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CD O FOtJH MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDPORIvSt?JkTltIB JTKE "Everybody In Southern Oregon Heads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-0141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager . C. FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR City Editor HAKRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports tditor OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1387 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ri Mall In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Ttailv nnrt Sundav Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mo. 330 Sunday Only one year n-v f: r-T-i cr Tn Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point .Tankitnnvill Gold Hill. Phoenix Ehadv Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S1300 r)aii!and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official paper or daemon muaq C United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU areCT.Hni.i.mAV COMPANY. INC. Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver ts.t. NATIONAL E DITOI1 At ASSOCfaTllON "3 3 O Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 4, 1945 (It was Tuesday Karl Janouch, supervisor of Rogue River National forest, es timates some 20,330 wild ani mals inorest. From Arthur Perry's e.Ye Smudge Pot column: Caves dug in the sides of cliff, where pre historic man dwelt, - have been found in eastern . Oregon. They are too far away from a depart ment store and movie, to be any hel$i inathe current housing sit uation. 3 20 YEARS AGO L, Dec. 4, 1935 (It was Wednesday) . Medford Concrete Construc tion company apparent low bid der on Talent sewage disposal plant; bid of $34,683 to be studied by council. ' David H. Canfield, Crater Lake National park Superintendent, announces decision of Rim rd. route; construction to start in spring. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 4. 1925 (It was Friday) Managers of Gold Hill cement plant announce $400,000 11 provement program. From fiocal and Personal col umn: The trustees of the Presby terian church held a business meeting last night for the formu lating otj plans in connection with the erection of a new church in the near future. Ham ilton Patton presided. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 4. 1915 c0 (It was Saturday) President Wilson and Mrs Norman Gault will be married Dec. 18 in Washington, D.C. Mrs. T. G. Heine, president of newly formed Medford Arts and Crafts league, in charge of league's first exhibit. What's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 of the 71 Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rapart 1. UStSCO is a UN agency on disarmament, racial equality, scientific-educational-cultural de velopments, labor conditions, or freedom of the individual? 2. Are there more Republicans or Democrats on the present U.S, Supreme Court? 3. Many more auto accidents in cities occur at street intersec tions- or between intersections, or is it about 50-50? o 4. Angina pectoris is an attack affecting the inner ear, lungs, heart, prostrate gland, or vermi form appendix? . . 5. The "Twin Cities" are Kan sas City, Mo. and Kan.; Chicago and Milwaukee; Richmond and Norfolk, V.; St. Paul andcMin neapolis; 'San Francisco and Oakland; or St. . Louis and E. St. Louis? 6. In what game is a Stalemate recognized under that name? 7. Everett . M. Dirksen is a U.S. Senator; Republican or Democrat, and from California, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio or Idaho? The Answers: 1. Scientific-edu-cational-cultural. 2. More Demo crats. 3. About 50-50. 4. Heart. 5. Si. Paul and Minneapolis. 6. Chess 7. Republican from Illi nois. Week end traffic accidents in jured more than 678,000 persons iirthe United States during 1954. ISK PUBLISHER! a1soc.at.on I Flight o' Time MAIL TRIBUNE A Word to New Arrivals Medford is growing. Since our two months absence we have been more impressed than ever with the fact new houses, new cars, new faces yes and new correspondents. Among the latter was one whose offering inter ested this department especially, because it so plainly indicated the writer has not been a resident very long. Here is a brief sample: "I have been surprised to find in this strongly Republi can county and state, the one daily paper to be strongly Democratic. How long I wonder has that been going on and how did it happen in the first place? "1X7ELL it never did happen in the sense the inquir V ing correspondent implies. ' For over 40 years the Mail Tribune has carried on its masthead the one title "INDEPENDENT." That is what the paper has been politically and in every other way. In those four decades the M.T. (like the late Andy Gump) has worn "no man's collar," or the collar of any party group or faction. It has been free at any time to support any cause or party in. which it believed regardless of its label, and by the same token to oppose any in which it did not believe. "IITE HAVE, from time to time, supported both Democrats and Republicans from the position of President down to county constable and coroner, and while we have had our and no doubt made our tionthere has been at least ONE line of 100 PER CENT consistency in that What we have considered best for the community, the state or the country paper's final decision, not have been', the pressures unpopularity of the action IN FACT according to the record over the years the Mail Tribune has supported the Republican party far more often than the Democratic, not so many years ago" indeed we were urged by a group of local Republicans to drop that "independent" title and substitute "Republican." When that was refused we were asked to com promise with the title- "Independent'Republican' but that didn't appeal either, so the matter was finally dropped. Perhaps our Democratic if we now used the masthead-title of "Independent Democratic, for since the Chicago convention which nominated Adlai Stevenson, and took a firm stand against the GOP policies particularly regarding TVA and Tidelands Oil, that definition would be reason ably accurate. ; o But we don't expect any such request to be made most of the local Democrats have been here too long and are too aware of the true situation, to bother about making any such effort. CO BEFORE the. false impression goes any further we wish to make it plain to this newcomer, and all other new arrivals similarily mystified, that the term "independent" on the masthead of this paper means just what it says and always has. The M. T. has never been a "STRONG Demo cratic" nor a strong REPUBLICAN paper, nor a party paper of any kind, it has never been the mouthpiece of any one faction and so long as it is conducted under the present management, it never will be. TI7E GRANT such a policy, has its difficulties. Obediently following the party line as so many papers do, saves a lot of research work and worry, and particularly at election time, considerable stress and strain. But the advantages far outweigh the disadvan tages. 1 So much so that we have always been surprised that so many papers year after year hew to the old partisan line, and swallow the completely discredited myth, that one collection of humans seeking office under one label are all saints and a similar collection of similar humans under a different label are all sin ners. That of course is nonsense. ' DUT that is the way it is,' and for many years has been. The extreme journalistic partisanship of the post-bellum days, however, has pretty much dis appeared, and what we regard as the two "greatest news papers in the country with the emphasis on "NEWS" the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor have also placed principle above party, and the public welfare above all partisan con sideration for a great many years. So the MT has company distinguished company if it doesn't enjoy the COMFORT and ease of be ing a member of the same partisan chorus year after year ad infinitum. But there are indications that the number of American newspapers that will in the future place loyalty to a party ANY party above its own free dom of thought and action is on the decline, it is not a ski-run exactly but it is a tide and it is a fairly safe prediction that in another hundred years the 100 per cent partisan newspaper, with the party label branded on its flank for life, will pretty much have disappeared. R.W.R. Misrepresenting Magnuson The slow but sure tendency of the American press to become less and less partisan and more and more independent is well illustrated by the recent metamorphosis of the ancient and honorable Oregon Journal. .Under the late C. S. Jackson the Journal not only 1955 share of disappointments share of mistakes in selec record, namely : has been the basis of this what the party label may exerted, or the apparent taken at any given time. mends wouldn t obiect followed with almost religious fervor the Democrat party line, but it often determined that line in this state at least. But since the vigorous and ' uncompromising "CSJ" departed, the Journal has not only heaved-ho with the donkey emblem, but gone so far to the right, that on important political issues, it is hard t6 dis-: tinguish from its former bitter rival andtihief compet itor, the Republican morning Oregonian. . This may add up to a temporary equality between action and reaction and ultimately the Journal may return sufficiently Jo the left to deserve the title of non-partisan. At least that is the hope we feel sure of many of its friends and well-wishers. That the Journal "likes Ike" who doesn't? is certain, that it doesn't like Senators Morse and Neu berger is also an established fact. Just where it stands however on another important national issue "public vs private power" is not so clear. Judging by a recent editorial, however, entitled "warning to diehards on both sides" the Oregon Journal appears inclined toward the Douglas McKay position which is not to take the stump against public power openly but to prevent any extention of it in every possible way, and put up the partnership pro posal as a substitute. N SUPPORT of this position the Journal quotes - - -, a 11 Senator Magnuson ot Washington as ionows: . "The most stupid thing we can do both politically and economically is to get into a senseless fight over how to develop additional power. There is a place for both pub lic and private power. Let's quit arguing and get the job done." The implication is Senator Magnuson would drop public power at Hells Canyon, for example, support the Idaho Power company plan there and join in the partnership program elsewhere. But unless the Senator from Washington has changed his views very recently he is still a strong supporter of the high dam at Hells Canyon and just as strongly opposed to the private power company's program there. In other words Senator Magnuson in saying there is a place for both public and private power, did not mean he opposes public power where, as at Hells r.nnvnn. it. serves the rmhliV. interest, sn much better j . - i than a private development. He undoubtedly meant ........ i 1 I -j 1 I t 1 that -both systems nave a place and wnere ieaerai development of a large federal project is the more desirable it should be adopted and where private power can do the job as adopted. That is quite different all tmblie power projects program as an alibi and a McKay has done. R.W.R. Today and By Walter MODERATION AND ALL THAT Although words like moder ate, constructive, non-partisan are hard to define, it does not follow t n a t they do not 'mean some thing impor tant. There is in fact every indication that these adjec tives . express qualities which a -DreDonder- Waltei Lippman ant majority are looking for in the next president. We need not boggle too much over the definitions. There are lots of thi nffc in this world which are hard to define in the abstract and yet are ob vious enough in the concrete. Take, for example, an egg. There is hardly an egg-eater in the country who could teU a press conference what a good egg is. But it is no nrnhlem at all to recognize a bad egg. It is just about as easy to recognize an immoderate, destructive, and partisan politician. If, as we all hoDe th be an honest, serious and pub- iic-spintea discussion of foreign affairs, there is onlv to go about getting it. That is to see to it that each party nomin ates the kind of man who does not and who will not stoop to extremism, violence, and dema goguery. If either of the candi dates is the kind of man thinks that he is entitled to do thingthing to win, no amount of pious iaiK now will save us from a poisonous campaign. The char acter of the will, in short, be determined by the character of the candidates. ' DURING the months to . come the campaign, wUl be hearing a great deal about foreign af fairs. That is because a re appraisal, looking to a revision and a reinforcement in spvpral sectors of our foreign policy, has Decome necessary. Our basic commitments to the United Na tions to our allies in NATO, to our neighbors, are not in ques tion. But there is little doubt that we shall have to re-examine and to debate such matters as our German policy, which is perilously near being at a dead end, and certain aspects of our containment policy m the Mid dle East and South Asia. The overaU characteristic of the situation is that, as of now, there is no clear issue on which Americans are divided and can take their stand and argue their side of the case. The old bi DartisanshiD consisted of a coali tion of Republicans and Demo crats who were for the United well that method should be from opposing extension of and using the partnership smoke screen as Secretary Tomorrow Lippmann Nations, who were for the Mar- shaU Plan and NATO and the like. The crux of the present sit uation is that the policies are not yet formed, that the. policies have stiU to be hammered out, around which a bi-partisan co alition could be raUied. THIS peculiar situation lends itself aU too easily to aimless and irresponsible political talk. We shall not avoid that, kind of talk by exhorting one another to be constructive. The bottom fact of the matter is that neither party and none of the candidates now has the answer to the ques tion that need to be answered. They are aU seeking, or ought to be seeking, answers that have not yet been found.- The character of the . cam paign on foreign affairs will -in the main be determined by the way thearty leaders approach the search for these policies that have not yet been found. The primary responsibility is with the Administration, with the party in power. If they choose to stand pat, as Dulles seemed to be doing this week, they' will precipitate a severe Democratic assault on the rec ord of the results. Our position abroad has in fact deteriorated. It is easy to prove it.' It is known to every disinterested observer. Dulles wUl be making the mis take of his life if he stands pat on his policies and the record. The alternative is for the Re publicans to take the lead in recognizing that the world situa tion has changed and is chang ing, and that United States poli cies must be adapted to these new developments. This is not only a sound approach, it is the best political approach. For if the Republicans stand pat, the Democrats have only to criticize. If the Republicans reappraise, review, and prepare to revise, the Democrats have to be "con structive," have, that is to say to propose answers to the un answered questions'.' On the Democratic side, the question is also whether they choose to stand pat or whether they put themselves in the posi tion of looking honestly for. the new developments. Standing pat for the Democrats means of course standing pat on the Tru man record and pretending that everything was going splendidly until the Republicans came in. In my view, the acid test of whether a Democrat is being unpartisan and "constructive" is whether he admits that at least some of our worst problems to day originated in mistakes made by the Democrats. I refer, for example, to the premature attempt - to re-arm Germany in 1950 which has ruined the promising movement Communications Letters to the Editor' must bear the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters wim a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 .words. Criticism Appreciated To the Editor: I wai delight ed to learn from Mrs. John Lynch's conversation of interest in the Medford junior library. Too often, we feel, the library and its services are "taken for grant ed." It is refreshing to have friendly, constructive criticism. The library is in a period of change, designed to make it a better, more useful place. But changes result in inevitable dis locations and sometimes a temp orary loss of good things. The plants to which Mrs. Lynch refers were removed be cause they were the personal property of staff members, brought to the library out of a desire to make it more attractive and interesting. But there arose a question of the propriety of personal belongings being an in tegral part of a public, tax-sup Dorted institution. It was de cided they should be removed. But Mrs. Lynch will, I am sure, be glad to know that through the kindness of garden clubs of the area, plans are being made to obtain other plants which will belong to the library and its patrons. , " Tending the plants and the aquarium has taken many hours hours . which were wUlingly and happily given, but also hours taken from duties which serve the first purpose of a library. The library was created to bring good books to as many people as possible. Each additional duty, however pleasant and con structive, lessened the capacity to do, that job. This is why less emphasis is being given to the delightful "extras" as the lib rary, and more to the job it is legally obligated to do. But as time, money and personnel permit, those extras" wiU re main a part of the library. Despite recent increases in funds, the library is stiU far below recognized standards in many respects. Per capita sup port is only a few cents a year. But with the support of the people of Medford . the annex was built, and now our first effort is for more books and better service. The number of new books added in the past few years far exceeds the num- oer aaaea in many previous years. We hope to continue this pro gress. -With, the help of the people who support the library with their tax money and itheir patdonage, we will do so.J With in reasonable limits we also hope to provide the added touches which do so much to make an attractive place and with which Mrs. Lynch is so understandably concerned. Eric AUen Jr., President Medford Library JJoard Dislikes TV Ad To the Editor: I have written a letter to KBES-TV protesting the kind of advertising used by Copco (in the person of Mr. JBill Dawkins) on . their regular Wednesday 9 - 9:30 "Follow That Man" series. I would like to use your columns as a kind of pub lic pressure device to convince the company (and Mr. Dawkins) that Copco is rapidly earning a bad name for itself by its TV practices. . Let me briefly retell the sequence of Copco's advertising practices oa last night's "Follow That Man" series. Standing be side . the . lightning, supposedly electrifying, sign of Copco, -Mr. Dawkins produced an apple and an orange and proceeded by ob vious reasoning that you can compare the two fruits only in sofar as they; are fruits, but there you run into a dead end. The differences between the two supply the debate material from there on in. So far so good (if you assume that ' a comparison or contrast of fruits gets you very far). The difference analogy was then applied to government versus private power, who pays, who benefits and so on. No men tion was made directly tof Cop co's advantages," of its supposed superiority over other types of power, as the TV viewer would expect. Copco did not get any direct promotion. Mr. Dawkins' device of "card stacking" is also" a device in ad vertising (of the good variety) which any intelligent man, armed with the facts, can see through. He doesn't care to be insulted by a few facts about government power which he knows are only part of the total picture of government power and its services to the American towards a European community, to the irreparable mistake of crossing the thirty-eighth paral lel in Korea which turned a U.N. police action into a Chinese-American war, to the over militarizaton of the containment policy which has jeopardized our relations with India and sev eral other uncommitted nations. PERHAPS 'we should add to our specifications, saying that in addition to moderation, constructiveness, n o n-partisan-ship, we are looking also for some self-criticism and that most unpolitical of all qualities, a saving humility. Copyright 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. people. He only, has to consult the "risht" reports to be told what the government is doing and what it is not. Besides, a few facts about Copco even if properly slanted, would be more helpful to the buyer who wants to know what Copco is doing, and not its opponent. - Grier NichoU 630 Siskiyou blvd. , Ashland, Ore. Ha SHOULD Read the M.T. r To the Editor: One of the best laughs of recent days was the story of a press interview with former President Truman which appeared in Wednesday's edition of the M.T. It seems quite apparent that the Democrats for partisan poli tical purposes , are frantically thrashing about for any Issue upon which to attack the admin istration. "Elder Statesman" Tru man sagely comes through at this point with the proclamation that "the Republicans have just about ruined the country and the government." These Truman "charges" are just about the last word in hollow generalities. Brother! if this country arid gov ernment have been in a state of ruin under the" Eisenhower Administration I only, hope we never recover from it.'' The second gem of wisdom from this wise, oracle, Mr. -Tru man, was that the Democrats are persecuted by the press because the newspapers are owned by rich people, and "any man who's rich is a Republican." Truman tells the "working" press" that they are O.K. it's those "rich' newspaper publishers and re write men that give the Demos all the trouble. Obviously, H. Truman hasn't heard of our one and only "Med ford Morseberger Tribune Really, Mr. Editor, you should salve Mr. Truman's wounds and quiet his bitterness .toward the press by sending him a few edi tions of the M.M.T. Surely these would give him great comfort and solace. In fact he would probably go into a state of ecstasy to read some of your rewrites and "front page edi torials" about Senators Morse and Neuberger. , Carl E. Wimberly Jr., , 30 South. Barneburg rd., Medford, Ore. ' ' ' Safety Advice To the Editor: May I' submit the following in' regard to the current Safety Program? 1 SAFETY Webster describes it most aptly, As "Freedom from injury or harm." So, the obvious perils that sur round us, We view, and avoid with alarm, But, the pitfaUs of danger are many, ine small ones so,: often neg- ' lected, . v Become large, when an accident happens, From a source, that is seldom expected. : .. A bottle left low for the children; A match we forgot to replace; The chair Mother used for a lad der; . ; Or, Dads' firearms out of their case. Collections of trash in the attic; Even slippery mats on the floor. Just to mention a few we so often forget, A reminder to look for some more. Every day of existence, be wary. Seek the cause and you'U soon find the cure. Whether driving, or working or playing, Be happy, be safe, but, be sure. Gig Farfan J 723 South Newtown st. Medford, Ore. Didn't Ellsworth Know? To the Editor: In commenting last, week in Portland on the introduction of testimony about the Al Sarena case in hearings of the joint congressional com mittee on timber, Congressman EUsworth said: "When the claimants had complied with aU all the requirements of the min ing laws to the satisfaction of the Interior department, it had no choice under the laws but to issue patents." It is conceded that if the In terior department officials who normally make decisions as to patents had had their way with respect to the 15 disputed Al Sarena claims, the timber (worth wen over $100,000.00) would stUl be in the possession of the United States instead of in the process of being cut and sold by the McDonalds who paid about S2000 for it. - ., These officials were reversed by Clarence Davis, then solicitor (now under-secretary) for the department, acting for Secretary McKay. Three previous assays of these claims by unimpeach able assayers showed that the claims were not nearly up to "merchantable" standard re quired. Davis based his reversal on assays made by a company in Mobile, Ala., the hometown of the McDonalds. Both Ellsworth and Davis should have known, if in fact they did' not actuaUy know, of the drastic variance between the. fourth assay and the other three. Then the action indicated SUGGESTED BIBLE READING VERSES The Medford Council of Church Women each year be between Thanksgiving and Christmas sponsors a pro gram of daily Bible reading, recommending adifferent verse of the Bible ioreach day during that period, in co operation with the American Bible association, the Med ford Ministerial association and the National Council of 'Church Women. - , Following are the passages recommended for today: . Matthew 22:1-22. was to have the umpire samples in urants Pass checked. Instead, these umpire samples were chucked into the Rogue river. ihe assays presented bv th McDonalds to Davis may have been to his "satisfaction" and to the "satisfaction" of Coneress- man Ellsworth but I predict that in January as the investigation continues in Washington, D. C, the whole transaction will- be adjudged "very unsatisfactory" by a gre many citizens. Charles O. Porter . 858 Pearl st. Eugene, Ore. -i t it- To the Editor: As the. Christ mas season approaches we are imbued with the spirit of giving. It Is for thisTeason many chaj itable organizations conduct their fund raising campaigns at this time. Each person will do nate as much as his conscience and means dictate. We do not attempt to teU any person how much or to which charity he should subscribe, however there is one cause we believe to be - worthy of your special consider ation. -. The Red Cross Bloodmobile wUl visit Medford on Thursday, December; 8th, and attempt to fiU their anticipated need for 240 pints of blood. : The giving of blood is a pain less procedure, conducted, in pleasant surroundings, and takes but little time. . - In the search for Christmas " guts ii is weii to remember you -J -i-t , can give tne greatest girt or ail LIFE to someone this Christ mas through your donation of a pint of blood to the Red Cross. Dan F. Krotz II, " flhairmnn -fnr - -. -a - - Community Service,' ' Steelhead Post, VFW, . Shady Cove, Ore. ' Wants Highway lo Sea To the Editor: Why do the citizens of this country keep knocking our Administration? Makes no difference whether Re publican or Democratic. We vote for an individual which we be lieve win be a good representative,- then he is no more than elected, when he starts catch ing thunder. (We. never try to help him after he is once elect ed, everything he does is wrong. Why are we that way? The 'American people as . a whole are making more money than they ever realized before. But, at the end of the ,year, after meeting their obligations, namely taxes, both hidden etc. have to start a clean slate . the first of the year. Guess they should not complain tho, as they mu have, a lot of fun-handling-a . lot of . money even if they do have to pay practally all for taxes. Anyway, why blame our' 'Administration, no matter which is in control, they are going to give our money to foreign Na tions. . . .. If the money, given to foreign countries was distributed over this country to help build nec essities to build up this country, it would certainly be a Utopia. As in this Rogue River valley, there is not a change for it to go ahead as it should, as it needs industries and industries can't operate with such high taxes, and costly transportation. , I do believe that if the people would get busy and contact our Congressman, that we might get . a good highway down the Chetco river, also a good deep sea harbor at Brookings. , We need an outlet to the ocean for cheaper transportation then possibly industry . could survive. Francis Shorty) Hibbard 1032 Saling ave., Medford Grange Gold Hill Grange - The Gold Hill Grange met Dec. 1 with most of the newly installed officers in their chairs. Business was taken care of in the usual way. The lecturer's program con sisted of motion pictures. our lecturer has done a grand job the past year, and every one is nappy to have her reelected. The Christmas party will be held Dec. 15. Each person at tending is requested to bring a gift for exchange. Glen MUler and Charles Foote will get the Christmas tree, and au interested in decorating it are invited to help Sunday after noon, Dec. 11. Grange members are requested to bring something oi tneir choice for the lunch. The Grange closed in the usual manner, and retired to the dining room for a lunch served by Mary McDaniels. Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals is the only player named most valuable player in the National League three times. O
