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O FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordTribunb "Zveryone tn Southern Oregon Beads Tne MaU Tribune Publisned Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HTRB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Buaineaa Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMA.N Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Inde pendent Newspa per Entered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance- Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three moa 4 25 Sunday Only One year 14.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and 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 Official" Paper ef the City of Medford Official Paper ef Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago de- trott. San Francisco. Los Angeles AearUe Portland St Louia Atlanta Vancouver B C Ration a i. f o i t o b a V I AsTbcrAM"N lO NIVVtPAPIC 75V PUBUSHEtS 'ASSOCIATION o' Time ip Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and SO years ago. II TEARS AGO arch 21. 1947 (Friday) Plans for construction of the alley's first drive-in movie theater are announced by Matt Freed, district manager of Rob ert L. Lippert theaters. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Spring ar rived today -with the legislature (till in session, and Russia on the peck. 20 YEARS AGO March 21, 1937 (Sunday) Second special train carrying CCC men home for discharge leave Medford for Camp Bullis, Tex., with detachment of eighth i corps area enrollees. Earl Ulrich reelected presi dent of Elk Creek Stockmen's association at Elk Creek com munity hall. 30 YEAH AGO Jfarck 21, 1127 (Monday) Twenty-seven Boy, Scouts of Medford troops take trip to Table Rock. Paul Rynning, county engi neer, speaks at Kiwanis club. 40 YEARS AGO sVrch 21, 1(17 (Wednesday) Dr. Robert J. Conroy of Med ford is offered commission as assistant surgeon in the Navy. E. M. Wilson, who has been conducting an audit of the ac O counts of City Recorder Foss (presents report to city council. SJhal's Your I.Q.? 4rae V ten correct Is superior; ser ial r eight Is excellent: five er g ft good. 1. Vho wrote the music of the opKt "Falstaff? . Would you say that the stars of the universe are number ed in the thousands, millions, or billions? 3. Bible. Was the province of Bethsaida on the Sea of Galilee or the Red Sea? 4. How many Jacks with one eye are in the standard deck of playing cards? 5. Why should green vegeta bles be soaked in cold water? 6. The capital of Switzerland is Geneva; true or false? 7. What nickname personifies the English nation? 8. Pure alcohol will not freeze; true or false? 9. Seven U.S. coins equal twenty cents: name them. 10. Many girls in foreign coun tries have married American servicemen: does such marriage automatically give each bride American citizenship? Answers: 1. Guiseppo Verdi. 2. Billions. 3. Sea of Galilee. 4. Two. 5. To make them fresh and crisp. 6. False. (Bern is the capital). 7. John Bull. 8. False. 9. Fire pennies, a nickel and a dime. 10. No. 25 Natives Hanged by South Africa Officials Pretoria, South Africa U.P.) South African authorities hang ed 25 natives from six scaffolds here today while their relatives sent up a great tribal wail of mourning from outside the prison walls. It all took just 35 minutes. The 25 natives were hanged for taking part in a series of raids at Dagga in Natal last year In which five policemen were clubbed to death. MAIL TRIBUNE Back To Dick Croker Mr. Dave Beck of the Teamsters TIninn is n throw back from days of Boss Tweed and Tammany Chief tain "Dick" Croker. Beck too is the "Big Boss." He is the bio- man nhvsicallv and a shrewd man mentally. But he rules and essentially by the force of and his ruthlessness His opponents have not been converted, they have been crushed. And as the supreme overlord of the largest union in the ponntrv. Rnss TWk has as Messers. Tweed and Croker enormously, not only by a steady increase m power but personal profits of gargantuan proportions. IT WAS much the same in the "good old days" of 1 boss rule in New York City. We never knew Tweed, of course, except by repu tation, but we did know "Dictator" Dick Croker slightly. Once upon a time we interviewed him at his "castle" retreat near Dublin, Ireland. He had decided the "Emerald Isle" was a more relaxing and comfortable place than Lower Manhat tan, particularly with Charles E. Hughes of insurance scandal fame in the Governor's chair at Albany. AT THE time of the interview Governor Hughes had just secured the outlawing of gambling at horse races in the Empire State, which of course, ruin ed the "sport of kings." Mr. Croker had just won the English Derby, and had an extremely profitable "stable" in operation at Leopardstown, near his home, so he had a few terse and sizzling remarks to make about what he called that "pink-whiskered gos pel singer," adding that instead of being chief execu tive of the state of New York, Mr. Hughes should be beating the drum and singing hymns in the Salvation Army. CROKER also had a bronze statue of his prize bulldog (deceased) in the huge reception hall, and there was facially (except for the Croker graying whiskers) a striking family resemblance.' Moreover, temperamentally, they were kin. Dick Croker, too, was built for fighting and had a pug nacious undershot jaw as well as a fighter's heart. He was no black knight in shining armor, however. When things got too hot for him, and he was far down on the short end of the betting odds, as to a Sing Sing trip, the battle scarred warrior, who always had a sharp eye out for feathering the Croker nest, turned his vast assets into cash, and took a royal suite on the next liner for Liverpool, on his way to his dream city of Dublin. He also took unto himself a new wife, if we re member correctly. But that whether true or not is far afield from the present theme of this offering which is merely to emphasize the fact that as a prom inent figure on the American political stage today, Mr. Dave Beck is not so much a devil as an anachron ism. He and his technique tne ney clay ot lammany it, he represents in mores uounsnea in iew lone particularly in the dark de cades following the Civil War but which the country as a whole has passed, and let us hope, forever. ' CO AS we listened to Dave Beck over "TV" last Sunday we were continually reminded of Dick Croker, there was the same vital physical FORCE, the same strong uncompromising, combative convic tions, the same very slightly veiled contempt for what Croker liked to call the "drum-beaters and the hymn singers" the entire caboodle of reformers who, if they had their way, would, he thought, ruin business from the Batteiy to the end of upper Broad way. )ICK CROKER was not like Tweed, a crude crook and cheap graf ter. He was crude all right, accord ing to Emily Post, but he was essentially a shrewd and forceful business boss in politics. He ruled Tam many, and therefore New York, with an iron hand and believed no doubt sincerely he only got what was his riehtful share of the profits of a "wide-onen j town." Croker never forgot the poor people of New ; York he had been one of them himself he saw not j only they got food and coal when in need, but that they voted for the candidates he wanted, at election time. And for many, many years they did. IT WAS nice work if you could get it and Dick Croker got it. Well Boss Beck showed in his inter view over the air, that being boss of the teamsters union is also nice work if you can get it, and he got it and still has it. He boirowed millions from the union funds, and he made millions for the union and himself. When asked if he paid the union any interest on the loans or put up any adequate collateral, he replied in the negative. When one of the panel inquired in ingratiating tones if he (Beck) thought that "good business" practice, the Seattle labor-leader pondered a moment then said in a low voice "probably not" but he at Once shouted, "they were paid back, weren't they, every cent? And I have two more millions to spend in their behalf." T EST the above be misunderstood, Dave Beck, like any other citizen, is to be judged innocent of any wrong-doing until his guilt has been proved in court. And no guilt as yet has is none will be. As far as cerned, just as Dick Croker ranked several degrees of latitude above "Boss doubt that Boss Beck, has plane and a smarter Richard Croker. Thursday. March 21. 1957 for many years has ruled his personality, his skill did before him, profited hark back over 50 years to boss rule. Also, as we view and morals an age that been proved, and our guess the ethical quotient is con lweed, so there is little operated on a far higher one than Grand bachem Soviets Make Determined Try To Strengthen Kadar Regime By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia appears to be making a determined attempt to strengthen the regime of Com- mier Janos Ka dar of Hun gary. At the same time, it is mak ing Kadar more and more of a pup pet who is completely un der Russian Charles McCann domination. Kadar, who betrayed the gov ernment of Imre Nagy during the Hungarian revolt, arrived in Moscow Wednesday on a "state" visit which is expected to last 10 days or more. His hosts really rolled out the red carpet for him. They knew, as Kadar did, that he left behind him a sullen, bit ter people who accept him only because a Russian army of oc cupation is ready to turn its tanks and artillery against them at the first sign of a new revolt. Russian Unity Campaign It is no doubt true that Ra dar's visit, like that of other leaders of the Soviet satellite countries in recent weeks, is part of a Russian campaign to strengthen the "unity" of the satellites. The strengthening is being ef fected by stamping out, as far as possible, every vestige of lib eralized government in the coun tries of Communist Eastern Eur ope except Poland, which made its revolt stick by not car rying it too far. From Washington By Roscoe Drummond SHIFTS IN THE HIGH COMMAND Washington There are changes being made in the high command of the armed forces which will bring major conser quences in their wake. The two most significant are these: For the first time the Joint Chiefs of Staff will have an Air Force general as chairman and two of its four members drawn from the air arm of the services. For the first time since the end of World War II the supreme command in the Pacific is being transferred from the Army to the Navy and headquarters will be moved 4,000 miles nearer the continental United States from Tokyo to Hawaii. Although public announce ment may not be made for a while, all of these top command appointments are now firm with the approval of the Presi dent. Here is the personnel of the new Joint Chiefs of Staff: Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Chief of Staff of the Air Force for the last two years, will succeed Adm. Arthur W. Radford, who is retiring, as Chairman of the J.- C.S. Gen. Thomas D. White, pres ently Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force and one of the ablest though least-publicized officers at the Pentagon, is being pro moted to Chief of Staff, succeed ing Gen. Twining. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chief of naval operations, will be con tinued for another two-year term. THE chairmanship of the Joint Chipfs. who arp thp spnior military advisers to the Presi dent, the National Security Council and the Secretary of De fense, is as powerful as the man who occupies it. The law does not require that it be rotated among the three services but this has been the practice since the unification act of 1947. General of the Army Omar Bradley was chairman during the last Tru man term and Admiral Radford has been chairman during the first Eisenhower term. This means that General Twin ing is not being promoted to the chairmanship for the explicit purpose of giving larger repre sentation to the Air Force. But the effect is to give added pres-i tige and influence in the coun cils of both strategy and budget making for air-power at a time But they all had one quality in common, they ruled their domains arbitrarily with an iron hand and ex acted a heavy tribute in personal profit for them selves. ' CO WE return to where we came in as far as our view of the "Portland mess" is concerned. THE remedy as we see it does not lie in these senate committee hearings, revealing, damaging and en livening as they are. Nor even in court action that may follow. Although both should help. It lies in the final analysis, we believe, with the rank and file of organized labor, particularly, of course, with the members of the teamsters union, themselves, and the determination on their part to clean .house from top to bottom, establish their or ganization affairs on a sound, honest,-business-like and DEMOCRATIC basis, and get rid of the sort of discredited "boss" tyranny the Becks and the Brew sters and the Hoffas represent. They can do it if they will. We doubt if anyone else can. R.W.R. Most of the present leaders in the satellites are pretty firm ly in control of their countries. All of them, again with the ex ception of Poland, are tough "Stalinists," who opposed the trend toward liberalization that resulted from Khrushchev's de nunciation of Josef Stalin. Kadar Regime Jittery But Kadar and those associat ed with him in the Hungarian government, are jittery. They were openly alarmed last Fri day, the anniversary of the 1848 revolution against Hapsburg rule at the possibility of a new re volt by workers. They seem to In the Day's News By FRANK Here's an interesting question: WHAT HAPPENED to cause the pleasant home city of Port land, Oregon, to be chosen by a select committee of the United States senate as the place in which to open an investigation into racketeering an"3 corrup tion an i.ivestigation whose dis closures have shocked the na tion? Was Portland that bad? I doubt it. Portland has been a victim of circumstances. TN TRYING to trace these cir cumstances, let's go back to Dorothy McCullough Lee. After an exceptional career in public life, Mrs. Lee was chosen mayor of Portland. I think it must be said this is observation from a when the air-power race with the Soviet Union is most acute. ' General Twining and the up coming Air Force chief. General White, will make a formidable team. General White is a crea tive, imaginative thinker in the whole range of air strategy. To gether, they can hardly fail to make a considerable impact up on the thinking of the J.C.S. Ad miral Burke is also one of the most air-minded men in the Navy. The naming of Adm. Felix B. Stump, who has been the Navy commander in the Pacific for several years, as the supreme commander of all American forces in the Pacific is a far reaching change. A succession of Army generals Gen. Matthew Ridgway, General Taylor, Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer succeeded General of the Army Douglas MacArthur as supreme com mander and as pro-consul of the occupation of Japan. Obviously the Korean war and its conse quences justified these appoint ments since the role of the Army was transcendent. THERE are Army officers who are genuinely anxious over the shift which is now being made, particularly the removal of supreme headquarters several thousand miles further away from the scene of potential trou ble. Frankly, one of the reasons at least one of the by-products of General Taylor's present trip to the Far East is to quiet the mutterings and ease the heart-burnings among the top Army command from Alaska to the Philippines. In all of this there is no res ervation about the personal and p r ofessional qualifications of Admiral Stump. He is one of the Navy's best and respected by all the services. General Lemnitzer, now su preme commander in Tokyo, is due to return to the Pentagon as Vice Chief of Staff of the Army. He will succeed General Willis ton B. Palmer, who will prob ably take over the 7th Army command in western Europe. General Taylo., an air-minded, paratroop-experienced off icer, will remain a major figure at the Pentagon and at 'he end of two years will be at the top rung of the ladder when it will again be the turn of the Army to chair the Joint Chiefs, (c) New York Herald Tribun Inc. be afraid that despite the ruth less repression to which they have resorted, the workers and students may treak into revolt again at any time. Kadar's position personally is so weak that he has had some difficulty in finding suitable men to share the responsibilities of government with mm. Aware of the situation, the Russians are preparing for a long-term occupation of Hun gary. Families of the Russian occupation force are reported to be arriving by trainloads in tok en that the occupation is to last for the foreseeable future. JENKINS distance that she governed Portland much as a wise mother would govern her family. Her basi- idea, it always seemed to me, was that laws were enacted to be enforced Among other things, she was familiar as a lawyer with the section of the Oregon constitu tion that forbids lotteries a pro vision of the state's constitution that still stands. She took it ser iously. Along with the rest, she enforced the laws against gamb ling. A lot of people didn't like that. They thought it was "bad for business." So, in time, Mrs. Lee ceased to be mayor of Port land. Her successors were less rigorous than she had been, There were times, it is alleged, when they looked the other di rection when games of chance were under way. So In timp The word got around that Portland might be a good place to do a little gambling for prof it with, perhaps, a few side is sues having to do with the oldest profession. The story of what followed has been brought out in shocking de tail by the senate investigating committee. NE THING I want to make clear. Portland is a splendid city. It is inhabited by splendid people. Taking them by and large, no finer people can be found in America. They are home-loving people. They want their children to grow up in a good atmosphere. But They made a bad mistake. They let themselves fall into the delusion that politics is no fit business for good citizens. They FORGOT that when good citi zens cease to take an active and vigorous part in politics govern ment tends to fall into the hands of citizens who aren't so good. That seems to have happened in Portland. It explains nearly everything that has taken place. fNE MORE question: v Why was Portland chosen as the place for all this to be brought out into the open by a U. S. Senate investigating com mittee? rpHE ANSWER is significant: Portland has an alert and courageous newspaper that when all this nasty business began to happen BROUGHT IT OUT IN TO THE OPEN BY PRINTING IT. It took the chances of million- dollar libel suits and went ahead and told the news. That is a good newspaper's business. When people know what is going on, they can take steps to cure what is wrong. . Wild rice, long a favorite of gourmets, is not rice but a per ennial grass indigenous to North America, says the National Geo graphic Society. Most of the an nual crop is still hand-harvested by Indians in the lake regions of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario. You Know How You FEEL ... But How ARE You? Evidently only doctors and funeral directors fully realize how im portant it is that you have periodic and regular physical check-ups. This is especially important for those over 40. If you haven't had one during the past year, you're behind the times! DAY OR NIGHT PHONE 2-803O Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse . Frank Morgap Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Matter of Fact y j"Ph a!sp THE 'GOOD ARABS' London The Bermuda meet ing between President Eisenhow er and Prime Minister ' Harold Macmillan has a double-edged importance. It is about the last chance to save the An glo - American p a rtnership and the West ern alliance. Yet the pro spects of success are not Joseph Alsop at all bad, despite the ugly mor tifying disclosures of phony Am erican promises which are now being broken in record time, is essentially a mere interim pay ment for the follies of all tne Western partners in the Suez crisis. The real test of President Eis enhower and Prime Minister Macmillan is to find a way to dodse the final payment for those follies. This will be noth ing less than the destruction of all the vital Western interests in the Middle East, by inflamed Ar ab nationalists led by President Gamal Abdel Nasser and strong ly supported by the Soviet Un ion. If this final payment is exact ed particularly if the oil sources are nationalized the effect on the Western Alliance and most particularly on the An glo-American partnership will be downright catastrophic. TUT the first hopeful factor is t the grim bout of fact-facing that has been going on here in Britain. British power and influ ence in the Middle East, which have always been overestimated in London, have now altogether ceased to exist. They have there fore got to be replaced by Amer ican power and influence, if anything at all is to be saved from the wreck. Fortunately, the members of the inner circle of British pol icy-makers have faced these un palatable facts. It is a hard blow to British pride. It will cause much friction before it is all ov er. But they are now willing to commit the protection of . their Middle Eastern interests to Am erican hands. As for the second hopeful fac tor, it is the gradual emergence of relatively serious American policy for the Middle East, not based on moralistic prating, and not characterized either by has ty unloading of national respon sibilities into the leaky vessel of the United Nations. Curiously enough, this new American policy rather closely resembles the old British policy. It is based on rallying and re inforcing the Arab leaders not implacably hostile to the West "good Arabs" as Sir Anthony Ed en used to call them. TT IS a considerably more prac 1 tical policy for the United States than it was for Britain. On the one hand, American in fluence does not yet bear the colonialist taint, so it is less em barrassing for the "good Arabs" to turn to America. On the oth er hand, the United States has what Britian never had, friend ly relations with the most impor tant good Arab," King Saud of Saudi Arabia. In fact, the first test of the new American policy s success will be whether King Saud real ly was persuaded, during his vis it to Washington, to cease financ ing the propaganda and policy of President Nasser in the other Ar ab States. Fortunately, the really impor tant Arab governments, the gov ernments of . the oil-producing states and Sheikhdoms, are all still in the "good Arab category." Despite President Nasser s con stant appeals to the mobs in their countries to install other gov ernments, Nuri Pasha of Iraq and all the others are still suc cessfully hanging on. If they can now be reinforced and rallied, the worst potential consequences of the Suez deba cle will have been avoided. But this task on which the American policy-makers have now at last embarked is extremely delicate and complex. ALL the complexities must be examined and resolved at Bermuda, moreover. As a prac tical matter, for instance, clear agreements must be made about the way to hanc'.le the very touchy human problem that is bound to arise in certain Middle Eastern capitals. In these places, the British ambassador has al ways behaved almost as a vice roy, while his American col league has never been more, in Hamlet s phrase, than an attend ant lord. Reversing the roles will not be easy. And it will require cards-on-the-table negotiation. Hence the main reason for qualifying one's optimism is simply the personality of John - Foster Dulles. The Secretary of State prefers to tell nothing to' any one, even in his department. He detests putting the cards on the table, especially for allies. He and British Foreign Secre tary Selwyn Lloyd also carry a leaden luggage of bitter Suez memories. In other words, Anglo-Ameri can agreement on a new Middle Eastern policy is now theoreti cally possible. But if this agree ment is to be reached, and the Western Alliance is thereby to be saved, President Eisenhower will almost surely have to carry the ball in person at Bermuda. (c) New York Herald Tribune Night Classes at Southern Oregon College Announced Ashland Night classes offer ed by Southern Oregon college for the spring term have been announced by Mrs. Mabel Win ston, registrar. Monday classes beginning March 25 are: crafts, 2 hours credit, 7, 8 "end 9 p.m., Mr. Otto Wilda; public and profession re lations, 3 hours credit, .7, 8 and 9 p.m., Dr. Alva Graham; ad vanced English composition, 3 hours credit, 7, 3 and 9 p.m.. Dr. Alvin-Feilers; principles and technique of speech correction, 3 hours credit, 7, 8 and 9 p.m., Leon C. Mulling. Tuesday classes beginning March 26 are: skate fundamen tals (fee $5), 1 hour credit, 6:30 p.m., Dr. Alexander Petersen; second year Spanish, 2-4 hours credit, 7:30-8:30 p.m., Dennis Hannan; first year French, 4 hours credit, (meets Thursday evenings also) 7:30-8:30 p.m., Grier Nicholl; history of the Pacific Northwest, 3 hours cred it, 7, 8 and 9 p.m., Dr. Verne Blue. - Wednesday classes beginning March 27: painting, 2 hours cred it, 7, 8 and 9 p.m.. Miss Marion Ady; orchestra, Medford High school, Room 244, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Glenn Matthews; skate dance (fee $5), l hour credit, 6:30 p.m., Dr. Alexander Petersen. Thursday classes beginning March 28: psychology of ado lescence 3 hours credit, 7, 8 and 9 p.m.. Dr. Loren Messen ger; first aid, 3 hours credit, 6:45 p.m., Mr. Dan Bulkley. Fees, either for credit of adult. are $8 per quarter hour with a minimum of $16, and enroll ment may take place on the night the class begins, Mrs. Win ston said. Fund Recommended for Flood Relief at Vale ' Vale U.R) A three -man group surveying the flood relief needs of Vale has recommended $325,883 for the area, Judge G. Y. Chester of the county court said today. Judge Chester said the city originally asked for $500,000. He believes the area will get 75 per cent of the money, recom mended. Judge Chester also announced that work will start on the re pair of bridges in Vale next week.
