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TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. March 17, 19SS MedpordvTribune "Everybody hi soutcern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Manairin Editor ERIC ALIEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OUVE 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 copv 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 $3 50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eaele Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Photnix. fchady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 uaily and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash-in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Couity 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. NATIONAL EDITOIIAl assocatiTgn giriig.'.ij.'jny -'ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Match 17, 1945 (It was Saturday) Oregon legislature adjourns after record-breaking 69-day session. Office of Price Administration orders cut in April quota of automobile tires which may be sold; old purchase certificates cancelled. Ye 20 TEARS AGO March 17, 1935 (It was Sunday) From Arthur Perry's Smudge Pot column: The fish ing season opens April 5, and picatorial . enthusiasts view calmly the edict they cannot 'catch as many fish this year as last, if they could. They can only catch 20 fish in a day. Medford Realty Board com pletes survey, finds rents going up, houses scarcer. 30 YEARS AGO March 17, 1925 (It was Tuesday) News item: "The so-called flu or la grippe which has been quite prevalent here the past two weeks and was the cause of a number of absences in the local schools the latter part of last week, has caused a decided number of absences among the students and teachers yesterday and today. From the Local and Personal column: Today, in addition to being a clear, sunny one, is the 17th of March, St. Patrick's day, in the observance of which a number of green neckties, coat lapel bouquets and imitation shamrocks are being worn, and a number of social gatherings will take place tonight. 40 YEARS AGO March 17, 1915 (It was Wednesday) Government prison railroad cars, with heavy screens on win downs, passes through valley. From the Local and Personal column: This being the 17th of Ireland, the green In varied decorations is being worn by all good Irishmen in this section. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Requirements for voting for President are set by the Consti tution, Congress, each state for its citizens, or each locality for its residents? 2. A draftee on release from active service is subject to two, four, six, eight or ten years in the Reserve? 4. A foreign-born person, if legally in the U. S.t can or can't remain indefintely without ap plying for citizenship? 5. De Soto discovered the Colo rado, Detroit, Hudson, Mississip pi, Niagara, Rio Grande or St. Lawrence river? 6. Bicyclists have covered more than 25 miles in one hour; right or wrong? 7. Silviculture pertains to fish, trees, mining, bee-keping, or metal-working? The answers: 1. Each state for its citizens. 2. Six years. 3. Most don't. 4, Can. 5. The Mississippi- 6. Right. 7. It's the care of trees. Norway has one of the lowest There are I8I2 million home gardens in the U.S. today. i No "Give Away?" Is is now being claimed that the tidelands oil-bill was not a "give away" because a "major portion" of the profits therefrom are going, not to the oil com panies, but to the federal government. At the same time it is admitted the government gets only one sixth of the profits, on a royalty-lease basis to the private companies. This appears to be another case wherein figures don't lie, but liars figure. Since when has 16 or 17 per cent of a sum, repre sented a "major", and 83 to 84 per cent, a minor portion ? Someone should take a refresher course in pri mary arithmetic! IN THE same quarter it is now being stated there was no "give away" because the tidelands oil profits going to the lucky four states have to date been disappointing. How have they been disappointing? This will be news to John M. Pierce, finance di rector of one of the lucky states our plutocrat neigh bor, the other side of the Siskiyous, California! He predicted only a few days ago California may be able to realize as much as $2,500,000,000 in oil royalties by permitting off-shore oil ' drilling. This would be based upon a 35 instead of a 17 royalty. If the state of California can count on a profit like this,'how about Texas, not to mention Louisiana and Florida? Where is the "disappoint ment?" How much is enough? THE contention of Senator Morse and others was the off-shore oil (not within but out beyond the legal 3-mile limit) did not belong to three or four abutting states but to all the states to the American people, as a whole. And the profits therefrom should therefore go to ALL the people, not to a few "lucky states." This view was sustained in principle by the U.S. Supreme Court. - Of course the cry of "socialism" was raised. But there wras no socialism involved. There was no idea of having the government itself pump the oil, and sell it. The idea was to have the control and ownership in the hands of the government, just as the conti nental-shelf is government property today. Then leases for operation FAVORABLE TO THE GOV ERNMENT, could be granted and the profits from same distributed on a fair and equitable basis, to ALL the states instead of only four. 15 UT the big "give away" proposal succeeded. The four big states and the Big Oil companies won. The somewhat amusing feature is that now those who supported the "give away" are trying to prove it wasn't anything of the sort, because the four states they claim haven t cashed in as much as expected and on some of the lands the government is getting more a cut of 16 to 17 from the private operators. Where is the evidence of this? Isn't $2,500,000,000 probable profit for the state of California and approximately $4,000,000,000 to the private oil companies operating in that state, a fairly good return on the investment particularly when the investment consisted not of money so much as po litical manipulation, skillful lobbying, and the usual wire-pulling m important government places ! It looks like quite a "give-away" to this depart ment. R.W.R. The "Indispensable Man" It has been remarked before that the Republican party is today a one-man party. But that has hereto fore been a Democratic charge. Now such prominent leaders of the Republican party as Vice President Nixon and Senator Gold water of Arizona, admit the truth of the statement. This comes to this department at least as a con siderable surprise. For this means that for what it stands for, for its beliefs and principles, as well as its record, the Re publican party can not win in 1956. It MUST have one man and only that one man to head the ticket or it will go down to defeat. IXTHEN President Eisenhower at a recent press con " ference was asked if he considered himself an "indispensable man," he remarked how unfortunate it would be if there were such a thing as an "indis pensible man, what a sorry plight for the world to be in, to suffer from such a condition. He wondered if the reporters had considered the matter from that angle, and what would happen when and if the in dispensible man were no longer available? This was evading the question for the reporter did not mean indispensible to the COUNTRY, or the world, but to the victory of the Republican party. However the discussion ended there. DUT what the President said about the fallacy of " the "indispensable man" theory, and by implica tion its unfortunate results, where accepted, was en tirely true. ' It is unfortunate that the Republican party or any other party, has to depend for its success upon one man only, and then largely upon his charm and vote getting powers of his personality. And for a very practical reason to that"party. For American history, has shown, time after time, that personal popularity, as far. as the White House is con cerned, is an extremely uncertain and variable quan tity; what may be true at one date may not be true at all, only a few months later. R.W.R. Matter of Fact By Joseph AIsop Joseph Alsop Hong Kong Probably the worst danger of the Formosa crisis is the Hunger of drifting into the same mistake that was made when we in ter v ened in Korea. P r e s i d ent Truman and his advisers wrongly be lieved that the Korean aggressors could be halt ed without using American ground troops. They gave the order to intervene on the false assumption that our Nay and Air Force could do the whole job. But within 48 hours these planned "limits" on the war had to be hastily cast aside. A repetition of this pattern now seems entirely possible, judging by the authoritative pic ture of Chinese military prepara tions that you get here in Hong Kong. This picture, which shows the enemy much stronger than seems to be supposed in Wash ington, broadly falls into three parts. Part one concerns the Matsu Islands. The necessary enemy ground forces for an attack on the Matsus have been in position for a good many months. On the nearest point of the mainland the enemy is also emplacing very long . range Russian heavy can non. These will be able to cover the islands with artillery fire. But the real drama of an attack on the Matsus will be the air battle, which is always crucial in a major amphibious operation. It is precisely the enemy's pre parations for the air battle which are the most menacing element in the picture. Jet and rotary engined bombers can reach the Matsus comfortably from the great airbase complex that the Communists have built in Che kiang and Kiangsi provinces. From the most southerly of these airfields, the shorter ranged Mig 15s can also fly high cover as far as the Matsus. Hence all units in the Che-kiang-Kiangsi airbase complex will count in an air battle for the Matsu Islands. This means that the enemy will enter the battle with a minimum force of considerably more than 450 Mig 15s, plus a couple of hundred assorted rotary engined bomb ers well suited for close support missions, plus at least one squad ron of their jet bombers, the Ilyushin' 28s. THE confirmed presence of a squadron of JL-28s at Shang hai is a hew and most disturbing element in the picture. It means that the enemy is ready to use these bombers which, are the greatest single threat to our naval carriers which have in deed almost the same speed as our carrier borne fighters. : It can also be revealed, more over; that the Chinese Commu nists have approximately doubled their strength of IL-28s in the past year.. They now have no less than 250 of these formidable aircraft. And although the main body is still in North China at present, they can be redeployed southwards at very short notice. In addition, there are reports, thus far unconfirmed, that the enemy recently brought a divi sion of Mig 15s into the Che- kiang-Kiangsi airbase complex These planes, represent a sub stantial improvement on the Mig 15. They can be a serious chal lenge to our F-86s, the best American fighters on this side of the Pacific. The conclusion to be "drawn from these bleak statistics is ex tremely simple. In the main,, an air battle over the Matsus . is going to be a battle between our naval air and a massive land based enemy air force. This is not the kind of contest that should be entered with a light heart and one hand tied behind your back. Washington may be thinking of "limiting" this air battle, but it look's very much as though the Chinese Communists are thinking of win ning it. The hope of such a victory in the air is the best explanation, in truth, of the apparent Com munist decision to make the Mat sus their first target. In all other ways, the Matsus are harder to attack than Quemoy. But the Matsus can be covered from the airbases where the main enemy air strength is concentrated. Quemoy, of course, is the sec ond part of the picture. If Amer ican air strength has already been impaired, and if the fight ing is still "limited," the defense of Quemoy will be a pretty hope less proposition. The place is ringed by enemy heavy guns. A landing there is no more than a river crossing. And the enemy will be able to give some air support to an assault on Quemoy with the bomber squadrons and the hundred or so Mig 15s that are based around Canton. AS for the third part of this nirturo n-f nomv nnnor if r - j v is still in the future. Supply is always the key to every Chi nese military problem. The ene my is preparing to support op erations against the Matsus and Quemoy from airfields incon veniently distant to the North and to the South, because supply problems dictate this plan. The big tonnages of fuel need ed to sustain jet air operations just cannot be laid down on the much nearer airfields in Fukien Province over the mountainous roads that are Fukien's only links with the rest of China. But when and if the Matsus and Que moy fall to the enemy, the coast al shipping route will not longer be blocked. The Fukien airfields can then be supplied by sea. That is the real importance of the ( offshore islands. Once the enemy can supply and occupy the Fukien airfields, he can bid for air supremacy over the For mosa Strait. And if the day ever comes when the enemy rules the air over the Formosa Strait, we shall hear no. more vain glorious talk about an attack on Formosa and Pescadores being "out of the question." . Copyright, 1955. New York Herald Tribune, Inc. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Just before dawn the other morning, the fifth atomic blast of the 1955 test series was set off in the Nevada desert. It was evidently a pint-sized one, as no shock was felt in Las Vegas and watchers in Southern Oregon saw only a faint flare like a match being lighted in the dark ness a block or so away.' Major interest appears to have been centered on the test of a SMOKE SCREEN which the army chemical corps believes can cut down heat rediation from the bomb in vital areas. rpHE scientists appear to be tak ing a leaf from the book of the orchard heaters, who have long used a smoke screen in the hope of keeping the heat in. The atomic people are evidently flirt ing with the idea of using a sim ilar screen to KEEP ATOMIC HEAT OUT. VOU never can tell what will happen. When Alexander Graham Bell stubbed his toe on the principle that makes the tele phone work, he was experiment ing with the idea of a hearing aid for deaf people. WEATHER item: Wind, rain and dust storms (in the area east of the Conti nental Divide) have abated. The worst damage appears to have been caused by the big dust storms in the southern and cen tral great plains. Colorado apparently lost HALF ITS WINTER WHEAT CROP, with a loss estimated somewhere in excess of $50,-000,000. it DID NOT intend to dump large quantities of its surplus wheat on the market for sale as FEED wheat. It said it was of fering only small quantities which are in danger of spoiling." I SUPPOSE that if I were a wheat grower I'd want the government to go on buying my wheat at prices HIGHER than I could get on the open market. That's human nature. But I'm pretty sure that day and night I'd be keeping a ner vous and fearful eye on the pres ent staggering surplus supply of wheat which, if it should be thrown on the market as a result of some sudden change in the political winds, would WRECK wheat prices for a long time to come. THAT brings up an interesting thought: IS JT REALLY better to go on buying up wheat at prices well above the market and storing it away? Or would it be better (over the long pull) to put the surplus wheat on the market as LIVE STOCK FEED and get it eaten up and out of the way? Industrial research in the U. S. costs about $2,000,000 annu ally and requires the services of 235,000 workers. Morse, Education Groups Agree on School Aid Bill .. By SEN. WAYNE MORSE Twice on my weekly radio re port and in a recent newsletter, I discussed the serious shortcom ings of the President's so-called aid-to-education proposals and reported my support and spon sorship of more vigorous meas ures for direct financial aid to the states for school construction and the creation of a multi-billion dollar education fund from Federal oil lease revenues. ine representatives ot na tional education groups have taken similar positions. Members of Oregon school boards, school superintendents and others vital ly concerned with educational problems in Oregon have writ ten to me expressing their op position to the Administration bill and support for S. 5, of which I am a co-sponsor. They point out that most school districts are approaching or have bumped their heads against bonded indebtedness ceil ings; that as badly as they need Federal aid they couldn't qualify under the Administration bill s complicated formula; that there would be too much Federal con trol under the President's pro posals; that it would take at least two years to secure the local legislation needed to make participation possible for Ore gon school districts. Hells Canyon Bill Introduced March 8 was Hells Canyon Day in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. There were 30 Senators from 20 states sponsoring the bill in the Sen ate, including all of the Demo crats from the Pacific North west. During my speech intro ducing the bill, I was asked to yield by that great elder, states man, Alben Barkley. He said in part: v. "With regard to the bill dealing with Hells Canyon, which is a symbol, in a way, and typical to other situa tions, I wish to say to the Sen ator from Oregon that I am fully in sympathy with his at titude, with his bill, and with similar legislation that may come before the Senate. All my life I have felt that the great rivers of this country belong to the people and are the property of all the people. I have always opposed turn ing them over to any private group for exploitation or con trol. If we ever allow these great arteries of commerce to be controlled privately, it will be a long time before we ever recapture control of them on behalf of the people." . t Sludebaker Wins Mobilgas Run; Rambler Second Colorado Springs, Colo. (U.R) It was Studebaker by a nose. The American Automobile As sociation officials had to split a few fractions yesterday to de cide the winner of the 1323-mile Mobilgas economy run that wound up here. The winner was a Studebaker Champion, driven by Dick John son of San Diego. Second in the photo finish was a Nash Am bassador driven, by Pierce Ven- able of Los Angeles. Oldsmobile Third An Oldsmobile 88 was third in the gruelling three - day test that carried 21 cars through snow, fog, head winds and icy roads to determine which was the "most economical" cap. The winning Studebaker had a total of 58.6320 ton miles per gallon, while the Nash had 58. 5560 ton miles. The ton miles per gallon are computed by mul tiplying the weight of the car by the number of miles driven and divided the totals by the gas oline. This was tiie deciding fac tor even though the Nash Ram bler made the highest number of miles per gallon, 27.4733. The four division wmners were: Low price, Nash Rambler; low medium, price, Studebaker Commander; upper medium . . i j price, JNiasn Amoassaaor ana high price, Buck Roadmaster. Ellsworth Sees Long Session of Congress YOU know the proverb: "What's man's poison." Its rough on the Colorado wheat growers, but will help to cut down the surplus of wheat bought with taxpayer money and stashed away to keep wheat prices up. ' rpHAT brings up this item from the market news of a week or 60 ago: Wheat prices rallied on the Chicago Board of Trade this morning . . . The main factor in the wheat price bulge was an overnight announcement by the department of agriculture that low operating costs, conservative ad vertising expense, and no employee payroll result in savings for YOU. CHAPEL MORTUARY Frank Morgan . . Harold Snodgrass Funeral Directors Phone 2-8030 By HARRIS ELLSWORTH The signs as I see them point to a long session of Congress this I year. My guess right now is that adjournment will not come be fore mid-August possibly later. The basis of my opinion is that the regular annual appropria tions bills are very slow in com ing to the House Floor for pass age. Congress cannot adjourn until all of the money bills have been acted upon. If they come up from committee late Con gress will stay in session late into the summer. Trade Bill Approval Seen It is anticipated that the bill to extend the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act will be cleared by both Houses of Congress and sent to the President within a few days. As this is written the Senate is debating the bill. As has been reported, the bill was passed by the House on Feb ruary 18. It was considered on the Floor of the House under what is called a "closed" rule. That meant no amendments could be considered. We just had to vote for the bill as it was brought from the Ways and Means Committee or against it. A motion to recommit the bill with an amendment which simply meant that one amend ment would be included failed by five votes. I voted for the amendment and then for the bill. I think the amendment which would have given some protec tion to our farmers and some small manufacturers should have been adopted. I hope the amend ment is put in the Senate. I was not willing to vote against the entire bill just because we could not get the amendment we wanted, so I reluctantly voted for it. As a matter of fact, the trou bles which have developed from the Reciprocal Trade plan of making tariffs are not due to the law or to the principle of mak ing tariffs in that way. Our troubles have come from the way in which the law has been administered. Presidential, ad visers on the subject of tariffs have tended to think too much about the rest of the world and not enough about the struggling units in our own economy. In other words they have been too engrossed with the vision of the forest to be table to see the trees, and if I may make a pun or something they have sometimes been unable to see our Oregon cherry and filbert trees! I hope that the heated debate and the close vote in the House on the amendment will serve to im prove the vision of the experts. U s Market Fine Meats & Groceries SAVE MONEY! Trade at Al's Market and Save! WHY? We Pay No Rent We Do Our Own Work We don't Have to Mark Up Prices to Pay for Stamps We Grow Our Own Beef THAT'S WHY WE CAN SELL AT THESE LOW PRICES! SPECIALS for FRIDAY and SATURDAY MEATS - Good Quality O BEEF ROASTS lb. 33' RIB STEAKS . . lb. 39' Ground Beef No Cereallb. 27' BACON or Sliced lb. 39 EGGS AA Large In cartons Country Fresh doz. 51 No, 1 BANANAS 2 lbs. 29 CARROTS 2 bags 19' Potatoes 50 lbs. $r CELLO BAG No. 2 Klamath Falls TOP PRICES PAID FOR EGGS IN TRADE CflD DENT WARM ROOM run ncii I frozen food lockers 838 McAndrews Road Phone 2-5475 2 Blocks North 3 Blocks West of Jackson School Medford Merchants Are Featuring MEW sreDWG Now! Shop and Save 4 Medford Mail Tribune V
