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Newspaper Page Texto o FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, January 24, 1956 I Mattel? Of FGCt By Joe and Stewart Aisop MEDFORV&TRIBUNE "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City tditor HARRY CHIP MAN". Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor SlIVESTARCHER. Society Editor DALE FRICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entemd as secona ciass mane Medord. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 " SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year 12-"0 Daily and Sunday Six months 650 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year 3-50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. r.ntrai Point. Eagle Point, VTr.k.nnHe. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S15.00 Daily and Sunday One month l-io Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City ol Medlorf Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF cmtumim-'' Advertising Representative: rvf fires in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco, Los Angeies, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOOhATgN Newspaper PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Why Have Primaries? Why all the excitement about state primaries? They seldom have any influence on party conven tions. Seven states in fact have abandoned their pri maries, because they proved so ineffective. Primaries were designed to give control of nom inations to the people and eliminate the party mach ines and bosses. But anyone who has ever attended either of the major party conventions, realizes this goal has never been achieved. AS FAR as the record goes, candidates who have stayed out of the preferential primaries have clone better than those who have gone in. Harold Stassen got more primary votes four years newly authorized, highest pri- Cofnr. Toff Vof ha woe nmror in tha nm. rity weapons development pro- agu mail uwiWi . .. grams o the v s Army and nmg at Chicago while Taft came close to beating out U-S. Air Force. . flp-ppv-o Eisenhower. There have been earlier rum- Senator Kefauver on the Democratic side made a or.s d reports that the Soviets . m"o . ;v, 1 A mi?ht orobablv have this weapon lemilC snowing in uie piiiiieuiea in isoi, wuuuug x- states out of 16. Yet he was beaten tor the Demo cratic nomination by Governor Stevenson who enter ed no primaries. Secretary of the Treasury Mc Adoo back in 1924, I led the primary field easily but lost the nomination to L Jonn W. Davis wno never emereu a primary. And so one might go on and on. SOVIET IRBM Washington The American government now has in its pos session convincing evidence that the Soviet Un ion has suc cessfully built a guided rock et with a strik ing range of approximately 1,500 miles. This is the so-called inter mediate range Joseph Aisop ballistic mis sile, or IRBM in common Pent agon jargon. Building an Amer ican IRBM is the purpose of T '. i which the American ser vices have just begun scramb ling to ge t . These have come from sev eral sources, n o t a bly Sen. Henry Jackson of Washington. This is the Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 24, 1946 (It was Thursday) United Nations assembly votes unanimously to establish an atomic energy commission; United States announces first of three tests of atomic blasts on naval vessels in Pacific. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: One of the Older Girls was upset yesterday at a social function. She fretted about a hole in the heel of her stocking, while both knees were exposed. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 24. 193B (It was Friday) Ground broken at Southern Oregon college in Ashland for $50,000 gymnasium. WPA to start work to beauti fy about a mile of upper Lithia park in Ashland. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 24, 1926 (It was Sunday) Year-end figures show there was at least one car for every average family in Oregon Jit end of 1925. The new Willys Overland six sedan advertised for $895, fob factory. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 24, 1916 (It was Monday) United States supreme court upholds theo constitutionality of the income tax law. Snnwv Butte roller mills in ' 'Eagle Point purchased by F. S and O. W. Brandon of Medford; plan renovation of mill to grind the 1916 wheat crop witn moo. ern equipment. UKUikjlUHiiN TlAJLi primaries axe uasea upon a sounu stewart aisop principle, but that principle of popular rule will me however that it has been never be realized as far as party tickets are concerned lVlTtLtfs until nauonai conventions aie auuusneu, ana a in a TIONAL primary system substituted. There have been several attempts to do this, but to date they have all failed. And for one outstanding reason, namely: Both maior parties are controlled by the profes sionals between elections and only at election time do the people as a whole take much interest in the forward movement on ail. tech- problem one way or the other, lhen it s too late. ti.W.K. in its hands virtually conclusive evidence of the existine of a Soviet IRBM. There is a good deal more than this, in fact. One new weapon my be the result of a brilliant accidental break through. Producing a family of new weapons requires a general How "Great" Is Dulles? nical fronts, and the evidence indicates that the Soviets have such a family of intermediate l n . - . . . ... uaiiisuc missies witn ranpps varying irom 800 to 1,500 miles 'lulls IN turn confirms the lr, -r,. 1 4. vus iucvoiciH auspiciun. inai me boviets have achieved mas sive advances in the missle art, IHUS THE Soviets now have sile, which we have not got and can hardly get for a considerable time to come. In the form of this IRBM, the Soviets have a solid leg in the race for the intercontinental missile, which we are now trying to win by a crash effort. By any reason able test, therefore, the Soviets are importantly ahead of this country, at least for the present. in the vital field of guided mis sile development. Curiously enough, however, the most important short-run effect of the Soviet success with the IRBM may well prove to be its effect on the American Strategic Air Command. Very few Americans realize that the great SAC force, which is the mainspring of American and free world strategy, is not really a long-range air force. Yet about 80 per cent of SAC's fighting aircraft are medium-range B-47s. To reach Soviet targets, the B-47s must either take off from overseas airbases, or else be twice refueled in the air. SAC's tanker fleet is insufficient to provide double air-refuelling for more than about one-fifth of SAC's 1,500 B-47s. Hence SAC today is almost wholly depend ent on its- overseas airbases. And it is precisely SAC's over seas airbases that the new Sovet IRBMs will threaten most directly. PROTECTING the overseas air- Nehru, As Aspiring Neutralist, Has Many Local Problems Too By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of: India has plenty of troubles on his hands. SfSS Nehru eets into the head lines chiefly in his role of would - be world peace maker and his leadership in a growing "neu tralist" move ment in Asia Charles McCann ana Arrica. But he faces a monumental task in leading his own country toward the goals he has set for it. The present. riots in Bombay, Calcutta and other cities have dramatized only one of Nehru's many problems. When Indian became a sover eign republic on Jan. 26, 1950, it fell to his lot to take the lead- r bases against destruction by We have never accused President Eisenhower of having a serise of humor. But perhaps he has a more L' j.i t i . j: i. j T- i.- . " active one tnan xias ueen inuieaieu. since lie entereu to be sure, the data are lacking the White House. . t0 show Positively whether the Take his defense of Secretary of State Dulles, for est sslles have ye example, at his recent press conference. in guidance, it is not positively The President admitted at the outset that he had known, either, whether these not read the Dulles article in question so could ex- test mssiies have been capable w. -pii-. nniWn wowl-, n-f Knf !, mlA 01 beinS fltted with a nuclear uicoo iivj U.CXX11XIXVC uyiuiuu ltai ujii ik, uub uc iUixiu. warhead j .ti j ; i: t- ci anu uiu express an opinion regaruing nis oecre- Yet these two unknown, in tary Of State. the equation are not so impres- Mr. Dulles, he stoutly attirmed, "is the greatest S1. as tney may seem at first . n nniA I ' i. "ii. sicmv-c. j.nc piuoiem oi lining a nuclear warhead is relatively minor, compared to the really basic problems of ballistic mis- sne design. Even the design of eifcient guidance mechanisms is ballistic missiles is utterly im possible in the present stage of the missile art. The difference in time factors for missiles and aircraft is so enormously great that the' overseas bases might be utterly destroyed by IRBMs before "massive retaliation" would not be nearly massive enough. The SAC commander. Gen. Curtis LeMay, would then be able to mount an attack on the scale of only a little more than 600 aircraft, rather than the attack on the scale of 1,900 aircraft which is the size of this total force. This explains, no doubt, whv Gen. LeMay asked this year to have Ifis B-47s replaced by urg ent and greatly stepped-up pro- aucnon oi n-ozs. His request was rejected for reasons of budget ary economy, but here again, the news .of the Soviet IRBM would seem to change the' pic ture. 1956, New York Herald . Tribune Inc. ership of 360 million people. They are people of many ra- through with his stateship plan. cial, religious and cultural groups. Six Major Groups India has 225 languages among its people, of which 16 are recog nized officially. It has six major religious groups and countless off-shoots of them. It has four main castes, or hereditary social divisions, and 2,400 smaller ones. It numbers some of the most highly civilized people in the world. It has tribes of primitive head-hunters. Only a few weeks ago police set out to break up a sect of holy men who practice cannibalism in their rites. The present riots stem from Nehru's attempt to organize In dia into 16 states, instead of the present 27, 'and . four federally administered areas. Jealousies and rival claims to territory among the . different language and racial groups cause the outbreaks and dis patches from India indicate there may be many more of them. . But Nehru is determined to go Editorial Comment HOPE FOR ROGUE PROJECT The December floods have really stirred up residents of Josephine and Jackson counties. A few nights ago they held a mass meeting and agreed that something should be done. The Grants Pass Chamber of Com merce is also pressing for ac tion. And the. Medford Mail- Tribune reports that the Izaak Walton league, whose opposi tion hamstrung the 1948 pro gram of the Reclamation Bur eau, is venturing to make some concessions, even to accepting a high dam if that is found to be essential to flood control. The Medford paper also reports: "The Waltonians also acknow ledge some recent studies indi cate that dams contribute sig' nificantly to better fish life con ditions and certainly are not as as are rampaging destructive floods." The evidence of this spread out on the fields beside the Rogue alter the recent flood Dan Fry, who owns land near Grants Pass, told us he saw "millions, actuaUy millions" of fish some of them big fish, too over the fields and in the pools left by the flood. The M-T concludes: "With such cooperation, such determination and such evidence of united and enlightened think ing,, we should really get some where." We hope this cooperation does not falter and that the optimism is not misplaced. Oregon States man, Salem. He is a hard-headed man and he never flinches in a fight. Commenting on the Bombay riots, Nehru said in New Delhi, the capital: "If there was no reason before to change the stateship plan there, there are a million reasons for not changing it. now." Millions Doomed Nehru is trying to wipe out the centuries-old caste system which dooms millions of his peo ple to debased status from birth to death. He plans to make India a prohibition country. He plans to give the government the pow er to regulate private industries. Parliament has passed a bin to regulate the business aspects of Indian newspapers and other publications. A government com mission has just recommended that a ceiling of $6,300 a year be put on all incomes.- He is car rying-out vast plans for indus trial ' development. It is easy to criticize Nehru for trying to play such a big part in world affairs while he has so much to attend to at home. But Nehru is a man of world vision. He is both an idealist and a realist, a man who seeks to do good and a hard-boiled practical politician. At 66, he seems to have years of active leadership before him. He is welding his people into a united nation and is determined that India shall be a world power. Secretary of State I have ever known !" HTHE question naturally arises : how many Secretar- . ies of State has the President KNOWN? He knew Secretary of State George Marshall, but ghat's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research depart 1. Over half, about half, or loss than half of the retail dollars spent for food by U.S housewives goes fv transport ing, packaging and handling? 2. Russians teams are or aren't participating in the 1956 winter Olympic Games at Cortina Itlav? 3. Which eastern railroads have used the characters of Phoebe Snow and Chessie the Cat in their ads? 4. Germany declared war on the U.S. in World War II some time before or after the Jap anese attack on Pearl Harbor, or at the same time? 5. Nob Hill is a famous land mark in Boston, Chicago, Den ver, Detroit, San Francisco, or, Washington, D C? 6. A D.D.S. is a veterinarian, dentist, chiropractor, chiropodist or optician? 7. What prominent U.S. movie actress is soon to become Monegasque? 1. Over half. 2. Are. 3. Lack awanna and Chesapeake & Ohio, respectively. 4. At the same time. 5. San Francisco. 6 Dentist. 7. Grace Kelly "that's a subject of Monaco.). not as Secretary of State but as a fellow West Pointer design, metanurgy and an the and Army general. other problems which the Soviets He did not KNOW Secretaries ot State Acheson, ceramjy nave solved m Stettinius, Byrnes, Cordell Hull, Hughes, Lansing, ZSJ?. Bryan, or any of the other holders of this portfolio in there is no question about that recent years of war OR peace. N For these reasons, it must be So it is possible, though we grant not very prob- T'T CIT, ,1 -xime ?s .!ai,rly able that President Eisenhower chose the wording not been reached aireadv when . T-i i-1 1J. 3 4. HT TV.TI V o si. . .. )i. ins uiaimei eiiuuiscuieui ui ivi. armies veiy caie- ouvieis wm pass irom tne fully and even may have had tongue in cheek some- testing phase into the vital phase what when he limited his list to those Secretaries of Sffl" SefmuiSSiv State "he had KNOWN and was careful not to include significant quantities. By - the Tip pntfrp list, sin pp. hp hftcamp. interested in the hist.nrv same token, it is also reasonable of his government and the occupants of this important fcffTtt' STSSaSS office. the even more important inter continental ballistic missile, or T ANY rate we don't believe John Foster Dulles icbm the ultimate weapon will go down in history -as a GREAT Secretary of TL?ZZ otate. Marshal Bulsanin recentlv made He may well prove to be the most active, (he has a public boast on this point. pertninlv as some wao stated been "nn in the air" more than any other) but there is one essential quality THf S0Yiet irbm tests are j; i. -u i..ii ii i.i,4. : C 4? i. :i also rather final and decisive ui gi cameos ne luuuiv ia,i;is uiau is a sense ui numii- pr0of that this country has lag- lty. ged far behind in missile de velopment. Until a few months VJR. DULLES in fact really thinks he is a "great ago, the American missile pro m Secretary of State." He raised no protest when ?ram ait6gther neglected the iha aiitW nf this PnnfrnvprQisl "T.ifp" ovilp roV intermediate ranges, which had " T r xv. been the subject of an inter. him with John Quincy Adams and Thomas Jefferson service auarrei of classical ven- m tne secretarial nan or a ame. in tact he readily om and dimensions. Seconded the motion by giving hlS Official Ok to There were short range,, tac-t-Vio fotnol -nn-H-inn rvf tVin 1onlotri-iT 1-f-PoTnv.n. Ale,-, tical missile rjroiects, such as - x,, , . O t..1Vi Vi-ra nonforo) EXPRESSES OBJECTION Mariana, Fla. (U.R) Mary Ed wards, 40, confessed she burned down the mess hall of the Friendship Church in Mariana because "I fell out with the dea cons and didn't like the way the church was being run." A In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS CuUed from the teletype: "Official Washington is said to be concerned over a report that Egypt has admitted up to 150 '9;835 ?): 30345' 59 $3)0 "3.?3 arms from Czechoslov akia." Wafer Failure Suspends Chile Copper Operations Santiago. Chile iOJ.R) The Andes Copper Mining Co., a sub sidiary of the American-owned Anaconda Company, today sus pended operations temporarily at- its huge Potrerillos mine in Northern Chile. A company announcement said the mine would be shut down for at least three days due to disruption of the system which provides water for indus trial use. The announcement did not disclose the cause of the disruption. The first business corporation to seU life insurance in the Unit ed States was granted its char ter in 1794. i THE TELETYPE, like other But I doubt if the foregoing re port is any more muddled than a lot of the stuff that official Washington get "concerned over" from day to day. The current ruckus over what State Secretary Dulles said in a recent Life magazine inter view and what General Ridge way says in the current issue of the Saturday Eevening Post, for example. Secretary Dulles is a good man. General Ridgeway is a good man. But by the time the politicians get through hauling them over the coals for cam paign purposes they're made to look like either morons or traitors. QnnMtnT ninlUn kn U(- i,. i,, . those which have centered at ucuciai v uunm iiao uitcu ici i ufc 1Y11U Wil . USL ctlllUllti A , t, ji T friends he IS following in the footsteps Of his famOUS There were also long-range pro- (jrandfather J? oster who was Secretary of State dur- iects sponsored by the Air Force ing the golden era of James G. Blaine. -"At?sC S0T an-1int"c0"-m If E DON'T know why it is exactly but history has ?nrd SSStoS-SSf- rarely accorded the title of "greatness" to those for a lone-range piiotiess air individuals who thought they were, during their life craft- But the p3?. for.inter" time. I he accolade has almost always gone to those , months who were so concerned with and sobered by their re- ago. At that time the National sponsibilities, they had no time to consider themselves security council, no doubt part- or what their p ace in histoiy might, or might not, be. oveWM- VVe seriously doubt therefore that Secretary ofino tv fn euided missile State John Foster Dulles will prove an exceDtion to development. Final approval of the rule, and be ranked with the truly "greats" as this the Ay's paper plans for pro- j j t ,-4 i,-, dtt, ii ducing an IRBM at the Rea- ciiuuiocuuuuiwvH.uaiiiu, xfc. t r,fn ruxz ranted Oluuc uauui uivij i u o CPEAKING of politics I'm amazed to find my self in complete agreement for once with a couple of left-wing Democrats Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon. In a senate agriculture com mittee hearing in Washington the other day, both of them assailed the goverment's pork buying program as a miserable failure. Griffin Creek Plans MD Benefit Night Grffin Creek Students and teachers of Griffin Creek school have planned a March of Dimes benefit for Saturday, January 28, in the school gymnasium. The junior varsity basketball teams will open the program at 7:30 p.m. The varsity team will meet fathers in' a second game, and the girls volleyball team will play mothers in a third ath letic contest. Steve Whipple will direct the school band in a group of num bers, and the seventh and eighth grade rooms will sponsor "blanket toss" to add to the Dimes benefit. Soft drinks and popcorn will be sold. No admission will be charged, but a donation jar will be placed at the door. Greatest immigration year in U. S. history was the year 1907 when a total of 1,285,000 foreign-born arrived to make their homes here.' only last wek by the Pentagon's Ballistic Missile Science Ad visory Committee headed by Dr. John Von Neuman. Besides the Army project, there - is one more American IRBM project controUed by the Air Force. Both these IRBM projects are going forward con currently with a crash effort to get the earlist possible results from the intercontinental mis sile projects. There is even some Air Force criticism that the ex tremely belated attempt to get IRBMs will interfere seriously with the more important attempt to get ICBMs.- LET'S PUT it like this: -- 14V lix v VV1U1 HiC pwl XX market is a x surplus of pigs. But The more the price of pigs is kept up by artifical manipula tion of the market that is SUB SIDY buying the more the corn belt farmer will be inclined to CONTINUE to produce a surplus of- pigs. In time, the surplus will be come unmanageable. - That is not intended as a slam at the hog farmer. It's just human nature. It goes for all lines of business. The automobile industry, for example, is presently plagued by a -surplus of cars. Because of this present surplus, most of the manufacturers are cutting back production. But You can bet your bottom dol lar that if the government start ed BUYING UP THE SURPLUS CARS at a price that would leave a profit the manufacturers would go right on producing- a surplus. AND- . In the course of time This accumulating surplus of cars, hanging like a dark thund ercloud over the markets of the future, would wreck the auto mobile business. MR. INSURANCE FRED BRENNAN FOR INSURANCE THAT PAYS: During 1955, this Agency re turned to the community in actual loss and dividend payments the sum of $153,364.06 This represents a real contribution to the economy of the Rogue River Valley. We invite you to share in this fine insurance protection INSUR ANCE THAT PAYS by insur ing with MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940 iilil - V , A Looking Ahead with CHARLES E. JONES Most of us are reluctant to face unpalatable truths. That sensitive spot on our molar ia probably lust 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 nard not to think about. Yet only two cate gories of people can afford to disregard sucn a contmgency- 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 or telephone. CHARLES E. JONES, Local Agent Phone 2-9772 SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA Iff- P MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE f