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Newspaper Page Texto FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE UNE "Xveryona In Southern Oregon Reads Th Mall Tribune" Publiahed Dally Excent Saturday by r-2B North Fir St. Phong 2-8141 ROBERT W BUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERAU) LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SDOrta Editor OLIVE STARCHZR Society Editor PALE BUCKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper ntred u second clan nutter at Medford Oregon under Act ot March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail Id Advance: Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six month 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three moa 4-25 Sunday Only One year 4-20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Aahland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Cold HtU. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes- Dally and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 10 carrier and Dealers 10c per copy Aii I emu cash in Advance Official Paper of the City or Medford 0!tlclU Paper of Jack ton County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Avert!inic Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C. NATIONAI. EOITORIAl I ASS0catIN NEWS PA E f. PUBLISHERS J ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Fa. 28. 1947 (Friday) Leaders George Nichols and Fred Enele assisted Bellview sheep club members in obtaining lambs recently. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: All the leading Spring flowers, and the perennial "blooming idiot" are now blooming. 20 YEARS AGO Fab. 28. 1937 (Sunday) A program by pupils of Eve Benson studio will be presented as a spring recital at Craterian theater. Apprentice fair s c h e d u led soon under sponsorship of Med ford aDDrentice commission is announced by Leland A. Mentz er, commission secretary. 80 YEARS AGO Fab. 28, 1927 (Monday) State Supreme court enjoins moving of county seat from Jack sonville on technical error, which was failure to publish pamphlet with pro and con argu ments. Medford Realty board spon sors broadcast of Crescent City Harbor Improvement banquet at Grants Pass over KMED. 40 YEARS AGO Fab. 28. 1917 (Wednesday) Medals and certificates of award won at the Panama Pacif ic exposition at San Francisco are being received by local peo ple who exhibited valley pro ducts at the exposition. From Local and Personal col umn: Tyson Beall of the Central Point district is in Medford visit ing friends and attending to busi ness matters. What's Your I.Q.? Ntne or ten eorree't la superior; sev en or eight Is excellent; five er six is rood. 1. 1791: Which body appoint ed Gen. St. Clair Governor of the Northwest Territory? 2. Should U. S. flag be flown day and night over a State capitol? 3. Bible: What has Sychar, place of the Samaritan ministry, in common with Schechem and Ashar? 4. Did the Curies or Becquerel discover the radioactive prop erties of Uranium? 5. Do rose growers ever plant rose bushes in the fall? 6. Which U. S. President kill ed a man in a duel? 7. Who was the detective char acter in the novel "Study in Scarlet"? 8. Under the Nazi regime was Nuremburg or Berlin known as the pdgeant city? 9. Is a cretin a kind of calico, idiot, or drape? 10. "Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in" whom? Answers: 1. Congress. 2. No. Day only. 3. All are held to be the same community. 4. Bac- querel. 1886. 5. Yes. 6. Andrew Jacksori. 7. Sherlock Holmes. 8. Nuremburg. 9. Kind of idiot. 10 "Themselves." Liry. Kaiser Net Earnings Amount To $42,349,131 Oakland. Calif. (U.PJ Un audited net earnings of Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp oration for 1956 amounted to $42,349,131, equivalent to $2.71 a common share. Net earnings for 155 were $36,021,114, equivalent to $2.43 share. 0 "Lest We Forget" Editor Stanton of the Roseburg Review and Con gressman Harris Ellworth's follows the Ellsworth line. He suspects all Democrats and Democratic pro posals. He sees a communist nigger in every Demo cratic wood-pile, and no clear distinction between communism and socialism AT THE present time, he "smells a mice" in Gov fitnnni T-Tnlmcjc' ropont cnopial mncca era nn cf a fiO resources development. He written by the Governor Review's pet aversions Senator Dick Neuberger. If this suspicion should prove to be unfounded, well anyway, quote : "If it was not written by Neuberger it at least follows the crafty line of political conservation practiced by the vo cal Oregon Senator. Inasmuch as Neuberger has made no bones of his desire to run Oregon politics there is room for suspicion that he at least collaborated in the Holmes' plan." "ROOM for suspicion" is the understatement of the year, as far as the News Review is concerned. There is ALWAYS room' for "suspicion" where this paper, formerly edited by Oregon's ex-Congressman, is concerned "always room for one more" as the saying goes, if a Democrat is the target. e e e e FDITOR STANTON not only SUSPECTS Governor Holmes as a "stooge" for Senator Neuberger who he says aspires to be the political dictator of this free-flying and free-wheeling state, but this term "conservation" it seems in his judgment is only a smoke-screen for such anti-Republican and pro-socialistic ambitions. The real intent he believes behind the term being simply to drive out free enterprise and the American "Way of Life." Not only that but LIQUI DATE the California-Oregon Power Company, and transfer the waters of the Umpqua, Rogue and Klam ath rivers to Southern California ! Quite a bundle, as the saying goes. Just HOW this could be done the Roseburg editor does not make clear. But he closes this warning of a 5-alarm fire as far as the state, by telling his readers not to forget, quote : "Don't forget that a blueprint for a "Ladder of Rivers" is still very much in existence, but that the water proposed to be shipped to California isn't from the Columbia but, rather from the Umpqua, Rogue and Klamath. And don't forget, too, that these three rivers support the Copco hydro electric system, a system which stands very much in the way of public power taking over southwestern Oregon and northern California. And don't forget that Neuberger, et al, have public power as a primary political objective." Well, the Mail Tribune is for public power, where it promises to better serve via a multiple federal operation, but aside Irom sup porting the Talent federal ect, we have never advocated and never expect to advocate public power involving the liquidation of "Copco" and sending the qua and Klamath rivers down to irrigate Hollywood and"L.A." Again, just HOW could The "Review" can't just be "seeing things under the bed" again it must have some facts to sustain such an alarming and catastrophic prediction. In the interest of truth and the protection of the public wel fare in this state we feel it has, to sustain such a prophecy. Until we get them however, we think we will control and resist our original impulse which was to put our cabin on the Rogue up for auction at this coming week end Midway sale. R.W.R. How About Conservation? To oppose a policy simply because the opposing party favors it, has always seemed to this department unworthy of an adult mind, might be involved. But that is the only explanation we can find for the Roseburg Review s strong opposition to the term conservation. Conservation of our natural resources has always been accepted in Oregon as desirable, and particularly since the timber frauds around the start of the present century. Who doesn't favor conservation of our forests, the principle of "sustained timber yield", the preserva tion and perpetuation, as far as advancing popula tions allow, of our fish and game? TAKE the motto of the National Wild Life Federa tion for example, which reads as follows, quote: To encourage the intelligent management of the life sustaining resources of the earth its productive soil its essential water resources its protective forests and plant life and its dependent wildlife and to promote and en courage the knowledge and appreciation of these resources, their interrelationship and wise use, without which there can be little hope for a continuing abundant life. We should think all reasonable people regardless of party affiliations could subscribe to such a doctrine, and particularly in this state which still posseses such a store of natural resources, in sharp contrast with nearly all states in the East and Middle West. DUT according to the Republican press, as repre " sented by the Roseburg Review and some other strongly G.O.P. adherents, all this talk of "conserva tion" is just a cheap political "gimmick" to get into office, and when in, to stay there. IT WOULD clarify the situation greatly if the "Review" or some of the other strongly anti-conservation papers would cite a few facts state just WHAT principles of conservation they oppose "where, who, what and why". R.W.R. Thursday, February 28, 1957 successor, quite naturally "creeping" or otherwise. thinks indeed, it was not at all but by one of the the public interest, usually power and irrigation proj waters of the Rogue, Ump it be done? the paper should give facts regardless of which party Soviets Open New Attacks on Tito in Campaign for By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia has opened a new campaign against President Tito of Yuogslavia as part of its attempt to tighten its grip on its satel lites. Criticism of T i to 's "inde pendent Com munism" has been intensify ing for several weeks in Rus sia and other Soviet bloc countries. Charlei HcCans Now the Soviet government has put an economic squeeze on Tito by withdrawing from com mitment to grant him promised OL From Washington By Roscoa Drummond OUT OF THE IMPASSE Washington A negotiated so lution, which would bring about the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Egypt with assurances against new Egyptian raids and discriminations, seems within reach. If this end is achieved in the next few days and the ingredi ents of agreement appear defin itely at hand then everybody, with the possible exception of the Soviet Union which prefers turmoil, will be the winner. It seems to me that the United States has righUy committed it self, both morally and, in all reality, irrevocably, to estab lishing for all nations, including Israel, the right of innocent pas sage through the Egyptian-held Gulf of Aqaba to the Israeli Port of Elath. For its part, Israel now seems disposed to accept "assurances," which are less binding than "guarantees," as a basis for with drawal. This would be a wise and justifiable act of faith in the firm intentions of the United Nations, and the United States not to permit a resumption of the Egyptian actions which pro voked the invasion. AT has brought this ex- osive and apparently irrec oncilable impasse to the border of peaceful solution? The Israeli position was that its very survival depended upon being guaranteed against re peated Arab raids from the Gaza Strip and uninhibited access to the Port of Elath. The United Nations position was that, despite the provoca tions, the Israeli invasion of Egypt in force was a massive vi olation of the U. N. charter and that the U. N. couldn't give any guarantees to Israel as long as it was violating the charter. The statlemate: no Israeli with drawal without guarantees; no guarantees without Israeli with drawal. This deadlock could only be broken by two things: Recognition by the United States that the U. N. had become so involved in the technicalities of the dispute that in the end it was dealing primarily with what it would do that is, vote sanc tions if the deadlock were not broken, rather than dealing ef fectively with the substance of the deadlock. Recognition by Israel that in the end its best interest would be served rather by relying on the U. S. and the U. N. than by provoking the aroused hostility of the free world through try ing to obtain its rights by force. e e IT SEEMS to me that there has been a confused and over elaborate concentration on the need of making sure that Israel is not "rewarded" as the result of its invasion of Egypt. This would be an important concern were it not for two cir cumstances: The responsibllty for the series of conflicts between Egypt Anteafer Exterminates Termites From File Washington (U.R) The National Zoo had termites in its files. So it called in Tommy, a hungry anteater who lives in a nearby cage. He spent a wild and happy hour Wednesday eating from drawer to drawer in an old wooden file in the zoo office building. However, Insect authority Thomas E. Snyder, who acted as host, said using anteaters for ridding homes of termites prob ably never would catch on. "Anteaters don't like humans much," he said. "And they smell bad." 500 English Miners Strike Over Cup of Tea Chesterfield, England -XU.R) Five hundred miners struck over a cup of tea Tuesday. They struck in protest when the mine's canteen 'manager fired waitress Francess Hancock because she complained the weak tea he made was not good enough for the miners. credits of up to $250 million. There is no doubt that the Russian leaders have opened up against Tito again because they regard .him as a menace. After the successful Polish revolt against Moscow domina tion, and the Hungarian revolt that failed, Russia is doing everything it can to- safeguard itself against further trouble. ' Tough "Stalinist" leaders are being strengthened in aU of the East European Communist satel lite countries. It is reported that one reason Russia reneged on its promise of credits to Yugoslavia is that Tito refused to help in the build up by recognizing the East Ger man Communist regime. Dangerous To Russians But aside from that, Tito re- and Israel is so interwoven that a similarly interwoven solution is not only realistic but justifiable. Both countries are at fault and I should think there is no moral reason why the conditions which would bring about a solution should not come into being si multaneously or as nearly si multaneously as possible. Secondly, the real test of whether the U.N. has "reward ed aggression" is surely not whether Israel withdraws before it has some solid assurance that Egypt's offenses against Israel will not be repeated but whether Israel is being given anything in the wake of the invasion that it didn't deserve before the in vasion. It isn't. OECRETARY DULLES' initia- tive to break out of this hobble is apparenUy yielding results. With increasing precision he is assuring Premier Ben-Gur- lon that if Israel withdraws its forces, the U.S. will act to estab lish the international right of free passage through the Gulf of Aqaba. This is not reward; this would be righting a long-standing injustice. Reports from Cairo suggest that Egypt may be ready to ac cept u.w. troops In the Gaza atrip to prevent border raids. If not, the same protection could be achieved by Israel inviting the U. N. troops to stand guard on the Israeli border. (C) 1857 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK At .its first hearing yesterday before the house judiciary committee of the legislature at Salem the resolution proposing amendment of the Oregon con stitution to abolish the death penalty brought out some inter esting opinions, Warden Clarence Gladden of the state penitentiary told the committee he had once been bit terly opposed to abolishing capi tal punishment because of the murder of his 20-year-old sister. But He added He now believes the death penalty is NO DETERRENT TO HOMICIDE and should be abol ished. He cited statistics to prove that the incidence of mur der is, if anything, smaller in states where capital punishment has been abolished than in states where it remains in force. WARDEN GLADDEN' S state ment that -his earlier views on capital punishment were in fluenced by the murder of his sister is quite understandable. I think we have all been influ enced in the case of most of us, of course, in a less personal way by the feeling that the murder of an innocent, unof fending persons CALLS FOR VENGEANCE. As I recall the circumstances, the repeal of Oregon's former prohibition of the death penalty was influenced strongly by a peculiarly brutal murder that led to the conviction on the part of the public that such a crime could be atoned for only by the death of the murderer. That is to say: When the people of Oregon reversed their previous judg ment and reinstated the death penalty they did so because of a wave of feeling that a brutal murder should be AVENGED. IN TIME, however, as anger fades and is replaced by the calmer judgment that the basic purpose of punishment is NOT vengeance but instead is pre vention of .crime by deterrence, we come around to the view set forth by the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Romans: "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but give ' place unto wrath: for it is written: Venge ance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." rpHE resolution abolishing the -- death penalty in Oregon sets the punishment for first degree murder at life imprisonment, but contains a curious exception Satellites mains an ever-present danger to Russian domination of Eastern Europe. He constitutes living proof that a Communist ruler can completely throw off Russian domination and get away with it. The surge of revolt in Eastern Europe has subsided, but it -could start again at any time. Tito, to Soviet leaders, is a hor rible example of independence who might give others ideas. The new Russian campaign comes at an embarrassing time for Tito. He has made no secret of his keen disappointment that he was compelled to cancel plans for him to visit the United States. The cancellation was due to the substantial opposition in the United States to the reception by President Eisenhower of a Communist leader. But the cancellation was a distinct help to the Soviet gov ernment. Reason for Attacks It is probable that one reason for the sharpened attacks on Tito is. that the Russians are taking advantage of his embar rassment. Tito is having a hard time ec onomically, and he badly need ed the credits which Russia withdrew from him. But Tito is a fighter. Attacks on him by Russian and satellite Communist leaders certainly will not soften him up. On the contrary, they are likely to make him more eager, when ever he gets a chance to strengthen his own influence in the satellite countries. Yugoslav Foreign Minister Koca Popovich made a counter attack on the Russian campaign in a speech in the Belgrade Par liament Tuesday. He said that Russian and sat ellite leaders were trying to discredit. Tito's policies and iso late Yugoslavia as it was isolat ed after Tito s break with the late Josef Stalin in 1948. Popovich went out of his way to speak of the "precious" aid Yugoslavia has obtained from the United States. He said that differences between Yugoslavia and Soviet bloc countries could be eliminated only if Yugoslav ia was accepted as it is, with an independent foreign policy. He said -also that Russia's "Stalin ist" policy of domination of oth er countries had. done Commun ism more harm than all the anti Communist activities of "imper ialist" nations. JENKINS I that a person convicted of I murder while under sentence of life imprisonment may be pun ished by DEATH. - I can't quite understand the reasoning in the case of that exception. If the death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent of ONE murder, why should we expect that it. will be effective as a deterrent of TWO murders? rpHE exception seems to smack -a- of the idea that if a person is so wholly bad "that , he will commit murder even in prison he'd better be put to death and got rid of so that the state will not longer have to house and feed him. Wouldn't it be more consistent to let the tail go with the hide and just abolish the death penalty? Crown Zellerbaeh Man Heads Louisiana Firm San Francisco (U.PJ Reed O. Hunt, executive vice presi dent of Crown Zellerbaeh Cor poration, has beene lected pres ident of the new St. Francisville Paper company of Louisiana. The firm was recently formed by Zellerbaeh and Time, Inc. It will manufacture high quality coated printing papers. When You Really Need Friends! While offering you experienced efficiency and mod ern facilities, we still believe that a friendly, neighborly interest in -helping you is most-important. DAY OR NIGHT PHONE 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTOr" Matter of Fact y stew DULLES AND THE DEMOCRATS Washington The relations be tween Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and the Demo cratic Congres sional leader ship are rather like those of a married cou ple for whom the blush lias long been off the rose, but who rea 1 i z e that they have Stewaic AIsod to live togeth- er for the sake of the children, The marriage came very close to the divorce stage recently. And though hasty and partially successful efforts to patch things up have been made in the last few days, there is still bitter resentment against Dulles sim mering on Capitol Hill. The sources of the Democratic bitternesses are various. They are in part, of course, political. Just as the far more violent Republican bitterness against Dean Acheson was political There is for instance an obvious political element in the unani mous Democratic opposition to the Administration's policy on sanctions against Israel. The American Jewish community is overwhelmingly pro-Israel, and the Democrats are far more ae- pendent than the Republicans on Jewish votes and Jewish finan cial support. m w w TUT . the anti-Dulles feeling among the Democratic lead ers is not exclusively of political origin by any means. Many Sena tors have genuine doubts about the wisdom of a policy which may see this country again lined ud with President .Nasser ana the Soviets against Israel and our major allies. And memories of Republican campaign boasts about the "dynamic toreign policy increase the Democrat's resentment that things should have come to such an unpretty pass. The resentment has also been increased by the Dulles tech nique for dealing with Congress. To return to the marriage anal ogy, a wife can influence a hus band successfully only if he does not know she is doing so. Dulles has used blatantly obvious meth- Legion Officials Attend Meeting Here Representatives of five Amer ican Legion posts in district 13 attended a conference here this week regarding the responsibili ties of Legion posts in the serv ice program at the Camp White Domiciliary. Dr. Penn Crumb, director of rehabilitation for the Legion de partment of Oregon, pointed out that the Legion was founded on the principal that the dis abled veteran should receive at tention and care. Dr. Crumb, Joe McDonald, department adju tant for the Legion, and J. Rich ard Smurthwaite, state veterans employment service officer, were in Medford this week, and attended the Rotary luncheon and visited Camp White. The visit at Camp White was to determine the future policy of the Legion at the Domiciliary, Legion officials said. Comb Florence Area For Missing Farmer Florence (U.PJ Searchers combed heavily wooded moun tains south of here today for a 70-year-old farmer who was re ported missing from hit isolat ed cabin. About 50 police officers and loggers were taking part in the hunt for W. G. Holesapple. The elderly man was reported miss ing Tuesday by Miles Steuven, a friend who had gone to visit him and found the cabin desert ed. Bloodhounds were flown here from Corvallis to aid In the search. . ods of influencing Congr. For example, the "Eisnhoe Doctrine" was given in substance to the press before the Congres sional leaders had heard any thing about it, and it was then presented as a matter of life-and-death urgency. Yet when Dulles testified on the proposal,0 it soon became obvious that he could produce no hard evidence of; urgency, and neither he nor . anyone else had any specific ideas at all about how, when, or where the money or the Presi dential authority were to be used. "I feel," remarked the respect ed Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia, after hearing Dulles testify, "like a man in a dark ened room wresUing with a moonbeam." e e DULLES has also shown a tendency to disDlav a certain condescension in his dealings with Congress. Until very re cenUy, his meetings with (he Congressional leaders have been in the nature of briefings "Dulles travelogues" rather than real consultations. It is as tactless in executive - legislative relations as it is in marriage for one side to do all the talking. Dulles has been tactless in oth er ways, ror example, in nis failure to answer an important letter from Senate Majority Leader Johnson for almost two weeks. ("I have plenty of scratch paper already, Johnson is said to have remarked coldly when a meaningless reply was at length forthcoming). And it was certainly tactless to propose that the entire Congressional leader ship 26 busy men should jour ney to Georgia to see the vaca tioning President. The Congres sional leaders tartly pointed out that Washington, after all, re mained the seat of government. Since the President saw the point, and returned to Washing ton, there has been a marked improvement in the atmosphere. The meetings of the Congression al leaders with the President and Dulles on Feb. 20 and with Dulles alone on the 24th, were free-wheeling and fruitful. Though the bitterness on Capitol Hill is still there, it is distinctly more muted than it was only a few weeks ago, when at least two Democrats actually de nounced Dulles as a liar on the Senate floor. e e e THE future course of the un happy executive legislative marriage of necessity will de pend on events. As this is writ ten, it begins to seem possible that some sort of formula will be found to resolve the immedi ate crisis. In that case, the bitter ness against Dulles on Capitol Hill will no doubt largely die away at least until the next crisis. Otherwise, and especially if the United States actually votes sanctions against Israel, Dulles will again be the main Democratic target. Yet even in that case, a final break, a total collapse of bi partisanship, remains unlikely. Responsible Democratic leaders like Johnson and Russell know that they have to go on living somehow with the Secretary of State, for the good of thte coun try. And Dulles himself, as his belated but determined efforts to patch things up suggests, knows that he must go on liv ing with them, for the same reason. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Help your husband stay alive Are you letting your husband kill himself in his efforts to pro vide you withaoomfortable life? . March Reader's Digest sug gests ways you can contribute to your husband's health, hap piness and peaos of mind. 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