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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MedfordTribunb "Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi The Mall Tribune" Publijhrd Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-2y North Fir St ' Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor H ADAMS City Editor ARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARO EWETT Sports Editor OUVE STARCHER Society Editor DtKLE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class: matter at . a3lford Oregon, under Act oi Mafch 3. 1897 ' . SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. J)aily nd Smlay One year $15 00 Dally and Sundays-Six months 8 00 e Dally and Sunday Tltree mo 4.25 Sunay Only One rear $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shasly Cove Rogue. River. Talent and on motor routes: 8 Dally and Sunday One yejrr $18 00 umuj ana bunoayune month l&o Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy 'fflriii Papers of the Cltf of Medford. til ui i erms iasn m Advance -. Jzz! rpcr oi cKwn uouniy United7 Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU r CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY DfC Offices In New York Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle Portland St. Louia Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION ' J NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight b' Time- Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The MaU Tribune lfc 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. . "10 TEARS AGO Nov. 39, 1946 (Friday) In a two-day drive which closed Wednesday Medford city hnnl ....nil.. i..tk.aJ K T0 1 pounds of old clothes for ship ment to needy children in Eu rope. From Arthur Perry's Ye Sihudge Pot column: It could Hot have rained harder Wed if every farmer had hay down and no roof on the barn. . ZOYEARS AGO - Wot. 2. 1936 (Sttndavl Many citizens respond to Christmas seat tale, according cto Mrs. Alex Sparrow, chairman of 4he ant-tubreuloss drive here. After Jan. 1 1937, law requir ing more than two years of nor-, anal training school for a teach er's elamentary certificate be comes0 effective. 30 YEARS AGO ov. 29. 1926 (Monday) Local interest shown in uc tfon of, 314 acre of land 'one mile north of Rogue River along Pacific highway. Bill rrtnley, well-known Ore gon catUe man from Burns arid formerly -tt Jacks'on county, visits In Medford. 40 YEARS AGO . or. 29. 1916 (Wednesday) Organization cf "another an glers' club by those .interested in Rogue river legislation, is pro posed by John S. Orth. A. C,AIlen has returned from 9pokane, where he represented Oregon at the fruitgrowers' mar- o ketfng convention. 5 YEARS AGO Not. 29. 1906 (Thursday) Dr. Julius Grinker,1 mental d i s e a s a specialit, addresses American Medical. Society ses- csioa in Chicago. The X O. Johnson ranch of. S51 acres at Table Rock is for sale by C.eH? Pierce and Son. What's the Answer? Can Con Oct 4 of (Be 7? Copr. 1935 editorial Rese&rcb Report Is . No Supreme Court mem ber in modem U.S. 'history has accented a presidential nomina , tion: eight or wrong? . 2. it is legal or illegal In most states to charge a fee for furnish ing a ehild for adoption outside of regular channels? 3. Chiangs Kai-shek, head of the "Nationalist Chinese govern, ment cm Fosmosa, is in his 60s, 70s r0s? 4. Organized labor does or doesn't join Community Chest or United Fund campaigns in most cities these days? 5. The Boy Scouts organization originated in the U. S.; right or wrong? 6. Robert B. Meyner is Demo cratic Senator from Illinois, mayor of N.Y. City, Supreme Court justice, governor of New Jersey, or national party cnair man? Tha answers: 1. Wrong: Justice Charles E. Hughes agreed to run for the Republicans in 1916 2. Legal in most. 3. 70s. 4. Does in most. S. Wrong (in England) 6 Governor of New Jersey. The Puritan Government ban ned the celebration of Christmas in England in 1643 in an at tempt to do away with all lorms of frivolity. "Worse Than a Crime Yes, it depends so much upon whose ojc is gored. The Egyptian delegation in the UN froth at the mouth oratorically, over the "armed and unprovok ed aggression" against their country by England and France. But, they have nothing to say against the un provoked and wholesale butchery of the defenseless women and children of Hungary by Russian tanks and are unanimously and self righteously against the UN even taking official cognizance of it. "WE grant two wrongs don't make a right. The Un- ited Nations was morally bound to oppose the surprise attack of Britain and France on the Suez canal, or go out of business. As we ee it there was no. other way. . But by the same token the UN had and has a similar moral obligation to oppose and condemn the Russian massacre, but judging by the UN inaction to date, and the Russian-Arab opposition to any such move, nothing will really be done about it. VET not only on moral grounds, but on the basis of world politics, the crime committed by the Krem lin was far worse and a far more serious threat to world peace, than the "blunder" , hatched up at the Quai d'Orsay and 10 Downing Street. The attack on the Suez and Nasser, the Egyptian dictator, was not UNprovoked. A long series of treaty violations and broken promises adding up to a definite threat to the very life-line of western Europe, was the" provocation. There was no desire to conquer Egypt, to harm much less crush the Egyptian people. There was only a desire to so change control of the Suez canal, that normal economic life in western Europe could be rea sonably assured and sustained, and force appeared to the two governments as the only practical way to do it. In this decision of course our allies made a griev ous error, but more in method than intention. More over, just to be realistic about it, there is little ques tion that if the "coup" had result would, have contributed to world peace in the Mid East and a greatly needed deterrent to Russian aggression,- instead of the reverse. Now it appears Russian model has paid out and met with no material resist ance m the UN or out of it. So what is to prevent what they have done to Hungary, they can do to the Near East and when the need arises to achieve their program of world conquest, do to Western Europe. "TOO bad" is a mild term But it IS too bad that the leaders in both England and France failed to note the warning of a famous French diplomat and cynic regarding a certain action then contemplated namely: "It would be .worse than a crime, it would be a blunder." R.W.R. What Happened? Some of our Republican friends are still a trifle dazed and trying without much success, to explain what happened to them There have been almost ations as there are Republicans. But we.have not as yet noted what we believe was the ' chief factor and rather a simple one namely : the superior quality of the Democratic candidates. m "IITE not only mean a superiority man for man for the various offices, but a superiority over 'the Democratic" average in the past. So often the trouble from a Democratic standpoint has been the candidates for office just did not stack up to par for the course. This year they did, and in many cases with a great deal of merit to spare. So that, as we see it, was reason No. 1 for the "sweep" in- Oregon. Had the Democratic quality not exceeded the average of the past, or fallen below, the result would, we believe, have been a very different one. There were other factors, of course, but we think the above item should be rated A-l. MO. 2' we would credit to the Independent vote. ' Never before have so many voters in Oregon re fused to vote the party ticket straight, weighed so many candidates for office with no regard for the party label, but great regard for the individuals' demonstrated abilities and promise. It was a pick-and-choose election in that regard probably a rec ord-breaker for the state. voted for President Eisenhower, just as thousands of Republicans voted for Senator Morse. -Moreover, just as the Democrats presented a su perior slate of aspirants considerably above the party average, the Republicans, in Oregon at least, did the exact reverse. With the exception of the fabulous vote getting "Ike," their quality was far below. FINALLY the liberal, progressive trend in Ameri can political life, was Democratic candidates, and the reverse trend, the Old Guard nostalgia for the good old days of Mark Hanna and the Smoot-Hawley tariff, were repre sented by the G.O.P. There were exceptions, of course, as we noted during the campaign, but all in all that was the line up in this state. And where there is such a clear line of demarca tion, the people of Oregon, in spite of their record of conservative Republicanism since the battle of Bull Run, can usually be depended upon to choose candi- Thursday, November 29. 1956 been successful, the net ruthlessness on the Stalin the Kremlin from deciding to express the dangers of on November 6th. as many dinerent explan Thousands of Democrats all in all represented by the British Anti May Be Saving of Eden's Post By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The rising tide of anti-Ameri can feeling in Great Britain may save Prime Minister Anthony WTyi Eden's job - a " J ""5 can. One week ago, a great many Britons were blaming Eden for the British-French invasion o f the Suez Canal Chancs McCano Zone which caused an open breach in rela tions with the United States. When Eden left London last Friday for a three-week vacation in Jamaica there was a strong feeling that he was almost cer tain to be forced out of office. He still may be. But now there is an increasing tendency in Eritain in the Conservative Party, in the newspapers and in British private life to blame the United States for the entire Today and By Walter Towards the end of last week the prospect had darkened con siderably for a successful Unit ed Nations mediation in the Mid dle East. Mr. Hammarskjold came back from his nego tiations in Cairo with what certain ly looks like a shrunken .un derstanding of the role of the U. N. police force. In the original con 1 Woiicr LuwmanD ception, this force was by its presence at the canal and on the Egyptian - Israeli frontier to be the visible sign of the rieht and authoVity of U. N. to mediate. The fundamental idea was that there are great and danger ous issues in the Middle East, which had caused an explosion, and that the . paramount func tion of the U. N. was to bring about a settlement. In the past few days," the U. N. has been pushed into a position where its main function seems to be that of restoring conditions as they were before the explosion. Only when the restoration has been completed is there to be any serious attention given to pro moting a settlement. This pushing went to the point where an overwhelming major ity of the General Assembly, in cluding the United States, was insisting that the idea of a set tlement must be laid aside until the status quo ante has been restored. As no settlement was possible before in the situation as it wai, is it not fair to say that the prospects of a settle ment are not good if our pri mary insistence is that the situa tion should be restored to what it was before? Tl JR. HAMMARSKJ OLD'S mea 1T1 ger success m Cairo reflects the basic alignment of power in the world, as brought about by the American action in the U. N. We have been right to act through the U. N. But from the very beginning there have been two different courses of action which the United States could take. One was to treat the Brit ish, French and Israeli interven tion as a pure and simple act of aggression, to treat Nasser's Egypt as the innocent victim, and to -throw our weight and influence against the interven ing powers and in favor of the restoration of Nasser's position. This is in fact what, though with a bit of vascillation at one stage, we have been doing in New York. The other course was to put our whole weight and influ ence in favor of a U. N. media tion of the underlying issues, insisting upon a withdrawal but also that the U. N. show a simul taneous determination to deal with the real issues. The decision taken in Wash ington to let the effort to settle wait upon the withdrawal has in practice meant that our weight has been added to, not dis tinguished from, that of the countries of the Soviet orbit and of the Afro-Asian bloc in their unqualified support of Egypt. The reason President Nasser was so stiff and unyielding with Mr. Hammarskjold is that he had dates along the lines of turning the clock of advance ment forward not back. I AST but not least was the improved organization spirited leadership and plain hard work, of the party toilers in the ranks, of what is now the majority party but which, for so many years, was a minority. This presents quite a challenge to the Democratic party and its successful candidates. The better their record and the . party's record from the standpoint of promoting the public welfare, the better their chances of reelection and maintain ing their majority position in this congenitally con servative but discriminating commonwealth. R.W.R. - American Suez, situation. At the moment at least, this British feeling seems likely to streng'hen Eden's own gravely weakened position. May Ride Out Storm Whether it will strengthen him sufficiently to insure his continuance in office remains to be seen. But there seems to be a grow ing possibility that, if his cabi net colleagues support him, Eden will be able to ride out the storm. A great deal may depend upon the attitude of President Eisen hower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles toward Eden. Both Mr. Eisenhower and Dulles were bitterly angry at Eden because Britain and France decided on the Suez invasion without consulting them. It has been reported the Presi dent has refused to talk to Eden by telephone. The implication has been that both he and Dulles are determ- Tomorrow Lippmann behind him not only the Soviet Union and the Afro-Aisans but also the United States, and therefore in some considerable measure also the Latin Amer- VOW the fact of the matter is that the Soviet Union and President Nasser do not want a settlement, as - we understand the word, either at the canal or in Palestine. By our failing to take a firm position in favor of a settlement, making it our paramount objective, we have let ourselves be maneuvered in to a position which will mean the defeat of our true interests and of our real aims. If anyone . imagines that in supporting the Egyptian-Soviet line we are gaining influence and prestige which can be used for a settlement, he should have been in New York at the Gen eral Assembly at the end of last week. He would have seen there that the initiative and the power are not in our hands, and that we found ourselves doing what we did not want to do, and explaining that it was not so bad to do it and that we could not help ourselves. rpHE root of the trouble is in Washington where the fund amental decision has been fumb led whether to treat the inter vention as a case of unprovoked aggression to be repelled, or as an explosion of conflicting forces that need to be pacified and reconciled. The President has said things which suggest that he was grop ing for the second and truly statesmanlike course. But for some reason, be it that he has lacked lucid and resourceful ad visers, he has allowed us to drift into the other course. That course is proving in practice to be nothing more than to play second fiddle to the Soviet-Egyptian axis. 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Three County Women Are Contest Winners Three Jackson county women are among winners in Chet's Famous Foods "Key to Conveni ence" contest and will receive enough Chet's foods to provide Sunday dinners for four for the next three months. The winners are Mrs. Harriet Hicks, 1308 Mt. Pitt ave.,' and Mary Elsie Ragsdale, 160 De Hague St., both Medford, and Grace Noble, box 171, Jackson ville. Winners were selected aft er submitting household hints in competition with contestants from the western states, Alaska and Hawaii. The two Medford winners ob tained their contest entry blanks from the Groceteria Super Food market, Sixth and Grape sts., and Mrs. Noble obtained her en try blank at the Jacksonville Market, California st., Jackson ville. Household hints submitted in the contest will be compiled in booklet form for free distribu tion to shoppers. Feeling ined that Eden shall get out. There is no doubt that Eden would like to talk to the Presi dent on his way home from Jamaica two weeks from now. May Sacrifice Eden If that happened, it might make the difference between Eden's resignation and his con tinued leadership. If the personal breach be tween the President and Dulles on one hand and Eden on the other continues, the Conserva tives may feel that it is neces sary to sacrifice Eden. But if he were forced out, the British government itself would be seriously weakened. Eden's resignation would be taken as an official admission that he blundered into the Suez situation. In the minds of Brit ish voters, Eden's colleagues in the government would share the blame. The Labor Party would benefit. The possibility that the government might have to call a pa-liamentary election would arise. Labor certainly would gain in an emergency election, and it might well win. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, it looks like the tragic people of Hungary so many of whom said "Give me liberty or give me death" and GOT DEATH at the muzzles of machine guns mounted on Rus sian tanks have been beaten into the bloody snow. A particularly heart - rending note is provided by the bodies that lie along the Austrian bord er, just a few feet inside Hung ary. Only a few more running steps and they would have been safe But at the last moment they were shot down by Russian soldi ers and left lying where they fell as a brutal lesson to other Hungarians not to try a break for liberty. Premier Kadar, the -Russian communist boss, is apparently riding roughshod over the dis heartened leaders of the uprising indicating that he thinks the re volt has been effectively quelled and that his communist dictator ship is back in the driver's seat. TS THE revolt against Russian despotism quelled? Has it been demonstrated that oppressed and desperate people, with only their bare hands to fight with, CAN'T cope with a brutal despotism? T ET'S not be too sure.' Go back and read the story of Bastille Day -in Paris. Read on through the bloody history of the French Revolution, and the long days when heads rolled in .the streets of Paris as the guillotine chopped away monotonously. Then go a little farther back into the pages of your history and reati of the causes of this uprising that changed the face of France. Read the story of the king and his courtiers who rid ing through the streets saw a workman mending a roof. The king turned to one of the cross- bowmen in his guard and said: "Shoot me that varlet." The bowman took aim. His bolt sped true. The body of the workman rolled down the roof and thudded on the hard earth below. rpHE king and his courtiers, laughing uproariously, rode on. But THE REVOLUTION CAME. And the heartless despotism that had ruled France with its iron hand ended in a bath of blood the like of which had not been seen before. So let's not discount and ignore utterly the power of em bittered men who have only their bare hands with which to fight for the liberty they crave. There was a day of reckoning in Frflnpp SOMEDAY there will be a day of reckoning in Russia. We never have, and we never.wifl refuse to st?rve anyone in time of need regardless of age, color, race, creed, social standing, or financial situation! DAY OR: NIGHT - PHONE 2-8030' Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Matter of Fact MISSILES ON THE HORIZON Washington About a year from today, if all goes as expect ed, a prototpve of the first true intercontinent al missile a Ram-jetknown as N a v a ho, will be tested in the Carib bean ' proving grounds. And about 18 months from today, accord ing to present schedules, a greater and more terrible weapon, the mtercon ental ballistic missile, known & Atlas, will also be tested. To most people, these facts may seem worth no more than a passing glance. Yet the near prospect of the testing of these weapons 'has profou ndly r e volutionary imp lications, w h'i c h are c a u s ing pas sionate debate . in the Penta gon and tile If--- Stewart Atsop National Se- curity Council. The outcorge of the debate will deeply affect the economy and the grand strategy of the United States, and indeed, this country's chances of sur vival in further war. To under stand what the debate is about, the basic facts about the missije weapons must be understood. Navaho is designed to travel to its target at a speed of over 2,000 miles an hour, at an alti tude of 60,000 to 80,000 feet Atlas, an entirely different kind' of missile, is designed to travel at the fantastic speed of 16,000 miles an hour or more, reaching a maximum altitude of around 600 miles. lOTH missiles are of inter " continental range more than 5,000'miles. But the differ ences between them are crucial. Navaho can be intercepte'd and shot down by means now known or projected. Atlas cannot. Nava ho will probably be capable of carrying as a warhead only a rather small atomic bomb.-Th Atlas warhead will be a, very powerful hydrogen bomb.' These are some of the reasons why Atlas, .unlike Navaho, hag been called "the -ultimate weap on." But it must also be under stood that there is a widq gap between the testing of a proto-, type and . the possession a'f a, decisive number of these terrible weapons for use in war. And the gap is likely to be much shorter in the case of Navaho than in the case of. Atlas. One of the missile-makers' most- nightmarish problems is the problem pi guidance,. of di recting a missile to a target half a world away. The problem has been iargely. sol.ved, at least. on paper, in the case of Kavaho, thanks in part to a lesser missile called Snark is subsonic and mil itarily almost without value, tmt experiments in guildlng it have been useful in the devlopment of a guidance system for Navaho. rtjEVELOPING accurate guid " ance'. for Atlas, with its in- Portland U.R) Adam J. Hetneman, channel maintenance chief for the Portland District Corps of Engineers, has handed in his resignation. GOOD LUCK TORNADO! East Side . Market SAVE on Top Quality Pet Food se (48caiss).?4r2r$ 5 No Limitations'' o By Jos and Stewart Alsop credible speed and other char acteristics, is something else again, and although progress has been rtde, the problem is by no means soivea. Morever, in the case of Atlas there is a special difficity that does not affect Navalgp "re-entrjj" The problem is to find some way to prevent Atlas from burning up, HJce a aneteor, when it re enters , the earth's atmosphere. Finally, Atlas will not only be an enoflnojbr expensive weap. on in itself. Its launching sites will as be hideously expensive to build tn maintain. There is a plaiied appreciation, in the next bdget of $100 million for just one site, and the cost could easily gQomuch "Higher. Obvious ly, if and Hvhen Ihe time comes when Atlas nissiles and As siees are dotftd all or the country, the (Cost wil be astron omical. Q co Q O Given these facts, it is easy to undersind0wf?a the lehte in the Administration 8 all about There is no longer ajiy argument about the neld tojjvin the race for the ultimate weani, and the Predenthas givL the Atlas program the highest pri orify. Bu the economy-firsters would like to make up for the vast prospec8v cost of Atlas by paring, all other programs and force levels to the boue. It has even been popose?t that the Navaho profram should be eliminated entirely, on the theory that Atlas will eventually do the same iob better. THE security-iinded strongly argue that putting (Sll Amer ica's chips on Atlas involves in supportable risk There is 'no assurance at allthat the Stra tegic Ajf Command's B-25s wiU not be rendered absolute3 before the still non-exisitent Alas is operational in usft'tjj numttrs. Therefore we my have Navaho and uch other "improved man ned aircraft as the B-58, to bridge the gapobetween the B-52 and Atlas, arid to m9ke certain that this country renins at all times its 0 retliaiiry striking powfcr. . Above all, the securiQr.miftled maintain, the United States must be aale to fight ofter kinds of wajc, besides the suicidal push button "war of5 tal detraction foi wliich Atla is designed. In sum, the0 near pospect fothe testing o the intercontinental .missiles is beginning to generate another debat fti defense, and this may be the mosr0crucial dbate af Sll. n f 1956 New York Herald 1 . Tribune "Inc. NLY 21 oShopping Detk Chri&mas! Hyo Marital Asleept thf o Switch? Doift get caught napping while Big Chffctmas Bills Pile Upl For CHRISTMAS CASH SEE o o 14 Om$KM Of MCMC fWW9 PAGFft IRDUSTRIAL-" Dick Hafts, Manager 16 S. Cenfral Ph. 3-5308 o
