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TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE "Ireryona In Southern Oregon ReacU The Man Tribune" Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO j729 North Fir St. Phone 2-911 . ROBERT W BUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manage ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper 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 $15.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mo 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420 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 (18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 130 Carrier and Dealers 10c per cony All Terms Cash In Advance Offlrlal Paper of the City of Medlord Official Paper of 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 trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORlAi NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight of Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 1, 1947 (Tuesday) Drill and ritualistic teams of Medford Eagles lodge and the auxiliary win first place in dis trict six contest at Klamath Falls. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: All Fooled Day will pass without anybody being fooled any more than normally. 20 YEARS AGO April 1. 1937 (Thursday) Soil bonus checks approximat ing $10,000 have been received by the county agent's office for distribution to Jackson county farmers, for 90 per cent of their compliance with the soil con servation act. Livestock raisers of the Rogue River valley receive mention in a recent edition of the Western Livestock Journal, published in Los Angeles. 30 YEARS AGO April 1. 1927 (Friday) Ray-Maling company interest ed in Rogue River valley as site for a large canning plant, ac cording to E. L. Gray. Lions club meets at Medford hotel to observe its second an niversary. 40 YEARS AGO April 1. 1917 (Sunday) President Wilson will deliver his "war" address before a joint session of Congress today. Making of hospital supplies by the Medford chapter of the National Red Cross will start at 10 a.m. Tuesday at its head quarters in the Sparta building. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev en Gr eight Is excelfcnt; five or lz is good. 1. J. H. Payne, author of "Home Sweet Home," was ban ished to Tunisia, where 30 years after his death his body was ex humed and shipped where? 2. Ticks are members of the Insect family; true or false? 3. Bible: The '"Fertile Cres cent" extended from Thebes (near the Red Sea) to the Per sian Gulf. Near which body of water was Ur? 4. The- mimeograph was in vented by Henry Ford, John Hays Drummond, or Thomas A. Edison? 5. The government receives its largest single source of revenue from income tax collections; from what source does it derive its second largest source of in come? 6. How many stars are worn by a "General of the Army?" 7. Red flannel and white flan nel undergarments of the same grade and weight are equally warm; true or false?. 8. What country produces ihe largest amount of coffee? 9. Testament; testimony: which of the words means "to bear witness?" 10. "The banishment was over long, But it will soon be past; The man who wrote home's sweetest song. Is coming home at last." Will Carleton. To whom does he refer? Answers: 1. Washington. D. C. (Oak Hill Cemetery). 2. False; (they are 8-legged arachnids). 3. Persian Gulf. 4. Thomas A. Edi son. 5. The tax on alcohol. 6. Five. 7. True. 8. Brazil. 9. Testi mony. 10. John Howard Payne, author of "Homo Sweet Home." Comet Phil Brogan, associate editor of the Bend Bulletin, who is Oregon's leading journalistic . authority on things scientific (including notably geology, meteor ology and astronomy), reports that the comet Arend Eoland has not yet reached a point where it is visible to the naked eye. The comet, discovered by Belgian observers (and named after them) last November, is also called 1956h, signifying that it is the eighth comet discov ered last year. It is the only one, however, which will be generally visible before leaving the central portion of the solar system. OROGAN last week laid to rest reports that the comet was now plainly visible and "as large as a full moon." It is npw of a magnitude of about 4.0, he reported, which would make it barely visible if it swung over head during the hours of night instead of at dusk. However, after it has completed its swing around the sun (which it will pass at a distance of about 29,700,000 miles, or about one-third the distance from the sun to the earth) it will speed again toward "outer space." At that time it is expected to become plainly visible to the curious inhabitants of earth, and will have a magnitude of about -1, or as bright as the brightest stars (not planets) in the sky. Presumably it will not be sufficiently large so that one can dis tinguish its parts the head and long tail although telescopes or binoculars might well be sufficient for this purpose. THHE closest approach to the sun is due April 8. By mid-month it will return to this part of the sky, and Brogan says : "In late April and early May, the comet will get into the northwest sky, supercharged following its visit to the sun, and ready for its plunge into the realm of Neptune and Pluto. The comet is expected to provide quite a show in the northwestern sky in early May. But it will not be mistaken for a full moon." Astronomers may be able 'to plot its orbit suffic iently to tell when and if it will return to the sun again someday perhaps, like Haley's comet, in seven or so decades, or perhaps not for hundreds of years as it spins away from the sun, through the void of empty space, chasing its tail. E.A. Traffic For some time we have been aware of how crowd ed many of our principal streets have become. But it was not until last week that we had it brought home to us. A count of automobiles using East Main st., near Geneva, was compiled during February by the state highway department, and we received a copy. We asked a colleague his guess as to how many cars used the street each day. "About 1,500," he hazarded. THE actual average count for February wras 9,637 per day, and on the peak day of the month it was 10,342. It's a good thing the voters approved the arterial street program last fall, and that the city is proceeding to put it in effect xs rapidly as possible. It's getting tougher all the time to drive from one side of town to the other. E.A. Nothing Happened Some time ago we noted with interest that there was a plan afoot in Eugene to close several blocks of Willamette street (the town s mam artery of com' merce) 'during a several-day "Spring Opening." The idea was to ban parking, to open the streets to pedestrian use, and to permit merchandise displays on the sidewalks and streets. Shoppers could wander around as their whim dictated, leisurely taking stock of the off enngs. .We said it would be interesting to see what hap pened. And what did happen? Nothing. PERHAPS it was too much to expect that the solid, go along with a "hair-brained" plan such as that however attractive it might be, and however much light it might throw on the potential habits of shop pers and their relationship to the development of "downtown" into modem shopping centers, which could compete on an equal footing to those which-are developing in fringe areas where there's room -to park. The idea originated with the Eugene planning commission, and during the period it was under con sideration queries about it had come in from many areas. But the "noble experiment" is not to be for a while, anyway. MEANWHILE, weir have to do what we can to 1T1 solve the increasing "mess downtown" in other, more tested ways. And by "we," we mean not only Medford, but also Eugene, Albany, Pendleton, Cor vallis, and all the other towns which do not have enough parking space to accommodate those wishing to do their shopping, in established stores and shops. - Medford is lucky, in a way, for the situation here, while serious and getting wTorse, is not as bad as it is in some other places, and if attempts to provide solutions continue (as, apparently, they are, through city action), we'll be able to benefit by the experience of other areas. . Still, we'd like to see that street opening plan tried, just once, sometime, somewhere. E.A. Monday, April 1. 1957 Closer Count Dulles Hau OK'ing Chi By DONALD GONZALES United Press Correspondent Washington (U.PJ John Foster Dulles wrote a book sev en years ago. It has been haunt ing him ever since on one point the questions of Red China's admission to the United Na tions. Many times since 1950 Dulles must have thought of the Bibli cal words in the 31st Chapter of Job, Verse 35 "My desire is . . .' that mine adversary had written a book." Newsmen and diplomats over the last four years have remind ed Dulles that before he be came secretary of state he wrote on Page 190 of his book "War or Peace:" "I have now come to believe that the United Nations will best serve the cause of peace if its assembly is representative of what the world actually is, and not merely representative of the parts which we like. . "Therefore, we ought to be willing that all the nations should be members without at- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Let's take a look today at Mr. Dave Beck. A few weeks ago, he was per haps the most powerful man in America. Today he is discredited. Not only is he discredited in the eyes of the general public. He is in discredit by his.assoc:ates in the labor movement. TIE AD this: ''The top leaders of the AFL CIO (meeting in Washington) suspended Dave Beck as a Fed eration officer and ordered an investigation of the million-and- a-half Teamsters Union. The executive council direct ed AFL-CIO President Meany to file charges against Beck as a vice-president of the Federation for what it called "his action in bringing the labor movement into disrepute and his failure to explain the many charges brought against him regarding the mishandling of Union funds." AND read this: Thp flrponn T.aVinr Prn f.f- ficial publication of the AFL- CIO in the state of Oregon, calls for more reasonable ceilings on the salaries of union officers. The Labor Press editorial adds: "We don't expect union lead ers to take vows of poverty, but we do think a salary of 50 thou sand dollars (plus, it might have added, ' unlimited expense ac counts) is too high for a man who represents workers whose yearly earning may average less than five thousand dollars." THOSE are expressions from the middle and upper eche lons of the labor movement. Read this, which reflects the op inion of the rank and file: "Last night, at Yakima, Wash., Dave Beck was burned in effigy outside a meeting hall. Inside the hall, members of a Teamster local argued hotly with officers appointed by Beck. It was re ported that the local passed a resolution that none of its money would go to any defense of the Union chief." TTHY this fall from the heights to the depths? This, I'm sure, is the an swer: . It was the result of too much power held in too few hands too long. TIJR. BECK first tasted the heady cup of too much pow er in Seattle, where he got his start. His power spread over the Pacific Coast, and then over the West. Then he moved on East. The time eventually came when he must have realized there was not a business in the United States he couldn't shut down (and perhaps wreck) if he chose. fTHAT is a lot of power. Possession of it corrupted Mr. Beck as it has corrupted so many men since the world be gan. In time, he came to think of himself as a SUPERHUMAN. It seemed to him that he was doing SO MUCH for those over whom he ruled that ANYTHING HE MIGHT WANT wouldn't be too much for them to provide for him. If he needed thousands of dol lars or hundreds of thousands of the money they had paid into their treasury in the form of dues, it seemed to him it was quite all right for him to TAKE it and USE it, in whatever man ner he chose. FOR He probably reasoned Hadn't HE made possible all this accumulation of money? THAT'S what power does to men's minds. Too much power, held in too few hands too long, is the most dangerous thing in the world. Bladder 'Weakness' If worried by "Bladder Weakness" Getting Up Nights (too frequent, burning or itch ing urination) or Strong, Cloudy Urine due to common Kldnev and Bladder Irri tations, try CYSTEX for quick, gratifying, comforting help. A billion CYSTEX tablets nted to past 2i years prove safety and. success. Ask druggist far CYSTEX under money-back guarantee. 8ea how mucfe totter tou feel tomorrow. nted by 1950 Book nese UN Membership tempting to appraise closely those which are 'good' and those which are 'bad.' Must Prove Ability "If the Communist govern ment of China in fact proves its ability to govern China without serious domestic resistance, then it, too, should be admitted to the United Nations. However, a regime that claims to have be come the government of a coun try through civil war should not be recognized until it has been tested over a reasonable period of time." Dulles hadn't been secretary of state for long when he had to come to grips with the actual issue of Red China's possible place in the United Nations. He took a strong stand against ad mission of the Peiping regime particularly after Sen. William F. Knowland (R-Calif.), declared in 1954 that he would fight for American withdrawal from the UN if Red China got in. After Knowland's blast, Dulles was asked at a news conference (July 8, 1954) whether he felt his views on the issue "have been modified since your book in 1950?" Matter of Fact THE POLISH ELIZA Paris Reliable reports from Warsaw suggest that American policy makers will be most un wise to take the new anti Stalinist Pol ish govern ment too much for granted as a perma n e n t feature of the Central Europe scene. From the very beginning Josepb AIsop of the Polish uprising against Soviet colonial rule, the task of the Polish "National Commu nist" leader, Wladyslaw Gomul ka, has been very like the task of Eliza crossing the ice. For example, it can now be revealed that when Nikita Khrushchev and his party made their famous surprise visit to Warsaw last November, their minds were nine-tenths made up to "crush the Poles like flies" as Marshal Zhukov subse quently said in a tone of evi dent regret. The price that had to be paid to avert a Hungarian tragedy was Gomulka's promise of continuing Polish adherence to the Warsaw Pact which meant continued stationing of Red Army troops in Poland Gomulka's situation today is less immediately critical but it is almost equally precarious for the long' run. He would prob ably be in very deep trouble at this moment if he had not done so well in Poland. Gomulka's situation today is less immediately critical but it is almost equally precarious for the long run. He would prob ably be in very deep trouble at this moment if he had not done so well in Poland's recent curi ous semi-free election. The so called Natolin Group the far from unimportant Stalinist fac tion in the Polish Communist Party actually hoped the elec tion would show a strongly anti Communist result. THE Polish Stalinists correctly thought that such a result would eventually lead to the forcible re-establishment of full Soviet colonial rule in Poland. But Poland's wise and far-sighted Cardinal Wyszynski under stood the danger. He quietly threw the immense.power of the Polish Catholic Church into the balance on Gomulka's side. And thus the Polish Nationalist lead er won a triumph at the polls. All the same, Gomulka's pres ent problem looks very grim indeed. To the right of him, he has the restive Polish anti-Communists, which means the vast majority of the Polish people, who admire Gomulka but hate his party. To the left of him, he has the Stalinist faction in the Polish Communist Party, whose designs are strongly sup ported by the masters of the Kremlin. Finally, squarely in front of him, Gomulka has the desperate economic situation to which Po land has been reduced by long years of Soviet colonial rule. Here lies his great chance ana his great peril. According to one highly authoritative esti mate, Gomulka has no more than a year to give his people a sense of greatly increased well being. IF HE fails, he will go down to defeat in a conflict between the Stalinists and the anti-Communists. But this will mean, in fact, that Soviet colonial rule will be re-established in Poland. For the Kremlin will surely seize the opportunity of a Polish time of trouble to help its War- GOD ANSWERED PETER GEO. N. TAYLOR The cripple, 40 years of age, had never walked. Daily they carried him to the temple gate to beg. One day, the Apostle Peter passed that way and commanded the man to rise and walk. At that the man's feet and ankle bones took on strength and he went into the temple, leaping and walk ing and praising God. Acts 3rd tells it. John 16:23 makes us bold. Ask in Christ's name and God answers. Dulles took the position, in his answer, that a lot had hap pened "which in the winter of 1949 and 1950 were not predic table." He referred primarily to Communist China's aggressive actions against Korea and Indo china. The State Department has dis closed that Dulles now has writ ten a 2,000-word "foreword" for new editions of his 1950 book, about one-fourth of which is de voted to an explanation of the Red China question. In 1957, Dulles junks the idea that Red China should be in the United Nations to make it a truly "universal" organization whether -member nations are "good" or "bad." He recalls now that he did say the regime should be tested over a reasonable per iod of time. "This testing has indicated the ability, so far, of the Commun ist regime to maintain itself in power, although by ruthless, police-state methods," Dulles now writes. "However, it is equally demonstrated that the regime does not possess the qualities which entitle it to speak for China in the United Nations . . By Joseph AIsop saw friends with the naked force of the Red Army. On the other hand, if Gomulka succeeds on the economic front, his leadership will cease to be challenged, either from right or left. He will at last 'gain the elbow room to deal with the Polish Stalinists. And the evolu tion of Poland can then proceed peacefully, not toward our kind of democracy, but at least in a direction that will be bear able for the Polish people and highly distasteful to the Krem lin. At present, Gomulka is both being kept on leading strings and openly threatened by the Kremlin. With the economic problem overriding all other, the Soviet economic aid promised to Poland is being given in trickles, on a day to day basis, For instance wheat deliveries, according to the same authority quoted above, "have to be rush ed to the flour mills, and the flour has to be rushed to the bakeries, to prevent a bread shortage." BY PULLING on the leading strings in this manner, the Kremlin has encouraged Gomul ka's recent concessions to the Polish Stalinists, which alarmed the West. Washington of course has the opportunity to cut the Kremlin's leading strings. But judging from this distance, Washington seems to be disin clined to grant Gomulka the generous American economic aid he so badly needs. Yet surely, a government that is good enugh for Cardinal Wyszynski ought to be good enough for Senator Knowland. And surely, after all the grandi ose talk about "liberation," it is a bit odd. to throw away the remaining chance offered by the deep unrest in Central Europe. For if Gomulka really succeeds in Poland, the position of the Stalinist regime in Czechoslo vakia must finally become un tenable. And even in the other Central European countries where Red Army troops are sta tioned, Gomulka's success will create a permanently and ex plosively unstable situation. The question, really, is wheth er Senator Knowland and the Administration policymakers he; so often intimiates prefer mak ing cheap and empty "anti-Communist" gestures against Gomul ka or gaining a major point in the world struggle against the Kremlin's power. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. John Day Wafer Supply Outlook Good Canyon City U.PJ Un usuaUy heavy snows on the John Day water watershed dur ing March has insured normal water supplies for the area, il was reported at the 22nd annual water forecast meeting here Sat urday. W. T. Frost. Oregon snow survey supervisor said the snow in March brought trie snow pacs up to average. There was only 66 per cent of normal of moisture on March 1. However, over three and half times as much snow as usual fell during March bringing the water content of the pack up to aver age, Frost said. Frost predicted that the fuU snow pack coupled with excellent snow moisture should give nearly normal run off conditions in the area. The wool of the Angora rab bit is valued for its length, soft ness, luster and fineness. U.P. Correspondents Predict Future News United Press correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Clamor Watch for increasingly per sistent demands by the British Labor party for parliamentary election. With the resignation of "Kingmaker" Lord Salisbury from the cabinet, in a dispute over Cyprus ' policy, the Labor ites believe they have Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on the run. Nominally, Macmillan's conservative government is in office until 1960. But under the British political system, he might be forced to call an elec tion on some big issue. The La borites, already profiting by Macmillan's difficulties in" the Suez situation, say that if an election were held now they would win a big majority in the House of Commons. Posimorlem on Bermuda Macmillan will face trouble, by the way, when Commons holds a full-dress debate next Monday on his Bermuda confer ence with President Eisenhow er. Neither the Laborites nor a lot of his own Conservatives are buying the official version that the meeting was a big success. The most embarrassing question Macmillan will be asked: Just what is Anglo-American Middle East policy, if any. Tests The United States may stage some atomic , tests this summer which foreign countries won't be able to detect. The -Russians, it is believed, may have done that already. The Atomic En ergy commission is thinking of testing small nuclear weapons in tunnels dug in rock under the Nevada proving grounds. Ra dioactivity from such .tests would not escape into the at mosphere to be detected by for eign monitoring systems. Teamwork Word from Washington is that Secretary John Foster Dulles isn't practically a one-man State department any more. New Un der Secretary Christian Herter is taking over more and more of Dulles' political responsibilities and may even do some travel ing in his place later this year. Deputy Under Secretary C Douglas Dillon, another new ap pointee, is experting. the Suez problems now coming to a head and is working overtime on for eign economic aid problems. Invitation - Derailed Tanker Cars Block U.P. Main Line Portland U.R) Three full gasoline tanker cars of an east- bound Union Pacific freight tram were derailed east of the John Day river yesterday block ing the main line for more than seven hours. Only the Union Pa cific's eastbound No. 12, a mail and express train, was held up, however. The train had just pulled off a siding and was traveling 17 miles per hour when a coupling airline broke derailing the three tankers. The Dalles fire depart ment was on the scene with foam fire fighting equipment but no fire broke out even though one of the tankers was leaking slightly. 'Young Woman of Year Selected at Eugene Eugene U.R) Mrs. Emery Pruett received the Eugene "Young Woman of the Year" award here Saturday from the Eugene Jaycee-ettes. Mrs. Pruett was presented the award by last year's winner, Mrs. Burt Easton, at the annual community service award luncheon and style show. Mrs. Pruett was selected from among nine candidates and re ceived the award on the basis of her many civic activities. Texas has 168,732,160 acres -of surface soil and 141,337,744 are in farms and ranches. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home o Phone 2-6675 O Insiders at Bonn expect an In vitation to President Eisenhow er to visit West Germany. West German President Theodore Heuss is expected to deliver the invitation personally when he goes to Washington for his de layed visit. Heuss is recuperat ing from an attack of bronchial pneumonia which caused the postponement. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the nam and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words A Letter of Thanks To the Editor: Last Thursday and Friday nights at Medford High school auditorium nearly 2,000 citizens of Medford and vicinity paid the highest possible tribute to a man who has devot ed 18 years of dedicated service to the Medford public school system. Drama and English instructor "Bob" Stedman must surely know that he is missed, and that everyone in the community is eager to welcome him back from his too-long stay in the hos-r pital. The "Salute to Bob Stedman" show, "A Day on Delancey Street," grew from a few plan ning committee meetings of five or six people to enormous proportions. An enthusiastic near-capacity audience made the opening on Thursday a "big" night, but the attendance on Friday was too much for even the big audito rium to absorb. I should like to pay special tribute to Ray Lewis of Mc Loughlin Junior High school for his painstaking work in turning out the excellent musical ar rangements in the show, and who with Melody Pierce did a fine consistent job of accom panying; to Lynn Sjolund and his 60-voice high school choir for their rousing chorus num bers; to Irv-Mirick and his splen did band for their before-curtain and intermission music; to War ren Wolf and his art students for their outstanding creation of the tenements set; to Bernard Rob berts and the school carpenters for the set construction; to Col leen Hope's Dance studio for the show's choreography; to Caesar Muzzioli's Accordion studio for his contributions; to Jerry Mc Dougall and his crew for direct ing the lighting and taking charge of make up; to Russ Jam ison who knit the show together as "Tony, the Organ Grinder," and to the entire Medford pub lic school system of teachers and students who gave unstintingly of their time and efforts to make the show a success. Special thanks is due the Medford Mail Tribune staff for the generous ads and space giv en us for publicity; to radio sta tions KYJC, KBOY, and KMED, and to Isaac McCarley of KMED who tape recorded the show in its entirety so that Mr. Stedman might have the recording to keep as a permanent memento, and to KBES-TV for making two previews of the show possible. Our thanks, too, to John Lusk . for furnishing the two pianos for the show, and to Swem's, Barker's, the Music Mart, and Puruckers for selling tickets. It isn't possible to include here the names of the dozens of warm-hearted people whose willing hands contributed to the show's success, but let it be said that through their efforts Med ford has proven again that it is a town with a heart as big as the Rogue River valley! Frankie (Mrs. C. Ivan) Burton General Chairman The "Salute to Bob Stedman" Show 26 Richmond ave. Medford, Ore. PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which ore In keeping with Its mean. 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