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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDJOtD (OmiGOH) - Trerybody In Southern Oracon Beada The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday bj MUDFORD PRINTING CO. J7-29 North Fir St. o Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor RB GREY Advertising Manager r rt-Br.IisnJ Mannaine Editor SIC AIXEN JR.. City Editor al-ov ruTDM A W Tlamnh Editor itruion iitwftT Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor EARL H. ADAMS, Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM Circulation Mgr. An Indecendent Newspaper Intid as second class matter at MeoTSd. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MaU In Advance: Per copy 10c. D!ly and Sunday One year S12.00 DaUy and Sunday Six months 6.50 . Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One vear 3J0 By Carrier In Advance Medforrt. Ashland. Central Point :.,f'& Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Snady Cove' Rojrue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year 15 00 Daily and Sunday One month ja Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medlord Official Paper of Jackson County TTnitri Prtss FuU Leased Wire ' MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU ATEST HOLL&AVWMP-ANY INC Off I- New Vorl, Obf- SaW PortVani S lSS. Atlanta. Vancouver, ax. NATIONAL E0ITOI1AL ASSOOIATllON U U NEWSPAPER PUBLISH! ASSOCIATION a Flight o' Time Medford aW Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 22. 1945 (It was Saturday) Santa Claus will arrive in Medford on the 6:55 p.m. South ern Pacific train, Junior Cham ber of Commerce announces. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Jne com ing year will see the end of many federal agencies desig nated by the alphabet The al phabet did yeoman servge, and sure earned a rest. 2- 80 YEARS AGO Dee. 22. 1935 n (It wai Sunday) Medford Mayor George W. Porter in Portland today con fering on possibilities of airport improvements. Sam Jennings elected presi dent of Rogt Snowmen; Kenneih Denman chosen vice president and Harold L. Larson secretary-treasurer. 90 YEARS AGO Dec 22, 1925 (It wag Tuesday) The Crater "Hoot Owl" stege radio show over KXO, nsw tt tion here. Examinations reveal no eeses of diphtheria among tttchers or students at Roosevtlt cnool. 40 YEARS AGO 'Doc. 22. 1315 (It wa WSnMfity) Medford cit eeufteil vottt to increase City AttMftey MeCabe's salary from fSO t 73 Month, because of litisjttio o eollect deliqijent assetsntnt. From Local 08 Ptsientl col umn: Olive RebekaS lodge No. 28 held its regular monthly- so cial last night, at which a ban quet was enjoyed. The program rendered was unusually excel lent, "Visiting members in con siderable number were present. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cbpr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. U.S. corporations as a whole are paying out this year in divi dends about (a) 35, (b) 50, (c) 65 or (d)(-j!0To oPtheir profits after taxes? 2. Vice-President Nixon while in Congress had a voting Record on domestic issues that was largely, liberal, conservative or about 50-50? 3. The Vatican has or hasn't excommunicated Roman Catho lic church members who volun tarily join the Communist party? 4. The average girl baby born in The U.S. today will live about 2 years less (Jhan the average boy baby, or about (a) 2, (b) 4, or (c3 6 yeafs longer? 5. The Democratic convention of 1956 will name its presiden tial nominee by majority vote, or will he ngpd two-thirds? 6. With the number of farm ers decreasing, the average size of U. S. farms has also been de creasing, staying about the same, or increasing? 7. Nicosia is the capital of a world trouble spot: Morocco, Formosa. Cyprus, Algeria or Kashmir? The Answers: 1: About 50 this year. 2. Largely conserva tive. 3. Has. 4. About I years longer. 5. Majority vole. 8. In creasing. 7. Cyprus. The 1950 center of population in the U.S. was located eight miles northwest of Olney in Richland county, Illinois.0 1)1 KAIL TRIBUNE Who Wants a White Xmas? It .was ok in the good old days of horse-drawn bob-sleds, high felt boots and red underwear, but in this motor driven age and sport shorts we prefer what we are going to have a wet one, VERY wet. To share that preference one has only to look at the forest instead "of the trees, in other words get a proper perspective. As this is written the rain is still coming down in sheets ; it is almost as" dark as mid-night, the planes are grounded, mails delayed, cars mired and few are the feet that are not wet. But look at the bright green grass out the window, the rich-green meadows and the winter-wheat stretch ing up the hillside, like a freshly laid green carpet. Not so bad is it? Even more important look at what they are having climatically elsewhere. To the north, snow and ice; to the south floods and winds, wind strong enough to overturn houses and unroof barns near San Francisco ; to the east the mercury below zero, and a letter just received from Chicago mentions casually, that the radiators in the writer's bed room "froze during the night." As for the west and the improperly named "Pacif ic," out there the day and night are not fit for man or beast, and in comparison the Rogue River Valley rates as a safe little harbor in the protective hills, as snug and secure -a nest as any storm-tossed sailor could wish. IT MUST be admitted that if a fall in the mercury of some 30 degrees should be dished out by the weather-man at the airport we would have that dream of the barber-shop quartet and sentimental song writ ers "A White Christmas" but we are grateful to the Chief Operator who regulates such things for re sisting their lyrical pleas. So-o-o . . . Give us what we have, a Wet Christmas, and in the meantime don't forget that a wet winter in South ern Oregon always mean a bumper crop in the Spring and summer bumper prices too, particularly if the politicians campaigning for the "Ins" can be believed. -"Rf.V.Ri. Name Calling, No Argument We wish with the New Year approaching the Morse-haters would turn over a new leaf, and instead of calling our Senior Senator names would answer a few of his arguments. Every week Senator Morse makes a broadcast to the people of this state, and whether one agrees with what he says or doesn't, no one can question that he has plenty to say of a direct He doesn t indulge m personalities or name-caning, but he does make definite charges of a serious nature against the Republican party and its leaders and as far as we have observed seldom fails to support his charges with a recital of the record and salient facts. IT should be easy enough f gr those who call him turn coat, traitor, double crosser, cheap demagogue, etc., etc., to drop the smear tactic, for an interval, at least LONG enough to present some facts and figures to sustain their charges instead of just calling the Sen ator more names and making no effort to meet the issues raised and refute the charges made. W1 E believe some evidence to sustain the term "trai tor" as applied to Senator Morse because he changed his registration from one party to another would be particularly welcome, to all fairminded and unprejudiced voters. For there is so much evidence from the time of Abraham Lincoln to the present day, that no such accusation is justified, or is accepted by the Ameri can people. , If there were any other popular reaction not only our political history of the past, but the political rec ord of today would make this a country packed to overflowing, with turn-coats, renegades and traitors. Over in California, for example, thousands of Re publicans have changed their registration to Demo cratic, and thousands of Democrats today vote Re publican, not now and then but at every election, the chief reason being their political preferences have changed, and they feel they have a perfect right as free Americans to vote their sincere political beliefs and convictions, at any given time, regardless of the party-label. "VXELL if they, as good citizens have that right, why hasn't Senator Morse? Does holding office change 'the moral obligation of our Senators? If the action constitutes such a heinous crime, why do the leaders of the Republican party welcome with loud cheers and open arms, the Democratic big wigs like Governor Shivers of Texas and Governor Byrnes of South Carolina who followed Senator Morse's example, only with reverse English and left their parties? Ho-hum, How silly can we get? "IIE have no quarrel with those who don't like Sen- ator Morse's record or his. principles, they have that right, but we do have a quarrel with those who pay no attention to his record or his principles or what he says, but disregard both, and merely indulge in an orgy of hate and smear, in a frenzied effort to bring about his defeat. . After all, calling names isn't argument. R.W.R. Printing Press Stolen From A printing press weighing 700 pounds was stolen from the front lawn of the J. W. Peacock resi dence, South Third st., Jackson ville, some time last week end, according to Jacksonville Chief Thursday. December 22, 1955 and concrete nature. Jacksonville of Police Frank W. Carter. The press, valued at $150, was temporarily placed on the lawn while construction work on Pea cock's house was being com pleted. ..... Meeting of Monday Sure to be Big By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Monday's meeting of the So viet Russian parliament in Mos cow is pretty sure to be a big story. Diplomats all over the world will be watch ing it closely. The meeting could bring some import ant pronounce ment of Krem lin foreign pol icy. Presumab 1 y any such pro cnaries McCann nouncement would come from Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin or Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov. The 1956 budget which is to be approved will show whether the Kremlin feels whether the world outlook calls for increased or reduced spending on armaments. The meeting could clear up the positions of Molotov, one of the last of the "Old Bolsheviks," and Georgi M. Malenkov, one of the new top-level men. Experts in various fields in Western governments will ana lyze everything that is said and done. They will try to read be tween the lines of the speeches on foreign affairs. They will try to find clues to the Russian agri cultural situation. Big Four Report . Molotov is likely to report on the meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers which was held in Geneva, Switzerland, in Octo ber and November. United Press Moscow dis patches say that, regarding that meeting, the Kremlin's newspa per mouthpieces refuse to con cede that the "Geneva" spirit of cooperation is dead. It is pretty certain that either Premier Bulganin or Communist Party leader Nikita S. Khrush chev will report on the tour they have just made of India, Burma and Afghanistan. Moscow dispatches say . also that the parliament meeting probably will show, by its tone, that the post-Stalin system of collective leadership is working weU. As regards Molotov, it has been reported in European cap itals for some months that he is on his way out as foreign minis ter. Molotov is 65. That is not aged for a foreign minister, and Mol otov has been called the clever est diplomat in circulation. But he has been under -great strain for many years in posts of high responsibility. Might Want Newcomer Further, if the Kremlin hap pened to plan any big turn in its foreign policy, it might want to get a new man in its foreign min istry to handle it. If Molotov re signed, now or later, the an nouncement might come at a parliament meeting. . As regards Malenkov, it was a world sensation when he re signed as premier. His resigna tion was announced at a meeting Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a Den name or initial for publication is Dermis rible. 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. Holiday Advice To the Editor: All groups in- terested in highway safety look toward the coming Christmas' New Year holidays more with apprehension than with joyous anticipation. This is because they are more acutely aware than the general public of the thread of tragedy woven through the merrymaking. i-iast year, nearly 700 of us died in motor vehicle accidents over the holiday period. These deaths can be blamed in large part on the unfitness of the driv ers or of pedestrians involved. In some cases, fatigue was a fac tor because of the extremely late hours of holiday parties; in many, overindulgence was to blame. The net result was the same in either case: tragedy. The Greater New York Safety Council would like to call to the attention of your readers some advice for the holidays that can save lives: (1) Where there is any ques tion ot over-iatigue or over indulgence, don't drive. Ride a bus, a cab, with a friend or get a fit substitute to drive your car. But don't under any circum stances get behind the wheel if there is any doubt about being able to handle all traffic situa tions. (2) No matter how fit you feel after a holiday party, have a cup of coffee or other stimulating non-alcoholic beverage before motoring home. Coffee .- is an "alertness" beverage and when taken as "One for the Road" will help you drive more safely. (3) Holiday hosts and hostesses have a responsibility to their guests. It is the duty of those who give parties to use whatever stratagems are necessary to pre vent unfit guests from driving off to a possible accident. Paul F. Strieker Executive Vice-President Greater New York Safety Council, Inc. New York, N.Y. Soviet Parliament of the parliament the Supreme Soviet as it is called last Feb ruary. There have been numerous re ports that Malenkov might be purged. But Moscow dispatches emphasize that he remains one of the 11 top-level men who are running Russia. Malenkov was demoted "to the level of an ordinary deputy pre Matter of Fact by WHAT IKE SAYS ABOUT IT j Washington President Eis enhower's own views on the subject are the element most conspiculously, missing from all the endless, in evitable specu lation about whether he will run again and when he will make up his mind about it. Ac c o r d- ing to the official- line, of course, no one can know the Joseph Also the President's views about an other term because he has never discussed politics since the be ginning of his illness. But this is obvious nonsense.. He had not only reviewed the political problems cre ated by his illness with members of his own staff, as was inevitable. He has also discussed his own future, perhaps even Stewart Also? more frankly with a number of his personal friends. But these talks have produced few echoes, because the President himself does not yet know the answer to the ques tion everyone wants to have answered. To one intimate wartime as sociate, for instance, Eisenhow er recently compared the decis ion he must eventually make to his great .wartime decision on the Normandy landing. The staff studies that led to the choice of Omaha and Utah beaches as the place and June 6, 1944, as the day, began much more than a year before the Normandy landing was finally ordered. Every kind of factor, known and unknown, had to be examined and weighed before the decision would be taken. Making the decision premature ly would have been fatal folly. TN THE same manner, Eisen- hower went on, he must now examine and weigh ail sorts of factors, among which his own ability to stand the strain of the Presidency is both the most significant and as yet the least predictable. Making his decision prema turely, even worrying about the decision until all the relevant facts are available, would again be fatal folly. So he has, in effect, done his best to file his great problem away for the present at the back of his mind, with the ticket on it, "to be considered later." From this comparison of Eis enhower's, only one positive fact emerges. His mind is def initely open about running again. Something almost like another positive fact also em erges from a second aspect of President's current political talk, as reported by those closest to him. He is both proud and touchy proud of his achievement in the White House and especially touchy about attacks on that achievement. His greatest bit terness is reportedly reserved for Democratic leaders who were once his friends and are now his critics, which explains his recent remark to a group of visiting Congressmen that New York Governor Averell Harriman was a "Park Avenue Truman." That wrapped up two sharp dislikes in one phrase. AS every political observer knows, the conviction that the victory of the other side will be a national disaster is only a very short step away from the conviction . of one's own indispensability. The Pres ident does not regard a Demo cratic victory as the only pos sible disaster, either. He is al most equally fearful that the power of the Republican extre mists will be revived. His highest ambition, he has repeatedly said, has been to re make the Republican party as a moderate-conservative party. He has added, too, that this long process of remaking his Party in his own image is very long and time-consuming. He does not think the job is finish ed yet. He does not believe, in fact, that it can be finished with out another four years of moderate-conservative Republican con trol of the White House. All this appears to confirm the judgment of the majority of those who know the President wen, that on balance he would like to run again if he really feels able to do so. Whether Story mier when he resigned. A Mos cow 'radio broadcast referred to him on Dec. 5 as a first deputy premier. There was no doubt about the broadcast. But the So viet press office blandly denied next day that the broadcast ever had been made. .The parliament meeting could give an indication whether he really is on his way up again. Joe and Stewart Alsop he will feel able to run is much more of a question, however than the doctors' reports sug gest. It will not be enough for him just to be a well man again. He will have to recover all his former vigor, for the Presidency demands no less. FOR instance, the cause of the Ub . . ....... interrupted his work schedule was the long meeting of the National Security Council at Camp David. The main ques tion before the meeting was the scope and intensity of next year's American cold war effort, as it would be reflected in the budget. The issue was grave and opin ion was divided. The discussion continued through luncheon and was resumed in an almost un precedented afternoon session of the NSC. When the President at length made the decision only he could make, he was deeply tired, not so much by the long debate as by the weight of his own responsibility. That is what he must be ready to carry and none can foretell, as yet, wheth er he will be able to do so. Hence it is not surprising that the political regency the Presi dent has established is working to set up a Republican conven tion he can surely control, whether he decides to run or no. While deferring his decision, the President is thus insuring his own freedom of choice. (C) 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Eden May Renege In Invitation To Russian Leaders London (U.R) Prime Minis ter Anthony Eden is seriously considering reneging on his in vitation to the Soviet Union's top two leaders to visit Britain next spring, informed sources said today. . Britain began cooling off on the invitation when Soviet Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin and Com munist party boss Nikita Khrushchecv made a series of vitriolic anti-Western speeches during their Southeast Asia tour. Throughout the month -long visit the Soviet leaders spoke long and often of "colonialism" and told the Burmese .and In dians that Britain was the worst offender. Both Burma and India were once controlled by Britain but were granted independence. Accusations Repeated The two roving Russians re turned to Moscow yesterday from the tour and began repeat ing the harsh accusations the moment they stepped off the plane. The attacks were anti American, too, but chiefly di rected against "Britaish colonial ism." Many British newspapers have demanded openly that the gov ernment cancel the Khrushchev Bulganin visit, and an official government spokesman accused both the Soviet leaders of "hy pocrisy" during their, frequent anti-Western blasts. Lord Reeding, minister ' of state for foreign affairs, told the House of Lords yesterday the invitation to the Russians still stands, but informed sources said Eden was seeking some diplomatic way of calling it off. Cullerjo Pass Up Dividend Payment Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) Cutter Laboratories announced last night it will not pay a regular quarterly - dividend because of "terrific losses" in the manu facture of Salk anti-polio vac cine. Cutter vaccine was ordered removed from the market by the government after 169 polio cases were directly or indirectly traced to injections of the Cutter product. A four-month investigation by the Public Health Service indi cated that fault for the virulent reaction was with original safety tests set up by the federal gov ernment rather than on Cutter production. Dr. Robert K. Cutter, presi dent of the laboratories, said the firm lost its entire invest ment in research and produc tion of the serum because of the polio outbreaks. Cutter said sale of . other products was not affected by the polio outbreaks. More than 20,000,000 acres of U. S. land are currently under lease for the exploration of oil deposits. Today and By Walter THE NATO GAP The NATO Council which met in Paris last week wound up its labors with a most uncommuni cative communique. Yet we know that there is a very wide gap a large theoretical de ficit of mili tary power between what the top mili tary planners in NATO say is necessary to the military defense of Eu rope and what Walter Lippman m f act the NATO governments are provid ing. How are we to explain what we are witnessing, that this mili tary deficit does not seem to be worrying anybody in high place very much? Mr. Dulles came home from Paris feeling very cheerful. The President had just said, as he turned on the lights for the Washington Christmas tree, that the "promise for the future" is "brighter" than "any we have known in recent years." TROM the face of the record important difference in the way the military planners in NATO and the civilians at the heads of the governments judge the prob lem of European defense. The military are asking-for a very great deal more than the civil ians are willing to provide. As the military plans drawn up by Gen. Gruenther and his SHAPE staff have been 'costed," says "The London Economist," a journal which is in a position to know, "the size of the gap between what the NATO coun tries are now spending on de fense and what they would have to spend if the new strategy were to be fully developed, has as sumed frightening dimensions.' The new strategy is the one based on the use of atomic and thermo-nuclear weapons. "It is probably no exaggeration to say that if the generals could have all the tactical atomic weapons, new air fields and warning sys tems, and the better equipped, more mobile and self-sufficient divisions which their new strat egy requires, defense budgets would have to be almost doubled." TRACED with this enormous contrast between what the military planners regard as necessary to defense and sur vival and what the governments are in fact doing, we must ask ourselves some questions. Are the military planners right? Are the civilian politicians being complacent and irresponsible? The fashionable assumption is that the planners are right and that the democratic governments have been drugged with Geneva spirits; if only the people were awakened, they would appro priate the money and take the measures which the military planners are asking for. In my view this diagnosis is a half truth which ignores the main point of the matter. It is that, looked at from the point of view of Germany and France and the continental nations, the NATO strategy does not seem to them - worth what it would cost; it "would not, they feel, provide each and every one of them with genuine security; it offers them a defense against invasion but not against nuclear bombardment. . THIS, I submit, is the control ling reason why the Germans and the French are so lackadaisi cal about meeting the NATO military program. It is not mere ly that the peoples do not want to pay taxes and to-make the military effort. It is that their leaders, including a high propor tion of their military leaders, are not . convinced that the NATO strategical program would, if war were to break out, provide a true' defense against devasta tion. The conclusion that the civilians draw from this is that, so far as they are concerned, security must be sought by po litical means essentially by May the Peaceful Glow of Christmas Continue to Shine for You Throughout the Coming Year o 31 CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Tomorrow Lippmann maintaining the stalemate among the only two powers armed with atomic weapons. It is hard to shake off the im pression that the NATO plan ners have yet to face up to the military revolution brought , on by the break-up in 1949 of the American monopoly of nuclear weapons. The basic conception ; of NATO was derived from the threat that the Red armored di visions might roll unopposed into Western Europe. NATO was " to hold them at bay while the United States Strategic Air Force struck at the Soviet Union. The strategic conception rested on the assumption, correct be fore 1949, that the Soviet Union ' could not strike back at Western Germany, France, or England. Since 1949 the crucial prob lem of European defense has not been how to repel the Red Army but how to ward off the Red Air Force. To this problem NATO offers no solution which is con vincing enough to the exposed . and highly vulnerable countries of the continent. At bottom it is this, and not. the moral failings of the West Europeans, which accounts for the inertia on the civilian side of NATO. , TDUT why are the Western gov ernments so cheerful about it all? Because they believe that the only effective defense al ready exists that the United States possesses a massive de terrent power and is fullv com mitted to use it if the NATO countries are attacked. It is a real oiipstinn Vint o separate one, whether the Amer ican Air Force is being adequate ly maintained or is falling be hind the Soviet's, as the Alsop brothers have long contended and as Mr. Finletter said on Sun- should be thoroughly examined when Congress meets in order to determine whether the exist ing balance of power is going to be maintained. But it does not alter the fact that it is on this balance of power that the secur ity of the NATO alliance de pends. (Copyright 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Eisenhowers Greet Fourth Grandchild Washington (U.R) President and Mrs. Eisenhower got the Christmas gift they wanted most, their fourth, grandchild. Her name: Mary Jean Eisen hower. Born yesterday at 4:58 p.m. (EST) I at the Army's Walter Reed hospital. Weight: 7 pounds and 2 ounces. She's a blonde. Her mother, Mrs. Barbara Eis enhower, the President's daughter-in-law, is "doing" very weU," tne White .House said. And the President? "Delight ed and happy" like eany grand parent, according to Press Sec retary James C. Hagerty. Mary Jean is the Presidents third granddaughter. The other two are Barbara Anne, 6, and Susan 3. He has one grandson, David, 7. The President was in his of fice yesterday when his son John, an Army major, telephon ed him the good news from the hospital. 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 todays Isaiah 11:1-9.