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Shady C.a a rawer Talent and on motor routes- Daily and Sunday Ope year $18 00 Dally and Sunday Caae aeatb lit Carrier and Dealer lue ar eorjaj Al' Terma C.ari 1 Advance OfflrialTaper t Mr of Mfcdroid Official -ar t Jatkson Comity United Preaa Fll leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT UBEAU OF CIlCULATIOai Advertising: Represi itative WEST-HOLIDAY COMATY QIC Offices in New York Caicaaa. da trolt, San Francco Lee Angeles Seattle Portland St Lou Atlanta Vancouver C o NijlOIAi. IIT0!A 11 wi PUBllSIEfS ASeKCIATICsft flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 tnd 40 ye-s ago. 10 YEARS AGO 0 March 14. 1947 (Friday) fvo stock associations form ed at Star ranger station to pro mote and project grazing on na tional forest rartge. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "GROOM'S IDENTITY SECRET" (Hdline Portis Clarion) Wild guessers claim it's gome man. 20 YEARS AGO March 14, 1947 (Sunday) Lithia Springs hotel in Ash land purchased by Walter H. Levergtte, Medford financier. Cascade Tackle company, for merly of Bend, takes up tempo raryuarters at 21 South River side ave., according to J. Duck ett, owner. 30 YEARS AGO March 14, 1027 (Monday) Secretary C. T. Baker of Med ford Chamber of Commerce de nies report that chamber may move to a location on Riverside ave. Jackson County Merchant's as sociation to prepare plans for festival celebrating spring opening. 40 YEAR9 AGO Former Gov. Oswald West spends day in Medford on busi neg concerning a O and C land grant case. Southern Pacific wreck at Voorheis causes damage to rail road amounting to $2,515. ftfcsi's Tivr I.Q.? Nina or ta correct la superior; sev en 6r etrst U excellent; live ar six foitl. 1. Was the first theater in the U. S. expressly for operatic per formances opened in New York Of Boston? 2. Wolves drink water in the manner as dogs; true or false? 3. lible: Jesus' two miracles. "Healin of the Deaf Man" and "Feeding the Four - Thousand" occurred at D s? 4. Sir E. S. Creasy wrote hook bout famous military' op eration!, what was the title of the boo? 5. Tfisj romance languages are descnfld from the Greek, Lat in, or Slivic? 6. Vhich crry the fresh blood outward from the heart; arteries or van? 7. In what city was the trial of Japanese Genaral Tomoyuki Yamashita as a war criminal heldr ' 8. Why is a third set of locks planned for the Panama Canal? 9. Is it proper to say "Sir Winston Churchill" or "Sir Churchill"? 10. "If all the year was play Ing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to" what? Answers: 1. Naw York (1833), 2. Trua. 3. Decapolis. 4. "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World." Latin. 6. Arteries.. 7, Manila, P.I. 8. The 45,000 ton Midway class aircraft -carriars of the avy cannot pass through the present locks. 9. Sir Winston Churchill. 10. "Work" Shakes peare. Court Soys Wife Can't Be torceJ To Testify Salem (U.R) The State Su- Opreme Court held yesterday that a wife cannot be compelled against her will to testify against her husband who had O indicted for an attempted assault upon his minor daughter. The n court reversed the Washington county conviction of Leonard Le Tils. ... . The Portland "Mess" Some years ago we visited Hollywood and after a tour of some of the "lots" were given the low-down on movie-morals. There was some sort of scandal hitting the front pages in "L.A." at the time, and we opined, in our innocence, that it must.be hard on the principals, particularly the popular feminine star who was in volved. "Shucks," remarked our newspaper guide, "that front page stuff is great box office, the more of it the merrier." "In other words it is publicity they want, whether it is good or bad?" we asked. "You got the idea," was the reply, "this place is publicity-mad and it pays off!" TiyHICH only goes to show that Portland, Ore., is a long distance from Hollywood, Calif., not only geographically but regarding morals and mores. tor they don t like scandal in Portland. And they like even less any publicity about it. For example, here is an extract from a letter we recently received from the "Rose City," quote : "Portland is on the map all right thanks to these Senate hearings in Washington. But what a map and what a spot! To listen to all that dirt one would think this wasn't a city of nice homes and nice people, but a community of burglars, bawdy houses and bums. What's the big idea? I don't deny there has" been corruption and double-dealing in labor circles here but the suspected ones including the D.A. have been indicted and the whole mess is going to court pretty soon. Why not clear it up there instead of in Washington, D.C.. and for political purposes only." VJLfELL why not? T One reason perhaps is the officials and courts have been so slow to act. Another reason may be this is ANOTHER committee-conscious congress, and Port land provided a juicy bit of publicity for the commit tee chairman and the members, as always arrayed on the popular side of the eternal struggle between righteousness and sin. Probably the hearing in Washington has politics in it everything in Washington, including the dome, is slanted by it. But it is hard to believe either a con gress or a committee, controlled by the Democrats would pursue any investigation into labor corruption in Portland or elsewhere, with any idea the proceed ings would bring them votes. Quite the reverse we should think. MATURALLY, however, our Portland friend doesn't like it. He has lived all his life in the beautiful, complacent and somewhat provincial me tropolis, he really loves it, and naturally resents the country and the world getting what is sucha false picture of hjs pleasant and peaceful home. But he shouldn't be shocked. This sort of tfiing has been going on in the "City of Roses" for a very long time. We well remember the battle the late Governor Martin (he was a West Pointer and a General also) had with what were then called "labor goons." He gave no quarter, and asked none. But the goons would get him if he didn t watch out, and characteristically he didn't. He kept on leading with his chin. And in the -forthcoming Pri maries he was defeated. Governor Martin died a few years later and the cnisade he led, went "where the woodbine twineth," to remain there until the Ore gonian revived it. OUT all that, of course, is "water over the dam." AJ WUof lVtnrnc fVin Moil Trihnna of tVlO riVPSPTir. VTllClb XllLCitOO tllC mail i 1 lAi V.. Ob j time is how to clean up the mess, not only for the well being and betterment of Portland, but organized abor as well. The fundamental problem wre have decided bears a certain resemblance to the Russian problem. In both cases we doubt if there will be REAL improve ment until the high command the leadership is changed. And we also doubt that such a change can be brought about by attacks or pressures from with out such as this senate investigation m Washington, or the anti-Soviet remarks of Secretary Dulles at home or abroad. Such attacks "stir up the animals" at home, but we fear they only tend to close the ranks and stimu late the opposition at home and abroad. In other words we doubt if there will be perman ent improvement in either case, until the people of Russia somehow, someway, put their own house in order and organized labor in this country does the same. Mollet Faces Double Question In Vote of Confidence Test By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Guy Mollet France's most dur able premier since the end of World War II, is about to face his biggest test. The Nation al Assembly, the controlling house of the French Parlia ments opened a free - swing- 1 ing debate to day on Mot let's policies. rbarlea MeCann 1 n e aeDaie will continue until March 22 when Mollet will put his pro- 1 -j' a gram to a vote of confidence. It is pretty certain that the deceivingly scholarly - looking Socialist premier will win the test If he does, it will be the 33rd time since he took office on Feb. 1, 1956, that Mollet has put the life of his government on the line and has kept his job. Two Policy Issues The National Assembly de bate centers on two policy is sues. One is Algeria, the 851,299 square mile area of French Af rica which has been torn by a bloody, costly revolt since Nov. 1, 1954. Matter of Fact K ai - J "THERE is some evidence that such a reformation 1 is possible EVENTUALLY in Soviet Russia, and even more evidence that the job can be done by union labor here at home. That telegram to the McClellan senate commit tee, for example, signed by 333 members of the Teamsters union in Portland, was particularly heart ening. This is the way it read in part: "We wish the removal from office of any Teamsters offi cials found guilty of racketeering or misuse of union funds. We favor legislation to prevent the occurence of such a situation as now exists." Equally encgijraging was the stand taken ffcy George Meany, president of "A.FL and CIO." Said he : " "I welcome the senate effort where and when it is di-' rected toward cleaning up the Teamsters or any other union, and punishing crime or wrong doing wherever found. But I am opposed where the motive fundamentally is NOT to re form and purify the unions, but to destroy them." We believe the people of this state, and countiy, would give their general approval to both declarations. AS FAR as this paper is concerned, we would go back to a statement made to the undersigned by THE DULLES PROMISSORY NOTES Washington One thing at least is obvious. Despite all the hopeful hints and bright fore- 'mjt sn pasts since the withdrawel . of the Israelis, the Middle Eastern crisis is far from over. And the time may be coming rather soon when the J United States stewait Aisop will have put up or shut up. For the United States, under the policy of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, has given the British, the French, and the Israelis certain large promissory notes, in return for their with drawal from Egypt. And it is quite likely that these promis sory notes will fall due in the near future. The French and British in vasion of Egypt was no doubt an act of folly, but it was not an act of simple insanity. They had rational reasons for doing what they did. Above all, they be lieved that it was better to risk force than to tolerate a situa tion which would see the viol ently hostile Abdel Gama Nas ser, with Soviet backing, in un challenged control of tneir ec onomic jugular vein, the Suez Canal. Thev agreed to withdraw, without commitment from Nas ser, largely because' they be lieve they did have a commit ment from the United States that Nasser would not achieve total control of the canal. When they withdrew, Vice-President Nixon, in a speech approved by Dulles and the President, gave them their promissory note. He said, in effect, that the United States had a moral obligation to make certain that Britain and France did not suffer as a re sult of their compliance with the American-sponsored U.N. resolution. a a a THIS promissory note could fall due in a matter of days. The canal is to be opened short ly to ships of 10,000 tons. Sup pose, one day soon, a ship fly ing the British flag enters the canal and the Egyptians demand the toll. The British captain, on instruction from London, offers a Receipt on the Egyptian block ed sterling account in London. The Egyptians refuse to supply a pilot unless cash on the barrel head is forthcoming, without conditions. If the British (and 'or the French) agree to put cash on the Parrel head In such circum stances, Nasser will have won the ball game. Even after Nas ser took the canal, 60 per cent of the canal tolls were paid into blocked accounts in Paris and London, pending a settlement. If the toUs are now instead paid to Nasser in cash, without con ditions, there will have been a settlement on Nasser's terms For all practical purposes, the canal will be Nasser's Yet what are the British and French to do if Nasser refuses them passage except on his terms? After what has passed, they are not at all likely to use force unilaterally again, as Nas ser is well aware. Instead, they will turn to the United States and ask payment on their prom issory note. And aside from appealing again to the United Nations, a weak reed indeed in such a situation how is the United States to pay off on the note? The United States, after all, is not likely to start shoot ing either, as Nasser is also aware. By Stewart Alsop Secretary Dulles has also given the Israelis promissory notes, in the matter of the Gaza Strip and the Straits of Tiran. Suppose, for example, the Egyp tians halt an Israeli ship mov ing through the Straits of Tiran towards Elath, and the Israelis turn to the United States. Is this country going to send an aircraft . carrier to ensure free passage? It seems hardly likely. " THE pattern, in short, has been twice repeated in order to get first the British and French and then the Israelis to with draw, the United States has made commitments without any clear idea of how they were to be carried out. The commitments were made, essentially, on the assumption that Nasser would be reasonable, once his attackers had withdrawn, without any as surance to that effect from Nas ser. Perhaps, in the end, Nasser will be reasonable. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmond Fawzi continues to make reason able noises to U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold. It is in Nas ser s rational self-interest to achieve a settlement, in order to un-block Egyptian funds and start rebuilding Egypt's wrecked economy. But is is a risky busi ness to suppose that Middle East ern nationalists fanatics can be relied upon to act in their own rational self-interest, and recent portents are hardly encouraging. If Nasser is not ready to nego tiate seriously, if he demands a settlement on his own terms in the canal, in the Straits of Tiran, and in the Gaza Strip, Secretary Dulles' promissory notes will fall due. The United States may then find itself going very publicity into receivership, an unhappy prospect for the world's greatest power. Copyright New York Herald Tribune Inc. Mollet . is determined that France shall keep Algeria at any cost. He offers Algeria free elections and a great measure of home rule. But he insists that first the nationalist rebels must lay down their arms. The other issue concerns Mol- let's fight against inflation in France. It is being pinned on the de mand of powerful agricultural interests for a rise of about one half cent a quart in the price of milk, which is government con trolled like many other prices. Raise Price Index The difficulty is that if the increase is approved, it will raise the price index. That would mean an Increase of 5 per . cent in the minimum wage scale for all of France. Actually, not a great many French workers would get the increase, because few of them get only the minimum wage pre scribed by law.. Mollet knows, however, from past experience that if the min imum wage is increased, the la bor unions will at once open a fight and wage it with mass strikes for general wage increases. Mollet has decided to stand or fall on his refusal to raise the milk price. Nixon's Airplane Forced To Return By Engine Trouble Tripoli, Libya (U.R) A plane carrying Vice President Richard M. Nixon from Khar toum to Tobruk was forced to return to Khartoum today when trouble developed in one of the engines. A radio message said the plane returned to Khartoum 90 minutes after takeoff from Khar toum because of "partial fail ure" of the No. 2 engine. An announcement said the vice president's brief visit to Tobruk would be cancelled and that Nixon would fly direct to Tripoli after engine repairs are made or a new one is flown in for him. Second Difficulty It was the second time Nixon's plane had developed engine trouble on his tour of Africa. A new engine was flown into Mon rovia, Liberia, from Prestwick, Scotland, when trouble develop ed. , A second plane carrying Am erican correspondents also was plagued with mechanical diffi culties and their flight from Cas ablanca to Accra, capital of the the new Ghana, was delayed. Nixon had been expected to confer in Tobruk with King Id riss, ruler of one and a quarter million people of this desert country, before going to Tripoli for a three-day visit. Plans call for him to fly to Rome Saturday for a week end audience, with Pope Pius XII. From Washington By Roscoe Drummond WHERE SOVIET POLICY STANDS Washington Is any real head way being made toward easing the tensions between the Soviet Union and the West, and, if not, what are the prospects? That is the over-riding ques tion in Washington. The answers to this question requires an answer to other questions: where does de-Stali-nization" begin and where does it stop? What effect is it having on Soviet policy within its bor ders, in its policy toward the satellites and toward the free world? ' In light of the record since the KhruShcev anti-Stalin speech, in light of the Polish and Hungar ian revolution and Soviet ma neuvers in the Middle East, U.S. officials have reached pretty firm conclusions as to the shape In'the Days News By FRANK JENKINS Inadequate Vision Among Problems of Health in Country "Inadequate vision ranks sec ond only to neglected teeth among America's most common health problems," Dr. William J. Thompson, Medford optometrist and state public information chairman for the Oregon Opto- metric association, told Kiwan- ians at a luncheon meeting this week at the Rogue Valley coun try club. "Inadequate vision is second on the list of all causes for re jection of men by the Armed Forces, he said. Dr. Thompson stated research by optometrists at Yale Insti- tude of Child Development has disclosed that the vision process is the dominant one in the de velopment of the child. Visual Development "This study has given, for the first time, standards by which we can appraise and guide the visual development of the pre school child," he said. "Scientific advancement has shown ways to effectively reduce much of the loss in visual ability occurring during the formative years under the stresses imposed by our modern educational de mands." He said advancement in visual care now keeps men in business and industry well past the 45 years of age. In times past, in adequate vision for close work has caused the more experi enced, older man to be replaced by younger men. Dr. Thompson said, "Driver vision examinations are too lax. This is dramatically demon strated by an article in CARS magazine. It tells the story of how David Schnair, a blind pen sioner, wearing dark glasses and carrying a white cane, renewed his driver's license in an eastern state." The speaker was introduced by Kiwanian Dr. Tom Anderson-. In our nation's capital this morning the house of represen tatives starts debate on a reso lution asking President Eisen hower for advice as to how his nearly 72 billion dollar budget can be "cut substantially." What's cooking? II'ELL, it appears that public " demands for economv and tax reduction are reaching the point where something may have to be done about it. The Demo crats are alleged to be sponsor ing the resolution as a move to take the offensive in an ECON OMY drive. The Republicans are attacking it as a buck-passing maneuver designed to take the congress (which the Democrats control) OFF the spot and put the Repub lican administration ON the spot. At any rate, it is interesting to learn that the public is begin ning to demand more economy, in government which is the only feasible road to lower taxes. CJUPPOSE we do a little analyz- J ing of this proposal on the part of the congress to ASK IKE how to go about cutting the budget that Ike made. These are the fundamentals: 1. It is the job of the Presi dent to suggest to the congress how much he thinks ought to be spent for this and that. 2. It is the job of congress to appropriate the amount of mon ey the President asks or to RE FUSE TO APPROPRIATE IT. Seismograph Notes 'Major' Earthquake Pasadena, Calif. (U.R) An earthquake with a magnitude of over 7 was recorded at 6:45.04 a.m. (PST) today on seismo graphs at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Charles Richter said that with limited information it ap pears the new tremor is in the general vicinity of the Aleutian Islands where a quake with a magnitude of 8 was recorded last Saturday. THAT is to say: ? TTnrlpr nur svstm rtf ffmorn. ment, the congress holds the purse strings. If the congress thinks the Pres ident is somewhat extravagant in his spending ideas, it is the DUTY of the congress to refuse to appropriate as much money as he asks. That is about the size of it. of Kremlin policy as far ahead as- anyone dare foresee. There is nothing on the horizon justifying any optimism. The concensus on the main points is this: ON INTERNAL DE-STALINI- ZATION De-Stalinization was never intended for export. Bear in mind that the text of the Khrushchev speech was not dis closed by the Kremlin, but by the U.S. government. De-Stalini zation which began with the death of Stalin, not with the Khrushchev speech was de signed to reduce the danger of mutual blood-letting at the top of the Soviet hierarchy and to permit a little bit more initia tive,, a little more intellectual elbow room to the new Soviet managerial class. Khrushchev began his speech with the as sumption of Stalin's "great con tributions" to Communism and criticized him only for his "ex cessive" repressions against the wrong people that is, against other Communists. De-Stalinization was not intended to go far; it has not gone far but is not being withdrawn. The dictator ship is wholly in control. ON RELATIONS WITH THE , SATELLITES Khrushchev and Co. misjudged the effect of de Stalinization on the satellites, especially those with a long his tory of pre-Communist Russian domination. Today Kremlin pol icy toward the satellites is as rough, tough and unbending as it ever was under Stalin. The force and fury of the Pol ish and Hungarian revolts took the Kremlin by surprise. Poland and Hungary have gone farther in reducing Kremlin control than the Soviets relish and they are determined it won't happen again. The judgment of those closest to the facts is that the So viets will use massive force against Poland or Hungary or any other satellite which goes beyond these two limits: If it fails to maintain a "Com munist system." If it denounces the Warsaw Pact which justifies the pres ence of Soviet troops. ON THE CONDUCT OF THE COLD WAR De-Stalinization has little bearing on the meth ods and goals of Soviet foreign policy. The goals "remain the same, the methods, if anything, more venturesome,' as in the Middle East. Moscow's diplomatic objec tives are: To liquidate NATO entirely, to see its organization d i s mantled and American -forces drawn back to the shores of the continental United States. To neutralize Germany en tirely. To keep things so stirred up in the Middle East that peace be tween the Arab nations and Israel will be impossible to at tain. Its ultimate end is to cut off Europe's indispensable oil supply which, to Moscow, would be better than taking western Europe by arms. " T ET'S take another look at this proposal on the part of the congress to go to the President and ask his advice as to how the congress can go about CUTTING the budget the Presi dent has proposed. IF the congress was doing it out of deep affection - for the President IF it loved him, and was genuinely concerned with saving him from the consequences of spending too much This proposal to talk things over with him with the idea of bringing about a reduction in spending would be a WONDER FUL thing. It would be a shin ing example of the way things OUGHT to be done. BUT everyone with an ounce of political savvy knows that isn't the situation. The purpose of the Democratically controlled house of representatives is to make it appear that the Demo cratic congress is saving the country from the reckless ex travagance of a Republican Pres ident. That's the politics of it. rpHERE is no evidence that the Kremlin is open to productive negotiation -on a single ppint. Could there, for example, be a mutual draw-back of East West forces where they now con front each other in Germany? The answer here is that the Soviet Union does not dare, in light of the Polish and Hungar ian revolutions, withdraw its forces from a single eastern European nation it now occupies, including East Germany. If it did, the "peoples' democracy," Communist-s t y 1 e, would be overthrown and as the leader of international Communism, Mos cow cannot sacrifice a Commu nist regime to popular wL'. That would start toppling the satel lite dominoes. This means that there can be no unification of Germany on the basis of Bonn's acceptance of the East German Communist government. , On balance the prospect of any useful negotiation with the Kremlin is less promising today than it has been for a long time. (c) New York Herald Tribune Inc. former Governor Martin, some 20 years ago, which was approximately as follows: ' "They claim I am a foe of organized labor. I am not. I am no more a foe of organized labor than I am of organized capital. I believe organization is needed in both. But I also believe there are inescapable obligations in both fields, and among the first I would place obedience to the law. When labor breaks the law I am against labor, when capital does I am against capital. That is all there is to my so-called anti-labor stand. When labor is in the right I am all for it, when it is wrong I am all against it. The same with organ ized capital. Big Business, Little Business or what have you. Let them all obey the law, morally and legally, and there will be no quarrel as far as I am concerned." It is possible that had Governor Martin lived and held office for another term, the "mess" our Port land friend now complains of would never have reached the stage it has. The great hope is there will be a new leadership in the Teamsters union, brought about by the union rank and file themselves, and the job that "Tommy Martin" stalled will be finished by them. R.W.R. WHAT IS INCLUDED IN FUNERAL EXPENSE? . When you call on a funeral director for his services in time of need, he makes available to you up to 88 different items of "services rendered", each of. them affecting your comfort and peace of mind. ' At the Chapel Mortuary all of these services are included in whichever price funeral service YOU select , . . whether it is the minimum or the more elaborate. DAY OR NIGHT PHONE 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from- th Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS A
