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Newspaper Page Textr FOUR VEDFORD (OP.EGON) medforivtribune ; :':j.r. i.'.e l-i. .::.).ne' p jr.;" :.. : D.-l:.'v F.nr-r.t b :.!i.Dfb;tD rcMNH.SG CO JTvW Kortn fii St i-i.or.e 2-6. 1 BOi'.KUT W RVHL K';:'.or HfKH ;;if-V ' Ar:vrt:.'.r.E Manager Cf.RAl.U LATHAM hu.ins Maria gel EKH; AU.K.-. JR. :.:R:ine Koitor urn h aha:.:s tn-. t.-s-r KAfrf-:': f.ii. It--.'iin Kditor f- r A.; ; j j;. v,r.Tr :j')r -filtur fi.lvK'slA'RCHfcB i-cir.-. Kditor IjAI.F. EKU.KSO.N Circulation Mgr. An Ir.cper.rtf-nl Ne'Asp;per Z:,--! as. -'conrT cTa-.' malt-r at Mrdrnrd i.ieiun under Act ol Mar. h 3 18S" SUBSCRIPTION RATES r.-. v;.,l ivar.e Prr Cipy Hie an-: bunt) .v Oi.e vtai Si2 !) .., -. S inrtav Six months H ' I,,.... and b-.ndav 'Ihiee mf S-50 -I -.'lav (jniv One vear s:i.5(J E ( ;i-r,fi - in Advance - Mcdiord As'i .r,-! cenu .1 Point EaE!" Pom' .'a: ,.oriv;: e t,r.:d H:H Fhen:x I,.-c-. me Km- . River. Talent ; i 1 on rnotoj roat'-s ).Mlv and Snrirt;. One year Si 5 no I; r a.nd Sun-.rr. On'- month 1.25 Carror :..n ;o;,;.-rs 5c- per copy All JV-rrna C,r-h in Ad-.anre 6'f- -aJ l'?rr of thf ' it V of Medford of.'-Mai Cap'-r 01 ,(;,( hson ( o'jnty r'n:"- i I'rfss fii'l l.ra.sf-d Wire uF',ir.''i Ai'nn p.i:keau f,i riitt;i"i.ATios Ad- ' Fir p'r-.-r.!..'i'.e tVE.Sl.HOIJ.llWV I OVI'A.VY INC oror" in Soi Vork Chicago rje troi' S-. Fiaricl-o ls Anselei cv-,tiP l-ort nod St Louis At.anta Vn'invr RC ..AIIUNAl EDITORIAL I ASSOCIPATLON l vJ U at TJT NEWS PA PER r;. 17 HT PUBLISHERS V VVX 'ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Ihstorv from the files ot The Mml Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 0 tears ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 25, 1S45 (It was Thursday) Sale of the large Getciiell home at 1121 Swuth Oakdale ave. to George M. Roberts, was an nounced today. F r o m Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A tire shortage now menaces auto rac ing, a report states. The short age affects professional racing on licensed tracks and has noth ing to do with speedways in the residential districts. 20 YEARS AGO July 25. 1936 (It was Saturday) Recognition for the sales and merchandising record e s t a b lislied during Die past five years has been j;iven the Lewis Super Service station by the B. F. Goodrich company, Akron, Ohio. Amateur hour, after the fash ion of the Major Bowes program, will be held at weekly luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis club. 30 YEARS AGO July 25, i32B tit was Sunday) Since July 1 this year the Owen-Oregon Lumber company has been trac e marking all lum ber shipped lo lumber yards in Medford. The premium list for the Jack son county fair, Sept. 15-18, is being printed and will be ready for distribution about Aug. 1. 40 YEARS AGO July 25. 1916 lit was Tuesday) The citizens and clubs of Med ford are preparing entertain ment for the State Editorial as sociation annual convention here the first week of August. An all-day picnic was attended by about 75 farmers and ranch ers of the area, Saturday at Central Point. Whafs the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955 Fditonal Research Rppnrt 1. Which one of these states has fewest oiectoral votes in el ecting a president: California. Il linois, Ohio, Pennsylvania. Tex as0 2. About 40 per cent. 60 per cent or 75 per cent of all U. S. wheat growers voted last year to atvept acreage controls at lower price supports? 2. Many more women than men die every year from over doses of barbiturate pills, or many more men than women, or about the same number of each' 4 G. Bernard Shaw, famous playwright, was born 100 years ago: in Northern Ireland, South ern Ireland. Scotland. England or Wales? 5. All six New England states voted for Eisenhower in 1952; right or wrong? 6. The March of Dimes cam paign last January raised about SI. 5 million. S5.0 million, S15 million. $50 million, or S150 mil lion? 7. The Oath of Hippocrates binds architects, dentists, doc tors, government employees or members of a certain fraternal order? The answers: 1. Texas. 2. About 75 per cent. 3. Many more women than men. 4. Southern Ireland. 5. Right. 6. A liltle over S50 million. 7. Doctors. USE TRIBUNE WANT ADS FOR RESULTS MAIL TRIBUNE Adjournment A? leaders and blocs in Congress were compro mising light and left ( sic in the customary last-minute stampede to get major legislation enacted, the outlook was for sine die adjournment before the end of July. Thereafter only President Eisenhower could summon the S l.h Congress back into session. No longer does Congress provide in its adjourn ment resolution that it may call itself back into session by decision of its leaders. That was done during the Truman administration and the latter part of the F. D. Roosevelt regime. It was done because Congress didn't trust the Chief Executive not to exceed his powers and prerog atives when it was not on hand to check him. In those years the adjournment was called "conditional" in stead of '"sine die." Actually, it was a recess, which might oi' might not extend all the way to the opening of the next session. Adjournment on July ol, unless Congress sets some other date, is prescribed in the legislative reor ganization act of 19-16. The joint (La Follette-Mon-roney) committee that framed the measure explained: "Representative democracy cannot remain truly repre sentative it elected members are required to remain away from their constituencies for Ion? periods . . . denied the interchange of ideas so necessary to our system . . . with intimate first-hand knowledge of the problems of the places they represent.'' That adjournment date objective was met. or sub stantially met, in six of the following ten years, includ ing l(J4fj and last year. Congress failed to meet it in four of the ten years. As was to be expected, the ad journment objective was realized in presidential elec tion years 194S, 1952 and now 1956. E.R.R. When G.B.S. Was Born The city of Chicago in particular will celebrate Thursday, July 26, as the lOUth anniversary of the birth of the eminent playwright and pamphleteer George Bernard Shaw. He was born in Dublin of sadly impoverished Protestant "gentry". His mother found it necessary to become a music teacher, and Shaw explained later that he didn't so much throw himself into the fight against poverty as throwr her into it. When G. B. S. was born Victoria had been on the British throne for 19 years, and hostilities had just ended in the Crimean War. In Ireland the great potato famine of the Forties had turned Irish nationalism away from the peaceful approach of its former lead er, Daniel O'Connell, who had died nine years before Shaw was born. Revolutionary outbreaks on the Continent in 1847 4S had encouraged violence in Ireland, and the habeas corpus writ had been suspended there. Archaic land laws exploited the farmers for the benefit of absentee landlords, many of them English. It was to be 14 years after Shaw's birth before the Parliament in London began to enact remedial Irish land laws, and most of these failed to go to the root of the distress. Reform bills of 1867-68 gave a little more power to English and Scottish voters, but the Irish "Reform" bill of 1868 benefitted only Irish city dwellers, keeping Irish farm tenants largely unenfran chised. George Bernard Shaw as he emerged into afflu ence from poverty-stricken years in London as a hack writer was not blind to the ills of his native land. Yet his zeal for Socialism through "gradualism" took in every land and every race. At his death in 1950 at the acre of 94, he left a gross estate of over SI million. E.R.R. To Ban Eavesdropping on Juries "Knowingly and willfully, by any means or device whatsoever, to record, listen to, or observe proceed ings of grand or petit juries" is likely to be made a crime by this Congress. A bill (S 2887) to that effect was passed by the Senate on March 26 without oppo sition and received the unanimous approval of the House Judiciary committee on July IS. It is true that little time remained after the House committee action to get the bill to the House floor for a vote. However, there was little or no opposition to it. It embodies a proposal of Attorney General Her bert Brownell, Jr., endorsed by President Eisenhower. : ""THE BILL was instigated by the secret recording, ; with concealed microphones, of the deliberations : of federal juries in six civil cases at Wichita, Kans., i during May 1954. The jury-tapping was done by a University of Chicago Law School team in connection ; with a research project, financed by the Ford Founda j tion. into the administration of justice. The listening in was agreed to by attorneys for both sides and pre siding judge Delmas Hill. ; Dean Edward H. Levi of the Law School said that j jury-tapping had been approved by "many outstand ing lawyers and judges as usetul . . . m improving the administration of justice." And federal circuit judge Orie L. Phillips was quoted as saying it could show a judge if, how and why his charge to jurors had puzzled or even misled them. However, the Justice Department hold that if "jur ors suspect eavesdropping, "however well intention ed," it would deter them from freely discussing a case among themselves. Chairman James O. Eastland of the Senate Judiciary committee has said that jury-tapping violates the whole constitutional right to a jury trial. And the U. S. Supreme Court in 1929 held that a mere suspicion of ''surveillance" could well prevent an "average juror" from "calm judgment' and make jurv service repugnant to citizens "fit for juries." E.R.R. Wednesday. July 23, 1356 Before August? ! toilet's Government May Last Until Next By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent French Premier Guy Mollet s government seems pretty certain to last until next fall at least. When he took office Febru ary 1 as head of France's 23rd post-war cabinet, it was predicted that he would last only a few weeks. His shaky coalition, based on his own So- tharles Mutann CiatlSt party and the Radical Socialist party, commanded but 183 out of the 627 seats in the National Assem bly, the dominant house of Par liament. Mollet was faced by an explo sive situation in North Africa and threatened inflation at home. Expect Parliament Adjournment But in the intervening months he has survived an endless series of votes of confidence on all sorts of issues. He faces the last of the votes this week. He is expected to win them, then to adjourn parlia ment until some time in October. 1 1 looked over the weekend as if Mollet's position was threat ened. He proposed to impose a spe cial 10 per cent income tax to raise the S450 million which, it is estimated, will be the cost of fighting the rebels in Algeria for the next two years. Unexpectedly strong opposi tion developed. Political experts believed that Mollet might be overthrown. Again Rides Out Storm But he decided Tuesday to beat a strategic retreat. Finance Minister Paul Ramadier agreed in Mollet's behalf, at a meeting of the Assembly's Finance Com mittee, to float a loan sufficient to finance the Algerian war for this year. Ramadier said the government would demand a 10 per cent in come tax rise to pay next year's costs. But Mollet was expected Matter of Fact by CLEAN BOMBS AND DIRTY BOMBS A few days ago. Atomic Ener gv Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss issued a statement about the recent Pa cific hydrogen tests, which could be of his toric scientific and strategic importance. It could also be disingenu ous, and whol- .,.,M-pli Aop J.v " reassuring implications. The statement was as follows: "It has been confirmed that there are many factors, includ ing operational ones, which do make it possible to localize to an extent not heretofore apprecia ted the fall-out of nuclear ex plosions." There is little doubt about the primary purpose of the state ment. Lt. Gen. James Gavin's re cently released testimony that a major hvdrogen attack would cause ' several millions deaths," and that the death area would "back up well into Western E u -rope" natural ly caused a fu rore in Eu rope. Strauss' statement was clearly intend ed to reassure Stewart Alsop the Europeans. OUT the real meaning of his " statement is far less clear. It could mean that the Atomic Energy Commission has suc ceeded in achieving a "clean bomb" a bomb with little or no radioactive side effects. It can be reported authoritatively that research contracts for a "clean bomb" have in fact been let. But it can also be stated authorita tively that the technological hurdles which must be over come to achieve such a bomb are immense. Previous efforts to make a "clean bomb" (which would be a fusion bomb, rather than a fission-fusion-fission bomb, like the "dirty" bombs now in both Amer ican and Soviet stockpiles) have met a "technological blank wall." If the AEC scientists have in fact overlept the blank wall, and invented this entirely new kind of bomb, then a new chap ter has opened in the nuclear era. and the strategic situation has been altered in a significant way. But if the AEC has invented a "clean bomb," why did not Strauss openly boast to the world about this humanitarian achieve ment? And why should he make his cryptic reference to "opera tional factors? ' And why was uranium 237. radioactive by product of the "dirty bomb," found by Japanese scientists after the pacific tests? THESE question: suggest that ''.ww'i'?h''''W'.W . J . 4 -1 the real meaning of the Fall, mcCann Says to put off that demand until the time came. Thus it appeared, unless the situation changed suddenly, that Mollet and his government were safe at least until the next ses sion of Parliament in October. Average Life That would mean that Mollet had kept together one of the weakest governments since the war for more than eight months, whatever might happen in the new session. The average life of post-war governments has been about seven months. Mollet has survived partly by skillfully angling for the sup- In The Day's More on foreign affairs today including foreign aid: Egyptian officials are saying in Cairo that Egypt's man-on-horseback Premier Nasser will announce on Thursday of this week '"decisive steps in answer to the U.S. and British with drawal of offers to put up money" to build a huge dam on the Nile river. A Cairo newspaper compares the British and American action to a "demand for a pound of flesh," and asserts that in the case of the big Aswan dam Egypt "refused to agree to con ditions that would bind its in dependence." TOUGH talk, you say, from a proposed borrower to a pro posed lender? Well, it IS tough talk. But, under the circumastances in volved in this Aswan dam deal the Egyptians are talking straight facts. After all, what we have been saying to them, in substance, is that if they'll be good and STAY ON OUR SIDE, we'll dig down in our pockets and build a dam for 'em. That may be good striped pants diplomacy, but it ISN'T good business and I have the feeling that in our economic deal ings with foreign countries we'd better stick to straight business principles. THAT brings up an interesting little story that failed to get Joa and Stewart Alsop Strauss statement is simply that the AEC has tested a high air burst of a hydrogen weapon something the Soviets have al ready done. If this is so, the implied reassurance in the Strauss statement is false. A high air burst does indeed "localize the fall-out of nuclear explosions," and for a simple reason. Exploded near the sur face, the three mile fireball of a "dirty bomb" scoops out vast quantitis of material, radio-poisons it, and sucks it into the up per atmosphere, whence it falls out in a radioactive rain of death on living things below. But a bomb, even a "dirty bomb," ex ploded two miles or more in the air, will not have this effect, simply because the fireball does not make contact with the earth. It might be thought that this fact (which of course has long been understood by scientists) would in itself provide reassur ance to our allies. In case of global war, why not order the Strategic Air Command to ex plode all its bombs at an al titude of two miles or more? The answer lies in the nature of SAC's mission. A high burst hydrogen bomb would certainly tear the heart out of a great city. But tearing the heart out of cities is only a small part of SAC's grim job. The great bulk of SAC's bomb stockpile is cer tainly assigned in the war plans to Soviet and satellite air bases. IN CASE of global war, the Soviet airfields 300 in Eu rope alone, according to Gen eral Gruenther, and many more in Soviet territory must be destroyed at all costs, if the Western allies are to survive physically. The Soviet air bases can only be surely knocked out with ground bursts. A house in a city, which can take only two pounds of blast pressure, might be knocked down by an air burst hydrogen bomb at a range of fifteen miles. But reinforced underground structures, such as the Soviets are building on their more important bases, can withstand upwards of a hundred pounds of blast pressure, and thick con crete runways far more than that. Thus SAC simply cannot depend on the blast from high air bursts to knock out the Sov iet air bases. Ground bursts are needed to wipe the bases, run ways and all, off the face of the earth. Thus the fact that the AEC has exploded a hydrogen bomb at high altitude which is al most certainly the real meaning of the Strauss statement has little strategic significance, and provides no cause for reassur ance among our allies. For this reason, and other reasons which will be examined in another report on this unhappy subject, it is time, and past time, to re think the comfortable theory that American security can be based exclusively on the deter rent effect of the American stockpile of "dirty bombs." 1956. New York Herald Tribune Inc. port of nominally opposing Na- tional Assembly groups, includ ing the Communists, on various specific issues. But he was survived partly also because none of the opposi tion parties wanted to take the responsibility for throwing him out. The measures Mollet has put through Parliament have been highly unpopular with parties strong enough to defeat him. They include the calling up of more than 200,000 reservists to fight in Algeria, and price-freezing and other decrees to prevent inflation. News by Frank Jenkins much play in the news. Rutgers University recently conducted what it termed an international summer banking school. One of the bankers present was Vladmir Geraschenko, first assistant chairman of the U.S.S.R. (Soviet) state bank. In the course of the sessions, he made this interest ing statement: "Other countries won't stop development of Russia's economy by banning Russian imports. Such countries will only hurt themselves." fpHAT is a challenging state--- ment. But I think he is right. Let's put it this way: Russia's greatest present need is food. She hasn't been able to produce enough of it to go around, and as a result vast masses of her people are hungry. History tells that hungry people are apt to cause trouble. Our greatest present need is to SELL food. We have vast sur pluses of it stored up in bulging warehouses. We have been giv ing some of it away in boondog gling deals, but we can't seem to reduce the surplus much. The value of our stored-up surpluses still holds around eight billion dollars and we're just at the beginning of a new harvest. What we need is to sell our agricultural surpluses to people who will CONSUME them. TUT, someone will say, that J- would STRENGTHEN RUS SIA and we mustn't do any thing that would strengthen an enemy. Here's the other side: If the Russians import their food from us instead of growing it themselves, they will ultimate ly WEAKEN their economy. They will weaken it in this way: By buying their food abroad, they will neglect the develop ment of their agricultural in dustry by failing to build it up. In the event of war, we would immediately cut off our food imports to the Russians and be cause they had neglected to build up their own agricultural econ omy they would then be left in a tight spot. The British have been in that same tight spot in two wars. I CAN'T help feeling that this Russian banker was talking plain common sense. Russia needs to buy food. We need to sell food. Buying and selling create TRADE. When trade is carried in soundly, in accordence with fundamental business prin ciples, it is a great builder of friendship. The seller values his customers, and dosen't want to lose them in a foolish quarrel (nearly all wars are foolish). The buyer values his honest suppliers and wants to stay on good terms with them. JAZZ FOR ARGENTINA Buenos Aires (U.R) Dizzy Gillespie and his band, the first big-time American jazz group to play here in more than a decade, will open a six-night stand Sat urday, it was announced Tuesday. m m m KV0 W MEN'S BOYS' Ladies' Skirts Dress Slacks Stretch Socks Values to 6.9S Re?. 6.95 to 18.95 199 299 1 r9.. 1495 I now 39 HUNDREDS OF OTHER WONDERFUL BUYS! CRATER DEPT. STORE CENTRAL POINT, OREGON Stassen's Stop-Nixon Campaign By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington U.R) There wasn't much left of Harold E. Stassen s stop-Nixon campaign today except the mystery of who said what to whom last Friday at the White House. S t a s s e n's proposal that the Republi cans drop Vice President Rich- Lvie t i1miii ard M. Nixon ana nominate Massachusetts' Gov. Christian A. Herter for his job was a two-day wonder while it lasted. It lasted until 5 o'clock Tues day night. Republican National Committee Chairman Leonard W. Hall then announced that Herter would nominate Nixon for vice 'president at next month's national convention. The Friday Huddle That collapsed the Stassen trial balloon in flames. It en abled Nixon's closest associates to smile again for the first time since Monday when Stassen an nounced a national campaign to bounce Nixon. It enabled them Congressional Quiz (Copyripht. 1956 Congressional Quarterly) Q. Four of the following five proposals were part of Presi dent Eisenhower's 1956 legisla tive program; he was opposed to one of them. Which one was the President against: (a) higher postal rates; (b) federal aid for school construction; (c) statehood for Hawaii; (d) 90 per cent price supports for farm commodities; (e) an expanded highway pro gram? A (d) 90 per cent price sup ports for farm commodities. A bill including Ihis provision was vetoed by the President April 16. He favored instead flexible or sliding scale price supports for crops. Q In a recent Presidential campaign a candidate made an issue of the record of Congress, calling it a "good-for-nothing" and a "do-nothing" Congress. Can you name: (a) the candidate; lb) the year of the campaign; (c) the Congress to which he re ferred? A (a) Former President Harry S. Truman; (b) 1948; (c) the 80th Congress. Q The Taft-Hartley labor law was passed by Congress in 1947 over the Veto of President Tru man, who subsequently urged the law's repeal. President Eis enhower also has taken a posi tion on the controversial labor law. Does he want it: (a) repeal ed; (b) left as it is; (c) amended? A (c) Amended. President Eisenhower has said the Taft Hartley act was "sound legis lation" but should be amended to "correct a number of de fects." Q A bill to provide federal aid for school construction failed in the House by 30 votes July 5. Advocates of federal aid said the bill was doomed when the House adopted an amendment by Rep. Adam C. Powell Jr. (D N.Y.). The Powell amendment would have: (a) apportioned fed eral funds among the states on the basis of need; (b) denied funds to states operating segre gated schools; (c) required state as well as federal grants for school construction. A (b) Denied fundi to states operating segregated schools. Use Tribune Want Ads Jim Savei Ymi Slill p Villi VUJtfl I w M Villi ( Advantage of r STOREWIDE CLEARANCE ALL PRICES SLASHED! Here Are Just A Few Examples Of Hits Snag also to give attention to a ques tion which occasionally baffles Republican party professionals. It goes like this: "Why does Ike do some of the things he does?" There is, for example, that Friday White House huddle be tween the President and Stassen at which Stassen told Mr. Eisen hower in advance of his stop Nixon drive. Who said what to whom? What were the circum stances under which Stassen im mediately thereafter decided he had a go-ahead to start a cam paign to keep Mr. Eisenhower's young friend off the 1956 Re publican ticket? The President did not pull his party rank on Stassen. Instead, he permitted his cabinet subordi nate and disarmament adviser to pot-shot Nixon where it hurt. Stassen called on Nixon to with draw and on the President to think the situation over and take a firm public position on the issue raised. Siassen's Statement "It is for each of them to make their views known at an appropriate future time," was the way Stassen put it, which is about as bluntly as a subordin- ate could tell his boss what io do. Stassen hurried his statement,. to the public just in time to take the publicity shine off the Presi dent's return from the Panama conference. Hall said Herter telephoned him Tuesday morning saying he would "consider it a privilege" to nominate Nixon. Herter and Nixon also discussed the matter. Nixon Eputhorized Hall to say he was "very pleased" by Hertcr's action. Herter told Hall he would have a further statement today in Boston. Some of Nixon's friends sus pected a White House plot against the vice president. Others could not believe such could be. They found comfort in Mr. Ei senhower's warm greeting of Nixon Tuesday at the airport on returning from Panama, and from White House Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty's firm stand that Nixon is the man. They were vastly disturbed, however, by the mystery of that huddle. The haunting question, was and is why did Mr.' Ei senhower let Stassen pot-shot Nixon if he really wants him again as a running mate? The answer may come next week if there is a White House news conference. This week's has been cancelled. i- vc r rt r nin U I CHI9 ulu m MUD CANADIAN WHISKY. A BUND. 86.8 PROOF, SCHEHIEY DISTILLERS CO.. N. T. C.. i Have Time In Take iimiw aaaw w Our Gigantic I imported! 1 I ft il o : 1 QFC - J E? .... ' f !ll ft z J