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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 17, 1945
(It was Saturday)
Jean Eberhart, former basket
ball coach at Southern Oregon
college, now Navy lieutenant,
named head coach of Kingsville,
Tex., Navy basketball -team.
From Arthur .. Perry's - Ye
Smudge Pot column: Orchardists
are girding for the frost and fret
season and are getting ready to
control insects with spray. No
solution has been discovered
that will put a hex on humbugs.
20 YEARS AGO '
Feb. 17. 1935
(It was Sunday)
CM. Hurd, manager of Rogue
River Chevrolet, Inc., announces
his firm has received a ship
ment of new Chevrolet Standard
automobiles, which will sell for
$652 in Medford.
U.S. Senator Hughey Long
1CI.C1VC3 a sycmva&c uotuicu&cu
in Medford, Oregon, and con
taining a dud bomb. Medford
Postmaster Frank DeSouza says
local postoffice has no record
of package being sent from
here.
30 YEARS AGO -Feb.
17, 1925
(It was Tuesday)
E. H. Hedrick, superintendent
of schools at Heppner, named
to head Medford public schools
system starting next fall.
Chris Gottlieb defeats R. Maru
In city billiard championships;
G. Fug! and Dan Watson sched
uled to play in other semi-final
game.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 17, 1915
(It was Wednesday)
Medford Masonic lodge moves
to new quarters in the M. F. and
H. building.
Medford police round up four
horses which have been pastur
ing on East Main st. lawns.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. If and when the House is
to vote on a bill reported from
committee is decided by the
Ways and Means committee, the
Speaker, the Rules committee,
or a caucus of all majority mem
bers? 2. Do more people in the
work speak Chinese, English,
Hindi, Russian, or Spanish?
3. A silver maple leaf on an
Army uniform denotes a first
lieutenant, captain, major, lieu
tenant colonel or colonel?
4. Of ; all office workers in
large U. S. cities, many more or
many fewer than 15 per cent,
or about 15 per cent, are union
members?
5. Of all students graduated
from high school, about one
third, one-half or two-thirds
enter college?
6. Which famous baseball
player of the past was the "Geor
gia Peach?"
7. An ecdysiast is a religious
teacher, strip-tease performer,
medical specialist, some one full
of zeal, or delighter in. inflict
ing pain?
The -- Answers: 1. The Rules
committee. 2. Chinese. 3. Lieu
tenant colonel. 4.N About 15 per
cent. 5. About one-half. 6. Tyrus
R. ("Ty") Cobb. 7. Strip-tease
performer.
5
MAIL TRIBUNE
More Baloney
A new book entitled "Billions, Blunders and Ba
loney" is creating considerable interest in political
circles.
The book's author is a retired movie producer
from Hollywood by the name of Castle, and he wants
President Eisenhower to abolish the "U.S. Informa
tion Agency" and the "Foreign Operations Agency."
The author claims they are wasting billions on pro
paganda that is making enemies of our former
friends abroad and putting Uncle Sam nearer and
nearer bankruptcy.
e e
OOWEVER, Mr. Castle has little hope of the Presi
dent complying, for Milton Eisenhower, the
President's brother, he claims, is all "hopped up"
on this spend-thrift propaganda line. "Ike" while "a
good man," has little business sense, and less sales
resistance when it comes to pressure from people he
likes and he is devoted to his brother, and the rest
of his family, off icial and otherwise.
So the only way out, says the author, is to put
pressure on the congress which the author hopes will
be done, as a result of the researches he has made,
and the facts he has presented.
ELL, perhaps something will be done.
For some time there have been complaints in con
gress regarding the "waste of the taxpayers' money"
particularly via the U.S. Information agency. -The
charge that it all adds up to "Billions, Blunders and
Baloney" in fact, is not a new one.
But as we see it the baloney is not all on one side.
For any one person, like Producer Castle, for ex
ample, to make the claim after travelling through
Europe, that all these billions HAVE been wasted,
and instead of making friends have made enemies,
should come under that heading also.
For the net result of these programs of financial
and economic aid, seasoned with information regard
ing the true nature of American democracy can't be
accurately assessed by any one-man survey, nor in
any 20 or 30 months.
It is a long-time proposition at least , a longer
time and to dismiss it all as propaganda when the
world is allergic to propaganda, is a very superficial
judgment to say the least. Much that is desirable and
helpful can properly be called propaganda where in
ternational relations are concerned. .
There is no doubt billions have been spent and
some of that undoubtedly has not been spent as wisely
as it should have been. There is ho doubt of some in
efficiency and waste in all these organizations.
But some waste is an inescapable part of any
large federal project in a new and untried field, and
should not necessarily discredit entirely the effort as
a whole. . .-
e e e -
YkTE DO know this.
T The officials of practically every government in
Europe, and some in Asia that has received U.S.
economic, aid, have testified repeatedly to the great
benefits resulting to their country and their apprecia
tion of it. There seems little doubt that the prosperity
now enjoyed in western Europe has been largely due
to what the United States has done, by what has been
called "one of the most benef icient and unselfish cru
sades of betterment to other nations in the history of
the modern world."
Billions have been spent, blunders undoubtedly
have been made, the programs have not been perfect
by ariy means, but to dismiss it ALL as baloney, be
fore more facts are in, and more comprehensive sur
veys made, is in itself "baloney," and we believe Pres
ident Eisenhower and the congress, will so regard it,
as far as taking the drastic action urged by movie
Producer Castle at this time is concerned. R.W.R.
Prohibit Wire-Tapping
There is a bill before the State Legislature to pro
hibit wire-tapping or the introduction of wire-tapping
evidence in Oregon Courts.
We are glad to see State Senator Phil Lowry of
Jackson County is one of the co-authors of the mea
sure. s :;.v ' .-' v v '
?" The prohibition applies only to unauthorized tap
ping, and not to such "tapping" that is necessary in
normal operations of the telephone or radio business.
K S the late J ustice Holmes declared, many years
" ago "wire tapping is a dirty business." It is. If ex
pressly permitted by lawj no one talking "over the
phone would be safe, and telephone privacy would be
impossible. It would be an invitation to every busy
body and black-mailer in the state to get himself a
"tapping set" and go to it, for his particular pleasure
and profit. ,' , '
There is enough malicious snooping around these
days, without legalizing and augmenting it.
'
jTNLY three years after Oregon became a state, the
- legislature passed a law protecting the privacy of
citizens by prohibiting the unauthorized interception
of telegraphic messages, but' that was before the, tele
phone was invented.
The same protection should now be given the citi
zen of today when he uses a phone.
Senate Bill No; 165 should pass. R.W.R.
Snowstorm Halls Search for Plane
- Rome (U.R) A blinding snow
torm today prevented search
planes from investigating an oil
slick spotted on a lake in the
area where a Belgian airliner
vanished Sunday with 29 per
sons aboard. ---.. - ' r
Officials said the storm sealed
the fate of 'the 29 persons, in
cluding four Americans, of the
Thursday, February 17. 1955
Sabena Airlines plane. They
feared none of them could have
survived the weather for four
nights even if any survived the
crash.: ;
. Snowstorms also forced pa
trols searching by torchlight
across the waist of the Italian
peninsula to seek shelter and
caU off their search.
4
Matter of Fact
THE REAL QUEMOY,
MATSU STORY
Taipeh, Formosa The con
troversy now raging in Washing
ton about the real status of Que
moy and the
Matsu Islands
is easily un
derstandable. The confu
sion grows di
rectly from the
curious, tortu
ous and even
somewhat
shabby deal
ings of the
American gov
ernment with
Joseph Alsop
the Chinese Nationalist govern
ment on this vital issue. The
real history of those dealings
(which leaves the true status
of Quemoy and the Matsus as
dubious as ever) can be summar
ized as follows on high and un-
j i a. j i-T : i
uuuuieu auiiiuriiy.
Originally, as the whole world
knows, President Eisenhower's
policy, adopted against the rec
ommendation of three of the
four Joint Chiefs of Staff, was
to defend none of the offshore
islands that constitute the For
mosa approaches. This decision
was taken last September, at
the famous Security Council
meeting in Denver, after the
first major Communist shelling
of Quemoy had brought the
problem of the offshore islands
to the forefront.
How or why this original de
cision was changed in January
is not known here. It is suspect
ed, however, that the lever of
change was a growing convic
tion that the Chinese Commu
nists seriously intended to
attack the Pescadores and For
mosa proper, , which in turn
made the defense of the more
advanced positions seem more
logical and important. At , any
rate the- original decision was
changed, and the new policy was
adopted of abandoning the
Tachen" Islands but assisting, if
need be, in the defense of Que
moy and the Matsus. "
This led directly to the Presi
dent's request to Congress to
pass the so-called Formosa reso
lution, and to the key scene in
the discussions of the problem
of the offshore islands between
the Chinese and American gov
ernments. This key scene was
a meeting between Chinese For
eign Minister George Yeh and
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles while, the Formosa reso
lution was pending and shortly
before Secretary Dulles' depar
ture for his Caribbean holiday.
AT THIS meeting, Secretary
Dulles informed Foreign
Minister Yeh. without, rmalifipa-
tion or equivocation, that Presi-,
dent Eisenhower would issue a
statement . in effect . guarantee
ing Quemoy and the Matsus as
soon as the Formosa resolution
had , passed the Congress. The
statement, Secretary Dulles as
serted, would specify Quemoy
and the Matsus as being "related
areas" essential to the defense
of -Formosa. It would thus put
the Chinese Communists square
ly on notice that t an attack on
these islands would bring the
United States into the fighting.
There was no possibility of
misunderstanding about this
promise . made by Secretary
Dulles to Foreign Minister Yeh.
Official State Department min
utes, were taken of the meeting
between the two men, and a
copy of these minutes was given
to Foreign Minister Yeh. The
minutes clearly recorded that
Secretary. Dulles said, the Presi
dent would issue a statement
effectively guaranteeing Que
moy and the Matsus in the man
ner described above.
On the basis of this apparent
ly solid commitment, Generalis
simo Chiang Kai - shek then
agreed to the evacuation of the
Tachen Islands, as Secretary
Dulles had requested. The plan
here was to coordinate the Gen
eralissimo's order for evacuation
of the Tachens with President
Eisenhower's expected statement
on Quemoy and the Matsus. As
late as a week ago Friday, U. S.
Ambassador Carl RanVfn
no idea that Secretary Dulles'
promise to D'oreign Minister Yeh
was about to be broken. He even
held, a press conference cheer
fully stating that Quemoy and
the Matsus were now covered by
an American guarantee. "
At this very late date, how
ever, Assistant Secretary of
State Walter Robertson inform
ed Foreign Minister Yeh, one
assumes with some embarrass
ment, that there had been a little
misunderstanding between the
State Department and the White
House. The President was not
prepared to keep the promise
that his Secretary of State had
made.
Foreign Minister Yeh pro
duced the minutes of his meet
ing with Secretary Dulles. As
sistanr Secretary Robertson
showed the minutes at the White
House. But all to no avail. Ap
parently the President had hedg
ed his position, in order to un
dercut the Senate opposition to
the Formosa resolution, in a
way that made it impossible for
him to do what Sppretr,, nii
had said he would do.
O
QN RECEIVING this news,
v Generalissimo Chiang Kai
shek refused to keep his part
of the bargain either, with the
result the world knows " the
long delay in the Tachen evacua
tion. These days of delay were
occupied by the Chinese in nress.
ing the President to keep the
lAuies- promise, and by the
By Joseph Alsop
Americans, in fending off the
Chinese with one hand and
pressing them to evacuate the
Tachens with the other.
This curious impasse ended,
partly because Chiang Kai-shek
had no easy alternative except
to bow to the will of the Ameri
can government, and partly be
cause President Eisenhower fi
nally consented to toss President
Chiang a diplomatic biscuit.
This took the form of a commu
nication relayed by Ambassador
Rankin, assuring the Chinese
President that the American
President was still undyingly
determined to defend Formosa
and all related areas "he deems
necessary" for the defense of
Formosa, including Quemoy and
the Matsu Islands."
If these were not the precise
weasel words, they are said by
high authority to reproduce the
sense with complete exactness.
They can of course be read any
way you choose to read them.
For President Eisenhower did
not deem Quemoy and the Mat
su Islands essential to the de
fense of Formosa in September.
Then he deemed them very nec
essary in January. And who can
tell what he will deem them
next month?
The Chinese hopefully be
lieve that there has not been
a second change in American
policy, and that Quemoy and
the Matsus will in fact be de
fended with American help if
attacked. But there was a com
mitment, which turned into a
non-commitment, and it is hard
to forecast what transformations
this non-commitment may be
subject to. And that is where
this strange matter now 6tands.
Copyright, 1955
New York Herald Tribune. Inc.
Morse Continues
Working To Meet
School Shortage:
By SEN. WAYNE MORSE
Washington "Establish the
law. for educating the common
people. This it is the business
of the State to effect and on a
general plan," wrote Thomas
Jefferson some 150 years ago.
For many years, I have worked
with others in the Congress and
in education and citizens' organi
zations to have the Federal Gov
ernment assume its obligations
to meet the critical school short
age, and other educational needs
throughout the country. We have
made some headway but it has
been slight.
'In the last two Congresses, I
have "battled for adoption of. the
Hill "oil-f or-education" ... amend
ment which would apply Federal
receipts from offshore oil leases
to aid to the states for education.
My 22 Vz hour speech in 1953
was in opposition to the tide
lands giveaway and in support
of the Hill proposal. We were
successful in limiting the give
away to the submerged lands
immediately offshore ' and re
taining for the whole . nation
jurisdiction . over the so-called
continental shelf.
Federal leasing activity on the
shelf has been in progress only
a few months. Already, $144,
000,000 has accrued to the Fed
eral Treasury for drilling rights
alone. It it anticipated by the
Department of Interior . that
Federal revenues from oil leases
will exceed $6,000,000,000.
Once again, I have joined with
Senator Hill and others in intro
ducing the oil -for -education
amendment (S. 722). This meas
ure would provide "the revenue
for an adequate Federal aid-to-education
program to be admin
istered by the States free from
Federal -domination. - Oregon
urgently needs the help it would
provide. . . , . . . ,
The Hill bill "could provide the
financing , needed, for. direct
state aid for school construction
as proposed in two bills which
I joined in introducing S. 5
(for emergency school construc
tion aid) and S. 686 (for a long
range plan). In addition, I am
working on a general Federal
aid-to-education measure - pat
terned on the Taft bill of a few
years ago.- - :' ' ' '
The Senate Labor Committee
has made them its first order of
business and properly so. Fav
ored action on these measures
is overdue. The school children
of America have waited too long
already. ... 1 .
It is obvious' that a strong
Funeral services, pre-arranged in ad
vance of need saves others financial
and emotional burdens later. ,
CHAPEL
Frank Morgan . . Harold Snodgrass
Funeral Directors
Phone 2-803C
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Sugar, Sly Trickster
To the Editor: Reader Harvey
Dutton who wrote a letter to the
Editor,' asking about the potency
of sugar, good? or bad? has hit
the head of a No. 1 health prob
lem. This item also, is highly
pernicious" In ' children's sound
tooth conquest. , ,' ,
Naturally, sugar is supposed
to be good: It seems not only to
be a basic stimulator of Nature,
but it is instinctively enticing to
taste. Sugar, by the way, has in
creased in national annual con
sumption from George Washing
ton's time when . it was eight
pounds per' person, to now at the
present, well over 100 pounds!
Sugar is not a food. Sugar, es
pecially refined sugar, is only a
constituent, a teasing delight, a
sly trickster whetting your appe
tite, inviting you to consume
more and more, but doing noth
ing, but after supplying its flash
heat and energy, by dint of its
over-dosage of large quantities of
solution in the system, knocks
out of control normal body pro
cesses. Pure sugar sucrose is a vil
lain to the body because it is
pure. It robs from the body what
it needs to work. On the other
hand, natural more complicated
sweets like raw cane sugar,
fruits, maple syrup, and honey
contain an accompaniment of
mineral balancers, evasive en
zyme elements, and natural salt
and protein substances which all
sort of interact, making for close
to the kind of activity a natural
food has to provide. The body
isn't made of sugar and can't
live on "sugar. Refining cane
sugars, and beet sugars mainly
leaves you this much - sought, su
crose only. . v- ;
The piercing frontier into the
dental picture for one thing,
found that sucrose, or. our com
mon sugar, is, amongst all of the
other classifications of sugars,
the most vicious in promoting
downright, deterioration of ; the
tooth structure. '
As one in the medical circles
said: ;.
"There is growing and ac
cumulating evidence that the
patterns of food habits 1 ' in
cluding excessive sugar con
, sumption which are associat
ed with dental decay iri child
hood, adolescence and early
; adult life are similar in struc
ture to those of periodontal
patients in later life. There is
also coming to light,, evidence
; of a .dietary relationship .be
tween high sugar consumption
; and ; polio, rheumatic fever,
arthritis and many degenera-
tive diseases." . '
' Hoping in this apologetic,
amateurish, but sincere attempt
.to answer a potent inquiry, we
started out with; with newer
recent medical lights thrown on
this; this is a problem of im
portance, fast becoming explo
sive. (Name on file.) :
Park Editorial Appreciated
To the Editor: A copy of the
editorial entitled "Leave The
Park Setup Alone" which ap
peared in your February. 8th
issue has been received. '
I wish to take this opportun
ity to express appreciation for
not only the editorial but the
fine analysis you have made re
garding our Park Department.
Personally I think that the
Park Department is and has done
some fine work and that our
Park System is very adequate
and is an asset to the State .of
Oregon. It is the hope that the
department can continue to func
tion in a manner so that.it will
keep abreast of the needs of the
motorists and provide proper fa
cilities for them. As you men
tioned we do have to take into
consideration . the fact that we
are spending the roaa users
money and that is one thing to
which we do give consideration
in the development of the park
system.
; Chas. H. Reynolds,.
Commissioner, Oregon
. State Highway Cpmm'n.
school construction program
would benefit the Oregon lum
ber industry and - the resulting
general increase in economic
activity would help relieve our
still serious unemployment.
' I shall b in Oregon for a few
speeches almost by the time this
letter arrives.
MORTUARY
Ellsworth Points To
Improvements Mad
In Present Draff Lav
Br HARRIS ELLSWORTH, MC
Washington By a vote of
394 to 4 the bill to continue Se
lective Service for four more
years was passed by the House.
This bill, if it is not greatly
changed when passed by the
Senate, represents many im
provements over the present
draft law. The changes and im
provements are too many to dis
cuss fully in this letter. As soon
as the bill becomes law, so that
we know the complete and exact
text of . it, I shall be glad to
send a copy of it with a sum
mary and explanation to any
one who would like to have it.
Young men and their parents
may. also be interested in another
type of service which is preceded
by an excellent educational op
portunity provided by the gov
ernment. Educated and qualified
men are needed in our Merchant
Marine. The United States Mer
chant Marine Academy located
at Kings Point, New York, pre
pares men to become officers in
the U. S. Merchant Marine and
in the Naval Reserve. It is sim
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years of age but not yet 21.
Those who . are interested
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