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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFOHD (OREGOIO Iverrone to Soutilcrn Orefoo Reads Th Mall Trlbup" Publishes Dally Ex cent Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-SM1 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HTRB GREY Advertising Manacer GERALD LATHAM Businesa Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS Cirv Editor HARRY CHIP1IAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Socletv Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medlord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday One year S13.00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mca 4-25 Sunday Only One rear 14.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Aahland Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent end on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S1S00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Offlrlal Paper of Jackson County United Pr. Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Uf CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de troit San Francisco Los Angelea Seattle Portland St Louie Atlanta vanrouver fci u -SA NATION A I. E D I T 0 I I A a s- r ASSOCt-A'ieN riinmavir NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Slecfford and Jackson County Histtary from the files of The Maii Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. it TEARS AGO July 10. 1947 (Thursday) Representatives of Half Moon produce company of Oakland, CUj, estimate turkey produc tion ia Jackson arid Josephine counties this season will be aI)out 60,000 birds. ftoet Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge, Pot column: The first car-shinj, roof leak detecting rain of summer, fell last eve. 20 ?E&1S AGO July II. 1937 (Saturday) Spanish War Veterans from Oregon hold 29th annual state encampment in Medford. Directors of newly -formed Shakespearean Festival associa tion meet to complete plans for presentation of this y e a r's Shakespearean festival. 30 YEARS AGO July 10, 1927 (Sunday) Concrete for the floor of the new city hall and for the South ern Pacific crossing at Sixth St. wifl be laid tomorrow. From Local and Personal col umn: John Orth, cashier of Med ford National bank, leaves on vacation with family for Fort Klamath. 40 YEARS AGO July 10. 1917 (Tuesday) F. W. Salter of Medford awarded contract to construct two 16 by 24-foot log cabins at Crater Lake National park. From Local and Personal col umn: P. H. Daily, principal of Medford High school, applies for position as superintendent of Roseburg schools. What's Your I.Q.? Nine ,er ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent: five or six Is good. 1. 1772: Umbrellas were first Imported in the U.S. from Eng land, India, or France? 2. What does the German ex pression, "Sieg Heil," mean? 3. Bible: The book of Isaiah is held by some to be a compilation by two prophets: major and minor Isaiah. Is this division in dicated ia the 20th, 30th, or 40th chapter? 4. A silver battle sar is worn in lieu of how many bronze bat tle starts? 5. The members of whatAmer ican military organization were nick-named "Devil Dogs" in World War I? 6. Did the U.S. Government ever mint half-cent pieces? 7. Which President of the U.S. did Mary Todd marry? 8. What is the name for the sacred Scriptures of Mohamme danism? 9. To rinse means "to wash lightly with water." Is "wrench" a synonym of rinse? 10. Wrote Bacon: "Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; wanton love corrupteth and d h it?" Answers: 1. India. To Balti more. 2. "Hail Victory." 3. 40th. 4. Five. 5. U.S. Marines. 6. Yes, (1793 to 1857). 7. Abraham Lin coln. 8. Koran. 9. No. It implies Tiolent action; twisting, etc 10. "debaselh." MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence . . . New York, N.Y., July 7 The best day in the week to be New York City Is the day everyone else goes away namely the Sabbath. Because "everyone" goes away for the week end, there is no traffic and except perhaps at the Today we arose around 6 a.m., shining in a cool and clear blue ave. side of Central Park. In sharp contrast to Stonington where we spent last week everything was green and cool Stonington for some strange rea son is experiencing a drought, fishing village are as brown and ford in late August. Even the seals in the center the cafeteria was closed as were smothered roar of a lion indicated at least had arisen early also. All the way down to the Plaza we only met a group of colored boys on their bikes, en route south presumably from Harlem, and one young cop swinging a stick apparently for the heat he knew his rounds. (The Central Park cops, by the way, are being equipped with walkie-talkies.) Proceeding down Fifth Avenue it was equally delightful, only a taxicab now and then and perhaps a house maid giving the fam ily pooch an airing etc., etc. was asleep in his chair, and while were going on and off as usual, take a look right and left on the was practically nil. When we lived In New York and lamented "Commercial-Advertiser," we used to hie to the country every week end when we could scrape up car fare and were we living here now would undoubtedly do the same but as remarked for the visitor from afar, the best day to browse around the biggest city in the "New World" is Sunday before and after church of course! After a sufficient pedestrian town bus for the "Mayflower," the Hudson river sight-seeing dock at the foot of 41st street. The day was young but a typical "Coney Island" crowd was on hand, mostly fat men in their shirt sleeves and fatter women in low necks, with a perfect mob of running and squealing chil dren. It being the Sabbath, one surveyed the scene from the poop- deck of the Elizabethan replica vered Pilgrims could have returned in spirit what THEY would have thought of it! The only completely unexpected thing about the "Mayflower" to your reporter at least was the coloring. The reincarnated bark was as gay as a Hong Kong July. Fore and aft it was painted gold stripes, so in the bright July glasses. Another thing would have fathers. It was,10:30 a.m., yet most still breakfasting at the New York Yacht club, where they were residing. We have a pious Idea that if to enjoy a reincarnation and applied as they were when disem barked at Plymouth Rock for admittance to this exclusive Forty- Fourth street club, the pompous have called the police and had as unloused vagrants! Another surprise was the diminutive and unseaworthy appear ance of this heavily timbered high flown tub. There must have been some reason for such a weird top heavy construction, but we could find none of the crew plain it. The surprise to this land had to be towed into Plymouth and New York harbors, but that it ever got near either under its own power. Being constructed en tirely of wood, perhaps it could it could remain upright is a mystery to this awed observer. The river boats and sea tugs moored at the same dock looked like snappy, sea-worthy ocean "greyhounds" in comparison. But the original "Mayflower" tow-lines and we don't blame their descendants for being proud of their spiritual faith and physical hardihood. It is a mystery however where the Pilgrims that is se MANY of them and with so much antique furniture found cially the latter. There must have been, we should conjecture, considerable bundling. We have known only a few were noticeably reserved when is more understandable after viewing the replica. We could never claim anything of the sort. Our paternal an cestors, according to the family in a sailing vessel called the "Sunshine" and landed at fniiaaei ohia a full hundred years later. "Mayflower" and "Sunshine"! and 18th century emigrants as a chose very pretty and gay names transportation! R.W.R. Those Small You mav think vou see on the streets and roads these days, but the number is large only in comparison with what you used to see of them, not with the number of American cars. Almost 200,000 (a few of them medium-sized rather than small) will probably be sold here this year, but that's only 3" per car sales estimated for 1957. e PJNLY 25,000 or so foreign cars were imported into the U. S. for sale in 1954, so the increase over four years is eight-fold. Almost half the foreign cars sold here are the German air-cooled Volkswagen. Whereas four years ago the small foreign car was apt to be thought "screwy," it has now become "smart," and not only among rock-'n-rollers. Three outstanding appeals of the small foreign car are its easy maneuverability for parking, its economy in gasoline and its low price. The Volks wagen sells new in the East for around $1,500, as do one of the French Renaults and a British-made Ford. And the diminutive German-made Isetta 300, one cylinder, is offered at New York for all of $998. THE small Metropolitan sold by Nash in this coun- try is a British product. Now comes the Scotsman, made here by Studebaker-Packard, with a two-door listed at $1,776. However, the price is exclusive of what the Company calls "modest" delivery charges and of certain accessories to which many American car-owners have become accustomed. To make a small car in this country costs almost as much as to make a medium-sized one. General Motors announced on June 20 that it is about to sell its British made Vauxhall through Pontiac dealers and its German-made Opel through Buick dealers. Ford is increasing the number of its dealers offering the various Ford models built in Britain, and Chrysler has announced it is "keeping abreast" of what is go ing on. E.R.R. v I Wednesday, July 10, 1957 Bronx zoo, no crowds. had breakfast and with the sun sky, sallied forth via the Fifth and the lawns in that charming dry as they used to be in Rock- pool were sleeping on the rock the animal houses ditto, only a that one of the "king of beasts' but in his shirt sleeves, prepared would come before he finished The doorman at the Savoy Plaza the street lights, green and red, there was no need to more than "red" for as indicated the traffic and were reporting for the late "work out" we boarded a cross- hitched, most incongruously, to and wondered if any of the re junk on the Chinese Fourth-of- in white, red, blue, brown and sun Ye Editor missed his dark surprised any resurrected Pilgrim of the crew, we were told, were any of those Pilgrim fathers were and muscular door man would them taken to the nearest bastile present who could or would i - lubber was not that the ship not sink, but how in a heavy sea made it without the aid of tug room to eat and sleep, espe Mayflower descendants and those it came to talking. That reticence records, came over to this country we never thought of those 17th particularly gay lot, but they for their media of salt water Foreign Cars lots of small foreign cars cent of the new American 'DAD! DON'T YA WW YOUR Today and By Walter TODAY AND TOMORROW THE PURGE OF STALINISTS The Durse Oj! Molotov and the five other high Soviet officials has been made public in two stages. In the first, there was an offi cial commu nique which charged them with opposing the reforms which have been adopted since the Walter Lippmann death and de nudation of Stalin. In the sec ond, they are being charged with offenses that are capital crimes, and could make them liable to trial and execution. Apparently, the Soviet Union has not as yet reached the point in its political development where it can adopt a. new pol icy without destroying the men who stood for the old policy, That point had not been 'reach ed among the great powers of Western Europe until about the end of the seventeenth century, There is much which suggests that the Soviet Union, which be longs to the twentieth century in its technological develop ment, is in its constitutional practice backward by about 300 years. The official explanation of the purge is plausible enough if we read it within the framework of the primitive political theory that a disagreement on important matters can be solved only when the losing faction has been des troyed. It is a recent and very advanced idea that there can be indeed that there ought to be such a thing as a loyal opposi tion. - . AT the level of policy, Khru schev's rnmnlaint apaincr Molotov is that he has become a narrow-minded and cantanker ous old fogey. As such, he has made himself the leader of faction in a state where faction alism is a crime, is treason against the sacred deposit of Leninism and the laws of the revolution. Molotov has, says the communique, been at variance with the party line," which means not merely that he has voted against it but that he has been conspiring against the party. He has "failed to see the new conditions, the new situa tion" which has existed since the death of Stalin. He has taken "a conservative attitude," clinging to "obsolete forms and methods of work that are no longer in keeping with the interests of the advance toward Commu nism. Thus in domestic affairs Mol otov has opposed the policy of appeasing the national feelings of the constituent republics. He has been opposed to the decen tralization of the industrial ma chine. He has been opposed to offering the peasants greater ec onomic rewards, and he has been opposed to the agrarian policy which aims at more production of milk, butter and eggs. In foreign policy, Molotov showed narrow-mindedness and hampered in every way" meas ures "to erase international ten sions." He opposed the Austrian Treaty. He opposed the 'normal ization" of relations with Japan. He opposed improved relations with Tito. He opposed the good will missions which Bulganin and Khruschev have been mak ing to foreign countries. m m m IfHILE the size and fury of the ''purge indicate that the Stal inists' opposition to Khruschev has been formidale, we can be reasonably certain that for some time to come Khruschev's new policies will prevail. He will at tempt to' govern the Soviet Un ion not, of course, with the ac tive consent of all its peoples but, with sufficient leniency and favor to win their passive as sent. He believes he can do this, as he said on Saturday in a speech at Leningrad, by "catch ing up with the United States of America" not in its constitu tional development but "in in dustrial production per capita of 31 PIC71RE TOOK? DD? Tomorrow Lippmann population" and "in the produc tion of meat, milk and butter." He will attempt also to con solidate what he calls the Com munist camp the collection of countries which extends from North Korea and China and North Viet Nam on the Pacific to East Germany and the line of the Iron Curtain. There, he will turn away from Stalinism, which regards this vast territory as an empire with its capital in Mos cow; he will turn toward the kind of federated association of national communist states, with the Soviet Union as the senior partner. e llfHEN we-ask ourselves what this is likely to mean in our relations with Russia, we shall do best, I think, to regard the Khrushchev reforms as aimed at stabilization within the So viet Union and within the Com munist orbit. Khrushchev be lieves that Stalinism, stubborn ly and relentlessly pursued, would have made the Commu nist world unmanageable. It would have led to the kind of 'internal convulsion which, it ap pears, is what Mr. Dulles has been hoping and waiting for. Khrushchev's efforts are an at tempt to save Communism from this disaster, and to provide it with a basis in nationalist and popular feeling on which it can maintain itself and endure. This may well prove to be an historic change. But we must be careful not to confuse a change of policy within the Soviet Un ion with the hope that Khrush chev is now going to agree with us about Germany and Korea and Formosa and the like. Al most surely, the change makes it more than ever unlikely that the Soviet Union will undertake itself, or promote among its sat ellites, an overt military aggres sion. But, on the other hand, this does not mean that they are like ly to make the kind of conces sion which our German policy demands of them. The probability is that the in ternational effect of the Khrush chev reforms will be to reduce certain of the weaknesses with in the Soviet Union, and thus to promote not agreement and not a settlement but, peaceful coexistence. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc.' Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address or the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot 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 licaUon must not exceed 400 words No More Mustache Cup To the Editor: May a private citizen join the debate over re- zoning 28 acres to allow Sears and others, to enter our city, Dringmg added prosperity and employment? If Medford wishes to forever be a small one-horse community with masses of unemployed peo ple, who incidentally have no buying power, then by all means let us argue and council and bar-new enterprise from joining us. Let all the merchants band together and oppose any new move. Thus they can continue indefinitely running a skeleton crew through the winter months and eking out an existence the rest of the year. If there is available property deteriorating in the city limits near the present shopping areas, why not do as California does? They take the income from park ing meters to provide free all- day parking lots for customers. It works wonderfully and would provide the present business sec tion with hundreds more happy customers. ' The parking situation in Med ford is the worst we have ever seen. Whether getting a perman ent, buying a dress or a bottle of iodine, a person must keep going back, sometimes for blocks, to keep feeding, the little me chanical fiend, the parking Kremlin Shake-up May Relationship With Satellites By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Kremlin shake-up is like ly to improve Soviet Russia's relations with Yugoslavia, Po land and Com munist China. P r e s i d ent Tito of Yugo slavia, Commu nist leader Wladyslaw Go mulka of Po land and Chi nese Red lead er Mao Tse- Charles McCano Tung support strongly the contention that there can be "different roads to socialism." That means, of course, that is not necessary for Communist countries to follow blindly the lead of Soviet Russia. To a great extent, the victory In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS One hears a great deal these days about teacher shortages. There is apparently no teacher shortage in California's major cities meaning by that an Fran cisco, and Los Angeles. This is stated on the authority of a young woman who came out to San Francisco from Chicago two or three weeks ago to visit a ' friend. Like all Easterners (Chicago is "East" to us out here on the Pacific Coast, even if in New York it is regarded as the wild and woollly West) she fell in love with California, and said to herself: "THIS is for me." So she started looking for a job. (Excuse that, please. When one is a teacher, one doesn't start looking for a job. One ap plies for a position which is what she did.) OHE discovered rather quickly " that no positions were open in the upper echelons of the San Francisco school system. She could have started at the bottom, but since she is fairly well up the ladder in her home city that is not particularly appealing. And Of course- She could have gone out into one of California's smaller cities, where the competition is not so keen. But, in this modern world when one gets placed in a metro politan city, where the lights are bright, one doesn't like to go out into the country. VlfHAT she has Is a good posi " tion in a good organization. If she sits tight and keeps up with her profession, she will keep moving on toward the top of the ladder, which is something to be considered. Then There is something else. She has been once already to Europe. She loves it. She wants to go again. She feels that even in Chicago she will be far near er to Europe than she would be cut here on the western rim of the continent. In San Francisco, she tells her self, she would be as far from the Atlantic seaboard, which is the point of departure for Eur ope, as she would be from mid Europe itself in Chicago. And so on. What she is trying to do is to convince herself that the thing to do is to STAY PUT instead of dashing off into the unknown. It is an ancient process. I'm quite sure the early American colonists went through it when they were trying to decide whether to stay at home and be safe and certain or to take off for the facinating New World. 117HAT will this young woman do? She'll wind up in the West. If, by the time she makes up her rnind, standing room is no longer available in California, she'll burn her bridges behind her and take off for Oregon or Washington- maybe Arizona or New Mexico. meter. This is all right for an hour or so but many rural pa trons have need of extended parking privileges. If the anxious merchants would look into this matter it would greatly lessen the com petitive danger of a Sears with ample parking facilities. If Sears are allowed to settle where they wish, even a child can see the new revenue to the city, the additional employment. and the extra inducement to other business firms to settle here. Let's throw away the mustache cup, take off our nigh button shoes and permanently park the surrey with the fringe on top and emerge into 1357. Maybelle L. Kotvis, Route 1, box 350-H Medford, Ore. Don't Say "Hello" Say "FILTER-FLO" la ii iSm-tum of Soviet Communist leaner Nikita S. Khrushchev over his enemies in the Russian collec tive dictatorship is a victory for Tito. Gomulka and Mao also. Tito broke away from Rus sian domination in 1948. Go mulka won a great measure of independence as the result of his skillful course in last fall's Polish Revolt. Mao never has regarded China as a Soviet satel lite. There have been sharp diver gences between these three lead ers and the Russians on matters of Communist doctrine. There has been intermittent feuding between Tito and Soviet leaders for nine years. Mao criti cized Russia's brutal suppression of the Hungarian revolt and gave possibly decisive support to Go mulka in Poland's rebellion against Russian domination. Two of the three biggest Soviet leaders purged in the Kremlin shake-up were old-line "Stallinists" who held that Mos cow, was the supreme fountain head of Communist wisdom. This seems to make it likely that there will be much closer cooperation in future between the Russians and the supporters of "national" Communism. Mao Tse-Tung is expected to be in Warsaw on July 22 for a state visit to Poland. Unless he changes his mind as the result of the purge, he will not visit Mos cow until after he leaves Po land, even though he must pass through Russia to get there. The 'King's Commandos' As Proof New Security Laws Are Unnecessary By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington Iffl The idea that special legislation is. need ed to prevent newsmen from en dangering the national secur ity is a puzz ler for the paunchy World War II veter ans of Adm. Ernie King's A r lington County Com mandos. l.yle C. Wilson C h a i rman Loyd Wright of the Commission on Government Security wants such a law. It would impose a fine and imprisonment on news men found .guilty of exposing government information classi fied as secret or top secret. The chairman has not come up with much specific proof of need for what is known around town as "Wright's Law." The little known story of the ad miral's commandos is pretty good evidence that news report ers can keep top secrets. The commandos were a slack outfit, short oh spit and polish. The late Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King's fellow officers will never believe the wartime Navy boss ever could have taken up with their likes. King did, however, and how and why make one of the better hidden stories of the late, great war. Prestige Hard Hit Arlington is a county in Vir ginia across the Potomac from Washington. The commandos were organized in October, 1942, shortly after Navy prestige was hard hit again with announce ment of the loss of five cruisers in the Solomons Islands. Three were American the brightly new Quincy, Vincennes and As toria. The late Cornelius Bull, a for mer newsman and husband of the admiral's niecesensed that the Navy was in for some hard going. Bull took a chance. Despite his knowledge that next to Japanese and Germans, King most disliked newsmen, Neely Bull proposed to the ad miral that he meet a hand-picked group of Washington reporters. Within a fortnight a chilly meeting took place in Bull's Ar- j lington county home. King talked little, explained a bit and stiffly answered questions. Met Throughout War Perhaps to the admirals sur prise, news ot tne secret meet ing was not all over town with Ml. .jssiLSiaaliii I,. I The Better Service With reverence and dig nity we render service to all who call . . . regard less of creed or financial C. M. Utwiiler standing. To merit your confidence is our sincere desire. For a finer service, conducted in beautiful surrounding, it's Litwiller's. Remember, too, we are 100 local! owned. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND W. Never Close Improve Russians did not like that idea and tried hard to get him to give Moscow priority. Now there is every indication that when Mao does visit Mos cow, his visit will be much more friendly than was expected. It will be surprising if Tito does not visit Moscow soon for a gettogether, or if Khrushchev and Premier Nikolai A. Bulgan in do not visit him in Belgrade. There are likely to be some important developments during the present visit of Khrushchev and Bulganin to Czechoslovakia. Czechoslavakia, East Germany, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania are all under the rule of hide bound "Stalinist" leaders. Pre mier Janos Kadar of Hungary is a puppet. He necessarily fol lows the Moscow ine but he has "Stalinist" enemies among Hungarian Communists. So far, it has not become ap parent whether there is to be a big purge of the "Stalinists" in these countries. Some of them may be forced out. But some or all of them may succeed in getting themselves aboard the band wagon and an nouncing that they really have been "different roads to social ism" men all along. The prospect of an easing up in party-line doctrine is being welcomed in Western countries. But Tito, Gomulka and Mao are all Communist dictators. Closer relations between them and the Russians may or may not ease up East-West tension. in a single day, or ever. Bull arranged another some weeks later. King was warmer by then. A third meeting came after a lesser interval They continued throughout the war in an atmosphere of real warmth and friendship. King's frankness sometimes was fright ening. The newsmen got lot of information and guidance from King during the war years and the admiral unquestionably got the Navy's story before the public in its best light The commandos alone knew how and why Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was picked to lead the Normandy invasion. And there was the day when FDR was half-minded to kick Gen. George C. Marshall upstairs - to some kind of global command, exact duties unknown. King didn't like the idea' and rallied his commandos in ' op position, leading the charge in person. The blast of unfavorable publicity, was beautiful to be hold. The project folded. And of all the top secrets King di vulged over a friendly can of beer, none ever leaked. Feeling LOW? A Place To Go BUT . . . NO MONEY.? We Hare the Answer! -BORROW THE American Way LOANS $25 to $1,500 AUTO SALARY FURNITURE For Any Worthwhile Purpose PAYMENTS TO FIT YOUR BUDGET! AMERICAN Finance Corp. Phone; SPring 2-8886 123 W. 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