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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNE to Southern Oregon iblitoja aliy Except Saturday by 5z.mmtim fkantincj CO Hp&S Fir St Phone 2-8141 HERB tif&Y Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager KfUC A J, FN JR. Managing- Editor JKAisL H ADAMS City Editor WSRlr CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor (fCA JEWETT Sports Editor &LiVES ARCHER Society Editor i&ijAS ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. p. p Independent Newspaper eted as second class matter at KijifihTd Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 "W8SCRIPTION RATES (H (flail Jo Advance: Per Copy 10c. Kafjs; and Sunday One year $15 00 ' fja and Sunday Six months 8.00 xialfr and Sunday Three mos 4-23 'Sanrfav nly One year $4.20 QB Cjjorter In Advance Medford. " JalUand Central Point. Eaeie Point, SaokBonvllle. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Skaear Cove- Rogue River. Talent sm4 ea metor routea- JJaaiy an4 Sunday One year f 18 00 Ja ana Sunday one month 1.30 wrriflr and Dealers 10c per copy mi terms lain in Advance P,P" City of Medford SMcUl f-aper of Jackson County United Praia Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY fNC Offices in New York Chicago, de. trolt. San Francisco. Los Angelea. Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL 553 l"g0C5''?N NEWSPAPER PUtllSHilS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEA8S AGO April 21, 1947 (Monday) Frank J. VanDyke elected pres ident of the Southern Oregon Bar association at a meeting in Grants Pass. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Pro fessional Women of Southern Oregon met here Sunday, and tackled problems caused by ama tew man. 3 YEARS AGO 31, 1937 (Wednesday) Application for a franchise to operate a street car bus service Medford is filed with city ancil by R. Harnish and J. Ruddies. City council defers action on special committee report recom cmndlng public vote on $50,000 tSwolving fund for street repair. m YEARS AGO JLfett 21, 1927 (Thursday) Sew Owen - Oregon sawmill Indicated at public celebration. Phoenix High school glee club will give a show tomorrow in the high school auditorium under the direction of Charles Hazelrigg. 40 YEARS AGO April 21. 1917 (Saturday) Chairman Simon Benson of the state highway commission notified Medford Commercial club $50,000 will be devoted this year to the Crater Lake high way. The. high prices of eggs in Medford is due to the shortage of production caused by high prices of grain, according to ag riculture officials. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev en ct eight Is excellent: five er six Is good. 1. Exports 1801: 65,000 bbls. of rice; 8,000,000 lbs. of cotton; 8,500 bbls. of indigo; 5,996 hogs heads of tobacco from which state? 2. Jesse James was once Sec retary of Commerce; true or false? 3. Bible: Is the word "razor mentioned in conjunction with the word "barber's"? 4. Was Henry Hudson an Eng lishman, Dutchman or German 5. What is the unit of measure ment for diamonds? 6. In which ocean is the Sar gasso Sea? ' 7. How many stars of insignia of rank does Douglas MacArthur wear? 8. The "Nick Carter" stories were known as novels? 9. How is the word "flageolet" pronounced? 10. "D'ye ken John Peel when he's far, far away.With bis hounds and his horn in the morn ing?" Unknown. What is the title of this old English hunting song? Answers: 1 South Carolina. X False. (Jesse Jones was ence Secretary of Commerce, Jesse JSaroes was a bandit.) 3. Yes Cpzek. 5:1). 4. An Englishman fin Dutch employ). 5. The carat. 6. The Atlantic. 7. Five stars. 8. Dime. 9 Flaj-o-let, 10. "John PeeL" MAIL TRIBUNE More "Double-Talk" We have often criticized the magazine "Time" for slanting its news, but that does not mean we never agree with its editorializing. In the current issue, for with its characterization of Humphrey, as a master not political double-talk? The sketch is entitled its conclusion is as follows, quote : "The (Humphrey) disservice haunts those fellow mem bers of the administration who believe the budget is the minimum price for providing the services that an expand ing U. S. needs domestically, and the leadership that the world needs abroad." That, in a general sense is the opinion of this pa per. We don't deny that the budget could be cut here and there without a disservice to the country and its welfare at home and abroad; but it is our belief, it could not be and should not be cut drastically or indiscriminately, and that, as a whole, it should be held intact, substantially as it is. . THIS was once the view of Secretary Humphrey. As "Time" points out when the budget was first presented the President's Sec'y. of the Treas ury gave it his blanket approval, reading to his press conference a prepared statement "written with White House assistance and approved word for word by the President. But then came the question and answer period, and as "Time" expresses struck out on his own to-wit: "If long range expenditures are not reduced the nation wiU see a depression that will curl your hair, because we are just taking too much money out of this economy that we need to make jobs the budget could indeed be cut and if we can make sufficient reduction now, then we would be in "a position to reduce taxes a year from now." THAT was taking as iiroiucui,;) uuugci da of the administration dared, but as Time empha sizes, it was not until many weeks later when Presi dent Eisenhower cruised to Bermuda for his confer ence with the British premier, that he finally decided HE would HAVE to go all-out for his budget if it was to be saved. So the President did go Whereupon, again according to Time, Humphrey tried publicly to reconcile his views with those of the chief executive but made what Washington calls a "flap" but to this department appears to have been more of a "flop." e IN SHORT, the secretary bv many ujLLxciciib eiueo cu. cue uuuget queauuu, that it is impossible now, of has been at any given time in the past to tell just where he does stand. He gave it his formal and complete "ok," then he said it was too big and should be materially reduced, then asked to give an explanation of why he opposed the leader of his party, he denied this and claimed he had been "misquoted" Pretty hard to follow. WHAT is the truth, anyway? "UT11 O A TT 1 J.l t en, ao we see n, oecieicti y nuiiipnrey is uie Outstanding exarrmlp. of the division trtprp is within the Republican party between those who really be- 1-! ' n i Ty i et i -, t ueve m rresiaeni iisennower s modern Kepuoncan ism" and those who don't but who for the sake of party harmony, when put on the spot, deny it. Secretary Humphrey, who not only inherited the Mark Hanna properties in Cleveland but inherited the Mark Hanna view of practical politics, versus busi ness, belongs to the ultra-conservative section of the Grand Old Party. He has no more use for Ike's "wel fare state" propensities than his predecessor of the M. A. Hanna company would have had 60 years ago. But he undoubtedly 'is a loyal and devoted per sonal friend of the President's, and is equally devoted to the G.O.P. Therefore, he gives lip service to every thing the President does and says, but time after time (as "Time" points out), when put in a spot, demon strates clearly he isn't saying what he really believes. A LL OF WHICH doesn't add up to any crime, but is merely another example of the eternal hypo crisy and make-believe, that, regardless of party, is such a striking feature of contemporary politics. R.W.R. As to Juvenile Delinquency We have been asked to give our opinion of the "Juvenile Delinquency" problem. That is a reasonable request, so here it js, to-wit: We know such a problem exists, but we don't know any sure-fire solution of it. Nor have we heard any thing offered that sounded to us like one. Many years ago the answer was "boys will be boys." Today added to that is "girls will be girls," also. 1 Adolescence is a dangerous period of transition, change and readjustment. It is not a new problem, but with the advance of population, and particularly the advance of science and the automobile, it has become a more complicated and perplexing one. So while we realize the problem exists and is a serious one, we don't, as so many newspapers do, know the answer to it. A LL we really KNOW is this: " The Mail Tribune has been dealing with "teen agers" as paper carriers and otherwise, for over 50 years. They have never been have always been noisy, obstreperous and completely ignorant of Roberts Kules Post. . But today they are as Sunday, April 21, 1957 example, we entirely agree Secretary of the Treasury only of high finance but "The Humphrey Flap," and it: "George Humphrey strong a stand against the even cue puiiuccti enemies all out. of the Treasury has been models of deportment, they of Order or Miss Emily a group, more efficient, I WOULDN'T MIN0TAKIN' A BATH WHEM I AffP ONE. SAY, ONCE A YEAR. BUT.. ..' In the Day's News By, FRANK Budget (and tax) item: President Eisenhower sug gests to congress today that his proposed record peacetime budg et could be cut a billion, 858 million dollars. But He adds Substantial reduction in his spending program can not be made UNLESS CONGRESS RE VISES OR REPEALS CERTAIN LAWS OBLIGATING THE GOVERNMENT TO SPEND SPECIFIC SUMS FOR SPECIF IC PURPOSES. THAT makes sense. And ' .- It puts the bee on the con gress which holds the purse strings. ON THE subject of agriculture, the President says his admin istration is taking a fresh look at the whole farm, program hoping to work out a new long range program to reduce the de pendence of farmers on federal subsidies. THIS process of filling up the storage warehouses at subsi dized high prices and then emp tying them again by cut-rate sales and giveaways is expen sive. The current report of the Commodity Credit Corporation shows that the government lost a total of $837,764,000 in carry ing out programs for handling Communications Footlighieri Thanked To the Editor: Once atrain the FooUighters have performed an outstanding community service in the field of mental health and happier family living. The 12 periormances put on by some members in cooperation with the child euidarlce clinic for parent, teacher, and church groups throughout the county have been a skilled contribution. The child guidance clinic board wishes me to exDress their warmest appreciation and thanks lor this major effort.- Frances C. Wimberly President Southern Oregon Child Guidance Clinic Assn. Medford, Ore. American Indians' Tragedy To the Editor: A few lines in the Association on American In dians Affairs 4557 letter tell of more white man's disregard for solemn vows with America's first citizens, and greed for the few remaining acres "allotted" to American Indians long ago: . . . When we think of what we are doing to the American Indians, nave we a right to live in peace? At a ruinous rate In dian land is being sold out of more energetic and more fore. Thev ar aa far ns great bunch of kids" there ill . just as mere are exceptions in a barrel 01 appies, Dut in this instance the exceptions certainly prove the rule. This IS Tr enomilotinn v ujlVUiUlUUU " rJ no theorizing or cmpas-wnrlf it is a matter of what might be called "clinical SO WE can't share the ionable these days. We admit there is iuvenile crime, but we refuse to admit there is more per capita than there was a gen eration or two ago. In fact, we are perfectly limb, and as a result of our long experience with "teen agers" predict, that when the present juveniles be come adults they will, as a efficient and more responsible citizens than their par ents or their grandparents, for that matter. " iney will only prove particularly in the democratic world is a funda mental law of nature. R.W.R. JENKINS and disposing of surplus supplies acquired under farm price sup port programs during the seven month period ending Feb. 28." That amounts to a daily loss of about four and three-quarters million dollars. ITS a lot of money aU of which comes out of the tax payers' pockets. The pity of it is that it doesn't seem to be solving the farm problem. We fill up the storage warehouses with subsidized sur plus crops. Then we empty them by means of cutrice sales and giveaways. Then we turn in and fill them "up again. - It's a good deal like a kitten chasing its tail. CHANGING the subject: Mount Etna, in Sicily (at the toe of the Italian boot), the high est and hottest active volcano on the continent of Europe,' burst into violent eruption this morn ing, sending a stream of molten lava gushing from its principal crater and another lava stream from a smaller crater farther down the mountain's side. llfELL, why shouldn't Etna be ' erupting? Everybody else is more or less all over the world. fT. ETNA, incidentally, is a "I rugged customer. In some 500 eruptions in the historic past, it has killed more than a million persons. Indian ownership in the Great Plains and N.W. . . . Now a new disgrace. The United States has a treaty with the Seneca Indians of N.Y. State, promising to leave them undisturbed for, ever on the land which remained to them after the American Revo lution. This treaty is the oldest continuing treaty the U.S. has. It was ratified by George Wash ington. It has been proudly re garded by the Senecas and hon ored by our country since 1794. . . . Now it is proposed that this treaty be broken, against the clear wiU of the Indians, in order that 9,000 acres of Seneca land may be flooded for a dam which experts say is not essen tial for the public welfare. . . . In a special section of our news letter, Cornelius Seneca, presi dent of the Seneca Nation, speaks for his people. . . . What is happening to Indian lands from New York to Idaho is not what Americans want to happen. . , . Americans all over the coun try want the Indians protected in the ownership of their lands and helped to prosper in their tribal communities. . . ." "Today there is a yawning ab sence of national policy in In dian affairs. This does not result responsible than ever be triis naner is concerned, "a are exceptions of course, a 1 11 i in trio ai"n flf the TlSVChic. FACT." pessimism regarding the willing to crawl out on a whole, make better, more again that human progress Matter of Fact ey STUFF FOR SCHEHERAZADE Amman, Trans-Jordan The immediate significance of the stirring drama that has been c o n v u 1 s ing this little king dom lies en tirely in what has been pre vented. The scheme was well-laid. Young King Hussein was at the very Joseoh Aisnn least to he re duced to an Impotent figure head. A decisive step was to be taken towards a merger be tween Jordan and Svria. Above all, Jordan was to be firmly and finally gathered into the ex treme anti-Western camp of the Arab world, taking its nlace as another satellite of Egypt with tnat extra, openly pro-Soviet tendency that Syria also dis plays. All the odds favored the scheme's success. The Baath Party of the Prime Minister. Su leiman Nabulsi, not only con trolled the government, but also tne street crowds which habitu ally nlay such a tumultuous nart in Jordanian politics. More im portant still, Jordan's famous Arab Legion was commanded by Major Gen. Ali Abu Nawar. And while he enjoyed the King's confidence, All Abu Nawar was m fact Nabulsi s sunnorter and most probably his active colla borator. inis comDinauon oi lien. Abu Nawar and Prime Minister Na bulsi was in turn sustained by the two powerful and intimately linked network's of Egyptian and Communist agents. It seemed, indeed, that the scheme could not fail. The story of how it did fail, with its hell-for-leather drives and its wild tri bal intervention, is stuff for Scheherazade's thousand and one nights: and this reDorter cannot resist belatedly attempt ing to tell the tale in full. THE tale's central motif is friendship betrayed. It begins a couple of years ago when King Hussein, then hardly more than a schoolboy, paid a visit to Paris. In Paris he met Jordan's military attache, Ali Abu Na war, who was then a mere Ma jor. Hussein took a liking to this fiery and ambitious young officer with his flashing eyes darkened in the Bedouin man ner. . Over the protests of the Arab Legion's seasoned English Com mander, Glubb Pasha, the King insisted on bringing Major Abu Nawar back to Jordan as palace aide-de-camp. Glubb Pasha's worst forebodings were rapidly confirmed. All Abu Nawar played a leading part behind the scenes, first in the Baghdad Fact crisis and then the King's sudden dismissal of Glubb Pasha himself. Thence the step was short to Ali Abu Nawar's glit tering promotion from Major to Major General, and his appoint ment as the Arab Legion's new commander. Having gained so much by the King's sole favor, Ali Abu Nawar quickup set about the task of transferring the Arab Le gion's loyalty from the King to himself. In the ensuing period, the political trend in Jordan also went further and further against the West and towards the left. The final result was the extremist Nabulsi cabinet which included such overall pro-Soviet members as the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Abdullah Rimawi. RING HUSSEIN, meanwhile, without losing faith in his Arab Legion commander was turning more and more against the trend represented by Nabul si and his colleagues. The final break was caused by the cabi net's insistance upon purging the civil service of a large num ber of officials whose main crime was their known loyalty to the King. The cabinet's inten tion to recognize the Soviet iTnion and to move towards mer ger with Syria were also in volved. There is no space here for the intricate convulsions of the long cabinet crisis that ensued when the King dismissed the Nabulsi government. Throughout the crisis Ali Abu Nawar claimed and seemed to play the part of moderator. The crucial day came last Saturday, at the end of a week of rumor and intrigue, in freedom for the Indians to go their way. It results in license for enemies of Indian rights to destroy them. ... In 1953 the 83rd Congress hastily philoso phized, in House Current Reso lution 108, that the Indian policy of the United States was to ter minate Federal protection of In dian rights and property as rap idly as possible. Legislation cut ting off five Indian groups was passed the following year, . . . dropped from the orbit of na tional watchfulness. . . . Our government is without policy. Those unfriendly toward Indian communities are not. They know exactly what they want to do, and they are doing it. "The United States needs an honorable, clear, strong Indian policy, desired by the Indian tribes and expressing the deep will of the American people." By their cunning a few rob the many. John E. Gribble 139 Kenwood Ave. Medford, Ore. Joseph Alsop when King Hussein offered the Prime Ministership to the Jor danian elder statesman Said El Mufti. At this point, Ali Abu Nawar, half dropping his moderator's disguise, went to the Kings own nominee and told him that it would go ill for hLn if he con sented to serve as Prime Minis ter, Sail El Mufti bowed to. the implied threat. Following Ali Abu Nawar's advice he also rec ommended to the king a cabinet headed by Soleiman Nabulsi's ally, Abdel Halim Nimr. rpHE king sent for Nimr and the end seemed to be in sight. Very great concessions were to be made to lull the King once again. And then, this week, the scheme was to be carried through as planned. Incident ally, Ali Nawar, with any luck, was to emerge as the strongest man in a transformed Jordan. But one factor had not been included in the calculations the warlike Bedouin of the three great Jordanian desert tribes, the Beni Sakr, the Howeicat, and the Beni Hassan. The Be douin and their sheiks were loyal to the King. They had no liking for the Nabulsis and Nimrs. And they heartily detest ed Ali Abu Nawar, who had been sharply discriminating against the large Bedouin ele ment in the Arab Legion pre cisely because of their strong attachment to the Hashemite house. Last Saturday afternoon, dis order began in the . Arab Le gion's camp at Zarqa. Here there was a sharp division between the faction following Ali Abu Nawar and the Bedouin loyal to the King. Disorder was sparked by representatives of the Mos lem brotherhood. Through their sheiks, the. Bedouin legionnaires sent word to the palace in Am man that a plot against the King was hatching in the Legion. The shieks moved up their own peo ple towards Amman until some where between two and four thousand armed tribesmen were encamped in the hills around the city. And they told the King to be of good heart, for they would stand by him always. SUCH was the situation when Ali Abu Nawar and the new Prime Minister-designate, Ab- 6-1 Halim Nimr, presented them selves at the palace Saturday evening. Nimr's terms were too stiff. The King refused them. And shortly thereafter, word came from Zarqa that actual fighting had broken out between the Arab factions in the camp. Taking with him Ali Abu Na war and a force of the palace guard, the king at once set out for Zarpa. At Ruseifa, about 15 minutes fast driving out of m- man, the six cars carrying the king and his party encountered a great crowd of Bedouins. The tribesman cheered the King to the echo, but they howled down Ali Abu Nawar as a traitor, and called for his execution on the spot. Accord ing to a highly probable report, the bold Major General cowered behind the King and pleaded with his friends to save his life. This was the turning point The King sent his Maj-r Gen eral back under guard to the Dalace in Amman. With con trasting courage, Hussein him self drove wildly on to Zarqa, to confront his enemies. As his motorcade roared into the camp, the sullen fighting was still con tinuing and ab; t a dozen lives had already been lost. IN a sudden hush, the young King mounted an armored car and spoke to the troops. His plea for their loyalty, his own pro testation of loyalty to the Arab cause, produced an instantane ous effect. All but a few officers too deeply implicated to turn back, now rallied to Hussein. These officers . were placed under arrest. The King's motor cade, now strengthened by a number of armored cars, roared back to the palace in Amman. There Ali Abu Nawar had al ready once tried to escape. But although he gave orders as their commander, he had been turned back by the Bedouin Legion naires who had moved up to guard the King's house. . What passed between the King and Ali Abu Nawar when they final ly met again before dawn, no one knows. Once again, Ali Abu Nawar was sent out under armed escort. This time he sought help from the same Said El Mufti whom he had - been menacing the previous morning. It is strongly presumed that Said El Mufti advised the King to permit Ali Abu Nawar to flee to Damascus with his family and possessions, as he did later on Sunday. . In Amman, with the Bedouin tribesmen oiling their rifles in the encircling hills, all was out wardly quiet on Sunday. Else where, in Nablus, Jericho, and Jerusalem, there were minor disorders; and in Ramallah, groups hostile to the King even succeeded in seizing the main Jordan government radio sta tion. But the scheme to take over had failed all the same. THE King, who had by now not slept for thirty-six hours, went on the air on Sunday over the smaller Amman radio sta tion, making much the same speech to the nation that he had made to the troops the night be fore in Zarqa. Four Bedouin units were ordered into Amman. Word was tent to the left-wing POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) The remodeling and face-lifting of the M-T building is getting to a point where it is possible to visualize what the final re sults will be. The facade of the building now is a great expanse of ply wood, which will serve as the under-surface for an attractive exterior, finish, to be erected soon. As a result, two women who were to meet someone else at the Wooden Shoe (the restaurant and lounge of the nearby Hotel Holland) were slightly confused. Standing in front of the bare wooden face of the M-T build ing, one was overheard to re mark, as she looked at the waU, "Well, it's unique, aU right, but wnere's the entrance?" Memo to Poiluck editor from reporter: "I think we ought to have a Poiluck item about County Agents Earle Jossy and Glenn Klein play ing with yo-yos on extension service time." The annual advent of the or- chard heating season presents problems not solely confined to orchard men, housewives and those with sensitive mucous membranes. It also affects the coloration of dogs. The black and white puppy. whose chest is usually a furry expanse of white, last week padded dolefully about with a smudge-grey bib. And the Irish terrier down the street, normally a furzy combination of black, brown and off-white, became a small, uniformly-drab animal, almost undistinguishable against the grey rocks of the driveway. A family on South Holly it. has two boats, named, respee tirely, Leakin Lena I and Leakin' Lena II. They recently purchased a third boat. Neigh bors watched expectantly for the name of the new vessel, and receired a small shock when the name was painted on. It was Sinkin' Sam. The following springtime tale is told us by a proofreader, who probably knows better. - Neighbor No. 1: Sorry about my chicken scratching your petunias. Neighbor No. 2: Thafi OK. My dog ate your chicken. Neighbor No. 1: Well, that's all right. I just ran over your dog. .. . , . Mayor John Snider had no formal "budget message" last week when the citizen's budg et committee met for the first time, but he did have a gift to present each member of the committee a small pencil sharpener. Do you, by chance, feel old? Well, remember that you're younger now than you ever wiU be again. Committees of National Guid a n c e, Communist infiltrated, that if they tried to stage any public demonstrations, the or ganizers of the demonstrations would be summarily executed. Outwardly, a tense calm con tinued to reign. Actually, Syria had all but in tervened that same day. Since the Suez crisis, some Syrian forces have been stationed with in Jordan, at the northern town of Mafrak. Reinforcements of these units began on Sunday. According to one apparently re liable report, the young King found time in this tense and hur ried day to drive furiously northwards, and to teU the Sy rian commander that he would immediately call for military support from Iraq, if the main body of the Syrian army at tempted to enter Jordan. In any case, the fact is well established that a certain ' Sy rian intervention was actually halted by the counter-threat of Iraqi intervention. STILL there was no cabinet, although the King had sent for six former Prime Ministers just after dawn on Sunday to discuss the problem of cabinet- making. Hence on Monday, he called an assembly of the not ables of the kingdom to the palace. Nabulsi and his ally. Abdullah Rimavi, according to one report, had to be ordered to attend the assembly. The King offered the 300 notables" the immediate choice between martial law and a gen erally agreed upon cabinet. The result was the present compro mise cabinet headed by Dr. Hussein Fahkri Khalidi. Since the King wanted agreement, the cabinet includes Suleiman Na bulsi as a necessary gesture to wards the strong sector of Jor danian opinion that he repre sents. But this is a Nabulsi with his plans frustrated. Both King and cabinet con tinue to protest their loyalty to the Egyptian alliance. But this is altogether different from the sort of violent, Soviet-influenced protestation in the Syrian style, that we should now be hearing if the great scheme had suc ceeded. As of now, Jordan's fu ture is stiU darkly cloudy, but Jordan's fate at least is not sealed. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Ine.