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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDCwTWBUia "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads Th Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor . RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor 1 OUVE STARCHER Society Editor ' JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act ol March 3, 1B97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall Ir. Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One vear $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.50 Dailv and Sunday Three mos Z-50 Sunday Only One, vear S3 50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix, Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One- year $15 00 Dailv and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices In New York Chicago De troit San Francisco , Los Angeiea Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver BC NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCATllo.N J O NtWiratll k PUIllfHIIf "ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. II, 1945 (It was Thursday) Jackson county salvage com mittee, headed by R. A. Duff, awarded citation for meritorious service in connection with sal vage work here. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The new train of the friendly Espee is running on schedule. It is a great improvement, much appreciated, and at present is no direct threat at depopulation of . the. valley. 20 YEARS AGO v Oct. 11, 1935 . (It was Friday) R. H. Baldock,. highway com mission engineer, inspects Sis kiyou highway projects. .. Rainfall in area improves hunting conditions in Rogue Riv er National forest. 3 S) YEARS AGO ' " Oct. 11, 1925 (It was Sunday) Medford city council canvas ses annexation vote; expected to issue proclamation accepting areas to city. . From Local Mining News: A survey of the milling equipment of southwestern Oregon for the United States Bureau of Mines develops that there are over 30 properties equipped with .mills for the reduction of ores and re covery of values. ' ' 40 YEARS AGO . Oct. 11, 1915 (It was Monday) A S600,000 beet factory will be built in Rogue valley by Oregon-Utah Suger company if con tracts for 5,000 acres can be obtained. fC From Ashland and Vicinity column: Anticipating irrigation projects, Emil Peil of this city is building a big reservoir on O his alfalfa holdings northwest of town. It will be a substantial concrete structure with a cap acity of 100,000 gallons. Sever al ranchers in the same locality are digging additional wells. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 19S5. Editorial Research Report 1. Fifteen minutes' time on a TV network s.t a good listening period costs about .$2500, $12, 500, $25,000, $50,000 or $125, 000? 2. The U.S. is committed under the present NATO set-up to keep more or fewer armed divisions 0 the continent of Europe than Fftance or the same number? 3. Cancer in women is apt to come at an earlier or later age than in men, or at about the same age? 4. The "Soviet bloc" in U.N. is composed of three, five, eight, 10 or 13 nations? 5. Allspice is a combination of spices or a separate spice in it self? 6. When a college footbafl ref eree puts both hands on his shoulders, he reports a fair catch, ineligible receiver, viola tion of substitute rule,' or . ball touched illegally? ' 7. Gov. Harrimaft of New York was once U.S. ambassador to Russia; right or wrong? The Answers: 1. About $25. 000. 2. More: U. S. six, France, five. 3. Earlier in women. 4. Five. 5. Separte spice. 6. Ball touched illegally. 7. Right. MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence San Francisco, Oct. 8 "Incidental intelligence": The owner of the Apothecary drug store cn the corner of Powell and Sutter is F. E. Male. . Our prize example of the reverse is the following conclusion of Holmes Alexander regarding the Coon-Neuberger debate, quote; "Incredible as ft sounds there exists among us a vindic tive conspiracy to destroy the American specialty called 'free enterprise.' I would not believe this nor ask anyone else to believe it if I hadn't seen the conspiracy working before my eyes." -- That not only SOUNDS incredible but it is. Holmes Alexander should change his bifocals. There is no conspiracy in this country that he can see with his own eyes or anyone else's to either de stroy the system of free enterprise, The proof of the pudding is in news commentator will take a power projects in this country lee, etc.. etc., he will find that calls "free enterprise" has been Take the aluminum development in the northwest as only one of many examples. Isn't that private enterprise? How about the agricultural and industrial development in Tennessee another perfect example. Even if all public power replaced private power, which couldn't be done if anyone wished to do it, (and no one does) those who claim that would be the U.S.A. don't know what they are sically is a capitalistic, free-enterprise country and in the foresee able future always will be. But that does not mean where govern ment aid will best advance :he general welfare it won't be used. Not only in the field of electric power, but in housing, road con struction, unemployment, banking, old-age pensions, health insur ance and what have you. In some of these fields private enterprise functions also. That doesn't mean there is any conspiracy to destroy private enterprise any more than it means as the pontifical Mr. Alexan der implies that anyone who favors public power over private power in certain sections especially suited to the former is a com munist. As before stated, the amazing fact is not that anyone who suffers from such a phobia as HolmesAlexander should be in cir culation, but that any newspaper should publish his comments. Judging by the experience of the Oregonian few do. . We are wondering if the "False Friends" are still second guess ing the football experts? This is a great season for G.T. to cash in as house detective, for we can't recall such a season of upsets ever before. For example: a week ago Stanford defeated last year's na tional champions the University of Ohio, 6-0, and a week later were outclassed and completely clobbered by Michigan State. Last year's coast conference champions, U.S.C., went up to Seattle to run up another towering score, as they did a year ago, and not only failed to do that but were held scoreless while the Huskies won by a 73 yard run and a touchdown. Nor can we recall a sea son where there were so many' fumbles and so many penalties. Football is getting more and more like basketball in the latter cate gory, the whistling of officials being almost continuous. It is hurt ing the game. . - Rain was predicted last night, but it is still clear and cool. In spite of the cold, Chinatown is celebrating its 4th of July, which has an ironic twist, for the republic that was established independently 44 years ago no longer exists except in memory. Moreover Sun Yat Sen, the George Washington of the republic, if he could be returned to earth to join in the celebration would not be pleased to note that his wife had joined the communists. (That at least is what San Francisco's Chinatown thinks, tut they claim Mrs. Sun doesn't she believes the Red Chinese would welcome him and he would feel entirely secure and at home with Comrade Mao in Pekin!) i . Some people think Dr. White, the President's heart specialist, talks too much.. That may be. He certainly is more talkative than most upper-bracket medical men. But as we see jt,-he does talk SENSE. We particularly liked what he said about having the Presi dent return to his Official routine as soon as possible. He did not advise leaving the .hospital,, he did advise more conferences and more activity mentally in the general direction of his usual White House duties. Nothing we believe would be harder on the health of a person of General Eisenhower's active temperament, than to be confined to his bed, with nothing to do, nothing to think abut but himself and his own inadequacy temporary though it prom ises to be. R.W.R. . ,x Martin Bormann Dies With Of Hitler's . By CHARLES McCANN United Press Correspondent The myth that Martin Bor mann, deputy chief of the Nazi Party, was still alive has died at last. But it was a long time dy ing. The fate of other high Nazi leaders has long been known. " ' It had been established be yond possibil ity of doubt that Adolf Hit- cuarles Mciann ler shot him self, even though there was no eye-witness account of his death until last week-end. Heinrich Himmler, "Hangman Himmler," chief of the gestapo, disposed of himself by biting on a cyanide capsule hidden in his mouth after his capture by the British, in northwestern Ger many. Hermann Goering, air force chief, killed himself in his cell in Nuernberg a few minutes be fore his scheduled hanging.;. He, too, had managed to conceal a suicide capsule. Paul Joseph Goebbels, the twisted little propaganda minis ter, poisoned himself, his wife and their three children in a room of the Berlin Reichschan cellery air raid shelter in which Hitler died. ' Remained With Hitler , " Bormann, too, had remained with Hitler until the last. It had been established that after Hitler's suicide Bormann tried to escape from Berlin while the Russians shot their way toward the chancellery. There were reports that he had been killed. But there was nothing definite. . . ' j ' r For years, Bormann was re ported alive. He was reported to be living in disguise as a peasant in Germany. He' was . reported living in Spain. He was reported living in Buenos Aires, and in the remote sheep ranching coun try of southern Argentina. Tutiday, October II, 1ISS , or impair it. the eating. If the country's worst month off and examme the public like TVA, Bonneville, Grand Cou m each and every case what he tremendously stimulated. end of all free enterprise in the talking about. This country ba Release Valet Because his death could not be established, Bormann was sen tenced to death in his absence by the Nuernberg war crimes tribunal which also condemned Goering and other high Nazis. It was not until Hitler's valet, Hans Linge, was freed by the Russians during the week-end that the-.death of Bormann was confirmed. Saw Bormann Die Linge told how he. saw Bor mann get into a tank, saw the tank hit by an anti-tank shell, saw it burn until those in . it were incinerated. Thus the record of the Nazi leaders is complete at last. Bormann was one of the Nazi big four, along with Hitler, Goer ing and Himmler. " But he was almost unknown outside Germany. He liked to work under cover and almost never spoke in public. He was an army private dur ing World War I, took part in Nazi-like terrorist organizations after the war, and was an early member of the Nazi party. He was its press chief for a while. But he was named to. the com manding staff of the Nazi storm troopers and helped to betray his chief Ernst Roehm in the "blood purge" of 1934. " Hitler made him deputy feuhr er in the Nazi party June 5, 1941; after Rudolph Hess flew to Scotland in an insane attempt to induce Britain to surrender. The news that he is really dead is welcome. Nevers Said Member Of Infield Combination . Milwaukee (U.R) They're still telling the story around Milwaukee of . the conversation that took place when Ernie Nevers, former Superior Wis., and Stanford University football star, passed in the All-Star base ball game parade. '. "Who is that?" a man asked his companion. ' - I'You mean you haven't heard of that famous infield, Tinkers to Nevers to Chance?" the other replied. Myth MQtteF Of FaCt By Je and Stewart Atsep THE DeSAPIO PLAN f Washington Six months ago, hardly anybody thought that W. Averell Harriman was a serious ; contender for the Democra tic Pr.es iden t i a 1 nomina tion. Now, al most every b o d y thinks so. Six months from now, if things work out according to plan, Harri man may well be the man to beat. . Joseph Also The plan is that of Carmine DeSapio, shrewd chief of Tam many Hall and Harriman's prin cipal political . strategist. De Sapio is, of course, not showing his hand to anyone. But, as he is fond of saying, "You don't have to draw a diagram," and the es sence of his strategy is already clear enough. Like, all really expert politi cal, strategy, the DeSapio plan has the merit of being simple, ana above all, relaxed. All recent Ameri can political history has es tablished the rule that it is fatal to press, to seem too eager, to seek to trans form the existing sit ii at inn rather than to StWBrt AP take advantage of it. DeSapio has learned the rule well. ; He has carefully avoided any appearance of beating the bushes for support for Harriman. For one thing, Harriman would not have permitted him to do so. For another, it has not really been necessary. New York is, after all, a city of many attractions, and in the course of time a great many influential Demo cratic professional politicians show up there. It is entirely natural that the Democratic leader in he : city should roll out the . carpet for such persons. It is also natural that he should introduce at least the more influential of them to the Democratic Governor, for a long private talk. , Over the past few months many visiting firemen nave come to New York and been impressed. They have been im pressed by the job Harriman is doing as governor, and by Harri man's oddly impressive person ality. They have also been un- Communications "Letters to the Editor must bear the nam and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or Initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for oublica tion must not exceed 400 words. On Tree Taxation - v- To' the Editor: The following letter has been sent to the Ore gon State Tax commission, with copies to Gov. Paul Patterson, State Sen. Phil Lowry and State Rep. E. H. Mann: , . In reference to your letter of Oct. 3,. 1955, notifying me to appear Oct. 12 at 3 p.m. and asking me to fill out form. , First: I think it highly imper tinent and irreverent for the Commission to pry into costs and income. These figures can not impart any useful information unless a full explanation of each year's unique conditions are in cluded... . - : ; Second: You' state the hearing is to determine whether the; Tax Commission will reduce the val uation. I am not interested in a reduction, but in an elimination as stated in the petition signed Aug. 15 and submitted to the Tax Commission, which, I under stand, has been arbitrarily thrown out without' notice to petitioner. . Third: I cannot understand how the Tax Commission or any one, can assess an orchard with out viewing same. Your actions amount to making a wild guess and then compelling me to de fend myself, whereas, if you fol low the law, there probably would be no question at issue. ' 'This is a very high-handed and arbitrary action on the part' of the Commission and shows a con tempt for a Democratic form of government. It implies the Tax Commission thinks it is above the law. Also, it is my understanding, that to raise, lower and to arbi trate tax matters in Jackson County, Oregon, lies primarily with the Jackson County As sessor and the Jackson County Equalization Board. By what statute does the State Tax Commission assume the right to enter the picture until the duly elected and' appointed authorities of Jackson county have tried to adjust this matter? You class my orchard as Class A and expect me to defend my self when no one seems to know, including the Tax Commission, the definition of a Class A or B orchard. This is unfair as prob ably I have a Class A orchard, but how can I tell? Yours respectfully but some what perturbed, William L. Smith, Blue Chip Ranch, Route 1, Box 542," Central Point, Ore. pressed by the position occupied by DeSapio himself. : " AS ONE Democrat thoughtfully remarked, "Adlai didn't make Jack Arvey Secretary of State." Harriman has not only made DeSapio (State) Secretary of State. He has left such mat ters as patronage almost entire ly in DeSapio's highly profes sional hands. Things are there fore run the way professional politicians like to see them run. Moreover, DeSapio speaks the language of the professional, which is not true of anyone in the immediate entourage of Adlai Stevenson.' DeSapio is on very friendly terms with the Democratic professionals who will carry decisive weight in Chicago next August, men like Mayor David Lawrence of Pitts burgh, John Bailey of Connecti cut, Paul Dever of Massachu setts. Add t h a t DeSapio is re garded as their natural leader by the rising group of big .city Italo-American politicians, and you have some of the reasons why Harriman's political stock has risen so markedly in recent months. ' For the future, the DeSapio strategy is equally simple and relaxed. Harriman has repeated ly said "I'm for Stevenson," and he means at. Harriman greatly admires Stevenson, and will cer tainly support him if Stevenson shows that he is a strong, fight ing candidate with the united support of the party. But there is likely to be a simple test of whether Stevenson is this kind of candidate. Early next spring, the familiar parade of preferential primaries begins New Hampshire, Cal ifornia, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Oregon, to name five of ,the first. In 1952, in these five states, Sen ator Estes Kefauver swept all be fore him. Kefauver is expected to try to repeat this year, in a second bid for the nomination. : If so, Stevenson will be faced with a hideous decision. He must either meet Kefauver in some primaries, or seem to duck a con test with him. Harriman, since he has said all along that he is for Stevenson, iaces no such de cision. SoJ always, the DeSapio strategy will be formed '. by the unfolding situation. . ' ; IF BY next spring it is clear that Stevenson has lit a fire in the land if, for example, he has taken on Kefauver in a num ber of primaries and roundly trounced him there will be no problem. Herriman will support Stevenson with everything he has, and so, for that matter, will DeSapio. Then, New York's 96 delegate votes are likely to go to Stevenson in Chicago on the first ballot. - But, by the same token, if the fire in the land remains unlit especially if Kefauver beats Stevenson in a primary or so then the time will come to launch the Harriman candidacy. DeSapio can be counted upon to launch it w,ith professional skill. As for Kefauver, hardly anyone thinks that he can . take first place. But he has a real follow ing, and, without drawing any diagrams, it is obvious that a Harriman-Kefauver ticket might make a strong combination. Stevenson, it should be added, is still very much front runner, with his solid popular and organ izational support and his proven ability as speaker and party (EIK(IDIEmnA SIXTH AND GRAPE STREETS o 5 BIG FREE PARKING LOTS In the You Don't SAVE TODAY and On Del Monte - The World's DEST LIKED Canned Foods Complete Price Lists Posted For Your Easy Inspection Ml 15 DINNER TICKETS USEABLE Washington Editor's note: Walter Lippmann, iviiusc vuiuiuu i a regular icaiure 01 the Mail -Tribune's editorial page, is on a trip to Europe. During his ab sence, articles by Roscoe Drummond, a Washington correspondent, will ap. pear on this page. WHY ADLAI GAINS . MOMENTUM Chicago It deserves to be put clearly into the record that Adlai Stevenson's decision to seek the Democratic Presidential re-nomination is in no way related to President Eisenhower's heart at tack. - - - - - Whether or not Mr. Eisen hower would be his opponent again has never been a factor in Mr. Stevenson's thinking. That can be said without any qualification. His own decision to let his friends work for his nomination and to campaign for it himself was made several months ago when the political leaders in both parties were generally con vinced that the President would be a candidate. There is plenty of evidence to support both of these statements. As long ago as early spring some of his most ardent ad mirers were trying to find a way .to enable Mr. Stevenson to avoid having to run against Mr. Eisenhower. . They argued he could accomplish this and thus be available in 1960 by an nouncing that he would run against Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois next fall. - He refused. If he is going to run at all, he wasn't going to duck the hard one for the easier. f ANY times during the past months Mr. Stevenson has written to friends who were counseling him to save himself for more propitious political times, to say that the danger of losing again would never keep him from the 1956 race and that no politician should consider it open to him to pick merely the convenient spots to run. It has always . been his view that . no candidate could deserve the con fidence of the voters if he were to maneuver out of running in order to wait for a better time. "The important thing," he wrote to one friend, "is not the measure of your chances but the responsibilities and opportuni ties to do what you think right for your country." To another he wrote: "View ing the Presidency as I do, one does not' do what he wants to do. but what one is wanted for. Nor, I think, should one run merely when he thinks he can win but when one can do some good or say what ., he thinks should be said in his judgment." ; If ; he had thought otherwise, Mr.-. Stevenson would have found it convenient and prudent to take the Democratic Senate nom ination against Mr. Dirksen when it was pressed upon him. As to "the timing of his de cision, Mr. Stevenson let his closest associates know at least five months ago that he would be ready to campaign 'for the nomination if he was convinced that there was sufficient demand for him among the Demoratic leader! Yet the above may sug gest why the position of front runner is so often perilous in American politics. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) GROCETERIA Have To Over-Diiy With By twea Oruoimend leaders so "that he would not be in. the position of trying to grab the nomination by sheer force. He said he would an nounce his intention in Novem ber and he let his friends know well before the President's sick ness that the answer was ''yes." Of course, the expected with drawal of Mr. Eisenhower makes it more inviting to Mr. Steven son to press his candidacy. But he would be taking no position different from what he is taking today if the President had never suffered the heart attack and had already announced that he would run again. TiHE prospect that Mr. Eisen-- hower will not run, it seems to me, also makes Mr. Steven son's renomination more likely. With the President sidelined, Mr. Stevenson could well be come the most acceptable or the least unsatisfactory Presi dential nominee of either party. Not that Southern politicians would love Adlai so much more, but that they would love Averell or Estes less. I certainly don't see the Democratic "Solid South" going for Chief Justice Earl War ren or Vice-President Nixon or former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Mr. Eisenhower's withdrawal could hardly fail to weaken the position of the pro-Eisenhower Southern leaders like Gov. Allan Shivers, who might not even run for Governor if the. President were a candidate and . who al most certainly will find it neces sary to step down if he isn't. Thus the outlook now. is that the pro-Eisenhower Southern Democratic - leaders and voters will go back home to the Demo cratic party in 1956. Under fore seeable circumstances, they wiU hardly risk their retention of the strategic Senate committee chairmanships by splitting with a : relatively moderate . Demo cratic nominee.- The ingredients of such a split will almost cer tainly not be present. Unless there is a favoredJ Southern contender like Sen. Richard Russel, as now seems unlikely, I would not be sur prised to find numerous South ern delegations voting for Mr. Stevenson at Chicago next Aug ust. Copyright, 1955, . New York' Herald Tribune, Inc. NAMED EDITOR San Francisco U.R) Charles De Young Thieriot has , been named editor and publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle, succeeding George T. Cameron, who died of a heart attack Oct. V: ;- Pulpwood is sometimes pur chased on a weight basis, the unit of measurement being the 2,000-pound ton. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE t To Get CASE LOT PMCES ALL ILHIDS W Any $10.00 Purchase in Sunday, October THROUGH OCTOBER 22 i Paraguay Prepares To Intern Peron Asuncion, Paraguay (U.R) Paraguay was reported prepar ing today to intern ousted Ar gentine dictator Juan D. Peron immediately. An official source said the government had not yet re ceived Argentina's request to in tern Peron but that this would be done as soon as the request reaches the Foreign Office. Argentina asked Paraguay yesterday to intern Peron at a considerable distance from the border" between the two coun tries. The request was made in an official note made public in Buenos Aires. .' .'J . , Internment is Drovided in in ternational 'agreements signed by both Paraguay. aqd Argen tina when a refugee is liable to disturb the public order of his country of origin." -.v Mickey Cohen Stops Briefly in Portland Portland (U.R) Mickey Co hen, who served nearly four years in McNeil Island federal prison for income tax evasion,1 visited Portland yesterday. Cohen was released from pris on Sunday and last night flew to Lbs Angela. But before he left, Chief of Detectives William Browne and Lt. Bard Purcell.'paid a call on Cohen at his hotel suite here. The officers informed Cohen that as long as he was here an eye would be kept on him. Cohen said he was merely here to "relax." MR. '." INSURANCE Fred - Brennan We've fiad sevral losses not cov ered by our Residence Fire Insur ance such as a sink overflow, ' bursting steam pipe, a broken pic ture window, and vandalism. 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