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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medforiw .Tribune "r.verycxxiy m isojtnern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD FKlKTliti Ct. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor 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 March 3. 1397 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 1.25 Sunday Only One year $350. 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 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 Jacuson courty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. Si, Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCfaTilON 3 J J flH'!Mlfl.HIU' O" NEWS PA MI 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 March 1, 1945 (It was Thursday) Mrs. Bert B. Lowry, state re gent of the Oregon chapter, Daughters of the American Revo lution, returns to Medford from state meeting of DAR in Salem. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column; Word ca bled from London advises Prin cess Elizabeth of England is over the mumps. Any number of Jackson county kids are all over the mumps, or the mumps are all over them. 20 YEARS AGO March 1, 1935 (It was Friday) Ruth Slencynski, 10-year-old prodigy pianist, receives a cor sage f r om Jackson County Chamber of Commerce during brief stop at Medford airport Roscoe Turner, famed airplane speed pilot, forced down in Med ford by bad weather, praises Medford and vows to return on the first chance he gets. 30 YEARS AGO March 1.1925 (It was Sunday) Floyd Young, government frost expert, scheduled to arrive in Medford for start of orchard heating season. Eagle Point radio fans report receiving radio address by Presi dent Calvin Coolidge. 40 YEARS AGO March 1. 1915 (It was Tuesday) W. H. McGowan exalted ruler of Medford Elks lodge, with Charles B, Gay as tiler and C. E. Gates as trustee. Ashland announces plans for "cleanup day," and Ashland resi dents vow to clean up on the editor of The Mail Tribune un less he quits calling the city "the soda pop town." What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. "Where do the ashes used on Ash Wednesday come from? 2. The city of Chicago usually votes Republican or Democratic or about 50-50? 3. Which of these ranks in the Army is highest; Brigadier gen eral, m3jor general, lieutenant general? 4. A child who has had one rheumatic fever attack is in no danger of another one; right or wrong? , 5. President of -the West Ger man Republic is Konrad Ade nauer, Theodor Heuss, Erich Ol lenhauer, Otto Grotewohl, or Wilheim Pieck? - . 6. More tobacco is grown in a normal year -in Kentucky, Mary land or North Carolina? 7. The name of Simon Lake is associated with development of color printing, submarines, explosives, nuclear fission, or high-power telescopes? The Answers: 1. Burning of palms on Palm Sunday of pre ceding year. 2. Usually Demo cratic. 3. Lieutenant general. 4. Wrong. 5. Heuss. 6. North Caro lina. 7. Submarines. ATTENTION. MOSCOWI Maiden, Mass. U.R) Resi dents here have a personal grievance against Russia. Their city, listed in the latest edition of the Great Soviet, Encyclo pedia as a suburb of Boston, is spelled "Molden.M MAIL TRIBUNE Repeal Emergency Prohibition No one can deny that the state faces a real em ergency in the field of taxes and finance. But also no one to date has come up with any solu tion, that can meet the emergency, when it should be which is as soon as the proper legislation can be passed. TOR there is practically no doubt, that whatever the final decision, the measure will be held up and rendered null and void by five per cent of the voters invoking the referendum. This adds up, not to majority rule which is the corner-stone of democracy, but rule by a minority, and a very small one at that. OOWEVER the emergency clause can't be used, of course, until the constitutional provision against such action regarding taxation measures is repealed. The Medford Chamber of Commerce urges such a repeal, and we agree. That action should be taken, but unfortunately there seems to be no way such a re peal can be accomplished in time to affect this ses sions legislation.- Which is unfortunate. For a genuine emergency does exist, and yet there appears very slight hope that any satisfactory taxation measure can or will be de vised that FIVE PER CENT OF THE VOTERS won't hold up for over a year at least by invoking the ref erendum. THIS adds up to an all around mess. However, better late than never. Oregon should as soon as it can be done, follow the leadership of most other states, and allow emergency law action when a GENUNE emergency exists whether it relates to taxation or any other problem facing the people of the state. R.W.R. Why Speaking of taxes, them. We know a taxpayer, for example, who cheerfully pays $5000 for a new automobile, and never bats an eye. But, if and when he has to pay $5000 for taxes, he cries to high heaven and curses out the wasteful and profligate government, responsible for the "outrage." THERE'S a reason. ixc ccco w iiao lie uujra w licit 11c gcw5 a, new iiiului car. He likes it or he wouldn't buy it. He swells up a trifle perhaps with pride ing it, down the avenue. thinks he does. 'But, when he gets his Just a piece of paper. He doesn't see what he has to pay for. There is no value received visible. He doesn't SEE the fire and police protection he gets, the nice highways and pav ed streets to his front door; nor what may well be involved in the money he pays out, the freedom he enjoys and the peace and security of his home and his country. So he raves and rages ad infintum. THEREFORE why not have on every tax bill, local or federal, a list of the benefits received as a re sult of that payment? It might not solve the complex tax problem entire ly but it certainly should render it less painful. R.W.R. Why Not Scatter the Fire? We have had nothing to say about Joe McCarthy since he went into seclusion or wherever he is. But we still get some of the same abusive letters apparently from the same sources, condemning this paper for opposing McCarthyism. We are flattered, of course, by so much attention for so long a time. Our campaign against McCarthy and McCarthyism must have done some good and hurt those who have fallen for his phoney propaganda or they wouldn't be so persistent, and so continuously vituperative. DUT why pick on us ONLY? Why don't the local McCarthyites scatter their ammunition a bit and pick on bigger and better pap ers which have done more to show up the junior Sen ator from Wisconsin in his true light and his "rule or ruin" policy than we have been able to do. Why don't they write insulting letters to the New York Times, for example, the Chicago Sun, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Washington (D.C.) Post, or why don't they pick on "Time," or "Harpers," or a dozen other magazines and newspapers that saw through the demagogic fraud, at the outset and in the interest of TRUE Americanism, have been against him ever since? 1MOREOVER, in their insistence upon calling every AY1 one who opposes McCarthy and McCarthyism a Red or fellow-traveller; why don't they apply some of the same epithets to Joe's fellow Senators, who by overwhelming vote censured him and his methods the same to stand as a condemnation of him and his record in that "greatest deliberative body on earth" for all time? Or they might even register a protest to President Eisenhower for refusing to include Jumping Joe in his dinner-guest lists. AS STATED such constant interest and attention is " flattering to this department but to divert some of it at least toward more influential circles engaged in the same campaign, would, we are sure, have far greater and more satisfactory results. R.W.R. fuel day, March 1, 1955 Not? "people are funny" about when he sees himself driv H gets value received, or tax bill, that's all he gets. J? HEART FUND SUPPORT URGED Twelve - year - old Sandra Hackenberg, Portland, who knows first-hand about the work of the Oregon Heart Association, uses an over-size envelope to demon strate how simple it is to contribute to the current Heart Fund Campaign. Contributions are mailed to HEART, care of your local post office. Neutral Nations Supervisory Team May Be on By CHARLES MC CANN United Press Foreign Analyst The Neutral Nations Super visory Commission in Korea is about to undergo an important and possibly a decisive test. The Commu nists have agreed that three teams of the commis sion may in vestigate Unit ed Nations charges that fighter planes have been sent i -t li. Tr Charles McCann ""u Jn.o rea in violation of the armistice. There is no doubt in the world that the planes Russian-built MIG-15 jet fighters have been sent into North Korea in quan tity. The only question is whether the Reds will let the NNSC teams make a real inspection of six air fields at which the MIGs are known to have been stationed. May Be Abolished If the teams are kept from making the inspection, the com mission may be reduced to the level of a token force or it may even be abolished. Under the armistice signed on July 27, 1953, the combatants were forbidden to send in rein forcements in men and material. The Neutral Nations Super visory Commission was set up to investigate complaints of viola tions of the reinforcement ban. A Nichol's Worth of . . . Comment On By HARMAN United Prett Washington U.R) What's new in Washington: Members of the Congress have tj hppn aslrpri to submit their fa vorite inspira tional poems to the legislative reference serv ice in the Li brary of Con gress. Idea is publish a little booklet. A lot already have harman Nichols come in. John Howard Payne's "Home Sweet Home," Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" and a lot of things from Longfellow and Keats. But what I want to see are some of the originals by the law givers them selves. You can't teU. Vice-President Nixon and his lovely wife, Pat, got themselves stuck in an elevator in Mexico City. That prompted a manufac turer of elevators in Virginia to drop the V.P. a line. He said he had an elevator which was guaranteed not to stick. Nixon hasn't answered the let ter yet. He is un-stuck but un back from his trip. It's getting close to tax-paying time, and the internal rev enue commissioner has a timely warning for dodgers. He reports that his department has tagged 1417 evaders the past two years. There are two Kilgores in the Congress, one new and one old. Sen. Harley Martin Kilgore of West Virginia has been around for some time. Rep. Joe M. Kil gore of Texas is pretty new. But what happens? There is a mix up in laundry, phone calls and mail. Joe had to wait a couple of weeks before he got his household furniture. It was sent to Harley's place. Same thing with laundry and dry cleaning. "Harley's wife and my wife are not the same size," Joe said. , Piano playing Liberace, he .;k j v.-v,-,-.-' Way Out It consists of delegates of Sweden, Switzerland, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The Swedes and Swiss, who are really neutrals, were nominated by the U.N. The Poles and Czechs, who are Rus sian stooges, were nominated by the Reds. Reds Violating Truce Ever since the armistice was signed, the Communists have been violating it. When they complain that the U.N. has vio lated the armistice, the commis sion is given full facilities to in vestigate throughout South Ko rea. But when the U.N. complains of a Communist violation, the Poles and Czechs block every move the Swiss and Swedes try to make. What may be the decisive test for the commission resulted from an attack by MIG fighters on a United States reconnais sance plane Feb. 5 over the Yel low Sea, west of Korea. Two of the MIGs were shot down. Formal Complaint The U.N. made a formal com plaint that MIGs were being based in North Korea. After stalling for a week, the Reds gave permission for three NNSC teams to inspect six fields at which MIGS are known to have been based. Undoubtedly the Reds will have to remove all trace of the presence of the MIGs. If they also keep the in spection teams from making a leal investigation, the neutral commission may finally be on its way out. This and That W. NICHOLS Future Writer do, thought he was getting the tops when he signed a contract for $150,000 for three weeks tinkling at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. But "Libby" thinks he now has'topped that. He has been invited on March 19 to play here for the President of the United States. For zero dol lars. And if brother George and his violin and mama and her charm come along, they'll have to pay their own way, too. It's part of a command performance. There are, of course, 96 mem bers of the Senate and that caused Sen. Bob Kerr, the Okla homa Democrat, no little pain. Said he, in his letter back to his voters: "Just as I thought I was doing all right with my added seniority and new committee po sitions, I discover that the 95 best dressed senators have been named and identified, and I didn't make it." The senator, by the way, always looks well pressed and well dressed. State Salary Hearing Scheduled Next Week Salem (U.R) Hearings on proposed changes in state civil service salary scales, as embod ied in the Barrington report, will begin next week. Charier. W. Terry, civil ser vice director for the state, said the hearings are expected to take 30 days. The Barrington report, compiled by Barrington and Associates of New York City, was a study of the state's salaries and job classifications. Rep. Orval Eaton, chairman of the salary subcommittee of the ways and means committee, said further consideration of the report would not be undertak en until the hearings have end ed. ; Dead line Sunday Classified is at n?on. Saturday; 10 a.ra. Monday for In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Washington the house of representatives approved unani mously the compromise (house senate conference committee) bill boosting the pay of members of congress to $23,750 a year an increase of $8,750. 7 ? ? ? ? ? W-e-e-1-1-1-1- "The laborer is worthy of his hire." (Luk 10:7). "For the Scripture saith: Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, the laborer is worthy of his re ward." (I Timothy 5:18.) I CHERISH the pious hope that the members of our congress will read and ponder those words from the Scripture and give heed to them. It is true that the laborer is worthy of his hire. It is true that one must no muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. When this pay boost bill goes through the remaining formal ities and becomes the law of cur land, we shall have loosened quite liberally the muzzles that restrain the laborers in our con gressional ' vineyards and grain fields. It will then be up to them to prove to us that they ARE worthy of their hire. TTOW can the members of con gress go about proving that to us? One way would be for ALL of them to join in BALANCING THE NATIONAL BUDGET, so that our country may be kept solvent and our children may not be saddled with a CRUSH ING burden of debt oiled UDon their shoulders by their spend thrift elders. VlfE ARE now in a period of great national prosperity that appears to be merging into a period of great prosperity throughout the free world. In Great Britain for many years socialist, but in recent years turnmg back toward free enter prise the increase, in national prosperity has been so impressive that a month or so ago Britain's fiscal authorities became worried that this rising prosperity might get loose from restraint and re suit in a runaway boom. After the British manner They took steps to nip the swelling inflation. rpHE steps included curbs on in- stallment buying (so much down and so much a month in the purchase of consumer goods) and a boost by the Bank of Eng land (the Old Lad of Thread- needle fatreet) in the interest rate on loans." ; T- The interest rate boost was a rather stiff one. It started on Jan. 27 with an up of one-half of one per cent for Zvz per cent to 4 per cent. That wasn't suffic ient to stop the inflationary rise, so this week the rate was boosted to 4Vfe per cent. THE result was a speculators' n r i . , . . iiurry. snare prices vwe can them stock prices) slid off rather sharply in the "City," which is me ijonaon equivalent of what we caU Wall Street. But it didn't last long. Later prices on the London Stock Ex change took a turn upward, and at the close there was "wide spread buoyancy throughout the market." That is to say, the British HAVE CONFIDENCE in their new prosperity. PWERYONE who has ever bal anced a checkbook or met a payroll on time or went into debt to acquire a business and PAID OUT ON IT knows that prosper ous times are the times to PAY OFF DEBT and put one's finan cial house in order. That goes for GOVERNMENT as well as for private business. Hal Roach Jr. Buys Studio Assets Hollywood (U.R) Hal Roach Jr. said today he has pur chased from this father the as sets of the Ral Roach Studios, estimated to be worth $10,000, 000. The amount of purchase price was not announced. The young er Roach said his television cor porations would be consolidated into the studio properties under a single, newly formed corpora tion, Hal Roach Enterprises. The e'ier Roach began pro ducing movies in 1914 and in cluded some of the industry's top stars on his roster of per formers at various times. Why Suffer mm Matter of Fact LETTER TO A PRO-COMMUNIST Washington Was the recan tation of self-confessed liar Har vey Matusow carefully stage managed by the Communists? There are signs that it was. For example, as noted in a pre vious re port on t h e Matusow turn about, Cam eron and K a h n, the pub lishing firm which is sponsoring the Matusow con decidedly pro- Stewart Alsop fession, has a Communist coloration. And be-! cause it bears on this point, it may be worth reproducing, slightly shortened, a letter from this reporter to Publisher Al bert Kahn, written after a tel ephone conversation some ten days ago: "Dear Kahn: "When I talked to you on the telephone the other day, you declined to say whether you were a Communist. You said you would take the Fifth Amend ment if asked this question by a Congressional committee. And you indicated your true political position in other ways. Accord ingly, I think I ought to make my own position clear, in the matter of Harvey Matusow's self -exposure, and the issues which it involves. "It is fashionable nowadays to say that McCarthyism is the greatest threat to American freedom. This may be so, but the fact remains that McCarthy ism owes its existence to Amer ican Communism. Communism, moreover, presents a most seri ous issue to those who respect our liberties, however much this issue, to the delight of the Com munists, has been ' distorted by McCarthy and those who ape him. The issue is this: Should we grant full political rights to those who owe their first al legiance to a potential enemy? On the telephone you denied that your first allegiance was to the Soviet Union. Maybe so. But as I said on the telephone, only a fool could doubt that the first allegiance of the disciplined, hard-core Communist belongs to Russia and not to his own coun try. Therefore the issue posed above is a real one, which needs to be answered. To anyone sensi ble of the American traditions, it is as prickly and difficult an issue as there is. A NYONE so sensible, for "example, will defend against all comers your right, or anyone else's right, 'to take the Fifth Amendment. McCar thy's public contempt for this constitutional safeguard is sub versive, in the real sense of that word. But this does not mean that it is necessary to admire the motives of those who take the Fifth Amendment. "When I made this point to you on the telephone, you com plained that people who are not Communists, and so swear under oath, are likely to be jailed for perjury. Asked to name one such, you cited your friend Clinton Jencks of the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Work ers. Now it may be that Jencks was not a formal member of the Communist Party, when he swore that he was not a Com munist, to comply with the Taft-Hartley law. And there is also no doubt that Matusow lied about Jencks on the witness stand. But this is no sort of evi dence that Jencks has actually changed his true political al legiance. "And there is a most real and present danger in the control of labor unions by those who owe their allegiance to another coun try. The danger was greater, to be sure, when the Communists in 1947 and 1948 almost suc ceeded in seizing control of the C.I.O. and I am proud that my brother and I played a part in exposing that effort. But the danger is still real. This leaves unanswered the question of how to deal with this danger of Communism in a free society, without creating a greater danger. But one thing I am sure of. Nothing plays more into Communist hands then for the government to ac cept the word of any ex-Com-munist like Matusow who hap pens along. In taking at face value the testimony of such a man and he is not alone From IRON -STARVED DLOOD? When Iron Deficiency Anemia leaves you tired all the time . . depend on the enriched blood-building- formula in SS.S. TONIC to make you FEEL GOOD AGAIN FAST! Renew your pep and, energy, perk up your appetite and shed that rundown misery that goes along' with iron-poor blood . . . Now this famous time-tested formula is available in easy-to-take tablets! Ask for genuine S.S.S. Tonic in liquid or new easy-to-take tablets at your drug counter. You will be satisfied or your money back. Feel your best . . . By Stewart Alsop without a serious attempt to ex amine his credibility, the Jus tice Department and the Con gressional Committee were in excusably at fault. "Your taking the Fifth Amend ment will not excuse the fault. Nor, indeed, will the fault be excused if it turns out that the whole Matusow turn-about was carefully planned by the Com munists, as I am rather begin ning to believe it was. Your Communist friends may think that they have brought off a major coup. But they will be wrong. - "pVDR if only the Congress and the Justice Depart ments have the courage to undertake a serious examination of the new profession of the ex Communist political informer Matusow's self-exposure will in the end be good for the political health of the United States. And anything that is good for the political health of the United States is hardly in the long run to the advantage of communism. "Yours sincerely." Perhaps two footnotes to this letter need to be added. First, in, all fairness it should be said that Kahn vehemently denies that there was any Communist plot to exploit Matusow. Sec ond, a few days after this letter was written, Kahn did take the Fifth Amendment. (Copyright. 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) 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 sible. 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 weeds. Parks; Speedways! - To the Editor: David Fairchild said: "Progress means the de struction of forests." Unplanned, short-sighted "progress" destroys other greatly valued and cher ished resources; parks, ancient landmarks even humans. Might we wonder, are we "progressing" too fast, even in urging our "way of life" upon the rest of the world particularly commercially, militarily? Are we "progressing" too fast, or are we planning too jtlowly with parks, speedways, covering acres of our tiny valley's great ly limited best soil with rocks and concrete; coping with sani tary needs, etc. May we be for given for mentioning fog banks at times in our valley, and that they do greatly interfere with traffic near the creek, while along the foothills there may be little or no fog, from where non stop tourists might get an unfor gettable glimpse of our beautiful valley? As population increases might a narrow park be desirable part or all the way fsom Ashland to the Rogue River, when Bear creek might be kept clean? Arthur Brisbane said, "What man can imagine, man can do." The Good Book tells us: "With out vision a people perish." Shall we perish? A moot question. John E. Gribble, 139 Kenwood Ave., Medford, Ore. Woman Cheated Out of Savings Portland-OJ.R) Portland nc- lice today were searching for two women who Monday cheat ed an elderly woman out of savings of $5400. The woman, Victoria Chorek. of Portland, said she met the two bunco artists on a down town street. They induced her to draw the money from the bank and give it to them as security." In return, they said they would share with her a larger sum of money which one of the women said she had "found." . Detectives described the de ceit as a version of the pidgeon drop" game. Matusow Doesn't Lie In Formosa Strait Washington U.R) Harvey Matusow, who says he lied as a government witness at Com munist trials, was inadvertently addressed by Sen. Herman E. Welker (R-Ida.) Monday as "Mr. Matsu." Matsu is an island held by the Chinese Nationalists, where an attack by Communist- forces has been considered a- possi bility. wibu mc niuuuauia uu jau- Monday; other day 5:30 previous day, i
