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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDvrTMBUIlE "Iverybodjr tn Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-Ul - ROBERT W. BUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICiCSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bt Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Dally and Sunday Six months 6 JO Dally and Sunday Three mot. 330 Sunday Only One year 3JU. 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 $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers c 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 CIRCULAUun WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAI ONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCHTLN mnnzmma OfV NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 30, 1946 (It was Tuesday) Veterinarians from all parts of the state gathered in Medford Saturday for a meeting of the Oregon State Veterinary Medi cal association. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Cowmen now report the range looks bet ter than the Baptist church lawn. 20 YEARS AGO April 30. 1936 (It was Thursday) Irrigation storage water in the Hiatt Prairie reservoir and Fish lake will be below last year, and Four Mile lake will be the same as last year, County Watermaster Smith said today. C. E. "Pop" Gates of Medford, as vice-president of the state AAA, today received a flag of the state of Oregon, the first of the kind ever seen south of Sa lem, he said. 30 YEARS AGO April 30. 1926 (It was Friday) The Grants Pass Cavemen are planning an elaborate ceremony attendant upon the initiation of Col. William A. Mitchell, who is expected to join the Cavemen's tribe tomorrow. Ladies urge4 to bring their husbands to the Better Homes luncheon at 12:30 p.m. tomor row. 40 YEARS AGO April 30. 1916 (It was Sunday) Wednesday will be cleanup day in Medford, according to Mayor Emerick. One year ago today the Hol land hotel was opened under the management of Johri A. Wester lund, assisted by Carl Tengwald and A. F. Heinz. Whal's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Did more Republicans or Democrats vote in the House to override the President's recent veto of a farm bill, or about same number of each? 2. The U. S. contributes about one-third, one-half or two-thirds of the payments to meet the ex penses of U.N.? 3. This country has many more widows than widowers, or many more widowers, or about the same number of each? 4. Hard drinkers are more likely as a whole to get cancer than tee-totalers as a whole; right or wrong? 5. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is a graduate of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cor nell, Ohio State or Leland Stan ford? 6. More is being spent this year on expansion by General Motors, Ford, Standard Oil of N. J., American Telephone & Telegraph or General Electric? 7. A standard piano keyboard has more white or more black keys, or the same number of each? The Answers: 1. Many more Democrats; 2. About one-third; 3. Many more widows; 4. Wrong; 5. Princeton; 6. American Tele phone & Telegraph; 7. More white keys. MAIL TRIBUNE Good Showing Jackson county made a creditable showing for itself last week, when there was a large turnout of interested citizens to tell the Southern Pacific just what they thought of the way the SP had treated this area. Their arguments were detailed, broad, and large ly convincing. They wrote into the record how the SP has syste matically and over a long period of years "killed off" passenger service and done it by design. They demonstrated a need for the service to this area. Not, surely, the service embodied in the late and mostly unlamented Rogue River Rocket but a ser vice to which the 200,000 residents of this area can expect to go along with the highly profitable freight service. FRANKLY, we were a bit surprised, but highly pleased, to see the extent of the participation in the hearing. We had thought that perhaps too many people were taking the end of the passenger trains for grant ed. We were proven wrong, much to our pleasure. For if the hearing proved only one thing, it proved that adequate transportation services affect and .are needed by virtually every segment of the economy. , T'HE railroad will get its "day in court" July 10 in Grants Pass, when it will be given an opportunity to present its side of the controversy. It is to be expected the SP will bring out its shop worn excuses about how much the. passenger trains cost it and how few people used it. Charles Stanton, editor of the Roseburg News-Review, has some cogent words on this subject. He says : Does anyone believe the "Friendly" Southern Pacific wouldn't be operating passenger trains in this area if it had competition? Does anyone believe the roadbed would re main in its present deteriorated condition if another rail road had access to our cargoes? Does anyone believe the . "Friendly" Southern Facific would continue its "Public Be . Damned" policies If it had to compete for business? TN RETURN for southern Oregon's production of wealth, which is yielding SP about 25 per cent of its traffic volume and contributing a large share of the $60 million net profits from last year's operation, the "Friendly" Southern Pacific pushes the area's population around, knowing that we are helpless to retaliate, Stanton said, adding: It exploits the territory. It discriminates in car distribu tion, knowing that no rival line can get the business while its cars are being used in competitive points. It promotes industry in spots where it has competition, but in its south era Oregon monopoly field industry can shift for itself. THESE things, and a lot more like them, were plac ed in the record in a highly satisfying way last week. But there should be a word of caution about the July 10 hearing. It should be attended by a good many knowledgeable representatives of this area to make sure the SP doesn't try to "get away" with anything at a hearing 30 miles and several months away from the time it got its public comeuppance from the pub lic. On the basis of the hearings so far, the public util ities commissioner is more than justified in his disre garded order to the SP to get the trains back on the track. ' But please, not the Rogue Rattler! E. A. . Fineo-Meters Some time ago in this space it was recorded how a couple of other Oregon cities had adopted the practice of putting out small boxes on streets where there are parking meters. When someone slips up and gets a parking ticket, he can simply put the fine money in an envelope which goes with the ticket, and drop it in the box, which is usually less than a half-block away. THIS saves him time, in not having to mail the tick et or take it to the city hall. And it saves the city money, experience is showing. The boxes pay for themselves for two reasons because a higher per centage of ticket fines are paid when it is done on the spot, and because the postage-paid envelopes used cost four cents apiece when mailed. Eugene adopted the system last week, and appar ently it will work out as well there as it has elsewhere. . Police Chief Vera Hill of that city said the "Fine-o-Meters," as they are calling them, are going to make things easier all around. E.A. Pleasant By-Passes We don't know for sure how residents of cities located by the new highway by-passes like them yet (although evidence is mounting that, after they try them out, they like them fine). But we do have a good idea that highway travel ers and tourists are finding them a tremendous boon. A TRIP to the Willamette valley last week gave us a chance to look over the ones at Roseburg and Salem. We whooshed around Roseburg in about five minutes flat a journey that used to take a frustration-filled half -hour or so, when the tedious route went through the city itself. And the wide, well-marked, smooth - flowing roads, unencumbered by advertising or traffic-traps, give a pleasant impression of the town and of the area. The same applies at Salem, where the new free way skirts the eastern edge of town. We also took the occasion to ask questions about how they are being accepted; and we will publish the replies here prior to the hearing later this month, which the highway commission plans to conduct on the routes proposed for a free-way through or around Medford. E.A. Monday. April 30. 195S Matter of Fact bv stewar. aip IF STEVENSON STUMBLES AGAIN Washington In recent days all the principal Democratic can didates and their backers and strategists have been in Wash i n g t o n, and they have all been play ing the ancient parlor game of second - guess ing the conven tion. Perhaps it is a futile oc- Stewart Alsop cupauon. cut u is interesting, and may be sig nificant, that there is a surpris ing measure of agreement among all concerned up to a point. It is agreed, for example, that Adlai Stevenson wiU be way out in front again if he wins the Flor ida and California primaries. But there is also a considerable measure of agreement on the shape the convention is likely to take if the opposite happens, and Estes Kefauver again trips Stev enson in the forthcoming pri maries. First, it is agreed that Kefau ver will then have an almost un arguable claim to a place on the ticket. Second, it is agreed that the Kefauver bloc and the South ern bloc will control between them something like half the delegate votes, with Kefauver holding a bit aver a quarter of the total, and the Southerners a bit less than a quarter. Third, it Is agreed that Ke fauver and the Southerners will never get together to dictate the outcome the two blocs are mu tually irreconcilable. Thus the convention will be split in two. ONE part will consist of the dis ciplined, stubborn, and mu tually hostile Kefauver and southern blocs, prepared-to hans on to the bitter end. The second part wiU consist of a shifting, unstable, and amorphous mass the loyal Stevenson following. W. Averell Harriman's bloc en tered on New York state, a bloc favoring Missouri's Sen. Stuart bymington, plus the favorite sons like Michigan's G. Mennen Wil liams and Ohio's Frank Lausche. Somehow, by the mysterious processes which operate in the the unique American convention system, two parts must interlock to form a majority. No one can possibly predict how this mav be done. But the players of the par lor game speculate most about three possible combinations Stevenson plus Kefauver. Harri- man plus Kefauver, and Syming ton plus the South. STEVENSON backers profess confidence that Minnesota taught both Stevenson and his admirers a needed lesson, and if if ?:W: U- 1 ff--i..i-iJ New Ceylon Premier Off To Fast Start As Asian Neutralist By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike of Ceylon is get ting off to a fast start as South WTTn Asia's newest "neut ralist" leader. In the 18 days since he took office, h6 h,a s reversed c o m p 1 e t ely the pro -western policy of Sir John Ko-' Charles McCann teiawaia, nis predecessor. He has made it known he will take no nonsense from either Great Britain, to whose common wealth Ceylon belongs, or from the United States. Like his fellow - neutralist, Prime Minister Jawaharhal Nehru of India, Bandaranaike is casting friendly eyes toward Peiping, capital of the Chinese Communist regime. He plans to make Ceylon a re public and is not sure whether he will keep it in the British Commonwealth. He has announced that Brit ain's Trincomalee Naval Base must go. He has embarked on a sweeping program of nation alization. Voice Censored Now he has made it known that the United States "Voice of America" station in Ceylon, which broadcasts to a large area of Asia, will be strictly cen sored. Starting tomorrow, every pro gram of the station must be sub mitted in advance for approval of his communications ministry. Communications. Minister C. A. S. Marikkar has announced that the station will not be per mitted to broadcast American propaganda, "either open or con cealed." Bandaranaike has hinted that he may throw out the station en tirely, and also stop the work of the privately-supported Amer ican Asian Foundation, which sponsors youth training and other projects. However, the new prime min ister has announced he will be willing to accept American eco nomic aid provided that no strings are attached. He also that he will win in both forth coming primaries. But Stevenson himself has passed the word that he is in the fight to the last bal lot, come what may in Florida and California. Even if there are further primary disasters, the Stevensonites contend, it will be come apparent at the convention that no other candidate can unite the party. A Stevenson-Kefauver ticket will then emerge as the only logical way out. Kefauver is younger than Stevenson, and as second man on the ticket he would be heir apparent. A con vention majority simply does not exist for Kefauver, and he will take second place rather than nothing if offered the choice at the strategic moment. So the argument runs in the Stevenson camp. In the Harri man camp it runs precisely the same way, as far as Kefauver is concerned. But the Harriman men also argue, not unexpected ly, that a Harriman-Kefauver combination is far more logical than a Stevenson-Kefauver mar riage. Stevenson's Minnesota primary defeat, they argue, was almost as much a victory for Harriman as for Kefauver, since it proved what Harriman has-; long con tended that Stevenson - style "moderation" cannot win. Har riman is genuinely convinced, and preaches to all comers, that President Eisenhower can be beaten Harriman-style in a blunt, hard - hitting campaign, with a special appeal, to the farmers, the low income groups, and the minorities. MEANWHILE, Harriman and his chief strategist, shrewd Tammany leader Carmine De Sapio, continue to play a waiting game. But the Harriman candi dacy is already markedly less "inactive." Harriman plans a speaking tour in seven states. And if Stevenson suffers again in the primaries, DeSapio will start an active effort to put to gether a solid Harriman bloc, by offering commitments to such key figures as Pittsburgh's May or David Lawrence. DeSapio himself is ryorted to believe that the greatest hidden obstacle to the Harriman candi dacy may prove to be, not Steven son plus Kefauver, but Syming ton plus the South. If the new dealish Harriman looks like win ning, a stop-Harrlman, don't split-the-party-movement could easily center on the moderate Symington. Then, or so the players of the parlor game be lieve the decisive role will be played by Symington's fellow Missourian and Harriman's warm friend, Harry S. Truman, who could tip the balance either way. (C) 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. will welcome aid from Soviet Russia and Red China, he says, so he can be completely neutral in the aid line. Before he took office, Bandar anaike had announced he would assume diplomatic relations with Russia and Red China. Attended Oxford Soon after he took office Bandaranaike made May 1, the Red May Day festival, a Cey lonese public holiday. He sent a delegation of labor union men to Peiping to join in the Chi nese Communist celebration. All this, in Southern Asia, seems to constitute true neutral ism. Like Nehru, the No. 1 neutral ist, Bandaranaike is a product of an English university. At Ox ford, in ancient Christ Church College, , Bandaranaike was a fellow under-graduate of Prime Minister Anthony Eden. The studious young Ceylonese was often kept awake, or had his studies disrupted, by the noisy parties in Eden's rooms. But he and Eden were friendly. Bandaranaike's father, a rich plantation owner, was knighted by Britain for services to the empire. The young Bandaran aike was baptized as a Christian. At Oxford, he leaned to smart Western dress. But back home, he "went native." He shed his Western clothing for the Cey lonese white shirt and white skirt and became a Buddhist. Like Nehru, he also entered politics and began to fight Brit ish rule. Bomb Blasts Kill Janitor in Chicago Chicago 0J.R) Two bomb blasts, apparently triggered by dynamite, kiUed the janitor of a west side hotel and injured three men yesterday. ' The janitor, 58-year-old Al bert Ziemba, was killed when the blast shattered the walls of two basement rooms in the four story New Market hotel and blew the flooring out of his first floor room. Police said the ex plosion was triggered in the basement directly under Ziem ba's room. Forthcoming Headlines Viewed Bv Writers for United Press United Press correspondents around lhe world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Ike Will Be There Washington insiders expect President Eisenhower to conduct a far more active campaign than they predicted two months ago. The word then was that he would make speeches in a very few key cities. Now, they say, he'll be in there pitching. There won't be any long, tiring tours by railroad. But the betting is that Mr. Eisenhower will do a lot of plane travel to cities in critical areas. The Big Three foreign minist ers will make a big pitch in Par is this week to stop the flow of arms to the still red-hot Middle East. Secretary of State John Foster . Dulles, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Christ ian Pineau will meet there on By FRANK JENKINS Among the interesting people who have addressed the news paper editors and publishers at their conventions in Washington and New York ' last week and this, I'd like to mention Dr. Gainza Paz, the owner and the EDITOR of La Prensa, the great and free and truly liberal news paper of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. T A PRENSA, as I think every one will remember, was taken away from Dr. Paz by Peron, the dictator who by clev er use of demagogic methods that is to say, by setting, class against class and playing 4 upon the hatreds and the prejudices of the MOST NUMEROUS class took over Argentina as Mussolini took over Italy, as Hitler took over Germany and as Stalm took over Russia. Peron recognized that he could never HOLD Argentina as long as a great and free and fearless newspaper was publish ed there. So, using his despotic power, .he confiscated La Prensa and manned it with henchmen who could be relied upon to do his bidding and feed to the people of Argentina only the news that PERON thought they ought to be allowed to know. When Peron's dictatorship fell, the first act of the new government was to restore La Prensa to Dr. Paz. T EPS put it this way: Dr. Paz, a great editor, lost his newsnaner to a dictator ship. He eot it back aeain be cause the . dictatorship was so foul that in time it fell of the weight of its own foulness. "DUSSIA is governed by a die x" tatorship. It is worth re membering that one of the first acts of the communist dictator ship in Russia was to abolish the free press and replace it with .newspapers run by the govern ment and free to tell only the news that the government thought the people ought to be allowed to know. Personally, I have an abiding faith that communism is so foul that in time it will fall of the weight of its own foulness. have equal faith that when that time comes one of the first acts of the new GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE will be to restore to the people of Russia the right of freedom of the press. The basic ingredient of free government is a press that is free to tell the people WHAT IS ACTUALY HAPPENING in stead of telling them only what those who hold the reins of pow er think the people ought to be allowed to know. TUT let's go back to Dr. Paz He came all the way from Buenos Aires to thank the Amer ican press for its unremitting campaign to have restored to him the great and free news paper that had been taken away from him by a dictator who wanted to make sure that the people of Argentina were told only what a DICTATOR thought they ought to be allowed to know. He pledged solemnly to the newspapers of free America that as long as La Prensa remains under his ownership and con trol it will be dedicated to tell ing the people of Argentina what Is actually happening. Only by knowing what is act ually happening, he said, can they hope to REMAIN free. f)NE more point: . Dr. Paz spoke to the repre sentatives of the American press in EXCELLENT English. He spoke with a slight accent, but what he said was as clearly understandable as if he had been a native. What a wonderful thing it would be if we Americans, who like to think of ourselves as leaders in this modern world, would only take the trouble to learn to speak the language of the peoples with whom we hope to be associated in the world of the future. It would make our job IM MENSELY easier. In the Day's News Thursday to attend a council of the North Atlantic Treaty Or-1 ganization. They will take time out to work on plans for tighter arms controls and are expected to make recommendations to the United Nations. Tuesday May day celebrations in Communist countries should mark the total eclipse of Josef Stalin. If there is a single pic ture of Uncle Joe, or a reference to him in a slogan, in any par ade from Moscow to Peiping, Russian experts will be astonish ed. Don't be surprised if the next expose of Stalin s sins comes from Warsaw. London hears that the Polish Communist gov ernment with Moscow's ap proval may announce that Stalin ordered the frightful massacre of 10,000 Polish offic ers ir, the Katyn Forest near Smolensk in 1940. The Germans said the Russians murdered them after taking them prisoner when Stalin and Hitler divided Poland. Moscow denied it and blamed the Germans. Senate Democratic leade Bill To Revise Spending Bill Radio and TV Washington (CQ) The final paragraphs of a bill to revise campaign spending laws contain a little-noticed kicker that wor ries the radio and television in dustry. While planning political con vention and campaign coverage and signing high-paying sponsors for the August political shows, the industry is trying to figure out what this section of the proposed bill means: "The Federal Communications Commission . . . (shall) determ ine, and upon request of any licensee, notify such licensee concerning the eligibility of each candidate for the office of Presi dent of the United States to re ceive equal opportunity" for use of radio and television facilities. The three networks, who in the past have been making most of the decisions about a candi date's eligibility for equal time, are afraid this clause may give the FCC too much authority to give away valuable radio and TV time. The campaign spend ing revision is co-sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.), Minority Leader William F. Knowland (R Calif.) and 83 other Senators. The current law, relatively simple in wording, reads: "If any licensee shall permit any person who is a legally qualified candidate for any pub lic office to use a broadcasting station, he shall afford equal opportunities to aU other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting sta tion ..." The simplicity, however, led to so many problems the FCC issued a question-and-answer fact sheet dealing with specific ex amples. But the clamor for a change in the law continues; the section in the Johnson-KnoW' land bill is one result. A member of the FCC's legal staff said the Commission mem' bers haven't taken a position on the proposed change "because they aren't sure of all the im plications." The networks' opposition argu ment to the proposed change runs like this: , Right now the FCC has a list of regulations that, combined with state election laws, give the networks guideposts to what constitutes a legally qualified candidate. The networks, con stantly straining against federal regulation, feel the Johnson Knowland proposal would tight en rather than ease regulation. One network, the Columbia Broadcasting System, supports a proposal by Rep. Oren Harris Since 1 908 PERL Mortuary o Phone 2-6675 FINER FUNERAL SERVICES In every price range hope that Senator Alan Bible of Nevada will give up his announ ced plan to retire and run for reelection. They figure his chance would be good and that his candidacy would help them keep control of the Senate. As things stand now, Nevada is a prime GOP campaign objective. Avalanche of Trade London looks for an aval anche of Russian trade orders to result from the visit of the Kremlin's Mr. B and Mr. K. to Britain. Prime Minister Anthony Eden is determined to respect tha western embargo on strate gic goods to Russia. But he has tipped British Industries to get geared for up to $330,000,000 in Russian orders for non-strategic goods. The meeting of Allied air chiefs in Asia in Manila thii week is supposed officially to be just a golfing and get-together party. But, Manila be lieves secret Far Eastern defense plans of vital significance wiU be discussed. Gen. Laurence S. Kuter, United States air chief in the Far East, will be the host. Campaign Worrying Industry (D-Ark.) to give the. networks discretionary powers to arrange shows presenting the President ial and Congressional candidates in debate-type programs. A member of the Senate Dem ocratic Policy Committee staff said the Johnson-Knowland pro posal does not carry any oner ous implications. He said it mere ly puts in legal form an unwrit ten power the FCC has acquired by constant administrative prac tice. ' While the curbstone legal bat tle continues over the Johnson Knowland measure, the three major networks ABC, CBS and NBC are firming up their par ticipation in the political cam paign. The results stack up like this: Each network has sold spon sorship of the campaign in a "package" including (1) the na tional convention, (2) special pro grams during the campaign and (3) election night coverage. Esti mated revenue to each network from sponsors comes to $5 mil lion, a total of $15 million. Add to this the $12 million figure calculated by political fund raisers and network officials for the political appearances of Presidential and Congressional candidates alone, and total plan ned radio-TV spending surpasses the entire $23 million reported spent for the 1952 campaign. Coverage of the convention itself win be a "pool" affair; the networks will combine their equipment resources, but not their personnel, to handle the nominating sessions. The prob lem here is whether the Demo cratic convention will end in time for the networks to ship, by chartered planes, their equip ment to San Francisco for the Republican convention, sched uled the week following the Democrats. Each of the announced Presi dential candidates, Democrats Adlai E. Stevenson and Sen. Estes Kefauver (Tenn.) and Re publican President Eisenhower, have been given time on radio and television to announce their candidacy. Since then, the net works explain, coverage of their activities has been confined to the news programs, with the ex ception of speeches by the Presi dent, where equal time has been granted by the networks to the Democrats. ' But as the networks put it: "After the nominating conven tions pick the candidates, there will be no more free time. Then we sell on a first come, first served basis." (Copyright 1956, Congressional Qrtly.) ,
