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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MECFORWJTEIBUKi "IverytxxlJ in Southern Oregoo Reads The Mail Tnbups" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North tit St. Phone 2-Ml ROBERT W BUHL. Editor HERB CREV Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR- Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHiPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SporU Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICjgOVClrculatlon Mgr. Anlnriependent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon, under Act ot March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6 50 Daily and Sunday Three moi J.30 Sunday Only One year $330. By Carrier In Advance Mediord. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue Hiver. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $19 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy Ail Terms Caili In Advance Oiflrlal Piper of the City at Medford official Paper of Jackson County UnTtecTPress Full Leased Wire ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATION WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle Portland St- Louis Atlanta. Vancouver BC M A T I O N A t EDIIORIl VV I lAsTocfATLQN EKS'E3 i O NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the f ilea of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and to years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 18. 1946 (It was Tuesday) About 1,500 tourists visited Crater Lake National park Sat urday, opening day, according to Superintendent E. P. Leav ltt. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The fifth annual round-up is now history. The weather was not what it should have been. Also many equestrians and equestriennes were otherwise sore beset. 20 YEARS AGO June 18. 1336 (It was Thursday) Delegates began arriving here today for the informal op ening tonight of the 12th an nual Active International con vention. Over 300 delegates congre gated in Medford this week for the state convention of the GAR and its allied order. 30 YEARS AGO June 18. 1926 (It was Friday) The annual Flag Day exer cises by the Medford Elks lodge will be held Sunday, June 20, in the city park at 2 p.m. The Presbytery of southern Oregon has undertaken to hold a young people's conference starting June 28. 40 YEARS AGO June 18. 1916 (It was Sunday) Hundreds of people Friday saw their friends and neighbor! in action in the first moving picture comedy ever acted in Medford. From Local and Personal col umn: George E. Neuner and Er ic Anderson left Monday for Squaw lake on a fishing and prospecting trip. What's the Answer? 1. Commerce Secretary Weeks predicts that 1956 business will be down somewhat from record breaking 1955, will be about the same, or even better than last year? 2. There are (a) 100,000, (b) 1,000.000, (c 5,000,000 or (d) 10,000.000 PTA members all over the U.S.? 3. Whitehall is the official res idence of the British foreign mm ister. country residence of the British foreign minister, coun try residence of the prime min ister, or a London street? 4. The small intestine in man is (a) 1-3 feet, (b) 5-10 feet, or (c) 20-25 feet long. 5. The Egyptian government plans to extend the century-old concession of the Suez Canal Company, or take over the canal when the concession expires in 1968? 6. Zim, Zis, and Pobeda are the names of Russian wildflow ers. candies, or automobiles? 7. Lombardy is a district of France. Greece, Italy, or Spain? The answers: 1. "Every reason io hope" for even better business year. Weeks said June 7. 2. 10. 000.000. 3. London street. 4. 20 25 feel long. 5. Take over the canal "at midnight on Nov. 16, 1968." 6. Automobiles. 7. Italy. AILING POET IMPROVED London OI.R) American born poet T. S. Eliot is "getting better'' following his recent mild heart attack aboard the Queen Mary, his doctors said today. More About Parks We're sort of a bug about parks. We are fond of Hawthorne park, and the old city park next to the Library. We approve the planning commission's recommendation that the 22 acres next to the new east side fire station be dedicated for park purposes. (The city also needs another park on the west side.) We are enamoured of Prescott park, and hope the highway commission approves the proposal to make it a state park. Ben Hur Lampman state park, on the Rogue near Gold Hill; McLeod and Casey and Tou- velle higher on the river, and Tub Springs state way side on the Green Springs all nil us witn pnae. FOR THE man or family with time and money and physical fortitude, the wide open spaces. of the Cascade wilderness are available. But for the average family, about the only ready chance at pleasant, outdoor recreation lies with the narks citv. state and federal. And have you noticed? there are more families about. Ergo, the more parks, the better for all of us. TVio Matinnal Fnrpsf-. ramnS and nicnic sites, while not technically parks, serve admirably. XI fTTH THTS background, come news that Crater Lake National park is due for extensive improvement to trie tune 01 moie than $4 million under the "Mission 66" project of nark develooment Conrad Wirth, director of the park service, told the Senate interior committee the other day that this sum is planned for Crater ordinary operating and maintenance costs. It's needed, Lord knows. e "THE national parks belong ed States, and are dedicated to tneir enjoyment, recreation and relaxation forever. They are designed to preserve great natural lake, the Yosemite valley and tne wand canyon, from exploitation and commercialism. They offer the same protection to unique works of man, such as Mesa Verde, other early Indian cities, and places of historic interest. Tn rpppnt. vpnrs. however, because of the deDres sion. the war and other circumstances, the parks have not been given the attention facilities have been allowed It is to correct this that Droeram was started. The year it is hoped to have the THE initial appropriation for Crater lake, being souerht for the comine fiscal year, totals $381,000. The total planned for the 10 service is $4,528,000, with utilities and other facilities, and trails. These sums may seem membered that the park contains 160,290 acres; that it is visited by thousands from all over the world each year; that for its great est use it must have all portions of its fabulous won derland accessible, and that the special conditions ot altitude, climate, typography, geology and distance multiply costs. IT IS A pleasure, now, to tractions and beauties numerous to describe adequately. It should be a greater pleasure, as the next 10 years go by, and as roads, trails to odd cornel's of the park, buildings and other facilities are improved con tinually. E.A. The Saving of Lives Tom Turpin and Bruce ting better. It was a week ago when plunged over a steep embankment on the lower II linois river. If it had been a they could have died. That they survived is ple who have looked ahead, and others who are not afraid to take chances to save the lives of people in danger. ROY SCOUT training was a big item in their sur- vival. We understand that there was little or no confusion or hesitancy about what to do after the boys were hurt. Two other Scouts, Mike Roberts and Roger Johnson, immediately set out for help, hiking all night along a dim trail, lhe rest and did its best to care lor The rest of the story is comes to woods mishaps. or was willing to. Iwo men erness, and their plane dropped supplies. Men started to the rescue overland, and by boat The three men who brought the boys downriver in a little, overbur dened skiff, making endless and gruelling portages: performed an heroic task. ""THERE WAS coordination all the way along the line. And at the end there was Mercy.Flights to whisk them back to Medford for immediate and skill ed medical care. People didn't stop to ers : the dangers of trail and forest and river and air. ihey did the job, and the That they are OK is because of forethought and training and organization as well as courage, co ordination and helpfulness. It was a demonstration that makes a person proud to belong to the human race. tu.A. Monday, Junt 18. 1956 the function, and do so then, it is obviously wel lake over ana aDove uie to the people of the Unit- wonders, such as Crater they need. Too often their to deteriorate. the 10-year "Mission 66" "66" refers to 1966, the job done. a e - year program by the park $1,493,000 for buildings, and $2,835,000 for roads large. But it should be re upon thousands ot people visit Crater lake, whose at are too considerable and Blachly are alive and get the two young Boy Scouts few years ago, chances are to the eternal credit of peo of the troop set up camp. the injured boys. a familiar one when it Everyone either pitched in parachuted into the wild think much about the dang' boys are OK. United Press Writers Predict Headline-Making Future Events United Press correspon dents around the world take a look ahead at the news that will make lhe headlines. Cyprus Peace Move Look for an important British pronouncement on Cyprus policy any day now. Prime Minister Anthony Eden and his govern ment have decided to try to re open negotiations with the Greek Cypriots who demand the right of "self-determination" meaning union with Greece. Britain may offer a newly-draft ed constitution. London says it Matter of Fact a hp THE HARRIMAN STRATEGY Washington When New York's Gov. W. Averell Harri man and his shrewd manager, Tammy Hall Chief Carmine DeSapio ,d a y dream about the future, they undoubt edly visualize some such scene as this: The third or fourth b a Hot is being taken Stewart Alsop in the sweaty Chicago conven tion hall. As the balloting pro gresses, it becomes clear that Adlai E. Stevenson has shot his bolt. A bruising pre-convention fight on the civil rights issue has In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS For several days, this column has been serious and solemn and thoughtful concerned, with the SIGNIFICANT side of life. Let's try for a change of pace today, There are so many kinds of news. THERE'S the case, for exam- nle. nf Mr arfH Mrs .Tnhn Christmas of Louisville, Ky. A daughter has just been born to them a lovely, charming, WONDERFUL little girl. They ve named her Merry Gay Christmas. TT'S A Beautiful thought. - But it calls to mind a similar case back where I grew up. A rather sentimental couple bear ing the surname of Rose became the parents of a pink and ravish ing little daughter upon whom they bestowed the name of Wild Wild Rose. How did it turn out? ' She grew up and married a man named BULL. CALIFORNIA state and local officers have seized a still a BLOCK OR SO 7ROM SAN FANCISCO'S COW PALACE They say that for goodness knows how long it been reg ularly turning out 50-gallon lots of corn moonshirc How the world has changed. Back in the days when the Hatfields and the McCoys got likkered up on white mule and grabbed their shootin" arns and went out and made sieves of each other, these institutions were customarily located away out in the backwoods, where there would be plenty of oppor tunities to pick off the reve- nooers on their way in. Now, following modern bust ness principles, they're moving them down into the cities where they will be close to the big con suming markets. Under mod ern competitive conditions, the moonshiner can no longer afford a long- haul from the point of origin to the point of distribu tion. CPEAKING of the way things used to be as compared with the way they are now, there is the new Richmond -San Rafael bridge spanning San Francisco bay, which is scheduled to be opened to traffic at one minute after midnight on the morning of Sept. 1. Its cost is sixty mil lion dollars. Back in the days a little more than a century ago when Capt. John C. Fremont and Kit Carson were quartered in an old house in San Rafael while waiting for the Bear Flag republic to be proclaimed, 60 million dollars was a lot of money. If Captain Fremont had said then to Scout Carson: "Kit, the time will come when they will build a bridge from the other side of the bay over there to tnis place where we are sitting now, and it will cost $60,000,000," rut, in nis unlettered way, would have replied: "Hell, Cap, that's more than the whole West is worth; there AIN'T that much money." And, in those days, he would have been right. OUT the world moves. Now an- 13 other 60 million dollar bridge over San Francisco bay is peanuts BECAUSE THERE ARE MILLIONS OF CUSTOMERS TO CROSS IT AND PAY A TOLL F.OR THE PRIVILEGE. That's what population does. ine wesis population is growing swiftly. None of us can yet imagine the things that will be made possible in the West by the swift growth of our popu lation. sU sTimJ mav even set a date on which self-determination would be granted. The date would be far in the future, however, says 10 to 15 years. The tragic murder of an American vice-consul by Cypriot extremists may make moderate self-deierminists more ready to listen to compromise talk. Unveiling The Kremlin Wives Bachelor trips abroad by So viet Russian bigwigs may be on the way out. European diplo mats hear that some Kremlin wives will start to accompany their husbands on missions to hurt Stevenson badly, both with Northern liberals and with the Southerners. In a desperate effort to put him over the top every last Stevenson vote has been cajoled into line. But the total is still short of the 687 votes needed to win. At this point, the convention realizes that it must choose be tween Harriman and Missouri's Sen. Stuart Symington. North ern Stevenson delegates begin breaking to Harriman, while Southerners, conservatives, and border-state men shift to Syming ton. A deadlock threatens. Then there is a dramatic in tervention. Symington's fellow Missourian, former President Harry S. Truman, choosing his words and his platform care fully, comes out hard and strong for Harriman. He bestows on Harriman the accolade as the true inheritor of the New Deal and the Fair Deal, the only avail able candidate who can be de pended upon to defend labor and the minorities. A MONG the Northerners and liberal groups, who control the majority of the delegates, Truman's accolade starts a band wagon movement to Harriman After this, the dream becomes a little dim. Perhaps Symington will accept second place if so, he will almost certainly be of fered it. Perhaps the Southern ers will walk out if so, they will deliver the huge Negro vote in the key industrial states to Harriman. At any rate, Harriman is tri umphantly nominated, and after a hard-hitting, strongly Fair Deal campaign, triumphantly en ters the White House. The dream is, of course, only a dream. In all probability the reality will be far different. But the dream is at least interesting, because it tells a lot about the shrewd and carefully calculated Harri man strategy. The Harriman strategy rests squarely on two bases. Base one is Harriman's all-out advocacy of civil rights. Harriman's stand on the issue is strongly indorsed by the intellectual liberal groups which still influence Democratic conventions. Especially in view of the Eisenhower administra tion's record on the issue, the Negro and minority vote in the big states has never been more crucial, as the big state profes sionals are wholly aware. And the big state pros will have even more influence than the liberals. Tlf OREOVER, a battle over the civil rights plank in the plat form could well have two ef fects. It could force Stevenson into a position where he could hardly avoid alienating either the Northern liberal-labor bloc or his Southern supporters. And it could tend to identify Syming ton as the candidate of the South erners and conservatives, who simply do not control a majority of the votes. The second base of the Harri man strategy is, of course, Tru man. Truman is far too shrewd to commit himself before he has to, and he will certainly not at tempt to stop Stevenson's bid for the nomination. But if the Ste venson bid fails, the Harriman strategists hope and believe that Truman will give the Harriman candidacy just the added lift it will then require. As the Harriman strategists frankly admit, this two-pronged strategy has its weaknesses. For one thing, Stevenson is very far out ahead. And his civil rights program is being fashioned by Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Min nesota, Sen. Herbert Lehman of New York and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The result may not please the Southerners, but it will be hard to persuade the Northern liberals that this trio is dedicated to racial reaction. e f OREOVER, although Truman has been exceedingly friend ly towards the Harriman can didacy, he has made no firm commitments. It remains to be seen whether the ex-President will go all out for Harriman, if it becomes clear that a Harri man nomination would split the party in two. Yet the Harriman candidacy also has one very great strength the simple fact that Harriman really does believe he could de feat President Eisenhower. Such confidence, coupled with bold and stubborn determination which is a hallmark of Harri man's character, is an enormous asset in this election year. Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune- Ine foreign countries. The ice Is being broken now. Communist party leader Nikita S. Khrush chev took his son with him when1 he went to London in April. New Foreign Minister Dimitri T. Shepilov has taken his daugh ter on his current visit to the Middle East. One reason Krem lin families have stayed home in the past: They were hostages for papa's safe return home Papal Health Some Vatican quarters are worried over the heavy schedule of work Pope Pius XII has re sumed after his recent setback from fatigue. They fear his heart may weaken if he overtaxes himself during the torrid Italian summer. The Pope is 80. Campaign Shot-Calling ' Watch for signs that the White House, not Secretary of Agri culture Ezra Taft Benson, is calling the .shots on farm policy. Benson announced that the soil bank payments plan was not a drought-relief and plow-up pro gram. He reversed himself by authorizing payments for dam aged crops. Washington says the reversal really came from the White House. More reversals are expected, especially on soil bank payments. Benson wants to keep payments small. But the White House is more keenly aware that this is an election year Envoy To San Marino Don't be surprised if Russia sets up a legation soon in San Marino, the pint-sized republic in the mountains of northeastern Italy. It is only 23 square miles in area, has a population of 13,- 500. But its government is dominated by Communists. The Kremlin is starting to move agents in. It has used San Ma rino for years as a base, partly to funnel funds to the Italian Communist party. All Quiet American authorities in For mosa believe the Chinese Communists have decided not to start anything in the Formosa Strait this summer. This is the season when conditions would be best for an attack on the coastal islands the Nationalists hold. But all is quiet. Backfire The action of the Iceland Parliament in demanding that the United States be forced to give up its bases there is back firing. Cutbacks in American spending on construction and other projects are throwing Ice landers out of jobs. The plug-up in the dollar flow is starting to atiect the island s economy, Russian Magazine Will Be on Sale in This Country Soon Washington (CQ) Early- next month United States news stands are expected to place on sale, for the first time, a slick life-size magazine extolling the Soviet Union. Called "USSR," the heavily illustrated monthly will be the counterpart of "Amerika," the Russian-language magazine the U.S. Information Agency plans to start distributing in Moscow and other Soviet centers about the same time. "Amerika," which was cir culated in the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1952 when the U.S. sus pended publication after charg ing Soviet authorities with pre venting its distribution, will re appear in much the same for mat. Suspended in 19S2 But "USSR," Congressional Quarterly learned, will bear greater resemblance to "Amer ika" than it does to its own pre decessor, the USSR Information Bulletin. The latter publication was suspended in 1952 on orders of the U.S. government when "Amerika" was dropped. ' Both of the new magazines will be approximately the same size (14V4xl4 inches), will emphasize illustrations arid use of color, and will avoid "poli tics." "USSR" will be edited in Mds cow and printed in New York. As yet, no sale price has been set, and the Soviet Embassy in Washington is still working on arrangements for newsstand dis tribution. Although this Is hand led by private concerns, it is safe to assume that the U.S. gov ernment will take an interest if distributors should refuse to handle "USSR." An official Soviet agency, So yuzpechat, will handle distribu tion of "Amerika," which will be printed in West Berlin and willfell for 5 rubles per copy, or about $1.25 at the official ex change rate. Even at this price, the old "Amerika" reportedly sold like hot cakes, then con tinued to circulate widely. Both Limited By terms of the U.S.-Soviet agreement announced Dec. 23, 1955, both magazines will be limited to a total of 52,000 copies per issue 50,000 for sale, plus 2,000 for distribution free to government officials and others. Budget . for "Amerika" for fiscal 1S57 ii $338,740, part ol Major Commitments On Foreign Policies By U.S. French Aim By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent France is going to ask the United States to make some im portant commitments in foreign 'm policy wis week. French For eign Minister Christian Pin eau starts in three days of talks with Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles today. Chsriei Hcunn lrsi ne in tends to ask that the United States come out fully in sup port of French policy in Al geria. Secondly, he will ask Dulles to accept the view of France and of some of America's most important other allies that a historic change is under way in Russia. Thirdly, he will urge that the United States put less emphas is on Allied defense and more on seeking peace, with disarma ment the first goal. To France, Pineau's mission is one of prime importance. Its success or failure may have con siderable effect on French co operation with the United States. Arabs Supporting Rebels Dispatches from Paris indi cate Pineau's mission will not be considered successful unless he gets some positive declara tions from Dulles. Editorial Comment HOW ABOUT IT? An Oakland judge suggests that perhaps it's time we changed our ways of thinking about traffic accidents and the major cause of accidents namely people. Addressing a traffic safety conference. in Cali fornia, Judge William J. Mo Guiness told rural area repre sentatives of 11 Western states that America might soon have to think in terms of "driver se lectivity." , The time may come, he warn ed, when there is not room on the highways for everybody who might want to drive a car. "Rather than ask highway en gineers to accommodate an in creasingly greater number of cars," he said, "I think we would be better off if we thought in terms of making our highways available only to competent drivers. The principle is already estab lished. Driving a car is not a natural right like breathing, ex pressing an opinion or going to the church of your choice. It's a privilege, licensed by authority, We license drivers, just as we li cense deer hunters, surgeons, air plane pilots and others who practice skills which, in unskill ed hands, would be deadly. . How many of America's mil lions of automobile drivers are competent? How many are driv ing on licenses that were award ed them in the Harding adminis tration? How many are driving despite their own records which plainly show them to be "auto accident prone." Eugene Regis-ter-Gund. the $113 million Congress has voted for the U.S. Information Agency. How much the Soviets have allocated for producing "USSR" is unknown, but the quality of the first issue may offer clues. The December agreement to permit resumption of publica tion and distribution of the two periodicals was the lone specific result of the Geneva Foreign Ministers' discussion in October about ways and means of easing East-West barriers to the ex change of information. (Copyright 1958, Congressional Quarterly) FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 Algeria is France's No. 1 prob lem. Added to the determina tion of the Algerian national ists in combatting a formidable French army is the fact that Egypt and other Arab countries I are openly supporting the reb els. Pineau would like Dulles to promise France its unqualified ' upport on its Algerian policy. This policy is to bring peace to Algeria first, by force if nec essary, and only then to nego tiate an agreement under which Algeria would have self-govern ment but not outright indepen dence. The Arab countries now threaten to try to put the Al gerian problem before the Unit ed Nations Security CounciL The word from UN headquar ters is that the United States, as of now, leans toward a hands off policy. That means that it would abstain from a vote if the question of putting Algeria on the councils agenda came up. Abstention would be, to some extent, support of France. Sev en favorable votes in the 11-na-tion council would be needed to put Algeria on the program. It is indicated that t h i would not be good enough for France. It wants outright sup port. Reappraisal Urged The Arabs will be watching the Pineau-Dulles talks closely. The Syrian ambassador in Washington warned the State Department Friday., in the name of the nine-nation Arab League, not to support France. Pineau has been urging ever since he become foreign minist er, on the formation of Premier Guy Mollet's government Feb. 1, that the Allies reappraise their policy toward Russia. Pin eau dates a basic -change in Rus sian policy from the period im mediately following Josef Stal in's debunking at the Communist party congress in February. On March 2, in his first big speech as foreign minister, Pin eau expressed his "profound dis agreement" with major aspects of Allied policy, especially to ward Russia. Pineau is a firm friend of the United States. France has not yet come out of the ordeal it , went through in World War IL It wants to end the Algerian re bellion, and wants the firm mor al support of its friends in end ing it. It wants to end the cold war, and believes that a new approach to Russia may lead to that. Peter Came Back GEO. N. TAYLOR Jesus had said He was the Son of God. Saying that, He must die and so they arrested Him. 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