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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDvcTBIBUNI "Everybody in Southern Oregon Read Thm Mail Tribune" Published DaUy Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-3141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager GKKAJ-D LATHAM Business Manager ERIC AiXEN JR. Managing Xditor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLJVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act ox March a, wvi SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 nailv anti Sunday Six months 650 Daily and Sunday Three mot. 3.50 Zsunday oruy tme year wv By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold HITL Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday Onm year $13.00 Dally and Sunday One month 125 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terma Caaii in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire T MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIKCULJUiUrj WEST-H OLLID A Y COMPANY INC Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland, fit Louis Atlanta Vancouver BC NATIONAL EDITORIAL jASOCfTLN Flight o' Time f Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. SO and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO, June 28, 194S (It was Friday) Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hulse of Medford buy Valentine's cafe o.i South Riverside Ave. from H. E. Bush and A. K. Morse. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Medical science has evolved a pill that contains more nutriment than a fried chicken. It's still more fun to grab a leg and gnaw same. 20 YEARS AGO June 28, 1938 (It was Sunday) Most elaborate water carnival ever held in Ashland planned for July 4 celebration. E. H. Hedrick, superintendent of Medford schools, speaks be fore National Council of Educa tion in 74th annual convention of the National Education asso ciation at Portland.' 30 YEARS AGO June 28, 1328 . (It was Monday) Grass fire covers six acres on Siskiyou heights south of Keen way Dr. yesterday morning. From the Local and Personal column: F. C. Cole of Seattle and C. F. Newson of San Francisco, division commercial superinten dent and Pacific Coast commer cial manager respectively of the Western Union Telegraph com pany, will arrive in Medford to night to spend four or five days here in looking after the installa tion of the automatic, high speed telegraph apparatus which will be Installed in the lobby ot the Western Union company branch office for a demonstration on July 1, 2, and 3. 40 YEARS AGO June 28. 1918 (It was Wednesday) Warden stops fencing of Rogue River mouth by fishermen with Rill nets. Parent's education bureau of Southern Oregon opens offices with large number of mothers in attendance. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. The longest mainline rail road tunnel is the Arlberg in Austria, the Moffat in Colorado, or the Simplon from Italy to Switzerland? 2. Pernicious anemia, peptic ulcer.- and cancer of the stom ach may or may not be influ enced by heredity? 3. Newly independent Moroc co. Tunisia, and the udan are or aren't members of the Inter national Labor Organization? 4. The biggest state, next to Texas, is Arizona, California. Colorado. Montana, Nevada, or New Mexico? 5. Spangler Arlington Brough was the real name of Bing Cros- bv. Edward G. Robinson, Hum phrey Bogart, Robert Taylor, or Dannv Kaye? 6. About (a) 40, (b) 50, (c) 65 or (d) 85 per cent of the people of the British colony of Singa pore are Chinese? 7. Americans spent more or less than a billion dollars on forpien travel last year? The Answers: 1. Simplon. (12V4 miles). 2. Mar be important fac tor, according io studies at Unl- Tersitv of Iowa college of medi cine. 3. Admitted to ILO June 12. 4. California. 5. Robert Taylor. E. 83 per cent Chinese. 7. More nMPUBLISHIRS S'A'sSOCIATION (31.6 billion). MAIL TRIBUNE Another $64,000 Question Those who think changing from one party to arw other in mid-stream a capital offense, and Senator Wayne Morse should therefore, be shot at sunrise, are advised to read "A Letter from Washington" in "The New Yorker" of June 23d, by Richard Rovere. - Rovere, who is a well known and gifted news com mentator and a strong supporter of President Eisen hower, devotes this week's space as the New Yorker's regular Washington correspondent almost entirely to comments on a book by Robert J. Donovan soon to be published, giving the inside and heretofore confiden tial story of the Eisenhower cabinet meetings to date. . D 0 VERE reveals that not only have the cabinet meetings been far from harmonious at times, but during his first two years as President, "Ike" became so exasperated, frustrated and discouraged particu larly with the ultra-conservative wing of his party, that he seriously considered, quote : . . . "leaving the RepubUn party and starting a party of his own, as Theodore Roosev. U did. He was. dissuaded by the very recollection of Roosevelt's unhappy experience. But he continued to ask whether, after all, the present Re publican party was represented, by men of sufficient vis ion and understanding of what was required to lead the country through the perils of the mid-20th century." "IIE CAN THINK of no better description of Wayne " Morse's line of thought preceding his departure from the Republican party than the above, the only material difference being that he considered and became an "Independent" and then a Democrat, in stead of considering the establishment of a Third Par ty and eventually abandoning the idea. In other words, the squads of GOP sharp-shooters now being formed to perforate the head and two-term record of Oregon's senior senator, for daring to leave the Republican party during his second term, because he questioned its. capacity to successfully meet the im pending crisis in domestic and world affairs, better keep a watchful eye on their aim. If they don't watch out, they may be hitting the record' of their revered leader, and casting stones of disapproval on the pur ity of HIS motives and the extent of HIS devotion to the Grand Old Party. That would, brethren horrible to contemplate, particularly in the midst of an "Hove Ike" coat-tail campaign! - OUT THERE CAN be no doubt of the truth of this declaration. Not only is Rovere strongly pro-Ike and highly regarded, but book, "Eisenhower, the Inside btory is the star cor respondent of the 100 Republican newspaper, the New York Herald-Tribune and the latter is syndi cating the offering as a news feature throughout the country. Not only is this admission made as tar as Mr. Eis enhower's judgment of his party's calibre in 1953 is concerned, but it is shown that' the President favored more drastic tax cuts for lower bracket incomes be fore the Democrats made it part of their program and that, quote; "This presidential heresy had to be exorcised by the sec retary of the Treasury Humphrey, who when the Democrats got around to advocating the plan' called it 'silly' and a 'quickie gimmick'." Imarine that! The most influential and highly re spected member of the Eisenhower cabinet, accusing his "great leader" of having advocated "siny;- propos als and "quickie gimmicks" in the all-important realm to Sec'y. Humphrey particularly of national fi nance. ' . ' o THER cabinet clashes State Dulles questioned of the "security boards" while Vice President Nixon wanted more security boards and a larger crop of se curity risks while he is shown as in almost continu ous dispute with Postmaster General Summerfield, who wanted to raise postal rates and put his depart ment on a "sound business basis." Although proud of the Big Business record of the GOP, VP Nixon became less and less in favor of in creased postal rates as the presidential election year came nearer, and finally was heard to express a judg ment almost as heretical as the President's, when he declared: , "There are some things more important than a sound business basis and one of them is political sup port of the kind that might be lost through an increase in 'mailing costs'." " - ' Needless to say, PM Summerfield lost, and. VP Nixon won ! , ITIS ALSO recorded in this book that one cabinet member asked if Senator "Bricker, author of the controversial Bricker amendment, could not be liqui dated by an atomic bomb. This was a joke, but putting it in public print probably will bring no loud guffaws from the senior senator from Ohio ! OF COURSE these extracts are not .typical of the book as a whole but as correspondent Rovere concludes "it is a unique piece of work in that it is a campaign document that provides as much ammuni tion for one side as the other." ' D OVERE is frankly puzzled by this, as is the writer, particularly coming out at this time, when the leaders of both parties are not disposed to pass out any ammunition to their opponents that can possibly be avoided. As this is the first time in history that minutes of cabinet meetings have been taken, and more impor tant the first time they have been made public, such revelations a few weeks before the presidential cam Daiem will be in full swing, could have been avoided, and undoubtedly would have been if any member of the cabinet or the President himself had raised the slightest objection. Why none of them did, is, at the moment the $64,000 question. R.W.R. . - Thursday, June 28, 1956 and sistern, be- something Donovan, the author of the are recorded. Secretary of the competence of many Third Force1 Role Eyed Commonwealth by Anthony Eden By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Prime Minister Anthony Eden has set out to make the' British Commonwealth of Nations a "third force" in world af fairs. First, Eden hopes that the can bring the United States and Soviet Russia closer Charles McCmnn together. Second, he wants to unify and strengthen the Commonwealth to meet economic competition Matter of Fact y joSePh auoP CLOVER FOR THE KREMLIN Washington The more you study the Middle Eastern crisis, the more you suspect that the essential pre liminary of the Soviet intru sion in the Middle East was the fa mous summit meeting at Geneva, with all its adman's hopes and glories. .uusDii jvjtup Tenta t i v e discussions of the crucial Soviet Egyptian arms deal had of course been opened in the month or two before the Summit. Yet before boldly probing for the very vi tals of the Western Alliance, the Soviet leaders must at least have wished to know how the West would react. They got the an swer at the summit. The President of the United States and the Prime Ministers of Great Britain and France went to Geneva with the singu lar purpose of proving that the great powers of the West were passionately,- unshakeably dedi cated to peace at any price. There was no better way to en courage the Soviets to take any cold war risk they chose. . TN ADDITION, it is now known that President Eisenhower ac tually mentioned the Soviet offer to sell arms to Egypt to Bulganin and Khrushchev. Ac cording to authentic report, the President was airily told that this was "just an ordinary com mercial transaction." Apparent ly this piece of arrant nonsense was not treated with the con tempt and indignation it deserv ed. So the Soviet leaders left Geneva with complete assurance that they could safely stick a shiv right into the most vulner able point of the Western Alli ance. Even then, energetic action might well have prevented the worst from happening. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser had asked for a small quantity of American arms long before he began his talks with the Soviets. His sole concern was then to get some arms any arms at all to satisfy the army on which his power depended. All competent observers in Cairo agree that Nasser did not forsee the vol ume results that the Soviet arms Weal would produce. QN THIS point, the American " government had received a long series of frantic warnings from' our ambassador to Cairo, Henry A. Byroade (who is now, apparently, to be made a scape goat). These warnings were ig nored. The American arms were withheld. The Soviet-Egyptian arms deal went through. ;Thus Nasser emerged as the predominate figure in a greatly strengthened Arab nationalist movement, made independent of the West by Soviet support. Thus the Soviets took the first long step towards capturing Arab Na tionalism, and using this nation alist movement as the instru ment to strike at the vital Middle Eastern oil sources of the West ern Alliance. The American reaction to these tremendous developments was uncertain to say the least. After the faU of Glubb Pasha in Jordan, however, the British reaction was violent. The Brit ish cabinet decided that Britain would use troops in the Middle East, if this were needed to save the oil that is Britain's life blood. ' VyiSELY or unwisely, they proved their resolution by ordering the fight for Cyprus. - Such was the situation when Bulganin and Khrushchev went to London. It can now be reveal ed that British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and Foreign .Minister Selwyn Lloyd used the strongest tone possible in their discussion of the Middle Eastern problem. They flatly accused the Soviets of an intentional at tack on an area of vital British interest. They warned they would fight to avoid losing the oil. Khrushchev and Bulganin only replied by hinting that they might agree to limitation of arms shipments to the Middle East if I the British would abandon the Km with the United States as well as Russia. Eden is outlining his plan at the conference of Common wealth prime ministers now meeting in London. The plan is based on his firm belief that a new era has opened in world relations. H-Bomb's Influence He believes that the H-bomb has almost ruled out the threat of a third world war because its dreadful destructive power would offer nothing but ruin to victor as well as vanquished. Eden believes that the end of Stalinism in Russia really has brought a historic change in the policies of that country. Baghdad pact which they know was impossible. - . . .. THE upshot was deadlock. In Cairo and Damascus, the So viet Ambassadors subsequently told the utterly false story that the main theme of Khrushchev and Bulganin in London was the Soviet bloc's determination to give solid support to the Arabs against the Israelis. This was hardly less than an incitement to Arab-Israeli war. If the Krem- lim chooses to take that risk, such a war will be a clear gain for the Soviets if the Israelis are defeated, for that will amount to 4he defeat of the West. And it will also be a clear gain if the Arabs are defeated, for then the Arab nationalist-regimes will al most surely be supplanted in the end by Arab Communist regimes. All the same, in his recent visit to Cairo, the new Soviet Foreign Minister,. Shepilov, did not take the final step to bring on an Arab-Israeli war. He did not take the Arab position on Israel's proper frontiers. Shepi lov's caution suggests that Brit ish firmness, despite its some what desperate tone, has made the Soviets at least think twice about the risks in the Middle East. And this in turn suggests that a firm, clear and united Anglo American policy, if it can ever be worked out, may yet save the day in this critical area. (C) 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. In The Day's Foreign affairs again: Iceland's conservative : Inde pendence party, which wants to keep American troops on the strategic island's NATO bases, LOST GROUND in the recent parliamentary election. A preliminary count indicat ed that the alliance of Progres sives and Social - Democrats, sponsors of the drive to OUST U. S. forces from the Iceland bases, came within a hair of win ning a clear .'majority of the seats. - Another straw in the wind: For the first time in the Ice landic : parliament's, thousand year history, more than 90 per cent of the qualified -voters cast ballots. - That indicates . strong popular interest in the issue. THAT is to say: , The Icelanders want to get rid of us. LET'S be logical. If Icelandic troops were parading our streets, WE'D WANT TO GET RID OF THEM. In time of peace,-NO PEOPLE wants foreign troops on its soil. The presence of foreign troops in ANY country leads inevitably to the thought among the natives that they're there for no good purpose. If we're to be logical, we must remember the long centuries of history when foreign troops on native soil almost certainly meant EVENTUAL CONQUEST AND LOSS OF LIBERTY. Amer ica is practically the first nation of world power size that doesn't want conquered territory. When we consider the long and bitter experience of the past, we can hardly blame the people of other countries for suspecting that when we keep troops on their soil EVEN WE have in mind the thought of ultimate conquest. 1I7HAT shaU we do about it? ' ' I don't know. I'm no mili tary strategist. But it is rather obvious that the communists are sure that in our foreign military bases they have a good propa ganda weapon. They are using it for all it is worth. And, in Congressional Quiz (Copyrifht, 1958 Congressional Quarterly) Q How many signatories of the North Atlahtic Treaty be sides the U.S. can you name? (There are 14 others.) A Belgium, Canada, Den mark, France,, Iceland, Italy. Luxiobo urg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom, Greece, Turkey and West Germany. The first 11, along with the U.S., were orig inal signers! the last three ac ceded later. for Because of that change, he be lieves that the new world era is one in which economic compe tition will supplant the competi tion in armaments that has pre occupied the great powers since the end of World War II. Eden also believes that the Commonwealth must safeguard itself against American economic penetration as well as Russian penetration. Aid. Trade Included The American penetration, as he sees It, is facing the Com monwealth not only because of direct trade rivalry but because of the United States foreign aid program. In keeping with his views, Eden already has decided not only to increase British trade with Russia materially but to cut down and revise Britain's defease program radically. The British Commonwealth, as a unit, is potentially the great est force in the world in an era of what is called co-existence. It is loosely knit. Its larger members are independent. India and Pakistan, for example, are now republics.' There are Can ada and the other dominions, and there are countless protect orates and crown colonies in every continent and every ocean. Vastness of Commonwealth The Commonwealth totals 647,000,000 people and 12,992,- 102 square miles of territory. The United States has a popu lation of 170,000,000 and an area of 3,628,130 square miles. Russia's population is about 200,- 000,000, its area 8,600,000 square miles Eden's conception of the new world situation is bound to bring some disagreements in policy with the United States. In Wash ington, there is great suspicion of the Moscow new look. British- American disagreement on de fense is shown in Congress, where the Senate has approved a $960,000,000 rise in Air Force appropriations even though the administration opposes it. But Eden seems to be com pletely convinced that his own course is right. As part of his course, it is re ported in London that he will outline to his fellow Common wealth prime ministers a plan to try to arrange for a new "sum mit" conference with Russia early next year. News By Frank Jenkins every country where we have bases, they are having a lot of luck in -turning the people against us. TN THE' senate following the vote in Iceland Democratic Sen. Henry Jackson of Washing ton made this statement: "The truth is that our over seas bases are becoming less and less reliable to support our air atomic power . . . From Iceland to Okinawa, our key strategic bases are under political attack." He added: "If our overseas bases are lost, we will need more long-range bombers capable of operating FROM THIS COUNTRY." TT IS seldom enough that I find myself in agreement with Sen. Henry Jackson, but in this case it looks like he is talking sense. 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 right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Vanport Death Loss To the Editor: In your June 20, 1956 issue, you said that not too many more than a dozen were killed in the Vanport flood. That is not true for I was there on May 31, 1948, and more peo ple than I can count were killed . . . I wish you would tell who ever gave you this information that they "would tell and print the truth for if you don't they can get in a lot of trouble . . .. Clifford Hirsch 505 North Riverside ave. Medford, Ore. Editor's note: The editorial reference, relying only on the memory of the writer, was ". . . 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." After the above letter was re ceived, the Slate Civil Defense Agency was queried, and re plied: "There were 14 known drownings and one other death attributable to drowning or in jury at the time." It. was not un til two months after the disaster that the death count was final because of high water and stack-ed-up debris at the site in the interval. That the death toll was not higher was attributed by au thorities to the fact that it -was Memorial day and many resi dents of the housing projects had left their homes for the holiday. Estimates of the loss made dur ing the confusion of the flood ranged upwards into . the hun dreds, but were later shown to be wrong. Today and By Walter THE PERSONAL EQUATION Three official visitors have come to Washington since the President was taken to the hospi tal from Ger many Dr. Ade nauer, from France M. Pi n e a u, and from Canada Mr. Pearson. All came hop ing to find common ground where, Walter Uppmann With the Unit ed States leading, the Western allies could unite. Now that , the visitors have come and gone, it is only too evi dent that there was no serious effort to find a 'common ground and to negotiate a common policy. That was the kind of thing that the President, had he not been ill, might well have at tempted. Mr. Dulles did not at tempt it. He underwrote Dr. Adenauer without qualification or reservation, an act which ruled out the chance to negotiate with M. Pineau, as well as much hope of a successful outcome of the labors of Mr. Pearson and the other two "Wise Men" of NATO. rpHE net result of this month's diplomatic coming and going has been to put on public dis play the disunity of the Western Alliance on the crucial question of how to deal with the Soviet Union about Germany. There has been put on public display the unwUlingness of Mr. Dulles, when he is on -his . own without President Eisenhower's guidance, to meet the responsi bility of the leader of a great coalition which is to look for the common ground on which the coalition can stand together. . For NATO the question of how the two Germanies are to be reunited can well be make-or- break. Instead of looking for the ground on which France, Ger many, Britain and the United States can work together on the German question, Mr. Dulles let Dr. Adenauer commit him to terms which are so extreme that they foreclose serious negotia tion. " LiJvujst certainly this is a piece of bad judgment which we shall come to regret and shall have to try to repair. The Adenauer terms are not only certain to be rejected by the So viet Union; they will not com mand the support of the other allies, or, for very Ion, of the West Germans themseUcS. How could they? Under these terms none of the allies would be permitted to come to agree ment with the Soviet Union un til Moscow has surrendered on the German question until Moscow has abandoned East Germany and has agreed to a United Germany rearmed with in the NATO military alliance. On such a line as this Mr. Dulles has a poor chance of holding to gether, much less of re-inspiring and re-invigorating, the Western Alliance. It will be impossible to com mit the Alliance to the view that the paramount interest of the Western world is to reunify Ger many on the terms laid down by Dr. Adenauer. It would prob ably be impossible to do this if Dr. Adenauer had the over whelming and ardent support of his own people. But in fact he can no longer count on an ef fective support in West Ger many. "Instead of being able to rely on a sound parliamentary majority," wrote the correspond ent of the "Times (London) shortly after Dr. Adenauer re turned from Washington, "he is now faced with widespread dis satisfaction in his own party and a united opposition." IS IT necessary, and is it wise, w mav ask. for thm TTnitH States Government to be more L-..i?.Tni r Tomorrow Lippmann inflexible and more extreme than are the Germans them selves? Dr. Adenauer has done a great work.' But he is a very old man, and those who succeed him will not, we may be sure, be bound, by his views. Why should we, at this late date, let ourselves be bound by them? Is it good leadership to subject the Atlantic allies to the strain of a deep disagreement over a policy which none of them really believes in? t There is supposed to be at is sue a deep disagreement as to whether in post-Stalin Russia there is a decisive change or a mere shift of tactics, propa ganda, and public relations.' i have heard this question discus sed by a considerable number of men here and abroad who are as qualified as any one is to form an opinion. (They do not includue the naive who are of two sorts first, those who would like to think that the changes, which are undeniably taking place, are making the So viet Union into a liberal democ racy; and second, those who think that the SovietVsystem is immutable, that it must stand or faU but that it cannot change from within.) . These naive apart, more and more I have come to think that the real differences in judgment about how to deal with post Stalinist Russia do not arise from - objective evidence. Men appraise the same evidence dif ferently, and they do this, I be lieve, because they have differ ing temperaments and because, subjectively, they have a differ ent approach to human experi- THIS difference is exemplified strikingly by the President and Mr. Dulles. Both men would take an oath, that they are in full agreement. Yet there is no denying that the whole world is so conscious of a contrast be tween them that they are credit ed with having opposing poli cies. Why is this? Is it not be cause while they - may think they thmk alike, they do not feel alike, and' that the people can feel the difference? Do they not at bottom feel differently about' the wickedness of their adversaries Eisenhow er being ever hopeful that he can draw them into the fold, Dulles being unwilling to shake the hand of the unrighteous until they have recanted publicly and have confessed their sins? i These differences in evalua tion of other men become tanta mount to differences in policy. In the Eisenhower feeling about other men, there is always a willingness to explore, to nego tiate, and to take risk, often to over-simplify, but always hop ing that out of good there will come more good. TUT to Dulles, the distinction - between friend and foe, be tween the righteous and the wicked, is sharp and is hard, and the policies that arise from this feeling tend to be inflexible about and insensitive to the varieties of other men's feelings. No judgement of what is go ing on in the Soviet Union can be guaranteed and conclusive. We can judge only tentatively, trying as best we can to discount our hopes and our fears. For such is the scale and the tempo of these events that while we are judging the changes they are already changing. Every practical judgment of how to deal with these changes is at bottom, when we have weighed all the evidence avail able, an act of faith. Copyright 1856, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. NUDISTS BANNED . Berlin ttJ.PJ East German Communists Wednesday banned nudist societies "to protect the working class from disturbance during vacations." A- PHONE 2-8030 DAY OR NIGHT CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass . FUNERAL DIRECTORS
