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o TOXTR MEDFOHD (OREGON) MedfordHtribuhi "Sveryon in Southern Oregon Read The Mali Tribune" h frubluhed Daily Except Saturday by MZDFORD PRINTING CO 2f-29 North Fir St Phont 2-0141 ROBERT W RUI?L. Editor. FOTRB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Busmesa Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Maa?mg Editor KARL H ADAMS Cit Editor HARY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERTCKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second claaa ma.tter at Medford Oregon under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail in Advance. Per Copy IOe. Daly and Sunday One year I1S 0O Daily and Sunday Six month 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Mcdford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday Ona year 918 00 Dally and Sunday One month liO Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Term Cas h In Advance ornrTal Paper of the City of Medfdrtf Official Paper of Jackson County United PrrAs Full Leasd Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative": ST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, d trolt, San Francisco. Lot Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL. EDITORIAL ejjfel lASSoc5T6N cmnnzasrnjji "newTpaTir association Flight o'.Time Medford a ad Jackson County History Irora the files of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO ' Mot. 19. 1946 (Tuesday) Mediord and Ashland Toist- masters hold Joint meeting to discuss topics of local and na tional interest. ' From Arthur Pefiry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A large Ilec of geese Went over last night going south, again beat ing the valley orchardists to it. 2S YEARS XQO J Not. 19. 1S36 IThunHxl ' Subscriptions to the 1938-37 Community - Chest total $13,- 409.13; budget Is $15,000. Jackson County Chamber of Commerce appeal to reduce sur plus turkey stocks through im mediate lncfeased consumption brings results. , 30 YEARS AGO Not. 19, 1926 (Friday) The Gates and Lydiard Econ omy Groceteria observes sixth anniversary. - fivajigcusvii; meetings Ml'iai- ent progressing satisfactorily, of- 40 YEARS AGO ' ' Not. 19. 1916 (Sunday) ' An address on the big brother movement will be delivered Tuesday at the Elks tempi. Color folder turned out for Rogue River Fruit and Produce association advertising Rogue river apples making favorable Impression. 0 - What's the Answtr? Can Too Get 4 f the 7? COpr. 1955 editorial Research Report . 1. President Eisenhower's ilei tis operation was about 3V4, 6, 8, 11 or 13V4 months after his heart attack? 2. Seats on' ths N.Y. Stock Ex change have been selling recent ly for mar or less than $100,- 000? -' - 3. Prior to the present Israel- tgypt war the U.. had or hadn't been giving direct mili tary aid to Israel? s 4. The senior class of a typical hijfr scftcol has a higher or low er average of intelligence than the wholej population or about . ttie same? 5. U.S. automotive operators average bout, (a) 5.000, (b) 8,000, (c) 11,000 or (d) 14,000 miles a yeaf? 6. The Bay "Scout movement originaied in the U.S.; right or wrong? " 7. U.S. winters are gradually getting warmer or colder, or are staying about the same? The answers:., 1. 81 'a moaiht later. 2. -Somewhat less. 3. Had not. 4. Higher. 5. 8,000. 6. Wrong: in England. 7. Warmer, says the U.S. Weather Bureau. Dr. McNeal to Give Thanksgiving Address Ashland lU.PJ Dr. Roy McNeal. professor of geography, will give the address for the Southern Oregon college Thanks giving assembly Wednesday, Nov. 21. The SOC band and choir will make their first ap pearances of the school year on the program. A special rehearsal of the band will be held Tuesday eve ning to complete preparations for the apperance. Glen Matth ews, director, announced that a second section of band will be opened next term for those stu dents who are unable to partici pate at the present time because of time conflicts. MAIL TRIBUNl Parking vs. Walking Medford is not the only city with a parking problem. Others in Oregon which have similar situations, and which haven't yet taken any decisive steps to solve them, include Portland, Albany and Pendleton. Suggestions have run the gamut from city-owned and operated parking lots cided against) to rigid enforcement of time limits on parking in metered spaces, feeders. A NOTHER suggestion other day one which is so eminently practical that it probably wouldn't work, human nature being 1 i "j rrl , . . . . . . wnai it is. ine suggestion, as revealed in a letter to the mayor and printed by the Pendleton East Oregon ian, follows: "One cure for the parking problem is to start a walking campaign among the people up to 60 who work downtown. Say anyone living within 10 blocks of Main street must walk to and from work unless physically disabled. Nearly everyone eats his lunch downtown or takes a lunch. "This action would give them fresh air and exercise and help them get rid of some of the surplus fat and they won't have to take so much laxative. I know some people who ride four or five blocks, park their cars and walk two blocks to work. "I feel sorry for the young people nowadays. They ought to carry chickens under their arms to do their breathing for them ..." When it comes right down to it, we ARE lazy these days, aren't we? E.A. More A bout Insurance Some time apO. we nnhlished in this snaw anmd comments on New York's aunuy insurance law. Since then, a friend of mess nas Deen assisting our education by giving us the reasons why insurance men generally are opposed to a compulsory law. It is, he declares, governmental invasion of a field which should be free to seek its own solutions. It also acts as a deterrent to those who otherwise would buy insurance in excess of the legal minimums thus re ducing their protection. THE industry, he said, prefers to approach the prob lem through voluntary measures. One is an increased emphasis on highway safety a most laudable objective, certainly. ' Another is a new type of coverage. If Driver "A" is injured in an accident with Driver "B" which is B's" fault, and if B has no liability insurance nor other resources and A gets a judgment against him, this new insurance will pay to A the amount of the judgment against B. '(Our friend convinced us that this insurance is a good thing; so we bought some. But it still requires Driver A to pay for protection for which Driver B SHOULD be responsible). C PEAKING of insurance and judgments, there has been an increasing tendency in recent years to ward larger judgments. Partly this is the result of a generally increased cost of living. But more and more it is the result nf riirips fpplino- sorry for the injured party, ment on tne tneory mat it is only the insurance com pany" which will have to pay and that "they can afford it." The only thing wrong with this theory is that while it is- indeed the insurance company which pays the specific judgment, it is the policy holders in all com panies who ultimately pay the bill. For insurance premiums are based on costs, and if judgments, on the average, increase, so will the pre miums. Insurance companies, after all are not charit able' institutions. No one will argue that the injured party in a suit should not receive adequate compensation. But in ordinately high damage awards ultimatelv are reflect ed in the premiums all of us Dr. Sweeney Twentv-two vears arm - o uu uu article about Br. Charles Sweenpv whn Hiprl lust woot at the age of 87. A yellowed clipping of the article, wmcn m turn was a reprint irom the Uregon Jour nal. Was sent to US hv Mrs FT S nhiro-wiri nf thi'e n itv Because of the wide affection and respect in which Dr. Sweeney was held, the clipping, dated Oct. 10, ivot, is oi interest, it ionows: Dr. Charles Thomas Sweeney is treasurer of the Jackson County Democratic Committee. He was born near Chilho wee. Mo., Sept. 10, 1869. When 19 years old he entered the Kansas City Medical college, now the medical department of the University of Kansas. He graduated in medicine in 1891. In 1898 he did post-graduate work at St. Louis. In 1909 he moved to Great Falls, Mont., where he practiced. Finding the winter rather severe, with his family he moved to southern Oregon in 1910. Dr. Sweeney was married on March 30, 1892, at Chilhowee, to Mary E. Cleland. They have three children, Anna Grace, Edith May and Charles T. Jr. He served as county coroner and health officer at Cascade county, Montana, and in 1917 served in the Oregon legislature. He has been a Mason more than 40 years, having taken all degrees from Master Mason to the Shrine. For more than 30 years he has been an officer in the Presby terian church. He was made a fellow of the American Col lege of Surgeons in October, 1931. He is a member of vari ous medical societies from the county society up to the American Medical association. He is a lifelong Democrat. He owns two dairy ranches in Josephine and in Jackson counties, stocked with thoroughbred Jerseys. E.A. Killer whales, among the fiercest of all sea creatures, ac tually ar edolphins. They hunt in packs, swallowing small seals and porpoises whole. Monday, November 19, 19S8 (which Medford voters de to get rid of the "meter- was made in Pendleton the new compulsory auto li- ours in the insurance bus- and voting a large judg pay. E.A. t.hp Mail Tn'Vmno r on Green walnuts are a basic source of vitamin C in Russia, but ripe walnuts contain none of the essential body-building vitamin. s No Immediate Purge in Russia Seen, But Possibility Exists (Editor's note: Kenneth Brodney is a former United Press manager in Moscow. He witnessed t h, e changeover from Stalinism to ths present collective leadership. In the following dispatch he analyzes probable results inside the Kremlin of the Soviet blood bath in Hungary and the So viet economic and political penetration of the Middle East.). By KENNETH BRODNEY Written For United Press Indications now are that there will not be an immediate purge in the top Soviet leadership. The major reason for a shake up would be to try to recoup some of the Russian prestige shattered by the brutal crushing of the Hungarian rebellion. Where the prestige loss really hurts most is in the Communist parties of Western Europe, which already are suffering widespread defections as a re sult. There is little doubt they are now in for a period of major convulsions, as more and more once-staunch Stalinists brood over the Hungarian catastrophe. It is not merely the well-documented brutality of the Red army that is causing party cards to be turned in from Italy to England; it is the fact that the Red army was necessary in Hun gary at all. Communism Fails It is the clear demonstration that Moscow's export brand of Communsm failed completely, after a solid decade, to provide either a minimum standard of physical existence or an even barely tolerable society in which human beings could live. And since the mission of these parties, particularly in France and Italy, was to consumate "united fronts" with Socialists and centrists in order to drag Western Europe into the neutral ist corner, the Russians could AlCff f r Of FQCt THE SERGEANT'S JOB Washington What is the na ture of America's responsibility as the history-appointed leader of the Western Alliance? This ques tion has been posed, in an acute form, by the great and dark events which are now unfolding. It is being much de- joseuu aisop bated in Wash ington at the moment, rather un comfortably in the higher circles of the administration, and very bitterly indeed among the repre sentatives of our allies who have to deal with the administration. No doubt, it is presumptuous for these reporters to try to de fine America's j world responsi- bility. Yet it (. I seems desira ble to make a stab at it, if only because sharply critical analyses of the a d m i n i s tra tion's Mid die Eastern policy biewmn Aisop have recently appeared in this space. Criticism is meaningless unless the standards of the criti cism are clearly set out; and this, therefore, is an attempt to do just that. The right way to gauge the American world responsibility or so it seems to us 4s to re member the nature of a com pany commander's responsibil ity. In sum, the captain of an infantry company in the line is responsible for the welfare and performance of his whole out fit HE MUST know the peculiari tips nf all his men whether this PFC has sore feet and that Tech Sergeant tends towards de lusions of grandeur. He must al low for the sore feet and the delusions of grandeur when he is making his duty assignments and laying out his plans. If his company fails in battle, he can not offer the excuse that one of his platoon lieutenants was a screwball. He gets the chief credit for success and the chief blame for failure. Such is the inescapable bur den, alas, of every leader in every great struggle, and such it has always been. In the Western Alliance of free nations, however, there is no clear-cut chain of command, such as there is in an infantry company. This greatly compli cates America's burden of world leadership, for success can only be won by persuasion and fore sight and extra-special consider ation of the special problems of the less powerful allies. THE fact thfet there is no chain nf rnmmanH in nn spnp means, however, that American policy-makers are justified in smugly blaming disasters that overtake the Western Alliance on the folly of our less powerful allies. They may be foolish, but it is still like the company cap tain saying that his outfit was routed because the platoon lieu decide they must make some gesture of contrition. Such a gesture could take the form of the Kremlin's collective leadership publicly taking a bath by ousting and disavowing some of its members. Molotov Heads List Probably at the head of any such list of scapegoats would be Vyacheslav M. Molotov. He is publicly identified as a "hard line" old Stalinist and has all ready been degraded and de moted from his job as foreign minister to appease Tito. His complete denunciation could be presented as the final end of Today and By Walter THE SOVIET VOLUNTEERS The President's statement about Russian "volunteers" in Egypt cannot fairly or reason ably be lnter- preted as an attempt to avoid Ameri can responsi bility and to pass the buck to the United Nations. There are no doubt men in Wash in g t o n who Waiter iwomxan would like to do just that. But it could not be done in this case even if we wanted to do it. For if the U.N. allows a force of Russian volunteers to be organ ized in Egypt and Syria, it will be a disastrous blow to the United States. But it would be a fatal blow to the United Nations. So we must read the Presi dent's statement as a call upon the United Nations to seize the problem which has been brought into the open by Egyptian and Russian declarations about vol- By Joe and Stewart Alsop tenant was a screwball. It amounts to a flat rejection of the leadership burden that history has placed upon this country, with the remorseles command: "Carry that burden well, you Americans, or go down with it to ruin." It is wrong in another sense, also, for the task of policy-makers in all countries is to foresee the reactions and guard against the follies of policy - makers in other countries whose decisions may affect the national interest. And by this test, too, American dealings with the Middle East ern crisis have been sadly at fault. For what has happened? A great crisis was precipitated when Egypt's President Nasser brusquely nationalized the Suez canal, as his answer to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' brusque rejection of the Aswan dam scheme. Nasser got away with it and so became the unchallenged leader of the other Middle East ern nations. This meant a men ace of eventual extinction for little Israel. IfOR Britain and France, the consequences of a Nasser tri umph were almost equally mor tal, in view of their economic dependence on Middle Eastern resources. Through the two oth er leading Western allies, as well as because of our connection with Israel, our own vital inter ests were also at stake, although less directly. j In these circumstances, how ever, our policy seemed to be mainly designed to get by some how, from conference to fruit less conference, without doing anything uncomfortably contro versial or decisive to solve the problem. . But this was not a leader's pol icy, it was not even a practical policy, since leaving the prob lem unsolved quite foreseeably insured an eventual resort to desperate measures by the Is raelis, if not by the British and French as well. Precisely this result finally en sued. TJESIDES joining the Israelis in doing something desper ate, moreover, the British and French did it in a very foolish way. Yet once again, the first task of the leaders was not to reprove or recriminate or pun ish. As with a company captain when his platoon lieutenants make a serious mistake in bat tle, the leader's first task was to make the best of a bad business. And much better could certainly have been made of this bad busi nes than all but surrendering the whole Middle East to the influ ence and power of the Soviets. Blaming allies is both human and consoling. But when things go badly, the true world leader must first of all examine his own conduct, to see whether his leadership responsibility has been duly, wisely and coura geusly discharged, and to see how he can do better. Surely this is not expecting too much great ness of America. (C) 195S New York Herald Tribune Inc. Stalinsim and his own "evil in fluence." And if the Kremlin should de cide on this method of trying to rehabilitate itself in the eyes - f the world and its former sympa thizers, but felt firing Molotov were not enough, Nikita Khrush chev himself might be forced out, as the actual perpetrator of the disastrous Hungarian policy. Georgi Malenkov, identified in both Russian minds and abroad as an exponent of a "softer" policy and of a sub stantially higher standard .of living, might be brought back to the top. Tomorrow Lippmann unteers. What would be the posi tion of the U.N. if, after demand ing Russian withdrawal from Hungary and British and French withdrawal from Egypt, it al lowed a Russian army to enter Egypt and Syria? The President is entitled to say that he Is go ing to work through the U.N. because he has a right to insist that the issue is one which the U.N. cannot evade. TT goes without saying that the trained military personnel that Nasser and the Soviet gov ernment have been talking about are not in any true sense of the word volunteers. They could not be recruited, equipped, and transplanted to Egypt except by the Soviet government. It is in conceivable that the Soviet gov ernment would not have the final say as to how, where, and when they were to be used. There can be no doubt that, once established in the Middle East, this Russian force would have the power to make and to un make the Arab governments, and thus to dominate the whole region. The question is not one which can be disposed of by resolutions which do no more than to ex press an opinion. The question is whether, Great Britain and France having withdrawn from Egypt, the U.N. will permit Rus sia to enter Egypt. rpHE latest reports available as this is written suggest that both in Cairo and in Moscow there is a disposition not to plunge ahead with the volun teer business. The President's first warning must surely have had something to. do with this. Moreover, as the withdrawal of the Anglo-French forces is as sured, there is no reason which the Soviet government can pub licly avow to justify the send ing in of its own so-called volun teers. This is a very considerable gain. But we have no right to suppose that the Soviet govern ment is, therefore, giving up the idea of creating a Soviet mili tary force in the heart of the Middle East. There is much credible evidence, uncovered through the capture of Egyptian documents and an examination of the captured Russian muni tions in Egypt, to indicate a strong probability that a Rus sian military base is being pre pared. The evidence indicates that military supplies have been shipped into Egypt to await the later arrival of the volunteers, that is to say of the Soviet per sonnel. TOR the moment it may be that the occasion has passed when the Soviet governmeht will move a great mass of volunteers into Egypt. But the world must reckon with the probability that such personnel will be coming, nevertheless, coming quietly and in small numbers over a period of time. This means that the United Nations police force has a long tour of duty ahead of it. It will have to do more than to super vise the British, French and Israeli withdrawal. It will have to do more than to deal with the Arab -Israeli border prob lems. There is a great vacuum of power in the Middle East which was created by the original with drawal of the British from Suez in 1954. Nasser has tried to fill that vacuum. But Nasser's Egypt is not a great power, and Nasser's role in the history of the Middle East has not been to create the Pan-Arab empire he talks about. His role has been to open the door of the Middle East to the Russian empire. Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Coldwater, Mich. (U.R) Ed Butters of Coldwater has buf faloes for sale. He wants to get rid of his buffalo herd so he can devote full time to his rein deer. Butters bought the ances tors of his present buffalo herd several years ago from the gov ernment. The reindeer are props for his annual masquerade as Santa Claus. ttt m Best Far liu 100 Tablets tie In The Day's Here's the latest move on the international chessboard: Russia proposes that the whole disarmament question, including OUTLAWING NUCLEAR WEA PONS, be taken up at a new "summit" conference of the U.S., Britain, France, India and the Soviet Union. The Russians say such a. con ference would consider Presi dent Eisenhower's open skies in spection plan and Soviet pro posals for- DESTROYING STOCKPILES of hydrogen and atomic bombs and for ending nuclear bomb tests. TN WASHINGTON, the White House declines comment until it receives the official text of the Russian proposal. News Secre tary James Hagerty says: "All we have before us now is news reports. The text has hot yet reached Washington. As soon as the complete text is re ceived it will be carefully studied." rpHAT IS to say: Before we commit ourselves one way or the other we are go ing to read all the fine print. That's a sound idea. In these propositions that look too good to be true the catches are usually to be found down in the fine print at the bottom. WHAT TO DO? . " Let's go highbrow for a mo ment, c o Euripides, in his Iphigenia in Reservists Screened In Military Letter Washington (U.R) .Note to reservists: If you receive a letter from the military or Selective Service inquiring as to your "availability" for recall to ac tive duty, don't get nervous. It's just part of a "routine 'scresn ing process." The armed services and Se lective Service want to be sure that a reservist would be ready and available in event of a na tional emergency. Ths govern ment agencies are not thinking In terms of calling up veterans because of the Middle East crisis. In recent weeks, the military seryices the. Army and. Marine corps particularly have been sending out letters to their re servists asking whether and how soon they could get back in uni form if ordered. In addition, local Selective Service boards for the past five months have been sending letters to standby reservists asking a similar question. WHAT GOES UP Batavia, N.Y. (U.RJ Irving Gilman, 16-year-old drum major for the St. Joseph's Drum Corps of Batavia, flipped his baton up ward during a fire department carnival parade and got the sur prise of his life. The metal baton remained up in the air, fused to a 5,000-volt power line sus pended across the street. It caus ed a 90-minute blackout. LEGAL NOTICES TO ALL LAND OWNERS. ASSESS MENT PAYERS OR OTHER INTER ESTED PARTIES IN GOLD HILL JR RIGATION DISTRICT: . Notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors of Gold Hilt Irrl -gation District, did. at the regulai meeting thereof held on the 7th da of November 1956. by resolution thereof, make a computation and as sessment of the amounts of mone necessary to be raised by the district for the year 1957 for district purposes, and its bond and interest payments. and did determine the number of irri- , gable acres owned by each land ownef or assessment payer in me aisinci. I and the proportionate assessments to I be charged against each such tract: l and said assessment roll is available and open for examinaUon and inspec- 1 tion bv all interested parties at the office of the President of Gold Hill Irrigation District. Notice is further given that the Board of Directors of said district will . at the hour of 1:00 o'clock p.m.. on tne in aay oi uecemoer 195B. sit at the People's Realty Office on Highway 1 io. 99. tioia rim. uregon. as a Board of Equalization to review and correct I the assessment roll so creDared and 1 will hear and determine any objec tions Dy any interested oersons to the said assessments and apportionment I thereof, and any other matter or mat- I ters connected therewith that may come before them. . BY ORDER of the Board of Dlrec- " tors of Gold Hill Irrigation District. dated November 7. 1956. GOLD HILL IRRIGATION DISTRICT j By Bertha Coy Ross. Secretary. FUNERAL . SERVICES o o In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 o News y u O Frank Jenkins Tauris, uses this line: Put not t!!y faith in any Greek." Virgil, in his Aeneiad, Sauses Aeyas Q say: "I ofear the Greeks, even when bearing gifts." o A WAY (BACK before even Herodotus ha3 sorted writ ing history a tie so (gemote that its events have to come down to us by word-of-mouth tradition Greece d Troy oc cupied about theme place in the little world of then that is occupied in the bigger world of today by the United States and Russia. Wtlile the rest of the world looked on, they fought each other with weapons and kidtied each other with strata gems. O The Greeks WON BY TRICK ERY. The trick that did the bus iness was the Trojan Horse which we don't need to go into detail about here, because every body either knows tgfe Tfojan Horse story or ougltt to. rpHIS IS the foint: The Greeks destroyed the Tro jans by a trick. 9 The Russian) will destroy us in the same way if they cam That is why?we musP read all the fine print io all tie proposals that bat up to, usi They'd like nothing -tetterO than to trick us into destroying C all otir nuclear weapons id then blow us to Kinfdom Gm with atom and hydrogen bosibs0 o- TT S TOO bad. v.3 But that's the. way it tt, -O At 90 Beart Sdfio GEO. N. TAYLOR o Yes, Sarah, tli wife of Abra O ham was 90 and far beyond the age of child-bearing. "Abraham, her h u s b-s d was 100 a' r dead so far as becoming a A- O ther laayo do Yet GM pronV cised theai a son and Abra-OBm believed t h t what -God had pro m ied, fe would do. ASH O so in due lime, Isaac the son was bornr Se, Romas 4:19-21. q O And you? 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