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o FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON! Everyone tn Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" ublintf Deiiy Erceut Saturday by -MDFORO PRINTING CO. 2T-2U North Fir St. Phone 2-C141 fcOBERT W BuTtL. Editor HEBB GREY Advertialnn Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Manain Editor EARL H ADAMS Citv Editor H-VpftY CHIT M Aft Telegraph Editor BICHARD JEWETT Sporti E-ditor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent ewpaper Entered a-second clan matter at Mediord Oregon, under Act of ' March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 8y Mali In Advance. Per Copy 10c. Dally and Suniy One year f 13 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily, and Sunday Three mo 4.25 Sunday Only One vear $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point' Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. a Shady Cove Ropue River. Talent, and on apotor routes: Dally and Sunday Ona year 918 00 Daily and Sunday ne month 1J0 3 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Offtciii Paper of trie City of Medford Ofltal Paper of Jackson County United Press-Full Leased Wlre MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU t OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY. COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C -SA NATION At EDITORIAL s ASSOCV-AT LQN U NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION 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 No. 10, 1946. (Sunday)' House wives will receive 10 per cent more bread at no in crease in price beginning Tues day morning. . ' From "Arthur Perry's Ye Smudje Pot column: Armistice Day will be observed tomorrow with banks and tonsorial parlors not having the exclusive rights to close. 29 YEARS AGO Nov. 11, 1936 Tour representatives of the national preaching mission ' in Medford to confer with local church leaders. Junior high school presents Armistice Day program pageant. 30 YEARS AGO Iot. 11, 1926 (Wednesday) First annual flower show of Medford Floral society opens in Chamber of -Commerce building today. ' . Next Craters', meeting will be lipid MnnHav at th Rnffue Elk hotel. - 40 YEARS AGO Wov. 11. 1916 (Friday) Culmination of months of preparation will be reached ; when the academy fair opens Monday. Junior Thrift exhibit opens in Tjuilding on Main st. used dur ing the campaign 'by the Demo cratic headquarters. What's ths Answer? ' Can Too Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955 Rdttorlal Research o . Rpert 1. Communist. China has been so far kept out of U.N. only by veto of the U.S.; right or wrong? 2. On steamships "cabin class" costs more or less than "tourist class" or about the same? 3- The Battle of Gettysburg was the last great battle of the Civil War; right or wrong? 4. Defense Secretary Wilson was formerly head of General Electric, General Dynamics. Gen eral Motors. General' Mills or General Tire? ? 5. "Satchmo" Armstrong is a noted pugilist, jazz musician, football player, abstract painter or jockey? 6. Which two of these are not British-made Fords: Anglia, Aus tin. Consul, Hillman, Prefect, Zephyr? 7. Annie OakTey was.a famous actress, social leader, dress de signer, feminist, pistol shot, or mistres of a French king? The answers: 1. Wrong. 2. Costs for. 3. Wrong. 4. General Mo tors. 5. Jaza musician. 6. Austin nd Hillman aren't. 7. Pistol shot. East German Paper Soys 'Volunteers' to Egypt - Berlin .UPJ An East Ger man Communist newspaper said today Communist "volunteers" ST flocking to Egypt. "Thousands of volunteers with military training are streaming to Egypt from all the peace-loving nations," The Ber illim: Zeitung said. HOW NOT TO BE POPULAR Torrance. Calif iU.PJ Irked by the, laziness of two 13-year old boys who hitch hik td a rid foron.v a block and a half, a, motorist decided to wke his orevenge. He dropped thg boys off at a bus stop S milA from home. " MAIL TRIBUNt "No Time One can't blame the esteemed Oregonian for put ting the best interpretation upon the presidential election it can from the standpoint of the Republican party. Having been for nearly a centuiy consistently and uncompromisingly "G.O.P." it would hardly agree with the view of former Governor Sprague, also Republican and editor of the Salem Statesman, who comments, quote : 'It was an Eisenhower victory instead of a Republican victory ' For the Republican party as a whole therefor elation must be tempered with consciousness, it is in need of a stronger 'understudy.' It must develop its junior lead ership or the Eisenhower victory will prove short lived." As usual Editor Sprague refuses to indulge in any "wishful thinking." He faces the facts and uses his head. The Oregonian, however, refuses to give up its cherished "Great God Zeus" complex. It admits that the "victory" demonstrated "the Eisenhower coat-tails have no great carrying capacity" but stoutly it maintains that if the President had not intervened in various and sundry senatorial races including, of course, the Morse-McKay encounter all the Republicans would have fared worse. It 'then concludes, quote: "The President's personal prestige and power have never been higher. There is reason to assume there will not be the great conflict some envision between the Republican president and the Democratic congress. Even those who have not yet been identified as Eisenhower Republicans will surely find it difficult to withstand the magnetism of the president's extreme popularity. Even Democrats, as was indicated throughout the campaign will be searching for alignment with modern Republicanism." f ILL they? As we see it, the above is only another exam ple of the most extreme wishful and partisan thinking. President Eisenhower's tremendous almost hyp notic power over the voters in a free-for-all campaign is ONE thing and is conceded; but his power to charm the hard-shelled political birdies right out of the trees in the U.S. Congress is quite another. So long as the European crisis exists a certain bi-partisan attitude and reasonable harmony can and should be expected. But when these tensions disappear, as everyone hopes will be relatively soon, we will be greatly surprised if "Ike" doesn't find the climate of congress in his second and final term far different from that of his first. This will not be due solely to the Democratic control by any means. For unless all signs fail, the sharp-shooting will be even harder from the ultra conservative isolationist section of the G.O.P, includ ing the slightly submerged but still breathing "Old Guard" followers of Senator Joe McCarthy and "Mc Carthyism." The Old Guard don't like the President or his for eign policies and never have. They don't like political submergence and impotency either. Realizing the President will be through in 1960 and can't be the saviour of the Grand Old Party again, they will, wre believe, soon feel free to do what comes naturally and return to the status quo ante, when their reactionary attitude, impelled the General to consider seriously at one time leaving the G.O.P. and forming a Third Party of his own. QN THE other hand the Democrats, as a whole, strongly opposed to the administration's "Big Business" fixation, can be depended upon to fight the President, whenever he yields to pressures and as in the Dixon Yates affair, allows those who really favor General Motors over the General Welfare, to put something over on him. In short while we don't deny the "magnetism of the President's extreme popularity" as far as the voters are concerned, we do seriously question that General Eisenhower will be able to cast a similar spell over the Democratic congress between elections, and we are even more convinced there will be no stam pede on the part of the Democrats in either body "to align themselves post-haste canism, whatever that As the Salem Statesman indicates it was a great personal triumph for Mr. Dwight D. Eisenhower, not for the G.O.P. and the members of the Grand Old Party should allow their elation over their landslide victory to be tempered with the consciousness the party is greatly in need of a stronger understudy to the President stronger one assumes than the present one Mr. Richard Nixon, V.I.P. A LL of which is good sense and sound political " advice. When in peace prepare for war, and when in victory prepare to avoid defeat. There was nothing in the recent landslide to justify a feeling of complacency or over confidence in Re publican ranks. That second largest electoral major ity in national history, demonstrated the people, re gardless of party, "do LIKE Ike." It did NOT demon strate there is any such affectionate devotion to the Republican party quite the reverse, in fact. R.W.R. The State Results .The most gratifying feature of last Tuesday's election from the standpoint of this state, was giving the old "k.o." to two time-honored assumptions. Num ber one: the coat-tail assumption, all a candidate has to do is- deliver a blank check of approval to some popular leader and slide into office. No. 2: that because Oregon has for so long been predominately a one-party state it must so continue. '. Both of these assumptions were killed by the vot ers oh November 6 a case of killing two birds of evil with' one election-stone so to speak. And it added up to a consummation devoutly to be wished. Sunday, November 11, 1S5S for Elation with MODERN 'Republi is. yHE coat-tail technique, of course, may be revived but our prediction is it will never be given the standing it had in pro political circles in the late "unpleasantness." If it failed to work with "Ike" it is hard to picture it working with any other party leader. And that is all to the good a victory for real democracy and good government. A "k.o." for a type of partisanship that is both stupid and blind. Candidates for important office should be judged by their fitness for the positions to which they aspire, not by the leader of party to which they belong. That is the principle upheld by the voters of Oregon on Tuesday last. - AS TO No. 2: the people of Oregon certainly buried the myth that this is a one-party state, by staging a record breaking Democratic sweep which not only restored the cherished two-party system for two years at least but very likely for all time. It can't be expected this will result in long ex tended Republican dominance being replaced by extended Democratic dominance. Ihis would be as undesirable a condition as But it can be expected that this will be a two-party, not a one-party state, from now on and controls can be determined not by what label the candidates may wear, but by and large, by abilities. The establishment and endorsement of such a policy is also all to the good. A more wholesome political climate and better government in Oregon, can hardly fail to be the re sult. R.W.R. Matter of Fact IKE'S TRIUMPH Washington If ever there was a purely personal triumph, it is the triumph which Dwight !'! D. Eisenhower Jra. has inct n. joyed. For the Demo c r a t i c victories in both houses rlpnrlv inrit. j. 1 President won " I against a ""nlar 1 1 Demo c r a t i c Joseob Alsop tide which has been running strongly since 1952. It is a neat trick to win at all against the tide. It is down right miraculous to win by a landslide. It is highly significant, more over, that the miracle, to the extent that miracles can be planned, was carefully plan ned by the President him self. Among his associates he never made any bones about the fact that he not only intended to win but that he intended to win by a greater majority than in 1952. That was the meaning of his decision (which had to be modi fied becuse of the foreign crisis) to make a final, major cam paign swing through th South. The President was quite aware that a southern swing would elect no Rebublican Senators and few if any Representatives. He never had any doubts what soever that he himself would win, and if electing a Republi can Congress had been his over riding concern, he might have devoted his final campaign ef forts to helping such threatened and now defeated Republicans as Duff of Pennsylvania, Ben der of Ohio and Welker of Idaho. 1UT as the campaign reached its climax, the political in teUigence division of the Repub lican National Committee re ceived a whole series of reports that the Eisenhower candidacy was going great guns in the South. When a southern swing to batten down these southern Eisenhower votes was therefore proposed to him by Republican Chairman Len Hall, the Pres dent resisted at first. But when it was pointed out to him that his best chance of bettering his 1952 record lay in the South, he eagerly agreed to Hall's pro posal. He was perfectly frank with his associates, moreover, about the reasons he was so anxious to increase his 1952 majority. One reason was that he wanted to be able to speak with abso lute authority in conducting American foreign policy. He believed that, if he won by a reduced majority after a campagn in which his conduct of foreign policy was bitterly criticized, it might be thought abroad and especially in the Kremlin that he was not fully master in his own house. The President is absolutely con vinced, moreover, that a time of great and convulsive change is coming for the Soviet Empire. His reasoning is simple, and based on his own military ex perience. H E HAS remarked to several intimates that he is glad he is not in his old friend Marshal Zhukov's shoes. Every military man knows, the Presdent has said in effect, that a foreign army cannot indefinitely hold down a vast and rebellious population and he is sure that Zhukov knows it too. The Presi dent believd that a smashing majority would greatly strengthen his hand in dealing with the danger and opportu nities of the time of great change which he foresees. His second reason for wanting V 1 8tew&rt Alsop the reverse. their character, record and j. and stewd aisoP so badly to increase his major ity was quite different, but he was equally outspoken in dis cussing it with friends. A big ger majority than 1952 , the President reasoned, would be an enthusiastic endorsement of "Eisenhower Republicanism," and it would thus make it far easier for him to convert his party fully to his own brand of middle-of-the-road conservatism. In his little sneech to the as sembled party workers on Tues day night the President virtual ly served notice of his intention of remaking his party in the image of what he called "mod ern Republicanism." He has of ten said to friends that his chief reason for running again was that he needed four more years to remake his party so that it would again be the majority party in the nation. TIE STILL has a long way to AA go. The couhtry gave a ring ing endorsement on Tuesday to Dwight D. Eisenhower, but the vote was very far from a ring ing endorsement of the Republi can party. Yet his enormous per sonal triumph has given him an authority in the party he would otherwise have lacked in his second, and last, administration. Moreover, the Eisenhower of 1956 is very different from the Eisenhower of 1952, when he knew little of politics and con stantly turned to others for ad vice. The strategy of the 1956 campaign was most definitely an Eisenhower strategy, and he is now an acknowledged and confident master of the political art, perhaps the greatest of this generation. He is also a man with a habit of getting what he wants, as his remarkable personal triumph last Tuesday suggests. C 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Today and By Walter THE ELECTION AND THE CRISIS This time the professional ob servers, with no very serious dissenter among them, have long been foresee ing the grand results of the election. There has never been any real doubt t h a t if Presi dent Eisenhow er was physi cally able to run again, he Halter LipDmann would be in vincible, what with the prosper ity of the country, his personal prestige both in war and in peace, and his achievements as the healer of the internal divi sions of this country. While Eisenhower was a cer tainty from the beginning, it was highly probable that the Democratic party would prove again that it is stronger than the Republican party. As this is written, I do not have available definitive returns on the Con gressional and gubernatorial elections. But the indications are that the correspondents, the com mentators, and the pollsters have been essentially right in distin guishing between Eisenhower and his party. He has had an enormous vote of confidence. The Republican party has not had one. The campaign has been clean and decent, but not enlightening or interesting. It takes two to bring on a debate, and the Presi dent refused to be provoked into debating anything. Since there was a great contented majority behind him, he did not have to admit that there was any issue to debate. To have admitted that there were issues which were de batable might have been to dis Communication Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address at the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for 'publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserve the right to edit all letters with am eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The Parking Problem To the Editor: No doubt many "old timers" will recall that Medford had a "parking prob lem" when only a small village some third of a century ago. This situation was very much improved upon the passing and enforcement of an ordnance prohibiting parking in certain down-town areas for more than one hour. Cars were then "chalk ed" at hourly intervals and tickets given for violation. With the advent of parking meters it was thought that there would be further improvement. Business men as well as their employees, rather than walk a few blocks to a parking lot, soon found that by "feeding" the me ters hourly, in front or near their places of business even 8 hours parking would cost but 40 cents. (This practice is more general than realized). Why is it not practical to mark the tires of cars parking in congested downtown Med ford? Could this not be done with far less cost to the tax-payers than to have City ownership and operation of parking lots? Even the proponents of "off street parking measures" might be agreeably surprised at the available spaces in front of their stores if their own as well as the cars of their employees were parked on "Free enter prise parking lots. A few months ago it was the writer's privilege to take an ad vance course in real-estate ap praisal. A property appraised was a three story building oc cupied by J. C. Penney under favorable lease. The building was constructed of re-enforced concrete and some 3V4 years old modern in design and appointments. Cost some $460,,- 000. It was decided by the class that the very best use and oc cupancy of the property was that of a narking lot. Ihis would produce more revenue for the owners than the Penney store lease. Yes, the removal of some of the older buildings in down town Medford with the lots used for parking purposes is not too far removed. But un der private ownership and op eration. Charles A. Wing, 115 East 12th St. Medford, Ore. Keep Oregon Green To the Editor: Now that our 1956 forest fire season in Oregon has passed, I wish, on behalf of the Keep Oregon Green . Asso ciation, to extend to you and your newspaper our sincere thanks for the outstanding sup port you gave us by your many forest fire prevention news items, advertisements and edi torials on forest fire prevention. Our record for new man-caused fires was one of the best Ore gon Jias experienced in several years. The success that has been achieved in reducing man-caused forest and range fires and keep ing fire losses at a minimum has been largely due to the fine Tomorrow Lippmann turb his majority. mm SINCE the week end the Inter national situation may have reached, and perhaps passed, a very dangerous crisis. The Anglo-French intervention in Suez called for quick and decisive re sults, for an accomplished fact which created a new situation. In fact the intervention was so slow that in the interval before the landings and while the Egyp tian airfields were being bombed the Eden government found itself in a whirlpool of opposing forces at home and abroad. At this point the Soviet gov ernment saw an opportunity which it promptly seized. . It threatened to intervene on the side of Egypt, confident that in much of the world it would find sympathy. By this action the Soviet government has reestab lished its position in Egypt and among Egypt's Arab allies. That position would have been lost had the Anglo-French interven tion been a quick and complete success. To this dangerous threat the Eden government has responded by breaking off the military op erations at a point where some but not all of its objectives have been achieved. We have respond ed, as we were bound to do, by warning the Soviet government not to intervene. THE best hope of the world now lies in the plan which, has been voted by the United Nations, for an international force to police the occupied ter ritory after the British, French and Israeli armies withdraw. The success of this undertaking is almost certain to depend on whether the Soviet Union really backs it or really opposes it. POTlUCft (ly M-T Staff apj Cirrifcrrs) This column was an elec tion casualty last week. Any one miss it?' o Speaking of the election, its overall results came as a sur prise to a lot of people. One group we know marked sample ballots the way they'thought the election would come out. Usual ly, when this is done, the winner misses no more than one or two of his guesses. ' 0 0 This time, however, the win ner missed nine guesses, and some of the .other contestants missed 18, 19 or 20 results. Josephine county had a cou- 1 ple of poetic contests Tuesday. Bristol defeated Driscoll. and Hull defeated Hall. The morning aftr Halloween, still a few days before the eleo- tion, someone spotted a stop sign whioh had been, fixed up by t campaign sticker fo read: STOP McKay For Senator And one Mail Tribune editor was composing a headline for a pre-election story when he was interrupted.- The result, fortunately, didn't get into the paper, for the headline said: , "Voters Will Elect Officials, Pass On . . ." - A small group of Medford Boy Scouts camped out at Crater Lake recently, with permission from park headquarters, where they were warned about a young bear which had been roaming around Rim village. The night passed quietly, but in the morning the bear appear ed, looking for food. It found the boys' cocoa tin, got Into it and sampled it then departed, apparently discouraged . by the taste of the cocoa and not hungry for anything else. A Medford couple, parents ef three, enrolled their eldest' Oregon Yule Tree Harvest Predicted High This Year Salem Oregon's 1956 Christ mas tree harvest will reach 1 500,000 trees, according to a statement issued Saturday by Dwight L. Phipps, state forester. It represents a million dollar in come to the grower and three times that amount on the retail lot, he added. . . Harvesting . has been under way for some time at the higher elevations where the early snows drive the cutters out of the weeds, Phipps stated. It is just getting under Way in the lower elevations and will con tinue until the middle of Decem ber. Find Ready Market Oregon trees find a ready mar ket in California and the Ha waiian Islands but only to a lim ited extent in the eastern part of the United States due to com petition from the Rocky Moun tain area and lake states, ac cording to the state forester. "The Christmas-tree harvest is becoming an important fall in dustry in the state," Phipps said. "Stumpage values have been go ing up year after year and the commercial dealer has been find ing it difficult to find stumpage. Some of them are establishing their own plantations while oth ers are looking for contracts with the land- owners." Warns Against Trespass Phipps warned against tres pass. He pointed out that the tree cutter is required to secure a permit from the state forester or his agent or a federal ranger. Each permit gives the descrip tion of the land from which the trees are to be removed and the name of th land owner. During the period of tree har vest, the various foresters will be on the watch for trespass and will check on the various per mits where cutters are located," he stated. "The state police have been asked to cooperate in this activity." support of yourself and members of your staff. Thanks again for your fine co operation in helping us carry out our program in your county to Keep Oregon Green. Albert Wiesendanger, Executive Secretary, . Keep Oregon Green Association, Salem, Ore. We can only hope for the best. For the task which is now as signed to the United Nations is far and away -the most difficult in all its history, afjd "yet the great powers, whose unanimity is so necessary to any Unjted Na tions action, are as never before divided among themselves. Fortunately, the management of the undertaking is in the hands of Mr. DagHammatskjold, as competent, as cool, as. .astute, and as objective a diplomat 'as we have seen for many-a long day. Copyright, 19S6, New York Herald Tribune oln. child, a dmughler. In the first . gradeothis lejl. The wife rfcit ed hatf 'daugh'orx'i class last week' but she mayot g back, ft cletsimate of her daughter sked her, "Are you -her grandma?" 0m m Agricultural cactieijy In the i valley feas feched jn almost complete standsll, as it usually does at this time oj the year) in this kinfl of weather. So the of ficials in othe couaey t,gentg) of fice, alwaysdesirir to be elp- iui, last we sugRsted that it would be a good time for faraa wivestoet their husbShds busy Building new cuooards. (paint ing ceil?ns, & doirflt other household chores, o The farm drives mtcv acftreci ate this auegestion but whast about the farmers? o ' . Recent rainiioSns brought their usual rash of rcfef trou bles during the past few weeks. One bank in the county opened in trie meaning to find ; the floor covered with water which the janitor literally had to shovel away. Waste-baskets were put to water-catching use,: hut soon ie supply ran out. So,the janitor rounded up somtolO-gallon tins, and the ionic's clerki and tellers listened othrougi lh?day to the steady plunkl plunk 1 plunk 1 of water dripping down. o The lail TribunQ was another f!rjn which chadcroof trouble. A leak in the roof admitted a sub stantial amount ofwater to the ceiling aea during a storm,' where it was caught and from where it came down in a con stant drjp for days long after the roof was repaiif and the rain stopped. We used a bowl to ceteh the dripping strei, which was Jpcated almost in front of thai elevator which' opens intp the newsroom, o Many of oflr visitors narrowly missed kicking it as they came to see us, ind several of them commentsd to the effect that we were "sevuig wjter to make coffee," W were "going to take a baih," or were "saving pureQ water i case fluoridation goes into effect." O.. Some of them thought it added 'a note 8f atmosphere to the news room, while one mi$ter declar ed" that he thought only par sonages liad leaks. Oge thought ful woman said shregretted she had forgotten tbrin a mop with her. " O ' We received note after the election which sftitP "Not only do we have to co-exist jn fee 'same world as the Communis tsO but now also ttrith the Demo- O crats. Bah!" It 0wa signed "YRRP," which was translated "to snealt "Your Rabid Republi can Friend." o A woman we tnow neglected to buy "goodies," to give (Jut during "the HaUowefi cijileion trips of younj neighbors, until just after dinner time that nigh As. she started for the grocery, three small goblins appeared with the "trfck-or-tfat" demand. She explained h- Sight, and invited them to return in few minutes, after she'd been to the store. The small goblins' huddled for a moment, theft dthe'r spokesman said "If yfJu can't treat us, we'll treat you, ana each then ptp- ceeded to give her a candy bar and an apple from their loSt bags." ; o One Oregon editor, com menting on election-type talk, asks what you get if you mjj, tiply a'half-truthvwilh double talk a wKole irih? ONLY 36 Shopping Days Til Christmas! CHRISTMAS LIST GETTING LOGGER AND LONGER? 0 o o o For Funds to Cover All Your Christmas Needs . . .o o o -o 0 SEE k Dfftsm of none fvwMt I PACIFIC p lUlMICTBIAl 0 IIVWIKIHb tJick Hans, ManageP t6. Centra Ph. 3-5308 ma c
