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Newspaper Page TextfOUR MTOTORD (ORZOOm MTDFORDtkTRIB UNE -Everybody In Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Iublished Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St Phone 8-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising. Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sportt Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON, Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newipaper Entered as second class) matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of Marcn 3. ibs SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per cony 10c. Daily and Sunday One year S1200 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year 350 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 One year 15 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copyrf 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 CIRtULfll.on novel Liz-tin ncHi""-""- . WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL assocEatiIo.n L.-Ilj..iy:iw UaLIIHItS 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 June 2. 1945 (It was Saturday) Construction of a $70,000 Pa cific Greyhound terminal in Medford to start within 60 days. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The rains of May left the vallejr water logged. The city Planning com mission is thinking some of launching a project for the con struction of a civic ark, but it is too late to vote on same at the June 12 special election. 20 YEARS AGO June 2. 1935 (It was Sunday) Peak of single - bearing straw berry crop to be reached this week, according to County Agent Robert G. Fowler. Medford Active club holds dinner and dance for members and their wives in Jacksonville Grange hall. 30 YEARS AGO June 2, 1925 (It was Tuesday) Gold Hill city officials agree to remove speed traps from Pa cific highway after Oregon Mo tor association receives com plaints from out of state drivers caught speeding through town. Camp Jackson being prepared for Oregon National guard en campment here June 12 through 26. 40 YEARS AGO June 2, 1915 (It was Wednesday) Rogue River Public Service corporation filed bid with Med ford council for 10-year fran chise for furnishing light to the city. From Local and Personal col umn: Commercial fishing on the upper Rogue for the sixty days permitted under the present law for a strip of river running from Grants Pass to Jump-Off Joe Creek began Tuesday, the catch of 17 boats totalling 1688 pounds the lightest take in years, due to high water. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Resort 1. When impeachment pro ceedings are voted against a President, is he tried by the Sen ate, the House, both, or the Su preme Court? 2. Negoes comprise about one, two, three, four, or five per cent, or more of all U. S. Army officers? 3. Dentists now are or aren't eligible for federal social secur ity coverage? 4. Most states take in much more money from taxes on gaso line or from auto licenses, or about the same from each? 5. Three presidents of this century were New York resi dents when elected; the two Roosevelts and who? 6. Natural gas is now about 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25 per cent of all fuel consumed in the U.S.? 7. A mangle-wurzel is a piece of laundry equipment, farm im plement, kind of pretzel, vege table or German dialect actor? The answers: 1. The Senate. 2. About three per cent. 3. Are not. 4. Much more from gasoline taxes. 5. Eisenhower. 6. About 25 per cent. 7. Vegetable. Dead line for Sunday Clatiifiad ia at noon Saturday. ! Hbl MAIL TRIBUNE Will "TV A " Win Out? More editors in Oregon., should visit Knoxville Tennessee and know the facts about TVA before they write concerning it. For there is a surprising lack of understanding of the true situation in that state, and the surrounding states that make up the Tennessee Valley. It is frequently stated, for example, that TVA is not only "creeping socialism" but represents an "alien philosophy" akin to communism, and is driving out private power and private enterprise in that entire area of approximately 80,000 square miles. TTHIS simply isn't true, and a visit would show its falsity. In this area, including six states bordering Tennessee, there are many private power utilities, still doing a profitable, business. Across the river in Arkansas, for example, Arkan sas Power and Light has fought TVA on a straight competitive basis, and won out by pushing rural elec trification intensively and according to "Business Week," furnishing juice to rural cooperatives even cheaper than TVA can or will. That certainly doesn't indicate TVA has driven out private enter prise entirely or wantonly "destroyed our cherished free competitive economy." It does indicate it has reduced electric rates to the consumer materially not only in the state of Tennes see but in the surrounding territory. Yet the Knox ville Power company in Tennessee is still in opera tion, as is the Kmgsport Utilities, and in a few of the smaller towns private power companies are still doing business at the same old stand. They don't make the profit's they once did, but they do make profits-or they wouldn't and couldn't stay in business. We don't deny TVA pretty well dominates the Tennessee field as far as electric light and power as a whole are concerned. But we do deny that it has driven out all competition and is far on the road to establishing a totalitarian state. A visit to Tennessee will convince any fair minded person that the residents of that state are no more socialistic or radical in their political views than the residents of Oregon or any other conservative state. Yet it is a fact that for over 20 years whenever the issue of TVA has been raised, the people of that state have voted around 16 to 1 in favor of it. Why? Because TVA as a federal project has turned a faltering marginal economy into a flourishing one, a backward state into one of the most progressive and prosperous states in the union. This has been due not only to the introduction of cheap power, but to the collateral benefits of a multi ple federal power project. The Oregon Statesman of Salem called attention to this phase of the TVA controversy in an editorial sometime ago, from which the following is an extract. "Collateral activities have been an Important part of its work. It moved in to rejuvenate the whole region. Its specialists have promoted better practices in agriculture, better forestry and have engaged in chemical research. TVA made important contributions in the development of electric furnaces for the production of phosphate fertilizers. Its .designs have been used by several of the phosphate plants in Idaho and Montana. Use of the Tennessee river for navigation has been greatly expanded through better control of water flow and losses from, flood damage re duced. Fish are so plentiful that the TVA long ago abolished closed seasons on TVA lakes." And Editor Sprague concludes as follows : "There is no need to discount the success of TVA because one doesn't approve of the pattern. It offers a challenge to other regions to join hands in solving regional problems." I T does. And Hells Canyon is Ralph W. Page, well known columnist' on the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin summed up the Ten nessee river development problem very well in the following after, not before, he paid a visit to TVA quole : "TVA has rendered a public service which has saved private enterprise millions. It has increased river naviga tion from 33 ton miles to 800 ton miles. All of this of course is carried on by private enterprise and for its benefit. It has increased the installed capacity of electric power from a comparative trickle to 3.6 million kilowatts, and expects this to increase to 9.6 million by 1956. In 1933 only one farm in 28 in Tennessee had electricity. Today 85 per cent of all farms have this service. And they get 'it at about half the average national cost, and use half again as much. Moreover this power is the mainstay of our defense industries." "But it is said all this cheap power hurts the private power companies. That makes me laugh. The neighboring companies are the Southern Company in Georgia and about. I bought stock at $12 and sold at $16. Another is the Carolina Power & Light. When I lived in Carolina in 1932 I paid this concern 10 cents an hour for my juice. They now sell it for about 2 cents and have prospered. Now no sane person not hipped by dogma can call this socialism. It is the very prop and mainstay of private industrial and agricultural progress Everywhere in the world but the United States this plan is studied and copied as a river solution." We can't agree with Communist Page that no sane person can CALL this "socialism." Plenty of perfectly sane people, particularly if they are in politics or the private power business can and will. . DUT that does not alter the basic fact that where conditions are suited to a government power proj ect on a multiple basis, and are not suited or as well suited to a private power development (as on the Snake river for example) the former will, we believe, ultimately prevail. And the chief reason is this: If the federal government doesn't do the job it won't be done. Private enterprise won't do it, because the col lateral benefits are too expensive, the returns too small and extended over too long a time. The project can't be privately financed. In short it is the belief of this department that what program will best advance the public welfare will eventually win out as it should in a democracy. R.W.R. Thursday, June J, 19SS I such a challenge. France Again Faced With New Crisis in African Possessions By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst France, which had troubles enough already, faces a new .crisis in North Africa. Premier Ed gar Faure is going his best to combat it. But whatever he does, he meets power ful opposition. Things are get ting worse steadily, and Faure may lose his job as Charles Mctaau xne result. The situation involves France's rich possessions of Tunisia, Mo rocco and Algeria. Tunisia and Morocco are protectorates. Al geria has been incorporated into France itself. It is repre sented in the French parliament. Nationalist movements have been getting stronger and stronger in Morocco and Tuni sia ever since the end of World War II. They have been marked by serious terrorism. Now the terrorism has spread to Algeria. Successive French govern ments have tried to deal with the nationalist movement in Tunisia and Morocco by a com bination of conciliation and sternness. New Complications Arise It is recognized in Paris that there must be concessions to na tionalism. But every time a French government tries to make concessions that might sat isfy the nationalists a new com plication arises. That is the refusal of the French colonists in North Afri ca, and the very powerful par liamentary elements in France which support them, to concede the inevitability of home rule. Former Premier Pierre Mendes-France decided last sum mer that something had to be done. He made a dramatic visit to Tunisia and announced that the country would be given home rule. Mendes-France fell later partly because of the enmity of the anti-concession elements. Historic Agreement Faure carried on with the home rule negotiations. He and Tunisian Premier Tahar Ben Ammar reached a .really historic agreement in Paris in the early hours of last Sunday morning. It could become the model for a Moroccan agreement. The agreement gives Tunisia practically complete home rule. France keeps control of defense Babson... Small Cities By ROGER W. BABSON New York City (Special to Mail Tribune) I am writing this from Room 15T on the 15th floor of the Waldorf Astoria overlook ing New York City. I h a v e s u pplemented my fears by talks with leading au thorities. I am told that what I see from this window will someday be destroyed: but Soger W. Babson it is very hard for me to ac cept. I like small cities. This is nothing against large cities. Both have their usefulness. In fact, large cities usually have some great national advantage, such as nearness to waterpower, like Buffalo or Minneapolis; or location at the junction of two rivers, like St. Louis, or at the outlet of a river, like New Or leans; or having a wonderful harbor, like New York. Nothing can prevent such fortunately lo cated cities from always being great, even if vulnerable. But today I want to tell you why I like small cities. The H-Bomb and gufded mis siles will postpone World War III; but Scriptures teach that there will be at least one more war someday, and it will be the worst one of all. Just now, much is appearing in newspapers and magazines regarding the pros pects for peace. Civil Defense has never taken hold; and it is very difficult to interest people in it at present. It seems to me that England, France, and Russia are lulling us to sleep with their "Big Four Conference." Switch of Uranium To Peacetime Uses Now speculators are crazy about uranium as an agent which will be switched to peace uses and thus protect the United States from the H-Bomb. With out doubt uranium has many useful possibilities; . but these discussions will soon be forgotten as the American people have very short memories. However, the world supply of uranium is very large and is well scattered throughout the leading nations and their possessions. Certainly, most nations will be making H-Bombs which can be used for "blackmailing" pur poses and for attempting to get what they want without World War III. All the above will re sult in further inflation and continued high taxes. Someday and foreign relations. Now Faure must get his par liament to ratify the agreement. There, he faces a determined fight by the anti-concessionists. It is not certain that he can get the agreement ratified. If he failed, undoubtedly he would resign. But leaving that aside, the sit uation in Algeria has become dangerous so dangerous that France is withdrawing a divi sion of troops from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization command to reinforce its ap promimately 100,000-man Alger ian forces. The policy of the French gov ernment toward the Algerian terrorists is one of sternness, for the present. But sternness has not worked in Tunisio or Mo rocco. Commies Tighten Berlin Blockade Berlin (U.R) r- West Berlin officials charged today that East ern Communists have tightened their baby blockade and endan gered lives by cutting elevated train tlephone lines linking the city's East and West zone. - Officials said the Communist run Berlin railway system yes terday cut direct telephone ca bles between railway stations in the West Berlin and those in the Soviet sector. Western officials said the Com munist action endangered city elevated railway traffic as well as interzonal traffic to the West, since the latter trains use the elevated railway system to en ter and leave the city. They said West Berlin rail waymen now will meet serious delays in reported trouble to headquarters since the lone re maining line usually is busy. German Typhoid Fever Epidemic Claims Five Hagen, Germany (U.R) An 82-year-old woman died of ty 'phoid fever Wednesday night. raising the total of West Ger mans killed by the typhoid epi demic to five. Health officials reported a to tal of 739 cases in West Ger many, with 674 occurring in the Hagen, Ruhr, and other north Rhine Westphalia areas. Hagen reported nine new cases in the past 24 hours, but officials .be lieved the epidemic was past its peak. one of these "blackmailing" threats may be "called" and some large cities will be bombed. Then several million innocent citizens in these cities could be killed. Small Cities To Grow Rapidly All the above could result in a continued movement of fami lies and industries out of the large cities into the smaller com munities. These small cities when located not too near a big city should have a great fu ture. Many . young people will prefer to live in one of these smaller communities, both from a safety standpoint and also to profit by their growth. Decentralization of industries is also under way. Few manu facturing plants in the big cities are enlarging within those cities: they are building supplemental plants in smaller places. This factor of decentralization will greatly benefit small communi ties. The big cities are getting more vulnerable to war dangers, labor troubles, and high costs. Corporations are finding it easier to raise money for capital ex penditures in the small cities, rather than the large cities. In the end, bankers and investors determine locations. Real Estate Values May Beat Peak I forecast that the prices of the stocks of companies with all their assets in big, vulnerable cities may decline; while those with their assets in small, safe cities may not. My belief is that downtown real estate values in some of the large cities may be at their peak, but that in the smaller cities such real estate is still a purchase. In addition to the factors above, let me remind readers of the curse of the auto mobile and the downtown park ing problem in large cities. Good roads, however, are helping the small cities, which should profit by President Eisenhower's pro posal for expending $101 billion for good roads. Workers in the smaller cities have a high character, are in telligent, and may give more thought to the ultimate con sumer. Owing to the lower cost of living in the smaller cities, there are fewer labor troubles where management is reason able. Labor has less turnover in these smaller cities. To avoid the handicaps mentioned above, the large cities should get solid ly behind the new federal "urban redevelopment program." , Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of si pen name or initial for publication is permis rible. The Mail 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. The Sex Deviate Problem To the Editor: Last summer our little girl, then seven, was molested in Medford by an ln- tnviratert ex-convict. The exper ience was terrifying for her and sickening for us. A child aoesn i forget such an incident. Its ef fect is quite lasting. The crime usually is listed in ihi naner as "contributing to the delinquency of a minor," and it is not an uncommon occur rence. This particular molester was 61 and had been in and out of penitentiaries on a variety of rharffps! erand larceny, sex crime, assault, etc. I understand that, according to' law, anyone rnnvieted of his fourtn teiony can be imprisoned for life. This crime was his fourth or fifth felony. Local authorities sentenc ed him to only five years ana a parole within that time is pos sible. He'll be free to ao as ne nleases. and the result could be tragic, as it has been in so many instances. We read of horrible sex crimes so very often and almost invariably the offender has a past record of child molesting. At this writing, a little girl in Michigan is missing, and author ities fear the worst because a sex offender is known to have been in the area. Why do we allow these deviates to maim or kill our children? T don't feel we should impris on for life all known sex of fenders for the purpose of pun ishing them. Men who will mo lest children or commit otner sex crimes present more of a so cial than a police problem. They are unbalanced men living in a society unsuitable to them. To date, little has, been done to solve the problem, that is, to prevent such things happening in the first place, by institution izing or therapy. Therefore it is imperative that men found guilty of child molesting be imprisoned for such a length of time that they will not have the opportunity to com mit a similar crime or a worse one. In other words, imprison ment as punishment for the man is secondary to imprisonment for protection of the next child he will harm. The bill concerning sex dev iates passed by the 1955 legisla ture is a step in the right direc tion. Until the problem can be solved by preventive measures, I urge the local court to stop these foolish two, three or five year sentences and give sex dev iates the maximum penalties al lowed by law. Mrs. J. E. . (Name on File) . Too. Many Mosquitos To the Editor: I wonder just how many people in the Rogue Valley had the same trouble this past Memorial' Day week end as we did . . . Mosquitos. We have bragged so much about our beautiful valley and wonderful climate that we en tertained several guests from Portland who came down to bask in our sunshine and what happened? We have so many mosquitos that no one can hope to sit outside or play outside games. Our friends from Port land told us that while we might have sunshine, what good does it do if we can't even enjoy it in our own yards. They stay in doors because of the rain we stay in because of mosquitos. I think something should be done about this problem and right away before the summer tourists carry away the brand of a Rogue Valley mosquito. Mrs. Dan M. Hutson, Route 2, Box 226, -Medford, Oregon. "Too Far Out?" To the Editor: When we first returned to this lovely valley after an absence of several years we wondered why there were so many partially constructed small homes, shacks and just garages that people were living in along the country roads. Now we know we too, tried to get a construction loan to build in the country where the air is fresh and clean, but the bank appraiser said we were too far out! My husband was drafted from this ranch in the country and served in the army three years, 13 months in Europe. It wasn't too far out for him to be drafted. The Loan company say they cannot loan on a G.I. basis. Mr. Banker, I'll live in a tent on my ranch land before I'll build a house in your city. I'll raise my children where they can belong to 4-H livestock clubs and the nearest neighbor is 2 miles down the road. My children won't be in the next door neighbor's yard and they won't be roaming your city streets at night. Oh, yes, my husband goes to Medford Monday through Fri day to work. We do all of our shopping in your city and we attend one of your churches. But, no thanks, to your city Matter of Fact THOSE BASILISKS Washington After six months in Asia, this reporter cannot quite repress the sus picion that the Republi cans may be counting their political chickens be fore the basil i s k s are hatched. Consider for example, the ugly situation in Indochina. By the terms Joseph Alaop of the Geneva treaty, the fate of Southern Indochina is to be de cided in July, 1956. Next spring, therefore, unless there is a mod est miracle in the interval, the Eisenhower administration is going to have to make a pretty agonizing choice. And this spell of political agony is scheduled for the worst possible moment, on the eve of our own Presiden tial campaign . The basic reason for this forecast is the weakness of the non-Communist government of Southern Indochina, and the lm pressive strength of the Com munist-dominated Viet Minh government of Northern Indo china. In the South, the American administration is giving rather desperate all out backing to Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. In the last six weeks, Premier Diem has scored his first and only major success in nearly a year in office. He has soundly defeated the Binh Xuyen, the paramili tary gangsters who used to run Saigon. Unquestionably, Premier Diem has been considerably strengthened. Both by his vic tory over the Binh Xuyen, and by his simultaneous creation of a violently anti-French National Revolutionary Congress. His prestige has risen markedly throughout all of Southern Indo china. But Diem has not yet defeated the Hoa Hao, a paramilitary religious sect far more danger ous than the Binh Xuyen. He has not yet done anything to shake the underground govern ment of the Viet Minh in the great majority of villages in the Indochinese countryside. And even if he can beat the Hoa Hao, Diem does not appear to have either the military resources or the administrative capacity to bring the countryside under real control. ' THE MODEST miracle that is needed in , Indochina is for Diem to establish his authority in this manner. If he fails, if the Viet Minh underground still gov erns most of the countryside next spring, the consequences are easy to foresee. The peasants will raise against the Diem re gime, to demand the nationwide election promised in the Geneva treaty for July, 1956. The probability of such a peas ant rising has already been con sidered by General "Iron Mike" O'Daniel, who has the task of retraining and reorganizing Pre mier Diem's army. General O'Daniel has officially told Washington that the army will be able to hold the main urban centers and chief lines of com munication for a matter of a few weeks. In short, if the Viet Minh can stage a successful peasant rising, Premier Diem will be doomed unless he gets massive outside aid. The French will never aid homes I'll stay in the country where it's too far out! Mrs. R. J. Ellis Route 2, Box 568 Central Point. Misses E.C.F. Editorials To the Editor: So, the need of a little surgery lias caused the absence of the earthy, illusion less E.C.F. editorials recently. Of course we do enjoy those of far-reaching and factual R.W.R. as well as the cheerfully opti mistic ones bearing the . initials E.A. Really, -none of them need signing for that is disclosed in the first few sentences, often first few words. For personality shows as truly in the writing as it does in finger-prints. So, here's hopin' that E.C.F. will soon be writing again, may be a new viewpoint from his stay abed, for just being alone blessedly alone for a while is a mighty remedy for much of our ills. F. J. Clifford, 1211 West Main st Frank Morgan ittati aV By Joseph Alsop Diem. The rescue party, if it ar rives at all, will have to be American. And it will have to be composed, furthermore, of American ground forces. That is bad enough. In addi tion, if this kind of situation arises in Southern Indochina, the Viet Minh in the North will be able to cry out that the Geneva treaty has been violated. And Ho Chi Minh may think this a good enough pretext to send his pow erful new army of 20 well equipped divisions into the fight for the South. Altogether, in short, the task of maintaining a non-Communist government in Southern Indo china is likely to be both im mensely costly and politically repellent in a very extreme de gree. That is the natural price of last year's Geneva-Munich. On the other hand, however, if Southern Indochina is passive ly permitted to fall under Com munist control, all the rest of Southern Asia will be immediate; ly imperilled. And something else will happen, too, that may have more direct political im portance in this country. For Premier Diem is not the Eisenhower a d m i n i s tration's only stake in Southern Indo china. The American govern ment today has complete, un challengeable moral responsi bility for the fate of the more than 700,000 refugees who have fled to Southern Indochina from the Communist North. THE NAVY was used to trans port these poor people from their old homes in the North to their new homes in the South. They were encouraged to flee. The 'eager hucksters and public relations officers in Washington even portrayed the fearful human tragedy of this mass flight of simple, helpless people as an inspiring, reassuring event almost indeed as another ad ministration success in the for eign policy field. In addition, since three quarters of the refu gees are Catholics, they will not lack for natural friends in the United States. What then is to happen to these refugees, if Southern Indo china is also to fall to the Com munists? They cannot be trans planted a second time, for no country will receive more than 700,000 new Asian citizens. Are they to be left . to their cruel fate? Or are the Marines to be sent to rescue them and hold the South. That is just one aspect of the choice that probably lies ahead; but it is enough to sug gest that the choice will be agonizing in the very fullest meaning of the word. (Copyright, 1953, New York. Herald Tribune Inc.) Editorial Comment PLANS STALLED FOR NEW HIGHWAY Joint efforts of the major chambers of commerce of the Southern Oregon counties of Josephine, Jackson and Klamath do not seem likely to pay off in the matter of a proposed new highway from Medford to Klam ath Falls via Lake O' the Woods. At a recent State Highway commission session, those cham bers of commerce appeared in support of the project. The Ashland Chamber of Com merce had representatives pres ent who objected violently. We were not surprised. The present route from the Rogue valley to Klamath Falls via the Green Springs takes off from the southern environs of Ashland. It is understandable that Ashland interests object to being "by-passed." In any event, the clash be tween the two civic bodies in Jackson county had no real effect. t The chairman of the commis sion told the rival delegations that there will be no funds avail able for improvement of either route "for some time." That's just too bad for those of us who have occasion to use the present route to Klamath Falls over the mountains. f This writer made a vacation automobile trip to Salt Lake City a couple of years ago. The portion of the highway between Ashland and Klamath Falls was the worst encountered on the entire trip FS in Grants Pass Courier. Livestock and poultry on the farms and ranches in the United States increased three per cent during 1954. Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS "The Chapel of Cherished Memories CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse 1 " "