Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 26, 1957, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUH MEDFORD (OREGON) "Xveryone m southern Oregon Reada Th Mail Tribune" blishe Dan7Except Saturday by MEDFOaD PRINTING CO 7-Z9 North Ftr St. Phone 24141 ROBERT W HL'ffi' Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager ER?,11 Bu2,e Manger SUJfi 'LL? JK- Managing Editor IARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RKHAHD JEWETT Sport. Editor SV,ESHi:R Society Editor PALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered u second elu matter at Medlord Oregon under Act or March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES fiy Mil In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year 113 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mo 2i Sunday Only One year $4-20 i r"CT In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year SIS 00 Dally and Sunday One month UO Carrier and Dealers 10c oar cony Ail Terms Cash in Advance JXv'i"1. ?VT the c,t M'dford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU- OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago). de ch, Jancfcco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATION A I I 0 I T 0 1 1 A . I lAsTocfA'fZN LTO NEWSPAPER PUBUSHEtS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 26. 1947 (Tuesday) An unidentified youth rescues two others from deep hole in the Applgate river at M c K e e bridge. From Arthur Perry's Ye Sa&udge Pot column: The mer cury went up, yes, enabling the cucumbers to be as cool as re puted. n e M YFATW? AfiO 11, OC 1CT7 fTkiM,nt O City police today investigate the mysterious departure for San Francisco of three local teen-age Jjirls. Paul lvlenegat, principal of Medford junior high school, is released to become principal of The Dalles high school. '30 YEARS AGO Aug. 26, 1927 (Tuesday) Ten-year-old Billy West, Cen tral Point, arrived home from a 10-mile-trip to Canyonville. Visitors view northern lights from Crater Lake Lodge. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 26. 1917 (Monday) New Medford irrigation dist- rick plans on taking water from Beaver crek. a U.S. Marine . corps office closes in Medford after six months operation. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; even or eight is exceUent; five or six Is good 1. Earl Long is a political figure m which State? 2. Did the Twentieth Century begin Jan. 1. 1900 or 1901? 3. Bible: Which person had a coat of many colors? 4. Which European explorer discovered Manhattan Island? 5. Is catgut made from the Intestines of cats? 6. How many nations are in cluded in the Pan American Un ion? 7. What did Mussolini's title "II Duce" mean? 8. Do skates glide over ice by melting it? 5. "Bound" is often used to imply "determined." Is its usage as such objectable? 10. "See a pin and pick it up, All the day you'll have good luck; See a pin and let it lay. Bad luck you'll have" how long? ' Answers: 1. Louisiana. 2. 1901. 3. Joseph. 4. Henry Hud son. 5. No, (from the intestines of sheep). 6. Twenty-one. 7. "The Commander" ' or "The Guide." 8. Yes. 9. No 10 "all the day." Wind Catches Balloon Killing Frenchman Saint Florent Le Vieil, prance (IP! Georges Cornier. 23-year-old dean of French balloon ists, was fatally injured Sun day when an errant gust of wind caught his balloon during his 500th flight. Cormier was bringing his bal loon back to earch when a strong wind seized the balloon and sent it bouncing across fiplds and Hedges. When res cuers finally caught up with theJ appartus, Cornier was graveiy injured. He died an hour later. The phrase "Iron Curtain" was first used by Winston Churchill on March 5, 1946. to describe Russia's barrier around her satellites. MAIL TRIBUNE News "Bulletins Radio, the demise of which was freely predicted with the advent of TV, has made an amazing come back. But it has had to change its "format" to do it The emphasis these days is less and less on big network shows, and more and more on recorded music, brief news broadcasts, and special-event broadcasts. We do not quarrel with this type of programming although we do quarrel violently with much of the alleged "music" which the "deejays" seem to feel is attractive. During a recent sojourn among the tall trees, it seemed impossible to switch on the portable without hearing the moans, grunts, howls and wails which pass for songs these days. The rare exceptions, usually late at night, were doubly appreciated. . AS TO the news broadcasts, usually for three or five minutes each hour, they were sufficient to keep one informed whether or not the world was going to come to an end but not a great deal more. Either the stations available had no more, or they were missed in the hit-or-miss pattern of listening. There was no commentary, no explanation, no back ground to put flesh on the bare bones of the news bulletins. Radio, and its latter-day big sister, TV, are in creasingly media of entertainment some of it excel lent, no doubt, and laced perception which the broadcast media can handle so well but mostly entertainment, nonetheless. "NLY twice during the purchase newspapers the Eureka Humboldt Times. In each case, the newspaper lay around camp most of the day, but was picked and by the end of the day comprehensive picture of No one issue of any newspaper not even the New York Times gives the complete picture of the day's news. It is physically impossible to do so. But it is so vastly more comprehensive and informative than the sketchy radio bulletins that we were reinlorced in our belief that newspapers will always be with us, m one form or another. Beside, when camping, with the paper, you can wrap the fish in it ! h.A. j ; r ML Mazama's Explosion In the country between Butte Falls and Prospect, and in several other sections of the mountains to the east, one can see charred logs imbedded deep down in the dirt. They were brought into view when the road was cut. These are mementoes of the explosion of Mt. Mazama some 6,000 years ago ("only yesterday," geologically speaking), when the caldera was formed which later became Crater lake. The event was vividly described in a recent edi torial in the Bend Bulletin, penned by Associate Edi tor Phil Brogan, Oregon's outstanding newspaper-geologist. JN PART, he said: The wind was blowing from the west when the initial blasts of Mazama occurred. Pumice billowed thousands of feet into the sky, like anchored thundercaps. The prevailing wind caught the top of the clouds and heaved the mass of ash to the east, where it fell across Klamath mountain and even spread into the Chewaucan valley. Then the wind changed to the southwest, and the mush rooming clouds tilted northeast toward Mt. Newberry. The fallout of pumice filled valleys near Mazama, smoothed . mountain contours and changed the land into a white world. Gradually as the explosion clouds drifted toward the Deschutes the heavier material dropped to the earth. But the finer ash continued north, to cover the present Crescent country. At the site of Lava Butte, some 10 miles south of Bend of the present, the ash blanket was only six inches deep. But there is evidence that all of central Oregon, and much of northern Oregon and southeastern Washington, received some of the volcanic fallout. On the "morning after," the entire region for more than 100 miles north of the caldera, above which a giant mountain had loomed, was a desolated land. It does not appear that any animal life could have survived. Near the base of the mountain that was Mazama, ava lanches of glowing pumice swept through forests. Charcoal remnants of buried trees are now visible in the upper Rogue valley, and in the Crescent country. DROGAN compares this "fall out" with the radio active fallout so much discussed these days, and points out that the volcanic explosion was vastly more destructive than any nuclear explosion so far de tonated. When Mother Nature really lets loose, she makes the efforts of men seem puny' indeed, although man kind seems determined to catch up. One hopes he doesn't kill himself off in the process. E. A. A Great Summer The bulk of the fruit FFA fair has come and gone. The hot Augus' after noons give way to cool evenings, and mornings prove they re almost chilly by the grass. Even so soon, an occasional yellowed leaf flutters to the ground, away from its green brothers. The crab grass isn't growing as fast, and shows signs of ap proaching death. This has been a glorious summer in the Roeue River valley. It still is. But weeK away, and schools starting soon thereafter; with the days gradually getting: shorter: with talk gradu ally turning to football these things are proof that summer is fading, slowly, almost imperceptibly, into fall. E.A. ' Monday, August 26, 1957 if with the immediacy . arid week in the woods did we once the Oregonian, once up and read sporadically, we had gleaned a fairly what was going on. and when you're through harvest is in. The 4-H and amount of dew on the with Labor day only a 1 tftmff ifltRf Matter of Bonn, Germany Lingering doubts about the value of politi cal reporting practised at rang es of several thousand miles, are the main reason for this report er's grimly peripatetic life. .It is a bit embarrassing, therefore, to be writing in this smug little capital of West Germany about distant D a m a s cus, smiling and rocking in its lovely oasis. All the same, most of the Joseph Alsop participants in the left-wing coup d'etat in Syr ia are old friends, as it were. Not having a word to say about the great change in their fortunes in these last days, which one saw in the making on the spot only a few months ago, would be like omitting the customary letter to a newly married or promoted college classmate. Even from this distance, too, it is abundant ly clear that what has happened in Syria is very important in deed. Some kind of a coup d'etat in Damascus of course became in evitable as soon as the take-over of neighboring Jordan by the Egyptians and the Communists! was so brilliantly defeated by young King Hussein. What hap pened in Jordan encouraged the Syrian conservatives and mode' rates, and frightened the Syrian leftists and pro-Egyptians. Nei- ther side was willing, any long er, to tolerate the uneasy bal ance, with Left in control but not in absolute control, that had previously prevailed. TTnhappily,. as this reporter J wrote from Damascus in May, the Syrian moderates and conservatives enjoyed the ap proximate degree of animation of dead fish on a slab. Like dead fish prepared by the fishmonger, they also lacked guts. Hence, the betting, even then, was all for a leftist success in the coup d'etat that one could so clearly see ahead. The really interesting point about the new Syrian coup d'etat, therefore, is not the fact of a leftist victory. The really interesting point is the indica tion of a deep change in the lost balance of power between the Syrian leftist parties. The Com munists elearlv seem to have made important gains at the ex pense of the extreme left-wing, pro-Egyptian but non-Commu nists who were formerly in the saddle. As late as last spring, the two real rulers of Syria were both non-Communists of the extreme left - wing and pro - Egyptian brand. The civil ruler was the able and dynamic ruler of the Ba'ath Party, Ahram Hourani. The military ruler was the head of Army Intelligence, Col. Abdel Hamid Serraj. At that time Syria's Communist phipftnin Khalirl Baadash. appeared to be very much Ah ram Hourani's junior partner. Furthermore, it was authorita tively said that there were no Communists in the Army at all, with the single exception of Col. Afif Bizry. Col. Bizry and Col. Amin Nufouri enjoyed great no toriety as the judges who had pronounced death sentences in a Moscow-style "treason" trial of Syrian right-wingers during the winter. Col. Nufouri was further celebrated as the special enemy and rival of Col. Abdel Hamid Serraj. The main result of the Syrian coup d'etat so far has been the transformation of Col. Bizry, the Army's sole reputed Communist, into Ma j. -Gen. Bizry, Chief of Staff of the Syrian armed forc es, and the further transforma tion of Col. Nufouri, Col. Ser raj's enemy, into Brig.-Gen. Nu fouri, Deputy Chief of Staff un der Gen. Bizry. In Arab politics there are usually meanings with in meanings. But surely the most important meaning of these sud den promotions of Bizry and Nu fouri is plain "enough. In brief, there has been a sharp change in what you might call the stock ownership of Syr ia. For a long time now, Syria 'Boy. mtsAiymoofA noose1 Fact By Joseph Alsop has been a- complete Egyptian satellite. Gamal Abdel Nasser has held something like .95 per cent of the stock in the company through his two Syrian represen tatives, Col. Serraj and Ahram Hourani. ,' "Dut now, as -the immense in crease of Afif Bizry's au thority indicates, t h e Soviets have bought into the company in a very big way indeed. Fifty fifty seems a reasonable estimate of the present split in Syrian vot ing shares between Nasser and the Kremlin. F o r propaganda purposes in the Middle East, Nas ser will no doubt stay on as the company's front man. Outward ly, Syrian policy will continue to be Egyptian policy. But inside Syria, it is a fair guess that Com munist Party Leader , Baqdash and Army Chief of Staff Bizry now have just a bit more strength than Ba'ath Party Lead er Hourani and his military ally, Serraj. Ope wonders immediately what this means in terms of Ga mal Abdel Nasser's own rela tions with the Kremlin. To this reporter, it seems another fair guess that the developments in Syria imply a new decision by Nasser to throw in his lot rather completely and finally with the world bloc headed by the Soviet Union. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Modern furniture-note: A new "relaxer" chair (put out by one of the nation's big gest manufacturers) not only stretches you out comfortably with you feet in the 'air but MASSAGES YOU as well. With the turn of a dial a jig ger called a cycloid goes to work and massages your whole body. The action is described as an aid in soothing muscles and nerves that have become "tight" during the day's activi ties. JJu m-m-m-m I have a cynical notion that mowing the lawn might have the same effect. And for less money. 0f course, I'm old-fashioned. But Money is old fashioned. What we call coined money was in vented back about 700 B.C. by either the Lydians or the Ioians. At any rate, it was in what we now call Asia Minor. This mony was a rough piece of metal made of gold and silver. It was rough ly stamped to indicate its value, The Chinese were also early makers of coins. They shaped each coin to show what could be bought with it. Some of their coins were shaped like the hu man body and were called "dress money." These were used to buy clothing. The Chinese were very early eaters of pork as you will re call . from your reading of Charles Lamb's whimsical Es say on Roast Pig. Presumably the money intended to pay for a pork chop was shaped lik a pig. A 11 this talk about money spot- flights, a little story that has just come off the wire. A group of 'young mothers in Milwood, Mich., is running a money-printing outfit just like the treas ury department. It is quite legal, and is de signed to solve their baby-sitting problems. This "currency" come in two denomination a half hour and a full hour. When mother needs a baby-sitter, she calls another mother and when the sitting job is finished she pays her off with the prop er amount of baby-sitting bills. The bills are negotiable and the second mother can ,use them when SHE needs a baby sitter. And so on. Use of this baby-sitting cur rency keeps everything straight so that no mother gets gypped in the transaction.' That's what money is for. That is why it is Special Wisconsin Senatorial Election Tuesday Seen By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Staff Correspondent Washington (in Wiscon sin's special Senate election Tuesday gives national pilitical parties their first chance to test nolitical wind directions since the Eisenhow e r landslide 1 0 mon ths ago. The prize is the vacant Senate seat of the late Sen. Joseph R. Mc Carthy, the c o n trovers- Raymond Lahr ial figure who held it for almost 11 years. The Republicans expect to win but seem a little nervous. The Democrats are. hopeful but recognize that they are under dogs in normally Republican Wisconsin. 1 Although the state GOP or ganization tends to be conserva tive, the Republican nominee is an Eisenhower Republican, for mer Gov. Walter J. Kohler. The Democratic candidate is William Proxmire from the liberal wing Federal Atomic Power Plant Still Doubtful Despite Demo Victory By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent . Washington When President Eisenhower signed the atomic energy authorization bill into law last week, he made it pos sible to com plete plans for a big dual-purpose reactor at Hanf ord but at the same time he made clear his ad- ministra t i o n a. eobt smith will resist 10 the end the construction of that reactor as a federal project. The effect of this statement by the president was to throw down the gauntlet once more to Con gress, wnicn naa just gone through another battle over the government's atomic power pol icy. This year the Democrats who favor federally built reac tors, won decisively over Repub licans who support the admin istration's preference for private industrial development of atomic power reactors, The Hanford reactor is bound now to be another major issue in this . continuing policy dispute during the congressional session next spring, for by April 1 the Atomic Energy Commission must have completed engineering de signs and construction plans for the dual-purpose reactor. They are obliged to do this much with $2,000,000 appropriated for the planning. Cost $100 Million Eisenhower said he had no ob jection to federal planning, as long as the construction were turned over to private enter prise. A dual-purpose reactor would cost around $100,000,000. The prospect of it being handled privately seems remote. Two questions must be answer ed before such a reactor can be built: First, will Congress au thorize expenditure of $100,000,- defined as "a medium of ex change. It keeps exchange of commodities which is what business amount to on an even keel. VIThat we call money is the re "sult of a long, long process of development and improve ment. There was - a time .in ancient Rome when CATTLE were used as money. You are aware of the word 'pecuniary" which means re lating to money. It comes from the Latin "pecus," which means cattle. The Latin word for mon ey is "pecunia." The use of cattle for money was inconvenient. Picture your self as an early Roman going to town to lay in your supplies. It was highly inconvenient to lug a" dozen or so cows along with maybe a few calves for change. So the Romans looked around for a more convenient substitute. For a while, .they used LEATHER for money. M oney is very. VERY old. But, from the very beginning, this rule has held good.. If you spend more money than you take in, you go broke. Everybody understands that EXCEPT GOVERNMENTS. How To Hold FALSE TEETH ;More Firmly in Place Do your false teetb annoy and em barrass by slipping, dropping or wob bling when you eat, laugh or talk? Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH on your plates. This alkaline (non-acid) powder holds false teeth more firmly and more comfortably. No gummy, gooey pasty taste or feeling. Does not sour Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). Get FASTEETH today at any drug counter. of his party a thrice-defeated nominee for governor who once lost to Kohler by a margin of 35,000 votes. Politicians Will Sniff Whatever the result, the trend-hunters in both parties will go to work with slide rules. In Wisconsin last year. Sen. Alexander Wiley, another Ei senhower Republican, was re elected with 58 per cent of a total vote of 1,523,356 while President Eisenhower was also sweeping the state. Forecasts reaching the party managers here estimate a much smaller vote Tuesday in the neighborhood of 600,000. Even that turnout would be higher than was expected a few weeks ago. One source of Republican worry is the independent can didacy of Howard H. Boyle Jr., a conservative Republican, who figures to subtract from Kohl er's vote. GOP leaders are con ceding him about 20,000. Republicans are also nervous about the farm vote in the north-western part of the state, which will be watched closely by the Democrats, too. In that 000 for the reactor; and second, will the administration reluc tantly build it if Congress does approve it? Congress has appropriated funds to start four new dams as federal projects in the past sev eral years over administration opposition, and in each case the dams were put under construc tion or, in the case of John Day dam, will soon be. In no case did the executive branch of the gov ernment exercise its power to veto such federal projects simp ly by failing t6 spend the appro priated funds. i The atomic projects may be quite another matter, for the ad ministration is strenuously try ing to prevent the beginning of a program of federal atomic power plants and, with the stubborness of AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss to give the admin istration's stand some muscle, it is not inconceivable that even if Congress puts up funds to start the big Hanford undertaking, it might be shelved. Jackson Confident Sen. Henry M. Jackson, Demo crat, Washington, who piloted the Hanford project through the congressional rapids, says he is confident "when the president understands what this is all about, I don't think he will freeze the funds." Jackson point ed out that the military have asked for, greater plutonium pro duction, which they could achieve with a dual-purpose re actor: but they were turned down( by the budget bureau for economy reasons. General Electric Corp.. which operates Hanford, is ready to go on a dual-purpose reactor, said Jackson, and believes it is "a sound economic approach." It just is common sense, he added, to generate power along with producing plutonium, so "this has nothing to do with public vs. private power." The administration doesn't see it that way, nor do Republicans on Capitol Hill. That was the reason for the major hassle over the bill the president just signed into law. As Harry R. Stringer, editor of the Washington Atomic Energy Report, put it, the bill finally passed by Congress "was a product of political fusion." t looks now like there will have to be a good deal more po litical fusion the. next six to eight months if that Hanaford re actor is ever to get off the draw ing boards. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 as Test area four years ago, the Demo crats broke the Republican hold on the 9th Congressional seat and elected Rep. Lester R. John son, who has twice been reelect ed.. Issues At Stake Democrats also will be wond ering whether there is any po litical payoff in their efforts to develop an issue from inflation and the rising cost of living. They have doubts, however, that the issue was exploited in Wis consin t the extent that it will be tried in some states in the 1958 congressional elections. The result Tuesday can have much impact on the Senate where there are now 49 Demo crats, 46 Republicans and one vacancy. A Proxmire victory would provide some insurance ainst the Democrats losing control be fore the 1958 elections. A Kohl er victory would put the GOP in position to take control if a Democratic senator should die in a state with a Republican governor who could fill the vacancy by appointment. Republicans have the tie breaking vote of Vice President Richard M. Nixon to organize the Senate should their member ship rise to 48. ' Editorial Comment CANADIANS ON McKAY'S JOB I- When Douglas McKay was appointed by President Eisen hower to be U.S. chairman of the International Joint Com mission the U. S.-Canadian commission charged with coop eration over uses of the mighty Columbia public power pro ponents howled at this new "roadblock" to development of the Pacific Northwest. Private power proponents, in cluding many Oregon news papers of a Republican . vein, saluted the appointment and ridiculed the protests, "Good deal," they said in effect. "Doug's just the man." What did the Canadians think? Well, one of them, a top writer on a . top newspaper, didn't think much of it. Here's what Bill Ryan, business editor of the Vancouver Province a conservative newspaper had to say in his column: "Canada-United States talks on Columbia Hiver power, de velopment have likely hit anoth er roadblock rather than stim ulant in the appoinment of former United States Interior Secretary Douglas McKay as United States chairman of the International Joint Commission. "McKay, say Washington ob servers, is a private power ex ponent, and probably lukewarm to any expansion of public pow er in the Pacific Northwest. What's more, his appointment apparently does nothing to solve the continuing private-versus-public power squabble in the United States, with which Can ada's Columbia River hopes seem inextricably bound. "It is a bleak picture for Brit ish Columbia, one virtually with out visible solution unless Canada goes it alone on upper Columbia development. And such a course has its drawbacks since it might provide the Unit ed States Pacific Northwest with substantial downstream benefits free of charge." ' So much for Mr. Ryan. There is much talk lately from industry bigshots about the whys and wherefores of Oregon being unable to entice new in dustry into the state. But every one seems to overlook the pri mary reason: The Pacific North west is rapidly running out of its great fuel cheap hydroelec tric power and nothing is being done, to rectify the situa tion. The appointment of Douglas McKay was just another step away from solutions. Coos Bay Times. 4t PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which are in keeping with its means. A selection of services for every price range is of fered to satisfy individual preferences and to meet all financial circumstances. Convenient Terms? Certainly!