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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordWTeibune "'Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Xublished Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHU Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERA.LD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H. AAMS. Oty Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act oi March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Pet Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mot. 2.50 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 $13.00 Dally 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 1 J...l.intf TlArra.ntativf' WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I assocCatlon I U O NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO . April 2, 1946 (It was Tuesday) "William C. Ryan, Medford, ap pointed supervisor of state insti tutions, Gov. Earl Snell an nounces. ,From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Members of the fair sex are busy with spring housecleaning and lining up for smallpox vaccinations and nylons. 20 YEARS AGO April 2. 193S (It was Thursday) Major gasoline companies In Medford raise price of gas 2Vs cents; premium now costs 23 Vi cents per gallon. George T. Frey, local chair man of Red Cross eastern flood relief, says $675 quota will be reached today. 30 YEARS AGO April 2, 1926 (It was Friday) Pavilion at Jackson county fairgrounds opens 1926 season with famous "Nite Hawk" or chestra. J. H. (Jack) Moore, of Paul's Electric store, says experiments show broccoli thrives in valley. 40 YEARS AGO April 2, 1916 (It was Sunday) The May company plans an nual spring opening; orchestra, other events scheduled. From Local and Personal col umn: The entire east side has been supplied with type C nitro gen mazda lamps, displacing the old type. Fifty-four lights in all have been installed. The in creased efficiency of the new type of lamps is quickly discern ible. Whaf s the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. The State Department does or doesn't want the UN to inter vene in the Israel-Arab dispute that may lead to war? 2. The N.Y. Stock Exchange accounts for about 40, 55, 70, or 85 per cent of the value of all securities traded on all U. S. se curity exchanges? 3. Sen. Staurt Symington, (D Mo.), was once Secretary of the Army, Navy, or Air Force, For eign Air Administrator, or Am bassador to Russia? 4. Are there any Negro news papers published in the U. S. that are dailies? 5. Bingo is officially legalized In other states .than Nevada; right or wrong- 6. The President during the TJ. S. war against Spain was Polk, Grant, Cleveland, McKin ley, T. Roosevelt or Taft? 7. Margaret Truman is or isn't a college graduate? The answers: 1. Does. 2. About 85 per cent. 3. Secretary of Air Force. 4. Yes (two). 5. Right 6. McKinley. 7. Is (Georg Wash ington University in Washing ton. D. C.) SODA DRINK FATAL Newcastle-On- Tyne, England (U.R) William Fowler, 44, died Sunday night after drink ing a bottle of soda pop in one gulp. Doctors said he choked on the beverage which was for his silver wedding anniversary party. MAIL TRIBUNE Campaign for Sales Tax Have you filled out your Oregon state income tax return yet? Those who have find themselves shocked at what 45 per cent surtax, passed by the 1955 legis lature, means in terms of dollars and cents to the average taxpayer. v It was aggravated by the fact that, while the leg islature did step up the withholding bite on pay checks, this did not become effective until January 1 of this year. So the tax return, which is due on or be fore April 16, will require a considerably bigger cash outlay than in past years. DEOPLE generally are more than usually tax con- conscious these days what with the fairly gen eral (and occasionally drastic) increase in property taxes last fall, and the jolting rate of the income tax. It is therefore no. surprise that agitation f or a sales tax heretofore turned down on several occasions by the voters of the state is revived. A lot was heard about it during the legislative session last year, but the session ended without any real solution reached as to the problems of tax inequities. What the legis lature did was to postpone its big problem for another two years. They'll undoubtedly have to face up to it during the 1957 session. IN THIS connection it is interesting to note that one aspiring legislator, Sidney Bazett of Grants Pass, former president of the Josephine County Chamber of Commerce, is basing his campaign on his support for a sales tax. True, he has no opposition in the primary elec tion. But the fact that he is flat-footedly for a' tax which has been turned down repeatedly shows that he either thinks things have changed, or is sufficiently convinced that a sales tax is urgently necessary or both. TWO large groups traditionally have been against A a sales tax in Oregon. These are farmers, and par ticularly the Grange, and organized labor. In quarter-page ads in tne Grants Pass papers, Bazett sets out to show the working man why the sales tax would be better for him than the present in come tax. He figures out the various tax rates for 11 differ ent hypothetical individuals, ranging from a $2,400-per-year millworker to an $8,500-per-year logger. The millworker now pay's an income tax of $21.06. If the sales tax plan (which eliminates income taxes on incomes of couples earning less than $5,000) had been in effect, he would have paid no income tax, and his total payments of sales tax for the year would have totaled an estimated $15 or a saving of $6.06. Under the same plan, Bazett figures, the logger's pres ent income tax of $185.22 would be reduced to $13.74 and his sales tax payments would total $60.90 a sav ing of $110.58. THE sales tax, Bazett points out, would not apply to food or medicine, nor would taxes be paid on rent, mortgage payments, savings or non-retail expendi tures. Payroll withholding items are not subject to tax, of course, so he suggests that those wishing to figure out what they would pay in a sales tax should add all these items together, subtract that from their total income, and figure about 3 per cent on what is left over. That, he says, would approximate the sales tax one would pay. In answer to the question, "why will my taxes be lower?" Bazett answers: Because every one will actually pay some sales tax; the tourist who spends millions in Oregon; the large number of residents (estimated as high as one-third of our people) who don't pay any income tax now, but who would start paying something, and of course the thousands of business firms will pay sales tax on their retail purchase of supplies, etc. It would raise $90 million. Those are Bazett's estimates, anyway, and they are corroborated by other men who have made a study of the problem although some think that $90,000,000 is a bit high. THE sales tax money would go into the state general fund, along with income tax revenues. It would thus be available for basic school support money, and eventually would result in lower local property taxes and the permanent abolition of state property taxes and the withholding tax. There will be much discussion of this proposal, as well as alternates, during the coming year. This program is similar to the one recently favored by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, and there is reason to believe that it is drawing support from throughout the state even from former opponents of a sales tax who have taken a good look at their property and income tax bills this year. E.A. Educational Conference A meeting of more than passing significance to those interested in the schools and education will be held in the Medford High school at 7 :30 p.m. Wed nesday, April 4.' This is the regional "follow-up" meeting of the "White House Conference on Education, the nation wide program which in recent months has done much to focus attention on the urgent problems of education. TN ADDITION to a report on the Washington con- ference itself by Mrs. Victor E. O'Neil, a member of the state board of. education,' who was there, other aspects of education, including teacher supply and demand, and state and local tax problems relating to education, will be discussed. The public is welcome. We recommend attend ance to anyone who is concerned about our schools, how they are run, .and how much they cost now and will cost in the future. E.A, i Monday, April 2, 195 S Tito Feels Among Stalin's Red Debunkers By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent There is just one big Commu nist leader who isn't feeling any pain thpsp davs. He is Marshal Tito of Yugo- slavia, for years the No. 1 Communist outside of the Kremlin. Tito found out for himself eight years ago that Josef Stalin was a Charles McCann Ialse 10.01. 10 the astonishment of the world, Tito had the boldness to proclaim his discovery. That, on the record as it has unfolded since the recent Rus sian Communist party Congress in Moscow, makes Tito look smarter than ever. We read that the Communist party leaders in France, Italy and Great Britain, to name only three countries, are in danger of losing their jobs as the result of Stalin's official debunking. Tito Sitting Easy Tito, on the contrary, is sitting back easy in his office in the white palace in Belgrade, where as president he rules Yugoslavia's 17,000,000 people, or in his villa at Brioni on the Adriatic Sea. It would be interesting to know just what Tito thinks about the big Stalin crisis. He must be getting a lot of laughs. Tito, who will be 64 on May 25, was a village locksmith, dreaming of emigrating to the United States, when World War I broke out. He was drafted into the Austrian Army and taken prisoner by the Russians. In Rus sia, he was caught up in the Red revolution. He became a Commu nist. Back home, he was put in prison. After his release he went to Moscow. He returned home in 1937. In World War II, Tito organized a guerilla army of 150,000 men to fight the Ger mans and the Italian Fascists. After the war, he threw young King Peter off the throne, and became president. Stalin began demanding that the Communist - ruled countries of Europe gear their entire econ omy to that of Russia, for Rus sia's benefit. Other Communist leaders gave in spinelessly. Tito balked. He said that his own country's inter ests must come first. On June 28, 1948, the Russian dominated Communist Informa tion Bureau, the Cominform, de nounced Tito's leadership and said he must get back on the party beam. Russians Apologize Tito refused. He won the sup port of his own Communist party and of Yugoslavs in general. Kremlin Communism outlawed him. ' "Wicked, cunning, artful sneak" . . . "blood-thirsty dwarf" . . . "coward Tito" . . . "Judas Tito" . . . Vile and .repulsive" . . . "spy and murderer" . . . "Fascist traitor" were some of the epithets applied to him. Stalin died. Nikita S. Khrush chev and Nikolai A. Bulganin went on a pilgrimage to Belgrade last May to apologize and make up. They didn't rget vary far. Tito accepted the apology, and agreed to accept any aid the Rus sians wanted to give him finan In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS In Moscow, the official com munist party newspaper Pravda puts the cap sheaf on the anti- Stalin campain by attacking the deceased dictator as a Vainglori ous man whose high-handed ac tions did great harm to the party. VUHAT are the present Krem ' lin big shots up to in their cuss-out-Stalin tactics? In an effort to answer that question, let's ask another ques tion: What is a poker player up to when he does whatever he does? ANSWER to Question No. 2: THE POKER PLAYER WANTS THE POT. Answer to Question No. 1: THE COMMUNISTS WANT THE WORLD. ITTHATEVER else may be in the wind, the over-all objective of the communists is to mislead us if they can so that they can hit us hard when we aren't look ing. PRINCE Rainier (pronounced Ran-YAY, not Rain-EAR, like the beer) is said to be dis appointed and a little miffed because the British royal family isn t sending one of its mem bers to attend his forthcoming wedding to the American movie star. Why? I think you'd be disappointed too if you were putting on a big whoop-te-do to attract rich tour ists and didn't get the big names you were hoping for. THE of microscopic Principality Monaco (area about 370 acres, or a little over a haii section of land) needs tourists especially well-upholstered tour ists. The gambling business in Monte Carlo isn't what it used i K ft No Pain as cially. But he did not go back into the Moscow camp. Bronzed, stocky, with keen blue eyes, Tito seems to be tough as ever, though he is troubled Churchillian Speech On Stalin Forecast; Headlines Predicted (United Press Correspond ents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines). Back To The Wars Insiders in London say that Sir Winston Churchill is pre paring a dramatic speech on the international situation. Details are secret. But informants ex pect an eloquent appeal to the West to capitalize on the de bunking of Josef Stalin. Chuch ill feels that the Kremlin's em barrassment in explaining why Stalin was permitted to continue his villanies so long, offers the Allies a chance to alter their tactics radically. He feels the moment has come for them to abandon defensive diplomacy and launch a hard-hitting offen sive. If the "Old Master" does make the speech, he probably will do it at a university ap pearance this month or during a later scheduled visit to West Germany. More Embarrassment? Don't be surprised if reports leak from Russia of riots in the gigantic Vorkuta forced labor camp on the Arctic coast. Some 200 persons were killed there when prisoners rioted after the purging of secret police chief Lavrenti P. Beria in July, 1953. Many men sent to slavery by Stalin are being "sprung" now. Those who are not released may decide this would be a good time for another riot. Bikini See-How The Atomic Energy Commis sion and the Defense Depart ment are expected to announce soon that a small number of public observers will be permit ted to witness next month's H bomb tests in the Pacific. It is understood that a group of news men will be selected to repre sent .the entire press and radio. The idea would be to prevent a publicity fiasco like that of 1954. Then the government tried to conduct the tests in complete secrecy. The plan backfired sensationally and damagingly when fall - out from the March 1 test shot dust ed 23 Japanese fishermen and nearly 300 Marshall Islanders and United States servicemen. American military authorities in Formosa now feel that the approaching "invasion months" in Formosa now feel that the approaching "invasion months" in the Formosa Strait will pass fairly quietly. The Chinese Communists were talking tough not long ago about "liberating" the island stronghold of Nation alist Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek. But it appears as if they have had a sober second thought. Nationalist defensive strength is growing fast. United States power in the strait is ov erwhelming. Intelligence re- News to be in the good old days when Eurpoe was full of kings and princes who had plenty of other people's money to gamble with. Besides, Monte Carlo has a lot of competition along the Riviera not to mention Las Vegas in the U.S.A. Prince Rainier has been in the United States enough to know that when the circus comes to town it makes business good for everybody and he hopes to make his wedding the biggest circus in his part of the world. SPEAKING of circuses (which also include juggling acts and shell games in which the hand is quicker than the eye) the Senate-House conference com mittee yesterday junked the Eisenhower a d m i n i stration's flexible price support plan and agreed to write into the political campaign year farm bill a pro vision to support major crops at 90 per cent of parity. Not only that, but it voted to retain in the bill a "dual parity" plan which would allow pro ducers of these crops to use eith er the old parity formula or the new one WHICHEVER IS HIGHER. IlfHY all the thimblerigging? Well, it really isn't a farm bill, you know. It's a bill de signed to PICK UP DISGRUNT LED VOTES in the big farm states, especially the wheat and cotton states. Louis XIV, who bankrupted France with his reckless spend ing, is reported to have been asked by one of his more cour ageous ministers what would come of it all. He is said to have shrugged his shoulders and an swered: "After me, THE DEL UGE." The political farmers feel the same way about it. They don't care much what happens to American agriculture AFTER THE ELECTION. First by rheumatism. As was said, he also looks pretty smart. The only thing that needs to be pointed out is that he is still a Commu nist, even if he is a unique one. ports say there is no Commun ist build-up of offensive level along the coast; American of ficers expect none this spring, the best season for attack. G. I. Housing Builders, lenders and some veteraru groups who count on Congress to extend the G. I. housing rights of World War n veterans may be in for a jolt. Washington reports that no such action seems likely? Chair man Olin E. Tague (D-Tex.), of the House Veterans committee, who will have a lot to say about it, is convinced no extension is warranted. That would mean that the G.I. loan privilege would expire in July, 1957, for World War II vets. Korean Vets would have another nine years. Finns are happy over the Stal in debunking situation. They be lieve that Soviet Russia, in its current attempt to win friends and influence people is likely to give back the Karelian Isth mus, opposite Leningrad, which it seized as' part of the 1944 Russo-Finish armistice agree ment. Well-informed political circles in Helsinki expect the Kremlin to take the initiative in negotiations, . perhaps soon. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a Den name or initial for publication is permls rible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Stop Eating To the Editor: A theory has been recently expounded in this column which displays an in teresting disregard for quantity; i.e. sodium fluoride is used in etching glass and therefore we should not fluoridate our water supply. Using this same reasoning, consider the following: 1. Table salt is sodium chlor ide and with water will rust iron, therefore, we should not use salt at all. 2. Tea contains tannic acid, which will turn skin into leather (used in the tanning industry); therefore we should not drink tea. 3. Cauliflower, brussel sprouts and cabbage have a high content of cyanogen compounds (hydro cyanic acid is used in prison death chambers) therefore, these vegetables should be avoided. 4. Brain, liver, cheese, choco late, egg yolk, meats, poultry, fish, milk, nuts and wheat germ, whole grain cereals are all high m phosphorus content. Phos phorus is a non-metalic poison, used as a war gas. Therefore, we should not eat any of the aforementioned foods. The logical conclusion to this quantity-disregarding theory is, of course, stop eating. (Further, it has long been stated that there has been insufficient study on fluoridation to warrent its use.) The following took place during the Delaney hearings: Mr. Abernethy: "Well, for that matter, do we know that all of the foods we eat are without harm?" Dr. Cameron: "We do not know, but I can say that exten sive studies are underway to establish this point." Now, fellow citizens, I suggest we give up this dangerous eat ing practice altogether, until further study indicates that all our foods are completely safe. Certainly this reasoning is no less ridiculous than the fantastic claims of the minority opposing fluoridation. It is well known that dietary deficiencies lead to deficiency diseases; fluorine de ficiency in water leads to tooth decay. The opposition is farced into making wild claims, insin uations and misstatements which makes it rather difficult to carry on any sort of enlightened den tal health program. Since I know there are ques tions about the safety of fluori dation, go to your doctor about the safety factor and ask your dentist about the benefits to be gained. W. E. Brooks, 415 Oak st., Medford, Ore. Good Neighbor To the Editor; A recent edit orial in the Mail Tribune, tell ing of the status of some of the countries which make "up the British Commonwealth, describ ed Canada as "a dominion." The word "dominion," what even its significance may have been in times past, has been of ficially dropped from the name of the country which lies to the north of us, and Canada today is as politically independent as Australia, or the Union of South Africa, or, for that matter, the Matter of Fact y ESTES AND THE EGGHEADS Washington One of the queerest phenomena of the cur rent political scene is the total lack of enthus iasm of the lib erals and in tellectuals the old New Dealers, if you will for the candidacy of Sen. Estes Ke fauver. By all the rules of i . e Stewart Alsop logic, rveiauv- er really ought to be the liberals' chosen knight in shining armor. Consider, for example, an in cident in August 1954, when Kefauver was up for re-election in Tennessee. In a tough pri mary campaign, he had been rounSly denounced for "softness on Communism," his most likely Republican opponent, it then seemed, was Ray Jenkins, the committee counsel who had al most out-McCarthyed McCarthy at the famous hearings. SEN. HUBERT Humphrey had introduced a catch-all anti Communist bill, whose obvious political purpose was to outbid the Republicans on the Com munist issue. On the day of the key vote, Kefauver's most influ ential Tennessee supporter tele phoned to urge him to speak as well as vote for the bill, and thus get off the "soft on Com munism" hook. Kefauver mumbled that the bill seemed to him to have "some elements of thought suppression." Some hours later, the Ten nessee backer telephoned again, to repeat his urgings. He reach ed Richard Wallace, Kefauver's legislative assistant, who told him he was too late a key mo tion by Humphrey had just been passed, 81 to one, and Kefauver was the one. "My God," the supporter groaned, "that really finishes Estes." TT DIDN'T, of course Kefau ver went on to win handsome ly. But this episode alone should have been enough to make Ke fauver a hero with the liberals. And the episode does not stand alone. There are in Kefauver's voting record a number of dis plays of genuine political cour age. In the House, for example, Ke fauver was one of a handful who voted against making the Un-American Activities commit tee a permanent committee. In the Senate, he voted against the McCarran act, and to sustain President Truman's veto of the Act. A Southerner he voted against cloture (for which his fellow Southerners will never forgive him) and publicly favored anti lynching legislation. Indeed, on every major piece of domestic and foreign legislation his vot ing record is impeccable from the liberal point of view. Yet the liberals do not like him. rpHERE is no doubt about that. Kefauver's win over Adlai Stevenson in Minnesota was wildly unpopular in liberal in tellectual circles all over the country this despite the fact that Stevenson is a very much more conservative man than Ke- United States of America. It is true that Canadian poli tics makes very little news in the United States. There are four political parties of national im portance in Canada, and one re gional party in Quebec. But when the present Prime Minis ter was reelected a couple of years ago last summer most of the people down here hardly oothered to look up from' their plowing or their golf, or what ever else it was that they were busy at. Well, maybe that is a good sign after all. It probably means, that we trust the people up there, and feel sure that they will not hatch up any hare brained schemes which will in any way hurt our traditional friendship. E. Whealdon, 804 Cedar st., Medford, Ore. Mil!., SSSi ' tfc y Since 1908 PERL Mortuary o Phone 2-6675 FINER FUNERAL -SERVICES In very price range Stewart Alsop fauver. It is hard to put your finger on' just why the liberals are so cold to the man who ought, log- -ically, to be their hero (just as it is hard to explain just why many Republicans dislike Vice President Richard Nixon). No doubt the famous coonskin hat has had something to do with it. So, no doubt, does Kefauver's drawling voice and excessively folksy manner. Kefauver lacks in the ele gance . and eloquence liberals like in their heroes. Many sus pect, moreover, that Kefauver's liberalism is a matter of shrewd political calculation rather than inner conviction (although this would hardly account for such episodes as . those described above). Others suspect that there is inadequate mental equip ment under the coonskin cap (although Kefauver's handling of the Dixon-Yates investigation, was, in its way, brilliant). VUHATEVER the reason, the ' liberal distaste for Kefauv er is a significant political phen omenon. The liberals of the New Deal stripe do not dominate the Democratic Party, as they once did. But they retain great power at conventions, as they demon strated when the labor-liberal bloc forced old Alben Barkley to step down in 1952. As things stand, Kefauver can hardly hope to go to the convention with more than a third of the dele gate votes, even if he knocks Adlai Stevenson right out of the ring in Florida and California. With the Southern grandees and the Northern big city pro fessionals unalterably opposed to him, Kefauver might still go over with the enthusiastic sup port from at least a sizeable portion of the liberal fraternity. But despite his proven appeal . to the commonalty .(or perhaps because of it) Kefauver seems constitutionally incapable of at tracting this kind of support. This is a major reason why it is still remarkably difficult to see how he can get the nomination. (C). 1956. New York Herald Tribune Inc. American Ambassador Returns To Taipeh Taipeh, Formosa (U.R) China Kail Rankin returned to U. S. ambassador to Nationalist Taipeh Sunday by plane from Tokyo. Rankin went to Japan two weeks ago to attend a confer ence of U.S. diplomats in the Asia area. PAINFUL VICTORY Chicago (U.R) Restaurant employee Robert Rader won a painful victory over a would be holdup man. He grabbed for a pistol behind the counter and was so excited he shot himself in the hand. The bandit, equally excited, ran out. Bible Miracles GEO. N. TAYLOR The wind shrieked; the clouds were dark and low and the little fishing craft rose and felL Christ slept thru it all. At last a disciple awoke Him with "Carest Thou not that we perish?" At that Christ arose and re buked the storm. The wind died out. The sun came out and all nature smiled. And why Christ's mir acles? One reason is that in those days, any man who said he spoke for God must do a miracle for you. Christ's blood cleanses to prove it. And today there is a miracle for you. Christ's blood cleanses away your sins. Accept Him as your Lord and Saviour. Then the miracle an act of God. Accept Christ as your Lord and Saviour and God blots out your sins and gives you eternal life. If This Message sponsored by ak Scappoose Dairyman. Ady.