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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.
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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
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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.) ,