Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 16, 1956, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextrOTTR MTOTORD (OREGOrT) UNK "Zverybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 97-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. BUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHXPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STABCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newapaper Entered u second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act ot March 3, 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy ICc Dally and Sunday One year $12.00 Dally and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.30 Sunday Only One year (3.50. By Carrier In Advance Meuford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All lerms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City ol Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: 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 lASSOCfATLQN 1 U O C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO AprU 16, 1946 (It was Tuesday Col. John W. Horsley announ ces that Camp "White ordered to return to inactive list April 30. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The warm sunshine of the past two days was widely welcomed. In an other month the winter's chill will be out of everything but the social cold shoulder. 20 YEARS AGO AprU 16, 1936 (It was Thursday) H. Wayne Standard, grand master of grand lodge of Masons, to speak at convention of south ern Oregon and northern Cali fornia Masons here. From Side Glances by Trib une Reporters: Gene Thorndike, pres. of the 1st nat'l., advising his three secretaries, Barbara Wahl, Edith Jacobs and Kather ine Suter, that if they insisted on getting vaccinated to at least have it done in the place that was comfortable. ' 30 YEARS AGO April 16, 1926 (It was Friday) Sheriff Ralph Jennings of Jacksonville elected vice presi dent of newly organized South ern Oregon Law Enforcement officers. From Local and Personal col umn: The splendid exhibition of etchings and block prints now being shown at 407 East Main street, is attracting a great many people. 40 YEARS AGO April 16, 1916 (It was Sunday) Medford Ministerial associa tion completing plans for social service exposition and Palestine pageant at the Natatorium April 29. From Local and Personal col umn: Fishermen who have whip ped the streams hereabouts a little during the past week re port mdiiferent success. The wa ter is too muddy in some of the streams. WhaS's ha Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. If a President-elect dies be fore the electoral votes are cast, his electors would have to choose the Vice President-elect as Pres ident, or could vote for anybody they wanted? 2. The Gaza Strip is along the northeastern, north western, southwestern o r southeastern frontier of Israel? 3. Dave Beck heads a powerful union: Steel workers, men's clothing workers, teamsters, car penters, or electrical workers? 4. A U.S. soldier in Germany breaking the law while off duty is usually tried in first instance by a German court, U.S. civil court or U.S. military court? 5. The Masters Golf tourna ment is held every year at Los Angeles, Augusta (Ga.), Dallas, Chicago or Miami Beach? 6. Geneva is the capital of Switzerland; right or wrong? 7. A holographic will is a type written, printed, mimeographed, or hand-written one? The Answers: 1. Could vole for anybody ihey wanted. 2. Southwestern. 3. Teamsters. 4. German court. 5. Augusta. 6. Wrong (it's Berne). 7. Hand written. ' mail tribune Parking: How? Just how important is this off-street parking we keep hearing about? Some cities think it's pretty important; sufficient ly so to issue hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bonds to build parking lots. Why? Well, the idea is that if shoppers, and those going to the doctor or dentist, can't readily find a parking place, they will start patronizing the growing number of shopping and professional centers in out lying areas. If enough of them do this, downtown shopping areas will fall off in business. FANTASTIC? Not at all. It's happening all over the country. The downtown merchants m Mediord are con cerned about it, and their landlords are becoming in creasingly worried, too. For if a merchant sees the handwriting on the wall and rnoves to an outlying area', who's going to rent the buildings? Residents of the city who are not retailers nor landlords nor professional people have a stake in the problem not only because of the irritation of look ing for a non-existent parking place, but also because, if the downtown area becomes "blighted," its tax val uation will decrease, and residential property will have to pick up the added tax check. THIS, in capsule form, is what is causing the worry. ing for off-street parking has been proposed. The merchants would pay through an increased and ad justed business license fee; landowners would pay through a tax imposed by a specially-created assess ment district; the shopper would pay through his use of, and payment for, metered parking space as he does now. This plan, presented to the city council early this year after about four years of study, has not been put into effect. There are many technicalities involved such as charter amendments, readjustment of license fees, and so on. And it has been difficult to persuade many people into a feeling of urgency particularly when the parking problem is acute only part of the time. . " . DUT IF the number of automobiles keeps increasing at the present rate (and there is reason to believe that it will go up even faster than the present rate), there's going to be a real traffic and parking foul-up downtown before many more years pass. This is what a merchants committee had m mind when it met with city officials last week to see what can be done now. It was what they had in to send a small group to meet with the city budget committee May 2, to see if some money even a "tok en" amount could be allocated to get an off-street parking program rolling this year. It was pointed out by city officers that this would be a tough thing to do ; that the preliminary budget is a "tight" one, and that without added sources of in come, the budgeters likely would not feel they could justify allocating any funds for a new purpose. A GAINST this, it wras argued that the budgeting procedure is simply a process of assigning prior ities for the- spending of available funds. That, of course, is true, in a manner of speaking. What priority should be assigned to parking? Should it come before police and fire protection? Should the parking funds come before expendi tures on the airport, which has finally become a rev enue producer, but would lose that advantage if the city were niggardly with its maintenance and opera tion funds? Should it come before building and inspection costs for a fast-growing community, leaving us with out that necessary protection against inadequate building? Should it come before modest and necessary city hall costs, which are designed to improve service to the taxpayers? Should it come before the costs of street engineer ing, paving, lighting, extension and repair? Should it come before sewers and sewage treat ment? TT IS ARGUED again that parking meter revenue -- should be dedicated for parking purposes speci fically for off-street parking. But when the city first started earning meter revenue, it was dedicated to street, traffic and parking problems, and always has been used for that purpose. If this income is used, it will leave a shortage to be made up from some other source of revenue. It's easy to say "The city should start, right now, to pay for future off-street parking." It's a lot harder for responsible government to say where the money to do it-is going to come from. A LL THIS is entirely aside from the perfectly reas onable question as to whether providing parking is a legitimate function of a city. We happen to believe that it is, and so do many others. But a number of individuals wonder why private enterprise can!t handle the problem, as, in fact, it has in some cities. TN SHORT, there are no cut-and-dried, black-and-white solutions to this problem. It is an urgent one, and is becoming more and more pressing each year. But it is NOT going to be solved by one group in sisting that its solution is the ONLY one, nor by re fusals to look at the problems faced by the city as a whole. If it is to be solved, it will only be by a persistent, reasonable, thoughtful and cooperative program of planning and discussion with all groups involved, all of which are dedicated to improving the city. There are solutions. Let's go after them. E. A. Monday, April 18, 1958 mind when they decided Strong Pressure Expected For U.S. To Join Baghdad By CHARLES W. McCANN United Presi Correspondent The United States is being put on the" spot today at a meeting of the five Middle East Treaty Organization members in Teh ran, Iran. T-'-i'- " S First, it will be put under strongpressure to reverse its present stand and agree to join M.E.T.O the so-called Baghdad Pact Second, it will be urged Charles McCann i increase IIS military aid to the Asian mem bers of the pact immediately. The members of the pact are Great Britain, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan. Ever since it was set up for mally last year, the pact has been largely a paper defense agreement. li was weakened materially when Great Britain tried to get Jordan to join it and failed. The result of the attempt was to cause a big Jordanian cabinet crisis and get Gen. John Bagot Glub thrown out as commander of Jordan's Arab Legion. The United States played an important part in the organiza tion of the pact. But it did not join. It is represented at M.E. T.O. meetings by observers. Pleas To President Now the M.E.T.O. members say the only way to make their pact an effective instrument against Communist aggression is for the United States to join it outright. Both Britain and Iraq have appealed to President Eisenhow er and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to enter the pact. This plea will be repeated at the five-day Tehran meeting which opens today, and all five pact members undoubtedly will join in it. Pakistan intends also to make a bid for a big increase in Amer ican military aid. It will have the full support of Turkey, Iran and Iraq. There is no indication that President Eisenhower and Dulles are ready to alter their decision not to join the treaty. What will happen as regards the plea for arms aid remains to be seen. Dulles has recognized the im portance of the Tehran meeting sending Loy W. Henderson, an ace career diplomat, to it at the head of a strong delegation of observers. Henderson Experienced Sixty-two, suave, the picture of a diplomatist, Henderson has been in the foreign service since 1922. Now deputy under secre tary of state, he has had wide experience in the Middle East. He has served as ambassador to Communications Letters to the Editor must bear Che name and address of the writer dlthough under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is oermis jible The Mai Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Causes of War To the Editor: How can you make such remarks and stay out of jail? Not since the days of Woodrow Wilson have I read an editorial that was so common sensed as "Disarmament Talk Futile" in Mail Tribune April 13. It is pretty hard to deal with war without dealing with condi tions that cause war. While he was president of the United States and during World War I, Woodrow Wilson said: "All wars are for economic reasons. They are fomented and kept going for the profit of a few big industrial ists and a handful of dominant men." Francis Neilson, a former member of the British Parlia ment said: "Wars are a result of 'secret diplomacy'." And an other great American had this to say. While he was engaged in the 1940 presidential cam paign, Franklin D. Roosevelt was accused of being a war monger. He said: "We do not need to have war. If the profit was taken out of war it would cease to be." It would not be right to leave out the witticism of Harold L. Ickes while he was Secretary of the Interior in the Roosevelt cab inet. He said: "The people have nothing to do with running the affairs of this country, they just think that they do. America is completely controlled by 'sixty families'." Then we have a former vice president and secretary of com merce in the Roosevelt and Tru man cabinet who said: "Make no mistake folks. If war ever, flares up in the Middle East, it will be for the protection of the "British oil interests'." The boy that said that was Henry A. Wal lace. Harry Truman fired him for speaking off the cuff. May be oil. Perhaps Russian pres sure. Could be "sixty families." Might be profit. Then there is secret diplomacy and a handful of dominant men. Help us out. We are confused. Earl Allen, ' 176 South Stage rd., Medford, Ore. -i - 1. ...KV.,-J Iran, among other assignments. That may mean a lot in Tehran. Iran entered the Baghdad Pact after abandoning its years-long policy of neutrality as between West and East. But it is seeking a big in crease in the oil export allot ment made to It under the agreement which reopened its nationalized oil fields after the long, bitter Anglo-Iranian oil dispute. Jt has just put in a for mal claim on Britain to. posses isenhower Could efo Farm BUS an till Washington (CQ) Presi - dent Eisenhower could veto the farm bill and still have a chance to get his personal nine-point farm program enacted. Only one of the President's farm points is included in the bill on his desk; and that a soil bank may be started anyhow by the Secretary of Agriculture, according to competent legal opinion. Other points in his program either have been enacted prev iously or are not part of the bill the President now must decide to sign or veto. Agriculture Sec retary Ezra Taft Benson has termed the bill "unacceptable." In addition, a veto would con tinue the system of flexible farm price supports enacted in 1954, the keystone of the Eisenhower-Benson farm program. Mostly Outside Bill Congressional Quarterly found the President's farm program was outside the bill approved by In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Well, the die is cast. With government warehouses stuffed with agricultural sur pluses that have accumulated as a result of guaranteed high par ity prices, the congress of the United States last week passed a new farm bill that provides STILL HIGHER guaranteed prices. The result of present high support prices has been huge surpluses that hang like a dark thundercloud over the markets of the future. If the new bill be comes a law, with its still high er support prices, its result must be STILL GREATER surpluses to hang as a STILL ' DARKER thundercloud over the markets of the future. QUESTION: How could such a situa tion come about in our country? The answer: This is an election year and it is widely believed among prac tical politicians that in this elec tion year, when a change of ad ministration is at stake, it may be possible by means of the promise of still higher guaran teed prices to buy enough farm votes in the critical big farm states to bring about the change. I hate to have to say it, but that-is about it. TN GENERAL, this is a Demo cratic strategy. But':, And this is shocking IT IS MADE POSSIBLE BY WEAK-KNEED REPUBLICANS. THE HIGH support farm bill nassprl hv' this linuco Kir on overwhelming vote. Nothing, ap parently, could have stopped it there. It was in the senate that the dirty work was done by the shaky Republicans. The senate approved the bill, 50 to 35, with 15 REPUBLICANS voting in favor .of the Democratic-backed legislation. If these Republicans had stood fast behind their President and his courageous secretary of ag riculture, the vote-catching farm bill wolud have failed to pass in the senate. Without the approval of the senate, it could not have become a law. OREGON'S senators, Morse and Neuberger, voted for the bill. That, of course, was to have been expected. Both are Demo crats, although Morse is a rath er recent Democrat. California's Knowland and Kuchel stood fast behind the President and Secretary Benson. That took some courage, for cot ton is a big crop in the San Joa quin and Imperial valleys and DR. CORNELL A. SABO Dentist Announces the Removal of His Office v tO 810 West Main Street Medford, Oregon Office Hours Telephone By Appointment - 3-3934. Pact sion of the British-protected Is land of Bahrein in the Persian Gulf, an island which practically floats on oil. Also, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi has accepted an invita tion to visit Moscow starting about June 1. Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Com munist Party Leader Nikita S. Khrushchev are sure to give him the full treatment in an attempt to weaken his ties with the West. That is something else for the United States to worry about. 1 Congress, except the soil bank. This was the legislative status of the other eight points as of April 13: Stepped-up surplus disposal No action. Strengthened commodity pro grams Nine separate provis ions: two enacted (school milk program extension, easing acre age restrictions for durum wheat growers); one passed by both chambers and in conference (Su gar Act extension); two in the farm bill passed by the Senate, but deleted in conference (ex emption from wheat marketing quotas where entire production is used on the farm, and a re quirement that parity prices for cotton be computed on the aver age ouality of the crop); one de leted by a Senate amendment (expansion of the non-commercial wheat area); three unacted upon (quantity allotments to re place acreage allotments for cot ton, authority to sell low-grade government wheat for feed, elimination of a minimum na tional acreage allotment for pea nuts). Dollar Limit Dollar limit on price support loans to individual farmers Approved by the Senate, but de leted by the conference commit tee. Rural development program for low-income farmers No ac tion. Great Plains program No ac tion. Increased funds for research No action Reorganization of the Farm Credit Administration No ac tion. Exemption of farmers from the federal tax on gasoline used on the farm Signed into law, Spearheading the argument that Benson could set up a soil bank right now without further Congressional approval is Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah). He filed a statement Jan. 24 with the Senate Agriculture and For estry committee prepared by the American Law Division of the Library of Congress Legislative Reference service. Watkins said the two "compe tent legal opinions" he got from the Service convinced him Ben son could go ahead with a soil bank under authority granted in the Soil Conservation and Do mestic Allotment Act of 1936 and the Commodity Credit Corp. Charter Act of 1948. ' So a veto along with a prom ise to salvage what little he likes in the farm bill by pressing for separate legislation, may well boost President Eisenhower's chances with farmers instead of makmg political hay for the Democrats. cotton is one of the highly pro tected crops (it is also one of the crops in HEAVY surplus.) Arizona's senators split on party lines. Hayden, a Demo crat, voted for the bill. Senator Goldwater, a Republican, voted against it. Cotton is a highly im portant crop in Arizona. Also, in Arizona, precious water is being used to grow cotton TO BE STASHED AWAY IN GOVERN MENT WAREHOUSES. Idaho's Republican senators, Dworshak and Welker, jumped the reservation and voted with the Democrats in spite of the fact that in Idaho potatoes are a big crop and potatoes have been hurt by the competition of po tato crops grown on land taken out of production of the basic protected crops. THE NEXT question is what will the President do with the bill. That is part of the strat egy. If he vetoes it, he will be attacked as the foe of the farm er. If he signs it, it will be charg ed that he did so, against his convictions for political reasons. rogram for Tax Proposal Seen As) One of Headline News Items Coming Up Soon United Press correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headines. Unveiling Washington insiders report that T. Coleman Andrews, for mer Commissioner of Internal Revenue, may unveil a sensa tional new federal tax plan soon in a national magazine. His signed article is said to , be on the market now. Bidding for it is reported to be heavy. In speeches since he resigned Oct. 31, Andrews has lambasted the present income law as confisca tory, discriminatory, unfair and impossible to administer effic iently. He- hasn't given an' ink ling of his own plan. But it may call for a national sales tax. Crisis Bound France is heading toward a new cabinet crisis. The split be tween Premier Guy Mollet and Pierre Mendes-France, his co- leader in a shaky coalition, is widening. Mendes-France holds that Mollet's new Algerian peace program will not satisfy the na tionalists. Sources close to Mendes-France say he has given Mol let four weeks to revise his policy, barring an unexpected radical change for the better in Algeria. Bomb Blast For Vets Expect the long-awaited re port of President Eisenhower's commission on veterans to come as A-Bomb blast. It is to be made public April 23. Washington looks for these major recommen dations: 1. A go-slow on non- service - connected pensions, which the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars want liberalized by billions of dollars. 2. No new major bene fits, such as free schooling or housing loans, for vets in current peace-time service. 3. No exten sion of expiring GI loan and education benefits for vets of World War II. Kremlin Won't Like This Diplomats in Rome report that President Tito of Yugo slavia has decided to revise his long-dreamed plan of a Balkan federation. It would include Jugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria and Romania. Tito, of course would be head man. The Krem- Business Students Conclude Meeting Corvallis (U.R) Some 300 hish school business students wound up their two-day meeting on the Oregon State College campus Saturday, highlighted by the election of officers lor the next year. Rosalie Zweidel. Tillamook, was named as president of the state organization at the closing meeting. Other officers chosen included: Phil Hensell. Grants Pass, vice president; Lou Ann Schlies, Molalla, secretary; Joan Edwards, Reedsport, treasurer, and Doug Fmney, Reedsport, re norter. Delores Darrell, Willamette hieh of Eugene, and Dick Mc- Clure, Grants Pass, were named as the outstanding boy and girl high school business students in the states. Joe Burns Winner in State Speech Contest Joe Burns, Medford High school sophomore, placed first in the after dinner speaking division of the state speech con test held Friday and Saturday on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene. Also participating in the con test for high school students was Greg Milnes, Medford High jun ior. DeVere Taylor, speech in structor, acompanied the stud ents to the contest. Since 1908 PERL Mortuary o Phone 2-6675 FINER ' FUNERAL SERVICES In every price range lin's hold on Albania, Bulgaria and Romania would be corre spondingly weakened. Over To You, Adenauer Look for the United States Air Force to begin pulling back the last of its interceptor planet from advanced fighter - bases near the Czechoslovakia border. The bases will be turned over to West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's fledgling air forca as soon as it reaches sufficient training strength. Nasser's MIG15's Middle Eastern observers are wondering why Egyptian Presi dent Gamal Abdel Nasser hasn't started to use his new Russian MIG15 jet fighters. Some believe he is holding back in order not to inflame the Palestine situa tion any further. Others that his fliers are not yet familiar enough with the MIGs. . Young Republicans To Remain Neutral Eugene (U.R) A -contemplated battle over endorsement of pri mary candidates failed to ma terialize here Saturday as the Young Republican Federation voted overwhelmingly to remain, neutral in primary election con tests. GOP leaders and Young Re publican spokesmen in the state had spent several weeks of anx iety over the possibility that the meeting would result in partisan stands. In major resolutions favored by the YR Federation was one calling for repeal of the 45 per cent surtax on incomes and en actment of a sales tax. The sales tax proposal asked for exclusion of food and medicine and re moval of income tax for any one with an income of less than, $5000. Labor Columnist iqhls Infection New York (U.R) Labor col umnist Victor Riesel, burned when a thug threw sulphuric acid in his face April 5, fought infection today in the battle to save his eyesight. Riesel, a crusading writer who believed his assailant was seeking vengeance for criticism of racketeering in labor unions, was reported in pain Sunday. All visitors have been barred because of the seriousness of Reisel's condition. 'TRUSTEE' WALKS AWAY "Lakeport, Calif. (U.R) Ed ward G. Leard borrowed a pair of overalls marked ''trustee" Sunday and walked out of Lake County jail. Twins Compared GEO. N. TAYLOR Jacob and Esau were twins, back in early times. Esau was first-born but the birth-right meant little to him In spite of all it promised from God. So he traded it off to Jacob, the other twin, for a mess of pottage. Jacob put. great value on it as giving him benefits from God. In time God changed Jacobs name to Israel and thru him came the Israelites. They are yet to become the world's greatest nation, says the Bible. When God has filled out his roll- call of the saved, this present age ends and Christ returns to take up as World Ruler. May you right now receive Christ Into your heart as Lord and Saviour. This messages sponsored by a Scappoose family. adv. fftf- .Ufa"?