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rOUX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ilEDFORDOTRIBUNE "Iverybody in Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 7.ao North Fir St. Phone 2-S141 nwor A " - w-- HERB GREY. Advertumu Manager E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIfj ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered a aecond class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ot rmrof TIT PTTtJT . prfitnr jaarcn iq' " SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dailv and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year 350 By Carrier In Advance Mrd. Ashland. Central Jacksonville. Gold Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: .,- Daily and Sunday One year 1S .00 Daily and Sunday One month la Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance 5fflelal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising KePr"'""' WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New yotk. ,n:K. troit. San Francisco Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. AtlanU. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL CDITptlAl ASSprt ATilON Zf NtWSFAMt kPUillHI -ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 5. 1945 at was Saturday) Extensive program of street improvements starts in Medford. .From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Rain is needed, but none is expected until the first cutting of alfala is down. ' t 10 YEARS AGO Mar 5, 1935 Ot was Sunday) More than 200 Grangers at tend second in rally series at Talent Grange. Medford water commission asks residents to observe regu lations in using water. SO YEARS AGO Mar 5, 1925 Ot was Tuesday) Paul Clagstone, manager of western division of U.S. Cham ber of Commerce, participates in forum of local chamber. From the Local and Personal column: Trout fishing in the Rogue is now attracting a large number of fishermen with some fair catches being made. 40 YEARS AGO May 5, 1915 at was Wednesday) Medford city council grants merchants permission to use city park for their Community Day. About 500 Elks attend meet ing opening new clubrooms. What's the Answer? (Can You Gel 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Ten years ago .Mussolini was shot: by Americans, Ger mans, Italians, Yugoslavs or the British? 2. The term "nymphomaniac" is applied only to a man, only to a woman, or to either? 3. Average earnings of all U.S. factory workers today are con siderably more or less than $75 a week, or about $75? 4. Which is the only state now represented in the Senate by a woman? 5. U. S. Government land makes up about 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25 per . cent of the total land area of the U.S.? 6. Federal, state, and local payments to and for veterans are now much larger or much smaller than in the first year after World War II, or about the same? 7. The real name of which movie star is Judy Tuvim? The answers: 1. Italians. 2. Onlr a woman. 3. About $75. a national average. 4. Maine (by Mrs. Smith). 5. About 20 per cent. 6. Much smaller. 7. Judy Holliday. BOY SCOUTS Troop 8 . Troop 8 held its regular meet ing May 4. We talked about Camporee and about the things that we should improve. We then talked about the patrols and their patrol flags. The patrol with the best flag will get to go to a show. We talked about scout camp and the number of boys that are going. Then the meeting was closed by Bruce Hanson, senior patrol leader, and we played one game, ana w v G Harveyf Scribe. nsMD "Colorado Mystery" Explained We are indebted to the Salem Statesman for an explanation of the administration's support of the Colorado basin "billion dollar" power project, and its opposition to a high dam at Hells Canyon. ' . It seems a private company is willing to build 2 or 3 small dams in Hells Canyon while no private company would be so foolhardy as to build any dams in the Upper Colorado wilderness. In other words, the administration doesn't object to federal power displacing private power where the tax payers have to foot the bills, PROVIDED the ven tures cost so much they can't pay out; but where they can, then Uncle Sam should keep his distance, and let private industry have a monopoly, and skim off the cream ! j . "117ELL, it is something to have the mystery solved " by such a recognized and reliable authority as the Statesman. . ' Carried to its logical conclusion does this mean that federal ventures like TVA, Grand Coulee, Bon neville, etc., etc., should be wiped out, and replaced byi the 'private power companies, while new federal projects like Hells Canyon, should be defeated be cause Idaho Power company wants Hells Canyon, where there is a profit to be madejand where Uncle Sam therefore has no rights that is, unless we wish to destroy free enterprise and hand Washington over to the Socialists? Whether the answer is 'yes' or 'no' the theory isn't new. - In fact it is pretty much in harmony with Secre tary of the Interior McKay's views of the private vs. public power controversy. IN THIS particular case however, the Statement ex nlnnnfinn rJrtoon'f rt1oa Procirlont FliconVlflWPr With his demand for a strictly business-like administration, 100 per cent economy, and reduction of the national debt in a very favorable light. If the costs of this venture a billion and a half is a conservative estimate are so far in excess of any possible public benefits posal shocks even the JNew iorK limes, one oi ine administration's strongest suDDorters. and alarms Wall Street and the U.S. Treasury why doesn't the President follow the NY Times advice and use these millions elsewhere, or even better, apply them to a reduction of the national debt? That would seem to be tion's program instead of directly against it as suming of course the economy program was advanced in good faith, and it is hard for this department at least, to believe that as tar wasn't. R.W.R. .... Why Not Be Reasonable? As is usual in such heated controversies as that over public vs. private power there are extremists on both sides. The nrivate-nower hovs. the people by raising the spectre of "creeping Social ism fhn nnmor -fanntips talk nf 9 return t.n the days of Samuel Insull and WE don't believe the American people as a whole ara :orroatlw lmrirosseH Vv . either "scarecrow " There is no more dancer honey and smog! going socialisticthan there is of Mr. Sam Insull, or Boss Tweed for that matter returning to lead the revolution. "Them days," as the saying goes, "has gone forever. BUT there are situations and Hells Canyon is one vP Vi rym titVi ova Vi a alvantaoroc nf a ornvprtlTtlPtlt nrnieet are so clearlv suoerior to those of any private project, from the standpoint of the public welfare cheaper power and the greatest gooa to tne greatest number that the first named should be adopted. For no one denies there is ereat need in the entire northwest for more power, more water for irrigation, more development for more people and most experts agree that a high dam on the Snake would furnish 2 or 3 million more kilowatts, than the three small dams as proposed by the Idaho Power company, bucn a project would also benefit the Columbia River de vplnnm ent in Orecon. whereas the Idaho Power com pany proposal would contribute nothing in that di rection. THIS of course doesn t mean private power devel onto clirvnlrl slwavfi Via nnnnspH nr partnership projects for that matter, where they are feasible. Tt merelv "means that at Hells Canyon, as at Bonneville, or Grand Coulee or the Tennessee river valley, a large federal project would advance the public welfare so much more than any proposal that nrivate capital would or could make and finance, that the former. should be only one reason, because the minimum benefits to volved, would be obtained, and the entire country would proiit thereby ana tnereirom. TO maintain support of this high dam on the Snake or any other river, means approval of socialism or some wicked conspiracy to drive private power out of business, is just silly. Private power now furnishes about 80 per cent of the power in the country and there is every reason to believe it will continue to" do so in about that ratio. In fact the public power proponents of the reasonable type admit that there are not many places in the country left, where a super public power develop ment would be "justified" the high canyons of the Snake happens to be one of them. R.W.R. . Thursday, May 8 19SS or profits, that the pro in line with the administra as "iKe , is concerned, n for examnle. trv to scare a private power trust. of this land of milk-and- . ' selected and again for the maximum rather tnan the people of the areas in Matter of Fact TOKYO DEPENDS ON SAIGON Tokyo According to report, President Eisenhower and the Nationalist 'Security Council have recently been re-examining the fun damentals o f the Japanese American rela tionship. The re - examina tion was over due, in view of the President's official classi fication of Ja Joseph Alsop pan as "the bastion of American defense in the Pacific." Under the new policy line laid down by the N.S.C., the more glaring follies of our dealings with the Japanese since the sig nature of the peace treaty are apparently to be corrected. Yet our highest policy makers still began their work by writing down, as assumption number one, that the Japanese - Ameri can alliance could in effect be taken for granted for an indefi nite term of years. The Ameri can representatives here, who are in daily contact with the hard, on-the-spot facts, protested sharply that taking Japan for granted was profoundly unwise. Even so, the complacency and lack of political realism in pres ent day Washington is such that the National Security Council's first assumption has only been diluted rather than corrected. It cannot have been corrected for a very simple reason. America's "island chain" strategy in the Pa cific is stUl squarely based on the Japanese alliance. And this im plied taking Japan for granted, even although the Nation Securi ty Council may state the posi tion somewhat more cautiously. On any realistic assessment, therefore, the whole American defense system in the Pacific must now be regarded as in peril. Our strategy is threatened, not directly in Japan proper, or even in the Formosa Strait, but indirectly in Southeast Asia. Un less the Communist advance in Southeast Asia can somehow be halted, we are probably due to wake up one day to the unpleas ant discovery that . Tokyo de pends on Saigon. This danger was clearly recog nized by the National Security Council itself in the early stages of the Dienbienphu crisis last year. For a while, it was the offi cial doctrine that a Viet Minh victory in Indochina could not be permitted because such a vic tory would open the gates of South Asia to the Communists, and because the loss of South Asia would in turn involve Ja pan and India. rrms "domino chain" theory - was later abandoned, and even scornfully condemned, when the Eisenhower adminis tration found it more comfor table and poetically expedient to duck the grim challenge of Dien Bien Phu. Unfortunately, how ever, there is every reason to be lieve that the domino chain theory is still correct, even al though it is now officially frowned upon in Washington. " The man reason is onlj too obvious. Japan must trade to live. Every Japanese business man, vithout exception, regards Southeast Asia as Japan's most promising future trading area. Japan must almost import huge annual tonnages of rice to live. And two Southeast Asian coun tries, Thailand and Burma, are currently supplying Japan with just under 600,000 tons of rice a year, or rather more than half of Japan's whole annual rice im port. In these circumstances, what happens in Southeast Asia has life .and death significance for the Japanese people. As yet, to be sure, the ugly process of de cay that . presently centers in Saigon has hardly been noticed by the great majority of Japan ese. People here have, been lulled, like people in America", by the bold promises of SEATO. Then too, the Japanese are intensely preoccupied with their own in ternal problems, and since the war they have had poor means of learning about the outside world. And above all, the Jap anese conviction that America is a sure winner .. in any world struggle has not yet been really shaken. But .this conviction, born of Japan's own defeat by America, will surely not survive a shat tering series of free world de feats in the area of Asia that is most important to Japan. In Jap anese eyes, America and the other Western nations will look like hopeless losers, not sure winners, if the Communist ad vance in Southeast Asia contin ues unchecked. And to the tre mendous political impact of this j changed psychology, will be add ed the tremendous economic im pact of the extension of Com munist control into Japan's most MATTER OF FACT Gal (2) vital trading area and rice source! t r' JAPAN is exposed to this double seismic shock, the al ready strong ferment of anti Americanism here can be ex pected to become uncontrollable. Being passionately independent (which is the reason they are now anti-American) the Japan By Joseph Alsep ese are not likely, to make a complete reversal of alliances. There is no visible liklihood that they will actually join the Com munist bloc. But if Southeast Asia is lost to communism, there is the greatest possible liklihood that the Japanese will abandon the American alliance and move in to a strictly neutral position. And that in itself will mean the utter collapse of the current of ficial defense plan in the Pacific, plus some other unpleasant things too. If Japan chooses neutralism, American forces will obviously have to be withdrawn from these islands unless President Eisen hower wishes to try to hold our bases here by naked force. Thus the island chain will be de cisively broken. At the v same time, the other great Pacific nightmare of the American Chiefs of Staff wiU also come true. Japan's indus trial potential will automatically become available to Communist Chine. Southeast Asian rice and rubber and tin and Chinese coal and iron will then pay for the ships, steel, machine tools and all the other commodities that China needs to build herself rapidly up to the status of a full scale military-industrial great power. In short the central fact that the Washington policy makers now ought to be facing, is the fact that Asia is a seamless web. If the web is too badly torn any where, it will unravel every where. And it is tearing now. Copyright, 1955, J New York Herald Tribune. Inc. Central Point Rural Firemen Make 214 Inspection Calls . Central Point The Central Point Rural Fire department has made 214 calls on residences in the area it protects from fire so far this week, according to Chief Dick Krupp. 4 The volunteer members of the department have made calls dur ing the afternoon and evening hours Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The residents at 66 of the homes were away when firemen called, and 10 householders re fused the free inspection offer. Firemen pointed out 169 com mon fire hazards to residents of the 138 homes where they were admitted. Krupp said it will probably take the rest of the month to complete the inspection job, but that it is planned to call at every residence in the rural protection area. The calls will continue this week in ihe evenings, all day Saturday, and Sunday afternoon and evening. Krupp again pointed out that the new-alarm telephone num ber for the rural department (it also serves the Central Point de partment) is NOrmandy 4-1234. Residents in the protection area served by the Medford telephone exchange can call the number by dialing 3, and then the rest of the number. Eagle Point City Councilman Resigns Eagle Point The city council this week accepted the resigna tion of councilman Art C. Kent, and adopted an ordinance to call for bids for oiling several Eagle Point streets'. No appointment was made fill ing the vacancy created by the resignation of Kent, who resign ed for health reasons. Residents of Eagle Point were reminded by the council that dogs should be kept tied during April, May and June, the garden ing season, or be subject to fine. The Eagle Point budget com mittee will meet next Tuesday night to draft the budget for the coming year. , Frank! Morgan 1 I CHAPEL MORTUARY Funeral PHONE 2-8030 MEDFORD In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS If you want tangible evidence of the screwball nature of this (alleged) spring on the Pacific Coast, take a look at the tem perature tables printed in the newspapers Monday night The maximum temperatures in Fairbanks, Alaska, on the preceding day was 40 degrees. On the same day, the maxi mum temperature in Fresno, Calif., was 51 degrees! FAIRBANKS is only two whoops and a holler south of the Arctic Circle. Fresno is about midway of the San Joaquin valley, where at this season it ought to be hot enough to fry eggs on a concrete sidewalk. ., . A S to the why of this freakish snrinp. therp arp two th- ories: I 1. The ' atom oomb tests are responsible. 2. The atom bomb tests AREN'T responsible. THEORY NO. 1 is supported chiefly by members of the numerous clan that predicts the weather by the goose bone, the tilt of the moon, the industry or the lack of it displayed by the squirrels in storing away nuts, the thickness of the fur on snowshoe rabbits and the Farm ers Almanac. Theory No. 2 is upheld by the Atomic Energy Commission, which in the past has taken the position that atomic tests HAVE NO BEARING on the weather. IT IS my duty to report that the august and scholarly AEC has had to take a look at its hole card. It came about like this: A week or so ago, there was a freak cold spell that ruined the cherry crop down in the Banning Beaumont area of Cal ifornia. Growers in the San Gor gonia pass took a look at the blighted blossoms on their trees and began to get hot under the collar. It seems they have been doing some weather research of their own, and they assert that over the past three years their data shows a definite relationship be tween atomic tests and frost conditions in their region. rpHEY went a. little farther than mere talk. They TOOK IT UP WITH THEIR CON GRESSMAN. Their congressman is John Phillips. He lives in Banning. He is a college graduate (Haver- ford College in ' Pennsylvania) and he holds a teachers fellow ship from Haverford. He fought in the first world war. He served for years in the Calif ornia legislature. He belongs to a string of good clubs as long as your arm. Not only that. He's a Republi can. He s a Republican who got elected to" Congress away back in 1943 when it was generally regarded as a crime against the public welfare to elect a Repub lican to Congress. On top of all the rest of it, John is an able citizen. HE took up the frost business with the AEC. The AEC, after talking to John, says it will MAKE AN IN VESTIGATION to see if atomic tests DO have anything to do with the weather especially the BAD weather. S there the matter rests. We'U see what we'll see. 'Civil War' Averted Princeton, N.Y. (U.R) -"Mike". Kopliner, Princeton University's head proctor, avert ed a possible re-enactment of the war between the states Wednesday. The near engagement occur red when seven Southern-born Princeton students waving the Stars and Bars from a broom stick, marched on a 300-man pa rade of the school's "Yank" ROTC unit as it was being re viewed by former New, York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Kopliner halted the displaced Southerners, clad in Confede rate grey, 150 yards shy of their apparent objective. Harold Snod grass Directors 1 KING STREET I TIM ' 1-Tt.. I COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use cf 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. Opposes Military Bill To the Editor: I was pleased to read several days ago in the MAIL TRIBUNE concerning the response of the people of Oregon to the proposed Compulsory Re serve Plan which has just been reported out of committee in the House of Representatives. I hope there is a ground-swell of opin ion expressed against this piece of proposed legislation. It is def initely a form of Universal Mili tary Training as can be seen in its principal parts: 1. Each person who volun teers or is drafted into the Armed Forces or their Reserve Components must serve a total period of eight years.' ' 2. Those serving two years in the "army, must serve three years in the Ready Reserve,' attending weekly drill and. summer military camp, and spend three years in the Stand by Reserve. 3. Anyone who is under the age of 19 years and who has not received notice to report for induction "may volunteer" for a total of eight years and shall within two years of en listment be ordered to active duty for 24 months of active training and service. After his initial 6 months of active duty he will be deferred from the rest of his active duty for so long as he serves satisfactorily as a member of the national Guard of a reserve component A minimum of 100,000 and a maximum of 250,000 may en list in this program. (This is what some call voluntary UMT but which is simply an option within a compulsory military system.) I hope all the people of Oregon are awake to the danger to the "American way of life" which this encroaching militarism means. It is imperative that we write, telegraph, or telephone our Representative in Congress. Harris Ellsworth, to awaken him to vote against this measure, House Bill No. '5297. Two other representatives from Oregon are against it. Mr. Ellsworth needs our prodding and positive think ing to help him decide. At a time when our country needs to be acting constructively toward disarmament, and back ing Harold Stassen in the leader ship of this task, we should not Exclusively at Swem's ; For JfefV Texol lming. Blue, rose, U-aTG. W sfi : .y gel you places with 1 ffiriMf fan's III - ( fabulous the "Continental" tax You'll open your heart and your handbag to this billfold purse with the French accent menr, rajron faille lined pulfout bill . . i , t tour-wtnoow pnonxara case roiunco cpwniuc in mwf 1 Use Your Charge Account double-cross our peace efforts by saddling ourselves with a com pulsory military system. It may be long years before we rid our selves of militarism, if once UMT gets in. . . You may address your mail to Mr. Ellsworth at the 'following address: ' The Honorable Harris Ellsworth House Office Building, , . Washington 25, D. C. Act Now! For this measure will be presented on the floor of ' the House within the next week, or possibly within the next 10 days. William O. Walker, ' ' Boston University, " 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Mass. (Walker is a resident of Med ford and expects to return her for his summer vacation.) State Motto To the Editor: To the people who appreciate our beautiful state of Oregon. xMay I suggest a motto for our license plates. On behalf of the beauty that the Creator saw fit to bless with in the boundaries of our wonder ful state of Oregon, may we pause and be thankful for such beauty. Our state motto none. Why? - ' May I suggest in three words the way I feel, "Beauty by Na ture." Other states have their mot tos which we all enjoy reading. If you agree we should have one, let's all write to our bov ernor and suggest such. Grady A. Conner, 724 Victory No. 6 Medford, Ore. Cascade Plywood Increases Directors Portland (U.R) Stockhold ers of Cascade Plywood company increased the number of direc tors from seven to nine, at an annual meeting here, yesterday. A. E. Anderson, a vice-president, and Paul L. Boley, a Port land attorney, will fill the new ly created positions. Directors reelected all officers, headed by president Charles W. Fox., . -. : Dead line- Sunday Oatsifled is at nnnn fintiirHav- 1 tTI Mfflldlf fflT Monday; other day- 3:30 previous day. Mother's Day Lore!?, goH-embossed leather-craia exquisite rayon satin and whe jade green, ivory or tu-tone saod, No Federal Tax compartment, gold tone frame, 1 Lj.:...X..MtM '
