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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordTbibuni "Kverybuj in au.kt.n oiegoo Keaos inc Man tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MLDFORD WANTING CO 87-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6. M ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HT.RB GREY Advertising Managel GERALD LATHAJd Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Managing Kditor EARL H ADAMS City Editol HARRY CHiPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE SI ARCHER Society Editor PALE ER1CKSO-N Circulauop Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon tinder Act ot March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One veal S12.00 Daily and Sundav Sis months 6.50 Dally and Sunday Three mns 350 Sunday Only- One veat S3 .50 By Carrier In Advance - Medtord Ashland Central Pntnt Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoema. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent an 1 on motoi routes. Daily and Sunday One year S15 00 DMly and Sunday One month 1-25 Carrier and Dealers- 5c pel copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official' Paper of the" City of aledford Official Paper ol Jackson county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative . WEST-HOIJ.IDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago De troit San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATION A 1 EDITORIAL 's ! assocCatlon EM 0" HEWSPAPE PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medtord and Jackson County Histor Irom the files ol The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and (0 year ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 1. 1946 (It was Thursday) Lumber will be manufactured mainiy for local sale by the saw mill being erected along the Crater Lake highway north of Camp White, according to I. O. Chapman of Medford. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: One of the Older Girls turned her new auto around in the middle of the block yes, and escaped by asking the policeman the road to Frisco. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 1. 1936 (It was Saturday) Goat milk is now available here in commercial quantity, ac cording to Miss E. V. Harrett, who has established the Jungrau Goat Dairy. Two additional rooms were as signed to the Rogue river na tional forest service in the fed eral building to relieve conges tion. 30 YEARS AGO ' Aug. 1. 1S26 (It was Sunday) Medford and the Rogue River valley given publicity in issue of Journal of Electricity. Premium lists for Jackson county iair and pear show, Sept. 15-18, being distributed. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 1, 1916 (It was Tuesday) The advance guard of the edi tors of the state, who hold annual convention this week, arrives. Vernqn T. Motschenbacher, a member of the faculty of Kla math county high school for the last two years, resigns. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 77 Copr- 1955. editorial Research Report 1. Pres. Eisenhower's stayi at Walter Reed hospital after his op eration was longer or shorter than originally set. or the same? 2. Earle C. Clements and Frank G. Clement are promin ent Democrats. Which is Sena ator from Kentucky and which governor of Tennessee? 3. Stock market prices on the whole usually go up or down in ' the summer, or move sidewise? 4. What is the first name of Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt, widow of the President? 5. Bills not enacted by this Congress can be taken up by the next Congress where this Con gress left them, or must start the legislative process all over again? 6. Taiwan is the native name lor which area in the Far East vital to U. S. interests? 7. The "doodlesack" is a mu sical instrument: French horn, ukelele, trombone, bagpipe, harp, clarinet or bass violin? The answers: 1. Longer (by one week). 2. Earle C. Clements is Senator from Kentucky. 3. Usu ally go up. 4. Anna (Eleanor is her middle name). 5. Must start all over again. 6. Formosa. 7. Bagpipe. ARE PRISONERS GHOSTS7 London (U.R) Ghostly qual ities have been attributed to in mates who disappear from Brit ish prisons. A penal official told the House of Lords Tuesday that the word used to describe the reason a prisoner is missing is "dematerialization" not "es cape." ... MAIL TRIBUNE Hardly Sparkman Again The Democrats are unlikely to nominate Sen. John J. Sparkman of Alabama for Vice President again. The party's great hope is to soft-pedal its dif ferences on civil rights, and Sparkman signed the Southern manifesto of last March 12 bitterly denounc ing the Supreme Court for its decision outlawing pub lic school segregation. That manifesto of 17 senators and 77 representa tives accused the nine justices of nakedly substituting their "personal political and social ideas" for the Con stitution arid the laws. It viewed segregation as based on "elemental humanity," and it warned of the threat of revolutionary changes in public education from "outside agitators." The signers pledged themselves to use all "lawful means" to reverse the decision and to prevent it from being implemented by "use of force." Even delegates to the 1956 Demorcatic national convention who may be sympathetic to the manifesto will recognize that it contravenes the stand of Adlai E. Stevenson. To nom inate one of its signers for Vice,President might well be to kiss goodbye to the electoral votes of non-Southern states with many Negro voters. CEN. SPARKMAN inserted into the Congressional Record of July 17 an anti-integration article which opens by declaring that Franklin D. Roosevelt "took over" the platform of the Socialist Party and "called it the New Deal." And it said the "Truman Civil Rights Program" was "traceable from Roosevelt to (Socialist leader Norman) Thomas, from Thomas to Russia." A member of Congress doesn't insert into the Con gressional Record an article of which he disapproves. This particular one certainly was a slap in the face for the F.D.R. and Truman factions of the party. Those factions acquiesced in the choice of Sen. Spark man for Vice President four years ago because of his "liberal" record outside of civil rights, but civil rights will be more to the fore in 1956 than they were in 1952. E. R. R. Nixon by His Votes One explanation'offered in some quarters for Har old E. Stassen's open declaration of war against the renomination of Vice President Richard M. Nixon is Stassen's fears that the Republic party, if and when it fell under Nixon's control, would be oriented far to the right of the Eisenhower middle-of-the-road posi tion. ' Well, Nixon's voting record while he was in Con gress shows him pretty much on the same side as the President in foreign affairs. As to domestic issues, the record does show Nixon far indeed from the "liberal" position. He voted for the Taft-Hartley act banning portal-to-portal wage suits using a Taft-Hartley injunc tion in the 1952 steel strike exempting certain rail road practices from antitrust laws. . Mr. Nixon favored restrictions on public housing and on the TV A the McCarran immigration bill of 1952 exemption of certain natural gas producers from federal rate regulation legalizing state "fair trade" laws and, of course, giving states the title to off-shore oil lands. THE VICE PRESIDENT was co-author of the 1 Mundt-Nixon bill of 1948 and 1950, much of which was incorporated in the 1950 internal security act. The Mundt-Nixon bill made it unlawful to con spire to set up in the United States a totalitarian dicta torship under foreign control. Communist and Com munist front bodies would have to register with the Justice Department, but office or membership in them was not by itself to be construed as part of an unlaw ful conspiracy. E. RR. Thin Soil for Klan Today) OOSTILITY to involuntary public school integra tion has naturally brought out some Ku Klux Klan activity in certain parts of the South. It is note worthy, however, that the new Klan units seem spor adic, disconnected, . uninf luential. Indeed, in some Southern states state or local laws applicable to the Klan have been invoked against the moves to revive was not thus when the original Klan was set up in the era after the Civil war. The movement spread through most of the South, with some centralized direction, as Whites rallied for self -protection. After .White control was re-established in the South, that first Klan lost standing. The second Klan arose in the era during and after World War I, when old social patterns were being deeply disturbed. Benefiting from efficient organiz ing techniques, it probably had at one time close to 4,000,000 members, many of them outside the South for instance, in Indiana and on Long Island, N.Y. THIS SECOND Klan in turn died out as postwar tensions died off. The depression gave Americans more to worry about than fellow Americans who hap pened not to be White Protestants. The automobile and the radio narrowed the appeal of the Klan's so cial diversions, and demagogues who were outside the Klan, even against it, began to work the same side of the street. Today resistance to the Supreme Court's anti segregation decision centers in the Citizens Councils that have sprung up in the South. Eschewing physical violence and bizarre fripperies, they rely largely on economic pressure, and may be all the more formid able for that reason. Many a Southerner hostile to the Councils admits that their leaders often stand high in their respective communities. E. R. R. Wednesday, August I, 1956 McCann Discusses Events Leading Up To Invasion of Burma By Reds By CHARLES McCANN United Press Correspondent The Chinese Communists are barred from attacking their ene mies, so thev are moving in on some friends. N a t i onalist China, South Korea and South Viet Nam are the enemies. Red China would like nothing better than to attack Charles McCann the Nationalist island of Formosa or to help their fellow Communists in North Korea and North Viet Nam to attack the other coun tries. But that would be too risky. The Nationalists are strong themselves and they are protect ed directly by the United States. South Korea is protected by the United Nations. South Viet Nam is protected by the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. Pick on 'Neutralist' Hence the Chinese Commun- Today and By Walter THE SUEZ CRISIS The timetable indicates that President Nasser has for some time had it in his 'mind that he might seize the SuezCanal, and that a plan for doing it had almost certain ly been pre pared before the recent cri sis over the As wan Dam. Only about a Walter Lippmann Week elapsed between Mr. Dulles's interview with the Egyptian Ambassador, withdrawing the offer to help fi nance the dam, and the seizure of the canal. It is hard to believe that the seizure, which required a series of coordinated action, was improvised suddenly in a few days. So many Egyptian of ficials had to do so many differ ent things so quickly that there must have existed a carefully prepared plan. Indeed, it now seems very probable that when President Nasser sent his Ambassador in Washington to the State Depart ment to accept the previous of fer to help finance the dam, he already knew that London and Washington had decider! to with draw the offer. It has been common knowl edge for some weeks that Con gress was opposed, that London had concluded that Nasser was unappeasable, and that Washing ton was coming around to the same view. Nasser knew also that he had no alternative offer from the .Soviet government, and that he was, therefore, approach ing a dangerous crisis in his af fairs. From the autumn of last year to 'the late spring of this year, his prestige at home and in the Arab world were very great, in the main because he seemed to have both sides in the cold war bidding for his favor. The sym bol of that favor was the under writing of the dam at Aswan, and once Nasser realized that there might be no bidders, his position at home and in the Arab world was in desperate danger. It was then, it would seem, that he made ready to cover the fail ure of the Aswan Dam project by precipitating an international crisis over the Suez Canal. ' m THIS view is supported, it seems to me, by the sheer demagoguery of his claim that by nationalizing the Suez Canal, the Egyptian government is now able to build the dam without foreign aid. The profits of the Suez Canal company, even if all of them were available to the Egyptian government, fall far short of what would be needed each year for the dam. They could not all be available if the Egyptian government were to make good its promise to buy out the shareholders in the Suez company. Furthermore, aU this does not take into account the effect upon the Egyptian finan cial economy of sanctions which may be taken by the Western powers. Nationalization of the Suez Canal is not really a means to the building of the Aswan Dam. It is, rather, a political substi tute for the Aswan Dam, one which not only maintains and even augments Nasser's prestige, but one which will give him strong new bargaining power. With physical control of the op eration of the Canal, he is in e position to exert pressure on the countries that use the Canal. Even if he adheres to his prom ise not to raise the toU rate, he will control the aclministration, and will be able to use his ad ministrative powers for his po litical purposes. THE Western nations, in taking their decisions, will have to assume that the Suez Canal is not the only trump which Nasser had up his sleeve. In all proba-. bility the plan for the seizure of the canal is only one in a series ists have invaded friendly Bur ma. And Burma has asked for it. When it attained its indepen dence on January 4, 1948, it left the British Commonwealth. It adopted a "neutralist" policy, entered relations with the Pei ping Red regime, and refused to join the Southeast Asia Treaty. Burma has been anxious for a long time over the situation on its frontier with China. The Reds started concentrat ing troops on the frontier three months ago. Early last month, the Burmese government start ed reinforcing its border police force with regular troops. On July 19, police seized about 200 Chinese army political agents who crossed the border as a big group of illegal immi grants. Now it looks as if the Reds may mean to try to take over northernmost Burma, which sticks up like a wedge between China's Yunnan province on the east and the Indian state of As sam on the west. Their excuse would be that Tomorrow Lippmann of plans prepared by Nasser and the revolutionary leaders of the Arab world. All of them, we must suppose, are aimed at the liquidation of Western power and influence in North Africa and the Middle East. There would seem to be three lines of policy open to the West. One is to accept the seizure of the Canal, and to hope that Nas ser will be quiet for a while. A second is to resist him with jur- ldicial and economic sanctions designed to bring about his downfall. A third is to resist him with sanctions designed to bring about a negotiated settlement in which the international charac ter of the Canal would be recog nized. ' rpHE first course, acceptance of -- the seizure, is really impossi ble in that it would invite, in deed provoke, widespread imita tion of Nasser's triumph in hu miliating the West. We would have to expect to see the nation alization of pipe lines, oil fields, and installations all over the Middle East. Nasser would not only get the prestige and the profits of his coup but he would have good reason for believing that it is now safe to carry out the other strokes to eliminate the West. Both the other courses call for the use of sanction! whether the aim be to overthrow Nasser or to compel him to negotiate, The sovereign rule about sane- tions which the exeprience of a generation has taught us is that they must not be used at all unless they are used deliberately and resolutely. There is no use toying with sanctions, no use dabbling with them. Sanctions are not war. But sanctions have the same objective as war, and they should be taken as serious ly. This would lead one to think, it seems to me, that since it is necessary to resist Nasser, the object of the sanctions should not be the recovery of the West ern position in the Suez company but an international regime for the Canal, preferably under the aegis of the United Nations. (C) 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the nam and address of 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. Air-Conditioning Units To the Editor: The present pa tients in Ward 327 at the Sacred Heart hospital, and the many members of the personnel whose duties call upon them to admin ister to cur comfort and well- being, wish to extend to you our sincere and heartfelt thanks tor the air-conditioning units you so graciously installed in our ward. On one of Medford s hot sum mer afternoons or evenings, one only needs to experience once the refreshing breath of air from Ward 327 when stepping in from the hot outdoors, to appreciate just what it has meant to us in Ward 327. It has aided and speeded a comforting recovery for many Once again, from the patients m 327 now enjoying the air- conditioning units, our many thanks. We also feel we should take this opportunity to extend to you the thanks of the many who will follow. David L. Mathias Harry R. Malosh Dunsmuir, Calif. Orville J. Dean, t Grants, Pass Gary Hankins John Jones, Ashland .. Gerald Wimer Wilbur A. 3ushong Winston. Ore. . Patients, Ward 327 the border is. ill-defined and that the territory really belongs to China. Burma's situation is compli cated by the faet that ever since the end of World War II it has been fighting Communist rebels who have operated within a few miles of Rangoon, the capital, in the far south. Another complication is that there are 300,000 Chinese in Bur ma, and that Red agents are try ing to gain control of them. Communists got about 30 per cent of the vote in the 127 dis tricts in which they ran candi dates in the parliamentary elec- uuh ui April 40. incy increased their representation from 30 to 42 in the 250-seat Chamber of Deputies. Former Premier U Nu, one of Burma's neutralists, warned in a speech on June 23 that "unscru pulous stooges and agents of for eign covers" would seize poli tical power unless the govern mental party the anti-fascist People's Freedom League re organized itself. His 'reference was to the Communists and Chi nese Communist agents. Neutralism is nice, maybe. But in these times a little coun try like Burma, with an enor mous, greedy country like Red China as its next door neighbor. seems to be asking for trouble if it stands alone. If Burma were still a member of the British Commonwealth if it had joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, it might save itself a lot of trou ble. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Politics note: Harold Stassen says he is not giving up nis anU-JNixon cam paign despite heavy opposition to his move among his fellow Republican leaders. He charges that the GOP headquarters has closed its mind to the "senti ment of the people." He adds that he believes the name of his choice for vice-presi dent Massachusetts' Governor Herter will be placed in nom ination at San Francisco. WHAT'S he up to? " It's a fair guess that his purpose is to bring himself back into the political spotlight, which has been avoiding him of late. He is just about the right age to be a candidate for President in 1960, and if he is to do that he must keep himself talked about. Besides, he has a perfect right to do what he is doing and I'm inclined to thing it is better for Non to have opposition to him brought out into the open at the Republican convention. Other- wise he will have to face the charge that his nomination was thimblerigged by the wicked Republican leaders who choked everybody else off. More politics: Democratic National Thai man Butler says the controversy kicked up by Stassen shows a DEEP CLEAVAGE among xtepuDiican leaders. Certainlv there is a dppn clpav. age in the Republican nartv. Everyone with a grain of precep tion knows that. There is an equally deep cleavage in the Democratic party. Both are held together by only one force the desire to WIN. PERSONALLY, I think it will be better for our country when our two major parties divide sharply on issues .that people generally either believe in strongly or are bitterly op posed to. It will then be possible to write party platforms that will be something more than pious platitudes put out to catch votes. Farm economics note: The U.S. department of ag riculture forecasts this year's calf crop at 43,272,000 head, the largest calf crop on record and one per cent more than last year's crop of 43,001,000 calves. This is the seventh successive year in which the calf crop has exceeded the calf crop of the previous year. rpHAT recalls Pharaoh's dream of the seven lean cattle that swallowed up the seven fat cattle which was interpreted by Joseph to mean that seven lean years of famine would follow seven fat years of plenty. That, you will remember, was back in the days when scarcity was something to be feared and dreaded because it meant hunger for the people whereas plenty was something wonderful be cause it meant that everybody would have plenty to eat. In these days, PLENTY is a bugbear because it means lower prices whereas SCARCITY is a blessing because it means HIGH ER PRICES. Body of Lifeguard Found in Nehalem Bay Cannon Beach (U.R) A Coast Guard crew yesterday recover ed the body of Jerry Varnel, 20, a Cannon Beach lifeguard who was swept to sea while wading in the surf July 7. '-" ' ?J The Coast Guard said the body was found floating in Nehalem Bay. . . . . GOP Has Edge in Race For Oregon Washington (CQ) Demo crats seated as governors in 27 state capitals may add to that total in November's elections. Congressional Quarterly sur veyed the 30 governorships in contest this year 16 held by Re publicans, 14 by Democrats found that: Tight contests appear likely in seven states. Republicans expect difficulties in holding Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts and Mon tana. Democratic governorships are in danger in Ohio, New Mex ico, and Colorado. Republicans have the edge in Indiana, Iowa, - Kansas, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Washing ton, Wisconsin and Ohio. Democrats have the advantage in Arizona, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and West Virginia. Democrats Certain And the Democrats are cer tain to hold Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Texas. Republican governor ships are safe in Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Dakota and Vermont. Government Ends Allocation of Polio Vaccine Washington (U.R) The government today ended federal allocation of Salk polio vaccine. It said commercial channels can do a better job of distribution Ending the voluntary method of controlling distribution does not affect the federal program for providing funds to states to buy the vaccine and to admini ster public vaccination programs for children under 20 and ex pectant mothers. Marian B. Folsom, secretary of Health, Education and Wel fare, who made the announce ment, said he acted on the rec ommendation of Dr. Leonard A. Scheele. The recommendation was made before Scheele quit Tuesday to take a job in private industry. The allocation had been on a state by state basis. Vaccina More Plentiful Scheele reported that demand is much stronger in some areas than others. Vaccine also is more plentiful now. The Public Health Service will continue to notify states of new batches of vaccine it ap proves. It also will continue to receive geographical distribu tion reports from manufactur ers and advise them of any un balance between supply and de mand. Scheele said he urged continu ation of these functions "because we know there is still some dis tance to go before all children under 20 and expectant mothers in the United States have been given three injections. Can Be Reinstated Scheele said that ending allo cations does not affect age pri ority groups. The emphasis still will be to vaccinate children un der 20 and expectant mothers until these groups receive maxi mum coverage. The Oregon State Board of Health has made Salk polio vac cine available to all persons in the state under 30 years of age and is currently conducting a statewide campaign to encour age vaccinations before the ap proaching polio season. The polio case load Is usually more prev elant irf southern Oregon dur ing August and September. Eisenhower Signs Foreign Aid Measure Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower Tuesday signed the battered $3,770,000,000 foreign aid appropriation bill. The bill gives him $1,130,000, 000 less than he originally re quested. It also cuts off nearly all future military aid to Com munist Yugoslavia. He also signed bills boosting the pay of top government execu tives and appropriating $2,100, 000,000 for a wide variety of government activities. 5C 8 Exposure Roll... REPRINTS VAXl-S I C I I PENNYWISE Governor The crucial gubernatorial races are: . Delaware GOP Gov. J. Caleb Boggs (R) is beset with a heavily Democratic legislature and strong resistance in southern Delaware to desegregation. Illinois Gov. William E. Stratton (R) was well ahead in his race for re-election when scandals broke out in the offices of the state auditor and state su perintendent of public instruc tion. The revelation sharply d o w n graded his re-election chances, although he was not in volved in the scandals and took immediate remedial measures. Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Sum ner Whittier (R) wants to suc ceed retiring Gov. Christian A. Herter (R). But he is likely to draw as his opponent Foster Fur colo (l5), former Representative and state treasurer who barely missed in a try for the Senate in 1954. Montana Race Montana Gov. J. Hugo Aron- son (R) has stiff competition from Arnold H. Olsen (D). th state's young attorney general. Ohio With five-term Gov. Frank J. Lausche (D) retiring. Attorney General C. William O'Neill (R) is ahead of former OPA Chief Michael V. DiSalle (D) in O'Neill's bid to return the Ohio governorship to the GOP after eight years of Democratic control. New Mexico Gov. John F. Simms Jr. (D), who barely hur dled his own primary, has stiff competition from former Gov. Edwin L. Mechem (R), the state's only GOP governor since 1930. Colorado With Gov.. Edwin C. Johnson 03) retiring, Lt. Gov. Stephen L. R. McNichols (D) must take on State Sen. Donald G. Brotzman (R), who made a surprisingly strong showing against the veteran Johnson in 1954. Seeks Reelection In addition to these contests the spotlight will be on normally Republican Maine, where Gov. Edmund S. Muskie, first Demo crat to hold that post in two decades, tries for reelection to the seat he won in 1954. The Maine election will be held Sept. 10, and it may be a bell wether of the November elec tion. Other interesting governors contests are in the offing In Min nesota, where former Rural Elec trification Administrator Ancher Nelsen is out to stop the re-election bid of Gov. Orville L. Free man (D); in Michigan where Gov. G. Mennen (Soapy) Wil liams (D), seeking an unprece dented fifth term, likely will b challenged by Detroit's Mayor Albert E. Cobo (R); and in Kan sas and Utah where Republican incumbents Fred Hall and J. Bracken Lee, controversial In their own party, face deter mined opposition. (Copyright, 19S6, Congressional Quarterly) Plus Tax Msreoasr amunes 323 E. Main PORTLAND I S1A85 I ITT ) 1
