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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
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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
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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.