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Newspaper Page Textii t 8 Si n o. P H L D i St w lie d ni ch th lu po Vi fir tri ra 71 16 w CO) HI FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Mbdfosdtribunb Zveryon lis Southern Oregon Read! The Mail Tribune'' Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC AI.I.F-N JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAJS Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as 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 f 15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dailv and Sunday Three mos 4.23 Sundav Only One year $4 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 818 00 Dally and Sunday One month 110 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford 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 troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAt I ASSOCIATION NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION iqhto' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 19 YEARS AGO fcjwil 8. 1947 (Tuesday) Xogue River-valley irrigation tyater supply prospects for 1947 vary from ample to poor, ac cording to the Southern Oregon 7ater forecast committee. Mrom Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: All is quiet im the rural regions. A city fiveUer can come out in favor ea the proposed Sales Tax with out taking the -consequences. CO TEAlfe AGO $jpil 8, 1937 (Thursday) Appointment of Clifford D. Conrad as county club agent of Jackson county is approved, ac cording to R. G. Fowler, county agent. The 1937 road program for Jackson county as reported by County Engineer Paul B. Ryn- ning today calls for oiling of ten miles under the 10-year co operative plan. 38 YEAfiS AGO April 8. 1927 (Friday) Southern Oregon, through Crater lako, is to receive world wide publicity this year, accord ing U the local headquarters office. C. C. Lemmon is installed new exalted ruler of the Medford lodge f the Elks. 40 TEARS AGO Aarg 8. 1917 (Sunday) President Wilson today signed the resriutien of congress de claring a state of .war between the United States and Germany Negotiations are pending for the purchase or lease and bond ing of the Iron Knob mine in the Squaw creek district to Salk Lake mining men. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev en or eight Is excellent: five or six is good. 1. Did Fuiton, John Stevens or Ericsson build the first steam boat to successfully navigate the ocean? 2. What three food staples are the basis of a low-cost diet? 3. Bible: In which Book does David ever complain to God for a remedy to offset the outrages of the wicked? 4. What is a campanile? 5. For what purpose was the leaning tower of Pisa built? 6. Does antimony belong to the animal, vegetable or mineral kingdom? 7. Who served as President of France during World War I? 8. Correct the following: "She rung for the steward." 9. Which is the more formal word (such a? relating to a moral or legal duty): oblige or obligate? 10. "I read within a poet's book a word that starred the page, 'Store walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a" what? Answers: 1. John Stevens (1808). 2. Milk, cereals, and bread. 3. Psalms. 4. A bell-tower. 5. As a campanile or bell tower. 6. Mineral. 7. Raymond Poincare. 8. "She rang for the steward." 9. Obligate. 10. "cage." H. VanDyke. AIR CRASH KILLS 32 Paris (U.R) A twin-engine Douglas DC3 airliner crashed at Biskra in Algeria today killing all 32 persons on board. French press reports reaching Paris said. Biskra is about 200 miles south east of Algiers. MAIL TRIBUNE Time for a Start There are some areas in which Jackson county is ahead of other counties of comparable size. Ex amples of this are road and highway development, an outstanding historical museum, plans for a juvenile detention home, and what is probably the best public health department in the state. In other ways,' Jackson county lags behind. It has no zoning ordinance for the protection of rural resi dents (although with the recent appointment of a planning commission, such a step is closer than it once was). It contributes a far smaller percentage of sup port for the library than do many other counties. Ana it is totally without any program for the development of a county park system. Now, with the budget committee in session, is a good time to think about them. IT has been previously remarked here that as popu- lation continues to increase (and it will), pressure will continue to rise for added areas for recreation. Our state parks and forest camps, good as they are, are not adequate to serve this legitimate demand. And if the county is to fulfill this function, which is one of the jobs of a county that is spelled out in state law, it had better get cracking while there is still time to plan ahead, and before the spots best suited to recreation are devoted to other purposes. The start need not be a big one. An appropriation of five or ten thousand dollars (out of a budget well in excess of two million) should serve to set up the basic operation of a parks division, permit surveys to determine ideal sites, and even start a modest pro gram of acquisition and development. NEIGHBORING Josephine county, with far less population and a smaller income, this year has a park budget of $5,000 and one full-time employee. Douglas county to the north has a budget of more than $80,000, and employs several men in its parks department. Lane county has an ambitious program. Multnomah county, which of course is in a class by itself as far as the rest of the state is concerned, has a budget in excess of $190,000 for county parks. Failure to do something about it this year would put us just one more year further behind., Last December, in commenting on this situation, we said : ". . . It would be doing the city of Medford and the people of Jackson county and their thousands of summer visitors a big favor if they (the county) undertook to acquire Prescott park on Roy Ann butte . . . and operate it as a county recreational property. "This park is valuable for that use only; it logically should not be the responsibility of the city, and it would furnish the nucleus of a county park system which would serve the people in their leisure hours for generations to come." "THIS comment is still valid today. " We hope the county budget committee can see its way clear to provide sufficient funds to get the program going. It is less urgent today than it will be 10 years hence, but if preparations are not made, and soon, it will always be "too little and too late," no matter what we do in future years. E.A. Policing Welfare Funds Union welfare funds will probably come in for some kind of federal review at this session of Con gress. Disclosures by the special Senate committee investigating labor-management racketeering so far have touched only lightly on pension-health-welfare funds. Nevertheless, key members of Congress are showing a disposition to "do something" and the welfare funds offer a likely target. Support for legislation on welfare funds crosses party and liberal-conservative lines, perhaps because the general view is that the proposals most frequently discussed would be primarily corrective rather' than punitive. Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill.) and Sen. Irv ing M. Ives (R-N.Y.) are co-sponsors of a bill to re quire registration of the funds and reporting of fund data. THE Ives-Douglas proposal is described as "not a regulatory bill," only a disclosure bill. Americans for Democratic Action at their annual convention in Washington on March 31 came out strongly for dis closure of all transactions involving union welfare and pension funds. And Arthur Goldberg, special counsel to the AFL-CIO, is saying that organized labor should favor a disclosure bill, dropping its previous insistence that the same measure cover employer managed funds. The Douglas bill would cover union welfare funds, joint labor-management funds, and management funds. Lane Kirkland, assistant director of AFL-CIO Department of Social Security, in urging its passage last month, noted that it dealt not only with "just the one-half of 1 per cent (of beneficiaries) covered by union plans, or the 7.5 per cent covered by joint funds, but the 92 per cent covered by employer-run plans as well." THE Taft-Hartley Law already sets limited stan dards for the establishment and operation of collectively-bargained welfare funds. These call for jointly administered trust funds kept separate from other union reserves. Maximum penalties for violation of these Taft-Hartley provisions are $10,000 fine and a year's imprisonment. Senate investigations have established that over 75 million persons are directly or indirectly covered by employee pension and contributions amount to reserves add 'up to $20 billion or $25 billion. The Securities and Exchange Commission says that these reserves make up the largest single source of equity capital. E.R.R. , Monday. April 8. 1957 welfare programs. Annual almost $7 billion. Funded Congress' Accomplishments as Easter Nears Said Not- Great By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Correspondent Washington (V.R) The ap proach of Easter annually gives the signal for stock-taking on the record of Congress since the start of the year. There is a widespread tenden cy each year to come up with the finding that Congress hasn't dont much and the record this year would not indicate that 1957 is different. To this conclusion, however, the perennial and probably justi fied retort is that Congress at work in the winter is Congress at work in committee. The trickle of bills out of commit tees becomes a flood in late spring and early summer. Doctrine Gets Passage As of March 31 only 12 bills had become law. But scores of In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Let's take a calm and consid ered look at the ruckus that has arisen between the congress and the postoffice department. It came about like this: Postmaster General Summer field asked the congress the oth er day for 47' million dollars to run his department during April, May and June. These months are the last quarter of the current fiscal year. A new fiscal year be gins on' July 1. Presumably, he needed the extra money to car ry his department through until a new fiscal year begins. His request for additional funds came before a house ap propriations subcommittee, that suggested that the postal depart ment be given only 17 million dollars, which would just cover pay increases authorized by con gress for postal employees. What that amounted to was a proposal that the postmaster general cut 30 million dollars out of his op erating budget for the next three months. Til R. SUMMERFIELD reacted promptly. He said that if congress wants a cut of that size, he'll go along. . But He added He'll have to cut postal ser vices drastically. He tolds a news conference that if he is to cut 30 million dollars out of a re quested appropriation of 47 mil lions he'U have to CUT DEEPLY. His cuts, he said, may have to include such things as these: Cut out Saturday mail deliv eries. - Close all postoffices on Satur days. Call a halt on money order sales. .' Reduce mail deliveries in city business districts to one per day. WELL "if spending is to be reduced sharply so that taxes may be reduced something like that is what will have to be done. Taxes are high because government has been providing a lot of SER VICES for tne people. If we are to cut taxes, we wiU have to get along with less services from the government. That's about the long and the short of it. WHILE we're at it, let's take a sharp look at the postal business. It is a BUSINESS. It is run by the government. For a long, time, it has been costing a whale of a lot more than it has been taking in. Both President Eisenhow er and his postmaster general, Mr. Summerfield, have proposed that the gap be closed by charg ing higher postal rates. So far, the congress has refused to do this, preferring to load the defi cit onto the taxpayers. That is to say: The congress has assumed that the taxpayers would rather pay for the postal deficit out of their TAX POCKET instead of out of their, stamp pocket. T et's take a look at that. By and large, the taxpayers and the users of the postal ser vice are more or less the same people. Everybody pays taxes. Everybody uses the postal ser vice. ... Scj It might be argued, what dif ference does it make how the deficit is paid? CONSIDER . this fact: . Some users of the postal ser vice may spend millions of dol lars a year for postage. Others may spend very little. I imagine there are people who write no more than t few letters a week. I have a definite notion that those who write only a few let ters a week far outnumber those whose postage bill runs into the hundreds of thousands, or may be millions, of dollars per year. - What that amounts to is that those who used the mails spar ingly, but who PAY TAXES, have to help pay the hills of the heavy users of the postal service. I THINK maybe the members of congress, whose primary in terest is VOTES, may have been overlooking that fact. It might be a good idea for them to count up the votes again. If they did so, they might come to the con clusion that it would be better to raise postal rates than to go on piling the deficit onto the taxpayers. others have emerged from com mittee and many have been pass ed by one of the two houses. The most important act of Congress during the first three months was passage of the reso lution asserting the Eisenhower Doctrine for resisting Commu nist aggression in the Middle East. Other major bills passed were a 15-month extension of cor porate income and excise tax rates, new lending authority for the Small Business Administra tion, and more authority for the government to buy up mortgages and free more private funds for home financing. Otherwise, the House has pass ed five of the regular appropria tion bills, none of which is yet off the asseifibly line in the Sen ate. The Senate has passed a $1,500,000,000 public works bill and a massive rewrite of federal banking laws two bills which now await House action. Matter of Fact LAWYER DULLES Washington If you see him in action, it is easy to under stand why Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was one of the world's most highly paid corpora t i o n lawyers. At his press conference the other day, Sec retary Dulles found his path Stewait Alsop llDcrally strewn with booby traps, mostly placed by his admiring biogra pher, John Robinson Beal. It was a pleasure to watch Dulles danc ing delicately around them, be cause it is always a pleasure to watch a first class mind in ac tion. Yet one could not help won dering, also, whether a brilliant lawyer does not suffer from cer tain liabilities as a Secretary of State. A lawyer is an advocate. His whole training prepares him to put the best possible face on a client's case, suiting his argu ment, to the occasion and the audience. This ingrained habit has been responsible for most of Dulles' troubles. Take the biggest booby trap Dulles faced at his press conference the report in the Beal book that Dulles had with drawn the Aswan dam aid offer "brutally, without (giving Nas ser) a chance to save face," in order to force a Middle Eastern showdown. .'. AT HIS press conference' Dulles claimed that he had withdrawn the aid offer "in a courteous manner." What actual ly happened was this. Dulles re ceived the Egyptian ambassador, Achmed Hussein, who had been dispatched to j Washington, by Nasser to accept the American aid offer, on the afternoon of last July 19. He ctied to Hussein various reasons why the United States wished to withdraw its of fer (and no one disputes that there were excellent reasons for doing so). He then showed Hus sein a press release citing Egyp tian economic weakness as the main reason for withdrawing the offer, and asked Hussein to comment on it. Since the statement was al ready prepared for release to the press, there was really nothing Hussein could say. Dulles was polite to Hussein, and the press release contained the usual pro testations of "our friendship for the ' Egyptian people." In this purely formal sense, the manner of the withdrawal was "cour teous.' But in real terms, it was a slap in the face for Nasser, as Nasser instantly realized. There is no doubt at all about one main reason why Dulles slapped Nasser's face so public ly. The Aswan dam project was at the time under the most vio lent attack from an alliance of right-wing Republicans and cot ton state Democrats. A month before, under pressure from this alliance, Dulles had said that there was "no likelihood" of any United States funds" being used for the project. T KITING Nasser down easily in such a way as to save his face by saying that the project had to be "reconsidered," for ex ample would have caused an explosion in the Senate. Dulles took office determined not to re peat his predecessor's mistake of alienating Congress, and his manner of turning Nasser down was certainly in part a gesture of appeasement to the anti-dam Senators. Dulles also came to office, BOY HAD HEART ACHE GEO. N. TAYLOR The small boy saw God, Christ, the an gels, father and mother all over in the glory-land. But he knew he had sinned and knew he was not fit. Then on a day his mother told him of God's Son, dying for his sins. If he would receive Christ's death as . clearing him and eternity in the glory-land would be his. Right there, the" boy laid hold on Christ as having died for his sinful nature. Hear the AMEN chorus from ,the saved of every land. God leads his saved ones to glad days that no man can picture. New days here Eternal glory there. No Great Volume At this point, the atmosphere in Congress indicates that a great volume of legislation is not to be expected this year. It can be easily argued, however, that the record of a Congress cannot be measured in terms of the number of bills passed. If Congress mirrors public opinion, the only effective pub lic pressure on legislation this year is aimed at cutbacks in government spending. This situ ation alone can put a brake on measures like President Eisen hower's school construction pro gramcalling for new outlays of money. Because the school segrega tion issue has become enmeshed in the school construction bill, passage of a civil rights bill has been viewed as a necessary pre liminary to action on the school measure. Now school legislation must also survive the battle of the budget. By Stewart AIsop however, determined not to make his predecessor's other mistake, of alienating the press and through the press the pub lic. Domestic political appease ment may sometimes be wise, but it is not heroic foreign dip lomacy. And Dulles undoubted ly did have another reason for his abrupt rebuff to Nasser he wanted to expose the hollowness of Soviet economic aid offers to Egypt. In private conversations with sympathetic reporters like Beal, Dulles, like a good lawyer, no doubt emphasized this more he roic aspect of the matter. And thus his rebuff to Nasser emerged, not as a necessary ges ture of domestic political ap peasement, but as "a truly major gambit in the cold war," "com parable in the sphere of diplo macy to the calculated risks of war taken in Korea and For mosa." . 11HEN this sensational version ' ' of the episode caused the inevitable explosion, Dulles, the good lawyer again, shrugged off the withdrawal of the aid offer as a necessary act performed in "a courteous manner." All this suggests why his critics at home and especially abroad, use the word "disingenuous," and other harsher adjectives, when they describe Dulles. But in his own eyes, Secretary Dulles is cer tainly not disingenuous at all. He simply puts his client's case in the best possible light, depending on the audience, as he was trained to do. In a good lawyer, this is an admirable habit. But in a Secretary of State of the United States, it can cause a lot of trouble, as recent history . very clearly suggests. (C) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. France Bans Sale Of English Novel Paris U.R) Book lovers protested Monday that the French government has banned the sale of the English version of "Lolita," an off-beat novel about a middle aged European immigrant and his love affair with a 12-year-old American girl. The Olympic Press, Paris pub lishers of the 105-page book, carried the protest further and said they will attempt to prove that "Lolita" is not pornography but fine art. The novel, written by Ameri can college professor Wladimir Nabokov, describes in detail the passion of the man for the ado lescent girl. One of the key epi sodes describes its depraved hero and his child mistress touring America as father and daughter after a seduction aided by sleep ing pills. Publisher Maurice Girodias charged that French "arbitrary censorship" resulted from pres sure by the British Home Office. Nixon Said To Hove Many Supporters for President Portland (U.R) Charles Mc Whorter, chairman of the Young Republican National Federation, said Sunday he has found that manv DeoDle support Vice Presi dent Richard Nixon for presi dent in 1960. However. McWhorter said he riirl nnt hplipvp ReDublicans had decided upon a particular candi date. McWhorter conferred with state Young Republicans on or ganizational and candidate is sues. Agricultural fairs attract six times more people than major league basebaU. Russian Missile News Seen by U.P. Scribes United Press correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that wiU make the headlines. Missile Move Intelligence sources in both Berlin and Vienna say that Rus sia is preparing (1) to send atom ic weapons to its army in East Germany and (2) to construct a string of guided missile bases along the Austrian - Hungarian border. Berlin hears that steel and concrete underground shel ters for storing atomic weapons and missiles already are under construction in the Magdeburg and Schwerin areas of East Ger many: Missile Jitters It may seem strange that Rus sai is planning to set up missile bases in foreign countries just when it is warning Norway, Denmark and The Netherlands that they face disaster if they permit the establishment of such bases on their own soil. But con sistency is not a jewel in Mos cow. Also, London reports that the Soviet government really Nadler Increases TV Quiz Winnings On Sunday Program New York (U.R) Teddy Nadler, a $70-a-week govern ment clerk, increased his take home prize to $153,000 Sunday night to become the largest money winner on a single tele vision quiz program. Nadler, a civil service em ployee at the Army's depot in St. Louis, Mo., won $32,000 when he defeated Mrs. Lowell Thomas Jr., world traveler and explorer, in a geography cate gory on "The $64,000 Chal lenge." He had won $120,000 since his first appearance in August, 1956 by downing experts in the fields of ancient, European and modern history, music, baseball and anthropology. , Nadler's phenomenal photo graphic memory failed him only once. His only defeat was in a classical music category when he offered too much informa tion. The extraneous informa tion proved to be incorrect. The 47-year-old clerk will be brought back to the show if he is challenged in the future. Islands Unidentified Mrs. Thomas, daughter-in-law of the commentator, failed to identify four Indonesian islands which lie on the Equator. They were Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes and Halmahera. In addition to . the islands Nadler identified eight African and South' American countries lying on the equator and the countries through which four equatorial rivers flow. In another contest, Polish born Count Eugene Lukawiecki won $16,000 by defeating Mrs. Caroline Hebb, a Locust Valley, N.Y., housewife in a hot rods category. Supreme Court Slates Tidelands Arguments Washington (U.R) The Su preme Court meets Monday to deliver opinions and hear argu ments on the Lousiana Tide lands controversy. Because the justices were busy hearing cases last week, they were not expected to hand down many decisions Monday. After the tidelands arguments are heard, the court will recess for two weeks and concentrate on writing opinions. In the Louisiana dispute the Justice Department wants the court to restrict state ownership of the oil rich undersea area in the Gulf of Mexico to ten-mile belt around the coastline. Louisi ana contends its boundary ex tends as much as 120 to 180 miles off shore, and at the very least lOVi miles. FUNERAL. SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home o Phone 2-6675 ' has the jitters over the threat that North Atlantic Treaty or ganization missile bases would present to it in the event of war. Lee for President Don't be surprised if Dave Beck, under fire for alleged mis use of Teamster funds, is ousted . as president of the country's biggest union next fall. James R. Hoffa, long the "Crown Prince" seems out as a succes sor. He is under indictment on bribery charges. Washington be lieves that William A. Lee, pres ident of the Chicago Federation of Labor and one of the 11 Teamsters vice presidents, may become head man. Secretary- Treasurer John English is Beck's chief antagonist right now. But he is 63, and is likely to be passed over as too old to take over. Bargain Basement London looks for a bargain basement rush by British Com monwealth nations when the navy starts disposing of its sur plus warships under Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan's drastic economy program. Canada, Aus tralia, New Zealand, India and Pakistan all are reported to be interested. There may even be some bidding for Britain's bat tleships, that are to be scrapped or "otherwise disposed of." Fight A fight may break out in Congress over United States pro duction of nuclear explosives. Chairman Carl T. Dunham (D. N.C.) of the Congressional Atom ic Energy commission says pro duction is insufficient. He favors construction of additional Plu tonium production facilities at Hanford, Wash. Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy commission says present produc tion is sufficient. But Congress may write in authorization for a new plutonium plant in a pending atomic construction biU o v e r administration objec tions. Ashland Teachers Hold Celebration Ashland Members of the Ashland Teachers association Thursday evening held a double celebration meeting. They observed the 100th anni versary of the National Educa tion association and the centen nial of the formation of Ashland school district 5. . Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, presi dent of Southern Oregon col lege, gave the opening address. He traced the history of NEA from its founding to the present day group of more than 684,000 members. Former students and teachers and excerpts were read from the minutes of district 5 school board meeting 100 ,years ago. The smorgasbord and program were held in the Briscoe school auditorium. CASH. FOR TAXES If you have taxes, insurance or other obligations to meet come in and see us. We offer a complete loan service. One of our plans will solve your problem. OREGON FINANCE COMPANY Locally Owned & Operated Gene Thomas, Manager 46 South Central 4t PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which are In keeping with its means. A selection of services In very price range Is of fered to satisfy Individual preferences a n d to meet all financial circumstances. Convenient Terms? Certainly!