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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.
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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.
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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.
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