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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Mar 2. 1947 (Friday)
Vouths under 16 years of age
cannot legally operate motor
scooters, according to Traffic
Officer Dick Baize.
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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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