Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 10, 1957, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUB MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE "Xveron in Soutrn Oragon wmi in Aiau l nouns Puijlif hl Daily Except Saturday MXDFORE iu r-iti iirt to 17-29 North Fir St Ptaon 2-S14.1 ROBERT W BUHL Editor HERB GREY Adertislni Manata CERA LB LATHAM Business Manafal ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL U ADAMS City Editor HARRY CH1PMAM, Telagraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SDorta Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. CtrcuUOon Mir. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa aecond daai matter at Medford Oregon under Act ot March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATE3 B Mall In Advance. Per Coot 10c. Daily and Sunday One year tlS 00 Dally and Sunday Six month 8 00 raily and Sunday Three moa 4-25 aunday only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Aihland Central Point Eafle Point. Jacksonville Gold HtU. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rorut River. Talent nd on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Offlrlal Paper of the City of Medford tmiclal Paper of Jackson county United Press Full Teased Wire" MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOUDAY COMPANY PJC Offices In New York Chicago, de- trolt San Francisco Los Angelea Vattle Portland St Leuis Atlanta Vancotiver B C flVTION A I E 0 I T 0 1 1 A 4 A$$OCllATlN TWJbM'M'IIH ME WSPAPEt BLISBEIS AitOCIATlOU Flight o' Time .v3vdfor8 and Jackon County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, SO and 4QQyears ago. 10 YA AGO JTrch 10. 1(47 (Monday) Bread increased a cant a loaf in rwtail stores in Msdford. from irthur Perry'f Ye Smudge Pot column: More val Igt residents have returned from wintering in the south. All ex press Chamber of Commerce joy at getting beet. 20 YElRi AGO March 10. 1337 ( VedneieUy) The packed pear crop of the Rogue River valley for last year, has been largely marketed, ac cording to F. Cramer Deuel, sec retary of the Rogue River Traf fic association. The first lamb tongues of the year were picked by Mr. and Mrs. Larkin Reynolds on their ranch at Ruch Monday. 30 YEARS AGO March 10. 1927 (Thursday) Central Labor Council plans receDtion in honor of Ben T. Osborne, executive secretary of the State American Federation of Labor. As soon as weather becomes warmer, the unemployment sit uation will be ereatly improved, according to Chris Gottlieb, head of the local branch of the United States free employment bureau. 40 YEjEf AGO March 10. 11 (Saturday) R. A. Ward, biological assist ant bureau of survey of the de patient of agriculture, will be in Jackson county soon to worn with County Pathologist Claude w C. Cate on several agriculture demonstrations. ie payroll at the Blue Ledge mine now amounts to about ('i.OOO a month, owners have an nounced. & W Tcyr IQ.? Nine or ten correct It snpertar; seT en or elrty Is excellent: (lye er sim is go4 1. Was Election Dty in the United States ,lwys on a Tuea- day? 2. When the jecond award of a medal for valor or achieve ment is made to a member of the armed force does the man get! two medals? 3. Bible. Who baptized Saul? 4. Moyt r4rs now have graft ed roots; trat or false? 5. The r.m of which city means '"brotherly lov"? 6. Harriet Ln as tha niece of a President ana served as mistress of the White House during her uncle's term of of fice; name the President. 7. Is polycythemia a disease of the red or white blood cells? 8. In what country is Narsars- sauk? 9. Is the "ch" in "coche" pro nounced cosh or cotch? 10. "As high as Heaven, as deep as" what? Answers: 1. No. 2. No. the second award is represented by an oak leaf cluster. 3. Ananias. 4. True. 5. Philadelphia. 6. James Bu.-hanan. 7. Red. 8. Greenland. 9. Cosh. 10. "Hell." Young. Washington Paying Korean Vets Bonus The state of Washington paying a bonus to Korean vet erans, Jerry V. Bianconi, county veterans service officer, remind ed ex-servicemen Friday. Any Washington veterans in Jackson county may contact Bi anconi at the courthouse where applications may be secured. was slated. Deadline for apply ing ior we tonus Is Dec. 31. What are We Waiting For? As memorials to congress by the State Legislature are seldom important, so Canyon memorial by one vote was not so important. But as a party voting index it was significant. Every Republican voted against this approval of public power on the Snake, and every Democrat voted for. As the Democrats have a majority in the House naturally the memorial passed by a comfortable total there. But with a 50-50 party division in the senate the result was a tie, 15-15, with the measure defeated because it failed to get the necessary 16 count by one vote. e e e e e THIS makes it reasonably clear that if the people of Oregon wish to get authorized federal power projects finished, or any new ones started, they better vote Democratic. We grant Hells Canyon has become extremely controversial politically but the debate over this memorial plainly demonstrated that in this field the Republicans have learned nothing and forgotten noth ing. All the old cliches about the evils of public power from the standpoint of our cherished "American way of life" were brought from the moth balls, shined up and fired at the opposition with all the exaggerated solemnity of a firing-squad delivering a salute to the "unknown soldier." As usual an entirely false picture of the public vs. private power issue was presented, although the rec ord of every federal multiple power project from TVA Tennessee to Bonneville, Oregon, refutes this. e IT WAS claimed, for example, that if a high federal dam was constructed on the Snake as recommended by the U.S. army engineers, in place of the three small dams by the Idaho Power company, not only would it cost the American taxpayers six or seven hundred millions, but the same taxpayers would lose a million dollars a year in taxes, and after all was said and done, the Idaho company project would, quote: "benefit Oregon and the Pacific northwest ALMOST as much as the high dam." (There is an other prize winning understatement.) e e e e e THE only trouble with this Even the official examiner for the Federal Power Commission in an official report that was never over ruled, declared "a high federal dam would be dollar- f or-dollar the better investment and more nearly ideal development of the Middle Why this decision was by the F.P.C. has never been made clear. The reason given by one official in Washington was that Congress wouia never vote tor another federal nroiect in the west, so wny authorize it. But only a short time later the Congress not only DID so vote authorizing me upper Colorado project but at far greater cost to the American taxpayers, for whom the Grand Old farty has such strong sympathies, whenever Hells canyon is the issue. BUT just what does this 1 M -T-vrs-v?a-.1 4. ailu wuciui jus in taxes up to when a multiple project idea is adopted as it was, ior example, at TVA in the first place the Every penny advanced by the government is over a period of years returned to the government through the sale and distribution of power, not directlv to the consumer but through local cooperative distributing systems, and ALWAYS at a low and reasonable cost. In other words through a couple of generations such a project doesn't cost the taxpayers of the country one rea cent. M0RE0VER at the end ment that is the people of the countrv own an extremely profitable and extensive light and power system, the services of which they get indefinitely'at a minimum charge. Does that promote the public wel fare or doesn't it? " ' AS FOR the much-advertised loss in taxes which the Idaho Power company, for example, would pay, if given the green light, is there anyone in the audi ence so naive they believe the company WOULD pay these taxes? Of course, as everyone knows, they wouldn't. They would merely add the tax costs to their rates, and as always the consumers would pay via the nostrils. A ND there one comes to the crux of the entire prob lem. Not only is it a question of getting more power the maximum but getting cheaper power the min imum. And we don't believe there are many who would deny that there is the crying need of the people of Oregon and the people of the northwest. riNALLY there is the multiple purpose item in the federal project that by the nature of things, and our established financial system CAN'T be included in any private power development. Again taking the "Tennessee Valley Authority" as an example, such a trustworthy and conservative news commentator as Marquis Childs, in the equally trustworthy and conservative Oregonian, recently stated that in the matter of flood control alone, this federal T.V.A. development on the Tennessee river saved one city Chattanooga in the recent floods an estimated $65,000,000. Of course there would not be a similar flood danger on the Snake but there would be on the Co lumbia, and on both there would be material, col lateral benefits in the area of water storage, naviga tion and irrigation. Sunday. March 10, 19S7 the defeat of the Hells argument is "it just ain't Snake. not accented and followed expense in increased taxes X 1 1 i 1 t to local crovernments arm on the Tennessee river? project is self-liauidatine-, of that period, the govern In the Days By FRANK At his news conference Thurs day morning. President Eisen hower discussed the problem of inflation. He said it may be nec essary to CUT SOME FEDERAL SPENDING in order to FIGHT inflation. He added that he has ordered an intensive review of the budg et to see where spending can be slowed down. LET'S put it this way: The dancer of inflation was present when the budget was be ing put together Heavy govern ment spending tends to IN CREASE the danger of inflation. But the budget, as presented to the Congress still called for the spending of nearly 72 BILLION dollars the highest peacetime budget in history. The size of it scared a lot of people, including a lot of com mon, ordinary taxpayers with no political axes to grind. In the up roar over the staggering size of the budget, it is becoming rea sonably apparent that too much spending isn't popular among the VOTERS. THIS is the moral: It snendine is to be cut. the VOTERS will bring it about. Whenever it becomes apparent that excessive spending of the taxpayers' money LOSES votes instead of WINNING VOTES there will be economy in gov ernment again. Bi)t not before then. TNTERESTING little tale: -- Pnnular Science magazine predicts that glib-tongued home- repair swindlers will bilk Amer icans out of half a BILLION dol lars this year. Hmmmmmm! Let's put it the other way around: AMERICANS THIS YEAR WILL PERMIT THEMSELVES TO BE BILKED OUT OF A HALF BILLION DOLLARS BY SMOOTH - TONGUED SLICK ERS. I N SHORT we can think on this issue of public Snake or elsewhere than to quote the official exam iner of the Federal Power commission when, after a thorough examination of all items mvoled, declared in his official report, quote : "The high dam would be dollar-for-dollar the better investment and the more ideal development of the Middle Snake." Why then don't we have it? What are we wait ing for? That, we believe, is the $64,000 question for the present administration to answer. R.W.R. News Tips versus News A mildly irate subscriber phoned this office last week and asked why we allowed the radio to best us on important news. "What news?" was asked. The "important news" proved to be that Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt had broadcast the fact that her choice for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960 was Oregon's senior senator; the right Honorable Wayne Morse. We admitted that was ised to check. The result that Mrs. Roosevelt never anywhere else, that Senator Morse was HER choice for the presidential nomination. She had declared in "McCall's magazine" that her three favtorites for to an inquirer, that her nomination would include the following: Former Ambassador Chester Bowles. Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon. Governor G. Mennen Williams of Michigan. Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania. Governor Edmund Muskie of Maine. No preferences were indication that the order had any special significance. As the record sliows any of the press associations, and, as far as known, was not played up by any even sent out by McCalls However had any of Mail Tribune, a long time and unwavering supporter of Oregon's senior Senator, would have considered it newsworthy and put the item under a proper head in a proper place. But that did not happen. OOWEVER, the reason we mention it editorially now, is to emphasize one of the minor headaches in the newspaper business, namely the receipt of so many unsolicited newrs items, that don't happen to be true. Mrs. Roosevelt, of course, did not choose Wayne Morse as her favorite candidate for the Democratic nomination three years hence, she only mentioned him as one of five prominent Democrats she considered of presidential timber from a news angle quite a dif ference. But it was and is, of course, a great compli ment to Senator Morse. XE WELCOME news TT would do nothing But we do have our moments when we wish more of the "tips" were based upon the facts rather than as sumptions so often contrary to them. R.W.R. News JENKINS TTOW? It will all be quite simple. These smoothies will harp on SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. They will make it appear that their prospects can get rich quick with very litUe effort. All that will be necessary will be to bite on the bait the smoothies are offering. There will be a catch to it, of course. The catch is that there is NO SUCH THING as something for nothing. Editorial Comment WOULD READERS TURN RED? Secretary of State Dulles has added absurdity to nonsense in trying to reverse himself grace fully on the Red China ban. Dulles now says that he'll let reporters go to the China main land if he can figure out how to keep this from opening the door to a general "cultural exchange. Reporters visit prisons without encouraging readers to become felons. Not only does such a vis it not encourage crime, but it deters it by showing its uncom fortable result. Red China is willing to admit these reporters without demand ing any such exchange. And if she did send reporters to Amer ica for a look around, nothing but good could result. Red China is not a nice place the analogy to prisons was used deliberately and we cer tainly don't want to get chummy with this land of Commie op portunists. But a visit to a prison doesn't imply love of evil-doers. The secretary now realizes that he's restricting two good old American rights, freedom of movement and information, and we wish he'd complete his about face more forthrightly. Albany Democrat-Herald. of no better summing up vs. private power on the "news" to us and we prom of the "check" was to show declared over the air, or her personal column in while she refused to name such an honor, she did say list of qualified men for the expressed and there was no in which the names appeared the item was not carried by newspapers in the state or publicity department. these things been done the tips from any source, and to discourage the practice. Matter of Fact by WHERE WE COME IN Paris For the Soviet citizen, the gradual evolution of the iron society in which he lives and has his being must be a mat ter of really passionate con cern. And this same evolution should also be a matter of deep interest for Americans. All the same, Joseph Aisop the evolution of Soviet society that began with the death of Stalin has neither softened nor deflected Soviet foreign policy. On the contrary, while considerably more supple than their late master, Stalin's heirs have actually proven some what more adventurous. And on the basis of a rather intense ex perience in the Soviet Union, this reporter is convinced that a wholly new generation of So viet leaders will probably have to come to power before there is any real change in the mean ing of "peaceful coexistence." Thus the fundamental West ern problem remains unaltered except in detail. In the satellite area of Central Europe, to be sure, the Soviets have recently suffered a severe setback. But by the ruthless use of their great military power, they have re covered a large part of their losses, at least for the time be ing. Meanwhile, the West has also suffered severe setbacks, especially in the troubled Mid die East. And the Western losses have most conspicuously not been recovered. AT THE present juncture, moreover, the West has found no effective way to exploit the boviet setbacks. Yet the Soviets are exploiting the Western set backs with great darine and astuteness. Thus Soviet world strategy has actually gone for ward. What then is the nature of this Soviet strategy which the Western allies must somehow find means to parry? It comes in three parts. To wards the United States, the So viets present a firm military front. At the same time, they seek bilateral negotiations be tween the two giant powers, but always and on strictly Soviet terms. In all the vulnerable ex- and semi-colonial areas in which the Western powers have vital inter ests, meanwhile, the Soviets are doing everything possible to transform the inflamed native nationalism into a weapon against the West. In Stalins time, the center of this effort was the Far East. But the great innovation of the Khrushchev era has been Soviet intervention in the Middle East, where Stalin hardly raised a finger after his retreat from Azerbaijan, In his talk with me, for in stance, Nikita Khrushchev open ly indicated active Soviet sup port for nationalization of the Middle Eastern oil sources, whence flows the economic life blood of Britain and western Europe. Thus he revealed the Soviet aim. The masters of the Kremlin do not want Commu nist satellies in the Middle East. They want Soviet-backed, venge- From Washington By Roscoe Drummond RESISTANCE TO THE PRESIDENT Washington The trend of re cent events shows that Presi dent Eisenhower is going to have recurring trouble with Congress. What is immediately visible is that Mr. Eisenhower faces a more critical Congress a Con gress more resistant to his pro posals for the conduct of foreign policy than at any time since his first election. The decisive Senate approval, 72 to 19, of the Eisenhower Doc trine in the Middle East is pro foundly welcome to the White House, but it would be mislead ing to look upon this vote as much of a Presidential victory. It was a Presidential defeat at several points and casts its shadow ahead. It would be premature to say that anything like stalemate be tween the White House and Con gress is in the making. It isn't. Neither side wants stalemate. What is happening is this: The Democratic leaders are not pliantly going to say yes to the President every time he asks for something. This is not unex pected. There will be no mas sive opposition. There will be selective opposition and now that Mr. Eisenhower can't run again, there is going to be a lit tle more "politics as usual." There is some compensation for the President. As Democratic opposition increases, there is a tendency among the Republi cans to close ranks and increase their support. This has been evi dent throughout the voting on the Middle East resolution. FIFTY-EIGHT days from pres entation to passage cannot be considered very responsive on the part of Congress to the "urgent" appeal Mr: Eisenhower made for "prompt" concurrence in his plan to give economic aid and military protection to the Middle East nations. A Re publican Congress did better than that in approving the "Tru man Doctrine" for military and economic aid to Greece and Tur key in 1947. Joseph Alsep fully anti-Western Arab govern ments which will nationalize the oil sources and take other steps of a similar nature. THUS Britain, particularly, is to be ruined. France and the other western European powers are to be weakened. And by this economic flank attack, the chief trans-AUantic partners of the Western alliance are to be knocked out of the great power game. But while they are thus en couraging their Arab friends to strike at the vitals of Britain, France and the other European nations, the Soviet leaders are shrewdly seeking quite another sort of success in Britain and France. In both these countries, the men of the political right place the whole blame for the setbacks in the Middle bast on the follies of American policy, conveniently forgetting their own follies. And on the political left, the American alliance has always been a source of pro found disquiet. In this confused state of pub lic opinion, the Soviet leaders hope to make great gains with still another weapon the cold fear which always inspires wish fulness and bad judgment. With virulent anti - Americanism al ready rampant, they are going to brandish their new arms. (It is a fair bet that they will short ly make some sort of public showing of an intermediate range ballistic missile with an atomic or hydrogen warhead which will inspire very cold fear indeed.) And they are going to say to our partners in the West ern alliance: "These Americans are terrible people anyway. If you only were not linked with them, we should be nice as pie to you. So why do you run the risk of being devas tated by these dangerous toys of ours in a quarrel between us and the Americans, just because you obstinately continue to grant the Americans bases in yaur countries? riNCE again, in the interview v he granted me, Nikita Krush chev quite discernibly hinted at this Soviet approach. He also quite confidently predicted that the American overseas bases would eventuaUy be liquidated. By these means, in sum, the masters of the Kremlin hope to organize a gigantic upset of the world balance of power, only comparable to the upset in the European balance of power that occurred m the Thirties. If you look at this Soviet for eign policy cold bloodedly, with out the cheap self indulgence of easy indignation, you have to admit that the Kremlins' mas ters are very far from stupid or weak. Their strategy, alas, is prudently bold, well adjusted to the means at their disposal, and on the whole well calculated to attain the aims they have set for themselves. In truth, the Soviet strategy leaves only one key question un answered. If the world balance of power is successfully upset as planned, how will the suddenly aroused United States then re act? Copyright. New York Herald Tribune Inc. There are other manifestations of Congressional independence of and resistance to the Presi dent. For reasons which were completely arguable, the Senate Democratic leaders re-wrote the Eisenhower resolution to put the full responsibility upon the Pres ident for use of force in the Middle East if he deems it nec essary. At another point a Demo cratically sponsored amendment to empty the Middle East reso lution of the economic aid pro vision got 28 votes, which can not fail to give the White House grave concern about what may happen to the economic aid ap propriations which lie ahead. Finally, there was the over whelming upsurge of Congres sional opposition to the prospect that President Eisenhower would support U.N. sanctions against Israel. Here both parties were united against the White House. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson wrote Secre tary Dulles a strong letter say ing that Congress would never accept such a course and Repub lican Senate Leader William Knowland threatened to resign from the American delegation to the United Nations if sanctions were approved by the Adminis tration. Most correspondents doubted that the Administration would in the end ever have gone along with sanctions, but the vigorous attitude of the Senate had the effect of striking from the Presi dent's hands an instrument of pressure which he was seeking to use on Premier Ben-Gurion. THE unusually solid Republi can support for the President on the Middle East resolution is the only encouraging develop ment which the President can find in this whole sequence of events. Only five Republicans joined the 23 Democrats who voted for the amendment delet ing flexibility in economic aid. Only three Republicans voted with the 16 Democrats against the resolution itself. . All the public opinion polls continue to show that the voters POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) We were told, the other day. about the salesman driving alone Highway 99 near Central Point in a delivery truck, which suddenly lost a wheel. The driv er managed to get off to the side of the road, and watched as the wheel rolled on, finally coming to rest up the highway. As our driver waited lor tral- fic to clear so he could hike for ward and get the wheel, another truck, this one a pick-up, pulled off the side of the road by the wheel, the driver jumped out, grabbed the wheel, tossed it in the pick-up, and drove off. The first driver was so iiaD- bergasted all he could do was sit there and watch. Didn't even get the other guy's license num ber. Tha Jackson school publica tion. Jackson Hickory Chips, reports that "March cam in like a lamb. That meant it will go out like the sixth grade at lunch lime." Good deeds are not always ap preciated. Just ask Cliff Cordy, the horticultural agent here, who last week started off to demonstrate to a photographer how to prune rose bushes. He was looking for a house with bushes needine the work, whicn he'd perform, skillfully and eV perUy, free. At the first house where he stopped, the lady declined be cause she wanted unpruned roses to keep the kids out of the garden. At the next, the skepti cal householder declined be cause, she said, they were rent ing and maybe the landlord didn't want the roses pruned. This same story showed up at the next bouse, and again at another some distance away. At another two or three houses no one answered the door. Finally, about an hour and 20 minutes after he started, Cordy found a lady at home who said she'd be delighted to have the roses pruned, and that her hus band had been planning to do it that afternoon. State Sen. Howard Belton of Canby, "dean" of the sen ate, says that some of the new legislators remind him of the bottom half of a double boiler "they put out a lot of steam, but they never seem to know what's cooking." Amos Walker saw a "Flight O' Time" item in Mail Tribune the other day, in the 40 years ago column, which recorded that Mrs. Myrtle Day of Gold Hill had been in town to buy a Saxon Six car. Walker, who then oper ated the Walker Auto Company on Main street, tells us that oth er Saxon Sixes were delivered to other valley residents from the same shipment. He delivered one to Johnny Reed, then mayor of Gold Hill, after Mrs. Day. Reed's sister-in-law, made the arrangements, and others went to Richard Antle, cashier of the Farmers and Fruitgrowers bank. and Herman Offenbacher, of the Applegate. Mrs. H. H. Chapman, our H o r n b r ook correspondent, swears that she heard a radio announcer the other day. in giving a waather forecast, say there was "a shounce of chat tered skewers." She thinks he probably meant a chance of scattered showers. Last week our sports editor traded -in his desk for another one,- considerably larger, aue to a general rearrangement of furniture now going on in con nection with our remodeling. After the big desk was de livered, someone made reference to the sports desk, whereupon the sports editor drew himself up and announced that, with the changeover, "This isn't the sports desk anymore; it's the sports department." McLoughlin Junior ' High school's paper, the Junior Quill, records a conversation in which Jim asks Tim if he knows how to get rid of "that run-down feeling." Tim says, "No. How?" Jim replies, "Look both ways before you cross the street." The general fire alarm sound ed last week in the midst of a downpour of rain, and our pho tographer was dispatched post haste to the Pinnacle plant where smoke had been reported. No fire ensued, however, and he came back without a picture. Someone said they were sorry he'd had a "dry run.' "Well," commented the pho- tog, shaking water from his hair and clothes, "it wasn't exactly dry." decisively support the Presi dent's conduct of foreign policy. If this support holds and the Republicans conclusively back the President, then the Republi can party may be putting itself in an exceedingly advantageous position for the election next year. But it remains to be seen whether this Republican support will hold. Sen. Knowland has al ready indicated that he will try to cut Mr. Eisenhower's foreign aid program. Copyright. New York Herald Tribune Inc.