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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Iverybody in Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. J7-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager X. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. Citv Editor HAkRY CHIPMAN Telefrraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor EARL H. ADAMS. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An IndeDendent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Madford Oreeon. under Act at March 3 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES T. urfl Tn AilvanM' Po- rflnV 1 0ff. DsUy and Sunday-One year S12.00 Ttsflv an4 Ci.nriaV KlY months fi .5 0 Daily and Sunday Three mos 350 Sunday Only One vear S3.50. By C&rrier In Advance Medtord. Aihisni4 rmtrnl Point Eaele Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Recent floods in the Willamette valley, are expected to stop the practice in that section of throwing cold watex on flood control projects. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 3. 1936 (It was Friday) BuilJJing permits in Medford In 1935 total 181 valued at $116,713. Rogue river reaches highest nnint in lii-ee vpars because of Vil.U U. HHV ,1 " heavy rains melting snow in XI1UUI1 IO H AO. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 3. 1926 (It was Sunday) National forest officials an nounce that 50 summer homes have been built at Lake of the Woods recently. From Local and Personal col umn: The last of the various stu dents at the colleges and univer sities from Medford and the val lev. who have been spending the holiday vacation at home, leave today to resume their studies. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 3, 1916 fit was Monday) Eight persons file for city of fices: petitions circulating for two other candidates for city councilman here. From Local and Personal col iimn: A little snow fell on the surrounding mountains today, and it misted a bit in the foot hills, but no rain in the valley, What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 ol the 7? Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research Report P. The Constitution requires the President to send a message to Congress on the state of th'e Union at the beginning of each year; right or wrong? 2. The average dues paid U.S. labor unions by their members come to about $10, $25, $50 or $100 a year per member? 3. A whiskey listed as 100 proof has a 100 per cent, 75 per cent, 50 per cent or 25 per cent alcoholic content? 4. Secretary of Agriculture Benson says he believes farm prices as a whole will be higher or . lower next year than this year, or about the same? 5. The Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) does or doesn't uphold the practice of plural marriages (polygamy)? 6. Five, four, three, two, one or no widows of former Presi dents are now alive? 7. First head of the Wacs in World War II was Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, Oveta Culp Hobby, Perle Mesta or Clare Boothe Luce? The Answers: 1. Wrong; only "from time to time." 2. About 25. 3. 50 per cent. 4. About the same, he says. 5. Hasn't for many years. 6. Three (Mesdames Wil son, Coolidge, Roosevelt). 7. Mrs. Hobby. OLD STUFF Ashland, Wis. (U.R) Mrs. John Lobes is the mother of Ashland's first baby of 1956. But it was old stuff to her. She was also the mother of Ashland's first baby of, 1951. - MAIL TRIBUNE On The 1956 Program President Eisenhower's 1956 legislative program is largely predictable. Pert of it has come out before the State of the Union Message in formal or informal announcements after the . President's conferences with Congressional leaders and executive officials. Other parts of it could be found in 1955 administration recommenda tions that were subsequently defeated -or postponed. How much of the program would be spelled out and how much would be delayed for special messages or presentation to committees of Congress remained in doubt on the eve of reading of the Message. Some of the items carried over from 1955 may get little stress in this election year. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell, for example, after seeing the Presi dent on Nov. 2 said that he had no hope that Con gress would revise the Taft-Hartley Act in 1956." He enumerated instead five bills, all relatively minor, that the President could be expected to recommend extending coverage of the minimum wage act. ' A MONG the items in the 1955 carry-over to which "the administration appears committed are a school construction program, a health program, a highway program, and a water resources program. These four were listed as "absolutely vital to our future" by the President in a.critique of the 1955 Congress on Aug. 4. Later indications were that the administration would recommend a "pay-as-you-go"- plan for high ways, dropping a controversial bond-financing pro posal, and "Would forget the federal re-insurance as pect of the health plan. Five other items classed as "vital" by the President were military survivors' benefits, refugee act amend ments, customs simplification, the atom "peace ship," Hawaiian statehood. The President is expected to bring up again revision of the McCarran-Walter Im migration Act. And in a White House statement after Republican Congressional leaders met with the Presi dent on Dec. 12, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii were linked by the administration for the first time. That would leave among the 1955 carry-overs these other items that may Presidential backing: lower voting age, delinquency control program, postage rate, increases, strengthened internal security laws, self -financing lor the Tennes see Valley Authority. s CONGRESS will evidentally be . asked to appro- priate $4.9 billion for foreign economic and mili tary aid, but the rate of spending will remain about the same as this year's. Funds for international infor mation would be upped to $135 million, or about two- thirds above the present expenditure. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson on Dec. 13 outlined a five-point farm program offering step-ped-up relief to farmers, including a "soil bank" scheme, but sticking to flexible farm price supports. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield on Oct. 31 had said that the President would ask in January for higher postal rates to make up "staggering" postal deficits of about $460 million a year. The President on Oct. 21;endorsed Attorney Gen eral Herbert Brownell Jr.'s six- point court improve ment program. A domestic "Point Four" program for federal aid to chronically depressed areas got his "strong approval" on Oct! 24, and on Oct. 18 he had promised to ask for "specific" legislation for federal disaster insurance. Other safe bets for attention in an election year are Social Security revision and low-rent housing. A tax-cut? The President's attitude at the Dec. 12 conference was "wait to see how things are going." E.R.R. In The Day's By FRANK" JENKINS In his Christmas message, which was broadcast by Radio Free Europe, President Eisen hower spoke of .prayers for FREEDOM in .Eastern Europe. It roused the ire of Commu nist Party Boss Khrushchev, who called it "crude interference in the internal affairs of communist nations," and added: 0 "To pray for a change of re gime in the PEOPLE'S DEMOC RACIES only leads to incite ment of passions and a stepping up of the armaments race." COMMENT: Let. William Shakespeare provide it (Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2): "Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung." rjNE can hardly blame Khrush- chev for blowing his top when the leader of the free world expresses the hope that the people of othe communist despotisms may eventually gain their freedom. Having been smart enough to battle his way to the top of the communist party heap, he must be smart enough to know that Russia's greatest weakness lies in the fact that communism is so foul that in time it must fall of the weight of its own foulness. T7"HRUSHCHEV speaks of the " communist "people's democ racies." Shakespeare handles that one pretty well, too. He says, in Romeo and Juliet: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose ""D U 1J b any uuici iictuie wuuiu smell as sweet." The Bard of Avon might have added: A skunk by any other name would smell as fouL TODAY'S political note: f- President Eisenhower for a second term is being discussed by Pennsylvania Republican Tuesday, January 3. 1958 " or. may not get all-out News leaders at a meeting in Harris- burg, the state capital. The GOP state chairman says there is a lot of Republican sentiment to put Eisenhower on the party ballot in Pennsylvania's Presi dential preference primary next April. s The answer is simple. The GOP politicians would like to ride into office on Ike's coattails. T CAN think of nothing that that would be more wonder ful for our country and the world than Ike's complete re turn to robust health thus en abling him to become a candi date for a second term. But the decision is his AND HIS ALONE because it ii HIS LIFE that is at stake. I can't work up much enthusiasm for the Republican politicians who are trying to crowd him into a decision tTOO EARLY for the state oi ms health to be known so that they can ride Into office on his bandwagon.- OPEAKING of Republican poli- ticians, Senator John Butler of Maryland predict that con gress will vote aa early as April or May to cut income taxes. He figures the cut may be at much as 10 per cent and says that a tax reduction measure will probably be the only important new bill paased in the coming session. "PINE, Senator. - Feeling as you do, I assume that you will assume leadership of a determined movement to CUT SPENDING by at least 10 per cent. Or will you? - rYNICAL note the news: The British foreign office in London says "that 190 World War 2 Valentine (British) tanks have been given to Belgium in the last four months. The., idea was to melt them up into scrap Today and By Walter THE ROUGH TALK The speeches made last week in Moscow by the Soviet leaders are indeed very different in tone from tneir speeches six months ago to justify anyone in thinking that the Sov iets were get ting ready to yield anything substantial for the sake of an a g r e e m e nt. Moscow was as Walter Lippssa uncompromising in July as it is today. The difference between the speeches then and now lies else where. It lies in their confidence, which is new and recent, that the Soviets are winning the cold war in Asia and Africa, and that they have us, so to say, over a barrel. Bulganin and Khruschev have come back from India, Bur ma and Afghanistan with an ex uberantly happy conviction that in the contest for influence and power, they have won, that they have come successfully to terms with the native feelings and the national sentiment of the key countries of South Asia. It is because they feel so strong on this account, that they can af ford to talk so roughly to us. In fact, they are acting now as if they were convinced that the more roughly they talk to us, the more they will be ap plauded in South Asia. They must have been m i g h t il y .pleased not only with the big crowds but with what the lead ing personalities in the region said to them privately. IT would be complacency in deed to shrug this all off as nothing more than Khruschev's usual bad manners. His talk is not mere talk. Something serious and real has happened, and the Western allies have in fact suf fered an .important setback. The Soviet diplomacy has, achieved a notable success! We can deceive only ourselves if we deny or ignore it. In the broadest and simplest terms what has happened is this. Between Morocco on the Atlan tic Ocean and Indonesia in the South Pacific, across North Af rica to Egypt to the Middle East to South Asia to Southeast Asia, there live a great mass of human beings who during the past four centuries were under the im perial rule of the great powers of Western Europe. Many of these peoples have, all of them will soon have, achieved their independence. But until now the issue of their independence has been one between them and the old em pires. Russia, which has long .tried to have a hand in this area, was successfully excluded throughout the nineteenth cen tury and, in fact, until the past year. The Russians, have now broken through, more accurately they have jumped over, the bar riers which excluded them. For the first time they have become a principal power in the Middle East and in South Asia. This is the achievement about which Bulganin-and Khruschev are so exuberantly pleased with themselves. They feel as Mr. Dulles might feel if he had sud denly come back from a trium phant tour of Prague, Warsaw, and Peiping. rpO my mind a most significant thing about these speeches is that they say so little about economic matters and so much iron as raw material for Bel gian steel mills or to convert them into tractors to be used in tilling Belgian farms. Irtstead, many of them have been reconditioned in Belgium and sent to Egypt to be used in STIRRING UP A NEW WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Foreign aid has its quirks and its angles. SI FUNERAL SERVICES Jn Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phohe 2-6675 Tomorrow Lippmann about political matters. The Sov iets are not offering to out-bid the West in the field of economic aid, that is to say of capital ex port. They are for a 'little aid, not very much, one? might say just enough to establish the fact that the West is not the sole sup plier of economic aid. Their heavy cards are politi cal, and what they are doing is to exploit the reaction to our policy of military alliances. As we have backed Pakistan, they have backed India and Afghanis tan. As we back Thailand, they back Burma. As we back the so called northern tier with Iraq and Iran, they back the south ern tier with Egypt, Syria and Saudi-Arabia. By making our military pacts with certain coun tries on "our side," we have opened the door for the Rus sians into the countries which are supposedly not on our side. We are stymied by our own policy. Having discriminated in favor of certain countries by giv ing them arms, we, cannot talk back-to the Russian's if they dis criminate in favor of the other countries. TJHERE is no reason, it seems to me, to hope that the rapid deterioration of the Western po sition can be arrested as long as there is a contest in which we back Turkey and Pakistan and Thailand while they, back Egypt, Afghanistan, India and Burma. They will almost surely win that contest. For with the exception only of Turkey, they are back ing the stronger combinations. If there is a way out, it would seem to lie in taking a new stand, which is opposed to spe cial military alliances in South Asia, and in the field of eco nomic aid favors regional rather than country by country projects of development. (Copyright, 1858, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) wage earners rights in Oregon WORKING CONDITIONS FOR WOMEN The Conditions, under which women work in Oregon must meet requirements set forth in orders of the Wage and Hour Commission. Since separate regulations are made for va rious occupations, persons con cerned with a particular oc cupation should know those which affect it. Three- ex amples of requirements in spe cific occupations follow. 1 Q. I stand behind a hosiery counter all day on a cement floor. Can something be done about this? A. Yes. A mat or grating is required where women in stores stand at work on floors that are not of wood, cork, rubber or other resilient composition. Q. A poultry company had me report for ' work but enough poultry never came, to put me on. All I had was the expense of the trip. Is that fair? A. In this instance you are en titled to regular pay for 4 hours if you remained available for employment during the half day. Reporting pay is also mandatory when women employees are re quired to report for work but not furnished it in such busi nesses as manufacturing, restau rant and mercantile firms. Q. My employer says I must take my meals in the cafe where I cashier and pay, full price. Is this true? A. An employer may not com pel employees to take meals in his place of business. If the em ployee does agree to do so, the charge may, not exceed 50 per cent of that charged the public. If you have a question, you may write Commissioner Nor man O. Nilsen, State Bureau of Labor, Salem, Oregon. PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which are In keeping with its means. A selection of services tn every price range Is of fered to satisfy individual preferences and to meet all financial circumstances. Convenient Terms? A Certainlyl Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ef the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. I he Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. not exceed 400 words. Advises Flood Dam To the Editor: As a visitor from Western Montana I have watched with interest the flood reports in this area. In my home county we had these troubles about every three years, caused by snow run off in the spring, and about 15 years ago we did something about it. As a result we obtained the Hungry Horse dam and our troubles were over. This is a high water storage and flood control dam and in order to make one of these feasible and self paying they require ,the gen erating of elecfc-icity. The very thought of one of these dams, in an area such as your -valley, served by private power interests, gives these fel lows the jitters and as a result one sees a flood of propaganda about the benefits of tax-paying, private power. As a result these moves are generally stopped be fore they start. The principle and operation of these dams is csimple. Built to proper height at the right places, stream flow can be con trolled by closing the run-off during times of flood conditions. Water can be stored until need ed. Instead of floods, it creates a large revenue in power that costs practically nothing to pro duce after the original invest ment. . , These dams are expensive, and remember, they do not produce electricity every hour of the year. New uses are being found. These dams almost double the power production of every low dam below them. The power companies started putting in new generators at each of their "downstream dams and reaps the benefit of controlled run off without cost to themselves. We got our dam, in spite of the opposition of private inter ests, with only a small per cent of your population, although it took us ten years to get it start ed. We are starting" to reap the benefits. : Our dam is going to pay back the hundred million dollars it cost in one third the time, in power revenue, alone, that was , originally estimated. This does not include flood pre vention nor does it include the millions the private dams down stream are going to make with our water. Put your Senator -Morse in as Secretary, get organized as a unit working for a common pur pose and you can get these flood control dams you need to pre vent the head lines I have been reading the last two weeks. Charles Green. Voting Important To the Editor: Oregon has been regarded as a Republican State all during the modern era. True, it voted for Franklin D. Roosevelt four times. It's total number of registered Democrats has rarely been far behind the number of registered Republi cans. It has always been a fact though with only a very few ex- If you're saving for a home . . . Where you Just consider the advantages you get when you put your savings in an insured Savings and Loan Association . . . Excellent returns from your money. Modern, efficient, forward-looking service. And, of course, your money is safe because in these Associa tions your savings are protected by sound management and substantial reserves. They are insured up to $10,000 by the FSLIC an agency of the U. S. Government e No wonder Americans are now putting more of their savings account dollars into insured Savings and Loan Associations than anywhere else! Clearly, it pays to save in insured Savings and Loan Associations! Q Investments Made by Letters submitted for publication must ceptions, that unless you are a Republican in Oregon you did not count. I believe the reason for the Re publican domination of politics in Oregon is the big muscle of the GOP as exemplified in the press, campaign funds, the domi nant business and industrial groups in every . community. There are 21 daily newspapers in Oregon, their circulation spread eagled by two big Portland dailies. Three comparatively small daily newspapers support ed Neuberger in 1954. It is very easy to see then that with a small circulation from these three open minded dailys it's pretty . tough gomg should a Democrat decide to run lor puD- lic office in the state of Oregon Oregon has a fine record of liberal social behavior but it con trasts jarringly "With special in terests' domination in economics and resources. One big reason believe, is the fact that Oregon has been a one party State, for so long. As an example, its rec ord of protecting school timber lands is far less respectable than that of Washington, where the two parties have been closely balanced. Private utilities also have exercised greater influence ovef legislation in Oregon than in Washington. Power rates are substantially higher in Oregon. There are other examples and I think the people of Oregon are discovering them, at least 60 per cent of the people are. About 20 tier cent ofthe members of each party are solid and : vote a straight ticket. To them party fealty is above all else. This is only 40 per cent of the elector ate. Sixty per cent of the voters in Oregon register back and forth but seldom give complete devotion to one special party. It is this 60 per cent that should be fairly informed on all issues. .'; The most important thing is to VOTE. There are 145,723 elec tion districts in the U.S.A. Theo retically speaking, 22 votes one way or the other in each of these precincts could have won or lost the election for either of the Presidential candidates in 1952. So one vote is very important! Bad politicians . are elected by good people who don't take an interest in. politics and don't vote! Ken Corliss, , 1564 Myers Lane, : Medford, Ore. ', Dutch Tanker Rescues Survivors of Sinking Amsterdam (U.R) The Dutch, tanker Koratia reported early today it rescued 26 sur vivors from the wreckage of a Venezuelan ship which it said "broke up and sank" in the Caribbean Sea. The radio report identified the sunken ship as the tanker Ped ro Avilla, which is not listed by Lloyds Registry. It did not say whether any crewmen were lost in the sinking. The Koratia is expected to de liver the surviv.ors to Maracaibo, Venezuela, late tonight. save does make a .the 10th of January Earn Dividends as of the 1st FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford 27 North Holly R. F. Kyle, Secretary Ballet Dancer Named To British Nobility London (U.R) Thf anrti on re at Britain'f Sadler's Wells bal let gave Margot Fonteyn an un precented ovation Monday night in recognition of her elevation to the nobility. The applause and cheering ent on for more than 10 min- : utes after the final curtain of "Swan Lake," while the popu lar ballerina took curtain call after curtain call. Miss Fonteyn was created a "Dame of the British Empire" . an honor equivalent to knight hood in Queen Elizabeth's New Year's honors list. MR. INSURANCE Fred Brennan Thefts occur much more often than fires and with picture win dows and thermopane, glass break age is also a big risk. Can both residence theft and glass breakage be endorsed on our Residence Fire Policy for a small added premium? For Information Call MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940 CHARLES 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 oft 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. If you cannot conscien tiously claim to be in either of these categories drop me a line telephone. CHARLES E JONES, Local Agent SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA Phone 2-9772 mmmmmsm .5iw5Kwf:':o:v:'Xi difference ' Looking pf4 Ahead pp with savings "and loan? j foundation 1 This sign identifies us as a member of The Savings and Loan Foundation Inc., a nationwide organization of insured Savings and Loan, Building and Loan and Homestead Associa tions which sponsors this message in Life, The Saturday Evening Post and U. S. News and World Report. r Q
