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FOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody la Southern Oregon RdThMail Tn bun" PubUhd DiJy Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. $7-39 North Fir St. Phone 3-141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor fTERB GREY. Advertisinc M&nacer GERALD LATHAM. Business Manicr ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE ST ARC HER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspa pe r Entered aa second class matter at Mediord Ore iron, under Act ot March 3. 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday On year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Si montha 6 50 DaiJy and Sunday Threa mot. iQ Sunday Only Ona vear $3 50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Pout. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Snady Cove Rogua River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday On year $13 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 6c per copy All Tcrma Cash in Advance Official Paper of tb City of Medford Official Paper of Jack ion connty -Full Ltutd Wlr MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION AdvertliinK Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANV tNC Offices In New York Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Loa Angele. Seattle Portland. SI Loula Atlanta Vancouver BC NATIONAL EDITORIAL jASOCMTLN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the tiles ol The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 4. 1948 (It was Tuesday) Robert F. Upson, president elect of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, appointed chairman of the emergency food collection on behalf of the UNRRA for Medford. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The B. Tor nado Jrs. did themselves proud in a track meet at the metropo lis last Saturday. They showed their athletic bringing-up, which started when they were in the fourth grade. 20 YEARS AGO June 4. 1936 (It was Thursday) Joseph W. Ostie, freight agent In the traffic department of the Southern Pacific company in Portland, arrives to take over duties of A. S. Rosenbaum, dis trlct freight and passenger agent. R. Prideaux, supervisor of construction for the state liquor control board, announces that a new building will be erected. 30 YEARS AGO June 4. 192S (It was Friday) People desiring official air mail greetings are urged to make early orders at the Cham ber of Commerce. A grass fire, set by D. T. Hart, at the south end of Beekman and Newtown sts., destroys small, unoccupied barn. 40 YEARS AGO June 4. 1916 (It was Sunday) Fire destroys residence and large barns on farm of George Hilton. - Ttiie. week's concert bv the Medford band will be held Tues day evening at 8 p.m. in the city park band stand. What's the Answer? 1. Adlai E. Stevenson, grand father of the present Democratic candidate, was vice president under Grant. B. Harrison, Cleve land, McKinley or Wilson? 2. Jet air transports now on order in the U.S. will fly at (a) 300-400 miles an hour, (b) 500 600 mph, or (c) 6CO-700 mph? 3. The name of the chief of Russia's U.N. delegation is So beloff. Sobell, or Sobolev? 4. Defense Secretary Wilson has ordered drafting of veten-j narisns. freezing of the Army I vtrinarv Coros at Dresent I strength, or discontinuance of all veterinary activities in the armed services? 5. Jupiter, largest planet in our solar system, is about 400 million or 600 million miles from the earth? 6. Israeli Premier Ben-Gurion. if invited, would or would not go to Cairo to confer with TVvntian Premier Nasser? 7. The hydrogen bomb is a fission or a fusion device? The answers: 1. Cleveland. 2. 500-600 miles an hour. 3. Sobo ajV, 4. Discontinuance. 5. Dis . lance varies from 400 million to 600 million miles according to time of year. 6. Would go "lika a shot." Ben-Gurion said May 21. 7. Fusion. Umatilla. Fla. .PJ Ten Negroes drowned in a small lake near here Saturday night when their overcrowded 12-foot boat capsized. There was only one survivor. MAIL TRIBUNE What The end of the school year can bring two thoughts to parents: 1. How wonderful I can spend more time with my children ! 2. How on earth can I keep them busy and out of mischief? Which of the two is the commoner, we make no attempt to guess. But we'll hazard that, at one time or another before the summer vacation is over, most parents will come up smack against No. 2. THE answers, of course, are as varied as the families involved. In some cases, grandparents provide a ready and universally welcome solution. Summer camps, those operated by Scout and other organiza tions, or privately, are also a partial solution. In response to demand from the public, the many parents who cannot wholly solve the lack-of-school problem themselves, public agencies more and more are getting in to the act. They have found, for one thing, that it is good insurance against mounting police costs to keep young people happily and whole somely occupied. In some areas, this trend has resulted in the organ ization of formal recreational programs, with a full time director and a multitude of activities. IN MEDFORD, however, the thing sort of "just growed," but the end result is the same. The city and the school district, between them, offer an amaz ing variety of things to do during the summer. The city's contribution revolves around Haw thorne park and the municipal swimming pool. Both will open one week from today, June 11. The pool, exceedingly well patronized in prior summers, will be open for swimming from 1 to 9 p.m. each day during the summer under the management of Ed Knapp, the Crater High school instructor who has handled the job in past years. Swimming lessons will be given there starting June 18 during the morn ing hours. The playground and Avading pool area of the park will be in full operation also June 11, with super vision for the little ones. Miss Laura Huson will be in charge, keeping an eye on the pools, and officiating at thT story hour in the afternoon. Hours will be from 1 to 8 p.m. It is tentatively planned to add a program of ails and crafts instruction this year. THE city schools have a four-way program planned for the summer. It includes recreational classes in instrumental music, athletics and arts and crafts, and academic classes for elementary students needing strengthening in particular fields and for secondary students who have similar needs, or who wish to take subjects for credit to increase their program of elec tive subjects the next school year. The academic program is handled by the recom mendation of teachers or the students' grade status. But the other phases of the program are open to any one meeting qualifications which are far from stringent. Details of these programs will be published in advance of the registration times. IN ADDITION to these activities and opportunities, . there are also the same ones which have always been available in southern Oregon for those hardy or self-sufficient enough to take advantage of them, alone or in family groups. There are the forests and lakes and mountains and streams. There are hikes and camping trips, boat ing, fishing, water-skiing, picknicking. There is the library, for trips into any spot on earth, accompanied by the world's greatest minds. There are opportunities for constructive activities alone or within family groups in the arts and crafts, in games and family fun. If all else fails (and it will occasionally) there is radio and television. THERE is, really, no reason for youngsters to sit around this summer and complain "there's nothing to do." There's lots to do, but it might take a bit of imagination and effort to make it a success. And, we are informed, there's always the grass to mow, the dishes to wash, the beds to make, the house to clean that is, if today's young people can be per suaded or coerced into doing them. E.A. Gratifying Vote The election last Friday in which the Medford city school budget for the coming year was passed overwhelmingly was one of the most satisfying things we've seen in a long time in observing government at work. It is gratifying to us and it must be to school officials to realize the voters of the district have a sound comprehension of the problems of operating schools in these high-cost days, and are willing to pay for the job. 1MORE than this, we think, is a general realization that the school district is doing a good, sound, conservative job of operating the schools, while at the same time expanding the program to handle the ever-mounting demand for those things which used to be the function of the home. We have said before, and we expect to say again, that it is not an easy task to steer a course which avoids the extremes of a rock-bottom academic pro gram, on one hand, and a frill-laden country-club atmosphere on the other. The fact that 601 voters took the trouble to vote for this budget, compared to 150 who voted against, is an indication that the majority agrees Medford is well served by its school administration. E.A. Monday. June 4. 195S To Do? Insiders See Trip to Far East By Ike, in United Press correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. "If I Am Elected . . ." Washington insiders believe that President Eisenhower is likely to go to the Far East be fore the year-end, provided he is re-elected. It's far from con firmed. But it's the sort of dra matic step that the President might announce In a campaign speech. The visit would be wel comed by Far Eastern leaders. And it would be good politics. For one thing, it would help to counter Democratic claims that the President's heart con dition handicaps him. Washing ton remembers Mr. Eisenhow er's announcement at the height of the 1952 campaign that he would go to Korea. X2 Record? British aviation circles are tipped that the United States al ready has won back the world air speed record which Britain took from it only three months ago, and is just sitting on the announcement. Britain's Fairey Delta-2 set a record of 1,132 miles an hour. British experts believe America's X2 has far exceeded that mark. Top Secret West German military intelli gence agents say Russia's new Matter of Fact by THE YOUNG MEN Amman, Jordan In this time of the old men, when 80 is no more than "-joe for national "3ESr""J leadership, it is a bit odd to find the lead ership of any nation entire ly in the hands of a boy of 20 and his friend hardly more than 30. Yet this is now the state of this little country of Jordan, where all power has suddenly been centered in young King Hussein and his new made com mander of the Arab Legion, Gen. Ali Abu Nuwar. Moreover Jor dan now has an importance out of all pioportion to its size. For if Jordan finally gives full al legiance to the Egypt-dominated bloc of Arab states, the effects will be downright volcanic, both in Western-orientated Iraq and in the vital, oil-rich sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf. ' TT WAS an experience to pon der, then, meeting the two young men almost at the moment when they concentrated supreme power in their own hands. Of the two, beyond doubt, Ali Abu Nuwar is the greater enigma. He is a handsome fellow who seems always to be tense with an excess of energy. Ambition burns in his dark Arab eyes, which have a hyperthyroid cast that perhaps explains both the ambition and the energy. And these qualities also explain why Gen. Sir John Baget Clubb sent Ali Abu Nuwar off to Paris as Jordanian military attache; for Glubb Pasha had a habit of pro viding this kind of comfortable exile for young officers who had the look of potential trouble makers for Jordan's long estab lished British-controlled regime. Unluckily for Glubb Pasha, the Paris post gave Ali Abu Nu war the perfect opportunity to make friends with Hussein when the young King visited France. King Hussein, who already had no liking for the role of figure head, then insisted, over Glubb's protest, that his new friend re turn to Amman as his chief Aide, de Camp. Lt. Col. Abu Nuwar was already installed on the palace staff when Gen. Sir Ger ald Templer was sent to Amman to bring Jordan into the Bagh dad Pact. ALONG with most of the older generation of Jordanian lead ers, the young King was himself convinced that Jordan should join the pact. But the Middle Eastern "Troika" the Egyptian propagandists, the Saudi Ara bian bribe-givers and the Com munist organizers rallied the enraged, embittered mass of Pal estinian refugees. In the crisis of the ensuing riots, with Ali Abu Nuwar's strong encouragement, the Baghdad Pact project was hastily abandoned. That paved the way for the young king's personal coup d'etat when he ordered Glubb Pasha's summary dismissal. Beyond question, Ali Abu Nuwar was Hussein's chief adviser in this momentous step. As Glubb Pasha departed, Ali Abu Nuwar and his allies among the younger of ficers also took over the real power in the Arab Legion. And now the logical next step has also been taking. The young King is openly ruling through a puppet cabinet, and Ali Abu Nu war has assumed open command of Jordan's armed forces. Besides ambition, then, what are the guiding motives of this young officer who has played such an enormous role in alter ing the political pattern in this region of the Middle East? There are those who say that he used to be one of the young intellec tuals of the violently anti-Western, passionately pro-Egyptian if Headlines Forecast T54 medium tank outclasses any Western tank in its category. Its 100-millimeter four-inch gun is designed to crack the thickest armor. It's strictly a hush-hush weapon. Deserters from the Red East German police say the satellite armies aren't being per mitted to see it. There are lots of T54s in East Germany. But when they move about, their Soviet crews keep them care fully covered to conceal turret and gun. Come Into My Parlor Look for Soviet Premier Niko lai A. Bulganin and Communist Party leader Nikita S. Khrush chev to unveil a big plan to entice Western Europe's suspi cious socialist parties into a co operative agreement. Iron Cur tain informants say that Mr. B. and Mr; K. hope to make Presi dent Tito of Yugoslavia their go-between. He's in Moscow now. New Front Don't be surprised if Nation alist China, with United States approval, moves at least a token military force into the little Nansha Islands between the Phil ippines and Indochina. The rea son: To keep the Chinese Reds out. A Philippines lawyer-businessman started it all. He laid claim to the islands for his coun try. The Philippines govern ment hasn't acted. But Nation alist China, Red China and Joseph Alsop BA'TH party. In the course of a very long, very frank talk with him, I formed the impression that this might well have been true at one time. TODAY, at any raie, Ali Abu Nuwar is still deeply suspic ious of the British, warmly friendly to Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, and strongly inspired by the surge of Arab nationalism that Nasser has come to symbol ize. But will Ali Abu Nuwar be led by these emotions to accept for Jordan the kind of dependent and colonial relationship to Egypt that has transformed the Egyptian Ambassador to Syria into sort of a Viceroy? The answer to that key ques tion seemed to be far less cer tain. All his enthusiasm for Arab unity has visibly not converted Ali Abu Nuwar to taking orders from anyone, even including Egypt's Nasser. Arid, if he and the young King maintain their established partnership, the chances of Jordan entering the Egyptian bloc will be still fur ther reduced. Although Hussein is a boy in years and in appearance, and although he still gets pleasure from such boyish pursuits as driving his fast cars about the countryside at appalling speeds, the King does not make a boyish impression. Except for his Cir cassian guards in their old Cos sack uniforms, the atmosphere of his palace is singularly color less and business-like, seeming to assert the young King's de cision to carry on his country's business in person. When I saw him, he had just come from a meeting hastily called to soothe senior Arab Legion officers who were displeased by Ali Abu Nu war's sudden promotion to com mand them. Yet in these fairly tense circumstances, he showed no trace of nervousness. HE SPOKE, rather, with con siderable quiet decision. Jor dan's role, he said, was to form a link in the Arab world between Iraq on the one hand and the Egyptian bloc on the other hand. Therefore he was opposed to en tering either grouping and would refuse to do so. When he was asked about the active Egyptian interventions in Jordanian poli tics and the flood of Saudi Ara bian money pouring into the country, he answered calmly, but a sharp resentment visibly glittered in his eyes. Yet the Arabs, he said, must work together for the solution of the Palestine problem. He added, moreover, that matters had now reached a stage where a solution of the problem on the basis of the United Nations' 1947 parti tion frontiers for Israel would no longer be acceptable. In the same grim tone, Ali Abu Nuwar had frankly talked of preparing for eventual war. OUCH are the views on the O main problems confronting these two young men who now rule Jordan together. As there is reason for deep disquiet in their extreme view of the Palestine question, there is also reason for encouragement in their seeming conception of Jordan's future role among the Arab states. But the full power of Egyptian propa ganda is still beamed at Jordan. The Saudi money still pours in. The Communist organizers among the refugees are still agi tating for the final step on an absolute break between Jordan and the West. The pressures, in short, are very terrible and the dangers are commensurate. And despite the young King, Jordan is even tually likely to join the Arab procession into the anti-Western camp unless the United States rapidly takes the lead in develop ing a coherent Western policy in the Middle East. (Copyright 1956. The New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) South Viet Nam all vigorously claim title to them now. The issue is heating up. Up to the Senata The Eisenhower forces have given up hope of restoring in the House of Representatives this week the 51,100,000,000 which the Foreign Affairs Committee sliced from the foreign aid bill. I But the administration hopes the Senate may be able to reduce the cut. Big Squeeie Watch for the Eden govern ment to tighten Britain's squeeze on credit again. Credit is so tight now that it groans. It takes 50 per cent down to buy a tele vision set or an automobile on the installment plan. But the threat of inflation is still grow ing. Heat's On The Public Health Service Is quieUy putting the heat on pri vate physicians to report all venereal disease cases. The rea son: The VD problem has shifted from professional prostitutes to "respectable p e o p 1 e," mostly teen - agers. Private physicians are now the key to control. In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS Three items in the news flag the thoughtful eye: 1. Three U. S. business leaders are reported by Business Week Magazine to have received com pensation of more than $700,000 each from their corporations last year. 2. President Eisenhower has set lip a special cabinet group to recommend ways in which the government could help small business. 3. Russia's Kruschev says com pulsory finger printing is the- main stumbling block that will keep Soviet citizens from visit ing the United States. A S to No. 1: Seven hundred thousand dollars a year is a LOT OF MONEY before taxes. It isn't much money AFTER taxes. Individual taxpayers in the $700,000 bracket pay check to Uncle Sam more than three quarters of their income. THAT being true, why do our big business corporations pay such large salaries to their top executives? One reason is that salaries, regardless of size, are deductible as expense. ONE more question: Why does our good uncle nick these upper bracket In comes so deeply? I wouldn't know. In the more than $500,000 a year class, there are less than 1,200 taxpayers. The government gets from them only about three quarters of a billion dollars. I suppose it's a social theory designed to keep too many peo ple from getting rich. AS to No. 2: . Small business men DO have problems. They are find ing it harder and harder to com pete with BIG business concerns. This fact is presently dramatized in the automobile business. . Stu debaker, Packard, Hudson, etc., are finding the competition of the so-called Big Three increas ingly difficult to meet. What to do about it? Again I wouldn't know. This is a big country and we need big business institutions. But if TOO MUCH bigness becomes a prob lem we feel we must- solve, we may have to consider steeper graduation of corporation taxes. ALL politicians will agree that the way to help small busi ness men is to lend them money. I doubt that. Most small busi nesses that get deep into bad trouble do so because they get TOO DEEP INTO DEBT. The competition that hurts the small outfit worst is the com petition for BRAINS. The big outfits are able to hire the best men away from the small out fits. In business, brains are more important than money. AS to No. 3: The finger printing busi ness came up at a party in Moscow. Hoisting a glass of champagne, Kruschev said to an American who was present and had asked how to get more Rus- Roberts Promoted to Executive Officer Cmdr. Richard S. Roberts, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Roberts, 32 Rose ave., Medford, has been promoted to executive officer at the Norfolk Naval Air station, Norfold, Va. He formerly was operations officer at the station. During World War n, Roberts was a pilot in the last Navy air craft out of Cavite in December, 1941. Prior to reporting to the Norfolk Naval Air station for duty in July, 1955, he was a student at the Armed Forces Staff college at Norfolk. He entered the service in 1937, and is a graduate of Medford High school. Five Morrocan Bases May Cost U.S. More By CHARLES M. MeCANrI United Press Correspondent The United States is going to have to make a bid soon to keep possession of five of its most im portant foreign military bases. It i likelv ip VrJ that the bid will nave iu De mgu. The bases are in newly-liberated French Morocco. They l n c 1 ude four Strategic Air Charles Mccano Command bases and one Navy long-range air at tack base. In addition, there are two radar stations. From the air bases, American long-range planes could launch direct attacks on Soviet Russian cities In the event of war. The United States got the bases through a secret agreement with France, signed Dec. 22, 1950. At that "time, Communist China had just intervened in the Korean war. The danger of war with Soviet Russia seemed acute. But the bases are still key points in the North Atlantic News sians to visit the United States. We will put our fingers around a glass, we will extend our hands in friendship, but we will never PUT THEM ON AN INK PAD." (Our immigration laws require non-official foreign visitors to be finger printed. Kruschev thinks we should change the law.) XlHAT does it mean? " Well, we must remember that in this cold war period we are competing with the ablest propagandists the world has ever known. Everybody hates finger printing. Everybody hates wire tapping. Nobody loves a traffic cop. ("No thief e er felt the halt er draw with good opinion of the law.") Kruschev knows all that. He knows it's good propaganda to accuse your opponent of doing all the things that everybody hates. AND He'd probably like to get more of his spies into the United States without having them finger printed for later identi fication. Jean Hersholf Funeral Today Hollywood U.R) Relatives, friends and fans pay final tribute today to actor Jean Hersholt at funeral services at nearby For est Lawn. Hundreds of film Industry fig ures, from stars to stagehands, were expected to gather at 12:30 p.m. (PST) to say a last goodbye to a man who had spent 41 years in their business. Hersholt died of cancer Sat urday at his Beverly Hills home, days after a testimonial dinner which honored the Danish-born character actor who appeared in almost 500 films during his long career. He was 69 at his death. Born in Copenhagen, July 12, 1886, Hersholt appeared in 1905 in the first film produced in Denmark. He came to the Unit ed States in 1913 and went to work in silent films for $15 a week. Movie fans the world over came to know the veteran actor through his movie roles. Mil lions knew him for his portrayal of "Dr. Christian on films and on radio. He was survived by his wid ow, via, and a son, Allan, a writer and actor. More than 200 long distance truck lines operate in and out of Michigan. I. M. FUNERAL SERVICES Jn Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 Treaty Organization defense iys-" tern. The United States has invested about $410,000,000,000 in them.'- Ne w Agreements Signed France granted Morocco In dependence last March 2. One week ago today, France signed a new agreement with Morocco." giving it full control over its' foreign affairs. This agreement specifically reserved to Morocco -the right to control the status of -the American bases. Technically, the bases are on ' French territory. France bought ' the land on which they were established. The French flag flies over them. Morocco takes the view that; it was not consulted when the 1950 agreement for the bases was signed. -Officially, it holds, ' Sultan Mohammed Ben Youssef. and his government know noth-, ing about the agreement and " will have to think over the fu ture of the bases. The United States has long foreseen trouble over the bases. In fact, when its secret agree ment with France was signed, it urged that the terms be com municated to the Moroccan colonial government. France failed to do that. Now, however, Paris dis patches report that France is preparing to advise the Moroc can government formally of the terms of the pact. That would be a step toward United States Moroccan negotiations. Embassy Planned In its first move In the situs-' tion, the United States advised the Moroccan government on May 10 that it proposed to estab lish an embassy at Rabat, the capital. When the embassy Is set up, perhaps even before, the United States will take up the matter of the bases with the Moroccan government. ' No doubt the Moroccan gov ernment will play coy. It is in-i dicated, however, that it will ex press its willingness to negotiate ; a new agreement under which the United States can keep its bases. Next will come the price. An7 offer of direct American aid' naturally would not hurt. It is reported, however, that the Mo roccans want especially to get? the United States to invest heavily to help build up their in- dustries. French capital now con trols about 80 per cent of Mo roccan industry. Morocco would like to have an offset to that. - Use Tribune Want Ads When Teacher Ain't 1 Lookin' 1 GEO. N. TAYLOR "I'll finish readin' it Vhen teacher ain't lookin'." With that the smaU newsboy raced away; to school carry ing the Gospel John, opened at C h a p t er six. 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