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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. February 9, 1956 Me: rTEIBUKE "Everybody in Southern Oregon Heads THe Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by 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. Citv Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor pALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of . March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mill In Advance: Per Cony 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only one year j.ou. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Axhlnnri Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue River, Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday one monm Carrier and Dealers DC 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 JVHvprtinin Rpnresentative: 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 I assocITatlqn u w jMJJllMi'.IJ'.lHB PfflSH I NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION 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 Feb. 9, 194S (It was Saturday) Survey of local stores shows that merchants are receiving only 20 per cent of normal ship ments of butter. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot colurnn: There is some question' what the people will do fastest: Believe a rumor without thinking, or sign a peti tion without reading.. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 9, 1936 (It was Sunday) Rogue valley fruit growers to discuss possibility of establish ing a co-operative cannery here. Oregon supreme court judges honored at Southern Oregon Bar association meeting here. 80 YEARS AGO Feb. 9, 1926 . (It was Tuesday) O. C. Boggs appointed chair man of the Jackson " County Land Settlement committee to gather rural property listings for distribution nation-wide via Portland chamber of commerce. Election on organization of super-road district from 'Med ford, through the Applegate area to Oregon Caves, will be held Feb. 16 . 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 9. 1916 (It was Wednesday) Governor James Withycombe to attend annual Lincoln Day dinner here . sponsored by the Jackson County . Republican Central committee." - From Local and Personal col umn: The police department is seldom troubled now with the presence of foot tourists, fewer of that class of wayfarers having been seen in this city since Jan uary 1 than for .many years. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Has any President -or Vice- President of the U . S. ever re signed his office because of bad health? 2. Abraham Lincoln had for a long time, very briefly or never been a member of Congress be fore being elected President? 3. With what sport is the name of Sir Thomas Lipton as sociated? 4. "Put none but Americans on guard tonight" was an order in North Africa by Gen. Eisen hower, in France by Gen. Per shing, at Shiloh by Gen. Grant or at Valley Forge by Gen. Wash ington? 5. "Tokyo Rose," convicted of treason to the .. U. S., was of Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Ger man or Portuguese descent? 6. Population increased more in the last five years in the Dis trict of Columbia than in any state; right or wrong? Which U. S. Senator was once Secretary of the Air Force? The answers: 1. No; Vice President Calhoun resigned in 1832, but to become a Senator. 2. Very briefly. 3. Sailboat racing. 4. At Valley Forge by Washington. 5Japanese. 6. Wrong. 7. Stuart Symington (D.-Mo.). Big Oil Wins Whether we like it or don't Big Business is in the saddle in Washington, D.C. and sitting pretty. - Were this not true the Natural Gas bill would never have passed the Senate so smoothly as it did. Even the always conservative "Uregonian" agrees that the pressure to pass this measure particularly from the big oil lobby, was the strongest in modern lobby history. If further evidence of this truth were needed, the fact that Senator Lvndon Johnson of Texas, the Democratic leader couldn't resist it, would be sufficient proof of its potency. Being from the Big Oil State of Texas he could hardly hold his jod ana do otherwise. . - DECAUSE OF this defection, the Oregonian main- XJ tains this action will not be called a "give-awajr in the coming campaign by Democratic orators. Per haps not. But it is a "give away" nevertheless, not to Big Oil this time, as in the Tidelands Oil, but to "Big lias," ana much to me aengnt 01 tne Dig narara gas producers, natural gas stocks jumped up on Wal Street as soon as the passage of the bill was flashed. RUT WHO CARES? JJ Some Democratic senators did including the two senators from Oregon, but not only General Mo tors and General Gas did not, but General Inertia was on their side also. The plain truth is at least as we see it the peo pie of the country aren't greatly concerned about such matters today. They were not concerned over similar happenings in the former Republican regime, with Messrs. Harding, Coolidge and Hoover m the White House. " Political tides like tides of the ocean, ebb and flow, and while the man in the row-boat or on the beach may not like it, there isn t much he can do about it, until the tide turns. THERE ARE SOME observers who are convinced T-i f t rla -nrill fnvn fViic nnminrr XTvrmr! h Vr TVToTVhsO IAlt' blUC TY XXX Cli-L XX JXXXD KsJXXXXXX X J V vill Kf X e ATJLWNW so. But we wouldn't advise them to mortgage the "old homestead" and put their bank accounts and their freshly laundered shirt on' it, as a sure-fire gamble. Political tides unlike ocean ones have a way of sticking around. K.W.K. . Something New There is something new. under the sun in Wash ington, D.C assuming there is any sun there, which is highly doubtful. Instead of investigating undue influence charges, before an important measure is passed they do it after, and .instead of having one investigation they put on two somewhat like pleading guilty twice to the same indictment. B UT THAT isn't all that is new. Senator Case of South Dakota and a Mr. Neff of Nebraska supply a novelty act that, we believe is unprecedented in American politics. Mr. Case declared that because Mr. JNeii con tributed $2500 to his (Case's) campaign fund he changed his vote from "yes" to "no" on the Gas bill and directed the money be returned. "j Mr. Neff admitted the donation and also that he is an oil-lobbyist, but stoutly denied there was any thing improper in such action, that the $2500 in cash was delivered ok but there were no strings attach ed" none whatever. No strings attached ! not even a strip of Scotch tape; An amazing statement but. even more amazing was the fact that Lobbyist Neff gave every indication that not only does he believe the Big Boys m Wash ington, but the District Attorney (as far as any crim inal action is concerned) will believe it (and as this is written there is no indication they won t) . EQUALLY strange is the attitude of Mr. Case, Re- publican of South Dakota. He claims he favored the oil measure before he got the money but opposed it after, apparently "entirely oblivious of the dangerous implication of establishing such a precedent. For if his example is to be followed hereafter all a well-heeled lobbyist has to do will be to send a dona tion without strings" to a senator s campaign fund who opposed his pet measure, have the donation re turned, and the negative vote changed to an affirma- . 1 1 1 J 1 J 11 tive one, thus achieving nis purpose witnout reaiiy spending a dime. , C VES, its great work in Washington today if you can get it and several seem to be getting it. . , R.W.R. Thornton Lashes al 'Creeping Socialism' Roseburg (U.R) Former Colo rado Governor Dan Thornton, speaking at the annual Douglas county Republican Lincoln day dinner here last night, lashed out at what he called, "creep ing socialism in the United States." , . Thornton, formerly an admin istrative assistant to President Eisenhower, said that he is a firm believer in state's rights, and added that he favored bring ing the national government in only as a last resort in problems that states could not handle. Thornton commented that he had met Oregon's new governor, Elmo Smith, in Medford earlier and said : that, although Smith was new in office, he is no stranger to governors of the United States. "He has been im pressive In highway and state finance legislation," Thornton said. Medford Airport Allotment Approved Portland (U.R) The Civil Aeronautics Administration has allocated $1,000,000 of federal aid funds to assist in construc tion of a proposed new air ter minal here. Rep. Harris Ellsworth said the allotment .had been approved. Officials - said they expected to receive . the allocation some time in April and would with hold calling for bids until that time. ; :.. ; The funds were made avail able under the federal aid for airports bill. The port also hopes to obtain an additional $1,000, 000 allocation for the fiscal year 1956-57. . Also included in the alloca tions granted yesterday was $53j 946 for construction of an apron on the airport at Eugene; $34, 440 for construction of runways and acquisition of land at Med ford; S3023 for North Bend; and $19,600 for Pendleton. Today and Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann ... THE WASHINGTON MEETING Meetings at the summit, like the one in Washington last week, arouse expectations which it is almost never possible to meet. For while there have been many such meetings since the second World War, they are still sufficiently un- Walter Lippmann USUal, there is stiU enough fanfare accompany ing them, to make people sup pose that great decisions are to be taken. When no great decis- ious are announced, the world is left to speculate as to whether decisions were taken about which nothing is being said or whether there have been dis agreements about which nothing is being said. What actually happened, it appears, is that the two partners made some more progress on some of their common problems than they had made through normal diplomatic channels. But it is a fair question wheth er meetings at the summit would not better be limited to the sign' ing, sealing, and publicizing of decisions and agreements which have already been reached by de tailed and specific negotiations. Is it really good practice to ne gotiate confidentially in a pool of bright publicity, like two men standing in the ring at Madison Square Garden whispering in each other's ears about the fete of mankind? In going publicly to the summit when policies are still in the stage of exploration and discussion, the heads of gov ernments expose themselves to a sense of anti-climax. And then in the effort to make much of the little that they can disclose, they fall back on resounding, but very tired, generalities. rPHE theme of the Washington - meeting was the need, which is imperative, for common pol icies in the Far East and in the Middle East. There is not much reason to think that the disagreements in the Far East have been nar rowed, much less resolved. Not only is there no common Anglo- American policy -about, the off shore islands, there is also no known and declared American policy about the off-shore islands. ' The Red Chinese and ourselves are somewhere near a brink neither of us being quite clear where the brink is that we may be on the verge of. There is more reason to thmk that some progress was made towards protecting and stabiliz ing the Israeli-Arab 'armistice. If that can be done, if war is ruled out, it should become pos sible in the future to enter into negotiations, give and take, for a treaty of peace. The British and the Americans have the means to enforce peace in that corner of the world since both Israel and Egypt are extremely sensitive to the exercise of the kind of sea power which -al ready exists in the Mediterran ean. Thisi of course, assumes that the protection of the arm istice is not to be allowed to be come subject to a Soviet veto in the Security Council. r rpHE Eisenhower - Eden state ment, the declaration of Washington, and the two Bul ganin letters are addressed to the same audience. They are ad dressed to; the peoples of North Africa and South Asia who have been, or are , still, under the rule of the Western powers. Since Geneva, the" win ning of these peoples to the Soviet side, their detachment from alliances with the West, has been the main objective of Soviet foreign policy. The Bul ganin letters, though they were sent to President Eisenhower, are directed wholly to the po litical leaders and to the intel lectuals of Asia and Africa. One can without straining the truth go further and say that the let ters which were sent to the President were meant to be read primarily by Prime Minister Nehru. The phraseology of the letters is that of the Soviet line in Asia, and every sentence in the letters is designed not to per suade the United States, but to persuade the uncommitted coun tries of Asia and Africa. The ' letters are written for men who are already persuaded that this country may somehow blunder over, or let itself be pushed over, the brink. If Bul ganin can put on a show in which the United States "spurns" or "scoffs at" a treaty of friend ship, peace and non-aggression, he will have done quite a day's work for the Soviet cause. There is much at stake, and Governor Stevenson was, it seems to me, very right indeed on Saturday when he warned the President to take great care about how he replied to Bulganin. For the Bul ganin letter, though it will per suade few in this country, is ex tremely efficient propaganda in Asia. . IS a very ingenious piece of propaganda inthat the Soviet governmet stands to gain if, by any chance, we agree to such a treaty and they stand to gain if we reject it out of hand. If we agree to the treaty, it would be taken to mean all over the world that we are entering into a gigantic deal with Moscow to divide the world. And if we re ject it outright and sharply, it will enhance greatly tne Deiiei, already far advanced in Asia, that it is we who are the oppon ents of neace. ; : This suggests that the way out of the dilemma is not to agree to the treaty and not to .reject it out of hand but to draw the Kremlin into a discussion as to whv. srjecificaUy why, such a treaty would make any real dif ference about -. the problem of normnn unification. ' of arma ment, of the tension in the For mosa Strait , and in the Jvuaaie East. Such a discussion wouldbe hard work, and frequently exas perating. But. is it avoiaaoie.' If Bulganin will not take no for an answer, and it appears irom his second letter that he ' will not, can we afford to. let him nave ail me umeiigin m Copyright 1956. New York Herald Tribune Inc. SEATO Maneuvers, Conference Seen As Test for Organization By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Southeast Asia Treaty Or ganization is about to. undergo an important test. The treaty, signed in Manila Sept. 8, 1954, allies the United States and seven other coun tries against Communist ag gression. Communist China, against whose expan- Charles McCann Sionist policies the treaty is aimed, called it a paper tiger. So far, unfortunately, it has been. The United States, Great Britain and France, the. prin cipal signatories, have been busy about issues in other parts of the world. But one week from today at least three of the SEATO coun tries, the United States, the Philippines and Thailand, are to start a combined three-day ex ercise with land, sea and air units. Atomic Weapons These maneuvers will be held in the Gulf of Siam, on the coast of Thailand. The United States is sending more than 7,000 men to take part. The aircraft carrier Prince ton, two destroyers, a battalion of Marines, a field artillery bat talion and a jet fighter bomber group will be included. Included also will be two of the Army's giant Honest John rocket launch ers. Thesek capable of carrying atomic warheads, wiU be flown from Japan. Then, on Mar. 5, delegates of the eight SEATO countries will hold a major conference In Kara chi, Pakistan. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will repre sent the United States. Whether any real measures will be taken to put some teeth in the SEATO paper-tiger re mains to be seen. The ' Philippines, closest ally of the United States in South east Asia, has long urged that SEATO be strengthened by a joint defense force. It would be modelled on the North Atlantic Treaty organization forces in Europe. The argument is that even a small standing defense ' force would be an important symbol of Allied determination to re sist aggression. It is also argued that such a force would slow up the trend toward "neutralism" by some Southeast Arian na tions. Advance speculation is that the formation of a SEATO de-" fense force is a matter for the indefinite future. But at least, in the maneuvers and in the Karachi conference, some progress may be made to ward strengthening what is ob viously a potentiaUy important treaty. U.S. Mercy Convoy Struggles To Victims of Italian Winter Bahamas Proving Ground Extension Sought by US Londan U.R) Minister of State Anthony Nutting told the House of Commons that the United States is negotiating with Britain for extension of the Ba hamas long range proving ground for guided misiles to St. .Lucia in the Windward Islands and to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic. " Nutting said that "while the United States is at liberty - to reactivate any of the British bases in this area . . . leased to them in 1941, separate agree ments are required before long- range guided missile stations may be established on any oi tne islands. Rome -4U.R A U.S. mercy convoy of 25 trucks struggled southward today through raging snowstorms that heaped new misery on thousands of Italians reported in danger of starvation. The icy blasts of the cold wave born on the steppes of Siberia reached across the Mediterra nean and struck Egypt. Dropping temperatures and snowstorms were reported again in Western Europe. London had a heavy fall. The Europe-wide death tou in the worst cold wave "of the cen tury reached 230. Normally warm Italy was hard-hit. At least 62 persons were known dead. Two U.S. airmen were among the victims. They died in their sleep from the fumes of a gas stove left on to heat their rented room at Aviano near .the U.S. Air Force radar warning base at Udine Close to the Yugoslav frontier. Air Force authorities withheld identification pending notification of the next of kin. Storms also were taking their toU at sea. Eighty fishermen were missing and feared lost off the coast of the mid-Atlantic Portuguese island of Madeira. Luce Orders Aid U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce ordered emergency move ment of food and clothing after conferring by cable with the State and Defense Departments in Washington. A 25-truck mercy convoy, carrying Army overcoats and sweaters and food packages left the U.S. Army Supply Base at Leghorn for Rome but was slowed to a crawl by snow on the 150-mile run down the Ital ian coastline." The situation was reported desperate in hundreds of moun tain hamlets isolated since Feb. 1 by the worst snowstorms in living memory. Transportation was chaotic. Roads were blocked and trains, were delayed. Air. traffic was I halted on Sicily. i Goyernment To Guarantee Corn Farmers $1.40 a Bushel in 1956 Washington flj.R) The government will guarantee com mercial corn farmers $1.40 "a bushel 81 per cent Of parity for their 1956 crop. This compares with $1.58 or 87 per cent of parity, for the 1956 crop. The Secretary of 'Agriculture Ezra T. Benson announced the 1956 minimum support rates for porn, small grains,;,and oilseeds yesterday. He raised the national aver age support price and the parity rate for soybeans, flaxseed, and cottonseed. He retained the 1955 parity rates for oats, barley, rye and grain sorghums but lower ed the dollars and cents support rates for these grains. - Support rates for all commod ities were based n their Jan. 15 parity price.- The minimum support levels wUl not be reduc ed. However, they may be in- increased if a combination of the parity price and supply relation ships on Oct. 1. indicate a higher support price. ' ; Price supports for 1956-crop oilseeds: ' Soybeans $2.15 a bushel, or 75 per cent of parity. This com pares with $2.04 a bushel, or 70 per. cent of parity, f 0.1955 jj Flaxseed $3-09 a bushel, .or 70 per cent of parity. Last year it was $2.91 a bushel, or 65 per cent of parity. , . . . - Cottonseed $48 per ton or 70 per cent of parity, compared with 146 per ton; or 65 per cent of parity last year. Demand Improved . Benson, said the increased rates for oilseeds represented improved supply and demand conditions. The parity rate of 70 per cent for small grains was carried over from 1955: This rate, based on the Jan. 15 parity price, re flects these support rates: Oats 39" cents , a ' bushel, compared with 61 cents in 1955; barley 93 cents a bushel, compared 'with . 94 cents in 1955; ; rye $1.1& a bushel, compared with $1.18 in 1955; grain sorghums $1.80 a hundredweight, compared with $1.78 in 1955. j? The 81 per. cent parity rate for corn was based on the Jan. 15 parity price of $1.73 per bush el. In turn, this price reflects the transition to modernized par ity which is limited by. law to. not more than a five per. cent downward adjustment in any one year. The old parity price. last year wag $1.82 a bushel. 'Amazing Possibility' Seen To Make Man Ma ste r of Wea ther Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS New York Former President Truman, in his memoirs in Life magazine, on why he fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur as Far East commander in 1951: . - . , "I could no longer tolerate his insubordination. v New York Gen. Douglas MacArthur, in an article written for Life magazine, on his dismissal: "No office boy, no charwoman, no servant of any sort would have been dismissed with such callous disregard for the ordinary decencies." London British Minister of State Anthony Nutting on reports that "unauthorized balloons", are flying over Britain: "I am informed that the danger to aircraft from these balloons is infinitesimal." Washington U.R) A govern ment advisory group said today that West Coast ram-makers have achieved a "breakthrough" which opens "amazing possibil ities" for. making man master of the weather. The Advisory Committee on Weather Control reported that cloud seeding has boosted rain fall. It also promises the means of curbing destructive hail and lightning and, perhaps, tornadoes and hurricanes. The committee added that new techniques now being tested look "very promising." It said inten sified research "will most likely lead" to ever increasing 'control over the atmosphere." It urged federal support for such research and for practical St. Joseph, Mich. Mn. Helen Eckman, a Lutheran, express ing her "great faith" in the curative power of the Catholic shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France to which she took her son. Randy, a seven-year-old leukemia victim: All children are the same to God. He doesn x see any differ ence between Lutheran and Catholic children." Atlanta Rep. Ham Lokey, opposing a resolution by the Georgia House of Representatives which declared the Supreme Court mixed-schools edict null-and-void: "Nullification has been tried before without success, and it led to war." ', . . " ' . : Washington Myron H. Westrich, supervisor of the farm equipment department of Sears Roebuck & Co., on a non-partisan campaign by the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce to "sell" an agricultural legislative program to -senators: . "I wish we could divorce farm, legislation from politics. Then we could get somewhere on a program that would help the farmer as well as industry." Slant, Va.-John Sailing, 109-year-old Confederate veteran on Alfred Woolson, a northern Civil War veteran, who celebrated his 109th birthday this week: "The old scutter is one of my best personal friends and even if we did have a quarrel at Gettysburg we still are friends. I hope we can meet before we get passed to that great beyond." Editorial Comment OS WEST'S FORESIGHT A move is on foot to honor Oswald West, one-time governor of Oregon by naming a state park for him. West was one of the first Oregonians to build a summer home at Cannon Beach and it is in that sector that it is suggested his name be given to a park. The former governor is now in his 80s, and proponents of the idea point out that a tribute of the kind suggested should be paid while yet he is living. In such thinking we concur. West had the foresight, a half century ago, to propose that Ore gon keep its ocean beach front for the public's use and enjoy ment for all time. Unlike many less foresighted states, Oregon retains title to its ocean front by virtue of its being a public bighr way. No private title can be taken in beaches along its -400-mile exposure to the tides of the Pacific. What that has meant to Oregon can scarcely be ap praised, but the author of the idea deserves now to know that his wisdom is appreciated. Walla Walla Union Bulletin. weather control projects and training programs. It also recommended that fu ture A-bomb and H-bomb tests include experiments specifically aimed at determining conclu sively whether nuclear explo sions have any effect on weather. It found no evidence that they do. The committee, headed by re tired Navy Capt. Howard T. Or ville, said in a report to. Presi dent Eisenhower that it had, "for the first time in history," deter mined that cloud seeding "pro duces substantial and economi cally important increases in pre cipitation , ; . " Increases Precipitation Five western commercial cloud seeding projects studied by the group "produced increases in precipitation from nine to 17 Brazilian Official Will Visit Midwest Rio De Janeiro, Brazil U.R) Vice-President Joao Goulart promised Wednesday that he will visit the Midwest when he goes to the United States in May. Goulart made the promise to Mayor H. Roe Bartle of Kansas City, Mo., head of a 30-member trade delegation which also met President Juscelino Kubitschek. Bartle said he will send a special plane to Washington for Goulart who was invited to visit the United States by Vice-President Richard Nixon when he attended the inauguration here recently. per cent." A sixth produced an average 18 per cent increase over a period of five years. Congress created the commit tee in 1953 to settle a controver sy over whether seeding clouds with dry ice or silver iodide ac tually works. The committee concentrated its studies on commercial silver : iodide projects in California, Oregon, Washington and North ern Idaho. Church Services For those who are actively engaged In. the work of their respective churches, we believe that baptisms, weddings, , and funerals should rightfully be conducted in the church. . These are, and should be, events of reli gious background and significance and their ceremonies belong m the church. . For that reason It is our policy to make no extra charge for funeral services conducted in the church. -" CHAPEL MORTUARY ; Across from the Courthouse ; Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass r FUNERAL DIRECTORS
