Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1956)
iJbUR MEFORD (OREGON) edfordSTribune "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mai Tribune" ("Published Daily Except Saturday by w MFnmwn pnTVTTvr: rn 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager fr. ERIC ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City 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 ot March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 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 $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. 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 month 1 .25 Carrier and Dealers 5c 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 Advertisine 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 SSI !gc5'S" BTTJ3iiir.,w.-.iraa NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and iO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 5. 1946 (It was Tuesday) West coast newsmen and lum ber and industry representa tives tour valley plants to ob tain picture of valley's econom ic future. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Older Girls have started predicting spring will be late. It will ev entually get here if it takes all summer. 20 YEARS AGO March 5, 1936 (It was Thursday) J. A. Ward, president of Re public Electric company, an nounces construction plans for new Southern Oregon Gas cor poration building at corner of Main and Holly sts. William M. McAllister, Med ford attorney, files for state representative from this dis trict; Attorney Frank J. New man, announces intention to run for county district attorney. 30 YEARS AGO March 5. 1926 O (It was Friday) State National Guard officials confer with local officials to prepare Camp Jackson for annual Guard encampment. Larry Mann is named for ex alted ruler of Medford Elks lodge. 1 40 YEARS AGO March 5, 1916 (It was Sunday) Lead paragraph of sports story: In one of the fastest and most exciting games ever wit nessed on the local floor, the Medford basketball team lost to Ashland by the heartbreaking score of 7-6. From Local and Personal col umn: N. S. Bennett and A. C. Burgess have donated two fine deer heads to the . local Elks' clubhouse. WhaFs ths Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Dr. Paul White, medical consultant to the President, says that golfing probably did or didn't weaken his heart? 2. Deluxe models on the whole depreciate in value at a faster or slower rate than stan dard models of the same car, or at about the same rate? 3. First U.S. President to speak over the radio was Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge or Hoover? 4. Moscow has been the capi tal of Russia for the past 13, 38, 63, 163, or 631 years? 5. The District of Columbia is larger than the city of Wash ington, or Washington is larger, ' or have they the same boundar ies? 6. The U.S. has more shoe re pair shops, laundries, movie theaters, barber shops or beauty parlors? 7. Charles R. Sligh tfr., is an outstanding labor leader, in dustrialist, state governor, or college president? The answers: 1. Probably did not. 2. At a little slower rate, on the whole. 3. Harding. 4. 38 years. 5. Same boundaries. 6. Beauty parlors. 7. Industrialist. Fabricated metal products are made by at least 16,000 U. S. factories. MAIL TRIBUNE Spring? Despite (or, perhaps, because of) the week end snow, we have decided it is time to note the immin ence of spring. The calendar says it is a week and a half away, still. But who pays attention to the calendars in gaug ing important things of the spirit like the change of the seasons? THE birds have been making cheerful noises in the branches on recent mornings. The fat, sassy quail are making their morning and evening pilgrimages through the neighborhood. An acquaintance exclaim ed about an ambitious crocus poking its head above the ground. And, most important, it is beginning to smell like spring. Autumn heralds its arrival with a feeling in the bones; spring does so with a freshness in the breeze, a barely detectable tang in the air, a softness and a lightness which, though tentative, marks a major de markation..' Jr. f)H, we'll have more rain. But it will be wanner and gentler. "We may even have some more snow although it is unlikely to be heavy, or last very long. And we'll have that long, bright cold spell which or- chardists and housewives dread for its effect on fruit and curtains. But the important thing, friends, is that spring is on its way. The old will feel younger, and the young foolish. Soon we can be concerned with mowing the grass and watching the leaves flower the trees instead of worrying our winter-bound souls with such man made cares as taxes and business conditions and fluoridation and annexation and sewage disposal and who's-going-to-run-for-what. It won't last. It never does. We might as well en joy it while it's here. E.A. About Communications Whenever a matter of interest to many people arises, the number of letters to the editor increases along with the interest. Almost always just preceding an election this is true. It is true in the current dis agreement about the proposal to add fluorides to the city water suppjy. This newspaper has'long had a "wide-open" pol icy on letters to the editor. That is to say, it probably prints as high a proportion of them as any paper of its size anywhere. In general, the decision to print letters is based , on whether or not they are within the limits of space and good taste, or whether or not they are potentially libelous. "UR length limit is 400 words an arbitrary limit, but one designed to give everyone a fair chance to participateiin the paper's "public forum" column. It is enforced rigidly as a matter of fairness to all. Ordinarily, the only editing which is done on let ters is to make sure they do not go over the 400 word limit, or for clarification,, or to eliminate words or phrases which the editors fel to be questionable or objectionable. DUT it must be remembered that the communica- tions column, like all the rest of the paper, is the ultimate responsibility of the editorial staff, even though they may disagree violently with what the cor respondent may say. The fat that they disagree has no bearing on whether ornot a letter is printed. Their responsibility for the integrity of the column, however, does. It is obviously impossibleito check the accuracy of each statement in each letter printed, and ordinar ily no attempt is made to do so. TTHE point to which this discussion is leading is that it must, in the final analysis, be the responsibility of the editorial staff to decide which letters are print ed and which are not. Ordinarily letters are printed, in full or in substantial part, without question. But if the editorial staff has what they honestly consider good and sufficient reasons for not publish ing a letter, it will not appear. We hope that these instances will be as rare in the future as they have been in the past. E.A. Post Script (Fluoridation) As a post script to the above, for a time we con sidered withholding from publication a letter which appeared in Sunday's paper from a Texas physician, in opposition to fluoridation. We finally decided to publish it, however, in the interests of full discussion on a subject of interest, even though we believed it to be misleading and un f actual, and question the doctor's status as an "auth ority." We much prefer to take the word of local doc tors and dentists, and those researchers who have made original and thorough studies of the matter. i THE doctor claims, as though it were bad, that 65 " per cent of the children in a town where. there is fluoridation had cavities. That sounds pretty good in Medford where children without cavities are few and far between. The good doctor's interest in Medf ord's problems is somewhat $bscure, but may stem from the fact that he is president of the Natural Foods associates, among which are leaders of the anti-f luoridation or ganization. E.A. Minnesotans Dodge Nixon Northiield, Minn.-4U.R) The Minnesota Federation of CoUege Republican clubs, representing 10 colleges, endorsed President Eisenhower for a second term yesterday but refused to do the Monday, March 5, 1956 Endorsement same for Vice-President Richard M. Nixon. However, the federation com mended Nixon for his "effective discharge of vice - presidential duties during the . past three years." Matter of Fact by THE REAL NIXON STORY Washington The people who are saying that President Eisen hower "is getting ready to dump Nixon are even more wrong than the people who are saying that the President is far too fond of Nixon to tol erate any other nominee. Josepb Aisop i n e real Nixon story is a lot more com plicated than that. It is true that the President has a warm affection for the Vice-President. S3 Tf i also inia that the Presi dent, being a kind man and grateful to Nixon for his loyal service, would much prefer to make no change in the Republican Stewart Aisop T 1 C K e l mis year. Thus those who are betting that Dick Nixon will get the nod again have by far the best of the bargain, as of. now. But for all his kindness and loyalty to his friends, Dwight D. Eisenhower has also shown that he can be pretty cold-blooded about members of his team who cease to look like assets. Harry Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer Although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial . for publication is permis sible The Mailt Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. We're All ifuman To the Editor: In regards to this fluoridation business, I would like to speak as a mother. I am not concerned about my self I am concerned about my children's health and welfare and like every mother, I do not wish my children to suffer den tal caries if it is at all within my power nor do I wish to burden my husband with dental bills. However, I do not feel that artificial fluoridation is the answer to my problem. With a little common sense and the fac tual information that is avail able to practically anyone, I think we should weigh the good against the bad and then decide if this artificial : fluoridation is all for the best. I have put to gether certain things you may or may not wish to consider. (1) According to factual in formation 33 U.S. cities adopt ed artificial fluoridation, then after a short time, they turned right around and., voted to have it removed. Why? (Medford would greatly benefit by inquir ing of these cities as to their reasons for changing their mind benefit financially maybe). , (2) My husband, who has liv ed in Medford , all of His life, and always drank an abundance of Medford water has perfect teeth. Now, I am sure there are other exceptions like my hus band and there will continue to be exceptions. Why should these individuals be subjected to fluoridation? (3) People are inclined to compare chlorination with arti ficial fluoridation . chlorine can be easily removed from the water but fluoride can not. (If you boil fluoride, . it becomes more concentrated).' (4) Some are inclined to put certain influential people on a pedestal thinking they could do no wrong but I think we should remember that we are all human beings and capable of making mistakes. (5) No doctor in his right mind says: "Here's some medi cine, take as much as you like you are bound to get the right dosage." That to. me is a good example of wfiat fluoridation of water would be like whether 1 ppm or not.; I sincerely hope and pray that we are nol letting ourselves be talked into something that we may regret later. Mrs. R. E. Miller, 728 Newtown St., Medford, Ore. Old Time Prospector To the Editor: One of the ap parent reasons the old pack horse prospector had more or less "lucky breaks" on his trips was, when he. went four or five miles from headquarters, he al ways went prepared with a light camping equipment, along with a mortar and pestle to sample his discoveries. He had no jeep or gas wagon to run out for a day or so. Consequently he did a thorough job with his pan, pick and shovel over a radius of his temporary camp. - He really saved time by that as one trip to a certain designa tion would really give a clue, providing he was in the area of mineralized formations. The Lyarious formations are import ant to the experienced prospect or, depending upon what he is more familiar with. Anyway using a medium-size gold pan and being near panning water is a time saver and good indi cator. Bert Kissinger, - 520 Boardman st. Apt. 1, Medford, Ore. IKe "-, Joe and Stewart Aisop Truman might have, indeed he probably would have, fought to the end for any crony as close to him as Secretary of the Air Force Harold Talbott was close to Eisenhower. From Eisenhow er, however, Talbott got the axe in very short order, with no greater consolation than a nice note and a military review. By the same token, the President did not conspicuously rush to the defense of his first Secre tary of Health Education and Welfare, when Mrs. Hobby was in trouble with the Salk vaccine program. FOR this reason, the President's affection for the Vice-President is no sure guarantee of Nixon's future. The real status of Nixon was implied very clear ly at the President's' historic press conference, when Eisen hower declared on the one hand that the choice of the Vice-Presidential nominee would have to wait until the Republican con vention, and on the other hand praised Nixon in the highest terms. Those who speak with undoubted authority have now paraphrased these seemingly double-edged Presidential re marks about as follows: "I'd like to have Dick Nixon on the ticket with me, but I'm not going to commit myself be cause something may happen to change my mind." For Nixon, therefore, the next, six months are going to be a par ticularly dangerous obstacle race, in which the penalty of failure will be the President changing his mind. The obstacles ahead of Nixon are only too easy to discern. THERE is his marked unpopu larity, first of all with the type of Republicans who would prefer a Vice-Presidential nom inee like Governor Christian Herter of Massachusetts. There is second, and actually more im portant, the bad showing Nixon has been making in the political polls. In these reporters' opinion, the results of the poll-takers are almost meaningless ' until the actual eve of the voting; but politicians scare very easily if the polls seem to show that a man is not a winner. It was this, in the last analysis, that cost Robert A. Taft the Republican Presidential nomination. The polls alone can perhaps cause Nixon to be dropped, if they show, for example, that an Eisenhower-Nixon ticket is mark edly weaker than an Eisenhower Herter ticket. The polls may per haps do just this, although no one can tell, until the noses are counted, how much the Presi dent's impaired health will cause the voters to weigh their choice by their opinion of the Vice President. But then Dick Nixon, it should be remembered, has very great assets on his side, as well as very considerable obstacles to overcome. When Nixon has got into hot water, in the first place, he has invariably done so by sounding too much like a parti san politician; but he has sound ed like a partisan politician pre cisely because the President, who wants to be above politics, has rather shrewdly deputed the political infighting to his Vice President. Nixon has far more ability and judgment than his de tractors suppose, and unless the President asks him to make par tisan political noises, he is en tirely capable of striking an al together different note in the next six months. rj ADDITION, the great ma jority of Republican organi zations outside the Eastern states quite clearly prefer Nixon to any other Vice-Presidential nominee. And finally and above all, there is no visible substitute for Nixon on whom the President's per sonal advisors can easily unite. Thomas E. Dewey would prefer Dewey, Harold Stassen would prefer Stassen, and so on through the list of hopefuls; and all the hopefuls' friends are similarly divided. For Nixon, therefore, posses sion of the Vice-Presidency is pretty certain to prove nine points of the law, unless the polls go too drastically against him or he makes some really bad bobbles. Copyright. 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Cyprus Situation Threatens To Get More Serious Soon By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The situation in Cyprus threatens to get even more dan gerous soon. British Colon ial Secretary Alan . Lennox Boyd went there to nego tiate with or thodox Arch Bishop Makar ios, leader of the National ists who want Charles MeCann me Jiasiern Mediterranean island handed over to Greece. Lennox-Boyd's mission, to which great importance had been attached, ended in fail ure. He has returned to London. The British government plans to make a formal statement on the breakdown this week. " U.P. Correspondents Predict Headline-Making News To Come United Press Correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Polio Shots Look for a new company to start producing Salk polio vac cine shortly. Sharp and Dohme of Marietta, Pa., was one of the original firms licensed to make the vaccine a year ago. But it never distributed a shot. Now insiders say it is preparing to submit its first lots for govern ment approval. It's another sign pointing to more vaccine for the 1956 polio season. Campaign Photo The picture snapped of Presi dent and Mrs. Eisenhower just before the second-term broadcast may blossom into a major GOP campaign photo. Both Mrs. Ei senhower and the Republican National Committee are delight ed with it. It may become a campaign symbol. Eden In Trouble Again Watch for a- reappearance of "dithering" charges against Prime Minister Anthony Eden. Britain's latest setback in the Middle East the abrupt dis missal of Lt. Gen John Bagot Glubb, British commander of Jordan's Arab Legion hit Con servatives hard. Britain's pride has seldom been so hurt. There are signs already of under ground rumbling against Eden by some members of his own party. They blame Jordan's ac Congress Planning Re Procedures By WILLIAM T. STONE Washington Operations of the super-secret Central Intelli gence Agency, hitherto largely exempt from public surveil lance and normal congressional review, are now facing . inten sive scrutiny by Congress and the Executive Branch of the government. President Eisenhower, fol lowing a recommendation of the Hoover commission, recently created an independent board of review composed of eight pri vate citizens to make periodic checks on, CIA and other gov ernment agencies that collect foreign inteUigence. The board will report only to the chief executive, but Congress is pre paring to act on proposals, also urged by the Hoover commis sion, calling for a congression al watchdog committee to over see "hush-hush" intelligence ac tivities. , 'Watchdogs' Planned No less than 25 resolutions providing for some kind of con gressional watchdog group are pending in Senate or House. The Senate Rules committee on Feb. 23 reported a measure, sponsored by Sen. Mike Mans field (D-Mont), and 34 other senators, to set up a watchdog committee. The group would be composed of six senators and an Pope Pius Warns On Communist Peace Vatican City (U.R) Pope Pius XII warned diplomats Sun day that a Communist "peace" is only a "precarious truce dur ing which they await the social and economic collapse of the other peoples." The Pope addressed diplomats from 42 nations in a mass audi ence at which they paid tribute to his life-long efforts for peace and congratulated him on his 80th birthday and the 17th an niversary of his reign. ; The pope did not mention Communism by name in his French language address but he made a brief and clear reference to the Communist "peace offen sive." "Such formulas as 'national unity' or 'social progress' should not deceive us," he said. "For militant materialism, 'peace time' represents but a truce, a very precarious truce, during which it awaits the social and economic collapse of the other peoples." Unless there is an unexpected change in the atmosphere, the i terrorism which broke out in April last year undoubtedly will j intensify. i That will mean a real crack-. down, long threatened, by the I British forces under Field Mar- j shal Sir John Harding, govern-: or, and commander-in-chief. He has been holding back for sev eral weeks. Hope Faded During that time, hope has first waxed, then "waned that a settlement might be reached. Under it, the 500,000 people of Cyprus would be given home rule. Britain would keep con trol of internal security. But bearded Archbishop Ma karios seems to be increasing his demands progressively. It could be that the situation might change for the better. But at the moment it looks decided ly bad. tion on Eden's leadership, or lack of it. Eden took office just 11 months ago today. The honey moon is definitely over. Adenauer's Heir Mystery over the heir to 80-year-old West German Chancel lor Konrad Adenauer may end soon. He has told aides that he finally will designate his suc cessor as party chief and thus his heir as chancellor at the annual Christian Democratic Convention next month. But the wily old man is keeping poli ticians guessing. He told one group last week that Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, archi tect of Germany's remarkable post-war recovery, is "the only possible choice." But he hinted to others that his man is For eign Minister Heinrich von Bren tano. H-Bomb, Stay Home! A storm of protest is brew ing in Japan against the H-bomtj. tests the United States plans to hold at Bikini this spring and summer. Many organizations are preparing to demand that the Japanese government ask formal ly that the tests be abandoned. The Socialists are hoping that reports that India will protest to the United Nations against the tests are true. Japanese hold the tests will poison the sea for thousands of miles outside the American-defined danger zone. That would mean that in those waters fish, a prime Jap of Hush- equal number of House mem bers drawn from the existing Armed Services and Appropri ations .committees. The group would supervise CIA much as the Joint Atomic Energy com mission oversees the Atomic En ergy commission. The need for broader congres sional scrutiny of CIA and the wisdom of creating a watchdog committee have been sharply debated for several years. The executive branch has been re luctant to endorse such propos als for fear that in practice they might have an adverse effect on CIA's sensitive work. Some members of Congress have felt that the agency's activities al ready are effectively supervis ed. This view is held by those members of the Appropriations and Armed Services commit tees who now check informally on CIA's work. Free From Review Advocates of a special watch dog group, on the other hand, are troubled because CIA iS freed from virtually every form of ordinary . congressional re view. Only a handful of mem bers in each house not more than 16 in all see the annual appropriation figures. Mansfield and co-sponsors of his resolu tion insist that this situation must be changed. Congression al review, they assert, is in keeping with democratic pro cesses and is required to pre serve public confidence in the intelligence agency. Without such regular review, Congress has no way of knowing whether CIA is doing a good or bad job. Four investigations of CIA have been made by independ ent boards or commissions since the agency was created under the National Security Act of 1947. Surveys were conducted by task forces of the first and second Hoover commissions in 1949 and 1955 which sub mitted reports to Congress. Two special surveys were carried out in 1951 and 1954 by groups whose findings were reported confidentially to the President. Weaknesses Cited The published reports, while indicating progressive improve ment in the overall effective ness of the intelligence effort, cited weaknesses in administra tion of CIA and some short- Since 1 908 PERL Mortuary o Phone .2-6675 FINER FUNERAL SERVICES anese food, would be unfit to eat for a long time. Kremlin Hotrods Moscow reports that Russian hot-rodders may soon be scoot ing along the Moscow, Minsky, Warsaw highway in , the first Soviet sports cars. It's said that Soviet engineers are testing the first Russian sports car with a plastic body only one-third as heavy as any metal body. This is the fjrst time the Russians have shown interest in produc ing sports cars, which, even in western countries are strictly a luxury item. Electronic Evangelism The nation's largest Protest ant church organization is pre paring to lay out a record sum for electronic evangelism. The National Council of Churches spent $1,400,000 for religibus radio, television and film pro- Q duction in 1955. qA major in crease is in prospect for 1956. Peace In Malaya? Look for Communist ChJQE Chin Peng to approach Malayan Chief Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman to end the eight-year jungle war. Chin pledged in re cent peace talks to stop fighting if Rahman won control of Ma laya's defense and security from Britain. Rahman has just done that. Singapore, expects-Chin as the result to make new feel ers. To save face, he probably will make them through. Bur mese or Indonesian circles. '. lews of o ish CIA comings in the quality of its in telligence output. The 1955 task force under Gen. Mark Clark said the agency deserved the full confidence of the American people; however, its report pointed to certain "flaws" in need of correction. The task force showed particular concern over what it regarded as lack of adequate data from behind the Iron Curtain. r The quality of information on the Soviet Union and Red China has not satisfied the present Di rector of CIA, Allen W. Dulles, who has said that collecting in formation from Iron Curtain areas is his "toughest job." Dul les nevertheless has declared that the work of his agency is constantly improving. He insists that he has given the Armed Services and Appropriations committees an honest "picture of the nature of the work" CIA is doing. Power By Prayer GEO. N. TAYLOR The director of the work here in America and over seas sat by the fire with his headQbowed in silent prayer. For what did the man pray? The weeks passed and there came word that told it. He would go across to a mis sion field in Africa and start a work there. So he took a plane and on the field he met with the directors of a dozen missions. They agreed that the time had come to adopt the move that the man from America had outlined. They adopted it and secured a director to organize and handle it. . Thousands Of native Chris tians had already been lifted out of their old ways of sin but they needed further Bible knowledge. Now they, by Bible study, are getting it and the work is spreading. So we see the part that the director in Chi cago is having. Christ said to asx God for whatever is needed to forward His work and here we have it. John 16:23, This message sponsored by an Oregon dairyman. aav. in every price range
