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e O O! 9 o 9 FOUR MEDPORD (OREGON) TEveryons In Southern Oregon' Reads The ftal Tribune" fcblished Daily Except Saturday by MEDFURD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-8 HI s ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLE JR. Managing Editor MRL H ADAMS City Editor : HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor - ICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor CLIVB STARCHER Society Editor' DALE ERsCKSO.N. Circulation Mgr. a Atf Independent Newspaper .Entered as second class matter at -' Med ford Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 . SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall III Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daisy and Sunday Six months 8.00 Easily and Sunday Three mos 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier Iri Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville GoM Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove" Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes. Dail and -Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 150 Carries and Dealers lCs per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Wflclal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson county w United pjess-Till Xeaied Wire - MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU g, Q CIRCULATION A-er!?sing Representative: ' . WEST-HOLIDAY COMPA.VY INC ; J Offices In New -York Chicago d tfolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles sesttle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONA I. EDITORIAL lASSOCfATLQN t?. u u Bimmn'im Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. -20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 26, 1946 (Tuesday) Secretary of State Robert S Farrell Jr., urges safe driving as the keynote of a happy Thanks giving. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The bride was given in marriage by her father, wearing her mother's dress. (Society item in ex change.) He was a sight. 20 YEARS AGO Not. 26, 1936 (Thursday) Damage of $500 was done by fire in the Webb and Carlon paint store at 223 West Sixth t., yesterday. The order on the levy for the 1937 budget, totalling $370,038.- 88, signed by county court. 30 YEARS AGO Not. 26, 1926 (Friday) Crater Lake Union Christian Endeavor convention ends at Ashland Presbyterian church Sunday. Copious moisture for the No vember continues to pile up in this vicinity as a half inch of rain falls in last 36 hours. 40 YEARS AGO Not. 26. 1916 (Sunday) Col. H. A. Hanson will outline plan for handling city's finances. Judge Tou Velle and Commis sioner Leever sign order calling for an election for the creation of the high-line irrigation dis trict. 50 YEARS AGO Not. 26, 1906 (Monday) J. C. Pendelton. of Table Hock, is in Medford today to discuss the unusually good apple crop north of the Rogue river in the Table Rock vicinity. New train service by the Southern Pacific makes a change in the time table for Medford. What's the Answer? Can Tou Get 4 of the 7? Copr 1931 Editorial Research Report 1. Which President of this country was administered the oath of office by his father, a Justice of the peace? 2. The average American fam ily spends on Xmas cards every year about 51, S3, sa, or siu? 3. Costs are higher or lower for girls in well-known Eastern girls' ccolleg(?s than for boys in Ivy League, colleges, or about the same? 4. Wife of an English earl has the title of Duchess, Countess, Lady, Dame, or Viscountess? 5. The tixperts urge that a child get its first visit to the dentist at the age of 1V4, 3, 4V, 6, or 8? ' 6. It is generally agreed that a higher or lower percentage of the 3icro vote went to Eisen hower in 1956 than in 1952, or about the sam? 7." Members of the Society of Frifsnd are more often called ,wat? . The answers: I. Coolidge, in sl$g3: 2. Estimate is S3; 3. High er i the girls' colleges; -4. Coun-te.- 5. At 3; 8. Higher; 7. Quale- SMOK SIGNALS Long Beach, Calif OI.R) Six- year-oiu naynDui iu ivmi-e iuukcq .JitJ- k.1 If-if TrtWiartc Sattir. LHUC1 ucu v ' - day night and accidentally wound up sending smoke signals ft firemen. A candle he used in his search set the bed afire. Fire men quickly extinguished the Hames. PUBLISHERS MAIL TRIBUNE Holiday Thoughts With Thanksgiving (which we have always thought of as the most "American" of all holidays) behind us, we now look forward to Christmas, the most universal of all holidays. The period between the two is a mystical blend of many elements with the gradual changing of autumn into winter; with the tightening of family ties during the holiday season; with the forgetting of animosities and a more cheerful atmosphere down town; with poignant memories of other and earlier holiday seasons. (We still remember an Air Corps PX in Texas, where "Holiday for Strings" followed "White Christ mas" on the juke box. And there are contemporaries whose memories of the holidays are of mud and gun fire and air raids and C rations.) ' lOSf of the leaves are off the trees now. The crabgrass has died. The puddles along the street are apt to have a thin coat of ice in the mornings. Sports shirts have given way to overcoats, hats and gloves. We saw a truck loaded with bundles of Christ mas trees heading south the other day. The stores are donning their gayest decorations for the Christmas opening this week. The tinkle of the Salvation Army's bells will soon be heard downtown. We suppose the airwaves will soon resound with Christmas songs the new, sloppy-sentimental ones as well as the grand old carols which never seem to pall and which year after year give a lift to the spirit. The holiday season is a wonderful and inspiring time of year. But it's just as well that it comes only once a year. For if it came more often it would lose the magic, the inspiration, the special aura of excite ment which set it aside as the happiest season. E.A. Much To Be Learned The "International Geophysical Year" is the'rath er imposing title selected for an intensive, interna tional, cooperative period of study of the earth and its immediate surroundings. Barring a war, it will get under way next year, although much of the preliminary work has long been under way. Some 5,000 scientists and technicians will partici pate in a massive effort to find out more about' the earth, specifically in the fields of the aurora and after glow, cosmic rays, geomagnetism, glaciology, gravity measurements, ionospheric physics, meteorology, oceanography, seismology, solar, activity, longitude and latitude determination, and exploration of the upper atmosphere through rocket and earth satellite firings. WfHAT is it all for? Why this big, concerted effort? Basically, we suppose, it boils down to the eternal curiosity of the human animal. Mankind has always been curious, and it is that curiosity which has led him to technological mastery of many things. Curiosity is enough for the "pure" scientist, the one who probes on the frontiers of knowledge. Knowl edge for the sake of knowledge is enough for him. But what about the rest of us, who may, true enough, be mildly curious to know what goes on around us and why, but who like to see some solid and material rewards for the outlay of funds required for such an effort? "ULTHILE no scientist knows where his researches into "pure" science will lead, it is also true that this type of research, the exploration of the frontiers of knowledge, is an absolutely essential precourser to technical advancement. Name almost any of today's amazing . technical achievements, and somewhere in its history you will find a scientist who discovered the principles on which it is based in the course of his explorations into the unknown. The particular discoveries might even have been incidental to the course of inquiry he was following but his basic discoveries were necessary, incidental or not. Some thoughtful scientists are concerned over the fact that much of today's scientific effort is in techni cal application of existing principles, and not, per haps, enough in the pioneering field of pure science where no one knows just what will happen. OOWEVER that may be, the International Geo physical Year, which actually will cover a period longer than a calendar year, is a combination of pure scientific exploration, and technical advancement and application. There are some mighty practical questions which attempts will be made to solve, including weather forecasting, updating of geographical information, improved communications, and so on. But much of it will be on the frontiers of knowl edge, particularly in the upper reaches of the atmos phere and beyond. One might think that a lot is already known about the tiny speck which we call the world. And so there is. But far more remains to be learned. Every advance in the physical sciences nnlv much more is still unknown. E.A. Two Boys Perish As Cave Roof Falls Jackson, La. (U.R) Two teen age boys were killed and another slightly injured Sunday when the roof of a small cave in which they were playing fell in. A hospital physician said George Church Jr., 16, and Max well Ray Stevens, 15, both of Jackson, died of suffocation. George Sikes, 13, also of Jack son, was injured. Monday, November 26, 1958 Britain Completes Japan Withdrawal Kure. Japan (U.R) British garrison forces completed their post-World War n withdrawal from Japan Sunday with the de parture of 137 officers and men from Kure. Thirteen Japanese brides of British servicemen sailed with them aboard the 20,526-ton Nev asa. The British forces now have only 10 officers and men left in Japan, to clear up business matters. Members of Electoral College To Name President-Elect Soon By FRANK ELEAZER United Press Correspondent Washington-U.PJ On Dec. 17 groups of peopls known as presi dential electors will meet in state capitals to select the presi dent and vice president you thought you elected on Nov. 6. It is highly unlikely they will come up with any surprises. But they could. In a new study the Library of Congress concludes that under certain circumstances the electors might choose as president somebody who was never on an election-day ballot. The library's Legislative Ref ference Service did the study in response to inquiries from House and Senate members who want ed to know what would happen if President Eisenhower should become unavailable before in auguration day. The inquiries presumably stemmed from con troversy over the President's health. In a memorandum ust com pleted, and to be made public soon, the Legislative Reference Service (LRS) tells the story this way: The voters on Nov. 6 did not elect a president and vice presi dent. They elected in each state a Republican or Democratic slate of electors, with the Republicans winning a heavy majority (457 to 74.) By law, the winning electors meet on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in De- Army Engineers Confer on Supplies San Francisco W.P.) Army engineers from port facilities in New York, New Orleans, Seattle and San Francisco began a week long conference today on oper ational procedures of the Army Corps of Engineers Supply Di vision. Specialists from the engineer packaging technical office and the office of chief of Army En gineers were also on hand to par ticipate in the discussions of such supply duties as the receipt, cleaning, processing, packing and shipping of government ma terial to overseas bases. Brig. Gen. William F. Cassidy, chief of the Corps of Engineers South Pacific Division, served as honorary chairman. Matter of Fact FABULOUS CONTRAST Washington The recent change in official Washington's judgment of Egypt's President Nasser amounts to the most fab ulous historical irony of the postwar period. Today, the American gov ernment is bending every effort to re store Nasser to a position 0 v m I -a oi commana k is I I ln the Arab -k?-T 1 World. But """" only four short months ago, the Secretary of State of the United States was publicily insulting this same Nasser, on the ground that he was an irredeemable Soviet The choppings and changins of American policy in the Middle East, the wild ter giver sations and sudden ex pedients, have been many and curious indeed. The story of the stswsri Alsop Aswan Dam contains more of these quick, inexplicable turns of policy than any other. There is no need to relate the whole strange story, how ever, in order to make the cen tral point. This point is simple. After pressing, after all but begging President Nasser to let America build the Aswan Dam for Egypt, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles withdrew the offer as abruptly as possible and in the most publicly humil iating manner that could be de vised. Publicly, Secretary Dulles merely told Nasser that he was a "bankrupt". But as every re porter will remember who rush ed into the astonishing episode, the State Department's official ly given off-the-record reason for its sudden change of mind was quite different. It was the assertion that Nasser and Egypt had now "passed the point of no, return" in their relations with the Soviet Union; and that both man and nation must there fore be considered as complete captives of the Kremlin's policy. 'M'ASSER'S answer to his public humiliating by Dulles was the nationalization of the Suez Canal. Again, it is not neces sary to follow the Suez crisis through all its tortuous stages. The end result the astonishing rehabilitation of Nasser's repu tation at the State Department is what is so interesting. Clearly, that rehabilitation must have occurred. Otherwise, the American policy - makers would hardly be exerting max 111 ,llJUijlM II 1)1. cember, each group in its own state capital. By custom they will cast their votes as indicated by the rjopular vote, each state's total electoral vote (equal to the number of its House and Senate members) going to the candidate whp. carried the state. Now, the Constitution says that in event the president-elect dies the vice president-elect shall be sworn is as president in his place. But the point to remem ber, says LRS, is that not until the electoral vote has been cast on Dec. 17 does President Eisen hower in fact become the president-elect and Vice President Richard M. Nixon become the vice-president-elect. What this means is that if either Mr. Eisenhower or Nixon become unavailable between now and Dec. 17, the electors could pick any qualified person as a replacement. tin the absence of an actual precedent, LRS says it is "highly probable" that the electors in making such a choice would be guided by advice of the Repub lican National Committee. $214,000 Taken From Home Sale Louisville, Ky (U.R) De tectives said today burglars, who stole 5274,000 from the study of Wiliam Marshall Bul litt, were apparently well ac quainted with the former U.S. solicitor general's rambling estate. The thieves entered the house Sunday through an unlatched window, Jefferson County Det. Sgt. James Wyatt said, and opened the safe while the Bul litts slept. Disregarding a button on a desk which would have opened a hidden panel, they forced the panel open and worked the com bination to the safe. Mrs. Bullitt told deputies that a maid discovered a window open Sunday morning and told her. Nothing other than the mon ey appeared to be missing. Bullitt, solicitor general under President William Howard Taft, had brought the money, in S10 to $1,000 bills, home from his law office a few days ago. ' By Joe and Stewart Alsop imum pressure to force the Brit ish, the French and the Israelis to give up every possible ad vantage that might have been gained by their action against Egypt. Otherwise we might have, deplored the aggression, but we would still have recognized the urgent need for commitments from Nasser about the future status of the canal, about the passage of Israeli ships, about some sort of peaceful Middle Eastern settlement, and so on almost interminably. Otherwise, in sum, the Ameri can government would not now be working so hard to trans form Nasser's military defeat in to a political victory, and work ing with such success that Nas ser has now gained vastly great er influence and power in the rest of the Arab world than he ever had before. TT IS thought to be very tact-- less, nowadays, if you ask questions in official circles about the reasons for abandoning the former State Department find ing that Nasser had "passed the point of no return" in his deal ings with the Kremlin. A rosy picture is now painted of Nasser working with the United States in the most friendly manner pos sible to contain Soviet's influ ence in the Middle East indeed Nasser has promised his coop eration. But there is an un spoken proviso, that this coun try will do nothing to prevent Nasser from wreaking his re venge on the other Western al lies. This last, of course, is just what the Egyptian leader's friends in the Kremlin want him to do, and count on him to do, in order to break the Western alliance for good and all. There is more to the story, too, than this happy coincidence of Egyptian desires and Soviet desires, which we can hardly share. There is the further fact that the Egyptian cease-fire was ord ered after the Bulganin ultima tum to France and Britain. There is the still further fact that Nas ser and all other Arab leaders are convinced that the Bulganin ultimatum rather than the Amer ican diplomacy was the decisive factor in securing the cease fire without further delay. There is the final fact that this country did nothing positive to call the gigantic bluff of the Soviet threat to send Russian volun teers to Egypt. Add these weighty facts to the former official judgment of Nasser. The addition makes it interesting to speculate on the uses which the brilliant Egyptian leader will find, for the in fluence and power we are labor ing so manfully to restore and enlarge for him. New York Herald Tribune Inc. So Dec. 17 is the. key date Once the electors have voted, says LRS, the results can't be changed. The balloting is bind ing, even though Congress, un der another provision of the Constitution, won't actually count the electoral voies and an nounce the result until Jan. 7. .That means that in event Mr. Eisenhower died after Dec. 17, and before Jan. 20, Nixon auto matically would be sworn in on inauguration day for a four-year term as president. The Legislative Reference Service explores other possibili ties, including inability of the electors to agree on a substitute candidate ' in event Mr. Eisen hower were not available on Dec. 17. In this event, the House of Representatives would elect the new president, picking from the three high men in the incon clusive electoral college voting. The service calls attention to another interesting, but unclear. Constitutional provision, in sec tion 3 of the 20th amendment, adopted in 1933. This says that if on inauguration day the president-elect "shall have failed to qualify," the vice president-elect "shall act as president until a president shall have qualified." Withdrawal by the president elect, for reasons of health or otherwise, in the period between Dec. 17 and Jan. 20, would come under this provision, LRS believes. And it says the wording is too ambiguous to say for sure what would happen. In The Day's International mystery where's Hungary's Imre Nagy? He and a group of leaders of the Hungarian' revolution left the Yugoslav embassy in Buda pest, where they had taken sanc tuary. The communist puppet government of Hungary had given them guarantees of safety, but RUSSIA HADN'T. As this is written, it is sus pected that Russia may have slapped them into jail or may be shot them against a wall. At any rate, they haven't shown up at their homes, and Tito pro tests. He wants them accounted for. MAYBE the Russians HAVE shot them all. You never can tell. They certainly aren't above such tactics. There is the grisly case back in World War 2 of the Polish high command that held a parley with the Russians under a flag of truce. (The Russians and the Poles were then at war.) The Russians cold-bloodedly took them all prisoner, thus crippling the Polish army. Apparently.they repeated this tactic in Hungary, calling in the rebel leaders for a parley and taking them into custody when they arrived. That's the kind of savages the Kremlin communists are. TITO'S protest of Nagy's disap - pearance draws from Pravda Klansman Plans To Seek Reversal On Integration Montgomery, Ala. (U.R) Robed Klansmen mustered 1,000 spectators at a televised Satur day night cross-burning where a hooded speaker said any Negro who seeks integrated schools "needs a funeral." The speaker, illuminated by three big blazing crosses and television floodlights, said he planned to "camp in front of the Capitol" in Washington until the U.S. Supreme Court reverses its integration decrees. "Any Negro that wants inte gration doesn't need an educa tion," the Rev. Alvin Horn, self proclaimed Alabama Klan grand dragon, said. "What he needs is a funeral." The rally was orderly and without incident except for one "explosion" that momentarily frightened the 350 Klansmen and spectators. It turned out to be a firecracker. Horn denounced the Supreme Court for its decision outlawing public school segregation and announced his plans to make his protest stand in front of the Capitol. He did not say when he intends to do it. "I'll camp there in front of the Capitol and tell those peo ple . to abide by the Constitu tion," Horn said. "I'm not going back until I get my message across." Dockmen Resume Wage Negotiations San Francisco !U.R) Negotia tors for the International Long shoremen's and Warehousemen's union meet today with repre sentatives of the Pacific Mari time association to resume wage talks. The ILWU was expected to re ply to an employer offer made last Friday. The exact size of the offer was not disclosed, but it was rumored to be slightly more than 10 cents an hour. The union is asking twice as much. Negro Air Force Man Blames Pressure for Pending Discharge. Columbus, Ohio U.R) Ne gro 1st Lt. Titus A. Saunder Jr., 25, squadron adjutant at Lock bourne Air Force Base here, to day blamed "pressure" by a Mississippi senator for his dis charge. Saunders, a Tuskegee Institute graduate who said he had plan ned to make a career of the Air Force, will be discharged effec tive at midnight today. Air Force regulations provide Oregonians Sponsor Hungarian Refugees Portland The Oregon com mittee for Hungarian refugees has received more than 90 re quests for applications to sponsor refugees for resettlement in Ore gon, it was reported today. Funds for transportation of refugees are being provided by donations received at the organ ization's officer, room 205, the YMCA building, Portland. In a telegram received by the committee through Catholic Charities, Inc., the Catholic Re lief Services New York office expressed appreciation for inter est in the refugees shown by Oregonians. It is estimated one or two weeks will be required to process enough refugees for the Oregon committee. News Frank Jenkins (the Kremlin communists' heel dog newspaper) the charge that Tito is advocating independence of the satellite bloc from the So viet Union and the Soviet com munist party. It hints that he is trying to take over the leader ship of Eastern Europe from Russia. Well, here's hoping. That would precipitate a FIGHT AMONG COMMUNISTS which would be all to the good so far as we are concerned. When thieves fall out, honest men come into their own. HUNGARIAN fugitives con- tinue to pour over the bor der into Austria. Six thousand of them crossed the other night some of them more dead than alive from exposure to the cold, including swimming icy waters m some cases. Some 66,000 of them have ar rived already, and caring for them is rapidly swamping Aus tria's limited facilities. Itmust be remembered that much of Austria's area is just barely out from under the iron heel of Rus sian communism. The Austrian government has appealed to all free nations for help in taking care of these pitiful refugees. Present-day Austria is about a third as large as the state of Oregon. Its economy is still weak. It is certainly entitled to j neip m caring ior uie xiunganan fugitives. THAT brings up an interesting lit.ilp ctnrv that, has lust clicked from the teletype. An old man walked into the town hall of Ipswich, in England, this morning and laid four items on the town clerk's desk. The-items were an engagement ring, a wed ding ring, a pocket watch, and a gold half-sovereign (value at present exchange rates about $130). He said to the clerk: "It is for . the Hungarians. It is aU I can af ford. He walked out without grtfr . ing his name. , j yOU never can tell about peo- i pie. There is the case of the , anonymous $100 bill that was found in a container for char itable offerings over in Klam-1 ath Falls the other day. . The giver had been touched by the i unfortunate plight of those for j whose relief the charity was er ganized. . I There are all kinds of people. Taking them by and large, they i are wonderful. ' . . I FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Ranga Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 Co an officer may be discharge4 following conviction for either a felony or a misdemeanor. Saunders said that Sen. John Stennis: (D-Miss.), "pressured the Air Force into taking the action against hin? in connec- q tion with a traffic accident con viction in Mississippi Tovt 20, iaa. . Ohio Gov. Frank J.. Lausche refused a Mississippi Remand to extradite Saunders last Jun At (joiumous, miss., juist. Atty. Haskell Carter said 'Mississippi authorities do not plan to press for prosecution of Saunders. Carter said Saunders had fore feited $2,000 bond on a drunken driving eonviction and "as fcr es we're concerned the case closed." Saunders was convicted of drunk driving for movine his car 18 feet from the line ft traf fic onto a higRway after it was involved in an accident. His sjr, driven by a girT friend, had struck the tail pipe of another, car driven by a White yoman. Saunders sSid he moved the car as a safety measure since the highway was heaviV tra-?lled. He said Jie went to the Penta gon where he talked with James C. Evans, assistant secretaryjof defense, but that Evans would not specify the charges. Portland Living Cost Reaches Newest Pak Portland (U.R) A ne peak in the cost of living here was reached in October, according to the Department of Labor. The report showed that Port land psices had advanced 17.7 per cent since early 1950. The increase in the past three months has been eight-tenths of one per cent and in the past year 2.8 per cent. As a footnote, heating oil deal ers today put into effect an" in crease per gallon of eight-tenths of a cent which will amount to about 73 cents a month increase for the average home owner. NEWSMAN DIES Boynton Beach, Fla. (U.R) Harry Black, 69, chairman of the board of the Baltimore Sun papers, died Sunday at his-winter home here. ONLY 24 Shopping Days Til Christmas! IT'S A CINCH! I've left all my Holiday Worries Behind! I get my Christmas Cash from I a onura of mcmc t PACIFIC , IMItHCTniAl- invMsYiniMb Dick Hans, Manager 16 S. 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