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rOtm MEDFORD (OREGON) "Iverybody In Southern Oregon Beads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by UZDFORD PRINTING CO. !T- North Fir 8t Phone S-S1U ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertisins Manager E. C. flRGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telecraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SperU Editor OUVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second elaaa matter at Medford. Orecon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $11.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. SJO Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Aihland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $19.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press FuU Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. WC, Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Annies. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCtaTlrGN 7 J NIWtPAPlI PUtUIIHItS 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 9. 1945 (It was Saturday) Early summer surveys indi cate large pear crop for Jackion county. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "What is so rare as a day in June?," tang the poet. So far this June there have been better June days in January. 20 YEARS AGO J June 9. 1935 (It was Sunday) New motor vehicles moving to area CCC camps to equip new companies moving into county. Twenty-two Jackson count 4-H club members attend meeting at Oregon State college. SO YEARS AGO June 9, 1925 (It was Wednesday) Equipment and 110 Oregon National Guardsmen arrive, to put Camp Jackson in shape for encampment. Arrangements to start con struction of new high schol at Holly st. site under way. 40 YEARS AGO " June 9, 1915 (It was Thursday) From Local and Personal col umn: Samples of sugar beets grown in the Rogue river valley will be sent this week to the lab oratories of the Utah Sugar com pany at Salt Lake City for exam ination. The beets are from seeds planted last spring at the Jtermi- nation of the campaign for a beet sugar factory, and according to the report of Soil Expert Storey, they show an above the average amount of sugar. Fourten parties plan study trips to Crater Lake this sum mer. What's the Answer? (Caa You Get 4 el the 7?) Coat. 1955. Editorial Research Resort 1. Which has the highest factory-delivered list price for a corresponding model: Cadillac 62, Lincoln, Chrysler New York er, Buick Roadmaster? 2. More U.S. homes have elec trical washers or mechanical re frigerators, or do about the same number have each? 3. A rutabaga is a form of po tato, parsnip, turnip, beet or radish? 4. Americans have been keep ing more or less money in the postal savings system in recent years, or about the same amount? 3. Number of shares traded on the N.Y. Stock Exchange the last four months was higher or lower than in the previous four months, or about the same? 6. Average charge for tuition alone in U.S. medical schools is now about $500, $600, $700, $800, $900 or $1000 a year? 7. Emanuel Goldenburg is the real name of which well known movie actor? The Answers: 1. Cadillac 62. 2. More have mechanical re frigerators. 3. Turnip. 4. Less. 5. Lower. 6. About $800. 7. Edward G. Robinson. IKE SIGNS BILL. Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower signed into law yesterday a bill extending until June 30, 1956, authority to im port duty free all types of metal scrap except lead and zinc W1 MAIL TRIBUNE The Supreme There is considerable Supreme Court decision favonng the Portland blec tric company in its request for a power site on the De schutes river. The Oregonian declares this means "Oregon loses its waters." Attorney General Thornton refuses to go into details, but fears this decision deals a staggering blow to state sovereignty throughout the northwest. One of our contemporaries even goes so far as to claim this action means we haven't a government by the people, but a government by "Nine old men on the Supreme Court." (Where did we hear that be fore?) a e TPHIS department hasn't received the text of the de- cision as yet, and would probably have to get a couple of Philadelphia lawyers if we had, to know exactly what the decision does mean as far as Ore gon and its water is concerned. But we can't share the alarm over this decision, or any other by the U. S. Supreme Court. In the first place the decision was 8 to 1, only Jus tice Douglas dissenting, and we are quite sure such a high percentage of unanimity would be unlikely if the decision should be as far reaching in its destruc tive effects' as these public reactions indicate. As far the Supreme Court ruling the country is concerned, that of course is nonsense. TTHE Supreme Court merely decides what the law is. The people through their congress decide what the law should be and when they don't like any Su preme Court interpretation overrule it. If this were not true, slavery would still prevail in this free and unenslaved land. There would be no federal income tax. The off-shore oil lands would be long to the people of the United States, not to the people and ultimately of 3 or 4 states. In all these important Court ruled one way, the sentative government ruled another the latter of course prevailed. In other words, if this un-American as the complainants claim we seri ously doubt it, the injustice can easily be corrected by legislation, and will be. " . 1MEANWHILE we suggest the populace, including the fish and game interests, keep calm and re fuse to ship any "H bombs" to the Supreme Court until at least they know exactly what the decision means, and what it doesn t. In the opinion of this department when the smoke has cleared, it will be reasonably apparent, that a change in federal law is not so imperative, as a change in the personnel of the Federal Power Commission. However we are quite willing to wait and see. Meanwhile that command which we believe was issued at Bunker Hill "Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes" seems to be in order. R.W.R. Q.E.D. During the recent congressional campaign the claim was made that if the voters failed to return a Republican congress, it would be like having two men at the wheel of the ship-of -state leading to chaos, confusion and probable disaster. The Mail Tribune at that time denied this. We predicted that if Dick Neuberger should replace Sen ator Cordon, for example, the Eisenhower adminis tration might well get more support on important issues than if the reverse happened. -That was our honest belief at that time. But we did not expect to have the prediction ful filled quite so soon as it has been, or so emphatically. TN thV short time Neuberger has been in his senate seat he has supported President Eisenhower on the following important national issues: 1. Extension of reciprocal trade. . 2. Mutual Security. 3. Opposition to the Bricker Amendment. The record shows that Senator . Cordon opposed the President on all three issues in fact our former Senator was one of the co-sponsors of the crippling Bricker amendment. ' . x What would the critics of the Johnson leadership have had Oregon's junior Senator do vote against principles of national policy in which he believed just because he happens to be a member of the opposition? Apparently. Well we are glad the Senator didn't and commend him for it That sort of narrow partisanship, disregarding what the individual believes to be best for his coun try to gain a selfish political advantage, is one of outstanding threats to the survival of this free de mocracy. THERE are plenty of Republican party principles which we feel sure Senator Neuberger will oppose, when they come up for a vote, so that he need not stultify himself by voting against those he honestly favors. R.W.R. Portlanden Husband London (U.R) The English husband of a Portland, Ore., woman was created a knight by Queen Elizabeth today in her annual birthday honors list. The Queen knighted Ivison Stevenson Macadam, . director general of the Royal Institute of International Affairs since 1946. Thursday, June 9, 1953 Court Decision dismay in Oregon over the , they have the power to the large oil operators, cases the U. S. Supreme people through their repre decision is as wicked and Knighted by Queen Macadam became Sir Ivison and his wife, the former Caro line Ladd of Portland, became Lady Macadam. They were married in 1934 and have two sons and two daughters. Lady Macadam is the daughter of Portland business man Elliott Corbett Adenauer in Strong Position To Dicker With Kremlin Bosses By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, the "old fox" of the German Federal Republic, is sitting on top of the world. Due largely to Adenauer's own statesman ship. West Ger many has be come a sovere ign nation and has been made a full partner in the North Atlantic Treaty cnaxies McCana Organization. And now Soviet Russia, in an attempt to head off West Ger man rearmament, is trying to curry favor with him. " To what extent the Russians may succeed is something for the Western Allies to worry about during the next few weeks. But it seems safe to predict that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other Allied diplomatic leaders will not lose any sleep over the situation. The Kremlin's invitation to Adenauer to go to Moscow and negotiate a treaty for the estab lishment of full diplomatic and trade relations quite naturally caused a diplomatic sensation. -Logical Move It was, however, a logical move and one- that Western leaders had foreseen. Dispatches from Bonn, the West German capital, say that Adenauer is practically certain to accept the Kremlin's bid. His position is so strong, how ever, that it seems possible he may tell the Russians he will see them in Berlin intead of Mos cow. Russia had two things to of fer Adenauer. First is the pros pect of uniting the 18,000,000 people of Communist - ruled East Germany with the 50,000,- Today and By Walter Mr Menon and Formosa Policy Mr. Krishna Menon, who is Prime Minister Nehru's roving ambassador, has been to Peiping and then to London and is now on his way to Ottawa and Washing ton. His pur pose is media tion, and pre sumably he is bringing fresh information on the attitude of Red China to Walter Lippmann ward the situation in the For mosa area. In defining our position it would help, I think, to distin guish between a provisional ar rangement for a cease fire in the Formosa region on the one hand, and, on the other hand, a permanent settlement of the status and regime of the island of Formosa. At the present time we are co-existing without hostilities under what is in fact, though not in explicit form, the Eden for mula. The firing has virtually ceased though none of the three principal parties directly con cerned namely the two Chi nese governments and the Unit ed States has renounced any of its legal or political claims in the final settlement. The immediate question be fore us is whether it is neces sary or desirable to turn this provisional arrangement, this undefined, unavowed, tacit cease fire and political stand-still into a formal public agreement. Mr. Krishna Menon may be bringing information which might make it useful and desirable to nego tiate such a public agreement. But without prejudicing the is sue, it is hard to see why the public negotiation of a cease fire is desirable just now when so much has been accomplished by unadvertised diplomacy. All three parties in the area have been able to assent to a virtual cease fire. It would, on the other hand, be difficult for any of them to sign an agreement to do . what all of us are in fact doing. e fTHE existing situation in the Formosa region is the result of two fundamental decisions of policy taken by the President within the past eight or nine months One is the formal com mitment, authorized by the For mosa treaty and then again by the January resolution, to defend Formosa against military assault from the mainland. JThe other is the informal but nonetheless proven decision of this govern ment not to support, and not to encourage, Chiang's aim to re conquer the mainland. The de cision to defend Formosa has made it impossible for Red China to contemplate seriously the conquest of Formosa; the de cision not to support Chiang's f t 000 people of Adenauer's free West ' Germany. Second is the prospect of restoring to Ger many the rich territory, extend ing eastward of the Oder and Neisse rivers, which is now oc cupied by Red Poland. That is tempting bait. But Rus sia's price would be a pledge by Western Germany to stop re arming, drop all its ties with the Western democracies, and accept the status of a neutral nation. A weak neutral nation, of course, which the Red armies would be free to overrun at will. Strong Position. Adenauer is not the man, on his record, to pay that price. Ramrod straight, with a sharp featured poker face, West Ger many's leader is as strong an anti-Communist as is any West ern leader. Further, he knows Germany's strength, he knows Russia is afraid of a rearmed Germany and he knows Ger many will become a world power again. - ! ' Winston Churchill, a tired old man of 80, has just retired from active politics. Adenauer, who was 79 on Jan. 5, is at the peak of his career and is the strong est figure in West Germany. Adenauer has devoted his en tire adult life to politics except during the Nazi regime. He was unknown internationally until he was made chancellor on the formation of the West German Republic in 1949. Since then he has won the respect of the free world and the enmity of the Communists. Adenauer knows that Russia will have to recognize his West Germany Republic sooner or later whatever may happen right now. OLD GLOVES FOUND Durant. Okla. (U.R) Elec trician Johnnie A. Moore went to rewire a house near here and found a pair of gloves he lost in 1930. Tomorrow Lippmann return to-the mainland has re moved the main incitement to attack. Even the off-shore is lands, which are highly vulner able, have been in effect neu tralized as we have induced Chiang to stop using them of fensively. The basic term of this tacit bargain has been promoted in Peiping and Washington by the diplomatic efforts of our allies, of the Soviet Union, of India, and of the United Nations. For the time being the bargain is convenient for all concerned The Red Chinese government has been relieved of a fear that they were entitled to take ser iously: the fear that the policy of the United States would be for that war against mainland China which Chiang desires, which so many admirals and re tired generals have preached, which the extreme right wing of the Republican party sup ports. As a result of having purg ed our policy of provocation the President has extricated this country from a dangerous en tanglement from which the de cision for war might have rest ed not in our own hands but in the hands of Chiang and his American supporters. And this disentanglement of American policy has brought about the vir tual cease-fire and political stand-still in the Formosa area. THE arrangement is in the very nature of things temporary, and therefore, it is time to begin to make up our minds about a permanent settlement. Our For mosa policy today consists in supporting and defending Chiang in Formosa and of con taining him within Formosa. There is a time limit on a policy of this kind. We have no right to count on it beyond the life and the rule of Chiang himself. The foundations of the policy are, therefore, fragile and inse cure. For we do not know who would in fact be Chiang's suc cessor, or what would be his pur poses or his relations to the mainland. If we call things by their right name, we must note that Chiang is a despot, and that the succession to a despot is us ually, as in Moscow today, tur bulent with intrigue. Yet the interests of the United States and Formosa are secured today only by our relations with Chiang. On what are they to rest after Chiang goes? It is not too soon to begin clarifying , t h e issues, as we see them, of a last ing settlement in Formosa. OUR strategic interest in For mosa is that the island shaU not be the military base of an unfriendly power, that is to say of Red China. Our political in terest in Formosa is in perform ing our obligations of honor to the anti-Communist Chinese. It is our obligation to provide them with a place to live where they are safe and free, we have no strategic interest in holding For- SenMorse Tells Provisions of Bill Aiding Small Firms By SEN. WAYNE MORSE Washington, D.C. As chair man of the banking and cur rency committee's subcommittee on small business it was my pleasure, during early May, to conduct extensive hearings on legislation concerning the small business administration. This agency makes loans to" those small businesses that demon strate that it is not possible for them to get adequate private fi nancing. Based upon the testimony given in the hearings, our sub committee recommended the fol lowing legislation: (1) That 'the small business administration be extended for two years from June 30, 1955, its present expira tion date; (2) that the maximum on individual loans be raised from the present ' $150,000 to $250,000; (3) that loans be made available to small businesses in drought areas; (4) that the small business administration be given the authority to grant extensions up to 10 years on loans where borrowers have run into diffi culty. There were some minor technical changes, also. These recommendations were adopted by the full committee and incorporated into a bill which I reported on the floor of the Senate on June 1. This legis lation will help strengthen the hundreds of thousands of small businesses which, despite the fact that we have some giant corporations, are the real back bone of our competitive free enterprise society. It will help make it possible for small busi nesses to compete with these giants. Without a strong small business community there can be no competitive economy. Two-Price Wheat Bill Several days ago I testified before the Senate agriculture committee in support of my two- price wheat bill, S. 1770, which is co-sponsored br Senators Neu berger, Magnuson and Jackson. The two-price plan is not new but it offers a real solution for the wheat surplus problem. It was included in the McNary- Haugen bill which passed con gress years ago under the lead ership of the late Senator Charles McNary of Oregon. That biU was vetoed by Presi dent Coolidge. (Under the two price plan growers would re ceive 100 per cent parity prices on approximately 500,000,000 bushels of wheat going into the domestic market for human con sumption, but the balance of our national production approxi mately 400,000,000 bushels would be sold at competitive prices for export and other re maining uses. The ; plan .offers an enormous savings to the gov ernment in the handling of wheat surpluses and it would forestall serious reductions in farm income threatened under the present flexible wheat sup port plan. Farm Disaster Loans Recently the Senate passed a bill, S. 1755, which provides that the rate of interest on produc tion disaster loans made to farm ers shall not exceed 3 per cent per year. I strongly supported the bill. Secretary of Agricul ture Benson, under previous legislation which gave him the discretion to set the rate of in terest within certain limitations, has raised the rate from 3 per cent to 5 per cent. Those of us supporting this bill could see no justice in saddling the farm ers with this extra 2 per cent of interest at a time when the Department of Agriculture it self admits that farm income is dropping. I hope that the House of Representatives will take speedy, favorable action on this measure. mosa ourselves: our interest is, in the language of the military theorists, to deny Formosa ef fectively to Red China. And we have no obligation of honor or interest to do more than insure the safety and the freedom of the Chinese on Formosa. We have no obligation to go to war ourselves in order to reverse the defeat they suffered in the Chinese civil war. Our interests and our obliga tions would be satisfied if For mosa became an, independent, self-governing state, neutralized and guaranteed by. the United Nations. This should be, I be lieve, our post-Chiang Formosa policy I say post-Chiang for it is asking too much, after au that has been said' In this coun try about him, that Chiang him self should formally agree to such a setUement. It is not nec essarily an impossible' solution from the point of view of Red China. The solution would com m a n d widespread support throughout Asia. I might say that the first time I heard this solution advanced was about five years ago, and by an Indian diplomat of the first rank. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Inc.) INJURIES FATAL Hillsboro, Ore. (U.R) Mrs. Inez G. Corning, 66, Forest Grove, died in a loca lhospital j yesterday from injuries suffered , Sunday evening in a two-car ac-! cident near Forest Grove. Matter of FactBy CENSORSHIP WARNING Washington For a great many years, American corres- pondents in Moscow have wisely warned that their own dis patches are slanted, be cause of the Soviet censor ship. In the opinion of these report ers, it is now time for Wash ington corres p o n dents to send out a Joseph Alsop similar warning. This being peacetime, the Eis enhower administration is not yet using the conventional blue pencils. Yet this administration is Dracticine a widespread cen- sorship, which is no less elec mm tive in slanting the news De- cause it is insidiously indirect. The censor's pressure is felt by every Washington reporter who still bothers to wear out his shoe leather to do his real job which is to transmit facts of vital n a t ion a 1 mean ing to the American public. . Facts of really vital meaning are precisely Stewart Alsop the facts that are " now under interdict. And the stage has now been reached where honest reporters really have a duty to confess this novel pressure As an example of the sort of thine that is now a matter of course, consider the curious epi sode that led these reporters to the rather grave decision to give a censorship warning. It hap pened not very long ago, when one of us had just returned from a six months trip in Asia. After this long absence, two of these reporters' best and old est friends in Washington pro posed a happy family reunion. The ladies of the three families laid agreeable plans. The logis tics of the party, although some what elaborate, were smoothly completed. And then, on the very eve of the reunion, there was a somewhat embarrassed telephone call. Messrs A. and B, as we may call our two old friends, both hold high posts in the same gov ernment agency. They had. been bluntly told that their official positions would be compromised if the party were held as planned. DEHIND this extraordinary JLr episode, there was "- another no less extraordinary. During that week, we had published a report on the - problem of an American satellite. The Soviets have already ' announced their intention to build an earth- satellite, and have placed their leading physicist, Peter Kapitza, in charge of the project. For this and other obvious reasons, the satellite problem seemed to us reasonably fateful, and there fore we felt it was in the public domain. This 'view was not held, how ever, by . the National Security Council. That Thursday's N.S.- C s meeting turned, apparently, into a prolonged outburst of righteous indignation. Here, once again, the American people were being told facts of the ut most national importance but facts which the N.S.C. wanted to cover up. It did not matter, of course, that these reporters had had no access whatever to classified in formation. That point was not even tested. The chief of the agency that employs Messrs. A and B had been at the N.S.C. meeting. Without further ado, he returned to his office and issued the edict that led, in turn, to the embarrassed telephoned call al ready noted. He did this, more over," with a full understandin of the rules that have always governed, our friendship with Messrs. A and B. ; We have never talked to these friends of ours about their work in their agency, or indeed about any "sensitive" matters. This has always been understood be tween us. In present day Wash ington, which is more zoo than metropolis, wise men keep busi ness and friendship strictly sep arated. If any official is your friend, -and you feel you must discuss public questions with him, you ask formally for an Frank Morgan FUNERAL DIRECTORS '. . ' ' , , . V "The Chapel of Cherished Memories CHAPEL MORTUARY , Across from the Courthouse Joe and Stew Alsop appointment, and you go formal ly to his office. You do not talk business at family reunions. And you do not talk business, either, with very old and valued friends whose official duties are genuinely not in the public domain. The agency chief knewA of these rules. He told Messrs: A and B, and he later told these reporters, that he was confident the rules had always been and would always be most strictly enforced. He did not fear iny improper disclosures. But ?he greatly feared the attack that would develop on his agency, if it became known that important subordinates of his dared to con tinue an old friendship with per sons who dared to write about facts of the highest national im portance. NO DOUBT he was right He had observed the scene at the N.S.C. meeting. He is one of the finest men in Washington. , He and Messrs. A -and B had no course open to them, in the cir cumstances, except to put the welfare of their agency first. What is not right, however, is the mephitic, the almost psy chotic atmosphere that forces this kind of invasion of private life, to carry out , reprisals against reporters who are doing what they conceive to be their public duty. What is not right, either, is this indirect censor ship by reprisal which is now being carried so far that re porters who still do their jobs must expect any kind of harass ment, from old-fashioned secur ity investigations to separation from their oldest friends and quite probably wire-tapping and bug-planting, What is involved here, in fact, is a radical change in the Ameri can political system, and very nearly an amendment to the American Constitution, that is being shoved through behind the backs of the American, peo ple. And this is so serious a mat ter that it will be the subject of several subsequent reports. Copyright. 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Medford Newsman Still Hospitalized E. C. Ferguson, managing editor , of the Mail Tribune, re mains in serious, though not critical, condition in the Good Samaritan hospital in Portland, following recent serious opera tion. Friends who have visited him say he is conscious a good part of the day, and has greatly appreciated having notes from friends in Medford read to him by members of his family. Mrs. Ferguson' is with him most of the day, and their daughter, Mrs. Ford Kmitsen, Astoria, comes to Portland sev eral days each week to be with her parents. Mrs. Ferguson has asked that their friends be ad vised of their appreciation of friendly messages, but that under present circumstances it is impossible for her to acknowl edge them all. Portland Swelters In 96 Degree Heat Portland (U.R) Portland sweltered in 96-degree heat yes terday, the warmest day since August 14, 1953, while Medford recorded a reading of 101. However, the weather man held out some hope of relief. East winds were expected to change to westerly and bring in moist, cool air from the Pacific tomorrow. Seaside, on the coast, reported an unofficial 97 degrees. But at Coos Bay, further south, it was- a cool 58. The - hot east winds lowered humidity and created a fire hazard.. They also slapped Port land power lines together caus ing minor outages in tome parts of the city. The humidity got down to 17 per cent at Portland, 28 per cent at Eugene and 36 at Astoria. A number of logging camps suspended operations in the Cas cades because of the below 30 per cent humidity. BILL ACTION COMPLETED Washington (U.R) The Senate completed congressional action yesterday on a bill to con tinue the suspension of the two cents a pound tax on copper im ports until June 30, 1958. Harold Snodgrass
