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V 4 TuexJiy. April 29, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. Medfordtribune "Everyone in Southern vrregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by 33 North Fir St Ph. SP2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager UIKALU LATHA.M, Business M?r ERIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL rl 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 Mail In Advance: Copy lOe. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue RiV' er Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year 818 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City 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, bt Lxmis. At lanta. Vancouver. B C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS - ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOC'IATfCtN y J o 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 29. 1948 (Thursday) Don Way, 35, brakeman for the Southern Pacific, credit ed with saving the life of an elderly unidentified Medfo'rd man by pulling him from the tracks in front of an engine. Republican President ial Candidate Thomas Dewey will be in Medford when he makes his, Oregon campaign jaunt. Jackson County Young Republican club announces. 20 YEARS AGO April 29. 1938 (Friday) Jackson county registration for the May primary totals 17 361 voters; 8,991 Republi cans, 8,051 Democrats, and 319 miscellaneous registrants. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Hay Fever cures are showing up in drugstore windows. It is also time for voters to come down with sbaw ballots." 30 YEARS AGO April 29, 1928 (Sunday) From local and personal column: "While no rush has begun at the tax department of the sheriffs office, taxpay ers have been streaming into the office steadily." Lt. O. O. Nichols of the state traffics department catches a 28-pound salmon. 40 YEARS AGO April 29. 1918 (Monday) Shortage of farm labor and the unusual demand for , horses and mules for other purposes are responsible for the increased purchase of of trucks in agricultural com munities, according ' to J. C Power of the Power Auto company. From local and personal column: "The Greater Med ford club will hold an im portant meeting in the public library Tuesday afternoon Officers will be elected." What's Your I.Q.? Nina er fen correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five oi is is good. 1. A man who has two or more wives at the same time is a bigamist; what is a wom an who has two or more hus bands at the same time? 2. Bible: What was Moses occupation? 3. With what industry was Joseph Pulitzer connected? 4. The head of which Euro pean government bears the title ox Caudillo? 5. Is pure air visible to the naked eye? 6. Are the young of beav ers known as pups, calves, or kits? 7. For what food product is the village of Cheddar in Eng land famous? 8. What is the M.M.U.? 9. Next to Nevada, which state of the Union has the smallest population? 10. The Transvaal is a prov ince of which country? Answers: 1. A bigamist. 2. Sheep-tender. 3. Newspaper. 4. Francisco Franco of Spain. 5! No. S. Kits. 7. Cheese. 8. National Maritime Union. 9. Wyoming. 10. Union of South Africa There are about 25,000 fleets of eight or more trucks in the U.S., but they total less than 15 per cent the total number. 1 When Will It End? Very much flattered to find in today's mail the following brief and modest request quote : "Please tell us how long will this recession last?" With great pleasure and alacrity we answer: "The present recession will last as long as the people of the USA fail to follow President Eisenhow er's recent command and instead follow his com mand of 1957." -Yes, it is just as simple as that. IT WILL be recalled that a few weeks ago the President urged the American people to spend and spend and spend. This was in complete contrast to what the President had urged them to do a year ago, name ly: to stop spending, to only buy what they had to have and thus ward off the threat of destruc tive inflation. "THERE is considerable evidence that the Amer ican people followed Mr. Eisenhower's first command, though just when is not so clear. There is even more evidence they are follow ing it at the present time, it since the first of the determine just when they will stop. XTE DON'T know. And we don't know anyone who does. Although many members of the present administration including President Eisen hower, claim the worst is over and from now on the prosperity spiral will rise. We hope they are right. But how do they KNOW? The answer is they are merely expressing a a . taking an optimistic view, public commence will be restored sumciently buyers strike. WILL it? . " Ae-ain we don't know and no one else does o Any more than any one er will be next Easter. All anvone can do is that is what they are so-called economic experts. One expert says one pnuallv exnert. savs the X A v is the poor man up-a-tree to conclude? Well, if he is smart, he will conclude to stop thinking about the depression, stop worrying about it, stick to his job if he is lucky enough to have one and let Nature take its course. For Nature and only Nature is going to settle this business anyway HUMAN nature. For it isn't an economic problem, it isn't a busi ness problem, it isn't a banking problem; it is essentially a human psychological problem. It is not how much money the people have in their pockets savings accounts are at an all time high it is what they have in their heads, not what they are doing but what they are think ing, and what they are planning to do. In other words, the recession will end when public confidence is restored and it won't end until then. And so ANYTHING that will tend to restore public confidence will tend to shorten the reces sion and anything that will tend to impair it, will tend to lengthen it. CO WE come back to where we started from the recession will end when the American people reject President Eisenhower's first direc tive, and accept and follow out his second when they stop buying only what they absolutely NEED, and start buying what they WANT. . Those who KNOW just when that change in the status of the public mind will occur know when the recession will end, and no one else, however pontifical and pompous, does know. There are too many imponderables in the pic ture for anything else. 0 FINALLY there is the question of reducing the Federal income tax and thus putting $4 or $5 billions into the pockets of the income tax suf ferersat a time, incidentally, when that suf fering is extremely wide-spread, painful and acute. OK no doubt millions of high minded and deservinp- citizens would ereatlv appreciate it particularly those in the many of them would proceed to spend it ana how much? For as indicated above, prosperity does not depend upon how much money there is in the cmmtrv but how active it is. how great is the mon etary turnover, the velocity. Money in the bank doesn't help unless it is SO AGAIN we return to Totyip1v! this recession state of the people's pocketbooks but their state of mind. Tf tVinsp $4 nr $5 billions scheduled to con tribute to Uncle Sam's debt reduction are to be withheld and put into the pockets of the income tax payers, that action would only benefit the TLS; economv.if nut or a large part of it in circulation. However, if store public confidence of the country as a WHOLE, how much WOULD be put in circula tion? Ah, there's the rub. "So round and round the little ball eoes where and when it will and have been following year. So the problem is to don't. No one does. They hope a hope that by 1 I 1 11 to end the nation-wiae KNOWS what the weath to hone -and otipss. and - A - 0 all doing, including the thing, another'.prophet, exact reverse. So what higher brackets. But how USED. another starting point, is not based upon the this refund failed to re drop nobody knows." K.VY.K.: Dennis the Menace DON'T GET SORB AlM f I DIDN'T SAY IT WAS A WIS J MOM SAID IT WAS A WIG ( .,.. Matter of Fact THE VOTE Washington On Wednes day afternoon, in a somnolent Senate, William S. Knowl and of California rose to his feet with the d e termined air of a bull about to charge. Jack Ken nedy of Mas- sachu setts was speaking on the im portant, m- josph Alsop saneiy com plex bill regulating industrial pension and welfare funds. Kennedy amiably yielded the floor to the Republican lead er, and Knowland charged in deadly earnest. Or rather Knowland announced that he would offer as amend ments to the pending bill all the labor reforms proposed by John McClellan of Arkan sas, plus a couple more of his own. The resulting crisis left au diences as far away as Min nesota with no senators to orate to them. It caused night sessions, with resulting sena atorial gaps at many a Wash ington dinner table. ' It sub jected several senators up for election this year to the spe cially exquisite agony that senators feel when they have to ask themselvfs the ques tion: '.'Just whose vote do I want,, because I can't have them all?" The crisis is all over now, with no very lasting effects. But it is worth seeing what really happened, simply be cause it tells a lot about our peculiar legislative process. npO begin at the beginning then, the crisis seems to have started when President Eisenhower vetoed the Riv ers and Harbors Bill a fort night ago. Knowland's pros pective opponent, for the Cal ifornia governorship, Attor ney General Pat Brown, at once sent Knowland a ver bose but stinging telegram. Please vote to override the President, wired Brown, in summary, in order to save the enlightened ' California citizenry , from death by thirst, or flood, or both. This telegram seems to have been the red cape that set the bull in motion. The labor reforms on which Knowland chose to charge are just about as far-reaching and controversial as the Taft Hartley Act. If and when they are seriously debated, they can be counted . on to produce a comparable storm in the senate. Knowland is modeling "his electoral strat egy on the late Bob Taft's. He counted on producing just such a storm, and he expect ed to ride the storm in the manner of a very large, very solid, very masculine version of the Valkyries.- But Knowland had forgot ten the foresight of his oppo site number, Senate Demo cratic leader Lyndon Baynes Johnson of Texas. He should have guessed Lyndon was up to something, because all through Tuesday the Senate had been a virtual desert, populated only by quorum calls and the pale, attenuated but obstinate figure of the Democratic whip, Mike Mans field of Montana. JOHNSON had in fact guess- ed that sonfeohe would of fer controversial labor re forms as amendments to the industrial pension and 1 wel fare bill. While Mansfield kept the Senate in meaning less session, Johnson had therefore spent most of Tues day with John McClellan, Jack Kennedy and Lister Hill of Alabama. Between them, they had made a plan to take care of any amendments. So an invisible but sturdy fence had already been erected in By Joseph Alsop his path, even before the bull charged. All the same Knowland's amendments started a violent flurry. Johnson's leg-man, Robert Baker, rushed off to sound every Senator's senti ments in record time. Wed nesday evening, Johnson, Kennedy, Hill and McClellan started a huddle that extend ed through most of Thurs day. The huddle ended with a solemn reaffirmation of the deal they had already made. As chairmen of the Senate Labor Committee and the rel evant sub-cimmittee, Hill and Kennedy swore to report . a Labor Reform Bill at this ses sion. McClellan in iurn swore to report a Labor Reform Bill at this session. McClellan in turn swore to vote against his own proposals that Knowland offered, until these proposals could receive com mittee consideration. McClel lan's stand was vital, for he was the bell-wether of the conservative D e m b c r a t s. "Time for committee consid eration!" instantly became the watchword of Isyndon Johnson. ON the Republican side, meanwhile, senators like Potter of Michigan and Thye of Minnesota, who have big labor groups and powerful manufacturing interests in their states, were all but roll ing on the floor in the sheer pain of the choice Knowland had presented to them. The Republican Policy Committee had not been warned by Knowland and was outraged. But the committee nontheless followed the advice of shrewd Styles Bridges of New Hamp shire. "We can't give Bill less than one roll call," said Bridges. On the other hand, Irving Ives of New York, who had spent three years of hard work on the Pension and Welfare Fund Bill, was in a Barbara Fritchie mood: " 'Who touches a hair on yon grey head Dies like a dog! March on,' he said." Only, "I'll introduce the Fair Emplyoment Practices Act as another amendment if any of Knowland's amendments car ry" was what Ives really said. That horrible threat settled the matter. By Thursday eve ning, ten Republicans led by Ives and John '"Sherman Cooper of Kentucky were committed to vote against Knowland, and all the Dem ocrats except the eccentric Lausche of Ohio were follow ing Johnson and McClellan. There was a lot of oratory on Friday, but the final and de cisive vote of 53-to-37 was a foregone conclusion a day be fore it was taken. : Thus Knowland's charge was brought to a stumbling halt. (c) 1058 New York Her ald Tribune Inc.) 12 Slot Machines Seized at G. Pass Grants Pass (IP) Twelve slot machines were seized in a simultaneous raid shortly after noon Monday by city police and Josephine county sheriff's deputies at two Grants Pass clubs. Eight of the machines were taken from the American Le gion club and four from the Veterans of Foreign Wars club. Harold Moon, manager of the American Legion club, was charged with illegal pos session of slot machines. EU mer Riblett, steward at the VFW club, was charged with illegally possessing gambling devices. . . Police said they were tipped off Monday morning when a man booked on a bad check charge told officers he needed the money because of losses on the machines. 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. Team Lauded To the Editor: Medford Ki wanis club, on instruction of its board of directors, - has sent the following letter to Coach Dean Benson ' and members of the Medford High school track team to express its support and to .stress its disagreement with a letter ap pearing in the Communica tions column of the Mail Trib une on April 18. Dean Benson and Medford High Track and Field Team Medford Senior High school Medford. Dear Dean and Fellows: As secretary of the Medford Kiwanis club, I have been in structed by the board of di rectors to write to you ex pressing our complete back ingand our congratulations for the fine work you have done so far this season. After watching you men perform and compete under all sorts of conditions we in the Ki wanis know that certain state ments which have been made of a derogatory nature are without foundation and sim ply not true. You have shown fine spirit and well coached performance. May we just express this one short statement to you, Coach, and through you to the track team, that win, lose or draw you and the team are still champions in our eyes. i The Kiwanis Club of t Medford By: E. Ronald Rice Secretary "EA" Editorials Appreciated To the Editor: Congratula tions for your series of edito rials dealing with information relative to the primary elec tions. The series, now appear ing in the editorial columns, are a very much needed pub lic service and long past due. I hope your lead is quickly followed by the other valley papers, radio stations, and the TV station. If not you may be the one to pick the win ners. Wouldn't that be some thing? No matter what thanks for the information you are presenting. , ,.' By the way I wonder what you and the public think about this idea to get people registered and in a voting booth: $1 deduction from city taxes for voting in the city elections, SI deduc tion from county taxes for voting in the county elec tions, $1 deduction from school taxes for voting in the school elections. $2 state tax deduction for voting in the state elections, and a So fed eral tax deduction for voting in the national election. In - .1 1 : 1 V, case anyone uisiuves mc iuca got a better one? William Doernbach 143 Mace rd. Medford. Claims Record Falsified To the Editor: Walter Nun ley is at it again. In a recent radio broadcast he said: "Now illegal possession of narcotics carries a sen tence under Oregon law of 10 years in the Oregon State Penitentiary and a $5,000 fine for the first of fense, and twice that sen tence for a second offense. The court, however, has no statutory authority for giv ing county jail time. How ever, my opponent gave Foster a six month sus pended county jail sentence and a SI 00 fine and turned him loose." Since I know Judge Kelly (and also know Walter Nun ley) this sounded 100 per cent false to me. I decided to do some checking in the official county records, which are open to anyone who wants to see them. I found this amaz ing thing: Henry A. Foster, concern ing whom Nunley said the foregoing did not come be fore Judge Kelly in fact, Foster did not come before either the Circuit Judges. Foster was charged in the District Court with a mis demeanor, and it was in the District Court that he was sentenced. Wouldn't you think that a man who claims to be fit to hold the high and impartial office of Circuit Judge would takel0 or 15 minutes to check the facts before going on the air with such wild accusations against a good judge with a fine reputation held by Judge Kelly? James A. Redden, Jr. 107 East Main st. Medford. Gill Is Endorsed To the Editor: Thank you for your enjoyable and worth while editorial "The Kicka poo Technique" in Sunday's paper, wherein you call at tention to the glittering emp Russia Hardening Its Terms For Conference at 'Summit' By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia appears to be progressively hardening its terms for a "summit"" cohfer- ence on world soviet oreign Minister A n- dref A. Gromy- V iil ko has refused firmly to hold with the American, British and French ambas Charles M. McCann sadors in Moscow on prelimi nary arrangements for the conference unless Poland and Czechoslovakia also are repre sented. Soviet Vice Premier Anas tas I. Mikoyan has announced flatly that the agreement reached at . the 1955 summit meeting in Geneva, Switzer land, on the reunification of Germany is no longer valid. There is good reason to be lieve, on the basis of such de velopments as these, that the Soviet government is com pletely confident that it can compel the United States to Murder Indictment Returned in Portland Portland (IP) A first de gree murder indictment was returned Monday by the Mult nomah county grand jury against Ernest G. Taylor, 33, who confessed to " strangling Mrs. Bessie Vivian Hammonds last January in her apart ment. Mrs. Hammonds, 36-year-old apartment house manager, was choked to death with the cloth belt of her bathrobe. Taylor was apprehended in Boise, Idaho, earlier this month. tiness of most political candi dates' campaign statement. Many of us are supporting the candidacy of State Sen. War ren Gill of Lebanon for the Republican nomination for the governorship precisely because he offers a specific platform and his sincere be lief in that platform. is attest ed to by his voting record in the State Legislature over the past ten years. Here is what Warren Gill has to say, for example, about the tax situation in Oregon: 1. "I will propose a law to reduce local property taxes by means of a 3 per cent sales tax. Food, medicine, seed and fertilizer to be free of tax. -2. I will veto any state property tax. 3. I will veto any increase in income tax. 4. . I will propose a home stead exemption for persons over 65 whose income is less than $150 per month." Should you or any of your readers wish more informa tion regarding Senator War ren Gill you have only to drop me a note at P.O. Box 692, Medford, and I shall be glad to send it to you. i ; - Dick House, ' ' " 15 Corning court, Medford. Charges Lobby Bribery To the Editor: "Remove the cause and the disease, cannot exist." The above is an old truism and in burcase the cause is the lobbyists at Washington, D.C. (a Lobby ist may be a lawyer, hired and paid by Big Business in-J X A A 1 I"l T " 1 H leresis io iniiuence . .Legisla tion, who wiU pay officials to vote as instructed). This is Big Business at its worst. Proof as per $2,500 in cash, left on the desk of Senator Case recently, in a brazen at tempt to bribe him to vote "Yes" on the natural gas bill. (Senator Case was honest and exposed this attempted bribe; this made news -for all pa pers.) The important Bill up for vote now is the compulsory humane slaughter bill. A pow erful ten billion dollar yearly intake meat packers' lobby are at work now in Washing ton. This Bill passed the House and is now being held up too long in the Senate. (The lobby is at work; this should be a criminal offense.) If a Senator is not sure of be ing elected again, of course he is susceptible to being bribed. Ninety-nine out of every 100 voters want this Humane Law passed; the ter rible cruelty involved is al most beyond belief, seven million meat Animals slaugh tered each work day, the worst mass cruelty the world has ever known. Merciful God would surely want this cruel suffering stopped. Every Humane Christian should cooperate. Our best move is, to turn the "spotlight of enlightened pub licity" on this terrible situa tion of vote buying by this lobby situation. I will mail this letter to the over 8,000 newspapers in the U.S.A. to enlighten nearly 100 million people. Write to me I have good news for you, for your approval and suggestions. John Jackson Taylor. 1477 Fifth ave. Troy, N.Y. I 1 agree to a summit meeting whether it wants to or not be cause of world pressure for any action that" can" relieve tensions. Reds Probably Right It appears to be increasingly probable, also, that the Soviet government will' prove to be right. It will be recalled that the United States, Great Britain and France took it for grant ed, when they agreed to start preliminary summit meeting talks in Moscow, that Gromy ko receive their ambassadors together. Instead he called in the American ambassador first, then summoned the British and French ambassadors next day. This has been taken in Washington as designed, in part, to split the three West ern allies. There is no reason to doubt that Russia would like to do. that. It is highly un likely that any such attempt will be successful. But at lest the Soviet tactics are causing some disagreement on allied policy. Tough Election Law In Great Britain Eliminates Problems By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) "Just about now in an election year session of Congress some leg islator may be e x p e cted to i n t r oduce a bill to defeat fraud and to impose hon esty in U.S. elections. The corrupt practices act is on the books Lyie c. Wilson but does not work very well. It is conceded that there is too much spend ing in- U.S. elections, and it is widely believed that some of it is illegal. There have been in recent years charges of ballot box stuffing and at least one nota ble theft and disposal of sus pected ballots. Before any leg islator moves to correct these evils, he should examine the "representation of the peo ple" acts of 1948 and 1949 which comprise the present election laws of Great Brit ain. These laws would bewilder Convention Report Slated by Eagles A report on the recent dis trict convention at Lakeview will be given at a meeting of the Fraternal Order of Eagles at 8 o'clock Thursday night in the Eagle hall, 219 West Main st. A large delegation from Medford attended the conven tion, at which the Medford men's drill team placed sec ond. Bend was first and Klam ath Falls third. Everett Sybrant and Chris Hutton were judged the best junior past president and con ductor, respectively. JUST THE FACTS Bay City, Mich. (IP) City Mananger Casimir Ja- blonski and City Attorney Jobf Thiler are mulling over a request from the Bay Coun ty Association on Decent Lit erature. The group wants an appropriatiton of $25 a month to buy books to see if theyi really are obscene. I Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Lr-ftrt-al ML J Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP-2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. In Washington, the tend ency seems to be to continue the preliminary summit nego tiations by means of individ ual talks between Gromyko and the allied ambassadors, if necessary, rather than consent: to the inclusion of Poland and Czechoslovakia in the picture. Britain Urges Inclusion But London dispatches said : Monday that the British gov ernment is urging the United States to agree to the inclu sion of Poland and Czechoslo vakia simply as the easiest way to get the talks really going. ; - Russia has made its position, plain. It wants to include Po land and Czechoslovakia ostensibly because r.s things' are now it is out-numbered, three to one by the United States, Britain and France in top-level negotiations on the summit meeting. The real reason, of course, is to get the Western allies to accept Russia's east-European satellites on an equal footing with the Western powers. Ac- , tually they are puppets, and would be puppets in any con ference. any honest American politi cian and almost surely entrap a crook. Their purpose pri marily was to limit or to abol ish any campaign advantage a rich man might have over a poor man. The laws limit spending, and they are en forced. No Campaign Cigars Treating or entertainment by a candidate is forbidden. No campaign cigars, don't lend a voter money if you plan to run for British office. Even a small loan made in good faith would disqualify a candidate if the election took place within six months thereafter. A British voter may take household members to the polls in the family car but may not offer his neighbor a lift, nor any other person not of the household. A British candidate's campaign mana ger may register before poll ing day a limited number of automobiles to transport vot ers; one car for every 2,500 registered voters in a city constituency, one for every 1,500 in country districts. If a car breaks down on polling day, it may not be re placed. One of the penalties for ignoring some of these campaign and election day rules is disqualification of the candidate if he is, elected and punishment of his cam paign manager or agent. Low Campaign Expenses A candidate for the British House of Commons may spend $280 of his personal funds on personal campaign expenses. His agent or cam paign manager is limited to spending between $1,600 and $1,800, depending on the' con stituency and that is all. The candidate is disqualified if he or his agent overspends. The agent is responsible for his candidate's observance of the law. ( : Sturdy protection of the voter and assurance that his vote will be counted remain entrenched in British law and tradition. The British tolerate neither goons nor nonsense around their polling places. It has been a longj long time since any British ballot box has been tampered with or stolen, especially in or from official premises, all of which has happened in the U.S. more recently. FAMILY SIZE AUTO POLICY No need to worry obout insurance costs when the children reach driving age. Our economy size family policy stretches your in surance dollar to provide, broad coverage for ihe en tire family. See us for full details. Bill Fish ..-3P j
