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NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION :national editorial AsTbclihATlQN t U U I Flight ro Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. r!0 YEARS AGO ZJan. 7. 1948 (Wednesday) 2 Protection and services pro divided by the city fire and po lice department does not ex- Ztend beyond Medford s city - limits, councilmen e m p h a sized last night. r From Arthur Perry's Ye Z Smudge Pot column: "A brief session with the flu, should be sufficient to convince any -one there is something in the -world more low-down, nc- account, and ornier than a Z Russian diplomat." ;20 YEARS AGO Jan. 7. 1938 (Friday) - The state commission has agreed to designate the old Pacific highway, from Klam : ath Junction to Siskiyou as a - secondary highway. The board also agreed to use Jack--' son county's share of availa ble federal funds for county roads on the present Butte Falls rd. ... The new tabernacle of the ..Central Avenue Church of ."Christ will be ready for use " Sunday. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 7, 1928 (Monday) A local attorney complained iabout an unsightly wood pile rback of the public library Cbuilding and called for dras tic action at a meeting of the -city council. The coldest day of last month at Crater Lake nation al park was five degrees be llow zero on Dec. 7 and Dec. Z31. "40 YEARS AGO 7-Jan. 7. 1918 (Monday) C Organization of the Rogue PRiver Oil company, which was incorporated late in 1917 has been completed with Dr. E. B. Pickel as president. From local and personal column: "Big 5-cent milk - shakes at DeVoes." What's Your I.Q.? - Nine or ten correct is superior; -seven or eight is excellent; five or -six is good. 2. 1. A snake will not crawl rbver a hair rope; true or rialse? - 2. Is the Kyber Pass be tween Afghanistan and Bur ana? Z 3. Exodus, in part, deals twith the slavery of the He brews in which country? 4. What is an amendatory addition to a last will and Testament called? 5. What is the equivalent atank in the Navy to that of 5 Major in the Army? 6. Is rayon fibre used in ;the manufacture of synthetic lubber tires? Z 7. Which year of life is con-! Udered to be the most critical lor babies? 5 8. Was Augustus St. Gu ldens a priest, composer or Sculptor? 9. Is a "skink" a skunk or kind of lizard? Z 10. In modern English what does John Skelton's (c. 1520) saying: "By hoke ne by croke" mean? Answers: 1. False; 2. No. And India: 3. Egypt; 4. Codicil; 5. Lieu tenant Commander; 6. Yes; 7. The first year; 8. Sculptor; 8. Kind of lizard; 10. "By hook or by crook." "W.K." Meets the Press Any resemblance in the following dialogue to the performance of Senator William Knowland of California, before "Meet the Press" broadcast on January 5th is purely coincidental. "W.K." represents, the California Senator, Minority Leader and successor to the late Senator Robert Taft as "Mr. Republican" and the various members of the press panel are designated as "M.P." Here we go: M.P.: Senator Knowland, a year ago you said, and we quote: "The Republican party is giving this country the highest standard of living and the greatest prosperity in all human history." Would you consider that statement correct as of today? W.K.: Well, there has been some slight decline recently, but I believe it is of a temporary nature. In fact it is my belief that when this year's balance is computed, 1958 will be as prosperous, if not more prosperous than 1957. You see I don't agree with those who America short. M.P. There are millions of Americans unemployed and the numbers according to your administration's Labor De partment are steadily increasing. Would you maintain that is proof of record-breaking W.K.: When all the figures are in next December, I feel confident they will show, as ard of living and the greatest prosperity any nation on this globe. I don't agree with those who would sell the United States of America short! M.P.: Let me change ,to another subject. Jim Hagerty, President Eisenhower's press secretary declared the other day that the Gaither report does not, as claimed, show this country to be weak militarily as compared with Soviet Russia, but just the reverse. Do you agree with that state ment? W.K.: I have not as yet read the report, so I can't say. It is a secret report. M.P.: Well in recent months you have toured all parts of your state of California, what would you say was the general reaction as a result of Sputnik No. I and No. II? W.K.: It was mixed. There was some disappointment; some surprise, some doubt that this country could really be surpassed in any field by a communist country and in a few isolated cases, ANGER. M.P.: Was any of that anger directed toward the Re publican party? W.K.: Yes, some, but it is my conviction it will be tem porary. All the facts will be known by November and when they are this effort to make political capital out of our defense situation will prove futile. M.P.: Then I take it, senator, you agree in general with Secretary Hagerty, that as of today as compared with Russia, this country is not leading from weakness but from strength? W.K.: Russia is probably ahead of us in some directions where they have unduly concentrated, but it is my belief we are ahead in nuclear weapons and in the power of our strategic air-force. Againj I don't agree with those who sell this great country short. M.P.: According to the testimony of an overwhelming number of experts before the is not properly equipped or protected from sudden attack, our submarine fleet is too small and poorly equipped to be effective, and as far as Intercontinental missiles are con cerned, we are just not in the these experts. W.K.: I don't agree with this nation, the most powerful in the world, short. No sir that is not my kind of Americanism. And it is my strong conviction that not only is a large part of this "doom and gloom" talk politically Inspired, but there are many selfish interests taking advantage of the Sputnik panic, to get their heads under the tent and indulge in an orgy of indiscrimi nate spending which might threaten what is just as important to our national security as "ICBMs" and that is balancing the budget and maintaining our financial solvency. M.P.: You would put national solvency above national security? W.K.: Well you can't have the second without the first. M.P.: Then you don't agree with President Eisenhower who said the American people would never worship a bal anced budget at the expense of national security? W.K.: I have not seen the I have not kept in touch with sence, but I have disagreed I may again. I disagreed on the My record for support of the of Senator Dirksen of Illinois, shows when my party goes one way and my CONSCIENCE counsels another, I feel justified in following the latter. M.P.: Then you place principle above party? W.K.: I do. M.P.: Then you agree with Senator Morse of Oregon. W.K.: I did not SAY that! M.P.: I only meant that is also the Oregon Senator's basic political creed But I wonder Senator just what you mean by this "Talk of Doom and Gloom" being politically inspired. According to press gallery statistics, not only a majority of the critics of the administrations defense policy, both before the Senate committee and as members of the Gaither and Rockefeller committees, are not only Republi cans but as a group contributed over a million dollars for the continuance of the Republican administration. Is that correct? ( W.K.: I have no information of that sort. As before stated I am not one of those who of ours short and let me say this ... Chairman: Sorry Senator but our time has expired, thank you Senator Knowland and thank you gentlemen . . . (Curtain) Three Confederate Generals Cleared Bowling Green, Ky. (IP) Three Confederate generals today were cleared of 96-year-old treason conspiracy charges lodged by a grand jury here during the Civil War. Indictments were brought in 1862 after Confederate troops were forced to with draw from this community, then the Confederate capital of Kentucky. They named Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivan Buckner, Maj. Gen. John Hunt Morgan and Maj. Gen. John C. Breck inridge, who was U.S. vice Tuesday, January 7, 1958 would sell the United States of prosperity and its continuance? I have said, the highest stand Senate committee, our "S:A.C." race. You don't agree with them or anyone who would sell President since I returned, and Washington in my long ab with the President before and extent of giving foreign aid. President is second only to that however, yet as my record would sell this great country j president under James Bu chanan from 1857 to 1861. The Confederate officers, all Kentuckians, never were tried. The indictments were carried on court records as "continued" until 1866 and then lost in the files until found recently. Commonwealth Attorney J. David Francis moved for dis missal Monday and Warren Circuit Judge John B. Rodes granted it. The historic docu ments were turned over to the Museum of Kentuckiana here. ' Who's Margie? ah' ks Mrs.Wlson know YOtifZZ AmYS THINKIN' OF HSR? In the Day's News By FRANK Interesting science note: A Polish scientist Dr. Leon Nowinski has been granted political asylum in the U.S. after fleeing from be hind the iron curtain. He has been here since October 16, but didn't ask for asylum un til his wife and daughter ar rived safely in England the other day. They will be grant ed entry permits to join him here. He says he deserted Poland because he wants to raise his daughter in free schools and because of political, moral and religious conditions in his na tive land. He is an expert theoretical researcher on ther- mo-elasticity a field of math ematical theory dealing with stresses and strains on metals and other materials under varying temperature condi tions. His specialty is impor tant in the study of missiles and outer-space travel. T hope he gets a good per- manent job (he has been lecturing recently at Johns Hopkins University in Balti more) and that word of his good fortune gets back to Rus sia and its communist satel lites. I have complete faith in our way of life as contrasted with the communist way of life. If the truth about it can be brought to the attention of in telligent people behind the iron curtain in such a way that they will BELIEVE it, large numbers of scientists and other useful technical peo ple will GET TO AMERICA, by hook or by crook, just as Dr. Nowinski did. We can -use them. . OUR government reports that U.S. exports last year climbed to a record peak. But Assistant Commerce Secre tary Henry Kearns says it ap pears likely that 1958 exports will DROP due "in part to DEPLETION of foreign gold and dollar reserves. THAT sounds disturbingly technical. Let's see if we can clear It up and make it understandable. What he means is that for eign countries have been BUYING more from us than they have been SELLING to us. On the face of it, that sounds good. But, over the long pull, it isn't so good. Here's why: When a foreigner buys American goods, he can't pay for them in HIS money. We demand payment in American dollars or in gold, which is an international medium of exchange. So, when he buys goods from us, he has to BUY DOLLARS with which to pay his bill. If his country hasn't sold us enough of its goods to get the dollars he needs or if it hasn't gold enough he can't buy American products. In other words, foreign Try and -By BENNETT CERF- AT HER NEIGHBORHOOD butcher shop, a lady refused to nav 90 cents a sound for hamburger stoatr "Thorn's a shop on the next block offering she declared. "So buy it from them," said the butch- ' er. "They're sold out," she admitted. "Hmphhr snorted the butcher. "When we're all out of hamburger, we sell it for 50 cents a poundT The town's leading banker was guest of honor at a fine banquet for his eightieth birth day, and five speakers said some wonderful things about him. Finally it was his torn. "Gentlemen," he said with a broad smile, "I must admit Td rather hear the taffy than the epitaphy." Accompanying her mother to a fashionable shoe shop, a little girl asked innocently, "When will I be old enough to wear shoes that are too small for me?" . . Q 1353. by Bennett CeApabgtefljgjtt gestgts Syadfcato.' JENKINS trade is a TWO-WAY street. If we are to go on selling goods abroad, we must BUY goods from abroad. npHAT brings up an interest ing thought: For years, we have been GIVING AWAY dollars ty the shipload. The total runs far, far into the billions. We call it FOREIGN AID. A lot of hard-headed Ameri cans think TRADE would be better than AID. AS YOU are aware if you been very successful in liv ing friends with the dollars we have been shelling out in the way of aid. The more we GIVE to people all over the world, the less they seem to think of us. , But . If we traded with people If we boucht wViat tvio-i, have to sell It might be bettor. everybody loves a - - -V40 tomer. Nobody has much re spect for a Lady Bountiful who goes around throwing money away right and left. What do you think about it? Portland Council To Elect Officer Portland (IP) Mimho f the Portland Central Labor council voted" Mondav nif?ht to seuie the question of who j ... " o is to be council secretary treasurer at a new elpr-tinn next Monday. The new election wac or. dered by AFL-CIO President George Meany because of a protest by the firemen's in ternational union that the Dec. 9 election was illegal The firemen complained that ao Teamsters voted last month, although the union had been excelled from the AFL-CIO on the national lev el three days earlier. The firemen complained that Gust Anderson, veteran council member, had been re elected with Teamster sud- port. The vote had been 131 121, favoring Anderson over td wneian, member of the firefighters' union. Members of the Teamsters and laundry workers unions will be barred from next Mon day's election, the council said. The laundry workers were also expelled from the AFL-CIO. MOSCOW FASHION FAD London (IP) Radio Mos cow reported today that a "straight cut" similar to the Paris "sack look" is sweeping the Russian fashion world. Western fashion experts here believe this will mean very lit lte change in the appearance of Russian women. Stop Me the same meat for 70 cents," Study of School Curriculum Set By College Heads Portland (IP) Heads of nine Oregon colleges and uni versities Monday night ac cepted the invitation of the Portland school board to study the college preparatory curriculum in Portland schools in order to pinpoint its deficiencies. The college heads were en thusiastic over the potentials of the study and Dr. Meredith Wilson, president of the Uni versity of Oregon, said "this experiment could redefine the rate of progress through the first 12 grades." He added, "anything you do to make the student achieve within his abilities in high school could revolutionize the colleges." A committee of six was drawn at the joint meeting to outline the study so as to attract financial support from a national foundation. Dr. Dorothy Johansen, chairman of the Portland school board, said to the col lege presidents, "We are ask ing you to make a study of our curriculum, and of the teaching going on in our schools, and of the obstacles, if there are obstacles, that pre vent good teaching." But Director Herbert Schwab emphasized that the plan was not a panic pro gram caused by sputnik." Dr. A. L. Strand, presi dent of Oregon State College, hoped that the program might lead to a two-track" system in the schools. Speaking of college freshmen,- he said "The thing that really licks them in college is that they haven't learned how to work, and in order to learn to work they have to have subject matter." OLCC Cannot Arbitrarily Deny Eugene Licenses Salem (IP) Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton said today that the Oregon Liquor Control Commission has no right to deny retail liquor licenses in a five-block "dry zone" around the Uni versity of Oregon at Eugene. Thornton said the zone was set up not by law but by com mission action. "The establishment of fixed 'dry zones' within certain dis tances of schools, colleges, universities, churches, etc., is a matter which should be ad dressed to the Legislature for its consideration," Thornton said, in his opinion. Must Be On Facts "This is not to say that the commission cannot, on reason able grounds, deny an applica tion for a license to premises immediately adjacent to uni versities and colleges," the opinion continued, "but the. commission's action on each application must be based on the particular facts presented and cannot be based merely on whether the premises fall either within or without the boundaries of an arbitrary 'dry zone.' " , Thornton said the Liquor Commission may deny a li cense when "the granting of a license is not demanded by public interest "or conveni ence." He added that the power to deny licenses on the basis of arbitrary zoning should be long exclusively to the Legis lature. Skelfon Reported 'Out of Danger' Santa Monica. Calif. (IP) Comedian Red Skelton was re ported "out of danger" today at St. John's Hospital where he was admitted a week ago near death from an acute "car diac-asthmatic" attack. Dr. Garth K. Graham, his physician, said the red-haired funnyman would be hospital ized a few days more for treatment of a "moderate pneumonitis" in the right lung. Skelton was stricken a week aeo at his Bel-Air home. His 10-year-old daughter, Va- lentma, found him gasping for breath on the floor and he was rushed to the hospital. At the time, Graham said that assuming there were 10 steps to death Skelton had taken "nine of them." Skelton rallied strongly and made a quick -recovery. NORFIELD'S January Clearance FRIDAY See Thursday Paper Allies Mapping Next Cold War; By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The United States, British and West German govern ments are about to decide on the next Al lied move in the cold war. They are now drafting replies to the letters which Nikolai A. Bulganin sent last month rfi .ru 1 c aiuciii McCann" E i s enhower, Prime Minister Harold Mac millan and Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer. Bulganin proposed a high level meeting of leaders of the chief Allied powers on cold war issues. u1 vjvmwxaaBnmmamK Matter of Fact By Stewart Alsop 'RESPONSIBILITY JOHNSON' Washington It is begin ning to seem at least possible that the huge Soviet rockets which hurled the Sputniks into the heav ens may in the end also hurl Senate Majority Leader Lyn don B. John son of Texas into the White House. Stewart Alsop Johnson himself has said that the defense issue will dominate the upcoming ses sion of Congress. The defense issue in turn will be dominat ed by Lyndon B. Johnson And Johnson's handling of the defense issue also sug gests why Johnson is account ed by many able observers about the most gifted politi cal leader of this generation. One secret of Johnson's success as a political leader is his habit of getting all his ducks in a row before he shoots. Consider, for exam ple, three of the things he has done in preparation for the coming session. First, he telephoned Presi dent Eisenhower, and talked with him at length about the release of the famous Gaither Report. Second, he notified all the Democratic senators of a party caucus to be held on Tuesday, January 7, the main purpose of which would be a briefing on the defense pic ture. And third, he notified Senators Styles Bridges and Everett Saltonstall, leading Republicans on his Prepared ness Subcommittee, of his in tention to call such a caucus, and suggested in effect that they do likewise. A LL three actions were typi x cal of the Johnson way of operating. Johnson undoubt edly realized that the release of the Gaither Report might become one of those side is sues which bury the . main issue. He therefore seized the bull by the horns, and called the President. The President took a firm line, asserting that the release of the report, which of course points up the weaknesses in this country's defense posture, would not be in the national interest. This is the kind of argu ment in which the President is likely to have the last word. Johnson is therefore expected to urge his Demo cratic flock not to make re lease "of the report a major issue. His calling of a Demo cratic caucus has other pur poses as well. For example, it should serve to fashion an agreed Democratic line on such touchy issues as reform of the Joint Chiefs of Staff system. Moreover, Johnson has been careful to assign Senator Stu art Symington a leading role in the briefing. He thus avoids any appearance of shunting aside the man who has the best claim to have been right from the start about the de fense issue. FINALLY, Johnson was also careful, not only to give Bridges and Saltonstall prior notification of his intention to hold a defense briefing, but also to offer them the services of his chief counsel if they wished to do likewise. He thus neatly cut the ground out from under Republican charges that he was using the defense issue for purely par tisan ends. Altogether, Johnson's han dling of the issue has been a -- jj Letters Prepared Presumably the Allied re plies will be coordinated through the North Atlantic Treaty organization and through direct exchanges be tween the individual govern ments. Replies Foretell Events In any event, they may foretell the course of attempts to ease the cold war during the next few weeks or even months. Russia, at the moment, is in a strong position after its startling successes in the earth-satellite nuclear missile fields. The United States also sees no use in holding anoth er "summit" conference un less there is some prospect of success. There is, in addition, the remarkably adept perform ance. Johnson, it should be said, is most sincerely con cerned about the national se curity, and his record on de fense has been better than most. But he is also capable of recognizing a decisive is sue when he sees one. And above all, he is shrewd enough to see that any ap pearance of political partisan ship in handling such an issue would destroy its effective ness once and for all. Thus Johnson's theme song has been "non-partisanship and responsibility," a theme he has stressed so often that some of his . colleagues have nicknamed him "Responsibil ity Johnson." His avowed purpose is to get a unanimous report from his committee, signed by all the Republicans as well as the Democrats. VET dispite the Johnson theme song it is perfectly obvious that the defense is sue nowadays has a profound political impact. It is an issue, moreover, which is made to order for Lyndon B. Johnson. Johnson insists, even to his closest friends, that he is not and will not become a candi date for his party's Presiden tial nomination in 1960. In the past, his warmest admir ers have agreed that he has had virtually no chance for the nomination in any event. The accident of his Southern birth, the oil interests which dominate his native state of Texas, and his heart attack have seemed together more than enough to bar his nom ination. But now there are beginning to be second thoughts. The defense issue is one of the few on which the Democratic party is united. It is precisely the kind of over riding national issue which willv tend to remove from Johnson the damaging sec tional label. Finally, of course, there is Johnson's remarkable gift for political leadership, which even his enemies concede him. Johnson is obviously still an outside bet for the nomination.. All the same, it will be interesting to see how this remarkably able man handles himself in the turbu lent months to come on Cap itol Hill. (Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Remaining Penguins Claimed Holding Own Portland (IP) The 16 re maining Emperor and the 11 remaining Adelie penguins here appeared to be holding their own today. One ill Em peror appeared to be respond ing to oxygen treatment and a sick Adelie, given up for dead a week ago, was improv ing after drug treatment. A lung disease has killed many of the birds. Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan y?T" -:r m Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. Moves in question whether to make any substantial concessions to Russia if new disarmament negotiations are started. Macmillan, in a broadcast to the British people Satur day, proposed "a solemn pact of non-aggression" as the first move in easing the cold war. Move Not Well Taken His move was not well re ceived in Washington, and he dragged back a bit on it yes terday. A Foreign office spokesman was authorized to say that Macmillan felt that a non-aggression Tpact must be part of a "package" deal on disarmament and other is sues. Adenauer had a private talk Sunday night with An drei A. Smirnov, Soviet am bassador to West Germany. It was only a 10-minute chat in a corner of a room in the Schaumburg palace In Bonn, but diplomats regarded the talk as most important Smir nov cancelled his Christmas tide vacation in Russia in hope that he could do some negotiating with Adenauer. It looks more and more as if Adenauer is going to take the lead in sounding out Rus sia on a possible cold war move. It looks more and more also, regardless of the Allied replies to Bulganin, that the first stage of any negotiations with Russia will be conducted secretly through, diplomatic channels. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. How About Electricity? To the Editor: Over the radios and in newspapers, the appliance companies are ad vertising for the public to go modern by using electricity, which is so much more con venient and clean and easy, when you modernize your home and kitchen by using electricity. But where is the electric ity? Every little gust of wind or rain and out goes the elec tricity. Saturday morning, Jan. 4, 1958, from 8 a.m. until 9:45 a.m. no electricity. That and cost is why I do not depend on electricity here in Oregon. But I was just wondering what the folks that have gone modern do in times like that, no electricity, and that does happen quite often. Would it help if the appli ance companys would try to sell the power company mod ern equipment and service? H. E. Braunig, Talent, Ore. Oregon Gets Fund for Soil Rehabilitation Washington (IP) The Ag riculture Department Monday allocated $150,000 to Oregon for emergency soil rehabilita tion. The allotment was part of $2,843,000 for 10 states where cropland was damaged by freezes, floods and hurri canes. THANKS To the wonderful people of the Rogue River Valley for making 1 957 such t wonderful year for us. Our Lord's richest blessing it our wish for you In 1958. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Chapman OFFICE MACHINES 204 N. Riverside TAKE A GOOD LOOK! Don't just renew your policy, review it as well. Household furnishings and home costs have doubled since 1 940. Make sure you have adequate replace ment coverage. Bill Fish
