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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Tax Proposal Seen As)
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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.
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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.
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