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TOXTH MZDFORD (OREGON) "TCV'rryone in SoutHern Oregon K5s wjci ir-.e Mail inDur.e tr.e-2 Daliy Extent Saturday by SiEDrORD PHLNTING CO Norm Fir Si Pnone 2-:41 ROBERT W RCHL. Editor KTSB GREY Advertising Manager CKIALD LATHAM Bjiineu Mar: a eel BSIC ALLEN JR Managing Editor mtL H ADAMS City Editor HAHRY CHifMAN Telezrar-n Editor iCHARD JEW EXT Snorts Editor CUV'E ST ARCHER Society Editor CALE EP.1CKSON Circulation Mgr. An independent Newipaper "spre1 as second class matter at aleoiora Oregon under Act of March 3, IK'n WJBSCirPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year 115 00 Isjily and Sunday Six months 8 00 iJeily end Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sindev Oniy One year $4 20 Br Carrier In Advance Medford Ai,snrl Central Point Eagle Point JaclMoavilla fiold Hill. Phoenix S'uso Cove Sorue River. 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They are all as big as barns, instead of auto freight trucks. 20 YEARS AGO June 20. 1937 (Sunday) "Sky Circuses" featuring dare devil Tex Rankin coming to Med ford In July. Adolphe Menjou stars in com ing picture, "Cafe Metropole." 30 YEARS AGO June 20. 1927 (Monday) Bearing breaks on snow plow and delays clearing of snow on road to Anna Springs at Crater Lake. Two Medford people stop at Eureka Inn at Eureka, Calif., and see coast marathon runner Mid Bull as he arrives there on aviv from San Francisco to Grants Pass. 40 YEARS AGO June 20. 1917 (Wednesday) ATprifnrH ritv council members "considerably peeved" when banks tell them they will here after pay no interest on city de posits. From the Local and Personal column: F. K. Deuel has pur chased two registered Holstein heifers from the celebrated herd at the Vina ranch of Stanford university, and a 14-months-old. 2. 800-pound bull, sired by King Pontiac, and added them to the Holstein dairy herd at the Deuel and Strang dairy farm in Sams Valley. Whal's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or etirht Is excellent; live or six Is good 1. Is it true that Robert E. Lee married into the family of George Washington? 2. An orchestra leader beats time with a bassoon, baton, or baboon? 3. Bible: With reference to eating, is the expression "are full" or "art full" used? 4. Which U. S. President is sued the amancipation procla maticn? 5. Name the author of the novel, "Oliver Twist." 6. September is the ninth month in the Julian calendar: what month was it in the Ro- man calendar? 7. Pure water is never hard water; true or false? 8. Name the capital of Nor way. 9. Is it proper to use the word "hire" to imply lease or let, (ie. "apartment for hire")? 10. "A Linkin, adoo!" A. Ward. What does "Linkin" and "A" stand for? Answers: 1. Yes. He married Mary, granddaughter of Martha Custis Washington. 2 Baton. 3. "Art full" (Deut. 8:11). 4. Ab raham Lincoln. 5. Charles Dick ens. 6. Seventh month. 7. True. 8. Oslo. 9. No. 10. Lincoln. Art emus. PERSONAL INTEREST New Britain. Conn. !1P Po liceman Arthur G. Hemingway had more than ordinary inter est in catching a food thief. Three cases of soda, chocolate drinks, ham. fruit and other items were stolen from an auto mobile behind the police sta tion. It was Hemingway's car. tvflp"Bt,SH" 5'-ASSOCIATION MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence . . . New York City, June 18: "The best laid plans" etc.. etc. We decided to visit the East and see summer, so as to miss the heat So we departed the first week both when we reach New York Adirondacks find Old Father Knickerbocker suffering one of the worst and most prolonged heat waves June has ever seen. Which just shows betting on the weather is just as much a sure thing as betting on the "Hosses. If we had not enjoyed nearly three weeks of cool nights and decently warm days at the Rice Mountain Lodge, the shock would not have been so great, but when we emerged from the air con ditioned "Laurentian" into the stifling and completely dead atmos phere of the nether regions of ire to a taxi even witn the aia ot a red cap and his truck came close to doing us in. The taxi man did not feel much better, he had only his undershirt visible but he confided that this sort of hellish climate was too much for him especially at night, and he intended to spend a week at Coney Island, mostly in a bathing suit for the next three days, when according to the Weather Man the hot spell should end with another high voltage thunderstorm. Like a cool breeze In this Turkish bath, came the front page announcement in the "Times" this morning that with only one dissenting vote the U.S. Supreme of John T. Watkins, labor leader, refusal to squeal on and name Deionged to the Communist party, but to the best of his knowledge had seen the error of their ways and resigned. The court ruled that a conviction and jail sentence on such grounds and under such circumstances was in direct violation of the first article of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing personal freedom. The one dis senter was Justice Tom Clark, who never should have been ap pointed to the Supreme Court in the first place. This decision, as former Vice President Garner used to sav in Prohibition days when he took a We hope this ruling will lead also to the reversal of the con viction of Arthur Miller, playright and husband of Marilyn Mon roe, w'ho like Watkins admitted ciation witn tne communist party, and his own transgressions, but refused to name a list of others similarly involved, on the entirely sound ground that the congressional investigators had a perfect right to make any ruling they pleased on HIS record, but had no right, constitutional or otherwise, to force him to be an "informer." The comment of Senator McClellan, head of the Senate Inves- i tigaing committee regarding this J Supreme Court, was characteristic. "What the United States needs most is a Supreme Court of lawyers with a reasonable amount of common sense." By "common sense," it is reasonable to assume, Senator Mc Clellan means not more lawyers on the Court for there are plenty as it is, but more lawyers who will take the popular line what ever it may be regardless of the rights of the individual guaranteed by the Constitution. That, of course, is precisely what should NOT be done! If Chief Justice Earl Warren who wrote this decision should resign we know one small town newspaper in the country that would go out 100 for his nomination for the Presidency, and we wouldn't care on which party ticket. He is the type of courage ous and enlightened LIBERAL, who puts freedom and the consti tution above all other considerations, the country needs. More power to him! R.W.R. Inspection for Disarmament Real hope that current disarmament talks in Lon don will lead to some measure of accomplishment has risen in world capitals during recent weeks. Posi tions of the United States and the Soviet Union on the vital question of aerial and ground inspection have been drawing closer and closer together. The present conference may do no more than bring out the area of agreement that has been reached after more than a decade of fruitless negotiations, or it may lead to signing of a formal document on first steps to be taken in limiting the world's armaments. During a 'ten-day recess of the London confer ence, Harold E. Stassen, chief American negotiator, returned to Washington for consultations with Presi dent Eisenhower, Secretary of State Dulles, and the National Security Council. Details of the "flexible plan" he took back to London have not been disclosed, but the lines of American thinking have been out lined to the Russians in private as well as to European allies of the United States. TTHE President told a news conference May 22, while Stassen was in Washington, that this coun try must not be "recalcitrant" or "picayunish" on disarmament. "We ought to have an open mind and make it possible for others, if they are reasonable, logical men, to meet us half way so we can make these agreements." The President's remarks were be lieved to have been prompted by a statement of Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that "We cannot trust the Russians on this or anything else." Another important meeting held by Stassen while in Washington was with the disarmament subcom mittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. At that session he sought to prepare the senators for any shocks that may be involved in a first-step agreement with the Russians. Such an agreement would have to be submitted to the Senate in treaty form and could be defeated by one more than one third of the senators present and voting. AT the Geneva summit conference in 1955, President "Eisenhower astonished the world with his open skies plan and his suggestion for exchange of mili tary blueprints. The proposals were at first denounced by the Russians as a gigantic spying scheme, but they have since come around to accepting them in prin ciple. The United States on its part has accepted a Soviet plan to station mutual inspection teams at im portant highway and rail centers, seaports, and mili tary airfields. The purpose would be to give warning of any concentration of forces that might presage a surprise attack. Dulles has repeatedly stressed that an effective inspection system is the heart of disarmament. The United States attaches "top priority," he said, to getting a substantial inspection zone established wherever it can be got quickly. This country was w illing to accept such a zone in any part of the world re the signmcanee aerial and ground inspection can be tested" in good faith. E.R.R. Thunday. June 20, 19S7 our grandchildren early in the and humidity. in May. We not only ran into but now on our return from the Grand Central station, that long Court overruled the conviction for contempt of Congress in his some of his friends who once nip of corn whiskey, is striking everything about his former asso and similar decisions of the Said he: and the requirements of 'iVATCr! our FOf? THEIR LITTLE Matter of Fact by POLITICS AND THE ATOM Washington All concerned will, of course, piously swear that no thought of partisan poli- t i c al advant age has enter - ered anyone s head, where the d 1 s arma ment i s sue is concerned. But the fact is that d i sarmament in general, and a moratorium Stevait Alsop w e a p ons tesis in particular, now look like becoming dominating political issues. The further fact is that the Eisenhower administration is in a bad jam where these is sues are concerned, and tne astute Democratic leadership is thoroughly aware of it. On Monday, Sen. Mike Mans field, the respected Democratic whip, on outlawing the big hyd rogen weapons. He tied his pro posal in with a previous pro posal by Democratic Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, for an "open curtain" exchange be tween the United States and the Soviet Union. No-one who witnessed the de bate on the Mansfield proposal could fail to sense its political overtones, despite the nobly non partisan attitute adopted by all the participants. During the course of the debate, Johnson rose to say that the Democratic majority would agree to send observers to the London dis armament negotiations, if Secre tary of State Dulles insisted. BUT "advisers" should not be sent Johnson earnestly main tained, since to do so would "usurp" the executive function. Johnson thus neatly side-step ped Dulles' attempt to force the Democrats to share responsibility for whatever Harold Stassen brings back or fails to bring back from London. The next Democratic move will take place before the dis armament subcommittee head ed bv the able Sen. Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey, expects to call a series of witnesses be fore the subcommittee to test ify on the Soviet proposal for a two to three year moratorium on nuclear weapons tests. Where- ever possible, the hearings will be open. Two of the first witnesses to be called will be Secretary of De fense Charles Wilson and either Atomic Energy C o m m issioner Willard Libby or chairman of the AEC Lewis Strauss. Wilson and Libby (or Strauss) will be asked to explain the flat con tradiction between recent state ments by Wilson and Libby. In a statement before the joint Cong ressional Atomic Energy Commission, Libby stated that development of missiles would be "crippled bv a cessation of tests." Libby "s formal statement was previously cleared with Strauss, who is viol ently op posed to any moratorium on tests. A few days after Libby had spoken, Wilson said that test ing of nuclear warheads had "no thing to do with the perfection of the delivery system" of mis siles, and that thus an agreed ban on tests would not stand in the way of successful develop ment of missiles. TTUMPHREY can be expected AA to exploit this contradiction for all it is worth. Moreover, the contradiction reflects a basic split in the Administration, be tween Stassen and his beleaguer ed supporters, who want to make a serious attempt to negotiate with the Soviets, and the Strauss Radford group, who bitterly op pose Stassen's view. This kind of basic split on matters of high policy in an ad ministration always gives the opposition a major political op portunity. Moreover, the Soviet proposal for a moratorium places the Eisenhower adm inistration in a peculiarly difficult position. For it was. after all, Adlai Stevenson in the 1956 campaign who first proposed a moratorium on weapons tests, and it was Dwight D. Eisenhower who strongly opposed the idea. By agreeing, ostensibly at least, to accept technicians within the Soviet b o r d ers to report any violation, the Soviets have un dercut the major argument BOX Jfc's A R0Q6HHBCK. Stewart Alsop against a ban. The experts con tend that only a handful of detec tion outposts in Soviet territory would give foolproof guarantees against Soviet cheating on the 1 agreement. And it should not be aimcuit to tind out it tne Sov iets, for once, really mean what they say. VET for the Administration now to agree to such a con trolled moratorium would seem to prove that Stevenson was right in 1956, and Eisenhower wrong. Moreover, there is a lot of evidence, in the Gallup polls and elsewhere, that an agreed ban would now be politically popular. "Adlai was premature," one Democratic Senator remark ed recently, "but now the thing has really caught on." Obviously, there are dangers for the Democrats, as well as opportunities, in the issue. There is the danger of seeming to play the Soviet game, and there is the danger inherent in the Pres ident's reputation, both as a lov er of peace and as an expert in matters military. Above all, there is the danger of seeming to "play politics with the atom." Yet the issue is almost certain to become a major political issue all the same, arid in a democracy, that is as it should be. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Congress Ratifies Atoms for Peace Plan Washington OPi The Senate after long delay has overwhelm ingly ratified President Eisen hower's "atoms for peace" treaty. The Senate ratified the inter national treaty Tuesday night on a 67-19 roll call vote. Nine Demo crats and 10 Republicans voted against it. The treaty, so far ratified by a total of 11 nations including Russia, would create an interna tional atomic energy agency. The agency would promote peaceful uses of atomic energy and provide nonmilitary nuclear materials to atomic have-not na tions. Texas Girl Selected As 4-H Miss America Washington (IP! Sharon Thompson of Hale Center, Tex., Wednesday night was chosen "Miss Young America In 4-H" at the 27th National 4-H Confer ence here. The 18-year-old pretty bru nette is a student at Texas Tech nological College. Self-EmpIoyecTs Tax Relief Being Sought Washington (CQ) A lobby ing federation, half a million members strong, is gathering it self for an all-out push to get special tax treatment for the self-employed. The federation is called the American Thrift Assembly. It claims to be fighting for 10 mil lion self-employed individuals rcnging from architects to un dertakers. It has representatives from such wealthy pressure groups as the American Medical association and National associ ation of Real Estate Boards sit ting on its board of directors. Other national organizations represened bring ATA's mem bership base to well over 500, 000. The common denominator within the American Thrift As sembly is desire for a law that would make money the self-employed pay into private pension funds tax deductible. Bills to ac complish this have been intro duced by Reps. Thomas A. Jen kins (R-Ohio) and Eugene J. Keogh (D-N.Y.). In All Districts Most of the pressure to get the so-called Jenkins-Keogh bill written into law from now on will come from local Thrift As semblies in all 435 Congression al districts. The ATA blueprint calls for locally prominent doc tors, lawyers and other self-em Nasser Almost Alone World; Last Ally Said By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt may soon lose his sole remaining ally in the Arab world. Four of Egypt's eight fellow- members of the Arab League are now openly opposed to his pro- Russian, anti - Western policy and are pretty solidly lined up with the Western Allies. Charles McCano Ihree others are doing nothing to help Nasser in his steadily developing isola tion. This leaves only Syria in sup port of Nasser. And diplomatic reports from Middle Eastern capitals say that a political blow up which would unseat that country's leftist government may come at any time. A challenge to President Shuk ri el Kuwatly and Premier Sabri Assali by conservative, pro-Western politicians and business lead ers has been increasing in strength for weeks. Members Resign Sixty-two opposition members of parliament have offered their resignations in protest against the government's pro-Nasser pol icy. It wes the Suez Canal crisis, which seemed to" be such a big victory for Nasser, that started him on the way to isolation. Nasser's victory, it developed, hurt the most important of his fellow-members of the Arab League. Revenues of oil-producing Saudi Arabia and Iraq fell alarm ingly. Lebanon, Jordan and Syria suffered economic losses. This has had a great deal to do with the challenge to the Syrian leftist regime. As has been said frequently, the visit of King Saud of Saudi Arabia to President Eisenhower last January convinced him that cooperation with the United States was desirable. In the Day's News By FRANK By FRANK JENKINS Two recent events have con spired to place in the hands of the Kremlin communists a tre mendously effective propaganda weapon for use against the Unit ed States. One was the shooting by an American sergeant in Formosa of a native Peeping Tom. The other was the shooting by an American corporal in Japan of a native woman who was scav enging scrap-metal on an Amer ican military reservation. These unfortunate occurrences have played into the Kremlin's hands in two ways: 1. By capitalizing everywhere the centuries-old, worldwide ha tred of foreign troops on native soil. 2. By strengthening in America the instinctive American feeling that the thing for us to do is to get our troops OFF foreign soil where, except in time of war, they have no business and BACK HOME, where American troops belong. rriWO questions arise at this A point: 1. Why do we keep American military forces on foreign soil? 2. Why are the Russians so eager to get our troops OFF for eign soil? THESE, I think, are the an swers: ployed persons to sit on each of these Assemblies. Right now, the Jenkins-Keogh bill is at a standstill. It would cost the Government some tax revenue so there is little chance of it sprouting in the economy climate that has descended on Washington this year. The man who will have the most to say about how to get the bill moving is F. Joseph ("Jiggs") Donohue, ATA national chair man. Donohue, a Washington lawyer, recently managed an other ambitious and far-reaching campaign Sen. Estes Kef auver's (D-Tenn.) bid for the Democratic Presidential nomin ation in 1956. Donohue Optimistic Donohue concedes there is not much chance of getting the bill moving this year. "But," he adds, "this year we're concen trating on educating the public about the issue. I want the nam es Jenkins-Keogh as well known, but in a different way, as Dixon and Yates." Donohue says the ATA drive will build up this summer, and be unleashed full force in 1958. The Jenkinr-Keogh bill will stay alive through the 1958 session. Donohue says that if the ATA doesn't see action on its bill by the 1958 election, it certainly would be active in supporting those Congressional candidates j sympathtic to his cause. Then came the victory of young King Hussein of Jordan over the pro-Nasser enemies who, with Egyptian and Syrian com Northwest Opposing Of FPCs KuykendaJI By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington A group of an gry senators this week turned their fire full blast on the newly r e a p p ointed chair man of the Federal Power Com m i s s ion, Jer ome K. Kuy kendall of O 1 Y m p i a, Wash. The forum for this critic- A. Boot smith ism is tne aen ate Commerce Commmittee headed by Sen. Warren G. Mag nuson (D-Wash.), which is con sedering President Eisenhower's appointment of Kuykendall to a new five-year term on the PFC. All of the Northwest Dem ocratic senators have lined up against Kuykendall in an effort to persuade the Senate to reject the nomination, thereby ending Kuykendall's service at the FPC when his present term expires June 30. There are two main focal points of the firing at Kuyken dall: 1. The Hells Canyon case pdvocates of the high federal dam are smarting over what they regard as the "polictial de cision" of the FPC to grant a li cense to Idaho Power Co. in stead of recommending that Congress authorize the high dam. 2. Natural gas price regula tion Kuykendall has been in JENKINS Russia's objective is to DE STROY AMERICA thus win ning for Russian communism the mastery of the world. Her plan is to keep getting stronger and stronger until she reaches the point where she will be able to destroy us AT ONE FELL BLOW in an atomic Pearl Harbor that will cover all of contintental United States. TF our retaliatory striking pow- A er is confined to contintental United States, that might be pos sible. But If our retaliatory striking power is SCATERED ALL OVER THE WORLD it wouldn't be possible. E have renounced agressive war. We will strike at Rus sia only in retaliation. That giv es to Russia the priceless mili tary advantage of the initiative. If we are to retaliate success fully after an atomic Pearl Har bor launched with all the power Russia can muster after decades of frantic preparation, we must keep our forces scattered all over the world so that Russia can't destroy them all at once. That's about the long and the short of it. THAT is why we have to keep our forces dispersed over the earth, wherever there is friend ly soil. That Is why as Americans we have to restrain our yearnings to get our boys off foreign soil and back home where in nor mal times they belong. Difficult as it may be for us to do so, we must force our selves to realize that these cold war times AREN'T normal I times. Frjnk Morgan O CHAPEL MORTUARY Funeral Directors PHONE SP 2-8030 MEDFORD in Arab Shaky plicity, tried to overthrow him. In view of the threat to tha Syrian leftists, Nasser must feel that he is a lonely man. Senators Nomination (he forefront of the fight to put through Congress a bill exempt ing natural gas producers from federal price regulation at the well head. Not Perfunctory Senators who favor the high Hells Canyon dam or who op pose the natural gas bill are ex pected to oppose Kuykendall's nomination, which means his confirmation won't be the per functory thing it usually is. But the issue in this case goes well beyond the two instances mentioned, according to Sen. Magnuson, who is conducting the hearings. Congress originally created the FPC. Magnuson points out, to do what had become too great a burden for Congress itself to do pass on the acceptability of utilities that wanted to de velop public river sites, such as Hells Canyon. Therefore, the FPC is not part of the admini stration but should be independ ent of it. It is technically an arm of Congress. "But the president has the power to appoint the commis sioners to the FPC and to these other independent agencies," ob served Magnuson, "and what is happening is that if the commis sioners don't act like puppets on the White House string, they get fired. As soon as a commissioner starts acting independently, like Tom Murray, (of the Atomic Energy Commission) or Joe Adams (of the Civil Aeronautics Board) they don't get reappoint ed." Complaints Cited The complaint along this line strikes Kuykendall because Mag nuson and his Northwest col leagues are convinced the FPC chairman has been following the "partnership" power policy of the Eisenhower administration, rather than independent engi neering judgment in rendering decisions on utility bids for pow er dam sites. And a number of other senators and congressmen from other regions are sore be cause Kuykendall sat down with representatives of the gas indus try and helped draft a natural gas bill, at the request of the White House, and then went to Congress and recommended that they pass it. "We are falling into a condi tion where the head of a com mission has become a propa gandist," declared Senator Pas tors (D-R.I.). "He should be im partial." Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) kicked off the anti-Kuy-kendall session by charging "Kuykendall has permitted the FPC to be used as the tool of a political decision which has wholly destroyed a painstaking, detailed, integrated, comprehen sive plan" for development of the Columbia River by the 308 report. Sen. Wayne Morse charg ed that Kuykendall has wined, dined and traveled as guest of gas and power utilities the FPC is charged with regulating. The fact that Sen. Henry M. Jackson is joining the opposition means both of Kuykendall s home state senators are against his reappointment, which means he is in for a rough time before the Senate votes to hire or fire . him. AUTO NOTE Manchester, Mass. API Charles Cobb Walker, a wealthy lawyer who lived in this Bos ton suburb for years, maintain ed nine automobiles. The regis tration plate number ran 101. 202, 303. etc.. all the way through 909. Harold Snodgrass 1 KING STREET rX - K jmr-ni imhi fVif L. . . j 4
