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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNI "Iveryone In Southern Oregon weaas ice Man Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 87-29 North Fir St Phone 2-4141 RORFRT W BTTW1 HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. Citj Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEW E1T Sports Editor OLIVE STAR CHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Uedford Oregon under Act of Marcl 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advancer Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year (15.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye S3udge Pot column: Farmers and fruitmen would now love rain in May, as much as they cussed it in December. 20 YEARS AGO May 1. 1937 (Saturday) Solo numbers by young artists of the valley will be part of the program of Medford junior sym phoney orchestra, under the di rection of John R. Knight, Sun day. Bears in Crater Lake national , merging from winter park are emerging hibernation according to David H. Canfield, park superintend ent. 30 YEARS AGO May 1. 1927 (Sunday) Work begins in business dis trict on new city directory of Medford. From Local and Personal col umn: The Rogue River Valley College Women's club will meet at the home of Mrs. L. E. Wil liams, 520 South Peach st. 40 YEARS AGO May 1, 1917 (Tuesday) Mrs. R. J. Conroy elected president of Greater Medford club. From Local and Personal column: E. M. Brown, manager of the Rogue River Canal com pany, returns from business trip to Spokane. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev en cr eUht Is excellent; five or six is good. 1. In 1800 did Spain conclude a treaty passing the property and sovereignty of Louisiana to France or to the U. S.? 2. Which of these states is smallest in area: Delaware, unoae isiana, or Connecticut.' 3. Bible: When Herod died who appeared in a dream before Joseph in Egypt? 4. Excise taxes are levied upon Individuals, upon corporations, upon real estate, or upon com modities? 5. Witches, devils and elves are supposed to be abroad on what evening of the year? 6. Reggio Calabria is on the Italian shore of which Straits? 7. Name the author of the book "The Good Earth." 8. Which state was referred to during the anti-slavery agitation I as "bleeding." 9. Are the words "levy" and "levee" pronounced alike? 10. With one hand he putA penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a " (what?).... out." R. Pollock. Answers: 1. France. 2. Rhode Island. 3. "An angel of the Lord." 4. Commodities. 5. Halloween. 6. Straits of Messina. 7. Pearl S. Buck. 8. Kansas. 9. Yes. As in "heavy." 10. "shilling." Marion County Man Dies As Fire Levels Cabin Salem '(U.R) Frank Guth rie, 65, was fatally injured when fire destroyed his one room cabin at Clear lake, seven miles north of. Salem, Tuesday. Marion county sheriff's depu ties said the blaze broke out ap parently after Guthrie had built fires in the two stoves in the ca bin and returned to bed. MAIL TRIBUNE "Right to To the ordinary, intelligent reader, tne reasons why the newspaper profession is exercised about the state department ban on reporters traveling to Red China may be a trifle obscure. "So what?" he may say. "If no one else can go, why should newspaper people demand the privilege?" Basically, it is for the same reason that many re porters are allowed to cross police and fire lines, and are admitted to other places where the general public is excluded. It is because they are the "eyes and ears" of the public. The privileges "extended them are not granted them as individuals, but as men and women who serve the public's right to know. X7E BELIEVE the state department's policy on for bidding newsmen to travel in Red China is un necessary, indefensible and stupid. That nation, after all, has more than a half -billion people, and in years to come will be a power to be reckoned with, more than it is already. If we are to know how to cope with it, we must know more about it, rather than less. As it is, about our only sources of information on Red China are the outpourings of the communist prop aganda machinery, or the second-hand reports from newsmen of other nations, whose governments are a little clearer-headed than ours in this regard. DEPORTERS who are worth their salt are jealous of v the people's right to know what's going on in the world, from the city hall beat to Peking, China. It is their training, their job, their way of life, if you will. If they are nosy and irritating, it is usually because they are determined that their readers get the news, all of it, not just the part that news sources think is "fittin"' for the public to read. This job of gathering the news has many "iron cur tains," and not only at the state department level, either. It is no uncommon occurrence to find a public official at the city or county level who has informa tion about the public's business he is reluctant to "re lease" for public consumption. There are occasions, not too frequent, when a newspaper will agree that it would not be to the public interest to publish an item, but these are exceptions rather than the rule. THERE was an instance only recently in Coos county where the county superintendent of schools refused to give a reporter from the Coos Bay Times 6 tuuuiv ouiuui uuugci,, wim.11 unuci iiu stretch of the imagination could be considered "pri vate or nobody s business. : If taxpayers are to pungle up to pay the bill, they are entitled to know what the bill will be, and how it is figured. Jackson county for many years has been remark ably free of this type of "it's none of your business" attitude on the part of public servants, but it is a con stant threat to the good reporter's job. This is the rea son a reporter wears his "right to know" chip proudly on his (or her) shoulder. E. A. Drivers 9 Reexaminations At first glance, a proposal now before the Oregon legislature, to require mandatory reexamination of all licensed drivers eveiy six years, might appear to be beneficial. Isn't it logical the argument runs that such re examinations will detect and take off our highways those who are in no shape to drive, and thus are caus ing many of our accidents. We thought that argument sound at first, then had some second thoughts, and finally wrote to Jim Banks, executive secretary of the , mission, to ask him about IIM replied that traffic safety officials and admin istrators have a "dim view" of mandatory re examination, stemming from "our belief that the ac cident prevention potential of such a program is too slight to wan-ant the cost and public inconvenience involved." He added: ' "Accident records show rather conclusively that the huge majority of mishaps involve drivers whose driving ability is adequate, and who have no disqualifying physi cal defects. Meanwhile, what you might term a 'selective' ' reexamination program is now in effect the interviewing, counseling and examinations carried on with accident and violation 'repeaters.' This program permits us to give spe - cial attention to those people having more than their share 'of trouble, rather than having to screen all drivers, regard less of age, physical condition or past driving record." LIE GOES on to point out that most accidents are the result of the attitudes and habits of drivers, not their physical defects. A "squirreller," a drunken driver, or a "don't-give-a-dam" driver is far more dangerous than a man who has, say, poor eyesight, but knows it and makes careful allowance for it in his driving. Jim's letter concluded : "As it stands now, the thing we can test for manipu lative skills, vision, rules of the road, recognition of signs are the basic attributes most neophyte drivers acquire quickly and maintain at adequate levels. We have no work able method yet for identifying drivers who will fail to use their knowledge and skill, other than actual perform ance as reflected by accidents and violations." This makes sense to us. Here's another spot where the legislature can save some money and do us all the favor of not regimenting us even further, at the same time. E.A. Wednesday. May 1, 1957 Know 99 Oregon traffic safety com- it. 'Mil 5B DOWN IN A MINUTE. Matter of Fact THE PRESIDENT AND THE CRISIS Washington Throughout the dangerous crisis in Jordan, Pres ident Eisenhower was in Aug- vw..MM:mm usta. Ga., on M ne o his fre- ' VI quent e s capes S - . s la F,-nrv WocViincr- ton. This raises a couple of imp ortant q u e s t i ons: What is really the state of the P r e s ident's Stewait Alsop neaimr Ana, in this critical period, does he really have to spend so much time away from Washington? On the first point there has been, of course, endless specula tion and rumor, stimulated by the President's famous cough, by his own emphasis on the issue of the possible disablement of a President, and- by his frequent vacations. It has been said that the Pres ident was "visibly fading." It' has even been seriously reported that he intended to enter eemi retirement, handing over the bulk of his responsibilities to Vice-President Nixon. This sort of thing, according to those who should know, is balderdash. THE President still has a ghost of his famous cough, but it is only a ghost. The platoons of doctors who hover con stantly over him have examined the cough as no cough has never been examined before. They have reported unanimously and positively that the cough is not serious that it is not a sym tom of anything threatening and deep-seated. It is true that President faded a bit when. his cough and cold were at their worst some weeks ago but all men fade under such circumstances. He is now back, according to .intimates, in reasonably full bloom, and on the golf course especially he is positively frisky, considering his age and medical history. When these re-assuring things are said, the fact remains, of course, that Dwight D. Eisen hower is an elderly man who has had a heart attack and a serious abdominal operation. And this raises the second question, whether he really must spend so much of his time away from his office. i THE answer is that he must. There should be no surprise about this answer. The voters of the United States who elect ed him by an overwhelming maj ority knew the answer, or should have known it. In February, 1956. when he announced that he would run again, the Presi dent said: "The opinions and conclu sions of the doctors that I can continue to carry the burdens of the Presidency contemplate for me a regime of ordered work activity, interspersed with reg ular amounts of exercise, recrea tion and rest. . . readiness to obey the doctors, out of respect for my present duties and res possibilities, is mandatory in my case. When the President takes off for Georgia or elsewhere, he is simply "obeying the doctors" quite willingly, to be sure, smce he loves golf and still by no means loves the White House. Any man of sixty-six with the Preside nt's medical history would need plenty of "exercise, recreation, and rest." But the President, his doctors believe, needs them especially, and his associates agree. He has been used to exercise all his life, and when he does not get it, he be comes either irritable or dull and depressed. So . the President's frequent escape of Washington are cer tainly going to continue as long as he is President, crisis or no crisis. It is ridiculous to suppose that the escapes do not reduce his work they do. schedule. Of course IF HE had not been "obeying his doctors," the President would presumably have been conferring constantly and at great length with the National Security Council on the danger ous crisis in the' Middle East. Instead he had a half-hour or so on the telephone every day with 8 Stt&S rWJHe 8ATHTU5.V By Stewart Alsop Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. As a result of one of these conversations, he and Dul les decided to order the 6th Fleet into the Eastern Mediterranean, and in effect to invoke the Eisen hower Doctrine. This momentous decision was not, in fact, even referred to the National Security Council. Dul les (much to the irritation of the Defense Department) has per suaded the President that the Middle Eastern crisis is too "tac tical" to be handled by the policy-making body, and the Middle East is therefore rarely if ever discussed by the Council. In any event, it would have been little use to refer this crisis to the Council when the President, who must make the final decisions, was in Georgia.' Thus the decision, was strict ly an Eisenhower-Dulles deci sion, or rather a decision recom mended by Dulles in which the President concurred. In the sense that, at least when he is on one of his numerous vacations, the President does not participate intimately in the process which leads up to the making, of im portant decisions, . the President is in fact a "part-tune President. But the voters knew that when they elected him and in any event the decision he and Dulles took last week looks, at the mo ment like a courageous, and cor rect decision. (c) 1957. New York Hearld Tribune Inc. Editorial Comment HUMAN DEPLETION ALLOWANCE .A New York City congress man, Rep. Herbert Zelenko, aged 50, has introduced a bill to authorize income tax deductions for "depletion of human resour ces the most important of all." At age 45 the taxpayer would be allowed to deduct one per cent from the earned income he reports. For each additional year he remained at work he could deduct an additional' one per cent. At age 70 the deduction would amount to 25 per cent. The federal tax laws already provide percentage depletion al lowances for income derived from natural resources which, in the case of oil and gas wells, rang up to 21 per cent. And for corporations in general there are allowances for depreciation of buildings and machinery. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled long ago that a corporation is a "person" within the meaning of the due process clauses of the Constitution. If the Court could now be induced to rule that a flesh and blood being is a "corp oration," the individual taxpay er ' might be able to claim a right to charge off the human machine's depreciation, of which he is only too conscious after age 45. The straight-line method, the double-declining balance, and method, and the sum-of-the-years-digits method would have different attractions for different classes of taxpayers. Corpora tions are free to choose among them. An interesting idea, but Rep. Zelenko's is a better one, in that it may have some chance of adoption. Pendleton East Ore gonian REPEAL TAX BONUS The Northwest needs more electric energy, quite without reference to "national security." But the private power compa nies are strong enough to man age the financing of their expan sion without resort to govern ment bolstering. Idaho Power is recognized as one of the soundly financed, well managed utilities, and its ability to finance these dams was attested by financial experts in the hearings. It ought not now to snuggle up to the treasury and beg for a tax mora torium. Nor should any other going concern in the country, save where me governmeni is pressing it to build a special fa cility for essential defense purr poses. - The way this acceleration of depreciation works is this: Ida ho Power will be permitted to depreciate in the first five years 65 per cent of its investment in one project and 60 per cent in another.. Depreciation is deduct ible in figuring income taxes. Mid-East; U.S. Policy Success By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent - Soviet Russia's anger over de-' velopments in the Middle East indicates that American- policy is paying off. Pravda,' the newspaper or gan of the Rus s i a n . Commu nist party, complained on Sunday that' the United States is fusing "the -law of Charles M. McCann the fist" in its dealings with Arab countries. The Soviet Foreign Office fol lowed up on Monday by accus ing the United States of "aggra vating" the Middle Eastern sit uation by "gross interference." In its special statement, the Foreign Ministry said that the United States will be responsi ble for "grave consequences" that may develop. What all this means is that young King Hussein of Jordan has overcome his - pro-Russian, pro-Egyptian, anti-Western po litical enemies who threatened to oust him from his throne. , Nobody can blame the Soviet leaders for being extremely dis pleased. Leftists Meet Challenge It had become evident several weeks ago that the leftists in Larson, Brundage Are 'Whipping Boys1 for GOP Conservatives . By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) When Republican critics of the admin istration look around for scape-' goats to blame for their intern al party troubles, two names are apt to be heard. They are. Arthur Larson, di rector of the U. S. Information Agency, and Percival F. Brun dage, director of the Bureau of the Budget. Larson is regarded as the in ventor of "modern" or "new" Republicanism, which has caus ed a backlash from JGOP conser vatives. These critics and some that are not so conservative want to be identified as just Republicans, with no descrip tions attached. The tax is not waived and has to be picked up and paid during the remaining 45 years . of the anticipated life of the project. The advantage to the company is that the tax deferment works as an interest-free loan. ; It is helpful to the company in the early years of a project, "but the burden it is spared must be born by other taxpayers. Theoretically the tax savings should be reflected in ' reduced fates, but in an operation as large as that of Idaho Power, the savings can probably.be ab sorbed so that no rate cut would be ordered. At least - we have heard of no rate cuts in conse quence of such tax concessions. It is high time we got away from the Korean war. Hardly any of the companies need it; the national security seems am ple without it; and equity among taxpayers condemns it. The members of Congress who are screaming against the Idaho Power's sharing in the gravy for the next five years should con centrate on the main issue, and that is to repeal the outmoded, unnecessary act of 1951 which permits it. Oregon Statesman, Salem. . Wants Bear Facts To the Editor: I have been reading in your communications about the big Grizzly bear "Reel Foot," and would like to have you print this to see if any of your readers remember about the Big Grizzly that was killed on .Mt. Pitt (Mt.. McLoughlin now), years ago. I don't remem ber if it was in the late 1800's or early 1900's. G. S. : - (Name on file) . Jacksonville, Ore. In the Hands of Satan To the Editor: When Satan was thrown out of heaven, he was pretty mad and resolved to ruin the world through religion. He was very successful and has nearly accomplished it. The good God has no religion, belongs to no church or has no holy, books. All he has is the full truth, based on wisdom and unselfish love. The falsehoods in. the 'Bible are terrible. For example Christ is not the son of God, but of Joseph and Mary. Nobodys sins were ever forgiven by God, who says if you can sin, you can also leaye it alone. There is no death, only the form dies. God explains nearly everything, who and what he is. He is life that is without beginning and Com Appears Unhappy Over Jordan were being challenged by the pro-Western king and po litical leaders loyal to him. The fight broke into the open when pro-Soviet Premier Sulei man Nabulsi tried to enter into diplomatic relations with Rus sia. A crisis developed. Hussein dismissed Nabulsi. Nabulsi organized riots in Am man, the capital and other cities. The pro-Russian Egyptian and Syrian governments encouraged Nabulsi. Russia egged on Egypt and Syria. At a critical time, President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles an nounced that they regarded the independence and integrity of Jordan as vital. Next day the President sent the United States 6th Fleet, based in the Mediterranean, to the Middle East. This action was taken, in the first application of the new Eisenhower Doctrine, on the ground that Jordan was threatened by the forces of the international Communism. , It was then made known to King Hussein that the United States was ready to give $10 mil lion in financial aid. All this constituted notice to Russia that it would be smart to watch its step in its deter mined program of meddling in Middle Eastern affairs. It also constituted a warning to Egypt, Brundage Key Adviser Brundage's job makes him President Eisenhower's chief ad viser in dealing with the federal budget, which the administra tion has set at a peacetime rec ord of nearly 72 billion dollars for the next fiscal year. To many people modern Re publicanism and a big budget are the same, thing. Hence Lar son and Brundage have become prime whipping boys of Repub licans who are unhappy at the way things are going. Larson was undersecretary of labor when he wrote the book, 'A Republican Looks At His Party," which helped make him the philosopher of modern Re publicanism and a favorite of President Eisenhower. He was a law 'school professor and dean before he entered government. The President has talked freely about keeping the GOP up to date, but Larson has be come the symbol of what his critics regard as a party-splitting movement. Yet in a recent speech he described "new Re publicanism" as "simply Repub licanism as it has adapted itself under President 'Eisenhower's leadership to mid-20th Century responsibilities." Budget Director's Background Brundage became budget di rector 13 months ago under' the late Rowland Hughes. He previ ously had been associated with a large accounting firm. The Budget Bureau asked Congress last year for increased funds to hire more Budget Bur eau employees to hold down the size of the budget. House Ap propriations committee mem bers recently -reminded Brun dage of this request and berated him because the budget was go ing up instead of down. Toughness is supposed to be a basic requirement for a bud get director. Government bur eaus ask for more money then their department heads will al low,, and the department heads ask for more than the Budget Bureau will allow. Brundage's critics believe he wasn't tough enough this year. munications without end. The world was caught by ' Satan and thought that he was a true God and be lieved in him. The full truth of God is delicious and might lead to ever lasting happiness. If you like, you can print this in your paper so people can get some of the truth. J. M. van der Maas 328 Riverside ave., Medford, Ore. CAREFUL ATTENTION to the individual dictates of every faith, the modern facili ties of Litwiller's Mt. View Chapel and Funeral Home, and rates kept consistently low, are some of the reasons c. M. Lirwiller so many prefer to call MU 5-4541 in time of need! : Weddings by Appointment LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close Syria and Israel not to try to carve up Jordan. Saud Supports Hussein In addition to these dramatic King Hussein, with whom his developments, there was anoth er one of great importance. This was that King Saud of Saudi Arabia came to the support of King Hussein, with whom his relations were long bad, against Jordan's internal and external enemies. - There can be little doubt that Saud's firm stand marked an other payoff for American Mid dle Eastern policy. There was considerable oppo sition to President Eisenhower's invitation to Saud to visit the United States in January. But the result of Saud's visit was that the President and Dul les convinced him that the" Elsenhower Doctrine against Communist aggression in the Middle East was a good thing. It may well be asked wheth er, had Saud not been invited to Washington, Russia would now be so unhappy over the Middle Eastern outlook. Committee Selects Five Senators for 'Hall of Fame7 Spot Washington. KU.R) Contem-. poraries sometimes saw them as an unrelenting isolationist, an unyielding conservative, a self ish champion of slavery, an un educated immoral conniver and an unethical self-seeker. But those five men Former Senators Robert M. La Follette Sr., of Wisconsin, Robert A. Taf t of Ohio, John C. Calhoun ' of South Carolina, Henry Clay of Kentucky, and Daniel Web ster of Massachusetts will grace the Senate's own Hall of Fame. Not because of certain traits,' of course, but in spite of them. A committee of present day sen ators selected them Tuesday from aU the rest to be honored. Their portraits will fill the gilded, eagle crested blank' spaces in the reception room just off the Senate floor. From that vantage point the portraits will look down as the senators of later years meet and chat with their constituents. Selection committee chairman ' John F. Kennedy (D.-Mass.) who was to announce the choices for-' mally in a Senate speech today, said the five were not named as the greatest senators "of - all time" but rather as five . "out standing : persons" who served in the Senate. . Red Skelton Suffers From Virus Infection ' Hollywood (U.R) Comedian Red Skelton ' was suffering to-, day from a severe virus infec tion which forced cancellation of current television . commit ments. The comedian's studio said. Skelton's condition was - "not serious" but that he was too sick : to appear Tuesday night on a. live telecast with Arnold Stang, Lina Romay and other guests. CBS-TV substituted a re-run of a previous program. , that insurance re quirements change with the years? 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