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Newspaper Page TextFOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE - Sunday, August 12, 1958 I MedforivTkibunk "Every txxiy m oL.ern Oieon Reads The Mail fribune" Fubluhed DaUy Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6 HI ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Adverti;n Hinaeer CLKALD LATHAM Business Manager z.nn jh, Managing uttor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHiPMAN Telegraph Editor K1LHAHU JEWtlT SpOTtS fcOltOr OLIVE ST ARCHER Societv Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act oi . March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ey Mail In Advance Per Coov 10c Daily and Sunday One veni S12.U0 Daily and Sunday-- Six months 6-50 Daily and Sunday Three mm Jv50 Sunday Only On year 3j0 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Centra Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Cold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue .River. Talent an 1 on motor routes. Dnily and Sunday One year $15 00 Dailv and Sunday One month 1 -25 Carrier and Dealers- -6c pet copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Ofrtclal Paper ol Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire 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 Vancouver BC NATIONAL EDITORIAL I asTocTatlon i y j o na 'lOU NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Historv from the filet of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 0 yean ago. "To be or not to be? Communications In the Day s News By FRANK JENKINS I Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication As this is written Give-'em-Hell io hofni-o ctaoH in thia rtpnarTTiprir the iprnflwars is permissmie. Iherviail I nbune reserves the right to edit all letters with a iH.r-v ; th t,, k i rv,,,. Miii-. it i j i.T r ii.ii i. v,ew t0 clarification and condensation. Letters submitted tor publication must tt.Koi rin. kij I wanwat.i.xcu avcuiubiais umcuiuicu 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 12. 1946 (It was Monday) . Kecent property transaction here is the sale to Mel V. Young er of the Drury Lane orchard formerly owned by Allen B. Drury. From Arthur Arthur's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Wash ington state cowboy who is pushing a wheelbarrow around the world has arrived in Salem. So far nobody has put bricks in it. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 12. 1936 (It Was Wednesday Six foot model of super liner Queen Mary on display in the lobby of the Medford branch First National Bank of Portland Starting Aug. 15 Medford stores will remain open on Sat urday nights until 9 p.m. 30 YEARS AGO . Aug. 12. 1926 , (It Was Thursday) Health examination for chil dren entering school for the first time this September scheduled at Baptist church clinic. The regular band concert of the O.K.K. band, under the di rection of E. Wilson Waits, scheduled city park tomorrow. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 12. 1916 (It Was Saturday) Mrs. Jennie M. Kemp, state president of the WCTU, speaks at Baptist church. Loss of pears throughout the section within a radius of 15 miles of Medford will not ex- ceed 10 per cent, according to C. C. Cate, county pathologist. 1 ., T .1.1 il J?" 1 L il . I uniiKe tne KepuDiicans, wouia ratner ngnt man eat. not exceed 400 words. And Captain Harry S. Truman, US Army, formerly Drunken Sergeants of the White House (now retired from both) is the To the Editor: on this Mc fio-htine-est of them all K-eon case- " seems t0 me tnat ilgllUIlgeol, Ol UieUldll. ... .. . . all thp leadinff nuhliratinn as n i i- i . I u i u w, t,,. i ' remaps ne wumun l lamer iitui, umu mi, uul we well as anybody else whose are quite sure he would rather fight than run a men's opinion on the subject would furnishing store or attend a party convention with- amount to anything, are placing , . v j i i j . , i . v.i alI sympathy on the side of the out enjoying a goou AnucK-uuwn anu uiag-uuu iiaaoic. sergeant who routed the Marine I fTnme rppmitc mtt of nioVit anH BUT Who is he going to fight? That is the question, force-marched them to their os tVta nntmtnr oiimi'ln Vile dncin'nn oc tr. Vsi'c ntimVs drowning, at a time when they a j uic tuuiiu y a. v alio uus ut.it3iii no uiQ miin I j, . , 7 i . . . . iui mc ucau ui mc uiacu rest lm fnr whatpvpr thp hard- As stated when he arrived in Chicago, the only man boiled sergeant might have cook- hp nnnnsps fnr President, is himsplf . Pint, before the hirr ed up for them for the next day. P1V.11C. nr,Qr, ,a -..rill lioo r,r.ncn enmonn . Good stif training is a very "'-uo c m "'c upfoi i3uiiitwiic ouu uui I nprpssarv thin fnr- opttino r. guess is, it will be Adlai Stevenson, vice recruits into shape for pos- Not because of anything HST has said about civil w combat, but as i see it, rights, not being a band wagon-jumper or anything 1?!' .aTzfd.tra!Pm! t-lse, but simply because only by such action can he be and getting drunk and trying to assured of enjoying a real battle royal. And that is snw off. on the part of some what his fighting heart wants. ""com hose idea of endeur xj. iic onuum jump vii nic -jucvciiauii uauu-watuii nim is another however that would settle it. btevenson would not only is a big switch from the hp a slinn-in hi if nrnhnhlv hpfnrp frio rnll all nti friA day when I was a drill in- rcf Kollf V,o f-cK mm,M K r, kf "r wna consiaerea a gooa J. vauvt "wu wvn j.j.AXAOiv,vA. x uti t- nuum iiu iignu i one too). If a drill sergeant had ever nrpiimp4 sn much atif h-f. uin Ei oi tnat ior narry. w e wants action. ie wants ity in those days as to turn out ' to o-o ovpr the ton with banners wavino. six mins a bunch of men in the night. Mi-nrr nrl flip pnpm-., flp'no- noil mpll frrm linf .0r "I'' other than dutv "'"""6 -""v --"'6 """ Hours. pursuit. The odds don t count. A 11 flip nrlrk wprp no-ninst him in 1 94K hut thp mni-P streai"s, in order to be subject they lengthened the more "he gave 'em hell", and And i think it should not be with even many of his most trusted advisersnaintain- that any non-commissioned of ing it would NOT be done he DID it! f,iLbfcause-.u4dislike or dis; . Satisfaction With iha nrncroee nf I enma l. Tl'ELL if he did it 8 years ago why can't he dg.it to- stmcting, iS aUowed to work "vday?The undersigned can see a number of rea- off his mad on the recruits. sons but we imatrine "HST" can see onlv one to wit: 1 "ave wondered how the par- '. ems nt th civ hnvc iirhrt Urt His love for a good, knock-down scrap is only ex- their lives feei ahmtt th,. thmff ceeded by his love and 100 per cent devotion to the Yu wouldn't know by the pub- Democratic party. .cnrano OI TO inu. m .- .. thp snanp wae tab-on ,,n .;th 11 oeiore tne uaiue is jouieu uie ueuivizi auc uaitv b pictures of. and rpfprpn-p. tn non-eldenv statesman snouia necome convmcea. the gnef-stneken relatives of or be convinced that the action he . contemplates tne defendant. i wondered why woul dhurt the party more than it would help, then our w0medtBt!srPS?! prediction WOUia De not any jump on me oievensou nard-boiled action of this sere band-wagon, but a slow climb thereon perhaps with eant, were not pictured or talk ertw a Viu1t frrtm to olmnrtdthl'i "MVq TT.lponrtr Pnncp. Dout' "r -" OJ1..J1..U1H. "'viiU. Parents do not necessarily velt. I raise their boys .to be "sissies.' In other words instead of having the joy of fighting but you could not blame them the enemy, Harry S. Truman (retired) would have to content himself only with fighting and gaming a vie tory over himself. R. W .R. we would not have had to endanger their lives by "forc ing them through swollen Does It Mean War? for not wanting them pushed around by drunken sergeants. Pat Graham 175 Jeanette st. Medford, Ore. Why Not Discuss Issues? To the Editor: Wayne Morse has been accused of having a poor attendance record in the U.S. Senate while actually he has one of the highest according to the Senate roll-call. This is they want him out of office be- What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1953 Editorial Research 1. Of all Americans who own stock in publicly-owned corpora tions, about one-third, one-half or two-thirds have incomes un der $7,500? 2. The old-age annuity to a widow under social security is or isn't higher if she has a min or child to support? 3. Maximum legal speed on highways is more than 60 miles an hour in some states; right or wrong? 4. If Stevenson gets the 195S Democratic nomination on the first ballot he will or won't be re peating the story of his 1952 nomination? 5. What did these men with the first name of John have in common: Calvin, Huss and Knox? 6. Which major-league base ball team was once known as the Superbas? 7. Goldfish was originally the name of which well known movie producer? The answers: 1. About two thirds, says N.Y. Stock Ex change. 2. Is. 3. Right: it's 65 in 7 states. 4. Won't b. 5. They were religious reformers. 6. Brooklyn. 7. Samuel Gold-wyn. "Do you think it means war?" That question has ben fired at this department sev eral times since the British and French sent their bat- just another example of the ef-tle-fleets and airplanes in the general direction of the fort being made by certain mem- . w 1 r .1- t li: . . Suez Canal. . 'state' to TXcredit hi We Ten or twenty years ago the answer would be easy WOnder wHYsure'iv T'hA and would have been i es. For here is a perfect setting for war, all the neces sary ingredients for the devils brew are there, ready and waiting. fN ONE side we have an "Egyptian Mussolini" who has nationalized this vital gateway to the East, j 1.1 i i- . J V. ana must uacK up ms emeu ui siuaci Mramji.- Suez dispute on twQ aDiy iatai DIOW lO niS Standing ana presuge. planes which, though they are And on the other side the enteebled but still proua related, need to be carefully dis and puenacious British lion, badly wounded but still full of fight, who can't yield to tne uairo ultimatum, without suffering a devastating deieat, and run tne risk at least of extinction as a world-power. Unless one side or the other backs down how can war be prevented? Well it can't be. ' But our prediction is, either one, or more likely both sides, will back down, at least sufficiently to avoid an aimed conflict. TN OTHER WORDS we look for a workable compro- mise, not war. We grant we are overworking our taking over, the administration crvstal-ball today, and may on all counts be mistaken, of the canal, he is in a position rrC i i. ..., L--.0- to dismcriminate among the That can alw ays happen. . users of the canal and toexert UUt we don I tninK we are aiiu iui uiic omipic icaaun, upon them politicai pressure. namelv: Nations like individuals wno reany aoni on the first plane., that of want to fight, almost always find some way to pre- prestige, the dispute is a show- i -i. Jli:...ii tl,Q,V Pi-i'nnrlo QTirl V!iVprs down which, carried to its con vent 11, paiLicumn.y i.c . xnwiv .iu elusion, would mean either the feel the same Way about it. fall of Nasser or the collapse of Thi SllPZ incident may prove tne exception tO tne the British, French, and Amer- rale but we think not.-R.W.R. JaJ&ZLZ plane, the issue is the modern- Cllfrifinl Comment izaon and the implementation for the convention are marking cause ne isn x a gooa legislator time while they wait to see who ior u mat were true we wouia gets his nod for the nomination. have seen concrete evidence oil it rather than the straws we EANWHILE have received such as this weak A backer of Stevenson has effort to minimize one of the just expressed his belief that Trii highest attendance records in the man will come out for Harriman U.S. Senate. The reporters explain cryptically On the other hand I would that "the person who gave this like to hear some explanations opinion" is a close friend of Tru- concermng the Al Sarena Min- man, as well as a Stevenson ing Co's. timber operations, the backer. exploitation of wildlife sanctu- This "person" closed by pre- aries for oil and gas numbering dieting Stevenson's nomination in the hundreds these past three even if Harriman does get the years, the reason for the repudi-l -Truman accolade. Cn-lAwl u.ll). n I - rfam whirl, thP intPrior rient',. ADLAI himself has just come , .,iA ,.,o. , .t ""m narry 5 noui suue, feasible development of the here hfu w closeted for a half Snake river, and the reason why W4U, UIC Douglas McKay was replaced j!e came ut- h was iumPed on his cabinet post by Fred bythe "porters who demanded J in bnniu what nrao 1-illrnrl ahmtt to know what was talked about. Adlai quipped: "We decided to elect a Demo cratic President.' TN Atonore serious vein, he said Seaton who is generally rec ognized as being different on his views of conservation from McKay as brightest day is from darkest night? 1 think .the status of these X thev talked about the Dlatform issues is notoriously odvious oy and the campaign. Asked how tne reluctance tne nepuDucan he feit after his session with officials have to discuss them. Harry, he replied: "1 feel just Do they believe the controversy as goocj today as I did yesterday tney are trying to formulate an(j the dav before. about Senator Morse will hide The newshawks then dived on these questionable topics? If so him with Questions as to whether did Morse hurt them that much he and' the former President for placing principle above were jn agreement on a civil party fealty, that they consider rights plank for the Democratic their wounded egos more lm- part. Adlai dropped his mask portant than Douglas McKay's 0f persiflage and answered determined effort to aid special simply: interests at the expense of the people not only in this state but the United States? Ken Corliss, 1564 Myers lane, Medford, Ore. "I think so." TTARRIMAN has just disem- barked from his plane at the Chicago airport. To the clustered newshounds he expresses confi dence that he will win the nomJ ination. There's no getting around the tinguished our minds. On one plane, the circumstance s of the seizure of the Suez Canal Compa ny are a spec tacular test of prestige, pre- c l p i tated by waiter uppmann President Nas ser in order to demonstrate that his power in the Middle East is greater than that of the Western nations. On the other plane, by IDEAL MUSTACHE San Francisco (U.R) Prince Rainier III, ruler of Monaco, has won a new title the man with the ideal mustache. The husband of former actress Grace Kelly was voted the title by the International Mustache Protect ive association. TEACHING THE WRONG THING? The writers of some of the editorials and many of the sports columns dealing with the mrrent Pacific Coast Confer ence fiasco show a great lack of knowledge of their subject. Many of these writers seem to be going along with the Los Angeles sports writers in mis line of reasoning: "Sure, there was a mess in the PCC, but it's unfair to penalize the students involved. After all, they're youngsters and didn't know any better." Which is a lot of bunk. Before students can compete for PCC member institutions they must each year file finan cial statements, showing any financial aid they receive from sources other than their parents. These statements are filed with the conference commission- of the treatv of 1HRR. euaran- er. If a boy filed a statement teeine frpp and pnual use of the showing that he had received canal. The question, which has unpermitted aia, ne wouia oe been Dosed in London. Paris and declared ineligible for further Washington, is whether-to move competition. on the first plane or on the In order to receive this aid, second towards a showdown then, three things must happen: with Nasser or .towards meas- 1. Some organization must ures to protect te inter- raise the illegal funds and make national character of the them available. canal. The decision agreed to 2. The coach of the sport in- by the Western powers has been volved must set up the pay to move on the second plane scale. that, as the London "Economist 3. The player involved must Puts it, "the immediate West- deliberately falsify his annual em interest is not to teach Col. financial statement. Nasser a lesson (he must learn If a player deliberately lies l"s own lessons) but to keep his statement, he can't be the ships passing through tne very innocent. canal. ' And if schools undertake to This is a wise decision, even teach them how to lie, to help from the point of view of the them prepare false statements showdown on prestige. For if by and to set up "deals" which patient. Tesourceful and disin- both the player and school terested diDlomacv the treatv of know are illegal, then the 1888 can be modernized and schools are teaching the wrong reaffirmed, with general inter- subjects. Bend Bulletin. I national support, there will be, S.P. Action Deplored To the Editor: I want to com mend you most highly for the fact that when the Democrats put series of excellent editorials on a convention they know how wnicn you nave Deen puDiisning to stage the show, in the Mail Tribune, insisting that the Southern Pacific live up TEMOCRATIC "spoke s m e n, to its obligations as a public util- -' assembled in Chicago, leave ity by providing adequate and no doubt that they regard the modern service on the Siskiyou farm Droblem as one of the big line. oest. if not the MAJOR, issue It is ridioulous that the S.P. in the 1956 campaign. should be permitted to enjoy a Democratic Senator Hubert virtual freight monopoly in this Humphrey of Minnesota declares profitable lumber area and yet flaUy that the farm problem is not have to undertake passenger the MAJORNATIONAL ISSUE service unless, as you so ettec- his oartv has in its ammunition nveiy poini out, every unu oi lis pox. operation shows a profit, mis Former President Truman says same philosophy might justify a t nation's farmers are JUST department store removing its annirr mrrwFn and the onlv drinking fountains, wash rooms thing that can save 'em is to put uiiioo un, ai.uvvcu the Democrats back in power. (J1U1.11. I It seems to me that a railroad TJmmmm. If the farmers are all must operate as a whole system iA BROKE after ten years of and that the public has the right subsidized high prices maintain- to ask for certain public-service ed by the Democrats after the features in return for the very war ended, what's the future of profitable operations which the farming? railroad may have elsewhere. If that IS the case. I'm afraid Let me again assure you what agriculture is a goner. splendid job you are doing. , . ,. ... Senator Richard L. Neuberger TF YOU'RE getting slightly cyni U7o,k,n no pal about all this DOliticking. you may say that what is going on in Chicago now and what will be going on in San Francisco week later is a lot of chudisn tnmrrwmt Qllrl that WA H1 1 h t tfl grow up. I Wait a minute. j South Korea held an election nn WpHnpcHnv nnrl itnntfinai the old Wilsonian phrase, final returns show that Presi-1 peace without victory" in the dent Syngman Rhee's Liberal party won 66 per cent of the offices. The opposition Demo cratic party won only 2 per cent of the jobs (the rest went to the numerous splinter parties). A (South Korean) Democratic party spokesman calls the re- Washington, D.C. Today and Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann Matter of Fact By Jo and Stewart Alsop the Stevenson bandwagon. Truman told his fellow Mis sourians frankly that he wanted HARRY TRUMAN'S ROLE Washington Harry S. Tru man's journey to Chicago poses what may be called the other big question about the Democ r a t i c conve n t i o n. (The number one question, of course, is whether the North - South coalition sup porting Adlai Stevenson will Stewart Alton be split by a civU rights fight.) The question about Truman, as it has been phrased by Aver- ell Harriman himself, is whether he will "take his coat all the way off, or only half way off" to fight for Harriman's nomina tion. As these words are written. uie Iranian coat is certainlv mu way oil already. In the earli er period of pre - conven tion maneu vering, the former Presi d e n t always publicly main tained that he had no candi date, but even then his impar tiality had a quality all his own. He disliked Sen. Estes Kefauver enough to say so openly. He dis liked Adlai Stevenson enough to say so privately. And he liked Governor Harriman enough to say so both publicly and privately. While Kefauver was stiU in the race, and there was still some chance of a sort of balance between candidates, Truman did not go much further than letting his own views be known in this manner, so that the profession als could not mistake where he stood. But when Kefauver's withdrawal thoroughly upset the balance, Truman made at least one major effort to restore it again. This was in his home state of Missouri, where he is not a delegate, but has much natural influence on the delega tion. IIHTH the several Missouri del- ' egates who sought his coun cil, Truman was rather sharply critical of Adlai Stevenson, ques tioning Stevenson's ability to wage a tough campaign and at tacking his standing as a politi cal professional. Some of the bad feeling between the two men evaporated after Steven son went to see Truman in Chi cago last July; but there was still a sharp edge of bitterness on such Truman remarks as his forecast, "Why, if Stevenson is ever elected, he won't let us in side the White House." More positively, the former President strongly urged Mis- s o u r l national committeeman Mark Holloran and other Mis: souri delegates to continue vot ing for Missouri's favorite son, Sen. Stuart Symington, for at least two ballots. This was a di rect effort, of course, to aid AvereU Harriman's strategy of holding the favorite son delega tions in line, and thus stopping them to stick with Symincton because he thought this would help Harriman. Harriman, he said, would be a fighting candi date. Only a fighting candidate, in his opinion, could challenge the personal appeal of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. So he was for Harriman and made no bones about it. rPHUS it is clear that the Tru man coat is half way off. To take it all the way off, however, the former President will have to take two very serious steps. He will have to come out nnh- licly and unequivocally for the Harriman candidacy which is a very different thing from using his personal influence in pri vate, as he did in Missouri and will no doubt do in other states. And he will also have to give maximum support to the Harri man strategy of splitting the party on the platform in order to split Stevenson's coalition. On the second point, Truman has repeatedly said that one of his grand objects at Chicago would be to help in taking a united Democratic party into the hard election fight against Eisenhower. Anyone who knows Harry Truman, knows, of course, that he will not tolerate a wishy-washy platform. But demanding a forthright plat form is a very different thing from trying to promote a plat form fight just for the sake of a fight. AGAIN, Gov. Harriman. and hie fripnric liai.A mml.IaJI.. - - - icaicui asked Truman to announce in public the support that he has always promised them in pri vate. And Truman has always refused, saying, first, that he did not think this kind of public mierveniion appropriate for an ex-President, and adding, ' sec ond, that he could not make a decision anyway until he had studied the situation in Chicago. One of the symptoms of the situ ation is the inclination of Tru man s own Missouri delegation to disregard his plea to hold for Symington, and thus to as sist Harriman. One or two of the Missourians are Harriman inclined. The rest are either friendly to Stevenson, or simply anxious to get on the bandwag on. Unless there is a big upset in the interval, at least a ma-, jority of the delegation is in clined to shift to Stevenson at the end of the first ballot, or a,t any rate to leave Symington on the second. And Sen. Syming ton is not anxious to argue with the majority. Maybe the platform fight will change everything. Maybe Ste censon and company wiU some how arouse the always hot Tru man temper. But although it is dangerously close to decision time, to be making forecasts, it now teems most likely that the Truman coat will stay where it is, halfway off and halfway on for Harriman. '; (Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. canal zone. SPHERE is, in fact, no other A other course open to us. For, except in the case of the Israeli ships which the Western pow ers have condoned, Nasser has suits a one-sided victory brought not violated the treaty of 1888. "t by what he germed GOV- To use force against him, say LIBERAL PARTY COERCION. w uiuc&due ins poris or LO re-1 . occupy the canal zone, would, fUR 'political gyrations in elec- as of now, be aggression within V tion years may seem childish the meaning of the United Na- and absurd, but if we can keeD tions Charter. Almost certainly, TOO MUCH POWER FROM RE it would bring virtually the SIDING IN TOO FEW HANDS whole of Asia to Nasser's side TOO LONG, we'll come out all and against the West. In all right. probability it would set off a I . i . ,. reaction iuuieAraDcoun- must use dipiomacy to iduce u ics, iiivuivmg reprisals uu me Egypt and its friends. pipe lines ana uie uii xieias. There is every reason to sup- rpHE DEPENDENCE of West- pose that the seizure of the em Europe on the canal is canal company was carefully undesirably big, and the depend- piannea ana prepared well in ence of Great Britain is even advance, and we must suppose worse. Nearly half of the oil that Nasser and the leaders in consumed in Western Europe the Arab states have other moves last year came through Suez; for prepared as their answer to Great Britain it was 75 per cent. Western intervention. It is not Whatever the guarantee is that to our interest to provike these can be worked out by diplomacy, moves since, as is self-evident, it will remain the stark fact that Nasser would have the moral Nasser has physical control of and political support of such a the canal, that Western Europe large part ot tne world. can be critically hurt if the canal is closed "THE BRITISH decision to evac- For that reason, it is imperative uate its armed forces from that the Western powers concert Egyptian territory a decision measures to reduce their de- for which we have some respon- pendence on Suez, to break the sibility marked the end of an monopoly which Egypt possesses epoch m the Middle East. It over their vital communications means that national interests in The less they are dependent, the the Middle East will have to be more it will be Egypt s advant- based not on vested rights but age to keep open the canal on on contracts and agreements ar- fair terms. rived at by the calculation of That is why we should, en- mutual advantages. It is too late courage and help the British and to consider seriously as prac- the French who are thinking of tical policy the restoration of such measures as: The building of the old relationship. ' of more and bigger tankers to The Western powers can inter- go around the Cape, and of a vene if they are attacked. They pipe line, conceivably even a can intervene to repel overt ag- second canal, from the Red Sea gression. But they cannot inter- to the Mediterranean through vene in order to impose the Israel in order to- by-pass Suez kind of regime they would like 1956 New York to see in the canal zone. They I Herald Tribune Inc. POTLUCIC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Not long ago in this column, we reported that a neighboring daily newspaper had eluded us for a typographical error. We al so said we didn't mind, provided that the other paper was itself without typographical sins. WeU, that same week the neighboring daily ran a story which, in recounting the activi ties of the YMCA camp, said: "Activities wiU include fishing, hiking, swimming and a big climb up Mr. McLoughlin. Our attention was called to this by L. C. Ostrander of Ash land, whom we shaU love for ever. Councilman John (LitU Daisy) Snider, who announced his candidacy for th mayor alty of Medford last week, it ported his campaign platform will appeal to averyon. It is. ha said: "I'm for th president." It applies, ha added, io th president of the local garden club and tha presidents of all other groups, including the president of th United States. A young lady we know left a stylish sweater unguarded in an unlocked car while attending a recent public function. Later she returned to the car. The sweater was still there. Was she pleased with the honesty of the general public in not swiping it? She was not. She regarded their failure to take her sweater a direct insult to her taste in clothes. A certain Medford business man, a graduate of Oregon State college, has long been a vociferous rooter for and supporter of th Orange and Black, although it was many years ago he earned his sheep skin. Early on recent morn ing however, he was seen wearing a jacket of green with lemon-yellow trim. Could time have modified his senti ments? Or was hi ton's Uni versity of Oregon jacket the only wrap handy when he sought protection from th chill morning air? Our wire editor has been mak ing use, from time to time, of a front page "box" to inform our readers where they can find their favorite features or depart ments. The wife of one of the other staff members, unaware of this development, recently spotted the box, entitled "Inside Today," for the first time. Her immediate unthinking reaction was "Oh, why did they get the inside pages all fouled up?" City Manager Robert Duff discussing figuret at a recent council meeting presented tome which inadvertently had too many digits. He explained afterward thai it wat a "typl cagraphical error." Another such, we presume. was on a recent list of wedding license applications put out by the county cleric's office, which listed the birth date of a pros pective bride as Jan. 1, 1956. Our final error story today concerns a mailing we recent ly received, reporting on a speech made by a political candidate before a siaiewid organisation. The news re lease said the cadidate as crted" something or other. The thing that distresses us about this it not the error, at tuch, but the fact that it wat made by the Oregon Educa tion Attocialion. The telephone rang in the newsroom last - week, and the caller inquired about the per centage of registered voters, both Democrats and Republicans, who cast ballots in the May 18 pri mary election. ' Not knowing the figures off hand, but knowing they could be looked up in the file, the staff member who answered the telephone suggested that it would be quicker for the caller to inquire of the elections de partment in the county clerk's office. Came the reply: "Shh. . . That's who's calling."