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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordThibune Tveryon in Southern Oregon Read The Mall Tribune' PublUhed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27 -2& North Fir St Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GtRAt-D LATHAM Busineu Manager ERIC ALXEN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAV Telejfraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second cla matter at Med ford Oregon under Act at March 31897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Per Copy 10c. DalJy and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dailv and Sunday Three moa 425 Sunday Only One year (4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eaele Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix, Shadv Cove Roue River Talent and on motor routes' Dailv and Sunday One year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday -One month 150 Carrier and Dealer 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wlre MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative; WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de trnlt San Franclaco Los Angelea Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C N A T I O N A I EDITORlAi I AS5 0cTatIN 3 I NEWS PA PER PUBLISHERS J 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. 28, 1347 (Tuesday) Elementary principals and up per grade and high school teach ers of the county appoint com mittee to formulate recommen dations to advance salary of teachers. 1 From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Over the land, press dispatches report, a wave of clearance sales of the late alleged shortages of former hard-things-to-get. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 28, 1937 (Thursday) The Allied Welfare association of Medford adopts resolution re questing state legislature to pass bill appropriating $34,464 to Doernbecher hospital in Port land. New Girl Scout troop. East Side 3, presented with charter by Mabel Sims, local director. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 28, 1927 (Friday) Medford Realty board will be on radio tonight for a broadcast of the Crescent City Harbor Im provement banquet in Grants Pass. State supreme court enjoins moving of county seat from Jacksonville to Medford on tech nical error in election, which was failure to publish pro and con arguments. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 28, 1917 (Sunday) About 60 Oregon Democrats assemble at Portland hotel at the call of Samuel White, chairman of Democratic state central com mittee. Medford Merchants' associa tion, Medford Commercial club, and Greater Medford club plan community copper day to adver tise mines. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior: sev en or eight Is excellent; five or six Is rood 1. The first house built at Yerba Buena, in 1835, was the beginning of which city? 2. Napoleon's plan to isolate England from the continent of Europe was named C 1 S m. 3. Was the prophet Isaiah the son of Amos or Amoz? 4. Anti-knock, properties are controlled by what property of gasoline rating? 5. Was Flavius Josephus, the Jewish historian, also a military man? 6. ITU are the initials of which organization? 7. Who was President before Herbert Hoover? 8. Do underwater animals re quire oxygen to live? 9. Smith seems to be wealthy, and appears to be honest. Are "seems" and ' appears" properly used? 10. In the proverb, what do "too many cooks" do to the "broth"? Answers: 1. San Francisco, Calif. 2. Continental System. 3. Amoz. 4. Octane. 5. Yes. A Gen eral. 6. International Typograph ical Union. 7. Calvin Coolidge. 8. Yes. 9. No. They should be transposed. 10. "Spoil" it. Navy Bomber Crashes Into Hanger in Oslo Oslo, Norway U.PJ A U. S. Navy Neptune bomber with between 11 and 13 men aboard crashed into a hangar while landing here Saturday. There were no casualties. Minutes before the accident, more than 40 workers in the hangar had left at the end of their work shift. MAIL TRIBUNE A "Bad Neighbor"? On this page last week a letter appeared which' asked the city council to change the city's policy of not providing city services to areas outside the city limits. The letter was from a resident of the Berrydale area, a man who led the fight against annexation when it was up for a vote there at the November election. "Why not be a good neighbor?" his letter asks Medford residents. "Contact your city councilman and tell him to do the decent thing and allow an out side area that is in dire need of sanitation to hook up to the city sewer line that runs close by." "THE policy in question was adopted by the city some years ago, after many unhappy experiences proved it to be necessary. It may, on the face of it, appear to be a bit cold blooded, but city after city has been forced into it, and the rule is almost uni versal by now. It is necessary, in the first place, to protect resi dents of the community, who paid for installation of the improvements with their tax dollars, and whose property values furnish the guarantee for their main tenance and operation. Sewers, water mains, paved streets, curbs and gutters, street lights all these cost money, lots of it. If they were to be provided to areas outside the city limits, the city has no guarantee they can or will be paid for. IT IS, of course, true that the city limits are merely lines on a map, and that we really are all members of the larger community. But in a very real sense, the city limits are valid lines of demarcation between those who have city improvements and pay for them, and those who do not have them, but want them often without the added responsibility and tax costs that go with living inside the city. If a city administration is to be effective it MUST, first and foremost, fulfill its obligation to its own res idents. That is its sole reason for existence. We share the concern of the residents of the Berrydale area with their sanitation problem, be cause, for reasons of health, it is everyone's problem. But we cannot agree that, after the problem has grown to staggering proportions, the city should come rushing to the rescue, lending its credit, its ser vices and its facilities without the assurance of the solid foundation that only property values provide. ""THE letter quoted above of being a bad neighbor. But is it? Think about the contrast between the two annex ation proposals at the November election. Berrydale voted against annexation. In effect,, it rejected the city's invitation to join. Grandview-Kenwood ap proved it. The city accepted the verdict of the voters in each case. ' As a result, Berrydale's problem is worse than ever. But Grandview-Kenwood early next month will become part of the city, and orderly development will follow its natural course. And, mind you, this is costing Medford and its residents money. But it was felt that the overall good of the community was best served in this way. This is not the action of a "bad neighbor." And the invitation is still good. It was the voters in Berry dale that closed the door. It's up to them to knock again, if that's what they want E.A. Visitor from Space If a recent dispatch from London is correct, it will be possible to see a genuine comet this spring the second one visible to the naked eye since the last visit of Halley's comet in 1910. It should be quite a show. The story says it will be the brightest object in the sky save only the sun and moon, and that it should be visible in daylight, unless it changes its apparent course. At present it can only be seen with a strong telescope, but as it ap proaches the earth it will get bigger and brighter. AT ITS closest approach, it is estimated it will be some 30 million miles from the earth, or only about one-third of the distance from here to the sun. This is expected to be by the end of April. Comets are not particularly rare, and astronom ers see up to a dozen or so a year through their in struments. But one visible to the naked eye is a rar ity. Up until a few hundred years ago, they were the subjects of both awe and superstition. In 1456, a large comet scared the daylights out of the residents of Europe, and a prayer to be saved from "the Devil, the Turk and the comet" was added to many church services. The distinguishing mark of a comet is its tail, which may be up to 100 million miles in length, but is so nebulous that it could be compressed into a very small space. The tails do not extend backward in the comet's path, but away from the sun, even when the comet is going away from the sun, apparently "pushed" that way by the energy of sunlight. VW"E HOPE this comet (named Arend Roland for the Belgian astronomers who found it) follows its present course and pays us a visit. If it doesn't, we might have to wait for the next visit of Halley's comet, scheduled for 1985. But there's always the chance that one will show up without advance warning. They are the farthest traveling members of the solar family, swinging bil lions of miles into space in the journey around the sun. E.A. Monday, January 28, 1957 in effect accuses Medford Today and By Walter THE INTENSIFIED COLD WAR The President was asked at his press conference by Mr. Rob ert J. Donovan, of the New York Herald Trib une, whether, as compared with the Ge neva confer ence in 1955, there is a "marked hard ening of rela tions between the United States and the Soviet Union, an intensification of the cold war." The President, quite evidently for diplomatic reasons, replied that he really could not say. There is, however, no doubt at all that relations with the So viet Union have taken a sharp turn for the worse. The turn has come since the autumn, and is directly traceable to the two crises which occurred almost simultaneously in October the one in Eastern Europe and the other in the Middle East. The spirit of Geneva rested at the bottom on a mutual under standing not to alter the status quo by force. Each of the two crises of the autumn was an up heaval of the status quo. The one upheaval touched the vital interests of the Soviet -Union, the other the vital interests of Western Europe and the west ern world. rpHE East European upheaval, which reached a climax in the Hungarian- rebellion, threat ened the whole position of the Soviet Union in Europe. Seen from Moscow, it threatened to create, as the saying goes, a vacuum of power which would probably be filled by anti-Russian governments. In the face of this very real threat, the Soviet government, with its military chieftans setting the pace, re versed the liberating policy of anti-Stalinism. It crushed the Hungarian rebellion, and assert- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS After eleven days of balloting, in which the lines on both sides held firm, the deadlock in the Oregon state senate has been broken by the election '(which was unanimous jn the final vote) of Democratic . Senator Boyd Overhulse of Madras as senate president. The net result is to give the Democrats (who control the house decisively) control of the senate's important committees. It puts them in a strong position to carry out Governor, Holmes' program IF his program is such as to ap'-eal to enougn Republi cans to sain a majority vole ir. the senate whose membership is divided evenly, 15 Republi cans and 15 Democrats. If the senate's 15 Republicans should stand flat and firm against the governor's program of legislation which they are unlikely to do unless it should take a shape that violated all their fundamental convictions they could block it by failure to pass it in the senate. To become law, any bill must nave me ap proval of both houses. A N INTERESTING question: Has the long deadlock over the election of a senate presi dent done the state of Oregon harm. Personally, I doubt it. It has of course, consumed eleven days of the senate's time. But, mean while, the house has been going ahead with its business. The most important business of the 1957 Oregon legislature is to en act a tax program that in the fairest manner possible will pro vide the money to meet the ap propriations that the legislature makes to carry on the states business and to pay for the serv- icies that the legislature decides should be provided by the state Al) tax bills must originate in the house. So, it seems probable: the essential business of the house has- been going ahead without much interruption. " At least that is the way that it should have been. 4 NOTHER interesting q u e s- " tion: WHY long deadlock? I don't know. But I suspect the fact that the president of the senate is next in line of succes sion in the event that tr.e office of governor in Oregon becomes vacant for any reason had some thing ;o do with it.- Sonator Pearson, against whose choice as president of the senate the 15 Republicans stood so stubbornly firm, leans strong ly toward New Deal Democratic philosophies. If he had been elected president of the senate, he would have become governor if a vacancy in the governorship had occurred. That could account for the op position to him hy the 15 Repub lican members of the 30-member Oregon senate. Senator Over hulse, although relatively little known outside his own district, has a reputation as a clear, able thinker with more or less mid dle of-the road views, 'so far as his political views have been I disclosed. 1V"!IMIUSHVH " 1.-1 f ft rf H alter Lippmaju Tomorrow Lippmann ed its overriding authority in the wnole area. A measure of its success is the Polish election last week where the defense of Po land against the Hungarian treat ment was believed to depend upon proving to the Russians that Poland is both Communist and loyal to the Soviet Union. In this East European crisis there was submerged. Derhans for some time to come, the hope oi an accommodation between the Soviet Union and the West. For that hope rested on the pos sibility that Russia would accept generally all over Eastern Eu rope some variant of the neutral ism which pervails in Austria, Finland and Yugoslavia. The Hungarian crisis seems to have convinced the Kremlin that if Eastern Europe they relax their domination, they may lose all their influence. We may say that, as a result. the Soviet Union has filled the vacuum by reasserting its own domination. As this means that an East-West accommodation has become much more difficult, the cold war is intensified. But the Soviet Union has re-established its authority inside its orbit. T OOKED at broadly, the" Mid-- die Eastern upheaval has meant the collapse of the Brit ish power, and this carries with it the threat that almost the whole region might turn against the West. The Eisenhower Doc trine is an effort to reassert, not western authority which is gone, but a modicum of Western influ ence. Though Britain and France made a clumsy try, the West has not done in the Middle East what the Russians have done in Eastern Europe. The West has not reasserted its au thority by force. The Eisenhower doctrine is jnendy an assertion of the American presence in the Middle East, and an attempt to do something with the Arab states by a mixture of prestige, persuasion and inducements. During the autumn crisis the Soviet Union was able to isolate and insulate Eastern Europe against any form of outside in tervention. The U.N. has been impotent, and its impotence has been advertised to the world by the noise of its many resound ing resolutions. The Middle East, on the contrary, has not been iso lated and insulated. The great fact about the Middle East is that Russia, with strong support in the United Nations, is able to move actively to counteract the efforts which the President means to make to maintain Western influence in the area. rpHERE is no use under-esti-mating the diplomatic force of the warning against allowing bases for nuclear weapons, which was issued in Moscow this week. This warning is addressed to the key countries in the great semi-circle which extends from Japan and Okinawa through Iran and Turkey to Western Europe. The warning consists of a reminder to these exposed countries that in case of war, unless they are military neutrals, they will be defenseless targets for Soviet missiles. This is a powerful argument for neutral ism, and it is not easy to see how the Administration proposes to deal with that argument. Yet it is no exaggeration to say that the issue of neutralism is the paramount issue in the whole world that lies close to the Soviet Union. (Copyright, 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) U.P. Correspondents Forecast Headlines United Press correspond ents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Slowdown for Dulles? Washington insiders say Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles may start to take things easier soon. Ever since his oper ation for cancer, he has kept -up the fast pace he set for himself when he took office. But now his intimates are urging him to delegate to his associates some of the many chores he has in sisted on handling personally. Especially, they want him to stop making so many exhausting flights to far parts of the world. Dulles will be 69 on Feb. 25. Pole To Pole Don't be surprised if the Rus sians attempt a round-the-world flight by way of the North and South Poles to match last week's non-stop world flight by American Air Force planes. London experts say they can do it with their four-jet Bi son bombers. The Bisons are credited with a range of 7,100 miles or more. They could be refuelled by tanker planes based on friendly countries and in the Antarctic, where a Soviet scien tific mission is stationed. Inside Monaco Word comes from Monte Carlo that even hardened news men blusheS at the intimate details they received on the birth of Princess Grace's baby. One of the attending doctors gave an hour-by-hour account from the moment the Princess's labor Allied Defenses in Europe and Middle East By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Allied defense set-up Is undergoing a radical change in both Western Europe and the Middle East. The change in Europe is marked by the visit of British Defense Secre t a r y Duncan Sandys to W a s h i n gton and , the. ap pointment of rnaries Mccann a German gen eral as commander of American, British, French and West Ger man troops under the North At lantic alliance. In the Middle East, of course, the change is marked by the Ei senhower doctrine under which the United States would take prime responsibility in that big area for defense against Com munist aggression. Sandy's job is to outline to Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson the policy of Prime Min ister Macmillan. f Y !BKr'' J Matter of Feet WHAT CONGRESS WILL DO Washington The unpredict able almost always happens in each session of Congress, which TV may make 4 what follows -A rather amus- ine reading a few months from now. Yet here, for what it is worth, is what those in the best posi tion to judge believe the Stewart Alsop 85th Congress will do and will not do in the coming session. The "Eisenhower Doctrine" will pass more or less intact. A great many legislators on both sides of the aisle thoroughly dis like the whole business, especial ly the open-ended $200 million Middle Eastern aid fund. A vote for foreign aid in any form is increasingly politically risky these days, and the kind of blank check the President has asked for is especially risky. Yet the risks involved in not giving the President what he wants are even greater. The President will therefore get what he wants, perhaps with a few strings at tached, and after the Democrats have given Secretary Dulles a painful going-over. There will be the annual row about the defense program, and Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson will also experience a painful going-over. The Air Force budget may again get a token increase. Yet partly be cause there is no political mile age in bucking Gen. Eisenhower on the defense issue, and partly because Congress is simply not equipped to make defense policy, the Administration program will go through without real change. ' THE big row of the session will be, of course, about civil rights. Both Democrats and Re publicans have read the election returns from the areas with heavy Negro voting, populations, the former with dismay, the lat ter with delight. There is thus for the first time in both parties a majority which really wants to vote for some sort of civil rights legislature. It is therefore being general ly predicted that the President's civil rights program will pass in some form, despite the cer tainty of a Southern filibuster. pains started, with nothing left out. Some reporters cabled the facts to their home offices "for information" but so far they haven't seen print. Aloha! President Eisenhower has ask ed Congress again to grant state hood to Hawaii. If it does so, Washington says, the President is a sure bet to go to Honolulu for the statehood ceremony. Demo Leaders Expect Doctrine Approval Washington (U.R) Demo cratic leaders expect President Eisenhower's controversial Mid dle East doctrine to be approved by Congress without substantial change sometime in February, it was learned Saturday. But Democratic disenchant ment with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' conduct of foreign policy seems certain to touch off a fullscale examina tion policies not only in the Mideast but in other world trouble spots. The House Foreign Affairs committee, in a formal report Saturday on the Eisenhower Mideast resolution, urged the House to approve it as a blunt warning to Russia that the Unit ed States will use force if neces sary to halt any Soviet attempt to subjugate the Middle East. About 24 per cent of all retail sales in the U.S. today are automotive. Undergoing Changes This policy is to reduce ex penditure on armaments drastic ally and to base British defense on guided missiles and nuclear weapons. The appointment of West Ger man Lt. Gen. Hans Speidel to command what is called the Cen tral European area of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization means that increasing emphasis is going to be put on West Ger many's role in the defense of Western Europe. Drastic Reductions Planned Both the United States and Britain plan drastic reductions of their forces in Germany, which would be the first line of defense in event of a war with Soviet Russia in that part of the world. Most of France's NATO troops already have been sent to Algeria. West Germany is just really getting started on its rearma ment program. The first of 100,000 draftees for the West German Army have started enrolling and undergo ing physical examination. The West German Air Force By Stewart Alsop But it is also generally predict ed that the program, especially the Federal guarantee of the right to vote (which is what scares the Southerners most) will be watered down almost to the point cf meaninglessness. If a civil rights program passes first, there is a good chance that a school construc tion bill on about the lines pro posed by the President will pass. Otherwise, the likelihood is that some sort of civil rights amend ment will be tacked on the bill, as last year, and that, it will thus again be killed. THE prospects for a bill free ing natural gas from Federal control, which the President vetoed last year and has now included in his legislative pro gram, are less good than is gen erally supposed. The reason is simple. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn were infuriated by the President's veto. They are therefore in no mood to fight, bleed, and die for a gas bill, as they did last year. Johnson will not lift a finger to push a gas bill in the Senate, unless it first passes the House. Last j'ear it barely passed the House, only as a result of a per sonal plea bv Rayburn. It is most unlikely that Rayburn will make such a plea again. More over, the recent oil price rise, which a number of committees are eager to investigate, has cre ated the worst possible climate for the passage of the gas bill. If the President is willing really to put on the heat, he will get his bill. Otherwise, the chances are dim. There will be no reatly im portant new farm legislation the Democrats, having tried last year to pass high rigid parity and failed, do not intend to try again. There will probably be new legislation governing the industrial use of atomic energy. Because the issue is of basic im portance, and because Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss is determined to turn over industrial atomic en ergy to private capital, this may turn into one of the most heated issues of the session. THERE will be new immigra tion legislation, but a stop gap bill favoring the Hungarian refugees is more probable than a real rewriting of the McCar ran Act. There will be some legislation dealing with the drought crisis in the Southwest, but again stopgap action is more probable than an attempt to deal with the basic problem which is turning vast areas in the United States into desert. Final ly, despite Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's cry from the heart, there will be no im portant reduction in the budget. All in all, the outlook is for FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 is now forming. It is planned to set up first-line Air Force units in 1959. It is now quite clear that in the Middle East the United States, under the Eisenhower doctrine, would replace Britain and France as the chief Western barrier against Communist pene tration. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told a congressional com mittee last Friday that British and French troops would be a handicap to the United States in the Middle East. He explained that the Arab countries were hostile to-Britain and France be cause of their recent invasion of the Suez Canal Zone, among other things. Turkish Help Essential But it seems increasingly like ly that Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan may play an important part in the new defense line-up. These countries are the Mos lem members of the Baghdad alliance against Red aggression. Britain is the fifth member. The United States, which spon sored the Baghdad alliance, co operates with its members. It has refused to join the pact out right. Now, it seems increasing ly possible that if the United States does not join the alliance, it will seek the cooperation of the four Moslem countries in making the Eisenhower doctrine effective. Turkey's cooperation, especial-. ly, seems essential. Turkey, which like Iran has a long front ier opposite the Soviet Union, also has the biggest and best army in the whole Middle East. Its influence is great throughout the Moslem world and it is a staunch friend of the United States. Congressional Quiz (Copyright. 195 Congressional Quarterly) Q The Senate Jan. 3 elected a new President Pro Tempore, or assistant presiding officer, for the 85th Congress. Who is he and whom did he replace? A The new President Pro Tem is Carl Hayden (D-Arix.) ranking Senate Democrat. Ha replaced Walter F. George D Ga.) who retired at the end of the 84th Congress. The post generally goes to the senior Senator of the majority party. Q Which of the following countries does not border on the Jewish state of Israel: Jor dan, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt? A Iran. a rather routine session, essen tially because there are few do mestic issues, other than civil rights, which really stir the vot ers' emotions, while the Con gress is progressively losing real control over defense and foreign policy. But there are sure to be surprises too, simply because there always are. Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Lovers Get Together GEO. N. TAYLOR Our in the hill-section of N-W . Oregon, a young girl was dying of T-B. She had never been in touch with church folks or Sunday School nor Bible peo ple of any kind. A New Testa ment came into her hands and this she read constantly. To ward the end of her days came a great weakness to; 1M , 1 but -she kept to her Testament. Then came her last moment. She raised up in bed; held out her hands and cried "Jesus I'm coming." So they met for eter nity the gir who came to be lieve in Christ and Christ, her Eternal Lover. For "The Son of Man is come to save that which was lost." Mt 11:18. Adv. PERI'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which are In keeping with its means. A selection of services in every price range Is of fered to satisfy Individual preferences a n d to meet all financial circumstances. Convenient Terms? Certainly!