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Newspaper Page TextO O o o o FOUH MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone tn Southern Oregon Hf-i -Is The Mail Tn bune'J Pubiir."5 Daily Except Saturday by Vi.LiFOHD PKINTi-r CO 27-29 North Fir St Pnor.e 2-gMl KOBf-HT W RCHU Editor HERH OKEV Advertising Manager GERAl-D LATHAM Buaineu lVanajter ERIC ALA.EN JR Man'iCinB Editor EAJil H ADA MS Cit? Editor HARRY CHIfMA.N Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sborta Editor OUVt SI ARCHER Society Editor LE ERiCKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent .Newspaper Entered as second claw matter at Mediord Oregon under Act oi Marcn 3 17 SUBSCRIPTION RATES .By Mail In Advanc Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday fmt year 15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three mnm 4.25 Sunday Only One year 4-20 &y Carrier In Advance Med ford Ah!and Central Point EM Point Jacksonville Cold Hill Phoenix. Snadv Cove Rosrue River. Taient and on motor routes-. Daily and Sunday Ona year SIS PO Daily and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealer JOe per cony AilTerms Cashln Advance fftrlai pap or of" the City of Medford Official Paper of Jaeksmi County United Press Full Loaded Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices tn New York Chicago, de trott San Franrwco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atianta Vanrnuvr R C NATIONAL tOITOHAi I AssocTA-ieN rTi.'HMiw.'icrra Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 19. 1947 (Thursday) One hundred thirteen Girl Scouts attend Day Camp on Bear creek. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot Column: "Flower lovers report a forest flower, popularly known as rock rhodo dendrons, have started to bloom. They are unpopularly known as "Glamiopsis Leachiana." JO YEARS AGO June 19. 1937 (Saturday) Prescott park on Roxy Ann dedicated by Medford Lions club Complete new uniforms arrive for 55 members of the local forest service; first complete uniform ever issued to the fed eral agency. 3 YEARS AGO junv 19. 1927 (Sunday) Construction of Rogue River Studios, on north Crater Lake highway, starts; hope to "capital ize on local scenery" in making motion pictures. Work to begin soon on paving Sixth st from Front to Fir sts. ,40 YiRS AGO Jons 19. 1917 (Tuesday) School board votes to permit local Red Cross chapter to use irhool sewing machines. From Local and Personal col- m n: A smoky haze hanging over the valley today indicates tb presence of forest fires. The smoke probably came from the forest fire near Sisson, Calif. Passenaers on northbound train Do. 14 this morning reported that a bad forest fire was rag ing near Sisson. and that men ere being sent out from Sisson to fight it. Vkal's Your I.Q.? Vine or tm correct H superior; Mvrn or eieM ts excellent; five or six ts good rfj&ti NEWSPAPH lC PUBIISHE j-ASSOCIATION 1. Were the axe-murders of Lizzie Borden's step-mother and father, c o m m cmorated in the "jingle." based on fact or fancy? 2. Are the Pennsylvania Dutch people descended from Hollanders? 3. Bible: What is generally held to be the immediate cause (Of the death of Jesus? 4. Shellac is obtained from a resinous substance secreted by Siale insects; true or false? 5. Name the author of the novel, "Les Miscrablcs." 6 When a surgeon removes a human rib is it replaced by new growth? ". In England, if a child gave her father a pair of braces for Christmas, what article of ap q parol would that be? 8. Is Augusta the capital of Georgia. Maine, or Washington? 9 Is the "o ' in "manor" pro nounced as the "o" in "or"? 10. Did Scott, Shakespears, or John Rav introduce the saying, "Dar'st thou then, To Beard the lion in his den"'' Ansxis: 1. Fact. Committed frt fall River. Mass., August 4. JI82. t. No (they are of German i aestry). 3. Heart failure. . True. 1. Yictor Hugo. 6. Yes. 7 A pair ef suspenders 8 Maine. 9. o. A the "er" in "manner." 10. 8o:t. In "The Talisman." .'ew Milinrd. Conn. W nt William M. Goss of reside the Scovi'.l Manufacturing Co. made an unnerving discovery when he picked up a brass trow el to apply cement to the corner stone of his firm's new tube mill. "I see we are using tools made ly the opposition firm," he commented. MAIL TRIBUNE Highway 99 A trip through Oregon in June confirms a life long conviction that this state contains some of the loveliest scenery ranging from the purely pastoral to the magnificent in the world. It also tends to demonstrate that travelling in Oregon is getting both easier and pleasanter with each passing month. The state highway commission is making real progress in the big job of converting Highway 99, from the California line into Portland, into a modem, fast and attractive avenue of travel. There remain only a few stretches of sub-standard highway, and these rapidly are being eliminated. In another few years one will be able to make the entire trip with hardly a pause in rather less than six hours. f OIXG north, one of the remaining bottlenecks is the stretch from the Rock Point bridge near Gold Hill to the foot of Sexton mountain, north of Grants Pass. A few years ago this was passably good high way; today it is slow going, because of increased traffic, roadside businesses which cause congestion, and the lack of traffic control at entrances and exits. Today, woik is well under way on the section from Grants Pass to the foot of Sexton mountain. Another few years will see the completion of the entire stretch. North of there the road is excellent as far as Canyonville. The section from Canyonville to Myrtle Creek is abominable, but long stretches of it will soon be replaced, and work is well along on the whole distance. From Myrtle Creek to Roseburg, the road is now superb. The last part of it was opened to traffic only last week, and cuts off the narrow, wiggling and dangerous section through Dillard and Winston. THE by-pass around Roseburg only serves to add to that city's attractiveness from the standpoint of the traveller. Landscaping, intelligent use of fences and access-control, and maps for the tourist, combine to make it a pleasant jaunt, rather than the creeping progress through town is once was. From Roseburg, the road is new and excellent all the way to about the Douglas-Lane county line, where the "worst curve on the Pacific highway" will soon succumb to modernization. The road is old as far as Cottage Grove, but the new section will be open soon. From Cottage Grove to Eugene it is fine. Between the south city limits of Eugene and the north city limits of Albany, one still follows the old alignment of the highway, but since this was one of the better parts of "old" 99, it is not too bad even now. This section of almost 50 miles will be eliminated in another few years a3 a freeway-type bypass will carry the highway in almost a straight line from one point to another, missing all the towns. PR0M Albany, the highway will soon be four lanes straight into Portland ; much of it is already.- The Baldock freeway north of Salem1 is probably the finest road of its type on the Pacific coast, and the rest of Highway 99 eventually will meet that standard. It will be fast and wide. And it does seem a pity that Medford will be the only town in the state, outside of Portland, to be bisected by the freeway, with the resulting whoosh of passenger cars and roaring of diesels. E.A. And the Oregon Coast If Highway 99 displays the rolling beauty of Ore gon's farm and forest lands (which it does with dis tinction as long as they're not blotted out by the encroaching billboards), Highway 101 provides an ever-changing vista of unmatched seascapes. Starting from the broad Columbia at Astoria and Hammond, and continuing south past long sweeping stretches of sand, craggy headlands and cove-Mke inlets, Oregon's coast highway, while part of the distance narrow and twisty, provides a variety and change of pace that few highways of its length in the world can equal. TJERE, too, the highway commission is making progress, though not so rapidly, on improving the role of the driver. Many parts of the coastal road are as good as one could wish any highway to be. These new sections, by and large, offer a pleasant contrast to the older sections, not only from a stand point of driving ease, but in other ways. For instance, many of the long-established sections of the road are grown up for miles and miles with hot dog stands, crab pots, run-down motels and service stations, deserted shacks, and all the effluvia of a resort area which has allowed itself to decay. The newer sections, on the other hand, mostly have some sort of access control, and the develop ments which have grown up are more modern, at tractive and well-kept than along the older portions. ""THE highway commission, too, is entitled to a pat on the back for the job it has done in the develop ment of state parks along the coast. Os West park (here Short Sands and Neakahnie creeks flow through heavy, rainforest trees and undergrowth to Short Sands Beach) is one of the gems of the entire state park system, largely preserved through intelli gent limitations on driving and camping. Others are more open and available. All appear to be neat, clean, well-kept, thoughtfully laid out, and commodious. And judging by the patronage they were receiving over last week end. which was near the start of the tourist season, they draw heavily from the inland valleys during pleasant weather. We have always loved the Oregon coast, and see no reason to change. Like the man said, the only thing wrong with Medford is that the ocean's SO miles too far away. E.A. Wednesday. June 19. 1957 I DON'T SEE NO CHIP OH New Supreme Court Decisions Recall Old Governmental Battle By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (W Twenty years have passed and the U.S. Supreme Court again is buying into a bitter contro versy with another branch of the government. More over, the court is r e m o d elling the social con tours of the United States and stating Lyle C. Wilson dynamically new ground rules for the conduct of big business. On its present course, the court is headed for controversy with both the other branches of the U.S. government the exe cutive and the legislative. The controversy with Congress was well joined this week in deci sions stating abrupt limits on the conduct and authority of congressional committees. Still More Controversy The controversy with the ex ecutive is just around the cor ner. In its decisions Monday the court bore down hard on the rights of individuals and against the authority of congressional committees and government prosecutors. It ruled that con gressional committees, on de mand, must tell witnesses that the questions it asks are perti nent to specific purposes and must specify the purpose. It did so in throwing out a contempt conviction against Illinois union leader John T. Watkins, who had refused to name persons he had known in the Communist movement. Far from all congressmen will object to that ruling and many will applaud it. There is a hard core of senators and representa tives, however, closely identi fied with an well informed about the effort to expose Com munism in the United States from whom the protests already are flowing. The controversy with the executive is headed for the high court in the case of William S. Girard, the U.S. soldier who was ordered turned over to the Japa nese government for trial on charges of shooting and killing a Japanese woman. The Consti tution says U. S. citizens are entitled to a trial by certain stipulated processes. Federal Judge Joseph C. Mc Garraghy may have taken due note of this week's Supreme Court urgency to protect the rights of individuals in the area of Communism. However that may be, he ruled here Tuesday in defense of Girard's rights as an American citizen. "The threatened action to per mit the Japanese to try Girard is illegal and in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States," McGarraghy said in his order forbidding the government to deliver the sol dier to the Japanese. That case will go to the Su preme Court where, on the basis of the record to date, the justices will rule against Presi dent Eisenhower and the State and Defense Departments who would permit the Japanese to try Girard. That should arouse the admin istration considerably in view of the fact that the trial of Girard by a Japanese court evidently has become a major issue of foreign policy bearing on U.S. relations with the Asiatic na tions. The Girard case is a sensitive nerve end of American diplo macy, presumably much in the President's mind. Dispute Recalled The court's trend, of late, and its challenge to the other branches recalls Franklin D. Roosevelt's notable dispute with the justices. They had held great aicaa vi 1113 inai icim new Deal to be unconstitutional. On Feb. 2. 1937, FDR sent to Con gress a bill to reform or to re organize or to pack the Supreme Court. Roosevelt wanted to name some additional justices to as HZ SUOUUCZRi ' sure a more friendly reception to his idea of a flexible constitu tion. Months of controversy ended in July, 1937, by Senate refusal to act on the Roosevelt court bill. FDR lost that battle, but he won the war. " Today's Supreme Court is just about what he had in mind. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS When the 1957 session of the California legislature convened in Sacramento months ago, it was generally conceded that its most important and pressing job was to find a solution of the state's growingly critical water problem that is to say, to reach a fair and reasonable agreement governing the division of Calif ornia's water between the count ies of origin and the counties of deficiency. No such agreement was reach ed. The session ended in a dead lock on the water issue. The South refused to permit the North the right to replenishment of its water supply if the North should RUN SHORT from si phoning off its water supply to the South. The North refused to give guaranteed water quantities to the South unless such a replen ishment clause was provided. WHY the deadlock? " Who killed Cock Robin and why? FOR a possible answer to these questions, let's turn to As semblyman Jack Beaver, of Red lands, south of the Tehachapi. Following adjourn ment. As semblyman Beaver is reported to have said: "Let's tell the people the truth. Failure to get a water rights agreement can be attributed to the refusal of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Water District to make special contributions to the solution of this problem." He added: "The Metropolitan Water Dis trict doesn't want a water rights settlement because that could substantially weaken its Colo rado water litigation with Ariz ona. . . The MWD is trying to justify getting the lion's share of Colorado water in the litiga tion, and if the South should suddenly obtain 1,880,000 acre feet of water from the Feather river, as was planned in the c o n s t i t utional amendment, it would find it hard to justify its need for the Colorado river water." THAT is Interesting. It is Inter esting for several reasons. One reason is that if Southern California, in its litigation with Arizona, should win a larger share of the Colorado's water, it wouldn't need so much water from the counties of origin, which are located chiefly in the northern part of the state. That would simplify Calif ornia's water problem immense ly. It should be added, of course, that it WOULDN'T simplify Arizona's problem, which is to find water enough to sustain its present rapid rate of growth. In the West especially in the arid Southwest water is more precious than gold. No one knows that any better than the people of Arizona. They can be expect ed to battle to the last ditch for all the Colorado river water they can get. UP HERE in the North, we we must keep this fact clear in our minds: Water is our MOST PREC IOUS RESOURCE. Without water our other re sources are relatively valueless. WE MUSTN'T be dogs in the ' manger. Before bargaining away IR REVOCABLY, without recourse, the water that falls on our moun tains and runs down into our valleys, we must be very, very sure indeed that we are going to have enough left to meet our owa needs which will be great. Mao Tse-tung Establishing Hi: Role as No. 1 Red Spokesman By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Mao Tse-tung, the Red Chi nese leader, is establishing him self as the No. 1 spokesman on Commu n i s t doctrine. I n doing so, Mao is making him self increas ingly popular with those who favor the independ ent Commu- Charles McCano nism which President Tito has established in Yugoslavia and which Red Leader Vladyslav Gomulka has been able to establish to a less er extent in Poland. Consequently, Mao is making himself increasingly unpopular in Soviet Russia, which realizes Today and By Walter THE COMMON TASK "Anyone coming from Eu rope," said Barbara Ward Jack son at the Harvard Commence ment, "must candidly report that distaste for the Atlantic Associ ation is widely VIIIMIHMII'JIHU.J expressed the distrust, the envy, the fear of Ameri can power and competition which are in evitable given the nation's relative r- vev - t waiter Lmpmann sirengms are now unchecked by any opposite sense of working with America to achieve any legal purpose and of experiencing first-hand the energy, the vitality, and the imagination which America can bring to any high task it pro poses to itself." The high task, which Lady Jackson had in mind, would be one like the Marshall Plan ten years ago, in which a free coali tion of nations would unite in time of peace to achieve some great and constructive aim." Reading her sensitive and elo quent words, I find myself won dering what has happened in these ten years, why it is that Western nations are no longer united in some great, overiding, common enterprise. Have the people and their leaders deteri orated, and are they less high- minded and farseeing and bold than they were when they came together in the Marshall Plan? Or have conditions changed, and are the Western nations con fronted with problems which are very different indeed from those which they dealt with ten years ago? THE Marshall Plan was ad dressed to the recovery of Western Europe from the dam age and the dislocation of the war. All the nations participat ing in it, including the United States which financed the dollar requirements, were jointly and severally, as a community and as separate nations, vitally inter ested in making the plan a suc cess. In Europe, the failure of the plan would have meant great misery, and in more than one nation social upheaval and per haps civil war. For the United States, the failure of the plan might well have meant the loss of its best friends and allies, and a dangerous isolation in an un Editorial Comment YOUNGER MEN AS JUDGES Governor Holmes had three circuit judges to appoint to fill offices created by the last Legis lature. As have his recent pre decessors, he turned to younger members of the bar for two of his appointments: Robert C. Bel loni of Myrtle Point, for the 15th judicial district, is 38, and Richard Anderson of Newport, for the 21st district, is only 34. The third, Edward C. Kelly of Medford, is 53. Kelly is well and favorably known. He practiced law with his father the late E. E. Kelly, served in the Leg islature and later as federal at torney for PWA and BPA. One reason governors had to reach into the ranks of young er lawyers was that older at torneys of recognized competence were unwilling to leave private practice to go on the bench the salaries were not attractive enough. Traditionally the ap pointments went to mature men, seasoned in law and the wisdom that is supposed to accrue with years. However, the young judges named in late years have made very good records, so the tradition may not stand. Oregon Statesman, Salem. Stops Heart Gas 3 Times Faster An tmuinf litll. black tabltt CftAtlialnf tk raiteit-actifti mtdici. hn.n. ri takinf lh tQOBtry by ttomi. Tkn fsaioul Bell. an tablat fsr Kid InaiBettlon. heartburn, and Mur ttemacb car-tami r harmful druga. uuatflvaa, aisirin ar trancuitimi. Certified laboratory teats prava B.ll-afti tab lets reutraliie 3 times a mutb itomah aridity in o-ie minute a, many leing draeitive tablets. Gat Bali-saa today lir fastest ajawi raliaf. 55c if;--'. that independent Communism is a threat to its own long-dominant position as the fountain head of Marxism wisdom. Mao's latest exposition of his views was broadcast Tuesday by the Peiping Radio 17,000 words of it. The exposition was given in a speech which Mao made in Peiping on Feb. 27. Nothing was known about it abroad for two months. Still Contradictions One of Mao's chief points was that after more than seven years of Communist rule in China, there are still contradic tions between the people and the government. Everybody in both the Com munist and the free worlds has known this all along, of course, and has known that the contra dictions exist not only in China Tomorrow Lippmann friendly world. The Atlantic nations were, as Lady Jackson put it, working with America to achieve a large purpose. But that large purpose was the rescue and the salvation of the Atlantic nations them selves, and their vital interests were directly engaged. What, we must ask ourselves, is the large purpose today which might unite them once more in ' some great and constructive aim"? TY WAY of answering this " question, Lady Jackson made three suggestions. One would be to develop a low tariff area for the Atlantic community as a whole. A second would be to fi nance the foreign exchange re quirements of the Indian Five Year Plan in order to prove, by contrast with China, that it is possible in Asia to develop a country without totalitarian com pulsion. A third suggestion was that the Western nations partic ipate in the development of West Africa, which is within sight of national independence. For myself, all these proposals seem to be excellent. But I cannot believe that lower tariffs oi the financing of India or West Afri ca can generate in the Western World anything like the sense of high common enterprise which existed in the great days of the Marshall Plan. CAN ANYTHING develop it to day? Or is the Western world spellbound by the great boom that now prevails almost every where? Ten years ago it was a vital necessity that Western Europe should recover, and it was that necessity which in spired and animated the com mon enterprise of the Marshall Plan. Is there today any similar necessity, one which is central, which engages all the Atlantic nations jointly and severally, which catches the vital interests of the masses of the people? I think there is. It grows out of the race for armaments which is fast becoming a critical prob lem not only in international af fairs but in the internal affairs of all the military powers. The great dispute over our own budg - et is really about the effects on our. civilian life of the enormous and the mounting costs of arm - aments. In all Western countries public life is dominated by the same issue of military versus private and public civilian spend ing. WE NEED have no illusions about the difficulty of com ing to an agreement among our selves and with Russia which would limit and stabilize the competition in armaments. But this is the central and overrid ing task today as was the recov ery of Western Europe ten years ago. The task is certainly not to disarm while the world is so di vided. Perhaps it is not even to reduce substantially the pres ent scale of armaments. The task is to bring the competition itself under internationai control be fore it becomes intolerably cost ly, and before the tensions of nuclear testing and of the threat of nuclear war brings us to some breaking point. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. The Service Beautiful C M. Lirwiller Mt. View Off street parking Quiet Location At Cemetery Entrance I ITAM i cr V- LI I V V I LL.fr Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close but in all Red-ruled countries. But Mao's admission of this obvious fact has caused a big sensation in Communist coun tries whose governments do not dare admit that anybody but an evil-minded "diversionist" or "counter-revolutionary" ever disagrees with the party line. Mao made his speech at a se cret meeting of a "supreme state conference." Speech Leaks Out Parts of it started to leak out in Poland at the end of April after Polish Premier Josef Cy rankiewicz visited Peiping. Pol ish newspaper correspondents who accompanied Cyrankiewicz published parts of the speech in Warsaw newspapers. The speech was important to Polish Communists because Mao gave strong encouragement to the desire of people in Red-riled countries for some measure of independent thought and aytion. Mao also indirectly repeated his previous criticism of Russia's brutal suppression of t Jfn garian revolt. It has long been knon that Mao and his premier, Chou n lai, openly supported th Pol ish revolt against Soviet dom ination and probably -'ere re sponsible for its success. 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 rlcht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub licatlon must not exceed 400 words Names Omitted To the Editor: On Sunday, June 16. the Medford Building Trades Council published a full page ad in the Medford Mail Tribune r e c o m mending con tractors and shops to the petople of Medford. The names of Frank (Scotty) Fairweather, general contractor, and R. E. (Dick) Marsh, home builder, were omitted from the recommended list. Both Scotty Fairweather and Dick Marsh are fair to the Medford Building Trades Council and highly re commended to the people of Medford. We wish to make a public apology to "Scotty" and "Dicl' for omitting their names from the recommended list and hope that you will print this letter, so the people of Medford and Jactg son County will know thtjt they are fair employers and conscienH tious builders. George PotuceS Secretary, M ( X r d Building Tradj$ Council. te plaa aiJ av for year futura g " 1 j i j ; m i Start now to save reg ularly . . . see how cash f M on hand helps your j? dreams come true. Your j money earns more here. 1 Jackson County Federal Savings & Loan Assn. " Where You Are Paid To Save f 126 East Main S M B B ef B, U ' Chopel No processions through streets Better service lower costs 100 Locally Owned '. 1 - -'T. , 9 s, m i. r" w 1 tM " cff Mri. Lirwiller "It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us."