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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medfordtrib une "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dailv Except Satur'tay by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-gKl ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC Al l FN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1697 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance- Per Copy. 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mcs 4.ZS Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold H1U Phoenix, fchadv 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 Official Paper of Jackson 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 iO NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOtlAt AssocrA-feN riiiimiwwni 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. 23. 1947 (Tuesday) The second man in the at tempted safe robbery of the Groceteria Super Food market early yesterday morning has not been found, police reported today. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Snafu, the cussing parrot from Baku, now interned in a J'Ville bird ref uge, has laid an egg, his master, Atty. Hugh Collins reports. He was not supposed to. be that kind of a parrot." 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 23. 1937 (Wednesday) Col. Thomas M. Robins of the United States Corps of Army Engineers, said today he had filed with the board of engi neers for rivers and harbors in Washington an unfavorable re port on proposed improvement of the Rogue river for naviga tion. First frost of the season blan keted the city last night, accord ing to weather officials. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 23, 1927 (Saturday) Police are mystified as to why Bliss Heine was bound and left in the Heine Robinson Art Shoppe here yesterday. Frank Kittredge who directed most of the construction on Jackson county roads for the Oregon State Highway commis sion visited Medford Friday. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 23. 1917 (Monday) La Scala Grand Opera will present "Carmen" in the Page theatre here Thursday night. Heavy movement of drafted troops through the city for American Lake, Wash., is prac tically ended, railroad officials report. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct ts superior; seven or elsht Is excellent: five or six Is good 1. The Battle of the Coral Sea in World War II took place near which large island contin ent? 2. Is Dutch Harbor in the Netherlands Indies? 3. Bible: Does the Old Testa ment give any implication of the immortality of mankind? 4. Are the remains of Abra ham Lincoln buried in the Lin coln Memorial in Washington. D.C.? 5. What color is the antithesis of black? 6. In which state is the Erie Canal? 7. There are a total of 32, 64, or 96 squares on a checkerboard? 8. In which country was the famous (and futile) Maginot de defense line built before World War II? 9. Is the "a in alimentary cronounced as the e in 'a-' ir-i olo. mentary or the "a" in all? 10. "My son, I've travelled round the world And many I've met; There are two kinds you should avoid The blonde and the " name the two missing words. Answers: 1. Australia; 2. No, it is in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska; 3. Yes; 4. No, his re mains are buried in Springfield. Illinois; 5. White; 6. New York; 7. 64; 8. France; 9. No. As the "a" in cat; 10. "Maids"; "bru MAIL TRIBUNE "T-T 7-99 7 n IV ana ruouc vveirare Considering the tremendous political pressures brought against "Pay-T.V." by the big advertisers and Big Business the recent decision by the F.C.C. to allow it in 1957, came as a pleasant surprise to this department. The green light is only for a limited period, but there seems no reasonable doubt that once the bars are let down,"they will stay down. And this will be rendering a distinct public service. AS usual in such a situation, there were all sorts of "wolf cries" and misrepresentations on the pait of the embattled and entrenched interests. It was claimed over and over again that this was a wicked scheme to make TV sets over into slot-machines, and compel the hard-pressed viewers to pay for what they had been getting for free. That made a good political "talking point" but it did not happen' to be true. fJNDER "Pay-T.V." a coin apparatus will be at- tached to the T.V. set only IF the owner so de sires, but this will not "black-out" the regular non pay service it will merely supplement it. In other words, there will be no change in the present free-service except when those who have had the coin-attachment installed prefer the alternate service strongly enough to pay something for it. Then they will get it and only then. The free-service will be available to those who don't want to pay for special service as before. THE objection to this arrangement whereby "com- , Trill U 1 ' mcimia win uc ciiiiiiiiaucu anu uie uuiiaumei will, so to speak, "pay the freight" is understandable. But we predict the prophets of "gloom and doom" will be as far off the beam in this case, as they were when they predicted the end of the pKonograph when radio came in ; or the end of radio when Television was perfected. IN short, "Pay-T.V.," as we see it, comes under the heading of human progress, rendering a greater public service in the sports, informative and general entertainment field, than was possible under the old system. And as always, those who, in ANY field, tiy to dig in on the old-line and halt progress, have no more success than did King Canute when he tried, with a broom, to sweep back the ocean tide. R.W.R. A Timely Probe As indicated above we have not ahvays approved the F.C.C. decisions in the field of federal communi cations. In fact some of them we have considered directly opposed to the public welfare, and contrary to the proper and legitimate interests of the radio industry, particularly. But all in all, the F.C.C. has done a far better job, in our opinion, than have any of the other regu latory agencies the Federal Power Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission, for ex ample. 1E were therefore glad T7 of Representatives around the first of the year, into the records of the F.P.C., the I.C.C. and four others, making up the "Big Six." We hope some light will be thrown on the fact that the present administration renamed Chairman Jerome Kuykendall on the sion, when as a lawyer, he had represented private power interests as a specialty, and his record on the commission has been one slanted in their favor almost without exception. o N the Interstate Commerce Commission, the record against the public welfare and in favor of the railroads, has been equally consistent. If in recent years the I.C.C. has ever refused a raise in rates or other favor requested by a majority of the large rail systems, it has never been brought to our attention. One of the leading rail-policy experts in Oregon, admitted to this department, that anyone appealing to the I.C.C. for any reform opposed by the rail systems as a whole, had two strikes on him before he started. IT is, we believe, high time that the spot-light of publicity be turned on the personnel, backgrounds and prejudices of both these commissions, and the peoule be informed of the truth concerning them. Then there is the Securities and Exchange Com mission, before which the notorious Dixon-Yates con tract came, and no denial is made that Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams phoned the chairman and asked him to postpone their investigations, which might have ended the probe but for the publicity re leased from other quarters, which impelled President Eisenhower to cancel belately the "D.Y." contract. rF course the same charge brought against other congressional investigations, will be brought against this one, namely: that it is all "politics." Well no one would deny there will be politics involved, but our guess is there will also be great public interest for as the non-political "Congressional Quarterly" observes, quote: "Because of these agencies' broad authority over every thing from rates charged to tax write-offs their decisions affect the price you pay for a plane or railroad ticket or even a loaf of bread. They also largely decide what radio and television programs go to your neighborhood." R.W.R. Monday, Sepiember 23, 1957 7 7. TJ7 Jf to note that the House has scheduled a hearing Federal Power Commis 1 'fte's PART Great VAhl, past S&TUP ... AH0 ALL M1H& i Matter of Fact KHRUSHCHEV GETS TOUGH Washington Sometimes it is instructive to compare the hopes of the past with the re alities of the present. Last July 4, when Nikita Khrush chev purged his "Stalinist", col leagues in the Kremlin, the "New York Times" accurate ly described the t it . stewait Aisop mooa oi me cap ital as one of "gleeful specu lation." The burden of this glee ful speculation was that Khrush chev had "won a smashing vic tory for his new look policies of easing tensions at home and abroad." This hopeful interpretation of the Soviet purge seemed reason able enough. The main charge against the "anti-party group" was that they had "opposed the Leninist policy of peaceful co existence . . . relaxing tensions . and friendly relations." Cer tainly the departure of the stoney-faced Molotov from the seats of Soviet power seemed an augury of better times to come. Yet what has happened since? What has happened is that Soviet foreign policy has been tougher and more aggressive than at any time since Stalin's death. Very shortly after Khrus chev's triumph the Soviets made it crystal clear that they were no longer interested in negotiat ing seriously on disarmament. SINCE then the Soviets have talked and acted in a man ner worthy of Molotov at his nastiest. There have been, to name only a few examples, the very tough note to the Adenauer government, the even tougher note to Turkey, the charge that the United States was fomenting war in the Middle East, the threatening Gromyko interview, a series of fist-shaking Pravda editorials, and the deliberately menacing tone of the announce ment of the Soviet test of a long range ballistic missile. The new tough line has not been confined to talk, moreover. The dispatch of Soviet cruisers and submarines to the Mediter ranean was clearly meant to un derline the tough words. And in U.S. Navy contacts with Soviet submarines in or near Ameri can waters has also' sharply in creased. Altogether, among those who are paid to think about such things, there is no longer that slightest doubt that Khrushchev, immediately after his triumph, deliberately decided to get tough with the West. All sorts of pos sible reasons are cited to explain this Khrushchev decision, from the newly powerful influence of Marshal Zhukoff to the need to disabuse the West of any notion that the Kremlin purge was a symptom of Soviet weakness. But Khrushchev is now undoubt edly the supreme shaper of So viet policy, and therefore a good part of the explanation surely lies in the character of Krush chev himself. Everyone who has had contact with Khrushchev has carried away one clear im pression that he is a gambler, a man willing and even eager to take great risks. He is also a true believer, a man who gen uinely believes in the Marxist doctrine of the inherent weak ness and inevitable collapse of the capitalistic world. 0 NE of his most striking char acteristics, moreover, is a peasant's delighted pride in the technical achievements of Rus sian science. In 1955, when the Soviets first displayed their long range bison jet bomber at the Red Air Force Day show, one of the American air attaches trained his binoculars on the re viewing stand. He saw Khrush chev jumping up and down with joy, grinning and thumping the staid Bulganin on the back. Since then Khrushchev has again and again displayed this shiny new toys with which the able Soviet scientists have pro vided the Soviet state. On his almost childlike pleasure in the visit to England in 1956, for ex ample, he boasted again and again of Soviet achievements in aicraf t, in missiles, and in nu- 3looohooso, PART IftSH By Stewart Alsop clear power. Repeatedly in recent months, in notes to Britain, France, West Germany, Turkey and Norway, the new Soviet missile capabili ty has been emphasized threat eningly. The notes were signed for the most part by Bulganin. But the real originator was un doubtedly Khrushchev. And the Soviet ICBM announcement, with its implied threat to the United States, was probably written by Khrushchev, and was certainly approved by him. CONSIDER how the world scene must look to this man, especially now that his scientists have given him, in the ICBM, the shiniest and most murder ous of new toys. He sees the Weet, led by the United States, unilaterally disarming. With his gambler's instinct, and his doc trinal conviction that the West is doomed anyway, this must seem to him no time for nego tiation and accommodation. It must seem to him, rather, a time to press forward boldly, and to take big risks, in order to has ten the West's inevitable doom This seems, at least, a reason able partial interpretation of th increasingly tough and aggres sive tone of Soviet policy, ever since the event which caused such gleeful speculation in Washington less than three months ago. (C) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS By FRANK JENKINS Foreign affairs note: Russia has formally proposed suspension of nuclear weapons tests for two or three years and a ban on the use of nuclear bombs for five years. The propo sals were made by Soviet For eign Minister Gromyko at the United Nations session. Wouldn t it be wonderful if Russia could be trusted? 'HEFENSIVE-offensive note: The Air Force says the U.S has developed radar that can de tect an intercontinental ballistic missile up to 3,000 miles away A spokesman says this ad vanced type of radar will be put to use in the near future to give the United States instantaneous warning of a missile attack. Hm-r m-m-m-m-m-m. ve iorgotten (it i ever knew) the speed at which these missiles are supposed to travel But it's FAST. Maybe this radar jigger would give us as much as ten minutes warning. . Well- Ten minutes warning would be better than no warning at all. T ET'S be serious for a minute. - History tells us that fabu lous new offensive weapons call forth equally fabulous new weapons for DEFENSE. So Maybe this new radar will eventually be able to trigger off new DEFENSIVE missiles that will go up and track down and destroy the OFFENSIVE mis siles. A THOUGHT: Let's not get the idea that modern scientific research is concerned exclusively with de struction. That isn't true. For example: Scientists have been success ful in transplanting the bone marrow of one person to anoth er person without getting the slightest sign of a "hostile" re action. A report of the New Eng land Journal of Medicine says the successful experiment may be a step toward a cure for leu kemia. A simple explanation of it (possibly over-simplified) is that the bone marrow of people with leukemia is messed up chemi cally and they inevitably die. However, if their bone marrow allows another person's well adjusted bone marrow to take over it is a CURE for leukemia. S FAR we've been talking about science. Let's now (Ugh!) talk about Closer Cooperation Among Red Nations Eyed by 'Independents' By CHARLES McCANN United Press Correspondent President Tito of Yugoslavia and Wladyslaw Gomulka of Po land seem to have decided that Communist ruled countries must cooperate more closely. Exactly what Europe's two i n d e p endent C o m m u n ist leaders agreed upon in their recent confer ence in Yugo slavia is not Charles McCann Clear. But there are strong indica tions that they decided they must try to get along with Soviet Rus sia and its satellites for their own good, despite their pursuit of "different paths to socialism." Their feelings seem to be that of Benjamin Franklin when he said at the signing of the Decla ration of Independence in Phila delphia on July 4, 1776: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." It is likely that they had in mind the disputes in Russian leadership which led to the re cent purge of Georgi M. Malen kov, Vyacheslav M. Molotov and Lazar M. Kaganovich. Dissension Feared They may have felt that, as reports leaking out of Moscow indicate, the dissension in the Kremlin is not over and that Ni kita S. Khrushchev may be fac ing trouble. It is possible that they may have thought also of the recent book by Milovan Djilas, once vice president of Yugoslavia and Tito's right-hand man, denounc ing Communist rule as a fraud. Djilas, now in prison as a reb el, expounded the view that not the people, as Karl Marx fore Integration Uproar Obscures Political Changes in By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) The uproar over racial integration in south ern schools has diverted atten tion from the fact that the federal gov ernment is moving again toward the po litical recon struc t i o n of the South. Such action is implicit in the 1957 civil I.yle C. Wilson rights bill. The federal govern ment is committed again and ag gressively will undertake to en able southern Negroes to vote. This 20th Century effort is more likely to succeed that the treat 'em rough methods used by congressional zealots against j the beaten South in trying to establish the Negro politically during the years immediately atter the Civil War Events have been overtaking the political South for some time, slowly at first but now with increasing momentum. Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 broke the back of southern Con servative miiuence m me na tional conventions of his party. FDR Killed Veto Rule He did that by obtaining re peal of the 100-year-old conven tion rule by which a Democrat was required to obtain no less than a two-thirds majority of the delegate votes to win the presi dential nomination. That rule enabled a minority of southern delegates to prolong the 1924 Democratic National Convention through 103 ballots in a success ful veto of the nomination of Alfred E. Smith of New York. Twelve years later, the veto rule was dead and the South was powerless or nearly so in the nominating conventions of the party which dominated every southern state. Meantime, scattered indus trialization of the South was con centrating in such states as Ala bama large numbers of voters who sometimes thought more like Democrats in Walter Reuth- J er's Michigan than like Demo-1 crats in neighboring Mississippi. ! Southern politicians tried in 1948 to reassert their political j power by a third party bolt in protest against the presidential politics for a moment. rpHE government's investment -- in farm price supports DROPPED nearly a billion dol lars in the fiscal year ending last June 30. Sounds good, doesn't it? But wait a minute. While the farm support stock pile was going down a billion dollars (by the process of fire sales at low prices to foreigners) price support losses WENT UP A BILLION 300 MILLION DOL LARS. "OEMEMBER the ancient tale of the Irishman who had no luck climbing a steep hill? The trouble, he explained to friend, was that every time he climbed up a step he slipped back two steps. saw, but seit-seeking commun ists now own everything in their countries including the people themselves. Djilas' book caused no stir in the United States. Pretty nearly everybody in the U.S. has been aware of the situation he wrote of for a long time. As a matter of fact, the Djilas book did not seem to worry Tito. But there have been reports that Tito and other Communist leaders feared the effect the book might have on the people at large in Soviet satellite coun tries and in Russia itself, includ ing the many young Commun ists who have started to do some thinking for themselves. If the attitude of Tito and Go mulka who as Polish Commun ist Party leader is his country's real ruler is accurately suggest ed, it does not mean that either of them intends to put himself again under Soviet Russian dom Oregon's Senators Top Vote Averages By Congressional Quarterly Washington (CQ) The aver age member of Congress voted on 88 per cent of the roll calls in 1957, according to Congres sional Quarterly's annual sur vey of voting participation. That figure just matched the performance of the two previous years. And, as in the previous years, the two parties voted with almost equal regularity. The average Democrat in 1957 voted 88 per cent of the time; the average Republican, 87 per cent of the time. Southland nominotion of Harry S. Truman. That strategy had to fail unless the Republicans could make a creditable showing against Tru man outside the South, which the Republicans were unable to do. Recent Bolt Ineffective More recently, southerners have tried to establish them selves politically by voting for Republican presidential nomi nees, notably for President Eisenhower. That got little more than disappointment and a Su preme Court they don't like. Except in Congress, the political South has been ousted from the policy-making seats of the mighty. For example: The policy-mak ing arm of the Democratic Na tional Committee is an advisory committee which this week spoke its mind on the Arkansas integration dispute, denouncing Eisenhower for inaction and Gov. Orval E. Faubus for his use of the Arkansas National Guard. Three southern advisers dis sented but 15 or 25 went along with National Committee Chair man Paul M. Butler. The chair man summed it up by saying that the Democratic party firm ly supported the Supreme Courts integration decision and "expected Democratic governors to enforce them." Whether Butier and his asso ciates were stating policy for the Democratic South remains to be seen. In plain sight is the fact that many southern Demo crats now in congressional policy-making seats probably are marked for ouster, They are the powerful committee chairmen consistently reelected by south ern constituents in which Negroes soon will be a consid erable political force. Sounds like taps for southern j conservatives. FUNERAL SERVICES Every Price Range In Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 ination. Not 'National Communists' During his conference with Gomulka, Tito said in a speech that they were not "national communists." In the joint statement issued at the ends of their talks, Tito and Gomulka expressed their ap proval of Russian foreign policy and spoke of the necessity for "strengthening the relations and cooperation" of Communist par ties. But they also emphasized "the different nature of the roads taken by various countries to socialism." They said that "bi-lateral rela tions between communist and workers parties should be par ticularly developed." This means that communist parties ought to develop direct relations with each other. Such direct relations would shove Rus sia out of any remaining pre tense that it is the fountain-head of all Marxian wisdom. Voting particip: tion scores are based on the percentage of all roll calls on which a member casts "yea" or "nay" votes. These are the only votes that affect the outcome of a roll call. But even if a member cannot be present, he can go "On the Record" by pairing with another absent member, announcing his stand or answering the Congres sional Qualterly poll, so that his constituents may leam his position. The average member in 1957 went "On the Record" 93 per cent of the time, either by vot ing "yea" or "nay" or by de claring his stand on the roll calls he missed. Local Scores Sen. Wayne Morse (D.) had a voting participation score for "yea" and "nay" votes of 86 per cent, based on 107 Senate roll calls during 1957. These votes, together with his declared stands on roll calls he missed, put him "On the Rec ord" 99 per cent of the time. Sen. Richard Neuberger (D.) voted "yea" or "nay" on 99 per cent of the 1957 roll calls and went "On the Record" through votes or stands 100 per cent of the time. By way of comparison, the average Senator had a voting participation score of 85 per cent and an "On the Record" score of 95 per cent. In the House, Rep. Charles Porter (D.) had a voting partici pation score of 86 per cent on the 100 house roll calls in 1957. He went "On the Record" on 93 per cent of the issues. The average Representative had a voting participation score of 89 per cent and went "On the Rec ord" 92 per cent of the time.' Four Senators Perfect Only four Senators who serv ed through the whole session all Republicans voted "yea" or "nay" 100 per cent of the time. They were Sens. Henry C. Dwor shak (R.-Idaho), Thomas H. Ku chel (R-Calif.), Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) and John J. Williams (R-Del.). This was the second straight year of perfect voting participation for both Williams and Mrs. Smith. High among Democratic Sen ators were Richard L. Neuber ger (D-Ore.) and Strom Thur mond (D-S.C), both with voting participation scores of 99 per cent. In the House, 49 of the 435 members achieved perfect vot ing participation records. Twen ty of them were Republicans and 29 were Democrats. (Copyright 1957, Congressional Quarterly Inc.) Before printing began in Eu rope in the 15th century, books were usually handwritten and bound by monks. At PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which are In keeping with Its means. 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