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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UHS "Xverytxxij tn Southern Oreson Kesfls TO Mali TTlDuno- Published Daily Except Saturday by Mi-DrORO PRINTING CO. tT- North rir St. Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W. RDUU Editor KERB GREY, Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manaier IRIC imi JR, ManaRinit tAHnt EARL a. ADAMS. City Editor BARRY CHiPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor CUVI ST ARCHER. Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. ClrcuUtlon Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at MedXord. Oregon, under Act ot March 1, 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year Sla-JO Dslly and Sunday Six montha t30 Dally and Sunday Three mos. 50 Sunday Only One year 1330 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue Elver. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The creak of the pitchfork is heard in the rural areas as haying gets un , derway. 20 YEARS AGO June 1. 1938 (It was Monday) Building permit totals for the first five months In 1936 are $70,940 which are ahead of the total for the similar period last year. Regular examinations of ap plicants for state teachers' certi ficates will be held at the Jack son county courthouse Wednes day, C. R. Bowman, school su perintendent, has announced. SO YEARS AGO June 1. 1926 (It was Tuesday) More than 1,700 local people yesterday saw official govern ment pictures "On Flander's Field," at Hunt's Craterian. John Carkin of Jackson coun ty will be speaker of the house when the 1927 session of the leg islature convenes. 40 YEARS AGO June 1, 1916 (It was Thursday) The Liberty school, Wellen, Oregon, C. D. Schell teacher, closed Saturday May 20, with a program and community day. The Star theater will make a moving picture comedy in Med ford Friday that will be the first of its kind produced in Oregon. What's the Answer? 1. Sen. George of Georgia will retire from the Senate when Congress adjourns this summer or not until the 84th Congress expires next January? 2. Soviet Russia plans to re duce its armed forces by a total of (a) 640,000, (b) 1.200,000, (c) 1,500,000, or (d) 2,000,000 men? 3. Negroes in the United States today number fewer than 5.000,000. about 10,000,000, or more than 15,000,000? 4. Automoblie manufacturers have been paying supplementary unemployment benefits to all workers laid off this spring; light or wrong? 5. France is still battling North African rebels in Algeria, Morocco, or Tunis? 6. The American Assembly issued the Declaration of In dependence in 1776, is another name for the U.S. Congress, is a periodic conference on current problems sponsored by Colum bia University? 7. One of every two, two of every three, or three of every four American families have TV sets? The answers: 1. Not until Jan nary. 2. 1,200.000 men by May 1. 1957. 3. More than 15,000,000. 4. Wrong (S.U.B. payments begin June 1 for idle employees who meet certain conditions. 5. Al geria. 6. Conference on current problems. 7. Three of every four, according to Census Bureau. MAIL TRIBUNE "Chappie " C. C. Chapman, who died in Portland Wednesday at the age of 80, was a man respectful, partly amused, tion of a character from He was never a stickler and as a result was the source of many legends among the press corps at the legislature in Salem, of which he had been a member for more than 40 years. something of a dandy, sartorial elegance interfere with comfort, and in recent years customarily wore comfortable, lined slippers even on the floor of the house or senate. HAPMAN was a man of principle and courage. It was easy to disagree with him, to call him a hide bound conservative, to challenge his thinking and his decisions. But it wa3 not possible to shake him when he be lieved he was right. Pressure was unavailing. When, however, he was shown to be wrong, either in a conclusion or in a matter to admit it, and to make a genuine, unaffected apology when it was called for. rESPITE his conservatism, he had what he regarded as the welfare of the state at heart. He is credited with originating the widely-copied gasoline tax in Ore gon, the first state to adopt one, which" made possible Oregon's highway system. He belonged to a multitude of organizations which he felt were worthy of his support, and before his age dictated a slow-down of activity, was an ardent worker for many of them. His list of civic achievements is a long one. But his chief claim to fame was the establishment and long editorship of The Oregon Voter, a little week ly magazine of political and economic news and views which has been virtually unique in the nation. It was written (and still is, under the editorship of Walter May, long-time Oregon City newspaperman who took over about a year ago) with a strongly con servative bias. But, to Chapman's credit, opinion was clearly opinion not necessarily fact. e e IJE BUILT a reputation for integrity and honesty which made the magazine valuable as a source of information even to his political opponents. His long and exactingly-researched tables of financial sta tistics were scrupulously correct and dependable and available virtually nowhere else in the state in such clear and handy form. His biennial legislative were extremely handy for newspapermen and others interested in the composition of the legislature, for he painstakingly dug up and .printed accurate thumb nail" sketches of each of the 90 members. Usually these contained, tistics, his own or his associates' appraisals of the in dividuals concerned. In setting down his opinion, he was more apt to err on the erosity than on the side oi sharpness and asperity. THERE are too few men like "Chappie." He was both gentle and critical, opinionated and open minded, courageous and reasonable, likeable and ex asperating. He was, in short, a paradox. The material good he did for his adopted state will be his most lasting tribute. And there just aren't Voters Pamphlet The voters pamphlet sometimes is) confused with The Oregon Voter. The latter is a privately-operated magazine of opinion ; the former is a publicly-supported publication designed to inform voters about candidates and measures prior to statewide elections. The voters pamphlet has come under some critic ism of late, on the grounds that it is costly to put out, and that its value is questionable. e e a e e THAT it is costly, in the aggregate, is unarguable. But it is worth the cost which adds up to only a few cents per voter. Its value lies in the fact that it is the one place where all the candidates for public office have a chance to give their own statements of belief. Dolicv and candidacy, and where ed on are attacked, defended and explained by those interested in them, pro or con. To a faithful newspaper reader, the voters pamph let contains little that is new or startling. But it is nanay m that contains all m one spot much of the information necessary in coming to a conclusion on a multitude of candidates . "OREGON was the first v tute the initiative, referendum and recall, which bring government as close where in the world, except still operates with these implements of democracy, on the theory that an informed electorate, in the long run, will do. the best -job oi governing itself. Anything which can be come true should be done, ers pamphlet as a part of begrudged. b. A. Oakridge Man Dies. Klamath FaUs (U.R) Ore gon's reported Memorial Day ac cidental death toll increased to two when Emil Nadeau of Oak ridge, Ore., died in a Klamath Falls hospital late yesterday from Injuries suffered when his car went out of control Wedes day night. . Nadeau was thrown from the Friday. Juna 1. 193U who had earned the partly partly affectionate appella those who knew him. for the minor conventions, he nevertheless never let of fact, he never hesitated fact was labeled fact, and issues of the Voter, too, in addition to vital sta side of kindness and gen any others like "Chappie." E.A. should not be (though it all the measures to be vot and public matters. state in the nation to insti to the people as it is any possibly Switzerland. "' It done to make this ideal and the expense of the vot this picture should not be In Klamath Hospital car when it went out of control on a Klamath Falls street.- He died without regaining con sciousness. Earlier, it was reported that Terry McCumber, 9, was killed Memorial Day when he appaf ent ly slipped and fell beneath the wheels of a .water .truck. at the Roseburg speedway. Good News, Bad News Listed in Balance by Writer By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: The Good 1. President Eisenhower, de cided to send Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chief of staff of the Air Force to Moscow for an ob servance of Soviet Aviation Day on June 24. The invitation had been extended by the Soviet government. Some misgivings were voiced over the advisabil ity of the Twining visit. It was suggested that the invitation was merely a Kremlin propaganda move, aimed partly at getting in vitations for high Soviet leaders to visit the United States. The President apparenUy figured that Twining's visit could do no harm and might do good as one step toward an eventual break in the disarmament deadlock. Also, Air Force chiefs of other Allied countries will attend the show. 2. The United Nations Com mand ordered the neutral nations armistice inspection teams out of South Korea because of per sistent truce violations by the North Korean and Chinese Com munists. The decision ended a farcical situation and a danger ous one. For instance, the Reds have moved 400 to 500 war planes into North Korea since Today and By Walter WOODEN LEADERSHIP It is not in the least surpris ing that Congress is showing so much opposition to this year's request for foreign aid. Ever since the middle of March, when the President asked for a new authori zation nf nearly JQJ $5,000,000, it Welter Llppmann enough that he and his advisors were not taking into account how much world public opinion, including Ameri can, was being affected by the changing world situation. The Administration has put forward its request for another and a bigger authorization, using the same old slogans that have been doing duty year after year. It has taken no serious notice of the fact that foreign aid, both military and civilian, is under going a revolutionary reap praisal throughout the world. It has treated this great develop ment as not strictly relevant to the business before Congress. fONGRESS has reached to this lack of plainness and candor. It knows that the whole subject of foreign aid has to be recon sidered. It knows that the Ad ministration is in fact beginning to reconsider it. It knows that the Administration has not yet reached many definite conclu sions as to how, in the light of the new world situation, to form a sound foreign aid policy. Then Congress finds that the new money it is being asked to vote is to be used to finance the flow of military assistance, not this year and not next year, but in 1958 and 1959. Knowing that the strategical planning of NATO and of our other alliances may be seriously revised in the next two years. Congress is in no mood to author!; large funds to be used two or three years hence. "The Congress," said the chairman of the House Commit tee on Foreign Affairs, Mr. Richards, "may well regard the pending mutual security bill as only an interim measure." As there are nearly two years' funds already in the pipe line, the com mittee felt that after cutting the authorizaion by over a $1,000,- 000.000, "the sums recommended in this bill are ample until we know more about the direction in which the program will move." In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS News note on May 30. . The nation if solemnly salut ing its war dead in Memorial Day observances from coast to coast and wherever Americans are stationed overseas. TITEMORIAL Day thought: It is right and proper that we should pay tribute to the memory of those who have gone before. They did a lot for us. This is a better world because of them. MODERN Memorial Day note: Millions of Americans have taken to the highways for the one-day mid-week holiday. The National Safety Council, sound ing its customary safe driving appeal, estimates that traffic ac cidents today will cost 110 Amer ican lives. From midnight Tuesday until the hour this is written the As sociated Press reports 29 lives lost in motor fatalities. L the truce. Before then, they had none the Allies completely dominated the air. The Commu nists will not let the teams in spect their territory. 3. Chancellor Konrad Aden auer's West German government made a series of proposals to the East German Communists for restoring normal communica tions between the two areas. In a second step, the West German government charged that the Reds still hold 18,900 political prisoners. In both actions, Aden auer evidently sought to take ad vantage of the loosening up in the Red satellite countries inci dent to the debunking of Josef Stalin. The Bad 1. The French National Assem bly opened a critical debate on Premier Guy Mollet's North African and internal pciicies. The debate will lead up to a confidence vote next week, prob ably Tuesday. It was forecast that Mollet would win but only because ho political group wants to take responsibility for over throwing his government at this time. Algerian nationalists were in open, bloody rebellion. In France, there were serious riots, Communist - fomented, against drafting men for service in Al geria. Troops en route to Africa repeatedly slowed up railroad Tomorrow Llppmann The Administration would have done well to listen to those who advised it to go to Congress, saying that foreign aid was go ing to be revised, that while the revision was going on the exist ing programs should not be dis turbed, and that as and when new programs were worked out. Congress would be told all about them. On that kind of a submis sion, the President would in fact have been asking Congress not to approve a program that is out of date but to trust him while a new program is being worked out. He might well have gotten such a vote of confidence. TN REACTING as it has reacted, 1 the House Foreign Affairs Committee is moving with, not counter to, the tides of opinion in Western Europe. When it voted to reduce military aid by a $1,000,000,000. it did not in the least believe that it was vot ing to reduce the military se curity of the United States and of its allies. It was in the same mood as are the Germans who do not want to conscript the promised German divisions, as the French who have not moved virtually all their infantry to North Africa, as the British who are beginning to think about abolishing conscription. It is the mood of people who do not want to waste their time and money preparing not for the next war but for the last war. rPHE ATTITUDE of Congress is the American expression of the same mood which we are thinking about abroad when we talk of the decline of interest in NATO. I do not believe that the deep cause of this loss of in terest is due to the new look of Soviet policy. The deep cause is that the higher leadership of NATO, as it reflects itself in the requests to the governments, has not kept abreast of the revolu tion in the miliary art. 't ne loss of interest is due to a loss of belief in the realism of NATO's strategical conceptions. If we are wise, we shall not regard the action of the Com mittee as merely a relapse into isolationism and know-nothing- ism. Insofar has there has been such a relapse, it is due to a fail ure in leadership a failure to argue the case for foreign aid in terms which are relevant and convincing. Copyright 195S The New York Herald Tribune Inc. News THAT brings up something else: Working a shift of 14 hours and 15 minutes (for which, in cidentally, its members got no overtime) the U. S. senate put its approval on the big federal highway bill, named senate mem bers of a conference committee, and sent the measure to a con ference with the house. The expectation is that it won't be too difficult for the conferees to reach agreement, and if the bill passes both houses it is a practical certainty that the President will sign it. IT WILL mean the expenditure of a huge sum of money. But it will enable our highways to handle an enormously greater amount of traffic which. In turn, will enable us to earn more money with which to pay the bill for the new and better roads. And Because it will add greatly to the mileage of multi-lane high ways it will make our roads SAFER to travel. of Week trains by pulling emergency stop-signals. 2. Premier Antonio Segni's Christian Democrats and their allies won a technical victory in elections for local governments throughout Italy. They increased their total popular vote, and the Communists lost votes. But in many cities, including Rome, the Christian Democrats failed to get the majorities they needed to keep control of local govern ments. The result was a dead lock. Segni faced the choice of seeking support from either left or right wings, or calling new elections. 3. Violence blazed throughout Cyprus. Rebels who demand that Britain give the island to Greece assassinated British troops, Turk ish Cypriot policemen and Greek Cypriot civilians.- In London, Queen Elizabeth II was heavily guarded by police when she at tended on Thursday the official celebration of her birthday. Scot land Yard feared an attempt by Cypriot gunmen to assassinate her. Negro Vote Crucial in Many 1956 Elections; GOP Making Inroads Washington CQ) Negroes now hold the balance of power enough Congressional dis tricts to assure the success of Re publican efforts to capture con trol of the House of Represent atives in November should they vote Republican. As yet, no one is predicting a wholesale swing by Negro vot ers from the Democratic to the Republican 'column. But that's the goal of an all-out GOP cam paign, and already Democrats acknowledge that "some" shift appears inevitable. Whether or not this switch as sumes tidal proportions could be determined by the outcome of Congressional action on civil leg islation. A Senate filibuster by southern Democrats could be the signal for a stampede by Negroes to the GOP banner. These are the highlights of a special study by Congressional Quarterly. Basis for the study was a tabulation of the propor tions of the Negro population in each of the nation's 435 Congres sional districts. This part of the study showed that Negroes numbered 10 per cent or more of the total popu lation in 88 of 120 districts in the South, but in only 35 of 315 districts outside the South. And of these 35. 29 elected Demo crats to the House in 1954. Trouble in Detroit Already some of these Demo crats are in trouble in their own bailiwicks. In Detroit's First Dis trict, where Negroes numbered 37.5 per cent of the 1950 popu lation, Polish-born Rep. Thad- deus M. Machrowicz will be op posed in the Aug. 7 primary by Mrs. Cora M. Brown, Michigan's first Negro woman State Sen ator. Last week, Negro delegates walked out of the Democratic convention in the First because Negroes "had been pushed around long enough." Republi cans are certain to profit by such intra-party incidents. Rep. Earl Chudoff (D-Pa.) also is in trouble in Philadelphia's Fourth District 44.8 per cent Negro in 1950. Although he won renomination easily with 13,470 votes in the recent primary, one of his two 'opponents Earl F. Dales, a Negro got 5,072 votes, while the unopposed Republican candidate Horace Scott, also a Negro got 8,255 votes. All told, Chudoff received only 48 per cent of the total vote cast in the primary. These are two of nly 14 dis tricts outside the South in which Negroes numbered 20 per cent or more of the 1950 population, giving them a preponderant po litical Influence. Except for the rural. First District of Maryland, which has re-elected Republican Rep. Edward T. Miller since 1946, all are big-city districts which regularly roll up heavy Democratic majorities. But there are many more dis tricts in which Negroes, even though relatively less numerous, could exercise the balance 2 31 EAST SIXTH ST. MUTTON BEEF BEEF SLICED ROAST H-B!Si? STEAK BACON 19 LB. 1 9C LB. 39lB. 29 LB. Advertising as Stimulant For Business Is Discussed By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. I am not saying tHat advertising is the most . important factor in busi ness. The loca tion and atti tude of every local merchant and each of his clerks are also great factors. This is due to the fact that consumer buy ing really de- Roger w Bsbton xermines t n e future of business and employ ment. If economic history had run true to form, we would have had a business depression and unem ployment after World War II. But the adventure in radio ad vertising saved the day.. It pro vided the greatly needed "shot-in-the-arm" to the general wel fare, i In the last part of the Truman Administration, color advertis ing was another "shot-in-the-arm" which was then greatly needed. Again, after Mr. Eisen hower became President, we power in close elections. CQ's study identified 61 districts out side the South where the per centage of Negroes in the 1950 population exceeded the win ning candidate's margin .of vic tory in the 1954 Congressional election. Democrats Vulnerable Thirty-two of the 61 districts elected Democrats, 29 Republi cans, many by narrow margins. Other things being equal, a sub stantial shut of Negro votes would tend to strengthen Re publicans in their districts and weaken the Democrats in theirs especially in 10 districts in which Democrats ousted Repub licans in 1954 by narrow mar gins. One of these is the Illinois 25th, a rural district composed of 15 counties at the southern end of the state. In 1950, there were 20,000 Negroes in the dis trict, making up 6 per cent of the total population. In 1954, Democrat Kenneth B, Gray de feated the veteran GOP incum bent, seven-termer C. W. (Runt) Bishop, by 6,903 voes. Gray's share of the total vote was 52.6 per cent, and by aU accounts, he had the votes of a majority of the Negroes in the district. As elsewhere, many factors are at work in this district in cluding unemployment and fall ing farm prices in addition to the civil rights issue. In the April 10 primary, a four-way contest for the Republican nom ination probably accounted for the fact that Gray, who was un opposed for renomination, got only 44 per cent of the total vote cast for all candidates. But the figures show that Gray could be hurt, and possibly defeated, by a heavy loss of Negro votes in November. The GOP must score a net gain of 15 seats to win control of the House. In many of the 32 Democratic-held districts in which they hold the balance of power, three out of four Negroes have voted for Democrats. A shift of one of these giving Re publicans helf of all Negro votes might do the trick. That is why Democrats are worried, and why Republicans are pulling out all stops to capitalize on the split between northern and southern Democrats in order to win Ne gro voters back to the, party of Abraham . Linciln, the -Great Emancipator. (Copyright 195B, Congressional Quarterly) Dr. Jouett P. Bray is attending a Convention in Port land and will return to his office at 317 Lozier Lane MONDAY, JUNE 4th ol ; I were threatened with declining retail sales. This caused manu facturers to lay off employees. Increased unemployment follows declining sales as night follows day.- This time it was television advertising which corrected the situation and kept a million rend ers of this column on their jobs. v,oiara sausages? Unless the national advertiser have something new to offer, we are again likely to see de clining sales, whoever may be elected President on Nov. 6 of this year. Clouds are already in the sky. Every merchant should be on his toes and tend to busi ness. Whatever ticket he votes, every manufacturer, merchant, or wageworker wants good busi ness. Certainly, it wiU not come by voting any ticket antagonis tic to business. The first prin ciple of holding your job and being promoted is to stick bv and uphold foundations already built. I hope the advertising agen cies can pull some new rabbit out of their hats to make goods times continue considerably longer. Consumers, however, be come immune to the same old advertisements presented in the same old way. If I were forced to guess as to the next incen tive to business, I would pick new style or packaging. This is best illustrated in the supermarkets and in the "five-and-ten" variety stores now be ing put on a self-service basis. forecast that the cheapest form, and one of the most ef fective forms, of advertising dur ing the next few years will be the attractiveness of the pack age. The Massachusetts Legisla ture is already being asked to permit the sale of colored sau sages. Here is a great opportuni ty for young people with both imagination and artistic sense. For a modern pulling package there must be a combination of the old trade mark, upon which millions of dollars have already been spent, and a new feature which will catch the eye. I fear that most newspapers are not helping their local mer chants in the preparation of their advertisements. While the na tional advertisers are employing the best psychologists and artists to provide the copy for their advertising in local newspapers, the local merchant is content to use the canned advertising sent to him, without adding per sonal or local touch. This is due partly to laziness on the part of the merchant and partly to the fact that it costs the local news paper to make a change in the advertising copy. . Yet statistics will show that the local newspapers espe cially those of smaller cities are the real determining factors as to future business. My advica to national advertisers is to spend more money. Of course, it is much less work for the na tional advertiser to get his in come from expensive copy in a few magazines of big circulation than to bother with a lot of lit tle daily or weekly newspapers. Let me say, however, that this is a dangerous policy for adver tising agencies and also for the national advertisers whom they represent. Remember that the weekly newspaper not only is published once a week but also is being read by some one every day. (These opinions of Roger W. Babson are published in this pa per every Friday). Congressional . Quiz (Copyright, 195 Congressional Quarterly) Q Recently in the news have been new state laws aimed at discouraging imports of: (a) Ger man toys (b) Japanese textiles (c) Guatemalan pottery? A (b) Japanese textiles. South Carolina and Alabama have passed laws in 1956 to require shops to post signs on the tex tiles' origin.
