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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfokvTribune "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" PubiLiriea DaiJv Except Saturday by MEDrORD PRIJiTlNCi 27-29 North Fir St Phoff 2-Sl41 ROBERT W RLHl Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business ManagW ekic aixl.n J k Managing editor KARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMA.N Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soon Editor OUVE STARCHES Society Editor PALE EKICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Per Codt 10c Dally and Sunday One year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday Sis months 8 00 Dally and Sundav Three mna 4.23 Sundav Only One year H 20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point EaKle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix Shadv Cove Rogue River. Talent end on motor routes Dauy and Sunday One year S18 00 Dslly and Sunday One month 1.50 carrier and DeaJera 10c per copy All Terms Cashjn Advance Offlriai paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative. WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago de trolt San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver R C NATIONAL EDlTOtlAt I ASSOCfA'feN NEWSPAPER PUIUSHIII 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 11. 1947 (Friday) Medford Safety council out lines plan for safety education drive through motion pictures for local civic groups. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Tracks of a sinner have been found on the Baptist church lawn. He better not get caught. 20 YEARS AGO July 11. 1937 (Sunday) Local fruit grgwers are enthus iastic over prospects of a na tional pear week to be held an nually throughout the country beginning this fall. American Legion committee selects Frank Hull Jr.. 517 South Ivy St.. Medford, t8 attend "Bev- er Boys' State" at Benson park near Multnomah falls. 30 YEARS AGO July 11. 1927 (Monday) Ray Evanson resigns as chief ranger of Crater Lake National park. Raymond R. Reter assumes management of Pinnacle Pack ing company, in Parsons ware house, 12th and Fir sts. 40 YEARS AGO July 11. 1917 (Wednesday) New school board ousts H. S Stine as school board clerk after he had been reelected, contrary to precedent. Members of the Belgian com mission to the United States pass through Medford on train early In morning without stopping. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten rorrpct Is superior; htmi or Hchf ts excellent: five or six It cood 1. 1804: Sunday school or school) in America were estab lished about this time: Were they established only in N.C. and S.C. or throughout the coun try? 2. erabaja is on the island of ? 3. Bible: Do the horns re ferred to in the book of Daniel have an historical significance for the future? 4. Which German commander in World War II was nicknamed "Desert Fox?" 5. In which State are the Carlsbad Caverns? 6. The claymore was a wea pon used where? 7. What is ethnology? 8. In which of Charles Dick ens' novels is the heroine called "Little Nell?" 9. Is "conclusion" a synonym oh "end," a termination of anything which occupies space? 10. "Trooly it is with us as it was with Mr. and Mrs. Igno mer in the play, to whit 2 soles with but a single thawt 2 harts which beet as 1." A Ward: What is his subject? Answers: 1. Throughout the country. 2. Java. 3. Yes. 4. Mar thai Erwin Rommel. 5. New Mexico. 6. In the Scottish high lands, (a sword). 7. Science of the races of man. 8. "Old Cur iosity shop." 9. No. 10. Love. 'Diablo' Atomic Blast Delayed Until Friday Las Vegas. Nev. W The Atomic Energy Commission an nounced last night that its "Di ablo" blast in the summer test series has been rescheduled for Friday at 4:30 a.m. p.d.t. The AEC earlier in the week moved up the test from Friday to today. The AEC said a dry instrumentation run indicated the experiment was still not ready. MAIL TRIBUNE Two Decisions Two decisions, both growth of Medford over to be made by the city One is on the approval of a 550,000 fund in the new budget for a beginning on a municipal off-street parking plan. This decision mng following the public The other is on the question of rezoning a large area north of Jackson street to limited commercial to permit the construction center. This will come up We believe both of proposals should be approved.. OFF-STREET parking has been tossed back and f Vi oneoflrl firirl A icniiocorl A oV i n A Vvovq tori for years now. Voters last which many of them felt property taxes. It has also town merchants, who presumably stand to benefit most by the off-street parking, should carry a sub stantial part of the cost. The city, budget committee, which includes the council, has riven a ereat deal of thouerht to this y z - ii problem this year, and has come up with a plan which, with a few minor revisions, seems to be a sound one. It proposes to channel a substantial amount of revenue from parking meters into obtaining off-street parking. Since the original intent of parking meters was to provide more parking area, this is Doth just and logical. B' UT then it had to face problem of where to provide other city services been paid for by parking Their solution to this is outmoded business license fee, which has long been known to be inequitable and of questionable legality. As a matter of fact, merchants themselves have sug gested that the license fee But the objection to that has been that outlying businesses, like nursing homes, neighborhood gro ceries, and so on, would not benefit to the same extent as downtown businesses therefore, why should they too pay a comparably-m creased license fee. It's a good question. Perhaps the solution can be some sort of per- centage differential in the amount, based on proximity to the downtown area where the off-street parking facilities are most needed e "I17E hope the council can cut its way through these . objections and complications, and come up with a plan which will permit needed parking, and soon, working any undue hardship on outlying businesses, For parking is needed. In city after city, through out the nation, it has come of the major municipal problems. In a report to the council last week, a planning consultant firm said: Lack of adequate off-street parking in downtown Medford is one of the city's critical deficiencies and should be remedied as quick ly as possible. TPHE shopping center which is planned to include a Sears, Roebuck and Company store, a Safeway store, and a few others has been criticized as some thing which would "further divide the city," which would detract from the downtown area even more than the lack of parking, and which would provide disastrous competition for There are points to each we think the cntics are picture. Medford is going to-grow from that fact. And in the be enough business for all well-operated firms. (One owner of substantial downtown holdings, asked whether the shopping center would hurt him, replied, "Only if I let it." He felt the general stimulus to business would do more for him than any competi tion would hurt him. ) CINCE before 1947, Sears has had plans to move into the Rogue valley, and it now has decided that the time is ripe. It is prepared to invest something like two-thirds of a million dollars to do so. And if it cannot have the inside-Medford location it wants, it is more than apt to go outside the city. If that happened, Medford REALLY would be hurt. It would lose the taxes Sears would pay inside the city; it would have to compete with an attractive shopping center at a distance rather than near the down-town area ; it would lose substantial payrolls and other benefits to another second-choice location. Many potential customers would be deprived of a close-in. convenience. Opposing it on this basis is sort of like spitting into the wind. It may be fun to do at the time, but the results are messy. TXT'OULD the shopping center "split the town" "destroy Hawthorne park"? We don't think so destroy Hawthorne park"? We don't think so certainly not as much as would a four-lane elevated freeway smack through the town and the park. The center is only four blocks away from the center of the downtown area, and thus will serve as much to attract people to the general downtown area as it would to pull them away from it. As to expansion of Hawthorne park northward, many people believe it is now at its optimum size, and that rather than expand it, the logical step now is to establish more neighborhood parks, more readily available to people of outlying areas. The shopping center would be an asset to the town. The off-street parking proposal is a necessity. Both should be given speedy Thursday. July 11. 1957 of which will affect the the coming years, will have council in the near future will be made r nday eve heanng on the budget. of a large new shopping the following week. these separate but related fall turned down one plan to be a threat of higher been felt that the "down up to the intensely practical obtain additional funds to which in the past have meter revenues. a revision of the present schedule be revised. from off-street parking; and will be constructed the city to have vitally- without at the same time to be' recognized as one established merchants. of these arguments, but failing to take in the full there's no getting away long run, there s going to or approval. E.A. t. lLSJF H0?.E 7HE MlTCHmS UMB A GOOD TIME AT THE BEACH. AUygg THEVlL 40VS THERE" Matter of Fact TO KILL OR NOT TO KILL Washington W i 1 1 Khrush chev kill Malenkov? In the week that has passed since the first r u mblings of the great pol itical earth qua ke in the Soviet Union, this has em erged as the key question in t h e Soviet fcJ crisis. In that stewair Aisop week, the gov ernment's large corps of Soviet specialists and intelligence anal ysts have pieced together every scrap of available information. They have consulted unfortun ately, at long distance the twin oracles on the Soviet Union, for mer ambassadors George Ken- nan and Charles Bohlen. And they have generally agreed on three points, which together underline the significance of the question posed above. Point one is that what has happened came as a genuine surprise to Nikita S. Khrush chev. It was natural to suspect, of course, that Malenkov, Kag anovitch, Molotov and company were ousted as the result of an elaborately rigged plot, in the Stalinist manner, but all the evidence points in precisely the opposite direction. TJOHLEN repeatedly reported -- from Moscow that the "col lective system" was real, in that the issues were heatedly debated in the Kremlin, and decided by majority vote. The Khrushchev, taction maintained the upper hand simply becaue Khrushchev commanded a majority. That was the situation when Khrushchev and his henchman Bulganin left for their state visit to Finland on June 7th a risk they certainly would not have taken if they had been plot ting the destruction of half of the most powerful men in the Soviet union, uut wnen they returned from Finland, they found a maj ority prepared to vote them down, thus endangering their positions and perhaps their skins. A bitter, two-week struggle ensued in the central committee further evidence that what happended had not been antic ipated by Khrushchev. Kennan and most of the newer crop of Soviet experts believe that the struggle centered around Khru shchev's plan for re-organizing industry, which has alienated most of the vast Soviet bureauc racy. In any case, Khrushchev did not pur posely invite the struggle it was forced upon him. e POINT two, on which there is absolutedy unanimous ag reement, shared by Kennan and Eohlen, is that Khrushchev won the struggle in the end thanks only to the active support of Marshal Georgi Zhukov and the Red Army officer caste which he represents. Point three is that, in the un expected situation in which he finds himself, Khrushchev must rather quickly decide whether to adopt a policy of ruthlessness or a policy of appeasement, both of which involve real dangers The struggle which was forced upon him revealed the depth of the opposition to his policies. In winning the s t r uggle, he has made bitjer enemies, not only among those directly affected. Should he try to appease them by consessions and a mild policy? Or should he crush the opposi tion, by the traditional Soviet methods of blood and terror. beginning with the execution of Malenkov? Since the first day of the crisis. Kennan is known to have main tained that Malenkov is the key figure in the opposition to Khru shchev. The Stalinists, Molotov and Kaganovitch, are old and hated, and never represented a real threat to Khrushchev's power. e e e TUT Malenkov, as the first O man to break away from the Stalinist policy of total repres sion, has had a real following among the disgruntled bureauc rats, and the students and in tellectuals as well. Therefore ma - By Stewart Alsop Khrushchev, in the Kennan in terpretation, used the old Stalin ist trick of guilt by association, and lumped Malenkov in with the real Stalinists, Molotov and Kaganovitch. But the trick will hardly fool many people, and Khrushchev's charge that Mal enkov was implicated in the 1949 "Leningrad plot" suggests that he has concluded that harsh er methods are called for. Yet killing Malenkov involves grave risks for Khrushchev. Un like the execution of the hated Beria, the killing of Malenkov with his large following, could not safely end with the death of Malenkov and a few others. The job would have to be thoroughly done, in a major blood bath major purge would mean re establishing the power of the secret police, loathed with good reason by Zhukov and the Army, and might thus bringk Khrush chev into direct conflict with the man on whose support he counts most heavily. It would also, of course, rock the whole structure of Soviet society. Yet as long as Malenkov re mains alive, he will remain the -symbol and center of the op position to Khrushchev, which Khrushchev now knows must be deep and wide. Thus Khrush chev's triumph, though triumph it certainly has been, is not necessarily final. He is faced with a situation which he did not expect or invite, in which both the courses open to him to kill or not to kill involve terrible risks. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and addresa ot 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 witb an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Why Branch Closed To the Editor: It is with deep concern that we are writing you about our southern Oregon branch office in Medford. This was established four and a half years ago with every expecta tion that it would be perman ent. We did not foresee the rap idly rising cost of caring for children and we did not realize that our income would fail to keep pace with the need. As a - result,, we could not secure the funds to employ the staff needed in our branch office, and in fact, have been operating at a substantial deficit. Mr. Hatch, our branch office supervisor, has been our only representative there for more than three years, and single- handed he has accomplished a great deal throughout the re gion. Now that personal reasons make it necessary for him to leave that part of the state, we are reluctantly forced to recog nize that our southern Oregon branch office will have to be discontinued until such time as our financial situation improves. We hope jnd believe that this Society will be able to reestab- liEh branch offices so that need ed child care can -be provided locally within each region. Until this is ' possible, we shall con tinue to care for children from southern Oregon and from every other section of the state through our state headquarters. Our ma ternity service will, of course, remain open to unmarried mo thers from every county, chil dren available for adoption will be placed with families from every area, and field visits will still be made as needed. The economy of central operation will mean that more children can be helped than would other wise be possible. We shall continue to plan and work with all interested persons toward making our program most helpful in each locality. It is equally important that our policies reflect the best think ing of those familiar with the needs of children in their own region. We shall welcome any suggestions you wish to make regarding our branch office or any part of our program. The active participation and support Zhukov Appears To Have Moved In Beside Khrushchev as No. 2 By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondents Soviet Russia appears to have acquired a new chief co-equal in its collective leadership. Nikita S. Khrush c h e v has been re cognized as the the chief co equal since Georgi M. Ma lenkov was ousted as pre mier in 1955. N o w M a r- Tharles MeCano snai Ueorgt fi.. Zhukov seems to have moved in beside Khrushchev as chief co-equal No. 2. That implies that until there is another blow-up in Sovet leadership, Khrushchev and Zhukov will direct policy in both domestic and foreign af fairs. There are 13 other co-equals in the enlarged ruling Presidium of the Russian Communist Party. Both Khushchev and Zhukov will be top men. . Controls Political Machine Khrushchev's strength lies in the fact that as chief secretary of the Communist Party he con trols the party political machine. Zhukov's strength lies in the fact that as defense minister and Russia's outstanding soldier he Editorial , Comment UNIQUE NAME. UNIQUE VENTURE The Portland Kiwanis Club has organized a unique program called "Operation Twenty for One," designed to encourage each tourist to stay in the state one extra day and thus bring in added annual revenue estimated at $20 million. The goal is worthwhile and we hope the execution of the plan proceeds. In round figures, nearly 3,500,000 o u t-of-state visitors last year spent an aver age of six days and $40 each in Oregon for a total $141,000,000. That was at the rate of around $6.50 a day, and if each of 3,500,000 spent an extra day the $20,000,000 additional revenue would be more than realized. When it is considered the tour ist business is third in the state, after lumbering and agriculture, its importance to the over-all economy is self-evident. Gaso line taxes alone from tourists in 1956 brought the state more than $2Vi million. How to get the tourist to stay that extra day? Sponsors of the plan say: "That's a simple mat ter of acquainting him with more places to see and enjoy.'! It's also a matter of enlisting his friendship by courtesy and tact and by a spic and span appear ance of the communities he visits. We can all help. Oregon statesman, Salem. of members and friends have played a basic role in the Soc iety's outstanding record during its 72 years of service to chil dren. Your interest will be equally important in years ahead. Seymour L. Coblens, President, The Boys and Girls Aid Society of Oregon, 2301 W. W. Glisan St., Portland 10, Ore. Copies of Dulles Speech Dropped Over Red China Taipeh, Formosa (IP1 The Nationalist Chinese air force said today that its planes drop ped a million copies of a John Foster Dulles speech over the Communist Chinese mainland Tuesday night. The speech was the one deliv ered by the secretary of state rt San Francisco June 28 reaffirm ing the U.S. stand against recog nition of the Communist Peiping regime. . "The skill of the funeral director in clothing death in the appearance of life softens bereavement. The funeral director has become indis pensable to society, and to many of us a very dear friend." (Quoted from an article by the Rev. Joseph E. McCabe in the June 8th issue of "Presbyterian Life") DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrasi FUNERAL DIRECTORS controls the army. It has become clear that Georgi M. Malenkov, Vyache slav M. Molotov and Lazar M. Kaganovich nearly succeeded in outing Khrushchev at a meeting of the presidium last month. They had the support of two other members.. It is reported that Premier "Nikolai A. Bulgan it was wavering between the Malenkov faction and the Khru shchev faction. Had he gone with Malenkov, the anti-Khrushchev men would have had six of the votes in what was then an 11- man presidium. ' Khrushchev saved himself partly because, as first secretary, he was able to force a meeting of the full 125-man central com mittee of the Communist Party. Khrushchev had a big majority in that. But it is being said, apparent ly correctly, that Zhukov played the decisive part. He is reported to have come out fully in sup port of Khushchev in the presid ium, and to have emphasized that the army was with him. In the Day's News By FRANK In this space the other day, F.ed Bluff was mentioned as the head of navigation on the Sacra mento in the early gold mining days. Supplies were taken up the river by boat, unloaded there and taken on to their destination by pack mule trains. It was a slow method of trans portation, and the miners were in - hurry. They wanted to get the gold out of the bars and the riffles before somebody else got it. So a fabulous scheme was conceived. Why not divert the waters of the Klamath river down through the lava beds and dump them into the Pit and thus carry them down to the Sacramento? This added volume of water, it was argued, would raise the Sac ramento enough to permit boats to reach as far up as Redding, thus saving 30-odd miles of pack mule haul. rYTHERE was another string to the bow. It was reasoned that this di version wpuld dry up the Klam ath during the summer months, thus making the gold in its bed easily available. Thus two birds could be killed with one stone. It was a fascinat ing idea, and it got into the first session of the California legis lature. There, however, it got lost. It appears from the records of the period that there was no opposition to the project, but this first session was a busy one and somewhere along the line the Klamath diversion was for gotten WHAT if it hadn't got lost? Suppose it had gone through? Suppose the water of the Klamath had been diverted to the Pit and thence down to the Sac ramento? In that event, a con siderable area of Southern Ore gon and a much more consider able area of Far Northern Calif ornia would have been bereft of their water without which today their future would be dark indeed. rpHERE'S a moral to this story. After long years of battling including the revival a dozen years ago of this century-old proposl to divert the water of the Klamath down through the lava beds to the Pit and thence into the Sacramento above Shas ta dam it appears likely that the water of the Klamath has been saved for use in its own watershed. But The hottest issue in California right now is diversion of the water of the counties of origin for use in the counties of defici ency. If that should come about, Regarded As Conservative Zhukov is regarded as a con servative man, who as a soldier knows fully the catastrophe Rus sia would face in event of a third world war and who is inclined to be as friendly with the West ern countries as a dedicated Communist can be. Zhukov and President Eisen hower became good friends when, as supreme commanders of the Russian and Allied armies, they were in Berlin to gether after the end cf World War II. They even entered into a brief correspondence later. It was suggested . that Zhukov might play a big part in easing East-West tension. Only time will tell whether' Zhukov will work for better re lations with the United States and its allies. Time will tell also how well Zhukov and Khru shchev can get along together, and whether it might occur to Zhukov that he would like to be the sole No. 1 co-equal and thus get into a battle with Khru shchev for leadership. JENKINS without adequate protection for the counties of origin over the long years of the future, "the re sult could be disastrous for these California counties where the water originates. LET'S to S go back for a moment 1852, when diversion of the water of the Klamath down through the lava beds and thence into the Pit and on into the Sacramento was first pro posed. It was then assumed that water was more or less of a nui sance. Among other things, it made recovery of the gold in the river bed more difficult. But now Well, NOW it's different. Water is our most precious re source. Without it, our other re sources would be practically valueless. Consider, for example, the pulp and paper industry, which promises to revolutionize put timber economy. Without adequate water, THERE COULD -BE NO PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY. rpHIS fact is plain: -- Far Northern California must battle to the last ditch to make sure that in any reshuffle of the state's water the counties of origin the counties where the water falls are not left high and dry. Feeling LOW? A Place To Go but : . . NO MONEY? We Have the Answer! BORROW THE American Way LOANS $25 to $1,500 AUTO SALARY FURNITURE - For Any Worthwhile Purpose PAYMENTS TO FIT YOUR BUDGETI AMERICAN Finance Corp. Phone SPrino. 2-8886 123 W. MAIN a MEDFORD t
