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0, 4 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Irnnri'! in Southern Oregoo Readi The Mali Tribune" P JbUjrn Oaiiv Exceot Saturday by MiDFOP.D PRINTING CO 17-2t Nortri fir St Phong 2-SM1 ROBF.RT W RL'HL Editor fiTFH GRfcY Advertising Manager CflAlD LATHAM Bulin!ti Miru 1-R!fj ALA.EN JR. Managing Editor tVUtL U ADAMS CUT Editor BABP.Y CHj'PMA.-. Telegraoh editor BJCUAPD JEWF.TT Soona Editor OiJVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DLK BR 1CKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper iered aa neond cla matter at ftVedie-re Oregon under Act ol March 3 SUBSCRIPTION RATES B9 MaU Ib Advanct: Pet Copy 10c Txxxij mn4 SuruJay One year $15 00 Haay and Sunday Six month 8 00 tmtr and SunOa Thre mom 4.23 tmiv Omiy One rear 14 20 Hr Crr! In Advance Medford AAhiand Central Point EiR1- Point Jefeville. Gold Hill Phoenix. 8feT Cove Rotrie River Talent nJ oa motor route'. 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How was he to know a cool strata of air would sweep in from the Pacific, and hit the hot breath of the Climate com miltea of the Cham, of Comm." 0 YEARS AGO Jun 18. 1937 (Friday) Three Medford scouts head for Holland and the fifth world Bow Scout Jamboree. Southbound airliner from Se attle, prevented from landing at Portland Swan Island airport, lands at Medford. 0 YEARS AGO Jus 18. 1827 (Saturday) Six year's drought at Lake of tha Woods over; high water from winter precipitation now threatening lake shore build ings Prospect and Medford men in eiaht-rotind main event box in smoker In the armory to night. 40 YEARS AGO Jun II. 1117 (Monday) "He may have arrived" savs the Mail Tribune, about the young recruit who was handed a crate of strawberries just as he boarded a train of 250 men. He was last seen in a swarm of struggling, hungry recruits. From the Local and Personal column: "Ben Sheldon, the gen eral poo bah of Grants Pass, spent the week end in Medford in looking after his orchard." What's Your I.Q.? 1ne or te rrrert I superior: even or eUat la excellent; five or alx it gooe. 1. At the time of Alexander the Great was the Don or Dan ulie River believed to have been the Euro-Asiatic dividing liiie? 1. The Navy rank of Com mander corresponds to which rark in the Army? 3 Bible: In the days of Esther which king reigned "India even unto Ethiopia"? 4 Are there 5. 10, 15 or 20 isiands in the Hawaiian group? 5. Kevstone State is the nick name vt which State of the Union? 8 Which noted General (now deceased i commanded the U. S. Third Army at the time of the German surrender in World War 11? T. In Roman mythology whose !a.:g:iier as Minerva? 8- The Japanese islands are. or are not. subject to frequent earthquakes 9 Is the word "sagacious" pro no'jiiccd with a jft or hard B - 10 "Trcrc' no evidence of gi:i!t That should make your spirit v lit. Slany do not think tl a: eon. ' Chopped your fath ers hca.-i in two. Lizzie" who? Answers: l.'Don. 2. Lieuten ant - Colonel. S. Ahasuerus. 4. Twm S. Pennsylvania. 8. Lt. Geo Ga-orae S. Patton. 7. Jupi Jr TUf are. 8. Hard (as in jot.) j0. Soi&xu MAIL TRIBUNE Kishi and The name of Army Specialist 3, C William S. Girard is bound to figure in the discussions between President Eisenhower and Premier Nobusuke Kishi of Japan. The case will not be taken up with Ameri can authorities '"as a specific problem," Kishi said on June 13. Nevertheless, an important item on the agenda is manifestly the United States-Japanese Se curity Treaty of 1954 and the "status of forces'' ex- ecutive agreement which implements some provisions of the pact and under which Japan is to try Girard. Other subjects Kishi wants to bring up with Presi dent Eisenhower include: Japanese desire to have a voice in the government of Okinawa; protests against the continued imprisonment after nearly 12 years of World War II "war criminals"; "economic necessity" of Japan to increase trade with Red China; promotion of trade with the United States and with Southeast Asia. "yHE U.S.-Japanese agreement has not been "fully satisfactory" in practice, Kishi said on June 6. For example, it gives the United States permission l to move troops anywhere in Japan without consult ! ing Japanese authorities. Actually, the Tokyo govern- ment is always advised of important movements of forces, but Kishi would like a written agreement. I The Socialists, principal rivals for power of Kishi's conservative Liberal Democrats, exploit any : frictions that arise from the agreement. They have j been harping particularly on the Girard case, even j since the United States agreed on June 4 to let Japan try the soldier. The case goes back to last Jan. 30. Girard's unit, Company F, Eighth Regiment, First Cavalry, on that date was conducting a field test on the Somagahara ; Firing Range, 60 miles north of Tokyo. Leased by the U.S., the range is shared with Japanese troops; when not in use it is fanned by Japanese civilians. For several decades Japanese scavengers have col lected spent shell cases to sell as scrap4. Girard shot and killed a Japanese "woman so en gaged. Both sides apparently agree that Girard had no intent to kill. He is charged by the Japanese with "inflicting bodily injury resulting in death," the least serious homicide charge under which he could have been held. The offense carries a penalty of two to 15 years' imprisonment. A JAPANESE Justice Ministry spokesman said on June 13 that Girard killed the woman during a pause in the drill. Before the fatal empty cartridge case was shot from Girard's grenade launcher, the Japanese contend, Girard threw some spent shell cases into a foxhole and "said to the woman, 'Mama san, takusan, daijobu' (Woman, plenty, all right)." On this basis Japanese prosecutors argue that Girard's conduct "can hardly be termed as an action on duty, even speaking from the standpoint of common sense." Under the executive agreement, Japan gives up jurisdiction over "performance of duty" acts of U.S. troops. A joint U.S.-Japanese committee agreed on May 16 to Japanese trial for Girard, although U.S. members did not concur in the Japanese interpreta tion of "performance of duty." Girard's surrender was delayed bv orders of Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, May 17, to keep him in U.S. custody "pend ing a complete review." He remains in U.S. hands, despite the State-Defense Department decision of June 4 to let the Japanese try him. E.R.R. Civil Rights Laws Resistance in certain Southern states to the 1954 Supreme Court decision against public school segrega tion recalls the Southern resistance to federal steps for rights for Negroes after the Civil War. But there is one sharp contrast. Then the steps were taken by Congress, only to have the Supreme Court invalidate most of them; today the Supreme Court has acted against segregation without Congressional action. The 13th Amendment had simply banned invol untary servitude and authorized Congress to enforce the ban. That in itself failed to secure civil liberties to former slaves in the South. So in 1866 Congress enacted over President Johnson's veto a civil rights act penalizing state and local officials who deprived any person of specified rights because of his race or color. FEDERAL courts were i over cases under the act, and the President was au I thorized to use the Army to enforce it. There were I serious doubts as to its constitutionality, and the 14th ! Amendment was put through in 1868. largely to pro tect the civil rights act. Then the 15th Amendment was added in 1870 guaranteeing the right to vote. Thereupon in 1S70 Congress reenacted most of the 1S55 act. In addition it authorized federal action against any conspiracy to defeat "the due course of justice in any state" or (in 1S71) to deprive a citizen ! of his legal privileges and immunities. And in 1875 it : was made illegal to refuse a person, because of his race, equal hotel, recreation, or transportation fa cilities. But Supreme Court decisions of 1873, 1S76, and 1SS3 invalidated much of this civil rights legislation. Despite the 14th and 15th Amendments the bulk of personal liberties was held to derive from state, not federal, citizenship. And most of what the Court had left of the legislation was repealed bv Congress in ,1594 and 1909. E.R.R. Tueidty. June 18, 1957 Girard Trial given exclusive jurisdiction er- rug- tttjL rtnQvw .-m- 'TUZY WON'T LET ME TUAT WHV IM SO Matter of Fact y stew,, aisop POINT OF NO RETURN Washington The National Security Council, the nation's top policy-making body, has been p o nder i n g in recent weeks the basic question of A in e rican national strat e g y: How much should the United States rely on the terrible multi - mega Sat Stewaif Alsop ton nuclear weapons as instru ments of national power? To put the question another way: Under what circumstances, short of ail out Soviet nuclear aggression, would an American President authorize the use of such in credibly destructive weapons? The NSC has decided "in principle" that the United States must not become exclusively de pendent on the big nuclear weapons. But such decisions in principle have a way of fading into meaninglessness, and the decision has resulted in no visible changes in American defense planning. Such changes are in evitable, if the trend towards ever-increasing reliance on the multi-megaton weapons is to be reversed. Recent testimony on Capitol Hill points up what the issue with which the USC has been grappling is all about. A few days ago. Gen. Lauris Norstad. able NATO commander, testified that this country had the power of "destroying everything that is of military significance in Russia." Norstad was talking, of course, of the power to launch an all-out nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, which is the heart of the Western strategy of deter rence. OUCH an attack would require the explosion of many hun dreds of high yield nuclear weap ons. The Soviets, presumably, would reply in kind. Thus the kind of war Norstad was talking about would mean the explosion of nuclear weapons with a total power of something like 2500 to 5000 megatons. Only a few days before Nor stad spoke, a member of the country's leading scientists had also testified on Capitol Hill. They disagreed on a lot of things, but almost all agreed that, in the interests of global safety, there must be an upper limit on the testing of nuclear weapons. Most put this limit at around ten megatons of fission products, which would be released by a single large and "dirty" hydro gen bomb. In an all-out nuclear war, much would depend on "dirti ness" of the bombs used. But in such a war, the amount of fis sion products released would be enormously greater, probably hundreds of times greater than the upper limit set by the scien tists. What would be the effect of such a war, not only on the nations directly involved, but on the whole human race? ATOMIC Energy Commission er Thomas Murray has stat ed that such a war would en danger "a whole generation, em bracing tens of millions of peo ple, in Russia, in the United States, in all the countries of the world." Others, like Mur ray's colleague. Commissioner Willard Libby, have disputed this view. The plain fact,- which came out very clearly in the testimony of the scientists, is that nobody knows. The human race might survive an all-out nu clear war without suffering per manent and essential damage. On the other hand, it might not. Yet an all-out nuclear war is the kind of war the United States is preparing to fight. More and more, it is threatening to become the only kind of war the United States will be able to fight. We are in real danger of passing a nuclear point of no re turn. As Thomas has said, the whole emphasis in the AEC is on pro ducing bigger and bigger bombs. A device with the power of forty megatons has already been test ed. The current Air Force re quirement is for a deliverable bomb of fifty megatons. The newest Air Force bomber the B-5S, is designed to carry very- WAVE ANY ROOT BEER . WE4JC. high nuclear weapons, and only such weapons. All long range and medium missile design calls for a multi-megaton warhead. riiHb Navy is also becoming a multi - megaton Navy. The Sixth Fleet, for example, is equipped with high yield bombs, in cruisers as well as carriers. And the Army has put a heavy proportion of its resources into an effort to get into the multi- megaton act, with its medium missile, while its non-nuclear capabilities steadily decline. Obviously, the United States must be capable of fighting an all-out nuclear war. However globally disastrous the conse quences, the President of the United States must at all times be capable of ordering a devas tating retaliation for nuclear ag gression. But under what cir cumstances short of such aggres sion would a President, aware of the possible global consequences, order the use of the multi-mega ton weapons: Would he order their use if, say, the Soviets blockaded Berlin again, or the Chinese Communists invaded Burma? As Commissioner Murray (who is to be fired for his pains) has said, in any situation short of all-out Soviet nuclear aggres sion the danger is that . . . our only recourse will be to moral indignation. This danger be comes daily greater, as the United States becomes daily more dependent for its defense in the terrible weapons which may never be used. (c) 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letteri to the Editor must bear the name and address of tha writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Presbyterians' Position To the Editor: In order that the official position of the Pres byterian church may be unmis takably made clear, we would like to submit the following in regard to the meetings of Mr. Billy Graham in Madison Square Garden in New York City. At the recent meeting of the General Assembly of the Presby terian Church, U. S. A., in Oma ha, Nebr., the meetings of Billy Graham were heartily endorsed and prayers were asked for God's blessing upon him as he leads those meetings. The National Presbyterian Men's club has received great inspiration from the sincere and challenging messages that Billy Graham has given to our men. We would like to commend the Mail Tribune for its news coverage df the Billy Graham meetings, and especially for the intelligently written, spiritually perceptive articles written by Mr. Louis Cassels. Session of First Presby terian Church, The Rev. D. K. West, Moderator; Robert A. Brewer, Stated Clerk. No Solution Yet To the Editor: A short time back I wrote several letters to the Tribune about the trials and tribulations of the Teenagers, their parents and the police. I certainly stuck out my neck. I have been receiving phone calls asking me, yes. ME, to give with a plan to bring the said teenagers back to a righteous manner of living. Now, 1 just have run fresh out of plans that might work, since any thing I can conceive would, inevitably, fail because the par ents, or the police, would tear it to pieces quicker than pronto. I am trying to scheme up something to meet the ideas of all those who may be con cerned and each and every time I run up against a snag that will put a real quietus to the thing instantly. If I favor the parents, then the police will want to 'throw me in and throw the keys away.' If I favor the police, then the parents will be in favor of tar, feathers and a rail. It looks to a man up a tree that we shall have to unearth old Solomon. Let him solve the problem. Do you suppose that Leader of Ghana Having Fine Time; Opposition Not By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Kwame Nkrumah, leader of Airica's newest nation, seems to be having a wonderful time. Not only is he prime mini ster of Ghana, the former British Gold C o ast polony, but he also is its foreign and defense mini- Chartes McCanD ster. He enjoys virtual dictatorial power as head of his Convention People's Party. He has moved into magnifi c e n t Christiansborg Castle, which used to be the residence of the British colonial gover nor. And now Kkrumah is having his own head, instead of that of Queen Elizabeth II, put on Gha na's stamps and coins. His political opponents are not pleased. They complain that he spent nearly $200,000 In having the 300-year-old castle, built by Danish traders, fixed up for himself and his mother. He is a bachelor and she is his official hostess. Supporters Answer Complaints Nkrumah's supporters say the castle was renovated to house the Duchess of Kent, who rep resented her niece Queen Eliza beth when Ghana attained its in dependence last March 6 as the ninth member of the British Commonwealth. The opponents retort that with Nkrumah occupying the castle, the taxpayers will have to pay for the construction of a new and equally impressive resi dence for the new British gov ernor-general. In the castle incident, and in the decision to put Nkrumah's head on the stamps and coins, his opponents see signs of delu sions of grandeur and hint that Ghana is heading toward a dic tatorship which might take eith er a Fascist or an extreme left ist slant. Nkrumah said in his inaugu ral speech that he would pursue a pro-Western policy. He asked Vice President Richard M. Nix on, who represented President Eisenhower at the ceremony, for American cooperation. Nkrumah's enemies say that at one time he carried a Com munist Party membership card Nkrumah points out that it was unsigned. He says he carried it only so he could get into Com munist meetings and learn about Communist techniques. He de scribes himself as a Marxian Socialist. Both Britain and the would work? My brain, if I have any, is all fuzzy, with foggy lines extend ing in all directions. I'll be horn swoggled if I'll back up on what I wrote. Because, what I said is the truth and a man cannot be hanged for that. So, if someone with an ounce of brainpower does not come forth and save the day then let the day be buried. As if it could be handled in that manner. Say, why not put all the teen age boys into the Army and all the teenage girls in with the WACS, WAVES and SPARS, or female marines? That would settle the whole thing. Let old whiskered Sammy take care of the problem. Then we could rest easy till the next crop comes on. How about that? He seems to want to take over all other re sponsibilities. Why not this one? Andy L. Unger, 634 Pennsylvania Ave., Medford, Ore. Clarkia To the Editor. Even as late as June there blooms in both Cal ifornia's Sonoran Life Zones a dainty, magenta-hued w i 1 d flower into whose name is em balmed history. It is Clarkia. It honors Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The writer's favorite species is C. elegans. Even in his boyhood, it was a common wildflower over blocks where now are Sacramento homes, even business places. Clarkia is a highly variable plant. Lewis and Clark found it where the Blackfeet hunted elk in Montana. They also col lected it in the Bitter Root Mountains. Some species of the genus can adapt themselves to the high August temperatures of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley floor. Their tendency to vary also is evident in height. Some plants are but ankle-high. Others, (as Kipling wrote of the grave in Burma of "Lieutenant United States regard him as a Democratic-minded man and an anti-Communist. Nkrumah is 47. He is an elo quent speaker. He has a thick head of bushy frizzled hair. He was born in a mud hut. the son of a goldsmith. After he at tended a Roman Catholic mis sion school and Achimota Col lege in the Gold Coast, a dia mond-prospecting uncle gave him the money to go to the Unit ed States. Nkrumah entered Lin coln University, near Philadel phia in 1935. He took degrees as a bachelor of arts and of sacred theology. Returns Home In 1947 After his .-graduation, he be came an instructor in philoso phy, and also took the degree Congressmen Disagree On Fallout Dangers, Steps To Be Taken Washington (CQ) Most members of Congress, like their constituents, admit they have found no easy answer to the problem of radioactive fallout. A big majority of those who have an opinion on the highly technical issue of nuclear bomb testing back President Eisen hower's stand for continuing the tests until a "general, controlled and inspected" disarmament agreement is reached with Rus sia. Congressional Quarterly in terviewed 46 Senators and Rep- sentatives a cross - section of both parties after a Joint Atomic Energy Subcommittee ended two weeks of public hear ings on the subject. Twenty-five of the 46 said, in effect, they thought they lacked sufficient information either to criticize or endorse the Admin istration policy. Some echoed Rep. Robert Hale (R-Me.), who said, "The whole thing scares me to death. I think mankind has put its head in the noose, but I don't see the way out." A few thought the talk of radiation harm to present and future generations is highly ex aggerated. Rep. Wint Smith (R. Kan.) said, "Some of this talk about fallout danger might be planted by the Communists." Others suggested the gloomy sci entists were "publicity-seekers." Want More Facts But the biggest demand, by far, is for more scientific facts, Editor Fasls To Protest Atom Tests Las Vegas, Nev. (ID Am nion Hennacy, associate editor of a New York Catholic news paper, said today he planned to picket the Atomic Energy Com mission's office here and fast until June 28 ip protest against the summer series of nuclear bomb tests near here. Hennacy, associated with the Catholic Worker in New York City, Monday appeared before the local AEC office carrying a sign urging this country to halt nuclear testing. He said he would return to New York June 28 to refuse to take part in an air raid drill July 12-14. Esmith Sahib"), are "as high as a tail man s chin. Clarkia is significant to flower lovers for its beauty, to biologists because of elastic adaptability, and to historians because "Clarkia" alone with Lewisia" are flower-names ever to remind us that Thomas Jefferson, one of our two bio logically trained Presidents, dreamed of a transcontinentally powerful U.S.A. C. M. Goethe Seventh and J streets Sacramento 14, Calif. Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennm I f Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. Pleased of master of arts in anthropolo gy at the University of Pennsyl vania. After 10 years in the Unit ed States, he went to London and returned home in 1947 after attending the London School of Economics. As soon as he got home. Nkru mah got political. He was jailed for taking part in strike riots and later got a three-year prison term for fomenting strikes. While he was in prison, Britain gave its colony a constitution and held elections. Nkrumah's party won a landslide victory. The governor, accepting him as a popular hero, released him and he was made leader of the native government, with powers approximating those of a prime minister. fewer conflicting opinions. R'ep. James W. Trimble (D-Ark.) said. "I get confused as the devil" when one scientist says he is "not at all apprehensive" about the effects of continued bomb testing and another says the tests already held will "serio ly curtail or injure an' enormous number of lives in future gen erations." The demand for more fats may be turned into Congression al action. Rep. Charles S. Gub ser (R-Calif.) plans to introduce a resolution calling on the Unit ed States to form separate inter national panels of nuclear scien tists and geneticists to measure the amount of radioactive mat ter in the atmosphere aniAo de termine its effects on human life. For the same purpose. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) has a bill to create a National Radiation Health Institute. Fact-finding, though, is about as far as any Congressman wants to go. The poll turned up almost no sentiment for a Con gressional declaration of na-' tional policy on the bomb tests. Most Congressmen either en dorse or are willing to accept President Eisenhower's judg ment on the matter. Three of the 46 Congressmen the poll said the United States should stop testing hydrogen bombs immediately and chal lenge Russia to do the same tiling. This proposal, first made in the 1956 Presidential campaign by Adlai E. Stevenson, was en dorsed June 10 by Rep. Chet Holifield (D-Calif.), who headed the two-week heading by the Atomic Energy Subcommittee. Backing this view. Rep. Roy W. Wier (D-Minn.) said, "In my district during the last cam paign when I said Stevenson was as right as a man can be, the voters were apathetic. This morning I got eight letters en dorsing his stand." Wier said, "I want to vote now to stop these tests." His view appears very much in the minority, even among Demo crats in Congress. Senate Majority Leader Lyn don B. Johnson (D-Tcx.) is on the record as agreeing with the President that "we cannot halt nuclear testing without a mu tual agreement and very strong and very adequate safeguards." Also in a minority in the poll were two Representatives a Democrat and a Republican who said the United States must continue nuclear tests indefi nitely because Soviet Russia cannot be trusted to keep a dis armament agreement. Rep. George W. Andrews (D Ala.), one of the two, said, "I ' don't favor direct negotiation with Russia on this matter, be cause you can't trust those peo ple fo keep their agreements anyway." (Copyrifht 1957, Congressional Quarterly) Whatever your Insurance Needs, We're Ready to Supply It, But one more day you delay, Could be Too late To Buy It Bill Fish - f -7