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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UKl "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads Tha Mail Tribune Publihed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 unWTTTJT VI RTTWT. F.riitnr HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HAitRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports. Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society- Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act ot - March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One vear $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 350 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eaele Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Almost as many outdoor enthusiasts so far this winter have been rescued from blizzards by the forest ser vice as were warned by the same agency last summer not to drive off and leave their camp fires burning. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 29, 1935 (It was Friday) State hiKhway commission to open bids on Siskiyou underpass at Southern Pacific crossing. Sgt. Clyde C. Fichtner elected president of newly-formed En listed Men's club of local Nation al Guard unit. 30 YEARS AGO Not. 29, 1925 (It was Sunday) W. J. Virgin, local radio aeal cr, says more valley residents bought radios than in any pre vious year; radio conditions greatly improved. From Local and Personal col umn: When a new danger signal for the rear of automobiles is switched on to indicate that a car is about to turn or stop it also flashes a white light ahead to show the driver's extended hand. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 29, 1915 (It was Monday) Black Diamond, Central Park buffalo used as model for "buf falo nickel," and $10 note, dies in New York. From Ashland news: H. F. Poh land and F. D. Wagner take school census; shows increase from 1,309 to 1,320 between ages of four and 20. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of tha 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. The 900,000 Arab refugees from Israel are agreed on all sides to have left voluntarily, or to have been forced out, or is it in great dispute? 2. Present basis for farm price supports began under Coolidge, in the 1929-33 depression, in the early or late New Deal, or under Truman? 3. Both U.S. Senators from which state have last names be ginning with the letter "D"? 4. The Cotton Bowl is in Dal las, Los Angeles, Miami, Hous ton, Atlanta, or Columbus? 5. Oil imports account for about 5, 10, 20, 27Vz or 35 per cent of the total U.S. oil con sumption? 6. The proportion of Negroes to Whites is highest in South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Lousiana or the District of Co lumbia? 7. Geoffrey Fisher is a prom inent English political leader, Air Force attache in Belgium, physician, cleric or atomic sci entist? The Answers: 1. In great dis pute. 2. In late New Deal (1938. 3. Illinois (Douglas end Dirksen). 4. Dallas. 5. About 10 per cent (in 1954). 6. Mississippi. 7. Cleric (Archbishop of Canterbury). . MAIL TRIBUNE Will History Repeat? It is io be hoped the Democratic party doesn't fol low the example of the Republican party following the first World War. . i ' In the post-bellum period there were two out standing candidates for the presidency, General Leo nard Wood of New York and Governor Frank Low den of Illinois. They had plenty of money behind them, and a generous supply of delegates but neither, as the con vention proceeded, could get the necessary majority of the latter. THHE struggle was a bitter and relentless one and while neither of the principals could win, each was strong enough to prevent the victory of the other. The battle went on night and day until finally with the delegates running out of wind and money, the Big Boys of the convention headed by Boise Pen rose, met in that well publicized "smoke-filled room" in the Blackstone hotel and compromised on Senator Warren Harding of Ohio, the idea being that he look ed the part if he couldn't play it, and the Wilson ad ministration was so unpopular, any Republican who looked the part could win anyway. And they were right. But the GOP instead of getting one of the strong est candidates available in the party and giving the country one of its best administrations, selected the worst candidate, the least qualified, and one of the blackest pages in the party's history and of the coun try's was written, until the merciful hand of death intervened. HISTORY is not exactly repeating itself today, as there is a certain similarity, and there may prove to be more. With Governor Williams of Michigan enter ing the lists against former Governor Stevenson, it looks as though "anything to beat Adlai" will be a popular slogan when the Democratic convention opens. And it is within the range of possibility, particu larly if Senator Kefauver should repeat his primary successes of 1952, that Messers. Stevenson and Ke fauved would follow the Wood-Lowden pattern and knock each other out while a compromise candidate, upon whom a majority of the weary delegates could unite would step in. THUS two of the men best qualified for the presi- party would enter the campaign against whomever the Republican's candidate may be, with a second or third-rate offering. That would spell the doom of Democratic aspira tions, for unlike the situation in 1920, the President today in power enjoys great personal popularity, and whether General Eisenhower is a candidate or not, the Democrats are going to need the best presidential timber they can secure to make a better showing than they did in 1952, much less, as they hope, march on to victory. No second or third-rater can do the job. It is the belief of this department that if the Dem ocratic leaders gang up thus early in the game to split their party over Stevenson or eliminate him entirely, they will be eliminating the ONE candidate best qualified to give them what naturally they all want, a return to power in 1956. What's Wrong With It? Over the strenuous objections of the metropoli tan press in Oregon the State Supreme Court recently ruled that the title for the proposed reapportionment measure authored by Giles French, in stating that it followed the "Federal Plan" was legally correct. When the action was taken we failed to see where the big city objectors had a leg to stand on. Whether the measure is desireable or the reverse for the state of . Oregon, it does follow the system of our federal government the system of "checks and balances," and therefore the title is entirely a proper one. UR forefathers adopted a system whereby the representation in the House of Representatives should be based upon population in each state, while in the Senate one state, whether big or little, should as a separate political unit, have the same number of senators as every other, namely two. - yHIS system we believe has worked pretty well. It is not perfect but it tended to prevent domination of the legislative branch of the government by the larger states and particularly the larger cities. It has given every state at least a fighting chance to prevent the passage of legislation, which the people of that state might consider destructive, unjust or unfair. Were both houses based fundamentally upon popu lation, even in varying degrees, the states of the west outside of California wouldn't have a chinaman's chance, to do anything but follow the orders of the great population centers. CO WHILE there may be objections to this French , bill not yet divulged we certainly can see no rea son why it should not be called a proposal that fol lows the federal plan, for that is exactly what it does. The only' difference is the government provides two senators for each state while the French bill pro vides only one Senator for each county. But that doesn't change the essential character of the legislation which is merely to give the smaller counties of the state (in population) a better and fair- j er break. R.W.R. J Tuesday, Norember 29, 1S55 Visit of Arabia King To India May Prove Major Development By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The visit of King Saud of Sau di Arabia to India may prove to be an important development in the Middle Eastern situa tion. Soviet Russia thrust itself into the picture when it ar ranged for its satellite Czech oslovkia to send arms to Egypt. Russia, of course, took t tiarles McCann advantage of the tension between the Arab countries and Israel. "Neutralist" Prime Minister Jawaharhal Nehru of India seems to have that situation in mind in asking King Saud to visit him. Involved also is Nehru's aim to form a solid bloc of African and Asian countries which will' detach . themselves from the Western sphere of influence. Western Allies Embarrassed Nehru's invitation to King Saud to visit India seems to be a new move in his campaign. It is a move which comes at a time when the United States and its allies are trying to strengthen their position in the Middle East. The Western Allies are some what embarrassed because of the dangerous Palestine situa tion.. Both. Egypt and Saudi Arabia are important to them and the activity of Russia and India can only add to their difficulties. It is no secret that Russia has offered arms to Saudi Arabia, as well as Egypt, and -that Saudi Arabia is considering the offer. King Saud's kingdom, a vast stretch of desert sand, practical ly floats on a sea of oil. Oil Source Exploited . That oil, one of the most im portant sources of fuel in the world, is exploited by the Amer ican owned Arabian American Oil Company. Until the field was opened, Russian Leaders Given Hysterical Welcome on Tour Calcutta, India OJ.R) Sov iet premier Nikolai Bulganin and Soviet Communist party chief Nikita Khrushchev rode like twin Buddhas through i hysterical welcome by over 5, 000,000 Indians today. The greeting was the wildest yet given the two Soviet leaders as they arrived by plane from Madras on another leg of their barnstorming tour of India. Sat Indian-Style They sat with upturned hands, Indian style, as they were whisk ed by car from Dum Dum air port to the heart of this teem ing city of millions. A crowd of 5,000,000 men, wo men and children lined the sev en and a half mile route shout ing, "Indians and Russians are brothers." Women blew conch shells and showered the beaming Russians with flower petals. Thousands of Soviet and Indian flags were waved wildly. City Scoured for Car Khruschev and Bulganin were at the head of a convoy of limousines. Officials had scoured the city before finding and re quisitioning a special, seven-seat open air model for the Russian leaders. Halfway through the . drive from the airport, the crowds be came so thick that Bulganin and Khrushchev had to abandon their car and climb aboard a police radio truck. This carried them off through crowds which were shouting "Where's Bulganin?" The Soviet Premier kept out of sight on police orders. Thieves With Itching Hands Sought by Police Pontiac, Mich. (U.R) Po lice looked today for a truck with greenish-gray spots and a gang of .thieves with itching hands. The thieves dipped into acid plating baths and made off with 1,800 pounds of nickel bars. Of ficials of the Argon Plating Co. told police acid would irritate the thieves' hands and spot the get-away truck greenish-gray. CHARLES 9 SUN LIFE ASSURANCE if & Jjj 4 -r, a4 Saudi Arabia's revenues were de rived almost entirely from a head tax imposed on pilgrims to Mecca, shrine of the Moslem world. Now, Saudi Arabia, which means King Saud, gets something like $100,000,000 a year in oil royalties from "Aramco." There is also the little-mentioned fact that the United States has one of its greatest air bases at Dhahran in Saudi Arabia. The base can command the entire Middle East. From it, giant bombers are well within range of the Soviet Union. The agreement under which the United States holds the Dhah ran base comes up for renewal next June. With Russia tugging at Saudi Arabia from one side, and India from another, the United States may find it difficult to maintain its position. Worden Slaying Said Scheme To Benefit Widow KingsviUe, Tex. (U.R) A fight over the validity of a will signed by Don Worden of San Antoio has led to charges that the "svengali" slaying of Wor den was part of a "plan, scheme and design" of Worden's widow. The sensational accusation came in a petition signed by Worden's son, Air Force Sgt. Robert Worden. The sergeant op posed admitting a will signed by the elder Worden to probate. Possessions Left To Widow The wiU leaves all of Wor den's possessions to his widow Mrs. Violet Canales Worden. Her petition asking probate of the will listed the value of Wor den's personal property at $3,500 but did not estimate the value of his real property. Kingsville County Judge B. A Brown appointed Mrs. Worden temporary executrix of the es tate after yesterday's hearing, But the judge put off until next week a final ruling on Robert Worden's petition. Told To Shoot Daughter The 42-year-old Mrs. Worden admits she shot and killed her 45-year-old husband. But she told authorities she did it only because he handed her a dia mond- encrusted pistol and told her to shoot her five-year-old daughter by a previous mar riage. She said her husband was a "svengali," who hypnotized her by dangling a watch fob in front of her. She said he also drugged her and swindled her out of more than $100,000. A grand jury began an investi gation into Worden's death last week, but then recessed until Dec. 12. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis Jible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. About Dogs To the Editor: A few evenings ago I was walking on the street, coming home from work, when suddenly a big brute of a dog crept up behind me and lunged at me with such force that I was knocked to the pavement and before I could get to my feet, he grabbed my hand and tore my glove. I fell on my right side and felt as tho my hip was broken, but luckily I was spared that tragedy and perhaps being crippled the rest of my life. I know people who had that happen to them in a lesser fall. Anyway, for several nights my hip and arm were so sore that I could not sleep. Has it come this in the "City of Medford" that people take their life in their hands when they step out on the streets, either by being struck by a car driven by an irresponsible or drunken driver or attacked by a vicious dog. When that ordin ance came up for a vote of the people, whether to keep dogs under leash, I voted against it, for I felt sorry for the dogs that would be neglected by their own ers and suffer from thirst in hot weather. But, if it comes up for a vote again and I hope it will soon I shall vote to keep dogs penned up the year round and hope it passes by a large major ity. Mrs. A. P. (Name on file) WISHING MAKE IT SO The future independence and leisure you are hoping for will be yours only if you prepare for it. It is never too early to make provision for a happy retirement. Don't let it become ' too late. How about today? E. JONES, Local Agent Phone 2-9772 COMPANY OF CANADA In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The Russian government offi cially announces that it has ex ploded a hydrogen bomb.' The announcement was made by Ni kita Khrushchev in the course of a speech in the Indian city of Bangalore, The Moscow government de scribes the bomb as the most powerful of all such types of ex plosives, havmg the force of a million tons , of TNT. GRAIN of salt note: A year ago last March the United States tried out a hydro gen device which, according to unofficial estimates, had a force of more than FIFTEEN million tons of TNT. ' You never can tell about these Communists . when they start bragging about having the big gest and the best. SO MUCH for the statement about Russia's new bomb. Let's now take a look at the cir cumstances in which it was made. ? Khrushchev is in India. He's trying to talk the Indians (mean ing the rulers and the people of India) into thumbing their noses at the United States and coming over into the Communist camp. The population of India is just under 400,000,000, which would be a lot of useful cannon fodder for Communist purposes. Telling the Indians about the explosion, he said: "Our engineers and our scien tists wanted to see if their cal culations were correct. Their cal culations WERE correct. They succeeded with the. minimum of atomic energy in making the maximum explosion of 1,000,000 tons of TNT." What he meant was this: "See what a big club we've got. You'd better come over on our side." TIE THEN added: J.1 "We wiu NEVER BE THE FIRST to use such weapons. "We will be very glad if bombs are never exploded on cities and villages. Let them lie (.unused) and influence the nerves of those (meaning the Ameri cans) who would start -a new war. "Because "If they start a war "They will receive a proper answer. WOULDN'T it be wonderful if " we could BELIEVE a Com munist? If so, we could breathe a long and happy sigh of relief, saying to ourselves with joy ineffable: "What a bright and splendid world is opening up for our chil dren now that the hideous men ace of nuclear warfare has been banished." i Because - WE know that WE will' never drop a nuclear bomb on somebody else except in (swift) RETALIATION. T TNFORTUNATELY J Nobody can believe a Com munist. One of the tenets of Communism is that a good Com munist says at any particular moment whatever may seem at the time to be useful to the ad vancement of Communism. Having said it, he forgets .it at any time when it may seem that forgetfulness may be use ful to the advancement of the Communist cause. GETTING back to Khrushchev, he vowed solemnly in a speech in Bombay, which was delivered just ahead of his speech in Bangalore, that NOTH ING WILL EVER CHANGE THE SOVIETS FROM A CRUSADE TOWARD WORLD PEACE. In this case, he was speaking with what our American Indians (who were called Indians be cause Columbus believed he had landed on the shores of India) call a double tongue. What he meant was that the Communist idea of the way to bring world peace is for Com munism to conquer the world. Investment! - made by the 10th of the month earn divi dends as of the First. 1 Matter of Fact by THEY "REALLY THINK" Washington There is a real surge of hope that President Eis enhow :r may after all run again. It is obvious ly wisifful. It does not ap pear to be bas ed on any ra t i o n a 1 evi dence. There is nothing to in dicate that the President has so much as hinted at his intention . to anyone in pub JotMph Alscr lic life; and there are a' good many positive reasons to think he has carefully, avoided any discussion of the future except with members of his immediate family. Nonetheless, this surge of hope that the President will run has now got to be taken very seriously, partly because it is so strong, and more . particularly because it centers among the closest members of the . Presi dent's official team and -his closest friends outside the gov ernment. Up to a fort night ago, al though the of ficial line has always been that "We're go ing on the as sumption the President will want to finish the job," al most no one truly expected Stewart Alsop that he would do anything of the sort. But now the gloomy resignation of the first month after the Presi dent's heart attack has been re placed by a new outlook. The forecasts are always couched in some such language as "I really think he may run after all," or "I almost believe he'll do it again despite the heart attack." But although tentative, the forecasts are sanguine Of course the men who make these forecasts desperately want to think what they now think. Yet these men are , reasonably hardheaded. The change in their attitude has got to be attributed to some cause more solid than mass hypnosis. It has to be at tributed, in fact, to the atmos phere these men find when they make their pilgrimages of bus iness or friendship to the con valescent President's bedside or office. THEY emphasize, naturally, the remarkable rapidity and speed of the President's recov ery. They place great emphasis, too, on the way he has actively reached out for his responsibil ities, refusing from the very start to accept his invalid diet of information, that was origin ally prepared for him, and in sisting instead on .being given all the facts, pleasant and un pleasant, about any government problem up for discussion. But above all these very, high authorities " always emphasize two other points of a more spec ial character. First, the President has been deeply affected, by the tremend dus outpouring of affection and concern which his illness pro duced, not only in this country, but also throughout the world. In a rather macabre way, it has been like reading his own obit uaries. The argument runs that he has found these semi-obituaries so extremely encouraging that he now thinks life more than ever worth living. Second, the long, enforced in activity of his convalescence is also said to have bored the Pres ident to "tears. When a man is harassed and overdriven by the cares of a great office, retire ment may seem most attractive 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 comfortable 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 27 North Holly Telephone 2-9147 Jee and Stewart Alsop to him. But if be is primaly a man of action, like Dwight D. Eisenhower, a long spe9 of veg etable, convalescent dullness is likely to change his viewpoint. It can make him anxious only to get back to work as soon as possible and stay at work as long as possible. Such are the arguments of the optimists who now believe the odds are Better than even that the President will be a candi date to succeed himself. The more sensible of these men close " to the President have now ab andoned the' thoroughly silly idea that the Presidency can somehow be transformed into a part-time job. This kind of self delusion, at any rate, is no long er being practiced on a wide scale in high quarters." But most of the . men who make these arguments will also admit, if pressed, that the Presi dent did not wish to run again even before he had his heart at tack. He had been persuaded to dp so, but against his personal preference and despite the strong contrary plans of his wife and son. Hence the arguments that he will now run amount to say ing that a major heart attack hag had 'the somewhat unexpected effect of making the ; President want ' to continue in his man- killing job, although he did not i want to do so when he had not this physical warning., - pERHAPS, therefore, a better 1 clue to the President's fu ture course lies in what he said, prior to the heart attack, to this year's annual White House party for the 22 Republican Congress men and ex-Congressmen, head ed by Gov. Christian Herter of Massachusetts, who signed the famous 1952 Congressional tele gram asking Eisenhower to be a candidate. In response to a to;t to his 1956 candidacy, the President told the 22 that for health and other reasons he was strongly inclined to retire. He aded, that he could not tell what he would da in the end, but he was sure of two things: He knew quite well that there were certain Re publicans whom h did not wish to succeed him; and if he decid ed to retire, he would work hard for the nomination of a man who would carry on where he left off, and he would then work even harder for this man's election. (C) 1955. New York Herald Tribune, Inc. UP MANAGER NAMED h New York . (U.R) Appoint ment of Robert C. Miller as United Press manager ; in Aus tralia was announced today by Frank H.- Bartholomew, presi-c dent. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads MR. 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