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o 0 0 , K5UR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDiTPJBUNE O "Everybody m Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Eusiness Manager ERIC ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy lOe. '5 Daily and Sunday One year 512.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 i Dailv and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year S3.50. 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 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 IasTocITauqn 1 U O 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 Match 20, 1956 (it was Wednesday) Patrons of Medford school dis trict approve $500,000 bond is sue for improvements, 368-31. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Today is officially the first day of spring. Spring? Bah!, say many of the Older Girls. 20 YEARS AGO March 20. 1936 (It was Friday) Local Red Cross chapter sets $450 as quota for area's ' contri bution to flood victims in east ern states. From Side Glances by Tribune Reporters: Mrs. Clyde Fichtner, apparently firmly convinced that spring has arrived, out touching up the family baby buggy with a new coat of paint. 30 YEARS AGO March 20, 1926 (It was Saturday) Construction work at Camp Jackson for annual National Guard encampment to start soon. President Calvin Coolidge's father dies in Plymouth, Vt. 40 YEARS AGO March 20, 1916 (It was Monday) Gold bearing ore in Birdseye creek near Gold Hill found; W-orth between $285 and $15,000 per ton. Farmers and Fruitgrowers league resolves that smudge oil is best method known as a prop er frost protector. WhaS's bQ Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Widow of a worker under social security gets the same an nuity on reaching 65 as he would have had, or three-fourths or one-half as large? 2. Available evidence 'indi cates that more men or women vote in U.S. elections, or about the same number of each? 3. Formosa belonged on the eve of World War II to China, France, Great Britain, Japan or Russia? 4. The birth rate is higher or lower in big cities than in small towns, or about the same? 5. Senate committee recom- IBending censure of Senator Mc Carthy in 1954- was headed by Senator Johnson (Tex.). Know land (Calif.), Mase (S.D.), Wat kins (Utah) or Gore (Tenn.)? 6. The Carlsbad Caverns are in Arizona, Kentucky, New Mex ico, Virginia or southern France? 7. Henry Montgomery Jr. is the real name of which well known TV producer? The Answers: 1. Three-fourths as large; 2. More men; 3. To Japan; 4. Lower; 5. Sen. Wat kins; 6. New Mexico; 7. Robert Montgomery. Smelt Run in Cowlitz; Dippers Have Fair Luck Longview (U.R) A smelt run was reported in the Cowlitz river today but bank dippers were reported to have had only fair luck because the fish stuck to deep water in the lower river. Commercial boats took about 60 boxes of 50 pounds each Sunday night. Many had almost given up hopes there would be a run this season.- - MAIL TRIBUNE What Persuaded McKay? Who or what DID persuade Secretary of the In terior McKay to agree to resign his cabinet job and run against Senator Wayne Morse for the Upper House? The general supposition at first was it must have been the President. But Secretary McKay has publicly denied this. He says in effect, no one persuaded him. He decided to run himself. VET as the Mail Tribune correspondent in Washing- ton, A. Robert Smith brought out so clearly in Sunday's paper: On Monday, March 5th, in an hour's interview, Mr. McKay said he hoped to retire to his beloved Ore gon, reiterating that he had no intention of running for Morse's senate seat, that at 62 he was too old to tackle that sort of a job, that a younger man should take over, etc., etc. fN THE NEXT Tuesday, March 6, Secretary Me Kay told the same representative. He said he would not make the sen ate race, but unless the President wished him to re main in the cabinet he would retire. On the day following, (Wednesday, the 7th), Set retary McKay was invited Hall, the dynamic G.O.P. was put on hard from the standpoint that the defeat of Wayne Morse on the Republican agenda came sec ond only in importance to a victory for "Ike" and that the Secretary was the one and Phil Hitchcock, the well enough known in Oregon. According to Correspondent Smith, although the pressure was considerable Secretary McKay was STILL unconvinced. yHE NEXT DAY, however, Mr. McKay was called to a conierence at tne (again according to Reporter Smith), he told an AP reporter he was still opposed to making the race against Morse. But presto, bingo ! that afternoon, only a few hours later, Secretary and Mrs. McKay were on a plane en route to Salem, Oregon, and the following day the controversial Secretary of Interior, did what he had maintained for weeks and only the day before, he would never do entered the lists to kick his old-time enemy Wayne Morse out of the US Senate and take the seat for the next six years him SECRETARY McKay still however, that President Eisenhower did not ask him to run, but was immensely pleased when Ore gon's former governor told him he had decided to do so. ' There is no reason to doubt this. It comes down then, largely to a matter of se mantics. No doubt the President did not put his arm around "Dear Doug's" shoulder and plead with him to make the race and thus save the GOP and the nation. But his "alter ego," Sherman Adams prob ably did do something of the sort, so it was in reality the realization that his boss and revered leader WANTED him to make the race, and would be sore ly displeased and disappointed if he didn't, that as Reporter Smith expressed it: "Pushed McKay into a campaign he personally did not wish to enter." ' R.W.R. He Refuses to Quit There was a second big surprise in this all-out GOP effort to "get" Wayne Morse or else! It was assumed in Washington that Messers. Tooze and Hitchcock would meekly acquiesce and when they got word from "On High" that Secretary McKay had been properly chosen and anointed, they would fold up their tents and quietly sneak away. Attorney Tooze did so. But former State Senator Hitchcock appeared to be made of sterner stuff. AT ANY RATE, on his visit here Mr. Hitchcock as sured his friends and supporters he was in the race to stay. He believed he had a better chance of beating Oregon's senior Senator than the vulnerable and reactionary Secretary of the Interior, and that in justice to those who believed as he did, he would not, regardless of what pressure might be brought, obey the command to quit and retreat, even if it were issued from GHQ or thereabouts. X7TN, LOSE or draw, candidate Hitchcock is to be commended for his spirit and independence. More than that, he will find plenty of support among Republicans for his contention that he would give Wayne Morse a harder run for his money than the Secretary of the Interior For all the true TR "conservationists" are not in the Democratic party by any means. Nor are all the advocates of public power over private power at Hells Canyon or at similar multiple projects. Thousands of liberal Republicans particularly here in the north west are as critical of the Interior Department's rec ord under McKay as any of the Democrats, and while probably few of them would like to vote for Wayne Morse, not many of them would vote for six more years of McKay "give away" doctrine in the US Sen ate or anywhere else either. .. So while as things now stand it isn't probable, it is POSSIBLE, that young Hitchcock may pull one of the big upsets of the campaign and thus allow Secre tary McKay to do what he really wants to do retire from public life and hand over the job of carrying the torch for the Grand Old Party to younger and more eager hands. R.W.R. Tuesday, March 20, 1956 story to an Associated Press to breakfast by Leonard chairman and the pressure man to do it, Lamar Tooze other contenders being not wnite -Mouse, &n route, stuck to his original story ommunieations 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. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Unhappy About Roads To the Editor: As most readers are aware there is some legisla tion pending in the Congress in connection with a huge multi billion dollar road building pro gram. Some of our crooked pol iticians both local and otherwise, seem to think the federal gov ernment just reaches up into thin air and grabs this money. They find it very convenient to forget that the people as a whole are the ones who will ultimately have to pay for it. May I ask, what in Hades, have they squan dered the public road money for since gasoline taxes came into being? Such things, I suppose, as conventions, parties, bribes, kick backs to implement and ma chinery firms andor salesmen. There is no reason for sending a representative to a Road Builders convention. Political roads are the only kind built there. Engi neers and their assistants are supposed to know how to build roads when they get out of col lege. How many gallons of gaso line are sold in the state of Ore gon and gasoline taxes collected thereon yearly? Plenty we don't get proper benefit from that is certain. May I ask why our county roads have big puddles of water in the middle? Simple, the center of the road is oftimes lower than the edges. Now may I ask why wasn't that sum of over $800,000 paid to Jackson county over a year ago by the O&C revested lands put to use on our roads instead of being wasted on the school pro grams. All the schools do with a windfall like that, is spend it for so-called sports, baseball football basketball tennis and other nonsensical projects of the nature. May I remind the readers of the story of the king of old who found he wasn't getting full value from the taxes collected from his subjects. He questioned his prime minster and for an swer the prime minister picked up a cube of ice at his end of the table and started passing it hand to hand to the king. When the cube of ice arrived at the king's hand it had diminished considerably in size. Thus the king understood. Moral of the story is reduce the number of hands the money goes through. That also goes for government bureaus. Yours for better roads at lower cost. Floyd R. McCabe, Butte Falls, Ore. Answer io All Ills To the Editor: I think there is a lot of undue fuss about the water situation. Personally I think if people would change their diets and eat the food that the Lord intended they should without ruining it in the "proc ess," they would be better off. Even in this modern age we can still eat natural food if we want to and care to go to the extra work it takes. I have a small hand mill with which I grind all our cereal of wheat or corn. I use the corn meal for corn bread, also and make muffins and bread of the flour. I make all of our bread, of whole wheat flour. There are some people who will agree with me when I say that all the ills of this modern civilization are caused by wrong diet. I wish everyone could read the book I read this week en titled "The National Malnutri tion" by D. T. Quigley, M.D. Edna M. McCall, Route 1, Box 413, Central Point, Ore. Fluoride and Iodine To the Editor: In regards to the March 18 letter by Dr. Holt, whom I admire very much. I think it was very wise for him to bring out the significant par allel between iodine and fluo rine. I agree with Dr. Kolt that iodized salt is necessary in this area and for that reason I use it but I do not feet that just be cause I use it that I should ex pect my neighbor to use it also. In fact, I know a lady who has a thyroid condition in which iodine could do her considerable harm and therefore she does not use iodized salt. Since iodine in table salt is on an optional basis, I think the same type of thing should be done with fluorine. Let the ma jority, if the majority wants it have it but let's also respect the rights and privileges of the minority and not force it on them if there is some other way to get it to the majority and there certainly seems to be such a way. Incidentally, I notice that the Roseburg Medical association is opposed to fluoridation since they say and I quote "Dental caries is not a public health, but one of personal oral hygiene. To this I agree. Yours for taking iodine as an example and adding fluorine to something other than our public water supply. B. A. Miller 728 Newtown st. Medford, Ore. Doing Things Backward To the Editor: Aren't we do ing a lot of things backward? Take our educational system for instance. Children entering school do very much as they choose, as though they had the knowledge they came to ac quire. What sense to that? They are treated like infants although they are physically and mental ly superior to children a decade or so past who managed very nicely with much stiffer assign ments and greater quantities of knowledge to devour. In high school they are usual ly humored with more extra curricular activities than of sub ject matter needed to develop their talents and abilities in preparation for their future life. Courses are chosen which require the least effort. Grades are obtained without acquiring much knowledge. Freedom of expression quite often destroys a class period's usefulness. Ego displaces wisdom. Graduation day puts them on top of the world, or does it? College time finds them won dering what they know and are fitted for. Counsel helps with a decision. Then they find them selves in a straight jacket. At least they are very definitely told what to do, what to learn, what the answers are. Reactions to ideas are discouraged. The student is squelched. Twelve years of delusion ends in repres sion of ideas, individual think ing and incentive to carry on. Research in knowledge is stop ped. No wonder we haven't put out any wonderful educators in the last decade! No wonder we're lacking in men and worn ,en of ability in all the fields of endeavor! Working backwards is getting us no place fast. Frances Ray, Ralston, Wash. En The Day's By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, the wires are buzzing with reports that the communist party chief, Khrus chev, has denounced Stalin as a blundering murderer. The dispatches report that Soviet representatives in Lon don including Malenkov, who is visiting there appear to be badly shaken by the news. Mal enkov was two hours late in showing up for an appointment. Soviet Ambassador to London Jakob Malik postponed a con ference with the Japanese en voy at the last minute. VyHAT cooks? " I wouldn't know. I doubt if anyone outside the in ner and secret circles of the Kremlin knows what is in the wind. But History tells us that when an absolute dictator dies he leaves behind him in key spots a crew of his loyal henchmen. These henchmen are intent on protect ing their jobs and .their necks. They want to see things go on just as they have been going on and they are historically, in clined to be suspicious and fear ful of the new crew that takes over at the top. THERE may be too many of these Stalin henchmen in the lower ranks of the present Soviet structure, and the present dictators may be denouncing Stalin as a preliminary to LI QUIDATING the Stalinists who remain in the outfit. I don't guarantee that guess, but at least it sounds like a reasonable one. "IVfORE on the U. S. Senate and the farm bill (I hate to go harping on this string, but the handling of the 1956 farm bill in the congress is so typical of the politics of this particular campaign year that it deserves thoughtful attention on the part of all of us mere voters.) Just before recessing on Fri day night for the week-end, the senate approved an amendment to the farm bill providing a half billion dollars for federal pur chase of beef, pork and other perishables not eligible for oth er types of price supports. The obvious reason for the amendment is that -there is a sizeable number of voters among the producers of beef, pork and other perishable farm products not presently eligible for price support. The senators figured it wouldnt' be good politics to leave ANYBODY out. ONE can't help being sympa thetic with the farmers, whose prices are going down while more or less everybody else's prices are going up. But let's take a critical look at the situation. Our. agricultural trouble tracks us back to the fact that we have, been producing more than the markets will absorb. As a result, staggering surpluses are accumulating. As long as it remains profitable because of government subsidies to over produce the markets we'U go on over-producing, and the surplus- Midf fQt Of FtfCf By Joe and Stewart Alsop THE END OF STALIN Washington In the Soviet Union, . the truth about Stalin is now being told with a ven geance, and even rather venge- ijognhu.--'- fuiiy. It is difficult to imagine a more macabre scene than the special session of the Com munist Party C o n g r ess at which Nikita Khruschev made the as Joseph Alsop tonishing speech that has now leaked out. Here were the heirs of Stalin, and all the higher managers of the iron system that he formed. Here, on the p 1 a t f o rm it self, were not a few whose hands were deeply stained with the blood Stalin shed. Here, at the speaker'sj Stewart Alsop stand, was the stocky, outwardly jolly little man whom Stalin personally chose to preside over the ruth less massacres that reduced the restive Ukraine to the final sub jection after the war. And this little man was saying the unsay able, mentioning the unmention able, speaking about the un speakable pounding out all the long tale of Stalin's purges in the army and purges in the party, of Stalin's secret assassinations and encouraged suicides, of Sta lin's plots and counterplots, of Stalin's sadism and megalomania. A nd he was saying, further more, that almost all of Sta lin's victims, who were also the victims remember, of the same iron system Nikita Khruschev now directs, had after all been innocent of any crimes. And so the memories were honored of those same "criminal beasts" whom Nikita Khruschev and every other' man on the plat form and in the hall had so loud ly reviled, when they fell under News es will ga on accumulating. Beef and pork have hitherto been consumed about as fast as they have been produced. No staggering surplus of them hangs over the market. But if the government starts to subsi dize them that is to say, if it starts buying up the surplus beef and pork with taxpayer money to keep the price from drop ping it will become profitable to produce more beef and pork than the markets will absorb. THE result of that will be: 1. A steadily accumulating surplus of beef and pork to hang over the markets of the fu ture. . 2. The building of expensive cold storage warehouses to hold the accumulating surpluses. I don't think any inteUigent cattleman or hogman wants to see that happen. Manila, P.I. (U.R) President Ramon Magsaysay said today it would be difficult for him to find time to visit the United States this year because of the pressure of his work here. 1 -v B Mrz jsik Featuring the ... SINGING Highway 99 South Ashland, Oregon SERVICES BEGINNING TONIGHT and EVERY NIGHT - 7:30 p.m. For several years the Singing Callicoats have run their own Radio and TV programs all over the United States, and have travelled in 40 of the 48. They have been featured in some of the Country's largest churches of all denominations, and have been on many concert stages, singing gospel songs exclusively. Groucho Marx, Ralph Edwards, Dennis Day, Roy and Dale Rogers, Art Linkletter and Pee Wee King are just a few of the country's best-known entertainers who have heard and enjoyed the singing Callicoats, and who have featured the family on their program. the displeasure of the old dicta tor and were thus condemned to die. If the reports of Khruschev's speech are correct, in truth this scene at the Party Congress must have reached the heights of sor did drama of these scenes in the Roman Senate, after the death of one of the tryant emperors, for which the great Tacitus al ways dipped his historian's pen in acid of double strength. The magnates of the empire, living in fear no longer, would r hurry to celebrate the tyrant's passing. Days or . even hours before, they had prostrat ed themselves before the dead man to lick the dust from his shoes, and they had hastened to obey his most sanguinary whims. But now they would draw their purple-bordered togas close about them in a brave show of righteous indignation. And one by one, they would bitterly de nounce the crimes they had formerly applauded, and boldly heap blame on the dead for the crimes they had themselves com mitted. Thus far back in history one must go to find an adequate parallel for the scene at the Party Congress. But the question remains just what does this scene mean to us? A simple answer is given by George F. Kennan, the student of the Soviet Union whose judg ment has most often been sus tained by events. It means, he says, "That a morbid monster has now been replaced by jolly gangsters." In Kennan's opinion, Satlin was one of those whom the corruption of absolute power deprived of common humanity, without, alas, depriving him of uncommon ability. His succes sors are products of the Stalin system, but they are not in human; they are embittered by all the humiliations that Stalin made them suffer; and in a sense they mean what they are saying about him. T7or the people of the Soviet A Union, this new tincture of humanity among their rulers no doubt , promises somewhat bet ter days. The terror is over. It is not likely to be re-inaugurated either, although the instruments of terror still persist, because the great postwar rise of Soviet national income has now given the Soviet peoples a standard of living high enough so terror is needless. At the same time, the true priorities in the Soviet state were strongly re-emphasized at this same Party Congress by none oth er than Georgi Malenkov, whose complicity in Stalin's plots is now a source of great personal danger. As Premier, Malenkov had advocated more consumer's goods to gain support for his failing power. As a beaten man in the power race, Malenkov confessed his former error. Un der orders, he promulgated the still-standing rule of the Soviet Presidium, that the needs of the Russian people must be wholly subordinated to the needs of the State's heavy and military in dustry. nphe Malenkov speech, in turn, -- is the real key to the riddle. It is the ugly answer to the com placency-mongers who say the Ill m '' Removal of Morse From Ballot Souqht Salem (U.R) A suit was filed in Circuit Court here yes terday to remove the name of Sen. Wayne Morse from the Democratic primary election ballot. The suit was filed by Woody Smith, Morse's oppon ent for the Democratic nomina tion. Smith claimed that it is his "information and belief that Wayne Morse is not, in fact, a Democrat in good faith but is instead a Republican." Lane County Elections Depu ty Lloyd Payne said in Eugene that Morse is a registered Dem ocrat. The senator withdrew his registration as a Republican and Feb. 17, 1955 registered as a Democrat, Payne said. Ex-State Insurance Commissioner Dies Portland (U.R) A. H. Av erill, 88, former state insurance commissioner and Portland commissioner of -public docks, died Sunday. Averill was state insurance commission from 1931 to 1935. He served as commis sioner of public docks from 1927 to 1947. O Soviet Union has changed, and so the West may now disarm. and go to sleep. It shows that the new Soviet rulers have ab andoned Stalin's ways, but they have not altered Stalin's priori ties or forgotten his goals. Of course the Soviet has changed. So did Rome change when Claudius replace the mad Caligula, and Vespasian won Nero's purple. The good emper ors were certainly better than the bad emperors. But alas they were not better for Rome's neighbors. A considerable part of the "meditations" of Marcus Aurelius was written in the field, in a General's tent by night, in the c-mps of the legions, and the Romanians of our own day owe the language they still speak to the philosopher-emperor's career as a stern conqueror. Khrushchev is nos philosopher ruler, but once agin the paral lel fits. (Copyright 195S, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) MR. INSURANCE FRED BRENNAN WE WRITE HAIL INSURANCE! The Rogue Valley is a basin sur rounded by mountains. If high alti tude snows melt slowly, wind tip drafts against the cold mountains could cause the precipitation to drop in Hail form. Call Us tor Hail Insurance Information MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940 GALLICOATS
