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0 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) 'Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" fublijhed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Eir 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 Editor HARRY CHiPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Societv Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year J12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Knnriav rVnlvrn VMr S3.50. By Carrier In Advance .'sdfcrrdP. Asniana. central foint, ugie rami.. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. "Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Dailv and Sunday One month 125 Carrier and Dealers 5 per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ir bmiinifliuim NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight 0' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and iO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 31, 1946 (It was Thursday) Sheriff Howard Gault an nounces candidacy for Republi can nomination for Jackson county sheriff. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The secre tary of state reports "prevailing speeds are creeping up on Ore gon highways." The prevailing "creep" is 57 mph, much too fast to creep up on an icy spot. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 31, 1936 (It was Friday) Slow voting reported in spe cial state and city elections; sales tax proposal on ballot. Announced Southern Pacific passenger service changes pro vide better service between here and points north and south. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 31, 1926 (It was Sunday) Residents of Siskiyou super road district to decide on main highway from Oregon Caves and Crescent City, Calif., through Applegate valley direct to Med ford. Richard E. Byrd announces another expedition to North Pole; possibility of using planes on trip. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 31, 1916 Artisian well at the base of Mount Grizzly, six miles south east of Medford, drilled through four veins of coal. From Local and Personal col- umn: Medford is second in the list of cities in the state in the sum of money obtained in the sale of .Red Cross stamps during the yuletide season just passed. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. First 1956 presidential pref erence primary is to be held in New York, New Hampshire, Wis consin, Illinois or Nebraska? 2. A man with a fabulously high income may pay as much as 90 per cent of it in federal income tax; right or wrong? 3. "Another name for the groundhog is oppossum, wood chuck, skunk, raccoon, beaver, or chipmunk. 4. The Senate or the House is more likely to vote to ban fed eral school-construction funds for areas practicing race segre gation in schools? 5. Ads used to advise us to reach for, instead of a sweet, a Camel, Chesterfield, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall or Raleigh cigarette? 6. The sin and crime called sodomy gets its name from an ancient poet, painter, city, coun try or sculptor? 7. A Democrat nicknamed '"Soapy", is governor of Texas, New York, Michigan, Pennsyl vania, Virginia or New Jersey? The Answers: 1. New Hamp shire. 2. Wrong, a maximum overall rate is 87. 3. Wood chuck. 4. The House. 5. Liftky Strike. 6. City (Sodom). 7. Mich igan (Gov. Williams). About one-half of the chroni cally ill people in the U.S. are under 45 years old. MAIL TRIBUNE Ike, Dick and Bill As Republican minority leader Senator Knowland of California was "deeply shocked" when Senator Neuberger in his letter stressing the objections to President Eisenhower running for a second term, opined that in their desperation the pro-Eisenhower fanatics might even resort to drugs if and when their candidate showed signs of faltering. WE giant it was an unfortunate choice of words. But only as leader of his party on the eve of a presidential campaign was California's senior Sena tor "shocked." As a member of the party who not only hopes and prays the General will REFUSE to run, but is doing everything in his power to make such action difficult, it is a safe wager Candidate Knowl and welcomed the Neuberger statement and hopes the oppsition makes more of them. For Senator Knowland is not only extremely de termined, he has one thing in common with Oregon's junior Senator. They both realize, as probably no one outside of Washington, D.C. can, the intensity and almost religious fervor of the demand that "Ike" put all personal and non-political considerations aside, and regardless of everything but his duty to his party and country accept the nomination and thus insure GOP control for another four years. They don't believe of course the President would take any drags to keep going (except on his doctor's advice), but tney would not put it past xiouse iimiui ity leader Joe Martin, for example, offering "Ike" a nitro-giycerine capsule or a benzadrine pill, if on a speaking tour the President showed signs of distress. FOR as they see it and close observers in Wash ington regardless of party agree the "palace guard" are going to get General Eisenhower to make the race for a second term or ELSE ! And "or else" to them at least means Republican defeat. These ardent and loyal gentlemen put no stock in Senators Nixon or Knowland, who they are convinced would be beaten before they got a start. They put little stock in Chief Justice Warren agreeing to run. On the most popular Republican President "since the surrender at Appomatox" they put all stock and their chips red, white and blue and if they fail to get him up those stairs to deliver his acceptance speech, it won't be for lack of trying, and it will be due to some happenstance most of them don't now foresee. TN OTHER words it is "sink or swim, live or die" slogan with the 100 Eisenhower backers most of them original Eisenhower supporters against Taft and they are not only a competent group, but they have more influence with "Ike" than any political group in his party. THIS is the chief reason the Mail Tribune from the outset, in spite of reports from Washington press headquarters to the contrary, has believed that bar ring another heart-attack, President Eisenhower WILL run for reelection. For as time goes on the pres sure not from party hacks but from his closest politi cal friends and most trusted advisors will become so great that he will ultimately convince himself, we hplievp lb at. tn refi'isp. In run" would bp. shirking his duty, surrendering to the speak, and that to a man 01 the President s military training and high sense of duty, would be, as the say ing goes "a fate worse than death." AS stated another heart attack erny halt in recov "ery of a serious nature would nullify any sense of such compulsion and entirely change the picture. But barring any such improbable and regrettable turn of events, we believe Senatoi Knowland might as well adjust himself to the inevitable and abandon any hope of occupying the White House or getting close to it for at least another four years. R.W.R. "The Indispensable Man " As a postscript to the above, the front-page edi torial of the New York Herald Tribune pleading for President Eisenhower to nilly, supplies only added evidence of the almost hys terical insistence in GOP upper-echelons that nothing absolutely nothing prevent "Ike" from leading his party to a second triumph. Of course lip-service is paid by the Tribune to the item of health and personal inclinations, the Tribune even indicates a certain solicitude and sympathy, but the editorial as a whole clearly adds up to something like this: Unless there should be a. definite set-back in his recovery between now and the middle of the month when his final decision is expected, then it is the ines capable duty of the President to again make the race, for if he does not then not only the cause of world peace, but of progressive democracy and continued well being of the American people will be jeopard ized. That is the Grand Old Party's official view of the situation and the Tribune as a semi-official spokes man of the party is entirely sincere in it. The President himself more than once has scoffed at the conception of the "indispensable man." But not. his dedicated followers. Ike as far as the Republican party leade'rs are concerned is the indispensable man, it is either Ike or. the deluge! Our guess is they are right. R.W.R. Truman Lauds Ike's Reply New Xork (U.R) Former President Harry S. Truman said today he thought President Eisenhower's reply to Russian Premier N i c o 1 a i Bulganin's friendship treaty proposal was "the best thing he's done in for eign affairs since he's been in Tuesday, January 31, 195S enemy under fire so to become a candidate willy- To Bulganin the White House." Mr. Truman expressed the opinion in answer to a news man's question as he arrived here by train for several days of politicking in New York and New England. He did not am plify the remark. Peace or Real War Now Hangs In Balance in Isle of Cyprus By CHARLES M. McCANN j United Press Correspondent It looks as if there may be peace or real war in Cyprus soon. Great Britain has made a new propos al to the is land's Nation alists, who de mand union with Greece. The National ists started conferring on it today. It Is reported Charles McCann that the pro posal was made on a take it or leave it basis an ultimatum, in fact. Britain is believed to have offered the Nationalists a con siderable measure of self govern ment, with the right to self, determination sometime in the indefinite future. The alternative to acceptance is a stern crackdown on terror ism, probably under a martial law regime. Situation Grew Worse If Britain's offer is accepted, it will be due to the influence of black-bearded, 42 - year - old Archbishop Makarios III of the Greek Orthodox church. Boston educated Makarios is the Na tionalist leader. - The crackdown, if it comes, will be made by mild-looking, mustached Field Marshal Sir John Harding, 60, governor and commander in chief. Riotous anti-British, and anti American demonstrations broke out in Cyprus in December, 1954. The situation has become steadily worse. It has now en tered the stage of open terror ism. Warding put the island Tinder a state of emergency last Nov. 26. His action seemed only to rouse the terrorists to more violence. Britain has flown Commandos, paratroopers, infantrymen and Scotland Yard anti-terrorist ex perts to Cyprus. But bombings, assassinations and riots continue. Fifteen British soldiers in all have been killed and scores wounded. Harding and ; Makarios held Matter of Fact ey DECLINE OF THE WEST? Washington Behind the meet ing between President Eisenhow er and British Prime Minister Eden, there is a single, domi n a n t, all-important fact which is the real theme and motive of the talks in the White House. In brief, Britain is now in very real danger of fi Joseph Alsop nal, decisive defeat in her cour ageous struggle to maintain her standing as a major world power, second "partner in the Western alliance and chief ally of the United States. The danger arises from Brit ain's heavy dependence -on what may be called semi-colonial in come sources. This depend ence has late ly been ob scured by Brit ish slogans like "export to live" and "trade not aid." The, slo gans have sug gested that the British econo my no longer Stewart Alsop depends upon assets acquired in the old imperialist days. But in fact Britain's jugular vein is not in the busy industrial midlands or in London's smoky suburbs. It is still in the Middle and Far East, and to a lesser degree in Africa. On the average, the Middle and Far East togeth er produce no less than 40 per cent of Britain's annual hard currency income. A SINGLE, highly vulnerable complex of raw material sources, the tin mines and rub ber plantations of Communist bedevilled Malaya, earn a good 16 per cent of Britain's annual dollar revenue. A single obscure individual, the Sheikh of Kuweit, provides a substantial proportion of all the new capital annually avail- able to the sterling area, by the simple act or investing his S250, 000,000 a year of oil revenues in London. The loss of the British oil in vestments, in the Middle East would bring British industry to a grinding halt, and the rest of western Europe would be almost equally hard hit. These facts mean in turn that the Communists in Malaya and the Soviet diplomats and agents in the Middle East are bodly probing for Britain's jugular vein, when they seek' to expel British influence from these areas that were once so safely controlled by British imperial power. The margin in Britain is al - ready so narrow that London is currently in the grip of an ex- several secret conferences early this month. Then Harding iiew to London to consult the British Cabinet. Now he has flown back to Cyprus with Britain's proposal. He submitted it in writing to Makarios Saturday. There was a flare of hope in London last week that Makarios might accept the proposal. That hope does not seem to be so strong today. There also is the question whether Makarios, great as is his influence, can control the Cyprus Nationalists. That ques tion has arisen several times. The Nationalist campaign has been waged by the secret EOKA Society, the National Organiza tion of Cypriote Fighters. This organization was outlaw ed last Sept. 15. Some of its members have been arrested. But its activities continue. Communist Mayors There is also a Communist angle. Harding outlawed the Cyprus Communist party Dec. 14. It numbers officially only about 20,000 members. But some Cyprus cities have Communist mayors. Continued terrorism will be helpful to the Reds. The next week or two should determine what is going to hap pen if the result is a peaceful Gas Tax Exemption Gels Tentative OK Washington (U.R) House Democrats and Republicans vied with each other for credit for a bill that woul deexmpt farm ers from about $60,000,000 a year in gasoline taxes. The House tentatively passed the bill by a voice vote Mon day. But it postponed complet ing action until today so more members could get on record. Both Democrats and Republi cans claimed credit for the bill. President Eisenhower requested it in his farm message Jan. 9. The legislation would exempt farmers from paying federal tax es on all gasoline used in farm equipment. Joe and Stewart Alsop tremely serious monetary crisis, in the midst of a business boom. The loss of almost any of the assets for which world commu nism is now so eagerly reaching out, will quickly -plunge Britain into virtually irrevocable bank ruptcy. : JJO DOUBT all this sounds ' grimly commercial, and with ugly colonial overtones, too. But the danger of British bankruptcy has to be carefully weighed, none-the-less, for the simple rea son that British bankruptcy will not and cannot be a nice, remote, self-contained proposition. In Britain, it will force all sorts of very great changes,, and above all, it will bring on very great political changes. The main political change will quite inevitably be the one al ready suggested the forced abandonment of Britain's long and costly struggle to maintain her world power role. For the United States', moreover, this change-will have the most prac tical, far-reaching meaning. American world policy is founded upon the Western alli ance. But the Western alliance will hardly be likely to survive the economic and therefore the strategic collapse of its second partner. The same may be said for American policy in Europe, which is founded upon the more elaborately defined NATO alli ance. And the same may indeed be said for the national defense of America itself, which is founded upon a strategic air command dependent for 80 per cent of its striking power on overseas bases controlled by the Western allies. IHE first and most important of SAC's overseas bases the ones which set the example when they were built and win surely set the example again if they are taken away are the bases at Burtonwood and else where in East Anglia. If the Ei senhower administration decides to buy true long range striking power for SAC, of course, the East Anglian and other overseas bases will cease to be vital. But until that day, a collapse in Brit ain, which can quite possibly bring Aneurin Bevan to power, can quite possibly also' mean the collapse of America's own na tional defense. As he goes to the White House, then, Sir Anthony Eden is men aced by final defeat, by the in sidious attacks on. Britain's vul nerable economic flanks. And Dwight - D." Eisenhower is also menaced by something very like defeat, because of the affect on the whole American and western power position of a British col lapse. This is the context in which decisions must be taken about the trouble in the Formosa Strait, the threat in Southeast Asia, and above all the danger- ; ous ferment of the Middle East. j (Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) agreement, a danger spot will have been removed from the Eastern Mediterranean. If it is to be war, the situation will become really serious. in the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In the dining room of the San Francisco hostelry in which this is written, there is a tableful of Koreans. In stature, they are short and chunky. Linguistically, they speak English, easy, idio matic English. So well grounded are they in our tongue that they THINK in English. This is indi cated by the fact that they use it in their conversations mnn themselves, seldom dropping into uieir own language. In manner, they are hearty and cheerful and eive out cm tho slightest provocation with care- iree laughs that bubble up from their lower diaphragms. .. They are obviously enjoying WELL, why shouldn't they be hsnnv? They are over here learning by observation of our country and our government how to run their country and their govern ment. And WE are paying the bills. People the world over are in clined to be happy a'nd cheerful when somebody else is picking up the check. TUT Speaking a trifle cynically 1 can t help wondering if they can learn much tf REAL value from us about how to run the affairs of an ancient state like Korea. If OREA is old and worn and exhausted. Extravagant rul ers nave been milking the people for taxes for thousands of years and spending the money on such trappings of royalty as palaces and monuments. The poor devils of Koreans who pay the taxes are earning their tax monev in the crudest of ways, with a min imum of machinery and a maxi mum of strong back labor. In Korea, as in all of Asia, the good things of life are for the smart people, those who know how to wangle situations to their own benefit in other words, the POLITICIANS. (After all, you know, kings and emperors and dictators and such are just smart politicians.) Politicians everywhere rirae tice the trick of bedazzling the people with the trappings of Big Government BIG palaces, BIG parks, BIG DAMS, and so on. All of them run by Big Government which means the politicians. A S THIS old world goes, we're still young and brash and new. We're still kind of like the second generation that inherits a big farm whose soil was rich and lushly productive when it was first homesteaded by some able, hard-headed, intelligently tight fisted, practical old realist who knew how to say NO when some city slicker tried to sell him something that was showy and flashly but on the impractical side. I wouldn't go so far as to say that these old-timers who home steaded our country didn't often WANT the things the city slick ers were trying to sell to them. They undoubtedly did want them. But they seldom had money enough, in the bank to PAY CASH, and when it was suggested that they go in debt for it put it on the cuff, leave it for future generations to pay, etc. they just blew up and showed the city slicker the front gate. We of the second generation have inherited the farm. We know it's worth a lot of money. We can't see any good reason why we can't have what we want especially in view of the fact that plenty of people are willing to lend us a lot of money. AND- We're bedazzled by what the city slickers have to sell. So we go ahead and put it on the cuff. THAT goes for the BIG GOV ERNMENT the politicians are persistently selling to us. We're bedazzled by its bigness, its glit tering magnificence. So we buy Big Government and put it on the cuff. We've al ready put 280 BILLION DOL LARS WORTH OF IT on the cuff. We're not too unlike the Ko reans and the other Asians who for hundreds of generations have been falling for the bedazzle ments of the politicians who call themselves kings and emperors and dictators and such. I'm not too sure but what we're on the wrong track in bringing these Koreans over here (at our expense) to learn by observation of our government how to run their government.' -I think maybe it might be bet ter if we sent envoys over there to learn by observation what happens when the people permit th politicians to run things for hundreds and hundreds and hun dreds of years. I think the lesson, if we heed ed it, might be very good for us. Pressure For Control Of Eavesdropping by Electronics Mounting By HELEN B. SHAFFER , Washington Technical ad vances in the delicate art of snooping have put new pressure behind demands for legislation which will effectively ban, or place under proper safeguards, the use of mechanical devices for listening in on private con versations. Old-fashioned wiretapping is still the commonest means of finding out what other people are saying on -the telephone. But electronic developments have produced tiny microphones and other so-called bugging devices that can pick up telephone or other conversations from a dis tance without detection. Committeemen Startled Members of a Hsuse Judiciary subcommittee were startled, at hearings last spring, by accounts of the apparent ease with which expert snoopers could now in vade the privacy of homes or business offices and get awav with it. The inquiry directed at tention also to the weakness or lax enforcement of federal and state laws for dealing with that sort of thing. Because the situation plainly invited indisciminate eavesdrop-' ping by blackmailers and extor tionists, private detectives, and even law enforcement officers, the committee evinced determi nation to draft new and compre hensive legislation for action by Congress at the 19o6 session. Not Now Illegal The Supreme Court ruled in' 1928 that neither the Fourth Amendment,' prescribing "un reasonable searches and seiz ures," nor the Fifth Amendment, barring forced self-discrimination, outlawed wiretapping. The Federal Communications Act of 1934 then made it a federal of fense for anyone to "intercept Wright Brothers' Engine Builder Dies San Fernando Calif. '(U.R) Complications of an asthmatic condition were listed tentatively today as the cause of death to inventor Charles Edward Tay lor, who built the engine for the Wright brothers' famed Kitty Hawk airplane. Taylor, who had been under the "complete care" of the Air craft Industries association be cause of his low income, died unexpectedly last night at Foot hill sanitarium. He was 87. The aged inventor built the first successful airplane engine in 1902 after aviation's famed brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, decided to ' put power into one of their history-making gliders. : Taylor had been existing on a pension of only : $800 a year left to him in a fund by Orville Wright until the AIA came to his assistance recently when it was, disclosed the inventor was in financial stress. Lew Wallace Demands Pearson Retraction Portland (U.R) Oregon Democratic leader Lew Wallace said today he had demanded a retraction of statements by Col umnist Drew Pearson regarding the Al Sarena mining claims. Wallace, former national com mitteeman, state senator and gubernatorial nominee for his party, wrote Pearson that he must either correct his "totally wrong" statements about Wal lace's position in the Ai Sarena case or Wallace would "seek other means to correct those false statements." Pearson had said that Wallace had. written President Eisen hower asking that he intercede with Interior Secretary Douglas McKay in behalf of the Al Sa rena claims for mineral and tim ber rights in southern Oregon. Springfield, Ore. (U.R) Fred Clower, 35, former assistant po lice chief at Coos Bay, has been named to succeed Harry W. How ard as Springfield chief of police. MR. INSURANCE FRED BRENNAN FOR INSURANCE THAT PAYS: During 1 955, 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 any communication and divulge or publish" its contents. According to the Justice De- -partment, however, the offense is not interception alone or dis closure alone; there must be both interception and disclosure. As a result, wiretapping appar ently is lawful, but the informa tion as obtained cannot be used as evidence against a defendant in federal courts. Used By FBI The FBI makes no bones of the fact that its agents tap wires to keep track of the doings of per sons suspected of criminal activi ties. But when the Justice De partment relied on wiretap evi dence five years ago to prosecute Judith Coplin, the U.S. Court of Appeals freed the defendant after she had been convicted in a lower court. Wiretapping is regarded as so valuable a weapon of law en forcement in national security cases that the Justice Depart ment has long pressed for re vision of the 1934 act to allow use, in the trial of such cases, of l evidence obtained by official eavesdropping. A Senate Judi ciary subcommittee also came out recently for admission of wiretap evidence in narcotics cases. Judge's Authorization The House two years ago pass ed an administration bill to au thorize us of wiretap evidence in cases affecting national se curity. However, it amended the bill to require a government in vestigator, before placing a tap, to prove to a federal judge that the eavesdropping was necessary to apprehend and convict the criminal; only wiretap evidence obtained by written authoriza tion of the judge would be ad missible. The 1954 bill did not come to a vote in the Senate. Attorney General Herbert Brownell was reported to prefer no legislation to a law requiring court authori zation. .Although considering that procedure too cumbersome, he favored a requirement for au thorization by the Attorney Gen eral in each case. Loosely Drawn Laws There are numerous $tate laws prohibiting wiretapping, but many of the statutes are ' loosely drawn. Several states specifically authorize use of wiretap information on the order j of a court. In general, local po lice are considerably freer than federal law enforcement officers to resort to wiretapping. Moves are now under way to tighten state wiretapping laws. Shocked by disclosure a year ago of the operation by private de tectives of a large wiretapping establishment in midtown . lfn hattan, the New York le ja ture set up a joint cGmmitte'eFto investigate such practices and the government sponsored . a sweeping investigation of all de tective agencies in the state. CHARLES E. JONES Most cf 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 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 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 roads, 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 Phone 2-9772 SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA y- Looking P f j Ahead I TRIBUNE WAHT FOR RESULTS Phone 2-6141
