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rOUR MEDrOHD (OREQOrT) "Iveryone In Southern Oregon Reads Thm Mail Tnbun" Publisher) Dally Except Saturday by MZDFORD PRINTING CO 27-23 North fir St Phone 3-6 HI ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY AdverUsine Manager GERALD LATHAjyL Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Maaagin Editor FARL U ADAMS City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JtaVETT Sporta Editor OUVE ST ARCHER- Societv Editor PALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa aeeond class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of Man 3. 1837 STJBSCRHION RATES By Mali In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday On year $15 00 Daily jnd Sunday Six montha 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three moi 4.J5 Sunday Only One Tear S4.2U By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. PhoeniM; ($nadv Cove Rogua River. 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I D I T 0 II I A i Flight o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 yearj ao. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 22. 1347 (Saturday) Confirmation is received that Southwest Airway's will extend lis feeder airline system to Med ford from its prent northern California terminal points of Redding) and Eur$a, From Arthur "Perry'i Ye Smudge Pot column: There Is considerable 'demand the legis lature adjourn sine quit, instead of the usual sii die. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 22. 1937 (8ooay) Less than 1,000 of estimated 2,900 Qfog owner in Jackson county hae procured 1937 dog licenses, according to county clerk. Organization of a club for en listed men of ompany A, 186th lnfary of the Oregon National Guard is announced. 80 YRS AG?) Feb. 22. 1927 ("Pueaday) The railroad embargo situa tion in the Medford district, caused by the food, is slowly lifting and through tralfic may be started before midnight. County Commissioner Victor Bursell etSimos damage to roads at not less than 1100,000. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 22, 1917 (YnurUay) America's big White Star liner Celtic hits mine near, Liverpool and is tow&l back to that port. From Local and Personal col' umn: Mayor C. E. Gates leaves for Prtland where he will at tendto business matters. What's Toir I.Q.? Mn or ten qprrert li superior; ser en or eight I excellent; liva w six is good. 1. The first American school in Minnesota was established at St. Paul in 1847; true or false? 2. The popular name of Massa . chusetts is "B S "? 3. Bible: Were the ancient He brews a thoughtful, meditative, race, or an aggressive people? 4. Singapore fell to the Jap anese on Feb. 15, in 1940, 1942 or 1943?" 5. In 0which book is the "Slough of Despond" described? 6. Was Admiral Halsey or Kimitz the chiW of the U. S. Pacific naval fqrem at the time cf the Japese surrender? 1 7. At which pariod of the day :are the simplest weddings usual ly held? ' " 8. Horseradish sauce is fre quently used ith beef cooked in what style? 9. Arr "some way" and "some ways" ctr.ectly written as one or two words? 10. "A little murder now and then, A littc bit of burglariz i&A, Owon't arn the haye of feflow-men K much as be ing P- Answers: . Tirae; t. Bay State; 3. Thoughtl. ssediiaiive; 1942. SuBg's "Pilgrim's Progress": . fiaaitz: 7. Morn ing; 8. Boil3: words; 10. Patroniziaf. Unsmiling Han D'sj In Florida at Age 56 St. Petersburg. Fla. vU.RI Kay Hartsell. whose deadpan, unsmiling face made him famous as an actor and stunt perform er died here Thursday. He was Hartsell called himself the "mechanical man" and for years successfully defied anyone to make him smile. He acted in nu merous movie shorts and was on the cast of the show "Hellza poppin" for eight years. 4 -ASSOCIATION MAIL TRIBUNE Salem Although today is the of the state legislature, it with any clarity whether it can be classed as a sue cessful session, or as a "bust." Veteran newsmen, legislators and state officials in Salem are fairly unanimtfus in their judgment that the session has gotten off to one of the slowest starts in many years. There are a number of reasons lor this. One reason is a general lack of experience of many members, who require several weeks to "leam the ropes" of legislative procedures, and the intricacies of the system of committees, where most of the 1m portant decisions are made. Another, though perhaps less important reason, is the partisanship more in evidence this year than at any session since the lSoOs. . TT IS a fact, however, that in the House, now con A trolled by the Democrats there is less partisan haggling than m the benate, which is split 15-15. lhe Democrats know they can win on party issues in the House, and the Republicans realize it is of little use to fret about it. But even in the Senate, the divisions have been strictly on party lines in only a few instances. The parties hold caucuses frequently to plan strategy in party matters, and 'while partisanship doesn't boil to the surface on many matters, the fact of the potential division is always present: The change in administration, too, has brought many other changes in the Capitol and the state of fice buildings, although this has been largely limited to the top administrative positions, leaving the career civil servants in their jobs. DEN DAY, former state Senator and rancher from Jackson county, is now completing his final year in law school at Willamette university. After years of f arming and ranching in' the Sams Valley area, and several sessions in the legislature, Day decided to take the added schooling necessary for a law degree. He is scheduled to graduate in June, .take the state bar examination during the summer and, if suc cessful, will return to Medford in the fall to open his law office. During this session he has been retained by the state organization of court reporters to do some lob bying for them. They want tighter formal standards for court reporters, and are asking the legislature to make the standards and examinations official. AXITH the introduction of two railroad regulation bills this week by two Jackson county legislators, the railroad lobby can be expected to step up its activity. The lobby is headed by Harold Turner, dean of the legislative lobbyists, who is highly respected and largely responsible tor its potent influence. It is not a flamboyant lobby, but it is highly effective. Turner, who has said that this will be his last year in Salem to represent the liked personally by most legislators who know him and he knows almost all of them. He is an affable and gregarious individual, but his power does not stem from that fact. It derives from the local agents of the five railroads he serves. Say a bill calls for legislation which could hurt the railroads. The call will go out through the organi zation to every city in Oregon in which there is a rail road office. The local men, almost always liked and respected in their own communities, start working among their friends and business associates, who in turn then will let the legislators from their own dis tricts hear from them in support of the railroads. Faced with this home-town reaction, which can and sometimes does amount to a deluge of mail on a single issue, it is a strong-minded legislator indeed who can continue in his support of the measure unless there is a stronger countervailing force. For, after all, legislators feel bound in most cases to do what their constituents want. And if all the evi dence available points in one direction, that is the direction they are most likely to follow. CPEAKING of lobbyists, there are more of them at this session than there are legislators. Many of them serve a highly useful function, in providing ex pert and detailed information in their fields. One of the most respected this year is Lester Adams of Jackson county, manager of the Oregon Milk Producers. He uses no high-pressure tactics, sel dom if ever even offers to buy a dinner for a legis lator, but is always available to provide facts and figures on the dairy industry. In common with other members of the so-called "third house" of the legislature, one of Adams most important functions is to "bird dog" bills that is to check measures which could have a bearing on the milk producers, and to keep them informed. "IIITH the hundreds of bills on all imaginable sub- jects, all of which are potential laws, the lobby ists constitute a highly effective means of making it possible for people with interests to protect to know what is going on, and how it will affect them. It is one way in which citizens can exercise their constitutional right to petition their government, and to make their own voices heard. An unofficial count of lobbyists at this session, taken when the legislature convened, showed 98 of them, compared to the 90 members of the two houses. There probably are a few more than this who stay in Salem much of the time. And of course there are hun dreds of people who come to Salem once or twice during a session to confer with members on one or more bills in which they have a special interest. As private citizens, they probably could not be classed formally as lobbyists, but they are certainly engaged in lobbying activity. E.A. Frldy. February 22, 1937 Report 40th day of the 1957 session 13 still too early to foresee interests of the railroads, is American Communists Just Might Be Near Break With Moscow ByJIOSE DRUMMOND Washington It w o u 1 d be shortsighted as well as inaccur ate to say that the Communist party in the United States can never free itself from Moscow control. It could and "maybe it will. I wouldn't accept the Commu nist party's own say-so that the event has already taken place. We'll know when and if the Communist party quits being the tool of the Soviet Union. It will take more than vague words in a vague resolution to prove it. There, is, of course, every rea son to welcome, as the lesser of two evils, the nationalist trend which some Communist parties are taking, a trend away from total Kremlin subservience. Tito started it and Titoism became so strong that Moscow has had to pretend that it likes it. Na tionalist Communism has won out in Poland. It almost carried Hungary totally outside the Soviet orbit until the Kremlin pulled the iron reins up short. There are visible stirring in the Communist parties throughout western Europe for some inde pendence of Soviet dictation. In New Role? And now some perhaps most of the leaders of the Communist Party in the United States say they are for the same thing and at their recent na tional convention in -New York they passed a resolution which their press officer (reporters were not allowed to cover the proceedings at first hand) inter preted as meaning that they were "freeing themselves from the Moscow party line." Are they really? Or are they only appearing to do so because it seems momentarily prudent? No political party in this coun try which puts loyalty to a for eign power ahead of loyalty to the United States, which is con trolled by and is willingly the instrument of a foreign govern ment and whose leaders find ex cuses to condone the Soviet re pression of the brave Hungarians who dare fight for their free dom no such political party can expect to win credentials with the American people. This is why Robert S. Bird, the sagacious New York Herald Tribune correspondent- covering the Red meeting in New York, wrote: "As matters now stand, (Communist) Party policy-makers may or may not follow the Moscow line as they choose. One effect of the switch from tradi tional enslavement to Moscow dictates will be to give the party an unaccustomed freedom of maneuver in shifting to new posi tions to meeting changing situa tions in this country. The party hope is that it will help in end ing its present isolation on the American scene, and its low prestige where it formerly had strength." Not Broken The American Communists have not broken with their Mos cow idols but have only "re solved" that they might do so. How precise was the resolve? Well, you can decide. The Ameri can Communists who said they wanted to be independent of Moscow iavored a resolution which stated that the Commu nist Party in the United States "interprets and applies the prin ciples" of Marx, Engels and Lenin, and those who said they Have A This. Sunday (February as Heart Sunday, the day on which our neighbors will call at our homes to receive our contributions to the 1957 Heart Fund campaign of the Oregon Heart Association. . These Heart Sunday volunteers are generously contributing their time and energy to assist in the efforts of the Oregon Heart Association to combat the heart diseases in our community. These volunteers are dedicated citizens who merit the admiration and heartfelt thanks of all of us. We all profit from their efforts. But we can and should do more than admire their devotion. We should, first of all, greet our heart vol unteers warmly and make them welcome when they ring our doorbells this Sunday afternoon, probably between the hours of 1 and 4 p.m. Secondly, when they hand us our heart Fund contribution envelopes, we should give wholeheartedly in recognition not only of their efforts but of the benefits to the entire com munity that our contributions will help make possible. 17 ACH of us must decide individually how much that Jl contribution should be. Remember that the dis eases of the heart and circulation are the leading health menace in Oregon and the nation ; that there are serious gaps in our knowledge about the heart diseases; and that leading cardiologists believe that, with intensified research, the heart problem can eventually be brought under control... It should be pointed out that during the coming year, the Oregon Heart Association's over-all contribution to research will total approximately $81,000 . . . and much of this fine work is being done at 6ur own University of Ore gon Medical School. In making our decision, let us remember to give generously not only for our own hearts, but for all the hearts we love. O.H.A. wanfprl in hp ripnenrient nn Mf cow wanted to substitute the. words creatively applies of "interprets and applies." There it is. The phrase "interprets" won out and all the anti-in-terpret Communist leaders were put back on the Party executive committee. This distinction may some time prove to be full of dif ference.. "Deviationist" is a rough epi thet in the Communist vocabu lary. Perhaps the majority of American Communists is assert ing its right to be deviationist if it wished. But it remains to be seen whether this is a pru dent tactic. The Crooked Line The judgment of the Sub versive Activities Control Board that the Communist Party is in fact a "Soviet tool" rests upon a long record of acts, not on words along. When Russia at tacked and annexed part of tiny Finland, the American Commu nists thought it was dandy. They hated Hitler one month and loved him the next after Stalin made his deal with Hitler. When the Nazis attacked Po land and France and Britain, this was an "imperialist" war. But when the Nazis attacked the Soviet Union, then to the Ameri can Communists it was time to resist not before. I wouldn't want to deter the American Communists from go ing Titoist but I suggest we wait to find out whether they really are. Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Editorial Comment HUSH FOR THE DEAD RADICALS Mrs. Charlotte Rush of Den ver, Colo., is a bulwark of the dead-radical-worshipping Daugh ters of the American Revolution. For 11 years now she has of ficiated at a yawning little Lin coln Day ceremony at the Colo rado Industrial School for Boys, wherein the good gray DAR pre sents a new flag to the little boys sitting out naughtiness in the cooler. It is a high point of the year for Mrs. Rush and her sister 100 per cent Americans, but not for those who are forced forgone reason or another to at tend, as this writer once was. . But Mrs. Rush's glory her patriotic fulfillment is no more. This year she put her foot in it with a comment that she never nllnwprl ' "a Mexican bov" to carry Old Glory during the fes tivities. Her comment reached print through the auspices of an uncouth newspaper reporter, probably a son of immigrants. All something broke loose. The nrpss rlplueed indignation. The governor banned the DAR from all state ceremonies, lhe Colorado House of Representa tives memorialized against Mrs. Rush. (The Mexican vote is po tent m Colorado). All of which prompted apol oeies from Mrs. Rush and the Denver chapter of the Daugh ters. But why apologize, ladies? If that s the way you leel wny be sorry about saying it out loud? Worshippers of ancestors must Heart 24) has been designated Israeli Impasse, New European Customs Union, Top Weeks News By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: The grave situation brought about by Israel's refusal to with draw its invasion forces from two Egyptian areas reached its climax in the United Na tions. The U.N. Gen eral Assembly was ready t o consider "sanc tions" against Israel if it per sisted in its re Charles McCann fusal. Six West- era European nations aereed to form a historic union for coop eration which is intended to pro vide a common market, without tariff barriers, for 160 million people. A delegation of economic ex perts from Poland arrived in the United States to seek Amer ican credits of $100 to $150 mil lion needed to strengthen the "independent" Communist re gime of Wladyslaw Gomulka. The negotiations were the first of major importance which the United States has entered for years with any Communist country but Yugoslavia, which like Poland had broken awav from Russian domination. Israel Israel had defied demands bv the U.N., and personal appeals by President Eisenhower to Prime Minister David Ben-Gur- ion, that it evacuate the Gaza and Aqaba Gulf Coast areas which it seized when it invaded Egypt last Oct. 29. Israel demanded that, as the price of withdrawal, it be given guarantees: (1) That . means would be provided to prevent guerilla raids on Israel from the Gaza area on the Egyptian fron tier; (2) That its ships would be given the right of free passage through the Aqaba Gulf, com- Communications Use "SP" for Freeway To the Editor: I have read with regret the decision of the State Highway commission to make the Hawthorne Park route the future super - liighway through Medford. This plan is most costly, will require many homes to be condemned, destroy the natural beauty of the city park, and will prove costly be yond reason with all the access es, overpasses, underpasses, bridges and what have you. The Highway commission has overlooked the most feasible route through the valley, and in view of these circumstances I propose the following route. First of all, be it established that the Southern Pacific (friendless to Southern Oregon) has served its usefullness in all capacities They have eliminated their hor rible excuses for passenger ser vice. They have reduced our freight schedule to an ice-age ex cuse for shippers. It recently took five days for a car of lum ber to come from Grants Pass. They lost a car recenUy for the same shipper between Medford and Eugene and found it seven days later out in the boondocks somewhere.' Also they have tied up traffic with these petty street repairs. You still get the jolt of your life crossing the tracks at Main street. Cars have been lined up for blocks because they usually decide to do their anU- quated switching during our busiest rush hours. In short they serve no good, create everything from heart trouble to ulcers and are a menace to say the least. Sure, they have a team-track for loading in the city, but this is also outmoded and outdated. They spend millions in Eugene, Klamath Falls, and Portland with modernization schemes but they forget about the Siskiyou route entirely. Now they could route the rusty rails along the western part of the valley or tear them up entirely. We get fast service by the trucking lines; the bus lines will haul small packages for only a .82 minimum charge from Portland, and our airlines can handle the rest. Car load shipments could originate north of here and south of here. Why, out at White City, they have a switching railroad that puts the Espee to shame. Here is my proposal. Get the SP out of town. Then pave the tracks over or sell them for scrap iron. A community bon fire out of the rotten ties would start off a victory celebration. Then pave the whole thing solid and you have the basis for the sensible, logical, suitable super highway straight through the center of the city. Think of it. No bridges. No curves. No other problems. What progress!! Please be advised that this plan listed above has been giv en several hours of painstaking study and thought. Saye the Park. Save those homes. Spare the orchards. Out with horse and buggy railroading. Howard R. Brooks, PO Box 828, Medford. not bow before the tides, you know, even if it does deny you the patriotic fulfillment of pre senting a flag each year to 100 per cent white Caucasion Amer ican reform school kids. Cooi Bay Times. manded by Egyptian shore bat teries, to its port of Elath. President Eisenhower said in an earnestly-delivered television and radio speech to the Ameri can people Wednesday night, that unless Israel gave in "the U. N. has no choice but to exert pressure" against it. The U. N. assembly was called to meet this afternoon to decide whether to exert the pressure possibly in the form of penal ties which might cripple Israel's economy. Customs Union The prime ministers of France, West Germany, Italy, The Neth erlands, Belgium and Luxem bourg agreed to enter a customs union which would provide a tariff-free common market for their countries. The plan, fulfillment of a dream of statesmen for many years, was calculated eventually to result in a virtual merger of their economies. Under the agreement, the six 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. Needless Extravagance ' To the Editor: I read some time ago that our president be lieves, and has maintained for the umteenth time that an in come tax cut would be "unwise at this time." He has stated that "prosperity is up to the people." And yet no matter how we wage earners work to provide our families with the necessities of life, our government relieves us of nearly one fifth of our earn ings before we even see it! And if our government con tinues as in the past taxes must surely go even higher to keep abreast of federal spending. If it is unwise to give our own people enough of their own earn ings to enable them to buy those things our generation has be come accustomed to taking for granted as necessities, then it is also unwise to take from us in order to give even greater sums to foreign countries, and for the purpose of such unnecessary things as $25,000 retirements for ex-presidents, and office help furnished the jest of his days. Also, adding thousands to our vice president's already' huge tax free expense accounts so that he might travel around this coun try getting set for the next elec tion. There is also a small mat ter of a "more private" home in Washington for our president. Where is it going to end? I thought our government was try ing to reduce the budget? In case you didn't know, "We the people" will have to pay for this sort of nonsense. No won der our taxes are the highest ever in peace time, and with no relief seen in the immediate fu ture. In fact there never will be unless We, you and I, write to our congressmen asking them to put a halt to all such unneces sary extravagance. Our country certainly cannot afford it. S. J. Dodge, 504 Austin st. Medford, Ore. The Indeipeniable Man To the Editor: In these tumul tuous times, when nations are sppkinir suDerioritv. races seek ing supremacy, religious organi zations claiming to be tne oniy way," political parties continu ous! v bickering over who is right, social climbers who have lnst their sociability to the com mon man, and individuals who are suf ferine from a superiority complex, the following poem by an unknown author is a "thought seed," that would do well to 11 Mparts, regardless of race, color, creed, political par ty, or social standing. Sometime, when you're feel ing important, Sometime, when your ego's in bloom Sometime, when you take it for granted That you're the best man in the room; Sometime, when you think that your going Would leave an unfillable hole. Just follow this simple direc tion And see how it humbles your soul. Take a bucket and fill it with water, Put your hand in it up to the wrist. Take it out and the hole that's remaining ' Is a measure of how you'll be missed. You may splash all you wish as you enter, You may stir up the water . galore, But stop it and just in a minute. It looks much the same as be fore. . Now the moral of this little lesson Is to do the best that you can, Be proud of yourself, but re member There is no indispensable man. Mrs. Helga Mitchell Rt. 1, Box 7B Jacksonville, Ore. countries also will pool atomic energy resources for peaceful purposes. Poland Poland succeeded last fall, under the skillfull guidance of Communist chieftain Gomulka, in breaking away from Russian domination. But its position was still precarious. Gomulka had succeeded in overcoming the re sistance of those Polish Reds who opposed the breakaway. But Po land's economic weakness re mained an acute danger, in that it might lead to fatal popular discontent. The United States, after long consideration, decided that it was justified in aiding Poland and thus strengthening the breach in Russia's satellite em pire. There was every indication that the Polish delegation which arrived in the United States Thursday would go home with a promise of substantial and eco nomic aid. From the Engineers To the Editor: We wish to ex press our appreciation of the at tention you gave to National Engineer's Week in your Sun day, Feb. 17, edition, under the by-line of Elliot Carlson. It was an excellent article and exactly what we had in mind when we asked your coopera tion. James K. Hoey, President Rogue Valley Section Professional Engineers of Oregon, 56 Quince st., Medford, Ore. They Need Help To the Editor: We, parents and friends of the retarded, are grateful to you for printing the fine article: Association of Re tarded Children Lists. Program in your Thursday, Feb. 14, issue. It was the best Valentine you could have given to us. Living with a beloved son that is limited by retardation is' a frustrating and sad condition. It creates a longing in the heart, a prayer in the silence of the night that some blessed day these children, too, will receive help according to their limited ability. Not "pinch penny" help, but help gladly given by a truly enlightened community. Thank you, Medford Mail Tribune, for helping folks un derstand our problem. The House Bills, 371, 385, 115, and Senate Joint Resolution No. 6, need the support of every coun ty in Oregon if they are to pass. Your own Senator Phil Low ery is putting his shoulder to the wheel of this mighty prob lem. We are grateful and we will help all we can. Thank you, Medford Mail Tribune. Mrs. Neil Hachenberg, Secretary, Friends of Retarded Children 519 SE "H" St., Grants Pass, Ore. From a "Mended Heart" To the Editor: A president had polio, and a March of Dimes re search program ($957 collected per victim annually) has licked polio. Another president has had heart disease. When the monies collected for heart research can be advanced from $1.20 annual ly per victim, as now, to $957, perhaps we can lick heart dis ease too. The money someone gave for research in heart disease and heart surgery saved the life of the writer when he was at the., point of death. I therefore want to aid the drive of heart organi zations to raise money for heart research. Some 100,000 persons in the United States today have had heart surgery; and the ma jority of these feel similarly ob ligated, especially the 2,000 such persons united in a nationwide organization' called "Mended Hearts." Wives should understand that the conquest of heart disease will reduce their chance of pre mature widowhood. Also, the better able a wife is to take care of her husband's heart, the bet ter able he will be to take care of her and the longer. About 10,000,000 persons in this country currently have heart disease in some form (1 out of 16), including 500,000 children of school age. In 1955, diseases of the heart and circu lation were responsible for 53 per cent of all deaths at all ages. Of those who died, 29 per cent were under 65. Because of research in heart disease, a famous president who had a heart attack also made a dramatic return to the living. Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing if, in his name, Americans ral lied to support the Heart Fund?! Any reader who wishes to help by becoming a doorbell ringer should address the Heart Fund, care Postmaster, his own com munity. George Lawton, Ph.D.y 7 West 96th st., ' New York City.