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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 20. 1947 (Thursday)
Norm Worthington, athletic
coach and physical education in
structor at junior high school,
resigns.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Tomorrow
is the first day of Spring. The
day and the night, will even
steven, each 12 hours long, astro
nomers say.
20 YEARS AGO
March 20, 1937 (Saturday)
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce has again been pub
licized by the U. S. Chamber of
commerce ior an outstanaing
community service.
Walter H. Leverette is elected
chairman of Jackson county
council of the Shasta Cascade
Wonderland association.
30 YEARS AGO
Mrch 20. 1927 (Sunday)
County Assessor J. B. Cole
man completes tedistrubution of
O gnd C land grant taxes for
Jackson county from $1,151,962.
74 received this week.
New long distance station of
the Pacific Telephone and Tele
graph company is now in serv
ice. 40 YEARS AGO
March 20. 1917 (Tuesday)
Utah-Idaho Sugar company
closes campaign for acreage for'
sugar beet growing in this sec
tion this season, according to
J. B. Pettingill, field superinten
dent. From Local and Personal col
umn: Wayman Birdsman of
Eagle Point is a Medford busi
ness visitor today.
What's Your I.Q.?
Ntne or ten correct Is superior; sev
en ci eight Is excellent: live er
six Is good.
1. Radar can be used on mer
chant ships; true or false?
2. With what doctrine is "nul
lification" associated in Ameri
can history?
jioie: ioan was ou, ouu, or
666 years old when he completed
the ark?
4. What is the name for an
ungelded male horse?
5. What is the name of the
football stadium at New Haven,
Conn.?
6. Name the body of water
lying between India and Burma.
7. With the name of which
American political figure do you
connect the "Brown Derby"?
8. Wh was the father of Alice
Longworth?
9. How many keys are there
on a standard piano keyboard?
JO. At what temperature does
fresh water freeze?
Answers: 1. True; 2. The doc
trine of "Slates Rights"; 3. 600;
4. Stallion: 5. The Yale Bowl: 6.
Gulf of Bengal; 7. Alfred E.
Smith; 8. Theodore Roosevelt;
9. 88; 10. 32 degrees F.
Eisenhower Against Own
Budget, Coldwater Says
Washington U.R) Sen.
Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) said
Monday night that he believes
President Eisenhower is "against
his own budget."
But. Goldwater said that the
1958 spending budget of $71.8
billion is so "astronomical" in
size that it is "questionable what
can be done about it at the exec
utive level. "Congress wiU have
to deal with it," he said.
Local Parking Districts
The advertising boys tell us that repetition is im
portant in advertising success. The geologists say that
water dripping constantly on a rock will wear the
rock away. The old maxim
don't succeed, try, try again.
- Let us, therefore, consider off-street parking.
If you've tried to find a parking place down town,
lately, you've probably ndticed that the situation is
worse than it was at about tfk'is time last year. It reach-
edits peak just before Christmas, than eased up a bit,
anjfenow is getting tighter again, as these spring days
bring the shoppers down town again.
e
DUT, last November, the voters of the city turned
J down by a majority of 349 votes (out of more than
9,300 cast) an off-street parking plan. It called for
the city to contribute a portion of its meter revenues,
and for downtown merchants to contribute another
portion through property assessments. The balance
would come from revenue bonds, backed by the credit
of the city.
We've heard a lot of reasons why it was voted
down, but the most prevalent one is because voters
apparently thought it was up to th downtown mer
chants to foot the entire bill as they would be the
big?st beneficiaries.
We supported the program because, while the
merchants would get the most benefit, the public at
large would benefit too.
CO MUCH for local background.
There is another way in which the city could
go about it, and that is through the formation of a
parking district, where revenue bonds would be back
ed by downtown property, rather than by the full
credit of the city.
EujJJtne has a problem remarkably similar to the
one in 'Medford, and the Register-Guard of that city
discusses the parking district plan, as follows :
The downtown area is where the off-street parking
is needed. And it is a reasonable premise Wat this area,
by forming a parking district, should stand behind a bond
issue without involving other property in the city. Ex
perience has shorn in cities elsewhere that revenues from
city-owned lots will pay off the bonds necessary to finance
them.
There are two ways in which such a parking dis
trict could be formed : One is through a city charter
amendment, to be voted on by the people ; the other
would be through new legislation to permit such a
project.
THE GUARD points out that State Sen. Harry
Boivin of Klamath Falls plans to introduce such
a measure, and City Manager Bob Duff tells us the
J League of Oregon Cities
nassa rp.
X 0.
It would be a step toward the eventual solution of
our problem. A somewhat similar bill was defeated
two years ago because ofigj few minor "bugs" it in
which could not be corrected in time.
JThe city is now marking time on off-street park
ing possibly because H the defeat of last fall's pro
posal even though that defeat was far from over
whelming or decisive. A report on what has been done
so far is being prepared for the city council before any
j ii . , i
iurxner action is taKen.
But we can't mark time much longer. Not only are
the number of cars using the streete increasing, but
the number of parking places are decreasing, and will
decrease even faster when the arterial street program
gets into full swing, with its ban on parking on some
of our more important "main" streets. E.A.
Cancer Victory Nearer
Infantile paralysis is
threat to health. Or rather, it would be, if people
could Wfc pursuaded to get
program, which has been
in some other places.
As a result, attention is shifting to other diseases,
illnesses -which statistically are greater killers than
polio has been. Heart disease is one ; rheumatism and
arthritis are others ; cancer
Researchers are at a
nninta in nil thpco rncpQcoc
- jaw . , , , ,
cuvenv aiuea uy mouern
in tne coming years.
TWO theories about cancer, announced in recent
months, provide the basis for hope that within the
forseeable future cancer can be conquered.
On the face of them,
somewhat contradictory.
though, further research
plementary, fitting in to
to be developed.
One of them, formulated by a researcher at our
own University of Oregon
the normal body develops
serve as inhibitors to parent cells, preventing them
from going wild and becoming cancerous in growth.
The absence of these chemicals, in other words, causes
cancer.
Another thory holds that cancer may well be the
product of a type of tiny virus.
THE medical men who know the technical ins and
outs of these theories probably will scream in
anguish at this oversimplif ication, but that's apparent
ly what they boil down to in layman's language.
One or the other of these theories may be right,
or both might, or neither. But the fact remains that
all evidence points to the conquering of cancer prob
ably within the next decade or so. And that will be an
even greater victory, in terms of human lives, than
the victory over polio. E.A. -
Wednesday. March 20, 1957
says that if at first you
may be able to help in its
on its way out as a major
going on the Salk vaccine
more successful here than
is a third.
half - dozen "break-through"
arm rorrmrlro nla now Aic
, , . .
tecnniques, promise ouiers
the theories appear to be
And they may be. Again,
may show them to be com
the same overall theory yet
medical school, holds that
certain chemicals which
Ambitious Governor
Of Michigan Moving
To Lose CIO 'Label'
"J
By RAYMOND LAHR
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) Reports
from Michigan indicated that
Gov. G. Mennen Williams is
making motions to rid himself of
the CIO label.
A nationally-advertised show
of independence from his friends
in the United Automobile Work
ers would seem to be a pre-condition
for any serious Williams
Early Eisenhower
.$ipporfer Worried
About Party Change
Charlotte, N.C. U.R) One of
the earliest supporters of Presi
d e n t Eisenhower is worried
about the "administration's
change of direction" since the
November election.
John S. Knight, one of the na
tion's leading Dublishers. tolri
the Charlotte Executive club
Tuesday night that he is trou
bled by the American people's
"almost naive faith" in the
President and by the "new role
in which he appears."
He said, "I am most con
cerned with the Eisenhower ad
ministration's change in direc
tion since the President's reelec
tion. Budget 'Shocker'
"The new $72 billion budget
was a shocker to all who be
lieve, as I do, in holding down
the expenses of government . . .
but the President and Congress
are now engaged in a buck pass
ing contest to avoid taking re
sponsibility. It is useless for Eisenhower
to admonish both business and
labor on the subject of inflation
when the government itself, by
its gargantuan expenditures, is
contributing to inflation."
Knight, a director of the Char-
lottelpbserver. also is editor
and publisher of the Akron Bea
con Journal, the Miami Herald,
the Detroit Free Press and the
Chicago Daily News.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Foreign affairs stuff:
Israel has just sent a freighter
from the Israeli port of Eilat
down the gulf of Aqaba to test
the Arab claim that this body of
watqp is an Arabian lake and
therefore can be used by ships
of other nations only with Arab
ian permission.
Reports reaching Tel Aviv (in
Israel) as this is written say the
Israeli ship has cleared the nar
row straits of Tiran at the south
ern end of the Aqaba gulf and
is on its way out into the Bed
sea.
fVHY is that interesting?
' ' WpI 1 a ftnunlo rt uroalro son
President Eisenhower asserted
more or less casually at a news
conference in Washington that
the United States is prepared
not only to declare that it -considers
the Aqaba gulf an inter
national waterway but IN
TENDS TO USE IT. He added
that this also applied to the
straits of Tiran.
He let it go at that, declining
to answer any further questions.
But the implication was clear:
If an American vessel using
this international waterway was
shot at it would SHOOT BACK
THIS is the point:
If the straits of Tiran and the
Gulf of Aqaba are international
waters, ships of ANY nation are
entitled to use them.
IF an Israeli ship using these
international waters is shot at
from the Arab shore the United
States will send an American
ship through these waters and
if it gets shot at it will shoot
back.
In other words, the United
States will DEFEND the right of
shipping of all nations to pass
through these disputed waters
even if it has to convoy its mer
chant ships with warships.
SO IT WILL be interesting to
know whether the Arabs shot
at the Israeli freighter that pass
ed through the Aqaba gulf and
the Tiran straits.
If they did, the consequences
may be serious.
If they DIDN'T, it indicates
that they are unwilling to pro
voke the United States to direct
action in the Middle East.
In that event there is still hope
that a settlement of the Israeli
Arab quarrel can be reached by
negotiation.
TAYS, harbors and landlocked
" waters are not considered'
part of the high seas as defined
by international law. A glance
at your map will indicate that
the gulf of Aqaba comes close
to being landlocked.
But if we chose to assert that
-it IS international water, we
would have good grounds for
our position. The United States
supreme court has declared that
the open waters of our Great
Lakes are "high seas" for cer
tain legal purposes.
Our Great Lakes certainly
come closer to -being landlocked
waters than the gulf of Aqaba.
campaign for the Democratic
presidential nomination in 1960.
The UAW, a dominant force-in
the Michigan Democratic Party,
was one of the two dominant
unions in the CIO before the
AFL-CIO merger. Walter P.
Reuther, the last CIO president,
is president of the UAW and a
vice-president of the AFL-CIO.
Seeks Sixth Term
Williams has made some re
cent judicial appointments with
out consulting Reuther. Although
Reuther was understood to sup
port the appointments, he was
reported miffed that he was not
consulted.
In Michigan, Williams' action
was interpreted as a move to
show he was not the handmaiden
of the CIO, even though he still
would welcome its support.
Although Williams' political
plans have not been announced,
he is expected to run for a sixth
two-year term as governor next
year and is regarded as an aspir
ant for the presidency in 1960.
His appeal would be to the left
wing of the Democratic party
those who want to go on from
where the New Deal and the Fair
Deal stopped. His nomination
would mean the party was
swerving to the left.
Must Woo Votes
With President Eisenhower's
program firmly identified with
the middle of the road (a little to
the left of it to some Republi
cans), a substantial segment of
the Democratic Party believes it
must go left. This line of argu
ment holds that the party must
take an aggressive line to woo
back the votes of the big cities,
labor, Negroes and other minor
ities which have" been slipping
to the GOP.
If this philosophy prevails in
1960, Williams could be the ben
eficiary just as Gov. Averell
Harriman of New York tried to
be in his bid for the 1956 presi
dential nomination. But to many
in the Democratic Party now,
Williams hews too closely to the
CIO line to be salable nationally
to farmers, southerners and oth
ers not completely enamored of
the goals of an aggressive labor
movement.
By 1960, Williams may have
to compete with Democratic gov
ernors like Robert B. Meyner of
New Jersey, Edmund S. Muskie
of Maine and others who could
step out on the national scene in
the next three years.
IP
Science Expert
Advances on TV
New York (U.R) A 10-year-
old rcience expert correctly an
swered the first of three ques
tions leading to a $128,000 prize
Tuesday night on CBS-TV's "The
$64,000 Question." ,
Robert Strom, The Bronx,
N.Y., won $64,000 on the show
last week and $16,000 more
Tuesday night by answering a
three-part question. Next week
he can try for $32,000 and the
following week $64,000, bring
ing the total to $128,000. He
then has the privilege of trying
for the maximum show prize of
$256,000.
Navy Cmdr. Edward Peary
Stafford, Washington, correctly
answered a $16,000 question in
his "American literature" cate
gory.
Peary will return next week
to possibly try for $32,000 and
Robert for the $32,000 level of
his three-part prize.
On "Do You Trust Your
Wife?" Erik and Helene Gude,
Palos Verdes, Calif., won their
22nd consecutive trust fund con
test, bringing their total win
nings to $115,000.
The win gave the Gudes win
nings which assured them of
weekly $100 checks for the next
22 years, assured them of a
chance to defend their title and
possibly win another $5,200 next
week.
Victim's Husband
Points Out Suspect
Portland (U.R) A mother
and her son were held up in
their home last night by a young
robber who escaped with about
$10.
Later, police arrested a sus
pect who had been pointed out
by the husband and father of
the victims, who was at work
when the robbery occurred. -
Police said Berry DeVault, 16,
told them someone knocked on
his door about 9:30 p.m. He said
a man on the porch pointed a
gun at him and ' entered the
house. The youth was forced to
take the man upstairs where his
mother and baby sister were.
The robber took a billfold con
taining about $10 from Mrs. Her
man DeVault and also Berry's
wallet containing about 35 cents.
. Mrs. DeVault hurried to a
nearby restaurant operated by
her husband who called police.
Then he recognized the descrip
tion as one of his cutomers and
pointed out a suspect to police
as the suspect was entering a
car.
Officers held Nelson Alfred
a robbery charge.
Anselment, 18, on $3000 bail on
Saud Assuming Increasingly Big
Role in Middle Eastern Affairs
United Press Correspondent
King Saud of Saudi Arabia is
assuming an increasingly im
portant role in Middle Eastern
Saud is act
ively building
up his prestige
as an Arab
leader. And the
build-up is be
i n g made at
the expense of
President. Ga
mal Abdel
Nasser of
Charles McCanp
Egypt.
Last week Saud was host to
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
of Iran, which like Saudi Ara
bia is one of the world's great
oil producing countries.
Premier Abdullah Khalil of
the Sudan, which Nasser re
gards as within his own sphere
of influence, is visiting Saud to
day. President Camille Chamoun of
Lebanon is to arrive in Jeddah,
Midgets Have Big
Trouble Lining Up
Reno Convention
Reno, Nev. (U.R) The
Midgets of America ran into
big trouble today in struggling
to hold their first annual con
vention.
"Things are lousy in Lilliput,"
said four-foot midget organ'zer
Billy Barty.
"Midgets have never gotten
together before. The Elks and
Shriners and automobile deal
ers have conventions. Even the
cotton-pickin' cotton pickers get
together and match boll weevils.
But how. do they do it? There
are so many problems and they
are so big.
Convention In April
The Midgets of America have
scheduled their convention for
the Riverside Hotel here on
April 3-4. Nearly 100 have sent
in their applications to attend.
Barty listed some of his big
troubles:
The printer lost his tiny
"Midgets of America stationery.
This delayed the answers to the
prospective delegates.
The Civil Aeronautics board
has so far failed to answer the
midgets' demand for "half fare
or ride free on big people's laps
to Reno."
Look Over His Head
And Barty complained that
the managers of the two major
airlines serving Reno "looked
right over my head" when he
saw them on the street.
For 15 cents I d caU my
people to take their old places
and ride secreUy in the little
nooks and crannies of the air
plane. They'd march on the air
ports if I called them!"
'Wrong Door Raid'
Hearing Continues
Hollywood (U.R) A girl
friend of film star Marilyn Mon
roe went before a Los Angeles
County Grand Jury today to
tell what she knows about the
"wrong door" raid against the
blonde actress.
Mrs. Sheils Stewart Renour
was expected to be the first wit
ness when the jury resumes its
probe which also involves singer-actor
Frank Sinatra and for
mer baseball star Joe DiMaggio.
Miss Monroe was staying in
Mrs. Renour's upstairs apart
ment Nov. 5, 1954, when a raid
ing party, allegedly led by Di
Maegio during his divorce bat
tle with the actress, mistakenly
barged through a downstairs
door in the same building..
The Grand Jury is looking
into possible perjury, criminal
conspiracy and violations of the
rights of privacy in connection
with the raid.
Neither DiMaggio nor Miss
Monroe, who now is the wife of
playwright Arthur Miller, were
available for testimony. Both are
in New York and declined to
appear.
Libel Law Measure
Due Out on March 28
Salem (U.R) The Senate
Judiciary Committee voted late
yesterday to report out "do
nass Senate bill 4 to repeal
sections of 1955 law relating to
damages recoverable in actions
for defamatory statements pub
lished in newspapers, magazines
or other printed periodicals, or(
by radio, television or motion
pictures.
But the committee decided not
to pass the measure out to the
floor until March 28. Meanwhile,
the committee will confer with
William F. Frye, Eugene attor
ney who has made an extensive
study of libel and slander laws,
to work out a measure to protect
publishers and broadcasters
against "inadvertent libel."
EARNED A MEAL
Essex, Conn. (U.R) Volun
teer firemen were extra hungry
when they finally arrived for
their annual banquet an hour
late. They had stopped en route
to douse a blaze.
Affairs.
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Saud's capital, on Friday as a
state visitor.
Iran, firmly pro-Western, is a
member of the Baghdad Pact,
which Nasser bitterly opposes.
Other In Arab League
Both the Sudan and Lebanon
are fellow-members with Saudi
Arabia and Egypt of the Arab
League, of which Nasser regards
himself as leader.
There is every indication that
conferences of the Shah, Khalil
and Chamoun with Saud will
strengthen the position of the
United States and its Western Al
lies in the Middle East.
Saud expressed his approval
in principle of the Eisenhower
Doctrine against Communist ag
gression in the Middle . East as
the result of his visit to Presi
dent Eisenhower last month.
Both Iran and Lebanon have
approved the doctrine.
Saud is necessarily siding with
Nasser in the issue of opening
the Gulf of Aquaba to Israel
shipping, as a member of the
Arab League and because Saudi
Arabia, like Egypt, has a coast
line on the gulf.
But Saud seems to be steadily
pulling away from Nasser on the
long-range Middle Eastern situation.
It is quite likely the United
States is doing all it can, quiet
ly, to build up Saud.
FCC Nears
On Toll-Television
Washington (CQ) After
two years of hand-wringing, the
Federal Communications Com
mission is ready to decide on
controversial proposals for pay-as-you-watch
television.
The forthcoming FCC decis
ion will have real meaning for
the owners of America's 40 mil
lion television sets, but it will
affect most directly the pocket
book battle between two groups
of powerful business rivals.
Most support for subscription
television has come from owners
of the three licensed experi
mental systems: Zenith Radio
Corp.'s "Phonevision"; Skiatron
TV Inc., "Subscriber-Vision";
and the International Telemeter
Corp.'s "Telemeter". Primarily
opposed to the idea are the three
big radio-television networks and
the motion picture theater own
ers. An early round in the batUe
was won last month by the op
ponents of pay TV when the
Senate Interstate and Foreign
Commerce committee agreed to
shelve for now a staff study urg
ing "large-scale" tests of un
sponsored fee television.
But Commerce Committee
Chairman Warren G. Magnuson
(D-Wash.) says he and a ma
jority of his cqmmittee "agree
generally" with the staff find
ings, even though they won't
take any action on them, at least
until the FCC issues its ruling
that FCC Chairman George C.
McConnaughey promises "in the
very near future."
FCC Studies Report
Meanwhile, the FCC is study
ing the staff report, and it either
can agree with its conclusions
for tests, go all out for the sub
scription system or turn thumbs
down on the toll proposals.
The committee staff study
urges that tests of subscription
television be held in "a repre
sentative cross-section of test
markets" over a long enough
period of time for the promot
ers to set up equipment, develop
programs and assess the public
reaction.
Under the staff plan, the fee
television shows would take up
"some percentage" of the broad
casting time of existing tele
vision stations. Promoters would
be directed to keep costs to the
public for the test programs at
"the absolute minimum."
Further, the producers would
be limited to programs of the
traditional "box office" variety,
features that cannot be produced
by ordinary sponsored television.
The report adds this warning: -
Warning Given
"Subscription television Is
doomed to extinction unless it
can provide a new service with
out material damage to free tele
vision." 1. The program is coded or
"scrambled" by the transmitting
station to prevent general re
ception of the telecast
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We Never Close
Nasser Is a showy, dramatic
newcomer to big-time Middle
Eastern affairs. He is mortgaging
the ecciomy of his poverty
stricken country to Russia. His
personal position as Egypt's
leader is insecure.
Saud's position is stronger
than that of any other Middle
Eastern leader. His country's im
mense oil resources have been
one factor in keeping him from
following Nasser in an anti
Western policy. His good sense,
in contrast to Nasser's hip-shooting
tendency, is another.
Will Nasser Go?
There are signs that the United
States may be coming around to
the British-French position that
Nasser must go. It certainly is
hard to see how his downfall
could be very harmful to any
body but himself and Soviet
Russia.
Russia seems to be aware of
the changing situation. It has
been reported that the Soviet
government intends to name
Dmitri Shepilov, recenUy re
placed as foreign minister, as
ambassador to Egypt. It was
Shepilov, before he took over
the foreign ministry, who nego
tiated the sale of Communist
arms to Nasser. It is interesting
that Russia also has presented
the shah with a glamorously
furnished air liner.
Decision
2. A device attached to the
television, set enables the own
er, for a fee, to decode or un
scramble the programs he wants
to see. Favorite decoding devices
are coin boxes and punch cards.
Advocates contend subscrip
tion television would make avail
able, at a fraction of box office
prices, such features as current
movies, plays, operas and top
sports events programs be
yond the budgetary scope of
sponsored television.
It would, they say, broaden
the public's range of program
choice and enable small local sta
tions to compete with the large
network outlets. By improving
the level of television programs,
fee television would increase the
audience for both sponsored and
subscription offerings.
'25 Cents to $2
The developers estimate fees
for subscription programs would '
range from 25 cents to $2. Decod
ing attachments, they say, can
be added to television sets for
about $25.
Opponents deny any reai ad
vantages can be expected from
fee television.
The only certain effect of in
troducing the new system, they
say, would be to force the pub
lic to pay for a service that tra
ditionally has been furnished
free. The backers' talk about
opera and bJet in the living
room is just so much talk, they
add.
Opponents say the economics
of subscription television would
keep its producers from offer
ing "cultural" treats of limited
audience appeal. Instead, they
argue, fee television would rely
mainly on established programs
that appeal to the mass audience.
It would make every effort to
outbid television for the top at
tractions, thus forcing the view
er to pay to see programs which
are now available without
charge, opponents contend.
All these arguments, and
many more, have been laid be
fore the FCC in about 70 vol
umes of testimony over the past
two years. Now the commission
ers are ready to weigh the evi
dence and decide whether to
make every set owner in the
country his own television spon
sor. (Copyright 1957.
Congressional Quarterly)
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