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History from the files of The
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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.
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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.
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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. .
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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.
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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.
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