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0 0 FQoH MEDFORD (ORESOK) Mi "Everybody tn Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. n-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor , ERIC ALLEN JR City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second elas matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of Marco 3. iovi SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3.50. 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 Daily and Sunday One moDth 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 6c 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 WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. tNC. 0 Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. - NATIONAL EDITORIAL dig lASgc5'5w NIWIPAPIt k PUIIIIHIK "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. 20. 1945 (It was Saturday) Mrs. Elwood Hedberg, presi dent of the Jackson County Pub lic Health association, reports 176 cases of tuberculosis; reports on Christmas Seal plans. F r o ni Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Many of the fair sex are now wearing trouser-pleated skirts, a new style they claim is a year old, The pleats are supposed to ac centuate the slim silhouette, what ever that is. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 20, 1935 . (It was Sunday) Walter Reese, president of Rogue River Beekeeper's associa tion,, calls meeting to discuss state convention here next month. Xighteen Jackson county men enlBt for CCC duty; four as signed to Medford office. W YEARS AGO" Oct. 20, 1925 (It was Tuesday) Carter Brandon tells of Far Eastern experiences at Carter's club meeting at Dinty Mohr's. , Classified ad in Mail Tribune: "WANTED Young man, alone, wishes to hear from maid or young widow matrimonially in clined. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 20. 1915 (It was Wednesday) City council and Southern Pa cific compromise that train engi neers pull lightly on the whistle cord, shorten the blasts and do all in their power to moderate noise of trains. From Local and Personal col umn: Hob S. Deuel, cashier of the First National bank, has been named second lieutenant in Com pany 7,' to succeed R. N. Foster, who moved away. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Raped 1. The new armed forces re serves are supposed to build up over the next five years to 290,- 000; 1,290,000; 2,900,000, or 12, 900.000 men? o .. .. 2 No president or vice-presi dent of the U.S. has ever re signed; right or wrong? 3. Most U. S. cities spend more each year on schools, libraries, streets, police departments, hos pitals, or garbage and trash col- 4. What make of car today puts out a series called the Montclair?. 5. Most states do or don't elect governors this coming Novem ber? 6. Adlai E. Stevenson's grand father (same name) ran for Vice President once and was elected, or twice and elected twice, or twice and elected once, or never ran? 7. Rupprecht was the tradi tional name of the king of Aus tria, Bavafca, Bohemia, Den mark, Poland or Prussia? . . The Answers: 1. 2,900.000. 2. Wrong; John C. Calhoun re signed as Vice-President in 1832 to enter the Senate. 3. On schools. 4. Mercury. 5. Most don't. 6. Ran twice, was elected once. 7. Bavaria. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 1 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 sieviouday. MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence San Francisco, Oct. 15 Usually a moral victory in sports is pretty watery soup. But not for Stanford Saturday against UCLA. For except for the first quarter when the Uclans ran up 21 points in about 20 minutes, the boys from down yonder outplayed their highly-touted rivals, and,when the whistle sounded were only one point and one foot from tying the score. It was a great game, one of the most exciting in an exciting and upsetting season. In spite of the radio broadcasters boosting for the Uclans a more rankly partisan report we have never heard the Indians followed the example of their namesakes in the baseball world and with a break or two from Lady Luck would have tied the game. As every one now knows the final score was California-at-Los Angeles 21, Stanford 13. San Francisco of course is a great place for sports over radio and TV. Saturday there was the Stanford-UCLA tussle at Palo Alto in the afternoon and the Oregon-California and OSC versus College of Pacific at Stockton Saturday night. The Oregon victory, 21 to 0, was a surprise to this department and a very pleasant one but it wasn t very interesting too one sided. We can t recall a California football team being outclassed by an Oregon team before, but that is the way it sounded from Portland. We didn't get all the OSC game but the final minutes were about as tense and thrilling as anyone could wish. Naturally Ye Editor was boosting all out for the Beavers but COP paid no heed and won out by 6 points in the last two or three mmutes. Sunday the game between the S.F. 49'ers and the ex-pro cham pions, Detroit, was the pigskin offering and here was another shilling-shocker at least it must have given a shock to the 50,000 Detroit fans who sat in the rain for two hours and a half to see their team beaten once more in the last two or three minutes by 3 points, when at the half they had a lead of 18 points. Those alleged 49-er fans who booed Quarterback Tittle up at Kezar a couple of weeks ago, and yelled to put him on the bench, should feel pretty cheap, for it was Tittle and his quick-thinking that won the game. Knocked over and half buried in the mud, "Old Baldy" flipped the ball to Ha?f-back Perry for a score that turned defeat into a grand and glorious victory. Some apologies should also be coming Chuck Taylor's way. When the ebullient 'IChuck" returned from that terrific beating Stanford received at Michigan State he had no alibis to offer, he merely remarked Michigan State had the strongest team in the Middle West, was going to the Rose Bowl, adding that to be de feated by such a super aggregation did not necessarily mean Stan ford did not have a chance against UCLA. All the local sports writ ers gave him the horse-laugh, but they still have to prove that he was wrong. We doubt if even Ira Blue can sell Michigan State short after that Saturday victory over Notre Dame. e So much for football too much for some, no doubt. Glad to note France and England are not behaving in accord ance with their traditions. Instead of firing Premier Faure France has sustained him and England instead of behaving in its usual conservative and proper manner regarding the romance between Princess Margaret and war hero Townsend, is behaving in a most UN-British fashion. In fact the newspapers and the rank and file are acting much as the Britishers have in the past accused the crude and vulgar Americans of acting, particularly in Hollywood. Why can't they leave the poor youngsters alone and let them and their families work out their own personal affairs in their own way? Our guess is the Princess will do much as her Uncle David did with more justification, for after all she doesn't have to give up the throne or shirk any duties of importance in marrying the man of her choice. However in this case as in many others only time can telL The Weather Man isn't doing so well today, but his batting average since our arrival is still extremely high. No rain for over a month but cold and cloudy now for three days. Ran into the Dr. Tom Emmens en route to Medford after visit ing Reno and Las Vegas. They both looked fit and frisky but we got the idea they found Reno more rewarding than L.A. R.W.R. '. Washington ON NOMINATING VICE PRESIDENTS Washington There is a grow ing feeling that the 1956 nom inating conventions ought not to be allowed to go by without improving the method of select ing Vice Presidential candidates. It is not too soon to begin. There is no prospect of chang ing the long habit of choosing Vice Presidential nominees as a back-of-the-wrist, back-stge, casual after-thought to the main event' unless there is an affirm ative public demand. - - The need for applying dif ferent and much higher stand-, ards of qualification for the Vice Presidential nominees of both parties should not be blurred by present personalities. There are many who will feel that Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John Sparkman, the 1952 nominees, were above the average. But the basis for their nomination was not their fitness to become President , of the United States. This was only in cidental or accidental and that is not good enough when we are selecting the possible heir to the most exacting, powerful of fice in the world today. - - In 1952 neither Senator Nixon nor Senator Sparkman was con sidered by either party as qual ified for the Presidential nom ination. This has-been the case in every Vice Presidential nom ination except in the earliest years of the republic. ' Not in 119 years that is since the nomination of Vice President Martin Van Buren to succeed President Aslrew Jack son has a Vice President ever received a Presidential nomin ation without first getting the Presidency by death'. It is rather revealing that while the Democratic Party hesitated to consider Alben Barkley , for the Presidential nomination in 1948 because of age, it did not hesitate to give him the Vice Presidential nom ination. TT IS not just President Eisen hower"s illness which makes it important ' to re-appraise the casual attitude toward choosing Vice Presidential nominees. The law of averages is dang erously on the side that a Vice President will succeed to the Presidency without being elect ed to the Presidency Ten of the 36 Vice Presidents in 166 years have become President seven by accident, that is by the death of the President. That makes it one in five. Haven't w bad enough experience to Thursday, October 20. 1955 Roscoe Drummond decide that the time has come for both parties to determine Presidential and Vice President ial nominations by the. same standard? The tendency to neglect the Vice Presidential nomination, has become habit-forming in American history. The awesome responsibilities of the Presidency grow and grow. They are more grinding upon the President than ever, but neither party approaches the Vice Presiden tial nomination as though it were choosing its "second best man" to be ready for the high est office. .'' "rpHE MILWAUKEE Journal" is already giving impressive voice support to persuading the parties to make their choice of Vice Presidential nominees more carefully, more deliberately and in keeping with the concept that they are picking somebody, not just to preside over the Senate, but very possibly to preside over the nation. "The Journal," for example, notes that the Vice-Presidency itself was a long-delayed after thought of the founding fathers, that not until thirteen days be fore adjournment of the Con stitutional Convention did even the words "Vice President" enter the debate as recorded by Madison's journal. Benjamin Franklin lightly dismissed the Vice President as "His ' Super flous Majesty." Times have changed, the Presidency has become vastly more exacting. The expectation that the Vice President will suc ceed to the Presidency is great er. No act of Congress, no law, no change in the Constitution can guarantee that the political parties will select their "second best man" for the Vice Presid ency. The parties will treat the Vice Presidency with adequate respect only when public opin ion requests them to do so. The Presidency and the Vice Presidency are not too big for two men of Presidential stature at the time of nomination. (C) 1955, New York Herald Tribun Inc. McKay Flying Home For Mother's Funeral Portland . (U.P Interior Secretary Douglas McKay will fly here from Washington today for the funeral of his mother, 82-year-old Mrs. J. W. Frater. Mrs. Frater died Tuesday at St. Vincents hospital in Portland following a brief illness. She had lived here most of her life. Matter Of STEVENSON NOT HAPPY 'WARRIOR Chicago, 111. Adlai E. Ste venson is marching into the 1956- campaign with banners flying and a consid erably larger following than any other D e m o c r atic candidate; but he is not a too happy warrior all the same: The trouble, far as one judge, is . great Joseph AUo change that has come over the. American po litical scene since the illness of President Eisenhower. It may seem incredible that any Demo cratic politician should sincere ly regret, even in his inmost heart of hearts, that his party will not have to try to beat Eisenhower. Yet Stevenson quite genuinely appears to regret this easing of the Democratic problem. He had made up his mind to one kind of campaign, with President Eisen hower at the head of the Repub lican ticket. He was even eager for it. But now he has got to make up his mind to another kind of campaign. No doubt he will make that kind of cam paign and make it well. But he is not eager for it. There was certainly a good deal of optimism in the way Stevenson originally expected the campaign to develop. He had hoped, first of all, that no other Democrat would really care to take on the Republican grand champion. In the Stevenson camp, even Senator Estes Kefau ver, the man who runs for the Presidency as a lemming runs into the sea, was expected to master his instincts and hold still on this occasion. With no significant competi tion, : Stevenson, the generally accepted Democratic candidate designate, was to give the win ter, spring and early summer to developing the issues. Then would come the campaign, which was to be an elevated "Demo cratic dialogue" with President Eisenhower. And after that the voters were to do their duty as citizens, and all would be over. , This remarkable projection, so happily devoid of political squal or or vulgar excess, has now of course been knocked galley-west. Sen. Kefauver's instincts are in the saddle again, encouraged, some Stevensonians darkly sus pect, by Republican or even Harriman money. Averell Harri man is less and less for Steven son and more and more for Har riman.' Former President Tru man, who used to be for Steven son! too, has begiih to talk out of both sides of his mouth; and this has been a very bitter blow indeed. .'.' PRIMARIES loom ahead, and Stevenson will have to slug it out with Kefauver in enough key primaries to convince his party that he' is' even more the "peo ple's Adlai" than Kefauver is the "people's Estes." .On this point Stevenson has said, "I'm eager to fight the Republicans, but I had hoped I could give my whole time to the enemy, instead of spending most, of it fighting my own party." And even after the primaries, even when the nomination has been won, the election will have to be fought against Vice Presi dent Richard Nixon or some oth er Republican very unlike Pres ident Eisenhower. And so the development of a high level Democratic dialogue is very un likely indeed, and this is another disappointment. ' Possibly this reporter came to Chicago at an unfortunate mo ment, and so found Stevenson in an unfortunate and unrepresent ative mood. In the old days, when appearances were better maintained, Stevenson had been invited to speak in New York at a grand Democratic dinner planned by Harriman and De Sapio. But now the sapient De-Sapio- had just abruptly can celled the engagement, un doubtedly because he regarded Stevenson as much too far ahead already, and did not wish to en courage the Stevenson trend fur ther by any seeming lukewarm- II gl I so 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. j i CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Frank Morgan - FUNERAL 1 FaCt By Joseph AIsop ness in New York. The just received did-invita-tion from the camp of Harriman, whom Stevenson genuinely re garded as a friend, had left a rather obvious wound. Further more, an impending speech in Minnesota made the farm prob lem the issue of the moment in the Stevenson camp. All Steven son's advisors were pleading, al most on their knees, for a ring ing indorsement of the grand Democratic promise of farm prices rigidly sustained at 90 per cent of parity. But Stevenson, with his almost excessive deli cacy in such matters, was reluct ant to make any such flat prom ise, as being demagogic. It was for these reasons, per haps, that Stevenson was say ing such things as: "A man does not run for the Presidency just because he thinks he would like the work and enjoy the salary." And: "I'm not going to say to my party, 'Folks, I'm going to fight for this thing.' It's up to the party to say who they want" PROBABLY these were only the last jibbings of a spirited and nervous horse, before ac cepting the heavy harness, push ing forward into the collar and setting off. down the road at a spirited clip. It seems certain at any rate although Stevenson does not like to admit it that he will announce his candidacy be for long; that he will fight hard to get the nomination after he has announced it, and that he will fight hard to win the Presi dency if he is nominated. Yet these last jibbing of Stev enson's none the less possess the highest political significance. In a truly extraordinary degree in a way, in truth, that may not happen more than twice or thrice in a generation this man is equipped for the high tasks of political leadership. Thus far, however, he seems to lack that sense of personal mission, that all - impelling, all - consuming sense of purpose, that made the great William Ewart Gladstone into the original "people's Wil liam." If you set out to be a moral politician, as Stevenson has very clearly done, the going is always likely to be hard if you do not have that kind of sense of mission to drive you on. (C) 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Temperature Shift Switches Mercury; Connecticut Angry By UNITED PRESS ; A temperature shift made it warmer in Minneapolis, Minn., than in Atlanta, Ga., today. . An autumn cold snap dropped the temperature to 47 in Atlanta. But at Minneapolis the early morning temperature stood at 56. The pattern was repeated else where in the country, with the mercury rising as much as 26 de grees in the Western Middle West, but huddling in the 40s as far south as Alabama and Geor gia. Meanwhile, angry New Eng enders demanded state and fed eral action against floods. . Shouts Greet Governor Gov. Abraham Ribicoff, tour ing devastated Connecticut areas, was greeted with shouts and angry placards at Hartford. May or William T. Sheasby told Ribi coff in a showdown" meeting that his people couldn't take an other flood. Connecticut was hardest hit by the week-end floods which killed 50 persons in New Eng land. , - Waters were receding rapidly in another flood-stricken region in Western Mexico, but they left behind 50 persons dead and heavy damage. Five communities in Jalisco state were reported "wiped off the map" by a flood ing Pacific storm which hit four days ago. Though often denounced for destroying birds, the skunk aids man by eating vast1 hordes of cut-worms, potato beetles, white grubs, and other crop ravagers. Courthouse Harold Snodgrass DIRECTORS Nationalist Regime On Formosa Facing internal Difficulty By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Chinese Nationalist re gime on Formosa seems to be facing a period of eternal trou ble. , Two issues which affect the army and the cabinet are developing. The first concerns an of ficial report, made public to day, on Gen. Sun Li - Jen, widely respect- cuaries Mccann ea Dy Ameri can military men. The report held that Sun must share re sponsibility for an alleged pro Communist spy plot of which one of his most trusted aides is accused. The second concerns Premier O. K. Yui and Foreign Minister George Yeh. Some influential members of the government po litical party, the Kuomintang, ac cuse Yui and Yeh of being "too American.", Yui also is charged with fait ing to come up with a solution of the island's serious economic situation. Sun is -54, white haired but youthful looking. He probably is the most brilliant Nationalist general. Like Yui, he might be called pro-American. Sun took theMegree of bach elor of science at Purdue uni versity and the degree of bach elor of arts at Virginia Military Institute. EMIT SIDE- 608 East Main - Phone 2-6805 Shop the Easy Way Free Delivery Park FREE at Union Oil Get the Best and Northern Stamps Too! -Open 8 a.m. till 7 p.m. Sunday 10 a .m. - 6 p.m. HORMEL DAIRY BRAND BEEF BACON POT ROAST BOILING PURE BEEF Ground BEEF 2i,2Sc 3is.fe It, POTATOES SB TOMATOES fs GRAPEFRUIT - Heinz KETCHUP Skippy Dog &Ca Food 12'w?5' He has had a notable military career. But he made the mistake of opposing the political com missar , system which -f Gen. Chiang ching- Kuo introduced into the army. Chiang ching- Kuo is the son of Generalissimo Chiang kai-Shek. He is regard ed as the second most powerful man on Formosa. Chiang ching-Kuo learned about the commissar system in Russia, where he spent many years as a hostage. Sun was demoted from the post of commander-in-chief of the ground forces to that of per sonal chief of staff to the gener alissimo. ' . Then, last May, Maj. Kuo ting Liang, a member of Sun's staff, was arrested. It was asserted of ficially that he confessed being the leader of a spy plot. It was announced in August that Sun had resigned after ad mitting "negligence" because of the alleged plot. Since then Sun has been un der investigation by a special government committee which made its report against him to day. . . A Scapegoat There is suspicion that Sun is being made a scapegoat. The army, or most of it, shares his opposition to young Chiang's po litical commissar system. Hence army morale, especially important in Nationalist Formo sa, will be badly affected. But if the committee had cleared Sun, young Chiang would not have been pleased. . The trouble in the cabinet re- 7. Ruby Reds 14-oz. Bottles Argentina Ousting Election Machinery Buenos Aires (U.R) Argen tina's provisional government today was sweeping away oust ed dictator Juan D. Peron's cor rupt election machinery in pre paration for new presidential elections. Provisional President Eduardo Lonardi, disclosing the action in an interview with United Press on Wednesday night, said no member -of the government which replaced Peron would be a candidate in the election. He also left little doubt that Peron's Peronista party would be barred from participation as a political party. : Raising of Shetland Ponies Big Business Ponca City, Okla. (U.R)-- Raising ponies is big business. E. P. Gonterman and his brother, Ray, paid a record $8,500 for a four-year-old blue roan mare and a copper sorrel colt at the an nual Perry, Okla., Shetland pony sale this summer. E. P. started raising the Shet- Iands as a hobby 10 years ago. The hobby developed into the Beau Cheval Shetland pony farm at the green gables farm west of here. fleets the growing fear on For mosa that the United States may be drawn into giving the Chin ese Reds at least practical, if not formal, recognition and that as the result the Peiping regime may be admitted to the United Nations. Opponents of Premier Yui and ' Foreign Minister Yeh say they have tied the Nationalist regime too closely to the political strings of the United States. mm 2 W 3 f.r 25' 2 f.r m
