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TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDramU!TRiBUNE "Iverybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday' by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-S141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act 01 March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3-o0 Sunday Only One year 350 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacxsonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: .,. Daily and Sunday One year $13.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash In Advance 6fflelal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF ClHUUmiiU" WEST-HOUJDAY COMPANY INC. Office in New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver- B.C. - NATIONAL EDITOBIAI ac5tn p lit" NIWfPAPIR tUeUISHIRS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jacksdn County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 28. 1945. (It was Thursday) Final arrangements completed for fourth annual Posse Rodeo and Horse show at fairgrounds Saturday and Sunday. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Local poul terers claim the program of the National Poultry association to produce a' double-breasted chick' en, and more meat will be a bust. 20 YEARS AGO June 28. 1935 ... (It was Friday) Rogue River Traffic associa tion estimates pear crop to be 5 per cent below last year's and the apple crop to show a 20 per cent increase. Jackson county farmers re sort lackrabbits invading and damaging wheat fields. 30 YEARS AGO June 28. 1925 (It was Sunday) More than 3,600 out-of-state cars registered at Ashland Tour ist station, thus far this season marking great increase in tour ist travel. Santa Barbara razed by earth quake leaving several dead and injured, millions of dollars of damage. 40 YEARS AGO June 28. 1915 (It was Monday) Medford police chief and ser geant, in disagreement about nine months, bring squabble to head in wordy class in front of Commercial club; both retained on condition argument stops. From Local and Personal col umn: William Aitken has the contract for the installation of a water supply system at Crater Lake, and will begin work upon the same July 10. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Reseat 1. One out of about every 1, 000, 3,000, 5,000 or 7,000 Ameri cans is a drug addict? 2. The U.S. has a larger per centage of industrial workers in unions than which one of these countries: France, Great Brit ain, Italy, Sweden? 3. The first televised prize fight was Louis vs. Schmeling, Baer vs. Nova, Charles vs. Wal- cott, Louis vs. Conn, or Marciano vs. Walcott? 4. Half, more than half, or less than half of all domestic servants in the U. S. are Ne groes? 5. The National Farm Bureau Federation has many more mem bers than the Farmers Union, or the Farmers Union has many more, or it is about 50-50? 6. In what country is the low er house of the national legis lature called the Dail? 7. Fannie M. Farmer is most famous as the author of what book? ' The answers: 1. One in every 3,000, says U.S. narcotics com missioner Anslinger. 2. .Larger than France. 3. Baer vs. Nova (1939). 4. More than half. 5. Farm Bureau Federation has a great many more. 6. Eire (Ire land). 7. Boston school cook book. COCOA CONSUMPTION The U. S. consumes about 40 per cent of the supply of coca. 3 MAIL TRIBUNE How Thp Rpnnhlirans in favnr of "nartnershit) DOWer" had a fine spree at the dedication of the Lookout Point dam qgp the Willamette about miles soutneast 01 Eugenelast Saturday. Governor Patterson was the master of cere monies while Congressman Ellsworth was the chief speaker. Congressman Norblad of Astoria was also there to add physical pulchritude if not eloquence, while George H. Roderick, assistant secretary of the armv. erave his official benediction on benaii 01 tne Eisenhower 'administration. The Portland Oreonian contributed several col umns of course with a fine -m . hearty approbation to the THERE were only one of iiiGiilfe JLUb luuauijf tin vug vlivhw Vv. 7 one reason being there were not many present. Prep arations had been made for an audience of 10,000, armyf)lanes were instructed to fly over the assem blage to add a military note and color; the Army en gineers were represented in gold braid and polished brass, but the rank and file for some strange reason, did not attend. At least not many of them. Had they that is the consumer groups someone might have inquired what the electric power gener ated would probably cost via the "partnership plan." They .would have found no speculation regarding this in any of the speeches, yet to the rank-and-file cheap power in the Willamette Valley and throughout the state, is a very important factor in all such develop ments. ; Why no mention made THERE was another somewhat surprising feature. X Tn Viio nnnciiollw -inrrnrniia snpprh P.nriOTPSKrnan All lllO lAA-lUOWICtlXJ Awwv.w J-. w " v Q Ellsworth scathingly condemned public power advo cates alone- with those who ODDOse the "partnership plan," on the ground that the latter chiefly benefits the private power companies and makes Uncle Sam hold the sack. Our militant congressman scored this sort of talk as "dishonest, political clap-trap." , ;Mpreoyer he predicted somewnat tesuiy mere would be no more public power projects in Oregon hppansp. Coneress would simnlv not vote the money unless and until the localities affected put up a con siderable part of it i.e. adopted the partnership plan. -VA'.t' 1 T 1 ll. J - A it they did so however men quote : : : : "Experience has proven that Congress is both prompt and generous in making appropriations where local , money , is involved." - This isn't twisting anyone's arm exactly, but some cynical sceptics might so interpret it. . . B UT if the above is true, exnlain the fact that development proposal recently supported by the pres ent administration, and passed by the Senate, involv ing nearly 2 BILLION dollars of the tax payers money, passed in the upper house amid the cheers of the GOP leaders and vet there wasn't a Denny of local money to be contributed never will be. Partnership HOW COMUJY 1 Tf the nresent administration favors a 2 billion dollar federal power and . - . - a -a rado without local aid, why 20 7o of that sum in Hells local aid? Such a thesis, in view UP- ...... And to bring it all home, on a smaller scale, now can Congressman Ellsworth be so confident the Tal ent project will be completed at a cost of several more millions when there is no partnership plan there? Nor have we heard of any local contributions being re quested. Qan it be there is one rule for states like Colo rado, another for Oregon and still another for Talent? ' As far as press reports go none of this was ex plained, at the Saturday celebration. But there is no doubt a nice time was had by all, in spite of the empty seats and the lack of applause on the part of the few consumers present. R.W.R. East Is "Oh East is East and West is West and Never the Twain shall meet : TiU earth and sky stand presently at God's great judgment seat." The above Kipling dictum has come in for con siderable scepticism and even ridicule during recent years, as better relations have come to pass particu larly between England and India. But we have come to the conclusion that there is considerable justification for the doubt, more probably as far as India and the United States are con cerned, than India and Britain. THE recent trip of Nehru to Moscow, for example, and his remarks since then, have aroused strong anti-Indian feeling in the United States and revived the belief that India is going communist soon, if it has not already done so. The mildest term for Nehru heard recently has been "fellow-traveller." And yet the Indian leader is nothing of the sort. He has be.en as strong a foe of communist vio lence within lndia as any national leader, has jailed thousands of Reds, and will jail more whenever the totalitarian enemy strikes. But he is first, last and all the time for PEACE. He is, in the cold war. a neutralist, condemning neither Soviet Russia nor the USA, except as he sees or tninKs he sees, provocations m the policy of either toward another world conflict. TN SHORT like Ghandi, Nehru is a confirmed & x conscientious pacifist. He Tuesday, June 28, I9S5 Come? . picture lay-out to give its 1 J accompnsnmeni. two little flies in the oint- of it? . . how would Mr. Ellsworth the UDDer Colorado River and everyone knows there wasn't even mentioned. irrigation project in Colo- 1 i J! " should it oppose spending (Janyon, because mere is no of the facts, hardly stands .. . , East has an army, he has trou- Situation on Cyprus Becoming Dangerous; Terrorism Reported By CHARLES M. MeCANN U. P. Staff Correspondent The situation on the Eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus is getting dangerous. The island is a British posses sion. Greece wants it. Turkey says "no" to that. Greece- has been demanding Cypress ever since the end of World War II, on the ground that it once was Greek and that most of its people are of Greek back ground. But Cyprus has not been Greek since pre-Christian days. It is only 40 miles from Turkey and 470 miles from the Greek main land. Britain acquired it from Tur key in 1878. Turkey, had pos sessed it previously since 1571. Before that, for centuries it had undergone various kinds of rule. Turkey, incidentally, tdbk the island from the Venetian Repub lic. - . About four -fifths' of the island's 500,000 people are of Greek background. Most of the rest -are Turks-. Turkey holds that, historically and geograph ically, it has the right to Cyprus if Britain ever gets out. A campaign of open terrorism against British rule has now broken but in Cyprus. Blames Radio - Britain asserted in a formal note to Greece yesterday that the official Athens Radio is broad casting propaganda which is in citing revolt. The three-cornered dispute over Cyprus involves three coun tries, all friends of the United States, which think alike about cold war problems. They are sillies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Cyprus is being made a major NATO mil- Matter of Fact by IN THE MOSCOW SKIES Moscow On Tuesday of last week there was an impressive display here of Soviet techno- logical a c h i evement. On the morn ing before the afternoon re ception for In dian . Prime Minister Neh ru in the Mos cow stadium, between 150 and 200 of the Stewart Alsop newest type Soviet jet aircraft were flown over Moscow. The flights were largely con centrated in the area between Tushanoe airport and the Krem lin. They took place for the most part shortly before noon. There is no available breakdown here of the number and type of planes flown. But there were numerous large new turbo-prop bombers of the type believed in the West to be adanted for air refuelling purposes. There were particularly large flights of the two-engined medium bomber known in the West as the Badg er. And there were large flights oi iignter aircraft, including the advanced type knowa in the West as the Farmer. THE very large four-eneine bomber known in the West as the Bison was not observed on Tuesday. But flights of a doz en or so of this aircraft, perhaps xne most impressive Soviet achievement in the field of air power, have been observed on more than one occasion since the now famous May overflights. In deed, the Tuesday overflights were exceptional only that more planes were flown than usual. Flights of the new Soviet jet planes, usually at around 11 o'clock in the morning or around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, have become almost routine in recent weeks. These flights are presumably in preparation for the display of Soviet airpower scheduled for Red Air Force Day. The date for Red Air Force Day has not been set, but it is expected to take place on a Sunday early in July. No new types have been flown since the May overflights. But it would obviously not be sur prising if new Soviet aircraft models of advanced design were bles with Pakistan which! have threatened war, but unless he is attacked, and must strike back in self de fense, it is about as certain as anything in this trou bled and uncertain world can be, that he will never engage in war. THIS attitude is hard to understand in this country, and we doubt if there are more than two or three higher-ups in our present government who do under stand it. : Yet it can be understood if the doctrine of non resistance and peace-at-any-price, as practiced in India in recent years; can be understood. The trouble is it takes considerable hard work, time, study and patience to understand it. Few citizens of the western world have any surplus in any of these departments at the present moment, particularly as far as distant India and the strange mystical East Indians are concerned. R. W.R. itary base. The present dispute can be helpful only to the Communists. A strange angle of the situa tion is that the Communists rule most Cyprus towns and that they are most active in inciting ter rorism in support of Greek rule. But Communism is outlawed in bitterly anti-Red Greece. If the Communists went there they would face a firing squad. Greece has tried unsuccess fully to get the United Nations to intervene in the dispute. Now Britain may take it be fore NATO, on the ground that one member of the alliance is working against another. Many Incidents There were anti-British inci dents on Cyprus before World War II. Since the war, such inci dents have been multiplied. What appears to be an organ ized campaign of terrorism by the Cyprus "E.O.K.A.' 'organiza tion the organization of Cypri ot fighters broke out one week ago today. British buildings and homes have been bombed. Police sta tions have been attacked. Tele phone lines have been cut. Britain's note to the Greek government complained especial ly that the Athens Radio broad cast last Tuesday, the day the campaign started, an E.O.K.A. manifest calling on the people to "rise" and "liberate'" the is land, i . At present a British destroyer is anchored off the port of Kyre- nia, with its guns trained to command the home of Gen. Sir Charles Keightley, commander in chief of British Middle East ern land forces. A small attack Was made on the home last week and a bigger one is feared. Stewart Alsop displayed on Red Air Force Day, It is possible, for example, that the delta-wing aircraft of radi cal design and revolutionary performance, about which there have been rumors in the for eign press, might be flown. But this is, of course, the sheerest speculation. So, of course, is any attempt to interpret the reasons for the overflights. But what is some times overlooked in Washington is that these flights are witness ed not only by a. comparative handful of foreigners but by mil lions of Soviet citizens in this metropolis. By a brilliant and concentrat ed propaganda campaign, the Soviet people have become pro foundly convinced that the peace will never be broken by the So viet government but only by foreign aggressors. The over flights provide one way of fur ther concincing the Soviet peo ple that the government has the means to prevent this from hap pening. THE Soviet government must also of course be entirely aware that foreign observers wit ness the overflights. To put the matter colloquially, the over flights provide a way of saying, "Look, if you wan't to get tough, we can get tough too." At any rate, the planes now being flown by the Red Air Force unquestionably represent a genuine triumph of Soviet technology. It is impossible even to speculate intelligently on the economic cost of this achieve ment. But the resources of this im mense country are very great, and can be concentrated to achieve a single and in a way most difficult to repeat in the United States. As soon as the So viet Union broke the American atomic monopoly, it should have been obvious that they would concentrate their resources to achieve an efficient means of delivery. And their technologic al triumph in the nuclear field should have foreshadowed a sim ilar triumph in the field of air power. , . At the very least, the over flights here should provide a brake on Western smugness, and especially on the particular brand of smugness enjoyed in Washington. The United States has a national habit of judging In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As these words ,re written (on Saturday) a strange dis closure has just been made. On Wednesday, a lightly armed American navy plane fly ing over international waters between Alaska and Siberia was attacked by a Russian warplane some of the tightly censored reports say it was attacked by two Russian planes. The attack caught our plane in such a position that it could neither shoot back nor evade the attackers. Seven members of its crew of 11 were wounded, but the pilot managed to make a crash landing on an American held island in the Bering sea. LET'S recall the circumstances under which this attack was made. For months the Russians have been making peaceful coexist ence gestures. They finally agreed to a decent treaty with Austria. They agreed to a meet ing of heads of state of Russia, the United States, Britain and France to be held next month in Geneva. The No. 1 purpose of this meeting at the highest level is obviously to see if present world tensions can be relaxed and the possibilities of war re duced.. ' . United Nations is holding its tenth anniversary session in San Francisco, where it was born, and relaxation of world ten sions has been the theme of this session. Molotov made a stub born speech there the other day, but he made it in a manner that for him was mild and concilia tory. .. THEN ; -''" " . Bang! Comes another unprovoked at tack by Russian warplanes on an American warplane. ABOUT the only conclusion "one can draw from it is that that the Russians are an unpre dictable lot. What shall we do about it? I don't know. I doubt if any one knows. But there's one thing I'm pretty sure of. We mustn't let ourselves fall into the de lusion that we can get together with the Russians and settle everything on a friendly basis. Suppose we did get together and agree to settle everythmg on a friendly basis. How long would such an agreement last? TE must talk and talk and " talk with the Russians whenever and wherever they are willing to talk. We must dicker and dicker and dicker With them whenever and wherever, they are willing to dicker. Talking and dickering are cheaper than shootmg. But always we must keep our fingers crossed. And always we must keep our guns loose in their holsters. . , fPHE news on our domestic front is more cheerful. Wholesale food prices as meas ured by Dun & Bradstreet are easing downward. At $6.49, the Dun & Bradstreet wholesale price index compared with $5.51 the week before and $7.28 in the same week of 1954 This wholesale index repre sents the total cost at wholesale of one pound each of 31 basic food items. THE federal government re ported a few days ago that living costs remained unchanged in May as compared with 'April. (The government cost of living index is based upon a set of items considered typical' in an average family budget.) At the same time, Labor Sec retary MitcheU said in announc ing the cost of living figures, worker take-home pay rose sharply to a new record high. This, he said, adds up to over all national, stability. . - rr certainly does if we can KEEP IT THAT WAY. It living costs can be held even at the. worst and kept going down at the best, our fu ture will be rosy. As long as that lasts, we can. earn more dollars and GET MORE FOR EACH DOLLAR. It's when prices begin , to rise faster than incomes that trouble starts. That's called INFLATION. national power in terms of the number of automobiles per thousand, or even in terms of the elegance of the plumbing. There is no doubt that there are more cars in the United States than here and that the plumbing, is superior. But a better index of true national power is to be found in the remarkable air craft which now regularly ap pear in the Moscow skies. (Copyright. 19$$, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) KLAMATH MAN KILLED - Klamath Falls (U.R) A. L. Guidi, 47-year-old Southern Pa cific employee was run over and killed by a switch engine at the Klamath Falls roundhouse yesterday. ; The DANMORE HOTEL Portland Is proud to announce the return of MR. GEORGE SAITES at the Manager Justice Douglas Must Make Play Nomination By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) The way the political chips are fall ing, it would have to be in 1960 that Supreme Court Justice Wil liam O. Douglas would make his play for the Democratic presi dential nomination. The idea that Douglas has his eye on the White House persists in Washington. The justice does nothing to 'counteract it, either. On the contrary, Douglas refus es to abide in the ivory tower reserved for members of the high court. He sounds off on political questions from time to time and, unlike his colleague, Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter, Doug las performs in public. The pow-er-being-the-throne role so often attributed to Frankfurter appar ently has no appeal for Douglas. Douglas latest was a state ment in Tokyo" that Red China should have diplomatic recogni tion and that Nationalist China should be booted off the United Nations Security Council to make, way for some other Asia tic nation. . , . ... . ; That startling proposal is sub stantially a replay of what Doug las has said before, the first tune in 1951 when he so shocked some members of Congress that there were murmurs in the House that the justice should be impeached. Threats No Surprise Threats of impeachment don t surprise Douglas much, either. A House Judiciary subcommittee actually was named in 1953 to stiidy an impeachment resolu tion drawn against Douglas after he had granted a last minute stay to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the Communist atom spies. Douglas is far nd away Washington's least conformist big time official. He recenUy was divorced to marry a second beau tiful woman. In his 16 years on the bench, Douglas has made speeches as the spirit moved him before groups and on subjects usually considered out of bounds for a member of the Supreme Court. His audiences have ranged from CIO national conventions to the student body of Iran's Un iversity of Teheran. ; Moreover, Douglas climbs mountains, crosses deserts, visits other far places and writes books. His books are not on the points of law but upon the social and political aspects of the areas and peoples he visits. FDR named Douglas to the high court in 1939 and the for mer president would be pleased with his man's record. He is a New Dealer with a solid reputa tion among leaders of organized labor and left-of-center elements which made the New Deal tick. He would be hard for the con servative. South to swallow as a presidential nominee, but, then, so was Adlai Stevenson. Might Have Been President , Douglas might have been pres ident long since, but for a fast thinking Missourian. To the 1944 Democratic national convention FDR wrote a famous letter de signed to help prevent renomin ation of Henry A. Wallace as vice-president. The letter was ad dressed and delivered to Demo cratic national committee Chair man Robert E. Hannegan, of St. Louis. It named two individuals FDR would consider satisfactory as running mates. Hannegan passed the word that the President wanted Harry S. Truman if he could be nomin ated. If not, FDR would take Douglas. When the letter finally was published Douglas appeared to have been the actual first choice. He was named first and Mr. Truman second on FDR's brief list. Douglas' physical and mental exertions keep him before' the public in prose and pictures. He's a tall, rangy type given to medium-size Western hats, his face criss-crossed with wrinkly lines. Born in MaineMn 1898,. Douglas grew up in the state of Washington. . Western informal ity still marks him. He answers up easily to his nickname Bill. It comes as a shock to old We started for ear building job with a portable taw, tender, end a bos of hand toots on the trailer. When we. got there the trailer was bare. We back-tracked bet found nothing. Does your agency have insurance to cover a con tractor's equipment against low, theft, or damage? For Information Call ME6FORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940 MR. 3J' INSURANCE Jfcr'- Brennan for Demo in 1960 timers to realize that Douglas no longer is the court babby. He was only 41 when FDR put him up there. But Associate Justice Tom C. Clark is a year younger. Douglas will be 57 when the court reconvenes next autumn. There is no shortage of Demo cratic aspirants for the 1956 pres idential nomination and it is hardly possible that a situation could develop that would turn the party toward Douglas. But 1960 could be dfferent. So far as Douglas is concerned, it had better be. The court baby of 1939 will be 62 years old in 1960 and that is that last chance he is likely to have at a prize which his performance to date suggests he hopes to win. Communications Lttters to the Editor must bear the name and addreu of uw writer although under certain drcum stancea the uie ot a pen name or initial for publication la Dermis lible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for oublica tion must not exceed 400 words Think It Over To the Editor: It is an axiom of law that 'Any agency that has the authority to levy taxes has the power to destroy'. , Any lawyer will admit that. ; Taxpayers, think that over. It is as true as the gospel. . This state, this county, this city, has gone lax mad. All the authorities holding of fice by virtue of the taxpayer vote seem to be determined to add to collected monies regard less of the consequences to the ones who are levied upon. And equally regardless of the diffi culty caused by the increased amount demanded. You, Mr. Taxpayer haye a check upon the taxing agency at this time. But wait; An editorial in a recent issue of The Tribune virtually slapped each and every one of us in that we object to heavier taxes. . It said that, as we have a legisla ture to represent us we should abide by its actions. , In other words, we should not have the initiative, referen dum, and recall. In which case we should have no control over a recalcitrant legislature. If we are so dumb as to per mit the so called 'new Constitu tion v to go "into effect without these three things we deserve-to be taxed out of everything. Let us not permit this to hap pen. By all means we MUST KEEP those three things. Other wise, we shall have no choice but to accept any and every law an arrogant law making body de cides to put upon us, and, of course, thev will not be for our benefit. . We have seen the complete in eptitude of our present legisla tors and we are NOT pleased. I doubt If the word 'ECON OMY' was ever mentioned in the legislative halls. Watch the papers, folks, and the radios as well as TV. . A. L. Unger 634 Pennsylvania Ave. Dr. Strand Appointed To Advisory Committee Washington -j(U.R) Dr. A. L. Strand, president of Oregon State College, today was named to a 15-member advisory com mittee to review the govern ment's current research program into home economics. The committee will meet here July 11-13 to review the current home economics research pro gram including food and nu trition, textiles and clothing, housing and household equip ment and family economics. Pre sumably, it also will make recommendations on future re search. - ; IAPMXESS FOR SALE... 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