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FOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) "Iveryone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Publunea Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING rn 7 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-A141 . - nvou EfOJtor ?f5?,9R?ydTert4Im Manager FRa?,VM Business Manager Sv ,l-l-EN Managinit Editor fABL H ADAMS City Editor "f-KRV tttTPMAN TelegraBh Editor SiSSD JEWETt Snorts Editor S,AJ,V?J,AfiCHES Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. M maepenoent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Art of Marcn 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTIOM RATES In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $19 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shadv Cove Rogue River. Talent ond on motor routes Daily and Sunday One year $1810 Daiiy and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per cooy Ail Terms Cash In Advance 0tW. P.pe' th c,y Medford Official Paper ol Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU " yjr LlfTLULA LJUlN Advprttgintv RnpulM... WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY tNC Offices in New York Chicago de troit San, Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C N A T I O N A I. I 0 I T O 1 1 A i A$$ocfArieN ri-ui-irwui'itiuj 0" NcWSPAPEI PUBllSHEtS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Th,e Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 15, 1947 (Friday) A comedy-filled parade was the main stem of VJ celebration here yesterday. From Arthur Perry's Ye Old Smudge Pot column: "Hoodlums stir prison turmoil Better class of inmates might improve things." 20 YEARS AGO 0 Aug. 15, 1937 (Sunday) Klamath doctor flies private plas V. t . 1 . K ; mnrli. Cljb- I1""1C 1U1 "lliaRC-UlW- iilr- cine. c3 City police start a campaign to elirrftiate over-night parked cars in the business section. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 15 1927 (Monday) Burro trail on Crater lake rim laid out and will be built in next year or so. Medford orchardists congratu lated on meeting spray residue problem. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 15, 1917 (Wednesday) Shifts changed by Company C in guarding tunnels and bridges in Siskiyous. Petition is grandted by county court for organization of irriga tion district by E. B. Pickel and 75 others.- What's Yous I.Q.? Ntne or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six is good , 1. Which state leads in the production of pig iron and steel? 2. A person who had read about gemmology would have learned about what subject? 3. BIBLE: "And Terah . . . begat Abram" and who else? 4. What is the birthstone for February? 5. A person suffering from an thropophobia has a morbid dread of what? 6. Are seedles raisins grapes from which the seeds have been removed by machine? 7. Decalcomania is the name, of a new mental disease; true or false? 8. Has the warden of a prison the power to reprieve or com mute a condemned man's sen tence? 9. "Debase" means to degrade. Is "demean" a proper synonym to use in place of debase? 10. "The first man is of the earth, earthy." Is this from the Bible. Shakespeare, or Byron? Answers: 1. Pennsylvania. 2. The study of precious stones. 3. Nahor and Haram. 4. Ame thyst. 5. Of meeting people. 6. No, (Ihey are seedless grapes) 7. False. 8. No. 9. No, (it is a colloquialism). 10. Bible. Woman Ticketed in Scrape With Truman Cinnc fitv Mo. flPV MiSS WW VV' Willie Mae Dunn of Kansas City Owas given a ticket Wednesday for failure to yield the right of way. Police said the fact that the person who had the right of way was former President Tru man made no difference. Miss Dunn, 48, and Truman were driving south when the woman's car edged into the in ner lane and hooked the left front fender of her car to the right rear bumper of Truman s vehicle. . Truman was a bit late for a lunch engagement but other wise didn't seem disturbed, el iher driver was hurt. MAIL TRIBUNE The McKay Mystery We have never been able to understand the atti tude of the inflexible Republican press in this state toward former Secretary Kay. We wonder what "Doug has got which most defeated candidates in the Grand Old Party haven't got? Not that there was any reason to be mystified by the strong support given our former Governor when he ran for the U.S. senate The attempt in that Salem representative of General Motors into not only a super-man of startling ability and sterling integrity but an advocate of public power or at least not an opponent seemed a bit silly at the time, but in the heat of a bitter campaign, able. But the extravagent hymns of praise and adolation which have poured forth sources since .President McKay chairman of the U.S.-Canadian International Joint Water Commission, TPHE Oregonian, for example, in subdued but no uncertain terms practically calls the Louisville Courier Journal a liar for for appointing on such a commission quote : "A man who has bitterly opposed the Federal Power program." A liar? UNTRUE? It is the gospel truth! As Secretary of the Interior no man could have fought harder, more constantly and consistently against federal power and in favor of private power, than Douglas McKay. He not only agreed when the latter condemned TVA as creeping socialism;" he agreed with when Mr. Hoover advocated not only that T.V.A. should be sold by the government to the private power combine, but that ALL federal multiple-power projects should be thus disposed of, on behalf of "ragged individualism" and the "American Way of Life." As remarked all this adulation is mystifying. The Oregonian is, of course, extremely partisan and always has been, but it has ate, objective and reasonably fair. But not when former Governor McKay steps into the picture. Then one of the worst Secretaries of the Interior from the standpoint the country has ever had, is hero, a victim of political bushwhacking," a man un justly abused and villified by the Democratic press. 1HAT is the big idea anyway? 11 In his stand on public power Mr. McKay was simply standing by his party. As a regular and dedi cated orthodox Republican, how could the Oregonian, or any other newspaper, have expected him to do otherwise? Why tiy to build him up ly wasn t and isn t There is no crime in federal power projects on Talent or anywhere else. spectable and law-abiding about it. That is entirely ok. necessarily cast any discredit upon those who com pletely disagree with them. views also. This is a free country. Let the people of the coun try, study the issue, and take their respective sides, and agree to disagree as they will. MO ONE denies that in his opportunities to fight against public power, will as in the Department of the The only point this ppintment was announced was that whenever and wherever issues between Canada and the United States did involve public versus private power, Mr. McKay could be depended upon to be true to himself and his record fight for the former. Certainly the volved this issue and some m the future along the Canadian border may well do so also. i '. nTHIS is not only the view of this paper. It is a view held by such influential metropolitan papers as the aforementioned Louisville Courier Journal and we are inf ormed also, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Denver Post in fact enough "posts" to support quite an im posing political platform. Yet the Republican press here in Oregon headed by the stalwart Oregonian, keeps on trying to make black appear white, the political myth of the last sena torial campaign appear valid, and in spite of the facts which can't be disputed, build up former Secretary McKay into what he so plainly isn't. It is all very puzzling. R.W.R. PAYS CUSTOMERS' FINES Bloomineton. Ill AH James Woosley, operator of an auction sales company at nearby Hud son, was high bidder on the traffic tickets of 14 of his cus tomers in justice court here. The 14 customers were tagged for illegal parkine on the hitrhwav adjacent to his sale barn, and eacn was tinea 59. Woosley "bid in" the fines himself, forked over ?136 to pay for them. Thursday, August IS. 1957 of the Interior Douglas Mc against Wayne Morse. campaign to build up the it was at least understand from the same journalistic Eisenhower appointed Mr. are NOT. criticizing the President with President Eisenhower former President Hoover also usually been temper of the public welfare of promptly dressed up as a as something he so clear being opposed to multiple- the Columbia, the Snake, Thousands of entirely re citizens feel the same way But that certainly doesn't They 'are entitled to their present post Mr. McKay's for private power and be nowhere near as great Interior. paper made when the ap- the latter and fight against St. Lawrence Sea Way in other international project HELPS SELF LOSE JOB Wallingford, Conn. OP) Bor ough i Warden John A. Buza was a strong advocate of the plan for the 104-year-old borough of Wal lingford to be incorporated into the town of Wallingford. His campaigning was so effective that voters overwhelmingly cast their ballots for incorporation. When it becomes official next January Buza's job will be abolished. 'MccweoM in'. Mom don't wind fixW lunch for MY FRIENDS'. COME ON J VRY3O0Yr Honeymoon Between Senators Is Over, Correspondent Says By ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington The political honeymoon between Senators Wayne Morse and Richiard L. Neuberger is over. The two Oregon Democrats while voting differently on more and more major issues, had maintained a close personal re lationship until the past two weeks when they fell to squab bling like dis- enchanted lovers. Morse blamed Neu berger for helping to launch "a snide attack on me" and with taking A tobt Smith an inaireci slap at me." Neuberger said he lias become "disapponted" in Morse and "disillusioned" with politics because of the whole af fair. Whether the result of the tor rid Washington summer and the late night Senate sessions have frayed senatorial nerves, or the first sign of trouble in what some observers thought was only a marriage of convenience in the first place, who is to say Send Letters But for the past two weeks the senators have been having at it in semi-privacy not in face-to-face quarreling, but via the mails. Up on the fourth floor of the Senate office building. Senator Morse has been writing long letters to his junior col league. Down on the third floor, Senator Neuberger, no slouch at the written word, has been replying to his senior colleague. These aren't what you'd call love notes, While Postmaster General Summerfield (who was once Re publican national chairman) doubtless would be delighted to know he has been the courier for this exchange, the senators have somehow found it more desirable to dictate long letters to one another than to have it out via telephone or personal talks. Oh, the senators are still on speaking terms. They attended a meeting with apple, growers the other day, and Monday they attended as usual the regular bi-weekly meeting of the Demo cratic members of the Oregon delegation. But they vent their personal feelings in writing, with carbon copies for friends and the files. Two issues have focused their differences: civil rights and the president. Civil Rights Dispute The civil rights dispute dates back to mid-June when a group of liberals led by Senator Paul H- Douglas of Illinois set and agreed to back a move on the Senate floor to place the House passed civil rights bill directly on the calendar, instead of send ing it first to the Judiciary com mittee, as is customary. Morse nd Neuberger both agreed to this strategy. Subquently, Morse took the floor and denounced the move. Douglas called an other liberal caucus and charged that Morse, who was present, had "betrayed the cause," ac cording to one printed account of the closed meeting. Morse thereupon stalked out, after de claring he had simply changed his mind and "did the only thing possible I confess that I was wrong." Neuberger spoke up to defend Morse, especially when Douglas wondered aloud whether Morse hadn't made a deal with southern Democrats to gain votes for the Hells Canyon bill which was soon to come The night of June 20 the civil rights procedural question came to a vote. Morse, in a major address in behalf of sending the bill to the committee, charged the other liberals with "parlia- mentary expediency" for want- ingto short-circuit the committee of which Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland is chairman. Douglas at one point jumped up and boomed at Morse: "I think what the senator from Oregon is trying to do to night is kill civil rights." Canyon Bill Passes Next day the Senate passed the Hells Canyon bill with the help of southern senators who a year ago had opposed y. When Republicans and some Oregon newspapers charged that Morse had made a deal, Morse ve hemently denied it and Neu berger rose to his defense. As is his custom, Morse had reprints of his June 20 speech mailed to many Oregon citizens. Neuberger took umbrage at the repeated charge of "parliament ary expediency" which he said people in Oregon interpreted as an implied attack on Neuberger, who had voted with the Douglas group in the successful manue ver to bypass the committee. When Douglas heard about this, he offered to write a letter of commendation in behalf of Neu berger on civil rights. Pleased at this, Neuberger said he sup plied Douglas with addresses and, at Douglas request, the necessary copies of' tile letter (not more than 100, said Neu berger) were reproduced in Neu berger's office for mailing. The Douglas letter soon be came a cause celebr?. It men tioned a civil rights meeting scheduled in Portland to whip up sentiment for the bill. Tower of Strength "Finally," wrote Douglas, "I want to tell you what a tower of strength Senator Neuberger has ben throughout this whole battle. He has been one of the men we could depend upon in every emergency. He has been resolute in his courage, and dip lomatic in his language, and highly honorable in every re lationship on and off the floor, We are very proud to have him as a colleague. Let us push on together in this great struggle to realize more fully the basic features of the American faith." What did he say about Morse? Not a word. Morse's reaction, when he got wind of it, was that the Douglas letter was "a snide attack on me." He told Neuberger so in a formal letter. In a letter to Phil Reynolds, preident of the Portland branch of the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, Morse wrote: "I was further saddened by Paul Douglas's conduct in respect to mailing a letter to many people in Oregon "which was interpreted by many of my civil rights friends as a snide attack on me, which it was." Puts In Record Last week Morse nudged the affair into the open by putting the Douglas letter, without ex planation, in the Congressional Record. When asked why he did this, Morse said, with tongue in' cheek, he was always pleased to see his junior colleague so handsomely complimented. Neuberger rose to the chal lenge and, without explanation, inserted in the Record a copy of Representative Edith Green's June newsletter in which she fold of the Senate's passage of the Hells Canyon bill: "The Sen ate victory is a great tribue to Senator Morse, who has so ef fectively and courageously led this fight for so long against terrific odds." What did she say about Neu berger? Not a word. I was stunned," Neuberger told me, "to know that he thought the Douglas letter was a snide attack. I wonder whether he thinks Mrs. Green's news letter is a snide attack on me, because I was in the Hells Can yon fight, too, and on the same side with Senator Morse." False Analogy "That's an argument by way of false ananolgy," replied Morse. He said he found no fault j In the Day's News By FRANK In its issue of last week the U.S. News and World Report, one of the best of the business magazines, asks in big type on its front page this rather star tling question: WHERE WILL THE UNITED STATES PUT 60 MILLION MORE PEOPLE? We will have that many more, it says, by 1975 only 18 years from now. By then, it adds, the population of the United States will be 227 mUlions. It bases its prediction on the best statistical estimates avail able. IHE magazine then proceeds to answer its own question as to what we will do with these added millions.' The already crowded East wiU get 13,000,000 'of them. The South will get 15,000,000. The Midwest will get 14,000, 000. The WEST will get 18,000,000. rpHAT is to say: In the next 18 years the West will gain more new popu lation than ANY OTHER RE GION of the United States. A new empire, the magazine says, is emerging on the Pacific Coast. Western climate, it adds, wiU be the magnet for millions, but in addition to climate the West has the pull of a maturing economy with many opportuni ties and vast natural resources. By 1975, the 11 Western states will have a population of 42 MILLIONS. WHERE will this population be concentrated? The bulk of it will be in California, which by 1975 will be the biggest state in the Union, with a population of 26V& mil lions. Oregon's population by then will be 2,865,000. Washing with Mrs. Green's newsletter, and what the Portland congress- woman says to her constituents is one thing and not analogous to a letter typed "on Neuberger's robotypers" that goes out to "Neuberger.s mailing list" prais ing only Neuberger. Mrs. Green said her omission of , Neuberger's name was "ab solutely not" a slap at him. She said she singled out Morse for praise, among the many Hells Canyon sponsors, because "he has been the chief sponsor of Hells Canyon since before Sen ator Neuberger and 1 came to Congress. When the final vote on the bill came, the senators split again. Neuberger arose and said he would vote for the biU, "how ever limited and modest" it had been made by amendments. He added: "Where would this nation be today if all senators during our past history had allowed them selves the luxury of .opposing each piece of legislation which failed to dot every i or cross every t to suit their own par ticular taste?" 'Half A Loaf "It is said," replied Morse to the Senate, "that half a loaf is better than nothing. But I question whether in this bill there is even half a loaf." He concluded by saying "I will never knowningly vote for what I consider to be a sham." A moment later Neuberger got up and recalled that the day before he and Morse had voted for a Klamath Indian bill to de lay termination of federal con trol over the tribal reservation, even though they were unhappy that its terms had been watered down. The civil rights bill, con cluded Neuberger, "is not every thing it should be, but I believe it is better than the existing vacuum in this vital field." Morse fired back that Neu berger was again guilty of the fallacy of false analogy. He said because "I considered the civil rights bill to be completly un satisfactory," it was a non se quiter to argue that, his vote for the modified Klamath bill car "TO OUR PROFESSION WE PLEDGE: support of high educational standards and proper licensing laws; encour agement of scientific research; adherence to sound business practices; adoption of improved techniques; observance of all rules of fair competition; to refrain from price advertising; maintenance of favorable per sonnel relations." . From the Code of Ethics of the National Funeral Directors' Association DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 . Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS " JENKINS ton's will be 4,188,000. Arizona's will be 2,047,000. The rest of the 42 millions will be scattered among Colorado, Idaho, Mon tana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. KEEP this in mind: For 100 years, the West has sufered because of distance from the big consuming mar kets. During most of this time we have had to send the bulk of our products EAST and by the time they got there the trans portation cost made them pro hibitively expensive in competi tion with Eastern products. When we have in the . WEST a market of 40-odd million people, all this will be changed. And This Western market of more than 40 million people will in sure rapid development of West ern industry. NOW for the other side of the picture. When all this comes to pass, where in the West will we find STANDING ROOM? I DON'T think we need to worry too much about that. According to U.S. News and World Report's estimates, ap proximately HALF of this 40 odd million Western population will be concentrated in Los An geles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle and their suburbs. These newcomers who will swell the population of the West, the magazine says, will be big city dwellers who will want to live near the bright lights. If that is true, there will be plenty of standing room for the rest of us in the areas beyond the reach of the metropolitan cities. These big cities will pro vide MARKETS for our indus tries and our agriculture. ried an obligation to vote for the modified civil rights bill. He said amendments had made it "complete unacceptable to me as a liberal who believes that a bad civil rights bill is worse than no civil rights bill at all.' Sharp .Criticism . The other . issue arose over Morse's sharp criticism of Presi dent Eisenhower for accepting valuable gifts, which he said "is politically immoral." Neu berger, who had winced but held his tongue weeks before when Morse compared Eisen hower to Dave Beck, took the Senate floor and said: " "I do not criticize Mr. Eisen hower. He is not to blame for this situation. He is merely con forming to a systeni which ex isted 5 lo;ig before he entered politics but a, system which becomes less defensible with each passing day." This week Morse wrote Neu berger that his speech on Eisen hewer could be taken as "an indirect slap at me." He said that things like this and the Douglas letter provide fuel for the propaganda attacks of their opponents. As Morse described it in an interview, he is busy at one of h i s favorite preoccupations: "educating freshmen." He ex pressed confidence that his pupil "is a better senator" for the in struction the old senator is dishing out. Unspoken Qualification "I think Dick Neuberger is superior to 85 per cent of the Senate," observed Morse, "But . . ." The impression was con veyed that the unspoked qualifi cation was that Neuberger still has much to learn, but that under his tutelage his promise may be realized. "I think Senator' Morse has great ability," said Neuberger, but. . ." His qualification seems to be that Morse doesn't measure up in personal characteristics. He isn't sore at Morse but only disappointed" in him. No, if he had it to do over now, he wouldn t write magazine articles booming Morse for president. "This whole episode has dis-1 Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the riRht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words To the Editor: As a former owner of an ambulance service, it was with much interest that I read your editorial about the Medford ambulance service To say that an extreme emer gency would exist if the Medford company was to quit service, is putting it mildly to say the least It certainly would be tragic for a city the size of Medford to suddenly find themselves with out this necessary service. As for city operation of the ambulances, I believe it would prove very unsatisfactory as other large cities have found out. The city of Oakland ' operated the ambu lances for years, manned by po lice officers. Several years ago, they turned to private operation, this being far superior from the standpoint 6f service, expense. and training of ambulance at tendants. The city of Los An geles is being served in part by private operators, and they have been enjoying the best of service. The rates quoted in the editor ial of $10.00 for the call and 75c per mile, is quite fair. In the Oakland area for instance 1 op erated at $7.50 per call and $1.00 per mile with a guarantee of $15.00 per call by day and $17.50 by night. Our runs were for the most part 15 miles or better to the nearest hospital. - On calls for the city, accidents or other emergencies, we were guaranteed payment by the city if we were unable to collect from the patient after 60 days. This seemed to be a very fair arrange ment and I believe the same thing could be worked out in this area to the advantage of all con cerned. The public should realize that without this service their loved ones might have died. Re membering this, they should pay their ambulance bills, or the Am bulance service will die. In conclusion, I again wish to say that in these troubled times a city the size of Medford with out an ambulance service would be a tragic state of affairs. Russ Osborn, Ashland, Ore. Four Candidates Added To IV's Queen Contest Cave Junction Four addition al princesses have been added to the Illinois VaUey Jubilee queen contest. They are Jean Knight, spon sored by the Lions club; Bertha Champney, Illinois Valley Cham ber of Commerce; Melba. Jordan, Illinois Valley Volunteer fire men; and Fern Mickey, Veter ans of World War I. The winner will receive her crown at the Queen's ball, Sat urday night, Aug. 31, at the Legion hall. She is also to lead the Labor Day parade Monday. EDITOR DIES New York Wl Frederick R. Sisson Jr., 49, editor of Paper and Paper Products, a trade journal of Walden Son & Mott, Inc., publishing company, died Wednesday. illusioned me with political life," he added. Not so many years ago Neu berger was one of the most articulate critics of the then Republican Senator Morse. In 1952 Morse bolted the GOP. In 1954 he campaigned for Neu berger against Republican Sen ator Guy Cordon. In 1955 Morse registered as a Democrat. In 1956 Neuberger stumped Ore gon for Morse against Douglas McKay, the GOP challenger. Times and tempers change. What the future may bring, only the foolhardy dare predict. But after three years, the Morse Neuberger political marriage has entered the post-honeymoon period in which personal faults and idiosyncracies become sources of irritation, and a break down in respect and tolerance can be fatal to the union.
