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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Iveryone In Southern Ore goo neaci ine Maa mount Pubiur.e-3 Daiiy Exceo: Saturday by 21-29 North Fir St Phone 2-Il BOKERT W RL'HL Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Buiineu Manage ERIC ALX.EN JR Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS City EditOT HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Siortt Editor OIJVE S7 ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mjrr. An Independent Newspaper Entere-d aj second class matter at Medford Oregon under Art of March 3 lHrJl SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c DaiJy and Sunday One rear $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six montha 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mca 4.23 Stindav Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shad Cove Rogue River. Talent ".d on motor route Daiw and Sunday One year $18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 130 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail Terma Ca n h in Advance Official Paper ef the City ef Medford Official Paper of Jackson County U nJ te d Press Fu 1 1 Leased Wire" MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPACT INC Offices in New York Chicago de troit. San Francisco Los AngeJes Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL E 0 I T O I A i I ASJOCrA'l N -J NEWSPAPER PUBLISHEtS ASSOCIATION 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 27. 1947 (Friday) Miss Medford to be selected at Craterian theatre tonight. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Civic lead ers are confronted with the problem of getting the voters to the polls in the "off-year elec tions." Proposals on the Novem ber ballots to plow up the golf course for municipal gardens and dry up the leading fishing holes, might stir up interest in November mandates. 20 YEARS AGO Jun 27. 1937 (Sunday) American Legion post annual Jection and stag party set for July 6. American Legion planning to sponsor Boys State, Medford post asked to join plan. 30 YEARS AGO June 27, 1927 (Monday) Five persons injured when auto stage overturns on Pacific highway, lands on top of coupe which had gone in ditch 30 min utes before. Two local high school boys hitchhike to San Francisco. 40 YEARS AGO June 27, 1917 (Wednesday) Beginning July 1, Medford will have exclusive wire through" the Western Union company be tweeo here and San Francisco. From the Local and Personal column: Ralph Ewing, state screen inspector, is nursing a badly sprained wrist, as the re sult of cranking up his automo bile too hurriedly last Saturday. The injured member is his right wrist, and the accident is the more regrettable because of coming at his busiest season of the year. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct la superior; seven-or eight Is excellent; five or six is sood 1. In 1795 were the exports of th U.S. about $4,700,000 or $47,000,000? 2. Is Syria an Arab state? 3 Bible: Why was Joseph, on his way back from Egypt, "araid to go thither (to Judea)? '4. That is the difference be tween a quagmire and a qua haug? 9 In which month does Flag Dy fall? Will the postal service for ward without charge all classes of mail to an addressee who has moved? 7. In the cabinet of which President did Sen. Carter Glass rve as Secretary of the Treas ury? 8 What animal is called Jlevnard? 9. "'Chuck-full" is a colloquial ism for chock-full. Is it proper t use it in formal speech? 10. "The cheerful loser is a Winner." Elbert Hubbard: Did he write this in 1811. 1361, or 1911? Answers: 1. S47.000.000. 2. Yes. 3 "liaarrl that Archplaus . . ." I succeeded to the throne of Herod. 4. Quagmire is a bog; quahaug is a clam. 5. June. 6. No, (it forwards first class mail free to a new address). 7. Wood row Wilson. 8. Ths fox. 9. No. It is close to slang. 10. 1911. The same moid which yields penicillin is abo believed to hold-penatin, an even more po tent weapon against most dis use germs. eft MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence . . . New York. June 24th: It may be the humidity or it may be the cherry-stone clams we have been eating. Whatever it is we haven't seen a really funny show on T.V. since we came here. In Medford Ed Sullivan on Sunday nights (in spite of his over long and tiresome commercials) was or at least his entertainers were really amusing. But not here in New York. His comedians simply try too hard to be funny to succeed. And some don't try and end in a shut-out. Sullivan's show last night at Jones Beach was at least to us particularly depressing, in every department but especially in the comedy area. There wasn't a real laugh in a car load. We have forgotten just how many thousand Ed gets a week, but whatever he gets he is overpaid. If we ran the Ford Company we would give Ed a long vacation with half pay for he is a nice guy and like the proverbial piano player is no doubt doing the best he can but these dog days, it isn't worth 30 cents. There is one great thing about TV, however, especially here in New York you don't have to pay for it, you don't have to find a scalper to get a seat on the aisle, and when you are bored you can turn it off. So except for one Broadway "hit" it was really good too and three Big League Ball games, we have de pended upon "TV" a lot, and have really appreciated its all around service but not in comedy, thank you. x Speaking of baseball we wonder if anyone has ever explained why baseball teams go into slumps and then for no apparent rea son suddenly snap out of them. About a month ago we saw the Chicago White Sox make monkeys out of the "Damned Yankees" up at the stadium two days in succession. They played like real "champs," hitting, field ing and particularly fast and smart base running. They won easily and it seemed plain to this venerable sports-expert that they were headed for the pennant, and the Yanks at long last were OUT. Eut what did we see on our return from the Adirondacks? A complete flip flop. In every department last week the Yanks were true champs, especially in hitting when hits were needed, and tight pitching when hits from the opposition were threatened. One game went 13. innings, but for "Lady Luck" it would only have gone 9. The Yanks finally won with a homer by Yogi Berra, who hadn't made a hit all day. But the Sox did not really earn their runs a completely snafued pitcher gave them 3 of them. So now it is plain to the undersigned thatnothing can beat the Yanks short of a bomb attack by the Russkis or broken necks for Mantle, Skowron and Byrne. (If Messers E.T., or E.G.B., wish to make wagers along that line they can send wires not collect.) But there is one thing we can say about the White Sox, the Dodgers, in fact all teams in the two Big Leagues, they all have their off-days and their days on, but there isn't one that is out classed entirely that is not CAPABLE of beating any of their opponents if they get a few breaks. In other words, no matter what the betting odds may be, no matter how their records stack up when you go to a game, nine times out of ten you will see a real CONTEST. We have, however, seldom seen such a complete reversal of form as that exhibited by the Chicago White Sox on their four ap pearances here in a month or six weeks. They did win one game from the Yanks one out of four, but as a whole the couldn't pitch or hit and when a Big League team can do neither, there is seldom any doubt about the result. There are both French and Italian warships in the harbor and the place is full of "smart little middies" in their "whites" and the French especially attractive with their red "pom poms" on top of their caps. That "little" should be emphasized, for we haven't seen a potential "half back" in the lot they look like grade school youngsters or perhaps High School Freshmen. They are good look ing, fresh, bright eyed, smiling and clean. But we wouldn't wager much on any of them in a fight with East Side "Dead Enders". In short they don't look like fighting men, more like page boys in the U.S. Senate. We have seen perhaps fifty of them in all, many of them with cameras, and our impression is they were more interested in taking in this amazing cosmopolis, pictorially and visually, than following grog shop and primrose patch, as outlined in shore leave, by the movies and tradition. Over in Central Park we ran into an octet, 4 French middies who had picked up 4 unattended teen agers of the opposite sex. Never have we listened to such giggling and gesticulating on both sides. The sailors couldn't speak English and the girls couldn't speak French, but there was a great deal of self consciousness on both sides, along romantic lines. They reached a climax when one of the girls secured one of the sailors' caps and stroked the red pom-pom. According to the Herald Tribune, in France such action calls for a kiss on both cheeks and perhaps the young middy had this in mind when he reached for the cap. Whether he did or not, the teen ager took alarm and danced away up the walk followed by her female consorts. The middies silent and swinging their little cameras, somewhat chagrined, walked south toward the Plaza. That ended the romance as far as we know, but of course we don't KNOW anything about it! R.W.R. Miller Case Again Federal district Judge Charles F. McLaughlin mles soon on a memorandum filed with him by counsel for playright Arthur Miller. Last May 31 the judge found Miller guilty, in a case tried without a jury, of contempt of Congress in refusing to answer certain questions put him by the House Un-American Activi ties Committee. Miller has not yet been sentenced, and the present memorandum asks the judge now either to acquit him outright or order a new trial for him, in view of the Watkins decision. On June 17 the Supreme Court ruled by six to one that John T. Watkins, labor organizer, had been within his rights in refusing to answer cer tain questions of the committee in April 1954. ""THE two cases seem much alike. Miller, like Wat- kins, denied being under actual Communist "disci pline" while admitting he had cooperated with Com munists. Each balked at identifying other individuals in pro-Communist activities. Both, refusing to plead the Fifth Amendment, argued that the questions in volving others lay outside the committee's proper jurisdiction. There are two minor differences Watkins had been ostensibly interrogated in connection with the labor movement, Miller ,-n connection with unauthor ized use of U.S. passports. Marilyn Monroe's husband refused to identify any persons he had seen at gather ings of Communist party writers; the labor man agreed to identify individuals who still were mem bers of the Party, balking at those who to my best knowledge and belief have long since removed them selves from the Communist movement." E.R.R. Indonesia Volcano Spews Jakarta. Indonesia 1P Mount Merapi, Indonesia's most dangerous volcano, spewed out tons of hot ash and lava this week, forcing the evacuation of 4.000 villagers, reports from central Java said today. Delayed reports said Merapi Thursday. Jun 27, 1957 1 Ashes Over City rained ash on Magelag City, cov ering trees and buildings with a thick coat of black cinders. Streams of lava spilled into near by rivers, the reports said. Grand Coulee dam weighs 25 millipn tons. Matter of Fact PERIL CAN BE COMPLEX Paris The Greek-Turkish aid bill and the Marshall Plan an nounced America's intention to halt the Soviet advance in Europe. In the Korean War, the United States assumed the r e sponsibility of holding the lina in ha lTo, '-&fegl East. In both Joseph Aisop cases, ine American electorate rather clearly understood what its government was doing. Now, since the proclamation of the Eisenhower Doctrine, the American government has also assumed direct, continuing re sponsibility for holding the line in the deeply-troubled, strategic ally vital Middle East. The solid ity and finality of this new American commitment are al ready taken for granted by our Middle Eastern friends. But it is not at all clear to this reporter that this immense new American commitment is regarded as sold and final at home. Even after only half a year as a permanent foreign correspondent, one ought to be very hesitant in judging home opinion. Yet there has been nothing in reports from home to suggest general awareness that we have now taken another step comparable in moral magnitude to the Marshall Plan or the re sponse to the Korean aggression. 'PHIS seemingly lack of aware--1 ness of an enormous new American commitment strikes this reporter as rather worry ing. It is all the more worrying because the peril in the Middle East is not at all like the peril that we undertook to ward off in Europe and the Far East. In our two previous experiments in holding the world-line, the peril could be summed up in one word Communism; the peril in the Middle East is far more com plex in character. Communism plays a role, of course. The Communist parties in the Arab lands are small and almost unindoctrinated but the Arab Communists are at least disciplined; and being discip lined, they are effective as agents, political organizers and terrorists. By the same token, a very big role is played by the Kremlin. The Soviet decision to give poli tical support to Egypt and its satellite, Syria, and the subse quent shipments of arms to these two countries were histor ical events on a par with the new American commitment in the Middle East. Indeed, these Kremlin actions forced the American reaction. TUT the real source of the t peril in the Middle East is not the old familiar threat of Communism; the real source of the peril is the movement led and dominated by Egypt's Ga mal Abdel Nasser, which claims the name of Arab nationalism. Nasser's brand of Arab na tionalism is useful to the Krem lin and is therefore supported by the Kremlin, because he has given his nationalism a vicious anti-Western twist. If Nasserite nationalism triumphs in the end, it will mean the destruction of all Western interests in Arab lands. And because of the West's strategic and economic depend ence on the area, the end result will be a fatal weakening of the Western alliance which is the true Soviet objective. But this, it must always be remembered, is not at all the way the Arabs see the problem. All Arabs are nationalists first and anti-Communists second if at all. For instance, Nasser has been denouncing a n t i - Communist King Hussein of Jordan as a tool of imperialism, because King Hussein's courage frustrated Nasser's grab for Jordan. But although he desperately needs American aid, King Hussein cannot take American aid with the usual strings attached to it. In his own way, he is just as much a nationalist as Nasser. But the customary strings on our aid would destroy Hussein's y, J f , S!7 By Joseph Alsop standing as a free patriot. IN other words, when our Mid dle Eastern friends need our help, we have got to trust to their friendship rather than playing governess as well as aid dispenser. Again, the Dulles State Department is always ask ing our friends to stand up and be counted as stalwart anti- Communists. But the Arabs do not worry very much about Communism and are hideously touchy about foreign influences. Thus these American-solicited proclamations of anti-Commu nism do great harm as "proofs of American imperialism. These are only two of the grave complications arising from the fact that in the Arab lands we are trying to ward off, not Communism, but a special kind of anti-Western national ism. There are other complica tions not least the fact that, as of now, Nasser, commands very strong mass support in most Arab countries. Fortunately in some ways, the immediate outlook has improved substantially. The frenzied and upscrupulous attacks on the in dependence of both Jordan and Lebanon have failed! But there. are signs, like the despatch of Soviet submarines to Egypt, that Nasser and his Soviet allies are preparing to create a new, and exceedingly grave, Middle East ern crisis. And unless American policy can Hje delicately adapted to the complex nature of the Middle Eastern peril, the long range outlook will still be dark, (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Editorial Comment ODOR OF BUREAUCRACY Legislation which smacks far more of a dictator-ruled country than of a republic is proposed by a commission on g o v e rnment security. In an effort to tighten possible loopholes against publication of government d o c u ments which might endanger the safety of the nation, this special commission would set up a new and . puni tive policy which the commis sion admits is aimed directly at newspapers. Attorney Loyd Wright of Los Angeles, chairman of the com mission, in explaining the pro posed law said: "An informed citizenry, is a major premise of our govern mental structure. But that same structure may be destroyed if a potential enemy is supplied with information critical to national self-preservation. "The final responsibility for the difficult descisions of what shall be secret must be confined in. those loyal and devoted pub lic servants who are devoted public servants who are qualified to make the judgement. "No citien is entitled to take the law, and the safety of the nation, into his own hands. y "With near unanimity, the Amer can journalism profession has con scientiously observed these limits But there are a few ex ceptional cases which for some reason have escaped prosecu tion." The legislation which the com mission proposes would provide penalties up to five years in pri son and a fine of S10.000 for pub lication of information from documents marked "secret" or top secret" material which might have little to do with the de fense of the nation. A government official or a committee could mark as "se cret" reports showing malfeas ance in office. Publication of this could then result in fines or prison for the newspaper pub lishing the material. The special commission itself admits that most newspapers have a high sense of responsibil ity, yet it would attempt to pun ish the few by broad, sweeping penalties. The whole proposal smacks of of another attempt at censorship and has the odor of bureaucracy about it. Ashland Tidings. Benjamin Stoddert of Mary land was the first U.S. secretary of the navy. Russia Shows Signs of Over Nuclear Weapons By CHARLES M. MC CANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia is showing signs of serious anxiety over the nu clear weapons situation. For one thing, it is hardly likely that unless the Soviet gov- "3?W.S ernment had '"" S been worried it would havp ac cepted, after years of refus al, the princi ple of aerial inspection to guarantee compliance with any agree- rharies McCanu ment t o sus pend nuclear weapons tests. Anxiety seemed shown also by the series of dire threats which Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin made to Allied countries if they permitted the establishment of guided missiles bases on their territory. Gromyko Complains The latest indication of Soviet anxiety was given on Tuesday In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS At the annual conference of governors of American states, which is now in session at Wil liamsburg, Governor Ribicoff of Connecticut tells his confreres that unless the present trend is reversed highway deaths in the next ten years will claim victims equal to the population of Seattle, Wash., Cincinnati, O., or Newark, N.J. These are all cities of around half a million. So the statement that within the next decade half a million people may die on our highways is startling enough to get attention. It is probably not farm from the truth, because highway fatalities now run around 35.000 per year, 350,000 in a decade. WHAT' can we do to "reverse this trend?" Sell, we can build more i-lane highways. Multi-lane highways, with adequate divid ers in the center, reduce traffic hazards materially because they minimize the danger of getting over the center lane into traffic moving in the opposite direction Thus they reduce the risk in volved in passing. We can work out and enact better traffic laws. We can pa trol our highways more effec tively. There are many things we can do to reduce traffic haz ards. BUT When you come right down to it THE MOST IMPORTANT THING OF ALL IS BETTER DRIVING. Better driving is up to each individual driver. TMHE governors, in their ses- A sion in lovely and historic old Williamsburg, are covering a wide range in their discus sions. They jump from highway safety to federal aid for schools. Gov. Thomas Stanley of Virginia speaks out against federal aid to education. He says it is "totally unwarranted." He adds: "The federal government has no authority and no responsibil ity in the field of public educa tion, and I earnestly hope that neither the congress nor the states will succumb to the old lure of so-called FREE MONEY, which is nothing but a snare and a delusion. NOTE, please that it Is the governor of Virginia who is talking about the snare and the delusion of so-called "free money." In his state, that is ap proximately true. For every dol lar of manna from heaven money that is spent in Virginia, the state of Virginia puts up 90 cents in federal taxes. So it gets only ten cents per dollar net out of federal ex penditures and even that may be absorbed in the process of transferring a dollar from Vir ginia to Washington, D. C. and then transferring it back again I In considering this business of federal spending, it makes quite a lot of difference where you live. For every federal dollar re ceived, the state of Mississippi pays back only 29 cents in feder al taxation. HERE in Oregon, we will do well if we look with consid erable suspicion on manna from heaven money received from Uncle Sam. For each dollar Ore gon received from the federal government it pays back 96 cents in federal taxes. Over the line in California, it is considerably worse. For every dollar of federal spending Calif ornia gets, she pays back S1.05. Not much manna from heaven is involved in a swap like that. Acid Stomach? GetTUMS Quick! Top-speed relief for gas, heartburn, acid indigestion. Soli f TUMS FOR THI TUMMY bv Soviet Foreign Minister An drei A. Groymyko. Gromyko summoned foreign correspondents in Moscow to his office to complain with unusual bitterness against a statement by Gen. Lauris Norstad. supreme commander of Atlantic Treaty forces. It had been disclosed on June 22 that Norstad told a congres sional committee that if Russia started a war, the Allied forces could destroy all essential Soviet military targets. Gromyko said that Norstad's statement was not the "mere raving of a boastful general" but part of a plot to block a disarm ament agreement. He complained especially that the statement came at a time when partial agreement on disarmament seemed possible at last. Gromyko did not mention the fact that Norstad had said that the allies never would start a Communications Letters to the Editoi must beai the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a oen name or initial tor 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. Stop Eating Meat? To the Editor: I am confident it is safe to assume that 999 out of every 1000 voters want the compulsory Humane Slaughter Bill passed, and yet with this overwhelming majority of pub lic opinion the officials at Wash ington seem in no hurry to pass this bill. Should we," as loyal humane Christians, go right over the heads of the officials and packers to suggest a more direct course which may prove to be the missing link in our strategy? If everyone will stop eating meat for 30 days, as a starter, this would soon bring the packers to their knees, which could place the real legislation in our own hands. We have the power to end this needless cruel suffering as in their present method of killing meat animals. I for one will not eat any meat until the present cruelty ends. Please write and advise if I should send tthis letter to all important newspapers in all states. John Taylor, co Post Office, Watervliet, N.Y. "Positive Americanism" To the Editor: The Jamestown Festival in Virginia will be visit ed by millions of American citizens this year. For many of them this will be a first realiza tion of the hardships experienced by those who established the colony. It is hoped that this glimpse into our beginnings will lead more and more Ameri cans to re-examine the reasons why such hardships were will ingly endured. Such inquiry will foster a better understanding of the philosophies of the great Americans who conceived this "noble experiment" in govern ment to give us the wonderful nation in which we live today. In this regard, I wish to call to the attention of your readers an exceptional campaign now being conducted across the coun try by American Veterans of World War II and Korea under a grant from the Fund for the Republic. AMVETS feel there has been too much accent placed on "what's wrong with America." We feel that there have been too many individuals and groups setting up standards about what is and what is not being a good American. There is no pat definition for Americanism. Like love and re ligion, it cannot be explained but must be felt in the heart and lived each day. It is a way of life and a deep faith in our democracy. We want to show what is right with America and why and how this positive side of America has developed. AMVETS "Positive American Frjnk Morgia CHAPEL MORTUARY Funeral Directors PHONE SP 2-8030 mini MEDFORD Anxiety Situation war and that he did not think0 Russia would start one either be cause of Allied power of retalia tion. Have Good Reason He did mention the recent statement of Nikita S. Khrush chev, the Soviet Communist lead er, that Russia had perfected i hydrogen bomb so powerful that it could not br tested "because neighboring countries might suf fer. The fact is that Russian leacjo ers have good reason to be wof ried over what might happdh ii a third world war. " From the Allied viewpoint, the1 evident Russian anxiety is cer tainly a good thing. - It is Allied striking powe? alone that has induced the Sfc viet government, in a radical de parture from its policy of secre cy, to accept the principle of aerial inspection which alone can guarantee compliance with any disarmament agreement. ism" program is simply an ex amination of our heritage as de rived from our famous docu ments and the ideas of great Americans and how that heritage gives meaning to our present. There is no witch-hunting, no flag-waving, no name-calling. 'Positive Americanism" seeks only knowledge and understand ing. Through that knowledge will come a greater apprecia tion of our democracy. This is done by study and discussion . . . in AMVETS posts, in church, service and community groups, and among interested individ uals. While AMVETS has de veloped and tested this program we claim no proprietary rights to it. If, as we think, it Is an important and valuable contri bution toward the preservation of our democracy then it prop erly belongs to all Americans and accordingly AMVETS offer it to any interested group or organization. When we all understand the precious legacy left us by our forefathers, there will be little chance of our ever wasting it, Martin D. Schwartz Chairman, AMVETS Americanism Division Washington, D.C. Fireman Drowns in Fall While Fishing Seaview, Wash. OP! James Robert Vetter, 37, a fireman from Yakima, Wash., drowned Wednesday when he fell from rocks below the North Head lighthouse into the sea. Vetter was fishing with his wife, Cecelia, and their daugh ter, Judy, 14. He fell after de scending from his fishing spot to untangle the lines. Vetter, despite rubber boots, managed to reach the rocks three times only to be swept off them each time. Attempts to reach Vetter with fishing lines failed when the lines snapped. Man Severely Burned By Accidental Flip Chehalis, Wash. UP S. Kirby Billingsley, 21, W e n a t c h e e. Wash., was burned severely on the hand Wednesday when a wire he was winding accident ally flipped into a 115,000 volt "bus." Billingsley. who attends the University of Washington, works for Bonneville Power Adminis tration as a career trainee em ployee. He is the son of Kirby Billingsley, manager of the Che lan county PUD. He was taken to a Chehalis hospital where his condition was described as serious. Harold S nod grass KING STREET r ? 1 X ' I -
