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'L! . 0 I! FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. April 28, 195S Ml ElnPLMlJ "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. - 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-S141 ROBERT W. RUHI Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager I. C. TERGUSON. Managing Editor STRIP ALLEN JR.. Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports fcditor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor Tirv lirvcflW CunHftv FHitftr GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act ox March 3. 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES n ril In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 CunrfaV OnlV Ol VeSX S3 50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Asmana, central -uini. msw i-im. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Dailv and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy AH Terms cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jacmon county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION rivrtUinp ftenresentative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York, Chicago, De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeies, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL E DITORIAl ASOdrATlIN NEWSPAPER PUtUIHfRI 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 AprU 28. 1945 ' (It was Saturday) Farm census of working per sons 14 years old and over being conducted in Jackson county. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Little girls have been manufacturing May baskets all week. Some of them look like baskets, and some like Mama's new hat. 20 YEARS AGO AprU 28, 1935 (It was Sunday) Jackson county Homemakers plan program for fourth annual 11-day session. Sportsmen meet to propose new names for Southern Oregon Boat club to include all outdoor ports. 0 YEARS AGO AprU 28. 1925 (It was Tuesday) .- ' The Jacksonville museum of pioneer relics - officially opens with talk by Gov. Walter M Pierce. Jackson county officials con fiscate a 15-gallon still, 200 gal lons of mash and seven gallons of moonshine in raid. 40 YEARS AGO AprU 28 .1915 - (It was Wednesday) The Hall taxi company, op erating an auto stage line be tween Grants Pass and Medford, discontinues operation. A new daylight Southern Pa ciflc train through Medford starts m anticipation of heavy traffic to San Francisco . exposi tion. - What's the Answer? (Cu You Get 4 ol th 7?) Cop. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. The fight between Sewell Avery and Louis E. Wolfson is to control Sears Roebuck, the N.Y. Central, Washington, D.C. transit, the A.&P. or Montgom ery Ward? 2. The Kurile- islands near Japan have been placed under Russia, Japan, Red China, Na tionalist China, the U.S. or a U.N. trusteeship? 3. Average salary today for college and university teachers of all ranks is around S5000, S6000. S7000. S8000 or S9000 a years? 4. Filibusters to prevent a vote on a . bill usually come in the Senate or the House, or both? 5. Some states include em ployers of only one worker in their tax for unemployment benefits: right or wrong? 6. Of every 10 U.S. families, about one. two, three, four, five or six have net incomes of $5,- 000 or more these daysi . 7. A man named Einaudi is president of Ireland, Italy, Mex- - :t.l..l rv Tiirkpv? JCO, BWJUWloim - The Answers: I. Montgomery Ward. 2. Russia. 3. S5000. 4. Al most always in the Senate. 5. Right. 6 About four in 10. 7. Italy. . SURPRISE! Washington 0J.R) Congress men at the National Press Club's party in their honor were told a pianist who had been both a sen ator and vice-president would play his favorite tune. From the stage came the familiar strains of "The Missouri Waltz," the curtains parted at the key board sat Vice-President Richard M. Nixon. Neuberger Versus Morse "This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." This excellent advice from Hamlet explains better than any of the political wiseacres have to date, why in the vote on the Upper Colorado storage project, our two Senators from Oregon parted company, Senator Neuberger voting against the "billion-dollar project and Senator Morse m favor. They were being true to themselves, voting their honest convictions. Why did their convictions con flict? Because of their different personalities, natures and points of view. CENATOR Morse is essentially a lawyer. He is ruled by his head rather than his heart. He undoubtedly has normal emotions, but they are controlled by his intellect, and particularly by its legalistic department. For example two of the greatest speeches he ever made in the Senate and he has made several were against the Tidelands oil "give-away" and the "give away to .President iusenhower regarding Wuemoy and Matsu. The keynote in both addresses was that the two actions were legally wrong. In law, domestic and international, neither were, when our senior Senator spoke against them, defensible. CENATOR NEUBERGER on the other hand is es- sentially an artist. Not the dreamy, impractical sort, for he has a brilliant mind and a logical one, but his nature is grounded more deeply in his emotions than his intellect. He has excellent powers of reason ing and analysis, but his feelings come first. CO WHEN this Colorado River project came up in- volving Dinosaur Monument and the protection of the National Park system, it was natural that Ore gons two senators should come to the parting of the ways To Neuberger this was the opening attack on the sanctity of the national park idea, the greedy camel putting his nose under the tent, with eventual com mercialism and destruction of these reserves of nat ural beauty, designed to be for the people's pleasure inspiration and recreation, not only for this genera tion but for those to come. He felt the matter deeply, j'ust as he did the squirrels on the White House lawn. He wanted their freedom and continuation instead of their incarcera tion and exile to parts unknown. He would much rath er watch a squirrel enjoy its freedom in the Presi dential preserve and have the people do so, than watch the chief executive sink a one-putt on the presidential- golf course, or 'listen to a technical de bate as to whether a nationalist attack on the Chinese mainland would be a counter-attack or an offensive war. As stated this attitude is no "gag," although it was expressed with a smile. Our Junior Senator is sincere in his devotion to Nature and the great outdoors, and when the preservation of same is threatened he will always be on the firing line voting for protection regardless of the wise cracks from the gallery and the uninformed. Stewart Alsop We can't speak for Senator Morse but our guess is he would never take up the cudgels for the White House squirrels, unless some legal element were in voived, sucn as trespassing, rodent . control or violation of an ordinance against playing golf, within range of the executive mansion windows! But he voted as he did because after careful analysis he found the flooding of Dinosaur however regretable, was entirely withm the law. Also he is a strong advocate of federal power as opposed to pri vate power. CO, as remarked, the two Oregon Senators parted company, and according to Robert Smith this newspaper's Washington correspondent, the split caused considerable sensation in the press gallery. It shouldn't have. Senators Morse and Neuberger agree on vital political principles, but they are both by nature, independent, as far removed from the yes- mail ui ivo iuhuwci ijpc, as auuuc tuuiu illlagmc. They each think things out for themselves, and each has the courage of his convictions. . They have work ed together thus far better than any two senators Oregon has ever had, but they don't see eye-to-eye on EVERYTHING, and no one informed regarding them would expect or want them to. - TTIE big mystery about this Colorado River proj 1 ect however, is not the technical disagreement be tween our two Senators but the Republican agree' ment to support such a proposal, and the failure of the Eisenhower administration to oppose it. What has become of the familiar GOP slogan tnat iederal power proposals represent "creeping socialism," the destruction of the American system of free enterprise, and there is no federal money available for such Communistic ventures as Hells Canyon anyway. , This storage measure on the Colorado passed bv the Senate will cost twice as much as Hells Canyon. will eventually be repaid but it will take generations and generations to do so, and the public benefits, according to most experts, will not even come within hailing distance of those certain to result from a High dam on tne snake. How the administration can favor this crip-antic "boondoggling" venture and oppose Hells Canvon: is something beyond the comprehension of this depart ment and anyone else, as far as the record has .di vulged thus far. R.W.R. Matter of Fact By Stewart Alsop GUESSING GAME Washington For those who enjoy guessing games, the fol lowing projection of events may have some in terest. It may be, of course; dead wrong it might be rather bitter ly entertain ing to read what follows six months from now. Yet it does rep resent the best guesses of what are generaUy called "in formed circles" in Washington, First, the Chinese Communists will not now attack the off-shore islands of Quemoy and Matsu The reasoning here is that, hav ing made an ostensibly peaceful gesture in Chou En-lai's care fully imprecise offer to negoti ate on the Formosa Straits crisis the Chinese Communists could hardly turn right round and kick off a war. ' This may turn out to be a very bad guess indeed, of course. The Communists build-up opposite the off-shore islands continues unabated. Yet it is being rather confidently perhaps much too confidently assumed that the Communists will not soon at tack. Instead, what is now believed to be in prospect is a long feeling-out period, a time of negotiat ing aDout negotiating very much the same sort of thing that went on after Soviet Ambassador Malik made his famous offer in the United Nations to negotiate a truce in the Korean war. The feeling-out period is believed likely to continue for months, with many an alarm and excur sion. While it is going on, a rather embarrassed but nevertheless eventually effective effort will probably be made to persuade i-mang s.ai-sneic to . pun bacK from the off-shore islands. This of course, could be a bad guess to- "1HIANG will certainly resist anH with ovnollant especiaUy as he was first per suaded by emissaries . of this country to make his heavv com- mjtmentof troops in the off shore islands. But eventually, it is believed, he wiU agree, simply because he has no alternative just as eventually Korean Presi dent- Syngman Rhee agreed under pressure to accept the Ko rean truce. The off-shore islands will thus in time -be turned over to the Communists, on; certain condi tions.' Condition number one is that the Communists will make some sort of vague promise not to attack Formosa, at least for the present. No one seriously believes any more that the Communists are going to agree to "any formal, permanent cease-fire in the For mosa Strait. Such a cease fire would amount to abandonment of Chinese Communist claims to Formosa, and if anything is clear it is clear that the Communnists will not abandon these claims. . What is now hoped for, in stead, is some sort of face-sav ing formula. The face to be saved is, of course, that of the United States, simply because the United States cannot easily agree to abandon the off-shore islands to the Communists without re ceiving anything whatsoever in return. But a vague statement by Chou En-lai, promising to seek a peaceful solution of the Formosa question, or something of that sort, will probably suf fice. . Another likely condition is the kind of British commitment on Formosa recently forecast in this space. For British domestic political reasons, no such com mitment can be made before the May 26 elections. But after that, a carefully hedged British and Commonwealth promise to come to the defense of Formosa, if the island is attacked by the Commu nists, is more probable than pos- siDie. as one aritisn spokesman has remarked, "It looks as though we'd have to get into the Formosa act somehow. rpHE purpose would not be to please Chiang Kai-shek who would not be pleased at all but rather to put the best pos sible face on the kind of settle ment outlined above. The British commitment would make it pos sible to argue that a reasonable deal had been made, since Brit ish support would be worth more to Formosa than the small and exposed off-shore islands. All this, it should be hastily and rather nervously repeated, is strictly a guessing game. But if things do work out this way, t least war will be avoided. And at least there will be another area in the world in which the lines are firmly drawn, and both sides know where they stand. Moreover unless the Penta gon grossly over-estimates . the capabilities of the Seventh Fleet -a de facto cease fire will be imposed in the Formosa Straits, and a cease fire has been the object of American policy in the area since the start of the crisis. Yet there can be no disguising the cruel fact that this kind of settlement will be another big retreat in the' face of Communist pressure. The extraordinary. COMMUNICATIONS Latteri to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use f a pen name or Initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. " Musicians Carry On To the Editor: Does the Rogue Valley want a modern dance or chestra? Are the people willing to support it?, It has been quite a while since the Valley has had a large band, and now -that it has one people don't seem to know about it. With the build-up given the Hal Sheppard Orchestra, and the subsequent difficulty exper ienced by that leader, the people of Medford seem to believe the band itself no longer exists. Quite the contrary. The members of this group are all local residents, businessmen, teachers and students who are stIU very much together; still re hearse regularly ,and want very much to provide for those who like to dance to modern music. Western music is fine but there should be a brand of music to sat isfy the tastes- of - the modern minded. - When Hal Sheppard was ar rested the fellows decided to stick together, and with the gen erous help of the Medford Mu sicians Union reorganized and changed the name to The Zephyrs. The first order of busi ness was' to find out if there were any bills outstanding and to pay them. It was found that they to taled nearly $750. Even with the realization that their former leader had absconded with their uniform money, their union init iation fees, and left so many un paid bills, they were determined to fight it out. They sacrificed their pay on the first dance job in order to pay some $243 in debts. They returned the uni forms to the store and each man took a $16 loss. They accepted scale on two other jobs so that what was left could be used to settle debts. They now have only about $65 left to pay. Last Saturday they put on a dance at the Jackson hotel and 24 people showed up. You might think this was the final blow. but it wasn't. These fellows are determined to stay together, dei termined to keep intact a unit that will be a credit to the com munity, which in fact it al ready is. If only people would show their interest, tl is now impossi ble for The Zephyrs to sponsor their own dances. They are simply .going to have to wait until some organizations ap proach them and offer to spon sor them. In the mearitime they are going on with rehearsals, and hoping that someday the .people of Medford and vicinity will ac-fc cept them. V." Ernest R. Hood Jr., " 207 Vancouver Ave., Telephone 2-2150. Passing of a Landmark To, the Editor: "Nobody wants that old house no more," the one at 1307 West Main that's show ing its aged skeleton under the hammer and wrecking bar of a young fellow who is carting it away for his Long Branch ranch style dream-house. There's a sort of sadness in seeing these fine old houses giving way to newer ones, so like the old pioneers who built them. But there's no sadness over this one, at least at the police station and fire de partment headquarters. Both of these safety and way-of-life con trollers are most happy to see the old house torn down. For it has long been the rendezvous of young hoodlums who destroyed nearly every window and door glass, kicked out the beautifully turned rungs of the grand front stairway and even built fires that somehow failed to burn down the ancient landmark. Medford was not yet a gleam in some anti-Jacksonvilliteeyes when J. M.; Childers bought 13 acres there, dug the full base ment with bricked up walls and built the then mansion about 1890. The curious may wonder how come it. faces the Northwest. Well, Pioneer Childers liked sun shine; especially in the morn ing, so he set his house cater- wampus to the world so Old Sol would be smilin' in each of the four large bedrooms upstairs, maybe helping to get up, and get things going betimes. Young : Homer 'Harvey ' and pretty Lillian Weaver made their marriage' vows, there Dec. 31, 1899, making it their home many years.- Later .on their son Elmer, built . the big wide ' ve randa there, a sure sign of opu lence them days, and a grand culmination of its predecessors, the porch and stoop, almost for-r gotten words today and such appendages so unwanted now. : F. J. Clifford, . 1211 W. Main; Birds Misjudge Weather To the Editor: From reading your editorials we believe that you, like some or the rest of us, find nature far more interesting and less controversial than poli tics. It has been a generally ac cepted belief that birds are bet ter weather forecasters than hu mans. But from some observa tions this year, we have come to the conclusion that birds need long range weather forecasts as well as men do. For the last 35 years or more, barn swallows have used our barns for their home building making their nests of mud. They started arriving about a month ago. First a few on their usual scouting missions. But the main flock of 75 or 100 arrived about two weeks ago and soon began their regular work of surveying, measuring, and we presume arguing over priorities, etc. in their preliminary prepa rations of building. But here is where the weather played a foul trick. As swallows feed entirely on insects and take their feed only while in flight, they are faced with actual star vation. For the cold weather has kept the gnats and other winged insects grounded. We have been picking up six or more dead ones each morning. A rather saddening procedure. As we have come to look upon these little fellows as welcome friends. Out of the 75 or 100 that ar rived there are only about 20 left, and they look like they are about on their last wings. And for the last three or four years a pair of robins have nested in our catalpa tree. They now have young ones and they are having a hard time keeping them dry, warm and well fed. So we feel that we could be fairly accurate in saying that this weather is definitely, not for the birds. John Nealon Box 279, Rt. 2 Central Point, Ore. Chinese 'Sanctuary' Opposite Formosa Topic of Discussion (0 twistings and turnings of Ameri can polciy in the last six months, moreover, will have the effect of making the retreat look even bigger than in fact it is. - Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. BUYS ELEVATOR Portland (U.R) Condon Grain Growers Inc.- has our- chased the' half million bushel Archer-Daniels - Midland grain elevator at Condon, Henry W. Collins, ADM vice - president. aid today. Litterbug . To the Editor:' Sometime last week somebody dumped (from appearance in driving -by) about 50 large glass bottles between the entrance to the disposal area and the railroad track on the Table Rock road. A lot of the bottles were broken while they were being dumped. . These bottles and broken glass sure makeja beautiful sights I hope the person or persons that dumped them reads this as I imagine they feel rather proud of themselves for making . such a mess. " I wonder why people like to make a dump .ground of the roadside? Is it because they don't know or don't care or are they just plain stupid? It surely can't be that they are afraid of the caretakers at the disposal area as those people are congenial and friendly. Recently the county road crews spent a lot of time clean ing up the Table Rock road, but that apparently doesn't mean anything to some people. It is bad enough for things that are carelessly thrown on trucks and trailers to fall off on the road but when they dump them on the road side on purpose, I think that is just going too far. E. L. Brown - Rt. 2, Box 263 Central Point, Ore. By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst One of the things that must have been discussed, in the latest United States-Chinese National ist negotia tions, is the fact that the Commun i s t s now have a "p r i v i 1 eged sanctuary" opposite For mosa. This singu lar situation is seldom em phasized in the Charles McCxnn neeotia tlOni held by Adm. Arthur W. Rad ford, chairman . of the Joint i Chiefs of Staff; Assistant Secre tary of State Walter S. Robert son and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. . Official sources in Taipeh, the Formosan capital, where the ne gotiations were held, said that basic principles involved in ob taining a cease fire were dis cussed. ' . Chiang Desires Attack But the belief was expressed in American diplomatic and military circles in Tokyo that Chiang's desire to attack the Communist air bases played a big part in the talks. That sounds logical. Chiang wants no cease fire, He wants to attack the Communists frankly hoping that the United States will be drawn into war on his side. xne united states wants a cease fire, not only to end the present dangerous tension, but to effect the freeing of Ameri can war prisoners still held by the Communists in flagrant vio lation of the Korean armistice. So far, the cease fire situation is still in the diplomatic feeler stage. But the way things are shap ing up, it looks as if the United States eventually will have to let Chiang start bombing the Red-held mainland unless a cease fire is arranged. Of course the- Communists the cease fire feelers fail, by at tacking the Quemoy and Matsu islands in preparation for an attack on Formosa. , But they still do not know whether the United States will go into action to help Chiang and his Nationalists defend the) two island groups. Reds Have Problems The Reds do know that the United States is pledged to de fend Formosa itself. ' And if thy have any sense at all, they will not lightly risk a major war with the United States. They have troubles enough of their own notably a chronic agricultural crisis which leaves millions of Chines peo ple hungry. ' ' One thing about cease fire) talks is that, if they fail, the situation which they concern gets worse than it was before. That undoubtedly will happen if a Formosa cease fire proves impossible. The situation m that area is perhaps the most tangled one in the whole field of .East-West issues. It can not continue for ever and the United States can not forever tolerate a Red "pri- . vileged sanctuary" opposite For mosa like the one in Manchuria ' during the Korean war. Testimony Continues On O&C Regulations Portland (U.R) The Bureau of Land Management says some two thirds of O & C timber sales have been handled outside the framework of 1950 road regula tions. BLM officials said at a hear ing on the road rules here yes terday that the basic right-of-way regulations has been strong ly augumented by the bureau to achieve timber harvesting. ; The hearing is on proposed changes in regulations. Smaller operators oppose the changes Forestry while" the Industrial themselves could start things, if Association wants the changes "si ttt: Frank Morgan Harold Snod grass CHAPEL MORTUARY Funeral Directors KING STREET I PHONE 2-8030 OBSl ' I MEDFORD. " PLAN TO BE PRESENT AT THE 5 TICKETS WILL BE DRAWN AT W CENTRAL REX ALL D RU G 1st DRAWING - 8 P. M. 3MARP BALANCE OF DRAWING AT FORTUNE STATION NO NEED TO BUY TO TRY FOR A WINNERI r f All Winning Numbers Posted 7 Days at CENTRAL DRUG FORTUNE STATION CRATER LAKE MOTORS CENTRAL MARKET YOU COULD BE THE WINNER J
