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o o 3 O o C o o Q o nTOT J2dFOD (OIKGOV) "Everyone In Southern Oregon Beam The Mail Tribune" fubfijhed Dally Excent Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-28 North Fir St Phone 2 -6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HtHB GREY Advertising Manager C KRAL.il LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS City Editor BARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SDorta Editor OLIVE STAKCHER Society Editor PALE ER1CKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second elaaa matter at Mediord Oregon under Act 04 March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Per Copt 10c Dally and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday Six months S 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4.23 Sunday Only One year 44 20 By Carrier In Advance Mediord Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill o Phoenix. Shady Cove Rotrue River Talent and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday One year $18 00 Dally and Sunday One month ISO Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jacksdh 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. 8an Francisco Los Angelea Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL 10ITOR1A. i 5 O Cfl-A T I N niini'TTn N f WS PA PER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the filei of The Mall Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 7. 1947 (Friday) County Math of Dimes cam paign brings in $12,955, accord ing to Ralph Sweeney, county treasurer. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Farmers hereabouts have started count ing their shee. As yet none have gone to sleep while doing it. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 7. 1937 (Sunday) Frank JQkins, Klamath Falls newspaper editorial writer, is principal speaker at Jackson County Lincoln club banquet. Local Zontians will hold a Souths" program at the studio of Mrs. Effie Kurtz, 204 North Ivy st., Medford, Monday. 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 7. 1927 (Monday) PTA of Oak Grove school ar range faith Jay Gore to put on a performance in legfcdemain and illusion. Plans are being made for a fathers av.f sons feanquet at the Medford hoteL 4 YEARS JkGO rkb. 7, 1917 (Wednesday) Temporary injunction is filed against Bedford to prevent sale of bonds under Hansen plan, ac cojlling to City Attorney Mears. G.W. Bartch of Salt Lake, representative of those inter Oested in the development of the Blue Ledge copper district, ar rives to examine Copper &jig mine. Mat's Yoir I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev en or eight Is excellent; five or six is good. - 1. The one-cent postal card was introduced in the U.S. in 1863, 1873. 1883? 2. In Shakespeare's "Lear' Obidicut is a fiend. What is Flibber-tigibbet? 3. Bible: "Men, brethern, and fathers." Was this the beginning oi an address by Paul or Theo- philus? 4. Barring severe weather con ditions, do canaries thrive in any climate? 4. Aboard ship: how many bells are struck to indicate 1:30, 5:30 and 9:30? 6. Name the capital of Iceland. 7. Do peanuts normally mi ture above or below ground? 8. Akihiot is the crown prince of whicK) Asiatic (iland) coun try? 9. A bald-headed person and a secies of North American ducks have what name in com mon? 10. "I never spoke to God; Nor visited in heaven; Yet cer tain am I of the s$ot As if the chart were given." By Emily D n? Answers: 1. 7873. 2 Also a fiend. 3. PauL 4 Yes. 5. Three. 6. Reykjavik. 7. Belogr. 8. Japan. 8. Baldpale. 10. Emily Dicken son. Tillamook Woman Killed In Wilson River Wreck Tillamook 4U.R) A 50-year-old Tillamook woman was killed last night when her car plunged off the Wilson River highway about a quarter mile east of here and struck a tree. Mrs. Kenneth Ross, a long time resident of the city, was alone in the car at the time. Police said they had riot determ ined what caused the crash. MAIL TRIBUNE Don 't Say It Out Loud, But! As usual with "Herblock" his cartoon in Mon day's Tribune was both pertinent and amusing. It pictured Secretary of. State Dulles wearing a large "Ike Likes Me" button, complaining to Secretary of Defense Wilson : "The trouble with you Charlie, is that you say what you think." That IS the one big trouble with "Charley", and always has been. TT IS also the trouble with another stalwart and conservative Republican, Representative Clare F. Hoffman of Michigan, who in the recent campaign in Oregon was such an explosive defender of the Al Sarena deal. During his speech in the House on Monday, for example, Hoffman remarked as follows, quote: "The President and his left-wing, free-spending, inter national one-world advisers propose to disinfect, fumigate, purify, renovate, unify and remake the Republican party. I know a constitutional amendment limits the President to two terms but I think, perhaps, a complacent Supreme Court might rule that means a man may not run for three terms on the same ticket but if he switched over could constitutionally run again." As a Democrat of course. CONGRESSMAN Hoffman, therefore, was also guilty of the unpardonable sin, at least un pardonable from the standpoint of the inner circles of the "We like Ike" club of saying what he thinks instead of saying what would reinforce the delusion that there is no opposition within the Grand Old Party to President Eisenhower and his program. The Big Boys definitely don't like it. They resent it as a return to the heresies of the late and to them UNlamented Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But, for the sake of party harmony and retention of G.O.P. control in other words political expedi ency, they don't say, as a group, what they. THINK but keep their thoughts to themselves for fear of an intra-party strife that might lose them the greatest vote-getting asset the party has had in some fifty years. "IX7ELL, who can blame them? We can't. " Being out of power is no fun, and bears no 8 per cent interest. Being in power may do both. So why not be smart, examples of Messrs. Wilson and Hoffman par- tisularly the latter, and able luxury of telling the IT IS a safe guess that jsj. -s. bilV - J. V- W OV11 tllll V-.4.1 f vy-i. I vi J viivvi w v member of the G.O.P. "Old Guard." But why rock the boat and spill the beans when from a party standpoint "we never had it so good?" If compulsion to speak out against the "New Deal" in elephant's clothing becomes too strong to resist, then by all means seek the shelter of the near est "Union League club" and utter the "We don't like Ike" blasphemies there. But in any event DON'T set off such a chain-reaction in public, and of all places not in the halls of the U.S. Congress, which as everyone knows, are wired for sound ! However, as noted, the congressman from Mich igan did it, and on a less damaging scale, the former head of General Motors expressed his inner and honest feelings regarding tional Guard, regardless According to the Herblock cartoon the latter was chided by the administration's "second-in-command Secretary Dulles. Who will take on the redoubtable and fiery Mr. Hoffman, is not known at this writing, but someone in authority as certain as anything in American politics can be, neither of these worthy gentlemen will ever be guilty of exactly the SAME indiscretion again. IJOWEVER, for both there will undoubtedly be compensations. These will probably prints but there will be plenty of influential members of the administration, who will off the record, agree entirely with Secretary Wilson regarding the National Guard, and commend him for his courage in saying it, and there will be even more of the "Older Boys" in both houses who, when they can get "Clare" off in a corner alone will pat the stormy petrel on the back and paraphrase Voltaire somewhat as follows: "I agree with everything the NERVE to SAY it!" Ike Saved When the histoiy of President Eisenhower is finally written we predict it will be generally con ceded, that he not only saved Europe from the Ger man Nazis, but he saved the Republican party from extinction. From a personal standpoint, we have, and always have had, the highest regard for the late Senator Taft of Ohio, but we believe that if the so-called Taft wing of the G.O.P. had prevailed during the first three years of the present administration, and what is generally known as the "welfare state" had been discarded and sunk without a trace, not the G.O.P. but the Democrats would have won the landslide of November 1956. That can't be prove"d, of course, nothing in the past that did not happen, CAN be. But that is the strong conviction of this depart ment. By taking over the "New Deal" at least its basic principles from the Democrats, was like tak- Thursday, February 7, 1957 instead of following the indulging in the unprofit truth? Congressman Hoffman ex- the politically potent Na of political consequences. surely will and this much is not appear in the ' public you say, but how did you have R.W.R. The G.O.P. Matter of Fact ALEKSANDR NIKOLAIEVICH Aleksandr Nikolaievich Vas- siliev is a large, solid, slow- spoken man with a grayish, deep- lined face lighted by shrewd and in telligent hazel eyes. He is al so a human phenomenon of of intense in terest for any one who wish es to penetrate at least a little Joseph Alsop way into the great Soviet mys tery. Only 28 years ago, he decided that his father's life as a sturgeon fisherman in Astrakhan was not after all for him. At 21, with no more preparation for a larger world than a decidedly inade quate primary education, he said goodbye to his family and the fishing boat and the nets: and he made his way to Moscow. In Moscow, he got a job as a metal polisher in a ball bearing factory. Thence, by endless night scnool ana a leave of absence for higher technical education, he struggled upwards to a post on the engineering staff. TIE WAS 6n the factory's ,A engineering staff when the Germans attacked. So he shared m the grim drama of the flight from Moscow, watching over his plants machinery on the long, hard journey to Kuibyshev, and the working desperately to get partial production started again in some abandoned horse barns. He was rewarded with promo tion to chief engineer, and six years ago he moved upwards once again, to become Director of the Order of Lenin Ball Bear ing Factory Number Four. Aleksandr Nikolaievich is not yet one of the first ranking men in tne new Soviet industry. His factory is only one element in a larger ball bearing trust, which in turn functions under the the department for the ball bearing industry in the Ministry of Automobile Production. All the same, he is marked as a most successful man by the simple fact that his clothes fit him. He has a Soviet executive's large, comfortable but rather gloomy and old fashioned office, which you might take for a set ting from an English play about the first of the industrial revolu tion if it were not for the usual ikons of Lenin and other Com munist holy figures. And as the boss of 10,000 men and women, Aleksandr Nikolaievich is one of the largest payroll meeters in this fantastic industrial boom town of Kuibyshev. VOU cannot talk very long -- long with Aleksandr Nik olaievich without concluding that he is an exceedingly able man. Maybe there really, was something wrong with the glit tering assortment of sample ball bearings in the case in his office But the very look of Aleksandr Nikolaievich, the very way he spoke, suggested that his ball bearings must be all right just because he had singlemindedly given his whole life to produc ing them. And he is now produc ing his ball bearings, judging by all external appearances, on a really impressive scale. "In the six years since I have been in charge," he said with solid satisfaction, "our output has risen three times but our labor force has only increased by one third. Partly our labor productivity has more than doubled because of the superior training of the young men and women we are getting from our technical high schools. But, also we have fully modernized all our old machines still in service. We have purchased many of the fine new machines this country is now making. And we have also designed and built many machines ourselves, specialized for our needs, and are now put ting in our first fully automated production line. ' With careful precision he de scribed the strange Soviet chain of industrial command the role of the Ministry, the role of the ball bearing department, the roles of the sacred "plan" and the "all union organization of ball bearing supply." But when he was asked what happened when trouble arose between him and his suppliers or customers, he answered in his matter of fact way that the problem could generally be solved by a tele phone call from one plant di rector to the other, for "these ing the Rhine from the Nazis, defeat for the latter was then only a question President tiisenhower his conception of smart proclaimed that where HUMAN values were con cerned he was a "LIBERAL," only where material values were concerned was A CAREFUL analysis certain contradiction not and seldom do go ticularly in the realm of meant that in spite of that ism" the new leader of the committed against social booster of "We like Ike" the line, with the exception of a few of the solider Solid South states, about By Joseph Alsop men are of course my old friends by now." . . . TTIS plant is about what you ''-might expect from textbook study of Soviet industry a huge complex of rather dark, rather badly constructed buildings, in which the newer units hardly seem much better than the form er horse barns. Despite Alek sandr Nikolaievich's consider able progress towards automa tion, there also seemed to be more handwork, especially in moving materials about, then you would find in an American factory. But the machines were there, hundreds upon hundreds of them, pouring every sort of ball bearing part and completed ball bearing with very obvious success. Over every machine, whether old but modernized or spanking new, Aleksandr Nikol aievich dwelt with the affection ate enthusiasm that indicates a man who knows his business. With almost equal enthusiasm. he described and exhibited his ambitious program for housing his workers, and providing them with every other need from groceries and education for their children to pastimes on their days off and vacations, for Soviet factories are semi-feudal unities, in which the workers not only work but also live and have their being. Altogether a few hours with Aleksandr Nikolaievich Vassi liev threw an immense amount of light on the industrial pro gress which this country has achieved. But he seemed cur iously less politically inclined than most American payroll meeters of comparable status. And one wondered what the results would be when Aleksandr Nikolaievich's g e n e r a t ion of Soviet industrial managers replaced by the generation or his son. who has not had to learn the hard way and is doing very well in engineering school with a good allowance from his father. Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I suppose that by this time everybody is familiar with the case of the Mystery Man of Mos cow. AU that was known of him yesterday was that a blood spe cialist had been summoned to Moscow from West Germany to treat an obviously important pa tient whom Soviet officials re fused to name. So Rumors flew like ducks on a good shooting day. There were tales that the sick man was a top flight Kremlin big shot who had been plugged by his asso ciates who wanted him out of the way. And so on. For a while it looked like the whole commu nist hierarchy might be at the pont of flying at each other's throats. THAT was yesterday. Today it appears on rea sonably good authority that it is a former deputy premier, name of Malyshev, who has been shuffled around from pillar to post in recent years until he fin ally wound up in the more or less inconspicuous post of Soviet minister of machine building. One guesses that the Soviet minister of machine building is a glorified foreman. WELL That's what always hap pens when news is suppressed When the facts are suppressed, rumors fly like snowflakes in a blizzard. Tom tells BUI. Bill tells Harry. And Jane tell Jill. Every time the tale passes from some body's mouth to somebody else's ear, it GROWS. It grows like mushrooms on a ditch bank on a hot morning after a spring rain. The best policy In Moscow, U.S.S.R. or in Podunk, U.S.A. is to make all the facts public just as soon as possible. imagine even the Kremlin gang sters have a faint glimmering of that fundamental truth by this time after yesterday's inci dent of the Mystery Man of Moscow. OUT I doubt if they will change " their ways. The Kremlin boys are despots. Being despots, they go on the theory that the less the public knows about what is going on the better it will be for the bosses who are running of time. m fact admitted this was political strategy when he he a conservative. of that slogan reveals a of terms, but the voters did into the finer details, par semantics.' So this to them slur about "creeping social Grand Old Party was not PROGRESS, and so with the to aid them, they went down 100 per. cent behind him. R.W.R. Signs Indicate Chinese Gives Up Hope for U.S. By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Communist Chinese Premier Chou En-lai apparently has given up hope that he might make some sort of dip 1 o m a t i c deal with the United States. Chou has in dicated several times in recent weeks that he believed the Eisen h o w e r administration Charles McCann might be in duced to open negotiations that would lead toward recognition of his Peiping Red regime. But at a press conference in Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Its All Very Simple I To the Editor: Your editorial in the Tribune Sunday, Feb. 3, indicates you are somewhat con fused concerning "Modern Re publicanism" as indicated by Eisenhower. No doubt you are as deeply confused about "Dem ocracy" as expressed by Wilson, Roosevelt, and Truman. It is really all very simple. In 1933 the "Democrat" party, the "Re publican" party, and the "Repub lic" of the United States came to an end. The place of the parties was taken at that time by a series of Deals the New Deal," the Fair Deal, and the present Double Deal. The United States has been replaced by a United Welfare State. There has been no "creeping" socialism involved in this evolu tion; it walked boldly in through the front door. It is here to stay by a "mandate" of the people. The benefits of this change in government is of small concern to the average man and woman, Instead of being citizens of a free republic they have become subjects of a welfare state. No person can have his name placed on a payroll without getting per mission to do so from the state (Social Security number) and by paying tribute of one -fifth of his earnings to the state. In 24 years the American dol lar has been deflated to a value of 20 cents. The national debt has passed the three hundred billion mark and still climbing. Let us not credit this change to any party, for the present pow ers that be are above and beyond all party restraint; they are "Liberal" Progressive, and In dependant. They belong to the recently established World Fed eration presently headed by Rus sia and China with which we are united the United Nations. Now let us get back to tide lands oil, Al Sarena, and the high Hells Canyon dam. Let us get back to "give aways" and and subjects of vital concern to our welfare and peace of mind. Let us have faith "that Eisen hower will get around to build ing dams all up and down the Pacific Coast when he has fin ished financing the rest of the world. It is going to take time and taxes, but we have the In dustrial Workers of the World in charge of everything, and Eisen hower seems to have the ability to out deal both Roosevelt and Truman together with some cost plus from- Wilson. For this privilege I thank you. Joseph J. Hall, Shady Cove. Write Your Congressman To the Editor: I do not know that the Mail Tribune favors either the Democratic or the the show. Despotism thrives on secrecy and suppression. It can't stand the light of day. Democracy thrives in an atmosphere of frankness and truth. The Kremlin boys want noth ing to do with democracy or any of its ways. Yours Free, Without Obligation "Facts every family should know about funerals and interments" is a helpful, unbiased bulletin published by the Association of Better Business Bureaus. If you would like a copy, just let us know. DAY OR NIGHT PHONE 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Colombo, Ceylon, Tuesday Chou spoke with some bitterness of continued American "hostility." Commenting on statements by President Eisenhower that the imprisonment of 10 American civilians in China was an ob stance to better relations Chou said: "Why should we always listen to the words of the President of the United States?" This was a decided change from several statements Chou has made during his long tour of East Asia, which is just now coming to an end. He has said that the time had come to establish better Chinese American relations and has of fered to meet Secretary of State Republican party, but it is our local paper and I want a ques tion answered. Tonight over KBES-TV we had two news items that bring confusion to the minds of many of the voters. The first item dealt with an impending depres sion if we did not curb infla tion. Mr. Hoover said, according to the newscaster, that the whole thing looks exactly as it did a few years ago when the other depression was brought in, inflation, etc, etc., and that we must curb government spending. Then a few minutes later the same newscaster stated that our lawmakers were trying to en act a law to pay $25,000 a year to each and every president for the remainder of his life after his term of office. Now, Mr. Editor, I for one wish to object to this plan. I see no reason for such a plan when our tax burden is so great at the moment that the small man can hardly carry it. No doubt the president has great responsibility and care during his term of office. But, as I understand it, he is well paid for this work. Then why should he be pensioned off for the rest of his life because he served his country for one or two terms? As I remember it, all our pres idents were either rich or well- to-do, at least in the last 40 years. Then why not be consis tent, why fear a depression un less we cut government spend ing and at the same time do our best to spend more? Let's cut some of our foreign spending as well. I wish to register a com plaint or know my error. Where shall I write? Paul H. Miller Route 2, Box 764-A - Central Point, Ore. Freeway Complaint To the Editor: While they are studying and discussing the lo cation of the Highway 99 Free way through and over our streets and homes in Medford, and always seem to come to the same decision, the Hawthorne park and Bear creek route, the madder I get. So I thought I'd tell you just how I, like many others feel about it, as I am in terested in property on Cottage St., which means a lot to us, like many other owners in the area, and in our old age, after we have worked hard to own and pay for our homes. And now to think that any day somebody might come along and tell us we ve got to move out, that they've got to have our home or place. Why and what for? I would say. I paid for it. Well, they'd say, we've got to put a road through here. Now doesn't this sound silly to you? You, just like all of us, would say, why can't you put it some place else, where it won't destroy our valuable property? And they'd tell you, if we put it on the west or east side, and so by-pass the town (like it should be they do every other place) we'd be destroying very valuable Premier 'Deal' John Foster Dulles. He has said that the Red Chinese might re lease the American civilians they hold without imposing any con ditions. n But Chou now has returned to the demand that, as a price for the Americans, the United States ' must send back to Red China 33 Chinese who, he alleges, are "il legally" held. Actually, it is a fact that none of these Chinese wants to to Communist China. There are 23 of them, not 33. All are.erving prison terms for common crimes. AU were offered repatriation to China. Twenty-one said they would rather stay in jail. Two said they would like to go to Formosa, seat of the Chinese Na tionalist government. They are to be sent there. Chou now has injected a new condition into the American pris oner situation. Dulles said in Washington Tuesday that the Red Chinese had offered to free the Americans if Dulles would permit American newsmen to visit Communist China. Dulles said he had refused to make such a deal. Chou's putburst in Ceylon may have been due to a feeling that his big tour of East Asia has not amounted to much. He star ed 'out on it in November and resumed it after a visit to Rus sia, Poland and Hungary to help the Soviet government to estab lish a new line of policy toward the Communist satellite coun tries. Chou seems to, have accom plished litUe except to make propaganda speeches. property, the fruit trees. Ha, that's a laugh. To think that you would be protecting the trees before the people and their homes'. Am I right or wrong? Just put yourselves In the other fellow's shoes and see if you wouldn't think twice about it? Would you like to have the freeway route go right through your home, or so close that it would destroy the value of your property. Or would you rather it by-pass the town like it should? So why not by-pass Medford like they do other cities and towns, and not destroy the resi dential property? As it stands now, we are very unhappy about the choice. So think it over and put your freeway route whe it belongs like they do other places, and everybody will be much happier I am sure. You will too. in time to come. Mrs. Julia Vakoc 519 South Riversid ave. Medford, Ore. Ounce of Prevention To the Editor: I am a pro fessional driver and so spend much time on our highways. I have thought so many times that an ounce of prevention could save a school child's life. In spite of the law requiring motorists to stop when a school bus is loading or unloading, I hnveaseen a number of instances when someone failed to stop. I have also observed that seldom do the children stop and look before crossing the lane of traf fic that is supposed to be stopped for them. Lives could be saved in the future, If in addition to th law making motorists stop, the chil dren were taught to stop and look both ways before crossing the highways. A broken law won't save a life; let's be doubly sure. It could be that the Weed schoolboy would be alive and in school today had he been prop erly impressed with the impor tance of looking both ways be fore crossing. , I am in favor of our schools using five minutes a day for a program to properly teach our children the, importance of this safety measure. I have three young children and it could be one of them who will be spared by "an ounce of prevention" in regard to this matter. Rolf Holmstrom 1005 North Central ave. Medford, Ore. v
