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Newspaper Page Textt rOUH MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDvUTIIBUnI "Kverybodj tn Southern Oregon Reada The Mail Tribune" FubUshed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 7-39 North fir St. Phone 2-SH1 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor RntS GREY Advertislnl Manager CERAI.O LATHAM Business Manager ERIC AiLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor It 1C HARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor rjAU ERICK3QN, Circulation Mgr. An independent Ncwipa per Entered aa second claia matter at Mediord Oregon, under Act ot March Z. 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10. nallv mil fiunrfav One year $12 00 Dally and Sunday Six montha 6J0 Dally and Sunday Three moa. J0 Sunday Only One year $330. Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and ueaiera oc pr kvvj All rerma lasn in Aovance Oftlrlal Paper of the City ol Medford . Official Paper ot Jackson County UnjtedPreaa FullLcaed Wire """MEMBER or AUDIT BUREAU OK CIRCULATION Advertlstnr Represntative: uPQX-Mnl.l.IDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeiea. Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver BC -CD- NATIONAL EDITORIAL SSI Koc5T" V 0" NEWSPAPER UBIUHEIS 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 Jun 25, 1348 (It was Tuesday) Milk rationing may be initi ated unless the shortage of milk bottles Is relieved according to local dairymen. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The crew that will drop the atom bomb in a $100,000,000 test on Bik ini July 1 has been selected and their pictures are In the papers. It will be the greatest man-made explosion In history. The crew looks like the type who when younger, would be up an alley with firecrackers at this time of year making boymade ex plosions contrary to city ordin ances. 20 YEARS AGO Jun 25. 1938 (It was Thursday) Chairman of state highway commission hopes new Pacific highway route over the Siski yous will be completed to the summit before snows come. "Devil's Squadron" moving picture showing at Rialto today; film was taken with Medford airport and Rogue valley as background. 30 YEARS AGO June 25, 1926 (It was Friday) Scattered throughout Local and Personal column items: "Charleston . Contest Tonight. "Let's Go." Representatives of county fi nancial and other interests make thorough inspection of Eagle Point Irrigation district and find It above all expectations. 40 YEARS AGO June 25. 1916 Ot was Friday) New county road to high- banks fishing ground near the mouth of Bear creek ready for travel. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 ef the 7T Copr. 195S. editorial Research Report 1. Gov. Averell Harriman of New York is an active or Inac tive candidate for the Democra tic presidential nomination? 2. Trading stamps are some thing new as a merchandising device; right or wrong? 3. One in every three persons developing cancer in the U.S. today will survive for five years, as against only one in four or one in six in 1948? 4. The Department of Agricul ture says this year's U.S. wheat crop will be bigger or smaller than last Vc-ar's? 5. An Apperson Jackrabbit is a South African hare, a decoy used in dog racing, or an Ameri can automobile of several dec ades ago? 6. Commander-in-chief of all the Allied armies in France in World War I was Gen. Joffre. Pershing, Petain, Haig or Foch? 7. The United States has or has not established an embassy in Morocco? The Answers: 1 1. Announced as active candidate June 9. 2. Wrong (they go back lo 19th century). 3. One in four in 1948, according to American Cancer society. 4. Smaller by 15 million bushels. 5. American auiomo-' bile. 6. General Foch. 7. Embas sy established June 11. I MAIL TRIBUNE Tough Question We were asked a tough question last week. We could use some help in answering it. It was this: "What are the most important issues of U.S. for eign policy on which you think public opinion is like ly to have great influence during the calendar year 1957?" The question arose out of the success of the "Great Decisions" program conducted in Medford, and a number of other places, last winter. We were asked because of the role of the Mail Tribune played in bringing the Great Decisions program to the people of southern Oregon. a e e A ND how do we know the program was a success? There's no way of measuring it, of course, but there was an active and vocal interest in it, and it is fair to assume hat there was also considerable, though unvocal, participation or quiet study. And a representative of the co-sponsoring For eign Policy association, reporting on an evaluation meeting held in May, said those attending were im pressed with the record in southern Oregon. "What with the school involvement, the news paper and broadcasting jobs that were done, and even the few discussion groups, it adds up in our eyes to a very impressive total," he said. He added : I told the Rroup of my experience of several years ago touring around the Oregon cities, and finding that the idea of world affairs education had never occurred to much of anybody that it was a completely foreign idea that no body could really accept emotionally as important, in spite of an awareness that the U.S. had some really pressing for eign policy problems. Don (Don Hansen, chairman of the Medford program) made the comment that he had been noticing that everyone he meets in ihe valley, wherever they live, seems to be aware of the Decisions program and what it's about and what it means. From our point of view, thinking a little bit like an advertiser with a new product, we think this general awareness of a new area of civic concern is a highly im portant thing in itself . . . SO MUCH for this year's program, and its success. Vntir ti-Vl-jt oVmilt 1Q?;7? I The question is qualified as to which subjects are likely to be influenced by public opinion because one of the aims of Great Decisions is to focus public op inion and to bring it to bear on government officials where it can have some effect. The recent project dealt with Russia's new "sweet ness and light" challenge, with Germany's role in Europe, U. S. policy in North Africa, Middle Eastern peace, Red China, Vietnam, and the implications of nuclear weapons. What are your ideas in response to the query? Suggestions would be welcome. E.A. New Highway After more than a year's delay, the national high way construction measure finally appears certain of passage. Let no motorist kid himself it's going to cost him some money. But in the long run, it will save him money. It is a case of spend a bit more now to save more later. It makes sense. fREGON'S benefits from the measure are huge. Highway 99 will be four lanes from California to Washington, with no stbp lights, no grade cross ings, no crossroads and it is to be hoped, with a minimum of billboards. The trip to Portland from here will.be cut prob ably by several hours, as will gas consumption and automobile wear and tear. We can hardly wait. TT WAS with interest that we read the statements of - Oregon's assistant highway engineer, W. C. Wil liams, in describing the route. He is quoted as saying, "It (the highway) will go around the cities and towns." Please note: He said "AROUND," not 'THROUGH." One hopes Medford will not be made an excep tion. E.A. . ' Pleasant Evening Some mysterious electronic malady developed in the mysterious- electronic innards of the family TV set the other day. The cure, we were informed, required a trip to the TV-set clinic. "The monster," as it is referred to at our house, was gone for about 24 hours. X7ELL, sir, we spent about the pleasantest evening we have for a year or so. The kids complained a bit about missing one special program, and then for got about it. We read. We played cards. We played the piano. We sort of all got acquainted again. . And when bedtime came, the youngsters went along without griping and asking to see "just one more program." THERE'S probably no particular moral to be drawn from this event unless (like whiskey, sunbathing, if taken in moderate and Klamath Reservation Portland (UP.) The Portland area office of the Bureau of In dian Affairs today announced the awarding of contracts total ing S291.872 for road and bridce construction on the Klamath In dian reservation. F. H. McEwen. Eugene, was low bidder at S242.416 for con struction of 15.61 miles of gravel surfaced, two lane highway on what is known as the Military Crossing road. Also awarded was a contract Monday, June 25, 1956 it might be that television food and exercise) is best judicious amounts. E.A. Road Contracts Given to the Stec;l Construction com pany of Oregon, Portland, to construct - five timber piling bridges with concrete decks. Low bid was S49.456. Area Director Don C. Foster said that the road construction is part of 80 miles of new and reconstructed roads being built in preparation for final termina tion of the reservation under the Klamath Termination Act. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads The Community's Biggest Marketplace First Step Taken Toward New Approach Under NATO Alliance United Press Correspondent .. The 15 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have taken the first step to- jgws liiei ward a possi bly historic revision of their grand alliance. The revision is being made to meet the change in the world situa tion which has Charles McCano resulted irom the death of Josef Stalin and the new, and dangerous, "sweet ness and light" policy of Soviet Russia. When "NATO" was organiz ed in 1949 the danger of a war of aggression by Russia was great. Now the threat is that Russia may succeed in forwarding its policy of world domination through economic and political penetration. Foreign ministers of the NATO countries, meeting in Paris in May named a commit tee of three to study means of broadening their treaty to in clude political and economic as well as military cooperation. Three Wis Men The committeemen are Les ter B. Pearson, Canadian sec retary of state for external af fairs and Foreign Ministers Gae tano Martino of Italy and Hal vard Lange of Norway. The "three wise men," as they have been called, have just ended their first meeting in Paris. They drafted a questionnaire including nearly 40 headings on possible cooperation in politi cal, economic, social and cult ural affairs, It is expected that NATO members will send in their re plies to the questionnaire . be fore Aug. 31. The three committeemen will then meet again in September to coordinate the replies and draft a report which will be consider ed by the foreign ministers of all 15 members in December. Thus there will be nearly six months in which member coun tries can consider the extent to which they want to broaden NATO. It is certain that there will be arguments over the treaty revision plan. But it seems certain also that, I Liiir-iJiaV,,Miai Matter of Fact b7 stewan aiSoP REPORT TO A PARTNER This is a personal report from Stewart Alsop to his brother Joseph Alsop, who has returned from abroad. Washington Dear Joe: You will find that the Presi dent's second serious illness in nine months completely over shadows the political scene here at home. Indeed, you will feel I think, as though you were hearing a cracked record play ing over and over the same refrain that became so familiar last fall and winter: "Will he run? Will he run? Will he run?" But there a difference this time. You remember how, in the first weeks after the heart attack, it was universally as sumed that the President would withdraw. This time, you will find, almost everybody assumes that the President will stay in the race. You remember also how, as the ' weeks and months' passed after the heart attack, it seem ed more and more likely that the President would run, 1 until his announcement in February came as no surprise at all. I wonder if the same thing might happen again in reverse? AS I wrote a few days ago. the Republican high com mand expresses absolute confi dence, not only that the Presi dent will run, but that he will so announce, very shortly. It is of course vitally important to the Republican leadership that the President end the current speculation by making his "pos itive" announcement as soon as possible. But Jim Hagerty swears that the President has given no hint of his intentions. So there may well be more than a pinch of wishful thinking in the confidence I reported. Meanwhile, the President him self, as he lies stricken for the second time in nine months, must be thinking long and hard whether he can carry on for four more years. As you know, we newspapermen have all be come amateur physicians since the President's heart attack and operation. But it is not necessary to go to a medical school to understand a few harsh facts. Coronary thrombosis is a ser ious disease. So is ileitis, es pecially within a few months of a coronary. There is a risk of recurrence in both diseases. And, in the President's case the risk is, obviously, compounded. A FEW days ago, we got a letter from an insurance executive, from which I quote excerpts: "Mr. Eisenhower is not an insurable risk on any basis be cause of the coronary attack . . . in the end, the treaty win De revised as a matter of necessity. As the danger of war of ag gression by Russia has lessened the whole moral structure of NATO has weakened. Defense against a Russian at tack has strengthened steadily, but member nations have be come less defense - minded. Cooperation Weakened Also, the removal of the once imminent threat of a third world war has weakened the diplomatic cooperation of the Allies and there have been many evidences of serious dis unity. There seems good reason to hope that the answers to the questionnaire of the "wise men" will provide the basis for a Current Congress is 'Least Cooperative1 With Ike's Program Washington (CQ) President Eisenhower will have to score the current session of .Congress as the least cooperative of his administration unless there is a last-minute reversal of form. The latest Congressional Quar terly "boxscore" on the Presi dent's legislative record shows that, with Congress less than four weeks from scheduled ad journment, 34 of Mr. Eisenhow er's 217 requests have been ap proved, a score of only 16 per cent. The boxscore of the 217 Eis enhower requests is a result of a careful check of legislation specifically sought by the Presi dent. The breakdown as of June 18: Approved by Congress 34. Rejected 6. Passed by House andor Sen ate 52. Some progress in committee -77. Set back but still alive 11, No action 37. Lower Than 1955 The 16 per cent approval the President's program has won so far this year is 10 per cent low er than the comparable 1955 figure. On June 29, 1955, Con gress had passed 26 per cent of his program. The final figure lor Expectation of life according to the standard mortality table would be about 4.30 years. Now take the recent ileitis . . . here expectations of the life is 3.54 years. What the life expectation is in combination we don't know. We all know that while the mortality table is quite an accurate guide there are people who outlive it. Mr. Eisenhower will get more than normal care (But) if he is not an acceptable risk for life insurance on not one but two counts, is he an acceptable candidate for the Presidency?" After the President's heart attack, you remember, we dis cussed at length the problem of writing about . matters that had both profound political im plications and painful personal implications. It is repugnant to write in cold statistical terms about the life expectancy of a well-loved human being. But .when the office of the Presi dency is involved, we agreed, the risk that its occupant may die in office, or become in capaciated, simply must be con sidered. e e TPHE RISK is always there, of course, because we are all mortal. But it is irresponsible to pretend that the risk is not especially great in the Presi dent's case. Perhaps the risk is worth taking. You and I have been critical of the Eisenhower administra tion, particularly in the defense field (and you should read the testimony before the Symington committee we owe an apology to our readers for having, been blithering optimists). But it is true, as you wrote at the time of the President's heart attack, that "Dwight D. Eisenhower's greatest s i n gl e contribution has been bringing us all back to a sense of true American style." IfERY great risks may be worth taking, in order to continue that contribution. A candidate for the Presidency need not necessarily be "an ac ceptable risk for life insurance." But I think you will be angered, as I have been, by the attempt to propagate the myth that the President is already in fine shape, that he has his hands firmly on the reins of govern ment, that the very serious op eration he has undergone has been good for him as a nice long vacation, and so on. Where so much is at stake, the facts must be faced up to. No doubt the President, as he lies in his hospital bed, or sits in his wheel chair, is facing them squarely. 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. broadened NATO treaty. And that the Western Allies will meet the new Russian threat as they did the previous one. It is interesting that Can ada's Lester Pearson is one of the "wise men." For he is cred ited with being the real father of NATO. On April 29, 1948, Pearson suggested a "security league" of free nations. His suggestions was accepted. As the result the foreign min isters of the United States, Can ada, Great Britain, France, It aly, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Nor way, Iceland and Portugal sign ed the NATO treaty in Wash ington on April 4, 1949. Greece, Turkey and West Germany have since joined it. 1955 was 46 per cent. About 25 more of the Presi dent's requests are certain of passage this session. That would raise his final won-loss record to at least .270. Another 16 items are likely to go through. Approval of these could bring his session-end per centage to at least .350. It could go higher if Congress speeds up action on some non-controver sial items it has ignored so far. But odds'are the 1956 session will continue the past three years' trend of diminishing suc cess for the President's program. His score dropped from .727 in 1953 to .647 in 1954 and .463 in 1955. The 1956 Congress may, rate even lower on Mr. Eisenhower's own score card. Only two of the 29 bUls listed by the White House Mdy 24 as legislative "highlights" have been approv ed. These are the farm bill and the measure for improved med ical j:are for military depend ents. Others Credited Congressioal Quarterly's box- score counts these two and also gives the President credit for such other major legislative items as the Upper Colorado de velopment plan and the exten sion of excise and corporate tax rates. Among his 34 victories were such comparatively minor items as an increase in the federal payment to the District of Co lumbia and. passage of a treaty on the importation of commer cial samples. The six requests flatly reject ed by Congress, were all part of Mr. Eisenhower s farm program, including the soil bank prepay ment provision and a limit on the amount of price support money one farmer can receive Almost- certain of passage be fore the session ends are high way and housing programs and the foreign aid bill requested by the President. But there is no guarantee their final form will be entirely acceptable to him. The ouUook also is good for two farm credit bills and three health measures on the . Presi dent's list. In the doubtful - to - uncertain category are school aid, civil rights, federal pay raise and cus tom's simplification bills. Seem ingly dead are measures for Ha waiian statehood, immigration and refugee law revision, postal rate increases and Taft-Hartley act changes. 'Do Nothing' Charge The slowdown of the Presi dent's program appears certain to revive last spring's Republi can charges of a "do-nothing" Congress. The claim that Demo crats blocked substantial num bers of Mr. Eisenhower's re quests will be used as an argu ment for electing a Republican Congress in November. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) has counseled both parties to exer cise patience and avoid partisan ship while Congress is in session. Johnson May 24 predicted that when Congress adjourns, it "will have enacted a program design ed to meet the needs of the American people." An unofficial Democratic "must list" includes social secu rity expansion, more public housing, high farm price sup ports, highway construction, aid to schools, a minimum wage hike and public power projects. Privately, some Democrats are preparing a stronger defense ! against the "do-nothing" charge. They say that any failure of the President's program should be blamed on a lack of effective leadership from the White House and Congressional Re publicans. 1 (Copyright 1956 by Congresional Quarterly) CASTLE PROTECTION ASKED Montagana, Italy (U.R) Dele gates from 72 nations appealed to their governments today to protect ancient castles at a time when French and British own- rare an nlA,nn ..n hlelnpin man. sions to avoid paying taxes on them. . In The Day's Up in Bend they have revived an interesting and potentially VERY useful institution that or iginated in Bend a number of years ago the tourist host school. The purpose of a tourist host school is to get together all the people who come most closely in contact with what for want of a better word we call tourists and SCHOOL them in the at tractions of their community and its reasonably nearby area what there is to be seen, why it is worth seeing, etc. As a sideline, the importance of COURTESY to the visitor is stressed. Courtesy is an inexpen- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the rlRht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. MacArthur and Ike To the Editor: You will re collect some few years ago we had a rather tough war going on to our west and to our east. On the east Eisenhower in com mand of the allied forces, in the west Gen. Douglas MacArthur was the Big Dog. In the East the battle was well joined. The battlefields were fairly stable, not too much man euvering. The commander was fully informed as to the where abouts of the enemy, and he could lay his field plans ac cordingly. His force of men, transportation, supplies, and just about anything he would need at any time was unlimited. He never had to wait long for anything. Ask and receive was the policy. It was different in the west. MacArthur was ordered to Aus tralia when the Jap army at tacked Manila. As a good sol dier should, he obeyed orders. Upon arriving there he assumed -command. What did he find to use in a war? Almost nothing. The little man in Washington thought solely about the Euro pean front. To him it was not possible to think that the East ern area could be of any spec ial importance. As a result, the European front had to be won first. Never mind the western battles. Anytime would do for that part of the world. In the meantime the Japs had overrun the Pacific islands and did a bang up job of fortifica tions on the island chains lead ing back to Japan, final objec tive of our forces. MacArthur engaged the en emy wherever he could find it with what he had and what he could wrangle from the little man aforesaid. Facing superior forces and, in many cases, far superior numbers of planes, he forged ahead. No man can haz ard a good guess the obstacles he overcame to win. Yet win he did, and for that the nation can be truly thankful. Then came Korea. MacArth ur was winning that, too. The littlest man in all history slapped him down, slapped down the General of the Army. One who dared to tell him, the little man, where he was wrong. That same little man relieved him of his command and put a fifth grade general in command, one he could, and probably did, dominate. Thus, we lost the Kor ean fracas. Then came Ike. Ike was not general of the army, sowas low er in rank than MacArthur. He did not reverse the stand of the little man. thus showing to all the world he was the Big dog and meant to stay so. Do you approve of such conduct? I do not. I believe in giving honor to whom honor is due. And MacArthur certainly de serves honor from America if any one does. A. L. Unger, ; 634 Pennsylvania ave., Medford, Ore. Since 1908 PERL. Mortuary o Phone 2-6675 FINER FUNERAL SERVICES In every price range News rank Jenkins sive commodity, but it is fab ulously valuable. It's like the oil that keeps an expensive ma chine running smoothly and sweetly. The commercial purpose back of a tourist host school is to bring more visitors to the town and KEEP THEM LONGER. The community that does that gets much bigger chunk of the tour ist dollar. WHO are the pupils at such a In the main, they are the per sonnel of the gasoline stations. the garages, the hotels, the mo tels the eatine Dlaces and so on. These are the people the aver age tourist sees oftenest. HOW do they go about their job? To begin with, they are cour teous and thoughtful They go out of their way to tell the tour ist the things they think he'd like to know that is to say, the things THEY'D like to know if they were tourists in a strange town looking for something to make a vacation trip worth while. Every community has inter esting places unusual places, places the visitor can go back home and tell about with a touch of pride in his ability to FIND such places. The point isy that the tourist LIKES to be told. He's out to see and to en joy and to learn and he appreci ates help in finding the things he's looking for. DEND'S tourist school is de " signed to teach Bend people how to tell Bend's visitors about aU the attractive and interesting and worthwhile things there are to be seen in the Bend area and how to do it so well that the customer will buy the merchan dise and STAY OVER for a day or maybe a week instead of roaring on down the highway in search of some place where at tractive and interesting and worthwhile things are to be found. If in the course of the season hundred tourist parties can thus be influenced to STAY OVER IN THE BEND AREA FOR SEVERAL DAYS many thous ands of dollars of new money can be added to the economy of the Bend region. That's the story in a nutshell. VOR many years I have been a - member of an unsalaried ad visory commission that spends around a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year of gaso line tax money in advertising Oregon's tourist attractions to the nation at large and of the neighboring Western states in particular. It has been a successful enter prise. Each year the tourists pay in Oregon gas tax several times the amount spent to induce them to come to Oregon. But it would be FAR MORE SUCCESSFUL, if in every community in Oregon there were tourist host schools like Bend's to teach people how to sell their own community to the tourists that pass through on the main highways. The big problem is to get more outside tourists to STAY LONGER IN OREGON instead of whishing on through on their way to California or Washing ton or British Columbia or somewhere else beyond the blue horizon. - ' Train Wreck in Spain Leaves 1 1 Dead, 77 Hurt Madrid, Spain (U.R) A fast freight train slammed Into the rear of a slow passenger train here Sunday killing 11 persons and injuring 77, eleven of them seriously. Authorities said the passenger train moved out of the station shortly before midnight in a tor rential rain. It stopped for a red control light and the freight train hit it. Michigan was the first state in the nation to reauire compul-j sorv pasteurization of milk sold for public marketing.