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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNE "IveryDoay in Koumeni Oregon Reads Tne Man iTtpune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-9H1 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DA ' -f. ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Mediord Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ey Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3J0 Sunday Only One 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 One year 113.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or ClKtOLAllu WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices In New York Chicago, De troit San Francisco. Los Angelea. Seattle Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C NATIONAL EDITORIAL vV 1 IasTocPatlon Gzsm u O WrV NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 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 6. 1946 (It was Saturday) Plans for rebuilding the Crys tal Springs Packing company are being made but actual con struction will not be attempted before next season, according to Maurice Spatz, manager. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Hale Wheeler boy, Gale, 3, had his first tonsorial going over last week, and behaved beautifully. 20 YEARS AGO July 6. 193S (It was Monday) Sgobel and Day announced ap pointment of Pete Knudsen of Sacramento, Calif., as district manager here. Martie Bowman and daugh ter, Larnie, will attend the meet ing of the Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce military and aviation committee tomorrow. 30 YEARS AGO July 6, 1926 The Fourth of July observance of Medford was one of the warmest, about 102, in the city's history. Assistant Secretary of War, Hanford MacNider, of Washing ton, D.C., will be guests of the local American Legion post to morrow. 40 YEARS AGO July 6, 1916 (It was Thursday) Routine work and the con sideration of petitions occupied the council at its meeting last night. Medford and vicinity women will lead a parade on the streets of Medford Friday night. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. No U. S. Chief Justice has come from the Deep South since the Civil War; right or wrong? 2. Ileitis is a disease affecting the heart, lungs, intestines, sex glands or nervous system? 3. Gov. Averell Harriman of N.Y. was once in the Cabinet of Pres. Truman; right or wrong? 4. Longest U.S. railroad is the Pennsylvania, N. Y. Central, Southern Pacific or Santa Fe? A. A U.S. Senator gets a higher or lower allowance for stationery, postage, and long dis tance calls than a U.S. Repre sentative, or the same? 6. Multiple sclerosis usually strikes before or after middle age, or during middle age? 7. Joseph L. Barrow is the real name of which outstanding sports figure of recent years? The Answers: 1. Wrong, Ed ward D. White (1910-21) was from Louisiana. 2. Intestines. 3. Right (Sec'y of Commerce). 4. Santa Fe. 5. Higher for these :tems. 6. Before middle age. 7. Joe Louis. HOLIDAY EXTENDED Indianapolis, Ind. (U.R) Two inmates of the Indiana women's prison were still at large today, two days after they decided to tai-s Tnripnendence Day seri ously. The two disappeared from the prison during a July 4tn pic nic inside the penitentiary. Madeqous stant RAs - MAIL TRIBUNE City Managers In recent days, two "pioneer" city managers, James 0. Conville of Corvallis and J. L. Franzen of Salem, have retired. While the city manager system of government is not brand new, neither is it very old, and these two men are among the first of the growing number of professional city executives to make a career 01 eiiic- ient, orderly city administration. IIM CONVILLE has served at least two Oregon cities. Astoria and zen, Oregon City and Salem, as well as Vanport for a time dunnerihe war. Each has been honored informal Draise as he neared the end of his service They have brought credit to their new profession, and have helped the city manager form of government to grow and prosper as they have built and strengthened their own reputations. T'HE citv manager form 1 a half old just this week too soon, perhaps, for a full assessment of its effect on the administration of the city. In addition, prior to that, Medford had a city superintendent's office, which in some ways was not too dissimilar to the city manager's oince, so me tran sition was not as abrupt as it might have been. But there has been change, and the key to it is the key to the success or failure of the city manager f orm itself. This key is the idea that the city council makes "policy" decisions ONLY; that the mayor is the "cere monial" head of the city, and presiding officer of the council, ONLY, and that in all other respects the city manager is the executive and decision-maker. THE sharp line between legislative and executive authority in cities has in the past not been clearly etched, but the city manager form of government has been a long step in this direction. One of the things which oftentimes makes the transition from one to the other difficult is the ingrain ed habits and patterns of thought of incumbent coun cilmen and long-time city employees, who intellectu ally accept the change, but emotionally and through habit do not accept it. This has, to an extent, been true in Medford. But increasingly, over the past 18 months, the administra tion has brought itself to the realization that to func tion effectively, it must observe and respect this line of demarkation that the council should set policy and that the manager should manage. THERE is reason to hope made the rather difficult switch from city superin tendent to city manager with a minimum of false starts and clashes, has obtained the services of an assistant manager, who should be able to take from his should ers a vast body of administrative detail which has hampered him in performing the executive functions which are the heart of his job. Individual city councilmen, who at first found it difficult to restrain themselves from becoming ab sorbed in minor administrative problems, increasing ly have realized that these are in the field of management. Progress thus far has been encouraging. We are confident that it will continue. E.A. Too Little Too Late It finally happened, that airliner collision which many air safety officials have been dreading but ex pecting. And 128 people died horribly as a result. The procedures of the Civil Aeronautics adminis tration, despite a recent and sudden surge of interest, and a valiant attempt at modernization by some of the top ,CAA officials, are outmoded, probably by as much as 10 or 15 years. Al'HERE does the responsibility lie? Partly with congress, perhaps, although it has shown willingness to. pay the bills, for the expensive newer procedures and equipment if a good case is made for them by the professionals who are charged with the responsibility of developing them. The burden of responsibility, we suspect, lies in the higher echelons of the CAA just below the top where it is too easy to say "Everything is fine and dandy the way it is." It most certainly does not lie with the men in the field, the control-tower and communications men, who long have known they are handling dynamite eveiy day as air traffic increases and grows more complex TN A recent aviation magazine a semi-serious propos- al was made that all pilots with planes equipped for instrument flying get together on one specified day, take the air, and then file a flight plan by radio. The result would be chaos, the magazine said. The whole system would simply break down. It couldn't handle such an operation. Why couldn't it? Because official foot-dragging and covert obstructionism have given the United States a model-T set of procedures for today's air age. DROGRESS has been too little and too late. Last week's disaster was the end result, no matter what the official "cause" may be determined to be. As recently as last January, we said in this space : The rapidly increasing number of people who travel by air are utterly dependent for their safety on the measures taken by the CAA and the airlines. And the government itself has repeatedly warned that the problem of over crowding is becoming crucial, with an average of four near collisions each day. A top-priority program to correct this is a must. The best we have done so far is not nearly good enough. E.A. 4 Friday, July 6. 1958 Corvallis, and so has Fran by formal ceremony and in Medford was a year and that in the coming months, Revolt in Poznan Tops News List On International Balance Sheet By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: The Good 1. Workers in the important Polish industrial city of Poznan (Posen) rose in revolt against their CommuniEt rulers. They were joined by .members of an anti-Red u n d erground o r g a nization that has exist- Cnarles McCami ed ever since Poland went behind the Iron Curtain. Workers and partisans fought police and troops. The officially announced death toll was 50. Unofficial estimates ran to several hundred. The upris ing was part of the ferment stirred by the Kremlin's down grading of Josef Stalin. But it was due directly to rebellion against sub-standard living con ditions. Serious discontent was reported also in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. 2. On the political side, the Kremlin's Stalin - debunking backfired. Communist leaders, outside of Russia refused to swal low the attempt of Stalin's suc cessors to absolve themselves from his crimes. Italian Red Leader Palmiro Togliatti, for in stance, said that his party must seek its own course in the fu ture. The Russian Communist 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. Open Letter to Airlines To the Editor: This is an Open Letter to the Airlines. Perhaps now, all of you will be convinced that the shortest possible distance between two points is a straight line, weather permitting. The attraction of fly ing, if there be one, is the fact that everybody is in a hurry going absolutely nowhere. So let's see you get them there as quickly as possible without turn ing off on side trips to view some doubtful attraction. Your business is so good that you don t even have to be nice to people. As one who has flown all over this land of ours, I can state that I have found the airlines entirely too accomodating in running all over the country to give you a view of something you are not interested in in the first place. I quit riding one airline, in volved in a tragedy only this week. I refused to take their daytime flight because of their idiotic policy of turning right and left, here and there, every time a permanent gopher hole was sighted on the tourist map. You can leave Los Angeles or Las Vegas, and you simply must fly over Hoover Dam, take a side trip up the river and come bacK. Minutes later you find yourself still within falling range of Las Vegas. A few min utes drag by while you burn wondering when you start to go east. Your attention is at tracted to the dead waste land on your left. All the tourists are looking and you know its Grand Canyon. The Stewardess said it was. Real Grand she said. Several minutes go by and you assume you must be in New Mexico by now. But no. your pilot is turning the big ship left ana banking into a sharp turn. So far as the canyon is con cerned, it is the greatest disolav of absolutely nothing ever foist ed on the people as a wonder of the world. Throw in that mot tled mess of rock they call the painted desert and you may as well be in the craters of the moon. More scenery can be ob served in plain straight flying in me pacuic nortnwest in one minute than in a year over the hot arid blistering hole they call tne great southwest. .Perhaps now, some squirrel nuntmg senators, who feel a strange kinship with the goats, might consider the airline piling up in the rocks, an intrusion on the privacy of tne burros of Arizona and introduce a bill to force airlines to fly point to point in the safest and fastest possible time. Peter Logan, Dark Hollow rd., Medford, Ore. Fire Fighting and Equipment To the Editor: I believe that the Medford Fire Department to be one of the finest and most efficient found anywhere. But, for building of fires and producing smoke I have seen much better results from my 4-year-old grandson. This theory is based on the demonstration given us at the High School Sta dium Wednesday night, and I wish to thank the Pioneers and the Medford Mail Tribune for their splendid cooperation- in producing such an event. I zm sure we all enjoyed it very much. E. M. Tucker, President Tucker Sno-Cat Corporation. iiriiiiifr(iii-''iiiTTrt party issued an exhaustive state- ment aimed at getting foreign leaders back on the party line. 3. The Middle Eastern tour of Dmitri T. Shepilov, Russia's new foreign minister, turned into a diplomatic fizzle. Shepilov angered Arab leaders by refus ing to promise them Russia's full support against Israel.. Greek leaders rejected his invitation to visit Moscow. They reaffirmed Greece's ties with the Western Allies. The Bad 1. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chief of staff of the Air Force, returned from a visit to Mos cow apparently convinced that Russia is creeping up to the United States in air power. He indicated that his visit strength ened his view that Russia ex ceeds the United States in the number of its military planes and is approaching it in quality of aircraft. Twining went to Gettysburg, Pa., to report to President Eisenhower. 2. Any hope of early success in finding a basis for fruitful dis armament negotiations seemed Babson . . . Air Babson Park, Mass. (Special To Mail Tribune) The recent hot weather suggests a column on air conditioning. Since we use it here in my office, I can speak freely regard ing it. Any reader, how ever, who is in terested should consult his local agent or plum ber. Eoger w. Babion trices ana needs vary for different sections of the country. I am convinced that mer chants, in order to hold their trade, must universally adopt air conditioning. This especially applies to downtown "Main Street" merchants who must compete with the new shopping centers. I am fully convinced that the downtown stores have a distinct opportunity; but they must modernize as to lighting and air conditioning.. They may also gradually shift over to men's "clothing, underwear, office sup plies, hardware, etc. which ap peal to men rather than to wom en. Women can go to the shop ping center any day, but men cannot. Air conditioning will help merchants hold their good clerks. It will cost shopping- center merchants more wages than the downtown merchants will be obliged to pay, if the latter give their clerks equal ad vantages as to air conditioning, parking facilities, vacations, lunches, etc. If it is too late now to install air conditioning for this summer, clerks can be promised air conditioning for next summer. The summer will go by quickly, and downtown merchants can give better vaca tions than can shopping-center merchants. Many of the new homes are now offering complete air con ditioning. It will soon be fair ly economical to buy a new heat ing arrangement which will pro vide also for air conditioning. At present, such complete install ments are rather expensive, but I am sure that the prices of these combination units will be re duced, especially in the sections which are enjoying natural gas. As a practical matter, most homes desire only one or two bedrooms, a living room, and kitchen air conditioned. (There certainly is no reason for air conditioning the bedrooms of children.) These few rooms can be air conditioned with individ ual machines attached to win dows. Almost every home will have at least one room air con ditioned. Probably the new gen eration will insist upon more. Until this past week I felt that air conditioning of automo biles was more or less of a fad. Yet I remember this same com ment was made when self-starters were first introduced. Gen eral Motors seems to be able to accomplish almost anything by sufficient advertising.. I never expected to see a parking lot look more colorful than a petunia bed! Many auto dealers are now asking about $500 for installing air conditioning. I forecast that this price will be very much reduced. Thoughts for Investors It is probably too late in this season to buy good air condition ing stocks. Investors had bet ter wait until next winter be fore doing so. If too many in vestors do not try the same trick, it might be smart, what ever the trend of the market, to buy air conditioning stocks dur ing snowstorms and sell them during the hot summer weather! Air conditioning products of fered by General Electric, West inghouse, Chrysler, Philco, and others of the big electric appli ance companies are to be recom mended. The air conditioning business of these big companies, however, is small compared with their total sales. Therefore, such companies as Admiral Corp., Borg-Warner, Carrier Corp., Fedders-Quigan. Trane Company, York, Holland Furnace, and Worthington Corp., wnicn specialize in air condition- ended by Russia's attitude at a meeting of the 12-nation United Nations Disarmament Commis sion in New York. Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko savagely attacked Western disarmament proposals. He demanded a ban on the use of atomic weapons without of fering guarantees against Rus sian violation of any agreement. He said that President Eisenhow er's plan for aerial inspection of military facilities would "do no good to anybody." 3. Turkey rejected a British proposal for a settlement of the dispute over the future of Cy prus. Britain wanted to offer Greek Cypriots self-rule, with the eventual hope of "self-determination" that is, union with Greece. Turkey refused to accept the proposal because it does not want Turkish Cypriots, who number 100,000 of the 500, 000 population of Cyprus, to go under Greek rule. Nor will Tur key agree that the island itself shall go to Greece. It points out that Cyprus is 683 miles from the Greek mainland and only 43 miles from Turkey. Conditioning ing, might be better to buy or sell at the above suggested times. In closing, let me fore cast that air conditioning will be very helpful to your local electric power company. The day will come when its peak load will be in the summer from air conditioning and gravity neu tralizes rather than from light ing as at present. Reapportionment Bill Won't Make November Ballot Salem (U.R) Failure to gath er enough signatures will keep a proposal for legislative reap portionment along federal lines off the November ballot in Ore gon. The failure left a total of seven measures on the ballot. Five of them were referred by the legislature; one of them, the three cent cigarette tax, was re ferred by the people, and the proposal to prohibit commercial fishing on all coastal streams south of the Columbia river was initiated by the people. Giles French, a Moro, Ore., publisher, leading the fight for reapportionment, explained that it required a good deal of or ganization to get the 40,093 sig natures necessary and that the idea of reapportionment was still relatively new to many Ore- gonians However, French said, he was confident the constitutional amendment eventually would be made, and that requiring more signatures to initiate amend ments was generally "a good thing for the people of Oregon." Deadline for filing completed petitions was 5 p.m. Thursday. Two other expected initiative measures also failed to material ize before the deadline. They were for establishing an office of lieutenant governor and set ting a limit on the liability of relatives to support indigent members of their families. Investments made by the 10th of the month earn divi dends as of Hie First. 27 North Holly Matter of Fact By Joa and ttewart Alsep THE EROSION OF DESPOTISM Washington Last week the National Security Council, the American Government s highest policy-making body, discussed at length and in detail the meaning of the the recent events which have shaken the Soviet em pire. Two ba sic conclusions -oiepn .visop were, reached, which can be summarized about as follows. ' First, the "cataclysm" to use Italian Communist boss Palmiro Togliatti's word in the world Communist movement is real. It is not a carefully pre-arranged fake. The Soviet leaders, Ambas sador Charles E. Bohlen has cabled the State Department from Moscow, were genuinely shocked and taken aback by the criticism of them by Togliatti and other Communist chieftains. Nikita Khrushchev and his j colleagues, according to the of ficial assessment, greatly mis calculated the effects abroad effects abroad of K h rushchev's denunciat ion of Joseph Sta lin as a mur dering tyrant. The experts' explanation of the miscalcu lation is simple but convincing. During his lifetime, Stalin himself exercised jealously ex clusive personal control, through a special section of the secret police, over all contacts with the foreign Communist parties. Thus the present Soviet "collective leadership" had virtually no con tact with, or knowledge of, the foreign Communist movements. In the circumstances, it was easy for Khrushchev and company to misjudge the reactions of the foreign Communists. It was all the easier because Khrushchev made his famous speech to a very special audi ence, the aristocracy of the So viet party. His hearers were psychologically prepared for what Khrushchev had to say, simply because they knew it to be true from their own experi ence. Stalin's brutalities came as no surprise to them. Terror and torture were part of the way of life they had always known. THE foreign Communists, by contrast, had had relatively little direct contact with the terrible realities of Soviet life under - Stalin .They were also, to a considerable extent, prison ers of their own Stalinist propa ganda. Thus the effect on them of Khrushchev's speech was quite genuinely "catacylsmic. Catacylsm need not necessar ily weaken the world Commu nist conspiracy fatally. It might even strengthen it in the end. But the American government is operating on the assumption that the cataclysm is real, not a fake. The second conclusion is that the changes within the Soviet structure of society are also real, as far as they go and by Stalinist standards they go rath er far. Charles E. Wilson testi fied on Capitol Hill the day aft er the NSC meeting. The view he expressed there, that the So viets may be "moving toward a more liberal society," accurately 1 Stewart Alsop ARE OUR SPECIALTY. Invest your money where it Is protected to $10,000 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Combine this SAFETY with a comfortable RETURN and liberal withdrawal provisions and you have an excellent investment. Open your insured savings account now . . . . for PROFIT AVAILABILITY SAFETY CURRENT DIVIDEND 3 FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford R. F. Kyle, President reflects the hopeful but tentative conclusion of the NSC. Here again, the explanation is fairly simple and fairly convinc ing. As Khrushchev made very clear in his speech, each one of the present Soviet leaders lived constantly in fear of death at the hands of Stalin's secret po lice. They are united in a com mon desire to avoid repeating the experience. When French Foreign Minis ter Christian Pineau visited Mos cow recently, Khrushchev told him, with violent earnestness, that he would rather cut off both his arms than see his country again ruled by the secret police. Within limits, he no doubt meant what he said, and the down grading of the secret police has been perfectly real. Moreover, the stick of secret police terror being largely removed, a carrot, in the form of somewhat higher living standards and a little color in their drab lives, has had to be offered to the Russian people.. The story, of course, has not yet been told. More such events as the bloody riots in Poland could reverse the whole process. could even lead to the downfall of Khrushchev. Nor are there any illusions among the policy makers that the Soviets are on the point of abandoning Commu nist doctrine. TT IS hoped, instead, that the newly emerging Soviet bu reaucratic upper class will in creasingly dominate the system; and that the first interest of the regime will be decreasingly doc trinal, and increasingly concen trated on practical internal prob lems. It is hoped, in fact, that the erosion of despotism, a process forecast some years ago by Soviet expert George Ken nan, may actually have begun within the Soviet power struc ture. This hope, it should be em-. phasized, is no more than a hope, and a very cautious one. But it is at least faintly encouraging that the highest policy-makers, basing their assessment on the best available intelligence, have concluded that the - recent changes in the Soviet empire are real, - and not carefully stage managed optical illusions. Copyright 1956. New York Herald Tribune, Inc. 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