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I rotni MEDTOHD (OREGON) mail tribune Thursday. March 10, 1953 MEDFORDJJtfTRIBUNE "Everybody in southern Oregon , Read! The Mail Tribune" I Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-9 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, TelegraDh Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Soorta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Societv Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An IndeDendent NewinaDer Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act March 3. 1397 of 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 moj 3 50 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year S3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Ea?1e 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 Jackson County 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. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATION At E DITOII At VV I lASSOcfATlIoN PUBLISHERS VSASSOCIATtON Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. March 10, 1945 (It was Saturday) Clarence A. Winetrout pur chases property at Main and Fir sts. as site for future home of Crater Lake Motors. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The legis lature will wind up by mid-week. This will give them a chance to clear off their desks, attend championship basketball games at Salem and Eugene, and be home in time to start a new week. 20 YEARS AGO March 10. 1935 (It was Sunday) Miss Fryne Wood, Portland, and Sam G. Colton, Medford, married in ceremonies at home of bride's parents. Fire, believed to have been of Incendiary origin, destroys barn and pumphouse at Will Hansen orchard on Pacific highway south of Medford. 30 YEARS AGO March 10. 1925 (It was Tuesday) Mrs. D. Perozzi, Ashland, named chairman of committee for celebration of reestablish ment of state normal school there. Robbers take Sll saved for trip to state basketball tourna ment from Woody Archer, Med ford High school student; home of Dr. Jud Rickert entered. 40 YEARS AGO March 10, 1915 (It was Wednesday) College Women's club meets at home of Mrs. E. E. Kelly. Mt. Lassen, in northern Cali fornia, erupts for 80th time. What's the Answer. (Can You Get 4 ef the 71) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report k 1. Germany surrendered one, two, three, four or five months after ' U. S. troops crossed the Rhine March 7 10 years ago? 2. More auto insurance is now written by Allstate (Sears Roe buck) than by any other U.S. company; right or wrong? 3. Needy aged are cared for at lower cost in a hospital or Home for Old Persons? .4 Total U.S. tarm mortgage debt over the last five years in creased or decreased steadily, or stayed about the same? 5. It is further by car from Chicago to Mexico City or from Chicago to Los Angeles? 6. The Federal Communica tions Commission does or doesn't want all applicants for radio transmissing licenses to sign a loyalty oath? 7. Which of these human or gans has the greatest average weight: brain, heart, kidneys, liver, lungs? The Answers: 1. Two months. 2. Right, says Allstate. 3. Home for 'Old Persons. 4. Increased steadily. 5. Slightly further lo Los Angeles. 6. Does. 7. Brain. Unduly Alarmed In his letter of March 10th to his constituents, Congressman Harris Ellsworth really goes to town He not only claims credit by his "hard work with out fanfare" and his honest and "straightforward" methods for most of the federal flood-control and harbor improvements that have been installed in the state, but he wades into the Democratic members of the Oregon delegation with both feet, for threatening his "partnership power program" in the Willamette Valley by the "injection of partisan politics." THESE wicked Democrats, he claims, are now ad vancing the reactionary theoiy that hydroelectric power m the great dams of the northwest must be developed by federal power or not at all, this attitude being particularly damaging in his 4th district for the "Green Peter" dam on the Santiam, and the "Cougar dam on the McKenzie are not federal but partner ship proposals and sorely needed particularly for flood control. "It is" cries our Congressman a "mean and tragic situation" and he intends to do something about it, as well as talk about it. Moreover continues Mr. Ellsworth if the partner ship measures are passed it may be possible for con struction to get started during the fiscal year but with the Democratic members of the Oregon delega tion opposed the bills may be defeated and construc tion of the dams "indefinitely postponed." It is really a fiery and impassioned communica tion compared to most of the epistolary offerings of the representative from this district, which for many years have been factual mild and rather placid in manner. OOWEVER, isn't our congressman getting unduly excited and isn't he ascribing more power to the 3 or 4 Democratic members of the Oregon delegation than they possess? If his bills are as desirable and urgent as he claims, we fail to see how the small Democratic mi nority from this state can do much about it. As for injecting "partisan politics" into the power situation partisan politics has been in that situation for decades, it is too late to INJECT it. THE Democrats have in general been champions rf rMiVi1i nnnTOi- tho Pomihlioono of nvivafo nnwPV The opposition of the Democrats to private power or the partnership plan, no more marks the injection of political partisanship than does the opposition of Republicans to public power. These are, and for a long time have been party issues and important ones Such issues are matters of opinion, differences in be lief, something to accept in good grace, nothing to get mad about. WE CAN'T speak for the Oregon delegation any more than we can for the Democratic party, but are quite sure, that the Oregon Democrats in Congress have never maintained that hydroelectric power "must be developed by the government or not de veloped at all." The country would be in a bad fix if that proposal were ever earned out. The Democrats are fighting for a high dam in Hells Canyon, as opposed to the Idaho Power com pany low dam project, and m the opinion of this paper they are right. But that doesn't mean they wish to put all electric power in the hands oi the govern ment in this state or anywhere else and it is plainly unjust and untrue to claim they do. As for a government power monopoly, or anything approaching it, that is ridiculous. From 80 to 85 per cent of the electric power production in this country is privately owned, and for several years no large federal project has been authorized there is no reason to believe, under the present administration, there will be. So why all the agitation and . excitement? Matter of Fact Stewart Alsop NICE NISEI Marian Ta gawa, 21, poses in her new uniform before one of the Clippers she will fly as a stew ardess on runs to Japan. Marian is the first Nisei (U. S. citizen of Japanese parents) to be enlisted by Pan Ameri can Airways for the West Coast-Tokyo flights. !n the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The biggest atomic weapon of the current test series was touched off in Nevada the other morning. Its flash was seen 700 miles to the north in Portland, Ore., and Missoula, Mont. It was seen at Albuquerque, 650 miles to the east. In Southern California, it took on the vast yellow flush of sunrise. It rattled windows in Salt Lake City, 360 miles to the northeast, and in Fresno, 250 miles to the west, the jolt of it felt like a minor earthquake shock. NORTHERN MARDI GRAS Woonsocket, R, I. (U.R) This old textile city is planning for 3 a bigger and better Mardi Gras celebration this year in its fight k for the title of "New Orleans of the North." Some 300,000 per . sons are expected to crowd the predominantly French city dur ing Mardi Gras week Feb. 16 22. i AS FOR the "Green Peter" and Cougar dam proj ects our Congressman declares "local interests" are ready to finance the power facilities. There is also $3,000,000 available in the government budget. The Pacific Light & Power has offered to contribute $29, 000,000 provided, we presume, it has exclusive right to the sale of the power! Also the city of Eugene lis given the privilege of contributing $11,000,000 out of the $37,000,000 total for Cougar dam. With all this money available one wonders what are we waiting for? "IXTE REALIZE some members of the Oregon dele gation don't like the partnership plan, whereby the power company gets the power, and the people through their governments, local or national, pay for the collateral costs. But after all with the money as outlined obtainable, and with the popular support of the people of Oregon he always enjoys, we fail to see how Congressman Ellisworth is faced by such a dilemma as he claims. Certainly he should not be so alarmed and agi tated by the fact that there are 3 or 4 Democrats on the Oregon delegation who may or as far as we know may not oppose these particular proposals. Say they do oppose them. . What can they DO! about it i It looks like easy-goinp- with a down-hill pull for Congressman Ellsworth. We fear the fact that the Oregon delegation to congress is no longer 100 per cent Republican, has aroused unwarranted fears, resentments and appre hensions in the mind of our perennial and immove able representative in the Lower House. R.W.R. r? was only a PRACTICE shot, intended to find out more things about atomic weapons than are presently known. BECAUSE it enabled man to strike his enemy FROM A DISTANCE, the bow and arrow was probably in its day as revo lutionary a weapon as are atomic and hydrogen bombs to day. Before the bow and arrow, man had to get close enough to his enemy to transfix him with a javelin, thrown by hand and if he missed with a javelin he had to close in to arm's reach to strike him down with an ax or a club. THE bow and arrow didn't stop war, terrifying as it must have been, when it was first used. But One arrow from one mans bow could strike down only ONE opponent. One hydrogen bomb, released by ONE man in ONE plane (with the plane man ned at most by a couple of dozen men) can strike down MIL LIONS over a circle whose dia meter is measured in miles. There's quite a difference. Vf ARSHAL TITO, speaking to XTA the Yugoslav parliament, asserts that an ample supply of atomic raw materials has been found in Yugoslavia, and adds that efforts will soon be made to start using nuclear power in his country. He calls for the destruction of all nuclear weapons. But He adds EFFICIENT INTERNATION AL CONTROL WILL BE NEED ED TO PREVENT MISUSE OF NUCLEAR POWER. rjiRUE enough. But efficient international con trol of nuclear power (which in cludes nuclear weapons (will re quire honest international cooperation. pROBLEM: How are we going to get all mankind (including ambitious despots grasping for world power) to co-operate "sincerely, intelligently and honestly for the benefit of all mankind? WE have developed the tech niques of dispute and con flict to a very high degree. Somehow (frankly, I don t know how) we must find a way to develop the techniques of co operation and agreement to a much higher degree than they have as yet achieved. That's the BIG problem. AND NOW THE SATELLITE Washington ABout two years from now provided all goes according to plan the United States should be ready to launch Into space the world's first artificial earth satellite. The satellite which is now being planned will be very different from the elaborate space ships usually envisioned. It is likely to be hardly larger than a soft ball, and it will probably weigh well under a hundred pounds. This small ob ject will be hurled into space by means of a two - or - three -staged rocket, reaching an "es cape velocity" of just under eight miles a second in its final stage. Thereafter, the tiny satellite will circle the earth, at an alti tude of 250 miles or more, like a ball at the end of a string, completing each circle in less than two hours. After some weeks, it will probably drift earthward as a result of slight atmospheric drag, and eventual ly it will disintegrate when it hits the denser atmosphere be low. Telemetering and other de vices which can be built into such a tiny man-made moon can tell technicians on the earth below much about the great unknowns of space. Thus it will have very great scientific value. But, it should be under stood, it will have no military application at all it could not be used to kill anybody, or even to spy on-anybody. It is for precisely this reason that no serious effort to get a satellite into space has hereto fore been made, even though seven or eight years ago the technicians of the Air Force's Rand Project ruled that a sat ellite was technically feasible. Opponents of the satellite pro ject have hitherto argued sue-, cessfully that first priority must be given to weapons with real military value above all to the decisive weapon, the inter continental ballistic missile, or IBM. There are two main reasons why it has now nevertheless been decided to make a serious effort to achieve a satellite. In the first place, as the missile art has matured, it has become clear that a satellite is a way-station on the road to the IBM, and can be .achieved without any great diversion of funds or man power from the decisive wea pon. ONE might suppose that the problem of creating a 5,000-mile-range baUistic missile would be far easier than the problem of creating an artificial heavenly body. Actually, the sateUite or such a crude, pre liminary satellite as that de scribed above is much eas ier. The two worst headaches for the intercontinental missile de signer how to guide the mis sile accurately to its target half a world away, and how to pre vent its disintegrating like a comet when it re-enters the at mosphere do not exist for the designer of a satellite. The problem of design is also very much simplified because a small satellite like that described above weighs far less than the bulky hydrogen warhead of an inter-continental missile. The total cost of getting such a small object into space nas recently been estimated as low as $20,000,000 peanuts in the Pentagon as against previous estimates of $1 billion or more And intelligence analyses of So- viet progress in missiles have made a $20,000,000 investment in a satellite project seem ur gently desirable. In recent months the Soviet press has been filled with boasts about future Soviet triumphs in space. Prof. Nesmeyanov, presi dent of the august Soviet Acad emy of Sciences, passed the word: "Science has reached a point where it is realistic for us to speak of . . . creating an arti ficial satellite of the earth." Nes meyanov's words have been ech oed by numerous confident pre dictions by other Soviet scien tists. Low operating costs, conservative ad vertising, expense, and no employ ee payroll result in savings for YOU. CHAPEL MORTUARY Frank Morgan . . Harold Snodgrass Funtral Directors Phone 2-8030 lis By Stewart Alsop i The -intelligence experts have learned from sad experience, no tably with both the atomic and the hydrogen bombs, that this sort of Soviet chest-thumping must be taken very seriously in deed. The prospect of permit ting the Soviets to get the first satellite into space seemed more intolerable the more the prob lem was considered. The Russians would gain en ormous prestige in the scientif ic world, as well as registering a huge propaganda victory, if they were the first to break the bonds of gravity. But that is by no means all. Even assuming that the first Soviet satellite missile lacked a practical mili tary application, it would rep resent a great first step into an unknowable future. TR- Walter Dornberger, crea tor of the German V-2, which is the ancestor of all missiles, has said that the first nation to take this step will "lead man kind into the future." This may be an exaggeration. But the time may and almost certain ly will come when future ver sions of a satellite will have great, military value for recon naisance, for missile guidance, and for other purposes yet un- guessed at. Thus the decision to make a serious effort to get the first crude satellite into space is not the hair-brained fantasy it may seem at first blush. It is nlain common sense, in these days when our technological lead over the Soviets represents all the security we have left. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune. Inc.) Aneurin Be van Seen' Heading for Trouble In British Politics By CHARLES M. McCANN ' United Press Foreign Analyst Britain's combative Aneurin Bevan has been asking for trou ble for a long time, and appar ently he is go ing to get it at last. There is a good chance that Bevan will be thrown out of the La bor Party soon as a rebel and a trouble maker. The only Charles McCann question is whether Bevan will be a big ger nuisance outside the party than he is in it. " As leader of the left wing fac tion of the Labor Party "Nye" Bevan has been notable chiefly as a hater. He hates his fellow Labor leaders. He hates to see Britain spending money for arms against Communist aggression, and he hates the idea of rearm ing Western Germany. He does not want Britain to make hyro gen bombs. Bevan is not a pro-Communist. He is a British Socialist. -But unfortunately his political views especially on defense, make him a valuable asset to the Kremlin in the cold war. Quiet, unassuming Labor Par ty leader Clement R. Attlee has put up with Bevan for a long Magnuson Profesis Restriction on Pears Washington (U.R) Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) complained to three Cabinet of ficers today that foreign coun tries are imposing discriminatory trade restrictions against Ameri can apples and pears. Magnuson, chairman oi the Senate Commerce Committee, sent letters of protest to Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles, Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks and Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson. He asked them to give him all the information they have about the trade barriers. He cited the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Holland, Ger many and Sweden as principal offenders. He said the Oregon Washington fruit industry has been hit hard by the record exports. HABIT Boston (U.R) Two gunmen walked into Bedro's Asadarian's variety store and robbed him of $05. But that one incident wasn't what made Asadarian angry. It was the 30th time in 20 years that he had been a robbery victim. time rather than face a definite party split. ' But on March 2, Bevan and 61 other Labor members ab stained from a House of Com mons vote on a party motion of censure against the Churchill government for alleged defense deficiencies. . . ' To make it worse, Bevan in debate sarcastically criticized Attlee. The 17 Labor leaders in Com mons who are called the shad ow cabinet ' the men who would form the government if Labor returned to power met Tuesday to consider the Bevan situation... They decided that they would recommend to a party caucus, to be held next Wednesday, that Bevan be boycotted in Com mons technically, that he be denied the party "whip" by means of which voting orders are given. It is forecast that the recom mendations will be approved and that the executive committee of the entire Labor Party, which meets March 23, will be asked to expel Bevan. That would mean splitting the Labor Party into right and left wing factions. It would mean also that Prime Minister Winston Churchill prob ably would call a general parlia mentary election within the next few months, hoping to increase his party's present majority to 27 in Commons. Outlook Serious One The outlook is a serious one for the Laborites, but the Bevan situation could not last forever. It is reported that long-suffering Attlee told the shadow cab inet that he would quit the lead ership unless Bevan was thrown out. The only wonder is that an open break did not come sooner. Attlee and Bevan are certainly contrasting figures. AtUee, a graduate of Oxford, is a Labor intellectual who is a great factor in party unity. Bevan, a one time coal miner, burly and blus tering, is a man who doesn't seem able to put up with unity. (See Story on Page 14) New G-E Automatic Dishwasher guaranteed to wash dishes easier, faster, cleaner than by hand, OR WE'LL GIVE YOU tmnn mamfv nnnii lUUli ItlUNCI DAlftt! ' I ' " becf to m" guarantee! Jk , 'S 1 W ceo (nsEssxsinn) '"-fV & ' itl 1 1 ETj ilk LM"N I M -f ) -S J (SXSSKi Sj ' nJ0 AUTOMATIC DISHWASHER only h A DAY , Ask for a free demonstration Authorized Dealer General Electric Appliances MAIN STORE -115 EAST MAIN BARGAIN STORE - 303 S. Front 10 DAY FREE Trial WIN ANewCE. 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