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TOOT MTDTORD (ORZOOW) MAIL TRIBTJNE Mhfori)vTribuke "Zverybody In Southern Oregon Keacu Tn Mall Trtdune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. . 21-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 nDfTiT !! n T 'IT Hl.t.. KERB GREY, Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Btuinesa Manager ERIC A r .T .F.N JR, Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor fl 1U0 CTA DfHm KrvUtv Fiitor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa aecond class matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act oi Karen a, lavi SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year 12 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three men. J.50 Sunday Only One year J3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Older Girls are having fine times these days comparing and talking about their vaccinations. 20 YEARS AGO April 5. 193S (It was Sunday) "Water prospects for southern Oregon for 1936 rated good by various federal, state and local agencies. Fred Heath Jr., chairman of Medford city council's airport committee, notified that $117,- 000 airport improvement project approved by U.S. bureau of air commerce. 30 YEARS AGO April 5. 1926 (It was Monday) The Mail Tribune is enlarged from seven to eight columns to standardize the size and make more room available for news. ' Walter Erskine, well-known Medford businessman, opens Piggly Wiggly meat market on East Main st. near Pacific high way. 40 YEARS AGO April 5. 1916 (It was Wednesday) Medford city ' council author izes necessary legal papers for extension of Southern Oregon Traction company's line to Blue Ledge mine. Merchants association and Commercial club planning "made in Medford" banquet; everything served to be product of valley. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report . If you get a dividend in the form of stock, and don t sell it, you do or don't in most cases have to pay income tax on the value of it when received? 2. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave N.W. is the Washington address of the President, Treasury Sec retary Humphrey, the Russian embassy, the Press Club, or Mrs. Perle Mesta? 3. Every democratic nation of western Europe allows women to vote; right or wrong? 4. President Hoover had been in the Coolidge Cabinet as Sec retary of State, Commerce, In terior, Treasury or Labor? 5. One in every five, four, three or two cancer cases under treatment is now curable? C. C. Douglas Dillon is U.S. ambassador to France, India, Mexico, Spain, Great Britain or Japan? 7. A peccadillo is a traffic center in London, small animal, pickle relish, small sin or Span ish measure? The Answers: 1. Don't. 2. The President (it's the White House.) 3. Wrong. 4. Secretary of Com merce. 5. One in every two now. 6. France. 7. Small sin. JUDGE WOULDN'T TUMBLE Charleston, S. C.CU.R) Window-cleaner John Nelson, ar raigned on charges of writing nearly $50,000 worth of bad checks, offered a $20,000 per sonal check to cover his bond. Magistrate John R. Stall refused to accept it. Hmnrfl.i.n,',in.i lr?p"Bl,SHEa$ V-'ASSOCIATION Consider The Helibus Is there no limit to the public demand for speed? Apparently not. More speed in the air or on the ground, adds up to more casualties. It is seldom a day passes now with out at least one fatal airplane crash, sometimes two or three and dozens on the highways. The death toll in automobile transportation fluc tuates from season to season, but the long-period graph is steadily up and up and up. If there is any public demand for less speed on the ground or in the air it is not apparent. The general re action to casualty lists appears to be "so what?" un less, of course, the individual speaking is, or has been directly involved. Then the reaction may be of a different type. e LJOWEVER, the casualty lists represent a minority when the numbers that travel safely via plane and motor car are considered, and so, as the majority rules in commerce as in politics, it is hard to see any end to this mad race to spend less and less time get ting from one place to somewhere anywhere else. Just why no one seems to know. THE NEW CARS are out and all the sales talk over " the air and otherwise stresses the increased speed, increased horse-power and pickup, etc. One of the leading manufacturers staged a contest the other day between its latest model and a flying missile the lat est model won of course just how or how much it was hard to see on the screen. But the sales lesson was plain. A ND NOW we note that the. old motor busses are " on the way out and are to be replaced by heli- busses. The helibusses of course are helicopter busses. According to reports they will be able to carry around 40 or 50 passengers each and make an average speed of 100 miles an hour. Well we hope this proves to be true. In fact we have had a hunch for a long time that in this mad race for speed the advantages of the heli copter type plane have been overlooked. One hundred miles an hour is a snail's pace for the modern airplane, but it is lightning fast compared to a passenger bus. And it has one great advantage : if there is engine trouble the helicopter doesn't have to make a crash landing, the rotor still spins and a safe landing for all concerned may be made almost any where, in any kind of weather and terrain. Such a bus would get one to Portland in arouffd three hours and to San Francisco in about four that would not satisfy the speed-hounds, but we believe that would be fast enough for most of the traveling public. And think of all the advantages! You could take all your luggage on board and you would not have to take out any life insurance, run the risk of depriving your family of whatever earning power you possess, before your arrival. TN FACT, the more we consider the helibusses the more we approve of them. There are a few flies in the ointment, no doubt. expense, but the helicopter engineers should be able to fix that. Then a fleet of such busses might put the SP out of the passenger business entirely, but that wouldn't change things here the bouthern Pacific would senger service anyway. bo what are we waiting for? Let's go ! R. W. R. Will Kefauver Win? Senator Neuberger thinks that if his colleague Senator Kefauver defeats ex-Governor Stevenson in the Florida and California primaries he should be the Democratic presidential nominee, by acclamation. 1ELL, there is a valid is very different from its predecessors the delegates' will pay little heed to the senatorial advice. . IF SENATOR Kefauver should win these two states and half a dozen others, he would probably enter the convention with few more pledges than he did four years ago. And as everyone knows he failed to make the grade then. His chances would probably be better this year, but even so, his primaiy support would in all probability add up to less than 25 or 30 of the party membership. And as in 1952 he would be a marked man that is, "the man to beat." Every other contender (with the possible exception of Mr. Stevenson who never nurses a grudge) would be against him. And the convention as a whole, made up as it is of party "pros," would not go over to the Kefauver "amateurs" without a struggle and a tough one. CINALLY, of course, party conventions are a law unto themselves. And they are disposed to be jeal ous of that fact and the power it gives. Their objection to the "gentleman from Tennes see" will be that he does not measure up to presiden tial stature. The claim will be made, wdth complete justification, that ability to shake hands, kiss babies and win a popularity contest out in the hustings, does not NECESSARILY qualify a man to be President of the United States. "THIS DOES NOT mean Senator Kefauver WON'T be the winner in August. It merely means that if he does win it won't be because of the arguments ad vanced by our junior Senator. It will be regardless of the primary results it will be only because a ma jority of the convention delegates finally decide that Senator Kefauver will have a better chance to defeat President Eisenhower than any other aspirant. R.W.R. Thursday, April S, 1956 There is the matter of the in Southern Oregon, and like to get rid of its pas ? basis for this contention Rival German Armies To Form; Unification By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Free West Germany and satel lite East Germany have really started at last to raise their rival armies. President Theodor Heuss of the West German Re public has signed the con stitutional amend m e n t s which legalize the building up Charles McCann OI a OUU.UUU- man Bundeswehr-federal defense The East German government has formally begun the forma tion of its "People's Army," which is expected to total about 250,000 men. West Germany's army will be a part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces. The East German army will be in corporated in the new Iron Cur- r '.;- it '"i nimmiwrihiw Matter of Fact by joseph aisop THEY MEAN TO FIGHT London In the absence of any clear lead from Washing ton, the present British govern ment has been making up its o w n mind about what to do if worst comes to words in the Middle East. The re solve is to fight if need be, and even Joseph Aisop againsi neavy odds. As already reported, for example, the situation in Jordan is regarded here as immediately critical. In Jordan, King Hus sein's abrupt dismissal of Gen. Sir John Bagot Glubb has open ed the way to a pro-Egyptian, anti-Western coup which would depose King Hussein in favor of a young officer's junta like the one that now rules Egypt. Faced with this possibility, the British cabinet has sought to keep the situation in hand by continuing their subsidy to Jordan despite the humiliation of Glubb's dismissal. None the less, the odds are thought here to be rather heavy that a coup in Jordan will be attempted soon. piRCUMSTANCES certa inly are favorable, in view of the leanings of the present Jordan ian cabinet, the changes in com mand in the Arab Legion since Gen. Glubb's enforced depar ture, and the degree of Com munist underground penetra tion. Faced with this likelihood of a coup in Jordan, the British government has tentatively de cided to intervene. They will join the Jordanian civil war if it is really a civil war. Every thing will depend on whether the existing order has enough remaining support in the Arab Legion and elsewhere, so that there is a serious loyalist fac tion which the British can assist. If there is such a faction to assist, the British mean to as sist it with the two or three regiments of British troops sta tioned in Jordan. In the final pinch, they may also send the parachute brigade which has been moved for the purpose to Cyprus. rpHIS conditional but somewhat - desperate resolve has been taken about $he danger in Jor dan because of the British esti mate of the situation in Iraq King Feisal II of Iraq is the cousin of King Hussein of Jor dan. King Feisal's Prime Min ister, the brilliant but aging Nuri es-Said, is strongly pro- Western. Yet once again the existing order is strongly threatened by anti - Western, pro-Egyptian forces, which are working be neath the surface with active Communist assistance. The danger in Iraq will be enormously increased if the dan ger next door in Jordan is not successfully averted. Protecting the position in Iraq is the real motive of the conditional Brit ish resolve to intervene in Jor dan. It is also the real motive of the otherwise puzzling Brit ish insistance on stronger Amer ican support for the Baghdad Pact. The idea is to strengthen Nuri es-Said and King Feisal. "niNALLY, the protection of the Middle Eastern oil source is the real motive of the British desire to protect the position in Iraq at almost any cost. Iraq itself is a major oil producer. A defeat in Iraq would produce immediate danger in neighbor ing, oil-rich Iran, which was so narrowly saved from the Communist Tudeh Party only a few years ago. What is chiefly feared in Lon don, in short, is the stage by stage loss of the oil sources which are the true lifeblood of these islands. The gravity of the British view is clearly suggested by another conditional resolve that has been taken here. If everything else in the Middle East goes, the British govern tain military bloc in which the military forces of Soviet Russia and its satellites are being uni fied. West German Defense Minis ter Theodor Blank has promised firmly, that the Bonn Republic will have 96,000 men under arms by Dec. 31. The target date for the full 500,000-man army is Dec. 31, 1958. The East Germans got off to a head start. All they had to do, in the first stage, was to start calling their highly militarized "barracks people's police" force of about 120,000 men an army. It is beginning to look as if the two German armies may be built up completely before any serious attempt is made to unify the country. Russian leaders - are talking more and more about keeping Germany divided. The latest pro nouncement came Tuesday from Communist party leader Nikita S. Khrushchev. He said at a re- ment means to hold the Sheik dom of Kuwait by naked force if need be. This last ditch policy is prac tical though unattractive. The population of Kuwait is not large enough to resist effec tively. Kuwait alone has enough oil, if the tap is turned on a lit tle harder, to meet the needs of Britain and Western Europe for a good many years to come. Even so, there might be very great difficulties if the Egyp tians sought to retaliate by clos ing the Suez Canal to oil tank ers from Kuwait. This is entire ly imaginable. Again, it can be quite positively stated that the Soviet ambassadors in Egypt and Syria have promised So viet military intervention in the Middle East if any Western power intervenes there, either in the manner outlined above or in order to prevent a renewal of the Arab-Israeli fighting. And the Soviets may mean what they are saying. ALTOGETHER the outlook is not pretty. The simple fact that such plans are even being prepared in London proves the acute peril to the Western Alli ance of the state of drift that prevails in Washington. If the Eisenhower administra tion dislikes the policy that is being desperately worked out here and this would certainly be understandable then the Eisenhower administration lias an inescapable duty to - come forward with a positive, ' prac tical Middle Eastern policy of its own, -which will probably be greeted with Sighs of relief by the British. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Today and By Walter The Slassen-Gromyko Talks Mr. Stassen and Mr. Gromyko, who are in London exchanging proposals about the race of arm aments, are no doubt a long way from an actual treaty which could be signed and ratified. But there is some thing new in the temper, if not in the sub- Walter Lippmann Stance, of what they are proposing. We may describe it, it seems to me, by saying that each gov ernment, while defending its own strategical interests, is now very anxious to prove that is not the obstacle to an agreement smrf that it ic trtrina uonufnolir to negotiate. The London meeting is inter esting, not only for what might conceivably come out of it in the oni v,ut hoanco it ic rafioMina the objective military situation in the world today. Both the USA and the USSR have taken a new look at the situation. They are now reacting each in its own way, to the same basic fact namely that there exists, precariously, a stalemate in nu clear weapons. mWIT'R'R ic olmnct oluravo & lncr ! 1 in human affairs between an Iant.,a1 nhancro in o cH0tinr, and itho official annreriatinn of the Ichanee. We are like neonle on iho har-t Totfnrm nf . raiirH car who see the country through which the train has alreadv nci t ic fair tr. v t thir,v that not until the past few '; knock-out blow by a sneak at months have the governments j tack. Our policy is for this rea taken seriously into account the i son primarily directed not to re- strategical revolution which be gan in 1949 when the Soviet Union broke, the American mon opoly of nuclear weapons. The failure to take this revolution into account is a reason, perhaps the reason, why for so many years disarmament has been such a fruitless and boring subject. The summit meeting at Ge neva last July was the first great reflection of the military stale mate. The Geneva meeting ac- Starting Far Off ception in Moscow that it was possible to have a European peace agreement without unify ing Germany first. Russian leaders do not want Germany unified except on their own terms. No. 1 term is that Germany shall be disarmed and neutralized. No. 2 is that any unified German government shall be a weak one, in which the Communists play a big if not dominant part. But the Reds are on the de fensive. They dislike intensely the thought of a strong, free Ger many. They know, too, that the West German army will fight loyally on the side of the Allies if there is a war and that they cannot depend on the East Ger man army. West German Chancellor Kon- rad Adenauer faces a fight with the Socialist party over his plan to draft 350,000 men for his army. There is little doubt, how ever, that he will have his way. But about 200,000 men already have volunteered for service in the West German army, 150,000 of them World War II veterans. Adenauer plans to accept only about 150,000 volunteers in all and to draft youths to make up the total of 500,000. On the contrary, the East Ger mans have no chance of getting any considerable number of vol unteers. Their "people's police," in fact, are really raised by draft. It's not an official draft. Men are impressed by coercion and threat. Thousands of "people's" police men have fled to West Germany. East German Premier Otto Grotewohl admitted months ago that the Reds could not get vol unteers for the police, as the basis of an army, and "may be forced" to resort to the draft. The overall picture in Ger many is this: 1. Real European peace can not become a fact until Germany is unified. 2. West Ger many, allied with the West, is strong and becoming stronger. 3. East Germany, held under the Kremlin's heel, is more of a threat to Russia than it is to the Allies. Congressional Quiz (Copyright, 1958 Congressional Quarterly) Q Who sends more Repre sentatives from farm areas to Congress Democrats or Repub licans? A Of 88 Congressional dis tricts classified "Rural," 61 cur rently are represented by Demo crats, 27 by Republicans. Out of 110 small-town districts, Repub licans hold 63, Democrats 47. Tomorrow Lippmann knowledged that the stalemate exists. This meeting in London, and the correspondence between Bulganin and Eisenhower which preceded it, are concerned with the stalemate, with how to pre serve it, with how to benefit by it, with its effects on the two alliances and on the uncommit ted nations. IlfE CAN best understand What ' is going on in London if we look at the proposals from two points of view first, as they reflect the vital interests of the two nuclear powers themselves, and second, how these proposals fare addressed to the other na- tions which do not have nuclear weapons. Both Moscow and Washington have acknowledged publicly that i in the stalemate they are mu- i many aexerrea irom going vu war. They have been asKing themselves under what condi tions the deterrents might not I work- Obviously, the deterrents ! would cease to work if one or the other of the two lost the race of armaments that, is to sav fell seriously behind the other in airplanes and missiles, But, assuming that the race re mains equal, the stalemate might well be broken if one or the other achieved a tactical sur- i prise or some decisive strategic ! advantage. 1 IJERE lies the key to what W aSningXOn ana IVlUbCUW lie ! proposing. For US, the greatest ! danger is that the Soviet Union, ! relying on the fact that it is a ! c.losei a.nd censured and secre- I lIve society, cuuiu -uuevc v ! tical surprise and deliver a UUUing cuilldllieuis UUI agauw. the sneak attack. What we want is inspection from the air and on the ground to provide an early warning system. The Soviet Union is not wor ried about a sneak attack, know ing quite well that in our open society it would be morally and technically impossible to mount an attack and to strike without warning. What the So viet Union worries about is Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot 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. Only 7,000 Would Benefit To the Editor: The doctors and dentists say only the under teen age children benefit by fluori dation (approximately 7,000 in Medford). They would use only about 2 per cent of the treated water. Why force the rest of the people to drink ' the poison? Those who want it can have a doctor's prescription of the right amount needed. Why pay the huge cost of the other 98 per cent just to waste on lawns, flowers, trees and down the sewer, or do they think the pets, stock, birds and earth worms need it? I have heard of hens teeth. Putting all joking aside, why should something be forced upon the people who don't need or want it? V. it is as good as they claim, what will happen to the more than 35 dentists in Med ford, or do they approve think ing they may have more work? About 60 years ago I had rela tives who had goiters. Soon iodized salt came on the market, those who needed it could use it, others didn't have to. You don't see many goiters today. Why don't they mix fluoride in candy and ice cream or the things children liRe that causes the decay? For a free country to force the people to drink something they don't need would be like forcing everyone to attend and belong to the same church or organiza tion whether they believed in it or not. When I came to Medford I had water put into the battery of my car. The attendant went to the water faucet. I said wanted distilled water, he said Medford water is pure." Let's keep it that way. I am In my second childhood and have my natural teeth. After 35 years of kidney trouble I have felt better since coming to Medford. The doctor said it was because of our pure water. Other nations such as Switzer land, France, Sweden and Great Britain, after studying it, won' the circle of American Air Force bases from which so many different attacks could be launched. That is why the cen tral purpose of Soviet policy is to dislocate and liquidate the alliances on which the encircling air bases depend. rPHEY want us to leave the J- bases. We want them to open their country. They want us to give up the alliances upon which our security system is founded. We want them to give up the secrecy by . which their regime operates. These are such big differences that it is hard to see how agree ment can be reached. Perhaps, we should say, it is hard to see how an agreement can soon be reached. But in the long run it may well be that our bases will become obsolete and that the So viet system of secrecy will be come unworkable. Both the USA and the USSR have become deeply conscious that they are the only two nu clear powers in a world which is, for nuclear warfare, unarm ed. Great Britain is a partial exception in that it has some nuclear weapons. But the Bri tish Isles are too small to be able to absorb and survive a nuclear attack. Moscow and Washington are, therefore, armed powers dealing with an unarmed world. Na turally and inevitably, each is under enormous and increasing pressure from its allies and from the uncommitted countries to prove that war will not be per mitted to break out. That is the reason why Mr. Stassen and Mr. Gromyko are so anxious to prove their will to negotiate. However far they are from agreeing, they must go on negotiating. Copyright 1956, , New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Letters submitted for publication must have fluorine in the water. Why should we? Let us stop and rea son. - E. F. Santo, 204 Lozier lane, A Little Inclined Against To the Editor: I have had the rare opportunity of reading the literature printed by both sides of this fluoridation controversy and although I have not made a definite stand either for or against, I am a little inclined to go along with the opposition for these reasons: (1.) The proponents are and have been holding meetings since the first of the year allowing only certain people to attend and excluding anyone who appears to be opposed. Thus it would ap pear that many are endorsing fluoridation without ever hear ing the other side. (2.) The proponents dodge the opposition's arguments merely by playing up the ridiculous and referring to them as crack pots, food faddists, merchants of fear, etc., etc. Quite to the con trary, the opposition is composed of very highly qualified men who hold very high degrees including M.D.! (Incidentally as to the re cent reference to a Dr. Bonner, for one have never heard of the man.) (3.) There seems to be no con vincing argument against the voluntary action of giving pills or bottled fluoridated water. (4.) The proponents claim of 25 years research refers mostly to natural fluoride studies. I would like to see more references to studies based on sodium flu oride in water, since that is what they intend to put into our water supply. (5.) They refer to 1 ppm as harmless but neglect to point out that natural fluorides are found in many everyday foods and that when cooking with flu oridated water it becomes more concentrated. Logically think ing, it seems that everyone would, be absorbing more than 1 ppm. . (6.) Chemically speaking cal cium fluoride (natural) and sodi um fluoride (mfg.) are supposed to produce the same result. What proof is there that this same chemical change takes place in every individual's body espe cially the chronically ill or the unborn child? Also what proof is there that the diseased body will throw off the wastes as a normal body? (7.) In practically all the cities that have artificial fluoridation, the decision was made by the city councils or influential groups, thinking it such a great thing, rushed it through so fast that people even now do not know they have it. Frankly since Dr. Exner is a high ranking medical man, a radi ologist, and president of the King County Medical association in Seattle, Wash., I'd like to see some actual proof against his arguments for example instead of dodging them by way of the mudslinging technique. A. A. Christensen 1125 Atkins st, Medford, Ore. Better Dental Health To the Editor: We, the Alpha Rho Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority, wish to go on record as being wholeheartedly in favor of artificial flouridation of our city's water supply. We pledge our continued support to this measure. Most of our members are mothers of small children. Although children stand to gain the most immediately, we must all remember that the children of today are the citizens of to morrow. Isn't it wonderful to realize the increased dental health of nearly every person within 50 years? Mrs. Paul Dix, Extension Officer, Alpha Rho Chapter, Beta Sigma Phi sorority. PHONE 2-8030 DAY OR NIGHT CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS
