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TOUR MEDfORD (OREGON) MedfordJTribune "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 8T-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-3141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC 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 as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. isa SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail 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 Sunday Only One year $3 50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: ..- Daily and Sunday On year $15.00 Dailv and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official yaper oi United Pi-pm Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIKCULAHW a j : ; TO .... n ,i , WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St, Louii. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL fDITOIIAl ass b CtAT to n Z7 NIWSPAMt rUtllSHIRS 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 May 24. 1945 at was Thursday) Contracts to remove four res idences from new city park site on East Main st. approved by city council. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pet column: The Gov ernor still has no roof over his head after June 1, reports from Salem say. due to a housing shortage. He may have to pitch an executive wigwam on the eapitol grounds. 20 YEARS AGO May 24, 1935 (It was Friday) Owen-Oregon Lumber mill here, largest in Jackson county, to close permanently. Special city election held to decide on refunding $250,000 in outstanding improvement bonds, and to provide unemployment relief in city through regular contribution of funds. 30 YEARS AGO May 24, 1925 (It was Sunday) City officials start enforcing ordinance for dog licenses. Paving highways in Crater Lake National park from Med ford and Klamath Falls entrance starts. 40 YEARS AGO May 24, 1915 (It was Monday) From the Local and Personal column: Wanderers with rings to sell swept down upon the city Saturday afternoon, and pester ed citizens with their importun ities to buy, until the police or dered them out of town. Another detachment moved into the city this morning and were sent on their way. Crater Lake trips offered as prizes for winners of industrial fair awards to Jackson county girls. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Wearing apparel accounts for about 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25 per cent of a typical family's annual outlay? . 2. The capital of Canada is Montreal. Ottawa, Quebec, Tor onto, or Winnipeg? 3. Much less than half, about half, or much more than half of youngsters entering high school re graduated? 4. Jim Thorpe, great U.S. all around athlete of the past, was of Negro, Italian, Indian, Mex ican, or pure Anglo-Saxon blood? 5. A horse 15 hands high is 4V2, 5 or feet high? 6. Tennessee Williams, this year's Pulitzer prize winner for drama, is or isn't a native of Tennessee? 7. Xenophobia is hatred of dogs, cigarettes, Jews, liquor, foreigners, women, or narrow spaces? The Answers: 1. About 10 per coat. 2. Ottawa. 3. Much more than half. 4. Indian. 5. Five f eef. 6. Isn'l (born in Mississippi.) 7. Hatred of foreigners. BRAZILIAN 3ANK CLOSES Rio de Janeiro (U.R) The Banco Brasileiro Unido closed its doors today and asked for liqui dation. It was the seventh im portant bank in principal Brazil ian cities to close due to stif fened credit conditions. m MAIL TRIBUNE The Strange We well remember the judgment of most foreign experts when Yugoslavia broke with Soviet Russia six or seven years ago. Tito wasn't given six months to live and his country to go the way of Poland But the experts proved No one seems to know EXACTLY what hap pened, but Tito not only intact, but now the Kremlin is going hat-m-hand to make some sort of a peace with the Communist leader, who has not only been dealing openly with Russia's sworn enemies, but has claimed the only true type of communism is to be found, not in Moscow, but in Belgrade. THIS is something for the experts to explain. It is something for ANYone to explain. Ajax defying the lightning is nothing compared to this defiance of the Russian giant, by little Yugoslavia and getting away with it. Not only getting away with it, but forcing Moscow to sue for rather than Tito. course there ,is an explanation of sorts for this latest surprising conciliatory move by the Krem- rwil tii i i ill'! .1 lin. ine latter wants to its western borders, and wants a friendly or at slavia. This trip to Belgrade may be a part of this change of front. But that still does not took Tito's insults and never did what it undoubtedly could have done at almost any time overwhelmed Yugoslavia as it did Finland, by sheer preponderance of power, resources and numbers. TNSTEAD Russia tried its wrell known technique of "a war of nerves." It cut all trade with that country to a trace, recalled its ambassador, renounced its 20-year pact of friendship and mutual aid, kicked out the Yugoslav ambassador put Yugoslavia on the Soviet pariah and condemned list. But Tito apparently paid no heed. When the Rus sian satellites, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland, also cut off trade relations with Yugoslavia, the head of this small but stalwart nation, calmly opened up trade negotiations with the -United States, secured substantial loans to finance that while his nation has no Messrs. Krushchev and Bulganin, he will make no secret deals behind the curtain with them or anyone else. 11E have no illusions about Tito. He is not only a T communist, he will Russia or anyone else if he finds it to his self-interest to do so. All foreign nations large and small, are motivated in the final analysis by self-interest. If they were not, they would not last very long as nations. But we do find in this extraordinary situation cause for a certain amount of cheer and rejoicing. For if Yugoslavia can defy Soviet Russia and get away with it we see no good season why EVENT UALLY countries like Poland and Czechoslovakia can't do the same provided there is a similar will and desire. . Certainly if "face-saving" is so vital in successful diplomacy and so important in dealings with the na tions of the Far East, then this "Pilgrimage to Bel grade" must lower Soviet Russia's prestige and influ ence in that part of the world materially. This eating of humble pie by Russia also strength ens the belief that in spite of all the bluff and bluster, and the reports of her success in the armaments race, there may be more truth than fiction in the statement, that when it comes down to brass tacks, the Kremlin is no more earger to START a Third World War than the White House. THIS is not to say the dangers in communist im " perialism are not still present, or that eternal vigi lance does not remain the price of peace as well as liberty; but it is to say that the prospects of another world war are far less imminent and alarming than they were a few months ago, and the change in the attitude of Soviet Russia particularly regarding Aus tria as well as Yugoslavia have supplied a welcome and unexpected support to the hopes for at least some years of much desired peace. The Kremlin undoubtedly still wants the world to be a Communist world, but there seems less and less likelihood it wants or plans to start a world war to get it. And if Russia won't start a world war, what other nation will? R.W.R. Sen. McCarthy May Oppose Eisenhower Washington (U.R) Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) said last night he may oppose Presi dent Eisenhower as a candidate for reelection unless the Demo cratic candidate is "someone as far to the left as Adlai Steven son." McCarthy also said he has no plans "at this time" to run for President himself next year and "doubts very much" that his name will be entered in any presidential primaries. He said his political plans are "very fluid." CAT CLOSES TURNSTILE New York (U.R) One of the busy turnstiles leading into Brooklyn's Bedford ave. subway station was temporarily closed Monday. A cat crawled into the turnstile housing to give birth to four kittens. Tuesday, May 24. 1955 Case of Tito was as certain as sunrise and Czechoslovakia. to be lOCLper cent wrong. survived with his country peace and reconciliation, estaonsn a neutral zone on as a part of that effort it least not a hostile Yugo explain why Soviet Russia defiance lying down, and for spying and m general same and now declares objection to this, visit by make a deal with Soviet Injured Seaman En Route To Port San Francisco U.R) The Coast Guard cutter Gresham was en route to port today with an injured seaman who suffered a fractured skull in a fall aboard the S.S. Alaska Cedar yesterday. The Gresham evacuated the seaman, Archie L. Tatum, 56, at 1130 p.m. (PDT) last night and headed for Humboldt bay where he will be taken to Eureka for treatment. The Alaska Cedar, which was bound from British Columbia to San Francisco, radioed the Coast Guard at 7:31 p.m. that Tatum had fallen and had suffered a skull fracture. The Coast Guard ordered an immediate evacua tion. George Washington was born in Westmoreland county, Virginia. Moscow Scoffs at United States Claims Of Atomic Submarine By CHARLES McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst Moscow seems to have made up its mind about the United States' atomic-powered subma rine Nautilus there just isn't any such thing. .Prof. Vladi mir A. Lesh kovtsev, dis cussing ac counts of the Nautilus and of American re search into atomic propul- Charles McCann Sion lor planes and surface ships, was quoted as saying in a Moscow radio broad cast: "In spite of the desperate propaganda hue and cry which accompanied such reports, not a single one of their works has yet been accomplished. "As has happened more than once, the Americans are trying to intimidate the world with weapons which have not yet been built." This somewhat surprising state ment is interesting for two rea sons: For one thing, it shows the astonishing extent to which the Soviet government is able to blind its people to developments in the free world. For another, it indicates that Russia's own progress in the field of atomic power develop ment is lagging. Claims Suspicious Many people always have been suspicious of Russia's claims in the nuclear energy field, and even of reports by Western ex perts of Russian progress. It seems certain that Russia has tested an H-bomb, for in stance. But there is some doubt whether the Russian H-bomb has been perfected as a weapon. There is even more doubt about Russian progress in the field of nuclear power for peace ful purposes. Prof. Iseshkovtsev spoke vague ly, in his broadcast, of Soviet Matter of Fact THE POSITION OF STRENGTH THEORY Washington There is now a settled, official, Eisenhower Ad ministration theory to explain the apparent change in the Soviet policy line. This "school s o 1 u tion" of the puzzle of So viet policy was succinct ly stated by the President himself at his most recent press confer Stewart Alsop ence, when he was asked about the Big Four meeting: "Now, as I say and Secretary Dulles said, we are annroachine this thing from a greater posi tion of strength than we ever had before." To put it verv sinmlv. the of ficial Administration theory is that the Russians are being nicer because we are stronger. But there is a minority of skeptical officials who privately reject this official theorv outricht. They believe, instead, that the Russians are being nicer because tney are stronger and because they want to have time to be come stronger still. At the same Dress conferenrp. the President suggested one rea son why the official doctrine is doubted by these skeptics. He was asked whether he was "startled" by the Soviet air de velopments revealed in the re. cent flights over Moscow befori and after May Day. He replied: 1 believe this: that from time to time, in several lines of endeavor, scientific endeavor, aircraft, and others, there has come in evidence that exceeded predictions of what where thev would be at any particular mo ment." In other words, our Intelli gence was caught by surprise by the rapid development of Soviet air power as revealed by the Moscow overflights. As the Pres ident also implied, this was by no means the first time. Our Intelligence has consistently underestimated Soviet scienti fic-military capabilities, most notably in the case of the Soviet atomic and thermonuclear bombs, but in other instances as well. It just does not make sense, the skeptics maintain, to suppose that the Russians are being ren dered docile by a "greater posi tion of strength than we have ever had before," when Soviet scientific-military achievements have been so rapid that they have repeatedly caugnt our In telligence flat-footed. - TT MAKES more sense, they maintain, to suppose that pre cisely the opposite, is true. After all, we know beyond question that the Soviets achieved their first atomic bomb, their first thermonuclear bomb, and their 40 projects for atomic submarines, locomotives, ships and airplanes. The submarines, he said, would carry hundreds of passen gers and thousands of tons of cargo over long distances. For example, he said, they could cruise under the polar ice cap. But Americans know that their Navy already has an atom powered submarine in the Nau tilus. They know that a second atom powered submarine, three times as powerful as the Nautilus, is to be launched in July. They know, most of them, that in Washington, a publicity-shy Air Force man, Brig. Gen. Don ald J. Keirn, heads an "Office for Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion" which is making progress toward the development of atomic-powered planes. They know that President Ei senhower announced on April 25 that this country is develop ing an atomic-powered merchant ship. They read in Monday's newspapers that it is possible that an atom-powered ocean liner may be built before long. Russia talks big about the peaceful utilization of atomic energy. A lot of the talk is bunk. Back in 1949 the late Andrei Y. Vishinsky, the Soviet foreign minister, startled his United Nations hearers when he said in a speech that with nu clear energy Russians are "raz ing mountains; we are irrigating deserts; we are cutting through the jungle and the tundra." It developed later that what Vishinsky meant was that Russia hoped to do all this sometime in the future. MICHIGAN FISH Lansing, Mich. (U.R) De partment of conservation offic ials said at least 250,000 legal sized brook, brown and rainbow trout were released in Michigan lakes and streams before the general season opened April 30. The stocking work is scheduled to continue through the summer and fall until 2,200,000 legals, sub-legals and fingerling have been released. By Stewart Alsop first heavy intercontinental jet bomber, in less time than we required to produce the equiva lent. In all three cases, we had a head start, so that we are we hope still ahead in nuclegj" siocKpmng ana about even in neavy iet bomber production. But we had no head start at all in one key field missiles, on which the Soviets have been working feverishly since the war. Be intercontinental ballis tic missile, against which there is no known defense at all, is the big prize in the race for air atomic supremacy. "Suppose," one of the dis senters from the nosition-of- strength theory has said, "that the Russians knew for certain they would have enough IBMs to knock out our strategic air lorce, say by 1958. Wouldn't they want to be very sure that no war broke out before 1958?" . This may be too simple and too sinister an explanation of the sudden seeming softness of the Soviets. But at least it rjrovides a useful corrective to the happy notion that the United States and its allies have somehow sud denly achieved a position of un- cnauengeaoie strength. A very good case could be made for the thesis that we were better off in 1949, the year when Louis John son was hackine awav at our defenses, and Europe was totally undefended, than we are now. Since 1949 Communist China has emerged as a great imperial ist power and the Western posi tion in Asia has been perhaps fatallv weakened. Eurooe still cannot be held against a really determined Communists assault, and effective German rearma ment, which would render Eu rope defensible, is still several years away. But, above all, the air-atomic equation has turned against us. WE HAD only a few hundred " medium powered atomic bombs in 1949, but they were enough to destroy all major So viet targets. This continent was invulnerable to Soviet attack. Now, according to the Adminis tration's own official estimates, the Soviets have an air defense well ahead of ours, a strategic air force rapidly catching up with ours, and a nuclear stock pile sufficient to Soviet strategic needs. It is true that the signing of the Paris accords has given the Western Allies a new and very useful diplomatic bargaining counter: It is true that the West ern Allies are reasonably united and economicaUy healthy. But if you think in hard terms of existing power, it is difficult to go along with the Administra tion theory that our "position of strength" is forcing the Russians to seek a settlement. For strength, after all, is a relative thing, as those heavy jet bomb ers in the skies over Moscow should serve to remind us. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a Den name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mai Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Praise for "Community" To the Editor: After being a patient in Community Hospital, I would like to take this oppor tunity to express my apprecia tion for the wonderful treatment I received and to let the public know of the services rendered there. When I entered the hospital, I had to wait until a patient was dismissed before there was a room for me, yet during the 7 days I was there, I was treated as if I was the only patient in the building, 24 hours a day. I never had to ring for a nurse there was always one looking in to see if I wanted anything. The night before surgery, the hospital anesthetist visited me and discussed the anesthetic to be used. Because of her visit, I entered the surgery with peace cf mind, which I did not have the previous times I have had surgery.. My stay in Community hos pital was a pleasant surprise to me. I had never experienced such treatment before. I feel the public would "never realize the wonderful service they render, unless patients like me take the time to inform them. George McCormick 1263 Morrow Road Medford. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Los Angeles the other day a 34-year-old National Guard pilot took off in Sabrejet in an effort to fly to New York AND BACK between sunup and sun down. Before leaving, he ate break fast at home with his wife and three children. He took his lunch at Mitchell field in New York, and ate dinner back in Los An geles. The round-trip distance is 5080 miles. ABOUT a century ago, Jules Verne, a French writer of scientific romances, wrote a book entitled Around the World in Eighty Days. His hero, planning his trip with mathematical exact ness and using the fastest means of travel then considered feas ible, made it with a few min utes to spare. It was good reading, but no body believed in its possibility. OOMEWHAT later, Verne took an even more imaginative flyer into the field of ouasi scientific fiction. He called it From the Earth to the Moon That was TOO much. People read it, and enjoyed it, dui laughed. WE HAVEN'T made it to the ' moon yet. But we're talk ing seriously of launching nlat forms into outer space. These platforms, it is conceived, will become earth satellites. From them, we might launch guided missiles against our enemies. There is already speculation as to what might happen to US if the Russians did it FIRST. The world moves, doesn't it? rpOWARD WHAT is it m'oving? That I wouldn't know. Toward something better, I nope. OUT I'M pretty certain that un less human beings devote more thought and study to the techniques of GETTING ALONG WITH EACH OTHER the world will be in danger of getting worse rather than better. DOPE PIUS makes an interest- " mg statement. Speaking to an aeronautical assembly in Rome, he says man's desire to conquer snace comes from a deeper urge than that of breaking records or proving the excellence of varied aircraft ma terials. He says the modern aviator is driven by the desire of man to surpass himself ... to find in his soul new springs of GENEROS ITY and heroism. I hope he's right. Oveross Due Back in Salem by End of Week Salem (U.R) CasDer A. Oveross, Silverton. Ore., carnen- ter indicted for the murder of a neighbor, will be returned here by the end of this week from Fairbanks. Alaska, according to Sheriff Denver Young. Oveross surrendered to Alas kan authorities Friday evening after being notified bv his at torneys of the first degree mur der indictment. The Silverton man was ac cused of the slaying of Ervin Kaser, prominent hoo erower. last winter. He was to be brought back to Salem by Sheriff Young. GOOD IDEA St. Paul U.R) Gov. Orville L. Freeman has signed into law a bill making Minnesota the first state in the union to allow its courts to impound license plates of motorists who drive after revocation or suspension of their driving licenses. Editorial Comment FORKS OF SALMON VISIT Medford was the "large city" which was host Thursday to eight school youngsters and two adults from Forks of Salmon, a lumber community, in nearby Siskiyou county, California. The day, which began at four in the morning, California time, when they piled into conveyances for the trip to Medford, was a thrill ing one, clear to 5:30 p.m. PST, when they started homeward to the hills. They entered a new world whose sights for most of them were quite unfamiliar. At Lithia park, Ashland, they had their first sight of a mon key. En route to Medford they saw a moving train, and one pupil exclaimed "What are those buildings moving along?" Drink ing milkshakes was a new ex perience. In Medford they had their first ride in an elevator, and saw a radio station, a television sta tion, a newspaper press for the first time. A Southwest Airlines plane was at the airport and they were permitted to go all through it, a really exciting adventure. The Medford fire chief demon strated the department's pump er and ladder truck and the police chief showed them through the city jail. The vacu um sweeper they saw at the hotel was something novel. Visiting the laundry the youngsters were surprised to learn that Medford people do not all do their own washing as do the folk of Forks of Salmon. . The children were "complete ly tired out," according to the Mail-Tribune, when time came to board the bus for home. No surprise at that for they had packed decades of so-called prog ress into one day. For the ma jority of us these things are com monplace even though relatively few actually see a newspaper press or the inside of a plane or a TV station. These young sters from Forks of Salmon live in a different world in many re spects, but they have things which many city youngsters have never seen. They have a clear mountain stream at home, and must have had salmon, judging by the local name, and may have yet. There the children learn an other vocabulary, names of the jobs of woodsmen and mill work ers, the lore of the great out doors. Yellow taxicabs do not bring color to their streets, but the roadsides ; are bright with poppies. Perhaps the mountain lilac graces the hillsides. Doe and fawn may come at dusk to the edge of the clearing, so often as to get pet names from the children who see them. Woods animals may be their familiars. No smog from a chemical plant screens out the sunshine. The air is heavy with the resinous smell of sawn lumber. Dominat ing the scene in Siskiyou county in queenly Mt. Shasta, clad in snowy ermine much of the year, often with a veil of cloud about her shoulders a perpetual in spiration to youth and to age. The school children of Forks of the Salmon really had some thing to go back to when they left the "large city" of Medford with its strange sights , and friendly people. Charles A. Sprague in his column in the Salem (Oregon) Statesman. DEAN SABINE The resignation of Gordon A. Sabine as dean of the University of Oregon school of journalism is a distinct loss to journalism in' this state. While he won his fames as a builder and a promot er who got for the university its- badly needed journalism build ing, he is also a student and an educator. He is one of his pro fessions s leading exponents of the theory that journalism schools . should train students FOR journalism rather than I'm delighted with the quick response I get out of my Dodge using entirely new grade Mobilsas Nine out of ten drivers of pre-1955 Dodges and many other cars get smoothest, knock-free mileage with new grade Mobilgas which sells in the price range of regular. Look for this sign. merely IN journalism. ' The school over which he pre sided for five years was no trade school. He insisted upon a sound background in liberal arts sub jects before any journalism stu dent got his degree. His empha sis was on quality rather than on great numbers of students. To Michigan State University, a place with a bigger budget and more "opportunity" for an am bitious young man, Dean Sabine will take his his enthusiasm, drive, vitality and dogged in sistence on efficiency. Michigan State is in for a real experience. A young man (only 33 when he became the youngest journalism dean in the nation in 1950), he scattered more ideas in his wake than half a dozen older men of more established reputation. In addition to his academic pedigree, which is all that It should be for a position In the academic world, he has made a hobby of giving the lie to the cliche about "Those who can. do; those who can't, teach." Gor don Sabine can, and often does. We shall miss him personally as well as professionally. And we feel that the passage of years will add to his stature as a distin- guished figure who walked all too briefly among newspapermen in Oregon. Eugene Register Guard. GFW Clubs Hear President's Report Philadelphia (U.R) An in terim report of the president highlighted the opening busin ess session today oof the inter national convention and 64th an nual meeting of the General Federation of Women's clubs. Mrs. Theodore S. Chapman told the 1200 delegates from the United States and 33 foreign nations that "tremendous strides", had been made in strengthening the program of the federation on every level and in stimulating community participation. ' She said club, members throughout the United States had "accepted" the challenge of rid ding "every newsstand of hor ror, crime and sex comic books." She added that the work was being done but cautioned that it must be continued. Mrs. Chapman said 350 Am erican women club members will fly to Geneva for the sec ond, part of the international convention,' which will follow the four-day meeting here. HOW ABOUT DOUGHNUTS? Boston (U.R) Sign in a bake shop window "Cakes: 66 cents. Unside down cakes: 99 cents." MR INSURANCE Fred Brennan Wc came home from a ftw days' visit to find that our expensive pic ture windows had bullet holes in them, evidently done by malicious youngsters. Will the "added ex tended . coverage" which you en dorsed on our fire policy cover this vandalism? For Information Call MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phono 2-4940 J
