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o o 0 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Q MfeFORDTKIBUlfl Everybody to Southern Oregon Heads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-S141 HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON Managing Editor KAP.RY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor OLIVE STARCH ER Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of Marcn a, jam ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES . ii T A..4n. Pur rftnv 1 flfi. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 c.nir c;iv mnnths fi.nO uany nun .juuuaj y : -. Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sundav Only une vea. wm. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point ti n. rLrtiH Hill Phoenix. hady Cove Roue River. Talent. cna on moiur iuui. Dailv and Sunday One year $15 .00 Daily and Sunday One month lis Carrier and Dealers ac pei ah Turmi Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford United Press Full Leased wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF ClHtULAiara Advertising KePrKSC"i?!r..?.-. ryan WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices In New York. Chicago. De- ttroit. San Francisco, ixjs Seattle. Portland. St. Loul Atlanta Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL lASSodTATlIoN s 1 -u Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and iO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO jt. 3. 1945 (It was Saturday) Washington Parent -Teacher association gains 77 new mem bers in membership drive. , From Arthur Perry's Ye .Smudge Pot column: The bright sunshine of the past week caused many to undergo a recurrence of the spring fever, they admit in the spring, and have the other three seasons. 20 YEARS AGO Nor. 3. 1935 (It was Sunday) Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Richard son, custodians of Crater Lake lodge, report marauding bears loot commissary. Some 200 CCC men arrive at Prospect Memorial park camp to start landscaping work. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 3. 1925 (It was Tuesday) State Supreme Court holds that cities have legal right to regulate types of buildings in various districts. State Special officer T. A. Tal ent and Federal Prohibition Of ficer Cletus McCredie arrest California men with 170 gallons of bootleg liquor valued at $35, 000. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 3, 1915 (It was Wednesday) V. X3. N. Smith elected new president of Ashland Commer cial club; Frank Jordan, vice- president; F. S. Engle, treasur er; F. D. Wagner, trustee. Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Atwood, formerly of California, open new boxball alley at 28 North Grape St. What's the Answer? o Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. First step in a 1956 tax re duction bill would be taken by Treasury Secretary Humphrey, House Ways and Means or Sen ate Finance committee, or Vice President Nixon? " 2. Trailers in the U.S. today are moved on the average once every month, three months, half year or year? . n 3. The American Legion is for or against the Bricker Amend ment to restrict the scope of treaties, or takes no official stand on it? 4. Sen. McCarthy does or doesn't come up for reelection in Wisconsin next year? v 5. The average price in used car sales these-days is around $1000, or somewhat less or more? 6. Soccer football is on the increase or decrease in U.S. col leges, or about holding its own? 7. John Landy of Australia did or didn't achieve fame by climb ing Mt. Everest? The Answers: 1. House Ways and Means committee. 2. Once a year, says Mobile Home Manu facturers Association. 3. Is for it. 4. Dosen'l. 5. Somewhat less than S1000. 6. On the increase. 7. Didn't (for running fastest mile on record). RACCOON SEASON Springfield, 111. (U.R) Con servation Director Glen D. Pal mer, hailing the start of the raccoon hunting season, said to day there are enough 'coons in Illinois "to provide every Davy Crockett in the state with a coonskin cap." 3NEWSPA PER ASSOCIATION MAIL TRIBUNE Education and School Aid With school enrollments continuing to mount and a widely admitted shortage of classrooms, the admin istration is almost certain to ask for some sort of fed eral aid to education in the election year 1956. And the Democrats, controlling Congress, are almost cer tain to up the Administration's bid. "' But although a majority of both parties stand for at least emergency f ederal aid in school construction, the principle has long been bogged down in debate over what kind of aid the federal government should extend to the states. Equally difficult to resolve is the controversy over segregation in the schools aided. DRESIDENT Eisenhower in a special message of r Feb. 8 cited a "deficit of more than 300,000 class rooms." He proposed the authorization of $750,000, 000 for federal purchase of bonds of school districts not able to sell them in the open market at reasonable interest rates. The President also recommended a federal lease-purchase plan to guarantee bond issues of special authorities financing school building for communities unable to borrow. The House Education and Labor Committee on July 22 favorably reported a bill that embodied the President's chief recommendations. To these, the com mittee added a Democratic eral school-construction grants to the states at the rate of $400,000,000 a year for four years on a dollar-matching basis. But the House bill remained tied up in the Rules Committee at the end of the' session, and a similar Senate bill failed to reach the floor. The House Education to 10, an amendment by (D-N.Y.) that would have state or scnool district practicing racial segregation. The Senate bill had been similarly jeopardized by the threat of an anti-segregation amendment, which Sen. Irving M. Ives (R-N.Y.) and Sen. George H. Bender (R-Ohio) had predicted. THE first federal aid to education bill was introduc ed as long ago as 1919. A bill was on the point of passage in the Senate in 1943, but was shelved after adoption of an anti-segregation amendment. The late Senator Taft, chairman of the Senate and Public Wel fare Committee in 1948, tried to reduce opposition to federal aid by a compromise on aid to religious schools. Then Senate passed the bill by a vote of 58 to 22, after tabling an anti-segregation amendment, 65 to 7. In 1949, Northern "liberals" teamed with Southern Democrats to vote down an anti-segregation amendment to a similar bill, 65 to 16. One problem in federal crenancv m estimates of Office of Education in 1953 told committees of Con gressthat 370,000 additional classrooms were cur rently needed; that 720,000 succeeding five years. Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, Education and Welfare, testified on Mar. 29 last.that "nlanned requirements" indicated a shortage of 176, 000 rooms by 1960. The U.S. Office of Education on Aug. 27 reported a classroom shortage of more than 250,000 rooms in the coming school year, although a record 60,000 new rooms had been built since last fall. E.R.R. Political TV in '56 Even though each political party is uncertain about who its 1956 presidential nominee will be, and whether he promises to be good or terrible on TV, each is already beginning to buy up TV time for Sep tember and October, 1956. Otherwise, it would either (a) lose time it will want or (b) have to shell out a bonus for it the Republicans are supposed to have paid an indemnity of $70,000 in 1952 to get time on the air that had been reserved for Milton Bene. THESE advance financial 1 turn help to determine the preferences of the re spective party chairmen for the presidential nomina tion. With money to be raised to meet heavy obliga tions already incurred, national headquarters would be happy with a candidate easy, unhappy with one who d make it difficult. TV, now available to nine out of every 10 Ameri can families, has an increasingly powerful political impact. Any candidate not under a heavy handicap, yet it is costly when so used. So proposals are being advanced for Congress to as sure equal time on the air for all major candidates, with the Government picking up the tab. OOWEVER, that would leave out in the cold the host of minor candidates who, after all, have a right to their day in court. Or if the time assigned was based on voting strength last election, that would pen alize political groups and candidates just beginning to make their mark, if not effectively stifle new ones. In any event, TV has already changed types of candidates and campaigning, and will do so even more in 1956. Long-winded, emotional, platitudinous Senator Claghorns and Senator Sorghums give way to the unpretentious, chatty character who speaks a five-minute piece informally. Indeed, the networks are said to.be planning to' sell to political candidates in 1956 five-minute, three-minute or even one-minute periods in the midst of popular programs. E.R.R. Minor Quake Shakes Washington City Everett, Wash. (U.R) A mi nor earth tremor rattled dishes but didn't cause any serious dam age in this area last night. Prof. Frank Neumann, seis mologist at the University of Washington at Seattle, said the Thursday, Norember 3. 1955 proposal to authorize fed committee had defeated, 17 Rep. Adam Clayton Powell banned federal aid to any aid to education is the dis- classroom needs. Ine U.b would be needed over tne then Secretary of Health, commitments could in who'd make money-raising using it extensively is jolt was an after-shock of a sharp earthquake felt here last March 25. It was recorded at 5:40 p.m. (PST). "It was the eighth tremor re corded here since then, only two of which, were felt," Neumann said.0 Today and By Walter The Immobilized West The most comforting thing can find to say, after a few weeks in Europe on the eve of the Geneva conference, is that the West does not need to be so weak as it looks. Our primary trouble is not that the Soviet Union has very strong cards Walter Lippmann and that we have no strong cards. It is that for internal political reasons the Western governments are at this time unable to play their cards with confidence and conviction. The summit meeting at Ge neva in July was a public recog nition by both sides that they could not use thermo-nuclear war or the threat of it to settle the struggle between them. This did not mean that the struggle was over. It meant that the struggle would become a diplo matic contest. In this contest the Soviet Un ion has since the summer shown a greater capacity for maneuver, for liquidating liabilities and for new initiatives. The four West ern governments, Bonn, Paris, London and Washington have, on the eother hand, remained frozen and immobile in all their pre-Geneva positions. Moscow has been acting while the West ern governments have been re acting and reacting in the main not by actions of their own but by complaining. They have done nothing comparable in its weight and scope with the Soviet's gam bit m Austria, with the Soviet's appeasement of Tito, with the Soviet's establishment of diplo matic relations with the two Germanies, with the Soviet's in cursion behind the Western po litical front into Egypt. rpHE innocent public may have -been led to believe that the Geneva accord to renounce nu clear war was a kind of under standing that the Soviet Union was going henceforth to accept our terms for a settlement of the cold war. But no one in the know ever had the slightest rea son for thinking that this would happen. The Geneva accord did not mean that we were going to have our own way. It meant that the great powers might be able to negotiate and strike bar gains, and that unless they did this successfully, they might lose control of the problems they were supposed to solve. For this kind of maneuvering governments have to be suffi ciently sure of themselves at home to be flexible and responsi ble abroad. Governments that are unsure of themselves are usually able to be firm only if They become immobile unable to move lest they appear to be retreating. It is the immobility Three To Attend DHIA Conference Two members of the Jackson county Dairy Herd Improve ment association and Earle Jos se, county extension agent, will attend the annual DHIA state conference at Oregon State col lege in Corvallis Friday and Saturday. Members of the DHIA who will attend are Glenn Inlow of Ashland and Marvin Wick of Medford. Both are supervisors in the DHIA. The conference con cludes Saturday noon. Scientists To Discuss Use of Solar Energy Phoenix (U.R) About 700 scientists from throughout the world met today with represent atives of industry, finance, agri culture and education to discuss the practical uses of solar en ergy. The scientists yesterday com pleted two days of discussing theoretical problems involved in harnessing the sun's energy in a symposium at Tucson. 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 Frank Morgan FUNERAL Tomorrow Lippmann of the Western governments, not the inherent weakness of the Western position in the world, that makes the prospects so dark in Central Europe, in North Af rica and in the Middle East. Thus in Germany we are im mobilized upon a policy that not even the Germans, much less the Soviets, can be counted upon to believe in to the end. In the re lations of the West with the Mos lem upheaval, which extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the borders of India, there is the greatest reluctance to do any thing new for fear of losing something old. rpHE West Germans are immo bilized by Dr. Adenauer's ill ness and by the fact that, like Eisenhower, he has no recog nized successor who can be counted upon to carry out his policy. There is, in fact, every reason to think, as Moscow most certainly does think, that Ade nauer's successor will not stand upon, that he will negotiate about, the terms that the West is proposing at Geneva. Our po sition at Geneva is inspired pri marily by loyalty to Dr. Ade nauer, by a determination not to concede anything which might be construed in Germany as rocking Dr. Adenauer's boat. If we concede an inch, we fear that Dr. Adenauer's German oppon ents will be encouraged to con cede a yard. So in Germany the West is immobilized and unable to put itself in a position to ne gotiate. The trouble with this position is that in the not so very long run it will alienate us from the Germans who mean, if they they must, to negotiate for, re unification directly with the So viet Union and the East Ger mans. Our problem in Germany is how to overcome the immo bility of our policy. This means that we must find a way to take a position about Germany that the Germans at least will regard as genuinely negotiable. .. rpHE French are immobilized by the crisis in North Africa which has posed the question of whether the French have a gov ernment that can take decisions and have them carried out by its own Generals and officials. France has the primary respon sibility for the relations between the Western world and the Arabs of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The outcome depends upon what is in essence a con stitutional crisis within France. For unless there is a French gov ernment that can govern, there is no prospect of a settlement in North Africa.. The British do have a govern ment that governs. But they have a new Foreign Secretary. They are having a recurrence of their old money troubles. As they do not feel strong in the outer world, they are not in the mood for the kind of brilliant initiative which Anthony Eden showed in his last years at the Foreign Of fice. Here, the President reigns but does not govern, and, in addi tion, we are facing an election. Mr. Dulles has the President's confidence. He cannot have the President's authority, which is a non-transferable attribute. He cannot, therefore, initiate new policies with a certainty that he will have the support of the country. The safest and one might add the inevitable thing is to go on saying what was said before the President fell ill. Thus the strongest member of the Western coalition is in a large measure immobilized. rFHE picture is not pretty. But only a false reporter could prettify it. The West's real pol icy for the time being is to hold on, to blunt the Soviet initiative and to rlav for timp tn amiH letting our hands be forced until tne governments again fppl strong enough to think flexibly and to act firmly. (Copyriohi. 19S5. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Harold Snodgrass DIRECTORS Ifl Investments made fl 4M by the 10th of the n month earn divi- B Iitl dene's as of the I ii jo mm 1 f f II Communications Letters to the Editor mint bear the name 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 Dublica tion must not exceed 400 words. Asks Morse Reelection To the Editor: I wish to ad dress this letter to the great, and good people of Oregon. I know that you are great, and good, be cause I have visited your beauti ful State. My subject is about an indi vidual who is up for reelection to public office in your State next year. I am a Republican, and this is going to be an appeal for a "Democrat." This isn't what many would term correct polit ical ethics on my part. But I am not appealing for a "Democrat" in the sense as I know it, in this case. I am appealing for an American, to be reelected to the United States Senate next year by you people of Oregon. I sincerely believe you Ore gonians are very fortunate to have Wayne Morse as a member of your Congressional delega tion. Well, ... I know there are many Republicans who will not agree with me. Wayne Morse is an American, and an American first. He is an individual who, regardless of party affiliation, says what he . thinks, and does what he believes is in the best interest of his State,, and espe cially his nation. He stands by his convictions regardless of out side pressures, which is more than I can say for many people in my party. He has the "guts" to be an individual, and believe me it has been individuals made of the same constitution who have, made this country what it is today. It takes conviction to break your old political ties, and it takes courage to stand up in the U.S. Senate, time after time, and voice your opinion against a sometimes hopeless majority, be cause you believe it right, and in the best interests of not only the people of Oregon, but my South Dakota too, and the Nation. The united States hangs pre cariously in the balance between peace and war. Never before in history have we needed to be so cautious and perceiving. We must not take drastic action without first analyzing the con sequences. I would feel a lot safer and secure if Senator Wayne Morse were there as the stabilizer he is, and has been in the past. I would feel a lot safer if I knew his voice were there upholding justice, security, and above all wisdom in the field of foreign affairs. People of Oregon, you couldn't replace Wayne Morse -with 10 Richard Neubergers or as many Guy Cordons. Please reelect him, . . the Na tion heeds him. Cy D. Richards Co-chairman, Brown County Young Republican League Aberdeen, S.D. Court Records POLICE COURT Walter Edwin ' Hatch, excessive noise (tires), sio. Thomas McCamant, violation of ba sic rule, $10. Nadine B. Shaffer, failure to stop at red light. S5. William David Brize, violation of Dasic rule. $10. Leslie Willis Lingscheit Jr., exces sive noise (pipes), $10. Ernest Richard Dolan, violation of basic rule, SIO. DISTRICT COURT Warren Rolston Miner, false state ment of residence on license applica tion, $30. Robert Vernon Holland, possession of untagged venison. $30 (bail). Donald Raymond Breazeale. failure to stop at stop sign, $10.' Jack Greb, reckless driving, $35. CIRCUIT COURT Walter S. Kistner Jr. vs. Betty Rose Kistner, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATION William Roger Garner, 22. of 2583 Howard St.. Medford. and Joanne Seaver, 17. of route 1. box 59. Talent. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Dead line for Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday 1 " Ws. 27 North Holly Matter ot fact V Joe and Stewart ADLAI, PLUS AND MINUS Washington In this crucfal formative period, the Presiden tial candidacy of Adlai E. Ste venson is not quite develop ing according to plan. Some of the d i s appoint ments have bgen obvious enough, as in V5 I t h e South. j I Stevenson kfwj, cave a sie- Josepfc Al mar k ably large share of tha last thre years to making southern friends. The southern ers were also elaborately wooed on Stevenson's behalf by the able former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Stephen Mitchell. As recently as a fortnight ago, there was no doubt in the Ste venson camp that these efforts 1 3 a n. O iiau met wiin solid success. On the basis of a talk with Senator Rich ard Russell, of Georgia, La s t summer, Ste venson himself believed that the immensely powerful Rus sell would pub 1 i c 1 y en Stewart Alsop dorse , the Stevenson candidacy at an appropriate moment. The support of other southern lead ers was also confidently counted on. A massive bloc of 250 south ern and border state delegates was the planned key to the Ste venson convention strategy. It was a heavy blow, there fore, when Senator Russell an nounced that Stevenson was a bit "too far to the left" for Geor gia, it was a mow, too, wnen Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas issued a rally ing call for a southern effort to impose a "centrist" candidate on the Democratic party, with the obvious implication that Adlai Stevenson was not a centrist, Over-all, the Stevenson strategy has plainly run into trouble on it scrucial southern flank, Then again, it is pretty plain that the recent attitude of for mer President Harry S. Truman has been another severe disap pointment to the- Stevenson camp. Stevenson made no secret of the wound he felt when Tru man went to Albany, and there m-u wem w uuijj- announced that he wold be for Averell Harriman for President if he came from New York. Ste venson had counted on Truman's positive sur)port,cand this did not look like positive support to him. The relationship between Tru man and Stevenson has not been much improved, either, by their meeting in Chicago a few days ago. , Both have been close mouthed about what happened between them. . .: "OUT those who know the two men best are pretty sure that Truman urged Stevenson to "get in there and fight" for the nomi nation; that Stevenson made his stock lament about fighting fel low Democrats; and that . Tru man, always impatient of any thing savoring of political nice- nelly-ism, sot a bit peppery about Stevenson's lack of gusto. And so Truman, who actually wanted Stevenson to announce his candidacy last summer, came out of the recent meeting with no warnicpraise for Stevenson to balance what he had said on Har- riman's behalf. Doubt about Truman and doubt about the South are very serious and unpleasant new ele ments in the calculations of the Stevenson strategists. On the other hand, the last few days have also brought clear confirma tion of Adlai Stevenson's status as the Democratic front-runner. SStWBssssWiissBSWB llll Us ARE OUR SPECIALTY. Invest your money where it is protected to $10,000.00 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Combine this SAFETY with a comfortabe RETURN and liberal withdrawal provisions and you have an excellent investment.. Open your insured savings account now . . . for PROFIT AVAILABILITY' SAFETY FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford Telephone One sign was the invitation ol the Minnesota delegates to enter their primary, which virtually read, "come on in and win." An other is the now-solid commit ment of Pennsylvania to Steven son. This came over the week end, when Pennsylvania's Gov ernor George M. Leader finally endorsed the Stevenson candi dacy without qualification. Mayor Joseph Clark, of Phila delphia, Leader's chief political adviser, James Finnegan, and the Pittsburgh boss, David Law rence, all had to work pretty hard to get Leader to go the whole hog for Stevenson. Leader had been listening to the siren songs of Mayor Clark's oppon ents in the Philadelphia organi zation, who are supporters of Senator Estes Kefauver. But in the end, Leader was persuaded, and Pennsylvania can now be regarded as being solid for Ste venson in the manner of Illinois. The question for Stevenson, then, is whether he can exploit the grt advantage he now pos sesses in order to get a real band wagon going. The possible an swers to the question are sug gested, however, by the little episode of Stevenson's not too happy meeting with Truman. As of today, there is very little doubt that the former President expects to end by casting his convention ballot for Stevenson, despite his greater personal sym pathy for Averell Harriman. He has said as much, in fact, to those closest to him. AGAIN, the southerners may growl and grumble and (maneuver for advantage. Com mitments to them may have to be made, to soothe their dis content. But they would still ra ther have Stevenson as the Party candidate than either Harriman or Kefauver; and they have no real candidate of their own. But Truman will not end by casting his convention ballot for Stevenson, and the South will not swing back into line either, if Stevenson does not begin to show a real appetite f oP the battle ahead. Being a practical profes sional politician, Truman knows that the Democrats have a hard fight on their hands this year. Stevenson has got to prove he is ready and eager for that fight. That is why the problem of the Democratic primaries is the key problem of the Stevenson can didacy and a problem that can not be solved by just going into tt primaries, iike Minnesota, , n '. . I ,V:..- Z vvjy j iiyii L lags, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) State Solons Said Obstructionists c. Enterprise, Ore. (U.R) Rep. Sam Coon last night accused Oregon's two Democratic Sen ators of leading a "vicious ob structionism" group that placed politics above public interest in the Pacific Northwest. Coon, an Oregon Republican, charged that Senators Wayne L. Morse and Richard L. Neuber ger had "a 100 per cent record of standing in the way 'of new power development in the North west. Coon ended a series of talks here last night before a com bined Enterprise-Wallowa Cham ber of Commerce meeting. Coon and Neuberger recently com pleted a series of 10 debates in eastern Oregon communities, but" Coon continued to accept speaking engagements when the series was ended. "When Morse and Neuberger block construction of new power dams and insist that we have federal power or nothing, they are working against the best in terests of the state they claim to represent," Coon said. 2-9147
