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o O O O F&JR MEDfOSB 5MOO)f) MAIL TRIBUNE "Everybody In Southra OcfM Readj The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday hy 'StEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone 8-141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E. C FERGUSON Managing Editor UUC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HAkRV CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD , JEWETTo Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter ml Medfoid. Oregon, under Act of Marcn a. mai SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy JOe. Daily and Sunday One vear $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.o0 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Sunday Only One vear S3 50 By Cfcrrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoerux. Shadv Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: inn Daily and Sunday One year S1S.00 Daily and Sunday One month lua Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy AU Terms Cash in Advance fcrflclal Paper of the City of Medford Official Faper.gLi'"801' County TTnitpHPrtss FuU Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU aest-hbolTipdTv'co"mpany inc. Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louia Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITOtlAL assocVatiIn NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 1 ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and i0 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 13, 1945 (It was Thursday) Miss Nina Tuttle, Jackson county's Victory Queen candi date, loses out in finals of state competition in Portland. From Arthur Perry's Ye Bmudge Pot column: Many na tives have already flitted, and many more plan to hie to Cali fornia for the end of the year to relax and revel, and pay the sales tax they always vote i against at home. ' . 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 13, 1935 (It was Friday) A rate reduction saving $13, 700 annually to users announced by California Oregon Power company. o Southern Oregon Art associa tion to hold exhibit in Palm building on East Main st. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 13, 1925 (It was Sunday) J. R. Kline elected president of the Eagle Point Grange; Al fred Mittelsteadt chosen over seer. Jackson County Chamber of Commerce plans banquet hon oring members of Oregon Horti culture meeting here. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 13, 1915 (It was Monday) From Ashland and vicinity news: The Pompadour Mineral Springs Co., recently organized by Medford and Grants Pass parties and which is developing Lithia springs east of Ashland, derives its name from the Pom padour cliff in that locality. From Local and Personal col umn: Jack Dent, of the Wells Fargo local office, who recently went to Corvallis as relief agent for ten days, has returned and resumed his work in this city, What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the07? Copr. 1955, EditorisJ Research Repatf - 1. The AFL cr the CIO put more members into their new combined labor organization, or was it about 50-50? 2. A member of the Society of FViends is more often called what? 3. As net farm . income has been goinjown, average value of farm real estate has been go ing down or up, or staying about the same? 4. The Rose Bowl in Pasadena has a larger or smalle seating capacity than the Yankee Sta dium in N. Y., or about the same? 5. More boys and fir Is were graduated from colleges and uni versities this year than five years ago; right or wrong? 6. Which state produces the most cranberries for sale? 7. Formosa is about 10, 100, 500 or 1,000 miles from the Chi nese mainland? The Answers: 1 More AFL members. 2 Quaker. 3 Going up slightly. 4 Larger. 5 Wrong (1950 made an all-lime high). 6 Massachusetts. 7 About 100. Only two coaches have guided University of Illinois football teams since 1913, Bob Zuppke from 1913 to 1941 and Ray Eliot since 1941. 5iy fife How About Taxes? What about the veteran who doesn't want to go to school after his discharge? Is it fair to overburden him with taxes to pay for the education of his former buddy? No! Corvallis Gazette-Times. Why isn't it? provided he is a taxpayer. Should parents of children who decide to go to work instead of college,, be exempt from taxation for higher education? Or should those with offspring who quit at the Sth grade be similarly favored? . The above is only one of many points made against Senator Neuberger's program of social bet terment which if adopted would, it is claimed, '"bankrupt the nation in a day's time and put us all under Russia's thumb in a week." And this, adds the Gazette-Times for final em phasis, is not just "idle political talk." It may not be "idle" but it is rather foolish. Not that we approve of our junior Senator's program in all respects, or in many, but to claim that war veterans who are taxpayers should not bear their share of the burden of providing education for those of their buddies who want it, only because THEY themselves don't, is a somewhat bizarre idea, to say the least. As for Neuberger's proposal in the realm of so cial betterment, if passed in toto, bankrupting this "richest nation "on earth in 24 hours" and putting the USA under "Russia's thumb in a week," granting a generous allowance in exaggeration for the sake of emphasis, is surpassing the bounds of even extreme hyperbolic license. A S FOR taxes, so many of the alarmists who see bankruptcy just around the corner, appear to have forgotten that Uncle Sam went through one of the most severe depressions in world history without coming even close to it. Surely the old gentleman should be able to go through one of the greatest periods of prosperity, without serious results, regard less of what programs of social betterment may be offered, by the junior Senator from Oregon or anyone else. . There is another point often overlooked. Taxes are paid directly or indirectly by almost everyone. Taxes are included in rents, the high cost of living and the purchase of articles whether they carry a special excise tax or not. No one likes them but no one entirely escapes them. They can't. . Moreover the latest word they will not only be reduced next year, but the fed eral budget has an excellent chance of being bal anced. We realize the advantages of such an announce ment in a presidential year, but there is one thing we do hope will NOT happen, namely: We hope tax reductions will be ordered after the balancing of the budget not before. R.W.R. Change the Law If the GM train proves up to engineering hopes, it is " safe to predict that progressive Union Pacific will be among the first railroads to make purchases of the new passenger equipment. It is also safe to assume that the Southern Pacific will not. Ashland Tidings. The Tidings, of course, is correct. The SP is one of the most reactionary corpora tions in the world and will never spend a nickel for better public service until increased revenue is assur ed unless some vpower greater than itself compels it to do so. A ND where is that power? Not in the courts. At least we can find no one to predict the State Supreme Court will overrule the lower courts, in their interpretation that under the present law, the State Public Utility commissioners power to reg ulate the all-powerful SP is, to all intents and pur poses, non-existent. Some voters are convinced the Southern Pacific controls the state courts as well as the State Legis lature and any attempt to get a fair deal as far as rail service to Southern Oregon is concerned, might as well tie abandoned. 1X7E CAN'T believe that. We don't believe there is " any corruption involved. BUT we do believe if the state law f orming the Public Service commission er ffice were changed, and some teeth even one sturdy upper plate supplied, the SP, powerful, callous and money-mad as it is, would be forced to serve the people of the Rogue River valley and South ern Oregon as the provisions of its original franchise directed. 'T'HE'SP has the strongest single lobby machine in Salem no doubt. But if the people of Southern Oregon, and the people of the state sympathizing with our predicament would unite, on a concerted drive to change the state law and make it effective instead of a joke, the mighty billion dollar corpora tion, could, we feel sure to do the job it should hundred years to do it! Case Against Medford Man Is Dismissed Roseburg Charges against G. Francis Putnam of Medford were dismissed in circuit court here last week. He was charged with drawing a bank check without having sufficient funds in the bank. The dismissal grew out of a Oregon Supreme court decision in which a state law was de clared unconstitutional. Putnam had appealed the case to circuit court from justice court in Can-yonville. Tuesday, December 13, 1955 from Washington is that be brought to time, forced do, and it wouldn't take a R.W.R. Crater Music Concert Will Be Held Friday Central Point The annual winter concert by the Crater High school band, choir and Girls Glee club will be held in the high school auditorium at 8 p.m. Friday. Dec. 16. Norman Carothers is director of the three groups. The band has about 60 members, the choir about 45 members and the Girls Glee club about 30 members. Carothers said there will be no admission .charge, and the public has been invited. Matter of Fact bv GAS AND THE DEMOCRATS Washington There has been much self-congratulatory talk among Democrats about the mar velous party unity they have achieved since 1952. Bui there is one is sue which is likely to start one of the bit terest party .rows in years more bitter even than the offshore oil is Stewart AIsop sue which tore the party apart in the last Presi dential election. The row is ex pected to break out, morever, within two weeks of the opening of the next session of Congress. The Fulbright bill, which would free producers of natural gas from Federal price regula tion, is very near the top of the Senate calendar. The enemies of the Fulbright bill say that its passage would cost consum ers as much as $800,000,000 a year in hiked gas prices. And, accord Joseph Also ing to one expert estimate, pas sage of the bill could increase the value of proved gas reserves by a cool $20,000,000,000. ' Obviously, large interests are involved. The floor leader for the bill will be Sen. William Fulbright of Arkansas. But its most important proponent will be Majortiy Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas, who is prob ably the most powerful man in the Senate. Johnson, whose state is the biggest of the four major gas producing states, frankly intends to use all his power to secure passage of the bill. He has re marked flatly that he will work just as hard for the gas pro ducers as Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, for example, works for his dairy farmers. Until recently, it did not seem probable that Johnson would really have to work very hard. According to his own reported estimate as of September he could count on a sure majority of 58 votes. And just because passage of the Fulbright bill seemed so certain, it was thought it would meet only token op position. But now all is changed. Prev iously, the oil companies which have favored the bill and which probably constitute the most politically powerful of all busi ness groups, have met no opposi tion from within the business community. But now 40 utility companies from all over the the country, fearing that big in creases in gas prices would bad ly hurt their business, have banded together to fight the FuUbright bill. And, the utilities are also not without political influence. TUTOREOVER, the Johnson forc es have been warned to expect a fight. Johnson's Texas colleague, Price Daniel, recently remarked to Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois that he hoped the natural gas bill would go through quickly, without a bad fight. Douglas amiably replied that he thought the issue de manded "very careful examina tion." He has since let it be known that he has already reached page 70 on a speech he is writing on the issue, and that he expects to double that. Given the usual interruptions, a Senate speech of 140 pages will make a fine substitute for a , filibuster until a real one comes along. Moreover, there have been important breaks in the pro-Johnson ranks. Sens. Harry Byrd and Willis Robertson of Virginia, for ex ample, are now counted as B-oug- las allies. Other Southerners, like the very influential Richard Russell of Georgia, are reported wavering. And strong support from his fellow Southerners is essential to a victory for John son on the issue. Douglas, morever, counts con fidently on the votes of at least 15 Republicans from the gas consuming states in the Mid-West and North-East. All in all, it begins to seem that the Fulbright bill will be no pushover, al though the odds are no doubt still on its passing. And it is as certain as such things can be that there will be a big, angry fight within the Democratic party before it does pass. urtifLtrUN .Democrats are even muttering that, if John son and the Southerners insist on pushing the natural gas is sue, they may decide to push the civil rights issue. Party unity, they argue, is now a one-way street. This kind of muttering could lead to an explosion which would break the facade of Dem ocratic unity into smithereens. The Republicans are divided on the issue too, of course, but there is not nearly the same passion on either among Repub licans and a big' row on the WAVES BY CONTRACT Bridegport, Conn. (U.R) A CIO contract with Rilling-Der-metics Co. provides that women workers shall be given two days off a year to get permanent waves. Joe and Stewart AIsop issue would clearly hurt the Democrats far more. The hurt could be especially painful to Adlai Stevenson. As in the case of the offshore oil issue in 1952, Stevenson will also certainly have to declare himself on na tural gas. A stand against the gas interests might well lose him a lot of Southern and South western delegates. And Steven son needs those delegates badly, for the first-ballot win which he is clearly planning for next summer's convention. 1955, New Work Herald Tribune Inc. In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS Something for the left wing (government - run - everything) Democrats to think about: The right wing coalition gov ernment of Prime Minister Rob ert Menzies won a LANDSIDE victory in Australia's general elections. Two and a half hours after the counting , began, the right wing coalition appeared certain to win 71 seats out of a total of 122 in the all-powerful Aus tralian house of representatives. At that hour, the opposition Labor party had won only 47 seats, with four seats (districts) remaining doubtful. In the present house (which will be replaced by the new one) the right wing coalition party held only 64 seats against the Labor party's 57. A majority is 62 which left -the right wing coalition .a narrow majority of only three. In the new house,' chosen yes terday, they appear certain of a majority of at least nine. - IIHY IS the Australian elec " tion significant? In order to answer that ques tion, we'll have to xecite a little history. TN AN effort to lift itself by its bootstraps, the English-speaking-world began somewhat more than two decades ago to swing toward socialism. This swing began in Australia and New Zealand which, led by Labor parties, went all-out for government-run-everything. The swing reached Britain in 1945, when the Conservative party, headed by Winston Churchill, was thrown out and the British Labor party came into power. This swing was reflected in our country by the New Deal Fair Deal administrations which remained in power from 1932 until 1952. 17"EEP THIS in mind: This broad swing toward socialism goverment run every thing, make everybody rich and happy by the simnle process of passing a law BEGAN IN AUS TRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. The counter-swing that is to say, the swing AWAY from government-run-everything soc ialism STARTED IN AUS TRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND several years ago. Both countries threw out Labor governments and voted in more conservative government. fPHEN came the counter-swing in Britain.. Britain, too, threw out the socialist-leaning Labor party which, in its years in power had gone a long way toward social ism, embracing government ownership of steel, coal, trans portation, etc. Britain also following the lead of Australia and New Zeal and confirmed its swing swing against Labor party socialism at a succeeding election. Now Australia confirms again its verict that Labor party social ism isn't what it is cracked up to be. The circle is complete. That is why the general elec- CHARLES E. JONES Most of us are reluctant to face unpalatable truths. That sensitive spot on our molar is probably just a temporary irri tation; that twinge of pain in the region of the heart will no doubt go away if we give it time. Too many of us put oft seeing our dentist or consulting our physician for a periodic check-up. Similarly, possibility of early death is an unpleasant fact that we try hard not to think about. Yet only two cate gories of people can afford to disregard such a contingency these who have no dependents and those who have made, through life assurance, sufficient provision for their loved ones against the chance of untimely death. If you cannot conscien tiously claim to be in either of these categories drop me a line or telephone. CHARLES E. JONES, . Local Agent SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA Phone 2-9772 JpHji Looking ra am Ahead 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 diffeze n't 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 today: Luke 15: 1-10. News tions in Australia are interest ing. fFHAT raises this question: - What will happen in the United States? THE GOVERNMENT-run-every-i Hi n C miner n-f lta Tamrry-iir party is leaning obviously to ward MORE government-run- everything. There are signs that this .government-run-every thing wing of the Democratic party may be looking with pleased an ticipation at the idea of a coali tion with Big Labor to form a Labor party patterned after the Labor party program in Aus tralia, New Zealand and Britain. Will that happen? If so, will such a coalition WIN in next year's general elec tion in the U.S? T WOULDN'T know. But there are weak-kneed Republicans who are afraid of it. They want the GOP to lean more, strongly toward government-run-everything. Their mot to is: "Anything, Lord, to GET ELECTED." QNE OF our most intelligent political commentators is a man named Samuel Lubell. He is a political analyst, as well as political commentator. He says the swing in the United States of America is to ward moderate conservation. What has just happened in Aus tralia, when considered in its proper relation to all that has preceded ; it, seems to confirm Lubell's conclusion. 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He has been accused of try ing to organ ize a. terrorist organization in behalf of oust td Dictator Juan D. Peron. Ante Pave lich, the dur able leader of the once-dread- CUanes Mctann ea UUStaCul terrorists of Yugoslavia, denies the Argentine charge. He says he is just a man of peace now. If ever a man lived on borrow ed time, it is Pavelich. He has had death sentences '. hanging over him since 1929. . But Pavelich is living prosperously- in Buenos Aires. He says he is making progress as a building contractor. . Pavelich was in the newspaper headlines all over the world in 1934. On Oct. 49 of that year, King Alexander I of Yugoslavia was on a state visit to France. He was driving slowly through Mar seilles in an open car with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou beside him between lanes of cheering people. Gunman Killed King A gunman leaped onto the running board of the car and shot both men dead. Guards cut down the assassin with sabres and pistols. The enraged crowd finished him off. It soon developed that the as sassination had been organized by the Oustachis, a band of Yugoslavs pledged to win inde pendence as a separate state for the province as a separate state for the province of Croatia by any means, Pavelich was their leader. Pavelich turned up in Fascist Italy. It developed that he had been permitted to maintain fantastic terrorist cSmp in Hun gary, just across the frontier from Yugoslavia. Benito Mussolini refused to ex tradite Pavelich. The -crime which he had organized caused bitterness between France and Italy, Italy and Yugoslavia and Hungary and Yugoslavia. It helped materially to create: the OPEN WEDNESDAY TIL 9 P.M. LARKWOOD Stretch Sheers written guarantee for 3 months 2 Pair for Adri Phone 2-7169 atmosphere" which led to World War II. Pavelich at that time already was a veteran terrorist He had been sentenced to death in Yugo slavia for the assassination on June 20, 1928, of Croat moder ate leader Stephen Radich. But he escaped. Pavelich Disappeared After the outbreak of World War II, Mussolini and Adolf Hit-' ler made Pavelich the Quisling 'chief of state" of a Croat gov ernment. It is charged that, in- that capacity, he was responsible for the murder of 800,000 Serbs, Croats and Jews. Pavelich disappeared when Germany collapsed. He was in dicted as a major war criminal by the postwar Yugoslav govern-' ment of President Tito. It was reported that he had been exe cuted. But again he escaped. This time, Pavelich turned up in Argentina. Tito vainly sought . io gei uiciaior -eron to extra dite him. Tito said Pavelich had. set up a "government" in Bue nos Aires, still, seeking a sepa- rate Croat state. Stocky, grim-faced Pavelich may be now, as he says, just a man of peace. But he is the last of the old-fashioned terrorists who plagued the Balkans for generations. A lot of people would like to see him dead. MR. INSURANCE Fred Brennan We installed a $600 wall to wall carpet in a customer's home. Be fore the first payment came due, they spilled a bucket of paint over the rug it is ruined. We'll have to sue, and then probably won't collect. Is insurance available to cover us against such losses? . For Information Call MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY ; Phone 2-4940 . nenne s
