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Newspaper Page TextFOUH MEDrOBD (OREGON) "Everyone '4k Southern Oreaoa B.asTne UiTnbun" '. Published Daily Except Saturday y MEDORD PRIMING CO 2T-2 .North Fir St ' Phcne 2-I41 ROBERT W RL'HL. Editor HERB GREY Advertisinf Manager CERALD LAiAM Business Manager IRIC LLEN JR Managing Kdiror lARLt ADAMS Cit Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraoh Bdltar RICHARD JEAVETf Sporti Editor OUVE STARCHER Societv Editor PALE '."ftlCKSON CircuJation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Zntfvrd aa second class matter at Meelford Oreeon tmcv Ac oi . March 3 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mail In Advanoe Per Cop 10c PaiTy and Sunday One year Sl.uO flaily and Ssimdav Six montha 8 00 Dally sad Sunday Three moa 4.23 Sunday Only One vear 40 By Camv In Advance Medrord Aihland Centr.il Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville Cold . Hill Phoenix. Shad Cpve Rogue River Talent and ttn riiotor routes Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Dailv and Sanday One month ISO Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy AIT Terms Oasll In Advance r.'." p"" of the City of Medrord L"ii?J Ptjier-of Jackson County United Press Fulj Ceased Wife" MEMBER Of AUDIT BUREAU or ClHCULAflON Advertisine Ranre?ntativ WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offl'es fn New York Chisago, da trotc .San Francisco. Lot Angelea Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL- EDITORIAL I assocau,n iqht o' Time Medferd and.Jackson County ff jtory from- the tiles of The Mail Tribune' 10, 20, 30, 40 and SB years ago. 10 YKARS ACO Nt. tl, 1946 (Thursday) Snow has been falling at Cra ter Lake 'National park and has amounted to 42 inches with 40 inchM on the ground. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A trio of hunters are now charged with erroneously shooting a horse without a barn around It. 20 YSARS AGO ' Not. -21, 193S (Saturday) Construction of Eagle Point's new j,ater system gets under way. About 75 attended -the annual past master's night at the Ma senic temple by Medford lodge 103, A.F. end A.M. 39 YEARS AGO Not. 21, '1926. (Sunday) 4 Work started yesterday on a new 410,000 concrete structure for the Sparry Flour company at the corner .of Fifth and Fir s. Heaviest rur of silverside sal mon seen in- Rogue river during the rast eight years is now in progress, according to - W. R. Coleman, state master of -fish screens. 40 YEARS AGO ' Nov. 21, 1916 (Tuesday) - Bernard Motor, company of Medford sold to George E. Treichler and Van R. Pierson, wrio will take over the business at once. a From Local and Personal col umn: Mrs. Ernest "Smith has re turned to Medford after visiting friends at Grants' Pass. hS YEARS AGO Not. 21, 190S (Wednesday) Attorneys- and witnesses In the suit of N. A. Ambrose vs. The Southern Pacific railway ar e, jive today and go to Jackson ville, where testimony will be taken before judge Hanna. - A. glee club is organized at s Medford High school; Jack Por- ter elected president. If kit's the Answer? Can Sou Get 4 of the 1? ,: Copr. 195a editorial Ksscarca Report 0 1. Had either party previous i ry yion the Presidency and lost both houses of Congress in. the same election, the last 100 years? 2. Both Israel and, Egypt are U.N. members, neither is, Israel is" and Egypt isn't, or Egypt is and Isreel isn't? I. Jiumber of traffic deaths this eear is up or down con siderably, or about the average rf previocc years?. 4. Brandcis University is in Massachusetts, New York, Dis 63; i i j u . J " ASOCIATION trict' of .Oolumbia, Florida or Q Israel? 5. Steeenson carried- in 1956 all the states he. carried in 1952: right or wrong? 8. Average- life of U.S. motor vehicles when finally scrapped is sout (a) 5, lb)" 9, (c) 13,- or td) 17 years? 7 Joseph S. Clark Jr., i the newly elected Democratic Sen ator froi vhich large-state? The answers:. 1. No. 2. Both re U.N. meenbers. 3. Up con lideribly. 4. Massachusetts. 5. Wrteig. 6. About .13 r" (1954, latest figure aTailable). 7.Pennsylvajia. : MAIL THI1UN1" Chess Behind Bars Human tragedy is where you find it in pent house .or prison. The death of a child is a heart-wrenching thing. But perhaps a greater tragedy is a life wasted and of no particular value to anyone even to its pos sessor. TNT 1931, a Puerto Rican immigrant and two com- panions, both railroad section hands in Central Oregon, were swindled by a professional gambler. They decided to take their money back from him. They hell him up, and in the scuffle the gambler was killed. The Puerto Rican was sentenced to life imprisonment. Twenty-one years later he was released on parole. He "went straight," on the outside. But, he said, life had "passed him by." He couldn't, find anyone to play chess with him a game which he learned in prison and in which he became proficient. "I am like 'Alice in Wonderland,' " he said last week, "Everything is so different than when I went to prison. I can't seem to adjust myself." LIE WENT to the Klamath county jail and asked to be sent back to prison. "I want to go back to Salem where I can find some peace of mind," he told the jailors. "Technically," he said, he is a parole violator, and should go back to finish his life term. A deputy sheriff was assigned to return him to the prison, and as he left, the greying convict said he'd be glad to get back there. "Maybe some of my old chess-playing pals are still around." No one knows what this man might have been had his life not turned out to be a blank page. All we know is that he is to be pitied as he sits behind bars, whiling away the hours playing chess, secure from the world which has passed him by. He is a lost man. And it is also a loss to society, which now supports him, and to mankind. E.A. Not Half Bad The U.S. bureau of the census revealed last week that the female population of this nation out numbers the male by a million or so for the first time in history. Some editorial writers (masculine) have viewed this with mild alarm. "Matriarchy," one of them foresaw. "Petticoat government," another predicted. Well, now, as the only male member (the puppy excepted) in a family of four, we are considerably more outnumbered than the American male popula tion as a whole, and can testify that it isn't half bad. "THE male, sadly enough, n s 1-1 f n 1 n C V, w-i m chondria, but she outlives the opposite sex in im posing numbers and by several years, according to figures we have seen. This is one contributing factor to her new-found statistical dominance. But despite her .hardihood (the reasons for which no one knows, but which may involve the kind of life she leads) she is not, on the average, much con cerned with personal participation in government, except for voting. And in casting her ballot she is not necessarily going to cast it for another woman; she may be even less apt to do so than for a capable (or good looking) man. TN ANY event we advise our colleagues to dispell their fears. Even if their worst worries came to pass, it would not be an insupportable world. We know. We live there. E.A. Fast Mail Service It wasn't long' ago that we received two letters in the same mail one from Prospect, the other from Honolulu. The one from Hawaii had been mail eel the morn ing before the day it was received. The one from Prospect was mailed three day before. Once, it took us two days to receive a letter post marked in Medford. Following a week end or holiday, some of the 20 or so newspapers we receive are as much as five or six days late. The purpose here is not to criticize as much as it is to point out that every organization has its im perfections (there was probably a reason for each case cited above), and to lead up to the fact that if the United States really demanded, and was will ing to pay for, fast and efficient postal service, it could get it IN A RECENT Collier's article, Robert Bendiner reported that Europeans take quick and efficient mail service for granted and we do mean quick. He cites the case of a suburbanite in London who mailed an application for membership in a tennis club in the first mail of the day (in the morning) and by afternoon, in the day's third delivery, received his membership card. A Parisian, he says, can get a letter to another part of the city within an hour. And in London a housewife can order groceries in the morning by mail, and have them delivered in time for dinner. - Conditions in the tight little nations of Europe are different, of course, than in the sprawling United States, and its expanded, auto-dominated cities. And mail service here, generally, is good but it could be better. E.A. Wednesday. NoTeraber 21, I9SS is not as hardy a creature r i (-1- n t- Mm m Ike's Congressional Messages May Define 'Modern GOP' View Br LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington U.P.) Presi dent Eisenhower's formal defini tion of his proposed modern Re publicanism is about six weeks away. It will come in his an n u a 1 message and budget message to the new Congress which con venes Jan. 3, 1957. M o dern Re public anism was the phrase Mr. Eisenhower used in his vic tory speech on election night to describe his own political posi tion and the position to which he intends to move the foundations of the Republican party. Or, per haps, he feels the shift already has been made. The election returns convinced Necessity Seen Cause Of Varying Methods In Poland, (Editor's note: Kenneth Brodney is a former Cnited Press manager in Moscow. The followins dispatch, based on his own first-hand obser vation of the new collective leader ship In Russia, analyzes the appar ent contradictions between Russian treatment of Poland and the ruth less way In which it crushed the revolt in Hungary. By KENNETH BRODNEY Written For United Press The baffling spectacle of the Russians giving in tamely to Polish demands for more free dom ' while continuing savage crackdown on Hungary con tinues to confuse the West. It illustrates the key factor in Soviet policy-making: Necessity: The Soviets gave in to the Poles because they thought they had to as the only way to prevent another Hungary. But they also smashed the Hungarian revolt because they thought they had to as the only way of saving their sacred line of buffer states from the West, which they still fear with their old obsessive fear. And necessity will also pre vent any wholesale return to complete Stalinism inside Rus sia; to the terrorization of the entire population by the secret police and the mass purges of the old dictator. Drop Old Tactics The team that took over when Stalin died dropped these tac tics because they were forced to by popular pressure, not be cause of any mystic conversion inside the Kremlin to the side of the angels. Popular pressure in Russia can't express itself politically, but it can in a hundred other ways, grinding like massive millstones. People grumble publicly, they argue bitterly with the bureau crats, they get drunk, they steal and embezzle and bribe, and Christmas Buying Expected To Establish Record Total Washington :u.R) The U. S. Chamber of Commerce predicts that Christmas buying will push up retail sales to a record total "of at least" S193 billion this year. That would be $7.5 billion more than in 1955. Retail sales for the Christmas buying months of November and December, auto sales excepted, wiU climb to S31.1 billion, $2.1 billion more than the total for the same two months last year, the chamber predicted. Sales for the same period, auto sales in cluded, will total $37.1 billion, up $1.9 billion over 1955, it said. The chamber said that all 1956 buying is healthier than last year's, "reflecting a more nor mal expansion in population and personal income." In 1955, rec ord sales resulted "from a con summer buying spree, particu larly for autos," it said. 147.06 Megacycles Assigned Local Group A frequency of 147.06 mega cycles has been assigned as the primary frequency on the two meter band in Jackson county in Radio Amateur Civil Emer gency service operation, accord ing to Dwight J. Albright, con- trol center chief. The frequency of 145.26 mega cycles is assigned for use as a secondary frequency only, Al bright said. The frequency also is assigned to the Redding, Calif., area, he said, but no interfer ence is expected. The control station is work ing with the Oregon Civil De fense headquarters in Salem and handling messages on a test basis each Monday night be tween 8 and 9 p.m., Albright said. The station in Jackson county is in the National Guard area near Camp White. Albright said any operators interested are urged to attend the weekly meetings. Mr. Eisenhower that the Repub lican party must achieve a new look. In his first, news confer ence afte? the votes were count ed, the President put it in his own words: "Some change in the under standing that the public has of the Republican party is neces sary." Not Aware of New GOP The President's language indi cates that he feels modern Re publicanism has been achieved but that the voters are not yet aware of it. He sees his political job during the next four years to be one of demonstrating to the voters that modern Repub licanism has prevailed over the old-time GOP religion. - The details of modern Repub licanism as to taxes and spend ing remain to be revealed in the two big January messages. There will be a preview of the 1957 model of the President's domes- Hungary they speculate on the black market. But most important for the government they work less. And they work less efficiently. The effects are felt in the pro duction figures, in factories, on farms. The Kremlin's hand was final ly forced by another factor. The Soviet economy was growing out of the early stage of making any machine that was better than a hoe or a horse-plow. Now they were making jet planes, atom bombs, electronic brains. Can't Force Thinking It may have been possible to force a man to run a tractor or turn a single part on a lathe by keeping a cop standing over him. But guns can't force a man to think, even in Russia. And the number of Russians who must think on the job keeps rising. They keep pouring out of the universities and technical schools. The Russians, with 39 years of rigid Communist discipline behind them (and memories of centuries of the same medicine under the czars), took their gov ernent's sharp warnings. They slowed down. The Poles, under- veteran Communist Gomulka, took the same ominous hint, and have just teen given their half-a-loaf reward. . The Hungarians weren't so lucky, and the full weight of the Kremlin's fury fell on their heads like thunder and light ning. But the flashing resistence of the Hungarians, the more re strained but still stubborn de mands of the Poles, and the slowly grinding millstones of the Russian people's pressure have all taught the Kremlin new lessons. 195G Forecast The chamber also said 1956 sales volume reflects, to some extent, "scattered" price in creases. General merchandise, apparel, and furniture and appliances $43 billion, 'up $2.5 billion over 1955. Gasoline service stations Sales up about 12 per cent from last year. Drug and proprietary stores Sales up about 11 per cent over 1955. Food stores Sales more than five per cent ahead of last year. Eating and drinking establish ments Sales up six per cent over last year. . Automobiles The only dark spot. Sales down about 5.8 per cent but during the last quarter expected to equal those for the same period in 1955. OPENS ELVIS BARBER SHOP Detroit (U.R) A Detroit thea ter, took steps today to meet the "increasing demand for Elvis Presley haircuts." The theater opened an "Elvis Presley bar ber shop" in its lobby. The main feature showing at the theater is "Love Me Tender," featuring Elvis. , C0HT1HUED1 Special Revival PHOENIX ASSEMBLY OF GOD Services Nightly Except Friday 7:45 P. M. Your Last Chance to Hear FREDERICK and SARAH BYERS 2nd and "F" Sts. - PHOENIX REV. LeROY NIDEVER, Pastor tic program on Dec. 13 when he meets with the cabinet and GOP congressional leaders. Mr. Eisenhower was asked at his first post-election news con ference how he planned to win the Taft Republicans to his ef fort to modernize the pai-Jy. The President replied that even they should be convinced by now the public must get a new under standing of the Republican party and what it stands for. There will be a lot of the wel fare state conception of govern ment in the party of modern Re publicans. Mr, Eisenhower put it this way: "I think I can tell you in a few sentences what I think about modern Republicanism. It is a type of political philosophy that recognizes clearly the re sponsibility of the federal gov ernment to take the lead in making certain that the produc tivity of our great economic ma chine is distributed so that no one will suffer disaster, priva tion through no fault of his own." Mr. Eisenhower did not, how ever, commit the federal govern ment in doing this itself. The lederal government, evidently, would take the lead, but the di rect responsibility would be on the states. "We believe," he said, "that it is free enterprise that has brought these various blessings to America. "Therefore, we are going to try our best to preserve that free enterprise, and put all of these problems in the hands of localities and the private enter prise of states wherever we can. . . ." Miridszenfy Has Not Sought U.S. Asylum Washington U.R) Josef Car dinal Mindszenty has not asked for political asylum in the United States, American offic ials said today. The Hungarian Catholic pre late sought refuge in the Amen- can Legation in Budapest when the Russian troops took com mand of Hungary earlier this month. The State Department said Monday the cardinal still is in the legation. Rep. Daniel J. Flood (D-Pa.) urged Tuesday in a telegram to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that the United States offer Cardinal Mindszenty "poll tical asylum." Flood said Dulles should demand of Soviet Rus sia that safe conduct out of Hun gary be assured Cardinal Mind szenty if he wishes to accept such asylum in this country. Eisenhower To Meet Leaders of Congress Washington U.R) President Eisenhower will meet with both Republican and Democratic con gressional leaders next month to discuss next year's legislative program. The President, who held simi lar sessions in December last year and in 1954, will meet with his cabinet and GOP legislaUve leaders Dec. 13. The meeting will be broadened the following day to include Democrats, who will control the next session of Congress. Mr. Eisenhower will give the congressional leaders a preview of his January State of the Union Message to Congress. He presumably will seek advice on certain specific points to insure congressional cooperation with his program. FPC Snake River Dam Hearing Nears End Washington (U.R) A Federal Power Commission hearing on the application of Pacific North west Power Company for a li cense to construct two Snake river dams appeared to be near ing an end today as opponents of the private construction wound up their arguments. The National Hells Canyon Association, the principal oppon ent to granting the licenses for construction of Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley dams on the Snake between Oregon and Idaho, has sought to show that the four utility firms making up Northwest Power have fought to curtail federal construction in the Northwest. FINAL WEEK! fn The Day's 'N&ws .y j. At its 38th annual convention in San Diego recently, the Cali fornia Farm Bureau Federation adopted a resolution favoring re moval of government price sup ports of farm crops. Not 'all at once. After all these years, that, would be a little too drastic. What the resolution called for was gradual reducUon of flex ible supports with a view to their eventual discontinuance thus bringing American agricul ture back to reliance on supply and demand. The resolution added: "It is not the function of gov ernment to gurantee profitable income to any economic group." Surprising? W Nnt narlir-nlarlv It has lone been apparent to all intelligent farmers that the price support system which was instituted originally as a wartime device to stimulate the abnormally heavy production of Congress Averages Older This Time Than Past Session Washington (CQ) The newly elected Congress is older, if not necessarily wiser, than the one that closed shop last July. And most members are lawyers. Come January, the average Senator will be pushing 58. The typical Representative never will see 54 again. Their average age will be 54.9 years. 2.7 years older than their counterparts in the last Con gress. Idaho Democrat Frank Church. 32, will be the "baby" of the Senate and its only mem ber without a previous record in public office. Senior Senator in age, not only in this Senate but in all American history will be Sen. Theodore Francis Green (D-R.I-), a spry 89. House Elders Elders of the House, will be Reps. Brent Spence (D-Ky.), 82, and Clare E. Hoffman (R-Mich.), Will Neal (R-W.VA.) and Daniel A. Reed (R-N.Y.), all 81. Reps. Edwin May Jr. (R Conn.), Kenneth Gray (D-IU.), Merwin Coad (D-Iowa) and Joe Holt (R-Calif .), all 32, will be the youngest House members. As in the past, the nation's laws will be written mainly by lawyers. Nearly two-thirds of the members of Congress also are members of the bar. Almost a third of the members have had experience in business or banking. Agriculture, teaching and journalism also figure in a sub stantial number of biographies. Though many of the members will attribute their votes to 'di vine inspiration. Rep. Walter Judd (R-Minn.), is the only fornv er minister. (Copyright 1956, Congressional Quarterly) Sewer Line Cavein Kills Walla Wallan Walla Walla (U.R) Otto A. Stuefen, 53. Walla Walla, died when buried under six feet of dirt following a sewer line cave in here yesterday. Jack Smith, also of Walla Walla, who was working with Stuefen when the accident oc curred, said they were laying pipe at the bottom of a 15-foot trench when the walls of the ditch began to crumble. Smith said he and Stuefen ran in opposite directions and Stuefen was buried. ONLY 27 Shopping Days Til Christmas! . What A Problem! More friends than Funds? Don't worry you can get ready Cash for Christmas fro m I PACIFIC 0 INDUSTRIAL Dick Hans, Manager 16 S. Central Ph. 3-S308 food needed in ime of a wVrla- wide war and was continued be cause the DOliticians didn't av the courage to end 'ee subsidies? when the war ended is an oijre that eventually wijl destroy Q agriculture as a IreC enterprise. After the war eded and ag-P riculture over the orld bega to get back on its feet, the sub- Q sidies resulted in simulating) producUpn of more of the sub- O sidized crops than the markets would -absoii). The surpluses Cj pilad up in the warehouses-rid each year they.got larger. These accumulating s.u rj) ru s4s have hung over the maSets like a darb thundercloud, for no onSO has known when they might be come unmanageable and wuld be thrown on the markets for whatever they would" &in. 0 That has disrupted t'ie wohgle agricultural price structure. But c the politicians, fearful of the 'farm vote and distrustful 8f the basic common sense 8f American farmers, 'lacked the gourage to end the subsidy system, o -s o 0 Tndeed, in the political cam paign that has jus closed, t!gi Democrats backed b o a con siderable number ofoweac-knijed Republicans proposed repeal of the system of flexible pric supports which does apply $om brakes to overproduction. It was a deliberate political scheme 16 capture the farm vote in enough of the big farm beft states toup set the administrationvthat had instituted the flexible support system. It is a tribute to thoi.soundo thinking of the majorit of o American farrflers hat 0the O scheme fell on its face. It is true' Q that the Eisenhowe vote in th big farm states was smaller this year than in 1952,'ftut it wasn't enongh smaller to win any im portant farm stake for Stevensonn It is his sane basically sound thinking that lea?is ffce .Calif ornia Farm Bureau Federation to call for gradual moval f government price supports of O farm crops and eventual return Q to free markets based of? supply and demand. 0 o 00 Communications Letter, to the dltox muft hr.r the nagie and fddreu ot trie wry er although under, cartain circuro- . 1 lances the use, or a pen name or initial for puolication la nrsjie- sible. The Mail Tribune reservea the right to edit all letters with an eye to damnation and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 4i)Q words. Earthquake To the Editor: A frieSd of the writer's who lives near Ashland, related to us a few yeaf back how his granflfather, an eaay day settler of Jackson county,, had witnessed an earthquake here around the year of8 1865, that caused the trees in the vJ ley to sway and wave tor several minutes duration,. o Looking up the early record history we find that a remark able -earthquake did great dam age to San Francisco in the year 1865. Also recorded up to 1919 are 4467 quakes on the PacStic coast. . Probably around nearer 5000 to date? A ride over High way "40," from Truckee, Calif, and Donner pass a few years ago showed the plainly marked remains of "buckjng" the center line of the" pavement down the mountain slope for several miles. Bert Kissinger, 5S0 Boardman, . Medford, Org. r Magnificent. 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