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14 TWrtdiy, May 22, 1938
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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
: Mav 22. 1948 (Sunday)
1 A parade tops off spring
." ceremonial of Hillah temple
of the Shrine here.
:' Sale of 37,600,000 feet of
timber on the Rogue River
: National forest to White pity
: Lumber company announced
l. by Karl L. Janouch, forest
- supervisor.
! 20 YEARS AGO
; May 22,: 1938 (Sunday)
'. Congressman James A.
: Mott of this district, defeats
Walter Norblad, Astoria, in
67 of the 70 Jackson county
; precincts in the Republican
: primary.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
I Smudge Pot column: "A shiv
t aree raced down the main
i stem Monday evening as if
: the law was after them, but
' no such luck."
30 YEARS AGO
; May 22. 1928 (Tuesday)
f Child welfare clinic held
at the Lincoln school for chil
dren of pre-school age. .
One hundred and five vis
; itors were shown through the
Oregon Caves Sunday.
40 YEARS AGO
ay 22, 1919 (Wednesday)
: . A month's fishing at the
iouth of the Rogue river was
lost and this year's salmon
1 pack will be that much small
er because of the strike of
; gillnetters.
A box social to raise funds
r for the Junior Red Cross will
be given at the Ash Grove
t school, Jacksonville rd., Fri
day.
; Whai's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct it superior;
t seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
t 1. Persons born between
; Aug. 22 and Sept. 23 are un-
der what zodiacal sign?
I 2. Amnesia is a mental dis
J ease, food for the gods, or
perfume base obtained from
I whales?
I 3. Is the terrain of Japan
mountainous or flat?
4. A bi-monthly magazine is
j issued once every two months,
j or twice a month
5. Salt is used in freezing
ice cream, to make the ice
melt, or to keep it" from melt-
6. Where are the hands
J placed when thet arms are
J akimbo ?
7. An adjective expressing
J some quality is called at ep-
2 itaph, or on epithet?
-
8. , What famous painting
was stolen from the T.nnvrp in
:i9ii?
j 9. Which mythological fig
J ure is represented as bearing
; the earth on his shoulders?
j 10.. What colonial possession
does Great Britain have on the
coast of South America?
j Answers: 1. Virgo. 2. Men-,
tal disease. 3. Mountainous.
I 4. Once every two months. 5.
' To make it melt. 6. On the
- hips. 7. Epithet. 8. Mon?. Lisa.
9. Atlas. 10. British Guiana.
The TV Proposals
The city council has been criticized in some
quarters for its recent action in approving two
.. . 1 I" J 1
applications lor irancnises irom television con
cerns for special systems to bring additional TV
channels to Medford.
In our view, they had
grant the franchise applications. The city council
nas no DUSinesS gelling nseu mvuiveu m baying
who can, or cannot, operate a commercial enter
prise in the city.
We presume that some of those who are criti
cal would classify themselves as supporters of
the "American, free-enterprise" economy, and
resent any allegation that they weren't. But, in
this case, they ARE attacking "free enterprise."
.
I 00K at it this way. '
V KBES-TV is the only
up here several years ago at a considerable in
vestment, both in money and in "blood, sweat
and tears," and its owners want to protect their
investment. They have done their level best to
bring Jackson county good TV.
But should the city council grant KBES-TV
a monopoly? Not in our book, it shouldn't, any
more than it should grant a monopoly to the Mail
Tribune, or the First National Bank, or Mann's
Department store. -
One can criticize TV all one wants (and we1
ourselves have done so in the past) . But one can
not deny that it is a legitimate business that it is
universally accepted as such in this free America
of ours, and that it is a part of our way of life
and our economy.
t
ALSO, remember that the twro franchises to
Trimble Television Inc., and to KBES-TV
itself are not the first. Oregon-California Thea
ters recently was granted a franchise for a closed
circuit system.
Thus, there are three companies with plans
for additional TV systems. Details of all of them
have notrbeen made available in fact, they
probably haven't been worked out in detail.
But each of them,. if started, will stand, or fall
on whether or not it provides an acceptable'ser
vice, for which people .are willing to pay. If -it
does, it will be successful. If it doesn't, it won't.
The same is true of a grocery store, or shpe
store or lumber mill. And what a howl would go
up if the council started deciding who could, , or
who couldn't, open a barber shop, or a service
station! ,
"THE three new systems proposed are alike in
one thing they will use cables or wires, and
will not send their signals through the air. Thus
they are not subject to regulation by the Federal
Communications Commission.
And another point of similarity is that they
each plan to charge for the service.
: We have no sympathy with the cries that the
proposed charges are too high. As far as we are
concerned,' the price of a Cadillac is "too high,"
but we solve that simply by not buying a Cadillac.
KBEb-lV has assured its patrons that it will
continue to broadcast commercial programs (or,
as they preter to call it,
entertainment will remain for those who don't
want to pay the extra charges for extra programs.
A S FOR the objections
candy, or cigarettes, or food. But that is no reason
for the city council to set
tonal agency to say that there shall be only one
candy (or any other) store in town.
If you don't like pay TV, you don't have to
subscribe. If you don't like a TV program, you
can turn it oil. if you don t like television at all,
you don't have to buy a set.
It's, as simple as that. Americans still have
that much freedom. And if that is lost, it will be
too late to care. E.A. . .
Atomic Step Forward
Today marks the beginning of a new chapter
in' the short history of atomic power.
At Camden, N.J., today, Mrs. Richard M. Nix
on was scheduled to officiate at the keel-laying
of the MS Savannah, designed as the first com
mercial ocean-going atomic-powered vessel.
The United States has several atomic submar
ines, and the Russians report that they have an
atomic icebreaker. But the Savannah will be the
first use of the atom to propel a vessel designed
for strictly commercial purposes.
CTILL in the future are planes, trains and other
vehicles which derive their power from fis
sion of the atom. The technological break
throughs needed for these have yet to be made
presumably; the military and the secrecy
minded Atomic -Energy commission have not
reported success in these directions.
The problem is a double one, of space and
weight. Atomic reactors are bulky by nature, and
need a good-sized vehicle to carry them in their
present stage of development. In addition, they
throw out a goodly amount of radiation, -which
can be lethal to humans
by thick, heavy barriers
.
"THE size, weight and
insurmountable for
Ultimately, we believe, some other form of
power will, itself, replace fission power. It may
be fusion power (which will eliminate the radia
tion, and thus the shielding problem), or it may
be a source of power which so far is purely theo
retical ' or even hypothetical. .. " . . :
In the meantime, the MS Savannah is a' for
ward step. E.A.
no alternative but to
TV station. It was set j
"free" TV), so that TV
that too much television
itself up as a little dicta-
unless they are shielded
mostly of lead.
radiation barriers may be
use m smaller vehicles.
Dennis the
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'Stop GSGU4, j
Matter of Fact
AT IDLEWILD
. New York In the feelings i
it inspires, Idlewild Airport
lies halfway between the Ap-
rjian Wav anrl
one of the
space stations
of theT. grisly
future period.
But even at
Idlewild, wait
ing for a plane
to . crisis - rid
den F r an ce,
this reporter
jospb Aisop remains obses
sed by the recent, strange ex
perience of plunging back into
Eisenhower's Washington.
The second Eisenhower ad
ministration, one notes as soon
as one gets home, is rather
strikingly different from the
firsts Neil McElroy is merci
fully unlike Charles E. Wil
son. .There is a comparable
lack of resemblance between
Christian Herter and Herbert
Hoover Jr. A score of other,
very similar major human im
provements might be cited.
There is also an improve
ment in the governmental at
mosphere, although this is per
haps rather negative in char
acter. At least, the old smug
ness has quite disappeared. At
least, one is no longer con
stantly commanded to admire
the selfless patriotism of cap
xains oi industry, wno are
using all their hard-won know-
how to dismantle the defenses,
to alienate the allies, and to
weaken the world position of
their country.
"DUT something, unhappily,
is still very wrong indeed
in this Washington of Dwight
Eisenhower's second term. The
proof lies in the last fort
night's lurid, unending chron
icle of disastrous American
setbacks all over the globe,
wnat, men, is this some
thing that is wrong?
In part, quite obviously, the
chickens reared in the fat,
I smug, outwardly lucky years
oi me tirst term are just com
mg home to roost. As was
foreseeable, they all look like
vultures. But in this reporter's
opinion, the roots of the thing
that is wrong go back to the
very beginning, to the tragic
drama that occurred when the
President took office.
At that time, the United
States still stood at the head
of the world. But a whole "bale
of warnings was waiting on
the new . President s desk,
even as he walked into the
wnite House, ihese papers
terminated in the last National
Security Council directive of
the Truman administration
They rather belatedly recog
nized that America's position
would soon be challenged by
the rapid, massive growth of
Soviet power. They called for
more effort much more ef
fort to safeguard the Ameri
can position.
WITH George Humphrey at
f 7
tbp Treasury anrl Wilsnn
a ; i
they are again doing in the
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
TJ. A. BOTKIN has unearthed this authentic letter sent from
- the 1944 European warfront by a Kentucky mountaineer
to his wife in America: "Dear Nancy. I been a-gittin yore
ndggin letters au along.
Now I want to tell ye, I'm
damn tired of them. For
the first time in my life I'm
a-fightin' in a real big war,
and I want you to let me
enjoy it in peace while it
lasts. Yours etc."
The crowd in the smoking
car of the 8:40 was astounded
when the most confirmed .
bachelor in Connecticut sud
denly, upped and took unto
himself a bride. "I thought,"
sighed one man, "he would al
ways be able to look out for
Number One." "He was," explained his seat-mate, "until he met a
charming widow lady looking out for Number Two."
,-.
They have a new definition for an optimist In Dallas: an auto
dealer who thinks he can sell Volkswagens in Texas!
1958, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate.
Menace
By Joseph Alsop
Middle East. But these inter-
at the Defense Department,
the Eisenhower administration
was already half-committed to
less national effort. With
Lewis Strauss moving in on
the Atomic Energy Commis
sion and Robert Cutler at the
National Security Council, the
Administration was already
tending to the view that the
people did not need to know
about the people's business.
Even so, for nine long
months in 1953, the President
played with the idea of "Oper
ation Candor." He wanted to
tell the . American people the
harsh facts of their situation.
He wanted to go on from
there, to a call for greater na
tional effort to deal with those
facts. But finally, in October,
1953, "Operation Candor'"
was blocked by the budget-
firsters and the secrecy, ad
dicts. Thereafter, the Administra
tion increasingly refused to
believe the intelligence re
ports. It was too uncomfor
table to believe the intelli
gence, when nothing was be
ing done about it.
The leadership was self-deceived.
The" country was de
ceived. But meanwhile the
growth of Soviet power con
tinued at an ever-increasing
rate. The hostile ferment in
the ex-colonial countries pro
gressed towards the crisis
point. The very heart of the
Western Alliance began to
show symptoms of decay. The
old, unchallengeable position
of the United States was alto
gether lost. And these dangers
abroad, finally, were accentu
ated and increased by reces
sion at home.
.
THE government's almost to
tal inability' to make any
coherent, continuous response
to this combination of chal
lenges is a key characteristic
of the second Eisenhower ad
ministration. When the heat is
very hot indeed, they thrash
about, as they'have done and
mittent thrashings only dis
guise the basic passivity.
One reason for this is ob
vious. The great measures that
are now needed cannot even
be considered until the coun
try is fully and firmly unde
ceived. Yet any true account
ing to the country, in the man
ner of "Operation Candor,"
would now make James Hag
erty and a great many other,
much more important people
look both silly and fraudulent.
But there is another, deeper
reason. A truly "dynamic new
policy" that really might "re
capture the initiative" cannot
even begin to be involved
without the - most dynamic
leadership, endowed with the
most inexhaustible vigor, the
freshest intelligence, and the
most ruthless capacity for de
tailed, hard work. Until these
qualities are present at the
top, the new challengers can
never be met. So the Ameri
can position will continue to
I deteriorate.
(c) 1958 New York Herald
Tribune, inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Financial note:
Stocks in New York turn
firm in the wake of fresh evi
dence that the recession may
have seen its low point and
that a recovery is starting.
Spokesmen for a number of
key industries have reported
improvement in new orders.
THOUGHT:
If the politicians will quit
trying to MAKE VOTES out
of the recession, maybe we
can get somewhere.
A LONG that line, Secretary
of Commerce Weeks, ad
dressing a conference of cor
poration and business execu
tives in New York City, says
the best way to cure the reces
sion is the DO IT YOURSELF
method.
He adds:
"OVER - DEPENDENCE on
government cures can disturb
business, hamper it, or even
WRECK it."
T ET'S put it this way:
If wishes were horses,
all beggars would ride.
If merely passing laws
would do the trick, everybody
would be rich and happy. '
The truth, as Secretary
weens suggests, is that in
business matters (which in
clude curing recessions) the
hard way is often the best
way.
SPEAKING
way
of the .easy
A report just issued by the
joint congressional committee
on reduction of NON-ESSEN
TIAL federal expenditures
says that in the past ten years
the government civilian pay
roll has increased more than
FIVE BILLION dollars
It adds that the number of
top civilian jobs has nearly
TRIPLED since 1950.
RUT-
You may say
These government employ
ees SPEND MONEY. That
extra five billions they are
getting buys a lot of goods
and helps to keep business
booming.
WAIT a minute.
Every billion the gov
ernment spends costs you as
an individual about six dol
lars. So that five billion costs
you about $30. If you are the
breadwinner for" a family of
four, it costs you about $120.
Government, you know, has
a curious way of getting , its
money. What it needs, it
reacres into the taxpayer's
pocket and TAKES.
What it takes out of the tax
payer's pocket, THE TAX
PAYER DOESN'T HAVE
LEFT TO SPEND FOR HIMSELF.
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From YMCA sary for the well-being of
To the Editor: A note of j Jackson -county, Oregon, Am
appreciation for the Mail erica, and our people, than
Tribune's excellent coopera
tion in publicizing the Annual
YMCA Auction.'
The money raised through
this event will be put to good
use in the financing of youth
activities for the teen-agers
of Medford. As the Young
Men's Christian Association is
a non-profit organization it
would be impossible to ex
tend the youth programs we
now offer, without the finan
cial assistance of the United
Medford Crusade and special
fund raising events.
Our sincere thanks for the
efforts of the Mail Tribune
staff on behalf of the" youth
of this community.
Herb Partridge,
Youth Work Secretary,
Medford YMCA
Conservation Week
To the Editor: As Jackson
county chairman, Conserva
tion of Natural Resources
Week program, may I express
thanks through your medium
to everyone who so gener
ously helped and participated
in bringing this great need
to the attention of the pub
lic? The ministers and mer
chants, the city and county
schools, Boy and Girl Scouts,
Medford Mail Tribune, Ash
land Tidings, Rogue River
Times, Ben Tucker of Jackson
county extension service, Col.
Paul Weiland of the Medford
chapter IWLA, Howard Hop
kins of the U. S. Forest Ser
vice, the Ashland IWLA chap
ter for help in the south end
and Chester Jensen in north
end of the county," the Gar
den clubs, and PTAs, Jen
nings Pierce as clearinghouse
for civic clubs, and all others
who participated were very
helnful to all of whom I
extend appreciation.
I can think of no material
subject matter more neces-
Broader Interpretation Given
Mid-East Doctrine by Dulles
By CHARLES M. McCANN i
United Press Correspondent
Secretary, of State John
'Foster Dulles has given a new
and important interpretation
of the "Eisen
h o w e r Doc
trine" of the
Middle East.
Under . this
interpretation,
the joint con
gressional resolution au
thorizing American
military aid to
Charles M.
McCann
Middle Eastern country
against foreign aggression is
not limited to action against
an aggresor which is "under
the control of international
communism." "s.
The effect is to put teeth
into a declaration, whfch has
often been criticised as some
what meaningless.
Dulles gave his interpreta
tion of the Eisenhower Doc
trine, as it is popularly call
ed, at a press conference in
Washington i n discussing
Lebanon.
Lebanon has accused the
United Arab Republic of fo
menting and supporting the re
bellion.
The United States has sent
a quantity of "police arms"-
largely small arms and ;tear
gas equipment to Lebanon
to aid against "rioters."
There has been some con
fusion over the applicability
of the Eisenhower Doctrine to
Lebanon. The reason for the
confusion is the provision au
thorizing aid against an ag
gressor under the control of
international Communism.
Though Egypt and Syria are
receiving arms and other aid
from Soviet Russia, the United
Arab Republic certainly can
not be held to be under So
viet control.
President Gamal .Abdel
Nasser has denied aiding the
Lebanese rebels. He says the
rebelilon was planned and is
being carried out by pro
United Arab Republic Leb
anese. Dulles agreed that the con
gressional resolution specified
aid to a country menaced by
Communist aggression. But he
added:
"That doesn't mean, how
ever, that there is nothing
that can be done.
"There is the provision of
the Middle East resolution
which says that the indepen
dence of these countries is
vital to peace and the national
interest of the United States.
That is certainly a mandate to
do something if we think that
our peace and vital interests
are endangered in any quar
ter." f
Dulles pointed out that this
orovision was inserted in the
Eisenhower Doctrine by the
Senate.
careful stewardship and con
servation of our God-given
natural resources: soil, woods,
water, wildlife, and our great
recreational potentiali
ties, needed for our spiritual
and physical health.
John E. Gribble,
139 Kenwood ave.,
Medford
Gypsi If Dead
To the Editor: On Monday,
May 19, at approximately 8
a.m., some one driving in the
Rogue River area hit and
killed a German Shepherd
dog. A tragic accident? Yes!
But more deplorable still is
the fact that there is someone
wandering around who didn't
even have the decency to in
form the owner of the acci
dent, and left "Gypsie" lying
in the drive way of her home
to be found by her-two little
chums, Bobby, age 2 and
Ricky, age 3.
He, or she, may think they
just killed a dog. But "Gypsie"
was much more than that.
She was friend, companion,
guard and the greatest gal in
the world, to her many friends
who loved her, and miss her.
I sincerely hope that the
person who did hit her, may
never have the job of gather
ing up the crushed and bleed
ing "nothing" that was once
a gay. . warm hearted friend
that someone else didn't think
important enough to report.
Eve King,
Route 1, Box 248A,
Gold Hill.
Will Someone Please Explain?
To the Editor: I am just a
mite confused!
The poor mistreated oper
ators of KBES-TV have shed
so many tears over the evils
of Pay-TV in the past few
months that the water has
spilled out onto my living
room floor.
Now however, it seems that
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
BURDENED
Washington After his
agreeable experience at the
NATO meeting in Copenhagen
about two weeks ago agree
able because
everyone pres
ent seemed to
agree' with
him Mr.
Dulles has had
a most dis
agreeable week. There
jififl is troume in
WmJUomiti Indonesia, in
waiter uppmann Lebanon, in
Algeria and France, and in
Latin America. In all of them
there is a challenge to the
existing position and policy of
this country. And in all of
them the responsibility for de
ciding what to do next is cen
tered upon Mr. Dulles himself.
This should, I believe, raise
in our minds the question of
whether the conduct of our
foreign policy has not become
concentrated to a dangerous
degree, whether responsibil
ity is not concentrated to an
unworkable degree in the
mind and conscience of one
man. '
I think it has become too
concentrated, and that the
price we pay for it is that in
large areas of the world, as
in the Latin American repub
lics to the south of us and in
Canada to the north of us, the
issues and our interests and
their interests are neglected.
In other areas which are im
mediately vital'as in the Mid
dle East and in continental
Europe, our appreciation , of
events is out of date and our
policies are vulnerable to the
kind of surprise which the
French crisis and the advent
of Gen. De Gaulle would sure
ly bring.
F
T IS necessary to look can
didly at our situation. For
the crucial difficulty in our
dealing with the multitude of
problems is that Mr. Dulles
has more problems to decide
than any man can possibly at
tend to and know about and
master. ,
Mr. Dulles himself is
marvel of endurance and of
intellectual vitality. But he
conducts his office in a way
which is plainly, as events are
showing, beyond human pow
er. As Mr. Eisenhower's ener
gy and interest have declined
ail tne tune the tears were
falling and our beloved TV
networks played heart-broken
melodies on borrowed violins
in the background, someone
around the local station was
able to wipe away his tears
long enough to fill out an ap
plication for his own Pay-TV
system.
I am trying to be broad
minded and understand that
it is totally different, the, good
and right thing to do for Med
ford residents to pay" a sub
scription fee to KBES-TV;
that it is just plain wrong and
Un-American to pay out their
Miard earned cash . for any
other Pay-TV.
I am afraid that someone is
going to have to spend a little
time and explain to me why it
is wrong for me to drop a
quarter in the slot, on the side
of my TV to see some newly
released movie, while at the
same time it is perfectly well
and good to pay KBES-TV
their fee to either watch
Clark Gable's first movie on
their station or switch to the
cable 'and watch Jean Har
low's last picture on any of
three other channels.
I believe I could see the light
if I owned just a little bit of
our fine, upstanding, simon
pure local television station,
KBES-TV. ,
J. D. Chappelle
601 Morton St.
Ashland
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Mr. Dulles has received from
the President the greater part
of the Presidential powers in
foreign affairs, the powers
which under "our system
should be exercised by the
President himself. The result
is that for all practical pur
poses, excepting only now
and then, the Secretary of
State does not have the sup
port and comfort of knowing
that the final decision is with
the President.
At the same time Mr. Dul
les is curiously separated from
the State Department and the
Foreign Service. He has been
to an extraordinary degree his
own ambassador. Is it any
wonder that he cannot attend
to everything at once, that
what he does not attend to is
neglected? Is it any wonder
that with such an abnormal
concentration of responsibil
ity in one man, our policies,
which need fresh analysis and
reflection are, as in Latin
America for example, so com
placent and so insensitive?
ONE hesitates to suggest
what might be done to
better this situation. Exper
ience shows that such sug
gestions are usually resented.
Only Mr. Eisenhower and Mr.
Dulles can do anything about
anything and they are set in
their ways.
But it can be said, I -think,
that in the American system
things do not work well if in
the conduct of foreign affairs
the President abdicates most
of his authority and lets it
fall to his Secretary of State.
There are many reasons why
this does not work. One of
them, the most important per
haps, is that the conduct of
foreign relations requires not
only negotiation abroad but
the political leadership of
Congress at home. Half the
underlying grievances of
South America, for example,
are due to acts of omission and
commission by the Congress.
Mr. Eisenhower cannot fulfill
the duties of his office by let
ting Mr. Dulles try to perform
them. Mr. Eisenhower needs
somehow to have the means
of doing his own work, per
haps by calling into the White
House his own advisor in for
eign affairs.
This is not meant as a way
to supersede Mr. Dulles but
as a way to relieve him of an
impossible burden. It is not at
all a reflection on his ability,
which is high, unless it be a
reflection to say of ay man
that his powers have limits,
and that he cannot do every
thing. IN MY view it is urgent that
there should occur at the
center of the Administration
reforms which will in effect
return to the White House its
necessary authority and to the
Secretary of State the time
and the freedom to ponder the
great issues. It is urgent ' be
cause there is every reason
to think that the crisis in Al
geria and in France is not just
another political crisis but is
in fact a crisis of the French
system of government. If it
is that, it will involve Europe
and NATO and mark the be
ginning of a new-chapter, in
our foreign policy,
(c) 1958 New York Herald -Tribune
Inc.
Camping Facilities
Limited Near Bend
Bend (IP) Camping and
parking facilities at East and
Paulina lakes will be limited
because of deep roadside
snowdrifts during the opening
of the high lake trout season
this weekend, Deschutes Na
tional Forest officials said to
day. t
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