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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) 'Everybody in souttiern oregoa RMdi Thu Man -mouse" Published Dally Except Saturday by MDFOHD PKWXLNU CU. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 24141 ROBERT W. BUHL, Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager X. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor . ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph EdiUx RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OUVX STARCHES Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper" Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act mt March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION SATES By Mail In Adrance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year (12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6i0 Daily and Sunday Three moa, 3.30 Daily and Sunday One month 129 Sunday Only One year 3.50 By Carrier In Advance Med ford. Ashland. Central Petnt, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold HUL Phoeni. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent . and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year 115.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 ' Carrier and Dealers 6c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance OfficU: Paper of the City ef Medtora Official Paper of Jackson County " United prets Full Leased Wirel "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION 'Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLJDAY COMPANY. WC Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles . Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITOIIAl ASSQCtATliON Z7 lj.ll:ll:P C0Z" NEWSPAPIR kPUIllSHE5 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. 11, 1945 (It was Thursday) Dr. L. D. Inskeep, Medabrd, reelected vice-president of Ore gon State Board of Health. From A r t h u r Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column. Most of yes terday was bright as a Christ mas . necktie, several of which were heard in the business dis trict long before they turned a corner. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 11. 1935 ' Ed Hanley home on Ross lane destroyed by fire. "Roy Pruitt purchases Bart dull building on North Central avenue. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 11, 1925 i High water in Table Rock dis trict drowns out thousands of dieeer sauirrels- fTrwvl damnm In Willow Springs area ; being repaired. "' Mervyn Chastain leads Med ford High school basketball team to 22 to 15 victory over Eugene. Jan. 11. 1915 40 YEARS AGO Cashier M. L. Alford becomes president of First National Bank of Medford following i resigna tion of F. K. Deuel. From the Local and (Person al column: An unknown .vandal Tuesday operated upon 1 the streets, nis specialty being the vaauus ui on - uuuuiy smelling liquid upon the clothes of any one in range. Several were an- nointed, and the scent of a high .power drug clings to them yet, There is no way to catch the fiend, and no punishment if he were. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) : Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Which one of these is not a permanent member of the U. N. Security Council: U. S., Great Britain, Soviet Union, Poland, jjTance, China? '2. Loss of seats in the new Congress by the party in power was higher or lower than aver age ior miawnn elections, or about average? 3. The U.S. dollar is selling at a premium or a discount for the Canadian dollar, or at about par with it? 4. Clare . Boothe Luce, U.S ambassador to Italy, was once, in Congress, a state governor, may or of Greenwich (Conn.) or had never before held public office? 5. Unions expelled from the C.I.O. as Red-dominated . have many more or many fewer mem - bers now than on expulsion, or about the same number? 6. Win the South have dis proportionately many of few chairmen of important commit tees in this Congress, or just about its proportionate share? 7. "In the course of human events" is a phrase from the Declaration of Independence, original Constitution, Bill of Witrhts. Farewell Address or Gettysburg Address? ,' The Answers: 1. . Poland. 2. e aa . Jl. Lower than average. 9. aj a w count. 4. In Congress (the House). 5. Many fewer. 6. Dis proportionately high number. 7. Declaration of Independence. MAIL TRIBUNE Is Dixon- Yates Purely Politics? In the January Atlantic there are two articles on the Dixon-Yates contract, one is "pro" the other Senator Kefauver. takes the "con" side, Roscoe Drummond of the NY Herald Tribune, the "pro." rjRUMMOND'S main argument in favor of the con - tract is that the argument against is purely politi calhe maintains there is really nothing vital to crit icize in this deal and if there had been no national election there would have been none. - There have. been other contracts to supply AEG with private power . declares Drummond and they were less favorable to the government than this one. Moreover the others were made during the Truman administration. e rjRUMMOND is a good reporter and his facts no doubt are correct. But to call an argument politi cal does not necessarily refute it. The tariff issue is purely political and seldom discussed except during political campaigns. That does not mean, necessarily, that those who oppose a high protective tariff are wrong. Or that those who favor such a tariff are right. It merely means there is a division of opinion between those who believe in a high tariff and those who don't. But Drummond, by implication, takes the con trary view and because the fight over this power con- tract with TVA has been a political fight and promis es so to continue, those who oppose it must be merely playing politics and therefore must be wrong. THIS sort of reasoning standard. In fact the former Christian Science correspond ent, refutes his own argument when he states "Sena tor Kefauver is a strong believer in public power and he (Drummond) admits the Dixon-Yates contract cur tails public power and increases private power in the Tennessee Valley area. . That's the whole point! Those who believe that there is something essen tially wicked and slightly UnAmerican in public pow er, that TVA should be cut down to size to prevent the "growth of socialism" there and elsewhere in the country will, as he does, approve this Dixon-Yates contract. Those who don't feel that way, WON'T. That's all there is to the argument, as has so often been remarked in this department it is not a question of law or morality, but of belief. IN FACT Senator. Kefauver in his article, makes no faith, doesn't even intimate anything illegal in the ar rangement. But he does oppose it, because of the high er cost involved, because there was no competition in bids, and quote: ' - J- " "From my point of view the most serious objection is the joining together in another tier of holding companies with a long record of intent to cripple the TVA and thereby remove the salutary effects of competition which the TVA has been giving. If this contract goes through if TVA is thus made dependent on Dixon-Yates then I think the real significance is that in future years the private utilities will again be dictating their own terms to munici palities and rural electric cooperatives who have been showing the country how the electric business can be and should be conducted." THERE is the entire issue garding TVA and public power under similar con ditions in other river valleys, will agree; those who don't, those who believe the less we have of this sort of "creeping socialism" in this country the . better, won't.'-. ' v-'-: - This isn't playing politics. It is merely taking different sides on a very important public issue. ; . , R.W.R. More About 5th Amendment . : A comment we recently made on the 5th amend ment issue of the constitution particularly as it ap plies to communism, was apparently misunderstood' by many readers judging by several communications received. These communicants somehow got the idea tljis paper did not approve of the protection this item in the bill of rights, gives. This was not and is not our view. .We approve of this protection, just as we approve of the assumption ah individal is innocent until his guilt is proved beyond all reasonable doubt. .- , DUT we did agree and do agree with the federal court that held this protection does not guarantee that the person invoking it will not be subject to "an unfavorable inference." . In a jury case the court usually makes it nlain that the refusal of the defendant to take the stand should not be held against him; But the fact remains that such refusal does influence the opinion of most jurors just as the defendant, who does take the stand and makes a good or. bad impression influences them. There is no provision of the A 3 AT - 1 . . Ana as we mam oDject is to get tne truth there should be none. IN other words there was no disapproval of the 5th m amendment in the editorial nor of the protection it gives. It is up to the inquring body to get the facts of guilt, not the accused to. give them if he doesn't want to. But to refuse to give them on the grounds of pos sible incrimination does lead to the rnnrfnsinn that. the defendant had SOME he wouldn't have acted on This we believe, as a practical matter is unavoid- aoie ana me ruling oi the court we thought was en tirely correcWR.W.R. ... Tuesday. January 11. 1955 isn't up to the Drummond -. ; in a nutshell. law that can prevent this. . .. . .... - - . foundation for his fear, or it 9 i 7 f 3 PROUDEST MAN IN NEW YORK is DominicLupiano, 83, for mer New York Supreme Court elevator operator, as he returns to pilot son, Vincrnt, on way to formal induction as new State Supreme Court justice. Dominick toiled many years on elevators and as porter, maintenance man to educate son. (International) La rgesf Com m u nist Parties in Westsrn Europe Quite Unhappy By CHARLES M. MCCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The two largest Communist parties in Western Europe -are quite unhappy. Tn both Ttalv and .France the Reds are losing strength and feUow - travel er appeal. They still have strong representatio n in Parliament, and draw votes far in excess of their card - carrying membe r s h i p. IPV... -till nn cnanes ftlccaim ai. wu- trol powerful labor unions. But where a few years ago the Italian and French Reds were a real menace, today they seem more of a nuisance. They were even unable to ex tract much propaganda profit from the ready-made issue of West German, armament despite the fact that many anti-Communist Italians and Frenchmen also fear what mfcy happen if Ger many again becomes a military power. As the result of their bad situ ation, both the Italian and French party leaders are squabbling among themselves. - , Leaders in Bad Health Palmiro Togliatti, the Italian party leader, and Maurice Thor ez, the French leader, are in bad health and. are unlikely to im prove. They are no longer party dictators, and discipline is bad. ' .Dispatches from Rome told how Luigi Longo and Pietro Secchia, , the No. 2 and No. 3 men, sat in sulky silence Sunday st ''f 0 f'v" fg. j j ; . St -( ' .. w while Togliatti made a three- hour speech at a party confer ence. . Longo and Secchia favor a "tough" party policy. They com plain that Togliatti has been too soft. They say that he has been trying to win the support of "bourgeoise" elements, and that in attempting to woo the agricul tural south of Italy, he has ne glected the industrial north where he Communist strength reaUy centers. There are reports that most Italian leaders would like to pen sion Togliatti off. He seemed to take note of these reports When he went out of his way Sunday to deny that his strength had been permanently sapped by the wounds lie received in an assas sination attempt in 1948, There seems no doubt, how ever, that even if the wounds did not leave his health permanently impaired, it is still bad six years after the attempt. Less Militant in Italy In Italy, the Communists have 143 seats out of the total of 590 in the Chamber of Deputies. They have an estimated mem bership of a little more than 500,000 at. the highest. Some es timates are as low as 200,000 as regards active party members. Party strength has dropped about 50 per cent in recent years. French Communist 1 e a d e r Maurice Thorez never has re covered from a stroke ' he suf fered in .1950. There is squab bling in his party ranks too. Two party leaders, veteran Andre Marty and : Auguste Lecoeur, have beep purged in recent months and now vote in Parlia ment as "progressives." ; v THANK The way yoo responded to the "hoosewarmlng" for our new Medford Branch was wonderful! - We're always glad to see our neighbors, so we had lots of reasons to be glad yesterday. In the rush and hurry of greeting more than 10,000 visitors, we hope one of us here at the bank had time to stop and shake' hands with you. If we didn't get the chance to greet you in person, we'd like you to know we wanted to. - Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address' of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a nen 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 far publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Why Not a New Calendar? To the Editor: When man eventually has everything of an inventing nature applied through modern . knowledge of stream lining methods relating to chro. nology; and discovery of inad vertence in the present calendar, why not make the change to a world calendar? ;; '- As we take most of our in struction for. granted we are by nature slow to accept any kind of new changes. ' All we know is by reading and comparing recorded history writ tea by man and natural forces. . It is scientifically known that the ancient race of people, the Mayans of Central America, used a stone calendar more ac curate than the one we - use today. . ' .. When man looks upon his im provements, he may rejoice and say with pride, "it was very good." .'vw;;A-oV Perhaps true science today has access to more knowledge than was discovered for the past thou sand years. We. are only specu lating that our views will change materially as the universal chal lenges new ideas for mankind.'' Indications are, generaUy, ad justments will be adopted by a world council before the present century closes. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman st. Phoenix Councilmen Delay Police Action Phoenix A special council meeting caUed for last night was postponed when a full coun cil couldn't be present. Consid eration of a permanent appoint ment for" police chief was on the agenda. The matter was continued un til the next regular meeting, Feb. 7, unless a special meeting is called before then. - E. J. (Jim) Perry was given a temporary appointment as police chief at the regular meeting this month, f oUowing seven oral objections by citizens. He has served the city for about 2Vt years, being appointed after the resignation of rIarvin (Curt) Fisher. Hew Insurance Firm Will Open Office An off ice of the Oregon De velopment Company, Inc., an insurance firm, will be opened in Medford this week, according to an announcement made in Salem where the firm's head quarters are located. r William D. Healy, president of the company; is' the author of a new kind of insurances automobile title insurance which will be written by the Insurance Company of Oregon. In addition, to automobile title insurance, the Oregon Develop ment company will engage in a general' insurance business, plus some activity in real estate and investments. Of Matter of Fact GIGGLES IN BANGKOK Bangkok, Thailand In Bang kok, where they like to laugh, the currpnt ioke in the more literate circles is the coyer of an American news maga zine, showing a handsome portrait of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles with the legend, "He strengthe n e d Joseph Alsop the outposts. For Thailand is the richest prize in all the vast, rich south east Asian area which is now the primary target of world Communist infiltration and ag gression. And the outposts here abouts have not been noticeably strengthened. Despite the contrary advice of Secretary Dulles, one key out postnorthern Indochina, has al ready been surrendered. The enemy has been virtually, hand ed the keys to two more out posts, southern Indochina and the offshore islands of Formosa. The sacrifice of the other Indochina outposts has placed the two weak , but strategically vital border states, Laos and Cambodia in most deadly dan ger. If both Laos and Cambodia are allowed to fall, no one in his senses there thinks this - charm ing, -feckless, oddly governed country will . be able to with stand the resulting increase of Communist pressure, And so the chain reaction will proceed with mounting force. : At home, perhaps, the pros pect of this vast upheavel in the world balance of power may still seem comfortably remote. It does not seem so here, for sev eral different reasons. The first is the simple reason of geography. Back in the bad old imperialist days, ; when the French seized Thailand's border provinces to form Laos and en large Cambodia, they drew the new frontier with the purpose of preparing their next planned move, which was to have been a grab for Bangkok itself. Thus any force concentrated at Siso phon on the Cambodian border, looks right down the throat of any government in Bangkok, xt is only 168 miles, and easy walking or driving distance all the way, with no natural defense positions anywhere, between Sisophon and this city. V. e . ... . WHEN the time of more acute " danger may probably begin, a couple of years from now, the army of the Viet Minh will com prise somewhere between 15 and 20 tough regular divisions. The prsent Thai forces, which are not likely to be effectively increas ed, comprise an army of about 50,000 combat troops and ap proximately 15,000 paramilitary police. Hence the unbalance will be overwhelming. Consequently no allied SEATO or other' force could ar rive in time; to - save - Bangkok from a determined Viet Minh at tack from Sisophon. A relieving force : would only . . "liberate" Thailand after it had been .sub jugated, pillaged and purged. This being a prospect which -few Thais enjoy, the mere appear ance of an enemy force at Siso nhon. the mere threat to in vade, might well bring Thailand down, as Joshua's , trumpets MIDFOID! We also hope you had time for a full four of the vaults, offices, and other parts of the bank. If you have any questions about banking,, or didn't gel a chance to see all the facilities ihere, please come in anytime so we can show you around. We're always glad to see our neighbors. i ? The StafiF : : nirs mm oisoom motmar "' By Jostph Alsop brought down the Walli .of Jericho. ' i Massive retaliation" will be complicated to employ in these circumstances. It is much wiser to stop talking about massive re taliation, and to face the hard fact that if Cambodia falls, it is almost sure to be fatal to Thai and, one way or another. As for the loss of Laos, it will be enormously dangerous but it may not be fataL And U is just as well that there is this much -difference between Laos and Cambodia; for whereas Cam bodia ins virtually free of Viet Minh infiltration, the Viet Minh stooges, the "Free Laos" are strongly established in two Lao tian provinces. Th country has been utterly disorganized by the Indochinese fightng; And tne non-Communist Laotian govern ment is just as disorganized as the country it seeks to govern. The border between Loas ana Thailand is very long; It is, not effectively patrolled -I went from Nongkhay up the Mekong river to Vietiane in Laos in a border patrol launch, and since we went aground three times, patrolling can hardly be a re gu ar- activitv. v- . e '; FJRTHERMORE, on the Thai side of this border with Laos, there is the northeastern Thai region, already somewhat disaf fected because it is drougm stricken and poorer than tne rest of the country, and containing two ready-made fifth columns. One of these fifth columns is a group of about 45,000 Viet Minh refugees from the 'French. These people were admitted to Thai- land eight years ago bx-the then Prime Minister Pridi i? hanama yong, who is now a Communist stooge in Peiping. 3 I sa-v these Vietnamese wnen I was -h the North. The vast ma jority of them are absolutely controlled by an underground Viet Minh government, with its own Communist headmen, its own police and even Communist courts. The Viet Minh grip is such that even the Catholic Viet namese around Nongkhay are po litically ruled by the Commu nists, and their priests can. ao - nothing about it but wring tneir hands. The Thai government is I1 J Ul(, x a U1V1 V U&jSj uvj e - riate the Viet Minh tilth column to their own country. But in northeast Thailand, you also find the admirers of a magnetic local chieftain, Tieng Sirikhond, who may have as many; as three or four hundred thousand followers in these provinces. After being rumored dead, .Tieng Sirikhond has turned up with Ho Chi Minh. He is now trying to recruit bold spirits throughout northeast Thailand, for training with the Viet Minh as future infiltrators. ' For the reason given in a pre-" vious report, that the mass of Thais hate the Chinese and Viet namese and regard communism -as an enemy export, the situa tion may still be rescued if Laos falls. But it will not be rescued if the facts - are not faced: if wordy, boasts continue to be sub- suiuiea zor serious policy wan ... . . - 9 . ,1 ing; and if we fail to show the kind of preparatory foresight so . remarkably demonstrated by the activities of Tieng Sirikhond, whose monsters have already in structed him to lay the ground work for the push in Thailand he knows is still some years ahead in time. (Copyright, 1955, New Yerk - - Herald Tribune Inc.)