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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.
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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.
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DAIRY -
There will be no universal Peace
as long as one man raises chickens
and his neighbor raises a garden.
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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
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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. '
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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
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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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the eighth year in the opera
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according to Robert Elliott,
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more than 1956, he said. Pol
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million in dividends. Death
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Young Men's Christian as
sociation membership - drive
division heads workers met
recently to report their pro
gress. .- '
iPaul Mitchell," drive chair
man,: announced that a section
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ing of Avon saleswomen at
the Jackson hotel.
Ranking second was Mrs.
Idella Williams of Ashland.
Mrs. Zimmerman, ranked first
among saleswomen from the
five-county southern Oregon.
Both received a trophy and
orchid corsage.
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Glenn Jennings.
Other division heads report
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les Jones, Fred Sears, Jay
Pierce, Mrs. Lanell Wilkes,
Mrs. Virginia Wickersham, Ed
Hass, and Jake Toews. " The
total group has reported 130
memberships on a total goal
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