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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medfo Tribune Everybody tn Souuiern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MtDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR.. Managing F.ditor FARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHiPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEW'ETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act ot March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy lOe. Daily and Sunday One year (12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.30 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3 50 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes'. Daily and Sunday On year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month US Carr-er and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Msdford 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. SL Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION 1 O O '.'.H.'.I.H m NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 20. 1946 (It was Saturday) Rollo, the 18-year-old dog owned by Edwin Kubli, Apple gate district stockman, died last Keek from old age. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smude Pot column: Capt. Thom as Culbertson, of the airport is now out of the Army, and no longer called "Captain," but Tommy. 20 YEARS AGO April 20, 1936 (It was Monday) Between 600. and 700 people attend the days of '49 party at Elks temple. - Pears are now being shipped from the valley at the rate of 40 cars per week, Southern Pacific reports. o 30 YEARS AGO April 20, 1926 (It was Tuesday) Fines totalling S250 were paid by 12 traffic violators who pleaded guilty before Judge Taylor. From Local and Personal col umn: After having been closed for repairs for several weeks past, the Jewell cafe on Front st. opens tomorrow under the new management of George Ta kahira, Japanese. 40 YEARS AGO April 20. 1916 (It was Thursday) A first class family row has broken in the ranks of the "reunited'' Grand Old Party. From Local and Personal col umn: The Main st. crossing of the Southern Pacific railroad, torn up again this week, is nearly repaired again. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7T Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Reperl s 1. Margaret Truman gets mar- ried in New York City, Inde- j por.dence, Mo., Washington, D.C., Kansas City, Mo., or North Carolina? 2. The 43 states together spend about as much during the year as the federal Government, or much more, or much less? o. ine tsriusn xiouse ot wm-i mons contains'a number of Com munist members, only a few or none? 4. Secretary of Treasury Hum phrey used to head the M. A,. Hanna Co. of Cleveland: textiles concern, metals producer, Chev rolet distributor, or insurance firm? 5. State with highest percent age of its votes for Eisenhower in 1952 was Maine, Vermont, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Kan sas or Texas? 6. New special . Senate com mittee to probe lobbying is head ed by Sen. George (D-Ga.), Kef auver (D-Tenn.), Bridges (R N.H.), McClellan (D-Ark.) or Mc Carthy (R-Wis.)? 7. Asa Yoelson was the real name of which screen star? The Answers: I. Independ ence. 2. Much less. 3. Nont. 4. Metals producer. 5. Vermont. 6. McClellan. 7. Al Jolion. MAIL TRIBUNE That Freeway Route The time is not far off when a decision will have to be made on what route the proposed new freeway will take through or around Medford. The state high way department plans to hold hearings here next month on two alternate routes it has proposed. No route can be perfect, and there will be a marked divergence of opinion on which one is the best or, rather, the least bad. - A MAP PUBLISHED in this paper yesterday shows the routes proposed by the highway commis sion. Presumably they have given sufficient study to the matter to know what they're talking about, al though, as noted, there are serious objections to them both. The commission has eliminated from considera tion two earlier proposals, for reasons of its own. One was along the west side of the valley; the other was along Bear creek, either on an elevated viaduct, or lowered into the channel bed proper as proposed and advocated by E. M. Tucker, who still thinks it's a good idea. Apparently the commission didn't consider a fifth proposal, one we rather liked, incidentally which was to elevate it above the SP tracks through down town Medford. We were informed that the cost of such a plan would be prohibitive. TTHE HEARINGS on the routes will serve as a use- f ul forum of public opinion with regard to the routes. But discussion in advance of those meetings might serve to clarify our thinking on the alterna tives. Letters on the subject are invited. We might suggest that those interested also make what highway men call "windshield surveys" of the routes under discussion. The fact that the highway department has nar rowed its consideration down to two routes does not necessarily mean that all others are automatically out the window. But it apparently does mean that, un less some conclusive reasons against them, or for other routes, are brought forward, the commission will choose between the two pictured yesterday. CACH WOULD START at Seven Oaks, where the new highway joins the old a mile or two north of Central Point. Each would follow the same route in to north Medford and by an over-pass past the Crater Lake highway. - ; It is at this point they would go different ways. The so-called Hillcrest line would swing to the east and around the city, to an interchange at approxi mately the junction of Bamett road and the Phoenix road, then south along the east side of the valley, past Phoenix, to other interchanges at Fern Valley road and North Ashland, and finally to another inter change at Oak st., where the other route also would come out. Both proposals follow a line by-passing Ashland to a Green Springs interchange and one south of Ashland. , The Genessee route would come into Medford from the Crater Lake interchange, down a line just east of Genessee st, swinging slightly east to a South Medford interchange at Barnett rd., and on south, roughly paralleling Bear creek and the present high way. There would be interchanges at Phoenix, Talent and North Ashland. The rest of the route wTould be the same as the Hillcrest line. ' ""OBJECTIONS to either route are fairly obvious. . The Hillcrest line would pass through some of the finest orchard and agricultural land in the val ley, both east of Medford itself, and all the way south to Ashland. With a wide, four-lane right-of-way, this is not an inconsiderable item. It would be several miles from the city if that is, indeed, an objection, and many merchants, particularly those catering to the tourist trade, think it is). It would place the South Medford interchange a considerabe distance from downtown Medford. As to the city route, the principal objections are all related. It would destroy a large segment of resi dential area, where people have, made their homes for many years. In addition, it would make an even larger segment less desirable as residential property than it is now, no matter how attractively it is con structed. For who would live, by choice, near a busy main highway? As for the rest of the route,. it might destroy less agricultural land than the other, but it would still take a big bite out of a fanning valley where good land is already getting to be scarce. QBJECTIONS TO the other proposals seem to be equally compelling and the highway commis sion apparently has found them conclusive. It boils down (as so many decisions of a public na ture do) to a choice of something which will do the least amount of-harm. And, while some people will be unhappy no matter what is decided, a decision must be made. Perhaps the hearing will provide a basis for an in telligent and informed choice. But this much is certain : After the decision is made, the highway finished and the traffic is flow ing, the entire region stands to benefit from it; both economically and in a reduction in traffic accident hazards. And this is true no matter which route is chosen.' E. A. Whew! Its Over Well, the Prince and the Hollywood princess fin ally got married. Can we all get back to work, now? E. A, ----- .. . Jr ..... Fridir. April 20, 1958 Easing of Middle-East Tension Tops List of Week's Good News By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The weeks good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: The Good 1. The explosive Palestine sit uation took a marked turn' for the better. Dag Hammarskjold, secretary general of the United Nations, held a series of talks with Egyptian President-Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser and Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion. The result was an announcement that Egypt and Israel had agreed to a complete cease-fire on their frontier. An outbreak of actual war' had been threatened there. It was a personal triumph for the quiet-working Hammarsk jold, -whom the U. N. had en trusted with a peace mission. But there was no doubt that a personal peace plea which Presi dent Eisenhower had sent to Nasser and Ben-Gurion last week played a part also. 2. Twelve nations including Vital Production Factors Discussed by Roger Babson By ROGER BABSON Babson Park, Mass. In con sidering possible bombing, there are several important factors which must be w e i g hed by both emp 1 oy ers and wage workers. One of the first of these is loca tion. In "addi tion to the quest ion of whether it is Roger W. Babson a good place to live, a location is either favor able or unfavorable depending upon its suitability for the in dustry in which you are engaged. If the commodity to be produced is bulky and heavy, accessa bility, through proximity or am ple transportation, is necessary. A successful steel mill's location is determined primarily by its accessability to the raw mate rial. Transportation by rail and water is highly essential. Market Is Factor Another factor m determining an ideal location for an indus trial plant is a market for the finished product. Heavy prod ucts are therefore excluded from some markets by consideration of "what-the-traffic-will-bear." A carload of silk can be shipped much farther than a carload of steel, since the rate cost per unit would be much less for silk. This would give it a larger market. Therefore, accessability to both the raw product and the market for the finished goods is very important in determining an ideal location for a success ful enterprise. Another factor in plant loca- tion is capital (money). In many industries, thousands of dollars must be invested in order to em ploy one worker. Millions of dol lars must be invested to con struct a steel mill. Were it not for capital, we could not have ample railways and airplanes, or tall office buildings, or bridges to span large rivers. We would still be in the horse-and-buggy stage. Capital is what makes it possible for 63,000,000 workers to be employed at wages hither to undreamed of. The United States is the only nation in which this Utopian condition exists. Importance of Management An ample, congenial labor supply is highly essential for a good industrial plant location. Manufacturers could not do any thing without labor. And labor could not be employed by the millions without a large accumu lation of capital. Capital de pends on labor and labor de pends on capital: what harms one, harms both. If ' you are working in a place where the above factors are generally favorable, the next important factor is management. A man ager's functions are to organize, deputize, supervise, and vitalize the organization. In summary, an industrial plant, to have a good chance of being successful, must enjoy these five factors materials, market, money, men, and man agement. Sometimes I think that management is the most important of all. Furthermore, if you are an employee, remem ber that the success of the man agement depends upon you and the other wageworkers. Possibility of World War II I am not advising any worker to change the place where he is now working for fear of World War III. I forecast that such a war is not coming at once, and may not come for some time until after you are retired and have a good home in the South or in California. But I do ad vise young persons who are just entering industry to avoid cer tain big cities, some of" which are sure to be laid waste in the event of atomic attack. This means that small communities, some .miles distant from big vulnerable industrial cities, should be preferred - by those who have not already set their "roots" elsewhere. . L the United States and Soviet Russia agreed in Washington on a charter for an international atomic energy agency. The agen- cy will coordinate throughout the world plans to bring to real ity President Eisenhower's his toric "Atoms for Peace" propos al. The charter must be approv ed at a conference to be held at U. N. headquarters in New York City in September. But this ap proval was believed certain. 3. The Kremlin, in its latest step in the debunking of Josef Stalin, dissolved its eight-nation Communist Bureau of Informa tion. The "Cominform" had been organized in 1947 as a proaganda agency. Russian lead ers had asserted emphatically as late as last February that the Cominform would not be liqui dated. The reversal of policy was a tacit admission that the Cominform had long been a corpse. President Tito of Yugo slavia killed it, for all practical purposes, when Stalin used it Most large corporations are now building auxiliary plants in such smaller safe cities and towns. Therefore, when you de cide what industry you are best fitted for, and what company you wish to work for, ask the employment manager to give you a job in a small community. This especially applies to pros pective graduates of high schools and colleges which are now be ing visited by employment man agers seeking good men and women to join their organizations. Enforcement is Main Hurdle for Effective Corrupt Practice Bill Washington (CO) "You will never have an effective Corrupt Practices Act until a few politicians and some over generous campaign contributors are put in jail." This challenge by Political Scientist Samuel Lubell to a Senate subcommittee spotlights the problem of policing viola tions of the election law. Con gressmen are frank to admit the challenge hasn't been met. The United States, has had a Corrupt Practices Act for. 31 years, setting limits and requir ing regular reports on political contributions and expenditures. Under the spur of publicity about the $2,500 contribution reiected bv Sen. Francis Case j (R-S.D.), Congress seems certain this year to broaden the law's coverags and make some of its key provisions more realistic. Enforcement Necessary But, critics say, it's no help to tighten the law unless some eff icier means of enforcing it is found. The Justice Depart ment says only one person ever has been prosecuted for violat ing the spending and -reporting provisions of the current law, and that was in 1929. Congressional Quarterly found that 4C candidates for the House in 1954 none of whom was el ected failed to file the required spending reports. Existing law is evaded be cause no one is charged with en forcing it. Reports of contribu tions and expenditures are filed with the Clerk of the House and Secretary of the Senate, - but these offices have no authority to deal with those who do not report or who submit fraudu lent, erroneous or incomplete statements. No committee of Congress goes over the reports as a matter of course. Bills Pending Pending Senate bills to revise the Corrupt Practices Act agree on a new method of enforce ment. The Clerk and Secretary who receive reports would be directed to "ascertain, . when practicable" whether anyone has failed to file or has filed a dc:jctive statement. They also would compile the reports and send them on to committees of the House and Senate. These committees would seek out vio lations and report them "to the appropriate law- enforcement agencies." - These provisions are recogniz- i ed as a forward step, but they j do not satisfy all the critics of ; the law. Lubell says, "I do not j think you can police any . law, ) let alone one as detailed as this ; one, through a committee of Congress." ! Others have questioned the efficiency of the three-step pro- cedure for dealing with viola- j tions: Clerk or Secretary to Con gressional committee to the De partment of Justice. Ability Doubted The Clerk and Secretary, ac-; cording to the committee report on the pending bills, "are ex-i pected to detect violations of the , act only to the extent that such i is readily feasible, and without J extensive investigation in the to try to purge him, and failed dismally, The Bad 1. Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Communist party leader Nikita S. Krushchev ar rived on a state visit to London as part of a new Kremlin peace offensive. Prime Minister An thony Eden, to his later chagrin, had invited them to Britain dur ing the fleeting rosy days of last summer's Big Pour "summit" conference in Geneva. The Rus sians were generous on their ar rival with expressions of good will and peaceful intentions. But Western leaders, including Eden and Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles were openly suspi coius. They saw no change in basic Kremlin policy and sus pected that "Mr. B. and Mr. K." sought to split the Allies. 2. Ceylon's new "neutralist" government took on a decided leftist 'tinge. Nearly oncthird of the members of the House of Representatives chosen in the recent election are extreme left ists. Premier Solomon Bandaran ik has announced that Britain must give up its big naval base at Trincomalee. He embarked this week on a drastic national ization program. 3. Assassination by extremists continued unchecked in Cyprus. Most of the victims in the new wave of violence were Greek Cypriots accused of cooperating with the British. A Greek police official was murdered as he left a maternity clinic . where his wife had just given birth to their first son. Another was killed while sitting in the audi ence at a movie theater. A young Greek waiter at a British ser geants mess was murdered in. bed by masked men who broke into his home. field. Spokesmen of those of fices told Congressional Quar terly they doubt their ability to determine the completeness and validity of the reports. Or the other hand, the coun sel of the committee that prepar ed this legislation says the Just ice Department would not enter a case until it has been certi fied to it by Congress. Suggestions that the whole enforcement problem be turn ed over to an executive agency have met a cool reception. Un der the Constitution, each mem ber of Congress is "the judge of the elections, returns and quali fications of its own members." Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), suggests an agency be set up within the General Ac counting office, an arm of Con gress, to run field audits and investigations of campaign fi nances. These reports would be used as a check against the offi cial statements from the candi dates. Neuberger will offer his idea as an amendment to the proposed legislation. Some senators feel the main problem is not enforcement but publicity. What is needed to keep big contributors and big campaign spenders in line, they say, is not jail terms but news paper headlines. The opposite view was ex pressed by President Theodore Roosevelt in. 1907. "There is al ways danger in laws of this! kind," he said, "which by their very nature are difficult of en forcement, lest they be obeyed only by the honest and dis obeyed by the unscrupulous, so as to act only as a penalty upon honest men." (Copyright 1956, Congressional Quarterly) Congressional Quiz (Copyright, 195S ConfressionxJ Quarterly) ' Q Since 1832 when nominat ing conventions became the form, three men in U. S. history have been nominated as Presi dential candidates by a major party -more than twice. Name them. A Grover Cleveland, William Jennings Bryan and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, all Democrats. Only Bryan was not elected. 2 31 isssssssssssssssssssssssssslsssssssssssssssssissss mutton jowl BEEF HEART sliced 1 ROAST BACON Or TONGUE BACON 1 1fCLB. iLB. l9CLB. -2918.1 - - . Attempts, to Find Solution To Constitutional Puzzle Of Disability Move Slowly By RICHARD SPONG Washington A House Judic iary subcommittee is getting ready for the printer the record of its second series of hearings on the constitutional puzzle of "presidential inability." A resolution for a constitu tional amendment and a hand ful of bills dealing with the same question have been introduced at this session of Congress. Presi dent Eisenhower, in his first full dress press conference after his heart attack, urged that the con stitutional inadequacy be rem edied. He said that during his illness "this was one of the fore most (things) on my mind." Going Slowly Even so, Congress is going to make haste slowly. Chairman Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) of the House Judiciary committee and of the subcommittee is probably not unmindful of the political overtones in raising the question of presidential inability in this election year. But Celler says that he will be satisfied if his group reports by the end of this session, so that Congress will have a basis for action in 1957. The process of changing the Constitution is such that an amendment usually begins to get off the ground only after Con gress has achieved a substantial meeting of minds. Although ask ing for a change "just as soon as possible," the President em phasized the need for this kind of prior agreement. "Every phase" of the subject, he said on Jan. 19, "should be carefully studied by the Congress, advised ... by the Attorney General and . . . the Executive Department, and some kind of resolution of doubt reached." Worked Well Moreover, Congress is going to go slow in changing a system which, for all its faults, appar ently worked well during the President's illness, when Vice- President Nixon took the lead in a kind of Consular government. 122 EAST MAIN EAST SIXTH' ST. VagTOMC - jf marked contrast with the con fusion that arose the last pre vious time a President had been stricken. President Wilson did not meet with his cabinet from the time his illness began in September 1919 until April 13, 1920. He was able to assume only a few of his official duties before his term ended on Mar. 4, 1921; Improvised Action But what was to be done? Twenty-eight acts of Congress became law without Wilson's signature. Presidential powers and duties were either not dis charged or were handled in such manner as the Cabinet, the Presi dent's family, and his personal entourage could improvise. There seems to be general agreement that state papers were given to Mrs. Wilson first. If she'- had any doubt as to how their consideration would affect the President, she turned them over to his physician, Adm, Cary T. Grayson. If Dr. Grayson thought the President was not strong enough to pass on them, the papers were shunted to Sec retary of the Treasury David F. Houston or others in whom Mrs. Wilson had confidence. Same With Garfield Much the same sort of con fusion had ruled after Presidents Garfield was shot on July 2, 1891. The Cabinet was agreed on having Vice-President Arthur act as President, but was un willing to ask Garfield in effect to abdicate. In both cases, ac cording to Prof. Edward S. Cor win of Princeton: "The official powers and duties of the disabled President were left to be discharged in such manner and by such devices as his immediate family and per sonal entourage had a mind to contrive. To all intents and pur poses it was they who determ ined the issue of disability and determined it contrary to appar ent fact." Glamour Earrings! it's a terrific tale of ear rings! There's a style te flatter every type and shape face, every hairdo ... There's a style far every mood and vhim, every costume effect. Metals and stone sets. ST. MEDFORD
