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I ) fOUH MEDFORD (OREGON) "Xrcryon Is Southern Oregon Beads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MZDFORD PRINTING CO 17-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6l ROBERT W BUHL. Editor tZRB GREY Advertising Manager iERA-LD LATHAM Business Manager KIC ai i fn JR Manieins Editor ARL H ADAMS. City Editor LARRY CHIP MAN, Teiegiapn Editor UCHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor EUVZ STARCHEB Society Editor ALB ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. A Independent Newspaper fcred as second class matter at ara Oregon under Act oi March 3. 1897 Subscription rates By ftul In Advance: Per Copy 10c DaSy and Sunday One year $15.00 paily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mcs 4.25 Sunday Only One year M.20 By" Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. 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NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ftATIOMAl EOlTOIIAt s i as?ocCa-i"3n Bsznmmo Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the fileg of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, SO and 40 yeara ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dee. 17, 1947 (Wednesday) A section of the city ordinance prohibiting dancing where in toxicating liquors are sold was repealed during last night's meeting of the city council. rom Arthur Perry's Ye nudge Pot column: "Now that th great man-horse pull and haul contest at Waterloo is over, tomebody should show up will ing to lift himself over the fence by his own boot straps." 20 YEARS AGO Deo. 17. 1937 (Friday) The district attorney's office today reported there is yule "Stave of "NSF checks" sweeping the city and warned merchants and others to use caution. Revision of the enlisted men's club of Medford's two national fard companies was completed uesday evening with election of new officers. 80 YEARS AGO Dee. 17, 1927 (Saturday) lrrom local and personal col umn: A number of coasting par ties in the old Silvia place at Wagner creek have taken place ince the snow came. A number of active diphtheria cases are reported in the Central Point district where tests were conducted this week by the coun ty health department. 40 YEARS AGO Dee. 17, 1917 (Monday) Jackson county, with charac teristic patriotism, got the jump on the big Christmas drive for Red Cross membership by start ing its canvass a day early. Woodmen of the World and their friends will give a benefit dance in the I.O.O.F. hall Wed nesday night for the relief of a member who was disabled sev eral months ago. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; even or eUht ts excellent: five or six is good 1. Is the vampire bat an actual creature? 2. Bible: "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be "-What? 3. Is condiment a pungent sea- !51r O t o 0 soning, coloring in paint, or ve- hide? 4. The British term for freight yards is g - - ds yards? 5. Name the capital of Ameri can Samoa. 6. Who as Food Administra tor in World War I? 7. Is there a species of a green rose? 8. The Tropic of Cancer is north or south of the Equator? 9. What tree produces an en zyme that i6 sold for tenderizing wean 10. Is it proper to omit the "h" sound in pronouncing "whale"? Answers: 1. Yes. 2. "Hid". 3. Pungent seasoning. 4. Goods. 5. Pago Pago. 6. Herbert C. Hoover. 7. Yes. 8. North. 9. Pa Paw. 10. No. MAIL TRIBUNE Who Is Looney Now? Like the late and lamented Will Rogers "we only know what we read in the That is true as of today, Here is an extract from ton, for example, reading in "Wm. M. Holaday, Pentagon missile-boss, reaffirmed his statement that the United States plans to and can put a 1000-pound satellite in orbit, whenever it wishes. He declined to disclose the information at a public hearing however, lest it 'be helpful to the Russians.' " MOW that the laughter has died down somewhat A might one inquire "WHAT information?" Heavens above and below several weeks ago the Russians not only put a 1000-pound satellite in orbit, but put in a dog also. As far as we know it is still going. What secrets do they have to get from this country when we have not been able to get a satellite off the ground much less in orbit. THIS is only another example of the complacency, wishful-thinking and plain, unadulterated ignor ance that seems to infest so many departments of the administration at this time. How long is it going to take them to wake up to the facts of life? What the Pentagon needs to worry about is not revealing any satellite secrets to Russia, but getting secrets of their success if possible FROM them. The Pentagon also needs, as soon as it can be ar ranged, a new and a more enlightened "Missile-Boss." R.W.R. Back to Isolationism? Here is another newspaper item that interested the undersigned. Again we quote in part : "The time is not far off when we will have intercon tinental missiles that can be launched at Russian targets from our own soil thus eliminating our need for American . bases on foreign soil. Speed the day! Personally as one American citizen I am getting tired of paying for the privilege of defending every body in the world against Russian communism." 'J'HIS fatigue with foreign new. It has been the slogan bittered "Isolationists" ever since the end of World War II. It was the battle cry of former President Hnnvpr for manv months and is still enshrined in the archives of the Philadenlphia Union League Club. Modern Republicans under President Eisenhower, however, rejected it. And, as we see it, with FOR whether we ultimately get the intercontinental 11J.1oo1.IC Ul HUH Iv, Llll VllsClJ. UOLlUii XUVlllg v-w trv and the Free World today is not the future, but what, to do NOW. For the sake of argument let it be assumed that President Hoover and his their way half a decade ago Fortress." There would, of course, have been no "Nato." There would have been no U.S. foreign aid. Millions billions in good hard American cash would have been saved. BUT where would western Europe and England be How can any thinking person deny, that the only thing that saved Europe from sharing the fate of Po land, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, was the realiza tion by Soviet Russia that any such effort, would have meant World War III with the United States leading it. It was fear that held Russia back. Not any change in its determination to make this earth a communist world. A S noted this has cost billions and if continued will cost billions more. It may even render a balanced budget impossible this year and perhaps many years to come. But isn't it better to have an UNbalanced budget, than have no budget to balance and no freedom or independence, as is the case today from the Pacific ocean to the borders of western Germany? ' We think it is. Money is important, a balanced budget is also im portant but "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is more important. IN other words we can't have our cake and eat it too. x We can't maintain a Communistic domination much money as is needed, Russia that to start World future would spell her doom as well as the doom of what we know as the civilized world. In short it would be mutual suicide. This department is convinced the people and the leaders of Russia don't wish to risk that fate any more than wre do. IT would be just dandy if drawing from Europe, cutting off all military and civil aid, retiring behind our own "iron curtain" as we patiently awrait the perfection of our own intercom! nental missile ... But facing the world as it and the facts are to day we fail to see how it imagination be done, and preserved. R.W.R. We Blow Our Horn We have long maintained with characteristic mod esty, that "if you don't blow your own hom no one .will blow it for you." Tuesday, December 17, 1957 newspapers." at least. a dispatch from Washing part as follows : entanglements is nothing of the embattled and em good reason. fellow isolationists had had reuturning to the "U.S. democratic world free from without spending just as to keep the FEAR alive in War III, now or in the near this could be done by with- could by any stretch of the the free democratic world i My do m have tosiyppsm? mvctoftwB&eooY JUST mTS. SANTA OAUS UKg I VO" In the Day's News By FRANK Hold your hat. Things are in the wind that may make Sputniks and trips to the moon look like the bright ly colored blocks that children play with to amuse themselves. llfHAT are these things? ' ' They have to do with NU CLEAR POWER which means power so abundant and so cheap that when it becomes available there will be no economic limits on its use. When will it be available? The only answer that can pres ently be given is SOMETIME IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. But the scientists think they are knocking on the door behind which the secret dwells. IITHENCE will come this power? From fission and fusion. In fission (as in the case of uranium) the atom splits apart. In fusion (as in the case of hy drogen) the atoms go together. In both cases, they release energy. In both cases, when the split apart atoms and the fused atoms are weighed the fragments weigh less after the fission and the fusion than they did before. The loss in weight is represented by the ENERGY that has been re leased. OF THE two, the hydrogen atom is the more promising because it is more . abundant. The hydrogen atom that does the business is deuterium. Deu terium (heavy water) comes from the sea. Most of the hydrogen in sea water is of the ordinary type but one hydrogen atom in every 6000 is deuterium. This means that there is as much energy in one gallon of sea water (when we learn how to release it) as in 100 gallons of gasoline. TTOW can we release this " energy? HEAT is the answer. TREMENDOUS temperatures will be required. "DRITISH scientists admit that with new -type apparatus they have recently created tem peratures in excess of five mil lion centigrade 100 times hotter than the surface of the sun, which is 6,000 degrees centi grade. The ultimate goal to make nu clear power workable, the Brit ish scientists say, is 100 million degrees centigrade, which would be as hot as the sun at its center. (Perhaps we should pause to explain what "centigrade" is. A centigrade thermometer is a thermometer on which the in terval between the freezing point and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 parts or de grees so that zero centigrade corresponds to 32 degrees Fahr enheit.) THE problem, to put it simply, is to TAME THE POWER OF Se we conclude today's survey with the final item from our newspaper reading none other than the lead editorial in last Sunday's Mail Tribune entitled "Go After the Fog." We may have written better editorials and cer tainly worse ones but never have we written one be fore that was so immediately and completely effec tive. It was written during one of the thickest fogs in this "Italy of America's" climatic history. But the moment that issue came off the press Sun day the fog lifted and as this is written the skies are clear, the sun is shining brightly and promises to con tinue. CO not only is "the power of the press" again dem onstrated, but that old wheeze about a great deal of talk concerning the weather but little done about it, is given its "k.o." If by chance it should be "pea soup" as this is being READ, don't get impatient we will write an other "Go after the Fog" and just watch the Weather Man hustle ! R.W.R. - ' JENKINS THE HYDROGEN BOMB so that it can be used as the servant of man. . British scientists are definite ly in this picture. British sci entists are GOOD. We mustn't forget that it was the British who discovered radar. We mere ly took it over and developed it. While we're at it, we might as well remember that it was a Scotsman who discovered the principles of putting STEAM POWER to work. Our job is to work with the British, telling them all we know and in turn learning from them all they know. In that way lies progress. In the direction of SECRECY lies stagnation. TN CONCLUSION A Imagine the future of a world with LIMITLESS cheap power at its command. In such a world there can be no depressions. Out of evil, good often comes. Even out of the envisioned hor rors of the atom bomb and the more horrible hydrogen bomb great good to mankind may spring. Picture on Oregon Shown at Meeting Southern Oregon motel and hotel operators, state travel offi cials and press, radio, television and chamber of commerce repre sentatives were guests at a ' din ner party Monday at Mon Desir near Central Point. Hosts were Mrs. Julie Tummers and Mr. and Mrs. Roland Pacey, owners and operators of Mon Desir. The Thurstons, professional dancing couple, arranged the program which featured Lou Thurston and Kathy Classick in a "Sunday Afternoon" dance nov elty, a Hungarian dance by Kathy Classick,- tap dance by Lou Thurston and "Manhattan" with Janice Main, Crista Baker and Allan Doan. The final num ber was a waltz by Mr. and Mrs. Thurston. Following the dinner, Carl W. Jordan, director of the travel information division of the state highway department, Salem, pre sented a motion picture film in color, "You'll Remember Ore gon." Dennis Clark, an official of the travel division from Sa lem, assisted. Mon Desir Dining Inn, recent ly recognized by Life magazine, occupies the mansion built in 1910 by Mr. and Mrs. A. Conro Fiero of Chicago. Included among the distinguished visitors at this home in the early days was the U. S. ambassador to Spain, Stan Griffis. Mrs. Fiero, who lives in Medford, achieved fame on the New York stage under David Belasco before be coming the bride of the wealthy Chicago businessman, A. Conro Fiero. Nuclear Weapons Base Ban May Be Basis for New Negotiations By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent A Soviet Russian proposal to ban nuclear weapons bases in central Europe may lead to new negotiations to ease the cold war. Premier Nikolai A. Bul ganin made the proposal in the series of "peace and co existence" let ters he sent ;JL I last week to Charles McCann week to west ern allied governments and to all other countries which belong to the United Nations. Bulganin said that if the Unit ed States would give up the idea of establishing the bases in West Germany, Russia would not set up similar bases in East Ger many, Poland and Czechoslo vakia. The United States believes that it is essential to establish inter mediate range ballistic missile Matter of Fact THE HAUNTED CONFERENCE Paris Even this great confer ence which is suppose to reassert the unity and power of the West is not going to be allowed to forget about the desperate ly dangerous issue of Israel versus the Arabs plus the Soviets. The Turkish delegation has Joseph Aisoo come to the NATO meeting with the inten tion of asking the United States and the other western powers to support a move to force Israel back to the frontiers laid down in the U.N. partition of Palestine in 1947. This amounts to a pro posal for present Israel rather more severe than the amputation of Czechoslovakia at Munich. In this manner, a chain of events set in motion by the Kremlin has menacingly reached into the midst of the graniose NATO meeting. The problems of the Middle Ea"st may end by be ing shoved under the rug at this particular gathering. The Ameri can delegation is shoving hard. But the simple fact of the Turk- isn intention indicates a new tempo and a new explosiveness in the whole world situation. TEHIND the Turkish decision. thereis a coplex and remark-' able history, which may be re constructed as follows. Not long ago, the Soviets indicated to the Arabs, almost certainly through the Soviet Ambassador in Cairo, that the Kremlin and all its satellites were now ready to back a move to force Israel back to the 1947 frontiers. . In the aftermath of their defeat in the Israel war, which resulted in Israel's much larger present ter ritory, a return to the frontiers proposed in the original U.N. partition resolution has become the prime Arab objective. The Egyptian government as tutely passed the news of this im portant new support for the Arabs to the Saudi Arabian gov ernment. King Saud and his ad visors decided to accept the Kremlin's championship unless the Western powers could be persuaded to make the same of fer as the Kremlin. For this reason, no doubt, this reporter was given the first news of the Kremlin offer in King Saud's desert capital of Riyadh not long ago. The explosive potentialities of the Kremlin's maneuver were then rather rapidly demonstrat ed. The Saudis passed on the news to Iraq, to the other lead ing Arab government friendly to the West. Emergency action was decided upon, probably during King Faisal of Iraq'i recent visit to King Saud.' HENCE the toughest and most determined of all the pro Western Arab leaders, Nuri Said Pasha of Iraq, hurried off to Washington to lay the matter before the President and Secre tary of State Dulles. The Ira quis also secured a promise of support from the Arab demands from their fellow members of the Baghdad Pact, the Turks; and now the Turks have come to Paris wanting to bring the question up at the NATO meet ing, i The pro-Israel French Foreign Minister Pineau reacted with ex treme violence when the Turk ish intention was disclosed by Turkish Foreign Minister Zorlu. The British are talking "com promise," although a compro mise is almost certainly impos sible in the present Middle East ern situation. The American aim seems to be chiefly to avoid a fuss at the Nato conference and to gain time to deal with the issue later. But what happens to this ago nizing issue at the NATO confer ence is almost irrelevant, when compared to the implications of the sequence o events described Sawdust Telephone SP 2-21 11 BEDFORD FUP GO. bases in the allied countries of western Europe. Principal NATO Issue This issue is one of the prin cipal ones at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization conference now meeting in Paris. Some of the NATO countries frankly do not want them. They fear that they would become tar gets for Russian nuclear missiles if war broke out between the United States and the Soviet Union. Even Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer, one of the staunchest lead ers of the NATO allies, is hesi tant about consenting to the establishment of missile bases in West Germany. It is beginning to look now as if the United States may be forced into negotiations of some kind with Russia. President Eisenhower and Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles do not believe that Bul ganin's various "peace and co existence" proposals of last week were made in good faith. By Joseph Alsop above. The first things to note are the speed of these events and the insistence with which the Arab-Israel issue is now being pressed upon the Western pow ers. These indicate that even if this terrible issue is. somehow muffled here and now in Paris, it still cannot possibly be avoid ed for very much longer. rpHE issue is no longer dor- mam, as it nas oeen tor so many years. It has been heated to immediate explosion point by the Kremlin's promise of support lor the Arabs. In the second place, this issue that is forcing itself upon west ern attention involves a choice of almost unbearable unpleasant ness. If the Western powers do not match the Kremlin's offer to the Arabs, the Western nations will almost surely lose all their friends and all their vital posi tions through out the Arab lands But if the Western powers also support a move to force Israel back to the 1947 frontiers, this will effectively amount to sup porting the destruction of Israel as a state. In the third place, there are also the Israelis to consider. If they feel they are being driven to the wall, they are highly likely to fight. As the Soviets know this very well, they can hardly, have promised to help in driving the Israelis to the wall without making up their minds in advance to give direct mili tary support to the Arabs, if need be. But if the Soviets en ter the fighting to crush Israel, the Eisenhower doctrine, which Israel accepted, will presumably come into play. And so this ugly mess can end with a naked mili tary confrontation of the United States and the Soviet Union. rriHESE are the dimensions of the crisis that now looms ahead in the Middle East. In a very cureci sense, it is a com mentary on this NATO meeting As can be easily seen, there are great risks in the Soviet ma neuver that has now brought the Turks to Paris with the slogan "Back to the 1947 Frontiers for Israel." In theory, at least, it could cause a general war. The Soviets have always had the pos sibility . of making enormous gains among the Arabs by prom ising to support them against the Israelis. They have waited so long to do so, precisely because it was a risky thing to do. - Beyond doubt they are ac cepting these risks now, because the Kremlin is convinced that the long neglect of the West's defenses has made the risks more theoretical than real. And so this meeting, intended to show the West's strength, is in fact haunted by the prospect of a gigantic Middle Eastern catas trophe resulting from the West's weakness. (Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. They are mindful of Russia's persistent refusal to enter in good faith into any proposals on the banning of nuclear weap ons, en disarmament, on the re unification of Germany over a long period. Aimed at NATO Sabotage In addition, Bulganin's letters were too obviously aimed at sabotaging the NATO meeting in Paris. But pressure for some kind almost any kind of negotiations to ease the strain of the cold war, and especially to diminish the threat of a calamitous nu clear war, are becoming almost irresistible. Eisenhower, in his speech open ing the NATO conference yester day, spoke largely in generali ties. He spoke of the need for "re-dedication" and "self-sacri fice" and emphasized the com bined power of the 15 NATO allies. But at the first business meet ing which followed, Adenauer really got down to business. Adenauer called on Eisen hower and other NATO leaders to open the way for cold war talks with Russia. He suggested that a start be made through normal diplomatic channels. The idea would be to find out just what Bulganin meant in his letters. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under 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 corffien sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Race With The S.P. To the Editor: Your featur article about the early days of the Southern Pacific railroad across the Siskiyous reminds m of an incident. The roads back in 1915 were not the paved streets they are to day. The one over the Siskiyou was no exception, but with our Model T we could skim over them with ease. It was after a heavy wind storm in northern California, which toppled some of the big trees across our path, that we passed all other car on the road by "boosting" our flivver around the road block. When we reached the moun tains the S.P. passenger train, all Pullmans with two Mallet type engines, was negotiating the climb out of Dunsmuir. We de--cided to race the train over the pass. There must have been at least three crossings because only once were we ahead of the train enabling us to beat the engines. At the last turn in the road the "divide" was in sight and so was the train winding around below us and moving at a snail's pace. But our flivver was nearly ex hausted, the radiator was boil ing and steam from the cap show ed we were in need of water as well as gas. The little gas we had pitched at such an angle in the tank that the engine stalled be cause of the lack of fuel. It looked as if the train would win the race. But a bright idea occurred. Why not back lizzie over the pass? It worked, and we won the race gliding down .the grade three lengths ahead of the train now making good time into Ashland. Sid Hollingsworth, Camp White, Ore. EMERGENCY NUMBERS FIR! SP 2-2333 POLICE - SP 3-3636 MONEY SP 3-5308 m PACIFIC , HIDUSTItlAL 16 S. CENTRAL Chances are you'll never have a wreck, But just in case you do, Who'll pay the cost, For all that's lost, Will it be US or YOU? Bill Fish fcx-
