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Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and bunaay une nwnui carrier ana ueaier uci All Tna r""H in AHvAnPS OffTeliil Paper of the City of Medford oinciai yaper 01 jacmun United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIKCULATiUCT WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. or i ices in in ew or it. i.iucaKu. De troit ban rrancisco. i-oa .nnwii. Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver b.u NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCfATIlON J J NIWSFAMt ruiiitMitf ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The LMail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and MO years ago. ' 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 13, 1945 (It was Saturday) Bill Bowerman, coach at Med ford Senior High, and Norm Worthley, coach at Junior High, returned to positions after dis charge from service. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Older Girls are relaxing after the home-canning ordeal. Several re called they have had no broccoli since Pearl Harbor on account of the late war. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 13. 1935 (It was Sunday) ' Talent calls special election on charter amendment to enable city to take advantage of fed eral grant for sewer construc tion. ; Company of CCC men to oc cupy newly established camp at Prescott Memorial park. SO YEARS AGO (It was Tuesday) Medford offered chance to in vest in providing space for train ing boys between 12 and 15 years old to be better citizens. Jackson county Merchants association-' favors Community Chest and commission govern ment in city with manager. 40 YEARS AGO (Oct. 13. 1915 q (It was Wednesday) Boston Red Sox win World Series with 5 to 4 win over Phila delphia. From Local and Personal col umn: City authorities serve no tice that the ordinance requiring property owners to clean up dead leaves in front of their places will be enforced without fear or favor. What's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Rapart 1. Much more or much less is being spent this year on TV advertising than on magazine advertising, or is it about the same? 2. Largest single oil refinery In the world is in Texas, Iran, New Jersey, the West Indies, California, or Russia? 3. The sequoia tree in Califor nia called the "General Sher man" supposed to be about 500, 1500, 2500, or 3500 years old? 4. It was or wasn't Jackie Robinson who broke the color line in major-league baseball? 5. There are more or fewer auto accidents today than io years ago compared with the SvoluiSe of cars -on the roads, or about the same number? 6. Gen. Lucius D. Clay is now associated with Remington Rand, Buloga Watch, American Ma chin and Foundry, or Conti nental Can? 7. Which metal is sometimes called the "red metal"? 0 ; The Answers: 1. Much more on TV advertising. On the West Indies island of Aruba. 3. 3500. 4. Was. 5. Fewer compared with cars on road. 6. Continental Can. 7. Copper. KILLED BY TRACTOR Sanify, Ore. U.R) Arnold Blaser, 79-year-old Sandy man, was killed yesterday afternoon when the tractor he was driving struck a root and fell over on him. MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence San Francisco, Oct. 11 Governor Averill Harriman's desertion of former Governor Adlai Stevenson is hard to under stand. Coming immediately after a visit with former President Truman, the latter is generally held responsible. But our own idea is President Eisenhower is more responsible. When it looked like a return engagement with the popular. "Ike" as the man to beat. Democratic leaders and aspirants probably had no particu lar objection to Adlai again being the sacrificial lamb. But when it became more and more likely that Ike would not choose to run, and it would be a free-for-all, with any Democrat out of jail having a chance, the entire picture changed. Messers Truman and Harrjman changed with it. Whatever the exact cause, if the Democratic party abandons the former Governor of Illinois, it will be abandoning the one man in that party best qualified to be President of the United States at this particular crisis in world history. The charges made against him, that he is not enough of a party man, too much of an intellectual, has too lively a sense of humor, are all marks in his favor or at least should be so regarded. In the next half decade this country and the world for that matter will need in the White House as never before a man who will always place what is best for his country above what might be best for him or his party, who has the intelligence and wisdom to see beneath the surface of world and domestic problems, and the depth of un derstanding and sense of proportion necessary to get him safely over the unavoidable stresses and strains of the job, without disaster. But we have to grant that those who really select presidential candidates consider first and foremost, will he be a good vote getter. And as a candidate Adlai Stevenson, not having shown any great ability in this direction and having been badly beaten in his one and only effort, will at the convention, and before. have two strikes already called still believe in Adlai have one ers had two strikes called against them but won out in the end! We listened to the American Legion convention over the air last night and it was all very sad and depressing. It seems the Legion plans to censure the Ford Foundation Fund, and its director Dr. Robert Hutchins, formerly head of the University of Chicago, for discouraging the fight against communism in this country. And as if that were not enough the speaker predicted this convention will also condem Unesco, a branch of the UN, for principles and procedures contrary to the maintenance of American sover eignty and independence. The American Legion is a large and powerful organization but when it falls for this sort of propaganda under the guise of 100 per cent Americanism it is riding for a fall. It is hard to be lieve the Legion will go for such ridiculous bigotry, but if it does the people of the country at the first opportunity will repudiate it. Everyone honor and respectr the Legion as a patriotic or ganization, and its members for their heroic and self sacrificing service in three wars, but its members or at least their present leaders seem to forget that the chief thing they fought for was, the freedom of the. democratic world,' and the cornerstone of that freedom is the right of free speech, the right of free assembly and the right of this nation, if it wishes to join with others in the eternal battle for a better world, and ultimately a warless one. That is the fundamental purpose of Unesco. R.W.R. Matter of Fact WILL THE PRESIDENT CHOOSE? Washington As soon as Presi dent Eisenhower is well enough to talk politics he will be urged by influential Re pub lican party leaders to do two things. First, he will be urged to take him self out of the 1956 race as soon as possi ble, if he feels he must Ho so Joseph AUo ..and despite the good news from Denver, hardly anybody believes that he will run again. Second, the Pres ident will be urged to designate the candidate of his choice when he himself bows out, or shortly thereafter. ' As long as there is thought to be the faintest chance of his run ning the magic Eisenhower name will kill all other can d i dacies, as surely as the fabled 'upas tree kills ev erything in its shade. Until the President u n e q uivocal ly bows out, the whole can didate - Dick- ing machinery Stewart Alsop will be thrown into confusion, moreover, because every would- be delegate will fervently pledge himself to Eisenhower. For such reasons the Party managers, ap palled at the thought of losing Eisenhower as a candidate, have nevertheless decided that, if it were done, 'twer well it were done quickly. They hope the President will withdraw, if with draw he must,' by early January or even December, well before the primaries. They further hope that he will give the nod to his chosen heir, if not as soon as December or January, at least by early spring. As Harold E. Stassen has said, "The man President Eisenhower wishes to have nominated will be nominated." Stassen is cer tainly right. To a far greater ex tent than generally realized, the Republican party organization is now: in' the hands of men to whom Eisenhower's slightest word is law. To take one exam ple, in 1952 most of the 48 state chairmen were Taf t men. Now 37 of the 48 have been replaced with fervent Eisenhowerites, and the survivors are Eisenhower men too. ADD THE President's enor mous nrpstiffo anrl it. is al most impossible to imagine a situation in which a Republican convention will vote against his known wishes. He is not ex pected to announce his choice formally, of course. He need only let it be known whom he favors, as President Theodore, 1? I? Thursday, October 13, 1955 against him. However those who thing to console them the Dodg By Joe and Stewart Alsop Roosevelt let it be known that he favored William Howard Taft. Then all serious opposition in the Party to the President's can didates will almost ' certainly fade away, or at least go under ground. -The political advantages in having the President choose, and choose early, are obvious. Pres' ent campaign plans, which it is too late to alter, were of course made on the assumption that the candidate would be Dwight D. Eisenhower. After a brief, late, heavily televised campaign, it was smugly believed, the Presi dent would be a shoo-in. But no one believes any other Repub lican candidate will be a shoo-in On the contrary, the Repub lican party managers privately admit that they are badly wor ried,, above all by the evidence that many Middle Western farm ers are turning against the Par ty. Any Republican candidate whose name is not Dwight D. Eisenhower is going to need plen ty of building up. Suppose that the President gives the nod to the man of his choice by March or April say to Vice-President Richard Nixon, whom most of the organization men favor. Then Nixon will be almost certain of the nomination, despite his numerous collection of enemies. The Nixon build-up can then begin right away, car rying on right through to Elec tion Day. But suppose, instead, that the President makes no choice at all, publicly or privately. The build up for the eventual candidate is then likely to take the form of the kind of bitter public intra- Party brawl, lasting all next spring and summer, which does a candidate the maximum of harm. AAA QUCH ARE the reasons why the President will be urged to choose his man, and choose him early. How the President will respond to the pressure to choose makes an interesting per sonal equation. The act of choos ing does not like to make ene mies unnecessarily. The Pres- dent also has a sense of what is historically fitting, and to desig nate the candidate would mean to risk repudiation of his per sonal choice by the voters an anticlimactic way of ending a fabulously successful public career. Those who know the President best are thus inclined to guess that he will remain above the battle, designating no candidate of his choice. In that case, the Party battle the President will remain above may well turn into a battle royal. (Copyright. 1955. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Boston (U.R) State Police Lt. Frank W. Geist was retiring after 27 years' service, but he didn't loaf his last dav on rlutv Four Concord Reformatory pris oners had escaped. Geist tranDed them on the roof of a buildine. and recaptured them. Indochina Emperor May Soon Have Plenty Of Time for Pleasure By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent It looks as if playboy Emperor Bao Dai of Viet Nam in Indo china soon will have no duties to inter fere with his pleas ures. Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, a serious - mind ed man who believes sjtrongly in business. be fore pleasure, cnaries Mccaun nas called a na tional referendum for Oct. 23 to decide Viet Nam's future lead ership. The choice is between Bao and Diem. The word from Saigon, the capital, is that Diem is certain to win. In fact, plans have been made to proclaim him president before the end of this month. Diem is on the scene. He has succeeded in beating down his once-powerful opponents. Bao Dai, as usual, is living in his beautiful pink-and-white villa on the French Riviera, making side trips to Paris and various gay resorts. Further, Diem has fixed up the referendum so that it re minds one of the lawyer who asked a witness to reply yes or no to the question: "Have you stopped beating your wife?" The Ballot On its right side the ballot shows a picture of Diem in well tailored western clothing, the modern Viet Namese. Under the picture is the caption: "I de pose Bao Dai and recognize Diem as chief of state of Viet Nam, with the mission of estab lishing a democratic regime." It does not help Bao in Viet Nam that his people know he played along with the Japanese in World War II, played along with Communist leader Ho Chi In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Two familiar names are back in the news today Gambler Mickey Cohen and Gambler El mer "Bones" Remmer. Mickey has just been turned loose from McNeil Island, the federal prison up in Puget Sound, after a sojourn of some four years there. "Bones" is try ing to STAY OUT of federal prison. He is under sentence to pay a fine of $20,000 and serve five years. He is fighting it up through the courts and has reached the U.S. supreme court, which has just granted him another hear ing- TyD Mickey and "Bones" get L' in trouble for gambling? Huh-uh! Their offense was INCOME TAX EVASION. GAMBLERS make SO MUCH of their money illegally gambling being forbidden by law more or less everywhere but in Nevada. To report this income from illegal enterprises would be tantamount to CONFESSING THE CRIME. So they fail to re port it. Hard-boiled Uncle Sam isn't directly concerned with how these gentry make their money gambling, for the most part, be ing forbidden by STATE laws. So he goes after the TAX MONEY, which they failed to pay. Being nearly $300,000,000,000 in debt, the old gentleman with the chin whiskers NEEDS it. Thats' how it comes that Mickey and "Bones" and so many of their ilk are in trouble with the federals. "DOUNCING back to Mickey, he "returned to Los Angeles when he was released from McNeil's Island. He was greeted at the airport by his wife, three car loads of police and a HORDE OF NEWSMEN. The newsmen were there be cause experience has taught them that Mickey is a character the public likes to read about. DMITTEDLY, that isn't good. But Here I am writing about it. And here you are READING ABOUT IT. We should BOTH be occupying ourselves with better things. I should be writing about the large and complicated prob lems that confront 4he world and our nation and our state and our community and offering serious and well-considered ad vice as to how to solve them. And you should be reading CONSTRUCTIVE stories of hu man achievement and human betterment of which there are so MANY in the newspapers and the magazines and books. But here we are spending our precious time with trash. JIHA' T'S life for you. In this world so much bad is mixed with the good and so much good is mixed with the bad that we never know auite where we're at. Besides, we're all human. 1 Minh after it and then, after ab dicating and being restored as emperor, fled to his favorite Riviera while Dien Bien Phu was in its death throes last year. He has not been back. There was a time, after he was crowned at 12 years of age in 1925, when Bao was revered as his country's "guardian of Greatness," "Son of Heaven," "Father and Mother of his Peo ple." Now, at 42, he is a plump, sensual-looking pursuer of plea sure. He is sweating out Viet Nam's crisis thousands of miles away, with a 130-foot yacht and a fleet of 10 expensive Ameri can, British, Italian and German automobiles. The United States played a big part in getting Diem in as premier on June 15, 1954. Bao detested him and France did not like him. Diem has spent all his mature life working hard. He is 54. stocky, youthful looking, usual ly silent and reserved but given to occasional bursts of fuming rage. He was long a French civil servant in .Indochina and rose to be interior minister under the French. He resigned because France refused to give his coun try semi-independent status. He went into exile. In 1951 and 1953 he lived he is a devout Roman Catholic in. the Catho lic Maryknoll Seminary in Lake- wood, N.J. He went later to live in a Belgian monastery, and then in a Paris garret. In another two weeks, he prob ably will be President Diem. Federal Power Sale To Cooperatives Ruled by Brownell Washington U.R)Attv. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. has ruled the government must agree to sell federal power to electric cooperatives instead of private utilities even if the cooDeratives do not immediately have neces sary transmission lines. . Brownell's opinion was dis closed by Assistant Interior- Sec retary Fred G. Aandahl at a House Government Operations Subcommittee hearing. The hear ing was marked by partisan wrangling over socialism, TVA, and the administration's power policies. At issue are efforts by the ad ministration to sell power from the government's Clark Hill Dam on the Savannah river be tween South Carolina and Geor gia. The George Power Co. has the necessary transmission lines. Georgia cooperatives, which also want the power, do not have the lines to pick up the power at the dam. Both have offered, to buy the power. In Brownell's opinion, dated July 15, the attorney general ruled that when the government has two offers, one by a private utility and one by a cvjperative or other "preference group" the government "must" contract to sell to the cooperatives and give the cooperatives a "reasonable time" to obtain the necessary transmission lines. Telephone Operator's Call Goes Astray Spokane, Wash. (U.R) Po lice desk Sgt. Sherman Wake ley received a call from the long distance telephone oper ator at Bethlehem, Pa., asking him to locate a visitor to the Public Safety Department. "There aren't any visitors around," Wakeley protested. "It's 5 a.m." "It can't be replied the operator, its 9 a.m. in Beth lehem." "But it's four hours earlier in Spokane." said Wakeley. "Spokane," said the oper ator. "I was calling Youngs town,' O." OUR MEMBERSHIP in Associated Funeral' Directors' Service ena bles us to handle funeral services TO or FROM any city - usually at con siderable savings for you. CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse i Frank KKnrnnn . FUNERAL 11 Bigness Important In Oil Industry, Speaker Declares This country's oil industry "must be big to give you what you daily demand," Gene Con nell, Portland, declared yester day in a talk to members of Medford Kiwanis club. Connell, industrial oil special ist for Signal , Oil . company in Oregon and Washington, spoke in connection with Oil Progress week. While mentioning the fear of industry becoming too powerful, the oil man brought out the American desire for a dynamic advancing economy and he stres sed that the oil business can op erate most effectively as a big, private enterprise. If oil is administered under a governmental rather than a pri vate system, a chaotic situation would result, Connell maintain ed. As an example he brought out that "Mexico put us out but called us back." He also pointed to the huge amount of funds needed for expansion and devel opment of products the people want. Connell termed the matter of big business a "deep issue" and spoke of the tendency of many people to look upon big industry as "bad." He described the oil business as America's most size able industry outside of indust ry and stated, "we don't think we're too bad." Answering those who charge the federal government adminis tration with "giveaway" in con nection with, oil, Connell said that about 30 per cent of the pro duction goes into the national reserve. He reported a yearly production of about 3,000,000, 000 barrels with 1,500,000,000 going into the nation's reserve. Forty per cent of all shipments on the seas and on inland water ways under the American flag are petroleum products, Connell stated. He reported that the pet roleum industry produces 25 per cent of all heavy chemicals and that the amount is forecast to be 50 per cent in another decade. The speaker mentioned that about 70 per cent of all energy consumed is from petroleum. He reported that only five per cent of the energy consumed in the United States is by hydro-electric power and stated that, if dams were constructed at ' all sites projected in the country, they would produce less than 25 per cent of the energy we con sume. i . ,. ' Oil is produced in 40 of the 48 states, Connell reported. Twelve per cent of the country's entire land mass, the speaker revealed. He mentioned the large number of owners enjoying roy alties from the land. The oil industry has $40,000, 000,000 worth of fixed assets, Kiwanians were informed. These include 115,000 tank cars and 170,000 miles of pipeline. More Production Connell said that at present the industry is producing, refin ing and marketing 47 per cent more material than at the peak period of World War II. Stress ing oil's important role in an emergency, Connell stated that during World War II 58 per cent of all tonnage moved was oil. Concerning the criticism heard for import of oil from Venezu ela, Connell mentioned that halt of import would mean drop off of exports to that country and channeling of the oil to ports be hind the Iron Curtain. He re ported that while imports of crude oil from Venezuela am ounted to $120,000,000 in one year, sales to that country total ed $900,000,000. The Kiwanis luncheon was at Rogue Valley Country club, Connell was introduced by Nor man Buvick, new resident man ager here for Union Oil comp any and oil information chair man for Medford. Also at the luncheon were Miss Ann Mc- Farland, Hawaiian tour hostess for Trans-Oceanic Air lines, and Mrs. Mary Jane Fisher, of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce staff. . i Hnrnlrl SnnrJarnxt ll DIRECTORS Adventurers Plan Hells Canyon Trek Ontario (U.R) Six Weiser, Ida, adventurers will attempt to assault the unexplored reaches of Hells Canyon later this month, according to Blaine Stubblefield, leader of the party. 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