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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
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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
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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.
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