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o 0 O 0 0 0 o O FOUR MEDFORD (OHEGOK) MAIL VMU9Z Tie4ay, Yovembe I, 1SST "Iveryone In Southern Oregcflf neaqa me Mali Tribune Publiahed i Daily Except Saturday by MED FORD PRINTING CO 37-29 North Fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUH1 Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager EK1C Al l FN jr. Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor KitHAKD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STAR CHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 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 mos. 4-23 Sunday Only erne year 4.zo 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 ISO carrier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail Terms cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford umcial raper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices In New York Chicago, de- troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland bt Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. rot O" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION fDITOIlAi r ASSOCH-A' G Rip o' Time $S&for4 tno Jackson County Hiffc from th files of The Mta TriBun 10,, 20, 30 and 4 9 jr. (11 fTX9 ASO . lUf (-Wednesday) o A tarting from an over- littt Stove destroys house at '.109 Court t. from Arthur Perry's Ye fSmudfl Pot column: "Next Vrirvi lutos. t least, some of them, grill have no gear .shifts. All the owner has to do is pay for the vehicle and gasoline and drive same as best he can." 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 5, 1937 (Friday) A comprehensive safety pro gram embracing all kinds of ve hicular and pedestrian tranic will be promulgated soon by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, committer an nounces. The Medford district CCC winter educational . p r o g r a m promises real opportunity for any enrollee willing to better himself. ... 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 5. 1927 (Saturday) Women of the Southern Ore gon Normal school organize women's league. The record day for tax collec tions at the Jackson county sher iff's office last Wednesday show a total of $150,000. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 5. 1917 (Monday) Chalmers announces new en gine taking low grade gas and makes high power out of it by two rather ingenious devices known as a "hot plate" and a "ram's horn" manifold. Charles D. Colby comes out publicly in favor of the present campaign to secure prompt pay ments of all interest and princi pal upon delinquent paving assessments. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six Is good. 1 Name the first two of the late President's Roosevelt's four sons who announced they would back General Dwight D. Eisen hower for the Democratic nom ination for President? 2. Which northeastern State is the leading maple sugar and syrup producing state? 3. Bible. The "token of the rainbow" is related in connec tion with which Patriarch? 4. Name the President who . succeeded Theodore Roosevelt. 5. Do adult dragonflies have the ability to dart backward and forward without turning? oVln stock transactions, a "shaxt seller" profits by a ris ingVor a falling market? 7. How many points are in the Star or Shield of David? 8. Name the Republic on the West Coast of Africa whose cap ital is named for a former U.S. President. 9. Which word beginning with "cl" is acceptable usage in the sense of "apt, fit, likely to."? 10. "It is not the custom with me to keep money to look, at." George Washington. "Money be gets money." J. Ray. Does Washington's or Ray's proverb mean "money makes money"? Answers: 1. Franklin D.. Jr., and Elliott. 2. Vermont. 3. Xoth. 4. William Howard Taft. 5. Yas. 6. By a falling market. 7. Six. 8. Liberia, (whose capital Mon rovia was named for James Monroe). 9. Calculated. 10. Both. Just More "Propaganda?" jnow tnat "fcputniK 11 anas "iUuttnick" is on its way we trust we will be spared any alibis from Washington that this is just more Communist "propa ganda," and should give no citizen an "iota" of con cern. What if it is only propaganda which it ISN'T so could the announcement that a Russian guided missle had hit its target 5000 miles away be dismissed as just another "circus trick," so long at it had no been tested in actual combat. But all that guff would fool no one no one at all inf ormed at least. THE truth is and we might as well face it "Mutt- nick" is even more of a victory for Russia and more of a defeat for the United States in the realm of cosmic space than was its predecessor. For it demonstrates in the first place that "Sputnik No. 1" was no fluke. Soviet Russia has demonstrated now it can launch an earth-satellite about ANY time it wishes, and properly equipped with instruments to record important celestial data. Putting a poor dog on the satellite which, it is claimed by Moscow can in case of accident be para chuted safely to terra-firma, does not prove but it does INDICATE, that Russian scientists are on their way to a solution of the basic intercontinental-missile problem namely: This is not so much a matter of speed or distance, but a matter of hitting a given tar get on the EARTH'S surface INTACT, instead of be ing vaporized when passing: through the heavier earthly atmosphere. In short Soviet Russia, whether we like her or don't and we decidedly DON'T has not only won the race in the area of the artificial satellite, but is far ahead of us, in the race for perfecting the ultimate weapon generally known as the "ICBM. A S often stated in this department this Soviet vie but the war has not been. It is cause however for dropping the ostrich-tech nique, putting our respective heads in the sand, and trying to kid ourselves that nothing has been lost of any consequence and as usual with Uncle Sam m peace or war, everything will come out allright in the end. fXF course it may. Everyone hopes and prays it will. But the path to ultimate victory does not lie in the realm of belittling the genuine achievements of Rus sia, nor falling back upon the complacent assumption hat because we have never lost a war, m the past somehow, someway, we can't lost one in the future. Nor does success lie in the area of placing the im portance of the Almighty Dollar, above that of na tional security. A program of victory in this cosmic "cold war" will take money lots of it it'will take hard work and lots of that and before it is over it will undoubt edly demand a national spirit of self-indulgence RE PLACED .by a spirit of willing self-sacrifice. Above all, as indicated above, it wall take a facing of the facts of life as they are today on this whirling ball of dirt, and an end to dodging and evading for political benefit chiefly. R.W.R. What IS "Propaganda?" Just a word about this popular "alibi" of "propa ganda." The proponents of this technique, apparently believe that to tag the announcement of any interna tional accomplishment by this term, disposes of it. They say: "Why be concerned, it is nothing but propaganda?" Ok if it IS nothing but propaganda that is mere- y talk without any basis in fact. But if that TALK IS based upon FACTS, and hose facts are clear to the world in general, then, with the world in its present condition of unrest "propa ganda" becomes an offensive weapon of tremendous importance. MEEDLESS to say we have the benefit of no A "Gallup" poll, but we don't need one to be con vinced that nothing since the battle of Stalingrad has so increased Russian prestige throughout the world, as the successful launching of these two satellites. Practically everyone in this countiy, and undoubt edly throughout the civilized world, is talking about it, speculating about it, and most of them living outside the totalitarian orbit being at least disturbed by it. 1MOREOVER among the nations which are neutral in this "cold war" neither for one side or the other, but sitting on the fence to see which way the "cat will jump" can hardly fail to be greatly impressed by this Russian achievement. ' . The general reaction therefore may be assumed to be something to this effect : " " ' "Soviet Russia can't be as bad as she has been painted. At least here is evidence she has got something that her -free-world enemies haven't got.' Might be well to look into . the matter a bit." THHAT can be called merely "propaganda" of course. A But it is the greatest advertisement any nation in recent years has got and it is not only "for-free" it covers the entire globe, NOT in "80 days" but in an HOUR and 43 MINUTES! (What would "Coca Cola" or Wrigley's Spearmint pay for that!) AS indicated above all this is no cause to ciy "fire" "in our crowded theatre. BUT it IS cause to pause and consider well and thoughtfully the Sputnik situ ation, its significance and the nature of our own "hole oard." R.W.R. i GT YOU G&MASK. Ml THIS GOV S5 A PIPE ,TOO! " Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop Joseph Alsop 'MUCH, MUCH TOO MUCH Ankara, Turkey The dust cloud Nikita Krushchev raised over Turkey is rapidly subsid ing, presuma bly as one re s u 1 1 of the Kremlin's in n e r turmoil. Unfortunately, the end of this artificial cri sis does not in the least alter the very ugly evidence that the Soviets have been making elaborate preparations for an other Middle Eastern gamble on an unprecedented scale. In brief, the Soviet deliveries of military supplies to Syria really staggeringly exceed the utmost imaginable requirements of the Syrian armed forces. Thus the question arises, "Who is going to use these vast stock piles?" The coldly simple Turkish an swer is that the Russians them selves mean to use them if they dare. The Red Army has about 20 airborne brigades. They can be put down in Syria in a mat ter of hours. A ready-made base now exists for them there. They can easily be called in by the So viet's Syrian puppets, when the time is ripe, to "aid in repelling aggression." THE only logical purpose of the dust cloud raised around Turkey is to give a little color of justification to this kind of Syrian call for help. The dust cloud is there. The ready-made base that can only be useful to Soviet forces is there, too, organ ized at lavish expense. Anyone who wishes to reject the Turk ish explanation as too lurid, at least has the duty of finding an other explanation that fits the facts equally well. This is not at all easy to do, as the figures of supply deliver ies to Syria only too clearly prove. Here, one must add, most people at home seem to have been studying the wrong statis tics. The Soviets have indeed given the Syrians a hundred or more jet fighters, probably Mig 17s, a couple of hundred T34 tanks, and an undetermined number of heavy Josef Stalin tanks. In the context of the Mid dle Eastern situation, these are mportant quantities of advanc ed weapons. But they are not much beyond reason if the So viet aim were merely to please their Syrian army friends with plenty of glamorous military toys. What Is really beyond reason the bulk movement of mili tary equipment into Syria in the last months. The movement be gan in March. It gathered mo mentum in April and May. It has been going on .ever since. And of this movement the toys for Syrians have only accounted for a small fraction. emerges that the Soviet supply input is intended to be used by armed forces which are not yet in Syria, but which the Soviets may wish to put into Syria later cn. The calculation is complicat ed by the fact that the Soviets are undoubtedly building a sub marine base near Lattakieh, which of course needs to be stocked. BUT even the construction of this submarine base, which is ominous and ugly enough, is not a sufficient explanation of the global supply movement. Add Soviet submarines to the Syrian army. Still other large forces that may need supplies have to be imagined, in order to make sense out of the Kremlin's logistics. This interpretaition is further strengthened by the known char acter of a large part of the total supplies that have been moved. A very high proportion falls into the category of base sup plies, that is, ammunition, mo tor fuel, replacement parts, clothing and other things "that armed forces need after they have gone into action and ex pended their initial stocks. - This part of the. picture is rounded out by the fact that large numbers of huge ware houses, suitable for military stockpiling on a massive scale, together with underground gas oline stores, are now being built in Syria. And the whole picture is rounded out by the further fact that having already built themselves four jet airfields more than enough for their whole present air force the Syrians are now lengthening four more fields to take jets. Altogether, unless someone can supply a soothing explanation that does not spring to this re porter's perhaps feeble mind, here is as troubling a picture as the world has seen since the worst moments of the Korean war. (Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Zhukov Removal Moo Eormarfxo Of Emergency Action Bv PH1IITTC M Ur-xarw . 'T, ..... o By CHARLES M. MCCAKM United Press Correspondent .. Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov's degredation appears to have been an emergency operation. Exactly what lies behind the latest upheaval in the Kremlin is still a mat ter for specu lation. It is not even certain that Commun ist leader Ni kita S. Khru shchev was the prime mover in Zhu kov's dismiss al as defense minister and mistpr from the high councils of Rus sian Communism. But it does appear to be cert ain that as late as Oct. 7, Zhukov was still in good standing. Zhukov was dismissed as de fense minister on Oct. 26. Apparently during that in terval of 19 days the ruling Communist Party Presidium de cided that Zhukov had to go at once. The decision was reached Charles McCai even though th members, of the Presidium knew Zhukov's dismissal would cast something of a blight upon the big cele bration of the 40th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution which is to be held Thursday. Zhukov arrived in Yugoslavia on Oct. 8 in his capacity of dft fensa minister to visit Gen. Ivan retary for defense. It has been suggested that he was sent out of the country so that his dismissal could be engi neered in his absence. But the visilt had been long scheduled. It was announced officially in Moscow on Sept. 23. On Oct. 7, Khrushchev gave a three-hour and twenty-minute interview to James Reston, chief of the Washington bureau of the New0 York Times, who was then visiting Russia. . At the very end of the inter view Khrushchev himself dis closed that the Soviet govern ment had sought an invitation for Zhukov to visit the United States but had been rebuffed. Probably Didn't Know It is hardly likely that Khrushchev would have raised this matter if he had decided by leo Today and Tomorrow ly Walter Lippmarm Last winter the Oregon legis lature misled by what turned out to be faulty estimates of the state's income for the upcoming biennium upped taxes pretty sharply. Te result was a pros pective SURPLUS in the state's coffers. This prospective surplus is a bit nebulpus. There are people who contend it won't amount to much maybe 15 or 20 millions at the most. There are others who think it might run up to quite a chunk of money. Seventy million dollars seems to be the figure most frequently men tioned by those who support that contention. It all depends on how much money the new tax levies bring in and how much is left after the state pays its necessary bills At any rate, the governor got scared and called a special ses sion of the legislature to consid er the problem posed by - the prospect that the state may have considerably more money in its pocket than it had expected. is BY TURKISH estimates, two to three shiploads of supplies are now being unloaded every day at the Syrian port of Lat takieh. Certainly these estimates are quite conceivably correct, since they would account for only one-third of the inordinate ly heavy movement of Soviet freighters through the Bospho- rus that has been going on all spring and summer. Western estimates are more conservative than those given by the Turkish government. They show an average of about one shipload a day of military UDDlies laid down in Lattakieh since the traffic reached peak intensity. But. this means 8,000 tons of military supplies going into Lattakieh daily. Thus one arrives at a rock-bottom mini mum input of half . a million tons. An input of a million tons seems very probable. An input of a million and a half tons seems possible. Compare the supply laid down in Syria with the most extrava gant requirements of the Syrian army of less than 60,000 men. Remember that it is probably exaggerating to put the Syrian army's previous supply consump tion at a level of 30,000 tons of supplies per year. . The conclusion inescapably i Editorial Comment AIRLINE-RAIL CONTRAST Contrast in the method of deal ing with the public as followed by United Air lines, in compar ison with the Southern Pacific, was clearly demonstrated this week. Some 40 Jackson county busi ness men, representative of a section of the civic and business life of the area met with key United Officials in Medford as a civic advisory committee. Purpose of the meeting was to determine what patrons of the air line like and what they do not like about the present serv ice and schedule, offered by United. Generally the comment on service and schedules was favor able to the air line. When spe cific complaints were made, the air line officials did not duck the question or the issue, but explained the problem involved or promised to look into the matter. It was a refreshing experience. United, it is apparent, is out to sell its service to the utmost. It appreciates the business which it enjoys from Southern Oregon and it will attempt to tailor the service to the needs of the area as nearly as equipment and terminal connections will per mit. Ashland Tidings. THE legislature is in session. This is the issue it faces: Shall we go on and take the money out of the people's pock ets NOW when they need it to meet immediate payments on their installment contracts and ether commitments? Or shall we give some of it back in the form of a refund and trust to luck that the state will have money, enough to pay its bills as they come due with out having to reach into the peo pie's pockets again and take out the money that had been refunded? It's quite a problem, and the legislators are wrestling with it manfully. WHAT to do? I wouldn't know. It's a toughie especially from the standpoint of politics. What ever is done will have political repercussions in the next elec tion. Which way will the cat jump then? And why? , That's the political problem. FROM the viewpoint of the fundamental economics of the state over the long pull, it's probably a standoff. If we put too much back into the people's pockets now, the chances are that MORE will have to e taken out of the peo ple's pockets in the future. But We're all human. We KNOW we can use th money NOW. Hope springs eternal in the hu man breast and we hope that in the years to come we'll all be rich and happy and won't miss the money that will be taken out of our pockets in the way of taxes. From the political standpoint, I'd say it's better to GIVE IT BACK NOW. SO MUCH for political prob lems. Let's take a look now at the problems of organized baseball. They are rugged and getting ruggeder by the hour. The Pacific Coast league thinks it ought to have damages because the majors have invad ed its private preserves. Nego tiations have been, going on for days in an effort to fix by agree- Why Did She Do It? GEO. N. TAYLOR, Wheaton, HI. Cat-Fit lived in an old shack beside the brick-yard. You see her tall and skinny, the icy winter wind driving her old coat and calico dress against her thin self. Down the street she came, drawing a four-wheeled boy's cart and you know that she has come for the family wash. Then one day word came that Cat-Fit was dead. She had hung herself by the neck, in her old shack there by the brick pond. Now this thought. Give the Cat-Fit kind a little lift. It may open the way for you to testify as to what Christ has for such. "For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." Luke, 19:10 BIBLE. 3L ment what the damages should be, but they don't seem to be getting anywhere much and P.C.L. President O'Connor has received authority to TAKE THE MATTER TO COURT if the negotiations fall through. TJMMMMMM. Let's take a sharp look at this situation Suppose you have a going business in your home town Suppose some outsider comes in and sets himself up in competi tion with you. Should you sue him for dam ages? If you did sue, what would the courts think about it? And how about our prized system of free private enterprise? TF YOU can set up a hamburger - stand in some community that hasn't got one and thereby can stake out your claim in perpetu ity to monopolistic operation of hamburger stands in that area, what will happen to the Ameri can free enterprise system? In that event, if the courts sustained you, wouldn't free en terprise be gone where the woodbine twineth? Communications Letters to the Editor must bear 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 right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words MT Staff Is Praised To the Editor: We wish to ex press i the most appreciative thanks of the 33 member units in the Jackson County Council of Parent-Teacher associations, for the splendid cooperation the Mail Tribune extended to us during October, our membership enrollment month. The space you allowed us in publicizing the place of the pp.rent-teacher action program in our communi ty, and the place of teachers and parents in that action program, was most generous. ' The Medford Mail Tribune is to be commended for its contin uing policy of obtaining neces sary facts concerning the needs of education in our county com munity, and of publicizing those facts so citizens may have the basic information at hand. Our sincere thanks for the kindness and cooperation of Olive Starcher, Peggyann Hutch inson, Earl Adams, Bob Vro- man, and the numerous other staff members whose names are not known to us. Jackson County Council of Parent-Teacher Associations at that time to put th ski under znukov. Some things about the Zhu kov affair are clear. First, (0ii SoviSt leaders feared that under Zhukov the armed forces were getting too independent and were a potential threat to the Communist Party! Secondly, some of them feared also that Zhukov himself was getting too popular and too powerful. It has been taken for granted, generally, that Khrushchev, engineered Zhukov's dismissal. Yet a Paris newspaper asserts that it has information that Khrushchev at first opposed Zhukov's dismissal, but agreed to it to keep his own position from being weakened. There is always a tendency to find complicated answers to developments in the Kremlin. But maybe Zhukov just got too big for his breeches. Burk's HURRY! SALE ENDS NOVEMBER 16 Samsonite C3o Streamlite Trail Gas.. .regularly $17.3) Pre-Christm spegl Streamlite Train (t& fcolds 62 travel need$ . cut-travels all others I Cornea in Hawaiia Bfce, Rawhide Finish, SJdJJ Tan, Admiral Blue, Bermuda Greea, London Grey, Colorado Brop. Green Stamps with every purchase! Surks for all your luggage needs Luggage Covers, Repairing 314 E. Main SP 2-4472 Counsel With . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan The saddest part of hi-way toll. 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