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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNE "Iveryona to Southern Oregon Read The Maii Tribune" Publuhea Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 37-29 North Fir St Phone 1-911 ROBERT W RUH1. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manage! ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARBV CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHES Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at , Med ford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year 115.00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mcs 4.23 Sunday Only One rear S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, end on motor routes: Dally and Sunday One year (18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper f the City of Medford Official Paper ef Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York Chicago, de trolt San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL IOITOIIAi lASSOC&VfiN H.'.I.H 1 0f NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS i ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time - Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 29. 1947 (Tuesday) Emergency methods are used today to deliver first class mail and Portland papers to Medford after the southbound Southern Pacific passenger train stalled at Tolo. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Spring has finally arrived. All three doors of the postoffice were as wide open as Reno yesterday. 20 YEARS AGO April 29, 1937 (Thursday) The Rogue River Sugar Pine company, under construction in Central Point, will be. ready for operation by May 15, according to Chauncy Florey, operator. Due to continual rainfall and melting snow in the hills, minor streams and creeks in Jackson county will remain too high for good fishing this week end. 30 YEARS AGO April 29, 1927 (Friday) Jacksonville county seat club petitions Oregon Supreme court to demand election be held in county for removal of county seat to Medford. The Boy Scouts are preparing for their field day May 7 at the Jackson county fairgrounds. 40 YEARS AGO April 29. 1917 (Sunday) J. W. Dressier is appointed su perintendent of the food cam paign in the cultivation of the vacant lots in Medford. From Local and Personal col umn: Roy Elliott, member of the fire department, has just pur chased a new Ford car. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev en er eight Is excellent: five er six Is good. 1. Was the first asylum for the blind in the U. S. established in Boston, Mass., Anderson, S.C., or Lock Kaven, Pa.? 2. Which city in Soviet Russia was formerly known as St. Pet ersburg and Petrograd? 3. Bible: Mordecai, uncle of Esther, was a linguist: true or false? 4. Male whales are called bucks, bulls, or rams? a 5. A fascinator is a head cov ering, vehicles, or food. 6. "Tommies" was the famil iar nickname for privates in which Army? 7. Name the author of "Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." 8. Poi, the native dish of Ha waii, is made from pineapples, taro, or coconuts? . 9. When "ng" is followed by "th" such as in "strengthen" may the sound of "k" be used, as "strengk-then"? 10. "An idler is a watch that wants both hands: As useless when it goes as when it" does what? Answers: 1. Boston, Mass. (1829); 2. Leningrad: 3. True; 4. Bulls; 5. Head covering; 6. Brit ish; 7. Rudyard Kipling; 8. Taro; 9. Yes; 10. "Stands." MAIL TRIBUNE Sad, Funny Ordinarily we find nothing funny in the stories coming out of the American south regarding segrega tion, and the Negroes' attempts to obtain economic, political and social justice for themselves. But we could not repress a wry grin when reading about the spot a group of Virginians got into when they made plans for a dinner party to honor other na tives of the state who had made names for themselves in their careers. TNNOCENTLY, they went through the pages of "Who's Who" to glean a list of distinguished Vir ginians. Then they sent out invitations to themen and women on the list. . Imagine their horror when four, of them turned out to be Negroes. The resulting foo-raw and confusion were sort of pathetic, in a way. Attempts were made to withdraw the invitations to those "distinguished Virginians" who happened to be Negroes. And, when one or two of the recipients indicated they thought they might attend anyway, on the ground that an invitation is an invitation, the dinner sponsors were thrown into an agonizing dilemma of their own making. THE moral of this sadly funny little tale is, we think, that people are people some good and some bad, some intelligent and some stupid, some accomplished and some untalented. The day is coming when we, as human beings, will learn the only valid way we can judge other human beings is through their worth as people, and not by the way they part their hair, the kind of clothes they wear, or the degree of pigmentation of their' skin. E.A. s Boys' Forest Camps Out in the middle of a magnificent Douglas fir for est last summer, an old-timer asked why it wouldn't be a good idea to revive the old Civilian Conservation Corps, to get young' men out of the crowded cities of the east, and into God's great outdoors. Similar suggestions have been made from time to time, particularly, by those who know the therapeutic and inspirational values one can find only under the tall evergreen trees. (The CCC, for those who have forgotten or never knew, was an emergency work program for young men, established by executive order in 1933 and by congressional action in 1937, to provide employment and vocational training for. young men who lacked jobs and were in need. In defense work, and in 1942 Congress voted to end the program the following year, rejecting proposals that it be given permanent status.) f e e e e MOW, it is interesting to learn, a proposal of this na- ture has been made, in Congress in the form of a senate report, which would set up a nation-wide sys tem of forestry camps for the rehabilitation of youths in trouble. x . Whether it will be approved or not, this year, is problematical. But at the same time, 10 of the 48 states have adopted forestry programs for young people (Oregon among them), and five other states are con sidering such programs. The states' programs originat ed in Los Angeles, where an abandoned CCC camp was used for boys who worked for the state forestry department, earning a small daily wage. A second camp was opened later, and soon the program was state-wide, and since has spread to other states. IN OREGON the program is for youngsters at Mac- Laren School for Boys. A forestry camp for 25 of them operates "year-ardund near Seaside, providing rugged, outdoor work. A temporary forestry camp program was initiated last summer for an additional 35 boys. , A forest work project embracing a maximum of 60 boys is not a large one, but looks like a step in the right direction. If it proves as successful as many think it will be, it undoubtedly will be expanded in years to come. THE current congressional proposal is not new. Oth- er bills of varying types have been introduced in recent years, by such men as Sen. Arthur Watkins of Utah, who would have the federal government build and operate forestry camps for boys in the national forests, and Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, whose proposal was for not less than 30 federal forestry camps; operated in cooperation with the states, each to accommodate up to 200 boys who would be paid ?60 a month. Senator Kefauver, in introducing his bill last year, declared that' "more than 100,000 children are con fined in common jail s each year." His proposal would have many of them enter a "coordinated program for the restoration, improvement, development, mainte nance, and utilization of the national parks." THE administration has had some doubts about the proposals. The department of justice has indicated it thought the major responsibility should lie with the states, rather than the federal government, and the depart ment of labor has suggested more explicit guarantees against possible exploitation of the young campers. These objections may be valid. But the record com piled by the thousands of young men who are "grad uates" of the CCC of the 30s is one of which the nation can be proud. Many of them went on to become solid, responsible and worth-while citizens. Some of these undoubtedly would not have done so had it not been for the training and opportunities afforded by their experiences in the forests and the mountains. E.A.. Monday, April 29, 1957 Little Tale 1940 it began converting to W, MWyCAltr I STAY" OUT, A LITTlg RAIN" HBVefZ HURT NOSOOy'.' . . U.P. Correspondents Forecast Future News United Pren correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. New Look Washington insiders report that a "new look" United States military program will get un der way soon. It will mean more emphasis on missiles and simi lar weapons. Possibilitie: A cut in Army strength by one or two divisions and a 300,000-man cut in the armed forces over the rexf three or four years. Bad News Paris expects the French tax payer to get some bad news to night when Premier Guy Mollet makes a nation-wide broadcast on the financial situation. The government is trying to, find ways of slashing expenditures by Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters witb an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters 'submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Slate School Bill Praised To the Editor: As chairman of the Senate and House Education Committees respectively, we strongly commend the stand of Governor Robert D. Halmes in his effort to increase the basic school fund. We are of the opin ion that the primary' impaGt of this increase, which will reduce property taxes by the am'ount of the increase recommended by the Governor, is not widely recognized. The increase of 38 million dollars as recommend ed by the Governor will act as direct property tax relief throughout the state.. This relief will be greatest in those areas where sehool costs are the great est burden upon the local prop erty tax payers. It is clearly the intent of the legislature, as stated by the House Committee, to return these property tax off-set funds to the various school- districts within thi six per Tent limita tion of the local school budgets. Senator Monroe Sweetland Chairman Senate Education Committee. Representative Joe Rogers, Chairman House of Repre- . sentatives Education Com mittee. Dogs Are Delinquent To the Editor: I would like to say a few words to the own ers of the poisoned dogs. Yes, something should be done about it. It is very cruel to cause a dog to suff er that kind of death, but don't you dog owners real ize you are to blame for the per son or persons doing this to be come so exasperated to the point of being desperate by over turned garbage cans, torn-up flowers and gardens and nasty messes on their lawns? Also, what about the cats? Why should a dog have the run of the whole town when they won't allow a cat to sit on it's own doorstep. The cat has to stay up a tree or on top of the house to keep the dogs from killing it. Cats -rid the town of rats and mice while dogs in town are like delinquent chil dren that have nothing to do but get into trouble. Don't you know that your baby would not be safe in it's crib because of rats if we didn't have cats? Now, dog owners, don't you think you would be kinder to your dog if you kept it home where it belongs and net at the neighbors where it is not want ed? Certainly this is the only answer to the poisoned-dog problem. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Lastly, I would like to say that I don't have either a dog or a cat. Mrs. W. (Name on file) Medford. Garden of the Gods To the Editor: It is now 60 years since I traveled the road along Annie creek and viewed the beautiful sight on our way to Crater Lake in 1897. Along about 718 million dollars in order to reduce a threatened 3 billion dollar deficit in the 1957 budget. Mollet may announce in creased taxes on higher incomes, higher corporation taxes, and higher sales taxes on such "lux ury" items as television and ra dio sets. Fading Propects for congressional ac tion on a civil rights bill are fad ing fast. Southern opponents are lighting a grim delaying action. Now they- have come up with a new, tough argument they charge that' the administration bill would take away the right to jury trial in many civil rights cases. Blow-Up Dont be surprised if there is an anti-British blow-up soon on Malta, the tiny Mediterranean island which was a vital bastion in World War II. It won't be aimed against British rule. Mal ta wants to be incorporated into the United Kingdom, like North ern Ireland. It would be repre sented in Parliament. The Brit ish government is agreeable to that. But Maltese Prime Minis ter Dom Mintoff demands that all Maltese get the same social ized medicine, unemployment and other social benefits that the Britons do. That would cost a lot of money. New Entrant Tom Flynn, head of the East ern Conference of Teamsters, is being named as a new possibil ity to succeed embattled Dave Beck as president of the na tion's largest union. Washington hears that union secretary-treas urer John English and James R Hoffa, who was regarded as Beck's crown prince until his in dictment for bribery, feel Flynn would be acceptable in the Wo 1 post. Angling Soviet Russia is angling for an invitation to one of its top leaders to visit ChanceUor Kon- rad Adenauer. .The Russians say it would be nice if a top-ranking man went to Bonn to sign the Russo-German trade agreement which is to be negotiated some time in May. The real reason: they are worried over the pros pect that the West German army will get tactical atomic weapons and they fear that the Western Allies may back Adenauer in a new drive for German unifica tion. Emergency Orders '. Police in Tokyo and other big Japanese cities are being put under emergency order to guard against riots m May Day demon strations Wednesday. The big slogan of the demonstrators will be "no more nuclear tests,' with special reference to the tests Britain is to hold in the Pacific soon. Tokyo demonstra tors plan to march past the Brit ish Embassy. our way we noticed a sign nailed to a tree which read: "Garden of the -Gods." We rode our horses close enough to the bluff so we could see over a precipice probably 50 to 75 feet below in the creek bottom and sides of the banks were covered with a heavy growth of small trees, bushes, Oregon grape and various kinds of wild shrubbery, all- colors were different and most beautiful. Color of the grass, rocks, ground, water, and water falls, formed such a beau tiful sight. I thought the name Garden , of the Gods, truly worthy,- doubtless it was one of Oregon's beauty spots in 1897. Frank S. Brandon, 211 N. Ivy, Medford. EASTSIDE MARKET'S FANTASTIC G BVIAWAY! See Ad on Page 7 for Details Belief Growing Russia Better Relations With By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Belief is growing in world capitals that Soviet Russia is seeking better relations with the West em Allies. It has ap peared in re cent weeks the Russian lead ers themselves were not quite sure where they were heading. Charles McCano They and their propaganda agencies have alternated threats to many western countries with bids for "peaceful coexistence." The conflicting pronounce- Matter of Fact A BOY. A KING NOW A MAN Amman, Jordan, April 25 I served you as a child and now I serve you as a man." The voice, astonishingly deep and rich for so young a man, gave the sonorous Arabic words an extra emphasis. It was by no means the most important pas sage of King Hussein's broad cast of his people. But to this reporter, the sentence some how seemed the best clew to the recent events in this tormented lit tle kingdom. Two dramas, one exterior and one inter- Josepn Aisop lor, have been unfolding here in Jordan on the same stage and with the same players. In the judgement of the world, which is no doubt, cor rect, the really important drama is the struggle between the King and his" supporters 'and Jordan's powerful pro-Egyptian faction, with aU its agent networks, pur chased politicians and Commu nist allies. .This public drama has now reached its moment of climax with the King's declaration . of martial law. In the breathing space thus gained, he must de cisively break the power of his enemies. Or they will end by breaking him, not now, perhaps, but quite surely in the futuer. IT IS A GRIM gamble he has taken, for there is no doubt about it; for many different trag ic reasons, the King's enemies enjoy strong popular support. But to this reporter, the inter ior drama of the King himself seems really more absorbing than the exterior drama, on which the Middle Eastern future quite probably depends. And the best summary of the interior drama of King Hussein is certainly the sentence from his broadcast quoted above. In truth he was a child, or at least hardly more than a child, when he came back from school in England to reign in Jordan at the age of 17. The British, who were then the real rulers of this country, treated him as a child. Glubb Pasha (Sir John Bagot Glubb), the founder and com mander of the Arab Legion, dealt with Hussein as a self-assured elderly1 guardian might deal with an amiable, but sadly light-hearted young ward. The British gravely underes timated both Hussein and the ug ly ferments working beneath this country's surface. The result was' first the fearful crisis of the Baghdad pact riots, and second and inevitably, the King's sud den angry dismissal of Glubb Pasha himself. As the boy King who had broken Britain's grip on Jordan, Hussein was for a while the hero ' of Egypt and Egypt s friends. "RUT AN independent Jordan was no more wanted by the Egyptians than it had been wan ted by the British. An Egyptian grip was to replace the British grip. That was the design. The main instrument of this Egyptian' design was not any of Jordan's pro-Egyptian or Left wing Nationalists politicians, either. The main instrument was the 21-year-old King's closest friend, the youthful officer whom he had promoted over the heads of so many others to com mand all the Arab Legion, Maj. Gen. Ali Abu Nuwar. The Egyptian design moved forward to completion by rapid stages, "with General Nuwar al ways at the King's side, reassur ing, promising, soothing, protest ing his own undying loyalty while he sought to subvert the Arab Legion's loyalty to the King. The denouement was slow in coming. Repeatedly, those who were still loyal to him warned the King of General Nuwar's true intentions. Until the final ments were reminiscent of the horsemen who galloped off in all directions. But there are increasing indi- ! cations that the threats stemmed from anxiety and .that a desire for lessened diplomatic tension is the real aim of the Soviet government. If this proves correct, the first evidence may come in the form of some important concessions to Allied views in the current United Nations disarmament conference in London. Summit Conference Suggested Concessions in the disarma ment negotiations certainly would improve the diplomatic atmosphere. It is being suggested that the Russian leaders are really aim- By Joseph Alsop moment, Hussein would not be lieve the warnings. And then the terrible moment came when the King's eyes were opened and General Nuwar stood revealed for what he was. EVEN today, no one is quite certain just how bitter that revelation was. It is certain that the King was at least to be re duced to an impotent puppet in a Jordan wholly controled from Cairo. But it is now reported that there were some among the conspirators who planned to re move Hussein altogether from the scene, by the simple Orien tal method of assassination. At any rate, the mere discovery that the most trusted and most favored had been wholly unde serving of either trust or favor, must in itself have been bitter enough. The most curious feature of the last ten amazing days has been the failure of the Egyptians and their allies in Jordan to real ize the inevitable effect f such a discovery as King Hussein made. They had always disre garded him, thinking him a light minded young man, just as the British did. And now they could not believe that the iron had en tered into his soul and character and will. Only yesterday, the Baattust (Arab Resurrection par ty) politicians with whom I talk ed after the morning demonstra tion were light-heartedly ridicul ing the suggestion that King Hussein was capable of forceful independent action to control his country. rTHE MERE sight of Hussein - that afternoon- was enough to prove how wrong the Baathist leaders were. In his paper-white face, the dark eyes seemed pre ternaturally large. The slight frame, normally springy and erect, was slumped under the heaviness of fatigue. But he talked confidently, in the man ner of a man who has learned not only bitter truths about the world he lives in, but has learn ed also reassuring truths about his own capacities. Without this transformation of King Hussein from boy into man, without this interior drama that the King has lived through, the great public drama in Jor dan could never have reached Newsman's Arrest Is Protested in Geneva Geneva, Switzerland U.R) Two foreign press groups in Switzerland Saturday protested the arrest by Swiss authorities of Associated Press Correspondent Michael Goldsmith as a "grave attack on the principle of free dom of information." Goldsmith was arrested in Berne and sentenced to 24 hours in jail for refusing to reveal the sources of a news story to a judge investigating an espionage case. 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They believe it would provide merely a soundinc board for Russian propaganda. Allied leaders have said that if the Russians want another conference, they must eive some proof in advance that they are ready xo ao business. Belief that the Russians mav be ready to do business was strengthened by an 8,000-word letter which Buleanin sent te Macmillan on April 20. Bulganin Letter Friendly Bulganin's letter contained a detailed statement of Russia's views on world issues the Mid dle East, disarmament, rival . military alliances, collective se curity, East-West trade. Its tone was most friendly. At' the end, Bulganin spoke of the "great importance" Soviet lead ers attach to "the maintenance of personal contacts with Brit ish statesmen." - This was taken as an implied invitation to Macmillan to visit Moscow. London dispatches now say there is a chance Macmillan ' will go. Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles is to meet British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and other North Atlantic Treaty, Organization foreign ministers in Bonn, the West German capi tal, on Thursday. Macmillan, is. to visit West German Chancel-, lor Konrad Adenauer in Bonn on May 7. . . It is possible that as the result ' of these meetings Macmillan might visit Moscow. This could lead, if all went well, to a sum mit conference this summer. its present stage. What the out come may be, none can fartell, for the King has ventured every-. thing on a quick turn en for- tune's wheel. But at any .rate, one can now be sure, that he will .' not falter or fall into indecision . or seek to shirk the necessities" of the gamble he has made. (c) 1957 New York .'. Herald Tribune, Inc. . Need Ready CASH? COUNT ON US WHEN YOU NEED MONEY! Borrow The American Way! LOANS S25 to S1.500 AUTO SALARY FURNITURE For Any Worthwhile Purpose PAYMENTS TO At YOUR BUDGETI American Finance Corp. 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