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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, NoTember 18, 1957 UKE "Xvcryone In Southern Oregon Readi The Mall Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor SERB GREY Advertising Manager GFRALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clasa matter at Medford 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 4.25 Sunday Only One vear $4.20 fe Carrier In Advance Medtord Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent nf on motor routes- Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance bfflrlal Paper of the City of M e d ford Official Paper of Jackson County CUnited Hress Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY WC Offices in New York Chicago, ae troit San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUillSHEl ASSOCIATION NATIONAL lOITOIIAt A$$ocfAieH iHf.wa:n.' c flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 10 years ago. . 10 YEARS AGO Ifov. 18, 1947 (Tuetday) A decreeln the Little Butte creek water case, pending in jacitson county courts ior near ly 40 yean and involving ap proximately 200 landowners, es tablishes for the owners the amount of water to which they are entitled for their acreage along the stream. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Reports from, the hills say the snow line is within two feet of the clothes line." )ti YEARS AGO ; Not. 18, 1937 (Thursday) Sale of property of the South ern Oregon Brewery company and Gold Seal Creamery, under a mortgage foreclosure, made to day. The city is to be decorated more extensively than in recent years and musical organizations will provide Yuletide music on several occasions, the program shows. 30 YEARS AGO Not. 18. 1927 (Friday) More than 100 male employees of the California Oregon Power altand friTWrt frtnim ' smoker. TVio niiv nt AshbnH contracts with Max GeBauer of-Medford to bottle Ashland Lithia water from the city springs. 40 YEARS AGO Nov.N18. 1917 (Monday) Third resignation from the Medford fire department within a vveek comes when one of the men announced plans to enlist. All members of the Interna tional Order of Electrical Work ers in the employ of the Calif ornia Oregon Power company discontinue work protesting dis charge of one of their members. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is inperior; seven or eight Is excellent: five or six Is good 1. On what day is the famous Mummer's parade held in Phil adelphia, Pa.? 2. Bible: According to the O.T. quotation, what is better than rubies? 3. Which of these is not a breed of cat: Manx; Dalmation; Malt ese? 4. How many gills are there to a gallon? o 5. New England is famous for the sap of which species of trees. 6. In croquet is the ball struck with a bat, mallet, or raquet? 7. Turtles do or do not have teeth? 8. Concord grapes are white, dark blue, or green? 9. Unsanitary means .lacking sanitation. Does it also mean con trary to sanitary principles or in jurious to good health? 10. "At length he stretched out his head to a conjugal halter." Juvenal. To what does the say ing refer? Answers: 1. January 1. 2. Wis dom. 3. Dalmation (it's a breed of dog). 4. Thirty-two. 5. Maple. 6. Mallet. 7. Do not. 8. Dark blue. 9. No. Insanitary is the proper word. 10. Marriage. State 'GI' Loans In Oregon, out of a population of somewhere around 1,700,000, there are about 196,000 men and women who are veterans of either World War II or the Korean conflict. Most of these are eligible for a state veterans farm or home loan. Of the total, only slightly more than 20,000, or around 11 per cent, have received sucji a loan. It is reasonable to expect, therefore, that many many more will want to take advantage of the ex ceedingly favorable terms of a state loan someday, IHAT are their chances of doing so? At the moment, not too good. The reason for this is the extreme popularity of the loan privilege based on its low interest rate and its liberality. The "State GI Loan" as it has come to be called was approved by the voters of Oregon in 1945, who authorized the state to issue bonds up to 4 per cen of the assessed valuation of taxable property in the state. The original loan limits were $9,000 for resi dences and $15,000 for farms, with the maximum loan not more than 75 per cent of the assessed value of the property. Under this program, there was a steady rate of - - .1 ii. . .ti t issuance, ana in me spring oi mis year, loans were within a few million dollars of the bonded maximum HOWEVER, the Oregon legislature early this year i;u..k,i 4.1,- i ..: .- i ..: nuci.cuiz.eu uie xuaii piuvioiuus, i cubing me nieiAi- mums to $13,500 for homes, $30,000 for farms, and the top limits from 75 to 85 per cent of the assessed valuation. It also prepared for the 1958 election ballo a constitutional amendment to raise the bonding ca pacity from 4 per cent to 6 per cent. In the six-month period after the liberalized pro visions went into effect, 2,573 loans totaling $24,028, 500 were made or some $7 million more than had been loaned during the entire year 1954. The loan program, always popular, had become much more so. As a result, the department of vet erans affairs has "run out of money" sufficient to meet the demands of the loan-seeking veterans. It reached its maximum bonded indebtedness on July 29, for the first time under the loan program. QINCE that time, the loan program has operated on w a reduced basis, limited by the amount of money available. Generally speaking, this is now about $1 million per month from the repayment of existing loans. This will mean that only some 105 loans can be made' each month, compared to a rate of more than 550 per month during the summer. This will continue at least until the November, 1958, election. If at that time the voters approve an increase in the bonding limit, some $43 million more will become available. But because of the many vet erans who have not applied for loans including Korean veterans who are just now coming to the age where they are seeking to purchase homes it is ex pected demand will triple at that time. This simply means that eligible veterans will have to wait for their loans, and that not all of them can be accommodated. HTHERE are those who feel that the program, as al. They argue that the overdemand for loans and undersupply of money substantiates their position. There are others who feel that the state has not provided enough money to support the program. Whoever is right, it is a fact that the loan program has been a sound one, and has provided material as sistance to a lot of veterans needing help m buying homes or farms. The program is entirely self -sustain mg, and the rate of foreclosures for non-payment has been exceedingly low. Bond redemption is on or ahead of schedule. One of the most popular features Is a low-cost mortgage cancellation life insurance plan available to all borrowers. A lot of would-be borrowers are going to be dis appointed in not being able to take advantage of the attractive benefit and principally because it is at tractive. As of now, it is f irst-come, first-served, with a long wrait necessary. E.A. Important "Week" (The following letter, slightly condensed, is from Roy Gilbertson, principal at Lincoln school, to his students on the subject of "American Education Week," Nov. 10 to 16. It appeared in the school publication The Lincoln Legend.) Dear Students : There are many weeks which are "set aside." Such weeks are spotlights on some idea or thing. None could be of more importance than that which we call "American Education Week." Have you ever asked yourself, "What is the great est force or powrer that you know of in this world of ours?" You may reply, "The atom bomb must be the most powerful." Some of you might say, "I think it must be powerful forces of nature such as a tornado or hurricane." Yes, they are mighty forces. However, there are greater powers and forces. The force of "Good" is much greater than any of those we mentioned; it is far more powerful than all the atom bombs which have been set off or which shall be. .Through our schools we try to create the force of "Good" within people; to make of them useful small forces. Put all the small goods together and we have much' good. Each of us has a life to live. Life is the greatest of all gifts. It is necessary that each of us make the light within us somehow not only less dull, but greater, with each day. This is where your education comes in. There is no way for you to knowT just what you will be some day. We do know that "How good you are at what you do" will depend upon "how you learned to work in school. 'Qw'r wm.ttoi. fes just chkmn ok motor: Pressure Groups Seen Obstacle to Cutting Federal Expenditures Bv LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) The eov- ernmpnt's own figures identifv the pressure groups among which resident Ei senhower con f i d e n tly ex pects to have troubIe.in the next session of Congress. Pressure groups are so called because tripv o v p r t i,yi. c. wuso pressure on Congress for this or that usual ly some of the taxpayers' money. The President told his Okla homa City audience last week mat increased aetense expendi tures would require off-setting economies. He added: 'But the savings of the kind we need can come about only throueh CUttinff out. nr rlefprrinff entire categories of activities. "This will be one of the hard est and most distasteful tasks that the coming session of Con gress must face, and pressure groups will wail in anguish." Election Year With such laneuaee the Presi dent Out the congressional noliti- cians feet to the fire, his own along with them. There will be congressional election next year. Pressure groups not only wail in anguish against proposed economies, thev Drobablv also will threaten the eeonomi7 with political death at the polls. There is. for examnle-. the farm bloc in Congress renrpspnt. ing the more direct beneficiaries oi me nve Diuion dollars which the administration riroDosed to spend on agriculture and agricul tural resources in the present fiscal year. Farmers comprise a I powerful pressure group, I There are the organized vet erans of World Wars I and II, a pressure group which has been the major factor in boosting government spending for vet erans' services and benefits above the five-billion dollar mark. 'Labor and welfare projects accounted for more than three and a half billion dollars in the 1958 fiscal year budget; natural resources $1,500,000,000; com merce and housing $1,700,000,- 000; international affairs and fi nance $2,400,000,000. Military 'Untouchable' Untouchable is the interest charge against the national debt which this year will amount to more than $7,300,000,000. The President holds untouchable, too, the cost of military and other aid to foreign nations. The eftire categories of acti vities to be killed, therefore, must be found among expendi tures now established in the areas of agriculture, labor, wel fare, veterans' services and bene fits, commerce and housing It will not be easy and may not be possible. The alternatives are these: Tax hikes to cover ad ditional deiense costs or more government borrowing. The odds against an income tax increase in an election year are very long. Government borrowing is the easier way, It also can be the way toward national bankruptcy . and infla tion, in 27 tiscai ' years smce 1930, the government has spent more than its tax take and bor rowed the rest. That is what shrunk the U.S dollar to about -half its old time purchasing power. There is no guarantee that the faithful buck will not shrink further to a dime or, even, to nothing. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This is written on Friday. Two things happened this morning to take our minds, at least for the moment, off Sput niks, missiles and Russia: 1. The Federal Reserve Board reduced the Interest rate on loans to member commercial banks from 3Vi percent to 3 per cent. This was hailed gen erally as the end of the 2V- year-old "tight money" policy. 2. Following this action on the part of the Federal Reserve Board (and presumably influ enced by it) stocks scored a sharp advance in the most active trading on the New York ex change in 17 years. :y? is What happened in Wall Street a highly technical matter and this writer is, no stock market technician. But this much is clear: When the market opened this morning THERE WERE MORE RTIYERS THAN SELLERS. When there are more buyers than sellers PRICES RISE. T ET'S Go on from there. When people buy, they are usually in an optimistic mood. When they sell, they are apt to be in a- pessimistic mood. So Wn at happened In the stock market.may be accepted as reas- iirt C-nt nilrc micciloe nr . mie- ! siles, Moscow or no Moscow a lot of people still have faith in the future of our country. That is ; IMPORTANT. Without faith in our country, we can get nowhere. A word is in order here about thp stork market There was a time when the slock markets were looked upon as the preserves ' of the big money interests. That time is past. At the present time, more than EIGHT MILLION people own securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange alone. That means eight million in dividuals. Most of these ' indi viduals represent family groups. So this-, eight million figure represents a rather considerable group in our total population. AND It must be remembered that these eight million people re present only the owners of se curities on the New York Stock Exchange. They do not include those who own securities listed on the nation's other stock ex changes " the American ex change in New York, the stock exchanges in Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, San Fran cisco, Los , Angeles and numer ous others not to mention the securities bought "over the. counter." Owners of shares in American business enterprises are very, very numerous indeed. Stock ownership is no longer confined to the very rich. It includes all kinds of people. That makes what happened this morning all the more interesting. Russ Failure Seen in Attempt To Start International Group By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia apparently has failed in an .attempt to set up a new international Communist "" 'I organization. There have been persist ent reports re cently that So v i e t leaders were trying to establish such a n organiza tion. O s tensibly, the object of would be to Charles M. McCann the organization promote unity among communist parties inside and outside the Iron Curtain. , Its real object, of course, would be to restore Russia to its onetime position as the foun tainhead of Communist wisdom. But Nikita S. Khrushchev, the Soviet Community Party leader, now says that no such organi zation is either planned or need ed. In his interview last Friday with Henry Shapiro, chief of the United Press Moscow Bureau, Khrushchev, said: 'The times do not require any Comintern or Cominform, which played their historic role and fulfilled their functions." Khrushchev referred to the old Communist International, called the Comintern, and the more recent Communist Infor mation Bureau, called the Cominform. No Successor Planned Krushchev told Shapiro em phatically that no successor to these organizations was planned, But there is good reasqn to be lieve that a new organization may have been discussed in Mos cow last week, when the leaders of the Communist parties of many countries were there for the celebration of the 40 anni versary of the Bolshevik Revo lution. Assuming that Khrushchev meant what he said in asserting that there is no plan for a suc cessor to the Comintern and the Cominform, it is most likely that the reason is a lack of enthusi asm for the idea. It was reported last January that Soviet leaders had sounded out Communist chieftains of oth er countries on a new organiza tion and had been rebuffed. At that time, it was said that Mao Tse-Tung and Chou En-Lai of China and Wladyslaw uomuiKa nf Poland were among those who had objected. There was no mention of President Tito of Yugoslavia. Tito Absent Tito was a notable absentee from last week's Moscow cele bration. He cancelled his visit, nleadine an attack of lumbago It is still a question whether his absence was a diplomatic one But there are strong indica- ions that the Chineses and Pol ish Red leaders and Tito want no part of a new organization which would restore itussian Communism to its old supre macy. The old Comintern was set up in 1919. It was a vicious agency of Red Propaganda, intrigue anu subversion. Josef Stalin dis- refusing to subordinate Yugo- solved it in 1943 as a gesture to Russia's wartime allies. The Cominform was set up in 1947 as successor to the Comin tern. It never functioned well. Stalin used it as his instrument in trying to ruin Tito when Tito committed the deadly crime of slavias interests to Russia's. What happened was that not Tito but the Cominform was ruined. The Reds explained that it was out of date. And so it was Russia had lost forever its domination of world Communism. Matter of Fact by stewon auoP Stewut Alfop Morse Says Nation Set Back by Red Gains nakland. Calif. (W Sen. Wayne Morse (D.-Ore.) said Sat urday nigt the nation was awak ening from "five years of gov prnment bv tranquilizer" in the face of Soviet scientific and mil itary gains. Morse, speaking at a conier- pnce oi me lauiuriua uciuu- cratic council, accused President Eisenhower of being a pari time president." He- said that after what he called the admin istration's "failures in the mis sile and sateUite fields" the peo ple deserve something besides coast-to-coast bedtime stories. The senator called Russian satellite success "the most deci sive setback the Communist bloc has Inflicted on the free nations." He said the administration has not concentrated upon national problems with the urgency re quired except under pressure. He urged that only "realistic public discussion" be used to force attention upon these prob lems. SEEK INDEPENDENCE Bolzano, Italy OP) About 000 Italian riot police turned out to preserve order Sunday when an estimated 20,000 German-speaking citizens of this former Austrian province dem onstrated for independence from Italy. HE ATE AND DIED GEO. N. TAYLOR "Eat that fruit and you die," so God warned Adam and Eve, our first parents. Adam ate the fruit and he died. Then Adam's sons, away down to you, ate the fruit and died. "All have sinned," said God who gives or withholds eternal life. But God so loved you that he gave Christ, His Son, to die for you. Receive Him as your Lord and Sa viour and God gives you eternal life. Then read the Bible and pray. So you grow. M. MORE SMOOTH THAN ROUGH Washington The American government, unlike the Soviet government, never follows the "zig-zag" course laid down by Lenin. Instead of zigging or z a g g i ng, the American govern ment changes its pol icy slowly. pond erously. while g o vern- m e n t spokes men protest that there has been no change at all. Yet. when the change is complete, it may represent a 180 degree turn. Although the issue is still in j i qoudi, me American govern ment appears to be'making such an unacknowledged 180degree turn. The President's second speech in his speech-making se ries, with its previously unimag mabie hint of an unbalanced budget, suggests that such a turn is in prospect. Yet neither of the President's speeches so far has really spelled out the somber, underlying facts which insist ently demand that the turn be made. On the contrary, the Presi dent's speeches, and especially me nrst, nave been interesting examples of the selective use of information. The President had promised to give the country me rougn with the smooth." But so far, at least, he has made the smooth a lot smoother than it is, and the rough a good deal less rough. CONSIDER some of the things the President has said, and some things he has not said. He has said that "The B-52 bomber ... is standard in our Strategic Air Command." What he did not say is that there are only six partially equipped wings of the B-52s in SAC's total of 45 wings this smau proportion being largely due, of course, to his own administration's decision to cut back sharply on B-52 pro duction. The President has said that Our ballistic missiles have had successful flights to as much as 3500 miles." What he did not say is that the missile which flew 3500 miles was strictly- a jerry-built test vehicle, with no military use; 'and that it will be several years at least before we have operational missiles ca pable of hitting targets at ranges oi d5U0 miles or more. The President has said that Our scientists and engineers have solved the (atmospheric re entry) problem," and he display ed the nose cone of an Army missile to "prove" it. What he did not say is that the nose cone he showed re-entered the atmos phere at a speed at which the re-entry problem is relatively easy to solve, a speed far less man mat required lor opera tional long-range missiles. What he also did not say is that the re entry problem has by no means been solved for missiles which must re-enter the atmosphere at speeds of 20 times the speed of sound or more. , QTHER examples 1 i k e the President's reassuring refer ence to the militarily valueless Snark" subsonic missile could be cited, of this selective use of information, which makes the smooth seem smoother than it is. But in both speeches, the Presi dent has also been reticent about the rough. He has remarked parenthetically, for example. that "The Soviets are quite like-; ly ahead in some missiles - and some special areas." He has not said that his own administra tion's intelligence estimates as sume that the Soviets must al ready have an operational inter mediate missile system some thing we will not have for three years at best. In any speech (as in any arti cle or column) information must be used selectively. But the se lective use of information by the government becomes a matter of real national concern when, as today, the government has access to many facts which are hidden from the public. Some months ago, for exam ple, former Defense Secretary Charles Wilson made public a secret intelligence estimate that the Soviets had cut back sharply on their production of long range Bison bombers. He used this information to justify his own cutback on B-52s. But he did not make public other intel ligence, which showed the So viets moving into the production stage on long-range missiles which was the reason they could cut back on the manned bombers. TN THIS way, the government can so select its facts as to support its policy, while hiding those facts which argue against the policy. The selective use of intelligence in this way is a dangerous thing, however accu rate the intelligence may be (and the intelligence record in the missile field has been excel lent) for Intelligence should never be used as the hand maid en of policy. There is another way in which the selective use of infor mation is a dangerous thing. Any government naturally tends to put the best possible face on matters involving its own stand ing and past record. But the ef fort to overtake the Soviets in the new weapons will be long and painful, if it is to be made at all. And the effort will not be made, in the long run, if the country does not understand the reasons why it must be made. The President has not yet really spelled out those reasons, which are very "rough reasons in deed. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. rfYOUR PRAYERS If YOUR WITNESSING YOUR ATTENDANCE TONIGHT Thru FRIDAY With William F. Wills 7:30-8:45 p.m. First Baptist Church N. 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