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4 Tuesday, April 22, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MedfordWtribune "Everyone In Southern 'regon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAJIS. CltV tdltor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3, 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ft Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 DaTly and Sunday 6 mos. 8 00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 423 Sundav Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Pnint Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Talent, and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daiiv ana bunaay l mo. ijov Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of CKy of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire EIEilBER 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 NATION A L EDITORIAL ' I AsTocfTATIN Flight ro Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years arjo. 10 YEARS AGO April 22, 1948 (Thursday) Contract to erect a modern garage building for Grey hound was awarded yesterday to Donald M. Drake company of Portland. The Southern Oregon Truckers league will meet Saturday to hear a report on a conference with the gover nor and public utilities com mission on some of the ob jectional features of the new PUC law. 20 YEARS AGO April 22, 1938 (Friday) A special CCC train carry ing 273 replacements for camps of the Medford district arrived here last night. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Fred erick Fry, the tonsorialist, is thinking some of again scal ing Mt. Pitt." 30 YEARS AGO April 22, 1928 (Sunday) A yellow stop sign -was placed at the intersection of Sixth and West Main sts. for protection of both pedestrian and auto traffic. From local and personal column: "The Chamber of Commerce aquarium has been devoid of fish for over a week." 40 YEARS AGO April 22, 1918 (Monday) The Rogue River Fruit and Produce association, last win ter sent apples to the soldiers and sailors abroad. From local and personal column: "Sunday's highest temperature of 82 degrees was two degrees cooler than the maximum temperature of Fri day and Saturday." What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. During World War II, which Italian town was called "Little Casino" by the Allied troops during the campaign in Italy? 2. Bible: Who said, "Am I my brother's keeper?" 3. On which continent is Kenya? 4. Which state of the Union has the greatest area? 5. Which amendment of the constitution provided for the direct election of senators? 6. All varieties of lizards are venemous; true or false? 7. Of which state is Jeffer son City the capital? 8. Did Hawaii become an integral part of the U. S. by annexation or by purchase? 9. Are import duties col lected by the Office of Inter nal Revenue Service or the Bureau of Customs? 10. Who is known as the "Father of the Navy"? Answers: 1. Castelforte. 2. Cain. 3. Africa. 4. Texas. 5. Seventeenth. 6. False. 7. Mis souri. 8. By treaty of annexa tion. 9. Customs. 10. John Barry. DROP PRISON LOOK London fiP Postmaster General Ernest Marples today ordered a clean-up, paint - up and smile campaign in order to brighten Britain's drab post offices. Marples said he wants to "cut out the look that makes the man behind the counter"" appear to be spending six years in prison." A Battle of If, as seems likely, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller runs against Averill Hamman for Governor of New York two years hence, a very unusual and instructive campaign should result. Here are two American millionaires par don MULTI-millionaires who in their back grounds economically, have much in common. Their respective plutocratic dynasties were founded by two of the most prominent and amu ent "economic royalists" John D. Rockefeller and E. H. Hamman, one making money beyond OIL, the other in RAILROADS. THEIR differences are 1 and political affiliations. Governor Hamman is a son of the Railroad "Little Wizard", whereas Nelson Aldrich is a GRANDSON ot "the Croesus of them all", "John D.R." But their backgrounds socially and economi cally could rightly be called identical. Harriman outranks young Rockefeller as far as the "Social Recrister'Ms concerned, but that is of no import ance in ranking them politics. Here we have Hamman, with a distinguished record of nolitical achievement as a Democrat and Rockefeller, with no as yet but highly regarded m Republican Upper Brackets, a close friend of President Eisenhower, and generally admitted GOP nominee to run against Marnman m iybu fXN SUNDAY before w Mr. Rockefeller had denying he was seeking urgent. the Renublican stubbornly to commit himself definitely in either direction, but it was quite evident that if the nomination should come be willing. We thou?ht Nelson in making it factually regular and orthodox lOUVb Republicans, ne naci no use for the rjrincinles of F.D.R.'s "New Deal". Also he could not be termed "liberal" politically speaking, and really felt that Governor Ham man, had NOT, all in all, given the people of New York a pretty satisfactory and business-like ad ministration. . . - i IN ANSWER to a question as to his New Deal tendencies, and the emphasis of government financial aid, both at home and abroad, he tried to draw St distinction between the philosophy of the "New Deal", in its fight to halt the depression of the early 1930's; and the suggestions oi tne Rockefeller report to halt the present recession by, in effect, denying the latter was "pump-priming" and calling it a viable, adjustable and flexible economy. If this attempt should be followed in his cam- paign, we doubt if it will prove very effective. AS TO Governor Harriman's record in Albany " Rockefeller was asked directly if he thought it had had its ffood noints. The vounsr man took refuge in the observation for a Republican, would be diiticult to make. In other words the radio audience undoubted ly took this to mean, that the main criticism of his prospective opponents administration was that he was not a member of his (Rockefellers) party. A GAIN if this line should be followed in his " campaign we fear Mr. Rockefeller, against his more experienced and resourceful opponent would find himself in certain serious difficulties. IN OTHER words, if this gubernatorial cam- paign should materialize as everything indi cates, it promises to, it will bring into sharper relief than any important campaign in recent years, the fundamental make-believe and sham of partisan politics as it stands at the present time. With Averill Harriman running against Nel son .Aldrich Rockefeller there would, aside from experience and personality, be only ONE issue of the slightest national importance between them. That would be in the realm of economics. As Governor Harriman so well stated, he believes Big Business has its place in the American econ omy, but it should be kept IN its place. It should not run the country. v As- far as our inf ormation goes Nelson Rocke feller has not definitely stated his views in this field. But it is fair to assume we believe, that a young man who asserts with such pride, that he is a Republican by inheritance, training and in clination, who instinctively regards Democrats as somehow inherently "beyond the pale", would follow the traditional GOP line, as upheld and pursued by the "Old Guard" and in spite of his good record as a "liberal", 'when the chips are down, he would agree that Big Business has its place, and that politically and in our economy it should be a dominant one. fNLY there the two New York candfdates would really reach the parting of the ways. But if they do make the race, the voters will never get the idea this is the only valid issue. The properties and stage settings and cam paign buttons for the familiar sham battles will be brought out, and the two candidates will go to it hammer and tongs possible to STAY in office, the other everything i J. TXT T" "ITr possioie to get jun. jx. vv.iv. j Millionaires socially and politically, in American history ALL dreams of avarice in superficial, namely; age in the area of practical record of achievement to be a "shoo-in" as the "Meet the Press" young rather a hard time m or if drafted, would nomination. He refused his way "tfarKus wouia had even a harder time clear that, like all other that such an admission the one to do everything T Dennis the Menace 1 'PlO YA SEE I tie MXDB HfS OWNOGMZNc. JUST UKE A fffAL COWBOY'. Matter of Fact THE NEW 'MR. REPUBLICAN Washington If you, had to choose a single individual to typify the Republican Party, the best choice nowa days would surely be Wil liam S. Know- land. By the same token, K n o wland's situation in California beautif u 1 1 y Joseph aisop typuies tne situations of all the Republi cans who are running for elec tion this year. Over the week end the Sen ator flew across the continent to appear, like a burly Dan iel in a populous lions' den, before a Fresno meeting of the California leaders of Big Labor. His chosen topics were the beauties of the two meas ures the AFL-CIO chiefs dis like the most, the right-to-work bill and Senator McLel- lan's new labor reform bill. "I expect," he said with a grin, "something less than an enthusiastic reception." rpHIS defiantly tenacious ad--- herence to established Re publican, attitudes is what makes Bill Knowland the new "Mr. Republican." In this troubled year, with the threat of joblessness on most work ers' minds, another candidate might be inclined to de-em phasize the right-to-work bill. But Knowland points out that Bob Taft beat the tar out of the Ohio labor leaders after he pushed through the Taft- Hartley Act. So he plunges doggedly onward, down the road he chose a year ago. I think," he says, with his peculiar, ponderous confi dence, "that I'll actually get a fair percentage of the labor vote. I'm going to work for it, anyway. ' But what . makes Know- land's situation so typical of the situation of all Republi can candidates is something that the hardest work by Knowland cannot alter. To be blunt about it, President Ei senhower is by no means the great Republican asset that he used to be. No known Repub lican candidate anywhere is making his main pitch this year on the basis that he is a hundred per cent Eisenhower man. A few Republicans, in the farm states of the Mid west particularly, are virtu ally running against their own President, and above all against their President's farm policy. NOTHING of that sort is to aynppfoH frrm Tail! Knowland, whose party loyal ty is as solid as his large physical frame. All the same, if President Eisenhower had sat up all night thinking about the best way to hurt Bill Knowland's chances for the California governorship and Goodie Knight's chances for the senatorship, he. could not have found a better meth od than his veto of the pump priming Rivers and Harbors bill. The bill Eisenhower ve toed last week included no less than 29 California proj ects, estimated to cost just under $200,000,000 of federal funds. Furthermore, develop ment and control of water re sources are just about the hottest issues in California to day by Knowland's own frank admission. Characteristically, Know- land is no more than a bit rueful about the President's action. '. Of his visit to the White House to plead against the veto, he says (and one be lieves him, strangely enough), "I didn't put it on a personal basis I just explained the viewpoint of Congress." And of the veto itself he says (sticking out his chin like a bulldog seeking a good, en during grip), "It may hurt me for the time being; -but the By Joseph Alsop people of my state will . re member my own 25-year rec ord on water resources. That's what will count in the end." 7"OTJ catch the same tone in a less marked way in Bill Knowland's discussion of what is for him the real, life-an.d-death election problem, the recession. He admits that the Eisenhower administra tion is "taking a bit of a gam ble" to adopt a wait-and-see policy toward the current lag in the economy. He personally forecasts an autumn upturn. Ask him whether there is truth in the theory that the Republicans cannot carry cru cial Los Angeles county with unemployment at 7 per cent or above, as it is at present. Then he replies soberly: "I don't necessarily agree with that. Furthermore I think people will feel next fall that we are going ahead again. But if the economic picture gets very much worse, it will be pretty rough, I have to agree." Yet nothing discourages Knowland. who is already spending all the time left over by his Senate leadership on plans for "my. intensive 90 day campaign." After the Sen ate session ends, he expects to make six speeches a day for three continuous .months. He remembers all the other times when he ran against odds, beginning with the very first time in 1932, when' he got an 1100-vote majority in a state assembly district that Franklin Roosevelt simultane ously carried by 6,000 votes. Knowland is not only solid; he is also tireless. He is not only naturally sanguine; he is also firmly convinced that every Republican campaigner is doing the Lord's work. Fi nally, he likes a fight. "I think I'll win," he sums up, with stern conviction. (Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK Some figures put out a few days back by the federal gov ernment departments that deal with employment and un employment indicate that the unemployment rate is highest in the highly industrialized Northeast, second highest along the growingly indus trialized Atlantic coast and third highest in the Pacific Coast states of Oregon, Wash ington and California, where the relatively new industrial ization of the Far West is chiefly concentrated. They show that unemployment tends to be lowest in the agri cultural areas of the Middle West. That is to say, agriculture is a stabilizing influence in our American economy. Ex cept in war booms, it doesn't rise to dizzy heights. But, on the other hand, it doesn't fall to the bottom depths. THESE figures show per centage of unemployment (that is, percentage of the to tal labor force that is without jobs) for the month of March. Here they are for the six farthest west states: Oregon 9-5 Nevada 9.3 Washington 8.8 California . - 8.5 Idaho 1- 7.5 Arizona 6.6 YOU will note, of course, that Oregon heads the list. But, before jumping to the conclusion that Oregon is headed for the poorhouse, let's do a little analyzing. Oregon, as everyone knows, has too many of her eggs in one basket the manufactur ing of rough lumber. Rough lumber is traditionally up or down. It rides the wave's crest or it wallows in the 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 ;olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Criticizes City Dads To the Editor: In a recent issue of the Tribune we are informed that the mayor and his council had given, or were giving, to a couple of TV companies the franchises for closed TV. We were further informed that the initial cost would be $50 plus a monthly charge of $5 a month. It seems to me to be a highly cavalier action on the part of such authorities to take at the absurd cost at tached. How many of us can take such an expense with out some protest? I, for one cannot, and I shall not.. I re fuse point blank to pay such a price for such questionable entertainment. Also, we have a very good TV set right here in our city and it is free. , ' Why pay another Channel for the same programs that we get on KBES-TV? For many of them will be duplicated. Think it over. There is another matter which should be brought to the citizens' attention. It is the matter of poor, or no, sewers in certain streets around Hedrick school. Do we want a typhoid epi demic? Can we afford one? Do we want our children ex posed to such a danger? In the light of such items I am constrained to believe that we should use every pos sible effort to dislodge the mayor and his council from the city hall and do our best to replace them with men who will harken to "the Voice the of People." And with them the city mis manager Duff excuse me City Manager Duff. Why not give him a chance to walk away from here? The farther the better. . , i I, so far, have seen nothing of note that he has accomp lished, except, perhaps, to collect his pay each and every month. , It might be a good idea to form a Citizens' club to keep a watchful eye upon city hall doings. . We can congratulate our selves in that "we have a very fine police force. And I be lieve it to be composed of honest and faithful servants. Andy L. Unger, 634 Pennsylvania ave., Medford. Agnostics Challenged To the Editor: In reply to a recent letter by Mr. Krauss of Gold Hill, regarding the validity and importance of the Holy Scriptures, may I say this: It has been my exper ience that the people most often critical of the Bible are those whose, basic knowledge of it has been superficial from the outset and who do not take the time or trouble JENKINS depths. Seldom indeed does it navigate in smooth and un ruffled water. Its markets are limited to the building industry. When building booms . lumber booms. When building lags the lumber market lags. Lum bering is a seasonal industry. It is up in the summer and down in the winter. These fig ures are f or ( March and this year the spring is unusually late in the areas where Ore gon's lumber is sold. YET With all of this Oregon doesn't show up too badly in this list of six Far West states. Washington, with all of its wider diversification, is only 0.7 of a percentage point better off. California, with all of its fabulous growth, is only one percent age point better off. Arizona, a booming winter resort which has been stimulated this year by Florida's bad sff .: New Split In Open; By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent President Tito of Yugosla via is involved in a big new Mispute with Soviet Russia over his pol icy of inde pendent com munism. 'So s e rious is the new split that Rus sia and the nine other count ries which have fallen u n d er Charles M. McCann the heel of communism are boycotting the Seventh Con gress of the Yugoslav Com munist Party which opened today in Ljubjana. Advices from Eastern Eu- to fully evaluate the claims made by its opponents. I can well understand and appreciate Mr. Krauss' posi tion as I, too, went through the same embittered "agnos tic milL" Assuredly, I steep ed myself -in as much of Plato, Hume, Berkeley, Kant, James, etc., as eight studious years would permit. I found in Paine's "Age of Reason" and in Ingersoll's works (I thought) the key to Biblical errancy; and I prided myself that I was, to quote Henley, "Master of my fate and cap tain of my soul." But I was wrong dead wrong. Space does not per mit a step-by-step analysis of my present position and be liefs. However, I will say this: I would gladly challenge any one, anywhere who is dili gently searching for eternal truths (fall where they may) to open the covers of his Bible and assiduously delve in. Agnostics Lew Wallace and Hall Caine, among many oth ers, did so in response to a similar challenge; and the re suit was that each of those authors wrote a great Chris tian classic, "Ben Hur" and the "Life of Christ." In closing, I may still be wrong in what -I hold to be true; but in the final judge ment of God, I think I would find little comfort in having Robert Ingersoll and Tom Paine as my defense counsel ors. Ernest L. Sackett, : Shady Cove, Ore. Czech Diplomat Due for Expulsion Washington (IB A Czech diplomat was slated to day for a quick exit from the United States. He was ex pelled in retaliation for what the State Department called the "frame-up" ouster of an American diplomat from Communist Czechoslovakia, The State Department late Monday demanded the recall of Dr. -Roman Skokan, com mercial attache at the Czech embassy here. U. S. diplomat Joseph R. Jacyno, 42, of Lawrence, Mass., was expelled from Czechoslovakia last week end on" spy charges. Jacyno said his ouster was "an outright frame-up' aimed at warning all Czechs to keep away from Westerners. weather, is only four points better off in unemployment and March is about the peak of Arizona's resort season. Nevada, with its year around gambling specialty, which flourishes in good times and bad, is only 0.2 of a per centage point better off than Oregon. SENATOR NEUBERGER re marked the other day that in the East, and especially in the nation's capital, Oregon is coming to be known as the TIN CUP state meaning that it is always coming to Wash ington and ratting the tin cup for federal alms. It's high time for Oregon to swear off that bad habit and learn to stand on its own feet. Oregon is a GOOD state, with plenty of resources. With the right kind of leadership, it can go places in the upswing that will follow this present period of slowing down while the country's economy catches xip with itself. HEAR SIG WIDER Tonight atlO KBES-TV Pd. ad. Unander for Gov e r n o r Committee. Bob Dickey, co-chairman. Med ical Center Bldg., Medford, Oregon. Between Russ, Tito Boycott Hits Conclave rope predict that a' visit by Tito to Poland and a -visit by Soviet President Klementi Voroshilov to Yugoslavia will be cancelled unless the situa tion changes radically. The new dispute stems from a 100,000-word declaration of policy drafted by the Yuglo slav Communist Party in mid March in preparation for to day's congress. The declaration never has been made public. But ap parently it was circulated to other Communist parties. Several Roads to Socialism In the declaration the party, which means Tito, continued his insistence on the right of Communist-ruled countries to pursue their ( own "roads to socialism" ' that is, to run their own affairs without in terference by the Kremlin. But to make things worse, the declaration said the "pow er blocs" were bad and were responsible for present world tension. Russia is against power blocs. But the only power blocs it recognizes are those defense alliances which the United States and other free countries have formed. Russia's own power bloc is officially simply a group of well-meaning countries de dicated to peaceful co-existence. The Kremlin, after study of the declaration, went into a slow burn. Its displeasure was Stray Notes, from Eastern Oregon By SAGE BRUSH SALLY New Bridge, Baker County Spring is with us once more. The week end was love ly and sunny here. Spring plowing is well started. And our friend Jake Thompson has lettuce and radishes up. Write-ups and pictures in the Medford Mail Tribune of especial interest to me includ-1 ed one about the early days of the Forest Service. The ar ticle states personnel in the first office in Medford includ ing Ira Tungate, George West and several others. Ira Tun gate was my father's cousin and George West and his wife Effie were friends of father and mother. Tne picture of the old Brown store building in Brownsboro also brought back memories. My Grandfa ther and Grandmother Wood ruff lived in Brownsboro sev eral years, and my brother was born there. While we are thinking of people and places of earlier years, I wish to mention the Northwest Old-Time Fiddlers contest in Weiser, Ida., on April 26. It is open to fiddlers of all ages regardless of where they are from. The prizes are quite substantial and there are lovely trophies. Full in formation may be obtained from the Northwest Old-Time Fiddlers council, Hotel Wash ington, Weiser, Ida. I always enjoy a fiddlers' contest. Some old-time Rogue River valley fiddlers I re- Civil Service Exams Announced for Jobs Civil service examinations for engineering draftsman have been announced by the board of civil service exam iners, U. S. Army Engineer district, Walla Walla, Wash. The U. S. Maritime admin istration in San Francisco has announced examinations for marine surveyor. Applications and addition al information may be ob tained at the Medford post office. Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. made known -to Tito and to Communist parties all over the world. The word went out that really good Communists would not attend today's con gress, regarded as the most important since the end of World War II. Extensive Preparations Mad Tito had made extensive preparations to play host to big delegations of Communists and had reserved hotel suites for them in Ljubljana. In hope of mending the breach, he ordered some revisions in the Yugoslav Party's declara tion. But they were not radi cal enough. Orders went out to the big Communist delegations to remain at home. The Red ruled countries will be. rep resented merely by observers. Tito did not help any when in a speech last Saturday, on his reelection by his parlia ment for a third term as pres ident, he restated Yugoslavia's foreign policy. Two big points he made were: 1 "Cooperation with all countries willing to rec ognize the full equality of partners" and 2 "Non-interference in the internal af fairs of others." These two points, which were part of the declaration also, referred first to Tito's insistence on full independ ence and secondly to his dis approval of Russia's interven tion in the Hungarian revolt. member are Charley Pankey, Gene Stowell, John Barker of Central Point and Medford, and Billie Brown of Grants Pass. My mother' often speaks of Ebon Carver, George Lynch and Billy Hum, whom I can't remember. I am sure some of the Tribune readers will remember them, and my aunt and motherf Orie and Pearl Woodruff, who both played fiddle. Sage Brush Sally Editorial Comment THINGS YOU DON'T SEE ON FREE TV Enemies of even pay TV argue that free TV already offers everything that pay TV could offer. Well, last week's ding-dong championship fight between Carmen Basilio and Sugar Ray Robinson was conspicu ous by its absence from free TV screens. Free TV provides the routine weekly boxing matches, but not the big ones. Pay TV could have brought the Basilio battle into your living room. You could have had a ringside seat at a bar gain price. Broadway having a run of popular entertainment, free TV doesn't bring them to your screen. No, you'll not see the likes of "L'il Abner," "Oh Captain!", "Romanoff and Ju liet," or "My Fair Lady" on your screen. But you could if pay TV were allowed to share the airwaves with free TV. Many people prefer Metro politan Opera to soap operas. But free TV devotes itself to the latter. As long as free TV net works continue to enjoy the special privilege of monopo lizing the air waves, many Americans will be deprived of seeing on their home screens the sort of entertain ment they would gladly ;pay to see. Bangor (Me.) News. YOU'RE THE BOSS We work for no insurance firm, ? So please don't be mislead,' When CLAIMS are made,( Until they're paid. We work for you instead. Bill Fish 1 s k ivf W -f
