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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) IFOetXvK.TKIBUNE "Iveryonst In Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRJLNTLNCi CO 27-29 North fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALXN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Rv Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Dailv and Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 Bt Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Centra) Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Roeue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot Column: "Two Am erican students and a British artist have arrived at Helsinki, Finland, after detention in the Russian version." 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 1. 1937 (Wednesday) Crater lake national park trav el has passed the 170,000 mark for the 1937 season, approxi mately 15,000 visitors ahead of the 1936 schedule. Officers and men of Company "A" and headquarters company 186 th infantry, of the Oregon national guard were back at their regular occupations today after two weeks of intensive training and maneuvers. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 1, 1927 (Thursday) Bear creek to be straightened, widened and deepened by grub bing out trees and brush. Protection of fish from foun dering in irrigation canals is considered more complete on the Rogue river, state game com mission officials say. 40 YEARS AGO Stpl. 1, 1917 (Saturday) A total of 156 cars of Bartlett pears leave Medford as the sea son reaches mid-point. Governor Withycombe has changed his mind so many times this season that it takes a mathe matician to tell whether hunt ing season is closed or open. What's Ycur I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is exceUent: five or six is good. 1. Is there a customs union be t w e e n Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg? 2. What is the size of a "hand" as used in measuring the height of horses? 3. Bible: Were both Pithom and Ramses the classical bond cities of the Israelites in Egypt? If not, which one was? 4. The island of Sicily is part of which country? 5. Name the capital of the Ver gin Islands of the U. S. 6. Name the British Prime Ministers who succeeded Win ston Churchill. 7. The comic opera "The Mika do' deals with the life of what country? 8. How many keys are on a standard piano keyboard.? 9. Is the phrase, "There! that job is over with!" in the sense of completed, slang, colloquial, or correct literary usage? 10. "Mad as a March" heir, hare or hatter? Answers: 1. Yes. 2. Four inches. 3. Yes, both were. 4. Italy. 5. Charlotte Amalie. 6. Clement Atlee and Sir Anthony Eden. 7. Japan. 8. Eighty-eight, 52 white and 35 black. 9. Slang. 10. "Hare." J. Heywood. INVITES NEWSMEN Manila (in President Carlos P. Garcia today invited Western newsmen to cover the Philippines' November elections closely to see they are conducted fairly and freely. He denounced "certain" U.S. magazines and newspapers, which he did not identify, for stores accusing him of vote buying in the recent con vention o:! the ruling Nationalist Party. .... i MAIL TRIBUNE Congratulations! The Shakespeare Festival in Ashland has ended its 1957 season in a blaze of glory, establishing a new attendance record and the Southern Oregon Golf Tournament in Medford ends tomorrow with a record breaking performance in the same field namely numb ers. 'They are, of course, very different in all other respects. The Ashland festival has become a national even an international institution of interest to stu dents of the Elizabethan drama everywhere, while the golf tourney is principally a local and state perform ance, although there were entrants this year also from California, Utah and even as far away as Penn sylvania. OOWEVER the two events have this in common: both started some years ago like the proverbial oaks from little acorns, and are now flourishing and flowering trees, with spreading roots deep in the sur rounding soil, and the residents of the two cities justi fiably proud of both achievements, and those hard working citizens in each community responsible for then. R.W.R. "Once in a Speaking of golf, the undersigned thinks it proper to record the fact that after all these years of wit nessing this great outdoor west and in between, he saw a "hole-in-one" made in competitive tournament play for the FIRST TIME on Thursday afternoon, August 29th. It was on the 17th hole and the player was Bob Norquist of Portland. Not only did the young man make a perfect hole-in-one that is it was on the pin ALL the way but this won him the match from Harry Millette a tough break for H.M., but that is golf and he was given a birdie 2 as consolation ! All of which is nothing to excite "Sports Illus trated," get a double-page "lay-out" in Life, or a nation-wide broadcast over NBC, but it is something that young Norquist probably won't forget for it is the first hole-in-one he ever made, and as indicated the undersigned won't either.- R.W.R. What Happened in Wisconsin? We like the way both G.O.P. National Chairman stunning and surprising Tuesday. Said the President: "There is no hiding the fact we took a bad licking in Wisconsin." And Chairman Alcorn echoed the verdict thus: "The, plain fact is we got licked and licked badly." Thus the word "lick" receives a respectability and activity in the vocabulary not accorded it for several PRESIDENT EISENHOWER did not elaborate but 1 naturally the national add a few words of hope them. This was the net result: "The grim lesson of the Wisconsin outcome is our party must unite or face defeat in next year's congressional elec tion and the 1960 presidential contest." Very good but one is on WHAT? Two of the Republican proclaimed themselves advocates of McCarthyism in this Wisconsin contest cover Dave Beck s bald spot. Yet in Wisconsin that issue in certain influential can party. Is there any prospect of n OVERNOR WALTER "G.O.P." candidate and practically exclusively litical popularity of President Eisenhower and his "Modern Republicanism," with only a slightly veiled boost for the advantages ness " ol wnicn ne is a i member. MOTHING wrong in that. But does Chairman A" Alcorn really BELIEVE that if this ultra-con servative and illiberal line Abraham Lincoln and UNITE on it? ' DERHAPS if the alternative appears 'to be defeat, a desperate attempt might be made, but we would doubt its success. Or to express the same idea in another way we doubt that lack of Republican unity is what caused the rout of the Elderly Pachyderm in Wisconsin last Tuesday. Our giiess is the vote given Governor Kohler pretty accurately represented the maximum stand-pat G.O.P. strength in that commonwealth, as of today and now. A more convincing explanation, as we see it, is that it is not "UNITY" the Grand Old Party needs so much for its political success and survival, as a new set of principles and ideals, both less completely out of line with the temper and the aspirations of not only the people as a whole of Wisconsin, but the people of the country and as far as that p-oes the democratic peoples of the world R.W.R. . Sunday, September 1, 1957 1 Lifetime 99 me north, south, east, President Eisenhower and Meade Alcorn took their defeat in Wisconsin last of the "Grand Old Party," years. chairman felt impelled to and cheer if he could find disposed to inquire "unite senatorial candidates who did not get enough votes to seems to be still a live segments of the Republi "UNITY" on that? J. KOHLER, the regular campaigned energetically on the personal and po ana virtues 01 .Big tfusi- prominent ana prosperous j i is persisted in, the party of Theodore Roosevelt . can TTp - 1 WHY ARB VA GBWHG SO EXCITED WUEH YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT iM DON'Y&V Matter of Fact IS IT OPERATIONAL? Washington Is the Soviet model of an intercontinental bal listic missile truly operational? That is, is it a weapon ca pable of being used in war, rather than a mere proto type? And if it is operational, is it sufficient ly adva need for the Soviets stevait Aisop to freeze on the model, as is their invariable custom when they are satisfied with a weapon, and proceed to mass-produce it? Behind the bland mask of complacency which the Eisen hower administrations has as sumed for public purposes, there are the key questions which the Lrovernment s intelligence ex perts and policy-makers are anx iously asking. They are quite genuinely life-and-death ques tions. They cannot be answered with assurance. Yet they tell a lot about the real meaning of the latest Soviet ICBM test. For the first thing to under stand about the Soviet test is that it was not something new or unexpected. A multi-stage missile of intercontinental range is not born by immaculate con ception. It is the culmination of a long process, involving a whole series of missile tests. rTHE process started well over A two years ago, when the So viets began testing very large numbers of missiles of short and intermediate range, as first re ported in this space. The proc ess reacnea a decisive stage a few months ago, when the So viets tested a first prototype model of their ICBM, as also first reported in this space. The American Government has been aware of this process throughout, though the Admin istration has chosen to conceal it from the American people, The details of how the Govern ment has known are of course properly secret. But certain ob vious facts are public property that radar is a line-of-sight in strument of theoretically un limited range; and that ballis tic missiles reach an altitude of hundreds of miles at the high ests point in their trajectory, and are thus subject to radar detection at great range. . The Soviets' first prototype test of their ICBM was roughly comparable to the Air Force test of the American "Atlas" ICBM in April, with the difference that the Atlas test failed while the Soviet test succeeded. As this reporter pointed out in re porting the Soviet test: "There is a long, difficult road to travel between the first test firing of a prototype missile and the achievement of an operational weapons system." TTOW far have the Soviets now travelled along that road? Part of the answer, at least, is suggested by a comparison be ' Sen. Neuberger Warns Against James Hoffa Washington, D. C. (Special) Sen. Richard L. Neuberger last week declared that the elec tion of James Hoffa as president of the Teamsters union would be a setback for the labor move ment. In a speech, in the senate, Senator Neuberger gave his rea sons for this belief. Text of the speech follows: "Mr. President, I am- one of those in public life who admires the men and women of the great trade - union movement. The living standards of millions of families depend on the vital ity and integrity of that move ment. To its credit the labor movement has many achieve ments for which it struggled over the long and lonely years, often against bitter and unre lenting opposition. I doubt if our land today would nave sucn enlightened programs as social security, unemployment com pensation and workmen'! indus By Stewart Alsop tween the Soviet claims for their ICBM model and the known characteristics of Atlas, which is at the present stage in no sense a weapon for use in war, but a research test vehicle. The Soviets claim their model is a "multi-stage ballistic rocket," whereas the Atlas model unsuc cessfully fired last spring con sisted only of the huge initial stage rocket. The Soviet model is "intercontinental," and the "results obtained show that it is possible to direct rockets to any part of the world." The Atlas model fired last spring was designed to fly only about 3000 miles. Finally, "the rocket landed in the target area,' whereas the Atlas test proto type was not expected or de signed to achieve any degree of accuracy. The Soviet claims for their model are certainly vague, and designedly so. But in the past, Soviet claims have tended actu ally to understate Soviet achieve ments in the air-atomic field. Some experts, noting this fact, believe on the basis of the So viet claims and other evidence that the Soviets alrjeady have an operational weapon ready for mass production. . OTHERS believe, or hope, that more tests must be made, and more time must elapse, before the Soviets can go into quantity production. In any case, there is no longer serious doubt that the Soviets are rapidly approach ing the freeze - and - produce stage, whereas our ICBM models are still strictly non-operational test vehicles, none of which has yet been successfully fired. "I had thought they were about a year ahead of us," one expert has remarked, "but now it looks more like two years." Despite the official complacen cy, it is well to understand what it could mean if this estimate is correct. For suppose the So viets achieve a fully operational ICBM system two years before this country achieves a compar able system. They will then be able to threaten, not only American cities, but the system of stra tegic Air Force bases, whose location is well known, with instant destruction. They could thus threaten to weaken deci sively, or even eliminate entire ly, the American retaliatory power which is the only real shield of the Free World. No one can predict whether in such circumstances the Soviets might actually launch a surprise at tack. But it is not hard to pre dict that the Soviets would take every advantage of the obvious opportunity to blackmail the United States into accepting a super-Munich. In these circumstances, it is simply incomprehensible that the Eisenhower . administration has chosen to tell the American people not to worry, and that everything is going to be all right. ' Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. trial-accident benefits were it not for the pioneering leader ship of organized labor and its allies. "For all these reasons, Mr. President, I desire to address a brief appeal today from the senate floor to the members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. I urge them not to elect Mr. James R. Hoffa as their .international president at the convention which will be held this fall. "I am not a member of the select senate committee which has been investigating this question. I only know what I have read in the press and in the detailed testimony taken by that committee. But I do know that millions of Americans will be bitterly disillusioned if one of the largest ' trade unions in the United States chooses as its national head a man who has had the type of associations and personal affiliations oi Mr. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS How do you feel about con gress' adjournment? Personally, I experience a sense of RELIEF when the con gress adjourns and goes home. I don't just know why. Maybe it is due to a feeling that we have about ALL THE LAW WE CAN DIGEST ALREADY and that the addition of more laws will give us indigestion. rpHAT brings up the special session of the Oregon legis lature that has been called by the governor to find out what to do with an unexpected SUR PLUS that developed because a tax guess was wrong. Is it a good idea? I wouldn't know but I'm afraid it may turn out to be like Pandora's box. Pandora, you know, was given a box as a wed ding gift. Some of her cagey friends warned her not to open it it might be a SPITE gift. But she was curious. So was her husband. So they opened it up When the lid was lifted, out flew a swarm of noxious insects and stung them terribly. CONSIDER these facts: When the special session is called to order, the legislature will be on its own. The governor will have no strings on it. It can do as it pleases. will have a SURPLUS maybe as much as 70 million dollars. It isn't impossible that everybody who wants money from the state, for this purpose or that, will descend on the leg islature with the idea that NOW IS THE TIME TO GET IT. The time to get money, as everybody knows, is when money is on hand and available for appro priation. In that event, the taxpayers could get stung. Today and By Walter CO-EXISTENCE There seemed to be reason for thinking that .the successful test ing of the ballistic missile took place s o m time ago, and that the an n o uncement by the Soviet g" ov ernment was held back for political and p s y c ho- 1 o gi c a 1 rea Walter Lippmann sons. If this is indeed the case, the timing of the an nouncement on Tuesday was shrewdly calculated. For one thing, it comes just as the London disarmament talks are about to adjourn, and it will be read all over the world as meaning that no agreement having been reached in London to arrest the race of armaments it is now a fact that the Russians are one jump ahead in the race Even if, as may well be, there is a big difference between be ing the first to announce the suc cessful test and being the first to produce the missile in quan tity, there is no doubt that the Russians have brought off a dip lomatic coup. They have identi fied themselves first with the idea of abolishing nuclear weap ons, and then with the idea that they are superior in nuclear weapons. There are a lot of peo ple in the world who like to be Hoffa. Such disillusionment can only imperil the hard-won gains and benefits which have been secured by all of organized la bor. Such disillusionment can only damage the teamsters union itself, with its hundreds of thousands of decent and sin cere rank-and-file members who need protection in their jobs against exploitation and against a breakdown of wage and work ing standards. "Mr. President, in a great de mocracy like ours, I doubt if anyone can utterly flout public opinion. Commodore Vanderbiit said 'the public be damned,' but the public brought him and his fellow railroad magnates to book. The result, of course, was strict regulation of railroad fi nancing rates, safety devices and labor conditions by the in terstate commerce commission and by many other federal and state regulatory bodies. I trust the teamsters union will heed this warning and example. "I believe it was the great Emerson who said that public opinion cannot be seen but that, like air pressure, it is there just the same and it is there all the time. The teamsters union will be ignoring public opinion if it selects Mr. James R. Hoffa to be president of one of the larg est trade unions in the nation, and such a result is sure to be hurtful to labor in general and to the teamsters in particular. It can only jeopardize the ideal ism on which labor must rely for support. Because of the need for a labor movement which commands public respect and confidence, it is my hope that the teamsters turn for a suc cessor to Dave Beck to some person who has never had un derworld friendships, or con tacts. Among teamster leaders and members, 1 am certain that many such men can be found." POTLUCtC (By M-T Staff and Contribution) Another "Well, we should hops sol" headline, this one from the Oregon Statesman in Salem: , , Sun To Stay In Sky Today. It rhymes, loo. A man we know, father of a growing family, is looking around for a little larger house. He's done quite a bit of explora tory dickering, looking toward purchase or trade. The other day a man from anolher nearby city came to see him to discuss a deal, telling about his community, and mak ing a great point of the excel lence of the school system there, and what fine teachers and ad ministrators it has. The point was not entirely lost on our man whose father is superintendent of schools in the community in question. Other papers, too (we Joy fully point out on, occasion) have typographical difficul ties. Like the Portland daily which recorded the bidding for construction of the new slate correctional institution, and it came out "recreational" institution. - An SP freight (what else?) train grumbled slowly along the tracks outside our office the other day, letting out the low, groaniflg hoot which the diesels use to warn people a far cry from the mysterious and faintly romantic wail of the steam whistle of yesteryear. One of our younger staff members looked up, bemused, and said,' "They're putting aw fully sad whistles on trains, these days." Tomorrow Lippmann on the side of a winner. fFHE announcement follows -- closely upon the coup in Syr ia, and it is well calculated to support it." The Syrian affair is Drimarilv a siipppssfnl -intrimip by a military factor, concerned not so much with Communism and irfpolntrv as -..Htv. r,.,.,. surrpss Tho tip ,af v, s. tet. frnvprnmpnt 5c rT,r.inr ooH of the United states in th ran of armamntc mai r.. pear in Syria, and nerhaDS else- where in the Arab world, that the new government in Syria has bet on the rieht horse. Unless it is effectives ,m. tered, we must expect this feel ing to spread in South Asia and in Africa. Even before the news came out, the situation had from our point of view become soft and sour in many places, cer tainly in Indonesia, then in Laos, and on the longer view, most im portantly of all, in India. There 3-ffES. J?2 ... , y-iua " - economic . reconstruction are in great trouble. If the worst that could happen in India were ac- a nV ? South Asia what happened in East. Asia when the nationalists were driven from the mainland. paper sack about thrge-quar-I do not think I am exaggerat- ters full at least. We each had ing, or being unduly alarming, one good drink with a ume when I say that there is in the making in India a kind of trou- ble which could make the Syr- ian affair seem like a minor in- Cident. .1 JtlR DULLES is almost certain- ly facing the most serious problems of his career. They are very complicated in their de- tails. But the crucial question is how this country, representing the Western World, can compete successfully with the Russian and the Chinese Communists and compete with them for the attention and interest of the ris- ing generation of the awakened and educated Asians. Our poli- cies, as they have developed in recent years, have emphasized two things: One is defense against overt agression by China or Russia; the other has been holding the loyalty of the local military men and. upper bureau- crats against the penetration of the Communists. . The Syrian coup is only one of many signs that the Dulles pacts and the Eisenhrwer Doctrine do not come to grips with the real con- cern of the people of Asia and Africa. . Their real concern, as they win political independence, is how to raise their standard of life, how to modernize and so to industrialize, their backward economics. It is here that the Soviet Union has the advantage of us. For the swift rise of Rus- sia from feudalism and weak- ness to great power is the exam- pie that tempts all under-devel- oped countries. The American development, impressive though I it is, is not an example that the Asians can follow. Everybody knows that what happened on this empty, rich, and secure con- when we shall reproach our tinent cannot be duplicated in selves bitterly for having, short crowded, poor, and insecure sightedly and in a small spirit, Asia. missed our last best, chance to T may be rash to prophecy. But in my view the future in Asia, whether it is to be Corn- We are informed, on excel-; lent authority, of the young man who owned a pair of -slacks that needed to be taken to the cleaners. As he started -. downtown, he couldn't find ' them, and looked high and low. In closets, clothes ham perseven under the bed. No : luck. He started out anyway, took the other clothing to the ; cleaning establishment, and, -'. later in the day finally found the slacks. He was wearing them. Occasionally, on a hot sum mer day, some member of our staff will be overcome by a de sire for an ice cream cone. Established tradition is that he (or she) then pungles up enough money to buy cones for any member of the staff desiring one; . This happened last week, and one of the junior members was given the funds and the orders, and returned with a large sup ply of cones. Since it is diffi cult to work and eat an Ice cream cone at the same time, the clatter of typewriters was virtually stilled for a few mo ments. ' All, that is, save that of our society editor, who nibbled daintily at a cone held in one hand, while punching the key board, one key at a time with one finger, with the other hand. Across the street, the new building to house the new Edsel automobile dealership approaches completion. Among the innovations is some green ' trim here and there, on a near by fence, in an objectionable, blinker, and so on for green has been named "the color"; for Edsel. All of which ap-' pears to answer a question', which has haunted us mildly' for about 10 years whatever happened to' Lucky Strike! green after the war was over? . Some people can take liquor and some can leave it alone. An unidentified tourist in this area recently . left it alone but not intentionally. . - It seems that while he and his wife were camping on the Little Applegate several days a they inadvertently went off and left a nearly-full bottle o excellent grade hootch on the river bank, and the horrible realization of what they'd done didn't dawn on them until they ot half way to their home in Vancouver, Wash, The fact that the bottIe Sht never be-found by anyone who en?yed. whiskey, or worse a""' ue aro&en Dy uie r?cP..of some farm by. wor- ried the man. When he got home he. wrote a letter addressed to the "police reporter" of the Mail Tribune. In it he gave detailed . instruc tions on how to find the spot where the bottle lay, and sug gested that if the "police re porter" wasn't . interested, he should turn it over to someone 1 i JSmK Jwac The man anr.aror.tlv I - -w WWUIU VU VAT a lover of good whiskey; couldn't k0 ,,u . waste " The letter, which was signed with a ictitious n reas ln narf . ..-n,,, hnr7o , Krmm The instructions sounded like the. description of a buried-. treasure man. and the letter Cacmo1 cr cinnArA trtat O CParrh nartv (nf nncA w riplppnteri from the Mail Tribune staff to investigate. . . ' The directions were followed to the letter. There was the spot where the irrigation ditch crosses the road, the rocky knoll. the fence, the place to ducK under, the creek bank, and... the brown paper sack contain- ing the ' bottle. Everything was just as he described, except may- be the bottle wasn't quite as full as he remembered. The man and his wife, if they ever read this, can rest assured that the contents of the bottle will not go to waste. If nothing else, the smokers on the Tribune news staff, who outnumber the drinkers, can use the high grade stuff' to fill their lighters. - munist or not, depends on what happens in India. In India it is still Dossible to prove that there is a good future for the people of Asia without the desperate methnris nf the totalitarian state. It is still nossible to prove that the Western nations are genu- inely concerned with the future of Asia. " No doubt, considering the nrescnt mood of Congress about foreign aid, it seems almost silly to sav that the most important move that could now be made in foreign policy would be for the Western world, with the United States playing a princi- pal part, to underwrite and to guarantee the success of the In-' dian development. But if we fail to do it, the day will come make and to keep friends in Copyright 1957 New York" Herald Tribune Inc.;:
