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Rogue Riv er TaleRL nnH n mntnr rniitna Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 jiiy ana Sunday l mo. 1.50 terrier and Dealers copy 10c ui ierms Cash in Advance Official Paper of CICy of Medford Official Paper of 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. Y NE&fPAPEg . PUBLISHERS NATIONAL IDITOIIAI AsTocfATI0N Flight ' Time Medford Qnd Jfckson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 years ago. . 10 YEARS A.GO June 20. 1SC6 (ond9) Miss Medford ball will be sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce at the Rogue Vaiiey ballroom June 25. A summer contest begin ning tomorrow has been plan ned by the children s libra rian of the Medford public li brary. 20 YEARS AGO June 20, 1938 (Monday) The governor and not the county court is charged with the responsibility of appoint ing a justice of the peace for tS U KJ 't Tm-j Gold Hill, attorneys here said. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot 'column: "Ear wigs arebusy. A survey shows Oif you g5ve them an inch they will take a yard." O 30 YEARS AGO June 20, 1928 (Wednesday) The postcard rate will be changed front two cents to one cent Julg 1, according to William J. Waiter, Medford postmaster. Today is the first aneiver sary of confessions by the D'Autremont brothers, Siski you tugnel killers and train robbers, now serving life sen tences in the state prison. 40 YEARS AGO June 20. 1918 (Thursday) ." The Southern Pacific rail road board in inquiry into the gradecrossing accident of last Tuesday in which two tourists lost their lives was held this afternoon. From local and personal column: "Wednesday was an other unusually hot day for this season with a maximum temperature of 98 degrees re corded." What's Yn-r I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or ix is good. 1. The branch of zoology that treats of insects is called e y. 2. What were the names of the three musketeers in Alex ander Dumas' novel of that name?. 3. 'Which Presidential nom inee in American history used the phrase, "It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river"? 4. For what plant, the leaves of which are used for making a beverage, is Ceylon famous? 5. Which of these does not have wings: bees, flies,' fleas, mosquitoeg? 6. When are blackberries red? ; 7.. How many electoral votes does the Disrict of Co lumbia cast k Presidential elections? . . .8. Name the American newspaperman, killed in the Pacific theater during WW II, who wrote "Here Is Your War." ' 9. Was Thomas Jefferson President of the U.S. before or after John Qunicy Adams? 10. When it is summer in New York, what is the season in Buenos Aires, Argentina? . Answers: 1. Entomology. 2. Aramis. Porthos. and Aihos. 3. Abraham Lincoln. 4. Tea. 5 -Fleas. 6. Before ripening. 7 Nona. 8. Ernie Pyle. 9.Be ioxe. la- Winter. j Big Bend Project The Big Bend power Oregon Power company, few miles southwest of tion. , It is an impressive Henry A. (Hank) Hurlbut Jr. courteously showed us through the area the other day, from the dam spanning the river about a mile downstream from the Highway 66 bridge across the Klamath, down to the penstocks and powerhouse several miles downstream. The project will be or October of this year, watts to Copco s generating capability. THE Big Bend project will cost in excess pleted. Beside the dam, canal, tunnel, penstocks and powerhouse of the project proper, work being done also includes, a $l,s00,000 transmission line between Medford and Klamath Falls, a $1 million substation in Medford, and several hundred thou sand dollars worth of work iri Klamath Falls for distribution purposes. Big Bend is not a Coulee or Hoover variety. It is relatively low (only 72 feet), but it backs up a lot of water, and the main force is obtained by conveying the water along a gradual slope, while the river drops more rapidly. Then the water foot penstocks to the turbines and generators, ex erting tremendous energy which is transformed into electricity. THE project is in many ways similar to the TnVofoo rtAm rlnv rv of Diamond lake. Up there, Copco has built a whole series of dams, canals, penstocks and pow er houses, and uses and reuses the water by means of an ingenious and its steep drops. It is said, facetiously, that the water is "worn out" by the time it has gone throusrh the various parts of the project. Bier Bend makes use And in the future, additional projects in the area will add further to Codco's eeneratiner Capabili ty Ti; Ttrl T Q Coif roimo Worm .Qnrinrr3 uco. cuu iiu. iron uate ana Aspen programmed, and work on some of them is scheduled to get under way within a year. wl. n&..- iJLj ,-4. .jj vvnen ui aie cumpieieu, it win auu "1U1C than 317.000 kilowatts to the power available in southern Oregon and northern California. OIG Bend dam is an Core Wall, and IS 652 feet long. Concrete IS movement toward indepen noorl -P. tV.Q ;foVQ cm'llmow noi-f o fVio Am dent communism, free of UTU1;1C "VP- u. aim xui urn rauier inuicaxe uevices uaeu tu xzculv fish up to the spawning small fish downstream. A huge steel pipe, 14 the water from the intake, approximately 2,500 second-feet, or most of only enough flow m the enough water for the fish The dam runs almost north and south just above a sharp bend in the takes it across the river Then, after 600 feet, the canal, one of the more tures at the project. THE canal, or flume, is entirely built of con-fV, -LCj vv alii v bitic vv along. Only in a couple of used as a wall. The concrete walls tower far above trietnn nf o fsr anH at . -"I' " ' " the bottom of the flume construction vehicles, The flume is 11,000 iron pipe at one end, and feet long through the crest of a hill at the other end. At the mouth of the bay," or an area wider and deeper than the flume, where water is gathered supply sufficient to keep is a spillway here, for excess water. TU ,,Y1 ifol-F -.Trill me tunnci itocix win ci eie, a jou now Hearing 7ROM the time the water enters the tunnel, all oo verilCie xeei lU Hie pressure. The penstocks bis iron , pipe which serves as the lower end 0f the t.nnnpl nnrl shnnr if housed in the base of the solid concreted power house. Then it is shot out into a settling basin, -before it flows back into the river. Morrison-Knudsen and Co. is doino; the work t.n m j xui ujpcu. j.i emenuuus volumes OI Cement, gravel ana sana are oemg usea, are produced right on the spot, bv a svstem of nm-toM n,. t uau'.c wuoucl?i wrtsutufc ana suiters, ine ce- ment all comes from the Ideal Cement Co. ' Vast volumes of iron i -i .-i . . . ubcu, rtnu uie project nas ior.hundreds oi men THE diversity of skills A rivrlranliV orinvaQ,.;r, unrelated problems to be wandenner deer out. nf tho fli im o i-f tlnoir -Foil in I to impacting clay to provide a water-impervious ?t0 1'aism? money to pay for the big job), and the sheer size of the undertaking, arp pnmiPh to stimulate the imagination and one's admira- tion for the men who have undertaken the com- plex, expensive project We have gained a bit more respect for what a Switch on the wall. E.A. . project of the California on the Klamath river a Keno, is nearing comple job. Resident Engineer completed in September and will add 80,000 kilo and its associated jobs of $15 million when com "high" dam, of the Grand drops sharply down 819- . i f Vi r T Ttvi rn o vitrei n li utilization of the terrain of the same principle. v, 6, LaKe projects nave Deen earth fill dam with clay "'r."4" jT5" u' grounds above, and the feet in diameter, takes the entire river, leaving river bed to provide life river, and the big pipe below on a metal trestle. water will go into the interesting of the struc auo aiiiiuoi an vii vv cjr spots is the natural rock iliis stace nf pnnsrriiH-inn. fc " IT . ' acts as a "highway" for feet long, with9 the big a 16-foot tunnel 1,615 tunnel there is a fore to insure a constant the tunnel filled. There u -f,-,ii-,t i;,J ,ttU1, uc J-i-i-i-iy imcu wiiu v;uii- .. cuinpieuon. power nouse, ll IS Under take the water from the Hrmm rr tnvKlnoo , " , , and the sand and gravel mi.. Gold Hill plant of the and steel also are beino- . . . o proviaea employment (from boiler-making to : i I solved (from how to get Dennis the Menace 1 1 ' " OUR -BATHROOM VVASTWfi Reaction Tops Foreign News By CHARLES M. McCANN UPI Foreign Newt Analyst The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: Soviet-bloc Communist rul ers reverted to the murderous brutality of the .Stalin era this week. Former Premier Imre Nagy and Gen. Pal Maleter were executed undoubt e d l y by order of So v i e t Russia for leading the Hungarian Charles M, lcvuH wcw McCann ber, 1956. R was evi(Jent that toe exe. dutions were perpetrated, 20 months after the Red Army JfV a re- suit of a crisis in the Conimu- nist world. it was evident also. that the crisis was due to fear 'in Rus sia, the Red-ruled countries of Eastern Europe and Commu nist china of -Titoism" the" Kremlin domination, led by President Tito of Yueosl; lavia. Cong ressiona I Aides' Need Hotly Debated By Congressional Quarterly Washington (CQ) A hot debate is now going on in the sPeaker's lobby among mem- bers'of the House of Repre sentatives . on whether they should employ administrative assistants. There will soon be a show down on the issue in the House rules committee. An administrative assistant is a nign-soundms title tor a highly paid legislative clerk. JLacn Senator nas an AA, and 131 nf iho 43 H TTnuco members indicated in a recent poll that they want one too Senators have had AA's for 12 years. A senate AA has been characterized as a Sen ator's "alter ego." When the job was first created in 1946, it was anticipated that the Senate AA's would handle Washington problems for their senators' constituents the folks back home. But in prac- uce most senate aas run visitors, attend conferences and social functions as stand ins for their Senators. Most of them have some authority &s. The base Dav for a Senate aa is ss.soo, and the top is P14 - 800 For Research, Study Under a bill introduced by Rep. Samuel N. Friedel (D- Md.) and pending before the House rules committee, a House AA would get a base Dav of S7.500. a ton pay of pay oi $12,874. Friedel and most House members . interested wou use .an AA ,to. do. iu ic- search for tnem ana to st study heaisiation. Ren. Albert Mo rano (R-c"onn.) ' would have his AA work on "nutcracker" ue?ts !TOm Connecticut stu- aents to w write "practically tiair- oniro tprm DaDerS! Rep. Robert A. Everett (l Tenn.), a former AA himself, would use his to do personal conta contact work with govern- on behalf of his constituents ReD. Wright Patman (D- SleVds Z ?SffiZ one to run his office, the other to keep the House member urrf KJtl' Znt StSS "without really knowing what is in them" Patman recently man predicted it would "save CLOSEST to Hungarian Deaths The executions shocked the entire free world. They were denounced formally by Allied and neutral governments. They led to roitous anti-Rus sian demonstrations before So viet embassies in foreign capi tals. Comment by President Ei senhower and other Allied leaders made it plain that the executions had further weak ened any belief that a summit conference with Russia on cold war issues could be fruit ful. Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles said at a press con ference in Washington " that the United States might find it necessary to give military support, including troops, to the government of Lebanon. Lebanese government forces are fighting rebels who are receiving military support from the United Arab Repub lic. , ' Nasser has supported the rebels and most likely fo mented the entire rebellion in hope that he can overthrow President . Camille1 Chamoun and absorb Lebanon into his Egypt-Syria-Yemen bloc. ' British Prime Minister Har old Macmillan offered the is- billions of dollars for tax payers." Mail Increases virtually; an House mem bers could, use AA's to handle their tremendously - growing volume of mail.which Rep. Omar Burleson (D-Texas) at tributes largely to a growing interest in government stimu lated by TV and by an in creasing number of lobbies. "We hear from every group from the clay pot manufac turers to the men's stomach relief corps," Burleson told CQ. Reps. Paul Jones (D-Mo.) and John H. Ray (R-N.Y.) question the need of House members for AA's. They hold that any interested Repre sentative has ample means to background himself on legis lation now if he will only take the effort to contact the Legis lative Reference Service of the Library of Congress and committee staff experts. Jones said he thought many House members merely want AA's because Senators have them. He doubted the value of such "empire building." He told CQ the drive for. AA's for House members reminded him of the story of the little red wagon. "If one child has a red wagon, the other child wants one too," Jones said. (Copyright 1958, Congressional Quarterly Inc.) Try and By BENNETT CERF- TV CRITIC PHILIP MINOFF had a soul-satisfying dream the other night It was a commercial featuring an unctu ous, toothy announcer in the foreground, and a burly baseball pitcher winding up in the background. "You see," 0 burbled the announcer as he caressed a supposea-un-breakable pane of glass, "if it weren't for this invisible shield ..." Whereupon the pitcher let loose his fast one, shattered the shield into fragments, and (POW!) caught the announcer squarely in the kisser .... So many psychiatrists have bought houses at Province town, on Cape Cod, that one distinguished member of the clan threatens to put up a billboard on hii front lawn proclaiming "Last psychiatrist between here and WeUfleetl" At a luncheon of six college professors, only two could give the correct definition of "stultify," one of "transpire." Try them yourself !v 1958, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate. 1 Washington Report By William POLITICAL IMMATURITY Washington The Sher man Adams affair is unfold ing on two levels that are a world apart. I One. is drama- i tic, obvious and compara tively incon sequent i a 1. ine other is I largely un noticed and deeply sig- nif icant. wiiiam s. white as to ine sur face level, several points are now generally accepted among politicians of both parties: 1. Adams, the assistant to President Eisenhower, has be come a heavy liability to the Republicans in a Congres sional election year. 2. There is insistent Con gressional Republican pres sure for his dismissal by the of Week land of Cyprus limited self- government for a seven-year period in hope of ending the bitter and increasingly dan gerous dispute over its sove reignty Greece demands the island Turkey, which possessed it before Britain took it over, says that in no circumstances will it permit Greece to have it. Feeling is so intense that the possibility of , a Greek Turkish war is not ruled out Under the Macmillan plan, the Greek and Turkish Cy priots would each have rep resentative government in their communities. There also would be a central coun cil, presided over by the Brit ish governor, to direct overall internal affairs. Greece and Turkey would be invited to send delegates to cooperate with the governor. The plan leaves the way . open for change of status after the seven-year period. The Soviet government pub lished a letter which Premier Nikita S; Khrushchev sent to President Eisenhower on May 11 in a bid to obtain a sum mit conierence on its own terms Annoyed by what it consid ered an attempt to use the Khrushchev letter for propa ganda purposes, the United States retorted by publishing documents on the summit ne gotiations which the United States, British and French am bassadors had conducted in Moscow with Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, The result of the incident was to interrupt the Moscow negotiations. Illinois Target Of Wabash Floods Vincennes, Ind. (UPI) Major flood threats from the rampaging Wabash river shift ed temporarily from Indiana to neighboring Illinois today. Levee workers in the Vin cennes area, exhausted from three days' efforts in reinfocc- ing possible danger spots along the flood wall, were confident thev-river would not make a breakthrough here. Officials said, however, heavy rains in the 1 north could' alter the whole picture. . The river was expected to crest at 27 to 27V2 feet this afternoon. Across the river, at Riissell ville, 111., the situation was more critical. State police and volunteers maintained an around-the-clock patrol, plug ging weak spots. . "We're still in good shape," one official said. "Usually when it gets this high, the river finds a hole. It hasn't yet." Stop Me . . Jf J 6-2Q S. White President very soon by July 15 if possible. 3. A rough justice is at work, superficially at least. For Adams, now so harried for accepting favors from wealthy friends, was one of the most righteous denouncers of the so - called "influence peddling" of the Truman years. THE story thus has the add ed zest of the case of the deacon who is found making eyes, even if harmless, elder ly eyes, at the blonde choir singer. So much for the headlines. What really matters, how ever, is the melancholy light thrown by this business upon the degree of politicial ma turity of this country. It indicates anew that two bit issues a politics of puerility have a dominant place in our national life. It is the adult equivalent of the (Western) cops and robbers that enthrall the children on television. The wheel is turning a full circle. But it is throwing up not the grand and urgent questions about the conduct of our public affairs. It is turning up hotel bills and vicuna coats, where in the Truman Administration jt turned up hotel bills and mink coats. All this is not to say that propriety or taste were served by Adams, in Eisenhower's White House or by some of Truman's people in Tru man's White House. And it is not to say that the cold, continued arrogance of Sher man Adams is easy to defend. IT IS not to say that real or alleged cronyism is de sirable or unimportant ex cept in relation to the real issues of this terrible time. But what is to be said is that the country is again showing a most peculiar standard of weighing an Ad ministration. In Truman's time, such trifling matters as the Marshall Plan and the North Atlantic Treaty Organi zation could not be usefully examined pro or con. Nearly everybody was too engrossed with the immense disclosure that some White House . stenographer had a jacket she had not bought and Major General Harry H. Vaughan had a freezer rwith out sales slip. Today, few are prepared to ponder whether the Eisen hower Administration is win ning or losing the cold war. They must engage themselves with such vast issues as to whether Adams did some thing for Bernard Goldfine's clothing business. A political writer need not adopt the ivied-hall view of a professor of political science to suggest some odd dispro portion in all this. - A - PAST Administration , Truman's . was repudi ated in considerable part upon a public finding that the mess in Washington intol erably endangered this re public. It is true, of course, that graver charges were made "softness" on com munism. But the separate counts of this heated indict ment plainly canceled each other out. For the Adminis tration that was too kind to communism was at the same time denounced for persisting in Killing communists in Korea. ' Oddest of all, nothing real ly was done by the opposition to an area of true and mean ingful vulnerability. This was the area of Truman's domes tic legislative policy, which was an almost total failure. Today, there is a rough parallel rough, indeed, in every sense. ' The most important and adultly controversial domestic act of the Eisenhower Admin istration its refusal to panic in the face of the re cession is . not being de bated. The great weakness of that Administration its con fused, half -truculent, half-appeasing foreign policy evokes .little constructive alarm and less constructive. defense. - For we must all make ab- 2 31 MUTTON ROAST. Presidential Gifts Long Traditional; Cause Little Fuss By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington (UPI While we are on or close to the subject of gifts to the White House, how about this? M e r riman Smith esti mates that the number of gifts received each year at the White House for a President and ! 1 J Lyle C. Wilson wue w o u i a soar into the thousands! Smith spent many years covering the White House and traveling with presidents be fore he switched to the capi tal economic beat for United Press International. He and other White House familiars have seen a room stacked high with Christmas toys, for ex ample. Gifts of Food A Texan long kept the Ei senhower's supplied with a fa vorite delicacy, chukker phea sant. There usually is a fairly steady flow of quail, steaks, ' turkeys and similar food items. Publicity-minded per sons or institutions in Maine and in the Pacific Northwest sometimes appear to be con testing for the honor of pre senting a President with the biggest and best salmon. Smith recalls that Harry S. Truman accepted a gift Ford while in office and that his daughter, Margaret, received a Plymouth distinguished by gold plated fixtures. There was no backfire or criticism in either case, both substan tial gifts having been ac knowledged publicly and pho tographed with their owners as received. During casual conversations with newsmen after the 1952 election and before Eisenhow er Inauguration, Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty said firmly that it would be his policy to announce all gifts of substantial value as they arrived and to distribute pho tographs of them. That has protected White House fam Hies before them. Radios For Cal Back there in the Coolidge era a frequent and favorite gift to - the President was radio receiver. They ran into a bit of money; then, and Coolidge accepted them will ingly along with the free ad vertising the manufacturer got with announcement of the gift. Coolidge liked things for free, especially board and lodging. This trapped him oc casionally in publicity schemes for real estate ven tures ' in Florida and else where, but there was no great outcry. Vanguard Rocket Launching Delayed Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Navy technicians tried all night to get another Vanguard rocket off the ground with an artificial moon in its nose but finally had to postpone the at tempt because of technical dif ficulties. The scheduled launching was postponed shortly after 1:30 a.m. (PST) after the countdown had several times neared zero. A statement issued here said only that "technical - diffi culties" were encountered dur- mg the countdown. The an nouncement did not say when the launching would be re scheduled. The Vanguard had tucked inside its nose a 20-inch, 21 XA pound satellite which was rig ged to send back information about the x-ray output of the sun and the intensity of micro meteorites in space. solutely certain that if Ber nard Goldfine also tipped the bellboy for Sherman Adams, this vital datum is not lost to history. (Copyright, 1958, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.) EAST SIXTH ST. PORK SAUSAGE BEEF LIVER 30V Senate investigators in 1950 absolved Mrs. Bess Truman of any fault in acceating one of those famous deep freez ers. The investigators held that there was a valid tradi tion in the United States of making gifts to presidential' families. In fhe Day's News j By FRANK JENKINS Interesting foreign news note: "Hungarian com m u n i s t leaders have warned their people to take the execution of former Premier Imre Nagy. as a warning and an exam ple." WHY is that so interesting? Well, it needs a little ex plaining. What it really means is that the communist CONQUERORS OF HUN GARY have warnefathe con quered people of Hungary that if they make any more attempts to get back their losT liberty they will be shot down in the streets by Rus sian tanks and their leaders will be lined up against a wall and shot dovci by Rus sian rifle squads. It is interesting because it is further proot of the fact that communism as an insti tution is so FOUL that in time it must fall of the weight of its own foulness. CARRY the news to Nehru the Neutralist. . It might interest him to know that if India fells under the heel of communism and the people of India don't like it, after trying and seek to get back, what they lost, they too will be shot down by Rus sian tanks and their leaders (including Nehru, if he should be one of them) will be lined up against blank walls and shot down by communist rifle squads. That's communism AS PRACTICED not as it is propagandized. TTOPEFUL note from Paris: France today is observing the 18th anniversary of Gen eral Charles de Gaulle's call to victory in World War II by rallying behind his national recovery loan. The government discloses that Frenchmen gave up 11 million dollars worth of hid den gold yesterday when 3Vi per cent French government bonds went on sale for gold. French Finance Minister An toine Pinay says this morn ing: . . "If the gold subscription keeps coming in at this rate, we will have to enlarge tho vaults of the Bank of France." ' THAT, also, calls for a little explainfng. Since (practically speaking the time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary thereof, the French have had little confidence in their government. So, instead of buying government bonds, they have BOUGHT GOLD and buried it in the back yard, or hidden it in the mat tress, or stashed it. away in boles dug in their basements. Private ownership of gold has long been illegal in France, but all French gov ernments have known that if they started jailing French men for hoarding gold there would be another Reign of Terror. v If the French are digging up their gold ana Buying French bonds with it, it's a sure sign they have confi dence in De Gaulle. FRIVOLOUS note in closing: You've heard of the myth ical Perfect' Salesman who was so good he could sell re frigerators to Eskimos. Well, he's been found. Mr. C. J. Gibson, president of an electric appliance man ufacturing company in Green ville, Mich., reports this morning that one of his sales men has actually sold an elee-' trie refrigerator to an Eskimo family near Churchill, Alas ka. . SLICED BACON
