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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFOKD-jjITRIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregon Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO as North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 poPTST W RX7HL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER, Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 ; SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai! In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford JHialPaperof Jackson Connty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertisine Reoresentative : 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 NATIONAL EDITORIAL Iassoc-Tatccxn U flight 'o Time Bedford and Jackson County Bistory frcm the files of The Wail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and SO years ago. lf YEARS AGO Feb. 5, 1948 (Thursday) -Residents to vote on $400,- 0Q0 bond issue for improve ment of the city water system aa special election Feb. 24. 3t is important to the Unit ed States' future security that it; mold Japanese friendship by helping them rebuild their country, W. H. Fluhrer tells Kiwanis club members. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 5. 1938 (Sunday) -Senator A. E. Reames an nounces that during his ab sence in Washington, D. C, his law business would be in charge of Medford Attorney Frank P. Farrell. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Wed nesday was Ground Hog day, but no definite knowledge is at hand whether or not the gentleman saw his shadow. 39 YEARS AGO Feb. 5. 1928 (Sunday) Membership campaign is underway to swell ranks of the Medford post of the Am erican Legion to 500 mem bers. ;Community hospital shows 33 per cent growth over pre vious year, according to di rectors. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 5. 1918 (Tuesday) -The Beaver Portland Cem ent plant at Gold Hill starts operations after shutting down last month for reorgani zation and repairs. CFrom local and personal column: "Registration of all German aliens over 14 years old in the Medford area is continuing, according to the pplice chief." What's Your I.Q.? f4ine or ten correct it superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. ;1. If you broke your cla viqle, would that be your col lar bone, arm, or nose? 2. Bible: The story of Dan iel; in the lions den appears in hich book? S3. Alaska is about two, three oi four, times the size of "fexas? Zi. Is Red Dog the name of aTfish, card game, or Austra lian bush dog? 5. Name the author of the book "Grapes of Wrath." 6. Is milk, beef, or wheat t$e largest single source of ItS. farm income? -7. What book do the Gide ons place in hotel rooms? Z8. What nickname and bur glar's tool (for prying opin windows) are spelled the same? Z9. Which cities in Minne sota are nicknamed the "Twin Cities"? S 10. Was Japan atom bomber once, twice, or thrice? ; Answers: 1. Collar bone. 2. Daniel. 3. About two limes le size. 4. Type of card game. X John Steinbeck. 6. Milk. 7. The Bible. 8. "Jimmy". 9. St. Paul and Minneapolis. 10. Twice. PSYCHOANALIST DIES ;New York (IP) Dr. Philip Raphael Lehrman, 62, a pio neer in American psycho analysis, died at his home Tuesday. He was clinical pro fessor of neurology and psy chiatry at the New York Uni-versity-Bellevue Medical Cen ter and visiting psychiatrist at Bellevue hospital. Klamath Solutiom One of the great shames in United States history is the manner in which this country's first occupants, the Indians, have been treated. The white man's record is spotted with broken treaties and broken promises, with cruelty and double dealing with the people whose first and greatest offense was to be technologically inferior to the invaders. In recent years, as the passions engendered by battle have cooled, and as the record has become more generally known, the U.S. has had a tendency to do a bit better by the Indians although just how much is still open to question. A LL this is history, but it is history that is still "being wrritten. Across the hills in Klamath county there is a problem which is now being -debated, not only there but also in Washington, D.C., and which concerns both the future of the Klamath Indian tribe, and the economic for many vears to come. There are many complexities to the problem, but in its simplest terms a balance between what to expect in simple justice from the government, on the one hand, and a protection of the state's economy, on the other. THE Klamath tribe is of federal guardianship, as are some others. This involves an end to the reservation, and payment to individual Indians of their pro rata share of the assets of the tribe, which consist largely of a huge stand of prime Ponderosa pine, one of the largest and most valuable But the problems involved in such a move are considerable. Some of the Indians do not. The tribe is divided approximately 50-50 on the question. And how to pay the Indians their share of the assets?, The forest, which is valued at more than $118,000,000, is not the sort of thing one can put on the market one day, sell the next and that's that.' fT COULD, presumably, be sold piecemeal to the highest bidder. But if this were done, with some four billion board feet of timber being dumped on the market all at once, the price would more than likely the Indians of the values to which they are entitled. In addition, such a procedure would violate a principle which, through the years, has come to be a cardinal one in timber management that of sustained yield, preserving continuing values in the industry which furnishes the biggest pay roll in the state. No, the people of the state cannot afford to have thrown away this asset in such haphazard fashion. Nor would it be justice to the Indians. , IXT'HAT, then, remains? ' There' is a possibility that some of the large timber companies could buy large portions of the timber tract, with a guarantee that they be harvested on a sustained yield basis. But there is no guarantee that they will make any such purchase, or, if they did, there is no guarantee that the , tracts they were willing to purchase would be of sufficient size to save the major values of the reservation. In addition, there are the ticklish problems of the Indians' fishing and hunting rights, and the problem of what to do with the other parts of the reservation, including grazing lands, farm lands and marshlands (which are natural wild life areas). THE remaining possibility is federal purchase of the reservation, and for it to be adminis tered under the Forest Service policy of maxi mum beneficial use, with the rights of the Indians to be worked out while the values of the reserva tion are being preserved. Both Senator Richard L. Neuberger and Sec retary of the Interior Fred Seaton have proposed legislation to this end. The bills differ in some instances with each other, but both recognize the desirability of federal purchase over other meth ods'. The big question, of course, is whether the Congress can be persuaded to make an invest ment of the size necessary probably more than $121,000,000 at a time when economy in non defense areas is being stressed. OEARINGS on this subject are under way in Washington this week. We hope they gain attention from the members of congress, for only if they are fully informed as to the ticklish and difficult problems involved can they be hoped to make an intelligent decision. The federal government owes to the Indians what is rightfully theirs. They owe them not only the individuals' pro rata share of the tribal assets, but, perhaps more important, they owe them the chance to become educated, responsible members of society something which so far has been largely impossible through the reservation set-up. And, while it is largely a federal problem, the government owes this state the consideration of not doing something which could badly damage the local economy by destroying a tremendous asset. At the same time the obligation to preserve, Wednesday. February S. 1958 well-being of this area it boils down to finding the Indians have a right one of those the govern- left in the U.S. want termination ; others drop sharply, depriving 'AM3QDY WANNA PLAY S0MS Syrian-Egyptian Merger is Threat To King Hussein By HAROLD GUARD United Press Correspondent London (IP) The merger of Egypt and Syria into the United Arab Republic is a matter of deep concern for King Hussein of Jordan. Reports from Amman indi cate Hussein already has in itiated moves for a "King's Union" with Iraq and Saudi Arabia to counter the "Re publican Union" of Egypt and Syria. Jordan's influential news paper Falastin urged strong ly, in an editorial, union with Iraq. There were reports that Hussein had called for a "sum mit" meeting with King Saud and King Feisal to discuss their policy toward the Egypt Syria merger. Favorite "Whipping Boy" Perhaps no other Arab state has greater reason to look askance at the union than Jordan. Hussein has been the favorite "whipping, boy" of Egyptian and Syrian propa gandists. Egyptians and Sy rians were behind the at tempted coup d'etat against Hussein last year. Now, some observers point out, Jordan could provide the land link between the Egypt ian and Syrian parts of the United Arab Republic. Authoritative quarters did not expect three kings to be critical of the Egypt-Syria move toward Arab unity. But none of them was expected to fall in with the idea of feder ation under Egyptian Presi dent Gamal Abdel Nasser. It was believed that the trio would move cautiously because both Saudi Arabia and Iraq depend on Syria for the safe passage of their oil. From this angle it was ex pected that the big oil com-. panies would step up their plans to avoid pipelines over Arab soil by linking Persian lines to Turkey at Iskenderun. In London oilmen said the Kirkuk oilfields in northern Iraq could be joined to this system. They said the big com panies were expected now to press for a quick decision. Turkey and Iran already have reached agreement on the route and on Persian cred its to Turkey for building it. King Saud was believed to have other reasons for cau tion. His court was understood to be split between those who favor and those who oppose present policies in Egypt and Syria. Hussein was also said to have reasons to tread careful ly. Jordanian exiles in Syria were known to be maintain ing contact with Communists inside Jordan. Hussein's former chief of staff, Col. Ali Abu - Nuwar who led the abortive coup d' etat against the king last year, is in Cairo, urging Jordanians to go the same way as Egypt and Syria. King Feisal of Iraq also was said to have its ticklish prob lems in northern Iraq where this asset for generations in the future is a press ing one. Both principles and practicalities are involved, and we hope the Congress can be made to see that federal ownership is the only true solution. JF, HOWEVER, Congress won't budge, those who know how serious the problem is should be prepared to step in with an alternative plan to salvage what can be saved, with a maximum of benefit to all concerned. And this is tough But it is also urgent, for it the existing termi nation bill is allowed to stand, on Aug, 1 it will become effective; the reservation will be broken up, and everyone will lose the Indians, the lumber industry as a whole, the federal govern ment, and future generations of Oregonians. " E.A. THREET-HANOEO fiSKET0All?' the common frontier maic.es it imperative to maintain friend ship with Syria. Independence "Vital" Britain and the United States have both declared the independence and integrity of Jordan to be "vital." In August last year the United States sent its Sixth Fleet to the east Mediterran ean to support Hussein when he was being threatened by his left-wing opponents egged on by Egypt and Syria. British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and U. S. Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles agreed during their Washington talks last year that Hussein should be sup ported. It was against this back drop that the three Arab kings were expected to take stock of their position and decide what to do keeping in mind that Jordan, Lebanon and Israel are the three countries astride the overland routes between Egypt and Syria. Many Favor Retaining KOAC Salem (IP) The first of a series of hearings on whether the state should sell state- owned radio station KOAC at Corvallis was held here Tues day afternoon. Most of the 50 persons who appeared were strongly In fa vor of retaining the station rather than selling it and de voting full time and money to educational television alone. Dean J. W. Sherburne of the General Extension Divi sion of the State System of Higher Education said there was no doubt the station would be continued this year, but that the future was beset with economic difficulties. Superintendent of Public Instruction Rex Putnam noti fied the group he was well satisfied with the station's programming for the public schools. The Oregon audio - visual association strongly opposed the sale. Secretary of State Mark Hatfield presented a state ment in which he said he felt not enough time had elapsed during simultaneous program ming of KOAC-radio and KOAC-TV to make a deter mination. Hatfield suggested that the radio station be continued through the biennium so that the relative values of televi sion and radio could be de termined. Further hearings were scheduled in Eugene today, Portland, Feb. 6 and Red mond, Feb. 7. Brussels (IP) Jungle beasts in the Belgian Congo Pavilion at the 1958 Universal Exhibi tion here will be cooled by an air conditioner manufactured in La Crosse, Wis. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS President Eisenhower breakfasted the other morn ing at a downtown Washing ton hotel with the members of the Republican national committee. The breakfast led off a high ly political day. This, you know, is an elec tion year, with control of the congress at stake in the Nov ember voting. TKE told his hearers there are no secret weapons in politics. The ingredients of success, he said, are GOOD CANDIDATES, faith in a good cause and HARD WORK. He added: "When we have all three, we have the formula for victory. THEN he gave them the word with the bark on. Thrusting out his chin, he said he has COMPLETE CON FIDENCE in EACH of his cabinet officers, thinks ALL of them are doing a fine job and has no intention of re placing ANY of them. That is to say: He ISN'T going to fire Sec retary of Agriculture Benson who is regarded by weak kneed Republicans as a liabil ity rather than an asset in the coming campaign. LET'S put it this way: Secretary Benson has honesty and courage. In his own mind, he is certain that the tough and knotty farm rjroblem must be solved the RIGHT way if it is to be solved at all, and he is equally certain that the right way is the HARD way. He dosen't hesitate to say so. It is interesting to learn that Ike is going to back him to the finish. IN HIS pep talk at the break fast, President Eisenhower made a couple of good cracks. Warning against letting the kind of campaign program he had outlined be drowned in "dismal wails of despair" from the demagogues, he defined a demagogue in these terse words: "A demagogue is a person who ROCKS THE BOAT HIMSELF so as to persuade everybody that there's a ter rible storm on the water." Admitting that the political prophets think the odds are running heavily against the GOP, he said: "These calculations over look this decisive element: What counts isn't necessarily the SIZE OF THE DOG IN THE FIGHT the deciding factor is the SIZE OF THE FIGHT IN THE DOG." Siiverton Scout To Meet President Siiverton (IP) An 18-year-old Eagle scout from Silver ton, Robert Vetter, was sched uled to fly to Washington to day to meet President Eisen hower and other top govern ment officials as a representa tive of scout councils in four Northwest states and Alaska. Vetter won the trip in speaking and essay competi tion with other Boy Scouts in region 11 composed of 27 councils in Oregon, Washing ton, Idaho, Montana and Alas ka. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Vetter and a sen ior at Siiverton high school. White ants are not ants but termites. Try and By BENNETT CERF- 'fNE OF THE BEST laughs I ever got," recalls Jack Benny, "was the time a fellow playing a holdup man pointed a gat at me and barked, 'Your money or your life' and I took a full minute to decide. A piece of business they also liked was when Rochester was sharpening a pencil and I suggested, 'How's for sharpening that in the fire place?" The new housekeeper, ac cused of helping herself to the master's liquor when he was not cn the premises, waxed properly indignant. "I'll have you know, sir," she declared heatedly, "that I come from honest English parents." "I'm not concerned with your English parents," countered the master. "What's worrymg me is your Scotch extraction." We loved the reply a famous British astronomer gave a reporter at Idlewild who asked about flying saucers. Snapped the astrono mer, "No comet!" . .,,.' O 1958. by Bennett Cerf. Di.tributed by Kin, Feature. Syndicate. -L DAIRY - East Main St. Yes, our Cream can and our eggs beaten Stassen's Eyeing . Governorship Of Pennsylvania Not 13 .r TVTT r WIT rM i i- 1... ln ! By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) If Harold E. Stassen is to be dropped, as reported, from his disarma ment job with the Eisenhow er administra tion, it is not s u r p rising that he hopes to land in the Pennsylvan i a governor's of fice. A Repub- Lyie c. Wilson lican S e nate seat will be up for grabs this year in Pennsylvania, the term of Sen. Edward Martin being about to expire. Stas sen seems not to be interested in that. Much elamor and more publicity attaches to members of the U.S. Senate. But more often than not senators, com pared to the governors of their states, are political ci phers. Stassen is aware of that. He used to be a governor him self. He Was Youngest He was the youngest gov ernor in the United States in 1939 after his election by Minnesota Republicans. Stas sen was twice more elected, rpsienine in 1943 for naval service. That is quite a record for a man who now is merely in his 51st year. As recently as 1941 Stassen still was getting youth awards. The International Society of Christian Endeavor selected him in that year for its international youth's dis tinguished service citation. Three years later he was seek ing the Republican presiden tial nomination. He then was 37 years old. Stassen tried again in 1948 but lost the nomination to Thomas E. Dewey of New York, another young man in a hurry. The man from Min nesota then made a move which surprised the politi cians but which Stassen may now convert into a very smart maneuver. Stassen abandoned his mid - western political mooring to become president of the University of Penn sylvania. Begins To Fade That connection continued until 1953 when Stassen join ed the Eisenhower administr ation as mutual security ad ministrator, at which point in his public career, Stassen be gan to fade as a political fieure. He began attending Republican National Conven tions in 1936 and by 1940 had reached the heights of conven tion keynote speaker. At the next two he was a candidate JAMMING STATIONS Berlin (IP) The Soviet Union has told its European satellites to establish more jamming transmitters along the Iron Curtain to disrupt radio broadcasts from west ern Europe, it was reported today. Information Bureau West, a West Berlin private intelligence agency, said a de cision to this effect was made at a meeting of radio experts from Poland, Russia, Czecho slovakia and East Germany last week. WELL-CHECKED Syracuse. N.Y. (IP) Police man David Seib and Robert McCabe. sent to investigate re ports of prowlers at the home of vacationing Mayor-elect Anthony A. Hemninger, found the Drowlers detectives checking the house. Stop Me SMITH at Gen esse be whipped . . . . . . but we're nice. ial nomination, but in 1956 after transferring his voting residence to Pennsylvania, Stassen was not even a con vention delegate. Considering his age and re cord, it seems obvious enough that Stassen is hoping to be elected governor of Penn sylvania with the White House in mind. Pennsylvania Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 00 words. Interesting Hobby To the Editor: An interest ing hobby is to clip and date all information coming from the City Hall to compare with future statements they make. I am curious as to who has stirred the embers that brought out the long article in your paper of Feb. 2, with Mr. Duff trying to explain why we had no insurance re-rating since 1933. The whole purpose of the Fire department bond issue and continuing levy vote (which has cost several hun dred thousand dollars to date) was to secure a re-rating for the city which would have been a saving of many dollars to the property owners in lower insurance rates. The people voted the money which should have been used at once to carry out the prom ises made to the people and which were the recommenda tions of the consultant and fire rating bureau. Instead it was a year before the first station was built and over four years before they rented a house to house the second station although they had the money to build one. In another talk before a lo cal group Mr. Duff explained how by installing the discard ed telephone boxes for a, fire alarm system (instead of the system recommended) that they had saved the taxpayers a lot of money. Mr. Duff knew, although he did not tell, that by saving this money we had lost the benefit of the credit that the Tecommended alarm would have given. Mr. Duff admitted in Sun day's paper that it is custo mary for a city to request a re-rating following improve ments in the city fire depart ment. If the consultants' plans had been carried out as soon as the money was voted, and the re rating requested at that time, we would have the lower rate because it was much later be fore the grand annexation be gan. Mrs. Edward Canoose 55 Ross Court Medford Cheers For The TeamI To the Editor: Prospect and St. Mary's were playing basketball Saturday evening, Feb. 1. The first game we won, the second we lost 43 to 48. But what a game that was! I'll say Prospect has a great bunch of boys and J think we should stand behind these boys and support our basket ball team. Take Lee Gitchel, who seemed to be on the floor more than on his feet, there he was panting and sweating, determined to win. We have to give him credit. Then there is Craig Gardner little but mighty, and his brother Dave, tall and quick who made quite a few baskets for the team. What an evening for clean and exciting fun. Then there are the cheer leaders who do a wonderful job to keep the boys' spirits up. Then the pep band. How proud the moth ers of these boys should be to sit and watch these boys put every bit of strength that they have to win! Take our coach, who is so patient with the boys, always patting them on the back and saying a few kind words. Though these boys will never get a medal or award, I think they played a wonderful game Saturday night. More power to you, Prospect basketball team and let's show them we can win! Dorothy Jewell Prospect, Ore. THE HAND OF HELP In the hour of need . . is extended here o all who grieve, regardless of race, social position or financial standing. C. M. Litwiller For over 23 years, Mr. and to make the final tribute one well as one of real solace behind. "Night or day" - LITWIU-ER runerai Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close Surprising 5..l.i: for the Republican president. is better situated in all re spects than Minnesota as a base for a campaign for the Republican presidential nom ination. . He would need the best possible base because Stassen could expect no more than the back of their hands from the old line party regulars. E. A." Editorial Commended To the Editor: Your editor ial of Jan. 27, headed, "A : Matter of Caring," and over K the initials "EA." makes a point which our experience as a citizen support movement in behalf of traffic safety fully confirms. You say, "The most import ant, and the hardest to get at, is the education,' or indoctri nation of the individual dri ver. For his attitude is the biggest single factor in traf fic safety." Regardless of the whole range of causes all of which sum up as human error or vio lation of the Golden Rule the most important factor in traffic safety is the attitude of the individual. We have found roundly that at least 85 per cent of drivers want to drive safely and do not want to violate law and regulation. The other 15 per cent we call the "unreachables." This is not to say that all of these drivers do invite acci dents, but the way they drive does just that. And the 15 per cent change accidents into the process of cause and effect. An accident, the dictionary says, is "something that hap pens unexpectedly 'or is done unintentially." Thereare peo ple who from themoment they put their hands on a wheel are asking for death either for themselves or, for someone else. The only way we know to reach this smaller group is by rigid enforce ment and by citizen support of such enforcement. ' . Generally speaking, educa tion, safety engineering and routine enforcement will serve to keep the precept of safety in the minds of the ma jority of drivers. ' If you can add to your ex cellent editorial a practical suggestion how to reach the "unreachables" you will con-' fer a boon upon the entire traffic safety movement. Marshall N. Dana, Secretary Highway Lif esavers Com mittee of Oregon Citizens, Inc. 607 U.S. National Bank Bldg. Portland 4, Ore. OUR HEATING OIL WILL KEEP VDU WARM REGARDLESS OF V THE RAGING STORM Let it snow, let it blow . . . you're set for com plete comfort all winter long when you have our quality Fuel Oil to keep your home warm. KENNEDY FUCLOIL SP3-58964flm FRONT! Mrs. Litwiller Mrs. Litwiller have sought of beauty and dignity, as and comfort to those left dial MU 5-4541 Ashland mi vm-jt i "w?? "32 jab. I! i. ..! 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