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FOUH MEDFORD (OREGON) Xveryonst tn Southern Oresae Resds The Mall Trtbuns" Fubllsr.ea Daily Cuxnl SatunUj by MXDFORD PRINTING CO 17-28 North fir St Phone 2-911 ROBERT W RUHU Editor BTRB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLN JR. Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS CltT Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper EntereeOts second claw matter at Mediord Oregon under Act as March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mall In Advance' Per Copy loe Dally and Sunday On year $1500 Dsily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three moa 4-23 Sunday Only On year $420 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill n Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River Talent and on motor routes . Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 U Dally and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per cony All Terms Cash In Advance Offlrtal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANT INC Offices In New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louia Atlaita Vancouver B C NATION Al IDITOIIAt ssocfAi"eN Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YSARS AGO Aug. 13. 1947 (Wednesday) W. B. Tucker, Corvallis, has been appointed Jackson county gent by the county court. From A r t h . r Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column.: "The Brit ish report much of their woe and the rest of the world's is due to a dollar famine. It is also what ails local residents. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 13. 1937 (Friday) Third of a weekly series of band concerts will be held in city park by the Elks band to night. Grantland Rice, nationally known sports author, will at tend the H. Chandler Egan Me morial golf exhibition Sunday. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 13, 1927 (Saturday) Old hats must be worn here after Aug. 20 for jubilee. A total of 26 cars of pears will have been shipped from Medford tonight, it is predicted. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 13. 1917 (Tuesday) Twelve Applegate and Ruch farmers meet to organize farm loan association. Soldiers' auxiliary meets with civic officials to organize pro gram for entertainment and wel fare of Company C stationed here. What's Your I.Q.? Nina er tAi correct Is superior; seven or efcht Is excellent: five or six Is good 1. The moon personified, a feminine proper name, and a bird are named P e. 2. Name the national flower of England. 3. Bible: Is it correct to call Luke an apostle? 4. The earth rbtates on its axis 362U, 365U or 366i times a year? 5. Were Germans permitted to vote in U.S.-occupied German zones? 6. On September 2, 1945 (V-J Day), there were approximately 1,000, 1,500 or 2,000 generals in the Army of the U.S.? 7. Marmosets are birds, mon keys, or gems? 8. In Army slang, what is a "dog robber"? 9. Is "fawn" a mythological term meaning a god of the fields? 10. "His hearers can tell you on Sunday beforehand, If in that day's discourse they'll be Bibled or Koraned." J. R. Lowell, Does this refer to preach ing, an academic lecture, or a game? Answers: 1. Phoebe: 2. Rose; 3. Yes: 4. 365!. times: 5. Yes: 6. 1.500: 7. Monkeys; 8. An of ficer's servant or personal at tendant; 9. No. A young deer; 10. Preaching. Jasper Kidnaping Brings Prison Term Eugene iW Circuit Judge A. T. Goodwin Monday sen tenced James Adam Repp, 33, to a maximum term of 15 years in the state penitentiary for the kidnaping last month of Mrs. Alda Wright and James Aubrey of Jasper. William Henry Eckels, also accused in the case, is being held on another charge at Tilla mook. Mrs. Wright and Aubrey were abducted from a Jasper store July 30 and were held until the next day when they were freed on Mt. Hebo near Tillamook. 77H a WtJJliillM'li.lHM ,r0r' NN I W $ PA P 1 1 PUllMII i 5i-AS$OCIATION MAIL TRIBUNE Back to John C. Calhoun Over the air on "Face the Nation" Sunday, Sen ator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina contributed greatly to a clarification of the controversial Civil Rights issue, particularly from the standpoint of the state of South Carolina and the Solid South. If any evidence were needed that the Solid South is still fighting the Civil War, only withk words in stead of bullets, the man who carried four southern states as presidential candidate of a Third Party, supplied it. f)NE thing can be said for Senator Thurmond. He meets this important national issue head-on, en gage. in no evasions or double-talk; doesn't deny for a moment that he wants to set the clock of human and social progress back over 100 years to the days of Jefferson Davis and John C. Calhoun, and finally, over the air, made it perfectly plain, that if this can be done only by forming a Third party slanted for the "Solid South," he will be on the firing line to do it. TT WAS really a most extraordinary, amazing state- ment to make in this day and age, for it has been generally assumed at least throughout the north that the issue of states rights and nullification had been settled by the victory of the "boys in blue" over the '"boys in grey," by the "unionists" over the "seces sionists" by those who opposed human slavery over those who favored it. IT is true of course, "slavery" is out, but according to Senator Strom Thurmond, "nullification" certainly isn't, nor is putting states rights ahead of federal rights. And if John C. Calhoun, also a senator from South Carolina, were alive today, he and his successor would agree completely that, quote : "A State bas the right to nullify such Federal laws as it considers unconstitutional for there is no direct connection between the individuals of a state and the government, the great conservative principle of a union being nullification." ' A S noted it has been assumed. for generations in the north that all this sort of talk was "water over the dam," that this country was no longer a confedera tion of sovereign states, but a federal UNION, the power of which was supreme and the rulings of which through the U.S. Supreme Court were to be obeyed, by good citizens everywhere. DUT not so according to the senior Senator from South Carolina. In fact his remarks regarding the Supreme Court were almost disarming in their sub versive' frankness and naivete. For example he said he opposed President Frank lin Roosevelt's efforts to "pack" the Supreme "Court, because he thought the court exactly right in declar ing important portions of the New Deal unconstitu tional. In HIS firm opinion, they WERE. DUT when the present Court declares the segrega- tion of public schools according to race and color, unconstitutional, again in HIS opinion, he not only considers the court wrong and radical, but he wants it shorn of its appelate powers and he has introduced a bill into the congress to bring that about. In other words the gentleman from' South Carolina even goes further than his political and spiritual pre decessors, for it isn't what the people of his state may decide, but what he himself decides, as to what is constitutional and proper and what isn't. LJE approved the court decision against the New Deal, he doesn't like the court's decision against "White Supremacy." So he stands by our fundamen tal law when he "Strom Thurmand" likes it, he defies and refuses to obey it when he DOESN'T. So he not only represents the state of South Car olina in the US Senate but only a few years ago South Carolina and three other Southern States voted for HIM for President! 7E sometimes wonder what it will take to shock the people of the United States, and snap them out of their indifference and complacency; Judging them by the well known newspaper men who made up the "Face the Nation" panel, there was nothing to them shocking, or surprising, or revolu tionary in the sentiments expressed over the air, or if so their questions indicated nothing of the sort. None of the questions or very few at least con tained any challenge whatever or particular relevancy- They were veteran Washington correspondents, and one must conclude they were "conditioned" to this sort of talk from this source and did not take it very seriously. t One wonders if the American people AS A WHOLE feel the same way about it? R.W.R. Shopper's Paradise In Springfield Plan Springfield, Ore. (1PI A two and one-half block area of down town Springfield will be con verted into a "Shopper's Para dise" starting Thursday in a 10 day experiment. The area will be completely free of vehicle traffic with High way 126 bypassing the shopping center. The experiment was devised by the Chamber of Commerce and the City Planning commis sion to meet a growing slow down of business in the central area because of increased traffic and by suburban shopping cen ters. EX-REPRESENTATIVE DIES Albany, Tex. (IP Thomas L. Blanton, 84, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1917 to 1936, died Monday. Tuesday. August 13. 1957 Fire Control Chief For Northwest Named Portland HP) Alfred E. Spaulding has arrived from Mis soula, Mont., to asume his du ties as fire control chief in the Pacific Northwest region of the U.S. Forest Service, Regional Forester J. Herbert Stone said here today. Spaulding has been fire con trol chief in the Northern region. He replaces Kermit W. Linstedt who has become chief of the Regional Division of Soils and Watershed Management of the Forest Service at Portland. Spaulding was in charge of fire control activities in the North ern region for six years and be fore that was forest supervisor of the Colville National forest in northern Washington and Idaho for five years. rr1 rri, i rri 'SEE? I TOLD YOU OUR GAZSflGB DISFOSAL COULD DO A ROOT BEER BOTTLE ' Matter of Fact WILSON'S LEGACY Washington Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson will leave Washington, if not exactly trailing clouds of glory, at least pleasant ly aware that almost every- body likes him. It is im possible not to like him, al though some have tried stews,! t aijop very hard. For a thoroughly honest, es sentially simple man is a hard man to dislike, and that is what Wilson is. Jessie Ann Wilson, the Secretary's indomitable spouse, was quite right the other day when she revealed that "Mr. Wilson came as a great shock" because "he spoke the simple truth in a place where politics is the native tongue." Secretary Wilson has spoken the truth as he saw the truth and no one can doubt that he is nit only an honest man, but a ma:i who has honestly tried to do his best. A ND yet, how good has that best been? In all fairness, certain facts must be considered, in trying to answer that question. The first fact to bear in mind is that Wil son joined an administration ab solutely committed to a balanced budget and reduced taxes. The administration could not con ceivably honor" its commitment without sharp reductions in de fense expenditures. I he second fact to bear in mind is that Wilson became Sec retary of Defense at almost the precise moment when the Sovi ets, wno had concentrated on building defensive air strength during the period when the Unit ed States had a near-monopoly of offensive air-atomic power, switched priorities. From about 1952 onwards, the Soviets gave absolute priority, first to break ing the American air-atomic monopoly, and then to gaining superiority in that field. Wilson cannot be blamed, aft er all, because the Soviets ex ploded their first hydrogen bomb in August, 1953, a few short months after he had taken office. It was not his fault that they tested their first intercon tinental jet bomber less than two years after he had become Sec retary of Defense. It was not his fault that they began testing their intermediate missiles in 1952, or that they tested their first prototype version of an in tercontinental missile this year. TT was not Wilson's fault, if you will, that he was caught in a trap, almost from the day he be came Secretary of Defense. He was trapped between the Admin istration's commitment to reduce taxes and balance the budget, on the one hand, and the mounting evidence that the Soviets were achieving a decisive air-atomic superiority on the other. Another man might have re acted to this situation by insist ing that American superiority in air-atomic power must be main tained at whatever cost. But Wilson's background did not pre pare him to react in such a way. In his long, hard, brilliantly successful climb from an Ohio farm boyhood to the pinnacle of the business world he had not had time to think very much about such abstract matters as the balance of power. Testifying before a Senate committee last year, he cast a revealing light on his remarkable simple way of interpreting great historic events. It was, he said, "Too bad that the Russians did away with the Czars completely," if they had a few Czars left around, he continued seriously, then the Russians would hate them, "and they would not be hating us so much." Along with this remarkably uncomplicated view of Soviet motives, Wilson .has had an abso lute conviction of American in dustrial and technical superior ity, natural to a man of his back ground. The Russians are just imitators, he believes, and their v f By Stewart Alsop weapons "really came out of the Western world." TIE has instinctively rejected A any evidence to the contrary. Thus, in 1954, the Soviets tested their first Bison heavy jet bomb er, having built it on radically new design principles in half the time it took the United States to build the B-52. The plane, Wil son said, was probably a mock up, a propaganda fake. How could it be otherwise? And yet, alas, the Bison turn ed out to be all too real and ac cording to Wilson's own intelli gent experts, there are now at least twice as many Bisons as B-52s in existence. All too real too is the sharp shift in the bal ance of power which has taken place in the Wilson years. When Wilson took office, a rough bal ance existed, as between Soviet superiority in conventional arms, and American superiority in air-atomic power. Now the balance has been de stroyed. In the name of economy, American conventional power has been reduced almost to the vanishing point. And while the United States has thus become wholly committed to atomic wanare, the boviets are unques tionably moving ahead of the United States in air-atomic pow er. That is the legacy which Charles E. AVilson, a likeable and honorable man. leaves to his unlucky successor, Neil McEl- rov. (C) 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the rleht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Fair Campaigns Urged To the editor: When Wisconsin voters elect a successor to the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy a few weeks from now, they will choose between two candidates who have pledged publicly to conduct a fair campaign for the vacant Senate seat. Their pledges follow endorse ment of the Code of Fair Cam paign Practices by the chairman of Wisconsin's Democratic and Republican parties (as welf as by ooth national committees), com mending the Code to voter and candidate as a guide to cam paigning in the American tradi tions of honesty and fair play. These declarations reflect steadily mounting public dis taste for electioneering by smear, whisper and unsupported accusation. Sparked by the non partisan Fair Campaign Prac tices Committee, church and civ ic leaders of every faith and co mical persuasion have spear headed the growing demand for campaign decency. Now the Committee must sus tain the momentum its program has achieved. Much is still to be done in the short weeks before the Wisconsin election. Later in the year New Jersey and Vir ginia will elect governors, and Congressional elections will be held next year in every state. Join in supporting this effort. Its effects are beginning to be felt. As the Scripps-Howard n e wp a pers editorialized, "If enough good citizens get behind it, the Fair Campaign Practices Committee may yet get political campaigns out of the back alley. Now musle to 'em!" Only you, and concerned and respectable citizens like you, can provide the "more muscle" need ed to extend the gains already made in Wisconsin and across the land. Charles P. Taft, Chairman, 8 E. 66th St., New York, N. Y. BEARS ARE BOLSTERED Rensselaer, Ind. HP) Earl Leggett and Jack Johnson, mem bers of the All-Star squad which lost to the New York Giants last Friday night, have joined the Chicago Bears and may ap pear in Saturday's night's exhi bition game with the Pittsburgh Steelers in Jacksonville, Fla. Paper Used To Back Magazine Story on Actress Said 'Dynamite1 Hollywood (IP) A witness in the libel trial of Confidential and Whisper magazines used an affidavit that was "dynamite" to document a story on Maureen O'Hara's amours in Grauman's Chinese theater. Lester Grady, a former editor of Whisper, told the jury under prosecution questioning that af fidavits, some of them from New York and Hollywood call girls, were 'used in tbjb preparation of stories for the two scandal pub lications. Used To Support Story One such affidavit he said was used to support a story on Miss O'Hara, a flame-haired Ir ish actress, and her alleged love making in a theater seat while the movie was showing. The story is part of the evidence listed by the prosecution in the original indictment. As the second sensational day of testimony swung into high gear in Superior Court where the magazines and their agents are charged with criminal libel,, Ronnie Quillan, a Hollywood call girl, with waist-length red hair draped down her back, took the stand. "I was engaged in prostitu tion," Miss Quillan said by way of introduction to the jury. "Mr. Harrison (Robert Harrison, Con fidential publisher) told me he primarily wanted stories con cerning the sexual activities of members of the movie solony In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The sales tax, as it is gener ally understood in these days, is 36 years old. It got its start back in West Virginia in 1921. It has spread now to 33 states and somewhat more than 1,000 cities. In this modern day when Un cle Sam takes about 75 cents out of every dollar of taxes paid by the people (the old boy used to take only 25 cents out of the total tax dollars, leaving the oth er 75 cents to the cities, states, counties, school districts, etcj the cities are as hard up for money as anybody, and have found the sales tax an answer to their prayers for more dough. WHEN West Virginia started it off, the take of the sales tax was infinitesimal. In 1956, it produced more than three bil lion dollars. Percentagewise, ''collec t i o n s from the sales tax represented 18 per cent of total state tax col lections 10 years ago. Today sales taxes repreesnt 23 per cent of total state tax collections. TTERE is an interesting fact: AA Most of the adoptions of the sales tax by states came in the depression period from 1933 to 1935. Twenty-five of them took it up in those years. Five of the states that adopted the sales tax then have abandoned it since, but 13 more have taken it on. The sales tax was ideally adapted for the depression pe riod, because it was paid in small sums as purchases were made, In those rugged years, the sales tax was popular because it meant that people didn't have to dig into their pockets for large sums of tax money all at once. Instead, they paid their taxes a little at a time, and were all paid up, so far as the sales tax was concerned, at the end of the year. TN OREGON, the idea has been carefully nurtured over a pe riod of a quarter of a century that the sales tax is a sinful in stitution that should have been forbidden in the Ten Command ments. ' What isn't generally remem bered is that well ahead of West Virginia's experiment in 1921 Oregon ORIGINATED what is undoubtedly the most successful sales tax, in the United States. I am referring, of course, to the gasoline tax for the con struction of highways. Oregon was then wrestling with the problem of better roads of get ting out of the mud. By a tre mendous effort, the people were induced to vote a road bond is sue of six million dollars which then looked bigger than all the money in the world. But we needed roads. We needed them BADLY. The automobile was just com ing into general use, and the roads that had been good enough first for the ox wagon and later for the horse and buggy just simply weren't good enough for the gasoline chariot. So the $6,000,000 bond issue was approved in a hard-fought election campaign. TT WAS soon realized that six A million dollars wouldn't go too far in the direction of pro- , viding modern highways for a i state the size of Oregon, so a number of able-minded men got together and hatched up the idea of a tax on gasoline, to be paid when the gas was purchased. It worked. It kept on working. It produced a lot of money. And, because it was paid a little at a time so that nobody was hurt, it was POPULAR if any tax can be said to be popular. It worked so well that it spread eventually all over the U. S. and the more lewd and lascivious the story, the more colorful for the magazine." Kept Harrassing Her Miss Quillan, 41, strikingly dressed in a white cotton tight ly fitted sheath dress, said she began serving as an informant for Confidential about March of 1954. She said Harrison "kept har rassing me" for names of other prostitutes in Hollywood who could supply" him with informa tion. "I told him I tiid have contact with other girls who could pro vide him with material for stor ies, and he asked me whether these girls were willing to make rendezvous with celebrities," she testified. "Harrison told me that pri vate detectives were used to run down stories and for tips. He also used recordings micro films and tapes." "Mr. Harrison also discussed the homosexuality of a very prominent movie actress," she said. She admitted on the stand she was paid a total of $1,500 for information for two stories, one on the actress and the other on an actor. Under direct examin ation she did not name either of the personalities. Published in Altered Form "The story of the actor for which I was contacted was pub lished in altered form," she testified under prosecution ques tioning designed to bring out thi state's contention that the pub lications used "innuendo and falsehoods" in preparing stories. Doria Again Called To Explain Present Received From Union Washington OPI The Sen ate Rackets Committee recalled Anthony J. Doria today to ex plain the $80,000 going-away present he received from a un ion from which he resigned un der fire. Doria, a bulky buddy of New York labor racketeer Johnny Dio, resigned last .February as secretary-treasurer of the Allied Industrial Workers Union, for merly known as the AFL United Auto Workers. Other Witnesses Called Committee counsel Robert F. Field Wide Open For Hoffa Election San Francisco (IPl Joseph J Diviny, top teamster official here and international vice presi dent of the union, has withdrawn as a possible candidate to suc ceed Dave Beck as president, leaving the field wide open for James Hoffa. Divinv. head of the San Fran cisco Bay Area Joint Council of Teamsters, announced Monday he would not seek the union's top post at its convention in Miami next month. Hoffa, of Detroit, was expect ed to be named president by the Teamster convention without op position. He recently was found innocent of charges he attempted to bribe a. Senate committee in vestigator in connection with the investigation of labor racketeer ing. Diviny praised Hoffa as a "hard worker with unlimited energy" but he declined to. say whether he would support him for president. SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE Melbourne, Australia W Burglars who rifled a print shop here apparently were trying to get at the root of the matter. They stole 10,000 copies of a booklet to be distibuted to local police. The booklets described crime. ' Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. "I submitted the story as an incident that happened 10 years o previously but it appeared in the magazine as if it occurred re cently," she said. Grady's testimony averred that Mrs. Marjorie Meade, one of the agents indicted with the two magazines, used call girls to help prepare the affidavits. "They had some trouble with affidavits. The one affidavit that ftlarrison and Govoni (editor of Confidential) were concerned about was the one on Maureen O'Hara. I didn't see it, but it was dynamite. I was not to men tion the name of Miss O'Hara in front of Harrison because it would upset him," Grady told the court. Defense attorney Arthur Crowley- cross-examined Grady. Didn't See Eye-To-Eye "Is it true you were fired for incompetency?" Crowley asked. "No," was the reply. "For failure to meet dead lines?" "No." "You were fired?" "Yes, for failure to see eye to eye with Harrison." One of the biggest bundles of dirty linen to date In the trial was unwrapped Monday and it belonged to the biggest box of fice hero in movie history, Clark Gable. Gable immediately denied from his Hawaii vacation spot, testimony that he had an affair with a party girl but the frank allegations set off renewed behind-the-scenes maneuvers to keep the buodoir lives of the stars out of the trial. Kennedy told newsmen aout 10 other witnesses were also called including Joseph Curcio and Harry Davidoff, officials of the UAW-AFL Local 649 in New York. Local 649 was identified by the committee as Dio's mother local in his string of racket-ridden New York units of the UAW AFL nd a key unit in a scheme to set up paper locals of Team sters to help his friend, James R. Hoffa, win control of the Team sters in New York. Sale Information Wanted Kennedy said the committee also sought information from Doria about the sale of the un ion's headquarters in Milwaukee to Doria's former real estate partner. Former UAW-AFL President Earl Heaton testified Friday that Doria got $25,000 in cash and promissory notes for $55,000 when he left the union. Doria is suing to collect on the notes. The union decided at a house-cleaning convention last week to try to recover the original $25,000 paid to Doria. The committee subpoenaed Doria's records and bank ac count at the end of Monday's session. 7,000-Man Draft Call Issued for October Washington (W The De fense Department has issued a 7,000-man draft call for the Army in Octorber-the smallest monthly call since April, 1956. The Army took 8,000 draftees in September and 11,000 in August. From April through July the monthly draft call was 13,000. The reduced draft calls reflect Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson's recent order to trim military strength by 100,000 Wilson tcld his news confer- men by next Jan. 1. expected draft calls to level off ence last Wednesday that he at 1,000 or 8,000 men a month. ' When we ignore the traffic laws And children know we do, We're making sure i When they mature They will ignore them too. Bill Fish V - TC , I
