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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MidfordTribune "Kveryoo in SoutCem Oregoo Read Th Mall Tribune" PubUMhea Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-2? North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAA4 Buaineaa Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Mauaglni Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered ea second das matter at Med ford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Per Copt 10c Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 uany ana sun a ay bur. months 8 00 Daily and SundayThree moa 4J23 Sunday Only One year 4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eairle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rotrue River. Talent and on motor routes- Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 130 t-arner ana uealers 10c per copy Ail Terma Caah In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jack ion County United Preaa Full Leased Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU Ol CIRCULATION AdvertJiinR Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit San Francisco. Loa Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver BC N AT 10 N A I. I D I T 0 R I A i X I I AsTocITatiON y -J r,UiMMia:n NEWS PA PER PUaLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the filet of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 21, 1947 (Tuesday) Jackson County Chamber of Commerce will be headquarters for the March of Dimes this month, Mrs. O. A. Eden, Med ford chairman, announces. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The old fashioned oyster supper is quite the vogue in the rural regions hereabouts. Three guests report they found oysters in the stew. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 21. 1937 (Thursday) Farmer - stockholders of the Medford National Farm Loan as sociation elect C. W. Isaacs, president of board of directors. John C. Mann and W. J. Warn er reelected directors of Medford Federal Savings and Loan asso ciation. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 21. 1927 (Friday) Work is progressing on the city's new water pipe line from Big Butte Springs to Medford, according to City Water En gineer F. C. Billard. Three D'Autremont brothers, wanted for the holdup in 1923 of an SP train in southern Ore gon and the murder of four men, are still at large, according to city police. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 21. 1917 (Sunday) Southern Pacific Station Agent Vanwarning will have for his guests Sunday five ticket agents of the SP system. A. C. Allen shows films at Page theatre pointing out bene fits to fish of screening irriga tion ditches. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct la inperlor; in. cn or eight U axcaUent; fiva or aix Is rood. 1. In 1845 Congress reduced the rate of postage to 5 cents on a single letter not exceeding 300 miles; 10 cents over that distance; true or false? 2. Were France and England, or France and Australia, the principal nations engaged in "The Hundred Years' War"? 3. Does the Book of Jeremiah mention the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah? 4. Did President Truman de bark at a Belgian, English, or German port on reaching Eu rope for the Potsdam Confer ence? 5. Is an apiary a place where birds are kept? 6. In Dickens' "Oliver Twist" was the Artful Dodger an adept ft) villainy, a young thief or an old swindler? 7. Was Joseph M. W. Turner a landscape painter or composer? 8. What is the English equiva lent of the Roman numeral MDCCCXXX? 9. Is it proper to use "claim" as a synonym of allege, assert, or maintain? 10. "Mad as a March hare," "I say, thou madde March hare." Did Heywood or Skelton use the spelling "mad"? Answers: 1. True; 2. France and England; 3. Yes: 4. Belgian. Antwerp; 5. No. Bees; 6. Young thief; 7. Landscape painter; 8. 1830; 9. No; 10. Heywood. EXPLOSION KILLS Taipeh. Formosa (U.R) Twenty seven persons were kill ed and 30 seriously wounded Sunday in the accidental ex plosion of an artillery shell, 'it was reported today. MAIL TRIBUNE Who Is Parcel Post For? About a week before Christmas, when the "mail ing rush" was still under way, we toted a hefty pack age down to the Post Office to be mailed to a Cali fornia city in time for Christmas. We waited patiently in line for the 10 or 15 min utes it took (it seemed more like half an hour) to get to the window. By the time we got there, the strings on the package had cut into our fingers, we were late back to work, and our humor was not of the best. The clerk at the window was nice enough. He ac cepted the package, weighed it, then said, "Sorry, it weighs 22 pounds. Twenty is the limit." We trudged back to the office, still toting the darned package, seething. We also recalled distinct ly having mailed larger and heavier packages in the past. IT DIDN'T take long to find out the reason for what had happened. Postmaster Moore Hamilton re ported the ruling is the result of Public Law 199, which we later found out was passed in 1951 at the behest of the Railway Express agency; a monopoly owned by the nation's larger railroads. Further data was forthcoming from Dave Holmes of Harry and David, one of the largest users of parcel post and Railway Express services in the nation. We learned that exasperation at the law has been mounting, ever since it became offective in 1952, on the part of the public, large users of parcel post, and postal employees themselves. JJERE are a few of the provisions of the law: From a first class post office you may not mail a package to another first class post office if it weighs more than 20 pounds or if it measures more than 72 inches in combined length and thick ness. BUT you may mail a package weighing up to 70 and 100 inches the same as it was everywhere be than first class. If it is going not more than about 150 miles, how ever, it can weigh up to 40 pounds, between first class post offices. On the other hand, if you mail from a post of fice other than first class, the limitation is 70 pounds and 100 inches the same as it was everywhere be fore the law was passed. (We could have taken that package to Phoenix and mailed it, no questions ask ed). THE question is, why this silly business of different weights and measures for different post offices and different distances things which the average postal patron can't possibly keep in mind, and should n't be expected to? We don't know for sure, but the Parcel Post As sociation blames it directly on the Railway Express and no one else. They claim it was designed to pro tect this "monopoly" from the "competition" of the Post Office. - They say the result has been that the postal defi cit has increased; that parcel post rates have gone up as patronage has gone down ; that Post Office ad ministration is more difficult, and that the ultimate objective is to kill parcel post (it was only established in 1912) altogether. Question: Who is the Post Office supposed to benefit, the taxpayers that support it, or the express agency which fears its competition? E.A. Scenery vs. Signs We have been watching with interest the com ments of Willamette valley newspapers on the new Baldock freeway between Portland and Salem, and how gradually, little by little, billboards are taking over what was once a beautiful, pastoral section of highway. They don't like it. Neither do we. At the last session of the legislature a law was passed limiting, but not banning, billboards on Ore gon's freeways. Billboards are allowed not more fre quently than every 1,000 feet. But at 60 miles per hour, that's one billboard every 12 seconds . THE Oregon Statesman "We do not oppose outdoor advertising; but do object to it where it mars the scenic view or creates traffic hazard." That puts it in a nutshell. The fact is that with the new federal highway bill, much of the wide new highways will be through unspoiled, uncrowded areas, which will be both a delight to the eye and a temp tation to billboard advertisers. Bills to protect the freeways from billboard en croachment will be under consideration in both the state legislature and the federal congress. It is to be hoped that members of either or both can resist the pressures of the billboard lobbies and offer protec tion to areas which are more valuable for their scenic beauties than they are for gargantuan pictures ex tolling the virtues of beer, cigarets or mayonnaise. Let us close with that Ogden Nash verse we have quoted before: "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. "Perhaps unless the billboards fall, 111 never see a tree . at all." May that verse not be prophetic!! E.A. Snow Threatens Disaster Valencia, Spain (U.R) Falling temperatures and freak snow, the first in 30 years along this orange-producing coast, have threatened economic disas ter for the second time in 12 Monday. January 21, 1957 says: Along Coasf of Spain months. Farmers watched anxiously for a repetition of last Febru ary's disastrous freeze which cut orange exports by an esti mated 83 per cent and cost Spain S80 million. . - ... Today and By Walter Big Budget Big Country Looking at the big budget which the President has just submitted to Congress, the ob vious question is why with Mr. Eisenhow er in the White House, with a stalwart like George Hump hrey in the Treasury, Fed eral spending has risen so much. There can be no doubt about what Eisenhower meant to do when he took office four years ago. He promised then that in two years he would reduce the last Truman budget, which reflected the Korean war and rearma ment, down to $60 billions, a re duction of some $14 billions, and and he certainly hoped that the reduction would "steadily con tinue." In his first two years he did reduce expenditures by some $10 billions, mainly by savings on national defense. But since then he has felt he had to ask for more and more money. The new estimates are not much be low the high Truman budget of 1953 and. if expenditures for federal highways are included, they are higher by nine billions than the first Eisenhower bud get. The bulk of the increase is for defense. But there is a not insignificant increase of three billions in what are called "civil benefits," a term which covers the veterans, agriculture, hous ing and natural resources. in the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, three U.S. B-52 bombers have just landed at March Air Force base in Cali fornia. Only 45 hours before their wheels touched the ground this morning they LEFT Cali fornia. Within this brief SDace of time, they circled the world without landing. They were re fueled in the air four times, the last time at Guam island. THEY traveled 24,325 miles at an average speed of about 525 miles per hour. Half-way around the globe off the Malay peninsula in South east Asia they conducted a make-believe NUCLEAR BOMB DROP. PAGE the ghost of Jules Verne, whose fictional hero circled the world a little less than a century ago in 80 DAYS and set a new record for imaginative thinking about the future. Then Post this notice to Russia and her commie buddies: "Take note, gentlemen, before starting some thing you might not be able to finish." THE federal power commission says the nation's electric utility capacity must be TRIPLED to meet the demands now estimated for 1980. This estimate is seven per cent high er than an estimate made by the FPC only two years ago. Interior Secretary Seaton says the commission estimated at that time it would cost 94 billion dol lars to build the necessary new generating plants to meet the needs of the next two decades. WHY all this growth? Remember the four million-odd babies that are expect ed to be born in the next 12 months. Remember that by 1980 the population of the United States is expected to be in ex cess of 220 million people. And most of them are going to want electric gadgets. ANOTHER thought: If the hundred-odd billion dollars that will be needed to finance just the new electric plants that will be needed by 1980 not to mention all the other elements of our expanding economy that will need invest ment money a lot of people will have to SAVE UP A LOT OF MONEY between now and then. Money for investment comes out of savings. If we try to pro vide it by starting the printing presses there win be first a boom that will shake everybody loose from his teeth and after that (to borrow Treasury Secretary Hum phrey's expansion) a depression that will "curl our hair." SPEAKING of money An employee of the U.S. mint in Denver has been arrested and accused of pocketing a large number of UNFINISHED two bit pieces. He is alleged to have used the silver discus in SLOT MACHINES. They caught him quick, and if he is convicted he faces a fine of $10,000 and ten years in prison to think over the hazards of trying to get rich too quick. HE is a good example of what might be called the "dishon est mentality," and what it usual ly leads to. What it will lead to in his case will be a ruined life. I know that sounds like preaching, but it is the hard trtith, distilled out of centuries of human experience. I Sa. S'Ti.-'-J aVi-itAiAcJjJ Halter Lippmann Tomorrow Lippmann ALL this has happened under Eisenhower and Humphrey, and in the face of an Eisenhower landslide, which removes any need to bid for votes. Mr. Hump hrey makes no bones about his personal unhappiness at the size of the expenditure. What, if he had had his way and not been overruled by the President, would he have done to reduce the budget? He has not said plainly what he would have done. But read ing between the lines, it appears that he would have altered our present military policy on the one hand, and on the other, he would have resisted sternly the various demands for federal aid. In the military establishment he would, it appears, have concen trated on the new big strategic armaments, and he would then have made substantial economies in the conventional sea and ground forces. This would mean an establishment designed to deal only with overt Russian ag gression, but unprepared to do much about local and limited disorders. In the field of "civil benefits," he would have fought off the ad vance of the welfare state. In other words, the substantial reduction in the Eisenhower budget, which Mr. Humphrey regards as so necessary to our economic health, could not be made without fundamental changes in policy. It would mean a change in the Eisenhower for eign policy, which is one of con tainment on a global scale, and requires the support of conven tional forces. It would mean an abandonment of the Eisenhower domestic policy, at least that part of it which is called the new Republicanism. For the new budget is big be cause of the big policies to which the President has committed himself. VET, apart from the various items which of course need to be scrutinized by Congress, is it fair to measure the over-all size of the 1958 budget by the smaller ' size of previous bud gets? Since the Eisenhower ad ministration came to power in 1953 the population of the United States has increased by 10,000,000 persons. This country is, in fact, having an explosive expansion of its population. The labor force has increased by about- 5,000,000. The total na tional production is larger by more than $50,000,000,000. Sure ly, the President is right in say ing in his message that "the budget must also reflect the gen eral responsibilities of a gov ernment which will be serving 172.000,000 persons in the fiscal year 1958." Compared not with other bud gets but with the growth of the nation and of the economy, the present expenditures have not increased even proportionately Short of a miracle, that is to say a peace settlement of the cold war, it is vain to expect ex penditures to be drastically re duced. These big expenditures reflect the two basic facts that the population is growing prodigiously, and that there is a race of armaments proceeding at a rapid rate. rpHE prospects are that the growth of the American popu lation will require increased government spending. For when the population grows and be comes concentrated in the great metropolitan centers, the need for public expenditure is bound tn rise. Masses of people living in cities and in suburbs need all manner of public works and fa cilities which are not necessary when they live in country vill ages. We speak of the American way of life which is new in our generation. This great human change is reflected in all the government budgets, federal, state and local throughout the land. (Copyrighted 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Czech Miners Stage Slowdown in Pits Vienna U.R) Czechoslovak miners are staging a slowdown strike in sympathy with the min ers of neighboring Hungary, reli able sources said here today. The sources said the Czech miners passive resistance al ready has caused a serious drop in coal production. They said the slowdown was clearly connected with the situa tion in Hungary where miners are producing only half of their pre-revolution output. Walt Disney, ABC Sign New Contract Hollywood -4U.PJ Walt Dis ney Productions and the Ameri can Broadcasting Co. announced today they had reached a new contract involving more than $9 million and 130 hours of televi sion programming in 1957-58. Under the pact, Disney will produce three TV program series for ABC - TV "Disneyland, "Mickey Mouse Club" and a new series titled "Zorro." The latter will be a live-action series of 39 weekly half-hour adventures. India in Unaccustomed Role of Opposing Self-Determination By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent India is about to play the unaccustomed role of a country that does not want to talk about "-'--. '""Ml the . riaht of self- determin ation. The United Nations Secur ity Council meets Wednes day to discuss the future of the state of Kashmir which Charles McCann has been in dispute between Indian ' and Pakistan since 1947. Pakistan wants the United Nations to conduct a plebiscite so that Kashmir's people can decide for themselves whether to unite with India or Pakistan. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru- of India is one of the world's foremost supporters of the right of peoples to self-de terminations. In this instance, however, Nehru is on the other side. He does not want a plebiscite. The trouble is Nehru knows that if a plebiscite were held. Matter of Fact By Stewart Alsop HOW BIG A STICK? Washington The President's request for standby authority to use force in the Middle East has been described as a policy ot "speaking soft 1 y and car rying a big stick." It is therefore worth asking just how big is the stick we are carrying. Pre sumaoly the President has in mind the limited application of force, rath er than a global hydrogen war with the Strategic Air Force. And we have, after all, some rather recent experience of the limited application of force, in the Korean war. Lesson one of the Korean war was, simply, that you ned army to win a war. President Truman at first hoped to use only the Air Force and the Navy, but he was quickly disillusioned, Even the Marines, with their mall ready force, cannot do the job alone, vital as was their con tribution in Korea. WHAT; then, is the state of the U.S. Army? As a result of the budget-dictated "new look, its manpower has been reduced by a third, to about a million men, since 1952. At the same time, the administration claims to have maintained the 19 divi sions it inherited. If the same combat power had in fact been maintained with third less men and a sharply re duced budget, this would have been a remarkable achievement. But when you inquire a little more closely into the facts, the remarkable achievement begins to look more like a sort of shell game. For consider those 19 divi sions. At least five of them are not real combat divisions at all, but hardly more than training divisions, under strength and un ready for combat. Two more are the so-called "static divisions." The static division were magical ly created by picking up various bits and pieces, a battalion here, a regiment there, from Panama to Alaska, and calling them divi sions. Thus hey, presto the 19 divisions were ostensibly main tained despite reduced manpow er and a reduced budget. Seven from 19 leaves 12. But that is not the end of the story. About three weeks ago a "reor ganization of the Army for atom ic warfare" was announced, cut ting the manpower of our Army Eisenhower, Nixon Pick Bible Verses Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower selected verse 12 of the 33rd chapter of Psalms as the Biblical passage on which to rest his hand in taking his oath for a second term. It reads: Blessed is the nation whose god is the Lord; and the pec-pie whom He has chosen from His own inheritance." Vice President Richard M. Nixon selected the fourth verse of the second chapter of Isaiah, which reads: "And He shall judge among the nations: and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, end their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." The President used a Bible given to him by his late mother when he was graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point in 1915. Nixon used a Bible that be longed originally to his great, great grandparents. William and Martha Milhous. The Bible was a King James Version printed in 1829. r -Ah Stewart Alsop the Kashmiris would vote to join Pakistan. Full Debate Opposed He said at a meeting of his governing Congress party in New Delhi last Tuesday that the United .Nations should confine itself to the question whether Pakistan has been the aggressor in the dispute over Kashmir. So on Wednesday, the pros pect is that V. K. Krishna Men on, India's chief delegate to the United Nations will argue that the plebiscite issue should not even be debated. When Indian and Pakistan were given their freedom in 1947, what had been British In dia was divided between them. The divison was made on the basis of religion Hindu areas to India, Moslem areas to Pak istan. Kashmir is a Moslem area which had long been under the rule of Hindu maharajas. After the 1947 partition, both Indian and Pakistan moved troops into the area. There was bitter fighting between Indian and Pakistani troops, and tribes men who supported one side or divisions by some 60,000 men. The reorganization was overdue. Our cumbersome, World War II styled divisions were not equipped for the mobility and dispersion imposed by the atom ic revolution. pWEN so, the combat cutting edge of our ground strength is measured in divisions, and it is patently silly to suppose that you increase your combat power by reducing the manpower in your combat units. If the "in crease" in combat power had been real, and not phony, the 60,000 men "saved" by reducing the manpower per division would have been organized into new divisions. But that is not to be done, because, fonone rea son it would cost too much. The story does not end there, either." It has been announced that the 137-wing Air Force pro gram, so long considered sacred, is to be abandoned. The great bulk of the reduction in Air Force wings is to be in the Tac tical Air Command, which di rectly supports the Army, and which is an essential component of our ability to fight limited wars, as Korea demonstrated The 12 real (as opposed to phony) divisions, which are to lose both air support and combat manpower, are not, of course, all available for use in the Mid dle East. Five divisions are com mitted to NATO, and another three to the Far East, and these could not be substantially re duced without denuding our European and Asian defenses. Eight from twelve is four, and of these one or two at least must be kept in reserve in this coun try. A DD, finally, that the Eisen- hower administration's offi cial estimate is that the Red Army consists of 175 divisions, the bulk of which are being re organized and equipped with nuclear weapons, and the con trast becomes rather stark. The American Army, to be sure, is spread very thin from the DEW Line to Formosa and in view of our global commitments it is admittedly difficult to main tain real ground strength. Even so, the United States, which is a lot richer than the Soviet Union, ought surely to be able to afford 19 real divisions. If we cannot, it is surely better to face the fact squarely rather than to deceive ourselves with shell games. For the above facts, which are a matter of public rec ord, suggest that we are in dan ger of adopting a policy of speaking loudly and carrying a small stick. Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range SillCe 1908 T PERL'S every family , may make funeral or- KmJ Y.J I rangements which are In A MmmAJL V. A., keeping with its means. A - p " - selection of services In Funeral every price range is of Home fered to satisfy individual preferences and to meet all financial circumstances. Phone 2-6675 Convenient Terms? 0 Certainlyl the other, from October, 1947, to the end of 1948. Then the United Nations drew cease-fire line between the contending forces. India re mained in occupation of two thirds of Kashmir. Pakistan stayed In the remaining one third. The United Nations called for a plebiscite after both Indian and Pakistani armies had with drawn. Double Defiance Nehru agreed to the plebiscite at one time, but he started to specify conditions that blocked it. Chiefly, he demanded that Pakistani troops get out first. He also wants troops to be sta tioned in Kashmir during the vote in the proportion of sev en Indian soldiers to one Pak istani soldier. More than three million of Kashmir's 4.4 million people are Moslems. Indian officials have said pri vately that if a plebiscite were held, the vole would go 60 per cent for Pakistan, 40 per cent for India. They hardly can be assumed to have over-estimated the Pakistani majority. Another angle of the situation is that the United Nations spec ified that there should be no change in Kashmir's status un til the plebiscite was held. But the part of Kashmir that Indian holds has adopted a con stitution under which it is to come under the Indian consti tution on Thursday, the day aft er the UN debate starts. So Nehru, the self-determina-tionist, seems to be in double defiance of the United Nations as regards Kashmir. If You Need Money For Any Purpose Borrow The American Way S25 to S1,500 PAYMENTS TO FIT YOUR BUDGET! Call or Write American Finance Corp. Phone 2-8886 123 W. Main Medford Young Girl Dies GEO. N. TAYLOR Some time since, out in the hills of N.W. Oregon, a young girl lay dying of T.B. She never had been in touch with church or Sunday School or in fact with Christian peo ple. Yet a New Testament had come into her hands and this she read con stantly in her last days. To ward the end. came great weanness dui sne kept to her Testament. 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