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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody m Souuiern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E. C FERGUSON Manag:g Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HAkRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEwETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent STewspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of ;arcn 3. io SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One vear S12.00 Dailv and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Onlv-sOne vear $3.50 Ashland. Central Point. EaEle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. Daily and Sunday One year S15 oo Dailv and unaay-ijjne muum Career and Dealers 5c per copy Official Paper of the City of Medford Official paper oi United Press Full Leased Wire MEMEjK! OF AUDIT BUREAU gp CIRCULATION WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices Vj rew xorK. -" trolt Si& Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland. St Louis Atlanta Vancouver ax. 2 NATIONAL EDITORIAL s-. r r ASSOC'I-ATIIQN U O V" NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 10 years ago.a 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 1. 1945 (It s Saturday) Mrs. Robert fleeter, chairman of Christmas seal campaign, an nounces opening of booths in two local stores. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The wom enfolks have started . fretting about snow for' Christmas, and the promised arrival of. Nylon stockings for the Yuletide. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 1. 1935 (It was Sunday) s Christmas shopping season formally opens in Medford. Construction of a wine dam as part of Gold Hill irrigation .sys tem to starv soon. - 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 1. 1925 fit was Tuesday) Medford budget of $96,096 for 1926Qadopted by city council. President Coolidge signs of firial naners creatine Lava Beds National monument in northern California. . 40 YEARS AGO Dec 1. 1915 (It was Wednesday) J. A. Westerlund named to ap point a committee of 15 to study possibilities of organizing a J. ax payers' league in Jackson coun ty. Ashland-Talent farmers take steps to create irrigation district What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. At formal social function President Eisenhower enters side by side with Mrs. Eisen- ho;:r, or precedes her or ioi- lnwc hpr? 2. The latest amendment added to the Constitution was on woman suffrage, no third term for Presidents, tax limit of 2o per cent of income, child lahor or rjrohibition repeal? 3. Norway achieved its inde Tvpnrfpnro 50 vears aso from Rus sia, Sweden, Denmark or Ger many? 4. An avowed ' Socialist was once elected to the U.S. Senate; right or wrong? 5. Which of these are" not in the Western Big Ten Football rnnfprence: Purdue, Notre Dame, Nebraska, Iowa, Mich igan State, Pittsburgh? fi "Of the neoDle. for the peo pie, by the people" is a phrase from the Declarapn of Inde pendence, Constitution, Gettys burg Address, or Pledge to the Flag? . 7 Cofrotaru nf Tntprior DOUg iTxr,- roc- eMifrpccfnl steel lHS lUtiva V vvao a ouv-v-- manufacturer? auto dealer, bank er, lawyer, or labor consultant: The Answers: 1. Precedes her 0 No third term. 3. From Sweden. 4. Wrong. 5. .Noire fcftame. Nebraska. Pitlsburgh are fi rjptivshura Address. 7. Auto dealer. w Suicide Heid as Cause Of Malheur Man's Death Ontario U.R) Suicide has been ruled as the cause of death of a man whose body was found on a ranch 70 miles southwest of Harper Tuesday. Malheur County Coroner Beechler identified the man as Leslie John Jacob Hon singer, who was desponded, ap- norontlv 1,-illpr! himself With a 30.06 rifle last Friday. , MAIL TRIBUNE What Price Outer Mongolia? Convejj-sations among our Big Four Ambassadors to the United Nations were to continue this week on a "package deal" for admitting new members to the international organization. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., on Nov. 15 had requested an "ejirly meeting" of the Security Council to consider applications for membership. Security Council President NasroSah Entezam of Iran on Nov. 19 had indicated that he would not call a meeting unless the Big Four had reached an agree ment on which nations to admit. The stumbling block was Outer Mongolia, or, as it designates itself, the Mongolian Peoples Republic. This remote area -of 625,900 square miles roughly about four times the size of California is sand wiched between Soviet Siberia on the north and China's Gobi Dessert on the south. The package deal involves admission of either four or five Communist nations and 13 free world states to the U.N. The Communist nations not in dis pute are Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Rumania. The states sponsored by bodia, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Liisya, Nepal, Portugal, and Spain. "THE U.S. position is that Outer Mongolia is not "an actual nation" in the sense that Albania, Bul garia. Hunsarv and Rumania are nations but mere- O 7 O 1 Q ly a province caught between the U.S.S.R. and Com- j munist China. The BntisJ agree, bufc would support either 17 or 18 nations in any package deal. France has "reserved" its position. Nationalist China, a per manent member of the Security Council, was "strong ly opposed" to admission of Outer Mongolia. It could veto Outer Mongolia if it chose. s The United States would not exercise its veto right to keep Outer Mongolia from U.N. membership, but would abstain irom voting. Lodge said on Nov. 13 that without affirmative U:S. support Outer Mon golia could not "make the grade" in the Security Council. But a Soviet spokesman on Nov. 14 said "It is 18 (admissions) oi nothing." The U.N. membership application of Outer Mon golia dates back to 1945. The United States in 1946 proposed the admission en including Outer Mongolia and Albania. U.S. repre sentatives said that they were trying to promote uai versality of U.N. membership, though they doubted that the Soviet1 satellites met the qualifications pre scribed by the U.N. Charter. But when it became evident that Russia would veto certain of the applica tions, the' U.S. voted against Albania and Mongolia. DED Army detachments m 1921 entered Outer Mon golia in pursuit Nof White Russian forces. After the Whites were routed a government was established, and the new govern ment concluded mutual Sid treaty with -Russia. Under the . Soviet-(Nationalist Chinese treaty of 1924, China's legal sovereignty over Outer Mongolia was recognized, but the pro-Soviet regime remained in power. ' Chiang Kai-shek's regime early in 1946 estab lished diplomatic relations with Outer Mongolia un der an agreement with the Soviet Union of August 1945. Outer Mongolia made a military alliance with the U.S.S.R. in 1946 and an economic and cultural treaty with CommunistdChina in 1952. The lancl of yaks, yurts (conical tents), and yo gurt, Outer Mongolia is almost entirely pastoral, de spite one of the world's worst climates. In 1952 it Fad an estimated population of 900,000 people, 2,600,000 horses, 700,000 camels, 2,800,000 cattle, 16,000,000 sheep. As for Inner Mongolia, this is an "autonomous" region of the Chinese (Communist) People's Re public E.R.R. Soviet Envoys To India Seem To Have Outsmarted Selves By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia's two eminent ambassadors of good will seem to hairo nil Smarted themselves on their current visit to India. They have turned a sup posed visit of friendship in to a low-level p r o p a g a nda stump - speak ing campaign. And d i s patches f r o m New Delhi leave no doubt that Indian officials do not like it. The Soviet visitors are Pre mier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Communist Party Chief Nikita S. Khrushchev. Their host is Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, the Asian "neutralist" leader. Soon after the Russians ar rived Nehru somewhat pointedly told them, in a banquet speech: "The only camp India would like to be in is the camp of peace, and the only alliance she s.eeks is an alliance based on good will." Missed Hint Bulganin and Khrushchev did not take that hint. Instead, in speech after speech they have abused. Nehru's popularity by grinding out Communist propa ganda. They have referred patroniz ingly to India as a backward country which Russia would like to help and have advised Nehru I Thursday, December 1, 1955 the West are Austria, Cam-o bloc of nine applicants, revolutionary Mongolian how he can "break the ioreign yoke" and "attain real freedom." Khrushchev topped it all by announcing boastfully in a speech at Bangalore that Russia had exploded its biggest H-bomb to date. Khruschev said that Russia would not be the . first country to use nuclear weapons in war. He added: "Let these bombs tell these people (the Western Allies) that if they start such a war they will receive the proper answer." A Blunder That was a blunder. Nehru above all leading statesmen of the world detests the idea of nu clear warfare. He not only wants nuclear weapons outlawed but he wants to stop all H-bomb and A-bomb tests. ,One Indian newspaper sug gested, that the Kremlin even timed its H-bomb test to come during the Bulganin-Khrushchev visit. Indian newspaper editorials' are calling variousSstatements by the Russians "unfortunate," "ill chosen," and "disappointing." Dispatches say that the disap pointment is fully shared by of ficials in Nehru's government. Western officials were con cerned when the Russians went to India. That concern need not now be so acute. NEHRU GOING TO ABABIA New Delhi, India (U.R) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has accepted an invitation from King Saud to visit Saudi Arabia, it was reported here to day. The king is presently on a state visit to India. Today and By Walter A BAD BLUNDER Cft the question of the admis sion of new members to the United Nations we have been outwit t e d by the Soviet Un ion and have been landed in a box from which there is no gra c e f u 1 exit. The affair is a horrible example of how to lose Walter Lippman face, of how to loae influence, of how-to make this country look foolish fcr no better reason than the men at the top did not stop to think about what was happening and what' they were doing. The U. N. has 60 members and since 1950 no new member has been admitted. Every applicant has been blackbaUed either by the Soviet Union or by the West ern nations. This has excluded the Soviet satellites Bulgaria, Roumania, Hungary, Albania and Outer Mongolia. It has ex cluded among others Italy, Aus tria, Portugal, Finland, Japan and Spain which did not apply until very recently becaufe it knew that the Soviet Union would use its veto. It has long been obvious that the only way to break the dead lock was by a deal with the Sijyiet Union. We would have to stop vetoing their satellites if they would stop vetoing our cli Q3C&S. The idea of the so-called package deal was, as a mgtter of fact, first proposed by the United States in 1946. There werg then nine applicants among them not only Portugal, Iceland and SwedeiPlSit also, we may note, Outer Mongolia. We proposed? that in spite of our mis givingsabout Albania and Outer Mongolfe, all nin, should be ad mitted on the principle of "uni versality of membership." Na tionalist China supported the American rop'bsals. Mr. Dulles, who was then an alternate dele gate toe the General Assembly, presumably supported the Amer ican position. It was the Soviet Union which blocked that pack age deal, insisting on consider ing each applicant separately. The idea of a package deal was revived seriously last sum mer, and the leadership wis taken by Canada. There . were then 21 applicants. Canada pro posed that all the applicants, ex cept only the divided countries of Korea and Vietnam, be ad mitted in one -package. CSnada got the support of 25 members to sponsor its proposal to admit 17 applicants. It was known in Sep tember that the . Soviet Union was probably prepared to ad mit 16 all but Japan. &.t about that time on Sept. 23 Spain applied. Then there were 18 na tions in the Canadian package. ' - o .'- rpHE Soviet Union, swallowing hard over Spain and Japan, nevertheless swallowed them. This mqant that there was no further obstacle on the Soviet side to admitting Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Austria, Fin land end Japan. At this point Dulles and Lodge gagged at Outer Mongolia. They could swallow Albania. They could not swallow Outer Mongolia. The re sult, which they did not forsee though they should hve forseen it, was to isolate the .United States as the sle obstacle to the admission of Italy, Spain, Japgn and the other countries whose good will means so much to us. When . Dulles was recently in Rome and in Madrid, he heard from both countries on that sub ject. This is what I meant by saying that we have been outwitted? Once the Soviet Union accepted the package which included Spain and Japan, it was sheer follg for the United States to make a fuss about Outer Mon golia. If we were really serious abogt swallowing that gnat, it would mean that we would got all the blame not only from the 18 applicants who would be ex cluded but from almost all the Letters and words of thanks come to us continually from the families we serve. Most of L O them express not only grati tude but surprise at the service given for the price involved. o CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - FUNERAL Tomorrow Lippmain other 60 members who favor the package deal. THE proof that we. have been outwitted is our present po sition. We do not dare to veto Outer Mongolia, though that is what we should0do if a serious matter of principle were in volved. We are going not to vote at all, that is to say to abstain. But that is not the whole of it. We do not dsre to have the pack age deal fail because of the worldwide approbium which will come upon us ifit does. As we do not wish to vote for Outer Mongolia openly, ve are driven to the humiliating, business of working- behind the scenes to persuade other nations that, de spite our own abstention, they should vote for Outer ,Mongolia and put the deal through. For men -vrfio are continually pro claiming their devotion to moral principles, this is a .truly dismal performance. We are in the mess for no other reason than that Lodge and Dulles did not take- the trouba to think out what they were doing. It was not 'the power and the guile of the Russians. It was not the clamoroof Congress. It was not the pressure of an Outer Mongolian group of refu gees. It was nofc the lack of arm aneents. It was not the lack of "money. It was just the lack of a reasonable, not very diificult or far-reaching, foresight. Is thera a way oui? The least embarrassing to us would be the present form of the Canadian resolution. It does not name the 18 applicants but merely ap proved the admission "of aU those countries about which no problem of Unification arises." This would permit us to vote yes on the whole package in stead of abstaining on Outer Mongolia, while asking our friends to. vote , for Outer JVon- golia. . (C) 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications o Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain . circum stances the use ol a pen name or initial for publication is Dermis lible. 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 worfls. Junior Library Plaint To tiae Editor: sSince Thanks giving, four different mothers have telephoned me asking if I have seen "what has happened" to the childrenls library. Associating with children one quickly learns a child's interest is caught by unusual things they see about them. All school li braries have displays: shells, plants, dolls. The children used to see these at our public library and upon asking why the leaves of one plant were fuzzy, another shiny, could be shown a book explaining this and more. A child's laughter at a toy made of 'straw would become an interest in the country where such things are made. The little fences which led the children down imaginative lanes to book sections were a pleasure to children and their parents. They now are gone. The aquarium, the children's delight, is gone: There was a waiting list for children to be given baby fish. They read about such things while , waiting for their name to head the list. The changing displays donated by people who appreciate chil dren's interest and observation gone too. One display was stones, and the children read about geology. Another dolls of foreign countries. In season they could watch caterpillars spin cocoons. When a shy child steps over a threshold it is the things of interest that catch his eye that draw him on to learning. The word "books" is an adult word. A, row of books alone means nothing to the child coming to a library for the first time. I hope i other parents will join in urging the board of directors of public library to check this matter and Harold Snodgrcss jl DIRECTORS wage earners rights in Oregon TRAINING FOR SKILLED TRADES Young men are trained to become journeymen in skilled trades right on their jobs in apprenticeship. Basic regula tions for this trailing are fixed by law. The training course for each trade is formed by committees equally representing labor and man agement of the particular in dustry with approval of the Sla Apprenticeship Council. Here are some apprenlice queries. Q. How can a young man start training for a trade? ' QA. There are four steps: 1. Determine what he would like for a lifetime vocation and take aptitude tests see if he is adapted for the work. These tests may he taken at any State Employment Of fice. (Skilled trades require above-average facility in hand work as well as physical fit ness and good mental ability.) 2. Consult an apprentice ship supervisor to be- certain the desired trade Ife appren ticeable. ' 3. Take ordinary, employ ment channels to seek a job which provides the training. 4. Join the employer in se curing approval of the local apprenticeship committee of an apprenticeship agreement which assures trainingoin all phases of tlje ; trade" while earning on the job. o Q. One of my boys wants to be a painter and the other ' a bookkeeper. Can they acquire these vocations as apprentices in on-the-job training? A. Skills of the painter trade may be acquired through ap prenticeship. The boy desiring bookkeeper training would not be a candidate for apprentice ship under the Oregon law since a bookkeeper's abilities are not involved primarily with manual skills.. If you have a question, ycQ may write Commissioner Nor man O. Nilsen, State Bureau of Labor, Salem, Ore. Grand Champion Steer Brings $15 a Pound Chicago ' (U.R) ; Julius, grand champion steer of the 1955 International Livestock ex position, sold today forQ$15 a pound. oAt Julius' unofficial weight of 980 pounds, the sale w8uld have brought his 16-year-old owner, Nancy Turner of Champaign, 111., about $14,700. But Howard Johnson, owner of the national restaurant chain which bears his name and who bought the Aberdeen Angus gave Nancy a bonus. He weigh ed her 12-year-old sister Jane on the scales with Julius, and their combined weight of 1075 pounds added up to a sales price of $16,125. FAVOR POLITICAL NAMES Hong Kong (U.R) The Hong Kong Tiger Standard objected editorially today to giving girls' names to typhoons. "It ; seems that each of the big winds can be named 'Bulganin,' 'Khrush chev' or after some of our of ficials and politicians at home and abroad." let our children's library remain an intriguing room. Let our chil dren's reading be kept vital by things of interest and not be greeted only by rows of books. Mrs. John B. Lynch 139 Kenwood ave. Medford, Ore. ROGUE VALLEY STATE BANK MEDFORD . . . OREGON STATEMENT NOVEMBER 28, 1955 ROURCES o Loans and Discounts $ 895,937.94 Capital United States Bonds 1,350,826.00 Surplus Municipal Bonds and Warrants ; Building and Fixtures Cash and Due from Banks 562,957.44 Total $2,991,237.95 W. H. VOUNG, President LEONARD BRADSHAW, Vice-President THOMAS H. SHEARIN, Cashier FRANK P. FARRELL, Director A Home Owned Bank MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Bulletin: Secretary of State Dulles has Cab Driver Admits Killing Little Girl Springfield, I11. (U.R) A handsome, curly - haired cab driver confessed today that he raped and killed 8-year-old Jan ice May in a Canton, 111., rail road yard last Saturday. The cabbie, Lloyd E. Miller Jr., 29, broke down after eight hours of intensive questioning shortly after midnight. He signed a statement con fessing he tore the clothes from the little girl's body, molested her, and then killed her. Miller told authorities that he came upon the little girl, whom he knew, as she was ' walking from her home to join her two older brothers at a playground. "She said hello and was joy ful," Miller said. "She walked with me to the railroad tracks." The husky taxi driver admit ted he molested the child and "she started screaming ana crying. She said she was going to tell her mother." "I went hysterical," Miller said in his statement. "I struck her with my hand and she fell and hit her head on a cement block." Midwest Cold Wave Breaks; East Shivers By UNITED PRESS ; A cold wave broke in the na tion's midsection today, but Easterners still shivered.- TemDeratures jumped from Texas into the Dakotas. They had a long way to go, however, and it was still below freezing as far south as Oklahoma and Northwest Texas. A vast mass of Arctic air which eave the nation its first big cold wave of the season still gripped the eastern portion oi the country.. Temperatures were m the i us in ims area, ana clearing skies in Ohio and In diana forced the mercury even ftwer. ' Locally heavy rain, some of it freezing, doused Texas, and Oklahoma eot an icy mixture of .snow and sleet. .,111 rMore snow was predicted for the Midwest, including one to three inches in the Chicago area. Traffic Ticket Leads To Policeman's Death Manila (U.R) A former soldier, enraged because' he got a' -traffic ticketr.shot to death; a policeman and wounded 'six oth ers Wednesday and then was beaten to death by an angry mob.N Patricio Reyes Villarin 24, ran amuck with a 1917 Enfield rifle after he had received a traffic ticket. Vowing revenge on all policemen, he shot a cop direct; ing traffic, founded another po liceman and then fired into crowd near a church, wounding five other persons. Honduras Protests Nicaragua Violation Tegucigalpa, Honduras (U.R) t The foreign ministry filed a formal protest with Nicaragua Wednesday against another al leged violation of Honduran terr ritory by Nicaraguan soldiers. The foreign ministry said a group of Nicaraguan , national guardsmen had entered the ad vanced post of Paptalya in the Mosquitia territory and attack ed a Hondurean peasant with rifle butts. A similar violation was protested formally last week. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads . 111,341.68 70,174.89 Undivided Profits Deposits Interest Collected, Not Earned Total C. H. YOUNG, Executive Vice-President RALPH E. PIERCE, Vice-President GERTRUDE F. McCORKLE, Assistant Cashier X. H. STANLEY, Director Established 1911 MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM called on Republicans as well as Democrats to avoid partisan quarrels over foreign policy. He tells a news conference in Washington that such quarrels MIGHT ENDANGER OUR NA TION. A GOOD example to- follow in the case of foreign policy is provided for us by the ave rage cantankerous American family. In the privacy of then own household, its .members may quarrel and bite and kick each other's shins. But when an outsider butts in they gang up on him. . A THOUGHT in passing: Our nnlit.irian.; TinvA nmpr quarreled much over thet Mon roe Doctrine. . Why? The Monrqe Doctrine was so soundly conceived and so admir ably tailored to America's best interests that no American has ever thought of questioning its wisdom. : . . That's thewsy foreign policy should be. SPEAKING of foreign policy, Khrushchev and Bulganin are busily wooing India these days. Our old friend Informed Sources without whom we would miss a lotoof what is go ing on says that under the Rus- sian pattern that seems to be emerging . India will PAY THE BILL for whatever she gets from the Communists. "I.S." says that any Russian machinery that comes to India will be a SALE on CREDIT. He A adds that there will be NO GIFTS. I HATE to admit it, but I can't help thinking that is a sound er policy than ours. ; Nobody was ever helped much by GIV- HIM him something for free. More people have been ruined by loading them down with gifts than have ever been helped by, that method. What you WORK FOR AND EARN is what does you REAL good. " THE White House conference on education is just getting underway in Washington, and the dispatches tell us that the nearly 2,000 .delegates are turn ing to the first of six big issues that face them. Topic No. 1 is: What should our schools accomplish?" ;: - I 'D LIKE to suggest two simple answers: 1. They should provide our children with a GOOD educa tion, without too many frills. 2. They should teach our children to THINK. IN a sound-filmed (talking mo vipl 'ttipsmop to ' the confer ence, President Eisenhower as serts that the federal govern ment will have to step in, if ne cessary, to "prevent a . lack of schools in certain important areas." But; He adds "If we depend TOO MUCH on the federal government, we will lose independence and initia tive." VITTH Ike's second statement ' I'm in full agreement. If we depend too much on the federal government to finance our schools, we'll soon find the fed eral government RUNNING our schools. As to his first statement that the federal government will have to step in, if necessary, to prevent a lack of schools in cer tain important areas I'm ex tremely doubtful. If the federal government camel ever gets its nose under the edge of the school tent, well be in for trouble. We'd better grit our teeth and pay our own school bills. Use Tribune Want Ads LIABILITIES $ 100,000.00 50,000.00 31,258.33 2,788,183.16 21,796.46 .$2,991,237.95 serving Jackson County V
