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o O i fotrteDrota (eiicc) UK (-, "Everyone In Southern Oregaa 2 Read The Mail Tribune" jbLUhea Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-1141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor AERB GREY Advertising Manager GEfLAXD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC Al.liFN JR Managing Editor MARL H ADAMS City Editor WARRV CHIPMAN Telegraph Edito RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHES Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act oi March 3. 1897 r SUBSCRIPTION RATES y 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. 4J25 Sunday Only One year 4.20 By Carrier In Aavance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove cRogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full .Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF 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 PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATION Al . EDITORIAL VA I I AsfbcfA'fJN wiiiiirwmrjiu Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Triburua 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 28. 1947 (Sunday) Prospects for next summer's Irrigation water are in the usual uncertain state, according to a survey by the Fruit Growers league irrigation committee. From Arthur Perry's -Ye Smudge Pot column: "Quite a number of the intelligentsia from the camps of the state were down to eat turkey and pull a wish bone with the home team Paw and Maw.' 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 28, 1937 (Sunday) A drive for the proposed new Phoenix firehall will begin Dec. 1. Lower insurance rates for the community are expected to re suit. Skiin conditions in Crater Lake national park were de scribed yesterday as excellent for experts, fair for novices. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 28, 1927 (Monday) A more compact organization of all fruit promotional organi zations in this area will be con sidered during the annual meet ing of the Fruitgrowers' league to be held within the next few days. " Thf third rum-running car captured by Federal Officer Terry Talent during the past week was seized at 4 a.m. xoaay south of Ashland. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 28. 1917 (Wednesday) a ort-ir nf Mprlfnrd men were entertained at the Grants Pass sugar factory by Manager Alex Nibley of the Utah-Idaho, Sugar company Tuesday ana wuuccu the manufacture of sugar. W. C. Hammatt, engineer of the Medford irrigation district, has recently compiled a map of the district showing the char acter of the crops planted. Whifs Your I.Q.? Nine ot ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent: five or six is good 1. A full moon rises in the east at noon, midnight, sunset or sun rise? . 2. Bible: Is there a reference relating specifically to the "heav enly city?" 3. Is air in sunlight of a higher temperature than air in sunset? 4. By what title are warrant officers and flight officers ad dressed? 5. Louisiana is named after what French king? 6. Was James Oliver Curwood an American painter, writer or author? 7. Are teeing-eye dogs given free to blinded war veterans? 8. Une? which President was the Tnnise River Muscle Shoal yroject begun? 9. What causes electrical dis plays in he earth's northern lati tudes? 10. Did Scott, Tennyson, or Hawthorne write "Ivanhoe"? Answers: 1. 6unsl. 3. Yes. 3. No? . Mister. I. Louis XIV. 6. Author. .7. Ys. Woodrow Wilson. 9. Sunspots. 10. Scolt. AMERICAN FLIER KILLED Huckneall, England HP! A RAF twin-jet vertical takeoff "Flying Bedstead" crashed Thursday on a trial flight, killing - 4ts American-born pilot. Wing Cmdr. Gordon Larsen. Larsen, 41, has lived in England for years. He won the Distinguished Flying Cross during World War II with the RAF. kail tribune How to Ruin Your Town What makes a "good city"? And what makes a "good citizen"? Opinions vary, of course, as do people. One person can be a good citizen in his own way, and act entirely differently from another person who is also a good citizen, but in another way. Be that as it may, we recently received an interest ing check-list of "how to ruin your home town." It first appeared in the Sedalia (Mo.) Democrat, has been widely reprinted, and was sent to us by a friend. Here it is : 1. Don't pay taxes. Let the other fellow pay his. Then fuss because the streets are not kept up. 2. Never attend any of the meetings called for the good of the town. If you do, don't have anything to say. Wait, until you get outside and then cuss those .who made the suggestions. 3. Get all the city will give you and don't give any thing in return. Write unsigned letters to the editor de manding more for your tax money. 4. Talk cooperation, but don't do any work for your city unless you get paid for it. And by all means refuse to serve unless they make you chairman. 5. Never accept an office. It's easier to criticise than to do things. 6. Don't do any more than you have to. When others willingly and unselfishly give their time to make a town better, howl because the town is run by a clique. 7. Don't back your fire department or your police de partment. If the firemen work to bring insurance rates down, tell everybody that is what they are supposed, to do. Don't thank them or the policemen for endangering their lives that you might have a safer town in which to live. De mand special treatment. 8. Look at every proposition in a selfish way. If you don't get the most good out of it vote against it. Never con sider what it will do for the town as a whole. 9. Don't do anything for the youth of the town. Criti cize them as potential delinquents. 10. If you have good town leaders, don't follow them. Take a jealous attitude and talk down everything. 11. Don't work on any committee. Tell them, "I'm too busy." 12. Don't say anything good about your town. Be the first to point up its shortcomings. 13. And don't support your local retail stores and in dustries. Claim the prices and service in stores of other towns are better. Claim industry and its payroll hurts the town. But if you need a donation, ask your local stores and industries for it. Expect them to back you, but don't back them. The editorial concluded, "If these 13 steps don't ruin your town, it isn't your fault." E. A. $70,000 Experiment Up at Albany, the Western Kraft Corp. his started a $70,000 project designed to eliminate offensive smells from its big pulp and paper plant to the north of town. It is, frankly, a gamble, for company officials are not just sure that the new equipment will do the job although obviously they are hopeful that it will. And so are the residents of Albany and a large area around the city." The noxious odors from the mill can be smelled vividly even in Salem, 25 miles away, when the wind is wrong. TTHE problem of air pollution (including smells) is of increasing importance in Oregon, where new industries are badly needed to bolster a depressed economy. For instance, in the Rogue valley, when we have a "cold air inversion," and the fog is held close to the ground, imagine what a horror it would be for a pulp plant to be sending out its horrid smell. Also, the Rogue river could ill-afford to have any casual dumping of pollution-causing effluent in the river although modern methods of water treatment are said to have solved, or nearly solved, this problem. IN ANY event, we shall watch with interest the results 1 of the Kraft $70,000 experiment. K it works, it could be of importance to this area. For, in the nature of our economy, a pulp plant would fit in well with the efforts being made to div ersify the economy, and to broaden the utilization of forest products. But as it stands, we simply could not afford to "take a chance" on destroying the values which make the Rogue valley the lovely place it is. E.A. t It Means Everyone If anyone gets killed during December in an auto mobile accident, he can't say he hasn't been warned. Because of a disastrous death-toll in Oregon dur ing October and November, which promises to shatter long-standing death records, responsible public and safety officials have pleaded, warned, cajoled and re peated the warnings "Be careful!". Still, accidents happen ; people get killed ; and few outside the immediate families of the victims seem to get veiy upset. C" ACH person, we suppose, believes deep in his heart two things: 1. "I'm a safe driver." 2. "It couldn't happen to me." These are perfectly natural beliefs. The only catch to it is that they very probably were also the beliefs of those who were killed. Most drivers know the rules of safety on the road. It's wljen they momentarily forget, or ignore them, that trouble happens. And this, as the old saying goes, "means YOU." E.A. Friday, November 29, 1957 SUK. I'LL TELL YOU WHY HIS MS FULL OF JUMPS. Matter of Fact BASTIONS. DULLES-STYLE Amman, Jordan Among the world's few palaces still in habited by reigning monarchs, the B a s m a n palace is cer tainly the least palatial. The modest stone structure stands on a dusty hill above this little city, with a view Joseph aisoo across a n a r row valley to another dusty hill where goats browse on the scant desert growth. But this palace of young Hus sein, King of Jordan, hardly larger than a big Western coun try house, is now perhaps the most sensitive single spot in all the troubled Middle East. The Egyptians, the Syrians and the Soviets have vowed to destroy Hussein and his govern ment by any means within their power. Organized bomb out rages, organized subversion, or ganized lies of unprecedented shamelessness all these and other weapons have been used. Since the 23-year-old king has stood annoyingly firm; Gamal Abdel Nasser's Cairo radio has lately taken to open incitement to assassination. There is method, too, in this macabre and seemingly lunatic violence. For if Jordan can only be reduced to a Soviet-Egyptian satellite on the Syrian model, the days of independent Iraq will be numbered. And if Iraq falls, it will soon.be the turn of the oil-rich sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf and of Saudi Ara bia itself. ""OTHING but young Hussein's naked courage saved Jordan from the Soviet - Egyptian spon sored coup d'etat last April. Nothing but Hussein's stout de termination is saving Jordan to day. His coolness, his firmness must impress anyone who talks with him, as this reporter has just done at some length. Courage always tends to be the winning quality, especially when it is in rather short supply among the opposition, as is the case here in Jordan. Neverthe less, it is necessary to face the plain fact that the position here in Jordan is at least very peri lous. The king has great assets, to be sure. Under pressure of ne cessity, he has grown very rap idly in self assurance and ma turity. He has grown too in the respect of his people and of po litical leaders- Despite the most active efforts to infiltrate the army, finally, the king still commands the loyalty of the Arab Legion; and here in Jor dan, as in every Arab countryi the army is the decisive factor in politics. OUT against these items on the credit side nf tho halanre credit side of the sheet, it is necessary to balance a heavy list of items on the debit side. There is the tragic plight of the half - million Palestinian refugees, who form a third of Jordan's total population. There is Jordan's basic poverty. There is the continuing appeal of the Syrian-Egyptian-Soviet brand of "Arab nationalism." There is the bandwagon effect of the re cent leftwing success in Syria, which has frightened Jordan's moderates and made them reluc tant to commit themselves to Hussein. The young king is sternly con fident that he can maintain Jor dan's independence, despite the powerful forces massed against him. But it sticks out like a sore thunb here, that urgent mea sures are needed to improve the odds in the king's favor. The United States alone can take these measures. The repson sibility to do so was publicly ac cepted by President Eisenhower himself at the time of the April crisis here. But consider what has followed! Even the $30,000, 000 of aid without strings that the President then publicly promised was very nearly lost in the strange recesses of the administrative and policy mak ing machinery in Washington. When this reporter was last here, six months ago, the Ameri can Embassy - was desperately waiting for a messenger from Washington who was bringing HAIR IS FULL OF NICK'S. by Joe and Stewart Alsop word whether the President's promise would be kept or brok en. As these words are written, the Embassy is again desperate ly waiting for another messeng er from Washington. He is al leged to have the answer to the great question, whether we have anything that deserves the name of a policy for Jordan. A REAL policy for Jordan has two basic requirements. First of all, enough money must be provided, not just to pay the army as in the past, but also to start useful projects, like the ex ploitation of Jordan's valuable phosphate deposits and the irri gation of the Yarmouk River valley. Even if there were no such useful projects, the extra money would be needed for the simple purpose of making work, and thus creating a new atmo sphere of hope. For this purpose, an increase of aid to Jordan from the pres ent level of thirty million a year to a new level of fifty million a year will be ample. It is not much. By the same token, only a few more millions are needed to satisfy the second essential requirement. This is the require ment of adequate financing for the work of the United Nations relief and welfare administra tion among the Palestinian refu gees. Yet at this mpment, the admirable director i the criti cal refugee relief program, Hen ry Labouisse, is at the United Nations publicly pleading bank ruptcy. In a most literal sense, Jordan is a bastion of the free world position in the Middle East. It has been officially classified as such by Secretary of State Dulles as well as by the President. It seems we have a rather vague way of defending bastions, (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Wall Street Looking To Congress to Put New Zip in By ELMER C. WALZER United Press Financial Editor New York (IP) Wall Street is looking for Congress to inject new zip into business and the market early in 1958. But the mar ket men admit there still are many things the market must contend with. These in clude: 1. Some fur- Elmer Watzer ther tax selling I that might leave a rally brought ; u-r roinwechnpnt of vfar-end interest and dividend payments 2. A new' test of the 1957 lows. One test was successfully met in the Eisenhower break, it is held. The experts think another one is being postponed to early 1958 by a tendency toward easier money. 3. Further pinch on profits is foreseen regardless of any step up in government spending. ' 4. Inventory problems, over capacity problems, and the like. Ike's Health Factor The market still is sensitive to President Eisenhower's health. Not a few in the financial dis trict are convinced prices would break again if he had a turn for the worse. Another line of thought with regard to the President is de veloping. Gerald M. Loeb, a senior part ner of E. F. Hutton and company holds that the nation is looking to Congress rather than to the Presidency for action that will have a bearing on business and inflation. : "Thus," he adds, "the near term outlook is for continuance of the upward trend at least until early next year when congres sional action will make itself felt in the stock market." He feels that if Vice-President Richard Nixon should be compelled-to take the reins of gov Ike's Illness Foreign News During By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news -on the international bal ance sheet: President Eisenhower's illness was regarded in countries all over the world as the biggest and gravest news d e v e lopment : this week. Official and newspaper re action empha sized the fact that - in these times of inter national ten sion the Chief cuanei m. Aiccann Executive of the United States is the outstand ing political figure in the free world. A spokesman for the neutral government of Austria reflected the feeling of many world lead ers when he said: "It is the worst news in months, much worse than the news of the launching of the Soviet earth satellites." The heads of government of the 14 countries allied with the United States in the North At lantic Treaty Organization had looked to Eisenhower to play the leading part in a "summit" conference to be held in Paris Dec. 16. This conference was decided upon, in view of the threat of Soviet Russian progress in mis sile development, to tighten the unity of NATO countries and to strengthen Western European de fenses. The news that Eisenhower would not be able to attend brought immediate speculation that the meeting might be can celled. When it was made known that the United States was ready to send Vice President Richard M. Nixon in his place there was a change of feeling. But it was plain that no man can take the place of an Ameri can president in point of prestige and authority. In congressional hearings, in Defense Department conferences and at missile-testing grounds po litical leaders, scientists and mili tary men concentrated 6n the urgent job pf meeting the Rus sian threat. In Paris, British Prime Mint ister Harold Macmillan and French ' Premier Felix Gaillard met in an attempt to end the coolness in their relations which resulted from the dispatch by the United States and Britain of weapons to France's former protectorate of Tunisia. Official statements showed clearly that France was still dis satisfied. This "sue, incidentally, was one of many which Eisenhower would have been expected to clear up at the NATO meeting. Premier Gaillard put the life of his new cabinet to the test in a debate in the National Assembly, the controlling house of the Market ernment, "business will be opti- mistic about tne re-eiecuon oi Republican administration i n 1960, since .the voters generally favor a continuance of the in cumbent candidate who maye Nixon." Recession Too Costly Eldon A. Grimm, analyst for Walston and company says the U. S. economy must step up to compete with Russia. He holds that unlike the old days, we can not afford a recession while the Soviets are going ahead. Prentice-Hall Tiolds that "our nation will not long relinquish economic and military' superior ity." But here the service injects a sour note in saying that "the inevitable U. S. response to the Soviet challenge will eventually call for more planned economy, more economic controls." Controls could drive many to sell stocks, say the experts. They see nothing good in controls ex cept for black marketeers. 80 Korean Orphans Arrive in Portland Portland (IP) Another 80 Ko rean orphans landed at Portland International Airport Thursday, to be greeted by their new American parents who . had adopted them before, they left Korea. The chartered Korean Na tional Airlines plane brought 87 Korean youngsters to .this country, but seven of them left the plane at Seattle, their des tination. Harry Holt, the Creswell farm er who started the Korean baby lift operation, met the Thanks giving plane in Seattle and accompanied the children to Portland. Holt said he, was work ing intensely to get, as many more as possible of the already adopted Korean children to this country in time for Christmas. Overshadows Other French Parliament, on means to end the rebellion in Algeria. Gaillard announced that at the end of the debate this week end he would seek a vote of confi dence. His defeat would mean his resignation. President Eisenhower caught the chill which was the first de velopment in his illness, while Symington Sees Hot Partisan Issue in issiie Development By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) The word today is that Sen. Stuart Syming ton (D-Mo.) takes a dim view of the Idea that the Sen ate investiga tion of the de fense - missile program should- be sweetly non partisan. v Syming ton was secretary of air in 1947- 50. Then and thereafter in the .Senate, personable Stu never ducked a fight when he felt the air defenses of the United States needed a defender. He bucked the Democratic White House and all comers on such occasions. These battles gave Symington a favorable political identity, sufficient to include his name among those contending in 1956 for the Democratic presidential nomination. Now comes the mis sile controversy set off by the Russian Sputniks. This contro versy had the public's urgent at tention from the moment it began. When a matter of nation al policy obtains the public's sustained and anxious interest there exists the substance of a socko political issue. Such Win Elections Socko political issues win elec tions for political parties and make careers for political indi viduals. Symington apparently sees that clearly. The senator is a member of the Senate Pre paredness Subcommittee chair ed by Sen. Lyndon W. Johnson (D-Tex.).- Johnson opened the hearings this week with empha sis on the seriousness of the in quiry into missile and satellite development and his own disin terest in assessing blame. ' What the committee would do, the chairman said, would be to lind out what should be done to correct the missile situation. "We will not," he added, "reach that goal by wandering up any blind alleys of partisan ship." Symington need not interpret that remark as any charge of blind partisanship against him self. Moreover, if Symington briefly can be patient, there will be enough partisanship in the missiles inquiry to satisfy every one, including the voters of this republic who may by now feel that they have a right to know who was responsible for the lag in the United States outer space and missile performance which causes scientists to say the set back is comparable to what hap pened back there at Pearl Harbor. Nixon vs. Truman Pearl Harbor was an all-time shocker until Sputnik I directed attention to something which sober men assert is even more catastrophically shocking. Vice President Richard M. Nixon and former President Harry S. Tru man each is maneuvering to per suade the public that the other political party was at fault. You might almost say that these two have begun a public debate on the subject. If that debate develops, the word partisanship will be much too weak for the scope of argu ment. There is personal feeling between those two fit to heat a cold political issue white hot. However that may turn ou, the Republican National Commit tee rejected the non-partisan an proach to the missile issue as the Senate hearings began. The committee issued an eight-page pamphlet full of facts and fig- AND THE FIDDLER PLAYED Chicago (IP) A former Chi cagoan now living in Los "An geles, Mrs. Joseph A. Golde, has given Northwestern University's School of Music something dif ferent to fiddle with. She pre sented a century-old English vio lin and a Buthold Luthier Vio loncello. ' I.yle C Wilson Enjoy Good, Strong, Guaranteed Relief From ARTHRITIC PAINS wife AR-PaII-EX Do you suffer from the sharp, crippling torture of arthritic or rheumatic pains? Only the suf ferer can really know how these horrible, wracking pains can stop you from fully enjoying life. Probably you have tried many old- fashioned palliatives or pain killers fashioned palliatives or pain killers without effect. But now there is new medical reason for hope. 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In Ihe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Within a period of approxi mately two years President Eis enhower, has suffered three phy sical setbacks a heart attack in 1955, a later case of ileitis which necessitated an abdominal operation and a period of recup eration, and now a mild stroke, from' which he seems as this is written to be recovering quick ly. All three have brought on sinking spells in the " nation's economy. These incidents suggest two interesting questions: 1. Is Mr. Eisenhower's health so frail as to unfit him for the job of President of the United States? .2. Is the job of President of the United States, as its duties are presently defined by law and custom, so burdensome as to be beyond the physical capacities of ANY ONE MAN? QUESTION No. 2 was dealt with exhaustively in a re cent issue of U.S. News and World Report, one of the nation's most influential business maga zines. Its conclusions suggested the possibility that the job IS becoming so exhaustingly- de manding as to be beyond the physical stamina of any average person who devotes to it the at- tention it deserves and that law and custom require. W HAT to do about it? There are many alterna tives. We might, for example, lay down by law or custom a dic tum that only a physical super man could be eligible for the office of President. But I don't think we'd like that. In the job of President of the United States, brains are more important than brawn and purely' physical stamina. WE MIGHT divide the respon sibilities of the job by set ting up a cabinet form of govern ment, in which a number of men would share the responsi bilities n ow borne soley by the President. But I don't think we'd like that, either. It would smack too much of the Kremlin, where thet dJties of top bracket govern ment are shared by several in dividuals. The lesson of history is that in such a government there are continuing for supreme power. intrigues THE burdens of the Presidency, as evidenced by President Eisenhower's disturbingly fre quent physical breakdowns, are leading us toward one obvious change in our national political customs the need for choosing as vice-president a man capable of succeeding to the office of President and bringing to it the qualities that are called for. In earlier days, the idea .was that any old political hack who would DRAW VOTES TO THE TICKET was good enough to be vice-president. We're rapidly outgrowing that ancient shibboleth. ANOTHER alterpate would be to try to CHECK THE DRIFT TOWARD CENTRALI ZATION OF ALL GOVERN MENT IN THE FEDERAL GOV ERNMENT AT WASHINGTON. Personally, I think it would be a SPLENDID idea if the STATES resumed a lot of .the powers they have more or less abdicated in the past couple of decades. 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