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FOIfRHEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. Nonmbti 7. 1938 TIveryone In Southern Oregon fteaea The Mail Trajune" - Publish-! Daily Except Saturday by MfcrORD PRINTING CO mn-2 J orth Fir St. Phone 2-8141 ROREfaT W BIHL -ditor HERS GREY Advertiains Manaaer GERX1.D LATHAM. Busineas Manager alw. Jf. Managing tuuor -ARL H ArmiS. City Eiltor HARRY CHIP.MAN Telegraph Editor ICHARD JEW? TT Soorta Editor OLIVE STARCHrR Societ-r Editor DALE EHICK5QN. Circulation Mgr. An independent Newspaper Entered aa aeccmd class matter at a Hediord Oreaon under Act of March 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MallIn Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One -year 13 00 (i, Daily and Sunday Sue months 8.00 Dai. and Sunday Three itn 2S 6unday OnJJ- One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. GoM . Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Roa-je River. Talent, asmd on naptor routes: rial ana Sunday One year 11800 Daily and Sunday One month 1.30 verier ana ueaiers loc per copy All T!;tis jCa.iinAd vance liiir. tne vy "I Medford - ' JcKson County JaaVed Preas Full Leased wire-1 JOXMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU Advertlsln OF CIRCULATION WEST-HOLIDAY ri-iMpaxiv rio Offices In New York Chicago, de-. ... n V"- LOa Anselea, Seattle. Portland St. Louis Atlanta Vancouver. g.C o G O NATIONAL EDITORIAL ssocCatlqn sTTTT o NEWSPAPER V PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION O O G- Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the Hies of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, .30, 40 and SO years ago. New Thinking Needed Medford has had several annexation "fights" in tne past rew years, borne of them ended in enlarging u,c yw, m suiiie, tebiuents 01 tne areas rejected the aiijicAdLluII. It is likely that there will be more, for the problems are getting more rather than less serious. But the problem in Medford is not isolated. It is oeing repeated throughout the entire state. Ana it is tne result of a situation which has been aeveioping ior more than 50 years slowly at first, put witn speed since the start of World War II and us tremendous influx of population into Oregon. . QXE of the most thoughtful appraisals of this situ ation we have seen is the summary of tentative findings and recommendations of th.p T.p on q1 stive " ' , , . T 1 . vumimuee on L,ocai government, issued recently. (It would be thought-provokiner reading for nnv. one interested in the subject. Copies can be obtained 11.0m me committee, which has an office in Room btate Capitol building, Salem.) The nine-page report, which goes into detail on some of the problems being faced, concludes with mis paragraph : "The committee is convinced that the urban area problems of the state are highly complex and very serious. It believes that the recommendations contained in this report are both realistic and practical. However, it recog nizes m all due humility that the mere adoption of a legislative program cannot easily rectify a situation which has been developing for more than 50 years. If Oregon is to take full advantage of its growth potential the coopera - tion support, and interest of local government officials, of busines and civic organizations and of all its citizens will be needed." O 10 YEARS AGO Not. 7. 1946 (Thursday) Progress of the bureau of O reclamation suivay for, the.Rogue q River valley reported at Rogue 0 Valley Irrigation association r meeting. q from Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Put column: A fog set O tied over the highways and by O0 ways early taday. !t-gave a num a btr of autofsts pause after they nit something. 0 O q 20 TEARS AGO Nov. 7, 1 936 (Saturday) Howard Leclerc, window dec orator and salesman, appointed (Jiisplay promotion manager at' tne loggey, according William F. Isaacs. Hundreds of southern 6regori women visit Burelsons new en-(-Jmrged duwnstairs store to take advantage o opening specials. 30 YEARS AGO Not. 7. 192 (Sunday) Dr. Thomas E. Green, director cf "the speaking service of the American National lied Cross, speaks in Medford. Aiir.iiI state conventign of county assessors in Oregon OFUna in Medford. O O 40 YEARS AGO Not. 7. 1916 (Tuesday)- President Wilson .will carry Jackson county by a majority of approximately 1,250 votes and G Haxrli Weatherford by "350. The I'nited States is in the grip of a coal famine, created Cy railroads to boosting prices. 0 YEARS AGO Not. 7. 1906 (Wednesday) " Prnlessor A. W. Fredrickson, president of North Park college. inicago, visits in MecTford. Ceorge A. Emory, who repre sents :lhe Vanderbiit railroads in (fortland.; visiting in Medford. What's Hie Answer? o Can Too Oet 1 of the 7.?" r, O Copr. 195J Editorial Research IN ARRIVING at its recommendations, the committee V,lI ia v.,ui: l - . . "uu " puuiic Hearings (one ot tiiem in Medford), ; heard testimony from more than 200 persons, many of .them representing groups or organizations, conducted , detailed studies of public services and controls in eight urban areas (again one of them was Medford), and conducted special research studies on annexa tion, county government and state-local relation ships. It was assisted by advisory committees appointed by the Association of Oregon Counties, League of Oregon Cities, Oregon Health Officers Association and the Professional Engineers of Oregon. It makes seven recommpndati changes in state legislation. They can be summed up with accuracy by saying that Oregon is fast outgrow ing her traditional nattern of 1 , i Sv.viium,iii, anu uiau cuuie new approacnes are needed. jyjEDFORD and its environs furnish an almost perfect example of the type of problems with which the committee deals. Its first recommendation was to allow annexation to be accomplished, with the differential for up to 10 years be permitted newlv- annexed areas not in need of the full range of city services. (Thus one area could come in to the city xDr purposes of obtaining fire protection,' say, but not be taxed for police protection). As the number of services needed increased, so would the percentage of the tax burden imposed on the atinp-Prl m-pn Other recommendations include the foi-mat inn nf i-ounty service districts, and the Pvtprcinn rule" for counties, so they can set up a locally-approv- cu lunii ui uuumy government more flexible and more powerful than the histnnV i , -.v.xj i-'v-niin, v-uuiiLv xui purposes otner tnan roads and bridges encourage, and in some cases require, planning and zoning; require centralized reporting on the finances of the many special districts in the state, and a final recommendation to facilitate city control of public transit companies. . fHE committee had other recommendations not so much for specific legislation as fnr an , , . . - ' Mi UUULUUll tn TIOH Thinl'inn- .Km.l- i-U 1.1 i , x u.nmuiS auuut uie piouiems involved. They suggested the formation of urban area coun cils to study and discuss problems as they arise, and to seek solutions; an improved and liberalized program of state loans to areas needing public health facilities and unable to afford them under present limitations; provision for arbitration in disputed an nexation or incorporation .questions; and creation ot metropolitan" eovemmpntnl unite 1 c- ". lU ocivc icu tic r lif I'nor i, -P.. : i- New Turn in Russian Foreign Policy Shows Hand of Molofov By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent It looks as if Vyacheslav M. Molotov is now directing Soviet Russia's foreign policy. Russian moves in both the Hungarian and Middle Eastern situations are r e m i n i scent of the days when the grim faced Molotov and his master Josef Stalin were running things in Mos- Charles Mccano COW. They represent an abrupt de parture from the soft policy which the Communist party leaders Khrushchev and Bulga nin sponsored after Stalin's death in 1953. Molotov strongly opposed this policy from the start. And from the Russian Communist view point events have proved him right. Molotov was Stalin's man for many years. Every evil thing "in aiaiin am, Molotov had a part in. Molotov remained Stalinist" in his thinking after tne master died. World Shocked The world has been shocker! by the brutal Russian suppres sion of the Hungarian revolt That is the way it would have been done in the days when Sta- Communications Ltter9 tO th Prittnr . k the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for Di.hl.rji.nl, i. .h-ri I1'. ""J1 T"b"ne reserve, the right to edit a lott.r. ee to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words llin and Molotov were teamed up. The belligerent communica tions on the Middle Eastern sit uation, addressed to President Eisenhower, British Foreign Sec retary Anthony Eden and French Premier Guy Mollet bore the signature of Bulganin. But they were throwbacks to Stalin's time. Nobody has ever accused Mol otov of being soft. His very name is hard "Hammer." His real name is Scriabin. He adODt- ed the "Molotov" as an alias in Czarist days when it was the custom of revolutionists to adopt false names. Molotov's face is hard. His mouth, under his mustache, is hard-set. His manner is cold. Molotov was among the intel lectual's who engineered the Bolshevik coup of 1917 in the name of Russian workers and peasants. Molotov, now 66, was 27 then, and already a comer. His cold personality did not make him many friends. Both Lenin and Stalin used to speak of him and to him sneeringly as a born clerk. But he had smart brains. And like Lenin and Stalin he was ruthless. I Molotov was premier, with Stalin as general secretary of the Communist party, when millions ot ttussian farmers were delib erately starved to death or sent to slave labor camps in the s. Premier During Puraes Molotov was premier during me years ot the terrible purges wiien minions of men and worn en who had been loyal Commu msts were executed or enslaved so that Stalin could consolidate his dictatorial power. Stalin took over the prime ministry in 1939 and Molotov oecame foreign minister. It was Molotov who signed the treach erous treaty with the German Nazis which smoothed the way for Hitler to launch World war II. It was Molotov, relieved from his duties as foreign minister and put in charge of Soviet Far Eastern policy in 1949, who pre parer! tne way for the Commu nist invasion of South Korea Molotov was brought back to tne loreign ministry after Sta lin s death, then replaced last June. People said then that Molotov vas through. It looks as if they spoKe loo soon. Bipolar Thaw o O Wilson Ponders Ike's Pe rsonal Triumph, But Loss of Congress By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington ;U.PJ How did Ike do it? It was no surprise to pollsters and political experts that he won. What did surprise them was the wav he buried Adlai Steven son under a landslide. Great issues were supposed to be running against Mr. Eisenh o w e r. Farm states L" 1 uuii were sup posed to be in rebellion. The leadership of the newly merged AFL-CIO advised 15 million members to turn Mr. Eisen hower out of the White House. The President was warned that renomination of his young friend, Richard M. Rixon, for vice president would peril the tne ticket s chances. Moreover, the Republican party had be come a minority party, second in vital registration to the Democrats. But then the guns began to boom abroad. Political strage gists, seeking to discover how a single man can lick a party, will look overseas for some of the answer. Peace and prosperity was the campaign package offered by the Republicans to Am 1. Negro schdol children from falchTp to wh$nt a,'eaS n0t J'et fT incorporation. CD Northern schools 'when entered there? 2. Stwenson four years ago ri better in Texas or Pennsyl vania? i. In1 wliat country is the na- tional parliament .called the cO Sejm? 4. About (a) 10, (b), 25, (c) 40-, or (d) 55 per cent of all new car O purchases are made fully "for cash including tra"de-in)? G 5. Present Supreme Court has more Democratic or Republican justices? 6. The United Mine Workers union is inside or outside the new Ar'L-CIO? . 7. A morganatic marriage is or isn't one outside of legal wedlock? . . The answers 1. Do aj rule. 2. Had a higher percentage of rom in Pennsylvania. 3. Poland. 4. About 40 Mr cent. S Mnr Democratic. 6. 'Outside. 7. Iw't? !': with a spoiise of lower so q cial standing. Q 'tight To Woik' Bill Defevted in Washington O Seattle---,UR.4 Initiative 198, the so-called 'right fo work" measure, went down to an over whelming defeat yesterday after organized labor waged its mast gexteiksive and expensive cam- O o Also Church Deacons To the Editor: Sure is interest ing as an audience, watching the play of events across the great world stage, proving as it does that men are mostly just boys grown tall. "Hey you," says Johnny B. "Whyn't you let the Jude kid play his boats in our canal? Cause I don't like him," replies Nasse 'Gyp. "He's guun too big for his britches." 'But listen here," says Johnny B., "Didn't Frenchy dig it for us?" "Yeah," says Nasse 'Gyp, "but ain't it in mv backyard'" "So what?" replies Johnny B. "Didn't all of us help some and agree that all of us could play m it?" "Yeah, but them's just words an' I was little then. I sot muscles now an' I ain't afraid to iignt any or all of you." "Ho ho. answers Johnny B., Frenchy n.c uuue rvia. so we use somethin' besides words." So they proceed to smash Nasse Gyp's airfields and sink boats in the little canal so nobody can Play in it and everyone is mad and sad and worried, including the audience. Speaking grass-roots way, Eng- .".u ouu r ranee could do no different and stay world powers and sovereign nations in the Suez canal trouble. They let Hit ler march into the Rhine valley and continued appeasement till audience and all were in the big bath of blood and tears and misery. The Reds have been shoot in t Suez Cana!- our planes down from ocean toiMideast Aided Ike ocean and the only reply we've made is strong notes of protest sorry and strange tribute (in cluding the Reds' grinning con tempt) to the lost lives of brave men who manned the planes on peaceful missions. A lone. Ion? way indeed from .Inhr. r,i -ones time when he sailed cannon-equipped wind-jammers to the Barbary Coast and with a gnm promise of a few round shots got their respect anH , stop to raiding of our high-seas commerce. It might be possible to have continued peace here on earth providing there were enough Jesus Christs to teach and, shall we say, enforce the golden rule and ten commandments. But alas and alack, we have nature's grim law, survival of the fittest includes all flora and fauna, we featherless bipeds as a professor lj . 'ermea tne genus homo History teaches and proves that no people ever existed as a going , ''dl n a program of wishful thinking and appease ment, also males who hide be hind the title of church deacon F. J. Clifford, 1211 West Main st , Medford, Ore. this second term draws tn a close. But he thanked the voters and accepted the proferred job Tues day night in good spirits, if sol emnly. He was introduced to a xtepublic victory throng here by his running mate. Vice Presi dent Nixon. Much of the Demo cratic campaign was based on warnings that Mr. Eisenhower's inability to succeed himself al most automatically would nro- ject Nixon into the party leader ship by 1960 and gain for him in that year the Republican Presi dential nomination. Kefauver Hard To Stop That sequence of events seems likely. Adlai E- Steven son, now a two time loser, prob ably is dead politically. Sen. Estes Kefauver, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, how ever, was projected to new and more substantial national prom inence in this campaign. He will be a hard man to stoD in 1960 if he goes out again for the Democratic preidential nomina tion, which he probably will do. Leadership of the Democratic party, however, now is up for grabs. Kefauver has won a choice position for grabbing. But there is a party elder from whom much is likely to be heard and little of it favorable to Kefauver .The elder states man is Harry S. Truman of Missouri. What he said, of Stevenson in nicago was this: voters. But in the closins riavs ."'nlcago was lms: 1 n t think of the campaien. the Mirfrile I .e the campaign tast caught fire. The United States' two most powerful al lies joined in an armed police action to regain control cf the -.n .I,." XT 1 , Middle I ,. -nuvemuer eiec- Hh committee faced, frankly and honestly, a multiplicity of problems, and came up with some good suggestions. They are still, of course, only sug gestions, and will require enactment bv the legislature before they can be placed in effect -iiu uae Knows wnat chano-ps win ha rv,.i k,. they become law, but it is safe to say that the com mittee has made an excellent and PTlfnilVHO-inrr cforf on state:level action to solve the many problems of the "fringes and "sub-suburban" areas The committee also is seeking reaction to the proposals before the legislature meets, and has set four more public hearings, each at 7:30 p.m., in Salem, Nov. lo: Portland Nov. 16, Bend Nov. 19. and oseuuig jnov. zv, to present the findings and to seek 5 h and killed our chii- miormect public guidance regarding them Klenl pet eocker spaniel dg- . . . . & ll-em- This happened on West .lar-ksnn JT Will be noted that each of these recommendations ffl otnn.es at u-ne or more nrnh Pitis whih hn-n kon leven have the courtesv tn str,n or are being, thrashed out in the Medford area ' land aid' r to te" the cr ?lCr? f th.e "d stctuere of Seand of Sft """ 'C1U"-C W jom it on tne part of some fringe areas and because of the limited powers of the county they have caused resentment and confusion. The committee encourages annexation. But if its recommendations are followed bv the lemslshn-P t even m part some new channels will be opened up To a Thoughtless Person To the Editor: What is be coming of the people who live in this town of ours? Esnppiallv when a person driving a green station wagon last Saturday at XUStOarV. V O tensive ana expensive cam- f t, L , ., UFU ig in, Washington's political f 01 ,in,e oenetit of those areas still faced bv now- lady who asked if she could help us. It makes us wonder what this person would have done if it was a small child he had hit instead of a helpless dog. But with the will of Gpd I know this person will pay someday for this thoughtless thing he has done. Jack C. Wolgamott 821 Oak st. Medford, Ore. ii must remain largely a mat ter of the politicians' belief and judgment that the Middle East ruckus added some millions of votes to Mr. Eisenhower's tntal While the guns blazed, the Re publican campaign package was suDstantially reassembled. It now contained: Peace, prosper ity and Ike. And Ike! That made a differ ence- With the possibility that the United States could shortly be in another war, the voters picked up their eotion on Mr. Eisenhower for another term as president and commander-in-chief. , The phrase "police action" as used by Prime Minister Sir An thony Eden to describe the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt startled Americans who remem bered the beginnings of the bloody police action in Korea. The Israeli-EsvDtian conflict had on the United States politi cal campaign almost the imDact of a raid across American borders. Congress Undecided Mr. Eisenhower might wish that this triumph had been less personal and more party. It has not matched FDR's political blitzes in which remote candi dates down to the county level were swept into office on a tide of Roosevelt votes. The contest for control of the new Congress remains undecided. It is likely that the voters have elected a di vided government Democratic Congress and Republican Presi- aent. The voters have not so divid ed government since 1848 when Zachary Taylor, Whig, was elected president and Democrats won control of House and Sen ate. Republcians in 1876 and Democrats in 1884 elected a president but lost one house of congress or the other. And, for all of his personal triumph in Tuesday's voting, Mr. Eisenhower is the first so- called lame-duck president. He is forbidden by the Constitution to take another term. This cer tainty that his political future lies behind him mav somewhat hazard his party influence as Since Stevenson discovered the middle of the road approach to the White House jammed Tuesday with impassable Re publican traffic, Mr. Truman will carry on with his campaign to Keep nis party moving stead ily to the left. Three Months Seen Needed To Clear " Suez of Obstacles London (U.R) Shippine ex perts said today it will take at least three months -to cle'ai the Suez Canal of sunken ships and omer obstacles and reoptjn the vital waterway to shipping. At least -nine shins are known to block the narrow channel f the 101-mile canal linking tle Mediterranean and Red seas. The Ferdan Bridge near Ismailia also is wrecked. According tfl latest renorts four ships have been sunk at r-ort baid on the northern end, two near Ismailia at the mirlway point, and three st Port Suez, the southern entrance. Difficult Operation Experts said the salvage oper ations will be one of the most difficult in modern history.' Tlie J said "blitz" tactics must be ruled out because of the narrowness of the canal. An Anglo-French headquarters communique Tuesday said sal vage work started at the north ern entrance. The admiralty said frogmen were flown into the Port Said area to help in the task of clearing the entrance to the canal. Heavy dredges have been towed into position at PortSiid. Civilian experts also are ex pected to be called in to help in the massive operations. experts said the job of reopen ing the canal probably will be launched from both ends, wjth the salvage crews and dredges progressing from block ship to.' oiock snip. Shipping lines serving ports east of Suez already are reshap ing meir sailing schedules for the months ahead. -e-O anng Leading in Nepda Reno (U.R) Despite an Ei senhower landslide. evaHa elected a Democrat to repine a nepuDiicwi in CKigress and was we!i on the way to reelecting Doanocratic Sen. Alan Bible. Bible, serv-int out the unex pired term of fte late Sen Pat McCarrn, held a steadily grow ing lead over Republican Rep. Clifton Young. n . c9 s The latter, who basedfTiis cam paign nainly upon all out sup cort of Mr. Eisenhower aheaaflintil late returns (jroured in trom heavilj) gemocratic Southern Nevada. Former Rp. Walter S. Bar ing, ouV.ed Igom Ne-ada's lone House at by Young 1952, was finally successful in his third try to regain iiat post. With aboutoS5 nerucent of the .ballots cougted07iereOwere the standings: 0 President: EisettY,Ar. 42 Rl.V Stevenson, 29,362; Senator: Bibfe, 37,493; Young, 35.580; congressman: Bariafe, -7,382; Horton, 33,872. n In 8ther statewide Jialloting, Nevaria irnt second time in two years aV strong effort by labor iftiions to repeal the stated soclfecl rig! to work at. O q O Russia Offers Troops To United Nations Moscow KU.PH-Defense Min ister Marshal Georgi Zhukov to day offered Soviet Armed forces to the United Nations to help in the "liquidation" of Anglo French aggression against Egypt. The Soviet Union, Zhukov said, is "prepared. in accordance with a U.N. decision, to take a real part with her armed forces Zhukov's offer was made in a speech to thousands of Soviet troops and citizens massed in Moscow's Red Square to cele- Drate the 39th anniversary of ; " the Octnhpr rpvnlntlnn I The ambassadors of the United States, Britain, France and oth er of the Western NATO nations boycotted the ceremonies. Schrunk Holds Good Margin Over Peterson Portland U.R Portland voters gave Terry Schrunk a healthy margin over intfumbent Fred Peterson in their hot race for mayor of the state's lareest city yesterday. Schrunk, who finished in, front of Peterson in the May primary, had a comfortable margin in their runoff. "It looks like Mr. Schrunk. is me winner," Peterson said. PorUanders turned down a series of special measures, one of which would have added flu oride to the city's water, supply and another which would have repealed the ban on pinball ma chines. A split Exposition Recreation center was defeated. Italy Fascislslall Volunteer Bafflions o n Milan, Ital.UgVU.O The neo Fasciit Italfan Social MoveifenJ) called0 today for formation of "volunteer battalions" to (light Russian forces in Hungary. Gen. Aldo farchgse, provin cial secretary, told United Press that more thn 100 g,oung siu dente and workers enlistedSis volunteegs. Signs wei plas tered on Milan street corners in viting oyouths "to takg, ayns agajnst the Russian forces slaughtering the who?e Hungar ian people." o ONLY 39 Shopping Days Til Christmas! 3-sgr3akro High FM? pfionograpb c ih.L Stevenson's Plans Said Indefinte Chicago U.R) A reporter asked Adlai Stevenson last night whether he had any thoughts about making a third try for the White House in 1960. "I'm a candidate for bed," Stevenson replied. He said he planned to get seven hours sleep, and then spend some time at his down town law office catching up on paper work today. Stevenson hopes to take a vacation, but has no definite plans. Aides said they didn't know what Stevenson would turn to now But most guessed he would get into some field of public service, like education, rather than his profession, law. STRATTON REELECTED Chicago :U.P., Gov.. William G. Stratton won reelection to day as Illinois governor despite a $1.5 million theft scandal in the stJe auditor's office. Hey Santa! Asleep at the Switch? o O Don't get caught napping while Big Christmas Bills Pile Up! For CHRISTMAS CASH . SEE a ma or nmnr. mwet PACIFIC IMDUSTRIAl" Dick Hans, Manager 16 S. Central Ph. 3-5308 The SYMPHONETTE Two 6" x 9" oval bass plus 5" high frequency apeaker 6 watt amplifier precision automatic, multi-spee intermix -hanger ' diamond stylus ac&stical gen uine naTiogany, ogk or cherry cabinet. $nstso o Mo a navpx Hlgri-f.cfaritty ponographs In mahogany Complete with id PURUCKER PIANO HOUS Southern Oregn't Oldest;- and Finest Music Store 111 JM. Cer?tra one 2-572 O o
