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Flight o' Time
M-vlford and Jackson Countv
Mi-torv from tne files ot Thr
M.nl Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
;o vear ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 23. 1946
(It was Tuesday)
.No more burning of rubbish or
gni-.-. will be allowed in Med
ford during the current hot spell.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Baby beef
is back again in the butchers.
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
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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
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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.
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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.
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