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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordjTribune "Everybody in Soutnern Oregon Head The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBEPT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATH Ail. 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 of - March 3, 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ey Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3.50. Ey 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 Coonty 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 ASSOCIATION 1 ZJ O w miiimimuxiiM NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and iQ years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 29. 1946 (It was Friday) Several county residents vac- cinated for smallpox after out break in San Francisco and Se attle. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The North-' west area may get a huge wind tunnel. It will be used to test flights at i-pesds faster than the speed of :Jund, and will offer no competition to the old style wind tunnel, generally known as the legislafure. 20 TEARS AGO Marcij 29. 1936 (It was Sunday) Maurice Tedrow, district ranger of Rogue River National forest, promoted and transfer- red to Colville National forest in Washington. Clarence E. Pankey, orchard ist and member of pioneer Rogue valley family, enters race for county clerk on Democratic ticket. 30 YEARS AGO March 29, 1926 (Itwas Monday) Medford Mayor O. O. Alexan der and city recorder, M. L. Al ford, travel to Portland with $500,000 in bonds sold recently for water improvements. Seventh Day Adventists con vention committees appointed at business session here. 40 YEARS AGO March 29, 1916 (It was Wednesday) eaHenry O'Malley, for nine years in charge of the U. S. Bureau of Hatcheries in Rogue valley, appointed chief of the division of fish culture at Wash ington, D.C. Grizzlies scheduled first out ing of season; hike to Table Rock from Col. Washburn's ranch. Whafs the Answer? Can You Gei 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Margaret Truman plans to be married in April, May, June, mid-summer or early fall? 2. Many states require an employer to pay women employ ees the same wage as to men employees for similar work; right or wrong? 3. The Girl Scouts of America was founded in an Eastern, Mid dle Western, Southeron or West ern city? 4. Cities of about equal popu lation have much the same num ber of traffic deaths each year; right or wrong? o 5. Stalin, late Russian dictator, was a native of Moscow or of the Ukraine, foriKer Polish, Sibe rian, or Caucasus area of the Soviet Union? 6. About one-third, one-half or two-thirds of the wheat grown in the U.S. is used for domestic food consumption by humans? 7. U.S. Chief Justice Warren is a Republican. Can you name anther Republican on the Su preme Court? The Answers: 1. April. 2. Right. 3. Southern (Savannah, Oa.). 4. Wrong. 5. Caucasus area. 6. About one-half. 7. The other two are Justices Burton and Harlan. MAIL TRIBUNE Still for A reader asks why we have dropped Adlai Stev enson overboard so summarily. That is one of the major occupational hazards in the newspaper business editorially speaking being misunderstood, either accidentally or intentionally. "THE MAIL TRIBUNE has never thrown Mr. Stev enson overboard either summarily or otherwise. His defeat by Kefauver in Minnesota was to us both surprising and disappointing. But that did not mean it changed this paper's admiration for the man, or our judgment that he is the best qualified candi date in the Democratic party for the presidency. TT DID MEAN, as stated at the time, that this "up- set" would greatly strengthen the anti-Stevenson forces at the Chicago convention and unless Adlai could stage a sensational comeback wotald reduce his chances of securing the nomination to the vanishing point. For as we remarked, want will be a VOTE-GETTER, and only candidates who have demonstrated their ability in that direction, or not clearly demonstrated their inability will have a fighting chance. That is still our opinion. It had or has nothing to do with our view of Mr. Stevenson's qualifications for high office, merely his lack of success as a campaigner in the primaries, so necessary this year in the business of reaching high office. TN OTHER WORDS, so long as the former Illinois governor is in the race for the Democratic nomina tion, we are for him, and for the very simple reason he is, as we see it, the best man for the job. But unless he can go into that convention with a substantial showing of primary popularity and grass root support, then he might as well bang up his gloves, and call it a day. He can't, base without either one or both. TI7E DON'T MEAN the candidate who leads in the primaries will automatically win the nomina tion. Senator Kefauver in 1952 demonstrated the fals ity of that assumption. We only mean that a one-time loser in the game of politics has two strikes against him anyway, and as a one-time-loser, Adlai Steven son must show he has more on the ball than his Demo cratic enemies claim, or he is "out" so far as the 1956 campaign is concerned. And to run a poor second or third in the primaries would, as we see it, mean just that. That doesn't mean that those who believe in Adlai Stevenson should throw in the sponge, or this is any time to quit quite the reverse, in fact. It merely means facing the situation realistically, not resting under the delusion that at this stage of the game re fusing to do so and indulging in "wishful thinking" is going to help. R. W. R. Why? Speaking of Adlai Stevenson we have to admit, that many of the reasons given for not suporting him, are reasons why we do and did. Complaint No. 1 is he doesn't "give 'em hell," a la H. S.'T. Well, in this department we believe Mr. Shakespeare gave better advice than the expert poli ticians. William S. advised being true to oneself, and one could then be false to no one. That is what we liked about the Illinois governor four years ago and think he made a mistake to be per suaded otherwise by the politicians. Mr. Stevenson then refused to accept the time honored practice of trying to picture everything in blacks and whites, supporting the fiction that one par ty was all wrong, the other all right, and to choose between them was as simple as to choose between Old Man "debbil" and the Heavenly Angels. TNSTEAD of that Adlai talked SENSE. He pointed out where he believed the Repub licans had made mistakes and the Democrats could do better, he analyzed the issues between the parties with clarity, intelligence and conviction, but he did not throw any brickbats or tear his hair, or tear up the platform carpet. He took then, what he took at the outset of the present primary race, the "moderate, sane course." Not because he was a chicken or even an "egg head," but because it was his belief, that approximately in the middle of the road was the TRUTH. He believed also, the American people wanted the truth, had reached a stage of development where they wanted facts rather than a barrage of epithets and politi cal slogans that were perhaps stimulating to the emo tions but an insult to reality and intelligence. WE LIKED that' We. also liked Stevenson's subtle irony and hu mor. We wanted a president of that type in the White House. But as is pretty generally known now, we failed to get him. Well, that is okay. "Vox Populi, Vox Dei." However, we still believe Governor Stevenson's defeat was due to other noted above, or the criticisms most fi-emient.lv firerl in his direction, particularly by the political "pros" of both parties. The remaining primaries may prove we were and are mistaken. We rather hope they do, but our guess is they won't. R. W. R. Tax Legislation Seen Wedge for Sales Tax ' Portland -(U.R) State Sen. Robert D. Holmes, candidate for Democratic nomination for gov ernor, says the last Legislature's tax legislation was "a prepara tory wedge for a sales tax." A 45 per cent surtax was added Thuriday, March 29, 195S Adlai what the convention will in our opinion, get to first causes than the finalities and dependency deductions were lowered. Holmes also called for a lieu tenant governor for Oregon. He spoke at the March meet ing of the North Portland Demo cratic Women's club. Coming H-Bomb Test Unpopular In Japan, Among 'Neutralists7 By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The United States is not going to be very popular in Japan for some time to come. The Japanese government, Jap- ns i anese political parties and ap anese people gen erally re sent President E i s e nhower's decision to go ahead with the H-bomb tests in the Mars hall Islands next Charles McCum month. This resentment is likely to grow in the coming weeks. And Water Pollution Tide Rising; Bill Foreseen To Aid Meeting Costs Washington (C Q) Congress must decide in the next few weeks how much money to give states to fight the rising tide of water pollution. The 1948 Water Pollution Con trol Act, the first comprehensive anti-pollution program ever passed by Congress, runs out June 30. Two stronger versions await action. One calls for a $10 million program, spread over five years, the other for more than SI billion with no time limit. Pollution statistics alone ap pear formidable enough to prod Congress to pass one of them. But if. statistics aren't enough, public health officials, fisher men and recreation enthusiasts stand ready to help push the leg islation through. Poisoning Growing Public Health Service statis tics show water the nation's lifeblood is being poisoned faster than mechanical hearts can purify it. The yearly growth in the number of sewage treat ment plants has not kept pace with the amount of waste pour ing into streams. The biggest offender is in dustry. Statistics show it dumped almost twice as much waste in waterways in 1955 as in 1930. And the expected growth of syn thetic and nuclear production, with their poisonous byproducts, magnifies the problem. Other studies show the de mand for clean, fresh water nearly will double by 1957. The percentage increases over 1955 demand predicted for 1975 are 105 per cent for industry, 70 per cent for municipalities and 42 per cent for irrigation. Since the supply of fresh water remains fairly constant, the only solution to increased demand is to keep using water over and over during its flow to the sea. This means money and lots of it for more sewage treatment plants. Big Costs PHS figures show that muni cipal spending would have to total $5.3 billion by 1965 to meet sewage purification needs that year. That is only $1.4 billion less than total municipal spend ing for sewage plants from 1920 through 1954. The PHS officials say they have no estimates of industrial need, except that it would be at least as much as the municipal total and probably more. How much Uncle Sam should chip in to help states fight the pollution is the big question be fore Congress. A bill passed by the Senate June 17, 1955, would contribute $2 million a year over a five-year period to state, inter state and municipal sewage pro jects approved by the Surgeon General. The federal money would pay one-third to two thirds of the project's cost. Rep. John A. Blatnik (D Minn.), chairman of the House Public Works Rivers and Har bors Subcommittee, says the Senate version does not go far enough. He has introduced a bill which would, besides the $2 mil lion in the Senate bill, authorize $1 biUion for sewage plants.. No time limit for using up the bil lion was set in the bill, but total grants for any one year would be limited to $100 million. The federal money would have to be matched 50-50 by the states. Hard Sales Job Blatnik admits he will have a hard time selling Congress on the $1 billion provision. The Administration is against it on grounds municipalities give sew age treatment works a low prior ity by choice, not necessity. Blatnik predicts the rest of his bill will go through unscathed. It parallels the Senate version but includes revisions sought by state and municipal health of ficials. President Eisenhower is ex pected to play a leading role in getting anti-pollution legislation passed. In this year's health mes sage he said: 'Problems of water pollution control grow more pressing with population growth and with industrial development and expansion ... I again recom mend that the authority in this Act be strengthened and placed on a permanent basis." Give More Authority Both Senate and House bills give the r federal government it will be fanned not only by the Chinese Communists and Soviet Russians but, undoubtedly, by "neutralists" like Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India. There is no indication, fortu nately, that in the long run the friendly relations between the United States and Japan will suf fer. But Japanese ill-feeling seems sure to continue. Japanese opposition to H-bomb experiments stems from the big tests held in March, 1954. At that time radioactive fall out contaminated 7,000 square miles of the Pacific. The waters involved are used by Japanese fishing boats. There more authority to conduct pollu tion research, but do not strengthen its enforcement hand greatly. Under both bills, the U. S. could bring suit against a polluter if either the state where the pollution originated or the one downstream suffering from it requested court action. Only the state in which the pollution occurred can initiate federal court action under the current Act. The biggest protest against putting more teeth in anti-pollution legislation will come from industry. Their battle cry is ex pected to be, "Let the states handle it." But industry is so heavily outnumbered by anti-pollution-ists, the problem before Con gress is not whether to extend the Act, but how. (Copyright 1956. Congressional Quarterly) Matter of Fact ey DEFENSE AND INDIFFERENCE Washington Some very sen sational statements have re cently been made by the highest thorities, but anybody has paid any at- tention to them at all Consider the following brief samples: Gen. Nathan' Twining, Air Stewart Aisop Force Chief of Staff: "They have been and are out producing us in all categories but medium bombers . . . Here is the area of deep concern the Soviets are presently beating us at our own game production . . . The Communists are mak ing scientific , and technological advances at a faster rate than we are." Lt. Gen. Thomas S. Power, Chief of the Air Research and Development Command: "With both quantitative and qualitative superiority on their side, we would lose the protec tion of the deterrent force and be at their mercy. This danger is very real and immediate." WHAT all three generals are saying, of course, is that the Soviet Union is rapidly out stripping the United States in strategic air power, the one field in which this country has heretofore enjoyed superiority. Surely it is no exaggeration to describe such, warnings 'as sensa tional. Surely an official warn ing of "a very real and immedi ate danger" that this country will be at the mercy of the So viets, for example, is nothing if not sensational. Yet such warnings are met these days with a long, bored, national yawn. Why? The question is worth asking, because the national indiffer ence to such warnings is a vital ly important phenomenon. There appear to be a number of inter-locking answers. TN THE first place, there is a -tendency to regard .all gen erals as professional cryers of "wolf, wolf." Certainly the services have sometimes been guilty of budget-minded scare-mongering. Yet, as General Twining pointed out in his testimony, the Air Force has consistently under estimated Soviet progress in air power, and by a very wide mar gin, rather than the other way round. Then there is the theory that "they don't really know they're just guessing." ' The theory is comfortable, but in correct. When Twining testified OPEN IN NEW LOCATION Wakefield Drapery 1100 Crater Lake Ave. Same Phone 2-6010 was practically a national panic in Japan for fear that fish sold after the tests were poisoned. To make it worse, the crew of one fishing trawler far from the test area were dusted by fall-out. One of the 23 men died later. It developed, long after the tests, that the fish were not poi sonous and that the crewman of the trawler Fortunate Dragon who died was the victim of a liver complaint. Nevertheless the United States paid $2,000,000 damages as a gesture , of good will. All this did not convince the Japanese that the .H-bomb tests were not a real threat. As far back as October, 1954, Japan started protesting offic ially against any new H-bomb tests. Immediately after the an nouncement by the Atomic Energy Commission last Janu ary of the new tests, Japan sent a note of protest. Japan also asked a guarantee in advance that the United States would pay for any damage or inconvenience the tests might cause to its shipping or its fish ing industry. Protest Rejected The protest was rejected. But the United States promised to consider any solid claims of spe cific damage. ; It is now disclosed that Presi dent Eisenhower himself decided that the tests must go on. The United Nationals Trusteeship Council was informed that there is no alternative. "It is the conviction of the United States that it has a re sponsibility not only to its peo ple but to all the peoples of the free world to maintain at a maximum its capacity to deter aggression and preserve peace, the U.N. was told. That argument, when the stark facts of life are considered, seems unanswerable. But it will not satisfy Japan. . Stewart Alsop recently that the7 Soviets were producing more than twice as many long range bombers as this country, and that they were already testing intermediate range missiles, he was not guess ing. He knew. How he knew may be none of the public's business. But the facts them selves are very much the pub lic's business. fPHERE is the equally comfort- -- able theory that "we can't do anything about it anyway, which is equally incorrect. As sistant Secretary of the Air Force Trevor Gardner resigned essentially because of an offi cial 'decision not to undertake the "crash" missile program he proposed. By the same token, to increase our long range bomber production at least to the Soviet level, as Gen. Curtis LeMay has strenuously advocated, would require ; a simple order to the Boeing plants. The order has not been given, entirely for budget ary reasons. The plain fact is that the American government has offi cially decided to permit the So viets to outstrip this country in strategic air power. Many peo ple refuse to worry about this decision, because Dwight D. Eisenhower is head of the Amer ican government. But General Eisenhower's military experienc was in a different field, and he himself has often disclaimed personal infallibility. THE President's military repu tation is of course a major reason why the Administration's defense policies have been so mildly criticized. Those ' who undertake to do so, like Senators Stuart Symington and Henry Jackson, find themselves charged with "breaking secur ity," becoming '"prophets of gloom and doom," or simply playing politics. Critics of de fense economies are also ac cused of wasteful war-monger-ing since "there won't be an other big war anyway" which could be true, but only if we do not "lose the protection of the deterrent force." But all this is not enough to explain the extraordinary public apathy in the fact of such sensa tional warnings as: those listed above. Unless the country has become so flabbily self-regarding as to be indifferent to the future, there must-e something else as well a failure of com munication between the nation as a whole and those responsible for the national security. As another report in this space will suggest, the failure seems to center in the -ystem which has grown up around the august, highly secret National Security Council. 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. Letters-submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. From An "Aginer" To the Editor: While sorting and. reading press clippings last Saturday (235 articles), we found that your March 14 issue con tained an ear pinning job by John C. Stille of Shady Cove. A beautiful job telling the Oregon City man plenty. Enclosed is the original editorial provoking item (mine) which the Oregon City writer did not publish. Also a copy from the press clippings. Also enclosed is my -answer to him, which also was . not pub lished. Furthermore in a second hand manner I have been in formed that I have written dirty letters to the editors. The dog that gets hit with the rock is the one that howls. The entire program is based on false premises. The quota tion of figures has been in error. Read the logic and facts in Dr. Exener's fifty page research re view; done by an M.D. and is a masterpiece and has document ed facts. If this matter seems usable to you, use your discre tion. We can not get both sides published in Portland. Dr. Thos. S. Dulin Jr., Dentistry Medical Dental Bldg., Portland 5, Ore. Member and Director Natural Food Associates. To Oregon City Enterprise Courier: Your editorial on WATER FLUORIDATION in your Sun day, March 11th edition of your paper at least showed that you were thinking even if . it was only on the level of moronic high school chemistry. I would refer you to James Rorty on "The Truth About Fluoridation," from the FREEMAN, A GOOD REPUBLICAN PAPER, and not leftist. A portion of the f ounda- i - f a i-i lion iacts wnicn lormea me basis of this article came from that school unacceptable to this Public Health Service Depart ment, namely MASSACHU SETTS INSTITUTE OF TECH NOLOGY. (DR. HARRIS, PH.D.) Furthermore, get this out of beginning chemistry especially since so little is known about the twenty-year accumulation effects on humans. The field of Bio-chemistry, toxicology and Medical aspects have not been completely studied, claims of adequacy not withstanding. The proponents may be partially right when they say that no harm has been proven, but such statements do not make it safe either. Safety is not an opinion, it must have facts proving same. One dose today will not be rjoison but it is accumulative. Furthermore, the Medical group are not unanimous in sup port of this activity and some of them are "RABID AGINERS." It is still a hang-over from the Roosevelt administration and a lot of the Republicans would like to clean house on these pro moters of a step in socialized medicine. This fact was practic ally admitted in one part of the last congressional hearing on this subject. Thomas S. Dulin Jr., Member Citizens Council Against Fluoridation. Swallows On Schedule To the Editor: This morning I received a letter from one of your readers bemoaning your article about the arrival of the Swallows to San Juan Capis trano Mission. When I heard about this un usual happening I too questioned and doubted the story. A few months ago a representative of a publishing house which had published this story in one of their books came into my office in search of something to back up their story. If they couldn't find any proof for their state ment they were going to be forced to withdraw the book from circulation. The man was desperate! I took my Bible out of my desk and read him one verse from Jeremiah 8:7 and here -it is, "Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." ' He said 'that's good enough for me,' and thanked me for the help. Well, Mr. Editor, I can under Frank Morgan - FUNERAL stand your attitude, but believe it or "not, the Swallows did ar rive this year on schedule, and they are busy repairing '. their homes or building new odes. - R. P. Abel, ; Box 457 San Juan Capistrano, Calif. Laziness? To the Editor: I have iust read the letter of Mrs. Gordon of 220 Erie st., Medford. and . would like to ask if she is too lazy to aaa soaium fluoride to her drinking water. She doesn't care for the rights of others, evident ly. I. concede the stuff prevent tooth trouhlp hut urViv force others to drink it if they don't want it? If they put the stuff in drink ing water, why hot go a few steps farther, let's, add coffee, grapefruit and other juices, po tatoes, , onions, carrots, bacon, etc., etc. and then all Mrs. Gor don and others too lazy-to do their own mixing can just,, drink a glass of MedfordV sparkling "gunk" and .get a complete meal Simple isn't- it? Fortunately it isn't my mis fortune to find it necessary , to live in Medford where some people want to govern what others drink and eat. All this doesn't affect me one bit, but if they start putting a lot more "gunk" in the water I shall find it necessary to bring my own coffee and lunch when I find it necessary to visit Med ford. Since I live about a mile from the Big Butte Springs, I know Medford's water is O.K., the way it is, and has been since 1926 or 1927. Floyd R. McCabe, Mt. Pitt Star Route, Butte Falls, Ore. The M.T. is Congratulated To the Editor and Staff: Our hearty congratulations for your 50 wonderful years of dis tinguished service to this City and State, and to its grateful citizens. May the ensuing years be many, and ever more and more prosperous and fruitful. Sisters of Sacred Heart Hospital By Sister Reine, Superior the way to say HAPPY EASTER - We have Hallmark Cards that will convey your Easter wishes to all your friends and relatives . . . and each one reflects the color and beauty of the season. Come in soon and choose yours from our wide selection of Hallmark Cards. r .l'HJ row i t ; wi : 'a May the peace which comes of faith, the courage that is born of Hope, and the Joy which dwells in Love, be with you this Easter season. CHAPEL MORTUARY Harold Snodgrass DIRECTORS
