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J FOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) UNE "Everyone In Soutnern Oregon B dl The Mall Tribune" Published Call; Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 17-2S North Fir St Phone 2-141 BflRPRT U7 BTTTTI WAi- HERB GRZY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager KRIC A1XEN JR. Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE ST ARCHER 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 Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Sis months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year (420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday One year SIS 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All lerms uasn in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER Or 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 Vancouver B C NATIONAL EOlTOtlAt ASSOCIATION NtWSPAPIl PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION iqhf or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 23. 1947 (Friday) Darell F. Huson appointed city treasurer by Mayor C. A. Meeker. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Every thing that blooms is now bloom ing, including the 'blooming idiots.' 20 YEARS AGO May 23, 1937 (Sunday) Informal roundtable discus sion will be held at Jackson County Public Health associa tion meeting Tuesday. Diamond lake highway opens, acocrding to James Bromley, highway department resident engineer. 30 YEARS AGO May 23, 1927 (Monday) Northwest Fruit Shippers as sociation formed in Yakima, Wash., according to C. T. Baker, of Medford Chamber of Com merce. Malcolm (Buster) Brown, Cen t tral Point boy at Oregon Agri cultural college, selected for screen test by First National Pictures, Inc. 40 YEARS AGO May 23, 1917 (Wednesday) Government fish hatchery at Elk creek expects to turn out about one-half million steelhead this season, says V. A. Heffner, fore man. Jackson county grand jury ad journs for year, asking installa tion of a heat plant in the . county courthouse. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six is good. 1. In 1773 was the first steam engine constructed in America built in Philadelphia, Richmond, or Columbia? 2. Would you be a "bear" or a "bull" if you welcomed a rise in the stock market? 3. Bible: Name the 5th Book of the New Testament. 4. The book held in the left hand of the Statue of Liberty has what significance? 5. The puffing adder is a venomous reptile; true or false? 6. The human body has how many pairs of ribs? 7. The American Newspaper Guild is an affiliate of the CIO or the AFL? 8. The capital of Liberia was named for which U.S. President? 9. A "replica" is properly a duplicate made by the original artist. A "facsimile" is an "exact copy of a printed page or pic ture. Can either be properly termed a copy"? 10. "Why is there always a j9AMe 8 U3U..W gurSirts jaaoas cashes in? Why does a hearse horse snicker Hauling a lawyer way? Carl Sandburg, irt "The Lawyer Know" what? Answers: 1. Philadelphia. 2. Bull. 3. Acts of the Apostles. 4. It represents the law (the July 4, 1776 meaning Liberty based on law.) 5. False; it is entirely harmless. 6. Twelve pairs. 7. CIO. 8. For James Mon roe). 9. No. A copy is an imita tion. 10. "Too Much." ENGLAND FLOWN TO N.Y. London (W A little bit of England was flown 3.500 miles from London to New York Wed nesday night on a "sentimental journey." Water speed record holder Donald Campbell, son of Sir Malcolm, ordered the one pound of British earth sent to him at Cananoaigua, N.Y. where he is preparing for new speed boat trials. MAIL TRIBUNE For Now and the Future Conservation A conserving, preserving, guarding, or protecting; preservation. (Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.) The word conservation, defined above, has come to be a "fighting" word with some people in recent years. Why? 'As we see it, it is a natural reaction to some of the f righteningly wasteful practices of earlier years times when whole forests were burned down just to clear. the land; when other forests were clear-out with no thought of the needs of the future. "NE of the habits of mind which too many Ameri- can acquired in this bountiful land of ours was the feeling that God had so blessed us that our natural resources never could all be used up. Now, however, we know differently. We have seen many of the great forests of the lake states van ish; we have seen the water of rivers overappropriat ed to the vanishing point; we have heard warnings that our supplies of oil will, some day, run out. "Conservation," then, is the business of protecting and guarding our renewable resources, so that they may still serve our children and grandchildren, and conserving our non-renewable resources so they will last as long as possible, and at least until substitutes are found. DUT conservation, in its best sense, goes for beyond mere timber and oil and water. It also means the preservation of values found in these physical things. It means the fruitful and multiple use of those re sources. It means using them for their best use for the longest period of time. It means the greatest number of persons should be served in the widest and most beneficial manner. y By proclamation of the Governor, this is Oregon Conservation Week. In this newspaper, during the week, are being printed a series of articles written by experts on conservation of fish, game, forests, range land, soil and water, which, in Oregon, constitute our most valuable resources. ' DUT conservation is not something only for the."ex- perts." It is something for all the people, for all the people benefit from wise conservation. It means jobs, for one thing; jobs not only now but into the foreseeable future. It means an abundance of the good things of life, for the farmer, the fisherman, the hunter, the picnicker, the camper the stockman, the tourist. And it means these things in perpetuity. That's why conservation is important, and why it merits the thoughtful support and adhererice of us all. E.A. 40-Year Pin Jim Murray was both pleased and surprised last week when his fellow members of the Typographical union presented him with a pin for 40 years member ship in the organization. Actually, Jim came to the Mail Tribune shop 41 years ago, in 1916, and has ily since, except for service with the U. S. Navy dur ing both World War I and World War II. He has done just about everything there is to do in the newspaper's printing department, and has done it well. He is a craftsman, taking deep pride in a job well done, and despising sloppy, careless work. "IIHEN Murray first started work in the Mail Trib une print shop, there were two typecasting ma chines, an old flat-bed press, and about six or seven printers and pressmen. He has watched the newspaper grow over the years, from a circulation of a few thousand in Med ford to more than 16,000 in every corner of Jackson county and the surrounding area. He has helped in stall new machinery, including the nine typesetting machines now in place, and the dozen or so auxiliary machines which have made printing f aster j easier and more accurate. He now is superintendent of the printing department, which has more than trebled in size since he first arrived. . JIM has grown as the newspaper has grown. He was a rowdy, Irish, green kid in 1916. Now he's the man to see when something goes wrong in the back shop, and 99 times out of 100, he knows what to do about it, and can do it himself. He is the one who fixes a machine when it breaks do n; who figures how many men will be needed to put out an oversize paper; who helps coordinate production in the printing department with the varied needs and demands of the business office, the adver tising department, and the news-editorial department. His attitude has always been constructive and pro gressive. He knows his men and their particular abilities and skills. And they know him as an even-handed, steady and kindly foreman. The 40-year pin they gave hin was more than recognition for long service to the shop and to the union is was also in the nature of a personal tribute, a tribute in which all other em ployees of the newspaper join wholeheartedly. E.A. Atomic Test Delayed 8th Consecutive Day Las Vegas, Nev. (ffi The Atomic Energy Commission shortly before midnight Wednes day night postponed for the eighth consecutive day the open ing of its 1957 nuclear test series because of high winds. The postponement was an nounced less than six hours be fore the scheduled detonation of a medium-sized atomic device at the Nevada test side. The AEC said adverse weather conditions Thursday, May 23, 19S7 been employed here stead again made it necessary to call off the "first shot" in the series. The test was rescheduled for Friday morning. TV IN MOROCCO Rabat, Morocco (IP) Two television stations will be built in Morocco this year for Ameri can armed forces personnel, it was reported today. The stations will be located near Nouaceur and Sidislimane Air Base. Til tell ya whatS wrong ffUSSN' SOAP ON MB 'TIL I Today and By Walter THE PRESIDENT AND MR. KNOWLAND The President is in serious po litical trouble which stems from a rebellion, one might almost call it a revul sion of feel ing, within the Repub 1 i c a n party. Sudden ly, within the course of about three months, the a d ulation ,;xv ss vrnij-m tirn nit? Walter Lippmsnn last autumn has been followed by a general feeling among the professional politicians that it is risky to sup port Eisenhower and profitable to oppose him. Mr. Knowland, the Republi can leader in the Senate, is run ning for President on an anti Eisenhower platform, and there are only a handful of Republi can senators who are standing by the President. The Vice Presi dent is proceeding like a subma rine in hostile waters, mostly submerged, and when he must come to the surface,' he shows as little of himself as possible for anyone to shoot at. The Dem ocrats, who under Sen. Lyndon Johnson, used to be such a help to thesPresident, are now acting on the belief that if.it is good politics for Republicans to op pose Eisenhower, it is even bet ter politics for Democrats. The uprising threatens to go far beyond the attack on the size of the budget. There is, for example, grave danger that Mr. Knowland, seconded byv Mr. Hickenlooper, may cause the Senate to humiliate the Presi dent by failing to ratify the trea ty on the peaceful uses of atom ic energy. If this is done, the Republican senators will be making a horrible mockery of the Republican platform in which they declared that "one leader in the world today tow ers above aU others and inspires the trust, admiration, confidence and good will of all the peoples of every nation Dwight D. Eis enhower." For they will have invalidated a solemn promise made to the nations of the world by this one leader who towers, etc., etc. ... IHE treaty, which Is now in the Senate and should be rat ified at this session, would put no burden on the budget. The international agency which the treaty wpuld set up will have some administrative expenses, of which the American share would at the outside be $2,000, 000 a year. Nor has the treaty anything to do with the question of "give-aways," that is to say with gifts to foreign govern ments. The fissionable materials to be delivered by the United States to the international agen cy will be furnished on a busi ness basis and not as a gift. So if ratification fails, it will be because the Republican lead ership is opposing the President on a momentous issue of policy, and not because it is trying to reduce the budget. This would inflict a profound humiliation upon the President, and do great damage to the con fidence of the nations of the world in the pledges and prom ises of the United States govern ment. The history of the treaty provides unanswerable proof that if this treaty is not ratified, the United States government will have misled the 80 nations Ml mey kids. SEE OUR AD ON PAGE 2 FATHERS & MOTHERS - Be Sure and Check Our Lucky License Numbers Eastside Market with m- sne's been GOT SCC OF IT Tomorrow Lippmann who have followed the leader ship of President Eisenhower. rpHE treaty, which is known as the Statute of the Internation al Atomic Energy Agency, car ries out faithfully the proposals which the President made on Dec. 8, 1953, in his dramatic personal appearance before the General Assembly of the United Nations. He then outlined the functions of the agency which the treaty would establish, and he told the United Nations that "the United States would be more than willing it would be proud to take up with others 'principally involved' the devel opment of plans whereby such peaceful uses of atomic energy would be expeditedi Of those 'principally involved' the Soviet Union must, of course, be one. I would be prepared to submit to the Congress of the United States, and with every expecta tion of approval, any such plans There is no doubt therefore that the present treaty M is an American project launched pub licly and officially in the pres ence of the United Nations by the President of the United States. It then took nearly three years to negotiate the treaty, and the representatives of the United States have played a leading part in the negotiations. Last October, the draft of the treaty was adopted unanimously by the conference at the United Nations in which 81 govern ments, including the Soviet Un ion, were represented. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER was then a candidate, for re election on a platform adopted unanimously by the Republican convention. Senator Knowland and Senator Hickenlooper were delegates at the convention and they subscribed to the platform which boasted that "President Eisenhower has inaugurated and led a strong program for devel oping the peaceful atom a pro gram which has captured the imagination of men and women everywhere with its widespread, positive achievements." Just before election the Presi dent himself sent a message to the U.N. conference of the 81 nations who had approved the treaty. He said, "I wish my coun try to be among the first to rec ognize by official action what you at this conference have ac complished," and he went on to say that once the agency was established the United States would make available to it "nu clear materials that will match in amount the sum of all quan tities of such materials made similarly available by all other members of the international agency." This was a public promise, and so far as I know Senator Knowland did not raise his voice by way of protest or even of caution. e e fFHE text of the treaty has been discussed for seven months, and now we find that the Repub lican leader of the Senate has not made up his mind. Yet if he does not make up his mind soon, there is little likelihood that the treaty will be ratified in this session. This will mean that at the least, supposing eventual ratification, the whole project must wait for the better part of a year. This raises many questions, not the least of them, what are Allied Relations With Subject of Concern to Germany By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's visit to Washington next week promises to result in some im portant agree ments on Al lied relati o n s with Russia. Adenauer, as the leader of west Germany, has been pret ty worried over some, de velopments of Charles MeCann OI trie last few months. These include Great Britain's revolutionary new de fense policy, which involves drastic cuts in military man power, and the possibility that tne united States may do some cutting of its own. But Adenauer's biggest worry is that the United States, in its eagerness for a disarmament treaty, may make a deal with Russia at Germany's expense. There was a sensation in Bonn. Adenauer's capital, last week when the Washington corre spondents of two responsible West German newspapers report ed the United States planned to sponsor a proposal which would put off any hope of Ger man unification for an indefinite period. According to this report, Har old Stassen, President Eisenhow er's special disarmament aide. had drawn up a plan for a big demilitarized zone in Central Europe. The plan wa$ supposed to have the approval of the United States and British gov ernments. The zone plan, according to the German correspondents, would involve the acceptance by the Western Allies of the con tinued partition of Germany. , Denials of the report came quickly from Washington and from American embassies in Western European capitals. Adenauer was attending the annual congress of his Chris tian Democratic Party in 'Ham burg at the time. He was nat urally alarmed. Officially, the denials quieted Adenauer's fears. He told the party congress he was convinced the "deal" reports were com pletely false. But there are strong indica tions that Adenauer is still wor ried. Adenauer is due to arrive in New York by plane Friday. Aft er spending the week end there, he is to go to Washington Mon day for three days of talks with Eisenhower, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other high officials. He is fairly certain to ask for firm guarantees that Ger many will not be sacrificed in the moral responsibilities of a party leader in the Senate. I know that a senator is the freely elected representative of a sov ereign state, and that in the let ter of the law he can vote as his conscience or as his constituents dictate. But has the leader of a party no obligations beyond those of an individual senator? Is the power which he holds be cause he is the elected leader something which belongs to him personally, or is it a trust which carries with it obligations? Does it not carry with it the obliga tion to caution the President be fore he is totally committed to a great project, and if, in mat ters of the greatest moment like this treaty, he cannot support the President, is it not then his obligation to resign his leader snip. e e POR certainly it cannot be good morals for the Repub lican leader of the Senate to place the President of the Unit ed States in a position where, by the action of his own party, he stands in serious danger of be ing repudiated and humiliated in the presence of all the world. (Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) hi -"'- Things You SHOULD Know . . . last week In this space were listed things you MUST know in order to supply information necessary for a death certificate. In addition, here are things you SHOULD know in making funeral arrangements: Names, addresses, and relationship of immediate survivors Number of grandchildren and great grandchildren, if any Date and place of marriage Church membership of deceased DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse v Frank Morgan Harold Snodgras FUNERAL DIRECTORS any agreements which the Unit-J ed States, Britain and France may make with Russia. He is likely to sound out Eis enhower and Dulles on the pos sibility of a Big Four "summit" sonference at which Eisenhower would meet Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin, British Prime Minister Harold Macmil lan and anybody who happens to be premier of France at the time. Adenauer naturally will want Matter of Fact By WHY THEY FEAR NASSER Beirut There are a good many things about Gamal Abdel Nasser that ' want clarifying, i such as the na- ture of his c o n n e ction with his sup porters in the Kremlin. Yet the sou rce of his power in the Arab world is still the cen tral thing that Joseph Alsop needs to be explained. A good place to look for the explanation is in this agreeable and pro sperous little country where the prospect of an election has pro- ugly movement. It is capable of voked the most flagrant Egypt-1 such dark treachery as the bomb ian intervention. - plot against King Saudi of Arabia The leaders of the government organized by the Egyptian mili party, President Camille Cham- tary attache. In propaganda and oun and smiling Prime Minister in organization, is employs every Sami el-Solh, are not Arab feu- dalists of the antique pattern They stand for progress and good government. Their popular ity is so great that the wiseacres say they will surely win at the polls. And they have guts, too, as is proved by their forthright pro-Western policy something that takes guts, alas, in this part of the world nowadays. Because of this policy Cham oun and Solh are now being at tacked by their "Arab broth er" in Egypt with every weapon in Nasser's large armory. Despite their popularity, moreover. Cha moun and Solh fear Nasser's attack. Otherwise, Chamoun by now would almost surely have sent home the Egyptian Ambas sador here, because of his quite shameless local political activi ties. But the resulting open break with Egypt was consider ed likely to be a handicap at the polls. llfHAT then is the heart of this mysteryr This is a rich little land, fruit ful .in its lovely coastal : region and fruitful too in the glorious hills where Hiram, King of Tyre, cropped the great cedars for the temple of old Solomon. The modern Lebanese further pre serve the astute commercial in stinct of their Phoenician fore bears. They have seized every opportunity to enrich their Le banon the envied tourist and air center of the Middle East. The Lebanese are rich, cer tainly, but in health, education, welfare and standard of life, the Lebanese masses are also far better off than the masses of any other Arab country. The majority of people here, in short, are well enough off to know the value of good govern ment. That is really why Cham oun and Solh enjoy the kind of popular support that9 is denied to likeminded men in other Arab lands. In the other Arab lands, the masses are still tragically ignor ant and tragically poor. They cannot conceive of the good things that wise government can do for them in time (which is the real reason for the lack of true popular enthusiasm for the wise Iraqi development p r o g.r a m) they do not demand these good things. They are politically con scious, but they do not ask their political leaders to talk practical good sense. ' THIS situation in turn provides the ideal opening for the Arab leaders of whom Nasser is both the master and the arch- Club or society memberships War service record, if any Favorite hymns or songs of deceased Any additional personal data for obituary purposes Russia to be assured that Germany's interests wiU be protected fully at any Big Four meeting as well as in the current United Na tions disarmament meeting in London. To him, and to all Germans, the issue of their country's uni fication is the biggest one. He is aware also that, as a mem ber of the North AUantic Treaty Organization, West Germany would be in the front line in event of war with Russia. Joseph Alsop etype the Arab leaders who win mass support by venomous but powerful emotional appeals to ancient and justified hatreds. The word "justified" must be emphasized. It is precisely be cause the hatreds are justified, that Chamoun and Solh fear Nas ser despite their own strength. But the fact that all these hat reds have a solid base in the countless tragedies of Middle Eastern history, does not alter the character of Nasser-style Arab nationalism. Like all movements that live by the appeal to hatred, this nationalism which attracts so many young people and idealists, is none the less an inwardly device in the Fascist book. It has now even produced a Middle Eastern "La Prensa" case, in the form of Nasser's recent seizure of "Elahram" which used to be the most respected independent newspaper printed in Arabic. TY HATRED, this nationalism " wins support. But it is also a betrayal of the masses to whom it beckons. For every practical Arab interest now calls for equal friendship with the West. Yet Nasser is moving more ami more rapidly towards the kind of overt cold war with all the Western powers, including his recent rescuer, the United States, which wiU surely con demn the masses he leads to an other generation of squalor and suffering. One cannot help sympathizing a little with Arab politicians who are tempted to make the easy appeal to hatred, instead of the very difficult appeal to na tional self-improvement. But in judging this nationalism, which claims the sympathy reserved for nations' struggling to be free, it is important to remember its true character as well as the strong mass support that it com mands. WHEN YOU NEED EXTRA CASH Borrow The . . American Way LOANS S25 to SI ,500 AUTO SALARY FURNITURE For Any Worthwhile Purpose PAYMENTS TO FIT YOUR BUDGETI American Finance Corp. Phone SPring 2-8886 123 W. Main Med fore
