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r 4 Thurwliy, April J, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MedforiTribune "Zveryone in Southern 'Oregon Reads The Mail Trthim'" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP .2-6141 ROBERT W RTTOT. Erlitnr HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor HARRY CH1PMAN, Teleg. Editor RICHAkD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCWFB Srviatv FHifor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An IndeDendpnt Nwnianpr Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES P-JT Mail In Advance: Conv lOn. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 uauy ana aunaay f mos. o.uu Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold HU1. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday l year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford uinciai yaper or Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION .Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO., INC, Of fices in New York, Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B. C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight ro Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. Editorial Correspondence... 10 YEARS AGO April 3, 1948 (Sunday) Forty log, lumber and dump truck operators organize Southern Oregon Truckers league. Hindered by eight inches of new snow and day-long snowfall, "Operation Sno-Cat Cascade" progresses five miles north. 20 YEARS AGO April 3, 1938 (Sunday) City Judge Allen D. Curry sentences several men charg ed with being drunk in a public place to serve on city work crews. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The first horse-shoe game and house-fly of the season were noted the past week." 30 YEARS AGO April 3. 1928 (Monday) Taking street scenes for "The Reporter," a three-reel comedy to be produced here this week by H. J. L. Produc tions of Hollywood, starts at noon in front of the Mail Tribune office. From local and personal column: "Doing away with the old signs which had been in use ever since the unit was established, Dr. L. K. Inskeep of the county health unit has adopted new quarantine signs." 40 YEARS AGO April 3, 1918 (Wednesday) A heavy frost, and one of the dryest ever known here, causes alarm to the orchard ists. From local and personal column: "Indications from the advance sale of tickets are that the Greater Medford club entertainment at the Page theater tonight will have a capacity house." Vhai's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct ItV superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or ix is good. A. On what date was the fifst nuclear chain reaction accomplished? i Rible: What became of Christ's clothes after his cru cifixion? 3. Does sound travel faster in air than in water? 4. What word expresses a thousand thousand? 5. Correct the following sentence, "She doesn't see as she ought to take the posi tion." 6. What color is a flag of truce? 7. In which city in Texas is the Alamo? 8. Of which country is the maple leaf emblematic? 9. How many edges has a cube? 10. What nickname was giv en Baron von Richtofen, fa mous German airman o." World War I? Answers: 1. Dec. 2. 1942 (at Univ. of Chicago). 2. The sol diers cast lots for them. 3. No. 4. Million. 5. "She doesn't see that she ought to lake the po sition." 6. White. 7. San An tonio. 8. Canada. 9. Twelve. 10. "The Red Knight of Ger many." - San Francisco, April 1st April Fool's Day starts out ok The Weather Man predicted rain as usual and here it is 8 a.m. and Old Sol is shining brightly in a cloudless sky. How long it will last is another matter. We have been here 8 days and it has rained every day but one. There are land slides all over the bay area. It is a common experience to go to bed on the side of a hill and awaken a thousand feet away in a ditch. You did not move but your house did. Except the weather not much has changed since we were last here. Lefty O'Doul has a new cafe down Geary whirh he modestlv claims is the "best in the world." Mebbe so. But the menu printed on the" imposing entrance doesn't sound like it. A huge ( airplane depot is going up at the corner of O'Farrell and Taylor, across the street from the handsome NBC building, and .only a few more steps from the Clift than the present one". We don't know whether the Clift was smart or lucky but undoubtedly its proximity to the air terminal must be a big asset. We have seen no signs of a recession thus far. Easter only a week away may have something to do with it. The stores around Union Square are well filled, at the noon hour the motor cars and taxis are bumper to bumper and everyone appears busy. But never have we heard so many San Franciscans curse out, the-weather one hears it on all sides. "Disgusting" is the mildest term we have heard. - San Francisco is a beautiful, charming and stimulating city. But like Washington, D.C., it has its regusting spots. And also like the national capital they are not far from the center of things. For anyone who questions this we suggest a stroll up Market Street on a Sunday, or up Geary from Van Ness on any day of the week. If uncleanliness is at the op posite pole from Godliness then no wonder the "Paris on the Golden Gate" has its crime and especially its child delinquent problem. "100 per cent Filth"' is the ONLY word for it. A primary campaign is in 'progress here but thus far have seen no visual signs of it. Senator Knowland, running for Governor, has a picture of himself on his second floor headquarters on Grant Ave., and Mayor Christopher has his picture on his headquarters on upper Market. Not far away is another sign telling the world "Christopher Milk Makes Champs." The Mayor is running against Governor Knight for the U.S. Senate nomination. (Republican of course.) If Mayor Christopher can't keep his milk cleaner than his sidewalks and streets, we would hesitate to drink it. Secretary of State Dulles would be horrified at the thought, of being compared to a punch-drunk prize-fighter. But as the Russian bear delivers another terrific right cross to the secretarial jaw, his Excellency does remind us of Carmen Basillio wading into the clever and resource ful Sugar Ray, getting hit with everything but the water bucket and still standing up. As internationally this is a fight to the finish, instead of a 15-rounder, we wonder if there is no limit to what the erudite but inept and non perceptive Secretary, can take. It would seem there isn't. Of course, the same old alibi will be dusted off and presented this Soviet decision to quit nuclear tests is merely another propaganda trap which Uncle Sam is too smart to fall for. Russia can't be trusted. Of course she can't. And Russia doesn't trust the United States. If there were mutual trust there would be no problem. The point is, until there is mutual trust, everything that can be done should be done to escape from those rights and lefts delivered in rapid succession by the Kremlin bruin. And then some skillful maneuvering deliver some of our own. But the accepted strategy of the State Department is to let the Kremlin do all the leading, glory in our ability to absorb punishment, and justify everything by scorning all Russia's leads by dismissing them as propaganda. . But at this stage of the game what isn't propaganda? Nearly all international moves are made with an eye to world opinion. The trouble with the present situation is Soviet Russia is making all the moves. And day by day in every way it is leading more and more nations to believe that' Russia is the nation that wants an end to this nuclear fall-out business and the estallishment of world peace, and the United States ISN'T. Is there no counter to this offensive, no real defense to this attack? As far as we can make out, Secretary Dulles thinks there isn't. : Instead of condemning every move Russia makes as merely propaganda, why not meet it with some effective propaganda of our own only as David Harum suggested concerningsjthe Golden Rule abandon our defeatist policy and do it first! Speaking of propaganda, one of the most shameful and alarming examples of domestic propaganda, is the nation wide campaign ' of the powerful Television interests to establish an air tight monopoly, by broadcasting the false hood, that "Pay T.V." would force the people of the country to pay for the entertainment they now get f or-free. That is 100 per cent false. But through the tremendous propaganda power of the huge Television networks, literally hundreds of thousands of TV patrons were convinced it was true. So convinced they followed instructions from their TV stations and so flooded the congress with protests, that the FCC, already under fire because of certain shenanigans, succumbed to the pressure and nullified their order calling for a three year trial. . And a "trial" was all that was ever considered. But the TV "cartel" had so little faith in their ability to survive that test that they proceeded to move heaven and earth to prevent it. And they prevented it for the present at least. It only shows what propaganda skillfully conceived and applied can. dp in this free democracy of ours. Particularly as was true in this case, where there is only one side of the argument presented. (One stands in some awe before what some unscrupulous political "cartel" gaining 'control of TV could accomplish in this country!) j To further show how utterly false and misleading this free TV propaganda was and is, the trial period allowed by the FCC was restricted to those communities where at least four TV stations were already in operation. In other words there could be no Pay TV in a town the size of Medford or we believe any other town in the state with the possible exception of Portland. And then only one of the four stations would be allowed to make the test-run, for a limited period. What would the other Free TV stations be doing mean while? Would they close up and call it a day? How SILLY can we get? They would stay with their sponsored programs as they are, of course. The only change would be that the people who wanted to pay a small sum to see well say "The Bridge on the River Kwai" or "The Ten Commandments" or some Top Level Conference or something else of importance which the Free TV stations could not or would not get could do so. Is there anything wicked or undemocratic in that particularly in our free enterprise system where it is generally agreed monopoly is wrong and competition is the life of trade? Dennis the Menace Threat of Strikes Confronts Unstable French Government By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The threat of paralyzing na tionwide strikes is confront ing French Premier Felix Gaillard with a new and ser ious problem. A strike by one million workers 'in na tionalized in dustries, un der direct con trol of t h e govern- w I ment, crip- iFfiin I nlpH nnrmal cnanes in. .... . McCann activity in the entire country Tuesday. This 24-hour strike t was called by all the big labor unions Communist, Social- ist and Catholic to back up a demand for wage increases ranging from 10 to 25 per cent. Union leaders say the strike was merely a warning ges ture, and will be followed by bigger, longer strikes unless Gaillard concedes the wage demands. Strikes May Spread Gaillard's position is that the budget will not permit wage increases at this time. In the background lies the threat that strikes may spread to private industry. The workers, in both na tionalized and private indust ries, are getting increasingly restive because of the con stantly rising cost of living. tM JUST HAV1N' A FEW FRIENDS IN. Matter of Fact Well, there is the' usual compensation. Eventually the truth will prevail, and when it does, and the people see the situation clearly, there is slight doubt that Pay TV under reasonable regulations will be adopted because the Ameri can people will demand it. "Truth crushed to earth will rise again, The eternal years of God are hers. But error wounded writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers." . Finally, if Pay TV is as unpopular with the Television public as the TV Big Shots claim, and as the letters to the congress (they maintain) demonstrate, then why in the name of Pete, be so terrified of it? Why declare . there FROM ONE POLLYANNA TO ANOTHER Washington Dear Joe: Well, the time has come alas,' to pack up and go our separate ways, after more than 12 years and (appalling thought) some two and a half million words In those 12 years, we ve been to a lot of places, from nr . i Stewart Alsop ivi B - " w l" Manhattan, Kansas, and we've covered a lot of news, from the Little Rock riot to the Korean war. In 12 years, I've learned something, at least, about re porting. You remember per haps too vividly that when I joined you I'd never written a line for a newspaper. When aspiring young newspapermen ask me how to become a col umnist, I always answer, "Have a brother who already is one." The first thing I learned was that reporting is hard work, and especially hard on shoe leather. Not all of it is hard, to be sure. You remem ber those days when we were putting salt on Louis John son's, highly exposed tail, (Dear me, what fun that was, and how long ago it seems.) He always firmly believed that he was the victim of out rageous Pentagon "leaks." In fact, as you know, we got 90 per cent of our information about how he was destroying our defenses simply by exam ining his own line budgets "OUT it was rarely that easy. Sometimes the job of a reporter seems to me like a paleontologist's. You'd find a thigh bone buried deep in the subsoil, and then I'd find a couple of teeth or a tibia, and pretty soon we could confi dently reconstruct the whole skeleton. There is hardly any thing more exciting, and en joyable, I think, than that feeling of being on the trail of something really im portant. Not all of it has been enjoy able. We've never written anything important that the Russians didn't certainly know already. But we've been the subject of five or is it six now? "security investi gations," and that gives a man a queasy feeling. Not half so queasy, though, as those in evitable moments (usually in the dog days, after Congress had adjourned) when there seemed nothing at all to write about, except the squirrels on the White House lawn. There -have been moments, too, of frustration, when we have both felt that we were crying in the wilderness, with nobody listening. And we have had our differences. I STILL have that column you vetoed, in which I By Stewart Alsop . i wrote that the 1948 election would look like a horse race, if it weren't for the Gallup Polls. And I remember plead ing with you (fortunately in vain) to hedge on Tito's revolt against Stalin; andangrily ar guing with you that you vast ly over-estimated the import ance of the decision to with draw our troops from Korea in 1949. But our differences have been on matters of detail and interpretation. On the big things we have always agreed. You remember how often, when one of us has been abroad, and our letters have crossed, we have writ ten the same things to each other, almost in the same words. I suppose that is one advantage of being brothers as well as partners. On one point especially we have agreed absolutely. When we started our part nership on January 1st, 1946, the two great processes which have dominated all the years that followed were already visible. One was the creation and growth of the vast new boviet-uommunist empire. The other was the develop ment of new weapons which will make it possible for man to write finis to the story of his (and no doubt all the other higher animals') life on earth. tlTE have always agreed absolutely that it was our function as newspapermen to report seriously, and write seriously, about these two processes. Because we have done so, we have been called pessimists and doom mer chants. But I have been leaf ing back through those two and a half million words, and I really think that we are more open to the charge of excessive optimism. We have generally under estimated the capacity of the Communist half of the world to expand and consolidate its power, to increase its military-industrial base, to with stand such shocks as Stalin's death and the Hungarian re volt. And we have also under estimated the rate of scienti fic progress (if that is the cor rect word) -towards the point where another great war will destroy all forms of life above the level of the praying mantis. In that sense we have been downright Polly annas. And we have always felt in our hearts that, if the people of the United States and the West are firmly led and in telligently informed, both freedom and civilization will somehow survive. And so, as we prepare to carry on sepa rately with the kind of report ing each of us likes best, hail and farewell, and the best of luck, from one Pollyanna to another. (Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann (MID should be no test to prove or disprove it? In the final showdown, neither the politicians nor the Federal Com munications Commission will decide this the people will. Then why not let the people decide NOW? That is all the FCC proposal would do but the FCC lacks the stamina to stick to its guns, and allow a popular referendum on it. Surely even the Television monopolists can't deny that if the people don't WANT Pay TV, they will not pungle up their hard earned nickels and dimes to GET it. So why not give it a trial and see what the people want and don't want? Well, there obviously, 'to any impartial observer, is the "rub." The Big Networks realize that if the people were given a free chance to have paid non-sponsored superior enter tainment over TV they would want it. And they would be glad to pay for it. And that is why and the only reason why the Big Networks are in their own self interest, "moving heaven and earth" to prevent it. ' As noted above, April Fool's Day dawned with April Fool! a bright sun in a clear, blue, rain swept sky. What is the situation now at noon? The undersigned has just returned from a walk, and without a raincoat, dodging under awnings and theater marquees to keep from getting soaked. This is the place ior another one of our familiar !'Q.E.D,s." R..W.R. . .. EUROPE REVISITED Travelling about in Eur ope, as I h ave been doing, it has, of course, been only too obvious that there is a great decline in American influence. The immediate cause of it, is no doubt, the debility of the P r e s i dent's role in world affairs, and its a c c o m p animent, per haps its inev itable accomp- Walter Lippmann animent the negativism of Secy. Dulles. But what I learned in Scandinavia, in Poland, in Germany, in Britain and France, persuaded me that the compelling cause of the de cline of our influence is that the American view of the main European issues is be coming out of date, is being by-passed by events, and that when we talk about Europe, and Germany, and the cap tive states and Russia, we sound rather like old codgers talking about the past. I became most aware of this as I began to realize how very different is the official American view of Germany from what one finds virtually everywhere ' in Europe. We have been taking it for grant ed that the hope of the future in Europe turns on the reuni fication and revival of Ger many. The truth, as I found it, was that the World War is not forgotten, indeed that the memory of it is reviving, and that to understand the Euro pean situation as a whole it is necessary to take account of this growing fear of Ger man domination. The spec tacle of West Germany's eco nomic recovery plus the grow ing knowledge that there is also a remarkable recovery in East Germany have revived the remembrance of the war and played a very big part in affairs. I HAD not realized this be fnro T wont aVTrafl li5p time.-Always until then I had believed that Germany, even if reunited, was too small to be a world power again. What I failed to realize is that all things are relative, and that relative to the rest of Eur ope excluding the U. S. A. and the U. S. S. R. a re united Germany would now be the foremost power. In London as in Warsaw, and in the neutralist countries as well, there is a deep anxiety that this powerful reunited Germany would become the any or eitner tne u. 5. A. or the U. S. S. R., or that it would hold the balance of power between them. The practical effect of this is that it is hard to find any one who does not want to put off as long as possible the re union of the two Germanies. This works out "in a curious way. Those who are affiliated with the West cling publicly and officially to the Dulles Adenauer formula of free elections to unify Germany. This is not because they be lieve in the formula but be cause ' they know that Ger many cannot be unified under that formula. Those who are affiliated with the East sup port the Russians in German affairs, counting on the Rus sians to protect them against a reunited Germany. There is no doubt at all, it seems to me, that Poland, for ex ample, longs for the with drawal of the Red Army and yet, out of fear of Germany, hopes that until there is some other kind of settlement of the German question, the Rus sians will stay in East Ger many. IT IS in West Germany that the official American-German policy seems particularly antiquated. Whatever their neighbors may fear from them the great mass of the West Germans are not dreaming of domination by a united Ger many. They are worrying about a united Germany. Some are worrying because they fear a revival of Ger man nationalism, many more because a united Germany would probably be predomin antly Socialist, others because it would be extremely diffi cult to integrate the collect ivist economy of Eastern Ger many and the capitalist econ omy of Western Germany. For reasons like these, the Adenauer-Dulles formula has a fading role among the Ger mans. Few expect the for mula to work, and few really want it to work. What we are going to see, it seems to me, is as unfortunately only the Russians have had the wit to suggest negotiations be tween the two German gov ernments. As a matter of fact there is already negotiation about the currency and about trade, all of it nominally at a technical rather than at a political level. These negoti ations will almost certainly broaden greatly into some sort of political arrangement which might one day take the form of a dual state. The West Germans will not break with the Western pow ers and the East Germans will not break with the Sov iet Union. They will seek to obtain the practical advan tages of reunion without the serious political and psychol ogical disadvantages.. HHHIS process in the two Germanies will, I am con vinced, promote and will be accompanied by a thinning out of the military forces in Germany and in Central Eur ope. There is every reason to believe that the future of Cen tral Europe lies with the prin ciple of disengagement. But the application of the prin ciple will be gradual, and the full application of it may not come for a great many more years than anyone can calcu late about. These developments will, I believe, have acquired great momentum in about three years. I say three years be cause at the end of that time Adenauer is not likely to be in power, and there will be new governments in Britain, France and the United States. Put another way, the post war governments will have been replaced, and with them the post-war policies which are now rapidly becoming antiquated. The decline of American influence in Europe will, I believe, continue as long as our fundamental conception of the future in the two Ger manies and in East Europe consists of the illusions and stereotypes which the Eisen hower administration inher ited from the Truman admin istration. For they belong to an era when the balance of power and the technology of war and of diplomacy were quite different from what! they are today. (C) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Their position is that re gardless of economic and fi nancial" factors, they must have more money to provide necessities for their families. Aside from the gravity of the strike threat itself, there is growing fear in government quarters that big strikes may bring riots. Unrest In Army Riots on any large scale would precipitate a real na tional crisis and cause de mands, which might prove ir resistible, that France install an "authoritarian" govern ment to bring it the political stability it has long needed. Dispatches from Paris say that dissatisfaction over pres ent conditions is increasing not only among civilian work ers but int he armed forces. Professional army officers increasingly complain of the weakness of French govern ments and the need for a strong one. The grim outlook is bring ing increased attention to what political writers call the long shadow of Gen. Charles de Gaulle. So far, De Gaulle, wartime leader of Free France and its first premier after the liberation, has kept silent. But he is waiting for a call. And any such call might cause really serious riots. Communications Letters 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. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Questions New Tax Base To the Editor: I have not followed closely the attempt to set a "permanent tax base for Jackson county, and there fore do not claim to be an authority. But one or two sig nificant things or situations stand out as not being as they should. In other words we have been taken,' and will con tinue to be taken as long as we are willing to stand for it. For after all, we ourselves vote for these various prop erty tax increases so that our county might have new schools, new recreational fa cilities, new or improved county roads, etc. Of course this is all as it should be But When we go to the polls to vote on such matters, do we understand why we are voting to raise the tax rate on our own property? True, our county officials have shown Eisenhower Accepts Sloan's Resignation Washington m Presi dent Eisenhower Wednesday accepted the resignation of Gordon Sloan of Astoria, Ore., from the Inter -American Tropical Tuna commission. Sloan was recently appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court bench. The commission is com posed of representatives from the Unted States, Costa Rica and Panama. that such programs cost a cer tain amount of money which no doubt theyflo, and "natu rally the tax rate must be in creased to pay for same." But does it? - ; That's as far as their infor mation goes. Nothing is said of whether such necessary funds might already be in the county treasury and available for such proposed programs. And so we vote to raise our taxes the required amount taxes which were already high enough to discourage a good many people from buy ing property in the valley. I don't understand just what this permanent tax base will mean and I'm against it until it is proven to be an im provement over the present tax setup in Jackson county. Recently I read that our county treasurer has a huge amount of our tax money (yours and mine) on hand a surplus such that no taxes would need to be collected for two years or so! And yet if we are told that a tax in crease of so many mills is needed to finance some im provements we need, we'll all troop to the polls and vote for it. Why? Would you jump off a cliff because someone ad vised you to? Or would you think it over first to decide how you would profit by it? Or if anyone would? Is it nec essary? Our state returned to the. people a large sum of our in come taxes for last year be cause it had a large surplus over the cost of government Why can't Jackson county do likewise? S. J. Dodge, 504 Austin St Medford. Thanks to Dealers To the Editor: We would like to give public notice to the Associated Automobile Dealers of Medford for their participation in the "Parade of the Century" held in Med ford March 21, a big event in the annals of the Eagle Point Grange. The appearance of the cars from the showrooms of Medford, dealers, contri buted to the success of the event. This is very much ap preciated, not only by the Grange but by patients from Camp White, whose participa tion in the parade was made possible by these dealers. C. C. Hoover, Chairman, Special Events committee Eagle Point Grange I I J I I 17 If lVI I 1 ( J ) CJ GIVE for EASTER Orchid Plants Easter LiJIies Hydrangeas Azaleas Cinerarias lloppe's Greenhouse & Florist Bouquets Corsages Floral Arrangements WE DELIVER Phone SP 2-6378 Telegraph Delivery Service 305 Lozier Lane Medford Vote The Coroner Into OFFICE Instead of Into BUSINESS! When the County Coroner is a Funeral Director, as is the case in Jackson County, there are certain obvious and natural advantages that come to his business from his position as Coroner. When he keeps these benefits for himself, he has been voted Into business. When he shares these advantages equally with others in his pro fession, he has been voted into office. We, like the Litwiller Funeral Home in Ashland, heartily endorse FRANK PERL for COUNTY CORONER with his proposed, fair "Rotation System," and urged your support for him. Chapel Mortuary , Across from the CoUrthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Political Advertisement paid for by the Chapel Mortuary.
