Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1956)
FOUR MEDFOHD (OREGON) MEDFORBv&TRIB UNI tveryoooy tn uuinern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORO PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 - ROBERT W RCHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager CERAi-O LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act oi March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One yeai 12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 330 Sunday Only One year $3.50 By Carnv In Advance Medford, Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix, Snady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Dailv and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy AH 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 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 assocPatlqn 1 vJ O Bimiiunu'iua NEWS PA PER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 0 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 9, 1946 (It was Tuesday) OPA announces new price of 15 cents a quart for fresh milk in Medford. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Winter continues to linger in the lap of Spring, as the poet said. This has been going on too long, and the Older Girls would like to see Spring on the knee of Sum mer for a change. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY . April 9. 1936 (It was Thursday) Prof. Irving E. Vining of Ash land to preside at a meeting of the Shasta-Cascade Wonderland association at Medford hotel to night. Roebrt Hart elected president of the Milk Distributors associa tion; Gordon Warner, vice presi dent, and Lewis Clark, secre-tary-treasuerer. 30 YEARS AGO April 9. 1926 (It was Friday) Jacksonville district records driest March in 45 years. Col. Stewart of Medford awarded general contracting bid for construction of Central Point school building. 40 YEARS AGO April 9. 1916 (It was Sunday) Medford council schedules committee meeting to discuss bonds for construction of Blue Ledge mine railroad. From Local and Personal col umn: Already the demand for houses in Medford exceeds the supply. Particularly is this noticeable in the call for fur nished houses. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cepr. 195S. Editorial Retearch Report 1. Citizens Councils in the South are formed to elect Re publicans, keep school segrega tion, end school segregation, re duce taxes, or speed up Negro advancement? 2. Estes Kefauver is or isn't contesting the Illinois president ial primary asainst Adlai E. Stev enson, an Illinoisan? 3. Seats on the N. Y. Stock Exchange sell today for about the same as at height of the 1929 boom, or for much more or much . less? 4. Margaret Truman gets mar ried on the same day as Grace Kelly, several days earlier, or several days later? 5. The U. S. does or doesn't maintain a major air base on Ice land? 6. It is now (a) 7. (b) 11, or (c) 15 years since the first man made atomic explosion in New Mexico? 7. Quincy is an American city, an inflammation of the throat or both? Tho Answers: 1. Keep school segregation: 2. Isn't; 3. For much less; 4. Several days later; S. Does; 6. It was II yean ago; 7. American city (the other i Quinsy). FILM PAIR WEDS Palm Springs, Calif. (U.R) Film producer Sidney Sy Bart lett and British actress Patricia Owens honeymooned today after their marriage Saturday in this desert resort town. MAIL TRIBUNE Lots of Our water men, Bob Church of the weather bu reau and Jack Frost of the soil conservation service, tell us the Rcgue valley will have ample supplies of irrigation water during the April-to-September sea son this year. This is good news. There's further good news, too, contained in Church's forecast that, unless there's an unusually heavy warm lain, the chances are good that the Rogue basin will escape any serious flooding. RESPITE THE SNOW, which is piled high in the Cascades in depths greater than since 1952, Church believes flooding in the Rogue and Umpqua rivers is unlikely. He explains : Only ones in 50 years of record has the Rogue river exceeded bankfull capacity at Gold Ray dam during the April through September runoff period, and that was on April 13. 1937, when the river rose to 10.7 feet after about three inches of rainfall in the headwaters. It's not impossible, mind you merely unlikely that heavy warm rains will fall at just the wrong mo ment. It should be added that the upland soils are super saturated with water this year, so that there will be little absorption, and most of the. water will run off into the creeks and rivers. h. "lEATHER, no matter what it is, is always a mixed blessing somewhere along the line. Growers of one type of crop will need rain at the same time other growers need sunshine. Picnickers and those with dried-out lawns will disagree. Forest fire danger can be alleviated by the same rain which will spoil downed hay. And, as many a cloud-seeder has found out, any tampering with the weather will bring howls" of wrath from someone who is hurt, or who thinks he is. But despite all this, we are still constantly im pressed by the overall generosity of Mother Nature to the Rogue' valley in the way of weather. Variety sun, rain, hail and snow in measured and temperate amounts makes life interesting and the valley beau tiful. E. A. Hamburgers Pate de foie gras and such-like delicacies may be all right, in their own way and at the proper time. But you can't beat a good hamburger. This comes from a mere male who occasionally in vades the family kitchen to prepare them, and who is pridefully convinced that nobody, but nobody, can master him at the art. THESE THOUGHTS are motivated by the com ments current in the up-state press about ham burgers and their relationship to current attempts on the part of livestock raisers to increase the consump tion of beef. One such attempt is propaganda by an organiza tion known as the Cowbelles of America, who are en deavoring to promote a stampede to "Beef for Fath er's Day." Well, that's all right. But the ladies usually take over the direction of beef preparation, whether it be pot, chuck or standing rib roasts. We think the cow belles would be better advised to promote the glories of hamburger. ,J70R THOSE MEN, if any there be, who have never A sampled the delights of preparing hamburgers, let us recount how it SHOULD be done: Start with freshly ground beef (the cut is not as important as seeing that the meat is lean and recently prepared). Prepare the meat patties about six inches across and a half -inch thick. (Easiest wray is to press out balled meat between two sheets of wax paper with the bottom of a pan.) Get the skillet (a heavy iron one) hot. When we say hot, we mean HOT. Sprinkle it liberally with salt until the bottom is almost white. DLACE THE MEAT patties gently in the utensil, and leave them, sizzling, until you judge them to be well-browned on the underside. Meanwhile sprin kle the top liberally with salt and monosodium gluta mate. Turn them, gently but rapidly. Dust the cooked side with still more salt and more MSG. When done (if the skillet is hot enough, it shouldn't take more than about one minute to the side, with the inside a delicate deep pink,) lift them out (a pancake turner is the handiest implement) gently and put them on a plate. Meanwhile, the buns should have been split and placed, open side up, on the broiling rack of the oven, and toasted a gentle, crisp brown. CROM HERE on out, it's everyone for himself, and pity the hindmost. We suggest mayonnaise, mus tard (hot or yellow), horseradish (either ground or prepared sauce), ketchup (preferably the hotvariety), lettuce (shredded), pickles dill or sweet according to taste, and sliced either cross-w'ays or length-w7ays), and, of course, onions. We like sweet bermudas, but minced greens are also good. From these ingredients one can build a gourmet's dream a dietetic delight. It can be a dainty chalet of a sandwich, or a mammoth castle. Either is superb in its own way. Combine with cold milk and fresh, salty potato chips, and the dedicated trencherman is a king in his own kitchen. E. A. Cenlral Point Jaycee Central Point Purpose and activities of the Junior Chamber of Commerce will be explained at a meeting at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 12, at the Central Point fire hall. All men between the ages of 21 through 35 art invited, Mondy, April 9, 1956 Water Club Formation Talked and Jaycees from the Medford club will explain the organiza tion, -r If sufficient interest in the Junior Chamber is shown, plans will be made for formation of a Central Point club. New Far Eastern Dispute Seen In Indochina Election Plans By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia is starting to stir up new trouble in the Far East. This time the issue is Viet Nam in Indochina. That former French posses sion was split into two parts under the Geneva agree ment of July, 1954, which ended the long Indochina war. The south ern half was Charlei McCann put under a free government. South Viet Nam is now a republic, with Ngo Dinh Diem as president. The northern .half went to Communist Chieftain Ho Chi Minh. The Geneva agreement pro vided that there should b an election by next July 20 to unify the two parts of the country. But South Viet Nam was not directly represented at the Geneva meeting and refused to recognize the agreement. Like wise, the United States, which played a big part in the confer ence, did not sign it. Now President Diem refuses to consider an election. It is pretty certain that he will have American support when the show-down comes. Russia Makes Move Diem knows that a fair elec tion would be impossible in Red ruled North Viet Nam. He feels that any attempt to hold an tac tion would merely play into the hands of the Communists and leave South Viet Nam open to Communist subversion. Russia has now made its first move in what is sure to develop into a big international dispute. In a note to Great Britain, the Kremlin called for a new Geneva conference to consider the election question. It will have the support of course, of the Chinese Communists. It may get the support of Prime Min ister Jawaharlal Nehru of India and other East Asia "neutral ists." Great Britain and Russia were named "co-chairmen" " of the Geneva agreement situation at Matter of Fact by The Negro and the Senator Washington Thurgood Mar shall, a tall Negro with an aqui line nose and a small, neat mous tache, must be one of the best hated men in the United States. As chief legal strategist of the National Association for the Advance ment of Color ed People, Stewart Alsop iviarsnaii is to White Southerners the living symbol of the Negro upthrust to wards equality which has creat ed such bitterness in the South. Sen. William Fulbright of Arkansas, who was one of Adlai Stevenson's chief campaign stra tegists in 1952, is a thoughtful, highly intelligent man, and one of the most respected Southern ers in the Senate. In his slow drawl, he discusses the problem created by the Supreme Court's decision on school segregation reasonably and dispassionately. So, for that matter, does Thur good Marshall, who has fought the Communists and other ex tremists in his movement throughout his career. Yet the experience of talking with both men in turn suggests how total is the impasse created by the Supreme Court's decision, and how potentially tragic. "QJURE, it's a tough problem," 3 Marshall says. "What you've got to realize is that we know it's a tough problem in many areas. Say you've got a county that's 80 per cent Negro. We know it's not going to be easy to change. But what are you go ing to do? You can't say to a Negro child in one place, sure, you can go to a good school and eet a good education like all other Americans, and say to an other kid in another place, no, you've got to stay segregated like always. You can't do it." Tough as the problem is, Mar shall is sure that the Supreme Court decision can be made to stick in the end. He has a year ly budget of S250,000 and a lot of volunteer help, and he means to bring suit against school boards in every Southern coun ty, if necessary. "Sure, it'll take time." he says. "It's a step by step business. You eet segregated counties circled, little by little, and sooner or later they fall of their own weight. We'll win in the end." Perhaps, he is asked, the Su preme Court decision came too soon? Perhaps the emotions stir red up by the decision will re verse the real progress already made in the South? Marshall suddenly looks grim, "Look." he says earnestly. "You talk about eradualism. It's 90 years since the Civil War, and Negroes aren't going to stay scond class citi zens forever. Why, we can't stop the time the conference reached its 1954 agreement. Nehru recently proposed that Britain and Russia, as co-chairmen meet to discuss the election deadlock. Britain in turn invited Russia to talk things over. Russ-British Meeting Now Russia has agreed to the meeting with Britain. But it holds that this British-Russian meeting "should be a mere pre liminary to a meeting of all the countries represented at the 1954 conference. The Russians and the Chinese Reds have been working up to that stage for some time, talking in their propaganda about the need for a new Geneva meet ing. It is expected that British For eign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and U.S. Correspondents Forecast Headlines United Press correspon-. dents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. An alarming report awaits United Nations Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold when he arrives in the Middle East on his peace mission. It is that Soviet Russia has promised the Arab countries important "military help" in event of American and British intervention in the Pales tine cri?i. British diplomats are trying co check the report, which originated in Damascus, Syria. They were tipped that Egypt and Syria sought the promise from Russia, and got it. The Arabs be lieve that Anglo-American inter vention might favor Israel. Egyptian officials deny knowl edge of the report. But London says the British Foreign Office would not be surprised if it is true. - - Don't bet too much that the first earth satellite launching by the United States will be a success. The first attempt could fizzle. The Navy and the Glenn L. Martin Co. jointly announced last week the award of contracts for the Stewart Alsop what's happening even if we wanted to." CURIOUSLY enough you hear an echo of that same sense of inevitability, of not baing able to stop what's happening, when Sen. Fulbright discussed the seg regation problem. He argued with his Southern colleagues against the Southern manifesto calling on the South to block the Supreme Court's decision, on the grounds that it would only exacerbate the issue. But it was no good. He names one of the most respected and liberal-minded Southerners in the Senate "He signd it without even read ing it, because he knew he had to." Fulbright signed the manifesto too, however reluctantly. "The Court has no right to change the law," he says. "The law should be changed only by Congress, or by amendment to the Consti tution." Moreover, he contends, the whole theory of revolution izing racial relations by fiat is wrong. "You can't pass laws to make men good to each other. If you sent troups South and put Negroes in every school by force, you still wouldn't change the fundamental problem." Real pro gress in race relations comes when circumstances change above all economic circum stances. In the past, tension and vio lence have resulted from the fearful economic competition be tween poor whites and Negroes. Before the last war, when the South was a colonial area ex ploited by Northern capital, and per capita income in Arkansas was a miserable $254 a year, there was great tension. Since the war, Fulbright points out, per capital income has quad rupled, and there has been no violence of any sort in Arkansas, even in the "black belt." "Vf OREOVER, very real pro lix gress has been made, Ful bright says. Negroes were ad mitted into postgraduate schools, and into the four Arkansas State colleges, and there was no trouble at all. But now tempers are rising. Organizations like "White America, Inc." are mov ing into Arkansas, distributing inflammatory racial propaganda. Reasonable politicians all over the South have been pushed into a corner by the demagogues. An incident a lynching, for ex ample could spark a terrible explosion. "I just don't know what's go ing to happen," the Senator says, shaking his head. "I think it's very sad." And so it is, the more so be cause it is impossible to see how there can ever be a real meet ing of minds on the issue, even between the most reasonable of Southern and Negro leaders. Copyright 1956, New York Hex kid Tribune, Ine. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei' A. Gromyko will meet this week in London, where Gro myko is attending a United Na tions disarmament conference, to discuss Russia's demand. The next development is un certain. It is certain, however, that the Kremlin will work it self up to a diplomatic lather with demands that President Diem of South Viet Nam be com pelled to agree to an election. Diem, with the full support of his people, is certain to refuse. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, when he visited Diem last month on his East Asian tour, praised highly the progress South Viet Nam has made. He left little doubt that Diem will have full United States backing. That means that there will be no election. third and final stage of the rocket propulsion that will shoot the satellite into the skies. They described the proj ect as "an attempt to place the world's first man-made earth satellite in its orbit." Choice of the word "attempt" was de liberate. Scientists and en gineers in charge are prepar ed, if the first attempt fails, io try again. All signs point to a long and complicated vote in the House of Representatives Wednesday when the Republicans make an llth-hour effort to revamp the farm bill, to make it more palat able to President Eisenhower. When the clerk reads off the roll call of names alphabetically, some members plan to hold off their votes. Then, if the roll call makes the outcome certain, they will be able to vote as they like on the second go-around of name calling. If their votes will make the difference between victory and defeat, however, they will have to follow the party line. April 17 will be a big day in the career of British Chan cellor of the Exchequer Har old MacMillan. MacMillan's star is on the rise as the pos sible political heir to Prime Minister Anthony Eden. R. A. Butler, MacMillan's predeces sor, was the No. 1 man. His popularity has slipped. On April 17, MacMillan will pre sent to the House of Commons, his budget for the fiscal year, which started April 1. If he can find a way to remedy Britain's chronic inflations, where Butler's budgets failed, MacMillan will get important Conservative support as Eden's heir presumptive. American observers in Tokyo say they aren't too alarmed over the swing of Cambodia in Indo china to neutralism. Prince No rodom Sihanouk, the country's strong man, is being friendly to Communist China and critical of the United States. That is the line followed by other East Asian neutralists. Privately, Norodom is critical of some aspects of Chi nese Red rule. Tokyo believes that Cambodia's neutrality is a revulsion from 80 years of for eign rule. When the situation shakes down, Tokyo says, Cam bodia's neutrality is likely to have a pro-Western slant. Bonn reports that West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer seems to intend to keep double-turncoat Dr. Otto John on ice indefinitely. John is the West German security chief who went over to Red East Germany in July, 1954, and hopped back through the Iron Curtain last December. He has been held in "a state of arrest" for four months at a secret place of confinement. There was talk of trying him for treason. But ' Adenauer hopes the whole embarrasing busi ness will be forgotten. Then he could quietly turn John loose. Stop-Articles Suit Transferred To Lane Eugene (U.R) A suit seeking to stop articles by a state farm publication which might be term ed as discouraging persons from settling near the Fort Rock basin has been transferred from Lake county to Lane county. The suit was brought by Philip H. Pitman, Fort Rock rancher. It was dismissed in Lakeview as being in the wrong county. It was filed here because the State Board of Higher Education is named as a defendant, and the chancellor has his office here. The suit claimed an earlier article in Oregon's Agricultural Progress discouraged develop ment of the basin - in Lake county. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Foreign affairs stuff today. Skip it if you're getting tired of foreign affairs. THE nub of the present situa tion is the Middle East. The Middle East is the traditional powder keg of the Old World. The news of recent weeks leaves no doubt that the keg is still full of powder. Pler.ty of matches are lying around.' It is reasonably obvious that the communists would like to egg somebody into throwing a match into the keg. In the ensu ing confusion and disorder, the Commies might be able to grab the Middle East oil and at the same time throw the U.S. out of its Middle East air bases, which are a potent threat to Russia if she should decide to pull a Pearl Harbor on "as. THE situation is aggravated by the hatred of the people ot Asia and Africa fqr the COL ONIZING NATIONS. The col onizing nations they hate the worst are Britain and France. In the centuries of the past, Britain and France have been in the colonizing business up to their ears. The result is that they are cordially hated by the col onized peoples. HERE is where we come in: "Rijor cinno Wnrl1 War T wp have been allies of the British and the French. So We are HATED along with the British and the French. SO MUCH for the past. Now for the present. Something NEW is bein; added. rFHE British want to get tough A in the Middle East. The French have been getting tough in Africa for quite a while. Here's the NEW part: We don't seem to be going along this time with this policy of toughness. As a result, Brit ish newspapers are expressing alarm at what they call the IN CREASING DIVISION between the Middle East policies of the United States and Britain. The French have been peeved with us, for some time because we haven's been too cooperative in their "get tough" policies toward the natives of North Africa. I don't know whether or not there IS a division between us and the British and the French in our Middle East poli cies. But Every American ' knows that for a long time we have been in an awkward position in Asia (of which the Middle East is a part) and Africa because of our al liance with the British and the French. TiHAT is to say: - Our friends and our buddies are the COLONIZING nations Britain and France particularly Asia, Africa and the Middle East are poison toward the colonizing nations. They're tired of being bossed. They want to run their own affairs. They cherish an old and deep hatred for the coloniz ing nations that haven't per mitted them to run their own af fairs.. UR natural sympathies are with the colonized peoples. We were the first people in the world to throw off the colonial yoke and step out for ourselves. In our hearts, WE BELIEVE IN THROWING OFF COLONIAL YOKES. . But, since World War I, we have been tangled up in alliances with the colonizers. So, all the time, we've had to go along with policies we don't believe in. That has been awkward for us. MAYBE this is the time for us to BREAK with the colon izers and stand up for our con viction that colonizing is morally wrong and that people through out the world ought to be per mitted to run their own affairs. Since 1 908 PERL Mortuary o Phone FINER FUNERAL SERVICES Real Estate Lobby Top Fund Spender To Influence Laws Washington CQ) The Na tional Association of Real Estate Boards spent-more money to in fluence legislation in 1955 than any other lobby, according to its later report filed with the clerk of the House. - The real estate organization reported spending $131,005 in 1955, . $16,170 more than the National Association of Electric companies which was the -toD spender on record as of the of ficial Jan. 20 deadline for re ports. Charles T. Stewart, public af fairs director for NAREB, said he doubted his organization ac tually spent the most money for lobbying. He said NAREB was interested in all real estate legis lation but had no special cam paign in 1955. He attributed his group s comparatively high total to "leaning over backwards" in reporting expenditures. Vagueness Criticized The vagueness in the 1946 lobby law concerning just what expenditures should be reported nas drawn criticism from lob byists and lawmakers alike. Some groups list everything they spend from salaries to office rent, others report only what they think constitutes true lob bying. Twenty-nine lobby organiza tions joined the NAREB in filing late lass spending reports to pusn tne total up to $4,365,843 for 274 lobby groups. lhe new total makes 1955 the second lowest year in terms of how much lobbies reported spending. The low for reported spending was $4,286,158 in 1954 and the high, $10,303,204 in 1950. Other big spenders among the late filers were Upper Colorado River Grass Roots Inc. with S68.625 reported and the Na tional Committee for Insurance Taxation with $61,156. . Others File Lats filers who reported spend ing more than $25,000 in 1955 were: National Tax Equality association, $32,996; AFL-CIO Maritime Committee, $30,752; National Federation of Independ ent Business Inc., $28,032; and Southern Pine Industry Commit tee, $27,729. ' None of the 30 lobbies that filed late reports was concerned with natural gas legislation. A special bipartisan Senate com mittee has announced investiga tion of lobbying for the natural gas bill will be its first order of business. .. ' (Copyright 1956. Congressional Quarterly Columbia Flood Potential Voiced Portland (U.R) The weather bureau's March report, released here Saturday, said that the flood potential in the Columbia basin has not slackened. Several factors during the past month, for and against a large spring flood, have served to can cel each other out. The one fac tor that will determine if there is a flood or not is the weather condition during the melting season, the report said. Precipitation in the basin dur ing the month of March was well below the 15-year average in most sections of Oregon and Idaho. Only in the Willamette valley and the panhandle region of Idaho was precipitation above the average. Weather officials said, how ever, that the water equivalent is higher than ever recorded. When floods in 1948 wiped out the war housing community of Vanport, the snow water in dex was 18.0 inches. This year the index reads 26.0 inches. There were 679,750 siloi in the United States at last count in 1950. Of the 557,189 farms that had silos, 109,142 were in Wisconsin. 2 - 6675 in every price range
