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It will be served to cows and hogs; and none of it to man, by the glass or jug. 20 YEARS AGO August 3, 1936 (It was Monday) Rogue river valley ideal for tomato culture, according to F. C. Reimer, of the southern Oregon experiment station at Talent. Ppar erowers wishing to de termine the stage of ripeness of their pears should bring samples to the county agent's .office for testing, C. B. Cordy. assistant county agent, announces. 30 YEARS AGO August 3, 1926 (It was Tuesday) The Marshfield Expeditionary Forces, composed of Portland le gionnaires, expected to arrive here today. Craters club elects three mem bers to fill recent vacancies and bring membership up to 60. 40 YEARS AGO August 3. 1916 (It was Thursday) Five members of the Utah Idaho Sugar company arrived in Medford to investigate soil con ditions in the valley. From Local and Personal col umn: Judge and Mrs. F. M. Cal kins and Mr. and Mrs. Art Hazel rigg motored to Grants Pass Wednesday. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr 1955 Editorial Researrh 1. The 1957 cars are generally expected to be higher or lower in price than 1956 cars or about the same? 2. Which member of the Eis enhower cabinet ran the Repub lican presidential election cam paign four years ago? 3. Winston Churchill was British prime 'minister when World War II began, or when it ended, or both or neither? 4. When Babe Ruth, baseball immortal, was a pitcher, he threw left-handed or right-handed? . 5. Every one of the 48 states contains some area that is dry by local option: right or wrong? 6. Which of these ratified the U.N charter first: Soviet Union, United States. Great Britain. Nationalist China, France? 7. The Wasserman test is used to detect venereal disease, loss of hearing, bad eyesight, hard ening of the arteries, cancer, or poor metabolism? The answers: 1. Higher. 2. Postmaster General Summer field. 3. Neither. 4. Left-handed. 5. Wrong. 6. United States. 7. Venereal disease. , A basking shark caught in California waters measured 30 feet long and scaled 8.600 pounds, the weight of 45 hefty men. MAIL TRIBUNE For Greater Air Safety The Grand Canyon crash of two commercial air liners, fatal to 128 persons, is called by Sen. George Smathers (D-Fla) "a vivid reminder of our growing concern for the near disastrous conditions that exist in air travel." In defense of the Civil Aeronautics Ad ministration and the Civil Aeronautics Board, it may be noted that air travel is actually about as safe as any other form of commercial transportation. The year 1955 was the fourth in a row during which scheduled airlines operated with a fatality rate below one for every 100 million passenger miles. In 1954, the most recent year for which all data are available, the rate of deaths per 100 million passenger lines was 0.09 for domestic airlines, 0.11 for motor buses, 0.08 for railroads. And for passenger autos and taxis, the 1954 rate was 2.6 deaths per 100 million passenger miles. As a gruesome grace note, the 128 deaths in the Grand Canyon crash were fewer than the total on the high ways on the 1956 July Fourth holiday. ""THE need for better air traffic control, particularly with the increasing use of high-speed jet planes, had been anticipated well before the Grand Canyon crash. A special study group created by the Budget Bureau recommended in a report of Jan. 13 that the Defense Department's $3 billion air defense radar system (SAGE) be adapted to provide traffic control of civilian as well as of military planes. The report pointed out that since 1950 more than 65 mid-air col lisions had occurred "involving civilian aircraft." It said : Much of our airspace is already overcrowded, and . . . in many important areas the development of airports, navi gation aids, and especially . . . (the) air traffic control sys tem, is lagging far behind both aeronautical development and the needs of our mobile population and . . . industry. "THE CAA on April 27. made public a five-year plan to provide a "modernized . . . air traffic control system ... to keep-pace with the requirements of the jet age." The program is designed to give to the con troller "radar eyes" as well as his present "radio ears." In the Grand Canyon crash, traffic control personnel had radio contact with but not radar vision of the two planes. Congress this year voted the CAA $40 million to initiate its program. The plan calls for installation between July 1, 1956 and July 1, 1961 of 69 long range radar installations ; short-range airport sur veillance radar installations at 44 additional airports ; airport surface detection installations at 20 places; and radar beacons at 134 locations. In a statement to the House Appropriations Com mittee, CAA Director C. J. Lowen said the "greatest single problem we face :s air control." Continued Lowen : Until we have the capacity to effectively regulate the safe movement of the numbers of aircraft required in our national interest, there can be no real assurance of -ability to move the existing volume of aircraft safely and re liably. E.R.R. How Russia Got It's Satellites Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) would extend to all Eastern European states U.S. farm products for the consumption of children and the destitute. And Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., pro poses free food for Poland in the wake of the "serious disorders" in Poznan. The offers are reminiscent of the situation in 1953 after the June 16-17 riots in East Berlin. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer appealed to President Eisenhower for American aid in making food avail able to the people of East Germany. The President's July 10 offer of $15 million worth of food was turned down by the Soviet Russian gov ernment, to which, as the occupying power in East Germany, it had been made. Nevertheless, the food was sent to West Berlin, and in the ensuing weeks thousands of East Germans poured into that enclave to receive "Eisenhower packages" of flour, lard, and other scarce foodstuffs. THE East German demonstrations spread to Leipsig, Magdeburg, Halle, Wamemunde, Goerlitz, and other industrial centers. Behind the Iron Curtain they had been preceded by demonstrations in Pilsen and elsewhere in Czechoslovakia over the "currency re form" of May 30. And they were followed in July by unrest in Poland and work stoppages and withdraw als from farm cooperatives in Hungary. The 1953 demonstrations in general brought on a "new course" in Russia's European satellites, accom panied by apparent changes in government policies and top personnel. But again in general, these softer new policies were to prove short-lived. COVIET Russia gobbled up Estonia, Latvia and Lith- uania in 1940, along with parts of Poland and Finland. At the end of World War II, Russian troops were stationed in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Rumania. Red Army person nel had aided in the liberation of Belgrade, and Tito's Yugoslavia was generally considered a Soviet satel lite until expelled from the Cominform on June 28, 1948. Albania was looked upon as a Yugoslavian sub satellite. The Red Army left Czechoslovakia in November 1945, Pro-Marxists won the free elections of May, 1946, but Eduard Benes was reelected President. It was the June 1948 coup forcing his resignation that really turned Czechoslovakia over to the Russians. The Red Army left Bulgaria also, in December 1947, a year after the regency council had been dis solved and the boy King Simeon II had been com pelled to leave the country. By that time the Bulgarian "People's Republic" had been consolidated in that most backward of the satellites. The formula was much the same 'in the rest of the satellites. E.R.R. Friday, August 3, 1956 Snowballing Effect of Retreat From Stalinism Among Good News By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: The Good 1. The snowballing effect of Russia s retreat from Stalin-type dictatorship forced more changes in policy in the Soviet satellite countries of eastern Eu rope. East Ger m a n Commu nist leader Walter Ul bricht prom ised more and better consu- cbartes Mci-ann mer gooos ana more nouses, a gradual reduction in the work week from 48 to 40 hours and the end of food ration ing effective next year. In Po land, it was announced that the Communist party will function in future as a political organiza tion instead of exerting direct control of the government. The Czechoslovak Reds granted more authority to regional officials in Slovakia, which has always com plained of Czech domination. 2. President Manuel Prado Y Ugarteche assumed office as the head of a new liberal govern ment in Peru. His inauguration as the result of his election on June 17 ended eight years of dictatorial rule by President Manuel A. Odria. Only two hours after his inauguration, Prado signed a decree freeing political prisoner convicted by the Odria regime and permitting exiled leaders to return home. 3. French Premier Guy Mol let won a vote of confidence in Parliament by 273-163 for his Stassen's Campaign To Dump Nixon Fails To Hit Grass Roots Washington (U.R) Harold E. Stassen's "dump Nixon" cam paign has yet to catch fire at the grass roots if mail to Re publican senators is any indica tion. A survey by the United Pres of the offices of the 47 Republi can senators showed today that only about 500 letters have been received from constituents since Stassen started his campaign 12 days ago. Stassen wants the Republican Party to nominate Gov. Chris tian A. Herter of Massachusetts rather than Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon as President Eis hower's running mate. A majority of the letter writ ers appeared to lean toward keeping Nixon on the ticket. Mail Swamps Nixon Compared with the trickle of letters coming into the sena tors' offices on the GOP fight, a virtual torrent was pouring into Nixon's office. Nixon's office reported "thou sands of letters" have been re ceived "so many we have not been able to make a precise count." The letters are "over whelmingly in favor of Mr. Nixon." Stassen's drive suffered a new blow Thursday. At Boston Herter said that "no delegate at the convention will place my name in nomination with my consent." He said this "should be obvious because of the fact that I have declared for my friend, Richard Nixon, and shall place him in nomination," at Chicago Epidemic Passes Worst Year Chicago tU.R) Chicago's total of polio cases for the year today was almost four times times higher than the same period in 1952 the city's worst polio year to date. Health officials raced to com plete two-dose vaccinations of one-half million children be tween six months and 19 years of age and all pregnant women before the expected peak of the polio seasons arrives in 12 days. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said 88 per cent of the 488 polio cases in Chicago occurred among per sons who did not get Salk anti polio vaccinations. The report of 18 new cases Thursday followed the trend set early in the outbreak when the largest number of victims ap peared in a 26-square mile West Side section. Eleven of the new est cases were reported from the same area. Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, president of the Board of Health, urged parents to have their chil dren inoculated with the Salk polio vaccine without fail. Few of this year's polio patients had received the vaccine. During their eight months of open navigation, the Great Lakes carry nearly two-thirds as much shipping tonnage as the total an nual offshore trade through all United States salt-water sea ports. Read and Use Classified Ads Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday for Monday; outer days 530 previous day. plan to raise $428 million in taxes to finance the campaign against terrorism in Algeria. He announced also that he intended to reduce government expendi ture by $250 million next year. Mollet said that French indus trial production is up 10 per cent over last year, against a general slowing-down trend in other European countries. The Bad 1. President Eisenhower took such a serious view of the Suez Canal dispute that he sent Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles to London to represent the United States in consultations with the British and French for eign ministers. The Big Three Allies agreed to call a world con ference on the question of inter national control of the canal. They said they would summon the conference even if Egyptian President Gamal Adbel Nasser, who has ordered the canal na tionalized, refused to attend it. Both Britain and France ordered emergency military measures to be carried out if Nasser in sists on exerting sole control of the canal. 2. Communist Chinese forces invaded northern Burma and, oc cupied an area of about 1,000 square miles. The "neutralist" Burmese government, one of the southeast Asian countries which are friendly to the Red Peiping regime opened negotiations in hope of getting the invaders to withdraw. But it feared that the Chinese intended to claim the in vaded area and Burma consid ered an appeal to the United Na tions Security Council. 3. A revolt broke out in Hon duras, in Central America, against the government of chief the GOP convention. Herter issued his statement shortly after learning that Stas sen had opened the Eisenhower Herter headquarters. Stassen promptly declared that Herter had given a "correct expression of his position." "He is not a candidate and must be drafted, as I have em phasized from the beginning of the Eisenhower - Herter move," Stassen said. Nixon received another en dorsement Thursday when Com merce Secretary Sinclair Weeks told a news conference, "I'm for Dick Nixon." Weeks was the first member of the President's cabinet to speak out publicly in behalf of Nixon, since Stassen started his drive. Weeks is a former treasurer of the GOP National Committee and a former national commit teeman from Herter's state of Massachusetts. Margaret To Miss Both Conventions New York (U.R) Margaret Truman said today she will go to Chicago a"nd San Francisco be cause of the two national politi cal conventions, but will not at tend either one. Miss Truman, now Mrs. Clif ton Daniel, will leave Thursday by train to meet her parents, former President and Mrs. Tru man in Chicago. But she won't stay for the opening of the Dem ocratic Convention. "On Sunday I leave Chicago for San Francisco to join Clif," the former President's daughter said. Her husband, who is an assist ant to the foreign editor of the New York Times, will be in charge of the New York Times facsimile newspaper published in San Francisco during the Re publican Convention. She won't attend any meet ings of that convention, either, Margaret said. She plans to go sightseeing. "Why should I sit in a conven tion hall when I can go sight seeing in one of my favorite cities?" she added. State of Siege in Honduras Province Tegucigalpa, Honduras U.R) The government announced to day it has clamped a 20-day "state of siege" on Morazan pro vince as a result of Wednesday's abortive military revolt in this country. The emergency- measure pro hibits public meetings, forbids residents of the province to travel without special permits and authorizes the provincial governor to censor newspapers and radio stations. The provincial state of siege is the only special action re ported so far in connection with the revolt, which was confined for the most part to the St. Fran cis barracks here. An official announcement Thursday said rebels in the bar racks suffered 165 casualties, but did not break this figure down into killed, wounded and captured. of state Julio Lozano after months of unrest. Loyal army troops suppressed the outbreak. But further trouble was threat ened. Lozano has been acting president since December 5, 1954, after an election in which none of the three presidential candidates gained the necessary 51 per cent of the votes. At first Lozano had the support of all three political parties. In recent months opposition has been growing. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Washington President Eis enhower held his first news con ference since his operation on June 9. He told the reporters who jammed his office that al though he is not feeling as well as he did a year ago he is feeling good. He added that he has no doubts about being able to carry on in the Presidency for another four years. At this point, I'd like to ven ture an opinion: Ike isn't being dragged into this campaign against his will and his better judgment by men who want to ride into office on his coattails. HE LIKES HIS JOB. THE reporters' nexU question was HOW ABOUT NIXON? As he has before, Ike spoke highly of the vice-president, but refused to name his choice of a running mate. He said Nixon is perfectly acceptable to him, but pointed out that HE HIMSELF has not yet been renominated and added that he is not going to "forclose Republican action on a candidate." Told of what the President had said, Harold Stassen issued a prompt statement of approval. He said: "I feel President Eisenhower has made exactly the right state ment with regard to this matter at the present time. The conven tion is now definitely open. The problem of the vice-presidential nomination can now be consider ed deliberately and thoughtfully for the next three weeks. The American people can now make their views known to the dele gates." VlflTH the political atmosphere " thus cleared, the reporters turned to the international scene? HOW ABOUT THE SUEZ CRI SIS? they asked. Ike replied that the aim of the United States is to make certain of the continued INTERNA TIONAL use of the strategic wa terway despite its seizure by Egypt. That, I'd say, is a statesman like answer. The Suez canal is of direct bread-and-butter interest to all the people of all the world because it enables the commerce of the world to be carried bn more economically. By eliminat ing the long haul around the southern tip of Africa it makes it possible to lay down important world commodities to the con sumer at lower price than would otherwise be possible. For that reason, EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD is interested in keeping the Suez canal open to continued international use. TlHAT brings up the whole Suez canal situation which is highly critical. Britain's foreign secretary (corresponding to our State Sec retary Dulles) is said to have as sured conservative members of parliament at a closed meeting this morning that Britain STANDS READY TO FIGHT to keep the Suez open to all ship ping if diplomatic and economic measures fail. - An authoritative British source (who asks not to be identified by name or position) says that Brit ain does not intend to ask the U.S. to join in any military mea sures in the Suez. He adds that Britain has called on the U.S. for political support in case military action is taken. Britain is obviously taking the Suez business very seriously. If shooting starts, what will WE DO? If it comes to shooting and we back Britain militarily, it will be a BIG war. If Britain goes it alone (supported, perhaps by France) it wiU be a smaller war. AT THIS EXPLOSIVE PE RIOD IN HISTORY IT IS HIGH LY IMPORTANT TO KEEP BIG WARS FROM STARTING. 2 31 EAST SIXTH ST. . MUTTON PORK MUTTON SUCED ROAST SAUSAGE CHOPS BACON Plight of American Cities Is Discussed By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. The Con ference of Governors, meeting at Atlantic City recently, re ceived a spe cial report on the plight of American cit ies, which are now facing some peculiar and very diffi cult problems. O f course, the most press- Boger w. Babion ing problem of cities, and especially of our larg er metropolitan centers, is traf fic. For a good many years now, I have been telling my friends and readers that heavy traffic and insufficient parking spaces are choking our cities to eco nomic death. Hastening Exodus Traffic congestion is hasten ing the exodus of business enter prise from our large cities. But even more important heavy traffic is slowing down our whole economy and limiting our gross national product. Millions of productive hours are lost be cause of traffic snarls. In Chicago, to cite but one ex ample which could be multiplied by thousands, busses were sta tionary a few years ago only 10 per cent of their trip time. To day, owing to more frequent and longer traffic delays, these bus ses are stationary 40 per cent of their trip time. This is one im portant reason for the neefi of higher fares. Five cents of every bus fare which you pay is neces sary because of unregulated au tomobile congestion. Downtown Area Blights v A second urgent problem of our cities is the tendency for in-city public and private prop erty to deteriorate too rapidly. The great cities of our country are centers of power and com merce which testify to the ful fillment of the American dream. Yet, as I travel around the Harriman Rejects 'Moderation' Plan Albany, N. Y. U.R) Gover nor Harriman served notice on the national Democratic party Thursday night that he regards himself as the heir-apparent of the Roosevelt and Truman po litical philosophy. Rejecting "moderation" ad vanced by front-runner Adlai Stevenson, the governor told a $100,000 Harriman - For - Presi dent dinner that the path to victory in November was a slug ging campaign against President Eisenhower and the "GOP old guard." Harriman said former Presi dents Roosevelt and Truman were elected by turning down "take it easy" advice from the middle-of-the-roaders of their time. "Now, again, there are those who advise us to take it easy- who talk about moderation as the spirit of the times," he said. "For my part, as governor of New York and as a Democrat I reject these counsels." "Democrats of New York are going to remain true to the lib eral principles and objectives that guided Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. And we're going to Chicago to fight for them." Harriman did not mention Stevenson by name, however. He also blasted the Eisenhow er administration as "complac ent" and said "we're going to take on candidate Eisenhower and beat him and his special interest team." Congressional Quiz (Copyrlsht. 19S Congressional Quarterly) Q Sam Rayburn of Texas holds two House records, one an all-time record. What are they? A He is the senior mem ber of the House, having served since March 4, 1913; and be has served as Speaker of the House longer than any predecessor in that office. First elected speaker by the 76th Congress on the death of William B. Bankhead. he held the post in the Democratic 77th. 78th, 79th, 81st, 82nd and 841h Congresses. country, I am often appalled at the shabbmess of so many of our urban communities. In too many cities, entire streets have been permitted to fall into a shocking state of disrepair. This condition is often dangerous to life and limb, and also creates fire hazards. Some of our proudest munici palities are limping along with obsolete residential and business street lighting. Run-down parks and athletic fields are all-too-common sights. Even city halls, which should be the focal point of community pride as well as of community activity, are often inadequate as to capacity and down-at-the-heel in appearance. Increase of Taxes When taxes on real estate and personal property were first broached in the United States as the basis of municipal revenue, tax dollars were spent chiefly on streets, street lighting, parks. athletic fields, and buildings for the proper transaction of public business. In more recent years demand for public-welfare projects fi nanced by city government is becoming more insistent Funds for their maintenance are now being voted at the expense of older and sometimes more basic services. In some cities, protec tive services are being cut. Even fire alarm systems are not being adequately maintained or ex tended. I do not blame the cities en tirely for the evils which have befallen them. I well realize that local governments today do riot receive nearly so large a share of our total tax dollars as before World War II. Feel Income Tax Cities are feeling keenly the adverse effects of our sharply graduated federal income tax. The more it costs to run the na tional government, the harder it is for local governments to raise needed funds. So the cities look increasingly to federal and state grants - in - aid to pull them through. I forecast that such a policy will prove to be very shortsighted. Increased central municipal control or inspection encourages waste and results in a heavier over-all city tax load. Economy alone can put our cities back on the path which will lead to true progress; but what are the chances for such economies? For politicians to bribe and to buy votes with dollar bills Is now il legal; but these same politicians are free to "bribe" voters by promising more aid to the unem ployed, to the aged, to mothers and others. Much of the legislation to "protect'.' plumbers, carpenters, painters, and even barbers is merely bribery to get the votes of these groups. It is supposed to be enacted to protect the public; but the public should be made to pay directly for such "protec tion." No portion of such in creased costs for inspectors and others should be added to taxes. If this welfare work continues to Increase, city sales taxes are inevitable. This man can givo you dependable i livery of THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR sn ir Housewives, businessmen, teachers, ond students oil over the world read ond enjoy this international newspaper, pub lished doily in Boston. World famous for constructive news stories and penetrating editorials. Special feature for the whole family. 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