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i C o FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORlViiTRIBUNE r, "Everyone In Soutftern Oregon ?"d The Mail Tribune" Publisher! Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-25 NorthFirSr Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Bu&inesi Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SDortl Editor O OLIVE STARCHER Societv Editor DALE ER1CKSjN. Circulation Mgr. AnIndependent Newspaper O Entered si second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of ta March 3, 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail Itv Advance Per Copy 10c. Daiiy and Snday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Si months 8 00 C iSaily and Sunday Three mns 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4 20. By Carrier la Advance Medford. C Ashland Centra? Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Cinld HiU. Phoenix. Shadv Cove Rojrue River. Talent, and on utiotoi" routes: Daily airj Sunday One year $18.00 r Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 " Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy . All Terms Cash in Advance "ffffleiaT Paper "of he Ctty of Medford Of fir tot Paper of Jackson County United Press Full leased Wire MTMBEH OF AUDIT BUREAU J OF CIRCULATION Advei-tlini! Representative: WXST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in York Chicago, do- trolt San Francisco. Los AnRelea. ?attl Portland SL Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION s Nf WSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30. 40 and 50 yesrs ago.' ' - 10 TEARS AGO Not. 12.. 1946 (Tuesday) ' Mayor Clarence A. Meeker leaves for Chicago to attend an nual meeting of American Muni cipal association. c From- Arthur Perrey's Ye Smudge Pot column: This is Na- r tional Hearing Week, we hear. 20 YEARS AGO : Wot. 12. 1936 (Thursday) Girl Scout tourt .of awards will be held Saturday, Nov. 14, in the courthouse auditorium. An unusual contest cup will he presented Friday at the Boy Scout rally in Medford High school gymnasium. 30 TEARS -AGO-Nov. 12. 1926 (Friday) Orchardists -of Rogue valley urged to attend meeting of Fruitgrowers League of Jackson county Tuesday. John H. Catkin addresses . state assessor's convention at Medford armory. 40 YEARS AGO . Not. 12. 1916 (Sunday) Medford Ministerial associa tion rejoices' in defeat of Brew er's amendment and the carry ing of the dry amendment. Delegation of sugar beet boost ers from the valley attend meet ing at Grants Pass. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cost.' IMS, Rdttnrlal Research . Report 1: If a woman takes a social security annuity at lower rate at 62, she does or doesn't get it at full rate on reaching 65? 2. More autos will be sold in the fourth quarter of 1956 than in tht of 1955, says U.S. Cham ber of Commerce, or fewer, or aonut the same number?' 3. A "chopper" means in U.S. defense circles' a hydrogen bomb, jet plane, rocket mtssile, hydro- plaae or helicopter? 4. What the French call "'route et balance" is called what in this country? 5. More 'money is bet during the year in running .races (horse) in California. Florida, Illinois, ie Jersey Or Aew York? S.Albuquerque. Denver. Las' Vejas, Rene, Salt Lake City, or Santa Fe i called the "Mile ' HiBh'Ctty"? . 7. This year marks the 70th 85th, 100th. or lloth anniversary of the: birth of woodrow Wil son? The answers: 1. "Doesn't. 2. About the same number. 3. Hel icopter. 4. Sck V roll. 5. New Yok. 6. Denver. 7. 100th. Ranking Tennis Star Injured in Accidet : Castro Valley. Calif. (U.R1 Art Larsen, one of the world's ranking amateur tennis players-, was in critical condition today as a result of head injuries suf fered in a motor scooter acci dent Saturday. Larsen suffered a brain hem- 'orrhage and underwent surgery Saturday night. He was still un conscious early today. 3 Larsen, SI, was returning from the home of a friend in Hayward, near "San Francisco, when his Italian motor scooter went out of control and overturned. Use Mail Tribune Want Ada for liuick Cash MAIL TRIBUNE Veterans With the potentialities of war on the horizon, Vet erans Day, being observed today, takes on a rather poignant aspect. As some younger readers may not remember, it started out as "Armistice Day," commemorating the cessation of hostilities at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918. That was the end of the Kaiser's war, the "war to end war," or the "big war" as some of our grey-haired friends call it. During the 20s and 30s it came to be more than just the anniversary of the end of the war it became more and more a day for veterans of World War I to gather, to reminisce, to relive those days when they jammed the troop transports and the training camps in larger number than Americans ever had before. AFTER Pearl Harbor day Dec. 7, 1941 Armistice day became a sort of anachronism. As a people, we could not quite bear to give it up all together; yet with American soldiers dying in a new war, and all energies concentrated on winning that war, the day lost its meaning. As that war ended, Armistice day was again ob served, but with a difference a difference made greater by the new demands of the Korean fighting. So, the day became Veterans Day observed on the same date but now no longer a commemoration of a day or hour, but a commemoration of the men who have served America in all her wars. Together with Memorial day, which has special connotations of the Civil War, it now is one of the two holidays especially dedicated to America's fighting men. DECAUSE of World Wars I and II and the Korean conflict, America is today, more than ever before, a nation of veterans, more than one out of five of all adults. The phrase itself, while descriptive, can mean different things to different people. It can mean a battle-scarred veteran of combat, or a trainee who was in uniform only barely long enough to graduate from the "yard bird" class. But from grizzled colonel to balding ex-pfc, the "veteran" is now a part of minority is organized into ganizations (such as the American Legion, which celebrated its own "week" ending yesterday). The majority of veterans have gone back into civilian life, and their time in the service ory some of it pleasant, some unpleasant but dim med by the passage of years. "TODAY, the best we can expect is an uneasy peace; tiic nuiot an aiiiiuuiciiiii nui-icdi cti. During the early days of the Suez crisis, veterans were neard asking each jokingly if their uniforms American men are conscious, these days, that they belong to the militia and could again be called. Veterans day is designed to honor veterans. This is entirely appropriate particularly those who were wounded or disabled in service. But our honest prayer sometime, when the word in reference to the dim, E.A. c ommon Ten cities in Oregon Tuesday. In six it was defeated ; It may be significant that in three of the four cities where the proposal was approved, the question was on retaining not starting the public health measure. Astoria, Warrenton and idation for some time. A seem to like it. TN commenting on these votes, the Astorian Bud get had this to say: "This newspaper takes considerable satisfaction in the triumph of the forces favoring fluoridation in all three com munities Astoria, Gearhart and Warrenton where there have been vigorous efforts to frighten the people into voting it out. Clatsop citizens don't frighten easily, it appears, and . have confidence in the official health agencies, the doctors and dentists who have endorsed fluoridation. Talk of 'poi soned' water did not sway the voters' common sense." In another few years, will be able to make a similar comment. E.A. Independent Voters "We are gratified that approve the arterial street program, and the badly needed storm and sanitary sewer improvements. It was a progressive step. We are a bit puzzled voted strongly for the three their taxes, they defeated a which would not have raised them at all. AXELL, "that's the way a parking program some day. It will have to. And the cost will be higher then All in all, the voters of pendence. Nobody, but nobody, can tell them what to do and that is the way it If the day ever comes "yes" or "no" to proposal dark dav indeed. E.A. Bids Called on Removing Portland CU.P.) The corps of engineers has called for bids for removal of Indian graves from two islands in the Colum bia river behind The Dalles dam and re-interring the remains at Monday, November 12. 195B Day America's social pattern. A immensely powerful or is little more than a mem other halt seriously, hall still fitted, And all adult is that the day will come, "veteran" will be used only distant, war-wracked past. c oense voted on fluoridation last in four it passed. Gearhart have had fluor majority of the voters there we predict, this newspaper Medford voters saw fit to over the fact that while they measures which will raise fourth, off-street parking, it goes." Medford will have than it would be now. the city showed their inde should be. when the voters can't say affecting them, it will be a Indian Graves in River two cemeteries to be constructed on the Washington and Oregon shores near the dam. The bids will be opened at the Portland district offices at 2 p.m. Nov. 26. Writer Says War Scare May Be Just What NATO Allies Needed By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The war scare which spread through the world last week mav well prove to have been "" inst what the Western Allies needed. It looked, for a time, as if Soviet Rus sia was even ready to at tack Great Britain and France and U l ........ u Charles llcuni "'" a u 11 u 11 World War III. There were detailed reports of Russian troop movements in Eastern Europe on a scale which Today and By Walter THE SOVIET THREATS It is not yet clear whether the Soviet notes to Britain and France were in fact what they seem to be a threat of So viet interven tion in the Middle East, ed the sentence which, as broadcast b y Moscow, says that "We are fully determin ed to crush the Walter Lluomann aggressors and restore peace in the East through the use of force." And this sounds as if we" namely the Soviet gov ernment were fully determined etc, etc. If this were what the notes meant, they would in fact be an ultimatum, though with out a time limit, threatening war against France, Britain and Is rael. However, when the notes were given out for publication, the of ficial spokesman of the Soviet Foreign Office in Moscow said in answer to questions from the correspondents of the New York Herald Tribune and of the New York Times that the "we" re ferred to the United Nations. This would seem to mean that the Soviet government will in tervene with force in the Mid dle East if the United Nations authorize it. The United Nations has not authorized it. The two interpretations are as far apart as night and day, and it looks very much as if the Soviet government had intend ed it be that way. It looks as if they had meant to give the ap pearance of an ultimatum for its popular effect and yet not to make a commitment which could not fail to precipitate a world war. For there can be no real doubt in anyone's mind in the Kremlin that if Russia tried to crush" our allies, Russia would have to deal with us. . . WE are not, however, enlitiea, I think, to conclude compla cently from this that the big words of the Soviet threat can be discounted as sheer bluff. The basic fact is that in both of the two crises of recent weeks the East European and the Middle Eastern there has been a deep challenge to the vital interests of the Russian empire. Had the Hungarian rebellion succeeded, and had it spread by the contagion of its example, the satellite orbit would almost sure ly have been not Titorist and neutral but anti-Communist and anti-Russian. Had the British and the French succeeded in knock ing out Nasser, they would have knocked out the center oi sovi et influence in the Middle East. Eastern Europe has for more than two centuries been in Rus sian eyes of vital interests to them. The Middle East has for at least a century been an object of Russian imperial ambition Under Stalin thanks to the Eu- rorjean civil war which Hitler started the Russian imperial power became the master of all of Eastern Europe. Under Sta lin's successors, Russia has for the first time in our history suc ceeded in winning a place of power in the Middle East. In the past few weeks the whole post-war gains of Russia have been put in jeopardy, and for the past week Moscow has been reacting violently to this situation. INHERE are ominous signs, though they are no more than signs, that the men who are now top-dog in the Kremlin may not stop at the subjection of Hun gary. There is less promise than there was a few weeks ago of a stabilization of Russian inten tions about Poland. There are storm warnings which cannot safely be ignored. We should take great precautions. We should use strong measures against propaganda from our side of the Iron Curtain which could be treated by the Soviets as a provocation or as a pretext for intervention. And we should do all that we can do to keep on reassuring Moscow that they have nothing to fear for their security in Gomulka's Poland. In the Middle East the Soviet government will, we may be sure, find ways- to intervene, short of the kind of intervention kmr mi 1 I . if; might foretell a sweep through Western Europe. There were reports of the ar rival of massive forces of Rus sian war planes in the Arab countries. There were reports of big Rus sian troop concentrations on the frontier of Iran. The Soviet government, in notes to Britain and France on the invasion of the Suez Canal Zone, said: "We are fully determined to crush the aggressors and restore peace in the East through force of arms." It soon developed that the Russian Red leaders were talk ing about cooperating with other members of the United Nations Tomorrow Uppmann which would precipitate a world war. They will be using the cris is to expand their influence with Nasser and his followers in the other Arab states. The notes ad dressed to Britain and France on Monday may not have been, were probably not, an ultima tum in the full meaning of the word. But they are notice that the Soviet Union means to act in the Middle East, and that its aim is to be the dominant power in the settlement. 1956. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications 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 reserves the right to edit all tetters with an ye to clariflcaUon and condensa tion Letters submitted tor publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Don't Be Penny Wise To the Editor: Some years ago the local Chamber of Com merce used the 'slogan "with Medford Trade Is Medford Made." Now this seems to be forgotten and many merchants act as if they were dependent on selling a few emergency items tourists occasionally buy. However, with the recom mendation of the Bear Creek highway r6ute they are antag onizing many residents of Med ford and vicinity. These people can easily trade elsewhere. Much talk is in dollars and cents, but our Hawthorne Park is price less. It can't be duplicated or moved, and it belongs to the people. We raised the money to de velop it by a special bond issue decided in an election. The de struction of this park and swim ming pool would be criminal, and destruction it would be who could picnic with the terrific noise of countless trucks, trail ers and cars whizzing by? Who could hear the voice of a speak er on Memorial Day and the other times it is used to address a gathering? The men most active in urging this route have swimming pools in their own yards and are so busy wining and dining the state engineers they couldn't take time out to picnic. This recreation center is most valuable in combating delin quency. What would the hun dreds of children be doing in the time they now go swimming and are under supervision on the playgrounds? Let us not be penny wise and pound foolish." Mrs. C. B. Roberts, 3780 Jacksonville Hwy., Medford, Ore. Thanks From Duncan To the Editor: May I once again have recourse to your "Letters to the Editor" column to thank you personally for the fairness that you displayed in publishing letters, both pro and con, on questions of political sig nificance before the recent elec tion. And may I further thank those voters who supported me for their help in the recent cam paign," and I assure all of the residents of Jackson county that I will do my best to represent them in Salem. Whether an in dividual is a Democrat or Re publican is of minor significance now, and I shall do my best to consider fairly the problems of all. Robert B. Duncan, 125 South Central ave, Medford, Ore. All in Fun To the Editor: Oh, Goody, Goody. The SP has fixed the crossings on Jackson boulevard Now I can drive across the tracks without jolting my gizzard out of place or knocking my shock absorbers into a state of in nocuous lassitude. Hooray for the good old friendly SP. Medfordites must be fond of flowers. Thev choose a "Little Daisy" for mayor. Yours just in fun. L. G. Weaver, 301 Haven St., Medford, Ore. From Justice McAllister To the Editor: I wish to thank the people of Jackson County for the very substantial vote given me in my write-in cam- paign for election to the Su- to use force, if necessary, to get the British and French out of Egypt. There is considerable evidence that the Soviet troop movements in Eastern Europe were due to the situation in Poland, Hungary and East Germany. It looks as if most if not all of the planes which arrived in the Arab countries, notably in Syria, were sent there by Presi dent Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt to escape destruction by British and French planes. Unless Soviet leaders are try ing to set a new record for trouble-seeking even by Commu nism, they will have plenty to occupy themselves with in their European satellites for some time to come. Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, the supreme commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion forces, said in a speech in Paris Thursday: A hurricane of terrific vio lence blows inside the Soviet bloc. The clash between the So viet Union and its satellites is infinitely more grave than the known divergence of views be tween the allies." The Middle Eastern situation still is very dangerous. The pos sibility that Russia may do some thing to cause an explosion can not be ruled out. But the Russian threats, the barbaric Russian attack on Hun gary, the Russian troop move ments remind the Western Allies that they must stand together. Russia s fake peace propa ganda weakened the NATO alli ance. It likewise weakened the unity between the United States, Britain and France. It is clear now, after last week's events, that NATO still is vital to the security of the free world and that the unity of the Big Three Western Allies must be renewed. It is a comforting thought that NATO can be reinvigorated and that Allied unity can be restored. It is comforting also to know that Russia's big "Warsaw" mili tary alliance with its satellites is dead. Colombo Powers To Form Policy New Delhi, India U.R) Rep resentatives of the Colombo powers Burma, India, Indone sia and Pakistan met here to day to formulate joint policy to ward Hungary and the Middle East. The meeting originally was called to condemn Britain and France for their invasion of Egypt. However, Ceylon Pre mier Solomon Bankaranaike told newsmen Sunday that I pre sume the subject of Hungary will not be omitted." Anti - Communist feeling ran high in India despite an explan ation by Prime Minister Jawa harlal Nehru that Soviet troops entered Hungary to help settle "a civil conflict." Indian Socialists protesting Russian military intervention in Hungary staged a mass demon ctratinn Runriav in front nf the ni,ci n rrarto ajpnrv in Cal- cutta. The agency office was closed and the demonstrators were unable to find its leaders. A mue-iong pruuebbiua ui ueiu- onstrators also marched on a meeting of the All-India Con gress committee where Nehru was speaking in Calcutta Satur day. The procession, whipped up by the opposition Socialist party, protested Nehru's imprisonment of opposition leaders in Goa. Po lice stopped the crowd before it reached the meeting, and the demonstrators sat down in the street in silent protest. Memorial Services Set For Earl C. Latourette Salem (U.R) Memorial services for the late Justice Earl C. Latourette will be held in the Oregon Supreme Court chambers here Wednesday at 10 a.m. Acting Chief Justice Walter L. Tooze will speak for the court. Addresses also will be given by Circuit Judge Ralph M. Holman of Oregon City and Alan F. Davis, president of the Oregon State Bar. HOT FIRE BRIGADE Stockport, Eng. (U.R) An ex tremely sensitive automatic fire alarm at a factory here has the fire brigade hot .under the collar. Firemen rushed to the factory Friday to find a man had set off the' alarm when he lit his "cigar. Later they answered another alarm set off by a pipe smoker". preme Court. Although not a native of Jack son County, I have resided there most of my adult life and hope to return when my service on the Supreme Court is concluded. I always considered it an honor to represent Jackson County in the Oregon, legislature and I hope that I can continue to justi fy the confidence which has been so generously expressed in me by the citizens of the Rogue River Valley. I also wish to thank my many friends who worked so effec tively in support of my can didacy. William M. McAllister NiOttOr Of FClCt Washington The Dwight D. Eisenhower the voters have elected President this year is in marked and s i g n i f i cant ways a very different man from the Dwight D. thev elected in 1952. A m a n's character does not change basically in later life, of course. But the Presidency leaves its mark on any man, and the Pres idency plus a heart attack and a grave operation have unquestionably left their mark on Eisenhower. " "It seems a queer thing to say of a man in his sixties," one Eisenhower intimate has re- marked, "b u t the fact is that Ike has. grown up." It does seem a strange thing to say. And yet it is true that, as a 5 civilian politi cian, General was hardly Stewart Alsop out of swaddling clothes in '52, and even for some time thereaft er. Moreover, he had won the nomination only by fighting a bitter battle with a powerful wing of his own party.. These circumstances produced at the same time a certain lack of self- confidence, and a feeling of angry frustration, both charac teristic of immaturity. npHE Eisenhower of 1952 had an exaggerated respect' for the professional politicians. "In those days," one who was with him recalls, "he was always asking for advice, and 'what's more, he almost always took'the advice. Take the time he drop ped the tribute to General Marshall out of his Milwaukee speech. He hated doing it, but he felt he had to do what the professionals told him, because they were pros and he was not." But this sense of unsureness had a side-effect. Again and again in 1952, and even, for some time after he became Pres ident, the famous Eisenhower temper would explode. "Ike of ten used to blow up over small things," one campaign adviser has said, "but this time he was calm as a cucumber the whole way through." He did blow up once, it seems over the arrangements for the Gettysburg speech to the party faithful the President thought it was stupid to have his first big campaign speech a straight political appeal. But that was the only explosion. And the calming of the Eisenhower spirit was only one of several differences between the 1952 Eisenhower and the 1956 Eisen hower. THE 1956 Eisenhower still list ened to advice, because he is a believer in staff work. He, relied particularly on -Republican Chairman Leonard Hall and OIL FIGURE DIES j Los Angeles (US) Rosary wjn be recited Tuesday night for jHarry F Sinclair. . 80. foundw of Sinclair Oil Corp. who was a key figure in the Teapot Dome scandal of the Harding admin istration. Use Tribune Want Ads HOW MUCH I .fe.f.- Does the Government Allow for Funeral Services? how. to tnaV pre-need ar rangements "in complete eon-o fidence, without any obliga tion, and without, tying up a single penny? all the questions which mutt be' answered before the ' death certificate earf b completed? . -4iow to arrange for ternal or military jervtce? when and why it the) practice0 .of derma-surgery invaluable Write,' Call or Phone . . You'll find all the answers in KNOWLEDGE . . . which is FREE for the asking. The quickest and easiest way is to phone right now or mail this ad giving your tiime and address. PERL Funeral Home Frank and Bill Perl Sixth and Oakdale Phone 2-6675 By Joe and SteVart Alsop Chief of Staif Sherman Adams. But always tfle final' word was his, and no one thought of dis puting it. Hi changed attitude towards his campaign speeches s typ ical of the change in the man. As in 1952, his chief and prac- tically his only speech-write was trie able Emmet Hughes (Adlai Stevenson had five first rate professional writers work ing on his speeches). n 1952. Eisenhower regarded himself primarily as an editor itf the speeches Hughes prepared fSr him. He has his own "special edit orial quirks h& dislikes cerg tain words, notably the word "challenge." He is surprisingly pedantic about gramjhar, and he strongly resists 0 using thjr first person singular. These eoK itorial prejudices persisted "in 1956, although the President 0 was distinctly less resistant to? the first person. But in 1156, candidate Eisenhower was ar less a simple editor of his speeches, tuid far more the o3g- lnator of his own campaign line. He would stride up and down his office, ticking off the points he wanted to make with Hfs characteristic short," sharp ges ture. Hughes and others of course proposed ideas of their own but the Eisenhower impgnt was far more indelibly fixed to his 1956 campaign thun in 19311 PARTLY thia was siniply hi09-) raiiep the F.isnnhour r. cause the !95 is far better informed than tb O had, O 1952 Eisenhower, who " great gaps in his knewledg. especially in , domestic 'matter.-, In the last four years, the nti dent .has acquired the habit of reading the newspapers mifth more carefully than previously,- lie even reeds the Jetters Jo the editors, and often drws rnS3 Mention of hia staff to a letter that interest him. FarO more important, of course, h been the hard educational pru.cessf the Presidency, the most (Biffi-O cult cram couxse in the wor'ld. But most.important of all, the o experience of the Presidency has U given the President convictioSi o where befor there were vafcie q theories, and above all a cbn- q fidence in himself as "if politi cal leader whieh as lackingQ four years ago. This iswha$ is really new in thenew Kfeen hower." 0" (C). New YorkHerl TtibuneInc. J '- 8 O 0 Twins To Be Born GEO. N. TAYLtf Jacob and Esauptwinchad not yet been born, when God tot? Rebecca, the exptant mother, that he would hate' Esau, who was to be born first and so Esau was to have the birth right Cod's blessing. N o Jacob wanted the bless ing! Result? When Esau wanted to trade off the :"'a5Ml"l O j07 CO birthright? for a plate ofafiriry dinner, Jacob toto hjjn upoand came into tfie birthright. O God chans Japob's iSnw-jtocls- Tapl. Of that line, Christ was born. Also0the tribes flj Israel. God's will for us? GC'so loved "yotr hat he gave CnrisP to dieofor your sin Believe on Christ as clearing yo'tlr page and God giveg you eternal li Then by Bible and prSyer, grop. 1 Thit Message S5isoftd by eP Scappoose family. adv. a fro- Tear off and meil 11 m 0 & 0 . . -. y n f :o o0 Z OO o 0 0 .Address 2 CP O O O o o
