Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 07, 1957, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Iveryone la Southern Oregoo Reads The Mall Tribune" -Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO . 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GCRAXJD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor fcARL. H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.23 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month liO Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Hresa 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 Louii Atlanta Vancouver B C NEWSPAPER PUBMSHEKS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL IDITOIlAi ! ASSOCfA'ieN 'miiiiifl'U'.ini Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 7. 1947 (Tuesday) Young Hollywood visitor takes four pound steelhead fish from the Rogue river. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The wolves have started howling again in the hills back of Trail and on the Old Oregon campus." 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 7. 1937 (Thursday) Two-year-old Butte Falls girl saved from death when family dog goes into the burning home and drags girl to window. Pear shipments this season to tal 1.268 cars, according to the freight department of the South ern Pacific railroad. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 7. 1927 (Friday) Tired of the name Smith, a Jackson county family changes its name following a hearing in circuit court. Plans for continuing the six months' campaign for advertis ing Medford and the Rogue river valley throughout the United States are discussed at local realty board meeting to day. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 7. 1917 (Saturday) Three forest fires, one serious, on the Umpqua divide, keep large force of firefighters busy, Medford Furniture and Hard ware company establishes a military bulletin board where names, company, regiment and address of every soldier from Jackson county will be shown at all times. What's Your I.O.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. Name the smallest planet. 2. In southern U.S., would the slang expression "Yankee Dime" mean a hug, or a kiss? 3. Bible: At which "Mount" were the Ten Commandments introduced? 4. Is Dow Jones a stock mar ket brokerage firm, a financial news service, or an English ac tor? 5. Baton Rouge is the capital of which state? 6. How many years are denot ed by "three score and twenty"? 7. Colossus of Rhodes was a famous building, a large statue, or a noted ancient personage? 8. Only three states in the Union have four letters in their names; can you name the states? 9. Which word is incorrectly used: 'There were two or three, or at the most a dozen, people there? 10. "March winds and April showersBring forth" what? Answers: 1. Mercury. 2. A kiss. 3. Mount Sinai. 4. Financial news service. 5. Louisiana. 6. Eighty. 7. A large statue. 8. Iowa. Ohio. Utah. 9. People (should be replaced by "persons"). 10. "May flowers." Ellsworth. J MAIL TRIBUNE Avoiding A "Split" A feature story in a recent issue of this paper told of the expansion of the "East Side" shopping area in Medford. It recorded the "inevitable" growth of the com mercial and professional area of the city into what was once a quiet and attractive residential section. The story brought into clear focus the- fact that cities are not static, but that they are fluid they change and develop and grow in response to new demands, new forces and pressures, new growth. IN time, we suspect, Hawthorne park will be surr rounded by business and professional establish ments of one sort or another. We do not see how the residential nature of the area can long be main tained, for it is dwindling rapidly. The process, as far as this area is concerned, has speeded up in recent years, and even in recent months. Tremendous new impetus will be given to it with the completion of the big new shopping center a couple of blocks to the north of Main street. In effect, this growth to the east is, at present, simply an extension of the downtown area, separated only by Bear creek." In another year or so, the con struction of another bridge across the creek, to extend Eighth street to a junction with Main, will add further strength both to the development of the area, and to its connection with the established business section. HETHER all this is "good" or "bad" depends entirely on the point of view. The movement of professional offices largely those of doctors and dentists is in some ways a blessing for downtown merchants, for it frees many more parking places for shoppers to use downtown. On the other hand, new stores and shops in the area, existing and in the future, are being provided with better parking facilities than "downtown," and will tend to keep shoppers away from the crowded streets around the intersection of Main and Central. Owners of some of the attractive old homes in the lower East side must be torn in two directions. The development increases the value. of their prop erties as they become choice locations for business. But they must regret, too, the encroaching traffic, the loss of quiet and privacy, and the tearing down of some homes. S to the future development and integrity of the citv. our chief worry is the danger implicit in this growth of a tendency to "split" the city with the old, high-value, tight-parking "downtown" area on one side, and the new, growing, easy-parking shop ping area on the other. The danger, up to this point, has not grown to a point for active concern. But the danger is there. And it has been one of the principal reasons we have supported, all the way along, attempts to pro vide city-sponsored off-street parking in the down town area not only to make life easier for shoppers, but to preserve values in this high-value area; values which help keep property taxes down for everyone else in town. It has also been one of the principal reasons we have opposed, all the way along, the choice of the east bank of Bear creek as the route for the pro posed new, elevated, four-lane freeway. 7 AT this stage, it looks as though it is inevitable that " this will be the route chosen by the highway commission. And, in fairness, if the commission is irrevokably committed to the route, we will accept it with as good a grace as possible. But we have the uneasy feeling that if this free way does cut through the middle of town, it will accentuate the tendency for the East Side to split away from '"downtown," and that the new area, bolstered by a big Sears, Roebuck and company store, a Safeway store and others, will grow and prosper, at the ultimate expense of "downtown." . VIT'HAT can be done to counter this danger? Well short of outright rejection by the city of the Bear creek route it seems to us the solution is in providing as many and as good east-west access routes as possible ; in encouraging attractive develop ment of the area between the two business sections (we refer particularly to the less-than-standard build ings on North Riverside on both sides of Jackson street) ; and in discouraging, as far as possible, busi ness development which is too fast and too far from sections which are at present devoted to this use. These are the responsibility of the city council and planning commission, and we believe they recognize it. What we are suggesting is a long look into the future, and the development of plans to encourage orderly, attractive growth for Medford for the years ahead. It will take vision and courage, neither of which come easy, but it will pay of the city. E.A. Satellite Launching Considered Big Blow Seattle, Wash., Oct. 5 (W Sen. Henry M. Jackson CD Wash.) said Russia's launching of the world's first artificial satellite "is a devastating blow to the United States' scientific, industrial and technical prestige in the world." Jackson, who heads the sub committee of military applica tions of atomic energy, said the Soviet Union's main objective has been "to beat the United States industrially, scientifically and technically." The long-range effect of the satellite launching, he predict ed, will be a "stepping up of the cold war with the Soviets throw-, Monday, October 7, 1957 off in the future welfare ing their weight around more than ever." The senator said the launch ing tends to corroborate Russia's claim of successfully firing an intercontinental ballistics mis sile (ICBM) in August. "In fact, there no longer can be any doubt about the Soviet's missile claims," Jackson said. COLGATE DIRECTOR DIES Springfield, N. J. (IP) Hugh R. MacMillan Jr., 53, vice presi dent in charge of manufactur ing and a director of the Colgate Palmolive company, died yester day of a heart attack while play ing golf. ' jnioC7 -nte mi sjwbwjb, lie- 'I HOP6 YOU HEtfD WAT PART, W'jOgMW. CAUSE THEY U0NT KNWV Hoffa Election Puts Labor Legislation In Lap of Congress By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) The elec tion of James R. Hoffa to the teamsters presidency automati cally puts it up to Congress to enact some more labor 1 e g i slation in the session be ginning next January. A likely tip off on congres s i o n a 1 mood l,yle C Wilson was i n e in stant reaction of Sen. John L. McClellan (D.-Ark.) who said of the election that "Congress is now challenged, if not dared, to enact laws that will protect the rank - and file union members and the public from the nefari ous menace of gangsterism and racketeer control in some labor unions." McClellan speaks from a posi tion of strength, if not neutral ity. He is , chairman of the Sen ate Rackets committee that has been giving Hoffa going over. No one is more sharply aware of that fact than George Meany, the hard-fisted plumber who is president of the AFL-CIO. Meany is a labor politician and pretty well fits the pattern of a labor-statesman. Meany Maneuvers Soon after the teamster story began to unfoldbefore the Sen ate Rackets committee in terms of financial finagling by Dave Beck, Hoffa and pals, Meany be gan maneuvering to protect or ganized labor against the barbed labor legislation which Congress might enact if public indigna tion at the teamster goings-on was not somehow appeased. Meany and the AFL-CIO high command wanted to oust Beck from the teamster presidency after his Senate committee ap pearance. They could not swing it. The effort to prevent Hoffa's election to succeed Beck came finally to the promise now in effect: Teamsters Ouster Expected That, if Hoffas were elected, the teamsters would be expelled from AFL-CIO membership. The expulsion order, doubtless, will be coming soon unless new President Hoffa moves first to disaffiliate the teamsters from the over-all labor organization. Meany's maneuvering, which will end, finally, with departure of the teamsters from the AFL CIO, probably will protect or ganized labor next session from the kind of regulatory legisla tion which it does not want. The least Meany and company can expect from the next session of Congress is new legislation to keep sticky fingers out of union cash boxes. That will be all right with Meany. The AFL-CIO Ethical Practices committee is on rec ord for that. The committee last May adopted a code of ethical financial practices which would forbid such me-first money deals s have been charged against Beck and Hoffa. The Eisenhow er administration is committed to go at least as far as the AFL CIO in keeping union leaders honest. Eisenhower Vagus President Eisenhower told questioners last March that he would support legislation re quiring unions to give their members "an exact Accounting of how their money is used." One month later, Eisenhower said there should be legislation requiring "the registration, re porting and disclosure" of all facts with respect to union wel fare and pension funds. The ad ministration is not committed on what to do about labor racke teering. Unions now make financial reports to the Department of Labor. That was required by the Taft-Hartley act. Successive sec retaries have held, however, that there was no provision for publicity of these reports. Neith er, it would appear, do the re in&7 re- wjn ports bear sufficient detail to reveal financial practices such as prevailed in the teamsters union. The Senate passed but the House rejected last session a res olution authorizing the . Depart ment of Labor to make union reports public. Secretary of La bor James P. Mitchell believes the reports should be disclosed. He said: That authority would go a long way toward preventing the abuses." In the Day's News By FRANK As this is written, Jimmy Hof fa has just been elected presi- dent of the 1,400, 000-member Teamsters Union. He won on the first ballot with an unofficial total of 880 votes to the combin ed 298 votes of his two oppo nents. Dave Beck, the outgoing pres ident, asks for and obtains a leave of absence beginning Oc tober 15, so that Hoffa may step into command immediately. Beck's term would normally have expired on Dec. 1. ITHAT about it everything " considered? Well, if Hoffa is the kind of man the teamsters want as their leader he is the man they ought to have. This is a free country, where the majority rules. I CAN'T help doubting, though, if Hoffa is the kind of man the GENERAL RUN of team sters want. Consider these courteous men who drive the big trucks on our highways and at every opportu nity get over on one side of the road to let us pass in our cars and flash their lights at the top of a hill so that we may know the road ahead is clear end we may pass safely. Remem ber their friendly grins when we wave our hands as we scoot past them. Consider these good teamster neighbors of ours in all of our towns. They just aren't the kind of people who would-want as their leader the kind of man Hoffa seems to be. LET'S put it this way: If there is anything wrong with the giant Teamsters Union it is that the big men on top have too much power and like everybody else since the begin nings of history who has held too much power in his hands too long they have MISUSED IT. I suppose you have noticed in the news that France is in financial trouble again. Why? It is EXCEEDINGLY simple. The French persistently re fuse to face the facts of life. Among other things, they have an extreme distaste for taxes. Knowing this, the French politicians have persistently ov er the long years refused to levy as much in the way of taxes as is needed to pay the nation's bills. Instead And note this They have resorted to EASY money. . Jailar Would Kill Geo. N. Taylor In a deep dungeon, far down in the jail, God's men, the Apostle Paul and Silas, were praying and singing praises unto God. Suddenly, there was a great earthquake and very foundations of the prison were shaken. The jailer, waking out of his sleep, would have killed himself. He saw the prison doors opened and yet the prisoners standing fix ed with chains dropped off. "Do thyself no harm," said the Apostle. "Believe that the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ blots out all the sins of such as will believe in His death to save them." So by the teaching of the Bible, God moulded this hard-boiled jailer for eternal life. Acts. 16:25-40, and Romans 8:3-4. God's peo ple send this message to you who would come out from under condemnation. Be van Takes Surprise Right; Warns on Nuclear Ban By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Aneurin Bevan, long time the No. 1 "hot head" of the British Labor Party, has taken a strong turn to the right. In doing so, Bevan seems to have nulled the rug out 1 W from under the entire Laborite left wing, of which he has been fnr vpnrs u--rS. mmmm Deen ior years Cliarles M. Mccann the leader. Bevan's radical change of at titude was made apparent last week at the 56th annual Con ference of the Labor Party. For one thing, he was given the credit for insuring the defeat of a . resolution which would have pledged any future Labor government to ban the testing, manufacture and use of nuclear weapons even if other countries did not. In an impassioned speech, Bevan said that for Britain to take action alone might increase, not decrease, the danger of a third world war and might lead to Britain's destruction in a war between the United States and Soviet Russia. 'Agonized Thinking Bevan, his party's leading ora tor, said he had formed his opin ion only after "a lot of agoniz ing thinking." "I am deeply convinced that the resolution . . . might have disastrous consequences through out the world," he said. Cries of "shame" came fre quently from his outraged fellow leftists. Bevan's altered attitude means that a long split in the Labor Partv is being closed. Apparent ly he and Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell. a right-winger, intend JENKINS The kind of easy money they have resorted to is printing press money. With this "easy" money, they have paid the nation's bills. What has happened as a re suit? , Here Is an example: Back in World War I as all survivors of that war who got to r ranee win rememDer. me French franc was worth 20 cents or five francs for an American dollar. The French franc is now quot ed at 450 for an American dol lar. Instead of 20 cents, as in World War I, the French franc is now worth about a quarter of a cent. We talk about 50-cent dollars We don't know anything about depreciated money. Assembly Kicks Off Hunter Safety Course Approximately 200 Hedrick junior high school and 60 Mc Loughlin junior high school stu dents attended a recent assembly starting the Medford Schools' hunter safety program, it was reported. The course, developed by the National Rifle association, stresses proper handling of a gun and safe hunting practices. Those appearing on the assembly program were Leonard Mayfield, Medford schools superintendent, Harry Heidenreich and Jim Bol ton of the local NRA club and Bruce Nelson, Dean of Boys at Hedrick junior high. Instructors for the program at Hedrick are: Bruce Nelson, Louis Thanos, Don Ferguson, Baney Riggs, Duane Richardson and Otis Swisher. Those at Mc Loughlin school are Earl Rogers, Don Davis and George Sloniger. The course is conducted by certi fied instructors and under con ditions prescribed by NRA, it was explained. Those who wish to continue with the course will be allowed to participate in a Junior Rifle Club program, a spokesman said. This allows many students who cannot participate in the local NRA program to learn rifle safety. This enables the schools to apply for government aid. Ranges will be set up at the Medford senior high school, Mc- Loughlin junior high school and at Hedrick junior high school. Hawaii's present population, steadily growing, is said to ex ceed that of six of the states in the Union. Self to work together from now on, One reason for Bevan's swing to the right is that he has been promised the post of foreign sec retary if and when the Laborites get back into power. Another is that the Laborites are convinced they can win a general election now a con viction that is shared by a good many Britons. There might be another rea son in the new surge of Liberal Party activity largely due to a big increase in the Liberal vote in recent by-elections for indi vidual vacancies in the House of Commons. A strongly united, moderate Labor Party would make it much more difficult for the Liberals to make a come-back. Laborites Demand Election Of the 630 seats in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Harold MacMillan's Conserva tive Party has 340 seats, the Laborites have 278 and the Lib erals five. MacMillan can depend on the votes of two additional Matter of Fact LITTLE ROCK AND HISTORY Washington The policy of the Eisenhower administration, as of this writing, seems to be to depend on the passage of time and local pressures for reason and moderation to heal the crisis in Little Rock. In White House circles, Orval Faubus is cften compared to Joseph R. Mc Carthy, and it is said: "We'll give Faubus enough rope " to hang himself." Perhaps there is nothing else to do. But it may take a lot of time and a lot of rope.And it is at least possible that the situa tion in Little Rock and through' out the South may get a lot worse instead of better, the long' er Federal troops remain there Sometimes a small episode, which seems insignificant at the time, takes on a certain mean ing in retrospect. Such an epi sode was a conversation this re porter had in Little Rock, with a big, shirt-sleeved man on the fringes of a crowd abound the school house. He had a very Southern accent, and he talked like a great many other people in Little Rock. "Would you want your kids being forced by Fed eral bayonets into a school with a bunch of half-savages?" he asked. Then he suddenly let down his guard, as sometimes happens in a conversation between strangers who are unlikely to meet again. "Look," he said, and his accent changed, "I came here from Wisconsin eight years ago, and hell, I went to school with a couple of Negroes and it didn't bother me. But down here, brother, you talk like the rest of the people about this thing, and you think like them too, or one day you wake up dead." rpHIS small episode serves to suggest something of the dangers involved, if the crisis in Little Rock drags on indefinite ly. The extraordinary depth of feeling on the racial issue in the South is consistently underesti mated outside the South. In a way, this is natural. Consider a few statistics. The proportion of Negroes in Wash ington, D.C., which has inte grated without major trouble, is over 35 per cent. The proportion in Gary, Indiana, which has been integrated for years, is al most 30 per cent. The propor tion of Negroes in Little Rock is only 23 per cent. So why do the people of Little Rock feel so much more passionately about racial issues than the people of Washington, D.C., or Gary, In diana? There are many reasons, , of course, psychological and eco nomic, but the historical reasons must not be -overlooked. The preoccupation with the Civil War and the Reconstruction era in the South tends to astonish or amuse Northern visitors. Yet FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 Turn To conservative independents on most issues. The Laborites lost no oppor tunity to demand that MacMil lan call a general parliamentary election at once. MacMillan quite naturally re fused. Barring any development that would make a special elec tion call necessary, the Con servatives are in office until mid 1960. The Conservatives have suffered some hard knocks in both foreign and domestic af fairs. They know that this is no time to go before the country. Bevan has been a rebel in the Labor Party for years. His turn toward moderation is an import ant development in British poli tics. It does not mean he will now cease to be Labor's leading anti - American. He believes United States foreign policy is belligerent and dangerous. At least, his hot head seems to be cooling. It could be that if he ever got to be foreign secretary, responsibility would cool it some more. By Stewart Alsop it is an important political fact, which must be reckoned with. GARY, INDIANA, after all, was never occupied by Fed eral troops who used force to put uneducated Negroes and un scrupulous Northern . adventur ers into positions of power. In the Reconstruction era, the slo gan of the Little Rock "Repub lican," the organ of the occu pation forces, was: "We'll make Arkansas Republican or a waste of howling wilderness." Read the history of Reconstruction, and you. will find the phrase "Federal bayonets" used in 1870 in precisely the same bitterly symbolic way as it is used today in Little Rock. Such phrases ("Northern press" is another) have much the same Jnstinctive, emotional connotations as the word "Boche" has to many Frenchmen. All this is not to suggest that President Eisenhower was wrong to do what he did, or that ha should now surrender to the slippery Faubus. But it does sug gest that the President's action in sending Federal troops into a Southern state was very much more dangerous in terms of na tional unity than is generally recognized outside the South. THE longer Federal troops re main in Arkansas, the more dangerous will the feeling in the South become. The social pressures which this feeling creates forces a recent Wiscon sinite a talk like an extremist Southerner. But these social pressures are duplicated by po litical pressures, so that, in the wake of Little Rock, a respected Southern leader like Georgia's Sen. Richard Russell can ser iously compare American sol diers to Hitler's storm troopers. One of the moderately politi cal leaders in Arkansas remark ed to this reporter: "Spiritually and morally, the South is about ready to secede already." If the South does secede, morally and spiritually, all Southern politi cians may have to sound like demagogues if, politically, they are not to "wake up dead." That is why some, at least, of President Eisenhower's advisers are coming to the view that he must make a truly heroic effort, using all the means of communi cation at his command, to ex plain the inescapable reasons for his action, to reassure and strengthen the reasonable ma jority in the South, and to quiet the passions which are endan gering national unity. This kind of effort might also increase the pressure qn Faubus to agree to a rational settlement, thus per mitting the withdrawal of Fed eral troops and an end to the most dangerous domestic crisis in many generations. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune, Inc. j4t PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which are in keeping with its means. A selection of services for every price range is of fered to satisfy Individual preferences and to meet all financial circumstances. Convenient Terms? Certainly!