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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) ' iTerronc In Southern Oregoo Read Th Mail Tribune" Published Dally Except Saturday by 27 -2ft North Fir St Phon 2-Il ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY AdvertuinK UAiuier GERALD LATHAM Buiineu Manarcx ani alxjl.n jk. Managing itditor ZARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMA.N Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soon Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERllKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newipaper Entered u second claw matter at aaediord Ore son under Act of March 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mali Io Advancat: Per Cody lOe Dally and Sunday Ona year $15 00 uany ana sunoay toix montha B W Daily and Sunday Three moa. 4.23 Sunday Only One year MJO By Carrier In Advance Madford, Aahland Central Point. Eagle Point, JackaonvllJe Gld Hill. Phoenix. bnaav cove Kojrue Klver. Talent end on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 ismuy ana aunaay one month 1-50 arrier ana Dealers juc per cony Ail Terma Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Med ford Official Paper of Jackton County United Preaa Full Leafed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago de trolt San Francisro Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Luis Atlanta Vancouver R C NATIONAL (DITOIIA I ASSOcfA'ieN 53, I wrmjr M '.W.l U I 'jO" NEWSPAPII PUBLISHES: 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 S. 1947 (Saturday) Only kinks in their necks have so far rewarded persons scan ning the skyways in the Med ford area for the mysterious flying saucers. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A new fis cal year started last Tues. No Happy Fiscal Year greetings were exchanged. 20 YEARS AGO July 5. 1937 (Monday) All-time daily attendance re cord Is set at Crater Lake na tional park Sunday when 6,281 persons traveling in 1,568 cars registered at headquarters. A gain of 106 telephones is made in Medford from Jan. 1, to July 1, according to R. B. Ham mond, Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company manager. 30 YEARS AGO . July 5, 1927 (Tuesday) Southern Oregon Mutual Rab bitt Breeders hold business ses sion in Talent. From Local and Personal col umn: Building permit is issued to Ivan Atterbury to construct a $2,000 stucco dwelling of four rooms on Park st. near 11th st. 40 YEARS AGO July 5, 1917 (Thursday) More than 15.000 people, a new record, attend Fourth of July celebration roundup at Ashland. From Local and Personal col umn: A. E. Reames and wife motor to Waldo to inspect their mine. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct If superior; even or elrht Is excellent: five or tlx Is food 1. Oct. 25, 1861: Pacific telegraph-line c o m p leted between San Francisco and where in Missouri? 2. Stephen C. Foster composed a well known song about Ken tucky: name the song. 3. Bible: Was the prophet Dan iel cast in either the "fiery" fur nace or in a lion cave? 4. What is the name of the Jewish book of laws? 5. The Odyssey is a narrative poem by ? 6. Name the three world lead ers who engaged in a conference at Teheran in 1943. 7. Which game is played on a field marked like a diamond? 8. Name the capital of Puerto Rico. 9. Which is correct: "between you and me" or "between you and 1?" 10. "Though I walks with fifty 'ousemaids outer Chelsea to the Strand, An' they talks a lot o' luvin." but wot do they under stand?" Kipling. Name the city to which he referred. Answers: 1. St. Louis. 2. "My Old Kentucky Home." 3. No. 4. Talmud. 5. Homer. 6. Roose Telt. Churchill and Stalin. 7. Baseball. 8. San Juan. 9. Be tween you and me." 10. London, England. Cove Junction Logger Killed in California Cave J u n c t ion Alfred B. Campbell, 29, of Cave Junction was killer Tuesday in a logging accident at Orick. Calif., where he was associated with Ole Nas sen. also of Cave Junction, in a timber operation. The accident occurred when a falling redwood struck another tree, bounced back, and caught Campbell beneath, its branches. MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence . . . New York, N.Y., July 1st: It Is a terrible chestnut but how true it is that time FLIES. Here it is the first of July and when we left Medford the plan was Day. It does not mean we have much time to do anything in this ly when the chief objective concerns grandchildren, who have habitations in the East so far apart. The latest S.O.S. has come from Stonlngton, Connecticut where the Mt. Kisco branch has moved for the summer all ex cept Jane, the only girl, who has the Maine woods. Speaking of girls' and boys' camps, we wonder if Presi dent Russell of the Friendly S.P. tral station at this time of year. noon, and had to wait in line for a solid hour that is by the clock not irritation to get what we wanted. Getting to a ticket window was like getting to the box office of "My Fair Lady" at Saturday matinee time. It wasn't "cheek by jowl" exactly, but it was LITERALLY bumper to bumper. And around 50 of the mob were boys and girls bound guides, mentors and chaperones. After such an experience it all railroad passenger service freight trains only, as President and increase in his billion dollar After our experience with the terrible increase in motor to go, we foresee the railroads, all to themselves, and the buses only well, we foresee rail passengers service becoming MORE and MORE important to more Walking down Fifth Avenue gloriously clear and cool day faculty (retired) we passed a Fifth Ave. synagogue, called the Berg Memorial, and our com panion, pointing to a large inscription on its side, remarked: "I assume that is a Jewish accurately expresses my idea have ever read in the Bible or This was the quotation, which all who pass up and down Fifth Avenue may read, quote: "DO JUSTLY, LOVE MERCY THY GOD." We agreed, but asked our old or women he had known in his many years, who really fol lowed that injunction, who day to day, really TRIED to do JUSTLY, actually LOVED mercy their God. He thought the query over said with a rather wry smile: "To be perfectly honest just SELF." Needless to say Older Boys always like to reminisce and at an "alfresco" luncheon on Park avenue later we had the pleasure of outstripping our companion in the memory line as far as that beautiful Park and parked avenue is concerned. It was nothing to boast about for the reason we won was due entirely to the fact that we first visited New York city at the age of seven, and he, although living nearer the metropolis, did not until he was 20. Nothing very important but we remember when the beautiful parking strip was a railroad track the New York Central when sitting on the front porch of the Park Avenue hotel we kept getting cinders in our popping and youthful eyes, and when what is now the very grand Grand Central was a two or three story affair of red brick and gingerbread, no larger or more impressive than the Union Station in Portland, Oregon is today. Which might be called "Sic transit Gloria" in reverse. R.W.R. Recall of Judicial Decisions Recent Supreme Court decisions have brought out various proposals in Congress on curbing the Court. They bring back to mind the recall of judicial de cisions that was a hot political issue 45 years ago. At that time the outcry so much for protecting Leftists as for favoring vested interests. The outciy came to a head nationally in 1912. Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt as third party candidate for President called for an appeal to the people against state courts invalidating state laws. The recall of elected officials who had a poor record in office' was, along with the initiative and referendum, to the fore in many states. The recall provisions adopted by Michigan, Idaho and Louisiana excluded judges, but Colorado applied the recall to judicial decisions. DOOSEVELT'S Progressive party platform in 1912 demanded that when courts had invalidated "an act passed under the police power of the state," the people should have a chance to vote on "whether they desire the act to become law, notwithstanding such decision." They should be able to "safeguard" the Constitution from those bent on its "perversion." President Taft, later to be Chief Justice, had vetoed an act of Congress for statehood for Arizona because the Arizona constitution provided for recall of judges. That provision had to be deleted before Arizona was admitted as a state. And the 1912 Re publican platform, on which Taft ran (behind both Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson) for re-election, de clared for "preserving inviolate" the powers of the courts, both federal and state, to enforce their pro cess" under "constitutional provisions" which the people could always amend. E.R.R. Treasury Surplus This is the second fiscal year in a row in which the Eisenhower administration has produced a budget surplus. The one for 1956 was $1.6 billion and the one estimated for next year, 1958, is $1.8 billion. Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey in sists that a surplus of around $2 billion is too small to justify a tax cut. ' The budgetaiy deficit was no less than $9.4 billion in the first fiscal year, 1953, of the Eisenhower ad ministration. However, half of that year and prac tically all its commitments for expenditures fell under the Truman administration. The deficit was reduced to $3.1 billion in 1954, then rose slightly, to $4.2 billion, in 1955. A deficit was registered in the last three of the four years of the Hoover administration, in all 12 years under F. D. Roosevelt, in five of the eight years of the Truman administration. The $8.4 billion surplus realized in the fiscal year 1948 set off a substantial tax reduction. E.R.R. Friday. July S. 1957 to return shortly after Decoration done so much, but it takes so fabulous cosmopolis, particular joined the hegira to a camp in has ever visited the Grand Cen We were there yesterday around for summer camps, with their is hard for us to see the end of in another decade or two, and Russell foresees with such relish railroad profits. bus travel versus rail travel, with congestion where the buses have with their complete "freeways' forced to heavily traveled roads people and bus travel less. this morning it is a windy but with a friend from Columbia's stately building across from the memorial but that sentence more of Christianity than anything out of it." AND WALK HUMBLY WITH time friend how many men and DID walk HUMBLY with carefully for a few minutes then ONE and I don't mean MY against judges was not 0EAWkS W0M THAT CUP US ATE M0RB P& THAfJ Today and Ey Walter ON THE GRANDCHIDREN'S FUTURE Marshal Tito, it turned out has more . than enough to do without being drawn into the discus sion which w a started by K h r ushchev, about socialism and American grandchildren This may have been mere dis cretion but Call rather suspect Walter Lippmann that Tito has learned from his own varied experience that long-range pre dictions about the future of social system are almost certain to express little more than the prophet's hopes or fears. Al though Marxists like to think that they possess the secrets of history, no Marxist .foresaw, or could have foreseen, what now goes by the name of socialism in Yugoslavia. The only thing we know for certain is that in the twentieth century, there is a rapid and un predictable evolution in every society, except perhaps in the most primitive and isolated Khrushchev does not know, he cannot know, what will develop in Russia in 10 years, much less in America in 30 years. The Communist world from China to Yugoslavia and Poland, including Russia itself, is not proceeding according to some grand plan, revealed by Marx and Lenin, which leads to a com mon end: the various Commu nist regimes are feeling their way, seeking remedies and solu tions for their tactical difficul ties, and they are rationalizing the absence of a grand and uni versal principle by saying that there are many roads to social ism. As they take these many and differing roads, they will become many and differing so cieties. - r F NO one knows what social ism will be like in two gen erations, neither does anyone know what the American econ omy will be like. It will, of course, not be like the Russian or the Chinese today. We can be sure of that because the con trolling principle in both Russia and in China is the rapid and forced development of an eco nomically and technologically backward country. The Ameri can economy, as Communist thinkers themselves often say has long since reached a stage ofdevelopment which Russia is still struggling to reach, which China has hardly begun to ap proach. So we can be sure that while our grandchildren will experi ence great changes in the Ameri can economy, these changes will not be a reaction to and a re capitulation of the Russian and Chinese experience. Commu nism may represent a future to a primitive country like China. But for America, Com munism is irrelevant, having nothing to do with our highly advanced and complex economy. fFHE American social order has changed greatly in this cen tury, so greatly that terms like capitalism and free enterprise and competition, which come down to us from the nineteenth century, no longer describe our economy intelligibly. There have been the wars, and the rise of the United States as a world power with a great military establishment. There has been the fabulous, indeed explosive, increase of the Ameri can population. There has been not only the deep and wide technological development, but, with the organization of scien tific research, a radically new pace in the application of sci ence. There has been also, so at least it seems to me, a non violent but nevertheless revo lutionary change in the inner principle of our own social economy. This is the new prin ciple, which goes by the pro OVER AT THE PARK! WYBODYi '' Tomorrow Lippmann saic name of "full employment" the imperative that the gov ernment must use the fiscal and other powers of the state to keep the demand for labor at least equal to the supply. Until the present generation this principle was unknown to, much less was it the policy of, the United States or any other capitalist nation. Its adoption marks a profound change. It would not in my view be an exaggeration to say that it has brought about a revolution in the West which has made the Communist revolutionary propa ganda irrelevant and anti quated. For when the government is committed to the maintenance of full employment, the bargain ing power of labor is under written. This means a decisive change in the balance of forces within our society. THE i ploy new principle of full em- yment was formulated dur ing the great depression between the two world wars. Its tech nique is based on the discovery during the first World War that a government can promote pro duction, regardless of the gold supply, by managing credit and the currency. The impulse to apply the technique of war finance to the peace-time econ omy came from the huge unem ployment and the vast misery of the great depression. The com mitment to the new policy comes from the voters who, having learned- that unemployment can be prevented, will not tolerate any government which does not prevent it. Although the principle of full employment was worked out under Roosevelt and Truman, it is now national policy from which no public man, who ex pects to have a future, would think of dissenting. we nave not begun to see the full consequences of the new principle. But in all probability, it is the real reason why it ap pears that the inflation in which we find ourselves cannot be stopped by the orthodox devices Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Where Were The Flags? io the editor: I would like to ask the people of Medford "Where were our flags July 4?' In the entire downtown district of Medford I was able to find eight flags where usually on a national holiday of such impor tance you can find that many on one block! One of- the real pleasures of a national holiday is seeing the flag proudly flying everywhere you look. This thrill of patriotic pride is not soon forgotten and even if you don't realize what it is you feel. Independence Day seems unreal and lost some how when it's gone. We forget what our flag stands for and we feel foolish at show ing our patriotism. Very few of us remember to clap when the flag passes in parade or on the screen. As a child I remember the thrill I got by joining my coun trymen in honoring the flag. That was during World War II. Do we only remember in time of great national strife? Perhaps if we showed our patriotism more freely there would be few er who doubted their country when they had to face dying for it. Ours is a great nation and ours is a beautiful and inspiring flag. Instead of a "new burst of freedom", let's have a new burst of patriotism and perhaps our flag will not be forgotten again Colleen Tokar, 716'- West Main St., Medford, Ore. Shakeup in Of the Week in Foreign Affairs By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news en the international bal ance sheet: A long-smouldering factional dispute among the top leaders of Soviet Russia exploded in the Kremlin this week. V y a cheslav M. M o 1 o t o v, Georgi M. Mal enkov and La zar M. Kagano vich were thrown out of the Central Committee of Charles McCano the Communist Party, in which they had been members of the 11-man ruling presidium, and fired from the cabinet. With them went three second-level men. Molotov, last of the "old Bol sheviks" who helped Lenin en gineer the 1917 revolution, was branded as the leader of an "anti-party" bloc which fought the post-Stalin policies of Com munist Party chieftain Nikita S. Khrushchev and Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin. With the support of Malenkov and Kaganovich, it was charged, Molotov fought both domestic and foreign policies aimed at correcting the evils of the Stalin regime. These policies included friend ship with Marshal Tito of Yugo slavia, "pressing new measures intended to ease international tension and promote universal In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The West has offered to halt nuclear tests if Russia will a prep to negotiate an end to nuclear bomb production. The offer by the United States. Britain. France and Can ada calls for a 10-month trial. During that time nuclear tests would be suspended while ne gotiations were conducted for a wav to end manufacture of atomic and hydrogen bombs British Foreign Secretary Sel- wyn Lloyd has been chosen by the Western alies to present the plan in a "common document to Russia as a sign of Western solidarity. Russia's reply is not expected for about a week. Let's go back to the dramatic situation that arose down at Yucca Flat in Nevada the other day when an atomic device that was being tested miscued and failed to eo off. Something had to be done. So the scientists climbed the SOU- foot tower on which the device was placed, "tinkered with its innards until thev found what was wrong and DISARMED it. FVEALING with Russia in an J effort to put an end to the race for atomic supremacy in the world is as ticklish an en terprise as that which was un dertaken by those scientists down on the Nevada proving grounds. Russia is utterly unpredictable. She is governed by no code of honor such as governs more responsible nations. She can pledge her solemn word today and break it tomorrow. Nothing even a miscued atom bomb can be more din- gerous than a disarmament agreement with a nation that has no respect for its plighted word. CJOMETHING has to be done. O The world just CAN'T let the race for atomic supremacy roar on and on without making an effort to bring it under con trol before it goes over the cliff and carries the world to destruc tion. SOMETHING has to be given trial. That's about the size of it. of tight money and a balanced budget. It may well be that a gradual inflation is the insep arable accompaniment of the policy of full employment, and that the two together will gradu ally but inexorably work a great transormation in the American way of life. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Portland Cowboy Wins St. Paul Rodeo Title St. Paul, Ore. (If) BiUy Boag, a city cowboy, won the all-around title at the annual St Paul rodeo Thursday night. Boag, who hails from Port land, finished ahead of Barney Willis, a former Southern Cali fornia sprint star and veteran rodeo performer. Don't Say "Hello" Say "FILTER-FLO" I Jrp 7 J"-': Kremlin Tops News peace. Molotov especially opposed the Khrushchev - Bulganin program of seeking personal contacts aimed at bettering relations with foreign leaders, it was charged. What it meant was that Molo tov was the leader of a die-hard "Stalinist" faction which op posed the "new look" policies of Khrushchev and Bulganin. Now the Stalinists had lost It was predicted that "Stalinist" leaders in Communist satellite countries would go too. The United States, Canada, Great Britain and France pre sented to Soviet Russia a series of proposals which could lead to a historic "first step" agreement as the basis for a broad disarma ment treaty. The proposals were made in the five-nation United Nations disarmament subcommittee con ference in London. Briefly, the proposals called for a suspension of tests of nu clear weapons. This suspension would be tied in with negotia tions for a ban on production of nuclear weapons and a reduction in armed forces and convention al weapons. Harold Stassen, chief U. S. delegate, supplemented the Allied proposal by suggesting that the test-suspension period be set tentatively at 10 months. Valerian A. Zorin, chief So viet delegate, received the pro posals with unusual cordiality. He asked for a, detailed clarify ing statement which he could submit to his government in seeking instructions. Secretary of State John Foster Turnpike Bonds Eyed By Roger W. Babson By ROGER W. BABSQN Babson Park, Mass. Since my return from the South, have been making a study of turnpike bonds and other non taxable invest ments. Casual readers of this column may not realize that non taxable bonds are around their itsaaasssJ lowest prices Bocer W Babson for a long number of years. As an illustra tion, the State of Massachusetts highly rated bonds carrying the full faith and credit of the State, free of all Federal and State taxes, which sold at par in 1950 can now be bought around 65. This is the lowest price in their history. This decline is due to the constantly increasing interest rates of the past several years. mere is no other logical reason While the stock market has been climbing since 1949 (when the Dow-Jones Industrial Average was around 165, in contrast to today's level of around 500) bonds have been declining. Yet the bond market is just as sus ceptible to the Law of Action and Reaction as the stock mar ket. When stocks are clearly in a bear movement and money rates decline, bonds will again go up in price. Therefore, non taxable bonds may be in the pos- sition -today that the blue chips were eight years ago when they were selling at a third of their present prices. Certain banks and other in stitutions which are large bond buyers state that there are reas ons other than increased inter est rates why municipal bonds are selling so low. Due to the possibility of World War III, some of the savings institutions have been selling the bonds of large cities, especially industrial cities which could be targets for bombing. At the same time, these institutions have found it very difficult to sell the unlisted bonds of small cities and towns, even though they are perfectly safe and yield around 4 per cent income-tax-free. What About Turnpike Bonds? I believe Turnpike Bonds should be a logical exemption to the above situation. They have both security and marketability. The conservative financial insti tutions say they do not like OPENING of Offices in the Medical Dental Building 832 East- Main St., Medford for the Practice of General Surgery THOMAS RUTTER ,,.s Hours by Appointment " Phone SP 2-7730 Dulles said at a press conference in Washington that his East-West foreign policy was based on the belief that the Communist dicta torships in Soviet Russia and China would be replaced, in time, by governments respon sible to their peoples. Dulles said he did not mean that the Soviet and Red Chinese regimes would be overthrown. Nor, he said, was he speaking in terms of "one year, five years, 10 years." Such governments might con tinue to be Communist. or So cialist, as they actually call themselves Dulles said. But he cited Yugoslavia as a, country which, while still Communist, is not a part of what he called "the international Communist con spiracy" and is tending toward liberalism. "American policy is conduct ed on the assumption . . . that free governments in the long run are going to prevail and despotic governments in the long run are going to go under," Dulles said. In a gigantic strategic reor ganization, the United States gave Adm. Felix B. Stump su preme command of military op erations land, sea and air throughout the Pacific and East Asia. Stump's headquarters will continue to be in Hawaii, where he has commanded the Pacific Fleet. As part of the shift, head quarters of the Far East Army and Air Force commands win be moved from Japan to Hawaii. Headquarters of the United Na tions Command will be moved from Japan to Korea. them because they are revenue bonds, dependent upon the earn ings of the turnpike. Yet, every corporation bond is a revenue bond, depending upon earnings. The non-taxable feature of turn pike bonds, however, far ex ceeds the slight risk of declin ing earnings. Of all the turn pike bonds, however, far ex cured by the West Virginia Turnpike which "starts no where," has failed to make good. I admit that with rationing of gasoline in the event of World War III, turnpikes would tem porarily be in trouble; but so would almost everything else. No bombing, however, could ma terially damage a modern turn pike. Recently, the Boston & Maine Railroad canceled all its com muter business bacause of the strike by the maintenance men. It would take a strike of several months' duration by Turnpike maintenance men before their services would be missed. Prac tically the only necessary em ployees of a Turnpike Authori ty are those who collect the tolls. And I cannot imagine these men striking. Turnpikes are there fore less liable than most invest ments to suffer from labor trou bles. The Autmobila Industry One of today s fastest growing industries is the Automobile In dustry, and our turnpikes must prosper along with it. Not only are new cars put out by the millions each year, but boys in a very old Ford must pay the same toll as those riding in new Cadillacs! Everyone wants to save time, and also it is very much safer driving on a six- lane modern turnpike. These turnpikes can never be built for less than their present cost. Therefore, the Government in its new Road-Building Pro gram, should be glad to take over any of these turnpikes and then pay the bondholders in full. I am also told that the present thought in Washington is to spend funds on widening and straightening present two-lane highways to make them four- lane and six lane roads, rather than putting all the money into new turnpikes. Eighty per cent of the accidents today occur on unnecessary hills and curves. The most inconsistant investors today are those who are buying taxable General Motors stock and refusing to buy non-taxable Turnpike bonds!