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O o o O o G O O o o o o FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDWTRIBUIfl "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 97-29 North Fir St Phone 2141 ROBERT W RVHU Editor HZRB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Mananing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor LIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent f.ewspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, unaer nti wi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year 812.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One vear 30 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: .,nn Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1M Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County "lTniwdPress Full Leased Wjre "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Officer in New York. Chicago De troit San FrancLsco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louia Atlanta. Vancouver B c. NATIONAL EDITORIAL lASsodwuilo.N U Of NIWI FAPII rutusHiii ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson- County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and to years ago. 0 10 YEARS AGO August 22. 1945 (It was Wednesday) Japanese peace treaty to be 'signed on U.S.S. Missouri Sun day. From A rthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A Victory frdener reports a tomato vine that refused to grow in its fer tilized, cultivated, and watered space, is coming up bullheadedly and bravely in the middle of his concrete frontyard sidewalk. 20 YEARS AGO August 22, 1935 (It was Thursday) . Fire burns over 700 acres near Lake of the Woods. Cats abandoned on county roads prove problem to humane society. I ca 30 YEARS AGO August 22, 1925 (It was Friday) Crater Lake travel 20 per cent ' higher than last year. First rain in three months falls in valley. 40 YEARS AGO August 22, 1915 (It was Saturday) 0 Mercury rises to 102 degrees and smoke from forest fires casts pall over valley. New dance pavillion at Gold Hill to open tonight. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Once Congress has adjourn ed the President can or can't veto a bill passed in its last hours? 2. The musical play "Oklaho 0 ma" once won a Pulitzer prize; right or wrong? 3. Cancer of the larynx (in the throat) is less or more com mon among women than among men, or is it about 50-50? 4. A marathon foot race is held April 19 in what U.S. city? 5. Belfast is capital of North ern Ireland, Southern Ireland, Scotland or Wales? 6. When the Maple Leafs play - the Red Wings, it's at what game? v 7. Kosciusko, who fought on our side in the Revolutionary war, was a Hungarian, Finn, Czech, Italian, Russian or Pole? The answers: 1. Can. 2. Right. 3. Less common among women. 4. Boston. 5. Northern Ireland. Iron Lungs Flown To Aid Wisconsin Portland (U.R) Three iron lungs were flown from St. Vin cent's hospital here to Green Bay, Wis., Friday to help fight a polio outbreak. The iron lungs were ordered sent to the Wisconsin city on an emergency basis by the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis. A C-47 was flown to Port land from McChord Air Force Base, Wash., 0 to pick up the equipment. EXPENSIVE SWIM New York (U.R) The day was hot and, besides, Edward Quinn, 25, isn't the sort of chap to pass up a dare. So, when friends dared him to dive from the Staten Island Ferry, Quinn did. He was fined $25 for de- Claying the ferry an hour while G crewm embers fished him out. MAIL TRIBUNE When The U.S.A. Won't Talk A controversy of long standing over what govern ment information the public is entitled to receive is coming up for another round of discussion in hearings of a House Government Operations subcommittee headed by Rep. John E. Moss, (D-Calif). In prepar ing for the hearings, slated for early fall, Moss has sent questionnaires to 60 government agencies and departments. V. M. Newton. Jr.. chairman of the Freedom of Information Committee of sional journalistic fraternity, in an interim report 01 April 20, notes that "after 15 months trial of the Eis enhower order (Executive Order 10-501), there ap pears confusion even among the Washington press as to whether it has aided the citizens 'to know what their government is doing'." Newton presents a symposium of opinion of Wash ington newsmen. Paul R. Leach, Knight Newspaper Washington Bureau chief, at one extreme, informed the committee : "I believe the present administration is much more open than the previous two were on giv ing information." But Joseph and Stewart Alsop wrote : It is a very serious matter indeed, and not just for re porters but for every one, when the American government actively seeks to stop the flow of significant information to the American rublic. And that is what is happening today, on the specious pretext of "maintaining security." EISENHOWER Order 10-501, issued Nov. 6, 1953, replaced former President Truman's Executive Order 10-290, issued on Sept. 24, 1951. Under the Truman order every government agency had power to classifly documents for The Eisenhower directive deprived 28 non-mili-tary agencies of classifying power. It abolished the "restricted category ot classitication. it limited class ifying authority in 17 other non-military agencies to the agency chief. Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks, at the di rection of the President and on recommendation of the National Security Council, on Nov. 5, 1954, estab lished a new agency, the Office of Strategic Informa tion, to "work with the business community" on voluntary-safeguarding of classified strategic data. J. Russell Wiggins, chairman of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Freedom of Information Commit tee, wrote: To the extent that this effort succeeds it will impair the right of the American people to know and (will) interfere with a system of industrial and commercial information to which we are enormously indebted for our industrial and business progress. 17IGGINS was even more critical when R. Karl Honaman, director of the O.S.I., on April 25 was named Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Public. Affairs. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson on March 30 had issued two separate orders: (a.) im posing strict limitations on speeches and published material of military personnel and (b.) replacing military public information directors with civilians. The first of these orders established as a criterion for release of information in addition to security whether the material would constitute a "constructive contribution to the primary mission" of the Depart ment. PRESIDENT Eisenhower on April 27 told reporters that a "blunder" had been made by the Republi can Policy Committee in issuing a pamphlet giving data on new weapons. Press Secretary James C. Hag erty explained that the President "felt" that the press in general had disclosed technical military secrets but that the President always had opposed "censorship of legitimate news." But Leonard Engel, writing of the Salk anti-polio vaccine controversy, criticizes the "misguided attempt by the Department of Health, Ed ucation and Welfare to withhold from the public -for many weeks information the public was entitled to know from the beginning." E.R.R. Boss of Coast Guard Pulling for Gaston To Win Commission Washington (U.R) The boss of the Coast Guard is pulling for Pierre Gaston to win his fight for the Coast Guard commission he failed to get because of "guilt by kinship" problems. Vice Adm. Alfred C. Rich mond, Coast Guard command ant, said he hopes Gaston's case is "resolved quickly and I hopep it will be in his favor. Gaston, 23-year-old San Fran cisco seafarer, graduated from the Coast Guard Academy last April. But his commission has been held up because of charges his mother once belonged to some subversive groups. The mother, Mrs. Jean Grisez, said she joined the organizations because she is a "bundles-for-Britain sort of person interested in good sounding causes." She denied any Communist leanings and Gaston himself was dsecrib. ed as having no interest in pol itics. Richmond said yesterday that Gaston's commission has not actually been turned down yet. It is merely being held up until the case is settled. "Unfortunately," he said, "the case has not yet been resolved. But I hope it is resolved quickly and I hope it will be in his favor. "We try to lean over back wards to protect the rights of the individual but we don't want to jeopardize the security of the United States." Monday, August 22. 1955 Sigma Delta Chi, profes- security reason's. The case currently is being re viewed by Coast Guard security boards. It eventually will go to Richmond and the Secretary of the Treasury for final decision. Third Case The Gaston case is one of three so-called "guilt by kin ship" cases which have stirred national attention in recent weeks. Eugene W. Landy, an honor graduate of the Merchant Marine Academy, was denied a Naval re serve commission because . his mother once was a- Communist. A special board set up Saturday by Navy Security Charles S. Thomas is reviewing the case. Another case came to light Saturday when Congressiopal sources revealed a Cleveland scientist, Fred Karpoff , was fired from a government research' job because his parents allegedly belonged to a onetime Commun ist front group. The Civil Service Commission, under Congres sional pressure, has agreed to re-examine the case. HEAT GETS MANIKINS Detroit (U.R) Even the "cool" suits on- manikins in a Detroit clothing store were ruf fled by the 100-degree heat Sun day. The heat set off fire-fighting sprinklers in the store. After the mishap, the displays looked as though they were drenched with perspiration. Today and By Walter THE VULNERABILITY OF NATO There are already plenty of 3igns that the future of NATO cannot be taken for granted, and that if its stra tegic and pol itical founda tions are not strengthened it will fade and languish. To be sure, the pre liminary re ports of the meiffbers do not as yet con tain proposals to reduce their Walter Lippmann military contributions. As Eur ope is enjoying great prosper ity, there can be no serious ar guments about their being able to afford to live up to their com. mitments. Nevertheless, there is sure to be mounting popular pressure, which will be felt on the parlia ments, to reduce the length of military service and the size of the military expenditures. What is more, although the govern ments themselves are not now giving in to the popular pressure, they are already acting as they would never thijik of acting if they were absolutely serious about the military conception of NATO. They have accepted without protest or much worry ing about it the withdrawal of the larger part of the French army to North Africa. As there is no German army, this easy going acceptance of a military vacuum can mean only that the Atlantic powers do not think their security depends in any critical degree upon the contin ental ground forces. TT IS easy enough to say that as the tension with the Soviet Union has become relaxed, the effort within the NATO is be coming relaxed too. But this can not be the whole explanation. For if, as Mr. Dulles and every, one else is saying, the Soviets are more friendly because NATO has been armed and united, why should there be any doubt that the NATO powers will carry on so successful a policy? Is it be cause the people cannot be made to understand a policy which to Mr. Dulles, and other high of ficials seems so obvious? I do not think so. It is true that democracies tend to become too pacificistic when there's peace just as in war they tend to be come bellicose and to demand unconditional surrender and to tal victory. But the turnabout in opinion would not be likely to happen so quickly if there were not something hollow and unconvincing in the official NATO doctrine. fFHAT something is the fact that it is a long time since anyone has really believed, if anyone ever believed it, that the security of Europe and of the Atlantic community depends up on being able to win a defensive battle on the German ground between the Rhine and the Elbe rivers. This is the reason why the present strategical structure of NATO lacks the genuine pop ular support in Western Europe, including . Western Germany. This is why the support of NATO is so easily undermined. The people, with their governments close behind them, are quick to lay down a heavy burden which they do not think of as necessary to their security and their sur vival. I am speaking as one who has been for the Atlantic alliance since the first World War, who regards it as a vital and endur. ing necessity of U.S. foreign pol icy. We have the principal re sponsibility for the fact that NATO is threatened because of its strategical foundations are not really believed in. For some years we have been proclaiming fromr the house-tops our belief that 'if war comes, it will be fought with nuclear weapons. We have also been crying from the house-tops that in a modern war, not even the United States, which is 4,000 miles from- the Soviet Union, can be defended securely. How in the name of common sense can we then ex pect the Europeans, who have no defense whatsoever against nuclear weapons, to think that their security depends upon one dozen or two dozen infantry divisions? VlfE shall have to rethink and restate the strategical found ations of NATO if in the days to come, the essential alliance is not to wither away for lack of popular understanding and sup port. Perhaps the place to being our review is to go back to the beginning. Originally, NATO was based on the American monop. oly of atomic weapons and upon the Strategic Air Force. Western Europe, which was virtually dis armed, was given an American guarantee that there would be massive retaliation if the Red Army advanced. Then the European nations, es pecially France, began to argue that they were afraid they would be over-run while Congress was debating whether to declare war. Tomorrow Lippmann So, to make American partici pation automatic, we agreed to station American troops in the line of any Soviet advance. The next stage came with the realization that the real danger of a Soviet advance lay in the fact that one of the Western gov ernments, lacking an adequate army, might be overthrown by a Communist uprising, and that a Communist government might then invite the Red Army to. come in to protect it. This was the real threat. This was the real reason why it become im portant to build up ground forc es in France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Western Ger many. Then came the Korean war, and in its darkest hours the panic notion was hatched in the Pentagon that Europe was like South Korea, and that it could not be defended except with an enormous ground army. We are still living in the aftermath and with the political debris of that panic. VET it is true now, as it was -1 in the beginning, that, aoart from internal order, the extern al security of Western Europe depends upon the over-all bal ance of power between East and West. When NATO was found ed, the United States still had an atomic monopoly. Now there is an atomic stalemate. But that is proving itself to be a decisive deterrent against overt aggres sion, and it is this historic de velopment which was reflected and registered at Geneva. We shall now have to modern ize the strategic conception of and the strategic arguments for NATO. For. as of now. there is too great a disparity between what NATO is suDDOsed to be doing and what the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. are in fact 4oing. (Copyright, 1955, New . York Herald Tribune. Inc.) Radio Moscow Praises Farmers London (U.R) Radio Moscow said today the American farm delegation that recentlv visited the Soviet Union showed "good will" and "friendly criticism." "The true friend is not he who praises all the time, but he who speaks the truth," said : the broadcast which was monitored here. "The characteristic of the U.S farmers' visit was good win,' Radio Moscow said. "After their trip, the Ameri can farm delegates spoke of the things they had seen, and they also offered some criticism of certain shortcomings they had noticed. "We are aware of these short comings and don't try to hide them and we want to overcome them. "The friendly criticism made Dy tne American delegates will help us. And the very fact that this criticism was offered is an other sign of the cordial healthy atmosphere in which the Ameri can farmers made their tour of the Soviet Union." Nebraska Prison Riof Investigated Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) A state investigation began today into the strife-torn Nebraska Peni the strife-torn Uebraska Peni tentiary. Once again, rebel convicts set fire to prison property and were subdued by shotguns Sunday. Prison guards, backed up by National Guardsmen, advanced upon the prison's two-story seg regation building, firing shotgun blasts as they came. The 16 rioters promptly end ed their 15-hour rebellion and surrendered with their hands in the air. Prison authorities said 13 of the rioters were ringleaders in an uprising of more than 300 convicts at the prison last Tues day and Wednesday. The state Board of Control was. called in to investigate the third outbreak at the peniten tiary in five months. No reason was given for the latest riot, al though Warden Joseph Bovey commented "they don't need a reason to start an uprising." Foreign Bike Tariff Increased SO Per Cent Fraser, Colo, r (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower has increased the tariff on imported bicycles by 50 per cent to avoid "threat ened serious injury" to the American bicycle industry. It was estimated unofficially that the . move could raise the price of imported bikes any where from $1 to ?3 and maybe more. TICKETS TORN UP Knoxville, Tenn. Police tore up parking tickets plastered on two cars that stood for two days in a bus stop zone after learning the owners were visiting dele gates to a police convention here. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Sad news: Sgt. James Gallagher has been sentenced by a court martial to confinement at hard labor for life. The sentencing came shortly after he was convicted of various offenses,- including the unpre meditated murder of two fellow American prisoners of war while in a North Korean prison camp. He was also found guilty of charges involving mistreating and informing on fellow Korean war prisoners and collaborating with the Chinese Reds. T SUPPOSE there have to be bad apples in every barrel. Let's think of the MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS of good ap ples in our armed services barrel. TN ADDITION to the other dam- age they wrought in their binges, Connie and Diane took a heavy toll of Southern and Eastern crops. North Carolina's Governor Luther Hodges reports between 22 and $27,000,000 of lost farm products, mostly tobacco and corn. Virginia expects to lose about $3,500,000 worth of bright leaf tobacco raw material for cigarettes in one area along the North Carolina border. They also, exacted a heavy crop toll as they advanced north ward through the rich farming districts of Maryland, Pennsyl vania, New York and all of New England. I SOMETIMES wonder if intel ligent, businesslike, nation wide crop insurance wouldn't be worth more in the long run than all these efforts to support the prices of certain farm crops thus building up huge sur pluses to hang like a dark cloud over the markets. CJPEAKING of losses: U Dr. Harry Kingman, rep resenting an organization known as Livestock Conservation, Inc., tells the American Veterinarian association at its annual meeting now in session at Minneapolis that American livestock men lose $2,000,000,000 per year through mishandling and dis ease and parasite attacks on their animals. He adds that this amounts to about ONE-FIFTH of the annual income from meat, milk, hides and .wool. . The job of veterinary science is to CUT DOWN these losses. SPEAKING of science and its job, the American Society of Agronomy . (soil scientists) is meeting this week at Davis, which is the agricultural part of the University - of California campus. These soil scientists report that they are working on a cotton problem. It isn't concerned with cotton FIBER. Instead, H has to do with cotton seed, from which we get cottonseed oil and cottonseed meal. As of now, and over all the years of the past, pigment glands in cotton seeds DISCOLOR the oil, thus reducing its market quality. The scientists report that they have under development several promising strains of cotton which have few or NO pigment glands in their seeds. AND- .- University of Washington researchers report to their fel low researchers at the Davis meeting that they have found that nitrogen makes forests grow faster. They applied nitrogen to a 30- year-old stand of Douglas fir and carefully observed the results. The trees, they say, grew much faster in height and diameter. This was especially true of the LARGER trees. The importance of that state ment lies in the fact that under natural conditions larger and older trees tend to grow slower than smaller and younger trees. THAT is to say: As our VIRGIN forests de cline, we are forced to rely on new growth for our needs in the way of lumber and wood fiber. By the use of fertilizer, we can SPEED UP timber growth. SO MUCH for science. Let's now take a look at SUPERSTITION which is non- science. On the island of Formosa su perstitious peasants are kneeling in worship before a newly-caught 400-pound TURTLE. They be lieve its size indicates that it has been influenced by something SUPERNATURAL. Heroic Truck Driver Killed in Accident Oreeon City (U.R) A 27- year-old logging truck driver driver died Saturday after ram- minff his runaway truck into the side of the Oregon City pedes trian v elevator to avoid a group of children coming out of the elevator. The victim was Robert Junior Short, Yamhill. His brakes ap parently failed and his heavy vehicle, loaded with eight-foot logs, sped over the Oregon City West Linn bridge while Short shouted, "Get out of the way" at motorists. He deliberately ran the truck into the concrete facing of the elevator to avoid hitting the children. He was dead on arrival at Hutchinson hospitaL Matter of THE CONFIDENCE TRICK Washington With the help of the convenient cloak of of ficial secrecy, a really dangerous confidence trick is being played on this country by the present leader ship at the Pen tagon. It is a simple trick. High officials pious ly declare that the "American lead" in such Joseph Also fields as air craft and missile development can never be challenged by the wretched and uncultured Rus sians. Everyone likes to believe that there is an American lead. The hard facts of Soviet tech nical progress are heavily classi fied. So none but the closest students of the problem doubt the official claims. But in fact the official claims are false; and what is more they are consciously false, unless the Pentagon leaders have persuad ed themselves not to . credit the hard and disagreeable facts pre sented to them by the American intelligence. As an example of the kind of nature-faking that is. currently going on,' the real story of the satellite was just revealed in this space. The American decision to build a small earth satellite was presented to the country as one more proof of the "American lead." In fact, it was a proof of the American lag. The decision was taken be cause the policy-makers had been warned that the Soviets wpi-p already building a larger and more militarily significant earth satellite than that now planned in this country: and because there were indications that the Kremlin shortly intended to an nounce this fact to -the world. . The Soviet lead in the satel lite race may nerhaus be con cealed from the country by the American policy-makers' forced choice of a satellite type which has the useful virtues of being relatively cheap and easy to Duua. But. publicity techniques will not work forever. Consider, for example, the following balance sheet -of the state of the long range guided missile program in this country and the Soviet Un ion. iukst, tne Soviets set up a x Manhattan district-style or ganization to press guided mis sile development immediately after the war; and this organi zation has been working full blast with .top-priority call on men and materiel, ever since that moment. They started with more Russian and captured Ger man scientists experienced in rocketry than we had. While General Electric was building one Chinese copy of a German V-2, the Soviets were producing 1,000 improved models in the captured V-2 factory in East Germany. In short, they took the lead at the start. Second, hard intelligence was received at least a year ago that the Soviets had successfully de signed and produced a new rock et motor, the M-102, with the enormous thrust of 264,000 pounds per second at sea level. The actual design and production of the M-102 had occurred con siderably more than a year ago. This clearly indicated a Soviet lead in high-powered rocket en gine design. Third, it is now accepted as quite certain that the Soviets have also designed and produced a two-stage rocket, with the very great range of about 1,500 miles. Such a rocket represents the last step but one before the success ful design and production of the ultimate weapon, the inter-con- tinental ballistic missile or stag ed rocket that can strike from continent to continent. We do not seem to have reached this last but one step. Fourth, despite all the evi Af Since 1908 PERL Mortuary Phone 2-6675 FINER FUNERAL SERVICES in every price range Fact By Joseph Al dences of Soviet progress in the most important of all develop ment fields, the American long range missile program is still organized on a strictly business-as-usual basis. The job to be done, is as vast and complex as the job tht was done by the Manhattan district. At the end of the war, Los Al amos laboratory, the great syn thetic brain that directed the Manhattan district, had 4,000 scientists at work behind its guarded fences. The directing brain of our long-range guided) missile projects now consists of the headquarters of an Air Force brigadier general, staffed with 100 persons including clerks, plus the staff of a scientific-industrial corporation, the Ramo Woolridge company, plus a chief scientist, Dr. John Von Neumann who has to double in brass as an Atomic Energy commissioner. a pURTHERMORE, a ferocious " 11551c ia ijuw going on wim in the Pentagon about whether an additional 9nn nnn nnn ..n or will not be provided, next year, to speed up the long-range missile program. The Air Force authorities who have the grave responsibilities of long-range missile development are plead- irifT fn- 4VtA . 1 vi mc money on xneir knees. The chances are they will not get more than half nt it t . -- A by m. aa much as that. Maybe it is tiresome to keep harping on theacute danger of this stort of situation. Maybe the able new Secretary of the Air F nrpp r 1 - ... . --- """"" vuaries, will be able to take the appropriate cor rective steps. But until correc tive steps have been taken, the - mi i an American lead ought not to be made again. (Copyright. 1955. New. York Herald Tribune Inc.) Presidential Aide Sees Viciory for GOP Washington (U.R) One of 1 President Eisenhower's top aides' thinks the Republicans can cap ture the White House again in 1956 even if Mr. Eisenhower doesn't run again. Presidential Assistant Howard Pyle said it would be "helpful" if the President runs for another term. Eut he said victory is pos sible without him because the "Republican position has never been stronger." Pyle, former Arizona Gov ernor and the President's adviser on federal-state affairs, admitted there will be a "free-for-all" for the GOP nomination it V n ident turns in his badge at the end of his first term. t He suggested that Vice-President Richard M. Nixon "unques tionably" wonlrl ha nnn n 11 viic VI Hit? leading contenders, although he declined to speculate on other possibilities. What You Cost Him GEO. N. TAYLOR TriA rnmtnnn noml 41r1ma hear Christ and at that the high erups ever iealous for nnwr brought Christ to trial. The charge against Him was His claim that He was the Son of God. Any man must die who made that :laim. So Christ was brought to trial. Being sworn in, He not only de clared that He was the Son of God but that they would see Him sitting at the right hand of God and com ing back again to this earth. At that the Rulers declared that Christ must die and so they cru cified Him but on His own word that He was the Son of God. To all who receive Him into their hearts a God's Son who Hied for their sins. God gives eternal life. These will not see the Judgment Day of the Lost nor know the pains of eternal hell. afiv. e o G
