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FOTJH MEDFORD (OREGON) Medfo: Tribune "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" published Daily Except Saturday by 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 GERALD LATHAM, Business Manager ZRIC 1 I . r. jn, xviaxiaging tuiwi HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD jawr.ii. pora tanor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. -Oregon, under Act of Marcn a. iaa " SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c, Daily and Sunday One year $12 V-.-J1 1 Ci.mHav C, mnnttii R Daily and Sunday Three mos. 350 Sunday uniy une year o.qu. j3y carrier ... - Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, , . . ;n IJ.'l 1 Pir.pniY jaciuuuvmc, jv. ...... - - . Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. and on motor routes: XJaUy BI1U ouiiuoj t. T off Daily and Sunday One month 1.Z3 Carrier ana ueaiera ok wyj Ail 'FAmB I""-. c-Vi in Ar49Ti Official Paper of the City of Medford Official yaper 01 iai;KMin ' United Press Full Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Advertising ncjjicacumu. Office in New York. Chicago, De troit, oan r rancwtu, lw i-n6i-., Seattle, fortiano. dw xjoius, nwm Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASOCfi-ATgN 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. 13. 1946 (It was Wednesday) Henry G. Enders of Ashland elected president of Jackson county Lincoln club. - From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A Berke ley professor reports Crater Lake is in no danger of eruption, but one would ruin its beautiful blue . color. There is no danger of the scenic wonder moving to Cali fornia. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 13, 1936 (It was Thursday) Frank J. Van Dyke, city attor ney of Ashland, elected president of the Lincoln club of Jackson county. . ." ; ,s Posse of 50 CCC men join Intense search for William Heed, 80, who is believed lost in Car berry creek : district; ' missing from home for several days. 60 YEARS AGO f"eb. 13. 1926 (It was Saturday) Sams Valley man arrested and jailed for having possession of illicit prune mash; small amount of moonshine destroyed. C. A. Malone of Ashland elect ed president of the Jackson coun ty Lincoln club at annual ban quet at which E. B. Piper, editor of Oregonian, speaks. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 13. 1916- . ..Medford's Drama League cent er plans celebration of Shake speare s ter-centennial. From Local and Personal col umn: Travel on the" Southern Pacific, as is the case no doubt, on all rail lines at this time of the year, has been limited to a few who apparently had to go somewhere; but it is increasing during the past few days. Whal's the Answer? Can You Get 4. of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report Can You Get 4 of the 7? .-1. Republican presidential pri mary in New Hampshire in 1952 was won by : Eisenhower, Taft, Stassen, MacArthur," Dewey or McCarthy? ' " 2. Greatest wheat - producing state is Iowa Kansas, Montana, N. Dakota or Washington? 3. Most of the ten Eisenhower Cabinet members hold press con- ierences irequenuy; right or wrong? . : . 4. Most currency in circulation is or isn't in the form of federal reserve notes? 5. The new premier of France, Mollet, is a Communist, Socialist, Radical, Popular Republican or Poujadist party member? 6. Leprosy is a highly, moder ately or very slightly contagious disease? 7. What territory was domin ated by the late "Sultan of Swat"? , : 1. Eisenhower; 2. Kansas; 3, Wrong; 4. Most is; 5. Socialist; 6. Very slightly; 7. The basebaU diamond (he was Babe Ruth.) .- London (U.PJ Earl Att lee's doctor said today the retir ed Laborite leader suffered two broken ribs in a highway crash Friday night. Attlee was injured when a car driven by his wife skidded on an icy road and col lided with another car. The countess suffered a sligh head injury. . MAIL TRIBUNE Pointless Arguments Hand some people a shovel and they'd be tempted to rush out and start digging the foundations for a high dam across the Rogue river. Hand some others a shotgun, and they'd be tempt ed to rush out and start shooting at whoever was dig ging these foundations. The way we figure it, neither of these attitudes is justified not now, anyhow. .. TN THIS space on January 4 it was said that the peo- pie of the Rogue valley should seek : "... a sound determination of what action is needed to prevent recurrent and even more disastrous floods. "Wlien this is done we can, if necessary, choose up sides and fight out the question of whether fishing and recreation are more important than lives and property. "But such a fight may be unnecessary if a plan can be devised which will protect both values." This is still, true. Nobody knows for sure what the best plan for flood control is although a lot of them may think they know. As a result, various and sundry individuals are getting hot under the collar and are choosing up sides about how it should be" done without having any idea whatsoever about a sound program. All they seem to care about is their own particular point of view. THIS is, of course, understandable. It is also regret able. ' In this newspaper Sunday was an article from Washington, D. C, quoting the congressman from this district who pointed out the procedure which must be gone through before any action of flood con trol or any thing else can be taken. The facts, however unsavory to the people with the shovels in hand, indicate that at best it would be several years before any concrete could be poured for flood control structures. As for the people with position of saying "a high dam be damned" before they know whether or not they're going to be hurt. THE Mail Tribune's Washington correspondent, A; Robert Smith, reports that, what with floods in both Atlantic and Pacific states last year, Congress has never been more favorable toward flood control action. Even at that, however, that the Rogue river flood, ly, was only a drop in the bucket compared to what happened at Marysville, Yuba City and Klamath, Calif., and to a dozen cities m Massachusetts and Connecticut. W E HAVE no intention termination that action be taken on flood con- trol. But we do wish to. point what lies ahead. . First, our representatives in Congress should be able to have unified support, when they call for, it, for an Army engineers study, which , will let us know just what the problem is. into a fight until we know And, third, unity of action, geographical rivalries and who s going to run what. With population growing and floods in the future a virtual certainty, flood control is a necessity. Let's not mar .our chances by getting into pointless argu ments about what we're going to do until we find out just what needs to be done. Crusade for Freedom Such disparate organizations as the AFL-CIO, the Girl Scouts, the Hotel Greeters of America, the Na tional 4-H Clubs Foundation, the Grand International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and the Na tional Association of Retired Civil Employees all of which would have little if anything -in common ordinarily have joined in support of. one move ment this year. This is the Crusade for Freedom. It is also supported by the Civil Air Patrol, the Chamber .of Commerce of the United States, and the Fraternal Order of. Eagles. . TN OTHER words, it has wide support which is lim A ited to no group, for all join in a common love.of freedom and a hope that it can be kept alive in the minds and hearts of those living in the satellite na tions behind the Iron Curtain. -s: Crusade for Freedom, as most of us know,s the organization which supports broadcasting stations- in Europe, which send news, music and pro-western pro paganda through the Iron Curtain; which sends little newspapers across, carried bjr balloons, and which is one of the most effective voices for freedom in the world. ' . -- - .: - . ; ." .. "IITE mention this now because the period between - the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington is being devoted to raising funds in Ore gon to assist Radio Free Europe, Free Europe Press, and the other activities of the Crusade for Freedom. The observance here is sponsored by the. Ameri can Legion, the mayor has made it official with a proclamation, and anyone interested can mail his contribution in care cf the Medford postmaster. : ' E.A. Actress, 77, Wins 'Oscar in Britain London (U.R) A 77-year- old acrtess who returned from retirement to make her first major movie shared honors with Sir Laurence Olivier, Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair and Walt Disney in the award of Britain's "Oscars" today. Katie Johnson won the British Film Academy's "best British actress" award for her perform Monday, February 13, 1956 the shotgun, they are in a it must be remembered disastrous as it was local of opposing anyone's de "out a few realities as to T ' -:- . Secondly, we shouldn t get what we're fighting about. should riot-be marred bv petty ' bickering about E.A. ance in "The Lady Killers," a British film starring Alec Guin ness.' Olivier won the "best produc tion" and "best British actor" awards for his film version of Shakespeare's "Richard HI.". Borgnine .and Miss Blair were honored as the best foreign actor and acress for their per formances in the Hollywood movie "Marty. U. P. Corresponde nts Suggest Where Headlines May By UNITED PRESS United Press correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Nixon Set To Go Friends of Vic e-President Richard M. Nixon believe he will be off to a quick start in the Republican presidential p r i maries if President Eisenhower decides not to run. Nixon him self has maintained rigid silence as the President's hour of de cision approaches. No organiza tion has been set up to work for him. But already he is heir ap parent to "some of Mr. Eisen hower's political strength in Wisconsin for example if the President's decision is "no." Formosa Blowup Observers in Nationalist China say the Formosa Strait situation may blow sky high if the Reds attack Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's islands put posts. The Nationalists are ready to hit the mainland with bomb ing attacks if the Reds try to take the islands. Presumably the Communists would then bomb Formosa. That would create a delicate situation for the United States 7th Fleet in the strait. Operation Election - - ' . The Democratic-c o n t r o 1 led House of Representatives Gov ernment Operations Committee is. set to get a record-breaking sum 'for election-year investiga tions. The Republicans complain that the money will be used for political attacks on the admini stration. But' they admit they can't do anything about.it. The Democrats have the votes. Missile Might . Worried Western military men in Europe are watching for a possible hint of Russia's progress in guided missile development to come out of Tuesday's Communist Party - congress in Moscow. They believe Soviet leaders Nikolai A. Bulganin and Nikitals. Khrushchev may say something about an intercon tinental missile. Any "statements the Russians make will not be laughed off. - Germany First : insiders in Bonn, the West Matte? Of FOCt By Joe and Stewart Alsop "THAT DO-NOTHING DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS" .Washington At. this point in the current session of Congress, one thing is already apparent. The Eisenhower administra tion's legislative program' is a masterpiece or political strat egy in an elec tion year. The program i s brilliantly calculated t o exploit the deep divisions in the Demo cratic party. A IX Joseph Alsop as a result, the Democrats, in control of both Houses, are paralyzed on a whole series of politically potent do mestic - issues. As one of the shrewdest, "observers on Capitol Hill has re marked, "The R e p u b 1 i can can didate is going to have a. dandy time denouncing 'that ' no-good, do -not hing, Democratic 84th Con- Stewart Aisop gress . Take the school issue. The Democrats were prepared to ex ploit this emotionally charged issue, by passing the Democratic school-aid bill as almost the first order of business in the House. But the Administration came up with a bill of its own, thus pre venting the Democrats from claiming the sole glory for help ing the school children. At -the same time a Democrat, Adam Clayton Powell , of New York, threatened to . introduce an amendment forbidding Federal aid to non-segregated schools. .- npHE Republican House leaders, Joe Martin and Charles Hal leck, passed the word to. sup port the Powell amendment, thus almost . assuring its ' pass age and also, of course, assur ing the . bill's being filibustered to death in the Senate. But this will leave the Republicans in a happy situation. They will be able to claim credit for supporting the Powell amendment with Negro voters. At the same time, they will be able-to pin the blame for mur dering the school aid bUl square ly on the Democrats. In this situation, the Democratic lead ers have kept the school biU off the floor, while they wrestle With their agonizing dilemma. The same kind of paralysis affects the Democrats on other issues. The President has announced that he means to ask Congress for legislation to establish a civil rights commission, to in quire into racial discrimination. The Southerners immediately made it clear that they would filibuster this modest proposal to death Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, for example, wrote - his constituents that he would speak on the issue, while there 'was "breath in his body." German capital, say Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is angling for an invitation to visit London be fore Bulganin and Khrushchev go there in April. Adenauer wants to get in a few words with Prime Minister Anthony . Eden first.- He's afraid the Russians might "sell" Eden some soft talk regarding German unification. German officials have denied re ports in German newspapers that Adenauer might visit Brit ain. Bonn informants say these reports were planted by the gov ernment to test British reaction. New Role For Dulles Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles may be asked . to mediate the South Korean-Japanese fisheries dispute when he visits those countries next month after the Southeast Asia con ference in Pakistan. South Ko rea threatens to shoot if neces sary to keep Japanese fishing boats outside of a 60-mile terr ritorial limit off its coast. The bad feeling between South Ko rea and Japan, both American allies, is a headache for the State Department. - German Finance Chief Balks at Allied Costs By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Peppery Fritz Schaeffer, West German Finance Minister, is in volved in another big argument. Schaeffer says stubborn ly that West Ger- many will make no more con tributions to the upkeep of American, British and French armies in his country Charles McCann a. -4.... HIT e Unless he changes his mind or ChanceUor Konrad Adenauer changes it for him it would cost the United States about S300.000.000 a . year. It would rost Britain $250,000,000 and SOME Democrats darkly sus pect that the Administration means to spring still more civil rights proposals, in order io ex ploit further the North-South split in the party. But it is not only on civil rights that the Democrats are paralyzed. President Eisenhower has pro posed broadened coverage for the. minimum wage. But many Southerners bitterly oppose this, too, and it is expected to come to nothing. The President has also recommended that the pro visions of the McCarran Immi gration Act, an emotional issue among minority groups, be "re examined." , But it is , most un likely that the Democratic lead ership wUl even attempt to re vise the act. Then there is revision of the Taft-Hartley Act, and the Presi dent's modest health re-insurance scheme, both of which will almost certainly be blocked. Al together it is easy to see why the Democrats press the faTm issue so lovingly to their ' bosoms it is just about all they have got. - TUT even here they may be disappointed. The present expectation is that 90 per cent of parity will be tacked onto the Administration farm pro gram, with the help of Republi can votes. And the belief is growing that the President may sign the bUl, on the grounds that it is on balance good legislation, despite the parity provisions. Thus even this favorite Demo cratic issue may be aborted. And if Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson then resigns in protest as he has - indicated it win cause remarkably little pain in the breasts of farm state Repub licans. Finally, the Democrats are somberly convinced that the Ad ministration will spring a vote getting tax-cut towards the end of the session. To be sure, the shrewdly-led Democrats may also have a trick or two up their sleeves. But they are obviously in danger of being backed into a corner on many issues and, already it is clear that the Ad ministration has been putting on a remarkably sure-footed and so phisticated . political perform ance, in sharp contrast to the clumsiness of the first couple of vears. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. PAUL J. DIX, D.D.S. General Dentistry Announces the Removal of His Offices on FEBRUARY 13th To the' Office formerly occupied by the Late DR. L. L. SANDERS ! MEDICAL DENTAL BUILDING 832, EAST MAIN PHONE 3-3000 Office Hours by Appointment - Show Up Oil trouble may be coming un in Iran. The Iranian government would like to increase its output to get more royalties. When the British-Iranian oil dispute, was settled, an American-British-French combine took over pro duction. There is no market for increased Iranian production now. But Iran 'is a member of the Middle Eastern defense al liance. It needs money badly, it might possibly threaten to pull out of the alliance. Sports Outlook Baseball may try to solve its newest problem by borrowing a trick from professional football. TV sponsors offered big money to take games into the living rooms of big league cities. Fans stayed home , and gate losses more than, off set the take from sponsors. Pro footbaU, with the same trouble, blacked out home games and gave fans only those played on the road. This year some home basebaU games will be blacked out. People . who should know say all home games may be eliminated from TV in time. France slightly less. The Allied governments have asked for negotiations on the is sue. They probably will start early next month. Cabinet Support ' Schaeffer has the support of nearly all members of the West German cabinet. Foreign Minis ter Henrich Brentano, who has to think about the diplomatic angles, opposes Schaeffer's stand. - Schaeffer and Brentano are the leading candidates to sue ceed Adenauer when the 80' year-old chancellor' retires. It may be necessary for Adenauer himself to make the final deci sion between them now. . What happened is this. When West Germany became a sover eign nation on May 5, 1955, it agreed to pay $762,000,000 to ward the costs of the Allied arm ies during the year which ends next May 5. It was agreed that, at the end of the one-year period, the Allies and West: Germany - would get together and negotiate ; the upkeep- issue, ;"giving due . consid eration to the heeds of the Ger man armed forces." Now Under NATO. ' - , - Bef ore-Wesf.Germany became sovereign, 'the Allies billed it for the upkeep of their, armies as occupation forceSi Now they are in. Germany under the North At lantic Treaty Organization, of which West Germany is a mem ber. The Allies want West Ger many to help pay for them until the infant West. German army becomes a reality. Schaeffer says he just can't afford to pay any upkeep. What makes it especially an noying to the Allies is that Schaeffer is sitting on a cash box containing a reserve of $1, 800,000,000 the biggest ever accumulated by a German Fi nance Minister in modern times. West German spokesmen say Schaeffer is not running the whole show and that he may be overruled. So far, however, he is sitting tight on his cash box. ready to yell "murder" if any body tries to open it. Goldwater Believes Truman Should Run Santa Monica, Calif. (U.R) The Democratic party should nominate Harry S. Truman to run for president this year, ac cording to Sen. Barry Goldwat er, (R-Ariz.). Goldwater told a Lincoln day rlinnpr- ihrone here Saturday night that the Democrats should nominate the former president. "Let's not hide the socialist pro gram fathered by Truman under a Stevenson wisecrack, a Harri man homburg or a coonskin cap,' he said. The Democrats don't seem to want him (Mr. Truman) but they have him," the Republican sen ator said. "Let Harry wrestle and settle with his own con science because his acts created its condition." Goldwater. ' Chairman of the Republican Senatorial campaign onmmittee. Dredicted ' the 1956 presidential campaign would be fought on the "peace and pros perity" of the GOP administra tion "against the Democratic so cial, program of Truman." Quotes From the flews By UNITED PRESS Tehran Radio Tehran in answer to Radio Moscow when the Red radio voice complained about the city cleaning up a. Commu nist spy ring: "How would your chief of police in Moscow, General Popov, deal with common crooks and criminals like these? The whole world knows how you treat such people." Santa Monica, Calif. Sen. Barry Goldwater (R.-Ariz.) in a politicking speech saying that ex-President Truman should run for president this year: "They should nominate him. Let's not hide the Socialist pro gram fathered by Truman under a Stevenson wisecrack, a Harri man homburg or a coonskin cap." New York Governor AvereU Harriman of New York in criti cizing the Eisenhower administration for not acting to enforce the Supreme court desegregation ruling in the University of Alabama case: . "I was unhappy that the President seemed to take it so lightly in his last press conference. Those people ought to be brought to justice and the attorne:" general should be active in the case. And I haven't seen activity which I think the situation demands." : Portland Adlai E. Stevenson on his belief that the school de segregation issue in the South should be kept out of the current political campaign: ' "I still consider this not only possible but essential.' Washington Surprised At Norblad's Quick Jump at Governorship By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The - prevailing reaction here to the announce ment of Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.) that he plans to run for governor was one of eye brow - lifting surprise. His friends in and out of Congress had known for sev eral years that Robt. Smith ne nursea sen i i atorial ambitions. But Norblad had kept his thoughts on the gov ernorship pretty much .to him self.; . .One of his congressional col leagues even had placed a mod est wager that Norblad would return . to the nation's capital from his journey to Oregon with out any plans to run for either governor or senator. Father Was Governor ; v A factor in the veteran con gressman's" decision- some-here say, was the sentimental, factor that his father, A. W. Norblad, was governor more than 25 years ago. By curious coincidence, the elder Norblad became governor following the death of ah earlier Gov. Patterson--L' ' L".tPatterson in 1929. ' Now young Norblad has found an opening through the death of Gov. Paul Patter son. While his father is" not ex tremely active in : state politics any longer', he has provided the congressman with -almost daily advices from his home at Astoria on what is happening around the state politically. Some believe that Norblad, who is 47, is now making a move that will ultimately lead him into the U. S. Senate perhaps sooner than had he stayed out of the governorship contest this year. Way To Top According to this appraisal, Norblad is a good bet to win the governorship this fall and, there after, to be re-elected in 1958 for a full four-year term. This political achievement would make him as much top man in Oregon's Republican party as was Gov. Patterson' before he died and from, that point he could pick' his time and. his op ponent for the Senate, either in 1960 when Sen. Richard L; Neu- berger's term expires, or in 1962 when the other Senate seat will be in contest. . Norblad came to Congress just a month over 10 years ago, win ning a special election held in 1946 after the .death of Rep. James W. Mott. 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