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r o O FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UKE "Xveryone In Soutnern Oregon Keafli ina Man iripune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 17-29 North Plr St. Phane 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHi. Editor HERS GREV Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALXXN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHI p. MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorta Editor OiJVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at alediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MalJ In Advance- Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4-25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 Q By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold H1U Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes' Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Dally and Sunday One month UO Carrier and Dealera 10c per copy All Terms Cash m Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford mnciai raper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices In New York Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C &ATIONAI EOlTOtlAa 1 i r r ASSOCHA'ICN 3 TTTTTTTTn NEWSPAFE FU8LISHEIS 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 9, 1947 (Wednesday) Ceremonies inaugurating West Coast Air lines passenger serv ice into Medford will be held next week, according to Charles Willock, the firm's local man ager. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A finan cial expert reports, under pre sent conditions, "The rich are not getting any richer." The poor report the same trouble. 20 YEARS AGO July 9, 1937 (Friday) Harvesting of the Burtlett pear crop in the Rogue valley will start between Aug. 15 and 20, according to County Horticul turist C. B. Cordy. Medford banks report general Increases in business during past year, greater commercial act- tivity and continued economic Improvement. 30 YEARS AGO July 9, 1927 (Saturday) United Artisans of Grants Pass hold joint installation of officers with Medford assemb ly No. 561 at Medford. trom Local and Personal col umn: R. A. McKay will con struct $6,000 dwelling and gar e on Reddy ave. 4 YEARS AGO July 9, 1917 (Monday) Seventh Company of the coast artillery. Medford, is mobilized O by the war department, accord ing to Capt. A. J. Vance. New Chautauqua auditorium at Ashland will be formally de dicated at the beginning of the 25th assembly season, July 11. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or six la good O 1. In 1733 the first Catholic q Church was erected in Philadel phia. Was a Masonic Lodge opened there the year before or after? 2. Perique tobacco Is grown In only one State; name it. 3. Bible: Do all Biblical names have particular meanings? 4. Are all conifers evergreen? 5. A fire of uncertain origin destroyed the capitol at Harris burg in 1887, 1897, 1907? 6. Who was President of the U.S. when the Panama Canal Zone was acquired by perpetual lease? 7. The city of Asuncion is in which south American country? 8. Which State of the U. S. is known as the "Blue Grass State?" 9. In 1897 the medical term "psittacosis" (parrot fever) was introduced. Is this contageous disease communicable to hu mans? 10. Shakespeare. "The Merry Wives of Windsor:" It is a fa miliar beast to man. and signifies live." Is "It" a dog. dove, or louse? Answers: 1. After (1734): sec 4 nna established in the U.S. 2. Louisiana. 3. Yes. 4. No, (such conifers as western larch, tam arack, and southern cypress, shed their leaves annually). 5. 1897. 6. Theodore Roosevelt. 7. Paraguay. 8. Kentucky 9. Yes. And birds. 10. Lous. MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence . . . Stonington, Conn., July 4th Not like the "good old days." We have yet to hear as much as a pop-gun and the great patriotic celebration known as the "Fourth of July" will soon be over. Like the stove pipe hat the "noisy, explosive Fourth of July" has gone out of style, apparently. Our change of base to Stonington corresponded with a sharp change in the weather. The location of this quaint fishing village on salt water may have something to do with it, but the NY papers report much cooler weather down there also. What a relief! A couple of blankets feel good at night instead of that sweltering Madison Avenue hotel, where even pajamas were a burden. a We have been here tefore, however, and know this part of the country well enough to know this is what should be called a breathing spell and a brief one it may be 90" in the shade and in humidity tomorrow. Stonington is, however, short of Maine, the best place we know of along the Sound, to spend the summer. Like the road from Rice Mountain Lodge to Dickinson Centre, things have changed very little here since the War of 1812. There are some nice summer homes here, but no one puts on any dog. Everyone knows everyone else including the Portuguese. And at noon you can buy lobsters that were caught only a few hours before sweeter and more tender than anything we could get in New York city. There is sailing, fishing and swimming for those who can do any one or all as two of the boy grand children are here the one sister is at camp in Maine and as the three baby-blondes from the Adirondacks are expected in a week or so, it is going to be hard to leave. But in spite of all reports to the contrary we have our reservations. We don't read any of the Hearst papers at home or abroad as a general rule, but coming up on the "New Haven" the other day we were presented with a copy of the N.Y. Journal-American by a waiter in the dining car. Glancing it over we ran into one of the most violent and unwarranted attacks on the Supreme Court it has ever been our displeasure to read. All the hulabaloo was over the courts in the recent California Communist cases and the re versal in the Watkins case. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower as well as Attorney General Brownell were scored for packing the court with left wingers who were engaged in a plot to besmirch the name of the late Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin, and turn the American government, lock stock and barrel, over to the Kremlin. Many other papers wedded to "McCarthyism" have joined in a smiliar hue and cry since these "liberating decisions were handed down, but we have seen none as extreme and in temperate as this. But that, of course, is the Hearst philosophy and technique and has been through the years. They never appeal to the intelli gence or the sober judgment of their readers, but always to their prejudices and passions. There was nothing in these decisions that upheld Russia com munism or any other political radicalism. They only upheld the constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. The court did not destroy the power of congressional investigation, as claimed, but only defined its limits and when the rights of an American citizen are at stake there SHOULD be a limit. As far as the "American way of life" and subversion are con cerned, the Hearst editorials attacking the American judiciary and its personnel contributed far more to that end, than anything the declining "Red Conspiracy" in this country can, from now on in, be expected to do. We were glad to see that in spite of the noise and fury of the reactionary press, President Eisenhower held firm to his dislike of any return to McCarthyism, and reaffirmed his confidence in and high respect for the members of that tribunal, and its vital importance in the American TRUE "way of life." R.W.R. Size of the Major Leagues Presidents of certain minor baseball leagues meet with Ford C. Frick, commissioner of baseball, at St. Louis on Wednesday, .July 10.. They are to discuss "preliminary steps" toward expanding the major ISclTlGSei Expansion won't, admits Mr. Ford, be "easy." Nevertheless, a major revision of the entire set-up of baseball seems indicated as result of the decision of the National League last May 28 to let the Brooklyn Dodgers remove to Los Angeles. If the Dodgers do go, then the New York Giants are allowed to shift to San Francisco. But Abe Stark, president of the New York City Council, on June 26 told the Celler Judiciary subcommittee in vestigating baseball that if the West Coast wanted a major league, it ought to "build" one of its own without disrupting the "names and addresses of ex isting teams." CONSIDERING how sharply some large cities have changed in comparative size of population over half a centuiy, it is remarkable that the two major leagues should have remained unchanged in member ship for 50 years from 1903. That was the year when peace was signed between the National and the new American League. In 1953 the Boston Braves (Na tional) shifted to Milwaukee, then the St. Louis Browns (American) to Baltimore, the Philadelphia Athletics (American) to Kansas City. Back in the 1890's, when the National was the only major league, it consisted of 12 clubs. Most of them lost money most of the time, and in 1900 the League found it the part of wisdom to reduce to eight teams. E.R.R. Suhrawardy s Pakistan The next prime minister to come to the United States will be Hussein S. Suhrawardy of Pakistan, who reaches Washington tomorrow. As a political entity, his country is a bizarre one, inasmuch as 1000 miles of land separate its two units, West Pakistan and East Pakistan. What holds the two together is the Moslem religion prevailing in both. Moslems for a time worked side by side with Hindus for freeing India from British rule, but for some years before independence came in 1947 the two had become hostile to each other and had drifted far apart. So in 1947 Pakistan and India were set up as separate members of the British Commonwealth. THE capital, Karachi, lies in West Pakistan which lovnroltr orirl Viae civ ti'mpa the arpa nf East PnklS- ACiljV-AJ' ...... w-v. . tan but a smaller population. Semi-tropical East Pakistan, with a highly developed jute industry, de mands more autonomy for itself than the national government is willing to concede. This conflict between the two halves of the nation is one reason why it has held no national elections since 1947, and its parliament is still the Constituent Assembly set up to receive independence. E.R.R. I Tuesday. July 9. 1957 CNmK$mSARLY! THE Matter of Fact NIKITA TRIUMPHANT London The sharp HtUe eyes positively sparkled with pleas ure. A delighted smile creased the broad face. The stubby peasant hands sketched a quick gesture of a p p 1 a use. What Nikita S. K h r u shchev was applaud ing was the simple enor Joseph Alsop mity nf tho heaval involved in turning the whole vast structure of Soviet industry literally urisinV down This moment in a long inter view pnoiograpned itself on this reporter's memorv hepanw of its intensely personal charac ter. Another man might have .... i . . j i . i . .uuiiuuea mat a radical reor ganization of Soviet industry was a regrettable necessity. But Khrushchev positively gloated over it, most strongly emphasiz ing just those aspects of the new departure which would be the most risky and unsettling. One suspects that just this trait of Khrushchev's this pleasure in bold and radical new departures for their own sake was at the root of the repeated disagreements between him and the cautious, longheaded Molot- ov, the old wheelhorse Kagano vich and the shrewd, cynical Malenkov. It is clear, at any rate, that their numerous differ ences over foreign and domestic policy were brought to a head by Khrushchev's industrial re organization plan. AS Khrushchev himself pointed nilt rt TTIA fVia nlun uni- on4 is a direct attack on the vested interests of "tens of thousands" of the most highly placed offi cials, technicians and adminis trators in the Soviet Union. An actual majority of the official population of Moscow was com posed of the swollen staffs of the huge, now abolished industrial ministries. And as Khrushchev said with sardonic cheerfulness, "These gentlemen are now to be sent out into the provinces to do more productive work." One can easily imagine the opposition and obstruction evoked by this mass exile. Ob viously the opponents and ob structory of industrial reorgani zation flocked to the support of the minority members of the all powerful Presidium. In the Presidium itself Pervukhin and Saburov were the successively displaced industrial coordinators whose efforts had failed to satis fy Khrushchev. They evidently joined Khrushchev's three active enemies, Molotov, Kaganovich and Malenkov, when the issue was finally joined. It must have been a very near run thing. Both Molotov and Khrushchev himself at different times told former American Ambassador Bohlen that Presi dium decisions were taken by vote. In a Presidium of eleven members the opposition had five votes. Khrushchevs with six votes, had a majority of one. But Khrushchev's six included the unpredictable doctrinnaire-fanat-ic. Suslov. and the aged, be mused figurehead. Marshal Vor oshilov. JUDGING from the published documents, the opposition seemed to have won the day at one moment during the visit to Finland of Khrushchev and Bul- ganin. This, no doubt, was when the "anti party group" actually 'tried to change the composition of the party's leading bodies elected by the Central Commit tee." But Khushchev, thus threat ened with expulsion from the Presidium, boldly turned for support to his adherents in the party apparatus and above all to Marshall Zhukov and the army. A special meeting of the party s Central Committee was called, ""he struggle seems to have gone on from June 15, when Khrush chev and Bulganin returned from Finland, until June 29 when the Central Committee meeting ended. The experts infer that the struggle was both intense and prolonged from the indications t at the Soviet leadership had no time for anything else during ,7-9 SEAGULLS ARE UP'.' By Joseph Alsop this period. The annual Moscow Air Show was cancelled. The great and costly anniversary cel ebrations at Leningrad, which should have brought out almost the whole Presidium, were at tended by none of them. In the disarmament meetings here in London, the Soviet delegate, Valerian Zorin, could only lis ten and ask questions from June 15 onwards because he could get no orders from Moscow. There were other such signs. TT would reveal a great deal about the structure of political power in the Soviet Union today, n any or the Episodes of the cli mactic period of struggle were known. Above all. one would like to know the relative con tributions to the final outcome made by the two elements that gave Khrushchev his victory the officer caste headed by Zhu kov, and the party apparatus neaaea by Krushchev himself. In any case, in the final out come JMiKita Khrushchev was completely triumphant. In the new Presidium, Mikoyan and Bulganin may venture to argue and urge caution. But there is only one man, Marshal Zhukov, who appears to have the power to offer direct opposition. But Zhukov is believed to confine his interests to military 'and stra tegic questions (including im portantly the problems of retain ing control of the satellite em pire). There is not the slightest reason to suspect that Khrush chev sees these questions differ ently from Zhukov. There are even some reasons to think he sees them largely through Zhukov s eyes. Thus Khrushchev's mastery of the boviet Union and its policies may now be regarded as an ac complished fact. A final ques tion, in which there is no avail able answer, still remains. Did Khrushchev plan it that way, or did he sincerely intend to adhere to the system of "collective" rule until he was forced to choose be tween crushing the opposition or being crushed himself? (Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Littrell Blames Lack o! Experience For Long Session "Lack of experience" among legislators accounted for the ex cessively long 128-day session of this year's state legislature, E. A (Al) Littrell, state representative. told the Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce Roundtable at yesterday noon's luncheon meet ing at the Jackson hotel. Littrell noted that there were 32 new -legislators at the session and of 23 chairmen of various legislative committees, only five had previous experience. The representative, a mem ber of the House committee on highways, said construction of a highway to Klamath Falls, by way of Lake of the Woods would be delayed until approved by the U.S. forest service, Washington, D C. The highway has already gained state approval, he said. Discussing the tax program adopted by the recent legisla ture, he said itwouId probably have a "detrimental effect" on current and potential private in dustry due to increased corpora tion taxes and personal income taxes. Increased at the session were the corporate -excise tax, taxes on utilities, miscellaneous license fees and unemployment and workman's compensation, Lit trell said. He added that the in creases in worker's benefits would have to be borne com pletely by employers. JESSE JAMES NABBED Los Angeles (Ut Lawmen caught up with Jesse James to day and put him behind bars for mail robbery. The 44-year-old truck driver for the Los Angeles post office was accused of stealing some 3,000 letters Saturday night. Malenkov Will Be Lucky If He Lives; Decision Being Weighed By CHARLES M. McCANN ' United Press Correspondent Georgi M. Malenkov will be a lucky man if he is not shot as the result of the big Russian Communist Party purge. It is evident now that Mal enkov is re garded as the- m o s t danger ous of the big three "anti party" men in volved in the raarles McCano dispute among Soviet leaders. Charges amount ing to criminal conspiracy .have been made against him by Nikita S. Khrushchev and other victors in the dispute. If these charges, made in speeches, are not followed by a formal prosecution, it surely will mean that there has been a radical change in Communist Party procedure. Vyacheslav M. Molotov and Lazar M. Kaganovich, the other two members of the "Big Three," have been linked with some of the offenses attributed to Malenkov. Last of "Bolsheviks" What seems to put Malenkov on the spot is the fact that he is the youngest of the three, one of the new generation of Soviet leaders. Molotov and Kaganovich are survivors of a past generation. Molotov is 67. He is the last of the "Old Bolsheviks" who had already reached the top at the time of the 1917 Revolution. Kaganovich is 63. Both have been on the down grade since the death of Josef Stalin. But MaTenkov is only 55. He is one pf the new generation of In the Day's News By FRANK A little better than a century ago 109 years, to be axact about it an Oregonian by the name of Marshall started the Cali fornia boom when he leaned down and picked up an odd-looking rock in a ditch he was dig ging near what is now Sacra mento but then was Sutter's Fort. It gleamed faintly in the sun and attracted his attention. It turned out to be GOLD. His discovery started a chain reaction that has been going ever since. IT IS historically i n t eresting that the boom he touched off was confined to Northern Cali fornia. For more than half a cen tury California south of the Te- hachapi slept on in the sun. Then When the riffles and the bars of the creeks and the rivers of the North had given up the bulk of their easily-got-at gold Somebody down in the South stuck a drill into a pool of oil. That reversed the current of the boom. It quit flowing north and started flowing south. In the course of time, somebody dis covered that if you would take a string of pictures on a narrow strip of film and then run the film strip through a projector you would get a picture that MOVED! THAT started Hollywood. And Hollywood roared on and on and on and still roars gently, like an aging lion. After that came the climate boom, which perhaps has been the biggest boom of all. It still roars on. It will probab ly continue to roar on as long as there is standing room (and, of course, water) in the Southland llfHAT I've been going around ' Robin Hood's barn to say here is that the California boom started in the north, then swung to the south. Now As standing room and water are getting scarcer in the South (and smog gets steadily more abundant) the boom is swinging back to the north. The San Joa quin valley is filling up, with cities of 50,000 cr more jogging each other's elbows as they cover up farm land with new residential areas to house the workers in the new factories. ALREADY this creeping tide of new population is show ing up in the Sacramento valley. It is practically solid city as far up as Vallejo. Sacramento long since became a metroplitan city. On the east side Chico is spread ing out, and as the building of the Feather river dam nears Oroville is feeling its oats. On the west side, Woodburn is growing. Williams and Willows are building up. Industrial devel oping is beginning to change the Don't Say "Hello" Say "FILTER-FLO" Communists who are able admin istrators and technicians as well as politicians. Some people re gard him as the brainiest oi .Rus sia's big men. If Khrushchev and tne rest of the victorious leaders in the Kremlin dispute decide to fol low up their present charges by formal legal action, they may or may not spare Molotov and Kaganovich. But Malenkov will remain a potential danger as long as lie remains alive. May Be No Change ' Khrushchev and his colleagues may be doing some serious thinking about their proper course. If they shoot Malenkov or put him in prison possibly with the other two it will be a confes sion that the Communist system in Russia is no different than Senatorial Filibusters Not Allowed in States By Congressional Quarterly Washington Most of the Southern Senators threatening a filibuster over the civil rights bill could not get away with the maneuver in their home legis latures. U. S. Senate rules permit a member to speak only twice on a subject in any one legislative day, but place no limit on the length of time he may speak. This can lead to a filibuster. Under the Senate rules, the vote of 64 senators is required to shut off debate, known as in voking cloture. This rule has not been successfully applied JENKINS BDDearancp nf trip nlaacant nIH cattle town of Red Bluff, which got its start as head of naviga tion on me way to tne gold mines of the far north. Redding is already a busUing industrial center. lyHAT of Far Northern Cali ' fornia and Southern Ore gon? The signs of what is to come are already in the sky. The tide of population is moving north ward. Far Northern California and Southern Oregon are in its path. The advance ripples of this creeping tide are already being felt. New industries are spring ing up. New population is com ing in. Southern Oregon and Far Northern California are in for big changes. Outlook Said Good For Low Polio Toll Washington HPI Public Health service figures indicate that the outlook for a low polio toll this year Is good. A spokesman said there were only 1,403 polio cases reported in the first 26 weeks of this year, compared to 2,645 in the same period last year. Further more, the "median" figure for tap years 1952-56 was 3,706 cases, considerably higher than the current trend. . The spokesman said the ser vice nas not made a survey to determine how many persons af flicted this year have had vac cinations. So far, there is one trouble spot worrying the public ser vice Johnson City, Tenn. An expert has been sent to keep an aye on the outbreak there of some 50 cases. However, a spokesman pointed out that most of the cases were of the mild non-paralytic" type and the outbreak is not considered great for a population of 29,000. Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan LZ-Li UMt I Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. it was in Stalin's day. The so-called "collective lead ership" which was supposed to usher in a new day in Russian Communist policy will have been exposed as a fiction. It will be clear evidence that a dictatorship is essential in Russia, even if there are several "collective" dictators instead of one. But from reports now leaking out of Moscow, there are strong indications that Malenkov, Molo tov, Kaganovich and Dmitri Shepilov, who was purged from the Communist Party Presidi um with them, really did make a bid to oust Khrushchev as the No. 1 collective leader by re placing him as first secretary of the Russian Communist Party. There are indications also that for a time they had hope of suc ceeding. since its adoption in 1949. 36 States Limit Talk In contrast. 36 states includ ing eight of the 11 Deep South senates permit use of a motion for the previous question In their senates. This motion, the mere men tion of which is enough to arouse U.S. senatorial ire, per mits a majority of a legislative body to cut off debate in a mat ter of minutes. In the British House of Commons the motion is known as the "guillotine." This is how it works in the U.S. House of Representatives, where since 1811 it has been used to shut off debate: A mem ber moves the previous question and that motion is put to an im mediate vote. If the motion car ries, the House proceeds to vote on the matter before it bill, amendment, etc. without fur ther ado. A motion for the previous question is authorized in the sen ates of Arkansas, Georgia, Loui siana, Mississippi, North Caro lina, Tennessee, Texas and Vir ginia. All but Louisiana, Texas and Virginia also limit the length of speeches. Others Limited State senators in Alabama, Florida and South Carolina, where the previous question is not written into the senate rules, are limited both in the length and number of their speeches. Alabama and South Carolina! also have some form of cloture rule, according to a study of state legislatures prepared by the American Political Science association. Of the 12 state senates whose rulebooks either prohibit or do not mention the previous ques tion, four have some other form of cloture rule. They are Ala bama, Massachusetts, New York and South Carolina. ' The other eight senates have no written limitation on general debate, but Maine, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Utah and Vermont iimit the number of times a member may speak on a subject without leave. Florida and South Caro lina limit the length of speeches. Maryland alone has no written curbs. Debate is even more severely restricted in the lower houses of state legislatures. Every state but Vermont authorizes the use of the previous question. Most also place time limits on individ ual speeches. (Copyright 1957. Congressional Quarterly Inc.) SOMETHING OLD Chicago IH Chris Iacullo - believes in the savine "Some thing old, something new ..." about weddings. He will drive to his wedding today in a 1936 car, leading a parade of vintage autos driven by fellow members of an old car club. If you can afford to own your own pool, Chances are you're nor considered a fool. So why take chancel en your guest's aquatic ability. When it's so cheap to carry the proper liability. Bill Fish lit Tf
