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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORmTRIBUNE Ever boay in iouuiern Oregon Read Th Mail Tti bunt" Published Dailv Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Buiineu Manager ERIC A 1. 1 .F.N JR. Managing F.ditor FARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SportJ Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newipaper Entered ai econd class matter at Medford Orezon. under Act of Marcn a. lev SUBSCRIPTION RATES B Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daiiy and Sunday One yeai O2.00 Dailv and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mo 3 50 Sunday Only One year S3 50 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Dailv and Sunday One year SIS0O Dailv and Sunday One month lis Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terma Cash in Advance Official Paper of Die City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty United PressujlLeasedWlre MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF quivunm:' 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 "vX7 ASSOCll-ATLQN I y J o lO" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and JO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 10, 194S (It was Wednesday) Dr. H. B. LaFavre, captain in charge of the naval hospital at Camp White, announces hospital will close May 20. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Spring (such as it is), has run away with Dewey Hill, the Prospect hired man, who towned yes. He al leges he will play baseball again this season. 20 YEARS AGO April 10. 1936 (It was Friday) Residents of Laurelhurst school district in McLeod area vote 12-5 against consolidation with Elk Creek and Hatchery districts. David H. Canfield, superin tendent of Crater Lake National park, warns motorists not to leave food in car; three cars damaged during past week. 30 YEARS AGO April 10. 1926 (It was Saturday) American Legion schedules wind-up of membership cam paign; expect total membership to be 400. International exhibition of art from Los Angeles museum to be in East Main st. building during month. 40 YEARS AGO April 10. 1916 (It was Monday) Ten bicycles have been stolen in Medford in past 10 days; Police Chief Hittson warns resi dents to use care in leaving bi cycles on street. University club votes to lease W. I. Vawter residence as club house. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Raporf 1. Federal antitrust laws in general apply to both farm and labor bodies, farm but not labor ones, labor but not farm ones., or neither? 2. A meter is about the same length as a yard, half as long, twice as long, about 10 short er, or about 10 To longer? 3. Have we ever elected a President of one party and a Vice-President of the other run ning on the same ticket? 4. The slave traffic has been wiped out in all parts of the world, or still exists in some areas? 5. Does any U.S. city with a population as high as 100,000 have a mayor who's an avowed Socialist? 6. The Oath of Hippocrates is taken by lawyers, dentists, judges, federal employees, doc tors, teachers or Knights of Co lumbus? 7. A Cypriot is a slow drinker, professional tea-taster, native of Cyprus, fine perfume or teeto taler? Th Answers: 1. In general to neither. 2. About 10 longer. 3. Twice: W. H. Harrison (Whig) and Tyler (Dem.) 1840; Lincoln (Rep.) and Johnson (Dem.) in 1864. 4. Still exists. 5. Yes, Bridgeport, Conn. (Jasper Mc Lery). 6. Doctors. 7. Native of Cyprus. Dead line Sunday Classified M at noon Saturday: 10 i.m Monday for Monday: other dayi 8:30 nreviouad? MAIL TRIBUNE McKay vs. Hitchcock etc. Mr. Hitchcock, candidate for the Senate in the May Republican primary, says he will not campaign against his rival for the nomination, Secretary Mc Kay, but against Senator Wayne Morse. The supporters of the former Secretary of the Interior say the same thing, they will have nothing to sav against Mr. Hitchcock but plenty to say against the senior Senator from Oregon, who has the temerity j to seek re-election. TT WILL be interesting to see if both worthy gentle-- men hold to their resolve. Messrs. Kefauver and Stevenson started out much the same way. They were the best of friends and as loyal members of the same party were to continue so. What they were interested in was the defeat of the "unbeatable Ike" and the reactionary GOP, not the defeat of their temporary opponents in the primary. DUT now what do we see? The urbane and even-tempered Adlai is now ac cusing his party rival of misrepresentation, promise breaking, shirking of his senatorial duties and what have you. No similar accusations have been made as yet against Adlai, but with some heat the accusations have been categorically denied and now, according to press reports, the Tennessee Senator has agreed to debate national issues with the titular head of the Demo cratic party, throughout the state of Florida. If any thing can widen the breach between the two Demo cratic aspirants, and solidify it, an intra-party de bate should do it. IF THE reports about Governor Harriman and for- mer President Truman have, any basis in fact, namely that they both hoped Messrs. Stevenson and Kefauver would kill each other off in the primaries so -at the convention the "inactive" Mr. Harriman could step in, then they both must be laughing up their sleeves and hugely enjoying the internecine spectacle being offered by the Governor's rivals in the primary struggle. The latter pair could hardly be doing a better job of mutual destruction if they had followed instructions from the state-house at Albany. TT IS too bad, of course both for the two gentlemen involved and for the Democratic party." The Democrats have enough to contend with in the split over school segregation in the South, with out adding any factional disputes, between the Stev enson and Kefauver contingents, within the party. But there seems to be no way out of it now. Both aspirants appear to have their backs up, as the saying goes, and as it looks from here it is a fight to the finish, with a double knock-out as the probable, if not inevitable, outcome. A LL of which takes us back to where wTe started from a short time ago when it was predicted in this department that probably none of the candidates then most actively engaged in the struggle for the Democratic nomination would win at the convention, but some dark horse, upon whom the various factions could ultimately unite with some degree of party unity ana eninusiasm. QF COURSE this new Stevenson "fighting Ad lai" may surprise the dopesters, and also his in gratiating and free-wheeling opponent in the remain ing primaries; and it is also within the realm of pos sibilityin politics what isn't? that "The Gentle man from Tennessee" will enter Chicago with such a show of popular support that the majority of dele gates, including some of his enemies, will have to take him, with a smile or sucn miracles ana eitner would be m the category we can see no outcome but a dark horse several shades darker in fact, than was true a few weeks ago. . MOW to return to our tween Messrs. Hitchcock and McKav here in Ore gon it is hard to see how eiiecuve witnoui lniormmg me voters in some DE TAIL as to exactly why he believes he will make' a stronger race against Senator Morse than the Secre tary of the Interior. And to do that how can he keep from pointing out the flaws in the McKav record. particularly regarding the me iieia oi public power, ex-Governor McKay's well known infatuation with the prestige and power of Big Business? If he does enter into this field, even as politely and gingerly as ex-Govemor Sprague of the Salem statesman, tie will be treading on the toes and coat tails of "the little Scotchman" and it might well be a case oi jumping trom the TJOWEVER any SERIOUS rift in the Republican ranks m Oregon this that matter seems extremely unlikely. There may be a few defections in the farm belt but all in all we can see no point in denying that campaign, has it all over gree of unity and the high efficiency and smooth functioning quotient of their party organization. R.W.R. Man, 77, Wins Divorce On Complaint of Wife Denver (U.R) George H. Bailey, 77, won a divorce from his wife in Domestic Court yes terday. He had testified that his wife blamed him for attempting to kill her when his automobile crashed into a bridge abutment. The accident occurred as the couple was driving off after pur chasing their marriage license. Unlike brown pelicans, white pelicans never dive for food. They scoop fish from shallow water. TuMdiy, April 10, 1958 the reverse. But barring own little "hoss-race" be the former can be very "Give Away" program in national conservation, and frying pan into the fire year or anvwhere else for the GOP thus far, in this the Democrats in their de Portland To Discuss Transit Extension Portland (U.R) The Portland city council was scheduled to meet today to decide whether to grant the Rose City Transit com pany a 30-day extension of the permit under which it has op erated since February 10. The company requested the extension yesterday. The permit under which it is operating the city's transit system expires at midnight. Six out of 10 gasoline station operatori lease their stations. Hammarskjold's Mission May Be Difference in Peace, War By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Dag Hammarskjold's mission to the Miaclle East might pos sibly make the difference be- f tween war and real peace in Palestine. The quietJ self - confident secretary gen eral of the United Na tions is mak ing his visit on an emer- Cbarles McCann gency basis. The U. N. Security Council has authorized him only to seek means of reducing the present almest intolerable tension be tween the Arab countries and Is rael. But Hammarskjold is well aware that he has some author ity of his own as the chief exe cutive officer of the world or ganization of which 76 coun tries are now members. Before he left New York last Friday, Hammarskjold made it known that he intends to sur vey the entire situation in brief, to see whether he cannot find some basis for an eventual pace settlement. Episode Toward Peace, He said, at a press conference before he left New York, that he saw his visit as just an epi sode on a lone road toward peace. It could, however, prove to be a very important episode. Hammarskjold will find as soon as he starts his investiga tion that the U. N. armistice machinery has all but broken down. Officers of the truce supervis ory organization are barred by both Israel, on one side, and Egypt and Syria on the other, from entering the explosive frontier areas. They cannot observe for them selves how the almost daily "in cidents" of shooting and border violation? start. Can't See Troops More importantly, they can not see whether the respective sides are concentrating troops along the frontiers. The Security Council asked Hammarskjold to try to arrange for withdrawal of military forc es from the immediate armistice- it c & i M t Matter of Fact by THE PRESIDENT AND THE EDEN MESSAGE Washington Are President Ei senhower's subordinates so eager to Drotect him from worry and strain that matters of great interna t i o nal impor tance are con cealed from him, or their s i g n i f icance obscured? This question is pro mpted by Stewart Alsop tne president s answers to certain questions at his most recent press conference. He was twice asked whether he and Prime Minister Anthony Eden had been in recent commu nication about the Middle East ern crisis. He was specifically asked whether Eden had recent ly sent him an important mes sage stressing the gravity of the crisis, and the urgent need for taking action to head off the danger. rpHE President seemed honestly puzzled by the questions. Prime Minister Eden and he quite often exchanged messages, he said, and they often contain ed references to the Middle East. But, he said, "I am certain it is no recent thing they must be talking about." He was sure, he said, that there had been no mes sage from Eden since "some time before" he went to White Sul phur Springs on March 24th. He speculated that perhaps "They are talking about a recent message I haven't received yet." Overall, he left the strong im pression that there had been no new, urgent, or important views expressed by Prime Minister Eden on the Middle Eastern cri sis. Asked whether the British had been pressing the Adminis tration to take a firmer line in the Middle East, 'the President replied: "Well, if they have, they haven't pressed me." These Presidential responses are mysterious. The questions were largely prompted by a re port, which first appeared a week ago in this space in a dis patch from London, that Eden had sent a grave message to the President stressing the growing danger in the Middle East, and the urgent need for basic joint policy decisions for dealing with the crisis. This report was con firmed and elaborated in subse quent dispatches in the British press and elsewhere. THE facts, which are indisput able, are as follows. About two weeks ago a high official of the American Embassy in Lon don was summoned to hear the views of Prime Minister Eden. Gravely and even grimly, the Prime Minister held forth at length about the danger in the Middle East and the pressing av . ; as- line borders. He was authorized also to try to arrange full free dom of movement for truce offi cers along the frontier lines, in demilitarized zones and in "de fensive are.as" in the rear. If Hammarskjold does noth ing but that, he will have gone a long way toward safeguarding against some isolated attack which might, at this tense mo ment, cause an explosion into Interior Secrelary Appointment Seen Probable This Week Washington President Eisen hower is expected to announce the name of his new Secretary of the Interior before Secretary Douglas McKay bows out on Sunday, April 15. McKay, who resigned as Gov ernor of Oregon to take the Inte rior Secretaryship, is resigning to run for senator from Oregon against the incumbent, Wayne Morse, Democrat, originally elected as a Republican. McKay has been Secretary of the Interior for 3Vi years. That is just about the average tenure in the job the Interior depart ment has had 36 secretaries since it was created in 1849. The longest tenure was that of the late Harold L. Ickes, 13 years. By 1849, the then six execu tive departments State, War, Navy, Treasury, Postoffice, Jus tice had accumulated unto themselves various functions really alien to them. The new department was set up to take care of these patents, Indian affairs, pensions, public lands: the census. These five activities were all concerned with domestic affairs and for a time the new depart ment was referred to as the "Home department." Later, many other activities went into the Interior: education, admin istration of territories, geologi cal surveys, national parks, rec lamation, mine safety, wild life preservation, etc. Some of these reverted to other departments as these in turn were created. (Editorial Research Reports) Stewart Alsop need for joint decisions and ac tion by the Anglo-American allies. Eden indicated that he had called in the American official to make- sure that the President knew his views of the situation The American was naturally im pressed by the responsibility in volved in reporting a statement so grave as the Prime Minister's, He therefore asked Eden's per mission to quote him verbatim on certain points, to assure abso lute accuracy. Eden thereupon himself wrote out a message clearly intended for the Presi dent, which included the warn ing that major decisions might be not just a matter of days, but even a matter of hours. Such are the facts. In view of these facts, there seem to be only three ways of explaining the President's answers to his press conference questions. NE theoretical explanation is " that the President, for diplo matic or other reasons, was being disingenuous. But this explana tion can almost certainly be dis missed. The President is not a dissembler by nature, and his replies1 clearly suggested that he was honestly puzzled by the questions. Another possible explanation is that the Eden message some how got bogged down in the labyrinthine bureaucracy of the State Department. But it seems hard to believe that even the State Department could lose track of an extremely important message on a major international crisis from the British Prime Minister, in which the Prime Minister himself laid heavy em phasis on the hour -by -hour urgency of the crisis. The only other conceivable explanation is that the message from Eden was not transmitted to the President at all, or trans mitted in such a way that its significance was wholly obscur ed. This seems the most likely explanation. It is also the most disturbing. "OVEN before the President's heart attack, there was a strong tendency to go to great lengths to spare him unnecessary worry. Since the attack, the ten dency has been greatly strength ened. This is natural enough and even laudable within limits. But the limits are surely pass ed when such a message as Eden's is either concealed from the President, or its meaning muffled. The President himself who has privately complained on occasion of his subordinates tendency to over-protect him, is certainly aware that a Chief Executive of the United States cannot function properly if he is wrapped in yards of cotton batting. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. full-seal war. Dispatches from the Middle East say that U. N. men on the spot hope Hammarskjold's re port may lead the Security Coun cil to take further action. Set Up Zone First would be the establish ment of a demilitarized zone along the entire armistice-line fronter. This zone would be eva cuated by the opposing armies and wouid be policed by U. N. officers. Secondly, the U. N. men hope that ths Security Council may decide to make a clear-cut defin ition of what would constitute aggression and put teeth in that definition by prescribing penal ties against the aggressor. If he can induce Israel and the Arab countries to permit proper policing of the border zone, that alone will be an im portant advance. If he can make his present mandate the opening wedge for a long-range attempt to proceed from reduced tension to peace negotiations, it will be the high point in his career. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Ho! Hum! What shall we talk about today? Politics? ; There's TOO MUCH politics. And too little statesmanship. Too much chatter about who's going to be elected. And too little ser ious thought about the FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY which will be affected, for better or for worse, by the kind of politics we pracace. i HOW about foreign affairs the old standby of the editor ial writer who has nothing much else to talk about and falls back on foreign affairs as a device to fill space? SHUCKS! There is TOO MUCH TALK about foreign affairs. Foreign affairs involve NEGOTI ATIONS negotiations among nations. Successful negotiating just can't be conducted in a fish- bowl. Everybody who ever took part in an important business deal knows that. Negotiating involves running a bluff every now and then. One often has to run a bluff to find out just what the other fellow will do and what he WON'T do in the way of a deal. Every poker player knows you can't run a bluff if everybody in the room is looking over your shoulder at your cards. The same rule holds good in the case of diplomacy. LET'S talk about saving bonds! It's an interesting and high ly important subject. HERE'S a surprising fact: Today, ten years after the end of World War II, the Amer ican people still have nearly 58 BILLION DOLLARS salted away in U.S. savings bonds. We hear a lot about the stag gering present total of "con sumer credit." Consumer credit is what people put on the cuff, largely in the way of installment purchases of things they want such as automobiles, and wash ing machines, and television sets, and new houses, and furniture to go in the new houses. The total "of consumer credit runs into a lot of money and the total has been rising steadily for years. Every now and then some body takes a look at the total consumer credit and compares it with the total last year and the year before and the year before that and gets the shivers. LISTEN: For every $2 in the way of consumer credit the people as a whole owe, about $3 of U. S. savings bonds are owned by the people as a whole. Not so bad. NOT so bad? Heck! It's WONDERFUL! As long as the people of our country GO ON SAVING for whatever purpose, to buy a new car when the time comes, to build a new house when the time comes, to retire on when they get old our future will remain bright and we'll be able to meet just about any situation that may arise. Federal District Court To Convene at Pendleton Portland (U.R) Judge Gus Gus Solomon said today he would convene a term of Federal District Court in Pendleton April 30. Judge James Alger Fee is tentatively slated to be on the bench at Medford May 29 when a federal term opens in that city and again at Klamath Falls for a session opening June 5. Fee a Federal Circuit Court judge, will hear cases on a dis trict court level. SIMPLE ENOUGH Evansville, Ind. (U.R) When a clock in Frank Weber's of fice continued to run counter clockwise despite all efforts to repair it, Weber solved the prob lem by changing the face so the numerals are counterclockwise too. , v pyuu '.'i I . .. .......,,.. l . mui.w i I' . lait.njiav IU.SHWMI iWM-yiMM: -yyymyi - " ' e . ROARING FROM LAUNCHING CRADLE at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., this is Snark SM-62 Intercontinental guided missile beginning 2,000-mile flight. (International) ' Attention Directed To New Importance Of Vice Presidency By MARTIN PACKMAN Washington With President Eisenhower prepared to seek a second term despite his age and his heart attack, many voters will take a closer look than usual at the party nominee for vice-president. Eisenhower is convinced that he can carry on full time for another four years in the White House, and his doc tors give him a good chance to do so. But the very fact that the President would be 70 at the completion of a second term and the fact that his heart is no longer perfect pushes the vice presidency into special promi nence 4n this election year. Eisenhower hims 'ilf has urged Congress to look i jto the prob lems that may arise when a President is incapacitated. The Constitution states that the pow ers and duties of the Presidency shall devolve on the vice-presi dent, not only in case of the President's death, but also in case of his inability to discharge the duties of his office. Yet the vice-president never has taken over except when a President has died in office. A House Judi ciary subcommittee is to hold hearings on the questions that would be raised by vice-presidential succession on account of presidential disability. Proposals Made Proposals to ease the burdens of the White House occupant, either by delegating specific du ties to the vice-president or by creating an additional office of administrative vie e-president, have been advanced by members of Congress and others. Al though the administration has displayed little interest in such proposals, President Eisenhower has given Vice President Nixon more tasks, and more varied tasks, to perform than have been carried out by any previous vice-president. The vice-presidency was not slated for the insignifciant place it has held throughout most of American history. Quite the con trary. Under the Constitution as adopted, presidential electors voted only for' President. The man who came out second best in that contest was designated vice-president: By the nature of things, all those voted for were presumably of presidential sta ture, as witness the first two vice-presidents, John Adams and Ttfomas Jefferson. It was only after the '12th Amendment re quired separate ballots for Presi dent and vice-president that the second post began to decline. Restored Prestige John Tyler restored its pres tige for the time being. Tyler was the first of seven men who have succeeded to the highest office through the death of the President. His succession after William Henry Harrison died in 1841 set a precedent in more ways than one. Despite cloudy constitutional language, Tyler took the oath prescribed for the FREE 195 6 A LG9AH "Your TV Weatherman Phone Conger-Morris 6th and Main . Medford chief executive and won recog nition as President, not acting President. But notwithstanding this demonstration as a vice president might become Presi dent in fact, nomination . of an outstanding leader for the sec ond office became more than ever the exception, not the rule. National nominating conven tions have concentrated on the race for first place on the ticket. When that is settled, the dele gates are ready to go home. Hence they give little thought to choice of the man who, if the party wins, may be on his way to the White House. Selection of the vice-presidential nominee thus is left largely to the chosen standard-bearer and simply rati fied by the convention. Changes Suggested To change all this and make the vice-presidency an office for which prominent party men would compete, it has been sug gested that the vice-president be relieved of his rather un important duties as presiding of ficer of the Senate and be placed squarely in the executive branch as an acknowledged assistant President. Then-he would be in close daily touch with White House affairs and well prepared to step into the President's place if need arose. Two former vice-presidents re cently have had their say on other means of getting first-class men into the office. Henry Wal lace urged a campaign to make the public, and in turn conven tion delegates, better aware of the importance of the vice-presidency and of the need to apply other standards than a balancing" of the ticket when making the vice-presidential nomination. Al ben Barkley favored nomination. of both President and vice-president by direct, . nation-wide pri mary. MR. INSURANCE FRED BRENNAN "MEDFORD INSURANCE AGEN CY'S HAIL ADJUSTERS ARE EX PERIENCED MEN. 1 WAS HAP PY WITH THE LOSS PAYMENT." A typical comment. It costs r.o more to carry hail insurance for the full season. Call ui now and name the date. CALL MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940 or Write Ashland Mortuary 4th and G Sts. Ashland m T
