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Ta.ent s.: ; ,n rr -it'.r ro .us j-::-. a; -l S-:n ;pv fine ear I,., .. a:.1 Sj.-; One n.'.nt s:s "uv Carrf ;.m b;i:Ti- 5'. pf i' AiS I'rn, Ca-a in Advance Affinal Paper nt the rlt Oft'lal 1-a.itr ol Jackson u.inly I ni-'-i Prf.v-f nil l.'-a.-fi '-v-'e riEMC-' OF Al DIT B' REAf Oh (;'( : I. AIIO.N rvrlHOUlTo'.MPANY INC ,,...,., n :. York Chicago De San c:-j A':-'eis bt Louii A rr P. C rlAIIONAl EDITORIAL AS'sOClrATLGN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time !"'!ford and Jackson County HiMory fro:n tne files ol I he Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and Hi voars a so. 10 YEAKS AGO July 24. 1946 lit w.'ii Wednesday) The record heat of 115 degrees c.-.i:,rH3v damages Dears in sec tions of the valley, according to j C. B. Cordy. assistant county j a-rnt- From Arthur Perry's Ye smudge rot column: The limr of trees are now protruding over i sidewalks and knocking off the j headsear if pedestrians of which i there are not many wt. Some :ZnrVv t iiln'uo'ee V. sr.!-.. the i rbiem. 20 YKA.SS AGO July 24. 1936 ' It v;is Fricl.iv Pear tanners have issued an opening price and started to do business m California on the b:sis of $:i0 a ton for number one Bartletts and S17.50 for; number 'wo's. Installation of new officers of Medford post of American Le- . . gmn nostpon. d until Tuesd iy. MO I only does the Guard maintain the voters in the 30 Yr rs ago Upper Willamette don't give a hoot about Hells July "24. 1926 . Canyon one way or the other but declares they never in was Saturday I have." Thev are for or aeainst Senator Morse for S,alMM,,Vrther and better reasons. To adopt the theory that speaKs to the Pomona t.ianse at 1 . .1 the lair rounds yesterday on : the hign dam ( and Morse ) will rise or fall together the advantages of a state income : js t0 swallow the Democratic premise that Hells Can t;,v : yon is really a big issue. So declares the Guard. Of the S5. 461. 761. 38 received Well, isn't it? f.,r motor vehicle licenses in Ore- ; w (. 1 r b what Jine of reasoning the "Guard" gon the first six months of 19J6. . . Jackson county has paid sio7,- concludes Hells Canyon that is the issue between 5::; 6; i public and private power where multiple projects are 40 YEARS AGO July 24. 1315 ilt w,i Monday Public reminded that weekly concerts at the city park by Mod ford band will be T'l' sday even ir.':s. Medford people Creek Saturday More than 200 motored to Flk nicht to attend opening of Rogue Elk resort. What's the Answsr? Can You Get 4 of the 7? r.r 1'i'i.i Kchmrnl Ri-icarch Ki-porl 1. President Eisenhower stayed in V.'a!'' r Reed hospital one. two. three, tour or ttvc weeks aitcr his operation there for ileitis? 2 rnt.it. prices have been g.iin; t;p or down, or staying abf.it tite same? A. The Alps Mts. of Europe are in which of these countries: Switzerland. Austria. France, Italy, (.iormany. Yugoslavia0 4. T!tt- young, middle-aged or elderly are most susceptible to ivy po:souing. or does age make no rii:fere:-.i-c" 5 Sec'y of State John Foster Dulles was once or never a U. S Senator? 's A N-1 Stock Exchange seat was recent lv sold for over SI.- etui. oim). around saoo. 000. around s25.i.ooo or under sioo.noo 7. Dicumarol is a drug to aid digestion, retard blood coagula tion, induce sleep, step up meta bolism or lower nervous tension? Th? answers: 1. Three weeks. 2. Going up. 3. Al! of them. 4. Elderly are most susceptible. 5. Once was (by appointment to fill a vacancy). 6. Under S100.000 (July 12). 7. Retard blood coagu lation. It is estimated that an aver age adult person has more than 2.500.000 sweat glands which are distributed over various sec tions of the body. MAIL TF.I3VNE May Be The Eusrene Rerister-Guard Republican but not rabidly gon GOP not to be so sure that because 'Hell s Lan yon" was defeated, Wayne Morse will be defeated. The "Guard-' even goes so far as to warn the members of its party in Oregon that to persist m such a delusion might be to "court disaster."' The point is well taken. But we would go even farther and venture the sucr,Lrestion that the defeat of Hell's Canyon MAY help Oregon's senior Senator politically. It all depends upon how important a federal proj ect on the Snake river for maximum power and water storage is to the voters of Oregon, and particularly to the voters of Eastern Oregon. i The defeat of Senator Cordon in that section of the state two years ago indicated the power issue was the deciding factor. Unless there has been a reversal of sentiment, the people over there will blame the present Republican administration, not Wayne Morse, for the dashing of their hopes and their defeat at the hands of the fclaho Power company. And they would, of course, be entirely correct. In fact there have been few victories of late as clear cut on party lints, as this triumph of the anti-public power forces in the Upper House last week. ALB Republicans but two (Langer of North Da kota and Wiley of Wisconsin) voted AGAINST the Hells Canyon development, while only eight Demo crots (seven of them from the South) followed suit. All the other Democrats voted for Hells Canyon, all the Republicans against it. We don't deny this was a defeat for Senator Mor-f for he sponsored the bill, and led the fight for it. It was also a blow to his senatorial prestige. But the lesson to be learned is an obvious one for those who want a federal project on the Snake and DON'T want the huh power and water storage potentials handed over to the Idaho Power company already noted for its excessive power and water rates, namely: Vote against the party responsible for the defeat, vote for the party that came within 10 votes of victory. That would mean, of course, vote to keep Wayne Morse in the Senate and vote to keep ex-Secretary IcKav OUt of it. ..... TPHE "Eugene Guard" admits it can't speak for the I votcls 0f Baker County or Portland, only for those f ih Willamette Valley. But it opines they Ui tl'y I i 1 , "don t give a hoot about Hells Canyon one way or the other. That mav be true in Lane County. It may be equally true' in Central and western Oregon. The voters except in Eastern Oregon may be neutral on the subject. But if that is true then the vote against Hells Canyon will not intluence their vote in the sen ate race one way or the other, and on the other hand if the people of eastern Oregon are not neutral on this issue and still want federal instead of private power development at Hells Canyon, then this defeat I of their desires MIGHT turn the tide against "Dear Done" and in favor of Wavne Morse. at stake is not a big issue : It the people ot Oregon and the Northwest don't give a hoot about it, why should so much time and money be spent to defeat it? Why should so many influential papers in Oregon hail the defeat as such a stunning blow to the Demo- crats and such a triumph for the Republicans or as the Salem Capital Journal expressed it, a clear cut , .W.i'ciVa vitnrv of "nrivatp pnt.PrnrifiP OVPr social ism." Certainly socialism is an issue at least it was two and four years ago when Congressman Ellsworth jumped on" the band wagon at the head of the pachy derm parade, and scored his opposition for favoring socialism which he maintained was a synonym for communism. Perhaps the Eugene Guard really means the voters of the Upper Willamette at the moment don't give a hoot about Hells Canyon, or any other political issue that is. it is not so much indifference to this particu lar issue, as a strong prevailing public apathy con cerning all of them. If that is true, then the Mail Tribune would be inclined to agree. It may merely be the heat. But if there is any keen interest in the approaching campaign outside of the political "pros" on both sides and the politically minded newspapers on the other, we have been unable to detect it in the lower Rogue River Valley, at least. This department hasn , j leciot mineu. Mjgncu ui ciuu.i .wnuuo, iU, .v--o.... weeks! That is a record for the valley only yu clays from a presidential election. The voters as a whole u,.T n,ral.mlfl cs rpt nnrl as sup-p-psted. it maV be IldVCll t tl n tiivvuvM i - J'-" chieflv due to the heat. Railroad Retirement Washington 'U.R A bill boosting railroad workers' re tirement benefits 10 per cent has sped through Congress less Friday by the Senate Commerce than a week after tbe railroad j committee, was called up Mon labor unions demanded it. day and passed in the Senate. The bill would increase the The House passed it and sent it prospective deficit in the railroad i on to the White House a few workers pension fund by failing I hours later. Tuesday. July 24, 195S The Heat which is strongly partisan, warns the Ore t received any insults, at ,.c fnr or loacr hvn - "CO 7-- RAV.R. Benefits Approved to increase the payroll tax j through which workers and the , , ... anrn,.pj oniv. i,ct Nasser Suffers Severest Setback WhenOffersfor Dam Are Rejected By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent President Gamal Abdel Nas ser of Egvpt has suffered his severest setback since he over- threw King Farouk four years ago. When he went to Yugo slavia last week to con fer with Presi dent Tito and and Indian Prime Minis ter Jawaharlal Charles Met ann Nehru. Nasser was riding high. He was building himself up as leader of the Arab nations. He was playing the West against the East in his diplomacy with apparent success. He was being headlined as one of the world's three leading "neutralists." Then things began to happen. The United States announced the cancellation of its offer to help finance Egypt's great As wan high dam Nasser's dream of putting his country on the path to greatness. Britain followed suit next day by cancelling its own offer of aid in financing the dam. Bank Loan Withdrawn The cancellation of the Unit ed Slates and British offers meant the automatic withdrawal of the offer of a S200. 000. (lull nam loan by tne International Bank for reconstruction and de velopment, j Then Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri T. Shepiiov announced that Ilussia was not considering an ofter of aid in building the ; dam. It had been reported that Russia was. willing to finance the entire project. ; To make things worse, Nasser i failed in his attempt in the I Yugoslavia conference to get Tito and Nehru to promise him full support in his campaign against France in North Africa. It looks very much, at the moment, as if Nasser had out smarted himself. Prestige Is Threatened His prestige with Egypt's fel low Arab countries is threat ened. More seriously, his internal position will be weakened un less he can get himself out of the Odds Long That Adlai Will Be Renominated Within Three Ballots By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) The odds are long now that Adlai E. Ste venson will be renominated for president with in three bal lots by next month's Demo cratic national convention. For what may be the handwriting on the wall, com pare the stand ing of the can didates as it is estimated today with the actual first ballot in Chicago four years ago. Three of the men who were prime contestants in 1952 are bucking heads again Steven son. Gov. Averell Harriman of New York and Sen. Estes Ke fauver of Tennessee. A United Press tabulation shows Steven son this year to be far ahead of his first-ballot position in 1952. The UP credited Stevenson now with 4 1 1 1 2 known first ballot votes; Kefauver. 146; Harriman 145. Nominating Minimum Higher The first ballot of the 1952 Democratic national convention took place four years ago Wednesday. Kefauver led with 340 votes; Stevenson was second with 273; Sen. Richard B. Rus sell of Georgia was third with 268: Harriman was a bad fourth with 123 1 2. The rest were scat Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer althouch under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the rif-ht to edit all letters with an eve to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words More Praise for Mary To The Editor: I want to comp liment you upon the fine and well deserved tribute paid to Mary Kelly of Medford in your issue of April, 1956. Mary is just the sort of woman you depicted. In my book she is one of the fin est and most outstanding women in Oregon, a capable and untiring worker in all good causes, a won derful help mate to her distin guished husband, and a credit to the state and her own communi ty. This country is a much better place in which to live because of the Mary Kellys. Respectfully yours Walter L. Tooze Supreme Court Salem. Oregon The Oregon Democrat 1 ir 1 Lvit C USI1I diplomatic pit which he dug for himself. Nasser's dream of a greater Egypt is based on the construc tion of the SI. 3 billion dam. Its waters are planned to increase Egypt's agricultural output by at least 33 per cent, and its elec tric power production by 800 per cent. Nasser had taken an increas ingly anti-Western attitude ever since he got into power. Last fall Nasser entered an agreement with Russia under which Communist Czechoslo vakia started sending arms to Egypt. It was believed that the amount involved was about S100.000.000. It now appears that S250.000.000 is a more like ly figure. The Blow Falls Despite this, the United States Long Sessions Signal Last Lap of Washington, (CQ) Twelve- hour daily sessions and passage of nearly a bill a minute dur ing one recent two-hour period signaled the start of the last lap of the 84th Congress. July 31 was set by the Legisla tive Reorganization Act of 1946 as the final day for each Con gressional session, barring a na tional emergency . Although the emergency declared Dec. 19, 1D50, during the Korean war never has been rescinded. Con gress is hopeful of leaving Wash ington by that date. Aiding the House and Senate in meeting their deadlines is the start of the national political conventions Aug. 13. Consent of Other The Constitution says neither chamber may adjourn for more than three days at a time with out the consent of the other. So, as Senate and House leaders see a definite date in sight for ad journment, the chambers agree to a resolution setting the day adjournment will be effective. Either chamber then may stay in session until midnight of that day. Congress can adjourn either "sine die," finally and tyithout naming a date for reassembling that year, or until "a day cer tered. Necessary to nominate in 1952 was a minimum of 616 votes. This year the nominating minimum will be 686' 2. Harriman began to fold on the second 1952 ballot. Kefauver and Russell gained, but not enough. Stevenson went to 324 '.2 and won the nomination on ballot No. 3. Of the left wing ers who sought to stop Steven son four years ago, some are dead or otherwise out of poli tics. Others have deserted Har riman or Kefauver for Steven son. Of the notable stop-Stevenson musketeers only Gov. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan and his political associate, la bor's Walter Reuther, remain at the breastworks where they were so badly licked four years ago. Sen. Blair Moody of Michigan was floor manager of the forces of the left. He is dead. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. is in political eclipse which promises to be per manent. His brother, James, a Kefauver man in 1952, is whoop ing it up for Stevenson as a mem ber of California's delegation. Learned Hard Way Generally young and well left-of-center politicians got their lesson the hard way four years ago this week when they tried to toss the Virginia, South Caro lina and Louisiana delegations right out of the convention. Those delegations had refused to sign a pledge to support the party nominee. Mere boys, by comparison, most of them, they would have booted out such men as Byrd and Battle of Virginia, Byrnes of South Carolina and the like. The South, the so-called mod erates and the party's old pros would not have it nor would they have Harriman or Kefau ver either. It looks like pretty much the same set up for the next con vention, except that former President Truman appears this time to be against Stevenson and for Harriman while many a 1952 Kefauver-Harriman rooter is a Stevenson man today. Dr George S. Jennings 111 OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Has opened His Practice at . . . HAWTHORNE OSTEOPATHIC CLINIC 41 Hawthorne St. Office-Phone 3-4595 Res-Phone 3-5938 offered last December to make Nasser a S56,000,000 grant to ward the dam costs. Britain of fered S14.000.000. The United States offered to consider pro viding S130.000.000 more. Nasser was flying back to Cairo from Yugoslavia with Nehru when the blow fell. The United States said it was not convinced that Egypt could do its part in financing the dam, for one thing. But there is no doubt that the American and British action was a political, not an economic, background. Nasser is to make a big speech Thursday. It probably will be better. A Cairo newspaper also reports that he plans to visit Moscow August 13. Nasser may come up with something to retrieve his loss. It looks as if he better had. Congress tain, adjournment until a fixed date. Congress also may authorize its leaders to call it back in ses sion before the fixed date as the ! 80th Congress did in 1947 and 1948. J Should the chambers disagree j over adjournment, the Constitu tion authorizes the President ! to adjourn Congress "to such time as he shall think proper." j Xo President ever has had to do i this. The President may recon vene Congress for a special ses sion to consider specific topics after Congress has adjourned. Committee Named As the adjournment hour ap proaches, a joint Senate-House committee is named to appear before the President, tell him of- ficially that Congress is prepar ing to close and ask him if he has any messages for the legisla tors. The president, well aware the session virtually is over, normal ly won't have any special mess ages and the committee mem bers will return to Capitol Hill to so tell their respective cham bers. To help speed the legislative process, the House will stream line its rules during the last six days of the session. The Speaker will entertain motions to suspend the rules entirely, a procedure that generally can be considered only twice a month earlier in the session. The House also may consider compromise reports on deadlocked legislation immedi ately instead of waiting for the reports to be reprinted and may vote on other legislation as soon as the Rules Committee sends it to the floor. Changes in Procedure The Senate, needing fewer legislative rules because it has but 96 Members to the 435 Mem bers in the House, needs no such changes in procedure. As part of their final action, both chambers empower their chairmen to sign legislation after adjournment, thus making it of ficial and ready for the Pres ident's signature. In both chambers, the final minutes of the session are spent in extolling the leadership and officers, thanking them for the fine job they have done. Each party's leadership also thanks the opposite party and its leaders for their cooperation and recaps the accomplishments of its own party. The more sedate Senate tends to remain serious until the final banging of the gavel, but in the House the last minutes are spent in almost a carnival atmosphere. Band Music Representatives have been serenaded by band music; in dividual Members break out their harmonicas and talent, sing and tell stories until the clock on the gallery railing says it's time to go home. The President's duties with regard to Congress do not end until 10 days after he has received all the approved legisla tion. When the Members leave the Capitol, they also leave the President with about 500 bills passed in the final days that he must consider, then sign or veto. Unless he signs the bills within 10 days after they reach his desk the bills do not become law. This i is called a "pocket veto." In 1956, as in other years when the second session ends, legisla tion not sent the President dies in Congress and must be rein troduced during the next Con gress the 85th that will con vene in January, 1957. (Copyright 1956, Congressional Quarterly) Automobiles were not ad- 1 mitted inside Yellowstone na- tional park until the season be- j ginning in 1915. 117 States Turn Back Salk Vaccine Supply As Demand Washington ..UP.) The Pub Health Service announced to day that 17 states have turned back nearly 2.500,000 Salk polio shots because of lagging demand. It was the biggest rejection of vaccine allotments in tbe history of the nationwide inoculation program. It signaled a serious slump in injections in a large part of the country. Officials said they are doing everything they can to stimulate greater use of the vaccine where demand is lagging. They consider this particularly import ant with the nation heading to ward the peak of the 1956 polio season. The Health Service is ship ping the vaccine turned back by the 17 states to other areas where the life-saving shots are in greater demand. The states which turned back the nearly 2,500.000 shots are: Alabama, Arkansas. Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana. Ken tucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio. South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. They can apply for the vaccine later if thev need it. In The Day's Foreign affairs note this time on the hopeful side: I President Eisenhower has ar- rived in Panama City for the j long - scheduled conference of j American heads of state. When j he stepped off the Presidential i plane after an overnight flight from Washington he was greeted U I (lILiIilcl icHiciu nimo 1 (pronounced Ah-REE-Ast and an honor guard from the Panamani an national guard. There is no formal agenda for the conference, but the President is known to be planning chats with each of his fellow chief ex ecutives in an effort to get closer to their individual problems. T ET'S put it this way: America is AMERICA. Its problems are AMERICAN prob lems, more or less uncompli cated by the ancient hatreds and the ancient injustices of the older world. We are all neighbors in the NEW world. If the United States is to con tinue to contribute financially to the upbuilding of the economies of other nations, it will be wise if it makes its major contribu tions to its neighbors of the New World. HERE'S a fresh new note- in political thinking: The Republican Associates of Los Angeles county have adopted what thev call a Statement of Principles. The organization's policy chairman says the state ment is not a platform but states PRINCIPLES upon which a plat form might be built. The state ment says there are three con cepts which have been underly ing features of our nation's de velopment. They are: 1. Maintenance of constitu tional government. 2. Freedom of economic oppor tunity. 3. Redevelopment of LOCAL self-government. I'M INCLINED to think the na tional GOP might do well to adopt this statement of principles in its entirety and let it go as . the party platform. The old sticky-flypaper-put-out-to-catch-votes type of party ; platform is pretty badly outworn. ! I doubt if may modern voters ; are'impressed by such tripe. j PURE POLITICS note using the word "pure" in the sense of "unadulterated": Governor Averell Harriman of New York, who is gunning for the Democratic nomination for President, says in a speech to the Colorado state Democratic con vention that President Eisenhow er has set his sights too low in j predicting the nation's economic i growth in the next decade. I NESBITT'S M- Favorite jSl ' GR0CER iSL Decreases The Health Service announced the release today of 3,137,922 more shots, mostly made by Eli Lilly of Indianapolis. This boost ed this year's output so far to more than 52.000.000 shots far more than the 30,000.000 re leased in the whole of 1955. With production booming, of ficials conceded that demand is spotty. In the New York, New Jersey, and New England areas, they said, it is far greater than supply. In most other areas, it is only slightly greater than supply. And in at least 17 states supplies are ahead of demand. There are about 65.000,000 persons in the current priority groups, pregnant women and children up to 20 yean old. There has been talk of opening the priorities up to adults in some areas. Oregon allows per sons up to age 30 to receive the vaccine. But officials here said every one in the priority group still hasn't been taken care of (two shots) so there is no immediate move to ease the national pri orities. These are only volun tary, however, and states are free to decide for themselves. News bv Frank Jenkins He says the President looks for a 500 billion dollar economy (total production of goods and services) by 1065. He (Harriman) adds that HE would increase the figure to 600 billion dollars, -vtqtf. plea7e71hat all these ; prcdiclions :irc in tcrms of DOLLARS not pounds or yards or board feet or tons or other tangible units of PHYSICAL pro duction. The Big Question is HOW MUCH a dollar will buy in 1965 or some other future year. What we all need is to produce more goods at steadily lowering prices so that EVERYBODY can have more of the good things of mod ern life. WEATHER note: ' A New Mexican county commission has asked New Mexi co's governor John F. Sims to seek a court order halting cloud seeding on the West Coast on the ground that it is robbing the clcuds of rain that might other wise fall on New Mexico. Another New Mexican, the state engineer, doesn't think much of the idea. He says most weather scientists think there is only a remote chance that cloud seeding has any measurable effect on New Mexico's rainfall. A New Mexican rancher and engineer, supporting the pro posed ban on cloud seeding, points to the alleged fact that Oregon and Washington have had from 18 to 21 inches more rain than normal during the past six years while New Mexico has had 21 inches less than normal. MR. INSURANCE FRED BRENNAN Fire insurance gets complicated with "added extended coverage", etc., which still leaves many losses uncovered. Does your agency have a new "all risk" fire insurance which blankets virtually all physi cal loss that can happen to a home and landscaping? CALL MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940
