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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Zverybodv in Soutriern Oregon Reads "The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 onornT U7 RTTTTT. Eriitor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR, Managing Editor IARL H. ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STABCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act 01 Marcn 3. iaa SUBSCRD?TION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12 .00 Daily and Sunday Six month 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three roos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $350. By Carrier In Advance Mediord, Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes-. Daily and Sunday One year $15 0? Daily and Sunday One month lio Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CISCULAliua WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Lo Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassocS-ation U O pmumfl.'.H.'.i m 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 April 19. 1946 (It was Friday) Mrs. Hazel Robbins of Cen tral Point was victim yesterday of a pair of women bunco artists who stopped her on route 1 and persuaded her to buy one of several fur coats they had in their possession. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A number of the Older Girls stood in line yesterday and snared a pair of nylons. All felt as proud as the first time they became a grand mother. 20 YEARS AGO April 19. 1936 (It was Sunday) Earl Fehl, former judge of Jackson county, declines parole from the state prison under the condition that he remain away from Jackson county during the term of his parole. Mrs. Claude M.' Hurd has been appointed Jackson county chair man for the establishment of a Medford branch of Pro-America, Republican women s organiza tion. SO YEARS AGO April 19. 1926 (It was Monday) Spanish War Veterans' hold dinner meeting at St. Mark's Episcopal guild hall. From Local and Personal col umn: A small flue fire sum moned the fire department to 1017 West Main st. Saturday night at 10:50 o'clock. No chem icals or water were used. 40 YEARS AGO April 19. 1916 (It was Wednesday) George W. Fry of the Upper Butte creek country, pioneer of Jackson county and a voter here for 44 years, is disfranchised by County CJork George A. Gard ner. From Local and Personal col umn: Preparation is completed for survey of the Crater Lake park highway. Whai's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Which of these states have Democratic governors: New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Michigan, Maine? 2. Cancer almost never at tacks the heart; right or wrong? 3. Four years of education to be a dentist cost, on the aver age, about 54,000, $8,000, $12, 000 or $16,000. 4. The March from Atlanta to the Sea in the Civil War was made by Gen. Grant, Lee, Stone wall Jackson, Sherman or Sher idan? 5. The first attack of multiple sclerosis usually hits young, middle-aged or elderly men and women? 6. Ex-President Hoover's son and namesake is a high official in U.N., the State .Department, the Defense Department, an oil company, or Standford Univer sity? 7. The letters UX under a name in a legal document de note a minor, wife, illiterate, mental incompetent, or alien? The answers: 1 All five of them. 2. Right. 3. About $12,000 says American Dental Associa tion. 4. Sherman. 5. Usually young 6 Slate Dep'L 7. Wife. j v MAIL TRIBUNE Principle Versus Party One of Medford's most prominent Democrats informed the writer the other day he had voted for General Eisenhower in 1952. We know of at least ONE Republican who voted for Adlai Stevenson. Neither of these gentlemen felt it necessary to apologize for such action. Why should they? It is reasonable to assume they marked their ballot for the man they BELIEVED best qualified for the high of fice at THAT particular time. That is the privilege of every American. Moreover millions of perfectly law-abiding and respectable citizens do the same thing switch par ties at every presidential election, and have , for years. The 100 vote-'er-straight partisans repre sent a minority in both major parties, and it is a good thing for the country that they do. It is the difference between blind and intelligent voting. MEVERTHELESS, because Senator Wayne Morse 1 had the temerity to do the same thing leave the GOP and join the Democratic party we are inform ed that in spite of his liberal statesman-like record in the Upper House for nearly 12 years he should be re tired to private life and some 100 Republican who can always be depended upon to vote, as the party leaders dictate, should be put in his place. "llfE GRANT that "Ike's" coat tails are broad and capacious but we are not so sure this appeal to 100 party regularity is going to get very far with the voters of Oregon in the November election. They at least most of them resent party dicta tion and will want to know something more about the Morse record than his record for purely partisan con formity. How did he stand on public power versus private power for example? How did he stand regarding na tional conservation? How about the tidelands oil give-away Was he, m concerned, right or wrong? upheld or repudiated? That oi the ultimate decision. The fact that our s e n GOP will be enough for the course. Jtsut we seriously doubt if it will satisfy the voters of either party as a whole. They will think for themselves and weigh the abil- ties and records of the two carefully, and their final decision will be based upon that appraisal, not upon the party label, or how long mat laoei nas oeen worn by No Agreement The Rosebursr News Review has p-one rnmnlptelv overboard for Secretary the man to beat Wayne Morse and spend 6 years in me u. senate. The Salem Statesman, Republican, but less nartisan. is as strnno-lv prnnnncoH that Mr. McKay is NOT the uie jod, dul iormer state Senator Hitchcock IS. inis brings into sharp relief the fact the Republi cans are far from united on the senatorial rrimo idee, aim me struggle ior ociitiuui piuuiiaes iv ue ciose ana nara fought if not a bitter one. In spite of the administration's endorsement of the ex-member of the Eisenhower cabinet, the wise uvys nereaDouts as ot today are betting on Hitch COCK, WELL, IF THE decision spective arguments me statesman, lur. McKay would be left at the three quarters post, calling for an amhul anna For the Statesman gives definite and convincing icasuns wuy ex-iaovernor ivj.cK.ay would be far more vulnerable to Senator Morse's sure-fire attack than his less-known, but far better-likeH nnnnnonf f - Ihe Roseburp; Review, a j its plea for McKay almost i.ccua aim sympatny centered upon tne trumped-up charge that our ex-Governor has been the victim of a smear campaign. The opposition even darerl nrrmv1inor - tlia T?o view, to call Mr. McKay, AE WISH the Review party, as well as the We have followed the ior Department and via the closely as conditions have heard any of his critics and there are many call him a "rascal" or any other names reflecting upon his honesty or his personal character. They have criticized his don't dislike HIM they do dislike THEM. .. A LONG WITH these critics and practically all indi viduals and organizations devoted to national conservation, public power ests of the people and particularly the consumers, the former Secretary of the Interior has been under fire. a large part of his time in been no name-calling and has been brought against has not been supported by Moreover, as we understand it, Secretary McKay if nominated intends not only to stand on that record but defend it. In fact, he is Well, that is okay. There, then, the issue is joined. Those who like that record will vote for Mr. Mc Kay to spend six more years as a. representative of Oregon m Washington; don't WON'T. .That's about all there is Thursday. April 19. 1958 the opinion of the voter Should such a record be promises to be the basis i o r Senator deserted the "Old Guard" partisans of rival candidates verv either candidate. R. W. R on McKay of the Interior MKW as more influential, inst as man best qualified to do v v. k14111Ul y tne honor of opposing Ore were to rest unnn the re of the " News-Review and -vu. w wliVilW nn the nHior Vow1 ko. aauxau, uacca entirely on an appeal for one of Oregon's foremost would name the guilty time and place of utterance McKay course in the Inter Congressional Record as permitted, and have never policies, that's all. They promotion, and the inter Washington. But there has no smearing. No charge him to our knowledge, that facts and the record. ' said to be proud of it. those who dont and we to it. R. W. R. B. & K May Clear Up Of Debunking Josef Stalin By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The visit of "Mr. B . and Mr. K." to Britain may help to clear up the mystery which still sur- r n n n H s the Kremlin's de ls u n k i n g of Josef Stalin. It has .been reported from London that Prime Minister Anthony Eden himself in tends to ask Charles McCann his visitors frankly what is really behind it. Whether Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Communist party leader Nikita S. Khrushchev will tell him, if he does ask, is questionable. . But their public statements, their general attitude and the comments of the Moscow Radio and the Communist party news paper Fravda may give some clues. Many reasons have been sug gested for the demotion of Stalin from the Communist sainthood which he had shared with Lenin and Karl Marx. It has been asserted that the debunking was aimed at Krush chev. In his job of first secretary of the Communist party, Khrush chev has control of the political machine which Stalin used to make himself dictator, For some months, it seemed apparent that Khrushchev Communications . Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a Den name or initial for publication is permis lible The Mail 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 ALL of It? To the Editor: I am certain that I speak for the interested public when I advocate that leg islation, especially controversial legislation, ought to be repro duced in its entirety and ver batim by every newspaper. John Henselman, 35 South Berkeley Way, Medford, Ore. Keep County Clean To the Editor: On your edi torial page a few days .ago, Frank Jenkins was telling of Eugene's efforts to clean up the McKenzie river area, and quot ed: "The empty beer can "Much depresses "Us, who love "Our wildernesses." The Portland man who start ed the "litterbug" campaign was the subject of an article in a national magazine some months ago. Why couldn't Jackson coun ty citizens do such a good job of cleaning up highways, roads, waysides and vacant-lot "eye sores that we would receive national recognition? We have so many outstanding organizations that if just half of them would spearhead such a program, it would be assured of overwhelming success. We could put more and great ter emphasis in the schools on individual responsibility to keep the county clean, perhaps offer ing prizes for essays and proj ects. April is a traditional "clean up" month, and right now is the time to start a county-wide clean-up campaign. The Butte Falls schools have had a project of keeping their highways clean. One of the Prospect grades has undertaken the Mill Creek falls trail cleanup. If every school, club and organization would take on just one such project, the roadsides and other areas could be cleared in a week's time. As each area was cleaned, the newspaper could record which group was responsible. Minnesota has a fine of $50 for throwing so much as an empty cigarette package on the highway, and it stays wonder fully clean. Why don't we raise the fine for roadside garbage dumping to at least $100 with violations to be publicized? Would it be possible to have the county designate a few free garbage dumps for those who cannot afford or get to the municipal dumping grounds? One of the biggest . tourist travel seasons in Oregon's his tory is just ahead. We have one of the most beautiful scenic areas in the state but every side-road is covered with rub bish. - From an economic viewpoint, the state highway department would save thousands of doUars if we. would undertake a con tinuous clean-up program in Jackson county. Let's clean up for our own benefit, for our tourist-visitors sake, and perhaps for recogni tion as the "Cleanest County in Oregon!" This committee would be in terested in seeing more letters in this column if there are others who feel, as we do, that we should all "Keep Oregon Green and Keep Jackson County Clean!" Tourist Committee Jackson County Chamber of Commerce Mrs. Bert Pree, Chairman thought he was going to be or already was the head man. This was notable when he and Bulganin appeared together at state functions, both in Moscow and during their tour of South ern Asia. Khrushchev pushed Bulganin aside, sometimes physi cally, to take the spotlight. In recent weeks, Khrushchev has been considerably more re strained. It seems possible that this is because the debunking was intended to chop him down to size. That size would be, of course, one of Russia's 11 leaders in the new "collective leadership" more properly, collective dicta torship. It has been suggested also that the debunking was meant, at least in part, to guard against the emergence of an army dic tatorship. The debunking has greatly in creased, in Russia, the prestige of the army. Especially it has increased the prestige of the No. 1 army man, Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov. At the recent Communist party congress in Moscow Zhu kov was made an alternate mem ber of the Presidium of the party. There are now reports that Zhukov actually, if not official ly, is acting as a full member Matter of Fact by joSePh aisop WHERE WE'RE DRIFTING The United States still counts for something here in Egypt. In deed a messaqe from President Eisenhower to Egyptian Pre mier Gamal Abdel Nasser was probably decisive, dur ing the last anxious week, in preventing a renewal of the Arab Is- joseph Aisop raen war. Tempers ran very high here in Cairo after the Israeli shelling of Gaza. This reporter has never seen any national leader in a grimmer mood than Col. Nasser on the day after the Gaza inci dent occurred. To be sure, the Egyptians genuinely did not want war at any rate at this time, before their armed forces are fuUy ready. Yet a full scale war on Israel might well have been the Egyp tion answer to Gaza, if Col. Nasser and his colleagues had not been so much impressed by the President's strong plea for peace, which was apparently paralleled by another Eisen hower plea to Israeli Prime Min ister David Ben-Gurion. THI .it HIS much having been said, that this was just about the last chance. The next time, if the American policy makers go on as before, the United States will have no standing here in Egypt. There will be no response to any message from the President or anyone else in Washington.. One way or the other, the Middle Eastern fat will be in the fire for fair. Part of the reasons for this somewhat dire forecast are in herent in the new Middle East ern situation that has been emerging in the last six years. And in order to understand this new situation, it is first of all necessary to understand that the factors which are .most talked about in Washington are not really the dominant factors. i ' . rpHE CREATION bf an inde-- pendent Israel and all the bitterness that has ensued have immensely stimulated and even inflamed the new Arab nation alism. The Kremlin's offers of arms and economic aid have im mensely increased the self-con fidence of the new Arab nation alists. In these ways the'. whole process of history has been speeded up in the Middle East. But speeding-up factors are still not dominant factors. The dominant factor is simply this new Arab nationalism which Israel helped to crystallize and the Kremlin is now encouraging. From Casablanca on the Atlantic to Baghdad on the Euphrates, the Arab peoples are in ferment. The ferment centers here in Cairo where Col. Nasser has made himself the pan-Arabian symbol and leader of the na tionalist impulse. ' It is an impulse, basically, to cast off the past and move into the modern world. It does not matter very much whether the past happens to be represented by King Farouk and his Pashas, as it was here in Egypt; or by the frankly colonial rules of the French in North Africa; or by the curious, neo-colonialism that was symbolized by Gen. Sir John Bagot Glubb in Jordan. TT7HATEVER the past may have been, the impulse seems everywhere to be the same to sweep the past into a corner and touch a match to it, and so to begin the hard task of cre ating a new kind of Arab na tions. Despite the Egyptian's deep, almost hysterical suspi cions of any and all Westerners, Mystery of the Presidium. That would mean that he had been made the 12th member of the body of 11 men who run Russia. Popular Leader Zhukov probably is the most popular leader in Russia because of his briUiant war record and his own appealing personality.: It could be that some of the men in the Kremlin," at least, have seen the possibility that Zhukov might become a menace. An editorial which appeared in Pravda on, March 28 was somewhat revealing. Pravda said that there must be leaders with popularity. "The principles of collective leadership ... do not at all deny the role and responsibility of the individual leader for the mat ters entrusted to him," Pravda said. "It is also well known that the Communist party has always upheld the principle of one-man management of industrial enter prises and of one-man leadership in military matters. But Pravda emphasized that the Communist party as a whole was the final authority and that "collective leadership" extended down from the Presidium to the 125 members of the party Cen tral Committee, which elects the Presidium, and local-party or ganizations. j Egypt today is an amazingly in- teresting and exciting place be cause this process of casting off the past and building a new future has gone furthest here, and because the Egyptians so consciously picture themselves as the pace -setters for all Arab lands. In these circumstances, the primary question for the West ern policy makers is not what to do about the Arabs and Israel or the Arabs and the Soviet Union.The primary question is what to do about the new Arab nationalism. Any Middle East ern policy that is not squarely based on a clear, positive answer to the question of what to do about the new Arab nationalism is a cheap fraud and a feeble delusion. HTHUS far, the United States has tried to answer this central question by amiable, empty generalities. The British, meanwhile, have increasingly tended to answer the same ques tion by opposing and attacking the new Arab nationalism when ever they can. The French-rec ord speaks for itself. Every wise Arab leader, most emphatically including Col. Nas ser, understands that it is . not to the ' interest of the Arab people to break with the West, and thus to be left alone with the Soviet Union. But the Arab irritation with the West is now acute. The Soviets are taking astute advantage of - this Arab irritation. And thus the Egyp- tian leaders are reluctantly but increasingly tending towards an all-out anti-Western, pro-Soviet policy. That is the final result to wards which we are now drift ing. That is why, in Cairo to day, one has the strong sense that this really is a last chance. Fortunately the chance is still there to be taken. Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Editorial Comment ENDORSEMENT FOR JUSTICE LUSK While The Statesman's "Po litical Parade" is held free from staff editing, we do not want it to become a vehicle for false or erroneous statements. The Monday contribution in behalf of L. B. Sandblast, who is a candidate for Position No. 5 on the Supreme Court, contains comment which should be cor rected. Sandblast wrote: "For example the average yearly opinion per judge has been up to about 46. The present occupant of Positioh No. 5 aver aged 17 decisions in the past two years." Note the weasel wording "has been up about 46." The record shows in 1954 the average num ber of opinions written per judge 27 in 1955. The Sandblast asper Justice Hall S. Lusk, who is the incumbent of Position No. 5 wrote 25 opinions in 1954 and 27 in 1955 The Sandblast asper sion is thus refuted. No informed person takes ser iously the candidacy of Sand blast, a chronic, unsuccessful candidate for office. Judge Lusk's fame rests not on the number of opinions he has writ ten but on the high quality of his opinions and on his able counsel in interpreting the law in cases where he does not write the court's opinion. Universally respected for his high character, his fairness, his legal acumen Judge Lusk deserves reelection by virtually a unanimous vote. Oregon Statesman, Salem. FREEDOM RECOGNIZED Cairo, Egypt (U.R) The Egyptian cabinet Wednesday night decided to recognize the independence of Tunisia and Morocco recently granted by France and Spain. Today and By Walter THE LONDON TALKS Messrs. Khrushchev and Bul ganin arrived in London Wed nesday. There has been a great c h a nge since their visit was first suggested during the meeting at the summit in Ge neva last July. The question then was whether and how and when Walter Lippmann diplomacy might resolve the series of dead locked issues from Germany through Formosa to Korea. The understanding that came out of Geneva was that even though the great nuclear powers could not agree on a German settle ment, a . Chinese settlement, a Korean settlement, they would not go to war about them. What was not foreseen then, and is new in the situation to day, is that Soviet Union now holds the keys to peace and war in the Middle East. Peace can be maintained if the Soviet Un ion will act to maintain it. War is probable if the Soviet Union connives at war by refusing to prevent war. MOBODY knew last July' that ' this would be the main busi ness to be discussed when Bul ganin and Khrushchev came to London. It now over-shadows every other subject. The world is . living, and for an indefinite time to come it can go on living, with its unsettled . issues. They are disagreeable, they present danger for the future. But they are not in crisis. This is not true of the Middle East. There, unless the Soviet Union acts positively to prevent war, as is her duty under the charter of the United Nations, there is a near prospect of an explosion that would rock the world. Because the situation in the Middle East is so critical, and the responsibility of the Soviet Union is so unmistakably clear, the coming talks in London may well be momentous. They will be in the nature of a show-down on what are Moscow's inten tions, on whether Moscow wants the future of the Middle East to be determined by peaceful nego tiations or by war. fFHESE London talks will be A conducted by Sir Anthony Eden, and the United States is not participating in them direct ly. But the British will be keep ing fully informed, and there is little doubt that on the crucial question of Soviet intentions about war,. Washington and Lon don will reach a common esti mate. From this common esti mate there is almost certain to follow a common judgment on the undecided . question of policy. The great undecided question of policy is whether on the basis of the prevention of an Arab- Israeli war, there are to be broader negotiations about the Middle East. The alternative is for London, Paris and Washing ton to take their own measures, despite the CairojMoscow axis, to maintain the status quo. This is a disagreeable and dangerous alternative. But the choice be tween the two .alternatives does not depend on what we would like but on what we learn from Messrs. Khrushchev and Bul ganin when the questions are put to them. TURING the past months we " have seen a great expansion of Soviet influence and a mount ing challenge to the West in the field of unwarlike competition. But the Soviet penetration of the Middle East is a radically different kind of thing from the Soviet campaign in South Asia. The Middle East is different be cause there the Soviet diplomacy has as its spearhead the military r Tomorrow Lippmann aggressiveness of Egypt's Col. Nasser. What is going on in Egypt, in saucu-AraDia, in ayria ana now apparently in the Sudan, is no co-existence and peaceable competition. It is the use of the threat of war as the instrument of Soviet policy. The policy is aimed not at a negotiated settle ment, taking account of Soviet interests, but at the destruction of the British position, which would carry with it the destruc tion of the American position. The threat of war, which the Soviet Union alone can remove, is bound to be the dominant topic in the London talks. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS i) San Francisco, on route east: Off the Daylight at the Oakland terminal which recalls a crack in the lounge car a few hours back: '.'What are the two largest animals in California?" Answer: "The Oakland mole and the Los Angeles bull." That reminded somebody of another one along the same line: "What is the biggest vegetable in Illinois? Answer: "The beet. know, because I saw five policemen asleep on one beat the other night in Chicago." It beats the dickens what people will do to pass away the time, doesn't it? SITTING next to me on the ferrv that carries rail pas sengers across the bay is . a slightly built, pleasantly spoken gentleman who is all eyes for the unfailingly fascinating scene that unfolds as one crosses San Francisco bay at night. As the nose of the ferryboat swung around and brought into full view the glittering necklace of lights that decks the throat of tne bay between Oakland and San Francisco, he turned to me and said: "I suppose that's the bridge I've been hearing about so long." I said to him: "Yes, it is,w and added: "It must be a long time since you iwere here." "It is a long time," he re plied. "I was here last in 1912. That was only six years after the big earthquake and the fire, and the city was still pretty bad ly shattered. But 44 years is a long time, and I suppose they must have things pretty well fixed up by now. This bridge is proof enough that they didn't lose their courage when their city was destroyed." TU'O, THEY didn't lose theif courage. Out of the ashes and the rubble that were all that was left when the shaking earth and the roaring flames had done their work, they went ahead and built an even lovelier city than the one that was wreck ed in those awful hours just a half century ago. People are funny that way. There are the villages on the slopes of Italy's great volcanoes. For generations, the people who inhabit them live their peaceful, happy lives while the mountain slumbers. Than, on some awful day, the demon inside the moun tain awakens, and yawns, and stretches and the earth cracks and the rivers of fiery lava pour forth and creep down the slopes. When they have done their terrible work, EVERYTHING is gone. But do the people lose their courage? They DON'T. They turn in and replace what was ' ' taken away, from them. PREMIUMS STOLEN Davenport, la. CU.R) C. H. Hultgren, a cereal salesman, re ported to police Wednesday that thieves broke into his garage, cut open seven boxes of oatmeal and stole the drinking glass premiums inside. PHONE 2-8030 DAY OR NIGHT CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass - - FUNERAL DIRECTORS
