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Newspaper Page Texto O G o G O o TOTJI MEDFOUD (OREGOK1 O MBDFORDTlIBUlfB Tveryon la Southern Orecoo - Reads The Mall Tribune" RKlshed Dallv Excent Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 17-28 North Fir St Phone 2-flHl ROBERT W RUHL. Editor JTTRB GREY Advertising Manager O GERALD LATHAM Business Maoaeer ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Spom Editor . OUVt ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Zfetered aa second class matter at iiediord Oregon under Act at O March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail Id Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8-00 Dally and Sunday Three mns 4-25 Seayiay Only One year H20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rcxrue River. Talent and on motor routes- Daily and Sunday One year SIS 00 Dally and Ssunday one month 1U Carrier and Dealers 10c Der copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper or the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advc-tltinK Representative: VJBST-HOLJ DA V COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de rolto San Francisco Los Angeles Rattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C. ft M l 0 M t I EDITOR lA i ASSOCIATION 3? -J I mm NEWS PA Pit PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION flight o' Time Ms4iord and rfacfcson County Histor from th files of The IM1 fribun 10. 20. 30. 40 nf fO yers ago. la ? f Aft AGO favb. 00. It47 (Thursday) Re. Harris Ellsworth In-Otrodfll-es bill in congress permitt ing L6C to set up and enforce safety standards for railroad (tracks and bridges. From (Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Robins have started showing up on lawns, and in orchards, all act ing as if they owned spring. 20 YE&RS AGO C -rirx Feb. 20. 1937 (Saturday) Coyle Briggs installed i Eruption of Crater Plub. Big Annual district meeting of the Boy Scouts of American held in the Lithia hotel, Ashland. 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 20. 1927 (Sunday) T. j. Bradley promoted to superintendent of Copco pro perties, according to P. O. Craw ford, general manager. H. Van Hovenburg and Myron cJloot, Medford, leave for Salt Lake City to attend spray residue meeting. 40 E&RS AGO b. 20. la) 17 (Tuasdav) F. W. Cyrnahan, manager of - ine due Leage mine, announces dherease in haulage rates from $7.50 to $10 per ton. Prof. J. H. Janson, of Medford Commercial college, retains QProf. W. E. Shank, who recently announced the opening of the Cracilic Business college. What's Your I.Q.? Nine ten correct Is laperlor; sev en or Uht Is excellent: five or six Is food 1. Was the first regular line of packet ships between New York and Liverpool established in 1717, 1817 or 1847? 2. Was Henry VIII nicknamed "BluffOHall" or "Burly King Harry"? 3. BIBLE: Who assumed the name "Apostle of the Gentiles"? O 4. The crown Colony of Hong (Kong belongs to which nation? 5. Which is lighter than air: an airplane or airship? 6. Were any rigid dirigible airships used during World War II? 7. The great English poet John Milton was blind; true or false P 8. Was Ceorge Washington an only child? 9. Should thaj term "witness" be used in a general sense for "see"? 10. "The greater hurry the worse the speed." Ed Ward Give a 3-word modern version of this proverb. Answers: 1. 1817. 2. Yes. Eith er. 3. Si. Paul. 4. Great Britain. 5. Airship. 6. No. 7. True. 8. No. 9. No. 10. "Haste makes waste." Space Travel for Man Said in 10-15 Years Los Angeles (U.PJ Man may be traveling in outer space within 10 to 15 years, according to Joseph Kaplan, chairman of the American section for the In ternational Geophysical Year. "Space travel for man is well within sight," Kaplan said Tues day at the closing session of the 11th annual American Pharma ceutical Manufacturer's associa tion convention. "In the opinion of satellite ex pertsOwe know enough now that we can. forecast space travel for man in the reasonable future," he said. MAIL TRIBUNE New Worlds in the Sky? Christopher Columbus had to work hard for many years before he could get anyone to agree with him that the world was round, and a "New World" was "just around the corner." We fear it will be many years before there will be any considerable number of people to believe there is a second "New World" in outer space. But there are many citizens of much higher stand ing, than Mr. Columbus enjoyed in Italy and Spain 450 years ago, who are confident that in another 20 or 25 years, there will be deluxe trips by rocket to the moon. TN fact a symposium of such gentlemen of terrestial faith is being held in San Diego this week sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. That they are not a group of visionaries and doc trinaire "egg-heads" is well demonstrated by the fact that such practical and profitable organizations as Bell Telephone, General Electric and the Ford Motor company, are interested in this meeting, and are con ducting research along similar lines. It seems that last September an army missile reached an altitude of from 400 to 600 miles up while a Captain Roth of the U.S.A.F. has disclosed that quote : "Mice and monkeys have been sent as high as 100 miles in rockets from Sands Point, New Mexico. They have returned from their round trip and are now under observation at the National zoo in Washington where they are being carefully watched for any genetic or structural changes." IXELL we gladly salute the mice and the monkeys ! " So long as the S.P.C.A. does not protest we are willing to grant them exclusive rights to such trans portation at an average speed of 18,000 miles per hour! THEY can have it! This particular devotee of the terra firma has no desire to have a lower berth in a celestial rocket, and no wish to have any relatives (more closely related than mice and monkeys) to participate either. DUT to return to Christopher Columbus over one " hundred years elapsed between the time he dis covered America to the time there were any perma nent settlements made in the western hemisphere. SO it may be established 100 years hence, that those who today are sceptical of the discovery of a second "new world" on the moon or thereabouts should be classi fied in their vision and prophetic powers, with those wise men in 1492, who not only KNEW the world was flat, but if one sailed too far toward the setting sun, he would not go up in smoke, but would fall off the edge into nether space. So there may be a second New World in outer space for adventurous types of the genes homo after all., Who knows? We don't IR.W.R. Money in Wars and Politics Senator Neuberger is properly aroused over the high cost of campaigning in this age of radio and "TV," and wants to do something about it. Well we hope he does. It is one of those efforts, however, which meets with general approval, just as ef foils toward reducing the high cost of national defense meets with general approval, but under conditions which exist, like Mark Twain's weather, little promises to be done about it. And we fear that will be the case for some time to come. WHY? T" Well, basically, because in all remedies thus far proposed the fundamental cause of the trouble is not removed. That trouble is FEAR. . As Franklin Roosevelt warned at the start of his first administration "All we need to fear is fear it self." But so long as that fear exists, the instinct of self preservation starts to exercise its overwhelming func tion, and away we go hell-bent for the "poor-house." or worse, mutual destruction. "TO COME down to cases, if, we Americans did not fear and distrust Russia, and by the same token if Russia did not fear and distrust the United States, there would be no need of this crazy rat race. For then some mutual agreement looking toward reduc tion of armaments could be arrived at by common consent. But what practical good would any agreements toward such an end serve when there is on both sides, fear, distrust and suspicion. DUSSIA might sign and reaffirm all the 10 com mandments but Uncle Sam would put no trust in such action, and neither would Moscow regarding the United States. So what's the use? fN A LOWER and less momentous plane it is much the same in practical politics. Only here it is not so much fear and distrust as the well known "will to power" and the passion to win. No matter what restrictive laws might be passed, where the passion for victory at all costs prevails, and money exists also the belief that it is money that largely determines results laws or no laws, we fear that money to the maximum available will, somehow, someway, be spent. As indicated by Senator Neuberger the Republi can party as the party of Big Business, has all the better of it in this sort of monetary contest. But he should not overlook the fact, that as the recent elec tion here in Oregon demonstrated, when the voters become really aroused, the results are thank the Lord not determined by the amount of money spent. R.W.R. Wednesday. February 20, 1957 Northwest Over Investigation, Smith Says By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The forthcom ing Senate investigation of the Teamsters is making a number of Pacific North west members of Congress wish they were like delegates to the United Nations who, when a tick lish diplomat ic issue comes a. Root, smiui up for a vote, can abstain, taking sides neither one way or the other. The basic reason for the un easy feeling that prevails in the political camps of some Demo crats and Republicans from the Northwest is that they have had Teamster financial support in re cent election campaigns. The Senate, of course, isn't exploring this common condi tion, because this in itself is no different from the financial support congressional candidates have received from other groups and interests, from business ty coons, farm organizations and other labor unions. Big Trouble But no member of Congress wants to appear to be the "tool" of the union whose chief offic ials are running into big trouble with Congress itself over the way they've used their financial resources and, more important, whether some of their funds have come from unsavory alli ances with racketeers. Nor does a senator or congress man, on the other hand, want to prematurely join those who may be denouncing the Team sters now that it is popular to do so. By next election time the public may have forgotten all about the whole affair, but the Teamsters won't have forgotten Indonesia to Undergo Charge in Its Governmental System Soon By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Indonesia, after years of polit ical turmoil is about to undergo a fundamental change in its gov ernmental sys tem. Pr e sident Sukarno he has no first name plans to announce on Thursday the setting up of a "high council" which will Charles McCano rule the coun try and relegate the cabinet to a secondary position. Sukarno calls his plan a "new conception" and says he is aim ing at establishing a "guided democracy." But it is already being predic ted that the plan will not bring stability to the country, the fifth largest int he world in popula tion. The new system may soon turn into a dictatorship, with Su karno as head man. In any event. Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo, attack by other political leaders, threatened by the dissatisfied army, is likely to go. Beqame Republic in 1949 Indonesia became an indepen dent republic in 1949 after a re bellion against the Netherlands. It was set up as "The Re public of the United States of Indonesia and that is where the trouble lies. Indonesia consists of about 3, 000 islands, sprawled over a 2,- In the Day's News By FRANK Grim note in the news: Val Peterson, U.S. civil de fense chief tells a house govern ment operations subcomittee in Washington that a mass atomic attack would wipe out 40 to 50 per cent of America's population that is to say, some 85 million persons. WHEN might that happen? Answering that question, he said that when intercontinen tal nuclear rockets are perfect ed an enemy could plaster the United States with hundreds of atomic and hydrogen warheads. Forewarning of. such an at tack, he admitted, woul be "just about zero." HIS statement brought a preg nant question from members of the subcommittee: What about shelters? (It has been proposed recently that we spend a fabulous number of bil lions to build enough shelters to accommodate our whole popula tion.) What the questioners wanted to know was what good it would do us to have shelters if vast numbers of intercontinental rockets carrying atomic and hydrogen warheads should come showering down on us with no warning. In that event, it was suggested, we wouldn't have time to get to the shelters. The civil defense chief said he thought work on the shelters should be started Congressmen Uneasy when it comes to passing out money to underwrite political campaigns. Few politicians like to summarily chop off possible campaign support, especially when they fear a close campaign ahead in which that group, in this case the Teamsters, might swing the outcome by their choice of candidates. Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D Wash.), found himself right in the thick of the Teamster probe by virtue of being on the Senate Investigating s u b c o m m ittee, which started hearings on labor racketeering in January. It be came a delicate matter for Jack son when the subcommittee call ed in some of his Seattle consti tuents who are top Teamster leaders around the throne of Dave Beck. When Beck handed down ord ers for his chieftains not to co operate with the subcommittee, Jackson went along with com mittee members in voting to cite several of them for contempt of Congress; but he explained that if they should later change their mind and testify freely, this would purge them oft heir con tempt. Special Committee Meanwhile, the Senate decid ed to put the labor racketeering probe in the custody of a new special committee whose mem bers were chosen from the com mittees on labor and on gov ernment operations. Jackson and Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), were both naturals to become mem bers of the new committee, but both begged off. Morse explained that since some witnesses will doutless come from Oregon, he should be disqualified from sit ting in judgment lest anyone suspect him of partiality. Rep. Tom Pelly (R-Wash.), in whose district Beck lives, and Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.), of Portland both have had Team ster backing in their successful 500-mile width of the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Java, Sumatra, Borneo and Celebes are the main islands. The center of government is in Java, with Jakarta as the capital. People of Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes and the countless small er islands say that the country is run, and its rich revenues used, for the benefit of Java. Ever since the republic was established, the government has been beset by chronic revolts in various islands. SmaU areas of Java itself have been in revolt for years under leaders of the fanatic Darul Islam movement. Joined by Army Heads The situation was brought to a head last December, when army commandants revolted in two parts of Sumatra, whose rich oil and rubber resources contribute 71 per cent of Indo nesia's foreign currency reven ues. President Sukarno announced his plan for a "high council" on January 17. He said the estab lishment of the council was nec essary "to save Indonesian de mocracy." As outlined, the council will consist of leaders of political parties and representatives of la bor, peasants, youth and other organizations and the army. Among the parties to be rep resented are the Communists, who polled more than 20 per cent of the votes in the first na tional election in 1955. One source of complaint against Pre mier Sastroamidjojo is that he JENKINS anyway. He added that dispersal of industry is just as important as shelter construction. New plants and additions to plants al ready built, he said, should be constructed under mountains. IITHAT to do about it? ' It's hard to say. I grew up in cyclone country. In the cy clone country in that period "cy clone cellars were rather com mon. I remember one fabulous one. It was built of concrete and had two rooms. These rooms were furnished for emergency occupation at a moment's notice. They had beds. They had a pan try that was kept constantly stored with food. It was reached by a tunnel that communicated with the owner's house. Everybody in the town agreed that it was a good idea, but it was argued that if EVERYBODY turned in and built costly shelt ers like that there wouldn't be money enough left in the com munity to carry on the regular business of living. So no more such shelters were built. ANYWAY, it suggests a thought If we turned in to build atomic shelters for everybody RIGHT AWAY, we might get so deeply involved in building shelters that we wouldn't have energy and resources enough left to kefv on building atomic arma ment for ourselves. Our REAL protection against atomic attack lies in convincing campaigns. They'd prefer to re main quiet about the whole mat ter, pointing out that it's being handled by the "other body," as members of one house say when referring to the other chamber. Sen. Warren G. Magnuson thinks the investigation will probably do some good in weed ing out bad elements here and there, but he is skeptical of the wisdom of the U.S. Senate ques tioning any private organization about its private financial af fairs, much less those of an in dividual. He argues that Dave Beck has as much right to live in a $160,000 house paid for from Teamster funds as a cor poration executive has of living high on the hog. Issued Statements Sen. Richard Neuberger, like Morse, has issued statements backing the teamster investiga tion. Teamsters haven't liked him since he opposed truckers' pet bills in the state legislature, stated the former state senator. While there is generally no en thusiasm among most Northwest members of Congress for the Teamster investigation, more significantly, none has made any apparent effort to block it. Jackson, who is up for re-election next year, points out that he could have squelched it long ago if he had used his influence within the Investigating sub committee when it first decided to dispatch investigators to Seat tle and Portland last Fall. By the time preliminary hear ings got underway in January, it would have been difficult for anyone to stop it, so erroneous were some of the immediate dis closures involving tieups be tween hoodlums and a handful of labor officials. With the co operation of top labor leaders, who want to clean house, the Senate is off and running with the juiciest one since the Army- McCarthy and the Kefauver crime hearings. has played too Intimately with the Communists. He has needed them to maintain his unwieldy coalition government. But it looks as if the new high council will be just as unwieldy, and that a dictatorship under Sukarno may result. Communications Needed More First Aid To the Editor: I arrived at the one car accident at Rock Point last Friday evening to see the curious occupants of at least ten carelessly parked cars standing in groups, doing nothing more than try to reconstruct the ac cident. Could not one of them have been gifted with a bit of 1st aid? True, some thoughtful soul provided the injured lady with an unrecognizable piece of cloth with which she could try to stanch the flow of her blood until the ambulance arrived. Ever hear of a pressure point? Just a smaU area, at various parts of the body where bleed ing can be very easily stopped with a minimum of pressure. At times this procedure has saved a life, and I know in this ac cident could have saved "Loss of Blood." What has happened to the ability of the average adult in case of emergency? Are we to be found lacking in knowledge of 1st aid in case of disaster? No matter how little a person learns, it may save a life if used properly and in time. P. S. Shogren 1705 So. Columbus ave. Medford, Ore. Wants Tax Equality To the Editor: The Tax Deal is a hot potato. The timber in terest, the mining interest, the farmers, the fruit growers, the home owners, the businessmen, the manufacturers, want to pass their share of tax on to personal income tax, cigarette tax, liquor licenses, etc. If there had been a tax placed on all lumber shipped out of Oregon from 1942 to 1956 it would have helped to even tax on oil and other products we ship in. There is a tax placed on oil before it leaves the other states. What I'd like to know is how a businessman can make $15,000 clear and pay less tax than a man working for wages earning $7,000 a year. It is about time the state sen ators and representatives wake up and tax all equal. They just as well make all taxpayers start to think too. Ray Linn 60 Fifth street Ashland, Ore. the Russians that if they attack us enough of us will survive TO ATTACK IN RETALIATION AND DESTROY THEM. Spend ing our time and subtance build ing shelters smacks of Maginot line thinking, and history tells it rather clearly that when a na tion falls back on Maginot line thinking that is, crawling in a hole and daring the enemy to come and blast you out it's a goner. Beck Investigation Will Be Centered on Financial Affairs By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington U.R The Team sters' Dave Beck is the biggest fish hooked by Senate investi gators in a great many years, per haps since Gen. Douglas MacArthur an swered up to questio n s about the Ko rean war. The investi- Lyia c. Wilson g a t i o n in which Beck will star is in an area likely to reward painstak ing spade work. The area to be covered embraces the financial affairs of organized labor with special emphasis on racketeer ing and embezzlement of union funds. Big headlines and big news are the least to be expected from the Senate inquiry. Or a careful and orderly investiga tion might show that there was nothing rotten in the adminis tration of union treasuries. That also would be a maximum ex pectable, although improbable, result of the inquiry now about to begin. Convincing Case Necessary The point is this: The circum stances under which the in quiry begins are such that a real opportunity finally is offered to determine to the public satis faction either that union funds are honestly administered or that the administration is dis honest and in need of legisla tive correction. By legislative correction is ! meant amendment of the Taft Hartley Law to impose on the administrators of union funds such regulations as the Senate investigation may tend to show are necessary. A solid and con vincing case for such amend ment of the Taft-Hartley Law must be made before Congress will act. The desirability of amending Taft-Hartley has been conceded by now all around, including a concession embracing a score of amendments favored by the late Sen. Robert A. Taft. Taft-Hartley, however, has become so bogged in partisan politics and charges of slave-labor objec tives that amending efforts have been stymied so far before they began. Deplores Personalties To the Editor: It was not my intention, in writing previously to this column, to get into an argument on a purely personal basis, but to help bring to the public's attention that the con tinued destruction of productive orchards will mean quite a serious loss of income to many people, which have a more far reaching economic effect in this valley than the loss of a few homes which are readily re placeable. It is true that we have an in terest (not ownership) in an orchard, however, none of the proposed routes would come near it, so my interest is not mercenary, as implied. There is a map at the court house, available for any inter ested party to see. It shows the proposed highway to be on the south side of Bear Creek with Table Rock Rd. as an overpass. A considerable area is blocked out for the highway as well as for the approaches to this over pass. The stake mentioned is ap proximately 150 ft. south of the creek on Table Rock Rd. and our property is 315 ft. (actual measurement) south of said stake. One survey planted stakes in our driveway and bisected our property. Several surveys were made last year, so who can say which stakes are which! To keep the record straight, I'm for annexation or any other form of progress which is best for the majority of the people, meanwhile, sympathizing with all who are unhappy with change. Let's keep our opinions in the open. Everyone, i ta sure, win be interested In what others have to say in print. Mrs. W. O. Beard Table Rock Rd. Medford, Ore. neasasssssenon Iss-A The Belter Service For over 22 years, we have served this commu nity 24 hours out of every day. Our door has never been locked during this time (WE NEVER CLOSE!). C. M. Litwiller This service has meant much to our many patrons. Our charges are consistently much lower than those charged elsewhere . . . and we are 100 locally owned. LITWILLER Funeral ; Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close To lift the Taft-Hartley con troversy over the partisan hump into the field of the general welfare will require the most dedicated self control by Senate investigators. If the line of in quiry tends to whitewash evil practices or, on the contrary, to bully or bedevil labor witnesses, one large body of public and congressional opinion or the other will be offended and the opportunity for an orderly and convincing presentation of the facts will blow out the window along with all chance of reme dial legislation, if such proves to be needed. All is the responsibility of the committee. Its beginnings are not reassuring. The Senate in vestigators comprise a special committee born of a contest be tween two standing committees for the authority to conduct an inquiry assured of the blessing of maximum publicity and pub lic attention. It might even win television rank. Gen. Lew Wallace, appointed territorial Governor of New Mexico in 1878, wrote much of his celebrated novel "Ben Hur" while serving in office. TONIGHT! HEAR Hyman Appelman Tonight "God's Supreme Offer to Medford" Thursday "The Unpardonable . Sin" America's Most Prevalent Sin Friday "The Question to Answer All Questions" o Featuring: JOHNNY BISAGNO And his Golden Trumpet Crusade Choir Special Musical package First Baptist Church North Central at 5th 7:30 P.M. Mrs. Litwiller "It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us."