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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNE "Everyone ta Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" CWiiisn Daily Except Saturday by MZDFORD PRINTING CO 17-29 North fir St Phone 2-S141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor SERB GREY Advertiainf Manager CERAJ-D LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS City Editor BARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor EICHARD JEWETT SDort Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newapaper Watered aa second clan matter at ediord Oregon under Act ot March 8. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES V Mail In Advance- Per Copy 10c. Pally and Sunday One year S1500 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4-25 Sunday Only One year (420 Ifer Carrier In Advance Medford. A land Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold HiU. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent one on motor routes Pally and Sunday One year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1 -50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance mtclal Paner of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION feavertising Representative: VEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY DC Offices in New York Chicago, de froit. San Francisco Los Angelea Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vnnrnnver B C ONAI. EOITOIIAi assocFa'iSn NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 14. 1947 (Wednesday) Prospective serious shortage of water will be discussed by land owners of the Medford and the Rogue Valley Irrigation districts at a meeting tonight. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The corn crop of the valley has been plant ed. It is ahead of last year, and should be "shocked," before the frost gets on the pumpkins. 20 YEARS AGO May 14. 1937 (Friday) Jackson County Chamber of Commerce is invited to luncheon in Grants Pass to honor Gov. Charles H. Martin. A warning to use only water from known pure sources is voic ed today by Dr. C. I. Drummond, county health physician. 30 YEARS AGO May 14, 1927 (Saturday) About ,$17,000 worth of re modeling starts on Rialto theat er by the George A. Hunt com pany. Art Starbuck, Pacific Air Transport pilot, makes a trip to Medford from San Francisco in three hours and five minutes for a new record. k 40 YEARS AGO !V May 14. 1917 (Monday) ' ;V' Arrangements are completed for a "Do Our Bit" parade to be held in Medford this Wednes day. From Local and Personal col umn: Emil Britt of Jacksonville is a visitor in Medford today. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Sept. 5, 1795: "The Boston Prices-Current and Marine In telligencer, Commercial and Mercantile." Was this the name of the first newspaper in the U. S., exclusively for commer cial topics, or a bulletin board? 2. Some years ago, who was the "It" girl of motion picture fame? 3. Bible: In what Book is "Vanity of vanityes sayeth the Preacher, vanity of vanityes; all is vanity."? 4. The War of 1812 ended by what treaty? 5. Who wrote the words to the song, "Home Sweet Home"? 6. Heroin is the name of a bird, narcotic or quadruped? 7. Have female deer antlers? 8. The first signature on the Declaration of Independence is Thomas Jefferson, John Han cock, or John Adams? 9. "Advantage" is a condition favorable to success. Is it proper to use "benefit" interchangeably with it? 10. "I honestly believe it iz better to know nothing than tew know what ain't so." Josh Bil lings. Is the dialect, Southern, Yankee, or Western? Answers: 1. Newspaper. 2. Clara Bow. 3. Ecclesiastes (or the Preacher). 4. Treaty of Ghent (Dec. 24. 1814). 5. John Howard Payne. 6. Narcotic. 7. No. 8. John Hancock. 9. No. 10. Yankee. Pendleton Justice Svbmits Resignation Pendleton (W Justice of the Peace Ann Crago Monday sub mitted her resignation to Gov. Kobert Holmes effective June 30. She has accepted a position as executive secretary of the Uma tilla county Red Cross chapter and also will serve as Pendleton Municipal judge, effective July 1. HAT I MAIL TRIBUNE The Miracle at Jamestown Three hundred and fifty years ago yesterday on May 13, 1607 Captain Christopher Newport and slightly more than 100 settlers landed at Jamestown, Va., to found the first permanent English settlement in America. As many as three million visitors are expected to attend the eight-month festival through the end of November marking the anniversary. The miracle is not that the Jamestown colony was the first lasting Anglo-Saxon settlement in the New World, or that it contributed so many "firsts" to our national history. The mystery is that the colony survived at all. Few adventures ever weathered such vicissitudes. The original party included only a handful of likely colonists a few mechanics and 12 laborers, and only four carpenters. About one-half the company of 120 or so were set down as "gentlemen." TN CAPTAIN Newport's three ships the "Susan 1 Constant," "Godspeed," and "Discovery" they were at sea more than four months. On May 13 they cast anchor at a marshy island 32 miles up the James River. Not far away, the Spaniard de Allyon's colony had eked out a brief existence during 1526. The English colonists built a small fort, surrounded by rude huts, covered with sedge and earth, on an enclosure of slightly more than an acre. On higher ground they sowed some wheat. Indians attacked almost immediately. They were beaten off, with a loss to. the colonists of one killed and 11 wounded. Newport departed for England with his ships and a small cargo of clapboard and timber leaving 104 persons in the settlement. Aji Indian siege fol lowed, and the inhabitants were reduced almost to starvation. Then malaria and dysentery set in. MEWPORT returned on Jan. 2, 1608 to find only some 40 of the settlers alive. Capt. John Smith, who was to be largely responsible for holding the company together, was about to be hanged for losing two of his men on an expedition. Dissension was rank. Newport restored a measure of harmony, but five days after he had landed, fire destroyed the settle ment. That winter the buildings were only partially replaced, and some persons died from exposure. In the winter of 1609-10 "the starving time" famine almost depopulated the colony. Defeated, the small group remaining were about to start for England when they met Lord Delaware with a relief expedition. THE colonists gradually learned to adjust to their new surroundings, but at a frightful cost. Some 5,650 colonists were sent over in the first 18 years of the colony; only 1,095 were there at the end of the period. Some had fled back to England, disillusioned; most had perished. About 1614, John Rolf e, best known for marrying Pocahontas, showed the colonists that tobacco could be made a profitable crop. From then on the "deceav able weed" was the making of the settlement. Indian attacks were repeated, notably in 1622 and 1644; fires swept the town in 1676 and 1698. The seat of government was moved to Williams burg, in 1699, and Jamestown gradually was deserted. Even so, it had seen established, in 1619, the first legislative assembly in America. And at Jamestown the English had set up their first successful colony and proved that they could colonize the New World. E.R.R. . Exemption Hike for Lower Incomes? , Much of the talk about lower federal taxes centers abound raising the personal exemption in the income tax say from the present $600 to $700 per indi vidual. The move would be especially popular among the many small taxpayers who would thereby be re lieved from paying any federal income tax whatso ever. (Several years ago it was estimated that a $100 higher exemption would take four million or so in come tax payers off the rolls.) However, the point would undoubtedly be made that on an absolute basis a hike of $100 in the per sonal exemption would save more dollars for the big taxpayer than for the small one. That would be be cause the tax rate on the last $100 of taxable income is of course higher as the income gets higher. POR instance, the rate is 20 per cent on the first $2,000 of income per individual, rises to 43 per cent on the amount of income between $12,000 and j $14,000, becomes 65 per cent on the income. between $32,000 and $38,000. So the saving would be $20 or less per person covered in the smallest returns, $65 or more in the largest ones. It might be politically more popular to allow an exemption rise only on the smaller incomes, not on the larger. The histoiy of personal income taxation in the United States affords precedents for any such arrange ment. IN THE first 20 years of the tax, from 1913 to 1933, the personal exemption applied only to the normal tax, could not be claimed in computing the surtaxes. (Today the distinction between the normal and surtax has been eliminated.) And when the revenue act of 1921, applicable to the calendar years 1921, 1922, and 1923, raised the normal tax exemption for a married man to $2,500 from $2,000, the $500 increase was restricted to those with incomes below $5,000, denied to those whose in comes were over $5,000. E.R.R, Tuesday, May 14. 19S7 'Weil? toieuvs eom play rhow tkeleaow.orardjV yA? Matter of Fact by stewed aioP PRESIDENTS AND BUDGETS Washington President Eisen hower's belated last stand against the fierce attack on his budget sug gests a some- M what s u rpris- l n g question. Did Congress trust Harry S. T r u man and Dean G. Ache son more than it trusts Dwight Eisen- stewait Aisop hower and John Foster Dulles in the field of foreign policy? Consider the contrast. Despite the President's intention of "go ing to the people," most observ ers agree that the chances are still high that the Congress will cut the liver and lights out of the Eisenhower - Dulles foreign pragram, carving great hunks out of the foreign aid program, the foreign information program, and the State Department budg et. It will be considered a miracle if the President holds the for eign aid program, originally budgeted at $4.4 billion, at much over $3 billion. Now look at the Truman-Acheson record' on for eign aid. TN 1948-49 the Truman adminis- tration asked for $6.8 billion in foreign aid and got $6.4 bil lion; in 1950 for $5.5 billion and got $5.2 billion; in 1951 for $7.8 billion and got $7.4 billion; in 1952 for $7.5 billion and got $7.3. In short, the Truman-Acheson programs were cut by the small, manageable per centage points around 5 per cent a budget-maker always allows for, while the Eisenhower-Dulles pro gram was cut by almost a quarter last year, and may be cut by a third this year. - The Eisenhower-Dulles for eign aid program is lower than the Truman-Acheson programs by from one to three billion dol lars. Truman, moreover, was far from a universally popular Pres ident in the period of "Korea, Communism, and corruption." As for Acheson he was the main" political target fit the Repub licans, and he found precious few defenders among the Dem ocrats. Dwight D. Eisenhower was re elected only six months ago by the second largest majority in history, and he is still phenomen ally popular. His Secretary of State is not universally well liked, but he has never become a central political target, and he has had an infinitely more kind ly press than his predecessor. Yet Truman and Acheson al ways, without exception, got es sentially what they wanted out of Congress, in matter affecting foreign policy, while Eisenhower and Dulles will be lucky to save the bare bones of their foreign, program. Why the contrast? AS USUAL, there are all sorts of reasons. There is the new budget-consciousness among the voters, which has awed the whoje Congress. There Is the growing economic isolationism of the South, one of the most im portant political phenomena of the Eisenhower years. There is the fact that foreign aid has been with us for a long time now, and the save-the-world fervor of the early Marshall Plan era Is all gone now. But it is also true tHat the President and his Secretary of State have been hoisted on their own petards. Petard number one was the "peace" propaganda of the 1956 campaign. It was un doubtedly effective politics. But it also persuaded a lot of voters that the time had come to sink back happily into what Time magazine has called "the new normalcy," and stop worrying about all those bothersome for eigners. Petard number two is the way the . foreign aid program was managed in the first Eisenhower administration. In early Eisen hower years the program was cut way down to close to the $3 billion' mark, in the name of "economy." But these "savings" were largely phoney it was a process of living off fat in the ft' 7 J3T form of accumulated previous appropriations. Where the fat is almost all gone, the Administra tion was forced to ask for a sud den sharp increase in foreign aid, which was both irritating and inexplicable to Congress and the country. "DUT there is another reason too. President' Truman's partisan belligerency often did harm. But it had its uses. He defended his budget, for ex ample, with the instinctive fero city of a mother bear defending her cub. But when Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey said that "there are a lot of places in this budget that can be cut," President Eisenhower at first blandly agreed with him. At that precise moment (though he did not know it at the time) the President pulled the trap door on his foreign aid program, and other important items in his program as well. He is now trying to replace the trap door. But it will be uphill work. The betting still is that Congress will do to the popular Eisenhower what it never dared do to the unpopular Truman hack away at his whole foreign policy program with a meat-axe all along the line. (c) 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Editorial Comment - IT'S A LITTLE DIFFICULT She was avery nice-appearing girl, and she wanted to know why the newspapers didn't print stories about the people from other planets who have landed on the earth in space-ships. We asked if she'd ever seen one. "No, but I heard a man lecture who had. And I read a book on it." Well, we asked, did the man really say h'e had seen them? "Not actually but he knew people who did. He says there are 10,000 creatures from other planets right here with us." Some of our reporters would give anything to uncover a story like that, we ventured. "Some ' reporters somewhere must have seen them. But i;U bet you wouldn't believe them even if they wrote about it," she opined. - ' . We'd surely have to know a little about the reporter, we ad mitted. He'd have to be awake, sober and immune to a bonus, book-writing or lecture-touring. "Of course, I guess it's all sup posed to be hush-hush, anyway," she told us. ' We guesseM she must be right. It's difficult to argue with a lady. Oregon Statesman. Salem. Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 : MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. 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 reservea the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Porter Needs Support To the Editor: Congressman Porter thinks it advisable to in troduce a Rogue River Flood Control Bill now to gain time. It would call for a construction program along the lines of the Bureau of Reclamation's Plan A submitted in March 1948. The Congressman is being opposed by some who think the current survey may come up with a revised plan that would elimin ate the high dam at Lewis Creek. The Rogue River system, its area, its topography, its rain fall, its tributaries, etc. haven't changed much in ten years. Given the same set of conditions and the same problems it is in escapable that the new survey will arrive at about the same conclusions as the old. If the new survey doesn't coroborate the old then the fat will really be in the fire. Which one are we going to accept? Those who repudiated Plan A with its high dam at Lewis Creek, but are now reportedly ready to accept the recommen dations of the present survey before they know what they are, are buying a pig in a poke. When the bag is opened it can hardly be other .than the Lewis Creek Dam. Flood control will be expen sive because it involves reser voirs on either the Rogue or its tributaries or both. As taxpayers the method of financing the pro posed program concerns us. Flood control can be linked with revenue producing hydro-electric power that will reimburse the government for most of the cost. The taxpayers needn't be and shouldn't be saddled with any such costly thing as flood con trol divorced from power and irrigation. Rogue River water is the greatest asset this region has. It needs developing. The public's interest requires that there be integrated development of it's several interests. The Old Plan A assigned 51 per cent of the cost of the Lewis Creek Dam to power, 38 per cent to irriga tion and only 11 per cent to flood control. There is no disposition to discount fish and flood con trol, but in point of people and values concerned they represent only minor", interests with no right to control the river. The fu ture of this vaUey is tied up much more with its power, and irrigation possibilities. Michael Strauss, a former Chief of the Bureau of Reclama tion, says that Rogue River has the best ratio of benefits to cost of any river he has checked on. Congressman Porter is a key man in any possible develop ment of the river. He is in a posi tion to get the best advice on parliamentary tactics and engi neering opinion. He represents au the interests of Rogue River water. He is showing that he has a better overaU understanding of the problem th a n those who think only in terms of fish and flood control. He should get bet ter support for his efforts than he got when he was last here. W. E. Davies Route 1, Box 82 Eagle Point, Ore. Tax Collector Finds Reason Mail Ignored Paris Wt A tax collector dis covered Monday why plumber Raymond Guichard, 69, had fail ed to answer his back tax notices for more than three years. The collector entered Gui chard's apartment and found the plumber had hanged ' himself from his dining room chandelier years ago. All that was left was his skeleton, still dangling from the chandelier. DURLING ON VACATION E. V. Durling is on vacation. His "On the Side" column will be resumed on May 27. Buying Insurance by mail order from the parent company rather thin consulting your local agent er broker I just like buying your honey from the bee rather than the grocer. You might get '. it choaper but there's also a chance you might get STUNG. Bill Fish 'Excesses' in Politics Discussed by Senator Richard L By SEN. RICHARD NEUBERGER Washington, D.C. This was the statement that I issued on May 3: "A tragic event such as this wipes out all political dif ferences. Mrs. Neuberger and I express to Mrs. McCarthy our heartfelt sympathy over the un timely passing of her husband. The death of Senator McCarthy takes from the Senate a con troversial figure who stirred strong opposition and keen loy alties. His passing at so early an age is a shock to all of us." A short time after this, we: heard some of our liberal friends exulting that McCarthy was dead. Maurine and I were dis turbed. ,She said this reminded her of the time she listened to a leading Portland businessman express gratification over the stroke which had claimed the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt What Has Happened? What has happened to us in America? Politics has taken on a kind of savagery. Have we lost the capacity for separating the man himself from his politi cal views? To me, a "person mortally ill is not a political foe but another human being who can suffer pain and agony, who must en- 350th Anniversary Of Jamestown Landing Observed Jamestown, Va. Iff! The roll of 17th Century drums and the roar of 20th Century jets com bined Monday to mark the 350th anniversary of the landing at Jamestown. The English settlers who land ed May 13, 1607, formed the first permanent settlement in the new world. Some of the nation's top digni taries were on hand, .including Vice President Nixon, Assistant Secretary of State Walter Rob ertson, Assistant Secretary for Air Dudley Sharp, TAC (Tacti cal Air -Command) Commander uen. O. P. Weyland, Virginia Gov. Thomas B. Stanley and U.S. Sen. Harry P. Byrd (D-Va.). Actors Draw Interest But despite the great show of brass, the nearly 3,500 spec tators who thronged the mall of the ultra-modern, multi-million dollar festival park expressed their greatest interest in actors dressed in ancient costumes and the latest in Air Force jets. The Air Force stole the show. A public address system was rigged up so the spectators could hear first-hand the conversation between Col. Carlos Talbott, leader of a jet flight, and a ground communications crew here. The three jets, which less than eight hours before had taken off at London airport 4,500 miles away, swept overhead at nearly tree-top level. Weyland said that three other F100 Supersabres continued on to Los Angeles, where they set a new record for non-stop jet fighter flight by staying in the air for 6,710 miles. They were refueled in the air en route. BOURBON DRINKERS When are you going to taste clearly finer chenlei Bourbon drinkers just naturally take to Schenley...with pleasure. It's so smooth and soft. ..clearly finer in the . bottle... clearly finer to your taste. Enjoy Schenley tonight. StHEKlET DISTIlLEtS CO., R.Y.C IIENDE0 WHISKEY, U HOOF, U CUM NEUTIAl SPIIITV Neuberger dure the sheer terror of ap proaching death, who faces im minently the ultimate judgment which confronts us all. What does politics have to do with such an experience as this? I have tried to analyze why politics has become so bitter that partisans can actually derive satisfaction from the death of a political rivaL Residents of Ore gon will remember the episode of the 1954 Senatorial campaign, when a prominent speaker in behalf of my opponent urged Republicans to get away from the issues and attack Neuberger personally. And what of the 1956 insinuations against Sen ator Morse's' patriotism because he was not a war veteran? Lists Three Factors What lies behind these ex cesses? I would list three pos sible factors: 1. Current political campaigns, built around reaching a mass audience through television and radio, are concentrating more and more on putting across "per sonalities" rather than real and complex issues of government, which take longer to explain. Borrowing the selling techniques of the advertising industry, such campaigns depend on creating "good" impressions of one can didate and "bad" impressions about the other, even to the ex tent of personal smears which have nothing to do with any policy questions at stake. 2. The vast expense of such modern political campaigns re quires campaign funds which have left Democrats increasingly dependent on funds raised by labor organizations, to offset the reliance of the Republican Party on the much larger benefactions from big-business- sources. This tends to create more inflexible and bitter schisms between the two parties. 7 Cites Investigations " 3. Last but not least, there is the new tendency for the invest igative function to subordinate tho legislative nroeess in our government and for this Sen ator McCarthy himself must, of course, share much responsibil-" ity. In too many instances, the purpose and nature of legisla tive investigations seem to. be to "expose" people, to shred their reputations, to bring them to the brink of prosecution if not for prior misdeeds, then . for contempt or perjury during the investigation itself and to end their public careers, or those of the man associated with them. The investigative function is essential in its proper place. But when the side show becomes the- "main tent, and Congress men cease to be legislators and assume the roles of policemen or "private eyes," the result has a corroding impact upon the atmosphere of both government and politics in the United States. It is my hope that someday, when the tensions of the recent years which marked Senator Mc Carthy's political rise and fall are . behind - us, we may have political disagreements and cam paigns in this country as they often are in Canada, in Great Britain and other democracies based on genuine debate of the issues of government,- but free of personal rancor, character as sassination and enduring bitter ness. CO' '