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FOUR MEDrORD (OHEOOK) MEDFORDTEIBimE "Everyone In Southern Orefoo Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Da ll Except Saturday by 27-25 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBFRT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. B mines Manager ERIC ALLEN JR., Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor DALE ER ICKSON , Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newapaper Entered aa second clam matter at Medlord. Or it on, under Act of March . 1857 SUBSCRIPT' ON RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday On year $15 00 Dally airi Sunday Six montha 8 00 DaiJv and Sunday -Three moa. 4.23 Sunday Only One y:ar $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Rler, Talent, ar.d on motor routes: Dally and Sunday On, year tlB.OO Dally and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Prei Full Leased Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Office in New York. Chicago, dc trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. Sfe Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. R C NATION A l EDITORIAL &k lASgoc5T6" NEWS PA P I R PUBLISH! tS 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 Sept. 12. 1948 (It was Thursday) Realizing that a daily paper must be delivered quickly and properly after its production in order to be of real value to the subscriber. Charles DeCarlow has become the fastest paper folder among Tribune carriers. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A report has been received on quicksilver in southern Oregon. If it was any quicker, nobody in southern Oregon would have any. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 12, 1936 (It was Saturday) Arrangements for the Elks' barbecue picnic and ring show, to be held at the Elks' picnic grounds Thursday evening. Sept. 17, are complete, according to Walter W. Abbey, general man ager. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 12, 1928 (It was Sunday) During the next few days Miss Violet Whitney will demonstrate Maytime beauty preparations at Mann's Department store, ac cording to J. C. Mann. With all details fully arranged the new Medford High school will open tomorrow for registra tion with an increase of at least eight per cent over last year's registration. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 12. 1916 (It was Tuesday) The final spelling contest for Jackson county public schools will be held in Medford, Sept. 14. Children's Community Day will be held at the county fair in Medford tomorrow. SO YEARS AGO Sept. 12. 1906 (It was Wednesday) The Taylor Creek Mining company of which J. D. Heard is general manager, is busily engaged in fitting up their hy draulic mine on Taylor creek. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955 Editorial Rarcb Report I. Vice President Nixon serv ed in the Army. Navy or Marine Corps during the war, or wasn't in uniform at all? 2. Chairman of the five-nation committee treating with Nasser of Egypt on the Suez Canal is an American, Australian, Ca nadian. Indian or Russian? 3. A 1957 model is or isn't Planned for the Packard car? 4. For the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket to lose California this year would require a big or only a small shift from the 1952 vote in that state? 5. Babe Ruth in making his record of 60 home runs in 1927 knocked out (a) 7, (b) 12. (c) 17. (d) 22 or (e) 27 in September? 6. The former nation of Serbia is now part of Austria. Hun gary. Yugoslavia. Czechoslovak ia. Poland or the Soviet Union? 7. The thvroid gland is in the skull, neck, region above the kidney, small intestines or rec tal area? The answers: 1. Served in the Navy. 2. Australian (Menxies). 3. Is. 4. Big shift. S. 17. 6. Yugo slavia. 7. Neck. MAIL TRIBUNE Good Probably every permanent resident of Jackson county has seen Crater Lake at least once. If they haven't, they should. For the lake, entirely aside from its qualities of beauty and grandeur, is a solid economic asset to this area. It is Oregon's greatest single tourist attraction, and attracts thousands of visitors from all over the world who, while here, drop quite a few of those lovely dollars into the coffers of our merchants and innkeepers, where they enter into the bloodstream of the local economy. THERE have been two news items concerning Cra ter lake recently, one good, the other not so good. The "good" item came yesterday, with the de partment of the interior's announcement of just what "Mission 66" will mean to Crater Lake Nation al park. Nearly $5 34 million will be spent in the next few years to improve the facilities of the park. Roads and trails will be improved. New buildings will be built. Staff will be increased. Campgrounds will be built, old ones expanded, services and utilities improved. Exhibits will be created. MOT only will these improvements better serve the 340,000 or more visitors who make the trip to the park each year, but they wall make the entire area more serviceable and attractive to the many more peo ple who can be expected in future years. Make no mistake Crater lake ranks as one of the four or five major scenic attractions in the Unit ed States, right up with Yosemite valley, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and one or two others. As leisure time increases for the American people, as higher in comes permit more extended travel, Crater Lake Na tional park will attract more and more of them. It is good to know that they will be more adequate ly served than they have been in the past. E.A. And Not So Good The not-so-good-news is really a lack of news the fact that there has been no positive response from the state highway commission to requests for action in improving the Crater Lake highway between Trail and Cascade Gorge. The need for improvement is more than obvious to anyone who has traveled the stretch of road, which twists and winds tortuously, which is too narrow, and which has dangerous slopes, curves and drop-offs. THE commission has had its attention called repeat- edly to the serious need for improvement. As far back as 1948 (and earlier), appeals have been made for action on the highway. They haven't exactly been ignored, but little has been done. The "little" which has been done consists only of a realign ment survey, and improvement of a dangerous curve. In 1948, the Chambers of Commerce of Jackson and Josephine counties, backed by the two county courts and the cities of Grants Pass, Medford, Ash land, Rogue River, Jacksonville, Kerby and Central Point, presented a four-point highway priority pro gram for southern Oregon to the legislative highway interim committee. No. 2 of the four points was the Crater Lake highway. THE No. 1 point has been almost entirely fulfilled, and what hasn't been, will be soon. It was for a four-lane highway between Ashland and Central Point (completed) ; improvement of the approach to the Caveman bridge in Grants Pass (accomplished though not to the satisfaction of everyone), and the improvement of Highway 99 from Central Point to the Jackson-Josephine county line (partly done with the new Blaekwell hill section to Rock Point bridge, and scheduled for completion in another year or so.) The third and fourth points sought a new route to Klamath Falls (now under consideration with little promise of action soon), and the creation of a good commercial route between Medford and Grants Pass through the Applegate valley (which has been nib bled at, but not completed). TNDER the new federal highway program, we can expect completion of Highway 99 improvement in southern Oregon within a few years. But we still have no assurance that the Crater Lake highway is anywhere near the top of the state's prior ity list It should be. Not only is Highway 62 a major tourist route, but it is a major commercial route as far as the park-Diamond lake junction, with millions of board feet of timber and lumber coming over it each year. Fees paid by log and lumber haulers to the Pub lic Utilities commission in recent years have been, resi dents claim, enough to "gold plate" the route. Traffic at the west entrance of the park has av eraged some 35,000 automobiles each year since the end of the war. The high year was 1949, with 38,277 cars, the low year 1946, right after the end of the war, with some 21,000. In 1954 it was nearly 38,000, in 1955 more than 33,000. THE highway commission is under pressure for new roads, highways, bridges and improvements from all sections of the state. With only so much money to spend in any one year, it must make decisions which are unpopular, and must do its best to treat all sec tions fairly. But it is our contention that the Crater Lake high way improvement project can be supported near the top of the list on its merits. It is vital for the thousands of tourists who use it each year, and the many more on the way. It is vital for the economy of the county, so much of which is based on timber. And it is a "must" if we are to avoid more and more accidents of the type which have killed a number of travelers along the crooked, narrow stretch in recent years. E.A. Wcdntiday. 8ptmbr 12. 1958 News Neuberger To Why McKay Could Carry State By Sen. Richard Neuberger Portland (Special) "Why right now, I believe I'd get more votes in Texas than in Oregon," Douglas McKay told Joseph Al-! sop, the famous nationally syndicated columnist who has been reporting from the North west on the election campaign in the key states of Oregon and Washington. "Down in Texas, they LIKE states' rights. But these people up here are still yaketty-yakk-ing about the so-called give-away of the so-called tidelands. Hell, I was for state's rights before I ever went to Washington, and I'm for them still." "May Be Justified" Candidate McKay's wistful re mark about Texas may be just ified. In May of 1954, an article in Fortune Magazine reported "There have been only two $100-a-plate Republican dinners in Texas history, and one was in Joe's (McCarthy's) honor. The other was for Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay." And when he announced his can didacy. Petroleum Week, the magazine of the oil industry, opened its editorial on March 30, 1956, with the lament: "When Douglas McKay leaves his post as Secretary of the Interior in order to campaign for a Senate seat, the oil industry will lose one of its strongest supporters in the Administration." McKay should not be surprised if people in Oregon still remem ber the battle to save the na tion's off-shore qjl resources, which could have served as a source of financial aid to the Closed Meetings Held One-Third of Time By Congress Groups Washington (CQ) Congress barred the public from 1,131 of its 3,121 committee meetings in 1956, or more than one-third of them. And in many cases, committee chairmen did not follow the cus tom of reporting closed meet ings after they had been held. Congressional Quarterly kept day to day records of committee meetings and found that 36 per cent of them were closed in 1956. This compares with 36 per cent in 1955, 41 per cent in 1954 and 35 per cent in 1953. No major committee one meeting 10 or more times opened all its meetings to the public. Eleven committees met at least half the time behind closed doors. The eleven and their percentages of closed meetings: Percentages Given Senate Rules and Administra tion, 100 per cent; House Admin istration, 70 per cent: Joint Atomic Energy, 64 per cent; House Ways and Means, 63 per cent; Senate Foreign Relations, 63 per cent: House Public Works, 57 per cent; House For eign Affairs, 56 per cent: Sen ate Special Committee to Invcs- Eisenhower Shows Curiosity a! Meet Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower's curiosity apparent ly got the better of him. Every time Sarah McLendon, reporter for a number of South west newspapers, asks a ques tion at his news conferences she identifies herself as the corres pondent of a different one of the papers she represents. She did again Tuesday. "You know, before I answer your question, will you answer me one?" Mr. Eisenhower asked her. Miss McLendon: "Yes, sir." The President: "Do you get fired every week and join an other paper the next week?" While other reporters were convulsed with laughter, Miss McLendon explained with a blush that she "tried to give representation to all my papers." "I think that is very fair," the President said with an un derstanding smile. Bank Superintendent Resigns State Post Salem U.R) Marshall A. Case, Portland, will be sworn in Oct. 1 as Oregon's new state su pertinendent of banks to suc ceed A. A. Rogers who will re tire. Case has been-a banker in Portland since 1910. Case. 65, was recently ap pointed to the State Banking board which is made up of the governor, secretary of state and state treasurer. He became vice president of the Bank of California in 1953 and is a past president of Port land clearing house. The state banking department supervises and examines all Oregon chartered banks, trust companies and mutual savings banks. ' Gives View of Texas educational systems of all 48 states. Led Fight McKay and Republican Sen ator Cordon led the fight to turn over these resources to Texas and only three other states. Their efforts cost Oregon schools millions of dollars, which now have to be made up in local taxes if Oregon school children are to continue to have the high educational opportunities and standards of which we are proud. (Incidentally, it was in this fight to save the off-shore oil from McKay's give-away that Wayne Morse made his historic 22 i-hour speech for which he is so often attacked by Oregon's old-guard Republicans. Morse was battling for the interests of Oregon, while McKay represent ed the "states rights' of Texas). From Newport, many letters signed with a particular name had been appearing in the Ore gon papers, especially the Journ al, in bitterly critical vein of Senator Morse and myself. The letters accused us of all possible high crimes and misdemeanors. One such published letters was so intemperate and inaccurate that I wrote the man in Newport to ask where he had heard these distortions. My own letter was returned, marked "addressee un known." Upon inquiring of the Postmaster at Newport, I learn ed no person of the name of the frequent letter-writer was known in Lincoln County. Yet he ap parently had sent many com munications to the press attack ing Oregon's two Senators! Now, we wonder how common is this iniquitous practice. tigate Political Activities, 55 per cent; Senate Armed Services 54 per cent; Senate Finance, 52 per cent; House Education and Labor, 50 per cent. Spokesmen for several of those committees listed such things as national security, gov ernment efficiency and preserv ing the private rights of wit nesses as reasons for closing meetings. Many of the meetings closed to the public in 1956 were on seemingly n o n - controversial matters. For example, the House Education and Labor committee went behind closed doors at times to discuss legislation to es tablish an arts committee and to authorize a medal for distin guished civilian achievement. House More 'Open House groups generally dis played more of an "open door" policy than Senate or joint com mittees in 1956. House commit tees closed 34 per cent of their meetings, 573 out of 1,686; Sen ate committees 37 per cent, 481 out of 1,303; and Joint commit tees 58 per cent, 77 out of 132. Congressional Quarterly, in an analysis of meetings held from April 16 through adjourn ment on July 27, got verifica tion from House committee staff personnel that at least 59 meet ings were held but not reported. Senate committees held at least eight closed meetings without reporting them, the study dis closed, and the Joint Atomic Energy, one, during that period. In addition, a Senate Judici ary Internal Security subcom mittee spokesman said the sub committee held 55 executive sessions during the whole year without reporting them. The spokesman said it was against "committee policy" to report all closed meetings. (Copyright 1956, Congressional Quarterly) Eagle Point Lions Plan Merril Visit Eagle Point The Eagle Point Lions club will visit the Merril Lions club on the next meeting night Monday, Sept. 17, offi cials of the organization have announced. Five members have already indicated they will make the trip and other members desir ing to go have been asked to notify Fred Bruegger or Stew art Hopper as soon as possible. Errol Tresham will report on his trip to Boys' State at the Monday, Oct. 1, meeting of the group. At the last meeting Monday, Sept. 3, it was decided that the group will hold two dinner meetings each month. The din--ner will be served by the Lady Lions. President Fred Bruegger introduced Fred Frye of Centra! Point, who showed some color movies of a vacation trip in northern California. The club took action on several routine matters and decided to purchase a cap and vest for each member in good standing. FOR RESULTS USE TRIBUNE WANT ADS Dispute on Suez Canal Certain To Go Before United Nations By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent It seems certain now that the Suez Canal dispute will be hrnnoht hpfnr. th United Na- Muumamm tions before ML ji the end of September. The pros pect is that Great Britain will raise the issue in the 11-member Security Coun ts V aJ c" ln an t" Chailes Al. McUnn tempt to com pel Egypt to agree to interna tional control of canal naviga tion. But Soviet Russia would be certain to veto any resolution intended to put pressure on Egypt. Hence it is most likely that annual U. N. General Assembly the dispute will go before the which meets on Nov. 12. It seems certain ' also, how ever, that a big angle in the question of free navigation through the canal wiU be sup pressed, if possible, by consent of all the parties involved in the dispute. Against One Man Control That angle is Egypt's block- Elmer Deetz Says He Will Campaign For Douglas McKay By UNITED PRESS j Candidates in neighboring Washington state got a day of rest yesterday while voters weeded them out but in Oregon the hot pace of campaigning hardly took time out for a look across the Columbia to see how things were going. Canby Dairyman Elmer Deetz, a defeated candidate for the Re publican nomination as U.S. Senator, announced that he will actively campaign for the elec tion of Douglas McKay in his bid to unseat Sen. Wayne L. Morse. Deetz said that until this week his time had been completely taken up caring for his dairy farm, but that he now feels he can devote several weeks to campaigning among farmers in the state in McKay's behalf. McKay Campaign McKay carried his campaign to the small community of Welches on the Mt. Hood Loop highway last night and issued a reply to Sen. Morse's challenge of the previus night to debate Morse's record on Communist China. "No debate, is needed on Com munist China," McKay said. "My record of opposition to United States' recognition of Red China or its entry into the United Nations is clear and un equivocal. And Morse in Oregon is not going to be permitted to change the record of Morse in Washington . . ." Morse told an audience in Cor vallis last night the Democratic victory in the Maine election Monday was symbolic of how people throughout the nation feel. He said the decision of the voters was "a result of pinching of the economic shoe in the New England states." Cachet Marks 30th Anniversary Date A special cachet commemorat ing the 30th anniversary of Pa cific Coast air service has been prepared by United Air Lines to mark the anniversary date, Sept. 15. On that date in 1926 the first scheduled flight of Pacific Air Transport, a predecessor com pany of United, inaugurated ! service between Los Angeles and Seattle. The cachet, approximately 24 by 2'2 inches, depicts the' first Ryan monoplane and today's Douglas DC-7 United Mainliner. The cachet will be imprinted on the left hand side of the en velope. Collectors desiring an niversary covers should mail self-addressed envelopes, each bearing six cents U. S. air mail postage. 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Egypt has continued fho blockade on the ground that it is still at war with Israel. Tech nically, onlv war matorialc banned. ActUallv. th affected a wide range of non- sirategic materials including foodstuffs. Asked Blockade End On Sept. 1, 1951, the Security Council called end the blockade. It held that the blockade was not justified on the ground of self defense. tgypt ignored the U.N. action. Israel has nrotested But none of the great powers has wanted to raise that issue of freedom of navigation, and noth ing nas been done. Free passage through the canal, in peace time and war time. Was diarantoort tm4oi- tv, so-called Constantinople Conven tion oi loot. This convention or treaty, was signed in Constantinople now Istanbul by nine countries, Egypt was then under Turkish rule and was not a signatory. Efcypt became a British protec torate, and British forces occu pied the canal zone. 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