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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFTODTRIBUJfE "Everyone in Southern Oregon Read tec aiaa i n pun e Pubhahed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREV Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ZRIC ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered u second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act Of March 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $13 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three moa. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Aahland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday One year $18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta Vancouver B C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCll-ATLC 'I 1 1 U O" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct 1, 1946 (Tuesday) October term of district fed eral court opens in Medford with Judge Claude McCulloch, Portland, presiding. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The valley autoists are improving. Quite a few no longer drive through the "stop" signs like they were from California. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 1, 133S (Thursday) The executive board of the Community Chest holds first meeting at First National bank. Several Jackson county voters registered yesterday at the coun ty clerk's office in the court house for the Nov. 3 general elections. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 1. 1926 (Friday) J. D. Russell returns from Corvallis where he has been st tending a committee meeting of the Oregon Retail Merchant's association. The Greater Medford club will hold a rummage sale for the benefit of the proposed Com munity house next Thursday. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 1, 1916 (Sunday) Contributions to the Woodrow Wilson campaign fund continue to come in, total $397.85. Citv Engineer Arnspiger states that following advice of state health officer he has instructed the Rogue River Canal company to drain Fish lake as quickly as possible. SO YEARS AGO Oct. 1. 1908 (Monday) An auction sale will be held Oct. 3, and the entire Hotel Med ford equipment will b! offered J. D. Heard, general manager of the Sterling Mining company, of Jackson county, in Medford today. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955 editorial Reiearcb Report 1. States electing Democratic governors in 1954-55 have many more or fewer electoral votes than states electing Republican ones, or about the same number? 2. Average mileage on cars and trucks being scrapped to day is about 50.000. 75.000, 100, 000 or well over 100.000? 3. Jews were elected to the U. S. Senate from the South be fore the Civil War; right or wrong? 4. Macedonia is or isn't a sep arate state in the Balkans? 5. A "horse mackerel" is a sailfish. blue marlin, tarpon, cod, muskellunge, tuna or white whale? 6. Pres. Roosevelt died on Apr 12, 1945 at Warm Springs. Hyde Park, Key West, the White House or elsewhere in Washington. -7. Norman Thomas is or isn't running for President this year on the Socialist ticket? The answers: 1. Democratic governor states have many more electoral votes. 2. Well over 100.- 000 miles on the average. 3. Right (Florida and Louisiana). 4, Isn't (it's a region divided among several states. 5. Tuna. 6. Warm Springs. 7. Isn't. Read and Use Classified Ads MAIL TRIBUNE Simple If you aren't registered to vote, you can't vote. The last day you can register is next Saturday. If you don't vote, you have no right to complain about the outcome of the election. It's as simple as that. E.A. Don't Kill the Brat "I'll kill the little brat!!" Ever feel that way about some child? Probably but the chances are that the exclamation was just an angry reaction and wasn't meant seriously. 'Actually, anyone in his right mind would be appall ed if it were suggested, other than in jest. But the fact remains that it is much too easy to do so with the 20th century's second most deadly weapon the automobile. IT IS to combat this threat that the Medford police department and the city schools have entered into a significant program of training to teach school-age children some of the life-and-death facts of the dan gers that face them. These dangers all take human form. One is the danger of recklessly operated bicycles. Here the human factor involved is the student himself. Another is the danger of automobiles. The human equation is double, here, including both the student and the driver. The third major danger is from the individual whose preverted impulses and desires are always dangerous, and the most so in the case of a defense less child. 'THE program, which we endorse heartily, is another sign of changing times. At one time safety instruc tion for youngsters was the responsibility of the home "and family. To an extent it still is. But our civilization is changing, growng more complex, and in some ways more dangerous. So, as in other ways, society (as represented in this case by the police and the schools) stepped in to fill the gap. No one can count the number of lives which have been saved by the program, for one can't cout a death that didn't happen. But it must be considerable. Perhaps, if drivers could receive similar training, in similar groups, our overall accident record would not be the shameful thing it is. E.A. , Do We WANT Safety? In this same vein, "Track Facts," the twice-a-month publication of the trucking industry, asks: "Does the public want traffic safety?" Maybe not. There is evidence to show it doesn't. States which remove driving privileges from driver have better accident prevention records than those which merely warn of ,the dangers, or which fine or jail serious violators. Oregon is slowly getting around to this, and in Au gust alone a total of 781 Oregon drivers had their lic ences suspended. Six lost their driving rights because of involvement in fatal crashes; 317 because of driv ing while intoxicated; 66 for reckless driving; 51 for violation of the basic rule (speeding) ; 4 for hit-and-run violations; 83 for failure to report an accident; 44 for a spotty driving record, and 11 for failure to pass a driving test. "TRUCK FACTS" recommends much tougher driv ing laws in Oregon. It recommends abolition of the law which itself abolished the old-time "speed trap," which the publication says was eliminated for the protection of the speeder. 'The basic idea . . . was that catching a speed de mon was a sporting matter . . ." it says, but points out that speed is no longer a sporting proposition it is an invitation to injury and death. The truckers' paper also advises that the depart ment of motor vehicles be given greater authority in its handling of "accident repeaters," so they could be called in, examined, and if necessary, be prevented from further driving. THIS suggestion gains greater stature each time one observes any of the fool tricks that some drivers perform. One such was described to us recently, about as follows : Two loaded log trucks were zooming toward Medford on the Crater Lake highway just this side of Eagle Point. They were so close it looked as though one was towing the other. The second one kept trying to pass the first one, but -each time had to pull back beeause of heavy oncoming traffic (and effectively blocking anyone behind that wanted to pass). Finally, the second one roared out and managed to pass the first, which in turn started trying to pass. This game of "highway tag" continued for some distance. Log truck drivers, to their credit, usually are ex tremely careful. Not only their lives but their liveli hoods ride on those big loads. It is the monkeyshines of the others, such as those described, which should be ended by putting them off the highway perman ently. E.A. Ten Defendants Take Poznan, Poland (U.R) Ten more defendants went on trial today in the Poznan riot trials that have led to the dismissal of two high Polish officials for their part in the June 28 upris ing. The initial trials of 12 defend ants in the rioting that caused the death of 53 persons already have aired charges of police bru tality in the riot investigations. Sunday, Premier Josef Cryan kiewicz announced the removal of Roman Fidelski, deputy min ister of basic industry, and Ed Monday. October 1, 1956 Stand in Poznan Trial ward Dyndowski, deputy minis ter of foreign commerce. The announcement gave no reason for their dismissal, but officials said it was because they failed to take adequate consider ation of workers complaints that preceded the riots. There were reports today some disciplinary action would be taken against the deputy min isters, but official sources denied reports they had been arrested. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday for Monday; otnex days 5:30 previous day. German Chancellor Blames U.S. For Hitch in Rearmament Plan By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has put the blame on the United States for a serious setback in his plan to re arm Western Germany. After a long fight against opposition par ties and some members of his own party, Adenauer has been compelled to reduce the Charles M. McCann draft term for the infant West German armed forces, from 18 months to one year. In doing so, he let it be known that he could not hope to get parliamentary approval for the Today and By Walter THE NEW GENERATION As compared with early August, before the two national conventions, there is something quite different and new in the political situation. Then, it would have been a surprise to find a season ed correspond ent or a pro fessional poli tician in either Waiter LLdsj party who did not think that Eisenhower was, unless another illness overtook him, unbeat able. Now, there are few who doubt that the election is a con test in which the Democrats stand to make important gains in Congress, and have a fighting chance for the Presidency. The main cause of this change of mood is, I believe, the in creasing evidence that the Demo cratic Party is unexpectedly strong that it is in one of its periods of revival, as in the early days of Wilson and again of Roosevelt. The Democratic victories in the mid-term elec tion of 1954 registered the be ginning of that rvival. They showed that the Democrats who had voted for Eisenhower in 1952 were still Democrats; they showed also that in the new political generation which is taking over, the Democrats have by far the best of it. At the Chi cago convention last month, the control of the Democratic party passed, after Truman's rear guard action, into the hands of Stevenson and the new political generation. It is this rejuven ated party which is showing so much bounce and buoyancy. ''THE arrival of the new genera tion accounts also, I believe, for the subsiding of the great factional quarrels of the post war years under Truman. The quarrels over civil rights and over labor's rights and privileges have died down. It is not be cause they have been settled. It is not because they have been smartly evaded. It is because there is a new generation in the North and the South, in the corporations "and In the labor unions, which does not respond 1 ''sK Ike's Campaign Again Stepped Up; Visit To Portland Slated By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) It was just four days ago that President Eisenhower was telling his news conference that he was not lis tening to a lot of people who wanted him to make a more active cam paign. He put it this way: "I'm not do ing one - tenth of what a lot 1.7 ie C Wilson of people want me to do." But Sunday night the White House revealed that Mr. Eisen hower had decided to campaign more actively. Specifically, Press Secretary James C. Hagerty an nounced that the President would make an airplane-automobile campaign through hot spots in the Northwest and Mid west. There may be further such announcements as the campaign develops. Trouble- shooter Eisenhower will leave Washington by air plane at 9 a.m. (EDT) Oct. 17 and arrive in Minneapolis at 1 p.m. (EDT). During the next 135 minutes, Mr. Eisenhower wiU speak before the city halls of both St. Paul and Minneapolis, departing thereafter for Seattle, Wash. Trouble In Minnesota The President is going to Min nesota because he and the Re publican party are in trouble there. Part of their trouble is the fact that , Minnesota farmers think mighty well of Sen. Estes Kefauver, the Democratic vice presidential nominee. Mr. Eisenhower will spend the rr 1 18-month term because the Unit ed States planned a cutback in its own military strength. Adenauer's action must be taken together with the confer ence in Paris last week between British Prime Minister Anthony Eden and French Premier Guy Mollet. Eden and Mollet spent two days planning the coordination of their foreign policy in the Suez dispute and also in the en tire Middle East. Working Independently , This means that Britain and France, the two chief allies of the United States, have taken a step toward working indepen dently when necessary to pro tect their interests. Both Britain and France feel strongly that the United States Tomorrow Lippmann to the old war cries. Stevenson, who himself belongs to this new generation, speaks for it. That is why he can go into a South ern state, can take an unequivo cal stand on the school prob lem, and yet not precipitate an irreconcileable quarrel. ' The vigor and unity of the Democratic party come f rom the influx of young and vigorous men who have been working in their communities on the prob lems of the present and the fu ture. They do "not know and they do not care about the quar rels between Truman and his enemies. THHERE is little evidence of a corresponding revival, due to the rise of a new generation, within the Republican party. That is the real reason I believe for the curious listlessness of the Republican party. In his ac ceptance speech at the San Fran cisco convention, the President spoke Sincerely and eloquently in the hope that he might be the leader of such a revival. He called upon the new generation to form behind him in making over the party. There is no evi dence of such a rally. If his hope was being realized, it is evident that the prime exponent of the new Republicanism would be Nixon, who is a young man and Eisenhower s heir apparent. But nobody supposes that Nixon would or could or that he wished to remake the old Republican party into Eisenhower's new Re publican party. The Republican party lacks vigor because the new political generation has not yet obtained control of the party. The party is in the control of men who are not vigorous. ' The President's Insight here, as in so many elemental issues, was sound when he offered to lead the new generation in the remaking of the party. But the reality of the matter may well be that as he himself does not belong to the new generation, he can advise it, he can inspire it, but he cannot lead it. , Almost surely that will have to be done by men who them selves belong to the new genera tion. Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. night in Seattle, joining at 9 p.m. October 17 in a statewide radio and television appearance with Gov.. Arthur Langlie. Lang- lie has one of the tougher polit ical assignments this year to lick Democratic Sen. Warren R. Magnuson, who seeks reelection. The president will proceed on Oct. 18 by automobile to Tacoma, Wash., to visit his lawyer-bro ther, Edgar. He's booked for a lunch speech there. Thence by car to McCord Air Base to en plane for Portland. Ore., where there is more trouble. McKay vs Morse Former Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay in Oregon op poses Sen. Wayne Morse's re election effort. Morse was a Re publican and an Ike-man until he bolted the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket mid-way in the 1952 pres idential campaign. Next to Dem ocratic presidential nominee Ad dlai E. Stevenson, Mr. Eisenhow er probably would prefer the defeat of Morse above all others. The President will attend a Portland Republican reception in the afternoon and speak on the evening of Oct. 18 at the Civic auditorium He will be due back FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE SHOP TODAY! and Save Money at has failed to give them proper support in the Suez canal dis pute. Adenauers attitude on his draft defeat implies plainly that he feels the United States has let him down on rearmament There is evidence that as things are working out, Britain, France and West Germany- are likely to cooperate more closely with each other in months to come at the expense of close unity with the United States. There are hints that Eden and Mollet think of reviving the British - French "entente cordi ale" of 50 years ago. This entente or agreement, strangely enough, started out as an understanding on Egypt and Morocco. The new Anglo-French coop eration also is chiefly concerned with the interest of the two countries in the Suez canal dis pute and France's interests in northwest Africa. . European Federation Proposed Adenauer, m a speech that he made during a visit to Belgium last week, proposed the creation of a European federation which would be open to aU European countries and to Great Britain. The federation would be built up from existing European co operative organizations the Schuman coal and steel plan, the Council of Europe, the West European Union and the Euro pean plan for cooperation in peaceful use of atomic energy. Britain has been hesitant to join plans like this. It thinks a lot of that 22-mile Dover strait which separates it from the Eu ropean continent and it does not want to be thought of as European power. Serious Thoughts But there are indications that Britain is thinking seriously of closer coopeartion with France and Western Germany, especial ly whether in a European fede ration or not. Adenauer in proposing his federation cited as one of his points the impossibility of Eu rope living indefinitely on pa tronage from the United States. What he meant is that it is time countries like West Germany, Britain and France cut them selves loose from American dip lomatic apron strings and based their policies on their interests as European countries. Future Headlines Forecast; Tito's Russ Trip Mystery United Press correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Mr. T. and Mr. K. That Tito - Khrushchev confer ence is still mysterious. But some smart European diplo mats see this as the big devel opment: Tito ft working active ly with the Kremlin, as a fellow Communist, for the first time since 1948. It doesn't mean that Yugoslavia will become a satel lite again. In fact, Tito's prestige probably will be strengthened. But as these experts see' it, the thing to remember is that he's" always been a Communist. His feud was with Stalin, not Com munism. Head We Win. Tails You Lose The Eisenhower a d m i n i s- tration feels it has a sure thing in its decision to invite Russian and satellite observers to take a look at the presidential elec tion. If the Reds say "no thanks" to the invitation, the United States wins an inning in the West and East Drooaeanda game. If they accept, the observers will see how a really "free and unfet tered" election is run a man ifestation of democracy in action which the government has been trying for years to get through the Iron Curtain. Grand Alliance ' The Suez Canal dispute has brought a revival of projects for a commonwealth-type partner ship btween Britain and France. Private advices say a new, more intimate relationship was the chief topic for discussion when Prime Minister Anthony Eden and Premier Guy Mollet met in in the White .House early the following morning. Right now the President and Mrs. Eisenhower are campaign ing Ohio and Kentucky with presidential speeches booked to day in Cleveland and Lexington. All of the foregoing shapes a campaign pattern which does not much resemble ' the original plans. OK MARKET 1202 North Kiveraid OPEN EVERY NIGHT TIL MIDNIGHT r m J NIGHT TIL M MIDNIGHTI Matter of Fact ey stew0rt ai,p By Stewart Alsop THE FARMER'S INNER STRUGGLE Davenport Interviewing farmers in the corn-hog country near here, you run into the same s m a 11 , strange phen omenon again and again. You ask a farmer who he voted for in 1952, and he replies, "Eisenhower." You ask him w h et h e r he Stewart Alsop plans to vote for Eisenhower or Stevenson this year, and he replies, "Dem ocratic." The phenomenon is a sympton of a striking fact. A surprisingly high proportion of the farmers who gave President Eisenhower his landslide victory here in 1952 intend to switch this year or so they say. But a great many of these farmers also still like and admire the President, and very few of them express any genuine enthusiasm Adlai Stev enson. They do not see them selves switching from Eisen hower to Stevenson, but rathar from the Republican to the Dem ocratic party. "Eisenhower is a good honest man," said one farmer, who spoke for many others, "but he's got too many big people pushing him around. Stevenson talks too slick, but I guess I'll vote Democratic anyway." VOU PUT such a man down as an Eisenhower-to-Steven- son switcher. But is he? Will he really vote for a man he does not admire, against a man he does admire? That is one of the key questions in the cur rent campaign. Some of the switchers are certainly genuine. They can hardly wait to vote Democratic. For beneath the smiling, sunlit surface of this rich and- rolling land there is a surprising bit terness, especially among the younger farmers. If you used your eyes only, for example in Keokuk County, which this reporter has now twice visited, you would con clude that it was a prosperous, conservative, amazingly egali tarian community. Most of the farms look very much alike the plain, clapboard houses, the shutterless windows, the big barn near the house, the red painted farm machinery in the yard. No one, it seems, is rich there are none of the big man sions you find in any European countryside. But no one is poor either. VET, If you use your ears as as well as your eyes, you get a very different impression. Some of the farms especially Medford Firm Gets Contract for Paving Salem (U.R) The State Highway Department Saturday awarded a $147,050 contract to F. L. Somers, Medford, for 2.5 miles of grading and paving on the river bends farm section of the Rogue River Loop highway eight miles southeast of Grants Pass. There were three higher bids. Paris last week. Back in 1940 Winston Churchill offered tot tering France joint citizenship in a desperate attempt to prevent its collapse. Now Britain and France, striving to save what is left of their empires, see togeth er on Suez and other world problems. A partnership between them would mean less intimate cooperation with the United States. Japanese Premier Ichiro Ha toyama would like an invitation from President Eisenhower to visit the United States on his way home from Moscow. He's going to Russia to fix up an agreement for normal diplomatic relations. But so far the Ameri cans have been cool to Hatoy ama's feelers. He appears to be on his way out, anyway. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home . Phone 2-6675 ' those of the older farmers are owned free and clear. These men grumble, as farmers always do, but by the large they are sticking with Eisenhower. It is the younger men especially, who have gone into debt up to their necks to buy expensive machin ery, who are really desparate. Why should one group bear the whole brunt?" one of these men asked angrily. "It's uncon stitutional." There are some damn fools around here who will still vote Republican." another said. "They're voting to lose their farms." These men are certainly lost to Eisenhower. But there are others who say they voted for Eisenhower in 1952 and are go ing to vote Democratic this year, who do not sound quite convinc ing. They sound a little like a small boy who threatens to run away, but does not really mean it. These are the men who will determine whether the farm dis affection with the Eisenhower administration which is un questionably a fact of life in these parts is to be a really decisive political phenomenon. How they will really vote will depend on a, number of factors the effectivness of the Steven son campaign, the price of hogs, the state of the world. rpHE BASIC, factor is of course economic. In this respect, the Administration - sponsored soil bank, which is pouring Federal checks into this area, is sur prisingly unprofitable poltitical ly. Many farmers express an odd sense of guilt about the soil bank. "It just doesn't seem right to destroy growing crops," they say. But the economic factor is not the only one. We found only one farmer in ten who had heard or read Stevenson's recent, politically effective, unashamed ly partisan speech in Iowa. But the new, hard-hitting Stevenson line seems to be having a sort of seed-down effect. At least two farmers, seemingly uncon sciously, lifted a phrase from the Stevenson speech that the much disliked Ezra Benson v as, after all, only President Eisen hower's "hired man." Estes Kefauver, who is im mensely popular in these parts, is unquestionably a major Stev enson asset. Yet Stevenson can not possibly hope to equal the personal popularity of the Presi dent, who is admired as a man and as a symbol of peace. Thus many farmers are being pulled in one direction by their liking for the President, and in anoth er direction by their economic dissatisfaction. Much will de pend on the outcome of this inner struggle. 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Man Born Again GEO. N. 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