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rOTJR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDF0rUV,TBIBu7fE "Tver-yon In Southern Oregon Rudi Ttim Max! Tnbune" frubluheJDaily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertum Manager GERALD LATHAM. Buineu Manager ERIC ALLEN JR.. Manning Editor KARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Mediord Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MaU In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dsily and SundayOne year f 15 00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three moa 4.23 Sunday Only One year $420. By Carrier In Advance Med ford. Ahland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday One year S18.00 Daily and Sunday One month 140 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance 6frir ta'l Paper of the City of Med ford Official faperof Jack ton 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. Senttle. Portland St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL &f I ASSOCll-ATLQN Wv NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 22, 1946 (Tuesday) Izaak Walton league mem bers, and others interested, in vited to attend special meeting at Medford hotel. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A good car-washing, sod -soaking rain fell last night, and the usual number of windshield wipers wouldn't wipe. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 22. 1936 (Thursday) A. H. Banwell, manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, will leave this eve ning for Portland to attend a meeting. Jackson county Democratic caravan heads for Rogue Elk resort where local candidates will address Trail and Prospect voters. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 22, 1926 (Friday) Professor Ralph Cheney, geol ogist of the University of Cali fornia and Carnegie Foundation, stops in Medford en route to Berkeley. Governor Walter M. Pierce discusses Income tax and other vital issues in Medford at the armory tomorrow. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 22. 1916 (Sunday) The WCTU indorses Miss Ann M. Jeffrey, independent candi date for county school superin tendent. Three plans prepared by City Recorder Foss for the use of the budget committee in fixing the tax levy for Medford. SO YEARS AGO Oct. 22, 1906 (Monday) . Special Prosecutor Francis J. Heney is to drop the Oregon land fraud cases and District Attorney Bristol will push them to a finish In Portland. Councilman Johnson will act as Inspector in behalf of the city on the work of constructing the septic tank. What's the Answer? Can Ton Get 4 ef the '7? Copr. 1935 editorial Research Report 1. U.S. Army intelligence tests In World War I showed city Ne groes from North doing better or worse than rural Southern Whites as a whole, or the same. 2. State whose auto tags call it the Sunshine state is California. Arizona, New Mexico, Texas or Florida? 3. Which college football team is called the Burkeyes? 4. Ten, more than 10, or fewer than 10 of our Presidents have been Masons? 5. The U.S. recognized the So viet government of Russia less than a year after it was set up, or about five, or ten or more than 15 years later? 6. More than half of all Amer icans have gone to high school for at least a time, or less than half, or about half? 7. Tularemia is often called parrot fever, rose fever, scarlet fever, yellow fever or rabbit fever? The answers: 1. Better, as a whole. 2. Florida. 3. Ohio State, 4. More than 10. 5. More than IS years later. 6. More than half. 7. Rabbit fever. Bristol, England (U.R) Peter Kendall-Bush received a grim legacy from his aunt three ancient hearses and a cof fin cart. The aunt was a collec tor of funeral, vehicles. MAIL TRIBUNE Chance to 'Do Something' "Why don't 'they' do something about it?" This is a question we've all heard when something of a civic nature goes wrong when a storm sewer backs up, say, or a road needs repairs. The "they" usually refers to some nameless, face less and impotent public official or officials, and the one asking the question seldom really expects "them" to do anything about the situation. It occurs to us that the "they" is really, and too often, "we" meaning citizens, voters and taxpayers. CUCH is the case in regard to the capital improve- ment program being presented to the voters of Medford two weeks from tomorrow. Such is the case with the arterial street program and the off-street parking program, which have been discussed and endorsed in this space previously. And such too is the case with two other separate measures proposing the construction of storm and san itary sewers in Medford. Neither of the latter is particularly expensive as public works go. Each is vastly important to certain sections of town in particular, and to the entire city in general. They are "good housekeeping" measures, and de serve the approval of all voters of "we" as well as "they." MOT MUCH needs to be said about them here, as de- ' tails of the proposals have been outlined else where. But it should be pointed out that long-suffering residents of the parts of Medford affected by high water, and by backed-up sewage, are entitled to relief. And it should also be pointed out that what affects one part of the city affects all of it, particularly the threats to the health and well-being of fellow citizens. Therefore, we recommend a "yes" vote for the sewer projects, Nos. 53 and 54 on the Medford ballot. E.A. Cost Not Too High The total cost of the four-phase capital improve ment program will come high, but not too high. On the basis of current assessed valuation in Med ford, the total tax cost will amount to 10 mills. This will bring the Medford millage rate from 18.9 (the lowest of any city in Oregon of comparable size) up to 28.9 mills still among the lowest in the state. OERE is how the cost, in mills, is apportioned : M. Arterial streets 6.6 mills (5.6 mills for a con tinuing levy for 10 years ; 1 mill for bonds and inter est). 2. Off-street parking none. (The entire program would be self-liquidating, and would fall on property as a tax only in the event of some totally unforeseen catastrophe, such as war or depression.) 3. Storm sewers 2.6 mills (1.9 mills for the levy and .7 of a mill for bond retirement and interest). 4. Sanitary sewers .8 of a mill for the six-year levy. jM'EDFORD has long been fortunate in having a low tax rate, while enjoying high-standard city ser vices. , It is now in the midst of a period of growth, and a number of things are necessary to promote this growth in an orderly fashion. These things cost money quite a bit of money. But the cost is not too high for the benefits re ceived. E.A. The Freeway Where? On the basis of what has been said and done so far, we rather expect the state highway commission to select the route along Bear Creek for its proposed new four-lane freeway. If it does, we can't avoid the uneasy feeling that it will be making a mistake one which will be bitter ly regretted in the years to come as Medford grows and expands, and finds itself cloven in half by a wide, noisy, double ribbon of asphalt or concrete. IN THE nature of things, any decision on which of the four routes should be selected must be made negatively; that is, on the basis of which would do the least damage. Our view and it may well be a minority opinion at the moment is that the Hillcrest route (despite the loss of agricultural land and the harm to orchards) would do the least damage, perhaps not immediately, but over the long run. It, at least, is about $4 million less expensive than the West Side route, and would not chop the city up any worse than it already is. There are two other reasons and we think they are valid tnes why a wide swath should not be sliced through Medford, either along Bear creek, or through the residential area just to the east THE first is that either the Bear Creek or Gennesse J J TT J.-U I. 1 1 wic nuum udiiiage xiawuiuiue pain, anu uic iuw er east side irreparably, and hinder or prevent any future use of Bear Creek itself as a strip of greenery. The second is that tourists would be far more apt to stop at Medford overnight, or for a meal, or just to shop or visit, from an attractive highway through roll ing mils, fields and orchards with a pleasant view of the city, then they would be from a highway through town, where the view would or the sub-standard neighborhoods which follow busy highways as surely as flies follow garbage. If "the economy" dictates a through-city route for the highway, we think it is false economy, without vision for the future. E.A. Monday. October 22, 195G be the backs of buildings, Reds Strengthening Positions In Asia as Allies Preoccupied By CHARLES M. MeCANN United Press Correspondent Communist China and Soviet Russia are strengthening their positions in East Asia while the VHH Western Allies worry over the Middle East. The Reds are seeking active lv to make "'"5 friends and ex-Si-"' vl tend the "neu tralist" move ment. It looks as if they are mak C uAi ici M. 3ici.nji ing considerable progress. Half a dozen countries, some of them most important in, the Asian de fense picture, are affected. Prime Minister Mohammed Daud of Afghanistan, the buffer nation between the Soviet Union I Matter of Fact b, aip IN THE 11TH DISTRICT Pittsburgh Both the Demo crats and Republicans agree that this state of Pennsylvania is the first state to. watch in the coming elec tion. And the Demo cr a tic Sage of Fitts- jfj I burgh, Mayor I David Law rence, wno oia so much to nominate Ad- ju&epb Aiiup iai Stevenson, thinks that Pennsylvania is in the bag for his man. Lawrence, a large, solid, quiet spoken man with a large, deeply lined, intelligent face, is very ob viously no actor. The confidence that he expressed to this reporter a day or so ago was very obvi ously genuine confidence. "Here in Allegheny County," he said, "the Democrats will surely roU up another 40,000 votes that we should have got last time. If we do that, and if Stevenson can only hold his 1952 majority in Philadelphia, which I think he will, there won't be any contest. The state will" tie ours, period." A JUDGING by my own poUing, " Stevenson is doing just about as well in Philadelphia, as he did four years ago. But how about Mayor Lawrence's other "if?" in order to test the Sage of Pitts burgh's theory of major Demo cratic gains in his own county, I asked him to have his staff pick an indicator-precinct or district as they call their precincts' here abouts where signs of Demo cratic gains would surely be dis coverable. After some thought, the Mayor's assistant suggested the 11th District in the old 8th Ward, which went for Eisen hower by the narrow majority of 386 to 347 in 1952. Next morning, bright and early, I set out to poll the 11th District. It was one of those golden-hazy autumn days that are the best of the year. ' On a fine day, the 11th Dis trict is a pleasant place its streets tree-lined, its houses cos ily old-fashioned but seldom shabby, its people just that mix ture .of working class and small business and white color fam ilies that forms the vital back bone of urban America. A LTOGETHER it was an agree able experience although a somewhat exhausting one for I managed to poll a sample equal to exactly a tenth of the district's last-time voters before darkness finally closed in. And with the doubters I talked at some length. Rich human surprises are a commonplace of door-to-door polling at all times, but the few blocks of the 11th District were unusually full of them. On the Eisenhower side, ' for instance, there was Miss Violet Roy, a sweet -faced old Negro house worker at 205 Atlantic ave., who explained that she was voting Republican because "I think we should all be grateful for what God has given us; and we should never complain regardless of what our status in life is." And on the Stevenson side, there was the Rev. William Viv rett and his handsome wife, of 256 South Evaline st. Mrs. Viv rett delivered the best short lec ture on America's fated world leadership "It's been imposed on us, for good or ill, and the greatest problem facing our country is how to exercise this leadership with wisdom, self-denial and courage" which this reporter has heard in many a weary month. rpHERE was a political surprise, -- too. The Democratic Senate candidate, Joseph S. Clark Jr., is a Philadelphia man who is not supposed to have much follow ing at this end of the state. Yet he ran well ahead of his Re public opponent, Sen. James Duff, and even got a few votes more than Adlai Stevenson him self. And the Presidential con test also produced a surprise, in the form of an abnormally large number of undecided voters who may end by administering a sharp surprise to Mayor Law rence. In round figures, 55 per cent of the people I talked to who had voted last time, had picked Eisenhower in 1952, and 45 per cent had picked Stevenson a slighUy higher vote than Eisen hower actually got. This time; 40 and Pakistan, arrived in Moscow last Wednesday. Prime Minister Tank Prasad Acharya of Nepal, which lies between China and India, re turned Saturday from a visit to Red Chinese Premier Chou En lai. Sukarno Visited Reds President Sukarno of Indone sia, a leading neutralist, has just returned home from a long tour of Communist countries includ ing both Russia and Red China. Prime Minister Hussein Sha hed Suhrawardy of Pakistan, which is a member of both the Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian alliances against Commu nist aggression, arrived in Pei ping last Thursday on a visit to Chou. It has been announced that Chou will visit Prime Minister per cent were ready to vote for Eisenhower; 35 per cent had chosen Stevenson; one angry voter plumped for the no-income-tax candidate, Coleman An drews; and the very large re maining percentage were in gen uine doubt. TYPICAL of an actual major ity of the doubters was Jo seph Curran, a retired railroad er, who lives at 224 South Aiken st. Last time he voted for Stev enson. "But this time," he said, "I really don't knqw what to do; I like Eisenhower very much, but still and all I'm a Democrat, and the Democrats are the party of the working man like me." This pull, between the Eisen hower personality and what they conceive to be their own interests, was common even among the 11th District people who had made their decisions. If the doubters split evenlv. Mayor Lawrence will not achieve his expected gain in the 11th District, Yet there is one other factor that may importantly in fluence the outcome in the 11th District the factor of political organization that also deserves careful study in another report. (C) 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I think perhaps we'd better talk a little today about foreign affairs. Foreign affairs CAN be far more important than the yack yacketins of the Drofessional nnl- iticians in an election year. Back of foreign affairs, you know, is always the possibility of war and war is more important tnan anything else. War is life and death. 'TWERE is a little cloud on the - horizon of the news. It is in Poland. It is presently no larger than a man's hand. But it might grow. This is the cloud: The communist party of Po land has reinstated Wladislaw Gomulka as a member of its cen tral committee. Gomulka is a former first secretary of the Po lish communist party who was charged with being an anti-Stalinist in the Tito manner and spent seven years in prison. He was released as a part of the anti-Stalinist pose of the Krem lin. The Polish communist party's leaders are expected to demand an INDEPENDENCE FROM MOSCOW that could affect the future of the whole Soviet bloc of nations. Krushchev is report ed to be in' Warsaw (Poland's capital) trying to calm the Po lish communists and get them back in line. is that important? Well, for one thing, it Is hap pening in Poland. The Poles have back of them a long and grim and terrible history of op pression largely at the hands of Russia. And Down through the centuries The Poles haven't hestitated to revolt and DIE, if need be, when ever they felt that death was better than the kind of life they were being compelled to live by their oppressors. They might do it again. TJUSSIA, posing falsely as the friend of colonial peoples everywhere, has under her bloody thumb the greatest colon ial empire in the modern world. These colonial peoples, known as Russia's satellites, are kept under Russia's thumb by mili tary force. There is ample evi dence that they are unhappy with their lot and are held in submission ONLY BY FORCE. This is the point. Russia will not dare to start a world war as long as she fears that her satellites are waiting only for a moment of weaknes? on Russia's part to REBEL AND SET UP THEIR OWN. r IS true that it is communists who seem to be stirring up the trouble in Poland. But keep this in mind: They are POLISH commun ists. NOT Russian communists. Over the long centuries the Jawaharlal Nehru of India and King Suramarit of the Indone sian state of Cambodia next month. Red Chinese President Mao-Tse-tung is to visit Indonesia, probably within the next two weeks. It has been made known that the atheistic Chinese Reds will send a delegation to Nepal to at tend a big world Buddhist con gress which opens there Nov. 15. There are a few places where the Communists are not meeting any encouragement in their cam paign of penetration. The governments of Malaya and Singapore, newly given their independence by Great Britain, are actively fighting Communism. Thailand Firm Thailand, a member of the Southeast Asian alliance, is deaf to Communist lure. In Southern Viet Nam In Indo china, a new American-style constitution is to be proclaimed Thursday. This state, made an independent republic when North Viet Nam went to the Communists after the Indochina war, is an anti - Communist strong point. The Reds seem to have given up any hope they, can take it by force or win it through a rigged "unifying" election. It is true also that "neutral ist" Sukarno of Indonesia is hav ing trouble at home as the result of his long visit behind the Iron and Bamboo curtains. Sukarno and his foreign min ister, Roeslan Abdulgain, are be ing criticized angrily by mem bers of the Moslem parties for being a little too neutralist. That is, the Moslems say they showed a strong leaning toward the Communist side as usually hap pens with neutralist leaders. East German Strikes Seen by U.P. Writers United Press correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. East Germany Next? Watch for an outbreak of riot ous strikes in East Germany at any time. Reports of walkouts in East German cities last week apparently were premature. But Allied intelligence agents say a blow-up is coming. They expect it to be at least as big as the "bread and freedom" riots of Kefauver 'Shocked' At Ike's Reply To Bulganin's Letter Pocatello, Ida. (U.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.), swung east today through Idaho to at tack the Eisenhower adminis tration's "disgraceful g i v e awaysv and to hammer at the mushrooming H-bomb issue. Kefauver, reported to be "shocked" at President Eisen hower's bitter reply to Soviet Premier Bulganin, withheld his fire on the H-bomb tests, how ever, until contacting Adlai E. Stevenson. Dr. David L. Hill, atomic scientist on vacation from Los Alamos and acting as Kefauver's consultant, termed Mr. Eisen hower's statement "peevish." No Comprehension Hill said Mr. Eisenhower has "no comprehension of the pos sibility that we have a real op ening to make some progress to bring the H-bomb under con trol." Mr. Eisenhower, in his reply to Bulganin's H-bomb ban pro posal, accused the Soviet pre mier of interfering in U. S. in ternal affairs during a political campaign. At Porterville, Calif., where residents can see the flash and feel the tremors from the Nev ada testing grounds 200 miles away, Kefauver drew his most enthusiastic applause from a crowd, of about 500 when he urged an end to superbomb 1 and called for negotiations with Bulganin. A LOT OF SEATS Louisville, Ky. (U.R) The new Kentucky State Fair Coli seum here has 20.000 seats Poles have proved often enough that when oppression becomes unbearable they are willing to risk death to get rid of their op pressors. w ATCH IT. These Poles might provide the final proof that the Russian brand of communism is so foul that eventually it must faU of the weight of its own foulness. Bladder 'Weakness' If worried by "Bladder Weaknes" Getting Up Night (too frequent, burning or Itch ing urination) or Strong, Cloudy Urlnel due to common Kidney and Bladder Irrl tatlon. try CYSTEX for quiet, gratifying, comforting help. A billion CYSTEX tablets need In put 39 year prove aafcty and aucee. Ask drugglet for CYSTEX trader saoney-baer. guarantee. 8c bow macM alter you 2cel tomano. Today and By Walter THE PRESIDENTIAL ISSUE The campaign has been show ing that there are two distinct, though of course related, elec tions in pro gress. There are the Con gressional and local contests. There is the P r e s i dential contest. This is re flected, we may suppose, in the extra Waiter LXDDmMtm ordinary contradictions between what he private polls are indi cating and what the actual voters in Maine and Alaska have shown. The polls show Eisen hower running very well and the early voting in Maine and Alaska shows great strength in the Democratic party. It is, it seems to me, too early to come to any conclusion as to what these contradictions por tend. IT WOULD be fair to say that until the past week or so the main emphasis of the campaign ing has been on the contests at the Congressional level. Steven son and Kefauver have been rallying the Democrats in the various regions of the country, and the issues they have been raising are those which in the different states are most likely to draw the Eisenhower Demo crats of 1952 back into the fold. Stevenson's speeches have been pointed primarily at the weak nesses of the Republican party as opposed to the Democratic party. Eisenhower has been in volved only insofar as he can be identified with the Republican record. A reason, I would not be sur- June, 1953. The Arab kingdom of Jordan is the hottest spot on the map in. the minds of British leaders. The next few days, following Sunday's election, may tell whether Jordan is to remain Britain's ally or throw its lot in with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and whether young King Hussein, Britain's friend, can keep his throne. The strong pro Egyptian element wants to throw the British out. London insiders believe that, in the end, Jordan will remain British ally but probably a Iuke-warm one, and a shaky one Counter-Attack Ford is seriously considering a counter-attack against the big sales offensive of the German Volkswagen automobile in this country. The little Volkswagen has captured a surprising share of the American market. Ford officials plan to push the sale of English-built Fords. They are somewhat smaller than the Fords made in this country One big Ford advantage: Better ser vice availability for its cars. Close Watch West German Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer's physicians are keeping a close and anxious watch over him as fall sets in He's tough, but he's nearly 81. This time last year, Adenauer suffered a dangerous attack of bronchial pneumonia. A slight bronchial inflammation was de tected recently. Tiff In The Works Diplomats in Tokyo report that a tiff is shaping up between Communist China and Soviet Russia. As part of the Russian- Japanese peace agreement sign ed in Moscow Friday, the Rus sians promised to support Jap an s admission to the United Nations at next month's annual assembly in New York. In Peip- ing, Chinese leaders are telling newsmen that the admission of Japan ahead of Red China would be "unthinkable." Memo from J UJL, OAtrl i .- Tomorrow Lippmann prised if it were the main rea son, why Stevenson has not been arousing strong national interest is that up to this point his cam paign has been very largely de voted to helping the Democrats in their local contests. During this period the Repub licans have been on the defen sive, with Nixon working to activate the Republican politic ians and Eisenhower working to hold on to the Eisenhower Demo crats. T'HE striking characteristic of this phase of the election, which looks as if it might now be ending, has been that the crucial issues of the President ial contest have been allowed to lie under, though just under, the surface of the campaign. These issues are not farm par ities, big business in govern ment, or even the hydrogen bomb tests and foreign policy. The crucial issues arise from the fundamental fact that Eisenhow-. er's leadership and control of the Republican . party depend uniquely on his own personality. on his own active presence, and therefore on his health and his energies. Gen. Eisenhower's great de fault, which is, I believe, the cen tral issue of the Presidential ' contest, is that he has not pro vided carefully and reliably for a successor. Given his age, given his illnesses, it was his primary duty, if he chose to seek a, second term, to provide for a successor. It was his duty to offer the country a successor who was in dubitably 1a believer in his prin ciples, a man of unmipeachable character and of proven ability. It would be absurd to say that such men do not exist in the Re publican party. Gen. Eisenhow er's failure to bring one of them forward is the crucial issue in the contest between him and Stevenson. TN tfiis contest the main point is not that Stevenson is young er, nor who is going to live the longer. The main point is that Eisenhower does not have a party behind him and around him which can be counted upon to carry on along his lines if, for any reason, his energies dimin ish or fail. There is here a risk to the public interest and to the national interest which cannot prudently be ignored. It cannot be discounted by saying that Stevenson too is mortal. - The essential point is that Ste venson has a party around him and behind him, and that if any thing happened to him, there would be no risk, not even a probability, that the party would go off course and in a very dif ferent direction. Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Boy Came Home GEO. N. TAYLOR Looking across the deep, deep chasm, the boy could see the home folks but he could not get to them. The chasm was too deep. Self -effort will not get one to the heav enly home. All have sinned and the wages of sin is death. But God can lift us across. He is at hand to lift small boys and the rest of us into eternal life. The wages of sin is death but God has new days for us all. Your part is to believe down in your heart that Christ died for you and blotted out all the guilt of all your sins forever. One small boy who took Christ as Saviour, tied two sticks together, in shape like a cross and shoved them into the ground. God would see them and give him eternal life. John 3:16 tells how. This message sponsored by a dairyman. adv. 1?c ddy. . . jl
