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Sunder, February 23, 195t MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Closer Work With Allies Is Favored in Decisions Subject Corvallia Closer work with U. S. allies in basic sci ence, technology, and new weapons was favored by near ly three-fourths of the per aona voting this month in Ore gon's "Great Decisions" dis cussion groups on the issue "Can We Deal With Rus lia?" Ballots from throughout the state showed reluctance to increase U.S. defensa spending, especially for re search and development, on an emergency all-out basis. Voters favored, instead, a long-range stepped-up educa tion program in science and engineering. Closer cooperation with al lies in. international trad and another - "summit" con ference of East-West major powers had strong support in the Oregon balloting. Ballots Tabulated Ballots were tabulated this week at Oregon State college, summarizing results for the first of eight foreign policy discussions slated for the 1958 Great Decisions series. Dis cussion groups are meeting in 32 Oregon countie, state chairman Mrs. Mabel Mack, assistant director of Oregon State college extension serv ice, said. ' On the question of what basic attitude should govern U. S. policy toward Russia, Oregon ballots rated policy alternatives in the following order: Seventy-nine per cent thought the U.S. should con tinue toward a workable gen eral settlement with Russia, while only 8 per cent thought no real settlement with Rus sia is possible. Second and third-rated al ternatives favored working toward peaceful coexistence of East and West. Only a handful of voters, 6 per cent, thought America should shape policies on the assump tion that communism is bound to collapse. . 'Fifteen per cent said the U.S. should formulate foreign policy on the basis that com munist leaders will stop at nothing until they dominate the entire world. - On the question of whether the U.S. should tool up for a "crash program" to compete with Russia in basic science, technology, and new weap ons, alternatives were rated ' as follows: Seventy-one per cent favor ed working mora closely with our allies in these fields. As the second alternative, 89 per cent voted for in Area Students at Mock UN Meeting Students from Medford and Jacksonville High schools took part in a mock United Nations held on the Univer sity of Oregon campus Friday and Saturday. Medford High school stu dents represented the Soviet Union and . Jacksonville stu lents represented Ghana. All Jtudents taking part in the model UN are members of In ternational Relations classes. Sponsors of the annual events are the Oregon Educa tion association and the Uni versity of Oregon. About 500 students took part in the event. Attending from Medford High school were Sandra Arant, Nancy Becken, Eric Eitreim, J i jn Frohnmayer, Harold Head, Lynn Latham, Randi Peterson, Marcia Wil liams. Nancy Wilson and Mar cia Wfnshall.- Jacksonville high students attending were John Allen, Marjorie Edens, Romelle Fos sen, Linda Hardy, Rita Mc Beth, Nancy Niedermeyer and Paul Winningham. Barker's give Green Stamps when you buy his clothing! Meroeirs creased private support for educational institutions to step up science and engineer ing education. Use of tax money to support such educa tional programs was favored by 45 per cent of the voters. Only 14 per cent thought the nation should consider in creased military assistance to friendly countries as an al ternative for strengthening defenses of the non-communist world. Lowest rated al ternatives with 11 per cent was increased U.S. defense spending on an emergency "crash program" basis. On the question of whether the U.S. should take more vigorous steps to compete with Russia in the economic sphere, alternatives rated as follows: Sixty-six per cent said the U.S. should cooperate close ly with our allies in interna tional trade in order to strengthen the combined ec ILLINOIS VALLEY Report On Tract Heard By HELEN BOTTEL Cave Junction At the regular meeting of the Illin ois Valley Soil Conservation District board of directors Friday evening, E. W. (Jiggs) Morris presented a report made by the forestry commit tee on long-range plans for the administration and man agement of the district-owned woodland conservation tract on Thompson creek, near Selma. The report, as accepted by the board, will be used as a guide in setting up District policy on this tract, which is being managed under the best woodland conservation tech nical knowledge now avail able. Plans were finalized for the annual Soil Conservation District meeting to be held Saturday, March 15, at 1 p.m. in the Illinois Valley High school vocational agriculture building. With all collections now in, March of Dimes Chairman Dr. Joseph Meyer announced a total of $366.07 has been con tributed to the fund from the Illinois valley. This includes an additional $73.63 recently turned in from Kerby Grade school, $15.35 from Evergreen school, $211.- 32 in the Mothers March, plus over $65 from coin boxes and other sources. Illinois Valley Lions have been appointed trustees for an over $300 grant, made recent ly to local Boy and Girl Scout groups by the now-disbanded Oregon Caves Bowmen. -The newly organized handi capped Troop 85 of the James Boys Home is the first recip ient of funds from the Lions club, which has voted $50 to the troop for merit badges, pins, caps, and other necessi ties. The club is sponsoring this new valley troop. Kathy Tycer, "daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Tycer, and Russ Beem, son of Mr and Mrs. M. C. Beem, were crowned queen and king of the Illinois Valley High school Valentine dance Friday eve ning. Mrs. Mary Seat of Elisnore and Los Angeles, Calif., re turned to Cave Junction re cently with her son, Ortis Seat, who had been in the south. Although she still uses a wheel chair part of the time, Mrs. Seat is recovering from a broken hip, sustained in a fall at her home last year. Mrs. Delbert O'Brien re turned last week to her home on Waldo road, after receiv ing treatment at Josephjne General hospital. She shared a room with another O'Bri enite, Mrs. Ed George. Del Sack of Grants Pass is substitute driver on the Cres cent City mail route this month, while truck owner Ed Holland recovers from sur gery. The Rev. and Mrs. George Gray are expecting delivery of their new house trailer, which will be stationed on the Ortis Seat property. They are currently staying at the home of their daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ortis Seat. A Valentine party was held Thursday after practice by members of the Cave Junc tion Community church choir and their friends. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Martin attended a meeting of the Holstein - Fresian association at Corvallis Monday. Martin, who with his brother George P. Martin, owns and manages the Illinois Valley dairy, is a director of the State Holstein-, Fresian association. onomies of allied countries, Second and third-rated al ternatives, respectively, call ed for strengthening of trade relations with non-communist countries to insure strength of our own economy, and pro viding more economic assist ance to strengthen economies of friendly nations. Alternative U.S. policies re garding Russia's hold on East ern Europe, split about even ly among more cultural and educational exchanges with Eastern European countries, increased U.S. information and propaganda activity be hind the iron curtain, and more tourist travel and trade exchanges between the U.S. and Eastern Europe. On the question of how to try for a settlement of East West differences, the major ity favored another "summit" conference rather than limit ing negotiations for the pres ent to the UN and its com mittees. Mrs. Sarah Thebo of Cave Junction was honored at a birthday party given Tuesday, Feb. 11, in the home of Mrs. Mike Nicholson on Bridge view road. Surprise birthday parties came in bunches for Mrs. Hugh Foster last Friday, Feb. 14. A Blue Star Mothers "sew ing bee" turned out to be a party for the honoree that af ternoon, and in the evening a group of her friends dropped in for coffee, and produced ice cream and a large, attrac tively decorated cake. 1 Roscoe B. Hatch, U.S. Army Engineer, Portland District; Edmund J. Watson, chief en gineer for the Oregon State Water Resources Board; and Malcolm H. Carr, investiga tion engineer for the Water Resources Board, were in the Illinois valley last Thursday to further investigate and study flood problems in this area. The men met with Loyd Burnett, Soil Conservation Service conservationist for the Illinois Valley district, and the four toured flood dam aged lands along the Illinois river and its tributaries. Working on plans for reor ganization of the Illinois Val ley Jubilee are members of a committee appointed last week by chairman Don Adams. The committee includes Mrs. E. V. Cooke, Mrs. Hal Moore Jr., Mrs. Loyd Burnett, Milt Pierson, Dr. C. G. Stem, Lloyd Gilbert, Al Mellow, George Yarbrough, Howard Yarbrough and Don Adams W. O. (Bill) Burch, an Illi nois Valley miner and lum berman, has taken o na new job, which he says is giving him more pleasure than any thing he's ever done. He has reorganized Handicapped Boy Scout Troop No. 85 of the James Boys Home, under the sponsorship of the Illinois Valley Lions club. Assistant Scoutmasters are Chet Wil cox of Cave Junction and Jim Holten of Selma. Highway Traffic in Area Shows Increase Trafic on Highway 66 east of Ashland and on Highway 62 south of Shady Cove showed an increase in Janu ary over a year ago, the state highway department has an nounced. The average daily count last month on Highway 66, five miles east of Ashland, was 701, compared to 542 in January, 1957, an increase of 29.3 per cent. On Highway 62, four miles south of Shady Cove, the av erage daily count last month was 1,100, compared to 1,031 a year ago, an increase oi o. per cent. Highway traffic recorded at 44 rural automatic traffic counters throughout the state showed a statewide increase of 13.7 per cent last month compared to January, 1957, the department noted. Use Tribune Want Adi. L East Main Si. DAIRY - There will be no universal Peace as long as one man raises chickens and his neighbor raises a garden. I I I Mokes Powers Are Slow In Giving Their Official Views (Editor's note: This Is another in the series of dis cussions on the foreign poli cy of the United Stales. This week's Great Decisions discussion concerns the Middle East, and what re sponsibility the United States has in that area. The information for the discus sion was prepared by the Foreign Policy association and distributed in coopera tion with the Oregon state system of higher education through the general exten sion division.) Twice in two weeks the map of the Middle East has changed. On Feb. 1 President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and President Shukri al-Ku-watly of Syria announced the merger of their two republics into one United Arab Repub lic. Only 14 days later King Faisal of Iraq and King Hus sein of .Jordan counter-moved by proclaiming the merger of their two kingdoms. The Egyptian-Syrian move may havp triggered a whole string Ox new developments in the Middle East, and both Washington and Moscow have been unusually slow and cau tious in giving their official evaluation. And with good reason, observers say. Elements of Promise For both Moscow and Wash ington the recent events may contain elements of promise and peril alike. The merger of Egypt and Syria brings to gether the two countries which, according to the State Department, have received 60 per cent of all Soviet foreign aid. long-term barter arrange ments commit the economies of both countries to the So viet bloc and their armed forces rely to a large extent on Soviet equipment. To be headed by Egypt's ambitious President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the United Arab Republic is now in position to cut off 80 per cent of Western Europe's oil supplies by blocking not only the Suez Canal but also the vital pipelines which run from Iraq and Saudi Arabia through Syria to the Mediter ranean. Nevertheless there are re ports that Soviet diplomats are not happy about the new developments. One theory has it that President Shukri al- Kuwatly, a conservative na tionalist, pushed the Egyptian-Syrian merger in order to check influential pro-Sovi et and Communist elements in Syria. Outlaws Party Nasser has outlawed the Communist party in Egypt and has imprisoned some of its leaders. Under the merger plan, all competitive political parties will be dissolved, There will be only one "na tional union" political party Whether and to what extent the Syrian Communists will participate in this national front remains to be ueen. Khaled Bagdash, the Syrian Communist leader, did not at tend the session of -the Syrian parliament at which the union with Egypt was announced and, on Feb. 5, he left for Mos cow with his entire family. Other observers see some significance in the fact that Nasser's announcement of the merger includes a guarantee to safeguard private property against expropriation without due compensation. Early to Predict It is too early to predict whether Moscow will con tinue to favor Arab unity on these terms. Western diplo mats, on the other hand, find little comfort in the mergers for a different set of reasons What worries Washington diplomats most about the Egyptian - Syrian merger is that it unites the two most anti-Western Arab states and gives them a potential stran glehold on the oil supplies of America's key European al lies. Further, the new union will be led by Nasser, whose announced goal is a single Arab nation "from the Atlan tic to the Persian Gulf." Observers agree that the idea of Ar b unity has long L SMITH at Gen cum I Foreign Policy Amocwimi. Inc. MIDDLE EAST Map 'above shows re sources and politics of the Middle East countries, which are discussed in this week's Great Decision program. Recently, Egypt had a tremendous emotional appeal throughout the Arab world. They were not sur prised that the proclamation of the United Arab Republic in Cairo had almost immedi ate repercussions in other Arab countries, such as Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. v' Implications Urgani For Jordan, the small des ert kingdom which (along with Israel) separates Egypt and Syria, the implications were most 'urgent. In the spring of 1957 Jordan's King Hussein barely managed to put down a rebellion believed to have been inspired by Syria and Egypt. The United States has since invested 40 million dollars in strengthening Hus sein's regime. The recent union of Jordan with Iraq is widely interpret ed as an attempt by these two monarchies to counterbalance the Egyptian - Syrian merger and to keep Jordan from being swallowed up by Nas ser's new republic. But these goals are by no means secure, observers warn. Below the governmental level there is considerable popular support for Nasser and for the dream he symbolizes, a single politically powerful Arab nation. There is a dis tinct possibility, experts be lieve, that a second rebellion might succeed. Where King Saud of Saudi Arabia stands in these moves and countermoves is open to conjecture. Most observers be lieve he is a "middle-of-the- roader," not so pro-Western as Iraq, not so anti-Western as Egypt and Syria, yet de termined to avoid an open split within the Arab world. The union of Jordan and Iraq raises another serious question for U.S. policy will Iraq remain a member of the U.S.-supported Bagh dad Pact? Iraq is the only Arab state in this military al liance, which pledges Britain, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Tur key to "cooperation" .Jn mu tual defense. The idea of the Baghdad Pact originated with the United States, which is not a formal member but partici pates in the work of all the pact's committees. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles envisaged the pact as the con necting link between the NATO alliance in Europe and the SEATO alliance in Asia. It was to be a "northern tier" separating the Middle East from the Soviet Union. ' i i i "Just as good" is never good enough when medi cation is prescribed for you. Prompt prescription service is our specialty. Bring your prescriptions i to us for compounding. . to us for compounding. . MEDFORD OPEN 8:30 a.m.-10:30 P.M. DAILY SUNDAYS 10:00 A.M. 9:30 P.M. 101 North Central, Corner Mew In late January, Secretary Dulles gave further demon stration of America's interest in the pact by personally at tending the meeting of the Baghdad Pact Council in An kara, Turkey. But the merger of Jordan and Iraq raises questions about Iraq's continued mem bership. . The pact has never been popular in the Arab world. Iraq has been under constant pressure from other Arab states to drop its, mem bership in this Western-spon sored alliance. ." The terms of the Iraqi-Jor danian federation provide that both nations will continue to honor their international ob ligations. Pressures Noted Presumably this includes the Baghdad Pact. Many ob servers fear, however, that both internal pressures in Jordan and Iraq and external pressures from other Arab states are working in the op posite direction. Saudi Arabia, the only oth er Arab monarchy, is particu larly vigorous in its opposi tion to the Baghdad alliance. If Saudi Arabia were to join the Iraqui - Jordanian federa tion a possibility the odds would be even greater that Arab membership in the alliance would lapse. This, observers agree, would detract seriously from the effectiveness of the alli ance and would be a direct challenge to U.S. military policy in the area. " The new developments in the. Middle East may call for a re-examination of U.S. poli cy in this vital area. Eisenhower - Doctrine After the Middle East crisis in 1956, the Administration developed the Eisenhower Doctrine which authorizes the President "to use armed forces to assist any nation or group of nations in the Middle East . . . requesting assistance against armed aggression by any country controlled by in ternational communism." It also authorizes $200 million in economic aid tarnations in the Middle East. However, Lebanon and Iraq were the only Arab countries to endorse the doctrine. Since Egypt's seizure of the Suez Canal, U.S. aid to that country has come to a halt. (Syria never did accept U.S. aid offers in the first place.) Now Senator Hubert H. Hum phrey (D-Minn.) has suggested that the U.S. resume aid to Egypt, at least to the. extent PHARMACY 6th Phone SP 2-6253 and Syria organized the United Arab league, and as a counter-move, Iraq and Jordan proclaimed a merger of the two kingdoms. of permitting shipments of CARE relief. Nationalism, he argues, can still serve as a bulwark against communism, even if it is an "anti-Western" brand of nationalism. Nasser's handling of Syria's pro-Soviet elements may pro vide a "clue to the validity of this argument and may well influence 'the policy - makers in the Administration. This and other proposals are being warmly debated. But there, is- little disagree ment that the right answers must be found soon. The West has' not yet "lost"-the Middle East but Western policies are on trial. 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