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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedpomJS.tbibiinb ' "Evervor.s In bo-jtr.em Oregon Keags The Mail Tribune" 1 FuHUrTen Da:: Ex-ieoT Saturday by ' MZDfOHD PHLNTING CO 27-2S) Norm Fir St Pnor.e j ROBERT W R L"H1. Ecitor HERB GHKY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM business Manager ERIC Ali..", 1R Manae.ng tailor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Tegra&h Editor RICHARD JEWET'f Scoria Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Societ Editor UALE CRICKSOS Circulation Mgr. An Indeper.-Tt Newspaper Entered as w or.d cia- mat'er at Medlord Orp'n tinner Act oi Ma.-'n 1'7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail in Advance Per Copy 10c Dai-v airl Sunday One vear $15 (j0 Daily antf S-jiriav Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunriav Three mi 4 25 S jnnav Only One vear 4io By Camfr In A-l'.an-e Meiford Ahlanl Central point Fa!e Point JirkK'jnviiie fioil Hill Phoenix Soidv Cove Koi-iii River Taient and on mot'ir routes Daily arr: Sur.dsv One year tl8 00 X-ally ar.l Sunday One month 150 Carrier and L-e-'iiTS 10c Der copy All Terms Cash in Advance Offlrijj F'iPM Of the Clly of Metiford Of fir la t Paptr ot Jackson County L'nitxi "Prr-ssJuII Leaded Wire 4fc MiJER OP A ' ; D I T RtTREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertli:r g Representative WEST-H OLI D A Y r O M P A NT CN'C Offices in New York Chicago de trott San Franri,"o Los Angeles Seattle PortJind St Louis Atlanta Vnnennvr R C NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOcTa'I 7,0 NEWS PA PER PUBUSHEt W-ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years aco. 10 YEARS AGO Juno 17, 1947 (Tuesday) E. Ronald Rice named school board director for five-year term. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column, "Monster turnips are pridefully pointed out in rural gardens. The gar dener admits he raised them, but without credit to Old Sol, Mother Nature, o.- the little wom an, who did the hoeing." 20 YEARS AGO Juno 17. 1937 (Thursday) Medford citizens to vote on $50,000 bond issue and special tax levy to repair paved streets. State police begin installing short wave radios in all units. 30 YEARS AGO June 17. 1927 (Friday) Grasshoppers invade Tule lake district, strip half mile area a day of grazing and grain land. Water carnival scheduled for Natatorium tonight; contestants free, children 10 cents, adults 15 cents. 40 YEARS AGO Juno 17, 1917 (Sunday) Total of 1.833 new automobiles registered in Oregon last month, highest number in history. Word has been received by local Marine recruiting office that the age limit for enlistment in marine crops has been reduc ed from 20 to 19 years. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten rorreet t superior; even or el?ht Is excellent; live or six Is good. 1. Aristotle expressed the opinion that the earth was a sphere: Was he the first to do so? 2. How many arms has an actopus? 3. Bible: Does to "fear" Cod mean to be afraid or apprehen sive of Him? 4. Of which religious denom ination was Calvin Coolidge an adherent? 5. Are there any red-haired races of people? 6. Is Chiang, or Kai-shek, the surname of China's Generalis simo? 7. Name the famous novel by Tolstoy that deals with Napol eon's invasion of Russia. 8. Are soft shell and hard shell crabs two separate species 9. 'Delusion " and "illusion" both involve thinking something is so when it is not: Which of the two is the stronger? 10. "Lizzie Borden took an axeAnd gave hrr mother forty whacks: When she saw what she had done. She Rave her father" how ninny whacks? Answers: 1. N. Pythagoras); 2. Eight: 3. No. Reverence for Him and His laws: 4. Congrega tionalism 5. No: 6. Chiang (Chi nese surnames always come first): 7. "War and Peace": 8. No: 9. Delusion: 10. "Forty one." Junction City Publisher Named President of ONP A Gcarhart If C. I. Mc Kmiev. publisher of the Junc tion City Times. Saturday was elected president of the Ore gon Newspaper Publishers As sociation. Other officers include Philip N. Blsdine. McMinnville Daily News-Ke.cister. vice president; Ed Coman. Woodburn Indepen dent, treasurer, and Carl C. Webb. University of Oregon, secretary-manager. Gov. Robert D. Holmes spoke at the Saturday night dinner. MAIL TRIBUNE s Baseball The House Judiciary Antitrust subcommittee to ; day opened a two-week series of hearings on monop oly aspects of baseball. Next Monday is due from fed eral Judge Sylvester F. Ryan his final decree on the control of championship boxing matches. In one breath they (baseball club owners) say that baseball is a sport, not subject to antitrust regulations. In another breath they say that they have the right to move franchises in the interests of dollars, selling to the highest bidder. If that isn t business, I'd like to know what is. That was the reaction of Rep. Emanuel Celler (D X. Y. ) to the sad word to Brooklynite Celler that the Dodgers and the New York Giants had permission of the National League to move to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively, next season. Manny Cel ler's view has special significance here, for he heads both the House Judiciary Committee and its subcom mittee inquiring into baseball's antitrust status. Eut the ranking Republican on the subcommittee is calling the chairman 'way off base. "If Congress had not insisted on sticking its nose into baseball's op erations, New York would probably not now face the prospect of losing the Giants and Dodgers," Rep. Ken neth B. Keating (R-N.Y.) countered on June 3. Of a handful of bills affecting baseball at this session of Congress Keating is sponsoring one which would put the business aspects of baseball, basketball, football, and hockey under the antitrust laws but would exempt their playing rules and contracts from antitrust regulation. Celler, on the other hand, is push ing a bill that would subject baseball to strict en forcement of antitrust laws in all their aspects. ""THE U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that professional football and professional boxing come under the antitrust laws. A federal judge in New York on May 29 tentatively concluded that the boxing "empire" of the International Boxing Club of New York, the Inter national Boxing Club of Illinois, and Madison Square Garden must be broken up. Is baseball any less a business than football? In deciding the football case, Feb. 23, 1957, the Supreme Court virtually invited Congress to overthrow the 1922 Court holding that baseball is exempt from the Sherman Antitrust Act on the ground that it is intra state sport, not interstate commerce. "Were we con sidering the question of baseball for the first time upon a clean slate we would have no doubts," Justice Tom Clark wrote for the 1957 majority. COME aspects of the proposed shift in National League franchises may carry some weight with the Celler group, even though legislation at this session appears unlikely. The Brooklyn Dodgers, after sell ing Ebbetts Field last October, offered in January to buy $5 million of the bonds New York City would have to float to develop a new sports center. "Since then," said Dodgers President Walter F. O'Malley on June 4, "we have invested in Los Angeles real estate, and we no longer have the $5 million." He was referring to the Feb. 21 swap in which Brook lyn's Ft. Worth farm club was traded for the Chicago Cubs' Los Angeles club. Los Angeles has $3.5 million for a stadium, plus tax-free admissions, to attract the Dodgers in the pro posed shift approved by league owners on May 28. San Francisco is reported offering the Giants a $5 million to $10 million all-purpose stadium. Pacific Coast League owners are asking $6.7 million in in demnities if the shift goes through. And a $2 million pay-as-you-see television deal is reported hanging on the cross-contient hop. E.R.R. Trial Although much English and American law proced ure derives from Roman jurisprudence, the jury as an institution seems to have come to England, not from Rome, but from a stystem arising in medieval France. A dozen credible members of the community were called on to verify what was customary practice and what were the facts of a case. From being witnesses the twelve developed into a body that passed judgment on testimony presented. In an age when sovereigns ruled arbitrarily the jury became a bulwark of defense against royal oppres sion. Blackstone called the jury svstem the "glory of the English law." AT the time of the Declaration of Independence over 150 crimes, many quite trivial, were still pun ishable by death. So it seemed fair enough that the prosecution should have to convince twelve good men and tine before one of their neighbors could be sub jected to harsh penalties. However, as communities spread into large organ isms where every man no longer knew every other, and as problems submitted to juries grew more com plicated, trial by jury became widely questioned as an instrument of justice. In Great Britain the problem was met, at least in part, by giving judges greater power to guide or even influence juries, but in this country judge and jury remain almost as disconnected as when the Constitution was adopted. Some defendants now waive their rights to a juiy trial in the belief that they're more likely to get justice from a judge than from a jury of their peers. And some states allow certain minor court decisions to be made by a jury of less than 12 andor decisions less than unanimous. E.R.R. t Monday, Jur.e 17, 1957 Business? by Jury Weli.csee! the birds aren't usin'it!" Correspondents Look Ahead to Week's News By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent United Press correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Syria Seething Middle East ern diplomats predict a reign of terror in Syria any day now Opposi tion to the pro R u s sia, pro Egyptian gov- Charles Mccano ernment is in tensifying. The diplomats look for the kidnaping and possibly the assassination of some high conservative leaders. Dim View Military chiefs in Washington take a dim view of the talk about suspension of nuclear weapons tests. Inside informants say they are ready to launch a high - octane "keep-up-the-tests" campaign if there is any move to suspend them for political reasons without an air-tight in spection system. Military men say the tests are urgently needed to keep nuclear warhead design abreast of missile developments. Empty Saddles It's rumored in London that Prime Minister Harold Macmil lan may have to postpone the big conference of british Com monwealth premiers set for June 26. The reason: Half the premiers may not be able to attend. New Envoy Norwegian sources list For eign Minister Halvard M. Lange as a top contender for the post of Norwegian ambassador to Washington. He would succeed Wilhelm Munthe de Morgen stierne, dean of the diplomatic corps, who is to retire Nov. 6 on his 70th birthday. On the Spot Vice President Richard M. Nixon may be put on the spot if any attempt is made to keep the civil rights bill, which the House is expected to approve this evening, from going to the Senate Judiciary Committee where it could be bottled up. The Senate's own version has been stalled in the committee for months. With conflicting precedents to guide him, Nixon may have to decide whether to route the bill to committee the usual procedure or put it on the Senate calendar for ac tion. Normally, bills are put on the calendar after approval by committees. Sporli Outlook Baseball players complain Money Decline To Be Investigated Washington (If) Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) promises a sweeping investigation into why the purchasing power of the dollar has declined to 49.8 cents compared with its 1940 value. His promise came as U. S. Chamber of Commerce officials made a prediction which, if borne out, could lead to an even further shinkage of the dollar's buying power. Byrd is chairman of the Sen ate Finance Committee which will make a comprehensive check-up on the state of the na tion's economic health at hear ings beginning Tuesday. Secre tary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey wiU be the first wit ness. Byrd said the new investiga tion will cover "just about every thing in the way of monetary questions, both private and pub lic." But he said it will concen trate first on "the inflation thai has occurred since 1940." Infla tion, he said, has led to a 49.8 cent dollar compared with the 1940 dollar. Furthermore, he said, there has been "a loss of two cents in the purchasing power of the dollar in the past year, or 4 per cent of its 50-cent value." I iffffn i about the reserve clause which binds them to their clubs. But their spokesmen Bob Feller, Robin Roberts, Eddie Yost and others will testify in favor of the clause during the congres sional anti-monopoly hearings which begin today in Washing ton. They agree with the own ers that the traditional structure of baseball would be upset if the clause were abolished. In the Day's News By FRANK Let's talk for a moment today (a little belatedly, perhaps) about the Canadian election which has some faintly puzzling over tones. There is the undeniable fact that for a decade or more Can ada has been doing extremely well in a business way. Her in dustrial development has been increasing at what might well be described as a fabulous rate. New enterprises have been springing up all over the place. As a result of these new en terprises, jobs have been more plentiful than ever before. Can ada's financial affairs have been so well managed that she has a treasury surplus in her cash drawer instead of a deficit. The Canadian dollar commands a premium over the American dollar, which is the standard unit of monetary value through out the world. And so on. AND yet At their election the other day Canada's voters threw the Liberal party out on its ear and gave to the opposing Converva tive party a plurality of the seats in the Canadian parlia ment. H OW come? Maybe, you will be tempted to say, the Canadians are get ting tired of liberal government and find themselves leaning back toward conservatism. THAT theory has a plausible sound, but it doesn't wholly fit the facts of the situation. Canada's Liberal party hasn't been TOO liberal with other people's money (meaning money taken out of the taxpayer's pockets) which is a cynical but not altogether inaccurate definition of "liberalism" in modern politics. Canada's finances have been rather conservatively adminis tered by the Liberals during their 22-year tenure of power. AND In their recent political cam paign Canada's Conservatives wob bled quite a bit from the tradi tional things, they spoke in the same, breath of CUTTING taxes and INCREASING social bene fits such as old age pensions. So we can't be too sure that the voting in Canada indicated a drift back toward traditional conservatism. rpHEN Of course There is the historic case of Aristides, called "The Just." He had been in office for a long time. He had done a good job. GET AHEAD WITH A BILL CLEAN-UP LOAN Pay leftover seasonal bills and reduce high monthly payments with a prompt loan here. We like to say "yes!" when you ask for a loan. Phone for your loan in one visit, or .come in. OREGON FINANCE CO. Home Owned and Operated by Gene Thomas 45 South Central Phone SP 2-4433 U.S. Reaction to Girard Incident Points Up By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington fl?i Peace makes strange bedfellows, too, just as politics does. Perhaps that explains some of the misunder - standing and resentment in the U n i t ed States about the plight of Specialist 3C William S. Gi rard. Lyle C Wilson Jt js pos. sible, also, that U.S. citizens have not been able to adjust themselves to the rapidly shift ing objectives of American for eign policy. Most- Americans now alive adjusted themselves a very few years ago to foreign policy objectives which basically were these: Kill Germans; destroy their homes and their industry. Ditto for the Japanese. United States foreign policy now is based on two considera tions of fact which it would have been almost treasonable to suggest during war time. The facts are these: Germany now is the free nations' anchor man in the West against Communism. Japan ditto in the East. Midwest Farm Boy Such considerations of fact as these have led to some events which scarcely could have been foreseen nor credited if they had been suggested a few short years ago. For example: Girard, a Midwest farm boy, has been handed over by the U.S. government to be tried by Japanese courts on charges of JENKINS But the mercurial Greeks wearied of him and held an elec tion in which they voted him out "ostracism," they called it. Aristides, strolling the streets while the balloting was going on, came upon a citizen who had just emerged from what passed in Ancient Greece for the poll ing place. "How did you vote? he asked. "Oh," the citizen replied, "I voted against this Aristides." "Why did you do that?" Aris tides queried. "Is he an evil man?" "Oh, no," the citizen ans wered. "He's a good enough man. I'm just sick and tired of hearing him called The Just." lOTING, you see, is a strange thing. You can't always tell why people vote as they vote. Maybe they don t always know themselves. For that reason. analysis of election results can never be an exact science. I suspect, however, that in this case the Canadians were in fluenced in their balloting by the fact that the Liberals had been in power for 22 years. That is a long time. No lesson of history is clearer than this: TOO MUCH POWER HELD IN TOO FEW HANDS TOO LONG IS BAD BUSINESS. I have an idea the Canadians just felt in their bones that it was time for a change. 14 Convicted Reds Freed in California Washington (IPl The Su preme Court today freed five of 14 convicted California Commu ists and ordered new trials for the other nine. All 14 were convicted in 1952 of conspiring to advocate the vio lent overthrow of this govern ment. Justice John M. Harlan spoke for a 4 to 3 court majority in the case. Justice Tom Clark dissent ed. He would have affirmed the convictions. Justices Hugo L. Black and William O. Douglas also dissent ed, but on grounds that all the defendants should have been ac quitted. Justices William J. Brennan Jr. and Charles E. Whittaker did not participate. Clark said "this court should not acquit any one here." "In its long history I find no case in which an acquittal has been ordered by this court solely on the facts," he added. "It is somewhat late to start in now usurping the function of the : jury, especially where new trials ; are to be held covering the same charges." 1 J BsKbiTiir satis. Foreign Policy Change I shooting and killing a Japanese woman on a U.S. target range in Japan. This has caused resent- Iment in the United States. U.S. officials are aware that failure to turn Girard over for Japanese trial would cause even 1 greater resentment in Japan, This situation caused Sen. .George Smathers (D-Fla.) to sav a few days ago that the United States is proceeding on a course of "mass appeasement'' of the Japanese people and others in making the status of forces agreements with foreign nations. These agreements provide for the trial of American military personnel by local courts for of fenses committed while not in the performance of duty. The other side of the argu ment is provided by the For mosa incident in which Chinese rioters sacked the U.S. Em bassy. The riot took place after a U.S. military court tried an American soldier on charges of shooting a Chinese peeping torn. The soldier was cleared and re leased. Focuses Attention However that may be. the Gi rard incident has focused the attention of American citizens Matter of Fact The Death's Head Symbol Amman, Jordan The squalid mud huts climb the scarred slopes or huddle in the stony valleys in half a dozen areas of this hilly little desert city. "Refu gees from Pal estine, these are," says the taxi driver p o i n t e dly when you pass one of melancholy settlements. Here is human habitation re duced to the neolithic level. The family housing in the 8,000 year old fortified village just so amazingly discovered near Jer icho was quite as good as this. Besides, those forerunners of all civilization that was to come aft- !er, who had even invented or ganized warfare, as their strong town walls testify, at least had fields to plough and jobs to do. The Arabs driven out of Israel have no fields, and very few have jobs. Some live in organized camps. Some, like so many here in Am man, live in shantytowns of their own construction. All receive ra tions from the United Nations. If it were not for this ration of a few measures of flour and a few spoonsful of oil. a large ma jority would simply starve to death. nrtHUS about a million persons have been living (and of this million, about half in little Jor dan) ever since the Palestine war in 1948. The world has comfort ably forgotten about them. But they should not be forgotten, if only because the refugee prob lem is like a deep infection of the blood which inflames every other problem in the whole Mid dle East. And this is a good time to remember them for a partcu lar reason. Henry Labouisse, the quiet spoken but determined American head of the special U.N. organ ization that handles the refugee problem, has recently passed through here on a fairly desper ate mission. He was seeking lo cal support, before going home to America to defend himself against threatened cuts in his re lief budget. The very fact that Labouisse should have to under take such a mission seems all but incrediole, when you consid er the character of his budget. In brief, Labouisse has $25 million a year to provide about a million people with food and medical care He used to have an additional $15 million to provide schooling for the hundreds of thousands of refugee children, to purchase clothing and the like and to help refugees that may wish to strike out on their own. Joseph Alson FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 on their changed relations with the late enemy. The change is not only in the East. The Western enemy's role of friend and ally against the Kremlin long since w-as formal ized by admission of West Ger many to membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organi zation. American officials over the years had been preparing public opinion in the United States for something like that. President Eisenhower visited Germany in 1951 as the supreme commander of Atlantic defenses. It was a good will visit during which Eisenhower told the Ger mans "bygones are bygones" so far as World War II enmity was concerned. He said the Germans could become equal partners with the West and that he did not question the "honor" of most Germans against whom he fought. The partnership has become steadily more secure, so firmly established by now that the nomination on Feb. 7 of this year of German Lt. Gen. Hans Speidel to be commander of NATO ground forces in Central Europe caused hardly a ripple in the United States. By Joeoli Alsop But this $15 million has already been cut to S12 million. CONSIDER those charming sta tistics. Consider that the to tal outlay for each refugees' food clothing, health, education, shel ter and everything else is not much above forty dollars a year! Yet there is serious danger that even the U.N. appropriation for food and medicai care will be considerably cut! Labouisse's problem is gravely complicated by the fact that his money comes from a sort of club of voluntary contributors among the U.N.'s member nations. The United States already puts up about three-quarters of the total. But it does not matter much whether the American Treasury pays the whole bill. It will be crimanl lunacy to allow Labouis se's appropriations to cut at this juncture. One sure result, for instance, will be such refu gee riots here in Jordan as may well overturn the new and bold ly independent government of young King Hussein. But that is not the end of the story. Nine years htve worn away the angry obstin.cy with which the refugees used to re joice any alternative but a re turn to their lost homes. "Give us justice," they still cry; but especially among th younger refugees, there are many who might now accept oth.r alterna tives besides repatriation. LABOUISSE hae only bn able to offer a littl. more than $400 in aid to any rofutce who wishes to surrender his ration ticket and make a nev start on his own. Yet he notr h.s several thousand applicants far this not especially golden opportunity. This is only one sign tht the atmosphere has chinjod. The time is ripe in Labouise'j opin ion, for a bold ne program which would not solv this in soluble problem, but ould at least reduce its terribl. dimen sions. Such a program might comprise an offer of r.pttriation (which would not be accepted while Israel endures) or compen sation (which would be accepted with ' alacrity); plus better fin ancing for those oyishing to make a new start; plus visas, including American visas, for those wish ing to emigrate to a net; land. Such an attacfc on th refuwe problem would call forth cries of phoney outrage from the un scrupulous Arab politicians who use these pitiful pstopl. as po litical pawns. But th simple fact that the rsfuf.es problem has been neglected for so long. is the death's head symbol of the inanity ot Americ.n Middle Eastern policy. Good conscience and good policy both call for ac tion now. 4t PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which are In keeping with its means. A selection of services for every price range is of fered to satisfy individual preferences and to meet all financial circumstances. Convenient Terms? Certainly!