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History from the files of The
Mail Tfibune 10, 20. 30 and
10 years ago. s
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 3, 1946
j (It was Thursday)
Central Point sells $114,500
worth of water system bonds to
First National Bank of Portland.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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