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rOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordSjtribuni "everybody In Southern Oregon Reads Tha Mall Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. ri-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6 Ml ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager IKit A 1 ,1 jr. Managing Kditor EARL H. ADAMS. Citv Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor KILMAKD JCWI1T bpOTU tOlIOT OUVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor PALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newipaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday On year $12.00 Dally and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dally and Sunday Three moa. 130 Sunday Only One year S3.50. 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 One year 115 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 6c per copy All Terms Casli In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF ClBCUUiUUH Advertising Representative nrwcp.UrtT T mlV PAMPAHY INC. Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Loa Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis.. Atlanta. Vancouver. BjC NATIONAL EDITORIAL IasTocCatlqn NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 10, 1948 Ot was Friday) Ernest Piercy ' and Parrel Snider designated by CAA as examiners in Medford area for students seeking aircraft pilot certificates. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Giles Git zen, the veterinarian, flaunts a new auto '46. Man or beast could feel proud to be run over by itj if unavoidable. j 10 YEARS AGO May 10, 1936 (It was Thursday) Plans being completed for newly organized local AAUW branch's formal installation ban quet Saturday. The Valley View bridge across Bear creek, will be completed and open to traffic Saturday, Paul Rynning, county engineer, announces. 30 YEARS AGO May 10, 1926 Ot was Tuesday) Miss Ada Brewster, home dem onstration agent for two years, resigns to move to Minnesota. From Local and Personal col umn: The American Legion aux? iliary will hold their regular monthly meeting in the parlors of the Baptist church this eve ning. 40 YEARS AGO May 10, 1916 at was Wednesday) An average of fruit losses by frost taken by 5. Cecil Alter of the local weather bureau, found 25 per cent average. The board of education met in regular session last night. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cope. 1955. Editorial Research Rape 1. President Eisenhower voted as a legal resident in the recent Republican primary in New York, Pennsylvania, Kansas, or District of Columbia? . . 2. Mother's Day has been a national celebration for less than 25 years, about 25, or more than 25? 3. The U.S. has more women teachers than nurses, or more nurses, or about the same num ber of each? 4. Is any present U. S. Su preme Court justice "foreign born? 5. The name of Seiberling in U. S. business is associated with steelmaking, grocery chains, rubber products. West Coast banking or electronics? 6. "Walk softly and carry a big stick" was advice from Presi dent Washington, Lincoln, T. Roosevelt, Coolidge or F. D. Roosevelt? 7. A herpetologist studies herbs, the heart, snakes, skin diseases, or geological forma tions? The answers: 1. Pennsylvania. 2. For more than 40 years. 3. More teachers. 4. Yes, Justice Frankfurter came here from Aus tria when 12. 5. Rubber prod ucts. 6. T. Roosevelt. 7. Snakes. An automobile oil filter will remove a pound or more of dirt and sludge from the car's oil in 5,000 miles of driving, auto en gineers claim. MAIL TRIBUNE It's Up To the People We see by the "East Oregonian" that a former state senator by the name of Hex Ellis of Umatilla County, has offered to pay $1000 to anyone who can prove that any of the McKay "give-aways" was out side the law. Former Senator Ellis takes no risk in making such a wager and undoubtedly knows it. In fact as far as our observation goes no one has accused the Secretary of the Interior of breaking the law, had he done so, undoubtedly a federal court would have stepped in long ago. TN FACT, it has been stressed in this department re peatedly that the issue between the two parties as far as the GOP "give-away" program is concerned is not a question of morals but of POLICY, not a ques tion of law enforcement vs. non-enforcement, but a question of what will promote the general welfare of the country, the public interest, and what will ben efit only private interests. yHE tidelands oil case is a perfect example of what we mean: The Supreme Court held in two or three decisions that the nation, not the abutting states, had the paramount interest in these submerged oil fields, and the petitions of the states for ownership were de nied. So a law was drawn up which gave the primary oil rights to the states thus invalidating the Supreme Court rulings. The court had held the states (Califor nia, Texas, Louisiana and Florida) could achieve this right, IF the congress wished to give it to them, via enabling legislation. Needless to add, congress as then constituted, DID. CO THERE you are. Nothing illegal. Just a change in long established policy regarding coast line waters, thereby depriving Oregon and 43 other states of millions the educational system of the country of billions. But this action did help the lucky four states who have leased wells thus acquired to a few of the larger oil companies and operators, and it will eventually mean billions to the latter. All "within the law." But the second portion of former Senator Ellis' wager reads as follows, quote : "Or prove Uncle Sam did not get adequate cash return for any resources turned over to private interests." That is another kettle of fish and it doesn't smell so good. For here is the perfect example of a "give-away" that not only did not give Uncle Sam an adequate re turn, but didn't give him ANY return. In fact but for an amendment the Democrats finally forced through, to the "give-away" measure, the government would not even have retained control of the oil. in the area in and beyond what is known as the continental shelf. But nevertheless, we don't expect Mr. Ellis to turn over that $1000, for no doubt he would claim nothing is "adequate compensation" for our bureaucratic gov ernment when everything goes to a few states, and the highly regarded private enterpise system. In short his proposition is one of that familiar type known as "heads I win, tails you lose," for he would not only make the rules but define them. .' CO WHAT? Well just this : Here is the one real and vital issue separating the two major parties today. Reducing it to its simplest terms it comes down to the classic remark bv the Serretarv nf Defon BO onrl former President of General ne-said: "What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa." Had he left out that "vice versa there would have been no complaint except perhaps from his former Board of Directors. But when he said "vice versa" he said what was good for General Motors WAS good for the country, and there has never been any question that is what he meant. Moreover, that today is the basic political philosophy of the Grand Old Party, and those who have failed to realize this have only to study the rec ord to be convinced. TN other words see that General Motors makes its A billion dollars a year and General Welfare can take care of itself . Nothing unlawful, nothing illegal in that. Like the issue between Public and Private Power it is not a matter of morals, but of principle and belief. Those who believe this theory will agree with for mer Senator Ellis that handing over natural resources that belong to the people of the country so private bus iness may enjoy enormous profits is OK, preserving them for the benefit of both this and future genera tions is all wrong, and contrary to what they term the "American way of life." WHAT do YOU believe, Mr. and Mrs. Voter? Do you want more and more of this "give-away" or do you want it stopped? The answer can't be given by lawyers however able, or courts however high, but only by the Ameri can people, with their votes. R.W.R. Westerberg's Herd Listed at DHIA Top Richard Westerberg had the top herd for April, according to the iherd summary of the Jackson County Dairy Herd Im provement association. Average milk from the 42 head herd was 974 pounds and average butt erf at was 45.6 pounds. . Other herds in the top five were owned by Hubert and Thursday, May 10, 1958 of dollars in revenue, and Motors, Mr. Wilson when Elise Werrlein, R. L. and Blanche Wyant, Victor and Nita Birds eye, and R. R. Bitterling. Top 10 cows last month were owned by James and Neola Edge, Minear brothers, Richard Westerberg, R. L. and Blanche Wyant, Lowell B. Barber, Gil man's Dairy farm, R. L. .and Blanche Wyant, and Victor and Nita Birdseye. Austria's Friendly Political Parties in By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Austria's two big political par ties are fighting each other fero ciously in the final stage of a national elec tion campaign. The voters will go to the polls Sunday to elect a new Parliament for a f our-y ear term. Then, after the returns Charles McCann are in, the leaders of the contending par ties will shake hands and get back to the business of running the country together in a coali tion as they have done since 1945. The campaign is being fought between the Conservative Peo ple's Party and the Socialist Party. If the People's Party wins, Chancellor Julius Raab wiU keep his job. If the Socialists win, Vice ChanceUor Adolf Schaerf will be the head man and Raab will step down to the No. 2 post. The coalition began to come apart in January over purely do mestic issues. Oil Field Problem . The chief one was the future of the valuable oil fields which have been returned to Austria after 10 years of Soviet Russian exploitation. Raab's right-of-center People's Party wants control of the fields to be turned over to a company of which the government would own 51 per cent of the stock. The Socialists, naturally, want them to be almost entirely na tionalized. There are other issues, too, like the proper method of giv ing farmers higher prices for their milk. But even though the conserva tives and the Socialists decided to call an election one year be fore schedule, they had rather a hard time getting hot in their campaigning. Now, however, the two parties are calling each other enemies of the people in speeches and election posters, and accusing 41 Matter of Fact THE POWERFUL MR. JOHNSON " Washington Sen. Lyndon Johnson's smashing victory oyer Gov. Allan Shivers in Texas is gr3 one o those events whicn shake up and transform" the whole politi cal scene. His victory makes John son one of the two or. JJiree most powerful men in the Stewart Alsop Democratic party. It renders a Southern bolt at the Democratic convention, on which some Re publican strategists fondly count ed, far less likely, since John son stands squarely for party loyalty. At the same time, the Johnson triumph assures him a very strong, perhaps a decisive, voice at the convention. AU this is obvious enough. But it leaves unanswered the most interesting question: Is Johnson himself now to be con sidered a serious contender for the nomination? JOHNSON can have virtually the entire Southern delegate vote without lifting a' finger. He can certainly have the 1956 equivalent of the 294 votes for Senator Richard ' Russell, the Southern candidate in 1952. But his supporters claim that he can go well beyond that. He has important support in the west, where he is much ad mired by such men as Sen. Mike Mansfield of Montana and Gov. Ed Johnston of Colorado. Even before his Texas triumph, John son got important offers of fi nancial help for a Presidential candidacy from Massachusetts, California and other states. (He turned them, down politely.) Since his victory, such offers have of course multiplied. John son admirers are now talking about his going to the conven tion with 400 delegate votes or even more. In the circumstances, it would hardly be surprising if Senator Johnson began to think long and hard about making a real effort for the nomination. He tells all and sundry that he will not seek it, but "if it comes my way, fine." But he will not go further than that, and he is no man to show his cards before he needs to. ' PWEN those very close to him " do not know whether he in tends to make a real try, al though it is known that his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, heartily dis likes the idea, largely because the Senator had a heart attack less than a year ago. The heart attack-is, of course, one of the great obstacles to a serious Johnson candidacy, if only because it would remove the "health issue" on which the Democrats are perhaps over optimistically counting. Another, and more serious obstacle, is his reputation as a conservative among the Northern Liberal Labor groups. Hot Vote Campaign each other of trying to strangle Austria's new freedom. Dispatches from Vienna note that the posters are sometimes nearly identical. One, for in stance, shows the villanous op position party in the act of throttling a worker. The con servatives also warn the people against following the Socialists "down the road toward Marx ism." Nobody pays much attention to that. The Socialists are just as anti-Communist as the con servatives are. Overwhelms Austria's Neighbors Kremlin Communism over whelmed Austria's neighbors on the south-east, east and north after the war. But the. Commu nists never did well in Austria: They entered the first election, in 1945, confidently. and came out with 5.4 per cent of the Today and By Walter THE RUSSIANS IN LONDON London The Soviet visits to London were carried out on two planes, one being a public en- counter of ' views between the two gov ernments. Much has been written about the pub lic encounter, about the si lence of the crowds and Walter Lippmann about the row at the Labor party dinner. We can readily exaggerate the signi ficance of that side of the affair. In France or Italy, with their large Communist parties, a cool and rather unfriendly public re ception would .have been news. But in Britain the Communists are negligible as a political party. The elements of a pop ular front, such as Moscow now hopes for, do not exist. There is a general agreement in London that talking '-with By Stewart AIsop There is a certain irony in this reputation, since Johnson -was attacked by the Shivers forces as a stooge of Walter Reuther and even as a pro-Communist. Johnson is certainly a liberal by Southern standards. His voting record (except on the sacred is sue of oil) has a strong New Dealish flavor, and he was one of three Southerners who did not sign the famous Southern manifesto, for which Shivers violently attacked him. Even so, Johnson is no ardent advocate of Negro equality, and as a Southerner he would prob ably alienate a big slice of the Negro vote, increasingly vital in the northern industrial states. For such reasons, the Northern liberals could be expected . to combine to veto a Johnson nom ination, as in the case of the late Alben Barkley in -1952. Most political realists doubt that Johnson could ever get a con vention majority. JOHNSON is nothing if not a political realist himself. Thus the best available guess is that his primary object in Chicago will be to wield his great power to assure a "moderate" ticket and platform. This might be good news for Sen. Stuart Sym ington of Missouri, the most obvious compromise candidate in a deadlock. Yet the most astute observers incline to the view that the Johnson triumph is likely in the end to be better news for Adlai Stevenson. Stevenson is the ' original "moderate," even though he has been sounding rather less, mod erate recently. Moreover, John son's fellow-Texan, . Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, to whose views " Johnson, listens with unfailing attention, is known to .look kindly on the Stevenson candidacy. Shivers' desertion of Stevenson for the Eisenhower ticket in 1952 was a key issue . in the fight which Johnson has now won. " Stevenson is, moreover, more acceptable to moderate South erners than the other two front runners, Estes Kefauver and Averell Harriman. Thus the Johnson' triumph may turn out to be the best thing-that has hap pened to the beleaguered Steven son for a long time provided, of course, that the Florida and Cal ifornia primaries do ,not knock him right out of the race. . (Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Read and Use Classified Ads The Community's Biggest Marketplace Dr. Ralph S. Anderson CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN Has Opened Offices At 100 MADISON PLACE Between Queen Ann and Jackson Street BY APPOINTMENT ONLY! PHONE 2-5997 vote. In the elections of 1949 and 1953 they polled about 5.25 per cent. If they get that many Sunday, they will be lucky. In the 1953 election, Raab's men won 74 seats in the 165-seat lower house of Parliament and Schaerf's won 73. Vienna dispatches say that no big turnover in voting is expect ed Sunday, and that things will go along about as usual after ward.. . - Austria, after nearly 40 years of political and economic misery, is doing well. It was ripped to pieces by the 1919 St. Germain Peace Treaty, most savage of all those of World War I. The Aus-tro-Hungarian ' Empire covered 261,030 square miles and had 28,500,000 people. Now Austria's area is 32,375 square miles. Its population is 7,000,000, but Aus trians seem content. Tomorrow Lippmann Malenkov, Bulganin and Khru shchev is quite a different thing from what it has been to talk with Molotov. The conversations seem to have gone well in the sense that th,e speaking was plain, unemotional and matter of fact. The language was that of un adorned, unself - conscious and unashamed power politics of al liances, bases, oil, bombers, mis siles, steel and ships. In terms such as these, the conditions not of friendship but of co-existence were freely discussed. Although there was no formal agreement, there seems to have been progress towards a meeting of minds about the Middle East. There is some reason to think that the ground was prepared for this during Malenkov's ex ploratory visit to England. He had then been told in the plainest terms, particularly by the Labor leaders, that the survival of Is rael, and the maintenance of the West European oil supply from the Middle East, were fighting matters. - Malenkov, at least, seems to have acknowledged ex plicitly the validity of these two British . interests. A few days after his return home, the Soviet government issued its statement in support of the U.N. mediation, j The talks with Bulganin and Khrushchev brought further con firmation of the shift in Soviet Middle Eastern policy. It tran spired that the Soviet Union does not itself need or want the oil of the Middle East. We are not faced, therefore, with a con flict of vital interests between the Soviet Union and Western Europe each seeking the oil of the Middle Sast. Moreover, the Arab states do not have in the Soviet Union an alternative cus tomer for their oil. The Russian visitors, I was told, said frankly that they would make trouble for Brit ain in the oil fields in order to nullify the Baghdad pact. In their eyes, this pact is a military arrangement leading to the es tablishment of United States Strategic, Air Force' bases in Iraq and Iran. They were given assurances that the pact was purely defensive. But it is not probable that they believed these assurances. There Is ' something here for diplomacy to do. ' We can have cautius con fidence that for the near future at least the danger of war in the Middle East has been re duced. The danger lay in the encouragement, which came near to being incitement, of Nas ser by the Soviet Union, bent on forcing its way into the Mid dle East. : The danger was averted by two actions. One was Britain's making it plain to the Kremlin that an Egyptian nlilitary ad venture means British interven tion certainly, and American in tervention most probably. The other was the action, initiated in Washington, to take Palestine to the United Nations. This brought the Russians into the Middle East peaceably and legit imately. I ': - So far,- we may say, so good. ' 1956 New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Pensioners Confess To Scheme To Beat Ponies Detroit U.R) Two old-age npnsioners vesterdav confessed to a "sure fire" scheme to beat the ponies. Paul f!arro. 82. and Paul A. Eifert, 70, said they made their bets with counterfeit $10 bills they made themselves. In The Day's BT FRANK JENKINS Testifying before a senate ap propriations . subcommittee in Washington, Defense Secretary Wilson insisted it isn't true the Russians are far outstripping the United States in terms of air power. But, he said, we are taking no chances. So we are raising the production schedule for the in ter-continental heavy jet bomb er the BIG one that can fly from continental U.S. to con tinental Russia from 17 per month to 20 per month. He told the subcommittee he would have preferred to keep these figures secret (meaning why stir up the Russkies to up their schedules also), but added: Beacuse of the confusion and doubt that have arisen on this matter I believe it is desirable to set the record straight." . w HY the confusion and the doubt? Congressional Quiz (Copyright, 1951 Congressional Quarterly) CONGRESSIONAL QUIZ St Hd Q. A President who had just been renominated by his party for another term made the fol lowing statement: "I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country, but I am remind ed in this connection ' of an old Dutch farmer who remarked that it was not best to swap horses while crossing a stream." Was the President: (a) Franklin D. Roosevelt (b) Abraham Lincoln (c) George Washington? A (b) Abraham Lincoln, in an address lo a delegation of the National Union League . that had called to congratulate him on his renomination in 1864. Q Who stated his policy in the following much- quoted terms: "There is a homely adage which runs, 'Walk ' softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.'- A Theodore Roosevelt. The phrase became a slogan to de scribe his strong foreign policy and his advocacy of military preparedness. Q At the 1948 Democratic convention a speaker asked, "What is a bureaucrat? A bureau crat is a Democrat who holds an office that some Republican wants." Was the speaker (a) Ad lai E. Stevenson (b) Woodrow Wilson (c) Alben Barkley? A (c) The late Alben Bark ley, whose humor was a fa mous trademark. Q What American made the following statement: "It 'is our true policy to steer clear of per manent alliances with any por tion of the foreign world. - (a) George Washington (b) Thomas Jefferson (c) ex-Sen. Burton K. Wheeler. . ' A (a) George Washington. The often-quoted sentence was part of Washington's farewell address. The phrase "entang ling alliances" frequently at- ' triouied to him actually orig inated with Thomas Jefferson. Q The only Democrat to be given his party's nomination for the Presidency three times with out ever being elected conclud ed a speech at the 1896 nominat ing convention with these words: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify man kind upon a cross of gold."' Who was he? A William Jennings Bryan. His oratory was on the subject of the gold standard. Q Can you name the author of this statement: "These unhap py times call for the building of plans that rest upon the forgot ten, the unorganized but indis pensable units of economic pow er, for plans .... that put their faith once more in the forgot ten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid." A Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a radio speech, in April. 1932, when he was governor of New York. (7k $tof IrlrSjiTN VgF m&gg) J Tc PHONE 2-8030 DAY R N'GHT News Well, this is a campaign year and m campaign years the outs must claim, in order to get back in, that the ins are leading us into disaster. Let's keep the record straight. If the Democrats were in and the Republicans were out, the GOPs would be claiming what the Democrats are claiming now. That is inherent in our politi cal system. SPEAKING further of cam paign year politics, the Dem ocrats, who are out and want back in, are insisting that under the Eisenhower administration Big Business is in the saddle and is riding high, wide and hand some, using its spurs, and the little man is getting it where the chicken got the ax. LET'S take a look at the facts. According to the Office of Business Economics of the U.S. Department of Commerce, our nation's working men and wom en received 69 PER CENT of our national income during the Eis enhower years from 1953 to 1955, whereas during the Tru man years from 1950 to 1952 they received only 65.7 per cent. And Looking at the other side During the Truman years 1950 to 1952 corporation profits after taxes amounted to SEVEN per cent of the national income, whereas during the Eisenhower years from 1953 to 1955 they amounted to only SIX per cent. Politics is a strange trade. LET'S turn now to the weather. On the 8th day of May, the temperature in New York City was only 35 above. There was snow in Maine and Vermont. At the summit of Mount Washing ton in New Hampshire (a mere molehill, according to Western ideas of a mountain) the tem perature was one degree below zero. Why bring that up? It always makes us feel belter to hear that somebody else is having it worse than we are. Ballot Seeks Higher Cost of Haircuts Portland (U.R) A mail bal lot was being taken today to de termine if barbers here want to raise prices from $1.50 to $1.75 for haircuts. Shaves would not be affected. Designed for a I REAL PRINCESS PERSIAN PRINCESS I 1 FRENCH PURSE ------ pastels in oanns mwniui ill gleam with tiny jewels. J PRINCESS GARDNER si ssssssssssTsssssssssM "7 CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS
