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'o o Oo o 6 o .-. 4- c0 (. f"rFjiR MEDFORD (OREGON) MilEORDvTRIBUNE O lEveryons in Southern Oregon Heads Tne Mali in Dune .uned Daily Except Saturday 4y MEDFORD PRiNTIKG CO North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 H?B REY Advertising Manager fRAJ-D LATHAM Business Manager ijtjSct A 1,1, FN JR. Managing Editor tfcPL H ADAMS. City Editor KA&HBV CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor ffiUCHAHD JEWETT SoorU Editor SktoTE STAKCHER Society Editor IgfriiE ER1CKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Centered as second das matter at iediord Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mali In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year $15 00 ally and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily end Sunday Three mot 425 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Core Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 Sorrier and Dealers 10c per copy AU 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 OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. CNC Offices In New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDIT-OllAi NEWSPAPEI V publishers association Flight br Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 11. 1947 (Friday) At least 800 bids are received on the offering of 1,250 buildings for sale at Camp White. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A Moscow dispatch states "Lighter labors are faced by the foreign minis ters." We can't make one of them things work either. 20 YEARS AGO April 11, 1937 (Sunday) B. L. Sanderson of the Sander- son Motor company elected pres ident of the Southern Oregon Automobile Dealers' association. The Rev. James Hamilton, Medford chairman of the Nation al Peace campaign, announces meeting today to carry out first steps of the emergency program. 30 YEARS AGO April 11, 1927 (Monday) First heavy frost of the season, with a 27.6 minimum, brings first orchard heating last night. Henry D. D. Roland, human fly and movie stunt performer, will climb up the outside wall of Medford hotel tomorrow night. .40 YEARS AGO April 11. 1917 (Wednesday) Medford will have a Home Guard military company of be tween 100 and 200 members, composed of men who, because of age or physical disability, are ineligible for active service. Butte Falls representatives en dorse declaration of war by Con gress against Germany. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev en or eight Is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Did Boston ever pay as high as $1 a gallon for sperm "whale" oil to light, her street lamps? 2. Name the capital of Florida. 3. Bible: ' Then Samuel went to Ramah; Anul went up to his" what "to Gibeah of Saul." 4. How many months of the year nave ju aays: 5. Which is the most malleable of all metals? 6. May 'the Navy present medals to persons in the Army? 7. A millenp'um is one hun dred, one thousand, or one mil lion years? 8. Abraham Lincoln was born in Kansas, Kentucky, or Illinois? 9. Is it proper to use the term "brethren" of sons in a family? 10. "The hills, Rock-ribbed, as ancient as the sun." Who wrote this line in "Thanatopsis"? Answers: 1. Yes. In 1855. 2. Tallahassee. 3. "his home." 4. Four. (April, June, September, November). 5. Gold. 6. Yes. 7. 1.000. 8. Kentucky. 9. No. Of a fraternal body. 10. William Cul len Bryant. Boyd Overhulse Governor of Oregon Salem (U.R) The man from Madras was the governor of Oregon Thursday. Gov. Robert D. Holmes left the state by plane to preside over a session on human resour ces at the western regional Con ference on Higher Education at San Francisco. When he crossed the state line Senate President Boyd Overhulse, Madras Demo crat, automatically became act ing t overnor. MAIL TRIBUNE The Oregonian, the Journal and "Time" It will be a relief when the "Portland mess" gets its day in court and the trial by newspapers ends. The Oregonian and Journal are now engaged in bitter combat over Mayor Terry Schrunk and par- ticularly an article in Time magazine which the Journal claims "distorted the facts." For example: "Time" ridiculed the Journal's pub lication of Clifford Bennett's affidavit denying that he paid the Portland Mayor a $500 bribe in Septem ber 1955, the implication being Bennett committed perjury and the crime by Schrunk WAS committed. The Journal comments, quote: "We are not judging Schrunk's guilt or innocence. We are protesting the fact that Time and the Oregonian have in effect already convicted him." The Journal adds: "The. Journal has repeatedly urged that vice and rackets must not be tolerated. It has repeatedly urged that all the facts bevtold, that all the truth be uncovered." The Journal then "points with pride" to its long record of achievement in fighting for a clean and law abiding city and declares "honest journalism demands that what Time said and did not say about the Journal be. corrected." In short, the Portland evening paper is fed up with Time's distortion of the facts, the Oregonian's ac quiescence in such distortion and their effort to con vince the people that the Journal is on the side of the "bad guys" while the Oregonian "walks with the angels." THIS paper's,sympathy goes out to the Journal on two principal counts. . No. 1 : "Time" did slant its reports of the "Port land mess," was unjust to the Portland Journal direct ly and by implication, and it should, in fairness, make a correction. But it won't. As has often been remarked in this department, "Time" claims to be a NEWS magazine, but it isn't. It is a weekly journal of opinion. It almost never handles a big and controversial story impartially or objectively particularly m the political field. We don't mean that its always clever and extremely readable journalism is factually false. But we do mean the reports are so arranged and colored and slanted as to give a false impression. Moreover if Time has attempted to be entirely fair and objective in its news, we have little evidence of either, and we have been a fairly regular reader of "Time" since it was started. This opinion of "Time" is not new with us, we have times in the past and so our sympathy does go out to the Portland Journal, as just another victim of Time's mal-practice, from an objective news reporting stand point, i MO. 2 : OUR sympathy is Darjer because it is also ism's occupational hazards, uuoiuuu in tuc uiipuius.ni sjjui news uepcu uiieni. Had the break in the teamsters and the Portland underworld come the way of a couple of reporters irom the UVEMNG, instead of the MORNING Port land paper, the roles today would, we are sure, be exactly reversed. And we doubt very much if the Jour- nai, under such circumstances, would have behaved very differently than the Oregonian is behaving now or vice versa. It was simply a bad "break" for one, and a most fortunate break for the other." Just as it would be too much, in such a highly competitive field as Portland to expect the "Oregon ian" NOT to capitalize on the "break" to the FULL EST extent, so it would be too much to expect that the Journal would accept a "me-too" second fiddle role and would not do the best it could, with the crumbs that were left over. . e JN SHORT, as far as the newspapers in Portland are concerned, the inevitable conflict regarding crime and vice revelations is proceeding in a perfectly natur al and normal fashion. Our only complaint is it has gone far enough too far in fact. Let the "trial by newspapers" now be stopped and let the "due process" clause in our consti tution get to work. THE Langley trial has started, the Shrunk trial will be held soon, and it is to be hoped court action involving Bosses Jimmy Hoffa and Dave Beck will not be far behind. As everyone knows the basic principle of Amer ican jurisprudence is the accused are always assumed to be innocent, until in a proper court their guilt has been proved. So from now on let the verdict be left to the courts, not to the press, and then let those who have been found guilty by a jury of their peers be given the punishment the laws provide, and those found not guilty enjoy the benefits of official innocence they have won. R.W.R. Snow Again Falls On By UNITED PRESS The nation's brief respite from stormy weather ended to day with a new outbreak of snow and rain from the plains states to the Ohio Valley. A snowstorm swept into west ern Montana, Wyoming, north ern Colorado and western Ne braska during the noght, blank eting Cheyenne, Wyo., and Sid ney, Neb., with a two to three inch accumilation. Northern Wisconsin and up per Michigan also were hit with a one to two inch snowfall. Thursday, April 11, 1957 ever made a correction or as a "news" magazine. commented upon it many extended to the Portland a victim of one of iournal- namely: a "beat" by the Plains Stales Showers spread across Iowa, northern Missouri, southern Wisconsin, northern Illinois and lower Michigan. The western snowstorm was triggered by an invasion of cold Canadian air into the northern plains. Temperatures dropped to a low of 10 degrees overnight at points in North Dakota and Montana. Weathermen said snow flur ries are expected to continue in Montana and Colorado today, and advance eastward along the upper Mississippi Valley Soviet Russia Appears Worried About British Arms Changes By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia seems to be more worried than any Western country over Great Brit-ains revolutionary new armaments policy. Prime Minister Harold Mac millan's announcement that Brit- ains defense system would be put on a nu clear age basis, with a conse quent drastic cut in the armed forces, came as a shock to mili tary experts of Charles M. McCano ine pJortn At lantic Treaty Organization coun tries. Fear was expressed that the Communications The Delinquent and Police To -the Editor: It is not often I get a good belly laugh. However, an irate lady's challenge to the Medford City Police did the trick. I gathered from her epistle that, possibly, a boy of hers had somehow gotten himself into a tangle that made it necessary for a city blue coat to take ac tion in the matter. For the Lady's edification let me say that every law enforce ment officer is under oath to obey, support, uphold the law. And to enforce its provisions. There can not possibly be any deviation from his duty and his orders. He MUST make the law enforcement his prime duty at all times whether on duty or off. He has no other choice except to resign, which is an indication of cowardice, or favoritism, neither of which may be tolerated for a single instant. - If a child is guilty he needs punishment and should receive it. If a child refuses to obey his parents and does as he wills, it may be to the detriment of others than himself, then he is guilty and is far on his way to become a 'delinquent.' The court s are lement with such children. I say 'children be cause the law has been held to include all persons under 21 years of age. Many of whom should be far enough in the teens to carry himself with honor. I know quite a few of the Medford city police and I can think of none I should fail to trust. They are courteous, kindly, sympathet ic, but firm, as they must be to be good officers. My hat is off to them. As a rule a delinquent child has been neglected, and permit ted to 'run wild.' Psychiatrists and psychologists are 90 per cent to blame for the parents' neglect of their children. They teach that a child must be permitted to express himself, "he must not be punished," 'let him do as he pleases.' Does such teaching make sense? Solomon was held to be the wisest man on earth. What did HE say about unruly child ren? "Spare the rod and (you) spoil the child." As a result we are prone to let the child go as he wills. Does that make sense? No it makes juvenile criminals; potential thugs and murderers. Better to have the police take charge now before it is too late. A. U. (Name on File) Medford, Ore. Everything Is Too High To the Editor: This may un load a bomb, but here goes. Saturday my husband went to the Country Club which has the only golf club (course) in the city, with the idea in mind of playing about nine holes of golf, which is a good, clean,, healthy sport in any man's class. Upon arriving he was told he could not play. They would not honor a card from a very fine club in Portland for a minimum fee, but for $3 he could play nine holes, if he were from out of town. Of course since we're just plain, poor, respectable people, (and Americans) . who can't af ford the exorbitant spr ice to join the club, but still like to get out in this highly over-emphasized Oregon sunshine and hospitality. Maybe they are afraid the turf might wilt and die where hi . trod or he might tear it up. So far the courses he has played on still remain in excellent condition, no worse for the games played. Would like to state, too, that although we aren't in the upper 500 or even 300 bracket, we do live, buy food, clothes, pay taxes, visit the dentist and doc tor, in this gracious city, which all goes to enlarge the purse strings of those who can sit back in their seat of glory and say, "Pay us more or go home. You aren't entitled to fresh air and recreation. You don't belong!" In other words, perhaps you can't buy enough refreshments and spend enough to suit us, we don't want you! . , Am wondering why , the city of Medford does not put in a course of their own where a man, woman or child could play for a minimum amount. There are plenty of golfers in this com munity and the city has plenty of ready property which could bring the city a neat sum of money. Let the Big Wigs sit in their smug circle but it's about foundation of NATO's primary objective might be weakened fa tally. This objective is to provide a defensive screen of armies and air forces sufficient to slow up a mass Russian attack on West ern Europe. The fear has subsided some what. There seems to be a grow ing feeling that Macmillan took the 'only course open to him, con sidering the necessity for sharp reduction in government spend ing. But Soviet Russian fear seems to be intensifying. The chief reason seems to be the realization of the threat that nuclear weapons bases in NATO countries would present to Rus sia if World War III broke out. Russia's fear is being shown in an incessant stream of warnings time there was something for the Common Man, who like the farmer is the heart of a com munity, and his son, in this high ly glorified valley. It might help to reduce juvenile delinquency. Is there no tolerance? Only recreation for a few, even the theatres are far too expensive for our young boys and girls. Think it over, folks, the ex orbitant high prices for every thing is the total sum of this valley. Delinquent boys and girls have you ever stooped to wonder why as well as criticize? : Oh that's right, we are al lowed a walk in the sun (pro vided it shines). That's for free or a minimum fee! Mrs. Lester Wright 352 Stewart ave. Medford, Ore. Verses for Beck To the Editor: These verses would seem to be in line with your editorial on the Dave Beck situation. If you can use them I'll be happy to have you do so. "BECKED" We've acquired a new word That's sans aU respect When we want to say "gyp" The synonym's "BECK." When we find that some crook Has feathered his nest We ruefully say I guess we've been "BECKED." The sad part of it is AU over this land The teamsters he gyps May also be "damned." Let us hope they will rise . And throw off his yoke And strip him, if guilty And send him home broke. Don Young 6240 N.E. Simpson st., Portland 13, Ore. Defends Mayor Schrunk To the Editor: The editorial in last night's Oregon Journal brought again to my mind the Tweed-Crocker New York poli tical machine in the late 1870s when Josiah Gilbert Holland be came aroused over the crimes of character assassination and wrote the immortal poem "Wanted, A Man." Three weeks ago, I read on the floor of the Central Labor council (Portland) that poem. Changed the plural to the singular and told the audi ence we had a similar example here in Portland, over Mayor Terry Schrunk that they had back in New York 87 years ago. I agree most heartily with your editorial. Am enclosing 25 cents to cover two copies of that issue of your paper to place in the permanent clipping file for Senator Wayne Morse's Wash ington office. E. C. Ferguson, who died in January 1956, was a member of my Morse Telegraph club as a consequence I have always had a deep feeling for the Mail Tribune. This was written and inspired by the passionate sense of out rage at the crimes of Tweed Crocker political machine in New York, in the late 1870s. It might have been written for a "Time Like This," in 195787 years later. WANTED By Josiah Gilbert Holland God give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor, men who will not lie; Men who can stand bef pre a demagogue, And damn his treacherous flat teries without winking! Tan men, sun-crowned who live above the fog. In Public Duty and in Private Thinking! Last spring, just before the primary here in Portland, the people (including churches, lodges, business associations and labor unions) made a. search for a man to clean our city of the SEE! ORAL ROBERTS, film "CRUCIFIXION" at the OPEN BIBLE CHURCH Ashland, Oregon, in the Women's Civie Clubhouse this FRIDAY at 7:30 P.M. broadcast to NATO countries that they would face destruction if they permitted their territory to be used for nuclear weapons bases. Specific warnings have been broadcast to Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, West Germany and Turkey. A broadcast in Greek warned that Cyprus might be involved in a general catas trophe. Broadcasts in Spanish, though they have not mentioned Spain, have warned of this dan ger. Spain, though not a mem ber of NATO, is the site of im portant American bases. Even Sweden, which is not a NATO member and preserves neutrality, has been accused of departing from its neutral course and permitting its "reactionary circles" to spy against Russia. That Russia could devastate countries of Western Europe there is no doubt. But Soviet leaders know that Russia would suffer catastrophic attacks itself from Allied bases, extending from Western Europe to Turkey, which are within easy range of vital targets in the Soviet Union. octopus whose tentacles had sunk into our very vitals! Almost on bended knee, after three days of anxious pleading, Terry -Schrunk agreed to run for mayor. Now that same octopus in its dying agony is determined to crucify Terry Schrunk on the cross of character assassination, tion. Mrs. O. D. Cook 1916 N.E. Portland Blvd., Portland 11, Ore. The Norman Outrage , To the Editor: D-. Norman is a symbol of what the United States of America has become, to our everlasting shame, as are the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss, Rob ert Oppenheimer, and would like to do to Robert Hutchins or any one who thinks for himself. We have become a nation of para noics led by paranoics. Our feet are on the road that Hitler trod. Last Thursday, April 4, Eger ton H. Norman, Canadian ambas sador to Egypt jumped from a high building in Cairo and was horribly kiUed because, as he stated in the letters that he left, he was accused of being a Com munist by the Un-American Committee of the United States Senate. What sovereignty have we over a Canadian citizen or British subject living in Cairo, Egypt, or over the Egyptians? After being cleared by the Can adian government and apparent ly by ours, the American charges were re-published March 14. Due to the earlier smear, Dr. Norman lost his U. N, post. You would have been stronger than he was? Maybe not. Every human being has his breaking point. The United States at present is try ing to push a great many people to their breaking point, whether they are guilty or not, by smear tactics. Sleep well, Senators. You cannot harm Dr. Norman any more. Edith Y. Ingle, 338 Bessie st., Medford, Ore. Beck, Aides Plan Strategy Meeting Houston, Tex. U.R) Team sters boss Dave Beck and 12 of his aides were reported today as planning to hold a top level strategy meeting in the Houston Galveston area next week. The meeting, it was reported, will be held Monday and Tues day in a hotel in either . Houston or Galveston. Reservations re portedly were made at a hotel for all teamsters Executive Board members. A canvass of leading hotels in Houston and Galveston failed to turn up the reservations. The meeting was reported to have one principal purpose to decide whether Beck wiU de fend himself against a barrage of charges hurled at him by AFL-CIO brass and a Senate in vestigating committee. The Therapy of "MUSIC Music Is an emotional experience. Its therapeutic value has long been recog nized in quieting restlessness in humans and in animals, in calming wrought up nerves, in relieving monotonous activities, in easing built up tensions, and many similar experiences. , From the beginning of history the use of music is recorded in connection with occasions of joy and sorrow. Is it any wonder that today, just as in time im memorial, music and its alleviating balm is such an integral part of funeral services? , . DAY OR NIGHT PHONE-2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Mattel" Of FOCf By Stewart Alsep THE LAST OF MCCARTHY? Washington The suddenness and completeness of the eclipse of Sen. Joseph McCarthy has been, of course, a ma jor n a t ional p h enomenon. After his cen sure by the Senate he dis appeared from public view as quickly as midget golf in xi .t'i: Stewait'AHop ie uui ues, or mah-jongg in the twenties. The question is whether he will disappear politically once and for all next year, when he must run again, as mah-jongg has disappeared; or whether, like midget golf, he will continue to exist as a local, largely un noticed phenomenon. The ques tion is ,an important one for the Eisenhower a d m i nistration in general and President Eisenhow er in particular. Tne President's sentiments to wards McCarthy are, of course, no secret. Presidential Press Sec retary James Hagerty went out of his way to make public the snub administered to McCarthy when he was the only member of Congress not invited to the White House last year. If Mc Carthy is renominated by the Wisconsin Republicans the Pres ident will certainly be asked an embarrassing question whether he endorses McCarthy's can didacy. There would be precious little weeping and gnashing of teeth in the White House if the question never arose. ' IT MAY not. Former Gov. Walt ter J. Kohler of Wisconsin has told friends that he has vir tually decided to take on Mc Carthy in the Wisconsin Repub lican primary "I feel like a fire horse smelling smoke," he says. Kohler may yet change his mind he backed down in 1952, after he had almost made up his mind to challenge McCarthy. But this year is different. Kohler knows that his running would please the occupant of the White House and the Repub lican National Committee,, al though for obvious reasons neith er the President nor the Na- Editorial Comment ABUSE OF SENATORIAL POWER Adverse publicity linking him with Communism given out by a U.S. Senate committee was the proximate cause of the suicide of Canadian Ambassador Egerton H. Norman in Cairo, Egypt, but the probable cause lay deeper, the prolonged strain accruing from representing Canada at this point of prime pressure in world affairs. . This was noted by his superior, Lester B. Pearson, min ister of external affairs for Can ada. He was deeply distressed by the revival of old accusations of which he had been cleared by his own government. After the Washington report his govern-, ment renewed its expression of confdence, as did the Canadian Parliament, but Norman evident ly brooded over the charges until his self-control snapped. -The incident raises a serious question over the propriety of the American report. It related to circumstances well in the past; it referred to a man not a citizen of the United States, an official of a friendly government. Far better to have transmitted the information to Canadian officials than to have published it in this country, without giving Nor man any chance for a hearing. Nothing has been gained by the statement of the Senate com mittee. Canada has been deeply offended its note in protest was said to have been extraordinari ly severe in tone. And a man as signed to a very important duty has been degraded to a point where he sought escape through suicide. This seems to have been an abuse of senatorial power and an unnecessary affront to a very friendly power, gon Statesman, Salem tional Committee will intervene directly in the Wisconsin pri mary. And Kohler also knows that McCarthy is far weaker than he was when he was rid ing high in 1952 when Kohler ducked a fight with him. ' McCarthy still has the support of the Wisconsin Republican fat cats, with the possible exception of the astute Tom Coleman. But it is a much more pallid and less passionate support than it used to be. And there are signs of rank and file revolt an anti McCarthy Wisconsin Kohler-for-Senator club has already been organized, for example. The gen eral consensus is that Kohler would win in a straight two man, primary fight, even if Mc Carthy, as is probable, had the endorsement of the regular Re publican organization. ltfcCARTHY might be saved, " however, by the entry of Rep. Glenn Davis into the race. Davis, who used to be accounted a McCarthy man himself, would cut somewhat into the McCarthy vote. But the McCarthy vote is solid at the core, and Davis would hurt Kohler more than McCarthy. But even if Davis saves Mcr Carthy in the primary, Mc Carthy's troubles will by no means be over. The Democrats have three potential candidates eager to take on the once-powerful demagogue State Sen. Gay lord Nelson, William Proxmire (who almost beat Kohler for the Governorship), and Rep. Henry Reuss, who beat the McCarthyite Charles Kersten hand down in 1954. Reuss, who is probably the most formidable of the potential McCarthy challengers, has said frankly that he hopes McCarthy is nominated he would be a far easier target than Kohler. Mc Carthy, in fact, was not a strong candidate even in his hey day in 1952 he ran a third of a million behind his ticket. PRESIDENT Eisenhower's trou bles with the lunatic fringe of his own party will not be over, to be sure, even if Mc Carthy is brought down. The two other members of the anti-Eisen-h o w e r right-wing radical tri umvirate, George Malone of Nevada and William Jenner of Indiana, both also up in 1958, are considered safe for renomina tion and election. Jenner is still an important symbol, largely be cause he called Eisenhower's old patron, Gen. George Marshall, a traitor.. But the central symbol Is cer tainly McCarthy, who gave Eis enhower more "trouble in his first term than any other man, Republican or Democrat. And the shrinking down of McCarthy, which has been as peculiar : a process as the shrinking down of a human head by Ecuador's Jiv aro tribe, has been, in a sense, one of the great achievements of the Eisenhower administration, reluctant as the ' President in itially was to start the process. It has also been, it must be add ed, a tribute to the ultimate good sense of the American people, (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. CASM FOR . 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