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FOUR MZDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. July 15, 1957 UHE "Kvcrrona to Southern Oregon Reads Th Mall THKiin-' Published Dally Exceot Saturday by n-2i North nr St Phone 2-614. GERALD LATHAM Business Manager auwi. allla J K Managing Editor KARL a ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. lV An Independent Newspaper entered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mali In Advance: Per Cony loc Dally and Sunday One year SIS 00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dally and Sunday -Three moa 4-25 Sunday only One year 14.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. jacuonvule. Ciold mu Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Daily and Sunday One month UO carrier and Dealers loo per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper ef Jackson County . United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OT AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. LNC Offices In New York Chicago, de trolt San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vsnrouver B C NATIONAL fOITOIIAa ASSOcfA'ieN rtT3TlTTl l ' NEWS 9 A PER FUILISHEII ASSOCIATION - Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 yean ago. Editorial Correspondence . . . 10 YEARS AGO July IS, 1947 (Tueiday) Josephine and Jackson county chambers of commerce establish fact finding committee to deter mine need for a flood control program on the Rogue river. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Now that the first ripe tomato has been picked upstate, there is a lack of candidates to use as a target for same. . 20 YEARS AGO July IS, 1937 (Thursday) Eighteen members of the American Pomoligical society touring U. S. farming sections, arrive in Medford to inspect the orchards. Jackson county relief commit tee and county court meet with Elmer R. Goudy, state relief ad ministrator, to establish uniform titles and salaries for office workers in Oregon counties. 30 YEARS AGO July 15. 1927 (Friday) About $2,100 is collected by Salvation Army during its heart fund campaign with headquar ters in the Elks club. Delbert M. Little will be the meteorologist at Medford's new weather bureau sub-station. 40 YEARS AGO July 15. 1917 (Sunday) Horace M. Albright, acting di rector of the National Park Ser vice, arrives in Medford en route to Crater Lake to inspect facil ities there. From Local and Personal col umn: Alexander Nibley, general manager of the Utah-Idaho Su gar company, with headquarters in Medford, travels to Grants Pass on business. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. Auletes (Ptolemy X of Egypt. 65-51 B.C.) was so called for his skill with the flute, harp, or horn? 2. A drum major's dress hat Is called a beaver, fez, shako, or turban? 3. Bible: Did Chrysostom, Au gustine, or Cardinal Hugo give the name "Bible" to the Scrip tures? 4. Which constitutional amendment abolished slavery? 5. Can edible oysters produce pearls of commercial value? 6. In December. 1939, a Ger man pocket-battleship was scutt led by it crew off Montevideo, Uruguay. Name the ship. 7. Where is Tulane Univer sity? 8. Which months of the year have only thirty days? 9. What is the plural of "you"? 10. By P. J. Bailey: "I can not love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life, And yet I know not" Is the next (final) word "why"? Answers: 1 Fluta. 2. Shako. 3. Chrysostom (4th century). 4. Thirteenth. 5. No. 6. Graf Spee. 7. New Orleans. La. 8. April, June, September and Novem ber. 9. You. 10. Yes. Denver, Colo., July 12 We hasten to add the Burlington-! "Denver Zephyr to our list of favorite trains. We never had a pleasanter train trip than coming here from sweltering Chicago last night, in the excellent time of 15 hours and 15 minutes. The cars were bright silver, perfectly air cooled (that is not too damp and too cold but exactly right) the diner (as is true of practically all trains WEST cf Chicago) was excellent and the service in all respects TOPS. We should get a season's pass from the CB&Q for this free ad- advertising but fear we won't even get a "vote of thanks." Modern railroads don't do those things nowadays back in 1903 we got a free pass on the Lehigh from New York to St. Louis just for the asking. Ah them were the days in SOME ways. Our hopes of finding a cool Denver with its mile high eleva tion were not fulfilled however. The taxi driver as usual well informed and courteous gave us the sad news that the mercury had not been below 90 for 2 weeks the maximum we mean. The humidity is much less however than in either New York or Chi cago and it is not the heat but the humidity that gets "grand pappy down. If you want to make some easy money sell corn short. We have seen midwest corn in July many, many times. But never have we seen such a stand as just seen from a car window all the way from the Great Lakes to the Rocky mountains. We grant a great many things may happen between now and when there is "frost on the pumpkin" but there is the element of chance in everything and if there isn't a bumper corn crop this year then something unexpected and unlikely climate-wise will have to happen. Incidentally these terrible humid and hot nights, so hard on the "older boys and girls," are just what the doctor ordered when it comes to maturing corn. We were surprised this morning to see so many fine corn stands in eastern Colorado there were many more sugar beet fields and pasture lands and they were as green as emeralds but corn ap peared a close second. Also on this trip the only farms we have observed that looked in need of a federal subsidy were in New York state and New England. However, looks in the realm of agriculture, as that of feminine pulchritude, are only skin deep or top-soil deep if any one wishes to quibble. Fifty miles west of Denver the majestic peaks of the Rocky mountains were clearly visible, but on arrival they were covered with rather threatening looking clouds, and showers were the pre diction. We HOPE they don't materialize for with the mercury now nearing 90 as this is being written, there we would be back in the smothering embrace of our climatic nemesis, Signor Humidity Man. (How we hate that Man!) Between-trains in Chicago was spent, after some discussion, at one of the country's most famous department stores, Marshall Fields. The undersigned who signed off as far as family shopping is concerned many years ago, was only persuaded after he was as sured the place would be air-conditioned and had real GENUINE ice water for-free on every floor. That proved to be true and with the aid of a cushioned seat in the "infants' department" (which was also free) "Ye Editor" did we are glad to say survive. But it was a close thing at times, particlarly when a very mus cular matron who could have won the hammer throw at the Olym pic games had she entered, parked herself in the next seat, and in spite of her energetic wielding of a palm leaf fan or perhaps BECAUSE of it raised the surrounding temperature by at least 10 degrees! It is curious about shopping women shopping we of course mean, for men don't shop, they just buy things, and not very often. The women don't buy so often, but no matter how weary, heavy laden and disgusted any normal member of the mistermed 'gentler sex may be, let them once get loose in a store, and get the scent of a bargain counter and hoicks away they go, over hedges, stone walls and across the creeks, with physical en ergy unlimited and maintaining the pace that kills or would kill any male over 19 years of age who tried to keep up with it . Pardon, we must run, there is a knock on the door! k.w.k. Our Disarmament Offer The United Nations Disarmament Commission consisting of the 11 member nations of the Security Council tlus Canada in Ann! 1954 established a five-nation subcommittee to seek "in private" an "ac ceptable solution" to the post-World War II disarma ment lmoasse. This is the group composed ot repre sentatives of Great Britain. Canada. France, the Soviet Union, the United States which began the current series of talks m London on March 18. The U. S. position has been coming out of the talks in piecemeal fashion. Sometime before Easter, Harold E. Stassen, President Eisenhower's disarma ment specialist, is supposed to have countered a Rus sian aerial-photography inspection proposal. He sug gested a cone-shaped inspection zone extending irom the North Pole down to the south of France in the West and to the U.S.S.R. shores of the Black Sea in the East. Stassen, in completing the overall U.S. presentation, is expected now to make a formal "open skies proposal. THE United States on June 20 proposed a three- stage reduction of U.S., Soviet, British, and French military strength. U.S. and Soviet military manpower would be cut back successively to 2,500,000 men, 2,100,000, and 1,700,000. Meanwhile, Britain and France would cut back to 750,000 men, then 700,000, then 650,000. On June 26, the United States proposed that non nuclear weapons be cut. Lists of weapons including "substantial amounts of specific quantities of iden tified types" would be exchanged. Then the weapons would be disposed of under international supervision. On July 2, the United States proposed a 10-month suspension of nuclear tests. On the following day, Stassen added the proposal for a universal ban on the production of fissionable material for military use, effective one month after an international in spection system was set up. The United States on July 5 went on to suggest that this countiy and the Soviet Union junk an agreed proportion of their nu clear weapons. Fissionable material from the bombs would go to peaceful use. THIS, in the briefest possible form, is the United States plan., Stassen is expected to offer, in addi tion, proposals on guided missiles and space weapons. To most or all of the U.S. specifications the Soviet delegate, Zorin, had been making similarly piecemeal counter-proposals. Now Stassen has put the ball in Zorin's court. On July 10 he challenged the Soviet Union to come up with a disarmament formula that the Russians really think the Western nations can accept. E.R.R. 'Gosh'. Who'd ever think there was a wots clock of TOOTHPASTE IN A UTTLB TUBE UK THIS? Matter of Fact By stew,, ai,p fc. f . : LYNDON JOHNSON AND CIVIL RIGHTS Washington Senate Major ity Leader Lyndon Johnson, probably the most effective Con gressional leader of this genera- ation, now fac es his supreme challenge. For he has set him self the task of preventing the Northern and Southern wing of the Demo cratic party from tearing the party to stewait aisod shreds over the civil rights issue. And his own political future is also deep ly involved in his success or failure in this task. It is a remarkably difficult task. In the past, it was easy for both Northerners and South erners to attitudinize righteous ly, taking extreme positions to please the folks back home with out inflicting deep or lasting wounds on the other side. For in the past, no-one thought that civil rights legislation had a ghost's chance of - passing. Now, for the first time in this cen tury, some kind of civil rights legislation seems certain to pass the Senate. So the fight, for the first time is in deadly earnest. The Eisenhower administra tions decision to make civil rights a major party issue has not only frightened the South erners with the specter of Ne groes becoming a decisive voting bloc even in the deep South states. It has also scared the living daylights out of the North ern big city Democrats, whose political lives depend on an ov erwhelmingly Democratic Ne gro vote. THUS both Northerners and Southerners are in a near- desperate mood, and in such an atmosphere an irreparable inter nal explosion in the Democratic party could take place. It is such an explosion that Johnson is la boring desperately to avert. snatching the bloody shirt from the hands of Southerners eager to wave it, using his peculiar, almost hypnotic powers of per suasion to calm the political pas sions seething in northern breasts. So far, he has been re markably successful, partly be cause his counsels of moderation fit well into the Southern stra tegy fishioned by Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia. Russell rec ognized from the start that it would be fatal for the South to be placed in the position of op posing the right to vote. He therefore concentrated on those aspects of the Administra tion bill which have raised hon est doubts in the minds of the thoughtful men like the denial of jury trial, and the force bill aspects of the legislation. Thus the tone of the Southern argu ment has been so far an ap peal to reason, rather than to passion. Russell has also astute ly cast Attorney General Her bert Brownell in the role of vil lain of the piece, a role to which he is well suited in the eyes of the Northern liberals. Russell's strategy has worked brilliantly so far. It is ex tremely doubtful that Senate mi nority leader William Knowland could muster a simple majority for the bill as it now stands, much less the sixty-four votes needed to silence a filibuster. Thus compromise of some sort is inevitable. The key battles will be fought on amendments to require trial by jury, and to enforce school desegregation. When these batUes are joined, Johnson will have to perform miracles to prevent an internal explosion in his party. civil rights-minded than any Re publican. In this situation, moreover, Johnson's task is complicated by the fact that almost everybody, with the possible exception of Johnson, considers him a poten tial Presidential candidate in 1960. Any compromise position he favors will be labelled by the Southerners a sell-out to the North, and by the Northerners a sell-out to the South. In such circumstances, it is hard to see how Johnson can avoid the worst sort of bitter rupture in the party he leads, and fatal damage to his own po litical prospects. Yet Johnson has performed miracles before, and the belief is growing on Capitol Hill that somehow, in ways no one can predict, he will emerge from the civil rights crisis with the Democratic party reasonably intact despite its wounds and with his own political position damaged, perhaps, but by no means beyond repair. (C) New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Great Britain Preparing New Attempt For CvDrus Solution M By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press- Correspondent Great Britain is preparing to make a new and determined at tempt to settle the long dispute over the future of Cyprus. Details have been under dis cussion in Lon don for a week by the cabinet, defense chiefs and Field Mar shal Sir John Harding, gov ernor and the Charles Mecano commander in chief of the island. Several possible solutions have been considered. One would put Cyprus under control of an international body, possibly the North Atlantic Treaty organization. Another would give the 500, 000 people of the eastern Med iterranean island independence, preferably as a unit of the British Commonwealth. But it is certain that no so lution Britain decides upon will call for the union of Cyprus with Greece, which demands it. Considers Partitioning Britain has considered parti tioning the island between its two ethnic elements, the 400, 000 islanders of Greek racial stock and the 100,000 Turkish inhabitants. The interested parties in the dispute, which has kept Cyprus under emergency rule for more than two years because of Greek Cypriot terrorism, are Britain, Turkey and Greece. Britain is willing to give the islanders self-rule. Turkey does not want the island. It is will ing to accept partition, but has announced that in no circum stances will it permit the Turk ish Cypriote to come under the domination of either the Greek government or the Greek is landers. Both Greece and Ortho dox Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus, who represented the Greek islanders, have rejected the partition proposal Refuse to Negotiate Makarios, who is now in Ath ens, -has refused to enter any negotions which involve Tur key. He has said, with the ap- base. But the Suez Canal dispute proval of the Greek government that the future of Cyprus is a matter for negotiation solely be tween Britain and himself, as the representative of Greek Cyp riots. On the basis of the various statements made, the Cyprus is sue seems to be still in the dead lock stage. But Britain seems to believe a solution may now be possible. There is talk in London of the possibility of a British-Turkish-Greek conference. It is pos sible that Paul Henri Spaak, new secretary of the North Atlantic Treaty organization, may be called into help arrange such a conference. Spaak, a former Belgian premier and foreign minister, is one of the most high ly respected statemen In Eur ope. Cyprus at present is Britain's chief Mediterranean military and Britain's new defense pol icy have diminished its strategic importance. Defense Minister Duncan San dys has recommended that Ken ya, on the East Coast of Africa, be made the new base for Brit ish ground forces in the Middle East. If that happened, Cyprui would become a joint British NATO air base, with facilitiei for nuclear bomber planes. One thing seems essential. That is, that any solution will have to be acceptable to Turkey as well as Greece. Turkey, which ruled Cyprus before Brit ain took it over in 1878, says Cyprus ought to be Turkish if it is not to remain British. It points out first that Greece never has ruled Cyprus and secondly that though the island is 43 miles from the Turkish mainland it is more than 500 miles from the Greek mainland. Closed Shop Provision Again Under Question In Georgia RR Case U.P. Correspondents Predict Future News United Press correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Civil Rights France ts fighting a civil rights battle of its own. It could cause the fall of the gov ernment this week. Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury is trying to force through the Na tional Assembly a bill to give the police special powers to crack down on Algerian rebels who reside in France. Members don't like it. They say a tough gov ernment could use it against Frenchmen as well as Algerians. Debate on the measure starts Tuesday. A confidence vote on it is due Friday. If Bourges- Maunoury loses it, he probably will resign. Khrushy It looks as if Soviet Commun ist chieftain Nikita S. Khrush chev is being censored. He's making a lot of free-swinging attacks on foreign personalities during his whistle-top tour of Czechoslovakia. For instance. the one accusing President Eis enhower of "stupidity" in talk ing about a "clean" H-bomb. That one was broadcast by the Prague radio. It wasn't publish ed in Czech newspapers. A Czech official said the broadcast was a "mistake." Now Khrush chev's saltier off-the-cuff com ments are being cleaned up be fore they are broadcast or pub lished in the papers in summary form. It is reported that the rea son Western correspondents were barred from the tour was that his cracks might cause trou ble. Draft Don't be surprised if a retired general, admiral or foreign ser vice officer is "drafted" to suc ceed John B. Hollister as foreign-aid chief. Hollister resign ed July 1 to re-enter private business. His job never has been popular one. State Depart ment officials say an appalling number of possible successors to Hollister have turned it down cold. Underground Insiders m Dublin expect the Sinn Fein party, to go under ground with the outlawed Irish Republican Army as the result of Prime Minister Eamon De Valera's drive against terrorism About 50 members of Sinn. Fein, which is the political arm of the IRA have been interned on De Valera's orders. The party can't announce who will take their places, so an underground headquarters is expected. Speed-Up Despite a security blackout, it can be disclosed that plans to construct 11 new North Atlan tic Treaty organization bases in Turkey have been speeded up as the result of the passage of Sov iet Russian warships into the Mediterranean from the Black Sea. Work has been started hast ily on several bases. Sites are secret. But it is reported that they have been chosen with an eye to Russia's Baku oil fields, close to the Turkish border and the naval base at Sebastapol across me macs. sea. Air Safety Look for the air safety plan, tested on Washington-New York Chicago flights, to be exended to other parts of the country soon. Planes flying above 9,500 feet in the triangle the world's most congested flight territory must operate un der instrument flight rules and in federally-designated lanes to avoid collisions. Crews report a noticeable decline in the number of "near misses" in the triangle. Signs of the Times The magazine "Aviaton Re search and Development" is changing its name to "Missile Design and Development." The reason: A survey showed that 83 per cent of its readers are now devoting themselves to mis sile research. Movie Hawk Balks At Trip by Plane Hollywood OPt Grabber, a trained movie hawk, caused a transportation crisis at Colum bia Studios when he refused to fly by plane to New Mexico for location shots for "Cowboy." His trainer, Moe Dessesso, dis closed that Grabber can't stand hich altitudes and gets dizzy spells and a bloody beak. Pro duction schedules were juggled and Grabber took a train to New Mexico. By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (in The state of Georgia has invited the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling that closed shop union agree ments can be e n f o r ced in violation o f state law. The question arose in Geor gia in the case of Looper and i.yie c. wuson others against the Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Co. Looper and his as sociate petitioners are railway employees. They were notified that under terms of the Federal Railway Labor Act they must within 60 days join a labor union or forfeit their jobs. This closed shop provision has been made effective by the U.S. Supreme Court in all states, in cluding those which have enact ed "right to work" laws outlaw ing the closed shop. The Supreme Court of Geor gia expressed its deep distress at being compelled to follow the U.S. Supreme Court's lead. But it found comfort in a new avenue of attack against the closed shop. Looper and his associates com plained that compulsory union membership compelled them also, to contribute unwillingly to political activities of which they disapproved. "It is alleged,' the Georgia court said in its unanimous opin ion, "that the union dues and other payments they will be re quired to make to the union will be used to 'support ideological and political doctrines and can didates" which they are unwill ing to support and in which they do not believe. It said this would violate the First, Fifth and Ninth amend ments to the Constitution. Ruling for the petitioning rail way workers, the Georgia court said: 'We do not believe one can constitutionally be compelled to contribute money to support ideas, politics and candidates which he opposes.' We believe his right to Immunity from such claim the union may make on him." Magazine Comments Noting the opinion, given last June 10, the right wing weekly magazine "National Review" commented: 'The Supreme Court of Geor gia has, in effect, told a number of local railway workers that they need only to prove the po litical use of union funds to sus tain the right to non-unionized employment This poses a nice question for Chief Justice Earl Warren s court in Washington. We await the fireworks that must inevit ably result when Justices Hugo L. Black and William O. Doue- last and the others are faced with the words of "the Georgia court." Movie producer Cecil B. De Mille went to court on such an issue in 1945. De Mille refused to pay a $1 assessment levied by the American Federation of Radio Artists. The levy was to provide a fund to oppose an ef fort in California to outlaw the closed shop. De Mille was suspended by the union. In January, 1945, Super ior Court Judge Emmet H. Wil son ruled against De Mille, hold ing that the producer must pay up to remain in the union. The judge said the use to which, the levied fund would be put was not political. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name of 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 Poor Sttategy " " 5 To the Editor: In a recent arti cle in your paper, an officer of a sportsmen's group advocated "catching the larger fish, the wary big salmon that are lying in the deep holes awaiting the spawning season." He further states with fewer fish and great er fishing pressure, "Let's get the bigger fish out of the river." Would it be ,jn order to ask a question? If we catch all the big wary salmon that are await ing the spawning season, and we know these are the fish that lay the eggs that produce the fish in a few years, just how will there be any improvement in our salmon population? I am sure that the salmon produced by this year's spawn are not suf ficiently large to be caught this season and the smaller salmon tnat are in the river most of the season are not females. Why not get behind a movement to stop all salmon fishing in the Rogue above Mule Creek for a few years? This would get the sal mon back to at least sub-normal. A large per cent of the salmon that are caught in this vicinity after the 1st of June are not good quality and it seems that some of our sportsmen- drag them out of the river just for the fun of it and then holler because there are not more to be had. So why take the old srawners? Let them' do their work that nature intended! M. H. Williams, Shady Cove, 'Ore. FOR the hard core Southerners will fight to the death against any civil rights bill at al' they must, to survive atj home. And the big city North erners men like Douglas of Illinois, "Clark of Pennsylvania, Humphrey of Minnesota, McNa mara of Michingan will also be under heavy pressure to take an extreme position. In order to beat off the Republican bid for the huge Negro vote, the North ern Democrats must appear more As In Noah's Day As in the day of Noah's flood, sudden death is again to fall on all mankind. See Luke 17:26-27 BIBLE. Now again hear Christ "No man come to me except the Father who sent Me draw him and I will raise him up the last day.'. So says John 6:44. By that you are to pray; God is to draw them to Christ and He is to raise them., Miller, famous as a prayer man England prayed for three old men and died without seeing them saved. Yet all came to Christ after Miller's death. "Most saved souls are prayed-for souls." An old saying. Geo. N. 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