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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
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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
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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.
Portland Longshoremen
Observe 'Black Thursday
Portland (U.R) Longshore
men in Portland yesterday ob
served the 22nd anniversary of
"Bloody Thursday" 1934 when
several persons were killed or
injured in labor disputes in Pa
cific coast port cities.
Some 1000 longshoremen pa
raded through downtown streets
before conducting a memorial
service at the harbor wall on the
Willamette river. Speakers
warned union members to be
vigilant against attacks on labor's
gains.'
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