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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Xverywxly in southern Oregon Resds Th Mad Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MtDFORD PRINTING CO. IT-M Norm Fir St. Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Managar ERIC Al l fm jr. Managing. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor BICHAUD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medxord Oregon, under Act ox March 3. 1S97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year (12 00 Daily and Sunday Six month i0 Daily and Sunday Threa mm. J0 Sunday Only Ona year S3.50. By 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 Onm year $15 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers fie per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City ol Medford Official Paper of Jacmon county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULAlluri WK.ST-HOLl.lDAY COMPANY INC. Offices tn New York Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle Portland St. Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION ! J o NEWSpAPIIt ubiishees 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 July 2, 1946 (It was Tuesday) Betty Grable and Josef Stalin appear in "Who's Who In Ameri co" for 1947 for the first time. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column:: Hermy Of fenbacher, the Applegate tiller, brought his wool to town today. None of it was ever pulled over his eyes. 20 YEARS AGO July 2. 1931 It was Thursday) Hansen Hardware, newly esta blished successors to the Med ford Hardware company, pur chases large stock of house war es of C. D. Bean, Inc. A. H. Banwell, manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, appointed by govern or to committee of arrangements for the second session of the Northwest Aviation Planning council this fall in Portland. 30 YEARS AGO July 2. 1926 (It was Friday) Exhibition today f the latest in automatic receiving and trans mitting telegraphic apparatus at Western Union office on West Main street. From the Local and Personal column: A number of gaily be decked cowboys from the Lake Creek district were in the city yesterday adding color to the aft ernoon pedestrian traffic by their loud yellow and red shirts and five-gallon hats. 40 YEARS AGO v July 2, 1916 (It was Sunday) Dr. E. R. Seely elected chair man of the Medford school board and H. S. Stine re-elected clerk for the district. From the Local and Personal Colmun: See the big balloon ascension at the ball park in Ash land during the games between Medford and Weed. What's the Answer? Can You Gat 4 of thm 71 . Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Ileitis, or which the Presi dent recently was operated on, usually attacks older or younger persons, or about same percent age of each? 2. Guaranteed annual wage is most nearly in effect now for the steel, auto, coal, or men's clothing workers? 3. Retail price of coffee in most parts of the U.S. has gone up or down recently or stayed about the same? 4. Representative National Chairman Hall, now says he doesn't know whether Eisenhow er will run again, or suspects, he won't, or is sure he will? 5. Karl Marx, founder of mod ern socialism, is buried in Mos cow, London, Berlin, Paris, or New York? 6. The adrenal glands in hu mans are in the vicinity of the brain, neck, kidneys or sex or gans? 7. Robert Humphreys is a new U.S. Senator: from Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Oregon or Texas? The answers: 1. Usually young er. 2. Auto workers. 3. Gona up. 4. Is sura ha will. 5. London. 6. The kidneys. 7. Kentucky (ap pointed io succeed ihe lata Sen. 1 ator Barklay.) , MAIL TRIBUNE On Law Enforcement We spenf an interesting and instructive 2'2 hours last week, sitting in on a meeting of patrolmen of the Medford police department. The meeting was to discuss the possibilities of civil service for the department, and to give them a chance to discuss any problems they might have with the city's chief executive officer, Bob Duff, and with members of the police committee of the council. It was a let-your-hair-down sort of meeting, and the officers felt free to air whatever grievances they might have with the assurance of an interested and sympathetic hearing, and no reprisals. e 'J'HEY took advantage of it. The complaints they voiced ranged from rates of pay (which are admittedly not too high, but which compare favorably with those paid in other Oregon city departments) to matters of personnel administra tion. In any group of 20 to 30 men, which must because of the nature of its work be operated under a system of discipline, this type of complaint is a normal, ex pected sort of thing. Any man who has been in ser vice can testify to the fact that some "griping" is natural, even healthy. D1 ESPITE this, the thing during the meeting, and as we thought about it afterward, was that a large majority of the men are obviously loyal to the department as such, want to do the best possible job, and have a strong sense of duty and dedication to the extremely difficult and de manding job of law enforcement. Not everyone has what it takes to make a good police officer. Not eveiyone has a sense of public ser vice, of a duty to perform sometimes under unpleasant or dangerous circumstances. Not everyone has the inherent courage needed for moral honesty to him self and to his colleagues and superiors. If he doesn't have these things, he'd better quit. Our observations the other night led us to believe that most of the patrolmen not all do have these important qualities. TI'HAT has been said about the patrolmen applies in double measure to their officers and leaders. What is desirable in the rank and file is a necessity in the higher echelons, and is coupled with the further need for that intangible quality of leadership. These leaders must insist on discipline, for with out it a department can go to pot in a hurry. A police department is like military service it cannot be run on democratic lines and function effectively. But discipline must be coupled with intelligence and understanding of the legitimate complaints and gripes and rights of the men. And there must be a channel through which these can be handled. The responsibility of enforcing the law is difficult. How much more difficult, then, is the responsibility for leading and directing and supervising law enforce ment, writh all its facets of public service, civil rights, and the peace and safety of the community? CRITICIZING the police department sometimes known as "bawling out the cops" is easy; too easy, as any officer will tell you. Being constructive and helpful and understanding are not easy. But the latter is the course which will lead to bet ter, more efficient and more competent law enforce ment, which is vitally important to eveiy citizen. ' E.A. Not Enough Pockets This is shirtsleeve weather. And, in this area where informal dress is becom ing increasingly acceptable for businessmen, it poses a problem. The problem is intensified if the business man is a smoker of pipes, cigarettes or cigars. Where is he going to Carry his impedimentia his pipes and tobacco, his breast-pocket wallet, his note book, his pencils, his glasses-case? It's no problem with a jacket, but it is with only a shirt, probably with but a single pocket. ASA result, that pocket is crammed full, as are pants pockets. The poor guy feels bulgy. He has a struggle each time he has to use some article of his mobile equipment. The solution, as the metamorphosis in masculine attire continues, may be the popularization of a re ceptacle to be hung from the belt sort of a junior sized kit bag. If the idea catches on, suppliers will, doubtless spring forward with attractive designs. Meanwhile, men, you can borrow your wife's old purse, cut off the straps, and belt it on. E.A. Too Simple? A man by the name of Max Hirsch, who makes no claim to be a tax expert, has proposed that the state income tax be modified. How? By using the net taxable income of the individual, as shown in his federal income tax, and then applying a standard, sliding percentage figure to it. That's all. TIf E share with Mr. Hirsch the distinction of being no expert in matters of taxation, but for the life of us we can't see anything wrong with his suggestion. - Wait a minute, though there IS. something wrong. It's too simple. It never would be adopted by the tax experts. E.A. Monday, July 2, 195S which most impressed us Polish Riots Must Be Anxiety for By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Czechoslovakia's Red leaders must be doing some anxious thinking about the anti-Com munist riots in Poland. For several weeks the C z e c h o slovak govern ment and the party have been try- Charles alccann mg la cum an insistent demand by students and writers for more political and academic freedom. So far, there has been no dis order except for some minor demonstrations by university students. But it would not be surpris ing if Czechoslovakia provided the setting against Red rule. Czechoslovakia ranks next to Poland in importance to Soviet Russia among the Communist satellite countries. High Living Standards Czechoslovakia is the most Westernized of Communist coun tries. It is highly industrialized. 2nd Term Planf Other Future Headlines Seen United Press correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Second Term The guessing at Gettsburg is that President Eisenhower will make no statement on running for a second term until he re turns to the White House from his farm about July 19. This would give him time to test him self physicially and make up his mind whether to change his February 29 decision to run. The President said at that time that he would report any change of mind to the people. His re cent illness makes a new state ment, to run or not to run, essen tial. The statement, like the pre vious one, could best be made from the White House. Muddle Huddle Watch for reports that Nikita S. Khrushchev has summoned leaders of the Communist satel lite countries to a secret meeting on the Stalin debunking situa tion. Satellite governments are jittery over the way things are getting out of hand. There are signs that anti-Red riots in Czechoslovakia and East Ger many may follow those in Po land. Khrushchev started the de bunking. It's up to him now to talk his way out of the mud dle he made and suggest how In The Day's Down here in southern Ore gon and far northern California, we aren't greatly interested in the economic aspects of the Hell's Canyon battle. The Snake river, of which Hell's Canyon is a part, is a tributary of the Co lumbia. Our water flows in an other direction. Down here, we aren't opposed to the federal dams they already have up in the Columbia Basin. If the people of that great water shed want the federal govern ment to develop their power re sources exclusively and want the private concerns kept out we are willing to concede that it is THEIR business. But we are at least academi cally interested in the political aspects of the ruckus, which has become a resounding one. FOR more than a year, a bill to authorize a FEDERAL Hell's Canyon dam has been tied up in the interior commit tee of the house of representa tives by a deadlock. Early this week the deadlock was broken and the bill was reported out with a do-pass recommendation. The house rules committee is expected to clear it promptly, and it will then come onto the house floor for debate. The manner in which the dead lock was broken is interest ing. Representative Chenowith of Colorado has been opposed to a high federal dam at Hell's canyon. His vote has been need ed to get the authorization bill through the house interior com mittee with a favorable recom mendation. He had held out determinedly. Then A little while back He announced that he would vote FOR the Hell's Canyon au thorization bill. WHY? " That is the interesting part. Representative Chenoweth has a bill providing for what is known as the Frying. Pan-Arkansas reclamation project. It is in Colorado. He has been having trouble getting action on it in the house. So, the other day, he announced that he would switch his vote on the Hell's Canyon bill. At this point, let's quote the Associated Press dispatch telling of the committee approv al of the Hell's Canyon bill: "Representative Budge of Idaho (who voted against the HeU's Canyon measure), refer- Czech Red Rulers Its people, before they went be hind the Iron Curtain as the re sult of the Communist coup of February, 1948, were used to a high living standard unlike those of any other country near Red rule. It should not be forgotten now that Czechoslovak workers were first to rebel against Com munist domination after the death of Stalin. On May 30, 1953, the Czech oslovak government devalued its currency. It was a bald steal. Its effect was to wipe out sav ings and to slash real wages drastically. Two days later, workers in the industrial center of Pilsen, site of the world-famous Skoda Armaments Works, turned out in the streets. They fought troops, Red mili tiamen and police. They destroy ed factory machinery, invaded the City hall to destroy records and raised the flag of the United States, whose soldiers had liber ated the city in World War II. Russian flags were trampled un derfoot. These riots spread to other provincial cities. At least six persons were killed before or to get things under control. If he calls the meeting, it probably will be held in a satellite capital, not in Moscow. The Popular Mrs. Miller Mrs. Arthur Miller Marilyn Monroe hasn't seen anything yet. London reports that she will walk into a riotous welcome when she arrives in Britain in mid-month to make a film with Sir Laurence Olivier. The sup posedly reserved British male thinks la Monroe is terrific. It will be no surprise in London if the men stage a bobby-soxer type of riot in her honor. Polio Outlook Look for an important report from the Public Health Service (possibly late today) on the polio vaccination program. It will dis close a new vaccine production record for May about 17,000, 000 shots and predict a rosy supply outlook for the rest of the year. Atoms for Peace Washington insiders expect congressional leaders to sched ule action before adjournment on the $400,000,000 program for government - owned atom power plants. Supporters believe chances for passage are good, despite administration opposi tion, on the ground that develop ment of atomic power for peace ful purposes must be speeded up. News By Frank Jenkins ring to Chenoweth's switch, said , he was considering legisla tion to prohibit log rolling. T think from the turn of events it was obvious that the necessary vote for Hell's Canyon was ob tained by that method,' he added. "Budge said recently Cheno weth 'had a gun at his head' because he was forced to vote for a bill he didn't like in order to get support for his own project." The dispatch adds that when the Hell's Canyon bill comes up on the floor of the house the debate will probably develop into a Democratic attack on the Eisenhower administration's pol icies. w ELL, that's the way it is done. It's the way it always has been done. But the ante is getting higher. The pork barrel used to be con cerned rather largely with minor projects such , as the develop ment of a harbor at the mouth of Podunk creek, if Podunk creek happened to be located in the bailiwick of some influ ential senator or representative whose vote was badly needed on an important party measure. Now it contains multi-multimillion-dollar items like Hell's Canyon and the Frying Pan Arkansas reclamation project. Two Drivers Cited FollowingCollisions Two drivers received citations for failure to operate on the right side of the highway fol lowing week end accidents in this area, state police reported. Ernest Ralph Kohler, 28, of Klamath Falls, was cited after his car collided at 5:17 p.m. Sat urday with another on High way 66 neai Tub Springs park. Kohler was reported to be trav eling east and moved into the westbound lane while rounding a corner. Driver of the other vehicle, headed west, was Lucy Marie Blevinn, 46, Klamath Falls. Both cars received fend er, hood and grill damage. No one was injured. Calvin Otto Ha worth, 53, Ven eta, Ore., was cited following an accident at 5 a.m. Sunday on highway 99, north of Gold Hill, officers reported. Haworth was traveling south on the highway Causing der was restored after four days. It was after that, on June 17, when East German workers staged their now historic riots against a labor speed-up that shook the Communist world. Freedoms Demanded The present anti-government activity in Czechoslovakia start ed late in April. Ironically, the Red rulers themselves were re sponsible for it. As part of the new Communist sweetness and light campaign, students were encouraged to make some mild demands for better canteen ser vice and better dormitory facil ities. But the, students started de manding real parliamentary rule, freedom of the press and a big political amnesty. i' Similarly, a Communist-sponsored congress of Czechoslovak writers got out of hand. The government and the Com munist party have now issued a series of statements, surprising ly mild in tone, saying that those who engaged in the anti-Red manifestations were misled by the Stalin debunking campaign. The statements emphasized that the Communist party is still the country's final authority. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use or 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. Same Old Disease To the Editor: Land grabbers have the same old malignant dis order. It just comes to the sur face again in a little different place. S. 3444, similar in effect to S. 1491 in 1953, aims to di vide and destroy the people's heritage. It's the age-old and somewhat contagious disease-' greed sometimes fatal. Every move by the U.S. Cham ber of Commerce, the National Lumber Manufacturers associa tion et al to dismember public lands is so impregnated with personal greed for more private wealth and power through poli tics, that one may but wonder how or why Congressional rep. resentatives of THE PEOPLE couia associate themselves with so atrocious encroachment upon their own children's heritage A speech by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Nov. 13, 19o2 before the National Lum ber Manufacturers association and USCC emissaries over the United States in 1953, declaring National forests, parks, grazing lands, xetc, should be turned over to special interests for pri vate exploitation telling how America s school children, teach ers, the public, Would be educat ed to believe such propaganda, was part of the greedy scheme, And the recent National Lum ber Manufacturers association "advocacy" of the Long bill and the D Ewart echo from the Department of Interior is a fur therance by the same group, or product of, those looters of the public domain so vigorously fought by Gifford Pinchot in the 1890s and to 1910; and warned, and warned of, ,by President Teddy Roosevelt in 1908, of ihe timber famine we're in now. It's the same element of greed, grab and destroy responsible for America's eroded and dustbowl lands, increased floods, water shortage and parched prairie lands. It is part of those same ones now thwarting the Ameri can Indians' rights and grabbing their few remaining acres of land. It is part of the same ele ment in big commercial fishing trying to split the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with S. 3275: the buffalo hide hunters who al most exterminated the Ameri can bison. He who steals his own chil dren's and my children's heri tage, and exploits it to build for himself a monument, shall have neither honor nor respect of his own nor my posterity. John W. Gribble 139 Kenwood ave. Medford, Ore. Congressional Quiz (Copyright, 195. Congressional Quarterly) Q How many Vice Presi dents in the nation's history suc ceeded to the Presidency by rea son of the death of Presidents: (a) three; (b) seven; (c) nine; (d) eleven? A Seven. They were John Tyler, Millard Fillmore. An drew Johnson, Chester A. Ar thur, Theodore Roosevelt, Cal vin Coolidge and Harry S. Truman. The last three were also elected to succeed them selves. when his car moved into the northbound lane of traffic, side swiping another vehicle operat ed by Benjamin Earl Rees, -77, Grants Pass. No one was report ed injured. Mattel" Of FaCt THE DEMOCRATS DOUBLE DILEMMA Washington With the con ventions only weeks and the election only months away, the Democrats are coming face to face with a hard dual dilemma. The double dilemma can be summed up in a couple of questions. How do you beat a man if Stewart Alsop you never criticize him? Ana how do you exploit your biggest issue if it is dangerous to talk about it? The Democrats are convinced to a man that- only the Presi dent's remarkable personal pop ularity stands between their par ty and the White House. Yet you can go through the Congressional Record or the speeches of the major Democratic candidates with a magnifying glass, and you will find hardly a single direct, tough criticism of the President. By the same token, the Demo crats now unanimously believe that the "Health Issue" is far and away the most important l s - sue they have. The heart at tack, they con cede, hurt the President very little political ly, and may even have -helped him ...epu ahum Jam the iresi- dent s operation caused many voters to have second thoughts a claim borne out by the reliable public opinion pollster, Louis Harris, ihe health issue, more over, gives the Democrats what they hitherto have lacked a real national issue. Yet many politicians sense Tough Enforcement Seen Key to Auto Safety on Highway In 1903 there were 466 fire works deaths in the United States. Last year there was only one. Quite a record of progress. Back in in 1903 a rather ridic ulous looking machine was just sputtering into being. Last year that machine evolving from the ungainly horseless carriage into the sleek and powerful mod ern automobile claimed 407 lives during the Fourth of July holiday. Thus the net gain in our ef forts to avoid holiday self-destruction seems to be about zero. Yet there is a lesson to be learn ed here. t ireworks deaths on the Fourth have been almost elim inated because thinking persons revolted at such senseless kill ing, and state by state the sale and use of dangerous fireworks were prohibited. No one, of course, is advocat ing that the sale or use of auto mobiles be banned. But we strongly urge the outlawing of tneir misuse. Most people want to use their cars safely. But in every society there is always a minority of reckless and irresponsible driv ers who turn a deaf ear to all appeals for prudent and com monsense behavior. It is for this group that the national Safety Council and the International Association of Chiefs of Police have jointly recommended a rigid law en forcement policy by all police agencies during the Fourth of July celebration. A traffic accident emergency faces this country, with a new all-time high death toll in pros pect.. It is time to stop tempor izing with this problem. The Fourth of July holiday is a good time to start getting tough. National Safety Council. U 1 ati"W g ' 1 FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 Joe and Stewart Alsop that the President's second ill ness makes any criticism ef him more politically dangerous than ever,' since it could seem to the voters like hitting a man when he's down. Above all, any suspi cion by the voters that the Demo crats were exploiting the Presi dent's health for selfish political ends could be fatal. AMONG the leading Democra tic candidates and their strat egists, there is no agreement on how to deal with this curious and unprecedented situation. -Some days ago James Finnegan, Carmine De Sapio, and'F. Jos eph Donohue. managers respec tively of candidates Adlai Stev enson, Averell Harriman and Es- tes Kefauver, met in Washington with Democratic Chairman Paul Butler. The main purpose of the meeting was to plan a joint strat egy for the campaign. All concerned agreed that the health issue was vitally impor tant. But the best way they could devise to exploit it was an agree ment that the candidate, whoev er he was, should go in heavily for "Whistlestopping," in order to point up the contrast with the sedentary television campaign being planned for the ailing President. Aside from this rather gingerly approach to the health issue, the Democratic planners never really came to grips with the central Eisenhower prob lem. Butler himself, and Clayton Fritchey, able Democratic vice chairman, favor meeting the problem head on. A forthcoming issue of the "Democratic Digest' organ of the national committee, goes much furtner in direct criti cism of the president than ever before. The President is pictured as an amiable tool of ruthless men intent on using him to their own selfish ends, whatever the consequences to his health. TN all fairness to Ike," one --article reads in draft, "It must be said that he makes no bones about getting a bigger kick out of golf, bridge, outdoor cooking, vacations, and western stories, than out on the hard grind of of- ficial duties which . . . fascinate the dynamic Presidents." This kind of thing is hardly more than a pinprick compared with the bitter denunciations of past Presidents, but it is strong stuff by present standards. The propagandists of tne national committee are also looking for ward gleefully to using Robert Donovan's highly readable book on the Administration to prove that the President himself thinks so little of the Republi can party that he seriously con sidered starting a third party. And the national -committee is out to sell "A vote for Eisenhow er is a vote for Nixon" as the main Democratic election slo gan. The object is, of course, to exploit simultaneously the dis like of Nixon among independ ents and the health issue. The national committee cam paign formula, in short, is a good deal tougher than any yet put forward by the candidates. Harriman comes closest to fa voring - some such tough line. Stevenson, now conceded at least a two to one chance for the nomination, has generally lim ited nimself to lamenting the diminution of the Presidency un der Eisenhower. But whoever the Democratic candidate may be, he will be up against a strange and difficult problem if the President runs again. He will have to run against a man whom it is po litically dangerous to criticize, on an issue it is even more dangerous to talk about. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. FINDS ITS MARK Karachi, Pakistan (U.R) A letter addressed to the "intelli gent officer, government of Pakistan" wound up in the of fice of the cabinet secretariat. It was returned to the post of fice with the notation "the gov ernment of Pakistan does not have an intelligent officer." The director of intelligence finally got his letter. T PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which are In keeping with its means. A selection of services in ' every price range is of fered to satisfy individual preferences a n d to meet all financial circumstances. Convenient Terms? Certainly!
