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Newspaper Page TextMenrf.y, My It, ItSI UIL TRIBUNE, MIDFORD. OU. Sveryoo in Southern 4rcgo . Reeds The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday bT MED FORD PRINTING CO 83North Fir St Ph. SP3-6141 . ROBFTHT w RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Man ret ERALD LATHAM. Business Mfr. RIC ALLEN. JR Managing- Editor EARL H. ADAMS. Cite Editor ARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor SICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor LIVE STARCHER, Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Kewraaner Sntered a second clan matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES &7 Mali in Advance; Copy lOe. Daily and Sunday -1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday mos. s.oo Daily and Sunday 3 mos 4 .13 Sunday Only One year S4.20 97 Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cov. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: paBy and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday i mo. I. SO Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of Ctty of Mafr Official Paptrof Jacltsoa Coanty United Press Full LeasedWlr ' MEMBER OT AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC j Of fices in New York. Chicago, De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland St Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B C. rr s NEWS PA Pit BSSSM i PUBllSHltS ASSOCIATION KATIONAt EDITORIAL v7 ;c3TgM ASS Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. It YEARS AGO May 26, 1948 (Wednesday) Fluhrer bakeries announces the sale, effective June 1, of their retail bakery and pie manufacturing business to W K. Godlove, Los Angeles. Jackson County Sheriff's fNsse will hold its next queen contestant dance Friday. YEARS AGO Xay 26. 1938 (Thursday) Jackson county voters used pencils freely at the primary election and created close to TOO -write-ins." From Arthur Perry's Ye fcnudge Pot column: "The farmers need rain, though there is enough hay down for a cloudburst." It YEARS AGO Kay 26, 1928 (Saturday) Hiss Julia Eakins was oueen of the May festival in Ashland Friday during the Lithia park event. From local and personal: "For the past week the city nas been bathed in the odor of locust blooms." t YEARS AGO May 26. 1918 (Monday) Despite reports to the con trary, the Sells-Floto circus will not be permitted to show in this city Saturday, Mayor Gates announces. From local and personal column: "Because of a freight wreck near Dunsmuir Sunday afternoon, passenger trains 14 and 16 were late." What's Your I.Q.1 Mine er ten eerrect it tueerief; even er eic.hr is excellent; five er x it goes). 1. Complete the quotation "Millions for defense, but not cent for 2. Bible: Did St. Paul ever go to Rome? 8. Copenhagen is the capi tal of Norway, Denmark, or Sweden? 4. Harry S. Truman was lAe first U. S. president . to veto a tax-reduction bill; true er false? I. Graphology is the study f what? - 6. Coral is a plant or ani mal? 7. Can salt water.be made Iresh? 8. What does "Pan" stand lor in Pan-American? 9. In baseball, which base Is called the keystone sack? 10. In what year did the late President Roosevelt de clare the bank holiday? Answers: 1. "Tribute." 2. Tec. 3. Denmark. 4. True. . Handwriting. 6. Animal.. 7. Tec. (by distillation). 8. All. ft. Second. 10. 1933. INVENTS 'SMELLEVISION Plymouth, England (UPD Inventor William Rose an nounced Sunday he had in vented "smellevision." Rose said his "smelly telly" device releases different perfumes from a television set ' by means of an electrical im pulse from the transmitter. fUOOV KILLS 31 Istanbul. Turkey (UPD jhirty-one persons were re ported killed today . in the rl tf nrhinh HtfiflctafoH the liuvu " - Cankiri district near Ankara last week. The floods also de stroyed .35P houses in the "area. Now Its The "URL" The merger of the United Press Associations and the International News Service, announced over the week end, into what will now be called "United Press International," makes the new organization probably the largest news-gathering company in the world. ' The other big press service in this country is the Associated Press. U.P. and I.N.S, (now to be known as "U.P.I." ) both have been stockholder-held companies, .operated for a profit. The A.P. is a cooperative, owned by the papers it serves. THERE are other new-sgathering agencies in other countries, Reuters in England, Tass in Russia, and a number of others in other nations or parts of the world. But none of them have quite as extensive newsgathering facilities as do the A.P. and the new U.P.L, both of w-hich are world-wide in scope. Both of them have hundreds of full-time cor respondents, mostly located in the larger cities, which naturally enough are centers for news col lection and for news distribution. Both also have what they call "string correspondents," who are part-time employees, most of them working full time for newspapers or radio stations, who fur nish the press associations with news of their communities in addition to their regular work. "THEY are organized so that news can come to the Mail Tribune, or other papers, in min utes, where it used to take hours, or days. If say, a French government falls, a U.P.I, correspondent in Paris can call the news to his bureau, it will be put on the news circuits, and flashed and relayed across the ocean and contin ent, arriving in the Mail Tribune news room in less than five minutes. A more important stoiy can come even faster than that. The other way around, if there is a major news story in -Medford, the local "stringer" will call it to the Portland press association office, where it will be put on the circuits, and sent im mediately throughout the countiy. Lesser news, naturally, comes more slowly, awaiting its turn after the major news has been cleared. The added facilities of the U.P.L, including some of the top talent employed by what was I.N.S., will enable the Mail Tribune to serve its readers with more comprehensive national and world coverage than ever before. E.A. Nature Still Packs Punch The spectacular electric storms of last week were gorgeous and exciting things to watch. And they wrere reminders that nature still has the "big punch" when it comes to doing things in a big way. - Men have learned to of the time, but so far it naa to ao tne adjusting, Only in a few cases for instance, have sometimes been more or less successful have men "conquered" nature. Most of the time, mankind simply has to accept wThat nature brings, and live 1V4EN have learned to well: they have made remarkable progress in engineering and technology; in transporta tion and communication; in explosives and power generation. But his greatest eltorts, tremendous as tney are, still are very often nature ma really big eniDtion of a cood-sized much he can do about such things. So far experiments m have just scratched the in snowfall and rainfall have been influenced by men, but it is still far from an exact science, and the weather still does pretty much as it pleases. CO IT is that men's achievements have been mostly in the line of accommodating them selves to the whims. of nature, rather than con trolling them. In this, they have done 'well. But the storms wrere a reminder that these pro tections are not yet perfect. California Oregon Power company, despite a widespread and most ly effective system of controls to prevent power outages, still lost power in some areas Thursday night.. And this, in turn, is another reminder of how dependent men are on the conveniences of civil ization. In many homes, when the power goes off, heat; lights, the stove, television, radios, appli ancesall go off and the home is nothing but a shelter, deprived of the things we view so cas ually most of the time, and miss so much when they're gone. ""PHE same is true in many business enterprises. On a newspaper, for instance, a power out age brings things to a dead halt. Our teletypes, which brine to Medford the news of the world. fall silent; the lights go tuoes between newsroom and pnnt-shop cease; line-casting machines stop , and the molten metal used to form type begins to cool and harden; the big press cannot turn: the saws and routers are useless; tne engraving equipment cannot be used. And the clocks stop. Perhaps no other commodity in modem life is so taken-for-granted, yet so vital to activity, as electricity-which itself is . still understood only imperfectly. E.A. . i ! live with nature, most is mostly men who have not nature. flood control projects, with it. house themselves pretty subject to the whims of electric storm, or the volcano. There's not controlling the weather surface. Some increases out; the communication , . , , Dennis the Menace 10CXS0N.WE HAVE A UVVKMOWEff.A CITY LOT. AND vMV 1 SAH)lrWS30tf3TOeijySQMeSJEPl Washington Report By William TWINS' SURVIVOR Washington ior years much of the power struggle within the Republican party has concerned the vaulting ambitions of two compara tively young, very able and not widely loved politi cians. Both have wanted to be wmam s. white President perhaps too much and too soon. Harold E. Stassen and Thomas E. Dewey have been to the orthodox elders of the party a terribly unwelcome set of terrible twins. They have not been Dead End Kids Rather they have been some what precious Uptown Kids, hurling at the silk hats of the Old Guardists not mere snow balls but demands for more "modern" Republicanism. One of this durable pair, Stassen, can hardly be called durable anymore. His recent burial ; under a landslide in his attempt for the Governor's nomination in Pennsylvania seems to have finished him off once and for all as a Presiden tial possibility. , In a sense, therefore, it is one down and one to go for the Old Guard. . BUT Dewey, unlike Stassen, is going up, not down. His dreams have been as in sistent, and they have carried him farther. Dewey, after aU twice has had the nomination in 1944 and in 1948 to ward which Stassen has never even moved close. But Dewey has learned what Stassen never did how to wait. And in learning this he has attached himself firm ly to or has been grasped firmly by the present boss of the Republican party, Vice President Richard M. Nixon. And perhaps the most damag ing of all Stassen's errors was his attempt to challenge Nix on's renomination in 1956. Thus Dewey is now riding the wave of the future not a "new" Dewey, maybe, but certainly a new wave. What follows is a report on his recent, activities and degree of influence within the Eisenhower Administra tion and an estimate ; of his future based upon information from persons close both to President Eisenhower and to Vice-President Nixon. Dewey, as a man who more than any other brought about General Eisenhower's nomina Try and -wy BENNETT CERF- ARLENE FRANCIS did her TV show from the Beverly Hiltoa hotel poolside in California one morning. It was cold and foggy and the pool itself chilly. On the stroke of six the director signalled a young woman who had a heavy blanket wrapped around her, ,and ordered, "Get up on the div board and let's see you dive." She obediently did a dive but it was a belly-whopper. "That's terrible!" groaned the director. "Dive again and this one better be right!" Again she dove. Back on terra firma, Arlene whispered, "I'm sorry you had to dive in this weather. Your teeth are chattering. I hope they're paying you well for this." The young girl said, "Oh, I'm n-n-not in the s-s-show, Miss Francis. I'm a g-g-guest at the hotel. I j-j-just came d-d-down to watch you do TV!" There's & bookseller in Chicago, says Irv Kupcinet, who's a genuine 14-karat pessimist. He's always building dungeons in the air. q 1958, by Bennett CerL Distributed by Xing Feature Syndic ta. S. Whits tion, has an enormous arid largely untapped potential power within the Administra tion. It is perhaps rising rath er than diminishing. When ever he wants to come around the White House he will .be pushing a door that could not be open more widely. - TTE HAS little sought to use this power. He has hung back from offering advice. and recently .he has declined flattering invitations to speak publicly on behalf of the Eis enhower Administration. He has preferred to remain remote; when he drops into the office of the President-, the Vic-President or of presiden tial assistant Sherman Adams, it is usually "not by his re quest. He has become perhaps the youngest "elder states man" in history. His air of remoteness is ex plainable primarily by his basic feeling that he should stay out of the limelight for a while to let orthodox Republi can hostility toward, himself cool a little. And sometimes he has not identified himself with the Administration sim ply because he did not agree with what the President was doing or the way he was doing it. As to Nixon, this is the sit uation concerning Dewey: The Vice-President is his own boss and probably as toughly self- sufficient a politician as is Dewey himself. Nevertheless, he keeps in line with Dewey at every important step on high party policy looking to ward 1960. IF DEWEY should strongly objet to any course Nixon was proposing to take, there is reason to believe that his objections would, be heard with great respect. They might sometimes actually pre vail. In helping : to build up Nixon, Dewey may seem to be limiting his own future. For if Nixon should "be elected President in 1960 and reelect ed in 1964, Dewey's own White House hopes would be postponed eight more years. Nevertheless Dewey knows how to take the long view and this view has its compen sations. He prefers to stay out of active politics now. in mak ing a great deal of money for his family in his law practice. Too, a Nixon Presidency prob ably would at least mean for Dewey post of Secretary of State. And alternately, . a Nixon defeat in I960 would leave Dewey in the position of having been a good soldier so Stop Me Communications letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstance the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion it permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. NunUy Appreciative To The Editor: I would ap preciate it if you would pub lish this as an open letter to the people . of Jackson and Josephine counties. I would like to thank all of my friends who worked so diligently in the support of my campaign, and to the almost 12,000 people in southern Ore gon who expressed their agreement with the points of view which I expressed in my campaign by voting for me at the primary election. I am only sorry that I was not a strong enough candidate to ac complish the purposes and to give effect to the points of view shared by those of you who voted for me. Walter D. Nunley, Route 1, Box 427A ' Medford Matter of Fact v By ROWLAND EVANS JR. While Joseph Alsop re port from France, Row land Erant Jr. covers the Washington base. THE PRESIDENT AND THE PARTY Washington President Ei senhower is angry and resent ful at speculation that he may abdicate to Vice President Nixon before the 1960 elec tion and he is going to unusu al lengths to stamp it out. On one recent occasion, the President amazed some of his Republican associates by his bitter reproach of politicians whom he apparently suspects of encouraging the resigna tion gossip.. He was indignant, in the testimony of those who heard him, and gave every appearance of introducing the subject with deliberate intent. He named ho names. The. President asserted in the strongest terms that under no conditions would he re sign, unless compelled by an absolute requirement of health. . ? r7 IS no surprise that Mr. Eisenhower would resent suggestions that he .is plan ning to turn over the White House to the Vice President, even if they came only from a hotly partisan Democrat like Paul Butler, the Demo cratic national chairman, who has been regularly hinting at a dark plot of resignation. The President has On occasion publicly repudiated the idea. But one may presume that something more than Mr. But ler is involved when the Pres ident takes pains to denounce the rumor mongers . in inti mate conversation with hia Republican associates, as he is now doing. In the opinion. of some influential Republi cans, what has happened is that the President is just now becoming fully aware of the? extent of tne resignation talk: among members of his own party. What is now disturb--ing him, in short, appears to be not the , well-publicized Butler forecasts but the quiet, speculative conversations that never get printed and that arc based on a political situation wholly unique in American history. .: It goes without saying, of course, that to many Republi cans it is nonsense and worse to discuss the possibility of the President . resigning for any reason other than physi cal necessity. The President's retirement, they hold, would be, an affront to- millions of Americans who voted for him. . TD OTHERS, however, the the Republican prospect for keeping the White House away from the Democrats in I960- would be brighter if Nixon were installed before the election and made the race as a powerful, incumbent President. These Republicams, entitled to another chance on his own. The odds are that one way or another Dewey will be back and back high up. Downward, Harold Stas9en; upward Thomas E. Dewey, the truly indestructible one of the terrible twins. (Copyright; 1S38, By United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) SAUSAGE CHAMPION London (UPI) The Whitley Bay carnival in Northumberland county is priming to watch an unchal lenged champion outdo him self. : "Little Joe" Steele, champ sausage eater who has consumed i feet of the spicy meat at a sitting, will try to down 10 feet at the forthcom ing fair. . Technical Talks May Lead to Negotiations for Summit Meet By CHARLES M. McCANN Negotiations -with Soviet Russia which may lead to a summit conference on cold war problems apparently are going to start soon. President Ei s e n h o w e r's new letter to Soviet Pre mier Nikita S. K h r u shchev offers hope that technical Charles M. McC.-um negotiations on the possibility of an agreement to suspend tests of nuclear weapons may be opened within a matter of weeks. , These negotiations would be strirctly limited to the one question of the weapons tests; which lives in the field of dis armament. But they should show whether the Soviet govern ment ready to act in good faith ifci summit negotiations also. Further, they presumably will be accompanied by direct negotiations on the summit conference, to be conducted in Moscow between the Unit- Joseph Alsop who include practical politi cians; in both the conservative and "modern" wings of the party-, tick off the following points to make their case. Tl&e first point, of course, is the 22nd amendment, limit ing a President to two full terras. From the moment he was elected in 1956, this con stitutional barricade removed all mystery about President Eisenhower's intentions in 19fJ0. He could not be a can didate under any circum stance. Such an early, forced decision tended at once to corrode the President's power over his own party and to start an immediate search for trie successor. The third-term ban by it- sitlf, however, would be quite meaningless in the talk about resignation were it not for a far more important second point. This is that Nixon hap pens to be not only the Vice President, and hence first in line of succession, but also Wie apparent choice of the major factions of his party for Ihe 1960 nomination. The lhird-term ban, in other words,, is significant only in relation to Nixon's unique po sition. If he were an old Vice President, for example, or if he were entirely unacceptable to a powerful faction in the party, there would be little talk about the President's res ignation. Nixon, however, is not only acceptable, he has a commanding lead over all potential rivals, a lead that Harold Stassen's defeat in the Pennsylvania primary has made more secure, ONE other point completes the case of Republicans who would like to see Nixon campaign for the Presidency from the White House and not from the Vice President's small office in the Senate. The President's three major illnesses, they hold, have im posed limits on his activities and prevented him from har nessing, the full energies and resources of the Republican party in a period of crisis abroad and economic disorder at home. Unless Mr. Eisen hower deals more realistically with the problems that are pressing in on his administra tion, these Republicans con clude, the Democrats will be unbeatable in 1960. This in essence is the case being made by some members of the Republican party who are concerned about the party's future. Fed by politi cal realities,, this kind of talk is surely going to cohtinue but, judging from Mr. .Eisen hower's indignant reaction, it may do more than stiffen the President's resolve to com plete his second term. (c) 1958. New York Herald Tribune Inc. ssSsBlsSs I L Medford to North Bend-Goos Bay S7.S0 plus tax 3 Flights a Day For Reservations and Information call SP 2-7269 ed States and British ambas sadors to Russia on one hand and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko on the other. Latest Step Eisenhower's letter to Khru shchev is the latest step in a series of exchanges which started last December when former Soviet Premier Niko lai A. Bulganin began clamor ing for a summit conference. These exchanges have con cerned both the summit con ference itself and the related question of reopening the deadlocked disarmament talks. Eisenhower suggested to Khrushchev, Bulganin's suc cessor, on April 28 that "des ignated technical people" study the possibility of estab lishing safeguards which would prevent violation of an agreement to suspend the weapons tests. The President also remind ed Khrushchev that he pre viously had suggested broader negotiations on limiting the danger of a nuclear war. Khrushchev replied on May 10. He said he had "serious doubts' about the desirability of expert negotiations on sus pension of weapons tests be cause they would merely de lay an actual ban on the tests. But he said that, as Eisen hower attached great impor Pretzel-Bender New Political Factor In Pennsylvania GOP By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (UPI) Bert Williams, the old black face comedian, had a song back there at the turn of the centjur y of which the re frainwent like this: "It's a won derful oppor tunity for somebody." Bert's amus- Lyle C. Wilson ing Oltty COUld become the theme song of Pennsylvania Republicans in this election year in recogni tion of the opportunity which is thumping on the door of Arthur Toy McGonigle. McGonigle is the political freshman who last week licked Harold E. Stassen in the primary contest for Penn sylvania's Republican nomin ation for governor. McGonigle is not in yet far from it. In the November election he must meet David L. Law rence, the Democratic nom inee who is serving his fourth term as mayor of Pittsburgh. Lawrence probably will lick him because Pennsylvania's Republican moorings no lon ger are sure and firm. The chance remains, however, that McGonigle may be elected governor in November. If so, this unknown Pennsylvania pretzel bender will become a national figure overnight. McGonigle is a pretzel manufacturer. He made po litical capital of his lowly product in the. primary cam paign; made a pretzel the em blem and symbol of himself and his ambition. This was done in response to warn ings from political pros that McGonigle's pretzel back ground would be derided and laughed at by the voters, man of the people who struck it rich in a pretzel factory. So McGonigle already has achieved the human touch as a politician, and if he wins in November he will become a new face, a new and attract ive personality in the Repub lican high command. At age 51, McGonigle has another 10 or a dozen years of po tential political career before him. As governor of Pennsyl vania if he makes it he could and probably would rove an eye toward the White tance to the expert negotia tions, he was prepared to agree to them. Experts Appointed The Soviet government is agreed to have either side ap point experts who should im mediately start work on study ing the means of detecting possible violations of an agreement to end nuclear tests, with the proviso that work should be completed in the "shortest term agreed upon beforehand," Krushchev said. It was noted that Khru shchevs' acceptance was lim ited to expert negotiations on a test ban alone. But the White House said at once that it might serve as the basis for progress toward agreement on disarmament. It is to this limited accep tance that Eisenhower has replied. The President now sug gests that negotiations be started , within three weeks after Khrushchev's confirma tion that he is ready for them. The experts, meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, would make a progress report with in 30 days of the start of their meeting, and then make a final report within 60 days. This certainly seems to meet Khrushchev's desire to com plete work within the short est time. House. There was laughter, but it was friendly. There was no derision; only cheers for this If that seems to be a stata ment far-fetched into the un predictable future, be it rt membered that back there i the" 1930s it was possible t predict something similar. K was that a very young mi, freshly elected to his firs public office as district fit torney of a single county in New York City was a bright new face in the Republican party. That new face be longed to Thomas E. Dewey. McGonigle is a self-made man with a striking name which never would be at ease in the Social Register. He's a pretzel bender, to boot. Put the title "governor" in front of the man with that name and background and, friends, you've got a political package There' should be a footnot to the political obituaries which were written of Harold E. Stassen last week after h was rejected by Pennsyl vania's Republicans. It is this: Stassen could arise and walk again. The word is that the Republican party in Penn sylvania is in bad shape. Sup pose Democratic candidate Lawrence defeats Republican candidate McGonigle next No vember. What then? . - Well, four years from now there will be -another Repub lican primary contest for gov ernor. If the Republicans have not found a winner by 1962 they well might give Stassen another turn at bat. Register NOW for JUNE 2nd and July 7th CLASSES KEYPUNCH Act Today Don't Delay SP 3-4264 ROBERTSON School of Business 40-42 North Riverside Medford, Ore.