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FOUR MEDFOHD (OREGON) MEDFORDvTRIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregon tiena ine Mail in Dune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-2& North Fir St Phone 2-gl4i ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAJd Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS Cit? Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE ST ARC HER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clan matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mali In Advance Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $13.90 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.23 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year SZ8 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 tarrier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail rerms cash in Advance Offlrial Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United" Press Full Leased Wire" MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de trolt, San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL J71 ASSOCfATU 3333 O" NEWSPAPER PUBtlSHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 3, 1947 (Friday) City Fire Chief Roy Elliott ad vises residents who use oil heat ing stoves to clean the inside of the stove along with the chim ney, in order to avoid possible explosions. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: One of the Older Girls modestly boasts she swatted the first house-fly of 1947 before noon Wed. 20 YEAR'S AGO Jan. 3, 1936 (Sunday) Deposits of Farmers and Fruit growers bank of Medford show increase of 49 per cent during 1936 over 1935, according to F. E. Wahl, cashier. J. C. Crouch, of the Crater Lake National park staff, will discuss "Work of the national park service" at the Kiwanis club Monday. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 3. 1927 (Monday) The state and county tax levy for Jackson county, in districts not maintaining high schools, or libraries, will be 22.5 mills. Postmaster William J. Warn er reports that rate on air post age from Medford to any place in the United States will be ten cents for each ounce or fraction of an ounce. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 3. 1916 (Wednesday) Business in the Medford post office during 1916 showed a gain in every department over the previous year, the receipts about $1,600 more than 1915. Medford has enjoyed unusual good health the past year, ac cording to City Health Officer Thayer. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct tl apertor; sev en or elsbt Is excellent; tiv or six Is food. 1. Was the first dwelling- house erected in Kentucky dur ing the Revolutionary War? 2. Is a vintner a winemaker, or a vinegarmaker? 3. Did the ministry of John the Baptist begin in 16 or 26 A.D.? 4. The name "Land of Bond- age" is sometimes given to which country? 5. Was the unconditional sur render of Germany at Rheims signed in a schoolroom, tavern, or railway coach? 6. What was the first name of Caruso, the famous Italian ten or? 7. The discovery of gold re sulted in the K e R - - h? 8. Exasperate is a synonym of aggravate. Is it also synonymous with both irritate and provoke? 9. Did the Spanish queen who sponsored the voyages of Colum bus have red, blond, or black hair? 10. "Hear, Land o' Cakes and brither Scots." Burns. Scot land is called "Land of Cakes" because of what cereal in com mon use there? Answers: 1. No. (1774). 2. Winemaker. 3. 26 A.D. 4. An cient Egypt. 5. Schoolroom. 6. m v jfcjtt Enrico. 7. Klondike Rush. 8. Yes. Oatmeal. A company-size Army Reserve unit (about 100 men) which meets one night a week will have an annual payroll of at least $25,000. MAIL TRIBUNE Nixon "Build-Up" Starts We fear our misguided (and misnamed) Democrat-Herald of Albany is jumping the gun a bit. Either that or it has not yet awakened to the fact that not only 1956, but the campaign of that year is over. x For here it is nearly four years before another presidential election, and we find the Democrat Herald busily buttering-up Richard Nixon to take President Eisenhower's place in the White House, when the latter, because of constitutional amendment and undoubtedly his own inclination, gets out. TN THIS effort the Albany editor pulls out all the stops of the Nixon political propaganda barrel organ, with everything included but an obligato in a falsetto tremolo by the little girls and Checkers. IT seems according to the "Herald" that but for Mr. Nixon's 48-hour visit to nearby Austria, the "self -exiled Hungarians" would have concluded they had been forgotten by Uncle Sam. But as soon as "Poor Richard" appeared among them with his hearty hand-shake, firm jaw and his ready smile, the entire nation "took heart," just like THAT! TN FACT as the heading of this leading editorial demonstrates, quote: "Dick Nixon is doing all right." Indeed the position he now occupies has never before been given such emphasis and responsibility. The young man, moreover, is highly capable, has grown in political stature steadily and if just if to quote the "Herald" again, "there should be a pre mature vacancy in the nation's top office or through election he will be well equipped to give this country the kind of administration it should have. (Period) And what kind is that? Again the Democrat-Herald has the answer, quote : "That means a well-rounded administration that knows where it is going." MO REASONABLE doubt of that, but there may be some doubt that a majority of the voters of America four years hence will favor such a course and such a destination. TN FAIRNESS to the Albany paper, however, it must be granted it has and expresses certain reservations as far as "Dear Dick" is concerned. It admits, for example, that the ingratiating and plausible "V.P." has been accused of making "occa sional bloopers." But it also Albany paper at least that these aforesaid errors, were only deliberate official opinion on certain issues. Unfortunately the Democrat - Herald does not name these bloopers or "trial balloons" though Nix on's recommendation to send U. S. troops to aid the French in Indo China might have been one of them. However that may be the "Democrat" does not include among Nixon's faults the kind of smear cam paigns Mr. Nixon conducted in California against Mrs. Helen Gahagan Douglas or against the Demo cratic party in 1952, nor surprisingly that deal with an affluent group of "Big Business" men from the Golden Gate state during his first term in the U.S. Senate. For these are grouped under the "few specific charges" made against Mr. Nixon which again, quote : "have been pretty well dissipated." And if the Albany "Democrats" editorial build-up is sound, no wonder. For it is claimed that Mr. Nixon did not accuse Mrs. Douglas of being a communist or "soft on com munism" or ok such accusations, via anonymous phone calls to voters in strategic areas of California. Nor did he ever, according to the "Democrat," call former President Tinman a "traitor." Nixon only claimed Mrs. Douglas' voting record in the House was practically identical with that of the pro-Communist the late Congressman Vito Marcantonio, and declared President Truman and his administration had been "traitors" to the cause of our basic DEMOCRACY, in their tolerance of the Com munists who are dedicated to the overthrow of our democratic government by force. e THAT is ALL! And as far as that cash subsidy from the banking and oil group of California , is concerned Nixon's "ham-act" over the air, with "Checkers" as an assist, denuded this transaction of ALL taint, according to the Albany paper, and what the heck, it was only a campaign contribution anyway. THE only trouble with that final statement is, it 1 isn't TRUE. That $18,000 cash contribution was not for Rich ard Nixon's campaign expenses, he had already been elected, and the best proof of that is the Vice Presi dent's broadcast "for the defense" where no such claim is made and it is or was admitted that the money was used to reduce Nixon's office expenses and save money for the poor down-trodden taxpayers. Then as the Senator made clear, he was not like Adlai Stevenson, a "rich man's son," but a poor boy who had to make his own way unaided, except, of course by such good-will donations as his well heeled consti tuents, might feel disposed to give with again, of COURSE, no strings attached ! DATHER silly isn't it? But that is politics, and we have no doubt this fulsome tribute to the personable and plausible Vice President is an example of what will continue off and on through the ensuing years of the present adminis tration. FOR it is realized, of course, that "We Like Ike" can't be used four years hence. So if the GOP hopes to stay in power and it surely DOES the Vice Pres ident as of today is their best Thursday, January 3, 1957 is "suspected" by the "sorties to feel out public bet. But there is, because Today and By Walter THE MIDDLE EAST DECLARATION ' The declaration which the President will submit to Con gress is, plain enough, only a first install ment in a re ap p r a isal of our course in the Middle East. As dis closed to the leading corre s p o ndents in Was hington, Mr. Dulles is proposing not Walter lmrmaiui to announce a new "doctrine" but to restate and reaffirm and emphasize the Truman doctrine as applied to the Middle East. Since 1947 it has been funda mental American policy to op pose with force, if necessary, any military aggression by the Soviet Union. Mr. Dulles himself has frequently reaffirmed this policy in very strong language, notably in his famous statement of March 20, 1954 when he de clared that "there should be a capability for massive retalia tion without delay" against the capability of the Soviet Union "to strike by land at any one of approximately 20 states of Eu. rope, the Middle East and Asia." ' How, then, has it come about that the policy needs once again to be reaffirmed? It has come about because of the tone of the political campaign and the posi tion taken by the government in the Middle East and in the Hungarian crises which broke out in the closing weeks of the campaign. A NET impression has been created, especially abroad, that the President is a pacifist, and that on many issues of the Middle East, which are of vital concern to Europe, he is a very considerable neutralist. The im pression is no doubt false, and those who have the impression would find it hard to cite chap ter and verse to support it. But there is no doubt that in greater or lesser degree the impression exists in every foreign office in the world. It has been fed by the Repub lican campaign oratory about Eisenhower as the guardian of peace. But what has given the impression its greatest impetus is the way the administration has during the autumn crises followed along behind the ma jority of the General Assembly of the United Nations. When that majority was willing to be strong, as against Britain and France and Israel, we have been strong. When that majority was acquiescent, as against the So viet Union and Hungary, we have been asquiescent. The net result has been to spread the view that in the Mid dle East the President would do nothing to oppose the Soviet Un ion or to stabilize peace unless he got a vote authorizing him to do so from the United Nations. As the Soviet Union has a veto in the Security Council, and as the Afro-Asian bloc has a veto in the General Assembly, we seemed to be saying that our in terest in the Middle East was not to be taken too seriously. THE first object I won't say - the only object of the new resolution is to correct and re pair these impressions to make it known that President Eisen hower has not repealed the Tru man doctrine, and that this country has not signed over to a majority of the General As sembly its role in the Middle East. Although I am not myself an admirer of broad generalized re sounding declarations as an in strument of diplomacy, there is no doubt that the impression created this autumn is so mis chievous and dangerous that a Congressional declaration may be necessary. Certainly, if the President asks for such a decla ration, it cannot be refused with out compounding the confusion. TUT let us have no illusions that such a declaration will somehow constitute a new Mid dle Eastern policy and will re place the one which has col- First Columbia Smelt Catch Arrives Today Portland U.R) The first Co lumbia river smelt catch of the season arrived here today, seven days earlier than last season. The fish were offered at 75 cents a pound, same price as last year. Some 20 pounds of smelt were gillnetted by Ray Suti near Clatskanie yesterday afternoon. Gillnet smelt fishing closed at Wednesday midnight and will open again Saturday noon. I - K 1 of his record and devious ways, wide spread distrust. Therefore this must be "dissipated" as the Albany "Democrat" has tried to do, and a new and exalted "image" must be built up, if a third four-year term for the "Grand Old Pachyderm" is to be assured. Well as indicated above, that is all a part of the time honored political game ; our only SERIOUS ob jection as of now is it is too early in the New Year to start. And when they do start it is hoped they will not falsify the record, but stick to the facts. R.W.R. Tomorrow Lippmann lapsed in ruins. A warning to the Soviet Union not to inter vene overtly may conceivably be needed. It probably can do no harm. But such a warning does not come to grips with the real prob lem of Soviet penetration, as it is posed in Syria and more par ticularly in Egypt. If Nasser wants to make a working alli ance with the Soviet Union, how, unless you overthow Nas ser, do you solve the problem? Indeed, were it not for the need to correct the impression of weakness created during the au tumn, the new declaration now would have the air of being bold and definite about what Is least likely to happen an open So viet aggression and of being vague and indefinite about what is happening Soviet penetra tion. It is as if a man found him self challenged to a bout with a heavyweight boxer, and, being asked how he expected to fight the match, replied: If that so and so brings a gun into the ring, I promise you that I will get my gun and shoot him. There is not much doubt that a resolution which is a commit ment against overt aggression will pass Congress. The serious debate will be about what in the way of military force is to be authorized to deal with Soviet penetration. On this, the crucial point, we do not yet know what the administration has in mind. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK Glimpse of the future: The EXPLOSIVE growth of population and its drain on our available material resources is a problem which will soon have to be dealt with in the United States as well as in the crowded lands of the Middle and the Far East. VyHO says so? " The prediction just quoted was made in New York the other day by speakers at the annual meeting of the august and au thoritative American Association for the Advancement of Science. . They were not challenged from the floor by any member. pVYIRFIELD OSBORN, presi- dent of the Conservation Foundation, told his distin guished hearers: "Asuming that present rates of increase continue, we shall have 60 million more people in our country within 20 years. Our rate of population increase is greater than that of India and higher than the average of the whole world." We're growing, you see. REALLY growing. A THOUGHT: Let's keep our agriculture which is presently suffering from overproduction on a free enterprise basis. With 220 mil- Newsprint Prices Head for New High New York (U.R) News print prices, already at a record high level, appeared headed to day for a new peak A price increase of $4 a ton was announced Wednesday by the Abitibi Power and Paper Co. Ltd. in Toronto, Ont. Several other paper producers indicated they have been considering price increases. The increase, if it be comes general, would be at least the 14th since 1933. In 1933, newsprint cost $41 a ton. Abitibi's increase would bring its price to about $134 a ton. U. S. and Canadian newspaper publishers were concerned over the Abitibi announcement. A member of the Senate Commerce committee which has been in vestigating the newsprint indust ry called for joint action by the United States and Canada or leg islative action if necessary. The Federal Trade commission said it was looking into the possibil ity of anti-trust action. Abitibi said its increase was due to higher costs, particularly increased freight costs. The price boost, the firm said,' came "only after long and careful consider ation" and would only partially offset the higher costs. During the past 20 years the number of pupils transported to and from school buildings at public expense has increased by 350 per cent. Russian Leadership Working to Reshape Policies for Satellites By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Soviet Russian govern ment seems to be working out a thorough re-shaping of its pol- "WI lcies after months of em barras s m e n t and confusion. Moscow dis patches indi cate the new policy will cov er the proper dividing line between "Stal- Char Mclann ""on, " toism," relations with the Soviet satellite countries and the prose cution of the cold war. Nikita S. Khrushchev, the Communist Party chieftain, gave one important clue to the new line in comments he made at a New Year reception in Moscow. After praising the late Joseph Stalin as "a great Marxist" and "a great fighter against imper ialism," Khruschev admitted that he . and other present Soviet leaders shared some of Stalin's mistakes because they were as sociated with him. In fighting imperialism, Khrushchev said, "we are all Stalinists." Repeats Earlier Praise There was nothing sensational in the praise of Stalin. Khrush chev said about the same thing in his sensational denunciation of Stalin at the 20th Communist Party Congress last February. At that time, Khrushchev spec ified that in his early years of leadership, Stalin actively fought JENKINS lion to 230 million people in the U.S. by 1975, there should be markets for everything we .can grow. It would be a pity if in these problem years when the politi cians are moving in on the farm ers in the hope of harvesting a bumper crop of votes we should permit our agriculture to deteri orate into a sort of government supported pensioners home. AND- Here in the West Let's go on battling determin edly and unremittingly for recla mation and irrigation, which are essential to our type of agricul ture. If our population is going to pass the 220 million mark by 1975 as these learned gentle men tell us our country is go ing to need ALL the Western land that can be reclaimed and put under irrigation in these next two decades. CONSERVATION Foundation President Osborne went on to say: "Such benefits as may come to our country through a much larger population will be bal anced by disadvantages and problems that will arise . . . Ev ery city will be almost twice its present size. Countrysides will become suburbianas. The traffic trickles of 1956 will become ever-flowing rivers. "And the sky above us will be full of jets, coming and going." TIE IS talking about the coun-- try's already swollen metro politan cities and the suburban districts that are growing up all around them. It won't be that way in Southern Oregon and Far Northern California. We will grow. We will grow greatly. But we will retain our own present primary economy i with OUR OWN supporting pri mary industry. We won't be just the BEDROOM of some huge metropolitan city. We have great resources in the way of power, water and raw materials, and ,we're remote enough from the present big cen ters of population to have OUR OWN INDEPENDENT ECONOMY. - Donations Instead of Flowers? According to the Florist Information Council, of Chicago, the following national, state, and regional organizations have gone on record as being OPPOSED to the idea of donations instead of funeral flowers: National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis American Cancer Society American Medical Association American Medical Association Auxiliary American Red Cross National Safety Council National Congress of Parents and Teachers National Education Association Federated Women's Clubs (lp,0CI0,000 members) Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks National Garden Clubs Kiwanis International National Assistance League National Association of Power Engineers Living Memorials (Memorials by wire) DAY OR NIGHT - PHONE 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse to defend "Leninism" that is, Marxism against those who de viated from the party line. "In the past," Khrushchev said then, "Stalin doubtless performed great services to the party, to the working class and to the interna tional workers movement." But in his February speech, Khrushchev tried his hardest to absolve himself and his col leagues in the new collective leadership of complicity in Stal in's crimes. Khrushchev's new statement seems to be a conces sion to them. Accept "Titoist" Government The problem of drawing the line between old-style Stalinist domination of the satellite coun tries and Titoism is being met in several ways. First, the Soviet government seems to have accepted fully the "Titoist" government of Polish Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop By Joseph Alsop WAYFARER'S GOODBYE Washington. Dear Stewart: The origins of this letter of farewell, in case you are inter ested, go back to an unbearably hot afternoon in early 1941, when I arriv ed in Chung king just be fore a rather nasty little Japanese bombing raid. Like a great many other people in those days, I had been self-confidently writing about China's problems from Washington. But it was only necessary to sniff the dust laden air in those filthy, ruined Chungking streets, to begin to suspect that everything I had written was pure drivel. The suspicion was confirmed, with sad finality, within less than 48 hours. I then and there resolved that if I ever returned to the news paper business, I would try to go where the news was before writ ing about it. It seems an impos sibly long time ago since you and I adopted this resolve of mine as the first rule of our re porting partnership. In fact, a whole decade has passed since we came back from the war and founded this joint enterprise. TN THAT decade our country has boldly met and inspiring- ly accepted the challenge of world leadership of the cause of freedom. And in that decade, too, freedom's cause has failed to prosper with a saddening fre quency, despite America's great efforts. I do not think it is pros pering at the moment; and I am very sure that the tempo of world events is now accelerating in a rather dizzying way. You remember what the Red Queen sternly said in "Alice through the looking glass" "It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that." I have the same feel ing now about keeping abreast of the vast developments and shattering crises . that are now going on within the Soviet Em pire, in the troubled Middle East, and in Western Europe it self. THAT is why this is a letter of farewell, quite probably for a whole year. We have to run "twice as fast," I feel very sure, in order to remain faithful to that resolve I made in Chung king many months before Pearl Harbor, which you and I reaf firmed just after the war. So now, instead of leaving for a few months abroad as I have so often done before, I am leaving with a year's wayfaring as the prospect before me. It is not pleasant to transfer my base. (For have not you no ticed, too, that what one misses most after a few months of trav E Jpf Junior League (Wisconsin) Soroptomist Club (Missouri) Eoy Scouts of America (Texas and New York) Masons (New York State) Rotary Club (Norfolk, Virginia) Shrine (St. Louis, Salt Lake, Providence) Community Chest (62 cities) Hospital Council of Greater New York Children's Home Society of Virginia Order of Eastern Star (Texas) Odd Fellows (Pennsylvania) Davies County Health Center (Owensboro, Ky.) Methodist Children's Home (Alabama) Ouachita Parish Public Library (Louisiana) American Heart Association ( 1 4 cities) Frank Communist Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka. This was a matter of necessity. The Poles won their revolt against both the "Stalinists" who StiU ruled their country and against dictation from Moscow. Khruschev and his fellow-leaders apparently have decided to make the best of it. In Hungary, now that the ac tive rebellion has been crushed, the Russian leaders appear to be trying to insure that the trend toward a really Titoist govern ment is stopped. As one part of that job, they have started to give economic aid to the Kadar government. The policy toward other satel lites seems to be to try as long as possible to keep Stalinst lead ers in control, at the risk of pro voking outbreaks in some of them. v. eling is simply one's own bed?) It is not pleasant, either, to aban don all the roots I have spent so many years putting down in Washington (although of course I hope they will still be there when I get back at last.) But there is the need to go, and there is no escaping from it. What makes that need, surely. is the simple fact that both the great world systems which now divide the globe between them are at present experiencing sharp and hardly foreseen inter nal strains. To the conflict with one another, are now added their own inner conflicts. And the Middle Eastern ferment and the weakening of Western Eu-, rope on the one hand, and the stirring ferment in the Soviet Empire on the other hand, will in turn react most sharply on the course of the world struggle between the free and the en slaved. A LL this is what I hope to see at first hand, which always makes events look so very dif ferent from the way events look from our comfortable vantage point of Washington. Moscow will be my first port of call, and as I interrupt the packing of long, inevitably itchy woolen underwear to write this letter, I find that poem of Clarence Day's running through my mind: Farewell, my friends fare well and hail. I'm off to seek the Holy Grail, I cannot tell you why. Remember, please, when I am gone, 'Twas aspiration led me on. Tiddlely, widdlely, tootle-oo. ' All I want is to stay with you. But here I go. Good-bye. ' Only I am not seeking any Holy Grail, but simply the news of the events that will shape all our futures. And I can tell you why. Seeking news is our busi ness. So "here I go. Good-bye." (Copyright 1956, New York v Herald Tribune, Inc.) WANT TO SAVE MONEY On Your January FOOD BILL? SEETHE Groceteria S DAYS AD ON PAGET Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS v
