Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 12, 1958, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORL - monoiy. May 12, 1938 "I very one In Southern 'rrecon Read 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 Managei GIHAtDLAIHAM. 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 marcn 3. ibi SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mail In Advance: Copy lOe. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 moi 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 425 Sunday Only One year $450 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 $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1.30 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All T- . . . Official Paper of CKy of Medford Official Paper ef 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. JJ am t arm PUBLISHES. J "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL IasTocCatiQn 37 w W Flight '0 Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 12. 1948 (Wednesday) A total budget of $1,299, 177.33 for Jackson county for the 1948-1949 fiscal year has been prepared by the county budget committee. x "Tourist Host Week" will be sponsored May 24-29 by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. 20 YEARS AGO May 12, 1938 (Thursday) Members of the Medford High school band and their director, F. Wilson Wait, left this morning for Seattle to participate in the Northwest Regional band contest. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The first auto wreck of the year has been caused , by a bee stinging the driver in the face." 30 YEARS AGO May 12, 1928 (Saturday) Foots Creek Strawberries already show color. Another week of warm weather will start berry picking. From local and personal: "Dance! Closing Gold Hill Saturday night." 40 YEARS AGO May 12. 1918 (Monday) R. Beers Loos, well-known veteran newspaper man, hu morist and paragrapher, is spending a few days in Med ford. . From local and personal column: "Chief of Police Hitt son will start a crusade at once against owners of cows who tie them in vacant lots so that animals can get onto the sidewalks." Vhaf s Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or sis is good. 1. What is the capital of Kentucky? 2. What is the name of the world's largest office build ing? ' 3. What are U.S. Battle ships named for? 4. What are the four free doms? 5. What is the birth stone for May? 6. How many square rods to an acre? 7. What did Jack Sprat and his wife do? ; 8. Where is the United States Coast Guard Academy? 9. Whose portrait appears on the two dollar bill? 10. What insignia does a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army wear? Answers: 1. : Frankfort. 2. The Pentagon. Washington. D.C. 3. Stales. 4. Speech. Wor ship, from want and . from fear. 5. Agate. 6. 160. 7. Lick ed the platter clean. 8. New London, Conn. 9. Jefferson. 10. Silver oak leaf. Leader of Iranian Communists Executed Tehran, Iran W An armv firing squad Sunday ex ecuted Khosrow Rouzbeh, leader of the outlawed Iran ian Communist party. Rouzbeh, known as "Iran's Lenin," was arrested by order cf Shah Mohammed Reza Pah levi several years ago, but escaped. He was recaptured l?st year. His influence waned p!'er a military plot "gainst the -we-nment failed three - z3 ago. Schools rind Budgets We were pleased that the school voters of Jackson county were neither confused nor misled last Monday when they went to the polls. They were facd by some rather complicated and obscure choices, despite all efforts to ex plain clearly the involutions of 'the school laws. And, in a time when the economy generally is not "in the pink," and when taxes seem to go ever higher, they rightly decided that the schools of the county are worth the cost, and approved bud gets and levies necessary for operation. MOT so, elsewhere. In glancing over the papers from other parts of the state last week, we noticed a half-dozen different places where various school tax propos als were turned down. Some of the budgets, very likely, were too large, and the voters in those areas were right in voting them down for revision and cutting. But in some localities it may well have been a misun derstanding of the needs of the growing schools, and the complexities of budgetary procedure. . T TP IN Bend, for instance, two levies were re- jected. One was a $47,134 proposal to make Central Oregon Community college a full, day time institution, rather than an evening college only. There was considerable division of opinion as to whether this was the. proper time to do this, and the defeat is understandable. , The other proposal, however, was the regu lar annual school budget, for operation of the Bend school district for the coming year. Despite the fact that it has been explained Eublicly over and over again that annual school udgets must be submitted each year because of lohg-outmoded tax bases, not everyone under stands this fact. Nor do all voters realize just how rapidly the schools are growing, and how the costs, of school operation, like nearly every thing else, are climbing. - TTHE editor' of the Bend Bulletin .'was "puzzled at the turn-down of the regular budget, and asked his readers to let members of the school board and budget committee know, why they voted against it. : He pointed out that most of the pressures on boards and committees before the election are for increases, and that usually there is little vocal sentiment against it. Therefore, when 'a carefully-prepared budget, which the board and committee think is sound, is turned down, fre quently they have no idea why, and no way of knowing to what it is the voters have objected. Anyway, the point here is that with the safe guards of a good school board, a high-type mem bership on the budget committee, and a sound school administration, responsible to 'legitimate demands made upon it, the budgets presented Oregon school voters, more often than not, are sound and conservative, no matter what they look like to the uninformed. E.A. v The Lessons of History Southern Oregon is an area rich with signifi cant historical meaning. . ' . True, it is "recent" history, most 01 it occur ring within -the past century or a little longer. But it is all the more interesting for that, since our pioneer heritage is so close to us here. Now, with almost all of the first-generation pioneers gone,' it is even more important that our links with the past be., strengthened, so that we can all have a fuller understanding of what went into the development of this area FOR many years the Southern Oregon Historical society has been the chief agency interested in this area's history. And, within its own limita tions, it has done an excellent job, preserving the old courthouse in Jacksonville as a museum, op erating it for the county, and keeping alive the interest in historical events and artifacts. Within the past two years another organiza tion has been formed to approach the same gen eral field with a slightly differing "concept. This is the Siskiyou Pioneer Sites Foundation. It neither conflicts with the aims of the historical society, nor does it overlap. Rather, the two complement each other. - . .... c THE Siskiyou Pioneer Sites Foundation is in-; 1 terested in locating, marking, and, where' possible, preserving areas and buildings of espec ial historical interest and importance. At present, it is a small but enthusiastic group of people who see in these-objectives a way of making our appreciation of our forebearers rich er and more meaningful.' They will welcome any one who wishes to join them in this endeavor. The organization is "affiliated with groups which have the same aims on a national scale, and which have been instrumental in such, pro jects as preserving Colonial Williamsburg, now a show-place of the nation. ' IN THIS endeavor the two biggest problems are finding enough people willing to volunteer time and effort, and finding sufficient funds to do the job. Ideas and suggestions as to how these can be solved will also be welcomed. Don't get the idea that the Pioneer Sites Foun dation wants to buy up the whole county, and preserve it unchanged forever. That's the last thing they want. But they do want to find buildings, objects, sites or environments of "substantial historical and cultural importance" to support their pur pose, that of communicating '"the lessons- of his tory that the prese'nt "and the "future "may learn from the past." E.A. Dennis the Menace Know why iM up so earlxMr.Wiison? vie n vavakz. oiN FiSHlN 7 Washington Report By William S. White Washington American for eign policy leaders are now belatedly recognizing a prob- 1 lem much clos ' er to home 5 than the near 1 est slope of any possible summit. - Canada, the large, ordinar ily relaxed and uncom plainingly re- wuiam s. white liable associ ate to the north, is being re discovered here. ' The process is not going on with any rush. In it there is none of the drama of our ap proach to more troublesome but hardly more important powers. And it would be pre mature to suggest that the re discovery will work any con crete or quick improvement between Ottawa and Wash ington. The issues, on the outside, are dull and mercantile and tough. This country's greatest customer by far, Canada is deeply put out with our trade policies. She particularly re sents the dumping abroad of American wheat under the "surplus disposal" program. In a literal sense, this takes the bread' out of the mouths of many Canadians. They, too, grow a lot of wheat. And, on our side, some of our mining areas are made un happy by Canadian exports here of lead and zinc. IT IS sometimes easier to ne gotiate a shooting war than to smooth out the irritations of trade. For any Congress or Parliament lives very close to home and "home" usually is a term for the immediate pocketbook interests of con stituents. ' ' Thus, only the starry-eyed could look for an early solu tion of what is nothing less than an economic cool yes, cool war between the United States and Canada. Still, there is a possibility - of causing some slight rise in the temper1 ature. And to this possibility responsible Americans are ad dressing themselves. Able people on both sides of the border have told our offi cials that an American atti tude that appears to take Can ada for granted is doing al most as much harm as more measurable matters. On this assumption, our for eign policy-makers are search ing for ways to improve, at least, the form of relations. They have concluded, in short that mere good manners .never did any great harm and I Try and 3. 4T)A ...HI -By BENNETT CERF- 0F THE STORIES going the rounds about the late Mike Todd, the one that I think catches the bravado and gusto of the man best concerns the day he was aboard a reconstructed paddle - wheeler maxing shots for "Eighty Days Around the World." Glancing behind him, Todd noticed hundreds of seagulls circling in the air. "Why are they following us?" he de manded. "Gulls always fol low ships at sea," explained the captain. "They're after food the garbage we throw overboard.". "Garbage!" echoed the outraged Todd. "No seagulls following a boat of mine are them some decent food. Mike Todd goes first class! A Hollywood sob-sister found the mother of reigning, well developed screen princess becomingly modest. "My little girl," ad mitted the mother, "is just like any typical young American lady who earns more than a million dollars a year." 1958. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kins Teeturei Syndicate r occasionally may do some good. TTANDS across the unforti fied frontier are particu larly hard to clasp in the cur rent atmosphere that is more nearly akin to economic na tionalism than to internation alism. Typical of what is being at tempted, however, is a small gesture arranged with the knowledge of the State De partment on the initiative of the assistant Senate . Demo cratic Leader, Mike Mans field of Montana. The Senate Foreign Rela tions t Committee, in its - re view of this country's position around the world, is examin ing Canadian-American rela tions with unique marks of studied respect. Canada alone will be on the agenda of a hearing on May 16. No other nation's relation ship has been put alone on the docket before the committee and none will be. The whole of the Far East, for ex ample, has been looked into at one hearing, as all of Europe will be later. By tradition, the commit tee never hears any foreigner. In this case, however, it has done the next' thing by calling as a witness a Canadian-born American scholar, Percy E. Corbett, of the Center for International Studies at Princeton. VTOW, of course, no grown man thinks that this sort of thing alone will have any vast meaning to the Cana dians. But the point is that it is even being thought about. It may be, indeed, that this is a tiny beginning of the onset of wisdom toward the Cana dians. They are not an uncompli cated people or certainly the English - oriented Canadians long known to this correspon dent are not. They are not "like us" at all, except mainly in superficialities. About three days a week, so to speak, they look and talk and to some extent think like Americans. But the other four days of the week they are more British than the British. They are strong and friendly people but they are not "our" people. They don't like suggestions that they are. And we should stop supposing, even for a moment, that they are. (Copyright. 1958 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Sfop Me mike . J TODD Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop DECAY IN INDONESIA Washington The State De partment has half-publicly ad mitted its acute and increas ing worry about the trend of events in "In donesia. But it has not ad mi 1 1 e d the major reason for this worry, which is the predictable ef- jospb Aisop iect ot a com munist success in Indonesia throughout the rest of South east Asia. In gauging the success of the Indonesian Communists, to be sure, one must allow for the extreme oddity of In donesian politics. Consider, for example, the crisis in Djakarta which still consti tutes the most baffling curios ity in all of this reporter's considerable collection of po litical memories. On that occasion,' now a good many years ago, the army division garrisoning the Indonesian capital went into opposition to President Su karno. There were strong points in the streets by day. Tanks rumbled all night, for many nights on end, down the broad boulevards laid out by the Dutch. The civil gov ernment appeared to be com pletely at the mercy of the military. "CVERY circumstance, in short, suggested that the Djakarta crisis would end in the most lurid way imagin able. But in the end, the crisis just petered out, in a damp, vague, indecisive way, with out producing any result whatever. But even after making the widest allowance for the ex treme haziness and unpredict ability of all Indonesian po litical weather, it is fairly clear that a major Communist success is at least in the mak ing there. There can be no doubt, in the first place, as to the growing Communist pre dominance in President Su karno's "guided democracy." Sukarno himself, an extra ordinary mixture of patrio tism and egoism, brilliance and fatuity, is by no means a Communist. But the Soviets, the Chinese and their Indo nesian agents have gone very far towards capturing Su karno by a multitude of de vices, ranging all the way from daily appeals to his van ity, as far as open employ ment of a Russian woman agent. rpHE main instrument of Su- - karno's "guided democ racy" is the extra-constitu tional National Advisory Council, which now functions as the real Indonesian gov ernment. The Council includes at least 20 Communist and fellow-travelling members in a total of 44. In the armed serv ices, too, Communist infiltra tion is now very powerful, al though the army chief of staff General Haris Nasution, has opposed it to the best of his ability. - In the labor govern ment and student organiza tions, Communist control is almost total. This situation, plus - the grievance of the rich outer islands against the financial exactions of Java, caused the rebellion that is still going on in Sumatra and the Celebes. It is just a little too early, as yet, to say the re bellion has failed. The central government, while capable of dealing with the uprising in Sumatra, may not be capable of dealing with both Sumatra and the Celebes at the same time. But the rebel capital of Bukittingi has fallen, and the outlook for the anti-Communist rebels is at least pretty dark. If the rebellion fails,,' in turn, its failure will vastly increase the Communist in fluence which the rebels sought to challenge. But despite its huge popu lation, great natural wealth and vital strategic position, Indonesia is still much too amorphous to be an imme diate source of danger, in and of itself. THE major danger lies in the chain-reactive effect that a triumph of the Indonesian Communists will produce in Rangoon and Kuala Lumpas, Singapore and Bangkok, in Pnomh-Penh and Saigon and even in remote Laos. The governments in all these capitals rule over po litically precarious ex-colon- 3 I 1 a.llfin 1 I East Main l. DAIRY'SMITH Cenestee WANTED Pedigreed Barker for Our Coming Carnival of Values , l i i i U.S. Wins Control of Negotiations Toward By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The United States appears to have won firm control of Allied negotiations with So viet Russia for a summit con ference. As a result, the possibility that the United States might be coerced by its own allies into Chirlei M. " HcCann on uuss ian terms seems to have become remote. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles came away from last week s conference in Co penhagen of the North At lantic Treaty Organization foreign ministers with greatly solidified support for his sum mit policy. This is, in short, that a summit, conference is LA. U.P. Writers Eye Future Headlines United Press correspond ents around the world look ahead to the news that will make headlines: Dullest Yet This summer should be the dullest yet on TV. You can blame the recession. Old, faithful sponsors are not buy ing. New angels with bank rolls are scarcer than good scripts. Several big shows of the winter season have fold ed. And the chances are slim that sponsors will rush to fill the annual summer gap with hard cash. Producers are frankly worried. It looks like another rash of re-runs and inexpensive "live" shows when the summer season starts later this month. Missile Race The Euessine in Washington is that the Air Force's Thor missile will gef the eventual nod from Defense Secretary Neil McElroy over the Army's rival Jupiter. McElroy con tinues to nut off a decision But there are these straws in the wind: McElroy says Chrysler Corp. still has not been given approval to put Jupiter in nroduction. Thor already is coming off Douglas Aircraft Co. production lines. Final decision will have political- economic as well as military implications, because of the employment situation in the auto industry and the Army's strong - backing in " Congress and elsewnere. Air Fight Look for pilots to join air line officials in a campaign to convince Congress that the Military Air Transport Serv ice (MATS) is unfair compe tition. Many pilot jobs may be cut when big jetliners begin operation next year be cause the jets do the average work of three prop-driven air liners. The pilots, like their bosses,' want some of that lu crative MATS overseas busi ness as a cushion. Boomerang Red China has done the West a favor. Its propaganda campaign against the Jap anese government of Premier Nobusuke Kishi is making voters think the Chinese Reds are sticking their noses in other people's business. Re- ial countries, with sole ex ception of Thailand. With the possible further exception of South Vietnam, all these coun tries are . also struggling against internal Communist movements of some serious ness. The situation is worst in Laos and Singapore, where the balance is very precarious indeed. What happens in Indonesia will affect the balance every? where. Singapore, always sen sitive to such developments, can be expected to be special ly strongly affected. The eco nomic situation" is also very bad there. And an extreme left wing victory in the on coming Singapore elections, will at once tilt the balance further in the Malayan Fed eration and everywhere else. It may not happen. But it is this sort of possibility that makes the danger in South east Asia today measurably greater than it has ever been, at any time since the terrible disaster at Dien Bien Phu. (Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) desirable only if it affords some prospect of success. Pressure on Dulles Ever since the Soviet gov ernment started clamoring for a conference last December, the United States had been under severe pressure by some allied governments to agree to a conference on al most any terms. The view was taken that a summit conference, however slight the hope of agreement might be, was preferable to the present cold war tension and the danger that it might lead to a nuclear war. The fact that Russia, while calling for a conference, was laying down terms which would make its success almost impossible, was ignored. From the first, Dulles in sisted it would be a grave mis take to agree to the confer ence unless ' preparatory ne gotiations showed the Soviet suit: the Socialist and Com munist candidates may be hurt in the May 22 general elections. Eyes On The Oil Lebanon and Saudi Arabia are the new pawns in the Mideast power game. They are straddling the fence be tween Nasser's United Arab Republic and the Jordan-Iraq Federation now being organ ized. Both countries would be a feather in the cap of either union if they joined up Saudi Arabia especially is wanted. It has oil. The riot ing in Lebanon and floods of rumors of domestic political upheavals in Saudi Arabia are no accident. The stakes are high. The struggle will continue. I sincerely ask for your support May 16 for the of fice of County Coroner. I will work for the best in terests of all the people of Jackson County. The office has been in one local firm for 16 (sixteen) years, and it is time for a change. Frank Perl Experienced to Serve UOTE 29X for COUNTY CORONER Frank Perl For Coroner Committee) C. M. Litwiller, Frank Morgan, Harold Snodgrcrtt Co-Chairmen Paid Political Ad. Frank Peri Allied Summit government was ready, to enter one in good faith. Dulles was subjected to criticism not only in Allied countries but in the United States for his stand. It was said he was obstruc tive, that his attitude was too rigid. The criticism was in tensified because of Rusisa's launching of its Sputniks, its testing of an intercontinental ballistic misisle and its threats to Western European govern ments that they faced destruc tion if a nuclear war broke out. Remains Firm Dulles' position has been strengthened by the success of the United States in launching its own earth satellites, its progress in the field of nu clear weapon development and its insistence on adequate advance preparation for a foreign ministers conference and, in turn, for the summit conference. At the NATO meeting in Copenhagen, Dulles sold his fellow allies on his viewpoint. Another important factor was the stiffened Soviet attitude in the United Nations. Just be fore the conference, Russia cast its 83rd Security Council veto. He was able to assure the foreign ministers that he really would like a summit conference on proper terms and that Rusisa, while it calls for far-reaching world agree ments, refuses to consider. such issues as the reunifica tion of Germany and rejects all proposals for an inspection system which would permit a start toward disarmament.. Right now, it appears that Dulles is in what the diplo mats caU a position of strength in negotiations with the Rus sians .v Until quite recently, So viet Premier Nikita S. Khru shchev seemed to many AUied. leaders to be in that position. i FRANK PERL Funeral Heme, Medford, Ore.