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L FOUR MEDFORD (OBEGON) "Ivfrvine In Soutnern Orejoo Rga-li T. Ma J 1 Tr. bun PuOllir.-3 aii? Exceot Saturday tr? MXDFOHD P HIM TING CO ft-2a NorthTirSt Pnone 2-4141 ROBF.RT W RL'HL Editor fTTRB GHV A4vertuin Manager GTRAlD t-ATHAid B'ismeu Marsgei ERIC AU1.N JR Muanni Editor EAJU H ADAMS Cit Editor HAPRV CHi'PMA.N Te:?raDh Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorts Editor OIJVE ST ARCHER Social tutor DALE EPIC K SO N Circ uiation Mgr. An Indgpgndgnt .'.fwipapfr Entrrd as von4 cla matter at Medford Oregon u trier Ad of March 3 18'7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bt Mll In Advance P Cod Ic j !)!. and Sundav On rear I1S0O ! Dally and Sunday Six rr.ontha 8 00 t Daily and Sunday Thre nr-a Sundav Oniv Or.a cai (4 2ri By Carrier In Advance Med ford Aihiand Central Point Far!- Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phnenix. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The always Interesting society paces are now reporting June brides who were married the last week of May. 20 YEARS AGO June 4. 1139 (Friday) Twenty Boy Scouts of troop 5 have outing at Jackson Hot Springs sponsored by the Med ford Rotary club. Worfc is started on the recon duction of the second and third floors of the W. H. Fluh rer building at Main it. and Central are. SO YEARS AGO June 4. 1127 (Saturday) Johnson Market, new shop ping center at Grape and Sixth sts., opens doora for first time today. From Local and Pergonal col umn: R. B. Grieve of the forest service leaves for Woodville to carry out government duties next week. tttat's Yaar I.Q.? Nln or I'll corrrt If tuperlor; even or !cht li excellent; five or mix Is good. 1. Which continent east of the Atlantic is first known to have been explored by Europeans? 2. In what city is Dumbarton Oaks Gardens? 1 Bible. Which Book has been termed "the death wail of Jeru salem"? 4. On the stage, any material used as backing for a scene is called a d-p? 5. Of these three states, which is largest in area: Pennsylvania, Georgia, New York? 6. "Lady Plushbottom" Is a character in which comic strip? 7. Of which island is Agana the caDital? 8. In Soviet Russian elections, do the names of two or more andidates for each office ap pear on the ballot? 9. Is the verb "fire," to dis charge from employment, slang? 10. "Ananias Club" group called liars, beginnirf with Sen ator Tillman (lfoa, by Theo dore Roosevelt. Was there such a club? Answers: I. Africa. 2. Wash ington, D. C. (Georgetown sec tion), i. Lamentations. 4. Drop. 5. Georgia. 6. "Moon Mullins." 7. Guam. 4V No. Only one name for each office. $. Yes. 10. No. The name s coined by the ir rererettt press ta ae) Imaginary arsociaiion. Oklahoma Man to Talk To Optamifrisis Tonight Dr Ralph Barstow, director of ethics and economics for the, Optometric Extension program is an international organization dt-dicatcd to the post graduate education of optometrists. Doc tor Barstow's visit to this area is sponsored by the Southern Oregon Optometric society and Is open to optometrists in south em Oregon and northern Calif-orna. i i ! MAIL TRIBUNE Porter and Trujillo The June issue of Coronet magazine has one of the most fascinating stones we're read in a long time. It is written by Congressman Charles 0. Porter, who represents this district of Oregon, in collabora tion with Geoffrey Bocca, an English free-lance writer. It tells the story or at any rate, part of it of -the Benefactor, Generalissimo Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, Father of the new Father land." Trujillo is the brutal dictator of the Dominican republic. The story, comprised of Porter's experiences plus documented revelations of what the Carribean dicta tor has done to his little nation, is credible only be cause it is so obviously true on the basis of available evidence, and because his regime follows the bloody patt.-rn of dictatorship which is far too familiar to this generation. fMIAKLKS rOKTKK. with whom the writer of this editorial went to high school, is a courageous, idealistic, forward-looking man, who is not the kind to run away from a fight. He may still have one on his hands for daring to assault Trujillo, who over the years has made a point to cultivate highly-placed men in the United States. But he is making progress, as a House committee ha voted to begin an investigation into the stories of Trujillo's influence in this country, the murders he has caused to be committed here, and the unsavory reputation he has earned, and much of which has rubbed off on this country as a result of its friendly relations with him. THE 14-page article is too long and too detailed to describe in this space, but it is recommended leading for anyone who is interested in the integrity of the "United States in its dealings with other freedom-loving nations. Porter became involved in this investigation when the son of a couple of his constituents in Eugene was reported dead. The story of this, and the many other startling facts which came to Porter's attention when he started checking into the situation, gave l."m one of the biggest jebs in his few months as an Oregon congressman. We wish the Congressman well with his investi gation, and hope that his outspoken criticism of the blatant and bloody dictatorship of the Dominican leader, will have some effect. "TRUJILLO is spending, and has spent, millions of dollars in his attempts to influence public opinion favorably over the years of his reign. Every news paper ottice receives irequent mailings irom nis hirelings including glossy magazines, press releases, ind copies of "authorized" biographies of Trujillo. To overcome this, Porter and his co-workers will need support. We propose to do what we can to see hi gets it. E.A. Local Government Units Over 50,000 local school districts are to be found in the United States. Most of them are independent governmental units. Four states have none at all, while 15 have certain independent school districts, certain school systems administered by county, city, and other governments. Although some of these local school districts pro vide high school as well as elementary instruction, the majority are small rural affairs providing only elementary. Then there are school districts which do not operate schools at all, but furnish bus transporta tion to other districts. TF 50,000-plus separate school districts seem an ap pallingly high number, let it be noted that the total is less than half what it was 15 years ago. These 15 years have seen, in almost every state, school districts steadily consolidated or annexed, and in some cases simply abolished. In New York and Illinois the num ber was cut almost in half during the last five years alone. However, aside from school units the number of in dependent local government districts has been in creasing, according to the federal Census Bureau. The Bureau lists over 14.000 of these, some in every state, as of January 1957. They were created to con struct and. or operate toll roads, toll bridges, harbor facilities, airports, public buildings, various other revenue-producing enterprises or services. "THEN there are over 17,000 city governments, and another 17,000-plus town and township govern ments. Add the 3,047 counties, the 4S states and, of course, Uncle Sam and you get over 102,000 govern ment units in this country an average of over 2,100 per state. No wonder that 11 per cent of all civilians in the labor force are public employees 3.3 per cent fed eral, 3.5 per cent teachers, 4.2 per cent other state and local. E.R.R. Summerfield To Get Stiff Questioning Washington TP The House Postal Appropriations subcom mittee plans to give Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield a stiff grilling on his bid for $149,500,000 more in postal aid funds. Subcommittee Chairman J. Vaughn Gary iD-Va 1. said today Summerfield and all his top aides will be questioned "in great detail." At the same time. Congress" Tueiday, June 4. 1937 budget-cutting mood appeared to continue to be strong. A senate Appropriation sub committee resumed hearing on House cuts in the S38 million de fense budget. Senate leaders of both parties vowed to put back some of the House cuts. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson said, "No budg et is sacrosanct." He said Con gress is not supposed to vote "blind acceptance or blind re jection" of any budget. 'WW0 TOOK THAT CHICKEN 'FRIGERAT0R?'- Matter of Fact IRAQ. THE TWO VIEWS Baghdad One of the most enigmatic and important person nages in all the Middle East is 53rT his Royal Highness, Ab dul Ilah, te uncle and chief advisor of Iraq's King Faisal and the Crown Prince of the king dom. The Egyp tians and his Joseph Alsop other enemies, who are not few, picture the Crown Prince as a dark intriguer endlessly plotting plotting above all to seize his young nephew's throne, which he in fact conserved against all hazards through 14 years as re geit. In this task, he passed through many nerve - testing times. But these past times have left no outward mark upon the Crown Prince. When he receives you in his small, pleasant, book lined study in the palace, you find an easily polite, mild-mannered somewhat dapper man in early middle age. At first glance, he seems more likely to be real ly at home breeding his Arab horses than guiding the affairs of one of the largest, most com plex and most stormily inclined Arab countries. AT FIRST glance, indeed, one is chiefly struck by the sharp contrast between this mild, polite man and the mag nificent acquiline arrogance of those two great romantic heroes of the Lawrence story of "Re volt in the Desert," the Crown Prince's father, the Emir Ali, and his uncle, the Emir Faisal. Their Editorial Comment FACE THE COMPETITION Nikita Khruschev performed an able propaanda job for Rus sia's Communist rulers in his un precedented television appear ance Sunday. The projection of his personality was limited by the necessity for simultaneous translation of his voluble Rus sian into English. But it did get through; and there was no com fort for Americans in the TV Khruschev. There has been a tendency to overemphasize the occasional cocktail-party outbursts of this Soviet kingpin- He has been ca ricatured in the public mind as a fat, somewhat ludicrous tippler, whose loutish actions warrant only contempt- The Krushchev who sat before the cameras for an hour skill fully dealing with the questions many of them pointed and em barrassing of U. S. correspond ents was no clown. He was by turns good-humored, emphatic, stern. He seldom paused long in making a response, and his answers, although apparently ex temporaneous, were capable ex positions of the Soviet point of view. Although his reasoning was not always logical to west ern ears as, for example, in his avowal that the Kadar regime is the popular choice of the Hun garian people his general per formance was a convincing one. The conviction is that here is a confident, capable man, whose record attests not only to his ruthless cruelty, but to his steely purposefulness and his marked ability as an administrator and conspirator. The broadcast was a public service to Americans, for it tended to convey what must certainly be a truer picture of the man we have been inclined to underrate. We are a cocky, self-assured people, given at times to belit tling our enemies. Remember the U. S. Navy's pre-Pearl Har bor contempt for its Japanese counterpart? We will fare better in the critical competition with Russia if we acknowledge the stern stuff of the competitor. This was never better personi fied for Americans than in the solid figure of Mr. Khruschev on Sunday's "Face the Nation" program. Portland Oregonian. If LEG THAT WAS IN THE By Joseph Alsop portraits in desert robes are his study's chief ornaments, and at first they seem to overwhelm him. But as the Crown Prince tells his own remarkable story and shrewdly discusses his country's problems you begin to discern a strain of astute, temperate autocracy that might not, after ai.', have been so very foreign to . . I t: l 1.4:1.. line spicjiuju iiuit-s iicuiguiiiy gazing from the wall. Two of his remarks, in particular, im pressed this reporter. One con cerned the great development program into which the Iraq government is pouring the lion's share of its rich oil revenues. "I sometimes wish," he said, "that I could just put all the people to sleep who want a dif ferent course for Iraq, and then wake them up five years from now to see what this country has become. I can remember when people who wore shoes used to pay porters to carry them on their backs across the main shopping street of Bagh dad on rainy days; and the dif ference in Rashid Street now is nothing to the difference we are going to see in the lives of the Iraqi people in another five years." AS FOR his second remark, it concerned the claim of the Nasser-style Arab nationalists to be the leaders of the Arabs. "I do not think they are true lead ers," he said. "For the true lead er must first consider the real interests of the masses he seeks to lead." These two remarks have seem ed worth reproducing in their human context because they so accurately sum up the underly ing philosophy of the Iraqi gov ernment in which the Crown Prince and tough old Prime Minister Nuri Pasha are the two key figures. It is the exact op posite of the philosophy of the Nasser -style Arab nationalism, which is all popular emotion and utterly neglects work on the foundations. The tragi - style philosophy, by contrast, ignores popular emotions, sternly re pressing them if need be, and places its whole emphasis on building the foundations of a stronger, better, more modern country. The foundations are being built, there is not doubt about that. The change in Iraq in the latt year is dramatically evi dent to the returning observer. The seed investments of the de velopment program are at last beginning to produce real growth. You see the work and bustle here in Baghdad. You see a whole city, long half dead, suddenly coming back to life in Mosul. Above all, you see a people once miserably badly off, still rather badly off, but now at least with work to do and the first experience of a rising level of life. e e IT IS an inspiring and exciting spectacle. You cannot help but feel that even if the Iraqi government does not have a popular majority today which it does not the majority will come later when a really decent level of life has been attained and the concurrent effort to raise the educational level of the j illiterate masses has also pro duced results. But there is an other view, which in fairness should be recorded. This view was best expressed by Abdul Rahman Al-Bazzaz, former dean of the Baghdad University law school, who was deprived of his post and locked up for his agitation against Nuri Pasha's government in the Suez crisis. He is free now to prac tice law and to receive such visitors as this reporter in his handsome house and garden. He is not embittered and he is not an extremist. But he talked with passion of the immediate need for real democracy in Iraq, as "the only way we can learn to rule ourselves"; and he added grimly, "if this keeps on, it will not matter what the develop ment program achieves, the ex tremists will win the country in the end." I Between these opposing views I vou mav take vnur choice. I " (C) 1957 New York I Herald Tribune Inc. Baghdad Treaty Organization Making 'Remarkable Comeback' By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Baghdad Treaty against Communist penetration in the Middle East has made a remark able comeback. In fact, the five- country alliance is s t r 0 n ger and p 0 t e n t i a lly more impor tant now than it ever had been since it was signed in hariei McCano Baghdad, Iran, in February,-1955. It started out as the loosest of all the free world alliances against Commu nist aggression. It was threatened with a com plete breakup after the British French invasion of the Suez Canal zone last November. But the meeting of the Bagh dad Treaty members which started in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, appears to mark a turning point which will strengthen Allied ties in the whole area of Asia from Turkey to Pakistan. U.S. a Sponsor The Baghdad Treaty members are Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakis tan and Great Britain. The United States, which sponsored the treaty, refused to joint it. At that time, the Eisen hower administration did not want to involve itself so closely in Middle Eastern affairs. The fact that all its members but Britain are Moslem nations, and that Iraq is a member of the nine-nation Arab league, nearly caused the breakup of the pact when Britain joined France in the canal invasion. The four Moslem members boycotted Britain, and held meetings without inviting Brit ain to take part. But Britain is back at the current Karachi meeting. The United States, which had limit ed its part to being represented by an observer and to joining the economic committee of the pact, formally joined the mili tary committee at Monday's opening meeting. That means that except for admitting it, the Loan Repayments Aid Foreign Credit Bid Washington (CQ) A new found confidence in the credit rating of foreign governments underlies President Eisenhower's proposal for a big new loan pro gram to aid the economic growth of backward countries. Contrary to the popular im pression that overseas loans are nothing but give-aways in dis guise, the Administration be lieves it can convince Congress on the record that repayment prospects are excellent. Two items from that record: Receives More For the last three years, the United States has received more money in repayment of princi pal on old loans than it has paid out in new loans. In the last 16 years, the Unit ed States has written off less than l20th of 1 per cent of its outstanding loans as uncollect ible. Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles had these facts in mind when he appeared May 22 before the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee in support of the President's proposed S2 bil lion Development Loan Fund. With an abundance of diplo matic caution, Dulles said, "I would hazard the guess that a very large part; most probably, of what will be loaned by this development Fund, will at some time or other, in some way or other, inure correspondingly to the benefit of the United States." Loans Repaid Figures assembled by the Ad ministr tion show that from June 3 !. 1940, through the end of 1956, the U.S. authorized for eign loans and credits of $18.3 billion. That includes everything from wartime L e n d-L ease through the British Loan of 1945 to the current Mutual Se curity Program. Of that total, $4.6 billion about 25 per cent has been re paid. Another $2 billion was never used. The principal out standing is $11.6 billion, about 64 per cent of the amount origi nally authorized. Only 38,363,000 less than l2,000th of the total has becn written off as lost. Currency devaluations caused almost half this loss. The rest of the loss came on loans, not to foreign governments, but to pri vate business firms, including overseas branches of American companies. Interest Collected Interest collections during the same 16-year period totaled al most $1.9 billion. Administration figures also show that an additional S75.2 million of principal about l200th of the total loaned was more than 90 days overdue on Dec. 31, 1956. Governments that were behind in their payments included both former and current allies. Rus sia owed $16.7 million, Poland $1.4 million and Hungary $2.3 million. Nationalist China was $24.2 United States is now practically a full member of the pact Formal Military Setup The delegates are discussing the formation of a formal mili tary set-up, which will be aimed at coordinating their defense or ganizations. It is possible that Shah Mo hammed Reza Pahlevi may be named before long as supreme commander of the treaty organization. GOP Has Financial Worries, But It's 'Still in Business' Washington (IP Republi can National Chairman Meade Alcorn admitted today the GOP is having money worries. He said some businessmen won't chip in because they think Pres ident Eisenhower's budget is too big. But he said the situation is "comparable" to any off-year between elections, and predict ed businessmen will get over their pique with the Eisenhower administration. "We're not worried about it," he told the United Press. "Ulti mately those expressing those sentiments are going to realize that the alternative is so abhor rent they are not going to let it happen." Meeting With Ike Alcorn has reported to Presi dent Eisenhower on six region al GOP conferences held over the past several weeks to feel the pulse of the Republican par ty. Accompanying him to the White House were Sen. Andrew F. Schoeppel (R.-Kan.) and Rep. Richard M. Simpson (R.-Pa.) chairmen of the Senate and House GOP campaign commit tees. Alcorn said the group planned to give the President a confi dential report on the confer ences and discuss with him "what is being said around the country" by Republicans. million in arrears, the Philip pines S7 million, Iran S15.3 mil lion and Turkey and Indonesia 51.1 million each. Some Congressional critics of foreign aid who have seen these figures regard them simply as a "subterfuge." Rep. H. R. Gross (R-Iowa) told Congressional Quarterly, "Many of these coun tries have been able to make payments on their loans only be cause they have been getting military or economic aid grants from the United States. They're paying us back with our own money." Self-Sustaining Fund? Other legislators, such as Sen. Homer E. Capehart R-Ind.), be lieve the loan( record of recent years is so encouraging the new Development Fund can soon be come self-sustaining. Capehart points out that prin cipal repayments exceded new loan disbursements by $235 mil lion from 1954 through 1956. In the next six years, scheduled principal and interest payments on outstanding loans will total 54.2 billion. Why not, Capehart suggests, allocate these sums to the De velopment Fund and make it self-supporting, without further appropriations of tax money? Administration officials say repayments on pre-1954 loans are committed by law to go into the Treasury, but they agree that re payments in foreign currency on post-1954 loans, for which no provision has been made, could well go into the new Fund. (Copyright 1957. Congreasienal Quarterly) Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Frfd Ertnnan Fred BreniMin Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish F-hone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. It is possible also that within the next few months Jordan may be invited again to join the treaty. This time, after the vic tory of young King Hussein over his pro-Egyptian, pro-Russian political enemies, he may find it possible to accept. If the present trend in the Middle East continues, it is just possible also that pro-Western Saudi Arabia and Lebanon may be brought into it. Alcorn did not discuss the re port in detail. But he said in some of the regional confer ences "some of our finance peo ple said they were having diffi culty raising money." "Some said it was because of the President's budget prob lem," he said. "There is a feel ing in some business circles that the budget is too high." Still in Business Alcorn said that while GOP coffers are "not overloaded" at present, "we're not broke, we're still in business." He said the selection of a new party finance chairman is about set and he hopes to announce it at or before GOP parleys to be held here Thursday and Friday. He said the party pow-wows will bring together the 146 member GOP National commit tee and some 360 Republican state leaders who took part in the regional conferences for an afternoon meeting Thursday and a morning session Friday. They will be preceded by a business meeting of the National commit tee Thursday merning. Vice President R i c h a r-d M. Nixon will address the Thurs day afternoon meeting and Eis enhower will speak Friday. Surgery Allegedly Ordered on Kadar For Subserviency United Nations, N. Y. tpi Hungarian Premier Janos Kadar was emasculated on Russian or ders to make him subservient to the Kremlin, according to well-backed evidence collected by the UN special committee investigating the anti-Communist revolt in Hungary. Kadar's condition will not be detailed in the report complet ed by the committee Monday for submission to the UN Gen eral Assembly, probably next week. The committee i sched uled to meet again today. Heard Evidence fl Unimpeachable sources aid the five - member committee heard evidence on the highest diplomatic level repeatedljE of the atrocity performed on Rn dar. The committee questioned witnesses in three months Wf hearings. The hearings took place in Vienna, Rome, Geneva", London and at United Nations headquarters here. The sources said the report will note that the revolt brought "inhuman treatment and tor ture" amounting to "sadistic bar barities" not fit to be related. To Deal With Terror Reign It will deal at length, however with a reign of $rror perpetrat ed after the revolution by the dreaded Soviet-dominated AVH, the secret police. The operation alleged to have been performed on Kadar will be mentioned in a brief section of the 100,000-word report com piled by the committee. It de scribes Kadar as a pathetic pup pet who literally "bows" when ever Russians are around. If savin j time' 0 Ma,s greater speed Yei'ra far ini wise te waive Far whaj eaa et Can tinje be waetk Te tk.e; wji 4M te save Jt? Bill Fish o o o
