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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
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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.
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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.)
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