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Ijauv and Sundav One rear I5 00 Iji.'y iiiid Sjmiav One n.or.tn I -23 Cit'ier and Dralers 3c per copy All Irma Cash tn Adanre dffaPapeTVr tneV.tj of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County ' 7 ni te fP res Fu : I Leas e d W ir e MtMBFROP ATDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATION Ad,pei-twini Representative. WTEST-HOLI.IOAY COMPANY INC :ice. in New York Chicago. De-t-o:t. San Franci'O Anzelei. fcwrie Portend St. Louu Atlanta Van-outer BC NATIONAL D 1 1 O R I A I I ASSOCIATION ! J o Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file cf The Mail Tribune- 10, 20. 30 and '0 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO . July 30. 1946 ! lit was Tuesday i Harry Holmes elected presi- j dent of the Rogue River Valley Knife a!Td Fork club. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A machine has been invented for the har vesting of potatoes, that does about everything but eat the po tatoes, after cooking them. 20 YEARS AGO July 30. 193S (It was Thursday) Tear packing plants will start operations next week. ! Kiwani club announces no farther effort will be made to fine! amateur talent in the organ ization after timidity shown in show Monday. 30 YEARS AGO July 30. 1926 (It was Fridiy) H. L. Walther. of Medford, selected to take charge of the Oregon Public Utility Informa tion bureau. About 100 Medford members of the American Legion plan to attend state convention at Marshficld, Aug. 5-7. 40 YEARS AGO July 30. ISIS Ut was Sunday) A first aid demonstration will be given at city hall by Dr. T. H. Kruse, of the University ol California, at 8 m. Tuesday. From Local and Personal: Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Loomis will leave for Pelican Bay, via Crater Lake Wednesday. Wfesi's tha Answer? Can You Gt 4 of iho 7? Copr. 1954. Kditorxal Beaeart Rroort Mf the President pocket ve toes a bill after Congress Has ad journed, he docs or doesn't have to iOv his reasonsT 2. T! e surplus shown by the U.S. Treasury last fical year was the first in two. five, ten or 15 years? 3. Whether a business merger violates the anti-trust laws de pends chiefly on how large it is; right or wong? 4. About one-third, one-half or two-thirds of all airplane trips to Europe from the U.S. in 1955 w ere in "tourist "class? 5. Appendicitis is relatively common or rare among older per sors? 6. What important U.S. busi ness has a high concentration in Hartford Conn.? 7. The thistle is the symbolic f'owcr cf Ireland. Scotland. Can ada Mexico. N. Carolina or Spa.u' The answers: 1. Doojn't. but in practice usually does. 2. First in fiva years. 3. Wrong. 4. About lvro-thirds. S. Rare. 6. Insurance. 7. Scotland. A small moliufk known as the icrcdo cr slvipworm causes mil lions of dollars of marine dam age each year. It mines through wooden piles and ship timbers witl the rasplike surface of its siiells. Itinerant coconut pickers in J-ohore. Slalaya. use monkeys to t-erp them harvest the fruit, the National Geographic Society y.s Controlled by leashes, the pu-iers pets Camber up tall calros and fc of the COCO" nu's ASSOCIATION MAIL TRIBUKE Textiles in Trouble i The tourist, trade, one of New England's most sol i id industries, is reported booming this summer, but : new trouble faces the textile industry there. Two large mills have closed down production in recent months, ; blaming Southern and Japanese competition. 1 More than a score of others are extending their - traditional paid July "vacation"' closings by another week, this one unpaid. Workers are calling the extra i week their '"Japanese vacations." And as a striking corollary, a high tariff wing :it least in regard to cotton and cotton textiles is ; building up in the Democratic party. Sen. John 0. ; Pastore (D-R.I. ), specifically asked to be put on rec ord as voting "no" when the Senate on July 18 ap- proved the customs simplification bill. ; I'astore was one of the movers and shakers behind i a resolution approved on the same day by voice vote ; that directs the Tariff Commission to investigate whe j ther textile imports are seriously affecting the domes ' tic economy. And support came from Sen. Wavne I -Morse (D-Ore.), Sen. Thomas A. Wofford (D-S.C.), Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.j, and Sen. Olin D. John ston (D-S.C.) cutting right across normal "liberal ' conservative"' lines. ; OXGRESS in passing the farm bill signed by Pres j idem Eisenhower on May 28 wrote into it pro I visions the President specifically criticized. These in cluded required export sale of cotton surpluses at be low market price, import restrictions on long-staple cotton, and authority to negotiate import restriction to the foreign aid bill would have applied the princi ple of import quotas. Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill. ) requested to be re corded as voting "no" on the textile investigation res olution. Douglas declared : Those of us 'Democrats' who grew up in high tariff areas fought against the false ideas promulgated by the Republican Party. Now I am pained to see. as the textile industry moves South to the Piedmont range, it is infecting many Southerners with these erroneous ideas. That is one New England importation that I think the South could do without. r0UGLAS argued that "the textile industry has a bad case of stage fright over imports which, quan tatively, are not large in number." He pointed out that the Tariff Commission in a report to the Senate Finance Committee had noted: (1) That the U. S. exports cotton manufactures '"to a far greater extent than it imports them"; (2) that an exceedingly small part of the domestic con sumption of cotton manufactures is supplied by im ports and that "Japan accounts for only a part of such imports."' Douglas argues that the industry has "greatly ex aggerated" its losses as the result of Japanese imports. He attributes the textile troubles to a technical revolu tion in manufacture due in large part to "the new synthetic fibers." Nevertheless, the concern of the textile states is real. Sen. Wofford pointed out that Japan buys cot ton at 6c less a pound "than our own domestic man ufacturers have to pay for it." Also that Japanese "textile industry girls" work for from 14c to 15c an hour whereas the U.S. "average wage"' in textiles is $1.30 an hour. Secretary of State Dulles on Apr. 17 expressed "great concern" over Alabama and South Carolina statutes that require stores handling Japanese textiles to post signs reading, "Japanese Textiles Sold Here." As another indicator, Prof. Seymour E. Harris of Harvard, chairman of the New England Governors' Textile Committee, estimates that imports of Japan ese cotton cloth this year might reach 224 million yards, as against 100 million yards in 1955. E.R.R. Everything's Booming Including Prices A rise in steel prices will have a "relatively insig nificant effect" on consumer prices, according to Ewan Clague, U. S. Commissioner of Labor Statistics. He announced on July 24 that consumer prices had reached an all-time record in June. The June level will go up, too, says Clague, but "not in a jump like this." And he says he does not see inflation in the figures. Still, on the eve of the steel strike settlement, in dustry sources were predicting an $8 to $10 a ton price rise for steel. And inasmuch as steel is a basic material in most manufacturing processes, price in creases tend to pyramid before reaching the eventual consumer. Even without a rise in steel prices, automobile manufacturers had announced that their 1957 models will cost more. Over 11 per cent of the price of the average automobile represents the cost of the steel it contains. And automobile prices make up 6 per cent i of the Bureau of Labor Statistics retail price index. CTEEL scrap prices didn't wait for a strike settle ; ment to go rocketing. They rose S6 a ton in Pitts i burgh on July 25. On the eve of the steel settlement, the stock mar i ket was making daily advances to all-time high levels. Most commodity future prices were rising. The BLS ! attributes the 6.7 per cent rise in consumer costs between May and June primarily to higher food prices. Pork' chops, for example, jumped 9 cents a pound. Well, hold vour hats, here we go again. Choice grade beef cattle in Chicago the type of beef sold in most chain stores on July 25 went up to S25.50 a hundredweight, the highest point since May 1955. And prices were being squeezed still higher by a sup ply shrinkage. The Federal Reserve Board on July 24 reported that installment sales in department stores rose again in May for the 21st consecutive -month. May install- Monday. -Julr S8. 1SS Polish Government Convinced It Faces Bad Internal Situation By CHARLES MeCANX United Press Correspondent The Polish Communist gov ernment evidently is convinced it faces an explosive internal situation. It is evident also that the Soviet Russian govern ment shares this con viction fully. Polish P r e mier Josey Cy rankiewicz has announced that l tmiies uttiM emergency measures are to be taken to "re move the most painful griev ances of the working masses." fAotter of Fact LYNDON AGAIN Washington Senate Majority I.eader I. vndon Johnson of Texas i Aclai Stevenson just about the nic est present that Steven son could hope for. By re- mar kably as tute parlia m e n tary tac t i c s, Johnson narrowly pre vented a rag- J..-.1PD Vibup iiijj ma ii(i"3 fight at the wind-up of Congress. Thereby, Johnson greatly im paired the strategy of Steven son's rivals, who want to use the civil rights issue to split the Democratic convention, and incidentally the ranks of Steven son's supporters. For Stevenson, therefore, Johnson's ounce of prevention was worth several tons of cure. It is shocking, of course, that the tragic issue of civil rights should always be treated as no better than a political foot ball. But that is the melan choly fact. Be ginning at the beginning, if the Eisenhow er administra tion had had the faintest se rious desire to pass a civil rights bill, the bill would have been introduced at the beginning of the Congres sional session and pushed with maximum power thereafter. Instead the Administration bill was only offered in May, when it had no possible chance of getting past the usual road block of a Southern filibuster. The sole intention, obviously, was to encourage the Democrats to stage an intra-party donny brook fair. The trick savored of that peculiar brand of slick political smartness for which At torney General Herbert Brown ell is widely and justly cele brated. Yet the delay in introducing the bill also helped Lvndon Johnson to frustrate Brownell's scheme. The House was bound to take many weeks to act on the bill. That meant that the bill could only reach the Senate in the closing dayt'' of the ses sion. And that meant, in turn, that Johnson would have time on his side. THROUGHOUT the whole ses sion, of course, Johnson had been working overtime to avoid trouble over civil rights. The has made btewxrt 'Visop ment sales were up 20 per cent over those of May 1955. Department store, speciality shop, variety and food chain groups were predicting gains of 3 to 4 per cent in dollar sales volume in the second six months of 1956. A recent survey by the National Retail Dry Goods Association indicated that consumers were turning to better quality goods, with higher prices expected for women s, children s, and lnlants wear-j three days: b five days.- (c) 10 ivio- annai-pl I days: (d) one month? lng appaiei. rT, , , , A (a) Three days (Article Incidentally, the NRDGA says more and more de- j T section s. The constitu partment stores are passing on to customers the costs tion also provides (Article h. of "traditional services." About 58 per cent of the stores charge for parcel post delivery; an increasing n. number are adding charges for clothing alterations, i nitely. So Lehman. Hennings gift wrapping, C.O.D. delivery. WHERE'S the money going to come from? Well, the June price rise triggered an automatic pay rise for some 500,000 industrial workers. Then came the steel wage hikes. And now John L. Lewis, who had been awaiting the steel settlement, is reported ready to ask for higher pay for his miners. Also, emplovment hit an all-time peak of 66.5 million iobs in June, Up 3.3 million Irom tne lSOO average. And the Department Commerce on July 24 announced that tne nations pa10U ioi uie i"M,ion delegates, the scheme to rh.-pp m. nths of 1956 was billion. That was $3 billion higher than the rate for the last three months of 1955; 19 billion higher than for the first three months of '55 1 E.R.R. HITCH-HIKER Waverly, Tenn. (U.RI Rex Hall was having his automobile lubricated when the service sta tion man found a three-foot snake wound around the exhaust pipe. The "jack rabbit" of America is really a hare. This animal more correctly called the prairie hare is famed for its "spy hops." when it leaps several feet into the air to get a view of the surrounding landscape. Edward Ochab, the Polish I Communist leader, has said that the standard of living of work ers must be raised by 30 per cent, and that 1.2 million homes must be built within the next five years. Bttr Timei Predicted Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bul ganin spent all of last week in Poland. He made speeches in which he told of better times to come. Incidentally, Bulganin said also that the German territory east of the Oder-Neisse rivers j line, which Poland now occu- pies pending a peace treaty, will remain Polish "forever." ; The statements of Cyrankie- y j nd stewo a!cP , worst moment was when the Senate had to pass on the nom- ination of Solicitor Genera Simon E. Sobeloff to a Circuit Court judgeship. Because Sobe loff had displeased them by his ! Supreme Court arguments on school de-segregation, the more fiery Southerners wanted to make the debate on Sobeloff into a sort of white supremacy field day. Johnson foresaw that a white supremacy field-day would in vite Senators like Lehman of New York, Hennings of Missouri and Douglas of Illinois to stage a civil rights field day. So he triumphantly held the debale to a minimum, reportedly getting Sen. Olin Johnston of South Carolina, an angrv for instance, to cut two hour oration to ' a little 20-minute talk. Jonnson s next hurdle was the Republican leadership. If Minor-1 ity Leader V ilham Knowland of California had chosen to play BrowneUs slick trick to the limit, Johnson s bottling up oper - auon couia never uae sucucra- ed. But President Eisenhower had personally telephoned John- son to plead for passage of two bills he particularly wanted, tiie foreign aid bill and the bill tA raise executive department sal aries. That gave Johnson a lever. EFFECT, Johnson told Knowland that the President could either have the bills he had asked for and no civil rights fight, or he could have a civil rights fight and no bills. So Knowland therefore asTeed to coorierate with Johnson. Thus the lines were neatlv mitted in the course of the 84th laid when the civil rights bill Congress (two years) would ap finallv came over from the ! proach: (a) 5.000; (b) 10.000; (c) House and was referred to the Senate Judiciary committee. As I the chairman of the Judiciary i committee is Sen. James East land of Mississippi, the commit tee could be counted on to hold the bill until kingdom come un less its hand was forced. But there were only two ways to force the committee's hand, and Johnson had already closed off both of them. The normal expedient was to offer the civil rights bill as an amendment to another bill. But legislative amendments are not in order on appropriations bills. Johnson had left nothing but ap propriations bills for last min ute action. The other expedient was a motion to discharge the Judiciary committee. But such motions are not in order except during the "morning hour" that follows the end of a "legislative day." And by merely recessing instead of adjourning each ses- at an annual rate of S233 PLANER CLEAN, SELECT QUALITY Fill Your Storage Now Prompt Delivery MEDFORD FUEL CO. Phone 2-2111 Court and McAndrews Ochab and Bulganin all i of course, from the big I riots which broke out in the in dustrial city of Poznan on June I 28. I The riots were serious enough in themselves. At least 53 per sons were killed. To make it more embarrassing, the riots occurred during a big international fair which had at tracted hundreds of foreign vis itors to the city. A communique of the official press aencv PAP said "imper- la"st agents and members of '"e anti-communist underground organization fomented the riots ana staged them during the fair. This pretense has now been almost abandoned, though un doubtedly it will be hauled out again for the trials of the 300 odd persons held as rioters. Unrest Admitted Now Cyrankiewicz all but ad mits that the riots stemmed di rectly from widespread unrest among both workers and peas- ants. He says he will end that period when workers, peasants and intellectuals were distrusted, restricted by countless regula tions . . . when they were sub jected to lawlessness and abuse l by the authorities and when their grievances and needs were ignored." Ochab blames conditions on "the soullessncss of the authori ties. The Communist organiza tion, he says, has committed grave errors. It is reported that Russia is considering a big loan to Poland to enable Syrankiewicz and Ochab to make cood some of their promises. An indication o tlle imme. rfiat(? future in po,and wil, CQme ; duri tne ,rials of the Poznan i rioters whieh mav start this j week I thc sente'nces are se. 1 vere lhcv mav suppress unrest j Jo. a time Rl,t thpv wiU onK. j stir up thp hatrcd 'with whici, nearv al poles regard lhejr Red ma;crs ! : Congressional Quiz (Copyright. I95S Congressional Quarterly) Q Even with adjournment in the offing, new bills are intro- i duced daily. What final figure would you guess the bills sub- 15.000? A (c) 15,000 is closest. The total will exceed that figure. As of July 13 the tally of bills submitted in the 84th Congress was 16.467. Q True or False: All legis lation pending when the 84th Congress adjourns will lapse un less a special session is called before Jan. 3. A True. Election years sig nal the end of a Congress. Each Congress meets for two years (the term of office of a Representative) and legisla tion carries over from the first Jo the second year. But it dies when the second session ad journs, unless a special session is called. Q Under the Legislative Re organization Act of 1946, a date was set for Congress to adjourn (with certain exceptions). Which was it: (a) May 31; (b) July 31; (c) September 31? A The date set was July 31, not counting Sundays, and excepting times of war or tional emergency. However, Congress may decide to over- slay the deadline. The U. S. currently is in a state of na tional emergency dating from the Korean crisis. Q What is the constitutional limit on the time one House of Congress may adjourn without the consent of the other: (a) and the others had to admit de feat. If a long, bitter civil rights de bate in the Senate had generated all the usual bitterness just be fore the Democratic convention, a repeat performance in Chi cago would have been quite unavoidable. But with such civil righters as Mrs. Franklin Roose velt and Sens. Lehman and Hu bert Humphrey of Minnesota in I Stevenson's corner, and with no ; knock off Stevenson on the civil rights issue now looks a lot less workable. (Copyright, 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) wicz, stem In The Day's Today's hottest world news: Nasser, Egypt's Man on Horse back, SEIZES the Suez canal. As a result, the chancelleries of the world are buzzing like a bumblebee nest when a brash small boy pokes it with a stick. TN LONDON, Britain sends Egypt a sharp note in which the British make it clear that they do not recognize the grab as legal. In Paris, the French foreign minister tells off the Egyptians so strongly that the Egyptian minister says Cairo will have to reconsider existing relations with France. HPHE dispatches report this morning that relations be tween Nasser and the British and French governments have reached the crisis stage. In Washington. President Ei senhower discusses the Suez af fair with his cabinet and with Herbert Hoover Jr.. our under secretary of state. (State Secre tary Dulles is in South Amer ica.) Over in the state department our striped-pants boys are con ferring busily with their British and French opposite numbers, and a stale department spokes man, Lincoln White, says the Egyptian action carries "far reaching implications." llfORLD financial markets re " act sharply. Suez Canal company stock fell 21 per cent on the Paris exchange this morning. Since the Suez canal is the major channel for Middle East oil ship oed to world mar kets, oil con.pany shares drop ped as mucn as S6.50 in Paris Headlines of Future Reviewed by Newsmen United Press correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Next Round To Israel? Don't be surprised if Israel comes out a winner in the Suez Canal dispute, even though it isn't in the fight. The United States, Britain and France may start sending Israel arms in quantity as one of their moves against Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. It's regard ed as unlikely that Russia would retort by beefing up Nasser's supply. London insiders say the arms-to-Israel question is a top item for consideration in the United States-British-French con sultations now in progress here. Target Expect Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission to get a thorough going-over by the Democrats in the campaign. Strauss and con gressional Democrats have long been feuding. The Democrats ac cuse him of dragging his heels on developing atomic power for peaceful uses. He's accused also of "insulting" Congress by with holding information from the congressional Atomic Energy Committee. Strauss is President Eisenhower's special assistant for atomic matters, as well as AEC chairman, so he will make a fine campaign target. Indian authorities are alarm ed at those anonymous letters threatening to assassinate Prime Miss Ann Rice Buys j Interest in Store Miss Ann Rice has purchased thc N. II. Zachari;;en interest in the City Appliance stores in Medford and Ashland and is now the sole owner of both stores. Miss Rice, who has lived in Medford the majority of her life, has been in the snles department of several local firms and was with Copco for many years. City Appliance will continue handling the Holpoir.t line of ap pliances. According to Miss Rice the sales staff at the Medford store has been enlarged and starting next month they will handle the new line of Hotpoint television sets. Section 2) that the President may adjourn Congress in case the two Houses disagree, but no President has used that power. JUST COME OF AGE Published a a public serv ice in cooperation with The Adiertising Council and, the Xeuspapcr Advertis ing xcutiijes A ssociation . News r Frank Jenkins and more than S3 on the New Y'ork stock market. AY'BE we'd better bring our selves up to date on this lat est case of international jitters. You will remember that for quite a period of time we dick ered along with Nasser on a Lady Bountiful proposal to help him build a big dam on the Nile if he'd promise to be good and stay on our side. The British were toying with the idea of chipping in with us on the deal. Whiie this was going on, Nasser was dickering also with the Rus sians. Eventually we got sen sible and told him the deal was off and the British gave him the same word at about the same time. So He seizes the Suez canal and announces that he'll use the tolls from it to build his Aswan dam. Out here on the Pacific Coast, we'll recognize his tactics as identical with those employed a century ago by Joaquin Mur rieta, the famous California out law. lirHAT'S the pitch? " Well, in situations wher we're pretty certain there"' something that doesn't meet the eye, we Americans say: "Look for the "Ethiopian in the wood pile." In similar situations, the French shrug their shoulders and mutter cynically: "Cherchez la femme" (Look for the woman. i In this case, we won't be far off if we twist the French phrase a little and say: "Cherchez le RUSS." It's a safe guess that the Rus sians are mixed up in it some where. Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. They remember what happened to Mohandas K. Gandhi, Nehru's predecessor as Indian leader. The threats addressed to Nehru come from the fanatic Maharas trians of Central India. They are enraged over his determina tion to take Bombay away from the new state of Maharastra and put it under central administra tion. Gandhi received similar threats before he was assassin ated by a Maharastrian in 1848. Hurricane Hunter me Lnited States Weather Bureau plans to announce this week a contract of nearly $4. 000,000 for specially designed radars to detect hurricanes and tornadoes. They will improve forecasting of dangerous storms. It's a timely move Anna, first 1956 hurricane, was born last week. Hot Strait Military observers in Formosa predict a big fight soon between Chinese Nationalist and Chinese Communist jet planes over th2 Formosa Strait. Nationalists fir ing American-built F86 and F84 jets, shot down four Russian built Red MIGls and damaged two on July 21. The Reds are reported moving MIG reinforce ments to the coast. Mothers Tell It Geo. N. Taylor An Illinois mother, leaving the hospital with her ninth babe tells the nurse "111 see vou again next year." But the nurse said "No, make it two year s." And so this mother did. Next is the California mother of ten. "That trip to the hospital year after year is hard work." But her smile said she wanted more of it. In the millions who have been born out of sin into eternal life. God has His joy, for "There is joy in heaven over one soul that turns." Only sucli as be lieve down . in their heart that Christ died "for their every last sin, have eternal life. These are raised to glory Resurrection Day and such of them as die to self and promote Christ as Lord and Saviour, win eternal reward. This Message sponsored by an Oregon family. Adv. but her name is in the book! It's a wonderful feeling, isn't it? After all these years, to be really grown up at last mature and responsible enough to act ua Uy say how your government will be run by your vote on election day? Registering to vote is your first official act as an American come-of-age. It's one of the most im portant steps you'll ever take an a cittren. So don't put it off. Kegwter now. Is your name in the book? mm
