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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordOITribuot "Everybody id Southern Oregon Red The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday bj MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-9141 p7mrnTw num. VMtnr KERB GREY. Advertising Manager X. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER- Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newapaper Entered as second das matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mail In Adrance: Per copy lw. Daily and Sunday One year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months J.50 Daily and Sunday Three m - 3Q Daily and Sunday Onemonta 129 Sunday Only One year 3J50 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point Jactaonville. Gold DO. Mm"--Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: ., Daily and Sunday One year 15 Daily and Sunday One month 1-23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash la Advance Gtaelal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty ""United Press Full Leased Wire "MTiMTtTO fF" AUDIT BUREAU OF ClHCULJilUJn ST-HOLlBaY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York, Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NIWSPAMt ......... v PUBllnaaa ASSOCIATION NATION aCeDIT ,ieditokial Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dee. IB, 1944 (It was Saturday) War Shipping administration reveals that tanker ship SS Jacksonville, named for Jack sonville, Ore., was sunk in the Atlantic by a German subma rine. From Arthur Perry's " Ye Smudge Pot column: Ice froze on mud puddles every morning last week, but all the janitors forgot to wet down the side walks with a garden hose. 20 YEARS AGO Dec 16, 1934 (It was Sunday) Junior high school PTA spon sors farewell party for Princi pal and Mrs. B. R. Finch who are leaving for Eugene and ad vanced study at University of Oregon. , Local furniture store adver tises bedroom suites for $26.95, occasional chairs for $6.75 and 9 by 12 Axminister rugs for $16. 30 YEARS AGO Dee. 16, 1924 (It was Tuesday) Medford covered by snow; po lice announce that boys who throw snowballs at pedestrians will face arrest. Oregon supreme court studies Jacksonville bank failure case. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 16, 1914 (It was Wednesday) . Medford ?Egg and Poultry warehouse destroyed by fire started by "cigarette thrown away by careless tramp." Medford inventor declares he has discovered a way to make dynamite out of sawdust. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 19S4. Editorial Research Report 1. The Salvation Army has operated in the U. S. for 25, 50, 75, 100 or more than 100 years? 2. Which of these states has the shortest coast line: Alabama, Delaware, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Carolina? 3. The great pyramids of Egypt were built for defense, as tombs for kings, to study the stars, as altars f or . sacrifice, or as palaces? 4. President Eisenhower has averaged one press conference every five days, week, XVi weeks, two weeks, or one month? 5. What is a member of the Society of Friends usually call ed? " 6. The British Chancellor of the Exchequer corresponds to the U. S. Secretary of: State, the Interior, Defense, the Treasury, or Commerce? - 7. A morganatic marriage is a union outside of wedlock; right or wrong? :. The answers:. 1. 75 years. 2. New Hampshire. 3. As lombs for kings. 4. One every" iiye days. 5. A Quaker. 6. Secretary of the Treasury. 7. Wrong; ' if s one with the ' wife of lower . social status than the husband. . FOUL EXCHANGE St Petersburg, Fla. J.R) Mrs. A. L. Tucker complained to police that a thief took a clean pair of her husband's trousers from her clothesline and left a dirty pair of dungarees in their place. MAIL TRIBUNE Why Not Balance the Budget? Senator Byrd of Virginia has a one-track mind. It runs to just one station "balance the budget, pay off the national debt" The. Virginia Senator is consistent. He attacked the financial practices of the Democrats under Roose velt and Truman, and now he is attacking the Repub licans under Eisenhower. We quote : "The foremost plank in President Eisenhower's cam paign was the promise of a balanced budget. A reduction ' of 7 this year would place our financial affairs on a pay-as-you-go basis without increasing taxes. In the third year of his administration it is time he fulfilled his campaign pledge. We have given away 40 billion to for- . eign nations all of which has been added to the public debt. The first thing we should do is to eliminate aid to other countries. If we continue to play Santa Claus to people at home and half of the world abroad we can ex- , pect nothing but collapse of our currency with all of its terrible consequences." In other words,- cut off the rest of the world, raise our own iron curtain, cut out the theory of promoting the "public welfare" at home and we will all be saved. On the other hand, go on the way the present administration is going, (and the two preceding it) and we will go the way of Greece and Rome, to bankruptcy, ruin and destruction. In the same public statement, however, the Sen ator from Virginia safys he regards . Secretary Hum phrey "as one of the ablest men who ever guided the U.S. Treasury." Yet in the same statement he maintains that this "most able" Secretary is. advocating a course that he (Byrd) claims means national destruction. TPHERE would seem to" be a certain inconsistency here! ' Jt is hard to believe that one of the most able Treasury Secretaries in our history would deliberate ly advocate a program that would end in complete financial collapse. This most able Secretary can't regard this pro gram as catastrophic as does, or he wouldn t propose it. . On the other hand, if he is wrong on this mosl vital matter, how can. he Secretaries, of the Treasury "since Alexander Hamil ton? ' - ; ..- v "UR advice to Senator "heart-to-heart" talk men wjio has ever guided the U.S. Treasury" and get the Secretary's reasons for not balancing the budget at the present time. We are fairly sure one that this country faces a serious crisis. -We are not at war, not a hot one at least but we are in a cold war, and we must be strong enough to resist or better, prevent-a hot one. To do that takes billions. As for sending money Claus "rive-away" it is a part of increasing world nist aggression and so preventing war. It is not given to help other nations so much as to help and protect ourselves.- That adds up, as stated, to more billions to prevent another world peace. "Hooey" declares BUT consider the alternative, Senator. year of World War II cost us 800 billion! What is 3 or 4 billion a year to aid resistance to Communism' compared to 800 billion : As to-promoting the would Senator Byrd if . - . - Treasury advocate the complete elimination oi tnat program, call it New' Deal, Fair Deal or whatever epithet you prefer. We doubt it very much. The Eisen hower administration never has. -.J. v..- 7VERYONE would of course LIKE to balance the -national budsret and tav off the national debt tomorrow if possible. That And it is very easy tor any benator on eitner side of the. aisle to demand it. But how many of them if they were in the Presi dent's shoes, or the shoes of his Secretary of the Treasury at this time and who had their responsibil ities, insist upon doing this, and taking the national consequences of such action? Perhaps Senator Byrd who suffers from an obses sion in the direction of economy would. But if so he would soon be verv lonesome indeed and he would be out of a job Western Railroads Sue Kansas City Truck Firm .' Washington (U.R) Twenty-three western railroads filed counter claims for 100,000,000 in dam ages in U.S. District Court to day against Riss and Co., Kan sas City, trucking firm. The railroads charged "illegal and unauthorized operations by Riss in hauling of explosives and other commodities between cer tain points in the West over a period of 12 years." Silent Propulsion of Whales Kept Secret Washington (U.PJ The Navy has decided to keep secret a re port prepared by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution entitled "Silent .Propulsion of Whales." The report is concerned with the reasons whales make no noise while swimming. WEATHER By United Press Northern California: Fair ex cept fog from Sacramento to Bakersfield this, morning,, de creasing in extent. Thursday, December 16, 1954 the Senator from Virginia be one of the most , able Byrd would be to have a "with one. of the most able reason would be. the laci abroad, that is not a Santa part and . an important wide resistance to tommu war and preserve world tne senator irom Virginia. . public welfare at home, he were Secretary of the . All 1 would be just dandy. in a very short time ! K.W.K. Year-Old Marriage of 'Corliss Archer Told Hollywood U.R) Ann Baker, 22-year-old actress who plays 15-year-old Corliss Archer on tele- j vision, nas been married zor a year xo ousmessman n.an J-iong, her production company re vealed. A spokesman for ZIV televi sion programs admitted the marriage yesterday, saying ef forts had been made to keep the marriage a secret because it was felt that it might not be in char acter with the teen-age role she played. . SUGGESTED BIBLE ; READING 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:- John 17. The End of McCarthy? There was a very appropriate slogan in our Christ mas street parade a week or so ago. It went something like this: "Have good will toward men and you will have peace on earth." Yes it is just as simple as that But you must get the good will FIRST, v. Today there is so much ill will spread all over the poor old planet we inhabit, and so little will that is good, it looks at times pretty hopeless. '.. Which brings up another appropriate Christmas thought that deserves more prominence than it re ceived, one reason being it was not designed as such. 1 . t It was a statement of David E. Lilienthal former chairman of the A.E.C. talking to the Chicago Sunday Evening club recently on the general subject of "the state of the nation" with particular application to McCarthy and McCarthyism. Here it is in brief, quote : "America's greatness depends upon the degree to which Individuals demonstrate sensitivity to "what is right and . ' good, and what is wrong and evil." 'The building of individual character is a greater shield against national adversity than any armament, including . the hydrogen bomb." . "A nation of men and women who live each day with a concern for wnat is right and fair and decent, who have a deep faith in man and in God such nation has generated within itself a moral force, an energy, so great that not aU the power marshalled by science, not even the energies released by the atomic bomb and the hydrogen bomb can compare with it in might and power." "The coarse, cynical, bullying type of public figure is swept into obscurity, when the "quiet responsible people show they have ha.d enough." We hope the wish is not the father of the thought, but we have a pious idea the 'time has about, come when the "quiet, responsible people," are about ready to demonstrate they HAVE had enough. Enough of McCarthy and McCarthyism. R.W.R. . Matter of Fact RECURRING NIGHTMARE Saigon, Viet Nam Here in Saigon, although the surface of life is immensely pleasing, the memory of the end of free China comes back like a re curring night mare. ; Once again an American gen eral this time Lawton Collins . has a big oart to play Joseph Alsop Gen. Collins' di- rective no doubt shows considerably more politic al realism than the directive James F. Byrnes gave Gen, fieoree C. Marshall: but that may not help greatly in the end For once again the effort to find a solution is complicated to put it very mildly by the personal ambitious and intrigues of the politicians on tne scene It is never easy, apparently, for people to remember that their private enmities do not matter very much when the enemy is at the gates. Because of this all too common failure of memory, and also be cause of a certain naivete in past American policy making, there has been a serious crisis here in the last week. Our nai vete consisted in giving all-out support to President Ngo Dinh Diem without any very clear idea of what he would do with his power when he achieved it. More than once, the Ameri can embassy intervened to pre vent President Diem from be ing physically ejected from the leadership of South Viet Nam during his quarrel .with Gen, Nguyen Van Hinh and the Viet namese army. The idea seems to have been that if only Gen. Hinh could be got out of the way, all would automatically be well. Similar illusions used to be cher ished in somewhat similar cir cumstances in Chungking. The reasons for the American commitment to Diem were good reasons. He is scrupulously hon est. He is extremely courageous. He is too stout a nationalist to be regarded as a French puppet, which is a fatal label here now adays. TTNFORTUNATELY, however, President-Diem, although a devout Christian, takes his po litical ideas from the ancient maxim of Confucius: "To put the country in order, the Son of Heaven needs only , to have a pure heart and to sit facing south." The rapid Communist penetration of South Viet Nam seems to trouble him very lit tle. - .-- In addition, President Diem Ss chiefly influenced, by - his own family, who largely compose the government; and he is particular ly influenced by his brother Net it a . . vmn iau, ana ine Tigerish Ma dame Ngo Dinh Nhu, who is in turn the daughter of the Viet namese ambassador in Washing ton and the niece of the foreign minister. When the quarrel with Gen. Hinh was finally ended by Gen. Hum's removal from the army leadership, the Americans here, ana - even tne less optimistic French, naturally supposed that President Diem would immedi ately establish a strong and ef ficient government. " Above all, that most intimate collaboration was needed between the civil authorities and the Vietnamese army, which is the only serious By Joseph Alsop instrument of order in the coun try. The obvious step was to re place ' Gen. Hinh with Gen. Nguyen Van Vy, a combat sol dier who enjoys even greater confidence in the army than Gen. Hinh. But President Diem and his brother and sister-in-law wanted above all, personal pow er over the army. They therefore insisted on naming a junior officer with no real strength, Gen. Le Van Ty, as Chief of Staff of an army al ready wildly 'disorganized and on the threshold of rebellion. The ' dislike of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang for the , capable and brave Gen. Chen Chang, and thjeir clinging to their creature, Gen. Ho 'Ying-chin, were Jn short reproduced here on a small scale!, but in even more urgent circumstances. The immediate result has been the crisis above noted, in the course of which Gen. Col lins and the wise' French com mander Gen. Ely have worked together intimately. It is known that Gen. Collins has used some very nara words to President Diem. The outcome, as there words are written, seems, to be a compromise. PRESIDENT Diem's favorite, Gen. Ty, will become Chief of Staff; but the responsibility of troop command will go to Gen. Vy, and the brave and ef ficient Phan Huy Quat will be named Minister of Defense. The theory is that this complex con traption, so reminiscent of j. the political contraptions put togeth er in Chungking and Nankmg, will somehow work to save the day. . Maybe the contraption really win work, or a better substitute, will be devised. Gen. Collins is doing his quite remarkable best. So is 1"Jen. Ely. And among the Vietnamese leaders men of cour age and foresight are by no means lacking. . But it is already time to pre pare for the possible shocks of the future. Gen. Marshall was sent to China to arrange a coal ition government because this seemed, at that time, was the best and cheapest; above all the cheapest way out of a bad business. Gen. Collins has been sent to glue something together here for precisely the same rea sons. To be sure, coalition'gov ernment would not have averted the loss of China, whereas Gen. Collins' success can avert the loss of the rest of Indo-China. Yet the motives of his mission still limit, his effort. And just as the loss of China prepared the dis aster here, so loss of the remains j of Indo-China will in turn pre pare an even larger disaster in Asia. (Copyright, 1954, New York Tribune Inc.) Bridgeport, Conn. U.R) Miss Anna Nurse is a nurse at a local hospital. ; YOU HAVE SEEN THEM ON TV I SHEAFFER SNORKEL PARKER "51" JOTTER . PAPERMATE CAPRI . You can buy them from a complete selection at Walt Young's MEDFORD STATI ONERY 210 East Main - Q ; . Phone 2-6780 . ; ;' ' omimiiiiifflee May (Saaose WfaoagDe Washington U.R) The first big wrangle of the mcommg 84th Congress may come over a proposal to clip the wings of the House Rules Committee. Some Democrats with liberal leanings fear a conservative Democratic-Republican c o a 1 i tion may dominate the . commit tee. They are considering an at tempt - to revive a previous House rule under which legis lative committees could bypass it. The Democrats tried this pro posal in the 81st Congress of 1949-50, but scrapped it in the' Congress that met in 1951. Sev eral important bills went through the House in 1949-50 under the procedure restricting the power of the Rules Commit tee. . The Rules Committee's power comes from the unique position it holds in the House. Legisla tive committees, such as the Agriculture or Ways and Means committees, draft legislation. But the Rules Committee deter mines which bills are to be tak en up on the floor and when. It can, and sometimes does, pigeonhole a bill which has the approval of a legislative com mittee. Under the procedure, which some Democrats are talk ing of trying to revive, the chair man of a legislative committee could on his own initiative call up a bill bearing the approval of his committee if the Rules Committee has not acted within 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. G.O.C. Appreciative To the Editor: The coopera tion your paper has displayed in its many releases in conjunc tion with the Ground Observer Corps program conducted by the U.S. Air Force has come to my attention and it is in indeed gratifying. With all the attempts that we of the Air Force make in indi cating our appreciation to the members of the Ground Observ er Corps for their untiring ef fort in fulf llling voluntarily this important part of the pro gram of defending our nation, it could be no better supplement ed than to have the editors of fine newspapers such as yours recognize the patriotic Ameri cans who are constantly giving up many hours of their time in the performance of a self-impos ed, duty. We are well aware ; Of the impact that that newspaper media has on the public. Support of the type your newspaper has given our project is' a tremen dous boost to the morale of the citizens in your community who are members of the ground Ob server Corps. Further, it is a great aid in the recruiting problem. We feel that editors such as yourself who continue to sup port the Ground Observer Corps program certainly are an integ ral part of this vital project. Please accept my personal thanks and appreciation for vour understanding and sincer ity of purpose in this important endeavor. Owen F. Clarke :. Colonel, USAF . Project Officer ; t Ground Observer Corps 'Washington, D-C. Christmas Feast Said To Cost Less Portland (U.R) The Christ mas feast will cost Oregonians less this .year than last whether it features turkey or ham. ; -v Ttirkey prices for. holiday buying will be announced .by re tailers in their big Friday ad vertising splurge and they are expected to be In line with Thanksgiving prices of 43 to 53 cents a. pound for birds cleaned and drawn. That is about 10 to 15 cents cheaper than a year ago. At wholesale, ham prices are some o to li cents less man 1953 holiday prices. The pre-; vailing price in most markets is expected to be around 59 cents a pound. - ... Air Patrol Turned Cops Pass Out Tickets Freely Edenburg, Tex. ftJ.R)--Mem- bers of the Edinburg Civil Air Patrol were deputized Wednes day to help city; police enforce traffic laws. ' - :, - During the day they gave jay walking tickets to City Judge Clayton R. Baird, Sheriff E. E. Vickers and a policeman. They ticketed City Manager J. W. Harrison's auto for iUegal parking-.- . A'.;i'V. " ' :" 21 days to give the biU a green light Committee Lineup The historic lineup on the Rules Committee is eight mem bers of the majority party, and four members of the minority party. In the next Congress this will mean eight Democrats and four Republicans. " Two of the Democrats, includ ing the next chairman, Rep. Russia's East Europe Army Selects As Headquarters Base By CHARLES M. MC CANN United Press Correspondent Poland, it is reported, is to be come the general headquarters for staff operations in Russia's new Eastern European mil itary set-up. Military planning for Poland, Czech oslovakia and East Germany are .lo be cen tered m .War saw," according to advices from West Berlin. Chanen McCann It 15 reported also that Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, the Polish defense minister, may be made the com mander-in-chief of a combined Soviet satellite fighting force. . . These developments would not be surprising. Poland is the larg est of the Kremlin's satellites, with a population of 25,01)0,000. Its armed forces number about 450,000 men, and its army is modeled closely after that of the Soviet Union. Poland, in fact, might be called a bulwark of satellite military strength. But what a bulwark! Poland is a bulwark sustained not by the Polish people but by : ruthless Communist overlords, secret po lice, spies and courts which mete out sentences v to slave -labor, prison or the gallows. And Po land is in the same situation as the other satellites and of Rus sia itself, for that matter.' Loyalty Would Be Doubtful What it adds up to is that the Polish ., army : would .; be -com pletely untrustworthy, in a war between East and West,, and so would be the armies of East Ger many and the other satellite countries. .- ". ' Take .Rokossovsky.' He Is Polish-born.. But he had a pro-Rus sian Background in Czarist days and he went to Russia in 1914 when he was 18. He became a Communist and rose to marshal in the Russian, not the Polish army. In 1949 he went back to Poland as defense minister. He Persons Hurt In Train Derailment Miles City, Mont. U.R) Seven cars of the crack North ern Pacific North Coast Limited passenger tram were derailed near here today, injuring an estimated 16 to 17 persons. - An attending physician ' said that "three or four", of the in jured were in serious condition. A railroad spokesman said the train, a diesel limited, was de railed at about 5:15 a.m. about one mile east of Ft. Koegh, a suburb qf Miles' City. Two cars stayed on the track. - ' Officials said the. derailment apparently was caused by a broken rail, which entered the dormitory car, where the train porters were asleep. DAV Announces Plans For Christmas Party Chapter 8. Disabled American Veterans, will hold its annual Christmas party Monday, Dec. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the DAV building at 1515 North River side ave., it was announced to day. v At the last business meeting James R. Lillie, past commander of the chapter, was elected chap lain to succeed Alvin O. Young, who was unable to continue in the office for reasons of health. Lillie previously served in the office for several terms. . - It is OUR responsibility to relieve yob v fromjhe many details involved in ar- ranging for a funeral service. CHAPEL Frank Morgan . . Harold Snodgrass . ' Funtral Directors 4- -ty Office of Deputy Coroner ... Phone 2-8030 Howard W. Smith (D-Va.), are conservatives who often vote with the Republicans. The sec ond Democratic, conservative is Rep. William M. Colmer CD Miss.), .; .', Hence, there could be a con servative coalition of two Demo crats ; and : four Republicans. This prospect has many -Democrats, including some from the South, concerned. t Warsaw went- not as a Pole but as a Russian Communist, to help whip the country ' in 'line with Com munism. Take the Army. The authori tative and objective "States man's Year Book" saysr . "Officers are required to learn Russian. A considerable propor tion of the higher commanding posts is occupied by Russians cfr former Soviet officers (partly of Polish origin)." . . Get Out the Vote - The official Polish news agen cy PAP reported on Dec. 8 that the people of 11 small towns had been forced to go back to the polls and vote for candidates for Communist "people's councils." The reason was, PAP said, that people did not bother to vote. in the real election on Dec. 4. A refugee Polish doctor told Radio Free Europe in Munich, iermany, that the number of in sane patients in Polish mental hospitals had jumped 500 per cent under the blessings of Com munism. ' These are just a couple of straws in the wind. But West German Chancellor Konrad Ad enauer, asking ratification of .the treaties, for West German arma ment, predicted that Russia de spite all its threats will be will ing to sit down and negotiate with the West after the treaties have been approved finally by all signatory countries. ' " Considering the situation in Poland, it would be a bold bet. tor '-who would offer o,dds; that he is wrong. ; . , ; MIRRO THf flMfSf AltlMlNtMC STANDARD S!ZC BAKE XI m look far w yiim4 m to henoa. J Fre Parking Free Delivery SPECIALISTS IN HOMEWARES CENTRAL POINT MEDFORD MORTUARY
