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Medford and Jackson County
HistGr? from the filej of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years fijo.
10 YEARS AGO
June 4., 1147 (Wednesday)
Plea from Jackson county del
egation that retirement of Coun
ty Agent Robert Fowler be post
poned is denied by board Of
higher education.
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.
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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.
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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?
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