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o o0 CD O O o o o o o o o o CFOtrf3MEDFCHD (OREGON! MAIL TH3UNE i-i " - O ,00 MEDFl Tribune "Zveryone In Southern Oregon R'ffla The Majj Trlbuae" ("Published Da In Except Saturday by q .MEDFORL) PPOSUNG CO ROBERT W Hi .'HI. Editor H3ERB GREY Advertising Maimer GERALDCLATHAM Business Manager ERICjMJ-ENcJR Managing Editor Sfti H ADAMS Cit Editor RaRRY C1WPMAN Telegraph Editor RiCHAR JEWET Sorts Editor OLIVE SI ARCHER Societv EoKor PALE ERICKSO.N Circulation Mgr. An Independent .Newspaper E"tere-1 e second clan matter at Mediof? Oregon under Act of March 3. 1317 U SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c O Daily and Sundi One year $13 00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dally anj-5unti. Three mot 4.23 Sunday Only Oneovear $430 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Cetrl Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent awl on motor routes: rtaily and Sunday One year (1800 Dally and Sunday One month I SO Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advana? Official Paper of the City of Medford ""'rial fraper of Jackson County United Pres Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU . Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de trolt, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Sesttle Portland St. Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATION A I EDITORIAL assocCatixin I y u o ' -e,i " aTiinrin'ii'iiii 'iff" HEWS PA P E ft t. U. - " PUBLISHERS association Flight V Time o 171 Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO yeaxa ago. 10 YEARS AGO 0 . 0 Dec. 7, 1946 (Saturday) Railway express and postal embargo restrictions lifts'd here. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudgl)t colurfirjj Jaywalking is again Menacing pedestrians, and a cavb ts 'sought. It's bad enough to be hit by -a speeder at a crossing. 20 yearSago Dec. 7, 1936 (Monday) . " State police warn highways are '-treacherous doe to rains wetting j)il that hSs laid on high ways ah sunjmer.c-0 Ann Denman, one-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken', neth Denman, awarded first prize of $50 in Shanglec Bab- Salon. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 7. 1926 -(Tuesday) . Or. L. D. Inskeap, formerly of San Frhc?sc9, named physician of the Jackson County Health unit. o o William J. Stockham, South ern Pacific section foreman in Medford for 25'Vears, announces retirement. 0 O 2. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 7.1916 (Thursday) D. vZ Stone operated his pear orchards afc a profit of $254.30 an acre last year, he has an Onourrcedg c0 ? . - U. S. reclamation service re q futes charges that Fish Lake dam' qw-: iduiiiiy vimsiruciea. SO YEARS AGO Dec. 7.O1906 (Fridy) ' Partnership between L. J. uKeinhart ad J. H. Atwell is dis solved wh Rejnhart succeeding Ho do busifSess aod colJect all ac counts duene firrri. O From Local anoV Persosal col umn: Hon. H. D. Kubli, member of the legislature and prominent (Applegte farmer o asd stock O raiser, is in Medford today. Q Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine or sen correcaMV superior; sev en or eTicht Is jxcrtlent; five or sit lsOiond. r 1. Vtre tSe Allied landings madeOin North "Africa during 19!, 194 or 1944? 2. Are there at least 9. 12, or 15 different meanings of the (Vord "enforce"? o 3. Did information as 'to the arrival St new tribes and races in ancient Israel come from Phoenician merchants or Egyp tian and Babylonian literature? 4qS bundle: rf rods with'an axe-blade projecting is called a -"?o q5. What river do the Catskill mou3ins overlook? 6. Were the first European ex plorers to visit Michigan French, Spanish or English? c o 0 7. Can vlar bears endure the summrt heat of ar temperate 'cli mate. '" Whn U ihe swithoe of "King Qrthur and his Knights of th 5Tound la oie 7 9. DM "obvious" originally (Jiean plain Obr evident? ' . t 10. "1 do evil turn my obvious fcreast." Does -obvious' mean readilv pecceivefi" or "op- Answers? 1. 1942 (November O alio 2. Nine. 3. Yes. All three sources.: 4. Fascess 5. Hudson. t, rttench. 7. Yes. 8 Alfred Tenny- "How Silly Can We Get? It looks dark for the Democrats in Salem, accord ing to most of the Republican press. These G.O.P. Cassandras lay special emphasis upon the hard, rough road that Governor-elect Holmes will have to tread J . 'No. 1: he .has no gubernatorial mansion to move into. - - . ' 'Oregonit seems, is one of the few states in the nation too niggardly to provide the head of the state with a suitable home in which to live. We grant that should be done. But all Oregon Governors have thus farleen able to function reasonably well without it, and-we see no cause, for apprehension, regarding State Senator Holmes' ability to do the same. ' . DUT that is one of the minor. dangers ahead, accord- ing to the disappointed supporters of former act ing Governor Elmo Smith; "THERE is the ever-present tax problem, for ex- ample, and the alarming condition of the state's finances.- Governor Holmes is. pledged, it seems, against a state sales tax. would not approve such a tax unless it were approved first by the people and in the judg ment of most of the Republican papers, the people of Oregon, wilrrrever approve , the state hopelessly in the etc.. " , TOR many years this paper has opposed a -state sales tax, and .would only approve one today if properly modified and then as a last resort. But if there is no OTHER way and we mean NO other to secure a businesslike adjustment in the, state income and surtax setup, then we would go along with the sales tax proponents. . However, we have a hope (AND a hunch) that when Governor Holmes and his associates get time to carefully examine the problem of taxation they will find a way out, and we certainly refuse ta join those of our contemporaries who spell out defeat for the Governor-elect even before he starts. . At least "give the man DUT according to the Albany Democrat-Herald (it P should be "Republican Herald" but calls itself "Independent ) there is little hope. Jbor example, the state senate is divided 15 Republicans to 15 Demo crats and it takes 16 to elect legislation. . It is difficult to take crat's'.' judgment on such quote: "Each - party will only have 15 votes all session long unless there are some Wayne Morse types around. Neither side can push through a' bill the other side doesn't- want. Anyone who thinks that Oregon Legislators won't vote -on party lines just hasn't considered the highly partisan - spirit prevailing since tlje recent election.' The party balance is going ta make, the senate chamber look more like a boxing-ring than, the clubroom. it has resembled in the past." . . CO? To make its position doubly clear the "Demo- crat" says it can hear some "of the Wayne Morse types now explaining their switch from 100 per cent partisanship saying, "I put' do this for the greatest good of my constituents just this once." . "THE Albany paper believes any deviation from, the strict party line in the legislature would lower the deviationist to ' the placing the welfare of the would be something to deplore and justify some ot the epithets that the 100. per cent .GOP press shot at Oregon's senior Senator in the recent election for leav ing a party in which he no longer believed in for one in which he did. . Well as the farmer said to the first giraffe3 he had ever seen, "I jest don't believe it." Neither do we. .. ' ' There ' was considerable partisan heat "in the November election and considerable unwarranted name-calling: but we can't share the "Democrat's'' alarm, or accept its prediction of what is likely to happen in Governor Holmes' administration, in either house or . senate. We believe that in both parties there will be far more members of tha "Wayne Morse type" ,who will place "principle 'above politics," vote on each and every measure not according, to the; party -label but according' to its inerits from the standpoint of Oregon's welfare,- than the Albany editor imagines. T-JOW could it be' otherwise?' ' a 8 ?or the issues that divide the two Tnajor par ties nationally, do not divide them within this' state or any other. To vote against a measure in Salem because it was introduced Tby a Democrat or Repub lican would ba "as incompetent,' irrelevant and im material'' as to .vote against a proposal on religious, racial, social yes,; or hush-lodge grounds. Any'member ef the 195? state Legislature who is going to Salem to .renew fhe presidential battle 'of 1956, instead of devoting nis time to doing what he believes to be best for the state, regardless of party, should resign now and' let some aspirant the people of Oregon want take his place.. . The'problems facing the state are difficult en'ough to solve without wasting time,' energy and words, over those who according are going to vote on strictly national party lines, and, be against anything the opposing "party introduces, regardless" of its merits. That would be ,plain vindic tiveness and irresponsible nonsepee.- R.W.R. Thursday. December S. 195S such a tax, so that leaves red if not -bankrupt, etc., say "it can t be done and a chance." a senate president or pass seriously but the "Demo a situation is as follows, state. above party and I Wayne Morse level, and state above that of the party to the Albany 'Democrat Russian Students Increasingly Critical About Soviet Policies By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent An increasingly critical atti tude among Russian university students seems to be giving the Soviet govern m e n t some thing new to worry about. The students' started asking q u e stions about the poli cies of both govern ment and Commu- Chirie. Mctinn nisi rany lead ers after Nikita S. Khrushchev started the downgrading of Josef Stalin. Now, t appears, the students are asking some embarrassing questions about the revolts in Poland and Hungary and the growing movement among the Russian satellites for indepen dent Communist rule. On Monday, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, official organ of the Communist Youth league, stated that the students are carrying their criticism too far. Newspaper Complains The newspaper complained of "misunderstanding" in connec tion with Stalin's downgrading and the liberalization of the Soviet dictatorship which result ed from it. Some students, the newspaper said, were "attempting to nulli fy the unquestionable achieve ments of Soviet culture. A United Press Moscow dis patch commented: "The blast against student criticisms offered only a small glimpse of the ferment which since the downgrading of Stalin has been playing an important part in shaping public opinion. The ferment, the dispatch said, included the asking of "daring question on politics, art and economics." " It had been reported previous ly that students at Moscow uni versity posted news bulletins, of the British Broadcasting Corpor ation about the Hungarian re volt on the walls of their build ing. ' Mattel" Of FaCt KHRUSHCHEV ON THE MIDDLE EAST Washington When Khru shchev and Bulganin visited Bri tain last April, Prime Minister S i r Anthony Eden told them bluntly that' Britain would fight for its vital interests in the Middle East, even against the Soviet Union. At Stewart Alsop first, the visit ing Russians pretended to ba shofcked, saying "we came, to talk peace, not war." But in the end, the outspoken Khrushchev was almost as frank as Eden had been, and what he said has special significance in the present sitution.. The Soviet Union did not want a world war, Khrushchev said. But the Soviet Union also had' natural interests and aspirations in the Middle East. -And, short of war, the Soviets would do everything in their -power to "liberate" the area from "the Jostfob AUuu imperialists". meaning -of course, .the British and the Americans. Khrushchev and. Bulganin have been, for once, as good as their word. In an alliance of convenience with Egypt's .Col. Nasser, they are doing every thing in" their power to elimin ate British interests in the Mid dle East, thus reducing Britain to a third class power and de stroying the Western - Alliance". Their chief instruments at "the moment is Syria's Colonel, Ab del Hamid Serraj. Col. Nasser is, as it were, the majority "stock holder in Serraj, but the Soviets also have a controlling interest in the Serraj regime 3 . r- THEY, exejcise' their control ling interest through Soviet arms for the regime, and sup port for the regime by the Syri-1 an Communist patty. The lmrae-, diate object of the joint Nasser-j Soviet exercise is to bring down Iraq's Premier Nuri Said, and pull Irao, out of the anti-Soviet Baghdad pact. Thus British (and American) oil resources in Iraq would be endangered. More im portant, the British would e denied the -base rights in Iraq which are -vital to the protection of the British" oil sources in he Persian Gulf, or which thejj are pledged to "fight. : The importance which the Soviets attach to the joint exer cise is. suggested by.the fact that attacks on .the" Iraqi government have now, become the central theme of the Soviet propaganda line. The ultimate object of the exercise is, of course, to make the "Middle East a Soviet satrapy. That some sush meve" wduld Another report said that an entire class walked out oi a lecture at tho University of Len ingrad after failing to get satis factory answers to their ques tions about the Hungarian events. Other dispatches have report ed an increasing tendency among Russian youth in gen eral to indulge in independent thinking about Communist ideo logy, and to seek more informa tion about what is happening In The Day's The dispatches tell us there is widespread feeling in London that the British decision to get out of Egypt without delay is a national humiliation. you make big decisions you have to suffer humiliation if- 'your decisions are wrong. That's the way of the world. 4 NY way you look at it, the British and French move into the Suez area was wrong. Be fore they reached for their guns and went in shooting, tankers loaded with oil were coming through the Suez from the vast fields around the Persian gulf. Oil was flowing through the Persian gulf to the Mediterran ean sea. Western Europe was booming. Now the only oil reaching Western Europe from the Per sian gulf is coming around Africa a long and expensive road. The Suez canal is full of sunken ships and is impass able. The pipelines have been dynamited. Western Europe is starved for oil and its industry is in a tail spin. A LL because the hard core of xx ancient, living - in-the-past- century Tories that rules the British Conservative party couldn't realize that the day when Brittania ruled the waves and ran the world is over. No wonder there is humilation in London. IX THY are the British and the " French leaving the Suez? By Joe and Stewart Alsop be the immediate consequence of Cal. Nasser's triumph in the Suez Canal dispute was entirely predictable, and was, indeed, re peatedly predicted in this space, Administration officials, asked what the United States would do in these circumstances, waffled. But now they are right up against the gun, for the question has got to be answered one way or another. T OGICALLY, the answer might be found in the famous "Dulles doctrine." Secretary of State Dulles has repeatedly pro claimed the theory that the way to avoid war is to draw a clear thus-far-and-no-further line which a potential enemy cannot cross without war. . The Britfsh, the Turks; the Iraqi, the 'Iranians," and the Pakistani, all members of the Baghdad pact, are now begging' the American government to apply the Dulles doctrine by joining the pact. The Baghdad pact was a brainchild of Secre tary Dulles, and Iraq joined it originally (the only Arab state to do so) in the belief that this country would be a member. But when it 'became clear that to do so would enrage Col. Nas ser tand his allies, the- United States, not too gracefully, backed out." - Joining the, pact now would certainly enrage Col. Nasser and his allies", including the Soviets even more than before. But it also would be a way of drawing a" thus-far-and-no-further line around threatened Iraq. TN THIS situation; those ad- ministration officials who still stubbornly contend that the Anglo-American .'allirhce is e sentfel to the containment of So viet: power, favor joining the pact. Admiral Arthur Radford Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, .took the same view even before the eiirrent crisis came to a head. But, those-who are now talking rather vaguely about, "baaing American policy on the U.N, wish to avoid irri tating Col. Nasserand the Asian- Africa rl bloc: The. result has been half-way measure s a warning that the United States would, regard an attack cn any member of. the pact with ut most gravity,"' and a promise to re-consider the" matter when Congress is in session. But if anything is clear, it is that half-way measures will not suffice in the present situation Even joining the Baghdad Pact would not suffice in ltsslf. Every ounce of American power and influence, must be, exerted to achieve a real settfemehfc in the Middle East, which must include re-openine of the Suez "Canal and the oil pipelines through Syria. But since Col. Nasser has been allowed to enjoy his tri umph unscathed, it is doubtful if American .power and influ ence will be enough. If it is not, Khrushchev and Bulganin are likely to have their way in the ead. Copyright 1956. New York Herald Jribune Inc. not, only in satellite Eastern Eu rope but in the world at large. There .are indications that Soviet authorities are planning to impose stricter discipline over university students and other young people in an attempt to get them back in' the desired frame of mind. Whether they will succeed is questionable. ' Independent thought in a country like Russia is dangerous. And once it has started, it is hard to stop. News By Frank Jenkins The answer is simple. THEY HAVE TO. When they waded in without saying BOO to us, they obviously expected ' that we would HAVE to back them up. We didn't back them up. We didn't back them up because we realized- it . would start a shooting war in the Middle East and the chance that a shooting war in the Middle East would' spread into a third . world wr was too great to take. '. lfE HAVEN'T run out on our ' friends. We're just taking over in an effort to save -them from their own mistakes. It will cost us plenty. We are preparing to supply them with the oil they must have if they are "to carry on. They have no DOL LARS left with which to pay for Western Hemisphere oil. So we will sell it to them on the cuff and take our chances on getting paid. One reason they have no dol lars with which to pay for American oil is that the shooting war they started in a huff was TERRIBLY costly. And Britain and France are in no shape to meet this cost. Not only have they no dollars with which to pay for our oil. They now have no dollars with which to meet in terest and principal installments on the debt they owe us. So we'll have to put that on the cuff too. But we're prepar ing to do it. We're not running out on our friends. We are reaching deeper into our pockets to pull them out of the hole they got themselves into. THERE is an old saying that "thpm an ha RITS." It's equally true that "them as has PAYS." We're getting ready to PAY. But We're taking over the wheel Copco Gets License For Klamath Dam Salem (U.R) The Oregon Hy- droelectric Commission yester day issued a license to California Oregon Power Company to con struct a major hydroelectric project on the Klamath river at the Big Bend site about 18 miles southwest of Klamath Falls. The project will consist of. an earth-fill dam 60 feet high. The power plant will contain two outdoor-type generating units each' with a tapacity ot 40,000 kilowatts. Provision was made in the li cense for fish protection acui ties. c Estimated cost of the project is $12,500,000. It ie expected to be in operation by Jan. 1, 1959. The Dalles Bank Manager Succumbs The Dalles U.R) Charles A Reynolds, .64, manager ,of The Dalles branch of the United States "National Bank of Port land for the past 11 years, died at his home here yesterday aft er a long illness. Reynolds was a natrve of Mountain Home, Ida., and graduate of the university of Oregon. He started his banking career in Salem and later vbs manager of a bank at Astoria.- How-Much Should 0o ' ' Funeral ;Servjce Cost? A funeral serviee should eosf no" moreen proportion, "hsn a person would spend for anything else in. accordance with his usual standard of Jiving. We discourage anyone from "going, overboard" and creating an obligation that would jnean an venual hardship. 0 . In any event, it sv something, you should know rbefpre such an expenditure has to be made. Ij costs nothing to find out, and ther ii np obligation involved. " Q. o0o DAY PR NIGHT PrHONE 2-803Q co GhaDelMorrWV r Today, and By Walter ON WINNING FRIENDS There is. a notion going around Washington that ,the great ob stacle to understanding and good coopera t i o n with the AfKj Asian coun tries is in our relations with Great Britain and Franc. Vice President Nixon e m v e voice to this t, notion in a Waiter LtDom&nn campaign speech on Nov. 2 when he said that "in the past th nations of Asia and Africa have always felt thai we would, whenr the pressure was" on, side with the policies" of the British oagd French "governments in relation to the once colonial areas." This is untrue, and if it be came a popular dogma, it coultr be very misleading. It is not true that we haye "always",or everP that we. have often, used our in fluence to preserve "colonial ism." Quite the contrary, aaani one ltnows who remembers the5 role tne united btstes nas piayca in Indonesia. Indo-China. in heo ... 7 ' ... - - uritisn evacuatjon ot tne &uer canal zone,"and In North Ainca. What we have "sided wfth" lh regard to the old imperial ter ritories is the movement in West ern Europe to bring abowt fheir independence rationally and m T)UT the deeper error of the - notion launched by Vice Communications Letters to the Edltoi"must beal the name ajid address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen nm or nitial. for publjcatlort la permis sive .The Mail Tribune reserves th) right to edit all lettev with as eye to clarification and condensa- tion Letters submitted for pfiblica tion must not exceed 400 words. . The Parking Problem To he Editor:-1 enclose copy of letter sent the Jackson coun ty Chartibef of Commerce as fol i . ivna. q Gentlemen: I read in" the Tribune tRat.the police have been instructed to enforce an ordinance that im poses a fine of $2.90 fdr "feeding a meter . While such a proce dure may jnaRe available more parking spaces, it also ean great ly reduce the amounj of money spent by -shoppers who may be forced to move their cars. And can you not imagine.how blist ering mad a potential customer will be to be fine"d when hS is just trying to spend more money in 'your stores? Also please re member "that there are good stores in Central Point as. well as" very fine mail order houses serving this " territory, and also seme fine super markets in ; or adjoining Medford 'that hate their own parking lgts. I have the iwo following sug gestions' for immediate applica tion and the third as a more com plete -solution. s ." x. in; iity r airier ' to repeal tnrs ordinance not just ask the police to ignore it and advertise that fact. 2. Instruti your employees and J yourselves, to walk to work, if within one mile..The Tribune 3. Form a corporation and build a parking lot. (They are5 said to be profitable.) But do not again ask the public of Medford to help pay for it in taxes. You, the merchants, will be" the direct beneficiaries".. Also- the public might like to buy part of the Stocks . w Horace W. Thompson 3642 Hilsinger Rd. . Medford; Ore. HUNTING. THE HARD WAY Lansing, Mich. U.PJ F. W.J Terwilliger, a state conserva-f tion department geologist, '3ikes to get his deer the hard way. Ter wiUiger bagged his deer this sea son with- a 90-year-old muzzle leader at 40 yards. O C3 a Across from the" Courthoyse frank Morgan Harsld Sno3gTass . FUNERAL DIRECTORS Xpmorrow Lippmann President Nixon is the assump tion that the cooperation and support of India and of other Afro-Asifll nations depends upon ur relations with Great Bri tain0 arii France and that somehow we can win new friends0 if we cut ourselvei off from our old friends. To believe thU Js to forget hahfthe world, to fbrget the Far East and the pacific. The United States is present there in force. olt is present in Japan, in Korea, in Okinawa, in the Formosa SLraifpin Souh VietnamOand in the mandaftd (islands, the so- called Trust Territories. Mr. Nixon is deceiving himself mightily if he forgets all this, and hugs the illusion that the Af?o-Aj5iags accept the position ujiua w j 1 1 v. i . 1 1 a v r ex panded as a result of the second World War. We should have no doubt that the Afto-Asian nations challenge ouroposition the Far East, and will raise the issues as and when the opR5rtuftity arises. They will raige the issue of our refusal to let the Red Chinese take the Chinese seat inQthe United Na tions. They will raise question of the status oi rormosa. They wiu raise the question of the detona tion of tig guclear bombs in the Pacific Islands. We must not delud? ourselves with the no tion that our differences with she Afro-Asian nations, with the so-called Bandung powers, arise ut of French and British poli- cigs andenot ouVof our own. IHAVElong been an ardent advocate of a policy of under standing and cooperation with the new nations, and it has al 'ways seemed to me, that the key country, because of its size and its moral prestige, is India. We sftall not be able to go far side by side with India towards a nevP relationship between the West and the East until there is a settlement which stabilizes in a peace treaty the relations be tween Cjjtnmunist Ch'iha and the United States, m There, rstljer thansin what re mayis of the Britlsh and French empires in the Middle East and North Africa, lie the crucial issues between the United States and the Afro-Asian countries. 0 Tojthos issues (She President will have to address?) himself quite seriBuslf if his new hopes "are to bear fruife Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tbune Inc. a Shopping Days Tir Christma, e VOW! More Christmas Sills? o Don't Worryl Malta Your Christmas Merry with CAS H from I PACIFIC, WDUSTRIAL Dick Hins, Manager 16 S. Central Ph. 3-5308 -tir o 0? o o O e cO O - o o 1 e
