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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordTribunb "Everyone in Southern Or job ReJJThe Mail Tribune" Publuned Dailv Exreot Saturday by MEDKOKD PRINTING CO 27-2! North Fir St. Phone 2-Ml ROBERT W RUHL. Editor IfERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Buaineu Manager ERIC ALLEN JR.. JvUnamng Editor EAR L H ADAMS Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporti Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Maii In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year SI300 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Da.lv and Sunday Three mo. 4.25 Sundav Only One vear M-2U By Carrier In Advance Medford. A'hland. Central Point Eafi! Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Snadv Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes' Daily and Sundav One year SI 8 00 Daily and Sundav One month 1 50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Term Cash ln Advance Official "paper of the City of riledford Official Paper of Jackson County United PrcsaFuII Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY, INC Offices tn New York. Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Srattle, Portland St. Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C. NATIONAL D I T O R I A I I assocITatlon u u Flight o' Time Mcdford and Jackson County Hijtory from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 9. 194S (Wedneiday) Irrigation for this year has closed in Rogue river, with good results in all districts. County Watcrmaster Clinton Smith re ports. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Black sheep, home again from the sum mer range, have started showing up in rural meadows and the courts. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 9. 1936 (Friday) The W. I. Vawter residence, at Main and Holly sts., in the busi ness district, will be remodeled into a four-suite apartment house, it was announced today. City Superintendent Fred Scheffel warns merchants against the practice of sweeping refuse from their sidewalks into the gutters in the downtown area. 30 YEARS AGO Oct 9. 1926 (Saturday) As in the past the Oregon Ag ricultural college extension serv ice will handle Pyrotel, the gov ernment stumping powder. The first real rainfall of the present year, which begins in September, started last night. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 9. 1916 (Monday) Washington The United States has refused to accept the contention of the entente allies urging that neutrals deny the use of their harbors to all sub marines. The Medford Elks will give a big venison barbecue and mul ligan at the Bybce bridge, on Rogue River, Modoc orchards. Oct. 13. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 9, 1906 (Tuesday) A new industry, the raising of alfalfa, has been developed in the Rogue River valley during the past season, and promises to add to the wealth of our county in no small measure. A class in rudimcntal har mony and musical science is now being organized by Miss Irene Brown. What's the Answer? Can Tou Get 4 of the 1? Copr. 1933 PdttoriaJ Research 1. Eisenhower got 60. 57 '.i. 55. 52'j. 50' j or 49'i per cent of the total popular vote in 1952? 2. The 1956 Winter Olympic games were held in the Aus trian, Bavarian, French, Italian or Swiss Alps? 3. Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower was born in Kansas. Texas, Iowa. Washington, D.C. or Colorado? 4. The auto tags of which slate carry the legend "Vacation land"? 5. The violent storm called a hurricane in the Atlantic ocean is called what in the Pacific? 6. The Senate voted in De comber. 1954 to censure Senator McCarthy by a slight margin, or about a 2-1, 3-1. or 4-1 vote' 7. Chancellor Adenauer of the German Republic is a Roman Catholic. Greek Catholic, Lu theran, Jew or agnostic? The answers: 1. 55 per cent. 2. Italian (at Cortina). 3. Iowa. 4. Maine. 5. Typhoon. 6. About 3-1. 7. Roman Catholic tfi(i'r'V NEWS PA PER PUBLISHERS MAIL TRIBUNE Is There a The new Nixon strategy is so transparent, it is sur prising how few of the news commenators see through it or if they do, admit it. Itoscoe Drummond, after touring the country with the GOP vice president, for example sees not only a "new Nixon" but a bigger and better one, a young man who has been sobered by the "nearness of the presi dency," has grown in stature and instead of a liabil ity has become an asset. E ADMIT to a certain back to "Dick and Checkers when they starred in that Hollywood scenario entitled, "what was done with the L. A. Big Business relief fund of $18,000 and why did they do it?" But that prejudice has nothing to do with our appraisal of the "New Nixon." It is, in our view, similar to the "new look" in the Russian bear a change not in nature but in political tactics, to meet changed conditions. It is hard to believe the vice-presidential candidate who only three or four years ago said this about Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic candidate for the presi dency at that time, quote: "Governor Stevenson has a degree all right a Ph.D. from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist contain ment." . is not fundamentally the same type of politician he was only a few weeks ago when with a sweet smile and a condescending wave of the hand he said the same Mr. Stevenson is quote: "A man of demonstrated character and integrity." Nor can we believe the Nixon who in the southwest endorsed the Eisenhower policy of taking no definite stand on the school segregation issue and favoring a course of judicial restraint and moderation, then back in New York, admitted he was an honorary member of the National Association for the Advancement of Col ored People, has changed yet the latter organization is unanimously and bitterly opposed to any course but direct action and immediate implementation of the epoch-makng Supreme Court decision. . On his recent "air swing around the circle" the candidate second in command to the President even adopted a temperate and conciliatory attitude toward Hairy Tinman, a man who only two years ago he char acterized as "a leader whose policy was 6ne of weak ness, inconsistency and compromise which was the cause of the Russian communists getting control of 700,000,000 people in seven years without the loss of a single Russian soldier in combat." "IITE ARE NOT denying this is a New Nixon in " words and method, what we are denying is that this is a NEW Nixon, as far as his basic character, his political aims or his willingness to change his cam paign tactics to suit any change in the. public temper or the position he may be occupying at any given time, are concerned. The plain truth is, as any close study of the Nixon record will demonstrate, Richard M. Nixon from the start of his public career, has never been in any sense a statesman he has been a salesman a very clever and adroit one. And he has been selling not any defin ite, clear-cut principles, but HIMSELF. '"TAKE McCarthyism as another example. When this type of political witch hunting was popular and the junior senator from Wisconsin was on the top of the wave politically, the Vice President was all for him, but when the tide turned he as usual turned with it, and for many months now has never had a word of praise, or even recognition, for him. Now, Richard is all sweetness and light, dignity and decorum, kind words fairly melt in his mouth and of course he is all for justice and peace, and against sin. Yet at the height of the Indo-China crisis, for example, he declared in his best hard-swinging style that if France fell, the United States should send troops and planes over there at once to help. France did fall, but thanks largely to President Eisenhower's quick action the tide was changed and again "Dear Dick" changed with it. "II7HY THIS complete transformation in compara- tively such a short time? The answer, of course, is plain. No one realizes better than the former Senator from California that although the health of the Presi dent has not been made an issue the people of the country are, regardless of party, thinking about itser iously and are therefore giving more careful consid eration than ever before to the basic character of the young man, who, if anything did force the President to retire from the White House, would automatically take his place. Realizing this so clearly, Nixon's nomination for another term as second-in-command had barely been achieved than Richard M. Nixon, unlike the proverbial leopard, not only tried to change his spots, but suc ceeded. Not, as indicated above, because he had changed in any essential way but because the conditions had, and as always, he the 100 per cent opportunist; had changed with them. TN OTHER words, Vice President Nixon is now play- ing the part of a potential president just as earlier in his career he played the part of another Joe Mc Carthy, only with a white collar and a clean shave. Finally in justice to him and the Hollywood tradition, it must be admitted he played, and is playing, both parts with shrewdness and skill. But the important question is, how many people in the country wish to take a chance on having the ACTOR-opportunist tvpe in the White House? R.W.R. Tuesday. October 9, 1956 'New Nixon'? prejudice which dates 80 Congressmen 5 Senators Lack Election Worries Washington (CQ) Cam paigning for the 85th Congress is all over for 80 Representatives and 5 Senators. Three of the 80 Representa tives formally were elected in Maine's first-in-the-nation elec tion last Sept. 10. The other 77 House members and five Senators are running without op position. Democrats have a huge edge in the number of these already decided seats: all five of the Senators and 73 of the 80 Rep resentatives are Democrats. Democrats currently control the 96-member Senate 49-47. This year 36 seats are up for election, of which 19 are cur rently held by the Democrats. With five seats already decided in their favor, the Democrats need to win 14 seats to keep their Senate majority. Edge In House In the House, where all 435 seats are up for election, the Democrats currently hold a 231 201 edge; three seats are vacant. With 218 needed to control the House and 73 of the seats virt ually won by the Democrats, they need 145 more to keep control. Seventy-six of the 80 Rep resentatives currently hold Con gressional seats, and four of the five Senators elected are in cumbents. Ten of the 17 states encom passing the 80 Congressional districts that have decided who will represent them in 1957-58 are in the South, as are all five of the Senator's states. In The Day's One of the AP's top political writers, Morrie Landsberg. has just completed a survey of the political situation in California. As a result of his findings, he concludes that the outcome of the Presidential campaign in California will be dceided by what he calls a ''great block" of uncommitted and independent voters. He adds that at this time four years ago it was pretty apparent that Dwight Eisenhower would sweep the state and he did. But ho says, it is just as clear NOW that a considerable shrinkage has occurred in the ranks of the Democrats who will support Ike again. He sums it up in the words of a Los Angeles Democrat who said to him: "I voted for a change in 1952, but I don't like what I got." WHY doesn't he like what he got? Well, the Eisenhower admin istration, in general, has to prac tice common sense, moderation, middle-of-the-road policies be cause these are the policies of the Eisenhower administration. If people don't like these poli cies, this must be the reason: They don't want common sense. They 'want MIRACLES. ' T ET'S be frank about it. There isn't universal satis faction with present conditions. Farmers, harried by lower prices for what they have to sell and higher prices for what they have to buy, want the miracle of higher prices in the face of over-supply in the form of ever mounting subsidized surpluses. Business people, harried by rising costs of labor and raw ma terials, want the miracle of bet ter profits in a time of steadily narrowing margins between costs and selling prices. Working people, harried by the rising prices that HAVE to follow steadily rising wages (wages average ahout 67 per cent of all costs) want the miracle of more goods and services for their paycheck. Not getting these desired things, which are impossible of attainment because there is no such thing as something for nothing People are unhappy that is, the people who want miracles are unhappy. WHAT is wrong? ' I don't know positively, but I think we have fallen into the delusion that we can have every thing we want by the simple process of passing a law. Unfor tunately, it isn't as simple as that. REAL prosperity, I think, comes onlv in those occasional Gruenther Says Russia Has 408 Submarines Malta (U.R) Gen. Alfred Gruenther, who retires next month as commander of the North Atlantic Treaty organiza tion, says Russia has 408 submar ines and some of them have been known to cruise the Mediterran ean. However. Gruenther told news men here Monday, the number of Russian submarines in the Mediterranean has been "insig nificant." He said Albania, the only Communist port in the Med iterranean basin, poses no major threat as a submarine or air base. Titoism' Spreading Through Europe; Russ Grip Loosening By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Titoism seems to be spread ing rapidly in Communist par ties throughout Europe. Developments within the last :i'mli few days indi cate that Sovi et Russia's grip on its Iron Cur tain satellites is loos e n i n g materially." Correspond ingly, Presi dent Tito of Y u g o s 1 a v ia Charles UcUdo ottIiJS 1 u e emerging more clearly every day as a real power in the Commu nist world. It is questionable whether the Russian Communists will be able to stop the trend toward Titoism. So far, the Russians represent themselves as satisfied with the way things are going. But there seems good reason to believe that things will go too far, from their standpoint. Different Courses Possible Titoism, asjit is being defined, means that different courses on the road to Socialism which means Communism are possi ble. That means, in turn, that the Communist parties of Europe, in side and outside the Iron Cur tain, need not blindly follow the Kremlin policy line. Tito started it all in 1948 when he successfully defied So viet dictator Josef Stalin, and de clared his independence. The Russians now admit that Tito was justified. They even encourage closer relations be- News By Frank Jenkins golden periods of BALANCED production when .everybody is able to exchange what he pro duces for the things that other people produce on a fair and equal basis (if you make hats you can exchange your hats for the shoes your neighbor makes or. such a fair basis that the more hats you make the more shoes you can have.) GETTING back to the premises , of this piece, the Democrats if they win in November will be no more able in the years between 1956 and 1960 to satisfy these yearnings for miracles than the Republicans have been in the years from 1952 to 1956, which by all the modern rules have been among the most pros perous years in our history. So If that is true Come 1960 the Democrats will be thrown out again and the Re publicans will be put in again. WHERE will it all end? "It can end happily ONLY when people cease to expect po litical miracles and settle down to a reasonable basis of common sense and sound economics. Rocket Research Plane To Fly at 4000 Miles an Hour Washington (U.R) The government is planning a rocket- powered research airplane that will fly well over 4.000 miles an hour, it was learned exclusive ly today. It may be ready to fly in about two years. Designated the X-15, the spec tacular little craft is expected to reach altitudes well above 200,000 feet, or more than 38 miles. The airplane is under joint de velopment of the National Ad visory committee for Aeronau tics, the Air Force, the Navy, and North American Aviation, Inc., Los Angeles. It has been mentioned in congressional tes timony but details hsue not been announced. The X15. if it performs as planned, will carry man at speeds more than twice as fast as those achieved to date in a research plane and about three times as fast as those flown by any war plane known today . Will Exceed Records The X15, latest in a string of research craft with which the United States has explored the mysteries of high speed and high altitudes, will exceed the cur rently fantastic records achieved by the X2 rocket ship. Before it crashed on Sept. 27, the X2 had been flown to a reported altitude of 126.000 feet, about 24 miles, and at a speed of 1.900 miles per hour. The X15 will fly so high that normal aircraft controls will be of little or no value. Instead of such control surfaces, it is ex pected to have small rockets, mounted at the wing tips, to con trol its direction. PHYSICIAN AMAZES POLICE Somerville, N. J. U.R) Police here were amazed at the deftness Dr. George Barber show ed in stopping a runaway bull dozer Monday. When they asked the physician how he knew the way to stop the driverless veh icle, Barber replied: "I didn't. I just pulled the first lever I saw." i tween the satellite leaders and Tito. However, they want to keep the brakes on. But Tito is an ambitious man. He seems to see himself more and more as the coming Communist leader of Southeastern Europe. Tito had no sooner returned here last Friday from his policy talks in Russia than it became clear that there is going to be a Communist pilgrimage to Bel grade, his capital, to see him. Delegates Arrive In Belgarde Delegations from Communist Bulgaria and from Italy, which has the largest Communist Party outside the Iron Curtain, are in Belgrade now. A Hungarian Communist gov ernment delegation is due in Bel grade next Monday. French and Polish Communist delegations are due there later this month. Premier Otto Grotewohl of THE ELECTION ... And You (The following space is made available on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays during the election campaign to the two major political parties so that they may publish, without charge, material concerning the presidential elec tion race. Offerings are limited to 400 words, must have the approval of the county chairman of the party, and must be submitted not later than 2 p.m. the day before publication on week days, at 11 a.m. Saturdays for Sunday publication.) DEMOCRATIC STATEMENT The small business man has a tremendous stake in the elec tion which will be decided on Nov. 6. Under the Eisenhower admin istration, the small and indepen dent business, which is the very heart of our free enterprise sys tem, has generally had tough going. In 1952 the smallest corpora tions (with assets under $250, 000) and the larger corporations (with assets over $1 million) both earned more than nine per cent. The profits of independent re tailers, wholesalers, service tradesmen and small manufac turers were generally pretty good. Three years of the Republican administration changed all that. While the "U. S. News and World Report." the magazine of big business, trumpets the news, "Another Big Year For Corpor ation Profits," the profits of small business nationwide have been cut in half since 1952. Big business is putting the squeeze on small business with the help and blessings of the Re publican administration. Credit is harder to get, and the redis count rate has been raised five times in one year. The federal Small Business administration raised the interest rate 20 per cent on small business. In contrast the big companies have been getting bigger, and monopolies and mergers have been increasing at a staggering rate. Under Mr. Eisenhower the Republicans have followed the false "trickle-down" principle namely, that if the giant corpor ations are booming, prosperity will seep down to farmers and independent businessmen. This theory just hasn't worked since 1953. If elected, Adlai Stevenson promises the small businessman a real new deal. He will end the credit squeeze on independent business, enforce the anti-trust laws and combat monopoly, give small business a better break on taxes, and strengthen the free enterprise system. REPUBLICAN STATEMENT Unfortunately, Hells Canyon power development has become a public-private power fight and a political football. Economics and sound engineering are ignor ed by proponents of the Federal project. It threatens to become a fetish, as though it were some great monument or memorial which must be erected to a noble cause. So far as the quantity of power developed by the two opposing plans is concerned, there would be very little difference. The company plan would provide an installed capacity of 784,000 kilo watts, and the Federal dam, 800, 000. There is a difference be tween "installed capacity" and "A DEEPER Dr. G. B. Williamson Communist East Germany, who has slavishly followed the Mos cow line, said in a speech in East Berlin Sunday that East Ger many now has the right to take its own path toward Socialism. It is reported, incidentally, from London that Russia has doubled the strength of its troops in Poland since the Poznan riots of June 28. Poland has led the satellite trend away from Stalin ism. The situation there is get ting out of hand. Relations May Improve There is an interesting angle in the situation which concerns the United States. Communist Hungary an nounced Sunday that negotia tions will be started next Mon day in Bucharest to improve re lations with the United States. These two dsvelopments may not be connected with the Titoist trend. But they could be. "kilowatt-hour production." In laymen's terms, the first is what could be produced with unlimit ed water: the latter, the produc tion with the water probably available. If the Idaho Power Company had so desired, it could have provided for much more installed capacity. Estimated cost of the private development is $133 million or $169.75 per kw installed. Estimated cost of the Federal development is $462 mil lion or $576 per kw installed at the dam. A high dam at Hells Canyon has nebulous irrigation benefits, no more flood control effect than the three-dam proposal, and little navigation usefulness. Recrea tional benefits of the high dam are listed at $1,000,000. Actually it would destroy the recreation al features of a scenic canyon which the three-dam develop ment would preserve and inten sify. Common sense, logic and eco nomics seem to have been thrown to the winds by the advocates of the federal scheme. The great majority of those clamoring for Hells Canyon even among the federal power advocates, who of all people should be informed do not have the facts. The rest ignored them in arriving at the answer they wanted and are des perately trying to justify. Congressional Quiz (Copyright. 1956 Congressional Quarterly) Q One of the following third parties is active in the 1956 campaign the others are part of history. Pick the one that has 1956 candidates: Jobless, Pewter Muggers, Know-Nothing party, Bucktails, Poor Man's party, Readjusters? A Poor Man's party, lit Presidential nominee is Henry Krajewiki, Secuaucui, N. J. , farmer. Q Third party candidates have received votes in every Presidential election since 1836. In 1952 the total third party yote equalled what per cent of the total popular vote cast: (a) .5 per cent; (b) 5.3 per cent; (c) 8 per cent; (d) 12.7 per cent? A (a) ,5 per cent. In 1948 in contrast, minor parties re ceived 5.3 per cent of the pop ular vote. REPUBLICAN EXCUSED New York (U.r Max Hauser, Republican candidate for assemblyman in Brooklyn, ask ed to be excused from jury duty during lunch hours and eve nings so he could campaign. Judge Anthony DiGiovanna, a Democrat, advised Hauser that he could get more votes during daylight hours and excused him until next May. SPIRITUAL LIFE Tonight at 7:30 P.M. you may hear DR. G. B. WILLIAMSON General Superintendent, Church of the Nazarene Author of four books he now occupies the highest office in hii Church, the duties taking him around the world. He is formerly a college president and pastor. SERVICES TUESDAY Through SUNDAY (Except Saturday) FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE 520 North Holly Communications Letters to the Editor must beai the name and address ot the wntei although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name ol initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eve to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted tor puhlica Uon must not exceed 400 words. Likes Flowers To the Editor: It saddens my heart, when I read the obituaries, to note the statement, "In lieu of flowers, please contribute" to the . Red (Cross, or Salvation Army. I laud the generosity of those who support the Salvation Army and the Red Cross. How ever do not pass up your loved ones. or dear friends, as they pass through the last gate. George L. Haff P. O. Box 105 Gold Hill, Ore. Fears Poison To the Editor: A short time ago a piece in the paper spoke of talks in Salem on control of ragweed for this year. Ragweed and mosquitoes were in Oregon before we were born. I never heard of them doing older gen erations any harm nothing liks those poison sprays are doing. Today every man, woman and child has a retention of DDT in their fat tissues, and as this chemical is accumulative, there is reason to believe that this amount will gradually increase as we continue contaminated foods. Heart and blood vessels disorders and cancer now cause more death among children of school age in this country than all the infections and parasitic diseases combined. The Natural Food Associates Journal says thousands of our men and women die every day from degenerative diseases caused principally by poisoned and refined food, that the air we breath is poisoned by sprays of all kinds. Leonard Wicken'den's book, "Our Daily Poison," says if gov ernment of the people, by the people and for tllte people is not to perish from the earth, is for us to say if we want unpoisoned foods, unpoisoned water, un poisoned air. We can have them, provided we are prepared to in sist upon our rights, and to sweep from office those who condone present practices. There is no ex cuse for using these poisons. Ample evidence has been pre sented to show that insects can not be eliminated with poison sprays, according to the pres ident's page of the N.F.A. Jour nal for July, by Dr. Joe D. Nich ols, M.D. In a recent weekly magazine there is an article entitled it is going to be a bad year for insects. Yes, it is going to be a bad year for insects. It is also going to be a bad year for people who get poisoned. Somebody has got to stop this insane dusting of our land and our foods. This is part of our job in N.F.A. and the job is big enough to keep us busy night and day. Hats off to N.F.A. I pray mil lions will join in building up their soil for better health for American people, also will come, eat some of that wonderful food at Grants Pass. Julia Grissom Route 2, Box 657 Central Point, Ore. Mr. Insurance FREO BRENNAN Phone 2-4940 My mother-in-law insists on going hunting with us. Accidents will happen as they say and it's wist to carry hunting insur ance. What type of protection can I get on my hunting dog? MEDFORD INSURANCI AGENCY - CAMPAIGN" Medford MT1 v
