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JTOTO MIDTORD (OREGON) "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. t-JO North Fir St. Phone 3-6141 unpniT wr pttwt. Kriitnr RXRB GRY. Advertiainc Manager Z. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor felt ALLEN JR, City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHEH. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor CEKALP LATHAM, circulation mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered a second dan matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 650 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year S3 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 One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medlord Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or CIBCULAl.un 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 A S SO CM T HON 37 NIWIAMt PUSMSHItS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and to years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 21, 1945 Sams Valley Grange urges Rogue Valley farmers close lakes and fields to Izaak Walton league members because the group opposes U.S. Reclamation bureau plans to build dam to provide needed irrigation water. From Arthur' Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Tomorrow Oregonians will struggle to the polls, on the longest day of the year, to vote on a couple of issues, the legislature in the longest session on record (69 days), fearlessly and fearfully passed on to the people for a de cision. All signs indicate more voters will struggle -to the fish ing holes than the polls. 20 YEARS AGO June 21. 1935 Saving of $100,000 to Rogue Valley seen in proposed reduc tion of transcontinental freight rate on pears. About 3P.000 pounds of wool shipped to Boston from Rogue Valley after one of the best quality clips in several years. 30 YEARS AGO June 21, 1925 Economic survey of Rogue Valley pear orchards starts. From Local and Personal col umn: The Ladies' Aid of the First Methodist Episcopal church have presented the church with a fine new bulletin board for the lawn of the beautiful church. It was purchased at De catur, 111., and is the last word in such boards. It is electrically lighted and will make a very attractive way of advertising the church announcements. 40 YEARS AGO June 21. 1915 (It was Monday) Government loses suit in su preme court that Oregon and California railroad violated land grant regulations, and about $150,000 paid in taxes in past two years is due Jackson coun ty. Flyer uninjured when plane crashes before 2,000 people watching air show in Medford What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research Kesori 1. Time for first quartely in come-tax payment this year was extended from Mar. 15 to Apr. 15. Was second payment extend ed from June 15 to July 15? 2. New York state has more phones than any foreign nation; right or wrong? 3. The college football team called the Rams is Texas Georgia Tech., Minnesota, Fordham, or Purdue? 4. Waterloo, scene of Napol eon's final defeat, is in Belguim, France, Germany, Luxembourg or The Netherlands? 5. More than twice as many theaters now operate in New York as 25 years ago, about as many, or less than half as many? 6. Hodgkins Disease affects the eyes, heart, appendix, lymph glands and spleen, inner ear, or bone joints? 7. First man to set foot on the. South Pole was Adm. Byrd, Adm. Peary, Dr. Cook, Roald Amundsen, or Capt. R. F. Scott? The answers: 1. No. 2. Right. 3. Fordham. 4. Belgium. 5. Less than half as many. 6. Lymph glands and spleen. 7. Amundsen. MAIL TRIBUNE The Peters Case Again The Bend Bulletin in its comment on the Dr. Peters case, notes that, Oregon newspapers tended to overlook this important decision but concentrated upon the decision of the Supreme Court regarding state water control in the Pelton dam case. The Peters decision was important. But no one would think so after reading the Bulletin's editorial. For the fact that Dr. Peters was exonerated on the charge of disloyalty, his right to reinstatement in the government service upheld, and the blot on his record officially removed, was not even mentioned. In fact, according to the Bend paper, the only important decision of our highest tribunal in this case apparently was, quote: I. The government retains the right to fire any person It considers unsuitable for continued employment on se curity grounds. II. Accused need not be confronted by their accusers. This is a strange position to take. For the court refused to rule on the constitutional issue 01 "due process" regarding loyalty dismissals, and until it does the exact limits of such action can't be known to the Bulletin or anyone else. Moreover Chief Justice Warren did strongly im ply in his decision that the rights of the accused in such cases have been disregarded in the past, while Justice Frankfurter in a previous opinion said: "The problems of security are real. So are the problems of freedom. The paramount issue of the age is to reconcile the two. It is procedure that spells much of the differ ence between rule by law, and rule by whim or caprice." MOT only were the important facts in the case dis regarded by the Bulletin, but so were the facts of the Peters record dating back to January 7th, 1949. Dr. Peters was then tried before the Loyalty Board and was given complete clearance. In 1951 the same charges again were filed and the board again cleared him. Here were two verdicts of not guilty, in two years, in the same case.In the spring of 1953, four years later, however, the Review Board of the Civil Service commission reopened the case, and maintained the evidence then sustained "a reasonable doubt" of the defendant's "loyalty," so he was dismissed from gov ernment service forthwith. It was this decision that was appealed to the Supreme Court, and . which the court overruled, not on constitutional grounds, but because the Review Board had, it said, exceeded its authority. J-- rR. PETERS' lawyers did not maintain their client enjoyed any special privileges or vested interest in his government job, or that the government had not the power to hire and fire much as it pleases. But they did insist that when a person's loyalty is questioned his entire career is jeopardized, and his dismissal involves such severe punishment, that un der the "due process" clause of the constitution he is entitled to certain legal safeguards, which in this case were not granted. AS before stated we think it unfortunate the Su preme Court did not rule on this important point, but overthrew the decision of guilt purely on a tech nical error. However reviewing the entire case, taking into consideration not only the majority but the minority court opinions, and it seems highly improbable that the Supreme Court will fail in the near future to hold that when an individual or any individual is accused of being disloyal to his country and there fore deprived of his job, he is entitled, if he so desires, to face his accusers, and have the evidence against him placed in the record. The fine legal points and red-tape aside, this would seem to be only giving the accused, in view of the gravity of the charge, a fair arid square deal. R.W.R. Another Hogan? The defeat of Ben Hogan by an unknown and unheralded "municipal golfer" from the great and corny state of Iowa, has caused a great sensation in the sporting world, and will probably go down in the record books as the "big upset" of the year. It may be that. But it should not have been un expected by those who noted this chap Jack Fleck when he pulled off two "birdies" on the last two holes the day before, when he had to do that or better to stay in the running. And if further proof were needed his 69 on that Olympic course under pressure the next day should supply it. Any golfer who under such circumstances, can make such a sensational finish, can, do anything or almost anything, in that diverting but frustrating game. OOWEVER does that mean necessarily Fleck, now in his 30's and a pater-familias, will proye to be another Hogan? He may, but not "NECESSARILY." For we remember many years ago at Pebble Beach, for example, when the then unbeatable Bobby Jones was in his prime ran up against a then "un heralded and unknown." This boy was also from the corn and Bible belt, his name being Johnny Good man. But Johnny failed to win that tournament, and didn't win very many more important ones, although he was in the upper brackets'f or a few years. There are few Benny Hogans hanging around the game of golf or any other sport these days or any other day. We are sorry "Bantam Ben" decided to quit so soon after his Waterloo. For we believe he could have still staged a come back in competition and might well have topped his record with 5 open titles, as he hoped to do, instead of only four. R.W.R. Tuesday, June 21, 195S Matter of INVESTIGATING INVESTIGATORS Washington The cloud is still no bigger than a man's hand; but maybe Herbert Brow nell, Scott McCleod, Lewis L. Strauss and a few other people had better start thinking about what happened to the prophets of Baal when Elijah's little cloud grew to be a big one. The cloud in question is the unaminous report by the Senate Committee on Government Op erations of a resolution calling for the appointment of a high level commisison to review the entire federal security program. Senate Majority Leader Lyn don Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn mean to pass the resolution through their respec tive bodies. Rayburn and John son have a highly developed knack of getting what they want. Hence the resolution has an ex cellent chance of becoming law before the end of the session. m MEANWHILE, the circum stances in which this resolu tion to investigate the investi gators was reported to the Sen ate are highly significant in themselves. In the novel style of the Lyndon Johnson democracy, it was co-sponsored by a Left Right team, Senators Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and John Stennis of Mississippi. It was then studied at pro longed hearings, in the course of which Attornty General Brownell exhibited a marked lack of enthusiasm for the pro posed inquiry into his own se curity practices. The Republican members of the sub-committee studying the resolution, Sena tors Norris Cotton of New Hamp shire, Thomas E. Martin of Iowa and Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, were at first inclined to be suspicious of a measure that looked partisan. But in the end they enthusiastically joined in presenting the resolution to the full Committee on Govern ment Operations. The two senior Republican members of the Government Op erations Committee are Sena tors Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin and Karl - Mundt of South Dakota. No one can sus pect either Mundt or McCarthy of any desire for reform in Fed eral security procedures. What they want, if anything, is a further debasement Yet even McCarthy and Mundt did not record their hostility when the full committee report ed the resolution to the Senate. THE SIGNS are clear, then, that there are increasing doubts about the federal security program. The doubts are no long er confined to Leftwingers, in tellectuals and obstinately old fashioned persons who cannot quite approve the back-door abrogation of the Bill of Rights. Grave concern is also beginning to be felt by such good, horny handed, orthodox, corn state Re publicans as Senator Martin. This shift of opinion was bound to come, sooner or later. Essentially, the existing security program embodies a national re action to the case of Alger Hiss. It was a proper and natural re action. But the result of the re action, the security program it self, is neither proper nor natural. It effectively deprives millions of American citizens of the ancient protections of our Con stitution. It has worked horrify ing injustices. It has bred among us such novel phenomena as hired informers, officially en couraged poison-pen-letter writ ers and federal f latfeet who ask people whether their neighbors' garbage includes an excessive allowance of bottles. As present ly constituted and administered, in fact, the federal security pro gram must keep the founders of this Republic turning in their graves like so many teetotums. The Oppenheimer case, the John Davies case and a few other episodes have already dis turbed a great many people. But one can predict with confidence that this security program will eventually produce a sort of Hiss-case-in-reverse a demon stration -of injustices and mal practice so final and so dramatic that it will convusle the entire country with strong indignation and generate an irresistible de mand for reform. Any one familiar with the program can already detect the stench of such cases coming up, so to speak, through the floor boards. IlfHETHER the high level com mission proposed by the Humphrey - Stennis resolution will really do the job, may per haps be open to question. It is to be composed of three groups of four members, chosen by the President, the Vice-President and the Speaker. The Congres sional appointees should be well balanced, but Attorney General BrowneU, who wants no serious injuiry, has a chance to pack the Commission through the presidential appointees. He will make the same mis take if he does so, however, as President Truman made when he called the Hiss case a red her ring. Already, the peculiarities of the security program are be ing somewhat fumblingly in vestigated by the Post Office and Civil Service Committee of the Senate; and a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Commit Fact y iPh mp tee headed by Sen. Thomas Hen- nings of Missiouri is also start ing a more promising investiga tion. Sooner or later, the break will come and the storm of in dignation will follow, unless the administration is wise enough to forestall trouble by preparing for careful reform. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis rible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eve to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Thinks City is High-Handed To the Editor: As a property owner in the district proposed for annexation, I am very much concerned with the manner in which the city of Medford pro poses to "railroad" this plan through. Question 1: How can it be possible for renters and non property holders to vote on an issue of this kind? You know and I know how they would vote. These people would natur ally reason thus: "Why shouldn't I vote for improvements that will cost me nothing? Also, here is a good chance to wield the whip over my landlord, who has charged me too much rent for years." Question 2: If the residents of the present city of Medford are charged a flat rate for water, why shouldn't residents of the annexed portion be accorded the same privilege? Many people outside of the present city (including myself) purposely bought in a rural area to get away from high city tax es. If this plan is voted in, a good many of us are going to be forced to sell, because we won't be able to pay the cost of sewers, paved streets, street lighting, police protection, ad infintum, plus an additional 22.8 mills assessment. I think this is one of the most "high-handed" plans for collect ing revenue for the city of Med ford that I've ever heard of. Let's find out ALL of the ram ifications of this plan before we go to the polls, and, before we vote think! .'; Frank Gaster, - 307 Jeanette ave., ' Medford, Ore. City Misleading? To the Editor: Mr. Mayor, a question the voters of Medford are entitled to have you answer. On Friday night June 17th at a meeting held at the Jackson Co. Courthouse auditorium for the purpose of explaining plans and problems involved in the "South Medford" annexation proposal, you were asked: "Is it true that residents of Medford will vote on an increase over the 6 per cent limitation for the budget at the same time res idents outside the city vote on annexation." Your PUBLISHED reply in the Mail Tribune Sunday, June 19th to quote the entire item: "Yes. But Mayor Miller point ed out that the city election on financial questions has no direct connection with annexation." Your reply at the meeting before a large audience was to this effect: In a way, yes. The City's financial abilities are very good and that it did not need any outside financial taxing aid. That the City was the best man aged and had the lowest tax rate compared with any of the cities of Oregon. That some $60,000 increase over the 6 per cent limitation, MOSTLY, was being appropriated on account of the annexation problem. You forgot to mention that an other item on the City's election concerned a 3 mill continued in crease through a projected char ter amendment. This 3 mill change, if voted in DOES con cern the voters involved in the annexation. Mayor Miller was it you or the Mail-Tribune who is mis leading the people? J. W. Stewart, 2715 Pacific Highway So. (Editor's note: The answer re ported in Sunday's story was an accurate condensation of Mayor Miller's reply to the question. The mayor said Medford's tax rate is one of the lowest, if not the lowest of any Oregon city of comparable size, and that the city could operate on revenue from within the present limits. He pointed out that annexation is up to the people within the district, and that the city would have to underwrite costs of an nexation for. the first few years. The city election to approve Gospel Services (Undenominational) In Tent on Ross Lane North of McAndrews Sun.-Mon.-Tuer, 7:45 P.M. "Gospel as it was in the beginning." NO COLLECTION !ln TKe Day's By FRANK JENKINS Leaving Portland on an offi cial inspection tour that will cov er state highways and state parks on the lower end of Highway 30, which follows the Columbia riv er from Portland to Seaside, Highway 101, which follows the Oregon coast from Seaside to the California border, the Oregon part of the Redwood highway from Crescent City to Grants Pass, and Highway 99 from Grants Pass north. TI'S QUITE a party. It includes all three mem bers o f the Oregon highway com mission Ben Chandler of Coos Bay, Charles Reynolds of La Grande and Milo Mclver of Port land along with Sam Baldock, state highway engineer, C. H. Armstrong, state parks superin tendent, and a full staff of engi neers. There are six members of the legislative highway interim com mittee Senator McMinimee of Tillamook, Senator Bingner of La Grande, Representative Elis trom of Salem. Representative Littrell of Medford, Senator Leth of Monmouth and Representative Meek of Portland. It includes three members of the newly created state parks advisory committee, three engi neers of the U.S. bureau of dud- lic roads and one angineer from the Portland office of the forest service. It is accompanied by three newspaoer reoorters and the manager of the Oregon Coast mgnway association. WHEN noses are counted, it de velops that there are 30 of us. We are to travel in a char tered highway bus. The bus will oe accompanied by a state high way department car, which wiU act as light scouting equipment, permitting engineers and com missioners to linger at construc tion jobs reauirine their soecial attention, enabling them to spend what time is needed at these points and then catch up with the main body later. rTHE BUS is a new departure. Hitherto these inspection trips have been made in passen ger cars. The bus turns out to be a splendid idea. It has loud-speak ing equipment, which is used to explain to all present the details of all the various activities that are under inspection, This saves a great deal of time in the dissemination of informa tion about the various projects that are being studied. exceeding the 6 per cent limita tion has no direct connection with annexation. Of $66,510 in excess of the limitation, $2,000 is only indirectly connected with annexation. That amount is pro vided in the engineering depart met budget to provide for in creased personnel necessary for additional work loads for sewer and street improvements re quested by residents. The three mill figure is not a "continued increase." The levy, under the charter, cannot exceed 12 mills, but if the $66,510 addition to the levy is approved, the amend ment will be necessary to raise the limitation to 15 mills. Stew art, who was representing the Charlotte Ann Water district at Friday's meeting, lives outside the area proposed for annexation.) 4 a H EAR I N G fUWOM SERVICE fmuMAmxi Complete Service on Dear Friend: May we take this means of wishing you the very best for the summer season and to invite you to attend our HEARING SERVICE CENTER. THURSDAY, JUNE 23rd Medford, Hotel Mr. Ellsworth Breen, Factory-trained representative, Engineer and Technician, will be at the hotel this ONE DAY ONLY for the purpose oft 1. Cleaning and adjusting your Hearing Aid for better performance Any Make or Model. 2. Discussing your hearing problem with you if you wish. ' 3. Furnishing you with a FREE CORD for your instrument (one only to a customer.) There will be absolutely NO CHARGE it is all freel REMEMBER Free Cord Free cleaning and adjustment. Free counsel en your hearing problem by an expert. Our purpose is not to press the sale of new Hearing Aids but to be come better acquainted with you people who have a hearing problem of any kind. . Come in bring a friend ... we will be glad to see you. 12 Noon -8 PM... June 23rd v MEDFORD HOTEL Medford, Ore. Clip and Present This Public Letter to Mr. Breen for Your Free Cord and Services News THE DAY'S schedule goes about like tis: Up at 6:30. Breakfast at 7. On the road at 8. The time from 8 until noon is filled with inspec tion of highway work and state park installations, present and contemplated. Each day at noon, there is an official luncheon at some town or city. These luncheons have all been planned ahead of time to the last detail. First comes the matter of food, which is excel lent each community vying with its neighbors in serving the specialties of its area. After that comes a brief speak ing session, in which representa tives of the community present the hopes and the aspirations of their area in the way of highway and park development and the representatives of the state gov ernment discuss plans and possi bilities within, the limits of the money available. THEN on the road again. The afternoon is a replica of the morning inspections and dis cussions until 5or 6. Then an of ficial dinner at whatever city the stop for the night has been ar ranged. The program at the din ner duplicates the program at noon. The dinner breaks up about 10. That is the routine of each day. ORETTY soft, you say tour- ing around at the taxpayers' expense, seeing all the beauty spots of the state and having a lovely vacation. I know it sounds that way. But wait a minute. The Oregon state highway de partment spends about 50 million dollars a year. It has from 2,500 to 3,000 employees. These em ployees are scattered around on jobs aU over the state. It is an ac cepted principle of business that foremen, superintendents and managers must get around all over the place at frequent inter vals to see how the work is pro gressing. That is what manage ment is for. If management SKIPS this important part of its job, progress suffers and the job costs a WHALE of a lot more than it should. When you're spending 50 mil lion dollars a year, a VERY SLIGHT increase in cost can run into a lot of money. So, you see, the taxpayer ISN'T being nicked, instead his money is being saved by careful administration of the spending of it. Hence this particular inspec tion tour of which I shaU have more to say later in this space. Prisoners Escape From Alturas Jail Klamath Falls U.R) Two prisoners escaped from the Mo doc county jail at Alturas yes terday and one was stiU at large today. Sheriff E. K. Sever said the men were working on a hospital project in Alturas when they made their escape. One of the pair, Nathaniel Harden, 35, held on a reckless driving count, was recaptured last night. The other, Adelie Webb, 30, accused of assault and battery, was believed hiding in the Canby, Calif., area. Sheriff Sever said. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday; 1 a. m. Monday for Monday: other days 530 previous day m MoiAJWHtiUjoBB r all instruments regardless of make or models Employment Rules For Packers Change Effective Aug. 13. Salem (U.R) Fruit and vege table packers have been notified by the State Wage and Hour Commission that changes in the minimum, standards on employ ment of women and minors in their firms will go into effect Aug. 13. . The commission has rescinded the 1942 order governing the employment of women and minors in packing firms and has brought the firms under regula tions of a 1952 order which gov erns employment in canning, de hydrating and barrelling plants. 66-Cent Minimum The order sets a minimum hourly rate of 66 cents. It pro vides that women be paid time and a half after 10 hours and double time after 12 hours each day. Women working with per ishable products are permitted to work overtime under Ore gon's wage and hour law. Minor employees will be limited to a 10-hour day maximum. Other requirements which will newly affect women and minors working in the narkintr plants include a 10-minute rest period after three consecutive work hours and a sliding scale -of women's overtime pay for hours worked on the seventh consecutive day. The wage and hour commis sion is made up of Mrs. Frederic W. Young and Mrs. Mary L. jacKson oi Portland, and Henry S. Howard of Eugene, with Nor man O. Nilsen, state labor com missioner, serving as executive secretary. McKenzie Pass Opening Scheduled Thursday Salem U.R) The McKenzie pass, closed through the winter months because of snow, will be open Thursday at 8 a.m.t W. W. Stiffler, assistant state highway engineer, said today. The department's plows have been working from either side toward the summit since June 1, and wiU complete the 24-mile job in time for the Thursday morning opening, Stiffler said. MR. 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