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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORD&wTRIBuKI "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phcne 2-gl41 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC AIXEN JR. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of Marcn a. iop SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday-ne year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Sunday Only One year 3-5-Bt Carrier In Advance Mediora. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point JcisSSvlJle. Gold Hill.PiKniX Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: ,nn Daily and Sunday One year 15M DaUy and Sunday One; month i 1 J5 Carrier and Dealers Se per copy. All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medtord Ofllclal Paper of Jachson County iTit.rt Press Full Leased Wire, MEMBEH OF AUDIT BURJiAU Advertising eprocuiau.v S$J!EEJ& 5325: Vancouver B.C. HATIONAl EtTrPRAL ASSOC1ATUON risiitf v J"11J NlWf PAPII FUBISSHIRS ASSOCIATIOW 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 Sept. 20, 1945 (It was Thursday) Central Point to vote on $35,- 000 water system improvement bonding Saturday, i . From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The deer season in Oregon Saturday, Sept. 29, and the more cautious hill men have started training to beat their cougar dog to the hole under the barn. 20 TEARS AGO Sept. 20, 1935 (It was Friday) Halle Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia,' receives one vote for Democratic nominee to New York state assembly. Plans presented to county commission for building road way into Oregon's Switzerland east of RoxyAnn. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 20. 1925 dt was Sunday) Sham National Guard battle put off because of muddy fair grounds. From the Local and Personal column: The ceremonial com memorating the discovery of Crater Lake, to be held tomor row afternoon under the aus pices of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce, will be held regardless of weather ac cording to a telephone message received in the city this morn ing. If the weather should prove to be inclement the ceremonies will be held within the lodge. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 20. 1915 (It was Monday) Western foothills covered with heavy Dall of smoke from Evans creek and Arraleeate forest fires. Elks here to dedicate new tem pie Thursday and Friday. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. bout one-third, one-half, or two-thirds of all U. S. families report their cash income is as high now as ever before? 2. The Berbers and the Arabs in Morocco are of the same re ligion or different religions? 3. The Senate or the House was in session for more hours this year, or was it about 50-50? 4. A small businessman ap plying for a loan from the Gov ernment must first try to get one locally; right or wrong? 5. U.S. coal exports to Europe are increasing, decreasing or just about holding their own over last year's? 6. Cash dividends from cor porations to stockholders are about five per cent less today than a year ago, or the same, or five, 10 or fifteen percent high er? 7. Which one of these gen erals was once superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy: U. S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, J. J. Per shing, George Patton, D. D. Eis enhower? The Answers: 1. About iwo- thirds. 2. The same (Moham medanism). 3. The Senate sat for more hours. 4. Right. 5. In creasing. 6. About 10 per. cent higher. 7. Lee. - . No charge is ever made for Red Cross supplies or services, national defense. I - 4 Editorial Correspondence San Francisco, Sept. 18 started. Along the banks of the Vice President Nixon promised parity for farmers." But that is what Secretary fighting against ever since he judgment with great courage and consistency. During the state labor convention in Medford some weeks ago, one of the chief speakers said the approaching presidential campaign would hit a new high for "double talk." He was 100 per cent right. Here is a perfect example of it. The Republican spokesman for agriculture is for flexible price supports and against full and firm price supports. But with farm ers in revolt because of the continued decline in prices, the GOP's chief political spokesman, promises UNCEASING effort against such a program. Who is to be believed? We don't know. Any more than we know what Secretary of the Interior Mc Kay means, when he does everything in his power to prevent public power development and then declares he is not opposed to it. More "double-talk." But we predict this is merely a drop in the bucket compared with what the poor defenseless voters are going to get a year hence. At the recent $100-a-plate dinner held here by the Democrats, the key-note was to get after Ike and dispel the myth that he is invincible. That sounds sensible from a partisan standpoint and Demo cratic dinners, like Republican dinners, can hardly be called NON partisan. But we think the distinction should be drawn between Presi dent Eisenhower as a person and a VERY popular one and his political beliefs and those of his party. A similar distinction should be drawn between the President's foreign policies and his domestic ones the former we believe are generally approved by the Ameri can people, the latter not. We grant, however, that in as rough-and-tumble a campaign as next year's election promises to be to make such distinctions stick will be difficult. There is great public interest in football here as the season starts. A week from today the local club, the 49ers, will meet the L.A. Rams up in Kezar stadium. All good seats have already been sold. Judging the regular season by the preliminaries, the officials are going to get more exercise than the players, not in enforcing the rules so much as preventing mayhem and manslaughter. The last game we saw over TV even the coaches of the rival teams had a try at fistcuffs. This may be bad for the great outdoor sport but it isn't bad for the gate. (Perhaps that may be the old profit motif just working its way out!) Speaking of this greatest of all college sports, just what is a POLITICAL football? We note the Republicans are severely scoring the Democrats for trying to make political footballs out of the farm and public power issues. Apparently a political issue becomes a football, when the opposition threatens to make votes by kicking it around instead of Again speaking of football the San Francisco C of C is miss ing a bet by not advertising the fact that it has more genuine and stimulating football WEATHER than any other section of the country or of the world for that matter. That is true of the year as a whole, not just a portion of it. One might wear a raccoon coat here the year around, (but one this one at least won't!) A communication forwarded from Medford accuses "Ye Editor" of asking Secretary McKay for the reasons for his policy and then refusing to print them. We have never received any (or anyone else) to print the reasons for his policies regarding public power, conservation, or Those reasons we think are tary or anyone else wishes to put would be glad to give them space. As a matter of fact while we we thought we knew them we criticisms of the McKay policies have never been answered. His defense has been almost entirely the sympathy slant the claim that he is being made a scape-goat, just a "punching bag," the opposition politicians being afraid take it out on one of his more We trust before the campaign is made public chapter and verse, Mail Tribune will be glad to publish the answers from the Secre tary himself or from anyone else. ' Another charge in the same offering is to the general effect that the Mail Tribune is against Big Business, whereas Big Busi ness is the life blood of American success, and without it Uncle Sam would have to close up shop and hand everything over to the Soviets. "Ford and John D. Rockefeller," our communicant avers, "did more to benefit the people than all government-conducted industry ever did. No doubt of that as the Rockefeller and Ford funds attest. But outside of the post office, and a few government power plants, we Know oi no government-coNDUCTED industries. As far as that goes we know who is against private business, is a socialist. But we do know several THING turned over stock, lock gardless oi wnetner tnat action public welfare, or injure and retard it. We believe it will take very oi tne country s greatest Republicans, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy nooseven, naa xne same idea. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although unoer certain circumstances tne use or pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed tuu woras. Long Live the Loggers! To the Editor: It seems the prairie driver, W. J. Wilkings of Moline, 111., must be a very ner vous driver as he nears the re tirement age. Of course he is not used to log trucks, but they are no more fearsome than ex press trucks or oil tankers. He must be used to the sight of those, so they don't bother him. True, we have had two bad logger truck accidents recently. One was faulty; chains, not speed, the other was caused by a man that couldn't tolerate be ing behind another car, so pass ed without sufficient clearance and hit the truck and caused it to dump its load, causing sev eral deaths. The logger was not to blame. .- The logger is as courteous on the road as anyone else. There are exceptions to all of course. The near accidents which made my hair stand on end have been caused liy passenger car drivers, both local and tourist A flat country driver who is afraid of a mountain road and only feels safe when straddling the center line is something to Tuesday, September 20, 195S Yes, the campaign of 1956 has Wabash in Indiana yesieraay "unceasing effort toward a iuu of Agriculture Benson has been entered the cabinet, and in our playing "footsie" with it! Since when? request from Secretary McKay anything else. . fairly obvious but u the Secre them in 400 words or less we never, asked for the reasons did express some surprise why the to attack-the-President so they vulnerable subordinates, etc., etc. over the McKay record will be and assuming that is done, the of no one except Norman Thomas .big or little and he, of course. who don't care to have EVERY and barrel, to Big Business, re would benefit and advance the little research to prove that two K.W.R.' meet. A tourist poking along to look at the scenery, and yet in too much of a hurry to pull out and stop to look is more of a hazard than the trucks. I am also near the retiring age, but the loggers don't scare roe any more than the freighters, tankers and busses. It is the pleasure driver that gets mixed up in most accidents. And none of them are going to scare me out of any place I want to go, and can drive my car. As for our invisible highway patrol Mr. w. mentions, he should read the court news There are plenty of overload no tices there. So anyone can see the loggers are not allowed to break the laws. And they do keep within the speed laws. It is the driver with nowhere to go but in a whale of a hurry to ' get there that breaks - the speed laws. I can't see the sense of being afraid of something just because you are not used to it The percentage of log truck accidents compared to others is no larger! And "what roads1 when off the highways! I might as well say I wouldn't Matter of Fact Joseph aisp Washington According to an official report that has been pre sented to the National Security Council, the Soviet Union is now over taking the United States in the air atomic weap ons race.' As of now, by this report's estimate, the f r e q u e ntly m e n t i o ned "American Joseph Also lead" may be . expected to be come a Soviet lead in the period 1960-1965. The basis of this estimate is the expectation that in 1960 1965, the Soviets will enjoy a de cided superiority in inter-conti nental ballistic missiles. These are the multiple-staged rockets that will be able to carry A- or H-bomb warheads, at speeds of many thousands of miles an hour through the upper air, from Rus sian launching sites to American targets. The report that the National Security Council now has before it .also includes recommenda tions for reversing this unfavor able trend in the Soviet-American balance of power, to imple ment without upsetting the Ad ministration's present budgetary and fiscal plans. Such, it can now be revealed, are the essential results of tne most important and intensive high-level study of the relative curves of boviet and American armed strength that has yet been attempted. The study was made by the Killian Committee, so called from its chairman, the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. James R. Killian Jr. The committee, which includ ed both leaders of science and leaders of industry, was set up by the National Security Coun cil by direction of President Eis enhower, in the troubled after math of the second American H- bomb explosion at Eniwetok in the spring of 1954. rpECHNICALLY, the Killian Committee was a sub-committee of the President's Scien tific Advisory Committee, on which Dr. Killian serves under the chairmanship of Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, president of The" Cal ifornia Institute of Technology, But in practice, the Killian Com mittee was virtually another name for the Scientific Advisory Committee, with the chairman- ship temporarily transferred from Dr. DuBridge to Dr. Kil lian, and with a number of ad ditional members co-opted for this special study. Besides Dr. Killian and Dr. DuBridge, . among -; those - who served w.ere Dr. Norris E. Brad bury, director of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory; Dr. Charles Lauritsen,' professor of physics at California Institute of Technology; Dr. I. I. Rabi, pro fessor of physics at Columbia University and chief scientific adviser to the Atomic Enery Commission; Dr. Jerrold Zach- arias, director of the M.I.T. Lab oratory of Nuclear Science; Dr, Jerome B. Wiesner, also of M.I. T.; Dr. James B. Fisk, executive vice-president of Bell Telephone Laboratories; Bruce S. Old, of Arthur D. Little, Inc.; Robert C. Sprague, president of the S prague Electric Co.; and Charles A. Thomas, president of Monsanto Chemical Co. ine foregoing is only a par tial list of the full members of the committee. In addition, large numoers of other eminent ex perts were employed as consult ants, so that va total of about fifty of the most highly qualified men m this country joined, in one way or another, in the Kil lian Committee's work. The committee was given com plete access to all the huge mass of information available to the American government. It labor ed for many months, twice re questing and twice receiving ex tensions of the deadline that the National Security Council had originally set for its report. In the end, rather more than two months ago, the committee laid before the President a unan imous report, with no significant dissents on any point. It was transmitted by President Eisen hower to the National Security Council. The N.S.C. then passed on the report to a narrowly re stricted circle of policy-makers in the State Department, the Armed Services and the Central Intelligence Agency. The policy maker s comment and recom mendations must now be return live in Illinois because of the gangsters in Chicago! Long live the . loggers! But mind your manners, boys. Mrs. Grace Kurz, 360 De Barr ave., Medford, Ore. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE ed to the N.S.C., where the is sues raised by the Killian Re port will presumably be debat ed and decided when the Presi dent returns to Washington. OUCH is the background and 3 tory of this disturbing docu-; ment Three mam factors are known to have led the Killian committee to the somewhat bleak conclusions set forth above. The first factor, which is al most old hat by now, was the continuous build-up of the Sov iet A- and H-bomb stockpile. Al though by no means so great as the American stockpile, the So viet stockpile of weapons of ab solute destruction is still becom ing great enough to be decisive. With both giant powers enjoying relative nuclear plenty, the most important measure of the bal ance between them, of course, becomes the capability of deliv ering - the absolute weapons, rather than the number of those weapons in stock. The second factor, which was long suspected and finally posi tively confirmed by the so-called Moscow overflights last spring, was the massive Soviet produc tion of high-quality long-and- medium-range jet bombers and night and day jet fighters. The Russian strategic air force is being rapidly re-equipped with "Bisons" and "Badgers," which are the new Russian B-5-like and . B-47-like bombers. This process is constantly im proving the Soviet capability of striking at American targets and of neutralizing their overseas bases on which our own strate gic air command so largely de pends. By. the same token, the rapid re-equipment of the So viet Air Defense Command with the new Russian day and night fighters, the "Farmer" and the Flashlight," is proportionally reducing the American Strate gic Air Command's capability of striking at Russian targets. Finally, the third and most im portant factor that influenced the Killian report was the pre sumed Soviet progress in guided missile development. As has been pointed out before, the So viet guided missile effort has been organized on a Manhattan District pattern, with a compar able priority, even since the end of the last World War. In America, the Eisenhower administration has 1 stepped up outlays on missile development, and very important successes have already been achieved with the shorter range missiles. Yet even today the American guided missile effort is essentially or ganized on a business-as-usual basis. . TT is not excluded that the -"- united btates wm nave an intqr-continental missile by 1960. . The Air Force s ATLAS proj ect, for a true intercontinental ballistic missile, or the NAVAJO project,, for a long-range ram jet missile, may well have pro duced a prototype by that date. But after reviewing all the evidence concerning present de velopment curves, the members of the Killian Committee con cluded that we should expect the Soviets to enjoy an import ant predominance in intercon tinental guided missiles from 1960 to 1965. The committee's judgment, in short, is a judg ment of relative strength, and not a judgment of absolute strength. But it is nonetheless significant for all that, as is shown by the committee's re ported analysis of what may be called the phases of the Soviet American power balance. The first phase, which is def initely stated to be past, was the phase of unchallenged American superiority in strategic air pow er and atomic bombs. In this phase, the American bargaining position was greatly superior to the Soviet bargaining position in all international dealings. The second phase, in which we now find ourselves, is a transi tional phase. For the present, although the United States has long ago lost anything like un challenged superiority, this country still has the edge in strength. Therefore this coun try still possess some remaining bargaining advantage. On the other hand, this Amer ican edge is constantly being narrowed by the improvements in the Soviet Strategic Air Force and Air Defense Command above-noted. Perhaps in two years' time, the American edge will cease to exist altogether, if the edge does not then actually pass to the Soviets. The bargain ing position, therefore, is chang ing and will continue to change for the worse in the present phase. . AS for the third phase, it is of course the final period when the Soviets will attain predomi- . nance in intercontinental guided WORRIED ABOUT THE. FUTURE? life assurance will guarantee) yon a retirement income which you cannot outlive, and also provide for your dependent! if you die at an early age. , Don't just worry about your family's future or j your own. See ma about it today, CHARLES E. JONES, Local Agent Phone 2-9772 COMPANY OF CANADX missiles. There will be a Soviet lead comparable to the Ameri can lead that existed in the first phase of the power balance. In this phase of the Soviet lead, the international bargaining posi tion of the United States, and indeed of the whofe free world, will be markedly inferior to the bargaining position of the Soviet Union and its Communist em pire. The emphasis on the- relative bargaining positions of the con testants in the world power struggle is noteworthy. If au thoritative reports are to be re lieved, the Killian Committee made no highly-colored forecasts that the Kremlin would launch general war during the pre dicted period of the Soviet lead. Whichever side has the lead, general war will no doubt re main a fearful risk for both sides. What is clearly expected, rather, is bold and determined soviet exploitation of a super ior bargaining position, whose very superiority, in turn, will cause a relatively feeble and un certain American and free world response to the Kremlin's moves. The Killian Committee, of course, had no opportunity to re late its projection of Soviet and American strength curves to the events of the summit meeting at Geneva. But a good many of the policy-makers who are studying the committee's report have pointed out that if the analysis of phases is correct, it suggests a special Soviet motive at Gene va. Obviously, it is only prudent for the Soviets to promote a general relaxation of Western effort and alertness, pending the moment when the international bargaining positions will finally be changed in the Kremlin's favor. The Killian Committee s rec ommendations for altering the projection of Soviet and Ameri can curves of strength are not known in detail. They take the form, apparently,- of proposals for revision of the first N.S.C. directive of 1955 the first N.S.C. paper of each year, ac cording to custom, being a broad blueprint for the year's defense program. TT IS quite clear, however, that that implementation of the ruxiian committee's recommen dations will necessitate a pretty sharp reversal of present fiscal ana Budgetary trends. A major intensification of the long-range guided missile effort, for in stance, would show up primar ily in the form of increases in the Air Force's Research and De velopment expenditures. This is because the inter-continental missile projects are within the province of the Air Research and Development Command. A couple of months ago, Tre vor Gardner, Assistant ' Secre tary of Air for Research and De velopment, publicly declared that the Air Force's research and Calling All wear . . . they're at pass up! . This Week Only! SADDLES All White Buck White Elk "Smokey" Saddle PEP SQUADS A smart looking, ' Jong wearing ' white ' buck . ox ford with a coral red sole. development outlays ought to be currently increased by $200,- 000,000. At present, instead of granting this increaseSecretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson is pressing for a decrease of $200, 000,000 in these same expendi tures. Any real, all-out, Manhattan District-style effort to build in tercontinental missiles would certainly require authority to let contracts well above an addi tional 8200,000,000 in the cur rent fiscal year. And it would equally certainly have far more volcanic effects on next years important budget By the same token the Killian Committee's recommendations for improvement in America's air defenses are bound to . be enormously costly if imple mented. For these recommenda tions, the extremely able Robert Sprague of the Sprague Electric Company, the first . Eisenhower" candidate for Under Secretary of the Air Force, reportedly had the. primary responsibility. At present, both the day and night fighters of the American Air Defense Command are at least obsolescent, if not actually obsolete, when measured against the new Soviet jet bombers, the "Bisons" and "Badgers." Hence a crash effort is required to pro duce the superior American F-102s and F-104s, which are now being received in very small trickles. Moreover, although the so- called DEW line, or Distant Early Warning Line, is already being built in the Canadian Far North, no provision has as yet been made for far Northern bases. There is nowhere to put aircraft and missiles which can respond to the DEW line's early warning, by knocking down at tackers remote from their tar get. Such bases will be very costly, and added units will be needed to station on the bases the bases are - authorized and built. rpHEN again, there is a theo- retical possibility of an anti- air missile with the range and speed to intercept and destroy intercontinental ballistic mis siles before they re-enter the earth's atmosphere. An all-out Manhattan District-style effort to produce such defensive mis siles must begin in a small way, of course. .But from the start, such an effort will constitute a commitment 'to an immense double burden in the future. Both offensive and defensive long-range missiles will have to be produced in quantity, and launching sites and expensive manpower to stand ready to fire both kinds of birds will be needed too. In short, if the projections of the Killian Report are correct, the report demands a series of distinctly painful choices. Fur thermore, the time scale cov ered by the Killian Report's pro jections is very short, in terms Girls for these i SHOES! 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He told the members xorum the Portland Chamber ot Commerce that "I do not know anything which contributed much - to lining up votes against the president's trade pro gram" as the Oregon Legisla ture's memorial. ' Neuberger told the chamber' members that he had supported the President in the field of for eign policy on "80 per cent of the roll call votes in the field." This was more, he said, than the president received in this field from Republican members . of Oregon's congressional delega tion. 3 of the slow process of weapons development and weapons pro duction. Hence, the choices cannot easily be delayed until next year or the year after. Putting off implementing the Killian Re port's recommendations will be another way, in fact, of reject ing those recommendations. For the loss of time will mean the loss of opportunity to change the present Soviet, and American strength curves. Copyright, 1955 New York Herald Tribune Inc. MR. 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