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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "X very one in SoutCem Oregon Reai The Mail Tribune' tubJiar.?d Daily Ejccept Saturday by KIDFORD PRLNTI.NG CO 27-23 North Fir St Phone 2-C141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor FXP.H GREY Advertising M.anajer GERALD LATHAM fcuainesj Manager ERIC ALJ-EN JR. ManajfinR Editor KARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN TJegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Socier? 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E 01 TO I I A t T AsTbcfA'IftN tijjhmit.u.mhi flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 year ago. 1 YEARS AGO Jttrte S. 1847 (Friday) Selection of all candidates for the Mis Medford beauty page ant to be held June 27 and 28 is announced by Ralph Matlack, of local Junior Chamber of Com merce. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Some of the valley boys who will con tinue their punuit of the 3-Rs on a campug, have been pledged to a colleee tong. t TSARS AGO June 8. 1S37 (Sunday) Low humidity of 10 per cent causes H- C Obye, assistant su pervisor of Rogue River national forest, to warn visitors at for est areas of a aerious fire haz ard. Civilian Conservation corps company tationed at Camp Prescott will be transferred to Camp Wineglais in Crater Lake National park, according to R. 14 Kent, project superintend ent. 30 vrM AQO June . 19i7 (Monday) Ten day or econd cover spray for coddling moth should be ap plied within the next week or ten days, nccordini to County Agent L. P. Wilcox. C. A. and H. W. Whil'.ock re turn here from New York where they went to close the deal for sale of Golden Rule stores to the J. C. Fenny company. 0 YEARS AGO June 6. 1917 (Wedaesdav) Mayor E. C. Gates issues ap peal to Medford residents to help get enlistments for the Ma rine corps. From Local and Personal col umn: District Attorney G. M. Roberts, who is at Salem in con nection with a civil case in the supreme court, is expected to re turn to Medford Thursday. Wktt's Your I.Q.? Ntn or tn corrrct ! srrir: svrn or rleht Is excellent; five or mix is good. 1. Were the Atlantic islands, beyond one of the "pillars of Hercules'' (Gibraltar) held to be spectral lands? 2. What does I Q. mean? 3. Bible: Was the miraculous conception and birth of Christ predicted? 4. The American Institute of Public Opinion is popularly known as the G P ? 5. Cordelia. Goneril and Re gan were the daughters of what King in one of Shakespeare's traaedies? 6. Don you identify Earl Browder as a Socialist. Commu nist, or Socialist Laborite? 7. Can a sharply diving air plane cure ordinary deafness? 8. In the Federal Government, what is the ODT? 9 What errors havp the fol lowing expressions in common: anywheres, everywheres. some t where?" in. -Life is made up of sobs. sniffles, and smiles, with " what predominating? Answers: 1. Yes. 2. Intelli gence Quotient, (a number de noting the intelligence of an in dividual). 3. Yes. 4. Gallup Poll. 5. King Lear. 6. Communist. 7. No. 8. Office of Defense Trans portation. 9. They are incorrect; "s" should be omitted. 10. "snif fles." O. Henry. I s;Jwgjky lis hi. T--ASSOCIATION MAIL TRIBUNE To Curb Drunken Driving After the Memorial Day holiday many a traffic court had before it cases in which the charge is drunken driving the most serious traffic offense in the book. In the early years of the automobile the judges had to depend upon the evidence of arresting officers and others as to whether the driver staggered, looked bleary-eyed, was incoherent, or gave other signs of intoxication. Later, scientific methods of testing the alcoholic content of body fluids were developed. Legal standards were established to determine wheth er a driver was under the influence of liquor. ! TN" the 22 states which have enacfed the provisions j on diunken driving of the Uniform Vehicle Code, a showing that a driver's blood contained .15 per cent of alcohol is prima facie evidence he was in toxicated. An alcoholic content of .5 to .15 per cent is not absolute proof but will be accepted as support ing evidence in court. A driver whose blood stream contains less than .5 per cent is considered free of alcoholic influence. The average person of 150 pounds will have .15 per cent of alcohol in his blood after drinking six beers or six ounces of 100-proof whiskey within an hour's time. Dr. Oscar B. Hunter Jr., a pathologist, who had given blood tests to over 4,000 persons, recently told a committee of Congress that not one with a content of more than .15 per cent was found without "slowed up reactions." "ONGRESS is interested in the subject of drunken driving- in connection with a proposed revision of the District of Columbia traffic code. Then there is a question of applying traffic rules on the interstate super highways now going under construction. The first section of a bill under consideration for the District of Columbia would bring Washington within the statutory presumptions as to guilt or in nocence recommended by the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Laws. Under a second, more controversial, section any automobile operator in the District, whether or not a resident, would be deemed to have consented to a chemical test of his body fluids. While all states use some form of chemical tests to check a suspected driver, none compels him to submit to such tests. Most drivers will agree to a blood test when arrested, for a refusal to agree would amount to acknowledging that he was in no fit con dition to drive. In New York, Kansas and Idaho the license of any driver who refuses to be tested is re voked automatically. THE "implied consent" provisions of the pending District of Columbia bill is troubling some of the national legislators. Said Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R N.Y.) : "Suppose a man is so drunk he's non compos and doesn't know whether he refused to submit to a test. What happens? I mean when he doesn't know the difference between yes and no." No one at the hearings attempted to answer, but there is good rea son to believe that in any such case the Supreme Court would sanction a blood test, with or without the authority of an implied consent provision. The Court is believed to have opened the way for compulsory testing in general by its 6-3 ruling Feb. 24. This said that the forcible taking of a speci men of body fluid from an unconscious driver in volved in a fatal accident did not constitute either compulsory self-incrimination or search and seizure without due process of law. E.R.R. War and Postwar Taxes Those who' argue against federal income tax re duction for this year are entitled to point out that the tax today is almost one-third below its wartime high. Specifically, the reduction is 29 per cent for a mar ried couple with two children and income of $10,000 after deductions, before personal exemptions and none from dividends. (It comes to more than 29 per cent if some of the $10,000 is derived from dividends.) Those who argue for reducing the federal income tax this year are entitled to point out that at present it is only about 10 per cent below the postwar high and still from 15 to 20 per cent above the postwar low. THE following table shows the amount of the tax on that $10,000 couple in certain years: 1944. wartime high. S2.245 1948. postwar low 1.361 1952 postwar high (Korean War) 1.774 Today 1,592 ( Less if some income from dividends) The next table shows the amount of the tax in the above years on a married couple with two children and income of $5,000 a year after deductions, before personal exemptions, and none from dividends: 1944 $755 1952 $577 1948 432 Today 520 For comparison with the above figures let it be noted that in 1939, when World War II broke out in Europe, a married couple with two children paid federal tax of $343 on a net income of $10,000 and all of $48 on one of $5,000. Those, although we didn't realize it then, were the days! E.R.R. Directors of Safely Council lo Convene A meeting of the board of di rectors of the Medford Safety council will be held Friday noon June 7. at the Jackson hotel, ac cording to Aubrey Loper, presi dent. Members of the board of dir-1 ectors and heads of divisions j are invited to attend. Loper said, j Purpose of the meeting will be Thursday, June 6, 1957 to outline plans for the proposed membership roundup scheduled for this month. Other reports to be made in clude final report on school pa trol dinner, June traffic safety activities and a progress report on action taken by the Medford city council for a PUC hearing on train speeds through the city.. f?0AO SOME-THIN' EXCITING ! I DONT LKS TUB KIND THAT PUTS MB ro SLP' " Matter of Fact B, NASSER'S JINK Amman The signs are now quite clear of a sharp jink (though certainly not a real turn) in the policy line of Egypt's Gamel Abdel Nasser. Most important of these signs was the two hour and a half interview that the Egyptian Presi dent ac corded to Ray mond Hare be fore the Amer ican Ambassa dor's return to Washington. According to Joseph Alsop wholly reliable reports, Nasser dusted off for Hare the almost forgotten face that he always used to put on for visiting Amer icans. Sweet reasonableness, pla'in tive regrets for the friendship of the past, and above all, reiterat ed claims of total preoccupation with the considerable task of re building Egypt these were the notes that Nasser mainly struck. No modern politician can give so much seeming emotion to the question, "Why can't we be friends again?" The Nasser gov ernment has long been almost totally preoccupied with ven omous anti-Western agitation throughout the Arab world. Yet no one can equal Nasser when he rolls his eyes heavenwards and swears that he has no other preoccupation, except to pro mote the welfare of the suffering people of Egypt. 4 LTOGETHER It must have hppn quite a performance. One would still be inclined to dismiss it as just another Nasser performance. The motives, such as Nasser's urgent desire to lay hands on the Egyptian funds now frozen in America, are too transparently obvious. But before the performance fur Hare's benefit can be so cav alierly dismissed, it is also neces sary to consider the other signs abovementioned. Not least of these was the reception accorded to this little country's new Am bassador to Cairo, Abdel Moneim Rifai, who had been rudely re called from the Jordanian Em bassy in Washington by Nasser's local friends and agents just be fore the great change here. Abdel Moneim Rifai's brother, the able Jordanian Prime Minis ter in all but name, Samir Rifai, wants to patch up the outward appearance of Arab unity. In particular, he wants to end the mutual denunciations of the Egyptian and Jordanian press and radio. Wood Waste Research Eyed by Congressman In Industry, Washington, D. C. Success ful development of a nylon-like fiber from the chemical conver sion of lignin a waste product which is dumped in large vol ume into streams in the produc tion of pulp is viewed by Congressman Charles O. Porter as extremely important not only from the standpoint of indus trial expansion, but in connec tion with the problem of clean ing up polluted streams. Rep. Porter, who has been en gaged in a study of . chemical uses of wood, quoted Director Edward Woozley of the Bureau of Land Management as caution ing that "Little is known about this product as yet. It is too soon, therefore, to be certain that the chemists have finally accomplished a break-through in this field." Greatly concerned with the nation's future timber supplies and best usage of sawtimber, Porter noted that three states Oregon, California, and Wash ington have about half of the nation's sawtimber. Referring to Congressman Porter's specific inquiries re garding the chemical uses of wood and research, Woozley stated, "We are greatly inter ested in the results of chemical research on wood for several reasons.' First and foremost is Joseph Alsop Thus achieving surface good relations was Abdel Moneim Rif ai's mission when he went to Cairo. The Jordanian envoy had rough going at first, since noth ing can quite match the moral indignation of the Egyptians when their victims resent being victimized. But in the end a kind of understanding to put a stop to the public Egyptian-Jordanian slanging match was reached be tween Rifai and Nasser. NASSER promptly tested the willpower of the Jordanian government, by stimulating his Syrian satellites to publish a bit ter attack on Jordan for request ing the withdrawal of the Syrian troops that were stationed here until recently. But Young King Hussein insisted on giving as good as he got. The Syrians passed by the vig orous Jordanian answer to their attack in almost complete si lence. Thus one must assume for the present that Nasser too thinks his interest will be served by patching up the appearance of Arab unity, at least in the case of Jordan. Finally,' although it may seem rather odd, it is certainly Nas ser's wish to re-establish good relations with Britain. The Ang lo-Egyptian talks about unfreez ing Egypt s funds in London have broken down rather abruptly. But a kind of indirect courtship of the British is still being car ried on. It takes the form of overtures to British diplomats by Syrian representatives both here in Jordan and elsewhere in the Middle East. Like all Syrian moves, these overtures bear the imprint "Made in Egypt." THE motive of this courtship of the British unquestionably goes beyond the use of the Egyp tian funds frozen in London. In the days before Suez, when Brit ain was the more active Western power in the Middle East, the Egyptians were always trying to play off the Americans against the British. Quite often they succeeded. Now the same game is to be played again, but just the other way round. As one British dip lomat wrily remarked, "It's like the brides-in-the-bath murderer" (who found that he did very well drowning his first wife in her bath, and so went on to drown two more). Such then is the evidence for a rather big jink in the Egyptian policy line. What the jink may mean requires further careful analysis. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Pollution that research in this field has been resulting in closer and clos er utilization of the available supplies of timber. An import ant result of this is to enlarge the supplies of, and extend the time during which existing sup plies of old growth timber will satisfy the nation's needs. "Another reason for our inter est in this field of research is that industries have an unfort unate tendency to cause stream pollution. Much of the research being done has been for the pur pose of discovering practical ways and means for utilizing the byproducts of chemical in dustries using wood as their principal raw material. This has been especially true of the pulp and paper industry which thus far is the largest class of ip dustry using wood by chemical processes." The BLM director noted that Oregon has experienced "very rapid growing use of sawmill waste for paper and other pulp products such as cardboard, in sulating board, and container board. Some of these products compete with lumber and other sawmill products, but from the standpoint of conservation are highly desirable because they increase the percentage of stand ing timber which can be used and what is even more import Signs Multiply Nasser Might Wish Closer Bonds With West By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The chief Western allies ap pear to be making a series of moves aimed at improving their relations with Egypt. Britain has released S16.800.000 in blocked cred its to permit Egypt to get some badly needed goods which British Charles McCano dealers n a a contracted to send to that coun try before the Suez Canal crisis started. It was reported that the United States is negotiating to release some blocked Egyptian credits also earmarked for pur chases of goods. France, though still bitter over the whole Suez situation, is reported to be ready to follow the lead of Britain and the United States and permit its ships to resume using the canal. On the surface, all the moves mentioned seem to constitute a victory for President Gamal Ab del Nasser of Egypt, who caused an explosion in the Middle East !by seizing the Suez Canal last July. May Change Attitude But there are indications that Nasser may be wondering whether a more reasonable atti tude toward the Western pow ers might not pay off. There certainly is no sign that Nasser is thinking about a fundamental change in his poli cies, which since the Suez Canal seizure have been anti Western. But Nasser received quite a setback when young King Hus sein of Jordan won a victory over his political enemies, who with the active support of Nas ser tried to overthrow him. It is now reported that Nas ser .is having some trouble in his economic relations with So viet Russia and its satellites. Dispatches from Cairo say that Russia and other countries of its bloc are not delivering goods for which Egypt paid in cash. Wheat and crude oil which Russia has sent to Egypt are reported to be of mediocre quality. It is reported that some cotton which Egypt is sending ike Favors House For Vice-President Washington (IP) President Eisenhower said Wednesday the vice president is entitled to an official residence, especially when he has acted in "the inter ests of the United States," like Richard M. Nixon. Eisenhower told his news con ference there had been instances in the past in which the vice president was at odds with the President and consequently had little to do except preside over the Senate. But he said this was not true of Nixon. A reported noted that Eisen hower had proposed a special residence for Nixon in his budget message to Congress. Asked how he felt about the proposed structure, Eisenhower replied: "The way that Mr. Nixon has worked and the way he has act ed for the interests of the United States, I certainly think that kind of a vice president should have it." ant economically, result in each thousand feet of standing timber providing several times as much employment for local labor." Lignin Problem Lignin makes up from a third to a half of natural wood sub stance. For many years it has been subject of much chemical research. When and if processes are developed which will make it possible to use lignin profit ably, the result will be extreme ly important. Recently the President's Ap-; pointed Bipartisan Commission on Increased Industrial use of Agricultural Products, prepared a report which includes the rec- p ommendations of a task force on ' forest products headed by Paul Dunn, formerly Dean of the For-; estry School at Corvallis, Ore. It I is understood that this task -force has recommended annual appropriations of S13, 000,00 to expand forest products research. Of this amount S9,000,000 would ; be used in expanding such re search at the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis. The remaining 54.000,000 would be used to finance research be ing done on a cooperative basis with state and private research groups. S Food Hangover? (Gas, Heartburn, Acid Stomach f) Toms give top-speed re- Ilof IMri nistrr. no mir in it- take anvwhere. Always carry Turns. IUM3 PO THl tummi I is Russia is being dumped on the world market at cut rates, to the damage of Egypt's export trade. Loosen Red Hold Evgeny V. Kissilev. Soviet am bassador to Egypt, left for home Tuesday after a conference with Egyptian Finance Minister Ab del Moneim Kaysouni. The of ficial version is that Kissilev went to Moscow on his annual Today and By Walter Khrushchev On TV During the television inter view with Khrushchev, I had the feeling that it ought to be more mterest t h a n it was. This was not because he said what had so often been said before, and that at no point did he depart from the offic cial line of pol icy. That was Waller Lippmunn to be expected, and no one who tuned in on Sunday afternoon had any reason to suppose that he was going to hear anything startling or novel. The real reason for interview ing public men on television is not to communicate news but to reveal what they are like, in this case what the big boss of all the Russias is like when he talks. The trouble on Sunday, so it seemed to me, was that one could see Khrushchev but could not listen to him. There was a baffling disconnection between the picture of Khrushchev talk ing and the English words that the translator was uttering. It was evident that the trans lator, who was certainly doing his best, did not have the time to do more than give the gist of what Khrushchev was saying. The gist was not very interest ing. What was lost was the way Khrushchev was saying it, why he as so often smiling about something he was saying, and how he really put it when he made his assertions. I have, of course, no idea how television can solve the problem of translations. It may be that it is impossible to have an in terview, which is unrehearsed and where there is no script, and to find any translator who can make instantaneously a faithful translation. Good translators, even when they have plenty of time, are very rare. Yet the problem of translation I is all-important in television in terviews. For the real point is not to communicate what is said but to reveal the personality of the speaker by showing what he is like when he talks. IZHRUSHCHEV'S self - assur "ance was, it seemed to me. very interesting. It must be one of the sources of his personal power, for people like to follow men who are not themselves in doubt. Yet extraordinary as it was for a big Communist to be inter viewed without preparation, he was never in any real danger. The questions be was asked were general and like all very high personages he was ques tioned but he was not cross-questioned. Protected in this way, he was able to take full advantage of the strong positions which the Soviet Union has staked out for itself and has pre-empted in the propaganda contest. i He is in favor of the evacua tion of all of the foreign troops from all countries from Hun-1 gary and Roumania as well as . from Germany and France. This j is an attractive proposal which, j however, he would never dream j of making if he thought there was the slightest chance of its j being accepted. He is also in i favor of the abolition of nuclear J weapons and in favor of drastic Frank Morgan : jt r1 f f , M CHAPEL MORTUARY Funeral Directors PHONE 2-8030 MEDFORD vacation. But there are indica tions that his trip home is due partly at least to Egyptian com plaints over economic relations. A United Press Cairo dispatch quoted diplomatic informants as expressing belief that Nasser would like to loosen Russia's hold on Egyptian economy by improving relations with West ern countries. Tomorrow Lippmann disarmament. Here, it is heads he wins and tails we lose. He gains by making the proposal, and he gains when we refuse it. Sooner or later the govern ment's public relations experts, say Mr. Larson, will have to find a way to deal with this dilemma. lHRUSHCHEV said nothing, I thought, to contradict or to cast doubt on the prevailing esti mates of Soviet intentions o among close students and ob servers. The military stalemates recognized at the summit con ference in Geneva in 1955, con tinues. There is no prospect 0? the kind of break -through whicfc could give either sida indisput able superiority. War as an in strument of national policy is, therefore, ruled out. and ther is no alternative to the kind of competitive co-existance which Khrushchev talked so much about. One of the more hopr-fij things he implied in his inter view was that, if the tension were relaxed, he was prepared to accept the probability that within the Communist orbit there would be I reeter national, freedom (this is not to be con fused with personal freedom). In this respect 1 has come a very long way from the old StV: linist imperialim. o IN GENERAL, Khrushchev confirmed the view that tbee will be no war and that there will be no settlement. It is true that he supported the idea of a limited agreement about arma ments, and. he encouraged the hope that the Stassen - Zorin ne gotiations in London may come to something. But the area of any conceivable agreement will be very small as compared with the vast areas of conflict where no agreement is in sight. There was no sense of urgency in Khrushchev's remarks about settling the great issues. There is, we might as well recognize, no sense of urgency here. There is not much of it in Western Eu rope, which includes Dr. Aden auer's Germany. Perhaps we have, all learned to live precari ously but not too uncomforta bly in a divided and unsettled world. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. SAVINGS o deposited by June 10th will earn dividends from June 1st Jackson tt. Fifrra! Savings & Lmn Assn. c Where Your Saving Earn Mere 124 East Main Harold Snodgrats 1 KING STREET ied nd m-; an tg a st n id sv f I- O 4
