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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MelfordIITiubune "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads ice Man iTiDune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. J7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR, Managing Editor F.ART. H. ADAMS. Citv Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ttr Mali In Arivanra: Per CODV IOC Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 650 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year S3 JO. T.v CarrifY In Advance Medford, Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Almost ev erybody these days is building a house, looking for a house, try ing to buy material for a house, or endeavoring to sell a house. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 26, 1936 (It was Wednesday) Final debates in Southern Ore gon conference for Medford, Ashland and Grants Pass high schools held at Medford High school. Karl Janouch, supervisor of Rogue River National forest, re ceives inquiries on disposition of wild horses in Little Applegate area; roundup to be held soon. 80 YEARS AGO Feb. 26, 1926 (It was Friday) ' - ? Oregon governor announces that state-owned lime ' plant at Gold Hill may be moved to Sa lem where prisoners may oper ate it. Three more entries bring to 10 the number listed for the Charleston contest at the Natatc rium Saturday night. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 26, 1916 (It was Saturday) Mail Tribune publishes small edition; high water closes paper mills at Oregon City, delays pa per shipment, and boxcar broke down at Roseburg and held for repairs. From Local and Personal col umn: County Assessor W. T. Grieve, who has been attending the assessors' convention at Sa lem, has returned to his official quarters at Jacksonville. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Desegregation, says Adlai E. Stevenson, should or should n't be a big issue in the 1956 presidential campaign? 2. Burgess and Maclean are a vaudeville team, Siamese twins, authors of a popular nov el, movie producers, or British diplomats who fled to Russia? 3. Most labor unions make their new wage demands in the spring, summer, fall or winter? 4. Strife -torn Algeria has about the same number of French as Arabs, or many more French, or many more Arabs? 5. Which member of the Eis enhower cabinet has "Magoffin" as his middle name? 6. More Americans have been killed in traffic accidents since ' 1900 than in combat in all our wars; right or wrong? 7. The southernmost tip of South America is farther south or north than the southernmost tip of Africa, or on the same latitude? . ' - The answers: 1. Shouldn't, he says. 2. British diplomats who fled to Russia. 3. Spring. 4. Many more Arabs. 5. Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey. 6. Right. 7. Farther south. Alaska has more than 7,000, C00 acres of national parks in cluding Mt. McKinley, highest on the continent, .. . " MAIL TRIBUNE A Serious Situation There is a United States of the North and a United States of the South and never the twain shall meet That is paraphrasing Kipling a bit, but it does we fear represent a truth which is going to be more and more clearly demonstrated as time goes on and the school segregation problem with it There are, of course, Southerners who understand the North and Northerners but they represent a decided minority the rank and file just don t. - "IXHERE there is misunderstanding there is friction " and the seeds of conflict The seeds 'of conflict are present in the South today. We don't mean secession or another Civil War, but we do mean mob violence and bloodshed. The trouble at the University of Alabama was only a prelude. THE trouble is theJNbrth fails to realize the South is still fighting the Givil War, and never willingly accepted its dictates. As a whole the Southerners, consider the Negro question a state, not a federal question, and believe that Uncle Sam has no more right, moral or legal, to interfere with public school rules and regulations in Mississippi or Alabama, than they have to interfere with rights of free speech or worship. , They are legally wrong of course. But that is their fundamental and fixed conviction. And as Grover Cleveland once remarked, "we face not a theory but a condition." THE people of the North understand this attitude. the law, the Constitution Supreme Court the Supreme who call themselves good citizens should obey both. If they don't they are rebels and out-laws and should be dealt with accordingly. . This is apparently the man of New York, in sharp contrast with the views of the Governors of Alabama and Mississippi, and this much is certain: unless these uncompromising views are changed or the people of the North or South or both refuse to accept them, then watch out the most serious conflict between the North and the South since the war between the states will result- and it is hard to. see how bloodshed can be prevented. OWEVER, we don't expect the views of Governor Harriman' or those of or the Advancement of Colored People" will prevail. As the intensity and fixity of Southern sentiment regarding the colored problem becomes clearer, we feel confident cooler heads and wiser counsels will prevail. . , Not that the Supreme Court will reverse its deci sion, or that the effort to enforce it will be abandoned. But as the Supreme Court advised, instead of trying to force the. Solid South to adopt integration of all schools, at once or else there will be some sort of compromise reached which will allow states like Mississippi and Alabama more time to cool passions and tempers, reach some middle ground, and enjoy a reasonable period of transition instead of calling out the National Guard, with orders to shoot at once. THIS won't satisfy the radicals on either side. But some such course as we see it, is the only hope of avoiding a national "cold war" and will therefore eventually secure the support of the more enlightened leaders, south of the Mason & Dixon line as well as north. E.W.R. : The Gas Bill Defense We were not surprised to find that the "Oregon National Gas and Oil Resources committee" of Port land, did not applaud President Eisenhower's veto of the Gas bill, or this paper's comments on same. Naturally they wouldn't But we were surprised to receive a communication from that committee in protest, praising the measure and denying, at least by implication, that the presi dential veto on the grounds of suspected corruption used to secure its passage was justified. . THERE has been so much evidence already offered and so much more promised that we would have supposed the authors of the measure and its support ers, would have been content to let well enough alone and take their defeat in their stride and. in silence--f or the present at least But not so.. As far as we can make out from the Portland "protest" there is no admission of any irregularities, real or . implied, and to claim the bill was passed to increase the profits of the big oil and gas com panies at the expense of the consumers, present arid future, was to misrepresent the proposal, entirely. Well let's see To support this claim the Portland committee refers to title bill as follows: ' ' ,' ' ' . "I hope your readers will have an opportunity to- learn . that the Harris Natural Gas bill devoted only one page to , the removal of direct utility type controls from sales ... but devoted four and one-half pages to the provisions for ' establishing FPC regulations over the prices the interstate " pipe line companies would be permitted to pay for natural gas. and include as an operating expense." T.'"" Well there is their opportunity. So what?' It seems rather heedless to observe . that one paragraph of a bill of this type or any other could make it a "bad bill", and contrary to the public inter est much less a full page; and it might well take more than a book on the same grounds to justify it as a step forward in the public interest. - The box score therefor of 4-and-one-half pages to one is not very impressive. Not impressive ' at all, in fact THE important point to this paper and we believe 1 to a yast' majority of th peopliffas the item Sunday, February 26, 1958 who understand the South, ' . (again as a whole) don't They believe the law is is the Constitution,-the Court and all Americans view of Governor Harri- the National Association Matter of Fact THE OTHER GEORGE COMMITTEE Washington Senator Walter George, whose foreign relations committee is "now beginning its sweeping i n quiry into what has gone wrong with American for eign policy, could do worse than ask an other George to testify. This other Stewart Alsop Oreorge is lit. Gen. Harold Lee George, retired, an able aircraft company execu tive who recently headed a top level presidential committee. The committee was assigned to report to the President and the National Security Council the answers to the following ques tions: Can the Soviets, with their new air-atomic power, knock out the United States as a function- social, and mil itary organ ism? And if they can't, how close can they come to doing so? The commit tee had a top priority call Joseph Alsop on the govern ment's intelligence talent. Its re port to the President and the NSC is highly classified, as is now customary in such cases, al though it dealt only with Soviet capabilities, and treated a sub ject of basic national interest. But in general the ariswer of the General George Committee can be summed up about as fol lows: "Not yet, but quife soon. And even now they can almost certainly knock out the more ex posed big cities, like New York." npHE close connection between the - work of the two George committees must surely be obvi ous. For one thing that, has gone wrong with American foreign policy is the simple fact that it is based on a premise that is no longer true that the United States, and only the ? United States, is capable of "massive re taliation." - Again and again, at the recent 20th Congress of the Soviet Com munist Party, the Soviet oli garchs repeated the same chill ing theine. President Eisenhow er's old friend Marshal Zhukov for example, boasted of "mighty, long range rockets," and warned that the continental United States would feel the force of Soviet nuclear weapons in case of world war. Such boasts, as we sadly know, must be taken very seriously. ' They may, to be sure, be a little premature. Molotov boast ed of the Soviet atomic bomb more than a year before the So viets had one, and Malenkov an ...1.1 .JM JIM. . I l i'-' - quoted from that ONE page namely exempting the gas companies from "utility type of controls." Why should the rates of other public utilities be controlled, in the interest of a fair price to the con sumer on one hand, and a fair profit to the producer on the other, while giving the green light to the nat ural gas producers to mak'e any rate charges they might decide upon? ' ' - This communication provides no satisfactory an swer, and as far as our record goes there was none made in either house of congress by the supporters of the measure. IF THIS legislation was tVio -flnni rvfVio Somsare profiteering" in the gas and oil business, then why was the President of one Superior oil company in California so willing t6 spend $2500 for a SINGLE vote in favor of it? . Presidents of oil comranies are not in the habit of throwing packages of $100 bills around Senators' offices, in Washington or at their homes, just for the exercise. They always claim "no strings are attached" of course, just a free-will offering to a deserving public servant but who believes this : sort of whang-doodle? Perhaps the Oregon National Gas and Uil re sources committee does, but we can think of no one else. ' - - "IIELL, it is all pretty sordid and pretty silly this "attempt to put over a "fast one" on the poor defenseless consumer, and pretend it to be only in the interest of a better and more extended public service. - If anyone so naive as to still doubt the real pur pose of the proposal is hovering around, we would suggest they; do. a-bit of researching on the Wall Street 16 Action There is one thing about Wall Street, it DOESN'T, in spite of contrary reports play politics. It does with out sentimentality or double talk follow the "profit line" and never leaves it. Also it has the best re search 'department in the country, not excluding Washington; r : : . .. ; So when this measure (so dedicated to the public interest that over 4 pages were devoted to price con trols) passed the Senate, gas and oil company stocks rose around 4 to 6 points. When the measure was, vetoed the same stocks fell back to normal, and as it appeared certain there would be no passage over the presidential veto, some of them are still declining. If there is any reason for this, other than those above indicated, and previously cited in this depart ment, we would be glad to receive them, and if they conform to police regulations would be glad to give them space! . - By Joe and Stewart Alsop ticipated events by several weeks when he boasted of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. A lone intercon tinental Bison bomber was flown within easy camera range of the Western air attaches in Moscow, more than a year before the So viets had the Bison in operation al quantities.' flBVIOUSLY the Soviets are as u aware as Hitler was Of the international uses of fear. Mar shal Zhukovs "mighty long range rockets," although they no doubt exist in test form, are probably not yet usable as weap ons. But by the same token, they soon will be. Yet even the limited capabil ity assumed by the General George Committee transforms the world situation, as the So viets are well aware. A second recurrent theme in all the Soviet speeches was that, in effect, a condition of . atomic stalemate had been reached; and that, with the American atomic ace trump ed, it will be easy for the Com munist bloc to1 trump progres sively in the West's other and lesser cards. This trumping, of the lesser cards is already well under way, notably in the Middle East and Asia, where the new Soviet pol icy is radically different from the policy of the Stalin era, and infinitely more effective. Yet, on both the defense and foreign pol icy front, we continue to act as though things are as they were. A S FOR the Pentagon, it has gone in for issuing re-assur ing statements, and appointing committees. The George Com mittee is about the 10th assigned to examine essentially the same subject and the search is now on for someone to head another committee to do the same thing all over again. A second government cyme has said that the government now takes its cue -from Libby Holman's old song, revised from "Make Me Another Old Fash ioned" to "Appoint Me Another Committee." These special com mittees always operate in an aura ,of super-secrecy... But the essential facts are clear to any informed man, and so, in broad terms, are the reactions they logicaUy call for. - They call for a "crash" pro gram, to assure, at the very least, that Sir Winston Churchill's "peace of mutual terror" is truly mutual; and for a basic revision of American policy to meet the new situation of atomic stale mate. But to double B-52 produc tion, for example, or devise an effective policy to meet the new Soviet economic challenge in Asia and the Middle East would be difficult and expensive. In an election year, it is most unlikely that it will be done. (Copyright 1956, New Yprk Herald Tribune, Inc.) not, as was maintained on a "nlnin fnsp nf snnftinninc POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Being fond of the little com munity of Jacksonville, we hope it doesn't simply vanish into the earth one of these rainy days. One irate resident informs us that part of the intersection of Third and Main sts., just a block from the principal thor oughfare, simply vanished Fri day, dropping down into what is presumed to be an old mine shaft She said the pit is a "huge gaping hole, filled with what ap pears to be fugutive materials from a cesspool. It is several feet down to the liquid, and appears to continue cattywam pus across the streets of Main and Third." ' She's concerned, and with jutification, about what would happen if someone happened to be walking or driving along, and part of the city vanished. A person could suddenly drop from sight, she says. - ' ' ' Our . Jacksonville correspond elsewhere in today's paper re ports on a bed of tulips s which has dropped down about four feet, and still others teU of sec tions of gardens or fields which suddenly drop down while resi ents have been driving horses or garden machinery over them. Probably, by this time, few if any even among the "old timer- ers' remember where the old abandoned mine shafts run, and it's hard to say what a solution to the problem might be. , But it is a problem. About . three weeks ago. Crater High school played two basketball games against Ill inois Valley High school. It won both games. In both games the score was 64 to 51. The two schools played again Friday night. Crater won. The score was 64 to 51. - . . . Some motorists who drive be tween Klamath FaUs and Med ford via Crater Lake National park, who are doing it just to get from one place to another and not to view the beauties of the park, object to paying the $1 entrance fee. But Park Superintendent Tom Williams recently received a letter from someone who not only doesn't object, but insists on paying. The letter contained a one dollar bill and a note which said he (or she) had pass ed through the park at night when the checking station was closed and so was unable to pay the entrance fee. The note was unsigned. A staff "member and his wife came as close to a parting of the ways as they have in a long and happy married life last week, when he waited for her to pick him up after work and she, thinking he'd taken the car to work with him, got more and more ir ritated . wondering why , he didn't come home. ill Patton, the hardworking manager of the Shakespearean Festival, has a minion headaches actors, actresses, flowers, stage props, publicitiy, and so on, ad infinitum. Also swans. . Swans, which in prior years have added an air of Elizabethan England to Lithia park near the Festival theater, are considered to be a valuable adjunct to the annual fiesta of the drama. Rec ently, Patton was at his wit's end about the swans, for one of the pair had died, and the other, Willie, had wandered away. Patton issued , an impas sioned plea for swans. No one responded except Willie, who came wandering back. . Bill would like another swan, to keep Willie company so he won't wander away again. He thinks that even a reasonable ac curate facsimile in the form of a swan-decoy might help. In the" mail last week we received an invitation to the - dedication of the new Univer sity of Oregon Medical School hospital, complete with a little booklet telling about the new hospital and including a cut- - away verticle diagram of the building. .' ' We were interested to note that the quarters for the resi dents and interns were located just adjacent to the section for occupational therap y which seems .somehow, ap priate. A reader of Potluck (there ARE a few, we're happy to state) tells about talking to an old In dian on the Klamath Indian reservation. The brave mention ed that he was going to Klam ath Falls to have an operation; as most reservation Indians do when they have something to be fixed up. Our reader enquired why they should go to all that trouble when there is a millon-dollar hospital right on the reservation. The Indian's comment: 'Mil lion .dollar hospital, Woolworth doctors.' . Today and By Walter 'CO-EXISTENCE' From the speeches of the So viet leaders at the Communist Party Congress last week one can learn a lot about what they mean by "competit i v e co - existence." They mean, as I understand them, that hav ing first broken the Western monopoly o n waiter lippmann nuclear weap ons they have now broken also the Western monopoly of eco nomic leadership in the develop ment' of under-developed coun tries. They have become fully "competitive," and they can no longer be "contained" at the frontiers of the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, and it may also be, Latin America. It is as competitors that they mean to "co-exist" with us, having noth ing to gain by war, having every thing to lose. . To this recently achieved com petitive power of .the Soviet Union, the nations within their reach are reacting by moving to wards positions which are vari ously described as "neutralist," as "nonaligned," or as "middle." This means the progressive dis solution of the ring of contain ing states, which was put togeth er by Mr. Acheson and following him by Mr. Dulles, in the preced ing phase of the cold war. When observers speak, as I for one do, of U. S. foreign policy having become frozen, out of touch with the changing reali ties, I mean that we have as yet failed to adapt our policy to meet the new competitive power of the Soviet Union. TF WE comnare the vear 1947 with the year 1955, thinking of the U.S.S.R. as a competitor in the world, the difference is striking. In 1947 we first launch ed the idea of the Marshall Plan, offering to discuss it with aU the old allies, including the U.S.S.R. Mr. Molotov attended the first meeting in Paris and then walk ed out of it, declaring that the U.S.S.R. would have no part in a scheme which was bound to be dominated by the United States. He acted on orders from Stalin who, we may suppose, realized that American economic power would at that time have made the Soviets look smaU and un important. The result was that for several years,' almost "eight, the Western countries and particularly the United States, were the sole sup pliers of capital to the non-Con munist nations. There was no In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS What of the Mexico of the fu ture? I wouldn't know. But I think maybe I have a clue. The clue is Manuel (pronounced Man-oo-ELL.) I'U teU you about him. TN THE CITY of Tepic in the A state of Jalisco, some 100 miles north of Guadalajara, there is a motel with the musi cal name of La Posada de la Loma whichi roughly translat ed,, means The Little Inn in the Hills. It IS a little inn. It has only six units which in these flays of heavy travel is a miniscule establishment. Its roof is tiled and its ceilings "are beamed. The floors are tiled, as are nearly aU floors in Mexico. On the walls are Mexican pictures, painted on tin, Mexican art is a little on the crude side, but it is odd ly soothing. . . The taps above the wash basin are marked C and F the C for cahente and the F for frio. The trouble is that the water that comes from the C tap isn't cal- iente at all and the F isn't very frio. That goes also for the show er. When you come out from un der it your teeth are chattering, but you re fUU of zip and zing. ALONG the front there is a galeria, with a tile floor and chairs and tables, where you sit and sip whatever you may have brought along . with you in the way of antidote against tarantula bite for. there is no cantina. In the little patio bougainville glows like a flame. There is a pleasant little res- taurante, where tasty ,. Spanish food is served. IT DEVELOPS that the keeper of the motel who, it turns out later, is a pinch-hitter speaks no English at aU. My scanty store of Spanish doesn't contain the word for vacancy. Then Just as the situation is ap proaching an impasse , - Manuel appears, and shortly thereafter the situation is as ful ly under control as if the Mar ines had landed and taken over the beach. MANUEL stands maybe a slim four feet in his huar- aches, but he has bounce. In practically no time at all, he made it plain that there was a vacancy and not only tnat but 8. """"t Viv Tomorrow Lippmann where else that these countries could turn. DY 1955, that is by last year, the Western monopoly of the capital market was broken by the Soviet Union. No doubt, the Soviet Union has not yet made capital contributions on anything like the scale of our Own. The crux of the matter is, however, that the Soviet Union has be come a competitor, and that, though suspect in many quar ters, the Soviet Union is never theless being welcomed. Egypt in the affair of the Aswan dam ' has shown what this competition can do. We are going to finance the Aswan dam, which we would nave been very slow indeed about financing if we had not been prodded by the fear that the So viet Union would steD in and finance it. Under these competitive con ditions, it is becoming incieas- ingly impossible for the United States to get in return for its economic aid military agree ments, political pledges, or even the acceptance of our economic and finanial terms. The new sit uation is one that cannot be met simply by appropriating a lot of -new money for foreign aid. It demands a radical re-examination, a deep re-thinking, of all our current conceptions of for eign aid. TN THE year 1947, we may also remind ourselves, the United States had a monopoly of nu clear weapons. This meant that the doctrine of massive deter rence worked only one way: it pinned down the Red army and the armistice lines of 1945, and it was safe to encircle the Soviet Union with bomber bases. Now, the Soviet Union has nu clear weapons and the means of delivering them against the bomber bases. That is the under lying reason why a tide of mili tary neutralism has set in throughout the whole vast semi circle from Japan to Scandina via. At the party congress last week, the speakers aU declared that their competition would be peaceable. But Marshal Zhukov was given the task of reminding the countries where there are bases that they are .within the ' reach of the Soviet air force. This new military situation, which the development of mis siles will aggravate, demands a far-reaching re-examination of the . Western strategy. For the strategic conceptions of the West belong to a period of the' cold; war which is very near to being over. (Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) News a -vacancy that existed for the purpose of becoming an occu pancy. - ' Then he hustled in the bag gage, and when that was over he dashed out to look the Amer icano car over. His eyes shone. , "Buick," he murmured admir ingly. ' Then he patted it as one would pat a beautiful, blooded steed. "And only 1955, he breathed. He knew the purpose of every gadget, how to open the doors, how to lock them, and so on. It was plain that Manuel, aeed maybe 12, was looking forward to the time when he too would own and drive a shiny car re gardless of Mexico's presently more or less feudalistic econom-. ic system. LATER, when he came around uua iur uie suue shine that is inevitable in Mexi co, I queried him as to the iden tity of the man at the motel desk. "Oh," he replied in a cas ual tone: "He mv fran' ." I said to him: "You sneak nret. ty good English. How come?". He shrugged his slender shoul ders. "I have, what you call, tu tor," he answered, at came out later that his tutor is his moth er, who teaches in the . Tepie schools.) ' Asked as to the nriro nf the shine, he shrugged again. "What you wish," he renlied in a meek tone. I gave him the customary peso (eight cents.) He looked at thj worn shinplaster thoughtful ly and murmured "muchas gra- cias." It was obvious that Man- uel knew quite well that in the U.S.A. the going orice for a shine is 25 cents and that hp WAS looking forward to the time when he too would charge an American Quarter and eet awav with it so that he might much sooner have a shiny car of his own. MEXICO is stUl feudalistic in if d prnnnmv Tf Viae cm-ill class at the top that gets the bulk of the cream that comes off the milk. It has a "very large class at the bottom that gets the skim milk and not top much of that. But it has a growing niid dle class. And it has a LOT of Manuels, who will be the coming genera tion. I have an idea that when these Manuels all grow up there will be GREAT changes in Mex ico's present system. -
