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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDPORmTRIBUNE "Xveryone In Southern Oregon RedTh Mail Tribune" tubliJhed Daily Except Saturday by MF.nPORn pRiTTr. r-n 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 RflRFBT U7 PITWI Criitn HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, BuiineM Mnax ERIC ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEW ETT Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered u second claaa matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $13 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4-25 Sunday Only One year $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eale Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Quite a number of this year's go-carts, for the first time since they started rushing helter-skelter to an accident, experienced frost on their tops this morning. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 15, 1936 (Thursday) Jackson county registration for all precincts outside of Med ford and Ashland total 10,555 voters Republicans 5,555, Democrats 4,775, and miscel laneous 225 voters. Wind blowing at 35 miles an hour toppled over the shelter housing weather instruments of the Rogue river national forest service at Dutchman's Peak lookout station. 30 YEARS AGO , Oct. 15, 1926 (Friday) Medford citizens are urged to attend the opening meeting of the county seat removal issue campaign at the Nat tonight. L. F. Ivanhoe, of Copco, an nounces resignation from the power company. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 15, 1916 (Sunday) Seven hundred persons at tend the venison barbecue giv en at Bybee bridge Sunday by the local Elks lodge. Rev. Ralph Hall, of Philadel phia, speaks to a crowd of over 400 people at the Presbyterian church. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 15. 1906 (Monday) Reports come from Washing ton that President Roosevelt will be the leader of the New York Republicans at the expira tion of his present term. The Secretary of Interior de cides to build the Cold Springs Storage dam for the Umatilla Irrigation project. What's the Answer? Can Yon Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955 editorial Research Report 1. President Eisenhower be comes (a) 60, (b) 63, (c) 66 or (d) 69 years old this year? 2. The Constitution does or doesn't fix the number of Su preme Court justices at nine? 3. Soccer football is on the increase or decrease in U.S. colleges as a whole, or about holding its own? 4. Columbus landed Oct. 12, 1492 on what is now Haiti, Dominican Republic. Cuba. Jamaica, or some other West Indies Island? 5. Vice President Nixon gets a higher or lower salary than House Speaker Sam Rayburn, or the same? 6. The island of Cyprus lies closest to the Greek mainland. Turkey. Egypt, the Suez Canal or the" British island of Malta? 7. A polygraph is used to chart stock prices, measure heart action, detect lies, im prove hearing or take dicta tion? .. The answers: 1. 66. 2. Doesn L 3. On the increase. 4. Another West Indies island. 5. Same. 6. Closest to Turkey. 7. Detect lies. Use Tribune Want Ads MAIL TRIBUNE Off Street Parking Needed (1) Is an off-street parking program important! (2) Would it help me, as a driver? (3) Would it cost me any money if it Is passed Nov. 6? (4) Would it increase taxes? (5) Would it harm anyone? These, we believe, are the key questions to be answered by Medford voters in deciding whether to approve the proposal that the city buy and develop off-street parking lots. Our answers to the five questions are, in 'order, 1) yes, 2) yes, 3) yes, 4) no, and 5) probably not or at least, not much. TF ONE drives downtown early in the morning, or on a Sunday, or late at night, parking is no prob lem. But at any other time it is. During the busier hours of the day, it is frequently impossible to find a spot within blocks of where one wants to go. This poses a double difficulty: To the driver, who is frustrated, and to the merchants, who would get the driver's business, if the driver could get to him. To the first, it causes, at best, frayed nerves and increased gasoline bills. To the second, it threatens his livelihood. Therein lies its importance. '"THE program is designed to provide enough added parking spaces to make finding a place to park, either on or off the street, less of a chore than it now is. There are not quite enough now, as any driver can testify. The number is decreasing, as new build ings occupy more lots which have been used for park ing, and as the needs for greater traffic flow make it necessary to remove even more spaces from the streets. If the arterial street program passes, this trend will be speeded up both because more parking spaces would be eliminated, and because it would be easier for motorists to reach the downtown area, thus creating an even greater demand. If the off-street program is approved, it will help the driver. TTHE proposal will cost an estimated $721,000 (or more, or less, depending on circumstances) over a 10-year period. Obviously this money is not going to come out of thin air, Someone must pay for it. Who? Well, about one-third will be paid by downtown merchants and property owners through assessments on downtown (and downtown only) property. A majority of them have agreed in advance that this is equitable, since they are the ones to derive the first and greatest benefits. The balance will be paid by the others who bene fit those who use the parking spaces, both on-street and in the new off-street lots, all of which will be metered. . - ., - If you are a driver, and occasionally park down town, it will cost you a little more. TT WOULD not increase taxes (except for the prop - erty assessments on downtown property mentioned above). " , The initial financing will be done by general ob ligation bonds, which are backed by the general cred-it-of the city. In case of a major depression, or similar catastrophe which would reduce parking meter rev enues, the costs would then fall on property, to be paid by taxes. But if plans are to be made with such a fear as an overriding consideration, is unlikely, to say the least If, however, our economy continues on its present level, or even if it were to decline moderately, the cost would be bome, fully or liquidating features 'of the tinues to expand, there will But, in the unlikely event that the entire burden were to fall on the taxpayer, the total amount would only be about $1 per year TN A LETTER addressed x ning, the writer expressed the fear that parking lots located near "small businesses" would be a detri ment to them. How? After all. small businessmen are dependent on customers. And if it is easier for customers to get to the businesses, the businesses will be benefited not damaged. The movement measure by the business the community, who see it everyone, and not least to We fail to follow the logic which concludes parking lots would aid "big businesses" and harm small businesses. The program might have some adverse effect on existing, privately-operated fic forecasts are bome out too conservative), there for all. ""THE Mail Tribune has favoring the arterial street program. It now recommends a "yes" vote on the off-street parking program. It is, we believe, soundly thought- out, hxpenence, both here done similar jobs of providing for their growing traf fic and parking needs, indicates that both are nee essary. While they are separate ballot measures, they are tied together in purpose, and each would be at least partly self-defeating These could be called ures for the city of Medford. E.A. MUCH IN COMMON Detroit (U.R) Rudy Valee, the singing, idol of the 1920s and 1930s, said Sunday he felt he and Elvis Presley have much in common. "Presley feels as I did back Monday, October 15. 1956 nothing would get done. It in major part, by the self- plan. If the economy con be no problem at all. per capita. to this page the other eve- itself is supported in large and professional men of as of potential benefit to themselves. parking lots. But if traf (and so far they have been will be plenty of business previously gone on record and in cities which have without the other. "good housekeeping" meas in 1929," Valee said. "He doesn't have much of a voice so he com pensates with assorted gyra tions. But people say they enjoy his performances and who am I to question what someone else likes." Today and By Walter THE PEACE ISSUE There has been as yet no ser ious discussion of foreign policy between President Eisenhower between President Eisenhower and Governor S t e v e n s on. Here again, as in so many other phases of the cam paign, the real question is one about each for different rea sons finds it d i f f l c u It to VV uttsr I ii to talk about. Insofar as there is an issue between them, it turns around this, that the President's contri bution to the making of peace has been unique and indispense able but very limited. His role has been that of a liquidator of old and sterile conflicts, as in Korea, Formosa, and Indo-Chma, rather than that of a shaper and builder of what is to come. He has played a great part in the process, which is not yet completed, of bringing to an end the Stalinist phase of the cold war. But on the phase which is following it, he has been so lacking in ideas that the initia tive has been taken over, with out serious challenge from him, by the Soviet Union. fVN TUESDAY at Pittsburgh " President Eisenhower said that "the full turning ... on the road toward peace . . . seem ed to come three years ago" when the Korean armistice was made. What was his contribution to that hopeful turning? I would say what he certainly did not cause the turn. What he did was to make acceptable to the American people the concessions and the compromises which the turn has involved. It has in volved the partition of Korea. It has involved the partition of Indo-China. It has involved the containment and confinement and the de-facto neutralization of Nationalist China in For mosa. It has involved the re versal of the central principle of the platform on which he ran in 1952, and the replace ment of the policy of liberation by a policy of acceptance of the status quo. The turning of the road, which required all the compro mises, coincided, speaking gen erally, with the advent of Eis enhower to the White House and the death of Stalin. Both these events made it easier for the turning to take place. But the causes of the turning lie much deeper than the individuals, and none of us, I think, understands them fully. But it was the fact that the military incidents of the cold war had all ended in stalemates that "could be broken only by the kind of big war that no one dared to fight. This was true not only of Korea, For mosa and Indo-China but also of the Greek civil war and the Berlin blockade. PRESIDENT Eisenhower's great contribution, which has given him his fame as a peace maker, has been to induce the American people to accept the unpalatable consequences of the stalemates. We have not rec ognized the Communist govern ment of China, and we are still able to prevent it from acquir ing the Chinese seat in the United Nations. But we are ne gotiating with Red China with a view to reaching some sort of formal truce, and we do not any longer challenge its exist ence. This line of policy is not limited to the Far East. In the Middle East, both as respects Palestine and Suez, the deter mining element in preserving the peace has been President Eisenhower's acceptance of the Soviet Union as a great power in the Middle East. TN MY view, that he has been " doing has been right and -ec- essary and no one else but he, a celebrated general and a Re publican of unimpeachable con servatism, could have kept the country united while he was doing it. But we must not deceive our selves. This process of liquida tion, this engagement, and with drawal from commitments and positions that have become un tenable, is bringing into exist ence a world order that is far different from and much less favorable than, the one that we have known. The Western Alliance, of which we are the core, now has competitors and adversaries in every quarter of the globe. What disturbs me about the prospect of another Eisenhower administration is that the Presi dent has done so little to pre pare the government and the country for the kind of compe LOURDES PILGRIMS Lourdes, France (U.R) . Fifty-nine Americans, including 16 ill persons and four cripples arrived here by plane Sunday night on a pilgrimage to Our Lady of Lourdes shrine. Most of the pilgrims came from New ork and San Francisco. Tomorrow Lippmann tition which we now face. Vir tually all the Eisenhower poli cies are hand-me-downs from Roosevelt, Truman, and the Stalinist phase of the cold war. On the paramount question of our era, which is the work ing out of a new relationship between the Atlantic powers and the nations of Asia and of Africa, there is no Eisenhower policy. There is no intimation even of the kind of invention and constructiveness which pro duced the United Nations, the Marshall Plan, and NATO. Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Matter of Fact By stewan auoP INTERIM REPORT Washington "Outside the farm areas," Republican Chair man Leonard Hall remarked rather compla cenUy to this reporter some months ago, "there is a c o n t e ntment which is won- j derful." At about the same time, A d 1 a i Stevenson, musing on his Stewart Alsop defeat in the Minnesota primary, observed that "somehow" he had failed to communicate." For some weeks now, this re porter has been wandering In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I suppose there is no more controversial figure in Oregon than Senator Wayne Morse. His supporters have for him an al most idolatrous regard. Those who are against him can hardly find words in the language that are rugged enough to express their opinion of him. What IS he, anyway? A MONG other things, he is an egotist. It is his fundamental conviction that what is good for Senator Morse is good for the state of Oregon and the United States of America. Egotistical? Certainly. But it is sincere. Senator Morse is such a supreme ego tist that he believes sincerely that what is good for him is good for his state and country. He is remarkably vocal in set ting forth his convictions along that line. T ET'S take a look at his big - switch when he turned his coat. In February of 1952, when General Eisenhower was begin ning to loom on the horizon as the man of the hour, Morse said in a letter to a newspaper pub lisher in North Bend: "I am strong for Eisenhower "I know him to be a very in telligent man with complete in tellectual honesty and a marked mpartiality. I have never seen him duck or hedge an issue. "I am for Eisenhower because I think his election will give the people of this country some thing they sorely need, and that is a rallying point for a renewed faith in the future and destiny of our country. TRET'S now skip a year. In March of 1953, Senator Morse was quoted as follows in the New Republican magazine: "I have absolutely no confi dence in him CEisenhower) and I am satisfied he is completely lacking m all political morality. "In my judgment, he is the most dangerous man who will ever have been in the White House." N' OTE the dates. They are important. They reveal the fact that Sen ator Morse got on the Eisenhow er bandwagon early. He estab lished himself as one of the orig inal Eisenhower boosters. He went into the 1952 Republican convention an Eisenhower boost er. But Somewhere along the line SOMETHING HAPPENED. He came out of the 1952 Re publican convention a bitter foe of Ike. AT happened? I don't know. There are con flicting stories. But one must assume that he wanted something wanted it VERY MUCH and didn't get it. So he turned his coat and be came a Democrat. THY? It was egotism. He sincerely and funda mentally believed that the fortunes of Senator Morse were more imnortant than the for tunes of the Republican party. Or Ike. Or the country. Hp was utterlv sure he was right and the Republican con vention that had failed to give him whatever It was he wanted was wrong. That's supreme egotism. Big Change As Japan Talks With By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent A big change is likely to take place in the Far Eastern situa tion within the next few days. Japanese Premier Ichiro Hatoyama opened ne gotiations i n Moscow today for establish ment of nor mal relations with Soviet Russia pending the signature Charles Mccano of a formal peace treaty. There is every expectation around the country, talking to voters in key area, trying to sense their reactions and the trend of the campaign. Especial ly in the last week or so, the two not very profound observa tions quoted above kept coming back to mind. For they tell a good deal about how the cam paign is going. At the outset of the campaign, there were visible signs, dis cerned by many observers, that the Stevenson candidacy was really getting off the ground. Recently, these signs of a shift to Stevenson have been much less visible. The reasons are re lated to both the remarks quoted above. TALKING to people in the workers' districts or the mid dle class residential areas of big cities, you do not get the feeling that the contentment Chairman Hall professed to find is really all that wonderful. "Eisenhower prosperity" is certainly an Eisen hower asset. But it is a negative asset, in the sense that the Eisen hower candidacy wouid have suffered badly if there had been really widespread economic trouble in the cities, just as it has certainly already suffered on the farms. Moreover, prosperity is not a decisive Eisenhower asset. There remain many economic discon tents for Stevenson to exploit and exploiting discontents is. after all, the function of an op position. There are certain areas of genuine economic distress in the cities as well as on the farms among hard-hit small businessmen, for instance, and in some places where industry is depressed. TUT there is also, almost every- A- where, much less "wonderful contentment" than the statistics about the current boom would suggest. A great many people who ought, statistically, to feel prosperous, do not. A household er in a comfortable middle class street in Louisville, Kentucky, gave a clue to why this is so. "There's hardly a house in this street that's paid for," he said, "and hardly a car or a tele vision set or a dishwasher either." A great many people, in short, have gone heavily into debt to buy the things they want. Paying for these things takes a pain fully large slice out of their in comes. Thus they feel, not pros perous, but harried, hard-pressed and worried about the future. Being human, these people are tempted to blame, not their own extravagance, but the Adminis tration in power, just as the farmers in the drought-stricken areas tend to blame the Admin istration for what is, in fact, an act of God. These are the people who feel no "wonderful contentment." It is among such people that Stev enson might hope to find the switchers from Eisenhower that he needs to put him over the top only about 5 per cent of the total vote. A FEW weeks ago, it seemed at least quite possible that Stev enson might find his needed 5 per cent among these discon tented people. Now it begins to look distinctly improbable There are many reasons for this apparent faltering of the Steven son candidacy. One is the specious peace is sue," which the Republicans have exploited far more effectively than "prosperity." Another is the increasing participation of Pres ident Eisenhower in the cam paign, which has tended to dis pel doubts about his health, and which has moved is appealing personality front and center. But, as one talks to the voters, one cannot escape the conclu sion that there is an even more important reason that Adlai Stevenson has again, to use his own phrase, in large measure "failed to communicate." THIS is parUy because his tel evision appearances, which he stubbornly refuses to re hearse, have been generally poor. It is partly because he has lately taken to debating issues, like the stopping of hydrogen bomb tests, which deeply inter est him but do not deeply interest the mass of the voters. At any rate, to the discon tented and still undecided voters, Stevenson is not yet a real per son, a recognizable and well liked human being who will deal with their personal troubles. This "failure to communicate is Stevenson's great weakness, 4 Foreseen that the negotiations will suc ceed. If they do, Japan will enter the United Nations next month, after having been denied mem bership for years by Russia s veto. Japan will have the prospect of entering into trade agree ments with Russia totalling up wards of $125 million a year. There will be the prospect also of increased Japanese trade with Russia's ally. Communist China. Establishment of normal diplomatic relations between Red China and Japan will De brought nearer. Independent Policy Japan is likely, as the result. to turn its attention more to its Far Eastern neighbors and pur sue a more independent policy toward the United States. The agreement which Hatoy ama is neeotiatine calls for a declaration ending the state of war between Japan and Russia, restoration of normal diplomatic relations, repartriation of Jap anese war prisoners still held in Russia, a long-term fisheries agreement and Russia's support of Japan's admission to the United Nations. The question of the future of some small islands whose re turn Japan seeks will be left for future consideration. Japan has been in a state of war with Russia since Aug. 8, 1945. The United States and 48 other countries signed a formal peace treaty with Japan in San Francisco on Sept. 8, 1951. Rus sia refused to take part. Negotiations for a formal Russian-Japanese treaty were start ed in London on June 1, 1955. U.P. Correspondents Forecast Headlines United Press correspond-' ents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headline. Involvement Watch for more top-echelon State Department speeches and statements between now and El ection Day. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his aides still insist they aren't going to get involved in the campaign. But Washington - insiders say President Eisenhower and Dul les, agree something ought to be done to counter Democratic crit icism of administration foreign policy. So the anti-campaigning stand is being quieUy relaxed. Dulles recently appeared on a national TV interview program. He's expected to do it again within a week or so. Some of his aides are likely to get going also. Close Eye Although it won't be disclos ed officially, the Justice Depart ment is keeping a close eye on bids submitted to the govern ment by drug firms for Salk anti-polio vaccine. A Democratic controlled louse sub-committee has reported that vaccine mak ers submitted practically Identi cal bids on three different oc casions. One Democrat holds they are guilty of "collusive price-fixing" in violation of anti trust laws. Back Door There's more than meets the eye in Britain's warning to Is rael that it will send troops to the assistance of Jordan in ev ent of Israeli aggression. It just happens that if Britain sent troops to Jordan, they would be convenietly close to Egypt in event that the Suez Canal dispute exploded. Another Sues Angle Israel probably will be get ting another shipment of the French-built Mystere IV jet fighter planes soon. Paris re ports that the Suez situation tip- which he must somehow over come in the few campaign weeks that remain, if he is to have a ghost of a chance of winning. (C) 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Families in every neighborhood are served better by Perl's Prices of Funerals. ... at Perl's are within the means of every family. Funeral services cost no more ... and often less ... at Perl's. PERL FUNERAL HOME SINCE 1908 FRANK AND BILL PERL" Phone 2-6675 in East Russians They dragged on until last March 29. Russia tried hard to force Japan to agree to adopt a neutralist foreign policy as the price of a treaty. It finally drop ped that bid to stop Japanese rearmament. But the negotia tions failed, largely because of Russia's refusal to surrender any of the islands it occupied as the result of World War II. Japan Paid Heavily Japan paid heavily for the 25 days Russia spent in the war. It is now known that for months before that, Japan had sought to get Russia to ask the Allies for peace terms. The Russians sat on the request. Then the United States drop ped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later, with Japan facing inevitable and disastrous defeat, Russia declared war. As the result of the Japanese surrender on Sept. 2, Russia got possession of Sakhalin Island from Japan and also the long, important Kurile Islands chain which extends northward from Japan to Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Japan wants to get back at least two small islands in the southern Kuriles. Russia has re fused to give back even these. If Hatoyama succeeds in his Moscow negotiations, it will be a crowning success for him. Whatever happens, he is likely to step down from the prime minis try next month. He is 73, partly paralyzed, and tired out. Op position to him, has been grow ing steadily for months, in his own dominant Liberal-Democratic party as well as out. ped the scales in favor of the decision. France stopped sup plying Israel with jets earlier this year after repeated protests from Arab countries, especially Egypt. But the French are even angrier with Egypt over Suez than Britain is. Premature Discount those London re ports that Princess Margaret is thinking about an early mar riage. Here's what caused them: Margaret was at a private house party last month. A brash teen ager remarked in her presence that a girl was on the shelf un less she got married by 21. An older woman agreed. Twenty-six year old Margaret casually re marked: "Oh, I shaU probably get married some day." The gos sips took it from there. Dm Tribune Want Ada Graves To Open GEO. N. TAYLOR The Lord Himself shall de scend from heaven with a shout and the dead in Christ shall rise first. At that moment, we of His who are here on earth shall be caught up to gather with them. So shall we ever be with the Lord. 1st Thess. 4:13-17. And what was Christ's part? When He was nailed to the cross the soldier's spear pierced His side and the blood gushed out. The blood told Christ's death for our sins. (Christ had no sins of His own.) Being cleared by His blood, we are saved from God's wrath of our sin.s Romans 5:9 BIBLE. To Be Saved Believe down in your heart in Christ's death for your sins. To Grow Christlika Find time daily for Bible and Prayer. To Earn Reward Do as Christ commands. Must you go and empty handed? This Message sponsored by a Dairy family. adv. V
