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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEWRDvC1&wTRIBUH "Everybody la Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor BARRY CHIP MAN. 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. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail Ir. Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year S12.00 ' Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year 83.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoemx, Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. and on motor routes: . Daily and Sunday One year S13.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms caan in Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF C1HCUU1-U WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. . Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angelas. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOClATUON Z7 -ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 17, 1945 (It was Sunday) Gov. Earl Snell to speak at Jacksonville in first step of cam paign to make old courthouse into museum. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Thi6 is Fa ther's Day. He can spill ashes on the living room rug if he wants to, without fear of court martial. 20 YEARS AGO June 17. 1935 (It was Monday) C. Bi Cordy appointed assist ant extension agent in charge of horticultural work in Jackson county. Indications are that tourist trade at Crater Lake will be best in five years. 30 YEARS AGO June 17, 1925 Roads east of Crater Lake highway closed for firing of ar tillery at National Guard en campment. Petitions asking an election to authorize erection of new city hall presented to Medford city council. 40 YEARS AGO June 17. 1915 (It was Thursday) A Congressional appropria tion committee tours Rogue Val ley on return trip from inspect ing Klamath county reclamation projects. First queen of Josephine coun ty caves crowned in cavern cere-, monies. t What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955. Editorial Research R.eart 1. The U. S. Flag has never been more than 13 stripes; right or wrong? 2. About one third, one-half, two-thirds or three - fourths of our World War I veterans are still alive? 3. The Lucy Stone League wants married women to keep their maiden names, serve on juries, get divorce more easily, or vote regularly? 4. Which one of these coun tries doesn't border on the Cas pian Sea: Soviet Union, Iran, Turkey? 5. Texas voted in 1952 for Eisenhower or Stevenson for President? 6. More or fewer small busi nesses are now - being started than discontinued, or about the same number? 7. A Glaswegian is a native of which large city in Europe? The Answers: 1. Wrong; it had 15 between 1794 and 1818. 2. About two-thirds. 3. Keep their maiden names. 4. Turkey. 5. Eisenhower. 6. More being started. 7. Glasgow, Scotland. Mrs. Marjorie Smith Enters Innocent Plea Portland (UJJ Mrs. Mar jorie Smith, 34, yesterday pleaded innocent to a first de gree murder charge in connec tion with the bomb-death of her lawyer husband, Oliver Kermit, at a golf club here April 21. She is scheduled for trial in September. She 1 was arrested along with Victor Laurence Wolf,; 45, who confessed and im plicated Mrs. Smith. Dead line Sundav Classified is at coon Saturday 10 am Monday for Monday: other days 5;30 previous day. - fas MAIL TRIBUNE Kids and The orchard thinning, isn't going along quite as rapidly as usual this year, and some of the high school youngsters who are looking for summer work are having a bit of difficulty as a result But, other than this, the summer employment of vacation-minded young folk is about as usual, accord ing to John Patton manager of the state employment service office here. There's "no particular pattern" in summertime juvenile employment, Patton reported, but he added that there have been a good many work permits issued, which is a good sign. A CTUALLY, these many high school students who are more or less at loose ends during the summer constitute a big pool of workers with a generally pretty high level of ability. The Mail Tribune tapped this pool this summer, and two recent high school graduates are working in the newsroom where a high degree of responsibility and accuracy is required. Thus far our hopes that they will live up to expectation have been justified. IT is the younger group which is having the most difficulty in finding summer jobs, according to Patton, those in the 14 and 15 year old brackets. In a couple of weeks, however more agricultural jobs are expected to open up, making opportunities better. In any event, if anyone needs someone to do chores around the house, or other jobs that never seem to get done by themselves, the employment service can send an eager kid your way. E.A. Above Average While we're talking about young people in Med ford, it is encouraging to note a story (which appears elsewhere in today's Mail Tribune) to the effect that children in the first six grades in Medford elementary schools are well above the national average in the re sults of achievement tests. Consistently, in all but one of the tests, and all through the six grades, Medford students generally made median scores almost a full point higher than the national average median scores. THE point in the report which interested us especial- ly was that regarding spelling. Medford students, apparently, are better spellers than the nation's average, which we suppose shouldn't be too startliner. although from some of the papers of third, fourth and fifth graders we've seen, the nation's average can't be too terribly high. E.A. C-D Test Helpful , Yesterday we were talking with a friend, a state police sergeant, who was discussing the local phases of the nationwide test air raid alert conducted this week. . His office, he said, had been thrown off schedule by the test, for the police took an active role in the communications end of the job, in addition to their regular duties. He wasn't complaining, particularly. And, after we'd discussed the plan generally he commented that it was a good idea to try out such a plan "just in case." . IT is true that the widespread test, which involved governmental officials from the President on down, may be entirely needless. We devoutly hope that it proves so. But "just in case" there is the start of a nuclear war, the exercises this week will pay off in thousands, perhaps millions, of lives saved through out the nation. It's a bit hard to get steamed up about the possi bility of an H-bomb hitting Portland at the present, but as we have seen only too distinctly in the last two decades, the unexpected can and frequently does happen. It is well to be as ready as possible. A SIDE from a few minor mixups, the local phase of the test, which was confined largely to communi cations and the summoning of a skeleton organization of civilian defense workers, went smoothly. , As has been before mentioned, civil defense here is predicated on the theory that Medford would not be hit by a nuclear weapon (except as it might be picked as a secondary "target of opportunity"), but that it would be a housing, feeding and relief center for masses of evacuees. It is not a role which has any particularly cheerful aspects, but what role in warfare does? E.A. Demonstration Set By Vacation School The Vacation Bible school of the Church of the Nazarene will conduct a demonstration pro gram Sunday, June 19, at 10 a.m. The program climaxes a 10 day school held from June 6 to 17. More than 200 teachers and pu pils enrolled with an average daily attendance of 180. The beginners department has been under the supervision of Mrs. Orman Tompkins; the Pri mary department supervised by Mrs. George McUne, and the junior - intermediate supervised by Mrs. Clarence Starkey. Co ordinator for the entire school was Mrs. LoweU Shepard. - At 9:45 a.m. the Youth tlepart ment will present a. Father's day program in the adult department of the Sunday school. The Naz arenes plan to honor "all fathers on Father's day. Friday, June 17, 19S5 Jobs Klamath Jury To Investigate Murder Klamath Falls (U.R) Trial of Leon Gale Pearson and Melvin Chiloquin for the, death of John Madrueno, originally scheduled for Monday, has been continued until after the Klamath County grand jury completes an investi gation of the case. Circuit Judge David R. Van denberg late Wednesday ruled for a new investigation of man slaughter charges filed against the two men., but he refused dis trict attorney Frank Alderson's request for dismissal of the case and resubmission to the grand jury for indictment on a lesser charge. The two are accused of fatally beating Madrueno, Klamath Falls railroad worker whose body was found in a snowbank near Chiloquin last February. R r ussia n Accepta nee Of Big Four Meeting Date Features News Br CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: ' THE GOOD 1. Soviet Russia accepted an invitation by the United States, Britain and France to attend a meeting of the heads of gov ernment of the Big Four pow ers in Geneva, Switzer land, July 18 to 21 inclusive. Al 1 i e d strategy for the con ference was d i s cussed in New York by Charles McCann secretary Of State John Foster Dulles, British Foreign Secretary Harold Mac Millan and French Foreign Min ister Antoine Pinay: They will discuss arrangements for the conference with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov during the 10th anniversary meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco next week, which all four will attend. 2. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of the West German Federal Republic made it quite clear that he will not permit Russia to lure him away from his ties with the Western democracies. Adenauer has accepted in prin ciple an invitation to confer with Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin. But during a visit to Washington Adenauer reached complete agreement with Presi dent Eisenhower on the policy they will pursue in any talks they may hold with the Rus sians. They will make no agree ment with Russia affecting their mutual interests without consult ing together beforehand. 3. A crippling 17-day strike on Britain's nationalized rail roads was ended when the gov ernment appointed a referee to settle points at issue. The strik ers won at least a partial vic tory in that some, though not all Babson and Babson Park, Mass. (Special to Mail Tribune) So many read ers are worrying about Formosa and China that at this time. 11 "when the ft "World's Big- - ' gest world is being dedicat ed here, I take the liberty of discussing Asi atic problems. First, let me Baser w. Babsaa say that I have never met Chiang Kai-shek, but I have known Madame Chiang, who attended Wellesley College, which is only two miles from the' Babson Great Globe and Insti tute. She is a remarkable wo man of the highest character and keenest insight; she "has great influence wtih him. He was a poor boy when he married her; but a determined type like the late Henry Ford and a very great man. When forecasting the future of any country, it is weU to recog nize the history as well as the present status. .Formosa is a large island, about the size of of Massachusetts and Connecti cut, lying 100 miles east of Chi na. A mountain range runs north and south, with fertile plains to the west. A combina tion of heat and moisture gives it marvelous crops it produces gold, silver, copper, oil, coal, and uranium. Population is about 9,000,000, mostly of old Chinese descent. This great island was original ly settled by the Dutch, who were expelled by the Chinese during the 17th century It was taken by the Japanese in 1895, who held it until the clos$ of World War II, when, in 1945, it was ceded back to China. What ever our opinion as to the gov ernment of China whether Nationalistic under Chiang Kai shek, or Communistic under Chou and his gangsters we must realize that Formosa in herently is a part of China. Whether the Communists want to "liberate" it or "enslave" it is debatable. From a strategic viewpoint, the United States and Japan should not allow Formosa to get into the clutches of Com munist China. Importance of Patience Learned From Madame Chiang One of the chief lessons I have learned from Madame Chiang Kai-shek is the importance of patience and of avoiding giving ultimatums. Human nature is the same on both sides of a conflict and if "the ball can be kept in the air" long enough most prob lems . will solve themselves. Many . serious problems are solved by leaders becoming old er and finally 5 dying. (Today's Bible reading is Psalms, 49th Chapter, which has given me the inspiration to write this column). To apply the above philosophy to the Formosa problem, it may be impossible to get a satisfac tory settlement as long as of them, will . get higher pay. But they were forced to return to work before specific pay in creases were discussed. THE BAD 1. A long dispute between President Juan D. Peron of Ar gentina and the Roman Catholic Church turned into open war fare. Peron expelled from Argen tina two high-ranking Roman Catholic clergymen, charging that they instigated anti-government demonstrations. The Vati can retorted by formally ex communicating Peron and aU others concerned in the arrest and expulsion of the churchmen. A few hours later anti-Peron rebels in the armed forces re volted. Peron announced that the movement had been crushed. But sporadic fighting was believed continuing outside Buenos Aires. Peron for months has accused the Roman Catholic Church of interfering in politics. The dispute may have profound repercussions! Nearly all of Argentina's 18,400,000 people are Catholics. 2. The situation in French North Africa, long torn by dis orders resulting from National ist demands for freedom, became further complicated. A French newspaper publisher, who sup ports Nationalist demands for home rule, was assassinated in Casablanca, the capital of Moroc co. He ws murdered, apparently, not by natives but by fellow Frenchmen representing the cl onists who bitterly oppose na tive self-government. 3. In Singapore and Malaya in Southeast Asia the Communists, who have failed to win victory in the long guerrilla warfare, have turned to infiltration and subversion. Both officials and private citizens in the two Brit ish commonwealth territories ex press fear that the Reds may win control within three to four years unless the government takes firm counter-measures, The Communists are active in the schools, in the press, in the trade unions and in the political parties. Formosa Chiang Kai-shek is in the sad die. If, however, he should be removed by death or become in capacitated (he is about 70, and has had a hard life), I forecast that President Eisenhower could bring about a settlement which would both insure our position and "save face" for the Peking Government. World War III Not Now Feared Although the present Big Four International Conference will probably amount to nothing and the possibility of World War III will be hanging over us for many years, yet the best advices are that World War III is not now to be feared. None of the big nations, including Russia and China, now want World War III; but the threat of using the H bomb will constantly be used to blackmail the Democracies. With the cost of manufacutring H bombs constantly becoming less, every nation will have some, enabling revolutionary forces in these nations to get them. Some crazy dictator may try to con quer the world with them; but if so, he would be quickly sub dued. This would be an oppor tunity for the United Nations to fulfill its real mission. AU the above means that our defense program may gradually be curtailed and this Federal money be used for the building of roads, hospitals, schools, and especially the new industry of Urban Redevelopment. Uranium oxide is being found almost everywhere) and could also help stave off the so-called "inevi table" depression. I still believe in the business cycle; but its duration is now determined by politics. Therefore, let us forget the troubles which we read so much about. Let us concentrate on our own business and make better products for less money and sell them aU over the world. This is the most practical kind of patriotic service .we can render. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the nam and address of tha writer although under certain circum stances tha use ol a pen name or initial for publication is permia ible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all tetters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 wards. Short but Sweet To the Editor: Your editorial June 14 was tops in my estima tion. If more editorials were not so partisan in the nation's papers this U.S.A. would be a better place for all of us. Elwood Hussey, Mayor ave Junction, Ore. The longest and deepest un derwater tunnel in America is the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel in N far York. It is over VA miles long and dips 115 feet below the bottom of the harbor. Today and By Walter II. THE TEN YEARS OF THE U. N. In a preceding article I spoke of the United Nations as being a universal society to which all governments, with no excep tion, wish to belong and none wishes to resign. There is, of course, another con ception of the United Na tions, which is to think of them as a lea gue to enforce Walter Lippmann peace against military aggres sion. This second conceDtion was invoked in the case of the Korean war. It raises really disturbing questions. In this country at least they account for much disappointment and for such popular opposition as there is to the United Nations. The Korean war, which was fought in the name of the United Nations as a world institution to enforce peace, was an unpopular war in this country. For the American people found them selves bearing the brunt of a nasty and bloody war in a dis tant country. It was, moreover, in the conventional sense an in decisive war. In so far as the American people had been taught to believe in "collective security," to believe that all the United Nations would rise in their might and their wrath against aggression, they felt they had been let down and were bit ter. TT may be said, I know, that on a commemorative occasion it would be more tactful to forget all this and to let bygones be bygones. But, in my view, the future of the United Nations will be brighter and healthier if the issues raised by the Korean ex perience are discussed and are not left to fester in the dark Now ' the controlling fact, which is often forgotten but which it is necessary to remem ber, is that the Korean war could never have been fought as a United Nations enterprise but for a mysterious, as yet un explained, accident. This was the absence of the Soviet dele gate to the Security Council when the North Korean army launched its invasion of South Korea. Had Mr. Malik been present, he could and he would have vetoed the decision of the Security Council to act against the North Korean invasion. There is no reason to think that the Soviet Union, or any other permanent member of the Security Council, is likely in other cases to be absent when such a decision is being taken. Nor is any government likely to hesitate to use its veto if the Security Council were about to take military action against one of its dependent states. If the great power possessing the veto has not already restrained the dependent state, it has in fact authorized it to commit the ag gression. It is bound to prevent the United Nations from crush ing its satellite. THE Korean War did demon strate that the United States and some of its allies would under certain conditions go to war against aggression. If we are frank and objective about it, we shall recognize that the North Korean aggression threat ened the vital position of the United States in Japan and that we had the military forces avail able to resist it. . But the Korean war did not demonstrate that the United Nations will or can be an institution for the collective enforcement of peace against military aggression. The notion that the United Nations is such a collective agency is in fact a popular mis conception. The charter does not facilitate, in fact it all but prevents, collective enforce ment of peace. The system of the veto by the great powers, who are permanent members of the Security Council, was at least as much an American as it was a Soviet condition for adherence to the United Nations.- Now the system of the veto means, and was put into the charter in order to mean, that military action can never be taken against any of the great powers, nor against any small power which is under the protection of a great power. The common sense of the veto is that military action by great 231 if LaL i . . -4 I MUTTON ROAST If'LS. Tomorrow Lippmann powers against great powers is nothing less than world war, and it would make no sense to try to establish a universal so ciety which is organized to wage world war. What is left of the idea of the collective enforcement of peace is that if and when the great powers are unanimous, small powers are much less likely to wage war. They are much more likely to yield to the pressure and influence calling upon them to negotiate and to accept media tion. rpHE idea of an international - league to enforce peace be came current during the First World War. In the charter of the United Nations the idea was apparently adopted. But it was in fact rejected. Thus there are sections of the charter which authorize collective action against aggression. But they are really fossils left over from that earlier period, now long since past, when the idea had not been put to the test. For these sec tions cannot be made to operate except when the international conflict is of little importance, and does not involve the serious interests of any of the great powers. In place of the concept of the collective enforcement of peace, we have developed in these ten years an alternative. It is the traditional way of preserving the' peace. We have organized the power to balance the power of the Communist world. This balance of power, now augment ed with nuclear weapons, has made improbable, because the consequences are incalculable and intolerable, wars of aggres sion and crusades of liberation. It is not the United Nations' al leged role as an enforcer of peace, but this balance of the powers with their new revolu tionary weapons, which has brought the world to the point where there is, as the President has said, no alternative to peace. m m m -RELIEVING as I do that the mission of the United Na tions is to be a universal society without sovereignty and with out military power, but with an increasing influence over all sov ereignties and powers I think it is a good thing for the future that the United Nations should cease to be thought of as a league to enforce peace. So far as we are concerned, let us leave the enforcement of peace, the resistance to aggres sion, and the- protection of the weak, to the armed alliance to which we belong. Let us treat the United Na tions as the universal society to which all belong, whether they like each other or not, where each nation can talk with any other nation, where talks are never finally broken off, where the issues, however insoluble, are never pressed so far that they bring the ultimate doom and disaster to mankind. -Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Port of Umatilla May Buy Old McNary Town Umatilla, Ore. -U.R) It is practically certain now that the Port of Umatila will buy the site of the old construction town of McNary city, Port Manager Gor don Rowe said today. Rowe said the district hoped to convert the 344 acre townsite into an industrial area. The site, once used for homes of McNary dam construction workers, still has a complete water system and more than 50 buildings. Rowe , said the fed eral general services adminis tration and the district were in the "final stages of negotiations for outright purchase of the townsite." ' Announcing The Opening of the Offices of DR. FRANK M. WILSON, DENTIST for the practice of General Dentistry ' FLUHRER BLDG. - SUITE 304 Phone 2-2414 Hours: 8:30 to 5 Daily - Sat. 8:30 to 1 2 ' t -. - EAST SIXTH ST. .. I BEEF LIVER BEEF TONGUE Wi. o)(p)' T.nnrlnn. with -i .j...il tn rtvtnrA T saw a North Amer ican animal near Windsor castle which has adopted this country side. Who am I? My kind is diverse I range in size from a mouse to a cat. A remarkable builder, most of us have airy summer homes and secure winter residences. Most spend the greater part of our lives aloft. Our young are born naked' We are found in every land except Australia, although we seldom roam far from home base usually not more than two of us defending our four-acre wood lot zealously. As swimmers go, we are fair I've crossed a 7- mile lake. I'm an inquisitive scamp loudly proclaiming my findings. On the whole I am unsociable, yet I'm beloved by humans. Despite wintry blasts, many of use do not hibernate in our nests but we do hang tight when weather, is bad. Scampering up trees, I gallop; descending, I run head downwards. I land on all fours with tail outspread. My chisel-like incisors never cease growing. In fall, I race dizzyingly, taking nuts and cones to my. middens. : ; The tiny young, perhaps four, are born late in spring or mid summer and are naked, with eyes and ears sealed. The moth rr is affectionate, often strok ing them fondly. When danger threatens, she grasps them with her incisors by the slack of the belly and transports them to safety. i My enemies are foxes, coyotes, raccoons; mink, weasel and bob cats; plus birds such as hawks, owls and gulls; and of course there is man primarily my greatest menace because he de stroys our woodlands by burn ing, cutting and cleaning up, the brush. '. I am; A. Tree bat; B. Squirrel; C. Wood rat; D. Black bear; E. Marten. - -, I am B., Squirrel. - (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate Free: By special arrangement with .the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the, reader who sends me the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume set Of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friend ly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! care of Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalilo, Calif. "OH THE DOT" twice a year generous earn ings are paid to our inves tors. It's an unfailing thrill, this attractive rate of pay for the use of your hard-earned dollars! FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicatee1 To Those Who Save SLICED f,l BACON ill
