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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 23, 1947 (Wednesday)
George E. Milligan and Har
vey Morrell, both of Medford,
and David Bergstrom, Ashland,
have received flight instructors'
ratings, Aubrey Sander, chief
pilot for Medford Air Service,
announces.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The Older
Girls have all issued their .an
nual opening of the fishing sea
son edict: No cleaning of the fish
in the kitchen sink.
20 YEARS AGO
April 23, 1937 (Friday)
Eugene Thorndike reelected
president of Community Chest
of Medford.
First annual Oregon state sale
of Guernsey purebred cattle
scheduled in Salem May 6; sev
eral from Rogue valley included.
30 YEARS AGO
April 23, 1927 (Saturday)
A. B. Carter, secretary of the
state board of engineering ex
aminers, meets with practicing
engineers of Medford.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Fred Parsons of the Littrell
Parts company leaves for Port
land to spend a week.
40 YEARS AGO
April 23. 1917 (Monday)
Freeman Newport elected cap
tain of Home Guard company.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Medford attorney F. J.
Newman is in Portland today ar
guing a case in the United States
court.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior; Sev
an er eight Is excellent; five er
six Is good.
!
1. Were there 600, 1,600 or
2,600 banks in the U.S. in 1861?
The priceless bones of Sian-
thropus Pekinensis were hidden
by the Chinese and escaped a
three-year search by Japanese
anthropologists. Identify the
bones.
3. Bible:- The word "kinfolk"
cfc used in the Old Testament;
(Dewe or false?
4. Was President Theodore
(jjeosevelt a lawyer?
The island of Rhodes is in
$-kat part of the Mediterranean?
5. A triangle with two equal
(Jjdes is named an triangle?
7. Napoleon Bonaparte was
fcorn in Paris, France; true or
(felse?
8. The Distinguished Service
edal, highest award of the Am
erican Legion, was posthumous
ly awarded to what famous war
Correspondent?
9. Is it correct to use the word
"holocaust" with reference to
disasters of all kinds in which
human beings are destroyed?
10. Is the proverb "To Kiss
The Rod," a reference to humil
ity or subservience?
Answers: 1. 1.600. 2. The bones
of the Peking Man. 3. True (Job
19:14). 4. No. S. Eastern Medit
erranean. 6. Isosceles. 7. False
(he was born on lh Island of
Corsica). 8. Ernie Pyle. 9. No.
10. Humility.
The Molly Maguires were
members of a secret terrorist
society in the anthracite coal
regions of Pennsylvania in the
1870's.
A Pain-in-the-Neck
Another of the occupational hazards of this de
partment is being misunderstood.
As Robert Louis Stevenson said "it takes two to
tell the truth," the one who talks and the one who
listens.
A very profound observation, the truth of which
is almost daily demonstrated somewhere in the busy
field of journalism.
TXTHEN Ralph Cronise, editor of the Albany Demo-
crat-Herald, sold his interest a few weeks ago to
former Governor Elmo Smith, the Mail Tribune com
mented upon it, and among other things remarked
that the two men so closely represented the same
general type of journalism, that if not apprised of
the change, a majority of its readers would never de
tect one.
We certainly had no desire or intention of reflect
ing upon either the integrity or the newspaper ability
of present "editor emeritus" Cronise, or Editor Elmo
Smith. There was nothing of the sort stated in the
editorial.
WE HAVE had a high regard for Ralph Cronise
" personally and professionally, for more years than
we have time now to calculate. In the department of
personal relations he comes under the heading of a
"wonderful guy." As a congenial companion on the
golf course also a duffer in newspaper meetings
from Eugene, to New York City, or as a host in Albany
or a guest in Medford, he has always been "tops"
as far as the writer is concerned.
RUT it was not Editor Cronise as a PERSON that
we were considering in our comment editorially,
but only as the associate executive head of a news
paper and particularly his successor in the same field,
both from a POLICY standpoint.
Both men represent a type of journalism, that
could correctly be termed, prevalent in Oregon. It is
highly respectable and usually far more popular and
profitable than the reverse type. But it does place
major emphasis on what comes in at the business
office, and minor emphasis upon the sentiments ex
pressed in the editorial department. Moreover when
the latter threatens to impair the former, the latter
never or almost never wins.
AS STATED in the editorial in question "this is no
crime."
It just does not happen to be the policy of this
paper (and a few others we might mention). More
over it is embraced, we believe, by more newspaper
executives in the state than it is spurned. However
that may be, , the only point editorially stressed had
to do with the POLICIES of the paper, under the two
managements and nothing whatever to do with' the
principles or personalities of either editor.
i
VET WE have received more than one indignant
protest since then, one scoring us for a "completely
unjustified" attack on our old friend Editor Cronise,
and his.long and honorable career, as directing head
of the Albany Democrat-Herald, "fighting against
terrif ic odds to produce a better newspaper."
That is not questioned.
The only point we wish to make now is it was not
' and is not the issue ; had nothing to do with the
point we were considering. (And as things have
transpired since then, we believe a point well taken.)
CO WE come back to that "occupational hazard,"
mentioned above, that is such a "pain-in-the-neck"
for all. editorial writers, namely: saying ONE thing
and being accused of saying something entirely differ
ent. To those still unconvinced at home or abroad, we
would suggest that they give the editorial in question,
a SECOND reading. R.W.R:
The Budget Mess
Along the same line as above, we have little doubt
that declaring the recent statement of President Eisen
hower concerning the budget "misleading," will in
some quarters be interpreted as reflecting upon the
gentleman's integrity and honor, a capital offense in
the ranks of that slowly dwindling membership of
infatuated and fanatical "Ike" supporters.
Well we have no intention of casting any such
"reflections." We don't question the high quality
of the President's character or intentions in any
way, and never have.
But we don't agree with him on policies par
ticularly in the field of "Big Business" and we
do believe he is too often the too-willing "Charley
McCarthy" to the high-ranking and ultra-conservative
members of his "palace guard."
TAKE "this budget message for example and note
the headlines, the press as a whole, gave it.
Almost without exception it was hailed in the
news columns as a material reduction in federal
spending for the 1957-58 period, and a hurried re
treat from the President's former position of coura
geous budget defense.
And that was the way, to the average layman
at least, the statement read.
DUT when the financial experts got through with
it, the action was revealed as nothing of the
sort.
As many newspapers have pointed out, although
the statement claimed nearly a two billion dollar
reduction from the original total of nearly 72 billion,
the correct analysis revealed the real reduction of
the original total would be only about $300,000,000,
which in the realm of national finance these days
is "pea-nuts."
Tutiday, April 23. 1957
COt& Oil IF KlN-TlN-TlN CAM
Matter of Fact
WE TAKE SECOND PLACE
Washington Secretary of De
fense Charles E. Wilson's an
nouncement that production of
the B-52 heavy
bomber will be
slashed by 25
per cent hard
ly cause a rip
ple. Actually,
the announce
ment repre
sents a major
national policy
tmZmmmJ aecision, ana
stewait Aisop its mea n i n g
ought to be well understood. Its
basic meaning is quite pimple.
It means that the American gov
ernment has decided to permit
the Soviet Union to outstrip the
field in which the United States
only a few years ago reigned
absolutely supreme.
The inner history of the deci
sion to reduce the production
target of 5-52s from 20 a month
to 15 a month is illuminating.
Last Spring Wilson himself an
nounced, with considerable fan
fare, that production of the
heavy bomber would be stepped
up to 20 a month by December
of this year. There was a double
motivation behind the announce
ment. FOR one thing, the Symington
subcommittee on air power
was breathing down the Admin
istration's neck in an election
year. But that was by no means
all. Wilson and his advisers were
quite honestly scared by intelli
gence estimates of Soviet heavy
bomber production. These esti
mates, concurred in by the en
tire "intelligence community,"
put Soviet production of the
Bison heavy jet bomber, the So
viet equivalent of the B-52, at
the very high figure of 24 a
month.
The estimates presaged a clear
Soviet superiority in long range
strategic air power in the near
future, since B-52 production
was at the time well under half
the estimated Soviet production
of Bisons. Gen. Curtis LeMay,
Chief of the Strategic Air Com
mand, argued that Soviet heavy
bomber production should at
least be matched by this coun
try. He had the support of most
of the air staff.
But to match the Soviets would
have thrown the budget very
badly out of whack. The deci
sion to step up production to
20 a month by the end of this
year was therefore a compro
mise. Air Force planning went
ahead on the basis of that com
promise. The plan called for going as
soon as possible to a minimum
of 17 wings of B-52s (there are
45 B-52s to a wing, plus 30 KC
135 aerial tankers). But as cost
estimates of the 17 wing plan
began to come in, Secretary Wil
son became increasingly horri
fied, and Secretary of the Treas
ury Humphrey even more so.
THEN last faU, a new intelli
gence estimate showed some
slippage in Bison production.
The estimate, according to good
authority, was an honest one
it was not a result of political
pressure. But it was certainly
convenient. Although it warned
that the Soviet production slip
page, which was rather minor
anyway, was probably tempo
rary, it gave Wilson and the
economizers just the talking
point they needed.
Accordingly, the Air Force
heavy bomber program was cut
back to 11 wings, accounting for
almost $2 billion of the S4 bil
lion cut out of the whole Air
Force program. Yet the produc
tion target was not tnen offi
TN OTHER words the President did NOT retreat
-- from his defense of the budget, he actually stood
by his guns, and refused to make any material re
duction in the estimated costs of the next biennium.
But the statement was so worded as to give an en
tirely different impression.
AXAS this intentional
Eisenhower? We can't believe it was.
We believe it was' only another example of the
chief executive's strong desire to escape responsibility
as far as the complicated details of federal finance
are concerned, and leave such matters up to those of
his chiefs of staff, who, in
perts. R.W.R.
DO IT, YOU CM DO ITf ' .
By Stewart AIsop
cially reduced the official in
tention was still to go to 20 B-52s
a month this year, in order to
create, he 11 wings as soon as
possible.
But the pressure to. cut back
further has steadily mounted.
Air Force spending this year
will run more than $1 billion
over previous estimates. To hold
to the 20-a-month B-52 schedule
would endanger the sacred bal
anced budget, this at a time
when the pressure for reduced
spending and tax cuts is fiercer
than ever. So the old target has
been abandoned, and production
win be held to 15 planes a
month.
THIS will mean that the Stra
tegic Air Force will be in
creasingly dependent on vulner
able bases abroad. Wilson cited
the successful production of Con
vair's B-58 bomber as one rea
son for the cutback; But the
B-58, though a very fine plane,
is a medium bomber, like its
predecessor the B-47 (on which
production has now ceased), and
it can only operate efficiently
from forward bases. Above all,
the cutback wiU mean that the
Soviets will soon attain a com
manding lead in aircraft capable
of operating efficiently at inter
continental range, no one con
tends that Soviet production of
the Bison has slipped so badly
that it will fall below the 20-a-month
mark. ,
As a result of the cutback,
the budget will no doubt be bal
anced, and next year . we shall
no doubt enjoy a juicy little
tax cut. But the time may come
when we will look back on the
juicy little tax cut, and wonder
whether it was really worth it
to take second place behind the
Soviets in long range strategic
air power, so recently an Ameri
can monopoly.'
Copyright 1957,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
Editorial
Comment
CHURCHILL AND
LONGEVITY
Sir Winston Churchill startles
those with puritan antecedents
when he offers as a prescription
for longevity: "A lot of drinking,
a lot of eating and eight or nine
hours of sleep, most of it in the
daytime."
At 82 he may pose as proof
of the validity of his counsel,
but the mortality statistics do
not corroborate his recipe. Over
indulgence in food and drink
still is charted as a short route
to the grave.
As for daytime sleeping, that
is for the sluggard (or the night
workers). It defies Benjamin
Franklin and Horatio Alger and
the ancient saw about the early
bird and the worm. We wonder
!f Churchill has never been
roused thus:
"A birdie with a yellow bill
Hopped upon the window sill,
Cocked his shining eye and
said:
'Ain't you 'shamed, you
sleepy-head?' "
At 82 a man must be al
lowed his foibles and his fan
tasies. Besides, Sir Winston, for
his deeds and words, belongs
among the heroes. If tumblers
of brandy and roasts of good
beef and daytime sleeping can
prolong his life and keep up his
mental fitness, who's to say him
nay? An exceptional figure in
world history, let him remain
an exception to the rule of so
briety, diet and regular sleeping
Oregon Statesman,-Salem
on the part of President
this field, he regards as ex
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Indonesian
Role; Army
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
President Sukarno of Indo
nesia has maneuvered himself
into the most difficult situation
he has faced
in his 12 years
as his coun
try's leader. He
has dec i d e d
that Indonesia
must become
a "guided de
mocracy," as
he calls it, in
stead of a fed-
e r a 1 repuDllC. rharles McCann
But it looks more and more as
if the "guided democracy" will
become a dictatorship.
The chief question seems to
be whether Sukarno himself will
be the dictator.
Revolt-Torn Country
Ever since Indonesia under
"Brother Karno's" leadership
won its ' independence from The
Netherlands, it has been torn by
revolts and political bickering.
In his first step toward his
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
If you read the papers and
listen to the radio, you must be
uneasily aware that the Middle
East is rumbling like a volcano
that it getting ready to erupt.
Why the rumbling? '
It's about like this:
The rumbling volcano is fill
ed with explosive gases. The
rumbling Middle East is filled
with explosive hatreds.
Explosive gases and explosive
hatreds can and often do
cause eruptions.
WHY the hatreds?
It's a long story much too
long to be gone into in detail
here. For more than a dozen
centuries Arabs and Jews have
been in conflict in this ancient
land that we call the Middle
East During most of this time,
the Arabs have had the best of
it.
But
Since the creation of the state
of Israel the situation has chang
ed. The Israelis are militarily
potent as are all peoples who
feel they are fighting for their
lives and their homes.
The Arabs fear them. Fearing
the Israelis, the Arabs HATE
them and yearn to destroy
them. But they lack faith in
their ability to destroy Israel.
In every armed clash, Israel has
won decisively. That adds fuel
to the fires of Arab hatred.
THE Arabs hate the British.
And Tint, withmir reason
rj World War I the Turks were
allied with the Germans. Seek
ing to defeat Turkey, v the Brit
ish enlisted the aid of the Arabs.
There was an implied promise
that if the Turks were humbled
the Arabs would be given the
Middle East. So the Arabs joined
up with the British under Law
rence of Arabia.
The Turks were beaten.
THEN the British broke their
implied promise.
In 1917, with the Turks beat
en, Lord Balfour, British for
eign secretary, wrote to Lord
Rothschild, a leading Zionist,
that Britain sympathized with
Zionist hopes. The Zionist hope
was the recreation of a Jewish
national home in Palestine. Out
of the Balfour Declaration came
eventually the state of Israel.
That did it.
The Arabs felt they' had been
betrayed and ever since they
have hated the British.
THEY hate the French for in
Syria in the Middle East and
over most of Northern Africa
conquering Frenchmen have rul
ed CONQUERED Arabs for gen
erations.
When conquering peoples rule
conquered peoples, hatreds fol
low.
rpHIS is where WE come in.
Under the Eisenhower Doc
trine we are putting our fingers
into this hotbed of ancient
hatreds. ?.
Why?
The answer Is simple.
We feel we must prevent Rus
sia from taking over the Middle
East, with its strategic location
at the crossroads of the world
and its VAST stores of oil.
OUR motives are pure enough.
We want no colonies in the
Middle East or in - Africa or
ANYWHERE ELSE. We seek
only to checkmate Russian com
muntem. But
Naturally enough
The Arabs are suspicious of
us. They suspect us of having
it in mind to TAKE OVER where
the British and the French leave
off. Before we can work with
them to keep communism out
of the Middle East, we must
GAIN THEIR CONFIDENCE.
That isn't going to be easy.'
It is going to take almost super
human tolerance and wisdom
and friendliness. But we've
tackled the job, and having
tackled it we'll ' have to stay
with it. '
President
Eyes Dictatorship
guiaea aemocracy, Sukarno re -
cently formed a 24-member
emergency cabinet,
Officially it is called an extra
parliamentary cabinet. This
means that, though it is sup
posed to be a coalition ministry,
the various political parties are
not represented in it in relation
to their strength in Parliament.
Sukarno's action in forming
the cabinet is being criticized
widely by both political parties
and the army.
The army, which always has
interested itself in politics,
seems to be becoming an in
creasingly big factor in the tan
gled situation.
Sukarno at present wields vir
tual dictatorial power under a
state of martial law.
But to exert that power, Su
karno heeds the army. And
there are indications in dispatch
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From a Man Unafraid
To the Editor: Thank you Mr.
Carbell, for the, shall I say, re
Pioof? It could be that I was just
a wee bit raw. But do you not
think that the time has come
for some one to be a little hard?
It looks so to me.
My wife and I raised a family
of four boys and one girl.
Of the five only one of the
boys went a little wayward. He
is a better man from that ex
perience. He wiU not repeat that
performance.
Had he heeded our teachings
he had not needed that correc
tion. I did not look to his teachers
at the schools to lead him to the
exclusion of his home teachings.
When he needed correction at
home he received that correc
tion. When I fell heir to my fath
er's surname -I received an hon
orable name and I purpose to
keep it so while I carry it that
I may be remembered for a little
while as a "square jack" as the
old time "Timber Beast" caUed
the moral man.
: As to the Medford police force,
I will say that I am friends with
quite a few of them and have
found them to be highly honor
able men. NaturaUy, I respect
an honorable man.' But I- have
only contempt for one of the
elite who is all too often a genu
ine snob, but I take great plea
sure in making the acquaintance
of a man, for I can appreciate
him.
As to the juveniles who are
in a state of delinquency, I am
sure as can be that his parents
are, in fact, responsible for that
delinquency. They have been
neglectful of overseeing his be
havior pattern. No child should
escape punishment when he dis
obeys his parents, his teachers,
or the laws of his community.
If his parents have gone 'daf
fy' on the idea of permitting the
child to 'express himself to the
complete loss of control then
the child is a delinquent child,
and should at once be taken in
hand else, later on, the law must
do so. And that to the great
grief of the parents, who can
then see the errors they have
made. And to their very great
sorrow.
Is a child to be left to express
himself, when he steals hubcaps,
or a bicycle, or is fighting all the
time, or destroys any thing that
does not belong to him? Will he
not later do still more and great
er damage to other people's
property? .
Sixty years ago, when I was
almost a man grown no one
ever heard of a teenager who
murdered, his parents, or some
other relative, or a friend . for
pure spite. Was he not just 'ex
pressing himself after his par
ents had neglected their duty
to control him and see that he
MUST respect the rights and
property of others? That is hap
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Bill Fish
Phone 2-4940
MEDFORD
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AGENCY
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In Tough
es from Jakarta, the capital,
that unless Sukarno eets control
er the situation soon, the army
may step in and proclaim a dic
tatorship of its own.
It was disclosed two weeks
ago that the army had started
to impose a censorship. Since
then it has temporarily suspend
ed the chief Indonesian news
agency and two leading Jakarta
newspapers for publishing news
of which it disapproved.
Sukarno demanded in a speech
last Thursday that the" army stay
out of politics. But the army
seems to have no disposition to
do so.
Sukarno's big handicap is that
his Republic of Indonesia is un
wieldly. It has 82 million peo
ple, spread through thousands of
islands which stretch for 2,500
miles from the Indian Ocean to
the Pacific.
pening altogether too often in
these days, as any one who reads
the daily news reports knows
very well.
No, I am not ashamed to sign
my name. Here it is.
Andy L. Unger,
634 Pennsylvania ave.,
Mediord, Ore.
Reward for Dog Poisoners
To the Editor: I have read
several articles in your paper
about cases of dog poisoning
going on up by the Country
Club. As about 75 per cent of
the people in Medford own
dogs, I feel this must be stop
ped. I have a dog of my own
and I know how the owners of
the deceased dogs must feel.
Perhaps there is a solution. In
"Dog World," an outstanding
magazine for dog lovers, each
month a reward is offered to
persons or groups' helping to ap
prehend a dog poisoner. This
magazine is the most widely
read of its kind and I feel its
guarantee is good. Posters may
'be obtained from them free.
posting the amount of the re
ward and who may receive it.
Please do not mention my
name or- address in connection
with this letter as I have a dog
of my own and do not wish to
lose her.
Speaking on behalf of myself
and friends, I, hope you will con
sider this solution and send to
"Dog World" for the posters.
K. J.
Medford, Ore.
(Name on File)
Editor's Note: The address of
the Dog World magazine is 3323
Michigan Blvd., Chicago 16, I1L
Last of Series on
Family Business Set
Last in a series of meetings on
family business and law will be
held in Medford and Central
Point at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Subject of the Medford meet
ing, to be held in the courthouse
auditorium, will be wills and
probates.' The Central Point
meeting will be held at Crater
High school and the subject will
be torts.
The meetings are open to the
public and are being sponsored
by the home extension units in
cooperation with the . Jackson
County Bar association. . .
cash.
a Mvmoa or mane rawer.
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What's The Difference?
If Under-Insured It's Plenty!
Fir insurance rates locally amount
to approximately Vi for 3 years.
Mortgage money to replace unin
sured, damaged or destroyed prop
erty will cost from 12 to 18
for the same period.
It's smart to carry snough in
surance. Bill Fish
1 ""H.W-1
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