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o o 0 O F&UR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 87-29 North Fir St Phone 2-C14I ROBERT W RUKL. Editor flZRB GREY Advertising Manager GER-AU3 LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Mani'mt Editor EAJfD H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN le.erapn Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCKSR Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as secor.d class matter at Medaordo Ore eon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance- Per Copy 10c DailJBnd Sunday One year S1V0O DailXjand Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year H20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent end on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 . Daily and Sunday One month 130 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford n 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 Atlanif Vancouver. B.C. J2 PAP Est PUBllfWBI AllOCIATIOft f DITOilJU ASfOCIA-liN Flight o' Time Bedford and Jickaoa Couaty History from the tiles of The Mtii Trbun d, 30. tO and If tton ato. l&YTXRSAGO Dae. 91. 1M? (WadaaadaT) Tie valley pear crop thia year (totalled 1,853,814 boxes, 10 per (cast below that ot last year, ac cording to the annual report of (tba courty agent'a office. JFrem Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Ai the (od Ot the old year approaches, (the; radios will unleash Auld Lang Syne over over the air cwitfe more gusto, than they did (Silent Night before Christmas." TZARS AGO ,pe. 91. inr (raider) Km 1 1 in r J Jfledford first stop and go G traffic light ioea Into operation . at Main (at. and Central avt. Today Is the last day tor the . 1937 license) plates, state police headquarter reminds residents. 30 YEARS &QO Dec. 31, 19Z9 (Sattttlaf) The mystery eurrounding the localGbrigin of the widely ei- ploited bulbous bluegrasa, ia no mystery to iHr. and Mrs. Harry Bush of East Main at, who say they brought the teed over in a pepper can (JujifH 1918 from Chili. Present indieatiene point to large attendance at annual Cop co Employe club New Year's party gt fairgrounds pavilion. .40 1R A.GO E&e. 31. 1917 (Monday) Committeemen from churches in valley meet at Presbyterian church to consider plans for lay men's evangelistic missionary movement. A total of 720 new members were added to the Red Cross in Medford during the last three days as a result of a membership campaign. What's Yiir I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is stjerior; seven or eight Is excellent; Ave m six is good . 1. Name the island oft the coast of India that is associated with a kind of tea? - 2. Bible: Which official edi tion contains 72 books? 3. Number 30 thread is finer than number 50; true or false? 4. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a famous beU tower in Spain, Portugal, or Italy? 5. Is the President of the United States paid semi-monthly, monthly, or annually? 6. "Nutmeg State" is a nick name for which New England State? 7. Which wife of Henry VIII had six fingers on one hand? 8. Are U. S. postage stamps cut from embossed stamped en velopes valid when pasted on plain envelopes? 9. Was there one, two or three generals in the U. S. Army dur ing World War I? 10. In England, what part of an automobile body is called the "bonnet"? Answers: I, Ceylon. 2. Vulgaie of Si. Jerome (translated A.D. 405). 3. False (the higher the number, the finer the thread). 4. Italy. 5. Monthly. 6. Connecticut. 7. Anne Boleyn (his 2nd wife). 8. No. 9. Three. (Bliss, March, and Pershing). 10. Hood. FEDERAL JUDGE DIES Edwardsville, Kan. (IP) Fed eral District Judge Arthur J. Mellott, 68, a former teacher of ex-President Harry S. Truman at the Kansas City School of Law, died at his home here Sun t day. He resigned from the bench in Kansas City last June due to iU health. MAIL TRIBUNE 'Something New Under the Sun ' Tomorrow is New Years. But we shall spare our readers a New Years' editorial. Some years ago we gave up writing Christmas, New Years, Fourth of July, Decoration Day, Labor Day, St. Patricks Day, Columbus Day (etc., etc.), edi torials. The reason was we had exhausted the various and sundry commemorative subjects. Wte could think of nothing new to say, and when we can think of noth ing new to say we try VERY hard to say NOTHING. FORTUNATELY, however, we have just received a postal card postmarked "Talent" and unsigned, which gives us a brand new subject for comment. At least it is new in our experience. For - IT TAKES "Ye Editor" to taks for NOT writing a Christmas editorial. Moreover instead of commem orating the "birth of our Savior in dignified and ap propriate fashion," the Mail Tribune chose to "cru cify" Vice President Richard Nixon and hold him up "falsely and unfairly to contumley and shame,"- ! Not only that. This, it seems, is such an example of "vituperative and unChristian behavior on a holy day," that the Talent reader is "shocked" and we as sume though it is not directly stated that he (or she) believes some sort of an apology or retraction should be made ... or perhaps a period of penance should be imposed. llELL, we are sorry w complainant. In the first place there was no issue of the Mail Tribune On Christmas Day, so we would regard a charge of desecration as rather far fetched. In the second place, there was nothing in the edi torial in question that held Vice President Nixon up "to shame" unless he is ashamed of his record. In fact, when we first read this "card" we thought it a joke of some sort we have some friends in the Talent area who like to "needle" Ye Editor. However, reading it a second time we decided it was serious. Somehow it had the ring of real emotion al excitement and genuine indignation. llfE CAN'T even now be absolutely sure on this " point. But if it was just a "gag", then we would suggest the author or authoress stop wasting his or her talents in Talent, and apply to the Shakes pearean Festival for a stellar role he (or she) is some actor. XJOWEVER, to return to the man line, and assuming the complaint WAS a genuine one, we would suggest the complainant read the editorial in question a eecond time. We realize that would be painful but it might clarify the situation. For we believe a second reading would make it quite clear that no charges whatever were made against and fluent Vice President. There was no vituperation, no smearing, no blas phemy, there was nothing the Nixon record, not in his callow youth but as an adult a Congressman and U. S. Senator from the great state of California. , THERE was nothing new about it. The same facts have been printed in many magazines and more newspapers. Moreover, they have never been denied. And we suspect they never will be for the' simple fact, they are TRUE. AS -FAR as this paper is concerned they seemed timely and newsworthy because of the organized "build-up" under the heading of "The New Nixon". Even the holiday season was marked by leading articles with flamboyant "blurbs" on their front-covers, noted particularly in the Saturday Evening Post and Harpers an obvious fan-fare to proceed the 1958 concentrated drive for the Republican presiden tial nomination. 1 Well that is OK. . We have no particular complaint. Ever since Nixon was elected Vice President, he and his pals, have been working very cleverly, vig orously and persistently, . to make Richard's occu pation of the White House a certainty. WOR is there anything new about the Mail Tribune's opposition to Mr. Nixon or anyone of his type ever being elected President of the United States. Ever since his leftThanded support of "McCarthy ism" and that utterly fraudulent and phony "alibi" he gave over the air for his acceptance of an $18,000 cash "subsidy" from that unidentified "ring" in Cali fornia; we have been against him, and no doubt will continue to be. We just don't like the man or trust him. That we submit is the privilege of this newspaper or any other. DUT the real pay-off regarding this particular item and one of the chief reasons at first we hesi tated to take it seriously was the obvious fact that it was self-defeating. For we can imagine no more damning indictment of a man in public life, than when a true and factual recital of his record, leads to cries of angry protest; charges of vituperation, abuse, desecration, defama tion, etc., etc. TTHIS paper called no names, made no charges merely recited the facts as. documented, and the only conclusion we made was to this effect: "And the ' political wiseacres in Washington say that this man is a "shoo-in" to be the next President of the United States." We left it to our readers to draw their own con clusions. R.W.R. Tuesday. December 31. 1937 we can't accommodate our our personable, plausible in fact but a recitation of Large-Scale Weather Control by Russians Seen as Disastrous Washington (IP) President Eisenhower's special weather adviser said today that if Rus sia wins the race for large-scale control of weather "the results could be even more disastrous than nuclear warfare." The presidential adviser. How ard T. Orville, said at a news conference that he believes Rus sia is striving hard to beat the West to weather control. He said he doesn't know whether the Russians are yet ready to sur prise the world with masterv of the weather as they did with their Sputniks. But "if we can infer anvthins from what has harmened thev are more than likely going at this very heavily, Orville said. Orville is chairman of the Na tional Advisorv committpp. nn Weather Control which wound up its final report today. The report said the committee has established that artificial rain making is successful in Wash ington, Oregon, and California, and may have added 20 to 50 million dollars a year to the wealth of Pacific Coast farmers. The committee did not itself discuss Soviet efforts' in the field of weather and climate con trol. But in a separate statement Orville said: "If an unfriendly nation In the Day's News By FRANK From Portland: The old Oregon hotel at Southwest Broadway and Stark streets will be torn down start ing January 2 to make way for a 14-story addition to the Ben son hotel. After the old structure is razed, construction on the three million dollar addition to the Benson will beg'n immediately according to Western Hotels, Inc., which operates the Benson and Multnomah hotels in Port land. The addition will add 200 rooms to the Benson, plus a sec ond floor convention hall and banquet room that will seat 750 to 800 persons.' JjiROM San Francisco: Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel Corporation plans to build a 16 story office building in down town San Francisco next year (1958). President Harrison Fuller re ports that the site for the new structure cost a million dollars. It is bounded by Davis, Califor nia and Sacramento streets. The new building will be headquarters for the corpora tion's steel division in seven Western states, Alaska and Hawaii. IfHAT do these newly an ' nounced developments mean? They mean confidence in the Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF AUTHOR FREDDIE SCHWED tells about a playboy who ordered drinks for everybody, including the bartender, in a swanky cafe and then confessed he didn't have a dime. The bar-keep gave him a black eye and a heave-ho. Next night he reappeared, ordered drinks for every body and again admitted he was penniless. This time the bar boss gave him a real working-over before throw ing him out. Back came the fellow a third night and loudly ordered' a round of drinks for the house once more. "For me, too?" in quired the bartender. "Certainly not," said the playboy loftily. "One drink and you're a raving lunatic." A scandal magazine threatened to do a cover story on Groucho Marx. Groucho got wind of it and wrote the publisher, "Either you will abandon this nefarious plot or I will cancel my subscription." . .9 by Bennett Cert , Distributed by King Features Syndicate. 'GO HOME ! solves the problem of weather control and gets into the posi tion to control the large-scale weather patterns before we can, the results could be even more disastrous than nuclear war fare." The committee in completing four years of work formally recommended that the federal government put more effort and money into research on weather and how to control it. It urged that the National Science Foun dation be instructed to promote and coordinate such research. The report stressed that it had found rain-making successful only under certain conditions and that its conclusions are bas ed only on what has happened in the three West Coast states. In those states, it said, cloud- seeding by means of silver io dide ground generators produced "an average increase in precipi tation of 10 to 15 per cent from seeded storms with heavy odds that this increase was not the result of natural variations in the amount of rainfall." v It said it had not found that cloud-seeding in nonmountainous areas produced significant rain fall. But in addition to the three West Coast states there are 26 others with similar mountain conditions where rain-making might be feasible. JENKINS future. This confidence is fully justified. The 11 Western states are growing twice as fast as the rest of the country. They are expected to have 40 million peo ple by 1975, which is less than 20 years away. Forty million people will mean MORE CUSTOMERS for the Far West's rapidly expand ing industries. AND If human beings retain their sanity ASIA will eventually settle down. When that happens, Asia's teeming millions will provide ex port markets for the expanding industries of the American Pa cific Coast. NOTHER thought: Southern Oregon and Far Northern California lie at the exact center of the American Pacific Coast. They have ample resources in the way of raw materials. They have plenty of water. They have plenty of power. These plus growing markets provide the essentials for in dustrial expansion. thought in conclusion: Let's quit looking at the Sput nik hole and start looking at the .eleven Western states DOUGHNUT. Khrushchev Strengthening Hold On Party, Other Russian Affairs By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent iNiitita &. inrusncnev is strengthening Communist Party domination of all Russian gov ernmental, mil itary and eco nomic affairs. At the same time, Khrush chev is streng thening his own personal auth- thority as first secretary of the party in con- charies McCans troi of its ma chinery. The operation has been in progress for several weeks. It has been marked by a number of transfers of government and party officials and by increased emphasis on the role of the communist .rarty as the su preme power over all aspects of administration in the Soviet Union. The effect is to restore the situation which existed between the death 1 of Josef Stalin in 1953 and Khrushchev's sensa tional denunciation of Stalin in February, 1956. No Stalin-era Restoration It cannot, be said that the Stalin-era situation has been restor ed. Stalin made himself the sole authority in the government, the armed forces, economic affairs and the party itself. Ethiopia, Tunisia Delegates Fail To Stop West Attacks Cairo (IP) Moderating efforts by Ethiopian and Tunisian dele gates failed today to stop a se ries of bitter and sweeping at tacks against the West at the un official Afro-Asian "solidarity" conference. The conference's economic committee was scheduled to sub mit the last committee report to day. It was expected to take the same leftist, anti-Western line that previous committee reports have reflected. The conference will end to morrow. All draft resolutions are expected to receive automatic endorsement. UN Investigation Asked An example of the tone of the resolutions was contained in the one from the political commit tee. It called for United Nations action to investigate : British "crimes" in Kenya. The draft also demanded the return by the United States of Okinawa to Japan and called for a boycott of all Dutch shipping carrying goods for use against Indonesia . The 17-point political resolu tion in fact represented a com prehensive indictment of West ern policies in general. It was rated by some sources as a tri umph, for Communist propa gandists. Increasing Concern Mekasha Getachew of Ethio pia expressed increasing con cern about the obviously anti Western tone of the resolutions. He said that together with the Tunisian delegation he had sought unsuccessfully to moder ate the wording of the final po litical resolution. But the ony concession he succeeded in winning, he said, was substitution of a pledge to ahere to the non-interference principles adopted at the offic ial Afro-Asian conference in Bandung two years ago rather than a flat endorsement of posi tive neutrality. Getachew said his delegation failed to get the words "against the peoples' will"' added to a text calling for an end to mili tary bases on foreign soil. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the nam and address ol the writer although under certain circum stances the use ol a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Juvenile Home Needs To the Editor: Would you please put this letter in your letter column. Today I went out to the juve nile home and while I was there I learned that though they have a wonderful home out there and good food, there is one serious lack. There is not much in the line of recreation. They have a ping pong set and a few puzzles. They desperately need good educa tional games; a record player would be a great help. They have the records, but nothing to play them on. Also, a TV would really be swell. I thought perhaps among your readers maybe some of them have some of these things. 'Be lieve me, they really could use them and I know they, "the kids," there would more than appreciate them. For- personal reasons, please don't publish my name. Well-Wisher (Name on file) 2 ' I Khrushchev is making the central committee of the party and its ruling presidium the su preme authority. Of course, Khrushchev is at the head of the committee and the presidium. And it appears that his position is unchalleng ed. But there is no sign that he either wants to be or could be a dictator like Stalin. The increasing authority giv en the Communist- Party is a confession that Khrushchev's at tempt to liberalize Russian life after his denunciation of Stalin was a failure. Liberalism Can Be Dangerous Even a little liberalism can be dangerous in a country like Russia. First intellectuals and workers got too enthusiastic over the loosening up of the dictatorship. Then Georgi K. Matter of Fact by DIALOGUE OF GIANTS Paris The Kremlin has be gun , a drive for a wholly, new kind of East-West talk a "dia logue of the giants" be tween the U.S. and U.S.S.R, with all others excluded from the conference table. The decision whether to em bark on such a josepb aisod dialogue is just about the most serious purely diplomatic decision that can be imagined. The question has not been even tangentially discussed with the other Western allies. Yet some sort of a decision is going to have to be made rather soon, if only because the Krem lin's drive is rather well ad vanced. Ludicrously little attention has as yet been paid to this im mensely significant and quite novel development. ' Yet the Kremlin's opening gun was fired some time ago. To be specific, Nikita Khrushchev reportedly told Aneurin Bevan, when the latter visited Russia,' that tete-a-tete talks between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. offered the one really hopeful way out of the world's present impasse. The same statement was far and away the most striking fea ture of the letter that Khrush chev recently wrote to the "new Statesman and Nation," pur portedly in answer to a pub lished plea for nuclear disarm ament by Lord Russell. In the entire population of the British Isles, Aneurin Bevan and the "New Statesman' 'editgrs are the people most likely to be alarmed and outraged by the prospect of exclusive U.S. U.S.S.R. talks. One can only guess that Khrushchev wished to appeal to their not inconsid erable vanity by choosing them as his confidants, in the hope of winning them to his side in this manner. TVIORE recentlys these informal indications in the b e s,t Khrushchev manner have been reinforced by a formal and pub lic statement At the meeting of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow, in their official comments on the recent NATO conference, both Khrushchev and Andrei Gromyko rather elaborately pooh-poohed all the ordinary forms of East-West negotiation. But after remarking that the Soviets had often proposed a meeting between the heads of government of the capitalist and socialist states "to solve the problems of humanity," Khrush chev blandly added: "If an agreement between the United States and the Soviet union can be achieved without prejudice to the interests of oth er countries, good results for peace will be achieved." Short of sending a written in vitation to President Eisenhow er and Secretary of State Dulles to join in a huddle with him, Stalin's heir could hardly have 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. Zhukov, made defense minister and restored to his one - time status of Russia's No. 1 war hero, got obstreperous. He wanted No Communist Party in terference with his direction of the armed forces, even though he had been a Communist since his youth. Now, since Zhukov has been ousted, the armed forces are being' subjected to strict party control, and Communist indoc trination of officers and men is being intensified. The newspaper Red Star, or gan of the Soviet ministry of defense, disclosed recently , that officers, from generals and ad mirals down, had been directed to devote at least 50 hours a year to political courses-lectures on Communist party history and doctrine. Thsse lectures are to be supplemented by home study. Joseph Alsop been more specific. If no sort of answer to' his invitation is giv en, the silence will be taken by the Kremlin as the most chilling negative answer. This in turn can sharply effect Kremlin pol icy. So the c.uestien should at least be carefully considered in all its aspects, instead of being settled by mere default as seems to be the present tendency. Curiously enough, Secretary Dulles himself appears to be in two mir.ds about this question. He certainly did not want the NATO conference communique to include an invitation to re newed East-West negotiations. During the first two days of the conference, he sat mute ard grim, while both Prime Minister Macmillan and France's Foreign Minister Pineau insisted that such an invitation must be is sued. He finally realized that he had to pay for NATO agree ment on military questions es pecially the medium range mis siles by his own agreement to the invitation to East-: West talks. , VET when the form of this in--- vitation was beind discussed, Secretary Dulles strikingly re marked that there really were only two kinds of East-West talks that could possibly do any good, talks within the frame work of the United Nations, and exclusive, talks between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R alone. Thus eve"n the American Secre iary of State is not sure that a dialogue of the giants would be wholly fruitless. , Whether anything could be achieved by such a dialogue is quite simply a question that can not be-answered until and un less a dialogue has been attempt ed. The Soviets are now giving two different kinds of signs. They are giving signs of great self confidence - and increased aggressiveness, founded on their conviction of their own strength. But they are also giving signs of quite genuine concern for the future of a world in which the whoic scene will be dominated by the new weapons that can destroy life on earth. In these circumstances, if the Soviets could get down to busi ness in a corner .with the Ameri cans, could they conceivably be induced to agree to a peaceful future of live-and-let live? No one can tell. But there is one thing that can be told, here and now, with absolute certainty. While John Foster Dulles is Secretary of State a .dialogue of giants is im possible. For any such dialogue in which Dulles is the American spokesman or the President's chief advisor, will almost auto matically break up the Western Alliance. The distrust of Dulles, the lack cf confidence in Dulles are too great and too profound among our allies. They would expect to be sold down the river. They would hurry to try to make' their own bilateral deal with the Kremlin. And so the alliance would come to grief for good. (c) 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc. IT'S ALMOST TIME for young Mr. 1958 to come toddling on the scene. Traditionally he'll be garbed in three cornered pants, but for in surance against an accident they'll be secured by a SAFETY PIN. OUR NEW YEAR'S WISH FOR YOU -BE SAFE WITH PLENTY OF INSURANCE. Bill Fish 4
