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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. SO and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 12, 1947 (Wednesday)
A Convairliner, new medium
range, twin-engined 40 passen
ger plane, stops at Medford air
port after a non-stop flight from
San Diego.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Amid all
the human distress prevalent in
the world, comes word two New
Jersey torn cats, under the terms
of a will, are left $1 per day
each, as long as they live, for
care and catnip."
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 12. 1937 (Friday)
Attention will be called in
Medford churches Sunday to the
national unemployment census
to be conducted Nov. 16 to 20.
Winter takes possession of
higher altitudes and blocks high
ways with a deep snow.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 12, 1927 (Saturday)
Winter weather arrives at
Crater Lake National park; tem
perature is 6 degrees above
zero; there are 25 inches of
snow ajthe rim, and 12 at An
nie Springs.
Rain Tuesday and Wednesday
soaks ground to a depth to per
mit plowing any soil in the dis
trict. 40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 12, 1917 (Mondaf)
Th Hoover drive reportefl
successful in Jackson county, c
cording to large number of
pledge cards turned in; 4,071
out of 4,253 solicited indicate
willingness to aid in conseiya
tion of food.
At press time today no trace
has been found of the man who
kidnaped his two-year-old daugh
ter last Saturday morning.
What's Your !.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or el;bt Is excellent; five or
six is good
1. Equinoxes occur how many
times in each calendar year?
2. The principal commodities
exchange is operated in New
York, Chicago, or New Orleans?
3. Bible: Which ruler was in
strumental in spreading Greek
(Hellenic) power and culture
over the Biblical world?
4. Which three nations pro
posed the return of Trieste to
Italy?
5. What was Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt's maiden surname?
6. John Eliot, Puritan clergy
man and missionary in colonial
times, was known as "the Apos
tle to the -"?
7. New South Wales is a part
Of which British Common
wealth? s$. The city of Rimini is in
Libya, Italy, Yugoslavia or Al
bania? 9. Is it proper to use a hyphen
with adverbs, such as "well-run
game?
10. "Might makes right.".
"Right makes might." To which
proverb did Lincoln refer in his
Cooper Union address (I860)?
Answers: 1. Twice, spring and
fall. 2. Chicago. 3. Alexander
lhe Great. 4. U.S., Great Britain
and France. 5. Roosevelt. 6. "In
dians." 7. Australia. 8. Italy. 9
No. 10. "Right makes might."
Portland HP! Sen. Albert
Gore, chairman of the roads sub
committee of the Senate Public
Works committee, has scheduled
public hearing in Portland Wed
nesday, Dec. 11, on timber access
roads, forest highways and re
lated matters.
Jumbo "Running Scared"
Did you ever see an elderly elephant run-scared?
If not and you would like to, just cast your eyes
over the other side of the Siskiyous.
If you can't see the "Grand Old Party" in Califor
nia shuffling "in high" for cover, you should have
you eyes examined.
It was bad enough to have to shove "Goody"
Knight off the mainliner without a parachute, so the
present pilot of the Oakland Tribune-LA Times ma
chine could have a clear field to a primary guberna
torial touchdown. But when the returns a week ago of
city and state elections came in, then there was a
stampede to get out of the path of the jet-propelled
donkey and attack from the rear.
The spectacle was and still is very funny. And
pretty much for the same reason the pompous and
portly Mr. "Got-Rocks" chasing his plug-hat across
the windy street, is funny.
Somehow in neither case can the role of "Sputnik"
be attempted without both a "loss of face" and a loss
of dignity.
MOT that there isn't good reason.
A Had the California "Old Guard" not been fear
ful of the outcome at the polls next year, they would
have never called in White House pressure to make
such a monkey out of his Excellency the G.O.P. Gov
ernor. 1
For after all, Governor Knight had a perfect right
to run for the GOP nomination and reelection as he so
frequently and solemnly stated.
It was true, as he also stated, that he had some
demonstrated qualifications for the gubernatorial
job, but none for the position of a Freshman Senator,
: moreover he did not want the latter.
He even gave his "solemn word of honor" that
imdpr NO CIRCUMSTANCES would he be a candi
date for the U.S. Senate, and it was because Mayor
Christopher of San Francisco believed the Governor
to be a man of his word that he (the Mayor) became
one.
TT IS quite apparent Mayor Christopher did not know
" the Governor very well. "Goody" has never been
noted. for his stamina, his integrity or his courage.
Like his former enemy and, now his bosom-friend,
Vice President Nixon, he has always been just another
"smoothy politician," only he has lacked Nixon's tact,
will and brains.
We don't mean to say Gov. Knight can't win Party
Leader Knowland's Senate seat. With not only the
shrewd and calculating Nixon behind him, but the
power, the publicity and the millions of the Know-land-Chandler
machine also, it will take, something,
not discernible on the horizon as yet, to stop him.
But it can be done. And judging by the way "Old
Jumbo" is hot-footing it for the "old water-hole" the
Democrats are not the only ones who think so.
DUT what an unappetizing mess it all is !
It only shows how the spirit of "anything to
win" and the haunting fear of defeat can demoralize
the leaders of a great party.
For if things come out as the G.O.P. "fixers" plan
what will we see in our neighbor state, next year?
We shall see the Republican party supporting a
man for the U.S.'' Senate
peatedly admitted he isn t,
job, nor does he or did he
And we shall see the same party supporting a man
for Governor whom the supporters of that same sen
atorial candidate declared to be a hopeless reaction
ary, an enemy to organized-labor, and a foe of social
progress.
IN other words in its desperation to avoid defeat
and as a by-product to launch either Nixon or
Knowland on the road to the presidential nomination
in 1960 the Grand Old Party across the line, is play
ing both ends against the middle and making no bones
about it.
"Placing party above principle" is rather a mild
term for it. Closer to the target is having no principles
whatever.
TOR surely, if Senator Knowland is the man to rep-
resent the party at Sacramento, "Goody" Knight
is NOT the man to represent California and the party
in Washington and vice versa.
For where political principles are concerned they
are as far apart as the poles and one needs only to
offer their public statements and their records to
prove it.
If one is a proper Republican the other isn't and
again vice-versa.
"But what difference does that make" is probably
the rejoinder of the GOP High Command "if we can
put it over and WIN?"
A fair question. And evidence indicates that to
the old "boys in the smoke-filled room" it makes no
difference.
DUT we are not so sure about old "Pop" pachyderm.
He has a reputation to sustain that is never to
forget.
And if he remembers all the campaigns he has en
gaged in since the battle of Bull Run, he may be run
ning so scared now in a desperate and we fear fu
tile effort to forget. R.W.R.
EX-RFC OFFICIAL DIES
Washington OP) Thomas A.
Wadden, 65, for years an offic
ial of the Reconstruction Finance
corp., died of a heart attack on
Sunday while attending church.
Wadden, formerly a banker in
Madison, S.D., joined the RFC
when it was established in
1932 as a member of its review
board and serve as a member
of the board until the RFC's
abolition.
Tuesday, November 12, 1957
who isn't, and who has re
fitted in any way for the
want it.
CANAL SURVEY SCHEDULED
Washington API A special
technical staff has been appoint
ed to advise the House Merchant
Marine committee on the ques
tion of enlarging the Panama
canal or building a second canal
in Central America. Committee
Chairman Herbert C. Bonner
(D.-N.C.) said he appointed the
six-man staff because the pres
ent canal is "approaching obsolescence."
1 CAHT SLEEP'. K)U KNOW WHEN THOSE LITTLE PIGS SINS
'M(fS AfRAlO OF THE 610. BAD WOLF?'? VJELL, JAW
Matter of Fact
JOB FOR STEVENSON
One result of Secretary of
State Dulles' drive to restore bi
partisanship in the wake of Sput
niks may be
to bring Adlai
Stevenson into
some sort of
high foreign
policy posi
tion. There
has been seri
ous discussion,
for example.
of inviting
Stewait AIsoo oievenson xo
Ci. j.
join President Eisenhower as an
adviser at the mid-December
NATO meeting in Paris.
Stevensotn has not yet, as far
as can be determined, had any
formal Administration offer of
an official post, other than the
Civil Rights Commission mem
bership which he rejected. But
he has been subjected to "feel
ing out" process, the purpose of
which is to determine whether
he would take an important
foreign-policy position if it were
offered.
Other leading Democrats have
been subjected to the same pro
cess. For the Eisenhower admin
istration is, for the first time,
genuinely eager to bring import
ant Democrats into big jobs, like
the job of roving ambassador
once held by Secretary Dulles
himself, or the disarmament
negotiator's job soon to be vacat
ed by Harold Stassen.
rpHE drive to restore bipartisan-
- ship is one measure of the
anxiety which lay beneath the
carefully reassuring words
which the President spoke on
Thursday night. For despite all
the reassurances, the leading
policy - makers are perfectly
aware, in the wake of the Sput
niks, that the United States may
be in the worst trouble it has
ever been in.
President Franklin Roosevelt's
action in bringing Frank Knox
and William Stimson into his ad
ministration before the second
World War is significantly cited
as a precedent for bringing
leading Democrats like Steven
son into the Administration
councils. And Indeed, in many
ways Eisenhower's need is great
er than Roosevelt's was.
Consider the task which con
fronts the President and Secre
tary Dulles in Paris. The Euro
peans have interpreted the Sput
niks correctly as meaing that
this country's forward Strategic
Air Command bases are already
subject to attack by Soviet inter
mediate missiles. This was the
main-reason why British Prime
Minister Harold McMillan came
rushing to Washington.
rpHE American intermediate
missiles are by no means op
erational now, but they will be
operational long before our
I. C. B. Ms. The administration
clearly hopes and expects to
establish an intermediate missile
system on bases abroad as an
interim makeweight to the Sov
iet missiles.
As the President said in his
Thursday night speech, "because
of our many forward positions,
for us an intermediate-range
missile is for some purposes as
good as an international one."
As he also said, "this fact brings
home to us the tremendous im
portance to this country of our
allies . . . they provide the vital
bases and areas that permit ef
fective deployment of all our
forces for defense."
What the President said was
true, of course. But a couple of
things he did not say are also
true. First, stationing intermediate-missile
bases in foreign coun
tries automatically make those
bases, and those countries, prime
Soviet targets in case of war.
This was all very well when our
S.A.C. was immensely superior
to the Soviet equivalent. But
now the tables are turned. Our
manned bomber bases are vul
nerable to missile attack, and the
Soviet missile system is im
mensely superior to the fledg
ling American system.
Moreover, if American mis
siles are to be based abroad,
someone must have the authority
to press the button, since a for
ward missile system is only use
ful as a deterrent if it can be
used immediately. That someone
iYni?'Jlfri 'iSMMM
must presumably'1 be the Presi
By Stewart AIsop
dent of the United States or his
representative.
CONSIDER the miracle of di-
plomacy which must now
somehow be wrought. We must
persuade our NATO allies
and other allies to to accept
the basing of intermediate mis
siles on their territory while
reserving to the American Pres
ident or the American NATO
commander the right to control
their use.
The miracle is certainly not
going to be wrought without a
substantial quid pro quo for the
allies. At a minimum there must
be a revision of the McMahon
Act to permit a sort of lend-lease
system for missies with atomic
warheads. This will, in turn re
quire the approval of the Democratic-controlled
Congress,
where the odd illusions linger
that our atomic "secrets" are
still secret, and that our allies
need us more than ve need
them.
In this situation, the President
is going to need all the help he
can get,, from Adlai Stevenson or
any other influential Democrat
who will agree to help him. He
will need that help abroad,
where his administration's pres
tige has never been lower. And
he will need it at home, to per
suade an election-year Congress
that in our new situation of un
precedented peril new policies
must be adopted and comfort
able old illusions discarded.
Copyright, New York
Herald -Tribune Inc.
Brownell Successor
Said Not Likely
To Rouse Anger
Washington (IP) William P.
Rogers, the new attorney gen
eral who takes office today, will
champion civil rights as staunch
ly as his predecessor, Justice de
partment sources said.
But diplomatic Rogers is not
as likely to arouse Southern
anger as was his predecessor,
Herbert Brownell Jr.
Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Fau
bus said Monday the change in
the top justice office will mean
a return to "understanding, pa
tience and tolerance" in the gov
erment's attitude toward segre
gation problems.
Justice department sources
pointed out Rogers sat in on all
the big policy-making meetings
during the Little Rock integra
tion crisis.
They said there was never
any friction on this score be
tween Rogers, then deputy at
torney general, and his boss
Brownell.
But the sources said pro-seg
regationists are going to find it
more difficult to cast Rogers in
the role of villain than they did
Brownell.
More flexible, more ready to
compromise, Rogers uses the
technioue of friendly persuasion
with Congress. Popular on Capi
tol Hill, he has seldom rubbed
the lawmakers the wrong way.
Wants to Get Feet Wet
Brownell, less outgoing and
identified with GOP politics, oft
en clashed with congressmen.
This inevitably made his task a
tqugher one.
Since his appointment Rogers
has declined to discuss some of
the pressing civil rights prob
lems. He said it would be "inap
propriate" before he got his feet
wet in the new job.
But in speeches on the ques
tion in the past Rogers has tak
en a firm stand. He also has
praised the Eisenhower adminis
tration repeatedly for "progress"
and achievements in the field of
civil rights in the past four
years.
Highway 30 Open
To One-Way Traffic
Portland on A suae
hWkprl Hiehwav 30 about 75
miles west of here early today
but the route was opened to
one-way traffic shortly before
daybreak.
Debris ud to four feet high
covered the road. 1
Nasser Seen Attempting To Cut
Economic Dependence on Russia
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
President Gamal Abdel Nas
ser of Egypt appears to be mak
ing a serious attempt to lessen
his country's
economic de
pendence on
Soviet Russia.
To do this,
Nasser seeks to
restore normal
trade and fi
nancial rela
tions with the
United States,
Charles m. McCaun Great Britain
and France.
He has just asked Eugene
Black, president of the Interna
tional Bank for Reconstruction
and Development, to act as medi
ator in negotiations under which
Egypt would pay compensation
for the seizure of the Suez Canal.
Black said Monday he had ac
cepted. Egyptian delegations also are
negotiating with Great Britain,
in Rome, and France, in Geneva,
to restore normal economic and
financial relations with those
countries.
It has been reported off and
on for several months that Nas
ser is somewhat anxious over
Egypt's increasing dependence
on Russia.
Red Trade Tripled
Egypt's trade with Russia and
other countries of the Commu
nist bloc now totals about 50
per cent of its total foreign trade.
Three years ago the total was but
14 per cent.
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Girl Scouts Thankful
To the Editor: As the Thanks
giving season draws near all of
us could pause and find numer
ous things to be thankful for.
The Rogue Valley Girl Scout
Council is very thankful for the
generous support your newspa
per gives to our organization as
a public service throughout the
year with the printing of arti
cles, announcements and pic
tures that are so necessary to
explain the program given to
girls seven through seventeen,
who wish to belong.
May we take this opportunity
to thank the citizens of our Val
ley, through this column, for
their generous support through
the United Medford Crusade and
the other fund drives in other
communities?
Being a beneficiary agency of
a United Fund is a privilege and
a' responsibility. It is with a deep
regard for the trust placed in
them that the Girl Scout Council
continues to succeed in bringing
to our girls a program that bene
fits them, our community and
our nation.
The extent of the program I
that can be carried out depends
upon receiving the amount of
the proposed budget each year.
The hundreds of volunteers who
serve in each community, must
have materials to work with and
be trained for their specific jobs.
This is the agencies' lifeline.
We greatly appreciate the time
and efforts of the men and wom
en who serve on the United Fund
planning boards, the solicitors in
all the areas and we especially
thank the contributors who show
their faith by the size of their
gifts to all the organizations as
well as the Girl Scouts. We are
all benefactors and we must
work together as a team.
All of us want the best for our
children in these days of rapid
change where they are subject
to all kinds of influences. The
Girl Scout organization provides
a program that gives them a
challenge in sound American
principles and skills through
happy group participation.
May we continue to grow
through your help and as a com
munity interested in working to
gether as a vital force, help make
and keep good citizens for today
and tomorrow.
Mrs. Scott V. Davis,
Chairman, Public Relations
Committee for 1957, Rogue
Valley Girl Scout
Council, Inc.
Gracias Senora
To the Editor: We are former
Medfordites and still take the
Tribune always enjoy it very
much.
We are very much concerned
about the United States' present
status in the world and the dang
er of war especially so because
of Seattle being one of the prob
able major targets on the west
coast.
The night before I read your
editorial, my neighbors and I
had a heated discussion on the
present situation, particularly
hitting on the point that most
people seem lo be very optimis
tic if they think about it at all.
I sent the Tribune down to them
and you can see the favorable
reply that was made.
Our hope is that many peo
ple read your comments and
stop to think about them. Keep
up the worth while work!
Mrs. Byron Carter,
8429 - 240 S. St.
Edmonds, Wash.
It is too early to tell whether
the various negotiations will suc
ceed. Everything depends on
whether Nasser really wants to
reach a fair settlement with the
western countries. He has shown
no such desire in the past.
The situation is somewhat puz
zling because of Nasser's activi
ties as an Arab leader.
Egyptian radios and newspa
pers have started a vicious cam
paign against King Hussein of
Jordan, who last April threw out
his country's leftist government
and broke up a plot to overthrew
him.
The Egyptian government de
nies responsibility for the at
tacks. But there is no doubt that
unless the government approved
them they would not be made.
Seized Canal in 1S56
When Nasser seized the canal
in July, 1956, he said he was
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
Business note:
The merger fever has gripped
the railroad industry. Missouri
Pacific Railroad has announced
that it is studying the possibility
of a merger with the Texas and
Pacific Railway.
Last week the New York Cen
tral and Pennsylvania railroads
(two of the country's biggest rail
systems) said they were looking
into merger possibilities.
W
HY the merger fever?
The answer is rather sim-
pie.
In business generally, costs
have been rising faster than in
come. That promotes the search
for ways to SLOW DOWN the
cost rise. The hope back of these
merger proposals is that ONE
OVERHEAD will serve two busi
nesses, thus tending to slow the
rise of costs.
A RE these mergers good?
Or are thev bad?
In general, we regard them
with misgivings. They stir our
fears of too much bigness and
were afraid of too much hie
ness. Our federal government is
getting so big that it scares us.
We're beginning to wonder if it
is getting out of control.
But
We can't have our cake and
eat it too. If profits disappear,
awnty to pay good wages will
disappear. If profits disaDDear.
the American free enterprise
system will disappear.
fFHAT poses a serious question:
-- If the free enterprise system
should disappear, what would
take its place?
Well, there are examoles all
over the world of which Rus
sia is the most outstanding. Per
sonally, I don't want to live
under the Russian system.
MORE about railroad busi
nope
President Georee Alnert of
tne New Haven Railroad tnlrf
the Massachusetts public utili
ties commission the other day
mat something will have to be
done without delay to reduce
the road's passenger service defi
cits of $15,000,000 annually.
He told the Massachusetts
commissioners that the New
Haven last year used approxi
mately 85 per cent OF ITS
EARNINGS FROM FREIGHT
BUSINESS to meet the deficit
arising out of its passenger
service.
QUESTION:
Who pays the bill?
rpHE answer is simple:
The bill for thejtfew Haven
Railroad's losses on its passen
ger service is paid by those who
pay the FREIGHT bills. The
freight rates have to be kept
high enough to meet not only
the costs of the freight service
but the losses on the passenger
service also.
Freight rates which have
been rising rapidly in recent
years enter into the cost (and
therefore into the price) of near
ly everything we all buy.
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willing to Day stockholders com
pensation on the basis of Suez
Canal stock quotations on the
Paris Exchange at that time. The
canal company rejected this of
fer. It said that the quotations
had been forced down previously
by uncertainty over Egypt's pol
icies. The separate negotiations
Egypt is conducting with Brit
ain and France concern compen
sation for British and French in
terests which Nasser seized at
the time of the Suez Canal seiz
ure, and the release of Egyptian
funds which Britain and France
seized in retaliation.
These negotiations have been
going on sporadically since last
May.
Overall, the big question is
whether Nasser is worried
enough over Egypt's dependence
on Russia to be reasonable.
Editorial Comment
DOUBTS S.P. FIGURES -
Southern Pacific, which in
any popularity vote would he
at the bottom of the ladder.
is apparently in no better favor
in Arizona than it is in South
ern Oregon.
The railroad is enzaeed in its
usual project down in Arizona
and New Mexico, a nrnpram of
curtailing train service. One of,
"a jfiuyuaais cans ior consonaa
tion of two throughotrains, the
Argonaut and the Imperial, for
service in the two southwestern
states. The railroad contends
that it is losing $1.4 million
annually on the Argonaut and
$2 million annually on the Im
perial on the runs between El
Paso and Los Angeles. Consoli
dation into one train would save
$1.5 million a year, claims the
SP.
The New Mexican corporation
commissioner has denied the
railroad's application and the
Arizona commission has forbid
den changes which would deny
rail passenger "and mail service
to a number of communities on
the main line.
In another case in Arizona,
the state's corporation commis
sioner has cited the railroad for
failure to maintain full passen
ger and mail service between
Yuma and Douglas. The SP was
running a diesel and one coach
between those two Arizona cities
and the commission did not feel
this came under the category of
adequate service.
We suspect that the corpora
tion commissioner of Arizona
and New Mexico doubt that the
railroad is losing the sums it
claims on its passenger service;
certainly the railroad's figures
were doubted by Oregonians.
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