Oakland oier which was an improvement. Incidently the "Cas cade" is one of the best trains in the country and one of the few providing phone connections. We talked with San FRANCISCO (that's better!) at the same toll it would have been from Medford. Too bad there is none on this train, would like to talk to some in-laws in Buffalo, Wyoming. We have Just passed Evanston, Wyoming, where we picked up the Sunday Salt Lake Tribune, one of the most conservative Republican papers west- of the Missouri river. We note therein that the UN is tottering and Senator Knowland after a conference with Syngman Rhee in Korea again pledges support of the latter for a fight to the finish "Finish" isn't the word he used but he did say he was 100 behind the pugnacious "Elder statesman" In his fight for a united Korea. And the latter declared he and his gallent army are ready to fight Communism "ANYWHERE!" e e a e e That certainly means "a fight to the finish," the "finish" of the peace parley! There is just about as much chance of Red China and North Korea agreeing to' a UNITED .Korea under RHEE, as there is of the United States agreeing to a treaty placing Vishinsky in charge of a communist Mexico! Of course Rhee's position while absurd is understandable. Knowland's isn't unless the California Sena tor knows less about the facts of life in the Far East than he does about the fine points of diplomacy which would make both astronomical! ' President Eisenhower is not far from this train at the mo ment. At least he is nursing a sore elbow hot far from Denver, and in a plane one could no doubt reach his camp from here, in around 40 minutes. We hope Ike's elbow gets better soon, for he can neither fish nor play golf with one arm out of commission. Doubt if he can paint either unless he is more ambidextrous than most middleagers. That gives him a lot of time to think and dictate letters. Doubt if he cares much for either while on vacation. ' , nna iinMti'i nMri in iihrrihe? to the Salt Lake Tribune to realize there is a movement on to break away from tne uniiea nations ana wrecK u, as uieir isolationist predecessors did three decades ago. Slurs on this iftnr n iHmnM wnrlri neaee through international cooperation are frequent in the GOP press these days, and creep into speeches . . a. . a 1 At Wionti from time to time in wnat migm group of the party. It should not ....nM vminar nr nlri. leaders in the administration than 0U 1IC1C 19 qilUUICl ItMVU w a tv- k. mill n.du) possesses also finesse it he is going to defeat the isolationists and UN wreckers in his own party. This is assuming, of course, that the President is a sincere anti-isolationist and ready to put up a battle for his convictions. Up to date we see no reason 4o doubt this. As matters now stand and promise to continue our ruinoral-President will be reminded of the Batue-oi-ine-uuige when he leads his forces in this P.S. "The City of San Francisco" just passed us going great guns! R.WJL In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS Another flight of B-36s (our world-girdling big bombers whose job is to carry A-bomos and maybe H-bombs wherever we happen to want them car ried) lands in Japan under con ditions that approximate war time secrecy. Our government explains that they are to team up with other warplanes in Far Eastern war games. These war games will be staged within 700 miles of Rus sia's Vladivostok. WATCH it. It might portend a return to the days when an appearance of the British fleet in troubled spots in the world was enough to insure the keeping of the peace. It COULD if our warplanes and the bombs they carry are POWERFUL enough. YOU frown, perhaps, at such implied threats of force? I hope not. How could we keep the peace in ANY TOWN if there were no policeman to be called for in the pinches? WHAT brings up another thought: I think in the minds of most of us, when it was formed. United Nations was to be the policeman that would keep the world at peace. We were aware then that the British fleet had been an ef fective keeper of the peace for a long time. But we didn't want ONE nation, to be the world po liceman any more than we would want ONE INDIVIDUAL to be the town policeman. That puts too much power in too few hands. What we wanted was a WORLD POLICEMAN who would represent the power of organized society throughout the world just as the city police force represents the power of organized society in a city. That was what we hoped and EXPECTED United Nations to be. Ujg' HASNT lived up to our If you doubt that statement, take a look at Korea. The situa tion that faced us when the reds marched into South Korea in 1950 was one that called plainly for a policeman. When you call for a policeman, you want action. Decisive action. Effective action. You want no stalling, no hanging back, no Waiting for SOMEBODY ELSE to do the job. In Korea, UN stalled, it hung back, it waited for somebody else to do the job. Eventually WE had to do it, with half-hearted help from FEW of the members of United Na tions. That's no way far a world po liceman to act. 117HAT shall we do now? " Shall we ween anH wrlno- our hands and wail and mean while 1st communism conquer LIU Instead of taking the Daylight from Klamath reaching 'Frisco . e . e . , foot among the GOP isolationists oe iermea we iuiuwuu-niu ne xorgonen in mis roniiwuuu have neater influence with the the two boys from California. uvyaiB e w ww.. till htt atom in a nnrt fitrht he one News , the world? Or shall we step in ! BE TUP TM-kT TrVff A AT ,,..11 such time as a better organiza tion can be formed that will REALLY represent the power of worldwide organized society? 1TOR a possible answer, let's go back to our own Old West. In our early mining camps, there was no law and order. There were no policemen. So, when lawlessness became un bearable, the vigilantes stepped in and handled the situation, They were pretty rough about it sometimes. But they got results. Thus, in time, law -and order came to the West f AYBE that's what our B-36s "J- that are assembling in Japan (possibly with atom bombs in their bomb bays) -are preparing to do if they have to. Perhaps they are preparing to BE THE POLICEMEN as the British fleet was for a long, long time and as the Roman legions were for a much longer time - until the world comes to its senses and provides an EFFECT IVE worldwide organization to keep the peace. MEATHER By United Press Northern California: Fair to day, tonight and Wednesday, ex cept coastal fog. -rf f . . GOOD NEWS Marine U. George H. O'Brien Jr., is greet ed by his wife, Janie, in San Francisco. He was notified on his arrival that he has been awarded the Congressional Med al of Honor. Though not a POW himself, O'Brien was in charge of the seven Marine POWs aboard USNS Nelson Walker. Tuesday. I "VI a. J4 1 v 0 i 'I; V . 1 ' f r " X . I f'?4? it fee; -cL'jSL. ill Crosstown taairriiiiBHiimwuww, -t-g3 "I HAD to learn to walk. The Matter of Fact SUMMING UP: III Washington It is sometimes instructive to take a pause for breath, and" to compare what we have done with what we hop ed to do. In the au tumn of 1950, when Dean G. Acheson pound ed on a table in the Waldorf Astoria in New York, and de manded the re armament of Western Ger Stewart Alaep many, American policy under went a great change which was hardly noticed at the time. This changed policy was based on a series of entirely logical assump tions, which had been made, not in tne btate Department, but in the Pentagon. These were: I First, the Korean aggression demonstrated that the Soviets were willing to risk a world war. Second,- the Soviets would have a decisive stockpile of atomic weapons by the period 1953-54. This was to be the "time of greatest danger." Third, if at this time the So viets still had the power to over run all the European continent. tne balance of world power would shift decisively in favor of the Kremlin Fourth, a solid defense of Western Europe must therefore be built. And fifth, no such defense was possible without the participa tion of western Germany. This was the logic which led Dean Acheson to pound on the table in 1950. But consider what has happened, since the attempt was made to translate this im peccable logic into practice. e THHE scaled-down post-1950 soal -- called for a French army or at least 28 standing divisions by 1953-54. The French actually have in Europe 14 divisions, of which at least six remain wholly or partly on paper. French plans call for a reduction, rather than an increase, in military spend ing. The same exists in all West era European countries, includ ing Great Britain. The original Pentagon time table called for a German "mli tary contribution" within 18 months of Acheson's table-pound ing. Now, almost three years later, it will He a miracle if such a German', contribution is forth coming within 18 months from today. The Pentagon timetable for the American build-up has also been consistently "stretched out," and there are apparently further stretchouts to come. Fi nally, there has appeared no sound reason for revising the Pentagon's two key assumptions that the Soviet might be will ing to risk war, and that they will have a decisive atomic stockpile by 1953-54, which- aft er all, is now. It is possible to be too gloomy about this situation of the West, now that the "time of greatest danger" is upon us. American military power has certainly in creased, since the days of Louis A. Johnson. No one, claims that solid defense of Western Europe has been created, but at least there exists a fairly powerful deterrent. The military planners believe that the tactical atomic bomb plus satellite resistance at least partly close the gap be tween what we have and what we hoped for. It is undoubtedly true that the Red army cannot now take Europe without a warning mobilization and heavy sacrifice. Yet there is no use blinking the fact that there is a vast gulf between what we have done and what we hoped to do, and be lieved it essential to do, three years ago. Therefore this may be a good time for the American policy-makers to have a new look at the situation which con fronts them in Europe, and at least to ask themselves some questions. . i WHATEVER the outcome of the German elections, as long as Germany is split in two By Roland Cot groceries were getting too heavy" Stewart A hop the overriding interests of all Germans will be a united Ger many. As they have made clear for three years now, the French see their overriding interest not rope in terms of the defense of France against Soviet attack, but in terms of preventing the ef fective rearmament of Germany. In these circumstances, is Franco-German military and po litical "integration" really a practical matter? Will it work, even supposing that the French Parliament is prodded into rati fying the European army proj ect? Take the best possible view, and suppose that a functioning European army is created. Can it really be expected ' to defend Western Europe, while the Red army is on the Elbe? As long as the Red army con trols half of Europe, indeed, is any kind of solid defense of the Continent really possible? If the answer to this question is "on," what kind of risk are we pre pared to take, and what kind of concessions are we prepared to offer, in order to get the Red army out of the heart of Europe? Finally, if the Soviets will under n o conceivable circumstances withdraw the Red army to the Soviet borders which is entire ly probable is it not then time to make a great effort to show the world that this is so? These questions cannot be lightly answered. But they are at least questions which now ought to be thought about ser iously. Instead, for the most part, the new men in Washington, far from taking a searching new look at our situation, seem more and more rigidly committed to policies which were originated by very different men, under very different circumstances than those that now exist. (Copyright 1953. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Pilot Prisoners Questioned Closely On U.S. Air Might Freedom Village, Korea (U.R) Russian interrogators, using drawings of secret - U.S. war- planes, questioned pilot prison ers closely on American air might, returned officers said to day. Capt. Harry F. Hedlund,' 31, a B-26 pilot from Fullerton, Calif., who was captured in March, 1951, said "the day after I was shot down I was walked all day and taken up into some hilly area and into a house. Shown Drawings ' "There a Russian fellow who spoke English questioned me. He pulled out a bunch of draw ings of the latest U.S. aircraft some of which I had never seen, and asked if I knew about them." Hedlund said the drawings showed B-52s, 36s, and 47s, "and there were some I wasn t even aware we had." Another Russian questioned Hedlund later. Non-Military Questions He also had drawing of our planes," the captain said. "But he asked me a lot of non-military questions like my pay, did I ever date Japanese girls and things like that." The second Russian bad a gun. He told me, if you don't tell the truth you know what will happen to you,' " Hedlund said. Hedlund returned to freedom today. CoffM for Breakfast Complicated Procedure Kio ue Janeiro iu.w trea ting that cup of coffee to your breakfast table isn't as easy as you might think. Bank of Brazil officials said after it's grown, harvested, and shipped to Rio, an exporter has to cover 15 miles and get 23 forms filled out before he can ship a single sack of coffee out of the country. Only Lack off Fuel Kept- Pilot From Unlimited Aerial Ascent Los Angeles (UJQ Lt. Col Marion E. Carl, "who flew rocket propelled plane higher than man had ever gone before, says there would have been "no limit if he had carried more fuel. , Carl, a Marine Corps aviation veteran, yesterday climbed to an altitude of 83,235 feet al most 16 miles for an unoffic ial world record. He said ' he started with less than three min utes fuel and that there would have been "no limit to the alti tude" with additional fuel. Carried by Mother Plane He was carried to an altitude of 35,500 feet by a B-29 plane before his Douglas built Sky rocket was launched. "I dropped down to 28.000 feet before I could get the first rocket to start," he said. "Oth erwise, I'd have gone several hundred feet higher.'" tan saia mere was no sen sation of speed or height during the flight. "The only thing I noticed was the fact that the sky was a little darker, and my eyes troubled me. The contrast be tween sunlight and shadow is much greater up there." . "I didn't have much time to look around ... I was just try ing to fly as high as possible." can said he was certain he could have seen San Francisco. 400 miles to the north, ft he had not been so busy checking in struments. I know I was going well over a thousand miles per hour on this altitude run," he said, but added, "that speed doesn't seem very fast up there." Carl, who held the world's speed record of 650.7 miles per nour in ivn, said he would try for a new speed record in the Skyrocket tomorrow. Hubbard, Ore. (U.R) The man who has flown higher than anyone else in the .world has little to say about his aerial ex ploits when he comes home to Hubbard. Lt Col. Marion E. Carl spent the week end with his brother, Manton Carl, two weeks ago on the farm where he was born. Said Manton Carl after .the col onel had set a new height rec ord of 83,235 feet in his sky rocket: "We had no idea he was go ing after the altitude mark. But then he never did say much about his work." Col. Carl called his brother from Portland Sunday while on his way to Edward Air Force base, Calif., where he is expect ed to try to better the world's speed mark of 1238 miles an hour. Requirements Set On VA Dental Care The privilege of presuming service-connection for dental conditions which appear within a year after discharge or separ ation from military service has been eliminated, and new elig ibility requirements for outpa tient dental care for veterans have been set up by the Veter ans Administration, it was an nounced today by S. T. Bran nock, of the Medford VA of fice. Public Law 149, signed re cently by the President, author izes dental care for three types of cases, providing applications are - filed within one year of the enactment of the law. Bran nock said. Effective date of the law is July 27, 1853. Eligibility must be establish ed under one or more of the following three classes. 1. Veterans having service connected compensable dental conditions or disabilities, which means they must be rated 10 per cent or more disabling. 2. Veterans having service connected noncompensable den tal conditions or disabilities where the dental condition or disability is shown to have ex isted at time of discharge. 3. Veterans having a dental condition, whether or not service-connected, but medically determined to be aggravating a service-connected physically dis ability or injury. Veterans who qualify for treatment under these condi tions, Brannock said, may be re ferred either on a fee basis to home-town dentists or to VA dental clinics. . Handicapped Mother Gives Birth to Three Bowling Green, O. (U.R) A 28-year-old mother, who has been "without the use of her legs" since she was 12, was rest ing comfortably here today in Wood County Hospital after de livering a set of triplets. The babies, two boys and one girl, are "coming along fine," the hospital reported. However, Mr. and Mrs- Paul McKenzie were too confused," the hospital said, to name the youngsters as yet ")' m)r -an I ' a i a . . i l 11 i nmm ! y - J ; . mtJL&blk-vv ' iHaMaaiHMHaaMaiHeaaaHHaewa GO WAY AND LEAVE US Scales of Folsomville, Ind., is engrossed in greeting his wife, Mar gie, daughter Debbie, 2Vi, casts -a cold eye at the intruding photographer. 'Y' Youth Program Aided By United Crusade Funds Giving youth a chance to be come good citizens is the aim of the Medford YMCA, one of the organizations receiving assis tance from the United Medford Crusade. Youths who can't afford to avail themselves of the oppor tunities and privileges of the YMCA will be benefited under the campaign which opens Sept. 29. Each dollar given will be used to further the kind of char acter - building program which will influence the lives of the citizens of tomorrow, Y leaders believe. Membership Group The YMCA is fundamentally membership organization, whose purpose is to aid devel opment of Christian standards of living, conduct and life pur pose to its members. Members act as stockholders, as they own and operate the Medford YMCA. They are guided by the national council. Each year a board of 27 members is elected to work with committees in setting up pro grams and accomplishing objec tives. Two paid workers direct and train 30 to 50 volunteer leaders, who have dozens of committee workers behind. Adult dues are set at a rate which supports their program. Dues of children are set at a rate of a third of the cost of their program, or 50 cents a month. The United Medford Crusade will support the addi tional expense. Work for Memberships The youth membership fee amounts to less than three cents per program if the member takes part in two or three pro grams per week. When children pay a part of the expense of the service they enjoy, they get a Tillamook Schedules 'Fly-In' Breakfast Tillamook The Tillamook Chamber of Commerce has in vited the Oregon Sportsmen Pilots and Flying Farmers to a Fly-In Breakfast, Sunday, Sept 6 at the Tillamook County air port, the former Naval air sta tion. A breakfast will be served the visiting pilots at the Arling ton Aeronautical school cafe teria between the hours of 8:30 and 11 a.m. The Tillamook Chamber of Commerce invitation has been extended the Oregon Flyers through Jack Bartlet, director of the State board of Aeronaut ics, and the secretaries of the Oregon Sportsmen Pilots and Flying Farmers. DIVIDEND NOTICE The Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of 6c a share from net investment in come, payable September 30,1953, to shareholders of record September 15, 1953. Howard It. Nimmons ceatTAar BE As ex-POW Cpl. Leslie E. sense of belonging and owner ship. Last year over 100 boys and girls worked out their mem bership dues and this summer 25 boys and 8 girls took ad vantage of a soap sale to earn their dues. If the boys and girls were asked to finance their own pro grams the programs that could be offered for their dues would be skimpy. That is where the United Medford Crusade comes in. COMMUNICATIONS Letter to the Editor mint bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum itances the use of a pen name or initial for publication ia permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserve the right to edit aU letter with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letter submitted for Pub lication must not exceed 400 word Against Rate Raise To the Editor: We read where the chambers of commerce of other cities of the state are tak ing up the battle for the people and little business men against Copco's 20 per cent rate hike. What is our local chamber of commerce doing? It has only been a year ago that Copco raised the commer cial rates quite substantially. My books can prove it. And now they want to gouge us for more. I think it is all uncalled for and am very much against it. (Name on file). The Grange Roxy Ann Grange Roxy Ann Grange will hold Its regular meeting Friday, Sep ember 4- Lecturer, Frances Mof fatt, will have the program for the evening. Home Economics Club will meet Wednesday, September 2, at Grange hall at 7:30 p.m. with Mrs. Pfnister and Mrs. Van Ort wick as hostesses. All Grange ladies are invited. , CASTLES IX TIE MI... aren't subject te forecloeare, but house on the ground may be lost through midden adTemty. An inexpensive Sun Life mort gage policy will free your home from any debt remaining as death. Protect your loved home ... call me today. sun un ASSURANCE COMPANY of CANADA Charles E. JONES PHONI 2-9772 I a, i, -& r. m
