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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MedfordTribune "."Iveryone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" nblished Daily except Saturday by 1 MEDFORD PRINTING CO 13 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 - ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor SERB GREY Advertising Manager StRALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. tRIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor CARL H. ADAMS. City Editor 1ARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg. Editor HCHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor 3LIVE STARCHER. Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. - An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at -Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES B Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. -Daily and Sunday 1 year 115.00 Daily and Sunday 8 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: .Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 "Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 TCarrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper or Jacuson county Pnited Press Full Leased Wire "-MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU-" ; OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: -WEST-HOLIDAY CO., INC.. Of--flces in New York. Chicago. De--troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, -Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B. C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIrAT 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 Feb. 17. 1948 (Tuesday) i M. A. (Bud) Adams, Central Point farmer and members of the Central Point school board, announces he will file On the Republican ticket as a candidate for county commis sioner. : Chairman Byron C. Carney of the state Democratic com mittee explained that plans eall for Jackson county to raise $1,700 as Its share. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 17, 1938 (Thursday) : State Senator George W. Dunn of Ashland "grand old man" of Jackson county poli tics, announces he would be a candidate for renomination In the May primary. : From Arthur Perry's Ye fcmudge Pot column: "Several pt the Old Girls have selected Jheir Easter bonnets, and are now looking for a church with wallpaper that matches." 30 YEARS AGO Teb. 17. 1928 (Friday) ; The annual influx of spring Catalogues of the big mail oraer esiaDusiuncuu m uiu yrn Oregon and northern California starts. J A general resumption of She timber industry tnrougn Tar-lrenn rmmtv in. t h C inrine opening of the industry jjs at hand with the starting fcf the Tomlin Box company s Jnill In Medford Monday. 0 YEARS AGO Teb. 17. 1918 (Monday) I The Ashland Civic Im provement club has made ar eements for feeding men Avho will soon be passing through here as members oi ihe second draft units. ; From local and personal column: The Gold i$ar mine, Zr 4, Rnfup river. 1V4 miles v uiv. o iiinw Oalice was recently jold to Hayes Temple, Gus Tisher and Alfred Juoanss ill of Seattle." What's Your I.Q.? - . . 2 luBerior: rina or ren SMven or eight is excellent; five or -six is good. 1. Who was president when rthe Hawaiian islands were Eannexed to the U.S.? - 2. Bible: Did Paul visit all Hhe Roman provinces during jhis missionary activities? Z 3. Correct the following: -"He made an awful mistake." 4. What phenomena on the Surface of the sun vary in Cycles of about 11M years? " 5. Does Belgium lie east, north, or south, of the Neth erlands? ; 6. Walter Reed General ihospital is an Army or Navy rhospital, or a Veterans Ad ministration hospital? - 7. Who said, "We have met "the enemy and they are ours"? ; 8. In what country are the volcanoes Ngaurohue and .'Ruapehu? ; 9. Which university in the -United States has the largest enrollment ' of Negro stu dents? - ; 10. In which country in tEurope is the city of Lamia? r Answers: 1. .William Mc tKinley. 2. No. All but Egypt Zand Bithynia. 3. He made a -disastrous (or serious) mis. -lake." 4. Sunspots. 5. South. 6. Army hospital. 7. Oliver ;Hazard Perry. 8. New Zea iland. 9. Howard university. Washington, D.C. 10. Crete. How About The election, Feb. Commons seat from the Rochdale district was described as "the most the result does not necessarily offer a dependable guide as to which way Britain may turn in its next general election or ent current of political be. These factors have to be considered: The T.nhnr Partv was confident on the eve its pWtirm viVrnrv. Rnehdale is the home of the British cooperative movement, and traditionally a center OI political leiumiibiii. j.ne vunocivct- tives won the seat in 1955 by fewer than 1600 votes out oi a total or bi.ouu. The constituency is . . . it has been held at various rimes Dy conserva tive, Liberal, and Labor candidates. Moreover, the campaign this time was complicated by the fnrt. that, the race was a three-wav affair. The Liberal candidate, it should be noted, was Ludovic Kennedy, one of the most popular of the news casters on British commercial television and the d nf the well known actress and ballerina Moira Shearer, who had in his behalf. So it s understandable that L.abor is rrnwino- about its "decisive" victory in Koch dale and calling for a general election soon. But neither the Conservative Farty nor rime min ister Harold Macmillan can be counted out this early. MANY other factors For one thing, in more tions, the Tories have lost and Labor has lost one On his accession to little more than a year variety of problems primarily, (internally) in flation, and (externally) the loss of British pres tige in the Suez fiasco of the autumn of 1956, He has since weathered a the Jan. 6 resignation of Chancellor of the Ex chequer Peter Thorneycrof t and two treasury min isters in protest over government plans to increase spending. But Macmillan's government has succeeded so far in defending the Thorneycrof t s fears for ways. Britain s tight money policy, it was an nounced Feb. 4, helped produce a jump in Janu ary of $131 million in gold and dollar reserves to put these at $2.4 billion, the highest level in 214 years. Also, the U.K. a $22 million favorable Europe, as against a $13 ber. Overall, Britain's in January but was still average. yHE House of Commons on Feb. 6 rejected, 318 to 25, a Labor motion declaring that the government's policies threatened to provoke "grave industrial unrest." Demand has been so great for the pound in recent days that the Bank of England has had to sell sterling for dollars in volume to keep the pound's value under the official ceiling of $2.80. On other questions of fiscal policy in the past month, the government has won three test votes in Commons by more' than the Conservative Party's comfortable margin of half a hundred seats. So even if Labor goes on to win a second by-election at Kelvingrove, near Glasgow, next month,' Macmillan whose legal mandate extends to 1960 could be excused for thinking he's not sitting too badly. E.R.R. Married Teachers, Pupils There was a time, and not so very long ago, when, if she married the public school teacher lost her job. Then it was discovered that the happily married woman was just as good a teach er as the spinster and, if she had young children, was apt to make a better teacher, particularly in the lower grades. With the increasing number of weddings of classmates before they get their high school diplomas, the question has arisen whether the young married should be allowed to remain in school. The Supreme Court of Mississippi, in the first appellate decision bearing directly on that point, has ruled that students who have married cannot be barred from public schools. TTHE argument that marriage brings views about life "which should not be known to unmar ried children and should not be passed on to them," was declared fallacious by the Mississippi court. It noted that marriage was an institution "highly favored by law." The court found it praiseworthy that married should wish to continue their studies and sug gested that unmarried pupils would be "benefited instead of harmed" by association with them. Courses in sex education have not been uni formly successful in keeping adolescents out of trouble and parents as a rule show no great com petence in imparting the "facts of life" to their children. It may be that high school students can best acquire the needed knowledge from happily married husbands and Monday, February 17, 1958 Macmillan? 12, for a British House o critical since 1951," bu even as to what the pres opinion in Britain may marginal. In this century i l been ringing doorbells should have pleased Mac- than a score of by-elec only two seats to Labor, seat to the Liberals. government leadership a ago, Macmillan faced a few storms, particularly pound sterling despite the future, and in other in that month achieved trading balance with million deficit m Decern trade gap widened a bit well below last year s persons of school age wives of their own age. E.R.R. 't, tfA QUKNS IWM0W 15 WHO OUT Matter of Fact DECLINE. PROGRESS OR BOTH? Paris In the very midst of the senseless, perilous Franco-Tunisian crisis, it may seem untimely to search for first causes. Yet it is not good either, to say that every b o d y goes mad some times, and leave it at that. France's terrible diffi culties in North Africa, Joseph Alsop "KB Britain s lesser difficulty in Cyprus, are the ultimate result of the most interesting, least studied great chanse in this era of great changes. It is a change that has only occurred among the Western democracies, and it has no past precedent. In brief, the subjection of weaker nations by stronger nations has been gping on un ceasingly since the beginning of what we like to call civil ization. The dawn-site in the known story of civilization is immemorial Jericho. Most an cient Jericho, which probab ly flourished towards the end of the ice age, has a strong defensive wall. The implications of the wall are obvious. As far as is known, more over, no one seems to have questioned the Tightness of one nation subjecting another nation, until the era of the first great religious teachers 500 years before our Lord. From Buddha and Confucius In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Washington, D.C, U.S Attorney General Rogers or ders the FBI to investigate charges that Richard Mack, a member of the Federal Com munications commission re ceived $2,650 from an attor ney representing a Miami (Fla.) television firm. The charges were made by Bernard Schwartz, chief coun sel for a house of representa tives subcommitte that has been investigating the FCC Schwartz told the committee the television firm won a choice TV channel in Miami, TN MIAMI, the firm's attor- ney (name of Thurman Whiteside) denies that the money had anything to do with political favors. White side charges that Schwartz trumped up a "scandalous lie." Schwartz has since been bounced from his job with the house investigating com mittee. The newspapere are putting big headlines on the story and the radio commentators are commenting on it in excited tones. TlfHAT is it all about? Ts sknlHii?frv afnnt? I WOULDN'T know. But the Federal Commun ications commission along with other federal govern ment regulating commissions, including the ICC, which reg ulates ground transportation, and the CAB, that regulates civil air transportation holds a lot of power in its hands. It possesses the power to issue little pieces of paper that are called licenses. These little pieces of paper are pre cious. Not only do they con fer a license to go into busi ness. They set up a govern ment body, composed of poli tical appointees, and endow it with the power to determine who ought to-be allowed to go into the radio or television business and who OUGHT NOT TO BE ALLOWED to go into the radio or the tele vision business. THAT is a lot of power to be rioM in a FEW hands. Under such a system, it is little wonder that scandals or at least ALibOi.D scan dalsshould arise. ; j IF I CM GO 1&I By Joseph Alsop onwards, the men who spoke of good and evil were decid edly anti-imperialist. TUT in this respect at least. the great religions never convinced the majority of those who thronged their temples and cathedrals. Un til the end of the 18th cen tury, or thereabouts, any na tion that was strong enough to subject another nation and the cause, of the hesita tion was never moral. "It serves our interests,' was a perfectly satisfactory justification of imperialism until the great change start ed. This was in the last cen tury when the imperialists began to say of their sub jects, "we only subject them for their good." The change had some odd consequences, such as virtuous Queen Vic toria's angry demands for the bloodiest possible measures to suppress the Indian Mut iny, for the Indians' "own good." For another century or thereabouts, the imperialist nations had the self confi dence or thickhided smugness (take your choice) to drown the first signs of dissidence among their subjects in floods of their subjects' blood always "for their own good.' But it was the death knell of Western imperialism when the democratic empires began to feel a queasy distaste for expedient massacres. rTiHE other explanation of UA 1 J 4.1. 1 me euu ui uemuiriciiic iia perialism is that "you cannot defeat the new nationalism of the modern age." It is ob viously silly nonsense, as any one ought to be able to see after the blood tragedy in Hungary. Any nation that has the power to do so, and is willing to commit a massacre when necessary, can hold an other nation in subjection, in our age as in the past. But one nation cannot hold another nation in subjection if it Is only willing to make war on its subjects "legally" and according to a set of. rules. The dissidents may be a small minority, such as the French maintain the Al gerian rebels are a minority today. Great forces may be deployed against rebels, as the French have done. But no amount of force or toughness or determination will bring success as long as the mere pretense is maintained that "law abiding subjects are safe." As long as this is the theory, the rebels, or at least enough of the rebels, cannot be located and killed. Thus the rebel organization sur vives. The rebels have no qualms about killing anyone whatever. Thus a few thous and rebels may inspire more fear among the inert masses than a vast imperial army, In the end, even the most "loyal" members of the sub ject race, fearing the rebels more than their masters, end by serving the rebels in se cret. And in these circumstan ces, no rebellion can ever be finally suppressed. SUCH are the hard and cruel underlying facts of the present situation of the West ern nations that grew great as empires. Precisely because the facts are cruel, they are not faced. Westerners are too soft-spoken, nowadays, ever to say forthrightly, "If we want to keep these peo ples in subjection, we must commit an occasional massa cre; and if we don't want to commit an occasional massa cre, we must set these peo ples free." National failures to face facts always lead to highly irrational and immensely costly compromises. And pre cisely because these compro mises are costly and irration al, they produce such epi sodes as the Franco-Tunisian crisis. (C) 1958 New York Htrald Tribuna Inc. Communications bear the name and address of uie writer although under cer tain rimimctanpBo ttis i,.. nf a pen name or initial for publica tion is nprm Mh a I h. mraii Tribune reserves the right to eon an leiiers witn an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters KllhmittMl fn. rM.Kli na tion must not exceed. 400 words. The letters printed In this sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Bob Smith Corrected To the Editor: Bob Smith'; column generally brings de served compliment both to himself, the Mail Tribune, and other newspapers he serves. However, correction is need ed on his guess of a split on Nez Perce Dam between pub lic power leaders and other conservationists. As early as December 10 1954, the Northwest Public Power Association advocated a moratorium on building the Nez Perce Dam, proposed by the Army. Again on November 6, 1957, our Association adopted a resolution calling on Con gress to authorize a two-year Army study looking toward ultimate comprehensive devel opment of the Middle Snake River and "showing the rela- tionship to fisheries and other conservation values." To my knowledge no one advocates immediate building of Nez Perce Dam. Contrary to Mr. Smith's implication, the National Hells Canyon As sociation in the Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley hearings did not urge imme diate construction of Nez Perce Dam. We want the door left open for comprehensive develop ment in the reasonably near future. Incidentally, the Ore gon Water Resources Board has now asked for a mora torium until 1965. We hope a solution will be apparent be fore that date. Meanwhile, we join with other conservation groups in urging Congress to authorize a two-year Army study of the Middle Snake River with emphasis on solving the fish eries problem. We think this is in the best public interest We think aU conservationists can be unified in this request Gus Norwood, Executive Secretary, Northwest Public Power Association, Vancouver, Wash. Buffalo Meat to Birds To the Editor: Buffalo meat was the main staple of our Plains Indian. This, just as acorns were the staff of life of California's Diggers. One may be hungry enuf, in the high Andes, v to eat llama jerky stew and those cornflake-like frozen potatoes, "chunyo." In tropical South America one has tapioca or cassava. Some times parrot squabs are a luxury. Birding in Latin America is now not only far less strenu ous than formerly it also is much safer. When writer first went a-birding South-of-the- Rio Grande, one might find himself in a Mexico City street car next a "walking' small pox case. Mexico City's death rate was world's second highest. Writer has counted seven- funeral street cars in one block. All that is past, Hence, each year evermore U.S.A. Auduboniers go down there toward start adding tropical birds to their per sonal species list. Some Mexi can birds like caracara, also the spoonbill? venture into Everglades National Park, Autoirig there to study them on the Anhinga Trail or the Gumbo Limbo Trail under a ranger naturalist whets 'one's" appetite for Audu boniering in Mexico. Mexico's avifauna includes some interesting parakeets. In the Acapulco Coastal Plain, where writer did some of his best birding, is the Orange- chinned Parakeet. Near the Tamaulipas Cloud Forest one should find the Green Para keet. Writer also once saw, in the Canal Zone, a flock of Tovi parakeets, in the coco nut palm crowns on Colon's waterfront. This bird often is captured and sold to sailors, usually only to quickly die in an unintelligent captivity. C. M. Goethe, 7th and J sts., Sacramento 14, Calif. Salem Bypass Wreck Fatal To Woman, 51 Salem (IP) Maude M. Brown, 51, Kent, Wash., died in a Salem hospital early on Sunday of injuries suffered when her car swerved off a bypass east of here Saturday night, struck a' tree and crash ed into a ditch. State police said the wom an died about eight hours aft er the accident. AGA KHAN RETURNS - Gstaad, Switzerland (IP) The Aga Khan today re sumed the winter sports vaca tion he interrupted last month to go to Karachi for his en thronement as spiritual lead er of the Ismaili Moslem sect. Officials said the Aga would probably remain here" un til the end of the season. He has rented a chalet. Rival Arab Federations Muddle Complex Mid-East Situation By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Two rival Arab federations have now emerged to com plicate the Middle Eastern situation. First Egypt and Syria pro c 1 a i m ed a United Arab republic, of which Presi dent Gamal Abdel Nasser is to be the dictator. Kings Fai Charles M. McCann sal of Iraq and Hussein of Jordan have retorted by form ing an Arab federation which they will rule jointly. Both moves were hailed by their sponsors as dramatic steps toward Arab unity. Actually, they appear to be promoting disunity. The kings of Iraq and Jor dan have formed their federa tion as a defensive move against the ambition of Nas ser to make himself the mas ter of the entire Arab world, extending from the Middle East to Morocco on the Medi terranean Sea. Yemen Will Join Tiny Yemen is expected to join the Egyptian-isyrian union soon. The two little states of Ku wait and Bahrein on the Per sian Gulf are talking about joining the Iraqi-Jordanian federation. Just how the two unions could-do anything to promote Arab unity, it is difficult to see. The fact is that there is only one uniting factor in the Arab. world. That is bitter enmity toward the state of Israel. Egypt and Syria started the Salem Man Heads Press Conference Eugene (IP) E. A. (Ted) Brown, publisher of Salem Capital Journal, is the new chairman of the Oregon Press conference, succeeding Wil liam Tugman of the Port Umpqua Courier at Reeds- port. Brown was named at the closing session of the annual conference here Saturday. W. Verne McKinney, publisher of the Hillsboro Argus, was named to the board of Eric W. Allen Memorial fund, and Carl C. Webb of Eugene was named secretary-manager of the Oregon Newspaper Pub lishers association for the 16th year. - It was announced that the annual ONPA convention would be at Corvallis June 20-21. At the closing luncheon Saturday a Northwest adver tising executive told the pub lishers an improvement in public relations by the news papers was needed. "Improve your product," Sydney Copeland of the Cole & Weber advertising agency in Seattle suggested. He said advertising personnel was trained to sell and meet the public "so should you train your news personnel." New Courtesy Box Installed At P. 0 A second courtesy box for mailing letters from automo biles has been installed on Holly st., at the rear end of the Holly Theater. Patrons using the courtesy box in the rush hours from 4:30 p.m. on may avoid the traffic congestion in front of the post office by using the Holly st. box, postal officials said. The new box serves the same purpose as the box in front of the post office, of ficials said, and mail deposit ed in both boxes is collected at the final minute to meet all dispatches. Maximum use of the new box is urged to help relieve the traffic problem in front of the post office. Two Skiers Lost n Spokane Area Spokane (IP) State patrol and sheriff's officers resumed their search today for two skiers who became lost on 5,400-foot Chewelah m o u n- tain Saturday after taking part in a sucessful hunt for another skier. Gale Wuesthoff and John May, both 18, apparently be came lost in the fog when they set out for a ski lodge to report that Alan Andnst, 14, had been found after spending 28 hours on the cold snowy mountain 50 miles north of here. Officers used airplanes, a weasel snow vehicle and snowshoes in the search for the boys, both good skiers. A ground party looked for them until 3 a.m. today when the weasel broke down. A new party set out at daybreak. . new situation in the Middle East when they decided to seek arms from Soviet Rus sia and its satellites. Naturally, the Arab kings and ruling Sheikhs want no part of Communism. They also have no desire to risk losing their thrones by per mitting Nasser to become the dictator of the Arab countries. And Iraq, Kuwait and Bah rein have rich oil resources to protect. Foreign Countries Unhappy An interesting feature of the Egyptian-Syrian and Iraqi Jordanian federations is that no foreign country, West or East, is very happy over them. The United States and its aUies, and Soviet Russia, all have said that they welcomed the federations. Actually, it is pretty plain that they are smiling through their diplomatic tears. The United States fears that Iraq eventually may withdraw from the Middle Eastern Treaty Oraganization the Baghdad Pact against Communist aggression of which it is the only Arab U.P. Correspondents Predict Headlines United Press correspond ents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Backfire The French cabinet would never admit it, but the Alge rian conflict seems on the way to internationalization. American good offices in the French - Tunisian dispute may end with the establish ment of a joint or internation al police force the first giant step towards interna tionalization. The second no less big step could be the planned rebel spring offen sive backed up diplomatical ly by the formation of a na tionalist government. Such a government undoubtedly would be recognized by many Afro-Asiatic nations support ing the rebels. Any French cabinet which at present would mention international ization would be overthrown in a minute. But the Sakiet bombing may have set into motion a process which the French cannot stop. Open Door King Saud of oil-spouting Saudi Arabia is really the key man to the future of the Iraqi-Jordanian merger. He wouldn't join. Kings Hussein and Feisal in the union of crowns proclaimed last week but the 22-year-old cousins have not given up hope. The new constitution leaves the door open for Feisal of Iraq to step down as "senior king" if Saud can be persuaded to join. If he does, well over half of the Middle East's vast oil deposits would be "unifjed" under one loose but potent federation. As a power bloc it would win a loud voice in the East-West politics and oil economics. Space Deterrent Congressional sources in Washington say the United States plans to study the ef fects of nuclear explosions in outer space during the Paci fic test series starting in April. The plan is to hurl at least two nuclear warheads into space above the atmos phere and detonate them there. The theory is that ra-j diation from the bombs would Mo The'6 3 1 . htC ;0, SEK' ,v, ' --nlCKir.E Why Most Folks CaU It", a mighty import,,,, job moving your know-how." You be b you Call Davis! Medford-139 South Fir Ashland-240 4th St. BEKINS AGENT FOR MEDFORD AND ASHLAND i member. Russia Fears Merger Russia fears that the Egyp tion-Syrian merger may harm, and not help, its interests. For one thing, Nasser has done business with Russia for his own interests. He does not tolerate Communist activity in his own country. He is be lieved to be worried over the strong pro-Communist trend in Syria, and he may do some thing about it now. The Egyptian-Syrian mer ger is rather an artificial one. The two countries are widely separated by Israel and Jor dan. Yemen, which may join, is separated from both by Saudi Arabia. At least, Iraq and Jordan have a common frontier and both adjoin Saudi Arabia, whose King Saud may decide to hook up with them. King Faisal of Iraq and King Hus sein of Jordan are cousins. How the new situation will work out remains to be seen. At least, Nasser's dream of making himself the big Arab dictator seems to be far from fulfillment. travel unimpeded in space until they hit a target such as an intercontinental ballis tic missile. On striking the target, these radiations would be converted into heat energy which might vaporize the. missile. Chinese Checkers . It will come as no surprise to Far Eastern experts if Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai should announce withdrawal of Communist Chinese troops from North Korea even if the United Nations forces remain in the South. The move would be good propaganda but lit tle more since the troops could be pulled back across the Yalu river where they could reenter Korea in a few hours. Incidentally, though the Reds keep calling for the) withdrawal of U.N. troops, there is some reason to be lieve they wouldn't be too happy if they did go. The Reds are said to feel the pres ence of the U.N. troops will keep President S y n g m a n Rhee from ordering an attack on his own. LITTLE KNOWN FACTS IN HISTOW Geotttt Washington find fhat Cherrq vet SNIDER'S DAIRY "Daisyland" Substitute ind .That' TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO." Crating & Packing Phone SP 2-6273 Phone MU 2-8552 j
