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Newspaper Page Texto O o rot rrri (Oregon) mail tribune MEDrRKTWBUNE "Everyone In Soutnern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Dally Except Saturday or MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North fir St. Phone 2-S141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS Ci.v Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Dally and Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sunday Only Ona year M 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rotrue River Talent and on motor routes- Dally and SuOtiay Ona year S18 00 jjauy ana auncay one month lU Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper jf the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson 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. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NATION A to E 0 I T 0 lA ) I I A$TbcfATl"N hrmiirwn.iisi O? NEWSPAPER FUBllSHEtS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 1 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 14, 1947 (Friday) Valentines received by a spin ster school teacher almost a hun dred years ago are on display at Swem's Gift shop. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The. H. Flewher edifice on 6th street, is again surging upward. Rome was not built in a day either. 20 YEARS AGO Fab. 14. 1937 (Sunday) Local Elks to present comic opera, "The Beggar Prince" at CMedford High school tonight. Remodeling of Ethelwyn B. Hoffman shop, lixth and Holly sts. is completed. 30 YEAB6, AGO 0 Fab. 14. 1927 (Monday) C. Y. Tengwald rrfckes report on recent district conference of Kiwanis ftutrs at meeting today. Observer D. M. Little, of the aerological weather station, says strongest wind ever recorded at station is recorded today when winds reach 100.8 miles per hour. 40 YEArVfe AGO Fab. 14. 1917 ("Wednesday) Receipts of Crater Forest re serve for 1916 were greater than any other national forest, ac cording to Supervisor M. L. Erickson. Chris Gottleib and W. F. Isaacs return from Salem after lobbying in behalf of Rogue River fish bill, closing Rogue to seins and setnets. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is superior; sev en or eight Is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. Edison invented a tele phone; true or false? 2. In Roman mythology did the Bronze Age follow the Gold Age or the Silver Age? 3. Bible: Which New Testa ment Book begins: "Paul and Silvanus, and Timotheus?" 4. Do grizzly bears climb trees? 5. Is the railway car in which the World War I Armistice was signed in France? 6. Who preceded Theodore Ro osevelt as President? 7. What masculine nickname is also the name of an apparatus for raising heavy bodies? 8. The author of "Les Miser ables" was Dumas; true or Case? 9. "Personal" is an adjective. Is "personnel" an adjective? 10. Wrote Du Bortis, 1605: "Living from hand to mouth, soon s d." Answers: 1. True (1877). 2. Sil Ter Age. 3. Thessalonians II, 4. No. 5. No. It was destroyed. 6. William McKinley. 7. Jack 8. False. Victor Hugo. ' 9. No, Noun. 10. Satisfied. OBLIGING JUDGE Robinson, 111. iU.R) A sister speaking out of turn got her brother a $1,000 fine beside an eight-month sentence on the state penal farm. The brother xL-as rhareed with driving a car after his license had been re voked. The offense carried a jail sentence, a $1,000 fine or both. After the judge imposed the jail sentence, the sister spoke up from the rear of the courtroom with "go ahead and give him the $1,0, fine." The judaje obliged. A DIFFERENT ONE Portland. Me. iU.R) Casey Jones works for the Maine Cen tral Railroad. A. Tough Assignment . Naturally the new Chairman of the National Re publican committee, Mr. Alcom, is confident of con gressional victory in 1958. He would not hold his job long if he were not. But after hearing him over "T.V.," and looking a bit into his background we are quite sure, he holds many reservations. We refer particularly to the US senate race. LJERE, for example, are 8 Republican senators who ''will be up for re-election next year to-wit: Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin. Wm. E. Jenner of Indiana. Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Roman L. Hruska of Nebraska. John W. Bricker of Ohio. Frank A. Barrett of Wyoming. George W. Malone of Nevada. Wm. Langer of North Dakota. With one or two exceptions, here is an octet, as strongly opposed to President Eisenhower's "New Republicanism" and to every principle of progressive and enlightened political doctrine as any student of American statesmanship could find. 1MESSERS McCarthy, Jenner and Malone, particu iV1 larly not only DON'T LIKE Ike, they have spoken out against him, and all eight voted to cut off ALL funds for the President's foreign aid progams. They are indeed as a group far more bitterly and and uncompromisingly opposed to the President and his policies than are Democratic senators like Senators Russell, Sparkman, Anderson, Green, Neuberger, Kennedy and many others. RUT business is business. And to a national party chairman business is PARTY loyalty. So Chairman Alcorn will have to go all out for this bunch of political impossibles, even if he has to hold his nose and cross his fingers while he does it. "II7E DON'T envy him the job. " For if our impressions of the man have been at all correct he is rather a superior type of politician, also a sincere worshipper of both the President and his "New Republicanism." This trio of McCarthy, Jenner and Malone, therefore, must be a particularly bitter pill to swallow. But he will swallow them, of course, with or without a Connecticut Yankee "chaser." And so will the President for that matter. "Ike" shook hands with Jenner in 1952, and endorsed Mc Carthy in Milwaukee, even if the latter action did mean desertion and repudiation of his former boss and devoted leader, General George Marshall. BUT that, of course, is politics. It's all in the game. At least the brand of politics that in an election year considers it compulsory to place victory above everything else, including principle. On the basis of principle on the basis of the ad ministration's "New Republicanism" and what it REALLY stands for, all these eight senators should be beaten, and returned to private life without benefit of gravy. But we would not advise any members of the False Friends club betting their shirts, on any such beneficient and inspiring outcome really happening. Our guess is, however, a majority of them will fall by the wayside to the lasting benefit of their country, if not themselves. R.W.R. Foolish Waste of Time With so many important things to do and so little time in which to do them, we should think the State Legislature would discontinue the practice of Memo rializing the U.S. Congress, except where some issue of supreme state and national importance is con cerned. The topic of House Joint Memorial No. 5 cannot be so classified. This measure endorses an amendment to the constitution which would deprive the Congress of its right to levy-income taxes above a certain amount usually placed at $25,000. The only exception could be in time of war, and then a raising of the ban would be limited to a period not exceeding one year. WE OFTEN hear in the reactionary press about the dangers of "crack-pot" legislation and the horrors of "soaking the rich," but here is an example of crack-pot legislation that could only "soak the poor" and subsidize the rich. We realize there is a national drive to bring some thing like this about via constitutional amendment, but in our judgment, it has no more chance of being seriously considered by the congress of the United States, or the people of the country, than the revival of the Volstead Act or the re-enactment of a provision to legalize human slavery. It is simply unmitigated nonsense. It is a sort of dream fulfillment stuff going back in imagination to the "good old days." We are living in the 20th centuiy not the 10th. We are living in a highly competitive and turbulent and expensive world, not in dise. True, income taxes, state and national, are high and no one who has to pay them, LIKES them. DUT it isn't a question of what one likes to do but what someone HAS to do, if the USA is to remain secure and solvent. If the boys and girls in the Upper Brackets do less than their share, then the girls and boys in the Lower brackets must do MORE. AndAvhat would be the net result of that prpcess? Well a country as rich as this would probably Thursday, February 14, 1957 a tax-free, war-free para Today and By Walter PAINFUL DILEMMA Both the President and Secre tary Dulles were asked at their press conference last week whether this gover n m e n t would take sanctions if Is rael did not withdraw un- c o n ditionally behind the armistice lines. The President re plied that if Walter Lippmann the U.N. voted for sanctions, we are committed to the sup port of the U.N." This reply does not really answer the prac tical question, which is whether the United States will use its own vote and its very consider able influence to enable the Arabs, the Afro-Asians and the Soviet blocs to vote sanctions. For as the voting blocs are now aligned in the General As sembly, the United States will have the power to decide wheth er or not sanctions are to be voted. If the United States de cides for sanctions, we shall carry enough votes with us to provide the necessary two-thirds majority to vote sanctions. If we decide against sanctions, there will not be enough votes to pass a resolution. It is, there fore, misleading to talk about our being "committed to the support of the United Nations." For how we cast our vote and we exercise our influence in the General Assembly will de termine what action by the U.N. we are committed to sup port. The U.N. is not a tribunal which hands down decisions that we must then loyally support We are ourselves a part of that tribunal, and in what it decides we have a deciding part. We do not have the power to decide affirmatively when the interests of the Arab, Afro-Asian and Sov iet blocs are at issue. We do have the power of veto, and by combining with the Arab Afro-Asian and Soviet blocs we have the power to cause the General Assembly to act af firmatively. We can prevent ac tion or we 'can support their action. That is where we are in the General Assembly. THE painful dilemma in which wa nnw finrl nurspIvAB ari;ps from this situation in the Gen eral Assembly. The basic fact is that Israel can be coerced if we will vote to coerce her, whereas Egypt cannot, as the Assembly is now constituted, be coerced at aU. Israel can be coerced if we do not exercise our veto and instead vote for sanctions. But Egypt cannot be coerced because the Arab, Afro Asian and Soviet blocs also have a veto, and what is more will certainly use their veto. We are in a delemma because there have been two closely re lated wrongs, two closely re flected breaches of the. law of the United Nations, and yet with in the United Nations it is pos sible to right only one, not both, of these breaches of the law. Israel is a law-breaker because she has invaded the Sinai Pen insula and the Gaza Strip. But In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The American communist party has been holding its con vention in New York. Dispatches tell us the party faces a dilemma. The dilemma's horns are: 1. Whether to go on taking Moscow's interpretations of the communist dectrine, or 2. To make its own interpre tations. National Chairman William Z. Foster favors strict adher ence to the Kremlin line, but John Gates, editor of the Com munist Daily Worker (the Amer ican communist party's news paper) advocates what he calls "national" communism. THIS is the BIG issue: Shall communism go on as a monolithic structure, domin ated by the Kremlin, or shall it break up into KINDS of com munists? Let's put it this way: All commies are bad, but from our standpoint the so-called "na tionalist" commies . (meaning dif ferent kinds of communists, each of which wants to run its own shabang) are the least odious. There's always the chance that different "kinds" of communists will get to fighting with each I CP escape bankruptcy, but there would be a period of strain and stress that would not only "curl your hair," but send the party responsible for such a financial monstrosity to the showers for a generation, if not for all time. OOWEVER, as indicated, there is .no more chance . of such an amendment to the constitution being passed, than there is of General Nasser being named "Cantor' of the Jerusalem synagogue. Moreover as far as such joint Memorials to the U.S. congress in general are concerned, they add up to an empty gesture at best, and an unmitigated nui sance at the worst, The members of the House at Salem should be able to find a better use for their spare time. R.W.R, Tomorrow Lippmann Egypt is no less a law-breaker because the armistice, she has waged war against Israel by blocking the Suez Canal and the gulf of Aqaba and by organizing guerrilla warfare across the Is raeli frontier. The problem which confronts the United Nations and the Unit ed States is how to get Israel to withdraw, thereby ending her war against Egypt, without put ting Egypt in a position to re sume her war against Israel. The problem is now to prevent both sides, not merely one side, from waging war. rpHE controlling fact in the situation is, as I pointed out above, that the General Assemb ly will, as it is now aligned, exert pressure on Israel but not on Egypt. Nasser is, therefore, in a position to refuse to give any public assurances that he will cease to violate the armistice if the Israeli army withdraws. As a result, those who have been trying to solve the problem have been trying by private di plomacy to work out some kind of arrangement under which Nasser, while giving no public promises, would let it be under stood privately that he would not in fact resume his war. At this writing, it does not look as if this sort of thing is going to be worked out what with Nasser, protected by the U.N. and in a position to stand pat, what with Israel, which is a democracy, unable to stake her security on private assur ances of what the President, Mr. Dulles and Mr. Hammar skjold hope and believe they can in the future induce Nasser not to do. Is there anything else that can be done? As things stand now, if Israel withdraws she will have no assurance from Nasser that he will not wage war. Israel can get no assurances from the U.N. The U.N. will not be permitted to act. All that is left is some kind of assurance by the United States that it will do something about it all in the future. a THE easiest thing to do in the present-day United Nations is to prevent it from acting. The obvious thing for us to do is to put off a show-down of votes in the1 General Assembly and thus to buy time for more secret diplomacy. Nothing but harm could come of putting to a vote the question of whether sanctions should be taken against Israel in order to compel her to withdraw uncon ditionally. If we fail to vote such a resolution, most of the hope of wooing the Arabs, which is the essence of the Eisenhower doctrine, will go up in smoke. If, on the other hand, we join the Arabs, the Afro-Asians and the Soviets to impose sanctions, the unfairness of the action will have far-reaching, and it may weU be irreparable, consequenc es. The friends of U.N. in all the blocs have a vital interest in following the advice of the Sec retary General, which is to lay aside the question of sanctions. Copyright New York Herald Tribune Inc. other instead of everybody gang ing up to fight us. OPEAKING of communists, Russia comes up with its own Middle East doctrine. The doc trine calls for a Big Four (U.S., Russia, Britain and France) declaration of hands off the Mid dle East that is, let the Mid East countries fight it out among themselves with the rest of the world staying out of it. The Russian "doctrine" pro poses that if there is to be any economic aid it will be provided by ALL the Big Four nations, instead of any one of them. ON the face of it, it sounds good. But like all Russian proposals it has a catch. The catch is this: The United States, Britain and France must close down their Middle Eastern military bases. That would mean that we'd get clear out and move back home, thousands of miles away, and leave the Russians JUST OVER THE FENCE from the Middle East, ready to jump in at a mo ment's notice. It's a typical Russian proposal. IN closing: A couple in Birmingham, England, tired of having a neigh bor park his car outside their house, decided to teach him a Ike-Saud Conference Due for Testing Soon By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspodent President Eisenhower's suc cess in trying to sell" his Middle Eastern policy to King Saud of Saudi Arabia is about to under go a test. Saud is ex pected to con fer in Cairo on Feb. 23 with President Abdel Nasser of Egypt, King H u s s e in of Charles MeCano Jordan and President Shukri el KuwaUy of Syria. President Eisenhower's new "doctrine" aimed at combatting Communist penetration of the 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 tha rinht tn Hif .11 low.,-. ,;u . view to clarification and condensation. not exceed 400 words. Seeks Freeway Vote To the Editor: If Mr. Jensen of Rogue River would drive around the valley in any direc tion from Medford he would find . that many very valuable farms and orchards are being sold for homes. So why not a few more acres for the Freeway? It will not hurt him in any way. And we do not want it to go through Medford and Haw thorne Park. I think it should be brought to the vote of the people. Mrs. Nellie Gulliford, 135 Almond st. Medford, Ore. A Valentine from Library To the Editor: Because Med ford will observe Valentine's Day on Thursday, the Medford Public Library would like to send a Valentine greeting and its deepest gratitude to the follow ing: To Mayor John Snider, City Manager Robert Duff, and the members of the City Council for their understanding support of the growing place of the library in the community. To the taxpayers of Medford and Jackson County whose fi nancial support has furnished the means for needed improve ments. To the more than 15,000 pa trons of the library who, dur ing the 1956-57 fiscal year, will borrow almost 230,000 books the highest number in the library's history. . To the Library"Board of Trust ees who have acted as liaison be tween the library and the peo ple of Jackson County. To the Mail-Tribune for its generous allocation of space to library news. To KBOY, KMED and KYJC, and KBES-TV for donation of radio and television time. To all who have offered con structive criticism to help us do a better job. To all the library's patrons and friends whose gracious com pliments and goodwill have kept our spirits high. ., Helen Webster Librarian - Medford Public Library What Price "Baby Doll?" To the Editor: So much timo effort, and money are spent on cniiaren to Dnng them up to be worthwhile citizens. And yei. lesson. So. one dark nieht. thev painted his car brown and white, with the colors sketchily daubed on. But The neiehbor turner! out to be a police constable, and vester- day the couple was hauled into court and fined the Enclish equivalent of $100. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, in Hamlet's soliloquy, supplies the moral: It is better to "bear those ills we have than to fly to others that we know not of?" "Well done is better than well said!" Franklin DAY OR NIGHT PHONE 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Arab countries is certain to be the No. 1 topic for discussion. Before he left Washington last Saturday, Saud expressed approval of the doctrine. He said he would explain its aims to his fellow Arab leaders. Egypt Is Suspicious Egypt and Syria are suspicious of the doctrine, which calls for the use of American armed forces if necessary to fight arm ed Communist aggression and also provide for a $400 million aid program to lessen the danger of Communist penetration and subversion. Both Egypt and Syria also have adopted policies which leave them wide open to Russian penetration. Jordan has been more or less Letters submitted for publication must it can be seriously damaged or torn down completely by some one's money-hunger or careless ness. I am a worker in a junior group, sixth to eighth grades: and was shocked to learn that 12 year old youngsters are al lowed to see such a film as "Baby Doll!" If such films MUST be shown (which I doubt), the least that can be done is to keep our children from them. Some have parents who are too busy or don't care, but these children still need guidance, none the less. This is everyone's duty. Not just the churches. schools, and youth groups, but theater people, newstands own ers, and anyone who expects to be around when these children are older and big enough to use the things they have learned. Impressions count, and we all must watch to see only the right ones are impressed on young minds. Maybe the local theater peo- Lple feel that it isn't their concern but in a very few years these same kids may be the ones who cause a riot in their theater, or try to hold up their box office, it a cnua can t drive a car until 16, or vote until 21, don't you think 12 is too young to be shown the story of a wanton baby doll? Isn't the price a bit too high? Miss Phyllis Ann- Floyd Rt. 1, Box 427 Medford, Ore. Stamp Legislation To the Editor: Recently we have introduced Senate Bill 29 to try, on behalf of Oregon con sumers and merchants, to modi fy some practices which have grown up, as trading stamps have spread in our state. The changes we propose have al ready been put into practice in a similar law in the State of Washington. Our bill is a mild one, "and we are disappointed and surprised at the heavy lobby which one of the stamp companies has put in to action at Salem to defeat the bill. We write this letter to tell your readers what we have in mind. . - - At the present time a high proportion of the stamps issued are not redeemed. This adds to the cost of merchandising, but only the stamp company profits. To make the stamps more attrac tive to consumers we would re quire that they may hereafter be redeemed either in cash or mer chandise. We would also permit them to be redeemed at any store which issues them, since merchants and consumers alike would benefit if they do not have to be redeemed for limited "prize" items- by mail or at a central depot at some distant city. To prevent "nuisance" re demptions of a few cents, the minimum amount of stamps which a merchant must redeem would be one dollar's worth. Stamps must also have their Success at Cairo non-committal on the doctrine. But King Hussein personally is reported to approve it. ; Of the other Arab countries. Crown Prince Abdul niah of Iraq and Foreign Minister Char les Malik of Lebanon expressed approval of the Eisenhower Doc trine. The Cairo conference has been limited to four Arab coun tries partly because Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria have agreed to make up to Jordan the S3 3 million-a-year subsidy which it has been getting from Britain under a treaty which has Just been annulled at Jordan's de mand. Saud May Succeed But Saud may be able to help materially by expressing Ap proval of the doctrine to his fel low conferees, and urging them to accept it. If they did, the other Arab nations almost cer tainly would. The importance of the aid angle of the Eisenhower plan has not been emphasized as has the military angle. But Egypt and Syria, especial ly, could use any part of $200 million. There is considerable doubt whether Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria tan pay Jor dan its promised $33 million. There seems good reason lor hope that Saud, especially by emDhasizine the American aia program, can help to make the Eisenhower Doctrine look good. value in cents or mills printed on their face, bince me usual arrangement with the merchant costs him about 3 per cent of his gross to use the stamps, it if vital to him to improve the cus tomer relationship and bring the maximum possible numbers of his patrons back into his store. We hope your readers will agree that this is good business for Oregon consumers and mer chants alike. Since offering the biU, we have received many letters from those who think stamps should be prohibited. This is not our intention, and if some practices are improved, we believe the system may continue in vogue for those who like it, Senate Bill 29 is. of course. strictly non-partisan, and its sponsors are of opposite parties. Monroe Sweetland (State Sen., Clackamas Co.) Sam Wilderman (Rep., Multnomah Co.) Salem, Ore. More About Reel Foot To the Editor: Commenting on the letter of Bert Kissinger on Old Reel Foot, killed by Pearl Bean: I met Pearl Bean in 1926 and became well 'acquainted with him; we opened up the old Bolen Placer mine as partners. He also had a mine two miles East of Bolen Lake and I made a trip with him to it in March, 1927. At this time an old friend of Bean's, Jess Barnett, was op erating a shooter on a high chan nel at the mouth of Grizzly Gulch. When Pearl asked if he was taking out any thing he pointed to the end of the sluice box and we climbed up for a look at a quart fruit jar full of nuggets as large as the end of one's thumb, with a large nugget lying oa top that would not go in the jar. We continued our trip up Grizzly to the top, walking over the tops of tall trees on the frozen snow to his cabin on the divide, just East of Bolen Lake, where he showed me pictures of old Reel Foot and several news paper articles. Pearl said that a reward of $1,400 had been offered for the bear, of which he received $400. Bean was asked to take the bear to Chicago or the Worlds Fair, however, it was sent to San Francisco where I had the pleasure of seeing the last big Gr'-'zly in the Ferrv Building. Yes, if one met Old Reel Foot in the woods he would look like two tons instead of the 1800 that Pearl said he weighed. Elwood Hussey Cave Junction, Ore.