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rOUll MEDFORD (OREGON) "XvcrrtxxljF tn Southern Oreion Read The MaU Tribune" Published Dally Except Saturday by MZDrORD PRINTING CO. T-M North Fir St Phone 2-ll ROBERT W HUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager CERA I D LATHAM. Business Uanafer ERIC A lil. FN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor pAU ER1CKSON. Clrcuiatton Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act oi March 1. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday Ona year $13.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3-50 Sunday Only Ona year 13.50. By Carrier In Advanca Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday Ona year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1 -23 Carrier and Dealers Ac per copy All Terms Cain in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper or jacason county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York. Chicago, De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Loula. Atlanta. Vancouver BC NATIONAL EDITORIAL jAsgoCTgN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS j ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Juna 17. 1946 (It was Monday) Wolf Patrol, Boy Scout Troop 4, Oak Grove district, collected 105 cans of food and $73.88 in cash in Thursday's collection for the Emergency Famine Relief drive. From Arthur 'Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: This is "Tourist School" week. The tourist can find the schoolhouse, but not a room. 20 YEARS AGO Juna 17. 1936 (It was Wednesday) The California Oregon Power company remitted $31,250.88, its second quarterly tax payment in Jackson county, Monday. Auto license fees at one-half the annual rates will be accepted by the sheriffs office on and after Saturday, June 20. 30 YEARS AGO Juna 17, 1926 (It was Thursday) The Dr. R. W. Clancy orchard will become the property of the Rogue River company, the deal completed by John Pike, presi dent, and Franklin Otis, vice president Contracts for furniture and furnishings for the new high school let by school board. 40 YEARS AGO Juna 17. 1916 (It was Saturday) Postmaster Ralph Woodford to remain in office although his term expired June 13, until a successor is named. The school election will be held Monday, June 19, for se lection of a new school director to replace J. W. Lawton, whose term expires. What's the Answer? 1. The U.S. government has or hasn't protested Britain's deci sion to relax restrictions on trade with Red China? 2. Annual world production of diamonds is about 2'i tons, 200 carats, or 2,000 grains troy? 3. When the Senate applies cloture to a bill, it rejects the bill, passes it, limits debate on it, puts it on ice until next year, or forbids amendments to it? 4. Libya in North Africa is or isn't a member of the Arab League? 5. The American Army's Nike anti-aircraft weapon was named for a Greek goddess, an Egyptian river, or an anti-Czar-1st terrorist group? 6. Nearly (a) 250, (b) 400, (c) 500, or (d) 650 tugboats are needed to dock ocean liners and push or haul barges, car floats, etc., around N.Y. harbor? 7. Soviet Russia fingerprints only criminals; right or wrong? Tha Answers: 1. Has not pro tasted. 2. About 2Vi tons, most ly for 'industrial use. 3. Limits debate on it, 4. Is a member. S. Greek goddess of victory. 6. Nearly 500 on N.Y. side (ex cluding NJ. side) 7. Wrong (So viet seamen are fingerprinted for passports). Former Marion County District Attorney Dies Salem (U.PJ Wiliam H. Trin dle, 77-year-old former Marion county district attorney, died at a hospital here Thursday. The longtime Salem attorney had been in ill health for the past six years. MAIL TRIBUNE Private Power Propaganda The esteemed Salem Capital Journal has a brand new definition of "Give Away." It is not mining the U.S. forest reserves for timber at $5 per acre, or granting oil leases on wild life pre serves for nothing; it is urging public power develop ment at Hells Canyon instead of handing over the Snake river to the Idaho Power company. a a e a THE "JOURNAL" clinches this argument by asking why soak the taxpayers of the country millions of dollars for constructing one high dam, when the Idaho Power company will construct three small dams for free? And it cites the cost in taxes in part, as follows, if federal construction were authorized : Oregon, $4, 400,000; Illinois, $35,000,000; Indiana, $11,000,000; Massachusetts, $15,000,000; New York, $65,000,000; Ohio, $37,000,000; Pennsylvania $35,000,000; and so on and so forth to presumably a total of over $400, 000,000. WHY indeed? We can see only three or four reasons, to-wit : No. 1 : A federal dam at Hells Canyon would be self-liquidating that is the $470,000,000 cost would be paid back to the government through the years so the cost to the taxpayers would be ultimately exactly nothing. No. 2: At the end of that period the power pro ject, moreover, would not be the property of some Boston corporation to continue its high rates indefin itely but the property of the people the taxpayers, the consumers. No. 3 : All this would take time, but during ALL that time as evidenced by TV A, Bonneville and Grand Coulee, the maximum power would be available to the people at the minimum cost, instead of the minimum power at the maximum cost. And the great need is more power and cheaper power. And that has meant in the areas affected, as it would along the Snake and Columbia rivers, more rapid development, industrially and agriculturally, increased populations and greater prosperity for all. a a fF COURSE, the private power companies deny this, and no one can blame them but it is surpris ing to find so many, not members of the private util ity lobby, swallowing the propaganda, bait, hook and sinker. We wish more of them would look up the facts for after all the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The truth is public power development where mul tiple projects are feasible have benefitted tremen dously the regions affected, and would do the same at Hells Canyon. It would moreover do what the pri vate power companies will NOT do. As Gordon C. Clapp of the Tennessee Valley Au thority declared only a few years ago, quote : "Some of the things being demonstrated here low elec- trie rates for example have an important influence on the price of electricity elsewhere. The low TVA rates prompt many electricity consumers to ask why they have to pay more for electricity where they live. This question makes some private utility executives uncomfortable and occasion ally very vocal "In fact, there is a well-organized campaign it has been going on for a long time now In fuU cry trying to make people believe throughout this region where TVA electricity sparks a growing enterprise they are getting a federal hand out a subsidy from the Federal Treasury This view has been expressed in high places and along the street .... Some who voice this notion are no doubt well-intentioned but they are also misinformed. Every cent the gov - eminent advances will be repaid and is being repaid above the agreed schedule, TVA also is paying large sums in lieu of local taxes. Our wholesale rate in fact is only a fraction of a cent lower than the private utility wholesale rate. The rub is in the low retail rate charged by distributors They are cunning enough to realize that if they can smear TVA, TVA may have difficulty in getting capital for new power plants and needed expansion which will benefit them and slowly but surely raise the power rates Let me say in all seriousness that whether you people want to return to the old system is your decision. But may I add we who have been in this hassle quite a while do not believe the people of Tennessee Valley or the United States, are as gullible as the private power gentlemen seem to believe." a a a VR. CLAPP proved to be right as far as the people A of Tennessee were concerned. We are convinced that ultimately he will prove to be just as correct re garding the people of the United States. R.W.R. Public vs. Private Power The most frequent argument against public power is the charge of socialism "creeping" or otherwise. This is ex-President Hoover's strong belief. In fact, if Mr. Hoover had his way, not only would there be no more public power projects at Hells Canyon or anywhere else, but all those now in existence would be condemned and turned over to the private power combine at a "fair and reasonable price," a a a a a - TT TAKES NO great prophetic powers to see what A the final result of such a procedure would be there would be a 100 private power monopoly, and "the good old days" of charging all the traffic will bear would be in the ascendancy again. There might be some state control left via public utilitv commissions but as exnerienrp in Oroo-nn hoc demonstrated, such controls oi compeuuon exists, are effective. But there is no rloilht such a policy would delight the ultra-conservative ngm wing oi tne uur, send the private-power lobby into iovful hysterics, and boost utilitv storks in tha general direction of the stratosphere. DUT IN SPITE of the reactionary atmosphere of JJ ' greed now prevailing this department has a hunch the Insull dream of Paradise will somehow never come to pass. : There are tides of ebb and flow in politics as well as in the ocean. For nearly four vears the tide asainst public power, in the country as a whole has been Sunday, Jan 17, 1938 when a complete absence iar very far from being that trip lmriTorrioriraKrm nt Today and By Walter THE QUESTION OF DISABILITY Mr. Adams and Mr. Hagerty would not be human if they were not thinking at all about how this sec ond illness will affect the election. But they have, pre sumably, had something more immedi ate in mind during the first few days. Waiter uppmann They have been at great pains to establish the fact that in the technical sense pf the word the President is not disabled, that he is able "to discharge the powers and duties" of his office. To do this, they have brought him official documents to be signed and de cisions to which he could say yes or no. They have been applying the lessons they learned from the firsts days of the Denver period. As it happened then, not only Messrs. Adams and Hagerty but the Attorney General as weU were away on vacation when the President was stricken. For a few days there was the greatest uncertainty both as to how bad ly the President was disabled and as to whether or not, and in what degree, the Vice President was supposed to act. But when, later that week, Mr. Adams and Mr. Brownell had returned to Washington, they took a very important de cision. They decided that the President, though he could not then do any. serious work, was not in the legal sense disabled. This meant that there need be no delegation of substantial power to the Vice President, and that in fact a regency consisting of the White House staff and the senior Cabinet officials would be able to administer the office Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with view to clarification and condensation. not exceed 400 words. Veterans' Benefits To the Editor: As a citizen of the United States I hold to the belief that, as such, I have an inherent right to criticize my Government, or officer thereof, whether the lowliest clerk or the Head of State. Take Herbert Hoover, for in stance. He was strictly a 'Do Nothing President' By no means could he be called a popular President. He was hated while in office by Republicans and Democrats alike, and when he tried to se cure a second term was emphat ically repudiated by an over whelming vote of the people. He is 'persona non grata' to the common man to this day. After the death of F. D. Roose velt, Truman fell heir to the Presidency. A brainstorm struck him. He decided to do something about it, so established the in famous Economy Commission. Who did he appoint as chairman? Why, the Great and Only (Thank Heaven) Hoover, and gave him the privilege of calling his own assistants. A greater blunder he, Truman, could not have made, as later events proved. All were opposed to veterans benefits. The report of this Commission was not made until Eisenhower became President, and such a report. Of all things they singled out the Veteran and his benefits. Cut out all benefits except to such as 'could prove' service connection injuries or sickness. Closed nineteen veterans hos pitals and most of the domicil iary homes, such as Camp White, here in Jackson county. If such action is taken by the Republican administration 1 1 will parallel the same thing done while F.D.R. was president It was carried out. The result? As a direct result around 400 Spanish War Veterans commit ted suicide. Despair seized them. They saw nothing but suffering and death before them. To make the whole matter really dis graceful, many service men were stripped of 'issue' outer garments and expelled from homes in underwear. Nice???? Eh!!! The people were aroused to do something. Many thousands of letters smothered Congress. It saw the light. The old laws were re-enacted, vetoed by F.D.R., passed over his veto. The first time It happened to him in his first term. Again the Commission. It re ported to Ike. He liked it. Another Commission. Brad- strong, and we don't deny the prospects of a high dam at Hells Canyon are not very bright, as of today, but ultimately this tide is going to turn, and when it does our prediction is, it will be not only sudden but suffi ciently strong to sweep the Hoover concept of social ism versus public power and the public welfare into oblivion for a long time to come perhaps forever. And the reason will be a very familiar one to-wit: "You can't fool aU the people all the time.' Tomorrow Lippmann of the President. Last week, they applied the same decision as to how to carry on during the President's ill ness. Having learned from ex perience, they did not allow the question to arise as to whether the President was disabled and unable, to discharge his powers and duties. e a a THERE is no settled law as to what is to be done when the President of the United States is ill. Congress has been trying, rather listlessly and not very diligently, to write such a law. It is not an easy thing to do. One of the main difficulties is that there is no objective, no black and white distinction be tween being able and being dis abled. There are variations all the way from being somewhat below par to being helpless. In the President's case, for exam ple, the ability to sign a few documents is for legal purposes sufficient proof, that, though in fact he cannot do any serious work, he is not disabled. It would be impossible to write a law which looked behind these formalities. For who could be given the power to look behind the formalities? How far in fact, apart from the formalities, the President is able to administer his office is not a legal question. It is a po litical question. In a formal sense a President who can sign documents brought to him is ad ministering his office. During an illness and a period of can valescence, this formal and legal view is sufficient and it cannot be effectively challenged. But the country will have no illusions about it. It will realize that until the President has re covered, he will not be discharg ing the real responsibilities of his office. Copyright, New York Her ald Tribune Inc. Letters submitted for publication must ley's. Report? The same thing. So Ike, like HST, forgot his cam paign promises and strikes at the 'inarticulate' (presumably) Veteran. Almost none of them can se cure a living dole from social security which is supposed to take over the VA. ' However, it does not matter. The retired Gen. Bradley is safe with his income. Retired officers are not affected. So the common veteran may "root hog, or die," and to blazes with him. Are you Veterans going to do nothing? Are you going to let the Republican administration put it oyer on you? A. L.- Unger, 634 Pennsylvania ave., Medford, Ore. Thanks To the Editor: We wish to ex- press our thanks to you for the publicity given our organization this past year. We feel that it has greatly aided our program and informed the public of its many phases. Our thanks go especially to Mrs. Olive Starcher who gave our articles that "professional" touch and who so generously gave us the needed space. Many thanks again. Mrs. Herb Gifford, President, American Legion Auxiliary. Mrs. Ross Minneci, Publicity Chairman. National Parks To the Editor: From the Pur ple Mountain in Killarney, from the moors of Scotland, from Lor na Doone's Devonshire across Holland to the Germany' that sings, even on ship in the China Sea, "Roeselein auf der Haide," to Denmark's Aalborg, the heath er now is "in the Purple." The little kingdom on the Bal tic to which Saxon King Alfred once paid "Danegeld" (you can see his crudely minted coins in Visby Museum) is an example of how our National Parks concept has been radiated world-wide. Belgian Congo has King Albert National park. (He was our guest in Yosemite.) Uganda dedicated Queen Elizabeth II National park at the coronation. Ceylon saves wild elephants, also peacocks, from big game hunter extinction in Ruhuna also Wilpattu N. P. It is hoped the Java tiger can be rescued from extinction on Undung Ku lon. Denmark's Rebild National park has interest for Americans R.W.R. Matter of Fact By Stewart Alsop QUESTION OF DISABILITY Washington President Eisen hower will announce that he is still a candidate even before he leaves Walter if the confi dent expecta tion of the Re publican high command are fulfilled. The reasons for making such an an n o uncement immediately will certainly be urged on the President as soon as he is well enough to discuss the matter, if they have not been already. These reasons are ob vious enough. Another long period of specu lation about the President's in tentions, like that which fol lowed the President's' heart at tack last autumn, would have the most damaging political ef fects. It would generate anew the old sub-surface divisions in the Republican party. Worst of all, weeks of such will-he-won't- he speculation would . focus all attention on the so-called "health issue," which is the last thing the Republican leadership wants. a a a HIS top advisers express abso lute confidence that the President will agree that the matter must be disposed of im mediately, for national and in ternational as well as political reasons. They are sure that, in the next few days, he will eith er issue a statement announcing his continued candidacy or au thorize Presidential Press Sec retary James Hagerty or another high Administration official to do so in his name. In fact, the confidence that the President wiU soon author ize a "positive" statement is so absolute that it suggests that the President may already have in dicated his intention not to with draw. At any rate, there is not the slightest visible tendency even to consider altering the present Republican campaign plants. And these plans are geared In every possible way to an Eisenhower candidacy. ' Word has already gone out, for example, that the San Fran cisco convention will be limited to three days," instead of the tra ditional four or five. The whole convention has been planned in advance in remarkable detail, and the proceedings are all tail ored to lead up to the dramatic climax of the President's accept ance speech. rpHE whole campaign thereaft- - er will be built wholly around the President. The high lights of the campaign are to be a small number of major Presi dential radio and television broadcasts, probably six. The subject matter of these . six broadcasts is already being care fully canvassed, and some ini tial rough drafting has actually started. Each of the broadcasts is planned to last half an hour. but the President himself is ex pected to take not more than 20 or 22 minutes of this time. The rest will be devoted to giving the broadcasts variety and pace, with interchanges between the President and Administration of ficials, visual demonstrations of facts and figures, and so on. This is in line with the accept ed theory that televiewers will not listen to long, formal set speeches, even by the President of the United States. Negotia tions are also under way for the best television hours for the Presidential broadcasts. One matter remains unsettled the point of origin of the broadcasts. Even before his recent illness, a non - whistlestop, television campaign had been planned for the President but in the last few weeks before his sudden op eration, the President had begun acting like a warhorse scenting battle, and the campaign plans were revised to allow for a num ber of airborne forays to the husUngs. 'Whether this will hap pen again in the new circum stances remains to be seen. But the planners hope that the Pres ident will fly to key points, especially . Chicago and New York, for at least two or three of his' broadcasts. a OTHER aspects of the cam paign have also been pre planned in surprising detail. The Vice President's campaign, which will be managed for the first time by the national com mittee, is being carefully block ed out already. And a series of five minute "spots," introduced by the President and presenting in serial form the achievements because Denmark, (which has furnished U.S-A. so many desir able immigrants), celebrates our 4th of July there. Chief Justice Warren gave its 1955 address. When writer was at one celebra tion there were unfurled also California's Bear Flag, Texas Lone Star Banner, the standards of the 46 other states. Why not add a few new Na tional park visits in this sum mar's automobiling? They con stitute an example of American Know How exported to many lands. C. M. Goethe, Seventh and J sts., Sacramento, Calif. y - iV e&V -Vsae Stewart Alsop of the Eisenhower administra tion, is another likely feature of what will be a new kind of Pres idential campaign. Obviously, the heart and soul of this new kind of campaign is the candidacy of Dwight D. Ensenhower. If the President were to witnoraw, me wnoie campaign would simply blow up in the face of the RepuDiican leadership. But those who should know those who were right about the President's in tentions last time are serenely confident that nothing of the sort wiU happen. They are sure, on the contrary, not only that the President is still a candidate. but that he wiU publicly confirm his candidacy within the next few days. Copyright 1956 The New York Herald Tribune, Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Here is a bit of news that is at least interesting: In a sharp break with tradi tion, members of the Oregon Cattlemen's association have voted in favor of a federal sub sidy. The association's secretary Ed Coles has just announced in Prineville that final returns of a membership poll show 322 in favor of a federal price support program and 275 against it. The association has tradition- aUy opposed a subsidy program for the catUe industry. In the past, opposition has been record ed by resolution at association conventions. At the 1956 conven tion, however, the delegates deadlocked on the price support issue, and a poll of the member ship was decided upon. In announcing the result the association's secretary says 1,300 ballots were sent out. The com bined yes and no vote just an nounced totals only 597. Whether that means approxim ately half of the members ab stained from voting on the issue doesn't appear. THE feeling of those who voted in favor of a subsidy is at least understandable. Cattle prices have faUen sharply in re cent years, frices of what tne cattlemen have to buy have not fallen correspondingly. That means that the cattle Industry, along with the farming industry in general, has been whipsawed between falling prices for what it has to sell and at least station ary if not actually rising prices for what it has to buy. A situation like that Creates unrest THERE is no mystery about what has happened to the cattle industry. When we came out of the gloomy 30's, the number of mil lions of cattle in the United States was somewhere down in the low 40's. There came then the war. War stimulated meat consumption, as war always does. As demand rose, prices rose. During the war, meat was ra tioned. Following a curious quirk of human nature, ration ing whetted our appetites for meat. It seems to be true that what is scarce is always desir able. At nny rate, everybody WANTED MEAT. Our meat appetite continued after the war, and when rationing was ended consumption began to soar. When price controls were removed, prices rose as a result of the sharply rising demand. The number of cattle on the ranges and on the farms rose correspondingly. The total num ber of millions of animals crept up through the 50's, through the 60's, through the 70's and finally weU up into the 80's. All this time people continued to eat meat at a rate never before approached, but eventuaUy sup ply caught up with demand. SO prices began to fall. Thev have continued lo faU. They have now reached the point where there is distress in the cattle industry. What shall we do about it? ShaU we subsi dize beef prices? If we do that, we shall undoubtedly have to subsidize pork prices, lamb prices and in the end POUL TRY prices. LET'S take a realistic look at the situation. What is needed Wh9tm CllUa . John A. Carter Virgil rU Wilkes Lynn Colby 133 S. Central Ph. 2-9322 & If m l ? m en ! mmM POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A classified ad In our favor ite newspaper offers for sale a 3-year-old Labrador dog, "fully trained to whistle at hand signals." Sounds more like a wolf. a a a A group of Medford business men interested in Front street property attended the last meet ing of the city council to see what could be done to obtain general usage of the correct name for the street D'Anjou rather than the name Front which many feel has connotations un befitting the street's potential ities. One councilman asked. "Do you think all street names should be returned to their original names if they aren't already?" UI course," one of the bus inessmen replied. "You're a Republican, I as sume?" the councilman asked. The answer was "yes." "Do you know the original name of Crater Lake avenue?" the council member continued. "No," said the businessman. "Roosevelt avenue," the coun cilman informed him. This, of course, raises the in teresting question as to whether it should revert to the original name, and if so, whether it would be TR or FDR thus honored. ' A man we know was walk- ing down the street looking for the office of an optometrist. He went right by it and walked a block further before discovering his mistake. "What I need," he remarked, "are glasses." There was a litUe editorial in the paper the other day, pointing out that there are a number, a growing number, of special weeks, days and months. Today, for instance, is Father's day, which is pretty well accepted, particularly by businesses selling gifts which appeal to mature men. We are informed of another observance, via a hand-out from a public relations office. Nation al Hot Dog Month, we are told, is July. 'We are asking the editorial writers of the leading newspa pers in the country," the letter said,, "to consider the idea of paying their respects to our na-t tional dish some time during July." This leading newspaper has considered the proposal, and re jected it. But we would be re miss if we did not report that the American people will eat an estimated one billion pounds of hot dogs this year. The hand-out tells us that's enough hot dog mileage to go to the moon. Not a bad idea. a a a "Research work," our glos sary of federalese tells us, is . "hunting for the guy who moved the files." , a a a The Times That Warm Our Heart Department Like the other night when we drove up behind an Austin (the English version of an automobile) and read pasted on its back end signs saying, "Join the National Guard," "Speed Kills," and "If You Can Read This You're Too Close," and then watched as the lady in the driver's seat made a right-turn signal and turned the little car in a beautiful curve into the left-hand street, right under the big sign hanging next to the stop lights: "NO LEFT TURN.", is to bring the supply of meat back into balance with the de mand for meat. If that is to be done, the number of meat ani mals on the farms and the ranges must be reduced. But If we subsidize meat to the point where production of more of it is PROFITABLE the num ber of meat animals on tha farms and the ranges wiU be INCREASED ' instead of being reduced. The next step will be filling the cold storage ware houses with SURPLUS meat ' The next step after that will be . building MORE warehouses. f The end result will be accumu- lating surpluses of meat that will hang over the markets of the future like a dark thundercloud. Here ore EXAMPLES 8 J Retirement Income far you and your wife. 9 A debt-fret home if you should die. t Protection until the children art grown. 4 Income for your widow after the children are grown. An education for your children. Cart for the children if your wife should die. Opportunity for your children funds when they need them most. M Business security if a partner or keyemployee die. There's a Stats Farm Life In surance Plan to meet your exact mens ana budget! STATI FARM Agent
