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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.
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"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.
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FRIDAY, JULY 19
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HOW THEY WILL
AFFECT YOU AND
YOUR CHILDREN.
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Welfare, 1031 So. Grand Ave. '
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