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TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medfordtrbuni "Every body in sou rt.ern Oreoo RedThe Mail Tribune" . Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PAINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-0141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERH GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Buin".u Manage! ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHiPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JKWETT Sport Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Societv Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act ot . March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Per Copy tOc. Dally and Sunday One" veal SI 2.00 Dmly and Sunday Six months 0.50 Daily and Sunday Three mot 3J0 Sunday Only One vear $3-30 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year f 13 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c pei copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of oledford Official Paper ot Jackson County United Press FuJI Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLLI DA Y COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago. De troit San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver BC NATION At EDITORIAL ASSOcfATLQN jcmnnzKQ lO" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 'ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 30, 1946 (It was Friday) Medford is chosen as one of the first cities on the Pacific coast to receive distribution of "Evervess," according to the Pepsi-Cola company of Long Island City, N.Y. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Premature deer hunters are reported in the timber. As yet none have shot a pig, on which they thought they saw horns. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 30, 1936 (It was Sunday) A 4-H club exhibit at the Jack son county courthouse auditor ium yesterday draws 15 exhibi tors. The skeet shooters of the Med ford Gun club will play host today to skeet shooters from all of southern Oregon. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 30. 1926 (It was Monday) All county mine owners are urged to bring ore specimens for exhibition as soon as pos sible for the fair which opens Sept. 15. The new lodge of the Frater nal Order of Eagles was installed yesterday afternoon at the Nata torium. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 30, 1916 (It was Wednesday) At a meeting of the school board Tuesday night, the open ing of the Medford schools was postponed from Sept. 4 to Sept. 18. Fruit growers of the Rogue River valley are concerned over the effects of the impending railroad strike. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? - Copr. 1955 Editorial Research Report 1. Who was the Republican nominee for President in 1944? 2. "GATT" stands for some thing in color TV, polio preven tion, electricity, international trade or gangster warfare? 3. The "Georgia Peach" was a famous figure in U. S. sport, in baseball, football, golf, tennis, or pugilism? 4. "Assistant President" Sher man Adams was once governor of Ohio. New Hampshire. Indi ana. Vermont, Delaware, or Colorado? 5. Sandwich Islands was once the name of Bermuda. Hawaii. Thousand Islands. Virgin Isl ands, or the West Indies? 6. The wife of which promi nent Democrat is called Lady Bird? 7. Psoriasis is a disease of the prostate gland, skin, middle ear, lower back, or joints? The answers: 1. Thomas E. Dewey. 2. Trade (General Agree ment on Tariffs and Trade). 3. Baseball (Ty Cobb). , 4. New Hampshire. S. Hawaii. 6. Lyn don Johnson of Texas. Senate majority leader. 7. Skin. MAIL TRIBUNE But It Must Be Cheap This issue, affecting the very heart of the region's eco nomic progress, explains why The Journal supports any reasonable project which will augment the power supply federal, private company, municipal, PUD or any reason able partnership combination of the four. What the region must have is power, regardless of source. Oregon Journal That is a very fair-rriineded attitude but there is one little word left out. That word is CHEAxY It is not power from any source or at any cost that has built up this region of the northwest industrially and should continue to do It is the CHEAP power chiefly produced by such federal projects of a multiple nature as Bonneville and Grand Coulee and would be produced by a similar project at Hells Canyon, TJIGH-cost power will attract no new industries to this state. If cost is to be disregarded there is no I limit to the power that could be produced in a variety of fields including steam and atomic. - . But the great advantage of federal water power is, it is cheap power. We away. Every cent the government advances is repaid from the sales of power. But it is cheaper than similar power can be supplied elsewhere particularly m the East and Middle West, via the non-federal route. That is what has attracted new industries to Ore gon and the northwest and what keeps the industries we have here NOT any power at any cost, but power at a LOW cost ! IF private power, municipal, P.U.D. or partnership can produce not only power in the same, or similar price range, but also produce the many collateral benefits of public power in the direction of flood-control, irrigation and recreation then by all means let's have it. We would gladly follow the Journal's liberal lead- ! ership and go all out for it be called. But we would like to have some evidence that it could be done FIKST. R.W.R. Who Is Calling Names? Speaking of "cheap power" here is a very inter esting and revealing extract from the Alsop Brothers column printed in Wednesday's paper following an interview with former Secretary of the Interior Mc Kay in his motel in Salem, quote : As McKay alternated his fragments of reminiscence and his charges of leftist plots, one began to understand his pain and bewilderment. After such a career, why should he now be open to attack? And if such careers were open to any poor young American with any grit and self-reliance, what was all this leftist talk about welfare and federal responsi bility? Why were not the old ways good enough, as they had proved to be for Doug McKay? And was not anyone who challenged the old ways inherently a dangerous and sinister fellow? The problem is, of course, whether the assumptions be hind these questions still hold true in modern America, as they held true when Doug McKay set out to make his way in the world. It is a particularly urgent problem here in the North west, where a booming private enterprise economy has been squarely built on cheap power financed by the U.S. Treasury. That is entirely correct And while the question is not answered no doubt is left in the reader's mind that in the opinion of Joseph Alsop the assumptions behind Mr. McKay's "pain and bewilderment" are not cor rect. . . . THERE is no "plot" leftist or rightist or in between against him, there is simply a strong and growing sentiment among the rank and file of Oregon people regardless of party, that a person of Secretary Mc Kay's reactionary and antiquated views should not represent this growing and progressive state in the Senate for the next six years. They don't dislike him but they do dislike his political philosophy. No one can accuse the Alsops of any bias against the Republican party or its no doubt is left m the opinion of the reader that the essential problem is NOT how to save Oregon from the "leftists" but how to save Oregon from Secretary McKav. or anyone else power with such obsolete diluvian political concepts. Strangely enough Secretary McKay seems to sense this. At least he remarked to "Why right now, I believe I'd get more votes in Texas than in Oregon. Down in Texas, they like states rights. But these people up here are still yaketty-yakking about the so-called give away of the so-called tidelands. HeU, I was for states rights before I ever went to Washington, and I'm for them still. The leftists are out to destroy Doug McKay, but I'll fight them and I'll beat them yet, even though it's an uphill fight just now." ' And Columnist Alsop continues : . Through aU his talk of the campaign, there ran the same note. He had been "persecuted" by "wild-eyed Demo crats" who had tried to pin the "giveaway label" on him. Wayne Morse, that "leftist" and "carpet bagger," had made all sorts of unsubstantial charges. And what was worse, a good many people in McKay's beloved Oregon had listened to Morse and the other "leftists," so it was not going to be ' easy to win although he thought he could do it. Very touching but we wish our former Governor would name some of the "wild-eyed Democrats" and "Left Wingers" who are calling him names. Who are they and what names are they calling?.'1 We have heard none. The record of Secretary McKay, not the -man has been the only issue we have heard discussed. True the "give away" term has been used, but the "give away" charge is warranted and before the cam paign is over certainly ample evidence to sustain it will be presented. R.W.R. FINES FISH TOSSER , Milwaukee (U.R) Keith Meyer, 19, just doesn't like to be lectured about jaywalking. A policeman told a judge he Thursday, August SO, 1958 so. if congress would OK it. don't mean anything is given regardless of what it might senatorial candidate but in a position of senatonai anti - public power and ante Columnist Alsop, quote: was lecturing Meyer about jay walking when the youth heaved a dead perch at him. The fish missed its mark, but the judge didn't He fined Meyer $5. Reuther Wins Another Round Great Game of Labor Politics By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) The Auto Worker's Walter P. Reuther has just won another round in the great game of labor politics. If you were to pick today the ' leader of or ganized labor . to whom Adlai I E. Stevenson owes t h largest debt of g r a titude, it i,yie c wiisoo would have to be this same Reuther. Sen. Estes Kefauver is indebt ed to Reuther, too, but not so much. The immediate story prob ably begins back there in June when Reuther held a press con ference here. For those who are not yet wholly aware of Reu ther, he is head man of the United Auto Workers and No. man in the combined AFL-CIO of which George Meany is presi dent. Reuther told the newsmen last June that he supported Steven son for the Democratic . presi dential nomination. He didn't say it very loud or the reporters didn't hear him too distinctly, because the word failed to get around as it should. Announces For Stevenson Next development was when Democrats assembled in Chicago for their nominating convention. Reuther announced again for Stevenson and rang all bells The bells rang because Reuther was bucking his governor by then. Gov. G. Mennen Soapy Williams was counted among the stop-Stevenson group and had arranged to have the Michi gan delegation pledged to him self as a favorite son. Four times elected governor of Michigan, Williams could and probably did aspire to one place or another on the national ticket He opposed Stevenson on charges that he was too moderate in his approach to public issues. When Reuther announced for Steven son, the governor said, in eliect, that he and the state's delegation were unimpressed. Midway in the convention. however, the Michigan delega tion met in emergency caucus and under Reuther's pressure dumped Williams as a favorite son. Big Michigan threw its votes to Stevenson and at that point the candidacy of Gov. Averell Harriman for the Demo cratic presidential nomination began to brake toward a sud den stop. Reuther More Powerful From the outside looking in, Reuther would appear to be a better, smarter, more aggressive politician than four times Gov- Editorial Comment DEMOCRAT(IC) PARTY We're not sure who invented it, but it was either Joe Mc Carthy or one of his henchmen who believes in fighting political battles with a rock in his fist. Anyhow, we thought the device had been forgotten until, during the Republican convention, we heard orators speak of the Demo cratic party as the "Democrat party." The idea behind this bold new political weapon is that "Demo crat party" doesn't sound so genteel as "Democratic party." It sounds, the theory is, some how disreputable, and if orators keep calling it the "Democrat party," then the voters will turn against an organization with so ugly a name. Maybe the system would work, but we doubt it. And we question that a Republican vic tory, earned by such an approach would be worth much. We think the Democrats can and should be beaten by a calm and rational examination of the issues and the candidates in cases where Republican issues and candidates are superior. A corruption of the name of the party that was Jefferson's is childish as well as being dirty pool. Eugene Register-Guard. ROGUE CONTROL AGAIN - The disastrous floods in the Rogue River valley last Decem ber stirred local people into a desire for action, producing even some sign of accord between fish groups and irrigation - power flood control groups whose pre vious antagonisms had forced postponement of any decision on a river control program. Now the corps of engineers has funds to complete a flood control survey which, in view of the previous studies of the reclamation bureau on the Rogue arid its tributaries, ought not to be very long or ex pensive.' Col. Jackson Graham of the Portland office of the corps, told a Grants Pass audi ence the- various studies would be coordinated, but did not say how long it would be before his report is ready. The Rogue basin is one which calls for considera tion 6f a variety of problems and of uses. It ought to be possible to strike a reasonable balance among rival interests, preserv ing fishing and recreation and at the same time conserving flood waters for use for power genera tion and for supplementary irri gation. That would offer the best chance for payout on a compre' hensive project. Salem (Ore.) Statesman I ernor Williams. And he would seem to be more powerful than the governor in the councils of the Democratic Party in the state of Michigan. Stevenson owes Reuther quite a hunk of thanks for the action of the Michigan caucus. He is further indebted to Reuther for the action of the AFL-CIO Ex ecutive Council in voting to en dorse the Stevenson-Kefauver presidential ticket. The coun Ike's Health, Deeds, Farm Problem Voted Top National Issues Washington (CQ) Presi dent Eisenhower's health, his per formance in office and the prob lems of the American farmer are the leading political issues in the country today. So say 380 members of Con gress and top editors repre senting both political parties and all sections of the country in a Congressional Quarterly poll. The 187 editors put the Presi dent's health and age at the top of their list of issues. Senators and Representatives 97 of whom answered the poll give top billing to the farm problem. The 86 Republican Congress men responding rate Mr. Eisen hower's performance as Presi dent the leading topic. Peace, prosperity, segrega tion-integration, foreign aid, tax es and Vice President Richard M. Nixon also are judged fore most in the voters' minds. Others Rate Low On the other hand, some top ics Congress nas debated at length federal aid to schools, veterans benefits, the loyalty-security program and the "massive retaliation" policy, for intance rate low on the list of cam paign issues, Each editor and legislator poll ed was given a list of 55 topics of national concern to select and rate from 5 to 10 as the "issues likely to arouse the greatest vot er interest in your district or state." They also were asked to rate the degree of voter apathy or interest in the coming cam paign. Western editors and mem bers of Congress said interest is higher than usual; interest is reported lower than usual else where in the country. One North Dakota editor com mented, "The question of the President's health has evoked unusual interest and large dis cussion. Otherwise, there would be less than normal interest." Ike's Views Dominant In one way or another, opin ions on Mr. Eisenhower seem likely to dominate the 1956 el ection. Editors and legislators expect the November returns to reflect a judgment on his record office and his capacity to serve another term. The newspaper executives put his health first, his performance third in importance. Democrats above performance in political Democrats, also rating health impact, add the President's ad visers and appointees to the list of top 10 issues. Republicans, plugging the Eis enhower record as their number one talking point, intend to bear down on the actions of the Dem- Communications Letters to th Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for pubUcation is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Who 'Would Succeed? To the Editor: Many of us in this area believe President Eis enhower will be forced by Re publican overlords to undertake grueling whistle-stop cam paign. From what we already know about his physical condition and from recent photographs of him in the newspapers, some I have talked to doubt very much if the president is able to conduct such a campaign. . In event of his death prior to election day, of course, Mr. Nix on would then become presi dent, but who would then be come the Republican candidate? Suppose the president should die a day or so before election day, would someone be appoint ed by the Republican party or would another convention be held? Would the national election be postponed? I realize these are not pleas ant thoughts but it would be in teresting to know how such a tragedy would be handled polit ically. Frank Strickland, Cave Junction, Ore. (Editor's Note: We are In formed the convention of each party authorized the party's na tional committee to select a nominee in case of the death of the party's candidate prior to the election.) in cil made that decision Monday at Forest Park, Pa. Reuther was a spark-plug of the endorsement proposition. It was his resolution which brought endorsement about. Not even Reuther would claim that the council action or any subsequent labor action will deliver the union vote to the Democratic presidential ticket in November. But, it will help, and politicians always need all the help they can get ocratic-led 84th Congress and its handling of the President's program. Among domestic issues, far mers' complaints vie for atten tion with general prosperity. Democrats rank the farm prob lem as the first, second or third leading issue in every section of the country, and first nation ally. Editors and Republicans put it fourth on their list. Prosperity No. 2 Editors and Republicans also agree that prosperity is the num ber two political topic in. the country. Democrats, looking for chinks in the armor, list the state of small business as a national issue. In the East and Midwest they add unemployment to their roster of important topics One domestic perennial tax es has slipped in importance since the 1955 CQ poll. Then rated the country's number one issue, it now comes 10th on both parties' and the editors' lists, Problems of segregation and integration dominate the list of issues in the South. They rate, fifth and sixth, nationally, with editors and Democrats. These two groups also regard Vice President Nixon as an im portant issue. He is third on the Democratic list and seventh on the editors'. Interest in the Nix on issue is greatest in the West and the East, but Republicans in no section of the country list him among the top 10 topics of public concern. (The poll was completed before Harold E. Stas- sen began his campaign to deny Nixon the Vice Presidential nom ination). Foreign Policy Low Generally speaking, foreign policy and defense issues rate low in the poll. Republican members of Congress put peace third on their list of campaign topics, foreign aid fifth, military preparedness seventh and the Korean armistice ninth. Democrats put the emphasis on the United States' current world position sixth on their list and also list foreign aid among the top 10. Editors rate peace fifth, foreign aid eighth, military preparedness ninth. They do not list Korea or cur rent U.S. world position among the top 10. (Copyright 1956, Congressional Quarterly) One Driver Cited Following Accident John Patrick Graham, 175 Jeanette St., Medford, was cited by state police Wednesday for violation of the basic rule after his car ran into another vehicle on Highway 99 south of the Phoenix city limits. . Officers said driver of the oth er car, Gaylord Raymond Cox, 1585 Crater Lake ave., stopped for a red flag in a construction area on the highway, when Gra ham's car struck his from behind. Damage to the cars was not believed extensive. There were no injuries. The accident oc curred at 2:43 p.m. FUNERAL EXPENSE INSURANCE When the inevitable comes to you, someone probably someone near and dear ,is going to be obligated for funeral and cemetery expenses. You can show your thoughtfulnss and love by taking out an insurance policy of your own. Even a small policy of $500 or $1,000, taken out for funeral expenses, eliminates the burden of, a need for immediate cash. Consult the insurance agent of your choice, nowl Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Today and By Walter SUEZ AFTER LONDON Although the London confer ence wound up with two pro posals, the Indian and the Amer ican, on tne most import ant question of aU the con ference was unanimous. This is that the Suez Can al is an inter national pub lic utility in waiter Lippmmn which the na tions that use the canal have legal and moral rights. The canal is not like the Mississippi River or the Ganges River or the Volga River, a waterway within the exclusive jurisdiction of the countries through which it runs. The United States, India, Soviet Russia can do anything they -like with their national waterways, can decide who may use them, can close them to nav igation, can charge tolls as and when they choose, can, if they prefer, divert their waters. No nation at the London con ference countenances the notion that Egyptian sovereignty meant that Col. Nasser has any such exclusive rights. On this crucial Congressional Quiz (Copyright, ms CongrenlonaJ Quarterly) Q Under new social security legislation approved by Congress at this session, which of the fol lowing professional groups is now the only one not entitled to receive Old Age and Survivors Insurance benefits: (a) lawyers; (b) physicians; (c) dentists; d) veterinarians? A (c). All except physici ans are covered for the first time under the new law, as are also chiropractors, optom etrists, naturopaths and osteo paths. Q The largest U.S. territory, Alaska, was purchased from Russia in 1867. Negotiated by Secretary of State 'William H Seward, the purchase was de rided as "Seward's folly." Which figure is closest to the purchase price: (a) $7,000,000; (b) $20,- 000,000; .(c) $100,000,000? A (a) is closest. The price was $7,200,000, after a little haggling. Not much more than a drop in the bucket of the modern U.S. budget Q True or False: If Alaska were admitted to the" Union, she would have the smallest popula tion in the States. A True. Nevada, the least populous stale now, is esti mated to have 216,000 inhabi tants; Alaska (excluding troops stationed there) has about 168,000 population. Q Also a candidate for state hood is the Territory of Hawaii, "the paradise . of the Pacific." One poiat of opposition to Ha- wau s admission has been her population of Japanese origin. What percentage of the total population do Japanese descend ants represent: (a) 20 per cent; (b) 35 per cent; (c) 50 per cent; (d) 6a per cent? A (b) is closest According to the 1950 census, - 37 per cent of Hawaii's inhabitants were of Japanese ancestry. Q A vital waterway of the Western Hemisphere is the Pan ama Canal, built by the United States in 1914. Land on which the canal was built is (a) owned by the U.S.; (b) controlled by the U.S. as a result of a treaty with Panama; (c) owned and con trolled by an international com pany. A (b). By a 1903 treaty with a new Panamanian gov ernment, installed after . a show of force by the U.S., the U.S. controls the 10-mile wide Canal Zone "as if it were sovereign" in return for an initial payment of $10 million and annual payments. Tomorrow Lippmann point Mr. Shepilov as well as Mr. Krishna Menon made it quite plain that they as users of the canal believe they have an in dubitable right to free and equal navigation at reasonable rates under efficient operating condi tions and that these rights should be guaranteed by moder nizing the conventions of 1888. Mr. Dulles has been making a good case. But he might have strengthened it had he dwelt more emphatically on the unani mity of the powers on this fun damental question of principle. rpHE ISSUE between the 18 nations who approve the Dulles proposals and the four nations, if we may count in the Soviet Union, who approve the Krishna Menon proposals, is this: Shall the canal be operated by the Egyptians, with an inter national advisory board to watch them, subject to rules laid down in an international treaty? Or, shall the canal be run by an in ternational operating board un der the rules laid down in the treaty? The Indian argument is that Col. Nasser, because of Arab feeling, must be allowed to be the official operator, though he may be hedged in by a new treaty and watched over by an international advisory board. The Western argument is that Col. Nasser cannot be trusted to operate the canal efficiently and fairly, and that the key neces sity is international operation. The Western argument may very well be right But it has a fatal weakness; It is a proposal to act on suspicion before Col. Nasser has violated the rights of the users. He has not in fact done that except in the case of Israeli ships. But this case is an awkward one for Great Britain and France inasmuch as the Is raeli ships were stopped while the old Suez Company was op erating the caanl. The - Israeli ships apart, and they are apart by the tacit con sent of the Western govern ments, Col. Nasser is merely un der suspicion and has not been convicted. It would follow, it seems to me, that there are in this affair two bridges to cross, and the second one cannot be crossed until after the first rpHE FIRST bridge is to obtain -1- worldwide agreement on an international treaty which sets down clearly the rights' of the users, and this is of critical importance sets up or recog nizes an efficient tribunal to which complaints can be carried. The second bridge is the ac tion to be taken if Col. Nasser begins to do what the West be lieves he will do to misman age the canal, to exploit it to profiteer, and to use it for po litical blackmail. If the two bridges are to be crossed in the same negotiations, it will have to be, it would ap pear, by developing a compro mise between, the Indian pro posal for an advisory board and the 18 nation proposal for an operating board. That should not be beyond the wit of men. For the line between advising and operating is not sharp and ab solute. In any event, the problem of Col. Nasser and of the Pan-Arab movement will remain regard less of the technical devices which have to do with the opera tion of the canal. 1956. New York Herald Tribune, Inc. - RUSSIAN GETS HIS MAN - San Francisco 0J.R) A Russian" got John Edwards, but not the way he expected it to happen. Edwards, 48, was arrested and taken to a psychi atric ward when police found him sleeping in a tent in Golden Gate Park. He said he was afraid to stay in his room because the Russians were after him with a death ray machine. The arrest ing officer Patrolman Sviato- slav Yasimitsky.
