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FOUH MEDFORD (OREGON) UNE "Iveryon in Southern Oregon Red The Mall Tribune" Kibiuhed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 17-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-C141 HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Buainesa Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Man King Editor EARi. H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHI P.MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSQN Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second clam matter at Mediord Ore Ron under Act oi March 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six month 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three mo 4.25 Sundav Only One year 9420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shadv Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor route: Daily and Sundav One year SIS 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1-50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy n-ii icrm t-aan in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford rni ui mion county United Pre Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY ENC Office in New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C -SA NATION Al fDITOIIA I AJ$OcfA'lN NEWSPAPER ruaiiSHEtt 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 July 1. 1947 (Tuesday) Valuation of Jackson county property for the 1947-48 tax year is $33,132,300, an increase of $3,577,380 over the 1946-47 tax year. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The gov ernment closed the fiscal year more than a billion dollars "in the black." This Is a deploAble state of affairs, and indicates both economy and efficiency have started to take root. 20 YEARS AGO July 1. 1937 (Thuridsy) John A. Clark, superintendent of Medford sewage disposal plant, is appointed assistant civil engineer with rang of lieutenant junior grade in Navy Reserves. Out-of-state automobile regis trations for the first six months of 1937 total 1,368, according to Lee Garlock, manager of the Medford branch of the AAA. 30 YEARS AGO July 1. 1927 (Friday) The work of moving the coun ty offices from Jacksonville to the Medford armory will be com pleted tomorrow. Medford residents use for first time today new water pipe line from Big Butte Swings, 38 miles from here. 53 S r I 40 YEARS AGO G July 1. 1917 (Syoday) E. G. Brown plans to reopen soon his confectionery. Brown s, at Main and Front sts., when re modeling there is completed. H. C. Hazelrigg, longest em ploye at the Medford post office, resigns. What's Your I.Q.? Nln or tm correct Is operlor; seven or eight is excellent; live or six Is good 1. Was Raleigh originally es tablished for the purpose of be coming the capital of .North Car olina? 2. Which receives the higher base pay in the Army; a First Sergeant or a Master Sergeant? 3. Bible: In which New Testa ment Book is the expression "Of the earth, earthy?" 4. Comestibles are eaten, burn ed, or exploded? 5. A camera is fundamentally constructed identically wJ t h which organ of the human body? 6. An animal that chews a cud is called a r ? 7. What common commodity is measured by the ream? 8. What is a mitre? 9. "Hope" implies anticipation with desire a wish it would happen. Does a wfih necessarily include anticipation? 10. "Spare the rod and spoil trm rhild." Butler. "Huldibras." Do8 the proverb refer specific ally to love or to child training.' Answers: 1. Yes (1791). 2. The base pay is the same for both. 3. I Corinthian. 4. Eaten. S. The ye. 6. Ruminant. 7. Paper. 8. The headress of a bishop or ab bot. 9. No. 10. Love. Highway Lifesavers Urge Careful Holiday Driving Portland W The Highway (Lifesavers committee has urged citizens of Oregon to drive care fully on the fourth of July and try to keep the state's record of not having a recorded traffic fatality on the 4th for two straight years intact. Because the 4ih c o m s on Thursday this year, the commit tee anticipates heavy traffic for . four days starting Thursday to Sunday. MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence . . . New York, N.Y., June 27th; that while we can do little about do a good deal to us. This is the second day of smog, and as a result, good will man's town are conspicuous by We could cite many examples, but will confine ourselves to only two, namely, two of our John Crosby, the television and Smith, the breezy and colorful luminaries on the readable NY Taking the last first, "Red," 4.o the chief owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Walter O'Mallev, who, in Washington, D.C., yesterday renewed his familiar refrain that he will move his team to Los Angeles unless he can get a new stadium in Brooklyn which will seat at least 50,000 fans and park-for-free some 40 000 cars. Red is fed up with this sort of "hold-up" threat and con cludes his remarks about his old time friend in part as follows: "O'Malley has taken a lot of money out of Brooklyn and now he- wants to take their ball club. A suggestion has been put forward which may O'Malley can't contain his restlessness he ought to go to Los Angeles, leaving the Dodgers behind." "Red" then goes on to state been the past live years one League history. Their net profits the past half decade have totalled SI. 800, 000 and a capital "Red" thinks O'Malley ought his own business for baseball form a club of his own, in neither case ask the baseball fans to act as both patrons and Santa Claus but let him a multi millionaire finance himself. There is, we believe, a lot of and we have no doubt thousands the way with him on the Overboard with O'Malley" thesis. But being familiar with "Red's" column for many years. our conviction is he would never havu given the "heave-ho" to the Dodger boss in such outspoken fashion had it not been for the weather. So to John Crosby, our favorite TV and radio commentator. He saw Ed Sullivan's 9th birthday anniversary show last Sun day night and did not think much ing correspondent. But he was more explicit newspaper contemporary than is Listen to this for example, "It sometimes seems as if Sullivan is celebrating another day, seems more like his ninetieth." Why there are quite grown up children in the country who first opened their eyes to the sight of Ed Sullivan, hands clasped in supplication, eye balls rolling wildly on the screen. There are children whose first exposure to the English language was Ed Sullivan feeling his tortuous, uncertain way through a sentence." Now, we happen to know that Crosby and Sullivan are on good terms and reasonably good friends, and while we could never imagine Crosby praising any such boresome 60-minute show as Sullivan put on to celebrate his ninth TV birthday, we seriously doubt he would have been quite so devastating if the mercury had not been in the nineties and the humidity as high or higher when he was called upon to write it. m m But the "pay-off" line in this Crosby article (no relation to "BINi") was his comparison with Steve Allen, who comes on at the same hour and apparently is getting a better rating via Nielson than Sullivan. Here is Crosby's conclusion, quote: "You and I know when the switch occurs. During the com mercials of course. Sometimes I wonder whether anyone ever hears a commercial on either show any more." How often, here and at home, we have wondered the same thing. We know we turn off the "commercials" whether they are for beer, lip stick or motor cars, and we can't believe that there are not many entirely objective and non-partisan TV addicts who do likewise. In fact up at the Rice Mountain lodge where the days were never humid and the nights were never hot, we listened to both Sullivan and Steve Allen and chose the latter for solely one reason his commercials were much shorter and less impregnated with spurious and silly salesmanship. Obviously that can's be blamed on this God Awful weather. But as indicated above the comments of Messers Crosby and "Red" Smith can! R.W.R. 90 Years of the Dominion Canada celebrates Dominion ,Day today, 90 years after the British North American Act established the Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867. Only four Provinces comprised the original Dominion Upper Canada (now Ontario), Lower Canada (now Que bec), Nova Scotia, New Brunswick. Manitoba, carved out of the Northwest Territories, was admitted as a Province in 1870. British Columbia came along in 1871, Prince Edward Island in 1873, Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905, Newfoundland (formally) in 1949. In addition to these ten Provinces, there are two Territories: the Northwest and the Yukon. CPURRING on the federation of the original four Provinces in 1867 was resentment at the United States. Yet 20 years previously much sentiment, especially around Montreal, had shown itself for an nexation to this country, after the British ended their preferential treatment for Canadian products. And in 1855 a treaty between the U.S. and Canada (jad provided for a ten-year the two countries in raw materials. But then the U.b. went high-tariff, resented sympathy for the South in reciprocity more helpful to Canada than to this coun try. We abrogated the treaty in 1865, bringing the four Canadian Provinces closer together for economic self-protection. TODAY, also, mistrust of jiuiu a puiiui.ai uc v ciujiiiciiL 111 Vjdiidua, xiic jj- minion ambassador to Egypt, E. H. Norman, com mitted suicide on April 4 after a subcommittee of the U.S. Congress had labeled Many Candadians believe their economy endan gered by U.S. tariff rates, U.S. sales of wheat abroad, mounting U.S. control of industry in Canada. In the recent political campaign lost by the Liberal govern ment this was constantly charged with being sub servient to Uncle Sam. E.R.R. Search Fbrty Scans Mountain for Youth Longmire ilfi A rescue party picked its way up 5.955- foot Eagle Peak in Mount Rain ier National park today search ing for a 13-year-old Seattle boy missing overnight. Daniel Rathke, member of a Monday, July 1. 1957 We have always had a theory the weather, the weather can a sultry, torrid and depressing and good nature around this their absence. favorite newspaper columnists radio commentator, and "Red" sports writer, both recognized Herald Tribune. this morning pays his respects win many converts that is if the Dodger's management has of the most prosperous m Big gain of about $400,000. to stay in Brooklyn and finance is a business or go to L.A. and good sense to "Red's" proposal of Dodger fans would go all more of it than your wander and far more scathing for his his wont. quote: every time I turn on the TV, Ed anniversary Ninth birth tariff reciprocity between Canadian (and British) our Civil War, pronounced this country has lain be- him a former Communist. Lutheran church group visiting the park yesterday, disappeared while on a hike up the peak Ratke did not return with the rest of the group at noon but his disappearance was not re ported until about 3:15 p.m. J38 M ..SO RBMBMBBR. fClOS.Trlfi NEXT TIME YOUR OADOy GOeS TO THE DRUGSTORE.....' - . Matter of Fact THE HEIRS APPARENT Washington The role of heir apparent is a difficult one, re quiring much circumspection. There are cur rently a couple of circumspect heirs apparent in Washington Deputy Sec retary of De fense Donald Quarles and Under Secre tary of State stevait aisop Christian Hert er. Whether they will eventual ly succeed to the two most pow erful Cabinet posts makes an interesting personal and politi cal equation. . The key figure in the equa tion is. of course, the President. In 1952, President Eisenhower took on Cabinet members sight unseen, on the recommendation of Gen. Lucius Clay. But nowa days, after going on five years as President, he will certainly make his own final choice. He has already turned down one heir apparent Undersecretary of the Treasury Randolph Bur gess at least in part because he ' was annoyed with Burgess for testifying that his budget ought to be cut. Presidential annoyance is also a factor in the case of Quarles. Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson is an enthusiastic admir er of Quarles, and his enthus iasm carried him too far, to Quarles disadvantage. For Wil son virtually promised Quarles the Secretaryship of Defense, and when this was reported to the President, he was angry for he felt that Wilson had poached on Presidential prerogatives. PRESIDENTIAL annoyance Is not the only obstacle Quarles faces. He has enemies in all three services. The Navy was furious when testimony by Quarles before a House commit tee was released, in which Quarles implied that the big Navy carriers would be useless in case of major war. The Army was equally furious with Quarles for the part he played in denying medium range mis siles to the Army. And even in the Air Force he recently head ed, Quarles is by no means uni versally admired, since there is much feeling that he failed to fight hard enough against cut backs in air power. The Army and Navy are also unhappy about the possibility that a former Secretary of the Air Force wUl get the top civil ian Pentagon post, the more so since the former Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. Nathan Twining, has been elevated to the chair manship of the Joint Chiefs. Yet despite all this, the betting on Quarles is high, and getting high er. Curiously enough, Quarles' chances are improved by the fact that his admirer, Secretary Wilson, has been making noises which suggest that he may stay on longer than previously sup posed. If Wilson stays on until the autumn, it is believed in the Pentagon, Quarles should be almost a shoo-in. For by that time. Army and Navy passions should have cooled. Moreover, Quarles will have had a chance to prove himself, both with the services and with the President. TTE is an immensely hard work er, a 14-hour-a-day man, and by this time he knows more than any other civilian (other than the formidable money man, Wil fred McNeil), about where the Pentagon's numerous bodies are buried. He alio has a way of impressing his superiors, as Wil son's admiration for him sug gests. Thus or so it is though, in the Pentagon if Wilson stays on for some months more, the President's annoyance will have worn off, and he will recognize Quarles as the logical man for the job. The case of Herter is differ ent. He has no enemies. The President likes and admires him. and since he came to Washing ton, he has also won the admir ation of the State Department hierarchy, for his ability and knowledge of foreign affairs. By Stewart Alsep And he has the invaluable knack of getting along well with Con gress. The main obstacle in Herter's case is Secretary of State John Foster Dulles love for his job After his cancer operation, it was generally believed that Dulles would bow out by mid summer. He had, indeed, drop ped some hints to that effect. But no hints have been dropped lately, and Dulles acts more and more as though he regarded himself as a permanent fixture More -than most Secretaries of State, he has become convinced that the whole jerry-built struc ture of American foreign policy would collapse like the wonder ful one-hoss shay if he ever left his post. TT was generally suspected when he came to Washington that Herter had a flat commit ment that he would become Sec retary of State, as a reward for his backing of Vice President Nixon at the time of Harold Stassen's famous fiasco. Actual ly he had no commitment of any sort. But he certainly would not have left the governorship of Massachusetts for a subordinate State Department post unless he had excellent reason to believe that he had a very good chance to become Secretary of State. Thus, if and when Dulles leaves a L.: if and a big when Herter is certainly frontrun- ner to succeed him. It is still possible, of course, that the President will choose his closest friend, Gen. Alfred Gruenther, or another man, for either the Defense or State Department posts. But Herter and Quarles are currently favored daily double to inherit the second and third most powerful jobs in the American government. Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Careless Tricks To the Editor: Here's a cheer to the lame brains!!! men, wom en and children who are so thoughtful as to throw tin cans and broken bottles in our lakes and streams. Sunday we went over to Ash land's beautiful Lithia Park for relaxation and enjoyment, which it was, until our oldest youngster decided to cool his feet in the lovely waters of Ashland creek. Now thanks to some thoughtful goon he's sporting six stitches across the arch of his foot, and t. fine crop of poison ivy from the park grounds. It's only been about a month since we went to TouVelle State Park, near our home, for a wie ner roast. There, were a large group of Boy Scouts all fine heathy lads strolling the river banks. They found a pop bottle which forthwith was thrown in the stream and pelted with rocks. Now, those ruthless pieces of glass await some tender little foot to gash. Well trained boys. My nephew can attest further to such carelessness. When scrambling for a toy a broken beer bottle slashed across his wrists severing four tendons and narrowly missing an artery. Why, oh, why, must people do such simple - minded, careless tricks?? I do hope this might serve as a reminder to others to be careful and to be thoughtful of someone else. Mrs. J. W. Stevens Route 2 Box 151A Central Point, Ore. i ON AND ON FOREVER God gives you eternal life from the in stant you receive Christ as your Lord and Saviour. Rich or poor, rags or robes, receive Christ as having died for your every last sin from the cradle to the grave. And. whether or not you are in God's family of the saved, read the Bible. Learn why it is the world's Best Seller. To the saved, the Bible is the Book of Books. It says that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Geo. N. Taylor, 2385 87th Portland 1, Ore. Mao's Speech Inviting To Speak Out Said Backfiring By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The big-hearted speech in which Chinese Communist lead er Mao Tse-tung invited criti cism of his regime, has backfired. Mao made the speech at a secret meet ing in Peiping last Feb. 27. It started to leak out only weeks later Thai-it Mccano and finally was broadcast officially on June 18. Seeking to show that the Com munist dictatorship really was liberal, Mao admitted there were contradictions between various elements in "China, in cluding the government and the people "Let a hundred flowers bloom let a hundred schools of thought contend," Mao said in inviting criticism. Apparently to his surprise, a lot of people in China took him at his word. Much Criticism Intellectuals, ' leaders of some small fellow-travelling political parties which are still tolerated, even Communist Party mem bers, started criticizing enthusi astically. Prof. Ko Pei-chi, a lecturer in literature at Peiping University, for instance, accused the Com munist Party of being too high handed in its methods. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Story with a happy ending: A giant auger bored 240 feet through a mine in Bloommgdale, Ohio, to rescue five men who had been trapped for 14 hours by a cave-m. The big machine tried twice unsuccessfully to get through the mass of rock and rubble. On the third try, the trapped men heard the big bit getting closer and closer. They kept repeat ing: "Come on, baby, do your stuff." It did, coming clear through to .the hole the men were trapped in. They crawled through the hole to safety. TJIGNESS, you see, isn't always badness. If the machine hadn't been big, it couldn't have bored through to rescue the men. HERE'S a little tele about prince and a queen: The Duke of Edinburg attend ed a luncheon meeting of the British Automobile Association the other day and made a speech in which he told his hearers: "WE'VE GOT TO HELP DRIVERS TO BE BETTER AND SAFER DRIVERS." Later in the day, with Queen Elizabeth beside him, he swish ed out of London into the coun try. Some 20 miles out, he had a fender-denting rear-end collision with a tiny pre-war clunk. No one was injured. The dent was in the Duke's fender. The little car came out unmarred. THE Duke shouted: "It's all rieht. Nn riamnpp Don't worry. It's all.my fault." The other driver didn t seem to realize at first who it was. But when he saw the queen he smiled, hesitated and then drove on. The Duke's face was a bit red. jHE moral? It's easy to preach about safe driving. But if the preacher doesn t practice what he preaches, he gets nowhere. QOOD news: The Institute of Life Insurance says life insurance purchases in the United States in the first half of 1957 were 30 PER CENT above last year. If the trend continues, the re port adds, total life insurance sales may reach a record 70 bil lion dollars. GAIN the question: Why is that good news? rriHE answer is simple. Life in- A surance represents SAV INGS. Before a dollar can be borrow ed to build a house with, for example SOMEBODY MUST i SAVE A DOLLAR UP. Investment . money doesn t grow on trees. Ave. S-W, if The people can blow you down," Ko said. "They can kill Communists. The people can overthrow you." Gen. Lung Yun, vice chairman of the National Defense Commit tee, took advantage of the new freedom to direct a hearty swipe at Soviet Russia. He complained of the way in which Russia loot ed the industrial areas of Man churia after World War II. He said that Russia ought to pay a share of Red China's costs in the Korean War. As the result of statements like these, Mao and his fellow leaders appear to have had some sober second thoughts. Mao issued a long directive to the national police last Tues day. He said that the police must hunt down "counter-revolutionaries." He said that they must keep close contact with the peo ple, "listen to their opinions" and regard themselves as public servants. It looked somewhat as if "counter-revolutionaries" would prove to be those whose criti cisms of the government and the Communist Party were too Editorial Comment THE TEST OF OBSCENITY An examination of news re ports of the U. S. Supreme Court's rulings upholding legis lation against obscene literature indicates that the high court has not significantly altered the status of such laws as they have been interpreted by the inferior federal c o u rts and the state courts. The court has confirmed the power of society to protect itself from the circulation of obscenities, but it has not dis turbed the following basic limita tions on that power: (1) Obscenity is to be deter mined by the effect of a publica tion read in its entirety, not from selected excerpts. (2) The effect is that to be ex pected on a person of average maturity and instincts, not on children or on persons particular ly susceptible to pornographic suggestion. (3) The ruling on obscenity must be that of a duly authorized tribunal, acting on the merits of a particular case; i.e., police of ficers, prosecutors and volunteer censors have no authority to em bargo a publication- administra tively. These principles Save been drawn by the courts from such leading cases as U.S. vs. One Book, "Ulysses," (1933) and The New World Library of World Literature vs. Allen (1953). Neither of these federal court decisions a p p e ars to be con tradicted by the Supreme Court's ruling that laws prohibiting ob scene publications are consitiu tionel. Indeed, this was the con clusion in both cases cited. These and other federal court decisions have combined to estab lish the modern American rule that indicatable obscenity must be "dirt for dirt's sake" and that it must be judged, not by zeal ous administrative officials or volunteer censors, but by due process of law. It is impossible, of course, for any court or any legislature to draw a precise line and say on the one side is obscenity. Each j case must be determined on its merits, and the views of judges and juries will vary. But the board principles are clear: Our society will not tolerate the pub lication of pornography and sheer obscenity. On the other hand the protections against these abominations will not be permitted legally to restrict the publication of literature of mer it (even though daring) or to limit the reading of the general public to; the level thought suit able for a child or a pervert. It is a sane and sensible middle ground. Portland Oregonian. The name Venezuela means little Venice. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 Critics frank, and that the police would be listening especially to people who dared to talk too much. "Repent and Accept" Premier Chou En-lai followed this up in a speech he made last Wednesday at the opening of a session of Parliament in Peiping. Chou warned critics of the government that they might be branded as "enemies of the peo ple." He called upon them to "repent and accept opportuni ties for remolding themselves." This all adds up to the fact that in a Communist country even a little liberalization is a dangerous thing. It is true that President Tito of Yugoslavia has materially liberalized his regime. But it still is a dictatorship. It is true also that in Poland Communist leader Wladyslaw Gomulka has gone even father than Tito. But Poland, too, is still a Commu nist dictatorship. Nikita S. Khrushchev found out in repudiating the methods of Josef Stalin that liberalization might get out of hand. His lib eralization policy led to the Pol ish and Hungarian revolts. Eisenhowers Have 41st Anniversay Gettysburg, Pa. Wl Presi dent and Mrs. Eisenhower today celebrated their 41st wedding anniversary. And they celebrated it quiet ly at home the home they al ways wanted with only a few old friends on hand. The gifts they gave each oth er to mark the event were not announced. But they had one gift for each other that they cared not who knew about: Bub bling good humor and laughter Thev showed it nlainlv Sun day evening when they helped this town mark its own great anniversary: The epic Civil war battle of Gettysburg. The President and First Lady, each grinning gaily, posed brief ly arm-in-arm for photographers before taking front-row seats at a ceremony marking the 94th anniversary of Gen. Robert E. Lee's heroic but unsuccessful at tempt to crack the Union armies on the fields bordering the Eis enhower's farm. Gettysburg Mayor William-G. Weaver asked the 1,500 towns people crammed m the high school auditorium to "give the bride and groom of 41 years a rousing cheer." The Eisenhow ers, blushing a little, stood and waved happily to their neigh bors and the roar of applause. Salesmen drive their cars the greatest number of average miles each year in comparison with the record of other occu pational groups. 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