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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Every to3 lh aouUiern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-23 North Fir St Phone 2-8:41 ROEERT W RUHL. Editor HT.RB GREY Advertising Manager GfcRAl-U LATHAM Business Manager EKIC ALJ-tN JR. ManagmK Kcitor EARL H ADAMS Cltv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JKWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medlord Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ey Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6 50 Dallv and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Sunday Only One year 83.50 By Carrier In Advance Medtord. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Or::clal Paper of Jackson County United-Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative. WEST-HOLLIDA Y COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver BC NATIONAL EDITORIAL I assocJatlon i r7 u ijii.MiHririua NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Historv from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 0 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July IB, 1946 (It was Tuesday) Jack Frost gives five-minute talk on "Why Men Fail" at meet ing of Medford Toastmasters. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: It is now predicted it will be hot enough by the end of the week for the fashionable members of the fair sex to wear their summer furs. 20 YEARS AGO July IS. 193S (It was Thursday) Planning commission's final report on zoning filed with the council. The soil conservation bonus, when effective, will bring to Jackson county farmers between $35,000 and $40,000, according to County Agent Robert Fowler. 30 YEARS AGO July 16, 1926 (It was Friday) For the first six months of 1926 Medford ranks fifth in the building programs of the state with 192 permits, valued at $513,002. Deputy Sheriff Lewis Jennings and Jailer Ike Dunford leave for Marysville, Calif. 40 YEARS AGO July 16, 1916 (It was Sunday) Professor F. C. Reimer, sup erintendent of experiment sta tion, and C. C. Cate, county pathologist, to give demonstra tion on pear blight in Talent. The Rogue Elk Resort, owned by McDonald brothers, to be formerly opened Saturday night. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. The U.S. ended its fiscal year 1955-56 with a big or small deficit, big or small surplus, or just about breaking even? 2. Dissension is widely report ed in the royal family of Den mark, Sweden, Norway, Great Britian or The Netherlands? 3. Who was Vice President in F. D. Roosevelt's second term? 4. Burnoses are used in the Orient to protect from the sun, kill weeds, spread information, kill snakes, or lassos cattle? 5. About one-third, one-half or two-thirds of all federal em ployees are war veterans? 6. Mohair comes from rabbits, lambs, goats, llamas or sheep? 7. Republican national chair man is President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, Senator Knowland, former Speaker J. W. Martin or former Rep. Leonard W. Hall? The answers: 1. With small surplus. 2. The Netherlands. 3. John N. Garner. 4 Protect the head from the sun. 5. About half. 6. Goats. 7. Hall Southern Pacific Names New Pacific Coast Head San Francisco (U.R) The Southern Pacific Railroad today named Robert A. Miller as head of its Coast Division to replace James J. Jordan, who retires on July 31. Virgil E. Anderson, superin tendent of the Salt Lake division will replace Miller in his pres ent capacity as head of the High Sierra line. Anderson will be re placed by Milton A. Mclntyre, sssistant superintendent of the Los Angeles division. MAIL TRIBUNE Now The state highway commission last Friday re jected a proposal to take over Prescott park on Roxy Ann butte as part of the system of state parks. This action is disappointing and we think short sighted. Considerable development (estimated at more than 100,000 if it were to be brought up to the stand ards the state parks department has set itself) is nec essary. It is not immediately adjacent to a state high way, and the state parks are run by the highway com mission. The more than 1,700 acres in the park are more than the parks department wants or needs for any except a few of its major units. IN rejecting the proposal, however, the highway com- mission turned down the opportunity to take over a big, beautiful and unique mountaintcp area, suited to little else but recreational purposes. (The property originally was owned by the bureau of land manage ment, and the deed specifies that it can be used only for recreation.) Lying, as it does, outside the city of Medford, which now owns it, the area presents a problem, both in financing and in upkeep, to the city. As a result it has never been developed to its full potential or even to a major fraction of its potential. We are now back where we started from. What are we going to do with Prescott park which was used by 1,950 cars (probably 5,800 or more people) over a three-week period? THE city obviously can't do the job that needs to be done, unless the people approve a tax levy for that purpose,. and since the park is used by anyone who wants to, this hardly seems like a feasible idea, j The state has turned it down, j There is no federal agency which logically could take it over. Private groups do not have the resources or facil ities for maintaining and developing such a project. Nobody wants the responsibility, yet virtually everyone who has been there agrees that it should, as a major asset, be preserved and cared for. What's the answer? IT MAY lie in a section of Oregon law (paragraph 1 11 of ORS 203.120) which says, in listing the author ity and powers pertaining to county commissioners to transact county business, quote : To provide, establish, maintain and regulate the use of public parks and recreational areas within the county out side the boundary of any incorporated city . . . This is a power which the Jackson county court has not, to our knowledge, exercised. DUT the court is receptive to the wishes of the people. If it were made known that the people wish it to accept this responsibility, we believe it would do so. It might be well to remember, in this case as in so many others involving tasks of local government, that Jackson county has nearly 65,000 people now, with more coming every day; that its third-greatest source of income is in the tourist trade; and that both resi dents and tourists are more recreation-minded now than they have ever been in the past. Unless something is done, Prescott park, a beauti ful sightly spot in a beautiful county, with unmatched views in all directions, will continue to be a haven for poison oak, an occasional cow illegally grazing there, and the few thousands of visitors who go there, development or no an eyesore and a disappoint ment. E.A. Humane Problems Through the generosity of one individual, the Southern Oregon Humane society has been given a new lease on life. The basic problem, however, has not been solved. That problem is, what is to be done, on a permanent basis, about the three functions of the society which are not otherwise readily available? These functions are (1) the disposal of animals, which, for whatever reason, are unwanted and which would be better off dead than dragging out a miser able existance, (2) the enforcement of those humani tarian laws which punish cruelty to animals, and (3) the placement of homeless pets in homes where they will be welcomed and appreciated. THE other functions, such as the boarding of pets and so on, can be and are provided by privately op erated kennels and animal hospitals. It is possible to have an animal painlessly put away through some of the same sources. But, as businesses operated for a profit, these cannot be expected to perform the same service free for homeless or unwanted animals. And the police agencies, while charged with the enforcement of all laws, lack the time, the experience and the background to become effective as humane officers. UE would like to suggest to the county court that " it appoint a committee, including residents of both towns and the country areas, to make a study of the problem and to discuss it with officers and trustees of the Humane society and with interested individ uals, and ask that committee to come up with recom mendations. Governmental contributions to the Humane soc iety have dropped and dropped over the years until now they amount to nothing at all. Yet this problem is a real if relatively minor one, and certainly seems to fall within the assessment of government which declares government should do for the people that which they cannot do, or do as well, for themselves. E.A. Monday, July 18, 1956 What? Future Headlines Predicted; Admission of Red China Eyed United Press correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Package Deal European diplomatic sources say that a 'long-range package deal is in the works to admit Communist China to the United Nations. The West's price would be the coincident admission of West Germany. Red China's ad mission would be a bitter pill for the United States to swallow. But strange things happen in diplomacy. Further, the admis sion of West Germany would be a bitter pill for the Kremlin. It would mean practically scuttling the East German Communist regime. Red Chinese pressure would force Russia to go along. Whatever happens, it won't be until after the American elec tion in November. Qualitative Creep-Up Some experts are saying that Western air force officials who Matter of IKE AND THE PRESIDENTIAL GLOW Gettysburg When Presi dent Eisenhower stepped out of his car here the other day, the small crowd ""w1 19 of reporters j A..---.. 4 and other on S'Jyr!. 1 lookers cran CS& 1 l eo" forward iW m with eager, , , rfEt f somewhat what morbid curiosity. For it was the first time the President had been i.---1 ... h ftni ir Stewart Alstip seen, except by intimates, since he left the hospital, and every one was anxious to see how he looked. As one might have expected he looked like what he is a vigorous man in his sixties, who has had two serious illnesses in nine months, and who has not yet recovered from the second, The President, in other words, looks very well, considering. But a heart attack and a major abdominal operation are some thing to consider, and the Pres ident certainly does not look quite as spry and youthful as his more enthusiastic support ers like to imagine. AND YET there is a sort of glow about him, an indefin able effulgence. It is not simply the Eisenhower glow, which he has always had. It is the Presi dential glow, which he has on ly rather recently acquired a physical, communicable sense of immense power concentrated in one man, so that he seems, somehow, larger than life. All Presidents get the presi dential glow sooner or later. Franklin D. Roosevelt emitted a positively startling effulgence. and even that humble man, Har ry fa. Truman, acquired a glow of authority in his second term At any rate, President Eisen hower's presidential glow has a certain significance. The Democrats' favorite ver sion of the President's twice re peated decision to run despite serious illness is simple and sin ister. The President, so the line goes, has been the victim of a 'snow job." He is an amiable but aging and ailing man, trap ped into running against his will by ruthless politicians and big businessmen, determined to use him for their own purposes. Is there any truth in this version of events? THERE ARE always shades of truth anrl i,ntn,tl, u matters. But the shrewdest ob servers are coming to believe that the President, himself, far from being the victim of a snow job, wants very much in deed to be President for four more years. A couple of years ago, such a prospect would have seemed to him like a prison sentence. The fact that the President thor oughly disliked his job, at least during the first two years of his Presidency, is amply document ed, for example in Robert Don ovan's sympathetic but reveal ing book. ' But in the last year, and es pecially, oddly enough, since his heart attack, there has been plenty of evidence that the Pres ident has come to enjoy his job thoroughly. The outpouring of affection which reached him from all over the country after his heart attack unquestionably moved him deeply. But there is certainly another reason for the President's new found pleasure in the Presidency. The main reason for his for mer distate for the Presidency was a sense .of unsureness in matters of domestic politics. In the 1952 campaign and for a long time thereafter, the Presi dent tended to defer humbly to the judgment of professional politicians and as a result, for example when he omitted Gen. George Marshall's name from his Wisconsin speech, he made some of his worst mistakes. WITHIN the last year especial- ly, the President has dis covered that he is a better poli tician than a whole passel of visited the recent Russian air show were much more impressed than they have admitted public ly. Type for type, one expert said. Russian planes "now stand in the same general class as those in service in the United States and British air forces." That implies that the Russians aren't merely creeping up quali tatively on the West they al ready have crept up. Atomic Clam-Up Don't be surprised if a ruckus breaks out over the Atomic En ergy Commission's policy of sec recy. The AEC let a handful of newsmen witness this season's first two nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific. Then it clammed up, leaving it to the-Japanese to announce all subsequent shots. This gravels a number of con gressmen. They say it's silly. Thomas E. Murray, lone Demo cratic member of the commis sion, shares this view. So far Japan has announced a total of eight test explosions. Washing- Fact by stewan aiSoP professionals. This year's Ad ministration program has been a political masterpiece. The current session of Congress has taken the real sting out of ev ery major Democratic issue. The farm and gas bill vetoes were, moreover, politically brilliant: And although the details of the recent political conduct of the Administration may have been authored by subordinates, the general strategy was certainly dictated by the President him self. Mastery of politics is essen tial to mastery of the Presiden cy. Only since he acquired this mastery has the President emit ted the true Presidential glow, which derives from an inner sense of great personal author ity. At any rate, the Presiden tial glow may in part explain the obvious paradox why the President, who frankly consid ered the White House an ele gant jail when he was perfectly well, is now, .after two serious illnesses, eager and determined to spend four more years there. Copyright 1956 Nsw York Herald Tribune Inc. 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 riRht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. What's 12 a.m.? To the Editor: Just a note in regard to E.A. and his confusion of time, then the editorial from the "'Eugene Register-Guard." I also am a bit puzzled. The sign on the front door of the "green front grocery," the OLCC in Medford, states the openipg time as 12 a.m. Maybe E. A. could tell me when is 12 a.m.? J. A. Wilcoxen P.O. Box 292 Applegate, Ore. Editor's note: E.A. is baffled, too. About Teak To the Editor: The tree-fuchsia furniture item stimulated considerable correspond ence. (Even Auckland and Christchurch are not too distant in these airmail days). Hence writer ventures a word about teak. This not only is a hard wood, but as a reminder that it also takes two to make a dis armament as it does a quarrel. There is just no substitute for teak. Kipling knew it when he wrote "Mandalay". And there is no substitute (Caterpillar or tractor), for the elephant in swampy teak jungle. Our Sac ramento home is lined in golden teak. We had come to adore it in Burma, Java, Ceylon. We were at Geneva for the disarmament conference after World War I. U.S.A. then set the noble example of stopping battleship-building. This point today's Soviets might consider. It really does take two to hon- testly disarm. When our gov ernment stopped an en route teak shipment, (the only wood for battleship turrets that does not splinter), we bought the logs. Hence our teak home. The real point of above story is the Child's Museum. Our worldwide studies of hardwoods, English oak, Manchurian black walnut, Spice Islands' sandal wood, Caribbean mahogany, Brazilian rosewood began in writer's boyhood's Home Mu seum. A German-born cabinet maker, over the months, donat ed "specimens" of furniture wood from all over the world. These he cannily spaced as to time. And each new block came after a yarn about hardwood timbering in Venezuela, or the Congo, or Siam. No one has to drive a kiddie to THAT kind of education. The "Museum" mflv hp inex pensively of shelves nailed cross-! wise in a couple of orange boxes. ; What is learned thus at 8 re-1 mains vivid at 80. C. M. Goethe j Seventh and J sts., j Sacramento 14, Calif. say that's about Enlistment Lag West German Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer may have to ap ply his new conscription law sooner than he expected. It is due for final passage this week. Things looked rosy until recent ly the Defense Ministry had 160,000 volunteer applications on file. Now, it develops, many men had applied more than once. Many more have been re jected on physical or other grounds. The Defense Ministry has started a quiet recruiting campaign among university stu dents. Pull-Out In this connection, London re ports that Britain is quietly plan ning a pull-out of many of its troops from West Germany. Brit ain is committeed to keep four divisions and a tactical air force there. But it's expensive. And the government is bitter over West Germany's refusal to pay more than half the cost of main taining the troops. Veteran Premier French political experts be lieve Premier Guy Mollet will be able to continue his tight rope act as head of a minority coalition government at least until mid-October. Mollet is ex pected to get his emergency tax bill through Parliament next week, then adjourn the session. When Parliament meets again in October, Mollet will have been in office nearly nine months. That will make him a veteran. The post-war average for French premiers is about seven months. Turkish Protests Bring New Element To Cyprus Situiaion By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The tangled Cyprus situation has entered a new phase. Britain has been unable to find a basis for renewed negoti 13 ations with the Greek Cypri o t s who de mand that the island be given to Greece. Turkey has rejected a Brit ish proposal to give the island ers the even- Chanes Mctann luai rignl OI self-determination. Turkey ob jected because 100,000 of the island's people are of Turkish origin. It does not want the Turks to come under the rule of the 400,000 Greek Cypriots, or of Greece. New Constitution Now Prime Minister Anthony Eden has decided to get things started by drafting a constitu tion which would give the island ers internal self - government. The rights of Turkish islanders would be safeguarded. The new constitution would go into effect only when vio lence by Greek Cypriots ended The larger question of self- determination would be left open. Eden evidently decided that he had to come up with some thing to get things going. His Cyprus policy is under at tack by Greece, by the opposi tion Labor party in Parliament and now by Turkey. Violence in Cyprus continues, though Field Marshal Sir John Harding, governor and com mander in chief believes he has the extremists on the run. School District Gets Tentative Entitlement Jackson county school district 4, Phoenix High school, has been awarded a tentative entitlement of S2.280.35 by the office of education of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare under public law 874, according to Sen. Richard L. Neuberger. The district was certified for immediate payment of $2,052. A treasury check for that amount has been sent to the district. The funds are distributed to school districts under the pro gram to provide financial assist ance for schools in federally af fected areas. Billy Rose and Wife Will Visit in Moscow Berlin (U.R) Showman Billy Rose and his wife left Ber lin today by air for Moscow on invitation of the Soviet Culture ministry. Rose said he would stay about i one week in Moscow, go on to Leningrad and then visit East bloc nations. Wool production in North Dakota in 1955 was estimated at 4,508,000 pounds. FOR RENT or SALE Adding Machines Calculators NEW - USED George Wilson - Ph. 2-7862 ton insiders right. Congressmen's Voting On School Bill Said Minor Election Factor Washington (CQ) Will Re publicans reap a crop of Negro votes as a reward for voting 3 to-1 in favor of the Powell anti segregation rider to the school aid bill? The answer will be forthcom ing Nov. 6. Meanwhile, however, a Congressional Quarterly study suggests that few Representa tives of either party may expect to win or lose their own elec tions because of their votes on the Powell amendment. But in these few instances, the issue may be decisive. The subsequent defeat of the school aid bill may, of course, overshadow in political signifi cance the vote on the Powell amendment. Democrats, a major ity of whom voted against the Powell amendment but for the amended bill, point out that the Republican majority, after help ing to write the amendment into the bill, then voted to kill the bill. For their part, Republicans blame Democrats for voting al most unanimously against a move to substitute the adminis tration's version of the school bill for the ill-fated Democratic sponsored measure. Powell Amendment Issue However the voters choose to assess the blame in November, the roll call on the Powell amendment is certain to furnish effective campaign ammunition in some of the close Congression al races. This may be especially true in those districts where the percentage of Negroes in the population exceeds the Repre sentative's margin of victory in the 1954 election, giving to the Negroes in those districts at least a theoretical balance of power. 1 All told, there are 61 such Congressional districts outside the South. In 1954, 32 of these elected Democrats to the House and 19 chose Republicans. Of the 32 Democrats, 19 voted for the Powell amendment to bar federal school aid to states with segregated schools, while 12 vot ed against it. All 31, however, voted for the final bill. The 32nd Democrat. Rep. William T. Gran ahan, of Philadelphia, died May 25. Of these dozen Democrats who voted against the Powell amend ment, eight who received less than 55 per cent of the vote in 'No Slush Fund,' McKay Declares Portland (U.R) Douglas iuc.is.ay, Kepublican nominee for U. S. Senator, says "The Demo crats have been making a lot of noise lately about a 'slush fund we don't have." He told the Republican state central committee here Saturday that the Democrats were wrong in contending that his campaign to unseat Sen. Wayne Morse (D- Ore.) in the November election had an unlimited fund. The committee treasurer, E Stanley Goodall, said "As of Monday, the exchequer will be without funds." McKay said: "Apparently the Democrats think a campaign can be won with money. "They want it to appear that we have vast re sources and they are operating on a shoestring. The fact is that we cannot match the money they are throwing into this campaign nor would we want to if we could." McKay and other leaders called for a stronger party or ganization, particularly on the precinct level, and predicted that the outcome of the campaign would rest upon how well the GOP is organized and united in the state. Wendell Wyatt, of Astoria, was reelected as committee chairman. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 1954 will be open to serious challenge by Republican oppon ents who choose to capitalize on the segregation issue. All of these Democrats probably re ceived a large majority of the Negro votes cast in their dis tricts, and could be defeated if these voters shifted to the Re publican column ir. November. Could Improve Chances Of the 29 ReDublieans frnm Negro "balance -of-power" dis tricts 23 voted for the Powell amendment, although nine sub sequently voted against the school aid bill. Only two of the 23 received more than 55 per cent of the 1954 vote. Since a majority of Negroes presumably voted against these Representa tives in 1954, any switches in duced by the Powell roll call ' would improve the incumbents' chances of being re-elected in November. But the nine GOP members who voted later to kill the entire bill may be challenged by thei Democratic opponents on the sincerity of their anti-segregation stand. Only five of the 29 Republi cans voted against the Powell amendment. On balance, then, the possibil ity that a vote against the Pow ell amendment could lead to de feat in November affect only a dozen Democrats. But gains reg istered by Republicans among Negro voters might be just enough to assure the reelection of several GOP members whose .seats are shaky. (Copyright 1956. 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