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Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year SI 8 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C O4 NEWS PA F E t PUBLISHEIS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL IDITOIAt T ASSOCfA'ieN sWJHmJM.H.IHB Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 10, 1947 (Wednesday) The mobile field unit service, owned by the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis will be on display in Medford Thurs day. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The first Monday morning quarterback of the football season showed up this week and sounded three tocsins of victory. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 10, 1937 (Friday) Two black bears are raising cain at the ERA and bureau of public roads camps just off the Crater Lake highway at Union creek. Dr. C. I. Drummond, Jackson county health officer for the past five years, is leaving the health department Sept. 1 for private practice. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 10, 1927 (Saturday) The children's section of the jubilee parade promises to be a colorful part of the Visions Re alized parade next Thursday. Former Gold Hill boxer is jailed in Grants Pass on drunk driving charges. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 10. 1917 (Monday) Two-score tents are being pitched in what was formerly Chautauqua park in Ashland for the 25th annual reunion of the old soldiers and sailors of south ern Oregon. Discord is raging among mi nor officials in charge of the road building and improvement work in the Siskiyou division of the Pacific highway. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent: five or six Is good 1. An oneirologist is one who interprets bumps on the head, tea leaves, or dreams? 2. By what means was Mohan das K. Gandhi assassinated? 3. Bible: "And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up" what? 4. U.S. Postal Savings ac counts may, or may not, be at tached for unpaid debts? 5. The "Wizard of Menlo Park" was Eli Whitney, Charles Proteus Steinmetz or Thomas Alva Edison? 6. Is it the Union of India, or Pakistan, which is predominant ly Hindu? 7. Which state is nicknamed "Bayou State"? 8. In freezing, water expands about one-fifth, one-ninth, or one-eleventh in volume? 9. "We haven't a show (chance) to see that show (play)." Which of the "shows" is a colloquial ism? 10. "Mary had a little lamb. It's fleece was white as snow." Is "Lambayecue" French or Ital ian for barbecued lamb? Answers: 1. One who inter prets dreams. 2. By three bullets fired at close range by an assas sin. 3. "the ghost." 4. May not be attached. 5. Thomas Alva Edison. 6. India. 7. Mississippi. 8. One-elevenlh. 9. Both are. When used properly "show" is an exhibition, etc. 10. No. It is a coast department of northwest ern Peru. MAIL TRIBUNE Back to Jefferson Davis Once again there IS something new under the sun ! Never before in our recollection and we believe, never but once before in the country's history, since the Civil War has a State Governor without the re quest of local authorities (in fact against their desire) sent armed troops into a city to uphold potential viola tors of the law. But that, in plain English, is what Governor Orval not Hydro Faubus of Arkansas has done, is still doing and at this writing everything indicates he intends continuing to do. e JJIS alibi is it is his duty as Governor to prevent " bloodshed. But is he better able to determine that is a real danger than the local authorities in Little Rock, who practically without exception have declared, there was no danger the local police were quite able to put down any violence if such occurred until the Governor ordered out , his national guard, fully equipped for war. And to do what? TO UPHOLD the law? No to allow violations of it, to prevent colored children entitled to a free education in the public schools as ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court, guar anteed in the U.S. Constitution and upheld by the Federal District Court from having the sort of educa tion, America's fundamental law allows them. AS NOTED this is something new since the Civil Ufo onrl i'c i-n nnn pnnvco f V) o com o fl O- fiance of the federal government and the same bellig erent assertion of state rights, that started it. When informed of this obvious- fact, by a city official of Little Rock the Governor's only reply was, that his action is overwhelmingly approved by the people of Arkansas and the South, and that if the Federal Government dares to step in and take over the state's National Guard, he has plenty of "volun teers" ready and willing to "fight for it." Fight for WHAT? Clearly fight for "white supremacy" of course, fight for the nullification of the Constitution, repu diation of the U.S. Supreme Court and support of the right of the South as in the days of Calhoun and Jefferson Davis to treat the colored problem as it sees fit. "IXELL one thing for sure. " This will be the best news that Soviet Russia' has received for many a month. One of the most effective weapons in its arsenal of Russian propaganda particularly with over half the world's population wThich ISN'T "white" has been that the claim of American Democracy that it is a government OF the people, BY the people and FOR the people" ALL THE people regardless of "race, religion and color is a sham and a fraud. Only communsim, they have declared, does that. And they have brought out pictures of negro lynch ings in the U.S.A. to prove it. How about pictures of armed-troopers and "white mobs" preventing colored school-children in Little Rock, and other parts of the South, from enjoying the same privileges and opportunities of the. "whites" ? IITE FEAR there will be no one on hand abroad to v explain, that this represents only one section of the United States, that it is a direct violation of our fundamental law, that it repudiates a basic declara tion of the American Constitution, and that the Presi dent of the United States has warned the Governor of Arkansas that he (the President) "will use every legal means at his command to uphold it." There are many well informed and alert minds in the non-white world including Asia, Africa, China, Japan and elsewhere, who would probably rejoin, "But HAS it been upheld? e e AS OF this writing, that remains to be seen. President Eisenhower emphasized "LEGAL means." He has also emphatically declared that to uphold the Constitution in Arkansas and elsewhere in the South he will NOT use "force." Adlai Stevenson in his national broadcast Sunday agreed with this stand by the President, .declaring in effect, that he felt sure the flouting of the law in Little Rock and elsewhere . could be stopped, via peaceful pressures through the courts. Every right-thinking reasonable person, north or south hopes so. No one wants violence, no one wants bloodshed, everyone hopes this revival of nullifica tion and the assertion of state authority over federal authority can be quashed by legal means only. DUT what if it CAN'T be? - What if Governor Faubus continues to main tain his lawless stand ; refuses to withdraw his armed troops; persists in the violation of his oath as a U.S. citizen to uphold the .U.S. constitution? What if he follows the Russian pattern that "force is the only thing one needs to respect", and as the government refuses to use it against him he will continue to use it, as a threat, against the government? DROBABLY that is a "bridge" that might best be crossed only when- we come to it. But it also might be well MEANWHILE, not to forget, that when one comes down to brass - tacks, ANY law, federal, state or local, that has no force, even as a last resort to sustain it, soon becomes a dead letter, and the courts that must sustain it or join the law-violators thereby receive a staggering blow to their morale, prestige, and authority. R.W.R. Tuesday, September 10. 1957 ro if ii inn ifeyi 1 llrr r a-fsvser f 'What's moti6 with just 800y CCWES IH AND FLS Matter of Fact REVOLUTION RESULTS Poznan, Poland Here in this grimy industrial town in June a year ago occurred the great turn ing point tor Poland which may also some day prove a great turning point for many other nations. If one can fix the exact instant, it was at the begin- Joseph Aisop ning of the Poznan strikers' attack on the huge grey secret police head quarters. The first burst of fire struck down a 15-year-old boy with a Polish flag in his hand. As he fell six tanks appeared to over awe the crowd. But in that breathless instant another boy seized the flag from the gutter, dipped it in his dead comrade's blood, and with no other weapon charged the tanks alone. For fifty yards and then a hundred he was still alone. Then five, then ten, then sud denly two hundred others joined him, all charging the tanks to gether behind the boy with his blood-stained flag. Quite sudden ly, with a fearful grinding and cranking, the file of tanks turned backwards and fled be fore the charge. "M"0 ONE knows the name of the young standard bearer who so marvelously proved the ultimate invincibility of the hu man spirit, but at the great Ce gielski (formerly Stalin) steel works they will tell you: He was one of ours. He must have been. After all the whole thing started right here when the men in the railroad car shop downed tools that morning we began it. With all this in mind it is a curious experience to visit these same Cegielski works. Outward ly they seem the archetype of all the dark satanic mills in the world, being a huge complex of ancient brick factory buildings belching smoke from half a doz en chimneys and filling the whole neighborhood with the din of their machinery. But there is a vast transformation beneath the surface of this grim industrial scene. The men who receive you, to begin with, are new men. The old plant director, a hard-nosed Communist with no technical qualifications, has gone. Now the new, director, Witold Bernat ovich, would have been disqual ified for the top dog in the old days because of his wartime service in the famous Polish army of Gen. Wladyslaw An ders. But all that is over now and Bernatovich, a fine look ing, intelligent, desperately ear nest man with the fullest techni cal training, is firmly in charge at Cegielski. THE chief engineer, SbignieW Lukomski, is new, too, and the plant has a new workers council with altogether new powers, close to those of a board of directors. Felix Nowacki, the elderly grey-moustached statis tician who heads the workers council, looks like just what he is an old-time Social Democrat with a good head on his shoul ders. The plant's young Commun nist party organizer, Josef Bis kupski, is there to receive the guest along with the others, but his presence imposes no shadow of constraint on the talk about the Cegielski works' past, pres ent and future. In the discussion of the past the Communist Biskupski ad mits that he was "a bit shocked" by the strange, sudden sponta neous movements almost as purely instinctive as the hiving of bees that took the Cegielski workers into Poznan's streets. But Nowacki and Lukomski frankly glory in the memory. "DISKUPSKI hardly differs from the others, either, in his attitude towards the almost total change of atmosphere and habit reverting from the Octo ber triumph of Wladyslaw Go mulka. That was the sequel of sittin1 aroind 'til somb- SCWcy rut- mc t By Joseph Alsop the June rising in Poznan. The most poignant post-October rec ollection comes from old No wacki. With his eyes sparkling with delight he describes how all the workers were allowed to destry their own secret police dossiers which were kept in the plant's personnel department. "Now," chimes in Biskupski approvingly, "we have a normal personnel department that con siders only whether our work ers are good workmen." At Cegielski the great change has brought other more material benefits to the vast majority. While Director Bernatovich re ceives only one-third of the sal ary and one-tenth of the per quisites allowed his predecessor in the Stalinist times, the aver age of the workers' wages has been raised by close to 30 per cent. Certainly the standard of life is still cruelly low. How ever: "Life is still very hard, but we know our country has many difficult problems to solve," says Nowacki. "So we are con tent that the misery of the past is over, and above all we are happy to be free men. It means most of all. We are happy to be free men. It means most of all to be free." FREEDOM. Freedom. Free dom. This is the great re curring teme of all the talks as one goes through the plant. To be sure, it comes clearer and clearer that this new freedom has not solved all the problems of the Cegielski works. Demand for Cegielski's steam locomo tives has been almost killed by the increasing electrification of railways. Huge concrete em placements are already being prepared for the new machinery soon to be installed for produc tion of heavy diesel marine en gines. The conversion will hard ly be easy. But even this practical aspect of the life of the Cegielski works has been affected by the great change. Before there was com plete absentee management by the Minister of Heavy Industry in Warsaw. "Even the smallest machine tool design had to go to Warsaw for approval," rather bitterly remarked Director Ber natovich, who used to head the machine tool department. Now the plan fort he plant's opera tion is produced by the plant's own management, and changes desired by the Ministry are made by agreement rather than by command. "We have the responsibility," Bernatovich concludes. 'It is up to us here in the Cegielski works whether we succeed or fail, and I think we shall suc ceed." (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) County Ranks Fourth As Mineral Producer Jackson county's mineral pro duction in 1956 placed it fourth among Oregon counties, accord ing to The Ore.-Bin, publication of the state department of ge ology and mineral industries. Total value of minerals pro duced in Jackson county was $3,330,672. Clackamas county led the list with $6,485,302, fol lowed by Douglas county, S4, 140,753, and Baker county, $3, 812,592. The Ore.-Bin stated that min eral production in the state in 1956 was "increased seven per cent over 1955, with a payroll for mineral industry workers in creased 40 per cent over the payroll five years ago. Total dollar value of minerals produced in Oregon in 1956 was $34,011,000. The .8,201 persons employes by the industry re ceived a payroll of $42,743,678. . Production in this area in cluded cement, stone, sand and gravel, clay, carbon dioxide, gold, chromite, tungsten and sil ver. Mining and - processing op erations located in the county include: Ashland Mining com pany, Ashland, and Birdseye Creek mill, chrome concentrat ing plants; Charlotte Prospect, Grants Pass, gold lode mine; Federal Placer and Sterling, Stern Russian Note Seen Help In Adenauer's Election Contest By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia probably has made it certain that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will win easily in next Sun day's West Ger man national election. The tough old chancellor has been gain ing strength in recent months. Poll tical ex perts have been predicting that Charles McCano Adenauer would win. The chief question was whether his Chris tian Democratic Party would win a majority of the 497 seats In the Day's News By FRANK The Salem Statesman takes a look at the Oregon-California Klamath River compact, which has just been signed into law by President Eisenhower, and finds it generally good. Tracing its origins from the day when the Army Enginers disclosed their purpose to divert the Klamath river into the Pit and thence into Shasta reser voir, it says: "The people of the Klamath Basin BECAME ALARMED lest their water be captured for the growing cities of California. The Oregon legislature created a Klamath River commission and California did the same. The two bodies worked out a com pact which has been approved by the legislatures of both states and by congress. The last re quirement, the signature of the President, was obtained last Fri day, so the compact is now in effect." THE STATESMAN continues: "Under this agreement a system of priorities has been fixed.-Klamath water is not to be diverted but is reserved for present and future use within the basin. The compact will be administered by one official from each state and a federal repre- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial tor publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Bells In Jacksonville To the Editor: Your editorial of Friday, September 6, entitled "The Vanishing. Bell" contains a statement of especial interest to me. You state, "Perhaps a few of the smaller churches still let the clear sound of a bell sum mon its members to worship. But, if so, we don't know where they are." .f Will you accept my invitation to come to Jacksonville any Sunday morning and hear the bells of two separate churches summon the people to worship? At the First Presbyterian church, the bell has called the commun ity to worship on Sunday morn ings since December 4, 1881, the date the present church building was dedicated. In ad dition to the bell, you will also find here beautiful stained glass antique windows that were im ported from Italy and came to Jacksonville around the Horn and by mule-back from Crescent City. If Presbyterianism is not to your liking, the bell at St. Joseph's Catholic church will welcome you there. Consider this also, a special invitation to you and your fam ily to attend special services on September 22 which will com memorate 100 years of active service in this community by the Presbyterian churph. You will be very welcome and we might even let you pull the bell rope. John Niedermeyer, Route 2, Box 464 Medford, Ore. Placer, Jacksonville, and Palmer Creek Placer, Grants Pass, gold placer operations; Bristol Silica company, Rogue River, crushed granite and quartz plant; and Gas-Ice corporation, Portland, its Jackson county plant producing dry ice. DIVIDEND NOTICE The Board of Directors has declared a dividend of 6 per share from net invest ment income payable Sep tember 30 to shareholders of record September 13, 1957. Howard M. Nimmons SECRETARY September 10, 1957 501 Exchange BIdg. ittle in the Bundestag, the controlling house of the West German Par liament. Now the Soviet government has sent Adenauer a 2,000-word note savagely attacking his poli cies on, German reunification, disarmament and alliance with the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization. The Soviet note was intended, of course, to hurt Adenauer and help his Social Democratic Party opponents. But it looks as if the Russian blast may assure Adenauer a majority. It may possibly assure him a big one. Note Nothing New The Soviet note accused Ade nauer of leading Germany along JENKINS sentative. The Oregon represent ative will be the state engineer. "Present reservation of the water shows foresight, but the surplus waters of the Klamath should not be left idle indefin itely. The next moves should be to put them to work." THEY are being put to work, sir. Developments are under way that when' completed eight or ten years hence will take about a Bonneville of POWER out of the upper Klamath river, which is the No. 2 power stream of the American Pacific Coast. This power will be available to all of Southern Oregon and Far North ern California. California, at present, forbids power development of the Klam ath below the state line, but as the benefits of Shasta dam in the way of improved fishing and re creation generally become better known to the public there can be little doubt that this prohi bition will be removed. ANOTHER BONNEVILLE of power will then become avail able in the Klamath river. ALREADY in the Klamath Ba sin some 300,000 acres of rich land are under irrigation. Some 300,000 acres MORE are suitable for and available for ir rigation when the time comes vhen expansion of agriculture is again economically justified. That time may be nearer than we think. California is expected to have 26 MILLION people by 1975, which is only 18 years from now. California is covering up irrigated arable land with' highways, airports, factory sites, new residence areas, etc., faster than new land is being devel oped. California is the natural mar ket for all of Southern Oregon. AND- Thanks to the Klamath River compact and plans around it - The Klamath Basin will have available MORE STORED WA TER than any other area in the Great Basin (the area lying be tween the Cascade-Sierra range and the Rocky Mountains) be tween the Columbia river and Hoover dam. Water is the magic ingredient. Without it, other resources are valueless. WITH it, all other re sources are valuable. Southern Oregon and Far Northern Cali fornia have fiber timber in su perabundance, and the process ing of fiber timber calls for wa ter in fabulous quantities. The stored water and the power of the Klamath river will be of benefit to all of Southern Oregon. TN CONCLUSION: If it should ever come about that there is a SURPLUS of wa ter in the valley of the Klamath river it is a certainty that the people there won't hesitate to share it with their neighbors of Southern Oregon and Far North ern California. They won't be dogs in the manger. Counsel With . . . r. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD , INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. a dangerous path. It restated the Russian refusal to let West and East Germans hold a free election to decide their future. It repeated the Kremlin's de mand that the 51,000,000 free, prosperous West Germans nego tiate with the 16,800,000 restive East Germans whom Russian military force is keeping sub ject to a satellite Communist government. There was really nothing new in the note. But it served as a reminder to German voters that Russia alone is keeping their country divided. Adenauer denounced the Rus sian note in a speech as an elec tion maneuver intended to help the Socialists. Socialist leader Eric Ollen hauer called the note a rebuff to Adenauer's persistence in a "policy of strength" by which he hoped to force Russia to agree to reunification. But the voters appear to be convinced that they would have nothing to gain ""by giving up West German's alliance with the United States and the other NATO powers in the hope that Russia would voluntarily loosen its grip 'on East Germany. Big Majority Seen ' Undoubtedly the West Ger mans share the belief of Western leaders that Russia's grip on its Communist satellites is inevita-" bly slipping, however gradually, and that some day the East Eu ropean Red bloc will fall to pieces. The latest predictions from West Germany are that Ade nauer may carry nine of the ten West German states, leaving the Socialists a possible majority only in Hesse. Adenauer's Christian Demo crats held 253 of the 497 seats in the outgoing Parliament. He had the support of the 32 Ger man Party-Free People's Party bloc. The Socialists had 153 seats. Several months ago the Ade nauer coalition lost the support of the Free Democratic Party, which held 37 seats. Adenauer is trying to win them back. He seems to have a good chance of doing so. If he does, the chief question in the election prob ably will be the size of Ade- nauer's majority. Officers Installed In Honor Society Don Wilson, 734 West 14th st., Medford, was installed Chef de Gare of the Jackson County Voiture 165 of the 40 et 8, honor society of the American Legion, Monday night at the Rogue Riv er lodge on Crater Lake high way near Trail. Installing officer was Grand Chef de Gare Du Oregon, Har vey Willis, Astoria. Marlon Green, Klamath Falls, represent ed the Grand Cheminots. A smorgasbord dinner follow ed installation of officers. K evstone k Fund browt 5eriei X-2 A diversified" investment In securities selected for pos sible long-term growth of capital and future income. The Keystone Company 50 Conireti St., Bolton 9, Mm. B-56 Please send ma proepectTis describ ing your Growth Fond, Series K-2. Aam City. The basic cause of wrecks today, In part is thoughtless drinkers, But on the whole, The greater toll, Is caused by thoughtless thinkers. Bill Fish
