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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDPORIv&TRIBCTa "Everybody in Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone a-gl ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager X. C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Med ford Orean. under Act of March 3. 1897 .. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One vear S12-00 Dailv and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dail'v and Sunday Three mo. 3J0 Sunday Only One vear 13 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 SIS 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-Zo Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Teems Cash In Advance Official Paper ol the City of Medford crilPafero; Jackson County Unjted Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION ; Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Otfices in New York Chicago De troit San Francisco Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL i ASSOCfATIlQN U sJ nun nana NIWSPAMI PUSlltMllt ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 0 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 17. 1945 e Frank Perl elected president of Kiwanis ciuo; ,a iviues namea vice-president; directors elected were Gene Ferrell, Tony Manno, Don lewbry, Paul Selby, Jim- mie Bolton, uon t aDer ana oili Peek. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A rural resident reports his helpmate carelessly left a rain-bow-hued O-Cedar mop leaning against fence, and ran into the kitchen to see what was burning. Before she could get back, the O-Cedar rnop was shot twice for a Chi nese pheasant. j . . . 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 17. 1935 "Klamath County judge "and commissioner indicted for lar ceny and irregularities in coun ty; city closed as ban is placed on gambling and vice. Recent rains sufficient to re move restrictions of camp fires j in Rogue River National forest. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 17, 1925 L. A. Banks announces plans to invest $500,000 in orchard de velopment near Medford. H. P. Jewett, superintendent of schools at Central Point, elect ed president of Jackson County Annual Teachers' Institute. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 17. 1915 (It was Sunday) Sleepy Hollow, residence of H. A. Ensign near Gold Hill, de stroyed by fire caused from de fective flue. From Local and Personal col umn: Rogue River Canal com pany sent out 75 men this after noon to work on the Phoenix ditch of their irrigation project in the south end of the valley, Contracts for the entire work will be let this week. The same company has 200 men at work on the Fish Lake dam. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Revert 1. The U.S. is now committed to go to the aid of about 10, 20, 30, or 40 different countries if they're invaded? 2. The federal Small Business administration accepts or re jects most applications for loans, or ac&pts about as many as it rejects? 3. "Portland" cement got its name from Portland, Me.; Port land, Ore.; Portland island off England; or a man of that name? 4. Which one of these states has most members in its legisla ture: California, Illinois, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsyl vania, Texas? 5. Total debts owed by farm ers are a much larger or much lower percentage of total farm asscQF than 15 years ago, or about the same? 6. Which one of these is not considered one of the "Arab States": Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Turkey? 7. Abraham Lincoln fought in the U. S. war against Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, better known as ? The Answers: . A little over 40. 2. Rejects most. 3. Island of Portland. 4. New Hampshire. 5. Much lower percentage. 6. Turkey. 7. Black Hawk. MAIL TRIBUNE Our Safety Rating A conference of city officials and citizens inter ested in safety was held last week in an attempt to see why Medford's rating, as determined by the Na tional Safety Council, was not higher than it is. Out of 467 cities of the same general population, Medford was ranked 77th on the basis of scoring in eight classifications. That's a pretty creditable rating, but those involved feel it should be better. They wanted to know why it wasn't. - AFTER spending the best part of an afternoon go ing over the analysis of Medford's report, the group reached several conclusions. One of them was that the city fell in rank simply because its procedures of reporting to the council were not as effective as they could be with a little more thought and effort. In other words, it was felt that Medford's safety record is a lot better than it looks, simply because information about it has not been systematically col lected and publicized. Plans were made to do something about this. Should these plans succeed, it is felt that Medford's ranking and reputation would rise considerably as a consequence. . , . , . IN 1954, the year covered by the 'report at hand, Medford had no traffic deaths, and as a result was tied for first place in the death record category. In the "accident facts" category, it was tied for 377th, a drop in rank from 109th the year before. This, it is felt, is largely the result of misunderstand ings in reporting accidents, and lack of manpower in the police department to prepare the proper reports. In engineering, Medford's rank was a tie for 46th place, a highly creditable spot. In police traffic supervision, Medford dropped from 53rd in 1953 to 373rd in 1954 but here again lack of proper reporting, and possibly misunderstand ing, was blamed. The traffic court section showed the city in a 329th place tie. Some of the recommendations in this category are. being followed; in others a lack of -uniform reporting again was felt to be at fault. City Judge James Main is considering the possibility of a traffic violators school, in line with the recom mendations, and other suggestions are under study. THE school safety program in Medford ranks high. In 1954 it was tied for 10th spot, an excellent rec ord. But school authorities were unhappy because the year before it had ranked fourth in the entire nation. Here again, lack of uniform reporting was partly to blame, for most of the recommendations are being eaualled or bettered, and only a misunderstanding about a few minor details done appeared to be the ranking down. In public safety education, this drawback mis- reporting and lack of reporting was almost entirely the reason for a relatively low rank of a tie for 341st. This category called for reports on the amount of publicity radio, television, newspaper, poster, films, and so on devoted to safety features, plus special programs, meetings and literature. There has been a tremendous amount of this, but heretofore it has been difficult to report it accurately, and it has been necessary to rely on estimates or plain guesses. THE safety organization in Medford, the Medford Safety Council, was tied for 106th place in effec tiveness. With more attention paid to reporting next year, it is. logical to assume that this rating will also be raised. It is encouraging to note that the 1954 rating of 77th was itself a big improvement over the 1953 rat ing of 211th. With more attention to reporting pro cedures, and continued attention to safety itself, we can look forward hopefully to a safer city and due credit for the accomplishment. E. A. Political Debates We attended one of the debates between Sen. Richard L. Neuberger and Congressman Sam Coon recently. We are voicing no conclusions as to the merits of the issues debated, but do wish to endorse the idea of a political debate, as such. At one time or another eveiy sort of political shin-dig, from box-socials on up. One of the great disadvantages of most political gatherings is that they attract partisans of one party and only seldom partisans THE debate form of gathering, however, attracts both Democrats and Republicans. It gets the issues out in the open air- (sometimes, to be sure, in becloud ed form) where they can be mulled over by all. It gets representatives of different philosophies of gov ernment together where they can be inspected ana compared. Political debates may not do much in the way of changing anybody's mind debate. But at the very least they give the audience both sides, forcing them to recognize the fact that there is another side, a fact which is too often ignored in the one-party clambakes. THE two-party system is, we are convinced, a Good 1 Thing. But too often it is hampered by the singular insularity of convinced members of both parties. The debate-is one method whereby this political provincialism can be attacked.- E. A. v ' ' " ' Monday, October 17, 1955 in reporting the work being factor which brought the we have covered just about of the other. about the subjects under Attlee Seems Certain To Retire as Chief Of British Laborites By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent "Dear old Clem" Attlee seems to have made up his mind to give up his 20-year leadership of the British Labor party. There are re ports from Lon don that the modest, color less little man who became a Socialist by ac cident back in 1910 will an nounce his re tirement when manes McLaiiu parliament meets next Week. In any event there seems no doubt that he has decided to go. It is expected that, when he does, he will give up his seat in the House of Cgm mons too, perhaps to become a peer and enter the House of Lords. Attlee is 72. He suffered a heart attack last summer. He is tired out after years of riding herd on the highly undiscipled labor party, chronically torn by dissension. It is expected that aggressive, shrewd Herbert Morrison, now deputy leader, will step into At tlee's job. But Morrison is 67. It is being predicted that he will act only as a place-holder for Hugh Gait skell, the 49-year-old party treas urer. He is the up-and-coming man. They call Attlee a mousy, un inspiring man and a political accident. But he has proved him self a man of parts. Clement Richard Attlee was- not born into the Labor party level of British society. The son of a lawyer, he went to an expensive "public school" and to Oxford University. He came, out a conservative and an imperialist. But it happened that a settle ment house in .London's East End needed a secretary and Attlee was looking for a job. Few Britons of Attlee's back ground ever even get to the East End. He saw for the first time the bitter, grinding poverty in which so many of his fellow Britons lived. Attlee was shocked and shak en. With the resolution and sin cerity that have marked him all his life, he joined the labor party. He entered the Army at the outset of World War I. He served with distinction in the Middle 41 Washington FIGHTING THE POLITICAL CLICHES Chicago There is such a maze of political speculation right now that it 'is almost im possible to separate the ore of solid judgment from the gravel of wishful thinking. In his trip to the mid-West I have not talked to a single per son, in and out of politics, who has not asked me who would be the Republican and Democratic Presidential nominees next year. Frankly and I wouldn't want this to get around too widely don't know. . ' What I do know is that a lot of political cliches are being cir culated which tend to make opinions look as though ; they were facts. It would be useful to look these familiar proposi tions squarely in the face and see if we wouldn t get more light by questioning than by accepting them. -. PROPOSITION ONE: That President Eisenhower will select or determine the 1956 Re publican nominee. We don't know. It's not in evitable. We can take it for granted that Mr. Eisenhower would at least name a group of potential candidates, any-one of whom be would consider faith fully and effectively dedicated to his policies. Such a list could easily include such names as Chief Justice Earl Warren, Vice President Nixon, Presidential Assistant Harold Stassen, Tho mas E. Dewey, Paul G. Hoff mann, Henry Cabot Lodge. But selecting a list of candi dates is far from 'selecting the one candidate. For the President to approve a cluster of candi dates would quite likely turn the 1956 convention into a divi- sive, lacerating contest among bitter rivals which would weak en the party and wreck its Pres idential chances. But there are those who have reason to believe they know well Mr. Eisenhower's way of think ing and acting, who feel that it would be absolutely out of char acter for the President to select and, in a sense, impose, a single choice on his party if there is more than one nominee he could genuinely support. These people may be wrong but it can't be taken for granted at this stage that they are wrong. PROPOSITION TWO: That with the President not run ning, any of the leading Demo cratic aspirants could be ex pected to win. They, wouldn't be virtually sure at. all. They might have the edge, but I have talked with East atfd in France, and came out a major after being. twice wounded. After the war he became may: or of Stepney, in the East End. Then in 1922 Limehouse, anoth er East End slum district, sent him to the House of Commons. Despite his lack of color, his lack of oratorical prowess, his lack of combativeness, he rose to be deputy party leader. When George Lansbury, the party head, retired there were two rivals for the leadership. Attlee was not one of them. But "Clem" was picked because of his sincerity and his gift making himself liked and trusted by all factions of the party. He became prime minister in 1945 when Churchill was swept out of office. He served through the difficult years until 1951, and made international, the same good name he had made for himself in Britain. Sub-Chairmen Listed For Jaycee Committee Ten men have been named to serve as sub-chairmen of the Oregon Junior Chamber of Commerce's Safety committee. Thomas J. Reeder, Medford at torney and chairman of the committee, has announced. Those named are George Wag goner, St. Helens; Robert Lock ting, Parkrose;. James White, Salem; Jack Pegg, Madras; Jer ry Slusser, Klamath Falls; Dwight Nesbitt, Oakridge; Burt Lindsay and Walter Bryant, Pendleton; Harlan Hines, Alba ny, and Jim Galloway, Ontario. Reeder said the Jaycees plan a vigorous and extensive safety program in Oregon starting later this year. The Jaycees will par ticipate in Safety Day, Dec. 1, which is part of a traffic safety program initiated by President Eisenhower last year. Harlow Curtis, president of General Motors, is directing the program this year. Reeder also announced that the 1956 State Jaycee teenage Road-E-O will be held in Eugene. Industrial and home safety campaigns will get underway early next year, Reeder said. Milford, Conn. (U.P.) Robert f . Johnson stretched out in a lawn chair for a relaxing sunny afternoon. An automobile out of control, roared onto the lawn, hit the chair and sent him sprawling. Johnson was unhurt. By Roseoe Drummond numerous Democratic leaders from several states' in ' recent days, and they are not falling into the dangerous psychology that Mr. Eisenhower is the only Republican who could win. They probably give different reasons than the Republicans will give on why no Republican nominee will be easy to beat next year, but here are the ones they do give in private conversation: That the issue of "peace and prosperity" will be hard to coun ter. That the Republican nominee will have considerably larger financial resources to throw into the campaign. That the overwhelming ma jority of newspapers will again support the Republican ticket. That any administration in power has special advantages to perpetuate itself in office. Other arguments could be ad vanced, but these are the reasons why the Democrats are wisely taking nothing for granted. PROPOSITION THREE: That Sen. Estes Kefauver would be a menacing threat to Adlai Ste venson in the Democratic pri- manes. How do we know? They have never opposed each other in any primary. Sen. Kefauver won thirteen out of fifteen Demo cratic primaries in 1952, but he aid not win them against Mr Stevenson. Today, Mr. Stevenson is the best man. most widelv known Democratic aspirant. He runs ahead of all Democratic rivals in the Gallup surveys of Democratic rank-and-file opin ion. Nobody can say for sure he would defeat Sen. Kefauver, but the reverse is far from proved. The Democrats enjoy belit tling Mr. Nixon by suggesing he is their "favorite" Republican candidate. The Republicans rel ish the prospect that a Truman- Harriman axis may be in the making . against Mr. Stevenson which, could be evidence of how much the Republicans would not relish a Stevenson renomination. PRIVATELY THE Stevenson people are concerned over Mr. Truman's apparent drift away from Mr. Stevenson. There is no doubt that Mr. Truman could seriously, impair Steven son's nomination chances. My own judgment would be that while Mr. Truman's coolness would make it harder for Mr. Stevenson to win the nomination, it might well make it easier for him to win the election. (Copyright. 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Matter of Fact By Jet THE MORTIFICATION OF MOLOTOV Washington The public hu miliation of Soviet Foreign Min ister V. M. Molotov undoubtedly means his d o wngrading, and probably fores hadows his eve n t u a 1 d i s g race and dismissal. But after a close study of the facts, the experts have concluded that Molotov's mortification- also . Joseph Also has a deeper- meaning. It means the final triumph of. the new Soviet policy of smiling, flexible opportunism over the old Stalin ist policy of rigidity and dogma. As the experts interpret it, a tug of war has been going on in the Kremlin ever since the h u m i 1 iation and demotion of Georgi Mal enkov last Feb ruary. The con test has been between Molo tov, who has fought for the old Stali n i s t policy, of which he was, after all, part Stewart Alsop author and protagonists of smiling oppor tunism, mainly party boss Nikita Khrushchev. The evidence which suggests this conclusion is fairly ample. In his letter which was publish ed a few days ago in the maga zine "Kommunist," Molotov con fessed to a "theoretically mistak en and politically harmful" er ror . of doctrine. The supposed error was so completely trifling that it was clearly only a trans pareAt excusfe for disciplining the Foreign Minister. But what is significant is that Molotov's heinous doctrinal sin was committed in the speech he made last February 8th on the occasion of Malenkov's down fall. The February 8th speech was right down the Stalinist line. It repudiated the Malenkov state- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a Den name or initial for publication is Dermis 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. Hoover As Prophet To the Editor: Oregon needs a change, a senator that will represent a majority of the peo ple here in these uncertain times. Dissident Republicans do not want a me-too candidate in the senatorial primary. Wayne Morse will never be beaten by a candidate who has no issue. . The logical candidate to de feat Morse is Dave Hoover. Hoover was a prophet in 1950 when he opposed Morse while most of the Patterson Republi cans were riding Morse's coat tail. And so let us nominate Dave Hoover of Mapleton, Oregon, to represent us. Mrs. J. H. Dunn Route 1, Corvallis, Ore. Seeking a Friend To the Editor: How many of us realize that the seeds of thoughts and actions do not ger minate in a day but take years, yes. many years oi conscious penetration. Such has been my observation along life's path-ways. Many interesting and varied m-oblems are worked out through this popular column and I have one with a desire ex pressed within. As a younger man I was con stantly seeking something knowing not what but striving toward a rule of life which I be lieved would surely fit all situa tions, until one day an opportun ity presented itself while visit ine a home. The soiritual personality of the man opening the door amazed me. The depth of intelligence, poise, charm, sincere friendli ness and general appearance gave me the satisfying impres sion that this person has lived and enjoyed life with full mean ing and purpose. During our short acquaintance I learned many ' wonderful sec rets that makes for a happy life. Of the many spiritual seeds he has sown ' here and there some are slowly but surely tak ing root. Being an admirer of thisper- son it is my earnest desire to locate him. J. F. G. Cone' (Francis Cone') is the -man who at that time had long wavy hair and beard. He was a lookout on Mt. Mc Laughlin- in southern Oregon, lived in Klamath Falls, Ore., Redding, Calif., and near Weaverville at various times since 1928. Anyone knowing of his whereabouts and communicating with me will make some one. very happy. James D. DeMuth 4604-36th St. . Sacramento 20. Calif. and Stewart Alsep ment that a nuclear war would mean the destruction of commu nism as well as of capitalism, and it bristled with threats and defiance. Experts in all the West ern chancellories concluded that a return to the rigid Soviet for eign policy of the end of the Stalin era was inevitable. TUT there were immediate in " dications that the Molotov line was not necessarily the line of all the occupants of the Krem lin. Khrushchev and Prime Min ister Bulganin-went out of their way to make reassuring noises, in interviews with William Ran dolph Hearst Jr. Even more sig nificant, when Yugoslavia's Mar shal Tito bitterly attacked Molo tov's speech, his attack was widely published in the Soviet press, without a word of defense for Molotov. Western intelli gence experts have no doubt at all that Molotov fought hard against the Khrushchev-Bulgan-in policy of reconciliation with Tito. His defeat on this issue was followed by all sorts of evidence that he was on the downgrade. He was left out of the dele gation that made peace with Tito, at Belgrade, his place being tak en by "Pravda" editor Dmitri Shepilov. Both at Belgrade and at the Warsaw conference broad hints were dropped, and duly picked up by the Western intelli gence services, that Molotov was on the way out. He played a minor role at Geneva, and again at the Moscow meeting with Ger man Chancellor Adenauer. And in all recent informal contacts with Westerners Molotov has left the talking about foreign policy to- the talkative Khrushchev. Against this background, con sider these key words in the lit tle noticed editorial which ac companied Molotov's letter of confession: "In the field of for eign policy ... the separation of theory from practice and at tempts to cling to dogma cannot be permitted ... the flexibility of our foreign policy has caused the enormous successes for the policy of the Soviet Union . . . and the relaxation of tensions which has lately been achieved." These words are a slap in the face for Molotov for clinging to dogma which really means clinging to the policies of Josef Stalin. Whatever Molotov's per sonal fate and he has remark able staying powers the slap in the face means the shucking off of the last traces of Stalinist rigidity, and the final adoption of Khrushchev's policy of smil ing opportunism. TT WAS not Molotov, after all, but Khrushchev's protege Shepilov, who made the care- fuUy planned approach to Egyp tian Premier Gamal Abdel Nas ser which has led to the Soviet- Egyptian arms deal. The deal is no isolated incident, but the beginning of a bold new Soviet policy of using obsolescent arms to stir up trouble and otherwise serve Soviet ends all over the world. . Stalinist dogma ruled out the delivery of arms to such "run ning dogs of the imperialists" as the Egyptians, Syrians and Saudi Arabians. Stalinist dogma also ruled out the neutralism which has proved such a boon to Soviet policy Indian Premier Nehru, after all, was another "running doe of the imperialists" in Stalin's day. And smiling op portunism has indeed already achieved "enormous success," in cluding the loosening of the ce ment in the whole Western alll- ance. So perhaps the mortifica tion of Molotov is not such good news after all. . Copyright. 1955. Ne-v York Herald Tribune Inc. LOST AND FOUND Rockland, Me. (U.R) Eye glasses lost overboard by a lob sterman, Ottis Lewis, of Ash Point were found a few days later in a trap in the same vicin ity by another lobsterman, Aug ustus Stone. , Tin accounts for about 70 per cent of Bolivian exports. Since 1908 PERL Mortuary o , Phone; 2-6675 FINER FUNERAL SERVICES In every price rang TESTIFYING before Senate probe, Dr. Edward Levy, Uni versity of Chicago law school dean, is questioned about use of microphones to record jury deliberations. (International Morgan Would Support Harriman Portland (U.R) State Demo cratic Chairman Howard Mor gan said over the week end he would support Averell Harriman if Harriman turned out to be the Democratic nominee for presi dent But Morgan added: "I hope the party nominates Adlai Steven son." Morgan criticized Harriman last Thursday because of his as sociation with Tammany Hall leader Carmine De Sapio. t The Democratic chairman said he did not intend to attack Har riman but only the De Sapio connection. He originally charg ed that Harriman's technique would be to stir up primary fights between Estes' Kefauver and Adlai Stevenson so that Har riman would be in a good posi tion to step into the nomination while they battled.- Bishop Dagwell Reveals Retirement Portland (U.R) The Rt. Rev. Benjamin D. Dagwell, Bishop of the Oregon Episcopal Diocese, today announced his official re tirement date as July; 1958. The bishop some time earlier had indicated his plans to retire by requesting that a coadjutor bishop be appointed. A special convention, which will have' the business of electing the coadjutor to succeed to the bishop's office, begins today. Bishop Dagwell's announce ment appeared in "The Bishop's Message" column in the Oregon Churchman. Cripple Healed GEO. N. TAYLOR A cripple sat begging at the temple gate. In his forty years of life he had never walked nor even stood. The Apostle Peter passed by and told him, in the name of Christ, to rise and walk. Instant ly he leaped up and went into the temple walking and leaping and praising God. This was done in Christ's name, even though Christ had ascended back up to glory, Christ's name is all pow erful with God "In Christ's name," said Peter. Just as a rich man's name makes good the check you present at the bank, so Christ's name makes good your prayer with God. Hear Christ's word "Whatsoever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you. John 16:23. Receive Christ as your Lord and Saviour, who died for your sins. Then you can pray in His name and re ceive an answer to your prayer. This space sponsored by a Scap poose Dairyman. adv. 1 I 1 --u t
