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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
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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
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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
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Across from the Courthouse
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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.
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