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o FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) i "Kveryan In Southern Oregon Eeadi The Mali Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 37-23 North Fir St Phone a-gl4l ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERA1.D LATHAM Buaineaa Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporte Editor OUVE STARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class 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 mas 4.25 Sunday Only One year (420. By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: . Daily and Sunday One year S 18 00 . Daily and Sunday One month 1.30 uuner and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash m Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, ae troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. . Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUIMSHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL IDITOtlAi 3Z1 AsTbcfA-j"2N Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO 0;NoT.a9, 1947 (Wednesday) Medford city council gives a formal "go ahead" light to plans of the California Oregon Power company to install mercury lights on Sixth st. bewteen Riv erside ave. and West Main st. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Doctors report they are busy arresting colds. No policeman ever rolls up his sleeves, and yanks out a couple of tonsils." 20 YEARS AGO Not. 19, 1937 (Friday) The Jackson county budget for 1938 calling for a total on the levy of $382,655.15 is approved as printed at the public hearing held today in the courthouse. The nation's voluntary unem ployment census will be con cluded tomorrow, all returns to be in not later than midnight. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 19, 1927 (Saturday) The district road tax meeting held Wednesday results in a five mill tax being voted in the Sams valley district. The funds ob tained will be used for comple tion of roads in the northeast and northwest sections of the district. The remodeling program of the Palmer Music House is rap idly approaching c ompletion, the latest step being the installa tion of the new glass front. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 19. 1917 (Monday) . All members of the interna tional order of electrical work ers in the employ of the Calif ornia Oregon Power company discontinued work this morning. Company Seven- of Medford has been transferred to heavy field artillery and the command is expected to be ordered away to France soon. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Did Charles A. Lindburgh hold any rank during World War I? 2. Bible: Who founded Babel (Babylon)? 3. No. 10 Downing Street is the address of which high goy- .' ernment official? , 4. Can Congress, if it wishes, sit in continuous session for its . two-year term? . . 5. Name the opposing generals who fought a battle for the city of Quebec? 6. Does the distance between ! the earth and moon vary? 7. What government did Pierre Lavel head during World War -II? 8. Mark Twain's "Becky . Sharpe" was the sweetheart of whom? T 9. Does "virtually" mean "in : essence or effect, or in fact"? 10. "I am not in the least versed in the Chrematistic art." Fielding. Does the saying refer to making money, undertaking, ' or music? - Answers: 1. No. He was too young to serve. 2. Nimrod. 3. The - Prime Minister of Grat Britain. .4. No. 5. Gen. Wolfe (Br) and Gen. Montcalm (Fr). 6. Yes. 7. ' Vichy government of France. 8. Tom Sawyer." 8. In or effect. 10. Making money. MAIL TRIBUNE Wanted a Second Joan of Arc9 The most important sentence in President Eisen hower's first "Sputnik" speech has, as far as noted received no publicity whatever. This is it : "What we need more than a giant leap into space is a giant leap toward peace." And General Eisenhower, the hero of the allied victory in World War II, is the man admirably fitted by reputation, to lead that "giant leap." But he won't. He is not the crusader type. In spite of fighting being his profession, he is not, in civil life, the FIGHTING type. He is, like Henry Clay, a great compromiser. He refuses to join the extremists on either side. He' sticks resolutely as he has so often said to the "middle of the road." IELL that route of restraint and moderation has its advantages with the state of the nation and the world in its present confusion and turmoil. But it is not the type needed to do the job the Pres dent says should ABOVE ALL, be done. What is needed in such an effort is a genuine cru sader. Not the Hamlet type always seeing the other side of the question and musing over whether it is "to be or not to be," but the extroverted, dynamic, fearless "T.R." type who says "This has GOT to be done and I am the man to do it." ' Yes, that, as we see it, is the crying need of the world and the country today. But where is there such a man, in public life at least. There may be many with the vision and the fighting heart, but at the moment we don't happen to know of them. CO THIS fight for world peace, because of the lack of the required leadership as well as the spirit of dedication and sacrifice, is as of .today going by de fault. Strangely enough it is not the pacifists," the apostles of Christian brotherhood and non-resistance or the "do-gooders" who are so aroused over the dan gers facing this country and the world. It is men who, like President Eisenhower, have not only devoted their lives to the profession of arms, but would be the last ones to be accused of appeasement who are most vocal at this time, pointing out the extreme urgency of somehow, someway, avoiding war and assuring world peace. Gen. MacArthur is one for example. There is General Omar Bradley also the "soldier's General" who recently summed up the present situa tion by declaring the challenge of our time is : "How to employ human intelligence for the salvation of mankind to concentrate human intelligence less on earth satellites and more on this satellite, earth." e ' THIS doesn't mean, of course, the abandonment of research in outer space or disregard of the "Sput nik" challenge; it does mean less emphasis on that department, and more on ways and means of halting this crazy rat-race to doom and, instead securing what every reasoning human being on the face of the earth WANTS an end to war and the establishment of a generation, if not an eternity, of peace. IT is so easy to say what should be done, but is with " out this leadership and complete change in empha sis, so difficult to do. The suggestion that all nations instead of part of them should be included in the "U.N." is a good one. The end of militant nationalism is another. Then there is the suggestion that the use of atomic weapons be outlawed as far as individual nations are con cerned, and their use delegated to the United Nations ALONE. That has merit. Then there should be, of course, agreement if such a U.N. change in member ship were made, to devise a practical program of gradual and universal disarmament. TT takes no Delphian Oracle to see that something of this sort SHOULD be done. It should not be done "too little and too late". For the "alternative" is equally clear that unless this crazy world can marshal enough intelligence to take some such action, and SEE what that alternative is, then this civilized world as we have known it has no more chance of survival than a band of sheep stampeding helter-skelter toward a precipice. 70R as has so often been said, if World War III should break out, there could be no winner, and in all likelihood, there would be little difference in the degrees of complete defeat for all. OK then why don't we, as a people, show enough common sense (if we lack the "mass intelligence") to prevent such a catastrephe or at least do everything humanly possible to do this before it IS too late? It would seem, to a "man up a tree," the primitive in stinct of self-preservation would be sufficient. But to date there has been little indication of this. So on and on the crazy rat-race goes. "I17HEREUPON we come back to where we started, " namely the crying need of the hour, is not only a change in national, but in world leadership. The "man of the hour" would be the man or a woman like "Joan of Arc" who could lead a Twen tieth, not an Eleventh century Crusade, and not to rescue the Holy Land, from the infidels, but the land of our "good earth" from those misguided leaders who suffer from the delusion that the only way to save civilization is to resort to a diabolical force that would destroy it. R.W.R. Tuesday, November 19, 1957 ,'SkhowsW0 is? See HowDRYHEg UPS ARE? ITHATS WHAT FEVER O&S TO YA " War. Stockpile Hoard Due For Investigation By Congressional Quarterly Washington (CQ) A panel of 11 experts this month begins a searching inquiry into Uncle Sam's hoard of strategic war ma terials, an accumulation so vast it dwarfs even the bulging stock piles of surplus farm goods. As part owner of this $7.4 bil lion inventory (your individual share is worth slightly over $40), ycu may wonder, along with the experts: Whether, in the age of nu clear weapons, a five-year sup ply of everything from abrasives and agar through vanadium and zinc should be kept on hand at all times? Why part of the stockpile, representing a $217 million in vestment by the taxpayers, is not legally available to the President for use in an emer gency? Why, in the last half of 1956, the Government spent three times as much on purchases of two metals already in adequate supply as it did on meeting the minimum needs for all other stockpile items? These are just a few of the puzzlers awaiting the Special Stockpile Advisory Committee appointed Oct. 31 by Defense Mobilizer Gordon Gray. Confronting them is an accu mulation of products and prob lems so big it staggers the imagi nation. Stockpile Contents The hoard of minerals, metals, rubber and other war materials is worth half a billion dollars more than the much-publicized farm surplus. Its most important component (85 per cent of the total dollar value), the Strategic Stockpile, contains 73 items like aluminum, asbestos, bauxite, copper, lead, magnesium, man ganese, mercury, mica, nickel, platinum, natural rubber, shel lac, silk, tin and tungsten. Also on store are such unex pected goods as castor oil (an ingredient of napalm fire bombs), feathers and down (for sleeping bags) and opium (for medicinal purposes). The 24.5 million tons of stra tegic goods cover 23 million square feet of private and Gov ernment warehouse space, sprawl over 1,377 acres along side highways and railroads and in factory lots and occupy 2 million barrels of tank space. The stockpile's annual house keeping bill is $26 million. A physical inventory of its con tents, now begun, will cost $15 million and take three years to complete. Stockpiling got its start after World War II, which found the United States short of many vital goods and cut off from its normal sources of supply. The Stockpiling Act of 1946 gave the go-ahead to the porgram, and it was speeded up sharply with the Korean emergency and passage of the Defense Production Act of 1950. The original stockpile goals are close to being met. The House Appropriations Commit tee March 15 reported that "81 per cent of the minimum stock nile requirements are in the warehouse or on order." But of late, Congressmen and others have been asking how realistic the old goals are. Chairman A. Willis Robert son (D-Va.) of the Joint Com mittee on Defense Production July 30, saidr "It does not make much sense for us to tie up bil lions of dollars in what we call strategic materials that could be come scarce in time of a long war . . . (when) many military men think, if another war comes, it is not going to last very long." Chief Task The Advisory Committee's chief task will be to revise for the sputnik age stockpiling poli cies born in the Korean war pe riod. The advisers also will be asked to bring some order . out of the chaos of overlapping laws governing stockpile operations. An official report lists nine major statutes directly affect ing the stockpile program, mak ing it, one official testified, "dif ficult . . . and also expensive to administer.'' One example of this legal con fusion came to light May 21, when the Joint Committee on Defense Production was told that, even in an emergency, the President has no authority to take anything out of the $217 million supply of strategic goods obtained from sale or barter of farm surpluses unless Congress passe a special law to permit it. A bill to correct this over sight was introduced in 1957 but received no attention from the Senate Agriculture Committee. Another and politically tick lish problem facing the Advis ory Commtitee concerns charges that some stockpiling operations are thinly disguised subsidies for the mining industry, Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although unde 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 publication- must not exceed 400 words Put Principle Above Party To the Editor: A new pro cedure has taken place during this special session and the reg ular session of the 1957 legisla ture of using party caucuses in determining decisions upon leg islative matters before the re spective assemblies. We have both been critized for not ac tively supporting this practice. In the sessions we have at tended prior to the 1957 session, we do not recall where party caucuses were held primarily for determining how votes should be cast upon bills to be considered. We have contacted other veteran legislators who also say they have never seen this procedure used until this year. We believe the indulgence of party caucuses to determine leg islative vote is a very dangerous thing and a precedent which would result in dire effects. It is our concept of the three arms of our constitutional state gov ernment that each branch, ex ecutive, legislative, and judicial, should work independently with out coercion or undue influence from any other branch. If there is a continuance of this practice, it could readily be abused and would defeat the purpose of an -expression of in dependent judgment by each separate legislator. We believe there is less chance of collective error if each legislator would al ways vote his own conclusions without ever having the possi bility occur where he might for sake his personal beliefs for, the sake of party harmony. It has been our observation that the great majority of the legislators are conscientious in doing what they think is right and if they are subjected to pressures in their party caucuses, there is a human possibility that a temp tation may exist where freedom of expression may, in some in stances, be abandoned. It is wrong for either political party to put its individual legislators in the embarrassing position of having to publicly denounce his party's stand or relinquish his own personal feelings of what is right or wrong. We have been criticized by some of our Democratic brethren because we have not constantly followed the conclusions of party caucuses, but we both felt we could better represent our own constituents by voting our per sonal convictions as we saw them as the occasions arose. By doing so, we also believe we have never been traitors to the great, principles that the Dem ocratic Party has promoted for the-past 150 years. It is our opinion that through the free expression of every individual person, our party, or any other party; can remain strong and be of good service to our State and Nation. Representative Katherine Musa, . Senator Ben Musa The Dalles, Ore. French-Algerian Trouble Poses Problem for NATO French Allies By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The dispute over the arming of Tunisia may lead to an im portant review of United States-British-French relations. By sending weapons to France's form er North Afri can protector ate, the United States and Brit ain angered both the French govern ment and th French Charles McCann people. France was willing to send weapons itself. But it wanted Matter of Fact by Joseph ai$oP KEEPING OUR OPTIONS Belgrade, Yogoslavia This is a moment of fairly desperate un certainty about future Soviet policy. At home, Nikita S. Khrushchev may either drown his peo ple in blood or choke them with butter. Abroad, by the same token, he may become Joseph Alsop Hnrir ornnrl,, venturesome or seek a period of real pacification. Throughout, iho administration, American policy has essentially consisted of a se ries of belated and ffenerallir in. adequate reactions to Soviet ac tions. We have a ehanrp do a little better. We have a chance, in fact, to Khruschev's eventual decision! very greatly. He is at least bound to h con siderably sobered, if America re sponds with clantv. vigor and decisiveness to5 the ugly new world situation 'now confronting us. That must be the lone ranee aim. But it will still be a wait-and- see business until Khrushrhpv has actually made his choice. In this uncertain moment, only one actually made his choice. In this uncertain moment, onlv one thing is certain. Until Khrush chev shows his hand, the Ameri can nolicv makers reallv desner- ately need to keep all possible options, to retain the utmost pos sible freedom of action, on Khrushchev's side of the line that divides the world. AS a practical matter, this means keeping our options here in Yugoslavia and in Po land. We have no real power to act anywhere else on this side of the world-dividing line. And keeping our options means, in turn, leaving the existing rela tionships largely unaltered. Aid, even much more gener ous aid, needs to be given to Po land. The rapidly tapering pro gram of aid to Yugoslavia must also be maintained, at least to the extent of continuing the rela tively inexpensive surplus wheat deliveries which provide nearly 80 per cent of the bread for Yu goslavia's cities. Of course, these and other mat ters will need to be coldly recon sidered if the Yugoslavs and Poles end by cheering Khrush chev on, while he reinaugurates Stalin's terror at home and em barks on a campaign of still bold er adventures abroad. But the point is that the Yugoslavs and Poles are not likely to cheer Khrushchev on. They are much more likely to do the opposite, in which case their relationships with the West will greatly gain in importance to them and to us. THEIR likely, reaction is illus trated bv the Yugoslav re sponse to Khrushchev's Stalinoid destruction of Marshal ZhukoV. On this head the combination of two sets of facts has placed the Yugoslav leaders in an embar rassing position. On the one hand, it has long been the Yugoslav policy to sup port Nikita Khrushchev by all means rjossible in the inner strug gle in the Kremlin. That is still frankly admitted here. On the other hand, it was cer- tainlv Marshal Zhukov's long visit to Yugoslavia that gave Khrushchev the chance to ar range Zhukov's destruction. With Zhukov's hand so long removed from the actual levers of power in Moscow, his dangerously great nnwers fell into abeyance. Thus Khrushchev was able to prepare Zhukov's removal from the De fense Ministry in careful secrecy; and then confront him with the accomplished fact as he stepped off his aircraft in Moscow. The combination of these two sets of facts have naturally caused this reporter and many nthprs to susDect that Marshal Tito was actually Khrushchev's accomplice in the plot against Zhukov. But after careful inves tigation on the spot, a rather different, more complex but less gly conclusion seems unavoid able. - TO BE sure, the Yugoslavs Haim that thev were only supporting Nikita Khrushchev gainst "Stalinists unnamed and unidentifiable, which is real ly too hard to credit after Khrushchev s successful destruc tion of Molotov and Kaganovich last !July. Like the Poles, the Yu first to get firm guarantees that they would not fall into the hands of the rebels in next-door Algeria and Morocco which like Tunisian is now independ ent as in its own sphere of interest. It wants no outside in terference. The United States and Brit ain took their action on the ground that if they, or France, did not give Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba the weapons he demanded, he might turn to Sov iet Russia to get them. It can hardly be disputed that in taking their action against France's wishes, the United States and Britain intervened in what is a problem for France goslavs must surely have been fearful that Zhukov's increasing power would tend to break the sacred monopoly of rule of the sacred Communist party appa ratus. They are not quite frank now about their attitude to Zhukov, one suspects, because they dis like admitting they have had the wool a little pulled over their eyes, like so many others who have had dealings with Khrush chev. But the displeasure and even alarm that one senses here also indicate that the Yukoslavs cer tainly did not expect Zhukov to be utterly destroyed by a Stalin oid plot. They hoped that his overweening powers would be reduced, perhaps by his promo tion from the Defense Ministry to the Soviet Premiership, where the final levers of power would not be in his hands. OUT they also thought well of Zhukov as an individual So viet leader. They expected the decencies to be preserved. They wanted the Khrushchev-Shukov partnership to continue, al though on a more equal basis. And they certainly did not ex pect to be made to seem the will ing catspaws of Nikita Khrush chev in his brilliant, Byzantine intrigue. This has made them downright angry. But what then was the Yugo slav motive for supporting Khrushchev in the first instance? The motive was the new dubious belief that Khrushchev promised "liberalization" as they like to call it, or in more honest words, that Khrushchev stood for the evolution of Soviet society in a more human direction. The Yu goslavs have been trying to in crease their influence in the Kremlin, in order to increase their ability to encourage this Soviet evolution. Hence they have thought it worthwhile to take several controversial steps, such as their recognition of East Germany. One may question their judg ment in these matters, but one must give their good intentions the benefit of the doubt for the present. They now want Khrush chev today to make humane and peaceable choices, just as much as we do. If he makes the other kind of choice, which they now fear, they will suffer more im mediately than we shall. And these are the reasons why it is urgent to keep our Yugoslav op tion, even if this requires the Eisenhower " administration to stand up to Congress for once. (Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Clergyman Arrested By East German Communists Berlin OP) The East German Communists announced today that a Protestant clergyman will be tried for forming an under ground organization of students to plot a "counter-revolution." Communist Leader Paul Froeh- lich, writing in the newspaper Leipziger Volkszeitung, said the clergyman, Siegfried Schmultz- ler, carried out counter-revolu-1 tionary activity among Leipzig university students during the Hungarian revolt. Schmutzler was arrested April 12. Counsel With ' Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY IT. in its desperate attempt to keep Algeria, last of its three North African possessions. Was Action Justified? The question still remains whether the action was justified by the British-American belief that it was necessary to keep Tunisia from following the course of Egypt and Syria and thus giving Russia a foothold in North Africa such as it has in the Middle East. French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau has come to the United States to confer with Sec retary of State John Foster Dul les. It is expected that Pineau will first ask Dulles to get a guaran tee from the Tunisian govern ment that the weapons it is send ing will not be permitted to get to Algeria for use by the rebels in killing French soldiers. But Pineau undoubtedly will seek American support for the French policy in Algeria also. The Algerian problem, specifi cally the demand of the rebels for outright independence, is to be debated in the United Na tions General assembly, possibly next week. , Rebels Will Hare Support The rebel cause will be sup ported by the "neutralist" and "anti-colonial" nations of Africa and Asia. France will expect the loyal support of the United States and Britain for its policy of ending the revolt by giving Algeria a limited measure of self-rule. It is possible that, largely due to the Tunisia dispute, there will be a meeting of the Ameri can, British and French foreign ministers before the meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization countries in Paris starting Dec. 16. At a United States-British and French meeting, or in separate discussions with the United States and Britain, France is likely to tie up the Tunisian issue with NATO. That alliance pledges its members to give no help to an enemy of any of them and .the Algerian rebels are enemies of France. In the end, the Tunisia dis pute may lead to a needed clari fication of the relations of the big three western allies. Transit Company Makes Change To Save $7,000 Portland (IP) The Rose City Transit company said today it has widened the running inter vals on many of its routes to save an estimated $7,000 per month in operating expenses. General Manager Raymond Parkins said it was part of a re duction to meet an added $11, 000 monthly cost of a November pay raise for union employees. STAY 0M THE LINE The main business of every Christian is EVANGELISM. Attend The William F. Wills' MEETINGS ' TONIGHT Thru FRIDAY 7:30-8:45 P.M. First Baptist Church N.'Central at 5th - Medford New and Different Program Nightly If the few who drive too fast, Would drive a little slower, The tremendous cost, And lives needlessly lost. Would be a great deal lower. Bill Fish
