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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE : ; MEDFORDtkTRIBUNE Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MtUf UKU ritLN i LXi to 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP .2-8141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor HARRY CHIPMAV, Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Societv Editor DALE ERICKSON. Cireul a ti on Mgr. An IndeDendent NewsDaner Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Coov 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year S 15 00 uany ana sunaay e mos. 8 uo Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er, latent, ana on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford oincial Paper or Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire" MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC.. Of fices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis. At lanta, Vancouver. B. C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ; NATION A I EDITORIAL Wl ASSOCfATCO?N ; 3 1 i u u Flight ro Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. :i0 YEARS AGO :jan. 16. 1948 (Tuesday) - Special program scheduled -over radio station KYJC ob serving the 60th wedding an -niversary of Mr. and Mrs. J, :S. Aldredge of 517 Beatty st., IMedford. From Arthur Perry's Ye : Smudge Pot, column: "Mer- ;chants of Sweet Home, in pro test to long skirts worn by Tthe fair sex, have banded to gether and vowed to grow -1890 whiskers." -.20 YEARS AGO -Jan. 16. 1338 (Wednesday) - Sun shines in Medford and -valley for first time since dense foe enshrouded the countryside Dec. 31. M. N. Hogan elected presi dent at a meeting of the board :of directors of the Commun lity Chest of Medford. SO YEARS AGO Jan. IS, 1928 (Monday) A modern 10-story office and business building may be erected in Medford, accord ing to Earl C. Miller whose company erected the Medi cal Arts building in Portland. Two hundred young trees have been received at the city playground from Mrs. Grace Nye of Cascade Gorge; they will be planted by Boy Scouts and Floral society. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 16. 1918 (Wednesday) From "local and personal column: "The Westerlund or chards this winter and fall planted 400 acres to wheat. JBecause of the high price of -wheat the whole valley has "shown a big increase in wheat acreage." Boys as well as girls are learning to knit in the Jun ior Red Cross at Washington school. Whaf s Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or -six is good. Z 1. Matzoth. which is served 'during the Jewish Passover, is leavened, or unleavened, bread? : 2. Bible: According to Gen esis 14 was Abraham contem porary with Amraphel or Sargon? " 3. In which government de partment is the Office of In dian Affairs? ; . 4. "Ah," "Oh," and "Lo" "are what parts of speech? " 5: The next term of U. S. President begins at noon on 3vhat date in January? " 6. Beaufort's scale is used $q measure the weight of .horses, strength of wind, or peed of ships? I ; 7. Basking, hammerhead, 3nan-eater, thresher, tiger, and jvhale are all names for what large fish? Z 1 8. What color ii claret "wine? 9. In law, a witness having opposing interests, is called a e witness? : HO. What is the .predomin ant religion in Mexico? : .'Answers: 1. Unleavened tread. 2. Amraphel (Hammu iabi. the lawgiver of ancient Babylon.) 3. Department of Jhe Interior. 4. Interjections. 5. January 20. 6. Strength of wind. 7. The shark. 8. Red., a k j , it0cc. ifl. Roman nu'""0 3Tnth15e.v I They Don 't Really Trust 'Ike' We sometimes, many people m Oregon and if they do take it, We don't refer to the weekly's statistical tax and financial reports, to its factual and biographical coverage of the regular sessions of the also OK. But to its political opinions, as express ed by the head of its political department, Ralph T. Moore. We don't often read dictable, always take the same old line that is "view with alarm" when the Democrats are in power and "point with pride" when the Republi cans hold sway. But of late there has change m this familiar, and somewhat prehis toric, pattern. PRESIDENT Eisenhower has now been in of- fice for 5 years, promises to remain for 3 years more, and yet m Voter we note that the and solvent Mr. Moore has resumed his role as a male Cassandra and views the future with almost as much forboding and years he viewed and of the "New Deal." How come? The only answer we Oregon Voter's political Strongly Opposed to "Ike" publicanism" as he was Deal." He also believes stalwarts, that the President has strayed from the straight and narrow path of those early days when he castigated "TVA" as "creeping social ism. For in the present reviewing the 5th year of tion feels impelled to view with great alarm as follows: "In review of 1957 one can but feel some un easiness over evidence of solid entrenchment of the socialist concept in our body politic. No nation thus afflicted has ever survived." "THAT is certainly rather a horrendous observa tion regarding the G.O.P. conception of the nresent "statp nf rho union " present state soi tne union. iJUt K.l.M. IS quite inff about it JHIS time, however, tne past, gu uav;i. tu me eei;uiiu uciiwe ui jjuii Run fnr its nnlitfp nl rnnfpnt.s hnt. vpnrs nnrl vpars uf 4.i.4. t ueuie mat, lu iiuxib uuier man mat gieau xvevuiu- tionary hero, Benjamin Franklin. Yes, it seems that wise, canny and resourceful patriot following the original national constitu- tlOnal Convention Said people a republican form of government (with 1 n ti tt i l. l xi. !. t. it. a small r" please) but the question was whether the people had the character and enterprise to kFFP ir rm.. tt-a ii j.jue vuu;r qune cieany uuuuus uiey uiu nave these qualities, and seems to be sure they haven't o-nt. tViMvi nnw ' At least The Voter of the country, General Eisenhower not with- cfnrlino- SldllUlllg. For example, Mr. Moore writes it is quite cer- tain the Honorable Ben . i: . 1. were alive today, have present set-up With Its which must be "dislodged" IF THIS GREAT REPUBLIC IS "TO ENDURE" as The Oregon Voter has. STRONG words! A n A titT of ci TT For it is not difficult the changes that must States of America, according to The Voter, is to endure. Commentator Moore in detail so we can only j i i certain we are not iar wrong wnen we mciuae in this list of "gaudy" and tfio fnllnwiner bocial security. Old Age pensions. unempioyment insurance. Federal power and loans. Farm subsidies. Labor unions. '- i eaerai aia to schools. rrl 1 Li. inert: are unuouuteuiy inure uiai aie ana- thema and spell America s doom, according to the Ancient Republicanism as represented by the TT,, ..S , a j. i it. 1 Voter s political commentator, and there may be some in the above that might be accepted by them, not because there is any sary in a continued program of constructive progress, but because they are IN our accepted r.,Tcw -F Jnmnvnm, PRACTICAL way to get Why? Because the unfortunately for Mr. Moore this is still a govern ment OF the people But. all in all. we believe that eives a fair picture of the "state of the political spoKesman views FINALLY, if wise and m . - . . time sizing up tne situation, we ieei ne wouia have no more USe for ,1 i i i ism. Liia.il ne nau iui 7 . nnr Tr VMM vOJlrS nan ileal IJ ww j v.- Thursday, January 16, 1958 not often wonder how take the "Oregon Voter take it seriously. which are excellent. Nor state legislature, which are them for they are so pre been an extraordinary its current issue of the extremely serious-minded alarm that for so many still views the theories can imagine is that the mentor, is almost as and his "MODERN Re- to F.D.R. and the "New with some other G.O.P. situation Mr. Moore in Republican administra SeriOUS and UnCOmpriS- The Voter doesn't, as in j.T-i i. that they had given the t.- j:j i. ...... trembles for the future Franklin would, if he tu' it at. as "dim a view" of the gaudy gimmicks , ail OI to enumerate some of be made, if the United doesn't enumerate them guess, but we feel fairly -i i i expendable "gadgets" JI. belief in them as neces- Tho nnnnnnntc caa n n them out. people want them and nation" as The Voter's it. shrewd old Ben i ranklin ,4V. onrl crmr. o eV.rr J 11 I ANCIENT Republican-' i?. j. m- uustuiaiiuou imviam. " ' K.W .K I j JT YJASS HIGH AS Today fir Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann THE PRESIDENT'S MILITARY POLICY Measured in money, the President's program does not register a conviction on his part that there is a crisis in is our affairs calling for ex t r a o r dinary m e a s ures. Budgets are c o mplicated affairs and are not easy to in- Walter Lippmann terpret. But the President's budget message gives some figures which are enlightening and which provide a signifi cant measure of the Presi dent's response to the post Sputniks situation. The figures are for "total government expenditures (1) for all procurement to equip our forces an those of our alhes with weaPns. shiPs planes and (2) for atomic energy, and (3) for all scientific research and educa- tion." The figures, that is to atSTSLS'Sd'trS mg mr men to invent ana xo perfect the weapons. The figures do not measure mili- tary expenditures for pay, for housing and construction,' for .da clothing, recreation, JiJter Specific respond of the Eisenhower administra Jjn t0 the present phase of the race of armaments. The over.all figures for 1957, for the fiscal year which ended June 6U 01 last sum mer, were $20.5 billion. For the current fiscal year, 1958, which win end on June 30 the coming summer, the $2emioneFo?Themfisca year 1959, which begins next JuJy the figures will be about $21 6 bmion In shQrt the, total increase for weapons and research will be just a little more than a billion dol- lars next year as compared with the pre-sputniks year iao' rTtHE section of the message - which gives these figures is entitled, "Changes in Em phasis." These words define exactly the President's ba sic policy. The total effort for military weapons is not to be much greater. But the extra money which is to be spent for mis ses an( rented things is to IA Jinon dollars from a cut- back in the "older types of wpannns nnrl pnninmpnt. ; --r- 1ITHAT is the explanation, TT we mav ask for tho dis play between what the Presi- dent is asking of the country and what, following the Gai- ther and Rockefeller reports. the country expected to be asked for? The root of the matter is, I venture to think, a difference in military doc iriiie, The President's budeet rest on the proposition that if there not likely t0Jf total war, or even a big limited and localized war. For that reason, we have in this budget the chanses in nphaa - which strategic deterrents at the ex- pense of the older and more conventional weapons. J.NOW the amount of money that can be spent effectively and rapidly upon ' these experi mental and untested weapons is not enormously great, and while the President's estima tes may be somewhat less uvless. Spent' they are HPHE government could spend A a great deal more on mm tary defense if it accepted iwu iuv.uj, v-'ii mx. vnc iiunu, a i could spend more if the Pre sident believed it desirable to hnilrl nr raniHlv th oldpr . ... services in reaamess ior i;;j . a it tu miiutu vvaia, cuiu u., vu r. - T 1 COULD REACH .' other hand, he accepted the idea of a large program of shelters against radiation for the civilian population. It is here, I think, on these two points, that the President has diverged from the more or less expert groups who are advocating considerably larg er military budgets. The crucial question in this difference of opinion is whe ther, and to what extent, a strategic balance of power is deterrent. I myself believe that this question cannot be answered categorically and by the mere attempt to measure fire power. The only answer possible is to say that strategic deterrence will work if, but only if, it is accompanied by a diplomacy of accommoda tion which is based upon a re cognition of the realities of the balance of power, (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. 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. Trade More Vital Than Aid To the Editor: I concurred whole heartedly with your editorial, which I presume you could call 'Observations from Mars'. I think all possibilities should be explored and even exhausted to reach some type of settlement with the Russian Leaders on this absurd arms race between the two major powers of the world; and be lieve, as you do, that they are not about to commit suicide any more than we are. I was distressed with Eisen hower's pronouncement that he would not meet with them, particularly after stating in his budget address to the Congress that he would go the extra mile, for Peace at any time. It appears, as Harry Tru man says, that Eisenhower has been told what to do all of his life and the praetorian guard at the White House is writing his speeches, and as they have been for the last several years telling him what to say, do and where to go and he follows along meekly just as he did in the Army The largest single menace from Russia today appears to the writer to be not so much the missile, Sputnik, IRBM, ICBM field as it is in the economic cold war offensive We have granted, free of charge, tremendous military allocations to everybody from Pakistan to Tito for landing fields and missile based launching pads, (which inpi dentally we won't have for several years) while Russia has carefully chosen the un committed populations of the world such as South America and the Malay Peninsula, plus India and the Orient, to offer them credits on trade. These people need to sell their raw materials and Russia in turn is reaching that stage of in dustrial development where they can export manufactured goods, and in making these barter arrangements with these countries they are com manding their respect on a business like basis by trading with them. We, on the other hand are handing out billions free grat is in so-called Economic Aid, which certainly has not com manded respect as is evi denced by the Dulles policy, where the United States has sunk to a new low in inter national prestige. I would recommend that the Congress re-evaluate the entire Foreign Aid Program and place it on a business like basis, where we go out active ly to trade with a profit, over French Premier Faces Test on First of Three Crucial Issues By CHARLES M. McCANN, United Press Correspondent French Premier Felix Gail- lard has taken the offensive on the first of three bie is- sues which could bring his downfall. The National Assembly, the contro lling house of Par liament, start ed a new ses sion Tuesday. To the sur nrise of deDU- Charles M. .. ,;nj McCann llco u"""u at once demanded a vote of confidence on his proposal to postpone $12 million in pay ments to war veterans. The vote is to be taken to day. French political experts predict Gaillard will survive it largely because members do not want a new cabinet crisis right now. , To Face Other Tests But a victory will only bring the 38-year-old Premeir, who took office last Nov. 5 after a 37-day cabinet crisis, closer to two even bigger tests of his strength. The first is Gaillard's plan for home rule for Algeria, which he hopes may prove the first step toward ending the nationalist rebellion that has drained French blood and money for more than three years. The second is his plan for constitutional reform, design ed to end the incessant series of cabinet overthrows that have weakened France's posi tion as a world power. Unless Gaillard can survive the entire world, and I am confident that we can out-sell and out-produce Russia and thus command the respect of those people with whom we do business internationally. Dana McBarron Rogue River, Ore. ' Now He's Seen Everything To the Editor: The writer has now seen everything and can spend the rest of his days in peace, witn aosoiuteiy nothing to worry about. Appearing on the front page of Monday's paper was an article stating that "The Water Resources Development Corp. of Denver, Colo., had been piven a state license to regulate the weather from April 1 to Oct. 15, 1958" That IS a news item extra ordinary. Now all that us guys on the river have to do is get them a license for the rest of the year. (Possibly they would make a special job rate to be busy the entire year in this area.) Our concern about being washed out by high water would then be a thing of the past. We could then just Fish and Hunt all the time, our minds at ease. And look at aU the work it would save the Reclamation Service and the Army En gineers. And think of all the expensive surveys that wouldn't have to be 'made again. We might even get our highway patched up again, real good. Awful simple ain't it? We thought it was such a diffi cult problem, too. Bill Brewster, Trail, Ore. 4-H Does It Again! To the Editor: We aren't ex actly sure of how to say it but feel that it, definitely. should be said! 4-H has done it again! This versatile organization seems to hit upon every imaginable phase of training that is pos sible for . developing young people into worthwhile cit izens. The 4-H group we have in mind is one of two such groups in Southern Oregon! They call themselves, "The Pacifiers" .... and truly they are. Yes this group special izes in child care. At a recent social function of our community, the Paci ficers donated their services. With the assistance of their leader, Mrs. Dave Harbison, they attended 40 pre-school children with such ease that many of the mothers remark ed on their capabilities. From the 4-p program this group receives training in child care skills that include many actual hours of experi ence as well as helpful know ledge gained from films and special instructions. Since this group can re ceive pay only by their indi vidual 'baby-sitting' service we would like to give them a plug by mentioning their names: Sandra Wallis, Con nie Gregg, Helen Vickoren, Rickey Meyers, Sharon Sim mons, b n a r o n i,artwrignt, Sharon Williams, Mar tha Armstrong, Marjy Andrews, Charlene Andrews and Flor ence Oscar. Mrs. Ed Kimmel Mrs. Bert. E. Simmons Eagle Point Jayceettes Eagle Point, Ore. votes of confidence on these two issues, both highly contro versial, France will have to look around for its 25th pre mier since its liberation in 1944. The war veterans issue is a comparatively minor one. But it is a test of Gaillard's entire financial program. Budget Previously Approved This program is an "auster ity" one. It; is incorporated in the 1958 budget. The budget as a whole was approved by the assembly last December. But now it is being consider ed in detail. As in the United States and other countries, any attempt to chop down veteran bene Matter of Fact THE PRESIDENT'S PROPOSAL Washington President Eis enhower's letter to Premier Bulganin is not only well- written and forceful coun ter - propa ganda, it is al so a major state paper, rep resenting the kind of basic national policy d e c i -sion which Stewart Alsop oniy me pres ident can make. The decision is to press seriously for an agreement with the Soviets to eliminate the long range bal listic missiles from the arse nals of both sides. That is the meaning, of course, "of the President's pro posal that "outer space should be used only for peaceful pur poses." The proposal is at least comparable in signifi cance to the old Acheson- Lil- ienthal-Baruch plan for con trol of nuclear weapons. As in that case, nothing at all may come of it. All the same, be cause the President's decision embodies a major national policy, it is worth trying to understand the reasoning which lies behind it. The proposal raises two obvious questions. Is an agre ement to eliminate the long range ballistic missiles tech nically feasible? And would such an agreement be in the national interest of the United States? rpHOSE who favored the pro - posal inside the govern ment (they faced bitter opposi tion) answer both questions in the affirmative. Their rea soning is laregly based on the nature of the ballistic missiles at the present state of their development. In the first place, a ballistic missile follows a trajectory which carries it to an altitude of several hundred miles. Any test-firing of a missile is thus subject to detection at a great distance by line-of-sight radar, as our own 'Turkish radar in stallations, which have detec ted hundreds of Soviet mis sile firings, have proved. Thus a limited number of agreed radar installations would be sufficient to detect any il legal test-firings on either side. Obviously, this country has no intention of agreeing simply to cease testing mis siles. But it is also consider ed technically feasible to rend er existing missiles useless. For in the present state of the art, both ICBMs require an elaborate base structure. Each base is like a small, permanent factory, since the liquid fuel must be constantly manufactured on the spot. The Pentagon has already publicly announced the pre cise location of our first pro jected ICMB base, simply be cause it will in any event be impossible to hide the huge Church Services For those who are actively engaged in the work of their respective churches, we believe that baptisms, weddings, and funerals should right fully be conducted in the church. These are, and should be, events of religious background and sig nificance and their ceremonies belong in the church. For that reason it is our policy to make no extra charge for funeral services conducted in the church. DAY OR NIGHT -PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS fits is certain to meet power ful opposition. . What Gaillard wants to do is to hold over until 1959 the third and final installment of a special payment to veterans who were prisoners of war and also to postpone install ments on general pensions. No sooner had parliament met Tuesday than protests started to pour into Gaillard's office by mail and telegraph. Ten thousand veterans held an angry mass meeting in Paris. But Gaillard decided to face the issues squarely. He asked, and got, the consent of the cabinet to demfend an imme diate vote of confidence. By Stewart Alsop installation, which will cost in the neighborhood of $100 million. "DECAUSE the bases are so visible and elaborate, a limited and manageable in spection system would be suf ficient to locate missile bases on both sides. In fact, our own intelligence already has a rather precise idea of the location of existing Soviet missile bases, and once the bases were located and dis mantled, neither side could threaten the other with de cisive surprise attack, simply because the weapons are use less without the base. So much for technical feasi bility. As for the national in terest, one point is obvious, that the Soviets are already far ahead of this country in the missile field. But that is not all. By the very nature of the weapon, the ballistic missiles favor a closed society over an open society. For a closed society, they offer the ideal weapon of sur prise attack. For an open soc iety, they impose the almost impossible requirement of an instant, on-the-spot decision to strike back, which is in the nature of things almost impos sible in a democracy. Take our own ICBM base mention ed above. Soviet ICBMs will obviously be zeroed in on that base. Given less than 20 minutes warning time, who is to de cide to fire the missiles be fore itself is obliterated? And even if an automatic (and most undemocratic) on - the- spot decision is possible, will that be enough? For in the present state ol the art. a liquid fueled missile requires complex ' topping up pre parations before it Can be fired. These preparations take, not minutes, but hours rpHESE are some of the argu- ments which persuaded the President to make the control of ballistic missiles the key proposal in his letter to Bulganin and a key point of American national policy. There are, as there always are, arguments on the other side. One such argument is that the Soviets might secret ly perfect air-breathing mis siles whiph could not be sure ly detected by radar, or solid fuel missiles which would not require the easily detectable base system. In any event, it is no doubt unlikely that the Soviets will negotiate seriously now that we have, by our folly, allow ed them to gain a decisive lead in the missiles. Even if they do, extremely powerful voices will be raised in this country, especially in the Pen tagon and inindustry, against any real agreement. But when all this is said, it is still true that the President's proposal is a hopeful sign of reviving initiative, after the long years of drift. (c) 1958 New York Heral Tribune Inc. In fhe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS What of Ike's budget? Is it a goodie? Or is it a baddie? I WOULDN'T know. But, judging by the comment on the wires as this is written, it seems to be about as pop ular as a polecat at a pink tea. EN. Thomas White, air force " chief of staff, thinks a shortage of funds may put a crack in the nation's first line of defense the starategic air command, upon which we must rely until we get inter continental missiles. He bases his opinion on SAC's failure to get 700 mil lion dollars in the new Eisen hower budget. SO MUCI ion O MUCH for military opin- must be and WILL BE taken into consideration. Let's pass on now to the politicians. Farm belt congressmen say proposed budget cuts in ag riculture conservation and lending programs are "unwise and unrealistic." Rep. Jamie Whitten of Mississippi says de fense needs can be taken care of by cuttting out waste in the present defense program RA THER THAN REDUCING FARM AID. AREGON'S Senator Morse eomDlains that the two million dollars requested for the Pacific Northwest's John Day dam is "only a fraction of what is needed." He ads: "This budget continues the policy of starving federal multipurpose development in an attempt to force its bank rupt partnership upon the people who have repeatedly rejected it at the polls." EASTERN Oregon's Al Ull man joins Senator Morse in "deploring the two million dollars John Day dam didn't get. He says: "We need to restore farm markets and farm purchasing power. We need to help small business and encourage small industries. "Defense spending alone will not solve this crisis." OH, SHUCKS! I forgot. There is one Pacific Northwest senator who LIKES the budget. He is Sen. War ren Magnuson,. of Washing ton, who says he is VERY MUCH pleased with it because it recommended 20 million dollars for Ice Harbor dam In Washington state. He says he has asked for $570,000 more in planning funds for Lower Monumental dam in the Columbia Basin. AT THIS point, let's skip to another development in the news. In Washington yesterday, members of the congress, along with federal communic ations commission members and r e p o rters, submitted themselves as a guinea pig audience for a test demonstra tion of the new "subliminal perception "technique in TV advertising in which mes sages are flashed on the screen so fast you can't see 'em, but they are supposed to influence you to do what the messages tell you to do. In this case, the subliminal messages commanded the test audience to BUY POPCORN. This morning's dispatches are vague as to the results, and we'll have to wait for the re ports of the popcorn sellers to see what happened. I CAN'T help wishing that instead of "buy popcorn,' they had flashed this com mand on the screen: "BE STATESMEN not de magogs." - I f subliminal perception could put that command over in our congress if would be something WONDERFUL.