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r O o o o o o o O O Oo OO Oo O O oo o o o o CO o o o O O TOUR-SrftDFORD (OREGON) ' MEDFORDgTRIBUNE o. Everyone in Soutiiern Oregon (ffeada The Mail TriDune" PubHahcl Dally ExrrDt Saturday by BEDFORD PRINTING CO 21 It Noi Uif ir St Phone 2-6141 3 ROBERT W RL'HL. Editor pRfl GREY Advrrtuins Manager Q:R9-D LATHAM Business Manager IRIC ALXEN JR Mar,K:n Ed)-jr EARL H ADAMS Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor Ol.IVEPSTAJCHER Societv Editor OCHLE ERIiSCSON. Circulation MKT. An incependenl newspaper O q inured as second claw matter at '-'Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 18'J7 3 'escr;ition rates' By Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c Daiiv and Sunday One year $15T)0 Dall and bunday Six months 8 00 Pally and Sunday-g-Three moa 4.25 Vmdav Only One var s-4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medfvd Ashland Central Poinfc Eae Point. O Jacksonville fiold Hill Phoenix. $anav Cove RiE-a River Talent andoon motor routes 0 Lai. and sundav One year $18 00 n Dally and Sunday One month 150 2 Carnerand Dealers 10c per copy AU Terms Cash In Advance Cwal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County m United Prya Full Leased Wire ilUMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU o OF CIRCULATION Jadyr-tlslng Representative: o W5T-HOLJDAY COatPANY tNC Offices tn New York Chicago, de 0 troit San Francisco. Los Angeles r eattle Portland St Louis Atlanta "Vancouver B C riATIQN A I 1DITORIAI ASSOCt-AT ION r "krTTJTTTTr g'.T.tna Medford and Jackson County History from th files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 3 years ago. jO YEARS AGO Dec. 17. 1946 (Tuesday) Mayor C. A. Meeker calls at tention coast-wide campaign fcQ reduce traffic accidents dur- Ins Ciirirfmas holidays. O o o From Arthurs Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Yule t flares high to the south. AVj PUBLISHERS )PA-SOCIATION o s 1 Flight o'Jime I ' q cijtistmas trees arff selling at L50 per foot. tO YEAR AGO 17. 1936 (Thursday,? . Jackson County Chamber of OCoarisieriftjiirgeS entrants in the ChristrrJuelectrical decoration eontSt to register. " MoQ than 50 familfes are now on the Salvation3 Army's Christ mas basket listp according to Catt. Durham, commanding of- csT- 10 YEARS AGO 0 'Dc..-i7. 1926 (Friday) Southern Oregon residents re minittd by forest officials to avoid cutting Christmas trees on public "or private land without first obtaining permission. -O Anifisal banquet of the '"40 et 8 societv seecjuled tonight at O JIolland hots-1. Pac 17. 1916 (Sunday) Co Irrigation may be profitably ised anctresult in great crop in- C-croe on corn as on fruit or al talffc according to Victor Bur ell. Central Point wchardist. i Itedford0boys' band will pa- Q-j ra'de for the first time Tnesday. 60 YEASS-AGO " . c-, Dec. 17. 1906 (Monday) SeSator Clark admits nroba- bilityof the extension of his rail way sfci to the Oregon coast, o O dnelish nress discusses nossi- Obilit8f a conflict between the United States and Japan. i What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correVt Is superior: sev en or eisht is excellent; live or siOts eood. 1. Bastidas discovered Colum- fca. South America; true or 00 falser c? u 2. Did President Theodone O Roosevelt omarry more than O Bnce? 3. Are the ancient sources and meanings of Bible names, for the most part, knownr 4. is Chicago Harbor in Attu O or some other Aleutian island? 5. Is it better to exercise the Qb?dy after or before meal? 6. Wh,at insyument of war is r equipped with a retractable landing gear? O f. Under what social system (-as a tehant called a vassal? n o, 8. Nsme Hitier's collaborator theboc "Mein Kampf." r 9. (The Anio-Saxon "ac" Cbak) 0 0OInd -corn" (grain) is the origin 0(Jor the word? 10. "We are Republicans and O dgp't propose t leave Pur party and identify ourselves with Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion." Was 0 Jhis sliir againm Catholicism or O O Ttalians? Answers: 1. False. Panama, z. Yft3 Twice. 03. No. 4. Attu. S. T3 t e &lrn'ana 7 Feudal O Ojyitem. 8. RSdolph Hess. 9. Acorn. 10. Catholicism. MAIL TRIBUNE Growing In the course of preparing a statement supporting the need for air service from Klamath Falls to Reno and Boise., the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce has compiled statistics on the growth of southern Oregon, both in population and wealth. Just about everyone knows about this growth, but the cold facts and figures dug up by the chamber put it in a focus that is startling. Because the change has taken place over a period of years, one gets used to it as it happens, and is only dimly aware of its size. IN1 THE years from 1940 to l956, the population of f Jackson county has nearly doubled from 36,213 to an estimated 66,420. Josephine county has gone from 16,301 to 33,650, more than double. From 1940 to 1955, the number of vehicles regis tered in the two counties climbed from 22,430 to 52, 909, more than doubling. In Jackson county the fig ures are 16,069 to 36,448, and in Josephine they are 6,361 to 16,461. The most amazing figures were those showing the growth of payrolls. In 1940 the two-county area had total payrolls of $7,109,809. In 1955 the total was $64,616,391. This is more than a ninefold increase. In Jackson county the increase was from $5,936,366 to $46,973,244, and in Josephine county it was from $1,173,443 to $17,643,147. , pOSTAL RECEIPTS nearly tripled, from $177,583 to $762,264. The Jackson county climb was from $124,934 to $574,060, and in Josephine it was from $52,649 to $188,204. Assessed valuations more than doubled in the same 15-year period, from a combined total of $43, 088,724 to $103,099,768. Retail sales in the two counties more than tripled in a shorter period the ten-year interval from 1946 to 1955 (earlier figures were unavailable). The total went from S-38,447,000 to $120,813,000. In the seven years from of passengers boarding or airport grew from 36,900 to 80,473. In the six years 1949 to 1955, bank deposits nearly doubled, from $38,788,217 to $74,197,961. "THESE FIGURES are amazing,''and bring home the partly-realized impact that economic change has wrought here in recent years. And the end is not yet. The chamber's brief has a paragraph which starts out, "Prospects for the future are bright." It continues : x "Approximately $15,000,000 in new construction can be . anticipated during the next 18 months in Jackson county alone. A few of these projects include: a construction start amounting to $2,400,000 on the $22,000,000 Talent Irriga tion Project to supply adequate irrigation for 19,000 acres; a $350,000 armory, construction started; a new $2,500,000 hospital, under construction; $850,000 now under way in new facilities at Southern Oregon college In Ashland $500,000 anticipated early in 1957 and $1,000,000 possibly in the fall of 1937; new $5,000,000 Rogue Valley Manor, construction may start late In 1957. We have no reason to believe that the economic trends . . . will be altered within the next 15 to 20 years, barring of course a nationwide catastrophe." The brief adds up to an impressive document of development. It also gives a background of under standing for the growing pains which the area has been suffering. E.A. Complications in the Air Growth brings its complications, and not only in the field of economics. A couple of veteran were discussing the difference between trying irom Medford to Portland a few years ago and today. Then, one climbed into a plane, flew to Portland, and landed, with a minimum of fuss, bother and for mality. Now, there are intricate "rules of the road in the air, with required number of different points, specified altitudes to ob serve, and complex landing procedures, particularly when the Portland airport TTHEY showed a document container about the size of a lar?e suitcase which was full of maps, charts, tables, and lists of regulations, instructions and re quirements. It is kept up to date by weekly mailings to be inserted in loose-leaf binders. And woe betide the pilot who is not up on the latest orders some times issued without advance warning. As the speed and number of planes have increas ed, so have the complexity and quantity of radio equipment required to be aboard. One local pilot has a pfene for which he paid some $7,000 a year or two ago, and only last week stalling all trie necessary more than $3,000 nearly lIORE and more radio iT1 quired, each adding of equipment. They told about one multi-thousand dollar radio installation that was "obsolete" the day it was installed. - Where two or three anv pilot needed to assist munication, it is now necessary for a well-equipped plane to have somewhere between 30 and 60 and the number is. going up all the time. The pilots told of taking off from the Portland airport recently, and having to use four separate ra dio channels from the time they climbed into the plane until it was airborne. We presume the complex regulations and equip ment are necessary to provide safety in the increasingly-crowded air but private aviation is paying the price of added cost, added regulation, and fan tastically complicated procedures, just to stay in the air. E.A. Monday, December 17. 1356 Pains 1948 to 1955, the number deplaning at the Medford private pilots the other day report - in calls via radio at a is busy. he completed the job of in radio equipment at a cost ot half the cost of the plane. channels are becoming re to the complexity and cost radio channels were once all him in navigation and com Chou En-Iai Closely as By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-lai will be watching the news from the United States closely this week. Chou's Eriend Prime Minister Jawa harlal Nehru of India is con ferring with President Eis enhower in G e 1 1 y s burg. Pa., today. Charles Mrl inn lenru will be in Washington Tuesday and Wednesday. It is known that Nehru hopes to persuade President Eisenhow er that the time has come to re view American policy toward Red China. There are persistent rumors that Chou, to help things along, may announce at any time that his government is ready to re lease 10 Americans imprisoned in China. Chou himself is in Burma at the moment. He is on a big tour of East Asian countries, build ing up the prestige of the Pei ping regime with the East Asian "neutralists" of whom Nehru is the leader. There is no doubt also that Chou is trying to insure that his country, instead of Soviet Rus sia, will be the leading influ Matter of Fact "SOVIET TWO-MINDEDNESS" Washington There is no longer any doubt about it, in the minds of those best able to judge. There has been at least a partial breakdown of the iron authority of the Soviet regime, not only in the foreign Commu nist parties and in the satellites, but within the center of power, the Soviet Union itself. Some evidence to this effect has already been cited in this space. But, since the Hungarian revolt, there has been more. Here is the sort of thing that has puzzled fascinated, and im pressed the Soviet experts. Mme. Furtseva, c a n d idate member of the all-powerful Praesidium, and the most im portant woman in the Soviet Union, recently addressed a meeting of workers at the Kaga- novitch ball-bearing plant. It was at this plant that a strike something hitherto unheard of in the Soviet Union occurred in the first period of the Hun garian revolt. Mme. Furtseva addressed the assembled workers on the need for discipline and production. A voice in the back of the hall shouted "and how much money do you make?" Thereafter she was hissed, booed, and laughed at, and she left the platform pale and shaken. A RUSSIAN-SPEAKING Brit ish riti7pn rravlinir in Southern Russia, went to the opera and took the last seat in a box. The other occupants of the box began chatting with him, and after the opera all concerned went to the house of one of them (this in itself is extraordinary a foreigner is almost never asked to the house of a Soviet citizen). There followed a kind of private, spontaneous protest meeting, in which all those present poured fourth their bitterness against the regime this to an unknown foreigner. The most extraordinary inci dent of all has been reported in the London Sunday Times by Alexandre Metaxas, a reliable Russian-speaking journalist, who has just returned from several months in the Soviet Union. Ac cording to Metaxas, Communist boss Nikita Khrushchev recent ly tried to address a youth meet ing. Instead of booing him, the assembled youth applauded him so long and loud that he was not able to speak at all. Khrushchev Editorial Comment FREE BLOOD (The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be in Medford tomorrow, and in Ashland on Wednesday. The following is reprinted from the Philadelphia Bulletin.) Four officials of the Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent so cieties are in this country as guests of the Red Cross, and their first day in New York City brought them a puzzling experi ence. In the blood donor division of the New York Red Cross chapter they found some 40 men and women, including white and Negro soldiers. They asked what these donors were being paid, and found it hard to believe that they were all volunteers, here of their own free will, giving their blood with no payment at aU. In Russia, the visitors said, the donors are handsomely paid, get the day off, a good meal and an extra day on their vacations. Even so, it was hard to recruit them. Why should Americans come voluntarily, to give blood for nothing? Their hosts explained that the donors came for "purely human itarian" reasons, to give blood for people they would never know. The Russians, after long discussions, accepted this ex planation, but piainly did not understand it. iM Fl Watching Asian Changes Due ence in East Asia. Nehru's visit to the United States comes at a most impor tant time for the Chinese Reds. Japan has signed a peace agreement with Russia, and is almost sure to be elected to membership in the United Na tions this week. This will be the final step in restoring Japan to full status as a world power, and as the result there will be a new situation in Far Eastern relations. Further, Japan is undergoing a change in its leadership. Pre mier Ichiro Hatoyama has an nounced that he will resign Wednesday. The ruling Liberal democratic coalition party has picked Tanzan Ishibashi as his successor. Ishibashi strongly favors clos er Japanese relations with Red China, and especially closer trade relations. Ishibashi also is regarded as being much less friendly to the United States than Hatoyama is. Thus Chou is likely soon to try to build up Japanese-Chinese relations. Japan More Independent This buildup, like that else where in East Asia, will be at least in part at Russia's ex pense. Japan probably will maintain good relations with the United States. But it will be much more independent in its policy, Also, y Joe and Stewart Alsop was perfectly aware of the derisive intent,- but he could do nothing about it. Metaxas, in his remarkable series of articles, has reported that Hungary spelled the death knell, not only of Khrushchev and Bulganin, but of the Soviet system itself, as it has operated in the last decade and a half. The system, he wrote, is visibly disintegrating. INHERE is no recognized au- -- thorny on the Soviet Union in Washington at least, who is prepared to go nearly so far as Metaxas except possibly Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles, who strongly implied in his speech to the NATO meeting that the Soviet system was "cracking up." But the experts do agree that there has been a serious weakening of discipline, and that the Russian rulers are scared, and in doubt what to do. Most experts further agree that it would be very difficult- perhaps impossible for the So viet bosses to reimpose the old iron discipline by a return to the methods of Stalin and Beria. No one believes there is much likelihood of a Hungarian-style revolt in the Soviet Union itself under present conditions. But there are those who believe an attempt to "re-Stalinize" might actually stimulate mass upris ings, especially in the non-Rus sian territories which compose more than half the Soviet Union. The experts, of course, could all be wrong no so-called ex pert believed that any satellite population could do what the Hungarians have done. One of these reporters spent a month in the Soviet Union last year, and reported what all the West ern experts there believed that the mass of the people solid ly if passively supported both the regime and the Communist doctrine. All the evidence avail able clearly suggested this con clusion. a THEREAFTER a letter arrived from a Soviet Colonel recent ly defected from the Soviet Union. The Colonel wrote that the reporter, like all foreigners in Russia, had been deceived by what he called Soviet two-mind edness." A Soviet citizen, he ex plained, developed two separate minds. In one mind, which he dis played to all foreigners and most of his fellow citizens, he was a convinced Communist, passion ately dedicated to the regime. In the other mind, which was his real mind, he hated Communism and all its works. At the time, this seemed the mere wishful thinking to which all refugees are subject. But perhaps the Colonel was right at that. Perhaps "Soviet two mindedness" is a phenomenon which will deeply affect the fu ture course of world events. Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribunelnc. wIpP from America Japan is essentially an Asiatic country. Establishment of trade and diplomatic relations with Communist China would open up a vast natural market for Japanse goods, and would alter the present political alignment in the Far East materially. Nehru no doubt will point out all this to President Eisenhower as among the reasons why it would be advisable for the Unit ed States to start thinking about changing its own China policy. There is no indication from Washington that the President is even considering any change at this time. But China with its liOO million people cannot be ignored forever. A change is bound to come some time. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS At the Paris meeting of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organi zation) the other day. West Ger many's foreign minister propos ed what he called a "charter of freedom" for the Eastern Eur opean nations under Soviet rule. He urged the NATO council to write what he called "this dec laration of independence" in the final communique of the NATO meeting as a solemn resolution. TTE told the meeting (compos ed of the nations that are banded together to resist Rus sian aggression in Western Eur ope) the freedom charter should call for peace and FREEDOM for all countries under foreign dom ination. But He warned that freedom for the nations under Soviet dom ination should not be sought by economic, political or military pressure or by force. The pressure, he said, should be MORAL. ine uerman proposal won immediate and full backing by American Secretary Dulles. SINCE the proposal came from HpiTYianv lof'e tftlra a IaaI. .. . ....... .7 , . t mnc a iuua at the German situation. Ger many came out of the war snlir down her middle. With the ex ception of the western half of of the city of Berlin, all of Ger many east of the Elbe river is under communist rule. The Germans are elarmish people, so it must be assumed that Germany is eager to get all her people back together again. .But oermany is an armed eamn. Alone the border in West Ger many are tne NATO armies including a large number of Am erican divisions. Alone the east ern side of the dividing line are powerful Russian military forc es. It must be taken for granted that any MILITARY move on the part of the West would pre cipitate all-out shooting war that would spread swiftly into a third world war. The realistic Germans realize that would mean butcherv and destnirrinn for their countrymen, the East oermans. TN the light of this proposal, A let's take a look at US AND HUNGARY. As the brutal butchery of Hun garians who are seeking liberty goes on and on, we get angrier and angrier. As the days and the weeks pass, a guilt complex is beginning to creep upon us. This guilt complex leads to the thought: "What are WE doing sitting idly by and twiddling our thumbs and uttering pious plat itudes while people in Hungary die by the thousands for free dom? Is that any way for AM ERICANS to act? Why don't we back them up with all our mili tary might and BLOW THESE FOUL COMMUNISTS OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH?" T ET'S be realistic as the Germans apparently are. Suppose we should back up the Hungarians with all our mil itary might. What would happen? This is the answer: It would touch off another world war. The first thing that would happen in that event would be the de struction of Hungary and most of its people for Hungary would be the first battlefield. It is little wonder that Sec retary Dulles agreed immediate ly with the German proposal. Today and By Walter TWO QUESTIONS AT NA?0 The news from Paris about what is going on at tjpe NATO conference is meager, there be ing no report- ers p r e"s e n to and no avail- aye transcript of what is be ing said. But tvo interesting questions h.-e been raised. One is the the oretical que tion: how far can a. member be expected to go ir consulting NATO when the issue arises outside tV re gional limits fixed in the NATO treaty say in the Far East or in the Middle East? The other is a (fuestioa of practical policy, it has been raised by the German Foreign Minister, Mr. Von Brentano, by putting NATO n notic that there may be an uprising in Eastern Germany simfiaroto that in Hungary. , o T1HE theoretical question poses one of those problem that are insoluble in the abstract and uaii ae suivea oniy Dy common sense, loyalty and good will. I theory, the jurisdiction and t e obligations of NATO have pre cise geographical limits. They include,, for' example, most of Western Europe but not Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, or Spaii. They include Greec and TuriKy but not Iran or any other Mid dle Eastern couutry. NATO is, ! juridically speaking, not a gen- eral alliance at all but a col lective pact for the military de-,, fense of a carefully defined group of territories. Theoretical ly, what goes on beyond the geographical limits of NATO is not the business of NATO- o ' But in fact, the NATO pow- ers are bound to be concerned with anything which happrns elsewhere that bears upon the effectiveness of NATOp Mr Dulles, for example, seems to. have said in Pari that we are not bound to consult tjith NATO j in case we feel that we have to ; go to war over Formosa. Accord- i ing to the words of 'tne NATO contract, especially the fine print in the contract, this is true. But what' if a war wifti.Red China drew in China's ally, the Soviet Union? !s it our theory that NATO, and along with NA.TO our bases in NATO territories could be neutral in such a war? So it is in the Middle East whete in theory Britain and France have" no strict legal obligation to consult NATQ. But as the whole of NATO is involved in the manifold consequences of what they have just done in the Middle East, it is impossible to argue that the Middle East ft none of NATO's busirfess. ... rFHE point of all this that what ever the letter of the contract may say, its spirit and its sub stance requires continual con sultation when the issue is pesace or war in any part of the world. This obligation cannot success fully be defined in some kind of general formula. If this were attempted, so many holes would be picked in the generalization that it would be useless. What is needed is not a for mula of words but a habit, al most one might say an accepted routine, in the conduct of for eign affairs. There should be a habit of consultation among al lies so that none is taken by surprise. And for that consulta tion it should not be .necessary to convoke great conferences, or for the Foreign Ministers to shuttle back and forth in air planes. The habit of consultation should prevail not merely at the summit but at the wofking levels of diplomacy. rpHERE is plenty far NATO to consult about without consult ing very much in the attract about how much it ought to crri- 1 1 iiui.si.ii uiajis Sti R alter LipAmaub FUNERAL . SERVICES -c o o O In Every Price Range S i nee 1 9 0 8 PERL Funeral o Home o Phone 2-6675 Toomor0row Lippmann Q o o O o P9 8 suit. The question Raised 8y the , German Foreign Min.er of what is to be NATO policy view of the danger jn Efct er any is indubitably NATO busi- ness. Tte e.ing now fing on in rarifj will0be a great dis- appointment if it adjesj-jjs with out "taking serious notic of &e East German danger. O To take sc.ousunotice V.4id mean, it seems to me, ot mere ly rS wait and see Whether aiw expibsion has taken place anrir then t try to ric0to it, pre sumably with grancie moral declarations To tre serious&io tice of She danger would be to take th initiative, toct now rather than to react Jater, to propose a renewal of negotiations ith the Soviet Union r the unification German, for the thinn'ng down and moving badii ' ard of the armies, and for an all-European system of seiri1$l Copyright 1956. Jew York Herald Tribune ic. - O Arjinsas has h'adive consti-tutions-Q836, 1861, 1864, 1868 and 1874. Th? present consti tution has been attended ' 42 times. aaaws ON 'Shopfjjng Days Til Christinas! 33 May Santal Asleep at the Switch? gon't get caught naming whileJBig Cyistmas Bills il? Up! For CHRISTMAS CASH 1 ?EE a asnsi op pacsnc msmoe PACIFIC IIiniSCTDIAI- lllsrWIRIHk Q Dick Hans, Manager 16 S. pentril Ph. 4-5308 JULe WidoPade Glad t GEO. N. 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