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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, January 24, 1956 I
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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
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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.
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FRED
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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
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