Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 13, 1955, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medford2Tribune "Everycody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tnoune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PKINTlHli to. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. BUHL, Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor F. RIC ALLEN JR.. Citv Editor HARRY CHTPMAN. Telegraph Editor 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 Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Hv Mail In Advance: Per coov 10c. Daiy and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month JJ2o Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point, Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday On year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-25 Carrier and Dealers oe per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official paper oi jacuson county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Renresentative: 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 assocTatiiqn rffi&Z NEWSPAPER k PUBLISHERS '-ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 13. 1945 (It was Saturday) Medford High school basket ball team runs its winning streak to 10 straight games with 46 to' 21 victory over Grants Pass; Jerry Ross and Dick Fawcett star for Medford. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smude Pot column: Quite a few of the younger married girls have started rolling their own, due to the cigarette shortage. For the most part they turned out worse than their first bis cuits." 20 YEARS AGO January. 13. 1935 (It . was Sunday) Medford's Mayor George Por ter issues safe driving procla mation. Medford Kiwanis club instal lation committee includes Ted GeBauer, chairman; and Sebas tian Apollo, Frank Perl, and Charles Butterfield. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 13, 1925 (It was Tuesday) A. S. Rosenbaum attends meeting of "Go Ahead club" in Gold Hyi with Robert Boyl, sec retary of chamber of commerce The Rev. J. W. Angell and his family leave Medford to make their home in Glendale. 40 YEARS AGO - - -Jan. 13, 1915 (It was Wednesday) New city charter, proposing city manager form of govern ment, defeated by voters; V. J. Emerick defeats C. E. Gates in race for mayor, and Frank Amy defeats C. L. Scheffelin in con test for councilman from Ward 2. Caribou Dan and two trained bears featured performers in act scheduled at Medford's Page theater. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. In the recession of a few months ago, greater unemploy ment occurred in manufacturing or in nonmanufacturing estab lishments? 2. The Democrats, in control of Congress in 1955, voted in 1954 for higher, lower or un changed federal income taxa tion? 3. Does any state pay unem ployment compensation as high as S50 a week? 4. The percentage of working women who are domestic serv ants has been rising or falling, or staying about the same? 5. The number of cigars smoked in the U. S. every year works out to about 6, 16, 60, 160 or 600 for each adult? 6. U. S. public high schools as a whole have more men or more women teachers? 7. Tony Trabert is an out standing golfer, baseball player, jockey, tennis player or football star? . The Answers: 1. In manufac turing. 2. For lower. 3. No. 4. Falling. 5. To about 60 por adult per year. 6. More women. 7. Tennis player. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Dead line for Sunday ClassUied Is t noon Saturday. - m MAIL TRIBUNE Ike Should Knew We can't go along with those who fear President Eisenhower's proposed reduction in the draft will en danger our national security. ' In these parlous times there is some risk in almost any action taken. But in the field of MILITARY preparedness, we feel the President rates as an expert. He is also in a position to know more about the actual dangers of a Third World War than anyone else in the country and we don't exclude the general staff or the Secre tary of Defense. So when the President recommends a reduction in the size of our army, and a consequent reduction in government expenses, this paper would put the bur den of proof to the contrary heavily and directly on the shoulders of his critics. It is ok to have a full and free debate on the issue. , But there will have to be far more evidence than has been presented to date to sustain the claim that in this department, the leader of the American forces in World War II, and how our chief executive, in the matter of military defense doesn't know what he is talking about. R.W.R. Liberalism and Morse The Oregonian doesn't see how Senator Morse can quit the Republican party and join the Democratic party, for it claims neither party qualifies as a per fect vehicle for "liberalism." : Not "perfect" perhaps, but as liberalism is gener ally understood we don't see and haven't seen for some time why Senator Morse hasn't joined the Democrats, and our prediction is he will. For as was so clearly demonstrated in the recent election, the two parties are directly opposed on most of the important national issues, which come, under the general heading of liberal and conservative. For example there was the, issue of foreign aid versus isolationism, here in Oregon between Cordon the Republican and Neuberger the Democrat. Also there was the issue between public power and private power: between Tidelands oil and oil for education; between lower tariffs or higher ones, between Theo dore Roosevelt's theory of conservation and Secre tary McKay's and so on We fail to see how the knowledge that Cordon represented the ultra-conservative view point, and Neuberger the progressive and liberal. We can see, however, why the Oregonian support ed the Republican and opposed the Democrat. That has been the Oregonian s policy since the Battle of Bull Run or thereabouts. But why not admit that on the. basis of political liberalism the Democratic party has, to say the least, the better claim to the title? R. W. R. Why Object? In view of the prevailing political psychology in this state we are surprised the Oregonian should hes itate to accept the fact the GOP is the conservative party and the Democratic party isn't. We are equally surprised the Oregonian should not welcome the entrance of Senator Morse into the latter party on these, or any other grounds. For our Portland contemporary has as low and contemptuous an opinion can renegade," as the membership of the GOP Old Guard it so faithfully represents, and surely can't wish him to remain and contaminate the Republican ranks. lyfOREOVER, throughout the country and especial ly in this state the title "liberal" in conservative circles has ceased to be a term and become an epithet. To be called a "liberal" is the higher brackets as to be called a Communist. So why not admit Wayne Morse is a liberal, and belongs in the liberal or Democratic party and should, as soon as he can, get into it? That would seem the consistent and logical course, instead of "waiting and wondering" which way this wild Oregon bronco will jump. Get him out of the party and good riddance. If the Democrats are as illiberal and badly split as the Oregonian claims they may be no happier with him than the party the Oregonian represents. R.W.R. Small Potatoes The opposition of the Oregonian to Senator Morse is Understandable but the opposition and hostility of the Oregon Journal isn't unless of course, the switch in the recent election means our once leading liberal and democratic paper has gone over to the Grand Old Party for keeps. . lhat this hostility exists, no one who reads the Journal can deny. This even extends into censoring its news columns something we believe the Oregonian has never done. For example the Journal runs Drew Pearson's col umn daily. But recently when Drew Pearson gave his New Year's salute to various prominent figures, in cluding Oregon's senior Senator, the editor or who ever handles the editorial page cut it out : Here is the item that was blue-penciled, quote: "Salute to Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon who despite bitter attacks from politicians in both parties never slackened his battle for the public good, never lost his sense of humor, never lost the earthy touch. After an all-night filibuster he went out to his farm next day to pack up his chickens for the Gaithersburg (Md) Fair, where they won 37 prizes." Salutes for all the Others hut none fnr trip spnfnr Senator from the Journal's Thursday. January 13. 19SS and so forth. Oregonian can fail to ac of this so-called "Republi almost as insulting from own state! R.W.R. noitsc ftcm ntt 1.7 - tiouo raxes net tit ALL OTHER OAS FISCAL AFFAlVs f III JOirJ. L kV mt mm m mm l& - m INHERITANCE ttrt ram' H1 mnsunci Ts (Jill) V A.M. W J? CALIFORNIA COMES HIGH Pie chart illustrates how w,SPtS makSandpend tteir monev- Governor Good wm Knight is asking for a record-breaking $1,529,768,000 state budget and proposes to three-cent taon cigarets and higher luxury taxes to balance it "gareis ana Pickin' Pears By SID HOLLINGSWORTH There is a certain grace about the way they do things in the south, even when the incidents involve transgressions of the law. George Tallmadge has met this challenge several times. There is the time he acted the good neighbor to tow a stranded tourist into LA, and later to es cort the party oi ouriy men through police lines, only to find the beneficiaries of his assistance to be Al Capone and his gang. A year ago George went down to Mexico to stay at his ranch across the border. He prizes this place very much, and while he doesn't stay there long, he likes the atmosphere for a while. He tells a story of the time he and the boys who run the place dis covered a plot to steal the ranch by preempting ownership by possession. . . "The oldest boy and I were in El Paso at the time, when I learned that certain parties were desirous of taking over our place thinking that with no one there to protect the women and stock they could get away with it. "There were two ways to ap proach the ranch, one by a 14' mile trail up the side of a can yon, and the other was by air, Fortunately we were able to ne gotiate the distance in our plane. So that there were about 30 of us 'at home' when five rough looking fellows arrived at the entrance. 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 rible. 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. Job Needed To the Editor: This is my first ume to write to a paper but I have tried every other way to obtain a job b:f. so far have been unsuccessful. We have been in the Medford area since the last of July. Work ed in the fruit and about a week before the fruit harvest ended my husband became seriously ill and it took all the money we had made. He was unable to work for three weeks and our three children and I were sick with flu for two weeks. The weather has been so bad he has been able to make little for food and gas to go to work. I am not asking for charity but thought perhaps someone would read this and be able to furnish information as to where I could obtain some kind of work. I worked for 2i years for Thrifty Drug, Inc., in California, for 1V4 years was manager of the candy department, also with the Gail Richard Cosmetic com pany of Los Angeles for nine months. I can do housework and sewing. I helped out for a while at a dry cleaners, worked on the puf fers. I worked as a nurse's aide in the Lindsay hospital in Lindsay, Calif. I am not an expert cook but can prepare good wholesome family meals, and with three children of my own, I feel that I am qualified to take care of children. I can work at a full time job or part time, but of course would prefer a full time job. Perhaps you are wondering why I don't place an ad. I could not pay for it. So if you can find space for this you can print it any way you see fit. I don't hava a phone but we live just back of the Pan-cakehouse in Talent. Ruth Pettitt General Delivery Talent, Oregon motor vtmeit Taxes rccs IS.J N COftWUTlO t MANCMISC TAX j . t.M : -1 FIMONM. INCOME TAX HIGHWAYS VINICLC MEBULATKM (4.0 SOCIAL WELFARE HEALTH i.rs MENTAL HT0IENE CORRECTIONS t.t CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES 4.7 S News and Notes From Camp White "I decided to he kind to them when we took them in, and itJ was kindness in their sort of way. We simply tied the five up in the corral and did not give them any water to drink, owing to the fact that in the altitude it is not advisable to drink water or eat to excess or move around too rapidly. "It just so happens that the place where they were tethered was right where six of our pitch ing boards were located. About that time it was, the best light for the boys to practice throwing knives. I could see no reason for them to delay practice. It was a little discomforting to the five, I'll admit, but as long as no one was hurt, what was the harm? "Now I was pretty sure the fellows were getting a little im patient to leave, ' and besides, their folks would worry about them if they were out too late so I had my oldest boy take them home. But we did not know just where their homes were located,' and as they would not talk we had ttf do the best we could. "Two of these visitors were taken east, two north and the fifth flown south. This all took time and it was not until the next morning that I asked the boys if they got out OK, which they told me they had. To be sure, I forgot to inquire how far from the ground the plane was when they alighted. "You know, it has always made me feel bad that after all I had done for those five hom bres they were not thankful enough to write me at "least a post card showing their appre ciation for all the kind treatment we had given them." Federal Job Vacancies Listed by Commission A number of federal jobs are open, and civil service examin ations have been scheduled to fill them, according to the civil service commission. Information regarding the jobs, and examination applica tion blanks, are available from Chester W. Sffliman, local ex aminer for the commission, at the post office. The jobs include student trainees, $2,500 to $3,175 an nually; bacteriologist, biochem ist and serologist, $4,205 to $8, 360 annually: and for positions with the U.S. Army corps of engineers, as quartermaster, dragtender, second mate, boat swain, launch operator, fireman watertender, and marine oiler, paying from $1.92 to $2.92 per hour depending on job and ex perience. - Dead line Sunday Classified. 5b at noon Saturday; 10 ajn. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day Funeral services pre-arranged in ad' vance of need saves others financial and emotional burdens later. CHAPEL MORTUARY Frank Morgan . . Harold Snodgrqss Funeral Directors Phone 2-8030 Matter of Fact SOUTH ASIA'S DRAMA, . Bangkok, Thailand Here In Bangkok, it is easy to summarize the plot of the grand future drama of South Asia. Will world com munism be able to cross the Great Divide that separates the Chinese Com munists and their Viet Minn al lies from the rest of this Joseph .Alsop s t r a t e gical ly vital region? Or will the Com munist advance be halted at this natural border line? These are the questions that have to be answered, in quite large part by American policy. The answers will determine the future, not of Thailand only, but of the whole trend of his tory in our times. But before anything else, the nature of this Great Divide in South Asia has to be understood. In brief, the Vietnamese, who inhabit the coast of Indochina, can properly be regarded as southern Chinese. In language and in race, they differ less from the Cantonese across the border than the Cantonese differ from the people of Peking. Their cul ture, from the most ancient times, has always been imported from China. And for more than two millenia they have usually been either subjects or tribu taries of Peking. Thus the Viet Minh conquest of the Vietnamese states of Indochina, Tonkin, Annam, and Cochin China in the South, may be regarded as a flowing back of Chinese power, into regions where Chinese power has al ways predominated. The other nations of South Asia the two other Indochinese states, Laos and Cambodia, this rich and smiling country of Thailand, Burma, Malaya and Indonesia have an altogether different character. " Chinese imperialism has often in the past been felt by these peoples, as it is being felt today. But the culture of all these na tions is basically Indian, import ed at different times reaching back into the remote past, begin ning perhaps with the mission aries that the Emperor Asoka sent to all quarters of the world to spread the holy word of Gautama Buddha. rfiHE peoples of all these. n& - tions also differ from the sub jects of the Viet Minh in an other important way. They not only lack close racial links with the Chinese. They also have good reasons for being bitterly anti-Chinese. The history of the Thgi people begins 2,000 years ago, for in stance, in central China. Thence the expanding Chinese pushed them first into South China. And again, about a millenium later they were driven out of South China by another wave of Chi nese expansion into this fertile valley of central Thailand. The frontier that runs along the Chinese borders, and down the borders between the Viet namese states and Laos and Cambodia, is thus a major divid ing line in every possible sense India's Prime Minister Nehru recognized this, and also em phasized India's cultural con tribution, on his famous visit to Ho Chi Minh. Nehru told Ho Chi Minh, in effect, that the Viet Minh vic tory on the Chinese side of the great South Asian divide was natural "and acceptable to maia. He added, however, that India would take it very ill indeed if there was a further push into the culturally Indian area into Laos and Cambodia, for in stance. Ho Chi Mlnh's degree of re spect for Nehru's warning is in dicated by the violent Viet Minh push that is now going on in Laos. All the same, world communism has now reached the line where it is no longer possible to exploit the famous colonial issue for the Laotians and Cambodians hate the Viet namese much more than they hate the French. And world communism in this part of the world is more generally re earded as a Chinese product, which sets the other peoples of By Joseph Alsop South Asia naturally against it. Thus in theory it should not be impossible to halt world com munism's onward march at the Great Divide of South Asia. But there are, unfortunately, some three practical . difficulties of great magnitude. FIRST, Thailand, . Cambodia and Laos,- the three countries most immediately threatened, are all soft and easily penetrable or at least easy to bully. Thai land, for instance, is an easy going Asian nation, in which the old forms of Asian society have utterly broken down. An amiable, money loving junta now rules Thailand as a sort of benevolent police state. But there is no unity between gov ernment and people, little enough unity within the govern ment itself, and no visible na tional power to make a long, hard, grimeffcrt of resistance. Second, the keys to the Thai position are the even weaker nations: Laos and Cambodia, Cambodia being absolutely vital. The French naturally attached Laos and Cambodia to the rest of Indochina, transportwise and in every other way. Thus if either Cambodia or Laos is to be saved, a major, urgent and coordinated effort is needed, to render these two countries in dependent of Saigon and Hanoi, and to reorient their communi cations, economies and every thing else towards Thailand. No such effort is being made. Third, and most important, all three of these countries are now liable to fall before mere military menaces, as Jericho's walls fell to Joshua's trumpet. The only safeguard against this is to give these countries an ironclad Western guarantee with such strong teeth in it that they will feel there is no danger of attack. And the Thais and Cam bodians are quite astute enough to see that SEATO as at present constituted is the emptiest sort of fraud and fake. The first of the three diffi culties can only be surmounted and perhaps disaster might thus be averted, "by wise American policy. But alas, at the moment, there does not seem to be any American policy in this area ex cept to float, to drift, to talk big, and to hope for the best. (Copyright, 1955, - New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) SWEET WOODCHUCK Allentown, Pa. (U.PJ A state policeman reported seeing woodchuck sitting up alongside a nearby highway eating a lolly pop which it held between its paws. William A. Moyer, district game protector, said the wood chuck has a taste for sweets and that the candy probably had been tossed from a passing auto. ' In the summer of 1953 a ura nium rush started in Canada's Blind River district east of Sault Ste. Marie. Within a few weeks 10,000 clams were staked. Equalizer Construction with heavier density foam in center, c;ves firm support where needed. Englander's Firm-Foam PIECES Here's a once in a lifetime offer. The Englender Firm-Foam mattress of genuine foam latex com bined with an extra depth specially designed box spring. For a new high in sleeping comfort at a new low in price see this wonderful sleep value. But don't wait ther Firm-Foam ensemble is avail able only during the Englander Sleepstakes. See it today! $15.00 Cash - $6.00 Per Month .10 I2D GUIS'' !n the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS S A new congress the 84th is just getting under way ia Washington. V What is its mood? What is it thinking about? What does it plan to do in the way of providing, continuing improvement in government for the American people? HERE is an Interesting al thnilCTrl norriane nnt 4aa m. assuring little item in the grist of news from the nation's capi tal: "So many investigatons al ready have been proposed in the house of representatives of the new Congress that if all of them were approved THERE MIGHT NOT BE ENOUGH CONGRESS MEN TO HANDLE THEM ALL." IITHAT do they want to invest! cate? Well, more or less everything, it appears. One member proposes an in quiry into the "conduct of hear ings by house committees." That is to say, he wants .another in vestigating committee to investi gate the investigators. That's little like hiring a watchman to watch your place of business on nights and holi days and then hiring a super- watchman to watch the watch man and a little later hiring a super-duper watchman to watch the super-watchman and the common, ordinary watchman. VlfHY this yen for more in- " vpstifatinff rnmmittees? Why not just let the ordinary committees of the congress, which are varied and numerous, do the investigating and the studying? I'M AFRAID this is the answer: 'The ctnhlibpH rftntin taken-for-granted committees do their work quietly and unos tentationsly and their reports get comparatvely little play in he news The special investigating com mittees GET THE HEADLINES. IS THE current rage for spec ial inwKtiatrtff rnmmittw a trend toward better or isn't it? It's hard to say. But this, X think, is true: . HEADLINITIS is the most dan gerous disease to which a poli tician can be exposed. It has made headline hunters of a lot of men who might other wise have been excellent legisla tors. WHO knows but what even Senator McCarthy might have made a pretty good law maker if he hadn't got TOO MANY HEADLINES? TALKIES Chicago (U.PJ The Art In stitute of Chicago is experiment ing with "talking pictures." A touch of a button beside a paint ing brings a recorded two-min ute talk about the masterpiece. 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