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f-o o o FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfohdTribum "Everybody in southern Oregon Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager I. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Ediior HARRY CHIPMAN, TelegraDh Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE 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 Marcn a. iaa SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daiy and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 650 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. o Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: T-v-.il c. rtna t'.s, K1s fill Daily and Sunday One month 1-a5 ' Carrier and Dealers sc per copy - All Terms casn n Aavancc Official Paper of the City ol Medford Official Paper of Jackson Courty United Press Full Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver. B.C. NIWSFAPER PUILISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASVoCATllQN 37 HiiMi'U'iirr 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 Feb. 8, 1945 (It was Thursday) Vic Milnes elected president Of Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce, succeeding Paul Selby. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Some thing went wrong with the har-1 ness of a team of horses on Sixth st. yesterday and it was adjust ed by the driver. In pre-war days, he would have been sneer ed at by 40 passing auto horns. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 8. 1935 (It was Friday) " " ' H. A. Pinneo eiected presi dent' of newly formed Medford o 20-30 club; other officers include George Goodman, Leo Laurin, . C. Westergren, Herb Brown, Del Cox, Ivan Harrington and J. Orbin Cooksey. f,-. Justine Miller, Medford, ap pointed secretary for the Ore o gana, student yearbook, at Uni versity of Oregon. 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 8, 1925 a (It was Sunday) Floyd Collins, trapped in a cave in Kentucky, reported dead 0 after 10 days of efforts to res cue him; entire nation follows radio reports of event. Jackson county Republicans s irked by failure of Gov. Walter M. Pierce to appoint fish com missioner for southern Oregon.. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 8, 1915 (It was Monday) District representatives elect ed at irrigation mass meeting at Medford public library in clude George B. Carpenter, Phoenix; W. W. Gregory, Agate; Victor Bursell, Central Point; O. S. Blackford, Willow Springs; Lloyd Houston, Talent; Frank Brown, Eagle Point, and E. G. Wortman, Medford. "Mail Tribune, carries an nouncement of birth of eight pound son, on Sunday, Feb. 7, to Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Quisen bury. . What's the Answer?, (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. The Russians say they wiU or won't consider the Eisenhow er plan on atomic power for peace, or have ignored it? 2. If the groundhog saw his shadow on Feb. 2, we're in for 40 days of good or bad weather? 3. Most states allow a girl to marry at 18 without her parent's consent; right or wrong? 4. The Communist party in West Germany has much or lit tle political strength there? ' 5. The nickname of . "Free State" is applied to California, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachu setts or Texas? 6. More motor-vehicle deaths come every year from cars hit ting other cars or hitting pedes trians? 7. A wetback is a duck, long distance swimmer, skin disease, illegal entrant from Mexico, ot put-it-on-yourself wallpaper? The answers: 1. Say ihey will consider it. 2. Bad weather. 3. Right. 4. Little. 5. Maryland. 6. Hitting Other Cars. 7. Illegal en trant from Mexico. MAIL TRIBUNE Why Not a Preventive War? If ex-Speaker Joe Martin knows what he is talk ing about then we don't see why President Eisen hower should longer oppose a "preventive war." For the ex-Republican-Speaker declared over the air Sunday night that in case of hostilities the USA would "whip" Red China in 30 days. Moreover the veteran Republican leader was equally certain Soviet Russia would not come to the aid of China, and there would consequently be no Third World War. Finally the ex-Speaker declared the United States would go .all out in its offensive, using presumably land-troops as well as atomic bombs. TF this is all true then why not follow out Joe's views to their logical conclusion. The main obstacle from a Republican standpoint as to war with China has been the fear of another world war, and consequent world-wide atomic destruction, including of course, in this country. But if, as Speaker Martin claims, "Soviet Russia would not dare risk a general war" now, China could be crushed in a month, and presumably Chiang Kai shek restored to power, as the Red leaders were liquidated a preventive war would seem to be an excellent investment. For Red China, as of today, is the No. 1 threat to world peace. If Russia won't give her aid in case , of hostilities with the West then this No. 1 threat could be removed at the minimum of time and cost, includ ing a minimum of American casualties. And that would be a great load off everyone's mind, but particularly the President's, and the lead ers of his party, including Senator Knowland. . . THE only fly in the ointment is, we fear President Eisenhower thinks "Uncle Joe" is talking through his hat. There is little doubt that if Soviet Russia WOULD keep "hands off" that the Red China in a modern without the aid of the atomic bomb. For while China has unlimited man-power, she lacks the all important successful war, has no adequate motor or rail trans portation, few if any atomic weaporis and no over supply of food at least for her" civil population be hind the lines. IN other words in case of an all-out war between only these two countries it is no doubt true, China would ultimately, be defeated. But how long that defeat would take, as far as the complete surrender and occupation of China are con cerned, and the driving out of Mao and his minions, is a different matter. . " Japan tried for 14 years to conquer China, and it did not have to fight as would the U.S.A., 10,000 miles from home. Japan enjoyed a superiority in ev ery department of warfare, but Japan failed. China didn't win a major engagement in that con flict. But it conducted a guerilla warfare constantly and successfully in every part of the country, includ ing the parts occupied by the enemy, and had World War II not developed, it is not unlikely that war would still be going on today ! CO even assuming Soviet Russia would not aid China in case of attack as she promised to do, it is prob ably his knowledge of China and the difficulties of any conquest of that country added to his knowl edge of what war is and his desire to prevent it that accounts for President Eisenhower's refusal to follow . his party's leading pro-war enthusiast, from the state of Massachusetts. . And then "Mr. President" may look back with some misgivings to the time the Kaiser of Germany predicted he would win World )Var Tin six months, and Hitler after the fall of France declared a new era had dawned in Europe which would endure for the next thousand years with Nazism at the head of it. And General Mac Arthur , declared China would not invade Korea and the boys would be home by Christmas! ' . - AS before remarked in this department, we don't believe there will be war in the Far East, now or soon the chief reason being none of the princi pals, (probably including Red China) really WANT, it not now at least. It is undoubtedly fortunate for ex-Speaker Mar tin's reputation as a military expert and a person of rare prophetic powers at least in the political field that this is so. i ' Otherwise it is probable that lie would eventually have to admit he had talked out of turn on the eve ning of Sunday, Feb. 6th, 1955 and might have bet ter kept his mouth shut. . piNALLY there is a very good reason why the Chi nese Reds should not oppose the evacuation of the Tachen Islands by Chiang Kai-shek. Why shpuld they fight to get an important island, when they-can get it without fighting?' They may be a crazy bunch but they are not that crazy. . In fact it may be this Formosa threat bythe Chi nese is all a'.bluff, that what they want is to immobile ize Chiang as far as any attack onvthe Chinese main land is concerned, while they concentrate on Indo China and Indonesia, to the south. . Whether this is true or isn't will probably be known before the year it out. R.W.R. Tuesday, February 8, 1955 United States could defeat sea - and - land war, with or and ranks 4th in the air, industrial production for a States Move To End Civil Service Right To Fire Employees By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) It is a fact not generally known that the federal government has au thority to drop a note to the governor of any state or dering him for cause to fire certain state employees and make the order stick. The states are moving i r witCo now to pro Lyle C Wilson tect themselves. The federal agency with pow er to do this is the Civil Service Commission. The authority de rives from the Hatch Act which was passed in the Roosevelt era to keep civil servants out of pol itics. The Hatch Act's ban on polit ical activity by federal em ployees applies also to em ployees of any state agency fi nanced in whole or in part by federal funds. There is an excep tion in behalf of educational or scientific state agencies. Teach ers; for example, would be ex empt. But an employee of any other state agency which re ceived so much as $1 of fedral funds may be fired on orders from Washington if held guilty of political activity, or the em ployee may be suspended. Vermonters Fighting Law The states of Vermont and In diana are' taking the lead in curb ing this extraordinary grant to the federal government of au thority to dabble in state busi ness. Vermont has gone to court. The Civil Service Commission recently moved against an offi On The Side (Distributed by King She that would gain a constant lover Must at a distance keep .the slave. Men should not guess the thoughts we have. While they're in doubt their flame increases And all attendance they will pay. When we're possessed their transport ceases And vows, like vapours, fleet away. : Aphra Behn. How many voters; are there in your family? Do you all vote the same ticket? Friend of mine," who is a Republican, has a wife and daughter who are both Dem ocrats. . What is the. record ' for number of voters : id the same family? Patrick G. Smith of Staten Island. N. Y.. had twelve sons and five daughters all of voting age. Their votes added to. those of their parents made nineteen votes in one family! Office Wives Secretaries of executives are reliablv reported hennminff in creasingly difficult to handle. some 01 tne uiri .Fridays are said to be as tempermental as opera stars. I have asked our horses and women exberts to thoroughly check this alarmine situation. If it is as reported, i win nave our experts prepare a series of helpful hints to execu tives under the general heading 'tne nandling and training of office wives." - First Baby ' What was ; your wife's age when her first baby arrived? Ac cording to experts on the the best time for the first baby is wnen me motner is older than 20 and younger than 25. The ideal father of the first baby i Tit snouia De oetween 25 and 35. It is also said a child-bearine career should end at 35. And that it is safe for the average woman to have seven children but unwise to have eight or more. Also that the period between births should be from twenty-seven to thirty months. Asking ' ' Queries from clients. Q. Have wagered the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas," often referred to as "The Night Before Christ mas," was written in a house in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Right?. A. You lose. Poem you refer to by Clement Moore was written in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. To be exact, on West Twenty-third Street be tween Ninth and Tenth Avenues. Q. Is there a fish colored red white and blue? A. Yes, sir. It is a tropical fish called the South American neon tetra. Q What is Mae West's real name? A. The name Mae uses profession ally is her real name. Her father was the late John Patriot- of the- Greenpoint section of xsrooKiyn. Please Note "The Art nf Rooino" u atj , "JJ'ViluUUS Huxley is a book that should in terest those with fading eyesight Huxley, whose eyesight became SO har) he wac almnd claims to have improved his con KLEENEX HANDY? Even dogs love Paul Ward on Barker's new nine o'clock Wednesday TV show,' "Let's Kick It Around." They'll lick your TV screen Mike it was covered with honey, milk, or ham. cer of yermont Department of Welfare who was found euiltv of having acted as platform com mittee chairman at a state po litical convention. Vermont au thorities refused to punish their man whereupon the commission levied a fine against the state. The punishment assessed was the withholding of federal Wel fare funds in a sum equal to two years salary for the offend ing welfare department official. Vermonters are not greedy, but they want what's coming to them, especially if it is money. So they have brought suit in fed eral district court, challenging validity of . the commission's ac tion. Political Exemption Bills Indiana is attacking the Hatch Act provision in Congress. Sen. Homer Capehart and Rep. John V. Beamer, both Republicans, have introduced identical bills. They would provide blanket ex emption from the political activ ity ban to employees of state agencies. Beamer told the United Press he is interested because the Civil Service Commission has taken action against several employees of Indiana's conservation depart ment. , . "But it has been happening a bit too often ih other states, too," Beamer said. Beamer said there scarcely is a state agency which does not receive funds from the federal government. A vigorous enforce ment of the law would deprive thousands of state employees of the privilege of political activity. It is understood that the Civil Service Commission would be delighted if Congress would re lieve it of its responsibility of policing the activities of state employees. . By E. V. Durling Features Syndicate, Inc.) dition by exercises and other treatment" until he was able to read without spectacles! Models At hand is a communication from a young woman of Man hattan who describes herself as corset model. My knowledge of those engaged in that type of modeling is meager. I suppose they are as shapely as the rest of the models. Still it seems a cor set' model who was a little plump or having a figure somewhat re moved from perfect might be a greater aid in selling corsets than a symmetrical female. She could vividly demonstrate what the garment could accomplish in the way of .form compressing. In afFaw Words " Sarah Bernhardt said, "Thirty per cent of a woman's good looks are due to nature. Seventy per cent to dress" . . . Ovid, in his monumental work titled "The Art of Love," observed, "Wheth er they yield or refuse it delights women to.have been asked." Safeway Stores Cuts Coffee Prices San Francisco (U.R) Safe way Stores, Inc., announced that effective today it would reduce the retail price of coffee by 15 cents a pound. The company said the change would go into effect immediate ly in all stores throughout the system. ' - ; ': A Safeway spokesman said the reduction would involve' all three company brands, Edwards, Nob Hill and Airway, and that in some cases the cut would be more than 15 cents. Dr. Merkel Named By Health Officers Dr. A. Erin Merkel, Jackson county health officer, was elected president of the Oregon Health Officers association at a recent meeting, according to the monthly bulletin of the State Board of Health. . . Dr. Merkel also was named to a new committee named to advise the state health officer on matters of public health. Other officers of the associa tion include Dr. Willard Stone, Marion county, vice-president, and Dr. Richard Wilcox, secre tary. STAGE MONEY STOLEN Hollywood (U.R) The burglars who stole $500 from the Key West Motion Picture studios will have to become ac tors if they want to use ;the loot. ;The currency was stage money. - Matter of Fact THE ENEMY BUILDUP Taipeh. Formosa The build up and the current deployment of Chineco fp-niunist military cower oupht to give pause to those who regard the Formosa crisis as a mere passing flurry. Since the Korean truce, important ground and air forces have been transfer- Joseph Alsop red S o u t to wards to the coastal provinces which are the natural jump-off points for an attack on Formosa andor Formosa's offshore is lands. And the modernization of Red China's land army has meanwhile gone rapidly for ward, so that most of this huge force is now almost as well equipped as the infantry of the Soviet Union. Authoritative intelligence sources now credit the Peking government with regular ground forces with a strength of more than 3,100,000. These are or ganized in 210 infantry divi sions, 22 artillery divisions, six armored divisions, plus consid erable numbers of independent tank and artillery regiments, en gineer regiments and calvalry outfits. On the ground, the post-Korean redeployment has been dramatic. At the end of ; the fighting, the Chinese had seven teen of their armies on Hhe Ko rean front. Seven of these arm ies (composed of three divisions each and equalling an American corps) have now been trans ferred out of Korea into China proper.- ' Three armies from Korea, the 12th, the 20th and the 26th, have been sent down to Chekiang and Kiangsu provinces, where the force threatening the Tachen Islands is massed. A fourth army from Korea, the 60th, is in first reserve position at Nanking. Three more armies from Korea are in North China, close to the North-South railroads that can carry them rapidly to the Yangtse valley. These must therefore be regarded as a sec ondary reserve. ' TiHE. Chekiang-Kiangsu force. immediately threatening the Tachens, now. comprises four armies in all. Further South, in Fukien province, across the narrow waters from Quemoy and the Matsu islands, there is a second large mass of troops comprising three amies. None of these armies in Fukien, how ever, is of Korean origin. The air redeployment has followed almost exactly the same pattern, Before the Korean armistice, the main strength of the Chinese Communist air force of just un der 2,000 combat planes was stationed in Manchuria, to sup port the ground troops .at the Korean front. In this period, the dispositions along the China coast were obviously defensive Now, however, an additional 500 aircraft, including five air divisions of MIG 15s, have been transferred southwards. ? Instead of being in the North, the main strength of the Communist air force is thus concentrated in Chekiang, Kiangsu and the low er Tangtse Valley, where the air-base building program has been intensive. And there is a secondary concentration, of five additional air divisions,- in the more southerly region around Canton. . In the air picture, however, there is one important differ ence from the ground picture. There is a striking gap in "Fu kien province, in the immediate neighborhood of Quemoy and the Matsus. No air units are as yet stationed here. -Only one Fukien airfield, at Foochow, is fully ready to support jet opera tions. In view of the distances involved and the short range of Investment made by the 10th of the month earn divi dends as of the ' First. . Mr ss INI liTrFniriyiil By Joseph Alsop the MIG 15, the Communists would therefore find it difficult, at this time, to use their most important plane in large num bers in support of assaults on Quemoy or the Matsus. The picture that emerges, then, is one of methodical prep aration which is not absolutely completed. The dispositions of enemy forces clearly point to wards an imminent attack on the ' Tachen Islands, unless of course they are given these is lands as a present first, under the current American plan. . , . THE slow, but inexorable movement of all forces south wards also points to an event ual attack on Quemoy and the Matsus and beyond much doubt on the main island of Formosa. The timing of these operations is rendered doubtful by the air gap in Fukien already noted. But it should be added, that despite the air gap both Chinese and American experts here give the Communists the capability of attacking either the Matsus or Quemoy or both at any time. For this purpose they have a sea lift capacity sufficient to move 50,000 men. A so-called seaman's division, specially trained in the management of sea lift, is stationed close to the Matsus, suggesting that these islands are next on the list. In shorV what the Commu nists can do if, they choose to risk the consequences is only too grimly clear. What they will do is not by any means so clear. But the concensus in Taipeh, which seems logical to this re porter, is not particularly en couraging. In brief, it is plam for all the world to see that President Ei senhower is hoping that evacua tion of the Tachens plus a show of firmness about the other is lands, will eventually enable him to make a deal. Quemoy and the Matsus are to be traded for a promise of toleration of the nationalists on Formosa, Two Chinas, one small and in the process of withering away, the other Vast and growing stronger by the month, are thus to be recognized. This must 1 o.o k logical in Washington. But the concensus here, even among the few who favor such a deal, is that the President will not get what he wants by mere hints that he may perhaps fight for Quemoy and rather,' that the President will have to prove he means it, by actually fighting for those is lands when the tune comes. (Copyright, 1955 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) 11 Ships To Join Fleet at Formosa Long Beach, Calif. U.fi) Three heavy cruisers and eight destroyers departed today for Formosan waters to join the U, S. Seventh Fleet which is help ing evacuate the Tachen Islands. The armada, commanded by Rear Adm. commanded by Rear Adm. Frederick warder, sauea from the Long Beach harbor and carried a total of 6500 men. The cruisers, the LoS Angeles, Baltimore and Rochester, left the Long Beach Naval Yard ominously "yesterday and began loading ammunition in the outer harbor. The destroyers in the armada were identified as the Mansfield, Kves. De Haven. Swenson. Shel- ton, Everesoll, Higbee and Col- Iett. -Officers said the shins would stop at Pearl Harbor en route to the Seventh Fleet. BATH MONOPOLISTS Mexico City - (U.R) The newspaper La Prensa today blasted "monopolists" operating public bath houses for charging "excessive rates. The cost in U.S. currency' would be two per bath. START YOUR SAVNIGS ACCOUNT NOW INVEST REGULARLY-LIVERY PAYDAY IN AN INSURED SAVINGS ACCOUNT Insured to $10,000 by The Federal Savings and Loan . Insurance Corporation Your Savings WiH fdrn Dividends, Tool Com In Today Investigate Discover how you will profit with regular investment in a First Federal account. START YOUR SAVINGS PLAN NOW FIRST FEDERAL 4& Savings & Locn Assn. of ttcdfcrd 27 North Holly Telephone 2-9147 Nixon To Address" - r Joint Session of Cuban Congress Havana, Cuba (U.R) Vice. President Richard M. Nixon re vised his official schedule to ad dress a joint session of the Cuban Congress today. Nixon, on a goodwill visit to this Caribbean Republic, was to speak in the Senate this after noon before members of both the upper and lower houses. - The vice-president of . the United States was the guest of honor at a formal state dinner given Monday night by acting President Andres Domingo. Pres ident-elect Fulgencio Batista is to be inaugurated later this month. Nixon met with Batista at the latter's farm some 50 miles from Havana. He presented Batista and Mrs. Batista with a personal message and inscribed photo graph from President Eisenhow er and Mrs. Eisenhower. In formed sources said Nixon also relayed an informal invitation to Batista to visit the U.S. Newsmen, Batista won the gratitude of American photographers who are accompanying Nixon on his tour by refusing to allow any pictures until they showed up. The American newsmen and cameramen had been turned back by State Department of ficials because of a misunder standing of protocol instructions. Nixon expressed his gratitude for the wonderful, warm hospi tality" accorded him and his party and said he hoped his visit would bring the U.S. and Cuba even closer. Red agitators smashed two windows here Saturday in a nrotest against the American vice-president's visit. However, there was no report of trouble during Monday's ceremony. TO IGNORE ORDERS. Omaha. Neb. (U.R) Anton Miratsky Jr., decided today to ignore two traffic violation no tices sent him by a New York Police Court with orders to mail $10 to cover them. Miratsky said he has never been in New York. "Yak, yak, yak," says Ethel Merman. 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