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o o o fOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) KedfomvjITribune "Everyone in bouuiern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Datlv Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-9141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor 9ERU GREY Advertising Manager SF.RALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC Al l fk JR ' Managing Editor tARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor ?I.IVE ST ARCHER Societr Editor PALE y.ICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bt Mall 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 year Hiu By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Kogue River. Talent and on motor routes'. O Daily and Sunday One year S18.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-50 tamer ana ueaiera iuc per cony All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford q Official raaer of Jackson County United 9rta Full Leased Wire MEMBIlt OF AUDIT BUREAU O CIRCULATION Advertisine Representative : r WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in Mew York Chicago, ae- troit. ma rranclsco. Los Angeles Seattl Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. HiWSPAPEI rUKLISHEtS ASSOCIATION NATION A I I 0 I T O 1 1 A i ls 1 I AIIOCrA'l"3N vr",w'"'l,' Flight o' Time Medford ind Jteksoa County' History from the files of The Mail Tribune. 10. SO. SO and 40 years ago. 10 YEAR S AGO Nov. 24, 1947 (Monday) Work on the fish ladder at the Savage Rapids dam is nearing completion, according to Ken neth S. Martin, of Grants Pass, game commission member. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The sec retary of agriculture predicts a grave shortage of beef in the early spring. Motorists driving along local highways and coun ty roads agr.ee as they see steers dotting the pastures and clogging the roads." 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 24, 13T (Wednesday) Another unit In the growing skyline of Medford business dis trict was started yesterday when ground was broken for a mod ern, one-story market building to be erected on North Central ave., adjoining the City Meat market, by J. E. Trevorrow, San Francisco real estate man. The sawmill of the Medford Corporation will shut down Dec. 1 and logging operations of the concern in the Butte Falls dis trict will cease about Dec. 15. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 24, 1927 (Friday) The total valuation for Jack son county for this year, accord ing to figures compiled by the assessor's office is $33,365,655. Ilak, the famous Alaskan wolf dog, whose pastime is playing star roles in pictures, is in Med ford today after completing a tour of the Pacific Coast. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 24. 1917 (Saturday) A much-welcomed feature at Crater Lake park next summer will be inauguration of burro and horse service at the park,, according to Aleck Sparrow, supervisor of Crater Lake Na tional park. State fir protective, associa tion has announced next year they will begin early in the sea son to burn out the dead logs find brush3 close to the timber areas. What's Tour I.Q.? Nine or te cerrect Is superior; seven or elsat ts excellent; five or sir is moot o 1. Does India, U.S., or China produce the most soy beans? 2. Bible: Rev. 10.21 refers to "sardonix": Is it a gem, an in fidel, or Satan? 3. Etoes an xylophonist make ar phones, plastics, or music? 4. For what product is chicle largely used? 5. Name the newest Independ ent republic in the world? 6. From what plant is snuff manufactured? 7. Is coke made from a miner al, vegetable, or animal? 8. West Point is the popular name for which Government school? 9. Is it correct to seal a letter of introduction? 10. What 3-word slang phrase signifies a torrential rain? Answers: 1. U.S. 2. Gem. Prob ably a ruby. 3. Music. 4. Chewing-gum. 5. Republic of Ghana. 6 Tobacco. 7. Mineral. Coal. 8 United States Military Acad emy. 9. No. 10. "Cats and dogs" (II rains like) MAIL TRIBUNE An Inquiry Is Answered To the Editor: Speaking of TV and radio I am all in a tizzy. For what do I hear day in and day out. This pill is no good, some other pill is. If you want to live you better get this shin-plaster and avoid some other. As for motor cars, one make will fly over the fence and some other can't get off the ground, and who can you believe, and what are you going to do about it? Why don't YOU run an "Advice to Buyers column" and give us poor pedestrians the low down. If this barrage over the air keeps on I, for one, am going "nuts". A. T. Stewart Medford, Oregon No thank you. This is a great opportunity for some young man to conduct a reliable "buyers guide" at so much an issue, but we have our hands full trying to run a daily newspaper. OOWEVER we don't think motor-cars present much of a problem. In our opinion, as far as adequate comfort and sufficiently satisfactory transportation are concerned there isn't a "bad buy" on the market. It is up to the individual, whether he wants a big car or a little one; a low-priced or an expensive one; a car painted in conventional black, blue or red, or in two or three pastel-shades with chrome trimmings. It was different in the "good old days" but today buy ing a car is chiefly a question of personal taste and the condition of the family's exchequer. CO THAT'S that. But the pill-market the entire field of medi cine and medical treatment that is another matter and a more serious one. The Federal Food and Drug Act is supposed to keep the "Medicine Men" and the "Kickapoo Indian" fakirs off the market, but we doubt if the government is as effective in this field as it should be. At any rate, this department's advice in this area is short if not especially sweet to wit : Don't take any pills, or try any medical treatments, advertised over the air, or anywhere else, without first getting an "ok" from your doctor. For your doctor must have your confidence or he wouldn't be YOUR doctor. And in this area it takes a trained expert to make the proper decision, not an untrained amateur, or the average layman. Q. E. D. R.W.R. A Republican Speaks Out The Roseburg News-Review is one of the few Republican newspapers in the state that censures the party in the recent special session for "playing poli tics." We quote: Republican legislators had an opportunity to come forth with a constructive program. Instead they elected to em barrass the governor and the Democratic party and play the political game. They endeavored to cut state taxes below the level the Republicans demanded for themselves when they were in control of the administration. Such demand, it seems to me, can hardly be classified under the heading of states manship. Well said, and completely true. Also a refreshing relief from those members of the GOP "Old Guard" who in spite of the evidence, have claimed that only the Democrats played politics, while they were fighting to save the state from bank ruptcy and giving first-aid to the long suffering, and sorely wounded tax-payers. X7E DON'T wish to give the impression the Rose- burg paper had any compliments to pay the Democrats. Nor did the RNR have any use for the fruits of the special session. But the paper did concur in general with Governor Holmes' point-of-view that the tax-refund should have been on a more conservative basis, because with eco nomic conditions what they are, and promise to be come in the future, a large cash-surplus back-log will be needed to meet state expenditures after the next legislature has adjourned. In other words, like the Governor the Review would not have taken chances just to please the tax payers today, and then probably force them to run the risk of having to pay back as much or more, in higher taxes a year or two hence. As stated in this department before, that program of going slow was just good sound business-sense. OOWEVER the special session as a whole the "Re view" considers a flop and a needless one which might as well be charged up as an "amusement tax". Far better, it concludes "had this surplus money been used to relieve depressed areas in the state," passed around to these unfortunate sections "to create jobs, reduce unemployment, and prime the non-functioning business-pump" in general. "IXELL without subjecting this proposal to any criti- cal analysis or noting it was favored at the ses sion only by the Douglas County delegation it does seem somewhat surprising that a good old orthodox and regular Republican paper, should so readily and uncomplainingly embrace the essential principles of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt's Republican-hated and exorcised "New Deal". R.W.R. Taxes vs. Freight Rates Oregon's Gov. Holmes and Washington's Gov. Rosellini are planning an attack on freight rates that discriminate against Northwest business and industry. They will need all the help they can get to wage that battle. There can be no question that it is worth fight ing. Many believe that discriminatory freight rates, not high taxes, are the greatest deterrent to business and industrial growth in the Northwest. Pendleton East-Oregonian Sunday, November 24, 1957 ' lfaiesr,VM)i The doctor said Mom could have ALL THS ICE CR2AM W COULD EAT Today and By Walter INTERDEPENDENCE In the light of what Secretary Dulles and Secretary McElroy have been saying at their press conference this week, the con trolling fact in the discussions about NATO is that we now expect the So viet Union to produce, some years before Walter Uppmann we do, mis siles which can fly the distance between Russia and America. We are, it appears, less far behind the Russians in missiles which can fly the short er distance between Western Europe and Russia. Therefore, we are proposing to our allies that we, in coopera tion with them, set up launching sites for medium range missiles in Western Europe. This, it is believed, will deter the Soviet Union both from launching the long range missiles against the United States and the medium range missiles against Britain, France, Germany and the rest of Western Europe. This will indeed mean a very high degree of what the Presi dent and the Prime Minister have called "interdependence.". Under this arrangement our main defense can be used only if our European allies separate ly and jointly consent. Their main defenses can be used only if we, plus the other members of NATO, jointly and severally consent. This interlocking sys tem, which looked at negatively is really a system of vetoes, is likely to work successfully only if the issue is an unmistakable, open and flagrant aggression against a member of ihe NATO organization. But if the issue, is outside NATO, whether in Africa, the Middle East, or Eastern Asia, the interlocking vetoes of the interdependent system are like ly to prevail. NATO is not like ly to have a collective policy. We have seen this in Korea, For mosa, Suez, Cyprus, and French North Africa. THIS basic situation has led to the search for formulae. Usu In the Day's News By FRANK Crime note in the news: The deputy chief of police in the capital city' of the United States of America makes the minor headlines with a charge that the gambling business' in Washington has reached a vol ume of a million dollars a day. He announces he is quitting his job because of the difficulty involved in GETTING ti AM BLERS CONVICTED after his men have arrested them. It's Retting so bad, he inti mates, that it isn't much use to go after the gamblers any more. CRIME note No. 2: ' An inquiry has begun into an upstate New York GANG LAND CONVENTION. The investigation was order ed by New York's Governor Har riman. Its objective will be to look into the activities of the more than 60 TOP HOODLUMS who attended the meeting. HMMMMMM. So the gangster business has reached the point where it HOLDS CONVENTIONS. D'ya reckon the attending delegates WEAR BADGES?' If so, it should be an easy job to round them up. BUT As the deputy chief of po lice of the nation's capital city says It's practically impossible to convict 'em after arresting 'em. m Ma ' Tomorrow Lippmann ally they are of two kinds. One is to work out theoreti cally the answers to all sorts of imaginary situations which might arise if there were various kinds of trouble. These exer cises, which are the proper busi ness of military planners, cannot be taken too seriously by states men. Except in the case of direct and overt attack, there are no clear situations which can be de fined in advance, and made the subject of binding commitments to go to war. The alternative Is to seek for mulae of consultation by which the allies can work out a com mon position and a collective line of action. This must, of course, be attempted. . There should be continual consultation. But we must not deceive our selves. There are diverse inter ests within NATO, and .when these interests are regarded as vital, the greater powers, though they consult the others, will not feel themselves bound in all cases to abide by the judgment of others. STUDENTS of collective action are, I think, well aware that the general tendency of coali tions among sovereign states is to become stalemated and inac tive. That is to say, the. veto prevails. Thus, there is a stale mate in Eastern Asia because the United States government exercises a steadfast veto against dealing with Red China. There is therefore no allied policy on the Chinese question. France, of course, exercises a veto in North Africa, and anything in the na ture of mediation is strictly and sternly forbidden. The British have a veto in Cyprus. Dr. Ad enauer has a veto on the German problem. The over-all effect of these interlocking vetoes is to inhibit the non-Communist world from any initiative, from any capacity to negotiate, from adopting any policy except to stand pat in status quo. It is this frozen im mobility on our sice which pro vides the Soviet Union' with one opportunity after another to score hits in the game of power politices. Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. JENKINS , T EMEMBER this hoodlum Ana- x stasia who was shot to death by some other hoodlums in the barber shop of a big New York hotel a while back? It appears that he had been rattling around New York City for years and years and years, killing people (or ordering 'em killed) whenever he felt like it. But nobody ever seemed to be able to get anything on him that would put him away for good in the Big Stone House that is supposed to be reserved for characters of that sort. THEN, years ago, there was a character named Capone. He too was addicted to the habit of killing people, or having them killed, whenever they got in his way. It wasn't until old Uncle Sam went after him for EVADING HIS INCOME TAXES that Ca pone got parked away behind the bars. THE news is full of stories about government investiga tions. More or less everybody is be ing accused of doing things they hadn't oughta do. The Demo crats are going after the Repub licans. The Republicans are go ing after the Democrats. Our sci entists are being fried out in the pan for letting the Russians get ahead of us with .a Sputnik. I sometimes think it might be a good idea to INVESTIGATE GOVERNMENT. Editorial Comment NEUBERGER AS GOVERNOR? There are interesting condi tions and possibilities which might find the Oregon Demo cratic field in just such a switch as the Republicans in California. It would involve Sen. Richard Neuberger running for governor on the Democratic ticket, and if elected, he would resign from the senate and name M. Holmes to fill out his unexpired term. First of all, the Democratic party of Oregon is exceedingly anxious to retain the governor ship. Some party leaders recog nize that Governor Holmes is not a strong or outstanding governor and they suspect that a strong GOP candidate could defeat Mr. Holmes. The "feud" between Senators Neuberger and Morse, which has been denied by both, may not be a feud, but it is eminently clear that Senator Neuberger is voting his own convictions and is neither a pupil nor an errand boy for the senior senator. Both Senator Neuberger and his wife have a deep affection for Ore gon; they would probably be far happier residing in Salem than in the hectic atmosphere of Washington. So there are - several factors which might influence Senator Neuberger to look with favor on the governorship rather than continuing in the senate. As far as the Democratic party is con cerned, Senator Neuberger would make a stronger governor than the incumbent and his eiection as the state's chief executive would help the Democrats strengthen their hold on state government. It makes sense from a political standpoint. Ashland Tidings. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Youngsters Appreciative To the Editor: There are nine of us at the Junior Service League Kindergarten for hard of hearing children who would like to thank the people in Jackson county who made the League's 1957 Follies a success. We 'are not able to hear all the nice things people say about the Follies, but we know how hard all the members and all our wonderful teachers work to help us, so that we, and other children who cannot hear, will receive help in the years to come. Sincerely, Pupils of the Junior Service League Kinder garten for Hard of Hearing Children. P.S. We are not able . to read or write yet so . our teacher helped us with this note. Matter of Fact THE WASHINGTON JITTERS Amman, Jordan What has been unkindly described as the vulture branch of the news paper business largely con sists in flying from a crisis situation to crisis-situation. If there is no trouble, there is no news", so you do not go there. Joseph Alsop Maybe per- sons in a trade so akin to am bulance chasing have no right to complain about anything. All the same this reporter would like to register ; a mild com plaint against the current Wash ington tendency to succumb to exaggerated attacks of the jit ters. The fault is not always seeing crises where no crises exist. The complaint is based on recent ex perience. The spectacle of Niki- ta Khrushchev hurling thunder bolts of war from the ramparts of the Kremlin is never reassur ing. Perhaps the American pol icy-makers were right to take his threats to Turkey as serious ly as they did. None the less, after a hasty journey to .the storm-center in Ankara, it was a bit surprising to find the Turks exhibiting the most stolid and phlegmatic in difference to Khrushchev's men aces. At this seeming peak of danger, all four of the-Turkish Chiefs of Staff, the. chairman and the heads of all three of the armed services, had cast off their military uniforms to run for Parliament. The Prime Min ister, Adnan Menderes, blandly explained that his Chiefs of Staff were getting near the re tirement age anyway, so "this was really their last chance to start a new career in politics. POSSIBLY this was carrying phlegm a mite too far. But one could -not help reflecting that a little of the Turkish stol idity would have been a big help to Secretary of State Dul les, especially during the slight ly earlier events in Syria. The pro-Soviet coup in Damascus was bad enough, God knows, but it was made about five times more damaging by the extreme excitability and resulting fan POTLUCCC (By M-T Staff and Contribution) There are two employees at the Mail Tribune who we will call Bill Smith and John Jones, because those are not their names. The other day, John Jones started to write one of those "personalized" checks, bearing the name and address of the bearer, put out by local banks. The man behind the counter glanced at the check and asked "Is your name Bill Smith?" "No, it's John Jones," replied Jones. "Then why does it say 'Bill Smith'?" the man asked. Startled, Jones looked at it, and sure enough, that one check was clearly printed "Bill Smith," despite the fact that all the rest of the checks in the pad said "John Jones." Bill Smith is devoutly hoping the printing company that fur nishes the checks gets straighten ed out before something of the sort happens to a less-honest guy than John Jones. ' Our farm editor hopes that the new site of the experimen tal farm will have mora up-to-date heating facilities than the old ones that are being aban doned. They consist of wood stoves and a couple of old oil heaters. "Shucks," he said, "even the pear orchards have better heating equipment than that." Our city hall reporter reminds of the plight of the denizens of that building during the current remodeling program. Public Works Director Vernon Thorpe, he tells us, had no desk at all for two days, and con ducted his business while wan dering from room to room. When he finally moved into his new office at the rear of the building, he had no heat for another day or two. And a rather better dressed than usual laborer was seen to be actually , City Attorney Roy Bashaw, pushing a hand - truck loaded with law books from one office to another. Said he, busily stacking them on the shelves in the new office, "No use dusting them off or cleaning the shelves. They'll just get dusty anyway until I have a case where I need to use them." A recent inter-office memo at the city hall wound up in the police department. It con cerned the use of "Meter Maids," who now check park ing violations in many cities including Portland and Los Angeles. This one had a pin-up type of picture of a starlet in brief shorts looking at a park ing meter. A longhand note on the bottom told officers that this sort of thing isn't planned in Medford yet, but they could still dream. Mrs. Paul Elgin, of 1221 With ington st., writes in to point out By Joseph Alsop tastic maladroitness of Washing ton's reaction. These reflections gained force from the sequel. There was hardly time to catch one's breath after the hurried flight to Ankara, before the news came that the Washington pol icy-makers were again up on their tin ears, this time because of a dire threat to the govern ment of King Hussein of Jordan. Once again, the threat looked real enough from a distance. For a long period, the Syrian intelli gence organization headed by Col. Abdel Hamid Serraj and the Jordanian officers involved in last spring's plot" against King Hussein had succeeded in promoting terror-bombings in Jordan. The purpose was psycho logical. The bombs were no more than windowbreakers. But the daily explosions caused nat ural dismay. " FINALLY, King Hussein un- covered and imprisoned the ring of bomb-planters, mainly soldiers who had been easily suborned because they were per sonally connected with the offi cerplotters of last April. Imme diately, Gamal Abdel . Nasser's Cairo radio opened an incom parably obscene and violent campaign against the young king, screaming objurgations, shouting ludicrously false accu sations of complicity with Israel, and even openly calling for the King's assassination. All this, so it was said, was taken with utmost seriousness by the Washington policy-makers. If there was real danger to King Hussein nd his govern ment, moreover, it was an acute ly serious matter; for little Jor dan is the present key to the rest of the troubled Middle East. So there followed another hur ried air journey to Amman, and a second vivid shock of surprise to find everything in this little city as outwardly peaceful as a May morning. THE young King and his prin cinal collaborator in covern- ment, Deputy Prime Minister Samir Rifai, certainly have enough problems on their hands to keep any two men busy. Cer tainly the burden of responsibil ity of these last seven months, the months since the April crisis which gave the King alone the -a a typographical error wherg thf) story referred to the "prone com pany" loaning equipment fo ua in a school. She says she wondered if it really was a mistake or if it was done on purpose. She added that with a couple of teen-aers using the telephone at home, jh knows what "prone compenj1 means. We have it on good author ty that the first U.S. satellite will be filled with hamburtfc ers, hot dogs, potato salat soft drinks and potato chips. It will, of course, be name4) the "Picnik." We swiped this list of hand household hints fom another publication for the edification Jt our readers: A healthy rattlesnake kept is the dining room will rid the house of mice. Three or four bats loos in the bedroom will take care of mOfc quitoes before you retire. Black ants detest the odor of a goat. Tie a pair of Angoras is the kitchen, and the ants will dis appear. The hornet is sure death to flies. Every good housekeeper should keep a nest of hornets im the kitchen and save uselett swatting. . A young man complaint that every time he goes int a bank to cash a check he al ways gets in line behind a businessman banking the day's cash. He suggests a special window devoted solely to "quick' transactions, like cash ing checks, and the others for more lengthy business. That's all well and good. Our own beef is that whenever 'we get in a slow - moving line, then move over to one that's going faster, it invariably slows down to a stop, and our origi nal spot . gets to the window five times as fast as we do. A frolicsome photographer in Portland the other day was call ing at the home of friends. The night was foggy. So upon arrival, he .stood out side and gave his powerful stro boscope light a couple of flashes. This lit up the fog in a weird and wonderful way and created havoc inside the house. A woman in the house came tearing out the door, saw him, and cried, "Quick! Run for your life! Flying saucers!" : i ... A plaintive note that ,G handed to us points out lh& some people complain aboef paved streets in residenti districts causing drivers to 0 too fast. The writer's coft plaint, however, is about" pee) pie that drive loo fast ove mudholes, and he says tie k a mud-splashed car parked i front of his house to prove ifr An employee of the southern Oregon branch experiment sta tion recently was to go to San Francisco to drive back a Jeep. Some people envied hgm the trip but he said he'd driven too many miles in those things to look forward to a 400-mile trip. A bystander predicted that when he did get bapk he'd be able to sit on a dime and tell whether it was heads or tails. task of maintaining Jordan's in dependence, have transformed young Hussein from a courage ous boy into a serious, rather grim-jawed, exceptionally self contained man. But both King Hussein and Samir Rifai could hardly have seemed more un concerned when they received this . somewhat breathless rt porter. The bombing ring had been utterly broken, they pointed out) calmly; and although they ex pected Col. Serraj to orgnieD similar attempts in the future, they were sure they could break those too. As for the filthy vili fications poured out by the Cai ro radio, those had proved felf defeating. The lies were so trane parently lies that the biggetfc fool in Jordan knew them fotf what they were. "I feel very confident indeta that I can maintain the situation against any threats or incite ments to crime," the young Kmjt told me calmly. "It's my duly and I know I can do it. Here in, Jordan, we have the task of d fending our country and all fhm Arab lands against a new kind of imperialism, Soviet imperial ism, and we are not going to fail." So another crisis proved to l5jD uncritical, when seen on th spot. But why, one still wonders ' were the Turkish and Jordanign leaders, who were after all thgr men in the front line, so much calmer than the Washington policy-makers in both these curi ous cases? Surely the answer lies in the fact that the Washington policy-makers are haunted by the terrible consciousness that they have shockingly neglected the general balance of power, and that they are still not doin nearly enough to redress thej balance. Surely it is this gnaw ing consciousness of a broad un realized danger that givqg every breeze and threat and lo cal Soviet maneuver the sem blance of a crisis nowadays. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc.
