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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
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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-
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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
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to note that the House
has scheduled a hearing
Federal Power Commis
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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