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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MlIFORIviJiiTEIBUN "Iverybody In Soutbera Oregon Read! Th Mail Tribuna" Fubllahed Daily Except Saturday bjr MEDFORD PRINTING CO. TT-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-911 nnpTBT w BTTTTL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertiain Manager GEHALX) LATHAM. Btuineas Manager ERIC ALLEN JR, Managing Editor IARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor -OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered ai second claia matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act ox Marcn a. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year 120O Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year 3S0. By Carrier In Advance Medfora. AshUnd. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Kill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year 15. 00 Daily and Sunday One month 123 Carrier and Dealers So per copy All lerma t-mi m Official Paper of the City of Medloro Official Paper of Jackson County .. . w..M f Wlra umiea -rea i " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or CiHLULAim" WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL assoc5tln NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and tO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 21. 1946 (It was Tuesday) Mamie Day Nelson of Jack sonville will give the main address at the Grand reception at the armory tonight for dele gates attending the state con vention of Odd Fellows. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The copious and much prayed for rain caused the farmers to rejoice and the city dwellers with leaky roofs to cuss. 20 YEARS AGO May 21, 1936 Ralph E. Sweeney of Medford, In the Democratic race for the primary nomination of county treasurer, defeated Ray Schu macher of Talent by 667 votes. A report on convention plans was presented to the Active club at its weekly dinner meet ing in the Hotel Medford Tues day evening by Glen Fabrick. 30 YEARS AGO ' "S. May 21. 1926 With ideal weather conditions prevailing today the Jackson county vote was appearing at the polls very slowly up until this noon and the voting was heavier this afternoon. Tomorrow at 10 ajn. the Delphians of Klamath Falls, Medford and Ashland meet at the Civic club house of Ashland for the first Delphian assembly to be held in Oregon. 40 YEARS AGO May 21, 1916 At the city election Tuesday, voters are called upon to vote upon an amendment to the city charter authorizing the issuance of $300,000 bonds for building a railroad. In the hurry to prepare the copy for the ballot for use in the bond election Tuesday, only a portion of the proposed 'char ter amendment was included. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copt. 1955. Editorial Research R evert 1. A bill for federal flood in surance has (a) been signed by President Eisenhower, (b) pass ed by the Senate but not the House, or (c) passed the House but not the Senate? 2.. Following last year's in crease in steel wages, steel prices stayed the same or went up? 3. The proposed Passama- quoddy power propect would be in New York on the St. Law rence, the Northwest on the Snake river, Maine, Arkansas or Colorado? 4. P. Poujade is a politician with much power in Argentina, Belgium, France, Italy, Can ada or Spain? 5. Employment of 64,000,000 persons in the U.S. in April set a record .for month of April or all time? 6. Investors usually do better by buying stocks or bonds in a period of inflation? 7. Pregnancy hastens tooth decay; right or wrong? The answers: I. Passed Senate (May 10) but not House. 2. Steel prices rose an average of S7.S0 a ton. 3. Maine. 4. France. 5. For month of April. 6. Common stocks, because they usually go up with prices in general. 7. Wrong (it's an old superstition). MAIL TRIBUNE Cracking Down on Drugs ' . Congress is being urged to adopt anti-narcotics measures even more stringent than laws against sub version, treason, and espionage. A bill unanimously approved by the Senate Judic iary Committee on May 14 would provide death sen tences for some narcotics offenders and outlaw all use of heroin. It would permit juries to impose the death penalty on persons convicted of selling heroin to ju veniles and on three-time offenders in heroin smug gling and peddling. It would require sale of all heroin legally held by doctors to the government. Legislation equally drastic is coming up in the House. A Ways and Means subcommittee on May 8 unanimously agreed to recommend : 1) Increasing both minimum mandatory sentences and maximum permissible sentences for traffickers in narcotics '' and marihuana; 2) More severe penalties for adult traffickers selling to minors. ' I 3) An Increase in maximum permissible sentences in all , cases; - 4) Removal of suspension of sentence and probation for traffickers; . 5) Granting of immunity from prosecution to witnesses; 6) Permitting the use of wiretapping information in nar cotics and marihuana cases; 7) Increasing federal control of barbiturates and amphe tamines. DILLS to implement this agreement have been pour ing into the hopper. Some apply directly to nar cotics and marihuana; the others, to barbiturates and amphetamines. For contrast, only the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 applies the death penalty to peacetime espionage. (The Rosenbergs were executed in 1953 for wartime activities which violated the Espionage Act, of 1917). However, Congress in 1953 extended the drastic war time espionage-sabotage penalties, including the death penalty, for the duration of the Korean em ergency and six months thereafter. An immunity law adopted by Congress in 1954 limits such grants to witnesses whose testimony may be needed in cases affecting the national security. Even so, congressional committees or U. S. attorneys must petition federal courts for the right to grant immunity from prosecution. The House in 1954 voted to authorize wiretappine: in national security cases, Lrenerai .Herbert Urownell, amendment prohibiting wiretapping unless authoriz ed by a federal court, and that provision made the legislation unacceptable to the Justic Department. THE Senate Crime Investigating committee headed ujf ucu. uotca ivcxauvci j.ciu.1. j ill jl&oi uigcu immunity grants to key witnesses in federal cases, also penalties of 20 years to life, without probation, for adults peddling narcotics to youths under 17. No action was taken on these recommendations, but at the same session Congress did put through the Boggs Act tightening penalties for violations of the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914. The measure made prison sentences of from two to five years mandatory for second, offenders; sentences of 10 to 20 years on third or subsequent convictions. Some opposition to stiff er penalties for drug ped dlers is based on the theory that the stiffer the penal ties the less likely juries will be to convict. The Fed eral Bureau of Narcotics, however, reports that ex perience under the Boggs Act has not supported that theory. Federal Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. An slinger continues to maintain that the drug trade can best be curbed by putting the convicted trafficker out of business for longer periods of time. E.R.R. False War Alarms . A new book "The Air Force", by Arnold Bro phy tells how, on one night in the spring of 1952, President Truman was called from bed and told that World War III had started. Four vapor trails of un known planes had been sighted over , an island off Alaska ; then all communication lines to Alaska went dead. . "The Presidenjt and the Joint Chiefs qf Staff were informed by ranking Air Force officials that a full scale enemy air attack on the U. S. had been launch ed that enemy bombers carrying atomic weapons were approaching key American cities." Author Bro phy says the Air Force removed the "classified tag" from this story at his request. THERE was an earlier incident of the kind of which less is publicly known. It was referred to in the re port of a task force of the first Hoover Commission. In the spring of 1948, said the report, "a mistaken in telligence estimate prepared by a departmental in telligence agency stimulated recommendations which if followed might well have had serious conse quences." The Army and the Navy denied responsibility for that blunder and the Air Force was exonerated by the Secretary of Defense. Fortunately, President Tru man wanted to be sure. He waited for confirmation in each case before ordering any warlike action by the U.S. armed forces. E.R.R. ... French Farmers Protest Incomes Paris (U.R) Angry fanners threw 'France's Sunday traffic into chaos Saturday by barricad ing roads to protest their sag ging incomes. They dragged tree trunks across the roads, piled bales of hay at busy intersections and blocked highways with tractors and farm implements. Thousands of cars piled up in traffic jams throughout the country. Holiday motorists were infuriated and police worked Monday, May 21. 1956 as requested by Attorney Jr. But it tacked on an desperately to clear the high ways. At least one serious accident was caused when a heavy truck crashed into a tree-trunk barri cade. Several clashes between farmers and police were re ported. ' Roadblocks are a traditional form of protest by French farm ers. They staged this one in pro test against lack of government price supports, high taxation and the rising cost of living. Today and By Walter ANOTHER SOVIET INITIATIVE Returning to Washington aft er two weeks in London and Paris, I cannot help feeling that we may be missing one of the main points of the Soviet decision to demobilize a million men. "I do not think," said . .. xjao picas wuii- w alter uppmann ference on Tuesday, that "what the Soviet Union is here doing ... is cal culated appreciably to alter their . military p o w e r." Mr. Dulles was implying that for this reason the Soviet move had no bearing upon the military policy of the NATO countries. Since the Soviet military power will be just as great as before the reduction, the menace to be guarded against will be just as great as ever. This is not, I believe, the way the Soviet announcement will be read in Western Europe. The question there is more likely to be this: If the Soviet Union can demobilize something like a quarter of its. men under arms and still be just as powerful as ever, how many men could be demobilized or, in the case of the Germans, not conscripted without making Western Europe less secure. TrIE more it is proved by Mr. Dulles that the Soviets have lost . nothing by economizing military manpower, the more impressive will be the example tney have set. For Britain, France and Germany are short of industrial manpower. Mili tary service is regarded as a wasteful and tiresome thing. The action of the Soviets win be judged not so much as a ges ture for peace but to see wheth er it is an example of military realism. The question is whether in the revolution of military tech nology amidst which we are liv ing, the Soviet Union is seizing the initiative in the strategical thinking about that revolution. There has been much discussion here in Washington as to wheth er the Soviet Union has a lead in certain fields as for exam ple guided missiles. But what we need to ask ourselves also is whether the Soviet Union is adapting its high policy more quickly than we are to the new military developments. THE Soviets have been ahead of us in realizing the political consequences of what happened in 1949 when they broke our monopoly and began to develop nuclear weapons. They saw, as our official policy-'makers so long refused to see, that the un avoidable consequence would be. Illustrated Social Secu At Level of By GERALD RENNER United Press Correspondent Washington U.R) If par ents are foggy about how the Social Security law works they might clear things up by peek ing through their children's comic books. The government recently pub lished one entiUed "John's First Job." The Social Security division of the Department of Health, Edu cation and Welfare prepared the book to describe in simple terms the benefits under T?deral Old Age and Survivors Insurance. A spokesman for the department said the illustrated book is di rected mostly to teen-agers. ' But for any of the nine out of 10 working Americans who come under the Social Security re tirement program the book may be helpful. With "A Look into the Fu ture," the book points out that by 1975 twice as many people or a total of about 16,500,000 will be receiving monthly bene fits. Nearly 93,000,000 people will be insured under the law compared with about 71,000,000 insured at the beginning of 1956. How It W,orks The first of two personalized stories illustrates the steps .a high school ' graduate takes to find employment and obtain a Social Security card. The other story shows how the law affects an aging farmer and his family. The department spokesman said the multi-colored picture book is an expiremental one and is being sent to district Social Security offices around the country for distribution upon request. It was printed in April and is the first of its kind. Benefits Broken Down A fact-filled center spread in the book breaks down the bene fits a worker and his family re ceive upon retirement, death or disability of the breadwinner. .. Monthly payments to a re tired worker or his survivors 0 J v, Tomorrow Lippmann the growth of neutralism in all countries that do not themselves possess nuclear weapons. It could not have been otherwise. When a country is unarmed for modern nuclear warfare, when it has no deterrent power and no defensive power, it must move towards a neutral position between the nuclear powers. The Soviets saw this and very promptly made their own the encouragement of neutralism. This piece of military realism on their part has increased enor mously their political influence in Asia. We have just begun to come around to it in the past few months. In the visit of Presi dent Soekarno of Indonesia and the coming visit -of Pandit Nehru, we are beginning to try to repair the damage of an ill judged policy. Thanks to Churchill's genius, the West was ahead of the So viets in realizing the political consequences of the second mili tary revolution, that of the hy drogen bomb. This second revo lution has led us to the acknowl edgement at the summit meeting in Geneva that the great nuclear powers themselves are in a mili tary stalemate and that they can not contemplate war as an in strument of their policies. .- 1I7E ARE now in a third phase of this evolution in strategi cal thinking. It has to do pri marily with the adaptation of Western European military poli cy to the military stalemate which was acknowledged at Ge neva. The NATO army is in trouble because of a growing skepticism as to whether it .re flects a right estimate of the coming military situation. I was surprised to find how far this skepticism has gone, how deep is the questioning in high quar ters abroad as to the true mili tary value of much 'that never has been questioned before. As an example of how drastic the re-examination is, there is serious thought being given in Great Britain to the abolition of Fighter Command of the glorious service which in 1940 won the Battle of Britain. The argument today is that Britain cannot be 'defended successfully by interceptors against modern super-sonic bombers. The re-examination does not stop there. It has begun to reach out to wards the ground forces in West ern Germany. It is against this background, I believe, that the Soviet action needs to be interpreted. The question is not really whether the Soviets are beguiling and deceiving us but whether they are going to persuade Western Europe that they know . how to show the way- to. security- and prosperity. Certainly in this mat ter of reducing military person nel, the door on which they are pushing is already ajar. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Book on rity Set Teen- Agei range from $30 to a single per son whose yearly earnings aver aged $600 up to $200 to a widow and two children whose yearly income had averaged $4,200. Another section of the 16 page book reviews briefly 20 years of Social Security. "Twenty years ago only about one worker in 10 was covered by any retirement system, and only about one worker in 20 by a public retirement' program," the book states. "Today nine out of 10 people who work for a living can count on retirement benefits for themselves and then dependents . . ." Budget Surplus Too Small for Tax Cut Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower was warned that the treasury's anticipated $1.8 bil lion budget surplus is too small to justify a tax cut now, in formed ' administration sources said Saturday. The President, according to the informants, feels the present fiscal year surplus would have to be substantially larger at least a billion dollars more to make a personal income tax cut a serious possibility. Sources said Mr. Eisenhower plans 'to pass the word to his congressional leaders that he will not support a cut. He will 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 UP Correspondents Forecast Headlines For Coming Weeks United Press correspond ents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Presidential Powerhouse Insiders say President Eisen hower wiU deliver a powerhouse pronouncement on foreign pol icy in his commencement ad dress at Baylor University, at Waco, Tex., Friday. One big feature probably wiU be foreign trade. The occasion for the visit to Baylor: To collect an honor ary doctorate of laws. The Queen Says No Buckingham Palace circles say Queen Elizabeth has reach ed her decision on whether to make her children pioneeers in Britain's anti-polio vaccination campaign. Her answer: "No." Prince Charles, 7, and Princess Anne, 5, are expected to go without shots at least until re ports on the first batch are in. Talked Out of Turn Look for reports that British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd is on his way out. They prob ably won't materialize. But Lloyd is in bad. London says Prime. Minister Anthony Eden is dissatisfied with his work. To make things worse, it is re ported that in . a speech at a secret North Atlantic treaty meeting in Paris, he made some sharp comments on the visit of Russia's Mr. B. and Mr. K. to Britain. Lloyd didn't clear the speech, with Eden. No Time for Taxes Chances for congressional en actment of revised excise taxes are getting slimmer day by day. The House Ways and Means committee has approved a long list of changes. But tax experts figure it will take two to four weeks to draft. They fear it will be too close to adjournment then for both House and Senate to take action. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, it is appar ent that Douglas McKay has won the Republican nomination for U.S. senator from Oregon against Phil Hitchcock. He is ahead so far in 24 of Oregon's 36 coun ties, including big Multnomah, and has a lead of nearly 30 per cent. ' . It was a clean, gentlemanly, sportsmanlike contest, in. the best Oregon tradition, and there seems to be no reason why Ore gon Republicans can't get to gether behind McKay this fall to defeat Senator Morse who, as expected, won the Democratic nomination decisively. rTVHE issue in the Oregon sena- torial election this faU will be sharp and clean-cut. These will be the alternatives: Shall we support the Eisen hower policies? Or shall we oppose the Eisen hower policies? McKay is a devoted and dedi cated follower of. Ike. Senator Morse, on the, basis of his past record, will oppose Ike at every turn of the road. PHIL Hitchcock has nothing to feel bad about. As a new comer to statewide politics in Oregon, he made a splendid per sonal showing. He has definitely established himself as senatorial timber for future elections. OREGON Democrats gave their flat and positive and unmis takable endorsement to Gover nor Stevenson as the Democratic Presidential nominee. Their en dorsement of him is all the more positive because of the favor they showed to Senator Kefau ver four years ago. Their approval of him comes at a phychological moment, and wiU be extremely useful to him in later primary contests. ITfHILE we're appraising the results of Friday's primary Congress To Decide On Tennessee Financing Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower prodded Con gress Saturday to decide how the Tennessee Valley Authority is to finance new steam generat ing facilities. The President said it is "im perative" that Congress make the decision. He made the state ment in signing an $85? million money bill to tide a number of government agencies through the fiscal year ending June 30. have a chance to do so at his regular Tuesday conference with congressional leaders. Matter of Fact By Joseph AIsop THAT RECAPTURED INITIATIVE Baghdad, Iraq Every so oft en, the Bewildered traveller stumbles upon an episode of American for eign policy making so strange and apparently ir rational that it poses the ques tion whether we have any policy at all. Such is the story of the This defensive Iraq, Turkey, and Britain is .usepfl Aisop Baghdad Pact, alliance among Iran, Pakistan one of the hottest potatoes in the Middle East which is so full of hot potatoes that the area sometimes makes you think of one vast potato roast. , . And the first thing to note about this major Middle Eastern hot potato is that the primary responsibility for the pact clear ly lies in Washington. It is all but impossible to re sist the suspicion that the real reason for Washington's original sponsorship of the Baghdad Pact was the hankering for some Mid dle Eastern development that could be advertised as proof of a "dynamic new foreign policy", a "recaptured initiative." The hankering was strong in the early days of the Eisenhower administration, before world events began to catch up with the Madison Avenue phrase makers. TT LOOKED good on paper to -1 link up the so-called Northern Tier of Middle Eastern states in an alliance against Soviet ag gression. To be sure, the real danger in the Middle East was not and is not Soviet aggression. Instead, the real danger here is, was and always has been internal subversion and Soviet political chicane. To be sure, all the prospective Baghdad Pact states already had military and economic aid agree ments with the United States and close general relations with the West. If they needed more military power, therefore, the machinery already existed for providing it. All the same, it made a fine headline when the first news of the pact was pub lished at home. Our "recaptur ed initiative" was mentioned with gratifying frequency in the ensuing editorials. In this early period, the Unit ed States took the lead in en couraging Iraq and Turkey, the first signers of the pact, to get together to establish the North ern Tier defense system. As Washington observers with good memories will recall, the State Department in those days haughtily accused the British of "dragging their feet." And at that time, the present American Ambassador to Iraq, Weldemar Gallman, was actually sent here with instruction that securing the signature -of the pact was his most important mission rpHEN Iraa and Turkev signed. - Egypt's Nasser promptly ex- election, let's not overlook the unsolicited ' write - in ' approval given by Oregon Republicans to Vice-President Nixon. He didn't ask for it. Nobody asked for it in. his behalf. Oregon Republi cans just went to the polls and took their pens in hand and wrote in his name as their choice for vice-president. Of every four Republicans who marked an X before President Eisenhower's name on the ballot one took the trouble to write Nixon's name in. Vice-President Nixon and In terior Secretary McKay have been under' heavy Democratic fire. In Friday's primary elec tion, both were decisively en dorsed by Oregon Republicans. That, I think, is a good sign. It indicates .that Oregon Republi cans aren't running from a fight. They have confidence in their leaders, and are ready to stand behind them. Since 1908 PERL Mortuary o Phone 2-6675 FINER FUNERAL SERVICES in every price rang ploded, partly because he gen uinely regards the pact as West ern imperialism in a new guise, and partly because he disliked the leading role accorded to Iraq's Nuri Pasha. AU the same Pakistan came in. The unimagi native British foot dragged, then signed up too, perhaps because they could find no other way to maintain their established treaty relations with this country. And last came Iran. In Washington, however, pre sumably because of Nasser's at titude and the Israeli dislike of the new pact, the recapturers of the initiative were now blow ing on their finger nails in an embarrassed manner and saying who us?" when it was sug gested the new pact was their work. This ostentatious Ameri can tepidity towards the pact was rather prolonged. If the State Department had followed up its first initiative with boldness end decision, oth er Arab states might well have joined the pact. Then the posi tion of one of the West's best friends in the Middle East, Prime Minister Nuri Pasha, would be great deal easier today. In any case, the American tepidity in itself rather gravely under mined Prime Minister Nuri's position. This deeply alarmed the British. British protests and representations, beginning roughly with the Eden-Eisenhower meeting in Washington, then caused the dawn of the third or present period of Amer ican pact policy. IN THIS period, warning of the need to help Nuri Pasha and somewhat ungentle reminders of the original American responsi bility for the pact have driven the State Department as far as Darling Daughter" in the old song. We have, in effect, taken off all our clothes but have not gone near the water. In oth er words, we have joined the anti - subversion and economic committees of the Baghdad Pact, but we have not joined the pact itself. There is only one trouble about this strange intermediate position. The expectation is uni versal here in Baghdad, and it is reportedly universal too in the Turkish, Iranian and Pakis tani capitals, that the United States wul join the pact as . a fuU member after the election. If we do not then join the pact, the resulting disappointment will deeply damage the whole Western position in the Middle East One might say that if this represents "recapturing the ini tiative," then this famous phrase needs a . new dictionary defini tion. Maybe it might be trans lated as "making the worst of both worlds," , with "falling be tween two stools" as an alterna tive rendering. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Big Folks Busy GEO. N. TAYLOR In earlier times, many a fam ily gathered daily while father read out of the Bible and led them in pray er. By that faith was built to believe that God came in the person of Christ to die for us. One small boy who believed, tied two sticks to gether like a cross and stuck them into the ground. God would see and know and write his name in the Book of Life. Then there was the small-town boy ,who became a traveling salesman. He made it a rule to go early to some church on Sundays and offer to teach the teen-age boys. The workers were glad to give him a class. With all this zeal, no wonder our fa thers were glad to put on the coin "In God we fc-ust." This Message sponsored by a Scap poose family. adv. J I
