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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL .TRIBUNE Tuesday. Jnlr S, 19S5 MESrtKUtCkTBIBUlfI "Everybody tn Southern Oregon ' Head Tne Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. J7-W North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. BUHL Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager . C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor . OLTVX ST ARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor -GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper ' Entered as second class matter at liedford. 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. 3-30 Sunday Only One year 3J0 By Carrier fa Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold HUL Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor' routes: Daily and Sunday One year tlS.OO Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 6c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper oi acson United Pre -Full Leased Wire . MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF ClKCUUIliUM A .... mit-i nmrrmmntjv'. WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Loula. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. . Just an Idea NATIONAL EDITORIAL UsTocfATlfoN I J J Kg Z niwipami sM PUBlltNIIS "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 July 5. 1945 Eighteen deer found in Ash land city reservoir believed wounded by hunters and sought water before dying. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A returned holiday motorist reported that he . counted 52 chipmunk casualties on a five mile stretch of rural highway. This proves the speed idiots retain their pre-war ac curacy, and the 'chipmunks are not as nimble as claimed by wild life experts and poets. 20 YEARS AGO July 5. 1935 (It was Friday) Between 10,000 and 12.000 at tend Fourth of July celebration t Ashland's Lithia park. . Bermuda onions are being rais ed in Jackson county for first time in county's history. SO YEARS AGO July 5. 1925 (It was Sunday) Available treatment facilities indicates that platinum mining in Southwestern Oregon and northern California may out-pro-' duce Russian platinum mines. : Medford celebrates Fourth of July calmly as 250 persons are , killed and 400 injured in holi day accidents across the nation. 40 YEARS AGO July 5. 1915 (It was Monday) Several Medford and Central point men injured when second section of baseball train from Montague collides with helper locomotives at Ashland. From Local and Personal col umn: Fines of $5 and costs were assessed this morning by Police Judge Gay to Medford people, who allowed their dogs to go unmuzzled contrary to city ord inance effective July 1st. Four more will be haled into court in the morning to answer to a sim ilar charge. The police announc ed that the ordinance will be en forced to the letter. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. About (a) 10, (b) 15. (c) 20, or (d) 25 of U.S. families with income over $7,500 have more than one car? . 2. Cash income of U.S. farm ers as a whole in first 5 months this year was higher or lower than in similar perjods of 1954, or the same? 3. The number of Jews in the world is around (a) 12, (b) 24, (c) 36, (d) 48 or (s) 60 million? 4. Labor welfare funds are as a whole financed chiefly by the unions or employers, or about 50-50 by each? 5. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman is Sen. Knowland (Calif.) Wiley (Wise.), George (Ga.), Johnson (Tex.), or Fulbright (Ark.)? 6. An egret is something for breakfast; right or wrong? 7. West Germany accepts or rejects the present Oder-Neisse eastern boundary of Germany as permanent, or takes no stand on it? The Answers: 1. About 25. 2. Lower. 3. Around 12.000,000. 4. Chiefly by employ en. 5. George. 6. Wrong; it's a feather for a hat. 7. Rejects it as per manent. - Perhaps one of these days Independence Day will be devoted more to upholding the spirit of independ ence. In recent years the spirit of conformity has been all the rage, not only on July 4th but through all the months before and after. In general "the best people" have been doing what tne crowd, the majority, has been doing. Those who have exhibited the spirit of '76 by joining up with the minority, in the direction of politics or anything else have come in for some extremely hard sledding and severe criticism. ' DERHAPS the Declaration of Independence was 4 read in certain quarters yesterday, but it is doubt ful if the trutn was stressed that those patriots who signed it, were not in such good standing then as they are today. In fact the "best people" of that day. were the "conformists." George Washington like Franklin D, Roosevelt, was accused of being a traitor to his class, he being a wealthy aristocrat with a grant from the king. The people in the pre-revolution Blue Book were running things then, and it was some time later before they were called and condemned as tones. As Benjamin Franklin remarked: "If we don't hang together we will hang separately." - - . But in the end for a variety of reasons, (regard ing which there will probably never be complete agreement). the independent minority won out, and the United States of America was born. TN VIEW of these, facts, the spirit of independence should be more highly regarded in this country than it is today. . , For thanks to that spirit the descendants of those revolutionists are enjoying the tremendous privilege of being citizens in the most powerful and most en vied nation m the world. But as so often happens few of them appreciate it They have certain idea's of what should be done and what shouldn't and those who don't agree with them are consigned to the lower realms of oblivion and darkness. They no longer belong. They are added to the ranks of the pariahs, and the unclean. THIS is not to maintain the majority is always wrong It is to maintain that in view of the genesis of the USA and the fundamental principles of this demo cracy, Independence Day should be marked more by a recognition of the value of the mdependent spirit, and the desireability of tolerance toward minorities, than by a free for all motor race to have a good time to follow the crowd and keep up with the Jonses, with the minimum of consideration for others and the max imum casualty lists. - It is just a suggestion. We don't expect even a sizeable "minority" to f oi low it. R.W.R. ' The Determination for Independence The Declaration of Independence has been so in fluential in world history as well as, central in the his tory of the Umted States that it may be well from time to time to correct any misconceptions about it. For instance, that: (1) It ushered in the Revolutionary War. In fact, the first hostilities had begun at Concord and Lexing ton more than a year before, m April, 1775. ; (2) It committed the colonists for the first time to freedom from British rule. Actually, the Continen tal Congress hacl voted on July 2, 1776 for an inde pendence resolution that had been offered by the Vir ginia delegation, through Kichard xienry Lee. me Declaration was really an explanation and defense of the July 2 action. (3) It was signed by the members of the Contin ental Congress on July 4, 1776. It was signed on that day only by John Hancock, president of the Congress and actmg for it. Most other members signed on tne following Aug. 2, a few still later. (4) It enunciated new and startling ideas. Jeffer son himself commented that it did not so much ex press original ideas as voice sentiments that had be come prevalent m enlightened circles. (51 The Libertv Bell was rune in honor of the oc casion until it cracked. No evidence. Most Americans seem to have received the Declaration soberly rather than exuberantly. ' (6) iThe Declaration was entirely the product" of Thomas Jefferson. The red-haired Virginian was in deed the chief drafter, as chairman of the committee of five aDDointed to prepare a statement But he in corporated suggestions from Franklin; and John Ad ams, and drew heavily on the Virginia Declaration of Rights, composed largely by George Mason. The engraver of the original Declaration followed his own ideas about spelling and punctuation, but refrained from altering the eloquent phraseology. E.R. : ' I Political Turmoil On Latin American Stations Increases Highway Commission On Inspection Trip Portland (UJ!) Oregon's three-man State Highway Com mission wiU leave Monday on 1,200-mile inspection trip of eastern Oregon highways and state parks. Commissioners Ben R. Chand ler, Milo K. Mclver and Charles H. Reynolds will be accompanied by members of the legislative in terim Committee on Highways, the Parks Advisory Committee, the state park superintendent, C H. Armstrong, and other officials.----: - - --s .-. The inspection will take four days. : ; - Union Pacific Trains Return To Schedules Portland U.R) All east and westbound, trains were back oh schedule today after a week end derailment of the City of Port land at Huntington, the Union Pacific's chief dispatcher here reported. r.---?--;. The train smashed into a line of empty freight cars Saturday night and arrived here more than 13 hours late. No one was injured in the accident.- r ' London More than 100,000 automobiles are ferried annually across the English, channel." By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The "A-B-C" countries, the three largest in Latin Ameri ca, are all politically hot and getting hotter. . There has just been a brief, unsuc cessful revolt against Presi dent Juan D. Peron of Ar gentina. Whether Per on can keep on top of the situation remains to be Charles McCann Seen. There are frequent reports of a possible coup in Brazil some time during the present cam paign for the election of a Pres ident next October. , In Cnfle, third of the Latin American Big Three, a paralyz ing transport strike started Fri day. Sfrike Against Government Workers on the railroads, in the postal and telegraph services and in transport services in the big cities, joined in the walk out. The postal, telegraph and rail road services are all owned by the state, so this was a strike against the Chilean government. A nationwide general strike has been called for this Thursday by the Chilean labor unions. These strikes are all for high er pay. They are a reflection of a steadily worsening economic situation is causing increasing political unrest. As the result, 77-year-old President Carlos Ib anez Del Campo must be a wor ried man. Some army officers, who like strong-man rule, want to set up Ibanez as a dictator. Short Terms Common Ibanez has . resisted that sug gestion. But as soon as last Fri day's strike started, the govern ment declared a state of emer gency in big cities and indust rial centers. Ibanez was elected in 1952 for a six-year term. Chile has had 21 presidents since 1920. Eleven of them have failed to fiU out their full terms, in addition to two who died in office. Events may force Ibanez to resort to ' a dictatorship again. He ruled as dictator once, and made a remarkable comeback 21 years later. This time he seems disinclined to try one-man rule if he can help it- - Ibanez is a durable person. They used to call him "the iron man" in the old days. Then he was a swarthy, handsome, robust army man. But inflation is a difficult enemy to defeat. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written the CIO steelworkers and U. S. Steel have just reached a wage agreement for an average increase of just over 15 cents an hour. Other major steel producers are ex pected to fall into line promptly. -. If so, the shortest steel strike in history, less than 24 hours, win have been brought to an end. It should be added, by way of explanation, that the contract under which the steelworkers and the steel companies are oper ating permitted opening this year on wages only, That simpli fied the negotiations Matter of Fact y Stewart Alsop THE CHANGE Moscow There has ques tionably been a change here in Russia. Everyone in a position to judge agrees on that. But no one really knows how deep the change goes, or what it means. Part of the change is wholly superficial. The American and British ambassadors, for ex ample, recent ly lost their " tails, and there is now no vis- ible surveil lance of West erners. The So viet, bosses, at Western recep t i o n s, now mingle jovially in the crowd. Stwrt Alsop making small jokes. One or two of them have been known to attend, alone. small private affairs in Western embassies. Old Moscow hands have been particularly flabbergasted by the kind of dispatches visiting journalistic firemen have been permitted to send out. But this sort of thing has required hard ly more than a simple adminis trative decision. Has there also been a change at a 'deeper level, a change not so easily control led? Old hands some of tbem claim to detect signs of a deeper change. Even for the newcomer there are experiences which are, to put it mildly, unexpected. Take, for example, the all-night parties on Red Square, opposite the Kremlin and the tombs of Lenin and Stalin. ' These parties have been go ing on for some nights past, starting around midnight and go ing on full swing till well after fve in the morning. Strictly in line of duty, this reporter at tended two such parties. - The parties are celebrations of high school and college gradua tions. They are by no means saturnalia, or all - night drunks. On the contrary, the boys are well behaved, within reason, and the girls are downright de mure, wearing long white dres ses and no lipstick. Indeed, aside from the peculiar time and the unexpected locale, the Red Square parties nostalgically re called the graduation dances of a simpler era in America, At any rate, they are wonder ful fun or at least the first one this reporter dutifully at tended was. Everyone was ob viously having a marvelous time, with much singing,: danc ing, balalaika-playing, shy hand holding and bold, ogling. The party goers found this re porter and other visiting fire men a welcome siaesnow. com munication was quickly estab lished somehow. So was the fact that we were Americans. Then we were soon surrounded, like so many two-headed calves,' by large groups of politely gig gling teen-agers. They asked ques tions about how we liked Mos cow or what life was like in America, and there was an oc casional reference (favorable) to peace. Although the conversations were not memorable, the spect acle was the dacing and sing ing and cavorting in Red Square, before the handsome Kremlin and, around the low dark tomb, in1 the early, bright Moscow dawn. It was a fine party; Ac cording . to those who should know, nothing like it has ever happened before certainly, not in Red Square. rpHE next night, an even finer party had obviously been an ticipated. The word had got round that dancing in the dawn in Red Square was the thing to do, and by midnight there were long lines -of teen-agers troup ing up the hill past the Krem lin. A small knot of boys even lugged the heavy instruments of a brass band up the hill, and set them up in front of the tomb. But somebody in authority had presumably . decided that the thing had gone too far. The night before, there had been no security police. Now there were a good many. They moved quiet ly and politely through the crowd, playing the role of wet blankets with splendid effi ciency. Little groups hung on till daylight, but the heart had gone out of the party. " Without playr ing a note, members of the band sadly lugged 'their instruments down the hill again. - Yet there were surprises on this less happy second night as well. A long line of boys and girls were sitting on a wall near the tomb, giggling. A youthish cop ' walked along the line, gesturing to them to stand up. The boys and girls stood up, one by one, with exaggerated smart ness, as he came up to them- and then sat down again, laugh ing fit to kin, the moment he had passed. When an older, tougher cop showed up, looking grim, they got off the wall for good. Even so, one of the older boys made an uncomplimentary gesture, iamuiar to Brooklyn, at the cod. Does this mean a change? Old Moscow hands say that this sort of thing simply did riot happen, even a short time ago. So per haps there has been a change in xne relationship between rulers and ruled. But the old Moscow hands are sure that the change will not, and cannot, be permit ted to go very deep. 1 (Copyright 1955, New York) Herald Tribune Inc.) Chicago About one-half of the U.S. supply of beef and veal is from dairy cattle. PILLOWING the agreement that ended the strike, both sides issued statements. Clifford Hood, president of the U. S. Steel Corpoation, said: "Accord with the union has spared the nation and its econ omy the consequences of a disas trous steel strike, although the shutdowns which did occur have caused a loss of production and wages." He added: "We have directed resumption of production as quickly as possi ble so as to minimize the loss of shipments to steel consumers." rjAVID McDONALD, president J- of the CIO United Steelwork ers, says: "I want to congratulate he representatives of the U. S. Steel Corporation for working with us in developing a basis for a fair and equitable settlement qf the issues in dispute. "I hope the settlement wffl provide for the ever greater mu tual respect and understanding and continued working together between the company and union which it has always been my pur pose to promote." OO MUCH for the views of the principals. The views of the public, I suppose, are reflected in this dispatch from New York which followed the announce ment of the settlement: . "The steel strike settlement brought RISES .of SI to $2 in steel shares on' the New York Stock Market. OTHER SEC TIONS of the market quickly joined in the upward trend." prices prevailing before the wage increase " , Well, in that event,' EVERY BODY wiU be happy and the goose wiU go on hanging high for all of us. It will be a sign that technological progress in Amer ican industry is reaching - the pointjwhere we can hope that wages will go on increasing and at the same time' prices can go on DECREASING. That wiU mean a new era in our world. , - BUT" , ; ,. If. steel prices have to be raised , sharply to meet the in creased wage cost involved in the setUement, it will mean simp ly that Old Man Inflation is look ing us in the eye again. That is about the long and the short of It. pt St., lAttlXESS FOR SALE.;. The happiness that comes from a well-ordered life, with wife and children provided for, aad the prospect of eventual retire ment on income sufficient for the enjoyment of your leisure, can be yours through Life A-. uranee. Let me sell you a share of happiness today. SUN LIFE ASSURANCI COMPANY OF CANADA Local Agent t CHARLES E. JONES WN Phone r 1 2-9772 rpHAT is to say: - The steel companies, nat urally enough, are pleased with the outcome because- it means that they can go on making and selling steel, which is their busi ness. . The steelworkers are pleased also naturally enough because they can go on working at con siderably , increased wages in stead of having to go through a long and costly period of unemployment. ine- u&tKS of steel are pleased, because they will, be awe to gpm getting steel with wnicn to make their products. Without steel, they would have had to shut down too. The : investors in' steel secur ities are pleased, because a strike is very costly indeed .and, there fore would have tended to reduce dividends. v WHAT .of the public In gen- " eral the CONSUMERS of the multifold products that are made of steel? I think we'll have to wait a while for the answer to that question. If basic steel prices remain un changed If, that is, efficiency in the steel industrv is INCREASED h the friendly settlement that has Deen arrived at to sucn an extent that it will be nossible to, an an producing and selling steel at Copper Producers Union Resume Talks ; Denver U.PJ Negotiations were to resume today between the union lucid three of the "Big Four" U.S. copper producers while 30,000 non-ferrous metals workers remained on strike in 12 states. The union employees walked off their jobs last week at Ken- necott Copper Corp., Phelps Dodge Copper Corp., and the American Smelting and Re fining Co. plants after wage con tracts expired. . A majority of the strikers .are represented by the International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers (Ind.), .which did not strike the Anaconda company. biggest of the Big Four. The union is seeking a 20-cent an hour wage increase plus wage benefits. . Federal Mediator S. Lyle Johnson said at Salt Lake City yesterday that talks between Kennecott and, union local off i cials would be continued today. COOLING THEMOFF Detroit (U.R) Police saicT' a report that a man was sprin kling passersby as well as his lawn was typical of the holiday madness. Police said they only warned the sprinkler because they felt his actions were "more thoughtful than malicious." Lyndon Johnson Still In Serious Condition Washington U.E Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson was "making ( satisfac tory progress" but still was in serious condition from a heart ailment today at the Bethesda, Md., Naval Medical Center. . The 46-year-old Texan : w a s stricken with a "moderately se vere" heart . attack Saturday while visiting friends in nearby . Virginia. His 73-year-old mother flew in. from Texas to be at his bedside Monday.-: The hospital said Johnson's physicians "consider that he is making satisfactory progress, but his' condition remains serious."-- - '-. 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