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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Zvcrvon in SoutDern Oregon aai ine Mail inoune Pubiunea Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLZN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor Ol JVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail la Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday On year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year M.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shadv Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year SIS 00 "iuj ana sunaiT une month 1.30 Carrier and Dealers 10c per cony All Terms Cash In Advance "'i'fj' pPf of the City of Medfar wmciai faper of Jackson County ..United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de troit San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vsncouver B C NATIONAL EOlTOIIAs bcfA'lSN t7 f M1S.MIMIIB aVCV Nf WSPAPI I PUtLISHIIS 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 21, 1947 (Wednesday) A decision to keep open the area dedicated for 12th street is made by the city council after hearing proposal to vacate north 40 feet of street from Front st. to the railway. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Nion Tuck er's hand, T. Carleton of Flounce Rock towned Tues. 20 YEARS AGO May 21, 1937 (Friday) Installation of lights starts at Medford High school football field will be completed within two weeks. Edith Whillock named vale dictorian of 1937 class at Med ford High school. .30 YEARS AGO May 21. 1927 (Saturday) Charles Lindbergh, dubbed the "Flying Fool," lands at Le Bourget field, in Paris, making first nonstop Atlantic crossing by air. Eight carrier pigeons releas ed from lofts of local Sperry Flour company will be used for communication purposes among company branch officers. 40 YEARS AGO May 21, 1917 (Monday) Annual valley school athletic meet and Valley Pride Cream ery picnic scheduled at Apple gate next week. The Choral club will present a concert Friday at the Presby terian church. What's Your I.Q.? Ntne or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. New Orleans: In 1836 when water was first piped into houses, was the reservoir filled from water pumped from the Mississippi or Lake Ponchar train? 2. Was the Greek Aesop a fictional or a real person? 3. Bible: Did St. Paul ' ever visit the province of Bythnia? . 4. Persons born between Jan uary 20 and February 19 are born under which zodiacal sign? 5. Does hair grow faster in winter or in summer?, 6. "Pippin" is a name applied to several varieties of which fruit? 7. Was Hermann Goerkig hanged with other chief Nazi war criminals after the Nurn berg trial? 8. Was "Jimmie" Walker may or of Boston, New York City, or Jersey City? 9. Are both expressions "taken in" and "took in" held to be colloquial in any grammatical sense? 10. "An onion can make peo ple cry. but there has never been a vegetable to make them" do what? Answers: 1. The Mississippi. 2.Real. (He lived about B.C. 560). 3. No. 4. Aquarius. 5. Sum mer. 6. Apples. 7. No. He com mitted suicide. 8. New York City. 9. Yes. When used in place of deceived, misled, or attended. 10. "laugh." DURLING ON VACATION E. V. Durling is on vacation. His "On the Side" column will be resumed on May 27. MAIL TRIBUNE Postal Service Problems It looks as if lack of money not snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night is going to be delaying those couriers from the swift completion of their ap pointed rounds in the very near future. Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield warns that unless Congress changes its collective mind 'be fore July 1, he's going to have to curtail postal service drastically then, on a contingency not foreseen by Herodotus the Post Office Department is strapped. Congress in its first regular 1958 appropriations bill, slated to go to the President for approval in a few days, carved $58 million from the Post Office Depart ment's budget for the 1958 fiscal year. Summerfield on May 8 had warned that unless that cut were re stored, he would have to reduce mail service at the beginning of the new fiscal year. In fact, said Sum merfield, he would be sending Congress within the next week or ten days a request for $70 million to $90 million more than whatever the eventual cut amounted to. Boom times are pushing up mail volume and hence his costs, Summerfield avers. Already mailings are up 4 per cent, instead of the 1.5 per cent anticipated in the 1958 budget. TTHE most recent lasting reduction in postal service came in April, 1950. In the face of sharply reduced appropriations, Postmaster General Jesse M. Donald son restricted home mail deliveries to one a day, re duced hours of service at post offices, and otherwise cut back postal service. A Gallup poll in May, 1950, indicated that the public was about evenly divided on the cut in home deliveries. The tally was: in favor, 46 per cent; against, 47 pe" cent: no opinion. 7 Der cent. However. persons whose own deliveries had been reduced were against, two to one, and they were vocal. A bill to re scind the order received House approval, 264 to 108, but the Senate took no action. More recentlv. Postmaster General Summerfield halted Saturday deliveries, closed post offices on that day to the public. Two days later, deliveries in business districts were cut back to two a day and post office windows were opened for fewer business hours. Summerfield had warned a House Appropriations subcommittee, April 3, that the cut was coming unless he was assured that the Post Office was get a $47 million deficiency appropriation for the rest of fiscal 1957. Congress approved a $41 million bill on April 16, and Summerfield on the same day ordered a restora tion of "normal" service except for the reduction in business deliveries and post office hours. President Eisenhower said, April 17, that he had approved the cut-backs in advance. CUMMERFIELD, it was disclosed on April 14, had delayed in asking for additional funds because Director of the Budget Percival F. Brundage had held up permission for the request until mid-March. Sen. Richard N. Neuberger (D.-Ore.) charged that Brun dage had admitted that he did not know postal reve nues were paid directly into the Treasury and not into operating funds of the Post Office department. U.S. Controller General . Joseph C. Campbell had said, April 13, that the Budget Bureau violated the law by allowing the post office to spend its funds too rapidly. So Summerfield, once burned, is about to ask for his deficiency funds in advance. Ironically, for 17 straight years prior to 1953, Congress had automatic ally granted all request for supplemental funds. Sum merfield had turned surpluses back to the Treasury in 1953-1955. E.R.R. That "Billy" Mitchell Court Martial Pending before the Air Force Board for Correc tion of Military Records is an application of the son and namesake of the late Col. William L. Mitchell. The son wants the record of his father's court-martial in 1925 declared null and void. After Worid War I Brig. Gen. "Billy" Mitchell, assistant chief of the Army Air Service, vociferated up hill and down dale that planes could sink any bat tleship "in existence or that can be built." He demand ed that a separate air force be created. For his pains he was demoted to a colonelcy and banished to a re mote post. . He did manage to get in 1921 a test of planes vs. warships, in which his airmen sank off Hampton Roads, Va., a former German cruiser and dread naught. Nevertheless a joint Army-Navy board found that "the battleship is still the backbone of the fleet." TN 1925 THE wreck of the Navy dirigible "Shenan A doah" evoked a new intemperate outburst from Mitchell, and he was court-martialed for insubordina tion. Found guilty of conduct "to the prejudice of good order and military discipline," he was suspended from command, pay and allowances for five years. President Coolidge upheld the verdict because of Mitchell's "defiance toward his military superiors," but restored the allowance and half the pay. Mitchell resigned from the Army in 1926, died ten years later. In support of expunging the record of his court-martial could be cited the fact that in 1946 Con gress voted to award him a posthumous medal "in recognition of his foresight in the field of American military aviation." E.R.R. Tuesday, May 21. 1937 effective last April 13, and l'.jltE! rloWsjHHTroR A 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. On Spiritual Reawakening To the Editor: You probably are already aware of our series of meetings in the M a d i son Square Garden in New York City. This will probably be the largest evangelistic effort in the history of the Christian church. The meetings will last for at least six weeks, though we have an option on the Garden for four months if necessary. Over 1,600 churches have united and are participating in this spiritual crusade. I am sure that you agree with me that America needs a spiri tual and moral awakening. Our divorce rate continues to climb. Crime statistics are alarming. Our mental institutions are jammed. With all our economic prosperity, most Americans feel that there is something yet lack ing. New York is the center of art. entertainment, c o mmunication, and in many ways sets the stage for the rest of America. The city influences the American people and the American way of life more than any of our great American cities, yet the religious renaissance that has been felt in other parts of the country has left New York virtually untouch ed. Many of New York's prob lems are getting out - of hand. Catholic, Protestant and Jewish leaders have spoken out in, fa vor of this coming spiritual cru sade. New York's most distin guished civic leaders are work ing together in an effort to reach the city's millions with a spirit ual message. As Mr. Ogden Reid, publisher of the New York Her ald Tribune; said to a group re cently: "This crusade offers an opportunity to the masses of this city." It is our hope that the spiritual and moral awakening will not be confined to the New York area but will spread throughout the nation. Exactly 100 years ago this month an awakening began on Fulton Street in New York City. It spread to the en tire nation until hundreds of thousands had united with the churches in the space of a few months, and America had one of its greatest religious revivals. It is our prayer that history will repeat iteslf. I believe the New York Cru sade can become a stage upon which we may see a great religious awakening in this country that could alter the course of our history. I do not think I havener been so heavi ly burdened for our country as I am at this time. Its place of leadership in the world demands that we have the moral and spiritual courage that it will take in the years ahead. A spiritual awakening' throughout the na tion could make a great con tribution. Billy Graham New York City Missed Reunion To the Editor; I was very happy to receive a flipping of the paper regarding the reunion of the class of 1937 Medford High school. I regret that I was not in formed of the reunion as I would like to have had an opportunity to compete for the prize for travelling from the farthest dis tance. Also I could have tied for having the most children (5). Of course, with all of my mov ing around with the Air Force, it isn't surprising that I wasn't contacted. I am hoping that our class Poland Ousts Stalinist Chiefs Warsaw IP) Poland's Com munist leadership ousted three "Stalinist" former chiefs of the Security Police in a party shake up designed to strengthen Wla Hvsiaw Gomulka's independent Communist policy, it was learn ed today. The ousted police were for mer Politburo member Jakob Berman, former Minister of Pub lic Security Stanislaw Radkie wicz and former Deputy Minis . aieCT.-siettiu.awiaeya.me. FISHIH'POLEV will have another reunion in 5 or 10 years rather than waiting another 20. I will be planning to be at the next one. Dean Ford, (Class of '37, MHS) Major, TJSAF, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. Roadside Cleanliness To the Editor: We have, in Oregon, a law which should be put to use to control the dump ing of refuse on the public roads and highways. Following are ex cerpts from this law: "Dumping rubbish on private land or public way. Any person who throws, dumps, places, de posits or drains, or causes or permits to be drained upon the land of another, without per mission of the owner, or upon any public road, highway, street, alley or any easement used by the public for public travel, re ferred to later in this section as a public way, any cans, glass, nails, tacks, broken dishes or crockery, carcass of any dead animal, old clothing, old auto mobile tires, automobile parts, boards, metal, or any sort of rub bish, trash, debris, or refuse, or any sewage or the drainage from any cesspool or septic tank, or any substance which would mar the appearance, create a stench or detract from the cleanliness or safety of such public way, or would be likely to injure any animal, vehicle or person travel ing upon such public way, shall be punished upon conviction by a fine not to exceed $100 or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed 30 days. "Throwing debris or discharg ing firearms on highway. Any person who throws, deposits or leaves any glass bottles, glass, nails, tacks, hoops, wire, cans ar any other substance likely to injure any person, animal or ve hicle upon any road, street or highway in this , state, or who discharges any air rifle, rifle, gun, revolver or other firearm upon or across any highway in this state, shall be punished the same as provided in subsection (1) of ORS 483.990. This section does not prevent the discharge of firearms by peace officers in the performance of their duty. "(a) Upon conviction, by a fine of not more than $100 ar by im prisonment in the county or mu nicipal jail for not more than 10 days. "(b) Upon a second such con viction within one year after the first conviction, by a fine of not more than $100 or by im prisonment in the county or mu nicipal jail for not more than 20 days, or both. "(c) Upon a third or subse quent conviction within one year after the first conviction, by a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment in the county or municipal jail for not more than six months, or both." We, as a garden group dedi cated to the beautification of our State, are willing, individu ally or as a group, to help prose cute any and all offenders of roadside misuse. Our Highway Department has placed trash barrels at intervals along our highways. Use these for your litter not the road side! Remember this If we would have a beautiful state for others as well as for ourselves "Keep Oregon Green and Clean" Mrs. Clarence Mathes Siskiyou District Chairman 2404 Siskiyou blvd. Ashland, Oregon ter of Public Security Niecyslaw Mieckowski. They were ousted by unanimous vote of the xninth plenum convention of the Polish United Workers Communist Party which met here last week. The resolution said the three were dropped because of their part in the "distortions" of the former Interior Ministry. The ministry was organized immedi ately after Gomulka returned to power last October. -.. Gomulka Successful in Downing Opposition Wings Within Party By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Polish Communist leader Wla dyslaw Gomulka has won an im portant victory in his fight to maintain a n i n d ependent policy. ' Stalinist " Reds who had hoped to force Pol and's re turn to the sa tellite status 11 occupied De- Charles M McCann fore the revolt of last October have suffered a corresponding defeat. Gomulka won his victory at a four-day meeting of the central committee of the Polish Commu nist Party, or the United Work ers Party as it is called official ly. The "Stalinists" entered the meeting prepared to make a strong bid to increase their strength in the central commit tee and thus head Poland back toward complete subservience to Soviet Russia. The "Stalinists" failed.. In stead, two strong supporters of In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A question this morning: Reading the newspapers and listening to the radio, do you sometimes find yourself toying with the cynical idea that hu man beings are a pretty rotten lot? IF SO, here's a suggestion: Take a few minutes off and think back over the story of little Benny Hooper who fell into an open well in the back yard of his New York home. As an aid to your thinking, I'd like to offer this heart-throb story of the climax of Benney's rescue as told by the UP teletype: ONE of the. men who helped rescue little Benny is 29- year-old contractor Sam Wood son, who worked through the night with 38-year-old John Ar ambo, another contractor. The two men were among more than 100 persons who were involved in the night-and-day-long batUe to save a child's life. Woodson was the first to reach the trapped boy, and was start ing to brush sand from Benny's face when he heard a whimper. Woodsons says: "Just then, we started to have a cavern. I grabbed him a little bit hard and heard him cry. I held on. , . and he looked at me and started to groan. I didn't have a chance to talk to ,. him. I TALKED TO GOD." Woodson says he thought of his own child his little girl as he fought to get Benny out of the shaft, and it kept him going beyond the point of exhaustion. MR. WOODSON and Mr. Ar ambo just happened, to be at the psychological spot at the psychological moment when the rescuers broke through from the excavation that had been made beside the well in which little Benny was trapped so that he could be reached without push ing more dirt down on him and suffocating him. So the news spotlight fell on them. But I'm" SURE every per son of the hundreds who were helping to save a trapped child worked just as hard as Woodson and Arambo and felt the same rush of reverent gratitude when it was learned that Benny was still alive. In, the PINCHES, human be ings are pretty wonderful. TURNING to routine affairs: Housing starts in which. the lumber industry is acutely interested were 11 per cent higher in April than in March,-, but some 17 per cent under a year ago. All building outlays including commercial and in dustrial buildings amount to 2Vz billion dollars in the first four months of 1957, which is a NEW HIGH. The report on building adds: The gain was accounted for chiefly BY RISING PRICES. .That's what inflation does to us. ON THE home front: The Klamath and Jackson county courts rate a congratul-! atory pat on the back for bring-! ing to a successful conclusion j the long negotiations with the ; state highway commission for a new and immensely better high way connection between the Klamath Basin and High , .'ay 97 and the Rogue River valley and Highway 99. The narrow, winding, twist ing, scary Green Springs high- ; way has long been a barrier be-; tween these rapidly growing j areas of Southern Oregon that have so much in common. The new McAllister Springs route ( will be of great benefit to both regions. MODERN DAY. RUSTLERS South Bend, Ind. - OP) Two young men were being held in St Joseph county jail today on charges of cattle rustling. The men, Robert P.edman, 22, and Gene Sanderson, 28, confessed rustling three calves from the herd of the county home, load ing them in the back of their au tomobile and driving away. ill Gomulka were elected to the committee. One "Stalinists" leader was ousted. Three Party Factions There are three factions in the Polish Communist Party. They are the "Stalinists," called the right wing; the "revision ists," called the left wing, and Gomulka's supporters, called "centrists." The revisionists want Gomul ka to go even farther in his de-' fiance to Russia. In Poland's pre sent situation,, complicated as it is by serious economic trou bles, they are as big a menace to Gomulka as are the "Stalinists." At the first day's session of the central committee, it look ed as if the Stalinists were go ing to come out on top. Gomulka sharply attacked the revisionists. He said that party unity was absolutely necessary, and that the revisionists were the chief danger to unity. He in vited any members who refused to follow the party line to turn in their membership cards or face the possibility of expulsion. ' He tempered this by saying that the party line is to liberal ize agricultural policy, maintain Matter of Fact by jOMPh aup BRINK, NASSER STYLE Beirut In the last week, the already badly seamed and faul ted "unity of the Arab states" has come peril ously close to a final, open break. The cause, as might be ex- p e c t e d, has been the flag rant, continu ing and quite ruthless inter- Joseph Aisop xerence of Egypt's President Nasser in the internal affairs of aU his neigh bors. The neighbor that was al most driven to an open break was this sane, sturdy little coun try, Lebanon. And the rupture of diplomatic relations between Lebanon and Egypt may yet oc cur, if Egyptian interference in Lebanese affairs continues un abated. Through the "Voice of the Arabs", radio station and the rigidly controlled Egyptian press Nasser began an extraordinary campaign of personal vilification against the Lebanese govern ment some month ago. Leban on's wise president, CamiHe 'Chamoun, was target number one for the Egyptian mudsling ers. But the popular Prime Min ister, Sami es-Solh and the cour ageous Foreign Minister, Charles Malik also earned in for their share. The first cause of this mud- slinging campaign .was Leban on's refusal to break relations with Western powers after the Suez crisis (even though Presi dent Chamoun was ready to send home the British and French ambassadors if the invasion of Egypt had not been called off). The second cause was Lebanon's acceptance . in principle of the Eisenhower Dictrine. rkUITE recently, the mudsling ers mg reached such extremes that President Chamoun and the Lebanese government were driv en to forbid importation -of the Egyptian newspapers. Simultan eously,, the Lebanese ambassador to Cairo was ostentatiously call ed home "for cbnsultation." At present, the problem of jamming the Cairo radio is also being studied. But these strong meas ures by no means tell the whole story. The heart of the story is in the continuous, political activity in Lebanon of the Egyptian am bassador, Abdel Hamid Ghaleb. As President Chamoun him self is known ti have remarked with great bitterness, the Egyp tian Embassy in Beirut is noth ing more nor less than the chief opposition parties that hope to I turn out the present Lebanese I government in the general elec-1 tion here next month. ' Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan t ' W-. Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. the present working agreement with the Roman Catholic Church and renounce any return to ter roristic secret police rule. Sialir.ists Make Bid The "Stalinists" took heart at Gomulka's speech. They attack ed his policies. They tried to force through a resolution say ing that Russia must be supreme in the Communist world and condemning the Hungarian ' re volt which Russian troops sup pressed. Gomulka responded by a di rect attack on the "Stalinists." He said that Poland, under hit leadership, would not go back to subservience to Russia. The result of the central com mittee meeting was to put Go mulka in probably the strongest position he has enjoyed since he returned to his post of first sec retary of the Communist Party last October. There are still right and left wings in the party. But they have both been weakened by Gomulka's firm stand, and any hope that Soviet Russian ruler may have that Poland will re vert to statellite status has been substantially diminished. The opposition coalition, head ed by the pro-Egyptian Abdullah Yaffi, also as might be expected included the local crypto-Com-munist, Antoine Tabet. It is, in short, the standard grouping that Egyptian influence and agents, helped out by Soviet money, are now supporting in every Arab country. T AST week, the reports of Am " bassador Ghaleb's activities were so shocking by any normal standard of international deal ing, that President Chamoun took the big decision in princi ple. Ghaleb must be declared persona non grata, he decided, even if this meant that Egypt would then break off diplomatic relations as Egypt would cer tainly have done. Subsequently, when Ghaleb had the incredible effrontery to protest to Foreign Minister Ma lik against the "anti-Egyptian" tone of some of the Lebanese, the possibility that the ambassa dor might be President Cha moun, Prime Minister Solh and Foreign Minister Malik have de ceded that their evidence of Ghaleb's activities, authough ab solutely authenic, is not suffic iently documented to justify an open break in the Arab "front." As Ghaleb is going further and further, a break is almost certainly to be expected after the election if all the local bet tors are correct in plugging heav ily on a Solh victory. The fore going facts are enough to sug gest how close Egypt's Nasser now is to a brink of his own considerable more decisive than any of the famous brinks of Secretary Dulles. QUITE recently, in addition to the campaign against Leban on, the "Voice of the Arabs" has begun a bitter personal attack on King Hussein of Jordan. Extremely will informed sour ces predict that in a short time, particularly if the Baghdad con ference seems to have been suc cessful, Nasser will also open attack upon his former close friend, and generous financial supporter, King Saud of Saudi Arabia. In sum, Nasser now looks like going over- the brink of open hostility," of frank, ruthless, un relenting cold war against any Arab government that is not ab solutely obedient to his wishes and commands. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. KIRBY CO. Sales & Service 1028 Murray, Med. Phone SP 2-8355 (Salesman Needed) Afloat-Ashore-Overland Our All Risks Outboard policy covering outboard boats and motors provides the broadest kind of insurance available. With the boating season now starting it might be wise to trap in and inquire about our ALL RISKS OUTBOARD POL ICY. Bill Fish jpJrBegpo?Bfc
