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JO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 12, 1946
(It was Friday)
Activities at Low Echo, Girl
Scout camp, swing into the sec
ond week of regular camp sea
son Monday.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The new
1946 auto horns are now blast
ing the air. Some of them sound
like a gentleman cow in great
pain.
20 YEARS AGO
July 12, 1936
(It was Sunday)
Three common strokes, the
breast, side and crawl, will be
featured at the Medford district
CCC life savers school In Ash
land. Registration for the Red Cross
swimming and life-saving school
at the Natatorium must be com
pleted by Saturday.
30 YEARS AGO
July 12, 1926
(It was Monday)
Forty forest fires started on
state and national forest land in
Jackson county Saturday and
Sunday.
From Local and Pedsonal col
umn: H. J. Berrian, city treas
urer, is spending two weeks at
Diamond Lake and during his
absence. Miss Lulu A. Wilson,
assistant, has taken over his
duties.
40 YEARS AGO
July 12. 1916
(It was Wednesday)
The box factory and shingle
mill, put in operation last fall
in Sams Valley is in danger of
being shut down because of lack
of support from the local fruit
association and individual grow
ers. Grangers and other farmers'
clubs and organizations will hold
an all-day picnic July 22 at Cen
tral Point.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Rdltoria Research
Report
1. Personal indemnity insur
ance rates are much higher or
lower for new-car than old-car
owners, or about the same?
2. Illinois has more members
of the U.S. Senate than Nevada;
right or wrong? (
3. Number of Jews in the
world is around (a) 12, (b) 36,
(c) 72 or (d) 144 million?
4. Bobby Jones was the young
est golfer ever to win the U. S.
national amateur championship;
right or wrong?
5. More or less than half, or
about half, of all U. S. domestic
servants are Negroes?
6. Which is the only mammal
with wings enabling it to fly?
7. Sukiyaki is a Russian, Jap
anese, Armenian, Chinese, Ital
ian or Jewish dish?
The answers: 1. About the
same. 2. Wrong; each state has
two. 3. About 12 million. 4.
Wrong. 5. More than half. 6. The
bat. 7. Japanese.
DIDN'T QUOTE ODDS
Detroit (U.R) Raymond L.
Thompson, 24, pleaded guilty
Wednesday to drawing $90 in
unemployment benefits while
working. When the judge asked
how he planned to pay back the
money, Thompson said, "Just
give me a pair of dice, judge,
and I won't have any trouble."
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That "Darn-Dam Question "
It would be of great benefit to the people of Oregon and
the rest of the country if the Hells Canyon bill would come
up for a vote of the TJ. S. Senate and House. If it did, it
would more than likely settle the proposition once and for
all and take the matter out of Oregon's 1956 Senate race.
It is our frank opinion that the voters of Oregon are
not qualified to vote on the matter of which dam is the best
for the future of Oregon. We are equally frank in saying
that Congressmen are not qualified to vote on the matter
either. A vote by either group would be emotioned or politi
cal as our own would have to be under the circumstances.
Actually, there probably aren't a dozen men in the whole
country who could vote on the matter intelligently. It isn't
something which should be decided emotionally or on a mat
ter of public or private power development. It is a matter
of engineering, and even the engineers who claim to be neu
tral don't agree. It is also a matter of what is best for the
future of Oregon and Idaho. Flood control, power, reclama
tion and a half-dozen other factors are involved.
The important thing is that we get one or three dams
on the Snake river. We need the power they will produce
and the little bit of flood control benefit which will also
accrue. If it is to be a Federal dam all right let's go ahead
and build the darn thing if Congress won't go along then
the blockaders should get off the back of Idaho Power and
let them go ahead and finish the job. But let's get the darn
thing settled once and for all. Corvallis Gazette-Times
Well, three small "dams" and a double "darn"
we agree with the Gazette-Times as far as bringing up
the Hells Canyon dam bill for final passage at the
present session of Congress is concerned. By all means
let this be' done, and let the matter be settled as far as
it can be, before the campaign really gets into high.
But we can't share the G-T's confidence that final
action either for or against the measure in Congress
would keep the issue out of politics indefinitely or
even out of Oregon's 1956 Senate race completely.
Nor can we agree that the voters of Oregon are not
qualified to vote on the question of whether there
should be one federal high dam built at Hells Canyon
or three small private dams by the Idaho Power Com
pany. After all, one doesn't have to hold a degree in hy
draulic engineering to have a definite and sound opin
ion as to which procedure would be "best for the fu
ture of Oregon."
The U. S. Corps of Army Engineers have held that
the federal project would
and this view was upheld
the Federal Power, Commission, though the latter, as
everyone knows, rendered their decision in favor of
the Idaho Power Company, for other reasons.
But if, as seems fairly
Oregon IS to get the MAXIMUM power available and
the maximum collateral benefits as well, then with
such fact so authoritatively proclaimed and the pri
vate power companies providing as they have, the
other side of the picture so completely and pictur
esquely instead of less than a dozen men in the coun
try being able to vote on the matter intelligently, there
wouldn't, we believe, be more than a baker's dozen in
Oregon who couldn t.
OUR ONLY regrets is such a referendum cannot
be held. For that WOULD settle the "darn-dam
thing" once and for all, whereas there is considerable
doubt that the passage or the defeat of the Hells Can
yon bill would.
However, action by the Congress might help. And
we agree with the Gazette-Times it is worth a trial. So
let the House and Senate follow the advice of the G-T
and go to it. R. W. R.
"Never Met a
Can it be that rnoss-covered campaign slogan of
another decade, "he never had to meet a pay roll," is
to be revived again?
We can't believe it, but we have been supplied
with some slight evidence to that effect."
It seems that our former Secretary of the Interior
had, to meet a payroll before he entered public life, but
his senatorial opponent never was confronted by such
a demanding task, but only had to teach law and pre
side over the Oregon Law School !
The question is IF any which vocation pro
vided the better preliminary training for a 6-year seat
in the U. S. Senate selling cars for General Motors
and making a modest fortune, or instructing youth of
the land regarding the law of the land and making an
even more modest salary?
TIE REFUSE to take up time or space in discussing
a question as the lawyers say so "incompe
tent, irrelevant and immaterial" but the possible re
vival of the "never-met-a-payroll" cliche does interest
us, somewhat.
For when it comes down to facts how many presi
dents of this country ever had to meet a payroll?
George Washington didn't. He had slaves, and like
President Eisenhower wras a professional soldier and
commander-in-chief the payrolls were met by his
subordinates and the few rich patriots about.
Abraham Lincoln was "in trade" for a time, and
so was Harry Truman. We doubt if "Honest Abe" ever
"had a payroll to meet" outside of meagre wages for
himself and his partner. The same with "HST." Both
of them failed in business, and yet neither of them
failed as Presidents except in the Deep South for the
former and the "Old Guard GOP" for the latter.
Andrew Jackson, like "Ike," was a professional
soldier and a good one who left the payroll prob
lem to others, while he did the-fighting. Andrew John
son, who incidentally made a better chief executive
than his own generation ever realized started out as
a tailor with only one helper, so "meeting a payroll" in
the sense employed by the politicians, could never
have been realized.
Then why bring up the question?
That is what we can't figure out! R. W. R.
Contrary to ' common belief,
the average camel can't go long
er than three days without water.
Thursday. July 12, 1956
provide the greater power,
by the special examiner for
certain, the great NLED m
Payroll
There are 62 recognized college-level
institutions of learning
in Michigan.
Read and Cm Classified Adi
Dissention in Party,
Foes Spell Trouble
For Turkish Premier
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
An explosive political situa
tion is developing in Turkey.
For some months, the govern-
rrmTl ment of Pre
mier Adan
Menderes has
been enacting
legislation de
signed to crush
all opposition.
On the sur
face, it looks
as if Menderes'
position, is se-
charies McCann cure. His Dem
ocratic Party, which came into
power in 1950, has about 450 of
the 541 seats irf the single-chamber
Parliament.
But the opposition parties,
however small, show no disposi
tion to be crushed, and there is
growing dissension in the Demo
cratic Party itself. A number of
Democratic deputies have bolted
the party and now hold their
seats as independents.
Curbs Government Critics
On June 7, Menderes rammed
through the National Assembly
a law which makes practically
any criticism of the government
a penal offense.
On June 27, he rammed
through another law which for
bids public political meetings
and demonstrations except dur
ing the period of 45 days before
an election.
Next day, 10 Turkish newspa
per correspondents were barred
from the National Assembly
building on the charge that they
insulted Parliament.
On July 2, the National As
sembly stripped four members
of the opposition Republican
Party of their parliamentary im
munity. This makes them liable
to prosecution on the charge of
making insulting speeches
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Matter of Fact By
STALLED AT DEAD CENTER
Washington The American
government these days is a bit
like a messy kitchen, with the
unwashed
dishes piled
high in the
kitchen sink,
waiting for the
cook to return,
The cook, of
course, is
Dwight D. Ei
senhower. And
the dishes are
.ucub .isop a wnoie series
of basic national policy decisions
which are waiting to be made.
. To be sure, the government
doesn't look like a messy kitch
en.. During the President's cur
rent illness, as
after his heart
attack, all
seems to be go
ing rather
smoothly. Yet
this appear
ance is decep
tive. Jn the
American sys
tem, only the
President can
btewart Alsop
make the really tough decisions.
If the President is ill, or operat
ing on a part time basis, the
really tough decisions simply do
not get made.
Moreover, the President's two
serious illnesses have coincided
with basic changes in the world
situation. There have been, for
example, the upheaval within
the Soviet-Communist empire,
coupled with the rapid develop
ment of the new, adventurous,
dangerously flexible Soviet
policy. These changes are both
an opportunity and a challenge,
but partly because of the Presi
dent's illness and partly because
this is. an election year, the
American government has not
really responded to them. It has
gone on acting as though every
thing is as it was before.
TELOW the ' deceptively quiet
surface of the government, to
be sure, there has been a great
deal of painful, fog-bound grop
ing for new policies to fit the
new situation. But nothing much
has come of all this groping.
For example, one group in the
government, which includes men
like Presidential advisers Har
old Stassen and William Jack
son and chief State Department
policy planner Robert Bowie,
has generally held that the
changes in the Soviet regime are
real and meaningful; and that
every opportunity of testing Sov
iet intentions ought to be taken.
A contrary view is held by
men like Under Secretary of
State Herbert Hoover Jr., and
Secretary of Commerce Sinclair
Weeks. The first group has main
tained that this country should
take the initiative in breaking
down the Iron Curtain, that the
more contacts with the Soviets
the better, and that the gains
involved in such contact far over
balance the risks. The second
group has wished to maintain an
impregnable Iron Curtain of
American manufacture.
T ARGELY thanks to William
Jackson, the first group
scored a partial victory when
the President approved a modest
"exchange of persons" program.
But even this small policy decis-
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against the government.
Three opposition groups is
sued a statement Tuesday accus
ing the Menderes government of
heading towarci totalitarian rule.
The statement said that since
the last election, in 1954, the
government had taken a series
of unconstitutional steps to de
prive the people of free elec
tions, free organization, freedom
of expression and freedom of
opinion.
Veteran Leads Opposition
Only 65 members of Parlia
ment were sponsors of the state
ment. But the statement was signed
by a tough political fighter
Gen. Ismet Inonu, leader of the
People's Republican Party and
president of Turkey for 12 years
until the Democratic sweep of
1950.
For years, the Republican
Party was the sole political
party in Turkey. Menderes and
Bayar were members of it. They
formed the Democratic Party
in 1945. It took them but five
years to unseat Inonu.
An unstable economic situa
tion has been weakening Men
deres for a long time.
Dissension in the Democratic
Party broke into the open last
October, when nine rebellious
Democratic deputies were
thrown out of the party and 10
more resigned from it.
Foreign Minister Fuad Kop
rulu resigned his post on June
19 in a party dispute.
The opposition members led
by Inonu have boycotted meet
ings of the National Assembly
since June 27, the day the Men
deres bill curbing political acti
vities was passed.
No national elections are due
in Turkey until May, 1958. But
it looks as if there may be explo
sive developments before then
Joa and Stewart Alsop
ion took weeks of negotiation
and feather-smoothing. And the
basic issue just haw far to go
to test Soviet intentions re
mains undecided.
Again, some of the younger
policy-makers have favored an
aggressive policy for exploiting
the new strains and stresses in
the Soviet camp, resulting from
the deStalinization policy. For
example, after the Poznan riots,
a serious proposal was made for
a sort of Monroe Doctrine for
the satellites, in effect warning
the Kremlin against using the
Red army to maintain its satel
lite empire. But this was reject
ed as too risky, and the policy
now is to let the dust settle as
far as the satellites are con
cerned. Again, take the foreign eco
nomic and military aid program
which is a chief buttress of
American foreign policy. The re
volt in Congress has alerted the
Administration to the fact that
it is not good enough just to go
on offering the same old pro
gram year after year. But even
before the Congressional revolt,
there was much worried talking
in the Administration about the
need for a "bold new approach"
to meet the new Soviet chal
lenge in the foreign aid field. .
A SPEECH for delivery by the
President, modelled on for
mer Secretary of State George
Marshall's famous Harvard
speech which initiated the Mar
shall Plan, was drafted by a
group headed by former Presi
dential aid C. D. Jackson,' and
submitted to the White House.
But, partly because no one had
decided just what the bold new
approach was to be, and partly
because of the President's ill
ness, the whole idea came to
nothing.
Add the bitter, still unsettled
defense debate, the drift in Asia,
the policy vacuum in the Middle
East, the failure to breathe life
back into NATO.
You then get an impression of
the American government
stalled at dead center, displaying
a somnambulistic tendency sim
ply to go on doing what has been
done before. There is only one
man who can get the govern
ment off dead center, which is
another reason for hoping that
the news from Gettysburg con
tinues cheering.
Copyright 1956, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.
Gov. Smith's Record
Target of Holmes
Klamath Falls U.R) The
record of Gov.. Elmo Smith was
the target of State Sen. Robert
D. Holmes, Democratic candi
date for governor, in a dinner
meeting speech Tuesday night
before the Democratic, club of
Klamath Falls.
Holmes described state gov
ernment in Oregon as stricUy a
"family affair" with continuing
memberships on boards and
commissions making one think
of a "peerage gone stale and
feeble because of too much inter
marriage of close relatives."
The Democratic candidate
said it could never be anything
else until Oregon takes advan
tage of the two-party system.
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Likes Humane Society
To the Editor: I am astounded
to learn that the Humane Soci
ety is not included in the United
Medford Crusade. Why such a
worthy organization is refused
its share I cannot understand.
but I do know that from now
on my donations will be given
only to those whom I choose, and
should Medford continue to have
a Humane Society it will be
first on my list, and I will at
least know where my money is
going, and for what it is used.
I know many other people feel
the same way.
Such- a worth while project
should not be allowed to dis
solve. It is much more import
ant than the dog-pound, in a
place where dogs are allowed to
roam at will-defacing and pol
luting property.
Why not do away with the
pound and donate the fees from
dog licenses to the Humane So
ciety then see to it that every
dog is licensed? (There are many
that aren't.) This town is fairly
crawling with dogs, and if this
was done I am sure quite a
sum of money would be col
lected, and if this was turned
over to the Society it would cer
tainly be going to a worthy
cause.
Mrs. J. B. Banner,
920 Newtown St.,
Medford, Ore.
Vaccine Drive Appreciated
To the Editor: As a mother of
three youngsters, I should like
to express my admiration and
gratitude to the Jackson county
chapter of the Polio Foundation
for its continued efforts to give
protection to all youngsters
against polio.
I am sure that through such
public service many parents are
looking forward to their first
summer without the dispiriting
fear of polio. They must hope
as I do that all parents will heed
the current pleas of the ' foun
dation and medical profession
that all youngsters have the ben
efit of the inoculations before
the polio season hits its peak in
southern Oregon.
Mrs. Evelyn- Ousterhout,
Route 1, Eagle Point.
Editorial Comment
MODERN TRAIN
While this is summertime and
the peak season for travel, there
are indications that the new tri
weekly passenger service on the
Northwestern Pacific, operating
between San Rafael and Eureka,
Calif., is doing much better busi
ness than . the railroad antici
pated.
According to the Humboldt
Standard, the service was started
with one - modern, lightweight
passenger car, but sometimes
two and three cars, each seating
48 passengers, are needed to
handle the passenger traffic. The
newspaper quotes Harold Ma-
han, district railroad freight and
passenger agent, as its source.
Before the tri-weekly daytime
service was ordered by the Cal
ifornia railroad commission, the
Northwestern Pacific, a wholly
owned subsidiary of the South
ern Passenger, operated a slow
overnight train between Eureka
and San Rafael, using old type
standard equipment.
The railroad claimed large op
erating losses, about the same
amount it claimed for its Siski
you line, but the California com
missioner, told the railroad to
get about discontinuance of the
train and to replace it with an
every-other-day schedule and to
put on some better equipment.
Bowing to the commission's
edict, the Northwestern Pacific
started the new schedule and is
surprised at the patronage its
new service is receiving.
We strongly suspect that if the
Southern Pacific could be in
duced to operate a daytime
schedule on the Siskiyou line it,
too, would enjoy a pleasing re
sponse to such an operation.
Asmand Tidings. -
Danf Buys States
Steamship Company
San Francisco fU.Rl J. R.
Dant prominent West Coast ship
ping executive has announced
the purchase of the States Steam
ship Co. and the Pacific Trans
port Lines, Inc., from Blyth and
Company.
The purchase also involves the
Pacific Atlantic Steamship Co.
and the Portland Stevedoring Co.
The transaction was a con-
tuation of the $100,000,000 deal
announced Tuesday wherein
Blyth acquired Dant and Rus
sell Inc., and Coos Bay Lumber
Co. JJant and Russell owned
about 45 per cent of Coos Bay
stock.
J. R. Dant headed the ship
ping interests of Dant and Rus
sell, which formerly owned the
four firms Dant acquired Wed
nesday. Dant is the son of -the late
Charles E. Dant, founder of the
States Steamship Co. in 1919.
Today and
By Waiter
CANDIDATE AND LEADER J
To judge by what is happen
ing in Congress to the Presi
dent's legislative program, he is
the unanimous
candidate of a
party that will
not follow him
as a leader. A
heavy majori
ty of the Re
publicans, act
ing contrary to
the President's
advice, voted
Walter Uppmann for the Powell
amendment which made it im
possible to pass the bill to give
Federal aid to the public schools.
But for the Republican defec
tors, the Democrats could not
have gotten Congress to over
rule the Administration on the
size of the military appropria
tion, and in effect to pass a vote
of no confidence in the Presi
dent's military judgment. The
President's very modest propos
als to liberalize international
trade are stalled because of Re
publican opposition. The foreign
aid bill, the keystone of Admin
istration foreign policy, is given
what "Life" magazine describes
as a furious kicking around."
None of this could have happen
ed if the President had a rea
sonably united support from his
own party.
Yet he has such overwhelm
ing support for his running
again that he will probably be
renominated by accla m at i o n.
The same Republicans who op
pose his policies and his meas
ures are a chorus crying out
that the future of this country,
the future of the world, depend
upon his being a candidate. What
are we to make of this contrast
between his candidacy and his
leadership? The obvious explan
ation is the cynical one, that the
dissenting Republicans do not
believe in Eisenhower's policies
but that they need him to win
the election for them.
rPHE relations between the
President and his party in
Congress are remarkable. His
enormous popularity and pres
tige have made him, as he was
far from being in 1952, the un
disputed choice of the party for
President. Yet he is as little able
today as when he took office
to unite and lead his party in
support of his policies.
The issues on which the party
will not unite behind him are
not small issues. They are cru
cial and major issues of foreign
policy, defense, education. What
takes some explaining is how,
though he and they are divided
in Congress, they can be united
for the Presidential election.
This is possible because in
Gen. Eisenhower's conception of
the American government, the
President is not the leader of
the system who makes it work,
but the officer who presides over
the Executive branch. He ex
horts, he preaches, he proposes
measures, he pleads for them.
But he does not lead the Con
gress. In his book there are no
rewards for men, like Senator
Wiley, who take .risks in order
to follow him; there are no
penalites for those who, like
Senator Knowland, so often op
pose him. Yet in order to lead
a party it is necessary not only
to talk but also to use a disci
pline of rewards and penalties.
It is Gen. Eisenhower's un
willingness to insist upon party
discipline, his virtual neutrality
between those who oppose him
and those who support him, that
account for his inability to lead
Congress. His personal popular
ity, which is his party's prime
asset, is freely available to all
Republicans without any re
ciprocal obligation on their
part. So the Republicans op
posed to Eisenhower want him
tor President, being under no
Obligation to follow him.
npHE American political system
has never worked well when
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the President is passive and
unable to give a strong lead to
Congress. For the American
Congress is like other legisla
tive bodies as, for example, the
French National Assembly. It is
almost incapable of dealing suc
cessfully with big questions ex
cept under the leadership, which
includes the discipline, of the
Executive. On measures where
the national interest is more
than the net sum of opposing
local interests, the Executive,
that is the President, must be
the active political force.
He cannot drop the big meas
ures into the legislative assem
bly, making an occasional pub
lic comment and doing seme
private lobbying, but on . the
whole standing aside in an atti
tude of respectful neutrality.
For the big measures are almost
certain to be ground to bits by
Congressmen responding to local J
pressures from their constitu
ents. These measures can be
saved and carried through the
Legislature only if the repre
sentatives can feel behind them,
and can point to, a national
pressure which is stronger than
the local pressures. Except when '
there is an upheaval of popular
sentiment, only the President
can generate the national pre-xt
sure.
rPHE Kelley bill to give Fed--
eral aid to the public schools
is a case in point. The national
interest, as the President right
ly saw it, called for the passage
of this bill. It was known to all
that there was no chance of
passing it through the Senate
as against a Southern fillibuster.
if the bill contained the Powell
amendment denying Federal
funds to states resisting integra
tion. But a heavy majority' of
the Republicans in the House,
joined by a third of the Demo
crats from the North, nevertht
less voted to insert the Powell
amendment.
Thus Federal aid to education
was sacrificed by some 148 Re
publicans and some 77 Demo
crats who believed they were
appealing to the Negro voters
in their local constituencies. The
President alone could have forc
ed Congress to face the grave
national need in this crisis of the
American public school system.
With the President absent, or
passive and silent, the national
interest could not prevail.
Copyright 1956,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.
Klamath Legislator
Named in Damage Suit
Klamath Falls U.R S t a t e
Representative Henry Semon of
Klamath Falls has been named
defendant in a $100',000 damage
suit, as a result of an automo
bile accident in 1954. The plain
tiff is Mildred Huffman of The
Dalles.
She charges Semon with negli
gent driving. The accident occur
red Oct. 23, 1954, on state High
way 39 about one mile north of
Merrill, Ore. In addition to $100,-
000 general damages, she asks
$1,162 medical .costs.
Eastern Oregon
Slide Stalls McKay
Fossil (U.R) Douglas McKay,
Republican candidate for U.S.
senator, was stalled in his car
in a landslide near Mt. Vernon
yesterday while en route from
John Day to Condon on his east
ern Oregon campaign tour. His
car had to be pushed out of the
slide area.
McKay was forced to detour
through Long Creek and Monu
ment, using logging roads fe
places, to reach a usable section
of the John Day highway.
Harold Snodgrass
Director