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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDTRIBimE "EVuryon ln Southern Oreion -i ,., Jim i noun Published Daily Except S.turdai bs 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-4141 "-'' nuni. tailor JTCTB GREY Advertlsini Manager -""iS tH.ili Mnamii Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT1 Sports Editor 1TI,XFJiTARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medlord Oregon under Act of DHPlOT iir - giarcn j, my j SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year $13 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three moa 4.23 Sunday OrUyOne year S4.20. By Carrier - In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Cold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: nd Sunday One year $18 00 pally and Sunday One month 1.30 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cashjn Advance "nrjaTPaner of the City of Medfor QllieUI Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire-" MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Arfv.i-f.4n b ..-. WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de troit. San FrancUco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL Si; EDITORIAL r SSOCll-ATU 2Sv NEWSFAfER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' 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. 25. 1946 (Friday) No immediate increases in prices of foods from which the controls were removed earlier this week is anticipated. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Consumer resistance to the high price of meat is reported. Further re ports also indicate some of the steaks are also resisting, stub bornly. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1936 (Sunday) National air defense will be considered at .a meeting of Northwest Aviation Planning council in Portland, according to A. H. Banwell, manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. The Townsend club of Talent will meet Tuesday in the city hall. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1926 (Monday) First meeting of the Parent Teachers association of Lone Pine school scheduled at school Friday. Ben Dorris, state legionnaire, will be principal speaker at a meeting of local American Leg ion post tonight. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1916 (Wednesday) Three hundred high school students to participate in a pa jama parade on Medford down town streets today. Pair of Missouri mules got better of encounter with a Max well car driven by Fred Collins Monday. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 25. 1906 (Thursday) Miss Edna Eifert entertains 30 young women last night at the home of her parents on South A St. President Roosevelt Issues proclamation naming Thursday, Nov. 29, Thanksgiving. What's the Answer? Can Yon Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1935 Editorial Research Report 1. A married couple with two children and $5,000 income in 1939 would need today one about $7,500. $10,000, $12,500 or $15,000 for the same buying power as then? 2. The "Andrea Doria," sunk by collision in July with the "Stockholm," was much larger or smaller than it, or about the same size? 3. The Lusitania was sunk in World War I by a submarine, iceberg, floating mine, bomb from a plane, or collision with another ship? 4. Life insurance companies as a whole have over half of their assets in common stocks, or about one-third, or 15, or less than 5 per cent? 5. Coal oil was once a com mon term for crude petroleum, gasoline, kerosene, vaseline or natural gas? 6. The game of chess has six, seven, eight, nine or ten different kinds of pieces? 7. A tutu is found in a French grammar, jazz band, ice cream parlor, dancer's dressing room or So. Pacific island group? The answers: 1. About $10. 000. 2. Much larger. 3. Submar ine. 4. Less than 5 per cent. 5. Kerosene. 6. Six. 7. Dancer dressing room (belief costume). MAIL TRIBUNE The Al Sarena Mystery It continues to be a mystery to this department why the supporters of ex-Secretary Douglas McKay insist upon publicizing the controversial Al Sarena "give-away," in feature stories with pictures, week af ter week. Last summer the Oregonian sent a reporter and photographer to the old and exhausted "Buzzard Mine" now the Al Sarena and as a result of their endeavors published a series of SEVEN articles sup posed to establish the rectitude and sanctity of this "mining-for-timber" deal. ""THE ARTICLES of course, did nothing of the sort. They merely confirmed the original conten tion that this was an action unprecedented in the his tory of the Department of the Interior, and if accepted as a precedent would result in an epidemic of grant ing rights to federal timber under the guise of mining claims, involving the sale of the f ormer valued at around $500 an acre in the open market, for $5 an acre. Those are the facts they have never been suc cessfully refuted. Now the Albany Democrat-Herald follows suit, donating a page "ad," claiming gross "misrepresenta tion" regarding this "give-away" and including a story illustrated by a picture of one of the McDonald Brothers conversing (tete a tete) with. one of his near neighbors a Mrs. Perley Seller, whose blood, it is stated, always "boils" when anyone suggests that the owners (the McDonald Brothers), wanted the land for the timber on it rather than the ore it might yield. Being a close neighbor and an intimate friend, no doubt Mrs. Seller knows what the McDonald Broth ers had on their minds when they bought the Old Buz zard mine we don't, we only know what they did AFTER buying it. Perhaps, as stated the owners of the mine have in two decades put in as much as $200,000 in develop ment work; perhaps also they have taken out more than they put in, but what has all that got to dd with the case, or all the other details showing stands of small trees and the slinking rear end of the family hound dog. "Irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial." . THE POINT is that even after the mining patents were granted contrary to the recommendations of both the mineral experts of the US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, the Al Sarena mine was not operated and has not been for the past ten years. If the assays by another friendly neighbor of the McDonalds in far off Mobile, Alabama, showed such riches, why this inaction? It doesn't make sense ! The best answer we have seen to this question comes from R. T. Moore, of the Oregon Voter an other strong supporter of the Al Sarena owners, whose blood also boils even more violently than Mrs. Seller's when the case is mentioned, for he calls criticisms of the deal, quote: "Nothing more than a particularly vicious gimmick to bamboozle the public and wreck the legitimate mining op erations of the owners who dared to insist on their rights against bureaucratic confiscation What are the morals of any public servant who would stoop to such disgusting obscenity?" Strong words. Whether church-going Mr. Moore refers to Charles Porter, candidate of the Democratic party for congress, who has taken the lead in fighting this timber-mining in Southern Oregon, or to Senator Morse, who has only mentioned it occasionally is not made clear. But such language surely does indicate not only boiling blood but dangerously high blood pressure. OOWEVER, strange to say, in the same rhetorical outburst the regular political contributor to the "Voter" admits he sent an experienced executive of his lumber firm to "case" this mine deal at close range and here is a portion of that anonymous gentleman's report, quote: "The terrain is rocky and steeply ridged. The auto boiled during the latter part of the ascent. Before commer cial use is practical the road would need some rather ex pensive improvement. But the total distance is not great and the combined timber and ore resources could PROB ABLY pay the freight." Timber AND ore! Does anyone need more evidence than that, cpm ing from a timber expert and lumber company execu tive, to remove all doubt that when the US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management de clared the mineral content of the Al Sarena claims did not justify the granting of mineral patents, they were RIGHT? . . . and when the Solicitor of the In terior Department, without even consulting the head of his department, granted them, he was NOT? For if that is not the case, then what do we have? We have the Department of the Interior with the au thority to grant patents to mining claims throughout the US National Forest, even if the mineral values do not justify mining operations alone, but only with the timber on the land added so the combination might "pay the freight." Note the "might." And the Al Sarena supporters are raising the cry of "bamboozling the public" and presenting vicious and obscene "gimmicks". They entirely overlook the fact this land involved belongs to the public, that it is a part of the US Forest Reserve, not private property, and that for close to 40 years, it has been established practice in the De paiment of the Interior, not to grant mineral and min ing patents LN THE FOREST RESERVE, unless the Forest Reserve s own assays showed the MINERAL content would justify commercial operation. Who, under the circumstances, can blame former Secretary McKay for explaining when Al Sarena is mentioned that he knew nothing about the granting of patents until the papers had been signed? Nor is it surprising that Secretary of the Interior Thursday, October 25. I9SS Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial tor publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit ail letters with a view to clarification and condensation. not exceed 400 words. If The Shoe Fits . . . To the Editor: It begins to look as though the "grand finale" of our political campaign has caused many politicians to resort to the Communist line in an effort to crystallize public opinion. The 24 "protocols" upon which Communist ideology is based, are carved from untruth, decep tion, confusion, and prejudice. It might be well to quote a couple of spasms from these "protocols" that the reader may judge whether or not that many of our politicians are going about deceiving the voter, while at the same time are being de ceived themselves. Quote: "In order to control public opinion, it is necessary to per plex it with many conflicting opinions. The people will get lost in the labyrinth, and decide that perhaps that it was not meant for them to understand technical political questions." Quote: . . "In the absence of facts to prove your case, never argue from the negative side of the issue. Take the facts of the op position, and with a volume of verbage, twist and bend the facts around until they prove your own case. The people will be lost in ignorance, confusion, and prejudice, and start arguing amongst themselves. The flames of anger will cause them to be willing to shed their blood or even lay down their lives in de fense of your cause." Earl Allen 176 South Stage rd. . Medford, Ore. Fluorides, Again To the Editor: I wish to thank Dr. W. W. Howard for his recent letter published in the Mail Tri bune on fluoridation. The following paragraphs have been copied from the Bulletin of the National Health Federa tion published March, 1956. The Supreme Court of the United States has defined lib erty in extremely broad terms, and that forcing fluoridated wa ter upon those of the public who do not want fluoridated drink ing water would be a direct vio lation of liberty within the meaning of the Supreme Court decision. There are many alternatives outside of a mandate by law for the individual's prerogative such as fluoridation on an individual basis for the persons wanting them, the same as all other drugs are dispensed, thus elim inating all controversy, law suits and possibility of harm to adults and chronic sick. Fluorine and its compounds, in quantity, are a deadly poison for human consumption. Mrs. Charles Boussum 720 Welch st. Medford, Ore. Her Conclusions To the Editor: Having four children, I am interested in the fluoridation issue and would like to be sure of the main facts re garding it. From what has been published on both sides, I believe these points are true. Fluorine in drinking water does check de cay in teeth of children in the six to twelve year age group. Doctors and dentists do not agree on the advisability of its use. The teeth of some children become mottled with fluoridation. Ac cording to chemical analysis flu orine is a poison used in rodent extermination and as an insecti cide. Fluorine is accumulative in our bodies to the detriment of vi tal organs. Fluoridation of city water systems is costly, consider ing the small per cent of children it may help. It will be added to our taxes and cause higher water rates. The approximate cost as estimated in any public project is always lower than the actual cost. Fluoridation of public water is form of socialized medicine. We are asking our neighbors to pay our dentist bills. Fluorine is available in other forms besides city water systems and person ally I prefer to administer it to my children in one of tnese ways, since the quantity varies in wa ter systems. I have found mat the teeth of my children decay before they are six but with proper diet, adequate calcium and curtailment of sweets and also strict adherence to daily brushings the cavities have been substantially reduced. Mrs. Elmer Haseltine 1634 Spring st., Medford, Ore. Seaton should, after doing his bit to help his predec essor, broadcast the fact that so long as he holds his present office nothing like the Al Sarena give-away will happen again. As before remarked, under the circumstances we should think the supporters of Douglas McKay would want to forgetthe Al Sarena case, not keep it alive and devote pages of free space to publicizing it from week to week. For there is nothing involved in this unprecedent ed transaction which could by the greatest stretch of the imagination reflect any credit upon the man who was responsible and who now aspires to replace Wayne Morse for six long years in the Senate of the United States quite to the contrary, in fact R.W.R. Letters submitted for publication must Journal Noi Democratic To the Editor: Your newspaper of Sunday, Oct. 21, carried a po litical advertisement paid for by Stanley C. Jones Jr. and Dick House, which was a reprint of a recent editorial in the Oregon Journal, of Portland. Mr. Jones and Mr. House cap tioned the editorial thus: "The Democratic Oregon Jour nal of PorUand is Signing Doug McKay." One wonders if it were inten tional for them to term the Ore gon Journal "Democratic," or if they simply didn't know any bet ter. The Oregon Journal is not a Democratic newspaper, and for proof Mr. House End Mr. Jones need only to read an editorial in the Oregon Journal of Oct. 16. In the third paragraph of that edi torial, the Oregon Journal says: "First, let us repeat what we have said before: The Journal in its 54-year history has never been a Democratic newspaper as such. Its masthead has always carried the words 'An Independent Newspaper . . . ." Time was when the Oregon Journal did rather consistently support Democratic candidates. That was under the regime of the earlier Jacksons and of B. F. Irv ine. But of recent years the Journal, for reasons known best to the publishers, has been as Republican, or more so, than the traditionally Republican Oregon ian. The Journal has a right to sup port McKay if it wishes, but Jackson county Republicans have no right to mislead voters by making claim that a "Democra tic" newspaper is supporting a Republican candidate when the newspaper, by its own declara tion, is not a Democratic news paper. Lula G. Watson 1638 Stewart ave., Medford, Ore. in The Day's What's new in Poland? It's hard to say. We must re member that in communist coun tries news is regarded as the PROPERTY OF THE STATE not the property of the people. The people in communist states are told only what their rulers think it is good for them to know. WE must keep this clear: These revolters are com munists. But they are home town communists. As such, they are CLOSER TO THE PEOPLE. They want to run their own af fairs, instead of having EVERY-' THING run from Moscow. And Poland, where the trouble seems to be hottest, cherishes ancient and deep and bitter hat reds of Russia. Four times, in the past couple of centuries, Po land has been "partitioned" that is, torn limb from limb. In every one of these partitionings, Russia has had a hand. The Poles don't forget that. NOR do they forget the Katyn Forest. In the Katyn Forest in 1955, ten thousand Polish of ficers (prisoners of war) were massacred by Russian order. They don't forget Warsaw. In the dying days of World War 2, the Germans were closing in on Poland's capital. The Russians had powerful forces just east of the city. They could have pro tected it. Instead, they sat tight while Hitler's army took the city, practically destroyed it and killed counUess thousands of its people. Both deeds were done in cold blood. Russia wanted to DE STROY Poland destroy it for ever. The Poles know that. They haven't forgotten. So let's not write off this trouble that seems to be brewing in Poland as just a flash in the pan. Something could come of it. ri Chicago, Candidate Adlai Stevenson says President Ei senhower's reply to the Bulgan in letter proposing to put an end to H-bomb tests is "unfortun ate." He says he agrees with the President that the Russian pre mier's letter is an interference in American political affairs, but, he says: "The REAL issue is not Mr. Bulganin's manners or Russian views about American politics what can be done to save the Hungarian Revolt Shows Troops Of Satellites Are Not Reliable By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Hungarian revolt has in dicated clearly that the govern ments of Soviet Russia's satel- lite countries cannot rely upon their armies. It has indi cated clearly also that Rus sia could not depend on those armies to fight for it Charlet Mrl ano II a intra world war broke out. The call of the Hungarian Communist government for the help of Soviet troops in sup pressing riots in Budapest was a big development. It meant that the Red leaders were afraid to trust their own troops. What made the admission more significant is the call for Russian help came not from a "Stalinist" regime but from Imre Nagy, the new "Titoist" premier of Hungary. Hungary's armed forces total about 300,000 men: of these, about 200,000 are in the army and 100,000 are so-called secur ity troops. In addition, there are the ordinary police. As in other satellite countries, it is the security troops and not the ordinary soldiers who can be depended upon to fight then own people. The same is true of the satel lite armies in relation to Rus sia. Russia and its seven satellites formed last Jan. 28 the so-called Warsaw Alliance in answer to the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization. On paper, this alliance gave Russia the backing of about 2 million soldiers of the satellite countries. Actually, if a war broke out, these men might end up fight ing the Russians, and not Rus sia's enemies. There are reports that in the Polish revolt last week Polish troops fired on and turned back Russian troops who tried News k Jenkins world from hydrogen disaster." StevensGn adds that Bulgan in's proposal, even though it might have been made in com plete bad faith, should have been fully investigated. IKE, you will remember, said he thought Bulganin's letter was a breach of international eti quette. Let's take a look at the circumstances. Bulganin gave the letter to the . Moscow radio before Ike had time to receive it. How would you feel if somebody wrote you a letter that was in tended to put you in a hole and then GAVE IT TO THE RE PORTERS before you had time to receive it? I think you'd be just as in dignant as Ike was. You'd have a perfectly good reason to be in dignant. I think that in such cir cumstances anybody OUGHT to be indignant. Bulganin's letter was just plain dirty pool. I can't agree at all with Adlai that Ike's answer was "unfortun ate." I think it was exactly the right thing to do. JE must remember of course that Adlai must have been horribly shocked when Bulganin came out with his letter endors ing the Stevenson candidacy That was one supporter Adlai didn't want. But he should remember that in this put-a-stop-to-the-H-bomb-tests business he was playing with fire in an effort to get votes. He shouldn't object be cause he got his fingers burned. STILL IN ARCTIC Virginia Beach, Va. flJ.R) Pfc. Burton Boyer returned from three months duty with the Army near the Arctic Circle and found his family a new apart ment on Arctic ave. Take The Offices of Coroner and Surveyor Out of Politics! VOTE YES on No. 4 4 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS to cross the frontier from East Germany. The Hungarian Red govern ment found it advisable Wednes day to broadcast an apologetic statement, explaining the call for Russian troops. "We have been asked repeat edly how it was possible that Russian troops have marched into Budapest," the announced said. He explained that the govern ment, "conscious of its respon sibilities," asked Russian troops to aid in "re-establishing order and discipline against counter revolutionary elements." He asked the people to welcome the Russians as "friends and allies." It may well be asked why with 300,000 army men and se curity troops at its disposal, the 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 Republicans can well be accused of having given us a banker's administration remini scent of the Harding-Hoover-Coolidge days when Andrew Mellon one of the richest men in the United States sat in the office of Secretary of the Treas ury and called every turn in the nation's fiscal economy. From the very first the Eisen-. hower administration showed its obsession with the welfare of the bankers. One ot the first moves of Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey was to raise the interest rate on federal bonds to 3V4 per cent. This "bundle for bankers" immedi ately drove the price of the bonds up. With this auspicious start, in terest rates generally kept creeping up, thereby increasing the value of the dollar for the lender, as Senator Gore said, and decreasing it for the borrower. For the millions of borrowers, whether it be for a new house, a washing machine, or the latest automobile, the administration's hard money policy has been dis astrous. It has added substan tially to the ultimate or real cost of whatever article we may buy on credit. For example, the price of an average two-bedroom house in 1952 was $9,280. Bought on a 21-year contract, the average payment was $59 per month. Thanks to inflation and the hard money policy of Secretary Humphrey, the average two bedroom house now costs $10, 600, and payments are $69 per month for 25 years. The added interest costs alone over the 25 year period amounts to about $3000. This is the price borrowers have paid for voting in the Re publican administration in 1952. But all that can be rectified on Nov. 6 when voters will have the opportunity of voting out the hard money men and install ing a Democratic administration that is pledged to lower interest rates. REPUBLICAN STATEMENT We, in America, believe in the infinite worth of the individual human being, and under this be lief we act through our system of government to foster oppor tunities for a rich and full life for all Americans. In the daily lives of people, no factors are more important than health, education, and econ omic security. As each individ ual advances in these fields, his own life is enlarged and the na tion is enriched. In these fac tors, the Republican party of fers more than promises. It points to unmistakable, un deniable accomplishments over these past 3V4 years. The fact is that the health, QUALIFICATIONS FOR COUNTY CORONER AND SURVEYOR. Purpose: To amend Oregon Constitution by authorizing legislature to prescribe qualification for office of county coroner and county surveyor. government had to call out the Russians. Every Communist government is a dictatorship. Every dictator ship depends on its armed forces for secure existence. When the army goes, there goes the dicta torship. The Russian Revolution of 1917 the Kerensky revolution, not the later Bolshevik coup against Kerensky was made possible because the army would not fight the people. That revolution, by the way, was largely an accident. It started with a series of strikes in Petrograd. Troops of the Pet rograd garrison joined the strik ers in surging parades through the streets. It was only then that the revolutionary elements start ed to organize. education and economic secur ity of the American people have now advanced to levels never before achieved in the history of this country. While this is due primarily to efforts of individuals themselves, Fed eral programs play an import ant part. Republican action created the Department of Health, Educa tion and Welfare, the first new Federal department in 40 years. The everyday, human problems of people in these fields were elevated to the highest council of government for the first time. The Eisenhower administra tion has furthered the well being of every citizen by ex panding and improving every major federal program in these fields of human welfare, and has launched important new pro grams. At the same time that the budget has been balanced. Federal expenditures for these programs have been raised to an all-time high. Under the Administration's leadership, social security pro tection has been extended to over 10 million additional per sons, including farm owners, farm workers, and many profes sional people. Now almost all workers are covered, and, on the '; recommendation of the Presi dent, benefits were greaUy in creased for everyone under the system. The halting of inflation has preserved the value of this increased protection. The Eisenhower administra tion created the Federal Council on Aging to deal with the spe cial problems of older persons. A new program has been launched to build more and bet ter facilities for medical re search. Republican leadership has helped encourage a notable ex pansion and improvement in voluntary health Insurance. We must continue the progress already made by this Adminis-. tration to advance the health, education and economic security of the American people by re electing Dwight D. Eisenhower on Nov. 6. OFFER TOO LOW Stanton, Calif.OJ.R) George Karcher offered to be the city's -public relations man for $1 a year but the city council dis agreed. Karcher took the job after the council raised his pay . to $1 a month to cover his post age stamp bill. 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