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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 5..J347 (Friday)
City crews start placing
Christmas trees in business dis
trict. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The UN
sessions at Lake Success were
not, by any means, and now the
lake itself is running out of
water."
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 5, 1937 (Sunday)
Bronze tablet unveiled and a
new park dedicated near famed
spring on Pacific highway this
side of Rogue River.
Automobile driver's school
eponsored by Earl Snell, secre
tary of state, to be inaugurated
here, Ward McReynolds, state
examiner in charge of the south
ern Oregon district, announces.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 5. 1927 (Monday)
Freezing weather last night
and this morning factor in the
city officials deciding to do no
more street paving until next
spring.
Ashland armory being trans
formed into housing for the Lith
ian carnival which opens today.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 5. 1917 (Tuesday)
The first sale of timber by the
United States land office depart
ment from Oregon and Califor
nia railroad grant lands in this
district concluded at the Rose-
burg office Monday.
From Local and Personal col
umn: The Medford Knights of
Pythias have contributed their
quota of the $500,000 war fund
being raised by the order,
ih roii eh a one dollar contribu
tion from each knight in the
United States.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five or
six Is good
In the Army, which is the
next rank above private?
2. Was "The First Passover
(John 2:13) the first passover in
the life of Jesus?
3. Steel is an alloy of iron and
what?
4. What was the name of the
Duches of Windsor before ( she
married the Duke (Edward)?
5. An aileron is the name for
firedogs, a bird's wing, or part
of an airplane?
6. Where is the Army post
named Ft. Benning?
7. Name the oldest of the fol
lowing cities: Santa Fe, N.M.,
Plymouth, Mass., Jamestown,
Va., St. Augustine, Fla.
8. What words are attributed
to dying Julius Caesar as spok
en to Brutus?
9. Are U. S. cruisers named
after states, cities, or fish?
10. Are "black or white pri
mary pigment colors?
Answers: 1. Private, first class.
2. No. It was the first of His
ministry. 3. Carbon. 4. Mrs.
Wallis Warfield. 5. Part of an
airplane. 6. Georgia. 7. St. Aug
ustine. Fla. 8. "El Tu Brute." 9.
Cities. 10. No, Red, yellow and
blue are. .
MAIL TRIBUNE
Back the High School Band
Anyone who has heard the Medford High School
band play at the Shrine game in San Francisco or
here at home for that matter will surely agree that
it is one of the best High School bands on the coast.
Because of its all-around excellence, it has been in
vited for several years to the Shrine East-West game,
until its attendance has become a tradition.
But today, as during those years, it has taken
money to send them. And the only money available
must come from private subscription.
IT IS hardly necessary to add that this is a tradition
that it is to Medford's self-interest to maintain. It
is really worth while publicity, and a contribution to
betterment of inter-state relations.
There will be a band concert on Sunday, the pro
ceeds of which will go to this expense fund. Aside from
any monetary consideration it will be a musical treat
for all who can attend.
If E SUGGEST that those who can attend, buy their
tickets now; and those who for any reason, can't,
buy their tickets anyway and distribute them to friends
who can.
Incidently these kids on the band boys and girls
not only make good music, but they have good man
ners. We happen to have this information direct from a
manager of one of San Francisco's better hotels,
where they have stayed. He said:
"We don't cater to teen-agers of any group, they are
usually a headache; but these nice kids from Medford
they are welcome ANYTIME!"
So if vou have an extra buck, hand it over. It is a
worthy and beneficial cause. R.W.R.
"The Indispensible Man "
As every newspaper man knows one of the occu
pational hazards of the business is to be misunder
stood. We refer particularly, to the editorial department,
although the risk has to be taken sometimes in others.
The basic cause for this is, we believe, the Ameri
can passion for speed. Everyone is in such a hurry,
more so today perhaps with "S p u t n i k" shooting
around the earth every few hours, than ever before.
A ND while there are exceptions; by and large not
only is speed essential in getting out a newspaper
if you can't meet a "deadline" with decent regulari
ty you better quit but the same haste is regarded as
necessary by a large majority of its readers. In a few
departments which especially interest them, like so
ciety or sports, subscribers may read these articles
carefully. But where they have no such special inter
est, many of them far too many in fact from the
newspaper standpoint only skim the headlines, look
at the pictures' especially the cartoons and "funnies",
and let it go at that. (Unless of course and this is a
big "UNLESS" they want to buy or sell something.
Then they really pore over the display and particu
larly the "want-ad" section for long periods of time.)
LL of which adds up to
That, being aware of
we were not greatly suf prised at some of the reactions
caused by a recent editorial entitled Ike the indis
pensible man?"
Not only had most of the critics failed to note the
question mark in the title, but they had read little or
nothing beneath it.
For almost without exception they ridiculed and a
few smeared the idea, scoring this department for hav
ing the effrontery to maintain that the present occu
pant of the White House is "INDISPENSIBLE." One
of the communicants even maintained Adlai Steven
son, Speaker Rayburn or any other good Democrat
could handle the crisis in foreign relations "far better",
today than the President could either today or any
time in the past.
r)K,OK,but
That is where we can't agree with them. We
thought we made it clear that the point we wished to
stress was not that President Eisenhower was such a
"peerless leader", so skillful in diplomacy, an elder
statesman of such wisdom, that no one in the present
crisis could successfully take his place.
It was not his superior talents we were talking
about. It was the place he occupied and occupies not
only in this country but abroad as a symbol a sym
bol of success in "war, devotion to peace, good will
to man and personal integrity.
It was our contention then and it is now that
because of this world-wide confidence and trust in
him, he was in that sense "indispensible" as the rep
resentative and spokesman of this country at the com
ing Paris conference. Why? Because ANYone who
might take his place could not enjoy anything like his
prestige, standing and influence in the free world.
CO, AS was, we thought, clearly stated, if the Presi
dent's recovery should prove to be as complete
from this attack, as from the other two and as of this
writing it appears to be even more so he should cer
tainly NOT, as so many urged, resign his office and
retire.
This would not necessarily mean he would HAVE
to make the trip to Paris, it would only mean he would
have to remain President of the United States, as long
as he is able and to remain its spokesman as long as
he and the present world crisis endure.
It is not that if unfortunately he SHOULD be in
capacitated NO one could possibly take his place
someone would. It is only to maintain that because of
his extraordinaiy standing and reputation in the world
today, no one could do the job as well. R.W.R.
Thursday, December 5, 1957
this :
this occupational hazard
if ii
'PSSST! I'M RS4DYF0R BREAKFAST IF.WI ARS'
Today and
By Walter
THE DECICION TO
MUDDLE THROUGH
A decision of great moment
was taken in the White House
last tyeek. It was that once
again, as on
the two other
occasions
when the Pres
ident was dis
abled, it will
be possible for
the govern
ment to mud
d 1 e through
somehow 'until
the President
has recovered.
Walter Lippmano
The hard
whether he
issue which was
should for the
period of his convalescence dele
gate his powers, was avoided.
Instead, the President and his
intimate advisors decided that
he would perform token actions
symbolizing the activity of a
President, such as signing a few
official documents or attending
meetings, while the real powers
of the office were exercised by
various individuals and commit
tees. The country has twice accept
ed this method of dealing with
the disability of the President.
It is not at all sure that the
country will accept it this time,
and there are signs that there is
a big change in the public mood.
It can perhaps be described by
saying that in the past there was
an overwhelming popular desire
that Eisenhower should continue
to be President of the United
States. Now there is a mounting
anxiety and insistence that some
body should be President of the
United States. '
The nation is deeply disturbed
by a growing realization of the
painful situation into which it
has been allowed to drift. It will
not long put up with the ap
pearance of leadership. It will
demand the reality, and it will
be acutely conscious of the dif
ference between acting and
play-acting, between the for
malities of power and the sub
stance. rpHIS does not mean that the
country disbelieves the Presi
dent's doctors or that it does
not devoutly hope that he will
have the full recovery which
the medical bulletins indicate.
It is that even before the Presi
dent was stricken this time, the
country had already become in
creasingly aware that he was a
partial invalid in partial retire
ment, and that he was not equal
to the full demands of his of
fice. It is because his energies
had already failed so much that
his third illness is having such
a deep effect on the public mind.
This is the hard truth of the
matter, and the White House
will best serve the country and
the President himself by exam
ining it with sympathy and with
courage. If it is true, as I be
lieve it is, that the country will
not now accept token leadership,
we shall by trying to muddle
through be heading into a great
political storm when Congress
reconvenes.
The Administration will be
taking enormous risks if it conies
to Congress with a budget, with
eign policy, and with military
plans which, though offered in
the name of President Eisen
hower, are known . not to be
genuinely his own. There will
be a disorderly search for the
men who are in fact responsible
and there are ominous signs that
there will be appointed scape
goats from inside the White
House.
THE crucial problem, which is
created by the President's
health, is that while he retains
the responsibilities of his of
fice, he is unable in any full and
adequate sense to exercise the
powers of his office. If the tactic
of muddling through won't solve
the problem, there is a choice
between resignation and the pro
cedure, unprecedented but in
dubitably legitimate under the
Constitution, of . delegating to
the Vice President the powers1
Tomorrow
Lippmann
and duties, but not the office,
of the President.
There is in Washington a re
markable body of opinion which
holds that all things considered
our situation in the world and
the President's failing energy
the right course is for the Presi
dent to resign. This cannot be
ruled out as the eventual solu
tion. But it is drastic and ir
revocable, and there are consid
erations which warrant trying
at first the moderate compromise
of merely passing the powers
temporarily to the Vice Presi
dent. "NE of these considerations is
that if, as the nation devout
ly hopes, the President makes a
very good recovery, the coun
try is entitled to have the Presi
dent which it elected. Another
consideration is that Mr. Nixon,
whose position cannot be easy
no matter what is done, might
be better off if he were allowed
some time to make his peace
with the opposition and to gain
the confidence of the country.
It is, of course, true that it
will be trying and difficult for
him to be the temporary Acting
President while the elected
President is still in office and
living in the White House. But
Mr. Nixon has shown the neces
sary tact and delicacy. On the
other hand, as this is a period
when critical decisions must be
taken, it will be better to have
them taken by him with legal
power and legal responsibility,
openly and with public account
ability. In the meantime, the
President, freed of responsibil
ity and the worries that go with
it, would probably have a bet
ter chance of a good recovery.
This solution, let it be said
again before it is scornfully dis
missed by Mr. Hagerty, is the
one recommended last spring to
the Congress by Attorney Gen
eral Brownell and by President
Eisenhower himself.
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Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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Wanted Faith To Live By
To the Editor: I was surprised
and disappointed to hear that
they have taken "Faith For To
day" off TV.
I don't happen to have a TV in
my home. But when I visit my
son's family we enjoy it very
much, especially the children.
They also love to watch "Grand
pa Fisher' and his family, put on
by the Presbyterian church and
one by the other churches.
I work in elderly people's
homes and notice they often en
joy watching these programs.
It seems to me there is a vari
ety beside that to please every
one. I do hope they keep our Chris
tian programs on, until such time
we get too many of them, if that
is possible. "Give them a faith to
live by!"
Mrs. Perry Case,
305ii Edwards St.,
Medford, Ore.
Safety Fair
To the Editor: The success of
the Southern Oregon Safety Fair
was, in a great part, due to
your efforts in publicizing the
event.
As you may know, all con
cerned with the event feel that
southern Oregon proved. a fair
of this type can do a great deal
to make all of us more safety
conscious.
We appreciate the time and
effort the staff of the Medford
Mail Tribune gave to this en
deavor. You have helped make
this community a safer place in
which to live.
Russ Jamison,
Publicity chairman
Southern Oregon Safety
Fair.
Tito, Gornulka Boycott
Publication; Relations
By CHARLES McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Both Yugoslavia Jind Poland
apparently have deemed to boy
cott a proposed new internation
al Communist
publication.
Dispatches
from Eastern
Europe say
that plans to
start the pub
lication were
approved at the
recent confer
ence in Mos
cow of Red
Charles M. McCann
leaders from aU over the world.
It would be sponsored by Com
munist Parties in free countries
as well as in those under Com
munist rule.
Soviet Russia failed in an at
tempt to win support for a bid
to form a new international Com
munist organization, which it
would have sought to dominate.
Both President Tito of Yugo
slavia and Communist leader
Wladyslaw Gornulka of Poland
were among those who refused
to agree to the setting up of any
such organization,
-s Now both Tito and Gornulka
seem to have refused to take any
part in the new propaganda pub
lication. Won't Risk U. S. Relations
i The reason is that the mate
rial used in the new publication
naturally would be bitterly anti
western. Neither Tito nor Gol
mulka wants to lend his name
to anything of that sort and risk
antagonizing the United States.
Gornulka in recent weeks has
patched up some of his differ
ences with Russian Communist
leaders. He is in a difficult situ
ation, under attack in his own
country by his fellow Commun
ists who oppose his attempt to
keep Poland free from Kremlin
domination and by Communists
and others who want a complete
break with Russia.
For that reason, Gornulka sign
ed the anti-western manifesto
which was issued after the Mos
cow meeting of Red leaders.
Tito, after suffering a conven
ient attack of lumbago which
caused him to cancel his plan to
attend the Moscow meeting, or-
Editorial
Comment
LONE SURVIVAL THINKING
This -deep seated opinion
against American economic and
militarv assistance to weaker na
tions standing against the Com
munist tide is based, we be
lieve, partly on misapprehension
of the program, partly on dema
gogic statements by members of
Congress and others seeking a
political horse to ride. It re
flects, however, a disturbing re
birth of isolationist, or nation
alist feeling. It seems to indicate
that despite the Soviet scientific
successes, many Americans con
tinue ,to think that the United
States can depend entirely on
its own strength. It wholly fails
to take into consideration the
probability, or possibility, that
the Communist Empire may pre
fer to continue to agitate small
wars rather than commit itself
to total war.
President Eisenhower as did
President Truman before him
has done his best to stem this
anti-foreign aid feeling. The na
tion has been bemused, how
ever, by attacks in Congress.
Better leadership in the legisla
tive branch is needed. Port
land Oregonian.
ALL PART OF THE GAME
Hollywood (IP) Georgia
peach Joanna Moore says she
means it when she insists she'd
dye for her movie career. In
three pictures her hair at pro
ducers' orders has been honey
blonde, dark blonde, peach
blonde and, currently, golden
blonde for "The Dark .Shore." '
.-,MU.J
"TRANSPORTATION"
Someone in your family may have the wish to be sent "back home"
for burial, when that time comes. Or, someone away from Medford
may have the wish to be brought back here.
If you know that, some day, you will have the responsibility of
carrying out that wish, now is the time to find out just what is going
to be involved ... in arrangements, details and costs.
Or, easier yet, we'll do it for you.
DAY OR NIGHT - PHONE SP 2-8030
Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
dered his own delegates to re
fuse to sign the manifesto.
There is increasing evidence
that relations between Tito and
the Russian . Communists are
pretty bad.
In this connection, a report
published in London says that
the real reason Tito refused to
go to Moscow was that Nikita S.
Khrushchev, the Soviet Com
munist elader, tried to censor a
speech he intended to make.
According to this report, Tito
sent the draft of his speech to
Moscow in advance as a matter
Matter ot Fact By Joseph Alsop
THE OIL BOMB
Rvadh. Saudi Arabia A new
off-shore oil concession to Japan
ese interests, which closely re
sembles a sry
large time
bomb, is wait
ing for King
Saud's final ap
proval as these
words are writ
ten. The conces
sion is import
ant, as s nnt-
Jeseph Also. tern tfc Jt
gives the Saudi Arabian eovern-
ment 56 per cent of the profits
ot the Japanese concession-holders.
Thus it decisivelv altprs th
existing Middle Eastern pattern
oi a 50-50 split between govern
ments and oil companies.
J! urthermore, it really shatters
the existing pattern by giving
King Saud's government a Rfi
per cent share of all tho nrnfits
of the Japanese company, which
promises an "integrated opera
tion. This means that King
Saud's participation in the prof
its on his oil will extend from
the bowels of the earth to the
Japanese comnanv's filling sta
tions in Tokyo, if any are estab-
lisned.
Anyone who doubts trip evnln-
sive potential of such a new and
pattern-setting oil deal in this
oily and explosive Dart of the
world should think back a few
years to the- famous, nioneerin?
50-50 contract between the Sau
di government and the Arabian
American Oil Company.
rpHAT time, the American pol-
icy makers quietly warned
the British that a new pattern
was going to bet set here in
Saudi Arabia. The British gov
ernment nonetheless failed to
bring the Anglo-Iranian Oil Com
pany into line. The first result
was the nationalization of Iran
ian oil. There followed the long,
ugly Iranian crisis presided over
by the weeping Doctor Mossa
degh, which nearly ended in
Iran's transformation into a So
viet satellite.
The time is about ripe, more
over, for another first-class government-oil
company row here
in the Middle East. Even Aram
co is now engaged in a bitter
dispute with the Saudi govern
ment, and other local situations
are, if anything, even more
touchy.
To be sure, the weakening
world .market for crude oil ironi
cally strengthens the bargaining
position of the oil companies,
Yet the danger has to be taken
seriously. Any prolonged row
between any Western Oil com
pany and any Arab government
will greatly increase the tension
everywhere in the Middle East.
And in this troubled region,
there is more than enough ten
sion already.
-
SUCH, then, is the real meaning
of this Japanese concession
which King Saud must now ap
prove or disapprove. The conces
sion has already passed the
Japanese cabinet, which has for
mally undertaken to release the
necessary hard currency. Besides
King Saud, the concession must
also be approved by the Sheikh
of Kuweit But the Sheigh has al
ready undertaken to approve
any deal accepted by King
Saud.
New
Said Bad
of courtesy. It was returned, the
report says, with drastic dele
tions and revisions made by
Khrushchev.
The London dispatch reported
also that Tito told his Moscow
delegates to try to find out just
how strong Khrushchev is in his
present leadership.
The delegates went home, the
report said, to tell Tito that
Khrushchev's position is un
stable because powerful ele
ments in the Soviet Communist
party still want to revert to
Stalin-type rule.
The Sheigh of Kuweit's ap
proval is needed because the
concessions area is located in
the offshore sector of the so
called neutral zone between Ku
weit and Saudi Arabia, in which
the two governments hold what
amounts to an undivided inter
est. On shore in the neutral zone,
the Getty Oil Company has now
proven a fantastically rich oil
field. Just to the south of the
prospective Japanese concession
and offshore, Armaco has also
proven the great Saff aniyeh
field. Thus both the Saudis and
the Japanese regard the venture
as the opposite of speculative.
This is why the Saudis have
overlooked the relative small-
ness of the original Japanese in-
vestment fund.
This fund of under $15,000,
000 has been guaranteed by a
consortium of leading Japanese
industrial oil consumers. These
large industrial companies are
in turn represented by the Jap
anese Oil Trading Company,
formed for the purpose. The
chief negotiator has been the
leading Japanese businessman,
Taro Yamashita.
THE Saudi Arabian negotiator
has been the astute and de
termined head of the Saudi gov
ernment's Department of Petro
leum and Mines, the American
trained Sheikh Abdullah Tariki.
The agreement embodies Sheikh
Abdullah Tariki's highly contro
versial view that the- govern
ments of the oil producing com
panies, instead of taking a mere
share of the oil company profits
made in their own territories.
In line with this theory, the
Japanese company promises the
Saudi government 56 per cent of
its profits, not just on crude oil
production, but also on oil-refining,
oil transportation and oil
marketing. To prevent undue in
flation of costs at the expense
of profits, the Saudis are given
one-third of the places on the
company's board of directors
and one-half of the places on a
committee on investments. All
in all, this is quite unprecedented
government-oil company rela
tionship.
The Saudi government share
of the profits is to be paid in
rhard currency or gold; but even
so, the Japanese should achieve
a very great saving of dollar oil
if the concession is approved
and the company's operations
are successful. Getting oil paid
for in yen instead of oil paid for
in dollars has been the guiding
Japanese motive, which makes
this concession pretty special.
Even so, Sheikh Abdullah Tariki
makes no secret of his convic
tion that it also will have far
reaching general significance.
"What we wanted from Aram-
co," he says cheerfully, "we just'
put into this agreement." ..
(Copyright, 1957,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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