Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 11, 1956, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Textt OUW MEDFORD (OREGON) "Ivrybojy to Southern Oregon Reads The Mii Tribun" tubluhed Dmly Except Saturday by MLuruKU FtuxirCi CO 17-39 North Fir St. Phona 2-S141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor KERB GREY Adveituinc Manaeer GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager urn. aujl jk. managing roiior EARL U ADAMS Citv Editor HARRY CHiPMAN Telegraph Editor Kit HARD JKWETT SporU fcdltOT OUVE ST ARC HER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circula uon Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act oi March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mail In Ativnrm: Per CODV IOC. Dally and Sunday Ona year $12 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.50 Dally and Sunday Three mm. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3 50. Bt Carrier In Advance Med ford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. JaCKsonville. Gold Hill. Phoeni. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $13.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier end Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Caan in Advance f Metal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jack ion County U ni tedPress Full Leased Wire """"MEMBER 6r AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION ' Advertlilng Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC nrfif-M in New York Chicaeo. De troit. San rrancisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St- Louis. Atianta. Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassocS-atln camnaama NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and to years ago. JX0 YEARS AGO June 11. 1946 (It was Tuesday) About 200 head of stock are In corrals at Fairgrounds for fifth annual Rogue River Roundup Thursday, Friday and Saturday. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: There is now a shortage of the old fash ioned wooden clothespin, used by pioneers to hang up the Mon day wash, and subdue the mores. 20 YEARS AGO June 11. 1936 (It was Thursday) Jackson county expended $1, 698.12 during the month of May for Old Age pensions, accord ing to figures in county clerk's office. Will Hansen, Rogue River alley orchardist, purchases Medford Hardware company. 30 YEARS AGO June 11, 1928 (It was Friday) Several citizens sign as mem bers during membership drive bv Crater club for Medford Chamber of Commerce. Newlv elected members of the Jackson county Republican Central committee meet at Med ford hotel. 40 YEARS AGO June 11. 1918 fit was Sunday) The Grizzlies will attempt to climb Ashland and Wagner mountains in one day, Sunday, June 18. From Local and Personal col umn: H. L. Walthers has re turned from a business trip to Portland. What's the Answer? 1. President Eisenhower fa vors or opposes a White House conference of southern gover nors on school integration? 2. Ships of 1,000 or more gross tons in the active U. S. merchant fleet total under 1,000, just over 1.000, around 2,500, or nearly 3,000. 3. More student nurses die from diseases caught from pa tients than from any other cause; right or wrong? 4. Henry Ford II told Ford stockholders last month that new car sales this year would dip below 6 million, equal the old 1950 high of 6.5 million, or ex ceed last year's record 7.4 mil lion? 5. What is a megaton in A or H-bomb terminology? 6. Of all children between 7 and 17 about (1), (b) 4. (c) 7. (d) 10 or (e) 13 per cent get into juv enile court during a year? 7. A Russian samovar is heated by a spirit lamp, a charcoal burner, or solar rays? The answers: 1. Opposes form al conference. 2. 1.081 on May 1. according to Maritime Adminis tration. 3. Wrong (auto accidents leading cause of death, accord ing to U.S. Public Health Serr ica). 4. Dip below 6 million. 5. Measure of explosive force; 10-megaton bomb has a bang equivalent to 10 million tons of TNT. 6. About 1 per cent. 7. By burning charcoal in a tube Inside the urn. RECORD SUICIDE FIGURE Tokyo U.R) Police reported 14 suicide attempts in Tokyo Sunday, a one-day record figure. Three died. MAIL TRIBUNE Weather Influence? How effective have been man's attempts to change the weather? That's an iffy question and virtually impossible to answer with any degree of accuracy. Jackson county is one of the pioneer areas in the nation in weather control experimentation, but those engaged in the projects are exceedingly cagey and understandably so about making any flat state ments as to their success. P"IRST of all we had cloud-seeding from airplanes in attempts to prevent hail from forming during thunderstoi-m activity, and raining the fruit crops in the valley. The relative success of these experiments was never completely agreed upon, although there is evidence to show that they did have some value. Later, wintertime cloud-seeding from ground gen erators was started by California Oregon Power com pany in attempts to increase snowfall in their water shed area. Still later, the anti-hail attempts shifted to a ground-based attack, with silver iodide generators stationed at strategic points around the valley during the summer season. THERE have been a few other rain-making and f og- dispersing experiments hereabouts. But the bulk of the attempts have been in the in-cfeased-snow and anti-hail projects. Have they been successful? No one will stick his neck out far enough to say "yes" or "no." But the fact that Copco, on one hand, and the fruit men, on the other, are still underwriting the programs at considerable cost is evidence to show they feel there is sufficient promise in them, if not downright tangible results, to justify the expense. THE fact is that Copco has had good watershed snowfalls in all but one of the recent winter sea sons, and hail has done only limited amounts of dam age to growing fruit in recent summers. But there have been fore. The results of the attempts are so intangible, and so readilv confused with other f actors, that only a long period of experimentation, coupled with exacting and accurate statistical information, will give any sort of conclusive answer to the question. "JRIGINALLY, objections to the cloud-seeding pro- gram came from "dry-land" farmers, who sus pected that seeding dried up the clouds and prevent ed rain, so necessary for their operations. Perhaps this year, which has already had record-breaking amounts of precipitation, will ease their fears, for seeding operations have been going on almost con tinuously since last fall. The time is not yet when we can have push-button control of what the weather will be, and that day may never arrive. Meanwhile, we await with interest more conclusive evaluations of the programs than have so far been made available. E.A. FightingMan Nomenclature Ever since the "unification" of the armed forces under a single secretaiy of defense, there has been increasing discussion of the advantages of true uni fication that is, the elimination of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, as such, and the substitution of the Armed Forces of the United States, all in one uniform, with similar ranks and titles. Time magazine recently devoted its cover story to the proposal. Inter-service bickering has added im petus to the movement, particularly in regard to jur isdiction and use of nuclear and missile weapons. , THERE will be a lot of foot-dragging before true unification is accomplished, if it ever is. If for no other reason, tradition-minded soldiers sailors and Marines will resist the plan because it would put an end to cherished service mores and cus toms which, while they add nothing to efficiency, do have a role to play in morale and esprit de corps. UNIFICATION, of course, would ppse a multitude of serious, top-level policy problems. But there would be minor problems, too. For instance, we remember our first day in olive drab uniform, and the patronizing way in which a veteran of two months of service looked over our group of "feather merchants," and snapped orders . . . "That means you, soldier!!" The appellation, "Sailor," is equally time-honored, and comes easily to the tongue. The newer title of "Airman" is less handy for use in addressing an enlisted member of the Air Force. e W'HAT, then, would an enlisted man in the AFUS" ' be called? Based on the initials, we suppose he could be called a "fusser," but that seems to lack a military ring. "Solor," or "saildier" are unwieldy and confus ing. Possibly the Army phrase, "GI," (derived from Government Issue) could be adapted for the occasion, although the proud Marines would'probably die at the thought, and swabies would turn crimson. So it can be seen that there are serious practical problems below the policy level. r THE fighting man of tomorrow (and, sadly, it looks as though he will be necessary for some time yet) will be called upon for a variety of tasks and skills. If there is another world war (which God forbid) it will be electronic and nuclear. In the face of the unimaginable mighkof the new weapons, what to call the men who wield them may be academic and picayunish to everyone except the poor guy who has to jump when the sergeant (or his nuclear successor) says "jump !" E.A. Monday, June 11, 1958 such weather cycles be Repercussions of Debunking of Stalin May By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Some Soviet Russian leaders may be wondering whether they blundered in debunking Joseph LlW(iJ,Jlui Stalin so very abruptly and so completely. Of course, they must have foreseen that their action would have terrific impact in both the 16 r e p u b lies of cbanei Mccmnn the Soviet Un ion and in the seven Communist satellite states of Eastern Eu rope. But it is highly unlikely that the 11-man collective leadership in the Kremlin foresaw some of the things that have happened since Nikita S. Khrushchev took Stalin apart bit by bit at the Communist party Congress. It is unlikely, for instance, that they expected posters pro claiming "Long live the inde pendent Georgia Republic" would appear in the streets of Tiflis. Nor is it likely they expected a resurgence of anti-Communist underground activities in the Ukraine, second only to the Rus sian Republic in the federated system of the Soviet Union. Train Wrecked The posting of the Georgian Republican posters in Tiflis was disclosed last Thursday. The in cident occurred on May 26, an niversary of the proclamation of a brief-lived anti-Communist re public in Georgia in 1919. The reappearance of the Uk- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS There is no doubt whatever this morning (this was written Friday) as to what is the biggest news in the world. It is the state of President Eisenhower's health. THIS is the story in chronolog ical order! Shortly after daybreak the Word spread that after attending a big dinner last night the Pres ident wasn't feeling too well. Unofficially and off the cuff since ANY illness of the presi dent, however minor, MUSTN'T be concealed his trouble was diagnosed as a stomach upset. His appointments for the day were cancelled. THAT was the situation when the stock market opened in New York. A selling wave swept the floor. It lasted 31 minutes. At the end of that time, prices had dropped one to three points. By then, word spread that noth ing wasf wrong with the Presi dent's heart. That checked the selling, and prices began to recover. Vf EANWHILE, the President's I'-l personal physicians had held a conference and diagnosed his trouble as an intestinal in flamation and ordered him to the hospital for a complete ex amination. When that news hit the floor of the exchanges, in London and Paris as well as New York, it touched off another selling wave quite naturally, because to the average person being rushed to the hospital means that some thing grave and menacing is sus pected. Nobody stopped to think that if the President of the United States cut his finger while sharpening a pencil he might be sent to the hospital to make sure that an infection didn't set in. As this is written, the second selling wave is continuing and prices have dropped as much as $6 a share. WHY this recital of. what the stock markets did as a re sult of the President's indispo sition? Well, it reveals startlingly the FAITH of people throughout the world in President Eisenhower and his policies. The feeling is general that if he can be spared to serve another term everything will be ALL RIGHT. But if something happened to him that removed him from his post of leadership nobody knows WHAT might be the result. Self-preservation, you know, is the first law of nature and that applies to FINANCIAL as well as "physical self-preservation. People's first thought, on hearing the news of his upset, was one of personal grief and sorrow. Their second thought was that they'd better sell their securities while the seUing was still good. Hence the rush of selling or ders on the financial exchanges. WHAT of the future? ' I think we must let the future take care of itself. We all have faith that if at any time between now and the Republican convention President Eisenhower feels that the state of his health is such as to offer a hazard to his country he win withdraw as a candidate. - He has said so, and we all know he means it. Faith in his word explains the trust and the confidence the people place in Ike. Surprise Russians ranian underground was dis closed next day. Diplomatic sources in Vienna said anti-Communist guerrillas wrecked a Russian army troop and ammu nition train on a main railroad line. They escaped with a large quantity of weapons and ammu nition after battling Soviet troops, the report said. Georgia and the Ukraine al ways have been two weak spots in the Soviet set-up. Russia has ruled Georgia since 1800. The Georgians al ways have detested the Russians, czarist and Communist. It hap pens that Georgia was Stalin's birthplace. He gave Georgians many privileges that other So viet peoples did not have. Pri vate business and black market speculation always were possi ble in Georgia. During World War II people wisecracked that every able-bodied Georgian up to 45 years of 'age was a stu dent.. While Stalin was in power, Georgians reconciled themselves to Communist rule. "At least," Khrushchev was sent to the Ukraine in 1938 to reorganize Matter of Fact bv aisp PARTRIDGE AND LEMAY Washington The recently re leased testimony of Generals Curtis LeMay and Earle Part ridge ought to be r e q u ired every policy making o f f i- cial of the Eis enhower ad m i nistration, conspicuous 1 y including Pres i d e n t -Eisen hower himself. The Presi ago remarked dent not long that people who compared Amer ican and Soviet air strength were just indulging in the "num bers racket." It is simply not possible that he could have dis played such complacency if he had read the sober, carefully un-der-stated testimony of his Stra tegic Air Commander and his Air Defense Commander. The transcrips ought to be read in full for their real impact. But briefly, the main points made by General Partridge, in testimony released last Wednesday, were as follows. First, the Soviet fight ers are superior to anything we have. Second, "We now have a good system to fight the TU-4," which is the obsolete Soviet bomber no longer: being pro duced. But, the Soviets "intro duced the jet bombers and the Bear more rapidly than was fore cast." As a result, "we find our selves in the years 1957, 1958 and early 1959 in not too good shape." T"1HE Partridge testimony, wa s -- heavily bowdlerized by the Defense Department. But the transcript makes it abundantly obvious what "not good shape" means. It means that under present programs our fighters will not even be able to reach the altitude of the new Soviet bombers until the new "hundred series" of fighters begins to be delivered in quantity some three years from now. As General Partriddge sadly remarked, "We are, weak at high altitude. We are weak at low altitude." If there is any cause for complacen cy in such testimony, it is hard to detect it. As for General LeMay, it is even more important to read the whole transcript of his testi mony to gather the full meaning of what he said. But his main points were as follows. First, by abut 1958 or 1959, according to present programs, the Soviet "long-range bombers . . . will be a little over twice what we have, so the advantage will be with the Russians." Of 1960, LeMay said, "we may not be able to carry out our mission at that time." The mission of the Strategic Air Command is to provide a re taliatory force sufficient to de ter the Soviets from attacking. Other testimony brought out just what General LeMay had in mind. Sen. Stuart Symington, Chairman of the Armed Servi ces Sub-Committee investigating air power, asked the key ques tion: "In what year, at what time, if the present programs go along ... do you think they'll be in a position, if they hit us, to destroy us? We will accept it as a guess from the man who has the most right to guess." GENERAL LeMAY: "I don't " like to guess on those things, but if you insist, I will come up with a guess . . . 1960, lie can do it with a complete surprise at tack." In short, by 1960 the Strate gic Air Command "may not be able to carry out our mission" because all the SAE bases could be knocked out by surprise at tack. LeMay's "guess" it should be emphasized, is based not on his own estimate of Soviet air power, but on the "national es timates." These are intelligence estimates prepared by the Cen tral Intelligence Agency and ap proved by the National Security -am ff ft VrV i Stewart Alsop the party on the basis of Stalin's purges. He purged 3,000 out of 15,000 party secretaries. They were shot or sent to slave labor camps. Welcomed Naiis Then came World War II, Ukrainians, highly nationalistic like the Georgians, and many of them of German stock, wel comed the invading Nazi armies. Khrushchev, . then in Moscow, went back to the Ukraine to or ganize partisan resistance to the Germans. He did a good job. After the war, Khrushchev mercilessly purged Ukrainians who had collaborated with the Germans. It was reported that he liquidated 50 per cent of the republic's leading party work ers, and more than 60 per cent of its presidents of regional So viets and directors of tractor stations. Khrushchev probably thought he would be made a national hero for taking the leadership in debunking Stalin. But too many Russians realize that while Stalin is gone, the om munist dictatorship remains and that Khrushchev is linked with Stalin's crimes. Council, of which the President is chairman. The Partridge-LeMay testimo ny suggests certain questions. If Partridge and LeMay, in a fit of hysterical parochialism, are sim ply misinterpreting the meaning of the national estimates, why are they kept on in their im mensely responsible positions? If, on the other hand, their in terpretations are correct, and their testimony substantially ac curate, what becomes of the twin doctrines of massive retaliation and mutual deterrence which supposedly form the basis of American defense policy? f AYBE it doesn't matter. May- 1'i be the Soviet rulers have not the slightest intention of using the new weapons which they have made such enormous and Tjrilliantly successful efforts to achieve. Even so, it is worth pondering one further question: What will happen to the Western Alliance, and to our own firmness of pur pose as leader of the West, when the Soviets know, and we know, and the world knows, that they can destroy both our cities and our ability to retaliate, at any time, by surprise attack? Copyright 1956 The New York Herald Tribune. Change in NATO Seen as Objective Of Anthony Eden United Press correspondents around the world look ahead' at the news thai will make the headlines. Big Switch - Look for British Prime Minis ter Anthony Eden to propose a revolutionary change in the North Atlantic Treaty Organiz ation set-up. He wants to cut NATO ground forces sharply and concentrate on air. Eden and his defense chiefs believe that the H-bomb, and the planes to deliver it, wiU suffice as the chief Allied weapon. Please Loosen Up Eden also hopes to use Brit ain's forthcoming H-bomb tests as a lever to persuade Congress that the United States and Brit ain ought to resume swapping nuclear secrets. He feels that present restrictions are causing a great waste of British and American money on duplicate projects, especially missiles, t Million Trouble-Shoot ' Unless President Eisenhower's condition prevents it, Vice-President Richard M. Nixon may go on a trouble-shooting trip to the Philippines next month. There is increasing criticism of United j State policies in the island re- public, which is an important j link in the Far Eastern defense i line. Nixon might fix things up. , Rooftop Rumble ! Watoh for reports on new trouble for the Chinese Commu nists in Tibet. Travelers arriving in India bring word that Chinese j Nationalist underground agents were behind the recent uprising of 80,000 anti-Communist Tibet ans. The agents may be just get ting Btarted. Huddle ' It will be some time yet But diplomatic informants say the next likely move to solve the dispute over the future of Cy prus .will be a conference of the British, Turkish and Greek foreign ministers. Turkey wants a full voice in any more nego tiations. It won't let Greece get the island. FAST BELIEF isr-inin for Headache 12 TABLETS IOC KA5PIR1M1 j PLOUGH PBOa j Propose Payment 01 Klamath Falls (U.R) The management of the Klamath In dian reservation Saturday pro posed government purchase of the reservation for the apprais ed value, to be paid through is sue of government bonds. T. B. Watters, chairman of the management group, said "There is a strong indication that as many as threcrfourths of the tribal members may want a cash payment for their share of the reservation. "This will mean that three fourths T)f the tribal property would have to be sold at the highest possible price as requir ed under the present law. Such action would amount to a forced sale and would result in finan cial loss to all tribal members." The management group also recommended, if Congress makes possible purchase of the reserva tion, that certain rights be re Editorial Comment GHOST SPIRES NOT FORGOTTEN The east entrance to Crater Lake National Park, up pinna cled Sand Creek, is to be per manently closed to travel. Signs will be placed at related road junctions to notify 'motorists of the closure. Seemingly this action will iso late the pumice and scoria-filled canyons in the southern part of the park, familiar to the thou sands who entered the area over the Sand Creek entrance in earlier years. But this is not true. A sec tion of the Sand Creek road, from the Rim Drive to the Pin nacles, is to be kept open. Unique features to be seen in this "pock et" area will be called to the attention of park visitors. In the Sand Creek area are some of the park's most spectac ular features. A world-famous geologist, Howel Williams, con siders the Pinnacles along Sand Creek the second most import ant feature of the entire park Visitors to Crater Lake who have entered the park area along the Valleys of Sand and Annie Creeks have been at tracted by the grotesque "hoo doo columns known as the Pin nacles. These spires rise from the upper part of the canyon walls. The grotesque pillars of many colors are in fact fossil fuma- roles," and mark vents through which gases from molten pumice escaped, in the months and years immediately following the Cra ter Lake mountain explosion. Brown, pink and white streaks cut the gray scoria where the gases rose to the surface. Some of the spires are hollow inside. The largest of these tubular spires is eight feet across, on Castle Creek. Walls of the fossil fumaroles are cemented by iron oxide, kao lin and opal. ' Geologist Williams has this to say about the ghost-like pillars along Sand Creek and in adja cent areas: "When one sees these exten sive signs of fumarolic action one is tempted to imagine how the slopes of Mount Mazama may have appeared at the close of the great eruption. "The glowing avalanches had converted the glacial canyons into wide, barren plains from which for years, plumes of acid gas rose into the air. Long after the fumaroles had almost dwin dled to extinction, the plains must have been hidden by dense clouds of steam. "Nothing remained of the scant forests that had formerly clothed the lower slopes of the volcano. The ridges between the plains of 'ten thousand smokes' were mantled by a gray-white pall of granular pumice. The summit of Mount Ma zama had gone, leaving in its place a vast caldera." - Sand Creek and its Pinnacles are part of the geologic story of Crater Lake. They will no longer be accessible via the historic east entrance, but they will re main a part of the park. Bend Bulletin. . , -.-. Since 1908 PERL Mortuary o Phone 2-6675 . FINER FUNERAL SERVICES In (very pries rang Land in Bonds tained by the tribal members. Those rights included hunting and fishing rights be retained during the life of all enrolled members of the tribe; that min eral rights be reserved for tribal members for 20 years; that mem bers be allowed to purchase land by competitive bid; and that the federal government pay the cost of termination. STAMPEDE KILLS PATRON Cuernevaca, Mexico U.R) Twelve persons were trampled to death Sunday when a movie audience stampeded for an exit The stampede was caused when someone in the balcony shouted a false alarm that the building was collapsing. The richest deposits of gold in Colorado were first discovered in the mountains 100 miles north of Denver. POOR STRATEGY Look magazine reports that some Democratic strategists are considering the nomination of a Catholic for the vice presi dency. They've got it all figured out, Look says, and they can prove that a Catholic on the ticket would do the Democrats more good in the North than it would do them harm in the South. Of this sort of "strategy" we take the dimmest of views. We should deplore the nom ination of a Catholic to attract the Catholic vote, just as we'd deplore the nomination of a Negro to get the Negro vote, a redhead to get the Titian vote, or a short fat man to get the short and fat vote. Likewise we'd deplore withholding the nomination of a good man simply because he was a Cath olic, had red hair or black skin or because he measured five-by-five. Religion, like color of skin, color of hair, and personal con tour, are not matters that are properly part of government. Therefore they are not properly part of politics. The only leg itimate areas of politics are mat ters of personal integrity and opinion on public affairs. Re ligion fits neither. If the Democrats find a Cath olic or a Jew, or an Adventist or a Methodist who would be a good vice president, we hope they nominate him. But hold ing out a man's relgion as bait for voters of the same persua sion shows a basic disrespect for the voters, for the candidates , and for the high office. Eugene Register-Guard. It requires 40 materials' and 125 processes to make an aver age lead pencil, yellow colors still preferred. Grown-Up Love GEO. N. TAYLOR As He went about, Christ healed the sick and raised the dead. And to this day, hospitals go up wnerever the name of Christ is known. Mi '- Christ not only gave hope to dwellers in this world but He also bridges over into eterni ty. After He had died for . your sins, He was buried but on the third da v. He arose from the grave and soon ascended back to God. Some day. He is to return to raise His of the living and His who sleep in me grave. BOOK OF LIFE Know that whoever was not written in God's Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire: this is the sec ond death. See Rev. 20:12-15. In this world as He went about Christ healed their bodies. Now receive Him as Lord and Sav iour and He saves your soul. in is message sponsored by A. Scappoose family adv.