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o O o o G 0 o O o O O o o o C3 o O O O O o o o o FOtni VEDFOBD (OREGON) MedfordTribune "Ivrryone in Soutnern Oregon Reada The Mail Tribune" Publuried Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-28 Hiorth Fir St. Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Adverttiing Manager Q GERALD LATHAM Buaineia Manager CERIC AO-EN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HAR5V CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor Q OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper m icon4 eUa matter at Mr Cwnom wider Act of inarcn 4. 1837 r ' 4fjMClIPTIOl RATES Wt thmlm Advance: Per Copy 10c 0 ru and Sunday One year $15.00 Xeily and bunday Six montha 8.00 Jjatl afid Sunday Three moa 4.25 Jjnov Cgoiy One year 4.20 mf Carrvr In Advance Medford. AcWaaVl Central Poimt. Eagle Point. Jckonville. Cold Hill. Phoenix. Srdy Cove Rojrue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Sr-jje Pot column: Upstate editors are nov fjatfootedly, long-windedly, and fervently endorsing the current prevue of spring. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 21. 1937 (Sunday) O The Jackson county chapter O of the American Red Cross for flood relief collects $3,721 dur O O g recent campaign. , O RusseIlAcheson, junior high schoo? athletic coach, and Rob ert Emmens, Medford, will at tend a training course in Army c3 flying at Randolph Field, Tex. O J3 YEARS AGO O Feb. 21. 1927 (Monday) n Kiwanis clubs to back cham- berOof commerce plan for val ley improvements. 3 o ?wo hundred copies of the j o ,Mafl Tribune are ordered by A. db. Rosenbaum, for the Southern pacific railroad, to be taken to o AshlaiW and Gold Hill for pass engers on the "marooned" trains 0jin those citiqj. O o ' W YBARS AGO Q Peb. 21. J917 (Wednesday) 0 0 Iffledford city, touncil retains E.oM. Wilson to audit city re- corders books, o Prof. F. r Paimar nf thp Sxperiment station, lectures on O soils of tha Rogue valley at the O library. u What's Your I.Q.? or ten correct Is superior; se e$ or eight U excellent: five r O I1X (OOd. 1. fSBO: The first penny news paper published in Philadelphia I .rp f-t Atti -r, -was iiaiiieu x v ; o o 2. Who is the husband of Cer- O vagfes' Thera Panza? 0 3. BIBLE: Name the conquer- (Uig son of Nun. f What race was named in o O (Jommemoration of a famous an- O cient battle on the Plain of o Greece? u n 5. Did Homer or Vergil write u the epic poem "The Aeneid"? 2 Stockholm is the capital of JJorway; true or false? w An alloy of copper and zinc is called what? O - Qt which country was Kan- taro Suzuki the last Premier? O 9. Is it proper to use "consist Q Oently" as a synonym for con O stantly? O 10. "Here's your hat, what's q your hurry?" B. C. Constello. mia UIC tlllC 3UU5 Ul a n Play Oq Jk,nsrs: 1- The Cant. 2. San- crse) Pani. 3. Joshua. 4. Mara- w au x tr :i e f 1 c 411 u 11. v Bigu, o. x aim. k7wv O den. 9P Brass. 8. Japan. 9. No. 10. Tills (and refrain; 1904). Wc&hingion Graduate O iQtmLana urnce jod O o Portland Irving W. Ander- -r . j i r r i O son. graduate of the University of Washington, has been 'named manager of the Oregon state - land office of the bureau of land manag(lient. State Supervisor Virgil T. Heath has announced. Anderson will replace Pierce M. Rice, land office manager C-Jsince January, 1956, who is be- O ing transferred to the new posi tion of adjudicator in the area lands office at Portland. O MAIL TRIBUNE Consistent In Inconsistency Charles E. Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to Russia is due in Washington today or tomorrow. He will con sult with President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles, and it is reported tender his resignation. If so his term of office will be about par for the course. U.S. Ambassadors to Moscow have never par ticularly enjoyed the job under normal conditions but under existing conditions of tension, suspicion and dislike, it is a back breaking, frustrating task. Our guess is "Charley B." returning to Washington, with perhaps a side trip to Palm Beach, will feel like a life-termer, suddenly granted a parole. "THE timing from the standpoint of .Soviet history is excellent. Just a year ago, Nikita S. Khrushchev, Communist Party boss in Soviet Russia, was talking about Joseph Stalin's "mania for greatness." At a secret session of the Party's Twentieth Congress in Moscow on Feb. 24 and 25, Khrushchev was outdoing "imperialist" complaints against the former Russian dictator. Lis ten to this description of Stalin : "He had completely lost consciousness of reality; he demonstrated his suspicion and haughtiness not only to individuals in the U.S.S.R. but in relation to whole parties and nations." Khrushchev named names and gave dates in his attack on Stalin's "brutal force."-It appeared that a rewriting of all Bolshevik history might be in the making. But less than a year later, at a New Year's Eve party in the Kremlin, Khrushchev was singing a much different tune, to-wit: "Stalin was a great fighter against imperialism. He was a great Marxist. The imperialists call us Stalinists. Well, when it comes to fighting imperialists, we are all Stalinists." THE rehabilitation of Stalin by Khrushchev, his principal defamer, has been continuing. In a toast to visiting Chinese Communists on Jan. 17 he called Stalin a "model Communist," true to Marxism-Leninism. "In the essential and the essential is class interests ' Khrushchev avowed, "God grant that every Communist should be able to fight like Stalin to defend them." rN THE surface, Khrushchev's about-face on Stalin is as difficult to understand as is his prayerful language in the Chinese embassy in Moscow. But events since Stalin's death show a consistency be neath the inconsistency. When GeorgiM. Malenkov became premier of Soviet Russia on March 6, 1953, the day after Stalin died he declared that the stand ard of living in the Soviet Union "can and must" be raised. On Feb. 8, 1955, Malenkov resigned, confessing his guilt and responsibility for "the unsatisfactory state of affairs which has arisen in agriculture." He specifically endorsed a new Communist plan for agricultural recovery "on the only correct foundation : the further development by every means of heavy industry." J7VEN before Malenkov's resignation, a shift in " Russia's post-Stalin emphasis on increased pro duction of consumer goods had been announced. On Jan. 24, 1955, Dmitri T. Shepilov, then editor of Pravada, had called the turn. Now that Shepilov has been replaced as Soviet Foreign Minister by Andrei A. Gromyko, Shepilov, known in the party as an expert on ideology and propaganda, goes back to his old job as one of the eight secretaries of the party's central committee under Khrushchev. CHEPILOV is generally considered a protege of Khrushchev; Gromyko of Vyacheslav M. Molotov. "Iron Backside," as Stalin called Molotov, was one of the former dictator's sternest lieutenants. Until Molotov's resignation as Foreign Minister last June 1; he was the leader of the old-line Communists. But the Moscow radio now is backing the foreign policy outlined by Shepilov as recently as Feb. 12. So his reassignment may reflect a need for his prop aganda talents within Russia rather than a change in the country's foreign policy. CO WHAT? Well, merely that Sir Winston Churchill was right, when he said that Soviet Russia's diplomacy was a riddle, shrouded in mystery, wrapped up in an enigma, or words to that effect. Probably Ambassador Bohlen after his service there knows more about it than Americans who have never lived in Russia, but our hunch is he would be the last to claim he clearly understands it. Neither do we. R.W.R. Unknown Comfort New York (U.PJ America's new magic carpet a 41,000 mile steel and concrete highway system that will link every state of the nation will permit mo torists to travel with speed, safety and comfort unknown to day. Steelways, official publication of American Iron and Steel In stitute, said motorists will be able to drive from coast to coast without spotting a red light. They'll save a penny per mile in lower fuel and auto operating costs. The publication said the ve hicles will roll along on multi lane, divided highways at auth orized speeds up to 70 miles an hour and could well reduce auto mobile fatalities by 3,500 a year. "In 13 years this could spell a saving in lives of more than 45, 000, as compared with today's annual toll of more than 35,000." Thursday, February 21, 1957 Due on New Roads The vast highway construction program will roll into high gear this spring. The program will cost $33 billion and be spread over a 13-year period. Steelways said an estimated 49 million tons of steel wUl be utilized in the project which will be equivalent to 60 per cent of all steel ronsumed in direct war use between 1941-45. The publication noted that the advantages of the program wiU fan out far beyond safer, swifter travel for cars, trucks and buses. It said: "The interstate freeways will speed the dispersal of key indus trial plants. In the event of war they provide a defense lifeline for moving troops and supplies and for evacuating cities. "Moreover, they will create sites for new factories, ware houses and shopping centers in our fast-expanding economy." Legislative By ERIC ALLEN JR. Mail Tribune Managing Editor Salem Robert Duncan, Jack son county's freshman represen tative and the first Democrat to represent the county in the legis lature in many years, has ac quired the nickname of "The Scotchman" among many of his colleagues. Duncan carries heavier re sponsibilities than most fresh man members of the house. He is chairman of the judiciary com mittee, which has before it some 100 bills dealing with mihy legal technicalities, changes proposed for many statutes dealing with judicial administration, and a wide variety of other bills which logically fit into no other com mittee's category. In addition, he is a member of the ways and means commit tee, perhaps the most important of the legislature, in which orig inate, or to which are referred, all bills which would call for spending public money. The ways and means committee is a joint committee, having on it members of both house and sen ate ,and its members, because of their authority over spending proposals, have much influence with other members. Receives Nickname It is in his committee work. and his protests in the house against spending proposals he thinks unnecessary or unsound, that Duncan received his nick name, of which he is unashamed, and perhaps a bit proud. His committee jobs keep him busy, but in addition he has all the other duties of a legislator, such a$ attending sessions of the house, answering mail, and so on. Here is a typical day's sched ule for Duncan: 8 a.m. Arrives at Capitol from home, checks desk. 8:15 a.m. Attends meeting of subcommittee of ways and means committee. (Sometimes two sub committees to which he belongs both have meetngs scheduled, in which case he attends the more important, or sometimes attends both briefly, in turn). . These meetings usuaUy last until 10 a.m., when the house convenes, staying in session un til about 11:30 "a.m. Checks Mail After the morning adjourn ment, Duncan checks over his mail, and dictates replies to his secretary (his wife, Marijane Duncan) until about 12:20 or 12:30 p.m. During this period he usually remains at his desk on the floor of the house, but some times goes to a committee room. Legislators have no offices of their own. On the floor of the house, there are a constant series of interruptions visitors, lobby ists, other legislators some of them social, but most of them for quick conferences on pending legislation. At about 12:30, he will "grab a quick bite to eat" at the cap itol or the nearby Elks club, and at 1 p.m. on two or three days each week will conduct a meet ing of his judiciary committee, which will last until about 3, when the ways and means sub committees meet again, until" about 5 p.m. Night Meetings For the next hour or more, he will again tackle his mail, and about 6:30 p.m. will arrive home. On three nights a wek, he has evening meetings of ways and means subcommittees, lasting from 7:30 to 10 p.m. At 10, he will check in to the judiciary committee room to or ganize the work the committee will take up the following day. Sometimes he will write letters to constituents or others through out the state asking for their views on legislation to come be fore the groups on which he serves. Before going home, he will check the "third reading calen dar," which is a list of measures scheduled for final house action the following morning, and read the bills on it. He usually gets to bed about 12:30 a.m. Handles Correspondence On days when the committee schedule is less demanding, he can devote more time to study ing bills and handling corres pondence. On some occasions, usually week ends, he wiU make trips to inspect institutions whose budgets will be coming before his subcommittee. With this schedule, he has found little time for any social life, and usually turns down the many invitations which are ex tended to most legislators. He has not introduced a great number of bills of his own, but there are several whichhe has, and others in which he has some particular interest. Among these are his measure to eliminate cap ital punishment in the state, which he thinks has a good chance of passing in one form or another; a bill to validate, for bonding purposes ,the consolida tion of the Medford, West Side and Oak Grove school districts, and another which would ex tend, under most circumstances, the protection of workmen's compensation to men who are nominally self-employed and are not covered under present legis lation. This would affect many "gyppo" loggers in Jackson county. Work Most Demanding The ways and means work probably is the most demanding. The two subcommittees to which he belongs handle the budget re quests of a wide variety of state institutions and departments, in cluding civil defense, the indus- Letter ft V ' i ROBERT bUNCAN Nicknamed The Scotchman' trial accident and unemploy ment compensation commissions, the 'state board of health, the board of control, the civil serv ice commission, the state's courts, the attorney general's office, the public welfare department, and others. They also are making studies of requests for pay in creases for virtually all state employees. These budgets are gone over line by line, each item checked against the amount in the pres ent year's budget and against the amount spent during the prior fiscal year. The subcommittee's findings are reported to the full commit tee, which can adopt, refer back or amend them. When adopted, they are reported out to the house. The total amount in all these bills represents the total of the final budget for the state, which this year will total prob ably close to $300,000,000 or more. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. . Feart Air Poison To the Editor: Dear friends and fellow citizens, may I step into your circle, and voice my opinion about the freeway? Some of you are tired of free way talks, but it needs to be discussed, it's very vital. Yes, I feel sorry, not for myself, but for everyone that will be affect ed by this unjust measure of men in power. Some few weeks ago when the Highway Commission sent their very able spokesman, Tom Edwards, to give a talk, he painted everything so fine and beautifully that some people got rocked to sleep and now think it's all right. But the peo ple of Medford have a right to demand a vote. We look to the city elders for help the same as the American people look to the president to shield them from the enemy. The for and against of this thing have all been discussed but the most important factor of it all has, by many, been for gotten, but one writer told the whole truth: Mr. F. J. Clifford of 1211 West Main street in the Sunday paper a few weeks ago (Feb. 10). I will repeat part of the article: "A heavy toll will be required of us who live here, if and when it is built at the proposed loca tion, for the lethal monoxide and hydrocarbon gases pouring from car and train-size trucks off the elevated structure and, being heavier than air, will creep across the city, exacting demands on health and life. "This is no idle speculation, for increasing numbers of cities are prohibiting all but vitally necessary gas burning vehicles from city-center streets during the windless days of late sum mer and fall." Mr. Clifford. Oh, people of Medford, do you realize what this means? It is called progress, but so also is the atomic bomb called progress, and it creates fear and destruc tion. Now then this is the great problem and the question: how are we to avoid having to breathe this poisonous air? God formed Adam out of the dust, but he had no life until God breathed into his nostrils the same breath we have today if it's pure and free from man made poisons. Pure, fresh air is the very breath of God. It is the life giving element -that gives us life, health, happiness, de prive the lungs of it and you won't feel good. The first thing a new born baby needs is air or it will die. Air is life. It's God's law, obey it! We trust in God, but we must do our part to prevent this evil. Suppose that we all would have poisoned air to breathe, the re sult would be this: Colds would increase at an alarming rate. Colds, so called, do not come from a draft, they come from bad air. Now, if we would have to breathe bad air, every known disease could gain a foothold on us. The doctor could not cure you permanently. The doctors, druggists and undertakers would MRS. J. W. WILSOlf, of Houston, Tex., mji: "I triad til upirisi but St. Joseph Aspirin For Children is the one for my children. They like it; Tm sore of dossfe." ST. JOSEPH ASPIRIN FOR CHIIMK Matter of Fact sy jeMPh THE COMPANY TOWNS Kemerovo The plump, fussy restaurant manager is .greatly upset by the party of miners demanding a table. They are too cheer fully tight for his 4aste. But they grow an gry and shout: "The reason you don't want us in your damned place is that . we're Joseph Aliop members of the working class. You only want those others in business suits." So, fearing a scene, he lets them in. It is lucky for the miners that he did not call in stead on the militiaman always stationed in the vestibule. For this large, bleakly ornate room, with its depressed and intermit tent orchestra, is literally Ke merovo's sole restaurant in the Russian usage of the word. No where else in this great and growing mining"' center of a quarter of a million people, can you sit at a table and have both a meal and a glass of Vodka. In these circumstances, the restaurant atmosphere tends to be a bit rowdy. But at the big, pompously pseudo - classical "House of Culture," which the Kemrovo Coal Trust has just built in the miners' district, the atmosphere is prim enough to please the strictest nursery gov erness. In the wide lobby, during the halfway interval of the new movie (about the loves of a boy and girl for their dear tractors andVne another) the young peo ple are dancing, mostly boys with boys and girls with girls. Boys, who have actually cap tured members of the other sex are proudly buying their girls do more business than ever be- fore, but they also would be af fected in time,. I am sorry to say. Now then, have we faith in God to guide us m wisdom? Our faith must be a living faith that hath works, for faith witfiou works is dead and wiU accom plish nothing. Let every one of you write a short letter saying that you do not approve of the park. Sign your na.me and ad dress and address your letter to: The City Council of Medford. Also get all your friends and acquaintances interested to do the same. Mrs. Lydia Ehrke, ' ' 200 Tripp st. Medford, Ore. Did You Ever Try? To the Editor: I saw an article in the morning Examiner as fol lows: Tighter Banking Bill urged. Now that should not be any harder to do than shooting a duck in your bath' tub, but did you ever try to get a banker to loosen up? Everett Acklin Ashland, Ore. Reading improvement Classes Under Way Classes in reading improve ment are being held for the first time in the Medford High school according to public school of ficials. The class, tought three times a week from 4 until 4:45 p.m., is limited to 10 volunteer students and is taught by Henry DeVoss, speech teacher for the public schools. The class is designed to in crease to maximum efficiency, the reading rate and comprehen sion, and augments regular class work done by the students. The class, formerly offered only in the junior high school and elementary school levels, lasts for 10 weeks. What, For How Much? At no other time would you spend a like amount with out knowing in advance exactly what you are getting. Why not investigate . .. now . . . what you get and what is involved in a funeral service, before the actual need arises? ; DAY OR NIGHT PHONE 2-8030 Ghapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS greyish cakes and soda pop in the buffet. Upstairs, a children's song group is letting go with "Thank you Party, thank you great Party." TN the big lecture hall, a rather small crowd is glumly watch ing a propaganda film on war. And in the House of Culture's vestibule, two irreverent miners are making a joke about the Comsomol's display of villains of the month a set of photo graphs of drunks, idlers and other uncultured persons. The director of the House of Cul ture, a demobilized political of ficer from the army, explains proudly: "Our main task is to organize the recreation of the people." At the miners' club (each mine and every factory has a club) the menu of activities is much the same as at the House of Culture. But the building is smaller, shabbier and looks more lived in. Here there" is an almost bar-like buffet, where bread and sausages and wine and weak beer are sold. And here an obvious candidate for the Comsomol villain display is having a loud argument with one of the omnipresent militia men. These sketches on trifles seen in Kemerovo may- help .to sug gest why places like this affect the Western traveler as though they were cities on the other side of the moon. For the trav eler himself, the sensation is not exactly " disagreeable. In truth, I have enjoyed almost every moment of this Siberian journey, mosUy because the in numerable people I ' have met have generally been very pleas ant and often very impressive human beings. FURTHERMORE, although the Soviet Union is certainly no Lotusland, the average man's lot has certainly been greatly improved in recent years. The people still have the greyish look that comes from eating a great deal of starch and too little protein and fat. Although warm and serviceable, the clothes! they, wear are inexpres sibly dreary. Their housing is shockingly overcrowded. But there is no doubt about it. The time of real, misery and real fear has altogether receded into the past. The strangeness that one feels really lies, I think, in the fact that these Soviet cities rather resemble carefully organized company towns of the earlier period of American industry. There is much literal truth in the comparison. The mine or factory not only provides the elllllMBeiVeiSe i Can you save by shopping for automobile insurance? You may have read the recent ad in Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Time and Newsweek. It's about a family that compared costs and services and then decided on the policy offered by their local ' Travelers agent. For certain protection you can rely on The Travelers. And for the service that means so much you can count on us. ti DON STATHOS, INSUROR you Jff Professional Insurance Protection , ""7 m'K1 220 South Central, Medford '""7 PHONE 2-2677 BKT representing THE TRAVELERS Hartford, Connecticut club, the clinic, the dining hall and the vacation camp for its workers. It also builds and owns most of their housing a strong link that one. BUT this is, by no means tha whole story. As the forego ing short sketches may perhaps suggest, very great efforts are also made to keep the working masses on the path of virtue. Governess - management, gov erness - municipality and gov erness - state aU join hands to diminish the temptations to be "uncultured" and to encourage right thinking, general good be havior and, above aU, unremit ting hard work. Thus far the system has pro duced the flesired result. With carrot and with stick, this coun try has not only trained up a remarkable new executive class. It has also trained a wholly new industrial working class with a constantly increasing level of technical skill. Two things have struck me about these Russian industrial workers. One is their sturdy pride in "moya professy my specialty." The other is their unvarying habit of pointing out that "We are members of the working clas." Judging by my own experiences, at 1et, those miners in the restaurant were wholly characteristic in their interesting consciousness of the wide difference between "us of the working class" and "those others in business suits." Copyright ft57 New Jork Herald Tribune Inc. 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