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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, August 8, I95S MEDF(D1fTRIBUNl "tvery Lxa in &uit mi, uregun Read Ihe Mmi I'nhun" Published Daily Except Saturday by tT-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RtTHI fHiinr HERB GREY Artvrti:no Mn.t GERALD LATHAM Busmtu Manager AU-tfl jk. Managing rxlitor KARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegrapn Editor BiLHAKU Jtwtri sport Editor LIVE SI ARC HER Sociel Editor DALE ER1CKSO.N Circulation Mgr. An independent Newspaper Entered at second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act ol m March 3 J 897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mali In Advance Per Copy 10c Daily and SundayOne veai $12 UO Daily and Sundav Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 350 Sunday Only- On veai S3 .50 By Carrier In Advance - Med lord Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent an-1 on motoi routes. Daily and Sunday On year 15 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c pei copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper ot Jackson county United Press -Full Leased" Wirel MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago De troit San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vanmuvfr B C nation a i editorial ! IasTocCatlqn NEWS A PER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the tiles of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. Camping ay) 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 8. 194S (It was Thursd: . There is no immediate danger of a shutdown by lumber mills In this area due to the freight car shortage, according to local mill operators. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: School will reopen Sept. 16. All signs indicate there will be no well- known "revolt of youth" to start earlier. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 8. 194S (It was Saturday) About 75 per cent of Califor nia tourists returning to their home state from Oregon and forced to undergo inspection of their baggage at the state line protest vigorously. , Captain Durham of the Sal vation Army announces that Dorothy Hammond, local Army worker, has been appointed to cadet. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 8, 1926 (It was Sunday1 ' William R. Gilbert, of Taco ma, is transferred to Medford and promoted to manager of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company's office in southern Oregon. ' The board of directors and of ficers of the Jackson County Fair association begin active preparation for the fair. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 8. 1916 (It was Tuesday) . The fifteenth outdoor concert given by the Medford municipal band at the bandstand in the city park. Former residents of the south ern states now living in Ashland form the Dixie association for the purpose of an annual outing. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copi 1953 Editorial Rnscarrb Report 1. Color TV sets are now being offered at retail for about $500; right or wrong? 2. Which of these Presidents were elected to that office: Theo dore Roosevelt, Warren G. Hard ing. Calvin Coolidge, Harry S. Truman? 3. About half, or considerably more or less than half of all American men over 35 are regu lar smokers? 4. Which one of the Eisenhow ers has the middle name of "Stover"? 5. The merger that became General Motors was set up chief ly by the Du Ponts, William Durant, J. J. Raskob, Alfred Sloan or J. P. Morgan? 6. Most present leaders of the Soviet Union are of the Jewish race; right or wrong? ' 7. Lady Cavendish was better known as which star of the ftage? The answers: 1. Right. 2. All of them. 3. Considerably mora than half. 4. Dr. Milton S. Eisen hower. 5. Durant. 6. Wrong. 7. Adele Astaire. NIXON 'VISITS' STASSEN Washington (U.R) Workers at Harold E. Stassen's "dump Nixon" drive headquarters did a fast window cleaning job Tues day. Someone had pasted a large campaign picture of Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon on the front window. What is a vacation? Webster defines it as "a respite or a time of re spite; an intermission or rest; a period for rest and recreation ; a holiday." A vacation, then, can be different things to differ ent people. ... There are, of course, the stories about the bus man's and postman's holidays, when they go for a ride on the bus and go for a walk, respectively. These, in the Websterian sense, are not vacations at all. The ideal kind of vacation, in our mind, is to do something which you enjoy, and which is as different from what you usually do as possible. The postman should ride the bus, and the busman take a walk. - I70R the city-bred and office-bound, then, we can commend an outdoor-type vacation provided only the subject thereof is willing to do without some of the comforts and luxuries of modern life. We speak from recent and happy experience among the tall Redwoods and along the magnificent vistas of the Pacific. What is lacking in the wav of hot-and-cold-run- ning-water, central heating and electric lights is more than compensated by fresh air, the taste ot lood cook ed out-of-doors, and the peace and serenity and in spiration which cannot be found among buildings sur rounded by hot asphalt and concrete. ' , Even the family secretary of health, education and welfare (whose previous camping experiences left her with a pro-indoor attitude) was converted. She sur mounted camp cookery with expert stride, learned the art of slumbering comfortably in sleeping bag with air mattress, swatted an occasional mosquito with good grace, and is already looking forward to the next time she is aroused by the smell of cotfee and the cry of the blueiays. E. A. What Is "Right"? A long time ago we remember reading something (it may have been in the Reader s Digest) that has stuck m our memory. It went something like this : The only thing of which it is really difficult to be tol erant is intolerance. This is truth. It's just as well, too, because if there's anything that makes the hackles rise on the neck of the ordinary, easy-going, good humored, tolerant sort of person, it is to hear another person criticize a third on the basis of something that's none of his blankety- blank business. INTOLERANCE based on race or some other forms of being "different" is not fashionable m polite so- ciety today, and the words 'kike,' 'wop,' 'chink,' 'nig ger and similar oitensive terms are neara, we liKe to think, less than they used to be. But there are other forms of intolerance slightly less offensive, perhaps, but nonetheless devastating and evil Ihese are the intolerances of non-conform ism : in dress, religion, perhaps even in attitudes or politics. We were interested to read a plea entitled Won t Somebody Tolerate Me?" m the current Harpers magazine, by a woman who makes no oo'nes of the fact that she is an agnostic some would call her an atheist but who has found that the Constitutional ly-guaranteed freedom of religion does not necessar ily extend to people s attitudes about those who em brace no formal, organized religion. A MERICA was founded, and has grown, in diver sity. It is one of her great strengths. Anything which undermines and nullifies an individual s urge to be different, to do things his own way, to do his own thinking, tends to diminish that strength. Tolerance, basically, is the ability to understand the other guy's point of view. The more difficult that point is to understand, the more difficult it is to be tolerant. . All this is not to say that toleration should be ex tended to things we know to be wrong or intrinsically bad. These should be combatted with all our energy. And knowing: the difference between right and wrong is essentially a moral judgment. . rECIDING between different kinds of "right," how- ever, is less a moral problem than one of the intel lect. But a rational decision often is made difficult by emotion, bias, prejudice none of which have any se cure basis in fact. s It may be true that most wars are fundamentally economic in origin. But it is equally true that few wars could ever be fought without a vast lack of under standing (intolerance) of the problems and attitudes of the other side, which lack is deliberately fo" :ited during such periods. Man is said to be a rational animal, the difference which sets him aside from the.beasts of the field. But until.he uses his intellect, collectively, to realize that what is "right" for one may not be "right" for anoth er, and that the world is big enough for both, he will continue to be plagued by dissention and strife. E.A. Wording of Civil Rights Plank Seen Crucial in Holding South Blair Choice of Missouri Demos St. Louis (U.R) Missouri Democrats gave Lt. Gov. James T. Bliar Jr. one of the biggest majorities in the state's history in nominating him for governor, returns from Tuesday's primary showed today. With all but scattered rural precincts reported, Blair won the nomination by an 8 to 1 vote. He had 283.844 to 13,456 for Roy E. Ulidewell and 24,266 for Charles E. Lee. Blair appeared to have carried all but one of the 115 counties in the state and the city of St. Louis. Lon Hocker, St. Louis attor ney, easily won the Republican nomination for governor. With nearly complete returns, Hocker had 93,338 votes, Joseph M. Whealen 36,938, and Winford Sidebotham 10,143. The contest or Republican nomination for U.S. senator de veloped into a close race between Herbert Douglas, a Neosho, Mo, lawyer, and Albert Schoenbeck, a St. Louis railroad attorney. Democratic incumbent Sen. Thomas C. Hennings Jr. was un opposed for renomination. All of the state's 11 incumbent congressmen won renomination. By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Democratic Convention Head quarters, Chicago (U.R) Adlai E. Stevenson suddenly has switched h 1 campaign strat egy from mere ly seeking the D e m o c r atic p r e s i d ential nomination to winning n e x N o v e m b er's p r e s i d ential Lyit c wu&on elect ion. xie has no doubts now that he will be nominated. This maneuver almost but not yet has turned the South away from him. It has made this day one of troubled controversy among Democrats gathering here for their nominating convention Steveson created this situation by two strategic maneuvers Tuesday and the day before. He talked Monday with newsmen who wrote for Tuesday's papers that Stevenson wanted a strong er civil rights plank this year than in 1952. Fear of Harriman These news reports, however, were not attributed to Steven son. Even so, they startled Southern conservatives who were piling aboard the Steven son band wagon for not much of any reason other than their fear Gov. Averell Harriman of New York would be nominated if Stevenson failed. For them it was a bitter best-of-a-bad-bar- gain. Stevenson accepted personal responsibility for his civil rights views expressed Tuesday night Editorial Comment THE STORY OF THE PERSEIDS This is the season of the Per- seids. They are the "shooting stars' that will be blazing through night skies for the next week They will intrigue laymen and provide new information for savants who study the mysteri ous realm between the planets. Already the vanguard of the Perseids are flaring across con stellations. Some are so bright they dim summer stars. They will increase in intensity this week and reach their maximum about August 12. The Perseids get their name because they apparently radiate from the Constellation Perseus. Actually they do not come from the distant suns of Persues. They cruise around our own sun, in an orbit. This orbit, astronomers say, was once the path of a comet. Thousands of years ago that comet was torn apart by the at traction of some great body, pos sibly the planet Jupiter. For some 40.000 years the remnants of the comet have been dispersing through the en tire orbit of the lost comet. Seasonally the planet earth in its swing around the sun bores through the orbit of the van ished comet. Bits of the old comet plunge into the earth's atmosphere and flare into in candescence. These meteors streak across the sky at a terrific speed pos sibly 30 miles a second. Some are brilliant, and leave long tails. Yes, this is the season of the fiery Perseids. Tired earthlings will find it stimulating to look aloft these dark nights. The Perseids bear a message from deep interplanetary space. It is a story of a comet that lost its bout with a planet. Bend Bulletin I in a televised interview. In it, he said the civil rights plank should express "unequivocal ap proval of the Supreme Court de cision. It must be stronger, he said, than in 1952. Shocked Southern leaders hurried to con ference rooms and into print in protest. i There is time yet to compose the differences within the party sufficiently to prevent a bolt of the South from Stevenson at this convention or a bolt from his candidacy if he is nominated. But it is a near thing today. ! Time To Retreat There Is time, also, for Steven son to retreat a bit without get ting hurt. The words "Supreme Court" and "integration" are hateful to the South. Some of Stevenson's advisers believe their man wants at least to name the court in the platform 11 not the social system its dis puted decision was designed to bring about. He could back down or. that and. still have his "un equivocal approval." If the court is named, the bolt probably is on. The civil rights plank now has become a matter of language semantics is the fancy name for it. The platform drafters will seek , words and phrases which will meet Steven son's insistence upon unequivo cal approval without being suf ficiently specific to drive the Southerners out of the conven tion hall if it is adopted. Two Conventions All Prettied Up for Big TVf Radio Coverage Washington, D.C. Here come the streamlined national politi cal conventions, all dressed up and polished for television. Television coverage at the 1956 conventions will be 70 per cent wider than four years ago, according to industry estimates Four hundred stations will bring the conventions to 270 cities. Radio will add another 1,500 stations ' to convention coverage. In February - March of this year, three out of four U.S households had TV sets, accord ing to Advertising Research Foundation. There were 35,495, 000 homes with TV, 1,694,000 of them having more than one set. Probably several million more homes now have sets. At the time of the 1952 con ventions there were only slight ly more than 18 million TV sets. They accounted for only 39 per cent of U.S. homes. According to a survey published this Feb ruary by the Brookings Institu tion, the Democratic convention 1952 reached a peak of 14,- 556,000 tuned-in TV sets; the Republican convention a peak of 13,097,000 home sets. Around 70 million persons had watched some parts of the convention telecasts. ; First in 1948 f Television first figured in na- DeSapio Directing Harriman Strategy Chicago (U.R) Carmine DeSapio, New York political leader, today masterminded a fi nal stretch campaign in' an at tempt to win the Democratic presidential nomination for Gov. Averell Harriman. Since I've been here, Harri man is picking up strength," De Sapio said five hours after he arrived Tuesday night to direct Harriman's grand strategy. The Tammany Hall chief pre dicted a Harriman victory by the third ballot next week. DeSapio refused to say wheth er former President Truman has offered his support to the New York governor. He said, how ever, that Mr. Truman has em phasized to him that he wants winning candidate. ' DeSapio added that he could sea no' other candidate who fits this descrip tion except Harriman. j But reports circulating con vention headquarters 'Said Mr. Truman is just about ready to accept Adlai E. Stevenson as the party standard bearer. tional conventions' in 1948. No national networks had been set up, but there were about 700,000 sets and 41 stations. Regional networks combined their resources to bring cover age irom convention hall in Philadelphia to an estimated 10 million viewers along the East em seaboard. Four years later 112 telecasting stations were in operation in 66 market areas Now the industry is talking about a peak audience lor the conventions of 100 million per sons or more. Television and radio coverage of the conventions presents complicated series of problems in logistics. For example, the network forces alone will num ber about 1,125 persons, with CBS. NBC, and ABC sending about 350 staff members each to rernrrt the orjening gun in Chi cago. Mutual radio network will contribute another 75. More over, local radio and TV stations will be sending statiers more than 1300 of themto Chicago tn rjrovide specialized coverage CBS television and radio cov- .n nf the convention win cost an estimated S5 miUion. NBC puts its costs at more than S7 million; ABC at $2 million to $3 million. Maior Problem A maior problem will be strik ine the equipment in Chicago and flvine it to San Francisco. NBC will move about 10,000 pounds of equipment to Chicago and thence to san rranciscu. CBS says the gear it will fly to San Francisco will come to iu to 12 tons. All this is predicated on an adjournment of the Democratic convention on Friday, as planned. Indeed the whole Democratic setup has been ar ranged so that the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates can be selected in time to make their acceptance speeches on the o'rime Friday evening broad casting time. What happens if the conven tions overlap? The networks would keep their main crews in Chicago, inasmuch as any pro longation would be the result of a hot floor battle, pouna to De more-dramatic than the routine opening ceremonies of the GOP convention. Skeleton crews would go to San Francisco to cut in from time to time on the coverage from Chicago. That could mean, according to "Variety," an announcement something like this: "We inter rupt this convention to bring you a convention. Editorial Research Reports Landon Doesn't Expect Surprises Coming From Republican Meeting BY ALF M. LANDON Written for the United Press Topeka, " Kan., (U.R) This Nixon - Stassen - Herter business has focused attention on the vice presidential nomination at the Republican convention. I don't think there will be any surprises at San Francisco. I believe Rich hard Nixon will be the selection. But I think this: The President is the one man who can stop all the speculation and discussion by a flat, unequivocal statement of his choice. I think the quicker he does it the better off the Republican party will be. There is no use beating about the bush. All this hullaballoo about the vice presidential nomination is the uncertainty about Mr. Eisenhower's health for the next four years. No Preconceived Choice Thinking back 20 years, I had no preconceived choice for a running mate. There was Frank Knox, the Chicago publisher who withdrew in my favor. And there was Sen. Arthur Vanden burg of Michigan. Knox had no idea he would get the nomina tion. In-, fact he and Mrs. Knox and his secretary stopped at an eat ing place in Indiana while the convention was in progress. A radio was on in the next room. Knox asked the secretary to go turn it up so they could hear who is being picked for vice president." ; The secretary ran back to Knox, 'My God, they're nom inating you!" , There is a great- parallel to the 1956 national ; conventions and those of 20 years ago. Each nominee appears to be known in advance; the coun try's economy is on the upbeat; and a popular president is seek ing a second term. The . difference, of course, is that the Democrats had the White House in 1936. The Republicans are in today. Presidents Judged! On Ti The Democrats ' now t. up against the same th i n g we Republicans had 1 to face two decades ago. Their nominee and it seems to be Adlai Steven son again must buck that same stone wall. I know how difficult it is from experience. The American people have a rough rule of thumb on election years! They judge their president mainly on whether times are good or bad. Someone asked me the other day how the Republican party has changed since I became the GOP nominee at the age of 48. Mr. Eisenhower's middle-of-the-road philosophy definitely is to the left of my middle-of-the-road. In these last 20 years, though, that is a natural development.-But Ike's appointments have been to the right of what mine would have been had I been elected. Platforms Important ' Platform writing will be im portant at Chicago and in San Francisco. The party platform should be framed so the can didate can interpret it in the light of his beliefs and policies. This country is loo big, its component areas too dissimilar in economy and outlook, for a platform to be fitted to all areas. Stevenson's interpretation of the civil rights plank is a case in point more important than how it is worded. In the 1956 campaign this will be especially true for the Democrat running against a president who has a record of administrative deci sions and policies on the sub ject. " .". 1 Before I was nominated in Cleveland in June, 1936, I had sent the convention a wire from Topeka giving my interpretation 01 tne platform. The conven tion took it. I was the only man put formally before the conven tion in nomination. Conventions and -campaigns have changed with the chang ing times coverage by televi sion, air conditioned halls, and the like. But one thing about it never varies the vital need for plenty of hard work by the state and county party, chairmen. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name end address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication, is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with 1 view to clarification and condensation. nor exceed 4uu words. Spare Battery To the Editor: To my unin hibited way of thinking, a spare battery is just about as necessary as a spare tire. We have one of these later model cars that if a door is not closed, the light runs the "-battery down. And despite all precautions, the ignition and headlights will be left on once in a while. With no chance at all in cranking a car, then it must be pushed. These fluid drive cars must be pushed miles-per to get the engine turning over, really dangerous on crowded streets. The other alternative is the misery and expense and delay of recnarging and a rental battery. o now, we have a dual-bat tery car. The spare battery is up front out of sight but handy to get at, room enough between it and the radiator to not bother the cooling systenn Part wav back to the cowl, a heavy, copper two-way knile switch was an chored, with a battery cable con necting the knife to the main supply post. Cables from the two posts go to the batteries. An in sulated rod connects the switch knife to a masonite handle lo cated near the hand - brake. Straight down puts it into neu tral position with both batteries isolated, preventing shorts and a fire with loss of car and maybe the home. This is why city ordi nances demand firewalls in house garages. Swinging the masonite handle to left or right brings in either battery. If by chance a battery is left switched in and something runs it down, the other battery Letters submitted for publication must is ready to take over, the run down battery switched in and recharged. Waiting-time can be made enjoyable, though the en gine be stilled, by tuning in the radio, knowing a standby battery is ready to take over if the one is run down. Instead of making our cars an invitation to death at high speeds into curves and other places, wouldn't it be better to include a simple, so necessary and prac tical device like the one des cribed? F. J. Clifford 1211 West Main st. Medford, Ore. MeCANN ON VACATION Charles M. McCann is on vacation. His weekly news out look and daily foreign news commentary columns will be resumed upon his return. Adlai Launches Final Drive for Convention Votes Chicago (U.R) Adlai E. Stevenson launched his final drive today for enough Demo cratic convention votes to assure him a second-chance president- lal nomination. Stevenson's high command, led by Campaign Manager James A. . Finnegan, - moved into the Conrad Hilton hotel, convention headquarters, oozing confidence that Stevenson will win the nom ination hands down. Finnegan stuck to his fore cast that the former Illinois gov- ernor will marshal at least 630 of the required 686V4 conven tion votes on the first ballot. First Ballot Win Seen There doesn't seem to be any likelihood of it going beyond the second ballot, and it seems rea sonable to believe we will win on the first," Finnegan said. Jacob Arvey, Democratic na tional committeeman from Illi nois, was a bit stronger. He said he believed Stevenson would win on the first ballot. Arvey described Sen. John Kennedy of Massachusetts, Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Sen. Estes Kefauver of Ten nessee as the front runners for the vice presidential race. He said there also was talk about New York Mayor Bob Wagner, Tennessee Gov. Frank Clement, and New Jersey Gov. Robert Meyner. He said he doubts Stevenson has given the nod of approval to any one vice presidential candi Seeks Father To The Editor: I am looking for my father, Redmon Stevens, whom I have not seen for ten years. He is a newspaper man and I understand that some three months ago he was living in Med- lord.. I assume that while he was there he worked in some field associated with writing most likely the newspaper field. I would appreciate it very much if you would look into this matter. If you find nothing positive perhaps you would forward this to some other newspaper there. Any information will be sin cerely appreciated. John Stevens 6377 California ave. , Long Beach, Calif. Economic Policies Of GOP Claimed To Hinder Country Chicago (U.R) Former President Truman's one - time economic adviser said today the Eisenhower administration has "deliberately contrived" slow downs in the nation's economic growth, rather than bring about the unparalleled peaceful pros perity it claims. Leon H. Keyserling, now an economist for Americans for Democratic Action, said the ad ministration's economic philos ophy is "that small recessions are 'healthy readjustments' and that cultivated economic slack is needed to eliminate the 'inef ficient' farmer and small busin essman, and to "keep labor in its place.' " 'Ridiculous Myth' " In a statement prepared for delivery before the Democratic Platform committee, Keyseling said the administration's claims of unparalleled prosperity are a "ridiculous myth." Keyserling said the GOP ec onomic policies have kept the nation from being more prosper ous than it is. Per capita farm income declin ed about three per cent a year under President Eisenhower, Keyserling said. Small business is being "hounded, squeezed and anesthetized," he added. He attacked the GOP admin istration for a "hard money" pol icy and what he called a "precarious- effort to balance the budget at the expense of nation al security, economic progress and human well-being." . The GOP economic policies. he said, discriminate against low income groups for the benefit of the wealthy few. Hall Announces Convention Schedule San Francisco (U.R) Re publican National Committee Chairman Leonard W. Hall Tuesday announced the official schedule of the Republican Con vention at the San Francisco Cow Palace Aug. 20-24. Hall said that on the opening day two sessions will be held. One will be at 10 a.m. (PST) for organizational work and another 3 p.m. (PST) during which Washington Gov. Arthur Lang lie will deliver the keynote address. Hall said that for the remaind er of the convention there would be only one daily session begin ning at 3:30 p.m. (PST). CAA Seeks Aircraft Communicators in U. S. The Civil Aeronautics admin istration in Los Angeles has an nounced that several vacancies exist for aircraft communicator throughout the United States. Qualifications for the position include experience in communi cation work, dispatching, or con trol tower, operating, either in the armed services or during em ployment with commecial air lines. Interested qualified persons may obtain additional informa tion from Grant Bourquin at the CAA control tower at the Med ford airport, or by telephoning 2-6523. High -Fidelity Masterpiece -in fine furniture IIP 151 ''"iL, rf"' THE BERKSHIRE AM-FM radio-phonograph. 25 watts. 12" and 15" bats plus two hern speakers. In mahogany $495. M a c, no vox high fidelity radio-phonograph PURUCKER PIANO HOUSE Southern Oregon's Oldest and Finest Music Store . Ill No. Central Phono 2-5702
