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o O 0 o' 0 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Meiporiv&Tribuki "Everybody to Southern 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 Managing Editor ERIC ALuLEN JR City Editor HAkRY CHIPMAN. Tstegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor n OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor w JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ol Marcn 3. laui SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One vear $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six omonths 630 Daily and Sunday Three moa. 3.50 Sunday Only One vear $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1A Carrier and Dealer 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Officii! Paper ot the City of Medford Official Paper oi Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF C.lRi.UlsAilW Advertising nePre""if.'iS:. WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY NC. Offices in New York. Chicago De troit SarP Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOd-ATUON NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and iO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 8. 1945 (It was Saturday) Mrs. Glenn A. Gibbons, Jack son county chairman of Christ mas Seal campaign, praises sale at Junior high and high schools. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: -Colds are the order of the day. They ag gravate the Older Girls by mak ing their noses as red as their fingernails. 20 EARS AGO Dec. 8, 1935 (It was Sunday) A. H. Banwell, manager of Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, in Portland confer fng with fideral officials on pro posed improvements of Medford airport. Prescott Memorial park road and Bear Creek bridge WPA projdts to start tomorrow. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 8? 1925 (It was Tuesday) League of Nations decides to Invite United States, Russia arid Germany to participate in inter national disarmament confer ence. Medford high' state cham pionship football team honored at Copco Forum luncheon. 40 YEARS AGO Deo. 8. 1915 o (It was Wednesday) Dr. J. M. Keene, new member of city council, initiates proced ure to collect deliquent assess ment on paving bonds. From Local and Personal col umn: Passenger travel on the Southern Pacific through this division continues very light, while the freight business is un usually heavy, extra freight trains passing through daily. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 77 Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Repert 1. Retail prices of food as a whole have gone down more or less than other retail prices in the last 3 years, or stayed about the same? o 2. The U.S. Navy names its cruisers for states, cities, naval heroes, qualities of character, fish Tr mythological characters? 3. The Government changes its parity price for a specific farm product every month; right or wrong? 4. In most states using a chem ical test for drunken drivers it is voluntary or compulsory? 5. The Battle of Gettysburg was the last great battle of the Civil War; right or wrong? 6. Which city is represented by a professional football team called the Colts? 7. An alewife is a vegetable, or a woman who buys beer for her husband, or a fish, or a wom an living with a man outside of wedlock, or a divorcee? The Answers: 1. Food prices are down. 2. Cities. 3. Right. 4. Voluntary. 5. Wrong. S. Balti more. 7. Fish. ADVICE TO YOUNG Grand Rapids, Mich (U.R) Leo C. Beebe, a Ford Motor Co. executive, told 2,300 school teachers here that American in dustry wants young people "who are not afraid to work, who are matured thinkers and have im pressed on their minds the thought that to labor diligently and honestly is to labor for the glory of God and man." MAIL TRIBUNE Un-American & Subversive If the Governor of Florida should call the Gover nor of Georgia "unAmerican," an "enemy of the people" and a friend of the enemy, no doubt the lat ter would bust a gallus, and sue the chief executive of his neighboring state for at least a million dollars, charging libel, defamation of character and what have you. However, if the truth is a defense in the state of Florida, in such actions, the Governor of Georgia would not collect a dime. For in directing the regents of his state university to refuse a sugar bowl assignment because the oppos ing team had one negro on the squad, Governor Mar tin Griffin was refusing to obey the fundamental law of his country that's being unAmerican and giving aid and comfort to Soviet Russia in its effort against our will to rule the world. THHE Constitution of the United States forbids dis- crimination against ANY citizen, because of color, race or religion. It is one of America's proudest boasts that this is true, and in the fight against communism it has been the spearhead of many a democratic appeal. It so happened indeed that when the Georgia Governor issued this subversive manifesto, the heads of the Russian government were in Burma, inciting the populace there and throughout Asia, to rise and throw off. the yoke of the imperialistic and tyrannical "white man" who had for centuries oppressed and denied freedom, to the struggling masses of the Far East, the chief count against them being their color. "IXHETHER or not Messrs, Bulganin and Khrush chev, mentioned this Georgia incident as they have so of ten referred to negro lynchings in the USA, as proof of Uncle Sams bigotry and evil intentions, there is no doubt this evidence of blind racial preju dice in high quarters will be grist to the mill of Anti American propaganda, and will render material aid to Moscow in its effort to drive the "Anglo-Saxon" out of the Far East and place the Kremlin in remote, if not, actual, control. OOWEVER there is no danger of any such name- A x calling by the Governor of Florida or any other state official below the Mason and Dixon line for that matter. Not that all of them approve Governor Griffin's stupid action, but none of them, eager to hold their jobs would come out openly against him or.any other state official, on the still burning issue of "white supremacy." The . Civil War theoretically ended that sort of thing in this country, and ratification of the constitu tional amendment confirmed its legal termination. But as any close observer of the Solid South will admit, the people down there AS A WHOLE are still fighting that war, and as shown by the reaction in Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina, the doc trine of "Nullification" is STILL alive. Laws are now being drawn up in at least three southern states, which by outlawing public schools and replacing them with private ones, would, in effect, nullify the Constitution of the United States regarding racial equality, and would also refuse to" abide by the recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court outlawing racial segregation. CO WHAT? Must we fight another "war between the states?" Or should we send federal troops south of the Mason Dixon line to see the laws of the land are upheld and enforced? Or No. 3 Should "we the people of the North" let the peo ple of the South manage their own state problems in their own way, turn a deaf ear, and an indifferent eye to" law-enforcement outside of our own borders, and trust that the healing hand of time, will one? of these fine days, transform the tolerant, enlightened and .law-abiding minority in the South, to a ruling majority? No. 3 will undoubtedly be the course eventually adopted. . CUT in the meantime, there is nothing trivial or amusing about the political capital that Soviet Russia will make and has made in the Far East be cause of the racial prejudices still rampant in parts of southern U.S.A. As for this department we hope for the best but fear the worst. In fact we shall not be surprised if this evidence of prejudice against people of one color, and insistence upon the supremacy of people of another, well publicized by Russia's powerful propaganda machine, might well, end any hope of effective influence of Anglo-American policies in Africa and the Far East. R.W.R. Morgan Continues Portland (U.R) Oregon Dem ocratic Chairman Howard Mor gan today continued to attack Gov. Paul Patterson and State Senate President Elmo Smith for .use of , National Guard planes. Morgan, in a prepared state ment, attacked answers made by Smith and Gov. Patterson yes terday following Morgan's ori ginal charges. He said "the point is that the use of federally owned aircraft for partisan political purpose is indefensible on any grounds. Does Governor Patterson con tend that these unauthorized flights should not be offered to the 'ins' and not the 'outs?' " Both Patterson and Smith de nied Morgan's allegations. The governor said he had used Na Thursday, December 8, 1955 Plane Use Issue tional Guard planes only twice in the three years he has been in office. Smith said the one use he made of National Guard fa cilities served as "air time" in his capacity as an Air National Guard officer. Christmas Packages . Destroyed by Flames Bremerhaven, Germany (U.R) Thousands of Christmas pack ages and cards sent by Ameri can troops in Germany to their families at home were destroyed by fire Wednesday. Army officials said about one third of the mail which filled a railway mail car was destroyed. The mail had been collected from Army .post offices through- j out Germany and was to have been loaded on a ship here. At t lee's Successor Must Be Optimist v To Tackle Problems By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The man who succeeds Clem ent Attlee as leader of the Brit ish Labor Party will need to be an optimist. He will have to find a policy that will take a lot of votes away from Prime Min i s ter An t h o n y Eden's Con servatives. He also will have to close the wide split cnaries Mccann between La bor's right wing and left wing factions. For the present, the Conserva tives are going strong. Unless something happens, they can remain in office until the life of the present Parlia ment expires in May, 1960. There are three leading candi dates for the Labor Party lead ership. But it is a sign of the state of the party that seven men, in all, are mentioned as possibil ities. Winston Churchill spent years building up Eden as' his succes sor. When he retired from the prime ministry last April 5, Eden stepped right into his place. But Attlee was unable to do that. He had enough to do to try to keep the party together. Herbert Morrison was his deputy. But time has caught up with Morrison as it did with Churchill and Attlee. He is 67. Labor needs a younger man. Hugh Gaitskell, 49, a pro-Amer In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS The newly-completed merger of AFL and CIO into one organ ization with nearly 16,000,000 members is worrying the politic ians. It is especially worrisome to the Republican politicians, because in recent years organ ized labor has leaned strongly toward the Democratic party. ' Reflecting this worry, Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who heads the Republican sen ate campaign committee, said the other day that unions have no right to endorse a President ial candidate. Republican Sen. H. Alexander Smith of New Jersey says that while heapproves labor unions keeping their members political ly informed he thinks it would be a mistake for them to endorse any congressional candidates in next year's election. ON THE other side of the fence, Governor Harriman of New York who is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Pres ident but isn't yet willing to ad mit it, says that MORE not less American working men and women are needed to take part in our political affairs. LABOR SECRETARY MIT CHELL tells the newly merged union's founding conven tion that organized labor has a duty and a responsibility to deal in political issues and that it should speak out loud and clear. He adds that he expects the new labor federation to support the labor policies that have marked the Eisenhower admin istration. PRESIDENT EISE NHOWER himself, addressing by tele phone and loud speaker the new AFL-CIO, urged it to scrupulous ly protect the minority views of its members on social economic and political issues. He said: "You have a great opportunity of making your meetings the world's most effective exhibit of democratic processes." He added: "You are more than union members bound together by a common goal of better wages, better working conditions and SNOWDRIFT -MirrrfitflB-trrfriinlTird SPECIAL SALE AL'S MA$ GIANT A I'c Bfff fulfill 68 I FRESH PRODUCE Dry Onions I ft 3 Pounds I9G No. 2 Potatoes .We reserve the right to limit. If McAndrews Road 2 blocks ican member of the right wing, is expected to be elected leader by the Parliamentary Labor Party, which consists of Labor members of Parliament. But Aneurin Bevan, the anti American left wing leader, in tends to make a fight for it a fight which may widen the party split. After the Conservatives won the general election last May, to remain in office with an in creased majority, Gaitskell said: "The cold, sober prospect for Labor in the next 10 years is that we spend the first five years in opposition and the second five in government." Rosy Future That statement was based on the prospect that the Conserva tives would' stay in office for their entire allotted five years. But to materialize the second part of Gaitskell's assessment of the situation, Labor also must overturn the present Conserva tive majority in the House of The Conservatives now have a majority of 58 in the 630 seat house. But with 344 seats to Labor's 278, they have a major ity of 66 over the official oppo sition. The only hope the Laborites have of a comeback before 1960 at the earliest is that something will happen to cause the dissolu tion of Parliament and a result ant election on some big issue. But if the Conservatives find an issue favorable to them, they can call an election and get them selves in for another five years. In all, it looks as if Attlee's successor will face a long, rocky road. News protection of your security through collective bargaining, You are American citizens." T FIND I can't go along with -"- Senator Goldwater's state ment that unions have no right to endorse a Presidential candi date. Personally, I .think ANY sound, patriotic American organ ization whether labor, busi ness or what have you has the right to endorse any candidate in any election SO LONG AS IT LEAVES ITS MEMBERS WHOLLY FREE TO VOTE IN- DIVIDUALLY AS THEY PLEASE, WITHOUT COERCION OF ANY SORT. If Senator Goldwater had said that top union officials have no right to levy a COMPULSORY assessment on their members to raise a huge fund to be used for the SOLE purpose of promoting the election of ONE candidate for President, as opposed to an other, it would be different. That would be COERCION. . Coercion is bad. TNEVITABLY, the new labor merger brings into sharper focus the question of BIGNESS in our economy. For weeks, a congressional committee has been investigating General Motors. General Motors is big. The members of the committee that have been taking part in the investigation have obviously been troubled by this question: HOW BIG IS TOO BIG? I doubt if that question can be answered yet. This is a big country. A big country requires big industries. Big industrial or ganizations call more or less naturally and logically for big labor organizations. If bigness is badness, then big ness is BAD. But we still lack conclusive evidence that in a big country mere bigness is bad. T THINK the new 16,000,000 member AFL-CIO might well be reminded of this fundamental fact: GREAT RESPONSIBILITY goes with great power. If that fact is kept clearly in mind, I don't think we'll have too much to worry about. 4 lbs. 5100 3 lbs. 75c 10 Lbs. fa you desire a large order we would like to have a little extra time to fill it. north and three blocks west of Jackson School Phone 3-1666 Today and By Walter ANOTHER MONOPOLY BROKEN In appraising the new Soviet doings in the Middle East and South Asia, it may be useful to note that for the second time since the end of the war the Soviet Un ion has brok en what we had supposed was a monop oly. The first time was in 1949 when the Walter Lippman Soviet Union broke the Ameri can monopoly of nuclear weap ons. That event has led through the competition in armaments to the uneasy stalemate which dominates the power politics of the globe. Now the Soviet Union has pushed its way into a part of the world where, until a few months ago, the Atlantic Pow ers had been for all practical purposes the only suppliers of arms and of productive capital. What we are now witnessing is in effect a Soviet adaptation of our own Marshall Plan, Point Four, and mutual aid programs. It would be pleasant to think that the Soviet campaign is merely bluff and that all we need to do is to sit it out. Rus sia, it is said, is not nearly so rich as we are. The Russians, it is said, will show their bad manners, as Khrushchev does, and the proud and sensitive peo ples of Asia and Africa will soon dislike them. All this is most cer tainly wishful thinking. It is de rived in part from a reluctance to appropriate new sums of mon ey in an election year when it would be so pleasant to reduce taxes. The wishful thinking " is derived, l venture to minis in an equal part from a reluctance to make a reappraisal of our diplomacy and of the incessant declarations which characterize it. TT WOULD be a great mistake -1- to assume that the Soviet Un ion is not rich enough to supply the kinds of capital which their programs may require. In the Soviet system of a planned econ omy, forcibly directed from Mos cow, capital funds can be di verted from domestic use when ever high policy demands it There are no taxpayers, no Con gress, no presidential elections to be considered. Moreover, the Soviet Union, having the kind of system it has, can take in payment commodities, such as cotton and rice, which the under developed countries are able to export. The democracies find it very hard to do this. The Soviet Union has some strong political cards, Our poli cy, unhappily, has gone to great lengths in tying economic aid to the raising of local military forces in the countries we help. The Soviet Union is in a position to say to these countries: Your alliances . do not protect you, they provoke us; be neutral and we shall not attack you, and you have nothing to fear. There is no use pretending that this line of talk is not having its effect. "OUT the trump card in the So- - viet hand, so I venture to think, is the fact that they have bioken the Western monopoly as a supplier of arms and of capital. The fact that there is now competition wnere until recently there was a monopoly, the fact that Egypt; for example, has two rivals bidding for its favor is, of course, enormously appealing. It is so- appealing to have Moscow and Washington bid ding against each other that, where possible, the ultimate aim of the weak countries is likely to be to prevent a return to the old conditions of monopoly either to the old Western FOR THE WEEK-END mm BEEF ROASTS ShcHLder lb. 33c RIB STEAKS lb. 33c T-Bone & Sirloin Steaks lb. 43c ROUND STEAKS lb. 49c PORK LOIN Whole or Half lb. 45c PORK SHOULDER ....lb. 34c BACON Top Quality lb. 37c SPECIAL PRICES ON LOCKER MEAT Yz or Whole Cut and Wrapped for Locker Tomorrow Lippmann monopoly or to a new Soviet monopoly. It is only a guess, of course, but I would guess that what we are going to see is a more advanced form of neutral ism, of "nonalignment," of to use the old American name for it a policy of no entangling alliances. IF THIS is a correct guess, then f diwu j,ui no ! whether we are going to resist or whether we are going to cul tivate and come to terms with this tendency towards neutral ism. The Soviet Union will have the better of -us if the highest aim of our policy continues to be the prevention of neutralism. For what the Soviet Union is able to offer is not only compe tition with us in the supply of capital but also no can on their part for an alignment with their military system. Even if we of fer more capital than they do, they will appear to be offering their capital at a lower political price. Nor must we suppose that these weak countries wiU not be interested because they fear communism. They will think that by keeping the Soviet Un ion and the United States bid ding against one another, they will have created a local balance of power which protects them. The immediate question in Washington seems to be wheth er to cut down or to increase the appropriations for foreign aid. It would, so it seems to me, be a monumental folly to reduce ine appropriations. It is most desirable that they should be niLTeaseo.. isut unless there is also a reappraisal of our politi- dim military policies in southern Asia, as these policies relate to armaments and alli ances, and to the neutralism of tnese countries, the extra money we appropriate will not make much difference. Copyright 1955, New York Herald Tribune Ine. Inoculations Ordered In Paratyphoid Outbreak JLandcaster, Pa (U.R) The Lancaster City and County Medi cal Society ordered an inocula tion program today for an esti mated 35,000 persons to combat an epidemic of paratyphoid in this rea. The society emphasized, how ever, that the program would not be effective in controUing the epidemic for at least 10 days, the incubation period of the dis ease, which is a milder form of typhoid fever. A total of 54 persons, most of them infants and small children have been . stricken since the week end. If you delay! si MM, MEDFORD MERCHANTS offer a wide variety of fine Christmas Merchandise SHOP IN MEDFOtfb AND SAVE! Medford Mail Tribune SUGGESTED BIBLE READING VERSES The Medford Council of Church Women each year be between Thanksgiving and Christmas sponsors a pro gram of daily Bible fading, recommending a different verse of the Bible for each 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 todayi Luke 7:31-50. q Cold Arclic Air Changes Temperature . By UNITED PRESS Temperatures jumped and dipped like a yo-yo in much of the nation's West and Midwest today: They jumped into the 40s and 50s during yesterday's warm. spell only to drop as much as 28 degrees when cold arctic air from the north,- plus a Pacific cool front, moved in. The cool-off spread as far east as the Eastern Great Lakes and averaged 10 to 15 degrees in the Central Rockies and Upper Mis sissippi Valley. At Bryce Canyon, Utah, the mercury went down 28 degrees from 19 above to 9 below, while Delta, Utah, had a drop of from 32 to 11. It was below zero over the Eastern Dakotas and West ern Minnesota, with Minot, N.D., reporting 12 degrees below zero. Soil Conservation Positions Are Open The field board of civil ser vice examiners for the depart ment of agriculture has announ ced that applications are being accepted for appointment to ag ricultural and civil engineers, range and soil conservationists and soil scientist.' Positions vacant are located in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada, Alaska and Hawaii. They are in the soil conservation service. Applications must be filed with the executive secretary, field board of civil service ex aminers, department of agricul ture, ,1218 SW Washington st., Portland. Additional informa tion and application forms may be obtained from Chester W. Silliman in the Medford post office. - SCH80L EXPANSION EYED Portland U.R) Twenty mil lion dollars should be spent on expansion of the Portland school district during the next five years, Superintendent J. W. Ed wards said yesterday. Make A Will! As Funeral Directors we know only too well how " much confusion, heartache,, and even financial distress can be creat-, ed by the lack of a will. Where only small amounts are in volved, it is even MORE important that both husbands and wives make a will. haven't made yours, don't CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse -Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass : FUNERAL DIRECTORS-
