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FjQUR MEDFORD (OREGON) DHS "Everybody In Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6H1 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. City Editor HAkRV CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEwETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Eriftor EARL H. ADAMS. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of juarcn a, lea' SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. D'ly and Sunday One year $12.00 T. . i r- i e-; .v.. a 5fl Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 sunoay omv one vear Ey Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold HiU. Phoenix. ShSv Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daiiy and Sunday One year SI 5. 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance 6fficlal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper ol Jackson County United Pries Full Leased Wire ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF '.muumi-"-' WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York. Chicago De troit. S.- Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louu Atlanta. VaigCtwver B.C. Q NATION A I EDITORIAL ASSOCHATHO.N NEWS PAPE R PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight of Time Medford affd Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and iQ years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 27, 1945 (It was Thursday) Local Democratic group asks Floy K. Dover to run for gov ernor. From Arthur Perry's Ye Bmudge Pot column: Horticul turists of the valley will start off the Sfew Year with an old and favorite fret missing. They won't have spent the first three monthSj. worrying about lack of snow m the hills next April for irrigation water next Au gust. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 27. 1935 (It was Friday) A telephone system will be completed this winter between Hutton and Jacksonville by members of the CCC. Attendance at Jackson courfty rural schools below registered student figures because of epi demics of contagious diseases. 30 YEARS AGO Mc. 27, 1945 (It was Sunday) From Rogue River news: Ju lian's confectionery has been another to come up with the times and have installed a radio, and is giving a great deal of pleasure to the people who visit the store. H. M. Chadwick, former Med ford resident, resigns as assist ant state engineer. t 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 27, 1915 (It was Monday) Possibilities of securing the Arthur Putnam mermaid statue from the San Francisco exposi tion will be considered at a meeting of civic department of Greater Medford club. From Local and Personal col umn: There was a hot time in the old town of Jacksonville Christmas, with many celebrat ing at the same time. A night in the county jail cooled the enthusiasm of the more jubilant. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research epft 1. Dr. Paul D. White, medical consultant to the President, says mid-January, mid-February, mid- March or mid-June will show whether his recovery is com plete? 2. Woodrow Wilson was born 100 years ago, in New Jersey, Ohio, New York, Virginia or or Illinois? 3. Maximum weight for trucks is set by the Interstate Com merce Commission, Congress, the Secretary of Commerce or each state for its own roads? 4. Most oranges consumed in the U. come from Florida; right or wrong? oPWhich of these was under strike in December: General Electric, Westinghouse Electric, General Motors, U.S. Steel, Montgomery Ward? 6. President Eisenhower's farm at Gettysburg is aboit (a) 25, (b) 70, (c) 150 or (d) 250 miles by air from Washington? 7. Wilber M. Brucker is Secre tary of the Army, the Navy or the Air Force? The Answers: 1. Mid-February. 2. Virginia. 3. Each state for its own roads. 4. Right. 5. Westing house Electric. 6. About 70. 7. The Army. MAIL TRIBUNE How About the UN? The 10th annual U.N. will go down m history as membership dam. It was General Assembly action on an 18-nation "package deal" on Dec. 8 which paved the way first for vetoes in the Security Council of any new memberships and then, on Dec. 14, tor Security Council agreement on a 16-nation deal, leav ing out Outer Mongolia and Japan. Nationalist China's veto of membership of Outer Mongolia, which brought on the record 15 vetoes by Soviet Russia on Dec. 13, a kind of made-to-order grudge fight for its next ses sion. As the tenth session United States succeeded in third successive year its cision on whether Communist China should hold China's place in the U.N. The vote was 42 to 12, with six abstentions. Votino; with the five aerainst postponement were Indonesia, Norway, Sweden, Yugoslavia. Abstaining were Afghanistan, Egypt, and Yemen. On the same abstained; Israel had voted Wi HEN the question inevitably comes up at the next Assemblv session, Nationalist China can expect to reap the ill will of more Atro-Asian and otner "neutralist" nations. In jeopardizing the original package membership deal which the General As sembly had recommended by a vote of 52 to 2, Chiang Kai-shek's representatives were swimming against the tide. Moreover, if the Chinese had killed the deal entirely, they would have kept out of the U.N. six Afro-Asian nations Jordan, Libya, Ceylon, Nepal, Cambodia, Laos plus three other nations generally considered "neutralist" Austria, Finland, Eire (Ire land). The General Assembly at its next session could vote by a simple majority to seat Red China's repre sentatives as representing China, or, if some nation in sisted that this was an "important" question, by a two thirds majority. Nations backing Red China might corral a two-thirds majority. In the Security Council Nationalist China holds the veto right. Whether the matter of Red China's credentials there would be simply procedural remains in some doubt, as does the question of Nationalist China's veto right on a pro cedural matter involving credentials. . A SIDE from the membership gains, the 10th Gen " eral Assembly session can hardly be said to have accomplished much. One highlight was an overwhelm ing victory for a resolution to give first priority in future disarmament efforts to a Western-sponsored plan featuring President Eisenhower's air inspection proposal. As the session closed, the Union of South Africa was boycotting the Assembly. The walk-out occurred on Nov. 9, after the Special Political Committee had adopted a resolution expressing "concern" that South Africa maintained its apartheid (racial separation) policy after the Assembly had requested that the pol icy be reconsidered. The Assembly on Dec. 15 urged the governments of India, Pakistan, and South Africa to .continue negotiations on the treatment of Indian minorities in South Africa. Another boycott had ended on Nov. 29, after two months, when France returned. France, which had walked out when the Assembly voted, 28 to 27, on Sept. 30 to place the question of Algerian unrest on the agenda, came back when the Assembly' voted unanimously to drop the Algerian question for this session. E.R.R. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Question: Did somebody mention a threatened water shortage in Southern Oregon and Far North ern California a while back? SPEAKING of weather, the tel etype contributes this one: Weather men will try dusting the clouds with dry ice next year in an effort to steer hurri canes away from populated areas or out to sea. The idea is the latest worked out by a spe cial study group set up to cope with weather problems of this sort. AT first thought, it sounds wonderful. But That's a lot of POWER for human hands to hold. On second thought, it half gives one the shivers. T ET'S turn to something sim pier and more comforting than the power HELD IN HU MAN HANDS to control a hurri cane and steer it away from a big city possibly into villages whose people value their lives as much as big city people do as one steers an automobile away from an obstacle in the road. TJOWN in the great Central U Valleys of California a while back, they were building a levee to control the flow of water. In the way of the leve'e, as the en gineers had located it, stood a huge old oak tree. So they cut it down. The tree was owned by a farmer named George Johnson. He put in a bill for S500. When the bill came up before the Cal ifornia state finance department it was held up. Five hundred dollars, the department ex perts said, is a LOT OF MONEY for a tree. They called Farmer Johnson to explain his bill. He said the tree was worth $500 because throughout the Tuesday, December 27. 1955 General Assembly session the one which broke the gives the General Assembly opened on Sept. 20, the getting accepted for the resolution postponing a de - nation Communist bloc Burma, Denmark, India, Israel, baudi Arabia, byna, question in 1954, Indonesia for postponement. year, in summer and in winter, it gave shelter from sun and storm for his sheep and his cat tle. 1JE might have added al though the record doesn't indicate that he did that in the priceless golden years of their childhood his children played under the branches of that spreading old, oak, and per haps climbed up into it, as chil dren will, and built playhouses up there in the leafy greenery. I don't know Mr. Johnson. But if he is in his sere and yel lowing years and his children have grown up and moved away, he must have his memo ries. These memories must in clude golden curls blowing in the wind and happy, laughing voices ringing in the air as the children romped and played in the friendly shelter of that an cient tree. Who can put a price on such memories? Only the angels, I think, are competent to do so. AT any rate, the bill for the tree was referred by ihe state' finance department to the state reclamation board and the reclamation board has just vot ed to go out on a limb and see to it that Mr. Johnson gets S500 for his tree. George Lodi, of Arbuckle, a member of the reclamation board, put it this way: "I dor.'t think there is any doubt we all feel that Johnson is entitled to the $500." I think. Mr. Lodi must have children of his own and may be grandchildren. Subscribers To report Improper or rlon-dellv-ery ot the Mail Tribune phone 2-6141 before 6:45 pjn daily and 10:30 a.m Sunday It regular delivery arrives short ly after vou call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service. ssia's By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent It may prove that Soviet Rus sia's action in blocking the ad mission of Japan to the United Nations was not so smart. Russia ve toed Japan's application for member ship because N a tionalist China vetoed the ap p 1 i cation of Outer Mon golia. Japan was manes .we ia nn nummated ana angered by the slap it received. The first tendency in Tokyo, naturally, was to blame the Na tionalists. It is true that if Nationalist China had not cast its veto, de spite the personal pleas of Presi dent Eisenhower to Generalis simo Chiang-Kai-shek, Japan would now be in the United Nations. But advices indicate now that the Japanese are increasingly in clined to put the blame where it really lies. ' That is, with the Kremlin. After all, Japan is a nation of nearly 90 million people. It has been one of the world's greatest powers and it will be again. Political Fake Outer Mongolia is a political fake. It is an artificially created satellite of the Soviet Union. It has no set boundaries. Authori ties differ widely on its popula tion. Nearly every member of the United Nations wanted to admit Japan. Nobody, outside of the Ru Jap an may Backfire i U - Matte? Of FGt By Joe and Stewart Alsop CASUALTY ROCKEFELLER Washington Nelson A. Rock efeller was the most important casualty to date of the peculiar policy - making process of the Eisenhower ad ministration. Of course they played "Hearts and Flowers" quite beautifully a t the funeral. One of the g r e at conven iences of gov ernmental ob Joseph Also sequies is that the casualties are not quite in the dear departed category, but are only the dear departing. They can join in their own last rites, which Rockefel ler loyally did. He wrote the President that family business imperatively re quired him to leave the govern ment. The President replied af fectionately, with many an ex pression oi deep regret. Ev ery convention was observed. But the fact re- mains thai Roc kefeller would never have left his key post as a Presidential ad viser, if the ad vice he gave in Stewart Alsop the recent struggle over next year's budget had not proved unpalatably in sistent and forthright. Just how the end came is still cloaked in considerable mystery. Certainly Rockefeller gave sharp offense to Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey and the Administration's other budget-firsters. Certainly Rock efeller's intervention was also far from well received by Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles, who guards his prerogatives with some care. Certainly Rockefel ler's position as a Presidential adviser or in plainer language, an official fifth wheel was al ways an inherently difficult po sition. "DUT it does not matter very greatly whether or no it was Rockefeller himself who decided that he had worn out his useful ness as seems most likely. In any case, he is really leaving the executive offices because his use fulness there was finally worn out although no doubt there is no shortage of Rockefeller fam ily business for him to take care of now. that he is free to do so. Furthermore, what wore out Rockefeller's usefulness was his powerful insistence on a wholly new order of national policy pri orities. Balancing the budget and even cutting taxes must now yield pride of place, he declared. And he pleaded for giving an over-riding first priority to meet ing the double challenge of the enormous progress of the Krem lin's arms program and the wide extension of the Kremlin's po litical offensive in the Middle and far East. , The decision to neglect this double challenge is a fateful de cision. The new theme song seems to be a revised version of the old hymn "Look Only to Lady Luck, SHE Will Carry Us Through." Maybe Lady Luck really wUl carry us through, as every sensible person must pray. But if Rockefeller's factually justified forebodings prove cor rect, as is also possible, his- de parture fronij the government Veto off UN S six Communist members, really wanted Outer Mongolia in. Why should Russia have been so insistent on the admission of Outer Mongolia to the United Nations as the price of Japan's admission? One reasbn seems to be that the Kremlin used the Nationalist veto to keep Japan out for the present. It hoped to force Japan to make concessions in the long-drawn-out negotiations for a Russian-Japanese peace treaty. Another may have been that it wanted to coerce Japan into seeking closer relations with Communist China. A third reason probably was a desire to "save face". That is an Oriental device for covering up an evident defeat with an ap parent victory. Russian diplo macy often has an Asiatic com plexion. In other words, the Kremlin apparently decided that if it could not get Outer Mongolia into the United Nations, it had to keep some other country out. Pressure Lessens Recent advices from Tokyo say that Japan's attitude toward Russia is likely to be hardened as the result of the U.N. action and that it will not be coerced into making concessions. It is reported also that Japan is increasingly cool toward the question of seeking closer rela tions with Communist China. Pressure on Premier Ichiro Hatoyama to recognize the Communist regime has notably lessened in recent weeks. Nor is there the hope which existed a few months ago of closer trade relations. This is partly due also to the will later be remembered in the way men now remember the de partures of British officials in the '30s, who got into hot water by! insisting that it was danger ous to neglect the challenge of Adolf Hitler. TO BE sure, Rockefeller and his senior partner in .the struggle, Vice-President Richard Nixon, who showed quite excep tional courage, have some re sults to show after their fight for different policy priorities The budget-firsters ' did not get all they wanted. A great increase of Soviet power and an intensi fication of Soviet effort were not answered by a considerable re duction of American power and effort. The American policy de cision was to carry on as before. Yet the departure of Rocke feller leaves almost no one but the Vice-President, who is likely to speak up for a change in pol icy priorities, if and when just carrying on as before begins to prove acutely dangerous. At the State Department, Sec retary Dulles is heavily over burdened with the endless in tricacy and constant movement of day-to-day diplomacy. Ques tions of American power and American effort, which have mainly to do with the defense and foreign aid program, Dulles tends to leave to his two sub ordinates, Under Secretary Her bert Hoover Jr. and Foreign Aid Administrator John Hollister Both Hollister and Hoover strongly incline. to the budget- firster side. AT THE Defense Department, Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson is no longer willing to reduce our defense effort which is a form of courage in present circumstances. But Wil son sees no reason to increase the defense effort, either, in or der to balance the increase of Soviet strength. As for the views of Treasury Secretary Humphrey and Budget Director Rowland Hughes, they might almost be described as notorious. Thus there is no one besides Nixon to signal a change of course, except the President himself. If Eisenhower ever de cides a change of course is needed, he will have to over rule most of those who hold the key positions on his team. All hope is now on him. (C) 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. MR. INSURANCE Fred Brennan An electric skil-saw and other tools, concrete blocks, roofing, and even a small concrete mixer were stolen from our construction jobs last year. Can a contractor get insurance against the loss or danv age of his tools and equipment from agy cause whatever? For Information Call MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940 wit? eat for s View visits of Japanese members" of Parliament, business men and news men to Red China. Their reports have been critical. They were not impressed by life in the Communist paradise. Also, they saw signs that Red China might become a trade ri val instead of a customer. RKO Film Library Sold; $15,209, Paid By TV Firm New York U.R) C&C Su per Corp. announced today pur chase of the entire film library of RKO-Radio Pictures, Inc., for $15,200,000 in cash. The library, comprising 740 feature motion picture films and over 1,000 short subjects, will be used for exhibition on TV throughout the world and for motion picture showing outside the United States and Canada. Between 80 and 85 per cent of the films will be made avail able immediately to stations throughout the , country. Three Years Old All the pictures in this block are at least three years old. RKO reserved the right not to release any of its pictures until after they had been exhibited . for three years in the United States through standard motion picture channels. The remaining films will be available in a matter of months since RKO film production has been relatively small within the past three years, the announce ment said. The transaction called for the immediate payment of $12,200,- 000, with the balance of $3,000.- 000 to be paid within the next 24 months as other films become available from the RKO library. From a financial viewpoint, Matthew Fox, president of C&C Television Corp., a subsidiary, said that the original cost of the films involved in the purchase amounted to $750,000,000. He noted that many of the films were lavish productions prepar ed in the years when RKO was controlled by Howard Hughes, Scientists Briefed On IGY Readiness Atlanta (U.R) Scientists to day got a top-level briefing on preparations for man's greatest single probe of nature's secrets, a world-wide investigation dur ing the International Geophysi cal Year. Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner, vice- president of the IGY commit tee, opened a three-day sym posium to bring his colleagues up to date on the scope of the giant scientific undertaking by 44 nations starting July 1, 1957. The symposium is being held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Asso ciation for the Advancement of Science. Among the most spectacular events planned for the Geophy sical Year are the launching of the first man-made satellite and the huge Antarctic expedition being led by Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd. But the vast undertaking will embrace 11 branches of geophy sics Berkner said. The Sun will be under con tinuous observation by 20 sta tions around the earth watching for changes in sunspots and oth er conditions affecting the earth's atmosphere. 117 S. Central , - - j cog -J Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Reno, Nev. Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson, prom- 1S1!fw 3id t0 flood victims western Nevada: We re not here to take over but to help where we can. You're going to have to do all you can to help yourselves." Washington David Eisenhower, the President's seven-year-old grandson, on the White House Christmas of the Eisenhowers: Boy, did I have a time today." Pafi1SFornler French Premier Pierre Mendes-France propos ing settling of the Algerian crisis by conciliation- "We will not be able to stay in North Africa or in the other countries of the French Union as long as we count on force re pression and violence." Paris French Premier Edgar Faure, on the recent National ist Chinese veto in the United Nations on admission of Communist Outer Mongolia: "Is it realistic to reconsider that China still is represented by Formosa?" s Chicago Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council, on the holiday highway slaughter: "We may have dreamed of a White Christmas but we have made it black with a record of death, destruction and disaster oa the highway by which no American can help but be depressed, ashamed and frightened." Moscow "The Soviet Union appreciates the opportunity to become acquainted with ihe operatic culture of the United States and ihe great talents of the American people.",, On The Side (Distributed by King Beautiful one, be not so coy. Do not disdain me. Sweet, entertain me! . Do not, O do not, prize your beauty At too high a rate; Love to be loved While you are lovely Lest you love too late. Bayley. - The ideal mother, from a eu genic standpoint, is of high intel ligence, has broad hips, sturdy limbs and big feet. So says an expert on the subject. Therefore, young woman, if you are some what "hippy" and have big feet, don't be depressed. To you na ture has apparently been kind. You will be the mother of some wonderful children. Asking Queries from clients. Q. What was the first film in which Gil bert Roland appeared? I claim it was as leading man for Norml Talmadge in "The Dove." A. Roland's first film was "The Plastic Age," in which he was featured with Clara Bow. That was 1925. In 1927 he appeared with Norma Talmadge in "The Dove." . . . Q. Are you familiar with an old Scotch toast that includes the line, "May the wings of love never lose a feath er"? A. Yes, sir. It is as follows: "May the hinges of friendship never rust or the wings of love lose a feather." Asides Chew on a sprig of parsley after eating onions and odor of the onions will be eliminated from your breath, making you again fit to be associated with or to kiss your girl good-night. . . . Since 1840 every President of the United States elected in a year ending in zero has died in office. That includes Harrison, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Harding and F. D. Roosevelt. So I suppose the man elected in 1960 may have cause to do a little worrying. Guide io Guys Men born under Pisces (Feb. 21-March 20) are not happy un less they can completely domi nate their households. They pre fer the clinging vine type of wife. They are opposed to wives having careers. They expect per fect home managing. They want all the comforts of a home plus service like a hotel. Pisces men usually do well financially. They know how to make money and how to keep it. Or so say the star-gazers. Longevity While vegetarians attributed George Bernard Shaw's long life to his adherence to a vegetarian diet, the author himself credited it to heredity. Especially to bis. Electric Water Heaters PLENTY OF HOT . eiD VATtK r" ONLY PENNIES A DAT ey e. v. Durimg Feature Syndicate. Inc.) grandmother, who was the moth er of 15 children and lived to be 88. Asides It is the female mosquito that does the stinging. The male mos quito is a vegetarian . . . Ice land has been a nation for over 1,000 years and has never had a war . . . Players named Dooin. Doolan and Dolan were all on the Philadelphia National League Ball club at the same time. Once the summary describ ing a double play read: "From Doolan to Dooin to Dolan or Doolan to Dolan to Dooin." Insults In Paris the supreme insult one autoist can shout to another is "Ecole! Ecole!" This means, "Why don't you go to automobile school and learn how to drivel We could use a good one word hisult for careless, stupid and inept automobile drivers in this country. Any suggestions? Looking Ahead with rUADlEC 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 off 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 those who have no dependents and those who have made, through life assurance, sufficient provision for their loved ones against the chance of untimely death. 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