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Consumers report there is some mistake, as it chews like Orana- : paw Eull. j i 20 YEARS AGO Jul- 23. 1936 ! lit was Thursday) The Medford sewer turned in- j to the new disposal plant at 9 j a.m. this morning. Thi, morning a Pennsylvania t.,lii:.i !"ained from Jack.-un Countv Chamber of Commerce m.iiiiif;er. A. 11. Banwell. there were no Crater Lake pennants. 30 YEARS AGO July 23. 1926 m was Friday) The president's co-ordinating committee. ct.nisting of forest service and national parks of. ficiaN. will visit Crater Lake Na- t:on;-l pit'k district next month. a i,i,. rmwrl of Medford peo ple welcomed home W. H. Gore, of MeiU'ord. in '..ratitudo for his successful work on the Santidd bill. 40 YEARS AGO July 23. 191S : It was Sunday) j Fatty Arbuckle will contest ; feature lienors at the rage thea-j ter with the Triangle-Ince play, j -Waits." i From Local and Personal col umn: J. C. Mann and Dr. R. W. Clancy are spending a ten days' j outing at Ortoi-n caves. Whai's lha Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? t or n.iS itnrlnl Rfsfarch 1. About 10 p-T cent, one-third one-half or two-thirds of all air plane trips within the U.S. in 19.V) were in "tourist" class? 2. The Sherman act is u.-cd against the drug traffic, white siaver. monopolies, kidnaping, spying for Russia, or taking stol en cars across stale boundaries'.' 3 Rabe Ruth, baseball immor tal, batted left-handed, right handed, or eitiier way? 4. European cars account for about (a) 1. (bi 4. (c 7 or (d) 10 per cent of all car sales in the U.S.? o. Has any amendment to the U.S. Constitution ever been re pealed? ti Prices on the average arc a little higher or lower in the new Sears Roebuck catalogue than in the old one. or the same? 7. The itive of what large Europe. .n city are called Glas wegians" Th? answers: 1. About one lhird. 2. Mcnopolies. 3. Left handed 4. About 1 per cent. 5. Yes, the ISth. on Prohibition. 6. A little higher on the average. 7. Glasglo'-v. Scotland. WHO CAN SLEEP? HoIUwood U.R The manager of a theater here flash es a ''pleasant dreams" sign on the screen after his patrons view a late showing of the horror film -Godzilla." An average person handles be- ; tween 20 and HO buttons each day in putting on or taking off : clothing. ' MAIL TRIBUNE "Sam" R. H. BaMoek ( whose nickname we don't know v.hv is 'Sam"' i will resign soon as Oregon's high way engineer and head a highway advisory mission to Iraq. burin;: the more than 40 years he has been with the .-talc- highway department, Sam Baldock has sel dom h en free of controversy, for the building of high ways, the arteries of Oregon's economy, is by its very nature a controversial thing. Despite his battles with one segment of the pop ulation o!- another, despite criticisms of his methods and manv of his decisions, despite the fact that he has been called a "little dictator" despite these and other allegations, he has calmly gone ahead and built for himeslf a reputation as one of the outstand ing highway engineers in the nation. T the a're of 67, Sam A manv years of difficult vice. And we susoect be is looKing ioruaru io una new phase of his'career with the same quiet deter mination to do his best that has marked his service to the people of Oregon. His critics can yap all they like, but they cannot show that Sam Baldock has done anything other than what he believed was right. He is a man of integ rity, and has devoted his life to the cause of bettei roads and highways for Oregon. We wish him many more years of service in his exacting profession. E.A. Apt Question Wo hnvp nn occasion, about billboards and the way they impress us some what less than the green and brown hills and valleys of southern Oregon. But we're not wholly doctrinaire about this thing, and are willing to concede a good thing when we see ; it. We saw it the other day, as we drove down the highway from the Siskiyou summit. As we hit the first long straight stretch, about half the vehicles in the line ! we were in went booming out, spewing gas and oil ! smoke and roaring their engines, to pass the other bait. FF at the side, a big billboard asked, most aptly, rJrmPctlv 'nw What's Your Hurrv?" The trouble was that only the slower-moving driv ers, who didn't need to, could read it. The others were too intent on getting around the guy in front. E. A. Licenses Mention was made here the other day of the new California auto license plates, with the three big let ters preceding the numbers, and the potentialities for either humor" or obscenity which go with the three letter combinations. We have since learned that the California author ities put a lot of work and thought into the selections of the letters, and screened them carefully. There are many possible combinations. They drop ped I and O, because of possible confusion with the figures one and zero, and Q, because it looked like 0. But the 23 letters left provided 12,167 possible com binations. . UACH LETTER combination can be used with a three-digit number combination (from 000 to 999), thus multiplying the combination by 1,000, to a potential of 12,167,000, or more than enough to go around even in California. It was in eliminating some of the possible letter combinations that they ran into aimcuiu. come oi the three-letter groupings are obscene, or offensive to special groups, even in English. There are also many foreign language speaking people in California, so the list of letter groups was submitted to the language de partment at the University of California, where it iwas scanned by professors ot English, Spanisn, I French. Italian, German, Chinese, Japanese and Rus 1 sian. Thirty-five combinations were eliminated. POLICE AGENCIES think they are going to like the numbers. It has been found that people are apt to remember a three-letter combination more readily than numbers, and since there are only 999 other cars with anv one grouping, a process of quick elimination can often narrow a search down to a handful of cars. Despite the utility of the new type of plates, we suspect there will be "some complaint particularly if a dyed-in-the-wool Republican comes up with a DEM licence, or an equally determined Democrat finds him self driving a REP licensed car. E.A. Cain Opposes Security Program lor Workers Washington U.R' Former Sen. Harry P. Cain (R-Wash.), said Sunday congressional ap proval of a bill to include all federal employees in the admin istration's security program would be "the most grievous wound" ever suffered by liberty m this country. Sen. Carl T. Curtis iR-Ncb.l. replied that the bill, sponsored by Rep. Francis E. Walter (D Pa v is necessary to keep Com-munis-s and subversives off the federal payroll. He said the Com munist threat involves a real danger to merica. The Walter bill, endorsed by the Eisenhower administration, i is pending before the House Civ il Service committee. It would nullify a recent Supreme Court decision limiting the govern ment's employee security pro grams to sensitive jobs. Monday. July 23. 1956 Resigns Baldock can look back to and exacting public ser- had unkind thinsrs to sav GOP Will Stick To Four-Day Convention Washington (U.R! Re publican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall made it official Sunday that the GOP will stick to the original four-day sched ule for its National Convention and not cut it to three days as has been suggested. The convention will be held in San Francisco Aug. 20. 21. 22 and 23. However Hall said that by streamlining" proceedings the Republicans will be able to cut "by more than one-half" the hours used in Chicago in 1952 After the first day the conven tion will meet only once a day. On the opening day. Monday. Aug. 20, the Republicans will have two sessions, one starting at 11 a.m. and the other around 3 p.m. and end at around 7 p.m The next three daily sessions will begin at 3 p m. Headlines of Future Predicted; Reason Behind Ambassador Shift United Press correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Pipeline Here's the real reason be hind the shift of Britlsn ambas sador? in Washington. Prime Minister Anthony Eden seeks even closer relations with the next president whoever he may he. Eden now bases his entire f'rreiiin policy on intimate Anglo American cooperation. His pipe line to ti:e White House is the British ambassador. So into the post goes one of his oldest, clos NiOttQt Of FQCt By Joe and Stewart Alsop THE REVOLT AGAINST abroad." FOREIGN AID It is all the easier when one Washington The revolt ! considers how the foreign aid against the Eisenhower foreign aid program has been by far ait the most sig nificant phe n o m enon of the otherwise dull session of Con gress which is now drawing to a close. The re volt, although it has been partially quel led has been very real and very bitter. The House first demonstrat ed how deep the resistance to foreign aid runs when, for the first time in the memory old timers, it defied the K IT S' Kfi solemn pleas ity Leader, the -jrj minority icau- --vf i er, and the President him- Stewart Alsop to cut the pro- program. In the Senate able men with enlightened foreign plicy records, like Sens. Richard Russell of Georgia and Mik? Mansfield of Montana, have fought like tigers against the Eisenhower program. Since shortly after the war, foreign aid in one form or another has been the keystone of the American foreign policy arch. It is therefore worth ask ing what has caused the sud den, violent upsurge of resist ance to the Eisenhower program. r'HE REASONS are partly po litical. Even at the height of the Marshall Plan period foreign aid has not been much of a vote-catcher and many members of Congress .have been receiving a steady stream of letters de nouncing "sending all that money abroad." The Democrats, moreover, are resentful of the way the foreign aid issue has been handled by the Adminis tration. They charge, with some jus tice, that the Administration, for political purposes, kept for eign aid spending low in the first three years simply by con suming the money in the pipe lines. Now that the pipelines must be filled up again, the Democrats complain, the Admin istration expects them to come to its rescue. There are other reasons for the disaffections among the Democrats. The South was once the stronghold of international ism in foreign policy. This is no longer so. as the position taken by Russell and ether Southern ers suggests. The industrializa tion of the South has made it far more tariff-minded and isolationist-inclined than it once was. TUT THESE are the surface reasons for the revolt. Be low the surface there is a deep feeling of disillusionment and disquiet which explains the dis affection of men like Mansfield. The disillusionment springs part ly from the fact that the Mar shall Plan, the ancestor of the present programs, was oversold, as many old Marshall Planners now admit. Make the economies of our allies healthy again, the Mar shall Planners argued in effect, and everything would be just Jim Dandv. The Communist j problen would fade into the j mists of history, everybody j would love Amer-ca, the aid program could be wound up in lour years, and that would be that. The economies of the Marshall Plan countries are statistically healthier than the most opti- mistic planners forecast. But the i Communist problem is still very 1 much with us. so is the aid pro- I gram, and hardlv anvbodv loves ! America. NATO is non-bound. ! the neutralists insult us one i dav and take our monev the ! nevt and so on CTUALLY, American aid from the Greek-Turkish plan on has been a resounding suc cess. But it has been a success in essentially a negative way, in that it has prevented a total disaster which would otherwise surely have occurred. And it is easy to see why members of Congress, hard-pressed in an election year, have little stoin ach for "sending all that money Wl 1) ... JtHJSWW' : S ft ) ! '$ a LA0 est collaborators in Sir Harold Caccia. Did You Get Yours? The Internal Revenue Service will announce soon that income tax refunds reached a record S2.8 billion during the fiscal year that ended June 30. That's an average of about S90 for each I of the 3.2 million taxpayers who cashed in. Breakers Ahead Ambassador Clare Booth Luce faces rough sailing when she re- 1 turns to her post in Rome after her present Mediterranean program has been presented. The President, obviously, feels strongly on this subject. But many Republicans, while pro fessing undying admiration for the President, vote against his wishes with no compunction and no fear of the political conse quences, and Democrats natural ly tend to follow mat. r THE Marshall Plan era. moreover, the need tor lor- eign aid was at least defended with zest and conviction, where as this year the defense has been about as formal, dispirited and inept as it is possible to imagine. Meanwhile, the need for any real effort abroad has been consistently undercut by official protestrations that every day in every way everything is getting better and better. Under the circumstances, it is surprising that the revolt has not cut deeper than it has. And the revolt should at least serve as a warning to the next Admin istration which will certainly have to continue spending very large sums of money abroad not to serve up its program to Congress like warmed-over stew in a cheap boarding houe. 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In The Day's Federal farm aid note: President Eisenhower (acting under existing law) made drought-stricken portions of Ne braska eligible for federal dis aster assistance. The department of agriculture said that for the time being the drought aid will be limited to five Nebraska counties, all of which have suf fered severely from dry weather. WHATEVER we may think of the farm aid program of the past decade, under which vast surpluses have accumulated as a result of unwise price subsidies for certain crops, we must all agree that drought disaster assis tance is federal aid to agricul ture that REALLY HELPS. What help of that sort really amounts to is that in such cases of disaster we ALL chip in and lend the unfortunate victims money with which to tide them selves over the emergency and get back on their feet. I think we're all glad to do it, and feel that the few cents per person we contribute in the form of added taxes are spent in a good cause. 4 FTER a resounding battle that has echoed from the Pacific to the Atlantic, the senate of the United States, by a vote of 51 to 41, refuses to authorize the building of a high dam in Hell's Canyon (on the Snake river, be tween Oregon and Idaho.) The federal power commission had already licensed a private power concern (Idaho Power company) to build three lower dams in Hell's Canyon, and the company has begun construction of the first of the dams. If the bill to authorize a federal high dam had been approved by both houses of the congress and signed by the President, the result of it would have been to cancel the licenses granted to the private company. Failure of the senate to pass the high dam bill presumably means that the private company will go ahead with the building of the three lower dams. I THINK it can be stated with reasonable accuracy that this Hell's Canyon dam bill has been more concerned with politics than with economics. One of its sponsors is Senator Morse of Oregon, who comes up for re election this fall as a Democrat. He faces an admittedly tough battle. It was favored by Demo cratic Senator Magnuson of the State of Washington, who also comes up for re-election this fall and who has quite a battle on "is hands. I the Hell's Canyon bill ceuld have been put over, it would have been quite a feather in the Lt,tJS ul uul" ulcac LSO A The next U. S. senate is expected to be narrowly divided partywise. The re-election of Senator Morse and Senator Mag nuson would be of tremendous help in keeping the Democrats in control of the senate. Conversely, their defeat and the election of two Republicans in their places could help ma terially to bring the Republicans back into control of the senate. cruise. The bizarre "arsenic dust" affair has tended to under mine her position with the Ital ian newspapers and the public. Italian newsmen, especially, just don't buy the story that she was poisoned by arsenic-tainted paint flakes that fell from her bed room ceiling, and the papers are making it plain. She'll be be sieged by skeptical reporters when she arrives. Dam Jam Egyptian President Gamal Ab del Nasser is in one grand mess now that the United States and Britain have withdrawn their offers to finance the Aswan High Dam. His own admirers ad mit it. Nasser has made the dam the keystone of his domestic policy. Figures that by increas ing farm output, it will really put Egypt on the map. If Nasser turns entirely to Russia for help, he may tie Egypt's economy to Moscow's for years. And Russia says now that it may not be willing to go along on the neces sary scale. A billion-plus dollars is a lot of money, even in rubles. "Ooops!" J. Glenn Cassity may be eased out as the Agriculture Depart ment's security chief in a shake up this fall. He stubbed his toe in handling the security cases of Wolf Ladejinsky and John C. Baker. Both men were finally charged after Secretary Ezra Taft Benson and Under Secre tary True D. Morse personally intervened. Cassity hails from Utah, Benson's home state, and Benson is reluctant to fire him. So Washington insiders predict that Cassity will "resign." Dulles Rides On Don't expect Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to ease up on his global air travels despite the suggestion by one of his top advisers that he'd better spend more time in Washington mapping policy. Dulles likes his trips. He was asked recently if, at 68, all that flying didn't tire him. "No, I find it invigorates me," Dulles said. News By Frank Jenkins That explains the politics of the situation. THE political nature of the battle is indicated by the post-mortem comments of some of the leading participants in it. Oregon's Democratic Senator Neuberger says this morning: "The Republican party and the private utility lobby won the Hell's Canyon fight . . . Further generations in our region and our nation have lost forever a priceless natural resource." Idaho's Republican Senator Welker says: "Those of my party and those of the opposition (eight Democrats voted against the bill) who stood steadfast with me to protect the state rights of Idaho and preserve the free enterprise system deserve the highest praise." Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot 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. The Humane Society To the Editor: Now that Mr. "Woody" Morse is a trustee of the Humane Society I feel that something will be accomplished besides being a boarding kennel. What still puzzles me is how could a non-profit society for the prevention of cruelty to animals and children come to be oper ated as a private business? Sure ly there has been a profit and just as certainly no humane work has been done for a long time. Many people can testify to this as we have been turned down repeatedly when cases of cruelty and neglect have been reported for investigation. Let us have a Humane Society of which we can be proud. One where children can go with their pet problems, where the home less creatures can find shelter groomed for a new home or hu manely destroyed, spaying pro grams could be inaugurated, so that we have fewer of the un wanted to be turned out to be mistreated and starved. Above all let us have a Humane Society that by its own actions sponsor and generate a .feeling of kind ness and sympathy for all living creatures. Mrs. Elizabeth Adams, Medford, Oregon, North Pacific Highway. HYPNOTISM Has been successfully used in muscular rheumatism, constipa tion, menstrual disturbances, migraine headache, insomnia, stuttering, etc. For information regarding Hypnotism see W'. L WHELDEN 336 S. Riverside, Medford, Ore. Y- Disarmament Picture Becoming Confused; Cuts Being By CHARLES McCANN United Press Correspondent The disarmament picture is getting somewhat confused. World disarmament negotia tions in the United Nations are getting no where. Talks have been sus pended until next Novem ber. But the Unit ed States and Great Britain, tbarifs Mccann me cniei spon sors of the North Atlantic and other defense alliances, are plan ning cuts in armed strength which add up to partial disarma ment. At the same time Germany and Japan, their principal ene mies in World War II, are being urged to speed up their own re armament. And France, which sometimes has been accused of dragging its heels in the common defense ef fort, is talking about extending its draft term from 18 months to two years. The big block in the U.N. ne gotiations results from Soviet Russia's refusal to agree to a treaty which would provide proper controls to prevent vio lations. The U.N. Disarmament Com mission last week instructed its five-nation subcommittee to con tinue negotiations. Communications The SP & Hells Canyon To the Editor: Please allow me to run the Editor's twin edi torials, "IS THE SP READY TO QUIT?" and "FOOLISH TALK" together, since there is "a junct -ure of thought in the two that have not been connected up. We have seen the way our Western (Northwest) Railroads are going, the Northern Pacific, the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific. Having garnered in the public benefactions of the first instance, they have elected to let their facilities stagnate, taking places of call, as Walla Walla, Medford, and many others off schedules. Rather than keep pace with pro gress, by needful change in type of service, they cancel all serv ice in the passenger field. It has been said that the Union Pacific could cut out the short est of routes East by running through Walla Walla, tunneling the Blue Mountains to the East, and taking a "water grade" up the Salmon in Idaho to the low est of passes through the Rockies. Stagnation does not favor this action. Down Medford way, a much shorter route, a main line service could be extended south from Eugene capable of out-running the Klamath Falls (out-of- the-way) route. Stagnation for bids such advance action. For the same reason. It is "foolish talk," indeed, to talk of handing over our water- resources "stock" to the Private Electric corporations, with the expectation of receiving any better treatment at their hands than we do now in the case of the railroads. The story will follow true to type, once the natural resources are put at their (the Private Utilities) disposal, and these by the same token lost to the people. Let us take stock of the one case, and the current counter part. Let us not let the West's natural resources pass utterly beyond the people's reposses sion. To restore the railroad to the many sections of the West now being neglected, it may even revert to the government to take a hand. Fee Clifford Esteb Post Office Box 1323 Medford. life lit f" Memo from fceddy . . Planned The five-nation subcommlttca consists of the United States, Canada. Britain, France and Russia. It is actually a sort of executive committee, in which any agreement between the Western Allies and Russia will have to originate. But no approach has been found so far on the question of controls. The subcommittee's sessions are not t o be resumed, as planned at present, until about the time for the next an nual U.N. General Assembly. The Assembly is to meet on Nov. 12. Russia has announced that it is reducing its armed forces by 1.2 million men. Its satellites have announced proportionate reductions. The reductions," of course, mean nothing. The vast size of the Communist armed forces is the big threat to peace. The Western Allies have re jected a series of proposals by Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bui- ganin that they follow Russia by substantially reducing their armed strength. But Britain announced in May a reduction in its armed forces from 772,000 to 700,000 men. It is planning eventual cuts in de fense spending of $1.12 billion. London advices say that two of the four British divisions in Ger many probably will be pulled out. Reduction Possible Trie United States is talking of a possible reduction in its armed forces of 800,000 men. This likewise may involve the re call of some troops now in Ger many. In Britain s case the imme diate reason for arms cuts its the urgent necessity of cutting government spending to combat inflation. United States cuts are plan ned largely because of the pro gressive emphasis on nuciear weapons as the backbone of de fense. It does seem ironic, however, that West Germany and Japan are being asked to speed their re armament.1 West Germany has just enact ed a draft law under which it plans to call 360,000 conscripts to the colors and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer plans to pro test to the United States and Britain this week against their plans to cut their own forces. Call The Doctor Geo. K. Taylor When you have a pain, you call the doctor and he saves you from many a weary week in eea. just so, a lot of people think they save them selves for eter nal glory by doing good deeds here on earth. But the Bible says that not by good works but by God's mercy are we saved. No man comes to Me for his sins to be blotted out except God draws him to Me, said Christ. I will raise up that man for Resurrection Glory See John 6:44. So you see yourself as a sinner; Christ as dying for your sins; God draw ing you to Christ and Christ raising you, a new creation, for eternal glory. Pray Pray Pray, for your unsaved. Most folks are saved by others praying them in. George Mueller, the famous Englishman prayed for three old men and died without seeing them saved. Yet they all came' to Christ after Mueller's death. This Message sponsored by a Scappoose family. Adv. W!,'!JI-
