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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) J UKE "Iveryon In Southern Oregon tietai xae mail lnounc Published Daily Except Saturday b? MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W BUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Businesa Manager KHIC ALLEN JR. Manxeine Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor BARRY CHIPMAN, Telegrapo Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediard Oregon, under Act of Marcn a. ica i SUBSCRIPTION RATES " By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year 115.00 Daily and Sunday Three mot 4.25 Sunday Only me year n-u. By Carrier In Aovance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Elver. 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CSffO" XNEWSPAril gru.usHi" JASSOCIATIOM NATION A I E 0 1 T 0 1 1 A i S I AsTocfA-"jN Jnnranninio Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 24, 1947 (Wednesday) After receiving reports that a man had been soliciting contri butions in the name of the Red Cross this morning in the resi dential district, . the Jackson county chapter issued a state ment the solicitor is an imposter, From 1 Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Send a carload of anti-fret pills for that portion of the population who don t know what Russia will do 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 24, 1937 (Friday) Examinations for bicycle for owners of Medford who have not taken tests will be held Mon dav and Tuesday in the city po lice station! Exams must be tak en before the license tags will be issued. Reassuring men of CCC com panies that they are welcome in Medford and that the city holds no ill-will as a result of recent incidents, Mayor C. C. Furnas sends letter to commanding of ficers ' of Camp Prescott and Camp Applegate. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 24, 1927 (Saturday) Outlook dubious here for Christmas as the official fore cast is for unsettled weather and occasional rains. Members of Medford Voiture, 40 et 8 society and the local American Legion post to take carge of the community Christ mas tree. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 24. 1917 (Monday) Although the building is old, education wok in Long Moun tain school is considered up to date, authorities report. Medford Elks lodge holds open house for members and ladies. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. When will the next U. S. Census of population be taken? 2. Bible: According to Luke's chronology was Mary the des- cendent of Solomon -or Nathan? 3. What is the name of the National Assembly of parliament of Iran? 4. What is a blimp? 5. Uvalde, Texas, is the home of which former Vice President? 6. Was dynamite discovered by du Pont, Nobel or Edison? 7. "Virtue, Liberty and Inde pendence" is the motto of which O State? 8. Where is the site of Ben jamin Franklin's original print ing shop? 9. What city is the greatest hard coal center of the U.S.? 10. How many languages are spoken today: 796, 1,796 or 2,796? Answers: 1. 1960. 2. Nathan. 3. Majlis. 4. Non-riged dirigible airship. 5. John N. Garner. 6. Noble. 7. Pennsylania. 8. Phil adelphia, Pa. (135 Market St.) 9. Scranion. Pa. 10. 2.976 (By Assimil organization, N.Y.C.) ADVENTURER DIES Belle-Isle, France RPI Capt. George Orsborne, 54, British ad venturer, died here Saturday of a heart attack. Orsborne caught the interest of the world in 1936 whe nhe stole a 19-ton trawler, the Irlpat, and sailed her 5,000 miles down the African coast and across the South Atlantic to British Guiana. He served an 18 month jail sentence for that ex MAIL TRIBUNE The "Gentleman" From California A little over a year ago a newspaper reporter in Los Angeles was given an assignment to do a bit of researching on a former Congresman from that state. Here are some of the facts he found : The congresman ' started in public life when a certain group of important Los Angeles business men, anxious to beat Congresman Jerry Voorhis for re election, put a want-ad in the L.A. Times, asking for candidiates. The congressman in question, then out of a job, answered the "ad" and in reply to the first question as to whether or not he was a good Republican, said: "I guess I am, I voted for Governor Dewey at the last election." - . . That proved to be a good start, for the group "in search of a candidate" were very strong Republicans, and very anxious to unseat Mr. Voorhis, Democrat, who had been voted by the House Press Gallery mem bers as "the best congressman west of the Mississippi river. But they did not agree with the newspaper boys who they regarded as little better than commu nists at heart themselves. JMOREOVER there was no doubt in their minds about Mr. Voorhis being a communist. He had voted for foreign aid, no tax cuts and a reciprocal tariff! Meanwhile, they liked this young applicant. He was personable, handsome and fluent. Also he was a war veteran having served in the US Navy. DUT the young man, when accepted, protested he had no money. "You won't need any," the head of the group answered, "we will supply that. You go out and get this fellow traveller, and give us a good Republican record in Washington and you needn't worry about the money." CO THE young man went out, guided so the record goes by an extremely shrewd and resourceful public-relations man and lawyer whose name was Mur ray Chotiner, and was very highly regarded as a slick one, particularly in Hollywood movie-circles. . ' The thing to do, it was decided, was to follow the Joe McCarthy line. That is, not1 definitely-call Con gressman Voorhis a communist there might be a "comeback" to that but stress the fact that a vote for the Republican candidate meant a vote AGAINST communism the rather obvious implication being that a vote for Voorhis would be a vote FOR. This was done over and over and over again. Not only that but in the district concerned there were repeated phone calls, all of them going like this : "Hello. I am a friend of yours, but can't identify myself. . I just wanted you to know this man Voorhis is a communist." Then they would hang rather like some of the air these days. MEEDLESS to say it worked! It worked so well that when the "personable young man" decided to run for the senate, the same Chotiner and the same technique were used against Mrs. Helen Gahagen Douglas. u They did not come out charge Mrs. Douglas with being a cbmmunist. Noth ing as crude and courageous as that. They harped over and over again on the fact that her voting record, in many ways, was the same as the voting record of Congressman Vito Mercantonia who was a commu nist. And then came the same anonymous phone calls always from a woman to a woman, the call always anonymous and always to this effect:. "She could testify she had been at Communist party meetings at Mrs. Douglas' home and her husband, the well-known actor, Melvyn Douglas, .carried a Communist party card." . THIS "woman" was never identified. But again the slick maneuver worked worked so well that when the congressman went to the Senate he was again assured by the same or a similar group of Los Angeles "businessmen", that he need not worry as far as money was concerned, they would help him out. And they did to the tune of $18,000 cash which the reporter in question termed a "slush fund", but which the recipient piously proclaimed to be only a free will offering to reduce the tax burden of his constituents. THIS wasn't the only "free will offering" to the gentleman from California however. The same reporter discovered that a certain no torious operator, known as Henry (The Dutchman) Grunewald, had "accepted" a check from former Sen ator Brewster of Maine for $10,000, and Grunewald then proceeded to pnve half of it to the "personable young man", not to help payers of tne. Golden State this time, but to neip pay his "campaign expenses". If this was on the uD-and-un. whv didn't Senator - - - A A ' Brewster make his contribution direct as chairman of the G.O.P. campaign committee instead of via a some what unsavory Go-Between. e THAT query has never been answered. However, the "deal" retired Brewster under a cloud to pri vate life where he is today, but never, as far as re vealed, left so much as a fleck of dust on the lily white moral record of the "Gentleman from Cali fornia". What was his name? Well, of course, anyone who has read this far must have already guessed it of course, none other than Richard Milhous Nixon Vice President of the United States, and who, according to all the political wisemen in Washington, is now a "shoo-in" to be our next President! R.W.R. Tuesday, December 24, 1957 up and make another call 'quiz" programs over the m the open, of course, and out the long suffering tax Cmdh upstw m'mbbt my folks1- " Adenauer Could Take Lead in Sounding Out Russia on Tensions By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent West German Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer may take the lead in sounding out Soviet Russia on the possi bility of easing the cold war tension. It is known that Andrei Smir nov, Soviet ambassador to West Germany has postponed a Christmas va- cuaries McCann cation to re main in Bonn so he will be avail able if, Adenauer wants to talk to him. Now it is reported that Ade nauer is working on a "realistic" reply to the letter Soviet Pre mier Nikolai A. Bulganin sent him on Dec. 1Q. This letter was one of the series with which Bulganin bom barded allied leaders and all oth er members of the United Na tions in advance of last week's North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion meeting in Paris. Russia Holds Same Position Bulganin's letter to Adenauer added nothing to Russia's known position on cold war issues. But it lacked the threatening tone of Bulganin's previous let ters to Adenauer and was even friendly. Some disappointment was ex pressed in Bonn at the speeches by Andrei Gromyko and Com Stray Notes, from Eastern Oregon By SAGE BRUSH SALLY " New Bridge As Christmas approaches we folk in Eagle Val ley have wonderful weather. No snow in the valley or on the low hills. Saunder's sheep are still on the range at Maiden gulch. Bill Carnahan is herding them. There is snow in the foothills of the mountains. A good track snow evidently. I saw a very large dead cougar going out on a jeep a few days ago. Last week my brother and his wife saw a herd of seven elk on the hill in plain view of any New Bridge residents who looked in that direction. A -not so pleasant news item is the return of flu. Teenagers in our immediate vicinity who have been absent from scho.pl ill are Elaine Kivetts, Neil Page and Mike Braswell. Carl Carnagy was taken to Baker Monday by Mr. and Mrs. Jay Beale for medical attention. Yesterday I received a card from Nadie Strayer of Baker, stating she has had flu. She will soon go to Portland to assume her duties on the governing board of the State Department of Geology and mineral industries. She will fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Clint Haight Jr., also of Baker, who was re cently appointed as Baker coun ty representative in a special legislative session. Our community was recently saddened by the deaths of two old-timers. Mrs. Anna Simmons, mother of Mrs. Lloyd Cable of New Bridge died in Enterprise, Wallowa county. Her parents were Eastern Oregon pioneers, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Perkins. In Richland, Parney ' George, or Pawnee George, as he was often called, died. An early day stage driver, miner, and rancher, he was well known throughout Baker county. His wife, Amelia, who died several years ago, was a member of the pioneer Wal lace family of the Wolf Creek and Glendale district. An interesting couple whose minds were keen and active to the end. I am indebted to them for many stories of Oregon's past. In Pine Valley last .week Claude W. Gray was killed, by a shot from a .22 caliber gun, in what is said to have been an accidental shooting. Ernest Ste phens is held on a manslaughter munist Party Chief- Nikita S. Khrushchev made before the Russian Parliament Saturday. - Gromyko and Khrushchev all but ruled out the proposal made at the NATO conference for new disarmament negotiations either in the United Nations disarma ment commission or at a special "Big Four" foreign ministers meeting. Adenauer Starts Ball Rolling But Adenauer's feeling seems to be that somebody has got to make a new move toward nego tiations of some sort. And he seems to be ready to start things going himself. The. feeling has strengthened that Adenauer, rather than Presi dent Eisenhower, was really the leading figure at the Paris con ference in so far as practical proposals were concerned. It was Adenauer who set the keynote for the conference by insisting that the NATO coun tries find out whether there might be any sincerity in Rus sia's expressed desire to ease world tension. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, as Eisenhower's adviser on foreign policy, had wanted to put all possible emphasis on setting up missile bases in Eu rope rather than negotiating with Russia. Soviet Ambassador Smirnov decided to postpone his depar ture for Moscow after Adenauer had spoken in Paris, and before the NATO conference ended. Valley. Leon Hensley of Rich land is held as a material wit ness. I am pleased to report my uncle, Bird Woodruff, is home from the hospital and improv ing steadily. In his letter he states they are having nice weather at Myrtle Creek. I also received a letter from my friend, Edna, who is in the s t a t e TB hospital in The Dalles. She writes she is gaining weight and feeling better. Some of our read ers may have seen Edna on TV. She appeared on programs irom both Portland and Boise, dem onstrating fancy cake baking and decorating. She has lived most of her life in Eagle Valley. She and her husband have a pretty ranch home near Rich land. Her mother, Mrs. Louie Edson, and her brothers, Denver and Tom, live in New Bridge. Last Sunday evening Tom dropped in for a few minutes and brought my mother the Sun day Oregonian. It is these little gestures of remembrance that brighten the days for those who are house-bound by illness. A bouquet of wild or garden flow ers often brought by a child. A little boy bearing a string of trout. A neighbor lady with a glass of jelly, or some home charge. Stephens, is also of Pine made fudge. And cards and let ters in the mail. And groups I It is our Sincere wish to Everyone that the Spirit of Christmas glow warm and C M. Lirwiller bright, lighting the holiday season with . good cheer and happiness! ' LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapef Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This screwball world note: A Florida man is suing the American Tobacco company for $1,500,000. He charges that cig arettes either gave him cancer or aggravated a dormant can cer. . He says he smoked one to two packs of cigarettes every day from 1924 to 1956 and he claims in his suit that harmful and poisonous substances were in the cigarettes without His knowledge. WITHOUT wishing him any harm, I can't help hoping he loses his case. Somebody might toss a match into a pile ' of old papers and burn his house down and then sue this newspaper for damages because nobody, had ever told him paper would burn. "JOTE to advertising manag ers.: - Dr. William E. Shockley, who won the Nobel prize in 1956 for his invention of the transis tor (the little jigger that among othier things makes possible vest pocket radios) calls for the for mation of a private institute to educate the American people on the facts of life especially the scientific facts of life. He urges that his proposed Institute of Public Enlighten ment get its message across with AN ADVERTISING EFFORT COMPARABLE TO THAT FOR CIGARETTES, AUTOMOBILES OR DEODORANTS. YITHY does he suggest advertis ' ing as the medium for edu cating the American people on the facts of life? Presumably, it is because he thinks advertising can be BE LIEVED. He reasons, apparent ly, that business people can't afford to lie to their customers because if they do the customers will lose faith in their products and quit buying them. It's different in the case of politicians and cranks and screwballs and propagandists They have nothing to lose and publicity to gain. T'D LIKE to suggest to our scientists a new research pro ject, with this as its objective WHAT IS TRUTH? How can we learn to separate truth infallibly from falsehood . . . from propaganda ... from self-seeking. IF WE could learn to separate truth infallibly from falsehood there are so many, many things we could do to make this a better world to live in. There's politics, for example If, when a politician makes a statement, we could prove IN FALLIBLY whether it is false or true, we could have BETTER GOVERNMENT. . There is law enforcement. When somebody violates a law by committing murder, for examDle or when some body is charged wrongly with committing a crime, we must ESTABLISH THE FACTS if justice is to be done. In order to establish the facts, we must establish the truth. In order to do so, we must be able to sep arate truth from falsehood. It's a tough job and often we fail. PETTING back to the politic- . ians, they tell us so MANY tales. The tales can't all be true, because so often they are directly contradictory. The re sult of it all is apt to be LOSS OF CONFIDENCE in govern, ment. When we lose confidence in our government, we're in a bad way and all because of our inability to separate truth from falsehood. rpHERE are acids. There are alkalies. Which is which? Science gives an infallible answer. Acids turn blue litmus red. Alkalies turn red litmus blue. It's just that simple. Maybe the scientists might be able to devise an equally infal lible test for distinguishing truth from falsehood. I suggest they try it. singing carols at Christmas time. This is the way of life I love. The American way. Let's do our best to keep it this way. Sage Brush Sally Mrs. Lirwiller turn 'It is better to know us and -not need us, than to need us and not know us." Matter of Fact PLUS AND MINUS Paris What you think of the NATO conference depends en tirely on what measuring rod you . use. In Washington, it was originally billed as "the most porten t o u s meeting meeting of Western heads of state in forty years" toborrowa nhrase from an Joseph AJsop Eisenhower administration house organ. Yet the meeting did not re unite the increasingly divided West. It only plastered over the cracks in the facade. It did not initiate a great new effort to remedy the dangerous new tilt of the world balance of power. It only set in motion certain ad justments of NATO's military machinery which will strengthen the purely local defense of West ern Eurorje. Plastering cracks can be help ful, if the time thus gained is used for fundamental repairs. The local defense of Western Europe is a vital purpose of NATO in the Europeans' eyes, almost the sole purpose of NATO. All the same, if this meeting's results are to be de scribed as "portentous," then it has to be said that the portents are more than a little disturbing. rrVTHE portents are plainly im- plied in the military arrange ments that have been made. Within the NAO framework, medium range missiles are to be supplied to those nations that want them. Nuclear warheads for these missiles and other NATO weapons are also to be supplied to the NATO Command er, Gen. Lauris Norstad, in his capacity as American Command er in Europe. American officers will retain custody of the nuclear warheads until doomsday (as one may rea sonably describe the day when a great nuclear war begins). The warheads cannot be married to their destined waepons without authorization from the President of the United States. By the same token, the NATO Com mander cannot fire any of his missiles without authorization from the governments that choose to have missile emplace ments on their soil. No one has explained how this cumbersome consultative system can work fast enough to insure the necessary instantaneous rip oste to a Soviet nuclear-missile surprise attack. What if the President . or another head of state is playing golf, for in stance? But perhaps the obvious practical bugs in the system can be eliminated in the course of the negotiations that Gen.Nor- stad has been charged with con ducting. , But there is another point this system which is clearly not go ing to be altered by negotiation. The consultation requirement will not be abandoned altogeth er. Thus this is not a system of truly collective defense. Instead, it is the beginning of a system of purely national defense be hind the NATO international facade. This pattern of purely national , defense within NATO was first set by the British, Industrial Meeting Scheduled Jan. 13-15 Menlo Park, Calif. (IP) The third annual Industrial Econom ics Conference, sponsored by Stanford Research Institute, will be held in Los Angeles Jan. 13 15. The three-day meeting, to be held at the Ambassador hotel, will give business and industry leaders a chance to discuss "planning objectives in terms of the economic, business, govern ment and financial climates," according to the Institute. Theme of the meeting is "How Companies Grow." Carleton Green, manager of program de velopment at SRI's Southern Cal ifornia laboratories, will serve as chairman. 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. By Joseph Alsep when they decided tc build their own nuclear striking "just in case the Ameriacns don't want to risk New York and Washing ton for London and Birming ham." The French, too, will have missiles plus nu dear weapons under their own control in a couple of years. Others may fol low. TUT even among those nations unlikely ever to make their own nuclear weapons, this con ference has shown a new spirit in NATO. Every nation repre sented at the council table, in cluding the United States, has insisted upon consultation before any nuclear-missile riposte is de livered from its own soil. That implies, a strong, unavowed tendency not to risk London or , Paris or Rome or Bonn for the sake of Washington and New York. In fact all the feet in NATO are exactly fitted by the shoe described in the British jus tification of their own national defense decisions. This was not the spirit when NATO was founded. Then the threat to be guarded against was the threat by an attack by the Red Army. Then the free nations had not been exposed to the terrible psychological pressure of the weapons that can literally destroy the human race on earth. Then on one had any doubts that all must hang together, lest aU hang separately. In view of the pressure of the absolute weapons, the choice of a new road away from truly collective Western defense prob ably could not have been avoid ed. Yet as a step on this road, the Paris meeting has certainly been a portent. rr HAS been a portent in anoth- Minister Macmillan nor Chancel lor Adenauer nor any other NATO chief of state believes for an instant that negotiations with the Kremlin will produce solid and fruitful results. Yet the Paris conference made hopeful noises about renewaying negotia tions with the Kremlin. Even Secretary of State Dulles, mas tering his loathing, joined the happy chorus. Otherwise, he might have not ' been able to plaster over the cracks in West ern unity. In sum, the NATO meeting has shown the classic symptoms that are always produced by a dangerous tilt in the" power bal ance. These are, first, a' loosen ing of alliances on the side that has been weakened; second, a tendency to seek interminable parleys with the side that has grown stronger in the febrile hope that the strong will not in sist upon the logic of their strength. The free nations showed these symptoms when Hitler upset the Euopean power of balance in the thirties. They are appearing o again, because a great upset of the world power balance has been permitted by the shocking neglect of defense needs in needs in Washington in the last five years. (Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribnune Inc.) . Old Fashioned Greetings, and ' Good .Wishes for a Very MERRY CHRISTMAS to all Our Friends and Customers Erhardt Blind Medford Paint & Wallpaper Store West 6th Corner Holly OUR CHRISTMAS POLICY ., Is not to mention insurance ; at all. We Just want to extend to each and everyone j Our sincere good wishes . for a JOYOUS AND HAPPY CHRISTMAS. Bill Fish j
