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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDCjTUBUNI "Everybody in Soutbern Oregon Reads Tb Mail Tribune" f ubiiahrd Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-28 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL; Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph Editot RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor CERA LP LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper " Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3 JO Daily and Sunday One month 135 Sunday Only One year 350 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix." Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year 913 "0 Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 6c pet copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jacltsoit County United Press Full Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver B.C. Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO " Not. 18. 1944 (It was Saturday) Bob Watson, Gerald Bostwick and Jim Clark star as Medford High school football- team de feats Coquille, 32 to 14, in first Tpund of state championship playoffs; Medford to play Gresham In second round. From Arthur Perry's. " Ye Smudge Pot column: Frosts the past week put a kibosh on many pastures, and some stockmen have started feeding their hay shortage to their beef shortage. 20 YEARS AGO ' ; Not. 18, 1934 (It was Sunday) Delegation of 30 Hillah Shrin ers, headed by Illustrious Poten tate O. O. Alenderfer, leaves by special train for Sacramento to attend western states cere monial. - Medford voters to cast ballots Dec. 4 on $78,000 for modern sewage disposal plant. 30 YEARS AGO , Not. 18, 1924 . . (It was Tuesday) Acme Motor company in Med ford offers 1924 Chevrolet for S475, 1924 Essex for $500, 1920 Oakland for $250, and 1923 Baby Overland for $350. Miss Claire Hanley, chairman of a Mah Jongg party being giv en at the Holland hotel by Mrs. 'Eric Wold,-county health nurse. 40 YEARS AGO -Not. 18. 1914 ; . (It was Wednesday) Medford city council grants extension time for S. S. Bullis of Southern Oregon Electric company to construct two miles of trolley track and place trolley in operation; company now mak ing preparations for laying 3.500 feet of track on West Main st. ' From the Local and Personal column: The home of Jay Baker on Roxy Anna was destroyed by fire day before yesterday at about 6:30 o'clock. The loss is about $500. The family were eat ing when the roar of flames was heard in the front room. All that was saved was the telephone jerked off the wall by Baker. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report 1. Widespread use of atomic energy for industry, say most scientists, will come any day now, or fairly soon, on only after a long time? 2. A taxpayer can or can't, under the new' income tax law, claim as a dependant a person supported in his home but not re lated to him? 3. The U.S. spent in foreign r.id last year about $214, $5, $71.4, $10, or $12,000,000,000. 4. The Hatch act is on corrupt political practice, selling liquor illegally, white slavery, immoral movies, or trying to overthrow the Government? 5. More farms get electricity from public bodies, including the R.E.A.. or from private utilities? 6. The now discontinued Rockne car was made by Gen eral Motors, Chrysler, Ford, Studebaker or Hudson? 7. Soviet-controlled East Ger many contains many more or many fewer persons than the West German Republic, or about the same number? The Answers: 1. Only after a Ion? time. 2. Can. 3. About $5, 000,000,000. 4. Corrupt political practices. 5. From public bodies. 6. Studebaker. 7. Many fewer. Lawrenceburg, - Ky. (U.PJ It wasn't hard to find a motive when thieves broke into the Fair mont and Shiloh churches during a heat wave. The robbers carted off large window fans. MAIL TRIBUNE V THE Knowland Mystery ' There is only one way to explain the strange be havior of Republican Senate Leader Knowland, of late or for the past two years for that matter. That pesky and poisonous presidential hee must be buzzing in his bonnet. No other explanation we can see, makes sense. If this were not his affliction, he would hardly, as leader of his party in the Senate, go out of his way so frequently to oppose the policies of President Eisenhower. ' ' , INOWLAND'S latest offering in this direction, "was his recent declaration that 'the administra tions present foreign policy is a policy playing into the hands of Russia, which as time goes on, will lead to American defeat. So he called for a halt, a resur very of the administrations entire policy toward the USSR, so disaster may be AVOIDED BEFORE it is too late. - That is certainly a most extraordinary statement for a Senate leader of any party to make against the policies of his own party, but especially at such a critical time as this, when unity not only within the Republican party but in the country at large is so necessary to US and allied security and success. As remarked above there is only one explanation, this department can see, and that is the virulent ef fects of that presidential bee bite. Any other explanation would reflect even more seriously against Senator Knowland's loyalty to his party and devotion to world peace than is now the case. , So by a process of elimination the "bee" must be it. , ' " ;." .- AS stated,,that assumption alone makes sense. For Knowland to become the Republican presidential nominee in 1956 President Eisenhower must some how be discredited, especially within the Republican party, and particularly among the delegates at the next convention. ( - And toward this end the obvious strategy would be to appeal to the reactionary and isolationist min ority., of the party as represented in particular by. Colonel McCormick of the Chicago Tribune. The obvious strong point of attack from this same angle would be the Eisenhower foreign policy. ' . - So not only this amazing indictment of the Eisen hower policy, by the President's party leader in the Senate but the latter s previous criticisms direct and implied when he called for an immediate break with Russia and U.S. retirement from the United Nations both contrary to his party's announced policies add up to; the same fundamental purpose a break within the party which would give the President's Republican enemies a chance to name the candidate two years hence." " " , - Senator Knowland wants to be that man.- R.W.R. Postscript The Mail Tribune believes no one can beat "out President Eisenhower for the 1956 Republican re nomination but Dwight D. Eisenhower. And then only by a firm and uncompromising refusal to be a candi date. , , But this view of the Republican party situation like some others entertained in this department,- is not necessarily upheld within the party unanimously! Those who disagree,' incidently, will find support and comfort by subscribing to the Chicago Tribune, U.S. News and World Report, and a few other news papers and magazines that might be mentioned. e DECAUSE. of the cohesive action of the recent elec tion, and the potency of Ike's .coat-tails, no rif t in the GOP ranks was apparent, for the supreme desire of the Republican, as well as the Democratic, pol iticians was and is, to get elected, ror re-elected as the case may be. But now, with the battle over, the tension ended, and two years before the next national election, cer tain disruptive forces it may be assumed, will soon present .themselves. And the group of die-hard ultra conservatives to whom Senator Knowland is now ap pealing, will be among them. THE plain truth is that in certain sections of the 1 GOP, the defeat of Senator Taft by General Eis enhower has never been forgiven. Wounds caused then have never entirely healed. -And there is another member of the U.S. Senate beside Knowland who in tends to take advantage of this fact, his name is Joe McCarthy and he comes from -Wisconsin. TF added evidence of this rift within the Republican ranks were needed the attempt by members of that party to bring about the defeat of Progressive Senator Case, Republican of New Jersey, would sup ply an intresting and convincing exhibit." So while the anti-administration actions by Sen ator Knowland are surprising, and for a senate party-leader, we believe, unprecedented, it .all makes sense when one takes the trouble to discern that while the grand Old Elephant seemed united and in good health during the recent campaign, the tran quility was only skin deep for Jumbo is really suffer ing from a split personality, and has been for some time. R.W.R. ? :. FAMILY GOLF Potsdam, N. Y. (U.PJ Rich ard and Diane Elliott, brother and sister, have won the Pots dam Country Club golf cham pionships again.. They did the same thing four years ago. Diane has been women's champion for the past six years winning her first title when she was 17; Thursday NoTember II, 1934 Quesnel, B. C. ' (U.R) Gold fever was revived "in this town recently when a bulldozer opened a trench for a water pipe and prospectors started panning the gravel. But the holes were filled before any "strikes" were made, and it's probably 'just as well, for the law forbids mining inside the city limits. Indications Increase That Russians Really Desire Co-Existence ' CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent There are increasing indica tions that Soviet Russia may really desire "peaceful co-exis-ence" with the free world for a while. The Soviet gov ernment can have peaceful co exist ence, of course, if it really wants it. All the West asks is that it call a halt to its aggressive Charles McCann policies. That is asking a good bit. World Communism is based on aggression. But right how, the Kremlin is plainly worried over the way ,things are going. It has good reason to be. For once, it is on the defensive. Ratification of the treaties under which Western Germany is to be rearmed is all but cer tain. West . European unity has reached a new high. The Western policy of making strength the first essential in any diplomatic dealings with Russia is paying off. , Top East-West Parley Hinted As things are 'shaping up, it would not be surprising if Presi dent Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Winston Church ill decided to hold a conference with Soviet Premier Georgi M. Robert M. Beeman Earns Promotion In Forest Service Robert M. Beeman, Butte Falls district ranger for the Rogue River National forest since 1948, .has been promoted to fire control officer of the Wenatchee National forest in Washingtont it was announced today. He and his wife and daughter Gloria, 12, and son Bruce, 8, will move to Wenatchee about Nov. 26. A native of Seattle, Beeman graduated from the University of Washington in 1932, and earn ed a master's degree in forestry at Yale the following year. In 1933 he entered the forest ser vice on the east coast, serving in eight national forests as tim ber cruiser and in fire control planning. He returned to the Pacific Northwest in 1938, and in 1939 became, assistant ranger on the Willamette forest. Served in War He joined the Army in 1941, and rose from private to major in four years of service, serving in Germany and the Philippines. In 1946 ho became Prospect dis trict ranger, moving to Butte FaUs two years later. ' The Beeman family has been active in civic affairs in the upper Rogue area. He is a char ter member of the Prospect Com-' munity club, the Butte Falls Grange and the Lions club, and is active in the Society of Am erican Foresters. Mrs. Beeman served three years on the school board, is past president of the Butte Falls Parent-Teachers as sociation, and belongs to the Lady Lions. No successor has yet been, an nounced. Writ of Mandamus Denied by State Court Salem (U.R) The Oregon Su preme Court yesterday denied a petition for an alternative writ of mandamus to require Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg of Klamath Falls to hear and de cide the motion of Andrew Joseph Buchman to set aside an indictment. The district attorney had pre viously filed an application for change of judge, to which the plaintiff objected, but Judge Vandenberg had disallowed his objections. The Supreme Court in an opinion by Justice James T. Brand said the petition for' the writ of mandamus failed to set forth facts sufficient to show Andrew Joseph Bushman would be entitled to relief sought, a"hd pointed out that if Judge Van denberg had voluntarily disquali fied himself there would be no constitutional issue. MATS TV ' Westover Air Force Base, Mass. (U.R) The military Air Transport Service's headquarters here announced that a "Tom Thumb" television station is be ing set up at Lajes Air Base in the Azores to help amuse GI's stationed on the lonely island. flCGUMTE Each tablet ltt grains easy to give exact dosage "just as doctor orders." ST. JOSEpu ASPIRIN FOR CHI to PEW.! World's latest Selling Apio for Chta 0 Malenkov next spring. ! France has been more or less left out of speculation about such a meeting. But Premier Pierre Mendes-France has increased his country's prestige so greatly that if he remains in office and gets his Parliament to ratify the Ger man armament agreements, he probably would be included. Any Big Three or Big Four meeting, according to talk in Washington and London, would be a highly secret and informalJ one. No sweeping agreements on specific issues would be expect ed. . The object would be a broad agreement on what the Russians call peaceful co-existence and President Eisenhower has called a modus vivendi, a way of living. German Armi Pact Firit But any conference would be held only after the ratification of the German armament agree ments. Russia may be expected to keep trying to sabotage these agreements up to the last. But the men in the Kremlin seem to feel that they will fail. The Russians call for an "all- European security" conference was a feeble attempt at sabotage. Its rejection by the allies was certain from the start. There is talk now of an al liance of East European Com munist countries as an answer to West German armament "It would be but a gesture. The Communist countries are allied now the satellites do what the Kremlin tells them to, and their armies are auxiliaries of the Russian army. There is talk also that the Russians may arm East Ger many. A big East German army might well turn Out to be a greater menace to Russia than to the allies. At the moment, the Kremlin seems to need peaceful co-existence. 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 condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. What Is A Politician? To the Editor: The late elec lion farce-comedy provides more and more chortles for the inde pendent observer, as the wailing of the Ancient Order of Sob Sis ters and Stuffed Shirts is heard once more in the land, and the members of thcAlibi Club work overtime. Well sir, I've read a lot of alibis in my time but the top prize in .this department must go i o the right honorable gentle man who made your front page with the masterpiece of rational- lzmg for 1954. "I lost the election,'' moans this present political refugee from the Washington madhouse, "because I am not a politician!" Ain't that a nifty? We must concede, of course, that a man cannot be blamed too much for attempting to deny the title of politician. At best the trade of politics is a shabby one while at worst it breeds more hams and phonies and professional rogues than any other calling. But to deny our trade because we lose? Well, you name it. I pass! N After all, our only honest poli tician of record is Abraham Lin coln who served fair warning to the electorate, that the aims and self-interests of politicians are directly opposed to the best in terests and welfare of the people. "And being a politician myself," quoth Honest Abe, "I believe I know whereof I speak." For us independents the mat ter is quite simple. When the pot and the kettle start calling names, we believe both sides. Whatever the party brand, a pol itician is a politician. Whoever is elected, the cost of govern ment always mounts, taxes whoop ever higher, skulduggery grows more prevalent, while you and I get the same old run around. What? ' Jeff. Ashland, Ore. (Name on file) , 4 It is OUR responsibility to relieve you from the many details involved in ar ranging for a funeral service. CHAPEL MORTUARY Frank Morgan . . Harold Snodgrass . . Funeral Directors ' ' Office of Deputy Coroner I ; Phone 2-8030 In the Day's News Br FRANK JENKINS President Eisenhower, address ing the convention of land grant colleges and : universities , in Washington, says: " "One of the problems of the world is lack of Russian under standing of American motives, and lack of appreciation in the United States of the Russians' culture and history." pUT it this way: When you're suspicious of a person, and know very little about him, you're always expect ing him to do you dirt. Every time you see him you brace yourself and get ready for a fight. , V , . Often, when you come to KNOW him, such a person turns out to be quite all1 right. WHAT Ike is saying is that be " fore we start dropping 'atom bombs we should make a serious and honest effort to UNDER STAND the Russians. Maybe, in the process, the Rusisans will come, to understand us better. Remembering that when we start dropping atom and hydro gen bombs the world as we and our forbears have known it will come to an end, that idea makes a certain amount of sense. gPEAKING of modern dangers: The foggy streets of London were patrolled early todav bv groups of SMOGMEN civil defense volunteers carrying in struments which test the make up of the acrid pall hanging over tne great city. ihis research aims to learn what is in the smog in order to develop methods of combatting it. The British government began this type of research as a result of London's disastrous five-day smog in December of 1952." Some 4,000 persons died in the city during that brief period, fUR modern industrialized v civilization tends ever more and more to concentrate in vast industrial CENTERS. Chemistry is entering more and more into our modern industrial processes The result is CONCENTRA TION of deleterious substances IN THE AIR over these areas where huge, smoke-and-fume- belching industries are packed togetner like sardines in a can. Hence 'SMOG! PREVAILING thinking, In this country, is along the line that dangerous smog conditions tend to occur in heavily industrialized mountain-rimmed areas where normal air drainage gets out of inner ai times. This reasoning is a little un. set by the fact that the London area is as FLAT AS A FLOOR. Yet London gets ; dangerous smog. ........ . . OMOG control is presently be- lieved to involve two steDs.4 1. Find out what causes it. ' ?. If dangerous fumes are the cause, require the. off ending in austries io provide equipment to remove xne lumes. N Los, Angeles, back-yard trash burners are under su spicion. If these contribute to the smog-, they'll have to be done away with.) COUNTRY boy's thought: Why not solve the nrohlem V.v DISPERSING industry? . By getting it out of the huge, concentrated, poisonous-fume-breeding great cities and into the open country? Harmon Trophies Presented To Fliers Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower' presented the Harmon aviation trophies for 1954 to Air Force" Mai. Charles E. ,Yeager and Jacqueline Coch ran Odium yesterday. Yeager was cited for flying the XI A rocket reasearch plane ai a worm s record speed of 1650 miles per hour at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., in De cember. 1953. Mrs. Odium won the aviatrix ! trophy for being the first wo man to break through the sound barrier flying over a closed course and for setting a woman's speed record of 652 miles Der hour in a F86 Sabre jet. Albany (U.R) The annual meeting of the Highway 20 as sociation .will be held here to night. ' ;.' ' Matter of Fact HIDDEN CRISIS Washington The sinking of a Chinese Nationalist destroyer escort by the Chinese Commu nists points up the existence of a grave con ceal ed policy crisis. This crisis is probably the most serious to c o n f ront the Eisenhow er administra tion since it took office. Stewart Alsop One wise offi; cial has said that the decision which' may soon have to be taken whether or not to inter vene to save the Nationalist held islands off the China coast may represent "the last chance in Asia." The crisis began to come to head in early September, when the Chinese Communists first heavily shelled the island of Quemoy. At this time, as first revealed by Washington Post. and Times-Herald reporter Chal mers Roberts in a story, has rocked official Washington, the Joint Chiefs of Staff proposed a bold course of action. . They proposed, by a three to one majority, that Chiang Kai shek's air forces should bomb communica tions lines in China, to fore stall an as sault on Que moy. They fur ther proposed that Ameri can planes al so bomb in land China, if an attack on the other Na- JoiPh tionalist islands nevertheless de veloped. - Admirals Radford and Car ney, and Gen. Twining, reasoned that the off-shore islands could not be held without bombing the mainland. , Admittedly, the islands could almost ' certainly not be held by Chiang's forces alone, even if the mainland were bombed, and might not be held even with the intervention of American air and naval forces. But the determination of ' this country to intervene if neces sary, the majority reasoned, was very likely to deter the Chinese Communists from attacking at ail. .. Gen.' Ridgeway dissented from this view. He asserted that there was no such thing as an "im maculate war," and that Amer ican ground forces were inade quate for any such commitment. The issue was put before the National Security Council, at a mid-campaign meeting in Den ver on Sept. 12. A T THIS meetings the Fresi- dent vetoed the Joint Chiefs' majority proposal. The veto, it can be stated on high authority, is not final there has been .no formal decision under no cir cumstances to intervene to save the islands. But it is probably final in practice. For the Presi dent vetoed the proposal of the Joint Chiefs, not simply because he agreed with Ridgeway, .but also on the much broader ground that the course proposed by the Joint Chiefs involved a clear risk of world war. The basic intention now is, in short, to avoid becoming in volved directly in a battle for the off-shore islands. The obvi ous alternative was put up to Chiang by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on his trip to . Formosa. Dulles, suggested in far more polite terms that it might be wise for Chiang to CLIFF'S 608 East Main St. Open until 6:30 p. m. Week' Days. Till 7 p. m. 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Such a with drawal would at least knock the Lprops out from under the Com munist and neutralist line, ef fective in both Europe and Asia, that America . is thirsting - for war. " Moreover, a firm American guarantee to Chiang to fight to hold Formosa and the Pesca dores has been in the works for weeks. This . guarantee, it has been suggested in the State De partment, could oe ilea into an agreement by Chiang to with draw. . . Ai the same time, the General issimo could and r would . save face by blaming the abandon ment of the islands on the Unit- - ed States. Under such circum stances,'' voluntary withdrawal could hardly hurt morale on Formosa as much as a bloody and inevitable defeat. I THIS third alternative a hlooHv defeat' for Chians's forces, administered by the Com munists while this country held aloof is quite obviously "the worst possible outcome. Nothing could do more to convince all Asia that this country is a "pa per tiger." For this reason-the possibility of persuading Chiang to undertake a voluntary with drawal from the islands is be ing rather wistfully considered in official circles. But strong measures would be change his mind. And such strong measures would in turn arouse such powerful Senators as. Majority Leader William Knowland. So once again, as in the period before the beginning of the Korean war, American policy, is in danger of falling between two stools, . the ; one marked 'Tear of Congress' and the other marked "Fear of gen eral war.' : (Copyright, 1954, New York Harold Tribune. Inc.) Mother Good Scout : For Youthful Hunter Austin, Tex. ; (U.P.) Texts A ttir Han TtSYiTt Ton QTitanntapfl had flu this week and couldn't take' his 12-year-old son Johnny i j.; x: i J n- a . 4-V. a nuiuing uu uie xuat uajr vi m season. ;-; " 'Mrs. Shepperd filled in for Johnny's ailing father.. Johnny came back with two wild turkey gobblers and a four-point -.buck deer. " : , ' :-: ACTRESS TO MARRY . 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