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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medforiv,Tribune "Everybody in Soutiiern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. J7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-l ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertisinf Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR.. Managing Bditor EARL H. ADAMS. Cirv Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta 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 Rv Mail In Advance: Per Cod? 10c Dally and Sunday One year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.50 Daily and Sunday Three mot. S.50 Sunday Only One year $3-50. By Carrier In Advance Mediord. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday On year $15 .00 Daily and Sunday uno monm Carrier and Dealers oc per cupjr All Terms casn in Advance Official Paper of the City of Mediord Official Paper oi jacxson vuimij Uni ted Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF ClHCULAiiUJ WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New Yorlc. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, ot- wjiw. muou Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL jASOCTLN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Mediord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and iO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 8. 1946 (It was Monday) Water outlook varying from good to ample forecast for Klamath, Rogue and Umpqua river water sheds for 1946. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Upstate Democrats are again fighting each other valiantly, when they should be battling Republicans. 20 YEARS AGO April 8. 1936 (It was Wednesday) Second project expected to be approved soon for Medford air- Dort improvements; total cost about $80,000. Two cases of smallpox re ported; arrangements made for vaccinations of all elementary and high school students in mea ford. 30 YEARS AGO April 8, 1926 (It was Thursday) School officers of Jackson county hold annual meeting at Medford High school. Representatives from western Oregon interested in revision of O&C land grant taxes leave for Washington, D. C, hearings. 40 YEARS AGO April 8, 1916 (It was Saturday) Reginald G. Rowland to con duct Medford concert band; weekly summer concerts sched uled. From Local and Personal col umn: The Rogue River Fish Pro tective association held a brief meeting last night at the public library, at which time the propo sition to initiate a law to close commercial fishing on Rogue river was discussed. Whai's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 of the 77 Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rsporl 1. The 1956 Republican nation al convention meets in Chicago, San Francisco, Philad e 1 p h i a, Denver or St. Louis? 2. Legal cases on boycotts usu ally are or aren't in connection with labor disputes? 3. Picketing the White House is or isn't forbidden by law?' 4. There are (a) 4, (b) 6, (c) 8, (d) 10, or (e) 12 furlongs to a mile? 5. The Daily Worker is a Re publican, Democratic, Socialist, C o m m u nist or Independent newspaper in New York City? 6. Jordan now Is or isn't in favor with the Arab bloc headed by Egypt? 7. The Metatarsal Arch is in Rome, Italy; right or wrong? The Answers: 1. San Fran cisco. 2. Usually are. 3. Isn't. 4. Eight. 5. Communist. 6. Is. 7 Wrong (it's in the ball of the foot). Polite Young Man and $180 in Cash Gone Amarillo, Tex. 0J.R) Deputy Sheriff Bud Combee walked into an Amarillo store Thursday but a polite young man behind the counter told him the owner was "out lo lunch" and advised Combee lo come back in an hour. Combee did and found the owner, Tex Crossetl. tied up in the rear of the store. The polite ycung man and $180 in cash were gone. MAIL TRIBUNE Germany and 'Israel Again In answer to a request from Ashland, a few days ago, we presented our solutions of the German prob lem in western Europe and the Israeli problem in the Middle East. Apparently some of our readers took our sugges tions rather more seriously than we did. At least several have taken the trouble to point out wherein our proposals had serious flaws. No doubt of it. Had we come forth with the sure-fire answers to these two international $64,000 questions, we would soon receive invitations from the President to enjoy free room-and-board at the White House along with Robert Montgomery, the elocution expert, and Sher man Adams, the sharp shooter on policy and politics. OF COURSE the solutions offered were not flaw less. Nor do we admit the result of any extensive research or profound study. We were asked for our opinion of what should be done, and we gave our answers, with a sufficient amount of glibness -and informality we thought to indicate that while we were perfectly serious in our recommendations and thought them worth consid eration, we did not expect them to be adopted by the UN or the uncrowned heads of Europe AT ONCE, nor because of them receive immediate summons to a conference with Secretary of State Dulles. IN FACT we carefully pointed out that we only knew tha atiswprs nnH were clad to offer them alone with several other million Americans similarly informed and self-assured. But apparently our ngnt ana ironical rep-isfer. narticularlv with one of our Ashland subscribers who to task for playing Soviet How? "Rv favnrfner the disarming and neutralizing of Germanv. so "the bear that immediately take over. The onlv course to pursue, continued our commu nicant, would be as follows: Germany SHOULD be reunited but also rearmed. It should be allowed to join up with the western pow ers and then Russia should be told to chase itself and leave Europe alone or words to that effect. The result we are told would be to stop Russia in her tracks as far as western Europe is concerned, and she wmilrl then have tn return to the "status QUO ante". nr if her imnerialistie. ambitions must be satisfied. they would have to be satisfied toward the East, that is m Asia where Russia belongs anyway ana not m the west. Whereupon peace Messed peace would once more descend upon world at least tne western tne answers also ! "Nice work if you can get it." IN FACT we grant that this would be a "consumma tion devoutly to be wished." It -would be, from the American standpoint, the PERFECT solution. But how could it be done? In considering these problems it is, in other words, as important to consider what CAN'T be done as what CAN be. And placing a united rearmed Germany on Soviet Russia's western borders a member of NATO, just happens to be, as we see it, one of the things that CAN'T be. We doubt if there is a qualified student of the European situation who would deny that if any such proposal were seriously offered much less any at tempt made to carry it out Russia, whether under its present government or some other, would fight to prevent it. As we have often remarked Russia prob ably doesn't want another world war in this atomic age anymore than does the United States, but there are limits to its anti-war resolutions arid restraints. And a reunited, rearmed and rejuvenated Germany on her western border as a part of NATO would be passing that limit. A S FAR as that is concerned we can't conceive the " United States would ever agree to a united and rearmed Germany allied with Moscow. So assuming a peaceful solution is desired, both of these proposals must be stricken out, and we hope our neighboring communicant will agree and do so. . THAT was why we named as one of our important conditions to any solution in western Europe the neutralization of Germany, with its security and that neutrality guaranteed by the USA and England on one hand, and if POSSIBLE, Soviet Russia on the other. Probably Germany would not like that disarma ment provision particularly. But the question before the House is not what Germany or any other nation would like, but what can for the sake of world peace be accomplished. And considering what militarism has done to Germany, we should think it possible, at least, that giving back her original status as one nation under one flag, she would be willing to use the money for merly devoted to maintaining a huge army and navy, to the development of her country via peaceful pur suits, particularly a.long industrial and cultural lines. Mebbe not, but wouldn't it be worth a try? AS WE see it, another thing CAN'T be done. The nation of Israel can't be destroyed. It exists, it is growing and prospering, the civilized world would never submit to its extinction either by the Arabs, or anyone else. But surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered as it is by its enemies it can't survive for long without outside assistance. Therefore we suggested the establishment of a neutral zone, with strong defenses against any sur prise attack by either side and a reiteration of the tri partite pledge that armed aggression would be resist ed by extending immediate armed aid to the non- Sunday, April 8, 1958 verv solemnly has taken us Russia's game ! walks like a man" could tnis turouient ana xrouDieu portion oi it. bo ne Knows Heavy Pressures From Threaten Highway Legislation Washington (CQ) Highway pressure groups may cause the multibillion-dollar highway pro gram to fail again this year, be cause of their stands on taxes Today and By Walter LEADERSHIP AND STRADDLE A great deal is being said abroad and here at home about how ' necessary and urgent it is that this coun try give firm and clear lead ership to the non- commu nist world. It is easier to say that than to do it. But I won der whe t h e r waiter Lippmann the President and Secretary Dulles have not in fact come to think of the world situation in terms other than that of leadership, whether, in deed, they are trying to lead. In the past few months Mr. Dulles has found himself en tangled in an extraordinary series of dilemmas in issues in which he is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. He has been caught in the Goa dilemma between Portugal and India, in the Jakarta dielmma between the Netherlands and Indonesia, in the North African dilemma between France and the Algerian Arabs, in the Palestine dilem ma between Israel and the Arbs, in the Baghdad dilemma between Iraq and Egypt, in the Cyprus dilemma between Britain and Greece, in the Persian Gulf di lemma between Saudi-Arabia and Great Britain, and so on and on. rpHIS is all rather different from what it used to be in the pre- Geneva phase of the cold war. Then the issues were between Communists and anti-Communists. The line of leadership was self-evident. But now the issues which plague Mr. Dulles are often primarily among our allies and the peoples that we are courting. Mr. Dulles is in theory a be liever, as he said in his famous 1" rflil itM --ft'.aaJ Matter of Fact ey "KHRUSH AND BULGE" London The visit of "Khrush and Bulge" as almost every Englishman now calls Khrush chev and Bulganin tells a great deal about current Soviet policy. If the Eisen hower admin istration is not careful, this visit just con ceivably could also tell a great. deal about the long Joseph Alsop range future of the Western Alliance. The circumstances of the Sov iet leaders' visit to London are decidedly odd in themselves. The British leaders swear that their invitation to Khrushchev and Bulganin was like one of those impulsive suggestions "Oh do come for the week end if you ever visit Kalamazoo" which are not meant to be acted on. At the summit meeting at Geneva, the French had already agreed to visit Moscow. British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden was being pressed by Khrushchev and Bulganin to come to Moscow too, which he had no intention of doing. TUT why don't you visit tLondon?" said Eden to the Russian bosses, well remember ing the months of fruitless ef forts to persuade Stalin to come to Britain in glory in the inti mate war years. "Why we'd just love too," said Krush and Bulge, Very much in the bright, ruthless manner of someone promising to visit Kalamazoo the very next week, and to bring the children as well. And that put the fat in the fire. The fiie at times has been fairly hot. Lord Salisbury, who is probably the most respected single politician in England after Sir Winston Churchill, is known to have detested the whole idea from' the outset. There were other difficulties about the visit, even before Krush and Bulge went to India and announced that the British had been close collaborators of Adolf Hitler. After the Indian excitement, there was serious discussion of aggressor whoever the non-aggressor might be. THERE are the two proposals, in brief, which we offered in answer to a request to give our solution of two of the most complicated and perplexing of present day world problems. That both have serious flaws we don't doubt. And we welcome HAVING them pointed out. But in a matter like this we don't like to be taken too seriously just seriously enough! R.W.R. . and minimum wage provisions. Legislation to build highways passed the Senate last year but failed just before adjournment in the House when trucking and Tomorrow Lippmann Life magazine interview, in tak ing a clear position so that for eign governments will not mis calculate. In actual practice, be ginning with Quemoy and Matsu and going on to Palestine, he has devoted an immense amount of his energy trying to make clear choices in the dilemmas which confront him. I am not attempt ing here to criticize or to judge, but only to describe, when I say that a large part of our current policy is to work out ways of straddling the many horrid choices with which we are con fronted. The old much simpler days are past when there was one great adversary and leadership, con isted in opposing him. The great adversary is stul there, to be sure, but he is playing a second ary part in the troubles of France in North Africa and of Great Britain in the Middle East. THE President and Mr. Dulles give the impression of being men who are not so much trying to lead a grand alliance as they are to disentangle themselves from its quarrel and to become if possible mediators. This is their line. Cyprus, in Palestine, and in effect in North Africa. They are trying not to become involved and committed and not to offend either side too much. Naturally enough, no one is very much pleased. One wonders where the policy of straddle is heading, and what conception of America's role in the world is implied by it. Are they trying to accomodate them selves to the idea that there is an irresistible revolutionary tide of anti-Western passion rising in Africa and Asia, that they can not hope to resist it, that they might in some places manage to appease it? It sometimes looks that way. (C) 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Joseph AIsop disinvitation, but this increas ingly popular social innovation still causes embarassment in London. Then Khrush and Bulge said they would like to come for a whole fortnight, and were told they could come for- only eight days. Finally, Georgi Melen- kov came, a sort of pilot engine, as, the wholly unexpected lead er of a routine post-Geneva tech nical mission and without being asked at all. THE theme in London now Is how tough the British gov ernment mean to be with their not exactly longed-for visitors. Long official talks have been scheduled, partly to reduce the amount of time Khrush and Bulge can spend in the Malen kov imnner, Malenkov having behaved rather like Sen. Ke- fauver running in a particularly difficult primary. Soviet doings in the Middle East are to be a prominent topic in the talks. Some members of the cabinet even hope that the talks will end without the usual smoothly amiable communique and in public disagreement. In these peculiar circum stances, then, what on earth are the Russian motives? Why should the blood-stained Mal enkov be quoting Robert Burns, handing candy to children and all but going on his not incon siderable belly to ingratiate him self with Hugh Gaitskell and others among the most courage ously anti-Communist faction in the Labor Party? Why should Khrushchev and Bulganin so obviously hanker to put on a similar act? The answer is fairly obvious. In the Middle East, not to men tion Malaya, the Soviets are lit erally probing for Britain's vitals. If the Middle Eastern oil sources are ever shut off, Britain will be publicly bank rupt within 30 days. In the total political chaos that will then ensue, almost anything can happen. TF the British leaders and people also feel that they have been badly let down by the American government, a British defeat in the Middle East will quite cer tainly be accompanied by par oxysms of anti-American feeling here. Obviously, this is the mo- Lobbies rubber groups hotly protested tax hikes aimed at them. This year the House has as signed the financing and build ing phases to separate commit tees. The House Ways and Means committee recently approved a bill to tax trucks and cars the same for highwayi with one ex ception. Trucks weighing more than 26,000 pounds would be charged $1.50 for every 1,000 pounds. Opposite Sides In the opposite corners over the $1.50 levy are the American Automobile association and the American Trucking associations, heavyweights among the road lobbies. The AAA says trucks should pay more for roads; ATA says trucks already pay four times as much for highways as cars do. Each group is so adam ant that lawmakers pouring over highway legislation see little ground for compromise. The other big roadblock in front of lobby agreement is the provision authorizing the Secre tary of Labor to set minimum wages for workers building federal-aid highways. The National John Heavy and Highway Con struction ommittee, a labor or ganization, and the Associated General Contractors of America are fighting over the wage ques tion. The labor group was formed in 1955 to press for prevailing wage clauses in any highway leg islation under consideration. Its support comes from the AFL-CIO Teamsters, Carpenters, Laborers and Operating Engineers unions. The organization maintains the federal wage-setting power is necessary to prevent "maraud ing" and "predatory" contractors from staking out the Interstate Highway System as their "pri vate club." Higher Cost Seen But the 6,500-member AGC says the provision would "un necessarily increase" the cost of the highway program by raising wages above their proper levels, It also claims the wage power is an invasion of states rights. Here agin there appears little area for compromise. Each group asserts it is fighting for a prin ciple which cannot be sacrificed, even for the over-all highway program both admit is so vital, Even if the highway bill sur vives bouts with those lobbies, it still must withstand punches from lobby organizations against any federal highway program at all, even though most lobbies ap prove the idea of an expanded highway program. In that class fall the railroads that say Uncle Sam's roads wUl help their trucking competitors. The American Farm Bureau Fed eration wants the states to build roads with the fuel taxes cur rently going into the federal Treasury. Defense Groups Much of the defense from the lobby attacks will come from the Eisenhower Administration and grass roots support, harnessed by such groups as the American Mu nicipal association. President El senhower says the highway pro gram is vital to the nation. The American Municipal association has held meetings in cities in the East, Midwest and South to whip up enthusiasm for the road pro gram. The lawmakers in this election year will try to find a way through the controversy. But sev eral of the lobbies are set to keep up the fighting until the last minute. (Copyright 1956, Congressional Quarterly) Oregon Manufacturers Directory Lists 2000 Salem (U.R) More than 2000 firms are listed in the new Ore- g o n manufacturers directory, the Oregon Development Com mission said Friday. The directory lists all manu facturing establishments which employ four or more workers, except for logging and lumber concerns. Information for the directory was obtained at the 26 local of fices of the State Unemployment Compensation Commission. Copies may be obtained from the development commission in Portland, public agencies and Chambers of Commerce. ment Khrushchev and Bulganin are trying to prepare -for. They cannot suppose there is much chance of doing business with Britain now. But they are going all out to convey the im pression that Britain will be able to do business with the Soviets later, when and if Brit ain is in desperate straits, and feels utterly deserted by Amer ica, and has nowhere else to turn. The gamble is an extremely long shot, for this is still a singu larly stout hearted country. But the gamble costs Khrush and Bulge nothing at all, except eight days of their time. And one must add that the Washing ton policy makers seem to be doing everything possible at the moment to improve Khrush and Bulges' gamble. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc) POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Photographer Carl Landis claims to have attended about 600 weddings in the past 10 years. And he doesn't like cake; doesn't eat ' it; complains about it loudly at each wedding recep tion. His standard joke on such occasions was to ask for cherry pie and dill pickles. Last week, at a wedding re ception, he was called to the center of the. floor at St. Mark's church and formally presented with a cherry pie and a jar of dill pickles. Ate 'em, too, then and later. One of our feminine staff members tramped down town last week to buy a new spring hat. She looked, and looked and looked. Finally she re turned to the office with a brand new, 75 cent feather to put in her old hat ! A man we know, who has two sub-teen daughters, slept late the morning of April fool's day, and arose, g-oggy and sleepy, to ask the girls to bring him, please, a cup of coffee. They obliged with exceptional alacrity. He took a large swallow and nearly chok ed as he found the girls had used salt instead of sugar. The daughters, incidentally, had filled a small sugar bowl with salt to perform their chore. Later in the week the lady of the house, in a sudden burst of housewifeliness, started clean ing all the small sugar and cream containers. Unwittingly she dumped the one full of salt into the big sugar bowL In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS By FRANK JENKINS Thanks to the Wisconsin pri mary election, politics is again in the news. ine Wisconsin primary was built up by professionals the term "professionals" includes newspaper and radio COMMEN lAiUKb (the real newspaper and radio people just tell the news) as a test between Presi dent Eisenhower and Senator Kefauver. This build-up has been possi ble because Wisconsin has no party registration and voters can mark any ballot they choose. WELL " On that basis With the vote better than 80 per cent counted as thi3 is writ ten, 400,000-odd Wisconsinites have voted for Ike and 300,000 odd have voted for Estes. If every state outside the po litically petrified South follows the Wisconsin primary pattern inc November it will be a land slide for Ike. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER, at his press conference the day after refused to comment on the Wisconsin voting. Senator Kefau ver says the Wisconsin primary appeared to show great unrest among the farmers and thus indi cates that if nominated he can carry Wisconsin against Eisen hower in the fall. He adds: "Since the present administra tion offers no SUITABLE relief for, the farmers' distress, I be lieve I can carry the farm belt. I think the results also show, the farmers are voting for my pro gram and me." TITHAT is his farm program? " As nearly as can be judged from his utterances, it Is a pro gram of high subsidies for as nearly ALL farm products eg possible. Personally, I believe that over the long pull the farm ers of America I mean the REAL farmers will be intelli gent enough to recognize that the subsidy system, which pro motes and encourages surpluses, will wreck American agricul ture. IF YOU have followed the po litical news and the political pontificating carefully, you must have noticed that former President Truman has figured rather largely in it. He made a speech in New York and in it he charged that the Eisenhower administration is giv ing the people a false, optimistic picture of foreign affairs as a measure of political expediency. He "disclosed" that his next speaking engagement will be in Iowa, to a farm group, and when asked what he would tell the farmers there he replied that he'll tell 'em, that if they vote Republican they should have their heads examined. He "disclosed" that if he goes to Europe .this summer, as he hopes to, his main purpose will be to receive an honorary degree at Oxford University. He added that "for three years Oxford has been trying to give me a degree." And so on, including com ment on the forthcoming mar riage of Prince Rainier to movie queen Grace Kelly. He got into the news in a rather big way. TRUMAN is regarded by the inside political professionals as a distinct possibility for the Democratic nomination in case of a deadlock between the Ke fauver and the Stevenson fol-loweni. So our friend, on preparing an eye-opener cup of coffee the other morning, salted his own. He almost choked, again. Staff member brought around a note about herself the other day, and attached a note to the note which queried: "Is this In a too vain vein?" Oh, the dangers of modern life!! We are told about a man who used to be a baUet dancer. When he retired from that profession, he became a carpenter and builder. These two skilled and rather specialized vocations nev er seemed to bother him. But the other day he sneezed, threw his back out of joint, and went to bed for a week. He's a determined man, though. Crick in the back or no, he's going to join members of the ballet company due here next week for some advance ex hibition dancing. Youngsters aged 1 through 12 had an Easter egg hunt last Sunday in the Butte Falls city park, sponsored by the Butte Falls Lions club. Ev erything went pretty much as planned, and the youngsters hunted the eggs on schedule despite three inches of new snow in the park. A Jacksonville woman made a trip to Portland over the Easter week end. Before she left she mailed an Easter gift to a friend in that city an apron. She had Easter dinner with another friend in Portland, and received as a gift an apron. Calling at the home of the friend to whom she had sent an apron, she re ceived a gift which had been purchased and wrapped earlier an apron. She never wears an apron. There's a hospital some where on the Pacific Coast (not In southern Oregon) where the proprietors own a pet cheetah the south Amer ican cat much like a small ' leopard. It's usually on a leash, but occasionally gets loose and wanders around, much of lis own accord. A friend who recently visited there says, "He is a beautiful thing, espe cially when he looks straight at you, and you're not sure whether to flinch, pat him on the head, or turn and run." FJC writes to tell of a recent police alarm, when officers were summoned to a local mar ket to check on a still, quiet form lying on the doorstep, cov ered with a blanket. The policemen felt for a pulse and found one, then summoned an ambulance which took a lit tle time to arrive. When the su pine man, quite well dressed, was being picked up, he rolled over and inquired indignantly what all the fuss was about. The officers asked what he was doing lying there. He re plied "Restin'." They asked his name. He said, "It's me. So what?" "Where do you live?" "None of your business." "Where's your home?" "Ain't got none." He was given one temporar ily in the' city drunk tank. Or so FJC says he was told. Congressional Quiz (Copyright, 195 Concessional Quarterly) Q. True or false The typical "big-city" Congressman repre sents more people than the aver-r age Congressman from a farm area. A. True. A Congressional Quarterly analysis shows that the average member from a big- city Congressional district repre sents 378,000 persons, compared with only 310,000 for the typical rural Representative. If all dis tricts were the same size, the big cities would gain about 12 seats in the House. Q. True or False? American cities currently dump more than one-half of the pollution from their sewers into waterways. A. True. U. S. Public Health Service statistics show that sew age purification will have to be stepped up if the nation is to supply the demand for clean, fresh water in decades to come. While the proportion of sewage being adequately treated has in creased since 1930, the nation has grown so much that a great er total pollution load is being dumped into waterways. Q. True or False? Former Con gressmen are barred by law from lobbying on the floor of Con gress. A. False. Ex-Senators and ex- Representatives enjoy a unique privilege in being able to enter the chamber floors. Much to the despair of some interest groups around Washington, this also is true of ex-Congressmen working as lobbyists. An ordinary watch crystal will crack under 50 pounds of pres sure, laboratory tests have indi cated. .
