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littt Stove destroys house at
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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
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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?
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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.
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