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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Hei 3k,TRIB UNS "Everyone la Southern Oregon Eed The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 17-39 North fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER 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 Bt Mail In Advance: Per Copt 10c Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mo 4.25 Sunday Only One year 94.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill p&oemx Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes- Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford mriciai faper ot Jacaton county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP 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 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOIIAi. lASSOCU'ieN frmilMJH'H'lUM Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ego. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 17, 1947 (Wednesday) At a meeting of the Medford board of education held last night in the offices of the city hall, a contract was given to build an addition to the junior high school on West Second st. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: An upstate man was kicked by a deer, and sustained an injured left hand. The deer told friends he mistook the victim for a horse-fly that had been following him all day. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 17, 1937 (Friday) Being exhibited on the court house lawn is the first of the small structures sponsored by the Jackson County Health as sociation as isolation houses for tuberculosis victims. Six seasoned air pilots of the United Air Lines stopped at Medford municipal airport yes terday afternoon on a familiar ization flight. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 17, 1927 (Saturday)- H. T. (Taylor) Burch, veteran member of the fire department and its assistant chief for years, has resigned recently in accord ance with a ruling of the city administration that every mem ber of the fire department must be able to drive the fire truck annaratus. All kinds of compliments have ripen showered on Medford mountain drinking water supply but it is not generally known that water can save Medford users exDenditures because of its outstanding quality of pure- ness. 1 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 17, 1917 (Monday) Great interest is being shown In the auto show at the county fair to be held during the fair this week. Auto supply is reported short this year, by local dealer. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent: five or six is good 1. Of what archipelago are the Philippine Islands a part? 2. In bowling, are there three, four, or five rows of pins? 3. Bible: Name the gifts brought by the "three wise men" to Jesus. 4. Name - the author .of the famous novel, "Jane Eyre 5. Which letter of the alpha bet is omitted from telephone dials? 6. The marital institution of a single wife at a time is known as polygamy, monogamy, or big amy? 7. U. S. senators serve for terms of two, four, 6r six years? 8. Is an orangutan a new vari ety of tangerine, or a seedless orange? 9. To which does the collo quial contraction "ma'am" ap ply: madam, my lady, mistress, damsel? 10. Which beloved person popularized the expression: "All I know is what I read in the papers."? Answers: 1. Malay Archipela go. 2. Four. 3. Gold, frankin cense, myrrh. 4, Charlotte Brn je. 5. "Q.". 6. Monogamy. . 7. fx. 8. No, it is an anthropoid c.je. 9- Madam; my lady. 10. Will Rogers. MAIL TRIBUNE 'Government of Laws, Not Men9? According. to a special R. L, President Eisenhower was much "pleased with the success of his conference with Governor Faubus. - Success? The only evidence given in the dispatch is the statement credited to the President, quote: "You can't legislate morality into people in dealing with the civil rights problem." XF course not. w Nor can you legislate morality INTO people, in dealing with the "teen-age" or the traffic or the homicide problem. You can only make laws against wrong-doing, and one of the first commandments of our democracy is for every official and every citizen to obey those laws, and enforce them. "11AS this point made TT The special dispatch exact agreement was reached m that Newport con ference, only that the result was entirely pleasing to the President. Was it equally pleasing ansas? We hope so. Certainly the point must have , been brought out, that a Governor takes an oath to uphold the constitu tion of the United States, and see that the laws thereof are enforced. But instead of doing this Governor Faubus called out the National Guard .to breakers, and nullify the by the U.S. Supreme Court. .. "1X7 AS such a course condoned by the President on " " the ground that "you can't legislate morality into the people? This would be hard to ing to indicate to date ' Governor Faubus was dis pleased with the conference, or that he has any in tention whatever, of changing his course. In fact, he stated after it, with a considerable show of pride, that nothing, for the present and the people of his state ingly approve his stand. .-'" "IX7ELL, one Southern 1 in the border state of Tennessee, Governor Cle ment declares he believes the decision of the U.S Supreme Court was a mistake, but it is for THAT tribunal, under .the Constitution, not for him,' to say what the law of the land And so long as that IS the law, he says he will both obey and enforce it. Instead of following the course of his Arkansas colleague, and calling out the National Guard to prevent enforcement, he will call them out, if needed, to see Governor Chandler of ilar announcement. He will to uphold the constitution IT is difficult to see how in the union could take as everyone now knows, Governor Faubus did. And as certainly no one would deny, if he can re fuse to obey the law of the land, and get away with it, with the government's acquiescense, then any other governor can do the same. Moreover there is no doubt that in such an event every governor in the "Black South" would follow suit, cerned. ' MOT only that. x But if one Southern Governor can violate his oath of office and nullify the constitution, because he doesn't like some provision, northern state or anv state can under the same pretext of "preventing bloodshed" take the same action. . : ' A ND then where would we be? And where would x be our proud boast that in this democracy "your huddled masses yearning to be free, are welcome, and this is a land where no discriminations are made because of "race, religion or creed?" IT will be claimed, no doubt, that this is taking the issue too seriously, going to unwarranted extremes. But we happen to believe the issue IS serious, not only at home but abroad; and that it is not those who would insist that the laws of the land be ENFORCED, but those who insist force should be used to prevent enforcement, that are going to the extremes. After all hasn't it been generally admitted in this country that this is a "land of laws not of men?" . . . . , . TI7HAT becomes of this claim when men are al- V lowed to break the laws. and the highest author ity in a state supports that lawlessness? Certainly to say you can't "legislate morality into people" is no answer. : : The highest moral obligation in any democracy is to obey the law so long as it IS the iaw. If any citi zen or governor or what law, let him work for its for its violation. AS we see it, the only proper course to take in this "segregation situation has been taken by the Gov ernors of Tennessee and Kentucky. They don't like the law, but so long as it is it. It is of course, not too things come to a final showdown, the present admin istration will support their Governor of Arkansas! Tuesday, September 17, 1957 dispatch from Newport, - clear to Governor Faubus? says nothing about what to the Governor of Ark uphold the potential law' Constitution as interpreted believe. Yet there is noth at least, will be changed, and the South overwhelm Governor doesn't at least is, and what it ISN T. that the law IS-enforced Kentucky has made a sim call out his national guard not violate it. any Governor of any state any different course. But as far as segregation is con then any Governor of a not, doesn't LIKE the repeal or amendment, not the law they will enforce late to hope that when position, NOT that of the R.W.R. win ; . f.o3u-ia meeo Well. TOIWHi W0 K4S A Hoffa Rival Declares Chicago Teamsters' Action is 'Victory' By RICHARD A. MONTABA United Press Corespondent Chicago (IP) Thomas J. Hag gerty, "clean up" candidate for president of the International Teamsters Union, today claimed the Chicago Teamster Joint Council handed him a "decided victory" in his race against James R. Hoffa. Haggerty referred to the Chi cago council's decision Monday night to release - its 180 dele gates, previously pledged to Hoffa, from the unit rule. That means they will be able to vote as they please at the Teamsters' international convention in Mi ami, Fla., later this month. However, Haggerty's victory was less than complete as the 35,000-member joint council re fused to revoke its earlier en dorsement of Hoffa for the $50, 000 a year post vacated by Dave Beck. . The council, which will rep resent about 10 per cent of the voting strength at the conven tion, endorsed Hoffa Aug. 31 be fore , Haggerty became a candi date. ; Haggerty "Jubilant" - Although Haggerty failed to win the council's endorsement, he said its " decision to release delegates frorn the unit rule made him "more confident than ever" he would be elected presi dent. The 52-year-old 4 treasurer of the Chicago Milk Drivers Local 753 said he was "jubilant" over the outcome and termed it "a decided victory for me." "Without unit rule binding them," Haggerty said, "delegates will be left alone with their conscience in the balloting." Hoffa, contacted in - Detroit, appeared just as certain that the council's action amounted to a victory for him. They (the council) reaffirm ed the fact that they will en In the Day's News By FRANK In the city of Maceio, capital of the state of Alagoas in the normally rather tranquil South American nation of Brazil day before yesterday, the legislature was debating impeachment pro ceedings . directed at the gover nor of the state. The argument got .hot and the legislators pulled- guns and SHOT IT OUT. When the smoke cleared away one legislator was dead and six others were seri ously wounded. GENTLEMEN! Gentlemen! -THAT'S THE WAY NA TIONS ACT! If individal citizens ever start acting like nations the world's a .goner. HERE'S an example of the way fOMMTTNTST nations art- A demand that Russia with draw its troops and permit elec tions in Hungary has just been endorsed by the United Nations in a resolution condemning So viet suppression of last year's revolt in Hungary. The chief Soviet delegate td the World Inter-Parliamentary Union angrily protested the U.N. action as UNWARRANT ED INTERFERENCE IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF HUN GARY. IN an effort to make plainer just what happened, let's put it this way: Suppose you took over your neighbor's house by armed force, beating the. tar out of him if he resisted and maybe shoot ing his wife and children And suppose the police, moved in to stop you and you protested their action as UNWARRANT ED INTERFERENCE with your personal affairs Well - In that event You'd be acting EXACTLY as this communist Russian official is acting. His argument is that KAWAINTED Hg ! ' dorse me for president," Hoffa told United Press. "They did not put into effect the unit rule because they have never operat ed under the unit rule." Hoffa's last statement was dis puted by Ray Schloessing, Chi cago joint council president, who said "historically,' this council has always gone to a convention bound by the unit rule." Haggerty, who also is a mem ber of the Chicago Board of Education and a civic leader, scored another victory Monday when the executive board of the Cincinnati Joint Council of Teamsters . voted him its . solid support. ' But he suffered a setback a few hours later when the largest Canadian Teamster local, which was backing his 1 candidacy,, was suspended and its voting rights in the cbnvention cancelled. Haggerty charged the Gen eral Truck Drivers Local 938 of Toronto was suspended be cause it had endorsed him in stead of Hoffa. He urged the suspension be "taken up by the international council's legislators," and indi cated he felt the suspension would be revoked. Local President William Mills in Toronto, charged Hoffa mov ed to suspend the local to stran gle Hoffa's . opposition to the union's top office. The international union said it suspended the Toronto local because the Canadian unit fail ed to pay $22,000 in per capita taxes. Mills termed the interna tional's explanation "trumped up charges." "It's Beck and his followers trying to clear the way for Hoffa by eliminating Haggerty from the list of candidates," Mills said. Haggerty plans to leave Chi cago Friday to seek support from eastern teamster leaders. JENKINS Russia has a perfect right to con quer all her neighbors and that nobody has any right to stop her, THAT attitude is one reason why communism is so foul that in time it must fall of the weight of its own foulness. "OUT that's enough about for- eign affairs. Let's turn to the U.S. farm front. On Thursday, Wisconsin's new ultra-"liberal" Senator Prox- mire sent President Eisenhower a telegram king him flatly to fire , Secretary of Agriculture Benson. Ike's answer was to ask Sec retary Benson to stay in his cab inet INDEFINITELY. Secretary Benson promptly agreed to do so. A FTER announcing his agree- ment to remain in the cabi net as long as the President wants him there, Secretary Ben son told the reporters that the E i s e n h o wer administration's new farm policy will contain at least two MAJOR points: 1. A move to REPEAL the 75 per cent of parity support floor under "basic"-crops. 2. A move to relax production controls on major crops. rpHAT takes courage and -- there hasn't been much cour age in politics lately. What will happen? ' We'll see what we'll see. Here in Southern Oregon and Far Northern California, where we grow little or none of these basic crops and where we have been hurt by the planting, to our spe cialty crops of land taken out of production of corn, wheat, cot ton, rice and peanuts, we'll hope that Ike and Secretary . Benson get away with what they are starting. ' Personally, I can see ho other way - to return to agricultural sanity. Hints Seen Prestige as By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Nikita S. Khrushchev's pres tige as the No. l man in Soviet Russia's collective leadership seems to be dimming. His recent victory over Georgi M. Malenkov, Vlar cheslav M. Mo lotov and Lazar M, Kaganovich in the ruling Presidium of the Russian Charles McCann communist Par ty has failed to strengthen his personal position. On the contrary, it has seem ed to make it more apparent that he is not a "strong man" of the Matter of Fact by stew0rt aiSoP QUESTIONS FOR THE PRESIDENT Washington Most people have happily accepted the Eisen hower administration's assur- I ances that the successful So viet test of an intercontinen -tal missile doesn't matter much and changes noth ing. But there have . been a few v o i c.e s, stewait Anon crying in the wilderness, that it matters a great deal and changes every thing. :: Sen. Stuart Symington of Mis souri said on Thursday that the country is being "mislead" by the Eisenhower administration's "sweet talk" about the . ICBM. Symington sometimes seems to be the only politician left in the land who is willing to face the politically unpalatable facts of our situation. But the bluntest indictment of the Official reac tion to the Soviet ICBM tests appeared in a full page editorial in "Aviation Week," a magazine which has a genuinely brilliant record of reporting the facts of the true balance of Soviet and American air power. ; Since "Aviation Week" has a limited circulation, the editorial seems worth quoting at some length. "Official . government statements on the Russian ICBM firings . have been deliberately misleading," the editorial charg es bluntly. 'TPHESE official statements by President Eisenhower, Sec retary of State Dulles, and. Dep uty Defense Secretary Quarles," the editorial continues, "have been manipulated solely for the political effect . . . the White House and the Pentagon know when the Russians began their ICBM test firings, they know ap proximately how many rounds have been fired to date and the general performance of these rounds in altitude and range They also know how long the Soviets have been firing inter mediate range missiles, where these test firings have been made and the general progress of this program. These are cer tainly not facts that need con cealing from the Russians, so why conceal them f rom , the American people? Even the methods by which this informa tion is scientifically collected are known to the Soviets and there is littie they can do except Diuster to stop this process." This blunt indictment in a re sponsible magazine suggests cer tain questions which President Eisenhower might profitably.be asKed when next he holds a press conference. Here are some of them: Is it true that we have means by which data on Soviet missile firings can be "scientifically col lected?" If it is true, why cannot this information, which is Of course known to the Russians, be com municated to the Congress and the people? Is it true that the Soviets first began testing' intermediate mis siles, some with ranges well over 1,000 miles, more than two years ago? Is it true that in certain re cent months the rate of testing has topped five a month? IS IT true that, as a result of cording to your own national intelligence estimates, it must be assumed that the Soviets al ready have operational medium range missiles, capable of de stroying our forward air bases and our allies' capitals? Is it true, as your Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, indi cated a few days ago, that it will be at least a year before the United States produces its first medium range ballistic . missile ready for operational use? If these things are true, is it not then also true that the Rus sians must be well over a year ahead of us in developing the medium range missile? Is it true that, well before the Russian announcement, you and other high officials were quite aware that the Soviets had test ed not one but several long range, multi-stage ballistic mis siles? - Is it true that our own ICBM program has only reached the point of testing the initial, first- MftSaHMMSS That Khrushchev's 'No V Slipping Josef Stalin type Khrushchev won out narrow ly In the Presidium dispute only with the aid of Marshal Georgi Zhukov, defense minis ter and army leader.. Zhukov and Vice Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan increased their own strength as members of the collective leadership. There are indications now that the friendship between Khrush chev and Zhukov may be cool ing. Harvest Poses Problem Khrushchev must be worried, also, over the serious lag in the Russian harvest. - Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, and other organs are complaining of the delay in the grain harvests in Siberia, the stage rocket, and that the prob lems of adding the second stage, and maintaining guidance, re main to be solved? If this is true, is it not then also reasonable to assume that in the field of long range mis siles as well the Soviets are de cisively ahead of us? S IT not reasonable to assume, I as the Soviets themselves have indicated, that their cen tral purpose- in making such an enormous effort to vin the mis siles races is to bring our strate gic air bases under threat of in stant thermonuclear destruc tion? If the Soviets maintain their apparent lead in the missile race, is it not further reasonable to assume that a time will come when the American capability to inflict "massiye retaliation, which is the heart and soul of American strategic doctrine, will be compromised? And finally, if all these things are true, might it not be wise for you, as the leader of the Ameri can people, to inform them of the real facts of their situation, and to ask of them, whatever sac rifices may be necessary to en sure that the race for missile supremacy is not won by the Soviets? Might it not be wiser to do this than to -take the risk that Senator Symington might be proved right in his dour pre diction: "If the policies of this government are not changed, it is only a question oi time before we will lose our country"? (Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Gl Loans Dealt Death ew Rates Gearhart, Ore. r (IP) A mort gage loan banker warned Mon day that money markets no long er are willing to accept the yield on FHA and GI loans. Albert L. Bucher, vice presi dent of Commonwealth, Inc.. told the Oregon Association of Real Estate Boards that con trolled discount rates have dealt a death blow to GI loans. The rates were put into effect last month. He added that FHA could be lost if the interest rate is not allowed to seek the market level, He warned against what he call ed "a trend in FHA to social ized housing." , E. E. Tate, chief of loan guar antees in the 'state office of the veterans administration, told realtors that applications for GI home loans had dropped to less than 10 per cent of the volume of a year ago. Dave Epps Appointed To Forestry Committee Salem (IP) Dave Epps, Sweet Home businessman and civic leader, was named to serve on the governor's forest protection and conservation committee Monday. Epps, a Democrat, was ap pointed by Gov. Robert D. Holmes to a four-year term on the committee. He succeeds Carl E. Davidson, Portland, whose term expired June 30. Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan . rrwa orsnnun Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 O MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOllY ST. central Asian republic of Ka zakhstan, and Byelorussia. Insufficient machinery and In efficiency are being blamed for the situation. But Khrushchev will be lucky if he can absolve himself from a big share of the blame. He has assumed personal responsibility for the overall agricultural pro gram. There is no suggestion that Khrushchev's job as first secre tary of the Russian Communist Party is in danger. Zhukov Top Man? But it is possible that Zhukov is really the strong man in the Presidium at present, and that Khrushchev is dependent on his support. There are reports in European capitals that the next big move in Moscow may be another gov ernment reshuffle. It is suggest ed that Nikolai A. Bulganin may be replaced as premier by Miko yan. In that event Bulganin would be kicked upstairs, offi cially, by replacing Marshal Kliment Y. Voroshilov as the figurehead president of Russia. Voroshilov is 76, and has long been ready to retire. If Bulganin were replaced, it would be because he sided, for awhile, with Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich in their attempt to . oust Khrushchev from ' the Communist Party leadership. But the replacement would be simply a tidying-up job in the Presidium. It would not nec essarily mean that Khrushchev is. stronger. Communications Letters to the Editor must beat the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name- or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the richt to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Raffelsia, Birdsnesti and Teak' To the Editor: The largest flower , is Raffelsia. Three feet in diameter, it weighs up to 15 pounds, has a strong carrion odor. It was discovered by Sir Stamford Raffles. This remark able man was governor when Java was English. He liberated slaves, founded Singapore, cre ated a college there to study of Malay and Chinese- literature. Returning-to England, he found ed the Zoological society, be came its first president; When, at the Century's turn, we were in the Spice islands be fore they were ppened to ,tourist travel, Sir Stamford ranked with Sir James Brooke, "Rajah of Sarawak," as the . two great statesmen who did much for. the Malays. Sarawak was famous for, the birdsnests of Chinese soup, also for its teak. Teak is used on, bat tleships. It does not splinter un der shell fire. Writer came to know its beauty in Siam, Bur mah, Spice islands. Our home is of teak.' Now comes news American Know How penetrates Borneo, is added to British genius there. Our National Parks concept is our gift to mankind. Now Sara wak has created Bako National Park. It has fine jungles,' rare airplants, also many insectivor ous plants. ' - , -C. M. Goethe, -Seventh and J sts., Sacramento 14, Calif. Savings Bond Sales in . County Show Decline Savings bond sales in Jack son county showed a decline from $114,107 in August, 1955, to $90,000, last month, accord ing to George W Mimnaugh, state director of bond sales. - Jackson county savings bond sales showed a decline from $828,758 to $661,967 last year through August to this year through August, he noted.' Oregon residents bought $2,988,176 worth of series E bonds last month, he said. INSURANCE REPLACES lost capital which in turn creates job opportunities. 1 SINCE YOUR AGENT de termines the ability of the . insurer to pay these losses, his policy and that of ,the company are most import ant to you. YOU CAN BE SURE OF THE POLICY BACK OF THE POLICY AT MEDFORD INSURANCE AtiENCY. . . Bill Fish
