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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) medfowtribuxe I "Everron in Southern Oregon Headt im Mali Tribune fublunea Daily Except Saturday by MXOfORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-3141 ROBERT W RUHi. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GKRALD LATHAM Busines Manager EKIC ALX1N JR Manaifin Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMA.N Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa aecond data matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and SundaySix months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4.25 Sunday Only One year M-ZU Br Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Centra Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold HI U Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue River Talent and on motor routes. Deny and Sunday One year flSOO 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 wneiai rsper or cnwn county United Press Full Leaaed Wire MEMBER OF A UDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION . Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Office In New York Chicago, de- trot t San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver BC NATIONAl. f 0 I T 0 1 1 A i 7 J I minMiM.n-mi 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 18, 1947 (Friday) A celebration of VJ day, Aug. 14, is being planned for Medford by Southern Oregon Voiture 165 40 et 8. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Out door Girls are now wearing their outing clothes and are out about as far out as they can go. 20 YEARS AGO July 18, 1937 (Sunday) Officers of the Oregon Turkey (Cooperative are reelected at a meeting in the Jackson county courthouse. Plans are being completed for the second annual Jackson County Homemakers' vacation camp at Union Creek forest camp July 25-30. 30 YEARS AGO July 18, 1927 (Monday) Miss Marian Alexander ar lves in Medford late Saturday light after starting out from New York on foot. The Reuter pipe organ for the new Presbyterian church arrives in Medford. 40 YEARS AGO July 18. 1917 (Wednesday) The California-Oregon Power company's transformer plant suffers $300 worth of damage during a heavy electric, rain and hail storm in Ashland. Five more fires in timber dis tricts start last night, accord ing to forestry department re ports. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is superior; even or elebt U excellent: five or tlx U good. 1. Was the adhesive postage stamp invented by a European, American, or Asian? 2. Do male holly trees pro duce berries? 3. Bible: Is Haram, Shecham or Palestine generally held to be the birthplace of the Hebrews? 4. Which is fermented in pro cessing, green tea or black tea? S. Haile Selassie is Emperor of what country? 6. Is euthanasia the name of a country in Asia, mercy killing or a drug plant? 7. Has John L. Lewis ever worked in coal mines? 8. Was construction on the Panama Canal originally begun by the French, British, or Americans? 9. What letter is missing from the remainder of the word "tarmigan"? 10. "I love a lassie, a bonnie bonnie lassie, . . . Mary, ma" (what) "Blue-bell"? Harry Lauder. Answers: I. European. Jamil Chalmers, of Dundee-, in 1840. 2. No. 3. Haram. 4. Black tea. 5, Ethiopia. 6. Mercy killing. 7. Yes, after completing sejTenlh grade, 8. French. 9. "p". 10. "Scotch". Sucker Creek District Discussed at Meeting ' Cave Junction About $3,000 must be raised before an elec tion can be held tr- form the Sucker Creek Irrigation project, it was announced at the Ilniois Valley Water resources meeting Monday night. Laurence Cushing, Cave Junc tion attorney, and associates, have submitted a estimate of near S2500 for the extensive legal work in preparing for the two elections. After a petition is submitted, the county court will call an election to form the district MAIL TRIBUNE Duifa Retreats on Ban The new attitude of Secretary of State Dulles on coverage of Red China by U.S. newsmen comes at the end of a long and gradual retreat. There is no reason to believe that Dulles has changed his mind in any basic sense, or that a new China policy is in the making at the State Department. Dulles said as recently as July 2 that it was "as a special matter" that he was studying whether to permit U.S. report ers to visit Communist China. The immediate controversy has been boiling for nearly a year, and its roots go farther back. Peiping in 1949 closed all communications facilities to cor respondents from countries which did not recognize regime. Then last summer the Chinese government invited more than a dzen U.S. correspondents to spend a month in China. "THE State Department on Aug. 6 announced that " the government would continue to bar travel in Red China on U.S. passports under criminal law pro viding penalties of up to $2,000 fine and five years in jail. The ban would remain so long as U.S. citizens were held in China as "political hostages." The Department also took the position that it could not "provide normal diplomatic and consular pro tection" in a country we do not recognize. As one official put it: "If one of these reporters is locked up, his family, if not his boss, will bombard the gov ernment with demands to get him out, demands that could not be met short of measures that could precipi tate a state close to war or war itself." m THREE American newsmen Edmund Stevens and Philip Harrington, a Look magazine reporter photographer team, and William Worthy of the Balti more Afro-American nevertheless went to China just before Christmas. They were threatened with puni tive action, but on March 6, after they had left Red China, Dulles said that he did not think legal steps would be instituted. Worthy, whose passport has ex pired, has been trying to get it renewed. So far he has had little success. Dulles on April 23 told government was willing to U.S. correspondents visit general ban on travel by could be maintained. On that same day, Arthur H. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, wrote Dulles to protest the "stress on the problem of limit ing the number of U.S. correspondents" and the sug gestion that those who went to China should "go on behalf of the news gathering community as a whole. rULLES replied, April 30, that a "pooling" arrange ment which had been suggested to him by a leader in the newspaper field would avoid "a gen eral influx of Americans into Communist China at this time." There were many reasons to avoid this, "reasons which are cumulative." Dulles, saying he could list 20 reasons if time permitted, went on to list a half dozen, including "the existence of a quasi-state of war and the continued application of the Trading-with-the-Enemy-Act." In his letter to Sulzberger Dulles reiterated that if the Peiping government released American citizens it held as prisoners, "we would certainly take a new look at the situation." Two U.S. Jesuit missionaries were released this June after four years of imprisonment and house arrest for "espionage." Still listed as under Communist detention are six Americans three in jails and three under house arrest. E.R.R. Parole for Leopold? The Illinois Parole and Pardon Board rules soon on the application of Nathan Leopold. He has asked the Board to recommend to the Governor either his outright release from jail or a commutation of his sentence to make him eligible for parole in a few months. Two previous applications for parole were rejected. Leopold and Richard Loeb in 1924 murdered a 14-year-old boy to prevent him from informing on their homosexual practices with him. Their lawyer, the late Clarence S. Darrow, pleaded guilty for them and managed to avert a death sentence. Leob was killed in jail by a fellow prisoner many years ago. fHAT the Board, and then perhaps Governor Wil- liam G. Stratton, must determine is whether Leo pold is a proper object for parole. Nineteen when his crime was committed, he has now, at 52, spent 33 years in the state penitentiary. There he volun teered for malaria experiments during the war, and he is said to have stipulated to go into public health work if released. Parole isn't a reduction of sentence for good con duct in prison but arnounts, rather, to letting the parolee serve all or most of the rest of his sentence outside instead of inside prison. He remains under supervision and restriction, and can be re-jailed for violating terms of his parole. The yardstick is whether the applicant for parole has so changed as to become a useful, or at least not harmful, member of the com munity now also whether the community is now prepared to accept him. E.R.R. AEC Postpones Test Of Las Vegas W The Atomic Energy Commission early today postponed for 24 hours the fir ing of a below average size nu clear device because of unfavor able winds. The device was scheduled to be fired at 5:30 a.m. (PST) .The test was rescheduled Thursday, July 18, 19S7 like the United States the Chinese government a news conference that the let a limited number of Red China so long as the Americans to that country Nuclear Device It was the second time the AEC put off detonating the charge, expected to equal 6,000 tons of TNT because of unfavor able weather and technical prob- lems. The test involves firing ! the nuclear device from a bal j loon 500 feet above the Nevada Proving Grounds. TlirV eilrvl V-OAVcn J WAS THE FIRST KID THAT EVEP FBLL OFF A ROCf.' Matter of Fact SOOTHING SYRUP Washington In this era of complacency, nobody seems to care very much about such mat ters. But it is well to bear in mind that the United States is engaged in a deadly race with the Sov iets, even while the so called "dis a r m a m e nt" stewut aiiod talks are in progress in London. The object of the race, which will certainly not be halted by the London talks, is to achieve superiority in missiles, the new weapons which will in the fu ture surely dominate the world's air space, and thus the world. A decisive Soviet victory in this race could very well bring true Nikita Khrushchev's grinning boast "We will bury you. These facts lend an unhappy significance to a proposal which President Eisenhower is serious- ly considering, and which he may well already have approved, The proposal is to hold all ex penditures for missile production to an arbitrary 10 per cent of the total defense budget. If the President finally approves the proposal, it can only mean a very sharp cutback in the whole American missile development effort, and thus virtually certain Soviet victory in the deadly mis sile race. e AT the same time, massive dollops of soothing syrup are being handed out at high omcial levels, to justify the proposed cutback. The official line, as faithfully reported, for example, in the New York Times, is that the United States is comfortably ahead of the Soviet Union in the missile race. Although admittedly "the Rus sians fire a great many more test vehicles than the United States," so the official line goes, this is nothing to worry about. On the contrary, it can be re garded as good news, since it has "stimulated the belief by experts here that the Russian electronic devices are not as ad vanced as those available in the United States." According to this marvelous example of official complacency, the more missiles the Soviets test, the greater the supposed American lead in the missile race. If the reasoning is ac cepted, we must be very far ahead indeed. TJiOR the Soviets have been fir- A ing intermediate range ballis tic missiles, or IRBMs, in large numbers for at least 18 months, even according to the official dispensers of soothing syrup. The rate of testing has reached high er than five a month. By con trast, the United States has suc cessfully tested precisely one non - operational IRBM the Army's "Jupiter." The Air Force "Thor" aborted on its first test, and the Navy's "Bolaris" is still a long way from the testing stage. To any one not an official dispenser of soothing syrup, these facts must mean precisely what they seem to mean that the Soviets, as Premier Bulgan in has repeatedly implied in his threats to various Western Euro pean countries, have stocks of operational IRBMs, which the United State.; certainly does not have. As for the ICBM, the inter continental missile which is the grand prize of the missile race, the official line is that the So viets are "in a very early motor testing stage;" and that anyway, for reasons which remain mys terious, the Soviets are not real ly interested in missiles capable of reaching the United States, which is certainly regarded by the Soviets as the main enemy. There is evidence which flatly contradicts this bit of soothing syrup. The nature of the evi dence is classified, but there is also convincing overt evidence which points very clearly in the same direction. For the Soviets have publicly and officially an nounced that they intend to launch, 30 satellite vehicles into lACl BTrJ VlllYi TUIIitl By Stewart Alsop space this year, and 40 more next year. SUCH Soviet advance boasts have always proved accurate in the past. In this case one must either assume that the boasts are empty, at great and unnecessary cost to Soviet prestige. Or one must assume that the Soviets are very far indeed beyond a "very early motor-testing stage" in de veloping the ICBM. For a successful satellite launching requires a missle with the power to attain "escape velo city," a higher velocity than is required for an ICBM. It has been reliably reported that the Soviets will actually use their ICBM model, known as "T-3" to launch their sattelites. In any case, the experts all agree that the. expected Soviet satellite launchings will prove beyond doubt that they have made giant strides towards a operational ICBM. All this does not necessarily mean that the Soviets are un challengeably ahead in the mis sile race (although the best ex pert opinion is that they are about a year ahead). It does not mean that American skills and resources are insufficient to win the race. But it certainly does mean that a combinatoin of soothing syrup and wholly arbi trary budget ceilings will not win for us this race which must, at whatever cost, be won. (e) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Ltten to the ditox must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or iniUal tor 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 "Kingpins' Pawns"? To the Editor: Why waste money holding elections? The residents and tax payers of our fair city should open their eyes and look around to see where we are going instead of looking to Bro. Fred and others of our city council to protect or promote the people's interest and welfare. If one would but attend and study our city government's function and activities it would become obvious that the free workers in office are in fact but small pawns in a chess game manipulated by the paid workers or lords of the house who are in turn told how. to move by the big king pins of our local merchant's association. It seems that it is not what the voters want that is good for them but what the city govern ment thinks is good for them that they get. The people voted down "off street parking" but the peoples' vote means nothing to our city council. They have, by council action, taken away our voting franchise by including and pass ing a budget that provides $50,- 000 for "off street parking." It is sort of amusing to note E.A.'s editorial in Tuesday's paper on the zoning for Sears question. Many people have asked the paper on "what can we do." . . . about it and he re plied "call your councilman." As stated above we are afraid most councilmen are but pawns to be moved as the "king pins" choose. If our merchants' association don't want the 28 acres zoned for Sears Store well, will it be zoned? The people want Sears to come to Medford. Let's all voice our wants to the coun cil and have a progressive city. Ray O. DeMarrs 708 West Second st Medford, Ore. Queen Mother Returns From Trip to Rhodesia London HD Queen Mother Elizabeth returned Wednesday niffht from her twA-wppIr vicit to Rhodesia and Nyasaland in Africa. Princess Margaret was among about 100 persons who turned out to meet the Oueen Mother's plane. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In the Sacramento valley, which once was a vast and al most unbroken grainfield, grain is siowly giving way to irrigat ed pastures and green forage crops. These irrigated pastures are dotted with cattle, the herds sometimes stretching away al most as far as one can see from Highway 99. In the Bay Area, the cattle are almost all of dairy breeds, with Holsteins predominating. It takes a lot of milk to feed the millions around the great Bay of San Francisco. Farther north, the beef breeds begin to appear. Orland is an exception. Orland started out to grow oranges when irrigation first came to the region in a big way, but it didn't prove too profitable and dairying took its place. The early Spaniards grew wheat in what for their time was a fairly big way. It was their principal food crop, and was grown on the mission lands, with Indian neophytes doing most of the work. The padres had little mechanical skill, and never de veloped flour mills. The wheat was ground into flour by the mortar and pesUe method. 1 THEREBY hangs an interesting tale. At the time when the padres were building the northern mis sions and bringing the mission way of life to the lower San' Joaquin and Sacramento valleys, the Russians were colonizing Alaska. They brought millstones to Sitka and built there what for that time was quite large flour mill. But Alaska wasn't much of a wheat country. About 1805, Sitka was swept by a scourge of scurvy, brought ot by the fact that fruits and vegetables were scarce. So the Russians manned a ship with all the men able to work and sailed southward. They came eventually to the Gold Gate and sailed through it into the great bay where they found vitamin- rich fruits and vegetables and found also accumulated stores of wheat. Along with the fruits and vegetables needed to relieve the scurvy sufferers at home, they took on a ,cargo of wheat, which they ground into flour at Sitka. fYUT of this expedition there grew up one of the strangest commodity exchanges in history. When the Russians next went south for a cargo of wheat, they filled the hold of their ship with ice from the foot of the Taku glacier, insulating it with saw dust after the manner of the ice houses of a few decades ago before mechanical refrigerat ors were invented. Their ice found a ready mar ket in the hot valleys of Cen tral California, and they ex changed it for wheat. They took the wheat back to Sitka and ground it into flour and with their next cargo of ice they in cluded a considerable shipment of the flour, which also found a ready market among the padres, who preferred the flour from the Sitka mill to that which they had been pounding out with mortars and pestles. The commerce thus founded continued for many years with both parties to the exchange nighly satisfied.- ; I THINK there's a moral to that tale. When the Russians were swap ping ice to the mission fathers for wheat, both sides were hap py. Down in their hot valleys, the padres loved the ice. The Russians loved the California wheat. When they ground it into flour, the padres loved the flour. And the fruits and vegetables at Russians got in California in exchange for their ice and flour kept away the scurvy in Russian Alaska. Both sides thought very highly indeed of each other. If, in these days, we could build up a similarly satisfying and economically sound trade with the Russians instead of spending all our time making "Every reputable funeral director will seek to provide the type of service which the family wishes. If the bereaved suggest that the service be held in a church, the funeral director will be quick to agree. Actually, he considers deciding where the service is to be held as out of his province. The decision rests with the family and the minister, as they plan the service together." (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 Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS u Today and By Walter THE COLD WAR TODAY The Soviet government very much wants the outer world to understand that Malenkov, Mo- lotov and the others have been purged but are not being extermi nated. As of now, we know definitely only about Malen kov, the chief offender, K h r ushchev's Walter Lippmann most serious rival. He is being sent far enough away from Mos cow to be in political exile, and there is he to live with the charge hanging over his head that he has committed capital crimes. It is a kind of parole before trial or conviction. This, as compared with Stalin's purges, is lenient treatment, and presumably Molotov and Kagan ovich, who are too old to be dangerous, will get off at least as well. All the evidence we have, which now includes Krusch chev's story, but not Malenkov's, supports the view that the ob ject of the purge is to get rid of the main opposition to what might be called a more modern ized Communism. The Soviet economy has grown too big and too complicated to be run with out normal economic incentives and to be managed by a highly centralized .oligarchy, relying principally upon the secret po lice. The Communist world, which with the growing strength of China and the increasing na tionalism of the European satel lites, can no longer be held to gether, as in Stalin's day, by im perial fiat from Moscow. Khrushchev, who was a good Stalinist when Stalinism was the vogue, is not much of an ideologue. He is very much of a pragmatist. Insofar as he has turned against Stalinism, it is be cause, being a practical politi cian with an acute sense of the Russian realties, he knows that Stalinism will no longer work. The purpose of his reforms is to make the Communist system work, to consolidate the regime within Russia and to hold to gether the alliances with China and with the satellites. THERE is in high places in Washington some wishful thinking which supposes that we are witnessing the beginning of the break-up of the Communist system. There is, it seems to me, no public evidence to' support this notion and even if, by some chance, it turned out that the Soviet problems at home and abroad are insoluble, it would still be a great mistake to make such an assumption now. We are least likely to mislead ourselves if we make the contrary assump tion, which is that the Khru shchev reforms are likely to make stronger both the Russian state and the Russian system of alliances. There are no indications that the internal problems are so se vere that the Russian ruling class is becoming desperate and may become violent. Nor is there any indication that out of internal weakness the govern ment will now make substantial concessions to the West about Germany, Korea, Formosa, the Middle East, or disarmament. On the contrary, with Mar shal Zhukov and the Army play ing a larger role, we shall be dealing with a government which can be expected to be firmly opposed for military and national reasons to any strategic retreat. We must bear in mind that while it has been the Com munists who have pushed for ward the Russians sphere of in faces at each other and calling each other names it would be a splendid thing. The Spanish padres and the Sitka Russians NEVER WENT TO WAR. I, Mf? I. via Tomorrow Lippmann fluence to the lines of the Iron Curtain, those lines have been for more than a century the ob jective, or let us say the great dream, of Russian imperial strategy. WE must suppose that there will be no substantial re treat, nothing for example, which brings the whole of Ger many within the sphere of NATO, or takes Poland outside the mlitary system over which Marshal Zhukov presides. What about an advance? Is it likely that a modernized Communist regime will try to expand to absorb West Germany, South Korea, Formosa, .South Viet Nam, or to make a physical lodgment say in Syria or in Egypt? There can be no certain an swer to these crucial questions. We are dealing ot in certain ties but in probabilities. The most probably correct answer is, it seems to me, that Russia and China will try to expand by all means short of overt. organized, military action. It is highly probable that with the balance of power in nuclear weapons as even as it is, any organized warfare which could involve Russia or the United States would be an incalculable risk for both of us. There is not likely, therefore, to be anoth er limited war as in oKrea. For even if the biggest weapons were not used, the weapons that would be used would not only be enormous by the old stand ards, but the tendency to raise the ante would probably be ir resistible. WITHOUT undue risk, we can Without undue risk, we can p.ssume that the deterrent strate gy will prevent war above the level of propaganda, insurrec Uon, subversion, infiltration, and intrigue Considering the State Department's rather expert per formance in Jordan and else where in the Middle East during the past few months, there is no longer reason to think that in a cold war, we are hopelessly outclassed. Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. July 21-27 Set as Farm Safety Week Salem IW Dangers to life) and limb down on the farm were called to public attention today with the signing of a proc lamation setting aside July 21-27 as national farm safety week. ' "There is a direct indication that nearly all farm accidents were the result of carelessness or lack of education to the dan gers of farm machinery, farm facilities and farm animals," Gov. Robert D. Holmes said. Farm accidents claim the lives of some 3,000 persons annually in the U. S. OLD AGE PENSION VICTORY RALLY MEDFORD K of P Hall 5th and GRAPE STS. FRIDAY, JULY 19 7:00 p.m. HEAR ABOUT THE NEW PENSION LAWS. HOW THEY WILL AFFECT YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN. Admission FREE Sponsored By: California Institute of Social Welfare, 1031 So. Grand Ave. ' Los Angeles 1 5, Calif. George McLain, Chairman I: I;