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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDF051DwCTRIBUN1 "riveryoooy la toutnern Oregon i mi m : i m : i ' Aeaos x lie nBuiuDuac Puhlished Daily Except Saturday by ; MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 - ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC AliLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph 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 March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 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 U3 Sunday Only One year $350. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Photnix, Shady Cove, Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 : Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Comty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION AQverunng neprncuwuvc. WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. n ' ' Vancouver. B.C. - NATIONAL EDITORIAL AS3cSTI5M CjmSpSv PUBIISHIM A 5J'A'"6ciATION Flight o' Time- Medford and Jackson County History from the files bf The Mail Tribune 10, 20; 30 and 40 years ago. ..... 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 15, 1945 '.. : ) (It was Thursday) Medfird Rotary club's new barbershop quartet, composed of Kenneth Denman, Bob Wright, George Turney and Harvey Rob ertson, , makes first appearance at meeting of club. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: There are signs the legislature will not be able to abate within, its alloted time of 60 days. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 15, 1935 (It was Friday) , I James Kubli of; Washington school finds the first buttercup of spring and takes it-to . his teacher. " Attorney Joe F. Fliegel, new member of - Medford city coun cil, speaks before Medford Ki wanis club. 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 15, 1925 Lower ; house : of legislature passes bill giving Medford right to use Big Bufte creek water. v John C. Mann, Medford, nam- H tn rsnTiitinn mmmiflM nf State Retail Merchants associa tion. . ; 1 40 YEARS AGO ' Feb. 15, 1915 Mail .Tribune column entitled Lessons in Dancing by Miss Joan Sawyer' declares - "The 'lame duck' is one of the most graceful steps in the aeroplane waltz." ; From the Local and Personal column: Tramps, with the ad vent of pleasant weather, have taken to the banks of Bear creek, and Sunday, their camp fires burned along the stream. What s f he Answer? (Can You Get 4 of Ihe 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Russian influence in the U. N. is decreasing, increasing, or staying about the same, accord ing to U.S. delegate Lodge? 2. Of the five "basic" farm products, one, two, three, four, or all five have been selling re cently at below parity? :: 3. Mt. Suribachi, on which the U.S. flag was planted in World War II, is on Formosa, Japan proper, Bikini, , the Philippines, Okinawa, or Iwo Jima? 4. The average American woman spends about $1.40, $14, $24 or $40, a year on hose? 5. Gen. Lucius D. Clay is now board chairman of Remington Rand, Continental Can, Ameri can Machine and Foundry, Bul ova Watch or General Foods? : 6. Does any state pay unem ployment compensation for . as many as 30 weeks a year? : ; 7. The slang term "schmo" means a long-winded talker, a deadbeat, an alcoholic, a homo sexual, a misfit, or a drug ad dict? The- Answers: 1. Decreasing. 2. All five. 3. Iwo Jima. 4. About $14, according to National Asso ciation of Hosiery Manufactur ers. 5. Continental Can. 6. No. 7. A misfit. TRADITION-BOUND v - Meriden, . Conn. (U.R) City officials were offered a variety of colors, including lavendar, green and, yellow, when they ordered their new fire engine. They stuck to red. MAIL TRIBUNE More Wishful Thinking A General Wu, interviewed in US News & World Report has a new idea for clearing the Reds out of China and restoring Chiang Kai-shek. No. 1: He would have Chiang reform and broad cast the details of his reformation to the Chinese people to-wit: ' v No more corruption, no more landlordism, restora tion of a true and honest democracy in the Celestial kingdom. - , No. 2: Chiang with his 600,000 troops conscript enough Formosans to bring the total to a million or more, and then with the aid of the U.S. fleet and air force invade the Chinese mainland. . yHAT would be the result? . . According to General Wu, an uprising; of the Chinese masses in support of their democratic libera tor, extermination of the hated Red oppressors, no resumption of the landlordism and corruption . by Chiang and a happy return of China to the society of free and independent nations, released from Rus sian dominance, and in league with the West THAT certainly "listens well" as, the saying goes. And one serious obstacle to the return of Chiang Kai-shek would be avoided. That would be need of U.S. troops, U.S. action being confined solely to the sea and air where this country, is strongest. For as far as anything in this uncertain world can be certain, no one in this country, as of today at least, would ok an all-out land war with China. . . , In other words the job of liberation would be done by Chinese, Chiang's million-men army, his" air force, and the millions of Chinese civilians who would rise to his aid the moment he landed. ' DUT would they? -r X ' , General Wu thinks so. 1 - And while he parted with Chiang Kai-shek on the issue of corruption he is all for him it he will clean house and return to, his original democratic principles. But this reformation Mr.i Wu insists must come FIRST. For it was corruption, landlordism and gen eral disregard of the people's interests, that led to the communist victory and the, forced exile of .Chiang to Formosa", in the first place. X yELL there is the Wu program very briefly. And judging by the prominence given it by U.S. News and World Report that popular magazine at least must believe there may be SOMETHING to it. Well we hope there is. .;. :v If with only the aid of the 7th fleet and part of the US airforce, Chiang Kai-shek; could return to the Chinese mainland and drive out the Chinese Reds, supported only by his own people, that would, we believe, suit the administration and a majority of the American people just fine. - " e . ' , THHE only fly in the ointment we can discern is we " doubt if anyone in any position of power or in fluence in this country with the possible exception of Senator Knowland of California, believes it. V Cv It is we fear just more wishful thinking only on the part of the Chinese instead of the "Yanks" this time. R.W.R. Joe versus Ike The campaign to secure the renomiftation of Pres ident Eisenhower is starting early. Hardly a day passes now that some prominent Republican doesn't announce tnat the President will agree to run again, and no one can beat him. . . There is a reason for this. For the anti-Eisenhower campaign started even earlier. In fact it was started the day Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin , at tacked the President and apologized to the American people for ever asking them to support him, - V v That this was no sudden impulse, generated in passing pique and anger, was clear then to those who were on the inside of the plot to "get Ike." Joe doesn't act on impulse, he is a calculating and shrewd poli tician. . " : The recent anti-Eisenhower gathering in Chicago on Lincoln's birthday, high-lighted by another left handed attack on the President and his policies, by the Wisconsin Senator, removed all doubt, however. ALREADY conservative and peace loving mem "bers of the GOP are urging party unity in the face of increasing Democratic activity and next year's convention and election. . r. v Ik is doubtful, however, if pleas for harmony are effective. For when it comes to vindictive nursing of a personal grudge, the Wisconsin Senator has few rivals. It is, and always has been, "rule or ruin" with Joe, and unless all signs fail, will be this time. .V. In fact before very long the Republicans are, without doubt, going to have to make a choice-for some a difficult one whether they are going to be for Ike or Joe, they will no longer be able to be for both. ' :-:Vl;:r - y :. ' It will be interesting and instructive to see how the various members and factions line up, when the final roll-call is sounded! R.W.R. V BARGAIN BASEMENT Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) Mrs. Alma Hamilton tunneled a 75x40 foot basement under her house, doing most of the work herself over a 20-year period. She had to start the excavation with a butcher knife, because- there wasn't room under the house to use a large tool. Tuesday, February IS, 1955 FREE TREES .'V'. ; San Jose, Calif, (UJ3 When it comes to civic beauty t jthe city fathers here are giving it away. Any residents; who wants free trees for the sidewalk parking strips in front of their properties can choose from 14 varieties and the ' city will deliver the trees free of charge. -- " . Patterson Seen as '- By A. ROBERT SMITH -. Mail Tribune Correspondent ; Washington A planned "draff of the Republican7 gov ernor's of Oregon and Washing ton to run for the Senate next year is being seen here as essen tially the first move on the part of the ; Eisenhower administra tion to regain control for the GOP of the Congress" it lost in last fall's elections. ' ' These Pacific Northwest states are two of the six in which cru cial senatorial contests that could Move Matter of Fact HALFWAY TO HEAVEN North Tachen Island One of the casualties of the. latest, free world retreat in Asia is a place called Half way to' Heav en. Halfway to Heaven perch es,,, or rather used to be p er ched, on the cratered summit of the highest peak of North Tach Joseph Alsop en I s 1 a n d, some 1,500 the surrounding, feet above nourishing sea. :, It began a little, more than a century ago, when the first harsh . impact of '-. the modern world on. ancient China pro duced the T a i p i n g , rebellion, which in turn produced a fear ful famine in Chekiang prov ince. Fleeing the famine, a hand ful of inhabitants of the Chek iang town of Wan Tiing found a safe .rufuge on this island crag and stayed to build a village, or rather two villages, for the les ser of the two adjoining craters contains, Little Halfway to Heav en, and the larger, Big Halfway to Heaven. f , - - : w For five generations, sons suc ceeded fathers, gradually clawV ing new terraces from the crater walls . and. naked .mountainside for their plots of vegetables and sweet' potatoes, graduaUy add ing vessel to vessel in Halfway to Heaven's fleet of fishing sam pans until there were 130 sam pans owned among the hundred families of peak dwellers. The bitter poverty of the orig inal refugees thus slowly;, gave way to a kind of crude prosper ity. Long, low houses of chinked stone, with finely carved, boldly curved ridgepoles were built to cling to the crater sides. A little temple to the Taoist earth god lings gave the villagers some one to 'pray to When times were hard. The young men fished all year. . The elders -. ,the children and the women tilled the ter races. " -V ' . With salt and cloth from the big settlement' ,on South Tachen Island, with their fish and sweet potatoes and vegetables, with.la rare treat of meat from the pigs, chickens, rabbits and goats they also kept, the. people of Halfway to Heaven were not'iU-content. But for a. hundred years n6 out sider ever saw Halfway to Heav en, except the people from Door of the Wind Hill, the viUage on the .other side of the crag, and the . huge, superbly winged fish eagle that had his nest on the cliff below the village graves. - THEN President . Eisenhower "unleashed Chiang Kai-shek" and the American 7 government pressured the Chinese National ist government into occupying the Tachens by force. Soothe soldiers came, barracks were built, and Halfway to Heaven briefly tasted an unfamiliar un easy prosperity. And then again President Eisenhower releashed Chiang Kai-shek, and the Amer ican government-pressured the Chinese Nationalists into aban doning the Tachens; and ) that was the end to Halfway to Heaven. V ; - In the Chinese way, the, end came without undue lamenta tion. The viUagers talked It over and decided that what they had heard of communism from their fellow fisherfolk from the main land was ugly, enough to justify a move. The government said it would help. And soj on the afternoon before the move was to be made, no one was weeping except the wife of the elder of the Leng family. She was deaf and could not read, - and she wept because she had grasped that a move , impended but no one could teU her why or where. The elder of Leng, a little, old gnarled, toothless .man like a withered; root, with what must really be the last queue on any Chinese head, was .ignoring his weeping wife. He and the elder of Chu and the young men and boys of Little Halfway to Heav en were sitting in the pale, wa tery sun in the village center, while. the women finished, their packing. Yes, they said, they were leaving.' Yes, it was hard to go, but they did not want to stay. They had swept the graves one last time, and now they were ready. It was the same in Big Half way to Heaven, where is found the house of the place's richest La ng I Draft le go either Republican or Dem ocratic wiU be up for decision The others . are Missouri (Sen: Hennings, Democrat, : is the in cumbent), Ohio 03ender, Repub lican), New York (Lehman, Democrat), and Connecticut (Bush) Republican). Hard-Fought Campaigns Seen Around these incumbents and Sens. Wayne Morse and Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) the tighest and most hard fought election campaigns of 1956 are expected to be waged. For while there are other Senate seats in By Joseph Alsop man, Cheng who owned three whole sampans in the fleet that used to saiKfrom the foot of Knife Back Mountain. He had enough capital stored up to open a ' restaurant when the soldiers came, and his Chinese crullers and hot soya bean milk brought him in the magnificent cash profit of two dollars a day. But Cheng too was leaving without reluctance. ' As dusk feU, the village headman,-Lo The Clever, came back from organizing the evacuation of all North Tachen Island Kwan Yins Village, Bare Rocki the East Village, and the rest-r which were aU to be led by Lo. He had his aged mqther to calm and his household to organize, for Lo The Clever is a widower. So he let his deputy, Hung give the movement orders to the chiefs of the "Sections" of fifty or sixty people into which the viUage, by immemorial Chinese custom, is administratively di vided. ' THE meeting took place in the upper room of the house of Liang, a big house, for the Liang clan was the largest in Halfway to Heaven. A score of men, young and old, stood around the table .their . faces work hard ened, ' their black peasants clothes worn, making a picture fit to be painted by a. Chinese Breughel in the yellow light of a guttering taHow,candle. Hung read the movement order in a brisk singsong. Departure would be at nine the next morning. Each section leader would be responsible for his section. Each person would be allowed to carry 100 pounds of. persbnal belongings if he could manage that much. "J . 'There were quick questions; How about bad weather at sea, from a weatherwise fishernian; how about pregnant women, would they get medical care on the ships, from a young father soon to-be; and so on. Hung dealt with the questions intelli gently. And then everyone went home for ..a great feast of all the food that could not be sold to the soldiers, was not worth car rying, and was no longer worth scrimping against a poor season. ! Before dawn the next morn ing, the young men of the vil lage set off down th mountain side, :' each balacing . two enor mous packs on his back. At first Lo: had a little trouble forming the line to his taste. 1 Then the last shout was given. L'ittle Liang marched, proudly forward. ; Children , shouldered the; babies. Men and women, young or old, hoistefi up their h e a v y packs.; Even the old boundfeet grannies carried some thing. But none complained. And so the slowly moving line wound its way up over the chater lip and down the long miles of fear fully curving fearfully mud slimed road to Yellow One Beach where, the transports awaited them. ' An old nanny goat and her two kids, which had somehow escaped the pot, was being chased by two soldiers when the last- of those who had made Halfway to'Heaven a living breathing pi ace of habitation cast his last backward glance into the familiar hoUow on the mountain summit. The greatfish eagle still magnificently vol planed in the cloudy sky above. But the doorways of the houses were dark and deserted. The muddy : lanes were strewn with the rubbish of departure. Half way to Heaven was dead killed by forces it did not understand, utterly destroyed because it had been briefly swept, by what strange processes and chances, into the fearful vortex of great events. (Copyright. 1955, New York Herald Tribune. Inc.) Latter Day Saints Leader Heads for Home San Francisco U.R) David O. McKay, president of the Church of Latter-day Saints of Jesus Christ, left here today aboard a United Airlines plane for Salt Lake City, the last stage of a 45,000-mile tour ' of the church's South Pacific missions. McKay's plane took off at 7 aan. from the International Air port, and was to have arrived at Salt Lake City at 10:10 a.m. (PST). Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 10 ajn. Monday for Monday: other day 5:30 previous day. by Ad Control of Pla ns ministrat'ioh Congress contest, such as that of Walker, Idaho Republican, these six are the states in which both parties recognize the strongest possi bility of winning seats they do not now have or. losing seats they do have. The one-vote mar gin by which the Democrats now control the Senate is at stake. . If the reported recruitment effort by President Eisenhower to get Gov. Paul Patterson to run against Morse and Washing ton's Gov. Arthur B. Langlie to run against Magnuson is true, it is generally regarded on Capitol Hill as the shrewdest of moves, even if a bit early to be leaked publicly. Patterson's Name Mentioned Virtually every Republican to whom -this reporter has talked here since the recent election mentions Gov. Patterson's name first when the question is raised, "Who is going to run against Wayne Morse?", Yet without ex ception, there foUows an expla nation that . no one has any inkling that the governor, mid way through a four-year erm at the Salem state house, wants to run 'for the Senate so soon after bing elected to th governor ship. ." ' " ; . '' In Democratic circles the hope has been expressed that the GOP standard bearer will be Secretary of . Interior Douglas McKay, popular as a governor but, they feel, now . politically vulnerable as head of a depart ment in which they claim the "give-away" of government na ural -resources has been -centered. ; - Although the results of the last election, in which two Dem ocrats were elected to Congress from Oregon with Morse's cam paign backing, tended to boost Morse's political strength as evaluated by political observers, it is also pointed - out that the senator never really . has had a -tough election fight on his hands since first elected to of fice, v, . . . One Question Mark - There is one question mark in the minds of some oldtimers here about the political wisdom of the President taking any hand whatsoever in the selec tion- of party candidates for Congress. Some recall that Pres ident Roosevelt got ! burnt in such an endeavor, that Presi dent Truman couldn't sway an election even in his home state of Missouri. ". , - . -p "What - these" experiences of past Presidents may mean in the context of' the tremendous pop ularity President Eisenhower continues to hold as he heads toward the end of his first four year . term in office ' is a riddle for the cracker barrel artists to answer. :' But few, here seriously ques tion that Eisenhower, however reluctantly, will again head the GOP ticket in '56 a considera tion of no small importance to Patterson or any other Republi can who may emerge as Morse's next challenger. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday ; 10 a jn. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 oreviousday A New G.E. MOBILE MAID COME S T Now On Ask Us For Fult Particulars Authorized Dealer . General Electrie Appliances In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Jitter news:' " The Chinese Communists are massing a fleet of motorized junks off the Nationalist island of Matsu. This concentration of more than 70 junks near-, the mainland port of Foochow may herald a new crisis in Formosa strait. . WHY? - "f The Red Chinese are putting a problem up to us." They are saying, in effect (whether they mean it or not): "We're going to TAKE this Nationalist-held island of Matsu. ' "What are you going - to do about it? " 1ITHAT ARE we going to do H about it? I wouldn't know. But I do know that it calls for a decision on our part It must be the RIGHT decision. We can't offord any more wrong decisions in Asia. VOU'D better get out your map ; This island of Matsu is one of a fringe of islands just off the China mainland. It is held by the Nationalist Chinese. . Fully defended . with artulery . and planes' it could CORK UP, the Red Chinese port of Foochow. The other danger-spot island of Quemoy (also Nationalist held) could similarly cork up the important Red Chinese port of Amoy. - ' V LET'S now put the shoe on the other foot. : ? Suppose the Communists should attempt to seize the Far rallones, just outside our great port of San Francisco. (They're too small- of course, to be effec tively fortified, but 4they will serve as an example.) . Suppose: the Communists Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen nanss or initial for publication is permis jible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and -condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Boosts Peace Book To the Editor: We think, the nearest approach to the eternal question of salving world peace is in a copyright 1945-1946 little book, by Emery -Reves,' printed by Harper & Brothers of New York and London, titled, 'The Anatomy Of Peace,', with an open, letter to the American peo ple aoout tnis book, signed By twenty leading people, includ ing former supreme court . jus tice, three U.S. Senators, clergy men, professors of law, publish ers, scientists and, authors, . .. . Only a ,v scholar." like Mr, Reves is able , to assemble such a . mass of crystal clear logic giving answers that would lead to a basic solution for world peace . ; On the 293 pages.- in ' three' parts of understandable simple language , the reader will be amply rewarded both- in time spent and knowledge that there is given the true fundamentals and much sought after informa tion that is thought promulgating and lucid enough to make one want to "read other publications by the same author. Bert Kissinger, ' . , v. . 520 Boardman.st.,x . Medford, Ore. ; 1 V JUL m We Will Wash Your Dishes for NOTHING - the NEW General Electric Automatic Washer Way. We Will Furnish the Dishwasher and Soap You Furnish the Dirty Di$hes ' t , . THEN YOU CAN BUY THE On A Monthly Payment Basis For Only. 115 E. MAIN PHONE 2-4585 should . attempt to seize Santa Catalina island which, proper ly fortified, could cork up the port of Los Angeles. I17HAT would we doNin that '"event? WE'D GO TO WAR! FORMOSA is another story. It It is now the refuge and the sanctuary of the Chinese who. were driven off the Chinese mainland by the Communists." Its historical record of owner ship is highly complicated. ' We announced long - ago that it is one of our strategic outposts in, -the Far East. ' We have a good case for sit ting tight on Formosa. But if we encourage the Nationalist Chinese to - sit tight on . Matsu and Quemoy, we won't have so good a case. ; . . ' -.' " We know WE'D GO TO WAR if the Communists undertook to seize the Farallones and Cata lina. - ' ' " 1 ' ' - SO , ' It seems ' to me that if we throw all our strength back of the Nationalist Chinese in Matsu and Quemoy we'll be PROVOK ING. WAR with the Red Chi nese on the mainland. ' Ff THE long and critical con . flict , with : Communism that lies ahead of us, it seems to me there are two things we MUST" keep in mind. . -' -1. We must neither run FROM trouble nor run INTO trouble. ; 2. We must neither SEEK a fight nor AVOID a fight. - Backing the Nationalist Chi nese in Matsu and Quemoy islands looks to me like SEEK ING A FIGHT. - DAV District 5 ives Meet in Medford Members of . District 5, Dis- abled American Veterans, " met at the Medford Moose hall last week - end, with District " Com mander Robert T. Finton, Klam ath Falls, presiding. Among others attending were State Commander Ben -Robinson, Grants Pass, . ' and Mrs. Louise Heiden, Roseburg, state auxiliary commander. . The group, which . included representatives from' Klamath Falls, Medford, Grants Pass, Oakland and Roseburg," went on record favoring a change in fig uring the fee for life members; to permit older veterans of World War II to get such a mem bership at a reduced rate, and protesting discontinuance . of treatment .for non-service con nected psychoneurotic patients in . Veterans . Acministration hospitals. Groups from Miss Pat's School of the Dance, Colleen Hope's dance studio, and Eve Prentice's accordion studio furnished enr tertainment, and were present ed with certificates of merit and appreciation by the department commander for their work with disabled veterans. Medford's Mayor Earl Miller attended a portion of the meet ing . .Indianapolis U.R) Firemen who rushed to extinguish an automobile fire got a surprise when they lifted the hood. 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