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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
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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.
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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
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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
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