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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordTribune 'Everyone in Southern Oregon weans rne mu xripune Published Daily Except Saturdaj by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-26 North Fir Si Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RURL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATH Aid Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Societv Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Med ford Oregon under Act oi March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mill In Advance- Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three mot 4.25 Sunday Only One year J4.20 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 $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Ha per of Jackson county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUOIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC tfflces In New York Chicago, de ;trolt. San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL I assocITation V X bmnmi.'.n.'.i its OfU NEWS PA PES PUBLISHERS 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. 15. 1347, (Wednesday) Elk Lumber company holds banquet climaxing dedication of Jackson county's first tree farm. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: So many people are going south on win ter vacations, one of the Older Girls went north yesterday just to be different. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 15, 1937 (Friday) Stockmen of the Rogue river valley are hoping for a "break" in the weather to ease the hay situation, according to County Agent Bob Fowler. Representatives from home economics and extension service divisions of Oregon State col lege begin program here on rur al Sanitation. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 15, 1927 First annual meeting of the stockholders of the Community hospital is held. ' Jackson County Pomona grange will meet at Rogue Riv er Saturday with Live Oak grange host. 40 YEARS AGO Jan, 15. 1917 (Monday) Sunny weather during week end increases attendance at the poultry show. From Local and Personal col umn: H. L. Leach of Medford leaves for Tillamook today to spend several months. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or trn correct is superior; sev en or eleht Is excellent; five or si Is cod. 1. When North Carolina ceded its western lands to the U. S. was an act of Congress needed to make the transfer valid? 2. What state was subsequent ly created from the North Caro lina cession? 3. Was Cornelius, chief of the "Italian band." mentioned in the New Testament as a centurion or a bandit? 4. Is there a National League of Horseshoe Pitchers still in ex istence? 5. Was the Greek divinity Ar temis half male and half female? 6. Diana was to the Romans as who was to the Greeks? 7. What is the popular name for the London headquarters of the Metropolitan Police? 8. In the legend, if it rains on St. Swithin's Day, how many davs will it rain? 9. "He that fights and runs away, may turn and fight an other" what? Answers: 1. Yes. 2. Tennes see). 3. Centurion. 4. Yes. 5. No All male. 6. Artemis. 7. New Scotland Yard. 8. Forty. 9. "Day." Ray (1752). Pan-American Faces Threatened Walkout Cocoa, Fla. (U.R) Pan American World Airways repre sentatives worked today to av oid a treatened strike by some 400 civilian maintenance work ers at the guided missile base in Cocoa. The workers said Monday they will walk off the job Wed nesday midnight unless they are given the 'Tight to vote by sec ret ballot on whether we want a union." The non-union carpenters, plumbers and mechanics, are un der a Pan-Am division. Pan Am erican supplies some 2.000 wor kers to the missile base MAIL TRIBUNE The Abuse of Secrecy Congressman Hays of Ohio, who walked out of a meeting of the House Foreign Relations committee, a few days ago, started something. His complamt was Secretary of State Dulles was telling the people of the country one thing, and mem bers of Congress quite another. Moreover the latter meetings were held in secret with the press barred. The Secretary then, in a stage whisper, perhaps maintained conditions in the Near East were alarming, but nevertheless he and his gov ernment continued their campaign line outside for the public that everything was "peaches and cream" along the Potomac, the Medditerranean and every where else. The congressman did not like this. He refused to give implicit endorsement by his presence. He be lieved the people were entitled to the facts. So, as remarked, he walked out, and as far as we know has not yet returned. HPHE "walk-out" caused very little excitement at the time, or as far as we have observed, little com ment since. Many members of. the Republican press apparently even failed to print the item. But it should have been. For the single-handed shot presumably hit a tender spot somewhere in old Jumbo's wrinkled epi dermis. At any rate about a week later, the State Depart ment released the substance of its Secretary's re marks, which add up to an admission that the situa tion in the Near East, is far from cheering, and that President Eisenhower was entirely justified in asking permission of the congress to, in case of further de terioration, call out the troops. So Congressman Hays would seem to be justified in putting a feather in his cap and singing "Yankee Doodle." IT IS now to be hoped the good work will continue, and Secretary Dulles will be less inclined to don his professorial robes, and treat the people, not as adults worthy of confidence, but as students in his history class, who are to be instructed, rather than informed. ' . CT COURSE there is a limit in such matters as there is in everything else. ' That is one of the penalties of democracy, as it is today, in fact, one of the advantages of such a dictatorship as exists in Russia. . .. . The old boys in the Kremlin don't have to con sider anyone but themselves. They can make a de cision in five minutes and act on it in another five, if they so wish. No such dispatch and irresponsibility is possible in a democratic government except, of course, in case of armed invasion or hostile attack. ' DUT that does not mean that in a democracy, the people should be misled, or as Congressman Hays maintained, not given the salient facts. And above all it does not mean, giving the people a false picture of the international situation for po litical advantage only, as was the case in the recent campaign. THERE is, in short, a When the release of information would alarm the people UNNECESSARILY, or give directly or indi rectly "aid and comfort" to the enemy, secrecy in the interest of the public welfare, of course, should at all costs be maintained. But in this particular case, where the information withheld was released in a matter of a week or 10 days, obviously no such situation did exist. CONGRESSMAN Hays will not get a gold medal, and we don't expect him to have his picture on the cover of "Time." But he should receive the thanks of all citizens, who believe, with certain reservations, in the prin ciple of "open covenants openly arrived at," not only in foreign but domestic politics, particularly where secrecy is applied not because national security really demands it, but only because it means taking the "line of least resistance" and is the politically expedient way out. R.W.R. The First Thing To Do . Before there can be any peaceful settlement in the Near East there must be, as we see it, such a set tlement between Israel and the Arab League.- , So long as the "cold war" or more accurately a "hot-war" on a small scale-continues, (and it has been continuing, off and there will be continued tension m this section of the Mediterranean area and Soviet Russia will continue to extend its controls and influence as a result o'f capitalizing on it JVOREOVER the so-called Eisenhower doctrine, JVA taken literally at least, can't do much about it. For as previously stated, it is hard to imagine the Kremlin being so dumb as tary action m tins area, particularly so lone as it con tinues to make progress toward its ultimate goal with out war. Why should it? And even if war should accidently break out the United States is committed by this Eisenhower declaration to use force ONLY upon the invitation oi some Mid-hast country attacked. What country in this part of the world would ex Tuesday, January 13, 1S37 proper mean between both on, for nearly a decade) to start any aggressive mili Matter of Fcrcf THE ALLIED ATMOSPHERE Paris Even a few short, tran sitional days in this lovely city have provided the answer to at least one ma jor question. The question was: "What is the present at mosphere o f the Western Alliance?" The answer can best be tsiok tClatttsJ summarized in Stewart Aliop two short ugly words: "It stinks." It would hardly be necessary to state this unpleasing truth, if Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' s recent trip to the NATO conference here had not been followed by so much happy, soothing burbling in Washing ton. Official sources thereafter gave the country the impression that all the damage done by Suez had now been undone. The rent fabric of the West, we were au thoritatively told, had been pa tiently but successfully knitted up again. BUT the real state of affairs at the end of the NATO confer ence is better suggested by a well-authenticated anecdote con cerning one of the last meetings. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Bad news' for car owners: Automobile insurance rates are going up in Oregon. Two large insurance underwriters groups have already put rate boosts into effect, and others are expected to follow. WHY? The answer is quite simple. Automobile accidents are in creasing in Oregon. State Insur ance Commissioner Robert Tay lor says one out of EVERY SIX motor vehicles in the state was involved in' an accident during the past fiscal year. As the RISK that your car will be involved in an accident increases, the price you pay for insurance has to increase. Other wise, the insurance companies would all go broke and in that event no insurance would be available. . HOW can we keep insurance rates from going higher and higher? Again the answer is simple. If everybody would drive more carefully more SAFELY there would be fewer acci dents involving damage claims, and in that event automobile in surance rates would tend to de crease instead of tending to in crease. THERE is an interesting exam ple of that fact in Oregon. The Astoria, Eugene, Klamath Falls and Salem areas are EX CEPTIONS to the statewide trend toward more and more automobile accidents. As a re sult, rate increases for young drivers in these cities (drivers under 25 are regarded by the insurance people as the highest risks) will not be as steep as elsewhere and older drivers will get a slight reduction in their policy costs. SO MUCH for insurance costs. Let's now take a look at TAX costs which are interesting in view of the fact that the 1957 session of the Oregon legislature opened in Salem this week. The toughest job the legislature will face will be finding enough money to pay for the services the people of uregon want irom their state government. . The legislature will have to face this hard, cold fact: The more it spends, the more it will have to tax. If it would like to tax less, thus reducing the burden on the people, it will have to SPEND LESS. r'S JUST like the problem of car insurance. Tf .1,0 incict rn rtrivino" care lessly, thus inviting more costly accidents, well nave to pay more for insurance protection. If we insist that the state must provide more services for us, we'll have to pay more taxes. There lsn t any otner way oui. There is no such thing as something for nothing. tend such an invitation except Israel and possibly but not probably, Iraq? ' AND if under such circumstances such an invitation WERE extended, and the involvement of Russia, or some COMMUNIST - CONTROLLED country, could not be clearly established as the aggressor, would the present administration take the risk of starting World War III by accepting it? It seems highly unlikely. i WHAT then? Well we shall leave the answer to the Delphian Oracle or some one in possession of a crystal ball in better working order than ours. In fact, we can do nothing but return to our orig inal thesis that first things should come first, and the first thine to DO, in this critical situation, is to SOME- how, SOMEway, get a peaceful settlement of the con troversy between Israel and the Arab states surround ing it. Until that is done, powder keg with a short will continue to exist and world peace. R.W.R. By Stewart Alsep At one point in the usual row about the communique, French Foreign Minister Christian Pi neau wished to support the Dulles view. His way of doing so was to announce sardonically: " must confess that this is one of the rare occasions when I find myself in agreement with the Secretary of State." The mood that this anecdote reveals is apparently not one sided, either. Undoubtedly, the French and British are being foolishly self-indulgent, in giv ing such free rein to their detes tation for Secretary Dulles and above all in blaming the enor mous misfortunes they have done so much to produce almost wholly on the actions of the United States. But there are also excellent reasons to believe that the Amer ican policy-makers are not be having in a very grown up way. Or rather, they seem to be be having like misunderstood fe males in the most dolorous sort of bad play. It was an open se cret, even before this reporter left Washington, that very high policy-makers were charging that skeptical analyses of the Administration's course in the Suez crisis had been inspired by foreign intrigue in itself . a strong sign of policy-makers' neurosis. THE nonsense, it now turns out, hc hv no means stoDDed there. According to another re port which may well be ceniea but is quite certainly authentic, the State Department actually took formal action in the basis nf th npnrotic theorv outlined above. The American Embassy in London was posmveiy re nnccipH in rnmnlain to the For eign Office that the British Em bassy in Washington was dissem inating misleading repora aooui American policy. "Call your dogs off," was in effect the re quest. It can be imagined what the a mai-iMti rpartmn .would be. whether or not the complaint was justified, it tne oiaie ur Mrtmonf i-pf pi vpH such a mes- FAa oVinnt an American Embas sy abroad from a foreign em bassy in Washington. On top of this humiliating episode, there n-nw .crimp nminous rumblings from Washington about alleged secret documents m tne posses--: tha stato Tlenartment 3 1 W 1 1 V. tltk - which, if revealed, might cause the French and uruisn govern ments to fall. Rightly or wrong-1-., rjai-ic anrl T.onrlon unanimous ly'attribute these implied threats t Canralarv fillllpS himSelf. ul. - It is a simple, practical fact that this sort ot tning nas goi iu ho ctnrmpH ahnmtlv. completely and pretty sternly, if the West ern Alliance is to oe resiorea 10 any sort of working order. THE conditions for a new start have already been created by the Eisenhower declaration on Soviet aggression in the Middle East. It is no substitute for a serious, detailed Middle Eastern policy, to say that you will not permit the Soviets to commit the kind of overt aggression which they have no intention of com mitting. It is at best a fair sub stitute for American adherence to the Baghdad Pact, which was so urgently requested by the Turks, Iraqis and British, and was finally refused by the Wash ington policy-makers. But the Eisenhower declaration is a very gcod beginning all the same. The resignation of- Sir An thony Eden, tragic though it was in many ways, may also help to clear the air. But there are two requirements for a real new start. On the one hand, the petty back-biting and self-righteous self-justification has got io stop on both sides. On the other hand, the old relations of mutual frankness and freedom of com munication on all Western pol icy questions, which are now totally broken off, must be rap idly resumed at all levels. Since America is the leader of the West, it is up to the American policy-makers to make the first show of large-mindedness and generosity. Otherwise the West ern Alliance may well openly founder in the rough year ahead. (Copyright, 1957, New York Herald Tribune; Inc.) we fear, the international fuse needing only a match, remain a constant threat to Red China In Efforts to Hold Red By CHARLES M. McCANN United Prats Correspondent Soviet Russia and Red China evidently have decided that if Communists do not hang togeth er they are likely to hang separately. That, in Brief, is the new pol icy line which Chinese Com munist Premier Chou En-lai is outlining as the result of his recent visit to Moscow. There is no Charles McCann longer any doubt that Nikita S. Khrushchev, first secretary of the Russian Communist Party, appealed to Red China to help avert what threatened to be a break-up of the Soviet bloc in Europe. Chou responded by interrupt ing his tour of East Asia and go ing to Moscow to cooperate in working out the new policy line. Will Visit Hungary From Moscow, Chou has gone Lobbyists' Pay Low; Biggest Goes to Boost Upper Colorado Plan Washington (CQ) The aver- age Washington lobbyist report ed a salary of $5,059 for 1955. Five reports listed fees and sal aries over $30,000, but almost one-fourth of the lobbyists said they received no pay for their legislative work. Congressional Quarterly sur veyed official reports filed with Congress by 579 lobbyists active during 1955, the last full year for which figures are available. Their salaries and fees totaled $2,929,102. They represented trade associations, farm and la bor ' groups and other national organizations. The largest single fee was re ported by Leland Glenn Snarr for David W. Evans and Associ ates, a Salt Lake City, Utah, public relations firm. The Evans organization received $55,882 from Upper Colorado Grass Roots fee, for its part in push ing enactment of the Upper Colorado reclamation and power project. A Washington, D.C., law firm employed by two opponents of the Upper Colorado plan The Six Agency Committee and the Colorado River Board of Calif orniareported a $30,274 fee. Robert L. McCarty of the firm of Ely, McCarty and Duncan said the $30,274 was "every penney we received, including fees for litigation and work with executive agencies, as well as lobbying with Congress. Top Individual Salary The highest individual salary was reported by Harold E. Fel lows, president and board chair man of the National association of Radio and Television Broad casters (NARTB). ' Fellows re ceived $52,916. He stated on his report the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act was "not applicable to me or this organization but said he filed "in order that I may be free to consider and discuss leg islation without question." An NARTB spokesman told CQ Fellows' legislative work was confined largely to appear ances before Congressional com mittees. "He's paid to head a trade association, not to lobby," the spokesman said. NARTB also had the highest- paid lobby staff, reporting $113,- 029 total salary for five persons during the year. A survey of the reports makes clear that while some lobbyists report their entire salary or fee, many others report only the per centage of their pay they esti mate they earned by lobbying. Of the 579 persons and firms reporting, 128 said they had no income at all from lobbying dur ing the year. Largest Staffs The group employing the larg est number of lobbyists 13 or ganizations and individuals was the National association of Electric Companies. Their total pay was $71,849. The Transpor tation association of America's lobby staff included 12 persons. but many of them said they had no salary from lobbying during the year. In terms of pay NARTB's five- Morse Proposes Federal Hells Dam Washington U.ft) Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.) intro duced a bill yesterday to author ize federal construction of a single high dam on the Snake river in the Hells Canyon area. Morse said he had the backing of 27 senator in 22 states for the measure. "In addition," he told the Sen ate, "we have the assurance thai several former sponsors of pre vious bills who have adopted a policy of not sponsoring any bill, will vote for the Hells Canyon project." Morse quoted Senata Ma jority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D Tex.) as saying he considers the bill important and would. throw his weight behind it. Supporting on to "independent" Communist Poland. From there, he is going to Hungary where puppet Pre mier Janos Kadar is trying to prevent another outbreak of open rebellion by reverting to the ruthless methods of Josef Stalin. In a long policy speech in War saw Chou said: "We must march shoulder to shoulder to the same goal. We consider that the constant strengthening of the friendship of the socialist countries headed by the Soviet Union is our great est duty ..." Thus Chou both appealed for unity in the Communist-ruled countries and reaffirmed Russia's position as the center of world Communism. Recalls Franklin's Appeal His appeal for unity was the same as that which Benjamin Franklin speaking in a better cause made at the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." man staff was high with $113,- 092. The National Assn. of Real Estate Boards and the Washing ton Realtors Committee paid four men $73,221 and the Na tional Assn. of Manufacturers gave six lobbyists a total of $65,000. Highest pay reported by a for mer Congressman-turned-lobby ist was $26,000 for ex-Rep. Ches ter C. Thompson (D-Ill. 1933-39), president of the American Wat erways Operators Inc. Ex-Sen. James P. Kern (R-Mo. 1947-53) said he received $20,000 from the Tariff Committee of the Wo ven Felt Industry and the U.S, Cuban Sugar Council. Former Rep. Clyde T. Ellis (D-Ark. 1933 43) said his salary as general manager of the NaUonal Rural Electric Cooperative Assn. was $16,673. (Copyright 1957. Conf ressionil - Quarterly) Patient Threatened To Disinherit Doctor, Nurse Says Eastbourne, England U.R) The bedside nurse of a wealthy widow who died while under the care of Dr. J. Bodkin Adams testified today the patient once threatened to cut the doctor out of her will. Nurse Caroline Randall was called as the first prosecution witness as the preliminary hearing on the patients death went into its second day. The hearing will determine whether the crown has enough evidence to order the chubby, 57-year-old doctor to stand trial for murder. Murder Charged In its opening statement Mon day the prosecution charged that Dr. Adams murdered Mrs. Edith Alice Morrell five years ago with overdoses of heroin and morphine. It also brought up the names of two other pa tients who died under question able circumstances "while under Adams' care. The attorneys said the defend ant profited from all three deaths. Miss Randall said she served as Mrs. Morell's nurse for 22 months and was at her bedside when she died. She said she gave the patient nightly injec tions of morphia on orders from the doctor, and later he ordered injection of heroin, which caused the patient to become "very collapsed." Illness Associated Asked if she associated Mrs. Morrell's illness in any way to the injections, the nurse said: "I did to the heroin." She said when A'dams went away on vacation in 1950 with out telling Mrs. Morrell, the pa tient was annoyed. "Did Mrs. Morrell tell you when Dr. Adams was away that she intended to alter her will and cut him out of it or words to that effect?" defense attorney Geoffrey Lawrence asked In cross-examination. "Yes, she was annoyed," the nurse replied. However, she said she did not know if Mrs. Mor rell actually cut Adams out of her will at that time. PRAISE ROCK'N'ROLL Songapore (U.P.) A newsp per reviewer said today he found that listening to rock'n'roll bands has its compensation because "you are never bothered by the crackling of candy wrappers in the next seat. You could not hear a machine gun over those bands," he added. I A MIUOT 9f Mcne I I PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL' 14 S. Central Phaa 3-5308 Moscow Line The fact that Chou has speci fied that Russia is still the center of world Communism does not mean that Red China with its 600 million people intends to take a second-rank position. Chou's support of Khrushchev, and of Russian leadership, stems from self interest. Red China still needs, and will need for some time, economic and tech- : nical help from the Communist I countries of Europe. ( Increased Taxes Seen as Result of Holmes' Program Salem U.R) A Republican state senator said today the pro gram outlined by Democratic Gov. Robert Holmes in his in augural speech yesterday would call for vastly increased taxes. Sen. Rudie Wilhelm of Port land, a GOP tax leader, said his main concern was that the pro gram called for additional ex pense of about $40 million for basic school fund increase and at least another $5 million over the budget of former Gov. Elmo Smith, which he said was bal anced and used up the $32 mil lion surplus. 90 Per cent Surtax That means the equivalent of a 90 per cent surtax rather than the present 45 per cent sur tax if we are to get the major part of it from income tax as the governor recommends," Wil helm said. Reaction to Holmes' speech generally followed party lines. Rep. Keith Skelton, Eugene , Democrat, said he was sure that under the governor's program the tax problem can be solved. But Rep. Joe Rogers, Independ ence Democrat, said "Raising the basic school fund from $80 to $120 a census child would more than wipe out the $32 million surplus. We'll have to look for more money. I agree with the desirability of Governor Holmes' . program, but I like to see where we're going to get the money." Lowry Sees No Specific Change Sen. Philip B. Lowry, Medford Republican, said the address of fered no specific plan for tax money. Another GOP lawmaker. Sen. Howard Bel ton of Canby, said the address was "an opti mistic message based more on public appeal than upon the real ities of state administration. Dr. John Richards, chancellor of the state system of higher education, praised the address. "Higher education has every right to feel encouraged that our problems will be solved by this administration," he said. Anthony Eden, Wife Sail for New Zealand London (U.R) Former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and his wife will sail for New Zealand Friday for a visit which was postponed because of the Suez crisis. Sir Anthony, and Lady Eden will make the trip at the invita tion of New Zealand's prime minister, Sydney Holland. An estimated 62 mllion acres of the land now planted to crops in the United States is said to be completely safe from erosion. Mr. Insurant FRED BRENNAN Phone 2-4940 HOUSEHOLD INVENTORY It's good business to fol low the example of busi nessmen by taking an IN VENTORY OF YOUR HOUSEHOLD POSSES SIONS. It helps determine the amount of insurance cov erage you need. It is a detailed record In case of loss or damage. We welcome the chance to assist you In outlining an Inventory form. MEDFORD INSURANCE . AGENCY Sold Wife for Opium GEO. N. TAYLOR A Chinese scholar sold his wife and daughters to get money for more opium. Then from a gift-Bible ne read of Christ's mira cles. These mira cles, all dressed up, he gave th crowd and then passed the hat for more opium coin. Next, he himself came to believe on Christ and he prayed the Lord to take away the opium urge. So Christ did and also he sent the man out over China to tell crowded houses what Christ had done for him. And may you also believe and tell what Christ has done for you. This message sponsored by a Scappoose family. Adv.