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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) I MDFORIvTRIBUNI Every Li m bo.fc.ern oregoa Keaaj The A1'jii i'ribun'' Published Daily Except Saturday by MlDFUHO PRINTING CO 3T7-29 North f iiSt Phone2-g;l ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Mnaemn Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE SI ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Ad ot March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES R Mail In Advance Per CODV 10c. Daily and Sunday One veai $12.00 Dily and Sunday Si month 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 350 Sunday Only-One vear $3.50 By Carrier In Advance Medtord Ashland Central Point Eajele Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Roaue Hiver. 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T 20 YEARS AGO S Aug. 24. 1936 J (It was Monday) C Porter Taylor, market speclal- 1st, explains government plan of fruit subsidies at meeting of the 5 Rogue River Valley Traffic as- Z sociation. Former President Herbert C. 2 Hoover and his wife entrained 5 bere last night for the south. . J 30 YEARS AGO 5 Aug. 24. 1926 X (It was Tuesday) ; At this season of the year 2 poultrymen are very much in- S terested in culling their laying S in order to keep only profitable S hens through the period of high- er priced eggs the coming win- t ter. Ed O'Hara starts worm farm, it is announced today. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 24. 1916 (It was Thursday) Hottest weather of the year prevails over the northwest the first heat wave since June 18. Representatives of the Griz zlies, Mr. and Mrs. Bunce, Ros coe Johnson, Miss Hurd and Mr. Noreen, motor to Crater lake. What's the Answer? " Can You Get 4 of the 7? - Copr. 1955 Editorial Research Report 1 1. The average U.S. factory ; worker earns in overtime about I $3, $8, $13, or 518 a week? t 2. The Cape Cod Canal con- nects Cape Cod Bay with Nan - tu ket Sound, the Atlantic - Ocean, Long Island Sound, Buz- zard's Bay, or Narragansett Bay? 3. Martha was the first name ; of the wife of Washington and ; which other outstanding Presi 7 dent? 4. Largest city in the South is Atlanta, Houston, Miami, New i Orleans or Richmond? 5. "A nation of shopkeepers" - was what Napoleon called the " Americans, British, French, Ital- ians, Prussians, Swedes, or Swiss? X 6. It's wise to have your ton 7 sils taken out even if they're not 7 diseased; right or wrong? ; 7. The Order of Ahepa is a 7 group of Americans of Irish, Ital ; ian, Greek. Jewish, Hawaiian, or 7 Japanese descent? - 1. About $8 (first half of 1956). -2. Bunard's Bay. 3. Jefferson. :4. Houston. 5. British. 6. Wrong. 1 7. Greek. OLDSTERS WELCOME ; Portland, Ind. (U.PJ Octo 7 genarians can attend the Jay : County Fair free this year. - Passes are being issued to people 80 years of age and older for all th fair's events. MAIL TRIBUNE Took a Long Time It took a long, long time, but it finally is here: Start of construction on the Talent project. We have discoursed too frequently on the impor tance of the project to need to say much of anything further along those lines. RUT it is interesting to look back over the long his tory of the project, which had its origin many years before the proposal ever reached its present form. It goes back to the visions of ample irrigation water for the valley held by some of the first settlers. The first large-scale attempts at irrigation were made nearly 60 years ago by local people, who banded together to form the first "water companies," which later were to become irrigation district, formed under state law as units of local government. Still later, as the problem of financing big irriga tion works outgrew the capacity of the locality, the federal government was called upon to lend its re sources. IN the 1940s, there were intensive surveys and inves A tigations conducted by the bureau of reclamation with an eye to over-all, multi-purpose development of the entire Rogue basin. As they developed into the shape of a specific proposal, an old controversy began to flare anew. As the bureau's report on the Rogue Basin Preject stated : . A conflict has existed in the Rogue River Basin virtu ally ever since settlement began between development of water resources for irrigation, power and flood control on the one hand, and preservation of natural scenic beauty and of fish and wildlife resources, on the other hand. The conflict has been intensified as a result of recent, large increases in population and industry . . . There is no easy solution to the conflict . . . ... A special public hearing was held by the bureau at Medford on June 8 and 9, 1948 ... to determine the senti ment of the residents of the Rogue River Basin and other interested parties as to whether the major emphasis in development of the basin should be directed toward pres ervation of scenic and recreational resources or toward an economically sound development of irrigation, power and flood control. THERE was bitterness at the hearing as the two forces clashed. But the advocates of economic de velopment won out, and "Plan A," one of two alterna tive proposals for development, was recommended by the hearings officers. But the fight was not ended, and was waged not only in the valley itself, but in the state and national capitals. It focused principally on the proposed high aam across the Kogue river at Lewis creek. ' Because of the opposition, the overall Rogue Bas in project has never been put into effect. But, as the result of a compromise between the opposing fac tions, agreement was reached on one phase of the proposal the Talent project. m AS a result of that agreement, the valley was able to present a united front in seeking construction of the $20 million plan. It has none of the character istics to which the "Plan A" opponents objected, and has decided benefits for almost all phases of the ec onomy of the region. In recent years we have watched the progress of the proposal, from completion of studies, to a detailed bureau of reclamation report, to checks by the bureau of the budget, to its final inclusion in the administra tion's public works budget (not without some partisan jockeying on both sides of the aisle), to authorization by congress, to the first year's construction appropria tion of $2,400,000 at the last session of congress. The final step approval of a partial repayment contract by Talent Irrigation district landowners was given in the 111 to 11 vote at an election Wed nesday. Construction, which will take four of five years to complete, will begin next week. E.A. At Their Best (The following comprises excerpts from an editorial published on this page two years ago this week. It applies just as much this week as it did then.) At the urging of two city-bred youngsters we drop ped in on the 4-H and FFA fair at the fairgrounds. To be entirely honest about it, the visit was somewhat reluctant. Well sir, darned if we weren't as interested as we could be, once we got there and saw what was going on. THE intense interest of the young participants, the loving care which they lavished on their animals, the anxious but determined expressions on their faces as they led their beasts into the judging ring; all these were well the lady in the party called it "inspiring," and she's probably not far from wrong. The youngsters went up and down the aisles, dis covering new miracles of the animal world until we had to calm them down. THOMAS Jefferson was convinced that the future of the United States depended upon its retaining its agrarianism that the qualities of the farmer are the qualities which make a nation great and stable. After watching the farm youngsters of Jackson county perform, we're about ready to agree. These qualities of hard work, study, application, self-reliance, are readily developed on a farm, and they are channeled and applied through the 4-H and FFA programs. The annual fair is the culmination of a full year of this work. And it shows it. VOU might not get starry-eyed over beef cattle, or cackling chickens, or bleating sheep, or grunting pigs. But you ought to let your own kids drag you to the fair. Here's where you can watch America's ereatest crop, her growing youngsters, at their best. E.A. I Friday August 24, 1958 Today and By Walter CHICAGO AND SAN FRANCISCO The biggest difference between the two conventions is that at the Democratic the issue of par ty control was fought out and settled after the delegates reached Chica go; at the Re publican the basic issue has been settled long in ad vance. Walter Uppmann Chicago was in fact an open convention, not so much because of the Kefauver Kennedy contest but because of the Truman-Stevenson contest. This was a genuine struggle for the leadership of the party ma chinery, and though the outcome was decisive, it was decided by the delgates and not by the na tional managers at the central headquarters of the party. The plank on civil rights and the choice of the vice president were aspects of the basic issue of party control. At Chicago there was a strug gle and there was negotiation and there was compromise, and although they did not take place on the floor of the convention in full public view, they were suf ficiently in view through the ex cellent work of the television re porters, to leave no doubt that the convention was in fact trans acting business. SAN FRANCISCO, on the other hand, is a meeting to ratify and to celebrate decisions al ready taken under the manage ment of the chairman of the Na tional Committee, Mr. Hall, and the central headquarters com mand of the party. The Repub licans, like the Democrats, have had to meet the fundamental issue of party control. They have had it to deal with even before the President's heart attack in September, 1955, during the long months when he was refus International Events Forecast by Babson By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. Readers are naturally interested in what I think may cause the next stock decline. I have heretofore dis cussed the do mestic politi- c a 1 situation, which could be very much up set by f r e s l- dent Eisen hower's physi cal condition; notcr w Babion also the fact that many purchasers on install ments are getting physically and mentally tired wth "keeping up with Lizzie." Therefore, this week I will confine . myself to the international situation. I think that the Russian lead ers, who are primarily interested in holding their own jobs, be lieve that they now have a bet ter chance of spreading Commu nism through diplomacy than through threatened violence. The first step in such a campaign was the discrediting of Stalin. The second step has been apolo gizing to Tito for various things they have done. The real reason for their change is that Commu nism is contrary to human na ture. These Russian leaders now believe it must be brought about slowly and cannnot be" forced. The real conflict will be be tween the East and the West. The Russian leaders are trying to consolidate the eastern half of the world including China, In dia, and the East Indies, and for get Europe and North and South America. . This situation has been care fully discussed behind closed doors in Senate Committee rooms. These select committees have been told things that the public do not yet know. The White House and our leading statesmen are correct in follow ing this policy until they find the answer; then it will be told to the people. This news could greatly affect general business. Certainly our several hundred thousand sol diers Jn Europe could be with drawn .and defense appropria tions would be reduced. This would harm some industries and localities, while other industries would be helped. To summarize my thoughts, I herewith give ten brief fore casts. (1) Both political parties will make an effort to keep this in side information secret until after Nov. 8 of this year. (2) Our European allies are quietly being adjusted to this change in our policy. This can be done, even in the case of Great Britain, because the people of those countries do not expect to have all the inside confidential information. (3) Ordinarily, official state ments by Russia would receive considerable attention. Due to the present admission by the Russian government of Stalin's treachery, butchery, and dis honesty, the capitals of other countries will now be skeptical Tomorrow Lippmann ing to say whether he would run again. When the President was strick en, the whole future of the party was in doubt. It was at this time that Mr. Hall, who is obviously a strong man who knows his own mind, took cammand, decreed that Eisenhower and Nixon must run again, put the President under pressure to agree to run again, and put the party under pressure to accept Nixon again. The whole power of the na tional party organization was mobilized by Mr. Hall to prevent any serious challenge to Nixon's renomination. The President, though he has shown faint signs of regretting that the conven tion has nothing to do, has not objected seriously to Mr. Hall's steamroller. As a result, the con vention had nothing to do but listen to ghost-written speeches and to watch a stage-managed show, and to vote yes. TITHAT is coming out of San ' ' Francisco is a party stand which at the level of the key note speech, the platform, the official declarations and prom, ises and pledges, is complete and unadulterated Eisenhower. But at the level of party control, at the operating level in managing and administering the party for the coming years, the Eisen hower Republicans have only a voice and nothing like leader ship and control. The critical point of leadership and control has not been the presidency. It has been the vice presidency. This is not only be cause of Gen. Eisenhower's age and his health but because by temperament and political con viction he takes no very active role in the direction and com mand of the party. From the point of view of the professional politician, looking ahead to the next four years, the key posi tion is the vice presidency, and they have used the steamroUer to flatten out the opposition to their man. (C) 1956, New York Herald Tribune. Inc. i of all Russian political announce- ments (4) I sometimes think that only a great world religious movement could save the day for aU concerned. I see no sign of such a movement at the present time. More people are attending churches, but what we hear seems to go in one ear and out the other. Too many churches are becoming high-grade social organizations rather than teach ing us to be willing to sacrifice for other families and nations. (5) By 1965, Germany may again attempt a local European war to control Europe and lib erate the Russian satellites. (6) The fear of the atomic bomb and especially of the H bomb may bring us to our knees. This fear is already having its results. Another factor in' the situation is the "guided missile," which . could entirely change warfare. The guided missile, however, has not yet been made accurate enough to endanger us. HST Trip Helpful (7) President Truman's trip abroad will be helpful to the sit uation. This also applies to all student exchanges and to the great tourists who travel this summer from the U.S. and other countries. (8) I see no reason why we should have much decline in the stock market during 1956, pro vided some very unexpected seri ous event does not occur. (9) I certainly do not look for World War III for many years, because the people of the United States are in no mood to enter such. (10) The conservative and patriotic program for each reader is to keep up retail pur chases, continue present adver tising, and gradually get out of debt. Congressional Quiz (Copyright, 195 Congressional Quarterly) Q Another of Congress thumbs-down actions that will be heard about in the campaign oc curerd on a bill to give federal aid to schools. Under the bill, the federal government would have: (a) raised teachers' salaries; (b) helped build new schools; c) contributed to school operating expenses. A (b). The bill authorized $1.6 billion worth of federal grants over a four-year period for local school construction. HYPNOTISM Has been successfully used In mwcular rheumatism, constipa Hen, menstrual disturbances migraine headache, insomnia, stuttering, etc For information regarding Hypnotism see W. L. WHELDEN 336 S. Riverside, Medford, Ore. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS San Francisco I don't know exactly why, but as a Republi can I felt better after the open ing session out at the Cow Pal ace Monday. Not only did I feel better as a Republican. I felt better as a citizen who hopes sincerely that our country may be so fortunate as to have four more years of the kind of government we have had during the past three years ana a bait. T1HE Democrats put on a great A SHOW at Chicago. As a show, it had everything drama, sus pense, conflict. Its principals were great actors. As truly great actors, they created the illusion of the forces of light, as repre sented by the Democrats, fight ing bravely against the forces of darkness, as typified by the wicked Republicans. Technically, it was a ereat performance and when it was over and the curtain went nnwn I'll have to confess to an uneasy reeling that maybe the kind of honest, sincere, best-interests-of-everybodv kind of Government President Eisenhower has pro vided isn t the kind of govern ment the modern world wants. JITAYBE we WANT the kind of government that was so badly portrayed there on the Convention Hall stage at Chi cago party-conscious govern ment, class - conscious govern ment, dramatic and exciting gov ernment in which New-Deal-Fair- Deal Democrats in shining ar mor raise a new dragon every day and slay a new dragon every day. That s what a show staged by truly great actors can do to one. T SUPPOSE that if we are to A keep our feet on the ground in this campaign that is begin ning we must remember that the Democrats are ATTACKING and the Republicans are defending. The attack is always more dramatic than the defense. At Gettysburg it wasn't the Fed erals, standing grimly behind their breastworks, that caught the eye and caused the heart to beat so wildly. It was Pickett and his Confederates charging up the hill in attack. At Balaklava it wasn't the defenders ranged along the hills bordering the Valley of Death that-lived in song and story and legend. It was the CHARGE of the Light Brigade. AND so it has been all down through history. It is the ATTACK that excites and thrills. The defense is just plain, grim, hold your fire till you see the whites of their eyes business. It isn't until it is all over that the defense comes in for its share of the glory. It was that way, we must remember, in the Battle of the Bulge in which Ike was the commander-in-chief of the defending forces that turned back the attackers and won a great victory. A NYWAY. I felt murh mnr hopeful after the session out at the Cow Palace Monday. The- defending Republicans stood their ground, calmly and firmly. They gave back as good as their attackers had sent. Sen, Bill Knowland of California (who has become a great and forceful speaker) told his hear ers not only those there in the Cow Palace but those glued to their radio and TV sets in their homes all over the country that in his 48 years the Republi cans have been in power for 20 years and the Democrats have held the reins for 28 years and these 28 years have seen ALL OF OUR WARS IN THE PAST HALF CENTURY. That, he said, backs up the Republican slogan of peace in our time. GOV. Arthur Langlie of Wash ington, keynoting for the GOP in sharp contrast to sil ver-tongued Governor Clement of Tennesseee hit the Demo crats for leaving us a stagger ing national debt, a greatly re duced value of the dollar, a colossal bureaucracy and vasUy increased taxes. After 3V4 years, he said, the Eisenhower administration has balanced the budget and the American people are now back on their feet and better housed. better fed and BETTER PAID than any people in the world." That, he added, backs up the Republican slogan of prosperity. ALL in all, the SHOW at San Francisco's Cow Palace doesn't equal the show at Chi cago's Convention Hall, but it has solid overtones of common sense and sound, practical wis dom. 2 31 PORK SAUSAGE 29 35 Lb. Matter of Fact By Jo and Stewart Alsop NIXON PLUS AND MINUS San Francisco Besides leav ing a wide assortment of unheal ed scars, the comedy that ended with the tri umph a nt re nomination of Vice President Richard Nixon wiU also influ ence the char acter of the campaign that is now open ing. n.u: tt old Stassen's consolation prize, so to speak that he concen trated the thinking of the Re publican high command on the problem of Dick Nixon, and thus produced the decision that this year Nixon must wage what is usually call ed "a high lev el campaign." Nixon's in stinct to thrust for the political jugular, which has earned him such hatred from the Dem ocrats, is now Stewart &isop to be sternly repressed. Instead, Nixon will make a strenuous effort to con vey a new image of himself as an elevated statesman. Nixon himself has in effect an nounced this significant decision, in the statement he has made here to many delegates that the Republicans have something bet ter to offer this year than mere "abuse and villification of the op position." One may wonder whether the decision will hold, if the campaign ever seems to be going badly and the President still feels unable to take the stump himself. Meanwhile, how ever, the very fact that this kind of a decision has been conscious ly taken about Nixon makes the character of this remarkable man more than ever interesting to try to analyze. TT is easy enough to see why Nixon is so heartily disliked by almost all Democrats, many inde pendents and even some Republi cans. These are times when America likes its politicians not to look like politicians. Nixon is a politician in every bone and fibre of his body. Up to now, moreover, he has always been the kind of politician who struck direct for his opponent's jugular, with ruthless single-mindedness. And this instinct for the jugular, 'though highly effective, is not exacUy attractive. There is no need to argue about whether or not the Vice President really suggested that the Democrats were the party of treason, in order to prove that he sometimes pays very little at tention to the Marquis of Queens berry rules. It is enough to note that he held and publicly pro claimed the view that the na tional interest demanded armed intervention in the Indochina crisis. Yet in that summer of 1954, after the President had over-ruled him, every campaign speech of Nixon's contained the boast that the Republicans had "saved" the country from war in Indochina. This sort of thing has inevit ably left a bad taste with those who have happened to notice it But the vital point to note about Nixon is that this sort of thing by no means tells the entire Nixon story. "INE part of the story that must v also be told concerns his quite exceptional capacity to grow as a man. He has come very far since the day when he enter ed politics by answering a' news paper advertisement placed by a group of rich California Republi cans, inviting applications from young war veterans who might wish to run for the Congressional seat of Jerry Voorhees. Clearly, he saw politics then as a sort of jungle, in which advancement was the prize, and the prize was won by the simple rule of dog eat dog by any means available. He has long since ceased to see politics that way, as was proven, curiously enough by the same Indochina crisis already cited. Nixon's view of the national in terest may have been right or wrong at that time. But it re quired courage and a real and disinterested care for the na tional interest to advocate any thing so profoundly disagreeable as armed intervention, as Nixon stouUy did until the President gave his opposite decision. Courage, indeed, is one of Nix on's conspicuous qualities. An other is his ability to face bard EAST SIXTH ST. BEEF ROAST PURE LARD, 2 lbs. 29' Lb. facts, instead of shoving them under the rug; and still another is his willingness to deal with hard facts when that is neces sary, even if the price and risk are considerable. And as the fore going implies, yet another con spicuous Nixon quality is a strong, inquiring, absorptive and analytical intelligence. A LTOGETHER, a few other re cent recruits to American politics have brought such en viable equipment to the game. The only real question about Nix on is whether he will finally learn that American politics is properly called a game simply because it has certain rules, which may be safely broken on the country courthouse level but cannot be broken on the national level. A national leader who has not learned that lesson is clearly a dangerous man. But as Nixon has grown so vis ibly already, there is no reason to suppose he cannot learn a les son which Dwight D. Eisenhower so effectively teaches. The decis ion that had been taken concern ing his own campaigning this year a decision in which Nixon himself naturally had a leading voice in itself suggests that the lesson has come home to him. Altogether, the further evolu tion of Dick Nixon will be sin gularly worth watching. (c) 1956. New York Herald Tribune, Inc. THOSE MIDDLEMEN1 Lincoln, Neb. (U.PJ The av erage price of a pound loaf of white bread to city consumers was 70 per cent more in 1955 than in 1946. 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