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4 Thursday, Juh 12, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtsSKrTRIBUNE "Everyone in Southern vrregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph. SP 5-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manage! GERALD LATHAM, Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAf. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Societ$ Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3, 1891 . SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail la Advance: Copy lOe. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $420 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. U0 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU jy 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 assocITatiQn U Q 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 June 12, 1948 (Sunday) Jackson county sheriff's posse ends its seventh annual Rogue River Roundup this af ternoon. Organization of a Rogue Valley Hoo-Hoo club com pleted recently with Robert Voegtly, Medford, named as president. 20 YEARS AGO June 12. 1938 (Sunday) A dismal future for the Rogue River valley fruit in dustry was pairtjed by of chardists at yesterday's hear ing on a plea for a reduction of a minimum wage. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Cher ries and strawberries are rip ening fast and the kids and the bluejays are making daily forays." 30 YEARS AGO June 12, 1928 (Tuesday) After looking over his pear orchar here, L. A. Banks said prospects are bright for a bumper crop. The new reinforced steel and concrete Pacific highway bridge spanning Foots creek sixmiles from Gold Hill is completed. 40 YEARS AGO June 12, 1918 (Wednesday) Medford and Ashland mer chants will hold a joint picnic in the pa&t at Ashland in July. From local and personal eolumn: "The children who Join in the play group in the city park Friday are asked to weagj sandals." What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Who wrote the book "Ten Years in Japan"? 2. Two presidents of the U. S. have been chosen by the House of Representatives because no candidate had a majority in the electoral col lege; naihe them. 3. Where is the port of Cheribon? 4. Which is greater, the polar or equatorial circum ference? 5. What rank in the Navy corresponds to Major in the Army? 6. Which Italian city has been called "The Bride of the Sea"? 7. Bees will not sting a per son while he holds his breath; trueor false? 8. Does the law require the Secretary of Defense shall be a civilian? 9. In Dickens' novel "David Copperfield," what was the name of David's child wife? 10. The chemical composi tion of the blood of all races of people is the same, true or false? Answers 1. Joseph C. Grew. 2. Jefferson and John Quincy Adams. 3. Island of Java. 4. Equatorial. 5. Lieu tenant Commander. 6. Venice. 7. False. -8. No. 9. Dora Spen low. 10. True. esses) Editorial Correspondence .. . New Canaan. Conn. We 9:15 a.m. train at Lake Clear. It was a beautiful trip of course through the lakes and woods, and no traffic, so our host stepped on it to be sure morning and night would have been saved for when we also ticket agent, dispatcher, red-cap, said the train would casual inquiry as to the cause crew conductor, engineer and baggage mail-clerk had been delayed at Lake Placid and had not yet- come down from breakfast. We trust they did not suffer from indigestion for they must have hurried, train was only 25 minutes late. The conductor assured us up and the three-car train, drawn by a big Diesel, would surely make our connection with the-"Chicagoan" at Utica for New York. He was only worried about catching the "Empire State Limited" going to Buffalo with only a five minute leeway and the Empire wouldn't wait. However both connections were made although the passengers going west had to make a run of it across the tracks. It was very humid in Utica and not reassuring to learn by radio that heavy thunderstorms were predicted that evening, with a likelihood of a tornado in New York. This is the mornics after papers no tornado developed was a severe one in Wisconsin. In fact this is "a beautiful morning" fresh from Oklahoma. . But there is no suggestion of Oklahoma in this New England village where the average residence at least on our street is an "estate" with huge pre-bellum "mansions," acres of green lawn, requiring the attention of two or three gardeners, attractive gardens,, ing elms in front and often converted into a two or three We are in what is often there are many nearby with tween. It is called Hampton and the "guests" are practically all of an age we trust this description will be sufficient as to the actuary tables involved. " The atmosphere of Hampton House is informal and friendly. This is contrary to pression particularly in the west that American hospitality is a question of longitude. Tiiat is the hearty hand shake and cheery smile really starts somewhere in the vicinity of Denver and steadily increases until the Pacific Coast is reached. Our view is based solely therefore may be wrong, but outside of the city of New York, we would maintain the attitude toward the out lander on a visit here in the east, is extremely friendly. There is no back-slapping or gushing, but the people ore meets in the stores, the service stations or at a "Guest House" like this, could not be friendlier or more accom modating. We never saw them before they never saw us, they know nothing about who we are or aren't except perhaps that we are riding around in a rented "Chevy." But they are universally courteous, go out of their way to be helpful particularly when we lose our way on these twisting rural roads and simply without exception, in our experience at least, are kindly, - Interested, friendly people. i It is the same "here at Hampton House where most of the . guests reside east of the Hudson there is one couple from Honolulu. ' But Ihere is a very friendly, homey atmosphere prevail ing there is no "put her there, pal," of course, but while great dignity and a certain reserve prevailed (as would befit the average , age quotient) everyone including the "hostess" were just plain nioe, and at the post-prandial TV performance, conversation became general. The only point we wish to make is that the claim that friendliness, kindliness and genuine hosnitalitv i a mo nopoly of "Where the West begins" is a lot of nonsense. Out side oi tne very large cities where the stranger is anonymous and alone, while attitudes and manners differ in different individuals and localities, of course, hospitality in its TRUE sense in the U.S. A. is INDIVISIBLE, it isn't sectional, it extends from coast to coast, from Canada to the Rio Grande. - The importance of TV and radio's educational value was demonstrated here last night when the guests were given the speech by Premier Macmillan in full as "he received the doctor of laws degree at Depauw University in Indiana. The British Premier is not a magnetic personality, nor an eloquent speaker which on such an occasion is unfortun ate but we heartily approved of everything he said and it needed to be said. We might as well face it, we must support the UN to the hilt, for it is in a sense our only hope, but it must not only be made all inclusive but be given a power that can control unbridled nationalism and aggression, not be ruled by either. In other words the UN must be backed by world opinion and in a crisis by force. The answer to the popular refrain, it can't be done, is somehow, someway, to DO it! As Premier Macmillan put it, quote: "The free world can't defend itself or win allies to itself only by rockets and bombers and all the rest. They are necessary but they are not enough. In the long run the free world will defend itself and win adherents to itself because our way of life gives a better way of living, a fuller life for the individual, greater security ana greater hope. . He might have added, greater liberty, and a better opportunity to not only "pursue happiness" but attain it? R.W.R. Try and -By BENNETT CERF- ASKED TO SINGLE OUT two of the kids who created the biggest unscheduled laughs on his People Are Funny" TV shows recently. Art Linkletter nominated: 1. The innocent (?) who babbled, "My father worked at a vegetable market when he was young and single, and my mother-to-be used to come in and pinch the vegetables. Every time she pinched a vegetable, my father pinched her, until she couldn't stand it any longer, so they got married." 2. The little girl who com plained of a sore mouth. "I ran into a hot marshmal-, low," she explained, adding, when she was pressed for details, "You see, I was eat ing one part and didn't notice the other part was on fire.' Texas mother to her two young toddlers: "I want you to be spe cially careful going to school this morning, children; J'm afraid we had another oil strike last night and it's very, very slippery out" O 1968. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kin features Syndicate, got up early to catch the ihe one of two trains a day not be missed. The gas could arrived the station master baggage room attendant and be half an hour late. To our we were miormed tne train instead of 30 minutes the the lost time would be made the vicinity of Binghamton, and judging by the morning in New York state but there and shrubs, under the tower-; a huge stable in the back, car garage. called a "guest house" and a few private estates in be House, as large as small hotel, . a long-held but erroneous im upon personal experience and Stop Me Dennis the Menace DlO VOU WASH AW CESSER PLATg VET ? I COULD SUKfc Lfoc VJOTHfcK ntCfe Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann DELUSION OF GRANDEUR Washington Last week in dealing with the foreign aid bill, the Senate touched brief ly on the fringes, of a great question tion which is becoming in creasingly im portant and in sistent. The question is whether the general direc- Walter Lippmann tion of OUT policy should be to expand or to restrict economic relations with the Communist coun tries. The question was raised on a rather narrow technical is sue, that of the Kennedy amendment which would have eliminated the rigid pro hibitions of the existing law. But Sen. Knowland, who just managed to defeat the amend ment, based his fight on the broadest possible ground. As he argued his case, it would be fair to say that he regards any economic intercourse with any Communist country as an unfortunate lapse from the ideal policy, which would be by embargo, boycott, and if it were feasible, blockade, to have no economic inter course. His -thesis is that economic intercourse brings in goods which strengthen the Commu nist states, and that non-intercourse, as nearly perfect as possible, will weaken the Communist states, will reduce their military power, and will cause discontent among Jfheir people. Mr. Knowland's doc trine is that in the cold war we should, as respects econ omic matters, act as we would towards an enemy in a shooting war. Anything short of that is a compromise with evil and a threat to our se curity. ALTHOUGH Mr. Knowland brought about the defeat of the Kennedy amendment by a margin of only one vote, it is fair to say that his fun damental theory; has for long and until recently been that of the preponderant majority of the Congress. We can say that the cold war, which has been latent since the Russian Revolution, broke out openly in July, 1957. The cold war began when Molotov, taking the Czechs and Poles with him, withdrew from the Paris con ference which was dealing with what was to become the Marshall Plan. A few months later, in March, 1948, the Ad ministration initiated a pro gram for export controls de signed to prevent the sale to the Soviet orbit of commodi ties which would strengthen its war-making capacity. In 1950, as a result of the Ko rean war, the united states, established an embargo on trade with Communist China. In 1952 our allies joined us in a system of controls which were stiffen than those ap plied to' the Soviet Union. - The whole system falls short of complete economic non-intercourse. There is some trade which is licensed, and among the great powers only this country has a com plete embargo on trade with China. Where the" existing system falls short of Sen. Knowland's ideal it is be cause our allies and our cli ents have been able to refuse to participate in complete non-intercourse. THE theory has had a reas onably reliable practical test for a period of 10 years. There has been a little but there has not been much trade with Communist coun tries. If Mr. Knowland's con ception of the whole thing is correct, his policy ought by this time to show that it has Ur Kiel really caused serious trouble in the economic affairs of the Soviet Union. The fact of the matter is that the growth of the Soviet economy has been amazing. It may have been slowed up in some measure by the re strictions, but, in spite of the restrictions, according to a re cent staff memorandum to the Committee on Foreign Af fairs, "the Soviet rate of in dustrial growth for total pro duction is considerably larg-. ter than that of the United States . . . although our total production is presently going faster in absolute terms, the Soviet rate of -growth is greater." In spite of the restrictions, the Soviet Union has become a very great military power, and in the field of trade and economic aid to the under developed countries, the So viet Union is a formidable challenger. THE basic theory that Com munist development can be slowed up or strangled by our controls and boycotts is not working. What is wrong with the theory? In the last analy sis the theory is left over from the past history of mili tary warfare, from the days when Britain ha& undisputed command of the seas and could enforce an effective blockade on - an enemy. The doctrine of blockade worked effectively against the Ger mans in the first World War. But in the second, as against the empire conquered by Hit ler, it did not work. It did work against the Japanese is lands when our submarines and air force succeeded in blockading them. But as against a continental mass, which includes the So viet Union and China, and ex tends from the heart of Eu rope to the Pacific, the notion of blockade, or of some near equivalent, is a delusion. It is a form of the delusion of grandeur to think that such a great central land mass, with big resources and an enormous population and a powerful government, can be brought down by restraints on oui; trade and on the trade of our allies. Mr. Knowland's theory has not worked out in practice because it is mere wishful thinking which ignores the facts of life. THE problems raised by the economic challenge of the Soviet Union and its allies are novel and among the most difficult in their com plexity that we have ever had to deal with. Henceforth the Communist economic compe tition is, bound to become a crucial concern of the non Communist 'world. There is no easy and ready-made an swer to.it.. . , But this at least is certain, we shall only befuddle our selves as long as we do not clear our minds of the anti quated notion that our rela tions with the Communist world are somehow analo gous, in terms of economic warfare, to the relations in the eariler days between su preme sea power and small countries that could be blockaded, (c) 1958. New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Myrtle Point TV Translator Sought Washington (UPI) Broad bent Television Translator, Inc., asked the Federal Com munications commission Wed nesday to permit telecasts in Myrtle Point, Ore., of pro grams carried b y station KPIC-TV, Roseburg. The FFC was asked for a construction permit for a translator station at Myrtle Point to convert the programs of the Roseburg station to Channel 78 at Myr tle Point. De Gaulle's Start as Of France By CHARLES M. McCANN UPI Foreign News Analyst Gen. Charles de Gaulle has made an encouraging start as the "authoritatarian" premier of France. He has shown both modera t i o n and fi nesse in the first stage of his task of bringing France back JT 1 trnm rrtlitinl 1 fhan in eta- McCann blllty. He has shown both modera Matter oi Fact bv wPh aip IN DAVID'S DISTRICT Tizi Ouzou, Algeria Da vid's District is one of the many grandiose mountain ' f : a masses of this country oi tne Kabyles the "free people" as the pre Arab inhabit ants of Alger ia prefer to call them selves. The moun- i : 4. i - Joseph Alsop "" w- l"c Djebel Aissa Mimoun, dun colored at this season, surge steeply upward from the val ley floor. Olive groves, fig orchards, and little patches of barley and millet cling to the mountain's flanks. And on the upmost crests, built so that each village almost defiantly occupies its own lonely crag or peak, are the tiny, white washed, earth-built houses of the District's 10,000 to 12,000 people. This is a region of many grim but interesting . prob lems. For example, since the French subdued the Kabyles, the population has increased at such a fearful rate that the Kabyle land now only feeds its people for three months each year. The little villages on the mountain tops chiefly live, nowadays, by exporting labor, to metropolitan France. v TUT from David's point of view, the most immediate problem presented by the Djebel Aissa Mimoun was its ideal character as. guerilla country. He came here just about two years ago, from an assignment in Hongkong as liaison officer of the French intelligence. One of the few who were really informed about Communist China, Da vid made a lot of newspaper friends in Hong Kong. This was why he was suddenly burdened with a week end guest, here in this remote Kabyle country.. As the jeep carried us up a kind of enlarged goat track into the mountains, David vividly described the condi tion of his district back in 1956. As it was a natural for? tress, the Djebel had. been oc cupied by big bands of fel- laghas from the beginning of the Algerian rising. At first, a whole French battalion had been needed to fight them. "The worst part of the job was over," David said, "when the battalion left and I moved in with a company of troops. But the rebels still had a field force of 20 men on the Djebel. The villagers paid tribute to them, ' and fed them, and clothed them, and kept them constantly informed about our movements. They were the real rulers. To us .the villagers were a closed, ab solutely closed people. The people did not speak to us, they would do no work for us. We could not even go among them, except in armed groups."' pWEN as the jeep wound upwards on the mountain track, it became clear that those days were over. The men working in the poor fields often waved as we passed, and the innumerable and enchanting children al ways stopped their roadside play to wave and smile. At the Company Head quarters, old Assli, a veteran of the French Army and now the Mayor of the surrounding village, had drawn up his self-defense force of 15 men, in order to show their newly issued hunting rifles to David. In the two big lower rooms of the Company Headquarters building, school was going on. The school teachers were soldiers in uniform, whose rifles hung by the blackboard. But the hundred or so little boys and girls in the two classrooms, who had never had any other sort of school teacher, seemed to be learn ing their ABC's with cheerful enthusiasm all the same. A long day's climbing around and over the Djebel Aissa Mimoun gave much Mosquitoes and Flies Don't be chewed to bits by these blood thirsty pests. Just burn a little BUHACH wherever you want peace and comfort. r'Jc:, BU II AC II Safe Easy To Ui Iconomieal Said 'Encouraging' tion and firmness in the first stage of his task of bringing France back from political chaos to stability. The French people, as a whole, have accepted him with evident relief. - Governments of the coun tries allied with France in the North Atlantic Treaty Organi zation, while they had ome doubts at first, are increasing ly confident that he will not weaken the Western side in the cold war. Want Dictator The only elements which seem to be unhappy over de- more evidence of the samel sort. In all the villages, French soldiers were running schools and French medics had opened infirmaries. In all villages, small self-defense forces had been formed. There were practical improvements too. One village had a new fountain which gave good water, even in the most parched weeks of summer. Another had just built itself one of the goat-track roads a real miracle, this goat track and had immediately in vested in a communal truck. NO DOUBT, the old officer who has now succeeded David as Company Command er and District Officer did his very best to put the District's best foot forward. Sometimes, indeed, his eagerness carried him rather ludicrously far But there was no doubt either that the fellagha's absolute grip on the Djebel Aissa Mi moun had now been broken. They ruled the Djebel no longer. With voluble enthusiasm, David described how the job had been done. Oddly enough the fellaghas owe their defeat on Djebel Aissa Mimoun to the theory of Mao Tse-Tung's that an army must live among the people "like a fish in wat er." The whole process start ed when David moved his Company from an isolated, fortified farmhouse into the very midst of one of the hos tile villages. From there, the process went by steps. The next was strengthening their confidence that the company would protect them from the fellagha's vengeance. A GREAT turning point was an old man's night-time visit to give the names of the fellagha cell-members" who held his village in a ruthless grip. Another turning point was the destruction, in a ser ies of sharp clashes, of the Djebel Aissa Mimoun local rebel field force. In this man ner, gradually and village by village, the whole Djebel was in fact reconquered. "It can be done every where," said David, who was given his promotion to Ma jor for doing It here. One could not help wondering whether" doing it everywhere in troubled Algeria might not strain the supply of men of David's character as well as the French Army's supplyj of ordinary manpower. But David's district was a strik ing exhibit all the same. (C) 1958 New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Dredge To Replace Sunken Army Boat Portland (UPI) The Army Engineers' dredge Harding, from the New York . district, was to arrive here at noon today to replace the dredge Rossell which was sunk last year at Coos Bay. The Harding will begin temporary dredging assign ments in the Willamette next Tuesday. - - - Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Premier velopments since De Gaulle took office on June 1 are the right-wing extremists, who want him to be a swashbuck ling dictator, and the Commu nists. De Gaulle's first act in of fice was to appoint a cabinet, including three former pre miers, in which the moderate right, middle-of-the-road and moderate left parties are rep resented. . The right-wing extremists who, by means of a military revolt against the government of Premier Pflimlin, brought De Gaulle into office, were excluded completely. The Communists, who threatened riots and revolu tionary strikes if De Gaulle became premier, have been strangely inactive. Soviet Russia, too, sat on th,e fence for a while. But now, apparently, the Soviet government has made up its mind that from the Commu nist viewpoint De Gaulle is up to no good. " Have Challenged General The right-wing extremists who staged the revolt in Al geria and Corsica that led to De Gaulle's emergence as pre mier have openly challenged his authority. - The so-called "All-Algeria Committee of Public Safety" sent De Gaulle on Tuesday a demand that French political parties "disappear" suspend activities until a national referendum is held on the premier's proposed constitu tional reform plan. The committee called also for a similar committee in France itself. This would mean that De Gaulle would subject himself to the direc tion of the extremists, v De Gaulle retorted with a message calling the extrem ist demands "unfortunate," "untimely" and "peremp tory." V The attitude of both the right-wing extremists and the Communists indicates that the French political crisis is far from over, But De Gaulle is not the man to let anybody tell him what to do, and he seems to have the support not only of the French people but of the overwhelming majority of French Army officers. BIG July 4th Medford High Stadium YMCA CAMP BENEFIT Advance Ticket Sale Now Underway Buy Your Tickets Early ' At The YMCA or From Any Y Member ADULTS $1.00 CHILDREN $ .50 i This Ad Sponsored by GOLDY & IIEtlSELMAU INSURANCE Today. . . and Every Day DIAL-SP 3-7331 You'll Be Glad You Did!! o Letters to tm Vita Surt bear the same ami sslasesa of the writer altaou easier cer tain circumstance? tto wB of a pen name or initial fct- publica tion is permiatibje. Vh Mail Tribune reserves ts right to edit all letters SMta aa to clarification antf condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion antut not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this :olumn do sot necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. TV Set for Sale? To the Editor: I thought to answer Calvin Hamner's gpm munication of May 25 at the time I read it because it was my understanding that this cable TV would not interfere with KBES-TV in the valley as we know it today. But I understand now why KBES-TV did not answer this accusation. I heard today that KBES-TV will nt be able to continue as, in the past due to lack of advertisers sponsors necessary for continued op eration, if cable TV is al lowed! And yet this KBES-TV has been battling to keep pay TV from getting a foothold for this same reason that it would end free TV, or locally KBES-TV as we know it to day. I wrote my senator urging against pay TV. sVnd now KBES-TV (for whom I wrote) plans to take TV away from me, regardless. If that isn't a pretty picture! Either way, we lose; pay TV or cable TV, take your choice. But I do know this no matter how good the programming under cable TV, there will always be those who will not be sat isfied because you can't please all the people all the time. But KBES-TV can, and evi dently will, take0 TV away from a good maiy who have enjoyed watclftng, and who have been rightly proutj of their KBES-TV until now. Thanks, it was nice while it lasted! When our free TV goes off the air, Til have on used RCA table model 21-inch TV for sale reasonable. S. V. Dodge, 504 Austin St., Medford. Trans - Australia Airlines carried a record of 912,000 persons on scheduled flights in 1957.
