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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
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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