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TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORmwTBIBUNS "Everybody la Southern Orf oo Rctdi The Mail Tribune' Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. rr-3fl North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERA-LD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC A i -i y-N jr. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JKWETT S porta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor PALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Orejfon. under Act of March 3, 1697 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Hv ftifaH In Advance: Per CODV IOC. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and SundaySix months 6-50 Dally and Sunday Three moa 3-30 Sunday Only One year 3.50 H Harrier In Ad vane MedfOTd. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Old Sol turned on the heat yesterday causing a number of local mer maids to come out briefly in briefer bathing suits than last year. 20 YEARS AGO Jun 20. 193S (It was Saturday) C. E. Gates, president of Lake of the Woods company, an nounces that W. M. Walls, pro prietor of Llthia hotel has leased concessions; Ward V. Croft of Ashland to manage resort. Arthur Good defeats Tracy Boothby for Prospect school board position. 30 YEARS AGO June 20, 1926 (It was Sunday) Little public interest taken in Medford school board election; no contests for board positions. C. M. (Sam) Houston appoint ed secretary-manager of Oregon State Federation of Post Office clerks at recent meeting. 40 YEARS AGO June 20. 1918 (It was Tuesday) A. J. Vance elected president, C. E. Gates and G. A. Morse, vice presidents of the new Jack son County Fair association. From Local and Personal col umn: The monthly inspection train, carrying Superintendent F. L. Burckhalter is expected to stop at Medford about 6:30 a.m. tomorrow. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cor. 195S, Editorial Research Report 1. Douglas McKay, Eisenhow er's first Secretary of Interior, is running for the Senate from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, or Montana? 2. The duodenum, jejunum. and ileum are different sections of what part of the human body? 3. At its World War I peak the U.S. public debt amounted to S26.6 billion, $39 billion, or $73.2 billion? 4. The oldest university In North America is in Canada, the United States, or Mexico? 5. Bobby Jones in 1930 won the U.S. and British Open golf tournaments and the U.S. and British Amateurs; the feat was popularly known as a home run hat trick, grand slam, or Big Casino? 6. The sacred Ibis of Egypt is sm ox, a snake, an insect, or a bird? 7. What does the Latin motto of the United States "E Pluri- bus Unum" mean? The answers: 1. Oregon 2, Small intestine. 3. S26.6 billion. 4. UniTersity of Mexico (orar 400 years old). 5. Grand slam of golf. 6. Wading bird related to the heron. 7. On out of many. Klamath Council OKs Fiscal Year Budget Klamath Falls MUM The Klamath Falls city council yes terday approved a $1,056,348 operating budget for the city during the next fiscal year. MAIL TRIBUNE Planning Not long age we received a letter which asked, somewhat ill-temperedly: - "What in do we need a county planning com mission for?" It's a perfectly proper question, and the only diffi culty in answering it is that there are quite a lot of reasons. They can, however, be boiled down to two general classes of reasons : Economic and aesthetic. The two are interrelated. I ET'S say that our letter-writing friend is named - "A." Let's assume he owns a nice home some where in the county, and has put many hours and con siderable money into getting it fixed up just the way he wants it. Let's further assume that another chap named "B" comes along and buys the land right next to A's prop erty. He decides to put in a skunk-works. Legally, he has a right to do this, and there's very little that A can do to stop him. So he goes ahead, builds his skunk works and starts producing skunk juice. Alas, however, for A, who objects to having the aroma of skunk juice drifting over the fence. AT FIRST, A objects on aesthetic grounds, because of the smell, and because a skunk works is dis pleasing to the eye. His temper mounts, but because he cannot do anythirig to force B to stop making skunk juice, he finally decides to sell his property and move elsewhere. So he places it on the market. People come to see it. But they, too, dislike having a skunk works nearby, and most of them reject outright his offer. Those that are interested do not offer nearly the amount which A has already invested in his place. This is where the economic reason enters in. ' 7TEWED in one light, all uses of property can be " thought of as variants either of A's pleasant resi dence or B's skunk works. It is to bring a reasonable amount of foresight and public control into such situations that a planning commission is designed to function. In a sense, it serves as a community sounding-board to reflect the best possible uses of given areas of land. And it functions with authority. It cannot, for instance, order someone to stop using his property for some purpose for which he has used it in the past. But it can, under certain cir cumstances, make such reasonable rules and regula tions as would prevent an abuse in the future. v GOVERNMENT is a social organization set up to A r tVi a f Vi in rro irliiri tiro qo indiTTiriinile pannnf do for ourselves. And while for our own purposes, we cannot "plan ahead for others and for the maximum public good unless we entrust government with this function. A planning commission is advisory in nature, and will not be able to lay down rules and regulations un less and until it is given authority to do so. But it would be well to remember that such a com mission is designed to protect the majority from ac tions intentional or unintentional of the minority which would do public harm. It's one way of putting horse sense into commun ity development. E. A. Flood Receding The "flood of 1956" has receded from the head lines. A good thing, too. It could almost be called the flood that didn't hap pen. No lives were lost, which is the most important thing. It did a lot of damage, caused a number of people to leave their homes in low-lying areas temporarily, and so on. Tremendous stretches of territory were under water for a few days, and possibly the worst damage was to soil. THE FLOOD this spring was within a few inches of the one in 1948, when the dike at Vanport gave way and a dozen or more people lost their lives, and it was miraculous that the loss was not more. We've learned a bit about floods since then, and it was foresight and planning which allowed this spring's high water to pass as harmlessly as it did. The snow survey and water forecast service of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, started by a former Rogue Valley man, Arch Work, assisted by another former Medford man, W. T. (Jack) Frost, called the 1948 flood accurately, but in those days the forecasts were not as much trusted as they have since come to be. THIS YEAR, again, the flood's height was accur ately predicted. This time, however, because of a long record of accuracy, coupled with more detailed information from the SCS and other sources, the warning was heeded, precautions were taken, and the danger, although not entirely eliminated, was mini mized. The Columbia river is still about five feet above flood stage, but it isn't causing much excitement any more. It's now dropping at the rate of about six inches a day. And the flood has receded from public view to the extent that it merited only one paragraph in the Jour nal the other day, at the tail end of a story headlined "Northwest Skies Clearing." E. A. DONT KILL UMP Newport Beach, Calif. 0J.R) The Rev. R. M. Boas umpires the games of the St. James Epis- l copal Day School baseball team. "He takes the usual abuse that goes with the job," a friend said. Wtdnnday. Jun 20, 195S a bare minimum of police each of us can plan ahead NO FIRE. JTJST WATER Racine, Wis U.R) Firemen answered an alarm at St. Ed ward's Grade school Tuesday with mops. A lightning bolt had split a water pipe and the school was (wash. Non-Russian Communist1 Parties Give Kremlin Policies Setback By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Kremlin has suffered a big setback in its attempt to blame Josef Stalin for all the yii... u a crimes of the Y'"w dictatorship. The .Trench and Italian Communist parties, the two largest in West ern Europe, have issued pronounce- diaries Mccann ments of poli cy on the "Stalin did it all" cam paign of the new Soviet collec tive leadership. Both parties agree that Stalin sinned. But both take the view that the men who denounce Stalin now as Russia's evil geni us were his active accomplices. Both parties agree also that in future it will be necessary for them to take a more independent attitude instead of blindly fol lowing the Moscow party line. Looks Like Blunder This new development makes it more likely that, as has been suggested, Soviet Premier Nik olai Bulganin and Communist Party Leader Nikita S. Khrush chev and their fellows blundered in debunking Stalin so savagely and so completely. It is becoming increasingly ev ident how deeply the debunking shocked all but the inner circle of Communists in Russia, and all Communists including the top most leaders in satellite and oth er countries. The one Communist who has emerged from it all with prestige untarnished is Presidnt Tito of Yugoslavia, who denounced Stal in as evil eight years ago. Unless all present indications are misleading, "Titoism" is go ing to spread. Tito Bloc Boss It is indicated not only that non-Russian Communist - parties are going to show an increasing ly independent tendency but that Tito may wind up as the leader In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Supply and demand note: Moisture in parts of the Mid west over the week end caused FAIRLY HEAVY SELLING in oats, new crop corn and new crop soybeans on the Chicago Board of Trade today. HOW come? It's like this: The moisture which Is fall ing in areas that have been VERY DRY this spring is ex pected to result in larger crops. Larger crops will mean bigger surpluses tp hang over the mar kets of the future like a dark thundercloud. In the present surplus situa tion, larger crops will taean lower prices. TVTORE of the same: Hog prices are 25 to 50 cents lower today at major East ern corn belt markets. Again, how come? The price drop reflects larger farm shipments. Some 81,000 hogs are estimated on sale at the beginning of this week- about 19,000 more than a week ago. ' fOING on with the story: Chicago trading is slow on steers and heifers, with prices generally steady to 25 cents LOWER. About 114,000 cattle are on hand this morning at 12 markets or 8,000 MORE than last Mon day. TTNDER present policies, ALL of us pungle up taxes to buy the surpluses produced by SOME of us and stash them away in storage. When the ware houses begin to overflow, we give the surplus away. We give it away hecause public opinion wouldn't yet stand for DE STROYING it. When we try to sell our surpluses abroad at re duced prices, our friends abroad yell bloody murder to our state department. They say we're RUINING their . agricultural economy. So we go back to storing it or giving it away. TROUBLESOME question: -s- What will happen when ALL of us get tired of paying taxes to buy up at subsidized prices the surpluses that are produced by SOME of us? SOMETHING to think about: President Eisenhower has vetoed a bill to give $6,000 to a Virginia couple whose gas sta tion, grocery store and trailer parking business was hurt by re location of U.S. Highway 15, on which their business was lo cated. In vetoing the bill, the Presi dent said the government can not indemnify every business or property owner against loss by reason of changes of community pattern. it r WHAT do YOU think about it? Should government guar antee EVERYBODY against loss OF ANY KIND? If so, where will that theory lead us? of a bloc of Communist countries in Southeastern Europe. Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist party, started the newest flare-up in the Stalin situation. His party is the largest Com munist party in Europe outside of Russia itself. Poland, largest of the Soviet satellites, has about 1,400,000 Communist party mem bers. Yugoslavia has but about 650,000. Italy has more than 2,000,000. Togliatti, in a formal state ment of policy, said that he could not accept the idea that Stalin sinned alone. Question of Responsibility "The question of the responsi bility of the entire Soviet direct ing group must be considered," he said. "This includes those Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the nam under certain circumstances the use of is permissible. Tha Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters wim a view to clarification and condensation, not exceed 400 words. The Old 'Nat' To the Editor: I received a let ter with a clipping from your paper and a picture of the dear old "Nat being torn down. I moved to Medford.with my par ents in 1908, so I saw the Nat built and was at its dedication. It was a very wonderful affair for a kid of 15, merry-go-rounds, etc. It was on the skating rink floor I met the boy I married. We now live in L-A. and have for 45 years, but I'm still a true blue Oregonian and always will be. I have a daughter living in Jacksonville, Mrs. Floyd Wyatt, with her husband and four chil dren. We were married in Jack sonville by the justice of the peace, and at that time we had to get our license in the big brick building that is now the Mu seum. We moved to L.A. on Dec. 10, 1911 about three months af ter we were married, and our family started coming along about 1912, and at one time we were internationally known for the largest motion picture family in the world. I still love Medford, Ore., where all my young girl memor ies are so very dear, and my wonderful little mother lies bur ied there. I expect to be in Med ford and Jacksonville this sum mer. I had to laugh at Mr. Nelson's description of the Nat. There was one thing he left out, the big pop corn stand that stood inside, but I never forgot it, and all the grandstand seats where people could sit and watch you swim and skate. Ah, yes those are truly very lovely and wonderful memories. How I wish I knew where some of the old timers were, especially a fellow named Frank Slocum, who was my hus band's roommate. We have tried to locate him. My maiden name was Golda Wimer. I will be sad not to see the Nat as I always went to visit it on my trips back to Medford. Mrs. Coy Watson Sr. 2217 Berkeley ave. Los Angeles 26, Calif. Congressional Quiz (Copyright, 1958 Congressional Quarterly) Q Can you arrange in the right chronological order steps which legislation introduced in the Senate must go through be fore it s passed? (a) considera tion by a committee (b) consid eration by the Senate as a body (c) entry in the bill book (d) printing (e) reporting by a com mittee. A The correct answer is (c) entry in the bill book and (d) printing. Then, after (a) consideration by a committee, the bill is (e) reported by a committee and finally (b) con sidered on the Senate floor. Q The Senate refused after World War I to ratify the Ver sailles Treaty. Which of the fol lowing Congressional leaders was not opposed to U.S. mem bership in the League of Na tions, the key issue in ratifica tion: Gilbert M. Hitchcock (D- Neb); Hiram W. Johnson (R- Calif.); William E. Borah (R Idaho); Robert LaFollette (Pro- gressive-Wis.)? A Gilbert M. Hitchcock led the unsuccessful fight for rat ification; all the others were known as "irreconcilablet" in opposition. noy Automatic Hot Water Service yours of low cost with a WESTINGHOUSE WATER HEATER 10-YIAI PtOTICTION 40-Gallon SO 124 "QUICK-RECOVERY" TANK r- ONLYQ 30-Gallon Tank at Low as $66.03 TROWBRIDGE & FLYNN ELECTRIC CO. 214 WEST MAIM STREET comrades who today have taken the initiative in denouncing the errors of Stalin and their conse quences." Togliatti said also that "the Soviet model of Communism cannot and must not be obliga tory any more." The French party's statement was made public by its Politburo, or inner leadership. It was issued in the name of the 650,000 mem bers of the French party. It took the Italian line. It said that it was unjust to blame Stalin for all the errors of Soviet leader ship. It called for "a profound Marxist analysis" of what hap pened during the Stalin era. Both- the French and Italian parties seemed to make it plain that they will no longer regard the Kremlin as infallible. and address of the writer, although a pen name or initial for publication Letters submitted for publication must Mercy Flights Thanks To the Editor: I wish to ex press my thanks to the good peo ple of Medford for the existence of the facilities of Mercy Flights Inc I was involved- in an automo bile accident south of Dunsmuir, Calif., on May 3, 1956. The acci dent took the life of my wife and I was taken to the McCloud hos pital- at McCloud, Calif., for treatment. My wife's body was shipped to Seattle and final rites were set for the following Wednesday. As I needed special ized orthopedic attention, ar rangements were made through the doctor and Mercy Flights to get me to Seattle. I was taken by ambulance to Montague, Calif., and picked up by plane and taken to Seattle. Mercy Flights made it possible for me to be in Seattle for final rites of my dear wife and to get specialized attention for myself sooner. Thanks again to the good peo ple of Medford. J. O. Sims, 3523 South 198th St. Seattle 88, Wash. Treasury Surplus Seen This Year for First Time in Years Washington When the U. S. Treasury closes its books for the fiscal year 1956, on June' 30 it will be able to report the first government surplus of the Eisenhower administration. The exact amount of the sur plus depends principally on the volume of corporation taxes col lected on June 15, which is be lieved to have been well above earlier expectations. The Treas ury estimated in mid-May that the surplus would be $1.8 bil lion; the staff of the congres sional Joint Committee on In ternal Revenue Taxation, that it would be $2.3 billion. The actual surplus may turn out to be larger than either of these figures. Whatever its size. the favorable balance will be the first in five years and only the fourth in the last 25 years As Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey has observed, the surplus will make possible most welcome reduction in our huge national debt." The public debt on June 1 with the June 15 tax payments still to come, was about $276 billion. The present debt limit is $281 billion. A temporary in crease of $6 billion, voted by Congress in 1954 and renewed in 1955, is scheduled to expire on June 30. Secretary Hum phrey now says the ceiling can be cut back by $3 billion to $278 billion, which Congress is pre paring to do. This will be the first debt limit reduction since the war end cut to $275 billion. It will be particularly satis fying to Chairman Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) of the Senate Fi nance committee, who blocked almost singlehandedly the Presi dent's 1953 request for a $15 billion increase in the debt lim it. Byrd said at that time that the legislative branch had lost control of the purse strings and he had concluded that the only way federal spending could be held in check was by preventing further increase in the debt limit. Editorial Research Re ports. POLICY PHONE 2-521 1 'Right To Work' Issue Campaign Debate Seen Washington (CQ) The "right - to - work" issue, ignored by Congress for the past four years, seems certain to have a thorough airing during tne com ing political campaign. The controversy concerns the right-to-work" laws enacted by 18 states which prohibit "union shop" contracts requiring an em ployee to join the union in or der to keep his job. These union shop contracts are permitted by the Taft-Hart ley act But the law also allows states to ban these union shops if they want to. Rails Exempted The Supreme court in May de cided the state "right-to-work" laws do not apply to railroad unions, controlled by a separate federal law, the Railway Labor act. But the decision did not in terfere with the application of the state laws to other indus tries. About two dozen bills have been introduced in the 84th Con gress to revoke the Taft-Hartley authorization for the "right-to-work" laws. But the Senate and House Labor committes, under Democratic control, have not held any hearings on the bills, President Eisenhower has rec ommended some changes in the Taft-Hartley act, but none in volves the '"right-to-work" issue. Opposing pressure groups al ready have turned their atten tion from the current Congress to the forthcoming Presidential and Congressional election cam paigns. Arguments Listed In summary, this is what the controversy is about: Backers of the "right-to-work' laws say: "Compulsory unionism is destructive of individual free dom. Americans must have the right, but not be compelled to join labor unions. Unless union compulsion is checked and out lawed, workers will find they are allowed to hold a job and earn a living only by permission of the leaders of private labor organizations. This will be a so cialist labor dictatorship." Opponents say: "Since unions are required by law to represent all workers in a unit, union members or not, the 'right-to- work' is really a right to a 'free ride' for the worker who wants the benefits of union representa tion without the obligations of union membership. The r e a purpose of the laws is not to pro tect individual freedom but to hamper union organizing efforts and destroy union security in plants already organized." Candidates Opposed The top contenders for the Democratic Presidential nomi nation New York Gov. Averell Harriman, Sen. Estes Kefauver (Tenn.) and Adlai E. Stevenson all have coma out flatly against the "right-to-work" laws. Kefauver says they "breed strife and confusion." Stevenson calls them "misnamed an undemo cratic." The Republican position is not yet clear. Secretary of Labor James P. MitcheU told the CIO in 1954, "I oppose such laws categorically." He pointedly re minded another union in May that the 18 states with "right-to-work" laws are represented in Congress by 114 Democrats and only 37 Republicans. The states are Alabama, Ari zona, Arkansas, Florida, Geor gia, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississip pi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennes see, Texas, Utah and Virginia. No Decision by Ike President Eisenhower has giv- on T T t r-i ei 11 froo ,-oi n .vnroc. - I his own views, but he never has No Other Starch Gives You The Vano Touch That Means So Much Perfect Starching Easier Ironing No Sticking No Scorching No Lumping No Mixing No Boiling No Guessing No Waste If if . II JUU IC IIUl UOIII5 VUllUa you're working too hard! endorsed them. The President told a 1954 press conference "he couldn't say he had reached an irrevocable decision on "right-to-work" laws. Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who voted for the Taft Hartley act in the House, has made no public comment on this particular issue. As a Senator, he voted against an amendment to make railway unions subject to the "right-to-work" laws. In the Cabinet and in Con gress, there are strong Republi can voices on both sides of the question. Framing a platform p!nk acceptable to both fac tions may be a problem. Voters in three states prob ably will have an opportunity to ballot directly on the issue in November. In Nevada a referen dum will be held on repealing the "right-to-work" law passed in 1952. A similar repeal effort was narrowly defeated two years ago. Petitions Seek Votes Petitions are being passed in Montana and Washington for popular votes on enacting the anti-union shop legislation. Tha right-to-work issue is promi nent in the contest for the In diana gubernatorial nomination and dominates the Republican primary in Kansas, where Gov. Fred Hall (R.) vetoed a "right-to-work" bill last year. In Louisiana, the legislature passed a bill repealing the state's 1954 Tight-to-work law, after an angry debate in both houses. Gov. Earl Long (D.) is expected to sign the repeal measure. (Copyright 1356, Congressional Quarterly) The number of radios in the United States increased from 51 million to 140 million in the past 10 years. Colgate's new aerosol type insecticide lulls fifes mosquito roaches antS other bugs faster, easier Lrf thanary Jothertype MV Kitfldller and it smefls good too KEEPS ROOMS FREE Of B.TI HO MMO longer! Kan-Kil Bug Killer it ecsy to use no spray gun necessary, no fuss, no mess! . . . Just press the button. Kan-Kil Bus Killer is noo inflammable . . . contains no DDT... and it smells good, too. Leaves no trpical insecticide odor. 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