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L FOUR MTOFORD (OREGON) MedfordTbibune "Xveryon In Southern Oregon Re Th Mall Tn buna" Hibluhed Daily ExcDt Saturday by MEDFORD Pit IN TING CO 17-29 North Fir St Phone 2-gMl ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HTHB GREY Advertising Manager GERAX.D LATHAM Business Ma naffer ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS Clv Editor HAftRV CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEVETf- Sport Editor OUVf STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circula tion Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second claw matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 , SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mali In Advance- Per Copy 10c paiiy and Sunday One year $13 00 Taily and Sunday Six monthi 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three moa 4-25 Sundav OnlyOne year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point EaI Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove Rotrue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 DeJly and Sunday One month 1-50 Carrier and Dealers -Jf per copy AJ1 Terms Cash In Advance tfffPia) Paper of the Ctty of Medford ?fyc!J rer f Jackson County United Presa-Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU yr CIKCULATION Advertiser Reoresentativ WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit San FYanciico Los Angelas Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver BC NATIONAL EDITORIAL I asTocTatlon PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Wot. 20, 1946 (Wednesday) A new ten-yer contract with the California Power company Ja approved by the passage of an ordinance by the city coun cil last ftlajht. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The legis lative, executive, judicial and Joha L. Lewis branches of the government are all still func tioning. 20 YEARS AGO Not. 20. 193B (Friday) Jackson county budget com mittee approves at public hear ing the county budget of $532, 780.12 for coming year. Checkup of all types of histor ical records is being made .in Jackson county in connection with a survey being conducted in every' U.S. county. 30 YEARS AGO or. 20, 1928 (Saturday) ' A big Legion meeting cram med full of important business matters is scheduled for next Monday night at the armory. Plans are being made for a flying circus to be staged at the . local airport at the fair grounds - in th near future. : 40 TEARS AGO W . 20. 118 (Monday) ' Af!r a most successful week, th bazaar given in the Davis riuildirig for the benefit of St. Vary'i academy closed Satur day County court orders special election to b held Dec. 27 for rt creation of an irrigation dis trict. 40 YEARS AGO Sot. SO. 1916 (Tuesday) No single industry in the wrld is now paying so large a profit on the amount of money invested at the capper industry From Local and Personal col umn: Dr. W. S. Jones returned Isat night from a two weeks Stay in San, Francisco. What's the Answtr? , Can Too Get 4 of the 7? Copt 1953- Editorial Baiaareh' Report ' 1. The N. Y. Stock Market on the day after Eisenhower's 1956 landslide victory fell.' or rose or stayed about- the same? 2. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, UN negotiator between Israel and Arabs, is American, Canadian, English, Australian or East In dian?. 3.'Adlai E. Stevenson did or didn't carry in 1956 any state that he had failed to carry in 1952? : 4. After the 1948-49 Israel Arab war Israel got about as much territory as offered in the 1947 UN proposal, or much more or much less? 5. Which of these has most members in the U.S. House of Representatives: Delaware. Na vada, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wyoming? . 6. John A. Carroll is the new Democratic Senator from which western state? 7. About one-third, ene-half, or two-thirds of all U.S. passen ger cars are kept in garages overnight? The answers: 1. Fell. 2. Cana dian 3. Did (Missouri). 4. Much mora. 5. .Rhode Island (2). The roii. on. t Colorado. 7. About ball. t- I J jjj Newspaper MAIL TRIBUNE The Two-Headed Horse Usually after a campaign the losers accept the verdict philosophically, and proceed to forget it. Some even go so far as to quote the familiar Latin pro nouncement "Vox Populi, vox Dei" the "voice of the people is the voice of God" and abide sancti moniously by it. But not this year as far as the supporters of Doug las McKay are concerned. The decisive victory of Senator Morse is something they have chewed on bitterly for some days, and still can't seem to swallow without a wry grimace at least. TAKE our usually temperate and reasonable con temporary to the north, for example, the Roseburg News-Review. Ten days after the election we find it attributing the ".unfortunate" defeat of former Governor McKay to "smear" tactics of the Morse opposition. Listen to this, quote: VIn the last election we saw the latter (smear) applied very successfully against Doug McKay. Thousands of Ore gon newcomers who didn't know Doug's ability as Governor of Oregon and who were not familiar with the great public service he had rendered in the past .were convinced by re peated declarations, half-truths, misrepresentations and dis tortion that as Secretary of the Interior he was a despoiler of our natural resources and an enemy of conservation." ,"CMEAR?" It is not a smear to cite the record and state the facts. As Secretary of the Interior, Douglas McKay WAS an out-and-out enemy of conservation, and a devoted partisan of exploitation for private profit. He was never accused of being wicked or dishonest; he was accused, and justifiably, only of being a de voted disciple of the theory that what is best for General Motors IS best for the -country; that where private profit conflicts with the public welfare, not the latter but the former should prevail. These points were made clear during the cam paign and about the only defense the McKay zealots offered was to dismiss all charges as merely poli tics" and point to the fact (which no one denied) that during the McKay administration more money had been spent on the extension and improvements of public parks than during the previous adminis tration. So what? AS STATED it was all a matter of FACTUAL record, and while it was political in the sense it involved public policy, there was not a drop of misrepresentation or distortion or deceit in it. More over, the truth is the people of Oregon, regardless of party, did not and do not believe in that exploita tion theory, and when they got a chance to hit it, they went to the polls and did just that. "IITE WILL not rake over the coals of the campaign fires again (anyone who wishes a correct sum mary of the McKay record as Secretary of the In terior can obtain same from an article in the May Harpers entitled "The Republican Giveaway" by a well known Washington (D.C.) newspaper man, Warren Unna.) We refuse, however, to allow that term "smear" to stand without challenge when it is used as an "alibi" for the McKay defeat For it is not only untrue but the exact reverse of the truth. Anyone who followed the recent senatorial campaign with any care whatsoever, will agree the smears were practically ALL on the other side, in including half-truths, misrepresentations and distortions. It is admitted now that in advertising to besmirch a decade of forceful and conscientious service to this state whether one agrees or disagrees with the principles Morse fought for. Senator Morse was depicted as a traitor, a tum-coat, an apostate and a two-headed horse and what-have-you.. As he is an expert horseman, a practical fanner and happily married many of his supporters were surprised he was not accused of being a hoss-thief, a landgrabber and a wife beater. Indeed the viciousness and rank injustice of this "anything to beat Morse" campaign became so flagrant, that as this paper remarked during the close of the campaign many of the voters particularly the Independents marked their bal lots as a protest against such low-grade and low road tactics, in favor of Oregon's senior Senator. MOW for the McKay supporters to intimate that it was the smear campaign against the former Secretary of the Interior, instead of the "smear" campaign against Wayne Morse, that figured so largely in the result, can only be compared on the basis of logic and the truth, with the political tech nique so dear to the Russian Kremlin, namely charging the United States and other free nations, with the crimes against world amity and peace, they have committed or intend to commit themselves. THE election is over. It resulted in an overwhelm- ing endorsement of "We like Ike" the Republican candidate for President. ' Why not rest content with that? Why not stop, instead of continuing to hold post-mortems and try ing to make out the Democratic victory in this state was something that it was NOT? R.W.R. Portland Highway Needs Told Group Portland (U.R) W. C. Wil liams, state highway engineer. said yesterday that it will take approximately S371 million to handle the highway needs of Portland in the next nine years. Williams, speaking before the Chamber of Commerce, said that federal highway funds would help construct some free- Tuesday. November 20. 1958 over $300,000 was spent the Morse record of over days but pointed out that the money from that source would not provide the answer alone. He said that about $200 million of the needed funds is in sight at the present time. Wisconsin's public hunting and fishing grounds cover 69,315 acres. Nasser's Telephone Call Gives 'Answers' to Some Questions By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington U.PJ Precisely between the first and second lunch courses and both very "Wis good the host listened to the butler's whis pered words, beckoned the guest of honor and disap peared. Over the host's shoulder came a polite apology with LJL9 C WllHU the explanation: "President Nas ser on the phone." That's Washington. The host was Dr. Ahmed Hussein, the am bassador of Egypt. The place was the Egyptian Embassy on swank Sheridan Circle. The guest of honor as a jovial fat man, Moustafa Amin. Moustafa and his twin brother, Ali, pub lish Akbar El Yom, which is Arabic for news of the day, a Congressional Funds For Investigations Reach Record Amount Washington (CQ) The 84th Congress was the "investigat ingest" Congress in history, if money is a valid yardstick. And these expenditures are expected to continue rising. In its two-year span the 84th set aside a record SI 1.3 million for Congressional investigations, compared to the previous rec ord of 58.173,164 held by the 83rd Congress. Senate committees were au thorized to spend $6,289,055.38 in new money, plus $522,644 in carryover funds money author ized but unspent by the 83rd Congress. House committees were given $4,510,199.89, all in new money. A good share of this money just how much is undeter mined went to investigate Communist activity in the Unit ed States. The House Un-American Activities Committee was granted $500,000 for its 84th Congress probes, the fifth high est amount granted any com mittee. In Senate And on the Senate side, the Judiciary Committee whose Internal Security Subcommittee is in many respects the counter part of the Un-American Activi ties Committee received the largest probe authorization in the 84th Congress, $1,932,338.69 in new money, plus $136,464 in carryover funds. Senate and House committees Communications Letters to the Ednor must beer 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 letters with an eve to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted tor publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Esperanto Explained To the Editor: Any person in terested in learning languages should investigate the possibil ities of Esperanto. Esperanto is a simplified language, based on familiar west Europe language roots (telefono, telephone; birdo, bird; skribi, to write; etc.). The language has no irregular verbs; its accent, spelling and pro nunciation are uniform for these reasons it can be learned much more quickly and easily than any national language. There are Esperantists in 80 nations an estimated several million and many are anxious to correspond with Americans in Esperanto. Because Esperanto is compar atively simple it requires no ex pensive texts. At the present our non-profit organization offers a free correspondence course in Esperanto, though students must supply their own texts. For free details about Esper anto, the second language for everyone, write to: The Esper anto League, Route 1, Meadville, Penn. Adrian Hughes, Hillsboro, Ore. Sunshine Camps To the Editor: When you eat breakfast grapefruit tomorrow, ask yourself why is it, that, in the West, the sweetest grapefruit is desert-grown? The answer, of course, is sun-chemistry. What's good for grapefruit is similarly good for kiddies. Our race was evolved in the out-of-doors. Now we condemn our wee bairns, in thousands of homes in our Canadian Border states, to being huddled in furnace heated rooms. Now that we have air-travel, it would-be possible to organize sunshine centers all along our Mexican Border -states from Texas to California. We have Boy Scouts. Campfire Girls and even municipal camps like our Camp Sacramento. Why not midwinter Sunshine camps for sun-starved young sters? C. M. Goethe, Crocker-Anglo Bank Building, Sacramento, Calif. mass circulation newspaper dis tributed from Cairo throughout the Middle East. Fields Tough Question Moustafa Amin, a good news paperman himself, was fielding some tough questions thrown by the newsmen present when the phone call intervened. The call had been put in yesterday. But until there is more direct serv ice between Washington and Cairo, as the ambassador ex plained, one must expect a bit of delay. Even when calling a president! Newsmen had been trying to pin Amin down on the amount of munitions sent into Egypt by the Soviet Union and satellite nations. It wasn't much, he in sisted. How about the $50 million worth of munitions which Israel claimed to have captured, he was asked. Amin thought that far too high. When he returned to the lunch table, Amin said he had passed several questions on to Nasser and that the replies are required to report their probe spending semi-annually. According to a Congressional Quarterly study of these reports, the 84th Congress spent $5,271, 491.10, about 46.5 per cent, of its investigation funds in its first 18 months. Eighteen Sen ate committees reported spend ing $3,150,128.84; 21 House committees, $2,121,362.26. A final spending tally for the entire Congress will not be available until 1957, but not all money authorized for probes will be spent. Committees of the 83rd Congress, for instance, spent only 65 per cent of the funds available to them. If the 84th spends at the same rate. total probe spending for 1955-56 will reach about $7.4 million. The Senate Judiciary Com mittee, in addition to receiving the largest probe authorization in the 84th Congress, also re ported the greatest spending, almost $1.2 million prior to June 30. Other high spenders on the Senate side were the Banking and Currency, Government Op erations, Interior and Insular Affairs, Interstate and Foreign Commerce and Labor and Pub lic Welfare Committees. All re ported spending betwfeen $200, 000 and $300,000 between Jan. 3, 1955, and June 30, 1956. In the House, the Appropria tions Committee was authorized $1 million for its investigations in fiscal 1956-57. The Govern ment Operations Committee was granted $995,000, then came the Un-American Activities Com mittee. Government Operations was the most prodigal spender. It used up $261,766.18 of its authorization in the first 18 months. Runners - up in the spending derby were Appropria tions ($356,770.05), Un-Ameri can Activities ($343,381.60), Small Business ($210,912.56) and Judiciary ($106,220.06). Joint committees are not re quired to report their spending and were not included in CQ's tally of authorizations. How ever, five joint committees with essentially investigative func tions were authorized to spend S906.049 by the 84th Congress. The money was allotted for all committee expenses for fis cal 1956 and 1957. A sixth joint committee Atomic Energy, was granted $480,835 for all its expenses dur ing the two fiscal years. This committee handles legislation as well as investigative work, and no breakdown is available on what portion of its funds went for investigations. Vote Influence Pr.obe The most prominent investi gations conducted during the second session of the 84th Con gress were those connected with an- alleged attempt to influence the vote of Sen. Francis Case (R-S.D.) on the natural gas bill. A select committee headed by Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga ) first investigated the charge. Subsequently, a special commit tee headed by Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) was set up to conduct a wide-ranging probe of corrupt practices in Congress and the executive branch. This committee, too, confined its study almost entirely to the gas bill. Other favorite subjects for probes in 1956, as in 1955, were communism and subversion, military programs and business. Since it was an election year, campaign financing and spend ing were scrutinized by Congres sional probers. No 1956 investigations caught the public interest to the extent of the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954 or the Kefauver crime investigation of 1951. And, as always, much of the probe money financed myriad studies by committee staff members. Most such studies led neither to hearings nor headlines. (Copyright 1956. Congressional Quarterly) were as follows, in the Presi dent's own language: Will Investigate Arms "Tomorrow it will be an nounced in the newspapers that I have asked the United Nations to create a committer to investi gate in Isreal what the Israeli actually captured. Egypt will ac cept the committee's findings without question." Amin estimated that the Is raeli booty was limited to 30 tanks and 50 troop carrier trucks. He said Nasser denied, as follows, that he had sought the aid of Russian volunteers: 'There are no Russian volun teers in Egypt today. We fought this battle alone and we are insisting on fighting it alone in order to avoid World War III." Amin had been asked about reports that Egypt had encour aged other Arab nations to na tionalize foreign oil holdings. He came back with this answer from Nasser: "Egypt never intended to ask or to encourage the Arab na tions to nationalize oil. In fact, Egypt respects all contracts be tween foreign countries." In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Still no shooting as this is written. But we aren't out of the woods. A lot of face remains to be saved in the Suez area before we can breathe more easily. The British and the French want to ge off the hook they hung themselves up on when they moved in shooting. Nasser is still smarting with humilia tion over the poor military showing he made. The United States is cast in the role of peacemaker which is always a hard one to play, with plenty of brickbats forth coming and few bouquets. Bur st. Matthew says (v-9): "Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the chil dren of God. And our wise Ben Franklin said: ".There never was a good war or a bad peace." So let's keep on trying. SOMETHING new is added to- ' day. A RED CHINESE broadcast claims the Chinese communists suddenly have approved sweep ing pardons for anti-communists who have "reformed. The broadcast says a "parliamentary committee" has decided to per mit charges to be dropped against all COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIES who committed "lesser crimes but made a clean breast of them . . . and to com mute death sentences and give lighter sentences for other crimes." HMMMMMM! That's a confes sion that there HAVE BEEN counter - revolutions in red China, and that the rebels were sternly dealt with as were the "rebels" in Hungary. It further suggests that the communist gov ernment of China is a little SCARED by the reaction of the Chinese to the stern punish ments that were dealt to the troublemakers and is pulling in its horns a bit. That lends further substance to the belief that the horrible in stitution of communism is so foul that in time it must fall of the weight of its own foulness. TF THAT is true and what has -- happened in Hungary has cer tainly torn the mask from the foul face of Russian communism and shocked the world as noth ing has shocked it in recent gen erations time is working on our side. If we can restrain the shooting long enough maybe communism will trip on its own feet. "INE more straw in the wind: Radio Budapest in appar ent defiance of the Russians has broadcast Yugoslav Presi dent Tito's charge that the Rus sian communists were to blame for the Hungarian revolt. Watch Tito. Keep your fingers crossed. He's a communist. He's a BIG communist. He may as pire to be the big toad in the communist puddle. But Anything that causes com munists to quarrel with commu nists instead of trying to con quer the world for communism is good. Actor Kelly Bequeaths Estate To His Widow Hollywood (U.R) Actor Paul Kelly bequeathed nearly all of an estimated $100,000 estate to his widow, Mardell, in a will filed for probate Monday. Kelly's estate, listed in excess of $10,000 but estimated to be worth $100,000, was left to the widow with the exception of $1,000 bequeathed to his adopt ed daughter, Mimi Kelly. The veteran actor died Nov. 1 of a heart attack. He was 57. MRS. J. W. WHSOH, of Houston, Tex., sars: "I tried all aspirins but St Joseph Aspirin For Children is the one for my children. They lis it; I'm sore of dosace." ST. JOSEPH ASPIRIN FOR CHILDREN IfAottQF Of FdCt "RE-STALINIZATION?" Washington The ominous word, "re-Stalinization," is be ing heard more and more often in the experts anal yses of the current de velopment of Soviet policy. Even today, even after the un s p eakable horror of the blood bath in Hungary, the betting is still Stewart Aisop somewhat against a "re-Stalinization." A complete return to the methods and policies of their late master and teacher, Joseph Stalin, would be difficult and risky for the present masters of the Kremlin. But for the first time since the great post - -Stalin change in the Kremlin, a de cisive return to all Stalin's methods a n'd- policies is now -iuieuii aosub besinnine to be considered as at least quite possible, although not yet prob able. The evidence is positive, moreover, that the Soviet lead ers are still debating their fu ture course, and that the altern ative of "re-Stalinization" has by no means been excluded. For ex ample, a few days prior to Wladyslaw Gomulka's depart ure for Moscow, apparently au thoritative reports came from high satellite sources that the Kremlin was preparing-to crush both the newly independent Po land and Marshal Tito's Yugo slavia. The basic military dis positions for a Soviet move against Poland had been made even before these reports were received. - TZEEPING two strings to their bow whenever possible is of course the first rule of Soviet policy-making. Most likely the military dispositions were pre cautionary and the satellite lead ers who definitely expected-mil-itary action against Poland had been purposely misled. After all, it would help the Soviet rulers to soften up Gomulka for his time at the Kremlin bargaining table, if they let Gomulka know in advance that they were con sidering military action. Most likely, in fact, the true situation was discerned by one of the ablest European observers in Moscow, who warned his gov ernment of the possibility of an attack on Poland, but predicted that it would not take place un less Gomulka impressed the Sov iet rulers as too rebellious and intransigent. This warning was conveyed before Gomulka's ar rival in Moscow and thus far, fortunately, the S o v i e t-Polish conversations seem to be going rather well. VET as sound a judge of Soviet -- intentions as Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia has also been impres sed by the possibility of a sud den Soviet reversion to unres trained savagery. Perhaps in re sponse to the same reports from the satellites mentioned above, Tito some time ago ordered his considerable army to strenghten the defenses of the Hungarian and Bulgarian frontiers. This was noted by Western representatives' at Belgrade. To their alarmed in quiries, the Yugoslav spokesmen replied that Tito certainly did not expect an attack, but. was also unable to rule out the pos sibility. ; Further confirmation that Tito fears a Kremlin victory for a" faction urging re-Stalinization is also contained in the Yugoslav leader's truly remarkable speech on the events in Poland and Murray Chotiner Married in Phoenix Phoenix U.R) Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon's 1952 campaign manager was reported to have married here Monday. Albert Chotiner, brother of Murray Chotiner, said Murray had been wed to Ruth Huntley Arnold. Murray Chotiner was men tioned in connection with inves tigation of military uniform con tracts. In appearances before the Senate Government Operations Subcommittee, Chotiner denied using White House contacts in behalf of his clients. The couple was reported to have departed for Hawaii fol lowing the ceremony.' Dr. Virgil DENTIST Announces the Re;Opening of His Office For the Practice of General Dentistry 304 FLUHRER BLDG. - MED?ORD, ORE. Telepho Office: 2-2414 By Joe and Stewart Alsop Hunsjary. In this speech, Tito not only offered the first auth oritative account of the debate withjn the Kremlin. He further seemed to hint that the Satalinist faction, presumably headed by Viacheslav M o 1 o tov, currently had the upper hand. PENALLY, it is veryo obvious that the grim and terrible situation in Hungary must be dragging the Soviet rulegs in th direct ion of re-Stalinization. Judging by the reports from ' Budapest, there seems to be very little doubt that Soviet policy makers now have only two re maining choices. Either they must rule Hungary by bloody, naked, unrelenting force. Or they must canpletely relax their grip on Hungary, even though they will thus permit HgngSry to be transformed into anQactrtffj anti-Soviet statt on their borders. The first alternative is physic ally possible A treat power like the Soviet Union can still iake a solitude and call it peace," 9 'remark that wajaljcgedly first made 18 tenturies ago by a painted British chieftain about Britain's Roman oeeupiers. The second Hungarian alternative is supremely alarming to the Krem lin: and if Hungary were tile only problem, they would surely choose to rule by force. But if they are driven to rule Hungary by force alone, then theQfate of Foland will be sealed too in we end not probably while Gom ulka is in Moscow, but as titte goes on and the bloody policy of Hungary generates bloodiness everywhere. At worst, however, an attack on Poland would rislt, a third world war. q At best, moreover, on the rule of bloodiness generating more bloodiness, making war o Pc-p land would eventually force the Soviet rulers to renew their war against their own people. 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