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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!
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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.
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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
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