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o o o O O O o o o 8 o o o o o o c O O O o FOUR&-MEDFORD (OHEGON) MEDF0RDTRI2UNE "(veryone In Soutiin Orejoto Keads The AlkU Tribune" Dally Ex-rent Saturday by MEDFORD PRLNT;G CO 27-2 NythFlr St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W" RL'HL, dltor RIRH GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM uine Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Manarin Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JE'A'ETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE EH1CK5QN $ircTilaUqn Mgr. An IndependerrT Newspaper Zntei aj second clam matter at ldedford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By te-il In Advance Pgr Cop7 lec. Diy and fiinday One sar S15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Su.O.ay Three rr.'ia 4-33 Sunday Only One veo S4.2Q -By Carrier In Advance Medford, Mard rM: Point Eae Point. Xi'-kaonvnijt Cold Hill Pnoenlx. Shady Co- Rogne Rlver. Talent anyi on motor routes-. r-i:l and Sunday One year tlS On Iai:y anxl Sunday One month 10 Carrier id Dealers-10c per ctpT -AIT Terra Cash tn Advanra o ttritii tapePo? the City of rorg Ofrirl. Paper of Jackson County l.nited Pjw..afjll Lead Wir IJ.'ZMBER OT AL'DTT BlRAU yr CIKLXLATION (Aj' "tlinpnRrnr"s'nttf vm 'firf lr-,.v-w Yorlc Chisago, de- iroir rrancajcTO, Lea Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis 4,tiata -Vanvoii-rtir RC National E 0 1 TO 1 1 I ASSOCTI.ON vJ U o M7 f3 PUtLiSHIt issocitiTiOM Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County fitory from the files of The Jiiil Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 5a years ago. O10 YEARS AGO O Jer. II. 194 (Wednesday), Four members of the Asso O ciated Communication Equip O (Tnent Workers union are among 230 en strike in Oregon, accord in 5 to local telephone company f officials. O From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "She will q relinquish her membership in the Spinsters at the, time of her narri;tte." (S. F.. Chronicle) Naturally. 20 YEARS AGO 0 Dec U. 1S36 (Friday) O Incoruirg and outgoing Christ inas mail is increasing notice O ayy here. Postmaster Frank De So Souza says today. Jackson county tax levy for (Jnming ynr, for state and coun ty levies, infixed by county assessor's office at 14.9-mills, o - o30 YEARS AGO -Bye. Ji, 1926 (Saturday) Cenjral Point's brick factory is eipectttl to commence opera tions within a short time, accord ing to William Ferguson, of Cen tral Pnt. o The Saras? Valley postoffice has been discontinued, accord ing tfce Gqjd Hill news. (J0 YEARS AGO Tc. IP. fl6 IMonday) J Col. R. C. Washburn will pre side atPthe Z lstannual- meeting q ofo e Oreaon State Horticul tural Siciety wiich meets at looi Tivrr iMonaay. Seral Jackson county farm ers and fruitgrowers will Bttend the Farmers, arid" Homemaker's wSfrk at Corvallrs soon. O o 50 YSARSAGO (Tec, 11. 1908 (Tuesday) Largest shipment of fruit Mrees ever ctir.signed to a south "yrn Oregon point is received at MedJord- shipanent totaling 28,- OOPrees valud at $4,000. President Roosevelt5tells Sen sior Fullbright f Oregon that hVregrettei the Colliers article which rconKy attacked Full- bright. WhafSoYwr, I.Q.? Nine or tenorrert Is supecl: aev en or efhn it excellent; liva or 1. Jrr the ftving ex-presidents o the lAited States. O 2. Is 5'sdemona the heroine of "Othello'' or Dante's "Inferno"? O 3. Is Jesus Si "d"esce?i(ant Of OLevi. Judah, Joseph, or Bn- q 49 Is the rmo"lory"o used more Qn England than in the U.S.? o o (5! Is the hrmdquarters of the O International ijled Cross0 in "Lon don or Washington? 6. Th so-called "Bill of SighO ' oPtheAmerican paople is art of the "Decfaration of IiOcpendegce:" tfu or false.? o TO Does the oboa possess vest rjes & pelvis on hiiid limbs, as well as a tail? OS. What as the color of the hS)r of (1) Columbffs; and "Bal boa? 0 09 Isaruisroilian" an Ishmae litt3!0 10. "Hos's tents aid pilau were pleasant to this little Ishmaelite." Thackery.'ls "pilau" an orien tal Turkish or Arabian rug? Answers: 1. Herbert Hoorer and Harry S. Truman. 2. "Othel lo." 3. Judah. 4. Yes "Truck" is the U.S. term. 5. No. Geneva. 6. False. "U.S. Constitution." 7. Yes. 8. Red. 9. Yes. 10. No. Orental dish. MAIL TRIBUNE "The Honeymoon is Over" There has been rather a curious condition in the country politically since the presidential election. Criticisms of President Eisenhower and particu larly his foreign policy, have been confined almost entirely to the Republican press which was so loud in fulsome praises for "Ike" and everything he stood for during the campaign. The Democratic press has, as a whole, said little or nothing, critically speaking. TAKE the. New Bedford (Mass.) Times, for exam pie, which through many years has favored this department with editorial comments from time to time, usually to the right of the ultra-isolationist Chi cago Tribune. The latest offering is entitled "How Stupid Can We Get?" takes President Eisenhower to task for over a column in. its lead editorial for his attitude toward England, and France in the recent Suez crisis. We quote the conclusion, as follows : When British and French troops landed in Egypt on Nov. S, there was new hope for a quick and conclusive settlement of the Suez crisis. The United States quickly turned hope into despair by demanding an immediate cease fire and withdrawal of the "aggressor" forces. The renewal of the latter demand by the United States 6 and the UN last Saturday was the crowning act in a tragedy of errors. How long will it take the United States to realize that only through united and cooperative effort with Britain and France can we achieve a settlement of the Suez crisis? How long will it take the United States to realize that cur traditional allies, Britain and France, are on the side of Justice in the Middle East, and that Nasser seeks only to further his own political power in consort with the Kremlin? How long will it take the United States to awaken to the realization that peace in the Middle East can be achieved only through strength, not appeasement? Even the strongly Republican Salem Capital Journal is not sure the policy of the Eisenhower ad ministration in this case was right. Whether is was a mistake or not the Salem paper says only the future can tell, and it reminds its readers as follows, quote : Russian threats and American pressure on the U.N. saved Egyptian Dictator Nasser for the time being, and defeated the objectives of Britain and France. But the Israeli emerged with gains they defeated the Egyptians in humiliating fash ion, proved their boasted army a bluff and captured $50 mil lion worth of Soviet arms sold them by Russias for which Nasser had pledged Egypt's cotton crops for decades, and will probably get territorial gains. Meanwhile it should be remembered the cause of this petty, war. Nasser's treaty violation by seizing the Suez Canal July 26, his avowed intention of destroying Israel, his open aid to Algerian rebels and his promise to the Algerian rebels to drive the Western Powers out of the Middle East. Those were what caused Britain and France to strike and were perhaps justifiable goals. "Perhaps justifiable goals?" Yet President Eisenhower strongly condemned both Britain and France for this unprovoked attack on Egypt, and joined with Soviet Russia in demand ing an immediate cease-fire and the withdrawal of their offensive forces "forthwith." CXX THE other hand the Democratic press, as far as there is any such thing on this coast, has, as far as we have observed, upheld the administration in its reliance on the United Nations and its insistence that the UN charter in its opposition to unprovoked aggression, be scrupulously observed and upheld. AS FAR as the Mail Tribune is concerned, as has been previously stated, we could see no other way for the United States to act regarding Egypt, unless it wished to repudiate the UN, and admit to all the world, that we were in favor of the enforcement of its provisions where our enemies were concerned but not in the case of our friends. Such action MIGHT have resulted in the downfall of Nasser and the eventual internationalization of the Suez both objectives highly desirable but it would almost certainly have been the death blow for the United Nations, and close to a "k.o." for the cause of present world peace. For if England and France were in the right to strike when Israel started its march toward the Suez, then a similar right could hardly be denied to Soviet Russia, Red China, North Korea or any other nation disposed to resort, via an ultimatum, to armed force and conquest. A LL of which adds up, we believe, to verification "of a prediction made in this department several times during the campaign, namely: that President Eisenhower will find the going much tougher in his second,- than his first term. For in his foreign policies particularly he never has been supported sincerely by the extreme right wing of his party, and now with the election over, and another term for "Ike" out, there will -no longer be any reason for the opposition to -"pull their punches" to try to maintain the delusion that the Grand Old Party with "We Like Ike" as a battle cry. represents, or ever did represent, a har monious and united front. From now on in, the conservative G.O.P. press promises to follow the lead of the "New Bedford, Standard-Times" and the Chicago Tribune and say what it thinks, about Ike and his New Deal policies. R.W.R. What's Page I News? Our contemporary over the hill the Klamath Falls Herald and News announces it has abandoned its practice of two years, namely: running "good-news-only-on-page-I" because of the somewhat du bious world situation. This is not surprising. The surprising thing was and is the practice was ever started. But our friendly associate does not agree. Its an nouncement "with regret." concludes as follows, quote : So. we'll give you the news as it happens, no matter how bloody and terrible, and say "Merry Christmas to all I Tuesday, December 11, 1958 Tito Keeps Up Barrage Against Stalinist Leaders in Satellites By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent President Tito of Yugoslavia has opened a strong attack against "Stalinist" leaders in the '.Tc Ti Soviet satellite cuumnes. His newspa per organs are a c c u sing the g o v e rnments of Albania, C z e c hoslova kia and Bulga ria of trying to stop the trend Chanea Mcunn rowara inde pendent Communism and revert to Stalin-type dictatorship. In addition, Tito has recalled his ambassador to Hungary be cause puppet Premier Janos Ka dar permitted the Russians to kidnap independent Communist Premier Imre Nagy. The Tito line against the satel 1 i t e leaders is considerably sharper than that he is taking at the moment in his occasional r Kla risi "-aalsi Expanded Aid Program May Include Changes In Trading Policies By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) An adjust ment of United States trade poli cies in favor of hard-pressed Western Euro pean nations is part of an ex-Dandedaidrjro- l in piaieu uy responsible ad mi n i stration members. The suggested new look in U.S. foreign policy Lj i C M tuuu is officially termed a more be nign attitude toward this coun try's allies. Benign means gen tler or kinder. At the fewest, Great Britain, France, The Netherlands and Italy are ex pected to share in some or all of the various aid now being considered here and, doubtless, being discussed in Paris by Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles. , Congress and private industry consistently have pressed the U.S. government to buy Ameri can. That is. to buy American made goods even though a for eign manufacturer may be able to offer as good or better a bar gain. It is contemplated now that in such circumstances the Brit ish or French, for example, manufacturer of a massive gen erator might make a sale even though an American product could compete equally, in price and quality. Such benign trading would be part of the effort to provide Western European Allies with dollars toward stabilization of their currencies and their econo mies. It has been suggested that operators of foreign air lines might also be favored in their Editorial Comment HANG TOUGH The AP transmits a picture of 9-year-old Nicolas Szilagyi, an orphan whose parents had been killed in the terror that is Hung ary. Nicholas walked across the border to Austria. He carried only one possession, his most pre cious. In what looks like a can vas case are his school books. Whatever happens to you now, Nick hang onto those books. Across the Atlantic is a nation that was made by men who suf fered adversity in childhood and who hung onto the school books. Those things happened a long time ago, of course, but still over here and in the Brit ish dominions and even in the Europe that has treated you so shabbily there is room for young fellows like yourself, tough and possessed of that quality Americans call "guts." We hope you'll be a welcome immigrant to the U.S.A., a coun try which should always have room for one more like you. Eugene Register-Guard. and we hope the day will come soon when our good news page will be a firm reality again." IN OTHER words when and if the world situation betters the Page I make-up will be determined not by the news "as it happens," but by the fact that there will be enough glad tidings here and abroad to fill the front page. We concede a newspaper has the right to do as it pleases in such matters, but our prediction is the Herald-News never will go back to this Polyanna practice of slanting its Page I news on such a basis, during the Christmas season or any other. For Page I news should be determined - not by whether it is good or bad but whether it is "big" whether on the sole basis of its news value it merits Page I position, or does NOT. That's all. And that is or should be the only criteria. Other wise a false picture of the community, the state and the world is given. We find it hard to believe the Klamath paper will ever resume such a practice. R.W.R. exchange of insults with the Russians. Seeks to Weaken Leaders Tito's feeling seems to be that by centering his fire on the sat ellite leaders he can weaken them and at the same time strengthen those men in the So viet government, led by Nikita S. Khrushchev who favor liber alization of Communist rule. There are reports Tito is con vinced the Khrushchev faction in the Soviet government will win out in the end over those who, like Vyacheslav M. Molo tov, hold that the liberalization policy is too dangerous. In his attacks on "Stalinists," Tito is directing his hottest fire against Enver Hoxha, Commu nist leader in Albania, and his government. Hoxha is being accused of op posing any trend toward liberali zation and of imprisoning or ex ecuting those Albanian leaders who favor it. Velimi Stojnic, a member of efforts to obtain concessions from the U.S. government at the expense of American-owned car riers engaged in foreign service. The grant of such concessions would not be judged on the strict merits of the air transportation business but somewhat in light of an ally's need and, especially, in light of an ally's international behavior. Airline Gets Concessions For example, the behavior of The Netherlands government in Indonesia may obtain for the Dutch airlines some eagerly sought concessions with respect to air passenger traffic originat ing m the United States. U.S. operators will not like that. The United States has certain policies toward colonialism, for example, and certain standards of international conduct. It is freely conceded here by some re sponsible officials that living up to these standards imposes a much heavier burden on some allies of the United States than it does on this country. More benign trade policies are but a part of the contemplated aid, all of which apparently still is subject to exploration by the cabinet and decision by Presi dent Eisenhower. Western Euro pean Allies probably will be re quested to get together among themselves to pool their mutual needs. The United States then would try to meet the rescue cost. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Join "New State"? To the Editor: You have pub lished a good many articles in your paper for me in regard to the necessity of industries for southern Oregon, for which I have been very grateful. Looks as though industry is not considered. As the old saying goes, "It's not raining so why fix the roof?" Anyway, our taxes and transportation are so high that any capital large enough to start an industry in southern Oregon would not attempt a ven ture of any sort. The northern portion of our state is all that gets any govern ment consideration. If our mills should close down for any length of time, of which there is a possibility, considering the mar ket situation, there will be a larger need for help here at home than for the Hungarians in Austria. Possibly it would be a wise move for Jackson, Josephine and Curry Counties to join the eight Northern California counties and make a larger state. Francis (Shorty) Hibbard. 1302 Saling ave. Medford, Ore. Tito's ruling Federal Executive council, denounced Hoxha and his aides in an article published Monday in the newspaper Poli tika, on of the two Yugoslav Communist organs. Stojnic said that Hoxha and other Albanian leaders were "trying to stop the process of democratization and turn it backwards." Dispatches from Belgrade say that the possibility of a complete break in relations between Yugoslavia and Albania is the subject of speculation there. Yugoslav - Albanian relations have been bad ever since Tito broke with Stalin in 1948. Hits at Czechs Tito also is exchanging at tacks with "Stalinist" leaders in Czechoslovakia. Tito is accusing the Czechs of slandering Yugo slavia, part of their resistance to liberalization, and of distorting his own speeches. The Czechs, in turn, are accus ing Tito of "endangering the worldwide Communist move ment and weakening the firm Communist front." Tito seems to have nothing to lose and everything to gain in his feud with the satellite lead ers. They can not hope to weaken him. But he undoubted ly can weaken them if he keeps hammering. !n the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The idea of another state to be carved out of the far northern part of California, which has been getting a lot of tongue in cheek discussion in the past few days, appeals to most of us as something new. As a matter of fact, it is old as age goes in the West. Seces sion of California's far northern counties to form a new state of Shasta was first proposed a little more than a century ago, when the American state of California was still so new that its officials had scarcely more than got their chairs warm. TT CAME before the legislature -- in the form of a report from a committee that had been nam ed to study the proposal. The report included this statement: "The interests of the regions out of which it is proposed to from these states (the existing state of California and the new state of Shasta) are widely dis similar. Unlike also is the char acter of their resources and the investment of capital. Laws so diversiform and often contrary are required that it seems im possible for the same body of men, representing constituencies so varied, to agree to their en actment. "The experience of the mem bers of this committee, since the commencement of the present session of the legislature, go far to justify an opinion of the un- avoidableness of this vast want of harmony." rpHE basic grievance of the -"- counties that were then pro posing to secede and form a state of their own was lack of communications and adequate transport between the head of navigation on the Sacramento and the gold camps of the far north a lack that has long since been remedied. But the present water situa tion in California makes almost prophetic the statement of the state of Shasta committee back in 1855 that "laws so diversi form and often contrary are re quired that it seems impossible for the same body of men, rep resenting constituencies so var ied, to agree in their enactment." The bulk of California's water originates in the northern part of the state. There is tremend ous and growing demand for water AND STILL MORE WAT ER in the south, where the state's wealth and population are centered and where it is clearly recognized that future growth and development will be limited by the amount of water that can be IMPORTED When the 1957 legislature tackles the job of dividing up California's water between the counties where it originates and the water-short areas where it is WANTED, it is going to seem again that 'laws so diversiform and often contrary (in their effect on the ' economies of the regions con cerned) are required that it seems impossible for the same body of men, representing con stituencies so varied, to agree in their enactment." Already there are predictions that there will be blood on the moon before the job is finished. A CENTURY ago, when it was first, nrnnnpr! tr riivirlp th state of California and create a state of Shasta in the north, water had only two principal uses outside of quenching thirst: 1. To wash gold out of the dirt and gravel of the ecreek bot toms. 2. To float boats to carry sup plies to the mining camps. So water wasn't then much of a problem. But times have changed. Water is now the West's most precious resource. Without it, all other resources are practically valueless. AND- In California MoftOt Of FCCt THE PRESIDENT AND CRISIS Washington Secretary of State John Foster Dulls' long absence from his desk has had a curious un antici p a t i d, and highly sig nificant s i 6 e effect. It has involved Pres ident Eisen hower deeply and intimate ly in the pol icy - mak ing process, in Stewart Afsop a way that he was got involved before. Before Dulles was taken ill, the President relied on hioi very heavily indeed. A closeb person al relationship has developed be tween the two men, totally dif ferent as they are in tempera ment (just as there 'was a close? relationship between those two entirely different men, llarry S. Truman and Dean G. Acheson.) And, except for a very few very big de cisions ( li e the decision to hold a "Megt i n g a tct h e Summit?' which Dulles strongly opposed) the jukeub Aiup President has had a tendency to "leave it.to Foster." o But when Dulles was stlicken, the President by necessity "be came his own Secretary of State. Undersecretary Herbert Hooyer Jr., (unlike his successor, Massa chusets' Governor Christian A. Herter, whose main interest in life has been foreign affairs) is essentially an administrator and thus not qualified to make high policy decisions. The President took over completely, even dic tating his own cables, striding up and down the Cabinet room while his chief advisers listened. THIS period of acting as his own Secretary of State had two effects on the President. In the first place, it tired him out not surprisingly, since he "was forced to take over during the most dangerous foreign policy crisis of recent yeitrs. The Georgia vacation was thought mandatory, even though the President himself wa wholly aware that this has not been a good time to leave Washington. The other effect was more im portant. Secretary Dulles had previously acted as a sort of cushion between the President and the facts of the world situa tion. Now the President was brought into immediate, inti mate contact with the facts, with no intervening cushion. Like everybody else in the Administration, the President's first reaction to the Anglo French action jn Egypt was anger. But even in ihose first days, when there was serious discussion in the National Se curity Council of interposing the American Sixth" Fleet be tween the Anglo-French forces and Suez, the President remind ed his advisers that "we've, got to remember, who are our real friends and who are our real enemies." And as the days went by, the importance of" the Western Al The bulk of the water origin ates in the counties of the north. Under exisiting law, these coun ties of origin have a prior right to the water that falls in their hills, in the form of rain or snow, and runs down their creeks and their rivers. They feel, naturally enough, that it is THEIR water., to be used first for the development of THEIR resources." They are not opposed, of course, to the later use of their SURPLUS water by the rest of their state, but as yet they don t know how much surplus water they are going to have if any. It is easy to understand "Wtiy they are not happy over pro posals to limit their . present rights to priority in the use THEIR water. .i STEINWAY Choose J Christmas Gift for your home, rhat is superbly styled, richly toned, luxuriously .fietshed. . . from our fabulous selection of dig Name Pianos! Priced from $495 to $2,995 Open Wednesday Evenings 'til 9 PURUCKER Southern Oregon's Oldest and Finest Music Store 111 N. Central Phone 2-5702 L.A a. Aal rf . Nf ffil for Qualify' f, ' J Tone i Enfiurancer- O By Ja cSd Stewart Alsop liance ocjpied the President .Dore and more, and the wicked ness of th Allies less al U3l. This was not true of Undersec retary Hoover, nd not entirely true of Secretary Dulles. HO(VER, wiiji tee siclSed backing of Dulls, had put forward) the policy of using Western Hemisphere ooil as an unacknowledged economic sanc tion to force the British and ench to evacuate Egypt, and tor a time the Tc$kdent went along with tfcjj policy. But when he realized the exorry damage th policy was inflicting on the Ve&$H. AlSnc he flat ly reveled . Hqr?pimis62 oil to Britain and Western Europe, over Hoover's protests, before pthe Anglo-French decision to evxeuate hadobeen announced, ano bfc?e a singly soldier had been withdrawn, o o But that waf0nly the begin ning of th process initiated by the PresTder?t intimate pntact cwith the facts. One of tK4 facts I , i -i S wnitn nas ueuuiii tiearer aW?4 clearer 8s fke o&ys have passed is that theSyez crisis threatens a serious economic depression in Europe, j.'hcih i Qnjght deeply infect the American economy. The mod immediate dangc is a ran on file British pound sttrling, which would bri:Q about the final aSkruSfcy of Britain as banker of the vast sterling ayea. Vice President Nixon's importantoren polij. speech, which promisea "action tS deal with the financial plight of our friends in Britain," wt a just mfee to dtaPwith the danger. a o Oo o OTHER mces Sre jii pr4pect One being1 considered is a flat, unequivocal statement by the President teat sterling will be sugported if necessity. And if the worst comes to worst which both the 0British and the American governments fer vently hcp it will not Con gress willbe asked to preside massive dfirectogrfeits JcoBritain and Westero Europe. Finally, the Preside, is now seriously considering ateartr.g again in rjefson jpef Sre ffte Unit ed Nations, -to make a speech designed to bind up the wounds of the Wst? to warar, the So viets against further avqaaures; and fo reassert American lead ership of tSe free world. All in all, the effort on the President Himself of the expe rience of acting as his own Sec retary of State lias been most marked. But perhaps it has not been ve surprise). For the President is, after all, the au thor of the famojjF Guildhall speech, a noble statement of the meaning' and purpose of the Western Alliance. And unques tionably he still believes what he said then. Copyright 1SS, New York Heray Tribune Inc. - C Mr. Insurance O o o BRENNAS Phone 4940q &:aZ? estate? Folks buying lhose four inchQ square Tots 4 Stumbo Strip f HighwayQ 99 are having fl$jnsur this vai&able acreaia. Proof once ag(n tfcoat no O possession is ?oo large or too small to be covered by Insurance. 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