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yOTTR MZDrORD (OREGON) .BtoPORlVittiTRIBUHE i Southern OrMnn 'fufcfcahed Daily Excct Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO P- 37-2d North Fir St. Phon 2-!41 ROBERT W. RLTHL. Editor I HERB GREY Advertising Manaetr OIKALU MIHAM, Business Manager time ALLEN JR., Managing Editor EARL H- ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIHMAN. Telegraph Editor -BICHARD JEWETT. Starts Editor UjLIVZ STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERIC K5QN. Circ uia Hon Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clan matter at idedlord, Oregon, under Act of F" March 3. 187 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daliy and Sunday One year $15 00 Dal It and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dailv and SundAV Three mos. 4.25 Sundav Only On var t-l 20 Kv farrier In Arlvanre Medford Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The lack of rumors and scandals hereabouts astounds the natives, they report. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 7, 1936 (It was Monday) An appeal to writers to place their work before the public is brought to local ' journalists Thursday, when Dr. Clara Ing ham of Portland, state prexy of the League of Western Writers, addressed the Medford chapter Sunday. With headquarters In the M. M. Department store a new sales agency for Philco radios will be opened Tuesday by Elhart Broth en of Ashland. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 7, 1926 (It was Tuesday) J. Ed Russell, publicity man for the Abner K. Kline shows was In Medford today arranging for the shows to open here next Monday. The Snedicor shop. 407 East Main St.. is exhibiting a collec tion of Japanese prints, loaned by Miss Livingston. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 7. 1916 (It was Thursday) It has been a prosperous year for fishermen at the mouth of Rogue River, according to George Putnam, who has re turned from a trip to Gold Beach.' After more than 25 years' serv ice as counsel for the Southern Pacific in Oregon, William D Fenton retires. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 19SS Fditorlal Research Report 1. Average total family in come in the U. S. is over $5,000 a year: right or wrong? 2. Col. Nasser of Egypt seemed to have the backing of all, most, or only a few other Arab states in nationalizing the Suez Canal? 3. The Supreme Court decis ion banning public school segre gation is specifically "accepted" in the Republican or Democratic 1956 platform, both or neither? 4. The Donets Basin, great Eu ropean industrial area, is in West Germany. East Germany. Belgium. Czechoslovakia, France or Russia. 5. Air coach plane travel has been in operation in the U. S. for (a) 4. (b) 8, (c) 12, or (d) 16 years? 6. Which of these was called "Seward's Folly" when the U. S. got it: Alaska. Hawaii. Panama Canal, Philippines, Puerto' Rico, Virgin Islands? 7. Stuhldreher, Miller. Layden and Crowley were collectively known as what? The Answers: 1. Right: 2. AIL- 3. In the Republican platform: 4. Russia.- S. Eight years: 6. &iir- 7. Four Horsemen Notre Cam footballers.) I I aa MAIL TRIBUNE Search In The Skies Most of us, at one time or another, have lain on the grass on a warm summer evening, gazing up at the stars. We have been amazed and perhaps a bit frightened at the immensity above us. Mankind has been gazing at the stars for thous ands of years. Gradually, bit by bit, piece by piece, he has learned a little about them, what they are, how they act. But his knowledge of the universe is still tiny and based on theories, assumptions and plain guesses. ..... NOT too many years ago man assumed the earth v. a mc ecu lci ui cue progressed and his instruments became more exact, he believed the sun was the center. Still later it became known that the sun and its solar system, which is our home in space, is only a tiny fleck in a tremendous galaxy of stars, which itself unimaginable vastness of Arlb. we say that space is unimaginable, we f mean just that. The visualizing it in accurate standards of measurement do not apply. So, instead of using miles as a standard (as when we say the sun is 93,000,000 miles away), term light vear as a standard of measurement. This makes it possible to use a symbol (which we can handle) to describe the actual distances (which we cannot). A light year is the distance traveled by light in one year at a speed of 186,300 miles per second. The sun is about seven light minutes away. The galaxy in which disc-shaped collection of some 40,000 light years in Other galaxies, some of millions, even billions, of light years away. DROBING the secrets of the universe is known as the science of cosmology. Small wonder that the ancients were inclined to keep their cosmology limit ed to terms and distances they could comprehend. The new science of cosmology is actually less than half a century old. It is a science which depends on hints, inferences, and interpretations, and on pains taking and laborious observations, as the bases for its theories and hypotheses. It depends on optics, nuclear science and mathe matics for additions to the bulk of man's knowledge so he can draw valid conclusions. It is, perhaps, the most "ify" of all physical sci ences, for its theories cannot be proven or disproven in the test tube, and its hypotheses are often based on other hypotheses. NEVERTHELESS, astronomers are on the verge of discoveries which may kill some theories, and sub stantiate others, with the result that a unified cosmol ogy may soon be erected. There are some dramatic new means of arriving at this break-through point. There is the new 200-inch telescope at Mt. Palo mar, which has tremendously expanded the horizon of mans probing into space. There are new photographic films, which can "see" and record light which is in visible to the human eye, even through telescopes. There are spectroscopes, to break up the light of far-distant objects, thereby telling their physical com position, and measuring the wrave lengths, which give an indication (it is believed) of the speed with which distant galaxies are receding. Perhaps most important of the new physical tools are radio telescopes, which receive impulses from space beyond the range of even the greatest of the optical telescopes. ""THERE are the theoretical tools, too the concepts bom in the minds of physicists and mathematici ans and astronomers which are designed to provide possible solutions to the problems posed, solutions that may be proven or disproven as the new cosmology evolves. These theories sometimes conflict, sometimes sup plement each other. Each is an honest effort to pro vide an orderly explanation of how the universe works. They range from formulas and general con cepts to a new, "non-Euclidian" geometry. Because this "break-through" to greater knowl edge is imminent, the Scientific American this month felt it worth while to devote its entire issue to the universe, to the varying theories of cosmology, to the methods being used, to the progress which has been made in recent years. To anyone interested, even vaguely, in the subject, the magazine is recommended. A STRONOMY, and more particularly cosmology, is approaching in the large the same basic knowl edge of our environment which the nuclear physicists are approaching in the small. The questions they seek to answer are big ones : Is the universe finite or infinite? Is it stable or expand ing? Is space "flat" or "curved," and if curved, is the curve positive or negative? How are time and space related? And, inevitably, the scientists must face up to the biggest question of all, cosmogeny: How did it all begin? Was it created in one blinding flash, as one theorist holds? Is there constant and continual crea tion, as another believes? Is it an orderly and logical system? Or did it "just happen"? yE DON'T have the answers yet. We may never have. But if we don't, it won't be for lack of bril liant minds probing and asking, and tireless and dedi cated men observing and comparing and theorizing and attempting to prove or disprove their theories. It takes courage, too, to face up to the fundamental questions questions which have thus far been an swered by mankind only in terms of faith. Who knows? Perhaps religion stands to gain, too, by this search in the skies for truth and knowledge'. E.A. Friday, September 7, I95S um v ci sc. x iicii, da mo sluuico is only a tiny fleck in the space itself. human mind is incapable of terms, and our familiar the astronomer uses the the sun is a minor star is a stars, nebulae and gas of radius. much larger, are hundreds Nixon's Name Fighting Word To Many; (Editor's Note: This Is the last of a series sizing up the vice presi dential candidates.) By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington U.R) None can sav precisely when the name Richard M. Nixon became fight- 5 '"B words. But fighting words they are among Demo crats generally and especially among the left wing of Amer ican politics. This mild mannered t.vie c vvusuo young Quaker, with a quick smile which is sometimes shy became in the span of 10 years the most con troversial figure in American politics. It will be 10 years next November since Nixon first was elected to the House of Repre sentatives. It will be six years in November since he was elect ed to the Senate. It will be four years then since he was elected Vice President on the Republi can ticket headed by World War II General Dwight D. Eisen hower. Called Many Things Nixon came out of the war a Navy lieutenant commander. He's been called a young man in a hurry, and less flattering things, too. You almost could say that Nixon is putting to severe test a statement by an earlier vice president. That was Indi ana's Tom Marshall, 1913-21. "No one," said Marshall, "would ever take the trouble to shoot a vice president." The type of enemies Nixon makes don't shoot people, how ever strong the urge. Speaker Sam Rayburn gets red-faced like a lobster at the mention of Nix on's name and, often, is unable to find words adequate for his feelings. Former President Tru man once balked at revisiting the Senate chamber until assur ed that the vice president was elsewhere. Mr. Truman doesn't want to co-star anywhere with President Eisenhower, either. Nixon is Target But it is Nixon for whom the political opposition reserve their best anger. There's some anti-Nixon sentiment in the Re publican party, but not much. Not a single vote was cast last month against Nixon's renomi nation. Those who dislike Nix on assert with great confidence that the independent voters don't like him. Who, what and where the independent voters are and who is qualified to speak for them is a matter of some debate. The November election returns should illuminate such matters. Win or lose, Nixon stands to make his enemies like him less this year than last. What burns them is his campaign speeches and, of course, their failure, so far, to lick him. In that first campaign for the House 1946 Nixon made a solid bid for the left wing blacklist. He beat Rep. Jerry Voorhis, an able veteran who also was a 100 per cent New Dealer. Four years later 1950 Nix on compounded the felony by de feating another sweetheart of the left-of-center element. Her name was Helen Gahagan Doug las, the prettiest member of Con gress, ever, who was serving with ' 1 Suez Negotiation Said Week's Good News By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet. The Good 1. Negotiations opened in Cairo on the dispute which re sulted from the decree of Egyp tian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizing the Suez Canal. A five-nation committee submitted to Nasser a proposal, approved by 18 countries, pro viding for international control of canal traffic. Nasser submit ted a proposal of his own calling for an international ' board, linked with the United Nations, which would act in an advisory capacity. The dispute remained grave. But the danger of Brit ish and French military action against Egypt receded. It was indicated that a meeting of the 18 nations would be held in Lon don next week, with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles rep resenting the United States, to discuss the Cairo negotiations. 2. Italian Communist party, strongest outside of the Iron Curtain, suffered a severe blow when the right and left wings of the Socialist party all but com pleted plans to merge. The left wing had been allied with the Communists since the party split in 1947. 3. Adm. Felix B. Stump, com manding the United States Pa cific Fleet, said in Manila that the Southeast Asia Treaty Or ganization has reached the stage where it could act swiftly and effectively against any Commu nist aggression. Stump was ad dressing a meeting of SEATO military advisers. He and Air Marshal Sir Francis Freessanges, British Far Eastern Air Force Controversy Nixon in the House when both decided to seek the Senate seat vacated voluntarily by Sheridan Downey. Political Gold Mint Midway between 1946 and 1950 Nixon got his pick into a political gold mine. The time was the first week of August, 1948. The occasion was the appearance of Alger Hiss before the House Committee on Un-American Ac tivities. Nixon was among the few in that big hearing room who doubted Hiss' testimony that he was no Communist and never had heard of a man named Whit aker Chambers. That doubt made Nixon a national figure. To say that to doubt Hiss then was unpopular puts it too mildly. Doubting Hiss bordered on slan der or libel. It offended good manners, like dirty finger nails. The nation's eggheads, formerly known as the intelligentsia, leaped as though bee-stung to the defense and so did thousands or millions of others. Mr. Truman took a hip shot at the situation and probably re grets it. Mr. T- said the Hiss hullaballoo was just a Republi can red herring in a political year. He said it twice. Eighteen months and two trials passed be fore the impeccable Hiss was convicted for perjury for deny ing activities which had the color of treason. After Chambers, the man who fingered Hiss, Nixon probably was most responsible for putting him in jail. There are persons about who do not condone trea son but who have never forgiven Nixon for jailing Hiss nor for his other services on the House Committee. It is whispered against Nixon that he is a Fascist. He is accused of maligning the Here's Kow They Did Things In State Politics 50 Years Ago To the Editor: The people of Oregon, with their valuable heritage of successful popular government, at this time of cru cial national and state election campaigns, should be watchful to protect themselves from an other incursion by federal of ficials who are not so keen for the freedom Oregonians enjoy. This writer, during the elec tion year of 1908. was a court reporter in the office at Salem of Attorneys-at-law Kaiser and Pogue. The president of the state senate, Mr. Hal Patton, came up from his stationery sup ply store downstairs to report that he had been offered $10, 000 cash and appointment as postmaster at Salem (with its many rural routes) on condition that he would go back on his promise to the people of Oregon to vote for their choice at the polls for United States senator. This was before the Constitu tional amendment for the direct election of U. S. senators had become the law of the nation. Under the Oregon system at that time a sufficient number of can didates for the state senate to carry out the will of the people had been elected under what was called "Statement No. 1 which was their pledge to vote in the legislature for the peo ple's choice for U. S. senator. Oregon newspapers investi- commander, said their forces were ready to aid any SEATO member which might be at tacked. The Bad 1. Russia and Communist China steadily increased their influence in southern and east ern Asia. Afghanistan disclosed that it had made agreements for military aid with Russia and Czechoslovakia. President Su karno of Indonesia, a leading "neutralist," toured the Soviet Union and spoke in the warmest terms of the Soviet govern ment's work for "peace, pros perity and equality." Laos, one of the three states of Indochina, entered the neutralist camp after a tour of Red China by its pre mier, Prince Souvanna Phouma. It was announced that Premier Tank Prasad Acharya, of the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, would leave for a visit to Red China on Sept. 16. 2. Violence broke out in Cy-; prus again after a brief truce. 'j The Greek Cypriot underground ! organization had called the truce, hoping to win concessions. But I British Commander-in-Chief! Field Marshal Sir John Harding j demanded that the extremists j lay down their arms. Their re-S ply was to resume attacks on Britons and Turkish Cypriots. j 3. Japan was threatened with a cabinet crisis. Premier Ichiro ; Hatoyama and Foreign Minister . Mamoru Shigemitsu were under strong attack by members of their own Liberal-Democratic party because of the failure of peace treaty negotiations with Russia. Shigemitsu seemed near lv certain to lose his post and Tokyo dispatches indicate that : Hatoyama might be forced out. Traced leaders of the Democratic party. The precise language in which Nixon is accused of making per sional attacks on Mr. Truman, for example, is not cited. It is the over-all implication of his charge that the Truman and Roosevelt administrations were soft on Communism. Nixon went Into the 1952 na tional campaign with a back ground which included the politi cal demise of Voorhis and Mrs. Douglas, the jailing of Hiss, serv ice on the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He chose the soft-on-Communism is sue as a major 1952 theme- He stayed with it in the congres sional elections of 1954. Tough Man to Fight Nixon is a tough man In a fight. His House and Senate tri umphs in California were lop sided majorities way over 500, 000. The Eisenhower-Nixon tick et was a spectacular winner. The 1954 campaign did not pay off so well. What 1956 will bring re mains to be seen. Nixon is hated, It is true. He also is loved by millions for the enemies he lias made. His worst enemies usually will concede that he has undertaken large re sponsibilities as vice president and that he has discharged them well. The odds arelong that Rich ard M. Nixon, now 43, will be the leader of the Republican party when President Eisen hower steps down. There is none in sight to challenge him except Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, whose plans are unknown. Mr. Eisenhower admires and respects Nixon- He approves of his campaign tactics. For the first time a vice president has been put in training to succeed to the presidency just in case gated and revealed that Repub lican National Chairman Hitch cock (the postmaster general) had sent Ormsby McHarg from Washington, D. C, with $70,000 cash and the promise of seven federal offices for seven state senators, provided they would go back on their pledge to the people of Oregon to vote in the state senate for the people's choice for U. S. Senator. Mc Harg was notified that unless he left Oregon within 24 hours he would be strung up on a tele graph pole, and he promptly re turned east with his $70,000 and no promise from any state sen ator-elect to go back on the "Statement No. 1" pledge. RighUy believing that because of the unique Oregon system the Republican-controlled Senate in Washington would stage a con test against his being seated on arrival there. Gov. Geo. E. Chamberlain called on this writ er to make a verbatim report of the explanatory speeches in the state senate of each of the Re publican senators who voted for him and thus kept their pledges under "Statement No. 1." That evening the reporter for the "Oregonian," Mr. Prescott, who later became secretary to senior Oregon U. S. Sen. Jonathan Bourne Jr., rushed a copy of the transcription to Portland for the morning edition of his paper. Mr. Chamberlain took his seat in the U. S.' Senate as a Demo crat and served with great dis tinction for 12 years. This writ er served as his assistant secre tary for nine years. It was an honor to cooperate with the man chosen by the people of Oregon to be twice attorney general, twice governor of the state, and twice U. S. senator, and who made an amazing record of ser vice to the state and nation, and also in international affairs. This writer has been retired by the government for the past nine years. When the territories of New Mexico and Arizona came up for admission to the Union, the Republican-controlled Senate at Washington sought to keep Arizona out, because it had progressive legislation in line with that of Oregon. Sen ator Chamberlain at that time declared that Arizona should be admitted to the union with New Mexico, or both would stay out, and he was successful in his fight, both being admitted early in 1912. Hubert Grant, Phoenix, Ariz. Use Tribune Want Ads 2 3.1 I PORK. SAUSAGE 29'b. Bond Investment and Interest Rate Talked By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. Recently, monetary authorities have tight ened their controls again, bring- ingabouta further decline 'in bond prices. I forecast that these authori ties so long as business re mains good .will maintain a firm rein on credit. The Rorer W Babion trend for bond prices has been down for 20 months. That is the primary rea son why I have advised and stiU advise the average investor to buy only short-maturity bonds. Investor interest in bonds has increased somewhat in recent weeks as uncertainties have crept into the outlook for com mon stock prices and as yields from the most popular common stocks have become quite low. These stocks could be particu larly vulnerable in any import ant market correction. I 'predict that investor interest in bonds will grow. As I view the monetary and business situation this fall, I fore see a continued weak bond market. The monetary authori ties will have to contend with possible upward price pressure arising out of the steel wage set tlement; but nothing radical will be done until after the elections in November. Certainly, nothing will be done before then to harm business. Government Bonds Do not count on long-term gov ernment bonds showing any sus tained strength. After the elec tions the money managers may have to fight higher prices by again slightly tightening credit terms and raising money rates. I assume that bankers who are mostly Republicans do not ob ject to higher money rates. I would caution the average investor against buying long- term government bonds with any thought of profits. As with other bond groups, I urge investors to confine the major portion of their purchases to intermediate and short-term government is sues. Only for death-tax purposes should one build a backlog of those long-term Treasury issues which are always worth par for payment of estate taxes. This means one should not pay more than par for them. Remember, however, that the interest re ceived from government bonds is subject to federal income taxes. The difference in yields be tween high-grade corporate and government bonds in a given ma turity is now relatively small. However, I question whether even insurance companies should buy so heavily into the corporate field as into governments. Un like the individual investor who maintains a balanced fund of bonds and stocks, insurance com panies, particularly life com panies, must spread maturities and include some long - term bonds, including AAA utilities and rails. Colleges, hospitals, and funds not subect to taxation can well consider good corporate bonds. However, I think such buyers should put more of their bond funds into utilities and in dustrials than into rails. The average investor to whom yield is important would be jus tified in putting a small part of his bond funds into medium grade utility and industrial is sues. On long-term issues of such bonds, he can now obtain a yield of about 3.75 per cent on rails. 3.59 per cent on. industrials, and State's Youngest School To Open Bend U.R) Oregon's young est institution of higher learn ing Central Oregon College, will open for the new school year Sept. 10 with an expected en rollment of 300 students. Director Don Pence said the two-year junior college would have 11 full-time faculty mem bers this year with eight part time instructors and would use facilities in Bend's new million dollar high school. The college convenes at nights only after high school cjasses have cleared the building. Pence's prediction of a rec ord enrollment was based on reports of tight housing at both University of Oregon and Ore gon State College. EAST SIXTH 5T. iifcTrMii ' 1 h n PURE LARD, 2 lbs. SLICED BACON 39c.b. 3.62 per cent on utilities. But at these yields, I prefer nontaxable bonds, such as municipals and high-grade revenue issues for those who are in the high tax bracket and who do not worry about marketability. Confine Purchase I would recommend that pur chases of medium-grade corpora tion bonds be confined to first mortgage issues. Medium-grade bonds are influenced in price movement by what happens in the stock market. In no case should the average investor place any of his funds intended as a nest egg for later purchase of stocks in other than short-term high-grade issues, even though he may have to make some sac rifice of yield. Ordinarily, I like to recom mend convertible bonds to my readers; but in view of uncer tainties in the stock market it is questionable whether very many purchases in this field should be made now. Again I recommend to Individuals good short-term tax-exempt bonds. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS FIRST, let's talk about Suez. The Cairo talks are beine con ducted behind closed doors as they should be. But there are indications that they have takn a definite possibly a conclu-' sive turn. What isn't clear is whether a compromise is im minent or whether Nasser has refused to budge from his earl ier stand against any foreign interference in running the canal. At any rate, Britain's Prime Minister Eden has called an emergency session of parliament to hear a report on the Cairo situation. Emergency sessions of parliament are called only to consider grave problems. 'THERE Is another interesting development in Britain. The eight - million - member Trade Union Congress has adopted resolutions demanding that the Suez problem be put be fore the United Nations if the present Cairo talks fail. The pow erful TUC has taken a firm stand AGAINST USE OF FORCE IN THE SUEZ DISPUTE. XlfHY talk first about far-away " Suez? This is the answer: If the handling of the Suez problem is wise and thoughtful and intelligent, WAR MAY BE AVOIDED. If it isn't wisely and thought fully and intelligently handled, the world can blunder into an other war. MOW for the daily dose of politics. Addressing the International Association of Machinists in San Francisco today, Adlai Steven son says: "The Republicans offer you PROMISES. The Democrats offer you PERFORMANCE." T'M afraid he got it backwards. Sixty-six million workers employed at the highest wages in the history of the world is performance. The Democrats PROMISE labor control of the government. T ETS put it this way: It you were a worker's WIFE, which would you rather have a job at good wages, or CONTROL OF THE GOVERN MENT? NOW for a crack at the farm nrohlpm From Chicago comes the news that prime steers hit a new high at the Union stockyards yester day. Three loads sold for $32 hundredweight. The steers were top quality and had been fed on grain in Midwest feed lots. i The $32 price compared with a top of $26.25 last year. It was the best price since April 19, 1955, when the top was also $32. WHY? " 1 Listen: A SHRINKING SUPPLY of this type of cattle has caused prices to move up over recent months. That is to say: It wasn't POLITICS that caused prices of prime steers to move up sharply on the Chicago market. It was SUPPLY AND DE MAND. . MUTTON ROAST 1 ftc lb.