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O o o o o o O o GO o ) O G c O rovmMtvrop.D op.egok) "Everyone to Southern Oragoo Keaca ine Mali r.oune tblished Dairv Exccot Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO Vorth Fir St. Phong 2-611 - ROBER?W RUHL. Editor HTRB GP-EY Advertising Manager CERA1.D LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC A1XBN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor tARRY CHiriU.1 Telegraph Editor ICHARD JfcWETT Snorts Editor LIVE STAFtC HER Society Editor PALE ER1CKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper TJs-ered as second class mstter at stsllord Oregon unw Act of Much 3. 1837 . SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mail In Advance: Per Copy JOc Dally and Sunday One year (15 90 Daily and Sunday Six months t 00 Daily and Sunoav Three mfla 4-23 Sundav Only One year $420. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ash! ami Central Point Eag! Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. ( aViady Cove Rojrue Rives. Talent, nrj on motor routes: . , Dally and itinay One year $18 00 Daily and Sundav One month 1J0 Carrier and Driers 10c per copy AU Terras Cash in Advance Official Paper "of the City of .Hertford Official Paper of Jackson County United Pre.w Full Leased Wire v&idBzn or audit BUBSAtr OrtlKCUL TION Advertising Representative: r WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY CNC Offlcav In New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisr. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis Atlanta, Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL SSI lASS0C5AT6N NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time. Medford and Jackson County History from the files ol The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Not. 6. 1946 (Wednesday) . Mayor Clarence Meejcer re elected; was unopposed on the city ballot. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: From the rural regions comes, word of the slaying of a deer "that wore horseshoes, and will not be avail able for the late fall plowing.. 20 YEARS AGO Nov.'C, 1936 (Friday) Forms to be filled out under the federal social security act by employers and employees being received at Medford postoffice, according: to Postmaster Frank DeSouza The annual election for irriga tion district directors will be held next Tuesday With voting hours from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 30 YEARS AGO Mot. 6, 1926 (Saturday Official vota on county seat re moval from Jacksonville to "Med ford shows 4,761 in favor and 1,820 opposed. Medford post of American Legion will be host to ex-serviceman and Medford National Guardsmen for a dinner Armis tice day. 40 YEARS AGO Not. 6. 1916 (Monday) . Mail Tribune predicts that Wilson wiU get 2,000 vote ma--lority in county. Republican headquarters will be moved, to Medford hotel Tues day where election returns will be received by special wire. 50 YEARS AGO -Not. 6. 1906 (Tuesday) The "Holy. City" will be pre sented tonight in the Medford Opera house. From Local and Personal col umn: Mrs. William Lewis, of Central Point and Ursel Lewis, her Hon, were in Medford yes terday. What's the Answer? Cat You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1953 Editorial Research Report 0 1. The results of many of the few presidential elections have been surprises? G 2. The U.S. Agriculture de partment does or doesn't" change its figures on parity prices for crops every month? w3. More passenger- cars are registered in New York, Penn sylvania. .California, Michigan or Texas? 4. Rose Bowl in Pasadena-'has a smaller or larger seating capa city than Yankee Stadium in J.Y.,';pr about the same? 5. l(ore Americans will die this year of auto accidents, can cer, polio, tuberculosis or pneu monia? ' m 6. In .some western states mort thanhalf the land area is owned by the federal Govern ment: right or wrong? 7. Harold S. Vanderbilt is not ed for having practically invent- . ed what? L Very few. 2. Does. 3. Cali- O fernia. . Larger. 5. Auto acci- dents. bridge. Right. 7. Contract i z-r O IKE GETS KER VOTE r Detroit (U.R) Mrs. Adell Richardson said she would go to th polls today and vote for President Eisenhower. Mrs. Rich ardson is 101 and has voted in fjvry election since women were jrmnted the right to vote. mail tribune Don 't Forget to Vote! . As The Mail Tribune has declared year after year, the No. 1 duty of every citizen on election day is to vote. "It doesn't matter how you vote, but vote!" rURIXG' the campaign we were surprised, and somewhat amazed,' to find the highly respected Oregonian take exception to any such advice. The Oregonian, it appears, prefers the slogan "if you dont KNOW, don't VOTE." Know WHAT? As, according to our records, the Oregonian has never supported a candidate for high office wearing the Democratic party label, is seems reasonable to assume the Oregonian would prefer that a citizen who doesn't KNOW enough to vote the GOP ticket might better stay at home. TT WOULD be better, no doubt, for the Republican party and its candidates but we doubt if it would be. better for Democracy and the perpetuation of free democratic institutions. For the success of Amer ican democracy, depends upon majority rule and as far as "humanly possible, the clear cut verdict of the majority should be obtained.- How is that to be obtained if the vote is to be re stricted to those who "know," according to the Ore gonian 's definition of the term? The "shivering" denunciation of the above slogan is the more surprising because the Oregonian is such an all out and devout worshipper of President Eisen hower. Yet only a few weeks ago our President refuted the Oregonian contention in one sentence, to-wit: 'I would rather have a vote at alL" not ! That is this paper's creed also, and should be that of all Americans. We dislike to give the Ore gonian the "shivers" again but we shall stick to the j advice for this election day, that has been given so regularly in the past, namely: The important thing today is not HOW you vote but that you DO vote. If you haven't done so as you read this, remember the polls don't close until 8 o'clock tonight so be fore' it is too late "VOTE, VOTE and VOTE!" R. W. R. Snow -. Mt. McLoughlin again rises in white-topped majesty. The Siskiyous to the south last week acquired mantles of snow. Roxy Ann for a time showed a white background for its overcoat of brush and trees. Wintertime, for all practical purposes, is here early although we can still expect revisitations of the clear, chilly, golden weather that makes fall a time of delight in the Rogue valley. But the snow, which and gave skiers their" annual foretaste of winter joys, is more than a hinderance to travel or a medium for would-be winter Olympians. It is part of our bread and butter. A FORMER Rogue valley vi Lilt. vv ui in 0 iui cuiuob tAJV,i 10 Jxi jnj vv avnui He now works out of a Portland headquarters as head of the snow survey and water supply forecast section, soil conservation service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. His years of experience, from the earliest days of attempts at scientific snow measurement to the present elaborate, but still incomplete, system of surveys and forecasts, have taught Arch just how important snow is to the economy of America and most particularly to the semi-arid lands of the west. Snowpacks are the chief sources of water for municipal use, for irrigation, both natural and arti ficial, for the sustenance of our forests and fields, for industrial use, and for a wide variety of recrea tional uses. TPHE thing . that makes the winter snowpacks of exceptional value is that they are "equalizers" of water flow. If it weren't for them, water would run downhill to the ocean as soon as it fell, and leave us without water during the long dry summer months. As it is, the snowpacks form our greatest reser voirs, holding and keeping vast quantities of water in the hills until late spring and early summer, and then releasing them gradually so that streamflow continues through most of the summer, in average-to-good years. Mankind's greatest irrigation dams are puny, in deed, when their contents are compared to the tre mendous quantities of life-giving water held in moun tain snows. '"THE snow surveys over which Work presides are ' valuable for two principal reasons. First, they make it possible to predict with a remarkable degree of accuracy how much water will be available during -the critical April-to-September period. Second, they assist in the prediction of flood potential as was proven on the Columbia last spring. A third value, however, is becoming more and more important. That is the role of snowpack meas urement, or "inventor'," to build up information which in the future will assist mankind in "water shed management." A number of experiments have been made along this line notably the cloudseeding project sponsored by 'the California Oregon Power company each winter, to. increase snowfall. Another is the still-untested proposal of E. M. Tucker of Medford for the creation of artificial gla ciers. Use of chemicals to hasten or delay snow-melt Tuesday. November 8. 1S56 citizen vote against me than closed mountain highways man, Arch Work, is one Mindszenty Said Living Symbol Of Resistance to Communists By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent A living symbol of resistance to Communist oppression is liv ing under the protection of the 1 American flag in Hungary. Members of Hungarian "Titoist" Pre mier I m r e Nagy's govern ment are un der arrest, vic t i m s of the treachery of Cnsrles Mctann their Hungar- ian Communist puppets. But Cardinal Mindszenty, Ro man Catholic primate of Hun gary, escaped to the United States Legation when the Rus sians crushed the Hungarian re volt Sunday. It looks as if the Russians will not dare to do anything about it. The only way they could get him would be to take, him by force. But as long as he remains in the embassy the Russians and Headlines of Future Forecast by Writers United Press correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Birth Report Hints that the United States now has a baby H-bomb may be confirmed soon. It's indicated that the potent pigmy, with an explosive power of 40,000 tons of TNT, was tested in the Pacific last spring. "Normal" H-bombs range into the millions of tons. The baby bomb would be "clean er" from the fall-out standpoint. Also cheaper. The government says it is making cleaner H bombs. President Eisenhower said in a speech in Jacksonville, Fla., last Thursday that the aim of atomic science is to make small as well as clean bombs. That describes the pigmy. Wash ington looks for an official an nouncement. Revival Notice Russia's mad-dog attack on Hungary may have saved the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion. NATO had been falling slowly apart ever since Stalin died as the danger of Soviet ag gression seemed to lessen and the Allies found time to bicker among themselves. The Hung arian attack shows with startling clearness what a deadly threat Red Russia still is to any coun try that can not meet force with force. NATO was formed to do that. Nothing could be better In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The U.S. bureau of the census estimates that this year 102 mil lion Americans were qualified to register to vote. That is to say, if every American falling within the prescribed age limitations, nationality limitations and other limitations prescribed by law HAD REGISTERED the total would reach approximately 102, 000,000. How many WILL vote? Probably not more than 60 per cent. That would be about 61, 000,000. TN 1954 (which was what we call an "off-year" election, meaning that it wasn't a Presi dential election year) about 45 million Americans voted. In 1952, which was a hotly contested Presidential election, 61,251,244 Americans went to the polls and cast their ballots. In 1948, the Truman-Dewey year, the total vote was a shade over 46 millions. nPHAT suggests a personal ques--- tion: SHOULD I vote assuming that I am physically able to do so? LET me suggest an answer: NOT UNLESS YOU KNOW WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE VOTING FOE, AND WHY. I can't help thinking that only those who are willing to THINK should vote. has been tried. Mechanical "ridging" and fencing of snow to control melt and runoff have been attempted, with some degree of success. TTHE growth of knowledge about timber manage- ment offers possibilities for controlling snow packs, too, by reducing the interception of snowfall by ground-covering vegetation, reducing evaporation, and for slowing melt. Some species of vegetation have greater snow holding properties than others. And, as Work said in a report on these factors to the Society of American Foresters last year, "A great deal more work should be done to find the best pattern of timber cutting and forest management for particular locations." Much studying remains to be done, as Work em phasizes. But because water is our most valuable single resource, research is important. The day may come when management of snow packs will be not only possible, but imperative. E.A. the puppets are not likely to be very happy. The gaunt, 64-year old cardi nal, was arrested by the Commu nists on the day after Christmas in 1948. Considered Red Enemy He had long been considered enemy No. 1 by the Hungarian Reds. Mindszenty was sentenced to life imprisonment in February, 1949, as a traitor. He shocked those who saw him at his trial weak, trembling, hollow-eyed. He "confessed" to the charges against him he had been starved, kept almost without sleep, by his jailors. Mindszenty knew months be fore his arrest that the Commu nists were out to get him. He had warned Catholics in published statements not to credit any thing he might say if he were arrested. Mindszenty was held in pri son for a long time, finally re moved to "house arrest" in a country home 20 miles north ol calculated than the Hungarian attack to revive NATO. Higher Prices Washington experts say retail prices probably will be higher in the first four or five months of 1957. Supplies will be a bit lower in 1956. Marketing charges the middle man's take are expect ed to be higher. Little if any of the rise will trickle down to the farmer. Experts predict that despite high prices, consumer ex penditures for food and clothing 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 for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Placer Mining Recalled To the Editor: According to the local mining history we gath ered from the old time pros pectors around 40 years ago, along the Rogue river, the first ground sluicing and long-tom workings on the Rogue was done by the early Chinese coolies who began placering for gold in 1849-50-51 and '52. The Chinese were dispersed later on, by the coming of the early white settlers. Some of the old Chinese "land marks" are still in evidence where the best diggings were found. The source of placer gold began at the site of Ray gold dam on the Rogue. The facts told to this writer by miners around Gold Hill that in a six to eight hour waiting period, for the reservoir to fill with water after comple tion, a dozen or so men with gold pans would wash out from $5 to $18 from each pan of gravel taken just below the Ray dam. We remember still, quite well, when all the richer gravel bars were mined along the Rogue by young men of Gold Hill and Rogue River, mining with home made rockers, when work was rather slack before the year 1917. One old timer in particular mined steady just below the county bridge, for nearly six years, at town of Rogue River. A distance of 45 miles from Ray gold to Galice on the river below Grants Pass, was a prospector's hope of getting a "grub stake" to promote higher ambitions in the way of opening up a "pock et" trace, or a quartz gold mine somewhere in the nearby hills. The depression years of 1933 when the Rogue was at lowest water mark, proved the rich ness of the Rogue by the many rich crevices filled with nuggets that were worked out by the local citizens of Jackson and Josephine counties. Rogue river from Ray gold dam to Galice has been a gold panning area for new prospectors learning how to pan gold for the past 100 years. The Rogue river and it's many tribu taries producing gold and traces, will continue to be searched for precious minerals by individuals inclined to prospect. We are en tirely opposed to any land re strictions that would withdraw the Rogue river from mining purposes in the area from Ray Budapest. Hungarian rebels freed him and escorted him to Budapest. Titoists Quash Charges The "Titoist" government quashed all charges against the cardinal. They admitted his con viction had been fraudulent. Janos Kadar, now Nagy's suc cessor as puppet premier, made the mistake of joining in the action. It was a tribute to the Protes tant United States that the Ro man Catholic cardinal sought Asylum at the American lega tion when the Russian Red army crushed the rebellion. It was one of the many blund ers the Russians have made in the surge of anti-Moscow now anti-Communist revolt in east ern Europe that they did not manage to arrest Mindszenty. The stern-looking, medium sized prelate had shown long before the Reds took him in Hungary at the end of World War II that he was an enemy of Communism, and of oppres sion of every kind. will continue at high levels. Dry-up Oh The Nile? The flow of arms from Soviet Russia to Egypt is likely to sub side to a trickle soon or stop entirely. Russia has been pouring in planes, tanks, guns for months. Estimates of their value range into the hundreds of mil lions of dollars. British and French planes smashed President Gamal Abdel Nasser's Russian supplied MIG15 jet fighter planes and Ilyushin bombers, then turned against his tank and artillery bases. The planes, tanks and artillery Nasser used against the Israelis didn't do so well cither. Money is money even to a Red and Nasser hasn't paid for his arms. She's Thankful To the Editor: This is Novemb er, the month to pause and count our blessings and be thankful. I would like to write a second letter for your communications, but with an entirely different feeling than I had when I last wrote. This time, instead of feel ing cold and empty, I feel warm and good within. Why? Because I am thankful, and would like to share a small portion with you. I am thankful that we still have freedom of the press and can express our views openly. Next, thankful for our ' Public Health Association and its peo ple, like Janet Guches to whom I directed my last letter, who can call you and discuss calmly and intelligently all inquiries, doubts and suspicions, and though each is still entitled to his own opinion, can ask for your help and any ideas or suggestions for a better health program. I am thankful too that all of these questions arose and could be clarified before the start of the coming Christmas Seal Sale. I learned that all of our Seal money goes for a better health program with the defeat of gold dam in Jackson county through all of Josephine county. Access to any mining ground that show mineral content should belong to all the people as a matter of right. Thus pre serve the heritage of a vanish ing adventurer of the early west, lest we forget. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman Medford, Ore. 40 J ONLY S ShoDoina Davs. Til Christmas! WOW! More Christmas Bills? Don't Worry! Make Your Christmas Merry with CASH from I a omSKM of none nnMscc I PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL Dick Hans, Manager 16 S. Central Ph. 3-5308 Matter of Facf DOUBLE PARALYSIS Washington Both Washing ton and Moscow have reacted to the great crises which have con fronted them with a sort of amazed semi paralysis. I n W a shington's case, this is not surprising. In Moscow's, it is. Indeed, what has really puz- joieDb aisod zled and sur prised and fascinated the ex perts is the curious, shifting, on-again-off-again reaction of the' Kremlin to the direct challenge to its power in Poland and Hun gary. In the past, Kremlin's practice has been to adopt a hard "line," and then to follow it with automaton-like ruthlessness . . Yet in both Poland and Hungary the Kremlin has vacillated be tween a poli,cy of using the full power of the -Red- army to crush all opposition, and a policy of blus ter, appeasement, and retreat. When Krushchev '.led his mis sion to Warsaw, he threatened at first to use the Red army. But when Gomulka stood up to him, he blustered,- appeased, and re treated. In Hungary, Soviet pol icy has similarly wavered be tween giving the rebels what they wanted, and drowning them in a bloodbath. The Krem lin may now at last have settled for the bloodbath. Yet the long period of indecision and vacilla tion is accounted highly signifi cant among the .experts. For it tells a lot about certain bard, inescapable facts of Soviet life. INHERE is not the slightest doubt that both the 'ferocity and the effectiveness of the Pol ish and especially the Hungar ian resistance genuinely amazed the Russian rulers. In this ab solutely unexpected situation, the "committee system" in the.! Kremlin, which had worked well enough before, began to dis play the indecision and infernal division which are characteristic of committee systems. The ex perts, while they lack .solid evir dence, have no doubt at all that a fierce internal conflict has de veloped within the Kremlin's "collective leadership." But the meaning oi the Krem lin's semi-paralysis goes deeper than that. It js directly related to the two continuing internal crises which have been going on in the Soviet Union since the war. One is an agricultural cri sis. The other is a manpower crisis. The nature of the agricultural crisis can be quickly understood in terms of the following simple fact: fifty-four million people on the Soviet collectives produce only 70 per cent of' the agricul tural output of the eight million people on American farms. And this 70 per cent must feed almost 30 per cent more people. r"pHE vast over-investment in x manpower on the collectives in turn contributes to the man- tuhprriilncis ac Ite 0nal I plan to show my thankfulness by supporting the Seal Sale when the time comes, and I hope yqu will too. Lea Jenkins 2548 Starlite Lane Medford, Ore. Stewart Alsop MS EVERYTW! S P0RTASIE Kill !H The mixer that does any mixing job anywhere! Rugged, powerful yet weighs less than 3 pounds. New 3-speed finger tip control. Beater ejector. Heel rest Hangs on walL Available in Turquoise, Pink, Yellow, and White. New Low Bargain Sale Prices 0 HOME APPLIANCE COMPANY- 115 EAST MAIN ST. GENERAL tf Jo ana! twarl fHsef . - o power crisis. .For0undQ- the So viet system, there simply aij( not enough people to man the cgl- at the same time to maint,Wn the continual expansion of Soviet in dustry which is the central ob ject of Sovitft interna (policy. Q The manpower crisis, inflre- over, is now about to enter an acute phase. For the "shadc classes," thec generation orfi in the war years, i now matt ing. And the war, by cfeat6 and starvation, cut the birth rate of-, ... , o , .... o the snaaow classes dv inore then half. DThus by 58 r J99 the Soviet rnsnpfiver problem will be really desperate. Facts like these, rather Wan any new found idealism, explain both the regime s decision tout dowi on military manpower and to adopt a "liberalization" policy towards fhe satellites. "Liberal ization" was designed to permit a partial- dismantlingf the vast satellite apparatus of flr" im perial control, thus freeijg man power for industry. q Yet now that the liberalization policy has backfired so Explo sively, the Soviet leaders are i paled on the hbrns f a terrible dilemma. For a policy ruth less repression rrsjans an enor- nfou in-ea3 in the apparatus of control, including the RecJ) army; he precise cPPpSsite of what t.e hard facts of the Soviet situation require. O IT wofilci also mean that the delicate balance between the three main Centers of Soviet power the party, the bureauc racy, "and the military would ' be in f.or of the mslitary This is another reasgidwhy WelCrem lin's .collective leadefe'iip has been so reluctant to order Mar shal Zhukoy's troops todrown the satellite oresistance in a bloodbath. For tue bac.vash of the bloodbath might reach back to the men in the Krefhlin them selves, destroying tfie collefcve aaderthip and replacing it with a military dictatorship. Altogether, the' satellitresist aiace, above all tf.- fierce and wonSerful courage of the Hun-o garian people, hs basically alt ered, the world ituation, in a way that i has not IjeeS altered even by the invasion of Egypt. This basic change in the world situation calls for a basic res!Qp ing of Western policy. Sut for tunately for the Soviets, the par- alyzing crisis which icis thenr has been rftalf fied by an eqj3lly paralyzing crisis the West. Copyright, 19 6, New ork Herald Tribute, Inc.) n U L 6 J Mr. Insurance ' FRCfi BRENNAN Phone 2-4940 FREE IIVURANCE! To insure ,Jhat we remain a strong, industrious and United Nation ALL AMERICA must go to the POLLS! One week frora today you can help insii?e the futfte of our country- VOTE for the leadership you think best. 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