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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
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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
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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.
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