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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Not. 10, 1945
(It was Saturday)
'. Secretary of State Robert S.
Farrell Jr. announces Medford
wins third in its division of 1945
Oregon cities traffic safety con
test. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Cowmen
of the valley are getting ready
to serve hay to their beef short
. age.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 10, 1935
(It was Sunday)
Contributions being received
for Will Rogers Memorial fund.
Medford Realty board survey
shows 69 vacant houses within
Medford city limits.
80 YEARS AGO
Nov. 10, 1925
(It was Tuesday)
Ashland starts annual two
week Red Cross membership
drive.
Jackson County Merchants' as
sociation decides to decorate
main streets at Christmas.
40 YEARS AGO ,
Nov. 10, 1915
(It was Wednesday)
C. E. Gates, manager of sugar
beet campaign, announces near
failure for plant here because
not enough land signed up for
raising beets.
Medford residents reject Me-
dynski rebonding plan by 102
majority.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
' 1. II the Presidency and Vice
Presidency both become vacant,
the Secretary of State becomes
President; right or wrong?
2. More than half the radios
sold in the U. S. last year were
in motor cars; right or wrong?
3. The statue atop the Capitol
dome in Washington is of George
Washington, an Indian chief,
Freedom, Lincoln, Moses, or
King George III?
4. If West and East Germany
united, which would have more
votes, or would it be about 50
50? 5. More farms providing only a
bare subsistence are in New Eng
land, the South, Middle West,
Rocky Mt. states or Pacific
6. There are many more or
many fewer national than state
banks; or is it about 50-50?
7. The Sea Wolf is a British
passenger liner, British cruiser,
U.S. destroyer. U.S. submarine,
or Canadian Pacific liner?
The Answers 1. Wrong; it's
the Speaker of the House. 2.
Wrong. 3. Freedom. 4. Many
more votes for West Germany.
5. The South. 6. About 50-50. 7.
U.S. atomic submarine.
Nui-Dryer Plant
Damaged by Fire
Lebanon (U.R) A nut-dryer
plant owned and operated by
Donald J. Austen on his farm
three miles southeast of here
was partially destroyed by fire
yesterday.
The second story of the plant
containing about four tons of
nuts was consumed before fire
men got the blaze under control.
Firemen said the blaze, which
'originated in a chimney, caused
about $2,500 damage to the
building. Austen said the nuts
were worth between $1,500 and
$2,000.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Trouble in Middle East
The renewed hostilities in the Middle East may
force a really unifiedWestem policy in regard to Is
rael and the Arab states. A
ish House of Commons on Nov. 6, calling for "a posi
tive treaty of alliance" with Israel, characterized the
Tripartite Declaration of May 25, 1950, as "vague and
obsolescent."
U.S. Secretary of State Dulles and British Foreign
Secretary Harold MacMillan on Sept. 27 reaffirmed
their adherence to the 1950 declaration, and France
on Sept. 29 backed up the Dulles-Macmillan state
ment. Under the 1950 declaration, Great Britain,
France and the United States agreed to regulate their
arms shipments in such a way as to maintain a bal
ance between Israel on one side and the Arab states
on the other. Also they agreed that:
Should they find that any of these states was preparing
to violate frontiers or armistice lines, they would . . . im
mediately take action, both within and outside the United
Nations, to prevent such violation.
"THE difficulty in implementing the 1950 declara
tion is that Great Britain appears to be deeply con
cerned with maintaining good relations with the Arab
states, whereas in the United States there is much pro
Israel political sentiment. France, which might ordin
arily act as go-between, is rendered almost voiceless
by its own troubles in North Africa.
Inasmuch as no part of Israel is much over 20
miles from an international boundary or demarcation
line, Israel is virtually ringed by hostile states. And
the boundaries are continually subject to dispute.
Israel has 332 miles of frontier on the - demarcation
line with Jordan, 166 miles with Egypt, about 50
miles with Lebanon, 48 miles with Syria.
TERMINATION of the British mandate in Palestine
on May 14, 1848 precipitated hostilities between
Israel and its Arab neighbors. The general armistice
agreements of 1949 left Israel occupying territory al
most one-third larger than that which was allocated
to the Jewish state in the U.N. General Assembly vote
on partition in November, 1947. Israel gained control
of about three-fourths of Palestine. Egypt retained
military control over the small Gaza strip on the
southwest coast; Jordan occupied the larger east
central district. '
The Arab states, while not formally recognizing
the existence of Israel, have always asked for valida
tion of the U.N. partition boundaries. The Israelis
want the present boundaries, including the full extent
of the "demilitarized" zones, used as a basis for nego
tiations. ISRAEL has been offering to engage in direct nego-
tiations with the Arab state, preferably on an over
all basis but separately if need be. Premier-designate
David Ben-Gurion's repitition of that offer on Nov.
2 was rejected by Egypt.
The so-called "El Auja area," scene of the recent
fighting, is a 56-square-mile triangle which, under the
1949 armistice, is a demilitarized zone. Israel, which,
has maintained "police" checkposts there, claims the
whole area.
The recent fighting seems to have been brought
on by the Czechosolovakian-Egyptian arms deal of
August. With arms from the Soviet bloc available to
the Arabs, the alternative for the West appears to be
putting teeth into the 1950 agreement or reaching
some accord with Russia on guaranteeing peace in
the Middle East. E.R.R.
Payments To Veterans' Survivors
On Veterans Day (formerly Armistice Day) of
1955 the present hodge-podge of compensation for
survivors of veterans is on the way to being revised
and simplified. A bill (HR 7089) to that effect was
.passed by the House on July 13, with so little opposi
tion that individual votes were not recorded.
at
"THE bill had the support of President Eisenhower,
the Defense Department, the American Legion,
and other veterans' organizations. So the likelihood is
for Senate passage next year, though probably with
some alterations.
The minimum payment for beneficiaries, present
and future, would be upped and the maximum low
ered for new ones, with no present beneficiary re
quired to take less than is now being received. For
the first time the scale of payments would vary by
rank of the deceased, with the widow of a private
getting about one-half as much as the widow of a
general.
"THE present $10,000 free life insurance would be
eliminated in favor of putting all men in uniform
under social security, with what would be higher and
longer annuities for most survivors. Servicemen
would contribute up to a maximum of $7 a month.
Another change would end the basis of payments un
der which the survivors of many reservists dying in
peacetime get more than those of many servicemen
dying in battle. 4
The proposed changes would mean higher cost
to the Treasury for the near future, lower cost ulti
mately because of the servicemen's contributions. On
Veterans' Dav 1955, payments were goina: to about
i 502,000 widows, 322,000
pendant parents of some
FROM BAD TO WORSE
Marion, Wis. (U.R) Since
this town passed a dog ordin
ance, it has had nothing but
trouble. It seems that since the
dogs have been controlled, the
rabbit population has been able
to increase . freely. Now the
rabbits have done more damage
to garden stuff and shrubbery
than the dogs ever did.
Thursday, November 10, 195S
Labor member of the Brit
children and 332,000 de
810,000 deceased veterans.
E.R.R.
NO CASE
Ham den, Conn. (U.R)
Charges against Mrs. Beulah
Colburn of Winsted, whose auto
mobile caused S200 damage to
another car, were dropped at
the request of the other motor
ist. It was done when the court
learned Mrs. Colburn lost her
home and most of her possessions
in Connecticut's flood disaster.
Political Situation
In Japan Causes U.S.
Increasing Concern
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Staff Writer
The Japanese political situa
tion is likely to cause the Unit
ed States a lot of worry within
the next few months.
Four weeks ago the right and
left wings of the Japanese Soc
ialist party, long divided, re
united. They have now embarked on
a determined, long-range anti
American campaign which they
hope will get them into power.
Enjoy Majority
The right "-wing Japan Demo
cratic and Liberal parties enjoy
a solid majority at present in
the House of Representatives,
which like the British House of
Commons, runs the country.
These two parties also are try
ing to unite, to present a solid
front against the leftists.
But the Democrats and Liber
als are bickering over the lead
ership. Their merger, which is
likely to come soon, may not
be a firm one.
The present Parliament was
elected last February, for a
four-year term. But there prob
ably will be another election
next spring.
Matter Of FaCt By Joe and Stewart AIsoP
"DON'T LOOK NOW"
Washington As good a way
as any to begin a report on the
present situation is with the
warning,
"Don't look
now, but
there's a man
behind the
curtain with a
gun pointed at
your gizzard."
That is the
best summary,
at any rate, of
the American
policy
makers' reac
tion to the new Middle "Eastern
crisis. In private, the policy
makers are alarmingly close to
downright panic. As revealed in
this space, Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles has actually
described the sudden Soviet in
trusion into the troubled affairs
of the Middle East as "more
serious" than the aggression in
Korea in 1950.
The question is, of course, why
the Kremlin's simple act of sell
ing surplus arms to Egypt and
other Arab
states would
have produced
this kind of
panicky reac
tion. One part of
the answer is
obvious. The
pros pective
upset of t h e
Middle East
ern balance of
power has pro
Stewart Alsop
duced a really grave danger of
war either an early preventive
war launched by the Israelis be
fore the Egyptians are ready to
use their Soviet arms, or a war
of conquest launched by the
Egyptians a little later when
they believe they are sufficient
ly stronger than the Israelis. The
odds on war are currently
quoted as about even by the
best official bookmakers..
But this greatly increased dan
ger of war in the Middle East is
by no means the whole reason
for the near-panic that now pre
vails in Washington. In a longer
perspective, it is not even the
most important reason. What has
happened, really, is that the Eis
enhower policymakers have been
forced to face the really central
fact of the cold war.
... 4
rpHE central fact of the cold
war is simply the enormous
difference between what we can
do on the Soviet side of the line,
and what the Soviets can do on
our side of the line. The exper
ience of the last three years has
proven that the big, bold "libera
tion" talk of the 1953 campaign
was just political hot air.
There is plenty of trouble, of
course, on the Soviet side of the
line. But we cannot exploit this
trouble because the Communist
control is too tight-and too ruth
less and too unshakable On the
Soviet side of the line, there is
a hard carapace which the apos
tle of "liberation," Secretary of
State Dulles, has proven utterly
incapable of penetrating.
Meanwhile there is also plen
ty of trouble on our side of the
line, and there is -no hard cara
pace that prevents the Commun
ists from exploiting that trouble
to the utmost. For the last three
years, this exploitation has been
going on in the Far East in the
Formosa Strait, in Indo-China
and in Malaya, for instance. It
has now begun in the Middle
East, where the recent Soviet ac
tion is quite literally comparable
to tossing a match into a powder
keg.
To most Americans, these
Middle and Far Eastern situa
tions, of course, seem unbeliev
ably remote. What should we
care, for instance, if the labor
unions and school system in
Singapore are already under
Communist control, and if a
rather muddled British Socialist,
David Marshal, is now fighting
a desperate and perhaps losing
battle to prevent the Commun
i iS'- .' &P1
Joseph Also
In that one, the ' Socialists
hope to increase their House
membership substantially. Then,
later on, they hope to force an
other one in which they will
win a majority.
The platform of the United
Socialists is frankly anti-American.
Want 'Independence'
It calls for "independence"
from the United States, for the
cancellation of the Japanese-American
security treaty and for a
halt in the Japanese' rearma
ment program.
Sixty-two-year-old Mosaburo
Suzuki is the leader of the Un
ited party. He was the leader of
the left-wing faction before the
merger.
Last week the Socialists em
barked on a nationwide speech
making campaign, which is to
continue until the next election.
The Socialists now have only
155 seats in the House, against
185 for the Democratic party
and 117 for the Liberals.
But dispatches say that unless
the right wing parties can get
together, the Socialist represen
tation is likely to leap upward
when the next election comes.
ists from gaining control of the
Singapore government itself?
BUT the truth is that Malaya
is one part of the gizzard of
the free half of the world, so to
speak. And the Middle East is
another part of the gizzard.
This is true for very practical
reasons. For instance, Malayan
tin and rubber', Middle Eastern
oil and various services per
formed by British firms in the
Middle and Far East bring in at
least 40 per cent' of the entire
hard currency income of Great
Britain. Even today, the British
are having very acute trade bal
ance difficulties. Take away 40
per cent of their hard currency
income and that is what the
trouble in the Middle and the
Far East threatens to do eventu
ally then the British will be
ruined financially and plunged
into chaos politically.
Now Britain is not only the
second great power of the West
ern alliance. The British Isles
are also the site of the most im
portant of the overseas airbases
on which the American Strategic
Air Command depends for 80,
per cent of its striking power.
Plunge Britain into chaos, deny
the use of the overseas airbases
to General Curtis LeMay and in
one stroke, the Western alliance
will be all but destroyed and
America's own military striking
power will be crippled almost
beyond repair.
Plenty of similar illustrations
could be given. More immediate
threats could also be mentioned,
such as the strong likelihood
that the Soviet sale of arms to
Saudi Arabia will cause the
Saudi Arabians to throw General
LeMay out of his important air
base at Dhahran. The real point
is, however, that the Soviets
flank attacks that are now going
on are just as dangerous to the
free world as overt aggression
in Western Europe. And so some
way has got to be found to stop
the flank attacks. '
(Copyright 1955,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Gold Possession Due
For Talk at Meeting
Cave Junction A meeting
of southern Oregon people in
terested in federal regulations
regarding the possession of gold
will be held here at noon Satur
day, according to Mayor Elwood
Hussy.
He said that Norman Easley,
a Portland attorney who is plan
ning an appeal on constitutional
grounds, of recent gold-possession
prosecutions will attend.
Easley is now" attending the
western states mineral confer
ence in Sacramento.
Those wishing to attend will
be welcome, Hussy said. Site of
the meeting has not been chosen,
but an inquiry at the city hall
will provide that information,
he said.
Young Bandit Makes
Sure of His Future
Detroit U.R) Police
were amazed today at the
thoroughness and foresight of
a young bandit who robbed a
restaurant of $30.
They said James Shea, 28,
hired an attorney and left $5
in a church before he was ar
rested Wednesday.
NOTICE....
ALL BARBER SHOPS
WILL BE CLOSED
FRIDAY, NOV. II
IN OBSERVANCE OF VETERAN'S DAY
Local 269 Barber's Union
Off-Year Voting Called
Victory for Democratic
By LYLE C. WILSON ' the Union League club. Philadel
United Press Correspondent ) phia was a powerhouse in keep-
Washintgon (U.R) The oppos
ing politicians will not agree on
this week's local elections, but
from the press box it looks like
the Democrats won out by at
least a whisker.
The charm of the Eisenhower
smile and the full weight of his
administration, for example,
were behind a Republican can
didate for mayor of Philadel
phia. He was licked. The Demo
crats snatched a lot of town
mayors away from Republicans
in Indiana. There was a scatter
ing of the same across the face
of the nation.
Take Philadelphia. It was a
Republican fortress over the
years and fat Boise Penrose
bossed the national party from
In fhe Day's News
BY FRANK JENKINS
One of the subsidiaries of Uni
ted Nations is a division known,
as the Food and Agriculture Or
ganization i (commonly referred
to as FAO.) FAO is holding its
tenth anniversary session in
Rome. It listened last night to
an address by a Dr. Boerma, one
of the directors of its economic
section.
Among other things, he said:
"There would be no such thing
as farm surpluses if the world's
potential consumers HAD THE
NECESSARY PURCHASING
POWER."
AT THIS point, I'd like to offer
a statement that has a some
what similar application to the
needs of hungry people through
out the world:
"If we had some ham, we
could have a ham and egg sand
wich if we had an egg.".
' ..
nnHIS slightly cynical statement
suggests a highly practical
question:
How could we get the egg?
Well, we might talk somebody
into GIVING IT TO US. ,
TYR. BOERMA'S pontifical
statement to the FAO sug
gests an equally practical ques
tion: Where can the world's poten
tial consumers GET the neces
sary purchasing power?
J. suspect that the thought in
the back of his mmd, if put into
words, might go something like
this:
"Maybe we could talk the tax
payers of the United States into
giving us the money to buy the
food we need."
THAT sounds like a nasty
trick, but it isn't intended as
such. What I'm trying to point
out is that just GIVING people
the things they need seldom pro
duces the prosperity that results
in the purchasing power that
enables them to acquire the
things that they want and need.
Far too often, it results in
pauperizing people.
T ET me cite an example:
From the standpoint of soil
Egypt is one of the richest coun
tries in the world.
From the earliest beginnings
of history, the Nile valley has
been looked upon as perhaps
the world's most fertile area. But
Egypt is and for centuries has
been one of the HUNGRIEST
countries in the world. If you've
ever been in Cairo, you must
have been impressed .by the
number of beggars on the
streets.
.
WHY is this so?
Let's take a look at a sit
uation that is presently threaten
ing to upset the peace of the
world:
Egypt wants to FIGHT IS
RAEL. But it is short on guns.
So it is buying guns and ammu
nition from communist Czech
oslovakia. It is paying for them
with cotton and rice. If the hun
gry people of Egypt could EAT
the rice, they would be far less
hungry.
...
T ET'S put it another way:
J Egypt, with a Jarge area of
the world's most fertile soil, is
one of the world's most back
ward agricultural countries. It
SORELY needs modern agricul
tural machinery and modern ag
ricultural methods.
If it were trading its cotton
and rice for tractors and multiple-bottom
plows and engines
and pumps to move water from
the Nile into the irrigation
ditches of the Nile valley, it
would be far better off.
...
TjGYPT is suffering from lack
of the right kind of leader
ship. People who suffer that
lack are almost sure to be hun
gry. We can't cure their trou
bles by just giving them food.
ing big Pennsylvania a Republi
can state. But back there in the
Roosevelt years, Philadelphia be
gan to go Democratic.
The Philadelphia story points
up some hard facts. One of them
often overlooked is that it is
now nearly 30 years since the
Republican party scored a clean
and comfortable national elec
tion triumph. The last time was
in 1928.,
GOP Swamped Democrats
Herbert Hoover swamDed Al
fred' E. Smith for president that
year and the Republicans piled
up solid House and Senate ma
jorities. The political seers were
writing that maybe the Demo
cratic Party was down and out
for good.
Two years later the 1930 con
gressional elections bowled the
Republicans out. Two years
more and FDR led the Demo
cratic Party into Washington to
stay for a long, long time.
The Republican Party, as a
party, has not done much since.
It put up Alf M. Landon of Kan
sas in 1936 and lost all but
Maine and Vermont. Wendell L.
Wilkie came next and, there
after, Thomas E. Dewey, twice,
1944 and 1948. No luck.
The only substantial party
achievement in the Roosevelt-
Demos See Congressional
Gain in 1956 as Result of
Election Gains This Week
Washington 4J.R) Jubilant.
Democrats began translating this
week s election gains today into
a pickup of congressional seats
in 1956.
-Although the Republicans in
sisted there was no national
meaning in Tuesday's state and
local contest, the Democrats im
mediately began appraising their
gains as signs of things to come
in the 1956 presidential and con
gressional elections.
Sees Increases Majority
Rep. Michael J. Kirwan, Ohio,
chairman of the Democratic Con
gressional Campaign Commit
tee, said Tuesday's voting indi
cated that the Democrats would
increase their house majority by
Democrats Expect
US Farm Problems
To Be No. tissue
Washington (U.R) Demo
cratic leaders have polled them
selves, and come up with the
conclusion that skidding farm
income will be the biggest issue
of the 1956 presidential election
campaign.
"Tax favoritism' for the rich'
as the Democrats put it was
voted "the next most important
issue. The issue of public power
"giveaways" was rated a close
third. " -
Many Polled
Democratic National Chair
man Paul M. Butler said Demo
crats of every rank from for
mer President Truman to coun
try chairmen were tapped for
the poll.
The findings and Butler's com
ments are published in the cur
rent issue of the Democratic
Digest, official publication of
the Democratic Party.
The party officials were asked
to check the top 10 of 20 listed
issues that have aroused contro
versy during the Eisenhower ad
ministration. More than 1600 of
ficials have already responded,
the article said, with falling
farm prices receiving 1279 votes
as the number- one campaign
issue.
Other Issues
Other issues tagged as of par
amount interest were, in addi
tion to taxes and power: "Fa
voritism'' to big business, "mis
conduct in government," rising
cost of living, small business
failures, GOP labor policies, in
adequate schools, and growth of
monopolies in that order.
Letters and words of thanks
come to us continually from
the families we serve. Most of
them express not only grati-
tude but surprise at the service
given for the price involved.
CHAPEL MORTUARY
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan --
FUNERAL
Cioe
Party
Truman years was winning the
1946 congressional elections.
The Republican Party has be
come a minority party on the
count of those citizens who take
the trouble to go to the polls
to vote. The late Robert A. Taft
always contended that the Re
publicans left their majority at
home on election day among the
millions of individuals who fail
ed to cast their ballots. It was his
idea that a vigorous, bare
knuckled campaign would rouse
the stay-at-homes to go to the
polls.
However that may be, the Re
publicans got nowhere until
they went far outside the party
in 1952 to draft a career general
to head their presidential ticket.
He and his smile proved to be a
natural.
But even the Eisenhower gla
mor failed to get a Congress in
1952 with decisive Republican
majorities. That election did es
tablish Republicans with 30 gov
ernors to 18 for the Democrats.
But the Democrats popped back
last year to regain Congress and
make the governor count: Dem
ocrat 27; Republican 21.
The overall trend has been
against the Republican Party
and now the man who obtained
the party's first presidential vic
tory since 1923 is . ill. and,
probably out.
more than 30 votes in 1956. That
would mean a net pickup of
more than 15 seats now held by
Republicans.
Democratic managers are
counting on a pickup of two to
f iveSseats in Indiana where their
party made tremendous gains in
municipal elections this week.
As of now, Democrats also are
hopeful of gaining two or more
house seats in Pennsylvania,
New York, Ohio. Connecticut
and California.
Tuesday's results5 also ' gave
Democratic hopes a boost for un
seating Republican senators next
year in - Pennsylvania, Connecti
cut, Ohio and Indiana. Butler
commeoted that the Philadel
phia election means that "storm
signals are certainly up" for Sen.
James H. Duff (R-Pa.), whose
term expires next year.
Other political developments:
Humane Consideration
1. Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-
Ore.) said he believes that . Re
publicans urging President Ei
senhower to run again, despite
his heart attack, are - putting
"partisan considerations above
humane considerations."
2. Chief Justice Earl Warren
assured a long-time friend that
under no circumstances would
he leave the Supreme Court to
resume political life. He .'has
been mentioned as a GOP presi
dential . possibility' if President
Eisenhower decides not to seek
a second term. He made the re
marks to Dan L. Beebe. editor
and publisher of the Oroville,
Calif. Mercury-Register.
Top Prices Reported
In Auction of Cattle
Top prices were brought by
955 head of Rogne Valley here-
fords and black Angus feeder
cattle sold Nov. 1 at Midway
Auction yard.
The average sale price of
steers was $17.26 per hundred
weight. Heifers averaged $15.52.
The averages include all weights
from 400 to 780 pounds.
, Top price of the sale was
brought by a load of black angus
steers which sold for $18.80 per
hundred-weight. ,
Buyers from many parts of
Oregon and California attended
the sale. Some of the cattle will
go to feedlots in the Imperial
and Sacramento valleys and sev
eral hundred will be put on grass
in various parts of California.
The sale was managed by Eill
Bray, Midway Auction yard.
Harfcld Snodgrass
DIRECTORS