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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.
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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
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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.
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' 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.
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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
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