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Newspaper Page TextTOOT MEDFOflD (OREGON) "Everyone ta Southern Oregon Beads Th Mall Tribune" Publisher Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Busmen Manage) ERIC ALLEN JR Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAfJ Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporu Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday One year S13.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.23 Sunday Only One year (4.20 By Carrier In Advance Mediord Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Roeue River Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday One year (18 00 Dally and Sunday One month liO Carrier and Dealers 10c per cony All lerms cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Mtdfors Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATION WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C 'RATION At. DITOIIAt T iu!!inan'iiii NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION iqht o' Time Hertford and Jackson County History from the files of The Wail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. )t YEARS AGO Urg 27, 1947 (Tuesday) Completion of a tile block VuiMing at Shady Cove to house tfial switching equipment is an aawaced by D. O. Hood, presi dent of Columbia Utilities com fgtny. Irom Arthur Perry's Ye 2nuge Pot column: SIGN IN A YALLXY TAVERN: "Don't 9nr Before Ladies. Let Them po it First." $0 TEARS AGO ffe C7, 1937 (Thursday) J comprehensive survey of tfm Rogue river drainage basin iU fee made by army engineers S necessary appropriations are ssssvte by congress, according to V. . Stanbery, consultant of Afete planning board. Clerical positions on the.Med fc CCC district headquarters siaff are to be changed from en yolloe to civilian status, accord ing Maj. George R. Owens, Mediord commander. 3S VCARS AGO Ma- 27, 1927 (Friday) Captain Dancey, head of Americanization league of Oak land, Calif., talks at Chamber of Comsiasrce forum at Medford hotel. Criwg begin work of opening up Siath st. over the Southern Pacific tracks and establishing a fSU crossing there. 40 TZARS AGO Mar T. 1917 (Sunday) Junior Thrift organization of the jublic schools will continue this cummer, according to Super intendent Hillis. Thomas Swem, of New York city, is visiting his parents, Mr. nil Mrs. T. M. Swem, here. Uhafs Your I.Q.? Nftss er ten correct Is superior; sevai er eight Is excellent; five or six 1. The first explorer known to have circumnavigated the "British Isles was P s? 2. Was the year 1948 a Leap Year? 3. Bible: "Holiness of the Lord" was ordered to be en graved on which "plate?" 4. What is the name of the na tives of Guam? 5. Athens is the capital of what European country? 6. Name the largest and the strongest bone in the human body. 7. The Volga river empties into what Sea? 8. Soviet Russia favored or opposed the Marshall plan for European rehabilitation? 9. "Sympathize," in a sentence shoul b followed by which particular word? 10. In the proverb: "Better leara tote than" when? Wawers: 1. Pytheai. 2. Yes. 3. 'Tlate of the mitre." 4. Cham orees." 5. Greece. 6 The femur, ia the upper leg. 7. The Caspian. 8 Opposed. 9. With. 19. "never." Rnights of Columbus Reelects State Deputy The- Dalles P Fred J. Schwab of Mt. Angel Sunday V4 reelected state deputy, high er rffice in the Oregon Knights o Columbus, at the group's an nua elate convention. Mewport was picked as the 1951 convention city. SEES HE SEA Bognor Regis. England rtPI Mrs. Ellen Lingley, who has lived vithin 70 miles of the sea for all her 83 years, saw it on Sunday for the first time. "It's too beautiful for words," she said. MAIL TRIBUNE This Is Economy? For all its high talk of economy, Congress is busy, as usual, taking away with one hand and giving with the other. It's all very well for Rep. Clarence Cannon (D.-Mo.), chairman of the House Appropriations committee and one of the principal economy engi neers, to point out as he had on May 7 that the House had thus far voted 7.6 per cent less than the estimates for budgetary 1957-1958. Cannon asked his colleagues for "cooperation and support in cutting at least 7.6 per cent from the rest of this budget, if not more." But just a minute. Congress at the last session carved $257 million from President Eisenhower's requests for budgetary 1956-57. So the administration came back this spring with a request for $587 million in deficiency and sup plemental appropriations. Not all of this, of course, is going to be approved. For example, the third supplemental appropriations bill for 1956-57, as sent to conference by the Senate just on May 20, 1957, was for $142,342,045, which was $39,357,275 less than the administration had asked. Even so, it was $62,501,257 more than' the House had voted. ' pONGRESS this year pared $52 million from the budget figure for the Post Office department. On the day the measure was approved by the Senate, a warning was sounded by Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R. 111.) that "additional funds will have to be added . . . before this Congress leaves Washington." Dirksen said he was for putting postal expenses "in a package which the whole world can see" instead of taking "refuge in a supplemental or deficiency appropriation when the heat is off." Between a "deficiency" and a "supplemental" ap propriations bill there is, according to Rep. Cannon, "a distinction without a difference." Generally speaking, however, Cannon pointed out on May 7. a deficiency arises when the administration, "unavoidably, and within the exceptions permitted" in law, has spent at a greater rate than provided for. A supplemental ap propriations bill is brought in "for various reasons, such as new program, increased work, and the like." An Anti-Deficiency Act in 1905 was intended to stop once and for all the spending of funds not appro priated by Congress. It provides stiff penalties for de partment heads who exhaust their appropriations be fore the end of the fiscal year. But deficiencies con tinue to occur year after year, and the penalties of the act have never been applied. Cannon in introducing this year's supplemental appropriations bill congrat ulated himself that it contained "no item in contraven tion" of the 1905 measure, unlike the last deficiency bill which had earned $41 million thus technically forbidden. v A HOUSE Appropriations subcommittee on March " 21 recommended against an administration backed recommendation of the Hoover commission aimed at "restoration of Congressional control of the purse" at a saving of $4 billion a year. It would have required Congress each year to approve only actual government spending in the next fiscal year. The group said that if Congress wants budgets to be smaller, members'will have to quit establishing new federal projects that have to be paid for. While $275 mililon was being cut from the 1957 budget, the subcommittee pointed out, Congress was "at the same time, in other than appropriation bills, increasing the President's requests for other types of obligating and spending authority about $1,736,000,000." E.R.R. Oldest Congressman Sen. Theodore Francis Green (D.-R.I.) yesterday became the oldest man ever to serve in Congress. The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee was 89 years and 259 days old Sunday. Last year he became, on June 17, the oldest man ever to sit in the United States Senate. Yet five other present members of the Senate have served longer there than Green, who was not first elected to the Senate (in 1936) until he was 69. The five, Democrats all, are : Carl Hayden, Arizona, 79, elected in 1926 when 49. Richard B. Russell, Georgia, 59, elected in 1932 when 35. " Harry F. Byrd, Virginia, 69, appointed in 1933 when 45. James E. Murray, Montana, 81, elected in 1934 when 59. " - ' Dennis Chavez, New' Mexico, 69, appointed in 1935 when 47. (Hayden and Chavez had previously been members of the House.) TWO characteristics mark Senator Green's voting ing record in Congress : he has been on the whole an organization man and on the whole a "liberal." Nobody knows whether he usually voted with the Democratic administrations because he also was a liberal, or whether he usually voted liberal because that's what President Roosevelt and Truman were. Senator Green was one of the Democratic senators for President Roosevelt's ill-starred Supreme court plan of 1937, as modified by compromise. Then he wras one of the minority of Democrats who voted against shelving the compromise plan when this was doomed by the sudden death of majority leader Jo seph T. Robinson (D.-Ark.). The nonagenarian-soon-to-be was one of the 13 senators voting to sustain the Roosevelt veto of the tax reduction bill of 1944. He was one of the 10 voting to uphold a similar Truman veto in 1948. And he was one of relatively few senators voting against the Taft Hartley act, the internal security act of 1950 and the McCarran immigration restriction bill of 1952. E.R.R Monday, Mar 27, 1957 'AiV, HOW THE HECK 010 YA Matter of Fact By Stewart Alsop THE PRESIDENT FIGHTS BACK Washington--In the past few days there has been one of those sudden, perceptible changes in the Washing ton p o 1 i t ical atmosphere, as u n p redictable as the Wash i n g t o n wea ther. Conside- the difference be tween the week that has just stewait Aisop passed and the week that went before. The week before last, it was the uni versal view here that the Presi dent had already lost the battle of the budget. ! The President's first budget broadcast, everybody agreed, was a flop. The day before it was made, the Democrats kicked Mr. Modern Republican, Arthur Lar sen, all over the lot in a Senate debate, and sliced a huge chunk off his program, while the ma jority of Republicans looked be nignly on. A strange alliance of Democrats and un-Modern Re publicans seemed to be firmly in the saddle on Capitol Hill. . Then last week the weather began to change. Thanks to the President's occasional speech writer, Emmet Hughes (who had nothing to do with the first speech) the second Presidential broadcast was written with bite and force. (The President ob viously ought to keep Hughes in the White House permanently, hog-tying him if necessary to keep him there.) The President delivered the speech with an earnestness -tinged with despera tion, which for the first time really struck home to the lis teners. THIS second speech, in con trast to the first, was fol lowed by a Presidential press conference which gave the im pression that the President really was determined to fight for his program. And when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles went to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to testify on foreign aid, instead of being kicked around like the unfortunate Lar sen, he was showered with Dem ocratic compliments. Secretary Dulles had this un familiar experience less because his presentation was brilliant (which it was) than because the Democrats had begun to have second thoughts. A lot of Demo crats were saying privately that "Lyndon went too far" when the Senate Majority Leader cut Lar sen and his program into small pieces. In a larger sense, they had be gun to ask themselves whether it was really smart to buck a popular President on the issues of defense and foreign policy, on which even an unpopular Presi dent speaks with more authority than Congress. Some Republi cans also began to have second thoughts, asking themselves whether it was really smart to tear down the prestige of the man who remains their greatest political asset. THESE second thoughts would certainly never have oc curred to either Democrats or Republicans if the President had not signified his intention of fighting for his program. As things now stand, the prospect is that the President's, belated counter-attack will save him the guts of his defense and foreign aid programs. The best current guess is that foreign aid will be cut less than half a billion, as against much heavier estimates current a cou ple of weeks ago; and that the defense cut will be held to around SI billion, as against the S2.5 billion cut proposed by the House Appropriations Commit tee. In short, the President, who could have saved the whole loaf if he had counter-attacked ear lier, now seems likely to save at least half a loaf. To be sure, he could still lose the whole loaf, if Senate Republican Leader William Knowland decides to op pose the" President's very own atoms-for-peace scheme. The Senate Democratic lead ership is committed to atoms-for- KNQW IT WASAf?0 peace, and so is the small band of Eisenhower Republicans. But the international agreement must be ratified by two thirds of the Senate, and if the' right wing Republicans decide to op pose it, the President will have the fight of his life on his hands, since his personal prestige is in extricably involved in atoms-for- Lpeace. SUCH a fight would probably lead - to an open break be tween the President and Know land a break which some of those close to the President be lieve is inevitable anyway, and even desirable. But Knowland himself is no doubt aware that an open break with' the Presi dent would reduce sharply, if not wholly end, his chances of getting the' Republican Presi dential nomination in 1960, which is one reason the fight may never occur. All in all, the President's bat tle with Congress, is very far from won indeed, on the do mestic program, has hardly a fighting chance. But at least the battle is not irretrievably lost, as it seemed to be so recently, which suggests the power of the Presidency, even belatedly ap plied. (Copyright, 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) 'Grass Roots' GOP Members Will Discuss Eisenhower Policies By LYLE C. WILSON -United Press Correspondent Washington (W The next march on Washington will beby grass roots Republicans who are somewhat un happy with the Eisenhower ad ministration. Advance no tices suggest they may be un happy enough to tell Presi dent Eisenhow- Lyie c. wusob er all about it. Whether the assembly gives the administration a piece of its mind o rthe incident ends hap pily in the warmth of the Eisen hower smile remains to be seen; However that may be, the grass rooters are due here next week, some hundreds of them representing representing the 48 states. The White House spon-J sors the meeting, in a way. It grew out of a conference be tween Eisenhower and Chair man Meade Alcorn of the Re publican National Committee. Handpicked For Job Alcorn was handpicked for that job by Eisenhower and was elected Jan. 22 as a modern Re publican committee administra tor. There followed meetings be tween Alcorn and congressional Republicans in which the new chairman was told that the Ei senhower administration was in serious trouble with the voters. The chairman hustled, to the White House to talk it over. He subsequently received from Ei senhower a letter which, the United Press was informed, stated bluntly that the people should have the greatest and most effective voice in deter mining policy. There followed regional meet ings in five cities: Omaha, Neb.; Salt Lake City, Utah; Louisville, Ky.; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Tren ton, N.J. SHE WED SEVEN MEN GEO. N. TAYLOR "The oldest brother wed her and died. Then, one by one, the other six wed her and died. So, out in eternity, whose wife will she be?" This was put up to Jesus by those who scoffed at life after death. Christ answered that after death, men and women do not wed, but live together as do the angels. God is not the God of the dead but of the living. After this life, they live who have received Christ as dying for their sins. With their sins blotted out. God gives -them eternal life. Mt 22:23-33. G.N.T. 2385 87th Ave., SW Ore. Chiang May Be Loser On Formosa; Disarmament Eyed United Press correspond ents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Portent Those riots in Formosa may fortell bad news for Generalis simo Chiang Kai-shek. Friday's, outbreak in Taipeh, the capital, was anti-American. But to many Formosans, the hundreds of thousands of Chinese National ists who took refuge in their island when the Communists overran the mainland are as un welcome as the Americans. The next riots, if any, could be anti Nationalist. First Step The next few days may tell whether hope for a first step to w a r d disarmament is well founded. Like America's Harold Stassen, Soviet chief delegate Valerian A. Zorin went home for new instructions during an 11-day recess in the London dis armament conference. The talks reopen today. London advices predict that Zorin's attitude, on the basis of his instructions, will show fairly soon whether Rus sia is really ready to talk busi ness at last. Income Tax Don't count on Congress re ducing your income taxes next year, retroactive to next Jan. 1. The official Democratic line voiced by House Speaker Sam Rayburn is that the cut will be voted. But some Democratic tax writers say privately they don't expect any cut. Airing New Delhi says that the re ported romance between Rober to Rossellini, husband of Ingrid Bergman, and his pretty script writer Sonali das Gupta may be aired in the Indian parliament. Indian officials are upset about the whole situation. Unless So nali's family - which is very prominent in Indian politics says no, it may be brought up for a debate. Rackets The Senate Rackets commit tee will take stock this week and decide which case to investi gate next, and when. Best guess is that hearings will start about June 4. The committee has sev eral cases nearly ready. Its No. 1 choice is an investigation of Teamster "paper local" unions in New York. First Aid If Egypt and Syria don't come It is the grass roots partici pants in those meetings who are to come here next week. A di gest of their gripes and cheers and opinions is being prepared, the United Press was informed, for presentation to Eisenhower. The presentation will be made by Alcorn, escorted by Sen. An drew F. Schoeppel (R-Kan.) and Rep. Richard M. Simpson (R Pa.). . , Before TV Speeches The regional meetings were held, for the most part, before Eisenhower's two recent TV speeches defending his big spend ing budget. One thing the big White House powow may show is whether those speeches have had ' any effect oh the place it really counts the grass roots, and particularly the Republican grass roots. The five regional meetings were closed to the press. Partic ipants talked frankly, sometimes angrily, of Eisenhower adminis tration politics and policies.. The Alcorn - Schoeppel - Simpson re port will challenge Eisenhower on federal aid to schools if the regional trend of thinking is properly reflected. The United Press was told federal school aid was the sorest spot of all. There was .a solid but not uni versal beef against foreign aid. The loudest laments at the re gional meetings were said to in volve patronage and the way the White House handles it. Mayflower II Making Steady Four Knots . London (W The May flower II headed toward the United States at a steady f our knots today and reported all's well." Australian Capt. Alan Villiers radioed that the ship was steer ing west in mid-Atlantic. He said she had covered 80 miles in the past 24 hours and was with in 840 miles of the West Indies. Portland 1, Adv. through with their promised payments to Jordan, the United States and Saudi Arabia can ex pect an urgent appeal for im mediate help from Jordan's young King Hussein. Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia prom ised Hussein 24 million dollars a year to replace the British subsidy which Jordan sacri ficed when- it threw out the British commander of its Arab legion. Saudi Arabia has paid J Demos Eye As 'Hole in For Hells Canyon Bid Washington (CQ) Senate Democrats believe they have found a hole in the Republican dike holding back Federal de velopment of Hells Canyon. The hole is the fast tax write off the Office of Defense Mo bilization recently authorized on the Idaho Power Co.'s two dams in the Hells Canyon reach of the Snake river. The Snake winds along the Idaho-Oregon border. The writeoff enables the pri vate utility to save $30.5 million in taxes over a five-year peroid. Democrats have sent up a shout of "fraud, interest free loan and theft from the taxpayers' pockets" that will keep getting louder until the upcoming vote on Hells Canyon is taken in the Senate. Hearings Open Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) has cpened committee .hearings on tax writeoffs generally. But public power leaders, with Ke fauver's blessing, are using the hearings to enlarge the hole in the dike in hopes of washing away all that has been done so far on private development of Hells Canyon and substituting public development. The Hells Canyon public vs. private development argument dates back to 1947 when surveys of the area were started. In 1955 the Federal Power Com mission licensed Idaho Power Co. to build three dams in the Hells Canyon reach of the Snake Brownlee, Oxbow and lower Hells Canyon. The com pany already has started con struction of Brownlee. Public power leaders had fought for a single, high Federal dam on grounds it would yield more kilowatts and cheaper electricity for the Pacific Northwest. Conflicting Claims Democratic fighting for public development claim the high dam would cost $308 million and pro duce 924,000 kilowatts of power while the three private dams would cost $175 million and produce only 505,000 kilowatts. Republicans claim the Federal dam would, cost $400 million. They say the private dams would cost $133: million and turn out 675,000 kilowatts, while not re quiring Federal funds. Last year, the Senate refused by a 41-51 vote to authorize a Federal dam and in effect re voke the FPC's licensing of the Idaho Power Co. On April 1 this year the Supreme Court re fused to review a lower court decision upholding the FPC's action. Eight Democratic Sen ators joined with 43 Republi cans in 1956 to defeat the meas ure. Two Republicans William Langer (N.D.) and Alexander Wiley (Wis.) sided with, 39 Democrats. . Since that " vote, three pro-high-dam Democrats have re placed Republican Senators who opposed the high Federal dam. Also Sen. Ralph Yarborough (D-Texas), another high-dam proponent, has replaced Price Daniel (D-Texas) who was against it. But four Republicans have replaced Democrats who voted for the Federal dam. So even Federal dam proponents admit that the election switches, plus such other changes as the death of Sen. Joseph R. Mc Carthy (R-Wis.), and the defeat of Republican ' governors in FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 in its share. Egypt and Syria have failed to come through, and Hussein's treasury is about empty. Unification Despite talks about increased unification of the armed forces, as an economy measure, Wash ington reports that early action is most unlikely. Congress dis likes the idea of a single mili tary force under an all-powerful chief of staff. . Write-Off the Dike1 Washington and Oregon, all of whom opposed the Federal dam, are not enough to change the 1956 vote result by themselves. The only real vote changer available to public forces is the tax writeoff issue. Lobbyists for such pro-Federal dam groups as the AFL-CIO and National Rural Electric Cooperative Assn. freely admit that they are trying to find another Adolphe Wenzell for Kefauver to expose in his hearings. Wenzell was ac cused of representing both the Government and the Dixon- Yates utility combine seeking a Government contract to supply power in the Tennessee Valley. His activities, disclosed by Ke fauver, led to cancellation of the Dixon-Yates contract. 5 Instead of 50 Years The tax writeoff issued Idaho Power Co. authorizes it to de preciate 65 per cent of the cost of the Brownlee Dam and 60 per cent of its Oxbow Dam over a five-year period instead of the usual 50 years for dams. The issuance upset Virginia's Democratic Senators, Harry Flood Byrd and A. Willis Rob ertson, who voted against Fed eral development of Hells can yon in 1956. They contend fast writeoffs were meant for de fense plants, not a private utility with a guaranteed Income. Public power advocates are trying to fan the anger of Byrd and Robertson enough to change their vote on the issue. They also are working hard on the other . Democrats who either voted, paired or announced against the bill in 1956 and are still in the Senate; J. Allen Frear Jr. (Del.), George A. Smathers Fla.), Spessard L. Holland (Fla.), Richard B. Rus sell (Ga.), Russell B. Long (La.), James O. Eastland (Miss.), and Sam J. Ervin Jr. N.C.). But Senate passage a long shot at best would still not guarantee Federal development of Hells Canyon. Ahead would be the House and President Ei- ; senhower whose opposition to : Federal development could re sult in a veto of the legislation. (Copyright 1957 Congressional Quarterly) Britain To Get U.S. Atomic Sub Secrets Washington (Uv-The United States will give Britain the se crets of America's atomic pow ered submarines in London talks beginning today, the atomic energy commission has announc ed. Three U.S. experts on nuclear propulsion Rear Adm. H. G. Rickover, Read Adm. A. M. Mor gan, and I. H. Mandil of the AEC will hold "discussions" with the British Admiralty and the United Kingdom atomic energy authority through May 29. - The disclosures of secret Amer ican information are authorized by the Bilateral Atomic energy agreement between the United States and United Kingdom. The talks will deal with "clas sified (secret) and unclassified data on the development and use of reactors for submarine propul sion," the AEC announcment said. A PERL'S every, family may make funeral ar rangements which are In keeping with its means. 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