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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDvSvTRIBUNE "Everyone in Southern Oregon Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO m 37-29 NorthFirSt. Phone 2141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manaer ERIC ALLEN JR., Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Societv Editor DALE ER ICKSON.Clrcu latlon Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1317 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sundav Six months S W) Daily and Sunday Three mos. 4 25 Sundav Only One year 4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent, and on motor routes: Dallv and Sunday One year $18 00 DalTv and Sundav One month 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance 6fn-la paper or the Cttv of W'-dford Official Paper nf Jackson County United PressFull Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATION Advertising Renre.ientative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B C NATION At E0ITORIAI J ASocfTLN 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 ' Sept. S. 1946 (It was Thursday) The state police in a periodic ' drive on auto violators have filed 75 complaints against mo torists here the past week. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The wild blackberries of the Applegate are now at their best and sev eral were seen departing with pails yes. 0 YEARS AGO Sept. 5. 1936 (It was Saturday) Whole-hearted approval of an old-age pension was expressed by James Stevens. Democratic candidate for the state house of . representatives at a meeting of Medford Townsend club No. 2, Friday. Sale is announced of Holly Court by the Jackson county building and Loan association to W. H. Lydiard and J. F. Fliegel. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 5. 1926 (It was Sunday) Paul McKee. viee president 'and general manager for the past seven years of the Califor nia Oregon Power company, re signs. Principal E. H. Conkle of the high school reports there is con siderable demand for used text books for the coming year. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 5. 1916 (It was Tuesday) t.o annual meeting on Baldy Saturday and Sunday is being planned by the Grizzlies. The weekly concert will take place at 8 p.m. in the city park this evening with the Medford city band under the direction of bandmaster Rowland. What's the Answer? Can Toa Get 4 of the 7? Cow. 1955 Editorial Research Report 1. Vice President Nixon is somewhat younger or older than Estes Kefauver. Democratic can didate to replace him, or about the same age? 2. A man bom abroad of U.S. parents does or doesn't need to go through naturalization pro cedure to be a U.S. citizen? 3. More British. U.S., Egyp tian. Dutch. Norwegian, French. Italian, or Panamanian ships use the Suez Canal in normal times? 4. The average hog sold for slaughter weighs much more or much less than the average steer, or about the same? 5. At end of August Mickey Mantle was ahead or behind the pa set by Babe Ruth in Ruths Tprord-breaking home run year? 6. World War I arose out of murder of the Austro-Hunganan crown prince in Sarajevo, which is now in Austria. Hungary, Czechoslovakia, or Yugoslavia? 7. The chance of drawing a i KanH nf 13 cards of one suit is much more or less than one in a billion, or about tnai. Tha answers: 1. Nixon some whal younger (almost 10 yrs.). 2. Doesn't. 3. Mora British. 4. Much less. 5. Ahead. 6. Yugoslavia. 7. Much less than ona in a billion. CvAA fUBUIHIBS MAIL TRIBUNE Lots of Districts The other day we pointed out some defects in the jjiesent foim of county government. The county, for one thing, does not have enough authority to take care of urgent problems right in its own bailiwick. One result of this is the growth of the number of special taxing districts, formed for just one purpose. They would not be necessary if the county had "home rule" enough to perform the, services. The best example of this was shown last week when the assessor published the millage rates for taxing districts in Jackson county. , 'T'HERE are 45 of them in Jackson county alone 10 cities, the rural school board, 22 school districts, 7 water districts, 1 sanitary district and 3 rural fire departments. (And this doesn't include the semi-autonomous irrigation districts and soil conservation districts.) Some counties also have park and recreation dis tricts, drainage districts, mosquito abatement dist ricts, cemetery maintenance districts, port districts, highway lighting, diking, control districts, as well PUDs. Couldn't some of these special purposes be better served by the county, if it were allowed to do so? This is one of the questions being probed by an interim committee, which should issue its report before many more months. E.A. Rough on Drunks Louisiana has a new system of penalties for motor ists who are convicted of of intoxicating liquor. For a first offense', the to $400 or a jail term of Second offenders get fined a maximum of $1,250, or a jail term of 125 days to The third time, the penalty is a. prison term at hard labor for one to five years. The fourth offense, if there is one, is hard labor for not less than 10 years THE Portland Oregonian with a snootful after a henceforth will be a practice indulged m most spar ingly in Louisiana." Maybe so. But it might work the other way, too. We have a hunch juries might be reluctant to find a man guilty when the penalty is so severe for an offense which has not yet come to be generally regarded as being as serious as it should be. E.A. Faster The new poll booths county for use in county-wide elections should be of material aid in speeding iov. 6. Before the primary in pressed about possible delays caused by the new law requiring the signing of two poll books, rather than one. As it worked out, the a minor irritant to voters, balloting. What did slow it down, however, in this county anyhow, was the entirely inadequate supply of poll booths. Precinct after precinct waiting their turn at the IE PREDICT the new ones made of metal frames with detachable canvas sides will make voting both speedier and pleasanter. Meanwhile, we hope the recommendations of the interim committee on elections will be given serious consideration by the next voting: procedures can be ening the necessary safeguards to an honest and representative vote, that made. ' It's difficult enough to anyway, without making the process any more diffi cult than it need be. E.A. ' Bumper. Bob Chandler, editor happy about the "bumper number of tourist attractions manage to attach to the cars of visitors. (The first card we ever tised the House of Mystery in Jackson county. But whether John Litster can spiration for this form cf know.) Anvwav. Chandler objects to having the cards attached to his car, and doesn't see why other motor ists don t object too. IIE HAS a suggestion: "Why not authorize sort of advertising, say a cent a mile for every mile a strip remains on a bumper?" If his suggestion were placed in effect, a shrewd motorist with a large bumper might be able to finance his vacation trip as a traveling; billboard. We suggest to Bob, though, that he carry a pair of wire clippers m the glove compartment of his car, and when he finds he's been turned into an unwilling advertiser (or should it be advertisee?), clip it off, crumple it up and dump it orTthe premises of the oxienaer. l.a. Wednesday. September S. 1S58 hospital and grasshopper as housing authorities and driving under the influence penalty is a fine of $125 30 days to eight months. lo months. and not more than 30. says that "Driving home party, one may assume, Voting being acquired by Jackson up the voting procedure May, some concern was ex- requirement, while possibly did little to slow down the reported lines of voters booths. legislature, and if it is found speeded up without threat the appropriate changes be entice the electorate out Cards of the Bend Bulletin, is un cards" which a mounting saw, by the way, adver be credited with the in advertising or not we don't motorists to charge for this x Nixon Kefauver Compared on d : r r By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Editor'! Note: The 195 election campaign will focui the sreateit at tention In nollUcal history on the candidate! for Vice President. This Is the Ilrst of three dispatches comparing Nixon and Kefauver.) Washington U.B A smart fellow can prove almost any thing with figures, and that goes for Congressional voting records a campaign year. For example, take the men who won this year's major party nominations for Vice President. They served in Congress to gether, 1947-52, although Tennes see s Estes Kefauver was pro moted to the Senate ahead of California's Richard M. Nixon. On 31 substantial matters of public policy among those which came to a vote during those years, Nixon and Kefauver voted alike on 15 occasions. They were opposed or Kefauver was not recorded 16 times. Legislators who' vote alike about as often as they are op posed surely cannot be so far apart in their political positions as to be leaders of their respec tive parties, each dedicated to the defeat of the other. Or can they? ADA Supports Eites The organization known as Americans for Democratic Ac tion (ADA) attempts to measure the merits of politicians and par ties. ADA Unas almost nothing that is good about Vice President Nixon It tagged Senator Kefau ver with an enthusiastic okey long before the nominating con ventions met. Organized labor goes along with ADA on that. The left wing of the Democratic Party Matter of Fact by DEMOCRATIC RESURGENCE Seattle, Wash. The campaign problem that confronts Presi dent Eisenhower out here in the Northwest can be rather sim p 1 y summed up. For the great bloc of urban, work ing class voters at least Eisen hower has lost his father -status as a Presi dent above par Joseph Aisop ty. He is now thought of as a Re publican President. And a large majority of this great voting bloc does not like or trust the Repub lican party. A previous report in this snace described the rather massive switch of urban Northwestern voters from Stevenson to Eisen hower. This was revealed by ar duous polling in the company of a professional, Lou Harris. As nearly as we could judge. PorUand and Seattle and their surrounding counties now show about the same majority for Stevenson that these key voting areas gave to Eisenhower in 1952. If there are also farm de fections from Eisenhower, the switching in the big cities could conceivably put Oregon and Washington into the Democratic i-uiumn in novemDer. fUR sample was too small to v measure the switch precisely. But our results were so dramatic ally consistent, in both cities in all working class precincts, and even from city block to city block, that, I have no doubt at all about the reality of the switch. The nature of the switch was rather clearly revealed by one of the dramatic consistencies that we discovered. In brief, Eisenhower carried Washington by a wide margin in 1852, while the youthful Demo crat, "Scoop" Jackson, beat the Republican, Harry Cain, by a wide -margin in the Senate race. Again, Eisenhower carried Ore gon by a wide margin; but two years later the Democrat, Rich ard Neuberger. nosed out the om-une nepuoucan, iuy cor don, in the 1954 Senate race. We found no one who had voted for Cain or Cordon who was switching from Eisenhower to Stevenson. When you asked them their party affiliation, they would rarely say they were Re publicans. They would almost invariably say, "We vote for the man, not the party"; for being a Republican is not a matter of pride among the neighbors in a working-class district. But the Cain and Cordon voters were genuine Republicans, none the less, and were loyal to their party. ON the other hand, if you ran into an Oregonian who had voted first for Eisenhower and then for Neuberger, or a Washingtonian who had split the ticket to vote for "Scoop" Jack son, you generally found a switcher to Stevenson. '"Time for a change," discontent with the Korean war, the warmth of the President's personality, had won these people to Eisenhower in 1952. But they had recorded their real party preference in their votes in the Senate races. And although they still "like Ike," they now regard him as a Republican; and their party preference leads them to choose Adlai Stevenson, who is "a fine , i finds Kefauver to be a liberal and Nixon a reactionary or con servative. It arrives at its conclu sions like this: In 1947 Kefauver voted to sup port President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Bill. Nixon voted for, Kefauver against, a resolution calling on Mr. Tru man to use Taft-Hartley powers in the 1949 steel strike. Employment Votes Differ Again, in 1950, Kefauver voted for a Senate amendment which would have increased and length e n e d weekly unemployment benefits. The AFL-CIO political pamphlets compare that vote with Nixon's of 1950 in the House to discontinue Federal regulation of unemployment compensation laws and to permit states to withhold compensation under some circumstances from persons who refused jobs in plants undergoing strikes. Kefauver opposed and Nixon supported April 1, 1951, as the starting date for new corpora tion taxes in preference to Jan. 1, 1951. Labor holds that this was unfair because corporations would have paid another $500, 000,000 in taxes had the earlier date been imposed. The foregoing are examples of Nixon-Kefauver comparative voting taken from the political pamphlet just distributed by the' AFL-CIO committee on political education. Herter Backs Nixon Nixon certainly has champions of his voting record, too, includ ing Massachusetts Gov. Christian A. Herter who nominated him last month. At that time Herter said: "I can speak with some author Joseph Alsop man too." Stevenson was not do ing quite so well as Jackson did in Washington,- but he seemed to be running in Oregon just about as Neuberger ran. By the same token and here is another big surprise Steven son was leading the Democratic ticket in both states. The ex perts have been predicting heavy ticket-splitting in favor of the Northwestern Democratic Sen ate candidates, Wayne Morsn in Oregon and Warren Magnuson in Washington. We found a lot of ticket-splitting, to be sure. But it was going both ways, be cause of the popularity among Washington voters of the Repub lican Senate candidate. Gov. Ar thur Langlie, and because Morse is far from universally popular in Oregon. In both states, there fore, Stevenson was just a hair ahead of the Senate candidates. XlfHAT, then, is one to make of this significant Demo cratic resurgence in the key ur ban areas of the Northwest? It is a real thing, I have no doubt, but as of now it is a fragile thing. In most cases, the switch ers had made their decisions without passion or violent con viction. Their decisions, one felt, might be changed later on. A lot can depend on the campaign that is now opening. But tha fact that the situation is still relatively fluid is by no means sure to benefit the Re publicans. They are vulnerable to further losses in the urban areas, because the urban work ing class voters areethemselves very vulnerable to any economic squeeze. I have ventured to use the phrase "working class" to de scribe these voters because it is the way they think of them selves. In discussing their poli tics, they freely say, "We're working people and naturally we always have to remember that." Yet this phrase, with its old-fashioned ring, hardly con jures up the physical reality that Lou Harris and I saw. WE visited no pockets of mis dn, in o9rtlo Pnrtlanl j i could not see the slightest dif- ference, in fact, between the solidly pro-Eisenhower Seattle precinct inhabited by junior ex ecutives and embryo profession al men, and the strongly pro Stevenson working class precinct foremen and workers and others inhabited by Boeing aircraft who made their living by their hands. There' were the same nice .but small houses, the same cars and television sets and par lor furniture and pretty gardens (although the working people had the edge as gardeners). But there was, no doubt, small difference In family in comes between the two pre cincts. Furthermore, having found their final place in life, the people in the working class precinct were older, and their families were bigger. Thus the high living standard they had achieved was fairly hard to maintain. One could not prove it precisely, but I would guess that the price rises of the last months had a lot to do with making up the switchers' minds. And I would say further that any additional rises in the cost of living will hurt the Republicans badly in the cities, just as any additional drop in farm prices will hurt them badly in the farm areas. Copyright 19S8, New York Herald Tribune. Inc. - , ity about this man's qualities . . . I have observed his votes . . . I have witnessed his deeds. He has developed an incisive grasp of the fundamental premises on which our European recovery program was built. "A hard fighter in partisan contests, he has been equally ef fective in advancing bi-partisan causes. He was an original sup porter of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and mili tary aid for our allies . . . During the lean years of the party his was one of the few strong, clear voices raised in support of a vital and dynamic philosophy of gov ernment which offered a positive alternate to the doctrinaire theo ries of the new and fair deals." In a wide range of issues, Ke fauver and Nixon have been fairly close. They were more often agreed on matters of for eign than on domestic policy. They were in disagreement on matters relating to Communist infiltration of American institutions. Adenauer Alarmed By Possibility of Force In Suez Canal Dispute By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent West Germany is likely to do some strong talking at the meet ing of North Atlantic Treaty Or- g a n l z a t ion members in Paris today. C h a nc ellor K 0 n rad Ade n a u e r seems to be seriously alarmed over the possibility Great Britain and France Charles .Met ann awi i tiuiiic- thing that will lead to military ?action in the Suez canal dis pute. Adenauer does not want West Germany as a NATO mem ber, to be involved in the situa tion in any way. Further, he does not want Britain and France to do any thing themselves that will lead to a mass withdrawal of their troops which are part of the NATO defense forces. It is indicated that German Foreign Minister Henrich Von Brentano will express Ade nauer's views with some force and possibly with some heat. Caught in Middle Adenauer has been caught in the middle, so to speak, by a number of developments in re cent months. Britain has committed itself to a drastic economy program which will entail a reduction in its NATO army strength. Adenauer is very worried over the possibility that revised United States strategic plans will weaken American forces in Germany. The threat of these reductions comes while West Germany is being asked to raise a defense force of 500,000 men as its NATO contribution. Communications Letters to the Editor must beat the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all lettera with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must rot exceed 400 words. Constitution Party To the Editor: Some people will soon vote because it is the thing to do. But both parties are similar in the red tactic to cen tralize and federalize the states, in other words, to destroy the sovereignty of the 48 states both parties believe in the legal thievery of reaching into your pay envelope anc1. taking your money. They call it income tax and what-not. which violates the United States Constitution. The post office debt is federal, and has been in the red since it began. This bunch of legal bums want schools federalized. The pinkos already have their greedy talons by federalization into all states in the nation. Some call themselves socialists, liberals, progressives and what not, but they are communists re gardless, because from the fruit it is easy to identify the seed it came from. A Mexican red with 20 years experience in Russia just ar rived in Mexico to whoop up the communist beliefs and ideas there. Think about this one, and who brings internationals up here to steal the American jobs. I would say don't vote for any one that wants federalization, don't vote for any lawyers, even if you know he is a good one. but for the nation's business men, builders and producers, that know how hard it is to work for a dollar and keep few cents of it. And better still, join the new third party that is on its way in Oregon, the For America Constitutional party. It is now organized in 30 states and growing fast. . ReiUy " " " 338 North Laurel st. Ashland, Ore. T . v . w7 By Walter THE THIRD YEAR We are now at the beginning of the third school year since the Supreme Court held that seg regation in the public schools, as it has pre vailed in 17 states and the District of Co- 74 :awful- Eight a, n iuumern states i TTte.'t 3l extending from :- Virginia to waiter upemann Louisiana have taken legal action to nullify the law as applied tc primary and secondary schools, and five of them all but Virginia, North Carolina and Louisiana main tain segregation in their col leges and universities. Only the District of Columbia, which is under Federal government, has abolished segregation en tirely. In most but not all of the remaining nine states which To raise this force, Adenauer plans to draft men for military service. There is bitter opposi tion by many West Germans to the draft plan. Opposes Arming Soviet Russia naturally is vio lently opposed to the arming of West Germany, and is using that as one of its arguments against consenting to German unification. Unification is the biggest is sue in the world to Germans. Wilhelm Haas, West German ambassador is expected to pre sent a note to Russia within the next few days calling for a Big Four conference on unification. There seems to be no possibil ity that Russia will agree, espe cially as the Kremlin is angry over the recent outlawing of the West German Communist party. In recent days, Russian and Egyptian newspapers have at tacked West Germany savagely because it supported the United States control plan in the re cent London Suez conference. Criticise Britain, France But while West Germany sup ported the American plan, it is even more firmly opposed than is the United States to any war like move by Britain and France in the event that the cur rent Cairo conference fails. West German newspapers, which seem to reflect the view of the government, are vigorous ly criticizing Britain and France. As part of the criticism, they are expressing fear that Ger many's economic interests throughout the Middle East may be harmed by what they call British and French "colonialist" policy. It seems possible that Von Bentano, in Paris, may hint that West Germany's relations with Britain and France will be weakened seriously if the Suez situation gets out of hand.' Two Jackson County Residents Win Prizes . Salem An Ashland resident has won three first prizes and a Central Point resident has won one first prize as a result of the judging at the Oregon State Fair this week in Salem. George Nichols, Ashland, ex hibiting entries in the honey bees event, won first place rib bons for his Italian bees, clover comb honey and alfalfa and sweet clover comb honey. Otto Bohnert, Central Point, exhibiting entries in the vege tables event, won a first place ribbon for his potatoes exhibit (any variety other than Netted Gem). Patrol Extinguishes Blaze Monday Night The state forest patrol Monday night extinguished a "sleeper" fire in the Dead Indian area, a left over from the lightning storm last Aug. 21. the forest patrol reported yesterday. The fire burned about three quarters of an acre in heavy timber area, according to the pa tral, but the fire was confined to the ground. A two man crew, working all Monday night until 7 a.m. Tuesday morning, extin guished the fire, it was reported. LICENSES SUSPENDED Salem !U.R) Licenses of 781 Oregon drivers were suspended last month because of accidents or run-ins with the law. No Parking Problem With "The Amazing Volkswagen" MORSE MOTORS 120. N. RIVERSIDE i V) ClV Tntyyerrn Lippmann include all the border states there are some mixed schools. But they are largely confined to communities 'where the Negroes are a small minority of the pop ulation. Two years are a very short time in a matter of such gravity and difficulty. But they have been long enough, it seems to me, to raise questions which de serve the most careful study and discussion. These questions re volve around the policy as laid down by the Supreme Court for putting the law into effect. This policy, we can now see, is suitable and effective in com munities, as for example the Dis trict of Columbia, where the pub lic authority and a preponder ant public opinion are in favor of observance and compliance. But in the resisting s'ates or com munities, in the hard core of the South, the policy i: most unsat isfactory. It is in fact, either in effective which discredits the law or dangerous to peace and order. THE essential policy, -which I -- am talking about, is this: Hav ing declared that segregation in public schools is unlawful, the Supreme Court invited citizens in communities which do not comply voluntarily to come into the Distrist Court for a redress of their grievance. This means in practice that in segregated com munities Negro families who are willing to fight for heir chil dren's rights must ge a lawyer, supplied usually by t' t National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, must go into the Federal Court, and must ask the judge to order the local officials to do what these local officials do not want to do. Is this a good way to go about persuading the Southern states to comply with a law which they must then live by? There must be a better way than to initiate the process of compliance by a legal fight in which a Negro family calls on the Federal gov ernment to override the will of its own community, and subject. Negro children to the kind of ordeal that they are suffering now in Clinton, Tenn. fPHESE two years have shown, - it seems to me, that the great project of integrating the public schools of the United States is more than a matter of laying down the law and then demand ing that everyone comply with it. Where there are two school systems, one white and one Ne gro, integration requires more than a court order. It requires a program which looks ahead for a generation, and faces up to the practical problems of integra tion such as the financial cost, such as the difference in educational opportunity and of educational capacity of white and colored children, such as wheth er among adolescents it will be wise to combine co-education with integration. The problem is one for states men, not for district judges, and it cannot be solved by scattered law suits. What we very much need is to arrive at a national concensus of enlightened opin ion as to how at the hard core of the problem in the South we should go about inducing compliance. TI1Y own view is that at the -" hard core the wisest policy is to proceed by stages, begin ning as soon as possible with in tegration in the universities. In the graduate schools of law, med icine, education, engineering, theology and where it can be done without causing social con vulsions, in the bigger colleges. The object of this would be to train a new generation of white and colored men and women who will be the leaders in their communities. Until they exist, there is little prospect that at the hard core there will be a disposition by whites and Negroes tq work to gether on the complex and sen sitive problem of integrating at the primary and secondary lev els. At the hard core, a state which complies with the law at the university level should for some years to come be deemed to be acting in good faith. We would be deceiving ourselves if we thought that at the hard core it is possible to tackle the whole problem at once, and to move any faster. Until the elections are over nothing useful can be done about forming a new policy and arriv ing at a consensus to support It. But it will be on the agenda, and not too far from the. top, of the President-elect. (C) 1956. New York Herald Tribune Inc.