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FOOT MEDTORD (OREGON) "Everybooj n Southern Oregon Bead Tlx Mail Tribune" Fcbliahed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. BJ North Fir St. Phone 2-Slil ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERS GREY . Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Kditor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor QALE EfUCKSO.N. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second claia matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act ox March X. 18H7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. gaily and Sunday One year f.12.00 ally and Sunday Six months 050 Daily and Sunday Three mos. -30 Sunday Only One year $350. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: pally and Sunday One year S1V0O Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 6c per copy Ail Terms Cash In Advance Of fir 11 Paper of the City of Medford orziciaj paper or daemon .uumj United Press Full Leased Wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIKCULAT1UCT Advertising Representative: Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL JAS0C6TLN """"al""" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the filet of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and JO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 3. 1946 (It was Wednesday) Dr. Charles W. Lemery named captain of the Jackson County Sheriff's posse, succeeding "Wal ter Leverette. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Bob Em mens, who has been in Rumania, Romania, and Roumania, and was among the first to fly over Tokyo, is due home soon. 20 YEARS AGO July 3. 193S (It was Friday) Five marriage licenses were issued yesterday by the county clerk's office. Regular closing hours will be observed by Medford stores to night. 30 YEARS AGO July 3, 1926 (It was Saturday) The mayor, city council and all other city officials yesterday sent to W. H. Gore, the Medford banker, a telegram of apprecia tion for his work before con gress. The Jackson county home eco nomics committee making plans for a series of "get together" parties. 40 YEARS AGO July 3, 1916 (It was Monday) The organization of an irriga tion district to comprise 25,000 acres of land under the high line ditch was proposed at a meeting of land owners Saturday at the Medford library. From Local and Personal col umn: Arthur Rose and wife of Phoenix are shopping in Med ford today. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. President Eisenhower is or Isn't the first president banned by Constitutional amendment from serving more than two terms? 2. Cellophane is derived from petroleum, wood, cottonseed, silk worms, a chemical salt, or rag paper? 3. When President Woodrow Wilson became seriously ill to ward end of his second term, the Vice Presidency was or wasn't vacant? 4. British House of Commons has many more or few members than U.S. House of Representa tives, or about the same num ber? 5. Rutabagas are a kind of po tato, turnip, parsnip, celery, rad ish or beet? 6. Right-wingers are conserva tives, radicals, or middle-of-the-roaders? 7. The term "spare" is used in which game? The Answers: 1. Is. 2. Wood. 3. Wasn't. 4. Many more. 5. Tur nip. 6. Conservatives. 7. Bowl ing. House Approves Women For National Guard Washington 01.R) The House approved a bill Monday that would make the Army and Air National Guard coed for the fi5t time. It passed and sent to the Sen ate a measure authorizing the appointment of women reserve Air Force and Army officers to the National Guard as nurses and women medical specialists. MAIL TRIBUNE Air Fatalism vs. Fatalities We should think our friends the fatalists we hare some would be jarred by this shocking two plane crash in the Grand Canyon with a loss of over 100 lives. For the basis of their belief is the assumption that everything that happens to an individual is fore ordained, presumably carved at birth on the imperish able tables of unending time, and nothing old "homo sapiens" might say or do can change it. TOR the friends and families of those who perished so horribly in this catastrophe, such a philosophy might provide some solace but how could they or anyone else really BELIEVE it? Here were two huge mainliners, crowded with passengers, taking off three minutes apart, bound for different destinations and at different altitudes, yet they collided in mid-air, or were hit by bolts of lightning, at practically the same place and the same time, and with the same ghastly results all lives lost. TT IS certainly a strain on the credulity of any think 1 ing person that on the tablets of each of these vic tims, such a tragic ending was ordained, and nothing on heaven or earth could have prevented it. Such a rationalization we feel is founded basically on an egotism that passeth all understanding. The individual is important but he can't be as important as that. That any Supreme Power could figure out a fate like that for over one hundred human beings, old, young and in-between, places an importance upon the single individual, in the eternal scheme of things of which there is no evidence at least available to this department to support. TT was just one of those things, an accident of such huge proportions and of such a tragic coincidental nature as to baffle the imagination. According to press reports the chance of any such crash occuring as it did again should be rated as one in ten million. (We have an idea Lloyds would place insurance odds even greater). DUT it HAPPENED. Meanwhile as is true of so many major catastrophies, eventually good may come of it. We can see no good reason for example, sending out super-speed passenger planes in the SAME direc ection within 3 minutes of each other why not make it 10 or 15? Nor have we ever understood why plane pilots are not ordered to land until a severe storm in sight passes, or go over or around same, in stead of trying willy nilly to go through it, so they won't lose a few minutes on their precious schedule, no matter how devastating the results. It is a notable fact that while plane accidents do occur in fair weather, they are few and far between, while the great majority our guess is 80 are the result of taking chances in storms. PENALLY as has been argued before in this depart ment, in the motor-engine field, both air and land, mounting casualties, stress the crying need of the various and sundry companies taking a breathing spell and directing their engineers to pay a little more attention to SAFETY, and considerable less attention to more and more and more speed ! R.W.R They Protest Too Much' It is surprising that the Republican press should pay so much attention to the Al Sarena case, and give it so much space. We should think they would like to forget it. ' Not because there was anything criminal concern ing it no convincing evidence presented to that ef fect at least. But because the absolute proof that the Al Sarena case represented a procedure and a policy, that should no longer be allowed, was presented by the Republi cans themselves, when they directed Congressman Ellsworth to introduce a bill that would make any repetition of the procedure impossible. If this cutting valuable government timber under the guise of a $5 an acre mining claim was so pure and undefiled, as some of the GOP press agents now claim, why go to the expense and bother of making it illegal ex post facto? Why introduce and pass a measure to correct a wrong if no wrong existed? AS before remarked we doubt if the Ellsworth bill will make "mining for timber" IMPOSSIBLE, but it should make it less likely, and certainly won't make an EXACT repetition of the Al Sarena pro cedure possible in the future. For not only must a "legitimate" mining claim be secured FIRST, but certain low grade minerals for merly recognized as "legitimate" will no longer be so recognized, and as before stated improvements of $100 a year for five years are advised before a final patent can be issued, and during that time, the timber will be under the control of the US Forest sendee not the mining claimant. CO it is rather surprising and amusing to hear the GOP press dismiss the Al Sarena case as nothing but "political clap trap" and then at the same time point with pride to the fact that when the news of this "give away" was first circulated abroad high speed was ordered by the present administration for legis lation to make any such private profiteering at the ex pense of the government and its timber reserve, im probable if not impossible in the future. On the basis of clap trap and nothing wrong it doesn't make sense. R.W.R. Tuesday. July 3, 1958 Stalin May Get Blame for Red Losses in Post-War Diplomacy By CHARLES McCANN United Press Correspondent The Kremlin's debunking of Josef Stalin may be expanded soon to include some of Russia's failures in post Jjfti?rj war foreign f M policy. yZji Stalin has ii been blamed y ipX i for his crimes lat'luf it--- ' wrld War II. Charles Mccann undoubtedly it would help the Soviet govern ment's new sweetness-and-light campaign if Stalin were held re sponsible for some embarrassing events which followed the war. Russia's successes in aggres sive foreign policy usually are emphasized. But Russia has suf fered a number of defeats. Japanese Occupation Right For instance, Russia right af ter Japan's surrender was sup posed to get the right to send some occupation troops to Japan. That would have given Rus sia a foothold in Hokkaido, the northernmost of the main Japan ese islands. It would have created a dan gerous situation for the United States and its allies. As it happened, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's American forces mushroomed out through Japan and occupied Hokkaido them selves. Other Allied troops were sent, by agreement, to join in the oc cupation. But no Russians. Then there came the Iranian situation in 1946. Great Britain and Russia had occupied Iran in 1941, to keep it out of Ger many's hands. Britain withdrew its troops after the war. The Russian troops remained. Stalin refused repeated Iranian requests to re move them. Reds Ousted From Iran Iran appealed to the United Nations. There was a bitter fight for months in the U.N. Security Council. In the end, Russia was fACtttQf Of FQCt By Joe and Stewart Alsop WAS STALIN MURDERED? Washington About a week after Joseph Stalin died, one of these reporters had a long talk with George Kennan, who had very re cently been re called as Am bassador to the Soviet Union. Kennan ven tured a predic tion about the future and a ..snih Aiioo guess auuui the immediate past, and both are worth recalling in view of what has happened since. Kennan's prediction was that Stalin might very well become sw-i-i' within a few - i d e o 1 o g i cal devil of the Soviet Union and world Com munism. It seemed a strange notion at the time, since Krush chev and com btewart Alsop pany in Moscow, and all import ant Communists elsewhere were vying with each other in ful some tributes to the "great lost leader." But. in the light of re cent events, Kennan's prediction about the future lends added weight to his guess about the past. JTTENNAN'S guess was that the men around Stalin had mur dered him, or at least been im plicated in his death. He had, Kennan said, no solid evidence that Stalin had been murdered, any more than he had solid evi dence that Stalin would become an ideological devil. In both cases, it was a matter of atmos phere and of instinct. Kennan vividly described the atmos phere in the Moscow which he had so recently left the fear and hatred of the old tyrant so thick in the air that you could almost smell it. TF Stalin was not a madman be- fore he died, Kennan said, he was just this side of madness a judgment fully vindicated by Nikita Krushchev's hair-raising description of Stalin's last years. It seemed to Kennan a reason able conjecture that Stalin's sub ordinates had done away with him, not only to save their own lives, but because the structure of Soviet power might be "en dangered by the dictator's near madness. Kennan's guess was only a guess, and there is still no posi tive proof that Stalin was mur dered. But if you re-read Khrush chev's famous speech, in which he denounced Stalin as a mur derer, and consider other recent events in the light of Kennan's guess, it begins to seem rather like the missing piece of a puz zle. Why, for example, did Krush chev make his speech at all? This is the question which has mystified all the experts. Before f""7"; If I x A compelled to withdraw. That was a monumental defeat for Stalin. Had the U.N. failed, it is doubtful whether M could have long survived. Next came the big Berlin blockade of 1948 and 1949. Rus sia and Stalin was Mr. Russia then tried to force the United States, Britain and France out of the city, which was under joint Big Four occupation. Russia established a blockade of West Berlin, which the West ern Allies held. The retort was the great Berlin airlift. There was a 110-mile belt of Soviet - occupied territory be tween Berlin and West Ger many. In a period of 11 months Allied planes flew 2,343,315 tons of supplies across that belt to Berlin. Russia abandoned the blockade. Ike HST Rated Top Aides for Campaigns Washington (CQ) Presi dent Eisenhower and former President Truman are the most effective campaigners in the Re publican and Democratic par ties, according to a cross-section of Congressmen polled by Con gressional Quarterly. ' Mr. Eisenhower is the over whelming choice of Republican Senators and Representatives as the outside campaigner who would most benefit their own campaigns for reelection. This was the sentiment in all parts of the country. Mr. Truman, whose whistle- stopping saved the Democrats from almost certain defeat in 1948, holds a narrow edge over Adlai E. Stevenson. The former President is favored over the party's 1952 nominee in all sec tions of the country except the South. Minor Influence In Past However, a heavy majority of both parties members say cam paign visits by such national the speech Kennan's successor, the able Charles E. Bohlen, and every other diplomatic observer in Moscow, had reported that the Krushchev-Bulganin regime was solidly installed. For more than a year a carefully planned proc- esJ of chipping away at Stalin's reputation had been in progress Why, then, should Krushchev suddenly abandon the chisel for the meat axe, and hack away so ruthlessly at the memory of the dead dictator? He no doubt un derestimated the risks he was taking, but he is a shrewd man and he must have known that the risks were real and grave. Why take them? TF Kennan's guess was accur- - ate, the answer is clear. A collective sense of blood guilt can be a source of unity ,and could in part explain why the collective leadership" has work ed successfully, contrary to many expert predictions. But blood guilt can also be a source of danger, the danger of black mail by a party to the secret. There are two ways of dealing with such a danger. There is Stalin's way, killing all who knew the secret. The other way is to transform the act itself into a necessary and even laudable one. Certain passages of Khrush chev's speech also take on a new meaning in the light of Kennan's guess. For example, Krushchev singled out Molotov and Mikoy an by name, and said that even they would not have survived had Stalin lived. Mikoyan and Molotov, Ken nan has speculated, are precise ly the two men who were almost certainly not implicated in Stal in's death Mikoyan hated Stal in, but he is a cautious man, and Molotov retained to the end a spaniel-like devotion to his cruel master. Thus Khrushchev's words may have been a warning and a reminder. The whole tone of Khrushchev's speech, in fact, with its repeated emphasis on Stalin as a murderer, supports Kennan's- conjecture, for mur der is the natural retribution for murder. FINALLY, there is the more recent mystery. Why did "Pravda," Krushchev's own par ty newspaper, publish an article by the American Communist Eugene Dennis, criticizing Khrushchev by name, and ask ing why he and his colleagues did nothing to prevent Stalin's crimes? Such an article in the Soviet press has always been the Drelude to an official answer. Might not the answer be that Khrushchev and his colleagues did indeed do something, and something rather drastic and de cisive, to curb the murdering tyrant? Perhaps it will never be known for certain whether Ken nan's conjecture was as accur ate as his prediction. But at least Kennan's guess throws an interesting new light on the events which have shaken the whole structure of Soviet power. Copyright 1956, New York C Herald Txibune Inc. Next came the Korean War. Under Russian direction. Com munist North Korea invaded United-States protected South Korea on June 25, 1950. The United States decided to fight. It took the situation to the U.N. In the end, 14 U.N. countries sent military aid to help. Stalin got Communist China to inter vene. There is still a lot of argument as to who won the war. One thing is certain: Russia, the Chi nese Reds and the North Ko reans lost it. The Chinese suf fered upwards of 1,000,000 cas ualties. On June 23, 1951, Jacob Malik, chief Soviet U.N. dele gate, suggested a cease-fire. Of course, to blame Stalin for these failures would be an admission that they really were failures. But that is no secret to 1 any body. party leaders as Eisenhower and Truman were a minor influence in past elections in their states and districts. Only six Congressmen regard in-person endorsements by party bigwigs as a major campaign help, while 72 say they are a mi nor influence and seven rate them no help at all. Fifty Republicans and 39 Democrats from all sections of the country participated anony mously in the poll. The question naires were sent to members seeking reelection this year in districts where contests have been fairly close in the past Each Congressman was asked to rate the campaign effective- nes of six leaders of his own party. Nixon 'No! No! Vice - President Richard M. Nixon rates among the Republi cans, second to the President na tionally, but one eastern Repub lican wrote in "No' No!" when asked if Nixon would be a help in his district. Republican National Chair man Leonard W. HaU is the third most highly-regarded GOP campaigner in the South, East and Midwest, but on the West coast that distinction goes to the embattled Secretary of Agricul ture, Ezra Taft Benson. In the East, most Republicans think an appearance by Benson will help their campaigns a lit tle, and in the Midwest half of those polled say he would help a lot, while only one in five said Benson would be no help at all. Senate Minority Leader Wil liam F. Knowland (Calif.) and Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., are regarded as somewhat helpful campaigners in most of the country, but in the East as many Republicans said they would be no help as said they would help a lot. HST Leads Among Democrats, Mr. Tru man's "give-'em-hell" technique is rated slightly higher than Stevenson s 'moderate" ap proach to campaigning. The for mer Illinois governor is second to Mr. Truman in the East and West and second to Senate Ma jority Leader Lyndon B. John son (Tex.) in the South. In the Midwest, Stevenson trails both Mr. Truman and Sen. Estes Kefauver (Tenn.) as a cam paigner. Three of the 10 Con gressmen polled from this area say Stevenson would be no help at aU in their fight for reelec tion. However, Stevenson is the only Democrat regarded as a helpful campaigner in all parts of the country. Johnson rates high in the South, Midwest and West but not on the East coast. Kefauver and New York Gov. AvereU Harriman are regarded as no help in the South and not much help in the West. National Chairman Paul M. Butler is a popular campaigner in the Mid west and South but is not rated highly on the two coasts. Mr. Truman wins little favor in the South. More Optimistic In general, Republican Con gressmen are more optimistic than Democrats about the help they may receive from their na tional leaders. The average Republican lead er on Congressional Quarterly's list is rated a lot of help by 50.3 per cent of the Congressmen, a little help by 39.3 per cent and no help by 10.4 per cent. The average Democratic lead er is rated a lot of help by 37.6 per cent of his party's Congress men, a little help by 36.1 per cent and no help by 26.3 per cent. (Copyright 1956. Congressional Quarterly) Death for Saboteurs Pledged in Guatemala Guatemala City (U.R) The Guatemala Defense Ministry warned today that anyone con victed of trying to sabotage vital installations will be sentenced to death. The warning followed an nouncement that saboteurs set off several bombs in electric transformers and power stations Monday night. None of the ex plosions caused casualties or serious damage. Republican Private Power Supporter Loses $5 Wager To Sen. Richard Neuberger Washington, D. C. (Special) A $5 contribution from a private utility lawyer and advocate of private power, was received re cently by the Democratic Nation al committee, in payment of a public power vs. private power wager with Sen. Richard Neu berger of Oregon. Contributor of the $5 was Prof. A. J. G. Priest of the Uni versity of Virginia law school, a member of the New York law firm of Reed & Priest, which rep resents Electric Bond and Share. Priest accepted the $5 wager when he disagreed with Senator Neuberger's stand on public power following a debate be tween Neuberger and GOP Sen. Barry Goldwater before the Uni versity of Virginia Student Legal forum in Charlottesville in May. Priest sent his check to Sena tor Neuberger, who in turn for warded it to Democratic Nation- Treasurer Matthew McClos- key, with a letter explaining the circumstances of the donation as follows: Followed Debate On May 11, 1956, I debated Sen. Barry Goldwater, Repub lican of Arizona, before the Stu dent Legal forum on the historic campus at Charlottesville. Of course, I criticized the anti-public power policies of this admin In The Day's There is trouble in. Poland. How grave the trouble may be can not be estimated as this is written. Nor can it be deter mined with any degree of ac curacy what the trouble is all about. For all this is happening behind the iron curtain, and be hind the iron curtain there is neither freedom of speech nor freedom of the press. When there is neither free dom of speech nor freedom of the press, the public knows only what those in authority think the public ought to be allowed to know. In the case of this trou ble in Poland that isn't much, and what there is of it is chiefly rumor. AT THE hour of writing this, the great news services of the world have pieced together, largely from hearsay, this pic ture of the situation: "Despite claims to the con trary by the red Polish govern ment, there is still strife and unrest in the key Polish indus trial city of Poznan. That is where many thousands of work ers began a hunger strike on Thursday that soon mushroomed into a bitter rebellion. During the night shooting was still re ported going on in Poznan, which has been isolated from the rest of the world by the communist government. "This morning, heavily armed troops patrol the city. TANKS are stationed at key posts. Over head an armada of jet planes is ready to back up any ground action." LET'S take a look at Poland. Poland is a COLONIAL POSSESSION o f Communist Russia. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot 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. An Answer to Mr. Unger To the Editor: Just a few words to answer A. L. Unger. What do you know about the little man"? -You must have heard some Republicans make that statement and you are "lit tle" enough to quote it. No "little men have ever sat in tne presiaenuai cnair, oniy little people would make such a statement. I detest that sort of thing, no matter who is guilty of it and I haven't forgotten the Hoover days either! S. R. Hall P. O. Box 135 Jacksonville, Ore. MR. INSURANCE FRED BRENNAN July 4th is Independence Day a good time for each of us to ana lyze his "independence." Do we have enough insurance to be inde pendent of charity in case of a personal disaster? Are we prepar ing for an independent old age? This agency will survey your risks nd insurance policies, without obligation, to determine whether you are adequately insured. CALL MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940 istration. During the later ques tion period, Professor Priest and I disagreed over the merits of public power, Hells Canyon, etc. "We finally arranged a wager, before the over 500 persons in attendance. Professor Priest would contribute $5 to the Dem ocratic party if average residen tial consumption of electricity in the city of Tacoma, Wash., which is served by a public power sys tem, was greater by 7 per cent or more than that in the city of Spokane, Wash., which is served by a private power company. If Tacoma use of power was less than 7 per cent greater than that in Spokane, I would contribute $5 to the Republican party. "A table obtained from the Federal Power Commission Indi cated that average residential use of electricity in Tacoma has been approximately 16.54 per cent greater than in Spokane, over the period from 1939 to 1955, inclusive. "Professor Priest has proved to be a good sport hence the at tached $5 contribution from him to the Democratic National com mittee. It is not often that a pri vate utility lawyer makes such a donation!" tl (Signed) Richard L. Neuberger News By Frank Jenkins It was conquered by armed might. It is governed by ARMED FORCE. I THINK someone ought to car- Vi o neuie in Tnia Moll r-i , Nehru professes to believe that western colonialism is so bad that communism couldn't pos sibly be any worse. So he is flirting with commu nist Russia. If he has even a grain of sense, he must know that if communist Russia ever gets her clutches on India, India will become the same kind of communist colonial possession that Poland now is. I think somebody ought to put a bug in the ear of this man Nas.ser, who is now the Man on Horseback in Egypt. He has used hatred of western colonialism as a boost to get himself Into the saddle. He too is flirting with commu nist Russia. He must know what will happen If communist Rus sia gets her clutches on Egypt. Egypt will then become another colonial ' possession of IMPERI ALIST communist Russia. Just like Poland. TNDIA'S Nehru must know all this. He couldn't be so dumb as not to know it. Egypt's Nas ser must be fully aware of the situation. He must know what will happen if Egypt becomes a satellite of Moscow. That poses a question: Why do men like Nehru and Nasser flirt with communism? THERE can be only one an swer: Men like Nehru and Nasser know that if their countries be come communist satellites they won't be down at the bottom among the common herd. They will come out on top of the heap. THEY WILL BE THE SATEL LITE RULERS. They will be in the saddle. And they will have back of them the armed might of communist Russia to keep them in the saddle. That's the way communism works. ' - 4-H Club News Gold Hill Club The Gold Hill 4-H Club met at the Veltie Biles home on East Evans Creek rd., June 27, with 10 parents and 15 members pres ent. We judged pigs and sheep. Next meeting will be at the Norman Gail home July 11. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Veltie Biles. r Reporter, Dore Carter Heaven No Morgue GEO. N. TAYLOR Heaven holds no dead men. event though all of them had sinned while here on earth. The wages of sin is death but the people in heaven died with no sin ' charged against them. God had put all their sins on Christ. Now as to you yet here on earth remember that God created the universe and also mankind. So you became one of God's new creation. God never created you to sink down into sin. He now aims to put eternal righteousness on you and your name in his Book of Life. God wants you to be God-like and Christ-like, so far as having to do with sin, turn from it. But this you have not done. So it was that God put your sins on Christ and he would in breathe you with himself and make you new. If any man be in Christ, he ; is a new creation. 2nd Cor.', 5:17. : This message sponsored by u : Portland family. adv. ' 3l
