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TOVK MZSrORD (ORZGOR) "Zrerybody la Southern Ores Readl Tha Mail Trtbuna" Published Dally Except Saturday by rr-aa North rir st Phone a-6141 amrgT w nTTTTT. Editor BZRB GRTY Ad rm Manat S. C. FXBGUSON. Managins Editor UC ALLZN JB, City Editor HARRY CfflPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWrrt. Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHZJl. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GKHALU LATHAM. nreun"" a indoMBdeBt Newtpaper Entered 'aa aeeond elaay matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ox mmuma" M.,Phr 187 . SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy joe. IuTTnd Sunday-One year $12 .00 Daily and Sunday Sa month! 6 JO Daily and Sunday Three moa. 3 JO Sunday Only One year 30 By Carrier to Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point prie Point. Jacksonville. Gold MIL Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. and on motor route: Daily and Sunday One Tear W3.0O Daily and Sunday One month 1 Carrier and Deal era 5c per copy. All Term. Cash to Advance dinetal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jaekion County United rnll aca "uTMnm or AUDIT BUREAU "oF CIRCULATION 4SgHeprKntetive: Office. to"v"cuio.. gj. troit. San mncucg. i "'' Seattle. Portland. St. Louia Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASYOCfrTllQN w MIWSPAMt rutiumis 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 6, 1945 flt was Friday) Jackson County Chamber 'of Commerce outlines program lor survey of housing accomodations 4 Viir infill nf families exDect- ed when 27,000 servicemen .ar rive at Camp white wiuun zew months. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Upstate has the jitters. Any object aloft any bigger than a bluejay, and high er than a church steeple, is im mediately reported to the neigh bors, and the police, as a Jap ballon. The misconception also Includes many of the larger lead ing heavenly bodies. tO TEARS AGO July 183S (It was Saturday) cenerauy mua w earner yic vailed throughout Rogue Valley during June, according to me teorologist with the lightest rain fall for June on record. Mrs. Bertha Coates of Medford elected president of Eagle, aux iliary at state meeting in Grants Pass. tO TEARS AGO July S, 1925 It was Monday) Owen-Oregon Lumber comp any of Medford buys 680 acres of O and C timber land In Butte ! Falls area for $24,301. Item from Mail Tribune: To Cut off Outside Water Con- somen City Water Superin tendent Davis has received in struction from the city to dis connect all water service to peo ' pie living outside of the city lim its, in thirty days. The residents of the district 'applying for admission into the city will not as yet be affected until after the special election which will soon be called to de- . cide whether or not they should ". be admitted, and if they are not allowed admittance, they too, "jWill lose the city water service after a period of 30 days has ! elapsed after the election. The disconnection of the wa , ter service to outside consum ers will be permanent, as. long as they remain outside the city limits. 40 TEARS AGO July $.1915 (It was Tuesday) Several forest fires along Southern Pacific tracks between Grants Pass and Rogue River under control after rain falls. From the Local and Personal column: Have you tried one of those 5c milk shakes at DeVoe's? Indian Laborers Face Manslaughter Charges Portland QJ.R) Charges of murder against two itinerant In dian laborers were reduced to manslaughter yesterday when the pair pleaded guilty before Circuit Judge -James R. Bain here. Joe Hayou, 32, and Lee Brown 34 .admitted beating and kicking 47-year-old John Goodwin to death in his hotel room .here May 4. The judge warned them, how ever, that they would be -dis appointed if they expected pro bationary sentences. He also or . dered a . presentence investiga : tion. . MAIL TRIBUNE Community Slump? Let's Hope Not In the city of Eugene the other day, a turnout of less than 4 per cent of the voters turned down a spec ial tax levy of $165,000 which the city fathers had re quested for operation of the city for the coming year. In a rather exasperated manner, the Eugene Reg ister Guard commented in an editorial entitled, "Our Trouble: A Community Slump." . It said: "What's wrong with our community? We're in a terrific slump, that's what And our aver age is about as low as it can get and still play the game." . 1XJTTH regard to the city election yesterday, in " which a tiny percentage of the registered Med ford voters lambasted a still tinier percentage who had supported the city council in its efforts to main tain city government on an even keel, we can't feel as bitterly as did the Register-Guard. But we still think that the vote was ill-advised, and something which may well be regretted. We are all for economy in government, but being stingy with essential services is something else again. Let us hope, anyway, that none of those who voted against the modest, one-year levy (for $66,510) will have the effrontery to say "why doesn't the city do this or that ..." for awhile. ' . e e e AS for the annexation election we should like to "suggest that the tiny majority of voters in the Laurelhurst area have shown greater foresight and clear thinking on the matter than their neighbors on the other side of town. As we mentioned before, the defeat of the annex ation proposal is a setback to orderly progress not a stop. It is now up to all of us, including the city council and the residents of the areas affected, to work out the next-best plan to solve those many problems which fringe development bring. Lessons learned in this election will undoubtedly prove helpful. We hope there will be no bitterness and no recrim inations, for too much is at stake to let petty bickering destroy our need for sound and progressive develop ment. E.A. So Long, Passenger Service It comes as no particular surprise, but as an un pleasant fact, to learn that the Southern Pacific has finally given-up the ghost as far as passenger service in southern Oregon is concerned. The announcement is a logical chapter in the long sequence of events which began with the completion of the faster route east of the Cascades many years ago. CINCE that time passenger service on the Siskiyou line has been whittled away and whittled away. Now it vanishes. "Next time take the bus," apparently is the SP's advice to its southern Oregon potential passengers. It has resisted all suggestions that new develop ments in rail travel such and comfortable cars be placed in service to com pete with the speed and comfort of plane travel on the one nana and the economy The only answers these been statements about how much money passenger i J ii. i? i i i j i services loses ana me continued curtailment oi wnat little service was left. THE timing of the announcement is unfortunate, too. Donald J. Russell, president of the SP, was on an inspection tour of the division last week in his five car special train. The train halted briefly at Ashland for a service stop, and a representative of the Ashland Tidings obtained a story from him. "There has been a tremendous growth all through the area served by Southern Pacific," Russell is quot ed as saying in a story which the Tidings headlined "Russell Sees Good Future for .Oregon." "We are constantly placing orders for new freight cars to meet the increasing needs of shippers and our program of adding diesel power is being continued," he added. .-J . The president :was accompanied by a group of high SP officials, and received gifts from the Ash land Chamber of Commerce during his brief stop there. . HTHE SP does a pretty good job of hauling freight A out of this area. Its service has expanded. This year the railroad has done particularly well in finding scarce boxcars to keep the freight moving. ' And it should, for it is making a considerable profit on ihe Siskiyou route, handling lumber and other items in great quanity. What it takes out in profits on freight will now remain out, with no return "dividend" in passenger service. ? But we think that the railroad as a whole is giving this area the short end of the stick, accepting our prof itable freight business with one hand, and turning away any chance of a decent passenger service or any service at all, now with the other. E. A; 18 Powder Puff Pilots Springfield, Mass, (U.PJ Powder-Puff Derby pilots con tinued to straggle In today as the 6 p.m. deadline for qualify ing beared. Eighteen of the 46 planes com peting in the ninth annual all woman transcontinental race have landed at Barnes Airport in nearby Westfield. I Some of the last-minute ar rivals today might still cash in on part oi the 52 000 prize money Wednesday, July 8, I9S5 as light, self-propelled, fast of bus travel on the other. suggestions have met has Arrive at Destination since the race is run on a handi cap basis. Winner of the race will be determined tomorrow. The first plane in yesterday was piloted by Mrs. Lowanda Lane and Mrs. Faye Scott, both of San Diego. They, were the vanguard of six planes landing yesterday. Twelve arrived Mon day. . ' The 2800-mile - race started Saturday morning at Long Beach, Calif. Army May Decide Presidential Election In Brazil October 3 By CHARLES McCANN ' United Press Foreign Analyst The presidential election to be held in Brazil on October 3 may be decided by the army, not the voters. It was the a r my which forced Presi de nt Getulio Vargas to re sign last Aug ust because it did not like the way things were 'going. Vargas shot himself a few Cm Mccan hourg iater Two Vargas men seem to be ahead, as of now, in the race for the October election. They are Juscelino Kubitschek who is running for president, and Joao Goulart, his running mate as vice-presidential candidate. Kubitschek is the 53-year-old dynamic former governor of Mi nas Gerais state. His achieve ments are measured in such tan gibles as dams, roads, bridges, airports and industries. A mil lionaire in his own right he rep resents the conservative industry interests. Army leaders object violenUy to Goulart. They object so vio lently, in fact, that 'they have warned they may intervene un less he withdraws. Iron Man Type . Vargas was of the "iron man" type of Latin American presi dent. But he was supported by leftists. Goulart was his minis ter of labor. One of Goulart's accomplishments, incidentally, was to put . through a 100 per cent increase in the Brazilian minimum wage. Army opposi tion compelled him to resign shortly before Vargas was forc ed out. There is open talk in Rio de Janeiro that unless Goulart Matter of U. S. A. 1955 Washington In the simpler past, July 4 used to be a time of flag-waving, patriotic oratory and and , glor ious orgies of firecrack e r s. Now a d a y s, however, flag waving is out of place. In stead, this In depend e n c e Day week is a good time for taking' stock. In the opin Joseph Alsop ion of this re porter, anyone who now takes stock of the national situation must first of all write down 1955 as the year when the Ei senhower administration found itself, and the American politi cal process got back on the rails. It was like discovering a new country, to return to America a month or so ago, as this reporter did, after an absence of six months on the other side of the world. The venom, the suspicion, the hatred that had so long been poisoning American , political life, were purged and gone. The sewers of our politics were no longer running in the streets. . 1 The Congress, after all but abandoning legislation in favor of investigation, had once again become a legislative body. Pub lic, debate, after remaining for years at the level of a mud sling ing exchange of personal accu sations, had once 'again become reasoned and sober and factual. The whole tone was different And this vast change like com ing from .darkness into light, had happened in only six months. Partly, this immensely healthy change in the tone of American politics has to be at tributed to Democratic Congress ional leaders bent, on proving their responsibility. Yet the key figure is still President Eisen hower. . . For ., the Democrats would never be so much on their good behavior if they did not feel a ' respect ; almost approaching awe for the President's standing before the country. And the President himself was the first to set the new tone in which the parties to our political dialogue are at last responding to him. Eisenhower " then, has ' got what he wanted from the first He now presides over ' a new and desperately needed era of good feelings. To this great gain, moreover, another . has been added. A S LATE as last election time, A the American economy seem (I Summer Menu Special! (fckfiwSl Always Refreshing ... Delicious fWfJjj FRUIT SALADS.;v. .. Chiilaal fa' Sunamaiv Ftaxfrneae ni4 Displayed in Our Refrigerated Salad Case Tho Clotlt 4S' agrees to withdraw his candidacy the army may step in and force the postponement of the election. In that event, President Joao Cafe Filho, who as vice-president succeeded Vargas, might re main in office subject to army supervision until the situation was cleared up. - : Cafe (the "Filho" means jun ior) is a moderate in politics. Though he was elected as Var gas' running mate, he had long opposed most of Vargas' polic ies. He vigorously opposes the "iron man", or totalitarian type of rule. Under the Brazilian consti tution. Cafe can not run for a second term in October. - Cafe is 56. He has long been in politics after making a start as a militant newspaper editor. Cafe Honest Man He Is a man of incorruptible honesty. It is told of him that in his days as a young editor a pol itician whom he had attacked walked into his office and si lently put a bank note of impres sive denomination on his desk. Cafe reached across, took it, set fire to it with a match and lit a cigarette with it. The United States State de partment might be just as pleas ed if some way were found to keep Cafe in office for a while. He seems to be a "safe" man. He and the army which is under stood to be the real power- at the moment are chiefly inter ested simply in keeping things quiet. Brazil, like some other Latin American countries, is suf fering from inflation and a gen eral economic crisis. Brazil is important to the Un ited States and its allies. It is larger than the continental Un ited States, with 3,287,842 square miles of territory. Its population of about 57,000,000 is by far the largest in the western hemis phere outside the United States. Fact r j ed to be faltering. But now the record is clear. For two years, prices have been held - almost perfectly stable. In the same two years, with a minor check or two, productivity has steadily increased. This combination of inflation well controlled with prosperity in fuU bloom isan example to the world. You may think what you please about such matters as the Dixon-Yates contract, but the - over-all eco nomic achievement of the first two Eisenhower years has' been as important as the restoration of reason and sanity to pur poli tical life. These ? two achievements, in turn, have produced or perhaps one ought to say they are pro ducing another result that may have the most far-reaching im portance. When there was no confidence, either political or economic, the American govern ment was all but incapable of either thought or action. Ideas were rigid. Attitudes were rigid. The . facts of life in our time could hardly be discussed with honesty, much less responded to with courage and decision. -With the political and econom ic confidence restored, freedom of thought and freedom of. ac tion have been restored too. The Administration is no longer de barred, by fear of the political consequences, from dealing ade quately with all the thronging problems that confront it. Every problem can now be tackled without prejudice, from the severe domestic problem of adjusting the requirements of internal security to the larger requirements of a free society, all the way to the overmastering world problem of survival in a time when men posses weapons that may destroy the human race on earth. -. , This restoration of the Ameri can government's freedom to think and act, this end of a long paralysis, was the real drama of the two recent Senate votes en dorsing the President's journey, to the summit conference and ap proaching a high level investiga tion of the prevailing security machinery. Only last year, these votes would have been unthinkable. Today they are accepted as mat ters of course. JUST BECAUSE freedom ' to think and freedom to act have at last .been regained, there is of course no certainty that these vital freedoms will be well and wisely used. No chief of the American state, not even George Washington or Abraham Lin coln, has ever been confronted 5cl f; W (The iVy J? If " Jf it iyi PRETTY PROSPECTOR Carol Hanson tries a little uranium prospecting on the slopes of San Francisco's famed Twin Peaks. She's demonstrating a Geiger coun ter which will be displayed at the Gem and Mineral Exposi tion in San Francisco July 8-10. Turncoats Due in Hong Kong Friday Hong Kong (U.PJ Authori tative information received here today said the three American turncoats who want to return home from Red China are en route south from Peiping by tram for Hohg Kong. - These sources said the three should reach Canton on Friday and will be handed over to Amer ican authorities in Hong Kong at 1p.m. Saturday (9 pjn., Fri day PST). ' Preparations have been made here by U. S. authorities to give the three men a cool welcome. The U. S. Consulate here was informed through Peiping diplo matic channels of the intended delivery of the Americans who chose Communism after the Ko rean war and then changed their minds. The American ex-soldiers are Lewie. Gripp, William Cowart and Otho Bell. They chose to stay with the Communists after the Korean war instead of being re patriated. , . Since then they have been working in Red - China. Last month, however, Radio Peiping announced the Americans would be sent out of China at their own request because they could not adapt themselves to life there. with more complex, taxing and difficult' challenges than now confront President Eisenhower, The fate of this nation and the free world plainly depends upon finding right answers to such questions as "What to do about Asia?" and "How to re shape our world strategy in the light of the new. H-bomb?" and "What can be made of the new Soviet Line?" Right answers to these and other questions of our times are not easy to find. Bui at least it is vitally important that the President now has the power to give answers, which he lacked before. (Copyright, 1955, New , York Herald Tribune Inc.) Portland (U.PJ John Rob erts,' 7, Vancouver, Wash., died Monday at a Portland hospital from injuries received Saturday afternoon when the bicycle he was riding was struck by an' automobile. x ' . FIFTY, First Mortgage Leans Investments and Securities Cash on Hand and in Banks Total Members' Share Accounts . Leans in Process -Other Liabilities Specific Reserves ' General Reserves Undivided Profits Total liabilities Toclay and By Walter DISARMAMENT REVISITED There is growing impres sion that the Soviet Union would like to talk seriously about armaments. Mr. Molotov has been saying so In private conver sations, and in the Soviet pro posals published on May. 11 there are some striking passages which show that the Klemlin has been taking a new look at the modern technology of war. This does not mean that they are likely to accept the propo sals which we haye been mak ing during the past . 10 years. There is no more chance of that than there is of our accepting their proposals. If anything at all is to oome of the new dis cussions, if they are to be lifted above what Mr. Selwyn Lloyd once called "the morass of dis agreements," it will be neces sary to rethink and to redefine the problem of armaments. TT SEEMS to me, if I may be A sn hnM fVint in these 10 VPars our proposals have been based on a fundamental misconcep tion. What have we meant by the word "disarmament" and what have we been trying to do about it? In a United States memorandum of 1952 we laid it down that "the goal of dis armament is . . . to prevent war . . . by making war inher ently . . . impossible." We have assumed that the way to attain this goal was under a system of supervision ana control to re duce armaments to some point at which war would be inherently impossible to wage. But is there any such point? In effect these schemes would, if they could be enforced, reduce the military establishment in being and the stockpiles of munitions: the ad vantage in war would then de pend on the mobilization of re serves and of manufacturing ca pacity. .' ' ' The goal to make war "in herently impossible" is itself inherently impossible. For the proof we have only to look at how elaborate and Utopian are the schemes put forward to at tain the goal. As the powers are to agree tei make themselves in herently incapable of waging war, they are to agree, as a West ern memorandum of a year ago, on "all types of weapons, all types of armed forces, and mili tary -facilities of all kinds. Think of it They are to agree even on the number of "military rifles, carbines. - revolver and pistols"; for wars can be waged, wars - have been - waged, with rifles, ' carbines, revolvers and pistols.. ? - . . ... TO SUPERVISE - and control -- these infinitely complicated agreements we have been pro posing that all the powers agree to construct a little tin god, to be known as the Authority with a- capital A: . "The Authority would be empowered to super vise and control progressive and continuous disclosure, and veri fication of all armed forces, in cluding - para-military, security and police forces, and all arma ments including atomic arma ments." And what is the little tin god to do if it finds a viola tion of the agreement? The lit tle tin god is to report to the Security Council, to the General Assembly, and to all states all of them "inherently" incapable of waging war "to- permit ap propriate action to be taken." . This surely 'is the;. sheerest fantasy. For the Itasic principle of the scheme is disclosure in other words that all , military secrecy is by agreement to be abolished, that all the security precautions and all the counter espionage arrangements are to be discarded, that Americans are to inspect the Soviet defense es FIFTH SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT 1ST F Savings ft Losa Astcsfclfca cf MEDFORD, OREGON O JUNE STATEMENT OF CONDITION ASSETS - ' ' ' Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment, less depreciation Assets LIABILITIES .$159,203.74 . 16,559.79 Aa Lxlfclha DScd To Tta CURRENT DIVIDEND 3 PER Tomorrow! Lippmann tablishment and Russians are to inspect the American. The Soviets, luckily for us. would never look at these pro posals, having no intention of in- v i t i n g . Western intelligence agents to see the inside of their military and industrial system. If we had been asked whether we were ready to disarm and to abolish military secrecy, our an swer would have had to be yes the Utopia where all Soviet babies will be born with angel's wings, and singing "God Bless America." . rpHE FALLACY of the concep-- tion we have been working with is, . I believe, to suppose that there is such a thing as abso lute disarmament such a thing as making war inherently im possible. The alternative concep tion is to recognize that each nation's armaments are relative to the armaments of his rival and adversary no matter whether the military forces are at a high level or at a low level. The true goal is not to deprive nations of the capacity to wage war. Men can fight with clubs. The .true goal is to make victory in war, to make profitable war. improbable, and so to inhibit th will to start the war. Wars can always we waged. There will long be men who are willing to wage wars. What will inhibit them' is not that everyone is well armed but that they have no plausible hope of winning a wo. '' THIS IS a feasible goal, which is attained now and then whenever military rivals ' find they are in a balance of power which makes it most unlikely that they could win a war. As 'a matter of fact the East and West are now in such a balance of power. The existence of this bal ance of power is the reason why they are beginning to negotiate, and the preservation of this bal ance of power can - be and ought to be the guiding prin ciple of these negotiations. - . ' When we talk about anna ments, the ' leading question should not be the size of the armaments. It should be their deployment In view of the de structiveness of the modern weapons, the great question is what measures can be agreed, to which will 'prevent the kind of massive surprise attack which could be decisive In the- first assault For with both sides pos sessing nuclear weapons, a pro fitable, victory' is conceivable only with a knockout by sur prise. What the modern world needs is not so much inspection to see that armaments stay re duced but a very early warning system much earlier than the one which we are building In Canada against the mobiliza tion for surprise. The same consideration ap plies to the conventional forces on ;the European continent If they were reduced to the level where a surprise attack could not be launched without the mo bilization of reserves from the Soviet Union itself, European se curity would be much greater. And Jt would not matter so much how many divisions the SmHot TTnlnn hoH at home. -- . . . .. JWTE KNOW that the Soviet High Command is now greatly concerned with the prob lem of surprise. We ourselves have long been concerned with that problem. It is the problem to which we could now address ourselves with a fair chance of making some progress. Copyright. 1955, ; New York Herald Tribune Xae. Dead line Sunday ClaHtod ft at neon Saturday. 1 a. ra Monday for MtndaT- other day 530 oreriooa day. , Uzilzti 30, 1955 $2,4o3,053.46 139,500.00 177,795.1? 3,212.42 .$2,783,561.07 .$2,505,920.53 . 101,090.11 484.90 300.00 175,763.53 ' .$2,783,561X7 17b to ANNUM
