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Newspaper Page Text4 Monday, April 28, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. Medford8wtribune "Everyone in Southern '-ntgon 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 ADAMS. 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 at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 moi. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mot. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogua Riv er Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealerscopy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of CICy of Medford Official Paper of 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 1 ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOClrAT p.Hfiiniammi 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 28, 1948 (Wednesday) Pacific northwest orchard ist Wednesday were survey ing their fruit trees for pos sible damage by the unseason able April cold front. Jackson county residents this morning were surprised to awaken and find a white blanketed valley. 20 YEARS AGO April 28, 1938 (Thursday) City, state and county au thorities continue search for lone gunman who held up the Midway service station on the Butte Falls highway. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Mid west farmers are now in re volt against the crop control efforts of the New Deal.' The movement will not get seri ous until the tillers start tearing up the checks." 30 YEARS AGO April 28, 1928 (Saturday) The public market- sold large stocks of late vegeta bles, dressed poultry and homemade foodstuffs this morning. From local and personal column: "Salmon fishing in the Rogue is now approach ing its prime, according to Fred Merrill, game warden, who has been checking the catches of these big Chi nooks. 40 YEARS AGO April 28, 1918 (Monday) From local and personal column: "W. Beeson, a pio neer resident of Talent, left for his home this morning after investigating require ments for taking railroad grant lands." Monday was a quiet day in the Liberty loan campaign, but quota has ben exceeded by over $10,000. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. L.Name the late war cor respondent whose writings as a roving reporter are com piled in a book, "Home Coun try." 2. Bible: What was the first creature to leave Noah's Ark? 3. Alligator pear is a com mon named for which fruit. 4. William P. Rogers holds which position in the Presi dent's Cabinet? 5. "Charge of the Light Brigade" was written by which British nobleman? - 6. What is the name of the instrument that measures wind velocity? 7. What is the missing let ter in this scrambled word beginning with S; Sivece? 8. Is the marimba a bird, tropical vegetable, or musical instrument? 9. Gold is weighed by the fluid ounce, troy ounce, or avoirdupois ounce? 10. Which of the oceans is the largest in area? Answers: 1. Ernie Pyle. 2. A raven. 3. Avocado. 4. At torney General. . 5. . Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 6. Anemom eter. 7. R (Service). 8. Musical instrument. 9 Troy. 10. Paci fic. Every day the American public buys more daily news papers than all the paper match books given away free. TT "PooJi Bah" Office The following concludes a series of editorials brief ly describing the offices and candidates at issue in tha May primary election. - The county clerk is Lord High Everything Apparently in the function of government came along, and no one knew quite who should do it, it was added to the duties of the clerk. These jobs now range from issuing dog (and marriage) licenses, to writing checks for the county, and "conducting elections. A combination of tact, diplomacy, kindliness and desire to be helpful is an asset to the office. I70UR people are candidates for the Jackson county clerkship two. Republicans and two Democrats. Neither Democratic political experience. They of Medford, and Ernest nix. Both, however, have had business experi ence, Mrs. Zumwalt both as an employee and as a business operator, and Madden as head of his own small business. The Republican candidates are Mrs. Bereth P. Hopkins, the incumbent, and Mrs. Anna Scott, who has unsuccessfully Mrs. Hopkins has run an efficient office. In the course of doing so, she has made some ene mies, for she has a sharp tongue on occasion Her experience ranges business experience, and in the present job. Mrs. Scott, too, has business and in public administration, much of it in Hood River. She and her husband now operate a ranch in the Applegate, and Mrs. Scott has been active in Grange circles. E.A. For County "Judge " The office of county judge, (in Jackson county, anyway,) is almost a complete misnomer, as, indeed, is the county court. The judge has no judicial functions in this county, and the court isn't a court at all it is a three-man administrative body. Once the judge did have a judicial function, largely in probate work and juvenile matters, but these duties were long ago transferred to the circuit court. (In a few of the smaller coun ties, the county judges still have some judicial functions. In Multnomah and Lane counties, on the' other hand, the county court is now called the board of commisioners.) HTHE judge, as one member of the court, then, with powers equal to those of the two commis sioners, has a one-third responsibility for the administration of those county functions which are. not assigned to one of the other offices. This includes supervision of road 'construc tion and maintenance with the county engineer; preparation of the budget (probably their most important function, performed in conjunction with the budget committee), general supervision of some of the taxing procedures, and a wide variety of lesser duties. Trip, court is neither fish nor fowl: It cannot be a true administrative body, for it has no juris diction in county functions conducted by other elective officers, and no legislative powers. Even though it is an anachronism, we have to live with county government as it is, at least until it can be changed. And to do this, we need the best men available to serve on the court; me i skilled in governmental techniques, men with knowledge of how to get things done, and how to get along with others; men of integrity and stature. yHERE are six candidates for county judge, two Republicans and four Democrats. The Republicans are the incumbent, Rodney Keating, an orchardist and former Navy reserve officer (commander) and oil industiy lobbyist, and Earl Miller, automobile service garage operator and f ormer councilman, budget commit teeman and ex-mayor of Medford. Keating is running on the record of the court since he has been in office, and Miller is cam paigning on the basis that a more businesslike approach is needed in county government. "THE four Democratic candidates are Franklin Girard, Ashland ; Scott Hamilton, Central Point; C. L. Hockersmith, 'Medford, and K. C. Wernmark, Central Point. Girard is the onlv one with prior political and public office experience, as secretaiy of state of Idaho. He also has oeen a forester, both state and federal. His campaign has emphasized the growing need for recrea tional development, for conservation, and the county s role m both. Hamilton is a well known orchardist and rancher, and at present is a school bus driver. His campaign has emphasized the need for more representation of the Democratic party in county government. Hockersmith, who ran unsuccessfully for county commissioner ten years ago, is a fanner and is active in Grange work. Wernmark is a building contractor. It was his action in filing for judge which brought on the cmiA. nrtinn declarino- the iudffe's term of office v 0 is four, rather than six, sort of a Pooh Bah the Else of the county. early days, when a new keeping all the records, candidate has had prior are Mrs. Nita Zumwalt, Marvin Madden, Phoe sought office before. from school teaching to the time she has spent had experience both in having served two terms j o - j years. E.A. , j Dennis the Menace &7,ra BET you iWULMt HAVE Matter of Fact by JOSEF-NIKITA? Washington With extraor dinary abruptness and consid erable brutality, the Kremlin has now re- 3 versed the pol- ship toward Y u g o s 1 a via which was the first fruit of Nikita Khru shchev's rise to power. The most josph aisop curious aspect of this important event is' the timing. The pretext for the new Soviet excommunication of the Yugoslavs was the "draft program'" of the Yugo slav Communist Party. This document, which was publish ed at the beginning of March, has just now been discovered to be crammed with intoler able heresies. The question at once arises, why these intolerable heresies were not spotted much earlier. All of March and early April passed by in peace and amity, with the heretical program al ready staring the Kremlin in the face. In this period, Nikita Khrushchev even requested Marshal Tito to accept a visit from his Hungarian stooge, Janos Kadar, and Kadar was duly invited for a jolly week end in Yugoslavia. Then . something happened in the Kremlin, presumably about mid-April, for a denun ciation of the Yugoslav pro gram was passed for "publica tion in the Soviet narer. Kommunist," on April 15. Thereafter the Soviet Party theorist, Pospelov, delivered a stinging attack on the Yugo slavs as his contribution to the celebration of Lenin's 88th birthday. Finally the Soviets organized a general boycott of the Yugslav Party Congress at Ljubljana by all the states of the "Socialist camp." rpHE Yugoslavs were 'frank ly taken by surprise by the boycott, which again under lines the last-minute, wholly unexpected character of the squabble. And just to round out the mystery, "Pravda" published a renewed and very venomous attack on old Molo tov and his allies, who had op posed Khrushchev's pro-Yugoslav policy, at almost the same time when Pospelov was at tacking the Yugoslavs. Concerning this intensely significant and intensely be wildering sequence of events, there is only one point of gen eral agreement among the experts- All agree that the sud den Soviet-Yugslav break is a by-product of another inner struggle in the Kremlin. But as usual in these cases, no one can tell who is kicking whom. One thesis is that the neo- Stalinists, Pospelov and the high and dry doctrinaire, Mik hail Suslov, have at last or ganized a successive opposi-. Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A WEALTHY GAMBLER knew he was sinking fast. He also had a pretty good idea where he "was going. "No use put ting any clothes on me when I cash in my checks," he told his wile, nury me in my birth day suit, so I'll be as com fortable as possible in the climate down below." The wife, faithfully ob served his wishes, but one week to the day after his burial, his ghost seeped through the window, and his hollow voice pleaded, "Darling, give me every suit and heavy overcoat I've left. There's been a big change in Hades. There are so many big shots down there now that the devilJias put in air conditioning." , . A foreign correspondent, admitted to a satellite country in East ern Europe, wanted to know why there were so many breadlines. 'We Conimunists have so much bread these days," explained a gov eminent official glibly, "we have to give it away to the people!" 1958, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kips Ftww Syndicate,.. w . ANY MICE WITH HM AROVSD1.' Joseph Alsop tion to Nikita Khrushchev. It is a tempting thesis. Condem nation of the Yugslavs after all implies condemnation of the very first major Soviet policy decision that has a clear Khrushchev label. rFHE opposite thesis sees the J- master-hand of Khrushchev behind the new development, When Marshal Zhukov was de stroyed, the Yugoslavs them selves, at . first argued that Khrushchev had been "push ed by the Stalinists," such as Suslov. But in the end, the Yugoslavs concluded that the real prime mover in the de struction of Zhukov was the very man whom Zhukov had just saved from destruction, Nikita Khrushchev himself In the present instance. Khrushchev again has to deal with one of the forces that sustained him in his long and devious rise to the supreme position. Zhukov and the Com munist Party apparatus were his twin supports throughout the whole elimination contest in the Kremlin. Zhukov asked too much reward, as saviors will, and Zhukov was taken care of with the help of the party apparatus. More recent ly, the party apparatus has shown signs of getting above itself, .particularly by ob structing Khrushchev's im mensely radical' agricultural reforms. So may not Khrush chev be preparing to teach their proper place to the party bureaucrats, as he taught his place to Zhukov? rpHE trouble with this thesis -" is obvious enough. The con demnation of the Yugoslavs must surely be pleasing to the party extremists like Suslov and Pospelov, as Pospelov's role indicates. At best, there fore, it would be an astonish inelv devious maneuver in a Khrushchev game to defeat the party bureaucrats. But Khrushchev is just the kind of wrestler who gets his strangle-hold by seeming to give way. Furthermore, the Yugoslavs themselves plainly blame Khrushchev personally for their condemnation. At Ljubljana, they have attack ed Khrushchev personally in stead of denouncing "Stalinist survivors who still cause trag ic distortions," as they would otherwise have done. In fact the Yugoslavs see what has happened as another stage in the transformation of Khrush chev into a somewhat jollier image of Josef Stalin. As between the two theses, you can pay your money and take your choice. (C) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. MAGAZINE EDITOR DIES Riverside, Conn. (IP) Philip W. Swain, 68, who re tired in 1954 as chief editor of Power magazine, died Sun day of a stroke. Stop Me '.--1 'f- i 20 M 'Wm In the Day's News ' By FRANK JENKINS In the news, there are two related items: (1) Senator George (Molly) Malone of Nevada says in a srJeech in the senate that the reciprocal trade act divides American DOMESTIC mar kets with 36 foreign competi tive 'nations and thus makes the United States a colonv of Europe. He thinks the act should be done away with so as to give American business men the inside track in our domestic market. (2) The head-mistress of an exclusive girls school at Hast ings, in England, gets into the British courts with a vio lent protest against locating industries near the school. Her lawyer says: "Bringing hordes of virile young bache lors here is not viewed by my client with any en thusiasm." WORD to both of them: What you have in mind CAN'T BE DONE at least in the modern world. Nations must TRADE. Young women must MARRY. TF nations can't trade legally. they will trade illegally by smuggling, if there is no otner way. 11 young women aren't allowed to pick their Communications Letten 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. Faith and Reason To the Editor: With your indulgence I would like to say a few words in answer to the letter of E. L. Sackett, and all those sent to me personally, None of you have presented me with anything new, any thing that would in any way induce me to change my views on the Bible and relig ion. All your tenets and prem ises are, as usual, based on belief only. Some of the print ed matter you sent me con tains the following statement: "A Christian faith is based on the supernatural from be ginning to end and makes no attempt to satisfy man's in tellect, rather it satisfies the heart. There is no place for rationalism." Well, right there is the basis of the age-long struggle be tween truth and surmises facts or delusions, the differ ence between certified know ledge and the faith of reli gion, the question of progress and the dark ages. As for my part, I prefer to be guided by the light of reason, as Thom as Jefferson so aptly put it: "Fit reason firmly on her seat and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven and . you are answerable not for the Tightness but the up rightness of the decision." Personally, I would rather study the writings of the great thinkers and dissenters than all the Bibles in the world, although all of them contain many good and elevating pre cepts, as the advice Buddha gives his students, I quote: "Believe nothing, oh monks, merely because you have been told it ' . . . or because it is traditional, or because you yourself have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of re spect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due exam ination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings that doctrine be lieve and cling to and take as your guide!" Now I think that is as good as any advice you find in the Christian Bible. A good max im for all of us, young and old, to live by. In conclusion, let me quote John Burroughs: "If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that which is verifiable, the old theology must go." William Krauss, Route 1, Box 373, Gold Hill, Ore. Wish To Apologize To the Editor: The Unander- for-Governor Committee wishes to apologize to those people who called in ques tions for Mr. Unander's TV panel last Tuesday. We were utterly swamped with phone calls and" questions and con- :equently could not get, all of them on the program. We want to thank you for your interest and hope you will understand the limitations of our TV time. Mary A. Ragland, , Treasurer of Unander For Governor Committee Sukarno Takes Definite Step , To Align Indonesia With Reds By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent President Sukarno of Indo nesia has taken a definite and disturbing step toward align ing h i m s elf with the Com munist view of things to come. In a speech last Thursday Sukarno pre dicted the in evitable fall of "c a p i t al ism and the certain emergence of "social ism" as the dominant politi cal force in the world. That by "socialism" Sukar no meant communism there seemed to be no doubt "In this century the people Jiving in 13 socialistic na tions total one third of the human race," he said. Just why Sukarno picked this particular time for his speech is puzzling. Resistance Near End Indonesian g o v e r n m ent troops are pressing the rebel forces ( in Sumatra hard, and organized resistance there seems to be nearing its end. Nothing Sukarno coulc have said would be more cer tain to insure that resistance to his regime by all conserva tion elements in Indonesia will continue. Socialism, Sukarno said in his sDeech is a "historical cer tainty" and capitalism and imperialism are destined to fall "We live in a transitory era," he said, "in a transitory reriod from old to new. The new era will be marked by socialism, the brotherhood of man and the fall of capitalism which is a historical certain tv." Ever since Indonesia ob tained its independence in 1949, Sukarno has cooperated with and encouraged the In donesian Communist party. which claims more than one million card-carrying mem bers and ran fourth in the 1955 elections by polling six million votes In February, 1957, Sukarno nroclaimed his conception of 'guided democracy" in which the Communists would play a full part in government. Con servative elements saw the making of a dictatorship in mates and marry in the nor mal way, they'll pick mates and elope with them. The pages of history prove that thesis. OENATOR Malone is propos- ing that we take the easy way out of what is becoming a difficult situation. Here in the United States years of inflation are begin ning to come home to roost, Because of rising costs of production our prices are getting to be disturbingly high. Production costs aren't rising as rapidly abroad as they are rising here at home. As . a result, the American market is increasingly at tractive to foreign producers, who are finding a profitable market in America. Foreign built automobiles are a good example of what is happen ing. There are signs that we are beginning to price our selves out of foreign markets. As Senator Malone sug gests, we can build a tariff wall around our borders and live on our own fat. But I doubt if we would like that. THE budget session of the California legislature has finally adjourned without making any .provision for MORE WATER FOR USE IN CALIFORNIA either to north or to the south of the Tehachapi. But South of the Tehachapi MUCH more water is want ed. Much more water is un doubtedly needed. H ERE is a basic fact: 1 The only way to get more water for use in California, both in the south and in the north, is to SAVE UP more of the winter precipitation that now runs away to the sea and is LOST in the sea son in which it is needed. It will take more STOR AGE facilities to do that. The bulk of the surplus pre cipitation is in the north. Therefore the storage facili ties must be provided in the north. Since the south wants the water, it is up to the south to provide the storage facilities. That's about the long and the short of it. Don't Neglect Slipping FALSE TEETH Do false teetn drop, slip or wobble when you talk, eat, laugh or sneeze? Don't be annoyed and embarrassed 2 such handicaps. PASTEETH, an kallne (Don-acid) powder to sprin kle on your c la tee. keeps false teeth more firmly set. Gives confident feel ing of security and added comfort. Ho gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feel ing. Get FASTKTTH today at any drug cou&ter. Charles M. McCann the guided democracy pro gram. Vice President Moham med Hatta, the leading con servative, resigned from the coalition government. 84 Million People Indonesia is the sixth larg est country in the world in point of population 84 mil lion. It stretches for 3,000 miles from the Indian ocean to the Pacific. The United States Informa tion agency disclosed last De cember that it possessed docu mentary proof of a commu nist plan to take over Indo Director of Budget Warns of Dangers In High Spending By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (tP That fold ing money in your pocket and your balance at the bank are going to take a bad beating if the politic ians you elect to run the country con tinu e th e i r spending spree with your dol lars. That's the Lyie c. Wilson sad word from a man who should know bet ter than most what he is talk ing about. The man is Maurice H. Stans, newly appointed di rector of the Bureau of the Budget. Stans was in Houston, Tex., the other day speaking before the American Society of Char tered Life Underwriters. What he had to say should curl the hair of any U. S. taxpayer. Stans' criticism of U. S. gov ernment spending was direct ed primarily at Congress and, therefore substantially against the Democrats who control the Senate and House. Big Spenders Democrats have distinguish ed themselves as spenders over the years, but the spend ing buck cannot be passed to any single partyPresident Ei senhower and the Republicans have done some frfte wheeled spending, too. The net result of it all is that the U. S. dollar is shrink ing in value at an . alarming rate. In a short span of years the dollar has lost half its val ue in purchasing power, the FRANK PERL ..!v II ' l'lPHfflj?i ill-; - ' MY REASONS ARE: 1. I am for keeping the dignity of the Funeral Profession. 2. I would cooperate 100 with the District Attorney, all Law Enforcement Officers, our Pathologist and the Medical Profession for any cases coming under juris diction of the Coroner's Office. All inquests and autopsies are authorized and ordered by the district attorney. 3. I am Qualified, Open filling this Responsible Office. 4. I will work for the combined interests of the Five Mortuaries in Jackson County. 5. I feel that after Sixteen years of a One Firm Monopoly locally, it is time for a change. 6. I thank you for being a VOTE 29X FOR 0 iron eir Frank Perl For Coroner Committee C. M. Litwiller, Frank Morgan, Harold Snodgrass Co-Chairmen Paid Political Adv. Frank Perl. Peri nesia by a detailed program of infiltration and subver sion. Officials in the Pentagon and State department in Washington expressed alarm in March at the extent of So viet military aid to Indonesia. Sukarno has long been call ed East Asia's second-ranking "neutralist" leader, with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India as the No. 1 man. Now, he seems to be pass ing from neutralism to open pro-communism. grandest larceny of all time, no doubt. In the words of the late AI Jolson, Stans says: You ain't seen nothing yet! His most shocking prediction was that spending may go to 80 billion dollars a year and for some time to come. If so, the U. S. buck will be busted beyond repair. No balanced budgets are in sight, Stans reported. And unbalanced budgets are what currently inflation feeds on. Out of Balance "But turning on vast new programs for spending," Stans said, "it (Congress) has moved away from any hopes of bal anced budgets for t959 -end possibly for several more years. "What happens now? We must guard against the ten dency to think that the way to start the economy upward again is for the government to go on a spending spree. Just last year we moved into a $70 billion budget and there was great public outcry. "Now, with the programs Congress is considering, we are threatened with $80 bil lion budgets for the next few years, which could well mean extended deficit spending." Stans said ' large public works programs acted too slowly to do the recovery job, even if they were within the nation's means. He would pre fer a selective tax cut if a large-scale shot in the arm be came necessary. If a tax cut failed to spark the national economy, Stans would try public works but not until then. Why I Am Asking Your Support on May 16 for County Coroner Minded and Enthusiastic for Fair Minded Voter. FRANK PERL Funeral Home, Medford, Ore.