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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) cMedforivCTribuni "Everybody in Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" O Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 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, CmPMAN. Telegraph Edltot RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor LIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March a. iov i ctttjc'UIPTION RATES Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Dally and sunaay oix raonuu o.ou Daily and Sunday Three mos, 3.50 DaUy and Sunday One month US Sunday Only One year 3S0 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold HIIL Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: o Daily and Sunday One year $13.00 Daily and Sunday One month 123 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County 7"UnTtcd 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 NATIONAL EDITORIAL I a c n r ITa t ilo ki ffV NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS -"ASSOCIATION 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 ' Jan. 6, 1945 Army Capt. Robert W. Sleet er and Mrs. Sleeter return to Medford to visit his mother; Captain Sleeter just back from S3 months in the Pacific. From Arthur perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Outdoor enthusiasts of both genders are yearning for a chance to slide down a mt. on skis. There is no more colorful way to bust an ankle or a limb. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 6, 1935 Medford Fire Chief Roy El liott reports the city's fire loss of $11,171 in 1934 was the low est in years. Elmer K. Hull, former man ager of Modoc orchard, purchas es Sunset orchard north of Med iord. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 6. 1925 (It was Tuesday) E. C. Ferguson elected Big Eruption of Craters club; other new officers include Bill Warn er, Skipper of the Phantom Ship; Herb Grey, Keeper of the Trail; "Peachy" Lemon, Skip per, and Buck Buchter, Pilot. . Medford High school's second and third string basketball teams defeat Newburg, 25 to 8; Medford first team sits out en tire game because Ashland coach is in audience. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 6, 1915 (It was Wednesday) G. R. Satchwell and George BT. Millar complete platform for Medford Socialist party; includes better working conditions in area. vAx I 0 From the Local and Personal column: During the visit of the alumni football team to Grants - l?assoa taxi cab bill was con tracted, and now stands unpaid, the owner threatening suit for th sum he says he is due. No one can be found who will as sume responsibility for the bill, and the refusal to pay has creat ed almost as much of a sena tion in the lower- Rogue river town as the visit of Joe Knowles last summer. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report 1. Jan. 1 has been observed as New Year's Day longer by Chris tendomo than any other date; right or wrong? 2. About 25,000, 250,000 or 2,500,000 color TV sets were produced this year? 3; The American Farm Bureau Federation, largest body of U.S. farmers, is for rigid or flexible farm price supports? 4. All present members of the Supreme Court come from large states; right or wrong? 5. N a t i o n-wide prohibition ended some ; months before or after F. D. Roosevelt became president, er at about that time? 6. Most legal terms come from the French, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, or Latin? 7. Busch Stadium (baseball park) is in Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit or St. Louis? The Answers: 1. Wrong; March 21 was New Year's until a few centuries ago. 2. About 25.000. 3. Flexible. 4. Wrong. 5. Some months after. 6. Latin. 7. St Louis. MAIL TRIBUNE The 5th Amendment We are glad to see that a federal court has ruled on. the controversial Fifth Amendment issue as far as communism is concerned. It seems an Electrical union charged General Electric with violating this provision in our bill of rights, when it discharged workers who refused to answer the question of affiliation with the communist party on the ground it would or might incrim inate them. Federal Judge McLaughlin denied the union claim, in the following words: ."The Fifth Amendment does not guarantee that a per son who invokes it will not be subject to an unfavorable inference. The court concludes that it likewise does not guarantee the person who invokes it shall be continued in his employment." . IN OTHER words if a person refuses to answer a question for fear that if he does that will incrim inate him, he is entirely without his rights, but this does not mean, that such action will not lead to the conclusion by others that he is guilty of some wrong doing, or he WOULD answer. And if an employer doesn't want to have anyone on the payroll who is under any such suspicion, he has a perfect right to fire him. That seems plain enough, and just. WE HAVE never, in fact, been able to understand the attitude of those who claim they have never been communists, yet refuse to declare that fact under oath. This is particularly true of those who take such action on the ground that such an answer would or might incriminate them How could it? Unless of course they are commun ists. ft ft ft sfe aft TlE SELDOM agree with the Red baiter tom-tom brigade, but on this Fifth amendment technique, we regard their stand as correct. The accused is with in his rights to refuse to answer, but he can't expect to be, as Judge McLaughlin states, free from the "unfavorable inference." --In short he can't have his cake and eat it too. He can't escape answering by declaring that his answer would or might incriminate him, and then be free from all suspicion that his reasoning is correct! . , R.W.R. Prize for Asininity A correspondent in the the "most asinine statement of the year" the remark attributed to - Senator Neuberger when en route to Washington he found more people in the day coaches that voted for him, than in the Pullman cars. What is so "asinine" about that? Senator Neuburger was a newspaper man before he became a Senator and once a reporter always a reporter. He was merely stating the fact that more of the second class passengers supported him than the first, which would be expected one reason being there are many more of them. But from this factual statement the correspondent scents a diabolical demagoguery, and concludes that as far as any benefits to the state of Oregon are con cerned from Senators Neuburger and Morse, Oregon might as well secede from the union," for only busted ne er-do-wells or members of the C.I.O. can expect any favors from this time henceforth. IS HENRY Ford 2nd a "busted ne'er do well?" How about Nelson or Winthrop Rockef eller. Then there is Barney Baruch "the richest man now living on Fifth Avenue," and the President of the U.S. Chamoer of Commerce, who at last report, wasn't exactly on relief. "1X7E DOUBT if Senator Neuburger will grant any vv of these multi-millionaires any "SPECIAL "fa vors" or anyone else for that matter but he. will be found working for the principles they advocate and others like them including the reciprocal tariff, foreign aid, farm supports, the United Nations, and other vital principles of national policy. ' . The national prize for asininity and demagoguery as far as this particular incident is concerned, should not go to Oregon's new Senator but to the author of such a ridiculous childish statement? R.W.R. , How About Senator Morse? ........ A correspondent wants to know if Senator Morse can change his party and keep his seat. -The answer is "yes." At least it has been done in the past, and there is apparently no law against it. Senator Shipstead was elected by the Farmer-Labor party .but changed to the Republican party and no questions were asked. George Norris of Nebraska "was elected by the Republicans and like Senator Morse resigned, and became an Independent. Both the LaFollettes were elected as Republicans, but changed over to the new Progressive party in Wisconsin. . , - . So if our senior Senator wishes to accept the in vitation of the Democratic party in Oregon to join their ranks he can apparently do so without resigning his seat. Whether he will or not remains to be seen. One thing certain, the Republicans at least all those we have heard express their views would be overjoyed to get rid of him, and the Oregon Democrats offi cially declare they would be equally overjoyed to have him join their ranks. What a rare state of peace and harmony political ly then would exist. Both parties agreed regarding Oregon's former junior Senator! R.W.R. Thursday. January 8, 1955 Oregonian nominates for Benson. Proposes FresnieinitDaD To Look Br LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson m high places that a . presi dential board be named to review the Eis enhower a d ministra tion's federal employee se curity system, p r esently under bruis ing Democra- Lyle C. Wilson tic attack. Benson has been badly mauled in the dispute involv ing Wolf Ladejinksy, a long time government agriculture ex pert who was discharged on security grounds when his of fice was transferred from the State to the Agriculture Depart ment. He had been ' secure enough for state Secretary John Foster Dulles. . ' : Red China Expected To Reopen Question Of Peace in Korea By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst By agreeing to discuss the im prisonment of 11 American air- rnen iailed ag spies, it seems probable that Red China is attempting to reopen the en tire Korean peace: ques tion. Both the Chinese Communists , and the Rus sians were deeply disap- - --i.i-i4,Ai4 -.tt1. v . cnarles iviccanu ------cv- the Western allies broke off the stalemated Korean negotiations during the Geneva conference last year. The talks between United Na tions Secretary . General Dag Hammarskjold and Chinese Red Premier Chou En-lai gave the Communist side an obvious chance to raise again the whole Korean situation. Hammarskjold's instructions from the U. N. General Assem bly are simply to seek the re lease of the airmen and of other U. N. war prisoners still held despite the Korean armistice. Will Probably Listen But there is nothing to prevnt Hammarskjold from listening to whatever Chou may say, and re porting back to the U. N. on it. Chou, in agreeing. to receive Hammarskjold, told him that the imprisonment of the airmen was none of the U. N.'s business. But Chou also disclosed that the Chinese Communist govern ment is still keenly interested in the over aU prisoner situa tion. "The case of the United States spies has nothing to fLo with the question of the prisoners of war in Korea," Chou said. "It is the United States and the U. N. command side which has violated the Korean armis tice agreement." Chou charged that the United States "connived" in the release by South Korea of more than 27,000 Communist prisoners be fore the armistice. He charged the U. N. command with "abduct ing" the. more than 20,000 Com munist prisoners who refused re patriation after the armistice. ' "Up to now. these cases are not yet accounted for," ' Chou said. - This is a clear indication that Chou will raise the issue of the Communist prisoners when Ham marskjold talks about U. N. pris oners. ' r . It must be remembered, also how vigorously Chou and Soviet Foreign Minister Yvacheslav M. Molotov protested when the WestenTallies broke off the Korean talks at Geneva last June 15. v t Tired of Talks ; .The allies had held out for all-Korean elections supervised by the U. N. . They finally got tired of talks that led nowhere. " Chou tried desperately to pre vent a complete break. He tried to get the Western allies to ac cept a resolution by which the p---- A Y' 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 Phone ver Federal Employee'- Security Sysfteinni Senate Democrats seized on this conflict in judgment by the two departments and promised a congressional investigation of ,the Lade j insky case as part of an overall inquiry into the admin istration's security risk firings what the Democrats derisive ly refer to as the "numbers game." Sen. A. S. (Mike) Monroney (D-Okla.), of the Senate Civil Service Committee, said the Ladejinsky case proves there is ''something wrong" with the ad ministration's security program. Both he and Sen. Olin D. John ston (D-S.C), new chairman of the committee, said the case emphasizes the necessity of es tablishing uniform standards for passing on the security of fed eral employees. Single Agency Suggested One congressional suggestion is that a single agency be set up to pass judgment on the se curity of all federal employees, rather than leaving clearance to conferees would have agreed to continue their efforts to reach a Korean settlement. The resolu tion provided that "The time and place for resuming negotia tions shall be decided by the states concerned." He asked in a speech that the United States, Great Britain, France, Red China, Soviet Rus sia and North and SouthKorea hold secret meetings in an at tempt to get together. It would certainly be logical if, in talking to Hammarskjold, Chou linked the issue of the U.N. prisoners with a reopening of the over-all prisoner situation end of the Korean peace question as a whole. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Here's news from Washington that MIGHT be interesting and HOPEFUL.1 It could hold the promise of a future brighter than anybody has ever dared to hope for: A congressional committee has called on the United . States to launch a positive, bipartisan political offensive against the international . Communist con spiracy. In a formal report, the committee says: "The time was never more op- portune for the free world (led by America) to initiate a bold political offensive as the only course which gives reasonable hope for avoiding all-out war.' rpHAT is to say: - If we could only bring to the world the TRUTH about the advantage of the free way of life as contrasted with the Commun ist way of life, this foul thing that we call Communism would eventually fall by the weight of its own, foulness.". Then there might be peace. TTOW shall we go about it? 4 I'll confess I don't know. . But this I'm sure of: SOMEHOW we must find the way to restore to our people the dynamic FAITH IN THE FU TURE OF AMERICA that ani mated our forefathers. In all the history of the world, there is no brighter chapter than the story of the growth of the 13 strug gling little colonies along the shore of the Atlantic into the great FREE nation that now reaches from the Atlantic to the Pacific. THOSE ancestors of ours who first fought for ana won their freedom and then dunged into the forests and on across the plains and the deserts to found the greatest and the freest nation the world has ever seen had FAITH in the future of their country. If somehow we can re store that faith, there is NOTH ING we can't do. One of our present trouble Is that we have too little faith and too much cynisim.' 7 2-8030 individual boards and persons within various agencies as . at present. The Ladejinsky case . bur geoned into a king-sized head ache for Benson especially after his executive assistant, Milan Smith, made public a let ter written by George N. Vitt of the "American Exporter" 'en dorsing the Agriculture Depart ment ouster of Ladejinsky and referring to Russian Jews (Lade jinsky is a Russian-born Jew). The letter touched off charges of anti-Semitism. These Benson denied and deplored Wednesday and previously in statements and a news conference while ex pressing fuU confidence in Smith and his security officer, J. Glenn Cassity. Benson told reporters Wednes day that Smith "used poor judgment." ' "He is sorry," the Secretary added, "and so am I." . v White House OK's New Post Meantime, the White House, in effect, repudiated Benson's se curity finding by approvmg Ladejinsky's appointment to a Foreign Operations Administra' tion post dealing with land re form in Viet Nam. His salary wiU be $11,800, about what he was getting in his old job as U.S. Agriculture attache in Japan. This represented a cal- culated White House retreat be fore the developing Democratic attack on the Eisenhower secur ity system as a whole and the Ladejinsky case in particular. Benson did not budge on his security judgment of Ladejinsky. Instead, he proposed that the ad ministration take another look at the security system which per mitted and almost - encouraged honest men to arrive at wholly different judgments, as did he and Dulles in this . instance. He told his new conference he had expressed his views privately ana tnat they were under con sideration in high places. The United Press understands that Benson said the situation was more serious than a mere po litical dispute between Demo crats and Republicans, although he recognized the fact that the administration's opponents were beginning to make a hot and forceful issue of security, with the President and his cabinet on the defensive. Believes U.S. Interest Involved Benson considers this to be a matter involving the best inter ests of the United States and the confidence of the public and of government employees in a , se curity system which should be a mighty factor in national safety. Moreover, he believes the se curity issue should be met head on with a review of the system, because the standing of the ad-i ministration itself with the peo ple is, involved. The system was set up by Mr. Eisenhower under executive order 1040. The need for a security sys tem has been forced on the un suspecting and unwilling Ameri Viojenf Storm Lashes Central Philippines Manila - (U.R) A violent tropical storm . lashed, the Cen tral Philippines early today, kill ing about 13 persons, injuring 20 and damaging crops and property-Gales up to 55 mph were re ported in Northern Mindanao and the Eastern Visayan islands as the storm howled westward toward the China Sea. Three persons were known dead and 10 fishermen were believed killed. Your: Investment is SAFE - Insured Safe to $10,000.00 By the Federal Sayings and Loan Insurance Corp. Investment, irn.i Ji by the 10th of the month earn divi dends as of the 1st. '' . 27 If f tow ufmi IBoalrall IBe can people, Benson argued, by the cold war espionage of the Soviet Union and its allies. It is something alien to the United States but now necessary for the national good. But the nation's welfare requires, also, that the administration shall utilize every means not only to protect national security but to safe guard individual rights and the human dignity of men and women. Recommends Survey Benson recommended ap pointment of a presidential board to survey the whole situa tion, with special emphasis on human rights and the mainten ance of the highest possible COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, altheuah under certain circumstances the use of is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Wants Dentists to Join Doctors To the Editor: A news item, appearing recently in the Mail Tribune, informs us that the Medical Association has sub mitted to the State Welfare a new schedule, giving physicians their first raise in pay (for care of welfare supported persons) since 1937. Certainly this is long overdue. . Now if only; the ' dentists of our state, in consideration of the many state .supported youngsters who suffer more than they re alize,' would only get together and agree upon a minimum fee and submit it for approval, how many hours of pain they could eliminate! ' . .. At present and under existing circumstances, the possibility of a child supported under G. A. or A. D. C, receiving dental care, is remote. There are a very few dentists who, through mere hu man kindness, will accept wel fare fees as they are presently allowed. ' - Overheard last week was one of these fellows saying - "it would be well if every dentist had just one good terrific tooth ache!" I agree. Then they would rush their negotiations with the State Welfare Commission - to prevent this same misery in our State Welfare recipients. -Mrs. Virginia Card, 617V4 N. Bartlett, Medford, Ore. The Bible and Flag Saluting To the Editor: In my letter which appeared in your paper Dec. 20, 1954 I raised, the .issue as to the correct date of Jesus' birth. Points of Bible evidence as well as the circumstances sur rounding his birth, were men tioned which very strongly indi cate that Jesus w.as actually born about October 1st. ' - When Jesus was on earth, his chief mission was to bear witness to the truth. In His preaching, He backed up what He taught with the word of His Father, with reason, and the known facts of His day. For this reason the Bible states: "For He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes." (Matt. 7:29). The truth necessarily exposed the er ror into which the Jews .- had fallen. The Scribes and Phari sees, who were the priests of that day, - were unable to suc cessfully refute the truth of Jesus' message. In order" to turn the people away from Him, they raised the issue of His loyalty to the Roman government At their instigation, He was finally put to death on the false charge of sedition. The preaching of the truth to day also exposes human errors and traditions. Like the Scribes and Pharisees, some persons to TOES t . . . With Safety . .For Profits DIVIDENDS ARE INVESTORS PROFITS An Insured Savings or Investment Account Will Give You a Nest Egg For Retirement or Vacations or things you want. Build Your Own Security Safely Profitably. . Open a Savings Account NOW! FIRST FBEEM. Savings & Loan Assn. of LTcdfcrd North Holly Telephone Naiisiieall morale among federal employees as well as the highest possible standards of personnel among them. He felt that a study of this kind would have the added poli tical advantage of shooting the ground from under Democrats whom he contends are seeking to make political capital in an area which should be above poli tics by reason of its close rela tion to national security. Such an inquiry, Benson believes, would re-assure right thinking citizens as to the objectives and methods of the Eisenhower ad ministration both with respect to security and to the dignity of human rights. a pen name or initial for publication day raise side Issues to divert the people and to attempt to hrinp intn Hicrormo tVineA urVin preach the truth. The injection of the wholly irrevelant issue of flag saluting by Mrs. . Santo in her letter which appeared Jan. 2nd is a case in point . The issue as to whether or not 1 persons in the United States couia, lor conscience saice, re frain from flag saluting, was settled in the Supreme Court ' more than ten years 'ago. Loyal Americans abide by that. de cision. ; T. R. Thompson P. O. Box 361, Medford, Ore. The Modern Loaf of Bread To the Editor: A little more than two-score years ago, it was my habit to press a nickel firmly in my, 4-year-old son's hand to bring a loaf of bread from the nearly two blocks distant grocery store. The pride of accomplish ment shining in his face was re ward enough for the sharp re proofs directed my way from my wife 'and others for placing such responsibility on one so young. ' Though that loaf was unsUced and generally unwrapped, It was of good size and well baked, enough so that the young pro vider was able to swing - it threateningly at a pup-dog that dared challenge his right of way up the old plank sidewalk He might have dropped the loaf on occasion, but if he had. he would have been pretty sure to tell me. . Pardon my er, transgression, we'll get back to the loaf and what a change to the one now that commands nigh five times the price. And imagine trying to club off a; nosey dog with one. Why say, one of these, "oh so super super fresh" loaves you must balance carefuly'on the flat of your hand witli no pres sure from fingers or there will be permanent odemic depres sions left in it. No come-back there. But what really gets me down, is these truck loads of unsold bread, exactly like the' part left of that loaf you bought a day or two ago, stUl in cellophane wrappings, hauled from the bak eries for pig-feed, truck loads of it. That's one reason why we pay almost a quarter of a c'ollar for today's loaf of bread. One bakery' 'sells" their returned bread at- half price. When we fail to make it there on time, that bakery's brand is. the one we buy fresh. A time or two through the toaster or seasoned a couple of days and Jit's good eatin'. F. J. Clifford, . ' " 1211 W. Main," ? Medford, Ore. - mm 1 2-9147
