Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1954)
TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) llEDFORDvt&wTRIBUNI "Everybody in Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-39 North Fir St. Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor fiXRB GREY, Advertising Manager X. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. city Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editof RICHARD JEWETT , , Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHES. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of - March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bt Mail In Advance: Per cony 1G& Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos, 350 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year 3.50 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Axhlanri rnral Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent nil nn mntAf rmitpji; Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Dailv and Sunday One month 123 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Meatord Official Paper of jacnon vonntj "United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative W2ST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, INC. Offices in New York, Chicago. De troit, San Francisco, Los Angales. Seattle, Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NIWSPAM! PUBLISHIRS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL ( EDITORIAL ASjbCATiOjN Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 9. 1944 ; " ' , Wrestler George Wagner, bet ter known as "Gorgeous George," signs to wrestle at Medford armory, according to Promoter Mack Lillard. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge ' Pot column:- Dewey Hill, the Prospect '.hired man, towned Friday and underwent a haircut. , . 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 9, 1934 Representative of the Nation al Council for the Prevention of War scheduled . to speak at Holland hotel. ; Bill Morgan, former Medford High school and University of Oregon football '. player, stars for New York Giants profes sional football team . in victory over Chicago Bears, 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 9, 1924 (It was Tuesday) s ' T Department, of Interior offi cials renew proposals to include Diamond lake in Crater Lake National park. American Can company . de livers 11,000 smudge pots to Rogue valley orchardists. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 9, 1914 (It was Friday) County court, composed of F. L. TouVelle, William C. Leever, and J. C. Smith, approves coun ty budget; special levy for vari ous towns include Medford, 10.3; Ashland, 13.8; Jacksonville, 15; Central Point, 16; Eagle Point, 11; Phoenix, 15; Butte Falls, 18; Talent, 11: Gold Hill, 5, and Rogue River, 15. From the Local and Personal column: Among the improve ments in Ashland, the appear ance of the baronial manor of Prof. H. G. Gilmore, a retired British officer residing on the Woolen street section of the Scenic drive, has been much en hanced by the addition of a pergola. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report 1. West Germany is a member of UN and many UN agencies, or of UN and no UN agencies, or of many UN agencies but not UN? 2. There are more horses and mules than tractors on aU U. S. farms, or more tractors than horses and mules? 3. Which one of these has the most members in the U. S. House of Representatives: Delaware, Nevada, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wyoming? 4. No other sport in the world draws as many spectators as baseball does; right of wrong? 5. Cashmere is wool from Near East lambs, South American llamas, African camels, Middle East goats or Scots sheep. 6. If you die intestate, you die childless, widowed, divorced, bankrupt, without leaving a val id will, or on a long-distance trip? 7. Parcel post is first, second, third or fourth class mail? The Answers: 1. Of many UN agencies but not UN itself. 2. More horses and mules. 3. Rhode Island, 2; the others have one each. 4. Wrong; soccer, for one, draws larger crowds in sev eral countries. 5. Middle East goals. 6. Without leaving a. val id wilL 7-Fourth, " ' MAIL TRIBUNE "Rule or How long is it going to take the leaders of the the Republican party to see that McCarthy can't be appeased any more than Soviet Russia? Every time he is appeased he edges so much nearer his goal, which is supreme control. It was stated in this department over three years ago that the Wisconsin demagogue was out to "rule" or "ruin." His one great ambition was, and is, to occupy the White House. He intends to get the Republican NOM INATION, or have his man Friday nominated. In oth er words he is out to rule or ruin the GOP, and it is a mystery to this department-why so few of the Republi can "Old Guard" seem to realize uns. FOR now, according to the latest report from Wash ington, the word has gone out to let bygones be bygones as soon as the Wisconsin Senator returns from his "hideout," butter him up AGain, and thus avoid above all else, a party split. , That is a perfectly natural reaction and political aim of course. It is to the interest of any political partly to avoid a serious division within its ranks. But the only way to avoid it, after that declaration of war on President Eisenhower by the Wisconsin Senator, is, as we see it, to either kick Joe out or join him. There is' no neutral ground. As far as President Eisenhower and the next convention is concerned, it is now a war to the finish. IT is our prediction and hope rlke will win. But it won't be any cake-walk. Although only one member of the Senate, had the nerve to publicly endorse McCarthy for his sland erous blast against the leader "of his party and the President of the United States, Joe had plenty of support in the galleries and out in the hinterland, as the applause in the committee room and that truck load of anti-censure petitions indicated. And it is this frenzied and fanatical group country-wide the Wisconsin Senator is depending upon. It's the old Coghlan-Gerald Smith Ku IT will be interesting to see how the plot develops. Like all demagogues, McCarthy is a 100 op portunist, but it is hard to see how he can return now to the Eisenhower camp. And it is even harder to hower, in view of what has as naive or as foolhardy, as to placate and reform the "Wild man from the wilds of Wisconsin." It just can't be done. 1VIEANWHILE, one remark the Wisconsin Senator made to the press after his outburst, we note from the wire, was not "lost on the newsmen." It shouldn't be. Here it is quote: "I have no interest at the present time in a Third Party, I intend to work in the Republican party." "At the PRESENT time," is the tip-off. But how about ayear or a few months hence? R.W.R. Is This the End of "Mac"? f ": Speaking of "rule or ruinthis declaration of a one-man war against President Eisenhower by the rough neck Senator from latter, politically. And it may. One notes that even Senator Knowland refused to join the party member he refused to censure only 24 hours before! . SO that might be the handwriting on the wall'as far as McCarthy's fate is concerned. For whether one likes or doesn't like Knowland and we don't there is no doubt he is a power in the Grand. Old Party, and exerts considerable influence. . If he didn't, he wouldn't be able to hold the job he does. DUT our guess is even this "bull" won't ruin Mc- Carthy. Not immediately, or completely, at least. The man is as resiliant as a hard rubber ball and has about as many, qualms of conscience! He has moreover, gathered too much momentum. This unwarranted attack, upon President Eisenhower, as a result of personal pique will hurt him and slow him down, but we fear it won't stop him. - A ND for this McCarthy continuance, there will be, we think, two main reasons: No. 1: As indicated above, there will be every effort made by Republican, leaders to patch up at least, a temporary Eisenhower-McCarthy truce, in view of the supreme need of party unity to go on successfully and win the 1956 election. This will bring strong pressure on both the President and Mc Carthy, to reach some sort of working agreement. No. 2 : The popular support the Wisconsin dema gogue has achieved, throughout, the country by his clever manipulation of the strong' and prevailing anti communist feeling into political support for himself, as the one man not only responsible for it but the only man who can successfully implement and lead it. THAT is all a lot of hooey of course. But there are thousands of gullible voters who have not yet become wise to its falsity, and for the present at least, won't . So with those two forces working toward the retention of McCarthy as a factor in American poli tics, added to the man's ambition and unprincipled resourcefulness, this department fears the political end of McCarthy; while ultimately certain, is still well, some time in the future at least. R.W.R. ' ' Thursday, December 9, 19S4 Ruin 99 Klux story all over again. see how President Eisen happened, can either be to make any direct etiort Wisconsin should ruin the Matter of Fact GENERAL COLLINS' TASK ! Saigon, Viet Nam Here in southern Indochina there are a few months at most to glue something together that will hold against the strong pressure of com munism's southward ad vance in Asia. The attempt is being made, with a certain amiable . des peration, by a model French American Jowph Alsop partnership. The partners are the wise and high principled French com mander, Gen. Ely, and his old friend, President Eisenhower's special envoy, Gen. Lawton Col lins. Two men could not work together more closely; and this is just as well, for the odds against Collins and Ely are just about ten to one. Two little incidents wiU help to convey the difficulties of their task. The first concerns a very high French official who was giving a very grand official din ner The dessert was a rich cake. There was a good deal of eye brow raising when the cake ap peared with its top beautifully decorated in pastry cook's cur licues with the word "peace" the -word the Communists here have inscribed on their propa ganda banners and made, alas, almost their exclusive property. All the same, the French of ficial, not wanting to be against peace, said nothing until the same rather specialized decora tion was applied in mayonnaise to a cold fish and in cut out truffles to a cold chicken. After the third dinner party with "peace" proclaimed from the platter, the official told his cook to stick to cooking and to leave the conversation to those at the table The cook was not fired because he was a very good cook. , The incident is one of the cur rent jokes of .Saigon, but what it signifies is anything but comic. The cook, undoubtedly, was one of the millions of Vietnamese here in the south who have gone over or are inclined to go over to the Communists. The pene tration is already very deep. Large areas of the countryside are already in Communist hands, with all real authority longed in the underground committees and courts of the Vietminh. ri1 this process of Communist penetration is not rapidly naitea ana reversed, the non- !n the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: Senator Joseph McCarthy says he was mistaken when he stated during the 1952 political cam paign that if Dwight Eisenhower were elected President the peo ple could be, sure of a vigorous fight to oppose Communism. McCarthy made a slashing at tack on the President in a state ment released in Washington, The statement ended with this sentence: "Unfortunately the President sees fit to congratulate those who hold up the exposure of Communists in one breath and and in the next breath he urges patience, tolerance and niceties to those who are torturing Amer ican uniformed men." ' ' JETS PUT it this way:. The junior senator from Wis consin isn't as bad as his enemies paint him and he isn't as good as his all-out friends say he is. He has a serious fault. He opens his mouth too often and when he opens it he is apt to use too little discretion in the choice of what issues from it. I think that at this moment in his lory he would have used better judgment if he had kept his mouth shut. . . Let's leave it there. B Y THE WAY: Do you remember the Demo cratic line during the late po litical campaign to the effect that Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress would be more helpful to President Eisenhower's program than Re publican majorities? If so, you will perhaps be in terested in this Washington dis patch: "Two Democratic senators, John Sparkman of Alabama and Paul Douglas of Illinois, have assailed the Eisenhower admini stration for -what they call utterly unrealistic 1952 cam paign promises to bring govern ment spending within the limits of revenue and thus balance the budget" .... T SUPPOSE that.if Ike is a philosopher he can console himself with the reflection that he who walks,the middle of the road has a hard route to travel. He is sniped at from both sides. He who walks clear over ON ONE SIDE OF THE ROAD is sniped at only by those who walk clear over on the other side. But personally I can't escape the feeling that in these critical days in this sadly upset modern world the middle-of-the-road course is the best course for our country to follow. 7 Br Jo,eph Abep Communist government here in Saigon will soon be nothing but a shadow. All of which in turn gives point to incident number two, which was a visit by this reporter to the brother and chief personal advisor of the head of the present Vietnamese govern ment, President Ngo Dinh Diem. Mister Nhu, as thexPresident s brother is called by the peculiar Vietnamese name-system, is a slender, immensely polite man who looks as if he came, as in fact he does, from an ancient family of high mandarins. He lives in a way so humble as to be downright astonishing in Asia, where the brothers of heads of Government are seldom found in little houses in back alleys. But Mr. Nhu is not reaUy very humble. The subject of our conversa tion was the most urgent prob lem here, the problem of the army. Since the Geneva accords were signed until only a few days ago, this country has been rent in twain and brought close to anarchy by the bitter, open, personal quarrel between Presi dent Diem and the vain, clever, ambitious army chief of staff, Gen. Hinh. President Diem was virtuaUy besieged in his palace. He only survived because he was given the most, unqualified American support. Since the army is the sole effective instrument of au thority in Viet Nam, the army government quarrel opened the way for enormous Communist gains. Largely by the efforts of Generals Ely and Collins, how ever, Gen. Hinh has now been got out of Saigon and removed from the army command. Thus the opportunity now exists to bind up the old wounds, and begin in earnest the gigantic task of restoring order and halt ing Communist penetration. The only trouble 'was, Mr, Nhu did not see the thing that way. The army needed to be purged and handed over to the favorites of President Diem. An army, anyway, was for defend ing frontiers. A- new civilian system ,of administering the countryside had to be created, out of nothing to be sure. There was no great hurry because "the people of Viet Nam are for us." SUCH were the themes of Mr. Nhu. The policy he described was certain to renew the old feud with the army with re doubled fury, and so to give the Communists u n c h a 1 1 engeable control of south Viet Nam with in a few months. But Mr. Nhu continued to insist with elegant blandness.'that his brother Presi dent Dien really had a duty to cut off his nose to spite his face. Being an ardent nationalist under a strong colonial regime does not conduce; unfortunately, to political realism. And be sides having to struggle with those who wiU not see the plain facts before their eyes, Generals Ely and Collins must also strug gle with a quite remarkable col lection of special interests, sev eral of them with private armed forces. , ; The religious sects Cao Dai and Hoa Hao each have armies of 20,000 men or so and exer cise feudal power in about seven provinces. The so-caUed Binh Xuyen have an army of 5,000, own the fantastic gambling and other rackets of Saigon and also run the police. All these and other special interests talk "unity, unity" at the tops of their voices, but also hint loud ly that they will fight if their preserves are encroached upon. From this basket of eels, then, a strong, efficient, forward look ing government and administra tion, must be formed to prevent the Communist advance into the key position in south Asia. Copyright, 1954, Now York Herald Tribune, Inc. Editorial Comment The McCarthy Censure Today it seems to us that the Senate vote of censure was es sentially ' a decision to uphold standards of honor, accuracy, im personal justice, reasonableness and responsibility which are in the highest American tradition. Are these ineffective qualities? We do not think so. .They are far more effective against Com munism than are questionable methods, personalized power, abuse of citizens, disregard of facts, reckless accusation and un reasoning denunciation of all op position, sowing suspicion, dis unity and hate among Ameri cans. ' ' " .. . The Senate acted on specific charges and against. one individ ual. But its vote carries a far wider meaning. It has taken its stand for qualities and ways of working which are fundamental ly valuable to free self-government. We trust the American people will understand and up hold this reluctant but essential reaffirmation of basic standards. Christian Science Monitor. Police 'Arrest Horse For Meter Violation Columbus, O. (U.R) A seven-year-old mare was taken to the police station when a patrolman found the horse tied to a park ing meter in which no coin had been deposited. - Police decided against a fine when the owner of the horse showed up to claim her. The driver of the horse said he was making a' telephone call when the horse was "arrested," Soviets Said Hiking Production Of Rocket-Powered I nf ercepfors London - (U.PJ Jane's. All The World's Aircraft said today the Soviet Union is increasing is production of rocket-powered interceptors and farming out manufacture of some jet fighters to satellite nations. The authoritative annual re view of world aviation published today also reported .that Russia has developed a mother-bomber that can carry two MIG-15 jets or a twin-engined supersonic piloted rocket, although the ex periments "did not seem to be on a large scale." The plane that carries the twin fighters is a TU-4, an al most exact copy of the Ameri can B-29 but much smaller than the American B-3 6 which can launch and retrieve a jet fighter F84F Thunderjet. Jane's added that "It is quite certain that TU4's were modified for air borne launchings of the DFs rocket 8-346 bunt in the USSR." New Bomber Drawings Produced The publication produced drawings of the new intercontin ental four-engined jet atom bomber that startled Western military attaches when it flashed over Moscow at this year's May Day aviation parade. Jane's said it was a midwing cantilever monoplane with the main bomb " bay between the wing roots. Jane's said the four engines powering the plane were unidentified and its armament unknown. The bomber was es timated to be 144 feet long with a wing span of 145 feet. "Rocket development is out side the scope of this annual, but many German models of World War II origin, of all types from aircraft armament rockets such as the R-4-M to long range missiles have been used and im proved upon in the USSR." . Jane's reported Russia had some 360 factories aircraft and components distributed from the Polish border to the Sea of Okhotsk." 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. Plea for Met Music v To the Editor: The Metropoli tan Opera Season opened in New York last Saturday. On calling KYJC, who in previous seasons has carried the opera as a public service, I : found that-this year they are not broadcasting the opera because in the past they have not received enough ap preciation for - this service to justify the time spent to their sponsors. Certainly we who love good music are at fault. Let us rem edy this. Let all who love the opera and appreciate KYJC's service, write the station and let them know it. Those who cannot afford to travel to San Francisco or Port land to hear good music must rely on their radios, TV sets and the Civic Music Association to oring tnem the music they want Surely in Medford there must be many who are as disappointed as I that we are not going to be able to hear the beautiful music and singing that the Metropolitan Opera brings to our homes. Please let KYJC know you want another season of opera." Helen S. Ruegger, 706 Dakota Ave., . Medford, Oregon Balancing of Budget Task for Legislature Portland (U.R) One of the biggest problems facing the 1955 Legislature will be balancing the budget, two state senators said here yesterday. Sens. Rudie Wilhelm Jr., Re publican of Portland, and Rob ert Holmes, Democrat of As toria, both agreed that the budg et presented a knotty problem in appearances before the Port land League of Women Voters. Wilhelm said the big problem will be how much new revenue will be needed and how to raise it. Holmes said the budget dilem ma 'was "not insurmountable" although it probably wouldn't be solved for several decades to come. . Portlanders Map Plans For Defense of Four Portland (U.R) A committee of citizens has been formed here to map plans for the defense of four Portlanders charged with contempt of Congress. The Committee for Defense of Constitutional Rights, which did not list its sponsors or members, announced yesterday it would hold a meeting here Friday night at which the four men would speak." TOO FAR TO GO , Dover, N. H. (U.R) Paul R. Benoit of Concord was fined $10 in-, municipal court here on a charge of operating a motor ve hicle without a driver's license. The place to obtain a license is in the State House Annex, just scross the street from the State nouse where Benoit is employed. "There is no doubt that the aircraft output serving the US SR and her satellites has also utilized the industrial facilities of the latter states," Jane's added. "The MIG-15 has been built in East Germany and Czechoslovakia, for example, and even the old PO-2 has been built in Poland in postwar years." Though much of Jane's inter est centered on the super secret developments inside Russia, the United States and Britain were Malenkov-Bohlen Chat May Herald Of Secret Diplomacy By CHARLES M. MeCANN United Press Foreign Analyst Soviet Premier Georgi M. Mal- enkov really seems to have started something in his chat with U. S.- Am bassador Charles E. Bohlen at a Moscow recep tion on Nov. 7. Malen kov suggested the Big Four pow ers use nor mal diplomatic channels as much as possi- cbaries Mccann ble in trying to settle issues which divide West and East. So favorable has been the re sponse to his. suggestion that it looks as if old fashioned secret diplomacy is destined for a comeback, at least on a trial basis. The feeling . apparently is growing that what might be called negotiation by denuncia tion is getting nowhere, and that a new test of the value of negotiation in secret can do no harm. Malenkov talked to Bohlen for nearly 40 minutes at a reception on the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik rebellion. Bohlen sent a detailed report of the conver sation to Washington. .Secretary of Sate John Foster Dulles was interested that he called Bohlen to Washington for consultation. There have ben a number of references to Malenkov's sug gestion since then. Step To Raise Curtain .Dulles advanced the situation when he said'ih a -press confer ence in Washington .Tuesday that Malenkov's talk with Bohlen was a step toward raising the Bill To Outlaw B, C Milk Sales To Be Introduced Salem (U.R) Legislation to outlaw grades B and C milk will be proposed to the 1955 Legislature, it was decided here yesterday. . . : Representatives from all seg ments of Oregon's dairy industry-met here yesterday and de cided to ask that sale of only grade A fluid milk be permitted. The proposed change would affect some "come-and-get-it" dairies now operating with grade B licenses. They would have to comply with the same standards as city milk plants. Only Grade A Permitted Kenneth Carl, assistant chief of the foods and dairies division of. the Department of Agricul ture, said six Oregon cities al ready allow sale of only grade A milk. These are Portland, Salem, Eugene, Medford, As toria and Klamath Falls. One-cow family "dairies" sell ing surplus milk to neighbors would be exempt from the pro posed law. Attending the meeting were some 30 representatives of the Oregon Dairymen's Association, the Oregon Dairy Industries As sociation, and the Retail Ice Cream Manufacturers Associa tion. Kansas permitted women to vote in school elections as early as 1861. It is OUR responsibility to relieve you, from the many details involved in ar ranging for a funeral service. CHAPEL Frank Morgan . . Harold Snodgrass Funeral Directors Office of Deputy Coroner ... Phone 2-8030 credited with making gigantie strides in aviation. : Jane's noted that America's YF 100A swept wing jet was the first to exceed the speed of sound in level flight, setting a record of 755.149 miles per hour. The Douglas XF4D-1 Skyray set a record of the three kilometer closed course of 752-95 mph, while the Bell X-1A, launched from a mother plane at 30,000 feet, reached a speed of 1650 mph and an altitude of 90,000 feet. . Comeback Iron Curtain which the Soviet government had lowered against such diplomatic contacts. . Dulles was referring to the fact that .Bohlen had not pre viously even met Malenkov since his arrival in Moscow in April, 1953. Dulles commented that in formal diplomatic talks often take place in Washington and said: "I think we would all wel come it if that atmosphere could be brought into the Moscow sit uation." , Secret diplomacy" has long been a horrid phrase. As far back as 1604, Sir Henry Wotton, himself an English diplomatist. wrote in the album of a friend: An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie aoroaa icr tne good of his country." Blamed for World War I Many blamed secret diplo macy because tne assassination of an Austrian archduke in 1914 led by a chain reaction to World War I. President Woodrow Wilson helped to make secret diplomacy unpopular. On Jan. 8, 1918, he outlined to a joint ' session ' of Congress his historic "14 points" for a postwar settlement. Point I was: ' . "Open covenants of peace" openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private under standings of any kind, but diplo macy shall - proceed always frankly and in the public view." It was a fine thought. But diplomacy in the . public view, marked by the exchange of in sults between governments, hasn't worked very well. SUGGESTED BIBLE READYING ;:- The American Bible So ciety, the Medford Ministerial Association and the Medford Council of : Church Women are cooperating in sponsoring daily Bible reading in the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The suggested scripture reading for today is: - Matthew 6. CHRISTMAS GIVE THE REVISED STANDARD VERSION . BIBLE i . ' THE PERFECT SIFT fc fc . t. Ctnulnt leolhtr tHM ..,,,. ,.- SJ.IS t $3.50 1 Illustrated edHleni i Come in end see or complete seecion MORTUARY
