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TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE I MedfordTeibune "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ' ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. IRIC ALLEN, JR. Managing Editor EARL 11. AUA.M3, icy idiior HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor FICHARD JEWETT, Sports Editor OTJVE STARCHER, Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Intered as second class matter at '. Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES fir Mail In -Advance: Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year 515 00 . Daily ana sunaay mos. o.uu Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Knndav Onlv Orw year $4.20 iv Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle . Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv ! er Talent, and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 I Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 - Carrier and Dealers copy 10c ! All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medfar ouiciaj raperoi acHpn oumj srjnltedPreas Full Leased Wire TlIEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU ' OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC.. Of- '. fices in New York. Chicago, De- troit, San rrancisco. Los Angeles, J Seattle, Portland. St. Louis, At- lanta. Vancouver. B. C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ft ATI O N A I EDITORIAL ASSOCfATIN KJ Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO -eb. 6. 1948 (Friday) ; Friends organize "draft Pengtson" committee for Re publican nomination for state senator. I Land tracts remaining from current sale of 15,000 acres Jo former owners and tenants t Camp White will be sold to World War II veterans, Dregon department an bounces. 20 YEARS AGO Feb, 6, 1938 (Sunday) Highways north and south jf Medford kept open by plows working all night. : From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Snow ihe Older Girls wanted for a "white Christmas, fell Fri. but iiot enough to thrill the wood shed props and the plumbers." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 6. 1928 (Monday) ; Southern Oregon Legion naires to support Medford Legion Post in conducting state convention here in 'August. -. Chamber of Commerce warns about sailors in Med ford trying to sell "Oriental rugs" in door-to-door sales. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 6, 1918 (Wednesday) : Directors of Medford Irri gation district select Beaver creek project. From Local and .Personal column: "Train 14, due here at 8:02 a.m., was over three hours late in reaching the city today, inconveniencing many north-bound passengers." ; What's Your I.Q.? Mine or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or is is good. 1. DAV are the initials of which veterans' organization? : 2. Bible: Does Ezra 7:21 contain all the letters in the alphabet except J, Q or I? ; 3. Are lemons picked before they are ripe? : 4. The donkey and ele phant are symbols of which two political parties? I 5. Is a pousse cafe a restau rant, a mixture of cordials and brandy or a layer cake? : 6. Is a "round robin" a pe tition, discussion, or news panel? ; 7. Volume for volume, is flamp air heavier than dry iir? 8. When angry, can a por cupine actually shoot any of its quills? 9. Does the edible portion Of fresh, white potatoes con tain about 68, 78, or 8 per Cent water? i 10. What, in baseball, does a "goose egg" denote? t Answers: 1. Disabled Amer ican Veterans. 2. "J." 3. Yes. 4. Democratic (donkey); Re publican (elephant). 5. A mix ture of cordials and brandy. 6. A petition (signed in a cir cular form so that no individ ual's signature need appear first). 7. No. (At ordinary tem perature and pressure, 13 cu bic feel cf dry air weigh about one pound; under similar con ditions, damp air will weigh about. 0.62 pounds). 8. No. 9. About 78 per cent water. 10. ero score Air pollution experts esti mate that industrial plants waste up to $800 million worth of fuel annually be cause of inefficient burning methods. N "Mink Coatism Again When will officials of government entrusted with protecting the public interest in a specific field under stand that they cannot accept favors from the industry or individuals regulated by these officials? Anyone so stupid or so insensitive to responsibility should be re moved summarily from public office. John C. Doerfer, chairman of the Federal Com munication Commission, complained bitterly to the press and on TV that he was being treated worse than a criminal by a special House subcommittee investigat ing industry favors to FCC members. But there is only one question to be answered: Did he accept expense or other money from the radio-TV industry? In Doer fer's case, the issue is compounded by the accusation that he not only collected expense money (or an "honorarium", as he called it) from private industry, but that he also colected expense money from the government for the same trips. This "mink coatism" in the Eisenhower administra- . tion is a duplicate of that in the Truman administra tion. It knows no party, although it seems to get worse in some periods. On the evidence, which Doerfer has not satisfactorily refuted, he should be dismissed. Portland Oregonian Well said! And, considering the source, that also is NEWS. In fact, ever since the famous Richard Nixon broadcast in 1952, we have been unable to understand the attitude of the Republican press and the Republican leaders toward, that "honorarium" of $18,000 in cash, which while representing the state of California in the Senate, Richard Nixon admitted he received, from a group dominated by big oil and banking inter ests in that state. The so-called "Tidelands oil bill" was then a vital issue in the congress. These special interests were working night and day to secure the passage of the measure which would mean over the years many billions to them. Senator Nixon and his colleagues were intrusted with protecting, in the Oregonian s words the public interest m a spe cific field." VET when the measure was passed in May of the following year with Senator Nixon work ing hard for it, there never was a word as we re call raised in the Oregonian or any other impor tant Republican paper, expressing the slightest doubt, that such a shady transaction had been en tirely proper, that the California Senator's sob- story over the air (100 had completely exonerated him, and that the party would not only be him as President Eisenhower's running-mate, but he was the pure and gallant "White Knight" to keep the colors of the Grand Old Party over the White House for another m m m w AS NOTED this attitude of not only refusing censure but heaping on the head of. the bene ficiary in this deal, praise and the highest hon ors, in their power to give, has always been, and still is, one of the major mysteries of the post war political era, as far as this department is concerned. t ' That radio broadcast was such pure unadul terated ham and hokum ; such an obvious dodg ing of the real issue, and hiding behind a smoke screen of sugary sentimentality and double-talk; that anyone could have been misled by it, or failed to have seen- through it, passed and still passes our understanding. But, as the record shows many did. Moreover, judging by the present Republican position they still do. IN FACT, we had, in view of what the Republi cans handed out to the "mink-coat and deep freeze" malefactors and did NOT. hand out to Mr. Nixon, or to the Dixon Yates slickers about decided there was a double-standard of morality in American politics that guilt depended not upon behavior but upon the party label., We, thererfore, were especially pleased to note that one of the leading and most highly re spected Republican dailies on the coast, the Ore gonian, came out, as the above quotation demon strates, declaring the "F.C.C." disclosures in the Eisenhower administration to be morally kin to the "Mink coatism" of the Truman administra tion. X7ELL so it goes ! But sufficient unto the day are the good tiding thereof. And we hope the courageous and correct stand taken by the Oregonian, even though members of the Eisenhower administration are involved, will be followed by the Republican press in the state and countiy as a whole. As the Oregonian well says "Mink coatism knows no party." QF COURSE it shouldn't. But it did, and still does, where Richard Nixon is concerned. For the benefit of those who think there is no similiarity between the "honorariums" granted by "special interests" to public officials in the Truman and the Eisenhower administrations . (including the Vice President) our advice is to read the record. The defendants in the Truman administration who accepted the mink-coats and deep-freezes, all admitted they were thus "honored" but they, all claimed with great vehemence, the honorariums did not affect their judgement in the slightest. They were gifts accepted as friendly gestures in the line of duty and had no significance whatever. Nevertheless they were kicked out of office and we believe at least one of them went to jail. MOW F.C.C. chairman, John C. Doerfer, and his 2 associates all admit they received gifts, cash, transportation and expenses from TV com panies under their jurisdiction. But this too they claim was all in the line of duty, whereupon they Thursday, February 6, 1958 if irrelevant to the issue) .highly honored to have four years ! , 60, DO YOU EVER USB Pg8FUM Matter of Fact by joSePh a,soP SAC's END IN SIGHT Paris The Soviet Union is now building a new air de fense system that is expected rssxmf?r to neutralize i the present x American nu clear deter rent, the Stra tegic Air Com- w n e n xne new system is completed, ef f e c t i v e de- joseDh aisod fense against attack by SAC aircraft will be provided by a novel com bination of importantly im proved radars and anti-aircraft missiles with nuclear warheads. The American government is the ultimate source of this news, which is an ironic com mentary on official Washing ton's boastful exultation over the American Sputnik. According to an American inteligence estimate present ed to NATO, the new Soviet air defense system will be fully . Installed within five years, which means that five years is the life term of SAC as now constituted. Further more, the NATO forecasters, with the British in the lead, are convinced that the West ought to be prepared for com pletion of the new Soviet air defense system at a much earlier date, within two to three years. TN THIS connection, it is 1 worth noting that there is no case on record of any American joint intelligence estimate of any form of So viet weapons development which was not decidely over optimistic. From the atomic bomb onwards, the minimum error in forecasting the mo ments when the Soviets would have new weapons has always been two years, and often the error has been much greater. If a two-year error is assumed in the American estimate, the NATO-British estimate of So viet air -defense progress is approximately confirmed. The difference is of desper ate importance, because of its bearing on what the experts call the "missile gap." This is the period when the So viets will be able to attack the United States with inter continental ballistic missiles, whereas the United States will only be able to retaliate with aircraft. If the American time esti mate given is fortunately cor rect, then the missile gap will have been bridged before the Soviet air defense system is completed. In other words, the U. S. will have the mew retaliatory power of its own intercontinental ballistic mis siles before the aircraft of SAC lose their usefulness. TUT if the NATO-British time estimate is correct, the new Soviet air defense challenged their accusers to show "a scintilla of evidence of improper influence affecting the honesty or independence of their judgements." Senator Nixon's defense was almost exactly the same. He did not deny he had received $18, 000 from special oil, real estate and banking in terests in the Los Angeles area but it was used by him, he said, solely to benefit the tax payers. Not one cent he added for his personal use, nor did the gifts affect his political judgement in any, way. - " " TTHE Oregonian declares "on the evidence which Chairman Doerfer has not refuted HE should be dismissed," adding: Anyone so stupid or so insensitive to responsibility should be removed summarily from public office. MO ONE can accuse Vice President Nixon of being stupid. But would1 not our highly re garded contemporary agree, that a U.S. senator elected to represent ALL the people of California, showed a high degree of "INsensitivity" when he accepted an $18,000 "gift" from a small group of wealthy men keenly interested in the tide lands oil "give away" when the tide lands oil bill was under consideration? R.W.R. system will be completed long before the U. S. can hope to have operational ICBMs. Thus there will be a period when SAC's aircraft will not con stitute a serious threat to the Soviets, while the Soviet ICBMs will constitute a most serious threat to the United States. The dangers of this period will not be enormously les sened, either, by the emplace ment cf Intermediate range ballistic missiles on this side of the Atlantic, on the ter ritory of our NATO allies. The U. S., the necessary lead er of the West, will have no retaliatory power of its own. The whole burden of defend ing the U. S. will thus be placed upon the other West ern allies. The mere political and diplomatic consequences of such an anomalous situa tion hardly bear think about. Yet it is clear that Soviet progress with their new air defense system was a major factor in the American de cision to press so hard for acceptance of intermediate range ballistic missiles by the other NATO nations. In fact the American intelligence esti mate actually presented to NATO in the context of the IRBM debate. The purpose, plainly, was to show that the West's nuclear " . retaliatory power needed to be strength ened by every available ex pedient. rpO MAKE matters worse, even the relatively opti mistic American estimate im plies that the Soviets have stolen a march on the United States in two further, highly important fields of weapons development, radars and rock et fuels. The radars the Soviets are now producing for their new air defense system are admit tedly superior to the Ameri can radars now in use in our Canadian DEW-line, being particularly capable of scan ning efficiently at higher alti tudes. The United States has a still better radar coming along but (one is tempted to say as usual) the date of ac tual production is still rather remote. As for the killing compon ent of the Soviet air defense system, both the Soviet Un ion and the United States long ago ran nuclear weapons tests at very high altitudes. These were quite certainly tests of nuclear warheads for anti aircraft weapons. Nuclear warheads, with their power to kill by blast at distances of many hundreds of yards, remove the need for direct hits on attacking aircraft. This gives the possibility, in turn, of something close to a 100 per cent kill rate. Nothing less will make the Soviet air de fense fully effective, even against aircraft loaded with H bombs, only a few of which -i i Communications Letter! 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. "Laxident" To the Editor: With all the "loose" and "I don't care"- at titude driving upon the high ways these days I suggest the (coined?) word Laxident to replace the word accident. Being lax I think fully de scribes mishaps. The lax driv er lacks this, he lacks that, he dents this he dents that, including himself, the car or cars involved and worse yet the family budget. So let's set a pace and not a race. Keep Oregon high ways clean. D. L., (Name on file,) Jacksonville. Tight Money To the Editor: It is some times amusing how some of the Republican candidates for state and national offices get into sort of a family quarrel as to state or federal offices. They should have some well-thought-out plans to benefit the people of the state of Ore gon one way or another in this tight money policy, or they won't be able to gather enough votes to garner an election, because they have a few higher-up bosses that are in favor of a tight, high money policy and that hasn't proved so successful for Ore gon. They must remember it didn't prove too successful in the last election. Tight money may be all right for monied folks, but not for us common working folks who create spending money, and labor aplenty starts what we call prosperity dollars. A Subscriber, (Name on file) Medford. Veterans benefits To the Editor: Are you a needy veteran or veteran's family? The following cuts in vet erans benefits are in the mak ing soon: (a) Virtually eliminate vet erans pensions by lowering in come limitations; (b) Reduce pensions -still available by deducting social security benefits from them; (c) Scrap the veterans' hous ing program; (d) Make small lump settle ments of future claims to vet erans with war wounds not currently severe; r (e) Freeze number of avail able VA hospital beds. In a speech one man stated that some savings may still be squeezed out by the wring er method. ' To cut $813 million from the budget to help finance our present battle with the Soviets on outer space to me seems just a little stupid. How could you save any money, if you already have it spent before you get it, for some thing else? Of this cut $292 million would come from vet erans' benefits, not from try- wreak such terrible devasta tion. fN THE other hand, even a " nuclear warhead that could kill by blastt at the ranee of a mile wnnld he wholly useless for air defense. if married to the kind of missiles we have been testing at Cape Canaveral. The long nrocess of fuelling and count ing down would hardly be started before the attacking aircraft reached their targets. For air defense, no missile that is not always ready for instanteneous use is prac tically acceptable. Hence the American Intel ligence estimate either implies that the Soviets have develop ed a novel liquid fuel stable enoueh to be left permanently in its rocket which is high Iv imDrobable or this esti mate implies the belief that the Soviets have mastered the intricate problems involved in building solid-fuelled rock ets of very considerable cali bers. There is no escaping one of these conclusions. The more you examine it, in short, the uglier this news looks. looks. And the more you ex amine it, the more it seems today that even the post-bput-nik levels of American de fense effort and urgency are ridiculously, tragically, even criminally inadequate. (Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Income Tax Service Ask for DAWN Phone NO 4-1948 Win. A. Sfandridge Real Estate Agency 222 Pine Central Point Britain Seeking Compromise Solution in Cyprus Dispute By UNITED PRESS Great Britain, caught in the middle of rival Greek and Turkish claims and demands in Cyprus, is working to find a compromise solution. Following one of the worst riots in the island bastion's history last week, British leaders worked in the shadow of reports that Greek and Turkish Cypriotes are ready ing new attacks. Britain was reported to be formally putting her modi fied plan to Turkey and Greece, offering self-rule to Cyprus with eventual self-determination in 10 years under special safeguards for the Turkish minority of the is land. Approval Seen Slim The British plan calls also for a NATO base in Cyprus in which Turkey, as a mem ber of the North Atlantic Al liance may be given special duties. But the chances for accep tance of the British plan approved by the cabinet on Tuesday 'appeared slim. A hardening in Turkey's position reflected growing in sistence of the Ankara gov ernment for partition of the Mediterranean island. Greece opposes partition. Britain does not favor it either. The Turkish view was giv en by the Turkish leaders per sonally to British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd dur ing the Baghdad Pact confer ence in Ankara last week. This line has since been re affirmed by the Turkish-Cypriote leader in Nicosia, Dr. Kutchuk. He said that parti tion was the only solution, since Greeks and Turks could no longer live together. Wants Partition Now Kutchuk urged partition now, before an election in Britain. Turkey apparently fears that in the event of a Labor victory in a general election British policy might favor independence of Cy prus. Kutchuk hinted at a "pas sive resistance movement" of the Turkish minority to press their claims. This move coincided with fresh threats from Greek-Cy priote underground leader Col. George Grivas. British efforts for a solu tion for Cyprus thus depend entirely on whether or not some compromise can be found between conflicting Greek and Turkish claims. Attempts to win United States assistance seem to have ing to buy friends, with- for eign aid, rather from the vet eran who is paying taxes to keep up foreign aid and los ing his neck at the same time. In the face of all of this, we, the veterans and non-veterans of Jackson county, are trying. to get a Veterans Ad ministration Hospital here in our area to serve thousands of veterans who really need to be in hospitals. The Port land and Vancouver hospital have waiting lists, the likes of which you could not im agine. One thing that might help get this hospital here and save some of our benefits is for all veterans to join a vet erans' organization in this part of the state and to sup port this drive that we have the good will of all the peo ple. If not, I believe the fight j will be an uphill fight to save part of what we already have as benefits and just hope for the best. Joe R. Hosick, 845 Palm st., Medford. Portland (IP) Portland re corded its third traffic fatal Itv of 1958 Tuesday when John Swartz, 70, died from injuries suffered in a two-car collision. SUPPORT THE . MARCH OF DIMES Inasmuch as Ye Have Done It Unto One of the Least of These My Brethren, Ye Have Done It Unto Me." Matthew 25:40 DAY OR NIGHT -PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS failed so far; the United States prefers to keep out of this explosive issue for as long as possible, diplomatic sources said. The rising tension may Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann EXPLORER AND SPUTNIK The American satellite Ex plorer has made us all feel better, having given tangible proof that the c i e n c e of ocketry is known in this country and that our ex p e r t s possess the art of mak ing and guid ing rockets. The event has waiter uppmann confirmed the testimony of those who have been saying that the Russians have a considerable lead but that we are in the race. Explorer is, therefore, a good popular antidote to the panicky view that we are in mortal danger. But it does not wash out the main portent of Sputnik which is not that the Russians launched a satel lite first, and that their satel lite is very much bigger and heavier than Explorer. The main portent is that, starting at the end of World War II with their country devastated, their technology far more pri mitive than our own, the Rus sians have achieved a rate of scientific and technological developemnt which is faster than our own. What they did with the Sputnik shows not merely that they have mas tered a particular specialty but that they have generated a tremendous momentum in the physical sciences, and their application. Though Explorer is in the sky, there is no reason to think that the comparative rate of development is now back in balance, much less that it is in our favor. We are still the bigger and the stronger. But they are still moving forward the faster. rriHERE is, therefore, much for us to do, and as I see it we must move forward si multaneously along three broad paths, The first is that we have to find out how to make the government much better able than it is now to make and to carry out long range decisions. There is little doubt that American progress in missiles has been retarded by bureaucratic confusion, presided over by political ap pointees who did not under stand the issues they were supposed to decide. Undoubtedly, this requires a reorganization in the Penta gon. But the trouble will not be cured in the Pentagon alone. The White House and the relevant committees of Congress have at least an equal responsibility. rprUS second path we must take is even broader. It is the transformation of Ameri can education which on the average and by and large is declining in quality as the quantity of those to be edu-l Special Evangelistic Services, February 1st thru 7th-7:45 p.m. Brigadier W. Dewsbury of New York dry. New York THE SALVATION ARMY 4th & Barrlert Street m necessitate a renewed tight ening of security measures in Cyprus instead of a loosening up which the island's Gov. Sir Hugh Foot had earlier hoped to initiate this month. cated grows larger and larger. Our schools and colleges are overwhelmed by the growth of the population they are supposed to educate, and they are under enormous pressure for the most part irresist ible to lower their intellect ual standards. There is an ominous tendency in Ameri can education to teach more and more students less and less of the great , disciplinei which form an educat man. It is in this, more than in the ups and downs in the mili tary balance of power, that there lies the deepest danger to pur American society. We can most surely defend our selves against conquest or domination. What we have to worry about is that with the declining level of education, with the vulgarization of the cultural standards in our mass society, we shall become a big but second-rate people, fat, Philistine, and a elf- indulgent. THE third path on which we must travel is to learn to adjust our minds to the hard facts of life particularly to the fact that our Western so ciety, of which we are the strongest member, is no long er paramount, is now only an equal, among the great socie ties of the globe. Britain and France have had to learn in this genera tion what Sweden and Spain learned in earlier days that they are no longer the main centers of power and influ ence for all mankind. At the end of World War II for a few short years the United States was the paramount center of power and influence in the world. Our conception of our role, as we have formed it in the post-war years, has had as its fundamental premise the paramountcy of the Western society led by the United States. This was a fact. But it was transitory. THE post-war era Is ending and the great reality to which we have now to adjust our thinking is that we are an equal but not a paramount power. This is the reality with which Mr. Dulles has not yet come to terms. Because of that, American and Western policy is, though tough on the outside in the language it uses, unrealistic and wishful indeed wistful on the in side. But time is passing, and time will teU, and the reali ties of the structure of power in the world are forcing Mr. Dulles to go where he does not want to go, to meetings which he does not want on questions to which our obso lescent policies provide us with no safe and satisfactory answers. (Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc. -Medford
