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4 Thundty, Mjy 8, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORL iMECFOEDS&rTRIBUNE Everyone 5n Southern '.Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W RXJHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertisine Manara GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor tAKL II AUA115. titv Eaitnr HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Socdetv Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newsnaner Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of . March 3. 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. jjany ana sunaay l year 913.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point, Eagle foint, Jacksonville, Gold HUL Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sundav 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c ierms tasn in Advance fficial Paper of CKy of Medford mnciai yaper or Jacfcion County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative : WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of. fices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B. C . NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL IasTocITatiQn 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 Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey tells Re publican party leaders here he will contribute toward sending the Medford High school band to the Portland ose festival. Minnie Ethel Goswlck, own er of the Grand hotel since 1927, dies in a local hospital. s20 YEARS AGO Mar 8, 1938 (Sunday) . ' Buddy, a dog, . celebrated her tenth birthday Friday; a party was arranged in her honor with a 10-candled cake and other attributes. From "Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pqt column: "Ash land has started plans to make the eagle scream July 4." SO YEARS AGO May 8, 1928 (Tuesday) The main well of the Cen tral Point water system will get new pumping equipment. From local and personal column: "A delegation of local businessmen, composed of Lee Garlock, J. W. Wake field, Ted Baker and J. C. Thompson,- motored to Klam ath Falls to talk about the railroad celebration." 40 YEARS AGO May 8, 1918 (Wednesday) From now on the city reser voir will be guarded day and night as a precautionary mea sure to "prevent any possible attempt to interfere with the city's water supply. From local and personal column: "The school at Trail is closed this week because Mrs. L. B. Pierce is ill with cneasles." What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five of six is good. 1. What was the motto of the Three Musketeers?" 2. Bible: Where did Solo mon build his Temple? 3". Ellis Parker Butler was an American dramatist, actor or humorist? 4. In what year was the Au thorized Version of the Bible published? 5. What is another name for tetanus? 6. All of the sons of Presi dent Franklin D. Roosevelt served in some branch of the armed forces during World War II; true or false? 7. To what geographical area " does the term "down under" refer? 8. Who was the supreme Commander of European Al lied invasion forces in World War II? 9. Name the South Ameri can country that declared war on Germany in both World Wars. 10. A restaurant meal, with a set menu, is called t d ? Answersf,l."All for one and one for all." 2. Ml. Moriah in Jerusalem. 3. Humorist. - 4. 1611- 5. Lockjaw. 6. True. 7. Australia and New Zealand. 8. General Eisenhower. 9. BraiiL 10. Table d'hote. "Please Page Eleanor" In that excellent light opera "My Fair Lady" Professor Higgins sings a most amusing song asking "Why can't women behave like men?" We wish some courageous genius would now write a song asking "Why can't men behave like human beings?" The "mock nuclear attack" on the United States last Tuesday prompts the query. - ACCORDING to press reports this mock at " tack destroyed 70 or 80 per cent of Portland including its airport, caused "great damage by fall-out" in Salem, Redmond and Klamath Falls. The Panama canal was destroyed, New York and Chicago were decimated, FCDA officials estimated that between 20 and 30 million Ameri can citizens were hypothetically killed, countless millions seriously injured and without Civil De fense "the casualties would have been doubled." "llELL, what does this add up to? Judging by comments thus far heard, it means the country should spend hundreds of more millions .on shelters from atomic attacks, not only in the larger cities, but throughout the nation. , OK then what? . . According to official statements this would only save the lives of a few million, and according to practically all the military and nuclear experts, in case of such an all-out nuclear attack, there would be no defense at least none sufficiently EFFECTIVE to prevent such a wholesale des truction of property and lives that the United States, as we now know it, would cease to exist. There would be "massive retaliation" of course. But that would not restore American property and lives, and at best it could only be expected to visit a similar wholesale national catastrophe upon Russia or any attacking state. ,. TTHIS is where the women come in. - - We do not propose that all men necessari ly should act like women Heavens No ! but we DO believe that if women were in control of things internationally and politically they WOULD act like HUMAN BEINGS: And we maintain the members of the erenus homo now in control don't. FOR what are they doing most of them at They are by inaction, hatred and fear, leading destruction. . If a nuclear all-out war SHOULD occur,, the men in control in Moscow and Washington would probably escape with their lives, for they would, ol course, have maximum protection. But the mil lions and millions of defenseless, people outside throughout the country would riot these men, women and children, no matter what shelters mighifbe provided, would be the ones to suffer. Those who might escape death might well be in valids for life, while the entire race, would, in all probability, suffer a blow from which it would never lecover. Those who would find any gratification or consolation in the fact some other nation might suffer an equally or A L J A i -I greater tragic laie are, we are sure, in sucn a minority as to be unworthy of serious considera tion. IN OTHER words, war auauiu aim uui-ux-utte as uie uiaiiuess uiiiu- saur. As has so often been stated, nn all-out. atom ic war could be won, the outcome would be trie degree of mass destruction. s Then why keep on in this crazy rat-race in nuclear armaments, which threatens not only fi nancial but moral bankruptcy, arid is a complete waste of time, humanity, energy and money UNLESS a world war SHOULD take place, which as stated, could only end in universal des truction? What nation in its senses would want to start a war like that? Whereupon here; again, the women come in. When it comes to rescuing this poor distraught whirling ball-of-dirt from destruction, we believe in the traditional cry of impending crisis and dis aster "women and children FIRST !" Certainly the situation then couldn't be worse than it is now and we are confident it would be infinitely better, FOR if the women were in control in Washing ton AND Moscow, we feel certain the curtain would 'be rung down on this performance of "Idiots Delighf'.at once. With their clear-heads", realtistic natures, warm-hearts, and instinctive devotion to the protection and perpetuation of the human race, they undoubtedly would SOME how, SOMEway, find a safe, decent, self respect ing "out" from this suicidal and homicidal mor ass, and ultimately put our tottering cosmic house on its feet in some sort of decent order and sanity. DUT we grant nothing much can be done with X3 out an intrepid, dedicated, fearless and force ful leader. A word to anyone as WISE as Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt should be sufficient R.W.R. Portland Builder Low Dalles Hospital Bidder Portland - (in James S. Hickey, Inc., Portland, was apparent low bidder at $1,018, 818 for construction of a four story, 75-bed The Dalles Gen eral hospital, the architects, Donald Edmundson and Neil R. Kockendoerfer, said today. A $400,000 HiU-Burton fed eral grant has been obtained for the project. indecision, uncertainty, the, civilized world to the people of Russia or in this atomic-age is as only difference in the Burns-Suffered May 7 Fatal To Portlander Portland (IF) Curtis Da vis, 44, Portland, died in a hospital here Wednesday as a result of burns suffered on May 1 while he was watching a bonfire at Oregon Wreck ing Company. The ' coroner's office said Davis was burned, as he threw rubbish on the flames Dennis the Menace fls she mxtt,wl is wxj&AIlYA v&ssv ' I Today & Tomorrow By Walter ' Lippmann TIME TO DECIDE With the recession more than nine months old, the President is still undecided about taking stronger mea sures to overcome it. He is impressed with a few signs that the decline has begun to slow down, and he is hoping tnat after a while a re c o v e r y is somehow des tined to take place. That is what seemed to happen in 1954, and, if it happened Walter Lippmann then, why not now? There is no proving that the President may not be right in his hopes. But it is quite possible that he may be wrong. For this recession is certainly more severe than the recession of 1953-54. And moreover, the measures have not been taken, namely a big tax cut, which preceded the recovery of 1954. Nor are there many convincing signs that there exists the kind of consumer demand for auto mobiles, houses, : and other durable goods which promot ed the boom after 1954. If the President is wrong in counting upon a recovery beginning this summer, he is taking a very great risk in not setting up stronger mea sures before the present ses sion of Congress adjourns. It will be a long time from the midsummer of 1958 to the midwinter of 1959. Even sup posing that the decline is ar rested this summer, if unem ployment continues at or near the present level, it may well be profoundly depressing to public confidence if strong measures that is to say, a tax cut and the formation of a long range spending pro gram have not been takent The situations is one where it is wiser to over-insure, ra ther than to under-insure, the economy against what may be at best, as "Business Week" puts it, "a sluggish, unenthu- siastic recovery." THE President might well compare what he is doing today with what was done in the recession of 1953-1954. The contrast is striking. For while the earlier . recession was much milder than is the present one the remedial mea sures were much stronger. It is enlightening at this point to read a chapter, en titled "No More 1929's" in Mr. Robert Donovan's auth orized book, - "Eisenhower: The Inside Story." We find there that in the preceding recession, as in this second one, the signs of a decline were clearly evident at the end of the summer. By Sep tember 1953 the Cabinet had been warned by the Admin istration's economic advisors that a recession had begun. On Sept. 22, Secretary Hum phrey announced in a speech to the American Bankers As sociation that the Adminis tration would make no effort to prevent the tax reductions which, under the Korean War tax legislation, were sched uled to take effect three months later on Dec. 31, 1953. On that date the excess pro fits tax was to expire; so .too was the 10 per cent emer gency increase in personal in come taxes, and there were to be some reductions in ex cise taxes. All in all, at the first sign of a. recession, the taxpayers were assured of a large relief to begin within a few months. The tax reduction was in the order of S7 billion a year. THERE are reasons for thinking that Secretary Humphrey's speech in Sep tember was not primarily meant to announce a policy . mi to combat the recession. Then as now, he was a firm believer in balancing the budget at a lower rate of taxation and of expenditure. Without rela tion to the recession he may have been for the tax reduc tion of 1954, knowing that in the coming Eisenhower budg et there would be a continu ing cut in expenditures. - But the fact remains , that President Eisenhower and Secretary Humphrey did in 1953 what a growing body of expert opinion today would have the Administration do now. When the recession of 1953 was-detected, a big tax reduction was announced, and this tax relief took effect in the months before the -recession ended in June, 1954. '.- THE President ; might ftalsd take a look at what hap pened in the Truman reces sion of 1948-49. Then, before the recession , got started, there was a tax cut.. The Pres ident should find . it 'entertain ing to recall that this tax cut was enacted by. the Republi can Congress and that it was passed over the veto of Harry S. Truman. This tax cut, plus, of course, the big public spending which began in 1949 under the Marshall plan, are almost certainly why . the Truman recission did not last very long. ' " . Experience indicates, there fore, that in the post-war era the recessions have been short and mild because there has been early tax relief. Since the end of the second World War. the American ec onomy has '' faltered three times. In the two earlier re cessions, which proved to be mild and short, there were tax cuts before recovery. In the first there was also a big spending program, the Mar shall Plan. In the second, there was a great private spending boom, activated by the pent-up demand after the austerity of the Korean War and financed by an enormous extension of consumer credit and a boom in capital invest ment. THIS third post-war reces sion is plainly worse than its two predecessors. But this time there is no tax reduc tion. This time there is no public spending program to compensate for the decline in private investment. This time there are no signs, indeed quite the contrary, that there is a large pent-up consumer demand for the durable goods that are now depressed. It is, then, wise, is it safe, to ignore our experience and to put off from month' to month the decision to take strong measures, hoping that something - will happen to make them unnecessary? . (C) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Soviet Missile Sites In Albania Indicated Washington (IP) Diplo matic informants have report ed new information indicating Russia may be building missile launching sites in Albania. The information follows a series of reports that missile bases are being established in East Germany, Poland, Czech oslovakia and Hungary. DAIRY - East Main St. WANTED Headless . Lion Tamer for our Coming Carnival of Values Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The letters . printed in this column do not necessarily repre sent the view of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. . "Open Letter" Answered To the Editor: This is in answer to the open letter from Alan B. Holmes published in the "Medford Mail Tribune, Monday, May 5, 1958. My "timely departure" from the 'league of Women Voters meeting was not made to avoid questions. I was the first of the candidates for sheriff call ed upon to talk;1 in. closing I directed a request to the audi ence that if any one had ques tions, that I would welcome their calling my residence any evening ' " ' ' I also remarked that I had another appointment for the evening and must leave. The following is in response to your questions: My work in law enforce ment commenced in 1938. Prior to. World War II I was hired by Sheriff Syd Brown as Chief of Investigations.. No salary difference was desig nated between field deputies at that ' time, . therefore any identification was not neces sary. However, the records of Judge H. K.- Hanna's court will show- my activities in the arraignment of persons charged with felonious acts during this time. Several months after the death of Sheriff Brown, I resigned from the office! While I was employed as a deputy sheriff, Mr. George Neilson was District Attorney. For three years Mr. Neilson ouUined, directed and other wise closely supervised a law study program, giving much of his personal time to me in this effort. . Another deputy in the Sher iffs office completed a similar study course, and passed the bar examination, was ad mitted to. practice, and has been a capable and respected attorney in Medford ever since. 1 I at no time stated, nor in ferred, I had attended a school of law at a university or col lege. v I was the - first person hired as Jackson County Weighmaster. Later one assist ant was hired and eventually the department personnel was increased. Here again I was designated as chief of my par ticular department, being re sponsible to my employer (Mr, Paul. Rynning) for the fuU functional operation of this de partment. In 1957 for pay increase pur- noses commensurate with these duties, the chief weigh master designation was estab lished on the pay rolls as a separate office. I served as weighmaster for Jackson coun- Jy both before and after I was Ashland Chief of Police. The questions asked by you are fair questions, and I -want to thank you for your consid eration in asking them in ttime for me to make an answer be fore the election date. Vern Smith, Republican Candidate for Sheriff of Jackson County. Questions About Walsh ': To the Editor: An open let ter to Alan B. Holmes, cam paign manager, Joe Walsh for sheriff. There are a few questions I would like answered con cerning Joe Walsh. How did he either enter Pre-Dental School or enlist in the U.S. Navy at 13 years of age? The voter's' p a m p h 1 e t indicates that he had four years in the Navy. Joe Walsh state? in the Medford Mail Tribune that he hadthree years of pre-dental school and 10 years of law enforcement. The voter's pam phlet states his present age is 30 years." . So, by adding up all that he claims as experience, train ing and all, I find that he claims 17 years behind him. I find that by substracting 17. years from his age of 30 years that he either started pre-dental school, or went into the -Navy, or started his law enforcement work at the tender, age of 13. Would you please clarify these points for. me. Tod V. Gandee, P.O. Box 142, Ashland SMITH al Genets i i n Nehru's Threat to Quit Post Stimulates Party To Action By CHARLES N. McCANN United Press Correspondent Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has been compelled to concede, that he is India's in- d i s p e nsable man. After a week of crisis in his Con gress Party, Nehru has agreed to abandon his plan to give nn th nrimff Charles M. . McCann uiiiiiauy miu go into semi-retirement as In dia's elder statesman. Instead, Nehru has settled for a six-weeks' vacation in an isolated valley of the Him alayan Mountains near the Tibetan frontier. There, he plans to work on his autobiography and study the many problems which be set, India and the Congress Party.. It all started back in March. Nehru then began to tell his fellow cabinet minis ters that he was physically tired and mentally stale after leading his country as a be nevolent dictator since it at VjL Moffer of Fdcf bv joPh Aii DRIFTING INTO IT x Washington Reluctantly, unhappily, belatedly, the Ei senhower1 Administration now seems likely to drift into acceptance of a major tax cut, almost for want of any thing better to do. The evi dence for this forec ast . is Jos-ph Alsop !1y cj-J cumstantial and atmospneric. But it is nonetheless rather convincing. Taking the items in order, there are the cir cumstances, first of all, that will make action to cut taxes decidedly difficult to avoid. Some sort of tax bill must be offered this year, for the quite simple" reason that some of the Korean-war-born taxes reach their automatic cut-off point on June 30. Unless legis lative action is taken, the corporate profits tax will then drop from 52 to 47 per cent; the automobile excise tax will be cut in half, and a whole series of other excises will also be reduced, including those on liquor and tobacco. A revenue loss of about three billion will be the result. yi S A practical matter, the Congress will never per mit these important reliefs to business without offering at least equal tax cuts to the mass of voters. Thus the Ei senhower Admin istration's wait-and-see approach to the tax problem will cease to be feasible by about the end of this month. Instead of con tinuing to say they are going to wait and see, the President and his advisors are going to have to say either "Cut taxes-" or "Don't cut taxes!" -In either case, a bill will have to go through Congress. And even if the decision is to maintain existing tax levels, certain reductions will be al most unavoidable With the automobile industry still in bad trouble, for instance, there will be a tremendous drive to drop the auto excise, tax. Again, the plight of the railroads is grave, and there will be another, powerful drive to drop the present taxes on passenger tickets and freight charges, even although they do not expire this year. These practical considera tions are bound to influence the White House and - the Treasury. Then, too, while the Administration is being push ed toward the, decision, the atmosphere in which the de Vote for One -Get. All Three! Complete freedom of choice of the mortuary desired to handle the funeral services of alL "coroner cases". " ,- ; A system of fairness for all five mortuaries in Jackson county to share equally in both the responsibilities and the benefits of the Coroner's office. A change from the present monopoly of one funeral home having held the -Coroner's office for 16 of the past 18 years. - If you believe in only one of the above principles for the operation of the Coroner's office VOTE FOR FRANK PERL and get all three benefits! , Paid Adv. by ' Chapel tained its independence on August 15, 1947. He is 68 years old and has been in active politics for 40 years. He is foreign minister and head of the department for atomic energy as well as prime minister, and he at tends meetings of the parlia ment to answer questions di rect the legislative program and make frequent speeches. The report that Nehru wanted to retire leaked out first in a newspaper. It caused little excitement He had said the same thing during a per iod of depression four years ago. But on April 29, Nehru broke the news officially at a meeting of Congress Party members - of parliament. He said that he wanted to step out from under his heavy bur den of leadership,' and get relief from his day-tcniay duties. The party was thrown into panic. A series of secret party meetings followed. Nehru became angry at first. He asked that he be per mitted at least to give up leadership temporarily. But the party passed a formal cision will be taken is also worsening. . SUPERFICIALLY, the argu ment about the right remedies (or lack of remedies) for the depression is still go ing on in the same old way. The most determined and ef fective champions of the op posing viewpoints are still the two men who fought the big battle over government eco nomic policy in the 1953-'54 recession. Neither is any long er officially connected with the government. - Dr. Arthur Burns, former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, charged into town again last week, to warn that the depression is not "flattening out" as the President keeps saying; and to plead for prompt action to stimulate the economy. He followed close on the heels of former Secretary of the Treas ury George M. Humphrey, who was peddling precisely the contrary opinions. s . . But Humphrey was no long er carrying conviction as he used to except with the Presi dent himself. Even Hump hrey's successor at the Treas ury, the able Robert Ander son, is talking nowadays much less about-the fiscal dangers of a tax cut, and much more about the difficulties of get ting Congress to vote the right kind of tax cut. As for the government eco nomists, conspicuously includ ing the Council of Economic Advisors, their faces are get ting longer and longer. Far from sharing the President's confidence that the economic curve is "flattening out," they are frankly, worried about a sharper downturn. One factor that is causing much worry is the clear possibility of some big, confidence-destroying re ceiverships, especially, in the iailroad industry. Another such factor is the - prospect that the unemployment total will surge upwards toward 6 million, again tending to de stroy confidence, when the college year ends in June. VOR ALL these reasons, al- though the White House and Treasury still quite plain ly do not want, a tax cut if they can possibly avoid it, the drift toward the tax cut is growing stronger by the day. Meanwhile, unhappily,' the stimulant irf also losing effec tiveness. For as Dr. Burns has said, a tax cut "is only a good device to fight a mild reces sion while confidence is still strong." (c) 1958 New, York Herald Tribune Inc. Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS resolution saying mat he ab solutely could not be spared. Nehru gave in. It looks now as if what Nehru really wanted to do was to scare his party into : rejuvenated activity. If so, he certainly succeeded. The i.Congress Party has been suffering from too much prosperity. With 369 seats in parliament out of a total of -494, it had become complac ent. There have been charges of corruption and graft. The" country's financial situation is bad. And the Communist : Party, which now controls one of India's 14 states, is gaining strength in others The whole burden of responsi bility has rested on Nehru, who spends nearly all of his 19 daily waking hours work ing. Next week, when Nehru goes on his vacation the party will start a series of meet-' ings to try to tighten disci pline, restore unity and re gain the vigor it had in leaner days. . Vote for James M. MAIN fee - - rill for CIRCUIT Judge Position No. 1 JAMES M. MAIN . Is Qualified G. V. (Bill) Kellington Says: "As an' attorney, I have a respon sibility to the people who are m) clients to see that their rights ana interests are full and- properly presented to the court. Then it is essential that the casi be properly considered by a com petent judge. If Jitigation is to be fairly settled without expensive appeal, the pre siding Circuit Judge should be learned in the law, capable of ap plying the law to the facts fairly and without bias or prejudice. James M. Main, has proven that he has these qualities and should make an excellent Circuit Judge.'' Signed G. W. (Bill) Kellington. . (Note, ask anyone who has ap peared before Judge Main .as i juror, witness, litigant or attorney,, about his qualification.) Ben Day, Chmn., Gold Hill. , Pd. Pol. Adv. . X) i f
