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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
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For over 22 years, we
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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
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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!
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