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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordTmbune "'Everyboay tn Souuiern Oregon Read The Mai) Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Edftor 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 STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ot March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 I Daily and Sunday Three mos jju 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 Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLL1DAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I asTocITatlon I J O NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and i0 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 26, 1946 (It was Tuesday) Junior High school students picket Holly theater, demonstrat ing against admission price. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Many husbands were under the thumb of their better-Va on the last Sabbath, a bright and pleasant day. They weilded shears on rose bushes when they wanted to varnish fishing poles and oil Hardy reels. 0 YEARS AGO March 26, 1936 (It was Thursday) Continued smudging seen for Rogue valley with forecast of unsettled weather. Posse continues search of Siskiyou faothills for pair be lieved to have kidnapped a Se attle man In Roseburf . 30 YEARS AGO March 26, 1926 (l was Friday) Seventh Day Adventists' open five-day convention in Medford. Pre-primary convention of Jackson County Republicans scheduled here March 30. 40 YEARS AGO Maich 26, 1916 . (It was Sunday) Suite of rooms in Sparta build ing remodeled by George An drews and Mrs. E. E. Gore for a music studio. From Local and Personal col umn: Fifteen- carloads of soldiers from the Vancouver, Wash., bar racks, passed through Medford today en route to the Mexican border. WhaS's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 71 Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. President Eisenhower meets in the last week of March the head of the British, French, In dian, Mexican or Canadian gov ernments? 2. Estes Kefauver did or didn't sign the manifesto recently put out by Southern members of Congress against the. Supreme Court's anti-segregation ruling? 3. Average total net income per farm is highest in California, Illinois, Iowa, New York or Texas? 4. The 1956 Democratic na tional convention meets in Chi cago, New York, San Francisco, Dallas or St. Louis? 5. Unemployment compensa tion terminates for about half, more than half, or less than half of workers out of jobs before tbey get one again. 6. Jewish festival at this time of year is Purim, Rosh Hashanah, Pesach, Chanukah or Shevuous? 7. Wh'ch member of the Eisen hower cabinet is about to resign to run for the Senate? 1. Mexican and Canadian; 2. Didn't; 3. California (1954 fig ures); 4. Chicago; 5. For about half; 6. Pesach (Passover); 7. In terior Secretary McKay. UNMARRIED MOTHERS London (U.R) The Wo men and Girls Help society to day reported 62 "new cases of unmarried mothers who became involved with Americans, Can adians, Poles and Latvians. It said in its report that the for eigners seem to "have all the charms which the plain Eng lish lads seem to lack." KM MAIL TRIBUNE Bus Service Bus sendee has developed into a major local issue in Oregon's capital of Salem. The city council: is in the midst of a dispute over what to do about maintaining adequate mass transportation there. In view of the recent difficulties of the Evergreen bus lines, we found the discussion in the northern city interesting. It arose over a proposal to abandon night time service something which has long since vanish ed in Medford. A SPECIAL committee of the Salem Chamber of Commerce made a study of the problem, and found that "some form of subsidy evidently will be necessary to maintain satisfactory mass transporta tion," according to an account of its report. As to night bus service, the committee said : The committee believes that night bus service is neces sary to the health, safety and general welfare of the people of this community. We therefore recommend that the city council view mass transportation in the same light as they do police and fire protection and other essential services, and study ways and means of maintaining night bus service. THE upshot of these and other recommendations coming before the council was z proposal that the Salem City Transit Lines.be replaced by a city facility financed by a contribution from each householder in the city, paid with the monthly water bill. The councilman who made the proposal was a bit dubious that the bus company was in as bad financial shape as it said it was. But he added that if the line really was going bankrupt, then the other plan ought to go into effect. He said. : By this method there would be established a public transportation system comparable to that which Salem used to enjoy when the old street cars were operating. Buses could furnish every part of the city on 15 to 20 minute schedules all day long and during the evenings, fares could be reduced to 10 cents, new equipment could be purchased, and there would be an incentive for people to ride. What if a few buses might be running light at times? In unproductiveness that would be insignificant when com- . pared to our half-million-dollar per year fire department whose 80 to 90 members rarely do a day's work in a month's time. jlEDFORD'S bus transportation is not yet on its last " legs. But it isn't far from them in common with bus systems throughout the nation, the result of chang es in living habits of a majority of the people. We understand unofficially thsre is some talk of forming a group to acquire the line from its present ownership, and to operate it on a non-profit basis, possibly through the cooperation of downtown merch ants and professional people who wrould stand to bene fit most from continued bus service. It would not be an easy task, but it might be pro ductive in the long run if the many problems could be worked out to everyone's satisfaction. Meanwhile, we can reflect on the fact that while Medford's bus situation, while probably as acute as most, is far from unique. E. A. Roxy We wish good luck to Mrs. Bert Pree, who, in a let ter to this page last Friday, mourned the fact that Prescott Park on Roxy Ann butte is one of our finest, and most neglected, scenic assets. " We wish her more luck than we had a year or two ago when, in similar vein, we complained of the fact that the magnificent vistas which open up tcthe view er from the park are too inaccessible and too infested with poison oak. TT IS A CITY park, owned and operated by Medford. A But the city's budget cannot, apparently, be stretch ed to do much more for our parks than maintain the ones established, and heavily patronized in the city limits proper. Various clubs, from time to time, have taken on Prescott Park as a project, and much of what little de velopment there is atop the butte is due to their good work. But the road is still bad, and the picnic facil ities are gradually falling to pieces. DERHAPS the sad fact is that there is too little use of the park to justify the expenditure of tax dol lars to make it into the asset which it could well be. Or perhaps we are too pessimistic. Perhaps there is someone with an idea as to how the job can be done, and the time and energy to do it. Whichever is true, we strongly recommend that, one of these spring days, preferablv after the near j blossoms come out, residents take a few minutes to j drive up and around Roxy Ann. It's too easy to forget wnat a spectacularly beautiful valley we live in. E.A. Registration There are only 20 working days left before April 17, the last day on which one can register to be a voter in the May 18 primary election. If you want to vote, you have to be registered. You can register at the elections division of the county clerk's office in the courthouse. And if VOU don't vote in the elpirtinn. vnn havp nn right to gripe about the outcome. E.A. Krupp Works To Build Huge Plant in Brazil Rio de Janeiro (U.R) The Brazilian government and ' the Krupp works of Essen, Germany, have concluded plans for Krupp to build a huge plant at Campo Limpo, Brazil, for construction of locomotives, road machines, tractors and turbines, it was re ported today. The initial cost of the plant, which will be expanded later for production of farm ma chinery, was estimated at 10,-000,000. Monday, March 26, 19SB Ann Police Fail To Thwart Jobless Man's Death Leap Wichita, Kan. (U.R) Don ald E. Ferguson, 28, who recent ly came to Wichita from Lin coln, Neb., to seek work, jump ed to his death from the 16th floor of a downtown hotel yes terday. Police, tipped of the jump shortly before it happened, ar rived too late. One officer, Dale Orth, 27, suffered severe bruises to one hand when he tried to catch the falling man. Historic Colonial Reforms in French Empire Getting Start By CHARLES M. MCCANN United Press Correspondent France has embarked on a historic campaign of colonial re forms in an attempt to save its still-vast over seas posses sions. Morocco and Tunisia have been given in dependent stat us within the French Union, as the French Empire is now Charles Mctann called. A far-reaching plan to give in dependent status to Algeria, which politically is a part of France itself, also has been ap proved. Now the French National As semblv, the dominant house of Matter of Fact by stewa THE KREMLIN LETTER Washington For the past week or so, every Western intel ligence specialist has been work ing overtime analyzing the meaning of the Kremlin's of Joseph Stalin. By now, they have had time to digest the facts, and to reach conclus attention has Stewart Alsop ions. Particular been paid to the contents of the official letter on Stalin, even now being read to hushed gath erings of Communist Party members all over the Soviet Un ion. In some ways, the letter is more important than party boss Nikita Khrushchev's previous at tack on Stalin. It represents the basic indictment of Stalin which the Kremlin is presenting to the Communist elite, and will no doubt soon present to the Soviet people and the world. As far as is known, the com plete text of this historic docu ment is not yet available in the West. But its four basic points have been cabled to Washington and London. They are as fol lows: THIRST, Stalin's forced collecti--- vization policy unnecessar ily alienated the peasantry. Second, the "doctor's plot" was fabricated by Stalin as the prelude to another general blood purge of Soviet officials. Third, Stalin undermined So viet military strength before the war, when he caused 5000 Soviet officers to be executed. Fourth, Stalin bungled the conduct of the war. Specifically, when he failed to heed the ad vice of his General Staff at the time of the battle of the Khar kov Bulge, he was personally re sponsible for the destruction of 400,000 Soviet troops. HPHE letter is obviously more significant for what it omits than for what it includes. Stalin is attacked for the way he forc ed collectivization, not collecti vization itself. He is not criticiz ed for instituting the system of forced labor, for brutally de pressing the standard of living, or for establishing the secret po lice. Nor is he attacked for such acts of foreign policy as theseiz ure of the Baltic states the forced communization of the satellites, or the Korean War. The attack on Stalin repre sents, in short, no real shift from Stalinist doctrine and objectives. It implies only a change in me thods. It also constitutes a sort of public promise to the bureau cracy, the Army elite, and the peasant, that they will not again be blindly purged, hounded to death, or starved. It certainly does not constitute a promise of the right to dissent, a fact un derlined Lj the efficient repres sion of the riots in the Georgia Republic. On this interpretation the best judges in Washington, London, and Moscow, are agreed. But this does not answer the ques tion: Why was Stalin attacked frontally, and at this particular time? rpHE SIMPLEST answer is that the Soviet rulers have be haved like the children of a tyr annical and brutish parent, afraid for a long time to ac knowledge, after the terrible old man' was dead, how they had hated and feared him. When the acknowledgement of hatred came, it had to be public and frontal, as a common protection against the charges of deviation ism. If this theory is correct, the attack on Stalin is evidence of the confidence and cohesion of the ruling group. But there is also a minority theory that the denunciation of Stalin may be an outward expression of an inner convulsion in the ruling clique, this view derives largely from careful analysis of the speeches of Khrushchev and trade boss Anastas Mikoyan. Khrushchev called flatly for a united front policy abroad, and for working for power through legal means. Mikoyan denounced precisely this policy Parliament, has approved a re form program embracing the re mainder of French Africa and the island of Madagascar, of the east coast. It is expected that this pro gram will be extended to French posessions all over the world in the months to come. Nationalist Smoulderings The campaign is one of en ormous scope. It includes not only those territories in North Africa where nationalistic feel ing has burst into revolt. It includes territories where na tionalistic feeling is smoulder ing and others which the desire for freedom has not reached. It is sometimes forgotten that France, with all its troubles, is still a great world power. Its possessions include islands off the Canadian coast, islands Alsop as "reformism and revisionism" two of the harshest and most dangerous words in the Soviet vocabulary. And Mikoyan went on to lay heavy emphasis on the injustice of the Stalinist purges in the Ukraine in the thirties when Khrushchev was Stalin's principle Ukrainian hatchet man. Tto SOME of the experts, at - least, Mikoyan's speech reads surprisingly like the kind of oblique knife-sticking which in the past has heralded the down fall of one or another of the Sov iet oligarchs. But most of the specialists believe that Khrush chev is securely established as number one man. In fact, the personal fate of such men as Khrushchev and Mikoyan does not greatly mat ter. What does matter is that the basic doctrines and objectives of the Kremlin remain, and will re main, the same until, to use Krushchev's famous phrase, shrimps learn to whistle. The Kremlin's official letter of de nunciation is, paradoxically, merely further evidence that this is so . Copyright 1956 New York -Herald Tribune Inc. Headlines of Future Forecast by U.P. Men United Press correspondents around the world take a look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Case of the Awkward Corpse Allied diplomats are keeping a check on the Kremlin mauso leum in Moscow's Red square, these days. They expect that some dark night the gray-mus-tached body of Josef Stalin, which lies exposed to the public gaze beside that of Lenin, will be spirited away. The betting is that Bulganin, Khrushchev and company, will wait a little while at least. The demotion of the late dictator to an ordinary tomb would be quite a shock to the Russian people at the mo ment. But reminders of the late St. Stalin (Communist style) are disappearing fast. The diplomats don't want to be caught napping. Quiet Operator There's considerable hope around United Nations head quarters in New York that Sec retary General Dag Hammar skjold may be the man who can head off war between the Arab nations and Israel over Pales tine. He is a quiet operator, mod est and publicity-shy. But he is smart. His mission to Red China in the New Year season of 1955 led to the release of 11 imprison ed American fliers. It is expect ed that Hammarskjold will leave for the Middle East next week, with a U.N. mandate to negotiate. Satellite Strife Civilian scientists and the Navy can't seem to get together on the program for the earth satellite which the United States is to launch. It's the Navy's job to get the artificial moon pro duced and launched. The civil ians announced recently that the size of the satellite would be ex panded from 20 to 30 inches in diameter. That would call for radical alteration of the three stage rocket assembly that is to send the man-made moon into its orbit round the earth. The Navy says the civilians were wrong the diameter is still 20 inches. Red Atom Incidentally, Soviet Russia and Communist China are quiet ly forming a nuclear research program similar to the "Eur atom" atomic pool in Western Europe. A meeting was held re cently in Bucharest, Romania, o discuss the formation of an "eastern nuclear research in stitute." It's expected that Rus sia, Red China, Outer Mongolia and Russia's European satellites will be members. Headache For Toggy It's just possible that the de bunking of Stalin vill cost Com munist chieftain Palmiro Tog liatti his job as leader of the Italian Communist left wing So cialist coalition in Parliament. Togliatti isn't doing so well in his attempt to sell the Kremlin's new line. Rome says there's a in the West Indies, French Guiana in South America, islands in the Indian Ocean and the South Seas. In Africa, outside of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, France's possessions include French West Africa, French Equatorial Africa and Somaliland. Large Territories French West Africa has an area of 1,815,768 square miles and an population of 17,361,800. Equatorial Africa covers 968, 000 square miles in area and has a population of 62,000. Madagascar, which lies 240 miles of the southeast African coast, has an area of 227,000 square miles and a population of 4,369,500.' The program which the coali tion government of Socialist Premier Guy Mollet is sponsor ing emphasizes economic reform as much as political reform. It is increasingly apparent that economic aid, and economic cooperation, are going to play a big if not dominant part in the field of foreign politics. Economic Aid This is true not only of the so-called colonial territories but of big countries. When Italian President Giovanni Gronchi vis ited the United States recently, he emphasized the importance of the economic aid factor in hold ing together the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Africa and in the long range view, in all its possessions. One big question is whether, in North Africa especially, the reform program will work. In Algeria, for instance, the ques tion may arise whether France can find anybody who has the authority to negotiate a firm in dependence agreement. The rebels there say they just want France to get out. Free countries will watch the French program with interest and sympathy. The shocking loss of Indochina awoke France to the danger it faced in North Yellowstone National Park was discovered by John Colter, a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. It was known by early-day Wyoming settlers as Colter's Hell. chance that left-wing Socialist leader Pietro Nenni may sup plant Togliatti as coalition spokesman. Japanese-Rusisan peace treaty negotiations have bogged down seriously. They started in Lon don last June 1. Now they have been suspended indefinitely after months of dispute, due to Russia's tough demands. ,The Japanese government and peo ple are angry. Agreement seems farther away than ever. Kefauyer Manager Charges Favoritism . Washington (U.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver's campaign man ager has accused Democratic National Chairman Paul M. But ler of showing favoritism to Ad lai E. Stevenson in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination. E. Joseph Donohue, head of the Tennessean's campaign or ganization, said that although Butler had promised to remain neutral, "I'm afraid he's . . . leaning over backwards for Governor Stevenson." Donohue said he " was con vinced when Butler was selected as national chairman that he was the "personal selection" of Stevenson. Donohue criticized Butler's Saturday speech at French Lick, Ind. He noted that Butler said Kefauver's victory in the Min nesota primary may in the end help Stevenson by making Stev enson's backers work harder. Donohue said he did not be lieve Stevenson's chances for the nomination were killed in Minnesota but "they were crip pled very seriously." Donohue said Kefauver's Minnesota victory could be at tributed to the fact that Kefauv er "has set the Republican farm belt on fire." He said it should have convinced party leaders that Kefauver is the candidate who can win in 1956. Match To Burn in Wind Said Made in Shanghai Tokyo U.R) A Shanghai factory has produced a match that will continue burning for 10 seconds in a stiff breeze from an electric' fan, Peiping Radio reported Sunday. The Communist broadcast said the match is suitable "for people working in the fields and on the high seas." Chicago (U.R) The Yel low Cab Co. appealed to one of its riders today to claim a cof fee can left in a taxi. The can is filled with dark brown wrig gly things The could be either worms or snakes, officials said, but no one wants to find out. ommunicafBorts 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. Problems at Talent To the Editor: We people of Talent feel we are being let down by our Mayor and Coun cil in the discharging of John Baldwin, Talent's city marshal. We feel that our Mayor has established social standards of his own, wanting satisfaction of his own desires and to devil with the families of Talent! The increasing crime rate and the disregard of the rights of others in our town of Talent has been slowed down to nothing, Officer John Baldwin has done a good job. In a growing town such as ours this necessitates the furth er inquiry into the theory of morality. This moral decline and deterioration of ethical relations is not just manifest in the major crimes of today, it often strikes close to home! It is also alarm ingly apparent in the increasing disregard by the individual of the effects of his conduct upon others! The average automobile driv er, for example, sometimes ex hibits this attitude on public highways and streets. He bears down upon pedestrians at great speed, even when they are with in a properly designated cross walk. He disregards the implied right of the pedestrian, compel ling him to run and jump or else risk losing his life. Such drivers cut in and out of traffic to gain a second or two in time and jeopardize the lives of many others with a total disregard of the consequences. It seems that our mayor has overlooked all of this and other displayed activities. He wants a man who will work on the streets, repairing them 75 per cent of the time, eat his dinner at night, ring the curfew at nine o'clock and then go to bed, kind of a see-no-evil, hear-no-evil! Talent has a full time employee for the purpose of doing main tenance and labor, why should our police officer be forced to assume the responsibility? I'm sure that the people of Talent do not care to go back to jumping across streets! We had this condition in our city once and we don't care to go back to it! As civic-minded citi zens; we feel that we want to better our environment instead of destroying what has been built up. If man had not been able to rise above his environment or been able to overcome his limi tations or free himself from the influences of his environment, we .would all undoubtedly be living in the most primitive way, probably in grass huts or mud hovels along the banks of Bear Creek! We feel that a new mayor would be a better solution to our problems! F. C. Learning, Former City Councilman, 208 Highway North, Talent, Oregon. No Training Needed To the Editor. Has it ever occurred to you that in our so cial system the politician is enabled to reach a position of reslponsibility without having any training? He' serves no apprenticeship. He masters no course of study. He need pass no examination as to his ability. He receives neither a diploma nor a license to prac tice. The veterinary who doctors our dogs and cats is required to show more careful preparation for his calling than is the politi cian who seeks to assume the right to direct not only our industrial but much of our per sonal life. This applies to a much greater percentage of Republicans than Democrats. F. E. Fellmeth, 1390 Beekman Extension, Medford, Ore. FUNERAL SERVICES Jn Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 O Letters submitted for publication must 0 Let's Do It To the Editor: As the mother of young children, I am very much in favor of Medford's adopting a fluoridation system. We all realize how important diet and proper care are to good dental health, but when we also can cite examples such as Astoria's 42 per cent decrease in teeth missing, decayed or filled in a three-year period aft er their water was fluoridated, with no general change in diet, it seems too bad to deprive our children of this advantage. According to statistics, the av erage dental bill of persons drinking non-fluoridated water is mere than five times the aver age dental bill of those drinking fluoridated water for the proper period. The cost of one filling would pay for the cost of flu oridation for one person for many years. Aside from the cost, sparing a child the pain of bad teeth is important to me, as I am sure it is to other parents. Since we in Medford know that the lack of fluoride in our water contributes to our high rate of dental decay, let's take the necessary steps to give our children this added protection. Jo Hudson (Mrs. Gordon), 22C Erie St., Medford, Ore. Doug's Philosophy To the Editor: On Dec. 30, 1954, in the Oregon Statesman appeared an interview with Douelas McKay: "McKay, back in his home state for the holidays, said that after nearly two years in office he generally can ignore political criticism, but that ie still was trying to get his wife to adopt his philosophy: "I tell her that when she goes to bed she should say her prayers, tell everybody to go to hell, and then go to sleep, as I do." Does McKay expect us good people of Oregon, whom he wishes in hell, to vote for him come next election? Erminia Hall, 3616 SE Seventh Ave., Portland 2, Ore. Oregon DAR Society Selects New Regent Albany U.R) Mrs. Boyd Armstrong of Portland was named as new regent at the 42nd annual state conference of the Oregon State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution as the group wound up its three-day meeting here Saturday. Mrs. Claud Stott, Coos Bay, was named as new vice regent and Mrs. Joseph Smullen, Hood River, as new second vice re gent Main Street Busy GEO. N. TAYLOR Folks now have better clothes, better homes, better roads and better cars than of old. But God's terms of eternal li'e never change Face about; re-. ceive Christ into your heart. Make Christ your Lord and Saviour and God gives you eter nal life. On Resurrec tion Day Christ is to descend from heaven and as saved, is to raise you up and also His then living on the earth. On up to glory. He takes us and so shall we ever be with the Lord; clothed in eternal glory. Whoso ever's name was not written in God's Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire. Bible. This message sponsored by a Scappoose dairyman. Pd. adv. PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which are in keeping with its means. A selection of services in every price range is of fered to satisfy individual preferences and to meet all financial circumstances. 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