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I rOtm MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone to SouUiern Oregon Reait The Mail Tribune" Publlalxwl Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Busmen Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advancer Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mcs 4-25 Sunday only one year 4-Z0 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 Smudge Pot column: The recent visit of the distinguished rain maker, as yet has shown no re sults, which are needed. 20 YEARS AGO May 2. 1937 (Sunday) Face value of building per mits issued during. April totals $34,610, about a $1,000 decrease compared to April of 1936. v Tomatoe planting in the val ley will not start before May 10 because of frost danger, ac cording to Ralph E. Koozer, manager of the Bagley Cannery, Ashland. 30 YEARS AGO May 2. 1927 (Monday) Medford Chamber of Com merce membership committee, composed of A. E. Orr, J. C. Thompson and Carl Swigart, start annual membership drive. Medford. Realty Board and Wolff the Tire Man will present programs today over the Mail Tribune - Virgin radio station, KMED. 40 YEARS AGO May 2. 1917 (Wednesday) Mayor Gates indicates he may oppose gambling in Medford card rooms. . The "Baby Week" eugenic test which was to have been con ducted by the parents' educa tional bureau is postponed. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is superior; sev en cr eight is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. In 1831 four-wheeled trucks were introduced -on cars in the South Carolina Railroad. Were these the first car-trucks ever used? 2. Near what Italian city is the Lake of Nemi? 3. Bible: Were the mercen aries used by Herod Germans, Gauls and Thracians, or were they Roman troops? 4. The extinct dodo bird could or could not fly? 6. Craniometry is the study of cranes, the measurement of skulls, or the culture of cran berries? 6. What is the name for the process of curing leather? 7. Which is longer, the coast line of Florida or of California? 8. In which American war was Ricbad Harding Davis a star war-reporter? . 9. Which of these two words expresses rest, and which mo tion: "in"' and "into?" 10. "When it cracks, it bears; when it bends, it breaks." Un known. To what 3-letter word does the proverb refer? Answers: 1. Yes. 2. Rome. 3. Germans. Gauls and Thracians. 4. Could not. 5. Measurement of skulls. 6.' Tanning. 7. Flordia. 8. Spanish-American War. 9. In rest; into, motion. 10. Ice. ACCIDENT TOTAL Boston (U.R) The Institute for Safer Living, estimating that all U. S. accidents last year cost a total of SI 0.8 billion, pointed out that this would build 1,000, 000 new homes. MAIL TRIBUNE Oregon 's Tax Phobia Regardless of party, no resident of Oregon favors a tax program, so out of line with competing states, that it would either keep prospective residents from moving here, or impel present residents to move away. "' As the tax system for the next biennium ap proaches completion however, there are loud out cries from various and sundry sources, that this out rage is being contemplated and unless there is some sort of grass roots tax revolt, it will be consummated. "IlE TRUST we will be pardoned if we contem- plate these "cries of wolf" with a certain "scepti cism and accept them with several grains of salt. At any rate we would like more proof of any such egress or lack of INgress, than has been presented to date as far as taxes are concerned. '"TAXES, exeryone knows, are high. And as infla lation continues, slowly but surely, they are bound to be higher. But we seriously question if any established busi ness in the state is considering moving either to Cali fornia or Washington, because of the state tax situa tion. And we question with equal seriousness that any prospective settler, favorably impressed with Oregon as a place in which to live, abandoning the idea be because of any tax barrier. IN SHORT, we believe this "noise and fury" about the catastrophic results of the tax program pro posed, is essentially a political smoke-screen, behind which those wTho wish to increase their net profits, by radical unfair tax slashes, hide. It is our conviction that both from the standpoint of present residents and prospective ones, a far more important factor would be the quality of the public schools of the state and educational advantages as a whole for their children. Yet almost without exception those who are yell ing the loudest about the catastrophic effect of. pros pective taxes, are also most vehement in their opposi tion to higher taxes for education, which would place Oregon in a position to successfully compete with the school systems of neighboring states, instead of being, woefully outclassed. IN OTHER words, if we were asked what two items prosperity of Oregon we name, LOWER rates for electric power and HIGHER standards for lower and higher education. Yet the press of the state, with a few noteable ex ceptions is either indifferent to both, or actively and persistently opposing them. It is really difficult to understand. But no one who is willing to make a careful objective survey of Ore gon's newspapers and their policies as a whole would, we believe, for a moment deny it. R.W.R. How About 1 00 Americans? The objection of Solid South states like Missis sippi and Alabama to school integration is depressing but understandable. That the proponents of this "white-supremacy" doctrine should proclaim and laud it as a badge of "100 Americanism", ISN'T. For that claim is not only untrue but the exact reverse of the truth. THE foundation of American democracy is the con- stitution. And that document provides that it is the function of the U.S. Supreme Court and only this court to interpret it. The constitution plainly states that in this country there shall be no discrimination, because of race, color or religion. ...... The Supreme Court has interpreted that declara tion as meaning segregation in the schools of the country because of race or color is unconstitutional a violation of the country's basic law. These state leaders in the south who oppose this decision often by force may still claim state rights are superior to national rights, or. that "white supremacy" is essential to white survival. But they can't RIGHTFULLY claim they are good Americans, 100, 50 or what have you. They may be good husbands, fathers, brothers or politicians but they are NOT good Americans, they are ANTI-Americans, and one has only to read the constitution and their records, regarding the Negro question, to prove it. R.W.R. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with. view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The Cosmic Cycle To the Editor: In the year 1910 after Haley's comet made it's appearance, another comet was discovered by an African astronomer and called De Rake's comet. It was plainly visible in the northwestern skies for sev eral weeks, finally losing it's long fiery tail before the comet bowed out. Now we read of Arend-Roland, a sky rover with a split tail visible to earth dwel lers. All kinds of omens were attached to any object with a forked tail in ancient times, especially alluded to as Satan or the old serpent. We have read where it takes the sun's universe around 26,000 years to make a complete cycle of it's orbit mea sured in time and space. It is no wonder or speculation that new Thursday. May 2. 1957 would without hesitation comets and objects, called flying saucers or discs show up oc casionally. So, our lives, like the starry messengers above, may travel thousands of years to complete 1 the cosmic cycle in the realm of eternity. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman st. Medford, Ore. CARS TOO BIG London U.R) Scotland Yard said today London bobbies are towing in battered small cars and ignoring shiny Rolls-Royces illegally parked on London's crowded streets. They explained the Yard does not have adequate equipment to tow the heavier cars. Thy are getting tickets where they sit. j im miCB HCW 'BIROS M MS' AIMS SETS A LWGK?7, In the Day's News By FRANK MYSTERY in the news: An "unidentified object" has been seen over the English Channel. It was picked up by British radar. It was flying so fast that jet fighters (the British jets are no slouches in the way of speed) couldn't catch up with it. British officials have ordered a full investigation. f ? ? ? ? ? ? Well, at least it adds to the spice of living. . . ' Everybody loves a mystery story. - ; . THE United States has offered the tiny kingdom of Jordan ten million dollars in immediate aid which, the dispatches this morning report, King Hussein's government is "expected to ac cept." It's probably a reasonable ex pectation. Refusals CRfcmerican handouts have been few and far between. BUT Let's be s e r i o us for a moment. TWENTY-two-year-old Hussein, monarch of a postage stamp realm that was created out of raw and unproductive desert for the artificial purpose of giving the British Empire a toe-hold in the Middle East, has displayed courage and stamina in upsetting a communist scheme to take over Jordan as another Russian satel lite. He was enabled to get away with it because the Jordanian army stayed loyal to him. The Chicago News correspon dent in Amman, Jordan's capital, reported the other day that Jor dan's army HASN'T BEEN PAID FOR FOUR WEEKS the reason being that Hussein's treasury is Editorial Comment DULLES UNDER FIRE The Wall Street Journal neat ly hoists Mr. Dulles on his own petard when it quotes what he said when Red China lowered the bamboo curtain on western newsmen: "The effect of this order is to bolt out completely ob jective reporting in the Communist-o c c u p ied ter ritory of China." - . Now that Red China has in vited at least a limited number of U.S. reporters and photogra phers the Dulles order has an effect similar to that decried by him when China raised its bars in 1949. Mr. Dulles will just have to take to the bushes on his order. It won't stand up either in logic or against the cumulative pres sures of newsgathering and dis pensing agencies. The newsmen are ready to go at . their own risk. The Dulles leash should be cut. , On the other front the state department admits it is ready to review its sanctions on trade with Red China, but only for its allies, not for U. S. traders. This is a concession to Britain and Japan and West Germany who think they can do business with the Communists in China, and is made in realization of the fact that unless trade is liberal ized the other countries may just toss overboard the whole boycott business. The boycott hasn't hurt China much, and its extension seems bootless. If the U.S. moves to end it, and State agrees to give visas to reporters who wish to visit Red China, a break will have been made in the rigid anti China policy which has con Dollar SEE GROCETERIA ADS PAGES 6 and 7 SECTION ONE JENKINS so empty there is no money to pay the troops with. History tells us ' that unpaid soldiers are apt to get restive. Even in our own Revolutionary War our unpaid troops (unpaid because there was no money in the treasury to pay them with) got pretty edgy. If Patriot Rob ert Morris hadn't thrown his own considerable private for tune into the pot to back up the new American govern ment's shaky finances, the Lord only knows what might have happen ed. Soldiers can't fight forever on empty stomachs especially when they have hungry families at home. rmHAT is to sav: If we toss ten million dol lars into the kitty and our ten million enables Hussein to pay off his soldiers and thus spike the communist plot to take over Jordan as a Russian outpost in the explosive Middle East, it could be well worth the money. The point I'm getting at is that foreign aid isn't NECES SARILY bad. If we get our money's worth for what we spend, it is GOOD. It would be VERY GOOD IN DEED if it kept a war from start ing. ONE more thought in closing: Every time the govern ment spends a billion dollars, it costs you as an individual about $6. A million dollars is one one- thousandth of a billion dollars. .- With that to start on, maybe you are good enough to figure out in your head how much ten million dollars would cost you as an individual. If so, you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din. But it wouldn't be much. tributed to freezing the dispute in the Far East. That opening might lead to a settlement of other issues, and that is the pro per goal of our Far Eastern policy. . Oregon Statesman, Salem. ' A RAW DEAL When the Office of Defense Mobilization a n n o u n ced last week that Idaho Power Co. would be permitted to write off in five years most of the depreci ation on two dams it is building in the Hells Canyon stretch of the Snake river the howls of pro test could be heard from Wash ington for miles around. ODM is granting this permission under provisions of the 1951 tax law, designed to encourage private construction of defense-essential plants. However, ODM some time ago stopped granting tax benefits for generating projects on the ground they were no long er essential for defense prepard ness. Those people who are asking why an exception is being made in the case of Idaho Power Co. have a very good question. It has been evident for a long time that Idaho Power Co. has some pow erful friends in Washington, but we had not suspected they would even consider a deal as raw as this one. We had thought the outcome of the Dixon Yates adventure had convinced them there were some favors govern ment .couldn't do for big busi ness. Pendleton East Oregon ian ' FOOD DEGREE Chicago (U.R) Illinois Insti tute of Technology, Chicago, is the first institution in the United States to offer a degree-granting course in food engineering. s Day Evidence of Soviet Softening On Disarmament Plans is Seen By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia seems tn be graduaUy softening its attitude toward a satisfactory disarma ment inspec tion. It has now offered a plan under which large areas of the United States, West ern Europe and the Soviet Union would be open to Charles M. McCana aerial survey. Agreement on such a system 1 Fit I Matter of Fact MEANING OF A DRAMA Amman, Jordan In the hollow calm that has been im posed on this little country by the forces un der King Hus s e i n's corn mind, it is possible to ber. gin- to think a little about the real meaning of the drama that has been played out here. Josepb Alsop The trappings" of the drama have been story book stuff the young King, beleagued and betrayed but riding out the storm with incomparable dash and courage; the plotters, at first so overwhelmingly confi dent and then so eagerly ready to flee in all directions; the picturesque Arab Legion, - torn by intrigues and divided loyal ties but rallying to the young King in the very nick of time. No news story in this report er's sadly long experience has been quite like this. But behind these splendid trappings, there is the drama's real meaning. It is an immense ly important meaning. Indeed, as a turning point in Middle Eastern' politics this wild drama in little Jordan may later be remembered as equal in signif icance to the Suez crisis itself. And in order to place the grim ly practical inner meaning of the Jordan drama in its proper context, one must begin with the Suez crisis. THE Suez crisis was touched off Egypt's President Nas ser was moved to nationalize the canal by the calculated humiliation so incomprehensibly administered toy Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in the matter of the Aswan dara. But the Soviet role was vastly more important than the American role. Nasser gained the courage to nationalize the canal from the actuality of Soviet arms and the promise of Soviet support. Realistically regarded, the fi nal outcome of the Suez crisis was the highwater mark to date of Soviet political success in the strategically vital Middle East. Soviet policy here, it must be understood, is not to promote Communism for Communism's sake. Soviet Middle Eastern pol icy is to use Nasser-style Arab nationalism as a dagger to strike at the oil-jugular of the Western Alliance. . The final outcome of the, Suez crisis was the transforma tion of Nasser's shameful mili tary defeat in Sinai into a pol itical victory of extreme bril liance. The political victory seemed to provide the ideal op portunity for the next move along the road charted by both Nasser and the Kremlin, for their very different reasons. And this next move was to be a coup in Jordan. Why People Don't Have Wills In the face of indisputable logic, com mon sense, self interest, and pleas from estate planners, many people still die intes tate. Why? The five chief reasons are shown below. If any or all have been keeping you from acting, may we suggest that you call your attorney for an appointment today. 1. Lack of Knowledge About Conse quences Not everybody realizes that if he doesn't, have a will the state draws one for him according' to the impersonal laws of intestacy. Under such a setup there's little chance that property will be distributed in accordance with the estate owner's wishes. 2. Avoiding Reality People don't like to entertain thoughts of their own death, as they must do when they prepare a will. If you don't face this reality now for just the short time it takes to prepare a will, your Reprinted with Permission of the West Coast Life Insurance Co. , C. W. Abbott, Medford Manager. DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS of inspection is a necessary first step toward any disarmament treaty, as a guarantee against cheating. Russia's new offer, ' made at the United Nations Disarmament Conference in London, can hardly be caUed big-hearted. . For instance, inspection planes with photographic equipment would be permitted to fly over Alaska, the entire United States west of the Mississippi fiver, and most of Western Europe. " Areas Equal On Paper They would fly over most of Communist Eastern Europe, ' a very small part of western Rus sia and a large part of Siberia. By Joseph Alsop JORDAN'S extreme Arab na- tionalists, who are controlled from Cairo; Jordan's small but well organized Communist party controlled by. the Kremlin but placed under Nasser's command, and the disloyal elements with in King Hussein's government, were ali to combine together. In combination, they were to hand over Jordan to Egypt. The coup very nearly came off too. Nasser was within a hair's breadth of gathering up little Jordan as you might gath er up a windfall in an autumn orchard. If the coup in Jordan had come off, the way would have been ideally prepared for an at tempt to subvert the Iraqi gov ernment of King Hussein's cou sin, King Faisal. Thus the first of the oil producing Arab lands, where you find the real daggers the Soviets want the Arab na tionalists to use, against the West, would have come under Egyptian domination. With Iraq lost, in turn, it would have been time for Nas ser to think of the oil-rich Gulf Coast Sheikdoms, dominated by the British and, last but not least, Saudi Arabia allied with the United States. And with Egyptian dominated govern ments installed in all these vital regions,, the time would have been ripe to drive the dagger straight home into the West's exposed juglar. THAT was the delightful pro spect until the failure of the coup in Jordan changed every calculation. It failed not only because of King Hussein's energy and verve. It also fail ed because King Saud of Saudi Arabia had noticed the import ant role being played by the Communists in Jordan, and had begun to be aware that his own fate was already being prepar ed. If a stable, independent gov ernment can finally be organiz ed in Jordan, the change of cal culations will be radical in deed. Instead of pro-Western Iraq being imperilled, the ex ample of events in Jordan will seriously imperil Egypt's satel lite government in Syria, with its heavy load of fellow trav ellers. Then the tide will have turned in deadly earnest. But it will be many months yet before anyone can say that young King Hussein, with all his verve, can possibly organize a stable, in dependent regime in this tor mented, infiltrated little nation. (C) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. 17th Traffic Fatality Recorded in Portland Portland (U.R) Portland re corded its 17th traffic fatality of 1957 Wednesday when Daniel Jones, 44, injured Monday -night in a "car-train crash, died in a local hospital. Portland had 19 traffic deaths at the same time last year. ( FIVE CHIEF AND COSTLY REASONS family may have to face a grim reality for years after you die. 3. Procrastination Nobody expects to die today or tomorrow. "There's plenty of time" to draw a will, buy insurance, com plete estate plan. Famous last words. 4. False Modesty "My estate is" too small to bother with." This is not true since if is obviously even more important to con serve property if you don't have too much of it. And you probably have more than you think. 5. Misconception about Attorneys and Fees The fee for a will is generally mod est. The fee for not drawing a will is gen erally very high in terms of loss of tax ad vantages, inequitable distribution, and ag gravation for your heirs. Every family should have an attorney, just as it has a family physician, in whom members can feel free to confide. On paper, the Russian pro posal calls for the opening up of an equal area of Soviet and American territory, including Alaska, and most of Allied West ern Europe. Actually, the whole of Alaska, a great part of the United States and nearly all of the Highly in dustrialized countries of Allied Western Europe would be open to Russian inspection. But almost all of western Rus sia, containing the greater part of Soviet war industries, would remain closed territory. This proposal, in its present form, is obviously unsatisfac tory. Red Concession Seen Its first importance, however, lies in the fact that little by little the . Soviet government seems to be coming around to admitting the necessity of an efficient means of inspection. That is a big concession for the Russian Communist leaders to make. Russia always has been one of the most secretive coun tries in the world. That was true even under the czars, incident ally. In their reluctance to open ing up their territory for in spection, Soviet leaders are not only trying to conceal their war potential. Allied inspection planes, with their remarkably penetrating photographic equipment, woujd be able to spot weaknesses as well as strengths in Russia's in dustrial facilities. Allied optimism has been growing since the U.N. Disarma ment Subcommittee, on which the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France and Russia are represented, started its current meeting March 18. Optimism Warnings Authoritative informants at the London meeting are now warning against too much opti mism. Such warnings are justi fied in view of Russia's record of evasion on the inspection issue. But the Russian attitude does seem to be softening. One reason, as has been point ed " out, undoubtedly is .the growing alarm of the Soviet government over the threat pre sented to it by Allied bases in Europe, North Africa and Asiatic Turkey bases from which nuclear missiles as well as nuclear bomb-carrying planes could attack. The Soviet alarm can hardly have been lessened by the firm way in which its threats to Al lied countries of dire retalia tion have been rejected. MONEY At Crater Finance you may borrow fdr any worthwhile purpose on your FURNITURE AUTO SALARY and repay in monthly Install ments. 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