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o o FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medford .Tribune O'Everybody m Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. J7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROEERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHEH. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 18S7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ri Mall In Advance: Per CODy 10e Daily and Sunday One year $12-00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.o0 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year j.au. fiv rurrifr 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 Dailv 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 Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION ! vJ O fctlJJIIIMg'H.'. TJUB OfV NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and tO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 15. 194S (It was Friday) Applegate hunt nets two cou gars, one of them about eight feet long. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot colum: A bill has been introduced in the Senate giving the vote to 18-year-olds. There has been too much 18-year-old voting already. 20 YEARS AGO March 15, 1936 v (It was Sunday) New Rotary plow expected to arrived today for use at Crater Lake National park. Frank Newman, Medford at torney, announces candidacy for Republican nomination for coun ty district attorney. 30 YEARS AGO March 15. 1926 lt was Monday) Some 13 are initiated into Hillah Temple of the Shrine at the southwestern state confer ence in AsKland. From Local and Personal col umn: Taking advantage of the fine warm- weather of yesterday many residents of the city put in much of the day in making garden, and in cleaning up their yards, but the majority retired from such work at noon, owing to the warm weather and hot 7 40 YEARS AGO March 15. 1916 (It was Wednesday) Medford school board decides to hold commencement May 19; school closes officially May 23. - Orchardists start bringing thermometers to county agent's office for testing during frost q reason. 0 WhaS's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. St. Patrick was probably born in what is now Northern Ireland, England, France, Scot land or the Republic of Eire? 2. U. S. business unit with highest annual sales is Du Pont, General Motors, Sears Roebuck, Standard Oil of N. J. or U. S. Steel? 3. Senator Kefauver predicts he'll have more or fewer pledg ed votes in the 1956 Democratic convention than on first ballot 'in 1952, or about the same num ber? Present shortage of schools is due chiefly to too little con struction during the war, or to rise in the bitrh rate, or to both, or to neither? 5. As a result of the "package Ideal" with Russia last fall, Spain is or isn't now a member of iU.N.? 6. Largest church in the world is St. Peter's in Rome; right or wrong? 7. A poltergeist is a type of bandage, public opinion investi gator, Antarctic explorer, noisy ghost or coward? The answers: 1. England. 2. General Motors. 3. More, he predicts. 4. To both. 5. Is. 6" Right. 7. Noisy ghost. MAIL TRIBUNE At 62 Instead of at 65? The Senate Finance committee, is preparing its re port on the bill passed overwhelmingly by the House last year, to liberalize the social security system. One House provision evidently disliked by a majority of the committee would lower to 62 from the present 65 the age at which old age annuities would become available for women. A retired worker now gets his annuity increased by one-half for his wife if she also has reached 65. Supporters of the House proposal, pointing out that most wives are several years younger than their hus bands, argue that many workers who really should re tire at 65 feel impelled to work beyond that age until their wives also reach 65. A WIDOW is eligible for three-fourths of what her husband's annuity would have been, but only when she reaches 65. This means, argue supporters of the House proposal further, that too many widows are in need deprived of support from the deceased husband yet required to wait for an old age annuity until they meet the age qualification. Opponents of the House proposal point out that by materially increasing the total of annuities, it would either require higher social security taxes or else make the system financially unstable. Pointing out also that women as a whole live longer than men as a whole, they argue that the average woman work er in her sixties is in at least as good health as the av erage man of the same age, and hence should not get a retirement annuity at 62 while a man has to wait until 65 for one. "117HEN the social security system was set up in 1935, there was still considerable unemploy ment. So one purpose of the legislation was to induce older persons to drop out of the labor force. With employment as high as it is today, some op ponents of the 62-instead-of-65 proposal feel that old er workers should be encouraged to work as long as they can, instead of being tempted to retire before they need. E. R. R. St. Patrick s Day and the Irish Fewer and fewer U.S. cities now hold St. Patrick's Day parades or largely attended St. Patrick's Day banquets. The Day has been the especial province of those Americans who were born in what is now the Republic of Eire or whose parents were bom there, and not many of them, relatively, are left now. The first great wave of immigration to this coun try came from Ireland in the 1830s and 1840s,. espe cially after the Potato Famine there. It set off a burst of Nativism here that found political expression in the American (Know-Nothing) party. . In Help Wanted columns of newspapers of the time could be found the notation, "No Irish Need Ap ply." But politicians saw votes in the newcomers, and Tammany Hall in New York City, originally anti alien, became an Irish-American stronghold. A NOTHER wave of newcomers from Ireland (both the south and Ulster) came in after the Civil war, with some 655,000 entering in the decade from 1880 1890. By the latter year, however, they were in sec ond place to the German-born as the largest single group of all foreign-born. In the 1950 census only 5.2 per cent of the foreign-born in the United States had come from the Emerald Isle. The mayor of New York who reviews the 1956 St. Patrick's Day parade there is the son of a former U.S. senator born in Germany, and his predecessor, Vin cent R. Impellitteri, emigrated from Italy. That's a far cry from the days of Mayors Hylan, "Jimmy" Walker, and O'Brien, and the American who now wears a touch of green on March 17 is not necessarily of Irish stock. E. R. R. 1956 Candidates and TV The bill pending in Congress on election practices would, among other things, amend the Federal Com munications act of 1934. This requires broadcasting stations, if they give their facilities free to one candi date for office, to offer them free to all other candi dates for that 'particular office. The Federal Communications Commission has ruled that under this requirement the stations may not differentiate between major-party candidates and minor-party ones. It makes no difference if some of these last may be quite obscure or even crack-pot. (Among the 18 parties contesting the 1952 presiden tial election were the Church of God Bible, Poor Man's, Spiritual, Vegetarian and Republimerican parties.) THE PROPOSED change would require the stations " to give equal free time only to major parties. They would be expected to follow their own sense of public responsibility in offering free time to other parties or candidates of some standing. Under the act, as it now stands, the broadcasting stations are apt only to sell time to a candidate once he has been nominated. Then they must by law offer similar time at the same rate to his rivals. These may be financially unable to accept the offer, at least in in full, thereby giving an advantage to the better heeled candidate or party. v A FTER President Eisenhower on Feb. 29 explained his decision to run again, the Democratic Nation al committee demanded free time to reply, calling him a candidate.. All TV networks and all but one ra dio network rejected the demand, classifying the Eis enhower broadcast as simply a . non-political news event. One radio network did give the Democrats time to reply, and their spokesman was Sen. John J. Spark man (D-Ala.), the 1952 vice presidential candidate but not at present a candidate for any office. E.R.R. Thursday, March 13, 195S Mat fer of Fact on Washington The dreamy un reality of most current discus sion of world problems is won derfully well illustrated by the noisy Sen ate row about East-W e s t trade. Several D e m o c ratic Senators are in a towering rage, real or pretended, be Joseph Alsop cause the Eisenhower adminis tration has reluctantly allowed our Allies to increase their trade with the Soviet bloc. In reply to the Senators' criticism, Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks has chiefly mumbled that the whole subject is classified. This is a very, fashionable an swer nowadays. Meanwhile, anyone who troubles to read that not very hishlv classified publication, "The Wall Street Jour n a 1", must suspect that the Senators and Secretary Weeks are arguing about locking the barn door long after the horse Stewart Alsop nas gone. From the moment the em bargo system was set up, equip ment for extracting and purchas ing petroleum products has al ways stood near the top of the list of forbidden exports to the Soviets. In this field the West ern lead was believed to be very great. Since the fuel oil short age was also believed to be one of the chief weaknesses of the Soviet economy, the strictest rules were made to perpetuate that shortage. And how the "Wall Street Journal" has turned these rules into an ironi cal joke, with a single story. THE story is about a Texas concern, the Dresser Indus tries of Dallas, whose Vice President, J. B. O'Connor, has made a contract with the Soviet government to bring the radi cally new Russian turbine oil drill to America. O'Connor will certainly suffer if he is shown to be talking through his hat; yet he boldly claims that this Russian turbo-drill is up to ten- times as efficient as the conven tional oil well drills in use in this country and throughout the Western world. The technicali ties behind this claim have no place here. But the joke it indi cates is very clear indeed. Great efforts have been made, causing much ill-feeling among our Allies, to prevent the So viets from getting the benefit of Western "know-how", in this matter of petroleum extraction. But now it turns out, if O'Con nor is right, that the people with the superior know-how are i the Soviets. And there is at least one good reason for thinking that O'Connor probably is right, too. In brief, Soviet crude oil pro duction has increased by over 80 per cent in the last five years, thus overcoming the much touted oil fuel shortage, while American domestic : crude oil production has gone up by only 22 per cent in the same period. FURTHERMORE, there is plen ty of other evidence of the same sort in other fields. Steel products .are regarded as a sen sitive export category, for ex ample. Yet a technical mission of European steel masters re cently found that the large, inte grated Soviet steel plants were actually more efficient than three-quarters of the steel plants in Great Britain, where the in dustrial revolution began. This finding was supported by the leader of the mission, the able executive director of the British Iron and Steel Board, Sir Rob ert Shone. According to Sir Robert, the big Soviet plants are about as efficient, in terms of output per worker, as the "top end" of the British steel industry. "No in strument one could think of was lacking," Sir Robert said. These and other findings of the steel masters' mission so upset Secre tary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey that he is reported to have sounded the alarm on the highest level of the U. S. gov ernment which was a trifle odd, since the inteligence re ports have been telling Humph rey the same story for at least two years before the steel mas ters went to the Soviet Union. Again, machine tool exports to the Soviets are mostly strictly embargoed. Yet the tough and experienced engineers of the American Automation - Mission found that Russian machine tools were both finely designed and excellently made. They fur ther concluded that current So viet machine tool output was higher than American machine tool output. And they found that some Soviet ideas about automa tion techniques looked like ad vances on prevailing American ideas. - ' MUCH other evidence along .the same lines might also be mentioned, but this should be enough to make the point. In sum, the Soviet economy has grown very greatly and Soviet technology has advanced very rapidly in the period since the war. For these reasons, the fa- mous embargo is now beginning Mill IIIIMy. d Stewart Alsop to be self-defeating. In certain very special areas, the controls may still be worth the inter Allied friction that they cause. But aU the experts agre'e that in most areas, the embargo now causes less inconvenience -io the Soviets than to the American policy-makers. Trade-wise, in fact," the ex perts think we ought to stop worrying about the embargo and start worrying about the final conclusion of Sir Robert Shone. Shone embodied his con clusions in a warning that if the Soviets chose to export steel products, they could under-sell most Western countries, deliver on their contracts, and make a rather handsome profit, too, be cause of their cheap labor. Since the experts further think that the Soviets are now begin ning to have , an exportable steel surplus, Sir Robert's warning ought to be taken very seriously indeed. Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc.i Today and By Walter MOUNTING DISORDER In North Africa and the Mid dle East, from Morocco to the Persian Gulf, the three West ern nations are under at tack in all their key po sitions of pow er and influ ence. They are be set by guerril la warfare as in Algeria, by Walter Lippmann re Demon as in Cyprus, by a threat of war as in Palestine, by infiltration and subversion as in Jordan, Syria, and the Persian Gulf protecto rates. , Amidst the mounting disor der and confusion there is being posed the crucial question of whether these local but con nected conflicts are still nego tiable by 'concessions and com promise, by the use of states manship and diplomacy. There is a growing doubt as to wheth er it is still possible to achieve agreed settlements, whether on the contrary there is an historic revolutionary tide which will allow no peace until in this area the power of France, Great Bri tain and the United States has been broken. . THE question is whether the Arab rulers and politicians, their officers and intellectuals, will settle for anything short of the expulsion of France from North Africa, Britain from the Eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, the extinction of Israel as an independent state. and the reduction of the United States to the position of a hired servant of the Saudi-Arabian oil kingdom. In London, Paris, and Wash ington the governments are still trying desperately not to despair of : settlements by negotiation. But they are being forced to ask themselves whether any settle ment is anything more than the taking off point for new de mands, whether any appease ment will in fact, appease. At this point, with the West erners still bound to seek set tlement by negotiation, they find themselves treating the lo cal struggles separately. Mo rocco, Algeria, and Tunis are held to be French problems. Cyprus, Jordan, and the Persian Gulf protectorates are British problems. Palestine and Saudi Arabia are held to be primarily American problems. T IHE Westerners are treating as and by separate actions what is a wide and generalized move ment against them collectively. This general movement has its center in Egypt and derives its critical power from the backing of the Soviet Union. The Krem lin is not only arming Egypt. It is interposing its own power to frustrate resistance and op position to Egypt. Yet the Al lied diplomacy in its attempts to negotiate is dealing almost entirely with local leaders. The prospects of achieving pa cification by a series of local settlements are very dim indeed. The basic issues are not really local, or even regional. They are worldwide, involving all the great powers. Even when local chieftains and leaders are dis posed, as they are now and then, to strike a bargain, they are prevented from settling by the pressure of the general anti Western movement. Local settlements are, more over, inordinately difficult be cause there are in most of these old protectorates local vested in terests which are uncompromis ing. This has been most mani fest in French North Africa. But there is a similar condition else where. This damages deeply the Western cause. Thus the West erners do not concede enough to win the good opinion of the uncommitted nations. . THE question which must now come to everyone's mind is whether -an attempt might and should be made to negotiate col lectively at a higher level with the real leaders of the Arab , Malenkov Getting First Look At World Outside Iron Curtain By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Russia's Georgi M. Malenkov is getting his first look today at the free world he and his col leagues in the Kremlin seek to destroy. . He is get ting it in an cient London, s y m b ol of kingly pomp, whiich oddly enough served as the cradle of C o m m u- Charles McCann nism. - Malenkov is to tour Britain for three weeks, as Soviet min ister for electric power stations, with a delegation of experts. His presence in Britain may give a preview of the reception to be accorded to Soviet Pre- Tomorrow Lippmann movement and with the Krem lin. As a series of local conflicts the situation is disintegrating, and it could readily become one of such massive revolutionary violence that not only the West ern powers but the local Arab rulers would be overwhelmed by it. The Western policy has been to deal with the Middle East as if the Soviet Union were not present in the region, were not already in fact a principal pow er. This enables the Soviet Union to operate without being called to account, and things have been going steadily against the West, from bad to worse. Copyright 1956. New York Herald Tribune Inc. ommunications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. not exceed 400 words. . Kefauver Is Smart To the Editor: I just finished reading your editorial in Tues day's paper. In your article "Keilauver is Smart," I noticed in your list of "had the Demo crats been in power the past 40 years there would have been no's," you omitted one that to me by far outweighs any and ail of the ones you mentioned. It is, "If the Democrats had been in power the past 40 years, there would have been no peace." While Mr. Wilson was in power we had World War I. While Mr. Roosevelt was in power we had World War II. While Mr .Truman was in power we had Korea, and had Mr. Truman remained in power we would still have Ko rea. He had a tiger by the tail and either did not know how, or did not want, to let go. To me one American boy's life is worth more than all of the things mentioned by you put to gether. I am sure most American mothers feel the same be they Democrats or Republicans. I agree with you that Mr. Ke fauver is smart, too smart to mention the things you listed. He really would have been asking for it, would he not? Violet E. Upton, 502 B St., Phoenx, Ore. Don't Forget Aspirin! To the Editor: Now that the weight of authority has squelch ed the squirming "aginers," those "against" the proposed fluorida tion program, and proved their methods of reasoning faulty, found their chemistry wanting, and disagreed with their emo tional intuitiveness, let us now add 1 ppm of fluoride to our water supply. Then let us settle back in the complacency that dental problems are solved,, that we may again continue our ways of life without further disturb ance. That fluorides help reduce car ies, and that the human organ ism can beneficially utilize this halide in microscopic amounts seem well substantiated, al though history may reverse this decision. We may well lessen tooth de cay, this external symptom of our real problem, but we Ameri cans are geniuses, bar none, at eliminating symptoms rather than treating fundamental causes. Economically we apply palliatives, rather than mee is sues squarely. We treated eco nomic ailments symptomatically in the thirties with an absurdity never before equalled in history. We treat symptoms of physical distress aches, pains, head aches, et cetera to the tune of 15 tons of aspirin' daily, yet we, as a nation, are oblivious to what is known to many a food "quack" who probably is un aware of the niceties of halide chemistry. The much ridiculed food naturalist proceeds' from the hypothesis that our national health scandal, not merely tooth decay, but heart disease, arthri tis, etc., is, in large part, a logical result of eating highly processed emaciated foods. If fluoridation serves to blind us to this real mier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Communist party leader Nikita S. Khrushchev, who arrive in London April 18 for a 10-day stay. The entire period will be a nervous one for Britain's counter-intelligence services and for Scotland Yard's crack "special branch." Possible Threat A "death to Khrushchev" sign was painted on a London wall recently, and a poster plastered on a wall in the House of Com mons by unknown propagandists said: "Why shake hands with mur der? Stop the Soviet visit." Prime Minister Anthony Eden invited Bulganin and Krushchev to visit Britain during the brief life of the "Geneva spirit" last summer." ' He may have regretted it more than once since then, but he determined to go through with it. Malenkov's visit is less formal. He is the guest of the British Central Electricity Authority. A delegation of British power ex perts will tour Russia while he is here. It is one of the peculiarities of the Kremlin set-up that few of its top men, who talk so loose ly of the free world, know little about it. Travel Limited , ' Melankov, for Instance, has been to Poland and Czechoslo vakia, both Iron Curtain coun tries, but never before to a free one. In Britain he will see streets jammed with motor cars, shops crammed with goods of all kinds, people who have no fear of their police. It will be interesting to see how Malenkov gets along. Made Premier after Josef Stalin's death, he resigned last Feb. 8 after confessing his inadequacy. Letters submitted for publication must fundamental issue, a grave dis service will be done. Which halide (maybe astatine!) shall we add to our water supply to correct the-following situa tion? Over three out 1 of four American soldiers in a group of 300 autopsied in the Korean war showed evidence of heart disease from fibrous thickening of the heart artery to a complete plug ging of one or more branches of the coronary arterial tree. And none (like President Ike) showed any clinical evidence of heart disease. Comparable studies of the South Korean soldiers killed in battle showed practically no heart degeneration. But Eureka!' We shall fluori date our water supply. All is well! So, continue to give junior his per capita intake of 100 pounds of sugar in a multiplicity of forms (devoid of minerals and vitamins), white flour products, other emaciated grain products, and various and sundry other food phonies, and don't forget aspirin he'll need it! Irving S. Thomas, Box 428A, Route 1, , Medford, Ore. Foresl Service Asks Exclusive Land Use Washington U,R) The Forest Service has requested ex clusive use of 1724 acres of na tional forest land in Washington state, the Interior Department announced yesterday. The service wants the land withdrawn from all entry under the general mining laws. Ordin arily national forest lands are .open to mining entry. The Forest Service said un less the areas are closed to min ing entry the lands could be tied up by persons with mining claims. DAY OR iws A ,r bJ No L f V We never have, and I 1 ' UU VJ ft But he is still one of the Krem lin's top men. He looks pudgy five fee seven inches tall and weighing 250 pounds. But he is hard-eyed and tough. Now 54, he became a Communist when he was 16 and Stalin's secretary and hatchet man in the late 1920s. What he thinks of Britain, and what Britons think of him, re mains to be seen. V Editorial Comment ASHLAND FLUORIDATION Next week, the city council will consider the question of flu oridation of the city's water sup ply and this newspaper advo cates favorable action as a health measure to reduce the decay in teeth of younger children. Many points have been made in favor of fluoridation and op ponents of the program have also presented arguments against it. One of these arguments is that it is so-called mass medication. then so is chlorination of a city's water supply and chlorination has been accepted for many years as a sanitary measure. Fluoridation has been tried long enough to show that it is beneficial in reducing the rate of decay in the teeth of younger cmiaren. , We believe it is highly signif icant that dentists and doctors of our community are on record as favoring the program. They have had an opportunity to read, special reports of the beneficial effects of fluoridation and they are responsible, community-conscious men. They believe that flu oridation is safe for a city water supply; they also believe that it is a logical step in a program of better dental health for chil dren. 1 If there were no other recom mendations than those by our dentists and doctors, we feel that this would be sufficient to recom mend the program and justify action by the city council to ap prove fluoridation of our water supply. Ashland Tidings. ENGINEERS ON ROGUE RIVER " . Rep. Harris Ellsworth has In troduced a bill calling on the corps of engineers to make a complete survey of the Rogue River basin and to coordinate a solution for its problems of flood control, fish and wildlife and soil.' conservation reclama tion and recreation. This action is the consequence of the disas trous floods which have hit sec tions of 'the basin this past sea son. ; .' : ' t i. The bureau of reclamation has spent years of study and thous ands of dollars gathering data on the Rogue River basin. Its plans for multiple purpose de veloment were blocked by the sports fishing interests. Maybe an approach by the corps of en gineers will prove acceptable, after the past winter's experi ence, but to save time and mon ey, it should have access to the reclamation bureau data.- gon Statesman, Salem. Cotton fibers consist of about 91.3 per cent pure celulose and 7 per cent water. toe have a ST. PATRICK'S DAY CARD for everyone you know. 'J imitations we never will re ihj fuse to serve anyone in time of need regardless of age, coior, race, creed, social standing, or financial situation! NIGHT -PHONE 2-8030 CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS
