Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, September 16, 1957, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextTOUR MEDFOSD (OftEQOrT) MAIL TRIBUNE" Monday", MfHtab It, 19S7 "Xveryone in Southern Oregon rtcaai nm Man Tnmine ublisheo Daily Except Saturday by mcuruKii riUiXlLNli ill 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 "KB GREV Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager JRIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor MARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor KICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER SocietT Editor PALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sunday JOne year $15 00 uaiiy una aunoay oix montm .uu i-tauy ana ounoay i nree mas 4.Z3 Sunday Only One vear S4.20 Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. jaciuonvuie. Uold HU1 Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent nil m Mfltnf rmi - Tlallv anri fiimilk . . lit nn Daily and Sunday One month 1 JO uirier ana Dealers loc per copy ui Merrns t,asn m 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 Cr" NCWSPAPEI PUSMSHEtS association NATIONAL EOITOIIAi assocIain 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. 16, 1947 (Tuesday) Jackson county drivers re minded that state police con ducting closely-spaced checks of Oregon drivers' licenses. Bob Clements, west coast rep resentative of the Brooklyn Dodgers, which will place a class D farm club in Medford next season, will visit Medford oon. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 16. 1937 (Thursday) Ten miles of new Pacific uper-highway construction from Ashland to near the Siskiyou summit opens. Medford's world-traveling Boy Scouts, Jerry Vawter, Richard Thierolf and Jack Thompson, ar rived home last evening after almost three months traveling in the United States and Europe 80 YEARS AGO Sept. 16, 1927 (Friday) , Judging of exhibits at Jack- on county products show starts expected to be completed to night. Arrangements are being made to hold the 51st annual reunion cf the Southern Oregon Pioneer society in Ashland, Sept. 22. 40 YEARS AGO. Sept. 16, 1917 (Monday) District irrigation plan in the Medford area was approved at election; construction to start soon. Company C details 150 men to guard duty to prevent ex nected dynamiting of trains passing through this area. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent: five or six is good 1. Which is the correct spell ing: "Porto Rico" or Puerto Rico"? 2. Name the first President of the U. S. whose inauguration ceremonies were held in Wash ington, D.C. 3. Bible: Which Book follows Jeremiah? 4. During World War II, which country built Liberty ships? 5. In compiling statistics in the U.S., is an individual count ed as "illiterate" if he cannot read or write, or if he has not completed the fifth grade? 6. Which of Shakespeare's plays ends with a fourfold wed ding? 7. Name the capital of Ru mania. 8. Will food cook more quick ly in water that is boiling vig orously, or boiling gently? 9. Which of the three follow ing nicknamed pals would be most likely to use the expres sion "y'all:" "Devoted Rebel," -Damn Yankee," "Cornhusker?" 10. " 'May I print a kiss upon your lips?' " I said . And she nodded her full permission; So we went to press and I ra ther guess We printed a full" what? Answers: 1. Puerto Rico. 2. Thomas Jefferson. 3. Lamenta tions. 4. United' States of Am erica. 5. Has not completed the fifth grade. 6. "As You Like It." 7. Bucharest. 8. So long as the water is boiling, the cooking time will be the same. 9. "De Toted Rebel." (Contraction of "you all" used in the South). 10 --"edition.'""-' "J. Lillienlhal. For the "General Welfare" One of the duties imposed on the federal govern ment by the Constitution is to '"promote the genera welfare. In today's increasingly complex society, one of the greatest needs for the general welfare of the nation is a high degree of literacy and education throughout the population. It is this phrase in the constitution which provided the basis for the controversial (and thus-far unsuc cessful) proposal that the government aid in the fi nancing of school buildings. It is the same phrase which provides justification for the proposal that the government get into the business of assisting students in meeting the costs of higher education. CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY reports that such . a program may well be in effect by this time next year. Bills to provide federal aid to college students have been introduced into Congress, and will still be alive and ready for consideration when the second session of the 85th Congress convenes next January. CQ points out that considerable encouragement for this type of legislation was provided by the Presi dent's Committee on Education Beyond the High School, which in its report last month declared that World peace and survival of mankind may wel depend on the way in which we educate the citizens and leaders of tomorrow. It emphasized this by pointing out that each year some -"200,000 of the ablest young people fail to cany their education beyond high school, and that this is partly because they do not have enough money. THE cost of an education, like virtually everything else, has gone sKy-nign m recent years, and mis has been only partly offset by the increased number of privately-endowed scholarships available to worthy students. Many young people, whose parents cannot foot the entire bill ol college or university training, sup nlement their income bv nart-time work durinsr the ir a. o four or more years they attend. And more power to tnem I But these sources nf income are not sufficient to do the entire job a fact wmich is recognized more and more both by educators and by the public gen- eraiiy. SEN. HUBERT HUMPHREY of Minnesota is one er.rmcr.vc! r-f nnWacra cpTinlorcVnr To oriel of inn and he says he will press for its enactment next year. This bill would authorize a federal scholarship fund of $160,000,000 per year (that's less than one-190th of the amount allocated for the armed forces this year), which would provide $1,000 annual scholar ships for able students needing them, to be admin istered through state commissions. Another bill would provide for long-term, low- interest loans to students for their education. Others would provide varying degrees of tax relief for par ents putting their children through college. CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY reported that although federal aid for college educations has been discussed for more than 10 years, only now do supporters feel that prospects are bright for en actment. They strengthen their arguments by point- lllg OUl. xvuaaia o giuvvmg cuuv.auuuai jjiugitisa, cum uic ever-rising costs of college educations. The President's committee added: "The gap between this nation's educational needs and its educational effort is widening ominously. America would be heedless if she closed her eyes to the dramatic strides being taken by the Soviet Union in post high school education, particularly in the development of scientists, " engineers and technicians. She would be inexcusably blind if she failed to see that the challenge of the next 20 years will require leaders not only in science and engineering and in business and industry but in governmnt and politics, in foreign affairs and diplomacy, in education and civic affairs." In our view, such a program would go much farther toward serving the general welfare of the nation than many of the programs which are now accepted as a normal part of the business of the federal gov ernment. And as a purely practical note, it could be added that the increased earning power (and tax liability) of those assisted in obtaining an education, would in the long ran more than repay the initial cost to the government. E.A. Autumnal Equinox The calendar over our desk labels Sept. 23 the "1st Day of Autumn." The calendar must have been printed in the east. It is correct for the Eastern time zone, when fall starts at 2:27 a.m., and for the Central and Mountain time zones, when it is at 1:27 a.m. and 12:27 a.m. Only in the Pacific time zone is Sept. 22 the first day of autumn, which starts here at 11 :27 p.m. As we have noted before, however, Autumn doesn't start at any one particular second in time. It sneaks up on one. WHO could look at the brilliant harvest moon, r.r.nr woninnr in f Via v i rrl- f cl-ioc o nrl Tint "fppl tVlflt", fall is rpallv hpre? Anrl thp start nf school inevitably makes one certain that autumn is here, whether or not the calendar says so. SDeakin? of the brie-ht moon of the last week. we presume it was the harvest moon, which is the full moon nearest the autumnal equinox. This year, the World Almanac shows that the equinox is about half wray between full moons, so early next month we may again be treated to bright, moonlit nights. E.A. 'if rr wasn't for ketchup there's lots of things I WOULDN'T LIKE!' Crackdown on Bankers In '30s Reminds of Current Labor Quiz l.jle C. Wilson By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) Jimmy Hoffa's reluctance to retreat from the next presidency of the teamsters reminds the old timers around town of how it was back there when Ferdin and P e c o r a was investigat ing the stock market. That was In 1930 - 31 dur ing what we knew as the depression. Bad luck, stupidity and too much love of money and power had mouse-trapped many of the country's top money men into serious trouble. The public was aroused. A lot of banks were busted and the unemployed nearly starved. Same Stage The tie ' between Hoffa and the money bags who answered up to Pecora's sharp question ing is that they all acted on the same stage, although many years apart. The hot sea.t in the Sen ate caucus room where Hoffa and Dave Beck wilted and, like ly, will wilt again was just where Pecora placed his bank er witnesses. The head men of the nation's greatest banks took their turn there, from the late J. P. Morgan down. Morgan got off almost free from the Pecora investiga tion.' The public reviled him for paying no income tax during three successive years. His coun sel replied, simply, that Morgan did not owe any tax under the existing revenue act. And, that was a fact. Breach of Trust The general charge to which the bankers were summoned to Washington for answer was the same as the general accusation against Beck and Hoffa: Breach of trust. The judgment of the Senate committeemen who heard Beck and Hoffa was that they were guilty of that many times over. Committee censure, popular disapproval and teamsters opin ion, combined, however, were not sufficient to blast Beck out of his plush union presidency nor yet to persuade Hoffa to withdraw his candidacy for the presidency at this month's union convention. Beck acknowledged his unfitness for reelection but clung to the tag end of his term Beck and some of Hoffa's dis reputable associates chose Fifth Amendment defense. No banker, however much compro mised by the facts, would dare do that. None did under Pecora's merciless grilling. Two of them, however, mid way in their ordeal of testimony, felt compelled to resign their banking jobs. French Premier Faces Critical Tests Over Algeria, Farm Policy 1 i EDIT PAGE french 3 col head By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Premier Maurice Bourges Maunoury of France is facing critical tests of his North Afri can and domestic policies. The National Assembly, the con trolling house of the French Parlia ment, meets in Paris Tuesday in a special session. It will take up the Alger- charies McCann l a n problem and Bourges-Maunory's anti-inflationary system of agricultural price controls. Bourges-Maunoury plans to offer the Assembly a long-considered, complicated plan to di vide Algeria into federal areas in hope that he can end the re bellion which has been draining France's treasury for nearly three years. Algerians Reject Plan But the rebels have rejected the plan in advance as falling short of the complete independ ence they demand. Both the extreme right and extreme left wings of the Na tional Assembly are criticizing it also. The rightists say it would give too much freedom to Alger ia. The leftists say it does not go far enough. Bourges-Maunoury hopes to push through his" plan, in hope he can work out some compro mise with the Algerian nation alists. He is trying also to get it ap proved before the United Nations In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Foreign affairs note in . the news: Although diplomats say pri vately that the Syrian crisis con tinues grave, the United States publicly is trying to soft-pedal it Last week it was different. U. S. diplomatic officals then were branding the Syrian pro Soviet shift as "extremely dan gerous and a possible threat to free world security. They were reminding everybody then that there is a Big Stick in the Eisen hower Doctrine that can be USED if we choose to use it. This week our state depart ment has switched to softer language and has put the Big Stick behind the door but within easy reach if it is needed. Y? Well, if you can understand why a poker . player does .what he does and says what he says in a poker game you will under stand Why the diplomats are doing what they are doing and saying what they are saying. In times like these, diplomacy is the biggest poker game the world. in DIPLOMATIC exchanges are a OffA Hoal lilro an alanri An WVC v 4kV UU V,l-V l,iJLX campaign. You cant believe much of what either side says. And Like an election campaign Diplomacy is a struggle for power. HERE'S an INTERESTING Early this year, Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson (Engine Charley) swung a verbal hay maker at his "rich friends" after the U. S. Chamber of Com merce had criticized his han dling of defense spending. He suggested that his former asso ciates in the Big Business world could "well afford the taxes they were paying. Last night, at a meeting of the chamber's national defense com mittee at which Wilson was present; U. S. Chamber Presi dent Philip Talbott said of him: "What Charley Wilson BE LIEVED he always SAID and said it bluntly, with short, punchy words . that -. may have stung a few people here and there but ALWAYS LEFT THE AIR A LOT CLEARER THAN IT WAS BEFORE." "IIEN like that are useful.- J-'A Pussyfooters are apt to be dangerous. THIS is written on Friday the 13th. If you're superstitious, you'd better lock yourself up in a dark room and not stir until tomor row because THIS YEAR Friday the 13th of September is the 256th day of the year 1957. If you'll add up on your fing ers the figures 2. 5 and 6 you'll find that THEY TOTAL UP TO THIRTEEN. WHY is Friday regarded as un lucky? Jesus was crucified on Friday. Friday was long known as Hang man's Day because for a long period of time it was the day chosen for the execution of criminals. The books available at the mo ment are silent on the unlucki ness of 13. Does anyone know why? If so, I'd like to hear about it. rjNE more before quitting. Sneezing is widely re garded as an omen because of an ancient belief that in a sneeze a spirit leaves the body. Italians, to turn a sneeze into a GOOD omen, say Felicita " (meaning "blessing"). Germans say "Ges- uhdheit" (your health). Some English - speaking peoples say "God bless you7 when someone sneezes. Editorial Comment DAVE SHAW When his many friends look back on their acquaintance with him, they will say, "Now Dave Shaw: THERE was a man." For Dave Shaw, who died unexpect edly Friday morning, was an ex pert in many things. But most of all he was an expert in that most difficult pursuit of all in being primarily a great human being, a man of great brain, great heart and great physical vigor. When they talk about him in years to come, these friends of Dave'e, they will remember many things: Dave Shaw the night before his detfeat for Congress in 1950 addressing a radio audience and saying, "My name is Dave Shaw I am seeking your vote for Con gress and these are the things I sincerely believe. Dave Shaw standing around the piano reciting the words to a song and he never forgot the words to a song. He could not have carried a tune in. a bucket, but he was a great singing com panion because he had enthu siasm. Dave Shaw introducing Adlai Stevenson in an introduction that the presidential candidate said was "one of the most elo quent speeches I ever heard." Dave Shaw lying on his back on his Gold Beach ranch, look ing at the stars and discoursing expertly on astronomy; and the next afternoon talking about wild flowers or English history or what Lincoln said to Edwin M. Stanton. Dave Shaw, who loved good food, out in the kitchen mixing a tossed green salad seasoned with is own herbs. Dave Shaw remembering foot ball and crew at Harvard. Dave Shaw looking forward to teaching constitutional law next year and declaring that he had found his career, the way he wanted to spend the rest of his life. Dave Shaw, the civil war ex pert, fighting Shiloh or Chan cellorsville on the company and platoon level with another fan of our greatest war. Dave Shaw, a man who had known personal tragedy, listen ing sympatheticany to the smaller problems of another. Dave Shaw, drinking coffee in the Faculty Club and telling a joke a joke at which nobody laughed harder than Dave Shaw. Dave Shaw, indignant at what he felt was an injustice. He was of a rare breed, Dave Shaw was, and he will not be soon forgotten by people who recognize that great human beings are all too rare. Eugene Register-Guard. takes up the Algerian issue The General Assembly will open its regular annual meeting Tuesday, simultaneously with the French National Assembly. On the UN program is a reso lution, offered by 21 "anti-colonial" Asian and African countries, to debate the Algerian issue as a danger to peace. Price Controls Issu As soon as the Algerian de bate has been finished in the National Assembly. Bourees- Maunoury will face a much more serious debate on his agricultur al price controls. That issue could bring about a vote of no confidence and thus force Bourges-Maunoury's resignation as France's 22nd post-war premier. French farmers, regarded as the chief stabilizing force in po litically - mercurial France and powerfully represented in Parliament bitterly oppose the price controls. Bourges - Maunoury imposed the controls last month as part of his "austerity" program. Under this plan, ceilings were set on farm prices. Farmers threaten nation-wide strikes if the controls are main tained. Pressure by agricultural Inter ests forced Bourges-Maunoury to call a special session of Par liament on that issue. He set it for Sept. 24. But he advanced the date to Tuesday in order to give priority to. Algeria. Tunisia Aids Rebels As if Bourges-Maunoury did not have trouble enough with Algeria and price controls, he is involved also in a potentiaUy dangerous dispute with Presi dent Habib Bourguiba of Tun isia, to which France has grant ed independence. Tunisia adjoins Algeria on the northeast. The Algerian rebels have been getting a constant supply of weapons through Tun isia. Rebel bands also make it a practice to flee into Tunisia to escape French punitive forces. France recently started chas ing the rebels across the border, pleading the recognized interna tional right of "hot pursuit." Bourguiba has proclaimed a state of emergency along the border and threatens to use his armed forces against French troops. Matter of Fact By Stewart Alsop Stewait Alsop THE CONSEQUENCES OF FAUBUS Washington The tragic epi sode in Little Rock is dead cer tain to have decisive political re sults. One such result is already clear. The bril liant strategy of Senate Ma jority Leader Lyndon John son, which was designed to save his party from being torn to pieces by the civil rights issue. has been knocked into a cocked hat by Arkansas' Gov. Orval Fau bus. . j.ne Johnson strategy was essentially simple enough. Again and again, he pointed out to his fellow Southerners that, if they filibustered to prevent any civil rights legislation at all, the in evitable result would be change in the Senate rules to kill unlimited debate. Then real ly tough civil rights would in time become inevitable The Southerners bowed to Johnson's logic, and unanimous ly agreed not to filibuster a bill limited essentially to voting rights. With a civil rights bill "the South could live with' safely passed, the second part of Johnson's plan called for a rel atively mild change in the Sen ate rules in the next session of Congress. The rules would be amended to permit two thirds of those present and voting to limit debate. TiHUS, according to the John- - son strategy, the two great, related issues which have threat ened to destroy the Democratic party civil rights and the fili buster would be out of the way by the time the 1958 and 1960 elections rolled around. But the "best-laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley. Lyndon Johnson's well-laid plans began to go agley at the very end of the session, when. Sen. Throm Thurmond of South Caro lina broke the Southern agree ment, and staged his one-man filibuster. Thurmond's futile grandstand play, enraged the other Southerners, since it was calculated to make them seem soft" on the civil rights issue. But the damage to Johnson's strategy inflicted by Thurmond was probably not irreparable. The damage inflicted by Arkan sas Gov. Orval Faubus almost certainly is irreparable. For Faubus' action in calling out the Arkansas National Guard to prevent integration of the Little Rock High schools has suddenly and dramatically re vived the whole civil rights is- j sue. The pictures of white troops! turning Negro children away from the Little Rock school have unquestionably had an en ormous impact on the Northern Negro voting blocs, which are the key to victory in important industrial states. IN THIS situation, it is virtually inevitable that civil rights legislation, instead of being dis posed of as envisaged in the Johnson strategy, will again dominate the next session of Congress. Among the strong civ il rights advocates in the Admin istration, the Little Rock epi sode is held to prove the need for the kind of legislation em bodied in the defeated section three of the original Administra tion bill. Section three would have permitted the Justice De partment to take the initiative in all civil rights matters, in cluding school desegregation. It is a good bet that the Ad ministration, as a result -of the Little Rock episode, will intro duce a civil rights bill- in the session embodying this princi ple. It is a particularly good bet because the Northern Democrats will certainly do so if the Ad ministration does not. Indeed, Northerns like Rep. Emmanuel Cellar of New York and Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois have already drafted bills to that end. The Little Rock episode, in short, has made it likely that Northern Democrats will again istration Republicans will again start competitive bidding for Northern Negro support, pre cisely what the Johnson strategy was designed to avoid. Section three of the Administration civ il rights bill was, of course, an athema to the Southerners, and its elimination was an essential condition of the Southern agree ment not to filibuster. rrWE Southerners will of course -- threaten to filibuster any new version of section three. And this in turn will also raise the issue of the filibuster, and in the sharpest form. Thus in this way also the action of Fau bus threatens to tear the care ful and coolly calculated John son strategy to tatters. All in all, no man has a better right than Lyndon Johnson to be furious with Orval Faubus. And this is especially so, for still another reason. If the John son strategy had worked, if the civil rights issue had been dis posed of, once and for all, in 1957, the Democrats might quite conceivably have nominated a liberal Southerner in 1960 such a liberal Southerner, for example, as Lyndon Johnson. Thanks to Orval Faubus, that is now almost inconceivable. (C) 1957 New York Herald . Tribune Inc. Presidents of the U.S. have used armed forces abroad at least 76 times without congres sional sanction. Stephen Stoned To Death Geo. N. Taylor Came Stephen, an early Christain who declared that the blood of Christ blotted out all our sins. At that, Saul, a non- Chris, tian set the crowd against Stephen and Stephen was stoned to death. Saul next set off for Damascus to head off their taking on Christian faith. As they journeyed, Christ Himself came in with "Saul Saul Why do you persecute Me?" At that Saul fell to the ground, to be lifted later to his feet and led on into Damascus. 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