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( o o 0 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNI "Zverybod7 in Southern Oregon HCM1I 11W XTXttlX XXXUUllg FublUhed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-28 North Fir St. Phone 2-61U ROBERT W EUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager . C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor .XIXI AiiLX.;H jnH lXLjr XA.iti. HAKRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor a T u AnAMC CVnHaw VWtnr C-r.RA.LD LATH A M. Circuia Don MgT An Independant Newspaper Entered Aft second eUss matter at Medford. Oron. under Act of tircn . i' iUEfcCt-IVMO KATES tsy mail t.w. Dsil k auHdaT 0e JBt J12.00 Dail? aer i monthi 6.50 J3y n utiw . . . i" - Hi-. t EajzI. Pni nt Jaeftaooru. GtoU Mill. Phoenix. li4 Co" oju Xire. Talent Dail 4 SuaUr year $15. 00 Vli Cfftctal Papr if tk City f Medford OfllClal yaper i jGauH "'""J . United Press full Leased Wire " "member "of AUDIT bureau SfcOMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago De troit. San francisco La. AngeJe.. Seattle, Portland, ou """' Vancouver, o.v. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOdrATIION NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS X ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and (Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years aeo. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 21, 1945 (It was Friday) General George S. Patton dies iiOGwmany of injuries received In automobile accident with an army truck. FroiQ Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Today is gie shortest day of the year. The runt day officially ushers in Win ter, already here, and nearly over. SO YEARS AGjp " Dec. 21. 1935 (It was Saturday) Capt. EtKyard Whitehead, re gioiil airport engineer of bur o eau of aeronautics viting Med ford', says local) airport merits $300,000 requested for improve- $ients. John E. Doerr Jr., appointed Crater Lake National Park nat uralist; comes here from Haw o aii National park. o 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 21. 1925 - (It&ras Monday) Johnson county leads Oregon, the entire northwest in percent age of increase of farm land values per acre, according to item in publication Oregon Vot- Nicholas Murray Butler, presi dent of Columbia university, says public opinion is turning against pribijjon n this coun try . O 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 21, 1915 Hall taxi comjSfeny books 50 passengers for trip tp Crater Lake next summer, Indicating large (tendance there in 1916. From Local and Personal col umn: following boys and girls who have been attending ie University of Oregon at Eu gene returned home Saturday to spend the holidays with their parents: TEe Misses Ruth Law rence, Ver Olmstead, Ruth Wilson, Ruih Nye, Lucile Mess ner, Mildred JJrown, Gary Gar rett, Harold crrey, Doiph Phipps and Gege Gates. What's theQAnswer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Reporfe 1. Dec. 25 is given as the day of birth of the Saviour in the Old Testament or New Testa ment, or in neither but is deduc edom other events. 2. Population increased more over the last five yers in the EaS, South, Middle West or West? 4. Which two of these married while President: Lincoln, Grant, Cleveland, T. Roosevelt, Wilson, Harding? 5. The Rockne car, long dis continued, was made by Gen eral Motors, Stuebaker, Ford, Chrysler or Hudson? 6. Georgia will have more or fewer votes than Maine in the 156 Republican convention, or trie same number? ' 7. Sherman Adams, chief per sonal Side to President Eisen hower" used to be governor of a New England, Southeastern, Southwestern, Middle West or Western state? The aiurwers: 1. In neither, is deduced from other events. 2. .The West. 3. About 60 per cent. 4. Cleveland and Wilson. 5. Stu debaker. 6. More. 7. New Eng land (New Hampshire). MAIL TRIBUNE The "Hiroshima Maidens " One of the more heart - incidents arising out of sode of the so-called ' Hiroshima Maidens." These girls, a couple among the victims of the ploded over Hiroshima, virtually bringing the Pacific phase of the war to a close. All were burned ed. Not only were they so hold jobs; even worse, getting husbands. THEIR plight became a small group of men, oi the baturday Keview, about it. It was a rather eventually money was raised, red tape cut through, and the young women were brought to New York, where they are now undergoing plastic surgery. It may be impossible to restore their faces to their original state, but any improvement, in some cases, means the difference between a secluded life of invalidism and a chance for a reasonably normal existence. DEPORTS indicate that the "maidens" have been delighted and well-nigh overwhelmed both with the. fact of their being here hospitality which has been hospital and in homes. From the bloody foolishness of war, it is gratify ing, particularly at unristmas time, to imd one in cident of good arising. E.A. Sport or Is wrestling a sport? The answer depends is referred to. Wrestling, as a sport, the sense that it is the practice of subduing an op ponent without the use of Wrestling, as a show, and has received its greatest boost since the advent of television, which has made millions of fans. TN THE second aspect, A ship has become dominant, and the skilled sport possible in wrestling has become subordinate to the dramatic, the bizarre, sometimes the ridiculous. ' This has permitted the popularity of such indi viduals as "Gorgeous George," "The French Angel," "Man Mountain Dean," and others, including midgets and women. Most members of their avid audiences know that wrestlers' ring personalities and their real personal ities do not necessarily have anything in common. But, as in a Greek play, the convention is allowed as a substitute for reality, and the mask is taken at face value. A Sa' result the contest typed "good vs. evil" best-man-win" idea subordinated or not present at all. Thia poses a problem for serious-minded public servants, such as athletic commissioners and state legislators. One California assemblyman declares that "wrest ling has reached such a deplorable state that it should be removed from the jurisdiction of the (state ath letic) commission and that no one in the state should have anything to do with it." A commissioner replies, "Sure, wrestling is a show, an exhibition. In fact, if you had true, purely scientific wrestling in this state, it would be the quickest way to kill wrestling I know." H E LIKENED it to western movies, adding: The people seem to enjoy watching the villain prevail for the first 23 minutes and the hero come through in the final three minutes. People do seem to enjoy it, for some reason we're unable to fathom, even though the semblance to. an athletic contest grows dimmer and dimmer as time goes on, and the resemblance to a spectacle greater and greater. But it's all a matter of taste, we suppose. And if people like this sort of thing we'd be the last to sug gest that they be prevented from watching it. But it would be a bit more honest to stop billing the events as pure and simple athletic contests. E.A. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Pittsburgh A striking worker of the Westinghouse Electric Corp. on receiving a S100 interest-free company loan: "There won't be much left over for toys after I buy the kids clothes and shoes." ; Washington Joseph Donohue, Washington attorney, on limit ing the number of primaries Sen. Estes Kefauver (D.-Tenn.) will enter: "I don't want to kill the senator. I want to elect him." Amman, Jordan Hazzah Majali, resigned premier of Jordan, on Jordanian membership in the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact: "I am still an ardent believer that joining the Baghdad Pact is the surest way for maintaining Jordan's territorial integrity." Vienna, Ga. Sen. Walter F. George on his meeting the almost certain challenge of young Herman Talmadge for the veteran sena tor's seat: "If my friends in Georgia desire to return me to the Senate next year. I hope it will be my last term." Near the Western Front in Korea Pf c. Fritz Moeller on Christ mas for 30 orphans, most of them blind, whom he adopted when he found them: living in a tent: "We haven't planned anything for Christmas. But at least they will be warm." New York An official of a bank which sold Nashua for a rec ord $1,251,000 on its promise to buy a saddle horse for Karen Ann McGuire, Valhalla, N.Y., who tried to buy the champion race horse with her S24. 03 savings: "We decided her bid should not be in vain." Wednesday. December 21, 1953 wanning if not inspiring World War II is the epi of dozen of them, were atomic bomb which ex devastating the city and terribly, disfigunngly burn injured that they could not they stood little ' chance of known in this country, and headed by Norman Cousins decided to do something long and tedious fight, but for surgery, and with the extended to them in the Show? Or. is it a "show?" on what phase of the art is as old as mankind, in weapons or clenched fists. is of more recent origin, the element of showman- often -becomes the stereo theme, with the "may-the- Matter of Fact THE' POLITICAL REGENCY Washington Who compose the political Regency? President Eisenhower was never very politically in clined a n y way, and now he is further insulated from politics by his iUness. Who then has charge of his Admin istra tion's political strategy? Sen. W i 1 1 i a m Knowl- Joseph Alsao land and other like-minded Re publicans are constantly saying that "they" are going to be dis appointed, if "they" think they can control the Republican par ty's final choice by delaying the announcement of the President's decision about running again. But who on earth are "they?" The answer seems to be that "they" are a somewhat modified continuation of the group of men who largely planned and directed the P r e s i dent's 1 9 5 2 cam paigns for the nomina t i o n and the elec tion. Even in 1952, these men kept as much as possible in the b a c k- Stewart Alsop ground, tactfully calling them selves the "initial planning com mittee, as though to indicate the existence of some actually non existant higher body that did the final planning. To others, they were known as "the Com modore group," because they us ually met at the Commodore Hotel in New York City. THE original members were Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, Herbert Brownell and Thomas E. Stephens, who represented New York's huge convention . delegation plus the skill that had twice won Dewey the Republican nomination: Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, standing for the Massachusetts convention vote; Sen.' James Duff, bringing Pennsylvania to the combina tion; Sen. Frank Carlson and Harry Darby, speaking for Eis enhower's native Kansas; former National committeeman Barak T. Mattingly, with his power in Missouri; and General Lucius D. Clay, who served as the in timate liaison with Eisetihower. The positions of almost all these men have altered since 1952. Dewey, for instance, is no longer Governor, although he still controls the great bulk of the New York delegates. At least two members of the group, Sen. Carlson and his fellow-Kansan, JJarby, have now become de tached from it. Two very import ant additions have been made, in tne persons of the President's Chief of Staff, Gov. Sherman Adams, and the Chairman of the Republican National Committee. LenHall. "OUT these men are "they." Their relationship, no doubt, is not quite so well defined now as it was during the ten months before the President's election and inauguration, when they held their meetings formally and regularly, at weekly intervals. Their power, too, is probably somewhat less than the power of the original group, whose mem bers wholly dominated the com mittee named by the newly nominated President to pick his Vice-Presidential running-mate. All the same, the old Commo dore group has now been in formally re-constituted, with the changes above-indicated; and if anyone is now in charge of White House political strategy, then they are in charge. Moreover, Sen. Knowland and the other Republicans who do not like the idea of the President choosing his successor if he de cides not to run himself, are al together right about what "they" are planning. The Regency's whole effort, at present, is to set up the Republican convention in a way that will insure President Eisenhower and his advisors of iron control, whether or no the President is willing to run. This task of course, had al ready been undertaken, although in a somewhat less urgent man ner, even before the President's illness. The main agent on the job was Thomas E. Stephens, whose return to law practice from his post as Eisenhower's ap pointment secretary by no means divorced him from political ac tivity. Stephens, apparently, is still the main traveller and tele phoner of the political Regency. THE task is made easier, very obviously, by deferring the 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 association, the ' Med ford Ministerial association and the National Council of Church Women. Following are the passages recommended for today: Isaiah 9:2-7. By Joe end Stewart Alsop announcement of the President's intentions. All sorts of Republi can hopefuls might otherwise be fighting it out in New Hamp shire, for instance. Instead, most of the New Hampshire delega tion will be composed of those like Governor Dwinell, whom the members of the political Regency have inspired to stand as Eisenhower delegates. Senator Bridges may have to be allowed to name his fair share .of the New Hampshire delegation, but the rest will be responsive to the White House and the Regency, rather than pledged to any one ambitious candidate. Again, the Eisenhower delega tion that is forming in Wisconsin will also be responsive to the White House and the Regency, even if the President finally de cides not to run. And as long as the President's decision is open and the hope that he will run is stUl being held out, the embit tered Tom Coleman and other Wisconsin Eisenhower - haters will not find it easy to elect a delegation of their own. The Regency, in short, is work ing well. The question remains whether it will continue to work well if the President's final de cision is to retire from office. The difficulty that may arise at that point is suggested by the rule that was adopted when the Commodore group had to choose the Vice Presidential nominee in 1952. It was a simple rule, that anyone who wanted the job himself had to leave the room. (Copyright 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Urge Bar Closure To the Editor: We would very much appreciate your coopera tion in publishing a Resolution, pertinent to the Christmas sea son, which was passed .at the 14th annual state convention of the Oregon Licensed Beverage association. Our association, numerically the largest retail trade organiza tion in Oregon, "Recommends that taverns and cocktail bars in Oregon close their doors on Christmas Eve so as to encourage their employees and patrons to spend the evening with their families." Although we have already notified all of our members of this resolution by special bul letin, there are hundreds of non member tavern and cocktail bar operators in Oregon to whom we believe this message should be vividly brought home. Your as sistance in publishing our appeal would help substantially in the successfull promotion of a worthwhile project. ' The Oregon Licensed Bever age association has made this same appeal every year for sev eral years. We believe we are gaining momentum in this work, just as we are in our state wide anti-polio drive, our traffic safety program and other con tinuing projects of the associa tion. Our special thanks to you for whatever cooperation you can give us in helping to publicize our Christmas Eve voluntary closing appeal to the taverns and cocktail bars of Oregon. Gene W. Rossman Secretary-Manager Oregon Licensed Beverage Association James Wilson of Pennsylvania, a signer of the Declaration of In dependence, was one of the first Associate Justices of the U. S. ' t(CCJ& "i&eer . , a lilting Iragrance In a Grecian crystal urn. Made in France for yo by Ckrwtian Dior. $3. to $100. plus tax. Eau de Toilette $3.50 to $15.00 plus tax. Ph0S!8 AlLh ..... J!PRESCPIPTIONS Free drug centre Delivery iy Mid-East's Tangled Rivalries Brewina Newest Crisis in Area Bv CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Young King Hussein's trouble over his desire to take Jordan into the Baghdad aUiance is just another of the crises that have long be set the Arab countries. Eight Arab nations are supposed to be united in the Arab league. When that alliance was formed on cuanes Maauo March 22, 1945 it seemed to be a step toward the years-long dream of pan Arabism, which would unite 50 million people. Actually the Arab countries are torn by rivalries which have prevented any real coop eration. The Arab league members are Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, efauver To Enter Wisconsin Primary; Donohue Selected Washington U.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) an nounced yesterday that he will enter Wisconsin's presidential primary next April 3. . Kefauver previously had .an nounced he would enter the Cal if ornia ant New Hampshire pres idential, primaries. The Califor nia contest will put him against Adlai E. Stevenson. i Donohue Named Chairman . Kefauver told a news confer ence in his new campaign head quarters that . final decisions have not been reached yet on other state primaries.. Kefauver also announced the appointment of several key members of his Campaign Com mittee including F. Joseph Donohue as general campaign chairman. Donohue, a Washing ton attorney, was chairman of the District of Columbia Board of Commissions under President Truman. Another Truman aide, former Attorney General J. Howard Mc Grath, was named by Kefauver as chairman of the campaign Executive and Advisory Com mittee. No Challenge Hurled Asked if he wanted to chal- Dr. William Thompson Reelected Director Dr. William Thompson of Med ford was reelected director for three years at a recent meeting of the Vision Conservation Insti tute of the Northwest in Port land. The institute is composed of 250 professional men from Oregon, Idaho and Washington. Members authorized a study of adult visual problems during 1956, with more than 200 mem bers participating. The project will include analysis of more than 25,000 individual case his tories, Dr. Walter Hart of Tacoma, Wash., managing di rector, said. - UP MAN NAMED New York (U.R) Appoint ment of William C. Payette as assistant general news manager of United Press was announced today. - STAMPS We Give NORTHERN Double Stamps en Prescriptions OPEN WEEKDAYS 8:30 a.m. to 1 1 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Lebanon, Jordan, Yeman and Libya. Both Egypt and Saudi Arabia would like tp be dominant in the Arab world. King Saud of Saudi Arabia has inherited from his father, Ibn Saud, a feud with Jordan and Iraq. Opposes Unification Saud, like his father, is bit terly opposed to a recurrent pro posal for a "greater Syria" which would unite the blood-related royal houses of Jordan and Iraq with Syria. Syria wants- no part of any such union. Lebanon, though a member of the Arab league, does not want to be dominated by it and espe cially it does not want to be drawn into a war with Israel. The so-called Baghdad Pact was a punishing blow to Arab unity, if a blow were needed. This treaty for Middle East ern defense against Communist agreement was signed Feb. 26 last between Turkey and Iraq. Egypt and Saudi Arabia were lenge Stevenson to enter Wiscon sin, Kefauver replied that he is "just going to enter the pri maries and. others can do what they want." He was asked a series of ques tions about other state nrimaries on which he said no final de cision has been reached. In response to questions he mentioned Nebraska and Ore gon specifically as states still on hie' nnrWirlprl list. He said no state primaries have been ruled out yet. FOR LAST-MINUTE SHOPPERS LASTING . Regular NOW GIFTS! Price ONLY . '.T-MI95 3195 RADIANT 1 1195 40x40 Screen Id II cImL outt 24" 1995 CAMERAOUTFIT BELL & HOWELL MOVIE ftAQC OUTFIT with Free Case FLOODLIFT QQ QQ REFLECTORS CLAMP-ON UNITS QIS -AQ For Flood Lights " J "V BAR LIGHT UNITS FOR MOVIES 4 Light ...8.95 ' 2 Light 4.95 3 A LARGE SELECTION OF Gadget Bags Tripods Exposure Meters . Still and Movie Camera Accessories GIFTS ANY PHOTO FAN Would Appreciate DONT FORGET Flash Bulbs and Film For Holiday Snapshots 120 EAST MAIN OPEN EVENINGS TIL bitterly angry over this develop ment. It hit at their own ambi tion for Arab leadership and it put Turkey, the most powerful of Middle Eastern nations, into an influential position. Alliance Grows Since then Pakistan, Iran and Great Britain have joined the alliance and the United States has associated 'itself with it. Now Jordan is involved in a serious internal crisis because King Hussein wants his country to enter it. In doing that, Hussein would be following the lead of his cousin King Faisal of Iraq. "Anti-colonialisms" might sus pect that Britain has played a part in this situation. Both Hussein and Faisal at tended Harrow, the famous Eng lish "public" school which means it is highly private that numbers Winston Churchill among, its more illustrious pu pils. Iraq has long been allied with Britain, and Jordan's Arab le gion, the most powerful fight ing force in the Arab world, is commanded by British General Glubb Pasha, who is John Bagot Glubb. He has been in Jordan since 1926, after fighting there in World War I, and assumed command of the legion in 1939. As it happens, the Baghdad Pact has become the strong al liance which the Arab league was supposed to be. Chiloquin Man Badly Slashed With Bottle Klamath Falls '(U.R) A 59-year-old Chiloquin man' was patched up with 58 stitches here O after he was found unconscious and bleeding in a ranchhouse at Chiloquin junction Monday night. Sheriff Murray Britton said the victim, Roland Lalo, had ap parently been slashed numerous times with a broken bottle. THRIFTY PHOTOGRAPHS PHONE 2-6069 9 TIL CHRISTMAS o o
