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An Independent Newipapgx F?t-rM u second cl matter at AAMford Oregon under Act of Marth 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c Daliy and Sunday One rear S15 0G Daily and Sunday Em months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mot 23 S jndav Only One year 14-20 By Carrier In Advanca Medford - Aihland Central Point Eacle Point Jackvanvllle Gold Hill Phoenix Shad Cove Roirue River Talent and on motor route Dally and Sunday One year 118 00 Daily and Sunday Ona month 1-30 Carrier and Deaiera 10c per copy All Term Cash In Advance Gfflriai Paper of the City of Med ford Off lrial Paper of Jackson Con n ty United Jresj Full Leased Wirie MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising RepresentaUve WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offires In New York Chicago de troit 4on Francisco Loa Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL iltOIIAi i r t ASSOOA'I o' Time Medford and JackKin Count History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. JO and 40 years ago. - J 10 YEARS AGO June 3, 19S7 (Tuesday) Art Carlson speaks on "Ore gon" at Monday meetinf of Toastmasters" club, tailing of great wealth from agriculture, forest products and minerals. From Arthur Parry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Sho(pers and sllivers have causd a brfst local demand fo' ajiirt eJsave weather. 20 YEARS AGO Juna 3. 1937 (Tfcumiary) Forty-five free publie camp grounds in the Sonne River Na tional fore?4 will 1 available t the vacation' this simmer.- C. P. Johnsbn, Cas Wymore and J. C. Collina. are nominated for commander of Medford post of American Legion. 30 YEARS AGO Jun. 3. 1927 (Friday) Cadet Hans W. Holmer of Med ford will head the West Point graduating class of 1927 with a total of 2,757.05 points out of a possible 2,975. Work will start early next week on the construction of buildings for the Rogue River Studios, Inc., according to Judge W. E. Crews, chief counsel for the company. 40 YEARS AGO June 3. 1917 (Sunday) O Claire Whiteman and James Gregg of Medford, owners of the patents cn the V-Plex ring, sell out for $70,000 to a firm of east ern businessmen. No serious inconvenience will be caused the public by the re adjustment of the railroad serv ice to meet the needs of the gov ernment. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct la superior; even or eight is excellent; five or Ix U good. 1. W-fere there any Japanese in the U. S. before Perry's fleet invaded Yedo (Tokyo) Bay in 1853? 2. How many grains are in the usual aspirin tablets sold commercially? 3. Bible: "Once in three years came the navy-" which navy? 4. Do the cells of a honey comb have four, five, or six sides? 5. Is George S. Kaufman a singer, actor, or playwright? 6. Do ferns thrive best In partial shade or in full sun light? 7. What does the radio abbre viation FM mean? 8. Where is Mammoth Cave? 9. "Contemptible" means worthy of contempt or scorn. Is contemptuous a synonym of it? 10. "Food for the soul (Nutri mentum spiritusV. This inscrip tion first appeared on which building in Ber'.Oi? Answers: 1. Yes. (Manijiro. 14-year-old castaway); 2. Fire grains; 3. "NaTy of Tharshish"; 4. Six: 5. Playwright: f. .Partial Oshade; 7. Frequency Modula tion; 8. Kentucky; 4. No. Means a "feeling" of scorn; 10. Xoyal Library. Commitpon Approves PurcbaSm of Station Ashland The federal commu nications commission has ap proved the purchase of radio sta tion KWIL at Albany. Ore., for $80.0'q by the Albany Radio corporation. Tn Albany company is head ed by Larry Gordon, former manager of KWIN'. Ashland. The station was acquired from Ralph -1 Cronise. Albany. MAIL TBTBUWE Editorial Correspondence Rice Mt. Inn, Paul Smiths, N.Y., May 30th This part of the country has, we surmise, changed little since the Civil war. It was essentially a summer resort area then, it is now. But in the future there may be great changes. With the completion of the St. Law renct Power project, in a few years, there will not only be ample power but cheap power. There will also be greatly facilitated ocean transportation, as well as water transportation to the great consuming area of the Middle west. One of the largest aluminum plants in the world is now operating at Cornwall on the northern bank of the St. Ltwrence just across the Canadian line, and as the country grows there will undoubtedly be others, operating in this country for the same reason cheap power and cheap trans portation. Such development might well have a great economic impact on th Adirondicks. There is another important factor. As the country grows the demand for paper newsprint, wrapping, writing and what have you will increase correspondingly. There is one large wood-pulp mill now at Potsdam (no relation to Stalin's Potsdam) only a few miles from here and there is timber galore all the way from the St. Lawrence to Utica, N.Y. With great advances in wood pulp production methods, with both hard and soft woods adaptable, sdded to cheap power and cheaper transportation, a great develop ment in this field in this section of New York, would seem highly probable. Before wa left home the people of Grants Pass were working hard for a change in the state law so a pulp mill could be estab lished on the Rogue. The sentiment in Medford appeared to be one of indifference as to what was done for Grants Pass in this field, but our recollection is the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce turned pulp mill proposal down on the ground of unpleasant if not noxious fumes. We had a chat with a former resident of Pots dam now working on the St. Lawrence project and we asked him regarding the fumes report. He said in the two years he lived there the odor was so unpleasant he decided to move as soon as he could et a job elsewhere. But he also said that this condition r.ly existed t few weeks in the year when certain low pressure atmospheric conditions existed. He ventured the opinion that the people of Potsdam (as a whole) did not like the smell of the mill, but they did like the payroll it created and the resulting increase in prosperity. The implication was that as far as this town was concerned, the benefits of a pulp mill exceeded the drawbacks. As far as this department is concerned we would like to have mora substantial information concerning both the effect of a pulp mill on the residential assets of a community, and the effect of loosening' the restrictions on commercializing of Rogue river be fore w would favor EITHER. Both tha city and the state of New York have had their crooks nd bnodlars, but in the realm of conservation, both governments train vary early days have been extremely enlightened. It was around the time of the Boss Tweed regime in Manhattan for ex ample, that Central Park was set aside as a huge recreational and cultural canter a chunk of the Adirondacks one might say, in the nation's largest city, to be enjoyed by future generations for all time. And now, a considerable section of the Adirondacks has been t aside as state parks, the streams and the lakes and the miles and miles of forest to be kept free from commercialism of any kind, en4 in general preserved in a natural state for the enjoy ment of future generations. Oregon and other states in the Far West could profit greatly ia this direction by following the example of this great Empire state, and what is in some ways the most mercenary and material istic metropolis in the country, the Borough of Manhattan. Took a walk around the lake at the MacArthur "camp" and was much impressed by the ruthless economy of Mother Nature. Regretted our lack of education regarding bird life, for there were 11 sorts of birds flying about and twittering between songs. The dirt roads were swarming with ant hills and in places the air was swarming with little black gnats. No wonder the birds were hap py with so much to feed on. Many Insects were dropping into the lake and minnows were gobbling them up as they fell. As a result the surface of some of the inlets in fact were ruffled as if by rain. This no doubt was a field day for the minnows, but not so joyous for the insects. With the birds attacking on land and the fish on the water one might fear for insect-life but after a week's obser vation we would hazard the guess that it's pretty much a stale mate, there are many birds and many fish, but insects are legion. It the birds and the fish should for any reason become extinct, that old bugaboo of an insect world might not appear so fantastic after all. To complete the cycle, while the birds eat the Insects the in sects eat up or try to eat up the family garden. And then the humans who eat what the insects don't, catch the fish and eat them, also when the season opens, shoots the birds the game ones like grouse and quail at least and whether on toast or not how delectable they prove to be. 9o we come to the Atomic Age, when as the King of Siam re marked if no nation trusts any other nation, there will be nothing left in this mad whirling cosmos but "fishes." This problem is too complex and momentous, however, to treat adequately in this offering, so that discourse will be reserved for another time. (We think we hear cheering from the gallery, but it may be merely the soughing of the hemlocks and the pines outside.) H.W.ft. Who to A wn tian who palled the reports of the cloud materials reported passing south ot lueaiora mat, day "sort of bring it close to home, don't they?" They do indeed. And someone else, referring to the assuiances of the Atomic Energy commission spokesman that the cloud was entirely harmless, asked, "Do you believe that? Well, if we don't believe the authorized spokes man of our own responsible government agency, who can we believe? NONETHELESS, the entire business of atomic tests, radioactivity, fall-out and the potential ultimate threat to health not only in an annihilating nuclear war but simply in the testing of nuclear and thermo nuclear devices has made a tremendous impact on the thinking of Americans. And the thing which is so distressing to thought ful people is the fact that those best-qualified to make a decision as to public safety the scientists are far from agreeing about it. On the one hand, Pulizter prize winner Linus Paul ing claims that tests already have done irredeemable damage to thousands of people. On the other are AEC scientists and others who claim that no one has as yet been harmed by the tests, and none will be in the foreseeable future. A LL of this adds urgency, it seems to us, to the con gressional inquiry which is now getting under way into the matter. If we could have an impartial, unbiased and factual account of just what the hazards are, with substantial agreement on the points at issue, we would be in a position to make a judgment on the tests. E.A. Monday, June 3, 1957 Believe? the office Fridav said that of radioactive fissionable Matter of Fact Y !KE AND 1960 Washington For the long run, the most important out come of President Eisenhower's belated d r ive to save his program may be his increas ing awareness of his immense power. Until very recently, it was widely a s s u med on Capital Hill Stewait AIsod mat ine t-resi-dent, for the remainder of his term in office, would adopt his customary stance above the bat tle. That is no longer a safe as sumption. The President himself dropped a broad hint at a recent press conference: "Now I hope that I will never be accused of being so namby-pamby that 1 don't have degrees of enthusiasm about people that stand with me and people that stand against me." Much broader hints have emerged from "reliable White House sources." These sources depose that the President expects to have a lot to say about the identity of the candidates selected by the Re publican convention in 1960. The name of Richard Nixon is, it is said, on the President's list but the list is strictly tenta tive. And the President's "degree of enthusiasm" for Sen. William Knowland is such that, for the present at least, his name is de cidedly not on the list. THESE broad hints that the President means to use his ultimate power the power to make or break a would-be Presi dential candidate have im mense political significance. They are also good news, simply because the American political system does not function prop erly if the President does not use his power. The theory has been much ad vertised, of course, that Presi dent Eisenhower has no real power, because he is the first President in American history barred from succeeding himself. The theory is nonsense. A case could even be made for the prop osition that, when everybody knows that a President is not go ing to run again, he actually has greater power than when every body believes he is going to run again. Just as much in his second term as in his first, the Presi dent has the power of Federal patronage though that power is admittedly much diminished since the days when franklin Roosevelt could make a Con gressman shiver in his boots by a gaily malicious hint that WPA spending in his district might be cut back. President Eisenhower still has the power of major ap pointments. He has the power of unequalled access to the media of public opinion. TJE has, moreover, the mysteri--H-ous power which hedges a President as "divinity doth hedge a king." Lesser politicians instinctively seek a strong Presi dent's favors as avidly as royal courtiers. Franklin Roosevelt could switch important votes by a promise to appear in public with his arm around a politi cian's shoulder. There are plenty of men in both houses today who would gladly vote the Presi dent's way for the delicious plea-, sure of being able to say, "As Ike was telling me the other day But, a President who is not going to run also has one im- j mense source of power which a President who is going to run does not have. If he has a mind to, he can choose his party's next Presidential and even Vice- Pres idential candidates. Consider the record. William Howard Taft was easily nomin-! ated when Theodore Roosevelt passed the word. In 1920, Wood row Wilson was fading rapidly but in James Cox and Franklin Roosevelt he got the pro-League ; of Nations ticket he wanted. Cal-1 vin Coolidge, to be sure, sat out j the 1928 convention, but that I was the kind of man Coolidge ' was. In 1940, if the famous , Stewart Alsop "voice from the sewers" had shouted any other name but Roosevelt's, the owner of the name would surely have been nominated. rpHE clincher is the case of A Harry Truman. In 1952, Tru man was an unpopular lame duck President. But the man he chose, the rather obscure Gov ernor of Illinois, would have been nominated without any fuss at all, if Adlai Stevenson had not chosen to make a fuss. Now consider the power Eisen hower will have in 1960. The roster of Republican national committeemen and state chair men, which included a majority of Taft men in 1952, is now made up overwhelmingly of devout Ei senhowerites. The Republican Governors, who have a iot more to say at conventions than Sen ators, are Eisenhower men al most without exception. If Ei senhower does not control a ma jority of the delegates in 1960, he will be justified in standing his astute party chairman, Meade Alcorn, up against a wall and shooting him. In short, there is no doubt that the President can name the ticket if he wants to do so. And if he makes it clear that he does want to do so, a lot of people in the Republican party are going to feel a sudden, strong impulse to play the game the President's way. - (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Adenauer Wins Point On Disarmament and Unification on Visit By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Chancellar Konrad Adenauer of West Germany appears to have won a big victory as the re sult of his vis it to Washing ton last week. First, he has succeeded 1 n establishing a firm link be tween the uni fication of Germany and d i s armament rharlet HcCann with Soviet Russia. Secondly, he has put himself in position to block any attempt to include West Germany in a disarmament treaty until the So viet government agrees to uni fication. Key Disarmament Figure Hence Adenauer seems clearly to have made himself the key figure in the attempt of the Western Allies to reduce tension in relations with Russia. The joint communique which President. Eisenhower and Aden auer issued at the end of their talks last week said: " . . . The ending of the un natural and unjust division of Germany is a major objective . . . of the two governments. Germany must be united . . ." P ending a disarmament agreement. West Germany will continue to rearm as rapidly as possible. Won't Be "First Step" If the current disarmament negotiations in London succeed in providing the first step toward a disarmament treaty, the Ger man unification problem must be settled before a comprehen sive treaty is negotiated. Brass Serpent On Pole GEO. N. TAYLOR "Push me up a bit; raise my head so I can see; Yes, I see I see I live." It was centuries before Christ. God's Chosen Peo ple had gone deep into sin and God sent fiery serpents among them to sting them to death. But God would save all who had faith to obey him. So he had a brass ser pent put on top of a high pole and whoever looked on it lived Numbers 21:8-9, Bible. Christ not only died for them who then believed but also for you who today be lieve. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses from all sin. Believe, have life eternal and by daily Bible and praver, grew up. G-N-T, 2385 87th Ave. S-W., Portland 1, Ore. Republican Party in Trouble Financially; Split Foreseen By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington IIPI This is the season for the Republicans to have money trouble, and bad trouble it is. In its strong est form the story is that the Republican National com mittee is now broke, or near it, and cannot raise more money. Lyi. c. wiuon others claim the situation is bad enough, but not that bad. Something seems to be persuading contributors not to contribute. It is freely conceded that the committee is looking for a finance chairman and may get its man this week. Some party men blame Presi dent Eisenhower for the money drought. They believe the flow of Republican political funds was slowed or stopped because likely contributors object to Eisenhower's big 1958 spending program and to what sometimes is called his new liberalism. That, in turn, sometimes is called modern Republicanism. Answer This Week? What the Republicans can do U.P. Correspondents Forecast Headlines United Press correspond ents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. China Trade European diplomats are inter ested in the mildness of United States reaction to Britain's de cision to loosen up trade restric tions against Communist China. Seme of them believe the Eisen hower administration secretely OK'd the British move well in advance, and protested for the record. Fallout The controversial question whether there is any "safe" dose of radioactive strontium-90 will be aired this week in congres sional hearings on H-bomb fall out. Strontium-90 is a long-lived product of nuclear explosions that can cause bone cancer or leukemia. The Atomic Energy Commission says that the amount sprinkled on the globe so far in bomb tests is far be- Adenauer supplemented this by saying at a press conference that West Germany would not be included in any "first step" disarmament agreement. Secretary of State John Fost er Dulles acknowledged in a press conference next day that Adenauer was in a position to refuse the inclusion of West Ger many in such an agreement. 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 tor publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserve the rleht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Thanks to Hospital To the Editor: Memorial Day memoirs, from a patient who was there. Am writing this to thank all of the medical staff and em ployees for being so nice to me at Rogue Valley Memorial hos pital. This hospital has the homey atmosphere that you sel- dom find in a public place. It's , so nice that it makes you forget ! you are ill. j I wish to thank Miss Hart for j all of her kindness to me, also my little roommate, Sharon Frazier. "There was never a dull j moment around her." ' Also wish to thank the Chev rolet people for sending the pap- er, "Tribune." We all enjoyed it too. I know where to buy gas 1 now. Mrs. Essie Egger, j 113 South Jones st., j Grants Pass, Ore. ! about party finances may devel op this week in political hud dles here. It has been suggested that the Senate and House Re publican campaign committees cut loose from the National com mittee. The custom has been for the two congressional commit tees and the National committee to raise funds jointly, a kind of political united fund. For the two congressional campaign committees to go off on their own fund-raising cam paigns would have the appear ance of a monumental vote of no confidence in Eisenhower. Moreover, if the congression al committees proved capable of getting contributions while the National committee floundered, the no confidence aspect of the situation would be even more emphatic. It would mean that the Republican party in Con gress could outdraw the Repub lican party in the White House outdraw, at least among cam paign contributors who count. Two Key Men Sen. Andrew F. Schoeppel (Kan.) is chairman of the Senate Republican Campaign commit tee. Rep. Richard M. Simpson (Pa.) chairs the Republican Con gressional Campaign committee with special responsibilities for low the danger level. But some authorities hold that even the smallest amount introduced into population may cause some in crease in cases of bone cancer and leukemia. Safe Or Unsafe In any event, safe or unsafe, the United States will hold nu clear tests in the Pacific next year unless some international agreement is reached to stop them. The AEC and the armed forces are preparing for new experiments. The AEC seeks a seven million dollar expansion of facilities at the Eniwetok proving ground. The armed Services special weapons project wants an extra $9,550,000 for r-HL-lllc tests. In The Bag? The word from West Germanv is that Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer is a sure bet to win the national election set for Sept. 1? as the result of his success ful visit to Washington. Aside from that, small political groups which had been flirting with the opposition Socialists are swing ing back toward Adenauer's Christian Democrats. They don't like the Socialist talk about na tionalizing key industries. Joint Command Top Western generals are sure that delegates to the Middle Eastern Treaty Organization, who opened a meeting in Kara chi, Pakistan, today will form a joint military command. They are preety sure also that 37-year-old Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran will be chosen as commander in chief. His first move would be to coordinate defenses of member countries. Members of METO the so called Baghdad Pact are Pa kistan, Iran, Turkey, Iraq and Britain. The United States will all but join the pact outright at this week's meeting by ad hering to the METO military committee. Hells Canyon Washington insiders say that ! this week's Senate debate on the Hells. Canyon dam project will be held primarily to let the ; Democrats record their argu- j ments in favor of public power, i A bill to upset the administra tion's decision to let the Idaho Power Co. build three dams and to provide for a federal project instead was defeated last year, 51-41. A new bill is given no more than an outside chance in the Senate. It would meet even rougher going in the House and presumably Eisenhower would veto it if it reached him. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 electing members of the House. These two are regular Repub licans, strong party men and good politicians. Tifey will not lightly go off on their own to raise money. All the more signi ficant, therefore, would be such action on their part is Schoeppel and Simpson decided finally it had to be done. Back there in 1956 the cam paign funds rolled in The Na tional committee divided the loot and everybody was oiimpar atively happy. Just maybe, how ever, too much of that money was spent on electing EisiMhow er and not enough on helping Republican candidates fir the Senate and House, which re mained Democratic after tie re turns were in. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Following a long established custom, the National Safety Council made a prediction as to the number of lives that would be lost on America's highways during the four-day more or less holiday period from Thursday morning until Sunday night. The prediction was about 450. Ter: ERRIBLE? ell, it's pret-.y rugged. If the prediction is borne out by the facts, it will mean an aver age loss on our highways of about 112 lives per day. It gives one the shivery feel ing that driving on our highways during a holiday or semi-holiday period is a good deal like playing Russian roulette. O HOWEVER Before swearing off holiday driving, let's take a calmer look at the situation. Traffic fatalit ies on American highways have been running for a long time at the rate of about 36,000 a year. That is a year-around average of about 100 deaths per day. qO- You see Holiday driving is only about 12 per cent more dangerous than average, everyday driving. If you are going to swear off holiday driving, you might as well swear off ALL driving. BOILED down, the truth of the matter is that if you will drive carefull, keeping your mind strictly on what you are doing, gauging your speed to the conditions of the traffic, watch ing approaching cars and sizing up what their drivers are going to do and governing yourself ac cordingly and refraining from getting in too big a hurry, your chances of getting to your des tination all in one piecewill not be too bad. That goes for holidays as ell as ordinary days. ' EXTRA CASH FOR VACATION EXPENSES Buy WHAT YOU NEED Clean-up YOUR BILLS We will supply the cash on your own signature and security. No one need sign with you. 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