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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDrORD (OREGON) "Ierybody la Southern Oregon Read The MU Tribune" Fubliabed Daily Except Saturday by MXDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-28 North Fir St. Phone 2-411 ROBERT W. HUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertisinc Manaser X. C. FERGUSON. Manacicf Editor rori in wia TD ri-m t.4i.(W HARRY CHIPMAN, Telecrapb Editor RICHARD JEWETT. 6 porta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second claas matter at Ifedford. Oregon, under Act of March. 1897 . SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per copy 10e. Daily and Sunday One year tU OO es .1 C; inMiiha CM Daily and Sunday Three moe. 3.90 sunaay uniy uns ve- . By Carrier In Advance Medford. Asiuana. t,niau rw, Jacksonville. Gold Hill . Phoenix. fenaay tove. nogue wto. and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday One Jear tlS.OO Daily and Sunday One month - 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms -an ro hut'"-p AffirUl Paiier of the City f Medford Official Paper of Jacfcsna Ceanty United Pr full Leased wire MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: overturns ivrprotu . Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Loula Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL lASSpcfATlfoN J U pUSUSHIIS 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 13, 1945 ' (It was Friday) Temperatures 10 degrees above average and high humid ity cause discomfort of Rogue Valley residents. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot colUumn: A county official is creating a minor sen sation. By taking six-foot steps to save a $15 pair of shoes, he ripped the seat of-an $18 pair of pants.. 20 YEARSAGO July 13, 1935 - . . (It was Saturday) Four Mile lake road opens; reports indicate silversides, rain bow and brook trout are plenti ful. Some 150,000 acres of Jack son county timber land closed to entry except with permit from fire warden. 30 YEARS AGO July 13. 1925. ... (It was Monday) Thirteen forest fires reported to Crater National Forest serv ice; nine start from electrical storm in mountains. A branch of United State Em ployment service will open in Medford for three-month period. 40 YEARS AGO July 13, 1915 About 50 men employed in constructing Fish lake dam, ex pected to be complete before snow falls. State highway advisory board to be in Medford to study plan to state road work on different basis. ' " What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 71 Copt. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Persons over 70 get their driving permits renewed ' auto matically in every state of the Union; right or wrong'j. 2. The number of youngsters brought into juvenile court for delinquency has been increasing, decreasing or 'staying the same? ' 3. The public debt is now some what higher or low than when President Eisenhower -took of fice, or about the same? 4. War veterans make up about one-third, one-half, or two-thirds of an xeaerax employees; . 5. The cruzeiro is the money unit in Argentina, Rumania, Den mark. Brazil or Japan?-; 6. Which two of these had the highest population rate increase in last 15 years: Arizona, Cali fornia, District of . Columbia, Florida, Nevada, Oregon? 7.- Most, people in the world can or can't read and write? The answers: 1. Wrong; must take examination in some; 2. In creasina steadily; 3. Somewhat higher; 4. About one-half; 5. Bra- ail; 6. Arizona and Nevada; 7. Most can't. Aleutian Air Base Will Be Reactivated Anchorage, Alaska U.E The Air Force has decided to re activate the Aleutian island base of Shemya -"on a very limited temnorarv basis" for meteorlog ical studies, the Alaskan Air Pnmmanri announced todav. Shemva is approximately 1,600 miles west southwest of here and about 2,000 miles from Tokyo on the great circle route MAIL TRIBUHE Annexation --Again? Before some opponent of annexation objects on principle to the Medford Planning Commission dis cussing two new annexation plans, it might be well to point out a couple of facts. First, it has been the understanding all along that if the "mass annexation" of the 3,000 acre area failed, the city was prepared to make available city services to smaller areas, as the time came and as it appeared appropriate. Even the annexation opponents, many of them, acknowledged this is necessary. , e e e CECONDLY, there is no getting around the fact, which again was pretty well universally recog nized, that annexation is the only way in which some of the areas can get needed services without too long a wait. - Some people, on both sides of the late unlamented dispute, have had the feeling that 'that's that," and there is no. need to worry our little heads any more about such tilings as streets, lighting, sewers, water service and so on. But the needs of a growing area cannot be denied, and we feel that the Planning Commission was doing no more nor less than its job to accept, without ill feeling and without any sour grapes, requests that new and smaller annexation proposals be discussed. THE late election demonstrated pretty well (by a 5 to 1 vote) that nobody is "forcing" anybody to join the city. And with that lesson learned, perhaps these new proposals can be debated on their merits, rather than on the proposition that the city is trying for a "grab" of more property. One member of the commission put it pretty well when he said, in effect, that the city's prior "invita tion" had been first misinterpreted and then rejected, but that the problems which brought about the elec tion are still there, unsolved. Only through cooperation and level-headedness not through suspicion and ill-feeling will they be solved. E.A. Typos A typographical error is a thing of evil. , Perhaps the average reader doesn't know what a "typo" is. But newspapermen know. They know. A typographical- error,: dear reader, is when, a wedding story says "the bridge and bridegroom came down the aisle," or when a classified ad. tells of "monkey wenches" for sale. And so on, and so on, ad nauseum. '.--.. COMETIMES they're funny; frequently they are desperately unfunny; occasionally they're almost tragic v The English language being , the odd, malleable thing it is, often the deletion of one letter can com pletely change the meaning of a sentence, which, when a newspaper is dealing with things of vital im port to people, isn't good. So what is a typographical "error? The answer involves just a bit of explanation. AFTER a story is received in the newsroom, or is nrnfran Yvir a Mnnrfw if i'o ernA W an AKfnv Vf a, AWbVU J J C A vvl Vvl f lb a head is written for it, and department of the paper. Here it is assigned to a typesetting machine. This contraption looks like nothing else on earth, big and ungainly. At the front they have keyboards, similar although larger than the keyboards on a typewriter. Here the operator sits and punches the keys. As he does so a metal "matrix," or mat, slides down a chute each time a key is pressed, winding up far' a collection chamber where a series of them are held together to form a line of mats, each of which has a le --character impressed in it This line of mats is then moved next to a chamber of molten metal, which is squirted against it, forming a "slug" of metal as it cools, with the letters standing out along the edge. This is known as a "line" of type, and is the reverse impression of each line one reads in a story as printed; ..... - . . - e e e e " . ' "THESE lines are assembled to form a story, and finally are placed in metal rims, or forms, which are then processed to prepare the finished page for the press another step which has nothing to do with typos. -' . - ,- ' . "... : : It is when the mats fall into the lines that' is the crucial point For sometimes one can stick, or hang iip, or ,a wrong letter come down," or two caij come down in reverse order. This is far too common an occurrence, and, since neither . machine nor man-is perfect, ;a system of checking is used . -This is known as "proofreading," and consists of producing a 'Jproof ' of each story that is, a prelim inary trial printing before the stories are assembled in a page to be read and checked. . e e : - e v .. UQWEVER, when one remembers that in an ordin- ary day a newspaper such as the Mail Tribune may have anywhere from 40 to 65 columns of printed matter other than advertisements, it can be seen that proof-reading is not altogether as simple a task as it might at first thought seem to be. In other words, errors are made, and while every effort is made to catch-them before the $aper comes out, they do get by, too many. This is neither an apology for these errors, nor a defense. But the errors do happen, and this is why they happen. E.A - GRENADE KILLS TWO - - Agrigento,. Sicily CUJD A World War II hand , grenade kyied two boys and severely injured three others in nearby Spinasanta Tuesday. The small boys found the Italian grenade in field. . Wednesday, July IS, 18S5 AO kJ J C1A VUlVVi f it is sent to the printing JUDICIAL ROBE LOST - New York (U.tt Magistrate Neal P. Bottiglierl explained Tuesday why he held up the opening of felony court for 30 minutes. He said he couldn't find his judicial robe. Today a nd By Walter THE EISENHOWER DULLES DUET It was naughty of the sub committee of the House Appro priations Committee to publish just now what Secretary Dul les told them a month ago about the eco nomic troubles of the Soviet Union. Having been warned by" Mr. Khrus chev that the waiter uppmaaa Soviet Union is unwilling to let its conces sions be interpreted as weakness, the White House had to an nounce that Mr. Dulles had not meant what his words said. And in fact, he had not meant what his words said. He had been telling the sub-committee that part of the truth, somewhat or namented, which he thought most quickly would persuade them to vote the appropriation for foreign aid. He was telling them the ... kind of truth he thought they would like to hear. This is by no means the first time that the President and the Secretary have seemed to be say ing different things. Again and again, they have been found say ing things which differed very much in the tone, and occasion ally in the substance. The Presi dent, looking at the shining face of the moon, would say it was cheerful; the Secretray looking at the dark side of the moon, would say it was chilly. For this point counterpoint of Eisenhow er hopefulness and Dulles wet blanket there have been a num ber of explanations: for ex ample, that Eisenhower never reads the fine print whereas Dulles is an expert on fine print or that Eisenhower believes in the natural goodness of man and that Dulles believes in original sin. ; e e e BE that as it may, the best ex planation is, I think, that the Eisenhower-Dulles duet is a har mony of two parts. The one is addressed to the majority of cur people, and to the world. The other is addressed to the Re publican Senators who were pre dominant in the first half of the Eisenhower administration. The two voices which had so often sounded so unlike have been devoted to the same end. That end i to - neutralize the ; once powerful right wing Republicans in order that the basic Eisen hower policy of .disengagement and conciliation could proceed.; i During his first two years the President never felt that he was himself equipped by previous ex perience or that he had' the po litical strength to make nimseii the leader of his party. In that period it fell to Mr. Dulles to ap pease and to finagle and to di vert the efforts of Knowland, Bridges and their coterie to take over the conduct of foreign pol icy, particularly in Asia, and of McCarthy and his" crew to ter rorize and dominate the person nel of the Executive Department. It was not what one might call, a game played openly and above board. But in view of the fact that the President was un-J willing or unable to assume the leadership and to assert' the pre rogative of his office, it was Mr. Dulles who had to hold the Presi dent's political enemies at bay. He fed them and he kept them quiet with negative policies, with announcements of what could not and what would not ' be done, and with 'very stern words. ; He worked largely because the right wing Senators were, despite all their war-like, talk, isolationists under the skin. They wanted to breath fire at the Chinese Communists; at the same time they wanted to bal ance the budget and to reduce taxes. Mr. Dulles breathed fire for them whenever the Presi dent seemed to be talking mod eration. And so" Mr. Dulles held them off until -in the mid-term election of, 1954 they .lost their power to interfere with the Pres ident's policy of disengagement, retrenchment, conciliation, and co-existence. - ', e e - - ' rpHE remarks which Mr. Dulles A made in private to the House Sub-Committee K,were mteant .to make the Congress feel that they should vote the money for for eign aid even though the Soviet government was talking peace. Until this year, the case for for eign aid had been argued on the basis of the imminent threat of an aggressive expansion of the Communist power. Faced with the change of Soviet tactics, Mr. Dulles was out to persuade Con gress that the Communist power is now retreating because of the success of the policy of which foreign aid is an important ele ment.": .. The . question, we might ask. ourselves, is 'whether the Presi dent's power at home and the situation abroad have not brought us to a point where it is possible, and indeed necessary to .. stop talking down to the Congress and to begin' talking publicly as Informed and responsible men are talking and thinking pri vately. The great majority in Congress would prefer to be Tomorrow Lippmann treated sincerely and as adults, and the extremists no longer count for very much. No good can come of teaching our : people to believe that; we now have the upper hand, and that we can therefore compel the Soviet Union to make conces sions. The Communists are a tough lot. We are, for example, far from having the upper hand in Eastern Asia. We must not de lude ourselves . into thinking that we have won the race of armaments. And even in the eco nomic comparison-, the advan tage is by no means decisively with us. To be sure, the Ameri can free enterprise system and the mixed economy of Western Europe are stronger and richer than the Communist economy in Russia-and in Eastern Europe. But in the vast under-developed areas, of the world the Western way is not regarded as the only way. For free enterprise and democracy are much slower and more difficult than is the strong centralized, ruthless way of Communist dictatorship. ' (TVER the whole world situa " tion there now impends the enormous, epochal, . . absolutely unprecedented fact that the mod ern nuclear weapons, though they cannot be abandoned or abolished, cannot be used with out intolerable risks. He would be a bold man who thought he knew the political consequences of this kind , of military stale mate. It seems clear enough that both sides are deterred from using these weapons as instru ments of their policy. But it is not at all clear what this will do to their policies. One apparent -effect of the stalemate, is, it seems to me, to loosen up the Soviet satellite system in Eastern Europe and the American dependency sys tem in East Asia. The weak countries would be entirely in defensible in world' war, and the moral obligation to attempt to defend them is a military lia bility which almost certainly off sets whatever strategic value they may possess. This is as true of Poland as it is of South Korea and Formosa. They are all hope lessly vulnerable, to nuclear weapons. Because of this ulti mate and controlling fact, their role as outpost in the great mili tary .coalition, is diminishing, and their future is more likely to lie outside of the military sys tem of uie great nuclear powers. Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Thornton Rules on Underground Water Salem (U.R) Oregon at torney general Robert Y. Thorn ton ruled yesterday that the state engineer has the authority , to control, underground water sup plies and their appropriation. State Engineer Lewis Stan ley requested the opinion after Robert Lytle, a Vale attorney, claimed that one of his clients who bad drilled three wells did not have to get a permit for use of the water. A hearing wiU be held in Vale within the next 30 days on the case' in question. . The attorney general said that until August 3 when a new state water code goes into effect, 'any one can drill a well without a permit, but must have a permit before appropriating the water. Under the new code, permits must be obtained before drilling any but small domestic wells. Gain Seen in Private Hells Canyon Project - 'Washington (U.R) The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said to day taxpayers would gain $487, 000,000 if private power were allowed to develop the Hells Canyon dam site on the Idaho Oregon border. It said another $400,000,000 the cost of the proposed federal project, for the Snake river can yon, also would be saved. - The ' chamber told the House Interior committee in a state ment that the Idaho Power Co., which wants to develop the site, would pay About $10,000,000 a yeay in federal, state and local taxes during the 50-year period of company operation provided bylaw. '-- ' - It said this would total $487,- 00,000. V'.. :' v:r' , New York The collapsible tubes which contain 'toothpaste and other products may be made of aluminum," tin, or lead. bosh no:.iE FunnisiiriGS SALE Drexel Rembrandt, Craddockv DsytfroiH, Mohawk Carpet and ether famous brands! t - - sT k i : This Sale -WO 3 More Days h i. .. Communications Letters 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 dble. The stall Tribune reserves the right to edit ail letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for Dubll ca tion must not exceed 400 words. How Ridiculous Can He Bef . To the Editor: I have read the many half-lies, or worse, put out by our Senators recently with some sense of frustration. How can the ordinary man who knows the truth, keep that truth before people when these two professional writers or public ists, with their further advan tage of public office, are busier spreading false' propaganda than they are looking after our in terests in Congress? The last headline, "Neuberger Blames Administration for cut in Talent fund" really tops them all. Just what are the facts? Any such project has to go through two stages: authoriza tion and appropriation. Both are necessary; one as much as the other. In the last Congress with Administration, House, and Sen ate all Republican, the Talent propect was authorized through the hard work of Senator Cor don . and Representative - Ells worth. The whole Oregon dele gation was Republican then ex cept for Morse who was still deciding where he would land. This year things were differ ent. The Democrats had a. ma jority in both House and Senate. The Democratic House, in spite of hard work by Ellsworth, as sisted by Republican Governor Paul Patterson, held the appro priation down to $154,000. I have watched Appropriation bills in Congress for years and there is about the same pattern for Interior Department appro priations. The House, controlled by a majority from the heavily populated industrial centers (mostly Democratic), holds such appropriations down drastically The Senate, with proportion ately larger representation from the West, regularly raises these appropriations. Committees from the two then confer and if the backers of such projects have influence, the final figure is about half-way between ihose passed by the two.' This happens in Congress after Congress. Of course, if the backers in the Senate are asleep or inef fective,, the House wins. In the case of the Talent Project this year, in a Democratic Congress with two Democratic Senators from Oregon, the usual pattern was not followed, but the House figures were accepted. Perhaps if our Senators had put in the effort working for our interests that they do phoning and wiring alibis, in order to push Morse's reelection next year, we'd have more appropriations. And where is the Administra tion , to blame? Did it veto an appropriation made by a Demo cratic Congress? No, apparently it was to blame because it didn't have more influence with a Dem ocratic Congress than our own two Democratic. Senators. How ridiculous can you be, Senator Neuberger? D. H. Barber, Trail, Oregon . Thanks to Observer Corps To the Editor: On July 14, 1955, the Ground Observer Corps will -celebrate the third anniversary of "Operation Sky w a t c h," the . around-the-clock watch for enemy bombers. This watch forms a valuable part of our nation's warning system by plugging .some of the holes in our radar defense system. Our self-preservation depends upon our .maintaining retalia tory action. The ground observ ers watch for unidentified air craft flying at low levels in areas not covered by .the radar detec tion network, insuring an early warning in case of an enemy at tack. The people of southern Ore gon are to be commended for their part in this important proj ect. Jackson Acounty has 24 ob servation posts, some of which operate 24 hours - a , day.- These posts are manned by civilian vol unteers of the Ground Observer Corps. Their effort receives no rewards other than the recogni tion by their fellow citizens of a truly patriotic service. It gives me great pleasure to extend to each Jackson County Ground Observer Corps volun teer my personal, as . well as official, congratulations on the third anniversary of Operation Skywatch. : ; ;"; V Joseph H. Hicks ; Maj. Gen, USAF (Ret) GARBO AT CAPRI : Cami. Italy(U.R) Swedish ac tress Greta Garbo arrived .here today aboard the yacht of Greek shipownlng magnate r Ansxoue Onassis for a one-day visit Hid den behind - dark glasses, Miss Garbo refused to talk. . . In The DayVNovs By FRANK JENKINS In Washington the senate agri cultural committee is tackling (reluctantly, in all probability, as we aU do when we approach ticklish jobs that we'd rather put off) the tough problem of what to de with American crop sur pluses. V ; ' It has just voted to DROP a long-time requirement that all foreign . shipments of surplus farm products be made in U.S. SHIPS. Its idea, of course, is to get our huge and growing sur pluses Into the hands of foreign consumers as quickly as possible and as cheaply as possible. Foreign shipping charges are as a rule cheaper than American shipping charges. .... Fr HAS a ruckus on its hands already. American shipping interests and American maritime unions are strongly opposed to the idea of permitting foreign ships to carry American surplus crop cargoes to foreign destina tions. , THE senate's agriculture com . mittee, wrestling further with the problem of surplus disposal, has approved a bill giving to the secretary of agriculture more authority to accept foreign cur rencies or barter deals in dis posing of surplus farm products. The bill ups the limit on such transactions from $700,000,000 worth to $150,000,000,000 worth. Again, you see, the committee has in mind the thought of get ting more, of our surplus farm crops consumed abroad. TVHAT brings up a recent pro- a- test by Representative Walter Norblad of Oregon's First con gressional district. He says our army and navy are using Danish and Australian butter. He wants that practice stopped and Ameri can surplus butter used instead. This is Norblad's second pro test. He kicked up a disturbance about the butter business last month' to the then secretary of the army Stevens. He is repeat ing it to the present army secre tary Wilber M. " Brucker, who succeeded Stevens. . TIE'S right, of course. a When it is reduced to its fundamentals, the situation is absurdly simple:' The surplus butter is owned by the federal government. The federal govern ment employs .the army . and navy. Because of the nature of military service," it employs them on the same basis' that, hired hands used to be employed on farms so much per month and "found." Ordinary . common sense dictates that when the fed eral government owns good food for which there is no market it c THIS IS A "SHADY";0El That-Paid Off t The LELAND CLARK INSURANCE AGENCY Has settlecl in full the fire lost of Wayne "Shady" Wakefield Drapery Shop in the Medford Furniture Building, owned by Bill . Hansen of Medford. All insurance on; the building and the Wakefield Drapery Shop is carried by the Oregon Mutual Insurance Company which has offered up to 20 savings on fire in surance for ever 60 years.. ' ' : : "Signed by ' T:;;.; 7 "Shady" Wakefield and Bill Hansen L EL AN DC L A RIt -." - .... . - ' : Insuraiico 7 Ne should feed this good food to its ' employees instead of going out and BUYING MORE FOOD from somebody else. Especially sine the federal government faces al ways the possibility that because of lack of storage, or because ox spoilage, it may have to THROW AWAY the food it already owns.. Such a practice violataa all the principles of sound business. Any private person who followed it in his own business would need': to have his head examined. ; J rDC federal government has a vast amount of taxpayers' money tied up in surplus farm products. WHAT TO DO WITH IT is a growing acute problem. Common sense tells us all that the thing to do with it Is to get consumed. The only way to get it consumed is to dispose of it at a price that consumers will be willing to pay. . . WHEAT is presently our. most " troublesome surplus.: We have more of it stored up than we know what to do with. And a NEW crop of it is now being harvested. We've run out of stor age space for it on land, and are stashing it away ON THE WATER in surplus ships. Here in Southern Oregon and Far Northern California, where we produce comparatively little wheat but a LOT of livestock, we think we know what ought to. be done with the wheat surplus. It should be disposed of at prices competitive with corn and other field grains. We could then feed the surplus . wheat to our livestock, thus help ing to get the wheat consumed. The West consumes more meat than it produces. Thus we would be putting the surplus wheat to a sound, economic use. But that's business. Politics is something els' again.; "' . 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