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5 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDPORD&vTRIBuHX fverybody In Soutnern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribuna Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-23 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager E. C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HAkRV CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor JACffc-jJACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of March 3. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail Ir. Advance: Per copy 10c. . Daily and Sunday One vear S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.33 Sunday Only One vear S3 50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eae'e Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove t (tozve River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sundav One month Us Carrier and Dealers 5c oer copy All Terms casn in aavance Official Paper of the City of Medford OffirialPaperof Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION W3T-HOLLIDAV COMPANY INC Offices in New York. Chicago De troit San Francisco Los Angeles Septti. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C NATIONAL EDITOtlAL I ASSodl-ATIIQN Flight o' Time Medferd and Jackson County History from the files of The MaiPTribune 10, 20. 30; and GlO years ago. (7 PUBLISHERS FLIGHT '. .- 10 YEARS AGO Cpec. B, 1945 q (It was Thursday) .Iargaret Ruth Bolton moves into lead of Victory Queen con-rest. From Arthur Perrey's Ye Smudge Pot column: Many re port they have caught colds. Oth ers, pof) so boastful, admit the c'oldp caught them. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 6. 1935 (It was Friday)-, Figures from county assessor show Medford school district levy to be 23.6emills to raise $134,303.70. Dwight L. Houghton named assistant manager at Medford branch of United States National bank of Portland. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 6. 1925 (It was Sunday) Delbert Anderson, George Creighton, Ord Reed and Harry Goold among cast in high school comedy "The Arrival of Kitty." Medford beats Salem,' 16-13, for western Oregon champion ship. O - . 4cPyEARS AGO ' Dec. 6. 1915 Q (It was Monday) J Dr. J. Lawrence Hill with- j draws candidacy as school board director because of wife's health. ,From Local and Persona col umn: Tom Flynn, the electric store proprietor on West Main (Sreet, has had a sign painted for display on his automobile di(r)ng a proposed business trip to California. It reads "Crescent Cityr Bust." The declaration, positive as it is, doesn't mean that Tom will bej busted if he can't get to Crescent City; rath er, it means that he'll get there if the performance break him. Therefore, it is logical to con clude that his mission to the California town is one of more than uswal importance. . What's the Answer? OCan You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research RepaH 1. More Americans die of heart disease in the winter Sr in the summer, or is it about 50-50? 2. The federal excise tax is higher on passenger cars than on trucks, or hher on trucks, or the sar? 3. The new AFL-CIO amal gamated labor affiliation con tains every large U. S. labor union: right or wrong? 4. Which of these has the shortest seascoast: New-Hampshire, Delaware, Maryland, Ala bama, Oregon o 5. Which strong possibility for a presidential nomination next year has been a Unitarian? 6. Ships entering the Ambrose Channel are proceeding to Bos ton, "New York, Miami, New Or leans, SancFrancisco or Seattle? 7. The. Great Pyramids of Egypt wew built for defense, as tombs, to study the stars,. to store gold, or a& altars for religious rites? y The Answers: 1. More in win ter. 2. Higher on cars. 3. Wrong. 4. New Hampshire. 5. Adlai E. Sienvenson. 6. New York. 7. As lombs. o - MAIL TRIBUNE 'The King Can Do No Wrong' The character of the campaign on foreign affairs will in the main be determined by the way the party leaders ap proach the search for these policies that have not yet been found. The primary responsibility is with the Administra tion, with the party in power. If they choose to stand pat, as Dulles seemed to be doing this week, they will precipi tate a severe Democratic assault on the record of the results. Our position abroad has in fact deteriorated. It is easy to prove it. It is known to every disinterested observer. Dulles will be making the mistake of his life if he stands pat on his policies and the record. Walter Lippman in Mail Tribune We hope Mr. Lippmann is right, and that his sound advice is followed. But unless there is a marked change in .the political temper of the Republican leadership it won't be. We don't refer to the President's leadership for he isn't leading his party at the present time. We refer to the party leadership in the House and Senate as exemplified by Messers Martin and Knowland, for example. CONGRESSMAN Martin and Senator Knowland have already perfected their campaign strategy and it is a simple one. Any criticism of the Republican administration's foreign policy is to be promptly dismissed as "playing politics" in fact, it is attempting to disrupt the coun try's unity and destroy its morale, for the sake of votes. TPHAT is one side of the picture. The other is to build up the ancient myth of the Divine Right of Kings, only in this case, it will not be a king but the President "who can do no wrong." It is figured President Eisenhower's great personal popularity will spike-the-guns if any of the opposi tion so the opposition won't dare question the Presi dent or his infallibility as chief executive, for fear of adverse political reactions and results. 'THIS is undoubtedly the present Republican strat egy. That it will be changed because of the warn ing of Walter Lippmann or any other news com mentator is unlikely to say the least. .' This is true, we believe, regardless of whether President Eisenhower runs or doesn't run for reelec tion. Tr. all reminds nne somewhat of the "Keen cool with Coolidge" slogan back in the SOMEtimes "gay" 20's. Calvin Coolidge never enjoyed the great personal popularity and following of "Ike" but he was well liked. There was not only peace but tremendous pros nerit.v at the time and the G.O.P. theorv then was that nothing could beat the Republicans if they just stood - - . -m - ..1 , 1 1 pat, didn't rock the boat, threw away tneir nearmg aids when the enemy started to shoot, and let Nature take its course. The subsequent election proved they were politi callv rieht. Well, they may be right this time. Right or wrong one thing is, as we see it, for sure, namely: There will be no confession of errors by the G.O.P. regarding foreign policy or anything else not ONE little "miss" will be admitted. For that would destroy that myth that won before and the party leaders are confident can win again. So they reason let the Walter Lippmans and other high-browr intellectuals talk about moderation and admission of failures in the past, so they may be cor rected in the future, ah they wish, that may be ok for. a treatise on abstract ethics, but it has.no place in practical very practical every-day politics. CO AS befits a party led by a great military man if there is an attack and of course there will be the best defense will be a vigorous offensive. What if the enemy does point to failures here and there regarding foreign policy, i arm policy, or any other policy, it can be easily demonstrated that all these failures were due not to Republican errors but to the errors of the Democrats, which the Democrats "inherited" and all the Republicans need is four more vears to correct them. TTHAT is the basic strategy of the Republican cam paign to date. ' With all due respect to Walter Lippmann, one of the most intelligent, best informed and realistic com mentators in the county, we have little hope that anything he says or will say, will alter the course al ready established. by the GOP leadership. R.W.R. Bus Flips Over North ' Redmond (UP.) Eight per sons, injured when a Trailways bus with 22 persons aboard hit an icy spot and flipped over on Highway 97 five miles north of Madras, were under treatment in a local hospital today. Hospital attendants said the injured spent a "good night." The accident occurred about I 1:15 p.m. yesterday. State police said the bus spun completely around, skidded 75 feet off the highway and sheared off a tele phone pole. Officer Floyd Chestnut blam ed frozen slush for the accident. Bus driver Stanley Younger, 56. i The Dalles, said he was driving cautiously through some slush when the bus suddenly hit a frozen, spot, spun around and turned over. The bus was on franchise to Trailways from Greyhound Bus lines. It was en route , from Klamath Falls to Spokane. The injured included: Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Day, Yakima, Wash.; Mable Black, 81, Ogden, Utah; Betty Ashton, 25. Paso Robles, Calif.: A. L. Ortiz, 28, Geiger Air Force Base, Spokane: Iris Porter, 48, Stockton, Calif.; Tuesday. December 6, 1955 of Madras Louis Walker, 47, Grandview, Wash., ,and Kenneth Rackham, 11, Carmichael, Calif. Mrs. Day and Mrs. Black were described as the most seriously hurt. Mrs. Day suffered a brok en collar bone and back, head and arm injuries and Mrs. Black suffered from shock and possi ble internal injuries. The others were said to be not seriously hurt. Two Appear in Court; One Case Dismissed Richard Dale Akins, 30, Can yonville, was bound over to grand jury in district court Fri day on a charge of grand lar ceny. Akins was charged with the theft of a well drilling tool from Goff brothers well drillers, Medford. Akins was released on $1,500 bail Nov. 25. A charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor against Jimmy M. White, Gold Hill, was dismissed by district court Judge Rawles Moore, be cause of insufficient evidence. Australian Campaign As Insults By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Australia's parliamentary elec tion campaign is approaching its climax in a free exchange of insults. The vote will be taken Sat urday for 'all 12 1 members of the House of Represent atives and for 30 of the 60 members of the Senate. Austra 1 i a n elections are traditio n a 1 1 y uharies itieiaun wild and woolly. But in this one feeling is running especially high. Labor Party supporters are calling Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies a Fascist. Menzie's backers are calling Herbert Vere Evatt, the Labor Party leader, a Communist sym pathizer. Meetings Marked By Jeeri Election meetings are marked by hoots, jeers and scuffles. Menzies was shouted down eight times during one recent speech by opponents who de manded, among other things, "Give us an Australian policy for Australians, you mug." Menzies, sweating freely but unbowed, shouted back that his interrupters were "a band of yahoo Communists." The election stems directly from the "Petrov case," which became an international sensa tion. Vladimir Petrov, third secre tary in the Soviet Russian em Matter Of FdCt By Joe and Stewart Alsop MESSY BUSINESS Washington Two of Presi de n t Eisenhower's principal aides Budget Director Row- la n d Hughes and Atomic Energy Com mission Chair man Lewis Strauss may be in serious trouble. The trouble results from the AEC's ruling that the Bos t o n banker Adolphe Wen- Joseph Alsa zell was found guilty of "con flict of interest" when he served as a Budget Bureau consultant in the Dixon-Yates deal. Conflict of interest is a criminal- offense, indictable under federal law. But the Wenzell case involves far more than that. It also involves a flat, clear con flict of sworn testimony, as be tween Strauss' and WenzeU and perjury is also an indictable offense, and it further involves an attempt to hide essential facts, not only from the public, but from President Eisenhower himself, which is not indictable, but is still a most serious of fense in politics. The facts are as follows: Testi mony before the Kefauver sub committee of the Judiciary Com mittee estab 1 i s h e d that Wenzell wore two hats as a Budget Bu reau consult ant. In one hat, he played a prominent part in negotiating the AEC's Dixon-Yates con tract. In the other hat, he Stewart Alsop served as an official of the First Boston Corporation which act ed as financial agent in the Dixon-Yates deal. When the AEC cut its losses on the Dixon-Yates contract, the government became liable to pay a cancellation fee, estimated at about $3,000,000, to the Dixon-Yates interests. But if Wen zell's wearing of two hats con stituted conflict of interest, the contract was illegal, and the cancellation fee could not be paid. The matter was thus referred to the AEC's legal department. Hertzel Plaine, a junior AEC lawyer, studied the case and wrote a straightforward opinion that conflict of interest was clearly involved and the con tract was therefore illegal. The Plaine opinion apparently threw the AEC into something of a turmoil, and with good reason. ONLY last July, Plaine's chief, liam Mitchel testified that the Dixon-Yates contract was "legal and binding." The Plaine opin ion was so inconvenient, indeed, that Arimiral Strnncc n rrrrrl in rt j ' - . " . - - .... - ' - . j Qtv.uxuui5 tn tH K"pfan7pr ciihpftmmi'toa'c information, actually sent for young Plaine's security file, pre sumably on the grounds that writing such an opinion was po tentially subversive. . At any rate, Sen. Kefauver and Sen. Clinton Anderson got wind of Plaine's opinion, and this in turn became known' to Admiral Strauss. Thereafter, Mitchell hurriedly reversed his own former opinion and ruled that Wenzell was guilty of con flict of interest. Election Hears End Swapped bassy, surrendered himself to the Australian Secret Service in April, 1954. He surrendered also a mass of documents which he had collected as Russia's chief spy agent in Australia. The documents led, for one thing, to the disclosure that the missing British diplomats Don ald D. MacLean and Guy F. De M. Burgess had long been Rus sian spies within the London Foreign Office. They disclosed also, when an Australian royal commission pxamined them, that one of Evatt's chief aides had given in formation to Petrov. Evatt Wrote To Molotov Evatt, to the astonishment of even his own supporters, wrote to Russian Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov asking him' if the Petrov documents could be forgeries. Molotov re plied that they were. Menzies decided to call an election to take advantage of Labor's embarrassment. His coa lition majority was substan tially aided by a split in the Labor Party which has resulted in the formation of a small "Anti-Communist Labor" group. The election, if it gives either side a substantial victory, will be important to the United States and its allies. Menzies is for complete cooperation with the free countries against1 the Reds. Evatt ' tends somewhat toward "neutralism." He wants to admit Communist China to the United Nations, and to withdraw Aus tralian troops from Malaya where they are helping Britain fight the Communist rebels. If Labor suffers a real defeat, Petrov will be responsible. The implications of this rul ing are far-reaching. Both the Kefauver subcommittee and the Dixon-Yates interests are certain to ventilate the whole sorry business at great length. Both will try to prove that Hughes and Strauss were wholly aware of Wenzell's dual role during the time when the contract was be ing negotiated. Wenzell has testified that he himself became worried about his peculiar position and that he consulted Hughes about it. As of this writing, the position Hughes took on the question is not known. But it is known that Wenzell continued to serve as a consultant after his talk with Hughes. Wenzell aso testified under oath, last July, that he "explain ed to (Strauss) what my work had been in the Bureau . what I had done and my whole connection there." Strauss has testified that he did not know Wenzell was a Budget Bureau consultant and thought he sim ply "represented his firm, The First Boston Corporation, advis ing'. . . on the availability and cost of financing. ' Thus a direct conflict of sworn testimony, as well as conflict of interest, is involved. Finally there is the way both the public and the President have been misled throughout, which will also be thoroughly aired. T AST YEAR, for example, when the President said that all the facts on the Dixon Yates contract were publicly available, the Budget Bureau and the AEC hurriedly drew up fact sheets. When Wenzell's name, which had not previously been publicly mentioned, ap peared on the AEC's fact sheet, the Budget Bureau asked the AEC to eliminate it. An at tempt has been made to explain this on the grounds that Wen zell played no important role in the negotiations. But consider Mitchell's own ruling: It ap pears that Wenzell, while hav ing a conflicting private interest, acted as one of the principal ad visers of the government in the negotiation of . . . the contract Finally, the evidence is clear that the facts have been consis tently misrepresented to the President himself, as for ex ample when he said that Wen zell never worked on the Dixon Yates contract. Altogether, it has been a messy business. It is the messier still because Wen zell, an outspoken man with an honorable personal history, but a business lamb among the Washington wolves, is likely to be the only fall guy in the end. Copyright 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Meredith, N. H. (U.P.) Guy Cochran has purchased this town's old fire station for a dol lar bill. He's going to tear it down and use the lumber to build a home for himself. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE 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 a different verse of the Bible for each day during that period, in co operation with the American Bible associalion, the Med ford Ministerial association and the National Council of Church Women. Following are the passages recommended for today: Matthew 25:31-46. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Oregon State College Econo mist M. D. Thomas tells the Ore gon Seed Growers League, which has been in session at La Grande, that the federal soil bank proposal is the hottest farm subject now under discussion. He added: "The soil bank proposal is ap parently more acceptable to CITY FOLKS than any other farm assistance measure." THAT'S a new angle to the X farm problem. But, after all. it isnH an unreasonable angle. The city folks, you know, PAY TAXES. And it's TAX money that is used to pay the high parity subsidies that have kept prices of certain basic crops such as wheat, corn, cotton, etc., high enough to encourage heavy over production of them. The farm folks produce the wheat, corn, cotton and such. The city folks CONSUME the bulk of them at prices that have been kept HIGHER by the high parity system. So far, they haven't complained. They have felt, evidently, that since the war the farmer has had the hot end of the readjustment poker to handle, and so they have been willing to help him out. TUT Suppose they got tired of it. Suppose they said to them selves: "This farm subsidy business is the bunk. It keeps HIGH the prices we have to pay for food and fiber and all it does for the farmer is to build up surpluses that are cramming the storage warehouses to the bursting point and hanging like a dark thunder cloud over the markets of the future." Suppose they added: "It's a crazy scheme. We've gone along with it so far in the hope that it would help the farm er to readjust from inflated war markets to the normal markets of peace time. But it just doesn't work.. It's even getting the farm er into a dangerous 'situation. "So we're through. We've HAD it! Hereafter we're going to vo'i against every politician who proposes further subsidiza tion of agriculture thus keep ing up prices of the foods and the fibers we have to buy and still not doing the farmer any real good." THAT could happen. And, if it did happen, it must be re membered that about two-thirds of the voters are city folks and only about one-third farm folks. So You see If it is true that the soil bank proposal is more acceptable to city folks than any other farm assistance measure it's a rather important political consideration. S MUCH for the over-all, na tionwide situation. Let's take a look now at the agricultural situation in South ern Oregon and Far Northern California. CO FAR, we've been hurt rath & er than helped by this system of high price support backed up by acreage control for certain crops none of which we grow in any considerable quantity. As acreage of corn, cotton, wheat, etc., has been taken out of pro duction of these crops that we DON'T grow it has been put into production of crops that we "DO grow such as barley, potatoes, grass seeds and so on. Thus our markets have been glutted. We have suffered severe ly from this new SUBSIDIZED production. TN CONCLUSION, let's take a look at the probable effect of this new soil bank proposal. This seems reasonably certain: THE SOIL BANK PROPOSAL WOULD CREATE AN IM MENSE MARKET FOR THE SEED OF SOIL BUILDING CROPS, INCLUDING GRASSES. Southern Oregon is a large producer of small seeds. We could be a LARGER producer' if the market warranted expansion. WISHING MW7MAKE IT SO The future independence and leisure you ere hoping for will be yours only if you prepare for it. It is never too early to make provision . for happy retirement. Don't let it become too late. How about today? CHARLES E. JONES, Local Agent Phone 2-9772 COMPANY OF CANADA Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name arid address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. CAP Progress To the Editor: In announcing my resignation as commanding officer of the Medford squadron of the Civil Air patrol, I want the public of Jackson county to know how gratifying it is to re view the progress which has been made in the past few years, progress due in no small part to the wholehearted cooperation the CAP has received not only from the senior and cadet CAP members but also the citizens and business men and women of the entire community. The building has been reno vated and improved so that it now serves both as a meeting place and as a possible emer gency station in case of need. Four cadets, William Neal, Al bert Eaton, Johnny Foust and Jim Merritt, have had trips abroad. We were hosts to five foreign CAP exchange cadets here in Medford, under the same program. We have heard from many former CAP cadets now in military service, who have told us to keep up the training program, for It has meant a great deal to them. We have participated in two air shows, the dedication of the airport terminal building, and in Armed Forces day celebrations. We have participated in several air search and rescue missions. We have acquired a Link trainer and CAJr radio equipment, as well as other items including building furnishings, equipment and flags and flagpole. My resignation does not mean am quitting the CAP, but means I am passing the respon sibility of leadership to some one I feel is more capable and able to cope with problems as they arise. I will still work for the good of the organization in whatever capacity I am needed other than as commander. The progress 1 have men tioned has taken the help of a great many people, and it from the bottom of my heart that I extend my sincere thanks to each and every one who has helped the CAP and me person ally as commanding officer. sincerely nope that the new commander,- Lt. Robert Thomp son, will receive the same co operation so generously and un selfishly given me. Marella Luschen, Capt., CAP Former Commanding Officer Medford Squadron More On Library To the Editor: A few days ago I read with interest Mrs. Lynch'; letter concerning the Children's Library and yesterday was equally interested in Mr. Allen's reply. After reading it I thought perhaps I should wait and see just what the results of the pres ent changes and plans are to be. However I can't help thinking that all too often one of the "good things" to go when ef ficiency moves in is the personal touch. For the most part the Adrienne's PRE-CHRISTMAS Save . . Save . . On These Reduced Groups! 50 COATS 75 SUITS Boxy, Tailored, any Style you wish . Vi Sizes, Regular, Misses Where Your 5c Buys See Our FASHION Don't Forget . .O Every Wednesday 6:00 p.m. Adrienne's 214 East Main OPEN WEDNESDAY UNTIL 9 P.M. adults who use the upstairs li brary have their reading habits formed, but young minds re spond to friendliness and attrac tive, curiosity - arousing sur roundings. A child authority in recent article suggested that parents can do much to improve their children's reading ability by taking them.gn hikes, arous ing their curiosity, answering their questiftns willingly. These are "time consuming'' things and perhaps should bff limited to the home or KhooL A good many other mothers join ed me in the feeling that the Children's Library was render ing a real service to parents, tea chers and children. I know of one grade school teacher who advised her class to make a spec ial effort to go to the library to see the truly worthwhile carved doll display. For several that could have easily been their fg-st introduction to the Library and undoubtedly many stopped to choose books artfully arranged nearby.' My small daughter's Summer Vacation Bible school class was taken on a field trip to the library 0where they could see so many interesting things while the use of the library was explained. Many an excited child was begging mother later in the day to take them back on an other visit. You can't force a young child to love books. They need to be encouraged by the warn, inter- r. .1 1 -1 V ' , . cat ui muse who love ana unaer- stand them. Tjie people of Med ford had something of which they could all be justifiably proud. Let's not make the mis take of sacrificing too much on the altar of efficiency. Audrey E. Roberts, 915 West 10th St. Medford, Ore. MR. INSURANCE Fred Brennan The merchandise and money we handle is subject to loss through armed robbery, theft, or destruc tion at night, or the dishonesty of employees. Is an insurance policy available to protect us from loss through all types of larceny? . ' For Information Call MEDFORD INSURANCE ACINCY O Phone 1-4940 1 TOP PRICE Shop Our an EXTRA Garment and DANCE TV Show o Phone 2-7169 1
