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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedtordJTsibuni "tveryoody in outUern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Ediior 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. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daiy and Sunday One year $12 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6 50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Photnix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Coupty 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 ASSOdlATllON J sJ UmimiMUlli' NEWSPAPEI PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 5, 1945 (It was Thursday) Douglas S. Eden, Air Force bombardier, promoted to cap tain, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Eden, Medford. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The accou stics of the courthouse have been improved no end. The roar of a lawyer at the jury no longer sounds like the elements have been unleashed. 20 YEARS AGO April 5. 1935 (It was Friday) Owner E. C. Faber announc es that newly remodeled IGA stores at Central Point and Butte Falls will be opened in near future. John Peters named manager of Medford liquor store; John Orth chosen to succeed Peters as clerk. 30 YEARS AGO April 5, 1925 (It was Sunday) Medford city council approves use of $250 to pay University of Oregon and Oregon Agricultural college experts to come here to make a study of proposed new high school sites. Ashland Tidings endorses moving county courthouse from Jacksonville to Medford. 40 YEARS AGO April 5, 1915 (It was Monday) C. R. Bowman named prin cipal of Medford High school. Otto Klum, Ashland High school coach, elected by Medford school board to serve in similar position here; will assume du ties next fall. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of Iho 7?) Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. The Supreme Court has banned racially segregated pub lic schools after this year, next year, or some unspecified future date? 2. The agreements on German rearmament do or don't go into effect if the treaty of the Saar doesn't? 3. One, two or three out of every four cancer victims re ceiving medical care today is being cured? 4. Total farm income is run ning so far this year about the same as last year, much higher, slightly higher, much lower or slightly lower? 5. Congress is on record for the 1960 Olympic Games to be held in the U.S.: at Dallas, De troit, Los Angeles, New York or Washington? 6. A golf ball is estimated to leave a golf club head at about 50, 75, 100, 125 or 150 miles an hour? 7. Dr. Harold C. Urey is a noted atomic scientist, college president, stock market analyst or bone doctor for baseball players? The Answers: 1. After some unspecified future dale. 2. Don't. 3. One out of four. 4. Slightly lower. 5. At Detroit. 6. An es timated 125 miles per hour. 7. Atomic scientist. Dead line Sunday Classified is at r.oon Saturday: 1 a. m. Monday for Monday; other dayi 5 30 previous day. 3y MAIL TRIBUNE Why Can 't England Understand? One of the best newspapers in England, trie Man chester Guardian, can't understand the Eisenhower policy toward Red China and the mainland islands. Why risk a world war over these insignificant bits of real estate, it says, which are a part of China anyway and are important only to Chiang Kai-shek. And then only in case he should attempt the fool hardy effort to invade the mainland and gain control of a nation that has repudiated him. THE Manchester Guardian also is puzzled by the present "adulation" of President Eisenhower and the sudden "political reincarnation" and popularity of ex-President Hoover who, it declares, some of the American newspaper commentators believe, is the power behind the Republican throne when it comes to halting progressive legislation and substituting legislation of an ultra-conservative character. FINALLY the Guardian joins with other English 4 newspapers, in amazement at the present unpopu larity of former President which elected him president four times and had he lived "might have elected this is furnished by the British press m the release 01 the Yalta papers and the anti-F.D.R. reaction there from. THE perplexity of the British presses understand- able. Many Americans in some directions, share it. But we are surprised that the "Guardian" which understands American psychology in so many direc tions, should not understand its apparent volatility and inconsistencies, when it comes to politics. The answer at least as we see it is YOUTH. The USA as nations go is still in the adolescent stage. It isn't like England, adult. It has the failings of youth, and also the virtues. Among the former is instability inconsistency, among the latter, tremendous vitality, enthusiasm and bounce. I ET the Guardian examine the political record of the U.S.A. and it will note Uncle Sam went from Theodore Roosevelt, a liberal, to Wm. Howard Taf t, an ultra conservative; from Taft to Woodrow Wil son; from Wilson to Harding and Hoover, two ultra conservatives, then to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Tru man, liberals, and then back to General "Ike," con servative again. This is more the course of a pendulum than a steady march of progress. It is going from one ex treme to the other, from the right to the left and back again but that is characteristic of youth. Youth dotes on such extremes. So we can't share the Guardian's surprise in the sudden changes in the American political climate. It is, as we see it, entirely characteristic. AS to the Chinese islands we are convinced there IS a "war party" in this country, backed princi pally by the Chiang Kai-shek lobby, which does want or at least is quite willing to risk war rather than have Red China take over the Matsus and Quemoy, even though that action fails to really threaten For mosa. BUT we are equally convinced President Eisen hower is not one of them. And we are even more certain the American people as a whole are opposed to war over these "bits of real estate" or any war for that matter, in the Far East at the present time. On the other hand a halt must be called some where in the Far East or the Reds eventually will take all Asia over including Japan. Even Senator Morse agrees that ".somewhere" for a firm stand is Formosa. WHY not make it clear then to the people of this country and the world that the United States will not defend these off-shore islands but only For mosa? The answer to that is why show your hand to the enemy before the chips-are down? Such a declaration, as Senator George of Georgia has stated, would be equivalent to handing over these islands to ihe Reds, without a struggle. By the same token a declaration they WOULD be defended if at tacked, regardless of the nature of that attack would be tantamount to a "declaration of war." President Eisenhower as we view it wants to do neither. He wants to keep his own counsel and the enemy guessing. Having recognized Red China it is easy to under stand British opposition ,to the Eisenhower pol icy but it is not so easy to see why the intelligent and world-wise Manchester Guardian should not be able to UNDERSTAND it. R.W.R. Soldiers, Guardsmen Fairfield, N. C (U.R) Dozens of soldiers, Marines, Coast guardsmen and National Guards men with heavy equipment turn ed out today to fight the "largest" and "most dangerous" forest fire in North Carolina his tory. The blaze raced across tract less coastal flatlands on a 10 mile front, spreading through tree tops "like a cyclone" in a sweep across 250,000 acres rav aged since last Tuesday. "It's the largest fire we ever had," Assistant State Forester Paul Tillman said in Raleigh. "It's the most dangerous condi tion we ever had and it's in the worst place from a fire-fighting standpoint." Forestry officials declared Monday the fire had become a "major emergency situation" Tuesday, April 5, 19S5 Roosevelt in a c ountry him a fifth." Evidence of Battle Forest Fire when three towns came within its possible scope. Members of the military services turned out with pumps and other fire-fighting equipment. Autoist Gets Scratch In 100-MPH Accident Portland (U.R) A 29-year-old Portlander escaped with only a scratched ear - Sunday when his high-powered car went out of control at an estimated speed of 100 miles per hourv , Driver of the car was identi fied as Edward Steve Duhon of Portland. Police said he admitted driving at a high rate of speed. The accident occurred when the car struck a dirt bank on a turn. The vehicle flew 150 feet through the air and landed up side down on the pavement. , All iance Changing Political Alignment On Middle East Scene By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The new alliance between Turkey and Iraq has started to change the political and mili tary alignment of the entire area extend ing from Egypt to Pakistan. It promises to strengthen immensely the western de fense against Communist aggressionand to weaken the "neutralist" - Charles McCann campaign of Prime Minister 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 words. Tired of Bigotry To the Editor: I think that the rottenest letter I every saw printed in the Medford Mail Tribune was that at top of Com munications, Tuesday, March 29, 1955, headed "Gym Use Protest ed." All credit to the Mail-Tribune for printing it. It's a fine paper. But I think that Jehovah's Witnesses have been treated dis gracefully in the United States. Why? Just because they do not believe in war. Neither do Friends. Nor do Friends (at least back East) take an oath in court. They merely give their word. As to the matter of salut ing the flag since they believe that an honor reserved to God, I think that is their business. I am sick and tired of these super-patriots who are always stirring up trouble in this coun try, including the McCarthy's, the nosey folks who made the Girl Scouts change their hand book imagination the asininity of that and the school board of Los Angeles which barred UNESCO from Los Angeles schools. I take off my hat to the school board here who did hot deny the school gymnasium to Jehovah's Witnesses or any other decent group. May I say that my family have been in these United States since . 1630? If they only came from Europe, Asia or Africa on the last boat, they would still have equal rights with the rest of us. My family has had men in every war that this country ever fought, since long before the American Revolution. Our men gave their lives for what? For the recent curtailing of every liberty under the sun? We also have in the family the Distinguished Flying Cross, the United Nations Medal, several other medals, a citation from the French government. I am not a ' member of Je hovah's Witnesses nor do I agree with all their teachings, but they have a right to their ideas. May I say in passing that my own grandfather was unfrocked and kicked out of the Methodist Church, for what? For daring to preach against slavery in New York City. At that time you could not be a' Christian unless you believed that the black man was made to be a slave to the white. I wonder if the thirteen people who signed that letter ever heard of Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Confucius? They all stood for peace? I hope our thirteen super - patriots will be on the firing line when the next war comes. How many got shot down, in the last ruckus? My son did, twice. Edith Y. Ingle 338 Bessie St. Medford, Ore. Ob Behalf of Chicks To the Editor: Now that Easter is approaching, the Med ford Humane Society urges all establishments handling newly hatched chicks and ducklings not to sell these frail creatures to persons intending to make Easter presents and also not to allow them to fall into the hands of children or others not having proper facilities for their feed ing and care. Please do not sell in lots of less than six. Baby chicks should never be bought (or accepted even as a gift) as pets. Chicks are won derfully appealing but by the time they are seven weeks old they are an almost impossible burden in an average home. A chick can be fatally injur ed by the clutch of a child's hand. In any event it needs a regulated temperature. The Easter traffic in chicks is cruel and should be discour aged. The baby chick industry is a big one. The majority of poultry raisers are dependent upon it for their source of sup ply. Placed in proper brooders they grow into maturity and be come an important factor in our poultry and egg market. Humane Society, Medford, Oregon. Jawaharlal Nehru of India. Great Britain joined the Turk ish - Iraqi pact yesterday. A few hours later, Turkey and Iraq invited Pakistan to join. Pakistan's acceptance is cer tain. The next move may be to seek the inclusion of Iran. If Iran de cides to join, and it is coming closer to full cooperation with the West, roars of outraged pro test may be expected from Mos cow. The United States may join the alliance later. Remarkable Switch President Celal Bayar and Prime Minister Adnan Menderes of Turkey are the men chiefly responsible for the changing pic ture in the Middle East. When it is remembered that Turkey remained neutral up to the closing phase of World War II, it is remarkable how that country has developed its co operation with the western al lies. Turkey joined the North At lantic Treaty Organization in February, 1952. It entered an alliance with Greece and Yugoslavia one year later. Next it entered an alliance with Pakistan in April, 1954. That alliance brought Pakis tan's Prime Minister Mohammed Ali into the middle eastern de fense picture, and in May, 1954, Pakistan signed a military aid agreenfent with the United States. Mohammed Ali is proving as enthusiastic as Bayar and Men deres in strengthening the free world against Communism. Mohammed Ali took Pakistan into the Southwest Asia Treaty Organization over the angry pro test of "neutralist" Nehru. He thus linked his country with both the far eastern and middle eastern alliances. The Turkish-Iraqi pact started a profound change in middle eastern politics. Prime Minister Carnal Abdel Nassar of Egypt, who is becom ing a neutralist like Nehru, tried vainly to block it, holding that it would mean a violation of Iraq's obligations under the Arab League agreement. Nasser then tried to form a new defense bloc among the Arab League agreement. Nasser then tried to form a new defense bloc among the Arab countries. So far, he has been able to pin down only Saudi Arabia. Turkey is becoming the lead er among the countries of the Middle East, in Egypt's place, and the Arab League is in dan ger of breaking up. Portland Pinball Law Left Standing Washington (U.R) The Su preme Court has left standing a Portland, Ore., law forbidding pinball machines. In a brief order, the high court rejected the appeal of Stanley G. Terry, who claimed the 1951 statute unconstitutionally de prived him of a $100,000 invest ment. , . The court held the appeal failed to present a substantial federal question. Terry said his machines, which awarded free games for high scores, were lawfully owned at the time the law was passed and that now he "can do nothing but destroy" them. The Multnomah County cir cuit court first held the ordi nance invalid on grounds it con flicted with a 1943 state law li censing pinball machines. The Oregon Supreme Court reversed the lower court last April, hold ing that the state law was mere ly a taxing measure that left the cities free to abolish the ma chines under their police powers. TEETH NEEDED Moline, 111. U.R) A woman complained to police her boy friends forced his way into her apartment and took her false teeth. She said she hopes he can be found because "I'm hungry." MR INSURANCE Fred Brennan i was glad to see insurance against glass breakage and vandalism on the "added extended coverage" of my Fire Policy. This added to windstorm, smoke, hail, and explo sion gives good coverage. But what about earthquake damage? Can earthquake insurance be added to the policy? For Information Call MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940 Matter of Fact THE MAJOR CASUALTY Saigon, Indochina A long, agreeable Chinese dinner; an hour's intricate discussion of the current political crisis in a bright-lit sidewalk cafe; a cool walk homewards in the tropic night; and then the sud d e n distant rattle of ma chine gun fire and the heavy, muffled Soeeph Alaoff) crump of mortars. Then a long ride in a chance-caught motor cycle rickshaw to the first line of Nationalist tanks, where they say the Binh Xuyen attackers are retreating. A further ad vance down the Boulevard Gal lieni over pavements scattered with mortar fragments to a crossroads clogged with troops, where there is a snick, snick and a young paratrooper is hoisted into an ambulance with a grim, dark hole in his forehead. After that the battle continu ing for a couple of hours, with sudden sprays of rifle fire, hur ried leaps behind the concrete terraces where the coolie res taurants put up their tables by day, tanks clattering forward, a company moving up under the dimmed street lights, and a cres cendo of fire at the finish. It was an odd war, this quick ly flaring, quickly ending night fright between the forces of President Ngo Dinh Diem and the tough Binh Xuyen boss of Saigon, Gen. Bai Vien. But it was an important war, because among the rather few casualties, there was one really big one. For practical purposes, the American policy of using Presi dent Diem to save Southern Indochina from the Communists is now as dead as the poor young paratrooper with a bullet through his brain. It hardly matters whether the current frantic efforts to glue together a new combination re sult in President Diem remain ing at his post. The Diem experi ment has failed, and so much time has been wasted that it is very doubtful whether any other experiment can now succeed. PLEAR notice of the failure was given by an experience of this reporter, even before the present crisis reached fever heat. The all important problem here in Southern Indochina is to halt and roll back the continuous Communist infiltration of the countryside. The supposed in strument for solving this prob lem is the "Civic Action" organ ization headed "by one of Presi dent Diem's confidential staff, Tran Trung Dung. Tran Trung Dung is an ami able young man. His office in the Norodom Palace, just next to President Diem's, is full of impressive tables of organization showing the chain of command of Civic Action, reaching down from himself, through the provi inces and districts, to the vital village level where the Com munist cadres are at work. But when I asked how many places in these impressive tables of organization had actually been filled, Tran Trung Dung gave a wry smile and replied with milk embarrassment: "Well there is a special Civic Action group in the Camau Plain that we got together as an emergency measure when the Viet Minh left that area. But for the rest, I'm afraid there have been too many arguments about the budget and differ ences among ministers. I'm afraid, to be honest with you, that Civic Action is really just myself, so far." This little episode, which lt one wondering whether to laugh or cry, is a fair symbol of Wxidt has happened to the Diem gov ernment to date. 1 leek for tfis seat, it it reterveo for enjr Ihe Wntt ta Spice end fxtroch. By Joseph Alsep The internal struggle for power has been continuous and ferocious. Four months were spent in the fight with the army that ended with the dismissal of Gen. Hinh. Then, when restor ing army discipline was the vital need, President Diem insisted on naming a new chief of staff whose sole recommendation was extreme pliability. And finally, with the National army still disorganized and demoralized, President Diem took on the sect leaders who had been his allies against Hinh. AS THE case of the unfortu "nate Tran Trung Dung too clearly suggests, everything else, all the most urgent administra tive, political and welfare work of the government, has been sub ordinated to the unending strug gle for power. On all sides in this struggle, there has been the lack of realism one saw in China, of little men fighting for position in a country which may not be a country very much longer. To this unrealism of President Diem and his rivals, moreover, there has been added American unrealism. There has been some French sabotage too, to be sure. (The loyal and cooperative Gen. Ely sacked a general officer on his staff a couple of months ago for secretly slipping arms to the sect leaders who are now attack ing President Diem). But on the whole American unrealism has done more harm than French sabotage. This American unrealism has taken several different forms. For example, conventional minded Americans find it very hard to accustom themselves to powerful, semi-gangster feudal leaders with large private armies. So the strength of the Indo-Chinese sects was serious ly under-rated; and worse still, the sects were dealt within such fashion that their chieftains are now just about as angry with Gen. J. Lawton Collins as with President Diem himself. Again, conventional minded Americans find it very hard to believe that any country really can be utterly lacking in a co herent administrative system. So the word has too of ten. been taken for the deed, as when this reporter was told that great things were hoped from Tran Trung Dung and his ghostly or ganization tables. Something of this appeared in Gen. Collins statement in Washington, that there was a good chance of sav ing Southern Indo-China if Pres ident Diem could only put over him program. The Eisenhower administration public relations men cried that estimate from the house tops, as though this unhappy country had been saved already. The only trouble was that even then, long before the present crippling crisis, the odds against President Diem putting over his program were some where between five and ten to one. HTIHOSE sam AriminUtratinn publicists men who twisted Gen. Collins words, are a large part of the explanation of the lack of realism that has af flicted our effort here. For the executors of American policy in Indochina have been under con. stant, heavy pressure from Wash. ington for something to show, something to boast about, some thing that would distract atten tion from the fearful dangers that threaten the free world in Asia. The moral of the whole exrjer- ience, perhaps, is that public re lations and foreign policy do not mix well. (Copyright, 1955 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) SPEL1NG RULES GIVEN ' Waseca, Minn. U.R) The Waseca county spelling contest distributed its rules for "deter minging" the winner. m ' In) Orthopedist Opens Office in Medford Dr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Bol ton and their three children moved last week to their new, home on Windsore ave., from Hot Springs, N.M. Dr. Bolton, formerly a staff surgeon at the Crippled Chil dren's hospital there, plans , to open offices next week special izing in orthopedic work at the Medical-Dental building at 832 East Main st. The couple's children are Tommy, 6, Mary Ann, 4, and Jeff, who is one year old. The doctor was graduated from Northwestern university medical school in Chicago, and did his specialist training there in graduate school. He practiced in Sioux City, la., before going to Hot Springs. rAdrienne'sn JUST ARRIVED New Easter HATS Specially Priced $398 C98 and up Choose from Our Big Selection of Pretty Young Hart Other Accessories Exciting New GLOVES - BAGS To Complete the fashion : v picture White, Pink, Avocado Almost any style or color Adrienne's 214 E. Main - Phone 2-7169 Uncle's Candy GEO. N. TAYLOR "Uncle Ben, have you any more of that candy?" So the small ones asked and Uncle Ben always made good. But Uncle Ben's human goodness can not be compar ed with our Lord's vast riches and will ingness. Take the day when Christ was sur rounded by youngters and the Disciples thought Him too busy and powerful to give Him self to the little ones. But Christ said to let the little ones come to Him and forbid them not. "For of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." Mt. 19:14. Said He "They who have faith like the little ones, make up the king dom." You believed that the sinless blood of Christ washed away your every last sin. At that God wrote eternal life on your page. Now when the go ing is rough and the day dark, ask God and receive of Him and He will see you through. Jere miah 33:3. By Bible and Prayer, grow up. ' . This message sponsored by an Oregon dairyman and family. Paid Adv. I TRIBUNE ASS FOR RESULTS Phono 1 2JM1i
