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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Reports persist chefs of some Southern Oregon eating houses, in the face of the lingering wartime alleged shortage of salt pork, are actu ally u.ing same for seasoning the prodigious and inexhaustible supply of string beans. 30 YEARS AGO June 38. 1937 (Monday) Neighbors complain that cher ry growers shooting at birds are hitting bouses instead. More than 330 Scandinavians attend the annual picnic at Hel mio's Bath in Ashland yester day. SO TEA IIS AGO June 21. 1927 (Tuesday) Grandmother. 81, starts hitch biking from Chicago to Apple gate, Ore, to visit grandchil dren. Two r.en file in circuit court for possession of Ford car, grand prize in sprint, opening and style show in Ashland last March. 40 YEARS AGO June 28. 1917 (Thursday) State highway commission au thorizes S3EO.000 for work on Pacific highway in Josephine and Douglas counties this year. From Local and Personal col umn: Several members of Com pany I, whose headquarters are in this city, but who are station ed on guard duty in Roseburg and vicinity, have accepted em ployment at the depot of the Southern Pacific in that city, to occupy their rpare time when not on active duty. Wkafs Your I.Q.7 Nine or len correct 1 superior; seven or elent Is excellent: live or six Is good 1. Did the petroleum business first begin from oil strikes in Pa.. N. Y.. Okla., or Texas? 2. Is a guinea pig a rodent? 3 Bible: During the Macedon ian Period were the Jews en courar.ed to enlist in the army of Alexander or Cyrus? 4. Docs salt lose its flavor if stored for many years? 5. What and where is Pago Pago? 6. A mandrill is a bird, a mach ine tool, a baboon, a fish, or a tree? 7. Name the Negro educator who was elected to the Hall of Fame. 8. Who composed the march, "Pomp and Circumstance?" 9. Is "comely" pronounced as the word come, with an "ly" added? 10. "Ye ugly, creepin' blastit wonner. Detested, shunn'd by saunt and sinner." Burns: "To a Louse." What is 'blastit won ner?" Answers: 1. Pa. Titusville (1859). 2. Yes. 3 Alexander. 4. No. 5. Capital of American Samoa. 6. Baboon. 7. Booker T Wash ington. 8. Edgar William Elgar. . Yes. 10. An accursed dweller. MOTH WANTED Chicago IP Frank Cisco, 62. planted a yucca plant in his backvard 15 years ago and now would like it to produce some little yuccas. His plant bloomed Thursday for the first time. But it takes a yucca moth to pollin ate the seldom flowering plant and those special transmitters are 1,000 miles away in the southwest. N MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence . . . New York, N.Y., June 26th: If Los Angeles thinks is has a monopoly on smog it is crazy. A heavier, smellier and more offensive smog than we ever encountered in L.A. is shrouding Manhattan Island today. No doubt the Weather Bureau will ex plain it. We don't know the cause but we do know the result it is a sort of heavy black fog that doesn't cool the air but kills it. The odor is distinctly reminiscent of the stockyard district of South Chicago, of some 50 years ago. Perhaps there is something to the ancient claim that every thing comes to him who waits provided he waits LONG enough. We have waited for over a month to see the "Damned Yankees" really clobbered, outclassed and thrown out in the snow or if realism is demanded, the smog. That blissful massacre occurred last night when the Cleve land Indians out-hit, out-ran, and outclassed the "greatest team Casey Stengel ever produced" to the sweet, sweet tune of 11 to 2. We will have to say this' for the Yankee fans, however. They took the slaughter like good sports. In fact the big ovation of the evening went to a Cleveland outfielder by the name of Roger Maris, for the sensational one-handed catch he made of a sizzler that seemed certain for 3 bases if not 4. He got it not only after a 100-yard dash, but by a dive through the air, with the greatest of ease, his glove hand outstretched to the limit. That, in act. seemed to be the turning point of the game, with Cleveland leading by only one run 3-2. After that even Mickey Mantle couldn't hit his hat and struck out while Colavito, the Indian rightfielder, hit a grand-slammer in the first of the ninth. By losing last night and the White Sox winning, the Yankees had to yield first place. We hope they stay there. (But we would not do anything as WICKED as BET on it!) Speaking of baseball, our guess is something is cooking as far as the "big shots" and big money makers In the big leagues are concerned. What has happened to boxing in this state with Norris demoted and what has happened in pro-football, may not happen in baseball LEGALLY, but we predict the players are going to have a lot more to say about their status, financially and otherwise, than they have ever had before. We don't know whether Bob Feller's remarks about the game before the House anti-trust committee were reported in Medford or not, but we would advise not only Ford Frick, the commissioner, but all the owners, to carefully consider them. Treating the baseball players as pawns in a get-rich-quick racket is on the skids, as we see it, and while it may take some time, eventually we feel sure that sort of thing will be out. And for the sake of the sport as well as for the players, "out" is where it SHOULD be. The other day an engine on the New York, New Haven and Hartford (which runs chiefly between New York and Boston) caught fire and regular service, both on that road and the N.Y. Central, was stopped for nearly two hours at a very critical time, (around 5 p.m.). According to the press over 20,000 com muters were late for dinner as a result. Fortunately New York has both a powerful and alert public service commission. They wasted no time in launching an in vestigation for this was only one of many equipment failures recently on the N.Y., N.H. and H. If evidence shows the railroad is not properly manned or equipped to render its transportation service to the people, as it should in the interest of the public welfare, the PUC has the power to COMPEL it. We hope the PUC in Oregon has similar powers a3 a result of Senator Lowry's efforts, if it has not, it should have! Something new across the street. Our favorite fruit store of course has pears from Argentina and has for two months, but it also has Delicious apples from the same source. If the apples are no better than the pears we have tried hard coarse grained and blah we fail to see how Argentine can compete with grow ers in Medford or the northwest. Probably they CAN'T except in timing. R.W.R. Moon Rocket Would you, gentle reader, spend two bucks to send a rocket to the moon? That is the estimated cost per year for five years per U.S. taxpayer to get a moon rocket launched. The project hasn't been approved, but Navy Com mander Robert C. Truax, a leading rocket expert, says it could be done. ""THERE'S all sort of talk about moon rocket these days. One scientist claims that a beer can could be at tached to the top of a three-stage rocket and sent to the moon. (He doesn't say why he thinks a beer can would be fitting to be the first earth artifact to land on the moon.) He declares the cost would be nomi nal, compared to the more elaborate plans for more highly-developed, man-carrying rockets. Another scientist, with tongue perhaps less firmly in cheek than the beer can advocate, believes that the first moon flight should be an unmanned vehicle, fired to circle the moon, snapping pictures as it goes, then returning to earth's atmosphere. He thinks the problem of trajectory would be the principal problem here, for not only would the force of earth's gravitation have to be allowed for, but so would that of the sun, the moon itself, and of the bigger nearby planets. AS a result, the course of this unmanned vehicle would resemble a complex of curlicues, rather than a simple elipse. One must remember that the earth is circling the sun at a great rate, and that the moon is circling the earth and that all three would have strong and interlocking gravitational pulls on each other. It wouldn't be like tossing a baseball over a tall fence. It would be a little more like throw ing a boomerang into the air on a windy day, with sudden gusts coming from all directions. "Working out the mathematics of this trajectory would be a fabulously difficult job, but our scientist friend thinks it could be done with present tech niques. We commented here about five years ago that it would not surprise us too much if a rocket landed on the moon within our lifetime. At the rate things have gone since, it wouldn't be surprising to see this hap pen within the next decade. E.A. Boy Killed in Fall From Father's Truck La Grande HP) Randy Ken nenberger, 8, La Grande, ' was kiled Thursday afternoon when he fell from his father's truck, struck a bank and apparently rolled under the wheels of the truck. State police said the boy ap parently leaned against the door of the truck as it went arounr! a curve and it opened, causing the tragedy. Friday. June 28. 1957 Meat Inspection Plans To Be Told at Meetings Salem W State Agriculture Director Robert Steward said today that proposed regulations on compulsory meat inspection would be outlined in public hearings in six cities starting next week. Hearings are scheduled for Salem July 1. Portland on July 2, Eugene July 8, Grants Pas July 9, Redmond July 10 and Baker July 11. 'Jlf 'THAT5 A HORNETS NEST, SON. JUST LEAVE IT ALONE I AND THEY'LL LEAVE US ALONE. Today and By Walter Back Towards The Constitution In the Watkins Case, the' Su preme Court, with Chief Justice Warren delivering the opinion of the majority, has tried to set down certain limits on the rights and pow ers of Congres sional i nvesti gating commit tees. We must, I think, des cribe the opin- uaiter i.ippmann ion in mis ten tative way. For the limitations are stated in general terms, and no one can know how they will in the future apply specifically in concrete cases. In practice, the application will depend on how much each particular committee is willing to accept, how much it is determined to stretch, the lim itations, and whether the court will be disposed to construe the limitations strictly or loosely. However, we have in the Wat kins decision a powerful asser tion of a principle which will in fluence the conduct of commit tees, the attitude of witnesses, the actions of the court, and the general posture of public opin ion. The principle is that a wit ness, who believes that his Con stitutional rights are being abus ed, may appeal to the courts for protection. The question now be fore the country is whether this principle is constitutional and is in the public interest. Those who are opposed to the decision must say that they do not think that a witness should be able to appeal from a Con gressional committee to the courts. This is, in substance, what Mr. Justice Clark, the long dissenter, seems to think that for the courts to intervene is a usurpation of power, and that, as a matter of fact, it is not in public interest that the judiciary should "supervise" Congression al investigations. 11 JR. JUSTICE CLARK, who re-L'-'-gards the decisions as "mis chievous," comes very near to saying that Congressional com mittees are a law unto themselv es, and that there should be no appeal from them to the courts for the protection of the Consti tutional rights of the individual witnesses. "Perhaps," has says, "the rules of conduct placed up on the committees by the House admit of individual abuse and un fairness. But that is none of our (i.e. the court's) affair. So long as the object of the legislative inquiry is legitimate (!) and the question proposed are pertinent (!) thereto, it is not for the court to interfere with the committee's system of inquiry." This is a masterpiece of con fusion. For it begs the question before the court. In the Watkins case was there individual abuse and unfairness because a particu lar phase of the inquiry was not legitimate or because the ques tions put to Watkins were not pertinent? It is not entirely clear what Justice Clark really thinks. But apparently, it is that the court must assume that what a committee does is legitimate and that the questions it puts are pertinent, and that if they pro duce "individual abuse and un fairness," it is none of the court s affair. On the broad Constitutional is sue, Justice Clark holds that it is a "trespass upon the funda mental American principle of separation of powers" for the courts to concern themselves with individual abuse and un fairness. But is it truly an Amer ican principle that the seperation of powers is absolute, so absolute that a Committee 01 congress cannot be called to account for the lawfulness of what it does.' Surely, the American principle is that Congress is not a sover eign body, accountable only to itself, but that it is under tne law of the Constitution of the Constitution as interpreted' by the courts and as it may be amended by the people. THE ULTIMATE ISSUE raised by the Watkins case is not llfij Tomorrow Lippmann Constitutional. It is, if we are quite candid, whether in order to combat the Communist move ment, which would if it could destroy the American govern ment and the American social order, it is necessary to encour age or to permit Congressional committees to proceed outside the Constitution. Can the Con stitution be defended only by extra-Constitutional means, or can it be defended within its own terms? It has been on the grounds that there was. a desperate emer gency that many sober and con servative men have supported or connived at McCarthyism. The Watkins decision is ad dressed to this particular kind of extra - Constitutional investiga tion, of which the object is to outlaw by exposure and pitiless publicity all behavior which might assist, might favor, might tolerate the spread of Communist propaganda. These investigations are not addressed primarily to illegal acts, to espionage and subversion. They are addressed to activities which are not, strict ly speaking, against the law and could not be prosecuted in a forming Congress how to make new laws. Quite the contrary. It is evident that laws prohibiting these activities would be in open conflict with the Constitution. There being no legal way to suppress such activities as prop aganda, infiltration, and fellow travelling. Congress with the sup port of public opinion, has cre ated committees which are de signed, among other things, to suppress by intimidation what cannot be suppressed by due pro cess of law. THE SUPREME COURT has waited a long time some ten years before it has intervened in what is unconstitutional pro cess, resorted to on the grounds that fire must be fought with fire; that the end, which is to stop the spread of Communism, justifies any means. I do not think the long patience of the court shows that the Ei senhower court is more liberal than the Roosevelt-Tru.nan court, but rather that the times have changed. The emergency if there was one which could not be met by lawful means is over, and the presumption is now that investigating committees must work within the limits of the Constitution. (c) 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. 116 Oregon State Prison Inmates To Be Freed Monday Salem (IP) A mass "evacua tion" of 116 prisoners at the Ore gon state penitentiary will start early Monday and extend through the rest of the day. The men are being released for good behavior as a result of a law passed by the last Legis lature. The law will go into ef fect July 1. It gives convicts one third of their sentences as "good time" instead of one-fourth. Return to Old System Originally prisoners had been given one-third time off for good behavior. In 1952 prison officials decided the statute had been wrongly interpreted and ; prisoners were only given 10 days off for every 40 served instead of 10 for every 30 House bill 356 passed by thej Legislature in the last session spelled out a return to the old system. j The mass release will begin at 4 a.m. Monday and 12 hours j later at 4 p.m. Warden C. T. j Gladden expects to have all HSj prisoners processed through the gates. They will leave in groups of ! 10 and one group will leave approximately every hour. The release will leave the prison with 1394 inmates, the smallest number since 1950. The present population of the prison is 1510. Ike Passes Supreme Court1 in Controversy By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington 'W President Eisenhower has given his team the signal on the angry contro versy now rising around the Supreme Court. If the President has called a timid play, there is ample reason for that. Four of the justices are his men. The word from the White House is this: Lay off the court. The I. vie C Wilsnn word came at this week's news conference when Eisenhower asked for respect for the court's rulings even those which were difficult to understand. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. has moved quietly and cautiously to remedy the damage government prosecutors believe the court has inflicted on the processes of criminal jus tice in federal courts. Protection Bills Offered Bills have been offered in Comrnunicsiions 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 lor publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters witb an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Postal Pay To the Editor: Now, according to Assistant Budget Director Robert Merriam, "an increase in the postal pay roll would be in flationary and would probably lead to other government pay raises costing billions of dol lars." Only two or three months ago this same- administration said that postal pay raises would be inflationary and "trigger de mands for pay increases in every industry." Well, well So now that in dustry has already received its yearly raises it s the other gov ernment workers" who would have to be given raises also! I had been wondering just what was coming up next since industry quite unobligingly re fused to wait till we got our postal pay increase before getting theirs. It would consti tute a major catastrophe were we to be given an adequate raise by our government. This situa tion would be rather amusing were it not of such great im portance to us. However it is very discouraging to say the least, to know how little our em ployers think of us. That we should be expected to live - in definitely on inadequate pay because we are postal employees, and there are those who do not wish to raise postage rates in order that we may give better service in return for an adequate living wage. Since the Federal government cannot or will not control prices and other wages it has no right to deny us an adequate living wage. S. J. Dodge 504 Austin Medford, Ore. Farm Vacation? To the Editor: My husband and I and our two children would like to vacation on a farm this summer. We also would like to see Oregon, as we have heard it is so beautiful so, we hoped we could find a farm in Oregon that would take paying guests for a week. We wouldn't expect to be entertained, and the farm work could go on as usual. We would just like to get the children out in the open, and as we are born-and-raised-in-the-city people, we too would just like to get out where we can walk in the coun try and have home-cooked meals. If there is anyone who would like to have guests for a week some time in August, we would like to hear from them. We understand the average fee should be about $100 for our size of family. Mrs. Lillian Broadbent 6808 El Carmen Long Beach 15, Calif. (Editor's note: The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce is interested in compiling a list of farms in this area where pay ing guests would be welcome during summer vacations. Any farmer who contemplates such a plan is invited to list his farm with the chamber.) North Hiway 99 Half Way Beetween Medford and Centra! Point OPEN UNTIL 10 P.M. INCLUDING SUNDAYS : WEEK END SPECIALS Ice Cold Watermelons the Word: both houses of Congress to pro tect FBI files against the court s order which would permit crim inal elements of the United States to rummage through them. Brownell went to Capitol Hill today to testify before the Sen ate Judiciary Committee on such proposed legislation. If he told the committee what federal pros ecutors generally think of the court s ruling in the Jencks case, the legislators would get an ear full. Clinton E. Jencks was tried and convicted in a charge of fals ifying an affidavit in which he swore he was not a Communist. Jencks, a labor union leader, signed the affidavit under terms of the Taft-Hartley Act. The trial judge refused to permit Jencks' counsel to examine the FBI files on which the charge of Com Increases in Crops Discussed by Babson By ROGER W. BABSON New Boston, N. H. For sev eral years a member of my or ganization has been attending the annual C h e m u r gic Conference in the Central West. These meetings are to help farm ers market their crops for industrial pur poses and not merely for food. People will always be able to spend money on food, shelter, and luxuries, but a rich person can eat no more than a poor per son and probably not as much. However, the percentage of fruits and green vegetables con sumed increases considerably more than ' the demand for wheat, corn, potatoes, and other staples. Progress along chemur- gic lines will increase the value of ,much farm property. Atomic wonders may revolu tionize farming. The spraying of fruit and oth er trees to kill- destructive- in sects may be entirely changed. Instead of being sprayed as at present, they will be sprayed with electrical rays. This will enable the birds to come back again. These birds will soon kill off insects and enable the chem- urgic cycle to progress as God intended. Some years ago the Japanese noticed that plants which ad joined a plant with a certain fungus had a remarkable growth. This was found amongst the rice plants especially. Later this fungus was reduced to an acid and used in the ratio of 0.1 to 10 parts per million parts of solution (usually potassium salts and water). Exhibitions are re ported" where you can almost see the plant grow from hour to hour. The sprays are fairly cheap and although not yet passed by the Food and Drug Administra tion yet they may revolutionize fertilizers. Instead of mixing chemicals with the soil, the seeds, sprouts, and leaves of the plant are sprayed. Experiments show that this spraying results in taller forest trees, better yields for pulpwood. and improved fiber crops, such as cotton. uibDereiuns aiso lengthen the stems of flowers, hasten development of trans plants, and reduce the work of farmers and gardeners. Pasture Lands Gibberellins make grass green er in pastures. In Florida, where ten acres are now needed to pas ture cattle, only three acres may Editorial Comment RATS AND RABBITS A Ku Klux Klan official in Florida describes his lodge well when he orserves that Klan or ganizations are multiplying "like rats and rabbits." Rats live in the alleys of civil ization, infecting and poisoning and despoiling all the things they come in contact with. Rabbits are timid souls who feel like rabbits. Perhaps the rabbits would be less timid if they, too, could don white robes, ride through the night, speak with anonymous voices to crea tures weaker than they are, and then seek to avoid responsibility for what they do. Eugene Register-Guard. Your Favorite Ice Gold Beverages Kocer W Babson 'Lay Off munist Party was based. The Supreme Court reversed the con viction, and Jencks is a free man. Far Reaching Consequences This was a so-called civil lib erties case, and the court got a lot of applause for defending an individual's rights against public prosecutors. The ruling will pre vail, however, far beyond the field of civil liberties. It will govern in criminal actions in federal courts relating, for ex ample, to dope peddling, tax skullduggery, anti-trust prosecu tors and the like. Some 30 such cases, under trial when the Jencks decision came, now are in a condition of legal chaos. Federal judges do not know how to interpret the Supreme Court's new rule nor do federal prosecutors know how to proceed under it. be needed with the use of Gib berellins. Texas cattle may be fattened in their native pastures instead of being sent to Kansas , or other Central States for fat tening. It is rumored that Gib berellins may reduce the' price of the best steaks to one half their present price. In fact, the entire price structure of cattle, hogs, and other grass-fed animals may be revolutionized. But this is not all that the Gibberellins can do. They may make the raising of fruit, corn, and other products which are subject to frosts a safer business by extending the growing sea son. Although these developments discussed above may hold down the price of farm products, they I could easily increase the priced" of farm land. Don't be too quid' to sell your farm land. This espe cially applies to small farms nea cities where the land could bt divided up for residential prop erties. Also, remember that the new highway systems to be built by the government may elongate cities. That is, instead of a city being five miles square as the average city is today, it will he one-half mile wide on each side of the new highway and 10 miles long. This should greatly improve the price of certain present unprofitable farm land. Besides, one of the new "rare earth metals" may be found on your farm, some of which are Cerium, Dysprosium, Erbium, Europium, Gadolinium, Holium, Lanthanum, Lutetium, Niobium, Praseodymium, Promethium, Sa marium, Terbium, Thulium, and Ytterbium. i I i imi i ---- , i Tirfi't armrl Keep Temper and 1L Temperature Undjf'Control COOL FILTERED WASHED Alt Cbolo ef 13 Mesfls Trowbridge & Flynn Electric Company 214 W. Main Ph. SP 3-6241 1 PieilG SUPPLIES iff