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Newspaper Page Text4 ThunJtv, April 10. 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDsJWTRIBUNE "Everyone in Southern vreeoa PjIfiHa Tha Mult Twh.'" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-8141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor hekb OKtY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor AnL a AUAMa, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter fit Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1891 SUBSCRIPTION HATES Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 tnos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 453 Sunday Only One year $4.20 -By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill. i-noemx. snaay unre, KOgue stiv er Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 uauy ana aunaay j mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terma Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Medford oincial Paper or Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO., INC.. Of flees in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B. C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL . X ft 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 April 10. 1948 (Sunday) Arch Work, leader of "Operation Sno-Cat Cascade," which was completed Friday, reported yesterday no acci dents had occurred in the 573 mile trek along the Cascades to Greensprings summit. A. W. Stevens, Medford, was chosen commodore of the Southern Oregorl boat club at its reorganizational meeting Thursday at the chamber of commerce office. 20 YEARS AGO April 10. 1938 (Sunday) Grants Pass city council voted Thursday night to assist in financing a pick-up airmail flight one day during national airmail week. From local and personal column: "April issue of the Southern Pacific bulletin con tains a number of pictures of recent California floods." 30 YEARS AGO April 10, 1928 (Tuesday) Modern lighting of Sixth st, with new posts and lights was recommended to be done at once, as a result of the Merchants' association meet ing last night. Fire Chief Roy Elliott is said to be planning to attend the Willos-Kelly hanging in the state penitentiary at Salem. 40 YEARS AGO April 10, 1918 (Wednesday) v The Liberty loan drive in Ashland has gone over the top, officials report. Two women from Way noke, Calif., have arrived in Medford and will remain here until the Oregon and California railroad land grant is opened up. What's Ycur I.Q. Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five of six is good. 1. Who was the Norwegian whose activities in World War II caused his name to become a common synonym for trai tor? 2. Bible: Where was Moses when he received the ten com mandments? 3. A fascinator is a head covering, vehicle, or a cook ing utensil? 4. Prisoners confined in the Federal prisons wear black and white striped uniforms; true or false? 5. Name in order the last three price ministers of Great Britain who preceded Cle ment A. Atlee. .. 6. What is the name for young bees? 7. Chicago is located in the Eastern, Central or Standard time belt? 8. Complete the quotation which begins, "And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and cod, Where the Lowells talk only to Ca bots, .." 9. Hiawatha, Powhatan, or King Philip was the father of Pocahontas? 10. Who was the first horse race jockey to win $2,000,000 in purses in a single year? Answers: 1. Quisling. 2. Mount Sinai. 3. Head cover ing. 4. False. 5. Winston Churchill, Neville Chamber lain, Stanley Baldwin. 6. Ny mphs. 7. Central. 8. "And the Cabots talk only to God." 9. Powhatan. 10. Willie Shoe maker (1956). Truth and Power A hair-raising situation now exists in which a small group of men who tive process of government have nevertheless assumed unprecedented powers for shaping na tional policy outside their designated functions The group is the Atomic Energy Commission. It is the only agency of government which can embark on programs that affect and even domi nate economic policy, military policy, and 'for eign policy. It is the only agency of government which can decide how the American people know about its operations It is the only agency of government that can evaluate its own perf ormance, exempt itself from the consequences of its 'own errors, and shield these errors from public COME of the implications of these powers have been brought into recent incident. First, some background. The danger of a run away nuclear arms race culminating in conti nental explosions is no longer a remote one. Mo- mentum has a way of making its own decisions.- The nuclear arsenals now contain weapons that have gone far beyond military requirements. The use of these weapons will produce not victory but mutual suicide. The what would . happen if building decided to wage war against one an other by setting fire to themselves in. If victory in the contest between democracy and Communism is to be found, there fore, it will have to be FEVISING a policy that and freedom is the complicated business in must be made somewhere. It makes sense to ex- pect that such a start should be in the field of arms control. Not that arms control by itself will give us enduring peace. world law can create a But arms control can at the fuse points of a nuclear arms race. And one good place to begin on any arms control program is with a ban on further nuclear test explosions. The Atomic Energy Commission, which manu factures and tests the nuclear explosives, has been Opposed to any ban on testing and, for that mat ter, to any agreement on nuclear anus control. The AEC has taken the flat position that such agreements are unenforceable. It would be diffi cult and perhaps impossible, spokesmen for the AEC have declared, to detect nuclear explosions if the Soviet were intent on keeping them secret. By way of proving this point, the AEC pointed to its own underground nuclear test experiment re cently conducted in Nevada. Despite the devastat ing underground effects, the explosion could not be detected at a distance greater than 235 miles, the AEC officially announced. .. IF THIS were true, then the hope for nuclear arms control would be a dim one indeed. But Congressional initiative established that the AEC statement is not true and Nevada underground explosion was actually de tected more than two thousand miles away, and the AEC was so informed Confronted with the had falsified vital inf ormation, the AEC said that the error was "inadvertent." What members of the AEC did not explain, however, was why they had used information to support a public posi tion even though the information was false. Even after the AEC apparently knew that the under ground test had been detected at great distances, it continued to tell news commentators and tele vision producers that underground tests could be carried out secretly. I7RRORS, inadvertent' or otherwise, are under "standable. What is completely irresponsible and indeed reprehensible, however, is the use of false inf ormation in connection with the advocacy of national policy. For the AEC did not merely circulate a report it knew to be false. It used that false report as the basis for an attempt to win the American public opinion over to its own point of view. Equally serious is the fact that the AEC has been using its authority and influence to block any program for world control over nuclear weapons. And Dr. Edward Teller, who is promi nently associated with the Atomic Energy Com mission, has been attempting to reassure the American people that nuclear testing can go on indefinitely without danger a proposition that the AEC's own reports do not support. "1X7HAT is involved here is not merely a matter " of public confidence in a government agency. What is involved here are real and specific issues concerned with the safety of life on earth. Cir cumstances have contrived to make of the Atomic Energy Commission one of the most powerful agencies in our history. .We should no longer delay bringing the AEC into the same framework of checks and balances within which the rest of the government has to operate. Certainly, a sepa rate agency should be charged with the responsi bility for evaluating the results of nuclear testing, wThether with respect to radioactive fallout or the question of detectability. The fact that men of science are connected with the AEC is not by itself sufficient assur ance that wisdom and sanity will prevail. The theory on which this government was set up was that good government depends less on good men j are not part of the elec- much it is willing to let scrutiny. focus as the result of situation is similar to occupants of the same the building after sealing outside a nuclear war. . can achieve both peace most important and most the world. Yet a start Nothing short. of effective basis for enduring peace least remove some of indeed never was. The at the time. actual evidence that it Dennis the Menace ' PeAHUT BUTTEf. DENNIS LOVES FOOT B6EX.. OEMS iOVBS FOOT CgNNIS0fl?S-... v Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann THE NORTH AFRICAN NETTLE There is at the moment a no more thankless assign ment for an American news paperman than to put to gether his im- p r e s sions of France in her relations with North Africa. For if he takes things as they appear to be, trip pnn f 1 i r Walter Lippmann . ., v is lrrenconcil- able and the problem of find ing a solution is hopeless. The crucial question for a foreign observer is to decide how much he can discount of what he hears, how much he can dare to think that there is a compulsion in events which will override opinions. The situation in its elemen tal-form consists of a guerrilla war in Algeria with which the bulk of the French Army is involved. It is a war which almost certainly cannot be won and which in military terms will surely not be lost. The public life of metropoli tan France is dominated, in deed obsessed, by this horrid, cruel, indecisive and intermi nable war. The obsession has produced a political1 candition in France in which no gov ernment believes it caii sur vive if it considers a .nego tiated settlement. All this has reached a point where there is the gravest doubt as to whether the legal government in Paris really controls the whole of the Army or its own appointed officials dealing with Algeria in Paris and in North Africa. THE political climate in North Africa, as I saw it in Tunisia, is verging on des peration. President Bourgui ba, who certainly is the most moderate and the most West ern of Arab leaders, believes that if there is no settlement of - the Algeria:i war in the near future, he may be over whelmed and destroyed by a fanaticism which follows Nas ser. Tunisia, having ho army to speak of, is incapable of policing its long frontier with Algeria. But even if Tunisia could be neutral, it would not dare to be neutral, so great is the solidarity of the Arabs. The political climate in Paris is oppressive.. It re minded me of Washington in the heyday of McCarthy, when man after man. in high place would deplore the ter ror privately and appease it publicly. Under the French version of McCarthyism any one who disagrees . publicly with the official policy as ad ministered in Algiers has a good chance of being called a traitor. It resembles the time when to express doubt about Chiang Kai-shek was for an American politician like ex pressing doubt about the Unit ed States. There is, moreover, in France an- admixture of race feeling so that a political advocate of negotiations in Algeria is rather like a white man in Little Rock advocat ing integration in the public schools. than upon good laws. Indeed, the easiest way for good men to turn bad is to give them a privileged position where their power can be used beyond their own designated functions. Nuclear bombs are power in the modem world. They call for the severest controls not only over the bombs them selves, but over the men who have the authority o make them. (The above editorial day Review, and was written by the editor, Norman Cousins. Copyright 1958, reproduced by permission,). . PEANUT BUTTER. ASO GOMB 0P. AND FOT4TO CHIPS. rFHIS is a dark picture, as I have painted it, but I have tried not to- exaggerate, and I have refrained from putting into it the anguished predic tions of dictatorship and civil war which are current in Pais. As a matter of fact, hav ing gotten out of the atmos phere of Paris, I find myself feeling not, I think,, through any congenital optimism that events may not follow the horrid logic of the ap parent situation. For one thing, though the war cannot now be settled by a negotiated arrangement, it is not unlikely, I think, that in fact an arrangement will develop. The essence of the Algerian question is that there are two communities one white and European,, and one dark and Moslem living on the same land. The Euro peans are in a minority and, with the growth of the Mos lem population, will become an ever smaller minority. Yet the Europeans are the strong er and richer community, and .they have powerful sup port from the French home land. - A "democratic" solution is impossible with this French community outnumbered eight to one. Therefore, it looks as if the French will be driv en to do in Algeria what was done in Ireland, in Palestine, in India-what has been done so often where there are two communities which cannot be in fact, though perhaps not in name, a partition of Algeria with the French congregating in the coastal regions and the Moslems in the hinterland. In all probability this will not be peace in the sense that there will be no more vio lence, but it may mean a bare ly tolerable arrangement. TjVDR another thing, there will appear, in fact, there is already appearing, a pow erful counteracting force to the movement for independ ence in the colonial countries. The North African territories, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, are not capable of economic independence. They are to an extraordinary degree integrat ed with and dependent upon the subventions and the pro tective devices of the French economy. There are French interests which profit by the system. But for the French nation as a whole, the North African territories are not an asset but a heavy liability. In the modern world, more over, the advanced states are increasingly capable of using for themselves their own capi tal savings. The incentive to export capital is decreasing, and it tends to become, except in special ' cases like oil, a matter not of profit but of benevolence and of public policy. - Parenthetically, the Ameri can capacity to absorb capital at home is the underlying rea son why foreign aid is becom ing increasingly unpopular in the United States. The moral for North Africa, indeed for most, if not all, former colonial territories is that as they win their politi cal independence they will the quintessence of raw appeared in the Satur Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop HARRIMAN'S PIANO ivew York One of tne bits of dusty lumber that clut ter this reporter's memory is a mental picture of an ancient advertisement . for a musical correspondence course. It had the pathetic yet triumph ant caption: "They laugh ed when I sat down at the piano." - In a way, it tells the whole story of W. Averill Harriman in politics. Joseph Alsop ' The point of the advertise ment was that the friends re garded the lady in the pic ture (who vaguely resembled Lillian Gish) as a mere musi cal stumblebum until she dumbfounded them all with the plangent loveliness of her rendering of "Ramona." In Gov. Harriman's case, there was no correspondence course, since you still have to learn the practice of AmerK can politics the hard way. But there was ' almost universal laughter at the political debut of this grimly determined man who used to suffer more agony producing a five min ute after-dinner speech than any healthy peasant woman would suffer producing trip lets. Here in New York where Harriman is preparing to run for the governorship again they are not laughing now. TNDIGENOUS New York sta ters have no doubt changed their view of Harriman so gradually that the elements of humor and surprise in this change have never struck them. But any itinerant poli tical observer, returning to test the present New York atmosphere against the atmos phere of the past, must be just as dumbfounded as the friends of the Lillian Gish- like lady in the advertisement. Eloquence is not yet a Harriman strong point, but in all other respects Harriman seems to have become one of our era's more eminent and adroit experts in the political art. It is not" just that he is generally thought to have made a good Governor, it is not just that he is popular in the state. It is not just that he is strongly favored to win the Governorship again by a far wider margin than the hairs-breadth majority he got last time. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Foreign aid note: The U.S. views with regret an Indonesian announcement that the central government is buying COMMUNIST iet fighters and bombers. State de partment spokesman Lincoln White says the communist aid is a communist attempt to ex tend red influence in Indon esia. TTMMMM. I imagine the tax XM- payers will join in the re grets. This central Indonesian gov ernment is the one that pull ed loose from the Dutch and set up on its own. We've been showering it with aid money. It has been playing footsie with the communists for a long time. It now has a revolu tion on its hands because a lot of Indonesians don't like com munism. The Russians are sell ing weapons to this central government to enable it to stay in power. So our aid money has gone down the drain. You can't BUY friends. . REPRESENTATIVE C h e t . Hollifield of California is worried over the air raid shel ter program. He says there is no national plan to insure the survival of the public in case of an enemy attack, so he is proposing that the govern ment spend five billion dollars a year for five years a total of 25 billion dollars to meet the need. He says his program con templates building 'shelters of reasonable strength and dur ability in accessible locations so that if the missiles start falling the public will have some place to go. LET'S see. ' . It is generally agreed that if the missiles carrying atomic warheads start fall ing there will be no warning. So If you're going to get any REAL protection out of his 25 -billion- dollar investment you'll have to LIVE IN THE SHELTERS. Personally, I believe I'd rather take my chances and save the money. ' , find it has become very hard indeed to satisfy tneir needs for capital. In the long run, they will probably find that not Russia alone, not even Russia and the Western coun tries combined, will supply enough capital to provide them with the material base of complete independence. Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc. ... rpHE real point is that Har- riman has acquired the same degree of personal au thority in the Democratic Party here that Thomas E. Dewey used to exercise, in his steel trap-like way, in the New York Republican party. When Harriman surprised everyone by winning the Gov ernorship, he had two basic political problems. His pres ent authority rests on his suc cessful solution of both of them. One problem was the situ ation in normally Republican upstate New York, where the Democratic party was mori bund and Harriman all but lost the last election. By now, there is no county fair in all upstate New York at which the Governor and his charm ing wife have not admired prize-winning jellies, giant vegetables and fat cattle; in fact, there are precious few hamlets where Harriman has not kissed at least one baby. More important still, Gov. Harrisman has revived the party organization upstate, and he has caused Democrat ic candidates to appear in re gions where Democratic can didates used to be more ex otically rare than live pea cocks. rpHE other Harriman prob--- lem was his heavy debt to the able boss who renovated Tammany Hall, Carmine De Sapio. It was DeSapio who swung the nomination to narriman in tne tirst in stance. When the Harriman administration began, the smooth pro, DeSapio, was widely expected to. run the amateur in the Governor's mansion. But now most peo ple think Harriman runs De Sapio, at least when it comes to such statewide party mat ters as the choice of a Sen atorial candidate. Who the Democratic Sen ate candidate may be is pres ently highly uncertain. One possibility is former Secre tary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter, who very much wants the nomination, and would make an outstanding Senator. Finletfer and Harri man are old friends, who part ed company when Finletter supported Adlai Stevenson against Harriman for the Democratic nomination in 1956. Their difference has been outwardly patched up, but it may be significant all the same. Another Senatorial possibility, probably spawned by DeSapio, is New York's District Attorney Frank Hogan, who should help the ticket with the Irish voters TUT in this uncertainty about Senatorial candi dates, one thing is pretty cer tain. Harriman will finally arrange the nomination of the Senatorial candidate, after careful testing and ruthless reflection. He wiU pick the man whom he thinks most likely to win, making his choice on the most unsenti mental . basis, . because he wants a Democratic sweep in New York state in order to achieve a commanding posi tion at the Democratic Presi dential convention in 1960. The man most likely to be charged with the task of pre venting a Democratic sweep is Nelson Rockefeller. With the possible exception of Sen. Javits (who owes Rockefeller a major political debt), Rocke feller is generally held to be the man who will run best against Harriman. There is still more uncertainty about the Republican . Senatorial nominee, since Sen. Irving Ives is unlikely to run again. Perhaps the Republicans will carry this key state, even against the heavy odds which events and Harriman have im posed on them. But no matter what the outcome may be, Harriman the politician is no longer a subject for light, patronizing laughter. (C) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. THE VERDICT IS YOURS! If you feel it is only FAIR for all five mortuaries in Jackson County to share equally in both the responsibilities and the benefits of the Coroner's office, then ' VOTE FOR FRANK PERL and his proposed "Rotation System" Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Cordiner Pay Raise Plan Detailed; Need And Support Listed (Editor's note: On April 2, an article headlined "En gineer, Veteran Sees Mili tary Pay Raise Plan 'Joke'." It sharply criticized the Cor diner plan for pay raises to the armed forces. Today, in rebuttal, is published a re ply written by Lt. Col. Frank M. Kehoe, Army unit advisor for this area, who goes into some detail as to the Cordiner plan, its support, and present status. The April 2 article, con sisting only of personal opin ion, gave no factual informa tion concerning Military Pay Bill HR11470, which it pur: ported to discuss. As the result of an acceler ated and extremely costly turnover of personnel in all ranks and all branches of the Armed Services, the Secre tary of Defense, in May 1956 appointed an Advisory Com mittee on Professional and Technical Compensation. This committee, headed by Ralph J. Cordiner, President of Gen eral Electric, and composed of outstanding management ex perts from civilian industry, and representatives from the Department of Defense, was requested to make recommen dations which could form the basis for legislation which would remedy the long-plaguing problem of personnel turnover in the Armed Forces. Intensive Studies In June, 1956, the Commit tee began intensive studies which culminated in the Cor diner Plan, made public in tentative form in February 1957, and presented in final form in May 1957. This re port recommended major changes in the entire pay sys tem of the Armed Services, pay rates which would be more nearly aligned with ci vilian rates for comparable positions of skUl and respon sibility, and in addition, im plementation of new controls to vitalize the Officer Per sonnel Act. ' While this report was being prepared and subsequently studied by the Defense De partment the costly turnover of personnel continued, fur ther aggravated by the fact that with each new techno logical advance there is im posed upon the Armed Serv ices the need for additional skilled technicians. The cost of the turnover and increasing requirement for skilled tech nicians is graphically illus trated by the following infor mation recently released by Headquarters, Air Defense Command, U.S. Air Force: Reenlistmenls Down "Seventy-eight per cent of the ADC's fire control tech nicians whose four-year en listment expired in 1957 failed to reenlist. It will take SI 7 million in training costs to re place them. "Seventy-two per cent of the eligible jet engine me chanics failed to reenlist. It willpost $11 million in train ing costs to put other men in their jobs. "Seventy-four per cent of ADC's fighter interceptors pi lots eligible for separation in 1957 left to return to civilian life. It wil cost $37,000,000 to train pilots to take their places. "Of all ADC airmen whose enlistments expired last year 65 per cent, or 11,500, left the service. It will take $176 mil lion in training costs to train their replacements. "Now let's look at the trend of our requirements for elec tronics maintenance people. Back in 1953, '54 and '55 we required approximately 6,000 people in the electronics main tenance field alone. As we progressed to 1956 with more complex airplanes coming into the inventory, our require ment almost doubled. Today we have a big increase, 16,000. We have further projected our requirements out to where in 1961 we will need almost 21,000 electronic maintenance people alone. I am not talking about any sys tem other than the electron ics field and only for the Air Defense Command." Matter of Economics From the above example, only one of countless existing in all segments of the Armed Forces, it is readily apparent that the problem is simply a matter of economics. By fall of 1957 this problem had become so apparent, and the need for solution so vital to the defense posture of the country, that such publica tions as the New York Herald Tribune, the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, Readers Digest, Newsweek, Time, Look, and many others told their vast audiences what was going on in the Services and what per sonnel turnovers and retrain ing programs meant to them as taxpayers. Meanwhile the Department of Defense was drafting pro posed legislation based on Cordiner Committee recom mendations, to be presented to Congress early in 1958. Other Views On Jan. 13, 1958, President Eisenhower in his Budget Message to Congress said, "For present and long-range eficiency and for greater equity the military pay sys tem must be re-cast." At ap proximately the same time the Rockefeller Study Group Re port on International Security stated: "With, the complexity of modern weapons, the im portance of a highly compe tent professional force has never been greater. But de spite recent increases, present pay scales are inadequte to retain the skilled officers and men necessary to an effective military establishment. Nei ther are we attracting a suf ficient number of the best of our youth to military ca reers." On Feb. 17, 1958, Military pay raise hearings began in the House of Representatives where the proposed legisla tion, based on the Cordiner Committee report, was pre sented to the House Armed Services Sub-Committee head ed by Representative Kilday (D-Tex). The Kilday Group completed its study on March 18, 1958, and unanimously re ported to the full committee a revised military compensation ' system, HR11470, which in corporates the basic principles of both the Cordiner recom mendations and Department of Defense proposed legisla tion. On March 25, after only 3 hours and 15 minutes of de bate, the House passed the bill, as originally presented by committee, with a vote of 366 to 22. Senate action on the House passed bill is scheduled for mid-April. Senator Stennis (D-Miss.), Chairman of the Senate Amed Forces Sub-Committee has announced that his sub-committee is hopeful it can complete work on the measure by about April 14 and shortly thereafter get it to the full committee and to the Senate floor. Military pay raise legisla tion has received, and is pres ently receiving, the support of such strictly civilian organ izations as the Annual Gover nors Conference, the Annual Western Governors Confer ence, the United States Cham ber of Commerce, newspapers and magazines previously mentioned, and countless oth ers, far too numerous to list. In addition it is endorsed by the National Guard Associa tion of the United States, the American Legion, the Navy League, the Reserve Officers Association, to name only a few. Paid Political Adv. by . .