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Newspaper Page TextTOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfobsTribune "Iveryone In Southern Oregao Rods Tc Maxl in Dung Publunra Daily ExceDt Saturday by MEDFORD PRLNTLNG CO 27-29 North fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W BCHL Editor HERB GREY Adverusini Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC AUJLS JR. Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS Clrj Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OIJVE STARCHER Socet Editor DAI2 ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Aiediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Per Copr 10c Dail y and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mo 4-23 Sunday Only One year M-20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes. Dauy and Sunday One year SIB 00 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 Official Paper of Jackson County United Press-Full Leased Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY ' COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louia Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITOIIAt ASSOCM-feN PliJHr.lfMMlU iqhf o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 5, 1947 (Tuesday) - Most valley packers sell a sub stantial quanity of Bartletts for $95 per ton. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge got colum: It will be the first time next month before the valley watermellons will be ripe enough and big enough to steal. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 5. 1937 (Thursday) Rogue River national forest headquarters is called upon for emergency assistance to fight a fire in the Columbia national forest. Governor Charles H. Martin, of Oregon, will be guest speaker at the Shakespearean Festival tomorrow night. 30 YEAS AGO Aug. 5. 1927 (Friday) The Bartlett pear harvest will commence Monday, some of the fruit inothe lower orchards is later. Contributions to the Legion playground fund are not being received as rapidly as should be for such work. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 5, 1917 (Monday) Corporal Lyn Mowat is the only journalist in First com pany's ranks having left his pos ition as city editor of the Tidings to accompany the command. The first 1918 auto in Med ford is a Buick six-49. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent: five or six is good 1. Population of the U.S. in 1800 was 5,305.482, of which 898,489 were Negroes. Was this the 1st. 2nd, or 3rd U.S. census? 2. What is the name of the great vein in the neck? 3. Bible: Evidence indicates that Pilate despised which, the Jews or Christians? 4. After the armistice was -signed with Italy, did the Italian Government declare war on Germany? 5. Two cows and two horses have a total of how many stom achs? , 6. The number of one billion is expressed how in England? 7. What is a Thespian? 8. How do Manx cats differ from other cats? 9. Crowd means a great num ber of persons: Is it good usage to apply it to a circle of friends? 10. "Like the month of March, in like a lion and out like a what? Answers: 1. Second. 2. Jugular Tein. 3. Jews. Christianity came later. 4. Yes. 5. Ten. 6. One mil lion. 7. An actor. 8. They have no tails. 9. No. 10. "Lamb." Roy North. Log Production Down In Calendar Year Salem (W ; Log production in the state of Oregon for the calendar year of 1956 was 9, 335.810.000 board feet, accord ing to figures ' compiled in the state forester's office. State Forester Dwight L. Phipps said that this was 384 billipn board feet below that of the previous year and nearly a half billion board feet below the banner year of 1952 when 9. 802.471,000 board feet was teached. Douglas county led in 1956 with a cut of 1,776,297,000 board feet. I TIV ASSOCIATIOM MAIL TRIBUNE Hdil William, Et Al Just eight years ago we saw an Oregon Shake spearean Festival play for the first time. What it was we don't recall, for it has blended into all the others we've seen in succeeding years. But we do recall that there was magic in it, and that it created an ineradicable impression of color, movement, light and spontaneity. More recently, we must confess, that magic waned. For the past three or four years the festival as a whole (though not necessarily individual productions) we have found wanting. Enjoyable yes ; but not the hap py and festive thing it should be. ' TTHUS, on opening night, we were hesitant and doubtful. It was, therefore, a delightful surprise to find the magic had returned. It eludes definition, but the com bination of light, color, gaiety, informality, spontan eity, drama and excited enthusiasm were irresistible. Obviously, this is a personal reaction, subject to dispute by those who can find nothing wrong (or those who can find nothing right) in the festival. But whatever one's personal views, it is a fact that it has come to be one of the major annual events in this part of the state, and rightly so. ' O UR feeling wras corroborated by others. Nat Farbman, the Life magazine photographer, kept muttering "fabulous, fabulous" to himself and his companions as he wandered around opening night, clickipg away with his three cameras. The 13-year-old who accompanied us (though bored by some of the "grown-up" talk) saw and felt the magic of the occasion too. The opening night banquet on the lawn of Lithia park, with its singing, dancing, bagpipe music, cos tumes, torches, visiting dignitaries, all amidst the trees, lakes and streams, is an innovation of charm. Festival officials report that this year, the second time it has been given out of doors, demand for tickets far outstripped the supply. It may well be expanded in future years. There was something in the attitude of the big, first-night crowd, too, which added to the occasion. It was informal, friendly, relaxed. The weather cooperated beautifully. And the bright banners, the lovely flowering gardens, the gay booths at the rear of the theater shell, all contributed. DERHAPS the magic has always been there, and it was we who were lacking. But, whether it has "returned" or whether it never has left, Ashland real ly "has something" this year. And this "something" is more than just the pleas ure of the occasion; it is also the hard dollars-and-cents which the spreading fame of the festival is bringing, in increasing numbers, into the coffers of the valley's merchants. There is something for everyone a challenge to the most determined culture-vulture; fun for the drama enthusiast; excitement for the atmosphere hungry; and growing prosperity for the most hard headed, operators of restaurants, hotels, motels, serv ice stations, and their business colleagues. God bless William Shakespeare and his spiritual descendants ! E.A. S.O.S. The "battle of the billboards" is being lost, it grieves us to report. The Oregon legislature adjourned without ac complishing anything constructive in the way of pro tecting existing or even future highways from the encroachment of unrestricted billboards, which are the forerunners of "blight" in case after case. And now, despite Sen. Dick Neuberger's best ef forts in behalf of his own billboard bill, it has been watered down in congressional committee action until it is hardly a shadow of its former self. Even in its mild form, it is meeting formidable opposition from the billboard lobby, which has been described as one of the most potent and effective in Washington, o MO one has much of anything against billboards ' themselves provided they are kept in their proper place. They serve as needed stimulants to certain roadside businesses, and provide the traveler with information. But that is not to say that the long reaches of countryside should be allowed to sprout them indis criminately, and it is reasonable regulation of this type which is being sought. The Oregon Roadside Council has appealed to those who value Oregon's scenery more than they do billboards. unlimited to write to Sen. Dennis Chavez, chairman of the Senate public works com mittee, to let him know that the great bulk of Ameri can people, while unorganized for a fight, do believe that the highways for which they are paying should NOT be turned into taxpayer-subsidized picture gal leries for the peddling of beer, bread or bubblegum. The appeal is headed "S.O.S. Save Oregon's Scenery." Amen. E.A. AUSTRALIA OFFICIAL DIES Brisbane, Australia W John Cain, 70, Victorian opposi tion leader and --former premier, died Sunday at Townsville, Queensland, after a stroke. Monday. August 5, 1357 RETIRED SOLDIER DIES New York (OT Brig. Gen. Gilbert H. Stewart (Ret.), holder of the Legion of Merit and the Pyncheon medals, died Sunday at St. Albans Naval hospital. MX yOO PAY IS TWENT-FVE CENTS NOW AH0 TWNTY FlVg CENTS WHEN V6 SHOVEL THE; SNOW. Matter of Fact by stewan aisop IKE: THE AURA FADES Washington Something mysterious but important, which cannot be precisely described, or explained, has happened in recent weeks. Until very recent ly, a kind of celestial aura,' a quality of being larger than life, surround ed Dwieht D. r''Aii'J Eisenhower, as that doth h 3 to " 51 But in recent weeks, the au- ra has rather suaaemy De gun to wear Stettait Alsnp Oil. You could sense the fading of the aura at the President's most recent press conference, for example. The President has had and for that matter still has the kindest press that any President has enjoyed in this century. Until very recently, the almost motherly attitude of the press towards the president has made his press conferences ra ther dull affairs. But last Wednesday, the pres ident was asked a number of questions with, distinct "Have you - stopped - beating - your -wife?" overtones. At least twice when he was asked about his personal finances and about his appointment of the unfortunate Maxwell H. Gluck as Ambassa dor to Ceylon the President became visibly angry. ; THERE is plenty of other evidence- of the new tendency to treat the President more like a human being and less like a sovereign to be admired at a respectful distance. It is no long er shocking, or even very sur prising, to find such words as "vacillating," or "wishy-washy" used in the friendly press to de scribe the President's handling of such matters as the budget, or the school bill, or civil rights. Throughout his first term even the most partisan Democrats on Capitol Hill shied away from criticism of the President him self when they wanted to criticize, they were careful to .substitute the euphemism "The Administration" , for the Eisen hower name. When old Sen. Matthew Neely of West Vir ginia attacked the President per sonally in 1955, he was shunned like a leper, and quickly sub sided Into silence. But now criticism of the President is becoming almost fashionable in the Congress. Sen. Robert Kerr's aspersions on the President's intelligence were Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of 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 ail letters with an eye to clarification and'conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Opposes Subdivision Measura To the Editor: Recently you printed a news item with the headline "Subdivision Bill is Ap proved by Planners," and in your issue of Tuesday, July 30th, page 5, I printed a paid adver tisement -to help draw public attention, because I feel this thing is not good and ought to be killed off, deader than a doornail. . I do not know if you have taken a position on it, or will take a position. Apparently it is sponsored and being pushed by some promi nent citizens on the County Planning Commission. - However, it could be possible that many others besides myself would say "NO" if this thing is brought to their attention. Should it appear ' worthwhile to you and in the public inter est to vigorously submit the full-dress arguments against this idea to make the "Planners" take a second look, and for the consideration of the farmers, ranchers, landowners, and oth ers in the County who do not live in Medford, your action would indeed be appreciated. Thomas G. Staley Route 1, Box 196 Eagle Point, Ore. 111 only a symptom. Northern Dem ocrats like Senators Richard Neuberger and Paul Douglas have already served clear no tice that they intend to hold the President personally respon sible for the weakening of the civil rights bill, and in the House, he has been personally blamed for the defeat of the school bill. THE repeated rebuffs the Presi dent has suffered in his at tempts to recruit men for the highest posts in his administra tion are another symptom of his fading aura. Twenty-one busin essmen, for example, have blandly refused the offer to head the Foreign Aid Agency. It is a good bet that almost every one of the twenty-one, offered a similarly important post four years ago, would have mentally snapped to attention and accept ed. There are a number of rea sons for the fading of the aura. There is simple familiarity, that has a way of causing auras to fade. There is the fact that the blush is off the rose for the more conservative businessmen, who dreamed of a return to the virtually tax-free heaveh of the 1920s, and whose disillusion has been reflected in the muted an ti-Eisenhower revolt among Re publicans in Congress. Finally, of course, there is the fact that Dwight Eisenhower is the first constitutional lame duck Presi dent in history. Does all this add up to the dreary prospect of a period of Congressional dominance, with the President isolated in the White House, amiable but pow erless? The answer lies with the President. For the most import ant reason for the fading of the Eisenhower aura also lies, with tne .f resident, ms newiy acquir ed habit of staging public de bates with himself on such is sues as the budget, and civil rights has indeed given an im pression of wishy-washiness. which has greatly undermined his personal authority. But a President can almost always get what he wants when he really goes after it. THE President proved this himself when he went to the country to defend his foreign aid and defense budgets. As a result of this counterattack, he stood an excellent chance of getting substantially what he wanted until, amazingly, he cut the ground out from under his own supporters in the budget fight by asking far less than the sum he had previously des ignated as the bedrock mini mum for defense. The fact is that a President, lame duck or no, has immense power if he is willing to use it. Above all, he has the power of choosing, or at least profoundly influencing, the choice of his party's next Presidential candi date. The' question is whether President Eisenhower, being the kind of man he is, will use the power he has: If he does, the fading of the Eisenhower aura 'is likely to be a temporary phenomenon. (C) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. COMMENTATOR KILLED . Delray Beach, Fla. (IF! Col. vincent Gavin Hart, 65, radio news commentator and former New York state official, was killed Saturday in . an automo bile crash. RIDES WILD COLT GEO. N. TAYLOR "Go into the town and there you will find a colt tied. Tell the owners that Christ has need of it." So they obeyed and Christ had a mount to take Him to Jerusalem. Now hear an American horse trainer "What hands and muscles Christ must have had to ride that Galilean colt. I have train ed them. I know." Later this horse trainer gave his heart to Christ. First, he believed in Christ's strong arms and hands, then that Christ's blood washed away his sins. And you? Believe that Christ's blood washes away your sins and God gives you eternal life. j This service paid for by folks who want you to know. Behind - the - Atomic Era's Beginning (Editor's note: Tomorrow is the 12ih anniversary of the first military use of the atomic bomb. The following article, written by Earl J. Johnson,' general news manager of the United Press, gives an inter esting "behind the - scenes" description of the news cover age of that momentous event. It appeared in the "U. P. Re porter," a weekly newsletter for telegraph editors.) By EARL J. JOHNSON General News Manager United Press Associations "A pretty good story." The only dispatch I've ever framed and hung on my wall is the first five paragraphs of a U.P. story filed by Washington on Aug. 6, 1945. It occurred to me at the time that this story marked an historical turn that would not be surpassed in importance during my occupancy of this office, and that is why I put it under glass. Now with the approach of an other Aug. 6 it is interesting to see how nearly these five para graphs come to telling all (ex cept the fallout angle, which came later) that we know about this major development 12 years later. Here is the story as it ap peared on our wires: BULLETIN WASHINGTON, AUG. 6 API PRESIDENT TRUMAN AN NOUNCED THAT AN "ATOM IC BOMB" HAS BEEN USED AGAINST JAPAN FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH POWER EQUAL TO 20,000 TONS OF TNT. MORE PA1103A ADD BOMB, WASHINGTON XXX TNT. IN A STATEMENT ISSUED AT THE WHITE HOUSE MR. TRUMAN REVEALED THAT 16 HOURS AGO SOMETIME SUNDAY AN AMERICAN AIRPLANE DROPPED ONE OF THE NEW BOMBS ON HIRO SHIMA, AN IMPORTANT JAP ANESE ARMY BASE. "THAT BOMB HAD MORE POWER THAN 20,000 TONS OF TNT," THE PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT SAID. "IT HAD MORE THAN 2,000 TIMES THE BLAST POWER OF THE BRIT ISH 'GRAND SLAM' WHICH IS THE LARGEST BOMB EVER USED IN THE HISTORY OF WARFARE." THE PRESIDENT SAID THE NEW BOMB OPENED "A NEW AND REVOLUTIONARY IN CREASE IN DESTRUCTION" TO SUPPLEMENT THE GROW ING. POWER OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST JAPAN THE NEW BOMB, HE ADDED, IS NOW IN PRODUCTION AND "EVEN MORE POWER FUL FORMS" ARE UNDER DE VELOPMENT. "IT IS AN ATOMIC BOMB," THE PRESIDENT SAID. "IT IS A HARNESSING OF THE BA SIC POWER OF THE UNI VERSE. THE FORCE FROM WHICH THE SUN DRAWS ITS POWER HAS BEEN LOOSED AGAINST THOSE WHO BROUGHT WAR TO THE FAR EAST." Bulganin Stays Home; Miltoyan Said Taking His Place on Team' By K. C. THALER United Press Correspondent London-flB It's Khrushchev and Mikoyan now instead of Khrushchev and Bulganin. Moscow dispatches reported that Soviet Communist Party Leadoer Nikita S. Khrushchev had dropped Premier Nikolai Bulganin from the team of 'B and K" for his visit to East Ger many this week. Instead Deputy Premier Anas tas Mikoyan, the Soviet foreign trade expert who accompanied Khrushchev" to Romania for talks with Marshal Tito, will go with the party chief to Germany. There was renewed specula ting in London that the snade- bearded premier would be kick- j ed upstairs, possibly to replace j President Klimenti Voroshilov, ; and -that Khrushchev might be ; grooming Mikoyan for the pre- j miership. . Western diplomats in London have said that Bulganin is on his way out because he is report- j ed to have sided with the dis graced Molotov - Malenkov - Ka-1 ganovich trio during the recent Kremlin purge. , The original Soviet accept- j ance.of an East German invita-; tion said both Khrushchev and , and Bulganin would make the , Scenes Report of How the Story Broke At mid-morning of that Au gust day the news outlook in Washington promised little ex- citment. President Truman, ac companied by Merriman Smith and two other White House re porters, was en route home on the cruiser Augusta from a meet ing of Allied statesmen (Stalin and Attlee) at Potsdam. Con gress was on vacation. The war with Japan was accelerating, but news of the fighting came mainly from the Pacific bases. Several War department report ers were in Florida on a stcry for future release about radar. Sen. Hiram Johnson died early that morning, but his biography had cleared all wires and it seemed this would be the big gest Washington story of the day. At 10:30 a.m., Eben Ayers act ing White House press secretary in the absence of Charles Ross (Ross was with the President) held his morning conference with reporters. He said he had nothing new but might have something later. Charles B. Degges, on the White House for the U.P. that day, asked Ayers if it would be a fair, good, or hot story. . "It'll be a pretty good story," Ayers said in what seems now to have been the understatement of our generation. Shortly before 11 a.m. Ayers called the reporters back to his desk. He picked up a three-page mimeographed statement by the President and read the first few paragraphs. When he got to the words . . . "It is an atomic bomb . . ." someone murmured "Jesus Christ." Degges got goose pimples. Ayers didn't read any more, but handed a copy to each President's Anger Seldom More Evident Than In Past Week By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Correspondent Washington an- Back stairs at the White .House: Seldom has President Eisen hower's anger and displeasure been more evident than during the past week. The reason: The treatment given his civil rights and school construction programs by Congress. Members of his legislative liai son staff were progressively long faced as the chief executive suf fered probably the sharpest set backs of his White House career 'at the hands of Congress. Op Thursday and Friday, he was edgy and testy his; indigna tion boiled over Friday morn ing when he learned that the Senate had passed the jury trial amendment to the civil rights bill. His staff caught the first brunt of his anger, but then the President poured out his feel ings to Sen. Charles Potter (R- trip. But the Soviet press, with out explanation, announced that Bulganin would stay home. The dispatch was given page one prominence. Although Bulganin accompa nied Khrushchev on his recent visit to Czechoslovakia, he was conspicuously absent during the secret Khrushchev-Tito talks on Soviet-Yugoslav relations. There appeared little basis to rumors that Bulganin would be dropped altogether, or disgraced, as was the Malenkov trio. But since they were "exposed" Bul ganin has dropped more and more into the background. FUNERAL' SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral! Home Phone SP 2-6675 Given reporter: Degges and the other report ers were momentarily stunned. but recovered quickly and raced to their phones. Neither news service sent a flash, although this certainly was one of the big gest stories of the age. Compar ing notes later, the reporters agreed they couldn't transmit in three or four words of a flash the full import of this develop ment, of which neither their of fices nor the public had the least forewarning. , Degges dictated clean, . fast bulletins that were jerked out of dictation typewriters at the bureau in 24 short takes and slammed onto the trunk wires' As soon as the first bulletin had cleared, the desk asked our Treasury department man to go across the street o the White House and dictate the text of the White House announcement over another phone. Other Developments Next developments were at the War department. Reporters were hurried into the office of Maj. Gen. Alexander D. Surles, in the bureau of public relations. Surles opened his safe and took out a stack of super-secret mate rial that had been prepared in advance. This included a 7500 word statement by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson about the development of the bomb; long stories on the secret plants at Clinton, Tenn., and Richland, Wash.; information about the Army officers and scientists who perfected the bomb; and a brief report on the first reconnais sance over Hiroshima. Later that day the Army made public its stirring account of the first ex- perimental detonation of the i bomb in New Mexico. Mich.) who left the White House somewhat amazed at the stormy weather in the President's of fice. There was more fuel for the Eisenhower fires last week the criticism of his appointment of Maxwell Gluck as ambassa dor to Ceylon, plus the nation ally syndicated article placing the President's net worth at one million dollars. Eisenhower blows up over efforts to pry into his private life and woe betide the White House staff member who inquires into his personal finances. ' His predecessor, former Presi- uciil iruman, also used 10 gel quite foamy when people, par ticularly writers, attempted to pry into his private finances or pretended to know the state of his bank account. One big question around the White House as the week began was the possible effects of Ei senhower's current? mood on his vacation plans. With the House leadership dropping plans for a series of recesses, the President may stay here until Congress ad journs. This could alter the duration of his stay at Newport, R. I., when and if he goes. There is some rather educated reasoning around the White Hoilse that the later his departure date for. Rhode Island, the shorter his stay will be. 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