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rOXTH MEDFORD (OREGON) Mecforiv'S&Tribuxe "Lverybcxiy u bouthern Oregon Read! The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSO.N. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act oi March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily end Sunday One year (12.00 Daily ind Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.30 Sunday Only One year $3.50. 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 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Coanty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver BC NATIONAL EDITORIAL "wl I ASSOCfoUQN i U J BUiimitiTTrmi a" 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 Ma; 28, 1946 (It was Tuesday) Travel is not yet possible on the Diamond Lake highway it was reported from the National Forest service this morning. ' From Arthulr Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: In many fields hereabouts the wheat is up almost as high as the yellow mustard with .good stands of both. 20 YEARS AGO May 28. 1956 (It was Thursday) Campaign expense accounts were filed today by Commis sioner Ralph Billings of Ash land, successful candidate for the Republican nomination at the primary for county commis sioner, and his opponent Wil liam Bruin, of Talent About ' 200 farmers of Jack son county have filed under the soil conservation act for ' 1936, according to County Agent Rob ert Fowler. 30 YEARS AGO May 28, 1926 (It was Friday) Actual motion pictures taken on the western front at the cost of the 14 members of the signal corps of the United States Army, will be shown at Hunt's Crate rian Monday and Tuesday. Baccalaureate services for the high school graduating class held Sunday at Federated church. 40 YEARS AGO May 28, 1956 (It was Sunday) The annual tribute of the liv ing to the dead of the Civil war will be paid tomorrow, Memo-' rial day. J. W. McCoy, of Ashland, elected chairman of group four of the American Bankers' asso ciation at a meeting of bankers of Lake, Klamath, Curry, Jack son and Josephine counties in Ashland. What's the Answer? 1. Former Sen. Millard F. Tyd ings (D.-Md.) unseated six years ago after a quarter century in the U.S. Senate, will run against his 1950 Republican opponents again next November; right or wrong? 2. Most of the people of Aus tria are Protestants, Greek (Or thodox) Catholics or Roman Catholics? 3. Skilled entrants in tennis and other tournaments usually are seeded assigned to definite places in advance of the general draw for positions to make cer tain there " will be exciting matches at the start of the tour nament; right or wrong? 4. A cryptanalyst is an author ity on Egyptian tombs, an expert on secret codes, or an invest ment adviser. 5. Taft as President did not travel anywhere nearly so much as Franklin Roosevelt; right, or wrong. 6. Largest of all whales is the blue, killer, right, or sperm whale. 7. President Sukarno of Indo nesia has no first name; right or wrong? The Answers: 1. Rright. 2. Roman Catholics. 3. Wrong (seeding is lo prevent the best players from meeting in early rounds). 4. Expert on secret codes. 5. Wrong (both averaged nearly 29.000 miles per year in office).' 6. Blue whale (up to 95 feet in length). 7. Right. MAIL TRIBUNE Roller-Coaster Financing The county budget committee, which includes the county court and three citizen members, has an ex ceedingly difficult job this year. Because the county placed a big levy on property last year in order to protect its tax base, and because a number of factors combined with the big levy to pro duce a whopping increase in taxes for most taxpayers, the budget committee this year has been busting its collective neck trying to avoid any tax levy at all. IS THIS necessarily good? We don't think so. . Violent fluctuations in budgeting and tax levying do not appeal to us as the soundest approach to steady, consistent government. And perhaps other taxpayers would agree they wrould prefer to have a moderate and fair tax, which they could calculate in advance, rather than none one year and a humdinger of a tax bill the next. This argument is especially effective when judged in the light of their action in denying almost all wage and salary increase proposals for county personnel proposals whch, by and large, are in line with salary adjustments in other related lines. THE denial of salary adjustments (in all fairness, it should be pointed out the action is tentative, and pending further study of budget requirements) begins at the top with elected officials and goes all the way down through the ranks of county workers with only one or two exceptions. The county court recently mailed out a number of questionnaires to selected residents of the county, asking the latters' opinions on the county salary levels. They have been disappointed in the results, for there has been no particular support for changing the salary schedule for elected officials. But we happen to think that many county workers are grossly underpaid, and we said so a lew monins ago in a call for salaries which are both realistic budgetwise, and sufficiently hefty to attract compe tent men into the public service. THE same thing applies all down the line. If we wont pffppfivp rmhlip servants in non-elective of- fipoo wd'rp o-nino- tn havp. fer the consequences. In this case the consequences are o-nnrl nennlp leaving-, and either havine no replace ments at all, or replacements of inferior quality and accomplishment. Ts this what we want in second-raters and quasi-pensioners? ; It looks like bad economy to us. A NT pxamnlp (and we cite " is typical, because it because it was pointed out to us oy people wno are concerned) is salaries for deputy sheriffs. The deputies now receive $300 to $330 per month, with the chief deputy receiving $350. Ten years ago that would have been pretty good pay, even for a man who goes armed among his neigh bors to protect their peace and safety. Today . . . Well, a rookie state policeman gets $335 to start; a private can go up to $355, and a first class private is paid between $370 and $415. And we understand from high officials of the department that they are worried about how to recruit competent men even at these salary levels. THE Klamath county budget committee last week approved a salary increase of $120 per year ($10 per month) for all courthouse personnel. The Josephine county budget committee has brought the minimum salary, for its present criminal rlormtipa nn tn $3fi5. and has added two more at start ing: salaries of $350, or the our chief deputy, Tne maximum is now $410. Medford police start at the same as the present Jackson county deputies, but can look forward to per iodic merit raises bringing the top pay to $350. And there is a recruiting problem here, too. IF IT IS true that the budget committee is shooting for no tax levy next year, (f iguring on paying the year's expenses out of Oand C revenues and carry over funds from current income and present taxes) we think they are being penny-wise and pound foolish in ignoring justified demands for competitive wages. The county is a multi-million-dollar concern. If it is to be administered efficiently, if it is to meet the demands for service to which the taxpayers are en titled, if it is to be stable and dependable then it must have competent people. Economy in government is important. But it is not true economy to pinch pennies one year, and then be faced with trebled needs another year. Let's have an end to roller-coaster financing. E.A. The Limits To Blame As a post script, it should be pointed out that the underlying cause of up-and-down financing lies in the Oregon constitution, which provides that budgets may not increase in any year more than 6 per cent over the maximum budgeted m one ot tne immediate ly preceding three years. ' . " As a result, some units of government (like rapidly-growing school districts) must go to the voters each year for approval of budgets millions of dollars over the unrealistic 6 per cent limitation. ZITHER units, like the O and C counties, with huge timber revenues, are almost forced to levy taxes they don't need (as Jackson did last year) at least every three years, just to protect their tax base. Silly, isn't it? It's an example of how a good, con 'servative idea can get so far out of date that it defeats its own purpose. E.A. Monday, Mar 28, I95S to nav for them too. or suf eovemment a place for this example because-it is an important spot, and same top salary we pay Neutralism '3rd Force' By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent President-Premier Gamal Ab del ' Nasser of Egypt gave the "neutralist" movement a boost when he rec ognized the Chinese Communist re gime. Nasser is one of the three key men in the neutral ist movement. The other two chaxies McCann are President Tito of Yugoslavia and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India. , Nasser quite evidently is bid ding for leadership of the Arab world, which extends along the entire southern shore of the Mediterranean and on into Southwestern Asia. Tito is the chief neutralist of Europe. He would like to become the leader of a Balkan federa tion in Southeastern Europe consisting of countries " which now are Russian satellites. Nehru, the pioneer in the neu tralist movement, exerts great influence over . a big area, of Southern and Southeastern Asia. Red Aims Unchanged The United States takes a very dim view of neutralism. Its feel ing, though not officially ex pressed, is briefly: If you're not with us, you're helping Commu nism. It is not an illogical position. Despite the present historic changes incident to the debunk ing of Joseph Stalin, the long range aim of Kremlin Commu nism is still sworld domination. The more countries which can be lulled into neutralism, to be come bystanders in the West-East cold war, the better for the Kremlin. But neutralism is steadily growing into an important "third force" in world affairs. It includes all nine members of the Arab League except Iraq. It includes such countries as Indonesia, Ceylon, Burma and Matter of Fact by THIRSTY KEFAUVER Kissimee, Fla. If you follow Estes Kefauver through the towns and hamlets of Florida on his quest for this state's dele gate votes, you quickly begin to- understand his proven &p- peal to the voters. You also begin to u n d e r s t and why his Presi dential candi dacy has not a single sup Stewart Alsop porter among his colleagues in tne benate, and why the Demo cratic Party leaders are almost unanimously bitterly opposed to him. His campaign technique is visibly effective. The famous Kefauver hand-shaking routine, for example, is a remarkable performance. It is not at all the grinning, glad-handing business you might expect. Instead, it is solemn, almost somnambulistic, and oddly hypnotic. Slowly, re lentlessly, almost never smiling, Kefauver moves down the street, like some huge- mechani cal toy, offering his brief but strangely intimate hand-shake, and repeating his favorite phrase, "I'm Estes Kefauver. I hope you'll help me." l'EFAUVER, who is a great deal shrewder than he seems, is of course wholly aware that only a minuscule proportion of the electorate experiences the Kefauver hand-shake. His the ory is, obviously, that a thous and or so hand-shakes a day are like so many pebbles thrown into a pool,' creating, in every expanding ripples, a general im pression of friendliness and folksiness. Kefauver's successes at the polls attest the validity of the theory. The same theory applies to his campaign speech-making. The crowds are rarely large. In this town, for example, as in most others, the crowd around Ke fauver during his speech was made up largely of the bedrag gled covey of reporters, plus a straggle of casual passerby. But this never seems to bother Ke fauver a bit. - Undaunted, he launches into his set speech, which the re porters have heard, with minor variations, uncounted times be fore. Here the contrast with the campaign technique of Adlai Stevenson is particularly strik ing. OARTLY, one suspects, because the notion of repeating the same thing over and over again embarrasses him, Stevenson al ways tries to make a new speech, or at least to find a new ap proach, at every stopping place. Stevenson, moveover, hates to bore an audience, to the point where he sometimes seems a little like a nervous hostess try ing-to pep up a dull party. Ke fauver doesn't in the least mind being boring. r? gi The pattern " is - always the Rapidly Becoming In World Affairs Cambodia. Neutralists rule about 540 million people. There also is a quiet, grow ing neutralist movement in Eu rope outside of Yugoslavia. It is being . promoted not at least openly by heads of govern ment, but by men of great politi cal influence, some of whom have been high in government and could be again. U. S. Facing Decision It looks as if the time may be coming when the United States will have to reconcile itself to the fact that neutralism is here to stay. That will mean decisions as to what to do about it.' Recognition of the appeal of neutralism is behind the present talk of broadening the North At lantic Treaty Organization to in clude economic cooperation.' In The Day's This squib in the news inter ests me greatly: The post office department announces that it is calling a conference of five noted authori ties to study what the depart ment calls a SERIOUS PROB LEM. That, it should be added, is the modern method. When you're confronted by a problem, call a conference of skilled and competent authorities. These specialists will then take the problem apart to see what makes it tick. When they have isolated the factor that is causing it to tick WRONG, they will propose a solution. It's as simple as that. TUT let's get back to the post " office and its problem. The problem is posed by this fact: Every year 6,000 mailmen are bitten by dogs. Three-fourths of the 6,000 dog-bitten couriers of the post have to see a doctor. That involves an admittedly serious waste of manpower. It is to CUT DOWN this waste that the conference has been called. The conferees will include five authorities on does. Four of- Stewart Alsop same. 'First there is some folksy local reference, often to some relative in the region one gets the impression that Kefauver has cousins strategically located aU over the United States. Then, in his slow, earnest voice, Ke fauver plunges ruthlessly into a series of cliches: "There is an important part to be played by every segment of our economy," "I want our working people to have good wages and good work ing conditions," and so on. When he says such things, he sounds deeply in earnest, and the small crowds listen with obvious re spect. When you add up all the cliches, they amount to a col lection of carefully calculated ap peals to each important voting group, from fruit farmers to postal employees. The appeals are shrewdly varied according to time and place. There is much emphasis on Kefauver's Southernness, -for example, but the central issue here school desegregation : is rarely men tioned. ALL this is according to the rules of the game, of course. Kefauver, moveover, who has shown courage and intelligence in the past, usually plays the game better than most. But, as he has shown in the last few days here, Kefauver is also capable of breaking the rules of the game, which is the main reason why his colleagues and the party leaders will haye none of him. He has been repeating that the leading Florida politicians, in supporting Stevenson, have "ganged up" on him. He is used to that, he says mournfully. But it would not have happened if they had known that Steven son, as Governor of Illinois, had heartlessly vetoed a 10 per cent increase in ' assistance for the aged and infirm. The quick knife-thrust just before the campaign ends is a classical maneuver, of course. But in this case the maneuver seems a little too blatant. For Kefauver neglected to make his charge during his television "de bate" with Stevenson, when Stevenson could have easily an swered him by pointing out that the Ulinois Legislature, play ing a hoary political trick, had failed to provide revenue for the increase. ("There "was no time to bring it up on television," Kefauver blandly explained.) THE trick may be effective, since there are many old people in Florida, and Kefau ver's voice vibrates with com passion when he talks of Stev enson's heartlessness. But in the end, a politician al most always pays a heavy pen alty for breaking the rules of the game. There is an old rule of American politics, moreover, that a man who thirsts so fierce ly for the presidency that he will do anything to get it, is always disappointed in the end. And Kefauver is certainly a thirsty man. . Copyright 1956. The' New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Nasser has no Communist problem in his own country. He is quite openly using the Com munist countries to strengthen his own country against Isreal and his own influence in the Arab world. He might well out smart himself. Nehru is completely in control of India. He is friendly with the Communist countries. - But he keeps his foot down on Indian Reds. . Tito is a Communist. But he is definitely not a Kremlin Com munist. He seems determined to keep his independence in for eign affairs. But neutralism is still harm ful to those countries which are allied to defend w.orld freedom. The big question is what to do about it. News them are William E. Buckley, president of the American Ken nel Club; George Foley, pub lisher of Popular Dogs Maga zine; William Rockefeller Jr., president of the SPCA, . and Kerns Wright, board chairman of the American Humane Asso ciation. The fifth is C. R. .Harbison, of .New York, who describes himself as a dog psychologist. rpHESE skilled experts, I'd guess, will divide the problem into two general classifications: 1. What makes dogs want to bite mailmen. 2. What can the mailmen do to make dogs NOT want to bite mailmen. Once those basic questions have been satisfactorily answer ed, the rest will be duck soup. The mailmen will thereafter make their daily rounds un hampered by dog bites and the doctors who have been treating the 6,000 bitten mailmen will have just that much more time free for taking care of their patients. - - Isn't our modern conference system wonderful? T'D LIKE to offer just two pious hopes: 1. That these trained and able experts will be able to REACH AGREEMENT on what makes dogs want to bite mailmen and what the mailmen must do. to make dogs NOT want to bite mailmen. . . 2. That after the conclusions have been agreed upon the dogs and the mailmen will cooperate freely and fully in carrying out the recommendations of the ex perts. VE been having all, kinds On all kinds of problems in cluding how to stop war and bring on peace and whether or not to put stuff in the city water to keep children from having cavities in their teeth. Two troubles have plagued these conferences;. 1. The experts end jup in a fight over whether the proposed solutions wUl work or not. 2. The public winds up in a fight over whether, or not to ac cept the solutions proposed by the experts. Governor Signs Dairy Month Proclamation Governor Elmo Smith has signed a proclamation announc ing June as Dairy Month. Present at the signing of the proclamation was Arthur Hurl burt, Portland, Oregon's Dairy Month chairman. "This is the flush season when milk pro duction is the highest of the year," he said, "and one of the best ways we know of to avoid a surplus is to drink more milk and eat more dairy foods." Slogan for June Dairy Month is "June's Best Buys Are Dairy Foods." Typographical Union Votes To Strike Paper Des Moines, la. (U.R) Lo cal 118 of the International Typ ographical union has voted 108 to 1 to "initiate strike action" against the Des Moines Register and Tribune, union leaders said Sunday. Local President Norman Mil ler said notification of the strike vote was to be given to the news papers' management today. No strike date has been set? he said. Miller said the local's nego tiating committee "has been un able after five months of talks to arrive at a satisfactory con tract." o soy '"How proud you ore!" See our complete selections. 4 Writers of News Forecast Headlines Of Coming Events United Press correspon dent around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. May be Agonizing ' Look . for Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to ' come up with some big new ideas soon. Dulles is making a reappraisal of United States foreign jolicy. It may be agonizing. Insiders say Dulles wants to figure out how to (1) counter Democratic campaign charges that the ad ministration is losing ground to Soviet Russia and (2) convince some of this country's Western allies, who feel the same way, that it isn't so. , You Invite Us Washington expects heavy pressure from the Krelim to get invitations for high-ranking Russians to visit the United States. All the talk about Am erican military visits to Russia, Washington believes, is simply a build-up for reciprocal invita tions. Big Thaw Mr. B. and Mr. K. have been invited to visit Sweden, Norway and Denmark. London expects Finland to invite them soon. Nor way and Denmark are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization. Revolt in Desert Young King Hussein of Jor dan is in trouble. He fired Gen. Sir John Glubb as commander of his Arab Legion to appease pro-Egyptian 4 elements. They were not appeased. Middle East ern capitals are buzzing with rumors of a plot to oust him. News for GI's Prospects have brightened for some extension of the GI home loan, privilege for veterans of World War II. The loan plan expires July 25, 1957, as of now. Chairman Olin E. Teague, (D- Tex.) of the House Veterans Committee, bottled up proposals to extend it. Now he's been by passed. Labor Says No London looks for a wave of big strikes in Britain. The gov ernment thought labor unions would accept a wage freeze as part of an anti-inflation drive. It guessed wrong. ' Pocketbook Pinch Washington predicts graduat ed increases in the price of crude oil before very long. Independ ent domestic producers are fight ing for them. If the increases come, it means a new squeeze on the consumer's pocketbook. Engineer, Science Institute Scheduled CorvaUis The. first annual Junior Engineers' and Scientists' Summer Institute will be held at Oregon State college, June 10 23, for all high school students entering the 11th or 12th grade in September receiving- recom mendations from their high school principals. All students who are eligible and interested in science can pick up an application and fur ther information in their prin cipal's office. The student cost of this science and engineering orientation pro gram is $75. The fee includes board, lodging, tuition, field trips, class supplies and inciden tal materials. Incidental and tra vel expenses are defrayed by the student. Some scholarships will be provided for students who can't afford the fee.' All applications must be filed not later than May 15. Students will be notified of their en rollment by May 21. The orientation program is be ing sponsored by the Scientists of Tomorrow, a non-profit cor-' poration, and the industries of the state of Oregon. There are ten species of the skunk in North America. FUNERAL SERVICES Jn Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 0. Elmo Smith Said Bitter Foe of Social Equality The civil rights voting record record of Oregon's Gov. Elmo Smith makes his nomination for reelection "a revealing study in contrasts, when compared to the Administration's professed con cern for the rights of racial and religious minorities," Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger of Oregon said today in a speech prepared for Senate delivery. Neuberger questioned whether the Republican party can "lay claim to sincere sponshorship of civil rights, so long as it sup ports a candidate with the ob vious views and attitudes in this field" held by Governor Smith. He added that Smith "voted against all three measures adopted by our state to prevent discrimination against members of minority races or religions." What Does GOP Plan To Do? "Mr. Smith, by his votes as a State Senator, has demonstrated his opposition to the most simple and elemental legislation for safeguarding minority rights and privileges," Neuberger de clared. "I ask the Republican party what it plans to do about Elmo E. Smith, Republican candidates for Governor of Ore gon and now head of his party's 1956 ticket in the state." Neuberger explained that Smith voted in the Oregon Sen ate against the state's fair em ployment practices bill to forbid racial or religious discrimina tion in jobs, against a bill for bidding discrimination against students in trade and profes sional schools, and against a bill forbidding discrimination in public places. "From our re search, we can find no other member of the Oregon State Senate who voted against ' aU three of these bills to safeguard minority rights in the state of Oregon," he added. Will Be Interesting K "Administration spokesmen have been making many speeches and statements pro claiming great and profound in terest in the protection of racial and religious minorities," Neu berger told the Senate.. "It will be interesting and significent to determine what the administra tion has to say about the fact that the most determined foe of minority rights and minority liberties in Oregon is now the head of the Republican ticket in our state for the 1956 elections, the elections in which national GOP leaders expect to play so prominent a part." THE RIGHT MAN Olyrnpia, Wash. (U.R) The state auditor has an examiner by the name of Sherlock Holmes. Empty Boast GEO. N. TAYLOR "Count on me, Lord for I never will desert you." So Peter boasted that he would stand by the Lord. "But Peter, you will deny Me three times before s u n-u p, said Jesus. Soon after that Jesus let them take Him prisoner. and Peter de nied three times that he had ever known Jesus. Dawn came and Jesus looked down on Peter. Their eyes meet and Peter goes out and weeps bitterly. Next, Christ is led away and crucified. "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin. 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