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jrOUJl-X2DFOD (OBEGON) 'Jft'rvone in Southern Oregon - ifrads The. Mali In Dune KSSnd Laily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO yj North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RCHL Editor Hfcft& GREY Advertising; Manager Cr)ALO LATHAM Business Manager CRJC A JO-FN JR Manaijing Editor Eg)L H City Editor HAr'RY CHIPMAN Teieeraph Editor RiCpARD JEWETT Sport Editor OUVE STARCHER Societv Editor pAjJT ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second ela matter at Mtdford Oregon under Act of March 3 l'6r m'J E SC R I PT I ON RATES By It a In Advance Per CopT ICe Oai.y and Sunday One year 15 00 Dailv and feundav S:s months 8 00 ilv and Sunday Three mos 4.25 S-O-lav Only One vear 4 20 B) Carrier In Advance Medford As land Central Point Eagle Point JicksonviiJe Gold Hill Phoenix Sfcadv Cove Roinie River Talent id on motor routes: Dt!!y ani-i Sunday One year $18 TO Iily and Sunday One month 1-50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per cooy All Terms Cash in Advanre fiftVial Paper of 'the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County Vtttrh Press Full Leased Wire itKMBER OP AUDIT BLTREAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative W5T-HOLIDAY COMPANY tNC Offices in New York Chicago, de trolt San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL t 0 I T 0 t I A . I ASSOCta-IBN Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Historv from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 49 years ago. 10 TEARS AGO Jud 9. 1347 (Monday) Medford residents will be ask ed by city officials to approve a $146,000 increase in city taxes abov the six per cent property tax limitation tomorrow. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: If it hadn't been the Mormon crickets, eat iig up everything green in east ern Oregon, the jackrabbits would be taking the blame again. 20 YEARS AGO June 9. 19JT (Wednesday) Auxiliary of the southwestern Oregon Minors' association will b organized in Jacksonville on June 14 according to Robert Kel ly, of Grants Pass, president. Albert Burch southern Oregon member of the state mining board, returns to Medford after attending board meeting in Port land where new mining bureau Was organized. 40 TSARS AGO Jane 9. 1927 (Thursday) Strawberry season in Medford and the valley has come on so fest that their price has consid erably dropped. from Local and Personal col umn: C. E. Boyce, of the Rogue Biver Studio corporation, leaves for Portland on business trip. 40 TEARS AGO Jane 9. 1917 (Saturday) Members of Home Guard are instructed to keep their rifles and ammunition at home where tfiy will be more accessible in ease of emergency. City's water famine is over nd normal supply is flowing from Little Butte creek into the daw intake and from reservoir iato city pipes. Hfkars Your I.Q.7 fc'lee or ten correct it superior; erven or eleht U excellent; five or ax ts rood 1. Were the Canary Islands and Azores known to the Phoe nicians before the birth of Chriat? 2 Of which country is War saw the capital? 9 Bible: Which Old Testa ment prophet berated the priest rtf Bethel? 4 Is a nosegay a silly looking pair of eyeglasses or a bouquet cot flowers1 3" What does the following aentence mean: "I would that he were here."? 8 The author of "The Call of the Wild" was Jack ? 7. Neville Chamberlain. Stan I y Baldwin and Winston Churchill all served as Prime Minister in what country? 8 "Voice of America" short Wave broadcasting is under the auspices of which department of the U S. Government? 9 Is the "t" pronounced In the word "nestle "? 10. "Mehr Lichf were the la.n words of Goethe. What do they mean? Answers: I. Yes. 2. Poland. 3. Amos. 4. Bouquet of flowers. 5. "I iirish that we here here." I. Jack London. 7. Great Britain. 6. State Department. 9. No. 10. More light. - -ASSOCIATION MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence . . . Paul Smiths. N'. Y.. June 5: As time goes 200 years is merely the wink of a cosmic eye. Yet 200 years ago an officer in the U. S. Colonial Army an ancestor of the undersigned was offered a million acres in this northern New York "wilderness" for S2.250. According to family records he refused it because his home was in Pennsylvania and he had a farm of his own to attend to. (We suspect he didn't have tnat much money on hand, and installment payments with nothing down so popular today were not invented then. But that of course is entirely conjecture.) Two hundred years as an epoch of time came to our attention recently when we were asked to contribute to a fund for the benefit of an Eastern college which would draw compound in terest and not be paid over until the year 2157 the total of S10.000 then amounting to several million. Looks like "easy money." And as things turned out it would have been, had Colonel Curtes that was the ancestor's name purchased that million acres with all its lakes, timber and trout streams, and had been able to hang on to it. As he was a "rebel"' and not a Tory, there would have been a good chance, and had his descendants then demonstrated the same capacity there would now be more millionaires in the U.S.A. than there are now and in N. Y. state particularly there are plenty. All of which is under the heading of what might have been, if what happened had not happened. Even more in the realm of conjecture, what will happen to that S10.000 trust fund when its life ends 200-years hence, and the total is paid into the treasury Of that college? - Will it add up to millions and if so what will a million dollars BUY in 2157 AC? All interesting questions. Our GUESS is a million dollars will still be a reasonable fortune for an individual, and a welcome endowment to any edu cational institution; and even more vital that both our form of democracy and our capitalistic system will not be FUNDAMEN TALLY changed. (Emphasize FUNDAMENTALLY, please.) If that be unwarranted optimism mixed with "wishful think ing," ok, make the most of it. For when the time comes to prove our error, one thing for sure, it will not be embarrassing to the undersigned! R.W.R. Boats, Boats, Boats The remarkable show put on by boat-owners at Diamond lake recently, when the mountain lakes were opened to fishing, is the most concrete local dis play to date of a new "fact of life" America is be coming a nation of boatmen. There were an estimated 3,000 boats on the lake that day, and while some first excited reports were a trifle exaggerated, it was, indeed, quite a bunch. ""THE boats being purchased in increasing numbers range from little rowboats with three horsepower outboard motors up to cruisers that can venture into the ocean, sleep a number provide accommodations for week end recreation. But, as with automobiles, the biggest bulk of them are in the "middle" price range the fishing boats, runabouts and small cruisers which can be hauled by trailer to the nearest navigable water. Three factors account for the rapid increase in boating. One is the increasing amount of leisure time available to more and more Americans as work-weeks get shorter. Another is a generally higher standard of living and of pay. The third is the war-bom develop ment of sturdy, efficient, dependable outboard mo tors, many of them with self-starters, gear shifts and other feature that make them attractive. DACK shortly after the tum of the century, when automobiles first started getting to be more than isolated curiosities, there were no particular rules of the road. As they multiplied, however, society, for its own safety, set up traffic regulations. The boating fraternity is about at that point. The old rules of navigation, particularly on inland water ways where the amateurs are now crowding, no longer are adequate for safety. If the trend continues, the day may come when floating traffic lights on lakes will be accepted as nec essary evils as they are today on the streets. E.A. Mail Amid the talk of increasing postage rates, the fact that they have often been changed, both upward and downward, has been largely overlooked. For instance, at one time it cost 25 cents to send a one-page letter more than 500 miles. The rate for a four-page letter was 1. These were doubled in 1815, but brought back down again the following year, to rates of 6 cents for single pages going no more than 30 miles and 25 cents for over 400. A LL through the 19th century, costs of sending let ters fluctuated, depending on distance, size of letter, and the rates then in effect. During the 16 months the Pony Express was in operation to the west coast, its rates started at $5 per letter, later $1. It was in 1851 that Congress began shaping up a policy for mail rates, which forecast the more orderly system later to come. Single letters going up to 3,000 miles would go for 3 cents prepaid. (It was a fairly general custom to let the re ceiver pay the postage in the early days.) In 1S63 a uniform letter rate, regardless of dis tance, was established. It was on that date, too, when free citv delivery was started, and the carrier when Congress authorized a letter-unit of a half ounce, rather than charging by the sheet. "THE charge in those days and at a time when what 9 cents is worth todav. In 1885 the rate was brought down to 2 cents per full ounce, where it remained until orld War I, when it went up to 3 cents per ounce. It came down again in 1919 and stayed at 2 cents until 1932, when it went bacK to 3 cents, where it has remained. The current proposal is to bring the letter-mail rate up to 4 cents per ounce or fraction thereof. E.A. Sunday. June 9, 1957 of people in comfort, and Rates if prepaid, 5 cents if not fee svstem abolished, and was 3 cents per half-ounce 3 cents was worth about Today and By Walter A New China Policy Although our China policy re mains unchanged, there has been a change of feeling about vy.'iwMtm it. The numDer e ;& of true believ- r . w arc- cnVi a c TVTr Walter Robert son, have dwin dled, and. they are now able to control the po i c y only be cause no one in a re sponsible p o s i t i on has Walter Lipprnanii come forward with a convincing and satisfying alternative. That is why there was only a perfunc- ory reaction in Washington to the Formosa riots and to the British abandonment of the spe cial trade restrictions. There is a general feeling that even if our China policy is still the best pos sible policy, it has become a poor and dismal policy neverthe less. For all our assets are deteri orating. Chiang is getting older and his chance of ever restoring his power has disappeared. His army, though large in numbers, is also growing older, and it can not recruit from any large mass cf Chinese. Red China is still be ing denied a place in the United Nations, but only because our friends, though they do not agree with us. are willing to de fer temporarily to our plead ings. There is almost certainly an adequate majority to give Peiping the China seat in the U.N. Within Formosa there exists. as the Formosa riots so surely indicated, a general sense of frustration. The fact of the mat ter is that while the Chinese who have fled to Formosa are protected on their island, they are also contained inside their island. This is a very unhealthy situation, to be safe, to be sub sidized and to have no hope Where can it lead? Where even tually but to the seduction of the island Chinese by the mainland Chinese, and to a deal after Chiang goes which would put Formosa back under the rule of Peiping? This is the prospect, and only a counter-revolution on the mainland, which is highly im possible, could make the pros pect different. reappraisal of our China po licy is, therefore, necessary unless we wish to throw up our hands, confess that we are help less, and that we must wait with resignation for the inevitable de terioration, to produce a general disaster. If the best that we can hope to do is to hold fast and to stand pat with Mr. Robertson, the odds are very big that there will be a crash and that our whole position in the Far East will be involved In it. The glaring weakness of our China policy is that we are say ing one thing about Formosa and we are doing something very different. What we are do ing is to keep Chiang securely tied down in Formosa. We won't help his government to recover the territory over which it is supposed to be the legitimate sovereign. We won't permit it to try to recover its territory lest by a foolish adventure it would involve us in a war. Moreover, to speak plainly, we have not objected to having the word passed on to Chou En-lai in Peiping that there will be no military invasion of the main land. Although officially we do not recognize the government of Mao Tse-tung, unofficially we are compelled to recognize its existence. For some time we have, in fact, been conducting diplomatic negotiations with Red China in Geneva. AND SO while our legal policy is that there is one China with Chiang the head of its legi timate government, our real po licv is to have two Chinas, sepa rated by the Seventh Fleet, one cn the mainland and one in For- 'TOO MUCH MUSH I Tomorrow Lippmann mosa. Our real policy is funda mentally sound and right. It cor responds to our commitments of honor, to the political realities in the Far East, and to our stra tegic interests. But as things are now, it has a fatal weakness. It is almost certain to break down because, since it has no legal and political basis, the Chinese have every incentive to break it down, TN my view, the object of our China policy should now be a political settlement with all the Chinese, based on the principle that Formosa is to have special status. We should propose, it seems to me, that under the pro tection and guardianship of the United Nations, Formosa be rec ognized as autonomous, demili tarized, and neutralized Chinese territory with its own seat in the General Assembly. If Red China agreed to such settlement, it would become the basis of a peace treaty. A settlement of this kind would legalize, regularize and consolidate the real situation which now exists. All that would be given up would be the legal fictions, that Chiang's gov ernment is the true government of China, that Mao's govern ment, which is undisputably the government of the mainland, has no legal existence. The settle ment would confirm what - is really important in what we ac tually have namely a For mosa that is an asylum for the anti-Communist Chinese, and an island territory that is not in unfriendly hands. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Matter of Fact by joSePh a.soP EVENING WITH CHARLES MALIK Beirut The powerful, aquil ine face had not sagged into characterlessness; but it was plainly the face of a man under severe strain. Although he woe trvinff to "have a restful, dressing gown and slipper eve ning at home, the Foreign Minister of Joseph aisop Lebanon be haved more like a company offi cer in his command post. And no wonder! For the ac customed peaceful bustle of this pleasant city has now been rude ly shattered by the oncoming elections. Being doomed to defeat in a fair vote, the opposition parties have resorted to mob violence and to acts of individual terror ism. They have wanted martyrs. By almost literally pushing their unfortunate followers upon the guns of the security forces, they have made martyrs in the recent riots. Above all, they have wished to avoid at all costs the proof that any Arab country could de cisively reject in a fair vote the peculiar brand of Arab national ism peddled by their real leader and director, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Therefore, with the active help of the Egyp tian, Syrian and Communist agents who swarm in Lebanon, the opposition parties have sought to make the coming vote seem unfair, by the simple ex pedient of staining it with blood. THE brunt of all this has main- -1- ly fallen upon Lebanon s three doughty leaders. President Carnille Chamoun, Prime Min ister Sami el-Solh and Foreign Minister Charles Malik. The mob violence has been controlled. But at mid-day a new campaign of terrorism was stared, when a Syrian, no doubt one of the agents of President Nasser's ally Col. Abdel Hamid Serraj, tossed a primitive dynamite bomb into one of the crowded streets in the center of Beirut. No wonder, then, as I have said, .that Charles Malik ushers his guests into his study with an Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the light to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Industry and Prosperity To the Editor: Please grant me the opportunity of publicly thanking the writers of dozens of warm friendly letters which have reached me here from peo ple within southern Oregon who are truly interested in their present and future. Needless to say, I am also a target for un ethical and underhanded tactics to quiet my voice by the friends cf eastern-backed so-called pri vate power companies and the rather pitiful protests of the less educated peoples of Oregon who either are unqualified to read and KNOW the facts or are actu ally disinterested so believe any thing they hear on paid TV ad vertising, or across a back fence. Your letters those of the in formed people who have re searched and compared and know the facts that I have learned have counterbalanced the weak protests I received. My hope as I write this, is that you have sent letters also to the committees in Washington who are now studying our situation and in whose hands lies our fate. Today I received a letter from Washington the White House Assistant to the President, and in it I am advised that Washing ton is now awake to our prob lems and is seeking remedial measures. This indicates that right now Washington is at tuned to your voice keep up the good work! To those who write to me that Senators Neuberger and Morse are opposed to private and small business let me point to the gall and the courage shown in their recent public protest of a fast tax write-off which saved large monied industry a lot of million dollars which must be made up from the pockets of small businessmen! If that is not the action of the best buddy to small industry then none has lived. And Senator Neuberger's relentless, fight to save tribal holdings from being released until a program is worked out whereby small business will be allowed equal opportunity of purchase rather than opening these many acres suddenly so that only monied monopolies are prepared to take advantage of these as uet untouched natural resources. There are many more examples which prove that Ore gon, for the first time in years, has the 'rightest, fightingest' Senators in Congress! To you who oppose them you don't de serve the benefits which they WILL bring about, but they will bring industry, and prosperity, and a year around payroll in your pockets and mine whether you like it or not! Your Misplaced Oregonian, Mrs. Virginia Card 1154 Viola ave. Glendale, Calif. air of preoccupation very unsuitf ed to a slippered evening at home. Greetings have hardly been exchanged when there is a screech of automobile tires some where down the street, followed by a. loud, dull boom. Charming Mrs. Malik, bringing drinks, stops short with her tray for an instant, then says with careful casualness: That will be another bomb." "Of course," replied Malik, and launches unconcernedly into a discussion of the recent events in Lebanon. The telephone rings. It is President Chamoun. There is an exchange in Arabic. As he hangs up again, Malik tosses an aside to his wife "We are stand ing firm." Then the door bursts open to admit Jean, the cheer fully tough-looking security offi cer assigned to this neighbor hood. "The fourth bomb today!" The fact plainly elates Jean. "I saw them, and I got the number. It was a Syrian car just what I expected. It's just like last Fall when the Egyptian Military At tache was throwing his bombs! And I was in on that case too!" THUS Jean. Malik makes sure the needed steps have been taken to catch the bomb-throwers' cars; ascertains that no real damage has been done; and re turns to his conversation. "Per haps it's only by these people doing such things, my dear," he says to his wife, "that we can be able to learn the real danger of our situation." Then, he continues with a vig orous and pointed analysis of the Egyptian government's new and more conciliatory attitude to the United States, Great Brit ain and one or two other Arab countries like Jordan. Egypt and Nasser, he remarks, very obvi ously want a breathing spell and very naturally want to lay hands on the funds now frozen in New York and London. But the real test, he continues, is not whether President Nasser is temporarily polite to this gov ernment or that. The real test is whether Nasser continues his venomous hostility to the West's friends, his active support of the West's enemies and his close co operation with Communists and fellow-travellers in other Arab lands. The situation, in Lebanon at the moment is proof - enough POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contribution) i . "1 ' 4 I Shown above is Sam. It may have been indelicate of the photographer to snap a picture of Sam while he was en gaged in refreshing himself, but he did it anyway, and we like the picture, and thought our readers would too. Sam, a parakeet, belongs to Editorial Comment HONORABLE CITIZENS Some award for Honorable Citizenship ought to go to the members of budget committees who labor long hours to whack off estimates of need to fit the Procrustean bed of the six-per cent limitation. With depart ments justifying their needs on one hand, taxpayer frowns on the other, and Old Man Infla tion behind them, they have ra ther thankless jobs. And when they get through they aren't just sure whether they have done the right thing by many worthy causes. For American local govern ment, the budget-making process is comparatively recent. In for mer years money was spent by appropriating bodies and taxes were levied to meet expenses without very close' relationships. As a consequence, overspending resulted, unpaid warrants accu mulated, and then voters would be asked to authorize a bond issue to retire the warrants. Tight budget laws didn't be come . common until about the second decade of this century They -were the product of citi zens' taxpayer committees. The six per cent limitation, which is unique in Oregon, followed, rep resenting an effort to hold down the tax burden which was rest ing heavily and almost exclusive ly on property. (Other states have their own restrictions: Washington a 40-miIl limit. In Washington, bonds and extra tax es are not valid unless they are approved in an election in which 40 per cent of the registered vo ters turn out. Seattle school dis trict lost an extra levy because too few voted, though the ma jority of those voting favored it.) Our budget laws work pretty well thanks in great measure to the conscientious folk who make up the committees of the several units of government. Oregon Statesman, Salem. that Nasser has not yet changed in any basic way. "And while he fights us, we must fight back," adds Malik. But even with the dynamite smell still drifting .down the street outside, Malik adds that jf Nasser is really willing to devote himself to rebuilding Egypt, and above all if he proves by deeds his readin'ess to let other Arab lands work out their own fu tures, then (but only then) a new look should be taken. Malik thus gave the only sensi ble answer to the great problem raised by the jink in the Egyp tian policy line described in the last report in this space. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. At Conger-Morris you are served by qualified and understanding people Joseph Hosick WEST MAIN AT SIXTH QjOngerAorris nuitntl niDCTrtDC "YOUR TV WEATHERMAN" KBES-TV MONDAY THRU FRIDAY 6:15 P.M. ASHLAND MORTUARY . Member Notional Selected Mrs. M. M. Snider of 406 Barnes st., and has a habit of finishing off the last few drops of coffee from Mrs. Snider's cup when she is through. A sub-teen girl of our ac quaintance, who ii going to Girl Scout camp this summer for the first time, the other day was looking over one of the questionnaires which are to be filled out. Reading down near the bottom, she said: "It says 'Food dislikes.' What should I put there? There's only a little tiny space." A young matron tells of pur chasing a week's groceries it a local food emporium. It turne4 out to be a big load, with many heavy canned goods, and filled two of those long, flat, fsirly shallow cardboard boxes. The clerk who was helping her ging erly placed them sideways nn top of one of the grocery carts. As they approached the perk-: ing lot, the awkward, unwielfly load of groceries shifted slisbt ly. and began to tip. The clerk grabbed for the upper end of the boxes, and both he and the purchaser watched in horror a bottle of bleach near the bot torn of one of the) boxc o closer to the pavement. Slowly, like one of thov jn exorable dreams where one calti hardly move, the boxes tipped and tipped and tipped. As they tipped, they slowly pulled the clerk over on top of them sntil they landed gently, he sprawled all over the groceries, boxes and all, with everything, including 3 the bleach bottle, intact. A friend of ours dropped in at a wayside tavern some miles to the north of here not long ago. and reports that man in a painter's white over alls, and obviously somewhat the worse for having been in that environment loo long, was going from patron to patron asking if anyone would help him paint a sign for the tvern." "I wash hired to do it shix monihsh ago." he explained, "but I never got pasht lha bar." o , ) A wife in one of our neigh boring communities was sur prised and pleased the other day when a telephone instal lation man arrived and put in a new telephone. She thought her husband had ordered it installed. Pretty soon he arrived home and saw the telephone, and, pleased and surprised, thanked his wife for ordering it. She dis claimed responsibility, so bot were baffled as to how it came about. A litUe investigation reveal ed that the telephone man had made a small mistake in the address. But, since both wanted a telephone, they seized on the opportunity and kept it. A member of our staff, we were delighted to learn last week, was born in an automo bile, earlier than expected, and on the birth certificate, as a result, the place of birth is given as a highway number, mileage from such and such a town, and in latitude and longitude. There are two pennies lying on a ledge just outside a window to the Mail Tribune's news room. How they got there no one knows. And nobody seems to think the job of opening the big window and the huge screen is worth the trouble to pocket the two cents. if Joseph Hosick has had 10 years experience as a licensed embalrner and funeral director. He has been a member of the Conger-Morris staff for five years. Mr. Hosick is a veteran of World War II, a member of the American Legion, Elks, and a member of a Med ford church. In the absence of Car los Morris, Mr. Hosick serve as the TV weath e r m a n, bringing you weather forecasts as a public service. aaJl 4th and C Street. . Ahlod Morticians by invitation
