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0 o 0 0 o 0 0 0 o o o O o O o o 0 o o t 0 0 0 O o O o o o 0 o O "O o o 0 O G' am FOUR MB&iFORD (OREGON) 5 r?i w o Everybody la Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune bliahed Daily Except Saturday MEDFOHD MINTING CCFj by Phone 2-SHl ROBTRT W RUHL. Editor HZRB GREY Advertisinjt Manager (&Z. FERGUSON Managiag Editor TTtC AiXEN JR.. City EOor HAKRY CHIP MAN. Telejrfaph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLrVE STARCHER Society Eriitgr0 GERAfeP LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspai Sper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under t Act of March 3. 1897 O SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Dsuy and Sunday one year iz.uu Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 350 Sunday Only One year $3.50. Btf)Curier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: O Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers oc per copy All Terms Cash in Advance ftfflrial PiDer of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County (Z United Press Full Leased wire MEMBER OF OF AUDI) BUREAU o Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC OOffices in New York. Chicago De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL GeSiTOIIAL I ASSOCfATHO.N vy NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 1 ASSOCIATION Fligh? o' Time Meaiora ana jac&suu wuuy History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10.(20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. SO. 1945 0 (Ii) was Sunday) o Willamette river forces 1,000 trom homes in Eugene area; Jackson county rivers receding after halting traffic near Sav age Rapids dam temporarily. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The New Year starts Tuesday. Many au toistsavon't, the way they have bn driving, the Safety Coun cil forecasts. YEARS AGO Dec. 30, 1935 (It was Monday) , Snider Dairy annoupes pur "Lchase of Gold Seal Creamery, making the Snider enterprise largest creamery outside Port land metropolitan area. Dwight E. Alderman, state commander of Veterans of For eign Wars, to speak Ht Ashland organizaSonal meeting. is: 30 YEARS AGFD Dec. 30, 1925 (It was Wednesday) Annual e d f o r d district school cenais shows 138 more students than last year's 2,600. Medford completes best year n record: fruit, lumber, sther productsefirougtegabout $5,000,- www hivw "a-va ij 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 30, 1915 8 Itas Thursday) County court fixes 14 mill levy for 1915; schools get 2 mills; J&h school and library, .5; (gat ficfi-highway intereS-Sun M sncKgeneral county expense lgj eluding state, 10 miiS. , Wiyir. irow) is inersi saloon in staie 10 ciose aoors as result of impending igphib) uon; a final rush of "wets" puigi chased all his stock; remodeling starts Jgjmake sodg,fountain and cigar Buuie. - or What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of ih 7? 0 jCopr. 1955. Editorial Rearch Rsocl I 1. If a perso,'itg(S) $4,000 Micome wins $32,000 o a CQuiz program, ut Qie-ird, tpne half,r two-thirds of j$ fges ior federal income tax?0 2. Gi. -Eisenhower foace served as Army ch&$ 9 staff; ght or wrong? 3. With whjeh of'Sfce. sp&ts is the name of Sfeob" Zuppke as sociated: Football, asebSU, bas ietbaU, (orse (gaig, ie hockey? 4. More than half, ab& half or less than half of all Ameri cans taking a winter vacation JS Florida spend it at Miami Beach? 0 5. The country (jvith the larg est fleet of merchant ships is Great Britain, Norway, the U.S., Japan or Russia? 6. Cruelty, mental, (physical (Jjx both, is grounds3 for diyrca in every oneSbf (Sjie 48 stes; 9igt r wrong? 0 7. he "Keeley ure is iPor Shoplifters, drugddicts, alcohol- j ics, sex perverts, or bad drivers? The Answer 1. About halfe 2. Right. 3. Football (Illinois U.)T 4. Less than half. 5. U.) 6. Wrong. 7, Alcoholic) VETERAN LEGISLATOR DIES Portland U.R) Dr. F. H. Dammasch, 76-year-old veteran state legislator, died late last nht in a local hospital. 0 0 MAIL TRIBUNE Flood Sins Removed 6 We drove down to Rogue River the other after nod. The sun was shining brightly, the grass was green, and only the barren trees and the frost in shady spots wjergi signals that winter is still here. Our mission wjis to take a look at some of the havoc wrought by' the floods of the pre-Christmas eek, floods that caused damage which will total probably more than $800,000 in Jackson county alone let alone3 harder-hit sections of Oregon, and the devastated areas of California. . YBLE evidences of flood damages-were confined to a relatively small area. This does not mean the residents ( other lower-lying portions of the area eot off liehtlv. for a flood can tear ud the inside of .ya home or business without leaving noticeable scars on the exterior. 0 In one or two places people were shoveling not sweeping mud and silt out of windows; furniture was'Set out to dry; houses-were being realigned. Over all there wasn impression of purposeful busy-ness which spoke well of the courage and determination of the residents. ..'.. o A PERIOD of emergency is, somehow, easier to " bear, than the long and tedious task of recon struction and rebuilding, ofjnopping up and cleaning ou 0 When danger threatens, people respond with in stinctive bravery and helpfulness. They show con cern for lives and property of others, and will go to great lengths to be helpful. When the danger is past, however, too often that ibirit departsowith tbS emergency. " FORTUNATELY man, an organizing type of social creature, has organized for such contingencies, too. In the Red Cross, the civil defense agency, vet erans and other groups, we have' volunteers who pledge themselves to be of assistance in just such cases not only when ganger threatens, but in the long pull, too. Only infrequently have we in Jackson county been sufficiently unfortunate to require the active and all-out ministrations of the National Red Cross. Now is one of the times, and we can all be glad that they are ready to assist our neighbors who are, literally in some cases, pulling themselves out of the mud. FLOODS are spectacular things, but there is little that is spectacular about the aftermath. A road is washed out here and there, as in the case of the Rock Point underpass, with pavement broken and tumbled about like a child's blocks; debris is piled up on the upstream sides and weeds show now high the water was on a road side fence; 'buildings, tumbled and twisted, are spotted where they do not belong. That's about all. The spectacular damage is done quickly, and signs of it are people affected remember Flood Sidelight As the water reached a bureau of reclamation engineer estimated thafrBear creek was flowing through pi uahucilci.y U)IUuv,uvp. " j i ------ inp; to comDare this fieure to the dQ second, ieet which the awao-e f low of Big i-u ttt oHtATi i-nr oil purposes. ' r ' TViis wmilrl nrnhaMv have been much hiffher had $not Emigrant reservoir filled up, holding back several thousand acre-feet of additional water. Whirly O d5hly infrequently is 7 a iies above Medford. But caonally, and they ve been so much m the news re- cently Lhat most oi us are generally laminar witn me cumbersome-looking things. They're weird, rThey"also must look like ungainly angels of mercy to flood-marooned people as they come whirling to the rescue. CA PILOT friend of ours was telling us the other day " of some of the hazards of flying the whirly birds. At an altitude of between 250 and 750 feet, if the en gine fails, an "auto rotation" can be set up in the rotors, bringing the machine down gently. But at ex tremely low3 altitudes, an engine failure means a crash, and the helicopter is not designed to stand up under the shock of a drop of more than a few feet. He said he has great respect and no envy at all for the pilots who jockey the flying windmills. e o A DRAMATIC picture in Wednesday's issue of this paper demonstrated perfectly what we have in mind. It showed a 'copter hovering over a water suiTOitoded house, lifting a 0 mother and6 child to safety in a basket attached to a long rope. Later, fafSer jaid ssn also were rescued. These eranky, ugly, awkward-looking machines nave proven their worth time and time again. E.A. Three Die in One-Car Portland (U.R) A spectacu lar one-ca- accident resulted in death (fc three persons early to day when the car struck a pow er pole, shearing it ff near the bottom. , The) deaS were identified as Richard Boyd Taylor, 27, a sail or on leave; Lester O. Ambers, 27, Seattle, and Laura Mattis, 39, Vancouver, Wash, faylor's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. R..Tay- - Friday, beeember 30, 19SS of trees; washed-up grass removed quickly. But the it E.A. its highest level last week, Medford at a rate of ap- Butte Springs water used by nrtmocnn arm m immny - Birds helicopter spotted in the they do show up here oc- Accident in Portland lor, are from Vancouver, Wash. County police said there were no witnesses and that they were unable to tell which way the car was traveling. The Car was found in a diagonal position across southbound, lanes on Den ver ave. The deaths brought Multno mah county's 1955 toll outside of Portland to 21, the same num ber killed last year. Writer Balances Good and Bad In Foreign News of Past Week By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Co-respondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: , v The Good 1. The German Communists apparently changed their minds about prosecuting Americans accused of committing offenses in East Berlin. An Air Force ser geant, alleged to have caused a traffic accident, was returned to West Berlin by the Russians in keeping with agreements for control of tbe city. The German Reds assert they now have "sov ereign" status. But they and their Russian masters appear not to be ready for a showdown. 2. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru seemed disappointed at the way Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Russian Com munist party leader Nikita S. Khrushchev abused his hospital ity during their recent visit to India. Nehru is reported to have told both members of his cabinet and leaders of his Congress par ty that he had been embarrassed by tlje attacks the Soviet visitors made, on Western countries, es pecialy on Great Britain. Nehru was quoted as accusing the Rus sians of twisting history. 3. The Indochina Communists failed in an attempt to force the voters of the state of Laos to boycott an election for a Nation al Assembly. The Reds threat ened reprisals against those who voted. But more "than 300,000 out of 360,000 registered voters went to the polls. Only in areas controlled by their troops were the Reds successful. The Bad 1. Speeches made by the Krem lin's two top leader's at a meet ing of the Russian Supreme So viet (parliament) in Moscow were both hostile and threaten ing to the United States and its Tax Reduction Seen Danger To Economy Washington (U.R) A bipar partisan congressional subcom mittee has warned that a tax cut next year would be dangerous in the face of a booming econ omy. A Senate-House subcommittee said yesterday any budgetary surplus next year should go to ward cutting the national debt unless the economic boom tap ers off The subcommittee said after a month-long study that tax cuts during the boom might be in flationary. Secretary of Commerce Sin clair Weeks said this week he expects the boom to continue at least through the first half of 1956. Klamath Rancher Cattleman of Year Prineville . (U.R) Lawrence J. Horton, .a Klamath Falls rancher who parlayed a boat into a 1000-head sDread of Hprpfnrds last night was named Cattleman of the Year by the Oregon Cat tlemen's Association. ' Horton began his ranching ca reer in 1914 by trading a boat to an Indian for a Hereford Shorthorn cross heifer. The Horton spread has since grown from one cow and a rented farm to 1000 head of registered Here ford cattle and 7500 acres of deeded land. 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 lible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for nublica tion must not exceed 400 words. Credit io Crews To the Editor: Would like to take this means to express my appreciation of the way the State Highway department takes care of the roads, especially dur ing these stormy, wintry days and nights. We of the Greyhound Lines really do appreciate the way they are always "standing by in case of danger to the road in any way. We can look up to the Siskiyou mountains, see it snowing, but we know that those boys will be there with their sanding equipment, to make it safer for everyone. Believe me, we really appreciate it. Please give the road crews all the credit in the world, due them. Also the Oregon state po lice, who are also there when needed. Wish I could say the same on the other side of the line. o Donald E. Tackley Greyhound Lines Medford, Oregon PICTURE TUBES REJUVENATED o Is your picture tube dull and weak? Most picture tubes can be restored to original brightness at only a fraction of the cost of replacement. For further information CALL Electronic Service 18 N. GRAPE PH. 3-1971 allies. Communist partr ehief Khrushchev accused President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles of "crude interference" in the af fairs of East European Commu nist countries by 'broadcasting Christmas messages to them. The messages expressed hope that the countries might be freed from the Russian yoke. Khrush chev also boasted of the power of Russia's H-bomb. Premier Bulganin hinted that Russia might now have an inter-continental rocket one which might be fired, for instance, from Rus sia to the United States. So far as is known, the United States has not perfected this weapon. 2. A long-scheduled confer ence between the chief ministers of Malaya and Singapore oa one Today and By Walter ENTANGLEMENTS AND FOREIGN AID We know now, so it appears, that there is to be no revision of policy to meet the new Soviet c h a 1 lenge in South Asia. In stead, Wash ington will for the next few months be en gaged in a run ning fight over what the Ad ministration wants Con gress to au Walter Llppman thorize in the way of foreign aid. This dispute got off to a bad start. After the Cabinet and Security Council meetings at Camp David and the White House meetings with the Congressional leaders, it was said that the Administration did not plan to spend much more money next year than this. The statement was a half truth in view of the fact that the Con gressional leaders have had the firm impression that our policy is set towards a gradual but rather prompt termination of al most all foreign aid. They seem to have it in their minds that foreign aid would run out as the authorizations previously made were used up. .tor tnat 9 reason they were surprised and annoyed to find, a few days after their meetings, that while the Administration is. not planning to spend much more money this year than it did last, it is planning to go on spending at about the same rate for an indefinite number of years to come. TT IS fair) I think, to ask why the Congressional leaders al lowed themselves to believe the half truth, and to assume that foreign aid was coming to an end. Do they not approve the commitments to help arm Ger many, to help arm Japan, to subsidize the So.uth Korean army, the Forirfbsan army, the Vietnamese army, to underwrite with American money and arms the SEATO pact in South East Asia and the METO pact, other wise known as the' Bagdad pact,, in the Middle East? How did the Congressional leaders sup pose that these global military commitments could be met if the foreign military aid program is to run out and be terminated? If they believe in the military pacts, then they must not act with pained surprise when they get the bill. Why, on the con trary, did no one at the White House briefing ask the briefer how the Administration planned to finance its military pacts? And when the Administration bill for the new authorizations is put to Congress, the real issue will b whether or not to con tinue to maintain the whole elaborate structure of the pacts, or whether to dismantle some part of it. For these pacts re quire much money, not spent once merely but continually. j THE coming debate on the new authorizations for the old military pacts should be kept distinct in our minds from the talk, which is still up in the air, about a new and massive economic program to meet the Soviet challenge. 0 Indeed, I would go further and say that while our existing policy about the military pacts is dominant in Washington, a big program of economic aid is unworkable. The men who be lieve in the military system that we have put together do not believe in the economic program and would not be interested in administering it. The military policy, as we now operate it, NOTICE!! Beginning January 1, 1956, and until the completion of our new building THE MEDFORD FEED & SEED will do busi ness temporarily in the old Co-op building at the corner of 4th and Fir streets. Across 4th Street from where wo are now located. .The telephone number will remain the same GeoC. Barr, Mgr. Medford Feed & Seed hand and Malayan Commueist ehief Chin Peng broke up in dis agreement. It had been hoped that agreement might be reach ed to end the eight-year guer rilla warfare. Chin made de mands which the ministers would not accept. 3. French troops failed to sup press the terrorism which has caused nearly 200 deaths in two weeks in Algeria. Algeria politi cally is a part of France itself, not a colony. It is represented in the French parliament. But con ditions were so turbulent that it was decided not to include Al geria in the election to be held next Monday for a National Assembly. Nevertheless, the out lawed Algerian Communist par ty called for uprising on election day. Tomorrow LippKuna is incompatible with the kind J of constructive economic aid tnat so many ot us inside and outside, the Administration .be lieve is necessary. " The basic . trouble with our military program in South Asia and the Middle East is that it has led us into entangling alli ances. Our theory has been that we would c arm the countries which were ready to stand up and declare openly their opposi tion to Soviet and Chinese com munism. The fact, as opposed to the theory, has been that these military alliances between small Asian countries and the distant United States have been regarded in Southern Asia as political intervention in the dis putes of that area. VUE HAVE become entangled in the disputes within the re gion, and this has earned us the suspicion and dislike of the countries which border upon those countries which we have been arming. Thus, as the re sult' of our arming Pakistan, we have incurred the distrust of both of Pakistan's neighbors India and Afghanistan. All that Bulganin and Khrushchev had to do was to side, with India and Afghanistan in their disputes with Pakistan. To make matters worse, Paki stan, alarmed by the fact that her two neighbors are now back ed by the Soviet Union, is com plaining to us that we are not backing her fully in her dispute or giving her enough military aid. We have alienated India and Afghanistan by our meddling and we have not made secure the adherence of Pakistan.. This, in the full and literal sense of the term, is the kind of entangling alliance which it should be the first rule of states manship to avoid. T DO NOT know anything more than has been printed ifl the newspapers about Mr. Rockefel ler's resignation; But I venture to say that unless something radical is done about these entangling- military alliances, no program of economic aid can effectively counter the Soviet incursion in Southern Asia. The damage done to the American position by the Pakistan entan glement alone is enormously greater that what can be done to repair the damage by more economic aid. It is often said that Mr. Dulle's pacts in South Asia lack "teeth." As against Russia and China they , do indeed lack teethBut they have teeth enough to make their neighbors in the region fear that, not the Communist countries, but they themselves are going to be bitten. As long as .these pacts are the core of our South Asian policy, there is no prospect of our being able to conceive, to unite behind, and to execute successfully .an imag inative and constructive eco nomic program. OR an indispensable condition the success of an economic development program is that it should apply to a whole eco nomic area, and should bring with it the cooperation of the separate nations of the area. This was one of the secrets of the success of the Marshall Plan, that it brought unity and not divisive alliances into Western Europe, that it brought not a sword but peace. The same fundamental prin ciple applies to South Asia where for no reason except our own diplomatic errors, the So viets have now taken possession of the banner of peace. Copyright 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. QuotQQ f rsralBeJevs 00 ' 6 p........... .9... Br UITBD PSi MoaecsF Nikit Xhrushchev, Communist pay0boss, criticiz ing President Iinhower' Christmas message of hppe to theeo ples of satellite nation: n O "To pray for a change of rtgimes in th jpeoples democraciesNEs a crude inteferenee in the internal affairs of these countries." Vaki fern. Uibe Mansfield (D.4ont.) Khrushchev statement: ? . j "This is giving a great deal of importance to a prayer for lha eaptive people fron the American people. I hotjk thjij signifies Mr. Khrushchev k oa the way io getting religion." Washington Sen.. John J. (Sparkman) D.-A1&) dy&i(djlng2presi dent Eisenhower agSinst Khrushchev's attack: "The President did nothing except state what thg) whole world knows to be our feeling." ' Galveslon,3Tex. U.R) Dr. H. W. Paley on the condition of Mrs. Babe Didrikson Zaharias, already suffering from cancer, who now is -suffering from pneumonia: . ' "We don't, ejepect it io get serious." Greenwich, Conn. flJ.R) Karen AnnMcGuire, 12year-old girl who got a consolation horse after she bier $24.03 for the racehorse Nashua: . ,- 0 "I never dreamed I'd get a beautiful horse like thS. I'mPthe happiest girl in the world." Washington Averell Harriman, now governor Ql New YonL la aa April, 1945, communique o President Rooseftlt advising him thai the Russians were beconttng difficult: "Aside from the major questions which are causing concern in our relations with the Soviet Union, there has been an accumula tion of minor incidents which started some six weeks ago." o (?) Memphis, Tenn. 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