Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 26, 1957, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Xveryone In Southern Oregon KeaCinie Mail Tribune Pubilir.M Dailv Extent Saturday by MfiUfUKU CH1.NTIG CO 37-29 Nortn Fir St Phone 2-gHl ROBPJHT W BUHi- Editor HERB GREY Advertuini Manager GEKA1.D LATHAM Buines ManaKer ERIC ALLKN JR Muiaj;n Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Te:raph Editor ICHARL) JEWETT Soort Editor CLJVH STAKCHEt Society Editor DALE E'.ICKSON Cirrulation MT. At 1laajwident Newspaper r.errl a ttcon4 clam matter lwul Oecon .. .larca 3 under Act of !37 SUlicrrrioN rates JtMl la Advance- rVr Copy 10c ftM S-.m!ay One year $15 00 Tmtly m4 Wunday Six months 8 00 fatly art landay Three n 4.23 ; Cy One rear H20 By Carrier la Advance Medfortl Mmlmmi Central Point Eagle Point lmtmvllm Gold H1U Phoenix. fiaaHy Cove RoriJB River. Talent 0e anotor routea lil aad Sunday One year $18 00 leatly tm4 Sunday One month 150 Caamar and Dealer 0c per copy All Teita Cash In Advance Brm Baar of the City of Medford r all a pet mt Jackaon County t'aiaeat frM Full Leased Wire fUMi Cf AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATION AdVrtte.ee Bepreaentatlve n WEST-iO-IDAY COMPASV CNC w Offlrea ie .ew York Chicago de tract en Fraecuco Lo Angelea Seattle rtlan Bt Leua Atlanta Vaneouver B C NATIONAL IDITOIIA.. I asjocTa! AN 3ZUU 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 26. 1947 (Thuriday) Tax deed to government lots on Rogue river across from Gold Hill presented to that city by county for use as Ben Hur Lamp man memorial park. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Fancier new autos, are showing up driven by the local proletariat. The vehicles are of a make and model, formerly driven only by bankers and pear growers who got nothing for their pears. 20 YEARS AGO Juna 26. 1937 (Saturday) Kerosene soaked shack start ed a fire then extinguished by hand pumper, relic of 1883, from Jacksonville; demonstration for fire chiefs' convention in town Scout delegation from south ern Oregon on way to jamborea in Washington D.C. crosses Rocky mountains. 30 YEARS AGO June 26. 1927 (Sunday) Montana man speaks at Ruch school on county unit ichool plan. Approximately 35 county cr owners make out applications for half-year auto licenses. 40 YEARS ASO June 26. 1917 (Tuesday) Medford people tked to piy either 18 per cent of purchase price or entire price of liberty bonds bought on installment plan. From the LoiSil mJ Personal column: The Jackson county business men's association held its regular monthly dinner and meeting last evening tt the Hol land cafe. Only routine business was transacted. What's Yur I.Q.? Nlr or ten correct t snaerior; aei-en or elcht ti excellent; live or ix 1 food 1. In 1804 a company of 50 men established Fort Dearborn, 111., the foundation of which city? 2. In what European country is th Sangro River? 3. Bible: Heliopolis is the an cient Egyptian city known by what two-letter Biblical name? 4. From whom did Jack Demp sey win the world heavyweight boxing title? 5. Name the survey line mark ing the boundary' between Pen nsylvania and Maryland. 6. Name the capital of South Dakota. 0 7. The Bahamas are a Crown Colony of which country? 8. The city of Metz is in which European country? 9. The abbreviation "Jr." was introduced in 1623. Is it proper to apply the term to the younger of two boys of the same surname in a school? 10. "He was born within the sound of Bow-bell." T. Fuller. Where was -He" born? Answers: 1. Chicago. 2. Italy. 3. "On." 4. Jess Willard. 5. Mas on and Dixon Line. t. Pierre. 7. Great Britain. 8. France t. Yw. 10. London, England Wear the bells of Bow church. Actor Cameron Mitchell Sued for Ma'mtianc8 Hollywood OP Actor Cam eron Mitchell, 38. has been sued for separate maintenance by Mrs. Johanna Mitchell. 40. on grounds of cruelty after 16 years oi marriage. Mrs. Mitchell Tuesday asked Superior Court for custody of the couple's four children and S2.113 a month alimony and lild support. . 71 I S3. ! I lr war"'llSHE" VASSOCIATION MAIL TRIBUNE On Freedom of Speech We have long left that the United States Supreme Court is one agency of government which has suffered from lack of adequate news coverage. Only a handful of reporters have been regularly assigned to cover this branch of the government, while the other "co-equal" branches the legislative and the executive have had swarms of reporters, commentators and other varieties of newsmen covering them on a regular basis. This may change. For the court itself has changed in the last few years. And to our way of thinking, the change is all to the good. It has asserted its authority as an equal branch of government, and has moved into a sort of vacuum which has developed in the area of civil rights a vacuum which neither the Congress nor the Executive has done much of anything to fill. TTHE first important declaration of this change (al- though there had been hints even earlier) was the May 17, 1954, decision on school desegregation. Since that time, there have been a series of other decisions virtually all of them tending to support the dignity of the individual, and his freedom. They have not all been "popular" decisions, for by the very nature of American jurisprudence, the cases which are protested and appealed are those of a bor derline nature, with the appellants in nffeny cases be ing unsavory characters. But if the freedom of the individual is to be pre served, the laws must apply equally to all, without ref erence to reputation, character, color or "previous condition of servitude," for these have no bearing on the essential question of individual rights. THE court's recent decisions particularly in the case of the Communists convicted under the Smith act, and labor leader John Watkins, in addition to the desegregation decision have had hard going at the hands of some of the state's editorial writers. Both the Portland papers, the Oregonian and the Journal, have been non-committal about the court in recent editorials. Both have pointed out that the de cisions will lead to controversy. The Capital Journal in Salem has been openly and bitterly critical, and by implication has accused the court of sqf t-headed liberalism. ""THE neighboring Grants Pass Courier, in an editor- ial entitled "A Stunning Opinion," concludes: ". . . For if the Smith Act is virtually nullified the reds just about will be free to do as they please, so long as they do not specifically plot a military coup or some other violent means of overthrowing the U.S. government." Well for Pete's sake, where has the Courier writer been all these years? Are not Americans supposed to be free to do and think and preach what they want short of violence, treason, or injury to others? We could refer him to Abraham Lincoln, who said : "Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better." TN America, we are fortunate that this is done - through the ballot box. Every man has the right to try to persuade his fellows that his ideas, his ideology, his plans, are the right ones. That the communists have failed to so persuade Americans is to the credit flexible system of government which can and some times does pick and use the best of other systems, and to the economic growth of the nation which has per mitted a majority of the people to live in relative com- iort and security. But if we are afraid of must legislate against them we are admitting that we bility, our own capacity to iorce and trutn or our own. 1E hate and distrust murderous international com munism with everything we have. But we are not afraid of it not when America has proven, over and over again during the past 170 years, that it has the capacity and strength to resist, in the long run, those ideologies what we call our "way of life. We believe the Supreme Court, in these recent de cisions, also has shown it revolutionary idea that men are created with equal rights, and that it is within the province of govern ment to protect these rights. A ND remember this, you who believe that freedom of speech should be curtailed, and opposition pun- lsnen: If an unthinking majority today can suppress a communist's right of free speech, it can tomorrow turn its machinery of suppression on Jews, or Catholics, or Farm Laborites, or the National Association of Manufacturers. Only by keeping freedom sacred to all can it be guaranteed to any. Each person alive today is a mem- 1 ( . 'J A 1 1 . ' . oer oi some minority. And wnen one minority, or one individual, is permitted to suffer unjustly, so much the worse for all minorities, and VOU. Cj.A. Dog Saves Family From Madera, Calif 'TP His name was Rover and he was only four months old. but Mr. and Mrs. Tyree White and their seven children owe their lives to him. At 3:30 a.m. Tuesday the Whit es awoke to- find their puppy, half Doberman and half German shepherd, barking furiously and pulling at the covers. They shooed him away. But Rover persisted in barking. Then the Whites smelled smoke. They realized the house was afire. When they began to stir, Rov Wednesday. June 26. 1957 of the Americans, to" their new or strange ideas : if we and suppress them then have no trust m our own sta conquer alien ideas by the which are destructive of is unafraid of the TRULY all individuals, including Burning Home er darted into the children's bed room, barking all the while to wake them up. He tugged at their bedclothes, too. Once in the street, they heard Kover still barking inside. But there was a note of terror in his bark. A beam had fallen across the doorway, trapping him. Soon. Rover stopped barking. Later, they found his body in side the ruined house. Three out of four American farms xov corn, " ! " I iVAStJ'f GONNA HURT OUC? OC RAZOR ! I JUST WANTED TO SEE IF- MV PlGS WORKED New Polish Victory In Ideological War Seen Forthcoming By CHARLES M. MCCANN United Press Correspondent Polish "independent" Commu nist Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka may win a new and important victory soon over Commu nist Russia. It has been announced that Chinese Red Leader Mao Tsetung, on one of his very rare trips abroad, is to pay a state Charles MrCano visit to f-Oiano. accompanied by Chou En-lai, his premier. Dispatches from Warsaw quote well-informed sources as saying Mao intends to pass through Moscow on his way without stopping to confer with Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Com munist Party Chief Nikita S. Khrushchev. It is said also that the Soviet government tried to induce Mao Editorial Comment FEWER TREES. MORE TIMBER TO CUT Oregonians are well aware of the fact that they hve the largest body of standing timber of any state in the Union. They are learning now that they have more timber than they thought they had. Spite of decades of cutting the virgin forests, new in entories of federal forests show so much more timber than was assumed that increases in all owable annual cutting are being authorized. Latest to be an nounced is an allowance of a cut of 305,000,000 board feet in the Siuslaw national forest, which stretches from Tillamook to the Siuslaw, a 61 per cent increase over the previous 189,000,000 al lowance. How can this happen? How can we keep cutting down our for ests and still find ourselves with more timber? There are several reasons. Trees keep growing, so until a forest becomes aged, their size increases so they yield more board feet per tree. A factor of greater importance is the fuller use of trees in the forest. Smaller trees now are harvested, also trees of poorer quality. Less of the top is left in the. woods. Crui sers now use a different scale of values when they cruse a stand of timber. This is where much of the added footage of timber per acre is found. "Allowable cut" mean the quanity which may be cut each year indefinitely. This cut plus estimated losses from fire and disease will be matched by an nual growth of remaining timber and reproduction. This is the program of the forest service and the bureau of land management to insure a perpetual timber sup ply from the lands they adminis ter. This addition to the allowable cut in the Siuslaw forest will be welcomed by mills along the coast. Private timber, except that held by big concerns like In ternational Paper, Georgia-Pacific and Weyerhaeuser is pretty well cut ofi, but the mills will now have a larger supply of gov ernment timber available on competitive bidding. Other forest areas are having a similar up lift. On O & C lands the allow able cut has been raised from 523 million to 661 million board feet and when the reinventory is completed, may approach 800 million. Other national forests are reporting additions to allow able cut. This will serve to ex tend the life of lumber mills in Oregon. And as further utiliza tion becomes practical the quantity of material for process ing will be iurther increased. All this helps bolster confidence in Oregon's economy based as it is so largely on the state's forest resources. Oregon Statesman, Salem. V- ! to visit Moscow first but that he refused. An Open Snub There can be no doubt that the Russians will keep trying to get Mao to change his mind. If Mao insists on visiting Po land, and visiting Moscow only on his way home, it will mean that he is administering an open snub to Soviet leaders. Polish Premier Josef Cyran kieweicz invited Mao to visit Poland during a trip he made to Communist China in April. It was taken for granted at first that Mao would stop off in Moscow on his way. Later, the word was that So viet leaders had tried to get him to do that but that he refused, on the ground that the Polish invitation came first. Originally, Mao's visit was set for September. Last week War saw reported Mao would be there for the celebration on July 22 of Poland's "national day," the an niversary of the adoption of the new Communist constitution in 1952. Delay Cause Unknown Now it is said Mao may not arrive until the end of July, or possibly in August. Whether this may mean the delay is of routine nature or that Mao is reconsidering his de cision to give the Polish visit priority is no indication. . But Mao, Gomulka and the Soviet leaders undoubtedly are keenly aware of the importance which will be attached to Mao's decision, one way or the other, throughout the Communist world. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot 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 right to edit aJl letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub licaUon must not exceed 400 words Orphans' Bill To the Editor: You will be pleased to learn that Senator Eastland has assured me public ly on the Senate floor, in re sponse to another of my pleas, that legislation admitting refu gee orphans to the United States, will be reported out of Judiciary committee before adjournment. This is encouraging because our bill has been bottled up since January. We appreciate your fine support on the issue. For your information, the ex cellent articles on the subject by A. Robert Smith, concerning the humanitarian activities of Harry Holt, have been extremely help ful. ( Richard Neuberger United States Senator Pay Increase Bill for Federal Help Asked Washington Pay increase legislation for the nation's 500, 000 postal workers and 950,000 classified workers has been ordered reported to the Senate Post Office and Civil Service committee, according to Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) Neuberger is chairman of the Federal Employees Compensa tion subcommittee of the Sen ate Post Office and Civil Service committee. "The subcommittee voted an increase of S500 across the board for employees of the post al field service and increases for classified employees in am ounts ranging from S310 to S500," he said. He added, "Evi dence submitted to the sub committee indicated pay of gov ernment workers in general and postal employees in partic ular has lagged behind indust rial wage rates. Some postal workers' families are limited to grocery budgets of only S25a week." Leningrad was under siege by the Germans for 17 months in World War II. - Washington Boiling With Talk Over Supreme Court's By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington HP) This city is boiling with discussion of recent Supreme Court opinions in the field of indi vidual consti tutional rights as opposed to federal prose cutors and con gressional in vestigators. There has been nothing like it since the middle 1930 when the high court junked some of the key legislation of FDR's New Deal. Government prosecutors are appalled by the implications of the court's new version of constitutional law. This week's steamy discussion of the recent opinions is not a patch, however, on what may be expected shortly. Pending now before the Supreme Court and scheduled for quick disposition is the government's appeal against a lower court ruling that the United States must not turn over for trial by Japanese courts a GI named William S Girard. Girard shot and killed a Japanese woman and is charged In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Good news: The National Association of Mutual Savings Banks reports that DEPOSITS increased by 169 million dollars in May. They reached a record 30 bil lion, 637 million dollars. WHY is that such good news? The answer is simple. Be fore a dollar can be invested in new plants, in new machines or in new processes that create jobs A DOLLAR HAS TO BE SAVED UP BY SOMEBODY. PUT it this way: Those who spend provide the markets that keep business expanding. Those who SAVE provide the capital with which to finance the expansion of busi ness. That is to say: It takes all kinds of people to make a world. QUESTION: Is fall-out resulting from atomic bomb explosion tests a grave menace to the health and welfare of the world? THERE is one answer: Con tinued atomic bomb explosion tests will pose a ser ious threat to the health of the world's population. Dr. Raymond Ellickson, head of the physics department of the University of Oregon, warned in Eugene the other day. In fact, he told the members of the Eugene Rotary club, even if tests were stopped now the effects of past explosions on plant and animal life would continue for many years. Dr. Ellickson c o n c e ntrated much of his talk on radioactive Strontium 90 a material not ex isting on earth before man be gan the first A-bomb test. It is a particularly vicious element, he said, because it resembles cal cium in structure. As such, it is assimilated by plant and animal life, including the human body. DR. ELLICKSON continued: "In areas of the world where calcium is not abundant as in the Willamette valley of Oregon growing things will ab sorb the material more readily without being able to differenti ate between it and calcium. Then the destructive work begins in developing mutations and tear ing down blood-making proces ses such as are found in human bone marrow." He added: "Leukemia, transformed genes and other deformities will in evitably result through con tinued explosion of the bombs." HERE is another answer: Dr. John Lawrence, dir ector of the Donner Laboratory at the University of California, said in Portland Friday night the world of science has as yet "absolutely no evidence" that radioactive fall-out from atomic bombs has damaged human be ings. He spoke at the Oregon Science and Industry, Reed Col lege and the Textron Foundation. He conceded that large doses of radioactive material could kill. But, he added, "so could a large dose of aspirin." "rpHE increase in background -- radiation since the latest Nevada bomb tests has been about three per cent." Dr. Lawr ence told his hearers. "A radium dial on a wrist watch gives a per son more than THREE TIMES that amount of radiation." He concluded: "Regarding a purported link between the element Strontium 90 and the incidence of leukemia, I'm afraid the patients have rec eived more radiation from diag nosis than they have from the 'background.' " WHAT are we ordinary non scientific people to think about this business of radioactive fall-out? It seems to me that until more is KN'OWr: about it the less we think about it the better it will be for .everybody. I' ' ' 1 I, Tie c Wilson with manslaughter. Heat on Administration The United States govern ment has agreed that Girard shall be tried by the Japanese, an agreement which has aroused national controversy and turned considerable political heat on the Eisenhower administration. The Japanese people are equal ly, or more, excited. So much so that agreement to the trial of Girard by Japanese courts has the appearance of a move to appease popular opinion in Japan. The lower federal court here which forbade the Eisenhower administration to hand Girard over to the Japanese held that the Constitution guaranteed him trial by established American processes. Government lawyers appear to be genuinely confi dent that the Supreme Court will reverse that finding. They argue that the adminis tration's right to deliver Girard to the Japanese is legally sound because it is by executive agree ment between the two nations arrived at under terms of a treaty between the United States and Japan. It seems to follow Neuberger and Porter Propose Studies of Family Allowance Plan Washington, D.C. Resolu tions providing for "a full and complete inquiry and study" of the Canadian Family Allowances program to determine the ad visability of instituting a similar system in the United States have been introduced in the Senate and House by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger and Rep. Charles O. Porther, both of Oregon. "I am convinced that this pro gram has been a great boon, not only for the children of Canada, but for all Canada," Neubeger declared in submitting the Sen ate resolution. "It is my belief that a family allowances pro gram in the United States would have a favorable impact on health, happiness, and welfare of the nation's children." To All Under IS Under Canada's family allow- Girl Seeks To Erase Memory of Tragedy Chippawa, Ont. OH Eleven-year-old Anita Leary decided to day to return to England to help erase from her mind the scene at Chippawa Creek where her par ents drowned trying to rescue her. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Leary, will be buried today. But Anita, mutely grief stricken, shook her head "No" when asked if she wished to view their bodies. Anita fell into 20 feet of water Sunday while at a pipnic along the banks of the Chippawa with her parents and her aunt and uncle. Her parents both jumped in to save her. They droned In the attempt. Her uncle, Robert Goodwin, managed to pull Anita to safety. He also rescued his wife, Marie, who had encountered difficulty trying to help Anita. Emu Attacks Car; Three Women Escape Darwin, Australia (OT Three matronly women escaped serious injury Tuesday when an angry, seven-foot-tall emu attack ed their speeding motorcar. The car was damaged exten sively, and although the women were unhurt, the driver, Mrs. Toby Brown, 68, said they emerged from the vehicle quak ing. "We were terrified when the huge landbird charged the car, which was traveling 40 miles an hour, and battered the panel ling," she said. "He tried to smash the win dows but only succeeded in dent ing the fenders and roof. I was forced to accelerate to 60 miles i : hour to escape. "The car looks as though it had been in an accident and one door was unopenable." Serving All Who Call With sincerity and deep re spect to the departed, Litwil ers' have served faithfully for 22 years, at prices exception ally moderate. C M. Litwiller Remember . . . We are Ashland's only locally owned funeral home. We have no branches. We devote our full-time to give the finest funeral service, at less cost than obtained elsewhere. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chape1 Hwy 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Closa """" Decision that in signing that treaty, the United Staves signed away some of the constitutional rights of any citizen who finds himself in Girard's position. Communists' Rights However just that my be, it is a fact that the Suprm Court in the past fortnight hs been0 dealing in specttcult-r ttishion with the matter of individual rights under the Coniitution. Specifically, these wre the civil rights of U. S. citizens. By chance, the citizens and there were a number of them wer Communists. The Supreme Court reversed the convictions of some who had been charged as members of the Communist conspiracy. It order ed new trials for others. These actions were of a pattern with previous opinions in which Com munists or their sympathizers found safe harbor in the Con stitution's Bill of Rights. If the Supreme Court is un able to find for a young AmeriQ can GI as safe a Bill of Rights harbor as it has found for mem bers of the Communist conspir acy, there is likely to be con siderable popular uproar in tha United States. ances plan, established about 12 years ago, small regular monthly payments are made to mothers or guardians for each child un der 16 years of age. The size of the "allowance" varies with the age of the child; the minimum is S6, the maximum S8. Canadian law requires that the money be spent for "the health aijd wel fare of the child. The senator, -who introduced a similar resolution in the 84th Congree, said study by a Senate committee would give "the peo ple of the United States a sound basis on which to determine how and when they may wish to adopt for themselves and their children the benefits of family allowances." Representative Porter of Ore gon's 4th District called family allowances "an unusual program to many," but observed, "so was Social Security when it was first proposed." Porter's resolution is the first proposal dealing with this subject to be introduced in the House of Representatives. Said Accepted Pointing out that the success ful Canadian program is accept ed by 98 per cent of the poplua tion, Porter said he felt that the proposed study should be started this year. "W have found money to sub sidize airlines, railroads and firms foui,d to be producing items essentil to the national security," he said. 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