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History from the file of The
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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
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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.
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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.
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