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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody in Southern Oregon , Reads The Man inoune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 3-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph EditOf RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mxr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at lledford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Pet copy 10c. Daiy and Sunday One year 912.00 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 S3. 50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phot nix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year SIS. 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealer 5e 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. NATIONAL EDITOIIAl ASTbCH-ATIION 0 NIWSPAPEt PUkHISHIRS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 21, 1945 (It was Saturday) Pacific Highway association discusses proposal to route the state's main interregional high way from Eugene through Klam ath Falls instead of via Medford and Ashland. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The old Commercial club edifice is now only a memory, and an unim pressive hole in the ground. In the 1910 boom it swarmed with civic humdingers, and was a hive of committee meetings. 20 YEARS AGO April 12, 1935 (It was Sunday) Jackson county fruit growers favor agreement witfi the can ners of Pacific coast-grown bart lett pears because conditions fa vorable for growing pears two-and-three-eighths inches long. Four units of the Oregon Na tional guard to be inspected at the Medford armory April 30. 20 YEARS AGO April 21, 1925 (It was Tuesday) . Oregon'i new headlight law governing adjustments to the proper position explained to resi dents of Medford by state offic ials. University of Oregon commit tee recommends site on North Holly st. for Medford's new high school. 30 YEARS AGO April 21, 1915 (It was Wednesday) From the Local and Personal column: Country districts report numerous petty thefts, several chicken coops being raided the past week. Owing to the fact that just enough of the fowls for a meal have been taken at a time, the work is laid to hungry tramps. From the Ashland column: A volunteer annex to the regular fire department is a new organi zation here and will supplement the work of the auto truck crew when deemed necessary. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. It is now about five, ten or 15 years since the first man made atomic explosion In New Mexico? 2. N.Y. Stock Exchange seats sell today for much more or much less than in the boom market of 1929, or for about the same? 3. The one "basic" crop on which price supports are still an inflexible 90 per cent of parity is corn, cotton peanuts, rice, to bacco or wheat? 4. How many furlongs make a mile? 5. Allied capture of Pantel leria island in World War II meant the beginning of the end for Germany, Italy or Japan? 6. Which chess pieces can never move more than one square at a time? 7. Harry S. Truman plays the harp, cornet, flute, saxophone, piano or second fiddle? The Answers: 1. Ten yean. 2. For much less. 3. Tobacco. 4. Eight 5. For Italy (it's in the Mediterranean). 6. The king. 7. Piano.' Nearly 14,000 persons were killed in weekend traffic acci dents last year. 3SJ " fa MAIL TRIBUNE A Great Public Service There is a great deal of talk about the dangers of socialized medicine. There is very little talk about the dangers of commercialized medicine. Yet if the latter keeps on growing some form of socialized medicine will be inevitable. ' The complete lack of the commercial, money- making element in the production of anti-polio vac cine, perfected by Dr. Jonas Salk, was not unprece dented, but it was one of the most refreshing and in spirational features of this epoch-making contribu tion to the greater health and happiness of this coun try and for that matter the entire world. "11THEN asked who owns the patent on the vaccine he replied no one does. "Can you patent the sun?" he inquired, "this vaccine belongs to the peo ple." And then the doctor added that he thought there should be some "government agency" to control dis tribution and allocation for the 1955 period at least, instead of having a general unorganized scramble, with the devil taking the hindmost. , This sounds like good sense, and it is to be hoped that calling in the government in a case like, this won't arouse the fears of the socialized-medicine fanatics. The danger is nation wide. The government it seems to this department would be the proper agency to see that those in the country who need treatment MOST, get it FIRST, and so on down the line, until the job has been done. ; HEN sickness enters the home, the profit motive should 0 out the window. And we will say this for not only the medical profession AS A WHOLE, but the pharmaceutical in dustry also, this is what usually happens. The latter, for example, spent millions in manu facturing this Salk vaccine, before its success was known, taking that financial risk, so, if and when a favorable verdict did come in, there would be no ser ious delay in treatment. The industry thus rendered a great and unselfish service and should get proper credit for it.. , Too Much Politics In one direction both factions appear agreed re garding the recent congressional "grass-roots" hear ing on Hells canyon dam, namely: the other side was only playing politics. Every time a proponent of a federal project arose to present his argument, he was accused of making a political speech. Every time some representative of private power read a paper, he wasn't playing politics exactly but he usually was playing the private - power game and was probably subsidized by the "power trust," accord ing to those on the other side. IN OTHER words as far as the general reaction was r concerned the "grass-roots" hearing did not add much to any clarification of the controversial subject. Those who attended the meeting for or against public power, came away apparently with opinions unchanged. ' Perhaps the Senate sub-committee got more light than heat out of the gathering, but if so there has as yet been no report to that effect. - A LL of which is unfortunate. " The Hells Canyon issue seems to this depart ment to be quite clear, with SOMETHING to be said on both sides of course not of a political but a clear cut factual nature. We fail to see why a persqn favoring the high dam proposal should be accused of playing politics in his presentation anymore than the person favoring private ownership and operation. As has been remarked in this space so often, it is not a moral question but a question of belief, and in the final analysis comes down to what experience in this field, has demonstrated to be best for industrial development, and the welfare of the people all the people in the area involved. THAT is all there is to it. It is not a political question except as any ques tion on which there happens to be a political division, can be thus classified. TXTHEN Lincoln and Douglas held their famous de- bate over slavery, that was a political question but neither accused the other of "merely playing poli tics," they pointed out where their opponent, they thought, was. wrong, and the final decision as to the right and wrong was left to the people. We grant the analogy isn't a perfect one. But it does illustrate the point we wish to make namely: there is no reason why the public vs. private power debate should not be carried on in a perfectly friendly and business-like atmosphere, without name calling or hysteria on either side. Above all both sides should answer the arguments of the opposition, rather than refuse to do so, on the ground that those who don't believe as they happen to, are merely playing politics. R.W.R. Electric Rate Reduction Approved Salem (U.PJ Public Utili ties Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel said today he has signed an order providing for a $302, 000 annual electric rate reduc tion by Pacific Power and Light for its Coos Bay and Willamette valley divisions. The new rate schedules be come effective" tomorrow. Helt zel said they provide savings to customers in the Coos Bay dis Thursday, April 21, 1955 trict of some $242,000 a year and in the Willamette valley district of some $60,000. The new schedules will pro vide uniform rates in the coast districts of the company. Heltzel said the reductions are in keeping with his order issued in April, 1954, permitting the merger of Pacific Power and Light with Mountain States Power. Chou's Emergence As No. 1 Delegate Highlight's By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The biggest development In the Asia - Africa conference at Bandung is the emergence of Chou En - lai as the No. 1 delegate. Ever since the 29 - nation ' meeting open ed Monday, it has centered around Chou, the premier and foreign minister of Communist Charles McCann lmna. Other world figures like Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of Indian, the chief sponsor of the conference, have been shoved into the background. Whether Chou can do the Uni ted States and its allies any real harm at the meeting is highly doubtful. He cannot put over any anti- Editorial Comment O&CLand Hassle Finally Settled Settlement by the supreme court of the Clackamas county court's suit on O&C timber lands is welcomed the length of West ern Oregon. The right prevailed and the two county commission ers that placed Clackamas coun ty in a ridiculous position should be satisfied. County courts of 18 O&C counties in Oregon opposed the court suit, except for two com missioners in Clackamus county. The other 52 judges and commis sioners held that legislative ac tion would suffice to settle the matter. They were right and our two boys, one of whom is nc longer in office, were wrong. It cost Clackamas county about 820,000 to be the ridicu lous scapegoat. On the three man court, opposition of one man, Judge W. R. Telford, to the expenditures incident to the court action was over-ridden by the other two who went off on a politically-inspired tangent. The supreme court, on motion of the justice department acting for secretaries of interior and agriculture, dismissed the coun ty's suit in federal court on grounds it no longer constituted a legal issue. " . The hassle had been settled .In tne last congress by passage of the Cordon-Ellsworth act. This provided that administration of the O&C lands in contention should remain with., the forest service, but that revenues frpm this property should be distri buted to the counties on the formula used by the bureau of land management. The bureau, of interior de partment, and the forest service, of agriculture department, had quarreled over jurisdiction of the controverted O&C lands. Revenues from them had piled up at about $7 million dollars and the U. S. treasurer declined to disburse this money until it was decided which agency , was the administrator. Counties naturally wanted distribution under the BLM formula of 75 per cent of reve nues to counties and 25 per cent to administration. The forest service formula ,is just the op posite. We trust this adventure into crusading will suffice for the I'once. Folks hereabouts are pretty well fed up with it and are not too happy to learn how much it cost Them. They know they wouhi have received their share of th'e distribution under the Cordon-Ellsworth act and felt the court action was im proper -in a number of ways, some of which never have been publicized, but might come to light in some future political campaign. Enterprise Courier, Oregon City. Frank Morgan c CHAPEL MORTUARY Funeral Directors PHONE 2-8030 MEDFORD Conclave American resolutions. It haa been agreed that no resolution can be passed except by unani mous vote, and the United States has some good friends among the delegations. Chou also can block any at tempt to put the conference on record as condemning Commu nism, of course. Chou can make some friends among the "neutralist" elements by emphasizing, as he did in his opening speech Tuesday, his country's desire to "co-exist" with non-Communist countries. Provided, of course, that those countries do not support the Western allies in their determi nation to defend themselves against Communist aggression. Theme of Speech The theme of Chou's speech was that Asia would get along all right if it were not for Ameri can interference. Chou already has won one dip lomatic victory in his private ne gotiations outside the formal conference sessions. That was his agreement with Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo of Indonesia by which the estimated 3,000,000 Chinese in Indonesia may choose either Red Chinese or Indonesian citizenship. Under the agreement, these Chinese will not be able to choose Chi nese Nationalist citizenship. Chou also is conducting pri vate trade negotiatons with Jap anese chief delegate Tatsuno suke Takasaki. Chou may well go back to Peiping with the basis for a big trade agreement with Japan. There need be no surprise that Chou has made himself the star of the Bandung meeting. . - The 56-year-old delegate of the so-called "People's Republic" is one of the smartest diplomatists in the world, Communist or non Communist. He is suave, well built, and handsome. His photo graphs usually show him smil ing. He makes a good impres sion, when he wants to, even on those who oppose him. Ruthless Communist But at the same time he is one of the most ruthless of Commu nists. When Chou talks of "co existence," he means co-existence until the Communists can take over by guile or brute force. ' Like so many first-ranking Red leaders Chou is not a prole tarian. He is of patrician Man darian descent. But he has been a revolutionary since his youth, and he is a charter member of the Chinese Communist Party. Appeal Made To Limit Use of Salk Vaccine Portland (U.R) The State Board of Health today broadcast an appeal to limit to children between one and 14 years, and pregnant women, inoculations with the Salk polio vaccine. The appeal was made by Dr. A. O. Pitman, president of the State Medical Society, and Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health officer, to make the limited amount of vaccine available to those who need it. A joint letter has been sent to all the state's physicians re questing cooperation in the "ra tioning" program. The letter said persons within the 15-30 age group would be vaccinated by fall "if sufficient vaccine is avail able." Dr. Erickson said Oregon had not yet received any vaccine shipments for school immuniza tion clinics. Only a "very small amount" had been received for distribution through private out lets. - Concord, N. H. (U.R) A study of New Hampshire's public schools showed that more than half of the buildings are over 50 years old. . itft'j J?7f- jfe- r '1 Harold Snod grass 1 KING STREET Alt? Matter of Fact DEAL ON FORMOSA Washington An Anglo-American agreement, which would in volve abandoning the Chinese off-s h o r e is lands of Mat- su and. Que- moy, is now a growing pos sibility. Indeed such an agree ment is prob able rather than possible, if only the Chinese Com munists hold off from at Stewart Aisop tacking Quemoy and Matsu for a few more weeks. The general shape of the deal which seems to be in the making is simple enough. The United States would put all possible pressure on Chiang Kai-shek to evacuate the islands, meanwhile making it clear that American forces would not defend the is lands in case of attack. In re turn, the British would make some sort of commitment short of a permanent guarantee to the present Chinese Nationalist re gime to take part in the de fense of Formosa in case of an attack by the Communists. The British would certainly be joined in such a pledge by Australia and New Zealand, probably by Canada, possibly by France and the NATO countries, conceivably by most of the non Communist world. But the Brit ish commitment is the heart and soul of the proposed agreement, the essential ingredient. The deal is by no means all buttoned up, of course. It is in what one of the interested par ties has called "the floating around stage," which means carefully informal chats which commit no one. It seems to have reached this stage largely as a result of Adlai Stevenson's re cent foreign policy speech When Secretary Dulles accused Stevenson of plagiarizing his own ideas, the Washington diplo matic corps was surprised. But since then, the idea of an Anglo American agreement to defend Formosa but not the off-shore islands, which was vaguely fore shadowed in the Sevenson speech, has been floating around much more visibly than before, The advantages of. this kind of arrangement with the British are obvious. The British alliance would be preserved, and at long last something like an Anglo- American united front in Asia created. At the same time, the Administration would be off the Quemoy-Matsu hook, and it is no secret at all that most Adminis tration policy makers would give a' great deal to be extri cated from the off-shore island dilemma. TO BE SURE, there might be trouble from the Knowland Bridges faction in the Senate. But the Administration could argue with some justice that a British-Australian-New Zealand commitment to defend Formosa which no one would have imagined possible six months ago was worth far more to Chiang than the off-shore is lands. As a straight political matter, indeed, most observers Unheard of Values at Heard's GRADUATION IS ONLY SIX WEEKS AWAY! STOP! before you buy a watch for graduation GO to Picard's of Medford Jewelers and buy the watch of your choice. We have Hamilton, Elgin, Bulova, Waltham and Illinois Watches to choose from. 17 JEWEL In the color of natural gold ftWSr Lifetime Main Spring v) Will Not Breakl Fed. Tax not Inc. You receive a Liftime Written Guarantee when you purchase your watch from Picard's of Medford Jewelers. LAY AWAY NOW FOR AS LITTLE AS $1 DOWN . . . TRADE INS ACCEPTED at the BIG LOCATED Open 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., By Stewart Atiep now agree that almost any "peaceful" settlement of the Formosa crisis would be a big political net plus for the Admin istration at least for the time being. From the British viewpoint, the kind of deal outlined above would mean in effect adoption by this country of the "two Chinas" policy long advocated by the British and a carefully qualified commitment to join in the defense of Formosa might not be too high a price to pay for this result. Even so, it would not be easy for the British to make such a commitment, how ever hedged about. To be sure, the Eden govern ment could present the agree ment as a triumph of British di plomacy, pulling the impetuous Americans back from the brink of the abyss. But the "not a single Tommy for Chiang Kai- shek" line has been so success fully propagated in Britain that any British commitment of any sort to defend Formosa would be highly dangerous politically. For this reason, it is most un likely that any agreement will be reached before the British elections of May 26. But if the Conservatives are triumphantly reelected, an Anglo-American deal on Formosa will certainly be up for most serious considera tion. ...May 26 may be too late, of course the Communists maj" attack before then. Or Chiang Kai-shek may flatly and openly refuse to be eased off the islands, in which case such an Anglo American deal would look like a public invitation to the Com munists to attack our Nation alist allies. VET it is a reasonably good - bet all the same that the crisis of the off-shore islands will eventually be resolved in some such way as that outlined above. A cease fire in the For mosa Strait has all along been, the central American objective. Originally it was hoped that the Chinese Communists would abandon their claim to Formosa, or at least make a public pledge not to attack Formosa, in return for getting Quemoy and Matsu without a fight. This hope, unrealistic from the start, is now dead. The pro posed Anglo-American . d e a 1 would substitute a cease fire in the Formosa Straits, based not upon meaningless Communist promises, but on 'American power backed by British and commonwealth support. There is much to be said for this more realistic kind . of cease fire. There is only one thing to be said against it that, however much, it may be dressed up, it represents one more retreat in Asia, and one more retreat may be one too many. Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. COURT BILL TABLED Salem (U.R) The Senate State and Federal Affairs Com mittee -yesterday tabled a bill which would have allowed coun ty courts to discontinue publish ing monthly expenditures in newspapers. 5750 SHOCK $750 D JEWELERS U AT THE WEST ENTRANCE ; Mon. Srt. 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Phoiw 3-49M In the Day's Hews By FRANK JZNKINS In Britain with a general election just fivii weeks off - Prime Minister Eden's Conserva tive party government proposes the first cut in Britain's income tax rate since World War 2. The reduction, as announced by the chancellor of the ex chequer (corresponding to our secretary of the treasury) will amount to 2Vi per cent on the basic rate or "sixpence to the pound," "as the British put it The old rate, which had been in effect since wartime days, took 45 per cent of the bottom bracket income taxpayer's taxa ble income and more than 90 per cent cf the taxable income of those in the top bracket. THE result of these stiff rates has been that a lot of British workers have been unwilling to work more and produce more be cause by so doing they would merely INCREASE THEIR TAXES. For the same reason, British industrialists haven't been too keen about increasing their production. Britain needs more production in order to, be able to sell more goods abroad so as to be able to buy more food and more raw materials, which she must have to keep her economy going. For this reason, the Conservative government would doubtless have liked to cut the tax rate much more, but for a rather in teresting reason didn't dare to. THE reason is this: A nit in tavps means an increase in the spendable in come of the British people. If the British people have . more money to spend, they will spend it in acquiring for themselves more of the products of British industry such as automobiles, refrigerators, washing machines and all the modern gadgets that go to make life more pleasant. If they do that, they will ab- sorb MORE OF THE PROD UCTS OF BRITISH INDUSTRY AT HOME, thus leaving LESS to be exported. If British imports continue over a long period of time to exceed British exports, the British economy will go to pot and the country will go broke. It's a strange world, isn't UT " f ' K- THAT brings up an interesting incident of the conference of 29 Asian and African nations that is being held in Indonesia. The Japanese delegate told the conference that the world's most urgent need is a ban on the USE OF FORCE anywhere on the globe. He said: . .. ''.-. .; "If the nations do not abolish war, WAR WILL ABOLISH NATIONS." , ; rpHAT'S putting it pretty straight. Japan, which went to war in an effort to improve its econ omy, finds itself as a result of war a WRECKED economy. Her delegate at the Indonesian con ference is speaking with the con viction that comes out of hard experience. ALL STAINLESS STEEL CASE Shock Proof Water Proof 17 Jewel at the BIG
